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Wow this is really fast for me getting a chapter out. Cuz like it was seven months before I got chapter 3 up. Hope you like. Some things to say about the story first though; I made a lot of mistakes in the second chapter when they have to see the head counselor Mr. Kameyama. Well for a while in chapter 2 Mr. Kameyama jumped from male to female. Just to let everyone knew yes he is male. Ok and on this chapter I know I centered it a lot on Yumi and Kouga, sorry bout that. I have my reasons though. Also my friend asked me who the heck Yumi is and where she came from. Well the answers to this lie in my first story Everlasting Wishes. It was my first one so don't make fun of it if you decide to read it. Ok well here's the story!
Disclaimer:
The police would get me if InuYasha I claimed ---------Hehe one day I got bored and wrote that
I'd get thrown in jail, executed and maimed
And although it would be an exciting chase
I own fricking nothing so get out of my face
Summer Camp from Hell
chapter four
Yumi slowly awoke the next morning, with a dull throb coming from her stomach. "Ughhh what happened yesterday?" She moaned, oblivious to her surroundings. With a heave, Yumi pulled herself up in a sitting position, then swung her legs over the side of the bed. Gripping the sides of the bed she stood unsteadily on her feet. The first step she took was a hazardous one, because she tripped on something and went plunging toward the floor. Instead of hitting the hard wood floor, Yumi fell on something softer, which promptly groaned, scaring the life out of Yumi.
"AH!" She yelped and skittered off the pile of blankets, that was making noise, and slight movement.
"Good morning to you too. You could have just shook me or something, you didn't have to jump on me." The pile on the floor shifted, revealing Kouga's head.
"What are you doing in here! Get out!" Yumi screamed at him. Her shouts had set off a chain reaction which roused two other sleeping members in beds across the room.
"Look around Yumi, you're still in our cabin. Don't you remember anything yesterday?" Kouga said while sitting up and rubbing his back, which Yumi had landed on.
Yumi looked thoughtful for a second, then screeched, "You hit me!" She looked murderous, as she turned away from Kouga and lifted her shirt to examine the damage.
The redness was gone, replaced by an ugly black and blue bruise. And just above her belly button, The words "imakO aguoK" were imprinted. Yumi pulled her shirt down and faced Kouga, her eyes shooting like daggers. "You are dead." She hissed at him.
Yumi bent over and pulled Kouga up from the floor by the collar of his t-shirt, then she winded her arm up and punched him right in the face. Kouga fell over on the bed, it had hurt him but not as much as if say InuYasha punched him. Yumi continued her attack by leaping up on top of him pinning his arms down with her legs. She blindly started swinging. Later on she could recall making contact with his face, shoulders, and chest.
Kouga wriggled his arms out from under the aggressive girl sitting on top of him, and made a grab for her wildly swinging arms. He managed to grab one then finally the other. With a great effort, he flipped her over so she was laying on the bed and he was on top. Yumi stilled, breathing heavily and glaring at her captor.
"Listen now." He said calmly, also breathing heavily from all the effort it took to restrain Yumi. " I really am sorry about it." He paused while she still gave him venomous looks. Kouga couldn't help but think how cute she looked, trying to be tough, her forehead all scrunched up in anger. Her lip was slightly pouted and her eyes blazed fury at him. "If I let you go, you're not going to hit me anymore right?" he asked. Yumi surprised him by smiling sweetly and saying
"Of course not." Kouga let her arms go, once again Yumi's expression turned irate, and she kneed him in the crotch. Kouga was sent into white hot blasts of pain, and he slumped over off of Yumi to the side of the bed. Yumi got and up and spit her final words at him, "Jerk." And she raced out of the room, ignoring the two curious sets of eyes that followed her.
Yumi sprinted to her cabin, roughly pulling open the door and slamming it shut behind her. "Wha-whats happening?" Kagome said drowsily, seeing as she had been fully asleep before Yumi burst into the room.
"Sorry about the noise Kagome. Do you know what that Kouga did to me?" Yumi said angrily, as she came over and sat at the foot of Kagome's bed.
"No, what did he-" Kagome paused for a yawn. "Do?"
"Look at this." Yumi said pulling her shirt up so Kagome could examine her stomach.
"Wow.." Kagome eyed the bruise, and traced the edge of it with her finger, but she stopped quickly as Yumi winced in pain. "Sorry" she muttered.
"Is this?..." Kagome pointed to a spot just above Yumi's navel.
"Yeah it's his name backwards" Yumi said before Kagome could finish. Kagome's face lit with a lazy grin, and she replied,
"So in a way he marked his territory. Now no other guy can claim you cuz his name is on you." Kagome started laughing. Yumi pouted, it was true, but still it hurt! "Come on Yumi you can't say that you don't like him. I saw you checking out his cute little fangs." Kagome giggled and pointed out.
"Hey you keep yourself off those cute little fangs got it?" Yumi warned her friend.
"No I wasn't going to go for Kouga anyways. He seems nice though, why don't you give him a shot?" Kagome told her.
"I beg your pardon? I don't give guys shots, I've never even had a real boyfriend before. Besides I sort of beat Kouga up. He probably hates me now." Yumi looked dejectedly at her hands.
"Ok back up for me now, why did he hit you? With a...With a..." She searched for the right word to describe what had made the bruise.
"It was a baseball bat." Yumi finished.
"Whoa, ouch. And he hit you with a bat because?..."
"Well you know how I was coming from the showers, and I didn't have any clean clothes, and all I had was a towel. So I went through the woods. Kouga heard me coming and thought I was a bear." Yumi explained her story, while twirling a lock of her curly hair around her finger.
"So he wanted to defend himself, and that's how... Oh my gosh what a moron!" Kagome exclaimed. The two girls laughed about the whole ordeal.
"So that's why you beat him up" Kagome concluded.
"Yup." Yumi got up so she could get dressed. Halfway across the room she froze. She had left her suit case on top of her bed yesterday, but now there was an actual body in her bed!
"Uh Kagome..." Yumi pointed at her bed, where the body stirred and sat up.
"We have a visitor." Yumi stared at 'Tom" forgetting that the he was really a she.
"Oh good morning Sango!" Kagome greeted her.
"But Tom...Oh yeah...So your name is Sango? That's a really pretty name." Yumi went over to visit with Sango and get to know her.
"Hi, yeah I'm Sango." Sango spoke up shyly, "I was nervous, because after me and the boys had batting practice, they all came back to their room, and started to strip. I didn't want to see anything..." She looked away blushing at the thought of remembering the half naked boys. Her expression turned though quickly with more courage , "It's not as if I haven't seen it before, I have many brothers, I just couldn't think of a way to explain to them why I wasn't getting undressed."
"It's ok, your welcome to room with us whenever you feel uncomfortable around them." Kagome soothed putting a hand on her shoulder.
"So Sango can you tell me why your hiding the fact that you're a female?" Yumi asked, having missed the explanation from the day before.
Sango spun her story of why she was there again for Yumi, with Kagome interrupting a few times, telling the information that she knew. After the tale was finished Yumi asked "So how are you going to tell this to the boys?"
"No! They can't know that I'm a girl, or they'll turn me in. And even if they don't I'm sure they'll feel very uncomfortable having a girl sleeping with them." Sango outcried. The three girls sat in silence, each trying to think of a way to get around this obstacle. Finally Kagome shouted, "Hey! I have an idea!" She got up and scurried out the door to tell the boys her plan. Yumi and Sango hurried after her, unsure of how this would end.
Meanwhile...
"Dude so that's why she was beating the crap out of you so early in the morning." Miroku told Kouga as he got dressed.
"You deserve it man, clubbing a girl like that hard enough to leave a bruise? Feh Idiot, at least my plan didn't involve anyone getting hurt." InuYasha spouted as he too dressed himself.
"I knew you guys wouldn't understand." Kouga sighed as he pulled a pair of shorts on. The sound of the door being wretched open brought their attention to a pajama clad Kagome standing in the doorway.
"Yes? What is it you want wench?" InuYasha said staring at her. Kagome cleared her thought and took a deep breath.
"First of all my name is Kagome, don't call me wench, second is that Sa- I mean Tom is gay." Her announcement left the room silent and stunned.
"So, he doesn't feel comfortable sleeping in the same room with all you hot boys around." Kagome blundered along after the initial shock wore off, and said hot sarcastically, like she seriously doubted that they were hot. "So he's going to stay in my and Yumi's cabin, since he's immune to us. Ok?" She looked directly at InuYasha since he seemed to be the leader of the bunch. The subject in question's mouth was hanging slightly open and his eyebrows had shot way up after the word gay. Kagome stepped toward him and shook his shoulders to wake him up. "Hellooooo? I asked if that was ok?" She stated again.
"Yeah, Yeah, sure..." He shook his head yes, then backed up and sat on his bed holding his head in his hands. The other boys hadn't moved at all. Everything in their mind seemed to add up about Tom. Why his voice was all funny, and Miroku had noticed that he had a certain sway to his hips when he walked, which seemed very feminine.
"Hey it's ok, he's still human you know, and he's probably a great ball player." Kagome said rubbing InuYasha's shoulders to soften the effect of her words. Her voice then turned hard and serious, "And you better treat him the same way you treat Kouga and Miroku or you'll have me to deal with." She shoved his arm to emphasize her point than sauntered out the cabin.
"I...I...I never knew." InuYasha stuttered.
"It's ok man, I don't have a problem with it as long as he doesn't try any moves on us. And he was nice enough to tell us right off, and he didn't come back last night didn't you notice? So it's not like he saw anything." Miroku backed 'Tom' up.
"Yeah man, it's cool with me" Kouga said also while pulling a jersey over his head.
InuYasha rubbed his shoulder where Kagome had. His arm was feeling strangely tingly, whether it was from Kagome, or the news about Tom, InuYasha didn't know.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TOLD THEM I'M GAY!" Sango yelled at Kagome ,shaking the other girl's shoulders vigorously. Yumi and Sango had listened from the door, and had silently slumped over in the grass, appalled that Kagome would say something like that.
"Hey, shhh or they'll hear you!" Yumi warned the two. The curly, haired girl walked over to the window to see if any of the boys had heard Sango's little outburst. Apparently they hadn't because all was still over at the male cabin.
"Well it's ok, this is the perfect ruse, because now they'll never suspect you off being a girl. Even if you do slip and do something feminine they'll just think it's because you're a homo, and you like doing things like that." Kagome stuck up for herself, while tying her shoes.
Sango just grumbled, grabbing her cap, and shoving it on her head, while headed out the door.
"Well I guess we better go for breakfast" Yumi concluded. She followed Sango with Kagome bringing up the rear.
At the cafeteria, InuYasha, Miroku, and Kouga were already seated at their respective table, eating the mornings mess. Today on the menu was what appeared to be yellow rubber (scrambled eggs), red hunks of tree bark (bacon), and black pieces of roofing tile (toast). The trend seemed to be that everything was severely burned, and over cooked. None of the boys noticed this however as they scarfed it all down, barely glancing to see what exactly they were eating.
Yumi only took an apple, while Kagome and Sango poured themselves some orange juice. InuYasha peered up from his fork full of mush to see Kagome seated next to him sipping her juice. "Hey, what's wrong with you? Are you guys on a diet or something?" He questioned, once he had gulped down the food in his mouth. Kagome glared at him, gritting her teeth she asked,
"Why? Does it look like we need to be on a diet?" Her glare had sent shivers down InuYasha's spine, making him wish he had never spoke up in the first place.
"N-No I was just wondering why you weren't eating anything." InuYasha stammered. Kagome sighed. "Have you actually seen what it is you're eating? " Her tone was softer, and to InuYasha it sounded like she could do with a good meal.
"That's the trick, if you look, and think about the food for too long, you won't want to eat it. So if you just eat really fast, you barely notice the egg shells, and caked on burned stuff. But you know it's not as bad as last year. This is actually pretty good." InuYasha turned back to his dish and resumed his chowing down. Kouga watched Yumi bite into her apple. The look on her face seemed to say she'd rather be eating something more filling than one small piece of fruit.
Suddenly a large stomach grumble was heard. Making everyone at the table stop and wonder whose it was, and all their questioning stares were soon found out as Yumi stood and muttered "I'm taking a walk" The slim girl exited the cafeteria, and once again the inhabitants of InuYasha's table went back to eating. Kouga followed her outside. He found her sitting down, leaning against a tree with her eyes closed.
"Hey." Kouga said as he approached, and sat next to her. Yumi ignored him, and turned her head the opposite way. A slight breeze touched the trees, and stirred Yumi's hair, causing some of her curls to dance about her head. Kouga watched her with amazement as she seemed so at peace with her surroundings, except for him. She still seemed a bit standoffish towards the wolf like boy. "So the weather is nice huh?" Kouga tried to keep the conversation light. Yumi cut to the chase though.
"What is it you want Kouga?" Her eyes were still closed, and her expression did not change one bit. Her face was clear of emotion, wiped clean like a blank slate.
"Well... Come with me." He stood abruptly pulling Yumi up by her hand.
"Wha- Where are we going?" Yumi clearly had not expected him to do this. He marched her off towards the cabins. "Why are we-" Yumi began to say but was cut off quickly by her larger and stronger team mate.
"Hush, you'll see." He ordered. Yumi thought, for someone who seemed to want to talk about the weather minutes ago, he was sure arrogant ordering her around like this. What nerve he has. Yumi suppressed a smile, she rather liked this more forceful side to him. Kouga led her up the steps into the boys cabin where Yumi almost yelped in surprise. She had only been there hours ago and now when she sees it again, the whole place was a mess. Boys... Always so untidy. Kouga dropped her hand, and made his way towards his suitcase at the foot of his bed where he began to search for something within it. Yumi stood in the middle of the room, starting to feel the urge to clean.
When Kouga looked up, he fell over in surprise. Yumi was calmly folding all the clothes and putting them in neat little piles on each boys bed. "Hey stop that!" He shouted at her, his cheeks tinged with pink.
"I'm sorry but I can't stand a cluttered room. It drives me crazy." She finished by laying his neatly folded boxers on the top of the pile. Kouga shook his head and sighed.
"Ok but don't do it again, it's weird when girls touch guys underwear."
"But it's not weird for boys to tie girls underwear to the flag pole?" She asked, anger heating up her words.
"Hey don't get mad at me, it was InuYasha's idea, the underwear thing was Miroku's though. Besides I don't want you mad at me. Here I was going to give you this." Kouga handed her a bag. Carefully Yumi opened it up. Inside were triangular pastries of some kind.
"What's this?" She asked taking one out and examining it.
"Well it's dough and on the inside is meat and vegetables. My uh mom made them. In case I got hungry." Kouga blushed and turned away so Yumi wouldn't see his crimson face. How embarrassing to be caught with mommy's home made food. The guys would never let him live it down.
"That's really sweet of you to give them to me. How nice of your mother." Yumi put a hand on his arm, and smiled at the taller male. Kouga watched as she bit into the one in her hand. Yumi's eyes bugged out and her mouth stopped chewing.
"Whats wrong!" Kouga asked getting alarmed at her sudden stop in eating.
"These...are...the..most... delicious things I've ever had." Yumi said it slowly, and continued to chew, but her eyes were still popped open, as if she was in awe. Kouga laughed out loud, still watching her and the amazed look on Yumi's face. What a girl, she never ceased to surprise him.
InuYasha and Miroku had long since finished eating and were making their way back to the cabins so they could grab their ball equipment. Kagome and Sango trailed behind chatting about positions and the such. "Ok today is the first official practice. I know we're two men short, but Mr. Kameyama said he'd be getting some new arrivals soon. Now about positions, since I play first mostly and pitching, we're going to see who can play first, since I'm the most qualified to pitch."
A protest by Kagome brought everyone's attention to the small girl. "Hey, InuYasha thats not fair, I play pitcher too, you can't just call the position for yourself."
"Listen my dear, underhand pitching is a lot different from overhand pitching. Me and you will have pitching practice though, in case we need a back up." InuYasha finished with that and moved on business, completely ignoring the growls from Kagome. Yumi and Kouga had met up with them at the cabin and now the team was settled on the bench in the dugout.
"Ok I know Yumi you play catcher right?" A nod from Yumi confirmed it. "Alright we're going to have some competition between you and Kouga then." A smirk from Kouga sent Yumi reeling in fury. "Ok easy now, but Kouga you also play third so we're going to have to put you there. These chicks probably know how to play only one position so we have to make allowances for them."
All the 'chicks' were starting to wonder why they let their guard down for even a minute. InuYasha was a jerk and he was still determined to prove males were the better species. For now his ideas about making them leave seemed to evaporate though. So it was a step up. All they needed now was to make him see they were both equal. This was going to be really tough.
Kagome wondered on a scale from 1-10 how frustrating this practice was going to be.