Here's another chapter. This one is a bit longer than the last one, and it's a bit more exciting.

Chapter 17: Fox in the Fire

After meeting up with Sesshoumaru, Kyoumi thought that she may be able to transform even more.

She kept trying, but she couldn't transform to anything other than normal, air and water. She just couldn't do it.

She then thought that she had to be in danger in order to transform, so that might mean something.

The next couple days were uneventful. There was no Jewel Shards and no one to fight.

"AGH!" yelled Kyoumi as she chopped off a rat demon's head with her black sword. "It bit me!"

"Don't move," said Mitsu as he walked over to Kyoumi's injury. He looked at the bite on her leg and put his hand over it, but didn't touch it. He muttered something and took away his hand, revealing nothing but skin.

"What did you do? The bite is gone!" Kyoumi exclaimed, amazed by what happened.

"One of my powers is healing," Mitsu said straitening up. He brushed off his kimono and started to walk forward.

Kyoumi ran to catch up to him and said, "Uh, thanks... I didn't know you could do that. What else can you do?"

Mitsu smiled and said, "I can also become a black wolf, because I'm a wolf demon."

"Where's your tail?" asked Kyoumi.

"I'm a different species than the ones around here, so I don't have a tail," answered Mitsu.

"Oh..."

Kyoumi talked with Mitsu for a while and they talked about their pasts. It turned out Mitsu was a perfectly normal person with not much hardships, but he was from an island north of Japan. He was trying to find a Jewel though, and it turned out that it was the Sacred Shikon Jewel. Why he wanted it, he wouldn't say.

They reached a village soon enough and decided to stay there for the night.

That night was the night of no moon.

InuYasha became human and Mitsu was very surprised.

"Don't worry," Kyoumi said, "this is normal."

"Never tell anyone though," InuYasha said.

Then a thought struck her. She wasn't full demon, when would she become human again?

The night came and went without any big events, and Kyoumi thought it was getting rather boring.

In the morning they set off to see if they could find anymore Sacred Jewel Shards. They went through the village and into walked into a large forest.

Kyoumi and InuYasha stopped.

"What is it?" Kagome asked.

"Fire," said InuYasha.

"And lots of it," finished Kyoumi.

They turned around and saw the forest burning behind them. They started to run and went as fast as they could, but the fire caught up with them.

"Oomph!" said Shippo as he fell off of Kagome's shoulder.

"Shippo!" said Kyoumi as she stopped and went to go back. She ran as fast as she could and then grabbed Shippo once she made it to him, but couldn't go back. A large tree was blocking their way, and the top of the forest was burning like mad.

Kyoumi transformed into her water transformation and tried to get any from the air, but it was all evaporated.

Kyoumi held Shippo close and jumped out of the way as another tree fell.

She wished the fire in front of them would just go away! She wanted to get out of there! Then the fire on the tree in front of them vanished.

I must have transformed again! thought Kyoumi as she looked down at her clothes. Sure enough, her kimono was red and orange, and her eyes were too, like her hair.

Kyoumi smiled and ran through the forest, as fast as she could, clearing the way of any fire. She saw the end of the forest and ran through a bunch of smoke and coming to a halt.

The others stood next to the forest and gaped at her.

"You have another youkai form?" said InuYasha with his eyes wide.

Kyoumi blushed as red as her hair.

Look how much trouble they get into! Heh.