Hi! This is my first story on here so it's really important to me. I would like it very much if you read it and waited for the next chapter. I would like to remind you no matter what you say in a review I do not write for you, I write for myself...and my cat. So now here's the first chapter of my first story.


Might As Well
"Hello, my name is Riku Takara and I moved here from the U.S. Douzo Yuroshiku Onegaishimasu!" I bowed to the class then with that I walked quickly down the middle row to my seat in the back. I swung my bag off my shoulders and dropped it under my new desk then sat down in the chair and tried to act invisible.

"Well, you're always welcome in my class." My new teacher, Mr. Kakorto, told me. He then switched right into the subject of math. I let his voice blur and looked around.

The classroom wasn't as big as the ones I had at my old school. The desks were set up in five rows of five and only one desk was empty. 'I wonder who's absent. Who ever it is must be out sick.' I looked to the girl in the desk in front of me. The long black haired girl was leaned down and scribbled on her paper. I wondered what she was writing but I didn't want to look over her shoulder so I just pushed the normal curiosity out of my mind. I looked back at the teacher to see if he was talking about anything interesting.

"BlablablaLinerEquationsblablabla." With those words I started staring into space. I already knew all of this section of math so I didn't have to pay attention in order to pass the tests. 'Wonder why I came here, the schools in the states are just as good as the ones here so why?' I was jolted from my thoughts by a paper hitting my head and landing on my desk. I looked to the left, where the flying paper came from, and found a girl with short black hair held back by a golden headband. She mouthed the words read it then pretended to pay attention to the teacher. I looked down to the crumpled paper and gave in with a sigh.

I unfolded the paper and smoothed it out so I could read it.

'Hi, I'm Eri. The person in front of you is Ayumi and the person behind you to the left is Yuka.' I looked behind me to see another girl with short black hair wave at me. I looked back at the note. 'Meet us after school and we'll show you around.' I looked back up to Eri and found her looking at me. I mouthed an okay. She smiled and turned back around. 'Great, now I had to hang out with girly-girls.'

I spent the rest of the class daydreaming and doing nothing at all. At one point I answered some questions that the teacher asked. The last bell rang and the class got up so I hurried to follow suite. The class bowed together and I did the same. Everyone picked up their stuff and walked out of the room. I leaned down and grabbed my bag then walked out of the door. I looked around to found Eri walking toward me dragging Ayumi by the arm, Yuka following closely behind. I stopped walking and waited for them to catch up.

Eri stopped in front of me and dropped Ayumi's arm and Yuka stopped next to Ayumi. I smiled at them and decided to be the one to speak first. "It's very kind of you to think of showing me around."

"It's no problem at all. We were just going to visit our friend Kagome who's out sick. Do you want to come so we can introduce you to her?" Yuka asked me from her place next to Ayumi. 'Well that solves the question on the empty seat.' I thought to myself.

"Sure, lead the way." I moved to let them pass me and followed behind them out of the school.

They led me threw the school yard and past the pink Sakura trees. We walked down the road and up a little hill. We then reached some stairs leading up into a little shrine. I instantly went on high alert for I could smell a miko; two mikos for that matter. I patted my shirt to make sure my necklace was on so that my aura was concealed. 'Why did I have to follow them, I could have just gone home.' I mentally yelled at myself but I followed them up the stairs.

We were greeted by an old man that I could tell had no spiritual powers. He was dressed in the usual shrine attire so I made a guess that he was the one in charge of it. I had a quick look around be and found my gaze locked on a huge tree. 'Inuyasha's tree.' I shook my head. 'That can't be right; I don't even know an Inuyasha let alone his tree.' I pushed the thoughts out of my head and looked at the small house next to the shrine. It had the look of a homely house with nothing out of the usual in it, but it held two mikos. I looked to a small shed on the other side of the shrine and swallowed a scream. The shed called to me for some reason, it tugged at my mind and my body an almost unbearable pull that almost got the best of my when the old man came and took my hand. I was instantly snapped out of the spell that held me.

I looked down to the little bold man that had my hand. He looked to be about fifty or older but his brown eyes showed the fun of a six year old; he looked like he had the energy of a six year old too. His head only reached my stomach and I thought this really funny for some reason I didn't know. 'He sort of reminds me of a dwarf.' I mused. I realized he was talking so I tried to pick up his words.

"…….Really kind of you to come to visit Kagome, just follow me this way." He tugged me by my hand so I had to follow him or fall over; he had a strong grip for an old guy. I stumbled after him to the front door of the house and waited as he opened the house. "Tadaima!" he called into the house and dragged me in. I could only do one thing.

"O-jama Shimasu!"


Okay, so what do you think? I know that somewhere in there is a grammar error but oh well.

So now that you made it here I would like to congratulate you on reading my first chapter all the way through... or you could just be skipping to the end to find out what happens and in that case go back and read it all please! Oh, I almost forgot, I have notes on the Japanese to English stuff.

Douzo Yuroshiku Onegaishimasu: "Go ahead, be good to me" which is figurative language for "Okay, let's be friends!"

Sakura: Cherry blossom

Tadaima: I'm home

O-jama Shimasu: Sorry for intruding (you say this when entering someone's home)

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