Chapter Five
Unknown to Sesshoumaru, who was still recovering from his injuries, another demon was watching him, she was a slightly small, beautiful demon, some type of dog also, but not of any recognizable type, slightly slimmer than most dog demons.
(AN, don't worry, this isn't another romance story and I won't take him out of character.)
She had sensed the group of demons coming closer and went to investigate, although she thought that the guardian was going to kill the youkai, she was somehow glad it didn't.
She had only seen this demon today but admired him, for he was the first one ever to defeat the guardian, all others had failed, her father had only managed to trap it in this area by sacrificing her mother and the peasants in the woods to keep it occupied and carving mystic and powerful runes around the trees of the forest to isolate it. She knew how to avoid being fed upon by the entity, bringing along a small mouse as a sacrifice, then fatally wounding it and leaving it, letting the entity gather its energy as it died and running quickly away.
She had never thought that you could fight it as he did, with just having no fear of death and beginning to kill oneself so as to rob it of a soul.
She respected him, Sesshoumaru was his name, she admired his ability to appear so clean and handsome so soon after a fight, with the blood that was all over him having been cleansed from his suit and hair by itself somehow.
She sensed her fathers troops beginning to converge on this position, and knew that they would reach him before he woke, with little thought to the consequences, she ran back, and raised her energy in a harmful and aggressive frequency, drawing the soldiers in that direction. Then she darted back to the castle, but met her father at the steps.
"Where were you?" he asked in a quiet, menacing voice.
"I- was making sure that the guardian was really dead…" She quickly lied.
"Did you see the one who killed it?" He asked.
"Yes," she replied, not giving out more information than she had to.
"Why didn't you kill it, he must have been wounded!" His voice was once again menacing but angrier this time.
"That was why I didn't wound it." She replied calmly, she knew her father knew of her ethics, and would allow her to go unpunished.
Her father was obviously angry, but she reminded him of his wife, so he began walking away, but quickly halted when he remembered the mysterious energy signature that distracted the troops.
"Wait," he ordered.
"That was your energy, why did it flash in such a way?" He asked skeptical.
"--The Guardian wasn't anywhere near, I was startled." Once again using the evil guardian for an excuse.
He was still skeptical, but didn't do anything yet.
Sesshoumaru woke, he had sensed troops coming in his sleep, but couldn't do anything about it until he reached a reasonably healed state, still weak from the lack of energy after healing, the intensity of his whip attack, and the amount of running he had to do the previous night. He tried to identify his surroundings, but they were magically shielded so only a select few would know where they were if they didn't know their surroundings.
The troops were still about an hour away, so he salvaged some weapons from his dead youkai that he was particularly skilled at, and silently sat against another tree, beginning to focus his energy to return.
The troops angered at having been set off course, began to converge at the correct point again, as they sensed the demon beginning to regain its energy. The hordes of many different demons quickly marched towards the youkai.
The troops of the house lord are of a completely new and strange form than that of any Sesshoumaru has ever faced. Sesshoumaru is all alone, and he can't find his way back home, the only option he has is to find the castle lord, find out why he attacked his fathers castle, and kill him if he must.
That's after he gets past all those demon troops…