InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Stronger Than Yesterday ❯ Chp 4 Let the Truth Be Told ( Chapter 4 )

Chp. 4 Let the Truth Be Told

AN: This chapter is for kogas_mate05, who, like me, loves a dance scene. But don't think I'm just going to do scenes for everybody, it just so happens that this particular scene worked well with the story. So enjoy Read and please Review, I'll give you a cookie if you do.

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"SHIT!" Kagome said loudly that night in her room. "Shit, shit, shit!" Kagome swore again as she reread the spell in her book. Sitting on her bed, in boxers and a white t-shirt, Kagome had been attempting to find a spell to remove her collar, but the closest she found was a command of the inanimate object spell, but it went horribly wrong. In her haste to do the spell, she had read half of the commanding spell, and half of another spell. An obedience spell.

"Okay, maybe you didn't mess it up, maybe you did it right...Then why isn't the fucking collar off? No Calm down Kagome, you just cast a commanding obedience charm on yourself, nothing to worry about, unless someone finds out before you can get it off!"

Calming down with this newfound knowledge, Kagome put away the book and pulled out the relic they had just acquired.

The relic was simple, round, heavy, and hard, just plain and simple. Yet, as she held it in her hands, she could feel the powers radiating from it, could feel the power tingling her hands as if waves of water were lapping her. It was so...invigorating.

She hadn't felt anything like this before, only once and that was when she had slapped. When she slapped him, she could feel a warm tingling in her fingers as her hand touched his face. She found she had actually enjoyed slapping him, although the second time was an accident. It sent a chill of excitement down her spine just remembering it.

Sighing, she put the relic back in its holder and slid it under the bed, before turning off the bedside lamp and getting under the covers to fall asleep.

"I'll be okay as long as know one finds out." Kagome murmured aloud before falling asleep.

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Kagome was the last down for breakfast the next morning. Trying not to let her nervousness show about the curse, dressed in a simple white tee and black hip hugger jeans that flared out slightly, Kagome entered the kitchen to find Hiei glaring hatefully at her.

`Hateful little firecracker aren't you?' she thought telepathically to him.

But the only reply she got was a harder, darker glare.

Rolling her eyes at him, she sat herself down at the table to eat.

`I hate this collar.' She began to think as she munched on some toast, and stared absentmindedly at Hiei. `I have to get it off somehow. Maybe if I get a pair of scissors I could cut it off. Ooh or maybe I can get a blowtorch and burn it to smithereens. Yeah that's it...burn it up. Oh wait, but I might get burned. Maybe acid. That's it. I'll get some acid and...'

`Woman, stop your bumbling! You're thinking too loud!' Hiei growled telepathically to her. `And divert your gaze; the sight of your face sickens me.'

Kagome would have come back with a smart remark, but the collar wouldn't have it. So unwillingly, Kagome stopped thinking and turned her head.

With her head facing in another direction, Kagome missed the quizzical look upon Hiei's face.

"Look at me onna." Hiei demanded aloud, making the rest to look at him and Kagome.

Trying not to make it too obvious that she had to do whatever was commanded of her, Kagome turned to face Hiei with an angry scowl on her face. "Who the hell do you think you are, you evil hobbit? Where do you get off trying to tell me what to...?"

"Silence your tongue onna." Hiei smirked, as Kagome stopped at the end of her sentence, a look of a painful death upon her face.

"Hiei, what is going on?" Kurama asked looked from Hiei to Kagome and back to Hiei.

"Uhh...I have to go to the bathroom." Kagome said hastily as she began to run up the stairs.

"Come back here." Hiei demanded just as she reached the stairs.

"I DIDN'T HEAR THAT, I DIDN'T HEAR THAT, I DIDN'T HEAR THAT!" Kagome chanted loudly, eyes screwed shut, and hands over her ears, never realizing that she was now running backwards. But when she felt herself stop, she stopped her chanting and slowly opened her eyes, only to find herself standing beside Kurama. "Damn." she said in defeat her arms dropping to her sides.

"Have a seat." Hiei told her as he pulled out a chair for her. "And stay there." he put in as an afterthought.

"Whoa shorty, what did you do to her?" Kuabawra asked loudly as he, Yuske, and Kurama came to stand around the two.

"Wow Hiei, you've tamed the beast." Yuske said teasingly pinching a very angry Kagome on the cheek.

"Again, I must ask: What is going on?" Kurama asked again.

"Why don't you ask the girl?" Hiei suggested.

"Very well then. Kagome, what is going on?" Kurama asked her, getting tired of asking the same question repeatedly.

"You're all signing your death certificate, that's what!" she yelled angrily. "Now let me up!"

"But no ones holding you down, what's stopping you from leaving now?" Kurama inquired.

Kagome was silent, and she held her head down.

"Now onna, why don't you tell us what is going on?" Hiei asked, for even he wasn't sure why this was happening.

"And why don't you call me by my birth given name?" she spat at him angrily.

"I asked you a question!" He growled, confused as to why she wasn't obeying anymore.

"And I asked you one!" Kagome yelled her miko flaring up.

"Calm down Kagome." Kurama told her nervously, edging away as her miko got higher.

Obeying, all Kagome's anger vanished and her miko and breathing became low and even.

Now Hiei seemed to realize what was going on. Along with the others in the room. "Onna, why do you obey when you wish not to?"

"Obey? Who says I'm obeying you? Who's not to say I leading you into a trap of safe security, where I can make you all my personnel slaves?"

"Tell the truth."

"I was messing with this stupid collar yesterday and now I must obey everything someone tells me." Kagome told them without hesitation.

"Really?" Yuske said with a look of concentration. "Tell me. Why do you act so...psychotic?" he demanded, waiting to hear anything then what she said.

"It's my way of dealing," she said quietly hanging her head and wishing that he had asked anything but that. For that simple question could lead up to many a secrets, she would rather keep buried.

"Dealing with what?" Kuabawra asked confusedly.

"Dealing with my pain," she whispered quietly that they barely heard what she said, all except Kuabawra.

"With what?" he asked speaking louder.

"IT'S MY WAY OF DEALING WITH THE PAIN OF BETRAYAL AND HEARTBREAK!" she yelled never looking up, her bangs covering her face in shadow.

The others didn't need to see her face to know that it was covered with traces of an old pain that still hurt. They wanted to know more about her past to further trust her, but not at the cost of tears, and they were about to back off, but her tears did not affect Hiei.

"Tell us about it. Tell us everything," he told her without sympathy, ignoring the looks his teammates were giving him.

Kagome had braced herself for this the moment they figured out her curse, and had fully suspected Hiei to be the one to do it. "It all started three years ago when I was fifteen..." she told them, surprising them with how steady her voice was, although they suspected her shrouded face streaming with silent tears. She told them everything, and not just because Hiei demanded it of her (although that was a major part of it), but because once she started she couldn't stop, and the more she told the lighter she felt, for her tale was finally being lifted from her shoulder. And it felt good.

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"...and I've hadn't been back yet. The only good I could say that has come from that, is my training I have done to become stronger, for when I do return, I want need a treacherous hanyou to protect me." she finished quietly, her head still down and cloaked.

With her tale said and done the others stood in silence as it sunk in.

"Okay, if you don't mind, I'll like to go to my room." Kagome said as she looked up at them, a grim smile on her face, but what shocked them was the lack of tears or redness on her face. She hadn't even started to cry.

"Oh...yes...you can go." Kurama stammered.

"Thank you." She thanked him before getting up and walking up the stairs.

Hiei felt certain anger towards the hanyou for what he had done. He couldn't understand why someone would prefer a clay corpse over the beautiful flesh of a live woman like Kagome. He just couldn't understand it, but what he did understand was why his respect for the girl had raised a tremendous amount as he saw how she didn't breakdown like any other ningen (sp?) women would have.

Coming out of his thoughts, Hiei looked around to find the heated glares of his teammates bearing down on him.

"Hn." he growled, before turning his back on them and walking out the door.

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On entering her room, Kagome quickly shut her door and lay down on her bed with her eyes closed. `I feel as if a truck has been lifted off my back. I don't know whether to be mad at those guys for making me spill, or to be gracious.'

"It'd work better to be gracious. You shouldn't keep things like that bottled up. It could just get you killed." A voice said from within her room.

"Didn't you see the sign? No homicidal midgets allowed." Kagome said lazily opening her eyes to stare at the Fire demon sitting on her bed.

"I misjudged you girl." Hiei said, ignoring her first comment.

"Most people do.," she said closing her eyes again.

"Why didn't you cry?"

"Because I told myself long ago, that I wouldn't let him make me cry anymore."

"Will you ever go back?"

"Of course, it's my duty to complete my mission."

He was pleased to hear this.

"Will you kill the hanyou and your incarnate if you see them?"

She was silent for a moment.

"I don't know."

"Do you still love the hanyou?"

She didn't answer.

"Do you?"

"Why do you care?" she snapped sitting up to glare at him, but he was already gone.

A ringing brought her attention away from her searching for Hiei to her cell phone.

"Hello?" she asked speaking into the phone.

"Oh, Hi Dee, (the Dancing Demon, name is Dee) what's going on...?"

"...Are you sure...I'll love to..."

"...What's the dress code...?"

"Oh...you might need to pick me up; I don't have a car..."

"...how about I meet at the club we met in..."

"...okay, about what time I need to be there..."

"...okay, great, see you later."

Hanging up the phone, Kagome wide grin soon turned into an agitated frown. "How the hell am I supposed to get away from those spirit detectives?"

"Damn! I hope you have some answers in you." Kagome cursed, grabbing her book and searching through it frantically.

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Later that afternoon, while everyone was in the living room watching TV. Kagome stealthily descended the stairs and crouched behind the couch.

Clutching a big pool ball sized marble she rolled it out into the opening in front of the Spirit Detectives, who spied it instantly.

"God Damn it! Another one." Was the only sound Yuske made before the marble took effect and they were all unconscious.

Sighing Kagome stood to see all four of them deep under her spell. "So they knew about my marbles. No doubt, Hiei told them. Oh well, no time to dawdle, get to work Kagome." she said to herself bringing out a black hair scrungie with little silver charms surrounding it, and an inscent.

Kurama, Yuske, and Kuabawra all sat on the together on the couch and Hiei sat by himself across from them in a Lazy-boy. Looking over her victims and giving them all scrutinizing glances she finally stopped in front of Kuabawra. "Since this collar is intoned to your spirit energy, I guess I'll have to take a little with me, won't I? Now, this won't hurt one bit, big boy."

Placing the scrungie over her wrist, she lit the inscent and began to circle it around his head while chanting a spell. Soon her efforts were rewarded as Kuabawra's spirit energy began to rise from his body.

Still chanting she place the scrungie into the energy and watched satisfied as it absorbed it. Stopping her chanting, Kagome allowed the remaining energy return to his body. She needed his energy; she didn't need to kill him.

"Well that was easier than I thought." she said aloud jingling the scrungie before placing it into her hair. "Now, what to do, what to do?" she asked herself looking around at the unconscious body, as thoughts of being pelted with water followed by being electrocuted flashed through her mind.

As an idea flashed through her head, she smiled evilly.

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"Now Kurama, don't you look pretty." Kagome laughed evilly as she finished applying make up onto Kurama's beautiful face.

Before issuing her revenge, Kagome had gone upstairs and changed into her clothing for the evening. She was wearing a red sleeveless shirt, with a low cut collar, but which covered all-important things. A pair of black stretch pants that were firm fitting at the waist but baggy at the bottom, and a black and red leather jacket that stopped just above where her belly button would be. And in her hair was a black scrungie with silver charms. (Sorry to those who submitted outfits, but this one was brought on by a nagging classmate who wants to be a designer.)

Standing up, she stood back to marvel at her handiwork. Kurama, who had already been a very handsome man, was now a very beautiful woman, wearing a pink frilly dress over his original clothing. She had put on lipstick and place kisses all over Yuske's face, smudged lipsticks on Kuabawra's lips, and placed their arms around each other. Causing for a very awkward moment between the two when they awoke, and to top it off she had a camera and had taken pictures.

Finally, she turned towards Hiei; she had nothing special planned for him except a big, black, magic marker of doom. Coming over to him, she sat on his lap and began the torture. She started out with drawing big dark circles over his eyes and connected them with a line to make it look like a pair of glasses. Next, she drew a mustache and a few doodles, nothing special, but then it was time to put her signatures. So all over his face, in the places not yet touched by her drawings, she wrote little sayings like: `I think Kagome's hot'...`I pissed Kagome off and all I got were these stupid drawings'...`I'm a pigheaded firecracker'...`I like cheese'...`candy is dandy'...and...`Kagome was here'.

Putting the magic marker up, she began to stretch and pull at his face like he was a piece of elastic. "Wow, you are so warm," she said aloud as her hands lingered on his cheeks. "This feels better than when I slapped you. Ooh! This is nice," she said rubbing her cheek against his face. "I wonder..." she trailed off dropping his hand, which had somehow came into her possession, and stuck her hand into his poncho. "I knew it, he's warm everywhere. He's like a heater. A walking heater, with a bad attitude, and a fat head."

Stepping back, she looked him over. "He needs something. Aha, that's it." Reaching into her pocket she pulled out two rubber bands and place Hiei's gravity defying hair into to ponytails on each side of his head. Finally done and satisfied she stepped back and took a picture.

"Oh look at the time, I have to get going." she exclaimed after looking at her watch, and with one last picture of herself in the midst of the havoc she made, she left, not once realizing that a third eye on a certain fire demon was rapidly moving beneath his white bandanna.

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It had turned out that Dee the DD's dancing partner had a horrible accident with a passing truck driven be her ex-boyfriend and was unable to dance with DD at a dance competition being held that day. So as a last result DD called Kagome to fill in.

She didn't have to wait long for DD to arrive. She had just arrived at the club, when he pulled up in a black Lamborghini convertible. He was dressed in white baggy stretch pants, black shirt, white and black striped jacket, with a white tam worn backwards on his short black hair.

"Wow! Did you get this by dancing in competitions?" she asked admiringly as she hopped into the passenger's side.

"No, I got this by winning competitions." he laughed before they zoomed off into the night.

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They made it to the dance competition early so they could practice some moves. On arrival, they signed up and were escorted to an area where the competitors were located. It turned out that it wouldn't be just her and DD to dance, but that he had a crew...his back up dancers mainly. They didn't seem to upset that their main female dancer was replaced by a human girl; it would seem that they all had been at the club when she and DD were dancing the other night, so they had confidence in her. After the introductions were made, they practiced a little then began to mingle.

Kagome walked around the club and idly watched the other teams practice.

"Not bad...they could use a little work...wow they are awesome...I could do that...that looks hard...my god they're practically having sex...those guys suck..." were the main thought that went through Kagome's head as she lingered from group to group.

Stopping to watch a particular good group Kagome suddenly felt a chill. A chill so cold it seemed to froze her soul. Jerking her head up, she looked around the club with a suspicious cautious eye.

"Hey, Kagome?"

Spinning around Kagome hand instantly went behind her back as she glared at the offender who had tapped her on the shoulder.

"Whoa, calm down...I just came to tell you we're up next." he, explained, jumping back.

It had only been DD. Relaxing; she looked at him with a scolding look, before bursting into laughter.

"Don't sneak up on me like that; I have few enemies who wouldn't hesitate to strike while I'm not looking."

DD was silent for a moment as he looked at her. "...Whatever, I'm not even going to ask, but come one we're up next." he said hastily grabbing her hand and dragging her through the club.

"Are you with group 17?" a young demoness asked with a clipboard in her hand.

"Yeah." DD answered.

"Then hurry and get ready, you're up next." she said before rushing off.

"Well you heard the lady, let's get ready." DD yelled dragging Kagome over to the rest of the group.

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Standing amidst the crowd of demons staring at them, Kagome, DD, and the others stood stock-still waiting for the music to start. The contest was set in parts, first the elimination round, where the teams would all dance individually in the ring. In the elimination round all bad teams were cut off then. The next part was where the competition really started. The second round was couple dancing only. Two lead dancers from different teams would then compete against each other in the ring as the team watched from the side. The next and final round was solo only. First, the two lead male dancers danced off against one another, then the girls against each other. From this round, the winners were decided.

"Now up, group 17!" the announcer yelled over the noise of the crowd. "Group 17, are you ready?"

Beside her DD shook his head yeah. The beat started up.

They started with jerking their body to the beat in a sort of pulsating move. With the last beat before the music started to speed up, all the girls dropped down, laid down on their backs, put their feet in the air, and did a split just as the boys took a flying tumble leap through the open space, before spring to their feet and doing the shake.

Walking up behind the boys, Kagome and the other girls seemingly grabbed their partners and tossed them out the way as they took the spot light. With their hands on the knees, the girls crouched down and straightened up with their top halves going to the left, then crouched again only coming up with their top halves pointing towards the right. They did this twice, before shooting up onto their tiptoes, turning to the side with their hands in the air, and shook their hips to the side before the flats of their feet hit the ground.

Sticking their right legs out at a 30-degree angle, they hunched their shoulder up and down as they hopped in a circle on their right legs. Finishing with that they threw their hands into the air, hiked their left legs up to their chests, and arched their backs making a birdcall. Then bending their still suspended leg they got into sitting positions, put a hand to their chin and pushed their heads to the side then back, before plopping onto the ground, just as the guys began to flip, hop, and cartwheel in front of them.

Kicking their legs up at the girls, the boys spun in a circle, hit the floor with one arm and jutted their legs out the stood up straight. Putting both hands on the ground and did a one handed handstand. Some with their free hands grabbing themselves, others with their free hand in the air meeting their foots. Suddenly, the other boys flipped over the hand standers and landed on their feet. Where they immediately went into a split, then reaching back with a hand, they grabbed their own collars and seemingly pulled themselves back up. Now all the guys danced in sequence together. Placing an elbow into their hands, they began to crip walking while switching from elbow to hand-to-hand to elbow. Then dropping to the ground and spring back up they started doing what could only be described as the manly tootsie roll. Then looking from side to side they all jumped towards the ground and landed on their hands, their faces mere centimeters from the ground and their feet barely off the ground. This made the crowd go wild.

The girls, not wanting to be shown up, now stole the spotlight again. While rolling their bodies in the only way girls can, they began to clap their hands to the beat of the music. Ceasing their clapping they turned to the sides, but kept their eyes glued to their partners, and stuck their arms out and began to pop and shake their bodies at a fast rate, that, yet again, only a girl could do. Turning back to the front, they put their arms out in front of them, crossed them, and began to fold and open them, slapping their arms, as their knees would meet and part while their bodies leant form side to side. Then placing one hand on their knees they began to swing the other arm out in a circle while arching their back, and swing their heads from the front to the side. Straightening back up the girls began to roll their bodies again while now turning in a circle and when they face the front again they rolled their shoulders and hips in opposite directions while spinning each arm slowly one at a time. Then turning to the side they bent over, put their hands on top of each other, and then threw hem in the air just as they dipped their bodies to the ground. Slamming their hands on the ground, they began to roll their bodies, in the sort of way a belly dancer would, as they slowly stood up. gently hitting themselves in the chest, they shoves their hands at the boy in a `get back' gesture as they turned their backs on them, put their hands on their knees, and began to pop their booties at them. Then standing up, they did power kicks, by bringing their legs up to their chest and kicked out furiously, then turned to the boys again, put their hands on their hips, and gave the boys the hand just as they turned their heads away. The crowd went wild.

Suddenly the music did a sudden abrupt turn. Instead of the fast tempo they had been dancing too, it was now a steady reggae beat. Kagome had been warned about this so she just went along with it. So when a pair of arms appeared over her shoulders and stuck out in front of her she didn't attack, just only looked back into the smiling face of DD, as they began to dance together. Looking around she saw that everyone else had also gotten partnered up. So when DD began to roll his body, she did the same, and soon the two were like one. Turning around they separated for a bit and just danced in front of each other, with one of her hands on her hip and the other on his shoulder, while both of his were on her hips. Then the gap was closed and they were sandwiched against each other. Both her arms were now around his neck, and his were supposed to around her waist and on her hip but she felt them creeping low. Looking into his face, she grinned up at him.

"Now just because you're cute and we're dancing together doesn't mean I won't hurt you. But if you're a good boy, maybe would could talk about it later." He just grinned showing off his fangs, but his hands didn't wander anymore, not much. `You are so lucky you're cute.' she thought in her head as the song ended.

"And that was group 17! Now up next...GROUP 16!" the announcer yelled over the cheers as Kagome, DD, and the rest left the floor.

"That was great Kagome...you did good...that was great!" were some of the compliments she got from the team.

Kagome was suddenly lifted into the air as someone hugged the breath out of her lungs. "Oh that was awesome Kagome!" DD yelled giving her deep kiss on the lips. Kagome was shortly stunned by this.

"Hey to celebrate, how bout I buy you a drink at the bar?" he offered. Kagome was about to accept when a flashback of herself crying over a flower she killed while drunk outside flashed through her head.

"No thanks, how about something to eat instead?" she asked, once remembering that her breakfast had been ruined because of the Spirit Detectives.

"Alright." he said with a smile, escorting her out the building.

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Kagome and DD arrived back to the club laughing and full, but just as they walked through the door, they were bombarded by their teammates.

"What have you two been doing?" one of the male dancers asked loudly as they drug the two back to their designated spot.

"I took Kagome out for something to eat, why, what's wrong?" DD asked his arm around Kagome's waist.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? You're up next and we couldn't find you two, that's what's wrong!" One of the girls yelled.

"You're up next? So that means...we...we made it?"

"Duh stupid." The same guy dancer said hitting DD in the head with a huge fangy grin.

"Alright! Yeah! We made it!" DD yelled happily jumping onto the guy dancer and hooting loudly, before jumping off the guy and giving Kagome a bone-crushing hug before giving her another kiss. `I could get use to this.' she thought in her head as she got kissed.

"Ooooohhhh!" the teams yelled childishly at the two.

"Oh, grow up!" DD scolded but a smile evident on his face.

"Group 17's couple and Group 14's couple to the stage now! You have 1 minute before disqualification!"

"Come on let's go!" Kagome yelled as they all ran to the ring.

"Yeah let's win this!" DD yelled.

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On entering the ring they noticed that Group 14's couple was already there and doing warm up. Kagome's eyes were instantly drawn to the two dancers. The girl had long orange-red hair put into two ponytails and held together with pink ribbons. She wore a tight, black turtleneck tank top with no sleeves and a cut out hole in the shape of a diamond around her chest that stopped just below her breast. Her pinkish red shorts were extremely short and low rise. On her feet, she wore black ankle boots.

Glancing around, she saw most of the male population with their eyes on her, including DD. She suddenly didn't like this girl.

Huffing she turned towards the girl's partner and had to do a double take. There was only one word to describe the guy. Delicious. Okay maybe not delicious, but he was drop dead sexy gorgeous. He was about 6ft tall, with black scraggly hair covering half his face. His eyes were black as coal and his hair was an inky ebony black. He wore a black jacket, black pants and belt, and black shoes. He didn't wear a shirt so his chiseled body was out for all too see.

As if feeling her eyes traveling his body, the guy looked up and smiled a very sexy grin, as he ran a hand through his hair, moving it out of his face so she could get a better look. Winking, he made a kiss face at her, causing her to blush. About to return the favor Kagome suddenly felt someone grab her arm and drag her away to the other side of the ring.

Looking up, she began to blush from embarrassment as she saw it was DD who had her and he didn't look pleased.

She laughed nervously. Looking back at the Sexy guy, she saw that he was being yelled at by Red.

"Dance now, you can look at guys later." DD growled letting her go as they got into place.

"You were looking at Red over there." she accused. Now it was his turn to blush.

"Okay, so we both looked. Truce?"

"I guess so.," she laughed.

"Okay now, ladies and gentle men! It's time to start dancing! Group 17 won the coin toss so will be going second!" the announcer yelled over the noise signaling the dancers to get ready. "Dancers, on your mark!"

The music started, and it was an upbeat Latin styled song.

Red started out with some ballet looking moves as she made her way over to Sexy guy. Placing her hands on his chest, she began to walk forward on her tiptoes, causing him to move backwards. Moving back a few paces he stopped, grabbed each of her wrist, and spun her around so that her back was to his chest. Smiling, Red, with his hands still attached, spread her arms wide to either side of her and bent over. First she rolled her head, then standing up straight, she wrapped his hands around her lower half, turned her head to smile at him, then began to roll her body, making his do the same with her. Releasing one of her wrist, Sexy guy spun her away from him, where she kicked out high with her foot, bringing her head to the ground as she bent backwards. Jumping and flipping in the air, she landed in poise state, with her hands in the air and an arch in her back, then pun back over to Sexy guy, who put one hand around her waist and grabbed her hand with the other. With one of her legs wrapped around him, Sexy guy leant forward, bending her backwards, and spun on his heal in circle, with her head mere centimeters from the floor, before pulling her back up to him. Looking into each other's eyes for a second they turned towards Kagome and DD. Gripping her wrist, Sexy guy held his hand up in the air as Red twirled around him on her tip toes at a fast rate. Then, gripping her hands extremely tight, Sexy guy slung Red through the air like she was a piece of rope at Kagome and DD, making the two jump back as her feet swung at their heads. As Red came back towards Sexy guy, who still held her hand, he caught her around the waist, dropped to his knee, and bent her backwards over it.

The crowd screamed loudly. Kagome and DD looked at each other; they were good they had to admit. The announcer didn't need to announce for them to get ready, for as soon as the music started, Kagome and DD started their routine. The music was a fast beat R&B style song with plenty of beat.

Facing each other, they smiled. Sticking their right feet out they bobbed their tops halves to the music, then switching feet they bobbed again. Clasping hands, they bobbed and weaved their heads to the opposite side of the other, then without warning, DD dropped to one knee, after Kagome put her foot a top it, DD hastily rose up, sending Kagome into the air, where she twist and turned onto his back. Throwing her fist into the air, Kagome began to pump it up as DD spun around on his feet and knees, alternating between the two as he went. Stopping on his feet, DD reached around, grabbed Kagome by the knees, and swung her off his back, under his arm, and into his arms in the bridal position. Setting her down beside him, DD swung his leg out and in front of hers, and then she did the same. Without missing a beat the two, in a synchronized formation, bent backwards at an impossible angle and in slow motion swung their arms over their front and over their heads, like in the Matrix, and came back up. Interlocking elbows, they got back to back, and locked their other elbows together. Hoisting Kagome off her feet, DD did a sideways flip, ending up with Kagome standing on the floor and him in the air. Not missing a beat Kagome repeated the move, but now they were both standing and Kagome was right in their opponents' faces. Red hissed at her, Sexy smirked, and Kagome just winked as DD flipped her over his back, making Red and Sexy jump away, and causing DD and Kagome to be facing each other. Arms still interlocked, the two separated enough to get their limbs out of their twisted position. Now holding hands, Kagome stepped back a few spaces before launching herself into the air, where DD hauled her over his head. Now doing a handstand over DD's head, the two stood as still as possible as the crowd went while. Looking down at DD, Kagome smiled just as he let one of her hands go. Bringing her free hand up in the air, she grabbed her foot and pulled it down to the back of her head, held it their a few seconds then released it before leaning over to fall towards the ground, where DD caught her under the arms. Hefting her into the air, Kagome leant forward, as if she was about to fall on her face, but instead fell into a tumble roll. Coming out of the tumble, Kagome sprang to her feet, immediately going into a series of back flips, only to land by DD's side. Crouching down, DD cupped his hand for Kagome's foot. Placing her foot into his hand, DD threw her into the air. Spinning around, DD managed to catch Kagome again and place her onto his shoulder.

The crowd was so loud that no sound reached anyone's ears.

Looking at each other, the two smiled. They had this one in the bag.

~___~

Evidently, Group 17 won. And Kagome couldn't have been happier. It was evident in the way she smiled and hummed as she made her way to the back of the club, where the bathrooms were located. This part of the club was empty, for everyone was at the front watching the dancing.

"Hey, you! Girl!" a voice hissed from within the shadows.

"Who me?" she asked innocently.

"Come here, wench!" the voice sounded angry.

"You want me...to come over there...into the shadows...where they are no witnesses. Nooo...I think I'll stay over here, this has slasher movie written all over it." she said, turning on her heal to get away from the voice, but she had forgotten about the curse on her collar, so the next thing she knew was standing in darkness, barely able to see five feet away from her.

Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, Kagome was up against the wall, with her arms being held over her head, a blade on her throat, and a pair of scarlet colored eyes glaring up at her.

"oh, h-hi, Hiei." Kagome stuttered nervously. "You know, in this non-existent light, you look...oubre sexy. I mean, come on now, who could pull that off. You know earlier I was thinking to myself, that Hiei is one super, sexy psychopath. I mean with his hot, vertical challenged body, and that sexy pinecone head, he's one..."

"Enough girl!" he growled pressing the blade harder to her throat. "You are to come with me, now."

"But we haven't even had our first date yet." she joked, making herself blush like a little schoolgirl.

Growling, Hiei let her hands go, and backed off, sheathing his sword. "You're lucky we need you to complete this mission. Now come on." Grabbing her hand, Hiei began to pull her further into the darkness.

"No, wait, Hiei!" she cried, tugging on her arm. "Just let me stay for one more round, then I'll come back I promise."

"Hn." he grunted, ignoring her.

"Oh, please Hiei? I didn't mean to do that to you guys..."

Now Hiei stopped, and turned to look at her. "You didn't mean it? You didn't mean it!" he growled angrily. "If you didn't mean it, then you must have accidentally turned Kurama into a female, accidentally gave the detective and buffoon a reason for electric shock therapy, and accidentally wrote on my face and molest my body while unconscious. You didn't mean to do that?"

"Molest your body." Kagome said with confusion written all over her face, before it turned red from blushing. "Oh!"

~Flashback~

Putting the magic marker up, she began to stretch and pull at his face like he was a piece of elastic. "Wow, you are so warm," she said aloud as her hands lingered on his cheeks. "This feels better than when I slapped you. Ooh! This is nice," she said rubbing her cheek against his face. "I wonder..." she trailed off dropping his hand, which had somehow came into her possession, and stuck her hand into his poncho. "I knew it, he's warm everywhere. He's like a heater. A walking heater, with a bad attitude, and a fat head."

~End Flashback~

"Okay about that." she started.

"Forget it. Now come on," he growled, reaching for her arm again, but she held it out of his reach.

"Wait!" she yelled. "Please Hiei, let me stay until I've finished the last round, and it's coming up next, then I'll come back on my own accord. Please?" she asked giving the best cute yet sad face she could muster, that only worked for girls on hardheaded guys.

"Very well, girl. We will meet you in the wooded area behind the building. Come right after." Hiei grumbled, giving in. because no one can resist the face.

"Oh thank you, thank you Hiei!" she squealed, and before either could realize what she was doing. She threw her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss before bounding off. Missing the blushing, shocked look, upon Hiei's face.

~___~

It was the final round. The solo competition. It turned out that this round was more about appearance than talent. In this round, Props could be used, and so could powers. DD had just finished his part against a fire demon. DD's power had turned out to be manipulation of air.

Now she stood in the middle of the ring, awaiting the female of o group 9. DD had seemed worried when they said that powers were to be used in this round, thinking Kagome just a regular human and all. But he was wrong, for Kagome did have a talent. After all Kikyo was a miko and her powers, was the ability to steal souls and control soul stealers. Tsubaki was a priestess, and she had that snake thing, so why couldn't Kagome have one. As it turned out, Kagome's talent was the creation of illusion. She had used an illusion when she first met the Spirit detectives. She had used the illusion of her just disappearing before their eyes when she had just walked off.

Her attention was brought to the side of the ring. What she saw was a puddle of silver looking water moving on its own accord.

"O-Kay." Kagome said slowly to herself as the puddle came and stopped ahead of her.

The puddle then began to rise and form itself into the shape of a girl. When it was done, in its place stood a girl of about 5"9. She had mid-back length, white hair, streaked with blue, silver gray skin, land light blue aquatic eyes. Her outfit was that of a female genie, only blue.

The girl, Water Girl, looked at Kagome and simply smiled.

"Dancers on your mark!" announcer guy yelled. "Group 9 won the coin toss and have decided to have both ladies dance at the same time. Now ladies, go out there and dance. And please, please, put on a good show, maybe flash me something, maybe re-enact of a scene off of Girls Gone Wild. I'm...bored as hell up here. And, Yes, the competition now rests on your shoulders for your two teams are the best, and the outcome of the competition depends on the winner, and you might screw up causing your whole team to hate and most likely maul you in the parking lot, but...have fun...no pressure at all. Bwahahahaha!"

Everyone was silent.

A few minutes later, the announcer came back on. "I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen, nut Ted the announcer has gone to nappy-nap land. Evidently, someone has given him acid...so...yeah...Dancers start...or something." Another voice said over the intercom.

The music started.

Kagome started by taking the scrungie out of her hair and placing it on her wrist. Slinging her hair around, Kagome made the illusion that it grew as she slung it. She slung her head until the hair was so long it could hide many people within it. Looking over to Water Girl, she saw that she had water falling around her to make it seem as if she was in a storm.

`Uh, oh!' Kagome thought.

Water girl had her fist balled up in front of her and was spinning them around each other then would kick out her leg sending water flying.

Thinking quickly she grabbed and handful of hair and threw it in the air. `Come alive.' She willed it. Kagome's hair now began to float straight in the air, seeming as if she was being held upside down. Sticking her arms out to her side, Kagome was satisfied to see that some of her hair had wrapped around them, not hard, just hovering. She then began to do a sort of belly dancer routine, her hair taking the place of the snakes a belly dancer would have. The hair now began to weave in between her legs, around her waist and across her chest, giving her a hairy, yet cool, body suit.

Water Girl, meanwhile had formed a water bubble and was currently swim/dancing inside of it. But after seeing Kagome, she shot out the top of the bubble on a waterspout. Doing some maneuverable moves in the air before landing. Gathering the water around her, she willed them into water people to dance with.

Seeing the attention back to Water Girl, Kagome summoned the hair under her feet to lift her into the air on a hairy pedestal.

Realizing Kagome was in the air; all eyes reverted to her.

Seeing all eyes, back on her Kagome then jumped off the pedestal and began a slow descent to the bottom, doing all types of twists and flips and turns in the air with her hair twirling behind her like ribbon gymnastics.

`Oh, we can't have this.' Water Girl thought, the water people surround her exploding into millions of little specks of water. Before they could fall to the ground the motioned for them to stop, then spinning her hands, while rolling her body, the specks of water began to spin around her in a sort of cyclone that lifted her into the air also. Amidst the cyclone, Water Girl could be seen dancing like a nymph.

The eyes were now back on her.

Not wanting to be shown up, Kagome landed on the grand and incased her body in the hair, creating a giant, (Can anyone guess?) hairball. (If you said a giant shoe, I'm sorry, but that is incorrect. You are the weakest link, goodbye.)

The crowd was now torn between watching the cyclone, to the giant, floating, hairball. They settled on the hairball. (Come on people, it's a giant, floating hairball, with a girl inside it. Wouldn't you watch something like that?)

The hairball began to quiver and shake. It started to expand and little glimpses of light could be seen on the inside. Everyone, including Water Girl stopped to watch.

The hairball quivered once more before exploding. When the hair finally disappeared and vision was returned, everyone could see Kagome in the middle of the ring, with normal length, multicolored hair, and transparent faire wings, dancing.

Kicking her leg into the air, she held it in place for a second before lowering and going into a crouching spin. Once she stopped, she shot up and threw her hands in the air, where she then began to pop her back in and out. Putting her hands out in front of her, she did the running man, before turning around, and kicking her leg up high in the air. Bringing it down she spun around, crouched down then came up slowly rolling her stomach, hips, and shoulders. Then she stopped, and everyone applauded and cheered her, including Water Girl.

But although she was smiling and happy looking, the reason she had was because she felt something she hadn't felt in months.

She felt a tug on her soul.

`Kikyo.' she thought angrily.

(I thought about stopping it here, but what the hell, let's continue.)

~___~

"Look there she goes!" Kuabawra cried.

The Spirit Detectives had been waiting in the woods for almost an hour waiting on Kagome. They would've gone inside the club, but not with their faces looking like that. So when Kagome came into view they were, how you would, relieved.

"What's wrong with her?" Kurama suddenly asked out of the blue.

"What do you mean what's wrong, she looks fine to me!" Yuske asked loudly.

"Something doesn't feel right." Kuabawra put in with a shiver.

"What doesn't feel right, what's wrong with her?!?"

"She's not smiling." Hiei said.

"I smell death and bones." Kurama put in.

"And there's another Kagome standing behind her with a bow and arrow." Kuabawra finally said.

And so there was, and before the others could yell a warning, the other Kagome had let loose the arrow.

~___~

ForestGuardian: What's up ya'll! Guess what I did. I updated! Send out the fireworks! Yeah! Bam! What now! Hooray! Karate! Can't stop the bootyae! (Continues to yell out weird things but is gagged and drug off by Gavin.)

ForestGuardian: Hi I'm back, and if you're wondering who the hot sexy guy with the white hair is, that's my muse. Or what I tell my mom so I can keep him. Anyway, thanks for all the reviews, I never knew I would get this many.

ForestGuardian: And before I go, I must say I am looking for an Author out there who wouldn't mind writing a fic with me. All the information needed is in my BIO. Ciao.