Chapter 2..

When Sesshomaru ran off, he was crying. He ran off past the desert and into another area with a jungle and beautiful waterfall. He just plopped down by a rock and cried thinking 'I'm so stupid, I should have never listened to Naraku, damn that InuYasha if he was never born, none of this would have happened.'

It was getting late, so he got up to walk around a bit to help ease his mind. As he was walking he wasn't watching where he was going, someone was running around and pounced right on him. He got up and seen this female lion cub getting up. This cub was a light sandy color with white and a reddish, magenta tail, and aqua green eye's. They both got up, and Sesshomaru was on his guard.

"Grrr, you idiot, you knocked me down!" Sesshomaru snapped at her.

She looked at him with her nose scrunched, "Sorry!" She sarcastically said, "I didn't see you there."

"Well, you should watch where your walking!" Sesshomaru shouted.

"Jeez, what's with you," she asked and shook her head, "sound's like someone woke up on the wrong side of the grass."

"Shut up!" Sesshomaru snapped.

"And if I don't?" She sarcastically said and went to approach him.

Sesshomaru growled, and well, tried to roar. It wasn't much of a roar, more like a meow a cat would make, but deeper with a growl to it. She rolled her eye's shaking her head, "Oh please, spare me," she said shaking her head, " are you finished?"

"Huh?" Sesshomaru said curiously, "your not scared?"

"Uh, no," she said laughing at him, "why should I be, I mean I can do that too."

So she tried to roar too, and sounded like him but a bit lighter due to she's a female.

"Don't pick on me," Sesshomaru snapped.

"Who said I was picking," she said and closed her eye's, "you really have a bad temper, jeez, what did I ever do to you?"

Sesshomaru sighed, he closed his eye's and was getting annoyed, "Stupid, you pounced on me," he said.

"I said I was sorry, okay?" she said then turned around and sat with her back to him.

"Whatever," Sesshomaru said then walked away.

She looked back with her eye's half shut, "Hey," she said, then got up and followed him, "where are you going?"
"No where," Sesshomaru said and sighed with a unhappy look on his face, "just leave me alone."

"What's wrong?" she asked confused.

"Nothing," Sesshomaru said and tried to walk ahead of her, but she kept up with him, "just go away, mind your own business."

"Oh come on," she said shaking her head, then glancing at him, "you can tell me, It's not like I'm going to tell anyone, there's no other lion's here but us I guess, well I haven't ran into any other one's anyway's."

"What do you mean?" Sesshomaru asked curiously, "don't you have a family to run to, now go, shoo, leave me be."

"No, Mr. Crabby pant's, I don't," she said then sighed, "my parents were killed, and I was driven off to this land by force, what's your story?"

Sesshomaru sighed, he stopped walking, sat down with his head down, "I rather not talk about it," he said in a low tone of voice.

"Oh, well," she said then looked down, "you don't have to tell me, so what is your name?"

"I'm Sesshomaru," he said with a sigh, "who are you?"

"I'm Kotoyo," she said and stood up swishing her tail, "so, can I hang around you, seeing were both alone, It would be good to stick together, then be on our own."

Sesshomaru looked up and rolled his eye's, "I don't care," he said.

"Oh good," Kotoyo said happily, "so how long have you been in these land's?"

Sesshomaru sighed, "I just got her," he said, "how about you?"

"Oh, I've been here for a few weeks," she said, "well it's good I ran into you, because I know these land's better then you, I can show you around."

"Oh goody," Sesshomaru sarcastically said in a low tone of voice, "just what I alway's wanted."

"Jeez," Kotoyo said, "show some appreciation, will ya?"

Then she walked up to him to get closer, "So are you hungry?"

"No," he said shaking his head, "I just want to sleep, this has to be a dream, I must be dreaming."

"I'm sorry," she said shaking her head sadly, "this is not a dream, that is what I thought too when I came here first, and I was wrong."

"Hmpf," Sesshomaru said while closing his eye's and pointing his snout to the sky, "whatever, your just part of my dream too."

"I am not," she said then got up and went to walk off, "come on, I'll show you a safe place to sleep."

"Huh?" he said curiously, "what do you mean safe?"

"Well," she said walking up to him again, "I said your the only lion I've ran into here, but there's wolve's around here, there usually in the desert, but they come here for food or drinks. If they find us, they'll just see us as there next main course."

"Oh," Sesshomaru said, then got up to walk, "Well, I can handel them."

Kotoyo lead the way to a safe place, "Oh, you think you can, but I can assure you, you can't," she said giggling, "your just a cub, your not a full grown lion yet."

"So," he said offendingly, "what's that supposed to mean?"

"It means, you won't be able to handle a wolf that's twice the size of you," she said, "Kouga is the leader of the wolf pack in these part's, and he is very temperamental and not so nice at times. I nearly got killed a few time's, he's bigger then the other wolf's, because he is the leader I guess, but still," she said shuttering at the thought of Kouga, "you will be killed in an instant by him, if he catches you."

Sesshomaru rolled his eye's, he got silent and didn't believe her. He thought he could handle a wolf, it's nothing, so he thought. She finally lead them to a safe place to stay, it was a cave behind the waterfall.

"Here," she said while laying down, "he won't find us here, the waterfall would throw off our sent."

"Oh," Sesshomaru said and laid down next to a rock, "okay."

"Well, good night," she said and closed her eye's and went to sleep.

"Yeah, whatever," he said then turned his head away facing the wall.

He deeply sighed, and silently cried to him self, so she couldn't hear him. He finally closed his eye's with thought's of regret and fell asleep. The next morning he woke up, thinking it was all a dream. He thought when he woke he was going to be in the cave with his father, brother and mother at pride rock. When he woke up he looked around and realized it was not a dream, he looked around and saw Kotoyo sleeping. He got up, and walked over to her. He sat down in front of her face, then nudged her with his paw, "Hey, hey, Kotoyo," he said, "wake up."

She threw her paw out to say no, she yawned and just went back to sleep. He nudged her again, and this time she woke up, "What is it?" she asked while yawning and still groggy.

"I'm hungry, where can we find food?" Sesshomaru asked her.

She got up, stretched her paw's out, and yawned again, "Come on, there's fish in the pool of water that the waterfall, fall's into," she said.

She went first, she peaked out behind the waterfall to make sure no wolves were around. Then they went out and by the water. She jumped in, "Wooo it's cold!" she shouted while laughing, "come on."

"Huh?" he said looking at her curiously, "do you expect me to go into the water?"

"Yeah," she said while splashing around, "your fish won't catch it's self."

"Aren't you supposed to catch it for me?" he asked her.

"What do you mean by that?" she asked offendinly.

"Well," he said and closed his eye's, "where I come from, the lionesses do the hunting for the lion's."

"Huh!" she puffed, "well were not home now are we? Every lion fend's for there self here, I'm not catching your food if that's what your implying. You have teeth and claws, you can catch it your self."

"Gee, Thank's," Sesshomaru said sarcastically, "then I don't want anything to eat."

"Oh stop," she said then got out of the pool of water.

Sesshomaru sat there with his eye's closed and nose pointed to the air. He swished his tail and was insisting on her catching his food. She snuck behind him, ran up to him and head butted him into the pool of water, "catch it your self!" she snapped.

Sesshomaru splashed around and gasped, "What did you do that for!" he shouted.

She stood on the bank of the water with a angry look on her face, "I told you," she said then jumped in, "I'm not catching your food for you."

"Fine!" he snapped, "what good is it that we stick together if you will not do as I say."

"Uh, hello," she snapped back, "who do you think you are to order me around?"

He caught a fish, then jumped out of the water and shook like a dog to shake the water off.

"Well," he said, while standing on the bank and looking at her with an evil look on his face, "seeing I'm the lion and your the lioness, and I'm the only lion here, dosen't that make me king, or ruler of these land's?"

Her jaw dropped in outrage, she caught her fish, jumped out and shook the water off next to him purposely to get him wet, "I don't think so," she snapped, "You can't alway's have your way! I am not going to obey you, and you are not going to boss me around and think you rule these lands. Were not in a pride, so the rules don't stand."

"Say's you," he said bluntly, "I said so, so it's what I say, for I am the future king of pride rock."

"Huh," she said unimpressed, " well apparently, you were the king of the pride land's, you are the future king, then what's a future king doing in my neck of the woods?"

"Don't be smart," he snapped, "I ran away."

"Why?" she asked curiously, but still angry.

"Because, " he snapped and lied horribly, "I felt like it, I hate my brother, I hate that we share the same parent's, I wish he'd just die!"

"So," she snapped, "that's no excuse to push me around thinking I'm your servant."

"Just leave me alone," he snapped, then picked up his fish and ran off.

She laid down and was angry, "Fine, I don't need you around," she shouted, and just concentrated on her fish.

Sesshomaru walked off with his head down, he plopped on some grass and deeply sighed, "Stupid cub," he said to him self, "she act's if it's no big deal, hmpf."

He closed his eye's to rest again, he was so down about what had happened, he just felt like sleeping again. After a few hour's, out of no where, he was awaken by a scream.

"Aaaaa! Get away from me! Leave me alone, I'm only a cub!" a female cub voice shouted.

"Huh," Sesshomaru said to him self, then got up and looked around for the direction of where the voice was coming from. He recognized the voice, it was Kotoyo's. Then he heard her voice again.

"Help! AAAaa, I'm gona die, I'm gona die!" She shouted, then after she shouted Sesshomaru heard an unfamiliar male voice , "Shut up! stop squirming, I'm going to catch you once and for all!" the voice shouted that lead to a howl.

Sesshomaru's eye's lit up, he looked around and ran off in the direction he heard the voices.

End of Chapter, Next Chapter 3.. "Back to the pride lands.."