Tale of Truth

The fox sighed lightly; she was starting to feel very cold. She wrapped her kit quickly back up in the sheet from before. She held her close; she looked at her child's sleeping face for a short moment. She hid the human like emotions she was feeling the best she could, however she knew Inutaisho could feel them, under her cool surface appearance. She looked at the demon lord, she knew if her story did not affect him at least slightly, then she would have failed her kit.

"Well my lord, I should start from the beginning of things now shouldn't I." She says a smile coming to her face at the memories that came to mind.

"You should, and start quickly or I shall leave this time." Inutaisho states, the fox was pushing his limits.

"Yes my lord." She spoke noting that the dog lord was very serious. However, he always was. He was a famed lord that was quick to judge, and cold hearted looking down at any that were weak or that he saw were insignificant. "Well you see, I suppose my story honestly starts before I even became known in the four directional lands. My parents are both pure fox daiyuki, they were peaceful, loving creatures of this earth. They had wanted for me to be the same." She explains simply. Her brilliant silver blue eyes gazed into the cold gold of Inutaisho's.

"So what happened?" Inutaisho questions the fox. None of the stories over the lands about her were of peace and kindness, all of them held death and carnage. The fox was a cruel mistress that had stolen the hearts of many and took the time at the end to eat them, from the poor bastard's chests.

"I saw the world around me." She answers the question simply and to the point. "We as demons live for the thrill of the kill, my lord. To deny this would be like denying our own heritage. We have lived through countless ages of war, and shall see countless more. Whether it be demon clan against demon clan or human village against human village. War for this world is as natural as the very air we breathe." The demoness tells she glanced at her young kit catching her let out a soft sigh in her sleep.

"Yet your parents apparently did not fall into killing." Inutaisho fought lightly. His eyes still held nothing, no curiosity, no judgment upon the fox yet.

"That is true. They avoided it. They are, worshiped in several small human villages as protectors, bringing them good luck. The villages they watch over never fell into battle, never suffer from shortage of food or drink." She tells with a smooth tone, coming off indifferent about her parent's choices. "Once I was born I obviously watched and saw the good they did. I saw them protect the humans from demons, even very minor ones that in my kit days I could have handled." She adds, she was trying to judge where Inutaisho was going to fall at the end of her story. However, she felt like she was not going to get anywhere with him just yet.

"So?" Inutaisho, questions.

"So, it made me sick as I grew up. Watching them give their lives up to protect humans." She says with a snort. "As I grew up I wanted more, I wanted power, power of the heritage I was born into. Power; which my parents were giving up." She says venom suddenly seeming to fill her voice. Her demonic energy spiked ever so slightly.

When her kit re-acted stirring slightly from her sleep, the fox quickly calmed herself. She cooed lightly again to her child. She could feel Inutaisho's gaze fall to her child as she cared for her. She hoped that it proved as a good sign.

"Eventually when I was still a young teen kit I felt my parents. Of course that was several decades later, I moved far to the west in the eastern lands. That was for the first time I met my grandfather, I have yet to meet a demon that was as wrathful and cruel as he was. Not even, you Lord Inutaisho can compete with the level that he once stood on. However, he trained me well, even as a daiyuki he pushed me to my limits day and night for years. He trained me in every art of the fox, every trick he knew every mind game he had ever played; he taught me all of them. He also taught me grate skills of battle also how to rule a land. As you know my Lord, before my mate and I took over it was my Grandfather to control the east." The fox elaborated on her history more quickly approaching how her kit came to be than Inutaisho realized.

"Your Grandfather ruled when we were both young. The east in that time was the worst off of the lands." Inutaisho speaks recalling the carnage that ruled over it, only a few hundred decades ago.

"That is true. In all honesty, my Lord I was quite pleased when I was, allowed to leave him. Once he decided I had finally completed my training to a respectable level he allowed me to leave the castle. From which I went out into the unknowing land of the East. I killed the strongest demons I could find, of both yuki and daiyuki standing. Eventually I grew bored with the East and traveled to the South then the North and finally the West. In which all I repeated the same process fighting and killing slowly and quickly building a name for myself, a name that is, feared and respected today." The fox tells pride seeming to leak into her tone of voice. Nevertheless, many demons showed pride in knowing they had created a grate name for themselves. It was not an easily done task in the demon world as it was in the human.

"You're skills were known very well. You were one to fear. You were a grate demon." Inutaisho spoke simply. He knew how she got her title, how she had traveled the four lands to become known. That part of her history was no mystery to any being still breathing.

"I still am my lord, if you don't mind my saying." The fox says challenging slightly Inutaisho's words. "But eventually I grew tired of being away from the East after such a long absents from it. I journeyed back the East though I did not go back to my Grandfather's castle in any hurry. Now I wonder what would have happened if I had, because it was long I was away that I met the fox demon that would become my mate." She says her eyes getting an odd glow to them at the mention of her ruthless mate. "He tracked me down intentionally, he found me with great ease in all honesty. To the point that I was surprised, I had set up a small camp. I sat around a small burning fire eating a freely killed rabbit demon. When he first appeared, I was ready to fight him even before he was in my sights. Yet something made me stop and even now I can't tell you what it was." She tells looking up to the sky.

Inutaisho only let out a hum to the fox. His gaze had been on her long she talked the entire time. Most would have found it un-nerving to have the grate dog simply staring at them. However, the she demon knew she could not stop her tale; she could only image what could come if she decided to back out of her plan now.

"He walked out from the forest head held high; he had no fear in his eyes of me. At seeing that I was surprised, I had gotten even the so-called strongest demons to show fear in front of me. But not him he only smirked and told me he had an offer to make me, at which I snorted at. However, much as you are listening to me now I listened to him. He told me that he wanted to fight me, and if I won, I could kill him, yet if he came out the victor, I would become his mate. Now I laughed at him, I was sure he would lose he was a Daiyuki like myself but he hid his true power very well. Far better than I had realized until only after the fight was over and I lay under him needing to submit. After he won we did in fact mate, I accepted it, after all demons aren't meant to feel. We, mate the strongest that does not kill us." She spoke her words sounding almost broken. "As you eventually know, my grandfather stepped down as ruler of the East, my mate and I took over from there. We ruled by each other's sides contently, in fact improving the East. Yet, we were trying to become pregnant with a hire, yet for decades I could not conceive even during matting season when both partners are at their most potent." She paused for a moment then. She let out a sigh.

She was not going to tell Inutaisho in detail how angry her mate would get at her for not conceiving a child season after season. It was a time she did not like looking back on. Her mate had been the only demon she had ever come across in her life that was able to beat her. He used that to his advantage greatly, he was not the worse mate that a female could have. No far from it, he was actually possibly one of the best. However, demons would be as demons are.

"It was late one summer night when I left the castle grounds. I needed to get away for a short time. So I had decided to go survey the lands, just as were doing when you picked up my scent. I traveled nearly half of the East, things were going smoothly, however a group of three demon panthers attacked me. They claimed I had killed their brother in battle; honestly, it did not surprise me in the least. Yet even now, I cannot recall which one was their brother that I had slain all these years ago. Never the less a fight broke out amongst us, I had managed to kill two of the pests, yet the third had attacked me as I was going to finish off one of them. I guess you could say I have always held a problem with 'playing with my pray'. The panther left a very large gash on my back and from there the fight seemed to spiral out of my control. I just barely got away with my life that night. I fled to the outskirts of a small human village; I laid myself under a large oak. I hid my aura hiding myself from any nearby demons; it had to have been hours later when a man from the village approached." The fox at that looked down at her child in her arms smiling gently. Inutaisho could not see it, yet the she demon saw so much of her lover within the half demon child. She continued after a very brief moment.

"He was young and very handsome, he was a medicine man the only one that the village had. When he was in my sights, my eyes bleed red and I growled, I was still bleeding heavily a large pool of my own blood around me. Yet he did not react, he held a clam, cool expression yet it was not cold. He gave me a gentle smile and held his hands up in defeat. He spoke to me asking if he could assist me, that even for a demon he could tell my wounds were bad. Now maybe it was that I was nearing death in that moment or the cherry blossoms in bloom affected my senses, but no matter the reason, I allowed him to help me. After that moment I thought I would never go back to that village, I was gone the next morning before he had time to come and cheek on me. Yet that night I surveyed the lands again going back, to the same spot and finding him there just waiting, as if he knew I was going to come back. For nearly fifteen years we met in the same spot, and we talked of many, many things and I watched him age in small ways long my appearance did not change in the slightest. However, I always found him handsome and in the fifteen years we met, I found myself learning of many things from a common human, like emotions. I found myself falling in love…" The fox was cut off then from her tale.

Inutaisho let out a snort of disgust at the mention of 'love'. He looked at the she demon as if she was the lowest being on the earth, even lower than a human was. He looked at her in the eyes finding he was almost impressed that she did not divert her gaze from him. She held it steady and strong as if almost daring him to say something against the human she spoke of or even of her half demon child. After a tense moment passed, she cleared her throat lightly.

"I fell in love with him and one misty night when the stars and moon could be seen in the night sky I allowed him to bed me. I gave myself willingly to him and happily, never have I been treated in the same manner that he had treated me. That first night with him was amazing and in that year I allowed him to bed me every night after that and when I was not with him I was with my mate yet it was never the same never as good as with my human. I did not think it was possible but after going to the healer in the castle one day after not feeling well the night before, she informed me that I was pregnant. I was shocked my mate was ecstatic. As you know it can take anywhere from five to ten months for a fox daiyuki to give birth depending how many kits they carry. I gave birth in only four when my mate was informed that he was not the father he was furious. He attacked me right after giving birth I ran with my child I ran for our lives and I fought every one of the demons my mate sent after us. That has been for three days, I have not healed from giving birth, I have not healed from the fights, I have not eaten, slept or drank anything. In only a few hours, I am going to be dead and my child defenseless. It will leave you with a chose my Lord." She explained as she came to the end of her story.

She looked at Inutaisho, who stared at her she had not seen a single change in his eyes. In that moment she was sure she had failed her child. She was going to die and her kit was going to follow closely after. In the back of her head she came to peace with that, she was all right entering the afterlife in order to be able to greet her child after words. However, she held a small amount of hope still, after all, Inutaisho had not killed her yet, and he had not walked away from her. Luck was on her side but she knew she was stretching it thin.

Woo third chapter! Sorry if there are many errors, I looked it over quickly. I hope you all enjoy sorry for the delay. I am on a small break from college so I am hoping to knock out another, two or three chapters before I go back! Hope you are all having a wonderful day/night.