Feudal Era Video Games
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Gamecube, or Godzilla. But if I did, I'd probably a millionaire!!!
a/n: Sorry I took so long to update, but NOBODY'S SENDING ME IDEAS!!! I noticed that in the last chapter, I accidentally referred to it as 'chapter 2' rather than 3. Oops, I didn't mean to! Just ignore it. Did ya notice the genre change? Thanks to all who reviewed. Here's chapter 4!
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Chapter 4
The day of the tournament, Kagome and Inuyasha went back to Takai's house. They were early, so they had to wait the other fighters to show up. Surprisingly, most of them were late.
When everyone got there, Takai went over the rules again, and asked if anyone wanted to quit at the last minute.
"Inuyasha, are you sure you want to go through with this?" asked Kagome.
"Duh! I fight huge demons, half-demons, and even Sesshomaru, and you don't think I can handle a puny weakling human?"
"Well, they have been training their whole lives."
"So have I."
"Yeah, but this is like, 500 years after your time."
"So? Training in my time is probably than in your time. Besides, I'm half-demon. I'm about 10 times stronger than these people."
"If you say so..."
"I do!"
"Ok."
Takai finished talking to the fighters, a few of who dropped out. Then he led them all to a bus.
"Get on, and leave the windows up, no matter how hot it gets," Takai ordered.
Everyone boarded the bus. As Kagome followed Inuyasha on, Takai stopped her.
"Fighters only!"
"Too bad! I have to go with Inuyasha!"
"Not only are you not a fighter, but your a little girl! There's no way I'm letting you come, sorry."
"First, I'm not little! Second, if you knew all I've been through, you wouldn't say I wasn't a fighter!" Kagome glared at Takai.
"I'm sorry, but you can't come. It's not my fault, the rules say so."
"I thought this was your tournament, and you made the rules," said Inuyasha.
Kagome eyed him suspiciously. "Yeah."
"Uh, okay, so maybe it is my fault. But I made the rules a long time ago."
"So can't you change the rules?" asked Kagome.
"Uh, no, not now."
Kagome glared at Takai, and Inuyasha could swear he saw fire in her eyes.
"Uh, heh, maybe I will, but just for you. And you can't tell anyone about it."
Kagome smirked. "Thanks Takai." Without even giving Inuyasha or Takai a second glance, she walked past Inuyasha and onto the bus. Then Kagome noticed that Inuyasha wasn't moving.
"Inuyasha, come on!"
"Uh, yea, okay!" Inuyasha gulped and followed Kagome onto the bus. Takai watched him, then boarded the bus himself.
When Kagome and Inuyasha found a seat, Kagome ended up on the inside, and Inuyasha sat on the outside, near the isle.
"Inuyasha, will you switch seats with me? I can't stand it when I have to sit near the window."
There was a loud 'crash!' and the next second, Inuyasha was sprawled on the floor of the bus. Everyone turned around to see what had happened.
"Sorry Inuyasha!" said Kagome, helping Inuyasha up.
Takai walked over. "Wow, I guess you are a fighter! Did you sign up?"
"Who? Me? No way! I'm not a fighter!" said Kagome.
"Then how'd you just get Inuyasha on the ground?"
"Uh, it's a really long story, and I can't exactly shorten it, otherwise you'd never believe me."
"He probably wouldn't believe you anyway, Kagome," said Inuyasha.
"True," said Kagome.
"Well, Takai, if you must know, Kagome has a special power, and whenever she says a certain word, I end up like this!" said Inuyasha angrily.
Takai started laughing. "Ha! Yeah, right!"
"See? Told ya he wouldn't believe it," said Inuyasha.
Kagome shrugged. "Oh, well, his loss."
Takai went back up to the front of the bus, still laughing.
Inuyasha sighed. "Hey Kagome, do you think you could take this stupid rosary necklace off?"
"I probably could, but why would I do that?"
"So you don't 'accidentally' say the word, duh!"
"Uh, how about I don't?"
"Why not?!"
"Well, how am I supposed to know that you haven't been pretending to be my friend this whole time, just so you could get me to take off the rosary so you could get at the Shikon Jewel?"
"We've been together this long, and you still ask me that?"
"I guess I shouldn't, but who knows?"
"Kagome, listen. I have something to tell you, but I feel really stupid saying it, so don't make me say it more than once, please! And the only reason I'm telling you is because I really wanna get this thing off! It gets on my nerves, and say I'm fighting and you say it? Then you could get me killed!"
"Alright, I'm listening."
"I, uh...hmm, I don't know how to put this," Inuyasha said. His voice lowered to a whisper, and Kagome had to lean in and listen really closely to hear what he was saying. "I, uh, like you, a really lot."
"That's why we're friends!"
"No, I mean, I," Inuyasha looked straight down and stared at his hands, "I love you. I've tried so hard to get over it, and tell myself that it wasn't like that, but deep down inside, I loved you more than anything else, even Kikyo."
Kagome sat and stared at him for a moment, trying to get over the shock.
Inuyasha looked up and saw Kagome's expression. "Are you okay, Kagome?"
Kagome just looked at him some more, and finally recovered. She blinked. "I love you to, Inuyasha."
Now it was Inuyasha's turn to be surprised. He looked into her eyes. "You do?"
"Of course I do, do you think I'm just saying that?"
Inuyasha and Kagome stared at each other for a moment, then Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and hugged her. Kagome hugged him back, tears in her eyes.
Inuyasha whispered in her ear, "Will you please take the rosary off?"
Kagome nodded, and reached around Inuyasha's neck, feeling for a latch. There was none, so she tried pulling it over his head. The rosary came right off.
"Thanks Kagome," said Inuyasha. "See if it works!"
"Sit!" said Kagome. Nothing happened. Suddenly, the rosary burst to pieces in Kagome's hands.
"Uh, I guess it felt unloved?" Kagome guessed. She and Inuyasha looked at each other, then started laughing. They abruptly stopped and gasped, however, as the bus lurched forward.
The bus was fast, faster than any vehicle Kagome had been on. So fast, in fact, that she started to feel sick, despite her strong stomach. She suddenly felt hot, too. She tried looking out the window to make herself feel better, but it was no help, because stars were whizzing by, so fast that it looked like a bunch of white stripes.
"Stars?" Kagome wondered.
Inuyasha looked over and saw Kagome biting her lip. "Are you okay?" he asked her.
"Not really," Kagome whimpered.
"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome's breathing quickened. "Motion...sickness..." was all she managed to get out. She saw the confused look on Inuyasha's face, and wished she felt well enough to tell him what motion sickness was, but she felt that if she opened her mouth, she'd throw up. She hunched over and held her stomach. By now, Inuyasha was able to tell that motion sickness wasn't good, and that Kagome was in pain.
"How can I help you?" asked Inuyasha, feeling useless.
"Don't...know..." Kagome forced out. Inuyasha put his arm around Kagome's shoulders and pulled her close to him. She leaned onto him gratefully and curled into a ball, trying to relieve the pain she felt. Inuyasha wished he could make Kagome feel better, wished he had gotten sick instead of her, but he knew it was impossible, and Kagome would just have to lay there.
"Why...stars?" Kagome asked weakly after a while.
"Huh?" Inuyasha looked out the window. "Takai?"
"What?!" Takai asked.
"Why are there stars outside? We're not on the ground."
"The tournament is taking place in space, not on earth. It would be foolish to risk the earth for something like this."
"Oh, thanks," said Inuyasha. Takai grunted in reply.
Finally, the bus landed. It had been such a long bus ride, and it seemed even longer to Kagome, who didn't feel well. Inuyasha had to carry Kagome off the bus.
"Thanks, Inuyasha," said Kagome. "I should start to feel better now that we're not on the bus anymore.
"That's good," said Inuyasha.
Takai called everyone over to where he was. The planet was strange, with blue grass and a green, foggy atmosphere. There was a dense cloud hanging over the entire planet, or at least as far as everyone could see. The planet was no doubt deserted. There wasn't the slightest trace of water or plants, and it was amazing that they could all breathe the air.
The tournament was to take place on the planet, and, as Takai put it, "The sky is the limit, literally!" He meant that they could take the fight anywhere, because the planet was pretty small, and the only restriction was that they couldn't leave the planet's atmosphere. If they ended up in space, they'd most likely float away anyway. But when they were informed of this, it confused Kagome, because none of the fighters could fly; they were all human!
Then Takai turned to Kagome, who was still in Inuyasha's arms, and feeling quite weak. "If you get injured, it's not my fault. I didn't ask you to come; in fact, I warned you not to. But you insisted."
"Duh!" said Kagome. "I've stood around watching Inuyasha fight since the first day!"
"And you helped some, too," Inuyasha added, smiling.
Takai sighed. "I don't care. I'm just telling you that it's not my fault if something happens. Anyway, the first duel should start now, because we're already behind schedule. So the first pair to fight will be..."
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a/n: That's the end of chapter 4. Mwahahahaha! I made a cliff-hanger! I really didn't try to turn the story into a romance, it just happened. If you can, give me ideas on people Inuyasha might fight, and how the tournament might be set up, and maybe how a few fights might turn out. I'm not that great with ideas, and if you give me some, I'll make sure you get credit for it. Review, please!