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Chapter 6: Death to the Kitsune God

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"Are you sure we should leave the village in the care of a ten year old?" Sango asked as she tied her armor on

Kagome sighed and tied the ribbons on the sides of the armor which was covering her breasts and chest area. She was wearing her miko outfit because she felt uncomfortable in a kimono. "We've trained her for the past three weeks before the jewel was broken. I think we should have trust in the kodomo. Kaede is very sweet and will be able to mange now that the jewel is out of the village." Kagome said as she thought back to the day when her sisters' eye was injured.

*Flashback*

"The youkai has appeared!" the village men cried.

"Stand aside Kaede." Kagome yelled to her smaller sister.

"I can't! I'm stuck." Kaede cried. She was stuck to the ground by a spell of some sort.

Kagome stood in front of her sister, blocking the youkais' view of her and raised her bow as she felt the powerful youki coming out of the forest.

The youkai ran out of the forest and jumped into the sky. Kaogme shot her arrow up at the youkai. The arrow stabbed into the youkai's throat. It shot an electrical beam out in hit Kagome, knocking her away from her sister and into one of the far walls. "Damn." She growled as she slid down the wall and hit the ground.

The youkai aimed it's beak at the shaking, frozen, Kaede. It jammed into her eye making Kaede scream in pain and helplessness. Kagome jumped at it and kicked it off of her. Kaede fell to her knees, clutching her eye, blood seeping through her small fingers.

Kagome stabbed the youkai through the heart with her arrow and quickly ran to her sisters' side. "Please stay still, Kaede. I want to see your eye." Kaogme said as she knelt next to her.

Kaede shakily removed her hand to reveal her bloody eye.

"You poor thing. Come here. I'll fix it up for you, although you may never be able to use that eye again." Kagome said pulling her sister into a tight hug. She picked her up and carried her to the medical hut. There they patched up her eye and let her rest.

*End Flashback*

Kagome sighed and picked up her bow and arrows. She tied her hair with a ribbon and looked at Sango. "When father said something was going to happen to the youngest in the family I never thought it would be Kaede loosing an eye."

"Like a prophecy?" Sango asked as she pulled her hair into a ponytail.

"Yes. Father thought that us having the jewel was sort of like a curse." She said sadly, "We could never have normal lives as he always wished us. Mother never had a normal life, always bombarded by youkai and humans alike. They were all after Kikyo and I. One unparticular went to the extent of killing my mother for her power. Before she died she gave her power to Kikyo to pass down for years to come. When Kikyo was killed she passed it down to me. I'm sorry to say that I also, in my years, had run in-s with other mikos and youkai's and samurai who have wanted my growing power even before Kikyo passed it down to me." Kagome said as she slid open the shoji and stepped out. "I need to go for a walk so can you tell Kaede again what she needs to do?" Kagome asked.

"Alright." Sango said as she waved to her friend.

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Kagome walked out into the field with a serious expression on her face. She stepped out to the field and frowned. "Whoever you are, come out now and show yourself." She said to the air.

"Hehe. Your senses are very sharp miko-sama." A woman's voice said from the trees.

"Who are you?" Kagome asked as she closed her eyes.

What's going on? Inuyasha thought as he watched from a tree behind the miko.

"I am a kuromiko, Jubenuko. I want your power." The miko said as she walked out the forest. She had long black hair and a very pale face. She was wearing a black hakama and a red haori and black robes. Her eyes were a dark bluish color and she had a black shikigami around her neck. It hissed and slithered down her arm, across the grass and at the back of the miko.

Kagome lifted her bow and blocked the shikigami. It disintegrated and a shard fell from the pieces.

"H_how did you block it?" Jubenuko stepped back and looked at the miko.

Kagome turned around and glared at the kuromiko. "What business do you have to attack me?" she asked.

"I already told you! I want your power!" the kuromiko yelled.

"For what? Your already strong." Kagome said as her eyes softened.

"I want eternal beauty and to have it I need your immense spiritual power." The miko said.

Kagome laughed a chilling laugh. "For eternal youth and beauty? That's the most idiotic use of power I have ever heard of a person wanting to do." Kagome laughed and turned to walk into the forest.

"Wait!" the miko yelled. She shot another shikigami at the miko.

Kagome pulled an arrow out of its quiver and quickly turned around. She put the arrow to her bow and shot it at the miko. The arrow pierced through her shikigami and went further, its blue aura letting her follow its trace. It hit the miko square in the forehead. She screamed and covered her face.

"Don't try me." Kagome growled.

The miko walked back down the hill with another shikigami following her, wailing as she walked away.

"You can come our Inuyasha." She said softly.

Inuyasha jumped down from his perch and walked over to her. "Who was that?" he asked as he sat down Indian style at her feet,

She knelt down and picked up the shard. She looked at it and smiled. "She was a kuromiko. She was using a shard to become stronger. Are you coming with me and Sango to find to jewel shards?" she asked him

He blinked a little and leaned back. "Alright, I need an adventure." He said finally, after a few minutes.

"Thanks. We need to find all the shards so I can purify them and return them back to the original form of the Shikon no Tama." She said. She sat down and put the shard in her pocket. Her armor creaked as she bent her upper body but she paid it no mind.

Inuyasha cast a sidelong look at her to look at her beautiful face. She had her eyes closed and a very relaxed look on her face. When he looked closer he saw a tear slowly roll down her face. "Why are you crying?" he asked gruffly.

"Do you remember when we first met?" she asked. She opened her eyes and her tears came more slowly now.

He turned his body so he sat directly across from her. "Yeah, so what?"

"There was something about you that made me not want to hurt you. I hated it at first but as I learned that you were unwanted as I am in way my heart softened toward you." She explained. She turned her head to look at the horizon. She smiled and ripped a clump of grass out of the ground and pulled a worm out of the earth. She let it squirm in her palm and absentmindedly pet it.

"I told you already, I don't want… sympathy… from… humans." He slowed his voice as he watched her look at him. He shook his head and continued. "I wish to use the jewel to become a full youkai. That's why I'm gonna help you." He said looking away from her and the worm.

Kagome squirmed to get comfortable and put the worm back on the ground. "I don't really want you to change. I like you the way you are." She said. She looked at him with a serious expression as the wind pulled at her tied hair. Her straight backs overlapped but she didn't move.

Inuyasha snorted but still looked at her. The look in her eyes seemed like she would bite him if he answered wrong. He flinched and looked away. He put his hands in front of him and thought about it.

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"OTO-SAN!" Shippo cried as he watched the youkai shoot a beam out of his mouth. It hit the kitsune god and instantly killed him.

"Father, you saved me." Shippo looked up at the ugly youkai.

"The kitsune god is dead and now I can wear his beautiful fur to warm me." The youkai laughed as he wrapped the kitsune god around his waist. 

"NO! OTO-SAN!" he cried. He stumbled backward and ran away in the opposite direction of the laughing youkai.

Shippo ran, his pony tailed red hair whipping him in the face. He felt his tears running behind his in the wind. He ran down a grassy field and didn't stop when he passed his den. He ran into the dark forest and in a matter of minutes was out again. He opened his red and puffy eyes as he spotted a village. He happily ran down the hill and slid down the muddy trenches as he hit the bottom. He looked around until he spotted a person walking down the dry side of the hill. He smiled and ran over to the human.

Kagome stopped when she sensed a youkai. She quickly put her hand to her bow and pulled and arrow out. She clumsily slid her foot and slipped on the wet grass.

She shrieked and looked up at a small face and red hair and puffy red eyes.

"Hello, are you a youkai?" she asked curiously and she slowly sat up. She winced as she felt the pain in her back.

"Yeah! My name's Shippo, what's yours?" the little boy asked.

"I'm Kagome. I am the miko from that village down there." She said calmly as she pointed at the small little village with an occasional puff of smoke.

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Please review! I know I should have a different chapter title but I couldn't think of anything and I kind of got caught up in Kagome and Inuyasha's scene.

Please, stay tuned for the next chapter:

*The new Companion on the Journey*

Preview:

"Nice to meet you Shippo. So you're going to accompany us?" Sango asked.

"Yes." Shippo shyly replied.

"We gotta kill these so called 'Thunder Beasts' for Shippo. His father, the kitsune god, was killed by them." Kagome said as she ruffled the kitsunes' hair as he sat in her arms.