From The Inside Chapter 9: A Centaur and New Detectives, an inuyasha fanfic

An: GAH! It's been so long! *bangs head on computer desk* Forgive me! I am awful! AWFUL I TELL YOU! *sniffle sniffle* I suppose all I can do is get on hands and knees and beg for your forgiveness as I dish out Chapter 8 to you all. ^^ Not too bad of an exchange? Hope not XD. Alright, I'll stop blathering now, and let you read. So long! ^.~

Disclaimer: Ever told a lazy person to write out specific little un-owning signs on every piece of their work? WELL NOW YOU FRIGGEN HAVE!!! So, go back to Ch.7 if you can't figure this one out. ^-^

((This May Be Confusing, so USE THIS CHART!!!)) ^-^

^Blah^ = Kagome's mind speech

~Blah~ = Natasni's mind speech

-Blah- = Kurama's mind speech

/Blah/ = Hiei's mind speech

#~Blah~# = Youko's mind speech

Blah = Yusuke's mind speech

--Blah-- = Kuwabara's mind speech

~*~Blah~*~ = Sesshoumaru's mind speech

Blah = Stephanie's mind speech

From The Inside

Ch.8: A Centaur and Now Detectives

By: DumbAssPunk

Hiei walked up to the first set of paper s that Kagome had left on the table. He blinked at how large the stack was. Shuffling through, he stopped at a specific page.

P.121

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Name: Higurashi Kagome

Age: Undetermined

Species: Mixed. FC (- Hiei blinked. *I wonder what they mean by that...*)

K's Relations: This is Her.

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Hiei's head cocked to the side as he placed the papers as they were. *Mixed...Hn. She won't tell us what she is or her past...but somehow she's Koenma's sister, a spirit realmist/god, and Lord Sesshoumaru's sister, and inu-youkai. That would be mixed, but somehow I am lead to believe that it's more complicated that that. ~_Sigh_~ Oh well. Best not dwell upon it.* Jumping out the window, he created a portal back to his room upstairs.

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At dawn everyone was up and yawning in the kitchen, waiting for Kagome patiently. This was normality, for she liked them to wait for her, not the other way around. She said that this was the proper way of things, seeing as she was the instructor. So, it wasn't too unusual that they were all downstairs in the dining room, accompanied by Keiko and Yukina, sipping lattes and munching French Toast.

Kagome slowly sauntered in, frowning down at some papers as she read, nodding to everyone once before sitting down with her cappuccino to read some more, oblivious to the others' confused and concerned looks.

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Kagome scanned over the papers once more before sighing, dropping the sheaf on the table as she stirred her cup idly. *So. He's back to play another round,* she mused. "But...what are we going to win?* Her eyes drifted to the window, and she stared through it unseeingly. "I feel that the stakes will be higher; the winner takes all and the loser won't have a chance to walk away with nothing. But...what is it that he wants now?* She 'hn'ed in frustration, leaning back in her chair. She was brought back to her present surroundings by Yukina's worried face in front of hers.

"As much as I like you Yukina, you're truly just now my type- I personally go for guys..." Her brow rose as Yukina blushed and sat back down as the others discreetly laughed or smirked.

"I was just seeing of you were ok, Kag-chan. You looked unwell." Yukina fiddled around with her napkin in her lap.

Kagome smiled, patting the ruffled ice apparition on the shoulder. "Hey, I'm fine. Just pondering off in my own wicked world about what to do with my little minion students."

All the guys groaned at this, and Yusuke began to unceremoniously bang his head on the table. Keiko giggled as Yusuke stumbled over to the freezer with a large red mark on his forehead. He hugged to freezer to himself. "Are you my momma?"

Kagome gagged on her coffee, and dashed out of the kitchen laughing hysterically as the others tried not to choke as well.

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Kagome and the others were finally out of the house, and standing in the open fields behind it. Kagome was leaning up on her horse Xander, as the others were standing next to her. Yukina and Keiko had both already gone home, seeing as they had things to do, school to attend. Natasni was the first to speak up.

"This is what I think it is, isn't it Kag?"

Kagome nodded once as she stared out at the fields of hay, just right at the harvesting time. The guys were looking at each other with equally confused looks, as Natasni gloomily kicked the grass at her feet. She decided to start the day off as any other. "Alright, get out there, would ya?! I'm not going to stand here waiting for you to warm up! Get to it!" She blew her bangs out of her face as she glared at them all.

They all groaned, and trotted out to the field. It was going to be a long day...

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"Again!" Kagome brought her sword up to parry Hiei's, twirling slightly on her back foot. Deciding to put him on edge, she kicked her own foot out, 'fell' backwards, and pulling her sword to the front of her, sliced his clothes through the front as she gave a horseman's rollout to the left, and was back on her feet in a crouch. He only rolled his eyes, disappearing to behind her to pull his sword down at her unguarded back. She flipped over her head to kick the blade with her left foot, sending it flying from his hand. As she taught him, he summoned it back to him, glaring at her. *Damn it. That's two points for her against me already.* He went on defense again as she patiently waited for him. Feigning a good right, he came up to the harder left, pulling his blade for a killing blow along her ribcage. Halting at the last moment, he only cut her clothes before jumping backwards once more. She smiled up at him, and nodded once.

"That was very good, Hiei."

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"Strike again!" Kagome quickly dodged to the left as Yusuke's dagger came flying at her chest, barely grazing her shoulder sleeve as she stuck her tongue out at him. Grabbing a flip knife from her boot, she ran behind him, and hurled it at his forgotten leg. At the last moment he turned to see her, and saw the knife go sailing by with ease before hitting the post behind him.

"Damn. Watch where you aim those things, fox-boy'll get mad if you hit a tree."

"Why do you think he's a tree hugger? Again!"

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"Shift!" Kagome became a thin, swift tigress as Natasni rolled her eyes.

"Kag's, I'm bringing my true form out...I'm tired of hiding." Natasni's eyes closed slightly, and a green glow enveloped her. Her body elongated, and fur grew in place as her clothes first draped, and then fell to the ground softly. Where she'd first stood now was a beautiful centauress. Her top body was mostly the same, but her long reddish hair now had green streaks, and her eyes were streaked blue and green. She had a deerskin shirt of a darker shade that seemed to be some sort of tribal showing, and her fur started at her waist. From there she was built as a powerful, yet lean horse of proportions, her fur matching her hair, yet having silvery tips. Her hooves were also silver, and her tail was tipped as well. She shook her head as her hair fell from its tie, and she rolled her eyes as the guys stared. Glancing over and Kagome, she only saw a slightly smirking tigress. Narrowing her eyes, she went back to her task. Besides, this was much more important- for who would want to botch up their final testing?

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"Eeep!" Kagome jumped up out of the way quickly as a fireball came hurtling at her. Glaring at Kuwabara for a second, she summoned a smaller sized power up in her left hand, while her other hand stayed behind her back, holding a small rain attack. Throwing her obvious attack, she waited to watch how his muscle work moved before throwing her second, and watched on as Kuwabara nearly jumped right into the attack, before rolling out of the way. She grinned, nodding once to him before levitating into the air once more. "Again!"

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"WHOA!" Kagome was tossed across the field into a haystack from Kurama's Rose Whip Twelve Attack. (1) Rubbing her head lightly as she jumped up in the air, she yelled back down, "Damn! Anyone get the number of that bus that just ran me over?!!" Throwing out her own Rain Whip, their whips clashed together, wrapping together in a tangle. Taking this opportunity to its fullest, she yanked his from his and threw them both in the hay, sticking her tongue out at him. "So NYAH!" Dodging the thief's seed he threw at her, she threw a small rain ball back at him, only allowing it to soak him to the bone. She grinned broadly as he pushed his long hair from his face. "Again!"

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Kagome opened a portal to the Spirit World and danced in, all smiles as she did so. "Hi Koenma!!" She hugged him to herself before motioning to the wiped out, bedraggled, and slightly bloodied students behind her. Koenma's eyes bugged as she grinned sheepishly down at him.

"Well, Kagome? Why'd you bring them here? To just have ogre clean up when you're gone or something?"

She grinned. "No, pacifier-breath, I brought them here because-hey!" She dodged a flying stamp and glared at her brother. "You know I was kidding! SHEESH!"

"Eh...Kag-chan? I believe you had something to tell Koenma-sama, to where we were unable to get rest or clean up because of the urgency?" Kurama tiredly prodded Kagome to just spit it out already.

Kagome smiled at them all, and hugged each and every one of them, placing a small gift in each of their hands, and whispering a few words to each before she let go. Turning back to Koenma, she said, "Koenma, I'm finished. They are officially the best I can give you, and could go against any foe and win easily. I present, the now Five Spirit Detectives of Reikai."

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An: And that's a wrap! YAY! ^__^ the fighting scenes took me a bit of time, but it was more of the fact that I'm soooo lazy...' Ah well. *happy dance* Ch.8 is done! ^^

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HIEI'S MIKO-DEMONESS~ HAHAHAHAHAHA! I know! He's so hot! *drool....grabs napkin...* what a nice bod...*drooooooool* hehe...I think I have a bit of a puddle going on here...^_~ It's his entire fault! ^^ Hope you liked! ^^ ((Evil homework! *stab stab*)

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**VaSr: Well. I wonder what's going to happen next.

InuYasha: --; aren't you supposed to know?!

**VaSr: *blink blink* I suppose that I should...but I don't. ^^'

Kagome: ... -.-'

Kikyo: *bashes Inu's head in* Why –bam- are –bam- you –bam!- so –BAM!- annoying?! –BOOOOMMM-

**VaSr: O.O *watches chibi Inu fly through the air, bounce off Pluto, and keep on trucking out of here!*

Peddler: *blink* Eh...Uh...Bai?

Khemosabi: ^^' Yea, why don't we do that? ...I'm scared...

Peddler: *nods* me too dude... LOOK! PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!