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Chapter 4: The Competition and a Confession

Kagome walked to the doorway leading to the field, she had already changed into her tracksuit and had on her sweats over it. The afternoon had come and gone and the field lights were extremely bright.

"And here is our other archer and sprinter-turned-distance runner, Kagome Higurashi, returning form a very serious injury, glad to see you back Kagome" the announcer said as Kagome jogged across the field, waving to the crowd. The crowd cheered as she reached her destination and high- fived with Kikyo.

"Glad to see you back" Kikyo said

"Glad to be back" she answered strapping herself up.

"And here comes our other javlinist, Sesshomaru Takami", Sesshomaru jogged onto the field and the crowd cheered him on. "Well that's every one, let the competition begin." The announcer said, the cheering continued.

(a/n:" ok I'm only going to write the parts with the people we know and the finals of those events)

Kyudo

Kagome stood in her area, the quiver strapped tightly to her back, her safety equipment on tightly. She watched as Kikyo's face lost all emotions as she concentrated on decimating her target. She pulled back the string, aimed then released, the girl beside her did the same and the other 5 girls in that round.

Kikyo's arrow hit the center dead on, so did two of the girl's beside her. One girl's arrow hit the outside ring, one hit the middle ring, two hit the fourth ring and one missed altogether. They retracted their bows and stepped backwards. A few officials went to the targets and retrieved the arrows.

Kagome tugged at her string, making sure it was tight enough as she walked up to the aiming post for her round. She raised her hand when they announced her name then tuned everyone out completely. She took a couple deep breaths to calm her rattled nerves, then forgot about everything.

She reached for and arrow and placed in her bow, aiming at the ground. She faintly saw Kikyo telling her to breathe, she nodded deftly before raising the bow, and she pulled back the arrow and waited. There was a signal for them to release, it came and they released their arrows one by one. Kagome's was the last to hit.

Three girls beside her hit the corner, one hit the middle ring, one hit the fourth ring and Kagome and another girl hit the center.

Javelin (male)

Sango stood at the side of the track, watching the guys run up and throw. She sighed and leaned backwards as Sesshomaru geared up to throw. He gripped the pole, went on his toe tips, and then leaned backwards resting on one foot behind him. He repeated the action then began his run up the track. He stopped a foot from the white line and threw the javelin. It went high, before landing, sticking into the ground at 37.9m.

He shook his head and frowned, obviously displeased with the results. The crowd however were sheering their heads off and the other competitors' eyes were wide with disbelief. Then again, he did hold the record for longest distance. Several other male competitors ran and threw. Until the round was up.

Sprints

Sango took off her sweatshirt and her sneakers. She dug through her duffle bag for her spikes. She found them and brought them out to the open. She sat back down on the track behind her track cone and put on the pair of spikes, testing them out afterwards. She got up and bounced a bit, flashing her limbs about her, trying to loosen up.

She went over to her starting blocks and adjusted them to her height. She was going to run a 100m race in lane 2. couldn't be all that bad. She tested the blo0cks and sprinted off, then slowed down a second later. She jogged back to the starting blocks. She saw Kagome off to the side signaling to her, telling her to relax. Seeing her friend, she did just that. She took off her sweatpants and bounced around, making sure her muscles stayed warm.

The starter told them to get on their marks. She and the other seven sprinters positioned themselves on the starting blocks, knees positioned on the track, chins to their chests. There was the command for them to get set. They raised slightly, knees off the track, looking down the track, to their destination; the finish line. The starting gun sounded, and they were off, as fast as bullets, speeding down the track.

Sango began pulling away from the other sprinters. There was one more person in front of her; she didn't have to get first, as long as she qualified for the next round. She passed the finish line in second place. 13 seconds after she left the starting block. She ran straight into Kagome's arms. She congratulated her telling her how proud she was and that she couldn't have run a better race.

Distance hurdles

Kagome stood in her lane behind the finish line, she was getting ready to run a 400m hurdles race. She loosened up, mush like Sango did. She tightened her ponytail, pushing stray starnds behind her ears. She set up her starting blocks. And sat down on her lane cone. She was nervous, she'd never run this length until just about a week ago, she couldn't possibly be ready right?

She stood up and jumped, bringing her knees up to her chest before touching the ground again. She did it again, making sure her thighs were up to the challenge presented her. She stripped out of her sweat suit. Fixing the bottom of her running top. It felt like a second skin, well if it didn't it wasn't her size. She got on the starting block and ran off then stopped at the first hurdle.

(a/n: I know I didn't really do this for the others, but I just need to get this out of my head)

Sesshomaru watched as she tried to calm herself for her race, she wasn't exactly ready, both mentally and physically, but she was one who liked a challenge. He could feel the fear radiating off her in waves. Out of her seven opponents, she was the least experience. And she knew this, and it was going to catch up with her soon.

Kikyo and Sango watched their friend from the shot put net. They could feel her fear, she was a nervous wreck, and she was trying to calm herself. It wasn't really helping much, but it was helping a tincy bit. And they were about to see if it had worked any at all.

The command for them to get on their marks sounded. They went down on the blocks, in the correct position, Kagome praying to the gods above for help. The command for get set sounded, they all did so. The starting gun was about to fire and Kagome ran off, signaling a false start. They all stood up and breathed deeply, Kagome pushed her bangs behind her face with her hands, gods was she nervous.

The pressure was now on full force, another false start and that person gets disqualified. She had a feeling it was going to be her. The runner beside her gave her a reassurance, telling her it was ok, and that she had to breathe. She accepted the help and tried just that. She decided to treat it just like she would kyudo. She took a deep breath then tuned out everything around her except for the starter's commands and the gun.

They returned to their blocks, and got ready once again for the race. They got in the first position, nerves getting the best of them. The command for set came. They did as told. Then they all ran off. Another false start. An official walked onto the track with a big red card. Everyone tensed, not knowing who was to get the card. The official stopped in infront of lane 3.

The runner lifter her hands and waved to the crowd before taking the card and walking over to the field away from the track. Kagome sat down on the grass, sighing heavily. She lay down on the grass, hands covering her face as the starting gun sounded. Kikyo and Sango ran over to her to try and calm her down. They all knew she wasn't ready, and this was the consequence of that.

Javelin (female)

Sango after helping comfort Kagome, left to do her first round of throws. She took off her sweatshirt and changed from her spikes to her throwing shoes. She did a few warm ups, then waited for her turn and official came up to her not too long after, telling her she was up next. She got up and selected a javelin from the side of the track. She gripped it then made her way to the top of the javelin track.

She stood with her legs one behind the other. The leaned back then ran down the track and threw. It hit 30.78m

(I'm going to skip to the finals)

kyudo

Kikyo and a very mentally unbalanced Kagome went head to head for the gold and silver. Bronze had already been decided, it was now for these two to duke it out, as always. Kikyo was up, she stood at the aiming post, she knocked her arrow, aimed it then fired. She did the same two more times then moved away from the post. One hit the center, one hit the middle ring and one hit the fourth ring.

It was Kagome's turn; she took several deep breaths, trying to calm herself. She sakily reached for an arrow and knocked it. She aimed and then fired. She repeated twice more befoe stepping back. She got the same results as Kikyo.

It was now down to one arrow each, kikyo and Kagome stood at the aiming posts right beside each other. They reached for their arrows, knocked aimed then fired at the same time.

Kagome stood back and shook her head; she already knew it wasn't good.

The officials checked the targets, Kikyo hit the white ring around the center, Kagome missed the target altogether. Kikyo hugged Kagome, telling her it was ok and such trying to comfort her.

Javelin (male)

Sesshomaru was up against Sanchi Akiba for the boy's gold. Sanchi was up first, he got in stance, ran, threw and it landed at 30m. He groaned that must have been his worst throw in a competition ever. It was Sesshomaru's turn, whose worst throw ever was 35m (a/n: not much competition now is it?) Sesshomaru threw the javelin, it landed at 39m, another groan came from Sanchi as Sesshomaru just smirked at him.

Javelin (female)

Sango was up against Megumi Akiba, Sanchi's sister, for the girl's gold. Sango was up first, she got in stance, ran, threw, it landed at 30m.

"noooooooo" she groaned sinking to the ground afraid to watch Megumi's winning throw. She already accepted defeat, whether gracefully or not.

It was now Megumi's turn, she smirked at Sango who she knew couldn't bear to watch her defeat. Megumi was a very strong thrower so beating a 30m throw was a piece of cake. Megumi threw her javelin, it went shakily into the air and landed at 31m.

"Ooh poor Sango" Kikyo said, trying to lighten Kagome up. It worked slightly.

Sprint

Sango jogged over to the starting blocks. She threw the javelin loss out of her mind as she steeled her self to win this race. She went over to her lane. Lane 6 they gave her. She stripped out of her sweat pants then fixed the starting blocks.

The command for them to take their positions sounded, they did so. The crowd quieted for them to hear the starting gun clearly. The command for get set came. Then the starting gun fired. They flew out of the blocks, each wanting the gold more than ever. Sango pulled out into the lead, sprinting pass the finish line, claiming to gold.

After the meet, the group met up on the field near the kyudo range.

"That was some meet," Miroku said

"Where's Kagome, I wanna congratulate her." Sango said smiling,

"Yeah were is she?" Inuyasha asked

"There she is over there........talking to Sesshomaru?!!??" Kikyo said. That came as a shock to everyone in the group,

"What????!!!!!!!" they spun round to see Kagome and Sesshomaru indeed in mid conversation.

"Why would they of all persons be talking to each other?????" Sango asked

"What do you think they're talking about?" Miroku asked

"Donno" the group answered.

They saw her hug him and smile, their jaws dropped. Kagome began to jog towards them,

"What. Just. Happened?" Miroku asked, disbelief clearly written on his face.

"Not sure" Sango said. Kagome ran up to them

"Hey guys" she pulled on her sweatshirt.

"Hey Kagome" kikyo said "what was that all about?"

"What do you mean?"

"We just saw you talking to Sesshoamru" Miroku said,

"Yeah what was that all about?" Inuyahsa asked,

"Oh that, I was just congratulating him, by the way, congrats Kikyo."

"Uh thanx Kagome"

"Oh I gotta go fing Kouga!" with that she ran off with a fake smile plastered on her face.

"That" Kikyo said,

"Was" Miroku said,

"Very" Inuyasha said

"Strange" Sango said.

Kagome ran down the dimly lit hallway, "Kouga!" she called,

"Yeah?" he came out and met up with her.

"I got silver!" she showed him the medal

"That's great!!" he lifted her then pulled her into a kiss.

Sesshomaru, who was coming down the hall, saw everything.

"Kouga" she pulled away from him "What are you doing?" she asked, clearly shocked.

"I'm sorry Kagome but I can't bottle up my feelings for you anymore, I love you Kagome"

"W-ho-why- what?"

"Don't you feel the same way?"

"Kouga, I-I don't like you that way, I only want your friendship." He looked at her dejected "I'm sorry Kouga, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings"

"No Kagome, I'm sorry, for thinking you'd feel the same way about me." With that he walked off.

"Kouga wait!" he kept walking.

'What just happened?'

I think Kouga just confessed that he loved you

'I know, and the worst part is, I had to reject him' sniffling, she watched his retreating figure disappear down the hallway then sighed this was just what she needed, first the race now this, how messed up can one day get.

She turned around to walk back to the field but she bumped into someone, she looked up and saw it was Sesshomaru (hero music starts) (gives person in charge of hero music a dark dirty death glare) (hero music stops as quickly as it started)

Sesshomaru had the stoic mask firmly in place as he looked down at her. She looked extremely worn out. That thing with the race really took a lot out of her, it was a wonder she made it as far as the finals for kyudo. "I'm uh guessing that you saw the whole thing," she said quietly, she didn't look up at him, she didn't need to know he was probably glaring at her.

"Don't feel sorry for that wolf" she was starteled by his voice and the coldness in the tone. Her head shot up.

"But he was my friend and I hurt his feelings, why is it so wrong to feel bad for your mistakes?!?" she sniffed.

"I didn't say it was bad, its just something I don't do"

"Well I'm sorry if I'm being the bad guy here, but its something I do" he pulled her to him and hugged her,

"I'm sorry" he whispered into her ear then kissed her forehead.

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tbc...

Longest chapter yet. I hope it was up to your standards

Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Especially since all the reviews I already have are from when this was a crappily written story. I think the people who read this before were just being nice to me out of pity, and the flamer was the one true friend I had. Even though that flame was kinda harsh.

Until next time...

Pk signing off....