Kagome gasped as she felt the energy of the youki (yokai energy) from the shard rush through her body. She could physically feel her body change. Her well-manicured fingernails changed into two-inch long claws, her hair shifted around as her ears moved from their normal position to the top of her head. She flexed her arms as she felt strength flood into her muscles and she sniffed the air as her olfactory senses increased to that of a dog’s. She rushed to her backpack and pulled out a hand-held mirror to view herself in. Her eyes narrowed when she saw her reflection. Her eyes had changed to a fiery orange, her hair had become a silver blue, there were two stripes on each of her cheeks, like Sesshoumaru’s, and, more importantly, she now had dog-ears much like Inu Yasha had. "I—I’m a hanyou?"

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and sighed in disgust. "I figured this would happen."

"But, why?"

"Isn't it simple enough? The shard was only able to mix your human blood with the blood that I put on the shard. When yokai and human blood mix, hanyou is the result."

Kagome stared at Sesshoumaru, confused. "But… isn't the reason you don't like Inu Yasha because he is a hanyou?"

"He is a disgrace to our family. I cannot imagine the reason why father decided to mate with a human, but that half-breed mess was the result."

"But… when I take the shard out, I will go back to normal, right?"

[I actually don't know… it doesn't much matter anyway.] "You should be able to."

Kagome clenched her fists in impatience. "Should be able to? You—you don't even know, do you?"

"Of course I do! Don’t question me, human!" Sesshoumaru turned away from Kagome in anger. [Damn human, acting like she knows everything…]

"Fine." Kagome shook her head angrily as she looked back at her reflection in the mirror. "So… since I’m a hanyou… can I do the same attacks as Inu Yasha?"

His curiosity peaked, Sesshoumaru turned his head back towards Kagome. "Do you even know all of the attacks that he does?"

"Well... he usually only uses Sankon Tessou* and Hiten Tessou*…"

"I see… Perhaps you should test your new abilities…"

"But, there’s no room in here to be doing those type of attacks."

"Remember, you’re a hanyou now. You should not be recognized."

"I’m still wearing my school uniform. I’m the only person in the world right now wearing anything like it. I doubt I can go unrecognized."

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*Sankon Tessou –‘Iron Reaver-Soul Stealer’ in the Americanized version; ‘Iron Breaking Claws’ in translated Japanese.

*Hiten Tessou –‘Blades of Blood’

A.N. Short chapter, I know, but it doesn’t fit in with either the next nor the previous chapters.