Disclaimer: I have an Inuyasha calendar, if THAT counts…

Inuyasha: "No, it doesn't"

Ss pie: "Oh phooey"

Inuyasha: "Ss pie doesn't own me. She just wants to hook up with Sesshomaru, DESPERATELY"

Important: This was one of my first fics and I'm currently correcting their somewhat-script-like structure to make them better, which is still present in chapters 4-6. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Previously in chapter 2:

They finally came up to big cement-colored brick-like walls that seemed to reach the sky and a humungous front-wooden door. The girls "oooooooo'd" and "awwwwww'd" at everything they saw that could only be compared to a castle or a roman coliseum that could only be seen in fairytales. A big sign on top of the door read "Training Facility of the Feudal Era High School" in bold, golden letters and the doors started to open slowly as the trolleys entered 3-by-3 through them. It was only a matter of time they would finally get to see what the big fuss was about, this being the most respected and famous part of the school…

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Chapter 3: Rookies in the Battle Field

The girls are filled with curiosity as to which is the reason for such calamity and humungous structures. Inuyasha looked at the girl's faces that expressed wonder and grinned. "Cool, huh?"

Len opened her mouth wide. "Wooow."

Kagome agreed, also bewildered at what she saw. "I'll say…"

They were but a few of the last students to arrive in the trolleys through the doors, any outside feature hiding what this part of the school actually offered. Coming in they could hear chanting coming from the crowd…

Thump Thump, CLAP

Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

CLAP, Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

CLAP, Thump Thump, CLAP

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the streets gonna' be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place
Singin'

We will, we will rock you
We will, we will rock you

The girls couldn't believe their eyes! Inside they saw what seemed to be like millions of ants all cheering, singing and hollering to the song--but these weren't ants--these were a ton of demon and human students. Cameras were every where to film the fights held in the arenas. The students did the wave move every once in a while and not a single blank space could be seen through all the rows and rows of seats, all circling around a really big arena in the center of the facility grounds made up of a dirt/grass turf, the only boundaries being marked as white lines drawn into the grass, while smaller arenas circled it from afar, most of them having stone floors or just nature-ish ground in which some students had already begun fighting. By the entire racket you could swear that this was a concert of some kind…but no. It was because it was the "Training Facility of the Feudal Era High School!"

We will, we will rock you
We will, we will rock you

Buddy you're a young man hard man
Shoutin' in the street gonna' take on the world some day
You got blood on yo' face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your banner all over the place

We will, we will rock you
Singin'
We will, we will rock you

"Have'n fun yet, girls?" Inuyasha couldn't help but smirk widely by seeing their once again, surprised faces. This was a new world for them, no doubt. Len was so exited she could hardly wait to get it on, as she would say. Kagome however, was resenting the fact that she hadn't called in sick today. She had had enough share of strange, weird, embarrassing, humiliating, repulsive, indignant and deep down frightening encounters to last her the rest of the school year. Koga was right when he had said, "Well, you've seen nothin' yet!" Something deep inside her gut told her that she was getting into something bigger than her. Way bigger than her. In fact, she knew her day hadn't nearly begun once she saw dead bodies laying on the floor around the smaller arenas as students fought off one another and the losers…well…you know…Kagome knew she was just getting started…she could feel it in her guts…

"I think…I'm gonna…be sick…"

Buddy you're an old man poor man
Pleadin' with your eyes gonna' make you some peace some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place

We will, we will rock you
Singin'
We will, we will rock you
Everybody
We will, we will rock you

Gonna rock, gonna rock you BABY!
We will, we will rock you
Gonna rock, gonna rock, gonna rock you BABY!

Alright!

The crowd went wild and started to holler even more once they finished their song and you could even see some throwing themselves onto others and fights coming up between the seats. Pure chaos. Yup; Kagome really felt sick now…

"Heh heh. Isn't this sweet or what!" Inuyasha glanced one more time at Kagome. He felt right at home. But she didn't think so.

"Or what, Inuyasha…or what…" Their trolley car stopped in a corner as hundreds of students came out of it, running like kids after an ice cream truck.

"Well, I'm going to have to go, since I'll be one of the opening acts." Inuyasha started waving the girls goodbye. Kagome forgot all about her butterfly jitters and looked up at Inuyasha, who had now stood up from his seat.

"What do you mean? You're not just going to leave us here, are you!"

He turned to look at her. "Well what else does 'I'm going to have to go' don't you understand!" Ok, so Kagome's butterflies have been replaced by fire breathing dragons as she abruptly stood up.

"You don't have to be so sarcastic! I mean, you can't just leave us here, we have no clue to what to do!"

Inuyasha held up a fist and showed a fang. "Well then, you shoulda asked before you came here then!"

"I didn't ask to come here in the first place! My mom made me!"

"Ooo. Your a mommy's girl, aren't you?" Inuyasha began, teasing.

"Am not!"

"Are to!"

"Am not!"

"Hey guys! What are you still doing here?" Miroku appeared out of no where, walking towards the group. The two stopped their rambling and faced him instead, along with Len.

Kagome asked first, "Miroku, what are you doing here?"

"I was looking for you since I thought you probably didn't know about this place, so I'm here to show you around."

"Hah! Perfect!" Inuyasha smirked. "Now I can finally get ready."

Kagome looked at him. Get ready? For what? How?

"See you guys later!" Inuyasha jumped off the car, landing about 20 feet yonder. Kagome had followed him with her sight, having to move her head upward to catch his high jump in action. She was impressed, to say the least. She never thought he was capable of doing such a thing like that...then again, she knew squat about demons…But his grace astounded her. She was anxious to see what more he could do. What more he could do…

"And hey! Kagome!" Inuyasha cupped his mouth while screaming to her from where he had landed. "Try not to get killed out there!" Heh heh heh…

Miroku heh'ed himself and sweat dropped as he said to himself in a sing-song tone: "Inuyashaaa…stop talking like that to the ladieees…"

Kagome snapped back to reality. Deep down all he was was a big jerk. That's it. End of story. Len, on the other hand, had seen Inuyasha's jump but it suddenly reminded her of his brother. She looked back to where Sesshomaru was supposed to be, but he had already gone with the rest of the students. She looked for him, but there was no sign of his long, beautiful, silver hair. Wow. I wish I had hair like that…It looks so nice… Then she noticed Kagome had gotten mad with Inuyasha again and was getting off the car to land beside Miroku. She followed. He looks nice…it would be nice to talk to him sometime, she kept thinking to herself. (Ss pie: yeah, nice…heh heh…riiight…)

The three of them had started to walk a little under the more "calmer" part of the battle fields, where mostly anyone there was either in line to battle or to help someone else get ready. They were chatting along the way as Miroku led the ladies to where they were supposed to sign in and receive their battle gear.

"So, Miroku, is it?"

"Yes Len, you may call me Miroku if you like."

Kagome got confused. "Isn't your name Miroku?"

"Why, yes, but since I have spiritual powers, others tend to call me by a different name, mostly 'monk'.

Kagome just remembered something. "Oh yeah…your supposed to be a monk!"

Miroku got taken aback from her smart-mouthed comment. "What does that suppose to mean?"

Kagome brought her hands to her waist. "You know! You dared to touch my butt this morning!"

Miroku sweat dropped. "Oh yeah… How could I forget?" He then stopped the girls in mid walk, his arms in front of their chests to prevent them from going any further.

"Hey! What's wrong?" Kagome looked to Miroku as a demon body suddenly came flying out from one of the arenas to hit the floor in front of them, covering it with oozing, thick blood.

The loud speakers rang with the male announcer's voice: "And the winner is…Mrrr. Hanta!" The crowed cheered on at a human who held a bloody sword up in the air, giving out shouts of victory from one of the arenas.

Len looked down at the demon, a little nervous. "Is…he…dead?" Miroku poked the demon with his stick. It's legs squirmed a little as the girls jumped surprised.

"Yup, he's dead. The nervous system sometimes takes time to die along with the rest of the body, you know." Len oooed and awed at his sayings, still naïve about the whole situation. Kagome would had run off somewhere by now, except there was no where she could go that didn't have crazy fighters to attack her; and there was the fact that she didn't even know where she was, either.

Miroku cleared his throat. "Let's go now, shall we?" Almost immediately Kagome gasped as she felt something rubbing against her behind. She blushed quickly and slapped whatever it was, although she knew it just had to be…

Another slap was heard; this time, in the monk's face instead of his hand. "Miroku, you dirty monk!"

Miroku held his cheek as he smiled awkwardly. "Heh…"

Len was still figuring out what this all meant. Thinking back, she realized, Hey, he rubbed my butt too! She turned to face him face to face."Why did you do that!"Miroku looked at Len. Surely that was the first time a girl had ever encountered him in that way, without physical violence before instead of talking; all he had received from them were screaming, yelling and slaps on the cheek.

Kagome looked at her astonished. Surely this girl couldn't be that indifferent about the situation…was it ignorance or was she really as sweet and innocent minded as she let out to be? She eyed the girl. "Len, get away from him and come next to me."

Kagome watched Miroku's every move from then on as they kept on walking to where ever it was they were supposed to get to. It seemed they had walked two football fields of length, the trip becoming longer every time they had to dodge a loose arrow or flying bodies. They had finally come to a "hut" that stood before one of the huge, stoned walls of the facility that looked more like a weapon shop as all the weaponry one could think of were on their shelves. There was a long line so the three had to wait it out a little as they heard the Grand announcer speak in a deep, profound voice. He was in charge of refereeing the main battles held inside the large arena in the middle of the facility as well. The matches held there were the main attraction and the most respected, powerful and entertaining (of course) of all battles.

"Ladieees and gentle men! Boys and girls! Humans and demons alike! Welcome to this year's first Mayhem in the Arena! As always, we've got the best students showing off their skills and wits within the Arena boundaries and sometimes off, too! We could never put out a good fight just because of a little rule called 'once you fall out of the arena, you lose' now, can we? There are practically no limits to what you can do! It's the battle of the fittest and only the strongest live to tell the tail about it!" The crowds cheered their heads off. The fun was just getting started.

Len jumped up and down, clapping her hands. "Whoa! This is so cool! I can't wait to go!"

Kagome was still shocked by her enthusiastic nature and looked at her weirdly. This girl really has no clue that we could die here, now does she…Wait a sec! Die? Oh no… She turns to face the monk. "Miroku, why does that guy keep saying, " she gulps, "'die'? I mean, he doesn't mean literally 'die', right? I mean, he means 'lose', right?"

Miroku looked at Kagome confused. "Why yes, he means literally die, don't you remember?" Kagome shook her head no and said she didn't. Miroku took a deep breath. "When you got into this school you had to sign a lot of papers, one of them regarding the rules and objectives of the battles held in this facility. One in particular read--and in tiny letters, I should add-- that the school isn't responsible for--and I quote-- 'any foolish or weakness that the student might possess that makes them either get seriously injured beyond repair, or result in a cruel, massacred death'."

Kagome's jaw dropped open. Len just oood' and asked, "Really?"

Miroku nodded. "Uh-huh. Yup."

Kagome tried not to faint. "What! No way! They can't do that! It's…it's…"

"Heartless? Pointless? Cruel and Undignified?"

She said dramatically, "It's murder, I tell you! murder!"

"Now Kagome, take it easy…" Miroku held her shoulder. "You must stay calm, now…" He pauses, thinking a moment, and continued, "…You should have read what ever you signed, though…"

"I signed nothin', I tell you! My mom was the one in charge of the paper work!"

Miroku blinks, again. "So…you mean to say you're not eighteen?"

"No! I'm only sixteen!"

"Right, right…you have to be at least eighteen to fill in the papers by yourself or else a grown up does it for you…So you aren't eighteen either, Len?"

Len shook her head no but answered rather gilly, "Nope. But I got to sign the papers!" She seemed happy about this.

Miroku was left questioning her sanity. "Okayyy…"

Kagome began her bawling. "What! I'm doomed! Mom is so gonna be in trouble for this when I come home!"

"You're going to ground your mother, is that it?" Miroku talked so-to-speak-ishly.

"No! I mean…Argh! I am so gonna die! I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die…"

Len looked a little worried at her new friend. "Kagome, don't worry…I'm sure you aren't gonna die…"

"What are you saying! You heard Miroku! And Inuyasha, he told us that 'thing' at lunch, remember!"

Len just got an idea. "Yeah…I remember…and didn't Inuyasha say that he would protect you if anything happened?"

Kagome loosened up a bit. "Yeah…he did…" She envisioned him saying that as if he were her knight in shining armor. I hope so…

"Inuyasha said that?" Miroku couldn't believe his ears.

"Uh-huh," Len nodded.

"Wow." Miroku looked like he was thinking hard on something and before the girls could ask him what, they were interrupted by the announcer that hadn't stopped talking all throughout their conversation.

"…and especially all you rookies out there! You can learn a thing or two by witnessing the spectacular fights and demonstrations we have for you here today! Make sure you get a pencil and paper to write these moves down because there will be no helping you guys out once your battles have started! Now everyone make some noise for our first extraordinary student to take the stage/arena!"

Chanting was heard from the crowd as they cheered on.

"Yeahhhh!"

"Alright!"

"Woohoo! Yeah, baby! Yeah!"

"Ahhh!"

The announcer interrupted their screams. "I said, make some noise, not yell and scream like pathetic humans!"

This time the crowd's cheers flew to ear-splitting volumes. They added growling, roaring, howling, scratching, tearing, some more howling, and more screaming to the frenzy. "Yeahhh!" The girls were in amazement at all this. Truly they had stepped in to a whole different world--or dimension. Kagome resented that dirty 'human' remark.

"I resent that! You know, one thing is to say 'not scream like a girl' -–which, by the way, is so wrong-- and another thing is to say 'don't scream like pathetic humans!"

Miroku tried to comfort her. "Awe…don't worry about that, Kagome…That saying isn't really to put us humans down; it's more of a getting pumped-up thing that we all use. It means that any outsiders are like 'weaklings' but since we go to this school, we must be stronger and tougher than them."

Len lifts an eyebrow angrily. "So basically it's still a 'humans are weak' remark, right?"

Miroku sighs as he puts his head down in a slump. "Yeah…"

The massive crowd began their somewhat theme song again.

Thump Thump, CLAP

Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

CLAP, Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

CLAP, Thump Thump, CLAP

Everyone in the stands were pumped up and ready for excitement.

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

Thump Thump, CLAP

The announcer's voice rang through the air. "Now, give it up fooor…" The students couldn't take the suspense much longer but continued their thumping and clapping until they heard what they wanted to hear.

"III-NU-YAAA-SHAAA!" He said that with a little flavor in it.The crowd cheered and screamed madly.Kagome looks on curiously to see what would happen. Now she had butterflies of the other kind, if you know what I mean…

(Inuyasha's fighting theme song from the TV. series is heard all over the speakers)

Kagome looked on, swinging her head everywhere to se where the hanyou was at, but couldn't find him. The crowd began calling his name, emphasizing each syllable. "I-nu-ya-sha! We want Inuyashaaa!" Kagome's butterflies were now making her very anxious to see how he would come out. "Inuyasha! Woo! Yeah!"

The song was still playing, and the climatic part was now on as Inuyasha jumped out from a closed crate that had been put on one of the sides of the center arena for a while now, smashing it opening, making pieces fly out everywhere and uncovering himself as his red sleeves of his haori from the show appeared to be on fire as it waved in the air along with his sword (only excluding his famous 'sit boy' necklace from the series. All in good time, people, all in good time, hehehe…). As Inuyasha jumped gracefully from where the crate had been left to one of the sides of the arena, being the length of a football field (excellent for fights and matches) the crowd cheered madly on.

"Inuyasha! Wooooo! Yeah!"

There aren't any words that could describe Kagome's face right now. All angry thoughts about how a 'jerk' Inuyasha could be or had been had washed away from her mind as soon as he flew from his hiding place onto the stage. He definitely looked heroic.

"Hah! Yeaaah!" Inuyasha boasted out as he smirked, turning to look at the crowd, them surrounding him in the stands in a full 360 degrees.

The announcer commanded, "Now, let the demonstration begin!" Rocks and pieces of gravel and dirt started to fly towards Inuyasha from nowhere at remarkable speed. The crowd's cheering lowered a little so that they could pay more attention to what he would do, but still went strong.

"Feh. I can handle this, no sweat." Inuyasha used his fists to break through everything until bigger objects came flying towards him and bits of metal started to appear. The hanyou exaggerated a movement of his right arm backward and swung it with great force frontward while screaming, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealerrr!" The crowd always grew nuts every time he did that.

Kagome was entranced. His big mouth really had toughness behind it. He moved so awesome and perfectly that everything about his moves was so enchanting like anything she had ever seen before. His hair swayed in the air like crazy but never failed to keep itself from returning back to its steady position on his back. His golden eyes were astounding and shined as brightly as the sun as those ears of his were so…so…they were still so intriguing to her…

No one noticed her gleaming face as Len and Miroku both witnessed the action with glee. Len was awed. "I so want to do that!"

Miroku chuckled. "You can't do that unless you have claws, Len."

"Claws?" she looked at him confused. Okay. So Len definitely was a little too innocent for her own good. After a while she realized, "Oh, right, he has claws because he's a dog demon guy! Awesome!"

Miroku sweat dropped and closed his eyes while dropping his head as he chanted a prayer in high-speed mode. Please don't let her die, please don't let her die, please give her strength and an open mind as she steps into the arena…please guide her in her ways…please don't let her die, please don't let her… His voice trailed off from there.

Back in the arena Inuyasha continued to holler and smash and rip things to pieces. The crowd was ecstatic! They screamed, yelled, and whistled now. The announcer commented, "And now, for our last trick…"

Suddenly all sorts of weapons came down from one direction, including arrows and swords and many other sharp objects. There were hundreds of them. Kagome gasped in worry. "Oh no…Inuyasha! Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha pulled out his sword for the very first time since he didn't need to use it before, mostly to show off. Screaming a battle cry struck his sword onto each and every thing that was in his path, and by the end all every one else could see was a big cloud of dust, the crowd growing dead silent.

Kagome gasped, worried. "No! Inuyasha!" By this time Len and Miroku had heard her and stared at her worried face. They knew what her face really expressed.

After seconds of silence the dust began to clear up and in the middle stood Inuyasha panting, an arrow stuck in his right shoulder. The crowd went mad with cheers once again and a bunch of them stood up on their seats. Kagome was relieved that Inuyasha was standing up, but once she noticed he had an arrow stuck into him she yelled, "Oh no! Inuyasha! Are you alright!"

Miroku calmed her down. "Don't worry Kagome. He's a demon so he really isn't hurt. He heals remarkably fast. He's alright, don't worry about him." Kagome blushed. Surely her friends had noticed her sudden worry about Inuyasha.

"Hey! You! Move it along or get lost!"

The three turned around to see that the line had completely vanished and that they were the only ones left to get their gear from the hut. The voice seemed to come from the disturbed hut keeper, who was waving to them. As they walked up to the structure they saw that there was nothing left on the shelves. The attendant was a dark-green lizard-guy in green and brown torn clothing. He didn't look too friendly.

"Were you guys looking for some weapons?" He talked in a gruff voice.

Miroku replied and pointed to the girls. "Yes, they are new here and need weapons of their own."

The attendant laughed. "Heh heh heh…you say they're rookies, eh? These battles get better and better…more bloodshed…heh heh heh…" He snickered wickedly. The girls whined a little and threw their arms around each other. Miroku looks angrily at the demon.

"Hey. You don't have to talk to them like that. They're new, so just leave them alone, alright?" The girls fell in love with his stern and demanding voice. Surely he would care for them if Inuyasha weren't around to save them.

The speakers turned on again. "Let's give another big round of applause to Inuyasha before our next contender makes her way to the arena, folks!" Miroku heard 'her' and instantly turned around to face the arena, hoping it was someone he knew. "Now…Let's give it up for the mistress of pain...the one…the only…

"Demon Slayerrrr Saaannngooo!"

Miroku's eyes lit up. This the girls didn't miss. Sango walked up from one of the sides of the center arena and started walking to the center of it. The crowd cheered, as usual. "She will demonstrate the ability of wielding a powerful weapon and how one can use it affectively, folks."

"Haiya!" Sango began to swing her large boomerang as dummies popped up from the ground and others came flying from the skies. "Hirakotsu!" She flung her boomerang as it whirled in a gigantic circle and hit incoming targets as soon as the fight had turned up a notch. The crowd roared with excitement, for not only was she good, she was a hot woman, too.

Kagome looked back at Miroku once she witnessed enough of Sango's fighting and was taken aback. "Miroku, clean yourself up!"

Miroku woke up from his hypnotized state and cleaned off his runny nose with his right sleeve. "Oh…heh heh…sorry…"

"Hey, wasn't she the one chasing you this morning?" she asked. (ss pie: chapter one)

"Uh… yeah, she was…" Miroku stroke the back of his head, in part because he remembered how it was he and Kagome had meant (he lay on the floor trying to dodge Sango's attacks) and part because the truth was he kind of liked Sango, more than he could ever let out to be.

"Hmm. Ye are…Kagome, I presume," an old female voice rang in. The three turned around to find that an old woman with an eye patch had gone up to them while they were talking and now stood between them and the hut.

"Uh…yes, yes I am," Kagome replied.

The old woman smiled warmly. "Well, now…nice to meet ye. I am Lady Kaede, both principal and first-in-charge at the Training Facility." She extended her hand to shake Kagome's.

Kagome shook it while bowing her head a little. "Hi. Nice to meet you. But, how did you know my name?"

Kaede smiled and her clothes from the series that she wore moved a little. "You see, being the principal I need to know as much as I can about ye students and must care for ye well being. You, on the other hand," she looks over at the hut keeper. "I see ye have run out of bow and arrows…"

The hut keeper nodded. "Yes, that and everything else."

"I see…" Kaede narrowed her yes and took out something she had wrapped up under her arm. It was a wooden bow and with it five matching arrows. (a.k.a the famous ones Kagome always takes around with her in the series.)She handed them to Kagome."Here. Take these. They shall help ye out in your battles."

Kagome held onto the weapons as Kaede handed them to her. "Huh? Me? I-I can't accept these…they're yours."

"Now they shall be ye's to keep. Treat them with care and I'm sure you shall handle them very well in battle."

Kagome didn't know what to say. "Well…thank you, very much…" Kaede smiled and nodded.

Miroku inquired the old woman, "Lady Kaede…Why the bow and arrow?"

Kaede smiled, looking towards Miroku. "I sense she has miraculous powers in her."

"You mean, like a pries-"

"Don't ruin the fun of letting her figure it out by herself, lad. It's all in good time," she interrupted.

Kagome had no clue to what they were talking about, but the words 'miraculous power' rung some interest. "You say I– have powers?"

Kaede smiled. "We all have powers inside ourselves, Kagome, but some more special than others…In time ye shall see what I mean…"

Len started to feel a little left out, as if Kaede hadn't noticed her there at all. "Excuse me, Miss Kaede, but…"

Kaede looks to Len. "Yes, my child?"

"Um…If there are no more weapons here, than what am I supposed to use?" Suddenly high cheering covered Len's words and the group looked towards the battle arena, where demons had started attacking Sango for some time now. The crowd roared on as Sango stroke one of them with a deadening blow from one side of it's chest to the other, ripping it's body in two and sending limbs, guts and blood flying everywhere.

"Whoa! That was sweet! Let's see that again in the big screens!" the announcer screamed. All heads turned to the humongous big screens scattered among distinct places of the facility. Sango's move came into view close-up, the screen going red as the demon was ripped apart from the massive attack. "Wow! Did you see all that blood? We're waiting for the final 'Blood Shatter' count from the referees to see if this one goes into the rule books…"

The girls kept hearing such dreadful nonsense that they thought, honestly, can this get any worse?

They got their answer from the announcer. "Oh…oh, wait…There seems to be a left arm missing! It seems to have flown somewhere into the crowd! Has anyone spotted it yet!" It was then that a swishing noise came towards the group in front of the hut and a dark-blue hilt sword with a long, well used-up blade plummeted into the front desk of the hut as it flew down circling in the air, piercing onto the wood as an attached arm and hand gutted blood all over.

The hut keeper broke the silence. "Well, I guess this'll be your weapon now. Here, keep it." Len looked at the sword. Suddenly the thought of receiving a sword that she should keep that belonged to a demon owner that still held one of his limbs didn't seem too 'cool'…

Kaede encouraged her to take it. "Well now…This shall serve as an excellent sword, Len…It belonged to a lineage of some very strong demons…Apparently they have no more descendents, so it is rightfully yours to keep if you wish to accept it."

Len half smiled; it was a little hard for her to swallow. "Heh…of course…if no one else wants it…" She looked at Miroku who waved his right hand that held the wind tunnel, her not knowing the incredible power that lied behind the purple cloth. Kagome sweat dropped and just said no thanks, I'm fine with my bow and arrows and the hut keeper just stared, his frightening look making it harder to accept the sword. Len laughed nervously. "Well…uh …I guess I'll take it then…"

And with that she struggled as to if how she should take hold of it. She finally grabbed the bloody hand, trying to pry it from its still firm grip on the hilt. After a while it finally came loose, falling on the table as Len now tried to pull out the sword from the table. (ss pie; get it? Sorta like 'the sword in the stone'? but instead, 'the dead demon's hand still attached to the sword in the table?', get it? Get it? Hehe… -sweat drops- …funny, get it?...crickets chirping…ss pie still sweat dropping… –ahem- …now back to the story…)

"Here. I'll get it for you," a familiar raspy voice called out. It was Inuyasha. Kagome tried to hide her blushing cheeks as she suddenly felt glad to see him again, and he now wore a suit that went with him perfectly. "Uhn. Here you go." Inuyasha pulled out the sword and handed it to Len.

"Thanks." Len took hold of the sword at the hilt but the blade's tip fell to the ground. Everyone looked at her in wonder. "Uh…heh…it's a little…heavy," she managed to say panting.

All sweat dropped and thought boy is she going to die out there…

"Well, just try and get used to it before your battle starts, ok?" Inuyasha threw some encouraging words at her.

"Thanks."

Kagome then saw a sweetness in Inuyasha that she thought really wasn't there. And his fighting skills back at the arena were marvelous! She remembered the arrow that had struck him on the shoulder. It was gone. "Inuyasha…Are you alright?"

Her whispers hit Inuyasha warmly, as if he never expected them. "Huh? What are you talking about, wench?" Kagome looked at his shoulder. It seemed fine, but… Inuyasha got her drift. "Oh, you mean the arrow? So you were watching me, huh!" He smirked.

She blushed. "Of course I was! I was worried, Inuyasha! Does it hurt?"

"No. Of course not. I'm a demon, remember? We don't fall down that easily."

Miroku corrected him for the forth time that day. "Well…technically you're a half demon…" And received yet another bump on the head from the hanyou. "Ow! Inuyasha, why'd you do that for?"

Inuyasha stood with his fist still out and a vein had popped on his forehead. "You just can't keep your mouth shut, can you!" The girls didn't have time to question the 'half demon' thing when the announcer caught their attention once again.

"And now, for today's last demonstration…a tremendous battle between students…let's give it up for…

"Koga's pack!" The crowd screamed as Koga, now in his fighting robes (wear from the series), walked into the arena waving at the crowd followed by his two most faithful companions that always followed him, both shivering.

Thump Thump, CLAP

Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

CLAP, Thump Thump, CLAP

We will, we will ROCK YOU!

"And now… for their opponent…

"Lord Sessshomaruuu!" This time the students went wilder than ever before.

Len's eyed widened and looked for Sesshomaru who then came up from no where, walking in his school uniform and still wearing his boots (from the series) with no weapons whatsoever and a death glare that instantly shot warm blood into her veins and drew her to fall into the golden puddles of his eyes. His hair seemed to flow in the breeze like sheets in the wind. She remained as speechless as any other girl who had a crush on him in the crowds.

"Alright! This will be an all-or-nothing match! But since it's meant for demonstration purposes only, there can be no killing aloud, although near-death attacks are well welcomed!" the announcer broke in. Len's heart failed to beat at that last comment. It was like she only saw this guy Sesshomaru and he meant like everything to her. She couldn't bare thinking something could happen to him.

"Feh. Like Sesshomaru will follow those rules…"

Len turned suddenly to face Inuyasha, whose arms were now crossed in front of him. "What do you mean?"

Inuyasha looked down at her who was only two or three inches smaller than him, just around Kagome's height.

"I mean, he'll kill 'em if he feels like it! Feh…As if anyone could tell him what to do. That goes for me, too…" Len felt a little better; still, she held her hands in front of her chest in prayer hoping for the best. Kagome frowned as she noticed Inuyasha's cockiness had come back.

"And with that, folks, let the match begin!"

The opponents were more than one hundred feet away from each other, Koga in attack mode and Sesshomaru standing tall and emotionless, as usual. But Koga's buddies were scared to the bone and shivering, and Ginta found the courage to speak up to their leader first. "Uh…Koga…You don't really want to fight this guy, right?"

Koga laughed. "Of course I am! And he being that mutt's brother makes it a whole lot better!"

Hakkaku screamed, dreaded for their fate. "Koga! Please don't do this! He'll kill you!"

The wolf leader turned to face them, a little angry. "What! You don't think I can take him on!"

Both answered him at the same time. "No no no! It' nothing like that, it's just..."

"Than get off my ankles and stop cryin' on my feet! You're getting my bandages wet…"

The wolves let go of Koga's ankles and stood up. "What we're trying to say, Koga, is that…"

"I've had enough of you two's hollerin'! It's time we fight!"

Both screamed again, "No, Koga!"

The announcer interrupted their little scenario. "Uh-oh, looks like there's trouble in the wolf tribe!" Sesshomaru just stood there the whole time without moving an inch-- or blinking, for that matter.

Ginta bowed down in front of Koga. "Koga! Don't do it! Please!"

Koga growled. "You idiots! This is embarrassing! I'm going after him whether you two like it or not!" He turned to look at Sesshomaru. "You hear that! Your goin' down!" Sesshomaru just stared into nothingness.

Koga's companions didn't know how to stop their stubborn leader and feared for his life, so they thought quickly for a moment before coming up with a flawless plan.

They ran out of the boundaries and didn't stop till they reached the front doors of the facility, then kept running some more away from the front doors. The crowd went dead silent-- and so did every one else in the facility. All sweat dropped heavily.

A minute seemed to pass and finally the announcer cleared his throat. "Well, that was embarrassing…" He then raised his voice and exclaimed energetically, "It seems that Koga's team has run out of the stadium!"

Koga snarled. "Those jerks! Oh well, I guess I'll just have to fight on my own then, heh heh…"

"Even though we'd care less about the rules, folks, since this is a demonstration battle we must declare Sesshomaru the winner on account of forfeit."

"WHAT!" Koga made a double take, confused at the announcer's statement. Meanwhile the crowd didn't know how to react. Even though this happened a lot with guys like Sesshomaru the battles weren't usually dropped down this soon into battle. For a moment there was complete silence, and a tumble weed rolled across the arena.

Someone coughed and the announcer thought he should do something, so he exclaimed, "And the winner is…

"Sesshomaruuu!" The crowd started to cheer as Sesshomaru showed indifference and remained with his eyes closed. He then turned away and walked out without saying a word, leaving a frustrated Koga behind him.

The wolf lifted up a clenched fists and showed his fangs. "Hey! Come back here! I'm not done with you yet!" At this Sesshomaru stopped and looked at him from over his shoulder. Emotionless. That was enough to make Koga shut up and turn away himself, throwing back one last threat. "Feh. I'll get you next time, mark my words!"

Len jumped up and down inwardly. This Sesshomaru guy just had something that made her forget about all her troubles that had happened in her life and made her curious as to who he was up-close. She thought, I'm definitely going to talk to him some day…

Just then the announcer called everyone's attention from the loud speakers. "Well, now that that's over… rookies…Calling all rookies! You need to come to the arena to face an opponent in a head-to-head battle! Calling all rookies! Please come immediately towards the center of the arena!" That was the girl's cue.

Kagome instinctively ran over to Inuyasha and wrapped her arms around him. "Save me!" Inuyasha was caught by surprise by this and an urge to keep her safe got into him. But… you know how he shows his emotions…

"Oh back off, wench!" He yanked Kagome off of him and she went back, almost falling to the ground. Kagome realized she had hugged him and blushed slightly, but her mind focused more on the fact that he had just pushed her.

"Hey! Why did you do that for!"

Inuyasha screamed back, "Because you were all over me like," he changed into a high pitch to imitate a girly voice, "Inuyasha! Saaave me!"

Kagome shook her head defiantly. "I was not!"

"Was too!"

"Was not!"

"Was too!"

By then their faces were inches away from one another and Kaede had to intervene. "Kagome and Inuyasha, stop yapping. Kagome, Len, run along now before ye are late for your battles." Kaede pointed them their destination.

The girls looked at each other and thought, Late? Like, that would be so bad; yeah right!

They made their way to where the other rookies were meeting, Inuyasha, Miroku and Kaede following behind. Kikyo was there with the other rookies as well and shifted her sight towards Kagome as she noticed she was coming.

"Why, hello. It's your time to fight now, isn't it?" Kikyo asked in her lovely, angelic voice, directing her question at Kagome.

Kagome tried to hide her discomfort. "Yeah…I guess it is..."

Kikyo smiled warmly and looked at what she held. "I see you have a bow and arrow."

Kagome looked down at her newly acquired possessions. "Right. They're my weapons."

"I see…" Kikyo looked at Kagome as if she knew something about her that Kagome was still trying to figure out herself. She smirked a little and started walking away, the announcer coming up again in the megaphones.

"And now…The moment you've all been waiting for…It's time for the rookies to duke it out in a Battel Royale, all on their first day of school, in front of all their future classmates and teachers, the cameras rolling, and their reputations at stake!"

Len finally got a tiny bit worried. Well, when you put it that way…

Kagome tried to think hopefully. This is it…my time to shine…I've got to make a name for myself and erase the humiliation I went through this morning… (in calling Shippo a girl).

The crowd cheered more than ever as the announcer started to read out the order in which the fights were going to be held. All twenty one rookies including the two girls now huddled up, staring up at the screens or loudspeakers, awaiting their names to be called.

"And the first one is…"

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Disclaimer: I also do not own this really cool song, We Will Rock You

Ha! A tiny cliffy! Neat. Alrighty then…Hope you guys like it so far! Stay tuned for more fun and twists; you never know what else this school has in store for the students! Kagome's first day of school is coming to an end… See you soon! And thanks to those who reviewed!

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