Disclaimer: I do not own the Inuyasha characters but the story plot belongs to me. Nor do I own the songs that may be presented.
The Fight
Sesshomaru was a master at almost any martial arts. Yet he was surprised at the speed and grace of the four girls fighting. His brother and Miroku had told him of the humans they had met but they hadn't said anything of this.
The trio had entered at the same time as the four girls had. They had watched as Mikael had been his normal self and talked to the four inappropriately. Inuyasha growled softly beside him and was about to go and hit the guy when Sesshomaru and Miroku held him back.
I need to know how well they are trained, Sesshomaru reasoned in his mind.
He watched as the leaders faced each other. When he had seen the first girl moved he had to ask his companions to make sure that he had heard them right, "I thought you said she was human?"
"She is," replied the two.
Then they all joined into the fight the rest of the students and the other three girls. In no time flat they had taken down all the students in the room. Most of the students, including the one who had first spoken to the girls, had been training with him for years and were very skilled as humans go. And then these girls go and fight them as if they were fighting toddlers.
One of the girls, the one with dark brown hair put in a side pony tail, said, "It looks like it was raining guys in here."
Another one giggled as the red head replied, "I wouldn't call them guys. I would call them little boys who just got their asses handed to them."
The leader smiled at the other girls and the demon couldn't help but clap at their performance. He must have startled them because they turned to face the trio, easily moving into a fighting stance.
The girls were confused as they recognized two of the three before them. "Inuyasha? Miroku? What are you guys doing here?" Kagome asked casually but none of them came out of their stances.
But before they could answer the tallest one, which the four realized was a demon, began to talk. "Your skills are formidable, every single one of you. My name is Sesshomaru. I am the instructor for this class."
The girls relaxed out of their fighting stances and Rin replied for the introductions. "My name is Rin Kato. To my right is my roommate Ayame Wolfe. To my left is my cousin Kagome Higurashi and to her left is her roommate Sango Tanaka."
Rin thought that the demon was a bit thoughtful before he said, "Where is it that you learned to fight with such speed because I can tell that that three of you are human."
"Was there a question in there?" Kagome asked sarcastically. She knew she probably shouldn't do that but she hated it when people thought of her as weak and underestimated her.
"My question is how fast are you?" Sesshomaru asked with a piercing glance at Kagome.
Rin and Sango heard the challenge in his voice and knew what was going to happen next. Kagome smiled at the challenge and replied, "Well let's find out shall we?"
Sesshomaru gave a smirk as he barked out, "Mikeal get up and all of you move out of the way."
"Yes cause we don't want to hurt or scare you," Kagome added in her sweet southern belle accent.
Mikeal looked at the girl he had fought and the phrase If looks could kill, went through her mind. But all he said was, "Teach her a lesson sensei."
The boys in the class went to one side of the gym and the girls stayed on the other side. Miroku and Inuyasha went to go talk to the girls. "I thought you said Kagome was shy," Inuyasha asked Sango.
"She is," Sango answered and she saw the confused looks by the boys so she went on, "but in a gym or on a stage she is a completely different person."
"That and she couldn't say no to a challenge," Rin added.
The sparring match had begun but it was hard to keep up with the movements. The small group could tell that each had landed their fair share of hits but mostly the two were dodging each other's assaults. They broke apart and both were breathing hard. Kagome had her back to the boys in the class while Sesshomaru had his to the girls plus Inuyasha and Miroku.
Then something happened. Sesshomaru rushed at her and she got in a defensive position but then she heard something coming from behind her. The boy named Mikeal broke out and rushed at Kagome as well. She took a few steps toward him and round house kicked Mikeal in the head, he went limp and fell, and then she turned just in time to block Sesshomaru's punch. Again as if to support how good she was another loud thunder clap went off.
The demon backed up from her and bowed. She did the same. They both silently conceited to the fact that the other was very good and today's match would be considered a draw.
Inuyasha was so surprised that his brother would let it end in a draw but his anger at Mikeal took over and he went over to the body. As soon as he saw the boy up close he knew that Kagome had really knocked him good and that Mikeal would be out for a while.
The three girls on the sidelines didn't even bother with the one that they had all dubbed 'the jerk'. They raced over to Kagome.
Kagome saw her friends coming towards her as she sunk to her knees trying to catch her breath. Then everybody's words started to assault her ears.
"Are you alright?" Ayame asked.
"Can you get up? You know sitting down like that after a match isn't good for you. My father would be upset," came Sango's worried voice.
Rin spoke up, "Sango's right you need to stretch."
"She'll be fine if everyone will let her catch her breath," it was Sesshomaru this time but his voice was a bit breathy too.
But his voice made the other girls angry. Rin turned on him. "You!" The demon was surprised at the ferociousness in her voice. He thought it sounded much like the roar of a mama bear protecting her cub. Rin continued, "You could have stopped when you saw someone interfering in the match. But you didn't and you call yourself the teacher. You should teach those temper-tantrum babies," she pointed to the guys in the class, "to: One - not interfere in a match and Two - not to underestimate someone because of size or gender."
Inuyasha and Miroku were surprised that the demon didn't say anything back. They thought that perhaps he was just ignoring her like one would ignore a bug. But in all actuality he could think of nothing to say.
Fortunately Kagome came to his rescue. "Rin leave him alone. I was a challenge for him. He obviously hadn't had to work like that against anyone in a long time and he got wrapped up in that challenge, forgetting just about everything." Kagome was up and stretching out her muscles to cool down. She could see that Rin was about to argue and she cut her off by saying, "And if you really want to continue we could talk about the times it's happened to you."
Sesshomaru was fascinated by Kagome and when she had spoke for him the other three girl's anger seemed to go down to a mild irritation. Rin closed her mouth and settled for glaring at him.
The dog demon didn't want this small girl to not like him so he decided to apologize. "I'm very sorry Kagome. It is as you said I have not been challenged like that in a long time. Not even Inuyasha makes me work that hard."
"Oi," Inuyasha shouted at the insult. But he turned to the four girls and said, "You four are amazing. I have seen two miracles in this gym. The first one is you actually got Sesshomaru to claim a draw, even if it was a silent claim. And the second, which is the bigger of the two, you got my brother to apologize."
Sesshomaru growled as Kagome ask confused, "Brother?"
The demon answered, "We are actually half brothers. Same father."
Kagome felt as if neither one wanted to talk about it farther so she said, "That's cool." The brothers relaxed as they realized that she wasn't going to ask any more questions.
Sango loved that Kagome could make others more at ease, because she seemed to have a sixth sense about when she knew she could take it farther an when not to push it. Even Ayame really liked her and the wolf demon acted and reacted as a one of the group and had known the other three for years instead of days. Sango knew that it was because of Kagome.
Inuyasha and Miroku were both in awe of all of the girls.
"How could you move that fast?" Sesshomaru asked.
Kagome got a weird look on her face as she replied coolly, "Demons have been out for almost 500 years. Do you really think that there is a human alive that doesn't have part demon in them?"
The boys thought about it for a second and came to the conclusion that she was right. Miroku looked like he was going to ask more though but with one glance from Sango he closed his mouth.
Ayame saw that the awkwardness of the brothers when they talked about their family relation and to her it was a bit like Kagome's cool response.
The silence was unrelenting until Kagome got done with her stretches and said, "Well this may be a fun class after all." Sesshomaru gave her a smile as she bowed and continued, "Sensei may we please go?"
He nodded and watched as the group of four left the gym. As soon as the door closed he turned to his students and barked, "All of you owe me 100 pushups and 20 laps around this gym."
A/N : I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a long time.