Authors note!!!!!!!!!!!

HI! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Izumi and Kagome sat in silence. Kagome was shivering with cold and her wound where Hojo had shot her was burning horribly, even though it was bandaged. The temperature had plummeted.

She felt something being draped around her shoulders, blocking out the cold. She turned to see Izumi placing her jacket over her shoulders.

"I-izumi, y-you don't h-have to d-do th-that." Kagome's teeth clattered together violently.

"No that's okay," she chuckled softly, "you need it more then I do."

Kagome didn't argue anymore. She was too cold.

"So, who was this Inuyasha guy anyways?"

Kagome's eyes widened.

"You know him?"

"No," she chuckled again, "I just heard you whisper his name."

"Oh, he is just what you would call an old acquaintance. An insensitive, mean, rude, stupid, jerk."

"He didn't look human, you know with the dog ears and the fangs and the yellow eyes, not to mention the clothes and the sword. Oh, and he wasn't wearing shoes.and"

She was cut off by Kagome, "No sense lying to you, he's a demon, or, at least half a demon."

Izumi nodded.

"I guess you haven't exactly been leading a normal live, crossing between eras like that. How do you get there; a well perhaps?"

Kagome turned to stare at Izumi; her mouth was hanging open slightly.

"H-how do you know that?" she asked softly.

Izumi pulled her knees to her chest and considered her question for a moment.

"Before I came to Tokyo, I lived in Kyoto. That was when I had parents. We lived on a shrine, and on the shrine we had an old well house. My family and I, well, we were always different. Other parents didn't approve of me because I was never really at school. The fact of it was; I was rarely in this era."

Kagome's eyes bulged out. Izumi continued.

"You see, I was always jumping through the well to go to the feudal era. I was really surprised when Inuyasha showed up, I recognized him immediately, but I doubt he remembered me." She took a breath and continued.

"You see, when I visited the feudal era, I became friends with the priestess Kikyou, but then the whole deal with the Shikon jewel happened and Kikyou died and Inuyasha fell in to an enchanted deep sleep. The day after Kikyou died I came home, only to find my parents dead and the shrine burned."

She choked on her words, on the verge of tears; she remembered the bloodied bodies of those she cared for so well. She remembered the government officials leering faces, she remembered what they had done to her. oh how she remembered.

"The government had killed all my family and destroyed my home. Finally they blew up the well house, destroying my connection to the feudal era. I was severely wounded in the explosion and was put into suspended animation until my wounds healed. I woke up 2 years ago, and ever since then have been searching for a way to return to Feudal Japan."

Izumi's eyes had crammed with pain as she remembered her past.

"When I saw you for the first time at school, my heart skipped a beat, for I thought you were Kikyou. I then remembered she had died and my hopes of seeing her again burned. When this game started I vowed to protect the only person that had made an attempt to befriend me. I never really had any friends except Kikyou, and now you. Thanks."

She suddenly reached over and wrapped Kagome in a bear hug. Kagome hugged right back.

'She has lost so much,' Kagome thought sadly.

"Come, the game is almost finished, we need to find, and slaughter the others before we can escape."

Kagome nodded and stood, brushing herself off. She tilted her head back and breathed in deep. She almost choked when a soft breeze blew in the fresh scent of blood. Her head snapped to Izumi. She nodded as they silently took off together towards the shore.

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In the lighthouse kitchen Kazuo Kiriyama stood over the bloodied corpse of Keita Iijima. Blood oozed from his open mouth, his eyes wide and starring into nothingness.

"Bastard!" a voice behind him growled.

Shinji Mimura and Yutaka Seto advanced toward him. Shinji was clutching at his stomach, were Kazuo had shot him.

"I'll kill you," Yutaka snarled. He lunged at Kazuo, only to make contact with a hidden dagger.

Kazoo twisted the knife and Yutaka moaned. With the strength he had left he swung his elbow and struck Kazuo's lower chin.

Kazuo flew back and slid across the white tabled covered with blood. The blood stain that resembled the Republic of Greater East Asia's national flag now resembled the stripes of the American flag. Simultaneously, the knife in Yutaka's stomach, after tearing off approximately thirty grams of his flesh, was torn out. Blood came bursting out. Yutaka gasped, but immediately turned on his heel and fled to the door leading out to the hall.

Kazuo heard a small yelp, then a thud. Yutaka was now lay dead with a silver arrow embedded in his head.

Kazuo turned to Shinji, who surprisingly was on his knees. A scythe lay entrenched in his back. He struggled desperately to pull it out, but it was no use. He fell softly into the pool of blood gathered around him with a small splash.

3 students left !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AUTHORS NOTE! Surviving students battle it out in the next chapter! Who will win? The suspense is killing me! Review and let me know how you like it so far! REVIEW!