Touch of Heart

Summary: Kagome Higurashi, after being homeschooled for so long, moved to a new home to live with her fiancé; her 'second' family takes the initiative to place her in his school. It was bad timing, perhaps. Her family had been taken from her; she wasn't there to stop the blood.

Anime: InuYasha/Battle Royale

Couple(s): Kagome/Kazuo

Genre: Romance/Angst

Rated: M

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A Choice of Survival

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Kagome smiled as she ran south from the school. She stopped behind a tree and opened her bag to see what it was that she had been lucky enough to get in her bag as a means of defense. Her eyes widened at the weapon in her bag, pulling it out carefully, she looked over the weapon in wonder. "A...ninety-mime light machine gun..." she whispered as she read the type of machine gun as carved into the metal of the gun. Grabbing some box magazines from her bag, she grinned as she loaded the gun and took it off the safety mode before zipping up her bag and quickly running off in the direction she'd been heading off in to begin with.

A scream from behind her caused her to stop and turn, curiously, she wondered who that was, and what had happened. Perhaps she should have just continued on her way, she would have been safer...she should have just continued...

Racing off in the direction of the scream, she stopped short of a clearing; a shadow made itself known, but she couldn't see who it was quite yet. Crouching down behind a bush, she glanced over her shoulder and tried to get a better look at who it was in the clearing. She could also see feet, from who she assumed was the one to scream.

"Warrior...I am a warrior. I will kill anyone who gets in my way!"

Kagome ducked down as the footsteps grew close and made certain that she was hidden in the shadows. The person walked out of the clearing, right past her! She recognized her, but didn't have a name for her yet, she hadn't been introduced to her.

"Who's there!?"

Kagome jumped at the new voice, watching as a boy stepped out with a girl beside him. Two more students she didn't know by name, but recognized from the students in the classroom. Obviously there would be no one else on the island, with the Programs military lackeys as the exception.

"No, Mizuho! It's me, Sakura! Please...we don't want to fight!"

Kagome gathered the information of the two girls, just one name per girl, but a manner of identification all the same.

"I-I'm a warrior...I will kill, to live, and survive. I will survive. Sakura..."

"No, you don't need-"

"AHHH~!"

Kagome's eyes widened as the girl charged the couple. Standing up without much though, she pointed her gun and fired. The sound of rapid fire was loud enough to frighten anyone away within a fifty foot radius, maybe even further out.

~THUMP~

Kagome shook her head; "Oh kami..." tears filled her eyes as she met the eyes of the couple across from her. Both too shocked to say anything, too far gone to scream in fright, they just stared at the lifeless Mizuho. "I'm sorry...I...she was going to kill you. I just moved..."

Sakura broke out of her shock first, tears spilling out from her eyes as she took in the unmoving sight of her female classmate. "N-no...it would have...h-happened, anyway. I just...why did I have...to be here."

"Sakura..."

It was the girls boyfriends turn to snap out of his shock.

Kagome shook her head and stepped away from the couple, ""You should both go now...before something worse happens. Before someone worse comes..."

"...Kazuhiko...let's go."

Kagome watched the two turn away, now with the boy's name in mind. "How...will you two avoid fighting?" She couldn't help but ask.

Sakura turned around, curiously; she stepped up to Kagome who held her gun lowered to her side, the safety on and the gun pointing away from them. "...It really is a horrible program...wondering how to continue on without fighting shouldn't be what we need to think about at such young ages. Is there somebody you love, Higurashi-San?"

Kagome blushed, despite the situation and the dead body beside her. "I...uh...yes, yes there is."

Sakura smiled, "Then when you find him, stand by his side, and no matter what, never raise your weapon to him...show your love in loyalty."

Kagome watched the two leave. They hadn't answered her question, but she had a feeling that their way of avoiding killing would end with suicide all the same. "No more wasting time..."Kagome left the clearing and headed back in the direction of the southernmost cliff of the island she was on.

She was the first one to arrive, but by only a few seconds. As soon as she sat down, Kazuo walked out of the forest and walked forward, stopping a few feet before her. Kagome sat her gun down on the large boulder she was sitting on a few seconds ago before running to Kazuo and throwing her arms around his neck. "Kazuo..."

"...things aren't going to be easy...Kagome."

Kagome pulled back and smiled sadly. "This...isn't what I wanted, but I won't complain. Kill me in the end, Kazuo...but let me stay by your side until the very end...that is all I ask. I want to be there, when you win...I know you can, and you will."

Kazuo walked forward with her still in his arms, content as he pushed her so that her back was against the boulder behind her. He leaned down and kissed her, placing soft kisses along her neck and down her shoulder. He only stopped when a ruffle of leaves caught his attention and he turned his own gun to the direction of the sound that had kept him from continuing his assault on his beautiful, pure, Kagome.

Kagome glanced around Kazuo, a blush on her cheeks as her fingers traced the trail of kisses he'd left along her neck. A small smile on her lips as she realized, that had been his answer to her request. He was going to let her stay by his side.

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Me: Here is chapter seven, I hope everyone enjoyed! This fic is fun to write, and it's only going to get more exciting! Leave me a review, and I'll update again soon~! Luv, Luv!