Author Note: hi guys i know its been a long time but have been up to lots so the story has been left behind for a bit. but should be adding a few chapters next couple of days. don't worrie i will not leave this story, i hate it when stores are left open with no ending. your reviews really help me write next chapter so keep it up :)

This chap has been added due to lots of requests for a certain somone. hence the title of this chap :P enjoy and I've put a link on my profile for my fan art if anyone art wants to have a go id love to see how you picture things :)

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Chapter 18 Finally

Many miles to the west a male figure ran down a grand palace hallway wildly looking left and right. 'I need to place to hide and fast!' The desperation on the males face clearly showed that he was in a dire situation. Looking around he spotted the large burgundy drapes by the window, heavy material allowed little to no light through so would be perfect for hiding behind 'that might work' Almost ripping them from the rail they were draped over, he pulled them away from the wall and around himself. The fabric rested naturally against him hiding him perfectly. He was just thankful that since a certain someone had come for a surprisingly long visit at the palace, he had almost constantly kept his sent and aura hidden.

At the sound of soft padding footsteps on the marble floor the male behind the curtain held back a shudder. The silence was ripped to pieces when the soft-footed creature opened its mouth

"TOUGA darling where are you?"

The female singsong voice ricochet through the halls. Most to the servants who had been clearing this particular wing of the castle all scatter as quickly as possible. They were not fond of the creature that created the noise and dreaded the day she would become more than an unwelcome guest.

The male behind the curtain tensed as he heard the footsteps grow louder and stop just to the left of him. From his position he could make out snow white hair scraped tightly into two bunches either side of the female's head. Royal robes fell from a thin but womanly frame. Skin almost as pail as her hair was proof she was not someone who ventured outside much, this the male was incredibly thankful for. ' if I can just stay hidden from her and make it to the armoury I can leave to patrol my lands in peace.'

Whist waiting for the female to move his eyes roamed her form with slight disgust. She did not fit him at all. The only reason such a sickly, whiny, spoilt bitch was ever found on his arm was because inu females were extremely rare. Inu demon pups were almost always male, the reason remained unknown, but links could be made to other species like nekos who seems to have mostly females. because of this female inus were extremely sort after and treated like princesses. ' I could count on one hand the amount of inu females alive today. Only one of which is of the correct age and unmated. I guess I should think myself lucky to have a bitch of similar age and ready to breed. The only other inu females I can think of are all either elders or already mated' shaking his head he quickly reminded himself of why he was hiding ' she might be the only available inu female but that has caused her to become a spoilt brat. I don't think my ears could take much more of her irritating voice. Though she acts like a lady, she resembles nothing as such to me.' The image of his mother ran through his mind she had been kind and caring, what he classed as a true lady of the west. On many occasions she would calm his father and preventing war by talking rationally. All the servants and guards loved her, she would always make an effort to remember their names and help them out when she thought no one was looking. his mother was not afraid to visit local villages and help mend and clean all the huts and buildings. The villagers always respected her and would marvel at the beautiful demoness that would lower herself to their lowly level and help any of them in need.

But even though she was kind and caring she was not to be trifled with. She would fight for what she believed in with passion and a fire in her eye that he hadn't even seen in the fiercest and most powerful of demons. The female in front of him was almost the polar opposite of his mother in everyway. She was cruel to all that she thought she couldn't gain from and did nothing for anyone other than herself.

The male almost growled when his eyes fell upon his mothers sapphire blue tear drop earrings that were hanging from the females pail pointed ears. The audacity of the female to raid his mother's room and jewelry box then proceed to wear his family's jewelry when she was not related nor worthy to ware jewels of the previous ladies of the west.

Before he made a move to reveal himself and remove his mothers jewelry from her, she walked off calling his name. Taking a deep breath he remembered that he was trying to hide from her and make it to the armory.

Slowly he listened and sniffed the air, making sure she was far enough away, after spending the whole morning running around hiding from her he was not about to be caught just because he was under cautious. Sensing her aura diapering down towards the southern wing of the palace, he crept out from behind the curtains.

Running at demon speed he was nothing but a blur meandering through the many halls. A few servants who were scrubbing the marble floors where almost blown over with the force of the wind. Afraid if he stopped a certain someone might pounce on him. He mealy shouted a apology over his shoulder. The servant girl who was closest when he ran past, pulled her long hair that had wrapped itself around her face and gave him a small smile.

He prided himself in following in his mother's footsteps and being respectful of all the staff in his palace. Many had help raise him from a pup and he classed as part of his family.

He eventually reached a large wooden door that was carved with a scene of two large inu fighting. Stopping he let his hand run along the one of the inus paws, he remembered as a pup sneaking to the door and trying to push them open to reach the weapons inside. Never being strong enough he would sit and study the doors hoping that staring would scare them into opening, that is until either one of his parents or a servant found him. Slowly he pushed the door open just enough to allow him through. As he pushed the doors to he kept his back to the armoury.

He froze when he felt small female arms tighten around his waist. The high pitched giggle was unmistakable. Signing he plastered on a false smile and turned to see what seemed to be the bane of his existence. "What are you doing in the armory Inukimi?" questioned the male. "Looking for my big strong male that's what" came her reply followed by a series of girlish giggles as she stroked a single clawed digit down his chest. Said male shudder slightly and replied "well the armory is no place for a female" Iunkimi pouted and tilted her head to the side and said in a whiny voice "but I have such big news for you" her excited squeak at the end of her speech made him pause and listen. Inukimi took a deep breath and said a slow voice that caused her to look as though she might exploded for not showing her full excitement "im expecting our first pup!" she started to bounce from one foot to the other whilst the male stood completely frozen in shock. his brain seems frozen unable to put coherent thoughts together.' pup? what pup? wait we? no? but yes?'"TOUGA!" her sharp bark snapped him out of his shock and he began stuttering "B….b…ut we…..no….we…n….wait what?!"

At the young lords shocked face inukamis voice deepened and slowly her white hair dissolved into fiery red spiky locks. Before long inukami had completely disappeared leaving a male red kitsune rolling on the floor with laughter holding his sides. Between laghs the kitsune managed to breath out "Y…your face T…Touga was so...oooo fuuunyy!" the kitsune whipped away a tear and looked at the inu male. The Kitsune stopped laughing and pailed slightly when he saw the dark look on Touga's face. The growl that rose from the inus chest would make even the dead shudder.

Slowly the red haired male backed up almost knocking over a rack of swords. He began stuttering for a completely difrent reason "N…Now Touga w..we don't want to do anything haisty now. Y…you know weve been friends all our lives you wouldn't want to hurt me now would you…..would you?" Touga merly allowed a eveil smirk to rise on his lips and said one word "RUN!"

In a flash of bright light the red head was replace with a red fox that was running full speed for an open window.

Touga gave a evil laugh and grabbed his spiked armor and sword Raitou. The sword was all that remained of his father and only left his side when he was in the palace, even then he was reluctant to part with it.

The window was far to small for Touga to get through so he ran back to the wooden door and slipped through. He ran to the main entrance and was about to step out when he heard fast aproching feet as well as a distant call of his name. 'no way in hell am I being caught by her now I have fox to hunt' Acting as though he haddent heard her he ran through the main entrance. He almost laughed when he heard the aggravated scream come from over his shoulder. No matter how much he would have liked to he dared not look back and risk catching her eye.

When he was far enough away from the palace he slowed to a walk and made his way round to the side of the gardens that were closest to the armory. 'no doute that sneaky fox has hidden as a statue or some riduculace object.

The gardens closest the armory were dotted with small ponds and waterfalls that all lead in to one small lake. Red and white bridges and pagodas were dotted and weaved in amongst the scenary. The plants were mainly large Matsu trees and small furns and shrubs. This part of the garden had always been on of his favorites becusae of its natural appearance. He did like the other areas of the gardens but found this place carming and tranquil perfect for meditation and reflection. He also loved this garden because in the small central pagoda that sat on the central lake was where his father had proposed to his mother. If you were to ask anyone how and where the previouse lord had preposed to his lady you would have been told in the central garden complete with falling sakura blossoms. This was true, but his father had told him personally that he was so originally frightened such an amazing, kind and caring female would reject him that he asked her before in private. Touga was slightly disheartened when he thought that he would never find a love like theirs, that would lead to share such an intimate moment with the one he loved, just the two of them no others, no show or performance pure true love. He very much routed that he would ever be like that with Inukimi let alone get her outside in the gardens. His parents were lucky they fell in love even after they were arranged to be mates.

Blinking his eyes her turned his head form the lake to search out a sneaky fox. Using his inccreadible sence of smell he located a ring of small stone figures. Unfortunately the ring was covered in the foxs sent so he couldn't tell which one was the mischief maker. He contemplated the ways he could get the fox to show himself and decided that becase the satues could be easily replace the more fun and violent way would be best.' This should also help with my aim' he slowly began to walk away. If he had been able to see behind him at that moent would have seen on of the figures slump and let out a sigh.

Whipping round on his heal he released one of his swords attacks "SHUURAI!" a lightning bolt shot from the sword and ripped through the ground towards the first stone figure before shattering it to pieces upon contact. Turning to the next he released the same attack again, this time the figure appeared to stay in tact, but after a second past ended up crublerling to the ground in pieces. Out of the corner of his eye he could see one of the statues shaking and sweating. Giving a mental chuckle he continued until he reached the second but last that was still shaking and looked close to passing out. He was thoroughly amused with how long his friend had held out and wanted to see how far he was willing to go. Acting like he did with the others he raised his sword and was about to bring it down when the red head let down his elution and cruppled to his kness in a begging position. "P…Please Touga I didn't mean it im KItsune were meant to trick people it in my blood. I…I wont do it again promise" it was hard not to alow a laugh to escape him as he watched his frend slowly shuffle towards him on his knees with slight tears in his eyes and a huge pout.

The kitsune clenched his eyes shut as he saw his soposidly friend lift his sword. He waited for the strike in silence, holding his begging position. He yanked his eyes open when he heard the deep barking laughter of the young lord.

Touga offered the kitsune his hand and pulled him up off the ground and clasped a hand on his shoulder. "Yukio your my best friend I would never kill you." Yukio gave a bright smile at that. But as Touga continued his smile dropped "I might cause you great pain for a number of days, possible make it so you can't walk again but never kill. You mean too much to me" Yukio huffed and crossed his arms "glad I mean so much to you" he said in a sarcastic tone. "well I was about to.." Touga was interrupted by a gard that bent to one knee and said "My lord I have news on something you may wish to hear" Touga shighed at the mans position "Shin you know there is no need to bow when it is just us. Anyway what is the news?" Shin slowly raised himself and looked at his lord with a seriouse face "Their has been a sighting of a inu female in a small village on the edge of your territory my lord"

Both looked at the lnu lord whos eyes were wide. All he could feel was hope filling him maybe Inukimi wasn't his only option, maybe he could find love.

haha bet some of you were a bit mad at me for putting in the bit with inukimi being pregnant and then not being XP sorry it just worked out that way wanter Yukio to trick Touga about something and that just came out as i was writing.

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Yukio = Happy man (though you could say he's no man but hey he's happy. i was going to go with a name beginning with "T" but when writing the story felt to similar to Touga)

Shin= Death (just thought eaisy name you can forget and warrior, death, guard same sort of things)

Raitou= Lightening sword (apparently)?

Shuurai= Lightening strike