RIVAL By: Anime Typhoon/Reina Kygen

Trying to keep updating! It's hard for me now, I have so much other crap to do! Like slack off in school, that kind of stuff.

RIVAL
Chapter 7: Horrid Pasts and Blood Red Eyes

Story so far: The group meets the principal of Jidai High, Kaede. Miroku convinces Inuyasha to hang at Kagome's shrine. =]

Soon after Kagome got off the phone with Sango, she arrived.

"Whoa Sango, you got here before the guys did." Kagome said surprised.

"Guys? Oh hell no, Kagome . . . You didn't . . ."

"Hahaha, yep, I did." Kagome said proudly.

Sango made a face, "Aww shit."

"Well better than them coming over and not having another girl over to keep me company." Kagome said joking.

"Stop joking around, you know that you can deal guys way better than you can handle girls." {{ sounded wrong but... okay }}

"Hahaha, sure, whatever." Kagome kid.

Sango laughed.

"Man, Sango, you gotta tell me how you and the other two dopes know each other."

"I thought we did?"

"Nah, I think you guys are hiding something." Kagome laughed.

"You're sure in a good mood today aren't you?" Sango smiled.

Kagome paused, "Yeah, that's not right . . . I wonder why . . ." Kagome thought to herself.

Sango tilted her head to the side.

"I suppose it's because I'm gonna get some info tonight." Kagome laughed again.

"Inuyasha, why couldn't we take your car!?" Miroku complained.

"You'd like that wouldn't you." Inuyasha glared.

"Yeah." Miroku sighed.

"That's why we ain't takin' the car." Inuyasha laughed.

"So cruel . . ." Miroku sobbed. "Besides, doesn't it feel weird to walk around wearing . . . err . . . that?"

"Keh, nah. If anyone disses me I'll kill them." Inuyasha was wearing a cap and a black baggy shirt with gothic looking pants and chains. Inuyasha isn't really the goth of the group but he had to hide his true form from the public.

"Actually, Sango, it was Miroku who suggested a little get-together." Kagome said confused.

"Eh? What is he planning . . ."

"-Hellooo, ladies!-" Miroku jumped in the room with his hands in the air. {{ muwahaha!!! }}

"Kyaaa!!!" Sango screamed as she threw a stool at him. Miroku got hit right in the face and fell over. "Jerk!!!"

Kagome just laughed at Miroku's entrance. She looked over at Inuyasha who had his arms crossed over his chest. 'Gothic aren't we?' She thought to herself.

"Keh," Inuyasha said as he looked at Miroku who was on the ground as he walked into the house part of the shrine. He took a seat in front of the girls and crossed his legs. Miroku joined them soon after.

"So, why did you want a little get together, if I might ask." Kagome said.

"Eh, well I thought that we should give you more details about how Inuyasha, Sango, and I know each other." Just then he received two death glares, one from Inuyasha the other from Sango.

"I'm guessing they had no idea you were going to share this?" Kagome said sweat dropping.

"Eheheh, I suppose not." Miroku said inching away from Inuyasha and Sango. Miroku began to scream as Inuyasha and Sango began to chase him with various weapons.

Kagome began to feel dizzy, she suddenly blacked out.

[[ dream sequence ]]

Kagome opened her eyes, she was in a forest. In front of her was a great tree. She looked at the tree and saw nothing.

Suddenly, the forest was engulfed in flames. She looked around and saw a woman holding a bow, she was in a stance as if she just fired the arrow. Kagome looked to where she shot; she shot a man who had his hand held out to her as a pinkish jewel rolled away from him.

He said something to the woman but Kagome couldn't hear him and he blacked out. Kagome couldn't move, she looked over the woman who grabbed the jewel, she was bleeding horribly. Her right shoulder was cut open. Kagome tried to say something but she couldn't. She turned only to see a dark figure with long wavy hair and red eyes. She stared at him as he smirked and walked away.

A strong wind blew and the forest disappeared, she was in an open field. She looked around, she saw a boy running towards a man in a robe. An older man stopped the boy, she looked over to the man the boy was chasing and there was a bright light. Kagome shielded her eyes from the light, when she opened her eyes again, the man was gone. All there was left of him was a crater. She stared in disbelief. A dark figure appeared in the crater, she looked at the figure, it was the same one with the dark wavy hair and red eyes. Kagome raised an eye brow.

A strong wind blew again and she was in front of a palace. She was standing on corpses, the dirt was now blood stained with dead men. There was a young woman facing yet another man with dark wavy hair with red eyes. The woman was struck with a blade from behind, the woman turned around and said something, Kagome couldn't hear her but. Then the boy who struck the woman was showered with spears, the woman ran to his aid. Kagome thought 'Why? Why run to someone's aid if they struck you from behind?' She was about to run to them but she couldn't move. The woman was showered with arrows as she protected the boy who struck her. Kagome stared on as her eyes began to fill with tears.

Yet another wind blew, the palace was gone, the bodies were gone, the young boy and woman were gone. Kagome looked around, she was in a cave. The same dark figure appeared in front of her, he had done nothing for the suffering people she saw. She was angered, outraged at this stranger. She started to run towards him ready to kick his ass. She was about to punch him but she froze, she couldn't move. She stared into his blood red eyes as he began to speak to her. She couldn't hear what he was saying; she couldn't read his lips either. She wanted to punch him so badly, she was forcing herself to move forward, she was slowly moving and suddenly she fell straight through him. All he did was laugh, that's the only thing she heard. She looked back at him and all she saw was him, and behind him was a woman, same one with the bow in her first vision . . .

[[ end of dream sequence ]]

"Kagome-chan?" Sango called to Kagome. Kagome hadn't answered any of them for the last 10 minutes. Kagome's eyes were open, yet her eyes weren't focused on anything, they were a pale color as well.

Kagome's eyes began to focus again and change color. Kagome blinked a few times.

"What the . . ." Kagome stuttered. She looked around, ". . . gone . . ." Kagome said softly as she clenched her fist.

"Kagome?? What happened? Are you ok?" Miroku asked.

"Who's gone? What's gone?" Sango asked worryingly.

"That man . . ." Kagome looked down and began to clench her fist once more, "That bastard . . ."

"Who, Kagome?" Sango asked again.

"He . . . had red eyes . . . Blood deep red eyes. He said something to me, I couldn't hear him. All I heard was his damn laugh." Kagome squeezed her fist even harder.

Inuyasha's ears twitched, 'Red eyes . . .'

"Kagome, what the hell happened? We were calling you for 10 minutes; you never answered anyone until now." Miroku asked worried.

"I . . . had a vision . . . I guess, if that's what you call those." Kagome's fist began to bleed.

"What happened? What did you see?" Sango said in a sad voice.

"Four different events . . . all alike, yet so different. First, a man and a woman, a pink jewel . . . the woman struck down the man . . . he was pinned to a tree, the forest was engulfed in flames as he held his hand out to her and said something that I couldn't hear. There was another man there, he was watching with red eyes and smiling, and then he walked away . . ."

Inuyasha twitched, "Who was it!?" He screamed at her. 'How did she, she wasn't even there!'

"I don't know dammit!" Kagome screamed as her fist bled even more.

"Inuyasha! Have some common sense!" Miroku punched Inuyasha, bringing him back to his senses. He heard blood dripping, he looked down at where Kagome was sitting, "Kagome . . . your hand . . ." He said looking at the blood.

Kagome made a confused face, "Huh?" She looked at her hand, "Oh shit . . . I did it again." She grabbed her shirt and soaked up the blood. "Damn," she cursed.

"You alright?" Sango asked.

"Yeah . . ." Kagome said, still shaken up, "Now about that 'vision' . . . the second was a boy and two older men. One elderly one younger than that, the boy was running after the middle aged man as he was walking away. The elderly man stopped the boy . . . there was a bright light and the man who the boy was running after was replaced with a crater . . . a figure appeared in the crater. It was the same man with the red eyes . . ."

Miroku winced, 'Shit . . .' he thought to himself, 'She gets weird visions . . . surprisingly accurate.'

Kagome heard Miroku's thought and was shocked, 'Was that him? That boy was Miroku?'

"Um, the last one was a woman and a boy in the front of a palace. The woman was struck in the back by a boy, the boy was showered in spears. The woman ran to his aid and was showered with arrows; she was protecting the boy who stabbed her in the back. The man who ordered the spear and arrow shower was the same man with the red eyes . . ." Kagome spaced out, she was still enraged at this man.

Sango flinched, 'So, we three are hunting the same man . . . for revenge.'

Kagome didn't even want to remind everyone that she could read their minds.

"Strange, Kagome. We were about to share those stories with you today." Miroku said in a sad tone.

Kagome's eyes widened, "What do you mean?" She did hear their thoughts, yet she didn't have a full understanding of that was going on.

"We were going to tell you about our pasts but, seemingly you already know of them." Miroku smiled slightly.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that though, all your pasts are pretty damn tragic . . ." Kagome said in a depressed tone.

"Well, from what I've observed, we three all hunt the same man, the one with the red eyes. He is the one who destroyed us. He killed my brother . . ." Sango said, "That boy who struck me in the back was my brother, that man was controlling him."

Kagome made a sad face, "I'm so sorry Sango."

"Nah, don't be. The one who's gonna be sorry is that red-eyed bitch, I'm going to make that bitch pay." Sango said smiling evilly. Kagome smiled back at her.

"Yes, and that bastard cursed my family line with this," Miroku held up his right hand, "It's a curse, its basically a hole that sucks up anything in its way. It's called the 'Kazaana,' as handy as it is, it will soon kill me. That man the boy, me, was chasing was my father. When he died, he sorta . . . exploded from the Kazaana." Miroku said flatly as he stared at his hand.

Kagome didn't know how to comfort both of them; she hadn't gone through anything like that . . . or not that she remembers.

Inuyasha stood up and walked out, 'I don't need to share my side, Miroku would probably do it for me, knowing him.'

A/N: x.x I know, long chapter. But I updated right? =]