Up in Flames by Kiyoshi_Snow_Leopard_Demon_Assassin

Chapter One

Author's Note: This is a revision of my original gender bender story, I wanted to make it easier to follow. There are just a few notes that I need to make... 1) Kagome is a boy and her name is Kano. 2) Everyone who was male in this story is now a female and vise versa including Shippou and Rin. 3) I am changing Kikyo's name to Kazuya. 4) I am debating if I should make Naraku a female but I cannot choose, I'm leaving that up to the people who review. 5) Touga is still alive in this story (he is still a he) and InuYasha is a full demon that hasn't fully matured yet, that's why she has the puppy ears. 6) Sesshomaru and InuYasha share the same mother so they are full sisters.

'Three years ago today, I was pulled down the well by Mistress Centipede and a powerful jewel was ripped from my side... Since that day many things have happened in my quest to fix the jewel, I've gained a powerful enemy and powerful friends, I have a wolf demon who is in love with me, and I have a daughter named Shippou. The biggest thing I would say that happened to me is... falling in and out of love. It was here that I met my first love, InuYasha or just Yasha for short, and it was here that I fell out of love with her when I realized that she would never forget Kazuya, her first love, and we're fine being just friends now. One of the strangest things that happened to me so far would have to be Sesshomaru-'

"Monk," a soft voice called bringing him out of his thoughts. Kano turned to her and he had to stop himself from getting aroused that the mere sight of her. Wrapped in her customary white kimono with the colorful yellow obi housing her swords, light feminine bone armor, slits going up the sides so she can have more room to move her long legs; was Sesshomaru. Her golden eyes cold and calculating.

"Yes, Lady Sesshomaru?"

Sesshomaru said nothing for a while content to just stare at the male that was such an enigma to her, even the clothing he wore was strange. He was wearing an odd black haori with several ties he called 'buttons' in the front, dyed gold, his hakama were also black but didn't hang loose. His feet were outfitted in a pair of what he called 'hiking boots' and he was wearing that hideous yellow monstrosity he called a 'backpack'. His looks weren't all that different from a person of this time aside from his short shaggy black hair and crystal blue eyes, never before had she seen such eyes in humans and it was an extremely rare coloring even with demons. Sesshomaru was confused by the differences of the male but she said nothing about them and went to finish what she was in the process of saying.

"Where is InuYasha?" Sesshomaru surveyed their little camp and saw no sign of her little sister, only the kit, the slayer boy and his cat, and the perverted miko, her sister was nowhere to be found she could hardly scent her.

Kano sighed and ran a hand through his shaggy blackberry hair, "Yasha has gone to go find Kazuya and ask him of Naraku's whereabouts, she should be back within a few hours. You are welcome to wait for her, Rin can play with Shippou while you wait and I will cook dinner. What do you say?"

Sesshomaru looked down at her ward, outfitted in a white haori with orange hexagon symbols and his matching orange hakama. The little boy was frantically waving at the kit and the kit was waving back just as hard, their smiles nearly blinding. Sesshomaru released a silent sigh and nodded minutely, Rin dashing off to play with the female kit, Ah-Un following behind, and Jaken was silent for the moment. Sesshomaru went to a tree and sat gracefully in a sieza once she was hidden in the shade, watching her son doing what the monk called 'coloring' with strange pens.

In a few minutes Kano had boiled everyone ramen and was dishing it out, looking up from his task he saw Sesshomaru watching him strangely. He grabbed one of the extra bowls he always had incase a random stranger was in need of food and dished out some noodles, grasping a pair of chopsticks he walked over to Sesshomaru and offered her the bowl. She took it into her small hands and gracefully began eating after a nod of thanks, Kano sitting beside her in a relaxed position, enjoying the silence of the group.

"Kano..." He sat up straight and looked at Ship who was finished eating and had changed into one of his white tee-shirts for sleep. He didn't need to ask what Shippou wanted before the girl quickly shouted out her query. "Can you tell us a story? One from your time?" He smiled at her and stood from his spot wiping any dirt off the back of his pants and came to sit on the sleeping bag with her, Shippou immediately crawling into her father's lap.

"Of course, would you like to listen too, Rin?" The boy stood and walked over to where Kano was, Ah-Un settling behind him andallowing Rin to rest against his side. "Okay..." Kano thought for a moment attempting to find a story that would satisfy both of the children, Shippou liked romance and Rin liked adventure. Thinking for a moment he found one and quickly launched in to the story of the three musketeers.

"... The end..." Kano had just finished the story and looked up to see that InuYasha was back and the children were both fast asleep. He stood and placed Shippou in the sleeping bag, walking over to join InuYasha and the others on the edge of the camp.

"What happened with Kazuya, InuYasha?" Miroku, the lecherous miko asked adjusting her black and purple haori and hakama. Sango the slayer at her side, decked out in his full slayers armor.

"Nothing... I couldn't find him, but his soul collectors were everywhere, I just couldn't find him and I looked everywhere." She grumbled sitting down and inhaling the bowl of Ramen that Kano had kept warm for her.

"That is because he has finally joined with Naraku and is now doing the bidding of the hanyo." Sesshomaru stood from her spot and made her way over the group casually, swaying her hips the entire way and making Kano's mouth get a little dry.

"What the hell are you talking about, Bitch?" InuYasha stood and placed a hand on the Tetsaiga, "What the hell are you doing here anyway?"

"What I'm saying is that your monk, Kazuya I believe, has been informing Naraku of your whereabouts and has been giving him information about the group for at least four moon cycles now. Naraku has always had him in employ." Sesshomaru said in a bored voice and everyone turned to look at InuYasha for confirmation.

"No! You're lying! There's no way in hell that Kazuya would ever give in to Naraku! Kazuya hates that bastard just as much as I do! He would never betray me like this!" Everything is silent for a while before Kano touches her shoulder and says what they were all thinking but didn't have the heart to say, aside from Sesshomaru who was just amazed at her sister's naivety.

"Yasha, it wouldn't be the first time he's done this to you... Just think, has he been acting strange any of the times you've gone to see him? Has he been asking you questions about where we are headed? How many shards we have? Where we think Naraku is? When we plan to attack Naraku?..."

Yasha opens her mouth to protest what Kano said but she quickly closes it, "...but, he's just asking that because he wants to fight with us."

"Has he ever fought with us before?" Yasha lowers her head and she can't feel anything but guilt at feeding Kazuya information about the group just so he can report it to Naraku.

The group is quiet for a while trying to think of something to do now when Sesshomaru begins to walk away from them, Kano being the only one to take notice of it walks after her.

"Sesshomaru?"

"I will be back, I have just been summoned back to the western castle by my father. I should be back to collect Rin in the morning, watch after him for me and don't let him torment Jaken too much. Good night Kano," Sesshomaru begins to walk away before turning around and saying one last thing. "Oh, happy birthday." And she is gone in her ball of light, speeding off to the west.

Kano smiles only somewhat surprised that Sesshomaru remembered their earlier conversation where he had told her about his birthday today, and makes his way back to the camp to see that his group is still lost in thought. "Come on, if we stay up like this we aren't going to be able to come up with anything. I think it's time we get to sleep, we can deal with this problem in the morning."

The group agrees with him and disperses, going off to sleep in their own spaces for the night, completely oblivious to the severity of the situation.

-----With The Nearly Completed Jewel (a little while earlier)

Midoriko blocked another swipe at her face and released a sigh of relief wiping the sweat from her brow, 'That was almost the end.' She attacked again and was disappointed when she was met with another sword, blocking her attack. 'I cannot keep this up much longer, at the rate these demons are fighting, the jewel is almost completely tainted... Only about three shards are not tainted, those are the ones Kano has...'

She fights back but she is not completely in the fight, she's thinking about her jewel, about how Kano is supposed to defeat Naraku.

'At this rate, he will not survive the final battle and the jewel will be lost... His purity alone is not enough... He needs something else...' She thinks again as she ducks under a kick and sends an elbow straight into a kneecap, 'that's it!'

Midoriko concentrates on the power she gets from the pure shards far away and she increases her fight, whispering a request at the same time. 'Give Kano the strength, that is yin to his yang... Give him dominion over evil things... Give him the strength of ten... Give him the power of a demon!'

The bauble pulses and carries out her request, lifting a weight off her shoulders. Midoriko stands taller and fights back against the demons with renewed strength. 'Please do not fail me now, Touga... Convince Sesshomaru to help him.'

-----Back with the InuTaichi

Kano was deeply asleep in his sleeping bag, oblivious to the changes occurring in his body. His skin darkening to a rich olive, a pattern of indigo lightning bolts traveling from the sides of his neck, to his muscular arms and down his ribs and down his legs. His eyes paling even lighter under his lids, to a blue that was nearly white but still equally beautiful if not more so. He awoke at this point but he was still in a slight state of sleep due to the jewel not wanting him to experience the full effect of the change. His muscles not changing much but their strength increasing, causing shooting pains in his dream; his bones doing the same. His nails, growing painfully in his sleep, making blood drip down his fingers; his teeth strengthening , lengthening, and sharpening causing his gums to bleed. His ears painfully lengthening at the tips gaining the elfin points. 

Deep in his body, his organs began to strengthen themselves, causing a pain unlike anything he had felt in those hours the change was taking place. It felt like he was lying in battery acid and he could feel as his skin, muscle and tissue was being stripped from his body. Soon his organs were finished reforming and he thought it was finally over and he could sleep once more, but he was wrong as the pain once again started, this time it was not the organs but his skin that was reforming over top his human skin.

Completely paralyzed with the pain he thought absentmindedly about why no one took notice to all the blood and all the pain he was going through but he soon realized that something must be keeping them asleep.

Finally the transformation was almost completely finished, the only thing he was missing quickly grew out of his aching tailbone and he was complete, his tails fully grown into place. He was now a reformed Youkai.

Author's Note: Well? What do you think? I'm trying to make this as creative as possible but I'm having a little trouble and I would love it if someone would give me any type of feedback on this and let me know how I am doing. Please?

P.S. Sorry if it seems a little odd, I'm trying my best to make this unique and sometimes that means making things odd.