AN: ok, so after a rather long break I am once again ready to update this story! Happiness!

DISCLAIMER: well, why would I write DISCLAIMER on it if it was mine?

CHAPTER 7

A NEW RIVEL?!

UNAVOIDABLE CHOICE…

"Li! Watch out at your right!" Sara yelled, Li twisted himself in the air to dodge the claws of the demon they were fighting,

"Thanks." He called over his shoulder, then raised his claws, "Iron reaver soul stealer!" he yelled, slicing off the same clawed arm that had just been trying to kill him.

Sara jumped up from behind the demon while Li had it busy and threw an Ofuda on its head, then brought her staff down on it.

"EXERSISEM!" she yelled, the demon screamed and pulled away from her, batting her out of the air as it went, she hit the ground with a thump.

"Sara!" Li called to her from where he was spinning out of the demons grasp in mid air. From the ground she raised a hand and called,

"I'm alright! Get em' Li!" Li nodded and then roared,

"IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!" even before his roar faded the demon was gone.

Li landed gracefully on the ground, before turning to Sara who was just standing,

"Are you alright?" he asked cocking his head, she nodded,

"Yeah, I just got thrown to the ground from about, oh, thirty feet!" she snapped, Li shrugged embarrassed,

"Sorry, I just-" Sara cut him off,

"I know I know, you wouldn't have even stopped for two seconds if it had been you!" she snapped, then sighed, "Come on, let's just go and get the money for killing the thing shall we?"

Seeing her pain he went over to her and put an arm around her waist smiling,

"Come on then Sara," he whispered, kissing her hair softly, "You don't think I'm going to wait do you?" his voice was very soft, she smiled to herself,

"You better dog for brains." She muttered, but allowed him to take her to the village leader who paid them well for their services.

The two had been doing this kind of work for quite a while; it worked well in their favor after all. It only took them a little energy to dispense the low class demons that humans had trouble with. Or well, it took Li very little energy, Sara had to expend her self a little bit more than him.

"Li, I think that we should head to the West now." Sara mused as the two headed away from the little village, Li nodded,

"Yeah, sounds good, nothing wrong with the West." He said, his eyes already searching the road ahead of them. Sara nodded,

"Your dad should still be in the village so we won't have to worry about running into him at all." She said, Li looked over to her,

"Why would we anyway?" he asked, Sara smiled,

"I told you, he is a Demon Lord, the Lord of the West technically." She said, Li blinked,

"Oh." He said, suddenly sounding almost sullen.

"You don't want to run into him I take it?" Sara asked, Li sighed,

"I really don't know. I mean, he is my dad. I guess it is natural to kinda want to meet him. But I am kinda afraid to also, I mean, I want to know why he left me and my mom with, Kouga, but at the same time I don't want to know" he said looking away from Sara, frowning at nothing. She smiled,

"Li, I think you might be better off knowing than wondering; don't you?" She whispered, Li shrugged,

"I suppose, but, well, listen, there is a lot more to this than just meeting my father." he said, Sara put her hand in his,

"Tell me." She said simply, LI just stared at her for a moment, and then sighed,

"Alright, fine, you win." He said, she nodded, and Li began. "See I grew up my whole life just hearing how stupid my dad was from Kouga and other wolves, and my mom never said anything about him at all. So basically I heard nothing good about him. I had always thought my mother might still love him or something, until she got pregnant with my little half sister Anè. I knew she couldn't still love my dad after she did something like that. It being Kouga's kid and all. But I loved Anè despite all that, she was great. Real cute kid ya know? But still it meant problems for me; there was a huge dispute on whether she or I would take Kouga's place. I won out in the end; supposedly because she had two things against her; One, I was older and ultimately going to be stronger, and two: I was a boy. I guess I never really thought it fair but she never complained so neither did I.

Sara smiled to Li,

"But Li, if all that was like that, then why would you ever want to leave?" she asked, Li smiled wryly.

"If everything had just been like that I wouldn't have. However, things inside the pack its self was a lot more complicated. Mostly between me and Kouga. From the time I turned 13, I hated him. For a reason I couldn't explain till later. He was alpha male, and I was just the same as him in attitude. Especially considering who my father was. You may have heard that two dominate people don't usually get along? Well we were the spitting image of that stereotype."

At this Sara laughed,

"You know Li, I can see all this, I really can! But I have just one more question, if things were so bad, then why did you stay so long?" she asked, Li chagrinned,

"Because of my little sister and my mother, I felt like I needed to be with them." Sara stopped and looked up to him, her eyes soft,

"Li, you are too perfect you know?" he blinked in surprise, then just shrugged,

"I try!" he said laughing, Sara laughed too, and then gasped in surprise as Li pulled her into a kiss.

(AN: Does a little dance Go Li, oh yeah, its ya birthday! Uh huh!)

As the days passed the two continued to travel helping who they could as they went along. However, they decided to take a trip into the forest surrounding them and soon found themselves completely lost.

And fate pulled another string….

"Li, where are we again?" Sara asked the boy beside her, who shrugged,

"Lost apparently." He said, almost joviality, she glared at him,

"Enjoying this are you?" she asked dryly, he shrugged again,

"I like the forest, don't you?" he asked, Sara didn't ever get a chance to answer however, because at that exact moment, something burst from the surrounding foliage and attacked them.

In the short space of about two seconds the following things took place:

One, Li threw Sara behind him to the ground.

Two, the thing attacking them spun Li away from Sara and landed with the slayer girl in-between them,

Three, Li identified the thing attacking them to be a chick and a demon.

And finally four, Li allowed his demonic instincts to take over.

The female demon snarled at Li, he roared, the girl took a step back, obviously not having known that Li was a demon himself. Or a dog demon at that. She gasped, then snarled again,

"Outsider! What do you think you are doing tress passing on my lands!" she snarled, Li roared again,

"Woman, what do you think you're doing attacking us like that," Sara noticed that his voice boomed with a tone of authority she'd never heard, it was very intimidating. Evidentially it was not going to work on his opponent however.

"I can attack you if you are trespassing!" the woman snarled, "These are my lands!" Li spat and tossed his head angrily,

"These lands belong to the Lord of the West, if I am to recall correctly!" he snarled, she took a step back, and then sighed,

"You do recall correctly, however, there is not just one lord, there are two, and I am the daughter of one of them." The demoness said, Li got cold all over.

Oh my god. Is she my half sister too? He thought, she noticed his surprised look, and then gave him a wary one.

"Who are you anyway?" she asked, he shook his head softly, and replied,

"My name is Li, I, I come from the East myself. And your name is?"

"MY name is Kanna; I am the daughter of the Lord of the West Sesshomaru, and Lady of the West Kagura. Who are your parents, it is polite for you to say." Li just stared at the girl for a moment, then shook his head,

"Listen, Kanna, I really don't mean to offend, but my parents are something I really don't think I should mention, so can you possibly show us a way out of here?" he asked her, a small smile on his face, pleading almost. She sighed,

"I am sorry for scaring you earlier, and I am also sorry, but I am not allowed beyond this point in the forest. I cannot possibly show you out." She shook her head, "My father is very possessive I am sorry."

Sara stood from where she had been on the ground,

"Hey, I left my village without permission to come with Li, why not just bend the rules?" she asked, Li growled at Sara, who shrugged, "What? I would!" Li rolled his eyes, but looked to Kanna all the same. She smiled,

"My father would kill me if I didn't go with a demon lord to protect me-" Li interrupted Kanna,

"I am a demon lord, or, well I am the son of one. Of a Taiyoukai in fact!" he said, her eyes lit up,

"Oh? Well then, I think that this is your lucky day, I'll show you a way out of here, and maybe even come with you after that, how does that sound?" Kanna asked them grinning, Li grinned right back,

"Sounds great Kanna, welcome to the pack!" he said, Sara smiled and the three companions headed off into the forest…

The three new companions soon found themselves out of the forest and trying to decide where to go next. Sara sighed,

"Well, meeting you Kanna, I really think maybe I should go home and make sure my family is alright, do you mind Li?" Sara asked, Li shook his head,

"Naw, I have no real agenda." He said, Kanna nodded,

"I am just eager to get away from this place." She said the other two laughed at her.

Kanna only had to be around her new companions for a few moments to know two things.

One, they were in love.

And two, she was now under a new leader-Li.

Li couldn't be anything other than the leader of their mismatched band. Even though there were only three of them in the group, it was obvious, nothing would happen if Li didn't say it could.

He is a very good leader, Kanna thought, strong, smart, and very kind. I wonder; he must have morals, maybe I should ask him…?

"Hey Li?" Kanna suddenly asked, Li turned to her,

"Yeah Kanna?" he replied,

"I was wondering, what are your morals?" Kanna asked casually, Li blinked,

"What do you mean?" he asked, she sighed and said,

"Like, mine are that I will never turn away someone that I can help, I will never not help some one I can. I will not help someone who can help themselves, ya know, that kind of thing!" Li frowned and thought for a moment, then said,

"Well, I will never hit a woman unless she is a demon who is out for my blood or for the blood of someone I care about. I'll not ever kill a child- demon or no- and I will not allow anyone who I can help suffer." He smiled to himself, "Just things like that, what about you Sara?" he asked, Sara turned to him,

"Li, I have very few morals, one is, I won't be used, second is I will not use anyone, and the third is I will help those who cannot do so themselves. Those are all my morals. I have no need for more." Li rolled his eyes and smiled at her.

Kanna was just staring at him,

Wow, he even has the morals of a great leader, and he resembles my uncle so much! Wait, no, it's not possible! He can't be-

"Hey Li, do you by any chance know someone named Inuyasha?" Kanna asked him suddenly. Li stiffened immediately. Kanna noticed, "You do don't you?" she said. Sighing, Li turned to her and nodded slowly,

"Yes, I do, but, listen Kanna, what I am about to tell you, you may not want to hear." He said, Kanna shrugged,

"Oh well, humor me anyway." She said smiling, sighing Li told her everything. Or, almost everything. He told her he was Inuyasha's son. That he hadn't been raised by his father's enemy Kouga for reasons unknown, and that he was on his own now to find out what really happened,

"That is the thing you want to find out?" Kanna asked, "That is what you traveled out here for? Somehow I just don't believe it Li. No one goes to lengths like this just to find out what happened between their parents. No, if that was what you truly were looking for deep down, you wouldn't have come out here, you'd have interrogated your mother. What is it you're really after?"

Li was silent for a moment, then sighed,

"I don't know what I'm here for, I guess to find out something even I can't know about yet." Li smiled to himself. "One thing is for sure though, I'm not going to go back to Kouga's place anytime soon. I am sure of that." He finished, Kanna nodded, and Sara wrapped an arm around his waist.

"Well Li," she said, "I am positive that Kouga probably won't come looking for you to come back anytime soon anyway!" Li laughed, and Kanna joined in, Sara giggling to her self. Then Kanna sobered,

"But Li," she said, "You do realize that you still have one huge choice a head of you don't you?" Li looked at Kanna cocking his head to the side,

"Like what?" he asked,

"Like, deciding if you are going to rule a wolf pack or are you going to be a Demon Lord? Your father is one of the two Lords Of The West, and you were raised to be a wolf clan leader, you can't say you are just going to ignore your heritage on both sides are you?" Li glanced at her out of the corner of his eye,

"I, I don't know Kanna, but then again, who might?" he whispered, Kanna shrugged and said,

"No one but you Li, and eventually, you will have to choose one or the other, and there are going to be consequences no matter what you decide." She sighed deeply, "You are so screwed you know that right?" she asked, and then everyone was laughing again.

Long after the conversation, Li was pondering what Kanna had told him. Was she right? Was he going to have to make a decision about what he was going to be eventually? Well, it made sense, but, having to decide something like that seemed so unfair to him. Having to choose what you are going to be. He sighed, then looked over to Sara who was watching him from her position at his side,

"What do you think Sara?" he asked softly, somehow knowing she knew what he had been thinking about, she just smiled,

"Getting to choose what you are going to be for the rest of your life Li? Some people would consider you very lucky, how many people get that choice? I sure didn't." then she grinned at him, "Li, you don't have to choose right now, but when the time comes, and I think that day is a wais off. So don't worry. You'll know when you are meant to." And with that she leaned her head on his shoulder and fell asleep. He sighed to himself.

"Gods, lucky am I? Damn if this is lucky, I hope I'm never unlucky in my life!" he said, and then sighing went to sleep as well…

AN: OK then peoples, I am finally updating on these babies again, so review and I'll keep on! Ohh, and by the way, I will be answering peoples questions that they ask me about the stories now, I've not been too good at that in my earlier work. But fear not! I'll get this baby up and runnin in no time!

A big thank you too…

LionessisRin: By the way Shippo is 21. Yeah how time flies!