Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fight For Thy Heart ❯ Meetings; New and Old ( Chapter 1 )

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DV- COMPUTERS ARE EVIL!!!!!!!!! I had JUST finished this story AND saved when my computer deleted it!!!!! when it came back on, it had TRIED to recover it, but the first half was missing!!! So I hafta go back and retype all of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I leave for the cabin in a few hours!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chiisai- DV means to say, she's sorry this is taking so long.

QFF- And my mom just had a baby, so my life recently?

DV- 1st person alternating POVs won, but your gonna hafta choose the last two POVs I've already got Kagome and Kurama, but I need the last two. I'll give you a list at the end of the chapter. I can't write this Thursday because I'm going to Cedar Point with a friend.

QFF- Which is completely irresponsible of her.

DV- You're just mad that you can't come.

QFF- Damn straight.

Kagome- DV doesn't own anyone but her original characters, and hopes the you remember it.

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"Are we there yet?"

"For the millionth time- NO!!!!!!!!"

"Wow. That's surprising! You know a number past 10!!!"

"Why you little-!"

"MAMAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"InuYasha! Let Shippo go right now!!! Shippo, don't tease InuYasha." I rubbed my temples as InuYasha 'feh!'ed and literally dropped my son, careful to do so in a manner that would insure that he's land on his head. Shippo retaliated be biting InuYasha's foot. "Stop that both of you!!! You two promised to behave yourselves."

"I am behaving myself, Mama," Shippo said, tilting his head cutely after jumping into the safety of my lap. "I was really surprised InuYasha could count that high." I glared at the dog hanyou as he made another go for Shippo, while the rest of the carriage cracked up.

"feh!" InuYasha said, slumping into a seat. I ignored him, instead looking into my kit's big green eyes.

"We'll be there soon, sweetie. Just be patient for me for just a little longer and don't cause any trouble, okay?" Shippo's chest puffed out.

"Okay! I'll be good for you, Mama!!!!! He said, climbing up onto his favorite perch on my shoulder. I smiled at him affectionately.

No matter how many people could (And did) complain about my son's hyperactivity and often dangerous pranks (Most directed at InuYasha, and several involving tricks with plants that put certain... aspects in danger that had him cursing my boyfriend...) everyone admired my son's loyalty and obedience towards me.

"I heard the number of people signing up for this years tournament was a record breaker," Rin said as she braided Sango's ponytail. My neko guardian just ignored her, in favor if of re-rechecking her katana. It hadn't taken us long to find out that grown up Rin had an obsession with hair to rival Yura's. One that had her playing with any hair past eight inches in length she could get her hands on. This encouraged InuYasha, and even Sessho-maru, to avoid sitting next to her for long periods of time. Though it was pretty much unavoidable in the western lord's case.

You won't believe how amusing it is to see the mighty Sessho-maru exit a carriage with braids, pig tails and bows. It's made even funnier since all who see him practically tear up from trying to keep their laugher at bay. Except for InuYasha, who has no qualms whatsoever about laughing at his Half brother.

"Yeah, wonder why..." Ganko said, smirking at me.

"Another word and you'll be cleaning up Dragon and kitty doo-doo for the rest of the trip. I can make it happen, Ganko." Mama's leading general made a face, and the rest of my friends snickered.

"Somebody's moody. Don't tell me it's that time of month cause if it is, I'm not letting you anywhere near a fight out of sympathy for the poor soul at the receiving end." I chucked a rock at him, which he dodged easy.

"NO YOU UNDERSIZED BABOON REJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm just a little stressed is all."

"Why? This tournament's no biggie, Kagome,"

"Yeah. I thought we went through this a few days ago Kaggy." I blinked at them, then felt like a total baka for not noticing before that they had failed to mention anything about the spirit detectives. As soon as that sunk in, I turned to glare at Sango.

"YOU DIDN'T TELL THEM?!?!?!

"I had to take care of some security breaks and thought you or one of the boys would handle it!!!!!!!"

"I couldn't!!! I was being dragged left and right because of this stupid tournament!!!!!!" I protested

"Miroku was heaving lessons on me like there was no tomorrow," Souta said ignoring his sensei's protests of overworking him.

"And I had to stick around with Souta and make sure he didn't try to sneak off when Miroku wasn't looking." Kohaku said, smiling brightly at the glare this earned from my brother.

"And I had my own tutors to worry about," Shippo said innocently. "One still has a broken leg from her mysterious fall down the main stairs and the others still have those weird illnesses that give them purple pimples and hallucinations."

"Wonder how that happened," InuYasha said, giving my smiling son a pointed look.

"I have no idea," Shippo said, looking perplexed. "Maybe it was just a bug in the air or something..."

"Or something," Yari muttered, smirking.

"So what's the big deal anyways?" Ganko said, trying to get his boot back from Kirara, who was in a very playful mood at the moment. I sighed.

(AN; This is really random and has nothing to do with my story but I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on HBO over the weekend and now I can't get the oompa-loompa song out of my head!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"The spirit detectives will be there," I said. Everyone looked mildly surprised at the most.

"Really?" Yari asked, "I mean, I figured Kurama and possibly Hiei would come, but that Yusuke doesn't seem like the type to sit around and watch other people fight."

"No, you don't understand. The spirit detectives will be IN the tournament. As in participating."

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"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'IN THE TOURNAMENT?!?!?!?!'"

"WHY IN THE SEVEN HELLS WOULD THEY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

"Koenma's orders," Shippo said mildly, "Something about a star and complete domination of the Makai ."

"The point is," I said hastily, not wanting them to know the details of the spirit detective's most recent case, "they have to fight in the tournament and we have to accept that and the fact that we may eventually have to face them in battle."

"Feh. Who cares?" InuYasha asked harshly, "I could beat all four of them single handed."

"You know, InuYasha," Yari said, picking Hogosha up and stroking him, "one of these days someone's gonna take one of your self-satisfied boasts and shove it up your-!"

"WE'RE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Shippo cried, jumping into my lap to start dancing around. "We'retherewe'retherewe'retherewe'retherewe'retheeeeere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"< br>
As Shippo celebrated, our dragon drawn carriage swept towards the ground elegantly, and landed without so much as a 'bump.'

I sighed as everyone got up to leave, following the overactive Shippo who more or less flew out of the carriage the second the door opened. Brushing imaginary dust off the layered kimono I was required to wear for today, I exited the carriage, accepting help from the footman with a small smile and taking my place between Sango and Ganko in front of everyone else who had come with me. Ganko and InuYasha had both received lectures about how they were expected to behave in public on this trip, including vivid descriptions of what would happen if they didn't behave that way, so both were on their best behavior right now.

I ignored the murmur of the crowd as I led my companions to the front gate, where the tournament judges stood waiting.

"Princess," The head judge said, bowing low, "It is a great honor to have you here."

"Thank you. I'm very excited to be here, sir," I said smiling. My smile widened when InuYasha's snort was cut off by Yari's elbow.

"If you'll follow me, I will bring you to where your opponents wait. The rules of our tournament will be explained tomorrow before your match." The head judge said, turning slightly to motion down the hall of the stadium

"Of course, sir," I said, keeping my eyes ahead of me. Mama gave me very strict instructions to how I was required to act here. Normally, I'd be able to do whatever I want, but until the meeting with the other teams was over (All it required from me was a quick speech.) and during my fights, I had to play the role of Princess Kagome of the Shadow Kitsunes.

At least I had a nice, relaxing collage life disguised as a human to look forward to, ne?

The head judge led us to a pair of double doors, which he nodded to the doormen to open. I mentally sighed as the doors creaked open and the rumble of talk behind them ceased.

What's up?

How is it that I can't even sulk in my own head without everyone knowing it?

Don't avoid the subject! I rolled my eyes, but couldn't suppress my smile. Sango knew me, inside and out, better than I knew myself, and vice versa. She was the one person I couldn't fool if my life depended on it. I really don't know where I'd be without her help.

Mama warned me about some of the things that would happen in the tournament and How I should react.

So?

"Presenting her Royal Majesty, Princess Kagome Rabenda Tsuyu Hana Otome of the Makai Shadow Kitsune Kingdom. A top-level fighter, fully trained miko youkai and the guardian of the Shikon no Tama."

Oh.

Did he HAVE to bring up that Damn jewel?!?!

Knowing your current run of lucky, yes, I flashed her a grin before stepping into the view of the demons, humans and everything in between. All bowed except for one group in the corner.

Yusuke, Keiko, Botan, Yukina, Hiei, Kuwabara, Kurama, Gramma Genkai (Though it looked like she had come as just a spectator.) Prince Koenma, a blue ogre in a loincloth, and two women I'd never met before. One was a human with long brown hair and brown eyes and the other was a female Shadow Kitsune with long hair, a dark brown at the roots, then fading into a lighter brown as It got longer, topped with black fox ears that tipped in brown. She wore a skin-tight black fighting suit and a katana was at her left hip. Her tail wrapped around her waist (A lot of kitsune fighters did this to keep opponents from grabbing it,)

She, the ogre and Prince Koenma all looked confused at the behavior of their other companions, but refrained from saying anything to avoid making a scene.

I smiled at them, then turn my attention to the rest of the crowd as they straightened.

"Thank you," I said, with a small smile. "I didn't think I'd be accepted so respectfully."

Yes you did,

"I'd like to welcome you to the Tri-realm Tournament on behalf of me and my team. It is an honor to be competing in this tournament as my ancestors have done many times before me. We are eager to meet strong opponents inside and outside of the ring."

Some more than others,

"With that said, I believe it is time to prepare for morning. I hope to see you during our match tomorrow"

No you don't.

I'm gonna kill you, Sango, I said through our bond.

I know, Sango said, cheerfully. I shook my head and started towards our hotel.

"Wow!!!!"

"Don't touch that!!!!!"

"Look at this!!!!"

"Hey, put that down!!!!!!!"

"Cool!!!!"

"Damn it, get away from there!!!!!!!!!!!" The gang and I found out a little too late that three overly active children and one expensive hotel room never meant anything good.

'Crash!' I sighed.

It's not like you can't pay for it, you know,

I know, but I don't want them thinking it's okay to break stuff just because we have money.

And power. Can't forget about power

Shut up.

"I'm going to see Kurama," Ah, the magic words.

"I wanna come!!!" Shippo said, hopping onto my shoulder.

"Me, too!!!" Souta said, grabbing one of my hands.

"And me!!!" Kohaku said, "I wanna see Hiei again." Hmm... That's a nice shade of red Sango's giving off.

You're evil.

I know. I said, imitating her tone from before.

"Come on, guys, I'm sure they wanna see us too." I said, heading towards the door, my own mini circus in tow.

"KURAMAAAAAA!"

"Oomph!!!" I bit back a laugh as my boyfriend was pelted by my five inch tall kit.

"There's something you don't see every day," The human girl I'd never met before said blinking as my son chatter on and on about all sort of things.

"Kagome!!!" Keiko yelled, running over to hug me. I smiled and returned the hug.

"Hey, Keiko! How've you been?"

"Great! I really missed you guys, though."

"Aww, nice to know we're loved!!!!!!!!!!" Yari said, happily, drawing all attention to her. All movement in the room stopped.

"Yari, you've, ah," Botan blinked at Yari's stomach

"You're..." Yukina seemed to be struggling for words, too.

"You look... Different." At least Keiko seemed to know the subtle approach to inquiring about an enormous amount of weight gain.

"Uhh..." Kuwabara, naturally.

"Damn, you're huge!"

'BAM!!!'

"YUSUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Those who knew of Yari's pregnancy couldn't hold it in anymore. We cracked up and even Hiei smirked a bit at how flustered they were getting.

"I'm as big as a house, okay?" Yari said, grinning. The group (Particuarly the females) blinked. "I haven't touched a katana in ages, and eat like a cow. Normal symptoms of 7 months of pregnancy."

...

"EEEKKK!!!!" the girls stormed Yusuke and Kuwabara over to surround Yari, eyes glittering dangerously with all their baby ideas.

"YOU'RE PREGNANT?!?!?! KAWAII!!!"

When's the baby due?!?!?!"

"Do you have a name?!?!?!"

"What's it gonna be?!?! Boy or girl?!?!?!"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US?!?!?!?!" I shook my head in amusement.

"They'll be lost in baby-zone for the next few days." I said In amusement. The shadow kitsune laughed.

"None of the story's I've heard about you mentioned you're... ah..."

"sense of humor?"

"If that's what you want to call it," She said with a smile. I laughed.

"Well, you obviously know who I am, but I can't say I met you before..."

"Katrina. I'm a fighter for the Reikai, one of thier newest. I've been keeping up on what's been happening with you. Can't say I'm sorry to see your dad go."

"Don't worry, you're not alone," I said dryly. "What do you specailize in?"

"Katana mostly, a little hand to hand."

"Any magic?"

"No more than usual. Shadow shifting and some plant control. You know, the basic stuff,"

"Really? Can you show us something with the katana?!" Souta asked eagerly.

"Pleeeeeeease?" Shippo said, throwing in a puppy dog pout for good measures. Katrina laughed.

"Sure, why not?" I smiled as the boy's celebrated and gathered around Katrina, eager for the show. No one in the castle thought it would be a good idea for Shippo and Souta to learn katana. With the katana being such a dangerous weapon and them being, well, them.

"Want to go for a walk?" I asked Kurama. I could use the fresh air.

"Of course." He said, flashing that smile that made every women swoon and ignoring Youko as he started listing all the things we could do on that walk that didn't involve walking. "I just need to speak with Koenma about something first." I smiled back.

"Alright. I'll wait outside the lobby."

I plopped down on a bench, pushing my sunglasses up my nose and closing my eyes. Can't have my time with Kurama interrupted by a hopeful suitor now, could I? So I was wearing a baseball hat, a large pair of sunglasses, a sports jacket and blue jeans. My hair was tied back in a ponytail, and all my markings and such had been hidden. I hadn't looked so normal in ages. The girl's really went all out to keep me from drawing attention.

"Princess Kagome?"

But apparently It wasn't enough.

I opened my eyes to see a shadow kitsune like myself in front of me, smiling in an openly friendly way. His short black hair spiked slightly, and his silver eyes glittered with the amusement of catching the Princess of the hour in blue jeans. He wore a sleeveless dark blue fighting gi and had a silver headband around his head, a black symbol of the shadow kitsune on the front.

"Any chance I can convince you I just bear a stunning resemblance?" I asked meekly. He laughed, sitting next to me.

"Relax. Your secret's safe with me. Know al about taking pains to keep the masses from seeing you." I rose an eyebrow at him. Now that I really looked at him, he DID look kinda familiar... "What? Don't tell me you don't remember me?"

"Can't say that I do. Sorry." I said apologetically. He chuckled.

"And here I thought we were friends when you conned the guards into letting me go without revealing I was royalty during the ceremony for your brother's birth..." my eyes widened as I remembered the young prince with the gape toothed grin who tried to sneak out in the middle of the boring ceremony into the city.

"Kaigan?!?!?!" I asked incredulously. He'd grown...

"Ah! So you DO remember me!!!" he said triumphantly. I laughed and gave him a little hug.

"How could I forget Souta's nigenkai counterpart!!! It's been so long!!! How is your father?"

"Still has his nose in a book more often than not, old coot." Kaigan, prince of the Shadow Kitsune Kingdom establisted in the Ningenkai said with an affection that took the insult out of his words, "Mother runs everything practically single handedly till I find a mate." I laughed. Queen Jinzai WAS a take-charge kind of person...

"Anyone you have in mind?" I asked teasingly. Kaigan blushed to his roots.

"Well, I was thinking... err I mean... Well I... heh..." I blinked, my smile fading in my confusion. Kaigan had a crush on me when we were kids, It was something Yari and Ganko used to tease me about, but that couldn't have lasted all these years...

"So How come you're here, anyways? Normally, you and your family only come to the Makai for major social events, and I really don't think this applies."

"My family thought it would be good for me to make our strength known to the Makai. Everyone thinks that since we still live among humans, we've become weak, and it hasn't made the populance very happy."

"So you're competing?" Ganko's never gonna let me hear the end of this...

"Yeah, pretty much. My fight isn't until the end of the first round, though,"

"You magesty!!!" a man called, heading towards us, his eyes on Kaigan. My old friend sighed, before smiling at me.

"Well duty calls," He said, turning to head to the man, "Catch ya later, Kagome!!!!" and with one last wave, he left.

So, Kaigan was here, was he? Wow, that brought back a lot of memories. I wondered about all the others I met as a child. Where were they now? What happened to them?

I watched the crowd at the ticket gate, picking absently at my pants as I thought of what the next day would bring...

"Excuse me! Oh, pardon me. Ow! I'm sorry. Ooph!!!" I blinked as a pretty elemental kitsune with silver hair that had ebony streaks here and there tried to make her way to the ticket booth, only to have her way blocked by a group of large demons. She sighed, then turned and spotted a statue. Brightening slightly, she went over to the statue and started to climb. I blinked again, standing up. What in the world was she doing?

After a lot of struggling, she reached the top of the statue, and scanned over everyone, looking for something. She must've found it, because her face broke into a grin and her eyes became a shade of bright green, and she started jumping up and down with such excitement, you'd think she'd just won the whole tournament herself. Unfortunately, gravity wasn't on the poor girl's side...

"EEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

'Thunk!"

"Owie," I walk over as she sat up.

"Are you okay?" I asked, Holding out a hand to help her. Her eyes turned from purple to a vivid shade of orange and her cheeks stained red.

"Um, fine. Truth be told, it happens all the time. Well, not me falling from statues or anything, but I do fall a lot. Not that I intend to, it just sort of happens..." I shook my head at the girl embarrassed babble.

"I'm Kagome. Is there someone here you're looking for?" her blush faded, and her eyes turned green again.

"Kireishi, and yes, actually there is. Do you know-!"

"Kagome!" I turned to see Kurama heading our way. "I apologize for taking so long." I smiled at him.

"It's okay." I was about to introduce Kurama to Kireishi, but he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw her, his eyes flashing gold.

::What the-!!!::

"Kireishi?!?!" She blinked before her eyes turned purple.

"Youko?!?!?!?!"

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DV- Bad place to end?

Everyone- 'dark glares.'

DV- ehehehe...

Chiisai- It'd serve you right if you were mauled to death by the reviewers.

QFF- Hear, hear.

DV- It's not THAT bad a cliffie!!!

Kagome- It's still a cliffie!!!

Botan and after all that waiting, too!!!

DV- nn Well, that's it for now!!! Please leave a review!!!! Oh!!! And since I finished Kagome no Kitsune before I could put it on Mediaminer, I have a solely mediaminer x-over fic, too. It's called The Thin Line, same basic pairings, and It's under the same pen name. I think a lot of you would really like it, so go check it out!!!

Kagome- Ja ne!!!!!

POVS (Two votes per person per chapter, you can't vote for the same character twice in one chapter.)

Sango-

Hiei-

Yusuke-I

Keiko-I

Botan-I

InuYasha-I

Miroku-

Kuwabara- (Please, please no...)

Yukina-

Ganko-

Yari-

Yakuso-

(I was kinda hesitant to put my OC's up there, but I figured what the heck. I'm not going to put anyone else's OC's up there though, considering I'm not sure if I have the right to use another person's character like that, since I'm only borrowing them from kind and generous reviewers.)

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