Recap

"No," was Kagome's solid answer, "I have no desire to play. It's not apart of my life anymore; besides if you knew who I really was you would be both embarrassed that I beat your best players so many times and I caught weaknesses in your team that you failed to notice yourself."

She continued, "I mean I'm sure you knew your team wasn't functioning properly, but I guess you just didn't see why it wasn't working. Well, I have to go now. My ride might leave without me." She jogged away.

"At least tell us who you are!" screamed Inuyasha.

"No, I'm gonna disappear and the next time you see me, you won't even know it's me; so don't worry."

Swift Chapter 4

With that she left. She quickly jogged into the boy's looker room and grabbed her stuff. She couldn't afford to get showered and dressed in the boy's looker room. Someone might realize that she, their mystery kid had, to get changed and go look in there. That would certainly be interesting.

She glanced out into the hallway and saw the girl's looker room 2 doors down on the other side of the hallway.

"Thank god," she cheered as she rushed over and pulled the door open.

The first thing that she noticed was that it was recently used. Probably by a volley ball team. She knew she had to act fast if she was going to get showered and out on the bleachers before those girls became suspicious, or the aforementioned volleyball team returned.

With any luck they football team would be too concerned in the whereabouts of the 'mystery kid' to go looking for him.

She was glad that she hung out with boys her whole life because she knew that she could be ready in tem minutes. She had no makeup, hair gel, or accessories to worry about. The only thing that she was worried about was the shower, but she was only going to rinse off the nasty smell. She timed herself; she was ready in 8 minutes and 45 seconds. Good, she was beating her record. She even took a second to spray on some body spray that she saw through the cracks of one of the open lockers.

She remembered her way out and rushed back to the stands. When she got there she was immediately assaulted with questions.

"Where the hell were you?"

"I thought you left us, you were gone so long!"

"You really scared the shit out of me, I know I haven't known you for long but you just disappeared. That was so weird. Where did you go for so long?" questioned Sango.

Kagome had been ready for this. "I was going to the bathroom and got completely lost trying to find an open door, and then when I got inside I realized that I had no idea where to go. I almost pissed my pants trying to find a bathroom. Not exactly my idea of fun," explained Kagome.

She saw the girls look at her for a second then take a breath of relief. Kagome knew they bought it and couldn't be happier.

"So," started Sango, "did you happen to see any of that display down there."

"Of what?" feigned Kagome.

"Oh My God! You really missed it. Some new kid just came in and Shippo, that kid right there," Ayame pointed to the left slightly, "let him play and he totally just whopped Inuyasha's ass. It was so fuckin hilarious. He got so pissed, I thought he was gonna shit a brick."

"Be real Ayame, the kid got all of them. He embarrassed the whole team. That one kid intercepted the ball from Inuyasha more than once, and then he basically glided through all of the defenses. Even your precious Koga got his ass handed to him a couple of times." Sango teased.

"He's not my precious, and you should talk Mrs. Miroku Houshi." retorted Ayame.

"You bitch, you know wha…"

"Shut up!" yelled Rin. "I am so tired of this old argument. If you won't admit that you like them, then no one except Kagome and I are allowed to speak about either one of them. Understood?"

"Yeah," came their pitiful responses.

It got really quiet after that and Kagome decided to break the ice a little. "When I was walking back up into the stands I did hear some people talking about it a little. They said that the kid was like a phantom; he just came kicked their asses, and then disappeared. No one knows who that guy was or where he came from. Is it true? I mean, how could that happen?"

"Yeah," said Sango, having recovered from her scolding from Rin, "it was just like that. You should have see it though; I'm no football expert, but I have seen this team play enough to know that they've never had anyone that good on their field before. Even on the opponents. I've never seen it before, except when, my brother wants to watch football on TV and takes the remote from me. And the craziest part was, he just vanished in the looker room. I saw Kohaku, my brother, go check the looker room after maybe 45 seconds and the kid was gone. Crazy huh."

Kagome was ecstatic, she had a little fun and no one had any clue that it was her. Then she thought she should ask, "Do you know if they are still accepting new players? My brother would owe me seriously if I got him at least a try out."

"Yeah, I think they are," Rin replied, "Sesshomaru said they were always looking for new players. I think they were going to train some of the JV to be on varsity, but if your brother is good enough, and with a few words from us, he could skip the whole JV thing and go straight to varsity, what grade is he in?"

"It's gonna be difficult to convince them because he's only a freshman, but with a with a few sweet words from his little Rin, Sesshomaru could make it happen." Said Sango.

"Actually, he's a sophomore. I know you think he's a freshman, Sango, because I told you he was 14, but he skipped Kindergarten and straight to 1st grade. So would that help at all?" corrected Kagome.

"Really, Oh My God! This is gonna be awesome. We can be friends, then our brother's can be friends, then our dad's can be friends. This is gonna rock!" Yelled Sango.

"Well almost, my dad died when I was young so maybe just our mom's." said Kagome

"I'm sorry! No, my mom died when I was younger. I guess our parents can be friends. It'll still be cool."

"I'm sorry too."

It got real awkward and quiet, and then Ayame broke the silence with one of her lines, "Let's blow this popsicle stand!"

They looked at each other then started to crack up. They laughed so hard that they drew the attention of some of the surrounding people. Even some of the football players watched them in confusion.

They got up and walked down the bleacher stairs still chuckling. If Kagome had known that girls were this fun she would have definitely made some friends back home. "So what do you guys do for fun around here?"

The three girls gave each other a look and then grabbed her arm and dragged her into the car as fast as they could. Kagome was probably strong enough to take them (including Ayame and her demon strength), and more than skilled in fighting than all of them. The only one that could pose a threat was Sango and even then, she grew up fighting and wrestling with boys. Okay, now she was just being arrogant. If they worked together, Ayame's demon strength and Sango's traditional training had her, no doubt about it.

Good thing she wasn't trying to get away. She trusted them. Not with her life or anything, but enough to know that they weren't going to kidnap her or anything.

You know where they ended up, the mall of course. It was weird for Kagome, she kinda wished that they had kidnapped her. She almost never went to the mall, and when she did, she never went into the clothes stores because she was with her guy friends. They went to the shoe store to get athletic shoes, or just the new Jordan's that came out. If they did walk around the mall it was to look at the girls and get numbers, which she never did, but it was always interesting to see her friends get shot down, or hear some of the crazy pick-up lines they came up with.

They walk in and visited stores that she had no idea existed. So much stuff and it all looked the same to her. They all seemed completely at home as they dragged her from one store to the next. Hadn't they ever heard of internet shopping? She thought she would commit suicide. She was grateful that she left her money at home otherwise she was sure that they would have tried to force at least one dress on her.

That was something she absolutely refused to do. She didn't care if it blew her cover or not. That would be compromising her, and that was not going to happen. She would try new clothes, cute tops, short-shorts, and even light makeup; but absolutely not wear any types of dresses or skirts. They just aren't for her.

She did almost expose her interest in sports when Sango caught her reading Sports Illustrated while they were in a dressing room in a dress store, where she refused to try on any thing so she read a magazine while she waited for them to come out. Sango was out first and Kagome didn't notice.

"Wow, the Lakers are signing a player that they claim is the new Shaq." She said sarcastically. It was obvious that she didn't care and was probably confused as to why Kagome would choose that magazine of all magazines to read.

"I know, there is never gonna be a new Shaq. If anything he is just gonna be a lot of muscle and power. They're just mad because they lost Shaq to Miami." Replied Kagome seriously. Kagome realized her mistake as Sango looked at her. So she had to think fast to save herself and said, "The new kid is so much cuter though. Who cares about a new Shaq when this new hottie has just made to my top ten. I mean have you seen his body."

Sango seemed to accept this response, but her eyes lingered a little longer before she said, "Forget the sports talk. How good does this make me look?"

Kagome took in her appearance. Sango had straight brown hair that was kept up in a pony tail except for her bangs. Her dress was this skin tight bright red little thing that was about knee length. It had a heart shaped top with thick straps. She definitely looked hot. So Kagome told her, "You look hot. You'll definitely have Miroku ready rip that little dress right off you if you wear it out." She could see Sango's mouth open to scold her for the Miroku comment so she stopped her, "But of course, that would have nothing to do with you buying that dress."

"You learn too fast Kagome, but don't worry, you were right the first time." Said Ayame, stepping out of her dressing room. She had red hair, but emerald green eyes. Her dress matched her eyes and gave this gorgeous contrast to her hair. It was a v-neck backless dress that went in at the waist then flowed out gracefully. It was truly the best dress anyone with red hair could wear.

Then a third voice could be heard, "Now, now, Ayame, I hope you don't think your being slick. Everyone, except Kagome, knows that Koga's favorite color is green. I don't think this is a coincidence. Do either of you," Rin then pointed to Sango and Kagome.

"No, green is a pretty sexy color. Is that what you were going for? Because if you were, you got it and I'm positive you'll have no complaints from Koga." Said Sango.

Just as Ayame was about to respond, Kagome decided to change the subject, "Wow Rin, I have never seen anyone make bright yellow look so good. That baby doll bubble dress is fantastic. I must admit though, all three of you together remind me of a traffic light," she giggled at her own joke.

"You know what, your right!" said Rin. "If only you would put on that little black dress, we would really look perfect together."

"No. I told you, I don't do dresses or skirts. I never have, and never will, but if you find me a cute pants suit I'm sure we could make it work." Argued Kagome, she was not going to lose her self for these girls. She would not let their puppy dog faces waiver her decision.

"Fine," said Ayame, "Lets get dressed again I have to get to my house because some ancient family relative is coming over and I'm supposed to make a good impression or something." The three girls walked back into their dressing rooms and Kagome was so tempted to pull out her magazine again, but she was not going to risk a repeat of last time.

She hadn't seen the look on her new friends faces when they returned from the changing rooms. They silently decided to split the costs of the black dress because they were going to get it on Kagome one way or another.

When her and Sango were dropped off in between their houses, they exchanged cell phone numbers and went about there ways. Kagome went to her room to change into her pajamas, which was a tank top with built in support and some short-shorts. It wasn't time for bed or anything, but

It was more comfortable and all she was going to do is eat, talk to her old friends on the phone while she watched a game on TV, and then sleep.

She almost couldn't believe it, she had friends that were girls that didn't talk about stupid stuff or bore her either. Also, they were all relatively athletic. They didn't know much, but at least she would be able to watch the school games because they would be cheering there. She had also got the impression that Sango was in the karate team, but they didn't talk much about it and she couldn't be sure. She had hope that maybe in the spring; she would do tennis or something that she could say that the only wanted to play because of the cute outfit. A little ridiculous, she knew it, but she didn't want to be known as the sports girl any more. Guys don't like girls who act like guys and girls don't like girls who care more about basketball than Barbie.

She also had this weird drive to go ski diving or rock climbing or something extreme. She would have to be discrete if she did. All these things kept complicating things even more.

The thing that she was not looking forward to was meeting 'the guys' tomorrow. They didn't have practice and Sango had practically forced her to say that she would meet them. She had no idea how to act.

She sighed, she new now was not the time to start losing her focus like that. Now was the time for her A-game. It was do or die here.

Her friends laughed at her in typical guy fashion when she told them what her plan was. Firstly, they couldn't imagine her giving up sports for more than week. Then she told them about what happened on the field and their exact words were, "You gotta be shitting me!" then they realized that this was definitely something that she could do. They still laughed at the thought of her having actual girls for friends, so she naturally told them to fuck off and she was going to bed. Then they hung up and she went to bed.

Now she was ready to face the next day.