Disclaimer: Well, if I'm writing one, it's not just for kicks.

I changed the author's notes for Chp.4 a bit, and the end of the chapter, too. I added a cliffy, but I didn't have it before because I was going to take a while writing chapter 5, soit would havebeen unfair to have you all waiting so long...that, and I just came upwith a better ending. lol.. So if you want to go back and reread it real quick, go ahead…Um… that means you should probably go back and at least read the ending for those of you still reading this…Go read it! Now! Stop reading this! Don't read it anymore or- or- Wua-ta-ta-ta! (laughs maliciously)….It's addicting isn't it?


"We are falling in deep troubles now. As you all know I am aging and my body has become weaker and weaker after all these years-"

"Oh sh-t! Bro' chou tell her dat?" shouted a guy's voice suddenly.

"Sorry man!" shouted another.

"So, (clears throat, eyebrow twitches in annoyance) as our first set of news, I am choosing a new leader for the 'advanced humans' or psychics, you might say. So I'll be testing each one of you during the next month or so." Kaede continued on, ignoring.

Miroku yawned. Kagome whispered to Sango, "So, does this happen all the time?"

"Yeah, I'd say about every few years when the leader of us, not the animal slash human kind, chooses a new leader to take their place. It could be because they are unhealthy, or passed away, or are too weak and old to keep leading." Sango replied.

"Guess which reason suits Kaede." Miroku whispered dryly. He was tired from a whole day's training and now he had to listen to this boring assembly, so he was in a rough mood.

"Wait, so there are two leaders? One for the more 'psychic' humans and one for the more…animal looking ones?" Kagome was full of questions.

"Yep. But the leader of the more animal looking ones is always the leader of the whole shelter. That's because the shelters were originally created for them, you know, the half animal people... We were just an experiment they conducted to unlucky humans to 'enhance' our brains, as an asset to them in the war against the scientists, who were the firsts to experiment on humans with animal DNA." Kaiko answered quickly, so it was hard for Kagome to follow. (A/N: A tip: you might wanna read that twice.)

"I'm confused…and…what exactly is this 'war' about?" Kagome was puzzled.

"As our second and more urgent news," Kaede's voice spoke up again; making Kagome loose track of her thoughts and nobody answered her question. "We have found out that our many shelters around the country have not been active lately…we fear that they have been taken over by our enemies, and that they have captured our comrades in the other shelters. They might be taking them apart and studying them as we speak, and we have enough evidence to support this. So our shelter is now entering an 'emergency status'. This means we'll train harder than usual, and there will be constant battles between each of you to test your skills against one another. Battles between 'psychics' and part animals- part humans will take place as well because we have to be prepared for every situation. These battles will not be a fight to death, obviously, and the rules for the each 'training' battle, you could call them, will be specified later. This emergency status of the shelter will take place as soon as tomorrow." Kaede finished, and gasped for air after talking so much.

Miroku's jaw hung open, he didn't look so bored anymore, and everyone else portrayed amazement with their own facial expressions. Everyone except Kagome, that is. "I don't understand. What's so bad about an emergency status? What does it mean exactly? Haven't you had to be through it before?" Kagome's state of mind had not changed; she was still puzzled, possibly even more.

"This has never happened before! I mean, I've been in some battles, or more like organized escapes from the scientists and their guards, but nothing serious has happened! Since I came here, everything had been the same! Kind of…What's going on!" Sango went hysterical, and ended up with a question that summed up all of Kagome's.

"I don't know…Maybe, we're actually entering the real war now. Maybe it's getting serious. And what do these battles mean? We have to battle each other? What good will that do?" Kaiko asked her own set of questions.

"Oh, so I take this has never happened before…great. Just when I get placed in here myself….Miroku, you're drooling." Kagome said miserably.

The three friends weren't the only ones with questions; the whole room became an out-of-tune radio when they asked a zillion questions to each other desperately. "Quiet! Everyone calm down! You, child over there, sit!" Kaede shouted into the microphone, and this eventually shushed everyone, so she finished the assembly with " Do not worry, now! We will figure everything out tomorrow. Yes, we will probably have to take matters into our own hands from now on, but let us rest up for tomorrow is a big day. Everyone calmly exit the room and head to your dormitories."

The people inside the room, which was everyone, walked in measured steps, as they were more concentrated on talking to one another about the striking news.

"Oh, the hell with it. I'm too tired to think, let's just wait until tomorrow to worry ourselves ladies, please?" Miroku pleaded as Sango, Kaiko, and Kagome were almost hyperventilating in nervousness. They were each taking turns asking questions, but none of them answered each other's questions but developed whole new questions from another's question. (A/N: I wrote the word 'question' four times in one sentence, cool!)

Miroku and Kaiko went directly to their dormitories, but Sango had to show Kagome where the bathroom was so she could shower and put on the sleeping clothe Kagome found folded on the bed of her dormitory. Everyone had to wear those light blue, baggy and soft pants with a matching button shirt with long sleeves as their pj's. Kagome had also found a new toothbrush and toothpaste so she brought that along with a pink towel as well.

Sango walked Kagome into a room with a tile floor, walls, and a ceiling, with little beige squares outlined by black lines everywhere, and it gave the room a mathematical look like a coordinate grid. There were twelve showers, six on the right side and six on the left, and there was a wall stuck to the showers on the right that separated the showers from the toilets and sinks on the other side. Kagome thanked Sango and they said their goodnight's as they hugged each other.

Kagome walked into one of the showers. She saw a rectangular stool on which to put her clothe and her things. Then she saw a curtain behind that which was the shower. She walked in the shower with her shoes on so she wouldn't step on the dirty floor... she'd wash her feet on the sink later. Soon, Kagome found herself finally relaxing under hot, steaming water. The first time she had really relaxed in what seemed like weeks. There was liquid soap, shampoo, and even conditioner! All in separate dispensers attached to the wall.

While she showered, she thought back on the events of her day. She tried to think positive, even when it came to her family, reminding herself that she would someday escape and rejoice with her family…someday soon. Other than that, she liked her stay in the shelter. It's…nice, here. Sango could be the best friend out of all my friends someday, she's so understanding… and…I'll get to know the other girls better, including Miroku…He he, I called him a girl…But he's actually a nice guy... Even in this 'emergency status' I could get my life to work out… She suddenly remembered a certain someone, Ughh! That dogboy! He was nice when he helped me when I first got here, but now he's so mean again…Wait…again? I knew him before I came to this place? I can't remember…So many things in my memory have been, almost erased… The leader, Inuyasha, he was…the one who picked on me in school! YEAH! That's the one…What an ass… Her memories of Inuyasha slowly came back…how she tried to break up a fight he was in, and how he always tripped her. And then, she remembered something very special, when she had her 'tantrum' in the cushiony room, he had held her and there was something special about him. His golden gaze…She knew he had sensed something for her too; otherwise he wouldn't have stared at her for a little bit. Suddenly, she got butterflies in her stomach. What was wrong with her? She had to shake this guy out of her head. She nodded with closed eyes to herself, and turned off the shower.

Lazily, she dressed in her new pajamas, and got out of the 'shower' side into the 'sinks & toilets' side. She brushed her teeth, and washed her face with liquid soap. She was squeaky clean, so she gathered up all her things neatly, and headed for the door. She was only three steps outside the door, when she bumped into something. This bumping thing has got to stop…She thought. She saw it was…none other than the annoying, golden eyed, cute-eared, dog boy.

"Hey, watch it!" he shouted at her, with his pj's and things under one arm.

"So-sorry! Hey, Don't shout at me! It was an accident. And…remember last time we talked? You just ran away you coward!" she shouted back.

"What? I'm no coward!"

"Yes you are!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"NO I'M NOT!"
"No you're not."

"YES I AM!"

"No, you're not a coward, apparently you're just stupid. I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book."

"What trick?"

"Didn't you watch bugs bunny as a child?"

"Um…no."
"You were a deprived child, there's one knot unraveled."

"Hey!" He half shouted, half laughed. She smiled, and then asked demandingly "How come you picked on me so much in school, huh?"

"I did? Oh…yeah! You were that girl that I always pissed off! That was hilarious! You were just sooo easy."

"I was an easy target, thanks...How honorable to pick on the weak."

"They didn't vote me leader for nothing." He smirked.

"People actually voted for you? Was that after you persuaded them to vote for you or get the beating of hell?"

"After, no wait, before. I didn't have to give them a choice they just did as I asked." He smiled. Kagome's knees shook a little every time he did just that. But then she felt a sudden pang of sadness and a bit of hurt anger hit her, because she remembered what he had done to her...Made her leave her family…but for what exactly?

"Hey…I don't exactly understand what I'm doing here…I mean, I know we are here to battle…And I know the 'who': it's the crazy scientists we're against, the 'why': because of what they did…you know, experimenting on humans…but… I don't know the 'how'. How are we supposed to fight them?" Kagome asked dryly. A little talking had helped her find exactly what she was confused about. Ever since the 'operation' she got, she had been thinking so rationally and logically, she feared it made her less…emotional than normal, less human…

"Well, you see…there's this weapon we, us and the scientists, are both after…a weapon that can destroy a whole country in one blow, the Shikon no Tama, and whoever finds it first will win. If we find it, we get our freedom. If they find it, they'll use it to rule the world and, oh yeah, they'll want us back, and we'd have to surrender knowing it's hopeless from there (smiles sarcastically). So we go on missions to search for it, and sometimes we come across one of their agents, that's when we fight…you'll understand everything better tomorrow." He answered one question, which triggered ten thousand more questions in Kagome's head, and yet she took it in and replied, "Oh."

"Yeah, well…Hey, I'm sorry I made you come here, but you can really help us win this battle…I've seen your progress. I'm glad you're here." And with that almost- whisper, Inuyasha left and entered the boy's bathroom, content Kagome didn't see him blush a little with his last sentence.

"Go-goodnight!" Kagome yelled after him

"Goodnight!" his voice echoed out of the open entrance to the boy's bathroom.

(A/N: No she's not going to follow him in there…sorry, no lemons!)

Kagome was lost in thought, and her feet led her right back to her dormitory, which would have taken half an hour longer had she been aware of what she was doing. It was always easier just to let your instincts guide you, Come to think of it… more now than ever thanks to the 'operation'. Kagome sighed, she still wasn't happy about the whole operation. Who would be so happy of being changed inside out without being consulted first?

She put her stuff aside: her wet towel and everything that wasn't technically hers on top of a metal hanger she hadn't noticed, and there was also a little wooden table beside her bed, with what looked like an…alarm clock on top? And it had a small drawer. She wasn't interested in details; she was too tired. Then she tugged herself in the gray bed with white sheets and matching pillow. It was anything but comfy, warm, or home. It was more of a persistent pain to her back, and the annoying 'boings' it made when she tossed and turned! It just made her feel like she literally sunk into the bed, but not in a good way. She finally gave into her wariness, and her bed, and for the sake of not thinking of her family and her past again, she closed her eyes and forced herself to sleep soundly…with a few interruptions.

A low-pitched yet extremely loud "Beep, beep, beep" made poor Kagome opened her eyes for the fifth time that night. It was the alarm clock next to her, she should have checked if it was set the night before…She hadn't really slept since she woke up four times before, not because of the alarm clock but because of her evil bed and haunting dreams that she had suddenly forgotten. She hit the alarm clock and it worked for it had effectively turned off.

Sango suddenly walked into her room, dressed up and ready to go. She wore a tight, which looked like spandex, black outfit that covered her whole body. It also had splashes of pink, though, and Kagome recognized it as one of the outfits she had seen in her history textbook on a person with the subtitle of 'demon slayer'. (AN: the outfit Sango wears when she is fighting demons). She had on a high ponytail, and carried a folded suit just like hers but in the color aqua in one hand.

"Good morning! Sleep well?" Sango greeted the exhausted-looking Kagome still on the bed.

"If only grandpa were here, I could ask him to exorcise my bed…" she murmured half asleep, and then yawned.

"That bad huh? Don't worry, you'll get used to it." She said cheerfully, a little too cheerfully for sleepy Kagome. "Well, Kaede told me to hand you our emergency-status uniform. The ones who were here before you already had it put away in our rooms."

"What time (yawn—AN: I actually yawned as I wrote that…) is it?" Kagome asked.

"It's (glances at alarm clock) five thirty a.m.! Now dress up, we have a tough day ahead of us!" Sango urged.

"Thanks, that really makes me want to get up and go." Kagome said annoyed, as she massaged her eyeballs, with closed eyelids of course. Then she stood up from her bed without much balance, and stretched a bit, then did a poor job in making the bed.

"Oh, don't bother with that, just do it later. C'mon Kagome, take your toothbrush, paste, and cloth with you to the bathroom. Here, I'll go with you." Sango hooked her arm with Kagome's and dragged her to the bathroom. Having to pull her past passerby's who were fully up and dressed (only girls), since Kagome was sure to bump into one if she didn't have Sango because she was sleepwalking, or more like trying to sleep while walking. They finally reached the bathroom, and Kagome did everything plus washed her face surprisingly quickly, as she was in a trance. Her hair that day was a little wavier than usual; the conditioner hadn't been that great…

"Alright, I'm up. Mornin' Sango." Kagome hugged her impatient friend, who had been tapping her foot waiting for her friend.

"Finally you're awake (she hugged back). Now let's go ( she broke the embrace)." Sango hurried her yet again. They went to put Kagome's stuff back, and headed for the assembly room.

( In the assembly room)

" Wonder how a day like this will start..." Kaiko mentioned aloud in her chair

Ayame shifted next to her, "A day like what?"

"Well, a day on the emergency status!" Kaiko broke out nervously.

"Don't worry Kaiko, I'll be here to protect you with my strong, manly arms," Miroku sat next to Kaiko, and it was pretty disturbing to her, specially since he just put his arm around her. "And when we're together like this (he began his 'sweet talk'), something of me just pops up and hardens-"

"Miroku!" Ayame hissed threateningly.

" – Which is my bravery and love for you." Miroku finished as he intended to. "What? What did you think I meant Ayame?" he asked curiously.

"Uh…uh…(blushes) nothing I misunderstood." Ayame answered shyly, blushing red as a chili pepper. Kaiko laughed so hard, she put her hands over her mouth to contain herself.

"Hey, good morning!" Sango greeted cheerily, as she took a seat next to Kaiko, followed by a zombie who sat next to her.

"Hey! And hello Kagome!" Miroku greeted back just as perkily, and Kaiko and Ayame said hi as well. Sango smiled, and Kagome grunted in response.

"Kagome is in a Frankenstein-ish mood today." Sango explained Kagome's awkward greeting.

"Kaiko, switch seats with me, so I can be next to lovely Sango?" Miroku smiled charmingly.

"I'd be happy to!" Kaiko switched seats.

Miroku put his arm around Sango, and tried out his newfound 'talent' in sweet talk again, "Oh Sango, when we're together like this-"

"Please don't start Miroku…" Sango sighed.

"Yes, please!" Ayame begged, "She might take it…wrong!"

Kaiko giggled.

"Huh?" Miroku frowned.

"Aaawhh!" Kagome gave a very loud yawn, and rested her head on Sango's shoulder, or rather Miroku's hand on Sango's shoulder.

"Somebody's not a morning person! Aww…"Ayame cooed.

"Well, I know who else isn't. And he's got dog ears." Miroku pointed at the seat on Kagome's left. It was Inuyasha, who was sinking down in his chair, with crossed arms and closed eyelids.

"I can hear you, ya know. (yawn). All you people see in me are my ears..." Inuyasha said irritably, without opening his eyes.

Kagome looked up for a second, and saw him. "Hey…I. Am. So. Tired. (yawn!)", she told him.

"Me too." He opened his right eye and saw her. She had little baggies under her eyes, but she still looked cute and cuddly, like an innocent child.

"Yeah…" Kagome sunk into her chair too, leaving her position at Sango's shoulder.

"Ahem. Testing, one, two three... (tap, tap) Is this thing on?" Kaede's voice spoke loudly.

" 'Singing, I love rock and roll.'? Go Britney…" Ayame joined the club and yawned too.

Kaede was speaking at the microphone stand again, just where she was last night, and everyone who was there with her that night was there then too. "Good morning. Ye all will report to the rooms that you're indicated when you're name is read. But don't leave when we call it, just stay sitting and remember where you're supposed to go. This is how we'll start training today."

"Oh great, this is gonna take forever." Inuyasha spat.

"Sakurako Watanabe, training room number 48. Kiki Hokkaido…" Kaede read down a long, long piece of paper.

Kagome didn't remember much since then. She just remembered hearing "Hey, Kagome, you're with Ayame today!" and that was it. Next thing she knew, somebody was poking her. And poking her, and poking her. Then she heard "Aww, but they look so cute together!" and " Wake her up, we're about to leave!" hissed a voice, probably Sango.

Black still outlined her sight, but Kagome saw four heads just staring at her. It was Ayame, Kaiko, Sango, and Miroku, all crouched down trying to wake her up. Why hadn't they? Hold on, what am I laying on? Kagome asked herself. She looked to her left, slowly, and saw…red. A red shirt. Mm… She looked up a little, and saw a lip… Whose lip? She backed up and saw, cute dog-ears? She was too tempted, so she cracked, and reached for them. She felt their fuzziness and warmth, they were so cute! She began massaging them, and a sleepy smile crossed Inuyasha's lips. His eyes still closed.
"Aww! They were cuddling and now she's giving him an ear-massage! Inuyasha, you my dawg!" Miroku shouted happily. "I'm so glad he's still half asleep…" He laughed carelessly, but then felt a sharp pain on the side of his head, and he felt he grew another head on top of his, as the part of his head where he got hit swelled "Ouch!"

"You stupid bastard! Just shut up!" Inuyasha yelled at him, alarmed, and blushing hysterically. He was now sitting at the edge of his seat, and away from Kagome. Kagome realized what she had been doing as well.

"My hands…what have I done?" Kagome asked in horror.

" My life's story! Now you truly understand!" Miroku looked like he was about to cry.

"No, 'cause she's actually guilty for it, you hentai." Sango said flatly.

"Now everyone, everyone, quiet! Let's head off to you're directed rooms, please, and breakfast will be given there." Kaede ordered. Everyone got up and left quickly in small groups. Inuyasha was out the door so fast he seemed to leave his shadow, but then it was gone.

"Well, I guess we'll see each other at lunch. Sango, let's go." Kaiko took Sango's arm.

"See you!" Kagome waved.

"Ah, Inuyasha was supposed to go with me, he won't know where to go…I'll go find him, see you girls." Miroku smiled and left.

"Alright, let's got Kagome!" Ayame pulled Kagome's arm harshly out the door. She needed to learn to control her strength, and maybe…that's what she was going to do in the room they were going to…

(In training room #37)

"Now that you are all here, please sit in the assigned places on the floor and wait. Breakfast will be passed out. I am your instructor today, Rachel, and you are my pupils." A woman with dirty blond hair instructed. Kaiko and Sango sat on the stickers on the mat covered floor labeled numbers 10 and 11.Around them, only humans filled the room, men and women. Something black and shiny was attached to the highest part of the gray wall, facing all the humans who were sitting down, which was pretty much everyone except the 'instructor' who was facing her 'pupils'.

They waited until they got the cardboard plates of a cheese omelet and milk carton. Sango took a bite, "Mm! This is good-(digs in with fork) Mm-ew!" she immediately changed her facial expression from satisfied to grossed out, " Was that fish? In a cheese omelet?" she asked as she chewed with a scrunched up face.

"Eww. Yes it is…" Kaiko mirrored her.

"Fish is brain food. And we need to train our brains today. We will be training our left or 'psychic' part of our brains. Now eat." The dirty blond woman explained.

"I think this is salmon with the cheese omelet." Kaiko proclaimed ignoring the woman.

"Gross…" Sango swallowed, and it came off as a gulp.

(In training room #23)

"Good mornin', I'm Sam. Please seat wherever. We'll pass out breakfast, and eat up; you'll need the energy. We 're body building today, training ourselves to fight in any situation." A muscular man almost beaver-like announced. Everyone in the room were men, or of the male species…some animal males, some human males, such as Inuyasha and Miroku.

"What is this?" Asked Miroku staring at the plate suspiciously. Just then, Inuyasha took his fork and attacked his own plate, then swallowed his food.

"Bacon n' eggs. Not bad." Inuyasha answered through mouthfuls. Spreading bits of his food and saliva on Miroku's face.

"Thanks for the share of your food portion." Miroku said with a flat face.

"Wat, I'm mungry!" he kept spitting and chewing.

"Whatever. What's to drink I wonder?" Miroku took a sip of his plastic bottle with a sand brown liquid, which ended up on his and Inuyasha's face as little brown freckles as he spit the whole thing out like a sprinkler, even though it was only a sip.

"Miroku! Don't spit at me!" Inuyasha yelled at him.

"Doesn't feel good now does it, Inuyasha! First Kagome understands me, now you, I feel so loved (gets teary)… But really, what's in this?"

"Drink up, it's your energy drink, and trust me you're better off not knowin' what's in it." The built half man, half beaver advised.

(In training room #55)

"What's this?" asked a curious Kagome. She had the right to be curious, for the room she walked into was like all the other training rooms with a cushiony, blue gym-matted floor, but it had metal drawers all alongside the walls: every part of the four walls were not really walls, but a stack of broad, metal, beige drawers.

"I'm not so sure…I don't think I've ever been here before." Ayame also answered curiously, while inspecting the room.

"Hello, and welcome. I am Coral. Everyone please take a seat on the blue mat wherever you prefer. Today we will study weapons, and then we'll practice with each one, until we find one that suits each of you best. Breakfast will be served, and given out when you are all seated." A woman with pale blue skin, and pointed ears, introduced calmly. She had big, round eyes, and very high cheekbones that made her face look flat. Kagome guessed she had been 'experimented' on with fish DNA.

Kagome and Ayame sat where there was space, and there was a load of that, which made them all the more comfortable, Grrr…that still doesn't make me a morning person, Kagome thought The woman passed by and handed them cardboard plates with a bagel, a plastic knife, and a tiny Ziploc bag of sealed cream cheese (AN: I don't own the Ziploc company). Then she gave them a plastic cup with orange juice.

"Well, this isn't bad." Kagome admitted, and then repeated what she had done for what seemed like forever and yawned.

"It's very plain though." Ayame took a small bite.

(In training room #37)

"Good, good. Now that you are all done with your food, please throw away the trash in the black plastic bag." Rachel politely commanded.

"Um, ma'am? What plastic bag?" Kaiko asked confused.

"I was hoping someone would ask. You see that black thing hanging from the wall?" The instructor pointed towards the shiny object. "Well, now, throw away your food in there. With your minds, of course. Some will find this task easy, some will have some trouble, but I'll know how much progress each of you have covered."

"Alright, who goes first?" asked Sango.

"How about you, miss?"

"Oh, okay." Sango stood up and closed her eyes. Then she opened them and easily lifted up the plate, without dropping remainders of fish omelet (pieces of salmon), and picked up her milk carton too. They floated in the air until Sango felt secure that her mind had stabled them, and steadily lifted them up towards the bag. It was a little complicated trying to find the opening of the bag, but when she did she shoved both the plate and carton in, without dropping a crumb.

"Good. You were number…eleven, right? Now, I'm going to think of a random number, and that person will be next. The numbers are the ones you sat on. " Her eyes drifted away in thought.

(In training room #23)

"Alright, everyone, up! Throw away your trash in the trashcan over there in the corner. Then make space and get ready for stretches." Sam pointed to corner in Inuyasha's left.

Everyone quickly got up, and stood in a line to throw away their plates. "I feel like I'm training in the army again…A freakin' line (growls)…" A dry voice was heard above others.

When every male had returned to his place on the mat, Sam began stretching, reaching for his toes, and folding each arm under his chin, and all that good stuff while counting to ten with each stretch. "Well, follow! And count with me, one, two, three." He yelled angrily at the men who were just staring at him, until they got the picture and copied him, counting and all.

"Geez, this guy's loud." Inuyasha complained while putting all his weight on one knee in one stretch.

"Four, five. Inuyasha, keep quiet and count." Miroku said and resumed counting.

"Don't ya tell me what to do!"

"Hey, you there with the dog ears, count!" Sam shouted.

"Hey, it was better me than him, too late." Miroku said under his breath. Inuyasha held his tongue and suppressed his anger.

"I thought I called the shots." He hissed.

"Not in training, you're just like everyone else.

(In training room #55)

"I will come around with a trash bin, please throw away everything." Coral began walking up to everyone, rushing them to finish their food.

"Hang on, I'm not finished eating." Kagome held still a fourth of a bagel.

"Then finish! What's taking you so long? It's just one bagel." Ayame had left nothing on her plate, not even cream cheese. There was only a plastic knife, a plate, and empty cup, and an empty little bag of cream cheese.

"I'm not a fast eater!"

"Quiet. Chew it down!"

"Please throw that in here." Coral was already asking Ayame to throw away her leftovers, or rather what's left, luckily giving enough time for Kagome to finish. Then Coral came up to Kagome, and she happily threw her stuff away.

"Now, let's begin. I have a special talent for choosing which weapon is best for whom. We begin with you, please come here." Coral pointed at a girl with short black hair. She walked right next to Coral. Coral looked at her for a moment, and got closer and closer to her eyes, but not so close that their noses touched. This made the girl sway nervously. "Yes!" Coral backed away suddenly, the girl almost fell in surprise. "I've got it." She walked to the wall to her right, past the girl, and counted the row of drawers. She picked one second from the floor, and pulled out a wooden crossbow. "Alright, this is what you'll use to train. Now go back to your place, and sit patiently." The girl did as told, although she took the weapon shakily. . "Next will be…Miss Kikyo."

"Hello. What weapon do you see fit for me?" A woman with long and shiny, straight, black hair and sunken eyes walked up gracefully, and Kagome remembered seeing her before…Flashback: She was wearing and old miko outfit, which Kagome only recognized from the pictures of Feudal Japan in her history book. Another detail that managed to completely alarm Kagome was: that woman stole her face! She looked almost the same as her omitting the fact that this woman was more refined and elegant, plus had a powerful sense about her. End flashback. Yep, that wasKikyo, and she wore that same outfit again, it was probably her uniform.

"Mm…Assistant leader, Kikyo…I see…" Coral purposely tried not to get too close to Kikyo, since she was above her rank, but she couldn't help coming a little closer.

"Yes?" Kikyo asked in a slightly annoyed tone, she felt a little invaded.

"I know…" she walked to the wall on her left this time. She pulled out a drawer meeting her shoulder height. It was, the longbow and arrow. "Here you go ma'am." She said handing Kikyo her weapon. She took it and gave a small bow of the head, then sat back down.

"I didn't know she was here! Oh man, I hope I don't embarrass myself…" Ayame whispered worriedly.

"So…that's Kikyo." Kagome wondered.


A/N: Alright, done! ta-da! Finally...phew. Sorry about the wait, I was having a slight case of writer's block...Anyway, expect more chapters, quicker, because I'm on vacation and I have nothing, Irepeat, NOTHING,to do...I AM BORED! Out ofmy mind! (Sways back and forth) hang in there, c'mon, hang in there.Ahhh!

If any of you have any questions concerning the story, because I know this chapter was very confusing (trust me), then feel free to ask in a review, I will definetly answer (smiles)!

Hentai: pervert.

Oh, well, keep reading and reviewing! And check out my other story if you want! Arigato, Ja ne!