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Silver Weapon

Chapter seven

by JapaneseDragon

When the race was over, Shippou took off his helmet and looked at the girl. His jaw fell open when she took off her helmet...

She flipped her head side to side, waving the light mass of thin blond hair and she scratched herself behind the ear.

Her face was pale, and she had pale freakles around her nose. She was quite tall. She was of the same height as Shippou, although she was fourteen. Her black eyes seemed to sparkle and, odd enough, she had catlike eyes. She was extremely cute, and looked like she had a strong personality, although not in an unkind way.

Shippou was staring, his mouth open. His heart was beating way to fast.

The blond girl put her hand in front of Shippou.

"Nice race.'' she said, smiling.

InuYasha, Miroku, Kagome and Sango (who just arrived) were listening attentively (although InuYasha and Kagome thought it was ridiculous and pretended not to care).

Shippou took her hand.

"Yeah...Nice...loved it!" he said, unfocused.

InuYasha rolled his eyes.

"Let's do that again, one of these days. Here's my number. I'm Kirara Ako. Who are you?''

"I'm...uh...uh...I mean...err...What was the question?"

Kirara giggled and smiled.

"Your name?''

"Oh! It's Shippou!" he cried, blushing furiously, mentally slapping himself.

Miroku started laughing furiously.

"Anyways, see you soon, Shippou!"

She waved and left the arcade.

"I am a little balloon of happiness floating in a sky of ecstasy..." he said, smiling goofily at the paper.

"That's fine. Just tell us when you've come back to reality. We've got work to do." snorted InuYasha.

Shippou blushed, realizing they were there.

"Nice moves, Shippou." Miroku teased him, ruffling his hair.

"Err...What's my name again?'' he imitated a clueless Shippou, laughing
hystrically.

Shippou blushed furiously. He tugged at his shirt nervously.

"Shippou, if you want my advice, don't mess with women. It's safer that
way." said InuYasha.

Kagome's eyebrow raised. What did he know? She decided to leave them to
tease Shippou and sat down at a shooting stand.

The guns were toys, but Kagome never missed her target and she took this
seriously, as if it was training. Soon, there was a crowd around her,
watching her in awe. Boys were even whistling.

"You go, doll!" one guy whistled. Unfortunately for him, InuYasha grabbed
him and said in a low and dangerous voice:

"Don't you dare.''

The poor guy nodded, eyes wide.

But Kagome's fan crowd didn't fade. Nor did neither the whistling nor the
cheering. Especially by boys.

InuYasha could feel his anger rise.

"I never knew InuYasha was the possessive type..." whispered Sango to
Miroku.

"That's because he's never found anyone to...'possess' before, to my
knowledge." he said, smirking. Especially when...

"Hentai"

Slap.

The group decided to return to the hotel by subway. They were now looking
at the very large map of the city's underground trains, trying to figure
where they had to go.

InuYasha was pouting. He was not happy at all. He was furious by all the
male attention Kagome had received.

He was starting to notice other things too. For instance, he realized a
lot of men stole glances at her as they walked through the crowd. She was
very beautiful, and although she was very cold to most people, she
attracted a lot of attention.

The other thing he noticed was that he spent most of his time thinking
about her.

'I'm not supposed to like her! Shit she's looking my way... She's wearing
her stupid sunglasses. I want to see her eyes! WHAT? I'm losing it!
Grrr...I know! She's a witch and she put a spell on me! Okay...That is
the MOST retarded thought ever. Higurashi is not a witch that is for
certain...

I'm confused...'

He shut his eyes, and took a deep breath. The train suddenly stormed in
the station and slowed down. Following the others, he entered and gripped
the strap on the ceiling as the train left.

The subway car was extremely crowded and dirty. Men and women were there,
including school children and teenagers coming back from school. It was
very hard to move around.

InuYasha braced himself as the subway train raced on it's tracks.
Suddenly it made a pretty sharp turn, and everyone inside was shoved to
the left. Kagome slammed against him, not expecting the sudden
turbulence. When the wide turn was completed, they all went back to their
normal positions. But Kagome was still forced against him because someone
decided to take up some more space. InuYasha was blushing furiously, and
desperately trying to stop. He didn't dare move. Kagome was facing him,
trying to get in a better position. Her sunglasses then fell off.

"Great.'' she said, and was about to pick them up when someone stepped on
them and they broke.

"I can't believe it..." she said.

She stood up tall, about to tell of the person when the car abruptly
stopped. Most people lost their balance. Kagome did because a man
staggered and pushed her forward. She was about to fall on someone else,
letting go of her strap when InuYasha caught her.

"Thanks.'' Kagome mumbled.

"Feh."He snorted, blushing furiously, his arm still around Kagome waist.

Kagome sighed, not unhappily, but tired. She was exhausted. Resting her head on his chest, she closed her eyes.

"Are you sleeping?''

"No.'' she answered.

"Don't fall asleep on me.''

Kagome didn't answer but lifted her head.

The train stopped at their station, and Kagome left, followed by the others.

Miroku suddenly spotted someone with a gun leaving another subway car, and pointing it at InuYasha's head from far, trying to go unnoticed. He looked at Kagome, he had noticed too.

"Get down!" she yelled.

A gunfire was heard and there was a lot of screaming and yelling. A baby started crying behind Kagome. Thinking quickly, she took out a gun and shot the man twice.

Kagome made her way towards the dead man, when she was hit in her side by a metal pipe. She fell down, clutching her sides. Her gun was lying aimlessly on the ground.

"Oww...'' she wailed, in a lot of pain. Getting up, she kicked the woman who did it, but the girl dodged.

A very vicious catfight followed.

Miroku suddenly pulled Kagome away.

"The police is here. We have to leave!"

"Right behind you."

But she looked back.

She saw the pale, smirking face of her newfound enemy and rival.

Not to mention her clone...

Sango grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the chaos that reigned there.

InuYasha was still fighting against the police. He was almost shot twice.