Disclaimer: must you rain on my parade?
Chapter 11: defying the odds
The next day at training Kagome was not arching but jumping hurdles. She had decided to forego the kyudo training for the day. Sango was helping here do some push-ups.'She's provoking her shoulder' Sesshy thought with a sigh and a shake of the head. He noticed that there was something unbalanced about her exercise so he walked closer to them; she was doing her push-ups with one hand.
'Hmm, impressive' he thought
Kagome sat down on the grass and Kikyo came over with her bow and arrows.
"Nuh uh" she said with a shake of the head.
"Why not? C'mon you have to sometime"
"But
not now" she said stubbornly,
"you'd be provoking your
shoulder too much" Sesshomaru said walking over in his
sweats.
"You really should do sprints," Kagome said out of
the blue.
"I don't think so"
"Why not?"
"Can we get back to the subject at hand here?" Sango asked
"Yeah Kagome, you really should come and practice more" Kikyo said, still holding out the bow and quiver.
"But I don't want to" she whined. "Not yet anyways"
"Just one shot right now"
"Yeah and hit the nearest target" Sango added, Kagome sighed and took the offered bow
"Fine! I will try, though I cant make any promises" she strapped up then held the bow and took and arrow. He looked for the nearest target. It was about 10ft from them. She drew the string aimed then released. She didn't even look if it hit or not. "see It sucked, now can I please get back to hurdles?"There was silence.
Cricket chirps
(a/n I SAID THERE WAS SILENCE!!!)
"Whoa" Sesshy and the coach said in unison
"holy frig" Kikyo and Sango said, they couldn't believe her eyes.
"What?
What's going on?" Kagome looked around at the stunned faces then
looked to the bull's eye. There in the dead center, was Kagome's
arrow.
A bow and arrow fell beside her. Kikyo spun found to
see Kagome as stiff as a log, mouth wide open, eyes darting from her
bow to the arrow in the bulls-eye. Then Kagome realized what
happened.
"Yes!! I did it!!" she jumped up and down,
everyone realized and started cheering, she ran over to sesshy "Sess,
I did it!!"
He lifted her off the ground and pulled her into
a kiss (a/n now doesn't that sound familiar????) she started doing
a stupid little dance, singing over and over that she did it.
"I'm
so proud of you Kagome" Kikyo said
"maybe it was just
beginner's luck" came a cold voice from behind them
They
spun round to see Kagura standing there, hands on her hips, scowl on
her face.
"Yhat was no beginner's luck" Kagome
defended
"yeah, well then prove it" she sneered
back.
"Fine I will" she went back into her stance, took
and arrow and aimed
"are you sure you can handle another one
right now?" Kikyo asked
'I hope so' Kagome thought then
pulled back the tension on her bowstring. She released the arrow it
went at top speed. The wind began to blow hard, the arrow lost
momentum and hit the bottom of the bulls-eye.
"How dare
you?!" Kagome raged, "stupid ama I hope you die and burn in
hell"
"Kagura why did you do that?"
"I did
nothing, besides what are you gonna do about it?"
An arrow
flew about 1cm from her neck on each side, she spun round to see
Kikyo and Kagome both standing, bows raised, bowstring vibrating,
evil determined looks on their faces. They loaded the bows again,
targeting right at Kagura.
"We promise we wont 'miss'
next time" Kagome warned
"Kagome, Kikyo, no need for that"
the coach said just realizing where all these actions was
heading.
Kagura smirked at them then turned back round to face
Sesshomaru. A giant boomerang hit her from behind and knocked her
out.
"Whoops, it slipped" Sango said from behind Kikyo and
Kagome, holding her mouth. Kagome and Kikyo roared with laughter, but
instead of a congratulations, they got a detention.
"WHAT??!!!??!"
they yelled in surprise
"This evening after school, one
hour" the coach then walked off
"a detention I cant
believe it!!" Sango raged
"hey but that was a pretty good
shot there, wasn't it?" Kikyo asked
"yeup!!" they did
a triple high
five.
'
tbc...