InuYasha: Year 11

Chapter 1

The first day of school... and we already get assigned a project? Really?! Inuyasha groaned mentally as he heard the teacher lecture on and on about how they were all in grade 11 now and needed to be better at managing their time; drawing on his worksheet was something he hoped would help time pass. Staring at the boring oak bookshelves, gnawed desks and sleepy students only made time go even slower.

"I will be assigning partners to you all as some of you don't know how to get work done when hanging out with friends." The teacher narrowed his eyes at Koga and his friends in the back, who were making silly faces and not focused on the person of authority's words at all. Many groans were heard from the students, some dreading the idea of being partnered up with a slacker while others simply hated the idea of a project on the first day. Inuyasha was one of the latter students.

"First group, Miroku and Sango." The teacher said and Inuyasha looked at his friend, a black-haired male, who was smiling back at Inuyasha with a devious glint sparkling in his violet eyes.

Don't mess up your chance with this one, you pervert. Inuyasha tried to convey in a look before getting back to doodling on his paper. They had met in grade 10, when Inuyasha first came to the school. He found his newfound friend to love women a little too much and got himself in trouble often thanks to it. It was surprising how many women hadn't outright rejected him, yelled at him, no... they were all very polite when it came to rejecting or accepting his tease. Miroku had a crush on Sango for as long as the young half-demon could remember.

"Looks like you're my partner!" He heard a female voice call from above and looked up to see her bright, smiling face looking down at him. She had long black hair that was a little messy but... like it was meant to look that way. Her eyes were a stormy blue, mixed with a grey that had them toned down from the usual blue-eyed beauty. "You're Inuyasha, right?" She asked, speaking politely again.

"Uh, yeah..." he glanced over her and to the teacher, realizing he had missed his name. Worse, he hasn't caught this girl's name. In fact, he didn't know her at all.

At least she's a human; I don't have to worry about her pulling anything funny on me.

"I'm Kagome, it's nice to meet you." Her eyes sparkled, and it was starting to make the male feel a little uncomfortable. People weren't usually this polite to him, so it was a little weird. Especially from a pretty girl.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." He mumbled and looked back down at his doodle on the corner of his page. He swore he heard the female huff but when he looked up to glare at her she was already walking away, to claim a desk diagonal from him. He didn't care where she sat, if she didn't bother him everything between them would be fine.

Why be polite to people you'll likely never see again?

/ / / TIME SKIP / / /

The bell rang, meaning that the first day of school was over and Inuyasha could finally go home. There were a lot more humans at this school and therefore he wasn't teased nearly as badly as he was at his previous school. Sighing at the uneventful day, he grabbed his bag, tossed on his signature crimson hoodie and began to head home.

The sky was still a bright, vivid blue. The trees that were placed along the entrance to the school reached desperately for the blue of the sky, but never truly touched the blue void. Their leaves were varying shades of green, despite summer ending.

"Inuyasha!" He heard a familiar voice call after him. Turning around, he saw Kagome running after him. "I'm so glad I managed to catch you... I wanted to ask when you wanted to meet to discuss our project." Inuyasha's ears twitched, as if to confirm if he had heard her correctly.

"Already? It's not due for what, another two months?" He argued, confused on why the girl would ask about that now. She nodded.

"I know, but I like to stay ahead, you know?" She said cheerfully but Inuyasha scowled a little.

Great, I get stuck with a straight A student. Can't wait to get nagged about this.

"If you want, we could meet about it tomorrow when the teacher reveals more information about it." Kagome suggested and Inuyasha just shrugged in response, his amber gaze blank and uninterested.

"I really don't care." He said. "And I don't really do group projects." the girl simply tilted her head with a smile.

"They're not really my thing either, but we don't have a choice. Are you available tomorrow or not?" She asked once more and his ears leaned backwards; he didn't like the tone Kagome had even though she was right. Neither of them chose to be together.

"I'm available, geez." He huffed and glanced over Kagome's shoulder, eyes catching onto Miroku next to a tree with three girls talking to him.

"My place or yours, then?" Before she could spout anything else, the half-demon answered quickly.

"Yours." He spoke with more anger than he meant.

"It's settled, then! See you after school tomorrow." She seemed unphased and with that, she turned away to head home. Inuyasha's eyes narrowed at her, something about her screamed that she was putting on a whole nice facade.

"I see you've managed to nail a project with her..." he heard his friend say from behind him. "You're quite lucky, she's a pretty one." Inuyasha turned to face Miroku, a glare plastered on the white-haired male's face.

"Not interested." Inuyasha said, annoyed even at the thought. He had to admit, Kagome looked pretty and stood out thanks to that despite her wearing the same emerald skirt and white blouse every other girl wore. Quit thinking like that! He growled at himself.

"Your face says otherwise." Miroku observed, spotting the bright pink his cheeks suddenly sported. Inuyasha huffed and faced away, pulling his hood up.

"Look, just because you're always chasing after girls doesn't mean everyone else is, too." Inuyasha's tone echoed his irritation, an ear flicking when he heard a chuckle from his friend.

"Whatever you say, Inuyasha."

Hey! Sorry for any OOC-ness, I kind of went with the thought process of, "they'd want to make a good first impression on a fresh year" but don't worry! I have the next few chapters written and Kagome is more of herself in the coming ones. I recently got into InuYasha and started to binge-watch the series because I fell in love with it; it's like Dragonball but a little better in some aspects.

I'd love to know if anyone wants me to continue posting this AU, as it's the first fan fiction I've tackled in a long time and I haven't written for a series I love so dearly in YEARS! Criticism welcomed and I look forward to posting more!