Chapter 19: Night of the Full Moon

"Wow! Great job you two! You go the Jewel Shards no sweat!" said InuYasha as he took the Jewel Shards from Kyoumi. He gave them to Kagome and she put them in a small bottle that had a few other Jewel Shards inside of it.

"Kyoumi was the one who did all the work. I was just there to scare 'em all. She managed to get the Jewel Shards away from him," Mitsu said as he gave a sideways glance to Kyoumi and smiled.

Kyoumi was in a daze and was looking past InuYasha. What was that? Am I going insane? Or did something happen? thought Kyoumi as her vision became blurry from not looking at anything in particular.

"Kyoumi? You OK?" Mitsu asked.

Kyoumi snapped out of her trance and looked at Mitsu. "Yeah! Yeah... Everything is fine," Kyoumi lied badly. "I just still have my doubts of getting the Shards."

"Don't worry about it! At least we're going to get all the Jewel Shards, and that's what matters. We can't let Naraku have it, especially after what he did to you," said Mitsu trying to reassure Kyoumi. He pat her on her shoulder and walked over to the fire that Shippo had made.

Sango walked over to Kyoumi and smiled. "You're blushing," said Sango.

"What?" Kyoumi said as she touched her face. It was indeed hot. Kyoumi blushed even more.

Sango laughed and walked over to the fire where everyone else was sitting.

Once Kyoumi had stopped blushing she walked over to the fire also.

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The fire was still burning, but the night was almost upon them. Kyoumi looked up into the sky and saw a full moon, even though the sun hadn't set. Kyoumi stared at it, her back facing the fire. Soon the last of the sun's rays were gone and Kyoumi felt a strange peace.

"Kyoumi! Your tail is gone!" Miroku said.

"Huh?" Kyoumi felt for her tail but it wasn't there.

"So are your ears! They're normal now," Sango said.

Kyoumi felt for her scruffy wolfish ears on top of her head, but they weren't there.

I'm human! Kyoumi thought, looking up to the full moon.

"Hey, guys. I know we've seen another full moon when I was a youkai, but I didn't turn into a human then. What do you think is up?" Kyoumi asked her friends.

"You're not just a hanyou, remember? It's because you have more youkai blood that makes you transform into a human less often," InuYasha said, sounding strangely smart, but it was just because he was half demon that he could figure it out. Kyoumi shrugged and looked at the sky.

Just then a dark cloud went overhead, blocking out the moon.

"What's that?" asked Shippo as he bounced into Kagome's arms.

"They're demons!" InuYasha yelled as he stood up.

"Don't worry, InuYasha, I'll take care of them if they come near," Miroku said, getting up also.

The demons turned and flew towards the fire, hoping to get some fresh meat.

"Stand back everyone!" yelled Miroku.

He took the prayer beads off of his right hand and a strange wind came from nowhere. The demons headed towards camp, but then they were being sucked into one area by Miroku. They flew into Miroku's right hand and disappeared!

Miroku cut off the wind from his hand and put the prayer beads back on.

"Nice job Miroku," Sango said.

"What was that?" Kyoumi asked Miroku.

"The Wind Tunnel. It was Naraku who gave my family this cursed void. It'll suck me in someday if he doesn't get killed," Miroku said, looking at the ground.

That's so sad! Just another reason to kill Naraku! Kyoumi thought.

Kinda short, but sweet.