Seeping Darkness

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters of 'Inuyasha'. All rights belong to the creator. Now that that is out of the way, begin my second fanfic.

Chapter one: Main Floor Door

Kagome looked up at her new school and described it as, well…unusual. She tucked her raven colored hair behind her left ear. She was a transfer student (a/n classic high school beginning XD) starting her third last year of high school; grade ten. She, personally didn't like transferring within the last four years, but she did want to finish high school, and she knew her mother and grandfather wanted it too.

Her family; which was her mother, grandfather, and her little brother: Souta, just moved to this peculiar town, and this place was a chore to move in to, but when her grandfather sets a goal, and is determined to complete that goal, it seems like nothing could stop him. So, needless to say, they got in. Her grandfather told town council that they were descended from a long line of priests and priestesses; which was actually true.

The shrine was vacant, so that's where they were now living. It was on a big hill which had a long line of stairs leading to the street. The grounds had the house; at the back, a storage shed, another shed with a well inside, and a tree. The council informed them that it was a sacred tree, which Kagome could tell, she felt a strong purity from it. Her other family members couldn't feel it, but it did have a calming effect on all of them.

Kagome was nervous beyond belief, but she gathered her courage, and walked through the front doors. She instantly went into a daze as she drifted towards the wall. No wonder why it was so hard to get into this town. There was quite a variety of auras. She felt plenty of your ordinary human energy; which was usually on the positive side, but she also felt unusually pure, as well as dark energy, and then there was just auras; not good or bad.

'I wonder what that could be…'she thought as she slowly came to her senses. She walked down a hall that she assumed was the one that led to the main office. After receiving a handful of odd looks, okay there was more that a handful it was about 80% of the student body that gave her evil looks. 'What's their problem?' Quickly brushing it off, deciding to aim for a better morning, she walked into the office.

Looking at the nameplate, she looked at the secretary, she had short black hair in a ponytail, exposing her dangly green beaded earrings. She was doing her paperwork with a blank expression.

"Um, Kagura Kaze… I'm Kagome Higurashi, I just transferred and I-"

"Yes, I know" she replied slapping a schedule on the desk in front of Kagome.

Kagome was surprised by both her attitude and her red eyes.

"Is there a problem? You should hurry to your first class" Kagura said. Kagome stiffened, grabbed her schedule and backpack, and raced out the door.

Kagura watched her leave, then she stood up and straightened out her suit and headed to the principal office. "Did the head of the council make a mistake? She's hardly worth it" Kagura complained.

"Yes, you know as well as I that he doesn't make mistakes" replied an elderly voice. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens."

The bell rang and Kagome made it to her first class just in time. She sighed and recalled her way to this class. The school was like a maze, so many hallways and whenever she asked directions, they would always ignore her.

She quickly went to an available seat. 'Okay, enough with the weird looks, it's kinda getting old.'

Her first class: history, was going pretty well, the only downside was the guy sitting next to her. He wasn't giving her the evil look, he was just staring. His black hair was in a ponytail. He had his elbow on his desk, and his head resting on his hand. Throughout class Kagome did her best to pay attention. When the class had about ten minutes left, a note landed on her desk. Kagome looked at the boy with a confused look, he just gave her a carefree smile. She shrugged and opened it up.

"I'm Jakotsu, who're you?"

Kagome smiled. Someone was finally trying to get to know her. She got out her pencil and started writing. "Kagome."

"Wow. You have a pretty name. What do you think of school so far?"

"Good, I guess. Do you know why everyone's been ignoring me?"

"You're new here. We don't normally get new kids."

"I'm a little worried for my brother…"

"You have a brother? How old is he? Is he cute?"

Kagome got the note back from an eager and excited Jakotsu. Well, now she knew why he seemed a little odd.

"…He's my little brother; grade seven."

"Awww, that's too bad. Watcha doing for lunch?"

Kagome giggled at his disappointment. At least her little brother wasn't a romantic target for her new friend.

"Nothing."

"Great. You'll eat with me, right?"

"Sure."

"Goodie. See you then."

As if on cue, the bell to end class rang, and Kagome and Jakotsu left their separate ways. Kagome looked down at her schedule and her next class was math. It wasn't too far away, so she didn't have any trouble finding it.

She got there with minutes to spare. She picked a desk, and pulled out her pencil and a notebook. It may have been odd, but her hobby was writing fantasy stories. The rest of the morning was spent either paying attention to rambling teachers, or writing in her notebook.

Lunch finally arrived, and not a moment too soon. Kagome navigated through the crowds and eventually found the cafeteria, and it was packed. Her shoulders slumped down.

"How will I find a place to sit…? Oh yeah, I was supposed to meet up with Jakotsu." After spying around the large room a bit she saw Jakotsu.

'Heh, how could I possibly miss him?' she thought with a smirk.

Jakotsu was standing on a chair, waving his arms up and down, and calling her name. Yup, there was no possible way she could miss him. She smiled and rushed over to him. Once close enough, she noticed the guy sitting next to the happy Jakotsu. He had black hair as well and it was longer that even hers. It was pulled back into a braid. This guy had also noticed Kagome.

"Kagome, this is my older brother: Bankotsu" said Jakotsu.

"So you're the new girl I've heard about" he started.

"Heard about? People are already talking about me?" she asked dumbly.

"Of course. Everyone talking about the new kid in the high school end and a new kid in the junior high end."

"Oh, I didn't know word-"

She was cut off by someone rubbing her butt. She let a short scream, slapped whoever it was and ran to the other side of the table to sit next to Jakotsu.

"Hey, Bankotsu. Why didn't you say anything about know a girl so beautiful?" said the pervert as if he didn't do anything.

This guy black hair tied back into a short thin ponytail, and purple-ish blue eyes. He looked at Kagome with a carefree smile, and sat down across from her. "So, What's your name?"

"…Kagome" she said quietly, avoiding eye contact. Actually trying to hide her face as it was now painted a red hue in embarrassment.

"Of course. A beautiful name, for a beautiful girl" he said that last part a bit seductively.

Kagome tried not to think too much about it and grabbed her lunch from her backpack. The other three followed her example. For the rest of the lunch they just had basic conversations.

After lunch she headed to her next class: Gym. On her way to the gymnasium she past the counsellors room. Just as she walked by, one of her seniors happily walked out of the room.

She had long red hair tied up in pigtails, and she had emerald green eyes. Kagome watched at her with a slightly surprised expression. This girl was almost squealing as she walked off.

Kagome shook her head at her and looked through the open counselling office. From what she could see, she noticed your average office things, a desk, a chair, a filing cabinet; or two, but what caught her attention the most was the door in the back.

Unlike the other school doors, this one was made of metal, and it had a heavy duty lock on it. But more than the overly suspicious door was the dark aura seeping from the door. 'What is that…?'

"Can I help you?"

Kagome was pulled out of her daze and she looked up at the one who did that. He was tall, had dark skin, black hair in a high ponytail, pointed ears, and piercing blue eyes. His suit was kind of thrown off by the brown headband that he wore.

"Um, no. I need to get to class" she said turning to leave, but he called her back.

"Feel free to come by anytime. I'm the counsellor, Kouga" he said with a smirk.

"Okay, guess I'll see you around."

Kagome then quickly retreated to the gymnasium. Luckily, the first day of gym was just explaining the curriculum. Though she was usually an A+ student, in this school she had a hard time concentrating in her classes.

'That door…I wonder what's behind it. Why's it locked?'

"Kagome" the teacher said. Said girl looked to her left to see the person next to her handing her a pile of paper. "Oh." She grabbed the pile, took one and passed it along.

The rest of the day went just so. She kept wondering what was concealed behind the locked metal door in the counsellors office. Eventually, the final bell of the day rang and everyone left the class. Kagome grabbed her new papers, and assignments (A/N First day assignments T_T) and stuffed them in her book bag. She headed towards the front doors and just as she got there she heard her name.

"Miss Higurashi."

Kagome turned around to see an old woman with an eye patch. Her long thin hair tied back with a white ribbon.

"Uh, you're the…"

"Principal. You can call me Kaede" she finished. "I wanted to give you these." She handed Kagome a beaded necklace. Kagome took it and looked it over. It had black beads and every four beads was fang shaped beads. She looked at Kaede. "What're these for?" Kaede just smile.

"When the time comes, you'll know. Oh, and here, you should study this." The principal handed her a folded piece of paper. "The last thing I'll tell you is you need to think of a word. One of subjugation."

With that, the old woman turned and headed back to her office. Kagome watched her disappear into the crowd. She shifted her gaze to the necklace in her grasp. "Hmm" she said as she tilted her head to the side. '…What'd she mean?'

Only when someone rudely nudged her shoulder did she remember that she was standing like an idiot in the middle of the hall in front of the doors. She put the necklace in her pocket, and quickly turned towards the door and left.

After climbing the excessively long set of stair and making it to the top, Kagome stopped in front of the sacred tree and stared up at it. She recalled the dark aura from that metal door and the darkness from it.

"It was so dark. It wasn't very strong, but it was pure evil." She walked over the short wood fence and stood over its roots. She gazed up at its branches and put her hand on it. 'Feels good to be around this kind of purity.'

She let out a pleasant sigh and left towards the house. When she opened the front door she was greeted by a happy Souta.

"Welcome back, sis"

"Hi Souta."

"How was your first day?" he asked.

She looked at him. Like it was as if it wasn't a normal day. "Odd, actually" she answered truthfully. "I did make a few friends, though."

"Really? Me too. I made three friends" he told her with his happiest face.

"I think it's safe to say that you had a good day" Kagome said with a snicker.

Souta smiled. "Almost as soon as the teacher introduced me my friend Shippo was the first to be my friend."

Kagome took her shoes off and as she walked by she patted her little brothers head. "Sorry, I have homework. We'll talk some other time." She walked past the kitchen and walked up the stairs and into her bedroom. Her room was faded purple, topping it off with light pink curtains.

Kagome put her book bag on top of her desk and sat in the chair in front of it. She sighed and opened a drawer. She took out a blue clicker pencil. She put it beside her book bag so she could retrieve her homework. Once her papers were out of the bag she put it on the floor next to the desk. She put the paper down and started working on it.

It wasn't very hard, at least not yet. The questions were all personal, so the teachers could 'get-to-know-you'. She was halfway through when she remembered there was a beaded necklace in her pocket. She took it out and looked it over again…and again and again.

"Ugh, Kagome what's with you today…?" she mumbled to herself then stowed it away in one of her desk drawers. She concentrated back on the easy homework.

When 9:30 rolled around she changed into her pyjamas and climbed into bed.

'Maybe I'll go to the counsellors office tomorrow. I'd like to check out that door' she thought before sleep took her.

Longest. Chapter. I've. Ever. Written. Hoped you liked the chapter, or like the story so far. If you have chapter ideas, tell me, I'll see what I can do. Hopefully I'll have the second chapter up soon. And, Lastly, R & R. ^_^