Here's chapter 5. This is the last chapter that focuses on one group at a time. The next few chapters will mostly switch between the teams as they fight there way through the tournament. Hope you enjoy it and to all my fans: Thanks a lot and keep helping by sending in suggestions. After this story, I have a whole bunch of other ideas! Small note I realized that I misspelled Kirara's name in Chapter 2. I put Kilala. Please ignore that mistake and don't criticize me for it!
Chapter 5: The Mysterious Tournament Part 2
"Kagome…" whispered a slightly worried voice.
"Kagome had better be alive mutt!" another voice said. "Cause if she's not, you're gonna be very sorry!"
"And just what are you gonna do!" the first voice retaliated.
"Come closer and I'll show you!" said the other.
"Ugh…" Kagome groaned, pushing herself up and seeing Inuyasha and Koga beside her, fighting as usual. "What happened?" she asked.
"Kagome! You're awake!" Koga shouted happily. "I was so worried!"
"Yeah I'm okay." Kagome said, blushing. "But what happened? Where are we?"
"I'm not sure." Inuyasha said seriously. "But it's definitely not your time."
They all jumped as someone nearby suddenly screamed.
"Sango!" Kagome shouted worriedly as they heard someone being slapped. "Sango what's wrong!"
"What do you think's wrong?" Sango said from Kagome's other side. "What would you do if you woke up and a perverted monk had his face an inch from yours and his hand on your butt!"
"I was just checking to see if you had any broken bones." Miroku said, standing up.
"Oh sure." Shippo said, hopping on Kagome's shoulder. "Then why was your face near hers?"
"I was going to give her my breath if she needed it." he said simply.
"Well I definitely DON'T need it!" Sango shouted, throwing a rock on his head. "Where's Kirara?" she asked in a slightly calmer voice.
"She's right here on top of Hachi's face." Miroku said, rubbing his head and pointing. "Wake up, you lazy demon." He added, kicking Hachi.
"Ow!" Hachi moaned as Kirara stretched and yawned on the ground. "What'd ya do that for?"
"Let's get out of this well." Inuyasha said. "We need to find out where we are."
"Who died and made you head demon?" Koga spat. "Or should I say, half-demon?"
"That's enough!" Kagome screamed as Inuyasha attempted to lunge at Koga. "SIT boy!"
Inuyasha immediately flew face-first into the ground. Spitting out dirt as he sat up, he said, "Like I said, we need to get out of this well and find out where we are."
"That's a good idea and I think we should do it!" Kagome said quickly as Koga opened his mouth to argue again.
"Let's go then," Sango said uneasily. "The sooner I get out of this small, cramped well with this perverted monk, the better."
They each took turns climbing and hopping out of the well until finally they were all out and found themselves standing in a forest.
"Where are we?" Kagome asked curiously.
"I don't know," Inuyasha replied. "But I don't like the smell of it. Demons everywhere, but not the kind of demons we're used to, that's for sure."
"Sniff out the demons, Inuyasha." Miroku said suddenly. "If we find the demons, we may find out where we are."
"Feh. I'm not your bloodhound." Inuyasha said.
"I'll sniff them out." Koga said. "Whatever it is, if it keeps Kagome safe, I'll do it."
"Well, then, let's get going." Sango said impatiently. "Kirara!"
Kirara jumped up in the air and gave a small "meow" which quickly turned into a mighty "ROAR" as she grew into her full demon form. Sango jumped on.
"Hachi, let's go." Miroku said with a sigh, depressed that he forced the demon to come so he couldn't "enjoy" a ride with Sango.
Hachi transformed into a large, yellow and black demon and lowered himself for Miroku to hop on with Shippo on his shoulder.
"Hop on Kagome." Inuyasha said, turning around.
"Wait a minute, how come she has to ride with you!" Koga bellowed. "I think she should get to ride with me."
(Oh great, another fight) Kagome thought to herself.
"What's with all the loud noise?" a small voice said.
"Myoga, is that you?" Kagome asked. "Where are you?"
"Right here." Said a small dot on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Looks like you already have a passenger." Koga said, grinning. "Don't collapse from the wait on the way there."
Inuyasha growled lowly and darted off into the trees. "This way!" he screamed over his shoulder. "The demons' scents are coming from this direction."
"Hey!" Koga shouted. "I was supposed to lead. You'll get us lost, mutt!" He quickly took off after Inuyasha.
"Looks like it's gonna be a long, bumpy, noisy ride." Sango said glumly. "Kirara, go!"
"Let's get moving, Hachi." Miroku said. "We don't want to be left behind."
(Near the hotel)
"Look," Kagome said. "A hotel!"
"That's one fancy hotel…" Miroku said. "Look at the size of that thing."
"Maybe someone inside can tell us where we're at." Sango suggested. "Kirara, let's go down and check it out."
Hachi landed right behind them. Inuyasha, Kagome and Koga were already walking through the sliding doors.
"Wait for us!" Shippo cried, running after Kagome and hopping on her shoulder.
Inuyasha started towards a desk at the end of the lobby. "I don't even want to know what's with all the weird outfits." He heard a man with tall, black hair say as they passed each other (if you don't know who, pay better attention!). Inuyasha bared his teeth, but restrained himself.
"Welcome, are you here to sign up for the Dark Tournament too?" the man behind the counter asked.
"The wha…?" Kagome asked as she walked up with Koga and Shippo.
The man put his hand over his face. "Not another clueless crowd."
"I heard that." Inuyasha said. "And I don't like your attitude, so just tell us what this Dark Tournament thing is, before I get mad."
Seeing the serious look on Inuyasha's face, the man gave a weak smile, looked at the rest of the group as they walked up, and said, "The Dark Tournament is a tournament held here every year on Hangman Island. Teams from all over the worlds come here and compete and see who are the best fighters from the human and demon worlds."
"Human…and demon worlds?" Miroku asked slowly. (Maybe we did end up in the right world but the wrong place. Or maybe…) he shuddered (we're in a completely different dimension!)
"Yes," the man continued. "Teams from the different worlds compete for the grand prize."
"And what's this grand prize?" Koga asked suspiciously.
"Whatever the team captain wishes." The man said, cowering from the crowd. "Money, fame…" he quickly eyed Kagome. "Women."
"That's IT!" Inuyasha and Koga cried as they both tried to lunge over the counter at the frightened man.
Kagome held back Koga and subdued Inuyasha with a loud "SIT!"
People in the lobby were starting to watch the show and give them all disapproving looks.
"How do we sign up for this tournament?" Miroku asked suddenly.
Koga stopped struggling and he and Kagome turned and looked at Miroku suspiciously. Inuyasha even pushed himself off the floor and turned around to look at him.
"You want to enter this thing?" Shippo asked.
"So do I." Sango said, backing up Miroku. "If we win this, we can use the wish to get back home."
"She's right." Myoga said, hopping up and down on Inuyasha's shoulder. "That wish could be our only ticket out of here."
"Very well," said the little man, straightening his glasses. "Here is your team form. Five people to a team. No more, no less. Weapons are allowed."
"Good." Inuyasha said. "What is this thing anyway?" he asked, holding up the pen the man had handed him.
As Kagome helped Inuyasha write his name, Koga said, "It says here that we need a team captain and team name. I nominate myself."
"Well I nominate Lord Inuyasha." Myoga said as Inuyasha finished writing his name.
"Well, that's two votes for me." Inuyasha said with a smirk.
"Let's not make a big deal out of this!" Kagome said quickly. "Koga, just let Inuyasha be team captain." She leaned forward and whispered in his ear, "Besides, he needs to feel important. Please? For me?"
Koga blushed furiously. "O-okay. I-Inuyasha, you can be team captain. We can even name the team after you." He said, looking at the now smiling Kagome.
"Um…okay…" Inuyasha said, surprised that Koga was being so cooperative.
Kagome showed the other three how to work the pen and sign their names.
"There's one more member slot." The man pointed out. "You MUST have five members."
"Yeah, yeah, we heard you." Inuyasha said. "So, Shippo, it looks like you get to show us what you're really made of."
Shippo's eyes bugged out. "O-oh, m-me? Uh…I'd l-love to b-but…" he coughed a few times. "Y-you see, I have this terrible-" he coughed again. "Cough, so I won't be able to fight."
"He's too young to fight in this kind of tournament anyway." Kagome said, stepping in front of him. "I'LL be the fifth member."
"No way!" Koga said at once. "There's no way I'd let you put yourself in that kind of danger! Absolutely NOT!"
"I don't have to fight." She retaliated. "I could just sit out every time. You guys are plenty strong enough to take care of the other teams on your own."
"She does have a point." Sango said as Miroku nodded in agreement. "I think we should let her in and just make her sit all the fights out."
"Inuyasha," Kagome said, whipping around to face him. "You'll let me join the team right?"
Inuyasha thought for a while, staring into her eyes. He could tell she really wanted to do this. Why shouldn't he let her? She wouldn't be in any danger, and if something happened, he'd protect her. "I don't see why not." He finally said.
"Oh, thank you Inuyasha!" Kagome said, hugging him. Inuyasha was caught by surprise and just stood there, confused.
"Hey mutt." Koga said. "Can I have a word with you? Alone." He added as Miroku stepped toward them.
They walked down into a deserted hallway and Koga whipped around and pinned Inuyasha to the wall. "What were you thinking!" he whispered viciously so as not to be overheard. "Kagome could get killed standing down there with us."
Inuyasha knocked Koga's arm over so he could pull himself off the wall. "Because," he spat. "You and I will be there to protect her. I know that you would do anything to protect her and you know that I would do the same. Nothing will happen to her as long as we're around."
"And what if something happens to us!" Koga asked. "Who's going to protect her then!"
"Miroku and Sango would give their lives to protect her also." Inuyasha said, trying to control his anger. "And Shippo too. She's like a mother to him. Even Kirara and Hachi would protect her."
"And what if something happened to them, huh!" he continued to ask. "If something takes us down, they definitely won't stand a chance against it. So what would happen then, the flea would protect her!"
"I would do everything in my power to protect Lady Kagome." Myoga said from somewhere in Inuyasha's hair.
"What are you doing listening to our conversation, you stupid little dog sucker!" Koga yelled.
"Knock it OFF!" Inuyasha yelled back. "I don't care what you think about Kagome on the team, but I'm not going to let you talk to us like this anymore, like you're the master of the universe or something, cause you're not. You're just a stupid little helpless wolf pup with nothing to prove. Now listen up. I'M the captain of this team and I say this conversation is over." He turned around and returned to the rest of the group.
"I got us some rooms to stay in Inuyasha." Kagome said quietly, knowing how mad he was having overheard the last bit of the conversation they had yelled out. "They only had two left, so Sango, Shippo, Kirara and I will stay in one, and you, Miroku, Myoga, Hachi and…" she hesitated. "…Koga will stay in the other.
This didn't improve Inuyasha's mood, but he acted like he didn't notice what she just said.
"Miroku has the key to the room. It's number 225. You can go up whenever you want." Kagome said gently. "Sango, Shippo, Kirara and I are in room 226, so if you need to talk…" she trailed off.
"I'm going to sleep." Inuyasha said simply, and went up the stairs.
"I hope he'll be okay." Kagome said in a worried tone.
"This is Inuyasha you're talking about." Sango said. "His pride's just hurt, that's all. He'll be back to his regular grumpy self soon."
"I don't think that's it this time." Kagome said. "This time, it's different. He's really, really mad. And hurt."
"Let's go to bed Kagome. It's late." Sango said, going up the stairs with Kirara at her heels and Shippo on her shoulder.
Kagome followed them to their room. She looked at the red door with the number 225 on it that Inuyasha was in right now, mad and depressed. She quietly turned and went into her room. Fifteen minutes later, she was in her bed wearing a nightgown from the bag she had lugged all the way up here. (I wonder if he will be okay. I hope he will.) And she drifted into sleep.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha, are you okay! Say something, please!" Kagome said, her tears mixing with the blood on Inuyasha's face.
"Ka…go…me…" Inuyasha said slowly. "Don't…cry…It's…just a …small…cut…that's all."
"You need help Inuyasha!" Kagome cried. "You're bleeding to death! You need help fast!"
"It's…too late…" he gasped. "I'm…not…going to…live…much longer…"
"Don't say that." Kagome said, sobbing harder than before. "You're going to be okay. We just need to get some help and you'll be okay."
"No…Kagome…It won't…I have to tell you…what I've wanted to say…for so long…" Suddenly, Inuyasha's eyes popped out and he screamed in pain. "NO!" he started screaming. "NOT YET…LET ME LIVE JUST A BIT LONGER!"
Kagome looked at where Inuyasha was staring. There was a figure coming out of the fog in the distance.
"Who are you!" Kagome screamed. "Stay away, you monster!"
"Kagome…" said the figure in the fog. "It's okay. You're much better off with me than him. I'll protect you. I won't die on you like this little mutt."
"NO!" Kagome screamed again. "Don't do it Koga!"
Koga emerged from the fog with a defiant look on his face. "Good-bye mutt." He said. "And don't worry, Kagome's safe with me!"
"NOOO!" Kagome screamed as Koga jumped towards the struggling and screaming Inuyasha in her arms.
"Kagome!" a concerned voice yelled. "Kagome, what's wrong!" it asked as something shook her.
Kagome gasped as she opened her eyes and saw Sango standing over her with a very worried look on her face. "Kagome, are you okay?" she asked.
"Y-yeah, I-I'm okay." Kagome said, stuttering. "It was just a nightmare."
"Well, we need to get ready. The tournament's fixing to start. We need to get down there." Sango said with the worried look still on her face.
"Well then, let's get ready and see if the boys are up. Knowing them, they're probably still asleep." Kagome said as she hurried to get dressed.
"Yeah, let's go." Sango said.
They walked outside with Shippo and Kirara right behind them and found the rest of the gang waiting for them outside. "About time," Inuyasha said. "Feh, typical women. Wait til the last minute to get going."
He had expected Kagome to yell at him, but was shocked to see that she was staring at him with a gentle and caring look on her face. "What's wrong with you?" he asked suspiciously.
"Huh? Oh, nothing, let's go!" Kagome said. And they all ran after her down the stairs and out the back doors to the stadium.
And so ends Chapter 5. Let me know what you think. I can always use those reviews, so keep'em comin! And Kagome's dream just may have an important part later on in the story…