Domesticated - Oban's Story

Summery: One dog demon child finds the truth behind her master and is forever trapped to do his bidding. As a proud woman she keeps her duty to protect the pack, but also wants to protect so much more.

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It was a cool crisp night in a canyon and the clear sky shown the stars so clearly, and the full yellow moon was dazzling to its watchers. Barking was heard from the excited puppies and everyone could feel the full energy of the moon. One small dog demon especially wanted to howl her head off as she climbed the rock walls of the canyon quickly and nimbly. She was only a puppy looking only the human age of 5 would make you think she was weak but on the contrary, she was one of the strongest females in the pack. Her Short red hair shown in the moon light and her multi colored eyes that were yellow and orange shined with determination and adventure seeking fun as she climbed, her claws, tiny yet sharp, digging into the rock and pulling her closer to her goal. the top.

The girl's red dog ears on the top of her head twitched as she heard someone call her name and she stopped climbing to look down, but had to move her fluffy dog tail out of the way to see her best friend still half way down the canyon wall when she was nearly there

"Obaaan!" The other inu yelled "Come on! No pup has been to talk to the moon in ages" Oban only flashed a grin at the other girl and resumed climbing. The other girl pup huffed and followed the red head. She was a little older, looking 6 with short brown hair and brown eyes. She also had brown dog ears and a tail like Oban. She never understood the red head's adventurous ideas

Oban finally made it to the top of the canyon to the soft green grass on flat ground and she laughed before diving and rolling around in the grass, just to get the feel of it and then crawled on all fours to look down at her friend

"You're too slow Hama" the red head said and reached down to grab Hama's out stretched hand and pulled her up so she too could roll around in the grass to rest. Oban looked up at the full moon that was so close to the earth she thought she could reach out and touch it if she could only find the horizon. It was like watching the sun set over the ocean, only the full moon was rising on the flat ground that made that untouchable horizon. Oban took a deep breath of the warm summer air that smelled heavily of green leaves and rain, her favorite time of the year. She giggled then and danced around, showing off her red kimono with yellow and red fish "I'm going to talk to the moon!"

"Oban! Shhhh!" Hama hushed "If you parade like that the master shall hear and come home"

"But you have to be loud for the moon to hear you" Oban said innocently, continuing to dance around Hama "You know the moon has bad hearing and bad site, so you dress in bright colors and sing real loud to get his attention" Hama groaned and looked at her own yellow kimono that their parents dressed them in every summer's full moon. The adult inus would dress themselves and the children in formal wear for this holiday to show respect, though in puppy tales the moon could hear and watch over the pups that serenaded it, or at least that was what the nursery inu elder told the tales at nap time

Oban pranced around in the grass, dancing and doing cart wheels and Hama only watched as her friend began to sing loudly, yet not badly

"Oh moon, oh moon," Oban sang "Tell me a tale, about two inus, tell me about their travels and adventures. Show me oh moon, their freedom, show me oh moon the love that they shared, beneath your glorious rays, to make the first pack of my kind that roamed the land. Strong and brave, they were like no other, in this world." She slowed down the last few verses "Listen oh moon, as I sing to you, listen oh moon as I sing my heart. to you." She finally ended the song and she let out a loud proud howl to the moon, her arms out stretched to sing the song of her people and set her soul free. Hama also joined in, inspired by the song and for she had also itched to howl her song to the moon which they worshiped

In the canyon other pups, too young to know not to, howled with Oban and some rogue teenagers hopped upon boulders to join in. The adults tried to stop the little ones but it was contagious to the whole pack and soon the canyon was filled with soul lifting howls, freeing them to dance in the moon's rays

Oban let herself fall in the grass and rest. Hama yawned herself and curled up in the soft grass, ready to go to sleep, but they both heard Oban's name being called by someone and the red head sat up. She crawled to the edge of the canyon wall and looked down. She could barely see him, but her baby brother waving up at her and smiling widely. He was sitting on the ground since he still walked on all fours, and all pups did for the first couple of years or life

Hama sighed in an annoyed tone "Is that your little bro again?"

"Yep" Oban said and started to climb down the canyon wall "Be right back" Hama got on to her own four legs and crawled after her friend to the edge to watch her climb down

"Just leave him there, your mom'll get him" the brunet said, even though she knew it was in vein. Oban and her brother were nearly inseparable

"No, he just wants to play" Oban said and hopped down the canyon wall quickly and landed on her feet nimbly, making her baby brother laugh and clap his tiny hands together. The little puppy inu was only about 16 months old with blue curls of hair and big blue, almost black eyes that could make you want to give him a cookie on the spot and wrapped in baby robes of ocean green. Oban smiled and picked him up

"Hey Reisui, ya wanna talk to the moon too?" She asked and the blue haired boy nodded. Oban hugged him to her in one arm and climbed to the top of the canyon again to return to Hama, who groaned

"You could have just brought him home" she complained but Oban shook her head

"No way, I'm lucky to even have a little brother, the master was hesitant to let my mommy and daddy" the red head said

"Yeah well I have 5 elder siblings" Hama said "And 4 younger ones, they're a pain"

"Well I'm lucky to have Reisui" Oban said proudly as she sat cross legged so Reisui could be cradled in her lap and he pulled at the long grass with his tiny hands. He was fascinated by it as all babies were

The two girls then heard someone climbing the canyon and a green haired boy, about 6 made it over the edge and brown eyes focused on Oban immediately. His eyes glinted mischievously and he pounced her. Oban had already given Reisui to Hama for safety and turned around to meet his pounce. They tumbled over one another on the grass many times before Oban stopped abruptly on her back and used the momentum of their rolling to sent the boy inu off her to the ground, then when he was off guard pounced him and pinned his body belly down into the dirt

"Got you Kumo!" She cheered and Kumo spat out dirt before turning his head as far as he could to scowl at her. He knocked her off him and stood up, his dark blue boy kimono smudged with dirt. Oban began to dance around from her victory

"You cheeted!" He accused and Oban was in his face, even though her was like 3 inches taller for being older

"Oh yeah? Do we need to count the 387 days I wiped your sorry tail" She mocked. Kumo was angry

"You cheated!"

"I can't cheat 387 times and still whipped you"

"Shut up!"

"Make me!"

"Bitch!"

"Jerk!"

"Flea!"

"Puppy!"

"Butt sniffer!"

"Neko hairball!"

"I am not! You are!"

Oh, nice come back slobber boy!

"I DO NOT SLOBBER!"

"You do at nap time!"

This went on for a bit and another inu climbed up onto the canyon top. He sat next to Hama and watched the fight; he had short dark blue hair and brown eyes like his brother who was arguing with Oban. He was about 7 and wore a similar kimono to his brother's

"They're at it again?" he asked and Hama nodded

"Yeah, Hakken" she said a little boredly and Reisui yawned like this happened often, which it did, but suddenly Kumo tackled Oban and they both went over bored off the canyon wall. Hama only looked at Hakken and he looked back

"2 cookies says Oban pins him" she betted

"No way" Hakken said "4 cookies Kumo does"

"Deal" Hama said and they scrambled to the edge just to see Oban turn them around in midair and pinned Kumo's back into the, luckily, soft ground, giving Oban a nice squishy landing. Hama jumped up and hugged Reisui, cheering "I win!" Hakken gave her a mean look and stuck his tongue out at her.

Oban giggled as she laid on Kumo, who was very sore and in too much pain to move at the moment.

"Ya know, maybe you should stop trying to beat me" Oban said as she fiddled with the hem of his kimono "One day you're going to get seriously hurt" Kumo grumbled about not letting a little bitch over power him, but that was all he could do for the moment. Oban sighed and thought what all little girls thought 'Boys are soooo stupid' She was about to get up when she was suddenly hauled up by an older inu woman with red hair and yellow eyes by the back of her kimono

"Oban" she scowled in a tired tone "What Have I told you about fighting?"

"Um." Oban thought, though not seriously "Don't kill Kumo?" the woman sighed in aspiration

"Oban.."

"I know, I know." the little red head said "'Don't'" she sighed sadly and looked at the other red head "Sorry mother" Her mother smiled and set her on her feet before going to see if Kumo was alright

"Oh he'll be fine" Oban said dismissively "He's got a hard head" Her mom didn't like her comment too well and gave her a look that said 'You're pushing it' Oban promptly kept the rest of her wise cracks to herself

"Where is your brother?" Oban's mom asked and Oban looked up at the cliff where Hama and Hakken were slowly climbing down the cliff, Hama, safely carrying her little brother

"He's coming" she said and went to meet Hama at the cliff and was given Reisui by Hama. Kumo was back on his feet but sore and Hakken hurried to help his brother

"Oi Kumo" he said "You can't just pounce a bitch, they're tricky"

"Like I don't already know that" Kumo said angrily and glared at Oban who grinned superiority back at him

"Now then" Oban's mother said in a disciplining tone "Oban, you know it's strictly forbidden to howl at the moon"

"But. But." the little inu said innocently like she was being wrongly charged for a crime she did not commit

"No but's young female" her mother said sternly "That is the 3rd time, the '3rd' time you've disobeyed the rules AND have beaten up poor Kumo"

"He was looking for it" Oban grumbled and got another glare from Kumo for that

"You got the whole pack howling" Her mother continued

"But wasn't it fun?" Oban asked and her mother couldn't deny it hadn't been, but that didn't mean she had to give her daughter that much appraisal for doing something wrong

"Oban, the master will be furious if you break another rule" Oban's mother said "'Try' to behave"

"Yes mother" Oban said in a bored sigh. Her mother ignored her daughter's tone and took her son before going back to the den. Oban sighed in a bored tone before skipping over to Kumo and poking him in the nose with one claw before giggling

"Come around if you want your tail kicked again" she said and skipped off after her mother. Kumo only glared at her retreating form

"Bitch" he mumbled and his brother helped him toward home

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End of Chapter one