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{AN: Ok, i would like to thank all of you who reviewed! I'm so glad my first crossover is working out alright! I'm trying to make them stay in character, but its so hard when i want certain things to happen! I dont know what im doing, really... *looks around embaressed* I kinda didn't even plan on this going so well, i thought, well, they'll review for the first chapter, amybe the second, but they'll get bored by the third... Then i wrote the third chapter, and i was like, wow, doesn't even look like i wrote it! So, this story is afficialy an obnoxious child of mine, that has a mind of its own! My other story, A Vampire Queens' Love, is still just a child! lol, love how that works out, dont ya!? Anyways, i'd like to thank my reviewers now!
To: LuLuCrazeD! Thank you fo the review, once more! Yes, i know its confusing, i dont even understand how it happened myself, i WAS going to make it like Kurama's predicament, but....*shruggs* thats how it happened! sides, how'd you explain why kags never acted distant with her mom? lol, and, i'll try to explain later my strategy, once i relocate it! I am so glad you liked the 2nd chapter, and i hope you like this one just as much, if not more!
To: XXmistressdeathXX! When you say ok, does that mean there are parts i can make better? like, is there something wrong with how i write, or something wrong with my plans, or plot? All you said was its ok, which tells me thats there is still stuff i can improve on! Please, tell me more! You got me interested! }
The Tournament
Chapter 3: Antics
Kagome stepped through the blue portal and was surrounded with large pillars and a ceiling somewhere above her. She knew there had to be a ceiling because, there was no sunlight, and no sunlight usually means there was a ceiling near by. Lowering her gaze from her pondering ceiling and why she couldn't even see it, Kagome found Botan smiling at her with a cat-like face, and Yusuke tapping his foot impatiently, a dark scowl adorning his face. Smiling impishly, Kagome waved Yusuke off with her mind's hand, and walked up to Botan. "What kind of demon lives here? Is it a tai-youkai?"
Botan laughed nervously as Yusuke arched an eyebrow and narrowed his eyes on her. "Oh, heavens' no! This is Prince Koenma's place, right next to King Yammis (I hope I spelled that right…) place! Oh I know! You were wondering why the ceiling is so high, right?" At Kagome's nod, Botan laughed happily, "That's a Bingo for me! Oh, and the ceiling is so high because that's how big King Yammi is. He sometimes visits us here."
"Botan." Yusuke's voice interrupted Botan, making her frown in annoyance.
"Yusuke, it's not like you have anything else to do, why don't you get to know Kagome-sama better?" Yusuke huffed and shoved his hands into his pockets, a slouch forming into his steps and a scowl adorning his face. Kagome giggled at the picture he made, but made a straight face when he turned and glared at her heatedly.
"Shhh! I have to page Prince Koenma to let us in!" Botan whispered as she stopped in-front of two very large double doors, her hand ready to push a button on an intercom. Kagome nodded and covered her mouth, while Yusuke's scowl turned worse and he turned his head away angrily. Shippo's head tilted to the side as he watched Botan press a button.
"Yes?" a guttural sounding voice answered, making Shippo streak into Kagome's hair, his whole body shivering in fright
"Botan here. I've got Kagome Higurashi with me to talk with Prince Koenma. Can you please open the doors?" Botan said cheerfully as she pushed a big white button. Immediately the line went dead and the doors opened.
Botan smiled and rushed through the doors, her blue hair wiping Yusuke in the face as he went to follow her. Mumbling under his breath about girl hair and how it's too long, Yusuke followed more cautiously and rubbing his nose in pain.
Immediately Kagome and Shippo's ears were surrounded by a large noise, making Kagome clap her hands over her ears and making Shippo jump up to Kagome's shouler and bury himself in her hair, while covering his ears.
Botan was about to say something when she noticed Kagome's pained expression, and Yusuke's mocking arrogant swager. "Oh, I'm so sorry! Here!" Botan snapped her fingers and a medium and a small set of earmuffs 'popped' out of no where.
"Thank you!" Kagome shouted back, making everyone still, before shrugging and continuing with their work.
They quickly moved through the room, and in minutes, though it seemed like hours to both Kagome and Shippo, they arrived at yet another pair of large doors, only these were already open for them. Once they stepped through the doors closed behind them, leaving them in silence. "Ah, much better, right Shippo?" Kagome asked, pulling her earmuffs off and Shippo's and handing them back to Botan.
"Yeah, much…" Shippo mumbled from her hair as he rubbed his sore ears. "All those creatures wore only loin clothes, did you notice?"
"Yeah, but if it works for them, then its fine." Kagome responded as she easily kept up with Botan's rushed pace.
"Here we are!" Botan stopped suddenly, making Kagome slip back to stop her forwards motion and land on Yusuke.
"Oh, sorry about that. Lost my footing." Kagome apologized while scratching the back of her head, making Yusuke stop mid yell.
"Oh, um…no prob." Yusuke replied, his rant about watching where she walks dying in his throat.
A voice from inside the room where the doors were open spoke, saying "That will be all, Botan. You may leave now."
Botan bowed reverently and said happily, "Yes sir Koenma!" before mumbling under her breathe, "Now for some of that coacoa Keiko told me about!" Once that was said, Botan turned and rushed out of the room, leaving an upset and confused Yusuke and a bemused and confused Kagome behind. Shippo was plain oblivious as he was still mourning over the treatment of his ears.
"Come in, please."
Kagome smiled and walked into the room, freezing after the first five steps as a large power source caressed her body and made her muscles tense and her fingers flex in want to touch it. 'Now, where is that power coming from?'
Kagome looked all around the nicely decorated room before a cough from Yusuke drew her attention away from her search. "Try looking down." Yusuke pointed down in-front of her, snickering openly while grinning like a fool. Turning slowly Kagome looked down and found a toddler standing before her in a blue, white, and red outfit, a large blue hat, and a blue pacifier in his mouth. Raising his hand in a 'cool' wave, Koenma spoke one word authoritatively…
"Hello." Because he also had his eyes closed, her didn't see the light that sparked into Kagome's eyes, nor the smile she was casting his way.
{AN: I thought about ending it here, but, I was too much in the mood of writing to!}
Kagome smiled as she 'found' the source of the power. She could practically see it radiating from him in waves. Bending down, Kagome gazed silently at Koenma, who had yet to open his eyes.
"Kagome, what are you gonna do?" Shippo asked from his place in her hair.
"Just gonna have some fun, that's all." Kagome replied quietlydistractedly as she opened her arms slowly before snatching Koenma from the ground and standing up with him crushed to her chest. "Aw! You're so cute! What's your name, huh cute little boy? I could just eat you up! You're so adorable!!!" Kagome gushed out as she swung him around, a huge smile on her face.
Koenma started chocking as the air was squeezed out of him, while Yusuke laughed at his face, which was slowly turning a nice blue that matched his cloths. "Kagome, I don't think he can breathe…" Shippo said as he peeked out of her hair, looking curiously at the little boy.
"Oh!" Kagome let go of the small boy and held him at arms length, her hands positioned under his arms. "I am so sorry about that, You're just so adorable!"
Koenma coughed and wheezed, his eyes now fully opened and bugged out of his head. "You" cough "have" another cough " quiet a grip!" Kagome smiled mischievously and nodded. "Can you please put me down now?" Koenma asked once his breathing was under control.
Kagome nodded again and knelt on the floor, placing him gently on the ground. Koenma wobbled unsteadily before he re-gained his balance, making Yusuke's laughter even louder. "Now, I ould like to talk to you about why I called you here, Miss Kagome."
Kagome nodded and settled herself into a long talk, "I was just wondering what a powerful being like you would need me for."
Koenma and Yusuke coughed in shock at her words. "You knew I was powerful and yet you did that!?" Kagome demanded while Yusuke was saying, "You think that toddler is powerful!? Then I must be a god in power!" He puffed up his chest
At Yusuke's words, Kagome looked over and sized him up. "Nope. You're weaker than him. He has the same level of power as a tai-youkai's son would." Once she said that, Kagome once more turned to an amused Koenma's face. "Well?" she prompted.
"Ah, yes. Well, it has come to my attention that a tournament is beginning soon, and some evil beings are competing. If they should win, the world is doomed. I would like you to go with my team and be a healer. My secretaries have told me that you are the best of both your time and the one you travel to."
Kagome blinked in surprise at this. "Wouldn't you rather Kikyo go? She is more powerful than I." Shippo shook his head at this.
"Oh, so you do listen to that half demon!" Koenma sounded surprised. After a moment of awkward silence Koenma explained. "She used to be more powerful than you, until she died. Once she died, though, she lost all her powers. When part of your soul was given to her, she only got back some of her powers, mostly purification, because of the evil deeds she has done since being revived even that power has been weakened tremendously."
Kagome's mouth formed an 'O', while Shippo nodded in agreement. "So, I'd be a healer, make sure that your team doesn't die and what not?"
Koenam nodded. "I'd also like for you to be our fifth and stand in fighter, if you don't mind. Weapons are allowed, and you are to train with Genkai…if you agree of course."
Kagome nodded eagerly, thoughts of Inuyasha not even surfacing in her mind. "I'd love to help. I save the world every day, as you know, so this should be easy!"
Koenma nodded, satisfied, before turning to Shippo. "I have a human on my team with a fox spirit inside his body. He can teach you some fox tricks, if you like."
Shippo's ears tweaked as that bit of news reached his pointy little ears. Popping his head out of Kagome's hair, he looked down at Koenma curiously. "What kind of fox?"
"He controls plants, and has silver hair." At this information Shippo grinned happily.
"He's a mix breed! He's half spirit fox, half forest fox, like me! Kagome, do you mind if he trains me?" Shippo asked excitedly as he jumped out of Kagome's hair fully and bounced around happily.
Kagome laughed and scooped Shippo up into her arms as she stood up. "I wont mind if I get to meet this 'dashing' fox you want to teach you." Kagome joked, touching noses with Shippo in amusement.
Koenma smirked happily. "You two can meet Kurama soon, he should be coming back from a mission I sent him on a couple days ago. I'll send him to Genkai's place. Yusuke, please take Miss Higurashi to Genkai's, and introduce her as well."
"What, now I'm a guide? Jeez, you don't even ask, you toddler!" Yusuke complained throwing his hands up in the air. Koenma's cheeks got red in anger, making Yusuke grin at him in amusement.
"Yusuke, I've never met someone quiet so… bold before. Do you have a girl friend?" Kagome asked suddenly, making both Koenma and Yusuke look at her in astonishment.
"Why do you want to know?" Yusuke demanded, his amused demeaner leaving to leave a 'bad ass' behind.
Kagome bent down and picked Shippo up while walking to the door in a hasty exit. "Oh, nothing!" Kagome called back over her shoulder, "I just feel bad for her for having to put up with your temper!" Kagome made a quick get away while Yusuke bellowed and ran after her, his fists raised in anger outside of Koenma's door.
Koenma chuckled. "Thanks, Yusuke. I knew I could count on you!" After that Koenma quickly shut his doors before Yusuke could get back into his room and clobber him.
"Damn girls. I hate'em. Always makin assumptions like that!" Yusuke complained, grumbling down the hallway, following Kagome's trail. "You know what they say about Assuming, It makes and ass out of you! AND I DON'T HAVE A TEMPER!" He exclaimed, raising his voice so Kagome could hear him.
{AN: I tried to make this chapter more humourous, instead of gloomy, like the last two! I hope you enjoyed it, and that my impression of Kagome meet Koenma went over well! Please Review!}