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: Okay most definitely there will be young Shippo and older Shippo in this chapter, To help, under the scene change divider I'll put a () (O) is for older Shippo and (Y) is for young Shippo. Got it? Good.

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The group of 6 youkais watched in Kanna's mirror as Kagome and her young kitsune pup walked along the road in the Eastern Lands.

"She'll be coming to a fork in the road soon enough, someone better hurry and get down there. She needs to have Raijin too." Kitaru said, looking up from the huddle of youkais around Kanna and the mirror. "Shippo, dearest brother, why don't you do the honors?" Kitaru asked, smiling sweetly.

"Huh? Why me?" Shippo asked looking at Kitaru.

"Because you can lie better." Kitaru said smiling, her fangs showing.

"Hey! What's that suppose to mean?!" Shippo growled, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Enough fighting you two, Shippo just go. Make yourself look like a fortune telling woman and give her a fortune and send her on the right path, and give her Raijin, now go!" Kagura ordered, exasperated with both of their fighting.

The small neko youkai, named Raijin, looked up at Shippo. Shippo sighed and looked down at the small gray and black Raijin, and then picked him up. "Fine...I'll be back, watch me in the mirror." He said before taking off at youkai speed.

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Just as the 6 youkais had seen, Kagome saw a fork in the road. Walking up to it she thought which way she should go when she saw the figure wrapped up in a brown cloak. It looked like a fortune-teller, sitting down right in the split of the fork. The cloak hid the woman's eyes under darkness, so all you could see was the bottom of the nose, the mouth, and chin. In her hands was a ball filled with blue and white liquid or smoke that swirled and curled around one another but never mixed.

"Ahhh a child come to have her fortune told by Boku-Baaba?" The fortune- teller (older Shippo disguised) asked Kagome as she walked up.

"Umm...well I wasn't planning to-"

"Sit! Sit! Come listen to your fortune! Will make you ready for the future." Boku-Baaba insisted.

Kagome sat down, giggling inwardly thinking of sitting Inuyasha. "Oh okay.what's my fortune?" Kagome asked. The young Shippo popped out from behind Kagome's red hair to hear this.

"Oooooohhhh ahhhhhhh! Ooooooooo! Child, my dear Child...I see in my crystal ball that you will encounter great trial! It says that you shall head to the East by going right at this fork, to save another of your new kind. The one you save will be grateful and take you back to his home to give you a grand gift. Under his ward, you will be given another gift, which will lead you to the West.In the west, your heart will mend and your troubles will seem to end.but yet there will be great danger brewing on the horizon before you will finally be able to rest the Shikon-no-Tama" Boku- Baaba said, pointing the 2/4's of the Shikon-no-Tama around Kagome's neck, hidden under her dress.

Kagome gasped and clutched the Tama beneath her dress. "How-how did you know?" Kagome stuttered.

"Ahhh Child...this Boku-Baaba knows much...you will need help on your journey...here...I give you this present." Boku-Baaba reached into her sleeve and revealed a bundle of gray fur and plopped it in front of Kagome, Kagome looked down at the bundle of fur as it unfolded into the gray Raijin. "His name is Raijin...he is much like your friend's Kirara, only gray instead of cream, has an extra tail, and is lightning not fire. Treat him well...he will serve you greatly." When Kagome looked up again, the old woman was gone!

Kagome sniffed around, but there seemed to be no trace of the woman other than the place where she had previously been sitting. Now slightly creeped out, Kagome picked up the gray neko youkai and hurried down the right side of the fork, as the fortune-teller had told her to do.

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Youkai: Demon

Neko: Cat

Kitsune: Fox

Kuma: Bear