The Miko Project: The Cure and the New Light

by The Spicy Microwave

There was always something strange about a little town in Japan. When the new guys come to Zanly High new advetures unfold and the queen of the school Kagome is pulled into them. The biggest threat against them is actually one of their own... But who?

1. Roza?

A/N- Okay this is my new story. Read the other authors note at the bottom if you are confused. Oh and there's one more thing. Thanks Creature of Shadow for helping me with my story and stuff I surely wouldn't have been able to get this story into the right words if you hadn't helped!

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Chapter 1 Kagome's POV

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17 year old Kagome Higurashi was, and always would be the best there was at Zanly High.

She was popular, she was gorgeous, and she ruled the school. Sports? No problem. Grades? Excellent. Rank: Queen of Zanly High School.

There was one small problem though.

The Two K's. Kikyou and Kagura were the princesses of the school and they held a vendetta towards Kagome for their lack of status. Kagome was nice, quiet, and beautiful. Kikyou and Kagura where slutty, corrupted, gorgeous, and bullies.

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It was a cool Tuesday in the autumn, me and my group of 'friends' and 'hang-ons' were walking in the parking lot. Ever since I started walking from my house, to the school to get away from the crowd, the effects were the exact opposite. People stopped taking the bus or getting rides just so they could walk with me. Now it seemed that the talking and noise level got even higher.

"Kagome, Kagome? Kagome oh Kami, look at who's in the parking lot!" Yuri demanded.

"I would if I could get past you people!" I grumbled scornfully, as I shoved my way to the front of the staring group.

"Okay, that should be against the rules, nobody should be that hot." People started muttering to each other.

"Kagome!" My best friend Sango was heard above the others and also made it clear that she was somewhere in the parking lot.

I pushed my way through the crowd that had formed around me again, and ran to my best friend with my arms open. Sango hugged me as I broke free of the human cage that had encased me, but just as quickly dropped her arms to stare at the new guys.

They both had long silver hair and golden eyes. One was taller, obviously older than the other, and had a much more cold and emotionless expression. The other was more of a reckless looking guy. His face was more solemn then cold and it at least proved he could look happy instead of icy and blank.

"Who are they?" Sango and Kagome both asked.

Kagome's phone went off, and she opened it up to see a text from a number that wasn't in her address book.

They're ours,

-K's

Two words, one meaning, K's.

"Kagome you okay?" Sango asked. "You're bone white."

I shrugged and cast a glance at the two guys. "Nothing."

"Okay, well I'll be right back. I need to get my bag from my car." Sango said, walking back to her car.

I stared at the mystery hot gods as they walked gracefully away. The taller one said something to the younger brother, and turned around to meet my gaze. He held my eyes captive. I just stared as his eyes looked to be digging through my soul. He finally released me when my phone went off again.

You fall, I kill. You kiss, I tell.

-K's

I turned my back to the mystery guy and reread the message again and again. Ever since the day she found out, she had used it to get what she wanted. But never had she sent so many threats. It had always been one or none on certain days.

I started walking back toward my group, that which was breaking apart because the leader was no longer there. Halfway there I tripped on my own foot and dumped all of my books, pens, and paper out onto the blacktop. I was about to reach down for them, when a pale hand with sharp claw-like nails picked up all the strewn items. I slowly moved my eyes from the place where my stuff had once been and moved them up to look into the face of one of the mystery hunks.

I could feel his breathing on my face and he smelled faintly of an unusual scent that cologne could never make. It was intoxicating though.

Another thing I felt was that he was a youkai. I might not have been fully trained but my miko powers could still feel his demonic aura.

"Miko," The youkai said. "I suggest you be careful, you wouldn't want an accident."

I was entranced in the youkai's eyes, and stared into depths of gold. "No we wouldn't now would we? Who are you?"

"Sesshoumaru, and who are you?"

"Ka-" And my phone started to beep and I flipped it open.

Elfy, elfy in the night,

Sleek and lethal,

Killer alright,

With eyes so bright,

Like a starry night,

Elfy, elfy in the night.

-K's

More threatening from K's. Great, they must be serious if they tried to make a rhyme with such a stupid word. Alright? Really?

I looked up at Sesshoumaru - who had been staring at the text - who then turned his line of vision back to my face, raising a graceful eyebrow. "Elfy, elfy in the night?"

"Uh… It's nothing." I stuttered. "See you around."

I got up, turned my back to him and ran to Sango. But somehow, I ended up in Ayame's embrace.

"Hey Ayame, your finally here!" I said in happily.

Ayame was a wolf youkai and an awesome friend. I was popular, but I only wanted my real friends.

Ayame gave me a hug, and a smile, while eying the new guys carefully. "Ugh, more youkai?"

"Yep, but don't worry. These ones are not evil."

"Okay Kagome…" Ayame said, and then lowered her voice for me only to hear. "Jolietai is waiting for you under the Red Moon to talk to you."

"Thank you, has there been another spree?" I asked.

Ayame nodded as Sango joined us in our chat. "Shopping spree?"

"Yep, I heard that Prada's having a blowout sale and I wanted to go." Ayame chirped. "Shopping extravaganza day!"

"Sounds like fun!" Sango sang back, "Kagome you're coming right?"

"Definitely," I nodded.

"C'mon guys, we're going to be late for class if we don't go inside!" Sango warned as people filed into the building.

We went inside as a group of guys and girls reformed around us and talked about the new guys. The girls raved, the guys envied, and I just wanted to get the day over with.

First, second, third, and fourth hour went by in a blur. I had quite a few classes with one or both of the brothers, and I noticed that they seemed to be very good students. All they did was stare at the board. Well, at least the older one Sesshoumaru did. The younger one already had an envious and raving group around him and was rather reckless. Telling jokes in the middle of class, loudly, and making comments not seeming to care what everyone thought. Inuyasha…. That's what they called him.

When lunch came, my stomach was growling with hunger and I found myself surrounded by people again as I sat down at a table to eat.

Digging into a so called "cheeseburger" and some "fries" I made note to not listen to the bragging of girls and a certain boy I didn't want to know.

All was normal for me as lunch past, and when 6th period rolled by, I thought today might turn out normal. But disaster struck in 7th hour.

The room was quiet,, and a video was playing on Japan's history; wars, founding, and culture. In this classroom, Sesshoumaru was the brother I had to share it with. We sat next to each other by choice of the teacher, and my instincts kept screaming at me. But I ignored them.

The movie dragged on, I rested my head on my arms and sighed. It was taking forever.

I closed my eyes and focused on the bright side, but realized the only bright side was that I didn't have to take a test. I opened my eyes and stared at the classroom, where instead of moaning people, there where statues that looked waxy and fake.

A smirk somehow got plastered on my face as I got up and walked to an open window. Even though I was on the fifth story of a school for all grades, the distance to the ground seemed rather short.

"What happened?" One question. One question that came not from me, a miko that was used to the Red Time, a question that came from a living breathing youkai that had never heard or seen the Red Time.

"Oh nothing, just stay where you are, you'll be fine." I said, and without a second thought, went to the door and closed it slightly, leaving a crack so when I came back I could still get in. I walked down the hall and started running as soon as the door was out of site.

x.O.x.O.x. Sesshoumaru's POV x.O.x.O.x

I was shocked as Kagome ran out of the room telling me to stay here with these…. bodies. I opened a window and looked out, trying to see the miko come out, my curiosity growing when she didn't.

I pulled my head back in the room, and from the corner of my eye, I caught the glaring of a light. Then a beautiful woman with midnight black hair ran out of the bushes. She was beautiful, no doubt, but when she ran it was with deadly stealth and grace. She was fast too, but she wasn't a youkai, nor did she look to be a human.

I looked as she jumped from building to building, until I could no longer make out her form or see her gorgeous hair.

I sighed, sat down cringing away from the waxy people and tried to think of the good side to this. Kagome seemed to find this time "fun" because of the way she smiled and ran out the door. Questions stirred in my mind like; is this ever going to end? Am I going to be stuck here forever with the waxy bodies? Why did I move here again?

I sat in that classroom for what seemed like an eternity and when I thought it would never end, several youkai showed up looking through the window at me whispering things to one another. Then they found the open window, and charged in at me, trying to literally rip me head off. I found myself cornered, and even though I was using my youkai whip, they were still overpowering me.

Just when I thought I was going to die, I heard a voice, "OH COME ON!"

The beautiful maiden from before jumped into the building and into my sight, yelling, "Sesshoumaru stop fighting and get out of the way so I don't kill you!" She then shot an arrow with her bow. Most of the youkai were killed with that one arrow, and I started attacking the other youkai.

I stared at her trying, not showing how surprised I was, but when a youkai cursed her it made my blood boil. "You will die someday True Miko. Not by my hand, but by someone else's." And she killed him off.

x.O.x.O.x. Elf's POV before she found Sesshoumaru x.O.x.O.x.

Once I was down the stairs and outside, I looked back up to see a youkai had run to the window and see someone come out of the building. I hid from him behind a bush and waited.

I grinned as I thought about the look on his face. He probably thought I was crazy.

Once the silver hair disappeared back into the building, I let go of my barriers to my true form.

Light engulfed me and for a second, I was blinded by it. When my vision cleared, I had much keener senses. Smiling, I noted the elf like points on the tops of my ears, turquoise eyes, and midnight black bang-less hair. My clothes shifted as well. My shirt changing into a white and blue halter top with a modest sweetheart neckline, that clung to my body as it descended showing off my flat, toned stomach. My bottoms were made up of matching blue leggings, over lapped with a wide belt that held all my necessities.

Warmth spread through me, and I knew my magic was coming back from its place in my mind. I searched for any movement, but what happened was completely surprising.

'Branzy help! There's a youkai and Dark Miko at the hospital and there's not enough True Mikos!' A stranger's voice rang in my head.

I immediately ran to the hospital at an inhuman pace and arrived just in time to see a large, ugly youkai pick up a True Miko from the ground and relieve the miko of the top half of her body. Other True Miko still shot at it with their arrows and used magic, but it seemed to just bounce off of him.

Unlike other True Mikos, I was special. I had more power than most, and a special bow that would come to me whenever I commanded. It also turned into a deadly sword. Its name, was Chimeiteki-Keikoku. (English: Deadly-Beauty.)

I called to my bow and arrows, and both appeared in my hands. I whispered to the arrow and caressed it with my magic, magic, letting my magic stay with it. I readied it and aimed at the youkai. Adrenaline coursing through my body, and heart beating fast, I let go off the arrow and watched it fly to find its mark on the youkai's forehead.

The Dark Miko was next.

I ran over to the group that was trying to subdue the evil miko to no success. The Dark Miko looked like a True Miko, except she had black hair and red eyes. She was wearing mainly blacks and purples, with a sword and dagger on her hip. I made an X with my bow in the air, and the part I was holding became a hilt of a beautiful, but deadly sword.

"Die," I hissed to the Dark Miko, and ran to her without even caring that the group was staring in shock. I brought down my sword, but she quickly drew hers and stopped my strike. I moved my sword away from hers and jumped back as she swung at me. Then jumped back to her with my sword ready, bringing it down as she blocked. I jumped over her, took my sword back quickly and brought it down on her shoulder, running it through her back. She gasped and turned around swinging wildly at me. She almost landed a blow on my shoulder, but I jumped over her again. I was about to run my sword through her again, but she turned around before I was to ever before I could attack and attack and she mimicked the gash I gave her on me. It was my turn to gasp, and I turned around and quickly landing a blow on her shoulder.

She winced, looking at me with as much hatred and disgust as possible. With almost startling venom, she said. "Naraku underestimated you True Mikos. Especially you Branzy, I shall be back for your death."

"And when your back, I'll bring a platter to serve your head upon." I growled as she disappeared into thin air.

"Branzy-sama, let us help you!" The other mikos started saying as I winced in pain from my gash.

I smiled to them weakly. "It's quite alright I will heal."

One miko walked toward me with authority in her stance, she was taller than the rest. "Branzy, I beg your forgiveness, you wouldn't be hurt if these girls would have handled themselves correctly."

"It's no big deal," I grinned. "So they assigned you to train the newbies? There's not as many this time."

She sighed. "I know, we are experiencing a lack of True Mikos that are still pure."

"What would happen if I became impure?" I asked.

"You would remain a True Miko, but just not as respected. It would lower your rank."

"Ah, so I wouldn't be respected even if I was happily married and had children?"

"You would be more respected by that, then the other way around." She muttered. "Here let me heal that."

I turned around so she could see my back, and she whispered a few words of magic, healing the wound and repairing my clothing.

"Thank you." I replied.

"It was no problem, but I think you should say one little thing to the newbies to help them with training. I believe they took on a monster too big for them when they should have called for help, and let some more advanced True Mikos and True Monks."

I looked at the True Mikos that seemed to be lollygagging and chatting, and made a noise in my throat that got their attention. "Mikos, I advise you now. From this moment forth all youkai will know of you as their adversary. Your blood is what they will thirst for, and they will do whatever they can to live and have your death at their hands. You must be ready for anything and when there is a job too big, you must know when to back down and call for wiser and stronger assistance. Your friend may be your best, but you can't throw them into battle if you know that they will not succeed. Know your strengths. Your magic is your miko powers, keep that in mind."

"Well done, Branzy." The boss lady said. "You may leave now."

I nodded towards her and grinned in spite of myself. With one graceful bound, I landed on top of a skyscraper, looking for something to do. If that was the only monster that had been sighted, then that meant we would go back to normal in an hour or so. There was never an official time, the higher ranking True Mikos always kept check on the Red Time, and when they estimated it would stop, they contacted us all through our minds.

One annoying thing about being a True Miko is that other mikos could try to get in your head. Another is the fact that a True Miko can be turned into a Dark Miko if their heart is tainted black or they lose their pureness. Though it was rare, a miko that loses pureness can turn into a Dark Miko in the blink of an eye. That is why not many True Mikos were born. People were scared of what might happen, and some don't want to give up a rank or job as a miko. Okay, so there's a lot of annoying things about True Mikos. But the last two most annoying ones are, one; True Mikos are only the souls of a regular miko that fight off the youkai a regular miko couldn't. And lastly, we couldn't touch people who are frozen in the Red Time. I found that out with Kikyou, I accidently brushed her figure as she was frozen, and she woke up just in time to see me kill a youkai. She hung that over my head, threatening to tell ever since.

I ran on the roof making sure not to touch anything and jumped from one to the next until I reached the tallest one in the vicinity. And then I just let go. I let go of my thoughts and jumped off the building into the waiting air.

"WOO-HOO!" I yelled, beaming as I felt weightless. It was a rush for me. Nothing ever happened to me when I did this. I landed on the ground and jumped again just for the fun of it, went up taller than the building beside me and landed on the ground. "Totally the best part of this job." I grinned.

'Normal Time coming back on in five minutes.' A True Miko said in my mind.

I grumbled something about the higher ranks always ruining the fun ,and ran to my school only in time to see a ton of lesser youkai coming in through an open window to the same classroom I was in.

"OH COME ON!" I yelled. I was always the one to get the dirty work of cleaning up the youkai that decided to visit where my scent lead.

Tick.

I jumped into the building through the window to find Sesshoumaru in a corner with his eyes spotted red and with some kind of youkai whip that he used to kill off most of the youkai.

Tick.

"Sesshoumaru stop fighting and get out of the way so I don't kill you!" I yelled and shot an arrow with my Chimeiteki-Keikoku that was once again a bow.

Tick.

Most of the youkai where killed then, and Sesshoumaru ducked out of the way of the arrow. Chimeiteki-Keikoku turned into a sword on its own accord and I started attacking the other youkai.

Tick.

"You will die someday True Miko. Not by my hand but by someone else's." a youkai cursed me, and I finished off the last of the youkai, ran out the door and transformed into my regular form.

x.O.x.O.x. Kagome's POV x.O.x.O.x.

I ran into the room and sat down in my seat with Sesshoumaru following suit.

Tick.

Normal time kicked in and the movie continued, I stared at the TV when I felt something nudge my arm. I looked over at Sesshoumaru who was staring at a small piece of paper that was folded up. I picked it up and read it.

Where did you go when you left?

I grinned and made note to ask if my scent changed when I was in the Red Time.

I walked around town for a bit, got bored and came back here just in time to see an elf person leave the classroom and tell me to keep quiet.

Sesshoumaru had only eyes for the note, grabbed the pen I was using after I was finished, and wrote quickly.

Midnight black hair, turquoise eyes, and a sword?

He glanced at me quickly as I nodded. He drew a picture of an elf and I nodded once again, trying to hide a smirk. I then wrote.

She saved your life or something didn't she?

Sesshoumaru looked at the note with a distant expression and then dashed down a few more words.

Or something.

I let a smirk show this time.

"Excuse me Miss. Higurashi and Mr. Taisho, is there something you'd like to show the class?" Mrs. Gross our teacher interrupted our note passing.

All eyes turned on us, including Kikyou's, who glared at me. I blushed, but Sesshoumaru kept his cool. "No Mrs. Gross, Kagome and I were writing down notes." Sesshoumaru then held up a notepad with a page filled with writing.

"Very good. Now class, take Kagome and Sesshoumaru as an example. They are paying attention." Mrs. Gross said and the tape became the center of attention once again. and eyes moved from us to the teacher and finally to the TV. Only Kikyou's eyes remained on us, and I could almost hear her swearing at me in her mind.

Silver tongue.

Two words I wrote on a piece of paper and pushed to Sesshoumaru. After that I listened to the teacher, even when the piece of paper came back to me. As the bell rang, I got up and left with Sesshoumaru not to far behind me.

"Will I be able to talk to you again about her? She was so strange, this whole thing is." Sesshoumaru asked me as he caught up.

I turned my head towards him and frowned. "Sometimes it's better not to know things."

"So you won't tell me, will you?" He asked.

I sighed and turned my body fully to him. "If you want to know so badly, why don't you ask her yourself?"

"Because I want to get to know you better."

My eyes got wide as I stared at him… and ran right into a door and fell over. "Ouch."

Sesshoumaru smirked and helped me up. "Meet me after school… I'll walk you home."

"Um… okay… But do you mind waiting? I have soccer practice."

He shrugged. "I don't mind waiting; my brother hardly gets along with me at home so I'll have a reprieve from him."

"Okay I'll see you later." I muttered, knowing there would be consequences. But I didn't care at the moment, and I slipped into the classroom on the other side of my wooden assailant.

x.O.x.O.x. Sesshoumaru's POV x.O.x.O.x.

Okay I'll see you later. Oh, and I don't care about my brother, I just want to watch you all day. As I thought this, I kicked myself mentally.

People had started gathering to watching Kagome and I talk, and they all seemed awed by the fact that Kagome had the nerve to talk to me. I walked into my next class, and right away, people started grouping around me, talking.

He was popular.

She was too.

She didn't want him.

But other girls did.

He said hello.

She said goodbye.

He fell in love.

She passed him by.

I sighed, and realized how silly it was that I was already in a love with a girl I haven't known for long.

:-: It's not silly it's perfect. :-:

'Shut up.' I said back at my beast.

:-: There is to meaning to 'in love with a girl I haven't known for long'. The elf was as attractive to us as the human. :-:

'The elf was attractive, but she was strange and foreign.' I sighed mentally.

:-: But that's half the fun. :-:

I didn't respond, and my beast remained quiet. Class kept droning on, and when it finally ended, my heart sped up as I realized I would be seeing Kagome again.

8th hour ended and 9th hour or RtI came and I walked into the room.

One look around told me that Kagome was in the class with me sitting at the back table… And Inuyasha was trying to make his move on her.

"So…. Kagome want to hang out sometime?" I heard my hanyou brother ask.

Kagome sighed, and settled her head on her hands she had knit together on the table. "As friends or as in a date?"

"Well," Inuyasha shrugged, "whichever you want it to be."

"Ugh."

"Please?"

"Fine, friend hang out and we will see how that goes." She said closing her eyes.

Inuyasha grinned and turned to me mouthing the word HOT and MINE.

I rolled my eyes at Inuyasha and walked behind Kagome silently I was going to say something to her but then she started mumbling things.

"No, I will not."

There was a pause.

"The newbies can use someone higher rank than myself. Like a mage. I am a fighter and you know that." She murmured.

Pause again.

"Fine. I will mentor two people. They will have to be able to keep up on their own."

She opened her eyes again and sighed. "Sesshoumaru, don't think I'm crazy, I'm not. I was just thinking about a talk I had earlier."

"It's fine. Who wants you to mentor people?"

"My mom, she wants me to tutor my cousins." She said simply.

I shrugged. I could see her tutoring. I then gave her a devilish grin. "Think you could mentor me?"

Her head swung around to look at me with wide eyes. "Why would I tutor you Mr. Taisho? You have perfect grades."

"That's not what I was thinking of you tutoring me in." I said huskily, taking my hand and twined a finger in her thick, gorgeous hair.

She gulped, blushing, and I could smell her starting to get aroused. She still smelled of purity, even though there were many rumors suggesting she had bedded many of the boys in the school.

"Um…. I think you'll do just fine with getting mentored with another girl." She muttered before looking down at her desk.

I growled mentally, and released her hair. Why was the girl so stubborn? She was so irritating, but that only drew me closer to her and the mysteries she held. The more I got closer to her, the more danger I was in.

People started to trickle from other groups over to Kagome and me, chatting with us all idly. Kagome said a few things, and it seemed to raise more attention. Soon, all the people were crowded around us and had to yell questions and answers.

"Class sit down! Okay, Mr. Taisho you may sit by Miss Higurashi." Mrs. Belivok, our teacher said.

I grinned at Kagome, who turned her head in my direction within the blink of an eye with wide hazel orbs. I took the seat to the left of her at the table, and looked up at the teacher with an innocent expression, as if I was an angel. The teacher sat down.

"I hope you all brought books, because that's all we shall be doing today." Mrs. Belivok ordered.

Kagome took out a large book titled Breaking Dawn. She turned to a bookmarked page and began reading, rolling her eyes and giggling at some points.

I got out a random book and started looking at it, not really seeing the words. A devilish grin spread over my face again, and I put my hand on my leg testing to see if she was watching me. I watched as her eyes moved from the book to my hand as she pretended to still be involved in the book. I stretched my arm under the table as if I was just trying to get a knot out of my arm and then laid my hand on her leg. Said appendage was instantly gifted with a strange burning sensation, though it was not painful, it was lustful. I would have taken her there right then, if it weren't for the fact I was in a school and hardly knew her.

She let out a half gasp, tried to pass it off as a sigh, and bit on her lip. Her brows furrowed slightly, as a bead of sweat rolled down the side of her face. I moved my hand up more to see her reaction. She gasped finally, but it was so quiet that I had to lean in to hear. She blushed, and swatted my hand away, turning her legs away from me to read her book.

I sighed, turned back to my book, and kept on reading. When the bell rang signaling that class was over, Kagome turned to me, anger written all over her face. "Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again."

"Do what?" I asked angelically.

"You know what." She snapped.

"What, this?" I asked as I placed my hand on her leg again, dangerously close to her secret.

She blushed scarlet, and tried to push my hand away, but failed miserably as I grasped her leg. She sighed finally, and stood picking up her stuff as I took my hand off her leg. Without another word, she walked out the door. I followed suit, put my stuff in my locker, grabbed my backpack and slung it over one of my shoulders. I walked out of the hall and down a few more until Kagome's scent was the strongest I saw her walking down the hall towards the girl's locker room. I ran after her and smiled.

"Sorry, my behavior has been very unruly lately." I apologized.

She didn't look at me, but I saw her blush slightly returning. "You and your brother are different in so many ways… but man; you guys have a lot of similarities."

I shook my head, not liking being compared to my younger brother. "I am nothing like my brother."

She rolled her eyes, and looked towards me with a smirk on her face. "Whatever."

We arrived at the door to the girl's locker room, and I stopped walking as she went inside. I went back outside to the soccer fields they had at the high school. I sat in some of the bleachers and waited.

x.O.x.O.x. Kagome's POV x.O.x.O.x.

I got into the locker room relieved to be away from the very guy I was supposed to be keeping popularity from. I undressed once I found my small locker, kicked off my shoes, put on a sports bra and a shirt that had the holes where my arms went cut so you could see my toned stomach from the side. The holes went from where it normally went to almost the bottom of it. I pulled on some soccer shorts and shin guards, along with soccer socks and cleats.

When I was finished, all the other girls came in, changed, and we all headed out to the fields. Kikyou was a part of the team and decided to glare at me with as much venom as she could muster for practice. Much to my distaste, Sesshoumaru sat on a bleacher.

"Come on girls." Our male coach yelled, and we all picked up our pace to a jog with me in the lead effortlessly jogging without breaking a sweat. "Okay Yuri, set the equipment over there and when you're done join the girls running. Thirty laps today girls."

I ran in front of the pack of girls who decided that they would just chat today. When coach yelled at them on the second lap, they all decided to race me. I began to run with half my strength and managed to tire them out.

"Hey, you boy!" My coach yelled at Sesshoumaru. "If you're going to sit there at least help the girls run!"

Great.

Sesshoumaru grinned and nodded, getting up. He started running as soon as I came back around for the third lap. He didn't care that I was jogging, he just full out ran trying not to use his youkai speed.

I started running right away and past him up. Then he started to run faster and passed me up. I ran even faster and waved at him as I passed him. Soon we both were running at full speed, youkai against miko. On the last lap I tripped Sesshoumaru, and finished only panting faintly. I collapsed on the ground pretending that it was a tiring run. Sesshoumaru finished and collapsed next to me, staring at my shirt as I breathed in and out heavily.

"Eyes off the merchandise, Sesshoumaru," I snipped at him playfully, sitting up as coach came running towards us.

"Kagome, Sesshoumaru! You just finished thirty laps in about thirty minutes! We could use you guys on the track." Coach exclaimed.

"Gee thanks coach. I think I just want to play on the soccer team for now though." I muttered.

"I'm serious! You could be in it next-," And then he froze and turned waxy. The other people did too.

"Ugh." I groaned.

Sesshoumaru grinned. "I think our favorite elf will be coming soon."

I rolled my eye. "Oh come on Sesshoumaru, don't tell me you're still obsessed with that girl?"

"I am just curious. I swear, Zanly High has brought out the best and worst in me." He replied.

"Hold on a second, I have an idea." I said. "I'm going to go get a surprise hold on. Stay here 'kay? And don't touch the bodies!"

Sesshoumaru shrugged. "Fine."

I got up and ran into the school, checking behind me to make sure he was still completely unaware and not following. I closed the door and looked around trying to find the perfect excuse of a surprise, ended up picking a bottle of soda up, running outside throwing it at Sesshoumaru, and running back in.

x.O.x.O.x. Branzy's POV x.O.x.O.x

I changed into my True Miko form, and jumped out a window on the opposite side of the school from Sesshoumaru. I took one last look at him to see him standing up and staring at the sky. I looked up to see at least a hundred youkai flying towards my team mates, coach, and Sesshoumaru.

"Ugh, always me," I sighed.

I decided not to report it because I want to see what the tame inu had in him.

"Yo Sesshoumaru! Don't just stand there, fight!" I yelled at him, running towards the swarm of oncoming youkai.

I summoned my bow and arrows and fired an arrow at the swarm, diminishing its size by half. I stopped fighting and looked to Sesshoumaru, who had started attacking youkai with his strange whips, sometimes using his claws that now were coated with green acid. His eyes where tinted red again, and he kept fighting until all the weak youkai were dead.

"See Iioku, I told you she was just as lazy as we are!" A boy's voice was heard from behind a bush.

"Shut up Kahn! They'll hear you!" another male voice yelled back.

I picked up a rock, and looked around already knowing where the boys were. I waited until I heard giggling, and threw the rock through the brains of the numskulls who called me lazy. Well it didn't exactly go through their hard heads… But it hit them hard enough to make them shut up.

"Get out here!" I demanded.

"Yes ma'am." They said soberly, coming out from behind the bushes.

I walked over to them as they hung their heads, and I took note that they both had some of the same features in a different order though. One had very pale, almost white blonde hair, with a streak of red running through it. While the other had red hair with a pale blonde streak through it. They both were the same height, and had same colored milky brown eyes.

"And you're the novices?" I huffed, then said quietly to myself. "I thought I asked for someone who could hold their own too."

"Yes ma'am. We are here to watch you fight, and learn." The boy with the blonde hair and red streak said. He had the same voice from the first one heard from behind the bush, so I was guessing that he was boy named Kahn.

That meant the other boy was Iioku, who muttered to Kahn. "We already fight like her. All you have to do is let a youkai kill the others, sit back and claim it was you who killed it."

"Iioku, come over here." I said sweetly.

"Busted." Kahn smirked at Iioku as he walked to me.

I smiled at him, wrapped an arm around his shoulder,, and took my other hand to place it on his shoulder. In one simple movement I had Iioku on his knees with his head touching the ground behind him, then fixed it so he was lying with his head looking at his pelvis.

"Hmm… you should be more flexible than this." I mumbled as his face contorted in pain.

"I didn't mean to… I'm sorry. Please just stop!" He said with pain creeping into his voice as he began to pant.

I let go of him and looked at Kahn. "If you wish me to teach you then you must stretch and run every day."

He nodded and gave each other a nervous look. "Yes ma'am."

"Now, do you have weapons?" I asked.

"No ma'am." They both sighed, hanging their heads thinking I would punish them.

"Good." I said, and commanded my bow and arrow to disappear back into my body.

"What?" They asked astonished.

I shrugged. "I learned to fight starting with hand to hand."

"Even though I would love to hear the lectures, I want to ask a few questions." Sesshoumaru cut in.

"Keep your mouth shut." I shot glares at Sesshoumaru, and then I sighed and looked at the two boys again. "I'm sorry if I lose patience. I have been alive for three hundred years and I still haven't reached adulthood."

Both of the boys and Sesshoumaru looked shocked. "How did you manage to remain pure so long?"

"Well," I said blushing, "I never fell in love… Plus haven't you seen the ancient True Mikos and Monks?"

"No… we're not high enough rank to be able to attend any of the balls or meetings." Both the True Monks said.

"Sesshoumaru, you may join us today to help kill off some of the monsters, but I'm warning you. One outburst or anything, and I will pound your face in so hard you will have to get surgery to be able to sit on a chair ever again."

He shrugged. "I don't mind standing."

"Shut it." I glared at him and beckoned to the boys to follow. "Follow me."

I ran away from the school with the boys following a few yards behind, and Sesshoumaru farther away than that. First building I saw, I jumped up on, landed on the roof and kept running. Jumping building to building. Once I lost sight of the boys, I stopped running and turned around to see Sesshoumaru coming up to the building I was on with Iioku in his arms.

I ran to Sesshoumaru and looked down at the stunned boy. "That was so…. COOL! Let's do it again!"

I rolled my eyes at the boy and flicked him on the nose. "Come on weirdo, let's go."

Iioku hopped out of Sesshoumaru's arms as a grinning Kahn bounded up to the roof. "I told you it would be fun."

"Kahn!" I warned.

Immediately Kahn looked down at his suddenly interesting feet. "Sorry ma'am."

"Come on boys, no more rough housing." I groaned.

"Okay, let's go!" Iioku said, as he started running full speed to the edge of the building and jumping onto the next ever so clumsily.

I rolled my eyes as Kahn copied Iioku, and I was about to jump to the next building when two strong arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me back to the building.

"What do you want Sesshoumaru?" I asked with malice seeping in my voice.

"Who are you?" Sesshoumaru asked leaning in slightly and sniffing.

I stiffened, and a low hiss came from my mouth as Sesshoumaru's scent hit my nose. "Who are you? Tell me and I might tell you." I asked even though I already knew who he was.

"I am Sesshoumaru. Now tell me who you are." He said, teasingly pushing my hair back and sniffing the crook of my neck, his nose touching my skin.

"I am Branzy." I muttered angrily, trying to push him off. "Get off me!"

Sesshoumaru stopped smelling my neck and let go of me, setting me on the ground. I glared at him and he shook his head at some private joke he must have been thinking.

"Why do you wear such revealing clothing? It does not help for battle." He asked.

"What, are we playing Twenty Questions?" I retorted, rolling my eyes. "I wear these clothing because I am a warrior, not made to die easily."

"You still aren't prepared for battle. What if you battle someone as strong as you?"

"I am strong. I will never die by the hand of some youkai or Dark Miko."

Sesshoumaru gave off some kind of growl at that, and jumped after the boys. I was hot on his trail, with the silence creeping into my body. I started to realize how lonely I really was… and how much Sesshoumaru was right about the armor. It was really showy and it left me vulnerable. What happened to armor and other safety stuff?

After a long time of running around, we finally stumbled upon a lesser youkai and a Dark Miko. The Dark Miko was the same one I had seen last time. I instantly thought about forgetting to bring a platter, but tossed that thought aside.

"Hey look, it's the same Dark Miko from yesterday." I said, rolling my eyes.

"Ugh, it's the same True Miko from yesterday." The Dark Miko snapped back. "I figured that you would have died by someone else's hand already."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean Mrs. I-Lost-My-Purity-And-I-Turned-Evil? Wow that's a mouth full."

"Will you just shut up and fight me?" said the annoyed Dark Miko.

"Um… let me think about that for one second… Yes!" I got into a crouch ready to pounce or resist. "Now boys pay attention."

The Dark Miko didn't even acknowledge the True Monks and youkai. She was all eyes for me. I smirked at her; clearly she hadn't had enough training to know that you had to be aware of all your surroundings. I waited for her to come, but she just stood in the same crouch as I did. Maybe she learned something from the last time she saw me.

"Chimeiteki-Keikoku," I whispered, and my bow and arrows came into place on my back. I grabbed my bow and readied an arrow in it, watching the Dark Miko cautiously.

She watched my every move with her blood red eyes, testing to see if she could find my weak point. We were staring each other down, measuring each other to see who would win.

"I am strong. I will never die by the hand of some youkai or Dark Miko."

Even though I said that only a few minutes ago, it still had the same sharpness. I would never be killed by a Dark Miko. I swore it to myself.

"Just fight already!" I yelled finally, and the Dark Miko pounced.

She made a ball of dark magic and shot it at me. I sent my own ball of pure magic at it. They both hit each other, with mine overpowering hers, destroying it, and rushing at the Dark Miko.

'Geez. I should just name every move I have so I don't have to keep thinking, 'Oh look there goes it! Oh look it killed it!'' I thought lazily as my attack hit the Dark Miko's side and flew her back several feet.

The Dark Miko winced and glared at me, holding her side while blood streamed in a steady flow down her body.

"Wow, you are weak." I muttered rolling my eyes.

"True Miko. Die." She said with as much venom as she could get in her voice without pain seeping through. She disappeared as she let out a blast of power that was bigger and stronger than any I had seen from a Dark Miko.

I ran at the boys and Sesshoumaru, who had been watching from the sidelines, landed in front of them and pushed their heads down while holding onto their bodies. Pushing them towards me because I thought they were safer in my arms, Sesshoumaru's head was pressed up against my breast, and I felt him smirking. Immediately, I smacked him. Then, sending my own powerful blast at the Dark Miko's death wish for me. Mine was like a wild fire eating up everything in its path, including the Dark Miko's power blast. The lesser youkai was killed in the blast, and its insides went everywhere. Including on me. But the boys got away nice and dry.

"Ewww!" I yelled, releasing Sesshoumaru and the boys, shaking myself like a dog. Junk went flying everywhere.

Sesshoumaru smirked at me and raised an eyebrow. "Why'd you throw me off? I was quite happy where I was."

"Shut up!" I scolded him. "There are children here and they don't need any ideas!"

"Fine, I won't give them any ideas." He said his smirk gone until a thought struck him and then he grinned. "But I will keep mine in mind."

I looked up to the clouds and held my hands to my heart. "Oh Kami, please help me."

'Branzy, don't kill the Dark Miko you are facing. Come to us under the Red Moon, we have some interesting things for you to try out. Red Time is over in about a half hour.'

Iioku and Kahn both looked pretty surprised, and turned to look around. I giggled and made a small sound in the back of my throat to get their attention. "Don't worry, it's just the nerds telling us it's almost time for Red Time to stop."

"Should we go back to where we were?" They all asked.

I shrugged. "Sure, I need to make sure you're safe when you get there."

Kahn and Iioku were about to jump off the roof and onto the next one when I pulled them both out of the air staring at something… shining. I landed back down on the roof, tugged the boys back on it and jumped into the air after releasing them. My eyes were locked on where that shiny thing had once been. I jumped roof to roof looking down below, and finally jumped off a roof to the ground, picking up a pink jewel that glowed slightly.

My eyes widened as I realized what it was. In all my wasted years of school, I finally held something in my hand that was worth it all, and I had been a part of its history. "The Shikon No Tama."

I got up and looked it over carefully. I closed my eyes and sighed with a sad smile on my face. Hopefully, just hopefully, the True Miko nerds would destroy this before its history came back to haunt us all.

I felt the weight leave my hand, along with the sound that you got when metal hit metal. My eyes flashed open again to see the jewel break, and the pieces go everywhere including into my skin and sink in before I could get them out. Instead of breaking where you could find the pieces, it was like the pieces went flying this way and that in the sky or in the ground. It didn't matter.

"You should be more careful how you hold things, child." An icy voice sneered.

I moved my eyes from the place where a single shard had gone into my skin, to a hanyou who had black hair and red eyes like Dark Mikos and Dark Monks.

"How could you do that?" I whispered. "I thought I killed you years ago."

"Three hundred to be exact, True Miko." Naraku smirked. "That's what your new hybrid race is now, isn't it?"

"Damn you, Naraku." I whispered.

"Not yet." Naraku said and disappeared.

"Branzy!" Sesshoumaru yelled coming into view. "Are you okay?"

"No." My only words I could speak.

Disaster, the Shikon No Tama was back. Dreadful, I would have to find the shards again. Horrific, Naraku was back.

I felt the weight of the whole thing all over again. The memories, the problems, everything. It was too much. I am only a True Miko. I can't handle all this again.

And so I fainted.

x.O.x.O.x.

I woke up with someone shaking my shoulders telling me to wake up. I looked at Sesshoumaru and almost laughed. If it weren't for his expression, I would have. I was laying on the ground outside the school and I noticed I was human again. I stared at Sesshoumaru with my hazel eyes and smiled.

"Ma'am are you okay?" Sesshoumaru asked, his voice laced with confusion and concern.

"She'll be fine Sesshoumaru. She probably is just a little weak now." Kagome murmured to him.

I sat up quickly and moved away from Kagome, who was going to help me sit up. Hazel on hazel, we stared at each other.

Kagome and I looked the identical, except I was older looking and turned into a True Miko. She was young and did not. The reasons obvious.

Her eyes widened, and she finally remembered me. "Roza?"

"Kagome, whatever Jolietai says. It's your choice." I got up, and ran away as fast as my legs could take me.

x.O.x.O.x. Kagome's POV x.O.x.O.x.

She was real after all these years? I thought she was just a dream… What happened?

"Come on Kagome, we need to get back to soccer practice." Sesshoumaru said.

"Yeah…" I agreed.

We went back to the soccer field and when we were both in the positions we had been in, Red Time seemed to stop and real time kicked in.

"-Year! Are you sure you don't want to try out at least?" My coach continued his conversation from before Red Time had kicked in.

"No coach it's okay." I replied.

Soccer practice continued normally, Sesshoumaru walked me home as promised, but didn't say much. He said he'd talk to me later; I accepted that and went to bed early that night. Thoughts running crazy through my head, and when the Red Moon finally came up at twelve o'clock that night I sighed in relief and sat up on my bed staring out my window for a moment.

Red Time here I come.

x.O.x.O.x. A/N x.O.x.O.x.

Okay here's my new story. I hope you like it because I certainly do and it's nothing like I've seen before! No bad reviews but make sure to comment please!