A week into Lori and Shippo's journey they encountered a group of villagers surrounding a body and were kicking and punching it, Lori quickly moved threw the crowd and came upon the site of a badly beaten bat-youkai. Lori spread out her aura and the villagers moved away from her and the demon.

"Touch him again and I will personal kill you all" Lori hissed at them inwardly smirking when they all scrambled away back to their village, she kneeled down next the demon and check over him to see that he was badly injured so she helped him up and walked into the forest to help heal him.

(A clearing in the forest away from the village)

Lori placed the demon against a tree and quickly got to work on healing him, by the time she was done all of his wounds were gone. Lori moved away from him and sat against a tree a little away from him, Shippo walked over to Lori and sat down in her lap for a nap.

(15 minutes later)

Kuronue woke to a ray of sun in his eyes, he quickly sat up looking around him and saw a women and a Kitsune a little ways from him. Shippo stirred awake to notice that their patient was awake and confused, he nudged Lori awake and pointed to the confused demon across from them. Lori smiled and got up holding Shippo in one arm and walking over to the demon, she slowly kneeled down in front of the demon and softly spoke.

"Hello, my name is Lori and this is Shippo, may I ask how you are feeling?" Lori looked him over to make sure he was alright.

"I'm fine, did you save me form the villagers?" Kuronue asked Lori still confused on how he got here, Lori smiled and nodded.

"Yes, may we know your name youkai?" Lori asked softly.

"My name is Kuronue" Kuronue answered politely, Lori smiled.

"Are you hungry Kuronue?"

"A little bit"

"Good I'll be right back" Lori said getting up and disappearing into the forest to go and hunt something to eat, Shippo started making the fire and then sat on the other side on the fire to stare at Kuronue. A little while later Lori came back with a dear already skinned and strewed, she placed it over the fire then sat down next Shippo and then they all waited for their dinner to be ready.

(After dinner)

Shippo was asleep curled up on Lori's lap dreaming away, Lori slowly stroked Shippo's hair. Lori looked up at Kuronue to see him staring at them, she smiled and relaxed back against the tree she was sitting against.

"May I ask you something Kuronue-san?" Lori quietly asked Kuronue who had snapped his head up when he heard her ask him something, he nodded and Lori smiled.

"Do you know where I can find Youko Kurama? I would like to ask him if he could train Shippo" Lori said closing her eyes.

"Your looking for Youko? Well I can help you with that since he is my partner" Kuronue said looking up at the stars.

"Really? Oh Shippo will be so happy to finally meet Youko!" Lori said giggling knowing Shippo would be a handful when they told him tomorrow.

(The next afternoon)

Shippo was bouncing around Lori and Kuronue excited that he would meet the famous Youko Kurama!

"How much longer till we finally get there Kuronue-san?" Shippo excitedly said bouncing on the balls on his feet, Lori giggled at the picture Shippo made.

"Only a little while more, Youko is probably on his way now having sensed me" Kuronue said murmuring the last part to himself but Lori heard him. Not even a couple minutes later they saw a white blur coming towards them, Shippo quickly hid behind Lori. The blur came to stop in front of the small group.

"Youko! How good to see you! I'd like you to meet Lori and Shippo, they saved me from some villagers who were beating on me after I was servilely injured" Kuronue said motioning to the women beside him and the kit hiding behind her.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Youko-sama, Shippo is excited to finally meet you" Lori said bowing slightly and pushing Shippo out from behind her, Shippo stuttered out a hello and ran back behind Lori. Lori giggled and smiled at Youko, Kuronue started to walked the way Youko had come the others following behind him.

"May I ask you a question Youko-sama?" Lori asked.

"Of course, ask away" Youko said watching Lori out of the corner of his eye.

"Well Shippo is getting older and I was wondering if you could help train him" Lori said watching Kuronue walk ahead of them.

"Sure, it's kind of boring around the base nowadays anyway" Youko said thinking of what he could teach the little fox kit, Lori smiled and nodded.

"Thank you Youko-sama, Shippo will be very happy to know that you will be able to train him" Lori said smiling when Shippo bonked Kuronue on the head and scampered over to her and Youko.

(At Youko's hideout)

The group of four walked into the hideout, the other demons inside watched them come in and when they saw Lori they all looked at her with lust in their eyes since they had not been able to have a female's company in a long time since they had been doing a lot of missions as of lately. Lori didn't pay them any mind since she was used to the looks of the male species looking at her like that, she cuddled Shippo closer to her when she saw some of them look at Shippo knowing that they thought if they could get rid of him they could get to her but that was not going to happen. Lori sneered at them and they all backed away from her when they tried to move towards her and Shippo, Kuronue watched this happen with Youko they were both knew she would not be one to mess with.

"Come I shall show you to the room you will be staying in" Youko said motioning to the hallway on the right, Lori and Shippo followed him.

"This shall be your room Shippo and Lori-Chan your room will be right next to his, there is a door that connects your room together" Youko said pointing the room they would be staying in.

"Thank you Youko-sama, I'm going to freshen up and I'll find you when I'm done" Lori said opening her door and venturing inside then closing the door behind her, Youko and Shippo watched her walk into her room then Youko headed towards the training room with Shippo following behind.

(Half-Hour Later)

Lori walked towards where she felt Shippo's aura and found him training with Youko his fox magic and some new techniques, she smiled at how Shippo was trying really hard to concentrate when she could tell all he wanted to do is explore his new home for the next couple months. So thats the ways the next 6 months went by till Youko and his partner Kuronue went on a big heist, Lori sensed something was not right and had decided that she would follow them and make sure everything was alright. Lori watched them go in and then come running out and into the woods, she followed them into the woods and saw the trap set up and them nearing it so she rushed forth and...

The End Of Chapter 8!

Sorry, Cliffhanger! Hopefully Chapter 9 will be up in the next month!

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