The World Is Not What It Seems
Chapter 1: A Somewhat Fresh Start
Kagome's POV:
Well, it's the first day of high school!
I can't help but wonder what today will be like during my walk to school.
I've seen my friends over the summer, but not all the people I'm wondering about are my friends...
Still, I hope today will be good. You never know what you might find...
At lunch I find my friends pretty quickly, despite all the crowds of people I don't know.
There's Sango, long, really dark brown hair, Kirara, medium, blonde hair, Rin, long-ish black hair, and Ayame- short red hair?!
"Ayame you cut your hair?!" I exclaim after greeting my friends.
"Yup! It's better this way, I was tired of having to keep it in pigtails for gym, I'm not that girly!" Ayame replies.
"So, have you seen Inuyasha..?" Sango asks me, to my surprise.
"No, why?" I ask.
"You haven't heard?! Kikyo's been all over him!" Rin blurts out.
"Kikyo?! But she barely ever talked to him in middle school!" I reply.
"Yeah, but they were dating in like 6th grade, it wasn't real or anything, but apparently Kikyo still has a crush on him!" Ayame says.
"She keeps following him around," Kirara says. "She's, like, stalking him or something."
"Really, it's the first day of high school and there's already drama?!" I reply.
"Well it was the same in 7th grade, when Koga asked you out on your first day," Sango says.
"But that was my first day at a new school, not everyone's first day at a new school!" I protest. "Besides, it was Koga! No offense Ayame, but he's not exactly the type someone would want to ask them out."
"How is it going with you two anyways?" Sango asks Ayame. "You know, after the whole Valentine's Day thing?"
"Welllllll... It's actually going pretty well, there's no interference in our relationship or anything, but I can't really tell where this is going..." She replies.
"Speaking of last Valentine's Day, what happened with that chocolate sculpture of you...?" I ask Sango.
"Eh?! How should I know, it was gone before the end of first period, you'll have to ask Miroku," she replies.
"Why does he even do stuff like that if it's just gonna get you mad?!" Rin asks.
"Again, don't ask me," Sango replies.
"How are you and Sesshy?" I ask Rin.
"Not so good. I haven't seen him at all lately, maybe I should ask Inuyasha where he is..." Rin replies.
"If Inuyasha can get away from Kikyo long enough to talk to you," I grumble.
"Kagome, you haven't even seen him, he's probably-" Sango stops talking and I see her eye catch on something behind me.
I spin around to see Inuyasha and Kikyo in the slightly-far-off distance; Kikyo blabbing on about something and Inuyasha trying to ignore her.
But something else catches my eye.
It's Naraku.
How the hell did he even graduate?!
"Guys... Look..." I say, slightly pointing to Naraku.
"Naraku?!" Sango exclaims. "How the hell did he even graduate?!"
"That's what I thought!" I exclaim.
"Look how he's looking at Inuyasha and Kikyo," Kirara points out.
"It's like... Almost creepy," Sango says.
"Yeah..." But in my mind I was happy, because I'm pretty sure Kikyo and Inuyasha have no chance of being together.
After school my friends and I decide to go to WacDnalds, the place we always used to hang out in middle school(other than Sango's house of course).
As soon as we get there and sit down, though, I suddenly stand up, realizing that I have to pick up Sota, my younger brother, and Kohaku, Sango's younger brother, from school.
Sango and I decided to take turns on who picks them up, since they're in the same grade and are basically best friends, and today I'm supposed to do it.
"Relax Kagome," Sango says after I explain why I suddenly stood up. "The elementary school doesn't get out for another hour, you have time!"
"Oh yeah, I forgot..." I reply, sitting back down.
Ayame is randomly staring at something in the distance.
The rest of us slowly look in that direction, and see Koga, Inuyasha, and Miroku sitting at a table.
Ayame is obviously staring at Koga, her eyes dreamy and murderous at the same time.
Ayame's sometimes scary like that...
But of course her staring causes Koga to look over at us, that and the fact that he's a wolf demon and has super powers or whatever.
Plus Inuyasha could probably smell me since he's a half dog demon, so he looks over too.
And Miroku... He's just a pervert.
Or, as I like to tease Sango by saying it, he's Sango's pervert.
But he looks over as well, probably sensing a table of girls, which he would end up doing whether Sango was here or not.
So we basically sit there staring at each other for a while, other than Rin and Kirara, who are just waiting for something to happen.
Finally, seemingly all at once, the guys decide to get up and come over to our table, which actually has room for three more.
Sango was sitting on the edge of the rounded booth, next to Kirara, and Miroku slides next to her. Ayame was on the other edge of the booth, next to Rin, and Koga slides next to her. I was in one of two chairs on the one side of the table with no booth, and Inuyasha takes the other chair, distancing me from Koga.
"So what's new?" Rin asks.
"Nothing much..." Inuyasha says.
"Nothing?" Kirara smirks at Inuyasha.
"Nope, nothing..." He says.
"You sure it's nothing...?" Sango asks.
"It's nothing!" Inuyasha yells, getting annoyed.
"Mutt face, they're obviously talkin' 'bout that girl who's always hang in' around you, the one that looks like Kagome!" Koga yells.
It's true, Kikyo does look like me...
Which is one reason why I can't call her ugly...
"You mean Kikyo?! I can't get her away from me! Her constant blabbing is givin' me a freaking headache!" Inuyasha yells a little bit too loudly.
"Well you don't have to yell, we were just wondering..." Sango says.
"So Sango, did you miss me over the summer?" Miroku asks her, changing the topic.
"If I missed you I would have actually seen you over the summer," Sango says, angry for no apparent reason other than the perv sitting next to her. "I purposely avoided you so no embarrassing pictures could be taken!"
"But there's no way to show them to people, Ayumi can't already be on the newspaper committee, can she?!" Miroku replies.
"You never know with Ayumi," I say. "You can never trust her with a camera..."
"She would find some way to ruin our lives, school newspaper or not," Sango agrees.
Just to be clear on this, Ayumi was part of the school newspaper club back in middle school. She had taken numerous out-of-context photos of just about all of us, including one of Miroku kissing Sango over the summer after a trip-to-the-beach-gone-wrong.
After a while of talking, I again realize I have to pick up Sota and Kohaku.
Since everyone is just about done anyways, Sango offers to come with me.
As we walk to their school, I begin to think once again.
This school year is gonna be a crazy one.
Welcome to the sequel to "The World Can Be Very Strange", written by me! You can call me Panda unless you've read my bio and know my actual name. Anyways, if you haven't read that one, I suggest you do. But if you haven't, that's ok! I'll add some clarification to parts that include reference to the story before this, but hopefully I won't have to include that many parts where that happens. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the story! ^^ I don't own Inuyasha and this is the only disclaimer I'm going to put so yeahhh... Anyways, hopefully I'll update soon and... Happy reading!