The Accident in Chemistry Class
Chapter 1: The Half-A
Disclaimer: I don't and never will be able to own InuYasha. Darn.
A/N: This is an Inu/Kag story, with some Inu/Kik. Oh, I had been planning on this story for a long time, since last year, but never got around to doing it, so if anyone thinks I copied from them, I didn't, because I had this idea written out for a good while. This story is also to replace the very first story I had on here - but Fanfiction erased it - "KAGOME AND INUYASHA", which was back when I was new to the InuYasha world. :D
She was not a normal girl of her age. No, she was far from normal. She had two different looks and characteristics at two different times. Day and Night.
Kagome scooted closer to Hojo as he backed away from their concoction. Hojo had picked his Kagome, as he had said, to be his "beautiful lab partner". To help things out, her friends, Yuka and Sayuri, had forced her into it. Well, helped Kagome into it, as they claimed...
Kagome did actually like Hojo, maybe a small crush, but he really was too naïve and sometimes a bit stupid. Actually, more like very stupid. He couldn't catch a hint if Kagome didn't want to go out with him! But still, love has its costs. Besides his minor stupidity, Kagome did fall many times from his gentlemanly charms.
And for the grand finale, Kagome's jii-chan/grandpa always made up illnesses for her—ones that Kagome never really had—when she didn't feel like going to school or going out on a date with young Hojo to the cinema or the burger joint.
Sure, she liked it, (sometimes) but sometimes, it really ticked her off...
Hojo put his arm around Kagome to protect her, but couldn't find her body. He turned around and saw her crouching and huddled up on the ground.
A girl screamed as Kagome and Hojo's chemical concoction exploded and flew everywhere. The burners that heated the experiment in their area caught fire and the whole room was almost in flames in a flash.
Everyone evacuated.
"C'mon, Higurashi!" Hojo shouted. He still had to learn to call the girl by her first name, not her last.
Hojo thought he heard her say her worried "Okay!" and would follow him out the burning room. Unfortunately, she didn't...
"KYAAAAAAA!" she shrieked.
Kagome stood up to make a break for the door—or even a window, she didn't know, she was too frightened—but was immediately trapped by a ring of fire, and the rafters started to collapse, swallowed by flames.
"HELP! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! HOJO? HOJO!"
Kagome shrieked again as the hot chemicals and ashes fell on her. She immediately brushed them off madly. She stared as it left odd markings on her arm.
The markings were some kind of cat-demon's head. Below it were its fangs. Of course, she didn't know. She wiped it off, and it slowly melted away...
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"Is everyone here?" Mr. Myamota, the chemistry teacher, asked his class. Everyone nodded.
"Good. Then let's move it, everybody! Let's move it! This is not a practice drill!"
'Did Higurashi make it out all right?' Hojo wondered anxiously.
Sneaking away, Hojo climbed through a window, into the burning school, praying he wouldn't get caught coming back in here. He made his way back to the chemistry classroom quickly. Hojo burst down the door to the lab.
"Higurashi!"
Kagome lay sprawled across the glassy checkered floor.
"HIGURASHI!"
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Hojo ran out with Kagome in his arms, hurrying back to the class. The teacher was taking attendance!
"Mimi?"
"Here!"
"Hojo?"
"Present."
"Kagome? ...Kagome Higurashi?"
Hojo stepped forward with the unconscious girl in his arms.
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Kagome awoke in bed with a cold sweat.
"Huh? What am I doing here? Why am I not in my home? Where is my mom??" Kagome cried as she realized she was in a hospital.
Her mind raced.
"All I remember is an orange light...Fire...a-and...and Hojo's voice..." she paused. "Our experiment erupted..."
She pulled up her sleeves—
Bruises...and burn marks...
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Later that night, she awoke again. Her ears twitched as she heard a quiet noise. Wait...since when did her ears twitch? Kagome held her head in her hands and gasped. She had...cat ears!
"Oh no..."
Her nose picked up a smell. Her mouth drooled. She smelled...pizza...
Kagome tried to get up, but found she couldn't. Belts were strapping her to the bed!
"Damn!"
Kagome found a paper on a table beside her. Tilting her head, she read the title:
The Half-A
15 year-old high school girl Kagome Higurashi was in an accident and fell into a coma for so far about a week. She is reported to have developed some odd features, such as unique cat ears atop her head and is developing sharp teeth such as a dog's or cat's, claws and a cat tail. Scientists say they have "never seen anything like this" and doctors have found no cure so far.
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'So now I'm a side show?!' she wondered angrily. Her averted gaze found a picture of her lying in the hospital bed, unconscious with the coma, with her new features.
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Kagome smirked as she ran away from the hospital. These new extractable claws would serve handy... They did with slashing away those pesky belts and that security guard...
Kagome walked down the walkway to her house casually. She gasped as she stopped. Something red and white caught her eye. It was like a big dog, but since when do dogs wear kimonos?
"Hey, wait up!" Kagome cried.
The "thing" ran into the Higurashi shrine. Kagome followed suit. It ran down the well. Kagome stopped. She knew she would regret it as she jumped down the well. Nothing happened. Or so it seemed. The dog thing was gone... Where was it?
Kagome decided she looked like an idiot, sitting in the well. She climbed out and gasped.
"Well, this sure isn't Kansas, Toto..."
"Who the hell is Kansas Toto? And who the hell are you?"
Kagome froze. It was the dog thing! He looked like a human, but had long, flowing white-silver hair and dog ears perched on top. He was wearing a red kimono, and had a sword sheathed at his waist. His eyes were golden orbs that shined brilliantly.
"What the hell are you looking at? Hey...you're sort of like me!"
Kagome looked at herself. Then the dog thing. Herself. Dog thing. Herself.
"ACK!" she gagged in surprise.
"So...you are something of a hanyou, right? A neko-hanyou? It looks like you've got some inu-hanyou in you, too. That's really strange...I've never seen anything like you..."
"H-hanyou...?" she stuttered.
"Don't tell me you—"
"—What's a hanyou, Mr. Dog Thing?" Kagome asked, feeling like a little child.
"It's InuYasha! I have a name, you know!" InuYasha sighed. "A hanyou is half of any kind of demon, and half a human."
"B-but..."
"By the way, what's your name, wench?"
Kagome flushed.
"It's Kagome! I have a name, too!"
"Kagoh-meh..." It tasted sweet as her name rolled off InuYasha's tongue. "Kagome?"
"Good boy!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Humph!" the hanyou huffed.
"Nn?"
Kagome snatched InuYasha's hand as she heard a twig snapping.
The Story Begins -
...6-10-04...