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Chapter 11

By Inuchick13

I looked at the ground from their faces. They were shocked, upset, angry, and scared. Miroku, Inuyasha, Sango and Shippo didn't look any different, but the others.

" Who told you about the dark tournament?" Yusuke asked, his voice shaking. Inuyasha and Sango, along with Miroku looked to see him with clenched fists and face red.

" Naraku…" I said, took a deep breath, and continued. " He said we have to participate in the second one, or he'll kill you all, and me." I finished with my head down. The others, I had never seen such fear in their eyes.

" The… the second one?" Kuwabara asked. All I could do was nod my head yes. Yusuke looked up, startled.

" A second one…" he whispered.

Hiei spoke up, and for the first time that Kagome and the group knew him, he completed a sentence. " Like it could be any harder then the first. We won, and we will this time."

" I was wondering," I started, a bit scared of the answer, " What were the rules for the first one?" Kurama answered my question, explaining that you had 5 on a team, and you won as soon as one of the people fighting was on the ground for 10 seconds, or dead.

" Why did you want to know Kagome?" He asked when he was done explaining. I was not up to telling the rules now. My lips felt chapped, and I couldn't breath.

" Well," Kagome squeaked. Normally people would have laughed, but not at this moment. I cleared my throat and started again. " 7 are on a team, and your team wins once someone is dead."

A snicker could be heard. " Looks like the committee didn't want any uncertainties, huh?" Hiei said.

" So, this dark tournament, who's gonna be in it?" Inuyasha asked, just to break the silence. " We all can't be in it, I mean, together there's 8 of us, not including Shippo, he can't be in it." He added with a smirk, Shippo hopped onto Kurama's shoulder, and stood up as tall as he can.

" Why not, I'm a strong demon, besides, Kagome will say I can, right?" he asked with a gleam in his eyes. The SD group had gone through the first one, and the others hadn't, so they expected something like this.

" Shippo," Kagome said, talking him off of Kurama's shoulder, just noticed the he had been there. " I'm sorry, you can't, if anything was to happen to you, I don't know what I would do. I don't think I could live without you." She said, giving him a giant hug, a tear pricking the corner of her eye. Kurama looked at her with admiration. To feel that strongly for someone was rare. You could see truthfulness in her eyes, which meant that she probably wouldn't be able to live without him. Shippo nodded his head and cried into her shoulder.

" Same her momma." He whispered to her.

" Cut the crap, we all love each other, life is just rainbows and cotton candy. There's still the matter of who's gonna fight." Inuyasha yelled. He saw the way Kurama had looked at her moments ago, and he was pissed.

" Inuyasha, sit." Kagome yelled. He fell to the floor, next to the other indent from earlier that day.

" Inuyasha, how could you say something like that?" Sango said, standing from up from the chair. The houshi's hand slipped, as he was going toward a certain slayer's rear, and he fell.

" You don't understand anything. Kagome and Shippo do. This tournament isn't something to take lightly, especially now, with someone having to die in the tournament. We don't know if were gonna die or not, we could. You loose a match, you die, it's that simple." Yusuke said to him, but really talking to everyone. Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei figured he was talking about Genki. Not knowing she was going to die, they all took the tournament seriously from then on. Miroku got up and whipped some dust off his outfit.

" Yusuke is right, we must take it seriously. That is why Inuyasha should not fight and I do." He said simply.

" WHAT ABOUT ME?" Sango yelled at him. Inuyasha yelled at the same time " I WILL BE IN IT!"

" Ok, Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke, Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku and I will be in it." Kuwabara stated. Sango got flushed, and Kagome tried to speak.

" Umm, I have to…" Sango interrupted her.

" Why can't I be in it?" Sango asked, steam coming out of her ears.

" Because you're a girl. It's against my honor code for girls to fight, but Kagome has to, so I don't get a choice." Kuwabara stated his honor code once again, earning another bump on the head from, for once Kurama.

" We all should get a chance, besides, Kagome, I think, was about to say something, what is it?" He asked. Kagome flushed pink. He had looked at her intensely as he said it.

" Well, um, Naraku, he had given US a rule, for me to tell you 3." She said, pointing to Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha.

" Only one of YOU guys can go."

" …" A silence was in the air, then all hell broke loose.

" WHAT?" Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku all yelled. All three of them yelled at each other about who will go.

" SHUT UP, AND FOLLOW ME!" Kagome yelled. Stopping into the gust bedroom where Kurama had stayed with Kohaku, and Sota. The others looked confused, but there was something nagging at them, like they all had a secret that they shared. Inuyasha was a demon, or at least half of one, and the others knew about demons, so how could they not know anything about the dark tournament? After a minute of discussion, they four friends came out.

" Ok, Inuyasha and I will fight, and so will you 4, but we still are 1 person short." Kagome explained, Sango and Miroku looking angry and defeated. Kurama and Yusuke looked bewildered that she could have convinced them that fast.

" I think I know someone." Yusuke said. Hiei looked at him, and Yusuke smirked, knowing the little koorime reached the depths of his head. " And I think He'll be the perfect addition." Kagome got little sweat drops on her head, a little scared of who was going to be in their group; after all, she was to fight along side with them.

" All right pretty boy, tell us, who is the master of fighting that shall be on our team?" Inuyasha asked in a teasing voice, just egging him on.

" Fine," He asked Kurama for the communicator and called Botan. " Botan, get here, I need a portal.

" Hullo Urimeshi, what bring you out here to the Maki? And who are yur pretty new friends?" Yusuke had taken them to the demon realm and they followed him until they came here. A rather large castle, where they found a hot red headed demon, with just one horn on his head, and a Scottish accent.

" Hey Jin, you know Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara. This is also Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome." He said pointing to each person. " We came to see you, and ask you a question." Jin nodded his head vigorously, and grinned, bearing two little fang like teeth. Kagome and Sango, well, even though they were experienced fighters, they still were girls, and blushed a bit. (Come on, who WOULDN'T?)

" OK, shoot, I got all day," Jin stated, his usual speed still activated. (In short, he talks fast.).

" Ok, well, I was wondering, well, um, you know the dark tournament, well, um, we were wondering…" Yusuke babbled, and seemed not able to finish the sentence, afraid to put his friend in danger. Kagome stepped up to him and pushed Yusuke out of the way. Jin was only a little taller then Her, so she had to look up.

" We want you to join us in the second dark tournament." Kagome said. Jin grinned, but you could tell that he was a bit nervous.

" I don't know, I only team up with the strongest people." He said, looking at everyone.

" Haha, funny, Jin, we know your fooling around, besides, and it's all of us, minus those two." Yusuke said pointing at Sango and Miroku, who were still fuming.

" I bet he's scared, probably not that strong at all." Inuyasha interrupted. Kagome glared at him, so did everyone else, except Jin.

" Really, how about we settle that then, you, me, fighting to see if I'm strong enough." Jin said, grinning from one pointy ear to the other. Inuyasha growled at the optimistic Demon.

" Fine, how 'bout now, I got all day."

" But not all of us do Inuyasha." Kagome pleaded. " Can't it be later?"

BEEP BEEP

The communicator started ringing from Kurama's pants. He jumped, being interrupted from a conversation with Hiei. Though it wasn't long, He had gone deep in thought about a question the Koorime had asked. He took it out and answered it.

" Who is it?" Kuwabara asked.

" Hello Koenma" Kurama said. " What, now?! Fine." Kurama hung up and put it back into his pants pockets. " Koenma says he wants to talk to us all, but doesn't want to interrupt the fight. He'll be here in a couple of…" At that moment a pop was heard and a teen form of Koenma appeared. " Seconds."

" Hello, don't mind me, I just have to talk to a few people." Koenma said, dragging Yusuke and Hiei away to a secluded area.

With Koenma

" OK, I wanted to tell you two, well, eventually everyone, but they all seemed busy, so I'll tell you two, that the Second dark tournament, because of the rules, you are allowed 2 extras, incase some of you, well, die" He said with a gulp.

" Well, I don't think we'll… Koenma, don't move." Yusuke said, looking past him to a tree. They were facing away from a huge lake, and in front of them was a large tree with a demon in it. Hiei took out his sword, and Yusuke got ready to use his spirit gun. Koenma just looked at the tree, scared because normally, they would have just killed the demon, but they were hesitating.

" The spirit energy seems slightly familiar." Hiei mentioned. The figure moved slightly, and they got a glimpse at it. By the figure, they saw it was a female demon, and was normal height.

" What is it?" Koenma asked. Then she jumped. Since she was high in the air, the landing would be behind them. Doing a flip, she produced a long sword, from her hand? Yusuke and Hiei got ready to attack, but stopped, when she jumped into the large lake.

" WHAT?" Yusuke yelled. They turned around to see what she was doing, but the water was too murky to see in it. " Why would anyone want to swim in that?" then a large tidal wave was created and the wave crashed over them, making them all wet. They looked over, and saw a large serpent withering in front of them. Hiei took a step forward, about to kill the demon, when a voice called out.

" NO! Don't." she yelled out. Another demon came out of the water, a FEMALE demon. She had short navy hair with two longer strands of hair framing her face that were a lighter blue. She had a black halter on and jean shorts that were wet. They watched her come up to the demon.

" Hey, your that Kitsune girl from school!" Yusuke said, pointing accusingly at her.

" Yes, now shut up." She said, teeth clenched. She kneeled down to the demon and picked up the demon by its neck. " Where is it?" She asked demandingly. The demon started to thrash about, so she squeezed harder. " Tell me now." The demon glowed, making everyone's eyes close, and transformed into its human/demon form. It was green, and had black hair, but was still handsome. It opened its hand to revel a small silver ring. She took it and, with one blow of the sword she had in her hand, killed it.

" What was that about?" Koenma asked. The girl looked at the three of them, and smiled, which was different to the glare she had given the demon.

" Sorry, he stole something precious to me. I couldn't let him get away with it." She said, putting the ring on. " By the way, if you forgot, I'm Nikki." She said, drawing some hair from her face.

" Why's the ring so precious?" Yusuke asked. The ring had a very intricate design, a small rose, with its vine and little thorns making up the ring part.

" My mother gave it to me before she died." Nikki said, and brought out her hand to Koenma. " I haven't formally introduced myself to your friend. I'm Nikki Yumaghati." Koenma took the hand and shook it.

" Koenma. Nice to meet you."

" Ok, Nikki, you kinda interrupted something Koenma was talking about. Do you think you could go over there, the others are there." Yusuke said, pushing her along.

" FINE! You don't have to push me!"

With the others

" What was that all about?" Kagome asked, looking in the direction the 3 had gone. Kuwabara and Kurama had a puzzled look about them, why had he taken Yusuke and Hiei alone?

" Who cares, lets get this fight on." Inuyasha said, looking at Jin, who was still grinning.

" Ok, come and get me doggy." Jin teased as he flew into the air. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku stood there, mouth agape. He was just a little speck in the sky!

" Lets see how he handles this." Inuyasha said, taking out the Tetsigua.

" NO! Inuyasha, if you do, you could kill him!" Kagome yelled to him, now realizing the dangers involved. All of a sudden a giant tornado started to appear, and headed down toward Inuyasha. Inuyasha swung his sword at the tornado and stopped the tornado from coming any closer.

With Jin

Jin looked down at his tornado, and saw it being destroyed. Smirking, he thought he might have met a demon worth his time, other then Yusuke. He then got ready to go back down to the ground.

" That Inuyasha is one strong demon." He said to no one in particular. Hearing something he turned around, and saw a demon coming at him! But, it was facing backwards?! " Hey, watch out there!" He yelled to the demon. It turned around, and screamed as the two of them came crashing down. A few more screams were heard from down below, and then they hit ground. A giant crater surrounded them. Jin felt the demon on top of him, and felt it get up.

" Ow, what happened?" She said. Then looked down, saw she was on top of another demon, jumped, and was instantly on the other side of the crater. " I'M BEING ATTACKED!" She screamed. Jin sat up and looked at her.

" What are you talking about? You're the one who flew into me!" He yelled back.

" PERVERT! BASH " Sango screamed, hitting the houshi over the head.

" I'm so confused…" The girl said, holding her head. Kuwabara came down and pointed at her with one ugly finger.

" You're the girl from school who almost committed suicide!" He said, voice in aw at how she could be here.

" And you're the boy from school who's afraid of mice!" She said right back. Kuwabara looked at her, turned his head a few times, and whispered to her.

" How did you find out?" He asked.

She whispered right back at him, " That's for me to know and for you to never find out."

" I told her Kuwabara, I didn't know it was a secret!" Kagome yelled to him from the top of the hole. Kuwabara sat down, tears streaming from his face, chanting ' I'm ruined' over and over again.

" What were you doing in the sky anyways?" Kurama asked, appearing next to Kagome. The girl looked down, and back up, tears in her eyes.

" I can't find Nikki." She said, fake tears coming from her violet eyes. " I WANT NIKKI!!!!!!!!!"

" Shut up baby before you give us all a headache." The girl looked up and saw Nikki, standing at the edge of the ditch. One second she was in front of Kuwabara, the next she was in front of Nikki. " Why are you here Sana?" Nikki asked.

" I want to know why you're both here!" Hiei said, coming from behind Nikki. Koenma and Yusuke were next to Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku, making intros. Nikki jumped and fell into the ditch.

" Ow." She said. Sana started telling Hiei the entire situation, from breakfast, to now. " That's right, no one help me, I'm just alone, in a ditch, with no one helping me up. I'll just get up myself…" Nikki started rambling. A hand came out of nowhere, and she took it, looking up to see a hot red headed demon. " Thanks. My names Nikki." She said, dusting some dirt off herself.

" Jin, and no problem " Jin said, smiling at Nikki.

" JIN! THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER!" the grinning stopped…

DONE W/ CHAPTER!

OMG that was the longest chapter I've written, ever! 8 PAGES!!!!!! Yes, I know, the drama, then funny stuff, then all this stuff, I just couldn't stay with one emotion, especially because my sister (Sana in story) wanted to be in this chapter. IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!! Next chapter I will be posting the NEW PAIRINGS! I repeat NEW PAIRINGS!!! For all that will be happing in other chapters, I MUST change the pairings. I also find it hard to write some fluff between 2 characters who I'm not very familiar with. But there will be some of the same pairings. READ THE NEXT CHAPTER! IT WILL BE IMPORTANT!!!

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