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Shippo: "Say, ss pie? Why are all of the readers drooling and/or jumping up and down in front of the screen?"
Ss pie: "Shippo, when your older…when your MUCH older…"
Inuyasha: "your SICK, ss pie, SICK…"
Ss pie: "I was just kidding! Come on, guys! Laugh a little…"
Sesshomaru with an emotionless (and scary) death glare: "Just get on with it, human."
Ss pie: "RIGHT!"
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Chapter 4: Naraku and Kagome's Spiritual Powers
Kagome's heart pounded hard in her chest as each second ticked off her inevitable doom. Len's heart was ticking for another reason, though…I gotta do this! I can't make an idiot of myself in front of himSomehow she couldn't get Sesshomaru's image out of her head. The crowd began to sing again, making the rookies tense up.
We will, we will, rock you
The tension was building up as the announcer finally brought it upon himself to say it. Who would be the first rookie to face off a student in the first fight of the year? "And the lucky one to go first is," there was a quick drum roll before he concluded, "Mrrr Riot!"
The crowd cheered as a scary demon came up to the arena with a scar across his face. He had the form of a human but had huge, bulging muscles and tattoos all over. As he came to the middle he cracked his knuckles loud enough that everyone could hear them.
Miroku held his chin and thought out loud, "Hmm…He seems strong enough…"
"Yeah, maybe…but I bet he's weak, though…all talk and no show," Inuyasha replied cockily.
The girls turned to him in horror. "What!" He looks so strong and yet Inuyasha says he's weak! Oh no, we're doomed…
Yes, I know. The girl's faces looking in 'horror' and their words expressing 'doomed' all over sound like reruns, but try and picture yourselves in their spots.
Kagome whined. Mom! I'm so sorry for being such a bad daughter! Grandpa, you too. Sota…well…Okay. So you're not completely an insignificant brat…Oh who cares! I'd do anything to be with you guys right now! I'll never take you for granted, ever! I swear, if I come out alive…wait, did I just say 'if'! Oh know…this is getting to my head! Doctor? Is there a doctor in the house! Wait…I'm talking to my self again! I'm rambling on. I'm so stupid! I hate this school! That's it! I'm running off and going to join the circus or something! Who needs education anyways! It's not like it'll help me out in… Kagome's mind kept rambling on. She was so nervous, that that's the only thing that could get her mind at ease…either that or just make her even more nervous…
(ss pie: Kids, about the 'who needs education' thing, don't listen to Kagome. After all, she's a fictional character. Please, STAY IN SCHOOL! There. Now, back to the fic)
Len on the other hand, was thinking about something...let's just say…less psychotic…Thump Thump, CLAP…We will, we will ROCK YOU!...I just LOVE that song!... You got mud on yo' face …You big disgrace …lalalala…something….something …singin' …Gonna rock, gonna rock you BABY!...We will, we will rock you…lalalala….something, something, …rock you…
Miroku eyed her with a lifted brow. "Um…Len? Are you alright?" Len was swaying her head back and forth and singing with the crowd.
"Oh yeah! I'm great!"
Miroku shook his head and sighed. This girl's either out of her mind or has none at all if she isn't a bit scared…
Inuyasha noticed her attitude as well and thought along with the monk, Maybe she's overconfident. Either that or she's lost it…Mmmm…I smell Ramen somewhere...
As the crowd kept singing and clapping to their song, the announcer spoke over the speakers. "And his deadly opponent will be… Kannaaa!" The crowd roared, but Inuyasha and Miroku did a double take. This didn't look good.
Just then a little girl with white written all over her face and clothing holding a mirror was approaching the arena. The rookie, Mr Riot, laughed. "Huh! They send a little doll to take care of me? I'll show 'em they can't mess with the Riot-master!" he said overconfidently. Kanna stopped a few feet away from him and he smirks back. Heh. She's kinda cute, if you think of it…
The announcer broke in to begin with their rules. "And now, to whip up more excitement, we shall bring out the Wheel of Misfortune!"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Oh great, more hocus-bogus stuff."
Inuyasha turned to look at her smiling a bit and rested a hand on his waist. "What are you talking about? The Wheel of Misfortune is great! It decides whether you get to finish off you opponent or not. I love that thing…"
Kagome's jaw hung low. "You mean that 'thing' decides whether we get to die or not!"
Inuyasha swished a hand at her calmly. "Oh, don't look that surprised, Kagome. It's all in good fun. It's not as neat as when we get to do our mid-term fights when the stakes are higher but it's still neat. Besides, in training fights we can never kill our opponents," he lowered his voice disturbed, "some stupid rule… I hate those rules…" He continued normally, "But here in the facility inside the arenas we can! Anyways, just watch and see. This helps bring a little more tension into the air."
Kagome pouted and let her upper body droop down in an unenergetic slump. I hate being me…
"Alright! We shall spin the Wheel of Misfortune and see what fate has upon our stupid--I mean--brave heroes this afternoon!" After he finished, a lovely young woman in a flashy long, red dress walked over to the spinning wheel that was about four times her size and started to spin it. It reminded everyone more or less about the 'wheel of fortune' thing but instead it was in an up-right position so that everyone could witness where the pointing arrow pointed to. The 'handicaps/commands/rules' were written on each piece of the wheel, more than half of them about agreeing to 'kill' your opponent in order to win.
The crowd was dead silent as the wheel spun slower and slower until the pointer ended up pointing at one of the commands. The announcer read its instructions, "And there you have it, folks! This fight shall be 'Leave your enemy in a state of sleep or unconsciousness' to be able to rein victorious in the fight! And remember, no 'near-death' attacks are allowed…yes, yes, I know…Sucks, doesn't it? But at least there are twenty more rookies to try out so we still have chance for some real blood shed! Now, salute your opponent and let the match begin!"
Mr. Riot chuckled. "Heh. So I shall." Smirking, he turned his sight toward Kanna. "Child, I shall make this as painless as I can, but It'll be hard, considering my huge, muscled body!" He flexed his muscles as some girls from the crowd screamed. Kanna just stood there doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. Okay, so maybe just breathing…
Mr. Riot bowed and in seeing that Kanna still hadn't moved an inch, decided to make the first move. "Argh! I shall use my 'Deadly-deadly-Assassin' move! Argh!" He lunged toward the girl with a claw out but didn't make it halfway to her when Kanna's mirror had burst with light, which got the older demon confused. "Huh? What the…Ah! No! No!" It was too late when he discovered what her move had been when in mere seconds a ghostly shadow flew out form his mouth and was sucked into the mirror. As the light from the mirror dimmed his body fell to the ground.
The announcer sighed and thought, Over already?...Bummer… "Ahem! It seems that Mr. Riot's soul has been captured and so his body and mind are rendered useless in battle. The winner according to the rules is…Kannaaa!" The crowd cheered.
Inuyasha shook his head. "Damn. No fair. That fight was over before it even started. No action…oh well…maybe next time, huh Kagome?"
Kagome knew he was just messing with her. "Right. Maybe when you fight, but not me…"
Len jumped clapping her hands joyfully. "Sweet move! Hey, say…When does he get his soul back?"
Inuyasha put a claw to his chin, thinking while looking at the sky. "Um, well, let's see…" He began counting his fingers to make sure. "Taking on account the times that Kanna's used that technique and…let's see…she always gives back the souls in…um…Oh I'd say probably never." That received a double gasp from the two girls.
Inuyasha laughed. "Keh. Don't worry. She's not even going to be your opponent for today since no person can go twice into battle on the same day. That too is prohibited. Come to think of it, that means I can't fight for the remainder of this day…That bites."
"Now! On to our next victim…I mean, fighter…"
Kagome started praying again. Please don't let it be me, please don't let it be me, please let it rain or something…
Len roamed the crowd as if looking for something. Hmm…I wonder if there are any more cute guys around...
"Give it up for...Tooortuga!" cried the announcer. All students started murmuring, thinking, who in the world calls himself that?
Then, as if on cue, a turtle started to walk slowly into the arena. Everyone else sweat dropped. Oh…Boy is he gonna get it…
"And now, for your opponent, Kaaaguraaa!" Inuyasha and Miroku instantly looked at each other this time. Both knew what the other one was thinking: this seemed all too familiar somehow.
Miroku spoke first. "Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha nodded heavily. "I'm afraid so."
The wheel was spun again and this time it read, "This will be a 'Finish your opponent quick' fight. If no one defeats the other in 3 minutes or less than both shall be killed by a lucky soul from the crowd!" The crowd cheered.
Kagura had arrived at the arena on her feather, the male students whooping, whistling and throwing her kisses and flowers and such. She grinned at the result of the wheel's spin. Great. I get to kill someone today…
"Opponents, face your enemy and salute. You may begi--" Whoosh. Cut. Cut. Cut. Slice. Kagura had immediately swished her fan before the announcer could even finish his sentence and hundreds of wind-cutting air hit the arena grounds. Not to mention many of them cutting through the crowd as well.
Kagura sweat dropped but kept smirking. Oops…Heh heh heh…I guess I went a little too far…don't know my own strength at times…Oh well, most of them were only weaklings, anyways…
As the dust cleared, a turtle shell was seen down-side up, but no signs of any of the turtle's limbs were to be found. The crowd gasped. Kagura was getting tired of waiting a reply and screamed out to the speakers. "Hey, announcer. Check if this goes down as a record for the 'finish-your-opponent-quick' scores. I believe I've done my work here…"
Said individual chuckled nervously. "So…it…is…Well, in less than seven second-- that including the time it took for Kagura's attack to finish and the dust to clear off-- I must declare that Kagura is the winner of this match on account of death!" The crowd cheered on, but somehow the announcer noticed a difference in the prior ear-splitting cheering volume. "Huh? There seems to be less cheering, folks. What's the matt--"
He cut himself short upon noticing what had happened. The facility too was silent as everyone noticed that about fifty crowd members had disappeared or, better yet, were killed off along with Kagura's attack that had gone a little too far. "Well, it seems that Kagura's attack has killed some of the crowd, heh heh," he sweat dropped at the obvious. "Well, no use in crying over weaklings and, since this seems to be caused by an accident, I must say that we must get going with the battles!" He paused for a second, noticing one more thing. "Oh…wait…there seems to be more…Ladies and gentlemen! It seems that this year our rookie count will be shortened up a bit…Seventeen rookies have perished along with Kagura's out-of-control attack!" He lowered his voice and said melancholy, "Those poor bastards…" He quickly regained his attitude and continued normally, "Oh well, I guess they weren't fit for this school anyways, hahaha!" The crowd joined him in maniacal laughter.
Kagome heard all this and couldn't even breathe. Oh my gosh! I'm dead! I'm really dead! After a few short moments of reasonable thinking she then realized the real reason for her uncomfortable breathing. Huh?...Red? Why can I only see read? Is…it…blood…?
Suddenly she felt someone breathing around her body. It was as if this person too had caught their breath for a second, there. "Are you alright?" Kagome lifted her head totry and see whose voice that was. The red that had clouded Kagome's vision was now opening, revealing itself as a red garment. "Hey, Kagome. I said, are you ok?"
"Inu…yasha?" she blinked, confused, until it sunk into her. "You…rescued me?"
Inuyasha looked toward the battle arena. "Yeah. I sensed Kagura's attack had gone too far this time and I covered you." Kagome realized he had been holding her tightly all this time and that that was why she had trouble breathing for a while, because she was under his garments. Kagura's attack had seemed more like flashes of light coming out into many directions and she had felt them coming towards her at great speed. The next thing she knew she was ducking on the floor as she felt a figure come over her covering her and somehow felt more secure.
"Inuyasha…you saved me, again. Thank you…"
The hanyou looked down at her. "Awe, it was nothin'. Couldn't just leave you there, could I? Besides, I told you I'd protect you out here, so I did." His smirk turned more into a light, caring smile.
Kagome's eyes sparkled a bit. "Inuyasha…"
He really didn't seem to notice. "Keh. Anyways, if I hadn't done that there wouldn't be anymore shows today, seeing that every other rookie had died along with that turtle guy."
Kagome's face got read in a flash. "You mean you didn't do this on account for caring for my well being!"
Miroku shook a hand in the air. "Kagome, mind him. He just picks on people a lot, that's all…"
She stomped a foot on the ground, directed toward the half demon. "You idiot! Why do you have to be so mean!"
Inuyasha crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Feh. 'Cause I can." He stayed like that when he realized something was missing and all was not right. He turned to speak to the monk. "Hey, Miroku? Did you see where that other girl went to?" Both Kagome and Miroku gasped. They'd forgotten about Len. Kagome started calling her name frantically.
Miroku answered Inuyasha's question. "I don't know! She was here just a minute ago, I…Inuyasha, I thought you had her."
Inuyasha jumped back. "Me! I had Kagome. One wench's enough to worry about, let alone two!"
"Is this the girl you guys are talking about?" Kagome, Inuyasha and Miroku spun around to see Sango. Len then came out from behind her boomerang that hung from her arm.
"Hey guys. What's wrong?"
Kagome screamed, "Len! I'm so glad to see you're okay!" Inuyasha blinked.
Miroku flung his arms wide open. "Sango! Where did you come from?"
"After my fight I went for a drink and then started to look for you guys. When I finally noticed you were here along with the other new students and was I coming up to you, Kagura's attack came towards me. I didn't know this girl was with you guys," she looked at Len, "but since she was the only one close to me unprotected I covered her along with myself with my Hirakotsu as soon as I could to shield us form Kagura's attack. You know, though, if she really is with you guys I can't understand how it was you couldn't protect her yourselves."
Inuyasha feh'd. "Don't look at me; I protected Kagome, here. Miroku was the one close to Len."
Miroku fidgeted. "Well, uh…I would have protected her it's just that she had gone off somewhere and I couldn't see her because I was blinded from the attack. Besides, I covered Lady Kaede." That's right. Kaede was still with them.
"And I thank ye for saving me, young monk," she replied.
Sango faced Len. "Why where you so far from them… Len, is it? If you were just beside them a moment ago?"
Len at first was speechless and everyone looked at her as she seemed to be thinking about something. Wow. I really can't remember why…Oh, wait! I remember that my sword had…well…called out to me or something, I don't know…It –told-- me to go somewhere and I followed its command. I don't know what came over me…This is too weird…
Kagome touched her shoulder. "Len, are you alright? What is it?"
"Keh. I bet the girl's still stunned."
"Inuyasha, quit it."
"No, I mean it. I mean, wouldn't you if you were an inch from dying? …Wait, you were! Heh heh heh…"
"Inuyasha! Just…Let her talk, alright?"
Len assured them, "I'm fine, really. Thanks for saving me, um…Excuse me, but I don't know your name."
"It's Sango."
Kagome smiled. "Right. You had battled just a few minutes ago. You fought great!"
Sango smiled back. "Thank you."
Miroku whined. "Hey, don't I get a saying in this?"
Sango looked angrily at him, knowing exactly what he would say. "No!"
Miroku sighed. "Aw, gee whiz…"
Inuyasha ignored the two. "So, Len, what were you thinking about?"
Len fidgeted. "I…uh…nothing much! I guess I was just…uh…Thirsty or something, yeah…That's why I wasn't with you guys when all that happened." Alright, so she wasn't the best liar in the world but she couldn't tell those guys that she 'heard' the sword talking to her, now could she? It's not like it was normal for a sword to do that, right?
The guys didn't believe her much but that didn't seem too important as the announcer came up in the speakers again. "Aright, folks! Seeing that this last attack killed most of our rookies, we must make do with the losers we have left…"
Kagome was insulted. "Losers!" Inuyasha and the guys looked up to where the speakers were and stared in silence as to see what would happen next.
Miroku started looking around to make sure that the statement just said was true. "Yes, true. Kagome and Len seem to be the only ones still alive here. That must mean…"
"…This leaves Miss Kagome Higurashi and Len…uh…something, something… as our last contenders! Ladies! Please come up to the bench!" The guys walked towards little seats that stood along side the arena and sat down as Kagome and Len walked up a little hesitantly to one of the speakers, away from Inuyasha and his gang. "Now…Lets see who shall fight next! And ladies, better be good fighters 'cause now that we're down seventeen rookies the crowd is beggin' for more blood and for a great show!"
Kagome thought out loud. "Damn. I better make this out alive…I hope I can at least hold up the bow…"
Len thought to herself. We will, we will, rock you!' (stomp, stomp, clap!) Yeay! Finally! I get to fight! Ha ha! I hope I do well! She had got lost again with the crowd's cheering and singing.
"And now, for our next fighter…"
Kagome closed her eyes tight. Please don't let it be me, please don't let it be me!
"Kagomeee Higurashiii!" The crowd screamed and hollered.
Her eyes opened up wide in horror. "Nooo!" Damn it!
Meanwhile, Inuyasha faced the monk with a question that was bugging his mind for sometime now. "Miroku, just so that we're still on the same page…Kanna was the first to go, right?"
Miroku, sensing what Inuyasha was trying to tell him, sweat dropped. "Y-yeah..."
"…and Kagura was the second one, right?"
Miroku gulped down on hard saliva. "Yup."
Inuyasha was almost afraid of concluding his statement. "…and if this is what I think it is…"
Sango interrupted them, a little intrigued as to what they were worried about. "Huh? What are you guys talking about?"
Miroku faced her and spoke seriously. "Sango. You do realize that this is the same order that last year's fighters fought against the new kids, right?"
Sango thought it over and finally realizing that what he said was true. "Oh yeah, so?"
Inuyasha raised his voice. "So! You know who's coming up next, don't you!"
For a while there was silence until Sango turned to look at Kagome worriedly. "Uh-oh."
Miroku nodded. "That's right."
Inuyasha confirmed it. "Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, and for the first time ever I kind of hope I am, Kagome's opponent will be none other than--"
The announcer interrupted his little speech. "And her opponent shall be…" Inuyasha and his gang stare for what seemed like hours until he spoke up again. "Wait, wait," they started hearing whispers coming from the speakers, "there seems to be a little change of plans, folks…" The friends widened their eyes and hoped for the best.
Kagome threw her arms in the air. "Just say it already and get this over with!"
"Yes, yes…People! I have received recent news from one of our dear fighters! It seems there is a special request! And since she is very dear to us, we shall forfill her request!" Inuyasha and gang keep waiting anxiously to hear who it is Kagome was going to fight against. "Ladieees and gentlemen! Kagome Higurashi's opponent shall be…none other then…our very own…
"Kikyooo!" Everyone, including the gang, were left surprised.
Len looked around at all the blank faces. "What's the big deal? Who is she?"
Inuyasha could only mumble dumbfounded. "Ki-kikyo…why…?" Kikyo came up next to Kagome with her weapons and red fighting suit as hundreds of crazed fans in the crowd screamed out to her and chanted her name in syllables. Kagome too was questioning as to why it was Kikyo she had to confront and not some other student. The announcer answered her question.
"Kikyo has personally suggested that this Kagome kid duel her in an arching contest!" Kagome's heart got stuck in her throat. Who in the world would ever want her to do that, of all the things she could do!
Inuyasha, on the other hand, was fighting his own demons in his mind. He whispered, "Kikyo…" On one hand, at least Kagome's not going to have to fight her physically…but… "Kikyo, why the sudden interest?"
Kikyo smiled at her opponent warmly. "Come now, Kagome. Let us duel." She stretched out her hand and welcomed Kagome to join her as she entered the arena. Kagome was still a little dazed by all this but nonetheless joined her. They slowly walked to a corner of the arena and a bull's eye target came up from the floor no less than 150 feet from them.
Kikyo faced the girl next to her and said, "Kagome, we shall see just how well your skills are. Each of us will aim for the bull's eye and the one with the most points in the end wins." Alright. It's not like Kagome was ungrateful or something that she didn't have to fight in a duel to the death with Kikyo or anything but, shoot an arrow? Those were things she saw in movies and such. She had never ever even seen one of those things so up-close before, let alone done it before.
I don't know what's worse…death, or making a fool of myself all over again, this time in front of the whole dang school and cameras! she thought to herself frantically.
Kikyo blinked at her worried expression. "Do you have a problem with that, Kagome?" She was so calm about the whole situation that it made Kagome feel even smaller compared to her. Still, she tried to hide her panic.
"Uh…no…not at all…"
"Then let's begin, shall we?"
Kagome took a deep breath. Alright. Just calm dooown, Kagome, everything's gonna be O-K! You've seen movies before, right? What's the big deal? You can do this, you can do this...'
Kikyo lifted her bow up in a stance and knocked an arrow as a smirk curled up in the left corner of her lips. She narrowed an eye to get a better view, aiming at the target. Everyone was dead silent; in part because the rules stated that if there was noise, that that could interfere with concentration but the real reason was so that the crowd could have yet another enlightening experience by watching little miss 'know it all' do her stuff. There was hardly anyone at all who didn't like her.
Kikyo spoke to Kagome without taking her eyes off the target. "Kagome, watch and learn...Hah!" She let go of her arrow and in less than a second it had pinned itself in the second-outer ring of the bull's-eye. The crowd clapped politely as if in a golf tournament and whistled as well.
Miroku looked at the hanyou from the corner of his eye. "Inuyasha...you know she did that on purpose, right?"
"Huh? What?" Obviously the tension was too much for him and was caught off guard and in la-la land at the moment.
Sango agreed. "Yes...it seems Kikyo is somehow trying to give Kagome an advantage, or--"
"Or try to make Kagome feel a bit less intimidated," Kaede interrupted.
Inuyasha crossed his arms almost uncaring. Either way she's going to kick her butt out there...
Kikyo turned to Kagome and smiled lightly. "Now your turn." Kagome froze up and took a big gulp as the crowd started chanting the 'we will rock you' song again. Their claps and beats made her heart feel even more jumpy and as if it were about to come out. Literally.
Kagome tried to mimic Kikyo's stance but, of course, her position lacked of the fundamental lessons and so wasn't as strong as it was supposed to be. Kagome sticks out her tongue for emphasis. I think I can, I think I can... She then positioned her bow and arrow, pulling it towards her body along with the bow's string. Wait...not too hard or it might break...That would be embarrassing...
The crowd was getting restless since Kagome took her precious time trying to spot the target and trying to point well her arrow. Her hands started to get sweatier by the second and the crowd's anger at her waist of time along with her own insecurities didn't help much as she just went for it-- she exhaled a gulp of air and yanked the arrow a wee bit closer to her as she counted one… two… three, letting go of the arrow, swearing it just had to at least hit the target's border or something.
Floop.
The crowd grows into a maniacal pee-in-your-pants laughter at what they saw. Kagome was left with a rather large sweat drop and a surprised and horror-written face, barely even breathing at all.
Ok. so the arrow didn't hit the red, middle part of the target. Fine.
...it didn't hit the outer ring, either. Okay.
...it didn't hit the border, either...okay...not that rookies were expected to, anyways, but at least it went far-- I mean, missing your target can't be that bad, right? It was her first try in like, ever and at least the arrow had gone past the target. She had the speed and strength going on for her, at least.
Wrong.
Very wrong.
Peeing-in-your-pants embarrassingly, horridly wrong.
Kagome looked down two-feet away from her wishing she had laser vision so she could fry that damn piece of wood. Sure the arrow had gained some energy from her move but it just 'slumped' right down when she let go of it. Yup. It had gone Floop. Floop!
Kagome grinded her teeth; I mean, is Floop even a word! (ss pie: Uh...no…I've checked. But it should be a word, heh heh...)
Flashback to Kagome's arrow falling miserably two feet away from her…
Kikyo sweat dropped. My, she's bad. Really bad. By the power I sensed from her I had thought…
Inuyasha sweat dropped. Oh. My. God. She is terrible! Try…to…hold…in…laughter… But he couldn't. He grabbed hisstomach and started laughing along with the crowd.
Miroku sweat dropped and too was left speechless. Well. She does have a nice butt at least… Sango and Kaede didn't know what to say either and just kept staring at Kagome.
Len was left blinking, dumbfounded. Uh…that's really bad, right?...Poor Kagome…
Sesshomaru had been watching the day's fights from afar and almost grunted, thinking, humans, with a cold ring to his thoughts.
Shippo also sweat dropped where ever it was he was standing at and managed to say out loud, "This isn't cool…"
Koga had started to come up to the gang but stopped right next to Inuyasha as he saw Kagome's failed attempt to hit the target. He joined Inuyasha as he tried not to laugh but couldn't help himself. "This is priceless! Ha ha ha!" He then remembered the whole Shippo incident from earlier on in the day and blurted out, "I never knew she would be this funny! Ha ha ha!"
Inuyasha looked back at him, surprised to see the wolf there. "Koga? What are you doing here?"
He argued back, "What? This is a free country, ain't it?"
Inuyasha growled. "You wolf, you have no business here!"
"Of course I do! Seeing that this Kagome girl is fightin' I wanted to see her stuff up-close. You aren't the only one who met her, ya know?"
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Feh. What ever. Just stay way over there 'cuz I don't mingle around with guys that lose to Sesshomaru!" he ended his statement by smirking.
Koga did a double take, taken aback from hat he said. "Hey! You know as well as I do that he's a lot stronger than you and that he always shows off what he thinks about his opponents by either appearing in a fight with his school uniform on or his fighting ones on!" He murmured under his breath, "Yeah, as if I wasn't worthy enough to fight him or something or even worthy of his time…that bastard…"
Inuyasha smirked. "Keh. Guess we know what he thought about you being his opponent…"
Koga growled. "That's not my point! Besides, I've seen him do the same with you in your fights!"
Inuyasha shot him glare nd lifted a fist in the air. "Hey! I've fought him before and he had on his fighting cloths on!"
Koga crossed his arms this time. "Feh, yeah right!"
Inuyasha snarled back. "You idiot! I could kick your bazoonga any time I want!"
ss pie: we interrupt this program for a little lesson from Kilala, who we haven't seen yet but will soon appear
Everyone is left curious and dumbfounded as Kilala, in her miniature form, comes up to Inuyasha. Said hanyou growls, looking down at her. "What is it!"
Kilala meowed three times, not exactly answering his question. Everyone else sweat drops.
Ss pie clears her thoat. Ahem. I'll translate… "What the HELL was BAZOONGA, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha shrugged. "What? I thought we could say something ELSE for a change, you know, for the sakes of the little kids readin' this fic…" Ss pie roles down a LONG sheet of paper and in it are highlights of words in distinct places within paragraphs of this fanfic. Inuyasha reads on and sees that he had said some pretty naughty things. "Oh my…did I say that?" All nod as ss pie keeps showing him all his potty-mouth words.
Inuyasha keeps reading. "Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh…Wow. I said all of THAT?
All nod. "Yup."
Inuyasha smirks. "Alright then, I see there's no reason to use 'BAZOONGA' anymore, so…ss pie? Get us back to the story, alright?"
Ss pie: You betcha!
and now we return from 'lessons with Kilala' to our feature presentation
---Recap---
Koga screamed, "That's not my point! Besides, I've seen him do the same with you in your fights!"
Inuyasha feh'd. "Hey! I've fought him before and he had on his fighting cloths on!"
"Feh, yeah right!"
Inuyasha growled. " You idiot! I can kick your ass any time I want!"
Inuyasha looks at ss pie. "There, better?"
ss pie slumps her head down in a sigh. "sorry kids, lets just pretend you never read this part and that it's a secret between you and me, alright?"
"You idiot! I can kick your ass any time I want!" As the canines fought Kagome's dreadful shot was still sinking in to her, still red with embarrassment. She never knew it could be this bad. First she made a fool of herself in front of a new classroom, now she made a humiliation of her and her family's name in front of a whole school.
Oh…doo-dah, she thought pitifully. She almost fell to her knees but contained herself, trying to look strong. This just isn't my day…I'm afraid to even ask if it can get any worse 'cause I know that if I say--
Kikyo interrupted her thoughts. "Kagome, don't worry. You can still make it up with your other two turns."
Kagome blinked hopefully. Did…she just say…other two turns…shit! I forgot!
Kikyo smiled but spoke seriously. "Alright. If you want to do this the right way I suggest you look closer at me this time. I sense you haven't had much practice with your bow and arrow; am I correct?"
Kagome looked into her eyes sheepishly. "Try no experience what so ever with the thing. I mean, I just got it, too…"
Kikyo got the message and looked back and saw Kaede. Hmm. Kaede must have given it to her, I bet. Mingling where she shouldn't be… I wonder what she's up to… She keeps looking around and sees Inuyasha along with all his buddies and hissed. Heh. I know he saw her…That shows him for showing some interest in someone else, especially a girl so weak such as her… Kikyo positioned herself to strike again and looked at Kagome for a second with an angry brow up. "Watch me this time."
Kagome nodded thankfully. "Right! Thank you." Kikyo's arrow hit the center-red ring and the crowd went wild. The crowd always saw her do that every single time she used her weapons and yet she failed to do so on her first turn, or at least that's what everyone else saw, except for Inuyasha and gang who knew her all too well…
Kagome's confidence started building up. She looked to Kikyo, then at the ring. "Right! I'll do my best!" Inuyasha, who had been hearing their little conversation all this time because of his very good hearing stood with his eyes hooked on Kagome, hoping she would at least hit something… Kagome got into position, which still looked awkward but was much better than her first and thought less about where and how to shoot her arrow, all the while trying to take her mind off of the angry, hollering crowd as she focused the best she could at her target. Here goes…
Flump.
Ok, so her shot went farther this time, but still it was about 50 feet from the target. This time around the crowd did less laughing and little applause. Kagome felt very good about her shot. Not bad, not bad at all. The gang even clapped this time, heh heh…
Kikyo smiled. "Better. Now, this time, try and concentrate only on the target-- forget about everything else and it will all come to you."
Kagome inhaled deeply, "Thanks," but said to herself immediately, Hey-- wait a minute. I wonder why she's helping me a lot. Now I definitely know that Inuyasha didn't deserve her. She's way too nice for him…Although…He was very sad the first time I met him… Kagome got lost again in her memories until Kikyo's voice rang in.
"Hey, Kagome, last time to see me, alright?"
Kagome shook away her thoughts for the moment and nodded enthusiastically, "Right!" Seconds later Kikyo nailed the red ring yet again and everyone cheered. Kagome smiled and exhaled, pumping herself up with a chant: I know I can, I know I can…
Without orders she positioned her arms holding the bow downward and slowly lifted it up, her mind in silence and focusing only on the task at hand. The cheering was far to her as she put her arrow close to her face and in mere seconds had held it languidly, then jolted it back as she let go of it fiercely. That's right. I didn't let go of it in time before. Now I'm certain I've done it right…
Fling!
The arrow flew through the arena, landing forty three feet behind the target, but almost close enough to have had touched it. Ironically, the Crowd boasted in cheers (they were being too friendly, if you ask me) and everyone seemed happy.
Kagome smiled like never before and her eyes watered up joyously. They like me! They really like me! Boo-ya!Her sight gleamed as she turned in slow-motion, circling in the same spot so to see the many cheering students-- cheering, at her.
Kikyo smirked. "Not bad."
Kagome was ecstatic. "Thanks! Thanks a lot!" Inuyasha and gang clapped at her when she walked towards them as soon as the announcer had proclaimed 'not-so-bad shots for a rookie' and claimed Kikyo the winner. Kikyo had left before Kagome but headed down in another direction instead, away from the gang.
Len jumped up and down once Kagome had arrived. "Wow! That was awesome, Kagome! I hope I do that well!"
Miroku and Sango congratulated her as well and Inuyasha met her with his arms crossed in front of his chest. "Keh. I knew you could do it, sooner or later."
Kagome let out a nervous laugh. "Heh. Right, thanks."
Kaede walked up to her, smiling as well. "Well done, my child. Ye are a good archer, yet, with a little more practice, ye can become a fine archer and prieste-" Kaede's voice stopped almost abruptly when she covered her mouth. "Oh, never mind me, my child…I am just so happy for ye!"
Kagome decided not to ask her about that and exclaimed, "Yeah! I am too!"
Koga chuckled. "Not bad-- for a woman."
Kagome's frown turned upside down. Oh great! Another one of those 'smart' remarks from a demon.
Koga continued, "You're not that bad Kagome; not that bad."
Kagome sighed. "Uh…thanks, Koga…"
The announcer broke any further conversations with, "And now… The moment you've all been waiting for… It is now time for our last rookie fight of this semester!" The crowd went wild and started stomping their feet and clapping again to their favorite song.
Len looked like she was pumped up with butterflies in her stomach at the same time. "Oh my gosh! I forgot it's my turn! Ha ha!" Kagome cheered her on and gave her confidence to get through it, which Len thanked her for. The rest of the gang cheered her on and gave her smiles as Miroku's light bulb turned on inside his head. His smile slowly faded away.
"Wait, Inuyasha…"
"What is it?"
"Remember that Kanna, Kagura and you-know-who thing we were talking about just before Kagome's fight?"
"Yeah, so what?" Miroku just stared at him, apparently waiting for the hanyou to get the hint. After realizing that that wasn't working, he practically glued his fiery eyeballs at the dog's until Inuyasha's light bulb turned on too. Miroku answered Inuyasha's surprised face with a nod and his hands folded in front of him. "Uh…" The hanyou turned around to face Len, who had been called out by the Announcer to walk towards the arena as everyone else not bothered by Miroku and Inuyasha's predicament had waved her good luck.
Inuyasha and Miroku both yelled at her, "Oh no! Hey, Len! Come back!" but it was to no avail. Len couldn't hear because of the crowd's chanting, which for some unknown reason held more commotion than that of the previous rookie fights. The gang turns toward Inuyasha and Miroku, wondering why they held frightened looks on their faces while yelling at Len.
Sango was the first to ask them about it. "What's the matter, guys?"
Kagome voiced her own question. "Yeah, is something wrong?" The crowd's agitation turned a tee-bit different now, hollering a somewhat 'unusual' calling that they hadn't done before.
"Blood! Blood! Blood! Blood!"
Len blinked, confused. "Huh? Why blood?"
The gang was stunned. Damn. It seemed the two guys were right. Just then everyone, except Kagome knew just who Len was going to be up against. They'd heard that kind of chanting before. They all stood in silence as if waiting for the inevitable to come. Kagome saw their disturbed looks and asked rather frantically, "Guys! What's wrong! You're scaring me!"
Koga didn't know what to say. "I…I don't know, Kagome. I don't want to burst anybody's bubble or anything, but--"
"Shh! Don't say anything or you'll jinx it!" Sango interrupted.
Kagome still wanted her answer, now more than anything. "What! What is going on!" Miroku put a finger to his lips as to 'shush' Kagome and then brought his digit to point at the speakers. Kagome understood and listened intently.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… the battle you've been waiting for…for the prior battles were just a snack for y'a…Now it's time for the real thing…Prepare yourselves for if you wanted blood shed and torture you've now come to the right place!" The crowd was restless and the announcer cleared his throat. "Alright, alright, I'll get to the point…I give you… in this corner…
"Lennn…" Just as everyone awaited her last name to be called out, whispers were heard from the speakers. The usual voice was apparently saying, "Can someone read this girl's last name? I can't quite make it out…hey! I need help here!" More whispers rang through the intercoms. Everyone listening to the speakers sweat dropped.
The announcer finally finished whispering, exclaiming rather loudly, "Oh well," until he began screaming enthusiastically, "Ladies and gentlemen! I give you…
"Lennn!" He finished with that one syllable just as half the listeners fell down.
Inuyasha stood up quickly and snarled, "Yeah, way to cover up that embarrassment…"
Len stood proud as the cheers from the crowd seemed like they could almost drown her. "Wow. And all for me!" Then she went back into her little world again… We will, we will, rock you! La la la…
The crowd began chanting the word, "Blood! Blood! Blood!" once again and Len's happy place fell short as her curiosity kicked in yet again. Why would they ever say such a thing like that?
The announcer continued, "And now…for our most favorite villain…Give it up for…"
Inuyasha and gang gulped. "Oh shit, here it comes…"
"Narakuuu!" Suddenly a disturbing orquestrated piece filled the air (much like that of Naraku's theme song from the series), which went on throughout the entire battle, thanks to the speaker's magic.
The crowd was spastic and everyone started to hit each other and scream and yell, between other things. Len thinks out loud, "Wow. Naraku. Neat." After thinking it over, she realized she recognized the name from somewhere. "Hey, didn't Inuyasha mention him in the lunchroom earlier…?"
Inuyasha and gang sighed. "Yup. She's doomed."
Kagome brought her doubt to the group. "Naraku? Guys, what's with your faces? Hey! Guys!" She waved her hands in their faces but the guys were more focused on the white figure that had appeared out of no where like a ghost in mid-air and started to come down slowly about two hundred feet in front of Len.
Len laughed gleefully. "Wow…that's neat!...Hey…Do I have to fight a monkey?"
Kagome screamed this time, "Guys…tell me what's wrong!"
Inuyasha answered her without turning his sight away from Naraku. "You remember when I talked to you and Len in the lunchroom and I told you that a guy named 'Naraku' had done his way with one of last year's rookies, right?"
Kagome, just almost afraid she had asked, replied, "Yeah…"
"Well," he pointed to Naraku without saying another word. Kagome looked up, blinking confused.
"You mean that monkey is Naraku?" Inuyasha and the whole gang heard her and almost busted out into laughter but didn't for they knew Naraku could be listening.
Inuyasha growled. "No, that's not a monkey. That's Naraku under a baboon suit, you idiot!"
"You don't have to yell at me, idiot!" Kagome was obviously forgetting the real deal, here.
Inuyasha shot back, "Well I wouldn't if you weren't so blind and naïve."
Kagome stomped her foot on the ground. "I am not naïve! If anyone here is naïve it should be that girl Le—" she stopped mid-way when she and Inuyasha turned to look at the lone girl at the arena. They'd forgotten about Len.
After watching that little fight between those two the gang remembers that Len is about to die in the hands of Naraku, unless… "Inuyasha, do something! You told us what happened to that other kid and, I mean, he was a demon and practically died out there with Naraku, let alone Len could survive out there!" Kagome screamed.
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "I told you it's against the rules to help out! You'd get expelled!"
"But you have to help her!" she kept insisting.
Miroku, seeing that he just needed to butt in, cut in. "Guys, guys, just wait and see what the Wheel of Misfortune says because she may not have to fight Naraku to the death or something…besides, we can't do anything else."
And then, as if on cue, the announcer broke in. "And since we have not seen true action yet my friends, this time we shall skip the Wheel of Misfortune and go strait for the Death Sentence rule!" You could hear Inuyasha and gang gasping one after another while a single word rang in their minds and slipped off their lips.
"Shit!" But of course, the crowd couldn't be any happier.
Len cocked her head to the side innocently. "Huh? The Death Sentence thingy? That's bad, right? Uh…"
Naraku then chuckled maliciously for the first time since landing on the arena. "Ha ha ha… Little girl, this shall be so delightful…"
Len felt disrespected. "Hey! Who are you calling 'little!'" She was oblivious to the reality of the situation at hand.
Naraku sweat dropped, thinking, is she kidding me…? He looked up to one of the speakers and exclaimed, "Hey, you! You guys said I would have a worthy opponent, not some worthless girly-girl that has no clue what fear is! This won't be fun at all… "
Len growled and put a small, delicate fist in the air, directed at the baboon. "Huh! I am not a worthless girly-girl! …I'm not even that girly-girly…do I seem it, though?" She fidgeted for a while before continuing, "Anyways…Further more, I know what fear is and you mister do not scare me!"
Naraku sighed inwardly. I always thought the suit made me look cool and stuff…Oh well…guess I have to take it off again…either way the crowd likes it when I do… Naraku took off his baboon suit with one swift motion of his arm and was left smirking, wearing his trademark battle armor and wear from the series. Girls in the crowd started gasping, screaming, fainting and declaring their love for him as they fell over in delight.
Len looked at his face closely. Hey…he's kinda cute…
Inuyasha feh'd. "Great. He has his fighting face on."
Sango turned to him. "I don't think I've ever said this, but…we need to do something!" She'd never wanted to disobey the school rules before, but she could never stand Naraku slaughtering poor, in defensive, innocent teens.
Kaede sighed mournfully. "I'm afraid there isn't a thing we could do…Rules are rules and we must obey them."
Kagome whined, "How can you guys come to a place that's this terrible! In fact, who could ever come up with these stupid rules! It's not fair!"
Meanwhile, back at the arena, Len and Naraku couldn't hear anyone else except themselves. Len took in a deep breath and reassured her self confidence. "Ok. I'm ready." She held her sword in front of her with both hands, the tip touching the ground because of its weight.
Naraku laughed wickedly. "Little girl, who ever said I was waiting for you to get ready?" Now Len was feeling a little more insecure as to fighting him.
The announcer shouted, "Now, fighters take your positions and salute one another, for the person you see in front of you shall be the last you shall ever see! Opponents, get ready to…
"Fight!"
Naraku laughed joyfully now. He loved to kill. (ss pie: "When you come to think of it, his laugh IS kinda cute…") (Inuyasha slaps ss pie on the cheek. "Whats WRONG with you, woman!")
Naraku smirked, making a few more girls faint in the crowd. "I shall see what you are capable of doing. I know you are so very weak compared to me so I'll see what I can do to please the crowd and make this fight a lasting one and a torturous one at that!"
Len growled, gripping her sword's hilt tighter. I have to be strong… "Ok. Bring it on!" Naraku's theme song heard in the background rose to one of its most daring climaxes as he let a samiosho escape through an opening of his sleeve, still smiling. Len was surprised; that was so unexpected. Ok, so she didn't know what to expect because like Kagome, she knew NOTHING about battling.
Naraku chuckled. "Let's just see what you can do." Len focused on the insect and as it came just a few feet away from her she lifted up her sword and flung it upward as hard as she could to brace herself from the impact-- but because of it's size and her experience with everything else except life-threatening situations, the sword went too far and ended up resting on her shoulder instead of just in an attack position.
"Uh-oh." The insect was inches away when she finally got a chance to swipe at it as the Inuyasha gang had held their fingers crossed and wished for the best in that mind-boggling moment.
Naraku's insect was ripped completely.
Len, a little tense and left shocked from her first kill, looked into the air in front of her. "I…did it? Ha ha! I did it! Yeah!" Inuyasha and gang sighed in relief.
Naraku spread his arms wide apart. "Little girl, I was only getting started! You have yet to know what is a true battle! In fact, this will be an only-demonstration for you for you will not see the light of another day!" Psychotic Naraku music rang even louder through the speakers. Len held on to her breath as Naraku then came rushing towards her, his hair running wildly behind him. Everyone else witnessing the battle was left dead silent.
Naraku swung at Len with his long nails but she dodged the attack almost loosing balance because of her sword. He only laughed harder and louder. Len screamed trying to get up from crouching on the ground. Naraku flew a good fifty feet away from her when he turned around again and charged once more.
Kagome screamed frantically, "No! Len!" Len dodged yet again, this time falling to the floor and rolling a little on the ground as Naraku laughed.
Inuyasha growled low. "He's toying with her." Kagome didn't understand so he looked to her and explained. "He is way to powerful for her, so he's having his fun with her before he kills her."
Kagome gasped. "No! This can't be! …Maybe he's not that strong and is just buying time…?" All who stood around her instantly stared at her.
Koga barked, "Are you serious woman! He's one of the most powerful demons in the whole school!" That didn't go well with her.
Naraku was still playing around with his prey back at the arena. "Girl, you should have never come here…" He circled in the air yet again for another attack. Len gasped and had no clue on what to do.
Inuyasha, thinking for once, voiced an idea. "Hey! Len!" He managed to grab her attention. "Leave your sword and run! It's the only way!" His friends, along with Len, thought he was loosing it.
"Huh?" He wants me to let go of the only thing that can save me? thought Len.
Kagome yelled at him, "Inuyasha! What are you doing!"
Inuyasha growled, "The sword's too heavy for her, it's just weighing her down. Besides, she couldn't be able to use it anyways in the state that she's in" The gang saw his reasoning and looked on as to what Len would do now. Of course she couldn't hear Inuyasha's explanation but saw what it was he meant.
She nodded, seriously. Right. Naraku was closing in on her as she left the sword laid-down on the ground in a split second just before Naraku could get to her and rolled on her side, evading his attack.
Naraku, a little surprised, noticed that Inuyasha and his friends were near and reasoned that they must have had something to do with the girl's change of action. He was less than content about it. He growled. The crowd has waited long enough for some bloodshed and so I shall fulfill their request! "Girl, you are going to die, right now!"
Len and her new found companions voice together, "Oh no!" as Naraku came for the kill, his hands turning into wooden claws. Len just kept on running around trying to think up a move that she could do this time but ran out of ideas—actually, she had none to begin with, seeing she had no time to think about anything else except RUN FOR HER LIFE.
She huffed and huffed desperately when she remembered, Hey! My sword! She ran toward the sword and grabbed the hilt, the tip dragging on the floor for five or ten more feet as she made a halt to catch her breath. Naraku had been hot on her tail and she had nothing else to do but lift up her sword as quickly as possible-- this time, it staying just right where she wanted it to be, in front of her-- and she stood there waiting for him with a power that came from within her to stay alive.
Naraku came in just a few feet away as his claws could barely scratch Len, her eyes closed hoping for the best (even though doing absolutely NOTHING could ever save somebody) and her breathing became less and less articulated as her heart failed to beat for those seven seconds.
Yes, 7 seconds.
The seven seconds that went down in the school's history as the day that a rookie beat the crap out of a student that had had years of training.
(Camera focuses on Len)
Ss pie: No, no! Not her, you morons! Keep reading!
(Camera people look down sadly. "Awe shucks, we never do anything right…")
As I was saying, Naraku's claws had barely scratched Len as a light came whirling towards him with incredible speed. Naraku had no clue from where it came from and had no time to dodge it, either. It wasn't until it was too late that he found out what it was and with a horrified look on his face he cursed inwardly, for he was too shocked and surprised by the attack to even speak. Damn! It's a sacred arrow!
The slightly pinkish light drilled into Naraku's right side of his chest in slow-motion and it came out slowly, his body being torn apart into shreds as all that could be left of him was his head and some of his neck.
In total, the seven seconds were: Len holding up her sword, Naraku clawing at her, a yell and the sacred arrow piercing him and disintegrating his every living cell.
When the light had gone out, the crowd could finally see what had happened, since because of the massive bright light no one could notice what had actually occurred. What happened? Yes, Sesshomaru was able to see it. Inuyasha and gang were able to see it. Even Kikyo saw it and was surprised that someone else had such high powers as she did. Her first reaction was to look for…
Inuyasha did a double take, dumbfounded by the source of the mystic arrow. "Ka-Kagome!" Kagome stood in a perfect stance with the bow still in her left hand held up right and her right hand still in the position of when one has thrown an arrow. Everyone—the crowd, the announcer-- no one was left without gasping.
Len was still shivering from her crutched-down position as she felt the light overcome her. After a while of feeling nothing happening to her, she opened one eye slowly, and stumbled to look for the right words. What did Naraku do to me?
Kagome had a mean, battle look on her face and hadn't moved an inch since she had let go of the arrow. The school's facility was covered in complete silence. (Of course, this was also the longest 'silence' record that went down in the school's history as well…)
Len began looking around as to which was the motive of the silence and spotted Kagome who was now breathing heavily. She too didn't know what was going on or what to say first. Inuyasha and gang was still surprised to what had just happened as well. Who could have ever guessed that Kagome could have that sort of power inside, if she couldn't even strike a target with her arrow just a few moments before-- the same arrow that had now made you-know-what out of Naraku?
Kagome, still breathing drastically but heroically, tried to recollect what had just happened in her mind.
She had screamed, "Len, No!" and thought to herself, I have to do something! But she didn't know what. Still, she knew the girl would die if she didn't do anything about it since no one else seemed to mind or care to do something about it themselves.
Just then a spark had ignited in her heart and she was left bewildered by it, feeling it grow inside her, shining, making some sort of energy flow through her veins. I…feel… she had said to herself. Her body had responded with yet another glow until she realized, I…know what to do now…somehow…
The next thing Kagome knew she had practically killed Naraku and was now the main focus of the fight. Silence.
Whispers came from the speakers and all could hear a voice complain, "I know but…" as more whispers continued. In time the announcer announced the confirmation. "Ahem! It seems, folks that the rookie Kagome Higurashi has interfered with the fight. We must now input the rules that read when one interferes a battle they shall--"
"Excuse me but that will not be necessary." Kaede interrupted his words through a microphone and everyone in the facility clamed up. After all, she was more like the head honcho there. "I must see to it that the students may be taken out of harms way. Ye see, even though we have not fully implied all of the rules in every battle over the years, I must say that this girl has not committed any real unlawful action." She paused dramatically before continuing, "Ye see, first we had Kagura's attack that had rendered our New-Students count down to just two; later it was said that miss Len here could not participate in the Wheel of Misfortune, which is highly stated as an 'always-used' method and lastly we cannot forget about the most sacred rule that states: All individuals that hold sacred powers can interrupt a fight if they see that there is wrong in it. As we have witnessed and all can agree, Kagome is of sacred blood."
Silence. Double silence.
The announcer fidgeted for words. "Well, uh…Ahem…Lady Kaede, the Principle and high personal, in charge of the facility's activities has just spoken! Miss Kagome Higurashi will not be condemned to a—"
"We don't need the details," Kaede interrupted again.
The announcer gulped, hoping he wouldn't lose his job for this. "Right! Miss Kagome Higurashi is free of penalty because it is stated that she has not committed a crime and so, on account of sacred interference, I shall proclaim this match a draw!" The crowd was silent. This couldn't be happening. First a mere human rookie takes down Naraku and then she doesn't get punished for interfering? This was never even heard of!
It seemed that it was the crowd's turn to react, but no one knew just how to react to this. There was an ironic, long silence, followed by a cough. Just when Kagome thought she would be part of yet another failure on her first day of school, a random male student began chanting, "ka-go-me, ka-go-me…" until students nearby joined him, and in mere moments it seemed like the whole school began doing 'waves' while shouting her name even louder as they cheered, whistled and clapped her on.
Kagome heard their cheers and was flabbergasted. "Wow." Inuyasha and gang started clapping along with the crowd's applause as Len joined them after she stepped out of the arena. Kagome spun so she could see the crowd, all 360 degrees of them with sparkly eyes.
After a long while, the announcer cleared his throat, feeling a little left out. "Ahem, excuse me, but…Has anyone seen Naraku? " All stopped what they were doing for a second, realizing that they had forgotten about him. He was nowhere to be found. None of his remains were in the arena and no one had seen him leave.
A shiver ran down Kagome's spine. "Oh no! I-I-I killed him?"
Koga smirked "Keh. No way… I bet he's still around here somewhere, recuperating…"
Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah. Your shot wasn't bad, Kagome, it's just that He's way too powerful to go out with a measly arrow." Kagome kind of resented the remark but since it had been her first time shooting an arrow and everyone said Naraku was strong, she didn't let it bother her.
Len mentally slapped herself for forgetting to thank her friend. "Wow. Thank you so much, Kagome!" Kagome looked at Len's hopeful face and just realized that she had saved her life…
So she returned the smile. "Of course. Your welcome."
The announcer broke in. "Well, seeing that it's time to go I have to say thank you all for coming and a big thank you to al the rookies for participating in your first-ever battle in the "Feudal Era High" school! Please give another hearty applause to…" his voice drifted off as he noticed there were only two rookies still alive, out of twenty one. "Uh...um…Kagome Higurashi and… uh… Len!"
Sango shrugged. "Hey, what is her last name, anyways?" The gang cheered on at their new-found friends as Kagome was happier than ever that her day had ended so well.
She had a broad smile implanted on her face. Wait till mom hears this!
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Somewhere, in the depths of a room, away from the facility, Naraku's eyes glowed amongst complete darkness.
"This 'Kagome' hasn't seen the last of me. She will pay for what she did…"
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Disclaimer: I don't own 'wheel of fortune' but if not mistaken, 'wheel of misfortune' isn't taken yet, right? If it is, than it's not mine. But I DID make it up from the back of my head…I also don't own the "We will rock you" song.
Ss pie: Ha! I FINALLY finished! Woot! That SURE is enough to put me into a 'hand coma'…so much writing…
Inuyasha: "ss pie, there's NO SUCH THING as a 'HAND COMA'!
Ss pie: "Oh shut up! Or I'll make you 'sit'!"
Inuyasha: "You can't do that!"
Ss pie: "Oh Kagome…" (Inuyasha whimpers and grabs ss pie's legs) "Awww…you poor thing…I didn't really MEAN it, Inuyasha!"
Kagome, coming in: "Hey, but Inuyasha still hasn't got his 'sit boy' necklace yet in the story, so I cant-"
Ss pie, stroking Inuyasha's hair as he quiets down from whimpering: "Shh! He doesn't know that!"
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