Star: Hey peoples! How are y'all doing?
Scythe: Star, shut up.
Star: What, I'm just being polite...
Scythe: Which is why I would like for you to shut up.
Star: Fine, BE that way. (crosses arms and stops talking for like 5 seconds) Hey, is it all right if I go and kill Naraku? Pretty please???
Scythe: First of all, I don't care. Second of all, I don't care. Third of all, I don't care. And fourth of all, did I mention I don't care?
Star: Yea, you said that a couple of times, I think.
Scythe: You THINK?
Star: (shrug) Wasn't paying attention!
Scythe: I am going to kill you one of these days...
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Hiei: 20 Kurama: 33
REMEMBER: Next chapter is the last chance to cast your vote(s)! Don't forget!
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Chapter 10
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LAST TIME:
Touya was already turning to walk away as he answered. "It's the only way to keep you here and training while I'm gone. I'll be back after the match. See you later!" She watched as he disappeared into the shadowed woods.
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Well if that wasn't just great! Kagome would get back at him later. Right now, she might as well try some practice moves. That is, if she could; maybe all she could do was stand here and hold the katana. If so, then it sucked even worse to be her.
After attempting a few defensive moves, Kagome smiled. At least Touya wasn't stupid enough to prevent her from moving. So, she continued practicing her parrying. It was actually pretty good, considering she hadn't practiced in about, what, three years?
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"A human? Here? At the Dark Tournament?" Hiei was currently training, just to sharpen his skills even more. Upon sensing a human, he paused in the middle of a punch. The only humans he knew of were the baka and the Spirit Detective. They were the only ones strong enough to actually come. But there's another human?
Curiosity getting the better of him, Hiei dashed off through the trees to investigate the mysterious, or maybe just stupid, human.
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At about the same time, Kurama had been working with his Rose Whip. When he sensed Hiei's presence quickly leave the area it had been in previously, he decided to follow. It wasn't as if he HAD to be practicing right then, and besides, it was kind of getting a little boring.
So, he also took off in the same direction as Hiei's energy, hoping to meet up with him. Curse his kitsune curiosity...
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Kagome had long since tired of practicing her defensive moves, so she was just standing there, bored, trying to think of something to do. She WOULD be tapping her fingers on some hard object, such as her chin, but she couldn't really remove her hand from the ice katana.
She found herself looking with actual interest into the water of the clear pool next to the boulder she was standing on. She had to twist her body a little in order to be able to see it, but she didn't mind. She turned it into stretching time, just to humor herself.
'...15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.' Kagome was counting to 20 in her head then turning the other way. The water looked so cool... Man, she was dying! She was getting thirsty, not to mention hot, standing in direct sunlight for several hours straight. Shouldn't Touya's match have ended already? It can't possibly have taken them this long to win three lousy fights, unless...
She spread her powers out to try and see if she could sense the demons that Touya was fighting, or had been fighting a while ago, if her assumption was correct. 'Curse you, Touya! You aren't at a match anymore! Neither is the rest of your team! As a matter of fact, you are all near the hotel! Training, no doubt. You better not have forgotten your FRIEND, or I will personally make your life a living nightmare.'
Kagome's grumbling thoughts were disrupted when she felt the sudden presence of a demon. There were two demons, to be precise, and they were both heading toward her. She gulped. 'Crap! I'm stuck to a rock and two strong demons are coming my way. Oh my gosh, all they have to do is shove this rock into the water, and I am so dead! That way, I can't even fight back! Did I curse you already, Touya? Oh well. Curse you!'
She returned to a face-forward position, her body un-twisted, when she heard, or rather felt, one of the demons enter the clearing, surprise etched in her features. She wasn't surprised about a demon being there there, which is what Hiei thought, but rather that he was so SHORT! She herself wasn't very tall, but he was still shorter than her. What, about 2 or 3 inches if they were standing on level ground? (Without his hair, he is 4' 10". Just a fact I learned in Saturday's episode...) As if that wasn't enough, he looked like a total Goth, and his hair defied gravity!
Kagome turned, another confused look on her visage, as another, much taller, demon walked into the clearing. This guy looked nicer, but it might just have been his calm demeanor. His hair was a fiery red, much like Jin's, but his eyes were the most stunning shade of green Kagome had ever seen, in an excellent contrast to his hair. He was wearing a white uniform- type outfit, with a pink-like trim. Weirder still, he seemed to soothe her somewhat. BOTH demons did, despite the short one's... ferocity.
Kagome kept looking from one demon to the other, not quite afraid thanks to the taller one, but clearly not happy with the situation. Hiei was the one who spoke up first, obviously intrigued by the ningen's position, stuck on a rock, holding a sword. "Oh, so it was a ningen girl? Disappointing," he said in monotone, but he did not leave. He stayed there examining the girl. She was actually quite beautiful... Stop thinking like that Hiei!
Kurama, while Hiei was able to keep himself in check, was straining to keep his demon personality in check. His instincts wanted to go and help her with whatever she needed, maybe even take her while he was at it... After all, she WAS very beautiful. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he voiced to his fellow demon, "So this girl was the thing that had you curious?"
Hiei gave a stiff nod, and replied, "I sensed a human, and they usually don't hang out around here, aside from the Spirit Detective and the baka." He watched as the girl seemed to stiffen with the mention of a Spirit Detective. He turned his full attention on her. "What are you doing here?" he demanded coldly.
Kagome met his eyes and gave an involuntary shiver. His eyes are kind of creepy, but he seems alright, just a little cold. She remained silent, not really knowing what to say.
Kurama understood why she couldn't answer, so he asked what he hoped was an easier question. "Would you mind telling us why you are frozen to that rock, and why you are holding a katana made of ice?" he said, studying her closely. She didn't look uncomfortable to be near demons, but rather to be near them in a situation in which she has a great disadvantage. Interesting...
Kagome gave a tremulous smile to the redhead. "S-sure. I was training, and in order to keep me here he had to freeze me to the rock. I wanted to see his match real bad..."
"And the sword?" Kurama prompted. That sword was also interesting...
"Oh, he was training me with it, and my grip wasn't quite right, so he made me hold it like this until the match was over." Kagome's nervousness wasn't near as bad as it had been before, seeing as how these demons were just curious, not wanting to kill her. At least, she thought they were.
Kurama quirked an eyebrow at that last comment. "How does he know you are not shirking his wishes and holding the katana incorrectly?"
Looking down in what seemed like embarrassment, Kagome explained, "He froze my hands to it, too. I can't remove them."
Kurama actually looked concerned for a moment. 'He froze her hands? But she doesn't appear to be chilled by any of the ice. Is she an ice apparition in disguise? No, she isn't, I can most definitely sense the human in her and nothing else.' The look passed as his thoughts ended.
His eye twitching, the short one spoke up again. "Who the heck is 'he?' And why would 'he' be training a filthy human?"
Kagome appeared offended, and her infamous temper was rising. "I am NOT a 'filthy human' and 'he' is my sensei, smart one!" It was a good thing she could keep her anger in check...
"But WHO is your sensei? I want a NAME," he spat back. This girl might actually be worth the competition in a battle of words...
"Touya," she retorted resolutely, without thinking that he may know him. Luckily, he didn't. "And he could kick your butt if you guys were to fight, just like I am sure I would be able to."
Kurama raised his eyes at this. 'Does she not realize we are demons, or does she not realize who Hiei is? This girl gets weirder and weirder,' he thought as he looked on in amusement.
"Why you! You shall pay dearly for that, baka ningen!" Hiei yelled, drawing his own steel katana. It wasn't ordinary steel though; nope, it was harder than steel, much harder. He was preparing to attack when his 'friend' intervened. But, alas, Kurama was just a hair late in his defense of the girl, and he braced himself for the coming impact. Yet another pastime was destroyed...
Or was it? He stared, wide-eyed, at the girl who was panting slightly but otherwise unaffected by Hiei's blow. The blow hadn't even struck! Kagome had brought up her own ice katana and parried it, standing in a glaring match with the attacker. Gods, was she glad she was able to parry that! She was also glad she had decided to practice for a little while before she got bored of it.
"I am sorry for the insult, Mr. Katana-man," the girl said sweetly. It was almost too sweet. Suddenly her eyes gave her away and she said, "Now get away from me and why the HECK did you attack me?"
Ignoring her comment and false apology, Hiei backed off a little and continued staring at her. "Humans, particularly UNTRAINED humans, cannot defend against my attack. Though it was not easy for you, I would still like to know how you did that."
Kagome huffed, and would have crossed her arms but for the sword she was still gripping, and retorted with, "I am not UNTRAINED, as you so rudely put it. He is simply RETRAINING me after not using a katana in 3 years. I was originally trained by a very skilled..." The rest of her sentence was stated so quietly that neither of the demons could understand it, even WITH their enhanced hearing.
She was asked to repeat it. "You do NOT want to know, and I do NOT have to tell you."
There was yet another glaring contest between two particular hotheads and the silence was bugging Kurama, the only calm one it seemed. "Ahem, I do not believe we have introduced ourselves. I am Kurama, and this is Hiei."
"Name's Kagome," she gave gruffly. So much for breaking the silence.
"Erm, would you like some help getting down from that rock?"
"Well, Touya SAID he'd come back for me after his match." Kagome debated in her head on whether she should trust them. The redhead, Kurama, seemed be all right, but not the Goth. Hiei, she remembered.
"Excuse me for saying so, but there are no fights going on at this time. The matches scheduled for this morning are long over with, so I doubt he will be coming back anytime soon."
"I realized that a long time ago, but there is absolutely no way I can combat the magic of an ice master," Kagome sighed. Touya was so infuriating!
Thankfully, neither demon noticed her slip in the title of 'him.' Kurama continued with, "Are you sure you do not wish for help? I'm sure Hiei here could help. He specializes in fire."
Again, Kagome refused, this time by shaking her head to the negative. She could sense Touya coming back. Oh, he had better not have forgotten about her and just now remembered, or else his well-being is going to be MAJORLY threatened.
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Star: SLIGHT cliffie, but it's actually a good one!
Scythe: Yes, now you can all think about what exactly Kagome is going to do to Touya...
Star: Will she kill him?
Scythe: O.o;;; YOU are the one who wrote it, you should remember!!!
Star: I should? (shrug) Oh well.
Scythe: (pulls out rope and a gag) If you do not become more tolerable, I will tie you to that tree over there!
Star: What does tolerable mean?
Scythe: Argh! (ties Star to the tree and gags her) Tolerable means NOT ANNOYING!!!
Star: Ah ess ah aye oh ate ore ish.
Scythe: Oh yes, you VERY much DID violate my wish... NOW, since the next chapter is already written, SHUT UP!!!!
Scythe: Star, shut up.
Star: What, I'm just being polite...
Scythe: Which is why I would like for you to shut up.
Star: Fine, BE that way. (crosses arms and stops talking for like 5 seconds) Hey, is it all right if I go and kill Naraku? Pretty please???
Scythe: First of all, I don't care. Second of all, I don't care. Third of all, I don't care. And fourth of all, did I mention I don't care?
Star: Yea, you said that a couple of times, I think.
Scythe: You THINK?
Star: (shrug) Wasn't paying attention!
Scythe: I am going to kill you one of these days...
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Hiei: 20 Kurama: 33
REMEMBER: Next chapter is the last chance to cast your vote(s)! Don't forget!
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Chapter 10
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LAST TIME:
Touya was already turning to walk away as he answered. "It's the only way to keep you here and training while I'm gone. I'll be back after the match. See you later!" She watched as he disappeared into the shadowed woods.
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Well if that wasn't just great! Kagome would get back at him later. Right now, she might as well try some practice moves. That is, if she could; maybe all she could do was stand here and hold the katana. If so, then it sucked even worse to be her.
After attempting a few defensive moves, Kagome smiled. At least Touya wasn't stupid enough to prevent her from moving. So, she continued practicing her parrying. It was actually pretty good, considering she hadn't practiced in about, what, three years?
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"A human? Here? At the Dark Tournament?" Hiei was currently training, just to sharpen his skills even more. Upon sensing a human, he paused in the middle of a punch. The only humans he knew of were the baka and the Spirit Detective. They were the only ones strong enough to actually come. But there's another human?
Curiosity getting the better of him, Hiei dashed off through the trees to investigate the mysterious, or maybe just stupid, human.
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At about the same time, Kurama had been working with his Rose Whip. When he sensed Hiei's presence quickly leave the area it had been in previously, he decided to follow. It wasn't as if he HAD to be practicing right then, and besides, it was kind of getting a little boring.
So, he also took off in the same direction as Hiei's energy, hoping to meet up with him. Curse his kitsune curiosity...
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Kagome had long since tired of practicing her defensive moves, so she was just standing there, bored, trying to think of something to do. She WOULD be tapping her fingers on some hard object, such as her chin, but she couldn't really remove her hand from the ice katana.
She found herself looking with actual interest into the water of the clear pool next to the boulder she was standing on. She had to twist her body a little in order to be able to see it, but she didn't mind. She turned it into stretching time, just to humor herself.
'...15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.' Kagome was counting to 20 in her head then turning the other way. The water looked so cool... Man, she was dying! She was getting thirsty, not to mention hot, standing in direct sunlight for several hours straight. Shouldn't Touya's match have ended already? It can't possibly have taken them this long to win three lousy fights, unless...
She spread her powers out to try and see if she could sense the demons that Touya was fighting, or had been fighting a while ago, if her assumption was correct. 'Curse you, Touya! You aren't at a match anymore! Neither is the rest of your team! As a matter of fact, you are all near the hotel! Training, no doubt. You better not have forgotten your FRIEND, or I will personally make your life a living nightmare.'
Kagome's grumbling thoughts were disrupted when she felt the sudden presence of a demon. There were two demons, to be precise, and they were both heading toward her. She gulped. 'Crap! I'm stuck to a rock and two strong demons are coming my way. Oh my gosh, all they have to do is shove this rock into the water, and I am so dead! That way, I can't even fight back! Did I curse you already, Touya? Oh well. Curse you!'
She returned to a face-forward position, her body un-twisted, when she heard, or rather felt, one of the demons enter the clearing, surprise etched in her features. She wasn't surprised about a demon being there there, which is what Hiei thought, but rather that he was so SHORT! She herself wasn't very tall, but he was still shorter than her. What, about 2 or 3 inches if they were standing on level ground? (Without his hair, he is 4' 10". Just a fact I learned in Saturday's episode...) As if that wasn't enough, he looked like a total Goth, and his hair defied gravity!
Kagome turned, another confused look on her visage, as another, much taller, demon walked into the clearing. This guy looked nicer, but it might just have been his calm demeanor. His hair was a fiery red, much like Jin's, but his eyes were the most stunning shade of green Kagome had ever seen, in an excellent contrast to his hair. He was wearing a white uniform- type outfit, with a pink-like trim. Weirder still, he seemed to soothe her somewhat. BOTH demons did, despite the short one's... ferocity.
Kagome kept looking from one demon to the other, not quite afraid thanks to the taller one, but clearly not happy with the situation. Hiei was the one who spoke up first, obviously intrigued by the ningen's position, stuck on a rock, holding a sword. "Oh, so it was a ningen girl? Disappointing," he said in monotone, but he did not leave. He stayed there examining the girl. She was actually quite beautiful... Stop thinking like that Hiei!
Kurama, while Hiei was able to keep himself in check, was straining to keep his demon personality in check. His instincts wanted to go and help her with whatever she needed, maybe even take her while he was at it... After all, she WAS very beautiful. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he voiced to his fellow demon, "So this girl was the thing that had you curious?"
Hiei gave a stiff nod, and replied, "I sensed a human, and they usually don't hang out around here, aside from the Spirit Detective and the baka." He watched as the girl seemed to stiffen with the mention of a Spirit Detective. He turned his full attention on her. "What are you doing here?" he demanded coldly.
Kagome met his eyes and gave an involuntary shiver. His eyes are kind of creepy, but he seems alright, just a little cold. She remained silent, not really knowing what to say.
Kurama understood why she couldn't answer, so he asked what he hoped was an easier question. "Would you mind telling us why you are frozen to that rock, and why you are holding a katana made of ice?" he said, studying her closely. She didn't look uncomfortable to be near demons, but rather to be near them in a situation in which she has a great disadvantage. Interesting...
Kagome gave a tremulous smile to the redhead. "S-sure. I was training, and in order to keep me here he had to freeze me to the rock. I wanted to see his match real bad..."
"And the sword?" Kurama prompted. That sword was also interesting...
"Oh, he was training me with it, and my grip wasn't quite right, so he made me hold it like this until the match was over." Kagome's nervousness wasn't near as bad as it had been before, seeing as how these demons were just curious, not wanting to kill her. At least, she thought they were.
Kurama quirked an eyebrow at that last comment. "How does he know you are not shirking his wishes and holding the katana incorrectly?"
Looking down in what seemed like embarrassment, Kagome explained, "He froze my hands to it, too. I can't remove them."
Kurama actually looked concerned for a moment. 'He froze her hands? But she doesn't appear to be chilled by any of the ice. Is she an ice apparition in disguise? No, she isn't, I can most definitely sense the human in her and nothing else.' The look passed as his thoughts ended.
His eye twitching, the short one spoke up again. "Who the heck is 'he?' And why would 'he' be training a filthy human?"
Kagome appeared offended, and her infamous temper was rising. "I am NOT a 'filthy human' and 'he' is my sensei, smart one!" It was a good thing she could keep her anger in check...
"But WHO is your sensei? I want a NAME," he spat back. This girl might actually be worth the competition in a battle of words...
"Touya," she retorted resolutely, without thinking that he may know him. Luckily, he didn't. "And he could kick your butt if you guys were to fight, just like I am sure I would be able to."
Kurama raised his eyes at this. 'Does she not realize we are demons, or does she not realize who Hiei is? This girl gets weirder and weirder,' he thought as he looked on in amusement.
"Why you! You shall pay dearly for that, baka ningen!" Hiei yelled, drawing his own steel katana. It wasn't ordinary steel though; nope, it was harder than steel, much harder. He was preparing to attack when his 'friend' intervened. But, alas, Kurama was just a hair late in his defense of the girl, and he braced himself for the coming impact. Yet another pastime was destroyed...
Or was it? He stared, wide-eyed, at the girl who was panting slightly but otherwise unaffected by Hiei's blow. The blow hadn't even struck! Kagome had brought up her own ice katana and parried it, standing in a glaring match with the attacker. Gods, was she glad she was able to parry that! She was also glad she had decided to practice for a little while before she got bored of it.
"I am sorry for the insult, Mr. Katana-man," the girl said sweetly. It was almost too sweet. Suddenly her eyes gave her away and she said, "Now get away from me and why the HECK did you attack me?"
Ignoring her comment and false apology, Hiei backed off a little and continued staring at her. "Humans, particularly UNTRAINED humans, cannot defend against my attack. Though it was not easy for you, I would still like to know how you did that."
Kagome huffed, and would have crossed her arms but for the sword she was still gripping, and retorted with, "I am not UNTRAINED, as you so rudely put it. He is simply RETRAINING me after not using a katana in 3 years. I was originally trained by a very skilled..." The rest of her sentence was stated so quietly that neither of the demons could understand it, even WITH their enhanced hearing.
She was asked to repeat it. "You do NOT want to know, and I do NOT have to tell you."
There was yet another glaring contest between two particular hotheads and the silence was bugging Kurama, the only calm one it seemed. "Ahem, I do not believe we have introduced ourselves. I am Kurama, and this is Hiei."
"Name's Kagome," she gave gruffly. So much for breaking the silence.
"Erm, would you like some help getting down from that rock?"
"Well, Touya SAID he'd come back for me after his match." Kagome debated in her head on whether she should trust them. The redhead, Kurama, seemed be all right, but not the Goth. Hiei, she remembered.
"Excuse me for saying so, but there are no fights going on at this time. The matches scheduled for this morning are long over with, so I doubt he will be coming back anytime soon."
"I realized that a long time ago, but there is absolutely no way I can combat the magic of an ice master," Kagome sighed. Touya was so infuriating!
Thankfully, neither demon noticed her slip in the title of 'him.' Kurama continued with, "Are you sure you do not wish for help? I'm sure Hiei here could help. He specializes in fire."
Again, Kagome refused, this time by shaking her head to the negative. She could sense Touya coming back. Oh, he had better not have forgotten about her and just now remembered, or else his well-being is going to be MAJORLY threatened.
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Star: SLIGHT cliffie, but it's actually a good one!
Scythe: Yes, now you can all think about what exactly Kagome is going to do to Touya...
Star: Will she kill him?
Scythe: O.o;;; YOU are the one who wrote it, you should remember!!!
Star: I should? (shrug) Oh well.
Scythe: (pulls out rope and a gag) If you do not become more tolerable, I will tie you to that tree over there!
Star: What does tolerable mean?
Scythe: Argh! (ties Star to the tree and gags her) Tolerable means NOT ANNOYING!!!
Star: Ah ess ah aye oh ate ore ish.
Scythe: Oh yes, you VERY much DID violate my wish... NOW, since the next chapter is already written, SHUT UP!!!!