Title: Silver Tree Academy

By: TamashaToko

Summary: Kagome Higurashi had always been the overachiever at Silver Tree Academy and the one everyone turned to for companionship and advice, but when a new student moves into her dorm and takes interest in her will she keep her morals, or fall to temptation and change?

Pairing: Kagome/Naraku

Footnote 1: The Star and the Mentor

Boarding school was something feared by most children, especially those with wealthy parents, for it meant years of separation from family and freedom to live in a place of rules and regulations. Majority of a boarding school's students were usually those who were seen as an eye sore by their parents or perhaps a way to train a future CEO to put aside all leisure ambitions and stick their nose to the grindstone.

Silver Tree Academy was just that, a boarding school that housed the country's future for it only accepted the brightest and the richest, but it didn't make a name for its self by accepting big donations. The building itself was a great learning institute for it was a former castle that still contained relics while creating a wonderful student atmosphere with libraries and home-like dorms. Not to mention every scientist who discovered a cure, business man who made millions, or writer that made a difference in the country had all come from Silver Tree Academy. All of these attributes set more and more expectations for its students every year.

Kagome Higurashi, a junior in the academy, had been sent to the learning institute with all the expectations she could get from her parents and the administrators of the school. Both her mother and dead father had attended classes in the academy leaving Kagome with enough school spirit to do whatever it took to receive the glory her predecessors had in their school days. Whether it was acing Chemistry Honors or writing an applause worthy essay the girl proved she would be the next shining star of the school.

"Kagome," Sango took a seat in the academy's very own tea and coffee lounge with an Advanced Calculus book in one hand and a steaming cup of green tea in the other, "study group tonight?"

Kagome Higurashi put down her complicated economy book to sip her own warm drink and smile at her friend, "Depends, who is buying pizza tonight?"

"Kikyo is of course."

"Well then tell her I like sausage, and I will be over after five. I need to get caught up on my laundry."

Laundry was something that was done at the Silver Tree Academy often, because no one ever seemed to wear anything but their dress pants, gray top, and black jacket with a silver oak tree symbol stitched perfectly in. It was required to wear their uniform in class, but still their school pride had them wearing their logo wherever there were eyes to see it. Actually Kagome and the other girls of her study hall didn't even own any other clothes then that of their uniform except sleeping robes, that she had done the honor of stitching the logo into all on her own.

"I will do," Sango replied, "well talk to you later. AP Biology in ten minutes, any advice for the mid term."

"I don't want to spoil anything, but make sure you have those phosphate functions memorized. Have fun!"

"Thanks, and you too."

Kagome had conversations like this everyday with everyone who spoke with her. It had become quite obvious she was top in her class, so it wasn't a surprise that all the other honor students flocked towards her in the morning for advice.

Speaking of honor students it was time for Kagome to finish her drink and get a move on. If she didn't leave this spot quick enough then, it had become too late.

"Feh," an annoyed voice was heard scuffing at a friend, "Miroku no bitch in her right mind would touch you with a ten foot pole, and speaking of bitches."

Kagome stopped in her tracks and sat back down at her small table. She hadn't moved quickly enough, and now she was going to pay the consequences. Inuyasha Murashu, wearing his uniform in a disrespectful fashion, sat across from her with his own coffee and a scowl on his face. He was probably just now waking up unlike his bright peers who had been up four hours before.

"You know," his gaze moved away from her as his finger began to tap on the table for the purpose of annoying her, "you try and avoid me a lot Kagome. I don't think my parents would be too happy about that."

Kagome glared at Inuyasha's finger and pretended to burn a hole through it with her imaginary laser vision, "You never use to care. It's irony really. When I was in regular middle school and we were friends you always yelled at me for being around you, but now that we are-

"Cat got your tongue."

She attempted to drink her coffee to find out that there was no more in her cup, but she continued for it was another second he wasn't talking to him.

All her school career Kagome wanted to go to the Silver Tree Academy, but her family never had the money or the connections to enroll her, and that's when the Murashu family came into play. The wealthy Inutashio and his wife would consult their friends in the education department and pay intuition fees for Kagome as long as she desired to attend the academy, but in return she had to marry their youngest son, Inuyasha, after graduation.

"So what if we are engaged?" she put her empty cup down accidentally slamming it a bit, "I have a right to live, don't I?"

"If you call being a book worm living! How about me? Other boys my age are dating as many girls as possible and partying, but I am stuck in this god-forsaken place where there is no alcohol and I am engaged and unable to date. I had to go through hell to coax the administration into allowing a TV in my dorm."

The more she talked to her fiancée the more Kagome could understand why he was stuck in an arranged marriage. It was best for him to be tied down to someone as early as possible, or knowing him he would get kicked out of this place by doing god-knows-what with the female student population. His friend, Miroku, was already on the verge.

"You have my attention now Inuyasha," Kagome checked her watch that also had the Silver Tree Academy symbol on the face, "but only five minutes. I have class."

"I am suppose to be in class right now, but anyways, like you said we were friends once, so I don't get why this has to be difficult. After this semester you only have one more year before your living in my house and being my wife, so lets try to make this go smoothly. How about a date tonight? I am in the mood for ribs."

"Ribs aren't on the cafeteria's menu."

"We can leave the school."

"That's against the rules. I am sorry, but we are having a study group tonight. You are free to join us Inuyasha."

Inuyasha slammed his cup down wanting to cause a scene, "I was wrong about you! There were a few other girls who wanted to get into this school too, and my parents could have easily chose them over you, but when I heard you were indeed of the scholarship I demanded to marry you. I knew those girls would be nothing but cold fish, and I thought you could at least add something to my life."

"I am a bit busy Inuyasha, that's all. I will be ready to be your wife upon graduation."

"How about what I asked you earlier?"

"I have to go to class Inuyasha," Kagome stood up with her school things, "I will see you later, and come by our study group if you are hungry."

"Forget you," Inuyasha stood up and went about his business with Miroku as Kagome went to class.

- - -

As they often did when mid terms and finals approached Kagome, and her equally intelligent classmates gathered in her room and sat on her couch and bed with their homework ready to study and get help on their complicated essays and math equations.

Kagome was laying on her floor with a slice of pizza in one hand and a pencil in the other, and over her shoulder was Hojo, top in their class, who was helping her analyze the themes and symbols of a few poems.

"Thanks Hojo," she smiled as they separated and she ate a bit.

"Any time Kagome," he smiled back.

"Now what kind of smile was that you two?" Ayame asked putting her calculator down.

"What smile?" Kagome asked.

"Don't play dumb. I think our little Kagome has a crush."

"That's impossible," Hojo being the sensitive guy he was also had a blush.

Sango giggled, "Watch out Hojo. Remember whom she is engaged to! Mr. Inuyasha Murashu!"

"The silver haired fellow who always bullies kids in the hall?"

"That one," Kagome lowered her head wondering if there would ever be a moment where she could be proud of people were saying about her fiancée.

"Poor you."

Sango sat down next to Kagome on the floor, "So I heard he caught up with you today, is that correct? Kikyo you have been silent."

Kikyo, who had been sitting on top of Kagome's bed solving equations removed her reading glasses, "It doesn't seem right to have such girl talk while there is a man present."

"Kikyo is right, Hojo can you throw these pizza boxes out and then get us some soda?"

"Girls," he laughed as he disappeared from the room.

Once he was gone Kagome knew there was no way to escape the discussion, "Nothing much happened you guys. He just wanted me to go on a date with him, and brake a rule doing it of course."

"Big deal," Ayame was bored so she went back to work.

"I don't think that's why you are trying to avoid him Kagome, how about the question he asked you earlier?"

"What question?" Kikyo's alert eyes looked up.

"Well Inuyasha asked me if I wanted to just move into his dorm. Since he is a Murashu he can just bypass the co-ed rule, and he says we might as well do it since we will be living together soon enough anyways."

Kikyo coughed as Ayame became interested again, "What's wrong with that? With the money his family has he probably has the best room. All ours have is a couch, desk, and bed next to the furnace. I bet he has a bedroom and his own personal bathroom."

"I would like to graduate her a clean honest person who hasn't received any de-merits or gotten away with braking any rules, that and what if Inuyasha, you know, he is a teenaged boy after all."

"Hence the reason co-ed is not allowed, but you are right. That is probably the only reason he has been all over you lately. He is becoming a horny little dog and he will be in trouble with his parents if he with any other girl."

"That's why I am staying clear from him for awhile. I don't want to end up sharing a bed with him, no matter how big of a TV he has in there."

The girls went back to eating pizza and studying. Of course it ended right at eight 'o clock sharp, because it was lights out and every student of the academy had to be in bed. Kagome cleaned up quickly, double-checked her homework, and then lay beneath her blankets warm and looking forward to the morning would she could learn some more.

- - -

Inuyasha sat at a table in one of the local pubs wearing his leisure clothes, because if he were recognized as an academy student by any of the staff that was likely to get a drink here he would be expelled despite his good family name. He didn't understand why he had to go to that damn school anyways! He failed all his classes because prep school was always ten times harder than public school, but yet his parents continued to send him to make sure he wasn't at home doing nothing.

He would have just ran away, but he endured it all because of Kagome Higurashi. If he were to disappear then the engagement would be called off and Kagome would return to public school never realizing her dream, whatever it was, and then Inuyasha would have to suffer a guilt trip.

Then again why did he owe her anything? All he wanted to do was have some fun and allow her to do the same, but she always turned him away. It was as though the friendship they once had meant nothing, but he discovered a way to change that, and that's why he was waiting in this bar.

"Inuyasha Murashu?" a voice behind him questioned.

"That's me," he crossed his arms feeling a bit irritated now that he thought about the ungrateful wench he would be forced to marry, "want me to buy you a drink?"

"I don't drink," a man sat across from Inuyasha, "shall we just get down to business?"

"First off, is what I heard about you true? Do you really change women?"

"I considered it a profession, so yes, I can."

"Well I am to marry this girl in a year, and all she cares about are books and stuff. I can't even get her to be alone in the same room as me let alone bed. This girl is having me wait until I graduate."

"A virgin are you?"

"Of course not, but I can't announce that or it will get back to my parents and they will know I am doing something around Kagome. I have men always commenting on my assumed innocence, and beating them up isn't good enough anymore. Why should she get away without any humiliation? Naraku was it?"

The eerie man with his eyes that had a strange glint to them nodded, "I've dealt with this before. Do you have the papers I asked you for?"

Inuyasha revealed Kagome's class schedule and some other information about her, "It's all here, and I have already arranged everything I need. This little operation is making some dents in my bank account, so don't screw it up."

He pocketed the paper and some cold hard cash Inuyasha laid upon the table, "I will not, so when shall I be expecting the second half of my payment?"

"When that girl is in my bed and everyone knows about it."

"It will happen then."

- - -

Kagome unlocked the door to her room and turned on the lights after another lecture in her literature class. She had just finished a test over a series of lengthy idealistic novels, so now it was time to move on to another book. It was thrown on top of her bed so she could read it after the rest of her classes was done.

This girl was the type to get excited by a new novel, but her enthusiasm ceased when she heard a grunt.

"Hello?"

There was no answer, and she shouldn't have been expecting one. Her door had been locked and there was security everywhere, so it wasn't like there would be an intruder in her room.

"Kagome you worry too much," she told herself as she sat down on her couch and dug through her backpack wanting to study a bit before her next class.

"Kagome talks too much," a very foreign and very male voice replied.

She lost grip and dropped her belongings to the floor. There was an intruder in here, and it was a male. What did he want? She didn't have any money or any valuable belongings, so there could be only one thing he did want.

Kagome quickly headed towards the door and put her hand on the knob.

"You are just going to wake me up and then leave," the one who was talking appeared out from under the blankets of her bed as though he were taking a nap.

Kagome studied the man, and tried to analyze him as much as she could incase a detective would have to sketch out her description when she went to the police. He had long inky black hair that made his crimson eyes seem all the more terrifying. She didn't even know how he could have red eyes, but then again Inuyasha had gold, but that was because he wore colored contacts, so this man probably did the same.

"My eyes?" it was as though he could read her mind, "When you have the money I do cosmetic surgeons can do anything. I like this color."

Kagome kept her eyes on him not moving her hand off her door, "What are you doing here?"

Naraku stood and paced towards her looking calm as he did so, but he kept a smirk that made him look diabolical like the evil antagonist of a play, "I am here to teach."

She took note that he could only be three years older than him at the most and he was wearing a Silver Tree Academy uniform just like Inuyasha's, "You look like a student to me."

"Really? I am to be your mentor Kagome."

"How do you know my name?"

"One most know a person before sharing a room with them, now step away from the door Miss. Higurashi."

"Sharing a room? This is the female dorm, so I am going to have to ask you to leave."

"I said step away from the door."

The moment Kagome's wrist to move to twist the doorknob open Naraku swiftly yanked her arm to him having her whole body follow. Taking advantage of this he flung her across the room having her land on to her couch.

"It's always good to listen to your mentors Kagome, but I will install a lock that only I will have the key to if I must."

She quickly stood up, "What are you doing here?"

"I have been told you signed up for some extra circular activities, is that correct?"

Kagome sat back down since he wasn't causing any harm to her at the moment, but he gave her a menacing look, "I have been denied, because I am taking so many classes it was believed it would get in the way of my studies."

He joined her by sitting on arm of the couch, "Well you are going to take part any an activity Miss. Higurashi. I am to be your personal teacher for it, but requires me to live in the same room with you."

"Are you sure?"

Kagome had her arms crossed and was pretty pissed at the moment. Even if he did have an honorable reason for sneaking and hiding in his room it wouldn't register with her. Who was he to bark commands at her and then push her around so roughly?

"I have the papers giving me my work orders if you don't believe me," he wore that smirk again before his hand traveled to her scalp and his fingers began to comb through her hair, "signed by the administration."

Who was he to touch her hair? Kagome quickly slapped his hand away with as much rage as possible. He had just been petting her as though she was some kind of new pet.

Naraku frowned, "That is a de-merit Miss. Higurashi."

Kagome's eyes widened, "What?"

"A de-merit. I believe you are smart enough to know that having enough of them can result in not graduating on time."

"I don't get de-merits."

"Well you should have thought about that before assaulting your mentor. I am to give you a credit for meeting my qualifications and allowing me to stay here, but I could easily take that away, so obedience would be good. Apologize and I might make that little de-merit disappear."

Kagome wanted to kill this man! He had touched her, something no teacher anywhere should do, and now he was expecting her to apologize. Being the vocal opinionated student she usually was she would gave given him a few choice words, but if she had a chance to keep her record spotless and actually gain an extra credit to boost her grade point average then she could, but she wouldn't like it.

"I am sorry," she whispered.

"What was that Miss. Higurashi?"

"I am sorry!"

"You are loud, so do you have any questions for me."

She went on about questioning frivolous items such as finals and midterms, but Naraku was only half listening. This girl would indeed be a challenge, but thanks to Inuyasha she was worth a lot of money, and he had dealt with worse. The man had no doubt whatsoever that by the end of this semester he could turn this bright moral filled girl into the fun whore Inuyasha so desired.