"You bet I will…" The woman said in reply and made her way over to the fighting Inuyasha and demon. She moved her hands down to her sides, allowing them to start to glow a bluish color. "Fox Fire!" When she had yelled this, everyone turned and looked at her but the young kitsune and Keith. The flame in her hands increased in size and she threw her hands up, spun around, and flicked her wrists forward, causing a wave of flames to shoot forward at the demon. Of course the flames engulfed the demon, causing it to scream in pain.
Keith looked at Shippo and smirked a bit, "Maybe you'll be able to do that one day." The kit stuck out his tongue in reply, pouting.
"How… Can a human do that…?" Inuyasha asked, amazed by what Akane did. Dumbfounded had struck him. Keith had already slunk over to Inuyasha with Shippo still on his shoulder. "Possibly because we aren't humans?!" He had said in a whisper, spooking Inuyasha since he didn't seem to know the Keith had moved over to him.
The demon had let out a cry once more and swung his hand down, covering Akane with his claws. She was covered by the beast.
Sango let out a small scream and slung her boomerang at it. It made contact with its side though the beast didn't seem fazed. Miroku could only watch, for if he used his wind tunnel, Akane's body could be sucked up in the void as well. Kagome strung one of her arrows and let it fly free at the demon's claw. Once it hit, there was a huge bright pink light mixed with blue flames. The pink light was due to Kagome's miko power, but everyone but Keith and Shippo, was wondering why there was blue flames. There questions were answered quickly though.
There stood Akane, hair bright pink like cherry blossoms and eyes as blue as ice and perched upon her head was a pair of black fox ears and she also had a bushy fox like tail. "Now, now demon… Are you sure you wanted to do that?" She cocked her head lightly to the side, allowing some of her hair to fall in front of her eyes. The demon seemed to flinch at how cold her words seemed. She took a step forward, grinning coldly. "I don't take well to those who trap me." Without so much as another word, she had done another one of her fox fire attacks. But this time it seemed to have nothing but raw force in it, obliterating the beast in its tracks. The shards fell from the sky from where the monster had stood and Akane caught each of them in her hand. "Here Miko… I believe these are yours."
Kagome took the shards from the woman, wondering why she didn't take them. The others in Inuyasha's group stood there, dumbfounded and utterly shocked from the incident that had just happened before their eyes. "So let me get this straight, you're not humans?" Inuyasha asked, sheathing his sword back in its case.
Keith looked at Inuyasha with a bright smile, "Nope! We are actually Shippo's cousins." Sango's and Kagome's eyes widened at the statement that was made while Miroku was just to shocked to do anything; but rub Sango's butt again. Inuyasha shook his head lightly and moved over to Shippo and Keith before speaking.
"What do you mean you're his cousins?" He looked Keith over slowly and looked at Shippo.
"Well, before the village was destroyed, Akane and I fled. She got up enough power to make us look like humans. We have been walking around like that ever since. I guess the power boost the miko gave her helped." He let out a small sigh after he had spoke. "But here I am stuck as a human still."
Akane walked over to her brother and looked at him for a second before speaking, "I can change back into a human if you want me to? I mean, I wouldn't have a problem doing it.. I could change back when I wanted to."
Her brother seemed to flinch at the words she said, "You can change us back and you never told me?!" A smile from her was her only reply before she allowed a blue flame to surround her. When it had disappeared, she appeared to look like a human once more.
Shippo leapt from Keith's shoulder to Akane's with a smile. "Yep! They are my cousins. I thought for sure I had no family left." Small crystals formed in the boys eyes and he held onto Akane.
Akane's eyes never changed expression; she was like Sesshomaru in a lot of ways, cold and expressionless. She slowly wrapped her arms around Shippo and held him close, sighing. "Stop being a baby." She mumbled.
The night seemed to come fast. They were able to find four jewel shards and plus found Shippo's cousins.
Like usual, Akane was sitting under a tree with her legs crossed and her arms across her chest. Nevertheless, it was slightly different this time. Possibly due to the fact there was a small kitsune boy asleep on her lap and Keith was beside her this time; which was very unusual because he only got close to this sister when she was sleepy or if she was hurt. But he guessed it was because she was happy to find her favorite cousin.