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: +coughs+ Ummm hi...^^;; +gets chased by star crazed fans+ EEPP!! I'm sorry!!! I've had WBS! Writer's Block Syndrome! I promise I'll get more chapters done!! ;O; No hurt Kitsune-sama!
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Sleep refused to come to her; Kagome tossed and turned in her fretful sleep, almost waking the newborn Kitaru in her arms. She couldn't go with Sesshomaru to the Western Lands.....she had to collect the jewel shards.....they were her responsibility, it was her fault it was here and her fault it was shattered and causing so much trouble. She couldn't go, she had to finish the mission.
She would.
She would have to run away to do so though.
She knew Shippo would be in good care with her parents, and she knew she didn't have to worry about Rin at all.....but what about Kitaru? She'd still need her.....She'd just have to take Kitaru with her. She would have to give up time hopping, because they could catch her again, she would just have to go it out alone.....maybe she'd meet other people and make another group.....heh, yeah.....But she had to go alone, only her and Kitaru.
Getting up, despite aching muscles, she changed to look like a wandering warrior, putting on black hamaka, white inner hoari, and dark green outer hoari and dark green tabi socks and sandals and tied her hair up in a high ponytail with a dark green ribbon. She then quietly picked up a few more clothes articles and made a bundle. She picked up the sleeping Kitaru and sneaked down into the kitchen, finding some left over food and food for tomorrow's meals, and placed them in the bundle. She then sneaked to the weaponry room, and looked through the many weapons her father owned. She came close to picking a bow and arrows, before something called her to pick up a katana. It was sheathed in black leather, and it's hilt was made of beautiful leathers as well, but was small, as if made for a woman's hand. Not in the place to question her instincts, she tied the sheath to her hip, and headed out to the gardens.
Kitaru had been silent the whole time, thankfully for Kagome, as she stopped in front of the rosebushes that stood inches away from the wall. She could easily jump that, it was just a defense for youkais coming in and going straight down over the wall. Easily she jumped to the top of the wall, and grabbed it with her hand. She almost missed it, since it was a high wall, but she climbed to the top, all holding the baby and bundle on her back. She would move Kitaru to be pouched in a cradle swing across her chest once she got over the wall. Quickly she jumped over and landed silently on the other side of the wall, in soft grass. As said, she moved Kitaru's pouch, to be like a sling around her chest, pouched, where Kitaru laid safe inside, and on her chest, and where she could easily pull her hands up to protect the newborn if she needed too. She then situated the pack-bundle on her back, and using youkai speed, hurried towards the north, just anywhere she could she knew she wouldn't be found as quickly.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ((Meanwhile with the older versions of the kids and Kagura and Kanna)) Kitaru, Shippo, and Rin smiled all in unison as they looked on in Kanna's mirror.
"I think it's about time we go looking for her and let her join our group for awhile." Kitaru said smiling. Shippo and Rin agreed, and Kagura stopped them.
"Do you think that Kanna and I may need to change our looks?" She asked.
"No sister.....for remember Kagome-chan told us that she met us as we were and listened to our explanation.....and understood." Kanna said softly in her almost dead voice.
"You are right, I was forgetful of Kagome-chan's kindness and forgiving nature." Kagura said with a small smile.
"Hey isn't this the time she'll be meeting Aiba?" Rin asked smiling.
"Hey Yeah! Alright our eight-legged shunba youkai buddy gets to be with us too! Alright!" Kitaru exclaimed, and started to do a very futuristic victory dance, consisting of mambo, jumps, and circling and going "Yeah- yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah! Yeah-yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah!" Which got Rin into fits of giggles and Shippo quirking an eyebrow at her. Kitaru just stuck her tongue out.
"Be-quiet-icicle-up-my-ass-because-I-was-trained-to-be-that-way-and-are- naturally-annoying! This Kitaru may have had the same training as you, but me and Rin don't act exactly like Daddy whenever we can.....we weren't disciplinary problems like you were so we weren't treated as meanly." The kitsune/inu mixed youkai cackled and went on with her dance as Rin joined in, their tails swinging as they picked up their kimonos and can-caned the best the could in kimonos still going "Yeah-yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah!" Looking like insane youkais. Kagura couldn't help but start giggling, and despite her more lady-like nature, she joined in the silly antics, as Kanna and Shippo just shook their heads.
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Kagome was using her illusion spell to make herself and Kitaru look like ningens, as she passed through villages. But as soon as she left a village, she would change themselves back to normal again. Many would ask her why she dressed like a wandering swordsman, and she would just answer she was raised like one. When they asked about the baby, she would tell them it was by her late husband. She would never look them straight in the face when she lied, otherwise they would know she was.
She was resting again, bathing herself and Kitaru, who was now about a month old, but looked about a year old. As said before, until they reach their puberty years, youkai children grew fast. She was holding Kitaru to her chest, as Kitaru splashed and giggled, little bushy white kitsune tail swishing back and forth under the water. She would always look up at her mother with large happy green eyes, with flecks of gold in them, and smile showing small fangs. Her hair was as silvery as her father's only with two small crimson streaks in the bangs, and a single crimson stripe on each cheek. One of them split into two as it went down her wrist and twisted around her wrist. She held a curiosity like a inu puppy, but was clever and sly as a kitsune kit.
She would like to trace her mother's stripes, including the one on her right thigh. It emitted from the center of the scar where the Shikon-no- Tama had come from, and twisted around her thigh. It was as crimson as her other two stripes on her cheeks. Kagome smiled as Kitaru traced Kagome's star, and traced Kitaru's blue crescent moon and red star between the points. Both started giggling as Kagome tickled Kitaru, when Kagome heard a loud snort and strangled neighing.
Kagome turned her head around and heard another neigh. It sounded like a stressed shunba's neigh. Gingerly she pulled herself and Kitaru out of the water and got dressed quickly, dressing Kitaru in the small kimono she had bought in a village. Quietly, they both sneaked out of the bushes, to see a large white Percheron shunba. But this was a strange shunba, it had a blue gem outlined on it's forehead, and had four pairs of legs! It was pure white, with sky-blue eyes, like the gem. It reared, and kicked it's four front legs and then kicked bucked it's 4 back legs. It was trapped to a tree, a strange sticky wire stuck around his throat. Kagome decided this was a shunba youkai, and told Kitaru to stay put. Gently she walked towards the large draft-sized shunba. It snorted at Kagome stamping it's right first front hoof. She softly cooed to the horse, calming it, and gently took the barbed wire away from the animal's throat, and cut it, even though she accidentally hurt herself. When free it just looked at Kagome, as if waiting for her. Kagome blinked, "Go on.....you're free."
"No, I am your servant.....since you freed me, it's the code of the shunba youkai to be ally and servant to those who free us." The large shunba said.
Kagome's eyes widened, she hadn't expected it to talk. "But, you don't have to be my servant!" She cried, not liking to make someone work for her.
"You are now my mistress Kagome-sama." He said.
Kagome sighed, "Alright.....but just Kagome okay.....you can read minds I guess.....What's your name?"
"Aiba."
"Alright Aiba, umm.....can you run faster than most youkais?"
"Yes Kagome, shunba youkais are one of the most fastest kinds of youkais exsiting."
"Can you lean down some so I can get on you? You're a lot taller than me or my Kitaru."
Aiba did as she said, going to his knees. Kagome quickly put Kitaru on then herself. Aiba then stood up.
"Where do you wish to go Kagome?"
"Ummm.....we were heading north.....so just north I guess....."
"Ahhh.....I love it when there are no very determine place or way to go." And with that, they were off in almost incredible speeds even for youkai.
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: +coughs+ Ummm hi...^^;; +gets chased by star crazed fans+ EEPP!! I'm sorry!!! I've had WBS! Writer's Block Syndrome! I promise I'll get more chapters done!! ;O; No hurt Kitsune-sama!
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Sleep refused to come to her; Kagome tossed and turned in her fretful sleep, almost waking the newborn Kitaru in her arms. She couldn't go with Sesshomaru to the Western Lands.....she had to collect the jewel shards.....they were her responsibility, it was her fault it was here and her fault it was shattered and causing so much trouble. She couldn't go, she had to finish the mission.
She would.
She would have to run away to do so though.
She knew Shippo would be in good care with her parents, and she knew she didn't have to worry about Rin at all.....but what about Kitaru? She'd still need her.....She'd just have to take Kitaru with her. She would have to give up time hopping, because they could catch her again, she would just have to go it out alone.....maybe she'd meet other people and make another group.....heh, yeah.....But she had to go alone, only her and Kitaru.
Getting up, despite aching muscles, she changed to look like a wandering warrior, putting on black hamaka, white inner hoari, and dark green outer hoari and dark green tabi socks and sandals and tied her hair up in a high ponytail with a dark green ribbon. She then quietly picked up a few more clothes articles and made a bundle. She picked up the sleeping Kitaru and sneaked down into the kitchen, finding some left over food and food for tomorrow's meals, and placed them in the bundle. She then sneaked to the weaponry room, and looked through the many weapons her father owned. She came close to picking a bow and arrows, before something called her to pick up a katana. It was sheathed in black leather, and it's hilt was made of beautiful leathers as well, but was small, as if made for a woman's hand. Not in the place to question her instincts, she tied the sheath to her hip, and headed out to the gardens.
Kitaru had been silent the whole time, thankfully for Kagome, as she stopped in front of the rosebushes that stood inches away from the wall. She could easily jump that, it was just a defense for youkais coming in and going straight down over the wall. Easily she jumped to the top of the wall, and grabbed it with her hand. She almost missed it, since it was a high wall, but she climbed to the top, all holding the baby and bundle on her back. She would move Kitaru to be pouched in a cradle swing across her chest once she got over the wall. Quickly she jumped over and landed silently on the other side of the wall, in soft grass. As said, she moved Kitaru's pouch, to be like a sling around her chest, pouched, where Kitaru laid safe inside, and on her chest, and where she could easily pull her hands up to protect the newborn if she needed too. She then situated the pack-bundle on her back, and using youkai speed, hurried towards the north, just anywhere she could she knew she wouldn't be found as quickly.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ((Meanwhile with the older versions of the kids and Kagura and Kanna)) Kitaru, Shippo, and Rin smiled all in unison as they looked on in Kanna's mirror.
"I think it's about time we go looking for her and let her join our group for awhile." Kitaru said smiling. Shippo and Rin agreed, and Kagura stopped them.
"Do you think that Kanna and I may need to change our looks?" She asked.
"No sister.....for remember Kagome-chan told us that she met us as we were and listened to our explanation.....and understood." Kanna said softly in her almost dead voice.
"You are right, I was forgetful of Kagome-chan's kindness and forgiving nature." Kagura said with a small smile.
"Hey isn't this the time she'll be meeting Aiba?" Rin asked smiling.
"Hey Yeah! Alright our eight-legged shunba youkai buddy gets to be with us too! Alright!" Kitaru exclaimed, and started to do a very futuristic victory dance, consisting of mambo, jumps, and circling and going "Yeah- yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah! Yeah-yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah!" Which got Rin into fits of giggles and Shippo quirking an eyebrow at her. Kitaru just stuck her tongue out.
"Be-quiet-icicle-up-my-ass-because-I-was-trained-to-be-that-way-and-are- naturally-annoying! This Kitaru may have had the same training as you, but me and Rin don't act exactly like Daddy whenever we can.....we weren't disciplinary problems like you were so we weren't treated as meanly." The kitsune/inu mixed youkai cackled and went on with her dance as Rin joined in, their tails swinging as they picked up their kimonos and can-caned the best the could in kimonos still going "Yeah-yeah-yeh-yeh-yah-yah!" Looking like insane youkais. Kagura couldn't help but start giggling, and despite her more lady-like nature, she joined in the silly antics, as Kanna and Shippo just shook their heads.
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Kagome was using her illusion spell to make herself and Kitaru look like ningens, as she passed through villages. But as soon as she left a village, she would change themselves back to normal again. Many would ask her why she dressed like a wandering swordsman, and she would just answer she was raised like one. When they asked about the baby, she would tell them it was by her late husband. She would never look them straight in the face when she lied, otherwise they would know she was.
She was resting again, bathing herself and Kitaru, who was now about a month old, but looked about a year old. As said before, until they reach their puberty years, youkai children grew fast. She was holding Kitaru to her chest, as Kitaru splashed and giggled, little bushy white kitsune tail swishing back and forth under the water. She would always look up at her mother with large happy green eyes, with flecks of gold in them, and smile showing small fangs. Her hair was as silvery as her father's only with two small crimson streaks in the bangs, and a single crimson stripe on each cheek. One of them split into two as it went down her wrist and twisted around her wrist. She held a curiosity like a inu puppy, but was clever and sly as a kitsune kit.
She would like to trace her mother's stripes, including the one on her right thigh. It emitted from the center of the scar where the Shikon-no- Tama had come from, and twisted around her thigh. It was as crimson as her other two stripes on her cheeks. Kagome smiled as Kitaru traced Kagome's star, and traced Kitaru's blue crescent moon and red star between the points. Both started giggling as Kagome tickled Kitaru, when Kagome heard a loud snort and strangled neighing.
Kagome turned her head around and heard another neigh. It sounded like a stressed shunba's neigh. Gingerly she pulled herself and Kitaru out of the water and got dressed quickly, dressing Kitaru in the small kimono she had bought in a village. Quietly, they both sneaked out of the bushes, to see a large white Percheron shunba. But this was a strange shunba, it had a blue gem outlined on it's forehead, and had four pairs of legs! It was pure white, with sky-blue eyes, like the gem. It reared, and kicked it's four front legs and then kicked bucked it's 4 back legs. It was trapped to a tree, a strange sticky wire stuck around his throat. Kagome decided this was a shunba youkai, and told Kitaru to stay put. Gently she walked towards the large draft-sized shunba. It snorted at Kagome stamping it's right first front hoof. She softly cooed to the horse, calming it, and gently took the barbed wire away from the animal's throat, and cut it, even though she accidentally hurt herself. When free it just looked at Kagome, as if waiting for her. Kagome blinked, "Go on.....you're free."
"No, I am your servant.....since you freed me, it's the code of the shunba youkai to be ally and servant to those who free us." The large shunba said.
Kagome's eyes widened, she hadn't expected it to talk. "But, you don't have to be my servant!" She cried, not liking to make someone work for her.
"You are now my mistress Kagome-sama." He said.
Kagome sighed, "Alright.....but just Kagome okay.....you can read minds I guess.....What's your name?"
"Aiba."
"Alright Aiba, umm.....can you run faster than most youkais?"
"Yes Kagome, shunba youkais are one of the most fastest kinds of youkais exsiting."
"Can you lean down some so I can get on you? You're a lot taller than me or my Kitaru."
Aiba did as she said, going to his knees. Kagome quickly put Kitaru on then herself. Aiba then stood up.
"Where do you wish to go Kagome?"
"Ummm.....we were heading north.....so just north I guess....."
"Ahhh.....I love it when there are no very determine place or way to go." And with that, they were off in almost incredible speeds even for youkai.