Recap

"Shit!" she thought, she started running and looked around she saw Inuyasha running and setting himself up to catch the ball. She immediately saw the play in her mind and ran towards him ready to make her interception.

She could see it coming and the best part was he didn't know she was there. He had his hand out ready to make the catch when…

Swift Chapter 3

She could feel the ball touch her hands and slide into a catch. If she saw the look on his face at that moment it would have been one of both pure shock and anger. That was not how he envisioned that play happening.

She clutched the ball tight and immediately changed directions. She was 2 yards away when Inuyasha realized what was happening and changed directions too. As she was running, she could see every guy that was coming her way and knew exactly how to move to avoid getting tackled. Left, right, left, spin, fake. It was all too easy for her. Even with Inuyasha right on her ass, she was unstoppable. Wow, maybe she shouldn't give up sports so fast because this was a great adrenaline rush. Yep, she had made it to the goal and wasn't even out of breath. She simply turned around and tossed the ball to Inuyasha, who looked shocked enough to shit his pants. Then she ran right back to the line and waited for everyone to reset. She could see her potential new friends in the stands pointing at her then talking.

"Hmm," she thought, "so they know that Inuyasha just got his arrogant ass handed to him." This was good, if they weren't completely ignorant to sports maybe it would be easier for her to hang around them. She almost couldn't wait to hear the rumors about the mystery kid that showed up at random one day and really whipped the whole team into shape.

"Don't think you'll get so lucky next time Shippo!" Inuyasha whispered to Kagome. Interesting, she wondered if the whole team thought she was Shippo. Well the kid could use some brownie points; maybe she could help him out at the same time too. She should just be grateful that that Shippo kid was almost as small as she was. Now she could get a few plays in before everyone realized the switch.

Everyone lined up and this time she was ready and had a plan as to what she was going to do. The ball was hiked and everyone took off running, but this time she knew he was conscious of her and couldn't just try and catch the ball. She sped up and kind of semi-circled him, an old trick her father ha taught her when he was alive. She ran back and forth, speeding up and slowing down and she knew she had down exactly what she wanted. Inuyasha had completely forgotten about the ball and was focused on what she was doing. She looked up and saw the ball coming, with one last effort she positioned herself in front of him, jumps, and swipes the ball in mid air. As she hit the ground she was already on the move to change direction. Inuyasha realized that he had been tricked again and ran after Kagome, but he just couldn't catch her.

She went right and just when you think you had her she already spun around you and went left. She jumped over people and could not be stopped. All the way to the goal posts again. Inuyasha followed her and just as he thought he was in reach… she crossed the goal line for the second time after intercepting the ball from him.

This time he was speechless.

What could he say after claiming to be the best, only then to have is ass basically handed to him on a platter. That must be embarrassing, lucky he didn't know that the one who was actually playing him was girl. To him, it appeared as if that little sophomore suddenly grew some talent and actually posed a threat to his almost guaranteed MVP award and he just couldn't let that happen. He was gonna get this little pipsqueak.

Kagome was anticipating this. She saw his ego practically screaming to take out the threat. What she also knew was that she could not afford to be tackled. Besides the fact that if she was tackled he would feel through her baggy jersey and padding and know that she was female. Also, she was a tough girl, she used to play around with her old friends, she's been in many fights in her days, and she could take a hit; but she was not sure it would be an easy recovery for her after a powerful tackle from an enraged egotistic demon who is prepared to defend his title as the best.

She was beginning to see the flaws in her "I'll show them how to really play" plan.

Oh well, she couldn't quit now. Not until the coach realized that she wasn't Shippo. She reset herself on the field and could feel Inuyasha's aura ready to pound her, or rather Shippo, into the ground.

She heard the Quarterback call the play and knew in the back of her mind that Inuyasha was planning to quickly catch the ball, and then use the momentum of his body to tackle her down and keep going to the goal posts.

She ran hard. As she ran, she had already formulated a counter play that would surely catch the coach's attention. When she ran, it was about 4 or 5 yards to his right and diagonal to him. She knew he had to be feeling smug right now. To him it looked like all her other interceptions and he thought he knew where she was at. She saw the ball coming, it was far, really far so both she and Inuyasha sped up.

That's when Kagome decided to make her move. She cut across just as the ball was coming down. Inuyasha had no idea. The ball was still going a tad bit too high for her so she jumped so high her stomach was practically at his shoulders, which is a big deal because he's probably 6 ft 2 in while she's only 5 ft 7.

The ball flew into her chest, which hurt her slightly, it also made her fly back a little. As she was coming down from what she called her flight, she did a sort of sideways superspy/army roll until she got onto her feet. Then her determination kicked in and she was running down the field again dodging players left and right. Literally. Inuyasha was stunned. He stood for a second before weakly following her down the field in a poor attempt to catch her and tackle her.

He knew something was off. How could Shippo get so good so fast? He saw what he believed to Shippo cross the goal line. "Damn," he thought, "not again." He glanced at his teammates and saw that they were just as bewildered at this display of talent as him.

He did recall seeing his best friend, Miroku, who's on defense who was playing on Shippo's side currently, gesturing his as to find out what Shippo was on to make him play so well. He even looked into the bleachers at one point to see the almost 40 people who came to watch one of their summer practices look like they were already talking. Spreading rumors no doubt about how Shippo was whopping his ass. This has to be rectified immediately. He started to walk to Shippo, aka Kagome, to see what was up.

While he was in pursuit of his victim, he heard the coach yell, "Good work Shippo! Way to finally wake up some of those idiots out there!"

That is when he stopped walking because things just got weird.

Kagome was inwardly smirking. This was just making her day. She heard the coach yell good work to Shippo and knew he was talking to her, but the best part was when Shippo responded.

"Uhh, sir. I'm over here." Shippo called from the water tank on the bench.

The look on the coach face was hilarious.

"If you're over there, then who the hell is that on my field!" screamed the angered coach. The whole stadium heard and were all looking to either Shippo or this mystery player for an explanation.

"I don't know sir, he just said that you wanted to try a new player so I got off the field." Came his meek reply. Well that left Shippo out.

"I guess I should explain myself," said Kagome as she jogged over. "I'm new here and I was watching the practice from the stands and saw so many mistakes so I came down to have a little fun and point out some of your weak spots." She used her fake man voice and it seemed to be effective.

"You got some goddamn nerve. Well, if you wanted a spot on the team you got…"

The coach didn't get to finish because Kagome set him straight, "I don't want a position, like I said I just came down here to point out some weak spots and have some fun."

"Oh, well this is not an option, you will report for practice at…" he was once again interrupted by Kagome and she was very serious this time.

"No. I will not play football for this team, or any other for that matter. I just came here to help you see why your plays are failing miserably, but if you won't take my help because I won't join the team, I have no problem with that. Today was fun enough for me."

When she go no response she continued, "Firstly, your defense is extremely weak on the right side. I think it's because you have the players in uncomfortable positions, but that is only my opinion. Next is you quarterback, he's excellent, but isn't as strong in his short arm as he is long arm. It's not a horrible problem, but it would increase your play versatility…" she went on to a few other minor things until she got to her major point, "but the worst problem on the team that I noticed and is actually dragging you down quite a bit is him right there." She said as she pointed to Inuyasha.

She could hear some gasps across the field. "Oh well, they needed to hear it."

"What!" she could hear the jerk screech.

"Silence Inuyasha," the coach said. Then he looked at Kagome and said, "But how can that be, Inuyasha is our best player. That's half the reason why he was made captain."

Kagome just smirked and said, "I have never seen this team before, or any of its players, but knew from the moment I stepped onto those bleachers that Inuyasha was your captain. Do you know how? Because on a good team the captain is always trying to improve the team. Working with others and such. On a bad team the captain is always show boating around, bragging, and gloating. Then he blames the rest of the team for the losing. Guess which one your team is? I could smell his arrogance a mile away. That's really the only reason I came down to play in the first place.

"I just couldn't resist letting him know that he," she motions to Inuyasha, "is not the best player out here and if the team played more like a team and not Inuyasha and company then I probably wouldn't be able to make it to the goal even once."

Everything got calm for a second. Even the majority of the players who couldn't hear the conversation knew that know was not the time to speak.

The coach processed the information before asking, "Are you sure that you don't wasn't to join; even if you don't want to play I could really use your eyes."

"No," was Kagome's solid answer, "I have no desire to play. It's not apart of my life anymore; besides if you knew who I really was you would be both embarrassed that I beat your best player so many times and I caught weaknesses in your team that you failed to notice yourself. Maybe I could keep you posted every once in a while."

She continued, "I mean I'm sure you knew your team wasn't functioning properly, but I guess you just didn't see why it wasn't working. Well, I have to go know. My ride might leave without me."

"At least tell us who you are!" screamed Inuyasha.

"No, I'm gonna disappear and the next time you see me, you won't even know it so don't worry."