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Sorry that it has been awhile since my last espisode I have released. I've been busy with the holiday and dealing with some things my life but I have returned! ... I hope everyone had a safe Christmas! And here we are once again...so close to the New Year...And still with so many chapters to come. I just realized that it has been seven months since I started this story and I have never expected this story to be as popular as it is...THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! for all of your support. Giving me the confidence to continue writing this story and your reviews have been a wonderful help, so please continue... it's great to know what you guys and gals think about this story so far. I could have not done this without My Lovely Readers and Writers! I would like to give you guys and gals a special gift for the holiday: Another long episode! Yes! Hope you'll like this one: there are lots of twist and turns with a foreshadow from a previous episode. Let's see if you can figure out which one? Anyway why don't we get back to the episode...shall we? Dun dun dunnnnn! ;)

Previously on Great Dog's Devotion:

(I was right by the Panther Demon King on his left side as his claws were about to hit their mark... ME.)

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Nikko P.O.V.

At the last second, I quickly dodge out of the way as the claws came by me seeking my flesh and soul. It had missed me and only thing that the claws did was tore the lower section of my kimono from calf to thigh, it was shredded ...however...there was not a single scratch on me.

I sighed in relief but it was short lived...

The claws got three of the Panther Demon Siblings and their souls went into his mouth, he started to regenerate into a creature of flesh. The Panther Demon King had brown fur with yellow eyes and three horns: one on top of his head and the other two were each side of his cheek bones.

Toran was shocked of what had the Panther Demon King had done, that she knelt to the ground in despair as she didn't move an inch as the events continued. The guys finally noticed and stopped fighting each other, seeing that the Panther Demon King starting to form alive once more.

"You sons of the Dog General, your souls are next to devour." The Panther Demon King said. Sesshomaru was the first to attack the Panther Demon King but the attack from Tokijin had no effect, then Inuyasha tried the Wind Scar from Tesiaga on him but the same thing happened as well.

Then the Panther Demon King started to use his attack on both of them using the elemental power of his own kin he consumed. I quickly looked for a way to get out before things got out of hand but it was blocked from the destruction around us, so I went to Toran who was far away from the battle.

She had tears in her eyes as she grieved for her siblings who laid lifeless on the ground as she was by their side as their mouths open with voiceless screams, not moving a muscle. I stood at a distance from her just in case she would get upset and wanted to attack me.

I continued to watch the epic battle unfold as the guys were fighting their worst enemy yet..besides Naraku they kept mentioning. Then Sesshomaru was about to strike the Panther Demon King as he was in the air once again, but the Panther Demon King moved his head to the side and swiftly move his head like baseball bat and hit Sesshomaru with the top horn his head.

That hit had thrown Sesshomaru for a loop in the air, then he landed on the ground in a kneeling position as Inuyasha took his turn to fight the Panther Demon King. I wanted to go to him but I was unsure what to do and then I saw Jaken coming to his aid, even he was confused as Sesshomaru was still as a statue.

Then I heard a deep growl and the hairs on my arms started to rise up. "Curse him." Sesshomaru said with strained anger as his eyes started to change from those golden hues I knew to blue pupils with the sclera a deep red.

Slowly, he stood up, still growling in frustration and it was the first expression I ever seen besides the private one I had seen... this one was out for the whole world to see. He was enraged as he put the Tokijin back in it's sheath. The air was swirling around him for a few moments as his growl gotten louder and his hair started to rise up a bit as if he was trying to transform although I have never seen him in his yokai form.

Suddenly the growling ceased as he looked down to Tetsiagia as it started pulsing, calling to him in response. His eyes turned back to normal and his exterior was now calm and without an expression on his face.

"You wish to be drawn?" He said as if Tetsiagia spoke to him in way that no one would understand but him. Then Sesshomaru saw Inuyasha tossed to the ground by the Panther Demon King the same way he was.

He pulled Tetsiagia out as if he understood what to do right then and there. Then he went up the air close to the Panther Demon King as Tetsiagia started to glow bright in the night and he slashed the Panther Demon King with Tetsiagia.

Sesshomaru gracefully landed from the left side where the villagers had been with his back to the Panther Demon King. At the moment the Panther Demon King felt nothing and turned to Sesshomaru.

"You can not harm me with that useless sword, it's blade is far too dull." the Panther Demon King said. The Panther Demon King laughed as he mocked Sesshomaru of having a sword that doesn't kill anything and started to laugh to again.

Suddenly the Panther Demon King shrieked in terror as his flesh started to cease and his power was being taken away from him. He looked down saw the mark where Sesshomaru slashed him with Tetsiagia.

Then the Panther Demon King was on his hands and knees as he started to turn back into his decaying form. Sesshomaru never turned to look at the result of Tetsiagia's attack as he walked away from the Panther Demon King and walk pass Inuyasha.

"You can finish him off with the Tesiaga." Sesshomaru said as he walked away from it all and disappeared with a trace. The Panther Demon King was in fury as he was to about to attack to gain more soul to build back his former glory.

Then Inuyasha used the Wind Scar attack on him which brought the Panther Demon King falling down on his back, leaving him immobile. Inuyasha ran up the Panther Demon King's body and cut his neck as three sacred jewels came out as Inuyasha grabbed them in triumph.

Toran looked at Inuyasha with fury in her eyes until she heard groan. She gasped as she slowly she and I turned towards the sound and couldn't believe our eyes...all of her siblings were alive.

I was in sear awe as the three Panther Demon siblings were in a daze and shock as if awaking from a dream for the last thing they remember was the betrayal of the Panther Demon king, who took their lives. I moved away a little more, giving the Panther Demon siblings their space. Toran was overjoyed by the reunion of her family.

The siblings were confused of what exactly happened until Jaken came forth and explained to them that Sesshomaru save them by using Tetsiagia which is a sword that can save lives even from death. Toran was shock by what she just heard but had to believe it was true but Karan was upset that it was Sesshomaru who saved them.

Then Jaken realized I was there and smiled in joy to see me but he remembered that Sesshomaru was nowhere in sight so he went off to search for him. "Bye Nikko...hope to see you soon." Jaken said as he was running to find Sesshomaru.

"So do you want to pick up where we left off?" Inuyasha said as he sat on the decayed Panther Demon King's knee, looking at the Panther Demon siblings. Toran looked at him, then smiled as she shook her head.

"No, We shall return to the West..." Toran said as the other siblings were shock of this. "Toran..." Karan said in awe.

Toran smiled at her siblings with a peaceful aura around her. "This is finished...No need to get revenge...You can tell Sesshomaru I said that." Toran said to Inyasha. He huffed as he put Tetsiagia back in it's sheath.

She nodded in understanding of what he meant by that huff as Inuyasha walked away from them, I ran pass them to catch up with him but just as I was running pass Toran...she smiled at me and waved me to stop, so I did with caution as I look to her.

"You're a strong woman Nikko...I can see why Sesshomaru takes a liking to you...cherish it...if you don't believe me... ask him yourself." Toran said as she slowly walked pass me. I stood there for a moment in shock by what she just said, then I realized that Inuyasha was getting away and quickly ran to catch up.

Then she, her siblings and the Panther tribe were off to head back to the West. The war between the Panther Demons and the Dog Demons finally was over.

After the events, the Panther Demon tribes disappeared without a trace,We all joined up again, as much as the Wolf Demon Tribe and with the villagers back to their village up in the Mountains as it was still nighttime, only a few hours until dawn. My friends and I were talking among each other as well as the villagers, then I look across from all the faces, suddenly I saw him...

I saw Sesshomaru, who was staring straight at me at a far distance and I stared back. "Hey I'll be right back Kagome." I said as I moved away from the crowd.

Now that I was in an open space and he was still looking at me, standing in the same place. My thoughts were still conflicted by the events that happen and what Toran had said to me.

Then my thoughts had ceased when he started walking towards me, passing people to get to the open space until we were only two yards away from each other. As we were looking at each other, I noticed that there was a light in his eyes that I hadn't seen before, unsure what the emotion is.

"What Toran said is true?...Does Sesshoumaru care about me in that way? Maybe it's time to tell him how I feel." I thought as my heart started to race. At that moment, as we were staring into each others eyes it felt is was just us in the entire universe, no noise just tranquility as if we can be like this forever. I opened my mouth to say something to him.

All of a sudden, I sensed an sheer evil presence quickly approaching...then it was right behind me. My eyes widen as I felt strong arms wrapped around my waist.

I still was looking at Sesshomaru with fear in my eyes as he was trying to reach me, then my kiddnapper and I with in the air. Then I saw demon wasps gather around us and then everything went black.