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Time to Talk?

Her silver eyes flickered to left then to right. She didn't recognize where she was. The room was untidy with white papers scattered everywhere, furniture fallen to the floor, and books all over the floor. Whoever the room's owner was, that person must be a disorganized person, she noted (she did not realize she was the cause of such disorder). Scanning the room, she noticed there were two other (besides the one in front of her) distinctive youki not far from her, and she instantly tensed. Could it be that one of these demons had taken the jewel here? If that was the case, she needed to kill them. She picked up the pink jewel that lay innocently on the tatami floor and slipped it into a small packet inside her haori's sleeve. Hopefully the jewel will stay there when she fights. Kagome flexed her fingers. It had been long since she had a physical fight.

Haruka brought up his staff just as the girl's sword came crashing down on him. He and Sugino had been fighting this mysterious woman for more than thirty minutes yet there was no sign of it ending. Though Haruka did not wish to believe, he somehow felt as though the girl was going easy on them, her movements repressed and simple that he could easily block and expect the next attack. He spotted Kantarou few feet away from the fight, looking at him worried. Haruka managed to flash him a short smile before he countered the attack and attempted to hit her with his dull end of the staff. She managed to dodge his stab just in time and attacked his side with her sword. Just when Haruka blocked the sword, her hand, which was glowing with soft, silver light, approached him, and Haruka instinctively dodged away from her. She was dangerous. Whatever power she had, his instinct screamed, was dangerous to him. A small chill ran down his spine as the girl abandoned her sword and got into combat position, both of her hands glowing. His grip on the staff tightened. He wasn't going to let the girl have chance of laying her hands on Kantarou.

As for Kantarou who was standing along the sidelines watching, he was greatly worried about Haruka who seemed to be tired out by the long battle. The girl, he observed, was dangerously beautiful. With her flowing black hair and luminescent silver eyes, she almost seemed like a goddess fallen from the sky. Her looks were deceiving. He had no idea that that fragile looking girl could fight well enough to go against Haruka. His crimson eyes flickered left to right wildly, following the fast movements of Haruka, the mysterious girl, and Sugino who just recovered from an injury to his abdomen and joined the fight. There was a loud explosion and a silver flash before the two demons were thrown in two different directions, their skin badly burnt.

"Haruka! Sugino sama!"

There were small grunts, but no clear answer. Kantarou bit his lips. He had underestimated the girl's power, and now they were paying the price. He held out his beads to chant the usual words when his beads suddenly snapped. His crimson eyes slowly opened and saw that the girl was looking straight at him, her silver eyes curved into shape of crescent moon. Her silver eyes glittered before her eyes hardened again and fixed on the fallen form of the black crow. She raised her glowing hand and dashed towards the black tengu. Sugino saw her heading towards the onikui, but he couldn't move nor shout at him to move. Blood dripped down from the corner of his mouth as his black eyes fixed on the back of the girl who was now bringing her hand down, plunging into Haruka's stomach.

"Onikui!"

His cry rang.

After she sparred for God knows how long, she finally realized she was not fighting enemies but some random demons that came across the jewel by chance. But she could not stop fighting and apologize to them that she had mistaken them for potential enemies. No, she was too damn prideful to do that. So Kagome had no other choice but to continue fighting and appear as though she was handling them seriously. Out of corner of her eye, she saw that the silver haired boy had taken out his beads to chant the binding words, and she somehow knew by instinct that if she were to be bound, the two demons would not hesitate to kill her.

'Sorry, kid. Can't let that happen.'

She let a small stream of her powers to slide towards the boy and snap the beads in half. As the small beads fell on to the grass, she smiled apologetically to the boy and fixed her gaze at the demon. She really wanted to stop fighting. Her powers were running out drastically due to lack of actual fighting in the real world, and her stamina was down low. Gathering up the last bits of energy she had, she focused it in her hand and dashed towards the fallen demon. She saw his dark orbs crack just a little as she brought her hand down to his stomach, attempting to pierce it clean.

"Onikui!"

She heard the other demon cry out in despair and she let out a small chuckle. She had won. Her hand had pierced he demon's abdomen cleanly, the tips of her fingers visible out in his back. The demon's eyes widened as he gasped, and she stayed like that for few seconds before she sharply retreated her hand back. The demon fell to the floor on his knees, and she smiled at him in triumph. Her skills have not rusted. Her hand was clean with no traces of blood, and his stomach was still intact. In fact, all his injuries were healed without leaving any traces of scars.

"How…"

"Perhaps it's time for us to talk?"

Oh, she just loved that priceless expression on his face.

A/N

Yeah... i know.. it's supposed to be the FBxIY fic that I'm supposed to be updating this time, but i just had to write this chapter! I was so excited about Kagome out of the jewel... Lol

Anyways,

Thanks to: kakashixangela, WraithReaper

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