Summary: A group of youkais watch as a young girl struggles with becoming a kitsune youkai and being betrayed. The youkais watch and help lead the girl-turned-kitsune youkai along in finding hope, joining another group, and maybe finding love again.

Disclaimer: Really people, if I owned the story, why would I be making a FAN fiction? ¬.¬;; Really if I owned it I'd be rich and have cool things.

'thinking' "talking" +action sounds+

F.Y.I: In this Chapter, the Shippo we're talking about is the young one, not the older one with the 6 youkais.

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"Kagome? Can I please talk to you?" Shippo asked, tugging on Kagome's sock. He really wanted to ask her if she would adopt him by youkai law. Sure there was a big side effect to adopting him under youkai law, but it would help Kagome, not hurt her.

"Just a minute Shippo." Kagome said, stirring the pot of ramen.

"Now?"

"Not yet."

"How about now?"

"In a minute..."

"But it's really-OW!" Shippo yelped, as Inuyasha pulled him but into the air by his tail, to make Shippo's face level with his.

"Leave Kagome alone while she's making my ramen!" He snarled at the kitsune pup.

"Inuyasha SIT!"

+Bam+

"OW! What was that for bitch!?" Inuyasha growled into the dirt.

"Leave Shippo alone, he just wants to talk to me! It's probably important!" Kagome huffed, putting her hands on her hips. She looked at the ramen and then at Shippo, and then smiled, "Sango will you stir the ramen and serve the ramen while I talk to Shippo?" She asked. "Sure Kagome." Sango answered, and got up and started to work stirring.

"Okay Shippo, now what do you want to talk about?" Kagome asked, bending down to be level with him. "Not here, it's private." Shippo said, taking her hand and started taking her off into the forest.

"Humph!" Inuyasha said, finally able to pull himself out of the crater made by the sit. "What's so important that he could only talk to Kagome and not all of us?" Inuyasha asked to no one in particular. Miroku just shrugged and Sango ignored him and continued stirring.

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Once Shippo had gotten Kagome and himself out of Inuyasha's hearing range, he sat down under a tree and leaned against the trunk. Kagome followed his action, sitting beside him, and giggling when he made a serious though face.

"Kagome...you know that...ever since my parents were killed by the Thunder Brothers.I've looked at you as my okasan..." Shippo started, "And I really want you to be my okasan now, so...would you please adopt me under youkai law?" He asked pleading, looking up at Kagome with big watery eyes.

"Oh Shippo I'd love too! But I don't know how to, and I don't know if it will work since I'm a ningen." Kagome said, looking down at Shippo sadly.

Shippo just smiled happily, "Don't worry Kagome it doesn't matter that you're ningen! And I know how to perform an adoption ceremony for youkai law! My otousan was once part of one and he taught me how to do it. All you need to do is have a bowl of purified water, a clean knife, and two witnesses, youkai or ningen. We cut a small slit in our hands, just enough for it to bleed and then put our hands together over the bowl of pure water. Then all you have to say is '"I Kagome accept Shippo as my son under law of the youkai."' And then I say '"I Shippo accept Kagome as my okasan under the law of the youkai."' And we have to let our blood mix in our hands and a drop of the blood fall into the bowl. When the water turns all red, I'm officially your adopted son."

"Okay Shippo!" Kagome said smiling and standing up. "Lets have Miroku and Sango be our witnesses, I'm sure Sango will also have a clean knife, and I can purify the water and use the bowl I got from Keade for mixing herbs in!"

"Great! Then we can do it tonight!" Shippo squealed in happiness, "I'll get Sango and Miroku! You wait here!" Shippo said bounding off back to camp.

Kagome stayed under the tree waiting for Shippo to come back when she saw some lights overhead. "Souls...Kikyo is nearby..." She said sadly to herself. Kagome didn't hate Kikyo, she just felt sorry for Kikyo, and Kagome also didn't like the idea of Kikyo taking Inuyasha to Hell. Kagome sighed softly, "Do I care because he's my friend or because I still may love Inuyasha?" She asked the heavens as she looked up at them, watching the souls overhead being taken by the soul stealers to Kikyo. She would deal with Kikyo later, she was going to adopt Shippo and have at least a son she knew would always love her.

Shippo galloped back with Sango, Miroku, and Kirara in tow. He had told them what was happening and asked them all to be witnesses, which they gladly agreed to. Sango carried the bowl and a bottle of water Kagome had brought from her time.

Kagome stood up and smiled at them, guessing Inuyasha hadn't come because he had seen the soul stealers and was with Kikyo. She took the bowl and bottle of water that Sango handed to her and put them both on the ground. She opened the bottle and poured the water in.

Then focusing her powers to her hand, she dipped her pink glowing hand into the water. The water turned crystal clear, now only being hydrogen and oxygen molecules put together in the bowl. She didn't faint since it didn't take much of her energy. She stood up and asked Sango for the knife, which Sango handed to her.

Sucking in a breath, Kagome made a slit in her hand, and then handed it to Shippo. Shippo gulped and then made a slit in his hand, whimpered, but toughened up and then looked at Kagome ready. Both stood on either side of the bowl, and connected hands over the bowl. They held hands till a small droplet of blood dripped from in between their joined hands, and in slow motion almost, dropped into the bowl.

"I, Kagome, accept Shippo as my son."

"I, Shippo, accept Kagome as my okasan."

"Don't wipe off your hand, otherwise it will nullify the effect." Shippo stated, looking at the water as the blood droplet mixed, starting to turn the water red. Kagome looked at the mixture of Shippo and her blood in her hand. She watched as her blood glowed slightly pink, but then stopped, accepting the kitsune pup's blood.

"It's all red!" Shippo cried out and started to dance around, happy.

Just when Shippo said that, the blood in her hand sucked back into her slit, Shippo's and hers both. Then the slit healed over, and was gone, like it had never been there in the first place.

"Shippo...will there be any side effects to this?" Kagome asked, looking down at her beaming now adopted son.

"A teeny tiny one, but it won't hurt and it will probably help you." Shippo said, still smiling, he then took her hand again. "C'mon, lets go back to camp. We have to let the water go back into a river for everything to be complete."

"Alright if you say so." Kagome said picking up the bowl of water, being careful not to spill a drop on the way back, with Miroku, Sango, and Kirara in tow.

When they got back to camp, after releasing the water in the river nearby of course, Inuyasha came up to them in a great mood. "Hey guess what! Kikyo is joining us!" He said, practically beaming. Behind him leaning next to a tree was Kikyo herself, cold faced as ever.

Kagome almost dropped the bowl. "WHAT!?" Shrieked Sango. Miroku stared at Inuyasha like he had just killed someone very close to him. Shippo gave him a dirty look as Kagome stared dumbly at him. "I said she's joining, and she's joining, if you don't like it tough!" Inuyasha snapped storming off to Kikyo, picking her up and jumping into a tree.

The rest of the gang settled down for the night, angry with Inuyasha. Kagome felt numb, Inuyasha knew Kikyo only wanted to kill her to get the rest of the younger miko's soul. What had changed from a happy night into a terrible one now left Kagome hurting inside. Shippo curled up next to Kagome in her sleeping bag, "Don't worry Kagome...everything will be alright in the morning..." Shippo said comfortingly to his new mother.

Kagome ruffled his hair and smiled at him, and tried to sleep. It took awhile, but she finally fell asleep...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Youkai: Demon

Ningen: Human

Kitsune: Fox

Otousan: Father

Okasan: Mother