Ooooo 2,088 words in one chapter….they just keep getting longer and longer. Hope you like it! 

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A/N: Ronina is the new Kagome! She is Kagome.

CHAPTER 6

They all just stood there in silence for what seemed to be an eternity. No one knew what to think. Should they believe this complete stranger? This….youkai?

Shippo had other things on his mind though. This woman, she seemed so familiar. He just couldn't place it…he knew he'd never met her before…he'd never even seen a youkai like her…ever…finally, his curiosity got the best of him and he broke the long silence. "What are you?" simple as the question was, it completely baffled Ronina. She had assumed that from what the shadow fox, from earlier, said, that she was a shadow fox, but she hadn't seen herself yet…so she had no idea if she was. Ronina wasn't the only one confused by this. For the first time everyone, even Kikyou…even Sango, the great demonslayer, didn't know what she was, they had never seen anything like her in their life.

Ronina decided to go with being a shadow fox for right now…he had said he was the last of his kind…right? So then they shouldn't know what she was supposed to look like…right? "I'm a shadow fox"

Everyone was still silent, they had never heard of that before…was she lying? Sango was the first to ask. " Why have I never heard of a shadow fox before? I come from the best demonslayer tribe around. We make it our business to know all the types of demons."

Yet again Kagome was stumped for an answer. What should she say? Even if they were on the brink of extinction…shouldn't they have been heard of before? Sango always said that they always made records of the demons, that they'd been documented for generations. Even Shippo didn't know and he was a fox too…'I don't get it….what do I tell them?...maybe this 'starting new' thing isn't gonna be as easy as I thought…' "Well, um…"

Everyone could clearly see that the demoness didn't have an answer for them.

Sango POV

'Why haven't I heard of her? Why should have her kind documented somewhere…and the only ones that are documented that we don't study about are the extinct ones. We use those in bedtime stories. But its obvious that they aren't extinct, there is one standing right in front of me…'

"Is your kind close to extinction then?"

"oh…um…yes, all I know of is me and another. And he had thought he was the last." Ronina couldn't see where this was going. What did 'her kind' being close to extinction have to do with anything?

Sango took a moment to digest this new information…"yes…then it could be possible that my ancestors and such, had declared you extinct before you where. Thus they didn't have a need to teach the younger generations of you."

This time it was everyone's time to digest this new information. A youkai that was thought to be extinct really wasn't? That was possible.

Miroku looked outside. It was still raining heavily. He turned to Ronina. "Lady Demoness…"

Ronina cut him off. "please. Call me Ronina. I have never been one for formalities."

Miroku shifted, giving this a moments thought, he too, like Shippo, had the feeling that she was someone they knew. "Very well, Ronina, would you mind if we join you in this cave? It is still raining very hard outside and-"

Ronina cut him off " yes. It would be perfectly fine. There is some wood in the back of the cave. If you wish, you may start a fire to warm yourselves. It is in my understanding that humans have weak immune systems, so being cold and wet for too long will cause you to become sick. Is that correct?"

everyone was shocked by this. Since when did a demon, especially an almost extinct demon, now about humans? Usually they hated humans. And that little bit of info would mean either that she had studied humans, or she had traveled with humans…but if she had traveled with humans…word about unusual things…such as unheard of demons…that would travel fast…so how?

Inuyasha decided that he had been quiet to long. "Feh, and how do you know so much about humans?"

Ronina gave this a moments thought. 'well…so far I've ended up leading them to believe that I'm some…mindreader…lets see how long I can make them believe that…I know pretty much how all their minds work. This could be fun'

"how have I known everything else?" Everyone shifted wearily, just what they needed, someone to read their thoughts.

Sometime later, sitting around the fire

when they went to get the wood for the fire, they found that there was also meat back there. Ronina figured that the mystery man had left it for her. So they went and cooked it. So now they were sitting in front of a fire, eating the now cooked meat. They sat in silence for a while before Miroku decided to get some much wanted answers. He turned to Ronina and Kikyou. "ladies…"

The 2 women looked at him.

"so…how did you 2, come to know each other?" With this question, everyone looked up. None of them had thought of that.

Ronina looked at Kikyou. Would Kikyou tell them? 'heh, why shouldn't she? She hates me.'

Kikyou looked at Ronina. The look on her face said that she knew what Ronina was thinking. "hmm…Ronina, maybe you should explain this." She said her name with a bit of amusement. Truthfully, Kikyou wanted to know what her reincarnation was up to.

Ronina just sat there with a look of astonishment on her face. 'she's not going to tell them? Wow' Ronina silently thanked any gods watching over her, then she thought of Akiko and couldn't help but smile at the irony of it all. Then she noticed everyone was staring at her expectantly. "Heh…um…ok…where to begin? Heh heh…" Ronina started looking around, foolishly hoping that some rock or something would jump out and help her. Her gaze stopped on a water puddle. She couldn't see much, but she could see the top of her hair. It was nothing like what she was expecting. The roots were black. As it worked its way down, it faded into the colour of blood. Her hair was fuller than it used to be. She could see on her forehead was a little swirly mark. Almost like a snake. It was black with a pale green outlining. Her eyes were now more angled. Like that of a cat. The pupils were reduced to mere slits. Her irises were a mild pale green. Where the eyes should be white, it was a lighter version of the green in the iris. She had a black line under each eye that went from the middle of her eye to her cheekbone. She had 2 slashes beside eye. Her lips, blood red in colour, like her hair. Two little fangs peeked out between her closed lips. She also had to slashes on each cheek going down toward her neck. They were a off white colour, barley noticeable against her pale skin. Her skin looked like it was kissed by the moon itself. But strangely enough, the mark on her forehead, didn't look like the others, the others looked more like birthmarks, they looked…more natural. The thing on her head looked more…like it was put there. The green outline even made it look like it was glowing. Ronina slowly unconsciously raised her hand to touch it, but before she could reach it, she was brought out of her revere by someone clearing their throat. Ronina turned to she everyone staring at her.

"heh, oh sorry, got lost in my own little world…what were we talking about?"

Everyone fell over.

"jeez…you're worse than Kagome. Your sposed to tell us how you and Kikyou met. Dummy." Ronina stuck her tongue out at Shippo.

"heh…I knew that…um…ok…how we met…well um…"….'I wish Kikyou would help me with this…I have no idea what to say..'

everyone turned when Kikyou gasped.

'oh great…what's her problem now.'

Kikyou seemed to get over what ever had surprised her as she stared at Ronina. 'My problem, is how is it that you have come by telepathic powers.'

Now it was Kagome's turn to gasp as she heard Kikyou's voice in her head. 'oh my god…you can hear me?'

'heh…well you obviously haven't learned how to use it yet…your sub-conscious must have contacted me since you are so worried about what to tell them.'

'huh…yea...wow…this is so cool!'

everyone sat there watching the silent exchange going on between the 2 girls. All were lost as to what was going on.

'um…Kikyou?'

'what?'

'are you...um…going to tell them?…um tell them that I'm Kagome?'

'hmm…I've thought about it and decided against it.'

'REALLY? Why? Why would you do that for me?'

'heh. Silly girl. I'm not doing it for you. I think this will provide great entertainment through-out this journey.'

'oh…so…um…what are we gonna tell them?'

'urgh…you're absolutely hopeless. Fine. Let me handle this.'

After their little mental exchange of words, Kikyou told them some story off of the top of her head. (A/N I'm not gonna tell the story cuz I have no idea what to say and the story is just a lie and has no significance anyway)

Later that night

once everyone had gone to sleep, except Inuyasha because he didn't trust being asleep with an unknown demon in the same place, Ronina laid there wondering back onto the days events. She really had to admit. She was taking this whole 'I'm a demon now' thing really well. She would have thought that she'd be flipping out and crying, but she wasn't. Being a demon, it almost felt…natural, like she'd always been this way. Like this was the way it had always been meant to be….then is dawned on her. 'how am I supposed to go see my family? How am I supposed to go to school? How am I supposed to go stuck up on stuff? What am I supposed to eat?' then it really came down on her like a ton of bricks. 'how…am I supposed to… see my family ever again?…I can't go through the well anymore…they'll know its me…and I can't let my family see me like this…I can't…I'll never see them again…ok…I'm not taking this 'being a demon' thing very good anymore…I think I need some air.'

With that Ronina got up and went outside, it had stopped raining some time ago. She could feel Inuyasha's eyes on her. Watching her every move. 'how am I supposed to do this? I can't exactly join myself back in with them, they don't trust me…nor do they know me anymore…I can't exactly go out on my own…can I? I've never been on my own in the feudal era before though. I don't even think I could make it out alone in my own era…I guess that isn't my era anymore…this is…I'm no longer anyway connected back there. I can't go back…so now what am I supposed to do? And what are they gonna do when they catch and kill Naraku and realize that I'm not with him? This is so confusing…Kikyou's right…this could turn out to provide great entertainment for her… I'm glad she'll get a kick outta this. Atleast someone will.' Ronina sighed. This was going to be a long night.

So what do you think? I hope the typo's aren't that bad in here this time. My head tends to go faster than my hands can type.  Hehe. I got 25 reviews faster then I thought I was gonna get em ; …was kinda like 'well now I can have a little break' then the next it was like. 'omg…I gotta write that chap. I got the reviews.' Lol. That's what I get. I think it turned out pretty good. If I lose anyone again just tell me. K? if you got questions just asked. And HaHa! You don't know what Kagome…er…I mean Ronina fully looks like yet. sticks my tongue out at you at least you know what her head looks like. FYI: Her bangs now go to her chin and FRAME her face, they are black tipped as well as the rest of her hair. Her hair is a little longer than it used to be too. Um….once I get a scanner I'll show you some pics I drew of her. kk? good. BAI FOR NOW! Hehe.