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Chapter1
Kagome lay in her bed, staring at her polished beyblade with glazed eyes. She frowned as she thought over her last couple of days in the Sengoku Jidai. Her memory still held vivid images of the ending battle and...of Inuyasha's decision. She could remember the smirk on Kikyo's face, and the sorrow in Inuyasha's eyes as he explained his promise to Kikyo and gave his final goodbye before wishing Kikyo alive again.
She remembered when Sesshoumaru and Rin had joined them in the last couple of weeks before the battle. She still couldn't believe the gentleness that the man-no-Demon had possessed after she had melted away the layers of ice around his heart. He trained her the best he could in the short time, and she excelled under his wing. He made teaching easy...a bit rough...but easy. She could remember the bruises she had when she was learning defense all to well.
No matter how much it had hurt in the end, she left Shippou with Sesshoumaru, so that he could be a warrior when he aged, and she had no doubt that Sesshoumaru would be a good teacher to her son.
She left to her own time after Sango and Miroku had gotten married. And that had been 3 months ago.
"Kagome, are you still sulking over that boyfriend of yours? It's been three months already, you need to get over him" Said Harumi, the only one of her three friends that had stayed in Tokyo with her. Yuki, Ari, and Hojo had all gone to the U.S. for college.
Kagome gave Harumi the best smile she could offer. "I'm just a little nervous about the Tournament at Tokyo Plex" She said. It was only half a lie, she would be fighting all the other top beybladers in Tokyo and was fighting for a spot in a International Team.
Harumi gave her a disbelieving glance and reached out to her her. "Kagome, get some sleep. It'll help you forget." She said, though Kagome wasn't sure if she was talking about the Tournament or Inuyasha.
Kagome nodded and watched as Harumi left her side. She set her beyblade down gently and turned off the light, letting her thoughts drift her off to sleep as Harumi pulled out her futon.
The Next Day
"Rise and shine Kagome!" said a masculine voice.
Kagome groaned and rolled over, pulling the covers over her head. It was too early, and whoever was talking to her was entirely to chirpy for her.
"Aw c'mon Oka-san, we came all the way from Kyoto to see your tournament!" Said the voice as she felt her covers pulled back from her, causing her to ball up.
'Wait a minute...he called me Oka-san...and said they were from Kyoto...who could he be?' She thought as she sat up and rubbed the grit from her eyes.
She eyed the person warily. Long brown hair, mischieveious green eyes and a...fox tail?
"Sh-Shippou?" She asked, not daring to believe it.
Her grinned and tackled her. "Yup, the one and only. Sesshoumaru is here too!"
"Oni-chan is here too!" Alright maybe she could put up with being tackled by a 6 foot fox demon now.
"Yup, you shoulda seen his smile when I told him that I'd found you!" He said, grinning from ear to ear.
Kagome hopped out of bed when Shippou got up. "Just gimme a minute and I'll come downstairs." She said, running around to find some clothes.
Shippou grinned and hoisted her over his shoulder. "No time, I wanna see Sesshoumaru's face!" He said pushing her out of her hotel room and stopping to put her down so she could put on her slippers. She turned and pouted at his smirk, following him down the hall and into another room, a suite, she guessed.
She slid the door open to see Sesshoumaru standing by the window in a heavy crimson robe with a gold dragon pattern on the back that carried down to wind around the pant of his black Hakama. The tenseiga and the tetsusaiga were held down by the golden sash that tied his hakama. The tip of his lip twitched up and he walked forward and embraced his ane-chan with strong arms. "I've missed you Kagome-chan" He said, not really knowing what else to say.
Kagome grinned and hugged him as tight as possible. "I've missed you too, Sesshou-kun!" She said as he ruffled her hair. She grumbled and tried to smooth it back out, ignoring Shippou's laughter and Sesshoumaru's chuckle.
Shippou bounded over to them, grinning as he watched them fight for a moment, with Sesshoumaru coming out the victor. Actually it was more like Kagome throwing angry punches and Sesshoumaru blocking them. "Alright you two! We came here to see Oka-san's tournament, not to fight with her!" He said, nudging Sesshoumaru, who's usually indifferent face was carrying a small smile.
Seshoumaru took a moment to brush off his clothing before clearing his throat and looking at the glaring teenager. "You're right. We came here to congratulate you and give you a small prize" He said, seeing Kagome's eyes brighten.
Shippou grinned and held out a boxwrapped with a large silver bow, "For you Oka-san!"
At the tournament
Kai leaned against the wall of the V.I.P. section of Tokyo Plex mall, which had a great view of the beyblading stadium that would hold the 'little' tournament. He sighed as Tyson and the others walked in with food in hands, grinning like idiots. "The tournament's going to start in a few, they're just getting through the preliminaries now." He said with his eyes closed in boredom.
Tyson and Max both went to look over into the large window, chewing on a large piece of fruit. "Hey, this girl isn't so bad, come look guys. " He said pointing to the back of some girl with long black hair.
Rei and Max climbed over to look and nodded. "She doesn't even look like she's trying," Rei said as he looked at her angry opponent. "Poor kid, I kinda feel sorry for him."
"How can you tell, you can't see her face!" Max pointed out as he chewed on a piece of candy.
Rei rolled his cat-like eyes. "Look at her posture, she's practically falling asleep!"
Kai walked over to the window and looked down at the beyblading stadium where the girl was walking away from the beystadium with a smile. A young boy with brown hair greeted her with a cheerful hug and a large man with white hair patted her head, much to her dismay. He fought the urge to smirk at their little scuffle.
The preliminaries went by without a problem, and so did the next round...and the next. Kagome was getting a bit bored with the competition here. So far she hadn't had one battle where she'd had to use ANY tactics she had come up with, and the matches to come didn't look very eventful.
Just as she had expected, the next two rounds without a hitch although one boy did last for quite a while.
It was the last round and thinks were 'heating up' according to the announcer. She walked up to the platform with her beyblade in hand, staring cooly at the boy across from her. He looked so smug, too bad he was going to get a big dose of reality.
"I'm going to win this competition, so why don't you just give up now!" He asked in a cocky tone that made her want to roll her eyes.
Kagome only gave him a threatening stare, much like Sesshoumaru's, and readied her beyblade. She didn't have time for small talk, and this guy's attitude was grating her nerves.
"3, 2, 1, Let it Rip!" Screamed the announcer.
Kagome's face set into a look of sheer concentration as she tore her ripcord out of her launcher in one steady swipe, sending it tearing down the side of the stadium and balancing on it's point, sending sparks everywhere. She let the boy attack her for a while, watching as her beyblade slowed little by little. Finally she shifted her gears into offense, crashing her spinning top into his with perfect control, not paying attention to the crowd at all. Her entire focus was on the spinning of her beyblade, she couldn't hear the roar of the crowds, but the slight sawing of the tip of her blade drilling into the stadium was loud in her ears.
The boy gave a battle cry and launched his beyblade into the stadium. It wobbled a little but balanced on its point after a while, whizzing toward her own Beyblade as he gave another cry.
Kagome fought down a smirk as she simply dodged the attack and rounded on him to edge him toward the outer parts of the ring. He curled back towards the center just in time, glaring at her with a fierce intensity. "You're going down, little girl!" He shouted at her, sending his glowing beyblade at her with a boatload of swift attacks.
Kagome's Beyblade danced out of the way as she let her lips curl up in a mocking smirk as the glow in his beyblade increased, followed by a load roar as a rather deadly looking snake erupted from his bit chip.
"I'll show you my wrath, Viper, attack!" He yelled as Kagome all but yawned.
'Really, he doesn't need to be so dramatic...it's not like we're on Tv or anything' She thought, not noticing the cameras or the announcers excited yells.
The bit beast burned a trail in the stadium as it trailed toward her own. She once again danced out of his way with demonic agillity, watching as he strained to spin back towards the center and away from the edge to attack her again, signalling his bitbeasts secret move. "I don't normally do this to girls, but you're begginning to annoy me!" He said, eyes burning fiercely. "Energy drain!" He yelled. His bitbeast coiled and sprung at the slightly startled Kagome, coiling around her and pinning her arms to her side, burying it phantom fangs into her neck.
Kagome's eyes widened and she cried out, feeling a large amount of her energy sucked away from her. She trembled on her feet for a moment before looking at him, with a glare that could have melted the sun.
He looked a bit stunned by the glare for a moment and gave Kagome the chance to recollect herself.
Her sapphire eyes burned with power for a moment and her beyblade began to glow. "Wrong move." She said under her breath as he charged at her, thinking he was taking advantage of her weakened state.
"Take him out, Midoriko!" She said as her beyblade dodged his and attacked him from behind, slashing through the material and sending pieces of it every which way. The only part she left intact was the bitbeast, which had dulled greatly.
"Woah! A startling victory by Kagome Higurashi!" Yelled the announcer as Kagome's Beyblade flew into her hand.
She gave her own satisfied grin. "Looks like..." She pointed her finger at him mockingly, "You just lost to a girl!" She finished, feeling like she had more energy than when she begun.
She stepped down off of the podium and walked towards Sesshoumaru and Shippou, seeing Sesshoumaru's smirk and Shippou's wide grin. She rubbed her hand over the part of her neck where she had felt the stab, but was suprised by the clean hand that met her. "I was so sure that it had bit me." She said, looking up to them both.
Sesshoumaru smirked at her. "It's nice to know that you haven't wasted your training, Kagome" He said, a proud look shining in his slightly cold eyes.
She grinned. "With the bruises I got? No way I could forget!" She said as a plump man walked towards them, followed by five boys, four of whom had a smile on thier face.
She turned around to meet them properly and bowed slightly after she recognised them as the famous blade breakers.
The chairman gave her a nod of his head. "I congratulate your victory, and I'd like to say, welcome to the Bladebreakers!" He said, shaking her hand with a gentle smile.
One of the four boys grinned at her, and she couldn't help but grin back at his cheeryness. He took a step forward. "Nice to meet you, I'm Tyson! You're really good, I can't wait until we train together!" He said, stepping aside for Max.
"Yeah, I liked that last move, you were in complete control!" He said, and she guessed he was Max of the Bladebreakers.
"Well I thought you were going to fall asleep for a while, but it was fun to see your victory over that jerk" Rei said, shaking her hand.
Kagome was a little taken aback as she met the team one by one. She smiled at the short boy with brown hair.
Kenny grinned. "I can't wait to analyze your beyblade!"
Kagome gave them a sheepish grin, "Nice to meet you all, I'm Kagome." She said, letting her sapphire eyes slide over to the silent boy, who looked a like he'd fallen asleep where he stood. It annoyed her slightly, but she ignored it.
'He could have at least said hello or something...how rude' She thought, then remembered. 'He must be Kai...'
Kai felt slightly annoyed with the way the others praised the girl. So what, maybe her battle was a little impressive, but they didn't have to shower her with praise like that. He fought the urge to sigh and opened his eyes to study her while she was distracted by the others.
His eyes trailed up from her booted feet, up her bare legs, past the black pleated skirt, up the black chinese style shirt with gold trim and to her round face, finally settling on her Sapphire eyes. 'How ordinary' He thought, putting on a look of indifference when he felt her begin to turn his way.
Sesshoumaru smirked at the boy. '...Interesting...I'll have to watch him around Kagome-chan' He thought
Whew finally finished with that one, and I'm going to post up the next chapters to a few of my other fics too. If you have any questions, just put the into your reviews or email me at