Tokine could barely think because of the fear in her heart. She remembered this man so much it made her want to cry.

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Tokine's flash back of her childhood~

"Papa! Papa! Look what I found!" The little girl with fox ears and a tail held up a white flower.

"Well isn't that pretty!" The tall Fox who stood on his hind legs picked up the little girl and held her in his arms. "Are you ready for dinner?"

"Yeah!" The man and the Girl walked back to the small village where the rest of the Kitsune tribe lived. As they arrived at Their own home they entered to see a Beautiful Fox woman who wore a flower pin in front of her fox ear and a beautiful pink kimono with nine tails.

"Mommy!" The little girl ran and hugged her.

"Did you have fun in the flower fields with your father?" Her smile was warm.

"Mhm!"

"Alright then eat your stew before it gets cold." The woman laughed as she handed the girl a hot bowl of stew. The Father dropped down in front of the woman.

"Things aren't looking good." The tall fox man sighed.

"As the chief of this tribe you don't need to take on all the responsibility of protecting everyone on your own." There was a sadness in the woman's eyes.

"It's embarrassing enough that male Kitsunes can't go into combat as well as females so it'd be even more embarrassing if I couldn't keep up a barrier to protect my tribe." He grunted. The little girl wasn't sure what they were talking about so she kept quiet and sipped her stew.

"Well it's not your fault if the enemy is breaking down the barrier!" The mother dropped her dish. She realized what she had done and quickly cleaned it up. She sat back down and sighed. "Let's just …. Talk about this later." She looked at the little girl. The Father just grunted and ate his stew.

After dinner the little girl and her mother were outside the house washing dishes while the father drank tea inside. The mother and girl giggled as they threw water at each other and made bubbles. Another fox who resembled a man ran into the house the two looked at each other and followed.

"Chief! The barrier is broken and The enemy is heading towards the village!" The man announced with fear in his voice.

"Now?" The father stood up.

"Yes sir! Should we assemble the combat maidens?"

"Yes do that now." At this the mother went to the back of the house. When she came back she was wearing a ninja outfit and geared up for combat. She ran toward the Village entrance as more fox women geared in combat clothes joined her. The little girl wasn't sure what to do as all sorts of people from the village brushed by her to talk to her father. Suddenly one Man came running up screaming that three homes were on fire! The little girl was scared she wasn't sure what was happening but she knew it was bad. Soon all of the village was burning. And a mass of Demons were attacking everything and everyone. The little girl clung to her father's leg. Suddenly, a body fell from the sky and dropped in front of the girl and her father. It was the girl's mother. Dead. The girl tried to run to her mother, tears already flooding down her cheeks. But her father grabbed her and kept her close to him.

"Mommy! Mommy!" The girl cried out ion loud sobs.

"No! Tokine! It's not safe!" her father shouted over the chaos. All of the combat warriors had fallen, and most of the village had died trying to fend off the demons and it was just the girl and her father alone, surrounded by demons. Out of the Mass of Demons a man walked toward them, behind him in the opening, the girl and her father could see a pile of all the dead bodies of kitsune.

"Those are for later." The man grinned evilly. He walked up to the last kitsune, and got so close his face was inches from the father. The girl's father hid her behind him.

"Is there really any point in protecting her?" The man sneered, "You're a Male Kitsune so no matter how many powers you behold your body is much to frail to use them to protect the both of you, you'll end up killing yourself in the process." The Fox Man just looked hard at him.

"Go to hell." And the father used all of his power to create and explosion that hit the man with so much force no one could survive. The little girl watched as her father dispersed in the explosion, she had never shed tears like the ones she was shedding today. As the smoke cleared the girl was so shocked as that man who had destroyed everything she loved was still standing there, not a scratch on him. He walked up to her and tilted her chin up with his hand.

"Don't cry little Girl. You see, that's the amazing thing about taking all of your family and friend's powers, I'm nearly invincible!" The girl just cried more.

"Now shall I make you watch as I devour your mother? Or should I kill you on the spot?"

And that's when the flashback fades out~

Tokine could not remember what happened next. But She could remember the fearful face of that man.

"Tokine! Can you hear me?!" Inuyasha screamed to her. Tokine tried to reply but all she could do was tremble. "Tokine!" he screamed again, "Put up a barrier!" Akuma just laughed.

"She can't hear you half breed she's so struck with fear. Besides what good would barrier do? I've broken through her father's before." Akuma was still laughing hysterically. Tokine used all her might to glance at Inuyasha, when Inuyasha saw he knew she understood. He rose his sword.

"Inuyasha what are you doing?!" Kagome cried.

"Don't worry about it." and then "Wind Scar!" Blades of power surged toward Tokine and her captor, Akuma. Tokine scratched his face and tore herself from him creating a bubble like barrier around herself. Akuma's faced was surprised at Tokine's escape and then the surge of power slashed through him. Tokine had floated to Inuyasha's side. When the smoke and dirt was gone it revealed Akuma, with nothing but a cut on his torso. He just laughed.

"I wasn't expecting that." He smirked before he disappeared.

"Come back here coward!" Inuyasha screamed.

"He's gone." Miroku no longer sensed his aura. Tokine fell to the ground trembling. Kagome ran to her side. Tokine was unconscious. Kagome felt her head.

"She has a fever, she must have been traumatized."

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When tokine awoke she was lying in Inuyasha's house in a sweat. She was too delirious to understand the words she could hear being spoken.

"I'm pretty sure that's the guy who destroyed her village." Inuyasha sat down across from her.

"But what would he want now?" Sango said.

"When I found her, years ago, she was laying in a barrier just like you saw today, surrounded by rubbish and corpses. She had no recollection of how she defeated the demon who killed her parents. When I went to leave, she followed me. We never spoke of that day again."

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