All Boy School
Chapter 1
Summary: Kagome dresses like a guy to get into an all-boy school and save her twin brother's reputation as an athlete. But how will she be able to resist falling in love with her dreamy roommate?
Diclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha... sadly.
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Souta Higurashi is the record holder of his track team at West Tokyo High. (I'm not sure if it's a real school...) His best record was running the school's track 4 times (1 mile) in 4 and a half minutes. No other boy at the school -even in history- ever reached that time. Souta trained to run since he was six years old. He used to jog around lakes with his dad, sister, and sometimes his dog.
He even has nicknames that have to do with speed like "Dash," and some corny ones like "The Blur." But despite his athletic abilities, there was even more greatness to him. Like the fact that he was probably the most handsome kid in his school, but had a girfriend name Hitomi. To other girls dissapointment. He was tan and tall, about 6' 2, muscular and had deep chocolate eyes. His short, wavey hair and great smile gave him a very friendly, open appearance.
Personality wise, he was kind of messy. Clothes laying around his room. He also had very strange eating habits despite the great shape his body was in. He was friendly, of course, but had a temper when it came to certain situations. He was pretty smart, a C or B average student and a very social person. If he wasn't at a track meet, he was somewhere downtown hanging out with his friends or on a date with his girlfriend. Everyone would expect someone so tough and popular to have a rival, but Souta's rival was his own flesh in blood.
He had a sister named Kagome. A Twin sister. Everyone knew they were twins from the door because Kagome was also the prettiest girl in school. Her lap record was better then Souta's by 34 seconds. Like Souta, she has a good sense of humor and likes to party but almost never has time for it. Her and Souta are both 17, Juniors, on the track team and the most popular kids in school. But they are very different.
Kagome never trained like Souta has but she was on the track team as well. She runs so fast its hard to see her facial expression but she was in shape because she was a busy-body. Always doing schoolwork or helping out around the house. Ever since her and Souta's father passed away, money has been hard for her family so she has two jobs. She babysits for her neightbor whenever she's needed -which is about 2 or 3 times a week. Every Sunday she gets paid to help out around her grandfather's shrine. She pays bills and has an extensive list of chores that she gives herself. She was a sweet heart, doing everything for everyone. She cleans eveything.
Unlike Souta's tan skin, she's pale, short and slender. She has extremely long raven hair and Souta's eyes. They're told they look exactly alike in the face despite Kagome's feminine features like her fuller lips and higher cheekbones. She's younger than Souta by 6 and a half minutes.
Kagome and Souta always got along just fine and supported each other, even though Souta was jealous of Kagome's abilities. They really only argued when Kagome was cleaning his room. She would make a comment if she found dirty socks or underwear laying around like the neat-freak she was. She was an A average student, always reading and studying. She was always a kind person, only slipping up if someone messed with her or someone close to her. If someone mention being racist, she'd snap in a second.
But if anything, Souta was the over-protective one. With his competetive attitude, he never was willing to give up. Souta often challenged her to weight lifting and boxing. He always beat her at those things but he never outran her.
Not once.
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Souta woke up to the pounding on his bedroom door. He kept blinking to force his eyes to adjust to the light. Once he could keep them open, he slid out of bed and lazily pulled up his covers, his way of making his bed.
"Souta, get up! It's almost seven-thirty!" his mother yelled from the other side of the door. He rolled his eyes and pulled over his green t-shirt. He quickly rubbed on deordorant and pulled on his jean shorts. He was glad summer would arrive soon. Warm weather meant more practice for out running Kagome.
He quickly ran his brush through his wavey skater-like hairdo and ran downstairs to get socks and shoes out of the laundry room. As soon as he left his room, his school sneakers and a pair of socks were neatly placed by his door. He smiled at Kagome's OCD for being clean. He called it Obsessive Cleaning disorder.
He put on his socks and shoes and ran downstairs to find Kagome -already dressed for school- cooking waffles in the toaster. She quickly buttered two and put them on a plate then handed them to him.
"Good morning." she said quietly.
"What's up?" he said casually. He tried to resist the urge to ruffle her hair, something he always did to her as a morning greeting but saw that her hair was neatly clipped into a chignon.
"The sky." she answered smiling lightly now.
"Do you have a lame sarcastic joking disorder too?"
She laughed. "No, I don't have any disorders." she placed a cup of milk in front of him.
"Liar." he muttered as he took a sip. "OCD!" he sang into the air in a high-pitched girl voice. Kagome nearly dropped her waffle and burst out laughing.
"You're so stupid." she giggled. Souta beamed at her.
Their mother walked in then, hair curlers still in har tangled hair, robe not tied and cigarette hanging from her lip. "Kagome, Mrs. Uchida needs you to babysit Shippo today after your track meet. Only for an hour. She's grocery shopping." she said grabbing her coat of a hanger.
"What's the rush, Mom?" Souta raised a brow.
"I'm late to take Step Brothers back to Block Buster and I have to pay a couple bills. You two better be at school when I get back."
"Mom, It's seven-thirty-four. Calm down." Kagome cooed as she unplugged the toaster. "Are you seriously gonna go out in public like that?"
"I have a lot to do this morning and I'm in a rush." she yanked open the front door. "Kagome, go straight to Mrs. Uchida's. Souta, if I'm not home when you get here, call my cell. I should only be out til two-thirty but I might come home late. Love you." she slammed the door shut before they could say anything else.
Souta whistled low, "Mom really needs to start dating again."
Kagome glared at him. "Souta, it's hard to get over the death of someone you were married to for 17 years."
"I know but still. If she starts dating, the new guy will take her mind off Daddy."
Kagome grimaced. "You say that like you didn't like Daddy."
"I loved him but he died 3 months ago. She should be over him by now."
"Three months will never make up for 17 years." Kagome whispered dangerously. She hated when people brought up her father. He died in a car accident 3 months earlier. Souta turned in his chair silently.
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Kagome backed her white Volvo in the student parking. Her and Souta both had their sports mesh bags for track after school, along with their school books. Because they were brother and sister, they weren't exactly supposed to have classes together but they had Science and Gym together.
West Tokyo High wasn't as big as Tokyo University but it had a population of approximately 5,000 students. Souta met up with Hitamoi by her locker, while Kagome met up her friends, Kohaku and Sango, who were also twins with Sango being the oldests by 3 minutes. Kagome and Kohaku used to date, but it didn't exactly work out for them since Sango and Souta always butted into their moments.
Sango was in all of Kagome's classes, Kohaku was in her Reading and English classes.
At lunch, they shared a huge table with Kagome, Souta, Sango, Kohaku, Hitomi, Yuka, Eria, Ayumi, Ayame and Bankotsu, who was the quarterback on the football team and had a huge crush on Kagome.
They met up for lunch every day, not having to go to class until the bell rung 45 minutes later. Lunch usually was quick, everyone talked about the same things. Souta and Kagome went on about the track team, the girls gossiped, and Bankotsu and Kohaku talked about guys things.
About 2 mintues before the bell rang, Kagome and Sango left to their next class, Calculus. They walked in and took their seats next to each other in the back of the room.
"You know, Coach said he wanted to talk to us about something important today at the track meet. I wonder what it is." Sango said. The bell for the class to start didn't ring yet and the teacher wasn't in the room so everyone was just talking.
"I'll bet it's just another school that wants to compete with the fastest students here." Kagome snorted. "Nothing special."
"But if it was another competition he would've told us then."
"So?"
"So maybe it is something worth anticipating." Sango spit out impatiently. Kagome usually wasn't this hard to impress.
"Yeah but I'll doubt it's a competition. He seriously could've told us if that was the case. Maybe he finally proposed to that girl her talks about so much and she said yes."
"True..." Sango muttered. "But he sounded really excited about it."
"Who honestly wouldn't be excited about getting married?" Kagoime mused. "I know I would and you know damn well that you would be excited too if someone you were dating for six and half years proposed to you."
"Yes I would." she smiled cheekily. "And I'd say yes." Kagome rolled her eyes but tried to hide a smirk.
"I probably would too... depending on what the guy looked like and his personality,"
"And what would they be?" Sango pressed, she loved talking about boys.
"Tall and handsome, athletic and has a good sense of humor but knows how to open up to his feminine side. Sensitive and caring, but not big on flirting." she paused, "No womanizers."
"Womanizers are sexy," Sango giggled.
"Yes but they don't know how to keep in a relationship without cheating. And all they care about is sex."
"Kagome, you're too picky."
"I'm sorry I have a type." Kagome frowned deeply and looked away, trying to let it drop.
"I still can't believe you and Kohaku broke up, ya know? You could've got married and became my step-sister!"
"You mean sister-in-law." Kagome rolled her eyes, trying to ignore her. "And no. It wasn't like that. He said it was weird for him to date his sister's best friend."
"I don't see how," Sango refused to let the subject go, "lots of guy do it. Kohaku is too much of a gentleman."
"I think it's a good thing. Our relationship ruined our friendship."
"I think it improved it."
Kagome's eyes narrowed at her. "Kohaku isn't exactly my type and I'd much rather be his friend than his flunky." she spit out, aggravated.
A/N: Where I live, a "Flunky" is a female follower.
"Chill out, would ya?"
"Then stop talking about him to me." Kagome said through her teeth, trying not to attack her friend.
Sango's eyes widened for a moment at the anger in Kagome's tone, "Okay... How about we talk about Bankotsu instead. Everybody in school knows he likes you. He never once checked out one of those slutty cheerleaders."
Kagome tried her best not to slam her fist on the desk... or Sango's mouth.
Class started then. Kagome tried her best to get Sango to stop talking about boys and gym and anything related to what the coach wanted to speak to them about at the track meet. But mainly boys.
When the bell finally rang, Kagome jumped out of her seat and speed walked to the door before Sango could say another word to her. Sango was her best friend and all, but if she brought up one simple topic, Sango wouldn't shut the hell up about it.
Kagome raced to her locker to get her gym clothes and headed towards the girls locker room to get changed. Sango and Ayame were already down there so she assumed Kohaku and Souta were already in the boys locker room getting changed -or already changed.
The girls quickly pulled on the uniforms -white t-shirt and black sweatpants or shorts- and about half of the students -mainly boys- were already there.
They were playing basketball for about 15 minutes when the coach blew his whistle and everyone lined up. He was a big bald man with piercing green eyes and a thick muscles along his whole body.
He looked around for a moment before speaking, "I told you last week that I had special news and I actually have a special offer for our top track students. You know who you are." he glanced at Kagome and Souta for a brief moment. "So I hope everyone is here. The end of the school year is near and my best runners have been offered a chance in a new scool for the rest of the school year-" a month and a half- "to train harder. The tracks are bigger and you will continue with your classes. They are private school's who's Phys. Ed teachers have viewed our students running scores and grades and wanted to see them in action."
Souta looked at Kaogme, smiling hugely but Kagome looked serious, a straight face as if the coach hadn't said anything.
"Those who were requested to go to the schools, I will call your names so listen up. But keep in mind, you don't have to go if you don't want to, but this would be a great chance to up your abilities in learning and exercising." he paused to pick up a list off the small table by the boys lock room. "There are many of you so listen up." Then he began reading names. "Kitoni Ahayo, Tsukiyomi Ahi..."
"Looks like he's going in alphabetical order." Kohaku whispered to Sango. "How much you wanna bet he's gonna call the Higurashis?"
"I'm not betting anything. Just watch his face when he calls their names. He gonna smile or something. I tried to convince Kagome today that he wanted to tell us something extremely cool and he is. Private school -for free!" she smiled.
"I'm so psyched! I wonder what school we're going to." Souta cut in and looked at Kagome. "What do you think?"
She shrugged and looked back at the coach. Souta frowned.
"Kagome Higurashi, Souta Higurashi..." the coach was cut off by cheers humming through the large gym. He smiled and winked at the twins then continued. As expected, he called Sango and Kohaku and a bunch of other sudents, about 40 people altogether which was about half their track team.
"Now, if your name was called, you will come to my office at the end of the day to get a permission slip. Your permission slip needs to be handed back to me, the principal, vice principal, or your homeroom teacher by next Friday. You will all leave on Thursady, the following week. Girls will be sent off to a school for just girls, same for boys. All the same gender, that includes teachers. You will sleep there but any slip-ups can get you kicked out. Remember, you don't have to if you don't want to. But if you do, a parents permission is required. For now, we still he work to do so everyone line up!" he had to yell since everyone began to chat excitedly.
"Oh shit! I can't believe this!" Souta squealed happily. He and Kohaku slapped a high five.
"I know! Maybe we'll be roomies!" Kohaku yelled back.
Sango began jumping excitedly, squealing. "Ahh, you guys, I can't believe this! I've never had such a great opportuniy in my life. How can you not be thrilled?"
"Hell yeah!" Kohaku yelled. They looked at Kagome and frowned at her facial expression.
"Kags, what's the matter?" Souta asked. Kagome crossed her arms in disappointment.
"He had us wait for the next track meet to hear this bullshit?" She murmured angerly. "Ridiculous."
New story. I told you guys I'd get up a new Titanic chapter but now I'm not sure if I can. But I WILL try! If I don't, I got this up and I'm working hard to get some updates. I've been working on this story since the beginning of summer!
-Lexy4KagInu