Chapter 9
Amara woke and sat up to find that everyone else was still asleep. She smiled as she looked down from her perch in a tree. Everyone seemed to be happy even Inuyasha seemed happy though he didn't show it. Angel had made a quick recovery as did Koga and Kurama's brother Kory. Koga had decided to stay with them much to Inuyasha's argument, which ended with Kagome sitting him. Kagome soon woke to find that Amara had already started breakfast. Kagome suddenly realized that Shippo wasn't in her sleeping bag with her. She looked around worried that he had gone off by himself and gotten hurt. She then spotted his furry little tail poking out of a blanket. She walked over and pulled the cover off to find him sound asleep even snoring on top of Sakura. Kagome tried to suppress a giggle at the site of them. Shippo woke to the sound of Kagome's giggles. He looked around and found himself laying on top of Sakura's stomach and his face began heating up. Kagome stopped laughing and noticed Shippo blushing. "Don't worry Shippo your secrets safe with me" said Kagome turning around. Sakura woke up just as Kagome was leaving to start breakfast. "Wow I slept like a log" said Sakura yawning. Shippo quickly hopped off her stomach and stretched his muscles. Avalanche watched as Shippo went over and disappeared into Kagome's bag and then reappeared with a weird looking package. Shippo brought the package over to Sakura and gave it to her. "Here you can share with me" said Shippo opening the bag and handing Sakura a handful of candy. Sakura looked at it funny and watched as Shippo stuffed tons of it his mouth. She then tried it and was amazed at how sweet and delicious it was. "What is this stuff" she asked reaching for more. "Its some kind of candy that Kagome gets from her time" answered Shippo his mouth full of candy. Kagome soon scolded them for eating candy before breakfast and took the candy away from them. By the time breakfast was done the everyone was awake. During breakfast Sakura talked about her family's heritage much to everyone's surprise considering that yesterday she wouldn't even look at any of them but Shippo seemed to have gotten through to her. Her and Shippo seemed to have gotten pretty close already as if they understood each other. The next few days passed rather quickly as they made their way back to Kaedes village. Amazingly they didn't meet any demons on the way not even Sesshomaru got in their way. When they reached the village Kagome told them that she was going back to her time to get more supplies and food. Inuyasha tried to stop her, he chased her around for hours until Kagome finally had had enough and yelled "SIT" causing the prayers bead around his neck to glow and pull him to the ground with a thump. Towards evening Shippo noticed that Sakura started to become more fidgety and jumpy and he didn't know why. Kagome finally returned an hour later with loads of food and toys for everyone. She even brought some comfortable clothes for Amara, Jordann, Brittany, and Angel. The girls spent the night at the hot springs talking about the guys and what's next for them after they destroy naraku. Sakura seemed to get quieter and kept to herself as darkness drew near. When they returned she didn't even invite Shippo to sleep with her like normal. This bothered Shippo but he didn't bother her and went to sleep with Kagome. After everyone was asleep and the full moon started to rise shining its light on their camp waking Shippo up so her got up to go see what Sakura was doing. When he reached her spot she wasn't there neither was Avalanche. He followed her scent to a small clearing where a bunch of night flowers grew. There she sat in the center on her knees staring up at the moon. Sakura sensed his presence and turned her head to look at him. "Hey Shippo what are you doing out of bed" she asked. "I should be saying the same for you" answered Shippo. "Well I guess its time for you to know the truth, Shippo I'm not what you think I am, sure I come from a Samurai village but what I didn't tell you was that my father was a fox Youkai lord" said Sakura. "But if your half fox Youkai then why don't you look it" asked Shippo. "Well that's just my father put a spell on me to hide me from the villagers so now I look like a fox on the full moon is when Iand the rest of the time I look like a human" answered Sakura standing up. Just as she stood up the moon came out from behind the clouds and light surrounded her. As the light engulfed her Shippo watched as her nails became long and pointed and her hair grew to past her waist. Two brown fox ears poked out of the top of her head and yellowish highlights went through her hair. A fluffy tail sprouted from behind her also highlighted with yellow. She opened not blue but green and yellow eyes that could reach into your very soul. Shippo stood stunned as the light disappeared. He had never seen anyone or anything so beautiful in his whole life. Just then her pet wolf Avalanche appeared and stood next to her. Sakura approached the stunned Shippo and picked him up.
"I see you like my new form according to your stunned face and dropped jaw" said Sakura giggling. Shippo snapped out of his daze and looking up into her eyes. "Sorry its just I've never met a Fox hanyou before, why didn't you tell us in the first place" said Shippo. "Well I was afraid of what your reaction would be" replied Sakura. "You should have been worried about that Inuyashas half dog demon" asked Shippo. "Yeah I guess it was kinda silly but you can never be too sure" answered Sakura setting Shippo down. "Oh" was all that Shippo could say. "If its okay with you id like to stay here for the night I'm not sure as to what the others reaction will be so you can go back to camp and rest, me and avalanche will be okay" said Sakura. "No I'm not going to leave you here by yourself what if a demon attacks besides I don't wanna go back to camp" demanded Shippo. Sakura giggled and then nodded "Okay then you can spend the night with me" she said as she laid down with her head resting on Avalanche's stomach. Shippo jumped up into her lap and was asleep the moment he closed his eyes. Sakura looked down at him and smiled then fell into a peaceful sleep. The next morning Shippo woke to find that Sakura had changed back into her normal form. Sakura's eyes fluttered open and they stared at each other for a while until Sakura broke the silence. "Are you ready to go back to camp" she said. Shippo nodded in reply and they all three walked back to camp. Kagome was already up and asked where they went. They both replied that they went for a walk although Kagome didn't really believe them.