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Chapter 9

After a while the demon mask on Shiro's face broke apart as he could hear Zangetsu's frantic cries. When he opened his black and gold eyes he could see a large fire burning the forest.

"Those damn fools!" Shiro snarled leaping on top of Zangetsu's back. Shiro forced his stallion to ride to the cabin where he had left Ichigo and the wolf cub. 'Please let them be all right.' Shiro prayed. He didn't know why he was so concerned about the demon fox and the young wolf. He knew that they were both greatly injured as it seemed that Ichigo had used a lot of his powers against the pack of panthers. Shiro had to find them before it was too late!

The young wolf had awakened when he smelled smoke. The cabin was on fire. He began to panic as Ichigo was still fast asleep.

*Ichigo.... Wake up. The forest it's on fire!* the wolf yelled at him as he clawed at Ichigo. But the demon fox was out of it. He was in deep hibernation with no signs of even waking up. All the animals were fleeing for their lives. The young wolf wanted to do the same but he couldn't leave Ichigo. *Ichigo.... Please wake up!* the wolf cried out doing everything he could to wake Ichigo up. But it was no use. The wolf closed his eyes and prepared for the worse as large pieces of wood fell down blocking their exits. 'Please hunter, hurry back!' the wolf thought to its self silently.

Zangetsu was running as fast as his legs would carry him. Shiro had taken out his sword channeling his demonic energy into it to clear out a path. When they got to the cabin, they could see it engulfed in flames.

"Ichigo!" Shiro yelled out at the top of his lungs. Shiro could hear a soft wolf's howl and whimper in reply indicating that Ichigo and the wolf was inside. Demonic energy began to pulse around Shiro and his sword. "Kuroi Getsuga (black moon fang)!" shouted out Shiro allowing the energy to lash out snuffing out some of the flames. But Shiro couldn't get the the cabin as the flames quickly cut off his path. "No..... Ichigo!" shouted out Shiro.

Within the cabin Ichigo could hear the animals and Shiro's frantic cries as he opened his eyes to see the cabin on fire. Smoke filled his and the wolfs lungs. There seemed to be no escape.

'Please let me have enough power to do this one attack. I have to get us out of here!' Ichigo thought to himself as he picked up the wolf with his nine tails as he channeled every bit of power he could muster. Suddenly Ichigo could feel Shiro's demonic power trying to free them from their fiery prison. Ichigo could feel his demonic powers pull to the surface as he let it loose completely destroying the cabin.

"Ichigo!" yelled out Shiro as he watched the cabin get destroyed in a large blast. Shiro could see a large fox complete with nine tails walk out from the fire as the fire seemed to bend away from it. "Ichigo?" questioned Shiro. The large fox walked away from the fire before collapsing. On the fox's back was the unconscious wolf cub. Shiro quickly picked them up placing them both onto Zangetsu's back before he climbed onto the stallion's back. "Let's get the hell out of here." Shiro told his horse as they quickly galloped out of the raging inferno.