Thanks to my reviewer;
Star's dream (I haven't seen the floor of my room since '93. I've even forgotten the color of my carpet!)
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Kagome- So, why was Shippo turned into a doll?
DV- because that hat he was playing with was enchanted. Turned people into dolls and dolls into people. I stole it from this freak that used it to turn Barbie dolls into his personal servants.
Kagome- Ew
DV- Yeah. He never kept them very long, though. They were too stupid to understand what he said and all the cared about was sex.
Miroku- really? Mind if I borrow this hat?
Sango- HENTAI!!!!!!!!! *Hirakotsu does what it does best. Knocking out perverted monks*
Everyone- *sweat drop*
DV- So anyways, just put the hat back on Shippo and he'll be back to normal.
Kagome- Okay DV- Here it is, folks, CHAPTER EIGHT! Hope you love it! And I still don't own YuYu Hakusho or InuYasha *bursts into tears* I don't own Barbie either. But Ganko, Reikoku, Yakuso, Yari, and Hogasha DO belong to me and YOU CAN"T HAVE THEM!!!!!!!!! Well, at least not without asking.
\...\ Youko\Kurama talk -...- beast talk *...* telepathy '...' thoughts
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I jumped out of the well as soon as the lights cleared. The ningen took longer getting out, having to climb up the vines growing down the side of the well. I saw the rest of the group standing around waiting. A quick glance around told me we were in a clearing in the middle of a forest. The houshi came through a few minutes later, carrying the fire neko.
"At least you, Kirara, didn't abandon me." He sighed. The cat mewed which made the kitsune miko stiffen for some reason. The young shadow kitsune grinned.
\\Interesting...\\
"COOL!" he exclaimed, "Oh man, sis. Did you hear that, too?" the ningen looked at them curiously.
"Hear what?"
"Either the stress of today is finally taking effect," The vixen croaked, "Or I just heard Kirara talk," The kitsune chuckled.
"Get used to it," He said, bemused, "Beast tongue is quite common among shadow kitsunes. Meaning you'll be hearing a lot from animals." She groaned, then sighed in a defeated sort of way and picked up her enormous bag, which I still couldn't see her carrying around without demon strength, and headed down a well-beaten path.
Ten minuets later, we were sitting inside an old hut while an elderly miko listened to the vixen's story. Most of us, anyway. The two young kitsunes were outside playing with the fire neko and the hanyou was out in the forest somewhere. Everyone else was in the hut.
"I see..." The old miko said when the vixen finished. "ye have been through much in a very short time. Yet there is still so much more ye must do."
"What do you mean?" the vixen said, startled.
"The powers of a miko and the powers of a youkai were never really meant to mix. On the rare occasions they do, both powers must be fully mastered, or else ye face the risk of harming yourself more than your enemies."
"In other words, I have to train my kitsune powers or else they'll have the same reaction as miko powers that were forced to awaken?"
"Yes,"
"Figures. Speaking of which, do you think you can train Keiko? Her miko powers were forced to awaken and at her strength..."
"Nay, child. I'm too old. I barely had the strength to train ye. Ye will have to train the new miko yourself."
"Oh, no!" the girl in question said, "You have enough to worry about as it is. Don't worry about me. You should concentrate on your training, not mine," the vixen frowned.
"That's really sweet, Keiko, but absolutely out of the question. If your put in a situation were your miko powers react, it could kill you. Considering that your boyfriend's on every youkai's most wanted dead list, it very probable that such a situation will occur." The new miko, slightly taken aback, fell silent. "Besides, I don't even know how I'm going to get my training done. It's not like I can go back to my time and ask Ganko and Reikoku to train me." A thoughtful look past the schoolgirl's face.
"Um, excuse me, Lady Kaede?" the girl said timidly.
"Yes, child?" the elderly woman said.
"Does Kagome HAVE to be trained by a shadow kitsune?"
"No, not really. Any trained kitsune would do, considering all their magics are similar despite breed." My eyes widened with understanding, then landed on the red haired kitsune sitting in the far corner.
*You realize were this conversations going, don't you?* I asked him.
*Yes.*
\\We're not idiots,\\ that was debatable.
*So, are you going to train her?*
*Why not? It will certainly be interesting. And it will give me a close look at shadow kitsunes.*
\\Not to mention the things we can teach her to make it interesting.\\
I smirked slightly at the suggestion in Youko's last comment, Which Kurama chose to ignore. He was right about the shadow kitsune thing, though. It would be interesting if he could find some sort of weakness in the mysterious breed, considering none had yet to be found. They and silver kitsunes were both considered the perfect races.
"In that case," the kitsune said out loud, "I will be happy to take up Kagome's training. If you don't mind, of coarse," he directed this last part at the vixen, added a little half smile as well.
"Of coarse not!" the vixen said with a half smile of her own, "I'm not in any real position to complain."
"Then it's settled." Botan looked from Kagome to Kurama and back again then smiled.
'Those two would make SUCH a cute couple!' she thought, 'But they'll probably need a few nudges in the right direction. I bet I can talk Sango, Keiko and Yukina into helping me make that happen.' I wondered how the kitsunes were going to avoid lady death's attempts to create something of attraction between them. Not to mention Youko's insistence.
I looked out at the stars through the branches of my tree. They seemed so much brighter than they were in the future. Tomorrow morning, we were going to head out after some youkai that was rumored to have shards of the sacred jewel the vixen protected. Bemused, I thought of how we might look. A Jaganshi, a koorime, a miko, a kitsune in a human body and two ningens from the future, traveling with a miko youkai, a young shadow kitsune, a young red kitsune, an inu-hanyou, a monk, a demon slayer, and a fire neko from the past. That made twelve people and a cat.
I noticed movement at the flap of the hut, and watched as the ningen stepped outside, the fire neko in her arms. She looked around, then headed into the forest. Curious, I followed her, masking my energy and making no noise.
She traveled to a clearing, far enough into the forest so she wouldn't disturb the humans, yet near enough so she could hear of the dangers should anything attack. The cat leaped out of her arms, turning into a large, dangerous version of its smaller, more convenient form.
"Ready, Kirara?" the ningen whispered. The cat growled its response. The two started sparring. Right there in the middle of the night. I realized she was trying to accustom herself with fighting in the dark. Attempting to eliminate a human handicap. I was impressed at her commitment to becoming stronger, no matter what.
Hours later, the girl and cat headed back to the hut. I watched her crawl under her blanket through the window. Why was she so festinating to me? I wondered as I slipped in to a sort of conscious sleep.
The young kitsunes were laughing as they played outside the hut the next day. The vixen was trying to prepare for the long trip ahead and keep an eye on the two at the same time, fretting over leaving anything behind that might be useful in Keiko or her own training, worrying if she'd have enough food and medical supplies, scolding the pups for being too loud or reckless... she almost reminded me of a sixteen year old mother. After rechecking her supplies three times, we started west, were the youkai was rumored to have last been.
The trip was uneventful until the hanyou (With a little 'help' from the vixen) decided the group needed to rest. We settled in a clearing. The vixen made some food while Botan and Keiko tried to control the young kitsunes.
"So how much longer until we reach this place?" Yusuke asked the hanyou in the tree. His anger at having to stop traveling evaporated the second he saw the vixen start making the ramen. He was now waiting impatiently for it to finish.
"We'll get there tomorrow a little before noon, at the rate we're going." He answered. The spirit detective groaned.
"When will we start training?" his girlfriend asked the vixen. She frown thoughtfully.
"I suppose we can do yours whenever we stop in the afternoon, and mine in the evening." She said, taking some bowls out of her bag. "We can start right after lunch. I'll need to teach you about control, first, to keep your powers from backfiring. Then we can move on to archery, close range spells, seals and so on." The girl looked slightly alarmed.
"Archery?!" she squeaked, "I can't shoot a bow! I don't know how."
"Well, then it makes since to learn if you don't know how," the red kitsune said with child-sense.
"Don't worry, you catch on," the vixen said with a gentle smile. "I've brought an extra bow along. Here." The she-fox handed the ningen a bow and some arrows. The girl hesitated before taking them. Then the demon slayer turned to Botan and my sister.
"You two should probably have some kind of weapons, too. Is there anything you know how to use?"
"Well... no," the deity of death said, ashamed. The ningen looked thoughtful for a second.
"I suppose I could teach you some things. Any weapons you would prefer to learn to use?" Both girls frown in thought.
"Think I could learn a little about using a katana?" the deity said with sparkling eyes.
"Of coarse. Here," the ningen took the katana at her side, giving it to the blue haired reaper. The girl gasped.
"I couldn't! this is yours!" she stammered.
"It's alright. Hirakotsu is my preferred weapon, so I never really use it. And if I need another, I'll just make one." With that, the girl took the blade gingerly. "What about you, Yukina?"
"I don't really want to hurt any one. Besides, I'd hurt myself with a katana or anything like that."
"It's good that you don't want to hurt anyone, Yukina, but sometimes it's unavoidable." When the girl still didn't get any suggestions, she sighed, "How about the staff? It's not as harmful as most weapons, yet you'll still be able to protect yourself." My sister seemed taken with the suggestion, so it was decided that a staff would be bought for her in the next village we went to. Silently, I was relieved my sister would finally have some means of protection. Maybe this girl wasn't so bad...
When we got back on the road three hours later, Keiko knew the basics of keeping her energy from accidentally being unleashed and Botan knew how to hold a sword without risking cutting off her own body parts. The trip was fairly quiet for two hours, then, the hanyou stopped, sniffing.
"What is it, InuYasha?" the vixen said, worriedly. The hanyou growled.
"Sessho-maru." The name made the rest of their group stiffen. Then the hanyou took off into the forest. I followed without hesitation. I wanted to see who it was that could cause this group so much distress. Moments later, I arrived to see the hanyou confronting a full-blooded inu youkai. I could tell he was powerful, despite missing his left arm. A little ways off, I saw a small, ugly toad-like youkai and a little human girl. I could hear the rest of the group arrive not long after me. The inu youkai looked surprised at something.
"What happened to your wench?" he demanded to the hanyou. The vixen's eyes flared.
"None of your business!" the hanyou snapped back. The inu's eyes hardened.
"You obviously don't recall whom your speaking to, little brother," he said coolly. I blinked. LITTLE BROTHER?! Before anyone could do anything else, the little girl bounced over to the vixen.
"WOW! You look really pretty! Are you a demon now? I like your ears and tail. How come you didn't look like this before?" The girl managed to say this in the span of five seconds. How a powerful and clearly temperamental youkai could stand such a little pest was beyond me. The vixen, however, smiled at the little girl.
"Thank you, yes, thank you and a spell was placed on me." She said, in an almost motherly way. I could see more questions were about to come, when suddenly, an enormous portal, almost like a black hole, opened in the sky above us, bringing with it powerful winds. Seconds later, two shadow kitsunes and a small, black flash I didn't catch fell through the portal, screaming their heads off.
"YARI!" one of the kitsunes said as she laid at the base of a tree, having landed on her head. "YOU SAID THIS WOULDN'T BE PAINFUL!" she stood. She had straight, black, waist length hair and a black tail tipped in dark green. She had no markings, but did have two fox ears tipped in the same shade of green as her tail. She wore simple traveling clothes, and a medicine pouch was at her waist.
"Well how was I supposed to know?!" her companion, another female with short black hair and tail and ears tipped in white. She wore a sort of battle armor, "it's not like I've done that before!" then, the second girl noticed the vixen, at first she looked surprised, then her face broke into a grin. Before any of you could make a move, the girl have run over and embraced the miko. "Gods, is that really you, Kagome? You've changed so much!"
"Uuummm..."
"Yari, you dummy, her memories were taken away!" the first girl said, rubbing her head were she'd landed. Her companion blinked, then winced.
"Oops." Then the hanyou drew his katana and lunged at the girl who'd embraced to miko, she dodged, drawing out a whip.
"InuYasha, SIT!" the girl yelled, using her command. The inu youkai's eyebrows rose when he saw his brother suddenly eating dirt. The little girl and both shadow vixens burst out in laugher.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"
"I don't think they want to hurt us."
"Nope," the white vixen said happily.
"Quite the contrary, we came to help. I know you don't remember us, Kagome, but we used to be friends before you vanished," the other vixen said calmly. The miko smiled.
"Well we'll be happy to have it. We need all the help we can get."
"Speaking of which, where's Hogosha?" the warrior-vixen said, looking around.
"Hogosha?"
"Yet another friend. He'll be way happy to see you again. HOGOSHA! KAGOME'S OVER HERE!" a rustling was heard from the place were the black blur had landed and suddenly, that same blur shot out of a bush, right into the miko-vixen's stomach. I stared, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that thing was....
\\It can't be...\\
"CUTE!!!!!!!!" shouted all the girls. Even the demon huntress.
A tiny black dragon with big, red eyes sat in the miko's lap, his tail wagging in excitement.
"Awwww... how adorable!" Botan said, walking over and stroking his head.
"A night dragon?" the kitsune said eyebrow raised. "I thought those were extinct?"
"Who cares!" the hanyou snapped. "look, you can con here claiming anything, but how do we know you telling the truth? You know Kagome has no memories, and could be using that to your advantage." One of the kitsunes wrinkled her nose a him.
"Actually," the other one said calmly, "We were planning on fixing that." She pulled a small, clear bottle, filled with a silvery liquid, out of her pouch. "This is a antidote that will remove Queen Yume's spell. All Kagome has to do is drink it to get her memories back."
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The King growled when he heard the reports.
"your sure they're not there." The general kneeling before him raised his head slightly.
"Yes, sir. Both the prince and princess have vanished without a trace." The king turned his attention to the young man at his side.
"Well, were would they have gone."
"I don't know, sir." The king narrowed his eyes at the kitsune.
"Find them, or lose your heads."
"Yes your majesty!" the king watched the young kitsune leave, his eyes still narrowed. That boy was hiding something...
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DV- feeling any better, Shippo.
Shippo- Yep!
Keiko- erm, DreamVixen?
DV- speaking.
Keiko- ...Where's Yusuke?
DV- *looks to see pit is full of sobbing fangirls, but no Yusuke* NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!! NOT AGAIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs into room. Sounds of several locks being turned heard.*
Kagome- *sighs* We should probably find him before DreamVixen goes crazier than she already is.
Botan- While we do that, please review!
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IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE!!!!!!!
I'm sorry to say it, but real life has been hell. And trying to update regularly is getting a little hectic. Especially considering I'm only averaging two reviews per chapter. I won't know what you guys think without so feedback. Unless I start getting more reviews, I'm going to have to seriously consider dropping KNK. Although discontinuing would break my heart, I've got a lot to deal with right now so I've gotta keep that an option. *Shudders and burst into tears* Sorry and Sayonara until next time (I hope,)
-DreamVixen
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Star's dream (I haven't seen the floor of my room since '93. I've even forgotten the color of my carpet!)
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Kagome- So, why was Shippo turned into a doll?
DV- because that hat he was playing with was enchanted. Turned people into dolls and dolls into people. I stole it from this freak that used it to turn Barbie dolls into his personal servants.
Kagome- Ew
DV- Yeah. He never kept them very long, though. They were too stupid to understand what he said and all the cared about was sex.
Miroku- really? Mind if I borrow this hat?
Sango- HENTAI!!!!!!!!! *Hirakotsu does what it does best. Knocking out perverted monks*
Everyone- *sweat drop*
DV- So anyways, just put the hat back on Shippo and he'll be back to normal.
Kagome- Okay DV- Here it is, folks, CHAPTER EIGHT! Hope you love it! And I still don't own YuYu Hakusho or InuYasha *bursts into tears* I don't own Barbie either. But Ganko, Reikoku, Yakuso, Yari, and Hogasha DO belong to me and YOU CAN"T HAVE THEM!!!!!!!!! Well, at least not without asking.
\...\ Youko\Kurama talk -...- beast talk *...* telepathy '...' thoughts
********************************Traveling********************************
I jumped out of the well as soon as the lights cleared. The ningen took longer getting out, having to climb up the vines growing down the side of the well. I saw the rest of the group standing around waiting. A quick glance around told me we were in a clearing in the middle of a forest. The houshi came through a few minutes later, carrying the fire neko.
"At least you, Kirara, didn't abandon me." He sighed. The cat mewed which made the kitsune miko stiffen for some reason. The young shadow kitsune grinned.
\\Interesting...\\
"COOL!" he exclaimed, "Oh man, sis. Did you hear that, too?" the ningen looked at them curiously.
"Hear what?"
"Either the stress of today is finally taking effect," The vixen croaked, "Or I just heard Kirara talk," The kitsune chuckled.
"Get used to it," He said, bemused, "Beast tongue is quite common among shadow kitsunes. Meaning you'll be hearing a lot from animals." She groaned, then sighed in a defeated sort of way and picked up her enormous bag, which I still couldn't see her carrying around without demon strength, and headed down a well-beaten path.
Ten minuets later, we were sitting inside an old hut while an elderly miko listened to the vixen's story. Most of us, anyway. The two young kitsunes were outside playing with the fire neko and the hanyou was out in the forest somewhere. Everyone else was in the hut.
"I see..." The old miko said when the vixen finished. "ye have been through much in a very short time. Yet there is still so much more ye must do."
"What do you mean?" the vixen said, startled.
"The powers of a miko and the powers of a youkai were never really meant to mix. On the rare occasions they do, both powers must be fully mastered, or else ye face the risk of harming yourself more than your enemies."
"In other words, I have to train my kitsune powers or else they'll have the same reaction as miko powers that were forced to awaken?"
"Yes,"
"Figures. Speaking of which, do you think you can train Keiko? Her miko powers were forced to awaken and at her strength..."
"Nay, child. I'm too old. I barely had the strength to train ye. Ye will have to train the new miko yourself."
"Oh, no!" the girl in question said, "You have enough to worry about as it is. Don't worry about me. You should concentrate on your training, not mine," the vixen frowned.
"That's really sweet, Keiko, but absolutely out of the question. If your put in a situation were your miko powers react, it could kill you. Considering that your boyfriend's on every youkai's most wanted dead list, it very probable that such a situation will occur." The new miko, slightly taken aback, fell silent. "Besides, I don't even know how I'm going to get my training done. It's not like I can go back to my time and ask Ganko and Reikoku to train me." A thoughtful look past the schoolgirl's face.
"Um, excuse me, Lady Kaede?" the girl said timidly.
"Yes, child?" the elderly woman said.
"Does Kagome HAVE to be trained by a shadow kitsune?"
"No, not really. Any trained kitsune would do, considering all their magics are similar despite breed." My eyes widened with understanding, then landed on the red haired kitsune sitting in the far corner.
*You realize were this conversations going, don't you?* I asked him.
*Yes.*
\\We're not idiots,\\ that was debatable.
*So, are you going to train her?*
*Why not? It will certainly be interesting. And it will give me a close look at shadow kitsunes.*
\\Not to mention the things we can teach her to make it interesting.\\
I smirked slightly at the suggestion in Youko's last comment, Which Kurama chose to ignore. He was right about the shadow kitsune thing, though. It would be interesting if he could find some sort of weakness in the mysterious breed, considering none had yet to be found. They and silver kitsunes were both considered the perfect races.
"In that case," the kitsune said out loud, "I will be happy to take up Kagome's training. If you don't mind, of coarse," he directed this last part at the vixen, added a little half smile as well.
"Of coarse not!" the vixen said with a half smile of her own, "I'm not in any real position to complain."
"Then it's settled." Botan looked from Kagome to Kurama and back again then smiled.
'Those two would make SUCH a cute couple!' she thought, 'But they'll probably need a few nudges in the right direction. I bet I can talk Sango, Keiko and Yukina into helping me make that happen.' I wondered how the kitsunes were going to avoid lady death's attempts to create something of attraction between them. Not to mention Youko's insistence.
I looked out at the stars through the branches of my tree. They seemed so much brighter than they were in the future. Tomorrow morning, we were going to head out after some youkai that was rumored to have shards of the sacred jewel the vixen protected. Bemused, I thought of how we might look. A Jaganshi, a koorime, a miko, a kitsune in a human body and two ningens from the future, traveling with a miko youkai, a young shadow kitsune, a young red kitsune, an inu-hanyou, a monk, a demon slayer, and a fire neko from the past. That made twelve people and a cat.
I noticed movement at the flap of the hut, and watched as the ningen stepped outside, the fire neko in her arms. She looked around, then headed into the forest. Curious, I followed her, masking my energy and making no noise.
She traveled to a clearing, far enough into the forest so she wouldn't disturb the humans, yet near enough so she could hear of the dangers should anything attack. The cat leaped out of her arms, turning into a large, dangerous version of its smaller, more convenient form.
"Ready, Kirara?" the ningen whispered. The cat growled its response. The two started sparring. Right there in the middle of the night. I realized she was trying to accustom herself with fighting in the dark. Attempting to eliminate a human handicap. I was impressed at her commitment to becoming stronger, no matter what.
Hours later, the girl and cat headed back to the hut. I watched her crawl under her blanket through the window. Why was she so festinating to me? I wondered as I slipped in to a sort of conscious sleep.
The young kitsunes were laughing as they played outside the hut the next day. The vixen was trying to prepare for the long trip ahead and keep an eye on the two at the same time, fretting over leaving anything behind that might be useful in Keiko or her own training, worrying if she'd have enough food and medical supplies, scolding the pups for being too loud or reckless... she almost reminded me of a sixteen year old mother. After rechecking her supplies three times, we started west, were the youkai was rumored to have last been.
The trip was uneventful until the hanyou (With a little 'help' from the vixen) decided the group needed to rest. We settled in a clearing. The vixen made some food while Botan and Keiko tried to control the young kitsunes.
"So how much longer until we reach this place?" Yusuke asked the hanyou in the tree. His anger at having to stop traveling evaporated the second he saw the vixen start making the ramen. He was now waiting impatiently for it to finish.
"We'll get there tomorrow a little before noon, at the rate we're going." He answered. The spirit detective groaned.
"When will we start training?" his girlfriend asked the vixen. She frown thoughtfully.
"I suppose we can do yours whenever we stop in the afternoon, and mine in the evening." She said, taking some bowls out of her bag. "We can start right after lunch. I'll need to teach you about control, first, to keep your powers from backfiring. Then we can move on to archery, close range spells, seals and so on." The girl looked slightly alarmed.
"Archery?!" she squeaked, "I can't shoot a bow! I don't know how."
"Well, then it makes since to learn if you don't know how," the red kitsune said with child-sense.
"Don't worry, you catch on," the vixen said with a gentle smile. "I've brought an extra bow along. Here." The she-fox handed the ningen a bow and some arrows. The girl hesitated before taking them. Then the demon slayer turned to Botan and my sister.
"You two should probably have some kind of weapons, too. Is there anything you know how to use?"
"Well... no," the deity of death said, ashamed. The ningen looked thoughtful for a second.
"I suppose I could teach you some things. Any weapons you would prefer to learn to use?" Both girls frown in thought.
"Think I could learn a little about using a katana?" the deity said with sparkling eyes.
"Of coarse. Here," the ningen took the katana at her side, giving it to the blue haired reaper. The girl gasped.
"I couldn't! this is yours!" she stammered.
"It's alright. Hirakotsu is my preferred weapon, so I never really use it. And if I need another, I'll just make one." With that, the girl took the blade gingerly. "What about you, Yukina?"
"I don't really want to hurt any one. Besides, I'd hurt myself with a katana or anything like that."
"It's good that you don't want to hurt anyone, Yukina, but sometimes it's unavoidable." When the girl still didn't get any suggestions, she sighed, "How about the staff? It's not as harmful as most weapons, yet you'll still be able to protect yourself." My sister seemed taken with the suggestion, so it was decided that a staff would be bought for her in the next village we went to. Silently, I was relieved my sister would finally have some means of protection. Maybe this girl wasn't so bad...
When we got back on the road three hours later, Keiko knew the basics of keeping her energy from accidentally being unleashed and Botan knew how to hold a sword without risking cutting off her own body parts. The trip was fairly quiet for two hours, then, the hanyou stopped, sniffing.
"What is it, InuYasha?" the vixen said, worriedly. The hanyou growled.
"Sessho-maru." The name made the rest of their group stiffen. Then the hanyou took off into the forest. I followed without hesitation. I wanted to see who it was that could cause this group so much distress. Moments later, I arrived to see the hanyou confronting a full-blooded inu youkai. I could tell he was powerful, despite missing his left arm. A little ways off, I saw a small, ugly toad-like youkai and a little human girl. I could hear the rest of the group arrive not long after me. The inu youkai looked surprised at something.
"What happened to your wench?" he demanded to the hanyou. The vixen's eyes flared.
"None of your business!" the hanyou snapped back. The inu's eyes hardened.
"You obviously don't recall whom your speaking to, little brother," he said coolly. I blinked. LITTLE BROTHER?! Before anyone could do anything else, the little girl bounced over to the vixen.
"WOW! You look really pretty! Are you a demon now? I like your ears and tail. How come you didn't look like this before?" The girl managed to say this in the span of five seconds. How a powerful and clearly temperamental youkai could stand such a little pest was beyond me. The vixen, however, smiled at the little girl.
"Thank you, yes, thank you and a spell was placed on me." She said, in an almost motherly way. I could see more questions were about to come, when suddenly, an enormous portal, almost like a black hole, opened in the sky above us, bringing with it powerful winds. Seconds later, two shadow kitsunes and a small, black flash I didn't catch fell through the portal, screaming their heads off.
"YARI!" one of the kitsunes said as she laid at the base of a tree, having landed on her head. "YOU SAID THIS WOULDN'T BE PAINFUL!" she stood. She had straight, black, waist length hair and a black tail tipped in dark green. She had no markings, but did have two fox ears tipped in the same shade of green as her tail. She wore simple traveling clothes, and a medicine pouch was at her waist.
"Well how was I supposed to know?!" her companion, another female with short black hair and tail and ears tipped in white. She wore a sort of battle armor, "it's not like I've done that before!" then, the second girl noticed the vixen, at first she looked surprised, then her face broke into a grin. Before any of you could make a move, the girl have run over and embraced the miko. "Gods, is that really you, Kagome? You've changed so much!"
"Uuummm..."
"Yari, you dummy, her memories were taken away!" the first girl said, rubbing her head were she'd landed. Her companion blinked, then winced.
"Oops." Then the hanyou drew his katana and lunged at the girl who'd embraced to miko, she dodged, drawing out a whip.
"InuYasha, SIT!" the girl yelled, using her command. The inu youkai's eyebrows rose when he saw his brother suddenly eating dirt. The little girl and both shadow vixens burst out in laugher.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"
"I don't think they want to hurt us."
"Nope," the white vixen said happily.
"Quite the contrary, we came to help. I know you don't remember us, Kagome, but we used to be friends before you vanished," the other vixen said calmly. The miko smiled.
"Well we'll be happy to have it. We need all the help we can get."
"Speaking of which, where's Hogosha?" the warrior-vixen said, looking around.
"Hogosha?"
"Yet another friend. He'll be way happy to see you again. HOGOSHA! KAGOME'S OVER HERE!" a rustling was heard from the place were the black blur had landed and suddenly, that same blur shot out of a bush, right into the miko-vixen's stomach. I stared, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that thing was....
\\It can't be...\\
"CUTE!!!!!!!!" shouted all the girls. Even the demon huntress.
A tiny black dragon with big, red eyes sat in the miko's lap, his tail wagging in excitement.
"Awwww... how adorable!" Botan said, walking over and stroking his head.
"A night dragon?" the kitsune said eyebrow raised. "I thought those were extinct?"
"Who cares!" the hanyou snapped. "look, you can con here claiming anything, but how do we know you telling the truth? You know Kagome has no memories, and could be using that to your advantage." One of the kitsunes wrinkled her nose a him.
"Actually," the other one said calmly, "We were planning on fixing that." She pulled a small, clear bottle, filled with a silvery liquid, out of her pouch. "This is a antidote that will remove Queen Yume's spell. All Kagome has to do is drink it to get her memories back."
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The King growled when he heard the reports.
"your sure they're not there." The general kneeling before him raised his head slightly.
"Yes, sir. Both the prince and princess have vanished without a trace." The king turned his attention to the young man at his side.
"Well, were would they have gone."
"I don't know, sir." The king narrowed his eyes at the kitsune.
"Find them, or lose your heads."
"Yes your majesty!" the king watched the young kitsune leave, his eyes still narrowed. That boy was hiding something...
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DV- feeling any better, Shippo.
Shippo- Yep!
Keiko- erm, DreamVixen?
DV- speaking.
Keiko- ...Where's Yusuke?
DV- *looks to see pit is full of sobbing fangirls, but no Yusuke* NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!! NOT AGAIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs into room. Sounds of several locks being turned heard.*
Kagome- *sighs* We should probably find him before DreamVixen goes crazier than she already is.
Botan- While we do that, please review!
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IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE!!!!!!!
I'm sorry to say it, but real life has been hell. And trying to update regularly is getting a little hectic. Especially considering I'm only averaging two reviews per chapter. I won't know what you guys think without so feedback. Unless I start getting more reviews, I'm going to have to seriously consider dropping KNK. Although discontinuing would break my heart, I've got a lot to deal with right now so I've gotta keep that an option. *Shudders and burst into tears* Sorry and Sayonara until next time (I hope,)
-DreamVixen
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