____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Chapter 9; Pup? _______________________________________________________ "Riiiight, and why exactly did you come looking for Sesshoumaru? Last time I checked you two were mortal enemies," said the male wolf. "Well, two reasons really," said Inuyasha smoothly, "one, I haven't seen him in four-hundred years, and I was starting to miss him-" But he was cut short cause at these words the male wolf let out a howl of laughter. "And two," shouted Inuyasha more loudly than the male wolf, "I found his pup." At these words the whole cave fell silent, including the male wolf. -My... my pup, I thought he was... was dead- thought Sesshoumaru. "You found what?" asked Kouga after about five minutes. "I found his pup." "What pup are you talking about mutt-face? Sesshoumaru doesn't have a pup," stated the male wolf. "Oh yeah? Then whose this?" asked Inuyasha as a young inu-hanyou stepped in looking slightly scared. -That can't be my pup, he's too young- thought Sesshoumaru, -yet...- "He... he looks a lot like Sesshoumaru, that's for sure," said the male wolf in a taken aback voice. He did, he had a crescent moon on his forehead, a red stripe on either side of his face, a kimono with the same pattern as Sesshoumaru's but in different colors, a breast plate, and the shoulder amour, the only part of him that didn't resemble Sesshoumaru at all were the dog ears, he looked very young, and the fact that he didn't have a boa on his right shoulder. -He looks too young to be my pup, but he looks like him, he looks almost exactly like the last time I saw him, only slightly older, but not much.- "Um, hello?" broke in the young pup, "m- my name's Sesshokusen." "Hello, Sesshokusen," said his mistress jabbing her sister hard in the ribs with her elbow, "My name's Arai." "Dozo yoroshiku, Arai." "He's polite," said the male wolf in a surprised voice, "Ok, that proves it, he's not Sesshoumaru's pup." "Umm, excuse me sir," interrupted Sesshokusen. "Ahh, call me Kouga," said the male wolf taken aback. "Yes, Kouga-san, my mother has told me many things about my father and one of the things she told me is his name was Sesshoumaru." "So, you are Sesshoumaru's pup then?" "Yes." "Why were you separated from him?" "Well, that's a long story." "We've got plenty of time," said the male wolf sitting down on a rock. "Well, almost 400 years ago, but not quite, I was born-" "400 years? You look like your 10." "I'm part changling, which means I can change at will, but no matter what I change into I still have my stripes, cresant moon, and ears. But anyway, almost 400 years, but not quite I was born, but Shi'an and Pandora took my mother for dead and took her out to the field. I can't remember what happened to me when they took mother, I was much too young to remember anything, but mother told me that she woke up in the field and noticed I was not with her, so she sat up on the rock beside her waiting for her strength to return to her. She was sitting there for about half-an-hour when Shi'an came out of the forest with me in his jaws, cause apparently they disapproved of me being an inu. Mother begged him to give me to her, and finally he agreed, and told my mother to take me and go to a human village and that he would stop by to check on us. Then she heard him give a loud roar once he was like 15 feet away from us, she figured it was out of frustration. As soon as she had regained her strength she carried me to a nearby human village." -He... he must be my son, he knows my name, and he knows the name of the wretched miko who enslaved me, and the name of that blasted cat-changling that hurt Liana.- "And did Shi'an come to visit?" "Ohh yes, quite often, it is he, as a matter of fact, that helped me develope me morphing abilities. I did not like him that much, but I needed to learn how to use my morphing abilities, and I could not stop him from coming even if I didn't need to learn my morphing abilities." "Why didn't you like Shi'an?" "Two reasons, one he hurt my mother, and two he was a neko-changling." "Ohh, and inu and neko are opposites, so usually they don't get along, right?" "That is correct," the little pup said then started messing around with his breast-plate. He pulled out a small piece of a fluffy scarf, "I also have this, this is a part of my father's boa, he gave it to Mother before she gave birth." "Sesshoumaru, come on over here," it was his mistress who was still standing by Sesshokusen. "Yes, Arai," he stood up and walked over to his mistress and his pup. "Father?" asked Sesshokusen. "Yes," replied Sesshoumaru. The little pup ran up to Sesshoumaru and hugged him, and he returned the embrace. "Sesshokusen," "Yes, Arai-san?" asked Sesshokusen pulling out of the hug. "Are you hungry?" "Ohh, yes, very much so." "Then let's go home and get some food, Kamet, Sesshoumaru, Sesshokusen and I will be taking our leave now." "And what about me?" asked Inuyasha who was still standing in the doorway. "What about you?" snarled Kouga.