The Skaters Edge

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This chappy is dedicated to my one and only fan, ShouraiChan... Thanks so much for keeping my ass in gear girl.. This one is for you.



Hugs Alpine





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“Do you really think they will stick around? Or do you think they are just blowing smoke up our ass?” I turn to Sango and ask as we each come out of the stalls.



“I have the distinct feeling that it is going to be REALLY hard to get rid of these guys. I think we have both opened up a can of worms here.” Sango laughs.



I grab my beautiful uni-tard at my abdomen and pull it out to look at Sango, “Can you believe they make us wear this? I mean, it really leaves nothing to the imagination. It makes us all fast and shit but you can see everything.UGHHHHH”



“Don’t complain Ms. ‘I have had big tits since the 7th grade’. I don’t have to worry about that type of thing. I am just the good old fashioned girl next door… With a few blue streaks in my hair and a couple of tattoos.” Sango says to me as she laughs heartily.





“Oh shut up… Miroku seems to think you have a few good things going on. I mean he couldn’t keep his hands off of you tonight.” I say to my friend.



“Like your one to talk. InuYasha just about molested you after the little scene with Hojo.” She says to me as she pulls on her own uni-tard and adjusts herself.



“Do you think Hojo is ok? He looked pretty damn scared when InuYasha came up to us on the floor. I am actually surprised he didn’t wet himself… You should have seen the look on his face. He moved faster than I have ever seen him move, and that is not saying a lot.” I turn away from Sango and look in the mirror. I have parted my hair and put tight braids on either side of my head. They come to almost my waist even though I have them as tight as they will go. It takes a few years off of me and I look a little young but this is the easiest way to keep my helmet in place and my long hair out of my face.



“My turn.” Sango turns to me. She knows I am done with my prep so I move over to her as she kneels on the floor in front of me and I take her hair in my hands. She prefers 2 French braids so I deftly start on the right side and move quickly through the mass that is her hair. It is something I can do on other people but I just can’t do it on myself. I finish promptly with her hair as she turns back to the sink as she stands.



I grabbed my make up bag and pull out my make up remover. There is nothing like being in the middle of a race and having sweat run into your eyes but if there is make up mixed in with that sweat, you are in deep trouble. I learned that the hard way in one of my very 1st races. Ever since then, I have removed all make up before competition. This gives me a really natural look that on any other night I wouldn’t mind but I look in the mirror after the removal and sigh knowing that I have to see InuYasha in a few minutes. I wonder what he will think when he sees me like this.



“Speaking of the boys, we are all worried about this showing off a little too much on us. Can you imagine what it is going to show off on them?” I see the look in Sango’s eyes and I just know she has some perverted image running through that lecherous mind of hers.



“You and Miroku are perfect for each other; you’re both the biggest hentei’s I have ever met.” I turn to look at her, “Your right about one thing though, we should get to see all the goods.” On the inside my guts are just rolling. I hadn’t thought about this.



I have just removed all of my make up and took a couple of years off of how old I look, especially with these Pippy Longstocking braids I have going on. My insecurities from earlier in the night with InuYasha are rising in me again. He is never going to think I am pretty enough. I let out a heavy sigh before I can stop myself.



“Knock that shit off Kags… You and your damn self esteem issues really get on my fucking nerves sometimes.” Sango is looking at me with frustration in her eyes.



“How do you know what I’m thinking right now? I didn’t say anything.”



“I have known you for years; do you honestly not think I know exactly what you are thinking? You are thinking that you are not pretty enough and that InuYasha won’t want to give you the time of day now that you aren’t all dolled up. Am I right?” She looks at me with a knowing look.



“You know me too damn well. But what if it’s true?” I ask her, the obvious pleading in my voice.



“Seriously? Have you gone retarded? Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror? I swear to the Kami that you are the hottest bitch I have ever seen. You have huge tits and a great ass. All the guys want you, and don’t you dare say it’s not true. You know Hojo was after you since elementary school and you should have heard what was going around the boys’ locker room after they found out that he got you to date him.”



“WHAT?!?!? You mean they were talking about me in the locker room?” I look at her with an incredulous look on my face.



“Hell yeah… I got to hear a lot of it since I was in shop class with most of them. I thought Kouga was going to blow an artery when he found out that you were dating Hojo.” She laughs hysterically at the memory.



I look back to the mirror and shake my head. I knew I had the whole ‘I’m just a pretty little girl’ look going for me at the moment but I never imagined that people thought I might actually be beautiful enough to talk about me.



“I will stop it now… I give up anyway…I have to concentrate on the races, do you think Shippo will make it?” I turn to her.



“Of course he will make it, look who trained him.” I look at her as she says this and I give her a genuine smile. I trained Shippo well and I should know better than to assume anything other than complete perfection from my little understudy. The brat was almost as fast as us and pretty soon he will be able to beat both of us with no sweat.



I grab the scattered clothes on the floor and shove them into Betty. Sango does the same and we both look each other over to make sure we are all nice and sleek before we head out to start stretching. We put Betty over by the locker and move to the wall to stay out of the way.



I grab Sango’s hands as we face each other. We push against each other with each of our legs out behind us to warm up our calf muscles. We do this on each leg and release each other.



I sit on the floor and Sango follows suit. We spread our legs and put our feet together so we form a diamond of empty space between our bodies. I grab her hands and tug gently so her head is almost touching the ground between our legs. This is to stretch out gluts and quads. She proceeds to do the same for me.



I stand and move over to the wall and do a handstand. Sango doesn’t participate in this stretch. This is really more just for me and my state of mind. My sanity is hanging by a thread with all that has happened already tonight and this also helps keep my arms loose. I close my eyes and start to count to 50. That is my limit for this little exercise.





“Hey Princess.” I hear the silky baritone smooth voice of my newest “friend”.



I open my eyes to see my hanyou’s feet that are clad in nothing but ankle high white socks. I move my eyes up his legs and notice the little hairs there are silver and baby fine, just like the mane he sports on his head. As I peruse my way further north, I notice that he is wearing the same uni-tard I am but it is blood red and stops mid thigh where as mine are almost like short shorts and you can see a really decent amount of thigh on me. I move my eyes up just a little farther and see what the good lord has endowed my hanyou with and I must say that he absolutely MUST be a god and that my 1st impression of him being Adonis is correct. ‘Holy shit; there is no way that is real!’ I say to myself. I can’t look anymore and close my eyes again and continue my countdown.



I gather my thoughts and do a quick twisting flip to my feet in front of him. The years of gymnastics before I started skating have helped me keep my sense of balance in all positions. Maybe it’s the quick blood rush to the head but I just couldn’t pull my eyes away from him as I try to focus my eyes. Looking at him there I knew that there was just no way I could get as lucky as this. He had his hair pulled back still but the braid was tighter than it was earlier. He was holding his skates in one hand and had his helmet under his opposite arm.



“That is some pretty looking stretching you do there. It doesn’t hurt that you are wearing the most beautiful outfit I have ever seen.” He says to me with a glint in his eyes. I can see him moving his eyes all the way from the floor up to my face. I see his little crooked smirk appear as a fang pops out of his corner of his beautifully kissable lips.



“Princess, you better be ready to leave here with me once these try outs are over… I don’t know if I can wait to get to know you any better before I give you a little bit more of my ‘scent’.” I can see the lust on his face and I shiver with anticipation. This guy evokes feelings that I didn’t think were possible.



“Sure, but you have to wait for me to change 1st. My ass is just gigantic in this damn outfit...” I say to him as I twist to look over my dairy aire, quickly drawing him back from his musings and getting me back to my own sanity and my own way of dealing with the extra attention. He looks at me with a look of pure anger on his face. All of the sudden he has me pinned against the wall with his face so close to mine I can feel his hot breath mingling with mine.



“Don’t you ever, let me repeat, EVER hear you say that about yourself again. I have never seen a more perfect body in all my years on this Earth.” He leans down and I can feel the silky fabric of our outfits sliding against each other as he grabs my braids and pulls me closer to enjoy an utterly mind blowing sensually charged erotic kiss.



“Don’t you two ever let up? I thought we were stretching here Kags.” Sango chastises me as she looks at Miroku.



“Is he always like this or only when he finds a new toy to play with? Maybe we should get him a chew toy.” Miroku starts to laugh and is quickly cut off by a devastatingly loud growl emanating from the hanyou that is currently attached to my lips. He slowly lets me go and says, “Wench you best keep yourself inline or I will be forced to make you submit too and it will not be as nice for you as it is for princess here.” He looks over at Sango with red rimmed amber eyes.







I look up with half lidded eyes from my best friend to my new… still don’t know what the hell to call him… Let’s just call him guy friend…



“Sango try to be nice, he’s just showing his appreciation of my ever so unimpressive female body.” The growling starts again with a vengeance and I feel him grab my braid on the left side of my head and yank on it slightly so I am exposing my neck to him. I feel his fangs land on my pulse point where he had marked me earlier. They did not pierce the skin this time though.



“Alright, alright… I get it already… I swear to the Kami you and Sango have it in for me.” I look up to see his eyes on me as he releases his fangs’ hold and starts to lick and whine slightly into my neck.



“Sango lets get started while there are only a few people out there.” I look over to her.



We both move to sit in front of the lockers and we each grab our skates. I start to lace up and look over to see Miroku in front of Sango helping her. I shake my head and notice InuYasha looking at me with his sparkling eyes and arms crossed: which by the way, make his arms look so tantalizingly strong, “Can I give you a hand princess?”



“If you really want to, I am not going to say no.” I look up at him as he starts to kneel in front of me. I blush prettily at him as he grabs my skate and laces me up and puts the tongue protector in place.



He takes out my plugs after he does my other skate up and I hand him my stoppers and a wrench. He moves quickly to place them. The stoppers are a must for the racing competition so you can get a great start on your toes with a good running start. Not all competitors think this is the best way to start but both Sango and I have done pretty damn good for ourselves this way.



Miroku is doing the same for Sango as I look over at her and smile. She returns my smile and I just can’t help but feel how lucky we have gotten tonight with meeting these two guys.



It has been a hell of a roller coaster of a night already and we aren’t even through. I can’t believe I have ended up in a situation where I am considering leaving with this guy tonight. I have never been the type of girl to do such a thing but the way he makes me feel… I almost feel like it would be a travesty of justice not to indulge just a little bit in what he might have to offer me… And I am going to take it all, no matter what it is. I will not sit on the sidelines of my own life and watch it pass me by any longer.



InuYasha stands and offers me his hand as Miroku does the same for Sango. I tap my foot on my right front stopper and then again on my left to make sure they are tightly in place. I look over to Sango as she does the same.



“You guys have fun and don’t forget to cheer for us. We are going to start our warm up laps.” Sango moves a little closer to Miroku’s side and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek.



I peek out of the corner of my eye at InuYasha and wonder if I should do the same. Our little “relationship” is really not defined, as far as I can tell. I reach a hand out to shake his hand in an effort to feel it out. He gives me an incredulous look as he grabs my hand, “What the hell do you think that is?” He swoops down as he dips me at the waist and proceeds to plunder my mouth with his. He stands me back up and looks into my half lidded eyes.



“Ok, that was really not what I was expecting but I’ll take it.” I look over at him and then back to Sango. I grab Sango’s hand and my helmet. She has her helmet on her head already but not fastened.



We move out to the floor as I put my helmet on my head and notice there seem to be a lot of people out here starting their practice laps. Hanyous and demons don’t appear to be on the floor as I look over to the sidelines to see InuYasha and Miroku stretching.



They will be going after us since they are the men and women typically go 1st as far as groups are concerned. I wouldn’t be surprised though if we end up getting clumped in with the men later tonight since we are actually so much faster than the rest of the women that are there, as far as we know anyway. There is no way for us to know for sure how the ladies from the other rinks are going to do but we are very confident. We have been around the circuit for awhile and there is only one other female that either of us ever worry about and she is a demon by the name of Ayame.



We find a break in between the throws of skaters going around the rink just to be able to get out to the center of the rink. I look over my shoulder at Sango as we start to concentrate on breaking into the pack. We both start to ease into the center ring of slower racers and we start to pick up speed after 5 laps. I start to move to the outside as I see InuYasha and Miroku step out on the floor. We are now starting our second set of 5 laps on the outer rim of the course and notice that we are the only women out here with the men.



I smirk to myself as we start our 3rd set of 5 laps as we are now lapping some of the men. They really are pathetic if we are doing this in warm ups. I look over to Sango and say, “I think we are pretty good now. What do you think? Do you want to do another set or are you ok?”



“I’m good.” She says to me. We are both breathing just slightly harder than we normally do but it is not enough to be out of breath and we can still comfortably hold a normal conversation. This is the sign that we are properly warmed up and we should have no worries as far as cramping.



I look over to see the guys are on their warm up laps now on the outer edge of the rink. I eye up InuYasha hungrily as I see him lean into a corner with Miroku behind him. This is the 1st I have seen of these two and from what I can see they are both pretty fast and Sango and I might just end up seeing how fast they really are later tonight.



We exit the floor to check out where we are at for the 1st round.



“I kind of hope we get to race against the guys, looks like it should be pretty interesting for the rest of the night.” I say as we make our way over to the board.