High School Never Ends

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Summary: Kagome is what seems to be a perfect student. Ranked 4th in her class, on student council, never gets in trouble, and practically gets along with everyone. The truth behind her perfect facade is her broken home of low income, with her sick mother, and her rebellious brother. On top of all of her family issues her own inner turmoil about her insecurity, and her emotions that make her struggle with why she even exists. She sees hope in her future when she finally realizes the amazingly sexy Sesshomaru can see past her exterior and wants to help her find who she is.

**AN: For this story it will be located in America, I'm not skilled enough to set it in Japan :(

Chapter 1: A Less Than Ordinary Day

The alarm went off in its' usual obnoxious way, beeping in a loud successionthat forced me to get out of my bed, walk over to my desk, and turn it off. I stretched and yawned. My cat Buyo glared at me for waking him up. I wasn't able to take two steps toward my closet to pick my outfit for the day, when my mother yelled up to me to come down for breakfast.

"How'd you sleep honey?" Mom asked me as I sat down at the kitchen table for breakfast. She put a plate of french toast and bacon in front of me along with a tall cup of orange juice. My favorite. Something must be wrong.

"Decently, What about you Mom?" I couldn't help but realize the fact that my younger brother, Sota, wasn't in the room.

"My sleep was good." She smiled down at me, and didn't make a move away from the table. Just standing there.

"Mom, what's going on?"

"What do you mean, honey? Everything is fine!" Her smile grew, and the more it grew the faker it became.

"Mom." I motioned for her to sit down to explain. She sat down right across from me.

"Well, we've been lower on money than usual this month, so I have to work twelve to eight for the next week. Please don't be upset with me!" She gave me that Mom look. I hate when she does that.

"It's fine Mom, I'd rather have food to eat, and a place to live than go on our weekend trip to see Grandfather." In my head I was screaming at her so loud it gave me a headache. I stood up without touching my food, and went back to my room to get changed.

I chose a loose baby blue button up, and a pair of denim jeans along with a pair of black converse as my outfit for the day. Looking at the time, I was running a little late, so I threw my hair up into a ponytail and ditched make-up for the day.

Walking up to the school building I noticed that there were less people than usual hanging outside on the front steps before school started. I opened the front door and started on my way to my locker, but I was restricted considering there was half of the school's student body crowding around the front bulletin board. I started struggling my way through the crowd in the direction of my locker.

"Congrats Higurashi!" Someone called to me.

"Thanks!" I called back turning and waving in the general direction I heard the voice call me from. I had no clue what they were talking about though. As I turned back to face the direction I was headed in the first place, my face smacked right into someone's back. Their tall frame restricted me from seeing their face, but their long silver hair gave them away.

Sesshomaru turned toward me, and gave me a smile.

"Congrats Kagome." His cool voice reached my ears. His small smile made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

"I'm not completely sure what everyone is congratulating me on, but thank you." I could tell I was smiling like a fool, but I didn't really want to stop.

"You haven't made it to the board yet, have you? It's the new class ranking. I've been slacking I'm twenty-fifth, but you on the other hand are fourth." His smile widened. As soon as his words sunk in, a hollow feeling developed in the pit of my stomach. My smile was already vanishing.

"Thanks, I'll see you around." I didn't bother to wait for him to say goodbye. I pushed my way through the rest of the crowd, and practically ran to my locker. On the inside I was flipping out. Fourth?! Just last year I was ranked first! What am I doing wrong?

I shoved my bookbag into my locker, and forced my self to breathe and calm down. I still had two more years to get back to first and become valedictorian. I need that scholarship for college, so I have to stay motivated and study more. I grabbed my phone out of my bag, and I texted my bestfriend 'where are you?!' Usually by this time she was already waiting for me at my locker. I took out my books for my essentials for my first three periods while waiting for a reply. 'Home. Sick.' That was as much as I was going to get from her. Whenever Sango was sick she just wanted to sleep. It actually surprised me that she had answered in the first place. 'Feel better!' I replied before making my way to my first period.

First and second period went by uneventful, which was much appreciated. I walked with Miroku, Sango's boyfriend, to our third period class. He was on the annoying side today, and I didn't pay much attention to what he was saying. As I walked up to my locker after third period I noticed Sesshomaru waiting in front of my locker. We didn't usually see eachother twice in one day.

"Hey Sesshomaru, no loitering," I tried to sound a bit flirty. Most likely it wouldn't work.

"Funny," He smiled at me, and then surprised me by reaching out and twisting a part of my ponytail. An instant blush crept over my cheeks. "Your hair is pretty. Do you get that a lot? It's dark enough to look black, but yet you can tell it's brown." He looked from my hair to my eyes and I was speechless. He cleared his throat, and dropped my hair. "Anyway, I was wondering what was up with you this morning, you looked upset after I congratulated you."

I found my voice, " Oh that was nothing, I was just in a hurry, I was a bit late this morning." I was used to defending myself from people finding out about my struggles and situations. He grimaced at my answer, and then leaned on my locker so I wouldn't be able to retrieve my gym clothes and return my morning books.

"I feel as though you aren't telling me the whole truth," His gaze was intense and the urge to kiss him was so strong in me. Though he'd never want to kiss me back, I may have pretty hair, but not a pretty face to match. I lowered my eyes from his.

"Well that's what you're going to get out of me, may I have access to my locker now?" He didn't say a word as he pushed off my locker, but he didn't leave either. I traded my belongings out of my locker. When I was finished I turned around and he was just watching me.

"Hangout with me." His smile returned, and with his so did mine.

"When?" I asked excitedly, now thankful for my weekend plans being freed this morning.

"Today, after school?" He took me off guard I wasn't suspecting him to say so soon.

"I can't, I have stuff I have to do, for my mom." Sadly, our washing machine broke, so I have to haul all the laundry from the past five days down to the laundr-o-mat to do the laundry since Mom was at work. I wasn't about to tell him that though.

"Well, what about tomorrow then?" He was being persistant, I don't know why, but I like it.

"Yes, tomorrow is good." I smiled up at him and for the first time realized how smothering his honey gold eyes could be, but not for the first time realized how sexy he was.

"Cool, I'll see you around Kagome." He smiled at me again before walking away. I watched him go for a second before I realized there was practically no one in the hallway, and that I was going to be late. I am never late! So all my excitement was ruined by my frantic running to the locker room. Thank goodness I am a fast changer.

By lunch, sixth period, I was really hoping that Sango wasn't sick, there was so much I wanted to talk to her about. My lunch table didnt feel any less crowded without her. There was still at least ten people at the circular table. I engaged in conversation with Inuyasha, who I usually don't talk to due to Sango sitting between us. We talked about nothing imporatant. And for the first time of the whole school year, Sesshomaru came up to our table. Everyone kind of just looked at him for a second. He smiled at me, and then turned to Inuyasha to ask him something about if their parents were going to be home that weekend.

"You already know that they are going to be out of town, someone is getting married that they know. Plus I was telling you how I wanted to throw a party, so you better find plans for Friday night." Everyone knew of the obvious sibling rivalry between the two, but they hardly ever actually spoke to eachother in school.

"I was just double checking." Sesshomaru said in a much more calm fashion than Inuyasha had been in, and then he turned back to me. Seeing Sesshomaru three times in one day, something in the universe has shifted.

"Would you like to do something Friday night as well?" His quietly asked question ended any conversations that were going on at the table. I didn't, couldn't, take my eyes off of his.

"Yes, I would like that very much." I smiled at him, and hoped I looked a little more attractive that way. I was regretting ditching the make-up this morning.

"Great, here's my number." He took my hand and placed a folded up piece of notebook paper in my hand. "Call me later Kagome." He smiled at me one last time before walking away.

"Oh my goodness, what was that about?" one of my close friends, Eri, asked. I just shrugged and smiled at her.

"Ew." Is all Inuyasha had to say before resuming whatever he had been going on about before his half brother showed up.

The rest of the day was absent of Sesshomaru, much to my dissappointment. On my walk home I called Sango, but she didn't answer. When I got home, Sota was sitting on the couch watching television with a bag of chips and a two liter bottle of soda.

"Did you go to school today?" I couldn't help but say something even though I knew the answer. He was still in his pyjamas.

"No." Was his one word answer as he resumed shoving his face with chips, and regarding the television as if it were a god.

"Make sure all of your laundry is in your basket so I can take it down to wash it." I shook my head at how pathetic he looked and went to retrieve my mother's and my own laundry. She had taken the bus that morning so that I could use the car to bring the laundry. I had gotten my license less than a month ago and my mom only let me use the car when it benfitted her.

"Sango, I'm telling you, there has to be something I'm doing wrong. I'm number four!"

"And I'm one hundred twenty five, big deal." Sango didn't sound sick, irritable, but not sick and uncharacteristically moody.

"You are being no help to me right now." I could always be blunt with her, that was the best part of our relationship, I could always say exactly what I wanted.

"I'm sorry, I just don't feel good. Can we talk about this another time. Elaborate more on what you said earlier about Sesshomaru. That I am interested in hearing." I could feel her smirk through the phone, and it was contagious.

"Fine, well you see-" My phone beeped, I had an incoming call. "Hold on, someones calling."

"Ughhh, fine, just when we were getting somewhere. I'll just talk to you in school tomorrow. I'm tired. Night Kag."

"Night Sango, feel better!" I switched over to the other line, "Hello?"

"Kagome, how're you?" I was not expecting Sesshomaru to call me.

"Good. How'd you get my phone number?" I didn't want to sound like I didn't want him to call, but I did want to know how he had obtained it. He chuckled a bit at my question.

"Wouldn't you like to know," his voice was teasing, I decided to let it go considering I really did want to talk to him, without even knowing I did before he called.

"What I would like to know more is why you are calling," I wish I had a cute flirty voice like some girls, like the girls he usually dated.

"I simply wished to hear how your day was."

"It was a less than ordinary day for me, in an okay way." Thank goodness no one was around to say how foolishly I was smiling.

"Why not ordinary?"

"Well to start I saw you... three times, that doesn't happen normally," I can hear how obnoxiously happy my voice sounded, and I hoped he didn't think I was weird for being so happy from seeing him.

"I don't know what you mean, I see you everyday Kagome." He was serious, he actually sounded kind of shocked.

"Well I see you around, but we never talk." I lied a little, I hardly ever saw him, but he isn't hard to notice when he's around, or maybe I just wasn't looking?

"Oh, right, we can change that," He came back to his happy-to-talk-to-you voice. I didn't know what to say back, of course I wanted to talk to him more, he's gorgeous, and smart, "You do want to be better friends right?" I guess I was taking too much time thinking.

"Of course!" It may have came out a little too entusiastic, and with a possible giggle at the end, but I didn't care, Sesshomaru wanted to be my friend!

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