Chapter 6-12/29/11

A/N: I have a question. Why do we have to do a disclaimer per chapter?

In case you are wondering, yes, I finally watched the InuYasha episode I missed. Thanks to those who were kind enough to help me. Thank you!

Sorry for taking a week to get out a single chapter. Chances are that I can only do a chapter a week until who-knows-when. But to make up for that, I will release a songfic a week too. I have enough ideas to do two or three months worth. It does seem like typing out a chapter would be easier than writing a whole songfic, but not to me. So, check out my profile page to find the songfics. You can expect one by...Monday or Tuesday. And most likely another chapter. This goes for my other running story, Rin's Past, Present, & Future.

Disclaimer: The characters in this story all belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Not me. This is an extremely obvious fact. Learn it. Accept it. Love it.

I am going to point out that since I took forever to get this out, and I have A/Ns that are way too long, I have made the story part longer than usual.

I feel apologetic to those who use the metric system, for my country and I do not. We use inches and feet, not centimeters and meters. I am too lazy to convert feet into meters, so if you want, you can do it yourself. You'll probably want to because I use feet in the story. 1 Meter=3.28 feet.

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Before she even cracked open one of her eyes, Inukimi knew she had rested longer than 'a moment or two'. Which was not good. But at least she had realized something. She had dreamed of the human, Rin, and what was to come. And during the dream, Lady Mother had remembered something she had forgotten to mention to her son. She highly doubted he would be happy about the detail, but if he truly loved the girl, it would not matter. At least, not too much.

Sighing, Inukimi pushed herself up from the ground and brushed the dead grass from her lavender, long-sleeved kimino. She cast a quick glance to her son's manor and spotted the sun beginning to rise from the horizon. (*) Again, she scolded herself for how much time she had allowed to pass.

Closing her eyes, she calmed her light breathing into being even more quiet, and focused on tuning into her hearing fully. For several moments, Lady Mother found all she could hear was the night sounds of the world: human women calling the children into their homes, mice scattering through the tall grass as an owl swoops down from the sky, and so on.

But, as she had told her son, patience was a virtue, and something she had acquired many years ago, when the stars were aligned differently and the humans were not as great in numbers. So she continued listening, even holding her breath for many seconds in order to hear better. Her eyes snapped open so suddenly that a rabbit, who had been watching the still inu youkai, became startled and darted away. But Inukimi paid no attention to it, for she had finally heard it. The distant howling she was searching for. Towards the east.

With a grin for the bloodshed that was sure to come, Lady Mother became a ball of light and traveled quickly in the direction of the howling, stopping about ten miles from where she estimated the noise had emanated from. She landed lightly in a tall tree, near the top, and wrapped her arm around the thin base. Holding her nose high in the air, Inukimi sniffed quietly for a moment, so she could be certain she was at the correct place. She knew the ramifications that would come about if she was mistaken and attacked the wrong inu youkai.

Not that there wouldn't be any punishment even if she was correct, but they would possibly be least severe. Her son would stand behind her, hopefully in front, when and if her victim's clan or family seeked revenge.

Tired of the thinking, Lady Mother crouched low in the unstable tree branch before launching into the hair as high as she could. Which was around three hundred feet higher than the tree's top, not very high in her mind, but considering she used only a small amount of energy...

Inukimi released the demon inside of her and relished in the feel of the dog taking over. She felt her figure lengthen, her fingers become claws, fur sprout out across her body, and her hands and feet warp into paws. With a somewhat muffled thud, she landed on the earth as a ninety foot white dog. Before her human consciousness completely faded away, she briefly made a mental note to buy another kimino, for her lavender one was now torn to shreds.

Lady Mother let out a long howl to signal to the other dog demon that she was coming before turning towards her destination. Padding through the forest at a leisurely pace, she listened for any sounds that would warn of an approaching being. She figured that the somewhat powerful demon she was going to kill should be able to find her. Inukimi noticed a leaf fell from a nearby branch, something that should not have happened since a breeze had not blown in several minutes.

She let out an amused half-laugh/half-bark at the demon's fail at stealth. Tensing her muscles to jump at the spot near the branch, she was caught off guard by the large silver dog jumping out from the opposite direction at her.

The demons' bodies became intertwined as they rolled through a few dozen trees, effectively clearing an acre of land before the other youkai jumped away from Inukimi. He let out a deep bark, communicating to her his name (Lord Sato) and the statement that he was going to tear her to shreds. Or something alone those lines. It was hard to understand a transformed dog demon, although her being in the same form helped greatly.

Roughly, this is the conversation that transpired between the two inu youkai, translated from a series of growls, barks, and yips:

Sato: Why have you issued a challenge? I know not of you.

Inukimi: I require your essence for my son. Or rather, his mate.

W: What do you mean?

I: Is it not enough that my son, Lord Sesshomaru, son of the Great Dog General and the present Lord of the Western Lands, requires your life to be sacrificed?

W: I have only heard of Sesshomaru, and from what I have gathered, he does not deserve such a title, for he has mated with a human. So no, it is not enough. He can go rot in Hell.

I: You insolent mongrel!

Lady Mother bounded across the small clearing that separated them, slamming into the silver dog. She knew she had to tire him out, for he outweighed her, was younger, and, as a general rule, was stronger, for the males of their race normally ran stronger than the females. To any casual human observer, the two figures would have simply been a fast-moving blur of fur, constantly twisting and turning, occassionally smashing into trees, and a source of loud growls.

But to a being with supernatural abilities, say, a demon, the fight would be so much more. The observant youkai would have been able to pick up on the flash of sharp fangs, the slash of claws, the splatter of blood, and the resounding noises of growled insults.

Finally, the two inu broke apart, panting loudly enough to scare off any of the possible observers, human or demon. Inukimi felt her body trying to transform into her humanoid figure, but she refused to let such a weakness show itself. So she settled for finding a tree to lean against.

She felt a grin work its way onto her face as she smelled the air begin to fill with the scent of a changing demon. As she watched, Lady Mother saw Sato's image shift and waver. But he never changed into his human form. Eventually, he staggered towards her and leaped at Inukimi with the glint of death in his eyes.

Her grin stayed in place as she leapt forward to meet the male demon, and grew when she managed to work Sato's throat into her mouth. Lady Mother knew she could simply kill Sato and head back to Sesshomaru's manor, but she felt entitled to a little fun. Not that he ever really stood a chance, because by mating with Inu no Taisho, she had gained a small amount of his power, but still. This bastard had actually gotten close to killing her during the fight, and Inukimi was going to make him pay.

With a firm grip on his neck, Lady Mother allowed some of her bodily poison to seep out through her fangs and salivia. Hearing the painful whining from the squirming figure under her, Inukimi forced even more of her natural poison into her mouth and on to her captive's throat.

But soon she grew tired of the sadistic torture and, with a victorious growl, Lady Mother bit down, effectively ending the demon's life and bringing her one step closer to reviving the human.

A/N:

*I find myself unable to keep up with where I am saying the sun sets and rises on what, for me, is the other side of the world. Plus, it's winter in the story, so that messes up the direction too. I'm sorry, for I am certain that what I say contradicts the direction the sun previously set/rose.

As you can probably tell from my other stories, I am not very good at making up Japanese names, and I forget to simply Google around for one. Got any suggestions? I'd like to hear 'em.

Ahem, I have something to point out. If you enjoy my writing style, you can read my three other stories. All written by me. Hence the term 'my'.

I mean really. You just go to the top of this page, click on my username, and you're at my profile page. By simply scrolling down that page, you can find my other stories. Only one of them is depressing!...I was told that by a few of the reviewers.

For those of you who read my other story, also RinXSess, I will have Chapter 9 out sometime tomorrow. I simply did not have time to write the chapter tonight. It will also be long (possibly 1,600 words; that's long for me; again, sorry)

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