"Well, what's you idea?" Miroku asked the boy in the driver's seat.
"It's about those human's memories. I think that it would be a
better idea if we remove their memories of the dragons and demons in this
time. Humans shouldn't know about the demons and those dragons were really
toying with the current demon law. Demons stay disguised as humans and
don't attract unwanted attention to them no matter what. Those dragons
trying to pick a fight in a park were way out of line." Inuyasha tried to
explain.
Luckily for him, Sango took over for him. "He's right. That's
what Miroku and I are supposed to take care of, make sure the humans don't
find out about demons. Humans having these memories could be a problem."
Miroku nodded sagely at her comments.
"I don't like the idea." Kagome countered. "You don't have enough
energy from your mother's Miko blood to remove all of those memories."
Kagome tried to say although it was clear that there was another reason.
"Well," Kyoken began, "He could just use the power of the Shikon
Jewel to boost his powers so that he would have the energy. And I actually
congratulate you for looking into Miko abilities. I've got the same powers
and all but I'm not as trained in the art of magic as my brother because
he's older." Kyoken scowled the last part.
"Watch it unless you want my sword in your skull." Inuyasha
threatened. "Anyway, I suppose that I could use the jewel and all but I
have a feeling that there's another reason that Kagome doesn't want us to
remove their memories..." Inuyasha's voice trialed off as if distracted.
"They might, errr, be able to help us, umm, a little." Kagome
fumbled with her words making it quite clear that she was fishing for a
reason that everyone would agree with.
"You just like those looks that your friends gave you like your
powers were the best thing since the invention of the wheel." Kyoken teased
and Kagome held herself back from canceling Inuyasha's concealing spell
with her powers and taking the Tetsusaiga into the girl's head on her own.
*It's true though, isn't it.* Inuyasha said in the girl's head.
*Remember something, nobody else can hear this conversation so I can harass
you until you tell me the truth, even during classes.*
*Damn you all the way to hell, Inuyasha!* Her voice boomed through
his head in a very menacing tone as Kagome found out that the word 'hell'
seemed to hit a nerve since Inuyasha seemed to tense for a while and she
could see his ears laid back in anger straight through his spell. *Fine,
yes. But I still think that they could help us because that means that
there are more eyes around the city to help us look out for demons. We can
erase their memories after we kill Naraku.* Kagome continued in the boy's
head.
"Okay then, they keep the memories until Naraku is dead, then they
lose them...forever, no matter what!" Inuyasha finally said after a moment
of thinking. "I don't like having humans know about demons and all but
those three would probably find out no matter what with all of the demon
attacks and with Naraku about." At this, the group pulled into the school
parking lot and grabbed their backpacks. "I still hate the damn idea of
them keeping their memories!" Inuyasha groaned.
-*-*9 hours of Kikyo later...-*-*-*-
"Ahhhhh, home is good!" Kagome moaned as she went into her room to finish her homework. "Yo, Kagome!" She heard Inuyasha's voice behind her as she sat down for her homework. "Can I show you a spell that can make things move as if they had a mind of their own. You could make a pencil, say...... do your homework for you." Inuyasha said with a sly grin on his face. "NO! I won't cheat and stuff on my work! I need to know this or else I'll never get a good job." Kagome shouted sounding shocked that Inuyasha would dare to suggest such a thing to her. "Suit yourself..." He said as he walked out the door towards the living room. Kagome sat back down to work on her homework. She found that the homework that she had been doing suddenly seemed very dull, then she remembered a great special that was on TV tonight, then the thought of the dinner that she 'oh-so-desperately' needed. "Inuyasha!" she yelled as she ran towards the living room, oddly to her mother whom she passed along the way, her daughter was carrying a pencil with her to the living room... (As the politicians say...NO COMMENT!!!). -*-*-*-*-*next morning-*-*-*-* "Yo! Inuyasha! Wake up!" Sota yelled into the demons ears. He snapped awake so fast that it looked like a blur. "Damnit! Don't do that to me brat!" Inuyasha cursed at the boy who seemed to shrink in front of his idol. "Awwwww stop it! You know that pitiful look doesn't work with me!" Inuyasha continued as he put on his concealing spell and walked down to the kitchen (note: Inuyasha sleeps without his concealing spell unless in the presence of 'unknowing' humans). He made it down to the kitchen and was met with toast and other breakfast items. He started to eat his but stopped when he saw Asami walk by with a cup of coffee in her hands. "Can I pour myself a cup Asami?" He asked innocently knowing that the woman mentioned had a weakness for the 'oh-so-innocent' look. "Ummm...no. Coffee will...erm... ... ..." Asami began. "Will what?" Inuyasha asked as the woman tried to find an answer but wasn't having a good time. "It will stunt your growth..." Asami tried to explain to the boy as he stared at her. "Ummm, Asami. I age slower than humans do anyway so it won't really matter. Anyway, demonic growth is very different from usual human growth." He explained to her. "Fine, go ahead." She said as Inuyasha walked up to the coffee machine to pour himself a cup. He was shocked at how hot it was. When he saw the humans drink it they made it look like it was nothing. It didn't really hurt him but he had to give credit where it was due and humans were good at masking these things. "Mmmmm....not bad." Inuyasha muttered to himself as he experimented with sugar and other things to put in his drink. That's when Kagome walked downstairs to see her 'brother' getting to try something she had wanted to try for quite a while but her mom wouldn't let her. "No coffee. Inuyasha's demon blood is different from humans so it won't affect him." Asami tried to tell her daughter. "She is a demon too you know." Kagome's grandfather said. "He's right." Inuyasha said between sips of his drink. Asami caved and within the hour, the teen-age demons were heading out to Inuyasha's car. "You know, let's forget the car. I want to try jumping there again." Kagome said. "Fine." He nodded and Kagome squealed in delight. "Yes!" She said as she took to the shrine roof and started on her way to school with Inuyasha and Kyoken close behind.
-*-*-*-*-*at school-*-*-*-*-*-*
"Hey Inu." Kikyo said to the boy as he walked into the classroom. "I wanted to talk to you about something important." "I can't right now." Was the rather doctored statement sent to Kikyo (doctored as in: Pissed but won't show it......too much!). "Inu. I can't believe that you would two-time me like that! You're going with that Kagome bitch and still toying with my heart!? How could you!? I thought better of you but I see I was wrong! You're nothing but a...but a...." Kikyo choked out as she fell to her knees crying. "Ohh. Damnit don't cry." Inuyasha murmured as he tried to help her up. However, he noticed his mistake a little too late as everyone in the class glared at him. (If glares could kill, he'd be long dead!) 'Damnit! I just made it look like I cared about Kikyo! I just backed up her statement that I was two-timing her! I'm dead!!! So much or staying inconspicuous...' Inuyasha thought as one student walked forward. Inuyasha looked around the room, trying to find a way out of this mess without using his demon powers. He saw Kagome, Kyoken, Miroku, Sango, Hojo, Yuka and Ami in one corner with Kagome who had been pushed out of the circle of people wanting to kill Inuyasha. Many of the guys wanted Kikyo to be theirs but she wanted Inuyasha. They were thinking that if they backed up Kikyo even though they all knew that she was lying, then maybe they could pick up a girlfriend. A boy took a swipe at Inuyasha's head which was avoided and it quickly turned into an all-out brawl. Inuyasha was dodging but couldn't attack since he'd probably kill them if he hit them. "Damnit!" Inuyasha muttered as he continued to dodge the boy's advances. More people joined in and 'FIGHT!' cheering could be heard throughout the school from that one classroom. The teacher ran in to see Inuyasha dodging blows from three guys. "STOP!" He yelped as Inuyasha froze and had a fist connect with his gut. "Damn." Inuyasha muttered as he pretended that the punch really hurt and that he couldn't stand. "What is this kid?!" The one who landed the punch gasped. "I felt like I was punching a brick wall!" He continued to gasp as he backed away from the 'in pain' boy. "That'll be quite enough!" The teacher yelled as he handed out detention slips to the students involved, except Inuyasha. "Students, for this little stunt...today we will be studying the Warring States era. Students must break up into groups of three or four and those groups must write a six page essay on the Warring States period. No bibliography required, just six pages of facts." The teacher said in a stern, rather intimidating, voice. "Six pages! That's over-kill! We can't do that!" One student screamed out in utter disbelief what he was hearing. "Eight pages in a ten font size!" The teacher ordered, raising the amount due to the outburst. "No way! We..." Another tried to say but the teacher interrupted with a look of anger and annoyance on his face. "Ten pages, thanks to Mr. Hiroshi." The teacher started. "Anyone going for twelve?" He said and nobody raised their hands or objected, so he continued. "Good then, class, turn to p. 153 and Mr. Hiroshi can start reading."
-*-*after school-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Inuyasha, Kyoken, Kagome and Sango formed one study group while Hojo, Yuka, Ami and Miroku made up the other. "Mr. Shinxen?" Kagome said to her teacher, asking permission to enter. Mr. Shinxen nodded and Kagome, Miroku, and Sango (etc.) walked into his office. "We were wondering if our two groups could work together only make two different essays?" Kagome asked her teacher. "I don't see why not." Mr. Shinxen told them. "This means that your two groups can research together and, I'll try something new, you can make your group of eight people if your essay has a raised minimum up to twenty pages. Both groups will receive the same score." He told them and dismissed them so that he could go back to checking papers like he was doing before he was interrupted. "Where do we want to research?" Ami asked her friends as they walked towards the shrine. "I can't think of any good sources for the Warring States era." They arrived at the shrine a few minutes later after everyone except Inuyasha and Kyoken were giving suggestions but all of it seemed useless. "What are we going to do?" Kagome muttered as she flopped down on the couch. "We have no ideas!" "Inuyasha, Kyoken, why don't you two care about this assignment?!" Yuka said in a scolding tone. "Why should we?" Kyoken muttered. Everyone except Inuyasha was shocked speechless. "Wha...What do you mean?! Are you saying that you don't care?!" Hojo gasped at the two demons. "I'm my own recourse." Kyoken replied as she laid down for a nap. "What's she talking about?" Ami whispered to her friends. "Kyoken and I were alive during the Warring States era. It's nothing new and amazing to us, we just use our memories." He told them as he leaned against the wall. "Can you tell us about the Warring States?" Ami asked and Kyoken and Inuyasha both seemed suddenly very awake. "Lord Inuyasha." A new voice sounded. "You can't do what you're thinking! They would die! I refuse to let you!" "I wasn't going to, Myoga. I wouldn't do that no matter what the other options were unless we needed to." He told the flea on his shoulder. "Good my lord." The flea replied. "However, why don't you take them to your home? You have enough there to show them." Myoga said to his master. "I guess that I could do that, even though the other would be easier..." Inuyasha said to himself. "Inuyasha! Come on. Between you, me, Shippo and Kagome, we should be able to protect them. Anyway, I wouldn't mind going home, maybe just for a few days." Kyoken told her brother. "Not unless we can't find the answers at my castle. I might take them with us back home but I don't want them trying to do research. They would attract way too much attention and then they will be targets." Inuyasha told his sister. "Fine. Let's get going then!" Kyoken and Inuyasha pulled out his PDA and pushed a few buttons and the portal appeared to his dimension. Everyone climbed through and Inuyasha told them all that they had full use of the castle and he told them about the abyss and not allowing them inside the portal room and to just yell if they were lost and that he would find them. And with that, they 'stormed' the castle. "I can't believe that I'm helping humans! What was I thinking?! My little 'help out the humans so they don't go extinct from youkai attacks' has turned into this!!! What had possessed me when I offered to bring them here?!" Inuyasha groaned after thinking about what he'd done. 'At least they'll forget everything after this is over...' Inuyasha contented himself with this thought as he walked into the castle. Inuyasha sighed at the sight before him. Everyone was all over Shippo and Kirara. "Hey! Let them breath!" Inuyasha yelled and the girls stopped and let the two demons gasp in their air deprivation. Sango ran up to Kirara to comfort the worried demon. Kagome walked up to Shippo to help him. Inuyasha went to his true form and took Kagome into a gym-like room making her put the kitsune down on the ground.
"Kagome, you and I are going to do a little bit of training with your spells. The rest of you can go do whatever you want." He told them and Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara left while Hojo, Yuka and Ami stayed to watch. Inuyasha and Kagome both got into what looked like sparring stances. "The rules are as follows. You must stay within the perimeter of the gym and no kicking or physical combat is allowed. Only energy and spells." Inuyasha said calmly and they both went to opposite sides of the gym waiting for Yuka's signal to begin. It went off and the fight was on. Both ran along the perimeter firing energy waves at each other. Kagome noticed that Inuyasha was paying more attention to her movements and not enough to where he was running. She fired a beam of blue light in front of him and he slid right into the wall. Kagome aimed her hand at him and fired as Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock at the blast coming towards him. "BURST!" He yelled as he shot into the air just in time because as he looked down, he saw the beam collide with the ground he was standing on just a moment ago. "Kami, that would've hurt..." Inuyasha moaned as he shot right at Kagome with his arm extended towards her. Both of them charged energy for the blast as Inuyasha dove at her. They both released their beams at the same time. Since Inuyasha was using the Burst attack, he didn't have as much energy to put into the beam so Kagome's swallowed his up and continued at him. He continued using the burst but folded his larger wings in front of him to function as shields. He cut right through the beam of Kagome's energy and, much to the girl's surprise, landed directly behind her and she turned around to see a ball of energy in front of Inuyasha's hand right next to her head, ready to be released, point blank! "Check Mate." He whispered as he sucked the energy back into his arm. "I win." He said in a teasing tone as he walked away from a stunned Kagome, then turned around. "You got a bit cocky and let your guard down when your beam beat mine. You can't let your guard down no matter what the situation." He told her, then vanished and reappeared next to Kagome. He pulled his arm back and flung a hard punch at the girl's face. Her arm flew and she used a Tenkyoken Shield at near lightning speed. Before the watchers even knew what was happening, Inuyasha was flying into the far wall and met it with a sickening crunch, then fell to the ground. Kagome ran up to him as he got to his hands and knees. "At least you blocked it..." He mumbled as the room seemed to suddenly veer to the right and the ground rushed up to meet him. His head smacked into the hard floor and everything went fuzzy then his mind was shrouded in darkness. "Guess I used a bit too much energy." Kagome moaned as she bent down and rolled Inuyasha onto his back and Hojo, Yuka and Ami worked to keep his wings from bending in places that they shouldn't as he was flipped onto his back. He had a few scorch marks on his body from the jolt of the energy shield. Kagome pulled him up onto his feet and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and she dragged him towards his room in the castle. The others followed her with very blank and shocked looks thinking about how little Kagome just picked up a teenage man and walked away as if she was holding nothing at all. Kagome led the party toward Inuyasha's quarters but stopped about halfway there as she felt like the body stirred a bit. Inuyasha felt like he was hit with a death beam yet something just wouldn't let him die. He groggily opened his eyes but everything looked blurry and hazed. He could hear voices and could tell that he was moving since the blurred spots were moving. After a few minutes, the blurs seemed to pull themselves back together. He could see Kagome's head next to his as she dragged him through a hallway. He had a headache large enough to take over the Western Lands on its own. He seemed to find his feet and planted them firmly onto the tile floor. The sudden movement startled Kagome and she almost fell over but she ended up dropping her patient! He crumpled to the floor but slowly got to his feet and leaned against the wall. "Good to see you're alive." Yuka said as Inuyasha slowly walked the rest of the way to his room. They arrived a few minutes later in his living quarters and he flopped down onto his bed and the others sat down on the side. "Damn, I need one hell of a large aspirin." Inuyasha groaned as he tried to sit up but Kagome pushed him back down again. "Oh no you don't!" Kagome ordered. "Hey! I can ta..." Inuyasha began but Kagome stuck her finger over his lips making him shut up. "You just tell me where it is and I'll get one." She interrupted him as she shushed him. "Feh! Medicine cabinet behind the mirror in the bathroom." He instructed her then she walked into the bathroom (modernized castles are good!). "I see the mirror but I don't see a handle or anything!?" She yelled out. "Push the god damned mirror in and it will pop open!" He yelled in a very angry tone. "Fine, fine!" She mumbled. "Got it!" She said as she walked into the bedroom with a pill and a cup of water. "Ummm, thanks..." He mumbled as he ingested the pill. "That's better...." Inuyasha moaned. "So, Kagome. What happened? You blew him away in an instant!" Yuka asked her friend. "I must have hit him with my shield too hard..." Kagome thought out loud. "One problem. I never touched your shield! I was sent flying from the energy radiating off your shield! If I had touched your shield, I probably would have been....damn, I'd probably be dust right now...." Inuyasha started as he laid his head back against the pillow. "I haven't seen so much energy in a single attack since my mother. She was an amazing archer a well as a very powerful Miko." He explained. "Whoa! Maybe since I've got your blood in me. I think it's adding on to my own power!" Kagome said with surprise in her voice and Inuyasha nodded. "That's what I was thinking. That shield had, I think, purifying energy to it. I'm glad I wasn't purified but I guess I wasn't since your little Miko boost came from my energy so I guess you can't purify me since the energy wouldn't purify itself. Since you've got my, what do you humans call them, what's that damn three letter term?" He began. "Ummm DNA?" Ami suggested. "Yea, that stuff. Since we have the same DNA, you can't purify yourself and I've got the same blood so, hnnn, good. Now I can train you without worry of being purified." He sighed as he sat up. He flipped out of the bed and landed on the footboard. He just balanced there for a few seconds, then jumped off. "Come on." He said in an ordering voice as he guided them to the library. They arrived a few minutes later. "I believe there's research to be done." He said as he pointed to some shelves with scrolls in them. "The books are published within the last three years, the scrolls are 500 years ago or sooner." He told them. "Whoa! How old are you?!" Ami gasped. "Well, currently....567 years since my birth. However, my. Body is seventeen years old." Inuyasha tried to explain to the humans as they replied with blank looks. "How?! How can you be 576 years old!? How can you be 576 and 17 at the same time?!" Yuka gasped in utter shock at the fact that the boy in front of her was older than even her imagination ever allowed. "Okay. I was thirteen when the Kikyo 500 years back sealed me to a tree for 50 years. Then I tried to go back to my castle after freeing myself and I could only do that 'cause Kikyo had suffered a mortal wound and if she hadn't, well, I'd still be sealed in suspended animation attached to the God Tree. Well, when I got back after escaping my sealing my brother had taken over and I was left to run for my life. I escaped down a portal to get here and stayed for three years before I got into this school. Then I was sealed to a wall for another year and then freed from a stronger spell that probably would have held me permanently. That takes me to where I am now." Inuyasha explained to the people as their looks seemed to get even blanker and their faces paled even more. "That hard to understand?" "Oh yea!!!!" They all screamed in unison except for Kagome. "Ummm. Why don't you all get researching? I'll find Miroku and Sango." He said as he walked out of the room. 'Thanks a lot for leaving me with a bunch of question filled humans.' She thought as she grabbed a scroll and set it on the table and started to read.
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A/N: ;{{ (: (I just learned how to make a fish out of symbols on a keyboard ^.^ so two fish mean 'later'.
-*-*9 hours of Kikyo later...-*-*-*-
"Ahhhhh, home is good!" Kagome moaned as she went into her room to finish her homework. "Yo, Kagome!" She heard Inuyasha's voice behind her as she sat down for her homework. "Can I show you a spell that can make things move as if they had a mind of their own. You could make a pencil, say...... do your homework for you." Inuyasha said with a sly grin on his face. "NO! I won't cheat and stuff on my work! I need to know this or else I'll never get a good job." Kagome shouted sounding shocked that Inuyasha would dare to suggest such a thing to her. "Suit yourself..." He said as he walked out the door towards the living room. Kagome sat back down to work on her homework. She found that the homework that she had been doing suddenly seemed very dull, then she remembered a great special that was on TV tonight, then the thought of the dinner that she 'oh-so-desperately' needed. "Inuyasha!" she yelled as she ran towards the living room, oddly to her mother whom she passed along the way, her daughter was carrying a pencil with her to the living room... (As the politicians say...NO COMMENT!!!). -*-*-*-*-*next morning-*-*-*-* "Yo! Inuyasha! Wake up!" Sota yelled into the demons ears. He snapped awake so fast that it looked like a blur. "Damnit! Don't do that to me brat!" Inuyasha cursed at the boy who seemed to shrink in front of his idol. "Awwwww stop it! You know that pitiful look doesn't work with me!" Inuyasha continued as he put on his concealing spell and walked down to the kitchen (note: Inuyasha sleeps without his concealing spell unless in the presence of 'unknowing' humans). He made it down to the kitchen and was met with toast and other breakfast items. He started to eat his but stopped when he saw Asami walk by with a cup of coffee in her hands. "Can I pour myself a cup Asami?" He asked innocently knowing that the woman mentioned had a weakness for the 'oh-so-innocent' look. "Ummm...no. Coffee will...erm... ... ..." Asami began. "Will what?" Inuyasha asked as the woman tried to find an answer but wasn't having a good time. "It will stunt your growth..." Asami tried to explain to the boy as he stared at her. "Ummm, Asami. I age slower than humans do anyway so it won't really matter. Anyway, demonic growth is very different from usual human growth." He explained to her. "Fine, go ahead." She said as Inuyasha walked up to the coffee machine to pour himself a cup. He was shocked at how hot it was. When he saw the humans drink it they made it look like it was nothing. It didn't really hurt him but he had to give credit where it was due and humans were good at masking these things. "Mmmmm....not bad." Inuyasha muttered to himself as he experimented with sugar and other things to put in his drink. That's when Kagome walked downstairs to see her 'brother' getting to try something she had wanted to try for quite a while but her mom wouldn't let her. "No coffee. Inuyasha's demon blood is different from humans so it won't affect him." Asami tried to tell her daughter. "She is a demon too you know." Kagome's grandfather said. "He's right." Inuyasha said between sips of his drink. Asami caved and within the hour, the teen-age demons were heading out to Inuyasha's car. "You know, let's forget the car. I want to try jumping there again." Kagome said. "Fine." He nodded and Kagome squealed in delight. "Yes!" She said as she took to the shrine roof and started on her way to school with Inuyasha and Kyoken close behind.
-*-*-*-*-*at school-*-*-*-*-*-*
"Hey Inu." Kikyo said to the boy as he walked into the classroom. "I wanted to talk to you about something important." "I can't right now." Was the rather doctored statement sent to Kikyo (doctored as in: Pissed but won't show it......too much!). "Inu. I can't believe that you would two-time me like that! You're going with that Kagome bitch and still toying with my heart!? How could you!? I thought better of you but I see I was wrong! You're nothing but a...but a...." Kikyo choked out as she fell to her knees crying. "Ohh. Damnit don't cry." Inuyasha murmured as he tried to help her up. However, he noticed his mistake a little too late as everyone in the class glared at him. (If glares could kill, he'd be long dead!) 'Damnit! I just made it look like I cared about Kikyo! I just backed up her statement that I was two-timing her! I'm dead!!! So much or staying inconspicuous...' Inuyasha thought as one student walked forward. Inuyasha looked around the room, trying to find a way out of this mess without using his demon powers. He saw Kagome, Kyoken, Miroku, Sango, Hojo, Yuka and Ami in one corner with Kagome who had been pushed out of the circle of people wanting to kill Inuyasha. Many of the guys wanted Kikyo to be theirs but she wanted Inuyasha. They were thinking that if they backed up Kikyo even though they all knew that she was lying, then maybe they could pick up a girlfriend. A boy took a swipe at Inuyasha's head which was avoided and it quickly turned into an all-out brawl. Inuyasha was dodging but couldn't attack since he'd probably kill them if he hit them. "Damnit!" Inuyasha muttered as he continued to dodge the boy's advances. More people joined in and 'FIGHT!' cheering could be heard throughout the school from that one classroom. The teacher ran in to see Inuyasha dodging blows from three guys. "STOP!" He yelped as Inuyasha froze and had a fist connect with his gut. "Damn." Inuyasha muttered as he pretended that the punch really hurt and that he couldn't stand. "What is this kid?!" The one who landed the punch gasped. "I felt like I was punching a brick wall!" He continued to gasp as he backed away from the 'in pain' boy. "That'll be quite enough!" The teacher yelled as he handed out detention slips to the students involved, except Inuyasha. "Students, for this little stunt...today we will be studying the Warring States era. Students must break up into groups of three or four and those groups must write a six page essay on the Warring States period. No bibliography required, just six pages of facts." The teacher said in a stern, rather intimidating, voice. "Six pages! That's over-kill! We can't do that!" One student screamed out in utter disbelief what he was hearing. "Eight pages in a ten font size!" The teacher ordered, raising the amount due to the outburst. "No way! We..." Another tried to say but the teacher interrupted with a look of anger and annoyance on his face. "Ten pages, thanks to Mr. Hiroshi." The teacher started. "Anyone going for twelve?" He said and nobody raised their hands or objected, so he continued. "Good then, class, turn to p. 153 and Mr. Hiroshi can start reading."
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Inuyasha, Kyoken, Kagome and Sango formed one study group while Hojo, Yuka, Ami and Miroku made up the other. "Mr. Shinxen?" Kagome said to her teacher, asking permission to enter. Mr. Shinxen nodded and Kagome, Miroku, and Sango (etc.) walked into his office. "We were wondering if our two groups could work together only make two different essays?" Kagome asked her teacher. "I don't see why not." Mr. Shinxen told them. "This means that your two groups can research together and, I'll try something new, you can make your group of eight people if your essay has a raised minimum up to twenty pages. Both groups will receive the same score." He told them and dismissed them so that he could go back to checking papers like he was doing before he was interrupted. "Where do we want to research?" Ami asked her friends as they walked towards the shrine. "I can't think of any good sources for the Warring States era." They arrived at the shrine a few minutes later after everyone except Inuyasha and Kyoken were giving suggestions but all of it seemed useless. "What are we going to do?" Kagome muttered as she flopped down on the couch. "We have no ideas!" "Inuyasha, Kyoken, why don't you two care about this assignment?!" Yuka said in a scolding tone. "Why should we?" Kyoken muttered. Everyone except Inuyasha was shocked speechless. "Wha...What do you mean?! Are you saying that you don't care?!" Hojo gasped at the two demons. "I'm my own recourse." Kyoken replied as she laid down for a nap. "What's she talking about?" Ami whispered to her friends. "Kyoken and I were alive during the Warring States era. It's nothing new and amazing to us, we just use our memories." He told them as he leaned against the wall. "Can you tell us about the Warring States?" Ami asked and Kyoken and Inuyasha both seemed suddenly very awake. "Lord Inuyasha." A new voice sounded. "You can't do what you're thinking! They would die! I refuse to let you!" "I wasn't going to, Myoga. I wouldn't do that no matter what the other options were unless we needed to." He told the flea on his shoulder. "Good my lord." The flea replied. "However, why don't you take them to your home? You have enough there to show them." Myoga said to his master. "I guess that I could do that, even though the other would be easier..." Inuyasha said to himself. "Inuyasha! Come on. Between you, me, Shippo and Kagome, we should be able to protect them. Anyway, I wouldn't mind going home, maybe just for a few days." Kyoken told her brother. "Not unless we can't find the answers at my castle. I might take them with us back home but I don't want them trying to do research. They would attract way too much attention and then they will be targets." Inuyasha told his sister. "Fine. Let's get going then!" Kyoken and Inuyasha pulled out his PDA and pushed a few buttons and the portal appeared to his dimension. Everyone climbed through and Inuyasha told them all that they had full use of the castle and he told them about the abyss and not allowing them inside the portal room and to just yell if they were lost and that he would find them. And with that, they 'stormed' the castle. "I can't believe that I'm helping humans! What was I thinking?! My little 'help out the humans so they don't go extinct from youkai attacks' has turned into this!!! What had possessed me when I offered to bring them here?!" Inuyasha groaned after thinking about what he'd done. 'At least they'll forget everything after this is over...' Inuyasha contented himself with this thought as he walked into the castle. Inuyasha sighed at the sight before him. Everyone was all over Shippo and Kirara. "Hey! Let them breath!" Inuyasha yelled and the girls stopped and let the two demons gasp in their air deprivation. Sango ran up to Kirara to comfort the worried demon. Kagome walked up to Shippo to help him. Inuyasha went to his true form and took Kagome into a gym-like room making her put the kitsune down on the ground.
"Kagome, you and I are going to do a little bit of training with your spells. The rest of you can go do whatever you want." He told them and Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara left while Hojo, Yuka and Ami stayed to watch. Inuyasha and Kagome both got into what looked like sparring stances. "The rules are as follows. You must stay within the perimeter of the gym and no kicking or physical combat is allowed. Only energy and spells." Inuyasha said calmly and they both went to opposite sides of the gym waiting for Yuka's signal to begin. It went off and the fight was on. Both ran along the perimeter firing energy waves at each other. Kagome noticed that Inuyasha was paying more attention to her movements and not enough to where he was running. She fired a beam of blue light in front of him and he slid right into the wall. Kagome aimed her hand at him and fired as Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock at the blast coming towards him. "BURST!" He yelled as he shot into the air just in time because as he looked down, he saw the beam collide with the ground he was standing on just a moment ago. "Kami, that would've hurt..." Inuyasha moaned as he shot right at Kagome with his arm extended towards her. Both of them charged energy for the blast as Inuyasha dove at her. They both released their beams at the same time. Since Inuyasha was using the Burst attack, he didn't have as much energy to put into the beam so Kagome's swallowed his up and continued at him. He continued using the burst but folded his larger wings in front of him to function as shields. He cut right through the beam of Kagome's energy and, much to the girl's surprise, landed directly behind her and she turned around to see a ball of energy in front of Inuyasha's hand right next to her head, ready to be released, point blank! "Check Mate." He whispered as he sucked the energy back into his arm. "I win." He said in a teasing tone as he walked away from a stunned Kagome, then turned around. "You got a bit cocky and let your guard down when your beam beat mine. You can't let your guard down no matter what the situation." He told her, then vanished and reappeared next to Kagome. He pulled his arm back and flung a hard punch at the girl's face. Her arm flew and she used a Tenkyoken Shield at near lightning speed. Before the watchers even knew what was happening, Inuyasha was flying into the far wall and met it with a sickening crunch, then fell to the ground. Kagome ran up to him as he got to his hands and knees. "At least you blocked it..." He mumbled as the room seemed to suddenly veer to the right and the ground rushed up to meet him. His head smacked into the hard floor and everything went fuzzy then his mind was shrouded in darkness. "Guess I used a bit too much energy." Kagome moaned as she bent down and rolled Inuyasha onto his back and Hojo, Yuka and Ami worked to keep his wings from bending in places that they shouldn't as he was flipped onto his back. He had a few scorch marks on his body from the jolt of the energy shield. Kagome pulled him up onto his feet and wrapped his arm around her shoulder and she dragged him towards his room in the castle. The others followed her with very blank and shocked looks thinking about how little Kagome just picked up a teenage man and walked away as if she was holding nothing at all. Kagome led the party toward Inuyasha's quarters but stopped about halfway there as she felt like the body stirred a bit. Inuyasha felt like he was hit with a death beam yet something just wouldn't let him die. He groggily opened his eyes but everything looked blurry and hazed. He could hear voices and could tell that he was moving since the blurred spots were moving. After a few minutes, the blurs seemed to pull themselves back together. He could see Kagome's head next to his as she dragged him through a hallway. He had a headache large enough to take over the Western Lands on its own. He seemed to find his feet and planted them firmly onto the tile floor. The sudden movement startled Kagome and she almost fell over but she ended up dropping her patient! He crumpled to the floor but slowly got to his feet and leaned against the wall. "Good to see you're alive." Yuka said as Inuyasha slowly walked the rest of the way to his room. They arrived a few minutes later in his living quarters and he flopped down onto his bed and the others sat down on the side. "Damn, I need one hell of a large aspirin." Inuyasha groaned as he tried to sit up but Kagome pushed him back down again. "Oh no you don't!" Kagome ordered. "Hey! I can ta..." Inuyasha began but Kagome stuck her finger over his lips making him shut up. "You just tell me where it is and I'll get one." She interrupted him as she shushed him. "Feh! Medicine cabinet behind the mirror in the bathroom." He instructed her then she walked into the bathroom (modernized castles are good!). "I see the mirror but I don't see a handle or anything!?" She yelled out. "Push the god damned mirror in and it will pop open!" He yelled in a very angry tone. "Fine, fine!" She mumbled. "Got it!" She said as she walked into the bedroom with a pill and a cup of water. "Ummm, thanks..." He mumbled as he ingested the pill. "That's better...." Inuyasha moaned. "So, Kagome. What happened? You blew him away in an instant!" Yuka asked her friend. "I must have hit him with my shield too hard..." Kagome thought out loud. "One problem. I never touched your shield! I was sent flying from the energy radiating off your shield! If I had touched your shield, I probably would have been....damn, I'd probably be dust right now...." Inuyasha started as he laid his head back against the pillow. "I haven't seen so much energy in a single attack since my mother. She was an amazing archer a well as a very powerful Miko." He explained. "Whoa! Maybe since I've got your blood in me. I think it's adding on to my own power!" Kagome said with surprise in her voice and Inuyasha nodded. "That's what I was thinking. That shield had, I think, purifying energy to it. I'm glad I wasn't purified but I guess I wasn't since your little Miko boost came from my energy so I guess you can't purify me since the energy wouldn't purify itself. Since you've got my, what do you humans call them, what's that damn three letter term?" He began. "Ummm DNA?" Ami suggested. "Yea, that stuff. Since we have the same DNA, you can't purify yourself and I've got the same blood so, hnnn, good. Now I can train you without worry of being purified." He sighed as he sat up. He flipped out of the bed and landed on the footboard. He just balanced there for a few seconds, then jumped off. "Come on." He said in an ordering voice as he guided them to the library. They arrived a few minutes later. "I believe there's research to be done." He said as he pointed to some shelves with scrolls in them. "The books are published within the last three years, the scrolls are 500 years ago or sooner." He told them. "Whoa! How old are you?!" Ami gasped. "Well, currently....567 years since my birth. However, my. Body is seventeen years old." Inuyasha tried to explain to the humans as they replied with blank looks. "How?! How can you be 576 years old!? How can you be 576 and 17 at the same time?!" Yuka gasped in utter shock at the fact that the boy in front of her was older than even her imagination ever allowed. "Okay. I was thirteen when the Kikyo 500 years back sealed me to a tree for 50 years. Then I tried to go back to my castle after freeing myself and I could only do that 'cause Kikyo had suffered a mortal wound and if she hadn't, well, I'd still be sealed in suspended animation attached to the God Tree. Well, when I got back after escaping my sealing my brother had taken over and I was left to run for my life. I escaped down a portal to get here and stayed for three years before I got into this school. Then I was sealed to a wall for another year and then freed from a stronger spell that probably would have held me permanently. That takes me to where I am now." Inuyasha explained to the people as their looks seemed to get even blanker and their faces paled even more. "That hard to understand?" "Oh yea!!!!" They all screamed in unison except for Kagome. "Ummm. Why don't you all get researching? I'll find Miroku and Sango." He said as he walked out of the room. 'Thanks a lot for leaving me with a bunch of question filled humans.' She thought as she grabbed a scroll and set it on the table and started to read.
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A/N: ;{{ (: (I just learned how to make a fish out of symbols on a keyboard ^.^ so two fish mean 'later'.
