Demon Love Triangle

i know, i know. i didn't update when i was supposed to. but to be honest, i completely forgot the first week of school, and then it was so much harder finding time to type than i thought it would be….. im so sry, i do feel bad, so plz don't hate me forever begging face

Chapter 8 - No Name Way to Lazy

Jaken led Loa and Rin out to the courtyard, were they saw Sesshomaru had migrated from the courtyard to underneath a tree next to a small stream. Jaken quickly motioned to Loa to follow him over to the tree.

"Lord Sesshomaru, this is Loa, the wolf demon." 'The wolf demon?' Loa thought. 'I like that title…'

"Ill leave you two alone now..." Jaken said uncertainly, and left with Rin tagging along behind him.

Loa and Sesshy sat in momentary silence.

Loa was appreciating the wonderful day. The sky was clear and bright blue, with fluffy white clouds floating lazily along. The tall grass slightly tickled Loa's sides as it swayed in the fresh breeze. Loa gazed into the stream and watched orange and brown scaled fish swim with it. Her ears hung down halfway to her head in blissful contentment. She felt free.

"Do you like children?" Sesshy asked suddenly. He had been thinking about Rin. Loa was startled out of state of blessedness.

"What?" She almost stuttered.

"Children. Do you like them?"

"They're great, I guess." She said, unsure. "Actually, I've always wanted to have one of my own…" She blushed and looked away, running her hand through her hair. A habit she did when she was bored, embarrassed, or uncomfortable.

Sesshy grunted approvingly. "Why?" Loa asked.

"Rin." Sesshy said. Loa nodded, still to embarrassed by her extremely personal reply to really care.

"Tell me about yourself." Sesshy told her.

"Well," Loa breathed in, "I was born six-teen years ago to Kona, and Shakota, the alpha male and female of the upper-mountain range pack, Thias. I have an older brother and sister, Kona Jr. and Sakeme. Konaj, we add the j at the end for junior, is 18 and Sakeme is 12."m Loa decided she would tell him the whole story so she wouldn't have to later.

"Well, about 6 months ago during the winter famine in out land… I've always had the better nose in the pack, and I could smell a herd of cattle. I led them to the herd, but it was in another pack's territory, and we were attacked. Kona and Shakota were killed, Kanaj and Sakeme had been taken by them, and I haven't seen them since.

"Even though I was rightfully next in line to lead the pack, they were outraged at what I had done, and ran me out of our territory. The other pack followed me until I left their land, and I had no one left to go to." She paused. "So I wandered down here and found a girl. I was hungry by then, I hadn't eaten in four days, and I could smell food on her, so I attacked her and…"

"Hm?" Sesshy urged.

"I cant remember… I think she stabbed me, but then I woke up in the village your imp demon found me in."

"So why did you lead your pack into danger?"

"You make it sound like they had their noses cut off! They could smell too! They all knew it was enemy territory. If they didn't want to go, they should have stopped me." Loa glared at the fish as if it was its fault Sesshy was annoying her.

"They were following you?"

"I lead them till they could smell those damn animals themselves. They were following Kona and Shakota after that."

"You call your parents by their names. Were you not close? Had you not liked them? Is that why you took them into another pack's land?" Sesshomaru said insensitively.

Loa jumped to her feet. "Shut up! You don't know anything about me!" She drew her sword and held it in front of him menacingly. Sesshy didn't move.

"Hot tempered…" He said, like it was just another observation. "Had you gotten into a fight before hand?"

Loa growled and swung her sword up and then down onto him. Sesshy put an arm up and stopped the blade, then flicked his hand and the sword broke into four pieces and fell to the ground in front of him. Loa went wide eyed, "How did you?... That was the second finest metal from our mountain! No demon has ever been able to break my sword!"

"Ill teach you how." Sesshy cast the broken pieces aside.

Loa scoffed half-heartedly. "I don't need you to teach me anything."

"Suit yourself." Loa hesitated, then turned away from him and went to the very edge of the water, and say, putting her feet in the cold water. She moved her legs back and forth in the water idly. Her anger had subsided.

"They always made me call them by their names, it was a sign of respect. I called Kona father once when I was little and he struck me. Now, I feel like I have to since theyre not around anymore. Like its only proper to."

Sesshy stood and walked over to her, stopping behind where she was sitting. "I didn't mea to set you off." He almost choked on his words. Was he apologizing?

"Yes you did." Loa scoffed this time. "You wanted to see what Id do." Sesshy was silent, she was right of course.

Neither said anything, and eventually Loa ran her fingers through her hair again. Loa pulled in a quick breath and dropped herself into the river. Sesshy watched her for a moment and… jumped in after her! haha, jk. Sesshy watched her for a moment and then went back to the tree and sat down.

Loa swan up and down the river the first couple minutes, getting out some nervous energy. Her hair streamed behind her elegantly as she kicked her powerful legs with grace. Then she slowed her swimming and waited a moment. Suddenly thrusting out her legs, she shot toward a pair of fish. Before they could react, she snatched them with a hand each and sunk her sharp nails in.

She stood up out of the water, clutching her kill. She stepped out tentatively, not wanting to slip on slick rocks, and brought the fresh fish to Sesshomaru. She stood proudly in front of him, and held out an offering handing holding a black scaled fish. Sesshy shook his head, so Loa withdrew her hand and bent over, setting them both down in from of him.

Loa moved a few steps to the side and forward, and sat down next to him, pulling her legs up against her chest and wrapping her arms around her legs and setting her chin on her knees. Loa's stomach growled as she eyed the fish warily, so she sucked it in until the noise stopped. 'Ill come back tonight and catch some more…'

"Nice day…." She said, sounding bored. Sesshomaru didn't answer. "So… When were you going to teach me how you broke my sword?"

"I thought you didn't need my help."

Loa breathed out of her nose, making a soft noise of exasperation, but Sesshy still picked up on it with his sensitive ears. 'Of course he couldn't just purposely forget about hat huh?' "Well I… changed me mind."

"Tomorrow."

"Huh? Oh, tomorrow. Youll show me tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"Right when I wake?"

"If I already am."

"Ok." Loa nodded as she said it. Loa sighed again and closed her eyes. After a good twenty minutes, Loa became comfortable enough with knowing the source of body heat next to her was that of the Lord Sesshomaru, the vicious full-blooded dog demon, who killed what he pleased, to fall asleep.

i know, not much for being gone so long, but that's all i have for now… i love you all, andill try to be quicker next time

- Danyell