Hello and welcome to the eighth chapter of The Past Coming Back. I have a surprise or two for all of my readers out there. I am so sorry for making you all wait so long for this to be updated. I hope you all enjoy the surprise that I have planned for you but it will not be until later in the chapter.

Chapter 8: The Hunt!

I keep my eyes on Sesshomaru and every time that he tries to look at Satoshi I step into his line of sight. It blocks him from focusing on someone other than me. I have the greatest chance of surviving an attack should Sesshomaru's demon decide to go on a killing spree although it would be a short one.

"Satoshi remember the procedures for this type of event," I remind her.

"Of course ma'am. All servants are to remain in the kitchen until Lord Sesshomaru is able to pass through the barrier to the kitchen. It does not matter how important the errand is. We must stay in the kitchen for all safety purposes," Satoshi recites to me as she takes the final steps into the kitchen and out of Sesshoumaru's point of view.

I wait for the kitchen door to shut tightly behind her before I start moving away from blocking the kitchen door from his view. Even after all these years both he and his demon should know what the closing of that door means. Only on occasions that strong demons that are visiting the manor get out of control do the doors of the kitchen get closed and the wards activated completely. The wards are meant to keep those not wanted or meaning harm to those within out. I personally created the wards about three years before I was forced to leave the feudal era. I watch him careful searching for signals that he is going to charge at me for any reason.

I know that at some point he is going to come for me. To his demon who is in charge right now, I am a traitor who was once pack. I left him without someone to support him no one to take my place in his life. I am worse than the dirt beneath his feet. I am worse than the worse of humans because I broke the pact between pack members to never allow anything but death can separate us. Sesshomaru watches me closely as I circle around him to the front door. Sesshomaru's demon's eyes follow me around the room. Once I have my back to the door, I start to back away from him. Many would all me a coward for doing this but I call it self-preservation skills that at one point in my life I never possessed. I also call it if need be giving myself up for the greater good of the people in the manor. If someone gives up their life especially if it is a traitor it can calm an inner demon greatly even if the humanoid side believes that the person is an ally. Once a decision has been made by an inner demon it is hard to change their minds.

With my first step Sesshomaru starts to follow which is a good thing it means that his demon finds me more demanding of his attention than the demons in his manor. When my back touches the or, my hand swiftly grabs the door knob and twists it so that I can open the door quick enough to get out before he decides to truly start the hunt. As soon as the door swings out, my body automatically goes into running mode. I turn without a second thought knowing that to do so would only slow me down and give him the chance to catch up with me. I can feel that he is still walking slowly out of the manor. He just wants to make this an interesting chase. I know that he could catch me this very moment but he wants to enjoy a chase which he has most likely has been a part of in many centuries. If he followed the agreement, that would mean he has not hunted in nearly two centuries. Oh shit the inner is really going to want to kill my ass just to be able to hunt once again.

As soon as I hit the woods, I put up a scent barrier so that it is harder for him to find me. A couple of yards into the woods and I hide my aura making it harder still for him to find me. I try to keep my heart beat and breathing steady, calm, and quiet but I know that he will be able to find me by sound alone. I push myself faster knowing the longer I can keep this chase going the better chance me living because the blood lust will be at least partially satisfied and his need to hunt assuaged. It is highly unlikely that I will come out of this unsaved and neither will he if I have any say in this. An evil smirk comes across my face at the thought of the last time me and he battled it out just for the yeck of it. It ended with him winning of course as he is the alpha of our grouping. He did not come out of it unscaved. He actually got deep cuts that took almost a day to heal completely and quite a few reiki burns. I enjoyed fighting him that time but this time is going to be nothing like that because that was a small practice fight this one will be an all-out thing for his demon to kill me or reassert his dominance over me. That is going to be the worst part for me. To allow him complete dominance over me once again because I have my own pack now but if he takes his dominance over me once again he will have control over my pack.

I barely make a sound as my feet step across the ground. His aura is starting to pick up its speed moving. I know it will not be much longer before he finds the place where I left a small trail to keep his interest from straying back to the demons in the manor. I usually make these trails circle around partially as if I am trying to confuse him but messed up in the circling. Once I can tell that he is somewhere about two miles away from me and I have left some trails that will slowly lead him in this direction. I pull myself up and into one of the trees near a clearing where I can see the clearing but it is near impossible for anyone in the clearing to see me.

A few minutes pass with me in the tree. For a second it seems like Sesshomaru's aura pauses in its approach. In less than a second it completely disappears. I jump up in my tree and less than a second later I realize my mistake. I have revealed my position and Sesshomaru is already standing there in front of me.

Sesshomaru's Demon's P.O.V.

The feeling of the traitors aura disappearing causes me to pause for a second before I continue following the trail she left. It only takes me two fake trails to figure out she is just trying to distract me from what she is really doing. A smirk crosses my face. It will take quite a bit of energy to do but it will be so entertaining to watch the traitor when she discovers what I have done. I set my plan into motion and follow her closely as she continues making false trails. I allow her to get a false sense of security because that will just make this so much more fun.

'Leave her be demon,' demands the humanoid.

'And why should I do that,' I demand of him.

'She has asked this Sesshomaru to forgive her,' he replies.

'It does not matter. She has not asked for penance from me," I tell him.

'I have given her that why would she need it from you,' he growls lowly as I settle on a branch in the same tree as her.

'I am the demon. You are practically human without me,' I remind him. 'There are so many things that I could do to her. I could kill her or make her admit my dominance over in so many fun ways and one of them would be agreeable to both you and me, is that not right boy.'

I chuckle lightly at the growl emitted from his mental vocal cords. I wait for my plan to get with me half a mile before placing an aura concealer on it. The traitor jumps up from her spot against the tree. Traitor quickly realizes her mistake and is about to take off but I jump down right in front of her blocking off all chances of escape. I grab her by her neck before slamming her against the tree.

I lean myself down to her level and whisper in her ear, "You have something to ask of me."

Kayla: Please don't kill me. It is three morning and it is not my fault. Sessh help me!

Sessh: You're the one that wanted to end it here.

Kayla: Actually no. He didn't want to give any more for now.

Sesshomaru's Inner Demon: What is that?

Kayla: Um, you didn't want to give any more tonight and decided to make me stop. Sorry people but I would rather not mess with inner too much he can be more scary than Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru: What was that?

Kayla*Sweat drop* Um BYE EVERYONE. Wish me luck with surviving. I will upload if Sesshomaru doesn't kill me.

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NO DON'T KILL ME. HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!