Disclaimer: The only things I own in this story are the plot line and Aldrea. My friend Agarwen owns Pai and I am using her with Agarwen's permission. Don't sue! TT

A/N: Wow. Two chapters in the same month. A new personal record!

Aldrea: Agarwen wishes you to finish rewriting her 5th chapter.

Suuki: As soon as I'm done typing this.

Aldrea: She wants it finished tomorrow.

Suuki: Fine. Enjoy and REVIEW! Ja ne!

Aldrea: Namarie.

"Japanese"

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Chapter VII: Pai's Past

Inuyasha turned to Pai, fuming. "This is your entire fault!"

"My fault, you're the one who raised me!"

Kagome stared at Pai, shocked by her statement.

"Why the hell are you staring at me?" Pai screamed, red faced.

"Well, Inuyasha never told me he had a sister!"

"I forgot!" Inuyasha spat, interrupting whatever Pai was about to say. "I raised her because Sesshomaru wouldn't!"

"Oh," muttered Sango sarcastically, "he sure is compassionate." Inuyasha growled at her comment.

While everyone was involved in a shouting match, Shippou had recovered from the initial shock upon seeing Pai. "Mommy, mommy, mommy!" Shippou jumped for joy, then clamped onto Pai's leg like a bug clings to a blade of grass.

Pai looked at Shippou, a look of startled confusion on her face.

"Pai, is he your's?" Inuyasha stared at Pai accusingly as he spoke.

"Um, maybe," she answered with frustration. "I don't know! I have partial amnesia! I can only remember certain things."

Miroku glanced from Pai to Shippou, studying them both carefully. "Perhaps he is your son, Pai. You both have paws instead of feet, the same colored eyes, and you even have the same shaped noses!"

"I suppose you're right. I'll just have to ask Ruby and Nall about this." Pai put two fingers to her lips and let out a piercing whistle. Soon after the whistle had died on the wind, what appeared to be a small pink cat with feathered wings came flying up, followed by a young boy with dark tan skin; he had brown hair separated by a streak of white in the middle.

"Everyone, I'd like you to meet my two dragon friends, Ruby, the flying cat, and Nall, in his human form."

The two dragons bowed as their names were mentioned, though Ruby seemed a little ticked off about the 'flying cat' comment.

"They help me remember my past, since I've known them most of my life. Okay you two, is it true that this kitsune is my son?"

The two dragons took one look at Shippou and gave their verdict. "Yes, he is definitely your son," they said in chorus. Then Ruby continued, "Do you remember your husband?"

Pai's eyes glazed over as she nodded then began to tell her story as she relived it.

(/ "Take that scumbag!"

"AGGH!"

Pai leaped back and flexed her blood soaked claws. "Hiten," she ground out with contempt, "you're going to pay for betraying our friendship, you baka yaru!"

Hiten, the thunder demon Pai had just attacked, picked himself up from the dirt, and spat out some blood as his eyes bore into Pai like drills. "What did you just call me, dragon-cat?"

"You heard me," Pai taunted, "I called you a baka yaru because you are one!"

Hiten barred his teeth and shot towards Pai with lightning fast speed. His fist connected with her jaw, and she flew ten feet into the air only to land face first with a sickening thud. Pai began to slowly lift herself from the ground.

"Look out," Pai heard someone shout. She then felt something come towards her, and before she knew it, she was engulfed entirely and darkness consumed her.

When Pai awoke she found herself in a dimly lit cave, lying upon a makeshift bed of leaves.

"I see you're awake," said a voice to her left. Pai struggled to sit up, but was overcome by a wave of dizziness.

"Lie down," the voice gasped with sudden concern. The speaker stepped forward out of the shadows, but stopped short of revealing his face.

Pai obeyed him, the first time she had obeyed a stranger of her own free will. Because anyway, she thought to herself, I'm not feeling very well. However, Pai had enough strength to ask plenty of questions. "Where am I? How did I get here? What happened? Who are you? Why can't I remember how I was hurt? What are you?"

"Whoa, calm down," said the man as he chuckled. "Please, one question at a time." He gave a warm smile that Pai could vaguely see. "First of all, you are inside my home, a cave by a willow swamp. How you came to be here, I carried you; a strong blow from a ball of lightning is what caused you to black out. As for who and what I am, my name is Wickanoll and I'm a 249 year old kitsune."

Pai then answered him, saying that it was all very nice, and that she was the same age as him, but he left one question unanswered.

The fox demon thought for a moment. "What can you remember?"

"Well, I can remember everything about the fight, up until someone shouted 'look out'"

"That was me," stated Wickanoll. "You were hit from behind by one of Manten's lightning attacks."

"Why that little..." Pai snarled, raising herself slightly from her position. "Hiten was supposed to fight by himself!"

"Evil will never fight fair," Wickanoll sighed.

"Hiten isn't evil! He's just... obsessed with getting the shikon jewel." As Pai said this, having nothing better to do, she tried to pierce the shadows surrounding Wickanoll's face, but was somehow blocked by a dark mist. "Show your face Wickanoll."

"Call me Wick," he said. Wick took a step into the light, and Pai fell in love with him instantly. She loved his beautiful golden brown hair and tail, blue eyes, and strong, yet kind features.

The next day Pai was fully healed, but she pretended to still be injured, just to stay close to Wick. Wickanoll knew this, yet did nothing to betray that fact, for he had fallen deeply in love with Pai as well. After a month or two they had gathered enough courage to confess their love to one another, and were soon married.

One year after Inuyasha was pinned to the Go-Shinboku, which was unknown to Pai, Wickanoll and Pai had a half kitsune son who was also one-fourth blue fire cat demon, and one-fourth dragon. Pai and Wickanoll named the kit Shippou, and they lived together in peace for a long time.

A few days before Shippou's 50th birthday, Pai found some jewel shards and gave them to Wickanoll as a gift for agreeing to help teach Shippou kitsune magic, dragon abilities, and cat demon abilities. On Shippou's birthday they sensed that the thunder brothers were near, but each was in a different direction.

"Pai," said Wick as he stopped Shippou's training, "I'll go after Hiten and you can go after Manten."

"No way; I've gotten stronger since the last time we fought, and you have the jewel shards. Please let me take him."

Wick sighed and gave in to Pai's pleading gaze. They both told Shippou to stay in the cave, hidden, just in case something happened. Then they bid each other goodbye and left.

Once Pai found Hiten they battled like never before, Pai no longer blinded by rage, but keeping calm and collected. Because of this she had an advantage. They were trading blow for blow; kick for kick, yet Pai had the feeling that Hiten wasn't putting his heart into it. Her suspicions were confirmed as she blocked a kick to the face and delivered one of her own, which connected with a satisfying squelch. She was about to deliver the killing blow to a broken and seemingly defeated Hiten, when he began to laugh. "What the fuck are you laughing at!"

Hiten simply grinned with feral delight, and that's when it dawned on Pai that this fight was simply a diversion.

"Oh shit... Damn you Hiten!" Pai sprinted home as if the devil's own hounds were snapping at her heels, the mad laughter of Hiten ringing in her ears.

Once she reached her home, she found it in ruins. "No..." she whispered to the wind. Pai searched their ransacked cave, but Shippou was no where to be found. She then spotted her husband, in his fox form, lying next to one of the many murky ponds that made up the swamp they called home. As she approached him she saw that he had been skinned, yet he was still alive. She stumbled as she walked slowly, disbelievingly, towards Wickanoll, but it was as real as the pain that had gripped her heart. Pai fell on her knees in front of Wickanoll, tears begging to course down her cheeks. She cradled him in her arms, ignoring her mate's blood as it rapidly stained her clothes.

Wickanoll looked at Pai, his eyes clouded with pain, and spoke telepathically to her. I'm sorry. He tricked me ... came back to our home ... I tried to protect Shippou ... I'm so sorry. I'll always love you Pai. With those final words, the man who had loved her so completely, died in her arms. She let out a cry like a wounded animal, feeling as if her heart had been ripped from her chest by the Thunder Brothers. Pai collapsed over Wickanoll, sobbing, vowing never to forgive herself for allowing the only ones she had loved with all her heart to die. /)

A/N: SO SAD! (sob) I can't believe I actually created such a powerful emotional scene! Wow! Anyway, review please! Ja ne!