Chapter 1

Pale, almost icy, gem-like silvery-blue eyes gradually drew open, slowly focusing at the spots of sunlight that managed to seep through the thick canopy of green tree leaves above. The stunning eyes were set in a pale, elegant facade, with seemly flawless smooth ivory skin. On either cheek ran a single pale red streak, which disappeared under her platinum white hair that framed her slender face. Long, straight, thin, knee length locks of her hair ran in front of her delicately pointed elf-like ears like white silk ribbons. The rest of her hair was wavy, and untamed, falling to about waist length behind her shoulders.

This person, whom was obviously female judging by the sensual curves of her physique, was sprawled out on a large tree limb, her long slender, thigh-high booted legs elegantly crossed as she leaned back against the tree's trunk. Over her forearms she wore red leather and gold arm- guards incrusted with a single large red jewel in each. Her outfit consisted of what looked like a white swimsuit, red fabric connected at her waist, which flared out behind her hips and black leather up around her collar. On her shoulders, she wore seemingly over sized red and gold armored shoulder pads. Around her waist she also wore a slender leather belt that had a red-leathered scabbard with gold trimming hanging from her hip. Within the scabbard rested her long, elegant looking European-style blade, which was named the Kitoiga. She didn't look like someone you'd normally find in Japan, and it wasn't a coincidence; she wasn't native to this island country.

Her name was Seishi, which, in truth, was a Japanese name, but this was only because her late mother had come from Japan. Her mother had mated with her father, who was a demon lord in Europe, when he had visited the island country of Japan. This of course, would account for her western style clothing and light British accent.

Because of constant wars in Europe, Seishi had thought she would travel back to her mother's homeland for a look around. But she only found it to also be in chaotic war. Although Seishi had no love for humans, she didn't see any point to senseless destruction and killing, which seemed to plague the world.

With a rather canine growl, the lovely female demon slid from her tree limb perch and landed lightly on the forest floor below. Stretching out her rather buxom figure, she scanned her surrounding with all her senses, which were a lot more then any human could
experience. She felt the air currents and pressure on her skin, could distinguish the scent of one plant from another, see farther and in better detail, not to mention catching the slightest of movements, and hear the sound of a babbling brook that was a quarter of a mile away.

Throat feeling rather parched; she decided to travel toward that sound of running water. Her feet lightly touched the ground, if at all, as she darted off. She was a mere red and white blur making its way through the forest underbrush. She startled a few deer and other forest dwelling animals, even a human hunter or two, but she didn't really care. She was long gone by the time any of them got over the shock.

She slowed when the smell of water became strong and she knew she was almost there. Pushing through the thick waterside vegetation, she found that she had been mistaken; it wasn't a small brook, but rather a small calm river. She walked down to its stony bank and leaned down, capturing some of the water in her cupped hand and bringing the cool substance to her lips. Only when she reached down for another drink did she freeze… sensing two powers nearby rising… There was a battle between two strong demons… Although the saying was curiosity killed the cat, in this case, this dog was curious, so she cleared across the river in an easy leap, and then darted off through the trees toward the source of the battle.

It didn't take long for her to hear the crashing and explosions of a very intense fight… she slowed her pace and approached more cautiously… No need to run out in the middle of a battle and chance getting caught up in it. Keeping her energy levels low, she moved through the trees and underbrush and came out in a clearing…

Here she witnessed two blurs, one white and red, and the other all white, they hit each other and fell back. They paused a moment, and she was able to see that it was two demons. From what her senses told her, both were dog demons at that. The elegant one in white with long platinum white hair was a full dog demon of high caliber, and the one in rougher looking one red with silvery white hair and triangular dog ears was a half-breed…

The one in red raised his huge sword barely in the nick of time to prevent the white one's energy whip from lashing his face. The whip bounced of the large blade, but the wielder of the whip flicked his wrist, which caused the whip careened off in a new direction and made long deep lacerations in the gruff half demon's flesh. The half demon gave the other demon an angry growl, gashing his teeth together, "Dammit Sesshoumaru! Get the hell out of my way or I'll bust your head open with my sword!" The half-breed charged at the elegant demon, Sesshoumaru, swinging his blade. The battle lust had gone to the half demon's head and his swordsmanship lacked any kind of refined skill. He treated his weapon as though it were a club rather then a sword.

Sesshoumaru was less than impressed with the hanyou's attack and dashed forward, using his demonic speed to close the gap between them in an instant. The half-demon in red tried to swing at Sesshoumaru, but he was caught on a downswing and completely missed his target. Sesshoumaru was quick to act and raked his claws through the demon's chest causing fresh blood to be spilt. The half-demon yowled and stumbled back a few paces as Sesshoumaru land safely a few feet away from him. "InuYasha, your swordsmanship is as unimpressive as ever. You disgrace the Tessaiga with your pathetic attempts in wielding it."

The half demon, InuYasha, growled in response, "Shut up! I know enough." InuYasha then set his foot a pace back and steadied himself for his attack, "Eat this! KAZE NO KIZU!" InuYasha swung his sword and the powerful attack streaked out and headed straight for Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru narrowed his golden eyes and head quickly went to one of the two swords in his belt. He pulled out the straight-edged one with a wide blade and as it came a blue energy wave emerged and collided with the Kaze no Kizu. The two energy waves crashed together and after a brief moment of bright light as the power waves wrestled with each other, both attacks lost stream and dissipated. InuYasha growled again seeing that his favorite technique had been absolutely useless in deciding this battle, then he dash forward again to begin close quarters combat again.

While the battle continued, Seishi noticed the dogs weren't alone. On the other side of the clearing were three humans, a little fox kit demon, and some kind of feline beast demon.

Two of the humans were women… one looked like a typical Japanese women, pretty, with long ebony hair tied behind her back at the ends with a white ribbon. Warm brown eyes, with a hint of dark pink eye lining makeup, alert and observant, watched the battle from the sidelines. This girl looked about sixteen or seventeen, and wore a pink and white kimono like outfit with a green skirt-like apron. What of her legs did show under her apron were covered in some kind of skin tight black leggings or pants, then she just wore simple straw sandals as was common in Japan. Her hands had a similar black marital, giving Seishi the impression she had another outfit under her other dress. Over her torso was a leather strap connected to a large boomerang like weapon on her back. From where she was, Seishi thought the woman's weapon looked like it might have been made of bone; she was obviously a warrior. At that girls ankle stood the small feline demon… it was cream colored with black markings on its legs and two tails. Large orange-red eyes watched the two dog demons battling.

The second girl was strange… Seishi had never seen anything like her before. She looked Japanese, about fifteen or sixteen-years-old with her black hair and brown eyes. There was the hint of the powers of a Miko, a Japanese Shinto priestess, but she didn't wear the traditional white haori top and baggy red hakama pants of one. Instead she wore a strange white blouse with a green bandana like thing around her shoulders, and then she wore the shortest pleated green skirt Seishi had ever seen on a human. She'd have the proper ladies of English court screaming in protest at the indecency of showing her legs in such a manner. The thought of this made Seishi smile to herself… the proper English ladies had quite few things to say about her for that matter, not that she cared. On the girls back she wore a very large yellow bag of some kind.

Clung to her shoulder was the young kitsune demon… He was still very young with bright green eyes and orange hair pulled up into a ponytail tied with a blue bow. He had a cute fluffy tail and his feet were little fox paws. He wore dark blue pants and a lighter blue shirt with an orange vest.

The third human was dressed like a houshi, a Japanese Buddhist monk. Seishi had seen a few of those in her recent travels. He held a brass Shakujou, the staff of a wandering Buddhist monk. The jangling metal rings that top the staff are meant to warn all living creatures of the monk's approach so that he will not accidentally step on even the tiniest of insects. At least that is what Seishi had heard. He had black hair tied back into a little tight ponytail at the nap of his neck and his eyes seemed to have a dark blue-purple look to them, almost the same color as his kesa. The only thing that stood out about the houshi to Seishi was the cloth glove like covering on his right hand, which was wrapped by a string of prayer beads. He also looked young, maybe nineteen or so, early twenties at the most.

The battle between the two dogs really began to heat up as the battle lust began to overtake both of them. InuYasha kept swinging his massive sword in an effort to strike Sesshoumaru down, but the demon kept disappearing and reappearing. InuYasha kept up his intense offensive, however the large beads of sweat on his forehead warned that he was starting to tire, while Sesshoumaru showed no signs of fatigue. Finally InuYasha made the mistake of swinging his sword too hard, which threw him off balance. Sesshoumaru seized his opportunity and unleashed a powerful energy wave. Seeing the blast coming InuYasha used all his strength to swing his sword in front of himself and he used it as a shield from the blast. Sesshoumaru missed, "Your far too careless little brother. If you had been a fraction of a second too slow you would be dead now."

InuYasha growled, "Shut up you jerk." He forced himself to his feet and raised his sword again. "I've only just started to fight!"

Seishi's attention was drawn from the fight again to some commotion over where the humans stood… They had been joined by a new demon… She only now sensed him… he just seemed to appear almost out of nowhere… This demon had jet-black hair in a high ponytail and a furred headband across his forehead above bright blue eyes. He was dressed in brown fur pelts and a back and silver armored chest plate. He had clawed hands and feet, which were bare, and a brown furry tail, which Seishi found charming. He had wolf written all over him…

At the moment he had the strangely dressed miko girl's hand between his and was speaking to her. She was blushing and seeming to try and get him to listen to her. He didn't seem to be listening… The wolf looked off toward the dog's fight; the hanyou had sensed him.

InuYasha looked over to where Kagome was standing and was not at all pleased by what he saw, "HEY! You mangy wolf, get away from Kagome!" The wolf turned to face InuYasha, his gaze was one filled with anger, "Inu-kuro how dare you let Kagome near such a dangerous battle. That's it; I'm taking Kagome back. She isn't safe with you anymore." Just then InuYasha felt a fist slam into his gut. He gasped and sputtered as he tried to catch his breath.

He looked and saw Sesshoumaru glaring down him. "You allow yourself to get distracted by that human wench… pathetic…"

The wolf turned away from his words with the hanyou and smirked at the miko girl… then he wisped her up into his arms bridal style and kicked off with a small whirlwind. So that is why he seemed to appear so suddenly to Seishi… he was very fast…

The wolf cut across part of the clearing and actually pasted not too far from where Seishi stood… She noticed his blue eyes glancing her way with surprise and confusion… she wasn't surprised by his reaction… she had her energy at a minimal and she was downwind of them all. He almost hesitated and seemed like he might slow… but then came a snarl from the battlefield… The dog hanyou didn't seem very happy about the wolf running off with the miko girl.

The wolf's departure once again tore InuYasha's attention away from Sesshoumaru, "HEY! Where do you think your going with Kagome! Get back here Kouga!" InuYasha quickly forgot about Sesshoumaru, and his wounds for that matter, and rushed off after Kouga. He ran in the direction he had seen Kouga go and notice a strange demon that looked like she had been watching the battle. She didn't seem hostile so he paid her no mind.

Seishi watched the hanyou rush pass… he two gave her a quick glance, gold eyes hard with anger. He seemed to havemore importing things to deal with before asking questions about some strange bitch watching his battle.

Back the battlefield; Sesshoumaru sheathed Toukijin as he turned. He had known of the female dog demon's presence soon after she had arrived, but he had ignored her since she didn't seem to be a threat. The fact that InuYasha had ended their fight so suddenly infuriated him. That half-breed would pay for that… not only had he run away, but he had done it to chase after that girl, a human girl at that. What did he see in that wench anyway? He saw InuYasha friends chase after him and then he made his own exit off the battlefield.

Since the hanyou had run off after the wolf and the miko, Seishi turned her attention back to the full dog demon standing over in the field. He was looking highly irritated as he turned to leave. Well… he didn't look irritated, but she got that impression anyway. She wondered why they had been fighting. But now having turned her crystal blue gaze the other demon's way, she saw him more clearly since he was no longer rushing around in the heat of battle.

He was the most beautiful male Seishi had ever seen... fine facial features… long, flowing platinum white hair… gorgeous golden eyes that just drew you in… The only things that gave off that he wasn't just some tall female was that he had broader shoulders, narrower hips, and the fact his scent indicated defiant male. She watched as he sheathed his blade and turned to leave. His movement might have been graceful… but they were also kind of stiff too… he must be one of those cold, uptight types… she doubted he'd have many friends…

Well… the hanyou was gone… and she had nothing better to do. She could to talk to those humans… but they were moving to follow after their friends… Besides… the dog looked interesting… With that thought, Seishi shrugged and started after the white haired dog demon, having nothing better to do.

To Be Continued...