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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here...and welcome to another chapter of Hanyo of Snow.*

*Sorry about the 2 day delay, just got some heavy news recently which I will not get into detail about.*

*Though I am feeling a bit better now, so to make up with the delay I am doing a double update tonight. One chapter of Hanyo of Snow and one chapter of From No One to Someone. That and this story will surpass 100k words after this chapter, so at least is a big milestone to celebrate as well.*

*So let's get started shall we.*

*First off I do not own Inuyasha, it belongs to the amazing Rumiko Takahashi.*

*Secondly just sit back, relax, maybe put some music on and enjoy. I will see you all at the end of the chapter.*

The author snaps his fingers as the chapter begins.

Shippō

(Kagome POV)

It would be an understatement to say that it has been a long past few days so far. Considering I was nearly killed by Inuko's flat chested bitch of a sister, Touma slowly losing his humanity and housing two presences inside his body, burning a toad alive, and the less said about yesterday morning the better it could be justified.

I thought I had seen it all, especially when Amari tripped off a cliff when right after he decided to travel around Nippon and help people out instead of returning to Kai.

But this one takes the cake!

"How can you two eat at a place like this!" I shouted at Inuko and Yura as they were eating cup noodle, with the former looking at Touma's sketchbook. "We are right next to a the remnants of battlefield!"

Honestly how can they eat at a place like this, just thinking about how much blood was spilt here was enough to get rid of my appetite.

"We are just used to it and if you are going to spend time in this era then so will you." Inuko said as she continued to look at Touma's art.

Ever since she saw Touma's painting, which was once again a sight to behold she has been diving deep into his artworks. I can't tell if she secretly has an appreciation for artwork or something else.

I prayed that it was the former one, I already have Yura to deal with on that front already and that harlot isn't even hiding her attempts at trying to seduce him.

"There could be worse places Kagome." Myōga said from Inuko's shoulder as he had returned yesterday with Tessaiga's sheath. "An average battlefield is nothing compared to the disaster areas created by some yokai."

"I suppose you are right, besides it's best out here then in that harlot's ratty nest of hair." I said, getting Inuko to laugh and Yura to scowl. She tried to flex her hands as if to manipulate her hairs.

"Yura do not make me use your comb again." Touma warned as he examined the battlefield.

"Sorry master!" Yura called out, before sending me a scathing glare, causing me to shiver a bit.

She never forgave me for destroying her home and if Touma didn't have her comb on hand then I was pretty sure that she would kill me in my sleep already. That and knowing how important I was to him.

Her devotion to him kind of terrifies me at moments sometimes.

Speaking of Touma, he said that he noticed something on the battlefield and wished to check it out. Under our watchful eyes of course.

If there was one thing we all agreed on, it was that he was turning starting to become a trouble magnet and needed to be monitored whenever possible, lest he get knocked out and kidnapped again.

So with at least one of us keeping an eye on him, he searched the battlefield for the past few minutes and just got back. And judging by his expression it wasn't anything good.

"What did you see Touma?" I asked as he took a seat between myself and Inuko, much to Yura's clear annoyance.

"This battlefield wasn't concluded between humans. Don't you see the burn marks scattering the ground and charring everything left behind that hasn't been reduced to ashes. Add in the the burn patterns I have to say everyone here was incinerated by lightning." Touma said, getting everyone on edge.

So all of this was caused by lightning, no normal storm could have caused this. But while I might not have much knowledge on yokai, I did know of a type of yokai that could have done this.

"So you believe that a raijū did this?" I asked getting him to nod.

Well this isn't good.

Raijū were a type of yokai usually accompanying Raijin, the god of thunder and lightning.

I don't know about how they were in reality, but they were portrayed as aggressive, especially during storms.

"Well these lands were the territory of a raijū clan after all." Myōga said, getting us all except Yura to look at him.

"If you knew about that then why didn't you tell us?" Inuko asked him.

"Simple, they have all died out. Besides this is the barest edge of their territory. They mainly settled down in Raimei Valley about 1 Ri away from here." Myōga explained, getting the others to nod, except for myself.

What in Yomi's name was a Ri?

"It's a term in shakkanō, the unit of measurement in Japan before it changed during the Meiji Restoration to the metric system. A Ri is about 4 kilometers." Touma explained, getting me to nod.

"That would be fine, if they were all wiped out that is." Yura said, getting all of us to face towards here. "Your information is wrong you old flea, there are still 3 members left from that clan. Though the youngest is away from what I here, in the care of distant family the other members have been rather admit about protecting their territory."

"And what reason did you not mention that to us!" I snapped at her.

"Simple, it would be irrelevant if I knew that they would be in master's way. They might be teenagers by raijū standards, but those two are noted to be powerful for their age as of late. So I heard rumors of where their were during the day and plotted our course away from them. Do you think that I would allow master to encounter anything like them so soon after that flat chested bitch attacked us, then you are sorely mistaken!" Yura snapped at me in turn, causing me to sigh.

I suppose she does have a point.

"Well you might be right about that, but you could of at least told me us about it." Touma said, getting her to nod.

"Very well, if we are close to any danger that I know of master I will let you know master." Yura said, leaving out the emphasis on everyone else.

"I suppose that is as good as we will get from the hairy bitch. But I believe we should leave now. Believe me when I say as much as I would like to test the Tessaiga against these raijū as they are worthy first test unlike that overgrown toad, the village isn't that far from here and we should make it just as the sun is starting to set. So maybe another time on that." Inuko said reluctantly.

She sounded dead set on fighting those raijū, but are week is almost over and we have found our Shikon Jewel shard. Plus we do need a break after finding out about what is going on with Touma. A few days of school and we should be good to go for another excursion back into the past.

So I had started to pack up my stuff when I saw a swirl of blue fire forming around us and the area got dark.

"You got to be kidding me." Inuko sighed out as she reached her hand towards Tessaiga. "Myōga is that what I think it is?"

"It is Lady Inuko, that is foxfire." Myōga said, getting the rest of us to brace ourselves.

Even I knew what that meant, we were facing against a kitsune then.

I just hope it is a one tailed one then, I have heard stories what a nine tailed one can do and I have no intention of finding out!

But wait a second, there was a veritable inferno of foxfire in front of us.

So why wasn't Touma, someone who is...I guess around 52% yuki-onna due to the Shikon Jewel shards not recoiling from the sheer heat produced by the flames?

"I am the great and mighty Shippō!" The voice in the flames, Shippō said as the flames began to condense. "You have trespassed onto my territory and now unless you give me all of your Shikon Jewel shards!"

"This is a trick isn't it." Inuko deadpenned as she moved her hand away from Tessaiga.

"You can drop the charade brat, no one is buying it anymore. Except for the girl that is." Yura said flatly while pointing at me.

"It is not!" I shouted.

From the moment this Shippō spoke, I figured out what he was immediately.

Nothing more then a kitsune kit playing a trick on us, it was obvious he was a kid by his voice alone too.

"T-This isn't a trick!" Shippō stuttered out before the ball of flame started to hover over to Touma. "I'm going to kill you all starting with this one!"

The flames evaporated revealing...the single most pathetic sight in my life.

It was like a kid had drawn a pink circle, too small limbs, missed shaped eyes, and shark teeth and called it a monster.

It was so pathetic that Inuko burst out laughing at the sight with Yura not that far behind her.

I honestly felt sorry for the poor kid.

"Stop laughing at me!" Shippō said, before he bit Touma on the head.

And promptly turned blue.

"Cold! Too cold!" Shippō said before his transformation vanished into a puff of smoke and revealed his true form.

A little boy about Sōta's age with a fox tail and paws for feet

Oh.

My.

Amaterasu.

He is just so cute!

I just want to squeeze the life out of him, because he was just so cute and fluffy.

And it seemed Yura thought so as well with the look on her face and the way she was slowly drawing out Benigasumi...oh no.

"Touma!" I called out, getting his attention and pointing at Yura as had almost drawing out her sword and started to approach Shippō as the kitsune kit was rubbing his presumably still cold tongue.

"Yura you will not skin Shippō." Touma said while pulling out her comb.

"But master, his fur looks soft and fluffy!" Yura whined out.

"Yura..." Touma trailed off, causing her to huff and sheath Benigasumi.

"Fine." She said, while pouting and trying to look adorable. And somehow succeeding, despite how her body seemed to make it impossible.

I still find it hard to believe that she was the same yokai who once nearly killed myself and Inuko, planned to rape Touma, and indirectly put my family in danger. If it wasn't for her moments I would say that she seemed to be like too different people. The only explanation I could come up with was that she was absolutely insane and what happened yesterday only added onto the reasons of why I prefer to keep my distance from her unless Touma was nearby.

Speaking of him, Touma pulled out a package of rice cakes from his bag and started to walk over to Shippō.

The kitsune didn't see him until he crouched right down next to him and opened the package.

"Here you go." He said while handing the young kitsune one. Shippō looked between him and the rice cake a few times before Touma put one into his mouth and ate it.

I guess he did it to show that it wasn't poisoned.

Shippō took one small bite and his eyes immediately sparkle. He then immediately proceeded to eat it all, causing Touma to chuckle at him.

"So how was it?" He asked with a smile.

"It was amazing, can I some more of those!" Shippō asked excitedly, getting Y/N to nod.

"Sure, just tell me why you wanted to try and take our Shikon Jewel shards and I will give you the rest." Touma said, getting the kitsune to ponder it for a few moments and looking between us and him.

"Maybe, but what about them?" Shippō said, while pointing at myself, Yura, and Inuko.

"You have nothing to worry about, you can trust them especially Kagome." Y/N said, sending Yura a glance that only got her to sigh. Seemed that she had her heart set out for his fur.

"If the brat doesn't bother me I am fine with it." Inuko said while shrugging indifferently.

"It's alright with me." I said, secretly hoping to pet him.

Shippō looked all of us over, sending a quick glare to Inuko before settling on me with a small smile.

"Okay, I'll tell you. But you have to answer a few questions of my own." He said as Touma got up.

"Fair enough, now come on. I haven't had lunch yet, so let us share some lunch and stories together shall we?" Toums said, getting Shippō to nod excitedly and to follow him immediately follow after him.

I could only smile at looking at the way Shippō was following Touma and shooting off questions while he tried to answer him in earnest.

It was honestly a touching sight, but if this past week and a half had taught me anything then trouble was bound to find us soon.

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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hoped that you all enjoyed this chapter. Short I know, but this was just the prologue in what's to come for this arc.*

*Still I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.*

*Anyway next chapter will be on August 8th and I hope you all will enjoy it when it comes out.*

*I have to go finish editing the newest chapter of From No One to Someone, so until next time, ciao!*

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