***These characters are not mine***
~Alone~
He learned that other Yokai scorned his beginnings. They called him tainted. He fought, he destroyed, and he gained power and strength.
Toga proved to all who he met that he was strong.
He proved to all that he was intelligent.
As he had, long ago, he watched and learned.
He watched as yokai tricked humans, shifting their forms, to better earn trust before they betrayed and killed them.
Toga learned that he could do this as well.
He learned that this new shape offered an escape from his pure demon instincts.
Toga kept the form feeling that perhaps if he did he would not suffer the madness of his heritage.
His feet led him far and wide.
Far from the land of his birth and wide from the reach of his father's madness.
His mother told him that he was free to remain loyal to himself and his pack.
Toga had no pack; he was alone.
He hid it well, most of the time.
His nature was not one of solitude.
A deep bitterness crept into his soul; his anger shifting to those whom he blamed for his banishment.
He descended in the night upon the nearest human village.
His mind was intent on killing to satisfy the pain of emptiness he felt.
Toga's heart could not do it.
As he stalked the night, a shadow within the shadows he watched instead.
**End**