oOo Last Time oOo

"I don't take life too seriously, no one gets out alive in the end anyway."

And with that they arrived at the arena.

garyuu means dragon's fang

raiden means thunder and lightning

hiki means toad

(For those who want to know, I got the translations at www. solon. org/ cgi-bin/ j-e/ dict> just without the spaces)

oOo Chapter 7 oOo

-Shuichi- --Youko-- Xx Hiei xX

Kagome opened the doors and gapped.

"Whoa."

The guys just walked past her and walked to some seats that Hiei was guarding, forcing Kagome to run to catch up.

"This place is huge!"

Kurama looked at her amused while the others laughed or ignored her. And Kagome, in turn, ignored them.

"Team Lumana is fighting against Team Garyuu right now. Lumana is made up of a bat, neko, bird, and two dog youkai while Garyuu is made up of dragons. We fight after them and the winner of this match will fight the winner of ours in the next round."

Kagome looked at Kurama.

"So in other words we should watch them so we know what we're fighting later."

Kurama grinned at Kagome and nodded. Kagome plopped down in a chair beside Kurama and watched the match.

"Team Lumana's gonna win. Should we head down there now?"

"Ya, this last fight doesn't look like it'll last much longer, come on."

Everyone stood up and walked out of the arena and down a hall to where they would enter. Kagome saw someone she thought she recognized but shook her head, he was dead, it couldn't be him.

"To the left is Team Moko!"

Kagome snapped out of her 'it looks like him but it can't be him, but I swear it was him, ect.' thoughts and peaked out at the opposing team. She blinked, then blinked again, then burst out laughing. Her team mates looked at her strangely and dragged her out to the area they sat when not in fighting when they were called. Kagome gasped for air and stopped laughing but a single glance in the opponents direction had her laughing again. She just couldn't help it. They were a group of…Jaken's. Yup, same toad like things, and the leader apparently wanted to be exactly like Jaken because it had a staff similar to his. It was actually kind of creepy, yet funny.

xX Fox, shut her up Xx

--Oooo, I can think of many ways to quiet her—

-Shut up Youko-

Kurama used his plants and gagged Kagome, making her stop laughing. She sat there for a few seconds confused before it registered in her brain what happened and glared at Kurama who just smiled at her innocently. After muttering incoherently for a while Kagome shut up and Kurama let her out of his plants hold, only for her to lunge at him. Kurama, expecting this, didn't finch and grabbed her wrists, preventing her from reaching him. After struggling a bit more she settled down with a 'humph'. Turned out while Kagome was attempting murder, Kuwabara and gone up to fight the first round. He was actually doing very well and the fight wouldn't take much longer, going in Kuwabara's favor. Kurama went next and the fight ended the same as the last, only in Kurama's favor, not Kuwabara's. Kagome refused to let anyone take the next one though, the leader was going this round, as since her and Jaken had ended up getting along, she couldn't whack him with his staff anymore. Luckily for her, this wasn't Jaken and she could do it to him (woot!). With an evil grin Kagome entered the fighting ring. The toad did as well and stood opposite Kagome and gave her a superior smirk, or tried to anyway.

"On behave of Lord Jaken I will destroy this puny human!" He yelled for all to hear.

Kagome rolled her eyes and made faces at the toad infuriating him and making him turn purple. Team Urashima were the only ones showing their amusement, everyone else were booing Kagome. Juri grabbed her mike and everyone shut up.

"For team Moko, we have the leader, Hiki. And from team Urashima we have Kagome. Start on 3! 1…2…3 FIGHT!"

Hiki ran up to Kagome and tried to hit her with his staff. Kagome, expecting this, grabbed his staff before it could make contact. She yanked the staff from his hands and then used it on him. Like she used to do with Jaken long ago she swung it and sent him flying, he fly across the room before hit a wall and sliding to the ground swirly eyed. Kagome gave a blissful smile before going back to her group.

They were walking to their room when Kagome saw the same guy as before.

"Hey, I'll catch up to you guys ok? And don't worry, I'll be fine."

After a little argument the males left and Kagome walked in the direction she saw her not-so-dead guy. She stopped a little ways from the group and observed him. As she determined it was him he must have felt someone watching him because he turned in her direction. Seeing her surprise flashed in his eyes before smirking and walking away from his group towards her.

"I'm surprised you're alive, humans don't tend to live 500 years."

"I'm surprised you're alive too, I saw Inu Yasha kill you."

The demon laughed full out.

"No, no miko, I'm not that easy to kill that a little puppy could do it. Yes, I admit I was injured, but far from dead. Now how 'bout you? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you should have died long ago."

"Well then I'll have to correct you as I'm obviously not dead." The demon glared at her. "But I don't fell like telling an enemy how I lived. What's your team name, as I assume you're here to compete."

"Team Raiden. I would ask why you are here but I can guess you're on the loser human team." The demon sneered.

"Yes, I am on the human team. You know, when I first saw you, I didn't think it was you, but now that I know it is, I have one thing to say to you. You better damn well make it to the final round because I'm the one who is going to beat and kill you Hiten."

Hiten laughed again and painfully grabbed Kagome's arm as she was walking away.

"I'll see you in the finals miko, but I'll be the one to kill you, that is if you can make it that far."

Kagome ripped her arm out of Hiten's grasp, glared at him, and walked away. She was glad for her demon healing because she knew Yusuke would have a fit if he saw the bruise that would have formed on her was it not for them. As it was, as soon as she opened the door Yusuke was on her checking for wounds. She just swatted him away and flopped on a random couch.

"So what do we do now?"

The guys shrugged making Kagome roll her eyes at them.

"How 'bout a movie?"

They just shrugged again. Kagome let out a frustrated sigh and put a random movie in to watch. They spent the rest of their time watching movies before heading to bed.