Chapter 3: Innocent Heart Covered In Blood

"The cat demons?" Inu-Taisho said. He had heard of the cat demons but never thought they were that powerful of a race to come up against the dog demons.

Sesshomaru sat in a grassy area of the garden reading a new scroll he had received from the scholars. He read silently to himself,

"There once was a noble born samurai who's heart was as cold as ice. He cared for no one and thought of himself superior to everyone else. But then along the way he was severely wounded in a battle and lay deep within a forest. A child had found him and had begun tending to his wounds. The samurai was shocked that anyone would even think of helping him.

The child came back every day with food and water for him. But the samurai began to notice that where ever the girl was coming from... she was being abused and beaten. For she had kept coming back with bruises on her young face, and even a black eye.

At first the samurai told himself what does he care. But then one day when her beating's marks looked like they couldn't get any worse he asked,

'Where did you get those bruises?'"

"Yes the cat demons. They may only be that but they are powerful enough that if a large army of them were to rage across the dog demons like a flood we'd be in trouble." Lord Kori said with hard seriousness. Inu-Taisho felt his heart begin to speed up. He had never in countered a war before. Lord Kori then added, "This I predict is going to be a devastating war. One that will probably last for many years. I wouldn't be surprised if the war last through your son's time as Lord too.

"Where are the cat demons heading to hit first...and when?" In-Taisho asked Lord Kori.

Sesshomaru stopped reading and looked up, concern was in his eyes. He was looking at the big entrance door to the castle garden which many visitors from the outside use to get in. There were two standing areas on either side of the great door-gates where a guard stood on each one. The guards looked concerned like Sesshomaru as well.

For he sensed that something was coming. Something of a huge number of demons.... they had an almost familiar smell. The smell reminded him of cats...

Lord Kori's eyes grew even more concerned. "I'm sorry Inu-Taisho..." Inu-Taisho's heart skipped a beat, anger smeared his face, "Where are they heading?" his voice was stiff and hard sounding.

"Your castle Inu-Taisho." Lord Kori's eyes held nothing, "At this moment..." "WHAT?!" Inu-Taisho bellowed, "Why?! Why! Why did you take me away from my castle then?! MY mate and child are there!" Inu-Taisho had to use all his strength to control himself from ripping the Lord Kori apart.

Lord Kori stood up straight, "I had you come here because there was no other way to tell you and I couldn't risk sending a messenger the information cause he could have been killed. Why are you so worried. Your soldiers should be ready for ANY kind of attack!" The last sentence was said much louder and with more anger.

Inu-Taisho thrust his fist into the wall next to him with a strong growl. "They are not ready because I don't have any soldiers!!!" He was loosing his control now.

Sesshomaru stood up as tall as he could and looked forwards at the giant doors. He stood as still as a statue with his eyes wide open, alert and his ears pricked and alert. He saw the guards point at something and yell "CAT DEMONS!!! ATTACK!!!" Sesshomaru's eyes widened, 'What?!' he thought to himself.

Sesshomaru heard war cries on the other side of the giant doors. He flinched backwards when he saw the two guards get shot down with arrows. They fell over backwards and landed on the ground right in front of him. He stared frozen in his place with shock at the two dead guards. Their eyes were wide open and blank. One guard was his in his chest, and the other in his throat. They both twitched for several seconds then stopped.

Inu-Taisho galloped his horse faster than he ever had before. "HIYA! HIYA! HIYA!" He kicked his horse trying to make him go faster. He remembered what Lord Kori told him,

"Take the fastest route back to your home. Maybe you can reach them in time to save you family. Do not take the woods, the trees will get in your way. There is a road only I myself knows and no one else. Go north 3 miles, you'll see a path that goes into the forest. Unlike the other forest this path is straighter and easier to ride. Go now."

Inu-Taisho hoped he would reach them before the cat demons do.

Sesshomaru had never seen a dead man before. He jerked his head back up not wanting to see the bloody mess to stare at the two huge doors. Which were now shaking as the cat demon army began beating on it.

Sesshomaru took a few steps back and bumped into someone. He gasped and spun around to see his mother was the one he'd bumped into. She had no emotion played on her face as she grasped his shoulders, "Get behind me." Sesshomaru nodded and got behind her but held onto the back of her kimono. He noticed in his mother's right hand was a sword. She raised the sword up ready to strike.

The doors burst open and the cat demons came through like a flood. "Surround these two dog demons!" A man's voice commanded. The cat demon soldiers did as they were told. They formed a thick circle around Kirei-Tsuki and Sesshomaru. In front of them the cat demons made an opening for what must have been the leader of the army to step through.

He was tall and his skin was a sienna tone color and his eyes were that of a cats. Their color was of a bright chartreuse color. His hair was short and the color of a dark forest green.

"My, aren't you lovely..." He said to Kirei with a rich devilish tone. Kirei as quick as ever jerked her sword up to the cat demon's neck so that the tip lay little less than an inch from his throat. He did not move but held his head high. "I do not appreciate a woman threatening me with a sword." Kirei only stared at him with no expression at all.

"Mother!" She heard her son behind her yell. She spun around forgetting about the cat demon leader, and saw her son being held with his hands behind his back by another cat demon. A dagger was held at his throat.

"Be still my son." Kirei said sternly as she narrowed her piercing eyes at the cat demon holding her son.

The leader of the army made his move while Kirei was looking at her son. Expeditiously he grabbed Kirei's right wrist and broke the bone instantly. Kirei gasped in surprise but not in pain. Dog demons have high tolerance to pain. She spun around and lifted her left fist and drew it back ready to strike the army's leader. But the cat demon was quicker. Before she could hit him, her took his right hand and grabbed her left wrist breaking that one too. Now having hold of both of her wrist he thrust them tight behind her back and drew her towards him. Her chest uncomfortably tight against his.

His face merely an inch from her face. He could smell her sweat scent. "You can call me, Neko-Sho." Kirei growled in response and Neko-Sho began to feel a poison-like energy come from her. The smell reminded him of a type of toxic flower's nectar. 'Dokkasou...' he whispered in his head, 'I like this woman...'

To Kirei's surprise he kissed her hard on the lips and thrust his tongue into her mouth. Kirei nearly gagged, for he tasted repulsive. She squirmed in his arms trying to move away but his hold was too strong. Plus both her wrists were broken. Sesshomaru could only stair helplessly while trying to free himself too. But the soldier holding him whacked him upside the head every time he moved.

Kirei then tried something else. She bit down on his tongue then kick him in his groin. "Arg! You bitch!" he let go of her so that her could smack her hard on the cheek. Blood trickled out of the side of his mouth as he kicked her in the gut making her fall over.

"Mother!!!" Sesshomaru yelled, but was again hit upside the head. "Stop hitting my son!!!" Kirei bellowed as she quickly recovered from the hit and lunged towards the soldier that was holding her son. Poison dripped from her claws while green poison energy surrounded her hands. But they were limp and weren't much use.

Neko-Sho grabbed her wrists again before she could strike the cat demon soldier, "You're a bad little demon, I see." he cooed into her ear, "Looks like I'll have to teach you a lesson... While your son watches." Kirei knew what the cat demon meant. "I will never allow you to bed me. Never! I'd rather die!." she growled at him.

Neko-Sho grinned evilly, "Well then I guess the only other way to teach you a lesson...Is to have your son's neck sliced open." The cat demon that was holding Sesshomaru put a slight amount of pressure on the blade against Sesshomaru's neck. There was just enough pressure given so that a little bit of blood began to trickle down his neck. Sesshomaru tried to stay as still as possible.

"No! You will not hurt my son! Do anything else, but don't you DARE kill, Sesshomaru!" Kirei pleaded. "Sesshomaru is his name, eh?" Neko-Sho said with interest. "A strong name filled with a dark meaning. Many would say his name means 'Destruction Man'. For that is how it sounds. But if you look at the three characters in his name. 'Kill', 'Life', and 'Circle'. His name translates to, 'Killer Of The Circle Of Life'. This child's name already foretells his future. And what he will become. A cold and evil demon ruler. No emotion, no allies, no one will ever love him, he will always be alone. A beautiful killer. With a black soul...forever."

"You're wrong cat!! You know nothing about my son. No not talk about him as if you knew him. HE will not be evil! HE will be a good and strong ruler like his father!!"

"No he will not." Neko-Sho, "And you know it. I can tell easily. Now since you obviously do not want him killed. You only have one other choice. You WILL take that chance. Now, all we got to do is do this the hard way... or the easy way."

Kirei was not going to go down without a fight. "Bastard..." He was holding onto her broken wrists so she made them produce poison toxins that burned the cat demon's hand. "ARGGGG!!!!!!!" He through her up against the castle wall. The walls broke by the impact and she fell into a room.

Neko-Sho spoke to his army, "All of you wait out here." He pointed at the soldier holding Sesshomaru, "You take him and come with me."

They reached the room where Kirei had fallen into, she was just getting up. But Neko-Sho pushed her down onto the floor. He positioned himself on top of her, and he held her firmly down. She tried to move out of his grasp but could she not.

Neko-Sho turned towards the cat demon soldier, "Hold that boy so that he will not be able to turn away." "Yes, sir!"

The cat demon with his right hand held both of Sesshomaru's wrists behind his back and then with his left hand grabbed his hair and pulled his head up so that Sesshomaru could not turn away. A thin line of blood could be seen on his neck.

"What are you going to do to my mother!" Sesshomaru demanded. "I'm going to mate with her, I'm sure you know what that means?" He hissed at the young demon. Sesshomaru's eyes widened. "You better keep your eyes opened the entire time, boy!" Neko-Sho said with warning to Sesshomaru.

Neko-Sho turned back to Kirei who was still trying to break free of his grasp. "Stop moving, bitch!" he slapped her again, and then demanded for a leather rope. One of the cat demons had followed them in and then ran back out for some leather rope. He came back and gave it to him. Neko-Sho tied Kirei's wrists together painfully tight and then tied her wrists to a hook that was in the wall about a foot and a half off the ground.

He ripped open her kimono so that her body was exposed to him fully. He then spread her legs wide, already he had a hard-on. He opened his pants and began thrusting into her. Sesshomaru squeezed his eyes shut not wanting to see his mother being raped.

He could close his eyes but not his ears. He could hear his grunts and his mothers painful cries. "open your eyes!!!!!" said the cat demon soldier holding him. He yanked on his hair, then took his dagger and shoved it into Sesshomaru's left shoulder. He opened his eyes in shock and pain, breathed in hard. And then the first thing he saw was the cat demon thrusting in and out of his own mother.

He was riding her hard, hard enough that he was probably going to break her hips if he didn't gain control. No, he had already lost control for he had bitten her neck and blood was spilling out of her neck.

The image was so over whelming Sesshomaru could close his eyes. Neko-Sho had reached his climax and took one more final thrust. Breathing hard he said, "Hehehe...I hope you've learned your lesson. But...even so..."

Sesshomaru saw him take out a dagger. "N no!! MOTHER!!!" He cried out and looked at his mother's pained face. Not noticing Neko-Sho drawing back the dagger, she turned her head towards her Sesshomaru. Her eyes filled with tears, her face bruised, her expression weak.

"My son..."

Neko-Sho drew the dagger into Kirei's heart and twisted it. The life left her eyes, leaving dead ones staring at Sesshomaru hauntingly.

"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sesshomaru cried out.

Sesshomaru had no strength left to hold his head up. "Let go of the boy." Said Neko-Sho who was fixing his cloths. Sesshomaru dropped to his knees.

"What do we do with the boy, sir?" Neko-Sho did not answer instead he walked on pass Sesshomaru who sat still on his knees, his head lower, shoulders heavy.

The soldier walked next to his leader. Sesshomaru lifted his head a little to look at his dead mother. Suddenly, a wave of so many emotions spun through him like a tornado. And then he felt angered energy fill him up like a flood. Green poison energy surrounded his body, as he slowly stood.

Neko-Sho sensed the movement and felt the energy and quickly spun around, and threw his dagger at Sesshomaru's back. Sesshomaru spun around and caught the dagger in his hand, he stared with no emotion at Neko-Sho, who stared back in amazement. Sesshomaru's face was indeed dead of all emotion, and yet his stare was frightening.

Green poison energy still swarming around him he growled, "You raped and killed my mother..." Then instantly, too quick for eyes to see, he lunged forwards towards the two cat demons and ran both claws dripping with venom through their guts, melting their insides.

Neko-Sho and the soldier fell to the ground dead. The cat demon army saw this and began to charge for him.

Sesshomaru looked at the army still no emotion. A green energy whip formed from his right hand and he used it to slice through the front of the army that was nearest him. He then ran into the army and began slicing through each soldier with his poison claws. The Dokkasou technique flowed through his veins. Another gift he'd obtained from his mother. He killed the entire army, leaving himself alone in a field of dead cat demons. The garden had been destroyed by the fight.

Standing in the middle of the bloody mess, Sesshomaru looked down at his clawed hands.

Which were covered in blood...