The Black Kitsune

Chapter 4

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The group walked on towards the nearest village. They stopped at a tree to rest. A little bit on the way there, Miroku got feverish. This was noticed on account that he asked a tree for directions and called an attacking youkai a 'pretty nurse', which promptly scared it away. Other than that, nothing happened. (Wow, I could die from all the excitement there!)

Kirei was walking along a path when she saw something. She walked up to it and saw a youkai standing in the middle. 'Hey! She looks like Inu-tou-san! (sweatdrop)' she thought, and walked up to her. 'But she doesn't smell like Inu-tou-san...' She spoke up, loudly, "Hey miss pretty lady~y! Who are you?" The woman looked at Kirei, surprise then anger on her beautiful face. (Or so Kirei thought, until...)

"What did you call me?!" HE said. 'OH! She's a he!' Kirei thought.

"Sorry, MR. Lady!" *SMILE* Kirei barked out politely. (Or so she thought... ^-^) The man-woman popped a vein in his forehead. His eyes grew red.

"I am Sesshomaru-sama, lord of the Western Lands! How dare you-" Sesshomaru- sama growled, but was cut off when Kirei promptly jumped on his shoulder and played with his hair.

"Wow! You're hair is really soft! I LUV it! Mmm..." Kirei buried her face into his hair. Sesshomaru blushed and looked over at her. He calmed down enough to assess her. ' Kitsune, pup, female, although anyone could have noticed that.' He sniffed his surroundings. 'No parents. I smell my idiot brother on her though.' He wondered what Inuyasha might be doing with a pup like Kirei. With all his kind and loving thoughts towards is brother, Sesshomaru grew sick when he thought of the possibilities Inuyasha MIGHT use a pup for. 'Ew...Ugg.... NO! BAD HEAD! BAD HEAD!' Sesshomaru was so deep in thought; he didn't notice Kirei was braiding his hair. He looked at her. He thought he might wait to see what else she would do, and see if he could use this info to better bring up Rin.

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Inuyasha and company decides at that precise moment to become worried about Kirei and go find her. All of the sudden, Inuyasha catches a scent on the wind. 'What the...' "Hey! I smell food!" (Everyone 'anime' faints.) Kagome walks up and smacks Inuyasha.

"We're supposed to be looking for Kirei!" Kagome yelled. Inuyasha cowered before her. Is eyes watered VERY pathetically. (Of course, at this time, he was faking) "Oh, I'm sorry Inuyasha!" She hugged him kindly. His eyes widened. He brought up his arms and hugged her.

"Oh Kagome! I love you! I swear! I'll protect you! I also promise to never trick you into going nice and soft on me like I just did ever again!" Inuyasha declared. All of the sudden, he felt very cold. He thought the feeling could be described as having massive amounts of people giving him a threatening stare. Inuyasha looked around, but only saw Kagome, Miroku, and Sango (Shippo and Kirara were off playing, though they suddenly looked in the groups general direction and prayed for the person who was going to hurt tomorrow morning.) and Miroku and Sango were busy listening. (And Sango hit Miroku an the head.) Inuyasha decided it was Kagome who was doing the glaring. 'How could one human pack such hate into a single glare?' He almost wet his pants, except that would thoroughly embarrass him in this fic. "Uh... Kagome?"

"Inuyasha, the forever tactless one." Miroku sighed. Sango nodded.

"TRICK ME INTO GOING NICE AND SOFT ON YOU, EH?" Kagome gritted out, a forced smile on her face. Her voice sounded awfully like the wicked witch of the west and two giant pieces of rough metal grinding into each other put together. "I'LL SHOW YOU SOFT!" *censored scene*

Miroku & Sango: "Ooh . . . Ow . . . E- OOHH! Ohhh . . . Eee-ewww . . . That's gonna hurt! Oh . . . Argh-ow-eeee! Ee-ahh! . . . Oooo . . .ugh . . . I'm gonna be sick (-Sango) . . . Does that even bend that way?! Ergh . . ."

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After that scene, the group comes upon Sesshomaru and Kirei. Kirei is making dreadlocks and Sesshomaru is talking about financial problems at his castle. (What? I need my money too! - Sess.) Inuyasha is walking (AN-WOW. I didn't know he'd be able to WALK after THAT) with crutches. He sees Sess and Kirei. He faints. "Uh-oh. I think he broke something else. Maybe his brain fried too." Kagome commented. Sess sees them. He quickly grabbed Kirei, put her down, whispered something into her ear, and flew off. "Kirei! What did he say to you?" Kagome called, running towards Kirei and checking for injuries. (Inuyasha- Worry about me, will ya?!)

"He said, come visit sometime. I live in a big castle in my lands, due west of here." Kirei said." He was really nice." (O.o - Author, permanently scarred mode) In the background, we see Inuyasha fainting again. (Ouch)

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Later on, Shippo comes up to Kirei. "Hey, Kirei, will you come with me? I want to show you something." Shippo said. He smiled. Kirei smiled back and blinked her blue eyes. He slightly blushed. Shippo took her to a field. "Watch this field." In a little while, the moon came up and the field burst with light. Kirei gasped. "Moon flies. When they get hit with moonlight, they glow like a jewel." Shippo looked at Kirei. She laughed and giggled. Suddenly, Kirei jumped up and turned into a fox cub. She glided and pranced through the field, the moon lighting upon her black fur. She yipped an invitation to Shippo, who gladly yipped back. He turned into a fox (Kirei had taught him earlier) and joined in the dance in the moonlight.

Finally, they tired out and lay in the middle of the field. They turned back into their humanoid selves and snuggled close. Kirei opened her wide, contrasting eyes to Shippo. "Shippo?" "Nn?" "I love you!" She snuggled up more, giggling softly as Shippo's whole body went rigid and all his blood went to his face.

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Crystal-chan- Well? What do you think for a fluffy scene? ^^ I luv writing this stuff! And before anyone tries to say anything about them being too young, they didn't do anything, and this is almost like a little crush, kay? Also, to all those die-hard Sesshomaru fans, I'M ONE TOO! But sacrifices must be mad for the sake of comedy. (I'm so sorry! *cries in front of a Sess statue*) OK, ttfn! (I'm going nuts, I swear I am!)