Decisions

"Leave me with a choice? Fox I think you are losing your mind." Inutaisho says simply. His eyes gazed at the fox; he could smell the scent of death starting to settle in around her. Her demonic aura was starting to dim as her life started to slip away.

The fox looked up at Inutaisho her eyes were not as bright as they had been. They started to cloud over and become bull. Her vision was slowly started to become dark, Inutaisho started to become harder for her to see. Her scene of smell was only picking up the scent of death that was coming off of her. She felt her skin starting to become cold and her chest felt heavy with every breath she tried to pull into her lungs.

"I say you have a choice because you can abandon my child and leave her to die or you can take her and if anything find somewhere for her to live." The fox says the moon light was shining down as the moon started to move lower and lower in the dark sky.

"Why not take the half breed to its father to deal with." Inutaisho, questions. He did not seem affected by the idea of the small kit dying before it even had the chance to live.

"I did originally; I went to the village where my human lived. I took my kit and fled there hoping to at least leave her safe and lead the demons my mate sent after us away. However, when I arrived I was, greeted with the scent of old blood heavy in the air. The villagers at some point found out about my human and I. I found my humans mutilated body in the clearing we would meet in. A note lying beside him saying that the villagers warned him about seeing me , that if it continued he would pay the price. They did not want a demon being in their village and risking their own safety. Once I pass away my child will be parentless." The fox explains. Her head started to drupe as she tried to keep it up to look at Inutaisho. Yet her body just kept feeling more and more heavy, her mind fogging over and she felt more tired than she ever had in her life.

"You knew what you were risking. You allowed yourself to be bed by a human. You allowed yourself to bare a half-breed. The consequents to your actions are yours and yours alone." Inutaisho says he watched a weak small smile come to the fox's lips.

"Yes" She says her eyes half-mast. "You are right. I made my bed and now I must lie in it. I only feel shame in that my kit will have to do the same." She says looking down at her child. She gently ran her fingers over her child's cheek. "I'm sorry my young one. I-I love you." Her voice going from a whisper to barely being heard, before her breathing stopped. Her eyes glazed over before going dull, her hand dropped to in her lap.

Inutaisho sat in front of the dead fox mother. He gazed at the body that still held the sleeping child. He let out a snort and gripped his sword. He stood to his feet putting his sword back in its right full place at his hip. He stared at fox for a moment longer, thinking about the fox's words. He let out a snort before turning on his heels and started to walk away. He still had to survey the rest of the lands and he was very far behind. He should have been home hours ago and yet he had been wrapped in the nonsense of dying demon.

Inutaisho walked the forest, heading back to where he had left off on his survey when he stopped suddenly. He felt an ogre demon close by; he looked around slightly before he kept moving. The idiotic demon was moving in the opposite direction of him, in the very direction of the dead fox and her helpless kit he had just left. He walked smoothly, head held high, eyes scanning the area ahead of him. He moved to morph into his demonic state to finish up his original task when the sound of crying greeted his ears.

He looked back, knowing the cry as the small kit's from when she has started wailing from her mother handing her to him. A wind picked up he could smell the infants tears in the wind and the disgusting scent of the ogre wrapped within. Inutaisho let out a deep growl, swearing that if the she demon had not already been dead he would have killed her himself this time and not held back. He turned swiftly on his heels running back to where he had left kit and the mother's corpse.

He easily made it back to clearing spotting to large olive green ogre holding the infant in one large hand squeezing the small kit. The ogre had kicked the mother's body, having thought that she and the child was dead from the scent of death being so strong and fresh. Inutaisho did not bother drawing So'unga, he slashed the demons arm right off with is poisonous claws. He landed gracefully on the ground the ogre letting out a pained vicious cry clutching at his elbow where Inutaisho had severed his arm.

The demons forearm landed heavily on the ground causing a slight indentation to form. Its palm opening up slightly and loosening around the kit that it held, protecting the child from harm in the fall to the earth below. The ogre looked at Inutaisho who turned fluidly on his heels. The demon rushed at him a large club raised over to beast head, but Inutaisho was far too quick. He moved out of the demons predictable move of swinging it right down on the ground. Inutaisho appeared behind the stupid demon and sliced its head clean off with nothing but his claws. The beast head dropping to the ground rolling a few feet away long its body landed with a loud thud.

Inutaisho let out a snort flicking his claws in the air to clean them of the demons fowl green blood. He heard the kit still wailing away, he turned walking over to the demons severed arm and peeled back the large fingers to see the child still wrapped up in the sheet. He bent down to the crying child looking at her for a moment before looking back to its dead mother, that was not sprayed out on the ground like a rag doll. His cool eyes did not change but be moved gathering the child into his arms, as it cried tears streaming down its face like a flood. He then moved to the mother's corpse and slung it over his shoulder.

He was thankful when the child quieted slightly once he had its mother's corpse. He knew that eventually the kit would realize its mother was no longer a source of protection for it. However, at the given moment, it had yet to recognize this, but Inutaisho knew it would within the next two or hours. He started walk carrying the child in one arm long he had the fox's corpse slung over his opposite shoulder. He had no idea what or why he was doing this, but his instincts had won, and the fox's words were still in his head though he would never say that aloud.

Inutaisho carried the mother's body and the kit to a large clearing; which was several miles away, from where Inutaisho originally found them. He had walked for possibly a good hour or so. He had been in no rush hoping that the kit would realize that its mother was dead in that time. The kit had been fussy the whole time he walked, whimpering and crying lightly and flaring up at random it simply refused to fall back to sleep. Inutaisho moved and dropped the mother's corpse and set the child down by it. Once he entered the clearing, he moved over to a large cherry blossom tree, morphed into a small size of his demonic dog form and started to dig a grave for the fox demon.

As he dug, he listened closely to the small kit that slowly started to settle down. He could feel that the kit was starting to see something was not right with its mother. He also paid attention to the area around him; he was in no mood of dealing with any unwanted guests that would try to attack him at random. He dug the grave deep, deeper than most scavenger demons would be will to dig in order to get an easy meal. He moved back over to child and corpse, looking down at them both. His eyes locked with the silver blue orbs of the half-breed fox, she not bursting into tears this time at him being close. He paid little mind to his as he took hold of the fox with his jaws and walked back to the grave. He laid her down into the grave before burring up quickly.

Once he had finished he looked up to the sky, the sun was starting to rise, changing the sky to soft colors of pinks, oranges, and gave the sky in whole a perfect golden hue. He had taken over half the night and had yet to finish his survey. He shook his head heavily as he moved back over the kit. He lay down by it allowing his tail to wrap around it, more so to hide its presents from others. He crossed his front paws over one another as he rests his head on them. He could not take the kit back to the castle his mate would not allow another child, when she had just given birth. Not only that, she hated half-breeds as much as he did. He closed his eyes thinking of what he could do, he knew his instincts were not going to let him simply leave the child at this point and trying to do so would simply be foolish on his part.

After several moments, he finally decided what he was going to do. He looked at the child and found that long he had been thinking, it had fallen back to sleep, looking almost content wrapped in the fur of his tail. He carefully picked the child up in his jaws, not wanting to need to hear it cry again. He then turned changing into a ball of light, flying over the beautiful morning sun lit sky. He knew where he could leave the child until he had a better solution, but at least this way he could leave the child in a safe place finish looking over the lands and finally get home to his mate and newborn at least for a few hours.

The fox had been very lucky indeed long she laid at rest under the cherry blossom tree and her kit was taken to a safe place.

DreamingFromASmallTown : Ello everyone! I hope you are enjoy my Inutaisho story! Sorry for not having this chapter up sooner, however I was have slight writers block with this chapter. I would start it and delete it with just not being happy how it turned out :( But I'm back on track with it! Please review and cheek out my other stories! Hope to have another chapter of his up later today along with one for newest story added for Death Note! Might just get a one shot up if I feel really ambitious ;) heehee anyway Have a great day/night!