"Mrs. Higurashi I'm back!" Coming in all excited, I had just passed my mid-terms and was ready for winter break to begin. I turned the corner to find cooking something when she looked back and seemed much older than she was a short while ago? "Um... ?" I reached out and she turned to a skeleton before my eyes by rapidly aging! "What the hell?!"
Panicked, I ran upstairs to my room and the stairs cracked beneath my feet as I fell through the floor into an abyss.
"AAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhh!"
The fall was endless to me it seemed. Nothing was below or above me any longer and I felt my heart bursting with fear before the abyss became a burst of light and dropped me at the festival. The familiar crowd gathering for the festivities was just as I recalled it last and I got up weakly to find myself in the same kimono I was given. There was no telling what was happening to me, but I ran through the throng of faceless people until reaching the shrine at the top of the staircase only to find the shrine I reached belonging to the fox priestess.
"What the hell is happening right now?"

"You sure are a nuisance of a soul."
Hearing the priestess and turning every which way I could to find her, she was nowhere in my line of sight.
"I have given you power many would die to get their hands on...yet you refute me every damn moment. What does a mere mortal girl even want in their life?" She appeared behind me with her slender frame and sharp claw beneath my chin to have me face her. The human guise a bewitching beauty to behold, even for me, she looked annoyed and angered. "Why won't you just submit to it? There's no fear of aging...you can have a powerful demon at your beck and call, bowing to you even as they lie hopeless for more."

"That's...that's just not me." I was back in my normal form, my reflection showing against a large reflective glass that now surrounded us both, I was actually relieved to see my normal self again. "I don't want power, or the envy of others and I-"

"What of him then? Hmm?" She circled me now. Her eyes changing from a fox to a woman, back and forth between the two visage. "he was captured by your power...the feeling of ecstasy that thrilled such a demon to bed you made you feel powerful, did it not?" She waved her hand and the appearance of Sesshomaru came forth and stepped out of the mirror and stood before us both. "Tell me, human, does your heart not waver when seeing him? Does it not quiver each time he gives you attention?" Coaxing me, feeling myself being harassed, it was hard to deny her words. "When he ravaged you did you not feel powerful? How utterly wonderous it felt when he gave in to his desire and-"

"I get it!" My voice echoed in the blank room and the appearance of Sesshomaru changed. he was just like the night he took me and I felt myself become vulnerable to him. "No...it wasn't even-I don't know if he-" unable to form words as he crept closer, eyeing me like prey as a sensual growl escaped his lips I could barely stand upright. "Stop this!"

"Why..." she cooed. Her voice now a soft lilt, she was behind him and caressing his chest provocatively. "He's a hot blooded demon who yearns for power. Having that power reside in you and giving you the utmost pleasure should be as enticing as forbidden fruit."

"...I'm not like this...stop messing with my head!" She came to me so quickly that I stopped breathing when she cupped my chin.

"I only gave you a power that will entice demons of a good breed. You on the other hand have awakened an inner desire for yourself that I barely coaxed out of you." She spun me around and two mirrors were before me. One showed my normal self as the other showed the transformation. "You turned to what you wish to be when you felt yourself beginning to change. I may have been guiding you, but it was you yourself that wanted to be more attractive to him. just as I wished to attract his father and garner his attention."
She showed herself in the mirror as a dull little girl with dark brown hair and freckled skin hiding behind long dreads of hair covering herself like a sheet. "I was no different from you..."

"...you were human?" baffled, she scoffed and slashed at the image and looked back to me with a grin.

"Being human was the worst thing that happened to me. Beaten and starved until I couldn't walk the streets, left to die. The fox before me took pity on one such as I and found me purpose. I held power that no human would take into consideration and the demons valued me like a priceless jewel."

"...so you sacrificed your humanity?"

"Sacrificed? Foolish word of choice. I admonished my human skin and became what you see before you." Her flare was overdone but she held a radiance to herself that spoke more than words could. "Don't you see child?" Turning me back to the mirror. "You thought it was always me coaxing you along, but really, it was yourself doing it the entire time using my face."

I stared hard at the mirror and found our first encounter as she did as she pleased with my soul. After that was the dreams I had of her and after that was the countless times I berated myself.

"That there," she pointed, "I have only ever told you how to use the foxfire...you chose me as an enemy when it was yourself all along."
Countless times I tossed about and slowly I watched myself change and morph into something I was unfamiliar with. There was nothing more I could think of saying to the priestess. I was seeing it unfurl before my eyes and there was nothing more to say. "So what will you do then..."

"What do you mean?"

"That deity was cleansing us and tearing me apart from you. Releasing your soul apart from me. What do you want to do with the foxfire that is now cast aside?"
the scene changed and a small temple was before us. It held the blue flame inside the small temple guarded by two stone foxes. The priestess walked to it with grace and sat upon the small steps leading to the shrine. The other was a simple sphere of white that hovered gently over a pool of water. I was drawn to both and didn't know what to do in this scenario until the priestess scoffed.

"Don't have to think that hard...do you want to be together with the young lord or return to being a pitiful human with nothing." Clearing that matter up, I wanted to confirm something.

"What would it take to choose to be myself while having the flame? I just want to retain my sense of humanity..."

"Can't have both. Choose if you want to be a weak soul or a powerful one."