A/N: The following story/stories are oneshots/drabbles that have somehow spawned from my mind. They hold no relation to each other and will probably vary in length. Still, I hope you enjoy them! If you would, leave a review to let me know what cha' think about them.

-Fire-

Issun had decided that no matter how beautiful this Queen Himiko lady might be there was one thing he was certain of: she had to be absolutely nuts.

Seriously – what kind of person put a lake of fire this close to the inner sanctum of a palace? This queeny had to be one heck of a sadist to enjoy playing with peoples minds like this. She probably even enjoyed burning puppies and kittens on her days off! It made Issun hopping mad and as soon as he and Amaterasu found Himiko he planned to give the old hag a piece of his mind.

But first they had to get across the pit of fire – which seemed like a daunting task to the Ponc’tan.

Looking around the room Issun couldn’t see any possible way for them to cross the flames unscathed. Last time he checked furball here couldn’t walk across walls, scale the ceiling, or even fly for that matter. And they had already tried blowing the flames away with the celestial brush – with no results what so ever.

Grumbling to himself, Issun sighed. What was the point of traveling with the sun goddess herself if they couldn’t even cross a simple lake of fire?

“Looks like we’ll have to come back later, Ammy.” He murmured, tugging on her white locks in an effort to steer her in the opposite direction – which, of course, didn’t work. All Amaterasu did was give a dog like snort and then – before Issun knew what was happening – she was racing into the flames and diving head first into them.

Issun was pretty sure he was dead; positive that any minute now he’d feel red hot flames licking at his skin and then a bright light rushing to welcome him to the great beyond, only—

--The feeling never came.

It was then that the Ponc’tan realized that Amaterasu was swimming across the pit of fire in smooth, steady strokes as though it were water.

Issun could have sworn he heard Amaterasu give a bark like laugh.

“Ah, shut it ya big furball.” He grumbled.