It Takes a Pack

Izayoi wonders away from home.

Izayoi was in her parent's gardens running around playing. She was finally done with her studies and training and was happily just acting the tender age of three.

As she crawled under a rose bush the Inu hanyo pup noticed an opening in the wall and deciding on seeing where it lead the silver haired girl crawled through.

Smiling at having escaped the palace that she had lived in since birth and then she took off into the forest.

After two hours of wondering around Izayoi realized that she was hopelessly lost and had become afraid.

"Mommy!" the child cried as she wondered around. Her bare feet where dirty and her red and orange kimono was filthy and torn from briar bushes that she had run through. "Daddy! Where are you? I scared!"

The tired pup finally plopped down on the forest floor and allowed her tears to come as she cried quiet sobs, not wanting to attract predators. The pup was put on a alert when something shook the bushes near her. Izayoi stood and backed away prepared to flee when two men dressed sort of like her uncle Miroku appeared.

The girl smiled relieved to find people like her father's beta, surely they would help her so she ran toward them.

"Master is it some sort of demon?" the younger man asked as he eyed the child with distain.

"Apparently." The older man answered in a gravely voice before he raised an ofuda and then threw it at the girl.

Izayoi shrank away seeing a piece of paper like what her mommy and uncle use to deal with evil demons. She didn't know why the men would attack her and the men where shocked when the ofuda had no affect on the obviously demonic child.

The talisman had been overpowered by the pup's strong spiritual powers.

Finally the princess had had enough. She was tired, scared, and missed her mommy, the men attacking her was all she could handle so the pup let out a mournful, frightened wail and she could honestly not care one bit what she attracted anymore.

And oh boy did she attract something big.

"It's trying to kill us with its shrieks!" the younger monk exclaimed as he cover his ears and his master raised his staff ready to silence the demon spawn from hell.

"Demon be gone!" he order but was stopped when a giant white dog landed on the ground sheltering the pup with its body. The Inu Yokai snarled at the threat to the pup and the two monks, not equipped to deal with something so large ran screaming through the woods.

"MOMMY! I WANT MY MOMMY!"

The silver dog turned to the pup and nudged her with its large wet nose to gain the girl's attention.

Izayoi opened her teary golden eyes to see her uncle Raiden. The demon nobleman shifted from his true form and bent down to his great niece.

"We have been looking everywhere for you young lady." He said in his deep voice. Izayoi's lip trembled as her nose ran and tears poured from her eyes. The pup raised her arms wanting to be lifted into the strong safe arms of her male relative.

"I sowwy uncle Rai." She whimpered hoping he would take her home instead of leave her out in the woods, Of course leaving the baby Dog hanyo was the last thing from the older man's mind as he picked her girl up.

"Enough tears little one, Uncle Rai is going to take you home to your mommy and daddy."

Then he allowed his momoko tail create a kind of nest inside itself and placed the pup inside it for safe travel. Then he transformed once more and raced through the forest toward the Palace while howling to the rest of his pack that he had found their missing princess.

Once Raiden made it back to the castle the entire pack was waiting in the court yard of the palace.

Sesshomaru stood by stoically by his younger brother who was holding his distressed mate. Kagome had been the one to discover that her baby was missing and she had been inconsolable ever since.

Everyone looked up when the large form of the Inu no Taisho's second landed in the court yard and he shifted. Kagome approached the demon man looking hopeful.

"You found her?" she asked and Raiden smiled as his momoko shifted and handed the sleeping girl to her mother. Izayoi had been curled up sucking her thumb in her sleep but when her mother's scent reached her tiny nose the girl opened her eyes to look sleepily at the miko.

"Mommy?" she asked and Kagome cried as she rocked her baby. "Are you okay sweetheart?" Kagome asked as InuYasha step up next to his family and hand a hand through his daughter's hair.

"I otay mommy, uncle Rai found me."

"I found her with two monks getting ready to strike her. They already tried to purify her but her spiritual powers nullified the ofuda."

Kagome looked down at her pup's dress and noticed the sacred paper. Practically snarling like an Inu herself, Kagome ripped the paper off of her only child and ripped it to shreds.

Sesshomaru walked up and looked down at his heir without showing the emotions that he as feeling. He had been scared. This small pup had wormed her way into his heart the moment he had held her in his arms when she was a newborn and the thought of loosing her and nearly driven him mad as he had raced through the northern forest of his territory searching for the dead man that had dared take one of his pack.

"Izayoi." He said drawing his niece's attention. "You are never to wonder off from the Palace again without a pack member. Am I understood?"

the girl's ears lowered and she nodded. She didn't like her uncle Fluffy to be mad at her just like she didn't like her daddy to be mad at her.

"I sowwy uncle Fwuffy."

Sesshomaru woofed quietly and replied. "You are forgiven."

Once her scolding was over InuYasha took Izayoi into his arms.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again pup." He told her sternly then hugged her to his armored chest.

"Otay." She said. The yawned as her father's aura soothed her and she drifted off to sleep.

Once the pup was fast asleep the pack carried her into the castle where she was safe and nothing could ever hurt her. Not with her pack near by.

A/N: I am not doing these in chronological order they're kind of everywhere. Please review and let me know what you all think.

Disclaimer: I Do NOT Own InuYasha!