Authoress: I'm going to enjoy writing this chapter. A lot.
Hiei: I'm going to regret being in this chapter.
Kurama: I'm going to regret being in this dimension with you.
Authoress: By the way, readers, chances are this is going to be more than 2 parts, or longer in a sense that she'll stay in this dimension for a while.
Heie: Oh good god.
Botan: Oh shut up!
All 3: O-O
Botan: YES I'M HERE NOW GET ON WITH THE STORY!

Disclaimer: (cowering from frivolous lawsuits) I don't own anything that I didn't create!

Chapter 8
Demons Bite!
Part 1

'Mmm, where am I?' she thought drowsily as she sat up her eyes a bit clouded over. She had to blink to adjust them. Surprisingly they adjusted quite quickly and acutely. Botans bubble-gum colored eyes were clear and she swore she could see every color in the world and with great ability.

Green assaulted her vision more than anything else. A forest of some kind? She supposed so. Some brown mixed with the green of the trees and grass. A clearing of some sorts, she decided.

Next, her hearing made itself known as she heard birds singing and chirping. Botan counted every note as if it was a song playing no farther than two feet away from her. The girl closed her perfect eyes and listened intently. It was beautiful.

The smell of flowers, trees, and various other things reached her nose and she had to cover her nose to keep all the smell away from her powerful sense.

That's when she noticed her attire had changed; thankfully from that dreadfully tight dress she had had on. A simple, yet very comfortable kimono adorned her small body. It was pure white with light blue stars dancing around the bottom. The bottom dress, under the main part, was a dark blue. She admired it with a smile. It was much more intricate than her regular uniform and obi.

Something flickered in her vision and her head turned quickly to catch sight of something that caught her totally off guard.

A scream erupted from the forest. Birds took flight, people looked towards the woods, and the wind grew still.

"A TAIL! I DON'T HAVE A TAIL!" Botan exclaimed loudly. Yes, indeed, behind her was a very light blue furred tail that was about four feet long, which was tippped with pure white fur.

'Um, now you do,' Penny said quietly.

"WHAT? WHY DO I HAVE A TAIL?" she asked loudly holding her head in surprise. It was then she felt her 'ears'. Two light blue furred triangular ears sat atop her head, partly hidden under her light blue hair, which had grown down around her shoulders. "Oh my god, I'm a-"

'Demon,' Penny squeaked.

"Oh my god-" Botan uttered and for the second time in twenty four hours fainted.

And again, she woke up with a killer headache. Her eyes fluttered open and adjusted. She was being prodded but a stick and she sprang up and away about twenty feet. 'Whoa, demon reflexes!' she thought quickly.

Her thoughts were interrupted as her eyes fell on the people that woke her. The one with the annoying stick was a small frog-like demon with a staff with unusual ornaments on it. The taller, well, much taller one was a higher level demon. She could tell by the way he held himself.

Botan's breath caught in her throat as she looked over him. He had long silvery white hair and piercing violet eyes (?). Purple stripes marked his cheeks and hands. His kimono was white with a purple under-dress and lining. What she supposed was his tail wrapped around one shoulder and a belt of spikes adorned his other.

"You, kitsune, what are you doing in Lord Sesshoumaru's lands?" the toad yelled at her in a raspy voice.

'Oh my god! I guess I am a kitsune! Wait 'til Kurama sees this!' she thought and then shook her head looking to the two.

"Um, well, I didn't know these were his lands," she said lamely, straightening from her almost fighting stance. The toad ogled at her.

"How can you not know theses are the western lands!" he exclaimed angrily. "Lord Sesshoumaru, I say you kick this impertinent demoness from your sight!"

Botan scowled angrily. "Hey, I just got here, and I don't know my way around. So excuse me for not know that I had landed in your lands, but try putting up some signs or something, you rude toad," she growled, and knew she felt fangs. What happened next was quite unexpected. Her hands grew warm, hot in fact, and like a spark igniting a small inferno fire formed in her hand.

'Well, look at that, you're a fire kitsune,' Penny quipped. Botan got her temper under control and the fire disappeared.

"Why you-" the toad began.

"Jaken, be quiet," the taller demon told him. The male demon stepped forward and Botan's demon mind flickered. 'Inu-demon.'

Out of reflex Botan took a step back as he neared. He then quickened his steps by a few quick steps and Botan's adrenaline started and she turned and ran.

Her speed was incredible. Botan laughed even though she was also terrified that he was following. It felt like flying. So this was demonic speed. It was exhilarating!

She burst from the trees onto grassy hills and kept running. The deity turned demon had her fun ruined though when something whip-like wrapped around her waist and pulled her backwards. In fact, is was a whip.

With a yelp Botan was pulled back and hit someone's chest, an arm wrapping around her waist to keep her secure as the whip let her loose. She struggled.

"Let me go!" she growled.

"Be still fox," the demon from before growled in her ear. Botan immediately stilled and her tail tensed slightly. "You had no reason to run from this Sesshoumaru," he said calmly.

'Is he talking in third person?' she asked herself. "Sorry, it was a reflex," she answered, trying to keep her temper in check.

"If I release you, you will not run, understand?" he asked, though she knew it was a command. She nodded slowly and he uncoiled his arm and tail (which she noticed as it moved back) from her waist.

Taking one step away from him she turned and glared. "What do you want?" she asked him.

"To know if you truly do not know where you are," he told her and looked to the ground in disinterest.

"Of course, why would I lie about something like that?" she said, a bit offended that he called her a liar. Which was ironic, because she had lied a lot in life, but mainly in work only. "So, you mind telling me where I am?" she asked.

"You are in the Western Lands," he said bluntly. She sighed.

"Of what country?" Botan insisted, thinking he was dodging something.

"This Sesshoumaru does not know what you speak of. That is the name of my lands. Though my filthy half-brother's onna calls this play the Feudal Era," he said nonchalantly. Botan's ears twitched and she held in a giggle because it tickled.

Something in Botan's mind clicked and she looked swiftly to him. "This girl, -cough- onna, is she a bit different from the inhabitants here?" Botan asked curiously.

Sesshoumaru looked to the blue-haired kitsune and nodded, understanding what she meant. "She is very strange, and this Sesshoumaru knows she is not from here."

'Yes!' botan cheered mentally. "Where might I find her?" the once deity, now demon asked quickly.

The Lord of the Western lands simply pointed in the eastern direction (?). "She usually stays in that disgusting human village with that old woman priest-"

The silver-haired demon didn't finished because Botan had started to run in that direction faster than the human eyes could see. "Thanks!" she called back before disappearing into the forest.

The inu-lord stood on the hill looking after her. His servant toad came hobbling up the hill huffing and puffing, catching up with his master.

"Odd-female," Sesshoumaru muttered.

"Well, I hope you taught her a lesson, Lord Sesshoumaru," Jaken said, sighing and catching his breath.

"Jaken, when we get back to the castle, gather Rin, we're heading to my half-brother's village," Sesshoumaru said suddenly and turned, walking down the hill, back to his fortress of a home.

"Wait, my Lord, wait for this humble Jaken!" Jaken called after and tried to waddle after the tall demon-lord.

"DEMON! DEMON!" were the shouts that rang through the village as the sun started to set.

'Oh great,' the kitsune thought. 'They think I've come to eat them or something. Ew, I'm no cannibal.'

Jumping down from the roof she had landed on when coming out of the forest, Botan looked to all the people with torches and pitch forks. Botan had to bite her tongue to keep back any sarcastic comments about their matter of battle against a full-blooded demon.

"What is it ye want with this village?" asked an older woman, standing to the front of the mob. She had an aged face and hair that had been touched by the hand of time, making it a gray color. An eye patch covered one of her eyes and she was slightly slouching, a sign that life had taken its toll.

"I wish to speak with a young girl I believe comes here. She is different from others in this land," Botan spoke clearly and gasps went through the crowd. 'So she does come here,' her mind confirmed.

"She's come for the jewel shards!" someone accused loudly, though dare not step forward to point the finger. Botan growled. She had no intention of stealing anything!

"Begone demon! Ye not welcome here!" the old woman said.

Botan frowned. "Look here I came for-"

The female demon stopped mid-sentence when a flash of red and white sprang from the shadows and towards her. Her nose caught his smell, which was of human and demon. Then her ears caught the sound of him rushing through the air. He was coming to attack her.

What happened next was quite unexpected. Another flash, much faster than the first, rushed past Botan and the two collided.

"Another demon!" shouted a man from the crowd.

"Inuyasha is fighting him!" someone countered with a cheer.

Botan stood, bug-eyed at the scene. Before her a half-demon (her mind had determined) dressed in a red and white fighting-style kimono was blade to blade with another demon, who was supposedly protecting Botan.

Bubble-gum colored eyes roamed over the half-demon. He had white almost silver hair and cute little ears, almost like hers on the top of his head. In his hands he held a rather large sword that pulsed with power.

Botan however was not moved in the least by this half-breed. What shocked her beyond belief was the full demon with the other blade.
Crossed with the half-demon's was a short, yet very sturdy katana. And the hands that held that blade belonged to none other than a short, spiky-haired male demon.

"HIEI?" Botan shouted. Her demon mind, however, reacted to the fact that her friend was in danger first. Darting forward her right hand inflamed and she jumped up. "MOVE!" she shouted and Hiei blurred away before Botan brought her hand on the half-demon's back.

'Protective kimono!' she thought surprised. Her fire didn't penetrate the half-demon's kimono, but her blow was enough to send him to the ground.

Flipping back, making the human crowd back away with gasps, she growled. "I wish to talk to the girl, I'm not here to harm anyone!" she growled, her eyes darkened to a violet color.

"YEAH RIGHT!" the half-demon (Inuyasha, she registered) cried and got up, only losing his breath and swung the sword towards him.

"SIT!" came a call from the shadows of a small hut. Inuyasha went crashing to the ground.

"Nani?" Botan asked suddenly, calming considerably.

"If she wants to talk to me, then I'll talk to her!" exclaimed a petite girl as she stepped from the crowd.

'Yup, that's not the apparel from around here,' Botan thought with relief. The girl wore a sailor style school uniform, proving she was from modern times… or in Botan's case, dimension.

"Who are you?" she asked Botan rather abruptly.

"Hold on," Botan said, holding a clawed finger up. "Where'd you go Hiei? I can still smell you here!" she called.

"Hn," came his usual reply as he blurred into view again. Botan then turned to the girl.

"Hiya, I'm Botan, this is Hiei, he doesn't talk much," she said cheerfully. "I'm here to talk to you about the dimension you originate from, and to ask you where I am, I'm new!"

The villagers stared at her and the uniformed girl blinked and nodded. "Well, we should probably go inside or something."

"Alright, tell me where and I'll be right there," Botan said with a reassuring smile.

"Ye can come to my home. You be safe there," the old woman from before said to the human girl and she nodded.

"Well, I'm Kagome, and we'll be in the house over there," she said and pointed to one of the human dwellings. Botan nodded and the crowd dispersed. Kagome dragged the half-conscious body of Inuyasha off.

The blue-haired kitsune rounded on the shorter demon. He looked to her as he had done nothing wrong, out of place, or awkward.

There was a long silence and the half-koorime took the opportunity to let his eyes roam over her new form. His demon mind noted her swishing blue tail, which was twitching in agitation or excitement, he couldn't decide.

"Like what you see?" a voice interrupted his musings and his eyes darted back to hers. He was about to say something witty but the sight of blue stopped him.

'She's hugging me,' his mind registered.

Botan had thrown her arms around him in frenzy and was hugging him tightly, as a friend would after seeing a long lost friend.

"I missed you so much!" she exclaimed.

'NANI!' Hiei thought.

Authoress: WHEW!
Hiei: O-O
Kurama: I hate you right now...
Sesshoumaru: THAT'S ALL I GET?
Authoress: VOTES!

Hiei- 7
Kurama- 8
Sesshy- 6

Authoress: Keeping Harry on the list is not worth it… sorry.
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