A/N: AHHH!! My chapters are getting shorter! NO! Bad Chibi! You will write longer chapters! HAHAHA!!

BlueMouse: Kara? . . . Chibi's talking to herself again . . . she's scaring me.

Kara: Yes . . . well . . . she really likes her story and wants to write more and more but she doesn't want to make her chapters too long, and she wants to have the chapter title fit into the chapter somehow . . . she already fit the title of the story in . . . I'm not making any sense am I?

BlueMouse: Not to me . . . But . . . if she doesn't want to make her chapters too long, why is she complaining about them being short?

Kara: Well . . . I'm thinking she wants to find the happy medium between too long and too short.

BlueMouse: I . . . um . . . see. There's lots of Shippo/OC fluff, but I guess one could call this a filler chapter. So I've explained things to you because Kara is trying to stop Chibi from hitting her head on the wall over and over again . . . Onto the Disclaimer!

Disclaimer: All she owns is two InuYasha posters given from master to apprentice for her birthday! Which happened long before she updated this.

Chapter 8: A Compromise and . . . Feelings?

Shippo looked at Kaira. "Well . . . I think that means that the seal is wearing off . . ." he said, unsure of how much information he wanted to give out.

"What seal? What are you talking about Shippo-kun?" Kaira's eyes widened suddenly. "You don't mean to tell me that I'm a hanyou too?" she asked incredulously.

Shippo rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Well . . . not quite . . . more like a quarter of a demon . . ." he said.

Kaira stared at him for a few seconds. Before placing her head, not so gently, into her hands. "I can't believe this . . ." she muttered.

"What's so hard to believe? InuYasha's a half-demon, Kagome's a human, and you're their daughter. Simple as that."

"There's nothing 'simple' about it! Where I come from, demons aren't even supposed to exist!" Kaira yelled at Shippo.

Shippo was shocked. "You're not accepting this are you?" he asked. He watched with concern as Kaira shook her head.

"How am I supposed to accept this Shippo?" She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. He felt like someone was squeezing his chest when he saw her so sad. "I wake up one morning and suddenly my life has been turned upside down. I've been thrown into a post-industrial revolution world and I've been attacked by a giant snake! I keep thinking that it's a dream, but I'm not waking up! I'm scared of who I might be! I've lived my entire life as a normal human and just about three weeks ago, stuff starts happening that suggests otherwise!" Kaira had completely broken down now and it was nearly killing Shippo to see her in pain. He quickly closed the distance between them and pulled her into a warm embrace. As she sobbed into his shirt he made soothing sounds and gently stroked her hair with his clawed hands.

When Kaira calmed down, she realized that she was in Shippo's arms. 'Is he . . . hugging me?' Well you just cried all over him. 'AHH!! Why do I feel so embarrassed?!' she wondered. 'And . . . why does this feel so . . . nice?' Aww . . . is little Kaira developing a crush? 'Shut up! I am not!' Yes you are! I know what you're feeling! I'm part of you too! 'I SAID SHUT UP!!' The voice when silent and Kaira gently, and reluctantly, pushed herself off of Shippo. "Sorry. I didn't mean to break down like that . . ." she said staring at a spot off to her left.

'Is she . . . blushing?' Shippo wondered as he saw a small tinge of pink spread over her cheeks. "I-it's alright." He stammered suddenly realizing that he had hugged her. 'Maybe she didn't want to be hugged by me!

Kaira looked up at the fox demon. "Thank you Shippo-kun." she said and then let out a giggle as she noticed his flushed face.

"What's so funny?" he asked, the pinkish tinge deepening.

"You're blushing!" she teased.

"I-I'm not!" he said and blushed deeper looking up into the sky.

"Yes you are!" she laughed.

"Well. . ." he looked at her pinkish cheeks. "So are you!" he pointed at her tearstained face.

She immediately put her hands over her face. "Eek! No I'm not!"

"Fine, fine, you're not. Whatever. Are you ready to go back and meet the rest of the gang?" Shippo said remembering what he had followed her for.

Kaira nodded, in a noticeably better mood (Gee I wonder why? 'SHUT UP!') than when Shippo had first found her. "Let's go." she said with a smile

Shippo nodded as well before starting to look awkward. "Um . . . uh . . ." he muttered.

Kaira cocked her head to one side. "What is it?"

"Would you like me to carry you or would you rather go piggyback?" he muttered pressing his index fingers together and blushing again.

Kaira sighed. "I'm supposing that I can't just walk back?"

Shippo blinked. He honestly didn't think of that. "I guess that's also an option . . ." he muttered. "Ok. If you want to walk, you can walk."

"Thank you!" Kaira said and started walking off in the direction she came from.

Suddenly, Shippo rushed up behind her and picked her up in his arms. "On second thought, we're gonna take too long just walking and I'm sure your father's bad mood is only going to worsen if that happens." he said smiling down at her as he jumped over the trees.

Kaira sighed and crossed her arms. "Oh we just CAN'T let that happen can we?" she asked sarcastically.

Shippo laughed. "How about I carry you most of the way and you can walk the last few meters?"

"Sounds reasonable." Kaira said as she allowed herself to be taken back to where she had confronted InuYasha. 'I think I'm gonna regret stepping on his foot. . .' No . . . You think? You're wearing shoes. He's not. 'I probably should apologize shouldn't I?' I'll leave that decision to you. 'Hello?' . . . 'Wow . . . I guess she really DID leave it to me . . .'

End Chapter 8