Aftermath part 2 (Aiko & Sesshomaru)

[Naraku]

Merodi needed to get home. She needed to get there as fast as she could. With a deep gash in one arm she lead the way for the demon behind her, the one she barely knew but was even more injured then she was. To think, the one moment she went off on her own and something like this happened! She bit her lip, forcing back the small whimpers as the pain surged through her arm. She dared not look at it. She knew she would feint if she dared look. She could remember what it had felt like. The blade of the axe slicing through her flesh, she could practically hear it scrape against the bone and she was only thankful it wasn't worse. She took a glance at the man behind her. The dragon demon that had taken it upon himself to defend her. She needed to help him, he was worse off then she was.
The deer demon could feel herself getting weaker and weaker. She looked up at the mountain, her home, and the waterfall that hid it from the area around it. There was no way she could make it up there. She whimpered, tears forming in her eyes with all the feelings swarming in her. "K-Koga!" she tried to call, the sudden forceful use of her lungs made her waver in her stance and she fell to her knees, gasping. She hoped he was there. He should be able to hear her. If he listened or not was what she wasn't sure of.

Ryuu looks up at the waterfall for it was where she was looking when she calls out. He begins to try to help her, but wasn't able to do much since his only good arm was carrying the other. He comtinues to take her to the waterfal, where Ryuu then himself comes to a stop. His body had begin to stiffen along the walk and was getting worse. All that could be heard from behind her was a small thump as Ryuu colapsed to his knees. The poison was bring him to parlysed. He looks up at her as to speak but his throat was much to dry and could not.

Very close to the injured pair, two gleaming eyes peered out from the shadows cast by jagged rocks. Their owner tilted back its head as the unknown dragon demon fell, and a long, sharp howl blasted from its parted jaws: a cry of warning, and a plea for help.
The night before, Koga had been long in drifting off to sleep. It was much too long since the last time Merodi had left him for an entire night, and the leader of the wolf demon tribe had fidgeted uncontrollably, leaping up at times to pace around with an agitated look on his sharp face, before he finally fell prey to uneasy sleep. In the dark places where thought gave way to dream, he wandered, feeling antsy even while his body slept, through images of his beloved deer demon mate. He listened in his fuzzy, half-comprehensible dream as her voice choked out his name, and even in this dream, her voice sounded far away and garbled, and his dark brows furrowed his tanned forehead while he uneasily slept. It was a mere moment later when the howl broke through the ever-present rumble of falling water, and Koga was on his feet, ripped out of the shadows of dreamland and into the present, where one of his wolf demons was calling to him.
Koga’s mind didn’t pause to wonder why his demon was howling like he was; Koga’s mind didn’t work like that. The thing was that one of his wolf demons was calling, and as leader, he had to answer. He was past the half-sleeping forms of the other demons and blasting through the waterfall a precious second later than he would have liked. Koga felt depressingly slow after being newly woken. As it was, though, it was somewhere between five and ten seconds, the time it took Koga to leave his sleeping mat and reach the side of the wolf demon who had howled. This demon was canine-formed, and as its leader looked down attentively, the lesser demon flicked its ears towards the exhausted forms of the two non-wolf demons.
“Merodi!” Koga howled, a spasm of pain, as sharp and real as any stab wound, thrusting through his chest. The wolf demon was at his mate’s side where she knelt, clearly in agony, in the shortest fraction of a second imaginable. He crouched beside her, and his shoulders were shaking. His wide pale eyes ogled at the slash through her arm, where brown was splashed with deep crimson and sliced with a sliver of white. He reached a hand towards the injury, only to pull his fingers back when he realized they were shaking. Koga set his teeth to keep them from chattering, too, as his head whipped around to the wolf demon who had first sounded the alarm. “Get more demons up here!” he growled hoarsely, panic in his voice. Then his eyes went back to her arm. He was fully aware of the other demon slightly farther away; he chose to ignore that demon at the moment. Who cared what some stupid dragon demon did, so long as he wasn’t trying to attack? There were more important things – more important people – to worry about.

Merodi waited, hoping her mate could hear her. She jumped in fear to hear the howl that surrounded the area. Her eyes wide for a moment as she tried to realize what it meant. Wait...that was one of Koga's wolves...wasn't it? She sighed in relief. They would have help soon. She glanced back toward the dragon demon, her relief replaced by worry to see the male in such a state. It was all because of her that it happened, too! Suddenly a presence was coming toward them, one too familiar for her to doubt.
The look on Koga's face crushed her. Oh, looked how worried and upset he was! She felt like crying, the pain seeming even more real to see it in his eyes. She choked back a sob, gripping at her arm as she tried to keep herself in control. "Koga, please, you have to help him..." she said, wincing at the pain that jolted through her body. "Y-you have to..." she didn't know how to convince him to, she could see that the deer demon was his only priority. But her's was something she could live with...even though she was horrible when it came to pain. Her guilt for the other demon kept her from being so selfish.

Ryuu does not move, nor does he speak. His eyes was slowly becoming dull. He was still full aware, and still had the strength to fight it off, but not only was his bleeding yet to stop, he was now become parlyis. His arm releases letting his right hand fall to the ground as it was no longer connected to his body. His demonic aura begins to surround him, as his demon blood was slowly fighting back against the poison.

As Merodi made her request, Koga finally forced his head to turn towards the stranger demon; it really was forcing, since the sight of his mate’s wounds was taking up most of the wolf demon’s attention. With more than a little reluctance, the leader of the tribe stood, his knees trembling. He swayed for a moment as the blood rushed to his head, pounding along under his skin… but he stopped the vertigo, forced it down along with that lump that had formed in his throat. He had to investigate the stranger demon, and though Koga didn’t consciously realize it, his subconscious knew he wouldn’t be able to concentrate with Merodi’s smell in his nostrils.
The stranger smelled like a dragon demon, nasty reptile that a dragon was. Nose twitching at the unwelcome smell, Koga forced his knees to stop knocking and strode with as much of a confident façade he could muster over to that odorous stranger. The wolf demon stood over the body, which appeared to be slowly losing control of itself, and even Koga could not ignore an aura as powerful as this one. The distinctive sixth-sense of demons to read these auras, as well as simply scent, told the wolf demon the entire story of the pair that was his mate and this stranger. He could smell the residues of metal on their skin, and knew they’d been attacked with similar, if not the same, weapons, meaning that whoever had attacked Merodi had also attacked the dragon demon. Weird, thought Koga, though it was an afterthought; his mind was starting to churn with an emotion the wolf demon identified as outrage. How dare someone attack his mate at all? Trying to push her heady scent, wafting over from behind, out of his mind, the wolf demon, eyes drifting half-closed in concentration, focused on the dragon demon’s smell again. The sharp, acidic, chemical smell of poison made Koga’s eyelids flip back again, and the wolf demon stared down at the fallen dragon demon. Poisoned, was he?
While Koga had been giving his expert examination, a group of wolf demons had trooped up, following the canine demon who had first sounded the alarm. The leader of the small group loped forward, nose and ears thrust forward, hair along its spine raised. Koga smelled them as they came up, heard their footfalls against the cold stone ground. The tribal leader turned, away from the dragon demon, to greet his men. With a curt jerk of his head that motioned towards the dragon demon, he order, “Bring this one back to the cave, and make sure some guards stay by him!” Medically speaking, Koga was clueless, and had no way of helping a poisoned man. The most he could offer was a soft mat for a deathbed. Still, he wasn’t taking any chances. If the dragon demon recovered, he was going to have a nice guard of wolf demons to keep him from doing anything unsavory.
No less than four humanoid wolf demons hurried forward and, with small, panting grunts, put their hands under the dragon demon’s body and lifted. Quickly, albeit clumsily, they hurried back to the cave behind the waterfall. When they got there, they set the dragon demon on a pelt mat that was in a dark corner of the cave, closer to the waterfall than might have been expected, and then sat back, two facing the dragon demon and two facing away.
Koga, meanwhile, returned to Merodi’s side and crouched, hesitantly placing a shaking hand on her narrow shoulder. Two canine demons, who had stayed behind, hovered anxiously nearby, but their leader did not give them orders or dismissal. Koga barely even realized they were there, now that he was taking care of his gentle mate. “I’m here for you,” he whispered, and his voice caught on the lump he that he’d swallowed down. “Nothings gonna happen, alright Merodi? I got you.” Koga slid one hand under his mate’s knees and one under her back, picking her up bridal-style. He pulled her body close to his, not sure if that was her shaking or him. Quicker and defter than his tribe mates, he carried his precious package back under the waterfall, sheltering her from the blast with his body. The two other demons followed, and then went about their usual business. Koga walked slowly back to the mat that he and his mate shared and laid the injured deer demon there. He was sure it would still be warm from when his own body lay sleeping on the hide. When he was sure the deer demon was settled, he sat cross-legged beside her on the stone floor, watching her with wide, attentive eyes.

As they go to lift him he bearly manages to take his cut off arm with him. The whole time he was sit down his fangs was increasing as his claws digs into the floor of the cave. His voice darken and broken as he speaks almost into a low growl. "How can I, a demon lord be brought down to such a level." He forces his hand down into a small pouch revealing a scared jewel shard. "I refuse to to go down like this!" Before anyone near by could even make a move to him even seeing the jewel he shoves it down into his throat swallowing it.
The jewel makes its way inside of him before it was absorbed into his body. Ryuu goes quiet and still before the shard begins to finally releases its power into him. His arm that he had placed beside him was now beging to regenrate back onto his body. His claws grew as they cut into the flooring. He could not contain himself as he roars out.
He finally grows still. Color begins to come back to his face as his wounded arm had be completly healed. His eyes close as he begins to rest, which does not last long. After 15 mins his eyes shoot open as they are still a bright red. He leaps up onto his feet as his eyes slowly dim. He begins to look around remembering all that happen and where it was he is now. After pondering for a second his eyes widen when he remebers swallowing the jewel. He walks towards the demons who was guarding him and blocking his path.
"Move, wolf"

Merodi watched them take away the demon with small relief, her eyes were slightly dull from the loss of blood, and her arm seemed like nothing but useless weight, she couldn't even move it. She looked up at Koga, his comforting words seeming so far away in her ears but she held onto those words, just as he held onto her. She closed her eyes, relaxing against his hold as her wounded arm dangled from the side. The next time she opened her eyes she was place on the mat, warm and soft and more comfortable then the finest patch of grass. She finally felt safe, far away from the horrible fighting monster, and she now had given the man shelter as he had wanted. She fell asleep quickly, rest the most important thing her body needed. She could barely hear what was happening with the dragon demon but she slept with no disturbances or even the loudest of yells. But she was subconciously aware of what was happening.

The wolf demons glanced at each other, uneasiness showing in their widened eyes and twitching fingers, when their captive roared. The sound reverberated around the cave, and some demons put their fists to their ears while the rest of them fought back doing so. The sound echoed, beating around the rocks like a trapped bird, before escaping out from behind the waterfall. But then the dragon demon was quiet, though the guarding wolf demons could see him visibly healing. They sat there for a good while, waiting stiffly and still on edge because of the roaring, while their leader for the most part ignored the stranger demon. It could do as it pleased, so long as it didn’t disturb the slumbering Merodi. Koga’s fingers reached over to brush a few auburn locks from the deer demon’s fuzzy forehead. “Here,” he whispered again, just for something to fill the silence between them. “Get better.”
It wasn’t until the dragon demon was barking orders – and at Koga’s men, no less – that the wolf demon leader’s senses even turned in the direction of the stranger. He listened as the prisoner growled at the wolf demons, but more importantly, Koga could hear the hearts of all other demons in the cave pick up the pace, their beats growing more frantic in their chests. The sharp-nosed wolf demon could smell the tang of adrenaline permeating the cavern, and he sighed to himself. He was going to have to deal with this rowdy stranger, wasn’t he?
Uncurling his legs and standing, Koga turned in the direction of the dragon demon, who was facing down his four guards. Some more wolf demons were edging towards the stranger, and their leader could already see some problems rearing their ugly heads if they all tried to block the big dragon demon. Growling in frustration under his breath, Koga forced himself to leave his mate’s side, and with a couple twitches of his legs, he was in front of the dragon’s four guards, staring up at the stranger to whom they’d done so much as given shelter. Some gratitude they were receiving. Koga narrowed his blue eyes as he glared up at the stranger, a faint growl rippling through his throat. “Back off, lizard,” the tribe leader retorted, his legs tensing beneath him in instinctive preparation for any nastiness that was going to come out of this.

Ryuu steps forward his eyes narrowed. He had no idea where he was, due to the effect of the poison was almost drunking blocking his memory of what that led him here. The last thing he remember was the fight and begining to walk towards that deeer demon, Nothing more. He could less control his anger due to what happen, and the fact it was not even an actua demon that he fought, and as far as he knew these wolvies had eaten the deer demon after he went through all that trouble.
"I will not ask again. Step aside!" He draws his blade as he begins to move closer to him. He stops as his nose catches a small sniff of the deer demons aura on the body of the one standing before him. His fangs begin to show as now he was fearing the worst.
"What did you do? Did you eat her and then try to imprison me?" His voice was now sounding harsh as he steps r4eading his blade to attack.

Merodi could feel Koga leave her side. She didn't like that, she didn't like that at all. How could she handle the pain or the images if he wasn't right there at her side! She knew there was something wrong for him to leave her all of a sudden. She knew there was something. And she urged herself to awaken, her sensitive ears picking up on the yells and growls but she couldn't tell who it came from. Finally she willed her eyes to open, the lids feeling heavy and her body felt just as weighed down as her eye lids.
Slowly the deer demon turned her head to look toward all the noise. Ryuu..and Koga...and most of the other wolves. What was going on between them? She took in a breath, forcing herself to sit up. She would have to stop them. She wasn't sure what it was, but she could sense the oncoming of a fight. She couldn't allow them to fight! She had to show the dragon how grateful she was and to have something like this happen...oh, what horrible hospitality! She worked to get herself on her feet, feeling wobbly and unstable and her body complained for more rest as she was sure she needed. Merodi insisted to herself she needed to intervene. Although getting to them seemed a bit more of a problem then she had expected.

OOC: Written more like a book but this is so far whats happen and now waiting on Koga.

[Aiko]

The growl that had been accumulating in Koga’s chest tore out between his clenched teeth. The dragon demon – and what were dragons, anyway, but overblown lizards? – had the impudence to try and order him, Koga, leader of the demon wolf tribe, around like some lowly creature? Not only that, but this intruding demon was stupid enough to try drawing his sword on Koga, too? Merodi might have had the ability to temper his fiercest instincts, but this stranger seemed to be trying to drag them back out again, and with Merodi injured, Koga’s patience was waning quickly.

But as if that wasn’t enough, the stranger shoved his final insults at the wolf demons who had been kind enough to allow him to take shelter with them. Koga’s legs bent at the knee, his corded muscles bunching underneath his solid body. His fingers curled, clenching into fists, and his dark eyebrows beetled above already-annoyed eyes. “Shut your mouth, you ugly bastard!” Koga snarled, teeth gnashing on the words. Though he had been tensed, coiled, in his ready-to-fight position, the wolf demon straightened out of his bent-kneed pose, drawing himself up to his full height and glaring a challenge at the other demon. “You stupid idiot, you don’t know what you’re talking about. If it wasn’t for Merodi, my foot would already be through your gut, you good-for-nothing son of a fool.”

[Naraku]

"How dare you insult the Lord of these lands! And if you dare harm that mother I will strike you where you stand." He roars from his throat leaping off the little cliff onto the ground. "I did not battle that damn monster to protect that child for you a dinner!" He begins to approach Koga with his own fangs now bare. He clutches the blade tighter as he could sense the deer's own demonic aura faintly over the wolf. the dragon was still actually out, and in pain, his wounds internally was still bleeding yet he gave no sense of pain or fear.

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Merodi listened, staring at the two as she tried to concentrate on her walking. She felt woozy, had she really lost so much blood? She gripped at her arm, feeling as if it would fall off if she didn't. She felt a fight about to begin and it only made her more fearful. Oh, she didn't want a fight. She was about to make it to them when Ryuu's words made her pause. Mother...did he say mother? And child? Did that dragon youkai defend her because of a child? And not really for her?

The loss of blood must have made her slow. Even so, the deer demon would have to stop their fighting before she questioned him. Surely there was no mother here. She took another step forward and stumbled clumsily moving the last few distance to the wolf demon's side as she took a hold of her mates arm. "Koga, please don't fight." she glanced up at him, then at the dragon youkai. "I-I'm fine, see?" she gave the very scary dragon a weak smile. As much as she could muster being so nervous in such a fighting zone.

[Aiko]

“You’re no lord of me, or of my demons!” bellowed Koga, jutting his head forward. Cords on his neck bulged out as the wolf demon thrust his head forward, still challenging the dragon demon and his oversized knife. Around their leader, the other wolves were gathering, holding themselves lower to the ground. Those who had human forms, those who didn’t trust themselves to hand-to-hand combat as did their leader, gripped their various weapons with knuckles that gleamed white against their tanned skin. The canine ones prowled around, the fur along their spines bristling and their black lips curling back over glistening fangs.

That was all that could get accomplished in the space of time it took Merodi to limp over to the pair of angry males. Koga was so engrossed in what he felt must be an impending fight between two males angling for dominance that he hadn’t even noticed that she left their sleeping mat until she tumbled against his side. After very nearly jerking away from the deer demon out of sheer surprise, he leaned closer, trying to support her as she gripped his arms. Gently, he tried to shift at least one of his arms to wrap it around the incredibly fragile-seeming deer demon.

Behind the two mates, a score of wolf demons hesitated on the edge of aggression, waiting for orders.

Koga stopped snarling, but his eyebrows were still furrowed furiously over his pale eyes as he quickly returned his blue gaze to the aggressive dragon demon. “Like I said before,” he muttered through gritted teeth, “if it wasn’t for this one, you’d have been dead a while ago.”

Supporting Merodi’s weight with his capable arms, the wolf demon edged to the side. The other wolves, instinctively sensing his intentions, followed their leader, making a clear path to the waterfall. “You want to leave so bad, knock yourself out,” growled Koga, wanting to get Merodi back to their mat as quickly as possible.

[Naraku]

He drops his blade as a slight smirk crosses his face. "it seems I was wrong and mistook the auras, But The child is safe and seems to be happy." As he finished his sentence he dropped to his knee. as a light groan was heard coming from him, as he had nothing now distracting him from the pain he was still in. "Koga, is it... forgive me, I seen her aura slightly staying on your body, and knowing you as a wolf, I thought you may of ate her. "I think the blood and my pride rushed to my head after such a long battle. " He moves his hand down into the ground as his claw digs into the ground. "I'd be slightly annoyed after that fight to protect such a young child, and something happen right after."

He forces himself up to his feet as he walks towards Koga leaving his blade behind. He sometimes would stagger. "I am Ryuukotsusei, I am Lord of these Northlands, but I have no interest in pulling power from those in these lands either. My true intention is to keep the balance."

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Merodi held onto Koga, leaning against him for support but she wasn't sure if she wanted to lay back down. He was taking her away. Would a battle start as soon as she was back on the mat? Oh, she hoped not. Even if she wanted to stay she couldn't really fight against Koga. Her ears turned toward the dragon as she was lead away, listening to him. She tried to turn herself in Koga's hold, looking back and toward the dragon that was following them. Good, at least she was still a part of things. Not completely taken away.

There was one question continuing to form in the deer's mind, and she furrowed her brows, almost strugging against Koga as she tried to face him completely. "What child? Surely you're mistaken." he couldn't mean her. Probably asking him now wasn't the best of ideas. He was still wounded and weak, it was selfish of her to wish him to explain himself when he needed rest. Just as much, or more then herself.

[Aiko]

Koga’s one eyebrow twitched as he realized that not only was the dragon demon not leaving, he was following as Koga attempted to drag his mate back to her mat so she could rest. The wolf demon turned to give the unwelcome guest an icy look, listening as he babbled something about a child and a battle while trying to keep Merodi positioned away from the visitor. Not that Merodi was making the task easy, as she seemed unduly interested in the dragon’s inane prattling. Still, after the dragon demon attempted to explain himself, Koga relented and let his remaining aggression dissipate into annoyance again. This intruder at least seemed to acknowledge his place now, seeing as he was getting to that point that males often reach of almost-apology. Koga accepted this with a curt nod and tried to continue bringing his mate back to their mat so she would rest, but the dragon demon continued on.

Annoyance festered in Koga’s belly like an infected wound. This Ryuukotsusei fellow seemed to be trying to place himself above all the real rulers of these lands, such as Koga himself. As if he was some great and almighty ruler to “keep the balance,” as he put it. Whatever the dragon demon was spouting, it was absolute crap. Koga was the ruler of his own territory, and nobody was above him. Nobody could claim any part of his land, not even in sharing. His territorial aggression was resurfacing, but before he could bite off a sharp retort, Merodi interrupted.

After a brief glance at Merodi, in which the ice in Koga’s eyes melted around the edges, the wolf demon glared back at the dragon, daring him to give a satisfactory explanation. He didn’t know what all this “child” nonsense was, but if Merodi wanted to know, Koga would march through all seven hells so she could know. He shifted Merodi slightly, so she could face the dragon demon without having to try crawling over her mate’s head to face the person she was addressing.

[Naraku]

"Well now this is even more awkward, watching the two of you,, I now see who the father is, and for the child I am surprised you do not know yet. being the mother and all. the child's aura is already growing within you." He stops as he catches his balance. and he looks between the two. He begins to slightly laugh at the irony that they would discover the truth by him, and not already know. "It seems, you need to focus more on the upcoming future, then you need to fight me for land wolf." He slightly smirked as he knew the wolf couldn't help but be terratorial since it was his nature, and as I said, I have no interest in intervering with this area so I should be the least of your worries."

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Merodi stared at the dragon as the information given to her slowly seemed to make sense. This child. He meant...hers, didn't he? Her...a mother. She gasped, eyes widening as she looked up at Koga. Did he understand what Ryuu was explaining? She looked back at the dragon youkai, a hand coming up to her stomach. Could he really mean it? She couldn't imagine being pregnant. Pregnant! With a child and everything! The deer demon was filled with emotions. She didn't know how to react. What should she say? What should she do?!

Merodi had no answers to her own questions and instead ended up being quiet, seemingly in a state of shock for the time being.
((crappy))

[Aiko]

The world blurred at the edges, leaving only a laughing dragon demon standing in the middle of a dark hollow in Koga’s vision. Everything became slow, ridiculously slow, as the blood stiffened in the wolf demon’s veins. The gasps and mutters and whispers of a great many lesser wolf demons, all of whom had heard Ryuukotsusei’s announcement, echoed around the cavernous space, punctuated by the rumble of falling water, but all Koga could hear was the dragon demon’s laughter, and the trembling of his own heart in his chest.

It can’t be…

The sense of warmth where Merodi’s fur touched Koga’s skin suddenly intensified to a sense of burning, and the dragon demon faded out of the wolf leader’s consciousness as he bent his head to stare dumbly down at his mate. She stared up at him with wide, liquid eyes, and from his reflection in those mirroring pools of warm brown, Koga saw his reflection. His eyes were, like hers, wide, and his jaw hung slack. And, just for a moment, as he heard her gasping breath, he thought that, beneath the ever-present though ever-faint pulse of her heart, a tinier fluttering noise accompanied the beating, like a… a baby’s heart.

Haltingly, Koga managed, “I’m… going to be a… a father?” He tore his eyes away from Merodi’s face and stared at Ryuukotsusei, the lack of emotion in his eyes not betraying the torrent of feeling that was beginning to replace his slowed blood in his veins. Then, slowly, a broad grin stretched his facial features, a smile that extended to his eyes and flowed down through the rest of his body. “I’m going to be a father!” he informed the dragon demon, a note of proud triumph in his voice. “A father!”

[Naraku]

He stops his slight chuckle as he watches the wolf demon. This demon who was only able to bare his fangs and ready for battle, after he already announce his apology, to this presense of pure shock. He turns back heading towards his blade he left, lifting it up and sheathing it. but before he could stand up straight the pain struck him once more. He fell back onto his knees as his eyes closed, his fangs tightly clutching. He made no more movements as all he could do was growl.

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Merodi seemed to find her reaction when Koga found his. The excitement and pride he had seemed to overflow in her as she smiled. A father...yes, he would be a father. That would make her a mother. So many feelings came with that fact. Happiness, excitement, anxiety, fear...

Luckily the deer demon wasn't give the time to think over the last two feelings. Merodi frowned, suddenly worried for her protector...or, her child's protector to be correct. She made a move toward the dragon, but forgot her body's own state. She seemed to stumble, glad to have Koga there to keep a hold of. "Is he alright? Will he be okay?" she asked her mate, looking up at him. How could she not be concerned for the dragon youkai. The one that saved her life; and now to her knowledge; her child's.

[Aiko]

Koga was still watching Ryuukotsusei when the dragon demon, after sheathing his sword, suddenly crumpled. The proud smile on the wolf demon’s face shrank as quickly as it had grown as the visiting demon let out a tensely pained growl. Merodi lurched forward, then, and her mate had to grab onto her more firmly. He was careful, unusually careful, to avoid aggravating her wound. “I’m sure he’ll be fine,” he assured the gentle deer demon. Raising his voice to address the rest of the assembled wolves, who still seemed edgy, he announced, “Ryuukotsusei has saved my mate, your pack sister, so I expect him to be treated with respect. He will have a place to rest amongst us until he is healed or until he chooses to leave, whichever comes first.” Said announcement given, he went to steer Merodi back to the sleeping mat, admonishing her, “You need time to heal, too.” When his mate was taken care of, Koga turned back to help two of his demons, who were trying to assist the dragon demon and take him back to the mat he’d been given before. Squatting down by Ryuukotsusei’s side, Koga muttered, “Don’t try to leave again. You’re upsetting Merodi. I don’t want her upset.” There was a thinly veiled threat that growled through the wolf demon’s voice. Thus said, he and his demons made to escort their guest – for now he was established a guest, and definitely not a prisoner – back to his mat.

[Naraku]

He climbs up to his feet staggering against the cliff wall, as he rotates himself falling and lays against the wall. He looks over and watches the wolvies but he does not move. He prob added much more time to his recover from his needless action he took. But before he could put thought into it he dozed off.