Into the sun the two foxes flew on the wings of the great bird. They chattered about pointless things, like popsicles from Kagome's time and why the sky was blue and the grass was green. Kiko looked up and saw that the sun was almost directly above them.

"Shippou- " she said, shaking the small kitsune who had fallen asleep.

"Shippou- tonight's the full moon, right?"

"I think so."

"We have to land! Now!"

"Why?"

The sun was now fully overhead and the phoenix returned to its toy form. Both Kiko and Shippou plummeted in the sky. Kiko's hair grew shorter and wrapped itself into a ponytail. It then slowly became grayer until it was black. Meanwhile, her claws changed to fingernails and her eyes turned brown.

"Kiko?" called Shippou as they both fell.

"You're a..."

Suddenly, they both were plucked from the air by a fast-moving wolf demon. They were then dropped at the feet of Kouga.

"Well, well, what have we here? Shippou, I know you. Now, who is your friend?"

Kiko quaked before Kouga, and Shippou reassuringly pat her shoulder.

"It'll be ok, Kiko- he might be able to help us!"

"I've heard enough. Put 'em in one of our dungeons for a while." A starry-eyed look came over Kouga's face.

"Oh, Kagome. Will you come rescue them?"

The two foxes were lifted by a member of the pack and taken underground to a small cell.

"I'm scared." Whined the smaller Kiko as she was dropped into the darkness.

After Sango had buried her brother, she called for Miroku-

"Miroku- let's go. We have to defeat that fox-demon."

"Can you fight with your brother's weapon?"

"Before I got my hiraikotsu, I had one of these- I trained with this very one before I gave it to Kohaku. I will avenge his death with his weapon."

"Are you sure? Anyways, you look relatively terrifying with the combination of the weapon and that scowl on your face, so maybe the fox-demon will run away in fear." The monk chucked softly, but was interjected by Sango's rage.

"I am NOT scowling. Move it, monk."

She began to walk into the forest with ambition, as Miroku stood back where he was. He put his hands on his hips and made a grimacing face while mouthing:

"I am NOT scowling!" Just as he was in the middle of his impromptu imitation, Sango turned around and called:

"Houshi-sama! Are you mocking me? Get over here! We have to go!"

He ran to her and apologized with a deep bow, making sure to brush her behind on his way up. The next thing he realized was that he had fallen to the floor and had a large handprint on his face.

"Sango, do you always have to slap me?" questioned the impossibly lascivious monk.

"I wouldn't slap you if your face hadn't been where it shouldn't have been."

"Like that made sense."

"Watch it or you'll get slapped again."

As they kept arguing, they began to pay less and less attention to the forest they were walking through, and it began to get darker and darker as they neared the lair of the fox-demon. Suddenly, they saw a brown tail and chased after it, thinking it was the fox-demon. By the time they realized that it wasn't, it was too late- Kouga turned around and grabbed them both, muttering "now I have two as bait for Kagome." He leapt back to his cave and threw them in a separate dungeon from Shippou and Kiko, both pairs desperately hunting for one another, yet so very close to each other.