Shiane: Thank you YoukoMana! I feel so loved with this second review! I hope you continue to read this!

Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own YYH, but I own the Cardens, the foxes and Silvati. Please critique this! I am going to turn it into an original later on.

Chapter 4

The minute they reached home Autumn's mother held the door open as the two soaked humans, carrying three equally, if not more soaked fox pups that currently resembled drowned rats than foxes. Each pup was wrapped in a blanket and all three were taken to the bathroom.

"They need to be washed first so they are clean when they are being dried." Nali said as she led her daughter carrying two pups to the bathroom.

Todd brought in the last pup and the flashlights, setting the latter on the table as he passed it and taking the former to join its siblings in the tub with a shallow bath.

His wife stood at the door while the two set their charges in the warm water and then said, "Now go and take those clothes off at once and dry yourselves thoroughly. Then put on the clothes I set out for each of you. They've been in the dryer so they should still be very warm." Her voice was form and would not stand for any kind of protest.

Without a word the two nodded numbly and went off to do as they were bid. When the two left Nali went to the tub and knelt down beside it. She had tied her hair back and was already wearing clothes that would be okay if they got wet or dirty.

The three blinked up at her, huddled together as much as they could despite the blankets still wrapped around them.

"Shh…it's okay little ones," she said in a low calm, soothing voice. She herself had a very slight gift in empathy, very minor but she was using just a touch through her voice on the pups. She knew her daughter still had not put all her shields fully back in place.

The pups visibly started to calm and slightly relax, but they still remained huddled together.

Autumn found the still-warm shirt and shorts when she entered her room and glanced at her bed. She closed the door behind her and as quickly as she could stripped out of her soaked clothes and shoes. She grimaced at her wet footwear, knowing that she would have to wear a different pair of tennis shoes for gym the next couple of days.

She found a towel next to the clothes and used it briskly on her body. Her skin was cold and already had goosebumps running up her arms and legs. She squeezed as much water from her hair mumbling, ""I'm gonna have to blow dry it again…later."

Finished a few minutes later she slipped into fresh undergarments and then into the warm clothes. She sighed in bliss but then opened her eyes again to collect the wet things inside the towel and carried them out, past the bathroom to the kitchen and the laundry room. She set them on the floor next to the washer and turned around in time to find her father coming to do the same thing.

"Papa, should I help Mommy with bathing the pups?" she asked as she moved out of the way.

He looked at her as he set his own bundle of soaking garments next to hers.

"Your mother is already finished washing them. But you should go help dry them." He replied.

She nodded and went back to the bathroom, finding her mother cradling a pup, still wet, but otherwise clean and fresh smelling, in her lap. Currently she was trying to dry it, but it kept squirming and making small mewling sounds.

Autumn knelt in the doorway and extended the sense of calm towards it once again. The pup stopped and looked around, blinking.

"Thank you darling," Nali said with a warm smile.

"Anything for these little ones." She replied.

A couple of hours later Autumn was still with the pups, but in the garage. Her father had made up a box with old blankets to serve as a bed for them. But her parents had already gone to bed with a knowledge that the pups would be in good hands. Autumn herself was still dressed in what her mother had set out but with an extra blanket wrapped around her. She had decided to stay out with the little babies.

While they had been being dried she and her mother found that two were male and one was female. They also figured the pups were about five to six weeks old and had been just finished weaning…which was a very good thing. Her parents had decided to keep the three foxes, seeing as Autumn was already growing attached to them and their well being.

"It's okay little ones. Nothing is ever going to hurt you. I promise that I will take care of you." She said softly with a gentle projection of calm.

They were quiet under her words and soft touch of her fingers. Two of them lay inside the box and the third, one of the males, had climbed into her lap.

Soon all four of them fell asleep in the comfort of each other.

Little did the Cardens know a mysterious person made his way out of a local forest, disregarding the rain as he went. There was information he needed to impart on his friends. He went quickly, the rain never really hindering him and all too soon arrived at an apartment. He let himself in and shook his long soaked hair out of his face before looking at the four people waiting impatiently for him.

"Well?" two of them demanded.

"Oh come now you two. Just be a little more patient. I'm sure Kurama has his reasons and a perfect explanation as to why we are meeting at a time like this," a young woman told the two.

"I have found the clairvoyant we are in need of." The one named Kurama said.

That caught the attention of all of them.

"Well?" the last one said, an eyebrow raised.

"It is a teenaged girl with unbelievable strong powers. I am surprised that she had lasted this long with her level of abilities." He said.

"Are you serious? A young girl that powerful? Are you sure she's not demon?" the woman asked, her eyes wide.

Kurama nodded, "She's fully human with just incredible powers."

"Do you know which school she goes to?" one of the other two asked.

Kurama nodded, "Yes. Mine."