Is it just me or did my story suddenly take a serious turn, and I think about a couple chapters back my writing style changed just a little. Hehe…oops, o__~

Okay here's a little quiz; in this chapter I used a line from a movie…the first three people to find it and can identify what movie it's from I'll give you a doggie biscuit…and a shout out. Hehe.

To you guys who are seriously wanting me to just hurry up and get Kagome and Inuyasha together are going to be pleased. That's all I can say without giving the next couple of chapters away. But none the less…hehe. Something's going to happen…and it's a big surprise.

Oh and…GACKT IS SO HOT ! ! ! ! ! hehe. If you listen to jpop or jrock you should know who he is. ^__^

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CHAPTER TWENTY

Water…if it conducts electricity…can it conduct…a kiss?

Inuyasha clumsily collapsed on the bed in-between Kagome and Duo, the gang was all gathered inside Kagome's hotel room, discussing the events that had occurred earlier that day. Katsumi, Asuka, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, Duo, Kenji, and Spike all sat around Kagome, who at the moment was still a little shocked at what she had been told she had done.

Katsumi locked the door, making sure no one could just absently walk in on their conversation. The room was silent; everyone was just a little too frightened to speak. They were afraid of what has, and could happen to Kagome. And what measures they might have to take to ensure her safety. At first everyone just stared endlessly into space until Miroku of all people finally decided to speak.

"So what…what exactly happened, Inuyasha?" The monk questioned, knowing that since Kagome couldn't remember a thing, the half-demon was the only one who could give any answers.

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know…she was fine, and then the bastard touched her, and she just went haywire." He threw his hands up in the air dramatically.

Kagome glared at him. "Now I know that's not true…I remember the part where I touched Sion, and then saw all these, these things…images…or like…like visions."

"Visions?" Katsumi asked.

Kagome nodded, clutching tighter onto the blanket rapped around her. "Yeah…well not exactly visions, more like memories…I know it was Sion's father, his father murdered a lot of people--and I remember he did it all in front of Sion when he was just a little kid. He even tried to make Sion help him kill this one girl…her name was…um…Dominique…I think." Kagome was fighting back tears, she didn't want to cry, but she felt so bad for Sion. She subconsciously leaned over and laid her head on Inuyasha's shoulder for support. "Then I remember getting sick and Sion telling me he was going to take me to the nurse or something and then…that's when I blacked out again…like I did on Halloween."

Everyone nodded, having remembered that night very well.

Kagome continued. "And then the next thing I new I was lying on the bus…with Inuyasha." Inuyasha smirked, he had taken Kagome; after asking the Coach's approval, out to the bus, telling the short statured man that she had eaten too much pizza and had made herself sick. Inuyasha couldn't help but get a little warm under the collar when he remembered he had stayed with Kagome on the bus, by her side for the remainder of the day…just the two of them. "I don't remember anything else I said or did between that."

Katsumi sighed, "I think I have a good idea of what happened." All eyes were on her, as everyone gave her their undivided attention. "Kagome, you didn't by any chance bring that book your grandmother gave you, did you?"

Kagome nodded, as she reached down to her suitcase at the foot of the bed and rummaged through the mess before she pulled the book in mention out, it had literally become her Bible…and she refused to part with it.

She handed the late miko's journal over to Katsumi, who intern flipped through the pages, it seemed like hours went by before Kitty, triumphantly found and read a passage: "It says here: 'there have been many times when I felt that my own power was to great for me. It happened again today, I nearly destroyed an entire village in my struggle with a Digestaria Monioa Demon, who went by the name Demonatikyo. In my haste I lost complete control of my body. I fear what this change is doing to me. Perhaps it is within the boundaries of my inner demon, the demon that haunts me and eats me alive from the inside. I do not understand, for I remember nothing from my battle with Demonatikyo. Only that when I awoke from my slumber did I find that I had won and she had fled. I am terrified that I might never understand, never remember what is taking over me. What if something terrible happens when I lose control someday; if I so easily tried to destroy a village today just to kill a demoness, what other measures could I possibly take to ensure the kill. I have become a monster because of my heritage, I can only pray that the gods will protect me. And if I am not worthy of their haven, then may it lie with the people and innocent demons alike that I try to sacrifice…'" Katsumi paused, glancing up at everyone. "I remember skimming over this journal entry when Kagome first showed me this book…it seems Midoriko had the same problem Kagome has now."

"What do you think she meant by her 'heritage' being the blame?" Miroku whispered. "Do you think she really went through the same problem Kagome is going through?"

"What problem?" Kagome snapped. "What is it…what's happening to me?" She glared at all the faces in the room. "Well?" She snorted, before she collapsed back against her bed's headboard.

The room was silent. No one knew how to answer her question.

"So no one can explain what my little 'problem' is…what my little 'blackout spells' are? We don't know anything about them." She closed her eyes passively. "We don't know whether its bad or good, for all we know it could be nothing."

Katsumi went to protest but Kagome continued, not giving her a chance.

Kagome stared over at Katsumi angrily "So that little paragraph or whatever you just read means nothing…it sure as hell didn't give me any answers. What else does it say in that damn book?" She growled rather rudely. She had read it many times…but she just wanted to see how Katsumi would react.

"Nothing else on this particular subject." Katsumi flipped through the last remaining pages. "It ends a couple of days later…she doesn't mention her power taking control of her or anything. It just continues to go on and on about a demon named Demonatikyo…"

"See…" Kagome began. "It's nothing…if she didn't write anymore about it than it's probably just some stupid--"

"Nothing?" Katsumi accidentally shouted, her eyes flaming. "You threw Naraku into a car and could have killed him."

"So." Kagome smirked. "It's not like he wasn't going to do something to me the second he got his hands on me…he was planning on hurting me, Inuyasha, and Spike anyway…he was going to kill us…what I did was self defense."

"Yeah it was this time…but what about next time…how do we know you're not going to do the same thing to one of us?" Katsumi blared.

"I didn't hurt anyone this time." Kagome argued. "As a matter of fact, Inuyasha told me that the whole time all I talked about was trying to protect Sion…not rip his bloody head off. I could never hurt you guys…you're my friends."

The room filled with silence

"I'm worried…" Katsumi sighed. "I'm worried about you, Kagome…I don't think…" here it comes, what Kagome had been afraid of for the last couple of hours: " I don't think…you should be in the…tournament."

"What?" Kagome screamed, forcing everyone to cover their ears.

Katsumi groaned rubbing her tender feline ears in aggravation. "I think you should fake sick, and stay here at the hotel. It's just too dangerous for you…you were lucky enough to fool Sion and make him think you were a demon. But if this happens again…we can't protect you, and I know for a fact, that half the people who were in that party today were demons…and most likely half of them will want you dead…do the math, Kagome. That has to be in the least - over five hundred people…er, demons. That's to much for us to handle."

"No way." Kagome protested throwing her arms in the air and accidentally ramming into one of Inuyasha's sensitive ears. "There is no way in hell I'm just going to sit around in this damn hotel room for four days all by myself…I worked too damn hard to make it on this team. I practiced my ass off…I trained way too hard to just come up here and sit around and do nothing. There is no way in hell. I can take care of myself…I could take all those demons if I had to, look at what I did to Naraku…he's still in the hospital for crying out loud."

Katsumi's brows furrowed. "Kagome…this isn't a game. It's real life…your life. Midoriko herself couldn't take down that many at once. Why else do you think she's dead? It only took one…one demon came along who just happened to have a little more power than most and that was all it took to take Midoriko down."

"What are you talking about?" Kagome groaned.

"Don't you know anything?" Katsumi sighed. "This demoness, Demonatikyo…she's the one that killed Midoriko. It only took one demon to put Midoriko six feet under."

"So…" Kagome snapped.

"So…what if a really powerful demon just happens to come along? You could get killed…"

"Well then I'll just have to make sure no one finds out what I am."

"What if you loose it again? And this time actually let out you're a miko…it's just too risky." Katsumi growled, baring her feline fangs in her anger.

"Then I'll just have to make sure it doesn't happen again won't I?" Kagome was loosing her's and everyone else's temper; she was yelling at her friends, which was something she didn't want to do, but she refused to do what they requested of her.

"How can you?" Katsumi screamed, finally going over the edge, this was the first time she had ever had to yell at Kagome. She felt bad about it.

"I don't know." Kagome practically sobbed as she collapsed into Inuyasha's arms. "I don't know…but you can't make me stay here. You just can't. It's not fair you guys get to go and I have to stay here all by myself."

Inuyasha took the stage, placing a hand calmly on Kagome's back. "I'll stay."

Everyone stared over at Inuyasha in shock. Had they just heard him correctly?

"Wha…?" Kagome whimpered as she stared up at him.

"I said I'd ditch the tournament to stay here with you and keep you company so you wouldn't have to be here by yourself. You don't need to go…it's not safe."

"Are you serious? You'd actually stay here? The great Osuwari has a heart?" Kagome gasped, all signs of tears erasing from her face.

"Now even I have a hard time believing this." Miroku snorted from across the room. "All you ever talk about, Inuyasha; is how you should have won first place last year and how you're 'gonna' claim it this year…are you actually aware of the words that have just escaped from your own mouth? You'd willingly 'ditch' the tournament?"

Inuyasha glared angrily over at the rat-tailed boy. "I know what the hell I said…and what I'm doing. If Kagome has to stay here…then damn it I'll stay with her. She's right…it's not fair for everyone else to go and she have to be alone."

"No." Spike stepped in. "You go Inuyasha…we have to win first place this year…and you're the only one who can actually win for us, you're the only secret weapon we have to win with. Me, I'm just dead wait…I'll stay with her…you just go win that first place trophy and medal."

Kagome pushed away from Inuyasha and stood up, glaring down at everyone. "I've had it…no one is going to stay with me…cause I'm going to this tournament…and I will not let you stop me." She glared from face to face to emphasize her point. "Not any of you, or you'll find yourself in the hospital with Naraku. I am going to bring that damn first place trophy home. I will be in that Style Off…even if it kills me-"

"Which it will." Sango broke in. "If anyone finds out who you are…they'll be the devil to pay."

"Then I'll just have to make sure no one does then won't I?" Kagome slammed her foot down. She really hated arguing, but she had to, she just had to be in the tournament.

Suddenly the room filled with noise as all hell broke loose and everyone started in a giant argument that Kagome could not make heads or tails of. This seemed to go on for what felt like years, as Kagome stood in the center of the angry swarm.

"THAT IS ENOUGH."

Everyone turned to the source of the outburst, in shock, because it wasn't who they had expected. Kenji stood beside Kagome, his face red in temper and a vein popping out of his forehead. Whoa…and he used to be so shy. "I've had it." his voice was crisp and clear ringing within the now silent room. "Can you people not shut up for just like one seconds?"

"…"

"It's not fair for her to have to stay here…and it's not fair for anyone to have to stay here with her either. She goes to the tournament, got it?" Everyone nodded. Talk about your voice of reason. "We just have to keep an extra sharp eye on her…and keep her as far away from Sion Barzahd as possible. Kagome," he turned his daring glance at her, "unless you are fighting…you are to be with one of us at all times. Understood?"

Kagome nodded.

"Good." He placed his black fingernail painted hands in his pocket, quickly learning of his sudden character change, he returned to shy old Kenji again. "I'm…I'm sorry." He whispered. "I didn't mean to yell…."

Kagome jumped on him, wrapping her arms around him. "Thank you…" She giggled. She knew that after seeing him scream, no one was going to argue with him or persist the matter, which meant his word was final, which meant she was going to the tournament. "Kenji…you rule!" She smiled finally releasing him.

Kenji, on the other hand, his face was getting redder and redder. "I uh…you're welcome." He croaked.

Just then a sudden knock broke the rooms tension. Katsumi dashed to the door and unlocked it, just in time to see Taki poke his head in through the crack.

"We've got a meeting in the Coach's room…" a smile spread across the purple-haired youth's face. "He ordered us gees."

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The next day Kagome walked hand in hand with Inuyasha, much to her dislike, through the front doors of arena 4. Kagome's heart stopped as she stared at the dramatic change the room had undergone since she had last seen it yesterday. The stage no longer had band equipment like drums and amplifiers and guitars and microphones now there was a large table littered with men and women dressed in business suits, who Kagome guessed were the judges. The room itself was no longer empty for the dance floor, it was now filled with small platforms with matted surfaces and a rope fence around the upper half…they were boxing rings. There was at least twenty boxing rings lined in rows in the room. Kagome also noticed that the fold-up bleachers were now pulled out to their full extent, people already sitting on them.

Kagome subconsciously grabbed onto Inuyasha's arm in excitement. The couple, like the rest of the Deep Forest High School team proudly walked into the arena decked out in their new matching gees. The uniforms were jet black with loose fitting pants, and since it was so hot, a matching T-shirts instead of the usual long sleeve top. The T-shirt's themselves weren't anything special, the front was plain but the back had their school's mascot and name printed across the shoulder blades.

The arena was already partially filled as each team gathered up together and began stretching or praying or whatever they usually do to get ready.

Coach Hiei motioned his team over to an empty spot on the bleachers. He smiled, a rarity in itself, at the team that surrounded him, each student clad in their black martial arts gees. Kikyo stood beside the short man, her clothes in their usual form, she had been offered a spare gee, but had refused since it had been black.

"Alright guys." Rei giggled excitedly, wrapping her upper body around Spike's arm. "This is it."

Hiei rolled his eyes at his daughter. "Hands in."

The group of Deep Forest High School students all gathered around in a tight circle, putting their hands in the middle.

"One…two…three…Fire Cats Rule!" they threw their hands in the air in a victorious and determined sort of way.

Kagome collapsed down onto the wooden bleacher and slipped off her sneakers, just as everyone else was doing. She tightened her junior black belt around her waist, making sure it was good and tight before she pulled her hair up in a tight ponytail, the red-streaks she had highlighted the night before showing through her wavy locks.

She smiled over at Sango, who had purple strips within her own hair. Kagome and Sango had always done stuff like this together, dying their hair was a symbol to them of their best friends for life bond.

Inuyasha stood up and stretched out his arms high above his head. He glanced over at Katsumi, who at the moment kept glancing wearily over at Kagome. Inuyasha could tell Kitty was worried about her miko friend, so was everyone else…but…well, no one wanted to argue with Kenji after seeing him get angry. It was just plain scary. Inuyasha let out a sigh, after what Kenji had said Katsumi had confronted our raven haired hero, telling him since he was pulling off this stupid boyfriend-girlfriend stunt with Kagome anyway, that he was to stay with her at all times this week. That in itself sucked, but seeing as the Disturbed concert was tonight, Inuyasha didn't really care…nothing could get him down. He was going to go see his favorite band in concert in just a few hours…he was on top of the world.

Kagome glanced over at the concessions stand that was located right beside the judges table. "Come on…I want to get a bottle of water before the preliminaries." She grabbed onto Inuyasha's arm, trying to pull the stubborn boy along but he resisted.

Inuyasha pulled off his hat and placed it with the rest of his stuff. "Hold on, Bitch. Give me a second."

Kagome glared at him icily for calling her the unmentionable name again. But she just let this one slide as she made her way towards the concession stand with him following close behind her, refusing to talk to him.

The two walked off leaving the rest of their team behind. Kagome could feel eyes on her as she jumped down the rows of bleachers and then onto the waxed floor. At first she was confused at why people were staring at her until she looked back and saw Inuyasha.

It was girls, nothing but fan girls. Figures. Three of them were all crowding around Inuyasha, giggling happily. "You're Inuyasha Osuwari, right?" One girl exclaimed.

Inuyasha's face turned bright red as he nodded. "Yeah…."

"You were in the tournament last year!" She screamed excitedly.

Inuyasha nodded once again. "Yeah…."

"I watched you fight." She coed. "I think you should have won…"

"You were so amazing." Another girl added.

Kagome rolled her eyes. So what…he has fans…I don't care…let them fawn over him, it's no skin off me nose. She continued on her way towards the concessions stand without him. I didn't need him anyway…oh shit. She stopped dead in her tracks. I gave him all my money to put in his wallet so I wouldn't loose it. She turned to glare after him as he…signed an autograph. Dear God he's got a big ego.

"Inuyasha." Kagome growled. "Are you coming?"

The three girls suddenly paused their worshipping of our hero to stare down at Kagome. "Who's she?" The third girl questioned with an upturned nose.

"That would be…my girlfriend." Inuyasha sweatdropped. Okay so she's not really my girlfriend, she dates Kouga…and hates my guts she's just pretend dating me to get money…but I can dream can't I…uh…did I really just say that?

"Oh…" the three groaned in unison

"She seems mean." The first girl whispered.

Inuyasha sighed. "She's um…just having a bad day…."

"That's no reason to take it out on you." The second girl purred while the other two nodded.

Kagome tapped her bare foot on the ground impatiently.

"Uh…" Inuyasha sighed, thanking God that Kagome was out of earshot of him. "It's kind of my fault…I uh…called her a…bad name a minute ago." He whispered.

"Oh…" the three groaned in unison again.

"Well…um, yeah…I 'gotta' go." He handed the second girl her autograph as he made his way to Kagome's side. He reached down for her hand, to take it in his own but she just pulled it out of his reach. "Kagome…" He sighed.

"I'm not talking to you, you asshole…" She walked up to the counter of the concessions and ordered her water. When the bottle was laid in front of her she stared over at Inuyasha expectantly. "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Aren't you going to pay for it?" Kagome half growled, almost sounding like a demon for a second.

"Um…no. Besides I thought you weren't talking to me?"

The girl working the concessions stand stared at them in bewilderment.

"You have all my money." Kagome spat. "Pay for my damn water."

"Um…let me think…no."

"Now." Kagome ordered. "Or at least give me my money."

"Not happening. Get the drink yourself."

"How am I supposed to buy my water…when you have all my money?"

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders. "I guess you're just going to have to dehydrate."

Kagome grabbed him by the collar of his T-shirt. "If you don't give me my money I'll tell Kikyo everything."

"If you don't let go of me I'm going to just keep all the money and call the whole deal off…you can just be someone else's bitch."

"After all I did for you…after all the crap of yours I've had to put up with so far…I swear to God if you don't give me my money I'm going to pound the shit out of you."

"Ha." Inuyasha snorted. "If I hadn't offered to pay you, you wouldn't have agreed to date me, so don't give me that 'all I did for you' shit." (Imagine what that poor girl working the concessions stand is thinking right about now.)

"Ugh…" Kagome snarled disgustedly, as she stomped away from him. It was amazing at just how easily those two could get into an argument in no time flat.

Inuyasha smirked as he handed the money over to the girl behind the counter. "I love it when she's angry at me." He laughed. "Funny how riled up I can get her, ain't it?"

The girl only nodded nervously as she put the money in the cash register.

Inuyasha jogged over to Kagome and waved the bottle of water in her face, before he cockily unscrewed the cap and took a big sip. He handed it over to Kagome and smirked at the disgusted look on her face.

"Awe come on." He chuckled. "I don't have cooties."

Kagome just stared down at the now 'contaminated' water.

He couldn't help it. "Is the poor little Kagome afraid of a little germs?"

Kagome shot him a nasty glare.

"I figured as much." He reached out to take 'his' water back when Kagome surprisingly took a large sip of it. His face lit up. "You know you just swapped spit with the 'devil' right?"

Kagome nodded and shrugged her shoulders. "It's not like I'm going to hell because of it." She handed the bottle back to him and took off towards Sango's direction.

Inuyasha stared down at the clear liquid. That was just like…kissing right?

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Hehehe…I'm so cruel…don't worry folks…the Inu/Kag pairing is just about to reach it's peek in the next chapter…so no flaming me for having such a lame love seen…it's 'gonna' get better. I just don't want Kagome and Inuyasha to just like be all of a sudden a couple (even though they sort of already are…sort of) I want to give it a realistic value, where it's believable and easily relateble. See you soon. ^__^ oh and even though I've already said this it needs repeating: GACKT IS SO HOT ! ! ! !

Oh and this is something that, according to one of my reviewers, also apparently needs repeating since they asked where they were from:

SPIKE is my own character

REI is my own character

SION BARZAHD is from The Bouncer.

^__^ Sayonara….