Disclaimer: well, this is change one Behold: Shadowfox, Reformed. this is the first chapter of Shadowfox that is corrected. the rest will follow. Anyhoo, I dun own InuYasha... Duh...
"SIT!" The cry rang through the forest. As the modern day girl stormed off, an angry hanyou snorted at her from his position in the dirt.
"Serves you right, Inu-Yasha," Miroku said, nodding wisely.
"For once I agree with the pervert," Sango said.
"Me too!" Shippo said, jumping up and clunking the now-sitting Inu-Yasha on the top of his head, "You idiot!"
Inu-Yasha grabbed Shippo's tail, suspending him upside-down.
"HEY! PUT ME DOWN!" Shippo shouted, struggling pointlessly. Kagome sighed.
"Please, Inu-Yasha, put Shippo down..." She said exasperatedly.
"Feh! Fine!" The stubborn half-demon let go of the small fox's tail and sent him crashing into the ground.
"Meanie!" Shippo cried. He ran to Kagome.
"Ouch. That hurt," Inu-Yasha said sarcastically, " Do you honestly expect Kagome to protect you! She can't even protect herself!"
"Bad move..." Sango and Miroku said in unision. Kirara mewed an agreement.
"SIT!" Kagome shouted for the second time in the last half an hour.
"You idiot puppy...Are you still being controlled by that wench?" A familiar voice called from the woods.
"Sesshomaru!" Inu-Yasha practically spat the name of his half-brother.
"Sesshomaru!" Everyone else gasped. Inu-Yasha looked at them dryly, but it was Sesshomaru who read his mind by saying: "We've already established this fact."
The little girl at his side, Rin, gave a small snicker at her Lord Sesshomaru's rare humor. Jaken, too, gave a small snort of laughter. He quite enjoyed humans being taunted.
"Why are you here!" Inu-Yasha growled.
"Calm yourself, puppy," the inu-youkai stated almost boredly, "For once, you and the Tetsusaiga are not my concern, nor the reason for my being here."
"We're not?" The now-clueless hanyou looked as confused as the humans standing in slight awe behind him.
"No, what interests me now is your visitor who hides in the shadows. There." He pointed a clawed hand towards a tree surrounded by thick, thorned rose bushes. The beautiful wild roses were a crimson red and had bloomed perfectly.
"Ooh! Lord Sesshomaru found pretty flowers!" Rin squealed with delight as she raced towards the forest's edge.
"Rin. Don't move." Rin didn't question Sesshomaru. She just froze in mid-stride with a blank expression. Sesshomaru almost smiled, but caught himself. He could tell his younger brother and all the odds and ends people he traveled with also bit back the urge to laugh at the young girl's behavior. Of course now that he looked at them, they stood rigid, waiting for their "visitor" to appear out of hiding.
"In case you haven't noticed... nothing's happening," Inu-Yasha pointed out, giving a large yawn after this obvious declaration. Sesshomaru turned and scowled at the hanyou. He directed his attention to the forest once more.
"Show yourself, Shapeshifter!" He commanded fiercely. A human staggered out of the forest and collapsed to the ground in a puddle of blood. Inu-Yasha could no longer control himself. He burst out laughing.
"Inu-Yasha!" Sango scolded, also obviously trying not to laugh, "You know it's usually, kinda sorta our job to figure out what killed this man!"
"There is no need. The answer is still there," Sesshomaru said blankly, "So, Kitsune, did this human stumble across the hiding place of you and your partner?"
An explosion of black and blue flames turned the oak into a cold-looking holly tree and the wild red roses' stems grew black and twisted and the thorns tripled in size. The petals themselves turned a deep midnight black, the veins turning the same light blue as the fire that still danced around them. Overall, the whole episode caused everyone except Sesshomaru to jump. The soon-to-be Inutaishou stood in an annoyingly superior-yet-emotionless way. A creature coalesced from the dancing fire, and all of a sudden the display disappeared, leaving the forest looking just the way it did, besides the newly transformed tree and roses. The beast that stood there made everyone look at Inu-Yasha and back at their new guest. They looked a lot alike besides their visitor had black ears, and the silvery white hair was a bit longer and thicker. Kagome mostly noticed his eyes, though. She had thought Inu-Yasha's intense amber eyes were the fiercest she had ever seen. Until, that is, this other creature came from nowhere, looking just like the stunned half-demon behind her, yet all the same looking totally different. Their visitor's eyes were most intense blue she had ever seen. They scared her just by looking into them, yet there was something hidden there, making him more like Inu-Yasha then Kagome had ever thought possible.
"You found me! Way to spoil it, Sesshomaru!" the boy called Kitsune said. A hand reached from behind in the forest and clunked him in the head. Kitsune answered with an expression everyone had heard countless times from the dog hanyou: "What the hell was that for, wench!"
Everyone was quite surprised when he got an answer.
"Because if you hadn't walked out, baka, your friend there would've looked like a moron!" Another creature that looked a lot like Kitsune stepped forward.
"Foxes!" Shippo exclaimed excitedly. He ran to the second fox, who by her voice, they had discovered was a vixen.
"Oh! He's adorable!" The female fox scooped up Shippo and cuddled him. The other fox, Kitsune, sighed.
" Ayame, for a rogue demon, that's rather sad..."
"Rogue demons!" Inu-Yasha drew Tetsusaiga, Sango readied Hiraikotsu, and Miroku's hand took hold of the prayer beads around his Kazaana.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Shippo said. He dropped down to Ayame's feet and walker around her, as if inspecting her appearance. Finally he came to a deduction. "You're not a fox like me!" He declared triumphantly. Ayame gave Kitsune a look that could've melted steel, making him bite back his sarcastic remark.
"What makes you say that?" Ayame said calmly.
"Yeah, Shippo, that wasn't very nice." Kagome spoke up for the first time.
"Rogue demons don't show kindness, therefore, they don't deserve kindness," Sango snarled, "Rogue demons are incredibly merciless and cruel. Shippo get back here."
"Ahem. As I was saying," Shippo said, clearing his tiny throat, apparently oblivious to the threat Sango suggested, "Your tail and ears are black, and mine are red!"
"And?" Kitsune said. Ayame reached over and popped him again. "Ow! Stop that!"
"Suck it up. I know it can't hurt that bad," Ayame snapped.
"Who are you, exactly?" Miroku asked cautiously.
"Oh! Right!" Ayame snapped her fingers as if she just remembered something important, "You might trust us at least a little bit more if you knew who we were!" She elbowed Kitsune hard in the ribs.
"OW! Fine! I'll go first!"
"No, actually I'll go first, I just didn't want you to say something sarcastic, you smartass!" Ayame said, smirking, "I am Ayame, a Level 1 Shadowfox, daughter of the Shadowfox Lord."
"Wow... let's see if I can compare with that," Kitsune said drly.
"I warn you now, Inu-Yasha, his identity may shock you... though it will hardly surprise you humans, I suppose," Sesshomaru stated blankly.
"Oh, and one thing first... Sesshomaru? Your pet is still frozen," Kitsune said, pointing towards Rin. Sure enough, the little girl was carrying out her lord's order, standing still as a statue. A bird was sitting on her shoulder.
"Oh, Rin, you can move now," Sesshomaru said, heaving a sigh.
"Thank you, Fluffy!" Rin cried happily, stretching and falling flat into the grass, causing the robin on her arm to flutter away in a startled manner. Inu-Yasha burst out laughing again.
"Did she just call you 'Fluffy'!" the hanyou sputtered when he could actually talk. Sesshomaru looked rather annoyed.
"Kitsune, introduce yourself and save Sesshomaru!" Ayame snapped at the other fox.
"One second," Kitsune said, also trying to recover from a laughing fit, "Okay, I think I'm all right now... Anyway, I am Kitsune, also a Level 1 Shadowfox, though it took quite a lot of threats to get there.. Partner to Ayame, half-brother to Sesshomaru, and brother to Inu-Yasha."