Disclaimer: I own nothing of or related to Inuyasha and Junk!Boys.

~)*(~

A doorbell rang loudly throughout a small, homey household. "I got it!" A young man with soft brown hair ran to the door, slipping a little, but never falling, and the doorbell ran again. "Hai, hai!" He pulled the door open and smiled in greeting. "Can I help yo—"

Dark, almost haunted blue eyes watched him stare in shock, before a small smile crossed the guest's lips. "Yo, Tomoya."

Tomoya gaped, his mouth reminiscent of a fish. He tried to speak several times, but couldn't work his voice until the girl on the other side of the door slumped, her eyes closing as she fell toward him. "Kagome!"

Tomoya barely caught her, his strength only enough to gently guide her down to the floor, and he called for his family. A strange warmth flooded over his hand, and he pulled it back instinctively. His hand, along with the rest of his body, trembled as he watched a bright red liquid drip from his fingers.

And he screamed.

~)*(~

"Tomo-chan?" Brilliant blue eyes peeked around a group of trees, looking for a small, girly boy with light brown hair. "Mou, where did he go?"

Dainty hands planted themselves on slim hips, and she huffed, her eyes narrowed in irritation. "I swear he could get lost in an empty room and not find his way out…"

"Tsukasa, if we don't stick to it…" The girl froze, her gaze darting around to locate the source of the voice. The mischievous tenor teased her ears enticingly as the words teased the person for whom they were intended. "The truth is, you're reluctant to do it with me."

Deftly avoiding any twigs that would snap under her feet, the girl moved to peer through some bushes. "I don't have a choice. We wouldn't have to do this if we hadn't said we'd catch him." Him? Him who?

"That's true, but… haa." A shudder raked down her spine at the deeper, more elegant voice. She carefully watched as a handsome blonde boy caging in his ebony-haired companion against a tree, leaning into him. A couple?

"Now, now, it's alright, isn't it, Tsukasa?" Despite the blonde's facetious words, he wore a serious expression that had the girl raising an eyebrow in disbelief. At a glance they appeared to be together intimately, but upon further inspection, this didn't look very real…

"Seems you're rather eager about this." A pair of delicate glasses, framing the dark-haired boy's narrow eyes, gleamed in the sunlight falling between the trees, but he held a serious expression as well. This seemed very fake, now.

The girl suddenly narrowed her eyes, recognizing the two as Sakuma Tsukasa and Kajimoto Takato, the most popular boys of the second year class of the private school that her cousin brought her to—albeit against his will. Tomoya didn't think that a "kind girl like her would be able to make it in the scary world of an all boys school."

A flare of irritation flickered in her eyes as she remembered that she was supposed to be looking for the lost boy, and she turned away, planning to allow the fake couple some privacy as Takato leaned in further for a kiss.

"A-ahhh!" Her back stiffened before she heaved a sigh. Tomoya… she could practically hear his thoughts racing a mile-a-minute and cursing himself for tripping. Clumsy little guy. However, even though the two handsome boys were interrupted, they didn't look displeased. More curious than anything.

"Hey, who's there?"

She turned around to watch her adorable cousin pop up from the underbrush, leaves in his hair, and adamantly confess that he was lost but hadn't seen anything. He really was too cute. Ah, well, time to make her own appearance.

"Tomoya?" She pushed aside a branch and bent down to look beneath it. "Ah! There you are. I hope you're not bothering your senpais, ne?" She smirked at his quick flush.

"Kago-nii!"

"Ara, two unfamiliar faces." Tsukasa pushed up his glasses slightly and analyzed their faces quickly. "You two are new students?"

"That's right." Kagome gingerly stepped into the clearing, coming up behind Tomoya, who was still too red to say anything. "I transferred into the second year class, and my cousin Tomoya is a first year." Tomoya nodded shyly, stepping back to stand against her for comfort, and she didn't blame him. These were the two most popular boys in all three years, and he had stumbled across what looked like an intimate scene, well, to him, anyway. "Tomo-chan gets lost a lot—I hope he didn't bother you at all."

"Eh?" The blonde grinned in amusement. "So you got lost and peeped accidently. Think the excitement was too much for the kid?"

Tomoya flushed again and bowed his head fervently. "I'm so sorry, but it's okay because I won't tell anyone about this!"

Kagome chuckled, keeping her voice low as she bapped her cousin lightly on the head. Eh, may as well agree with him—it'd at least make Tomoya feel better. "We won't tell anyone about this, ne?"

"'This'?" Takato blinked in confusion, tilting his head in a way that made Kagome's heart flutter a bit. "But I thought only your cousin saw whatever it was he's so upset about."

She grinned through her fluttering heart—when was the last time it did that? As if she was a naïve schoolgirl? "It's obvious that you two were in some sort of embrace—it's the only thing that would make Tomo-chan react in such an adorable manner." She ruffled his hair through his protest before looking up at them. "Ne?"

Tomoya spoke while patting down his hair with a pout. "It would be a shock to everyone if they found out that you two were attracted to each other. If they knew you were dating…" He looked up to the dark-haired senpai. "Sakuma Tsukasa-senpai, who has a sharp mind, smooth charm, and always gets the best grades." Kagome arched an eyebrow. Well didn't he know a lot? She just knew they were popular—never bothered to pay attention to why. "And Kajimoto Takato-senpai, the great athlete who's really popular and involved in a lot of club activities. They're so popular everyone in school knows them!"

Tsukasa cupped his chin in a scholarly fashion. "So that's what people say about us…"

"Demo, Tomo-chan," Kagome leaned forward so her head was beside his and she looked at him from the corners of her eyes, smirking. "I don't know them."

"Eh!?" Tomoya whirled around in shock, his cute face stretched wide open. "But Kago-nii! You're in their class! How can you not know them?"

"I seem to fall asleep." She shrugged nonchalantly, then laughed as Tomoya started trying to hit her, ranting about how it was unfair that she got such good grades when she slept through class and he didn't. "Ah, but I don't get good grades! Or have you forgotten my math score?"

Her cousin had the decency to look sheepish before Kagome noticed the senpais intense staring. "Ne," Takato leaned forward to meet her eyes, since they were both taller than her five-foot-three frame. He would have had to bend further to meet Tomoya's gaze. "What is your name? Now that I think about it, I've seen you in class dozing."

"Hm." Kagome shook her head slightly and pushed Tomoya off toward the school building. "Go straight. Don't turn or anything, ya hear?" He mumbled about how he wasn't that directionally challenged, but left the clearing, and she turned back to her classmates. So they really are in my class, darn. I wanted to avoid them. "Ore wa Higurashi Kagome desu."

Tsukasa smiled beautifully and walked around her, watching her intently. "Kagome, ne? A bit of a feminine name, but it fits your beautiful face."

It took Kagome a moment to register what he just said, and a blush dusted her own cheeks. Not expected. Dangerous situation! She hadn't expected to be complimented so blatantly, especially after all the shit she was put through before. "Um."

A hand rubbed against her rear, and she squeaked, immediately cursing herself for the girly sound. "Where are you touching?" Her voice was shriller than she would have liked, but this was not anything like she expected when she transferred. There was no way they figured out she was a girl already! Her disguise was perfect and she would have fooled even that dog if it weren't for his damn nose. "Hey!"

"Kagome." Before she even realized it, Takato was crowding her front just as Tsukasa pressed against her back. She barely had enough time to bring an arm up to separate their chests so he wouldn't figure her out. His fingers, slightly calloused from all his sports, lifted her chin, forcing her blue eyes to stare into his hazel. "Look at me. Look at my eyes."

"O-Oi." She laughed nervously. "I'm not hypnotized that easily, heh…" He's so close! His was only a few inches from her own. "W-What is it?"

"Hey. Do you know what a kiss tastes like?"

More warning sirens blared in her mind and she froze. "W-What? I don't know a-anything like that." Her face was gradually getting redder as Tsukasa breathed into her ears, and Takato brought a hand up to his lips. "Don't you think this is a bit too—"

"Shall we teach you then?" He winked at her, pressing two fingers to his lips temptingly. "About kissing?"

"What?" Her voice must have lowered dramatically with incredulity, because both of them chuckled, the sound much deeper than she had expected.

Takato brought her chin up further, closer to him. "C'mon. Don't close your eyes."

Wait a second! Kagome clenched her eyes shut and formed her hands into fists. Grabbing my ass and suddenly trying to kiss me—what the hell! And why am I just letting it happen?!

Deftly, she swerved away from Takato's face and ducked from Tsukasa. She glared at them carefully, backing away. "This seems rather inappropriate." They jolted in surprise at the sudden frost in her voice as she straightened to her full height, trying to regain whatever dignity she had left. "Because Tomoya admires you so much, I'll let it go this time. But please, never do that again."

Without giving them the chance to respond, she whirled around and stalked away. She vaguely heard her dark-haired classmate mutter "oh dear" before she left them completely behind.

She slammed her fist into the wall once she finally reached the school building and covered her mouth with the other hand. "What the hell? So suddenly doing that to someone they don't even know?"

Kagome glanced behind her, glaring into the woods before walking off to find Tomoya before he got lost again. Her stomach gained a brick as she walked, and a wave of depression washed over her. "This isn't the last I'm going to see of them. Damn, why of all classes do I have to be in theirs?"

Her head rose so she could watch the clouds drift across the sky, and a sigh gusted from her mouth. This is going to be a very long year…

~)*(~

"Well, that was unexpected." Takato pouted slightly.

"Can you really blame him? We did jump him pretty suddenly." Tsukasa rubbed his chin thoughtfully, looking after the classmate neither of them paid attention to until now. "Which do you think we should use? Our classmate or his cousin? If I'm right, Tomoya is in his class."

"Yeah, but those two seem close enough that Kagome would go visit him often enough. If we followed him, he would see us and our attention to him, so…" Takato frowned. "I think we should go for Kagome. If this works out the way we think it will, Kagome seems to be able to defend himself more."

Tsukasa sighed, a smile growing over his lips. "I suppose. Besides, Kagome is more beautiful, and while Tomoya is adorable, I prefer a more mature partner."

Takato grinned. "Definitely."

~)*(~

Kagome waited outside Tomoya's classroom, listening to the conversation inside. Kawakami-kouhai was apparently a playboy, throwing away all of his partners too quickly to be right. Hearing him talk to Tomoya so comfortably, she narrowed her eyes. Nothing good could come from that.

"If you keep playing around like that, you're going to get hurt." Tomoya's soft, concerned voice spoke, and Kagome sighed. Tomoya was going to get hurt too.

"Yeah, I'll bet the Junk Boys take on the case!" Kagome's ears perked at the strange name.

"Eh? You mean the rumored Love Fulfillment Association?" So Tomoya didn't know about it either. Well, he knew more than she did, probably because she had no interest in the gossip among her class.

"Yeah, yeah! The one that completely solves the student body's love problems. No one knows who they are though." Kagome looked up to the ceiling. How interesting. Kawakami scoffed elegantly, trying to dissuade any rumors.

I'll have to keep an eye on him. Kagome watched their shadows through the window. I don't really care what he does to anyone else, but if he comes after Tomoya, I'll be very upset.

Finally the door opened, and Tomoya walked out. "Kago-nii!"

"Yo." She smiled beautifully, making a few of her cousin's classmates blush. "You ready?"

"Ah! Kagome!" She froze, her smile slipping as she turned to the two who apparently followed her. Takato grinned exuberantly as he walked in front of the Tsukasa, who strode more elegantly. "We thought we should go home together, since we're classmates and all, so we came to get you."

Kagome heard Tomoya and his classmates gasp in shock, but she didn't react much. She stepped to the side, a little in front of Tomoya, and she saw Tsukasa's smile widen. "We'd also like to talk."

"I didn't know we had anything to talk about, Sakuma-san." The shock behind her shot through the roof, and she sighed, running a hand through her bangs. "But I suppose I don't have much of a choice—"

"Nope!" Takato grabbed her hand, surprising her, and pulled her down the hall.

"O-Oi!" Kagome heard Tsukasa apologize for borrowing her for a while to her cousin, and she arched her head to look back at the slightly scared Tomoya. "I'll see you back at home, Tomoya. Tell aunt I'll be late!" Because even if these two don't take that long, I'm going to want to beat something up for all of this.

Just as she was about to turn back around, Kagome saw Kawakami watching them intensely. What the hell?

Her thoughts jolted back to the present as Takato tugged her around a corner. "Hey, if this is about yesterday, I wasn't going to tell anyone…" What was with her and getting guys to drag her around who knows where? Hell, Inuyasha had dragged her all the way across the country! "So, what did you want to talk—"

Tsukasa smiled from beside her, turning to face her as they walked quickly along. "That's what we want to talk about. You completely misunderstood what was going on between us yesterday."

"Yeah," Takato grinned as he finally stopped in an isolated area back in the forest and released her wrist, which she rubbed delicately. "Tsukasa and I aren't lovers. It was totally your mistake."

She shot a glare at the two of them, and they blinked in surprise. She could guess why, though. She was so kind to her cousin, but to them she was being so cold. "No kidding. I could kind of tell with the way you assaulted me right afterwards. Seriously, guys, what the hell?"

Both of them stared at her for a moment, obviously taken aback, before Takato grinned, chuckling. "You've got more spirit to you than I thought! I like you even more now!"

Kagome stared at him blankly, turned her head away, and sighed. Oh, Kami what have I done to deserve this?

She sensed Tsukasa coming closer to her, but didn't anticipate how quickly he would approach her. She gasped when he took hold of her chin, forcing her to look up at him once again, his face so very close to hers. "With that kind of spirit, there is no way to deny it. The one we want as our lover, Kagome-san, is you."

"Eh?" Kagome paled as a flash of memory came back to her. "I-Iie."

"I no longer have any use for her. The one I want is you."

"You caught our interest yesterday, when you so easily threw us away, but we won't let you get away this time." Takato slid up behind her, slipping his hands across her sides, and she tensed up.

"You'll never escape me."

"Ne, Kagome, won't you go out with us?"

"You're mine."

"Yamero!" Kagome struggled against them, her mind lost in that horrible memory. Her hands pushed Tsukasa away harshly, and he barely kept his balance as he stepped back twice. "Hanaishite!"

"Oi!" Takato grabbed onto her, wrapping his arms around her to try to keep her in place. "What's the matter with you—?" His voice broke off as he felt a swelling against his arm across her chest. "What the hell?"

Kagome whirled around, whapping her arm against his head with enough force to disorient him. As Takato stumbled away, Kagome stepped back, right into Tsukasa's reach.

He grabbed her arms, pulling her back into an embrace. "Kagome-san, we don't want to hurt you, and we're not making fun of you—"

"I said let me go, you bastard." The glare of utmost contempt she gave him shocked Tsukasa enough to let her go, and Kagome darted away, but Takato was in blocking the path back to the school. "Let me through."

Her voice was ice cold, and Takato shuddered for a moment, but glaring right back. "What is someone like you doing in this school?"

Tsukasa narrowed his eyes, moving to join Takato, and he asked slowly, "What are you talking about?"

Takato strengthened his glare. "That person is—"

"Kagome-nee-chan?"

She froze, but didn't turn around to acknowledge Tomoya as he somehow wandered into the clearing behind her. Tsukasa straightened his back, a shocked expression on his face, and Takato sneered. "Nee-chan, huh? So you really are a woman."

Kagome snarled, stepping away from them. Damn-it-damn-it-damn-it! Now what am I supposed to do? I could have blown it off somehow if Tomoya hadn't shown up. Adorable he was, but definitely not the brightest bulb of the family.

"Sakuma-senpai? Kajimoto-senpai?" And, of course, now would be the only time Tomoya noticed them. "Uh… Heh heh… Forget that thing I said just now… please?" Kagome didn't have to turn around to know that Tomoya was sweating profusely and trying to smile at the two boys. She loved that about him—his innocence and belief in the good of the world—but it was not one of days she was happy about it.

Tsukasa frowned, crossing his arms as he glanced between the two cousins. "I'm afraid we can't do that, Tomoya. After all, you cousin here is a woman in an all-boys school. That is strongly against the rules, and you knew about it, making you an accomplice to this. What exactly were you trying to accomplish with this, Kagome-san?"

"Don't act so high and mighty, Sakuma-san." The growl in her voice hadn't disappeared, and Kagome watched them both carefully. "After all, you two were encroaching on my personal space without my consent. I could turn you both in for inappropriate conduct."

Takato smirked, taking a step forward almost menacingly. "I highly doubt that would work, but by all means, try."

"Don't tempt me." Kagome pulled herself up to her full height and placed a hand on her hip, drawing on the arrogance the damn dog instilled in her. "As for turning me in, don't even think about it. The entire faculty already knows my situation and has agreed."

"Nani?" Takato pulled his lips back in fury, but Kagome ignored him, instead turning around to look at Tomoya. "Don't walk away from me bit—"

"Warah!" Tomoya shouted as he waved his arms frantically. Once he had his senpais' attention, he shuffled nervously. "Please, don't finish that, Kajimoto-senpai… Kagome-nee-chan isn't anything like that."

Kagome sighed, ruffling her baby cousin's hair. "Forget it, Tomoya. If they don't believe me, that's fine. Perhaps now they'll keep their distance."

"Kagome-san." Tensing, Kagome turned her head to glare at them again. Tsukasa pushed his glasses up his nose before continuing. "Could you at least tell us why you are here?"

Sapphire eyes narrowed further, but Kagome allowed her shoulders to relax. She could tell them part of it, she supposed. "I was being stalked by someone dangerous. For protection, I was put somewhere he would never look for me."

They didn't need to know that this dangerous person wasn't human, and they really didn't need to know that he'd killed her mother, brother, and grandfather because he thought they were in his way to her.

Kagome began walking past Tomoya further into the forest to find a tree to beat on. They definitely didn't need to know that she'd killed him already, purified his body and soul to nothing but dust for no one to find. Thus, the police assumed that he was still at large and would try to find her again, so precautions were taken.

A dead tree slid into her sight from between the large ones covered with leaves. Kagome quickly warmed up and began slamming her legs against it in several kicks. They didn't need to know about how she shed blood, sweat, and tears for that boy, only for him to repay her by destroying almost everything she cared about. So she didn't give him the chance to care about anything else.

A misplaced kick slammed her leg against the bark, and Kagome felt her skin break. She watched with burning eyes as a deep crimson slowly soak into the pants of her uniform. It didn't matter—she'd buy a new uniform if the stains wouldn't come out. But the blood would alert Tomoya, and he'd be worried again.

Tomoya was the only one who knew even a vaguely accurate version of the truth. At least, he knew how much it hurt to be called "bitch" anymore.

Kagome began attacking the dead tree again.

"Bitch" was the last thing he said to her, after all.

~)*(~

Kagome yawned, walking down the street to school. Well, not really to school—she was going to get some training done in the martial arts club dojo before anyone arrived, but it was in the school building, so technically school, but not really. She would have gone there the day before to let off some steam, but club activities had undoubtedly been going on.

Walking alone wasn't the most enjoyable pastime, but Tomoya was still sleeping when she left. She'd meet up with him later. Most of the world was still with her cousin in dreamland, so she expected the quiet.

What she was not expecting, was to see her two popular classmates waiting at the school ground gates for her. Takato shifted uneasily as she stopped nearly ten feet from them, watching them closely. His expression was a mix of determination and regret, oddly enough. Across from him, Tsukasa was smiling pleasantly, but that didn't mean much—he could easily hide any ill intent behind that smile.

"Ah, Kagome-san," Tsukasa spoke first, stepping away from the gate and toward her. "We thought you might come in early today." He subtly pushed his glasses up his nose as Takato joined him a step closer to her. "We didn't get to finish our discussion yesterday."

Her fist clenched around her schoolbag, and Kagome eyed them more carefully.

Perhaps sensing her tension, Takato smiled. "Let's take a walk, ne?"