Kira hadn't been prepared for the sight of herself, her fur was still silver, but it was now shimmering and if you stared deeply into it was it like she was looking into small mini galaxies, that had been threaded into her fur, it shimmered and sparkled whenever she moved, her fur had further obtained Purple highlights at the tips, it was no doubt that these traits was inherited from Chaos.
Taking a bit to observe her hair and fur, she finally paid attention to her eyes, they were no longer both emerald green like Inari, instead had one of her eyes changed from emerald green to an amethyst purple, and the slit pupil now looked a bit like she was staring into the void of a mini galaxy similarly to her fur.
"How?" Kira expressed her confusion, she was 100% convinced that Yin would have mentioned it if this had happened while she slept.
Both Inari and Chaos was looking at each other, for a while before Chaos finally spoke up.
"Sweetie, this is likely my fault, you seem to have adapted surprisingly well to operating at this higher frequency while we got distracted, and as such your body likely also starting speeding up the process of merging with our seeds, especially with us both being so close by having linked our energy to this mind space, it would not be surprising if we might have been leaking some of our spiritual energy especially as neither of us have been all that calm, and as we didn't think it would harm you either have none of us been trying to keep our powers in check.
you've likely been sucking all our spiritual energy up like a sponge to further feed your seeds and accelerating the merge, even your hair color have been changing more and more right now as we speak, although I can't say seeing more of myself in you makes me unhappy"
Chaos was beaming at Kira with an extremely proud smile, but right before Kira could reply everything blacked out.
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Yins perspective
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Power suddenly exploded out of Kira, and everyone in the classroom was watching as the sparkles in Kiras hair, turned much more elaborate and resembled starting into tiny slivers of the universe that has been threaded into her fur, the tips of Kiras Beautifully silver hairlocks, tail and ears got deep purple highlights. and while she was still starring into the air with a blank expression her pupils took the same look as her hair with one changing from an emerald green to an amethyst deep purple.
the power surge dissapeared as quickly as it had arrived almost like someone simply stuffed a lid on her powers and was like, perfecto all contained.
however unlike Yins expectation of Kira about to do something similar to when she had finally showed her more dominant self, she simply collapsed at the spot.
Looking towards Mr. Shinji for any kind of help or advice she realised this was the first time he had felt even a fraction of her power and he was simply starring at Kira with reverence and had instinctively submitted on the spot.
it wasn't like she could remotely blame him, even shino had been powerless first time she showcased her powers, unfortunately Yin had a strong suspicion it hadn't been planned this time around.
"Yin, Yin!!!!" The cubs in the class started to clamor her for attention.
"Why did the Ascended Kitsune collapse, and why is her hair now also purple and so ....."
the Cub was at a loss for words on how to explain the tiny slivers of void weaved into her silver hair.
"You see, Lady Kira right now likely just did something amazing we don't know about yet, and she likely got a bit exhausted because of it!"
the Cubs nodded their heads.
"So she is exhausted just like when we train our control over foxfire?"
one asked, another chimed in.
"Does that mean we need to get Lady Kira some food so she can get her energy back?"
Yin nodded at the Cub, and a few of them immediately ran off.
Thank the great Inari they can't truly sense spiritual power yet, she thought to herself.
The cubs was being much more useful than Mr. Shinji who was still looking in a daze at Kira like he had just seen Inari herself decend in front of him, In all honesty though he really wasn't far off the mark.
Finally Shino burst into the class and took a single glance at Kira, then looked over at Shinji shook her head and finally focused on Yin
"Yin, please tell me exactly what happened, the wards Inari placed to hide Kira have shattered, from being unable to contain the power outburst Kira just did"
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Chaos And Inaris perspective
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"I swear it wasn't intentional"
Chaos was apologising furiously to Inari, while Inari was working hard to obfuscate the portal travel network, it was Important to get to the shrine and fast, but just as important nobody noticed as she had felt the ward she had placed earlier shatter like glass from the power outburst
Kira had made, to a lot of people the power outburst likely didn't make a lot of sense, but it was rather simple.
Kiras body had cleansed her old energy to make room for the new refined energy it could produce, it wasn't much different from emptying a cup of stale water because you would rather want a fresh cup, normally you leak a bit of energy all the time as you grow and your energy gets refined over time, but with Kira the change had happened so fast that her new refined energy was no longer compatible with the energy currently circulating in her body and couldn't mix with the old, and as such her body had simply gotten rid of it.
"Inari, we probably should hurry the power she released right now could easily focus as a beacon to anyone, sensitive to power near the shrine."
Chaos was starting to look slightly anxious
"I'm working as fast as I can, do you have any clue how many securities this stupid portal network have in place so we could prevent and notice un authorised access"
Inari had a deep desire right now to find her past self and slap her, as she was the one who had implemented a majority of the security.
Why had she not given herself an override function for fucks sake!
"There!" Inari exclaimed and they both rushed towards the portal at inhuman speeds.
"Inari go on, I'll ensure nobody disturbs us, we will likely need feed her gluttonous little seeds with a fair amount of power, and i dont know about you, but I'm already fairly weakened from providing the seed in the first place!"
Inari gave Chaos a glance before rushing off, she stopped a bit ahead and turned back towards her.
"I didn't expect to use it this soon, but I do have 3 apples from asgard, I procured them after providing Kira my seed for a rather high price, but it is better to be safe than sorry!
do however remind me to never again negotiate directly with Idun ever again, even though she can keep producing those stupid apples with her magic does she treat each apple like you were negotiating for her firstborn"
Chaos had looked at Inari with deep surprise, the fact that Inari had managed to procure the apples as a non asgardian and no one in the divine realm was discussing it was a deep testament to just how resourceful Inari could be.
~ill need to remind myself to never get on her bad side, regardless of how powerful my family is~
Chaos thought to herself while shivering, those apples could mean the difference between winning or loosing any battle, especially if the opponent wasn't aware the person had a item that could fully restore all their energy in a flash.
it was the main thing that had put the asgardians in such a strong position, they were both revered and feared and most of the higher beings knew to not provoke the hornets nest, only made even more dangerous by the fact that pretty much every single asgardian was trained for battle.
shaking her head, Chaos decided to be absolutely certain no one would be able to get to them, this included everyone even other divine beings.
~This might be a bit flashy, but I will not regret doing this for my daughter~ Chaos thought to herself and shattered a talisman while pouring her energy into it.
This item was one of Chaos emergency items, it wasn't like she couldn't forge more of them but it took time to craft and vast amounts of energy over a longer duration of time if she didn't want to drain herself.
As the talisman shattered, a dome shot out in a wide radius of the entire shrine and much of the surrounding forests and fields before encasing them.
And teleporting the entire area into a pocket dimension, that was guaranteed that nobody would be able to access, this was basically a newly created pocket universe and would in the best of cases be extremely hard to find, and even harder to get to.
Chaos just now noticed a flock of humans, and older kitsune was starring at her with expressions of shock and fear, a younger human girl spoke up.
"Miss, why did you steal the sun away, are you attacking the shrine?"
several older humans chimed in.
"Please have mercy, we don't know what your issue is with Inari but we guarantee you she isn't even here at the moment"
Sighing to herself, I really don't have time to appease these mortals.
"Ok everyone listen up!"
Chaos voice boomed loud and clear for everyone to hear.
"First, I am not attacking you! Second I came here with Inari, third please understand that there is something here at the shrine that must be protected at all cost so I've temporarily protected this entire area, go on with your day and in time everything will return to normal"
the humans and Kitsune was looking at each other and decided to disperse.
Not a moment too soon as Chaos was rushing towards where she knew Kira was located.
Arriving at the Shrine she found a bunch of young Cubs all starring wide eyed at Inari who was holding Kira in her arms.
"How is she?" Chaos asked letting some of the emotional guilt she felt show in her voice, she was partially at fault for this oversight.
Inari looked back at Chaos but visibly more relaxed than she had been before they took off.
"She is fine, she is just sleeping, but her seeds are currently absorbing all energy she is producing, they likely won't stop before they sprout and have fully merged"
"So you're effectively saying she will be in a coma until her body provides her seeds the necessary energy or we supply it for her?"
Chaos frowned, she had never heard about seeds being capable of further absorbing the origins energy into itself after it have been planted, but it had been obvious feeling just how little energy was present in the mindspace while the space wasn't exactly real were they still connected and in doing so would they leak energy trough the connection, but instead of normal had Kira somehow been absorbing all of it, she had noticed the same in the shrine, the leaked energy from Inaris realm that was supposed to be encapsulated there was much thinner than her last visit, she wasn't sure if Inari had noticed.
"Inari, I believe it would be in Kiras best interest to feed the gluttonous little seeds we have created, we have created a new type of seed and I believe we should take responsibility for it, for Kiras sake"
Inari looked down at the sleeping Kira,
"Everyone! I it is likely no longer a secret, but Kira is our daughter, I will ask all of you to please treat her with kindness once she wakes up, we will be back but for all of your safety will we be taking her to the shrine as you likely won't be able to handle the exposure of what we are about to do."
A tiny female Cub not looking much more than 7 years old by human standards raised her hand.
"Lady, are you the Lady Inari that Mr. Shinji told us saved our race?"
Inari glanced towards Shinji.
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Shinjis perspective
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Shinji had only barely managed to pull himself out of the daze from being exposed to Kira, before THE Inari had burst into his classroom, and she had just confirmed that the Ascended Kitsune who had requested to observe one of his lessons, hadn't been an Ascended but Inaris own daughter.
He had publicly presented her as a mere Ascended kitsune, he wondered if Inari would punish him for disrespecting her daughter to such a degree.
before he could say anything in his defense, another being who resembled the other aspects he had seen in Kira, this was likely another diety the same as Inari, he wondered if she would be even more upset, he had no clue who the Lady was but even as both Inari and the other lady was holding back their powers was what little leaked from both of them enough to make him certain he had messed up badly.
seeing the Cub raise her hand, he had feared what she would say, and the Cub had ended up questioning The Inari if she was Inari, why had he never considered to bring paintings or sculptures for them to see, he hadn't planned teaching them their heritage before they were much older and the privilege of having an Ascended observing his class had made him desire to present himself at his finest, he could only thank himself.
"Little one, I am indeed the person your teacher spoke about in his wonderful lesson, I hope you keep learning everything you can from your teacher and you strive to keep improving yourself".
Inari said to the Cub.
turning towards Shinji who immediately broke out in cold sweat.
"Mr Teacher, my deepest apologies for causing your wonderful lecture to be interrupted like this, Kira had been enjoying it, and it had caused her to contact me with a few questions which made me quite happy.
unfortunately the dumb one over there got jealous of our interaction and decided to pull a little stunt of her own, which unfortunately lead to the situation as it is now
I will ask you to forgive what happened from there as it was outside of Kiras control"
Shinji was feeling the happiest he had ever been he had just been praised by Inari herself and her daughter had been enjoying his lesson, he made sure to commit their appearance to memory and became determined to figure out who the other diety was, it was Important for him to know who Kira was related to, as Kira had just Ascended in his mind to his new primary diety, she had enjoyed his lesson and in return Inari had praised a lowly weak Kitsune like him who was incapable of Ascending, even those who did ascend sometimes didn't even manage to catch a glance let alone managed to get direct praise.
But Kira had truly been the one, she had humbly requested to observe his class, this was filling him with more pride than he could express and decided that he would make sure to also spread her history allowing new generations another diety to worship.
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Inari and Chaos perspective
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Inari held Kira carefully while getting up and moving out the shrine, arriving outside she cast a quick glance around.
"I can't fault this for not being effective, but a pocket universe isn't that just overdoing it a tiny bit, or did you not trust my skills in ensuring that we didn't leave any trace on the portal network?"
Chaos frowned a bit in response, "You said it yourself, better safe than sorry, however you might need to help calm down the other mortals, as they seemed quite convinced that I was attacking"
Inari could only give Chaos an exasperated look, while rolling her eyes.
"You basically abducted the entire shrine into a pocket universe, how were the inhabitants to not take that as a threat?"
Chaos returned a blank stare at Inari until a bit later she suddenly blushed.
"There we go, and the bell finally rang" Inari teased.
As the Shrine inhabitants saw the friendly banter between Inari and Chaos from afar, word quickly spread and they finally relaxed taking what the strange lady had told them earlier as the truth.
As Chaos and Inari were walking towards the Shrine some of the older Kitsune had spotted Kira in Inaris embrace and immediately spotting the resemblance between both Inari, the foreign lady and the Cub Inari were carrying rumors quickly spread between human and Kitsune alike.
Some of the older Kitsune went to the Cubs class to try to figure out more, and had been soaking up Shinjis explanations and joined him in an almost worship of Kira, to make it even worse had Shino not stopped it but only added her own facts to the story and expressed how Kira hadn't ever treated anyone she ever spoke to, as lesser individuals.
In the tiny building Shino, Yin, Shinji and many newcomers had now officially declared their loyalty and worship towards Kira.
None knew if Kira would still remain amongst them but the stories quickly spread, and Shino had provided Shinji with her material related to Chaos upon his request and Yin had further shared Kiras reaction to the first time she had the Rabbit stew, which quickly spread amongst the kitchen staff causing much celebration.
back in the Shrine Chaos and Inari had placed Kira right in front of the shrine.
"Are you absolutely sure we should be providing her our unfiltered power to absorb, She is still only a tiny Cub, and I've never heard of anyone ever needing to feed their seeds the power of the parent" Inari asked looking at Chaos doubtfully.
"Inari are you really telling me you haven't noticed that she have basically sucked this room clean of any of your leftover energy, in just the short time we have been here"
Inari shrugged "You're right I kind of hadn't"
summoning a small black box, Inari opened it to showcase 3 golden apples.
"Consider this a favor, I only do this for Kiras sake, but you likely would never have tasted this in your lifetime otherwise"
Inari said and took one of the apples and handed to Chaos.
"Now shall we find out how much of our combined power her gluttonous seeds truly desire before they sprout?"