Author's notes: Hello! It's been, what, two years? since I've last written? Well, I've been reading again, and really feel like writing. Hopefully my style has improved. I'm also much less of a newbie at writing. In my head, anyway.
So! I'm trying out this little idea, please tell me if it's worth continuing. I'm can be quite evil, so if you like that kinda thing, this might be for you. I'm a freshmen in college, but most definitely NOT in coed dorms. And this is totally AU, by the way, if you couldn't figure that out.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of these characters, please don't sue me. --;;
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Chapter One
A young woman sat on the train, staring gloomily out the window, chewing on her lip in thought.
"How did I get myself into this mess?" she whispered to herself.
She was on her way to her new home – at college. Her grades just barely passed requirements, and she had been accepted so late that the only available housing was the current reason for her slight distress – coed dorms.
With long black hair and dark eyes to match, she didn't exactly jump out of the crowd, but there was no denying that was not completely unfortunate in her looks.
She'd had some troubles with boys back home, and wasn't looking forward to what college co-ed boys could do to her.
She sighed and drew her gaze away from the window and unchanging landscape of the countryside to observe her fellow passengers. An old man sleeping. A little boy in a blue vest staring intently at the gameboy in his hands. An old women sleeping. Schoolgirls giggling at some inside joke. A really cute guy staring out the window. A mother feeding a bottle to her little baby in a pink blanker.
Wait…back up – cute guy?
Her gaze settled on him. He was cute. Long black hair tied in a loose ponytail, dark violet eyes, muscular build. Nice.
He shifted suddenly and caught her staring at him. He grinned arrogantly and winked at her. She blushed, embarrassed at being caught and quickly turned to her previous activity of staring out the window instead of at cute guys as he nudged his friend.
She hadn't noticed the other boy, as he had been curled up against his armrest and sleeping. She snuck a peak to see the first boy whispering and grinning mischievously.
The second boy glanced her way and smiled at her wary face. He made as if to get up and come talk to her, but the train suddenly stopped.
Before the train was even completely stopped, the girl stood up abruptly, grabbing her bags from the rack above her head and quickly made her way to the door. To her displeasure, the two boys also stood up and made as if to get off.
The girl quickly stepped off the train onto the platform as soon as the doors opened and threaded her way through the crowd to the gate, thankfully loosing the boys in the crowd, and finding the taxi waiting to take her to her new home.
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"Higurashi, Kagome?" The resident advisor called off a clipboard, stopping at room 37b.
"That's me," the raven-haired girl said, somewhat nervously.
The RA smiled kindly, "This is your room. It joins with 37a through the bathroom between it, which you will share. Your roommate hasn't arrived yet, but I expect her to be here later tonight. You should start get settled here, then come downstairs to the lobby tonight at 5 for dinner and orientation." With that, she handed Kagome her keys. "This silver one," she said, holding it up, "is to your room. This gold one-" a smaller, gold colored key, "-is to your closet, in case you have valuable or something you don't want your roommate to get at. Got everything? Good. This side of the hall is girls, the other side is boys. Curfew is at midnight – that means no boys in your room and vice versa, and you are on your honor to keep it. We'll go over more rules tonight at Orientation." At Kagome's nod, she deposited the keys in the girl's hand, and walked away, leading another girl down the hair to another room.
Kagome stared at her door for a moment, letting the notion that this was her door, before inserting the key and opening it.
It was a homey little room, if nothing else. A wooden brown shelf circled to the room, firmly attached to the plain, white wall. The carpet was a dull gray, and a wooden desk sat in one corner, her bed in another and two doors in the third – one to the bathroom, the other to her closet. The bed looked fairly comfortable, but high, so that bins could be stored underneath.
Kagome opened the door to the little bathroom, and peered in, expectantly. It was a pretty good bathroom, equally plain, but with all the necessities and no mold or strange growths. She closed the door and went back into her room.
"This is definitely gonna need some personal touches." She sighed and began unpacking her clothes.
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Kagome has just finished putting the last of her clothes in her closet when she heard noises from outside her door. Maybe it was her new roommate!
She quickly went to her door and listened quietly. No, those were male voices. They must be the new occupants across the hall! Kagome opened her door just a tad to peer out. She couldn't really see anything, but the two boys certainly saw her. Their RA had barely turned to walk away before one of them turned to her.
Her eyes widened and she quickly tried to shut the door, leaning on it, but in vain. They had seen her and knew she was there.
And they had to be the boys from the train.
A short knock, knock sent vibrations through her body and she slowly turned back around to reluctantly open the door slightly.
"Hello there!" The boy that had been about to talk to her on the train greeted her emphatically. He had short black hair with a little ponytail at the bottom of his hairline. He was not unattractive, either, to say the least. He grabbed her hands through the shallow crack that was all Kagome had opened the door and said, "My name is Miroku, and it looks like we get to be neighbors!" He smiled, charmingly and released one had to point to the other boy, the one she had been staring at. "This is Inuyasha, he's right across you, and I'm next door. We're roommates, obviously." Inuyasha simply stood there with a somewhat smug look on his face.
"My name is Kagome," she said, nervously, opening the door only slight more "um, nice to meet you." She didn't quite know what to do, and Miroku didn't seem too keen on letting her escape. "Um..well, I was just unpacking, so…" She trailed off, hoping they would get the hint and let her go back to her suitcases. Not so much luck.
"Great! So not anything that can't be done later!" Miroku was very pleased at this revelation. "Wanna go get something to eat? We haven't eaten yet, and there's a fast food restaurant nearby that I heard with actually edible food!" Kagome glanced from his excited face to Inuyasha's I-couldn't-care-less-but-I'm-still-too-cool face.
"Actually, I'm also waiting for my roommate to arrive. I did the potluck, and don't know who she is yet." Actually, that could probably wait until later, too, but that was beside that point.
"Oh," Miroku slumped a little, still holding her hands. "Oh well, we're neighbors, I'm sure we'll have another chance!" He straightened up and smiled. "We should probably unpack anyway, we're gonna get really busy really quickly." He finally released her hands, much to her delight, and winked as he turned to his door. "We'll see you later, Kagome!"
She smiled weakly, and glanced at Inuyasha, who simply turned went through his own doorway. 'Finally!' she thought, shut her door and climbed onto her bed. 'What am I going to do with them across the hallway all semester?' She sighed and looked at her luggage littering the floor with the odds and ends she had shoved in at the last minute. It did not look very appealing at the moment. Her stomach growled at her, reminded her that she hadn't eaten yet, either. Oh, food did sound like a good plan. Maybe a trip to the cafeteria wasn't a bad idea. She didn't want to go to a restaurant in case they ended up going, and she need to check the café out anyway.
Finding her flip-flops and keys, Kagome opened the door a slit to see if the coast was clear. After determining it safe, she slipped out and headed down the 2 flights of stairs and out the doors to the café that was across the street from her building.
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"Okay, was she not hot, or what?" Miroku was practically bouncing off the walls after meeting Kagome. "I can't wait to meet all these college girls!"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "If you're not careful, you're going to find yourself getting slapped. Many times."
Miroku sighed happily, "Oh but it would be worth it." He sighed again and plopped down onto his bed while Inuyasha leaned on the desk. Miroku propped himself up to look at Inuyasha, "You were certainly quite the charmer. What, you expect her to fall in love with the strong, silent type?"
That got a chuckle from Inuyasha. "I don't expect to fall in love with anything about me. She's not my type."
"The beautiful, kind, friendly, girl-next-door, type, isn't good enough for you?"
"The stare at strangers on the train and pretend like it didn't happen type." Miroku laughed at that. "I'm not gonna let her forget that anytime soon." Inuyasha grinned.
Miroku shrugged, "Your loss, my friend."
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Okay, so how was that? I'm really hoping to hear from reviewers soon. If you guys like it enough, I'll have the next chapter written and posted soon. Right now, this is all I've got. I do have little parts written in my head, but nothing on paper.
So! Next chapter we meet Kagome's roommate (and I'm sure you all can already guess at that) and we have orientation. And who knows what else. So please RR!!