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Kagome watched the sisters wrestle and she ran her hands through her short locks. With a smile, she lay the dirk down and went to her backpack to change. After rustling through the enormous yellow bag, she pulled out a dark green kimono set with pale pink feathers decorating the silk. After donning the hakama and under kimono, she turned to look at the dark haired kitsune who was watching her. “Eh?” Her left eyebrow lifted and began to twitch, making both kitsunes jerk with awareness as the human girls reiki sparked in mock violence.
“EECHI!”
Outside, Sesshomaru and Azuka turned to see the Tree shiver as an explosion of reiki caused a torrent of debris and smoke to plume. Azuka sighed and lifted her hand as a bed of kitsune-bi gently lowered an unconscious Aderyn onto the ground. Sesshomaru closed his eyes and lifted his one arm and moved his hair out of his face.
“Baka...” Azuka whispered softly in reference to her best friend, squatting and moving a stray lock of golden hair from her face, “We... It is a good thing that Kagome is not like other humans, ne cousin?”
Sesshomaru opened his eyes and stared at his cousin with a pinning glare, which of course made the silver kitsune fidget uncomfortably.
“It would be in your best interest to leave the issue of the Priestess, outside of this mission, to silence.”
Azuka sighed but nodded, “Sure, Sesshomaru-sama.” She glanced up at him, but his attention had been monopolized.
A shout came from the tree hollow and Kagome was out of the hole, climbing higher into the tree. “Kagura and Hakudoshi!” Turning she lost her balance and began to fall through the branches. “Ieeeiiiee!!”
Shizuka heard the shriek and was bounding up through branches so quick she almost missed Kagome falling past her. Hearing her twin close behind her, Shizuka sent Kagome a wink when for a brief moment they were eye to eye. But then Shizuka was careening up the tree and Kagome was dropping safety into Kaori’s arms. Sesshomaru and Azuka whipped passed the two as Kaori set her down on the ground, “I have minimum transformation abilities, I think turning into a bow is going to be a first. But you have to supply your own arrows, got me?”
“Got it.”
“Yosh!” Kaori pressed a small leaf to her forehead and popped into a beautiful ivory long bow, “Well don’t just sit there and look at me, you silly human!” The bow wibbled angrily, hovering in place.
“O-oh right!” Snatching the bow expertly, Kagome flicked her wrist into position and placed her other hand, closing her eyes and imagining an arrow with all her might. The dirt under her feet in a perfect circle began to cycle around her slowly as she gathered her reiki.
