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"To my-lady Aaka, a toast!" Kazu said to the pack as he raised his glass high, as did everyone else standing. Aaka just sat with a look of such concentration that she looked irritated. She raised her glass, "I couldn't have done it without all of you and your support." she said, and everyone toasted. Aaka leaned over and whispered to Kazu, "I'm going outside for some fresh air. Stay and keep an eye on things for me." Aaka got up and walked out, away from the entertainment half of the party. Kazu watched her leave, he was of course worried. She didn't seem happy. Kazu walked through the crowd and toa fairly big room in the royal chamber part of the den. "Grandfather?" he called out into the dimly lit room,"Grandfather are you there?" he called out once more. "Kazu? Is that you?" a gruff voice echoed. "Yes Grandfather it is I." Kazu replied as an old wolf demon emerged. He squinted as if he was blind, but his eyes glowed with such a knowledge of the world that it made him look somewhat younger. His shoulders sank low and his back arched as if he carried the world on it. He was quiet boney and his wrinkled skin sagged. "What is it you wish to ask young one?" he siad with patient ears perked. "It's Ms. Aaka. She doesn't seem content with today's victory. Why she seems somewhat bothered by it. What do yo uthink it is?" he questioned his Grandfather further while in the meantime Aaka was asking questions of her own.
"Why didn't you heed my woarning! I told you to leave and NEVER return!" she yelled at the white haired dog demon angrily. The dog demon just stood their. "Answer Me!" her voice boomed. "You didn't say what time I had to leave." he finally replied. By this time Aaka was infuriated. "First you enter my lands without MY permission. Then you violate the sacred den with your awful presence, and now you smart off!" she said popping her knuckles, "You should have done as you were told, but now you shall die." She lunged at him with lightning fast speed. She took a swing at his face, but he dodged and kicked her in the left ribs. "Heh, lucky shot." she said holding her ribs. They were cracked but not broken. "Luck has nothin' to do with it." he siad as he jumped in the air. He came down and swipped at her face. She got away with a small scratch and did a back hand-spring catching him in the jaw. He returned that jesture with a deep gash to her right shoulder. Luckily she was quick enought to leave a gash of her own, from his left shoulder to his right hip. He stopped and looked at the gash. He touched it and then rubbed the blood on his fingers together. "Pretty good. But you'll have to do better if you want to beat me." Aaka knew she was a great fighter. She had to be... for herself and her pack. "I wouldn't push your luck. Mutt." she growled. They went into a staredown. One wating for the other to make a move.
Back at the den: "Grandfather please! You must give me a straight answer. Enough with your riddles!" he said fustrated with the old demon. "You should calm down. The meanings are as clear as mud, and the truth is but all a lie." The old wolf demon gave a sickly cough. "But Grandfather mud is anything but clear and how can the truth be a lie?" Kazu asked now confused more than ever. "I need my rest. You should go and contemplate all I have said to you, young Kazu." he then left back into the shadows of his room. Kazu left the room and went outside. The sun was beginning to set and he mumbled to himself over and over what the old wolf demon had said to him, "Grandfather I just don't understand. What is it that you are trying to tell me?" In the intervening time back at the fight: "His stance has no defense to it. Is he stupid, or is it a trap?" she thought to herself. "What's wrong? Have your knuckles gone white?" he teased. "What's that supposed to mean?" "Nothing. Just that I wouldn't blame you for getting scred to fight me." he said with a smirk. "Who said I was scared? Now enough of your games you die NOW!" Aaka jumped from place to place to where the only thing he could keep up with was dust she left behind, if that at all. That's when she attacked him from behind, but he saw it as if he had eyes in the back of his head. He spun around and peirced her solar plexus with a devastating punch. She fell to the ground gasping for air. As soon as she caught her second breath she glared at him with a smirk, "Good... but not good enough!" She lunged her right fist through his stomach and thats when it happened. He laughed and then Aaka's skin, where his blood touched began to burn. She quickly jumped back holding her arm in pain. "What... who are you?" she asked. "The truth is I am but a hanyo. My name..." he went silent for a moment, "Is Inuyasha." "Inuyasha?" she repeated, "Why have you come here Inuyasha?" she said wiping the blood off her arm as best as she could. "Heh. I have nothing better to do. The Shikon Jewel is gone, not that it matters right now." Aaka began to fill dizzy from the heavy blood loss. "Don't worry all this will soon come into play." he said and Aaka tood one last look at the white haired dog demon before she went unconcious.
Days later Aaka started to come to. "Ah. Ms. Aaka you have awakended." the elder demon said. "Huh... how long have I been out for?" she asked weakly. "Why you've been our for 2 weeks. With all the blood loss and damage on your body we wasn't expecting you for at least another 2 weeks." "2 weeks ..." Aaka looked at the bandaging around her arm. It still burned like fire, so she wouldn't be able to fully use it for awhile,"When and who found me?" she said sitting up and swinging her legs to the side of the bed. The elder's face turned concerned and said, "Kazu found you my lady...but at the price of his own life I'm afraid." His eyes became misty. "How?" Aaka asked in a low growl. Angry that she lost not only a comrade in battle but a close friend. Her fists clenched. "He just arrived at the scene and saw what the culprit did to you. He went into an angered frenzy and did heavy damage. But still lost. The demon took him for dead and left. Kazu mustered all the energy he had to get you here and told us his story. We did everything we could to save hime, but... but..." the old wolf had to stop before he broke down, "I'd never thought I would outlive one of my grandsons." he said as tears streamed down his aged face. "I see..." Aaka said with angered, misty eyes. "Did you...where did you bury him?" she asked. "In the graveyard next to the moon shrine." "Good choice." "Are you going to see him?" "...Yes." "You shouldn't be up and about in your condition." "Nonsence I'm fine."she said walking out. "Ms. Aaka before you go." The elder said tossing her a small wooden box to her, "He told me to give this to you. I don't know what is inside but it must be something nice." Aaka looked at the small box pondering what was inside, but not wanting to open it there put it in her belt. "Thanks..." she said and left for the shrine.