The Game

The Forbidden Game

Summary:

Kagome explores Tokyo and a man bestows her with a board game called, "The Forbidden Game." So excited she decides to bring it to Inu-yasha's time and shares her moment with them. Everything is going well for them, well wrong. The Yasha gang is plunged into the world of the game and have to finish it without dieing. I wonder who will survive and who won't? There has to be a winner of the game, but does it mean the lives of the other friends? Read to find out.

Chapter 1:

Kagome had returned home from a tough time in the Feudal Era. She was angry because she and Inu-yasha were going at it again. Something about how useless she was for always going home and slowing him down. She sat in her bed and sighed. He just hadn't noticed that it was her 16th birthday, so she wanted to great her family for the first day of her 16th life. "That stupid, Inu-yasha, he could have at least said happy birthday." But wait had she ever told him about her birthday, actually she never once asked or mentioned about anyone's birthday.

She sighed again and thought about it more, and then something snapped her out of it. She clapped her hands together. "Alright, today is my sweet 16; I have to make some use of it." She got up and walked out of her room for the kitchen. She was happily greeted by her loving family. "Happy Sweet Sixteen, Kagome!!" Kagome beamed. "Thank you." She gave each of them a separate hug. They all sat down and celebrated for a bit then the telephone rang. Ms. Higurashi picked it up. "Yes? Uh hun, you wish to speak to Kagome?" Kagome turned to her when her name was spoken. "Phone's for you." Kagome got up and answered. "Hello?" A high pitched voice shouted. "Happy birthday Kagome-chan! You finally caught up with me." Kagome recognized the voice automatically. "Hi Ayumi, thank you very much."

Kagome soon hung up and turned away for a second then the phone rang again. She zipped around and answered. "HAPPY SWEET 16!!" Another voice shouted. It was Yuka, then shortly Eri even Houjo called in. Kagome hung up the phone for the last time a little stressed that everyone was calling at one time. She sighed and turned around again ready to sit and once again the phone rang again. Kagome frowned. Yes it was her birthday, but did everyone have to call at the same time. She reached for the phone and lift it off the receiver then answered as politely as possible. "Hello?" A sweeter voice replied. "Hi, happy birthday Kagome, I hope you have a good one." Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Who is this?" The voice sounded familiar, but the face wasn't coming to mind. "How can you forget you own cousin, gees; it's Risa." Kagome smacked her head. "Of course, how could I?" Kagome heard her chuckle. "Well it's not your fault; I mean we haven't seen each other since the age of 8 anyway." Kagome nodded, suddenly remembering everything they went through together. "Well I have a gift, but you have to come and get it. I'm a little busy. Do you think you can?" She asked politely. Kagome shrugged. "Sure, where?" She wouldn't mind going back to the Feudal Era right now, but she hadn't seen her cousin for a while, the others could wait. Risa gave the address and shortly Kagome left home.

Kagome was downtown in Tokyo searching for the place. She soon found her way there and met her cousin who gave her a giant hug. "Kagome!" Kagome hugged her back with a smile. "Long time no see." Risa nodded. "Really long." They talked a bit and Risa handed her the gift. Kagome took it, but she couldn't open right here. She would have to wait till she returned home. A few minutes later Kagome was on her way out, they gave each one last hug and Kagome left. "Hey, Kagome." Kagome turned around. "Keep in touch; it seems I never get to hang with you anymore. It's like you go to your own world now." Kagome laughed awkwardly at her choice of words. "Yup." Then she continued.

Later Kagome was on the streets walking around, but heard footsteps behind her. She figured it was Inu-yasha, but no, there were two people. Kagome's heart started to race. She turned a sharp corner to see if they were following, but indeed they were. "Okay, Kagome calm down, I can get out of this. I just have to keep cool." Kagome accelerated her speed more, but not at the point of running. She could hear the two men snickering. Just what were they thinking about? What were they going to do to her? Kagome gulped as the questions wondered around in her head. She saw another corner and sped more and turned quickly. As soon as she turned that corner she flew down the street like a bullet. "Sorry, but I don't have time to mess around with people like you today." But she could still hear them run after her. Her heart began to loud to the beat of her chasers footsteps. She just pleaded they would give up on catching her. Usually at times like this, Inu-yasha would save her, but she had to put that aside he wasn't here and he was probably still sulking about what she told him. He wouldn't have a clue that this type of situation was happening. Anyway, she had to just forget him for now and think of a way out of it herself.

Kagome's mind suddenly crossed. Wait a minute why were people chasing after her in broad daylight? Soon the behind her stopped. She turned her head while running. Had they givin up? Or were they planning something. They weren't there. "What happened to them?" Completely forgetting what was in front of her she crashed into a wall and fell on her bum. "Ow!" She groaned holding her cheek and rubbing her bottom. She got up to take a look at what blocked her path. It was a red brick wall. "That's strange, since when did a wall get here?" She wondered aloud as she stroked it. It probably got built while she was away in the Feudal Era. Many things could have changed since then. Kagome was so preoccupied with the wall she hadn't noticed someone standing behind her.

"Well, well, why is such a pretty young lady like yourself doing in a place like this?" A voice spoke from behind. Kagome gasped and zipped around quickly at the strange voice. It was a tall young man, about her age looking straight at her. Kagome gulped and began to stare into his eyes. He was quite gorgeous. His eyes were as gold like the setting sun. Inu-yasha had much similar eyes, but they were much more gentler than this man. Kagome could feel her cheeks warming up. Then her swollen cheek, form crashing into the wall, stung as the red kicked in. She winced and rubbed her swollen cheek. The young man grasped her hand and pulled it away gently and inspected it. "I saw you run into the wall. It looked like you hit it hard too so I came over." Kagome felt like a total loser that a hot guy saw her foolishly run into a wall. The man made a crooked smile, which was quite attracting too, like he read her mind. "You couldn't have just randomly run into the wall for nothing. It looked like you were running away from something. Tell me, what were you running from?" He asked as he stroked her cheek delicately without hurting it. Kagome blushed by his sudden touch.

She thought of an answer; she didn't want to say she was being followed, that would make her look weak and vulnerable in front of this guy. "Uh, I was running late for something and didn't know about this new wall here, so I ran into it. Hehe, silly me." She lied. The young man snickered, he knew it was a lie, but continued to follow along. "Yea, this is new." Kagome looked back at it. "I thought so." She giggled. The handsome man couldn't help but return it. "You're pretty cute. Where were you getting to?" Kagome was careful of what she was going to say. "I was on my way back home; I used to take this route a lot so, I didn't know such a hard wall would be standing here." The young man nodded. "Yeah, I know." Kagome turned to him peculiarly that he said he knew about her paths. The young man froze. "Uh I mean, I'm used to use this road too, but this damn wall blocked it. Now it forces me to walk all around the bloody city just to get back home." He corrected more properly. "Oh." Kagome sighed with relief. "Good I had some impression that you were some kind of stocker that knew everything and anything about me." Kagome giggled embarrassingly. The young man cringed. "Silly eh? Hehe."

Kagome nodded and shrugged. "Well I guess I better be off now. I'm late with something." And she passed him. She was stopped when the young man held her wrist. "Stay." Kagome's heart began to race. "W-what do you want?" She trembled. "Oh I'm not going to do anything mean with you; I just wanted to give you something first before you head off. It's your birthday right?" He stated. Kagome nodded and her pulse relaxed a little. "Yeah, but how did you know?" He blinked. "Well you mentioned it earlier didn't you?" Kagome blinked as well. "Hmm… I guess I did, but why give me something?" He smiled again. "Well I just wanted to make your day a little brighter. It's not everyday we turn 16. Wait here please?" Kagome widened by his kind smile, but behind that he looked strange. She could just make a break for it now if she wanted to, but this guy wanted to give her something. It's not everyday that a hot guy comes along and gets you gift either. The young man returned shortly with a rectangular box. The same size as Monopoly. Forbidden Game was written in old Japanese cursive. "A game?" Kagome sighed with disappointment. "Maybe it could have been something more serious. I knew it, every time I meet a hot and handsome guy he ends up to be a nerd or gay." The young man cringed again, like he understood each and every single word her mind said. "It's not any ordinary game, it's very rare." He added. Kagome shook her head. "No thanks, I think I'll pass." Then she began to walk away.

"Sadness. Confusion. Fear. What are all those? Simple emotions? That's only the beginning." He spoke. Kagome halted when she heard him speak. "What?" She faced him once more. "The Forbidden Game. I wonder what it means by simple emotions, that's only the beginning. Hm. Strange." He wondered reading the box. Kagome came over to inspect it with him. "Don't mess with something you don't understand." Kagome read. The man looked up at her. "Oh! You're still here? I thought you weren't interested." Kagome puckered up in a frown. "Just because I wasn't interested in this particular game it doesn't mean I hate games period, but now that I look at it; it seems different from the others." He chuckled at her. "Look it even takes up to 5 players. I'd say that's perfect." Kagome nodded counting up her friends. "Yeah, you want it right? I'm giving it to you." He handed. "No, I couldn't; it must be something very important to you." He only shook his head. "No, no I'm much too busy to play games. It's your party, so I thought it might suit you much better than me."

Kagome smiled at him. "Thank you, you're very kind. Better yet it might even interest Inu-yasha. How much do you want for it?" She asked already digging in her wallet. The young man only laughed. "You are just so cute. You don't need to pay for it." Kagome gasped. "Oh! But I must, something so rare like this should be paid for." The handsome man grabbed Kagome's shoulders, stopping her from searching in her wallet. She looked back up into his eyes. She seemed to be mesmerised by them. "Listen, it's your birthday, Kagome. It's not right to let the birthday girl go buy off her gifts from people." He smiled again. "Yes. I will, take it then." Kagome blushed with a slight nod. "Good." He nodded back satisfied. Kagome continued to stare into his eyes. It was somewhat hard to look away. It was like she was being locked by his mesmerising gaze. "Uh…" She could feel his hands moving toward her cheeks again and he held them. "Kagome…" He said silently. "Kagome!!" A loud and very bossy sound like voice shouted.

Kagome blinked away when she recognized that voice. "Inu-yasha?" Surely enough it was him jumping down from a roof of a building toward them. The young man slightly made a frown at his appearance and so did Inu-yasha when he noticed that guy was holding her cheeks. "Who the hell are you?" He growled. Kagome remembered the handsome boy and why Inu-yasha looked all testy. "Uh, Inu-yasha." Kagome broke away from the young man's grip and faced Inu-yasha. The young man slightly glared. "Take care of that cheek, Kagome. Don't let it swell up too bad." Kagome nodded back. "Thanks again." The man gave her a sweet smile and turned away from them and walked away with a slight grin across his face.

Kagome ran up to Inu-yasha who was still staring off at that man. "Kagome, who was that guy?" He demanded. "Oh come on Inu-yasha, this isn't the time to be jealous. He was just giving me a gift." Kagome replied. "What?! Why on earth would I be jealous?!" He barked. "Oh be quiet. It's done, so can we just leave now?" Inu-yasha snarled and they walked the other back to the road. "What happened to your cheek it's red did that guy-" Kagome stopped him. "No, I foolishly ran into a wall while being cha..." She stopped she didn't want to mention the situation she in before. then you wouldn't hear the end of it. "What?" Kagome shook her head. "Nothing forget, I ran into a wall and that's it." Inu-yasha grumbled under his breath about how she always kept things to herself and such. Kagome still had the thought where those two guys that were chasing her before went. It didn't matter she was with Inu-yasha and that's all that mattered now. "By the way, what is that? That box you're holding. What's in there?" He asked more calmly. "I don't know. It's some sort of game." She answered. "A game? And is this supposed to be more important than searching for those remaining shards?" Inu-yasha glowered. Kagome frowned that all he came for was just to bring her back to the world beyond the well and look for the remaining shards Naraku had dropped while he died, and then she sighed because of that. He didn't care that she was enjoying somewhat part of her birthday. Even though he never knew, he could have been more sensitive when she decided to go back home. And then her mind drifted off back to the handsome man who gave her this strange game. "Isn't strange that he appeared out of no where and ends up giving me a gift. Besides of that where did he go off to, to get it? Even though he was quite attractive he was indeed weird." Kagome then remembered when he held her cheeks. It didn't seem like he was inspecting them, it looked like he wanted to kiss me, but then Inu-yasha came in. That exact scene stayed fresh in her mind and she blushed feeling like she sort of betrayed Inu-yasha. Then something passed through Kagome. "Wait that man; he had golden eyes didn't he? No humans have golden eyes unless they were contacts but a guy like him wouldn't where something like that he seemed too proud to. And on top of that..."

Flashback

"Listen, it's your birthday, Kagome. It's not right to let the birthday girl to buy off her gifts from people." And then. He nodded back satisfied. Kagome continued to stare into his eyes. It was somewhat hard to look away. It was like she was being locked by his mesmerising gaze. "Uh…" She could feel his hands moving toward her cheeks again and he held them. "Kagome…" He said silently. "Take care of that cheek, Kagome. Don't let it swell up too bad." Kagome nodded back. "Thanks again." The man gave her a sweet smile and turned away.

-End of Flashbacks-

Kagome gasped inside her head. "How did he know my name? She was certain she never mentioned it. Even before Inu-yasha arrived and called me he's been calling me Kagome ever since." This was very strange to Kagome indeed. "Who on earth was that guy." Inu-yasha bent down when he smelt something. "What is it Inu-yasha?" Inu-yasha pushed some trash bins over and spotted to men lying on the ground unconscious. Kagome gasped. Inu-yasha noticed. "What is it, Kagome? you know these guys?" Kagome was shocked. It was the two men that were chasing her, but what were they doing here?

End of chapter.

How do you guys like the idea of the story was it interesting please let me know. lol who do you think beat up the two men?? What's going to happen with that game and her friends?? And who on earth is that guy??