Anika

Chapter 3

"Ah so you don't like us touching your wound, then we shall not and let nature take its course." Touga found that his eyes were slowly drifting closed on their own accord. Curling his body around the infant Touga made sure that the infant had no way of escape in case he did fall asleep. Opening his eyes in the morning Touga found that the infant was curled up at his chest just under his chin. Touga smiled a little at the infant's position. Readjusting the infant Touga got to see the infant under the sunlight that streamed in through his window. Touga was surprised to find that the infant's broken wing no longer had the silver band on it and that the wing looked fully healed.

"Father what is that?" Sesshomaru had been waiting for his father to get up and had grown impatient as the day wore on.

"Good morning pup. This is what I found on my shores pup. Would you like to hold her?" Touga sat up holding the infant gently.

"I guess." Sesshomaru accepted the infant from his father's arms.

"Father why does she look so strange?" Sesshomaru lightly ruffled the infant's fuzzy golden hair.

"Because she is not from around here pup. She was washed up on my shores from a different place." Touga tried to explain to his own young pup. Just then the infant woke up and stared up at Sesshomaru's face. Giving a low warning chirp the infant vocalized her displeasure in being in unfamiliar arms. Touga quickly took the infant back who gave a content humming purr as she snuggled into Touga's arms.

"Sesshomaru can you please get that bowl on the ground and ask the maids to fill it up with warm milk and bring it back here?" Touga asked his pup. Sesshomaru was happy to help his father and quickly followed directions. Touga once again sat the infant in his lap as he tilted the now full bowl into the infant's mouth that drank it greedily.

"Well we are going to come up with a name for you little one now aren't we?" Touga spoke calmly to the infant who was currently testing out her wing movements.

"Father, come quick there are two unfamiliar demons headed our way." Sesshomaru sounded urgent as he rushed into his father's room. Touga quickly secured the infant into one of his mokomoko tails as he followed his pup out to the gardens.

"See there they come!" Sesshomaru excitedly pointed at the two approaching flying figures.