InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Truth Be Told ❯ Chapter 22: Dragon Tail Island ( Chapter 22 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer: Still don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. I do own all OC's and the plot.
Kagome leans over the side of the speedboat boat, allowing the wind to caress her ears and hair. Sango and Miroku are over by Hana, who’s driving, talking to her about the boat and what to expect. Shippou and Kira are sitting beside Kagome, watching her enjoy the feeling of the wind. A few seats away is Kagura, calmly studying her teammates.
Sango’s wearing a new kimono that Yukina made her. The inner kimono is red while the outer kimono is coral pink with black floral designs. The obi is black. Underneath the kimono is her taijiya uniform. Her hair is tied up into a loose ponytail.
Miroku’s wearing his usual monk robes, his golden staff in hand, the rings clinking gently as they go over waves. He’s wearing his hair down instead of in its usual dragon tail, and it comes about an inch above his shoulders.
Hana has on a silver tube top with maroon and blue crescent moons decorating it. She’s also wearing a silver skirt that goes almost down to her knees. It has maroon and blue lining underneath. A delicate silver-link chair is wrapped around her waist, with small crescent moon charms. She’s wearing her silver and black hair down.
Kira’s wearing a power-blue yukata with a matching cerulean blue obi. She has her wispy, lilac colored hair up into a ponytail.
Shippou’s wearing a faded pair of Souta’s old jeans and a slightly oversized orange shirt with cartoon turtles on it. His hairs up in its usual ponytail, only without the green bow.
Kagura is wearing her old white, red, and blue kimono she used to wear in the past. She also still has the yellow scarf/obi around her waist and her hair’s pulled up into a high ponytail. Tucked away in her kimono is her old red and white fan, along with a new blue and light blue one.
Kagome’s wearing a blue fighting kimono with green leaf prints. It has short sleeves and the skirt goes down just a little past her knees with a slit up both sides. The obi is green and she has blue gloves to match. On her feet are blue fighting slippers, perfect for moving around gracefully. Her red-tipped black hair is down like usual. Slipped through her obi is a green and red hilted sword with a dark, forest green sheath.
“We’re almost there.” Hana says suddenly. “There’s the mountain up ahead. It’s shaped just like a dragon tail as you can see, which is how it got it’s name. How the spikes got up the side of the mountain is a mystery to everyone. Even more mysterious is how it cuts right in half and curls down on the water side.”
Kira perks up. “There’s a really cool legend concerning the island! It’s said that there was a earth dragon who battled against a sea serpent! The battle came out as a tie and the serpent became the sea around here and the dragon turned into the island. Because of the raging battle, the dragon’s head was pulled under the water, leaving only some of its back and it’s tail above the water!”
Hana smiles at her daughter. “Pity ‘tis only a legend. A great legend, but a legend none-the-less.”
“But all legends have some truth in them, right mommy?” Kira asks, her silver eyes glistening.
Hana smiles secretly. “Perhaps.” She turns her attention back to driving the boat. “Know, I have to go over some things. First off, mom says that if any of you get killed she’ll have dad bring you back so she can kill you herself.” She grimaces slightly. “And um… well, according to Kouga and Ayame, you’re going to have your own personal cheering section. A rather large one, if I’m correctly remembering the size of the combined Northwestern Land Mountain areas…”
Kagome smiles and tones Hana out, instead thinking about her cousin and a certain red-haired kitsune. ‘I wonder what they’re doing…’
Speaking of the boys…
On another boat quite a distance away from the girls, Shippou, and Miroku, is the Reikai Tantei team, looking quite annoyed at having to fight demons on the ellimination boat again this year.
“You know,” Yusuke says, sidestepping a puke-colored demon before shoving him over the rim of the boat. “You’d think they’d come up with something more clever after this not working last year.” He punches two in the face, knocking them out, and kicks another off the boat. “SHOTGUN!” And out goes ten or so demons stupid enough to get close to him.
Kurama looks around, slowly making his rose whip shrink back to its rose form. “I think that’s all of them.”
“Hey Urameshi, lets throw the rest of ‘em off.” Kuwabara says, accidentally-on-purpose kicking one in the head.
Yusuke looks bored. “You do that, Kuwabara. I’m just going to go over there and…” He drifts off as he tiredly walks over to the side of the boat and collapses into slumber.
Kurama sighs. “It looks as though we’ll be having a repeat of last year, doesn’t it, Hiei.”
“Hn.”
On Dragon Tail Island
“Kagome, me and Miroku will go on up to the room while, you, Kagura, and Shippou sign in.” Sango says, shifting the Hiraikotsu, which has once again taken up residence on her back.
Beside her, Miroku nods, the rings in his staff clinking merrily together.
“If you’re sure.” Kagome says uncertainly. “Alright, we’ll see you up at the room.”
Sango and Miroku start going toward the stairs, getting many dark looks from the surrounding demons. Kagome, Kagura, and Shippou watch them go before Kagome looks to Shippou.
“Shippou, why don’t you go with Miroku and Sango. It doesn’t feel right somehow leaving them alone without demon company.” Kagome tells him.
Shippou nods understandingly. “Okay momma.” She gives her a quick hug before jumping down from her shoulder and running off in the direction Sango and Miroku went.
“You’re rather protective of them.” Kagura comments. “Your friends. Just like a mother fox.”
Kagome blushes slightly at the comment. “I hadn’t really noticed…”
Kagura smirks. “I know. Most don’t notice until someone tells them.”
Their conversation ends here as they walk together over to the reception desk in order to sign in. Once they reach the desk, the lizard youkai there looks up and sighs. “Team name?”
“Team Shikon.” Kagome replies.
“Teammates names.”
“Kaze Kagura, Higurashi Kagome, Higurashi Shippou, Taijiya Sango, and Houshi Miroku. Our alternate is Kage Kirara.” Kagura says.
“Sponsor?”
“Taiyoukai Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands.” Kagome says.
The demon nods, jots something down on the notebook, and then gestures them away. “Fine. You can go now. Oh, and because of your sponsor, you don’t have to attend the rule listing.”
Kagura and Kagome both nod in understanding before walking back across the room to the stairs.
On another side of the room are the guys, looking rather bored. Kuwabara senses a familiar energy and looks up. Thinking he spots Kagome, his loudly says, “Hey Urameshi, isn’t that your cousin over there?”
Yusuke cuts off what he was saying to Kurama and looks over to where Kuwabara is pointing. “I don’t see anything, Kuwabara. Now c’mon, we have to go listen to the stupid rule ceremony thing this year.”
“But-”
“Lets go, Kuwabara.”
The group of four boys begins shuffling to the large room where the rule listing is held. Before going in, Kuwabara glances back toward the stairs. ‘I could have sworn I saw Kagome…’
The Next Morning
“Hello everyone and welcome to this years Dark Tournament!” Koto yells to the cheering crowd. “This year there will be three separate rounds! I will be the announcer for the preliminaries!” She waits until the cheering dies down before continuing. “Juri will be announcing the middle rounds!” She once again waits until the cheering dies down. “And our newest addition to the Dark Tournament announcers, please welcome Ookami! Who will be the announcer for the final rounds!”
A small, green-eyed wolf demon energetically jumps up onto the ring. She has dark black hair that’s pulled up into two ponytails with a strip of pepper colored wolf fur across her forehead. Her outfit is very similar to Ayame’s old outfit, except the wolf fur is peppered, where the black on Ayame’s was is white, and where the pink on Ayame’s was there is blue. Around her neck is a wolf fang on a turquoise necklace.
“Hello everyone, I’m Ookami here to help welcome you to the Dark Tournament! I’m very much looking forward to announcing the finals, and am excited to help out with this new system!” She smiles up at the cheering band of wolf demons, who take up a full side of the stadium. Somewhere among them are friends of Team Urameshi and Team Shikon. “Hello family dearest.” Ookami laughs as her twin brother yells something down at her. “Yes, yes, love you too bro.” She smiles at Koto. “Okay fox-girl, I’m handing it over to you now.” Ookami quickly jumps down and joins Juri in the front row by the wolf pack… clan. Whichever.
Happy that she’s now regained the spotlight, Koto prances to the middle of the stage. “Now to start on the preliminaries! The first two teams to fight will be Team Shikon verses Team Kamikaze!”
The entire wolf clan erupts into cheers as Team Shikon steps into the cleared area.
Sango’s the only one in the group who has changed clothes since yesterday. Instead of the handmade kimono, she’s now wearing her taijiya uniform.
The other team is made up of a group of wind and lightning demons of various degrees. Kagura growls at the sight of them. “Damn, this won’t be easy.”
Kagome rests a hand on Kagura shoulder. “Don’t worry, Kagura. We’ll be fine. We won’t get struck out in the first round.”
Kagura, who tensed at Kagome’s touch, relaxes slightly at the vixen’s words. “Of course.” She holds her head up high and glares at one in particular. “I’ll take the blonde wind apparition.”
The others nods in understanding.
“If you want to, Kagura.” Sango says. “I have no problem with that, as long as I get the lightning demon who’s been staring at me since I walked in.”
Miroku’s head whips around to glare at the lightning demon, and he winces. “Itai… whiplash.”
Sango tenderly touches his neck. “Be careful, Miroku. One sore spot could prove fatal.”
Miroku nods, smiling at Sango. “Thank you, my dear Sango.”
Sango blushes. “So, umm…” She notices Kagome’s no longer standing beside her. “Hey, where’d Kagome go?”
Shippou immediately speaks up. “While you two were flirting, mamma went to settle the match set-up with the other team leader.”
They all listen as Koto calls out to the audience, and the two teams. “This match will be one-on-one! Nobody fights more than once! Anything goes except blackmail!”
“And so it begins.” Miroku comments.
Sango nods in agreement. “And so it begins…”