A/N: I got so many nice reviews on the chapter with Touga and Izayoi's meeting that I felt compelled to write a little bit about them again.
Warning: swearing.

A General and a Princess 2

It was a lovely day, with birds chirping in the trees of Royakan's Forest. Sunlight was filtered through fresh leaves, dancing on the forest floor.

A certain daiyoukai general and a forest guardian sat on a hilltop, observing a path running in a wide arc around the foot of the hill, a steam running on the other side of the rarely used road.

Touga sighed happily - the day was going to get even lovelier pretty soon. A certain human princess was on her way with some good food. She always brought some food while visiting with her youkai friends.

Suddenly she came into view while walking from behind a cluster of trees and heading towards the spot where a thin path was leading from the road up the hill. Royakan made a happy noise and Touga smiled at the glutton. Her food was amazing, she smelled so nice and looked like an incarnation of loveliness. Her long braid of black hair was swaying as she went. a basked on her left elbow while a walking stick taller than herself in her right. He could hear the rhythmic thumping of the stick against the road.

He caught a movement coming from behind a pile of rocks. A man jumped out from behind it and stood in front of the woman. He was dressed in rags and had a short sword in hand. Touga growled when he saw the female take a step back and put her basket on the ground. The man laughed.

"Pretty, eh?" he exclaimed. "Good to be my wife!"

Touga was about to jump forward and rescue the princess, rage fogging his golden eye with red. But as he stood from the grass he felt Royakan's hand grasping his shoulder.

"Don't!" the wolf exclaimed. Touga was about to snap at his friend who obviously didn't understand the situation, but a loud scream stopped him.

It wasn't a shriek of a scared female.

It was a shriek of a male hit in his treasure - hard.

When Touga looked back to the road he saw Izayoi holding her stick with both hands and the bandit falling to his knees in front of her. He dropped his sword and put his hands around his crotch, shielding his family gems a little belatedly. Izayoi didn't use his distraction to flee - she did the opposite and launched another attack, her stick moving fast and hitting the man's side.

And it was then that her voice finally rang in the morning air, strong and full of rage and much louder than the grunts and cries of pain of the man.

"You mud-eating fucker. You son of a goat-fucking, flea-bitten oni! You moronic excuse for a man with no brain and balls the size of a rice grain! You stinking horse shit! You piss-drinking whore of a half-blind, toothless pig! You asshole cousin of a bald sheep-fucking bastard son of a wild boar and a board with a hole in the center!"

The banding groaned in pain and tried to grab for his sword and got the thick stick hitting his forearm with enough force to make the man scream in pain.

"You ass of a man without no honor, you think I'll let you raise a sword on the daughter of the lord of this land?! Birds ate your brain, you rat's asswipe!"

"Shouldn't we..." Touga swallowed. "Shouldn't we rescue.. him?

Royakan stared at him in disbelief.

"Touga-sama!" he breathed out. "Do you really want to go down there? Now?"

The daiyoukai turned his gaze back to the bandit who ceased his attempts to crawl away from the fragile-looking maiden.

"Hn."

A/N 2: Inu is stubborn, brave and violent for two people, he had to inherit it from both his parents. And lets face it - Izayoi had to have proverbial balls of steel to raise a hanyou. I imagine she taught him not only good manners (which he doesn't like to display often) but also some basic stuff. I can't imagine her raising him as a prince-ish boy while knowing he had to be strong and smart and creative to survive.
Yup, Inu's foul language mastery is a talent he inherited it from his mom