Japanese Translations:

Kyouryoku: strong/strength

Kariudo: hunter

Haruko: Sun/sunlight

Michi: path ou: cherry blossom so 'Cherry Blossom Path'

Yama: mountain

Hikari: light

Author's Note: This is my newest story! YAY! Hope you like it!

Chapter One: Setting the Scene

They were laughing again.

His white, furry ears were pressed tightly against his head, trying to block out the sound of their loud laughter.

He particularly didn't enjoy her light laughter ringing in with the others. After all, she was the one who had caused his embarrassment. She was the one who had caused all of the other students in the science classroom to laugh their heads off at him. He began to growl softly. He didn't like being laughed at.

It had been happening like this for a few weeks now. Kagome Higurashi would act real charming and sweet to every other god forsaken person in the classroom and then later show her true colors only to him, Inuyasha Kyouryoku. He hadn't done a damn thing to the girl, but for some reason she had made it her duty to make his life a living hell. He couldn't admit to himself that his attitude wasn't the best in the world, or that sometimes he probably deserved it. It hurt all the same.

Just now she had caused all of this laughter by making fun of his 'awesome' skills with the opposite sex. Sure he wasn't Romeo, but he got by all the same. This didn't matter to her though. Just seeing his blush this morning as he was talking to Haruko, a kind and pretty girl he had never spoken to before, caused her to start the attack again. It was driving him insane.

Without thinking, Inuyasha turned and was about to lunge at the girl, snarling, when the teacher returned to the room which was still filled with laughter. All the teacher saw was Inuyasha Kyouryoku, who was half-demon, lunging with fangs gleaming at Kagome Higurashi, who didn't appear to be doing anything to provoke him.

"Kyouryoku!" the teacher barked out, causing Inuyasha to pause in his lunge at Kagome. He turned to face the teacher, who was glaring at him. "What do you think you are doing to Miss Higurashi! You should be ashamed of yourself for attempting to attack an innocent girl! Speak to me after class."

Inuyasha tried to clear himself, but the teacher wouldn't listen. He believed what he had seen with his own eyes more than whatever Inuyasha had to say. Unable to change the declaration, Inuyasha simply growled and then sat back down in his seat, looking down at the desk.

'Thank god class is almost over,' he thought, feeling Kagome's happy eyes boring into his skull. 'And it's the end of the day too, and I don't have to put up with that bitch any longer,' he snarled inwardly, barely listening to the lesson that the teacher had resumed.

Before he knew it, the bell had rung signalling the end of class. As the students fled from the science room, the teacher approached Inuyasha.

"Fortunately for you," the teacher glared at him once more, "I am unable to stay and administer detention to you tonight. This Friday you are expected to meet me in this classroom for lunchtime detention. Twelve o'clock sharp, no later young man!" And with that, the teacher turned on his heel and marched out of the classroom, upset that Inuyasha would get off tonight, and would have to wait until the end of the week to get his just desserts.

Inuyasha, in defiance, flipped the teacher the bird behind his back and then exited the classroom himself.

'Damn her!' he thought, his eyebrows scrunched together in a hard line as he walked down the empty science hall. 'If she hadn't gone and said those things and pushed me over the edge, I wouldn't have to serve stupid detention. That bitch!' he snarled into the empty hallway and continued on towards the intersection of the arts and sciences hallways.

Upon exiting the science classroom, Kagome said goodbye to her friends, and walked through the masses of people.

'Jeeze, why are there always so many people in this hallway after school?' she thought with a slight frown. She wasn't fond of small spaces, but she could usually deal with the hallways of her school, Michiou High. She sighed and attempted to squeeze past a couple of freshmen students crowding the halls.

Kagome was tiny compared to some people in her school. Sango Yama, her best friend, was much taller, though shorter than Miroku Hikari, who was sort of a friend to the two girls. Kagome was made into a dwarf when she stood beside Miroku, with his 6'1" looming over her own 5'2".

'Though compared to Inuyasha, I look like a fricking hobbit,' she scowled, pushing through more groups of students. Inuyasha was 6'3", over a foot taller than herself and good friends with Miroku. 'Like it does him much good,' she snorted to herself, reaching her locker, which was located in the arts hallway.

She never really had anything against Inuyasha. She still didn't. It was just that her friends were beginning to think that she liked him more than was appropriate. She rolled her eyes at that thought. 'Beginning to? Sango full out demanded that I walk up to him the other week and confess my undying love for him!'

Shoving her science books into her locker, she paused for a moment looking at a couple pictures she had posted on her door. There were a couple of Miroku and Sango, and a few more of Kagome and various other friends. One was of Inuyasha.

It was partially hidden behind a few other pictures, but Kagome uncovered it, and looked at it wordlessly.

Inuyasha was staring off the page slightly, his features softened by the lighting of the picture. His eyes looked like they were molten gold and his hair blew softly around him. He looked gorgeous.

Kagome smiled softly, running a fingertip over his face. Like stated before, Kagome never had anything against Inuyasha. She just couldn't let anyone know that she liked him, even though it was only a little bit. One, she would be teased immensely. Two, Hojo would probably cry (she snorted at that) and Kouga would probably kill him (she became solemn once more). And three, her mother would go into full out wedding shopping if she even thought to bring Inuyasha home with her. Her mother was good like that and Kagome did not need to have the "talk" with her grandfather ever again (she shuddered).

Kagome was jerked out of her reverie when strong arms spun her around and slammed her locker shut.

"Wha –" Her air was cut off when she was shoved into the locker, hard. Before her stood three young men, two of which were somewhat familiar. All were wolf demons. She didn't recognize the leader who had spun her around. And she really didn't like how he was eyeing her, as though she was a piece of meat to be displayed and then bought.

"Now what do we have here?" he sneered at her, running a hand through his dark messy hair. His other hand still pressed Kagome roughly into the locker by her shoulder.

"Its Kagome Higurashi, Kariudo," replied the boy to the right of her, a youth with spiky white mohawk. He looked on eagerly, as though he was watching an episode of his favourite anime. The other boy, who had short cropped white and black hair, looked nervous. He looked as though he didn't want to be there right at this moment in time.

"Kagome, eh?" The leader, Kariudo, looked at Kagome with interest sparked in his eyes. Kariudo had heard all about this girl from someone or another, and he had to admit, she was all that they had said. He grinned at Kagome, trying to get her to relax. It didn't work.

'Oh god, Oh god,' she thought frantically, trying to figure some way out of the situation, as Kariudo crowded her against the locker and started to rip her clothes off of her tiny frame. Kagome fought back as well as much as she could, twisting and turning her body away from his touch.

Becoming furious with her for avoiding him, Kariudo hit Kagome across the face sending her to the floor.

Gasping in pain, Kagome cradled her cheek in the palm of her hand, feeling it begin to bruise and swell.

Reaching down, Kariudo once more grabbed Kagome and lifted her against the row of lockers, pressing his body into hers. Still in shock, Kagome didn't move a muscle, trying to wrap her mind around what had just happened. She had never been hit before, and being hit by a wolf demon was definitely worse than being hit by a human any day.

"Good," Kariudo murmured, running his fangs along her neck, biting her creamy flesh here and there. "I knew you would come around and finally see it my way..."

With a single motion, Kariudo ripped her shirt in half and proceeded to have his way with her. Kagome struggled but was no match for his strength.

The screaming inside her body abruptly stopped when Kariudo stepped back and began loosening his belt. Frozen, Kagome could only watch in horror.

Inuyasha was stupid. Or at least, that was what he was telling himself right at that moment in time. Because he had been so angry at the teacher, he had run out of the classroom with out a second glance, leaving his notebooks behind. There they sat in the dim light on top of his desk, when he peered through the window on the door.

And the door was locked.

Growling, Inuyasha cursed and threw his weight against the door. It didn't budge.

Giving up after a few more unsuccessful tries, Inuyasha turned away from the door, heading back in the direction that he had just travelled in. 'Of course the damn door has to be locked,' he thought angrily, stomping down the hallway towards the intersection. It was just his luck. It was always this way it seemed. Or at least, that's what he had been telling himself since Kagome had begun her teasing and mocking.

Inuyasha strode through the intersecting halls with determination, looking neither right nor left. That is, until he heard screaming.

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