InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ Tournament Time! ( Chapter 10 )

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Ok, so I fixed my lapse in time in this chapter. But if there is another place where I have said a timeframe that is odd or unusual please tell me. At this point it is 3 days after Kagome get's attacked and 2 days since Sango has disappeared.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.29.2009 | Updated On: 07.14.2009 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 398 | Status: Work In Progress

Beauty Meets Beast

Ok….I am seriously loaded down with work this semester since I'm in the process of transferring to another college…but I had an entire chapter handwritten but in my boggled brain I was positive that I had posted it….apparently not….

Chapter 10 Tournament Time!

“Alright, do you both understand the rules? Very well, start on my signal. Three, two, GO!”

Kagome bolted down the runway, ready to smother her opponent in silly string. She smirked when he hesitated his charge towards her, apparently attempting to figure out how to spray the can of sticky string that would be his downfall. She listened to the din of the crowd behind her, shouting her victory call when she reached the other end of the clearing. Turning to look at her victim, she giggled. He was covered! She walked over to where he stood, his face frozen in shock. “I do believe I win,” she said, reaching up to pull a piece of the string off his face.

“Are you quite satisfied with your torment of this Sesshoumaru?” he said as he finally came out of his shock and began trying to rid his body of the accursed string.

“For now,”

After they'd gotten him free, they walked over to the archery arena. The crowd here was not quite as large as had been gathered for the jousting, but there was still a good sized crowd. Kagome noticed with slight frustration that all of the competitors were male.

“Would you like to give it a shot sir?” Sesshoumaru looked down that the mousy little man who dared talk to him and growled…or well he tried, but as a human his growl came out as little more than a gurgle.

“No, he wouldn't, but I would.” Kagome said, grabbing the bow from him and walking over to the line of men, would were attempting to shoot arrows at a target that was less than 50 yards away; they weren't doing very good. `Pathetic,' Kagome thought to herself as she grabbed a brightly colored arrow from the bin. She raised her bow and notched her arrow, pausing briefly to look one last time at her competitors, before taking aim and firing, being sure to keep her miko energy locked deep inside so she wouldn't accidentally purify anything…not that there was anything to purify.

`Perfect,' Sesshoumaru thought with a smirk as Kagome's arrow hit the target dead center, causing several of the competitors to turn and gape at her. He'd only seen her shoot a handful of times, and she appeared to get better every time. She lifted another arrow and shot again, once again hitting the very center of the target. The guy she'd taken the bow from turned to look at him again, confusion written on his face.

“How does she know how to do that?”

If Sesshoumaru had been youkai, he would have growled. “Are you so uneducated that you do not believe a woman capable of shooting an arrow?” He watched as the man attempted to form a response, gasping when he could find none. The crowd was now enthralled with Kagome, who was showing them a far better time than her competitors. They had elected a man from the crowd to move the target back a couple of paces after every shot. She had yet to miss a single target.

When she finally stopped, the target was well over 100 feet away. She walked over to where Sesshoumaru was leaning against a wall. “Do you want to go see the fencing tournament?” She asked him, pointing over to where many of the people from the jousting tournament had gathered to watch the people spar. “You could give them all a run for their money.”

“Very well,”

“Cool! I think this will be one of the only times I've seen you fight when I'm not going to have to fear for my life. Speaking of, you do know you can't actually hurt anyone right?” He `hnnnd' and she took that to mean yes.

When they got to the fencing arena, Kagome stood and watched as Sesshoumaru moved fluidly from one move to the next, taking down opponent after opponent. She could tell that he wasn't as graceful as a human, but it mattered about as much as the color of the battery that went in her phone. All too soon, he'd taken down all willing to challenge him and was walking back towards her, his classic bored expression, which Kagome thought looked rather out of place since he was human and therefore nowhere near as intimidating, plastered on his face.

“Have fun?” she said when he reached her, smirking at the look he gave her.

“Those idiots were no match for this Sesshoumaru. Has your world no real warriors?”

Kagome laughed, “No. Unfortunately, most of the people of this time have no interest in undergoing all the training they would have to do to become a warrior. I don't think half of them even know what it means to be a true warrior.”

“Hnnnnnn”

“So,” she said, once again intertwining her hand in his as they began walking around, “What should we do now?”

“Miko, do not start that again.”

When they finally left the fair and headed back to Kagome's house, Sesshoumaru was exhausted. `Damn this weak human body!' he thought as he followed her down the road. He looked over at Kagome and took a little comfort in the fact that she looked more tired than he.

“Ok,” Kagome said after they had walked a block or so, slumping against the building next to them as she tried not to yawn. “I think it is officially time to hail a cab.”

“Hail a cab?”

“Yeah,” Kagome looked at him, too tired to be amused by his confusion, “so we don't have to walk home. I forgot that you wouldn't be able to take us home.” She turned from him to look at the road. For a while she thought she was going to have to pay for a red cab, which sucked because they were more expensive and tended to take you out of your way, but then a lone green cab came towards them and she sighed in relief when it slowed to a stop for them. “Alright,” she said, turning to once more look at him, “when we get in don't freak out. Just do what I do.” He nodded and followed her lead when she got into the car. She spoke a moment with the driver, and then they were off.

Sesshoumaru had never been happier to see a shrine in his long life. The ride had been unbearable and he was determined that if they went out again before they went back, he would be sure they returned before nightfall so that her modes of transportation wouldn't be needed.

“So,” she said as she paid the driver and they got out, “how did you like your first taxi ride?”

“That was horrendous!”

She laughed, “Somehow I knew you were going to say that. But it was our best option. If we had taken the bus or the subway, you would have been surrounded by humans, since both of those tend to be packed with people.”

“Hnnnnn,”

“Well, let's go inside. I need to catch some zzzz's.” he looked at her strangely and she gave him a half-smile. “It means I have to go to sleep.” He merely nodded and followed her up to her room.

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Sango groaned as she woke from a rather unrestful sleep. She had tried to explain that she wasn't Kagome, but every time she did they would beat her and leave returning a few hours later to repeat the process. She was grateful they hadn't raped her yet, but she knew that it was only a matter of time before they did. Her eyes widened as she heard the door once more unlock and swing open, blinding her with light as her tormentors once again entered the room.

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`This is awkward,' Kagome thought as she sat on her bed in her pjs (she'd had to hunt some for him), looking at Sesshoumaru. It had occurred to her a few minutes ago that she had forgotten one major detail…where was he going to sleep? They had been sitting there, him on her chair and her on the bed, staring at each other for a while now, and no matter how hard she tried, she could not think of any sleeping arrangements that didn't end up with one of them sleeping on the floor, and that just wouldn't do. But they couldn't both sleep on the bed, well they could, but she doubted he would, what with his honor and general dislike of all things human. She sighed as she contemplated her options. Finally coming to a conclusion, she turned her gaze from his in order to examine her hands. “You can have the bed,” she said, getting up to go locate a sleeping bag, “I'm going to go look for something to sleep on.”

“No,”

She froze, not daring to look at him for fear of what he was about to say. She remained motionless, waiting for him to continue, until she felt she arm slowly wrap around her waist. She gasped as he slowly began walking backwards and all too soon she felt the edge of the bed against her knees.

“There is plenty of room on the bed for both you and this Sesshoumaru.” He pulled them down onto the soft mattress and Kagome thought she would die. She remained silent as he pulled covers around them, his arm never leaving her waist. She continued to shift nervously, trying in vain to get up. “Stop,” he murmured, causing Kagome to shiver from the feel of his breath against her ear.

Resigning herself to sleeping next to the temporary human Lord of the West, she shifted once more in an attempt to get somewhat comfortable. His arm was still wrapped snugly around her waist, almost as if he were begging her to try to get up. `At least he's human,' Kagome thought. She didn't know what she would do if they were in this position while he was a youkai. His close proximity was doing definite things to her hormone deprived body…things he would most definitely not approve of. “Um…goodnight,” she mumbled, trying her damndest to keep from touching him. He apparently had other ideas. His arm tightened around her, drawing her back so that she was flush against him causing a small `eep' to escape her body.

“Good night,” he said, once more causing shivers to consume her body as his breath blew across her ear, his lips just barely grazing her neck.

A.N. THERE IT IS!!! TOOK ME FOREVER!!!!! I hope you are all satisfied for the moment because that jousting scene took FOREVER to write because I hadn't written it out in my rough draft….so I've been pretty much working on this chapter for the past 12 hours or so.