Peace

"Are you sure we're doing the right thing? Oyakata-sama - "

"Betrayed us," Touran finished with a wave of dismissal. "Besides,

the Inu Taisho is dead. It was their feud. Sesshoumaru saved us. Is that nothing?"

"But the ancients..." Shuuran stuck his bottom lip out thoughtfully.

"They won't be happy."

"Their problem, not mine."

"You make it seem so easy. We could pay with our lives," Karan added.

"Then let it be so. I would rather we paid what is owed."

Kouran opened her arms. "See the future, my brothers and sisters."

Before them, the West spread like a virgin river.