Midnight Dance

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So she decided to leave herself. She jumped the wall and broke though the barriers silently. The sun was still out as she walked towards the closest market.

Chapter 5: The Prying Eyes

The closest market was far away, but Kagome got there while the sun was still out. She cross the bridge to the busy market filled with youkai. The neverous miko was sneered and stared at when walking though the market, but no one approached her. It would have been a death wish; after all she is a miko.

Kagome walked into a small stall that sold maps and ordered one map. As she was walking out she saw a sign.

The Lord of the West has announced that his Lordship will be hosting this century's tournament.

Regulations:

1) The contestant must be a male youkai

2) No hayous

3) Has to be skilled in fighting

4) Must be 100 years old (a/n: 18 in human year)

This tournament will begin on the morning of the new moon from this day. The victor will receive fifteen pounds of gold.

Registration begins five days before the actually tournament.

She stood there gaping at the sign. 'I must join.' Kagome thought. She walked around for an hour waiting for her map to be draw. As she walked she couldn not help to feel that she being watched, but she never took it seriously. She picked up her map and started to walk by to the castle when the sun began to set.

Ever since Kagome read this letter she began to contemplate what to do. She will disguise herself as a male inu youkai. She will change her sent from vanilla to a woodsy smell. She plans to be lean, stand at 5'7, and have short midnight blue hair. She plans on to wear a simple black T-shirt and draw-string sweatpants. Kagome knows that it may spark some curiosity that she is wear such strange and foreign wardrobe and even worse no armor, but she wanted to be bold plus she knows she won't need it. The attacks will be too strong for an armor, which she can afford, to withstand.

So here she is thinking about the competition. Frankly, she is scared out of her wits; the big, bad youkai will probably kill her in three seconds. Why is she doing this? Kagome asked herself. Then she remembered, ever since her grandpa died, the shrine has been having less business resulting in almost selling the shrine. Kagome could not let this happen so she must win this tournament.

The pondering miko was snapped out of her thoughts when she felt an aura lurking closely behind her. Not wanting her enemy to know that she caught on to him, she continued walking waiting for an opening to attack.

Over the year of training to become a miko, she had learned how to interrupt auras. When someone is about to attack, their aura will spike. When the aura is calm they have no cruel intention.

Half way to the castle, Kagome decided to take action. Her stalker was still behind her and was closing on her. Kagome then dropped to the floor and sweep kicked her intruder and then held a blue glowing knife to his neck.

"Do you always go for the neck?" His voice sliced through the silence of the forest.

"Huh?" 'Great way to respond to your stalker, 'Gome'. "You should not attack your guard, just a piece of advice." Sosuke stared by at her embarrass face as she stood back up.

"Sorry, but you shouldn't stalk me." Kagome stretched out her arm to offer him help standing up, he took it.

"Well, maybe you should ask permission to go out of the castle." Sosuke shot back. "I am not a child! I don't need to ask permission to leave!" Kagome sneered. Both of them were standing at full height. Sadly, Kagome, being shorter, was being towered by him.

Sosuke took one step closer to intimidate her, but she did not move a muscle. She lifted her chin up trying to add to her height and show she was not scared of him. He stared into her big beautiful blue eyes, and then his eyes started to drift towards her kissable lip, so red, so juic-

He abruptly turned and continued towards the castle. "We should return before the sun sets." He stiffly said

Kagome ran to catch up him and walked beside him. She could not help but look at his face; she stared at the scar on his left cheek. She began to wonder how he got it, was it a battle wound?

"How did you get that?" Kagome pointed towards the scar on his face. He raised his left hand and traced the scar. Kagome noticed the sad glint of emotion in his eyes. Sosuke then dropped his hand and snapped "None of your business." He sped up trying to keep some distance.

They walked in silence through the darken woods. Kagome started to become tried and stumbled a bit while walking; she started to bump into everything in the dark and slowed down the pace. Sosuke looked back to see what was the commotion to only see the tired miko about to fall. He ran to catch her before she impact the floor, surprisingly she was sleeping. Sosuke carried her all the way back to the castle with her nestled into his chest like baby.

Above two golden prying eyes saw the sight and could not rip his eyes off the scene. He has not felt this emotion in this kind of situation before.

Jealousy.

To be continued...or...not :P

A/N: Short but powerful ;) I MADE MY DEADLINE!!!YAH!! CELEBRATE!! One more thing, my grammar is better too! Hopefully.

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