Curiosity Killed the Cat

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"Inuyasha?" Kaede called.

"Uh, 35?"

Kaede sighed. "No 35 is not the square root of 1600."

Inuyasha just shrugged his shoulder and went back to reading his note.

"Can anyone else take a guess?" Kaede looked around the room.

Not a single hand went up.

"Kagome?"

Kagome snapped her head up at her teacher. She glanced at the board before saying, "40", as if that was the easiest question in the world.

"Correct." Kaede scribbled some more numbers on the board.

"Kikyo what's the square root of 784?"

Kikyo glanced up at the problem. "33?"

Kaede sighed, again. "Wrong. Does anyone else have a guess?"

She watched, but no one raised the hand. "Come on people, this is review! How can you expect to pass this class if you can't do something as simple as this?"

No response. Kaede sighed again and turned to Kagome. "I know you have an answer Kagome."

Kagome looked up at the board, "28."

Kaede smiled. "Correct."

Kaede wrote on the chalkboard but stopped as she heard laughter behind her. She turned around and saw Inuyasha talking to Kikyo and a note in his hand. Kaede walked up to him and snatched the note, causing him to finally turn around.

Inuyasha, Meet me after school today. Love Kikyo.' Kaede sighed and crumpled the note.

"Alright class, you don't want to pay attention, fine. Clear your desk. You're having a pop quiz."

Kaede smiled at the groans and the dirty looks she received.

Kaede went around and gave everyone a piece of paper with 10 questions on it. It shouldn't take long, 5 minutes at the most.

Kaede went and sat don behind her desk and watched the class, though mostly Inuyasha, to make sure there was no cheating.

Kagome was the first one done and she walked up to the desk and handed Kaede her paper. Kaede smiled and started grading. She was pleased to see that Kagome didn't miss any. She wrote a big 100 on the paper and laid it on the desk.

Throughout the next 5 minutes more and more kids handed her their papers and she graded them very quickly. Most of them were good, but some of them, Inuyasha's, were horrible. Kaede called him up to her desk.

"Inuyasha, you aren't doing to well in this class, at all. Have you thought about getting yourself a tutor?" She knew this was pointless, he wouldn't care, but she was going to try.

"I have a tutor, two actually."

Kaede sat up a little straighter, surprised. "Oh really, who?"

"Miroku and Kikyo."

Kaede sighed and closed her eyes. She had a feeling that he and Miroku ended up not studying at all. And she really didn't want to know what he did with Kikyo.

"Yes well, I'm going to get you a better tutor. Just to see if that helps improve your grade."

Inuyasha resisted rolling his eyes. Why did she have to be so damn...what's the word...nosy? So he wasn't good in math, he was good in everything else. "Alright, who were you thinking of?"

Kaede looked around the room.

It had to be someone who wasn't his friend. It had to be someone smart. And it had to be someone who could do it. Inuyasha was a very hard person to teach. That's when she saw the perfect candidate. "Kagome."

Inuyasha's jaw dropped. Kagome Higurashi, yeah she was smart, and she didn't look horrible, but people said she was weird. She came last year and no one really knew her. She really just kept to her self. And she was always thinking. She was just...weird.

"Kagome." Kaede called.

Kagome walked up to the desk and looked at Inuyasha before looking at Kaede. "Yes?"

"I would like you to be Inuyasha's tutor. He isn't doing to well and you're the best in the class. Your his last hope."

"I don't know, I'm kind of busy-"

"Great! You to can meet after school today. You should probably do that every day, at least for an hour, Inuyasha you need it." Inuyasha's mouth fell open.

"But I never said-" Kagome was interrupted.

"Yes, I'm sure you'll be doing better in no time Inuyasha."

"But-"

"You can return to your seats."

Kagome gave Inuyasha a look that he could tell said, 'Now What?'

He sighed, so much for spending time with his girlfriend. "How about we meet at the ice cream store after school?"

Kagome sighed, this sucked. She didn't want to spend her time teaching a hopeless case something so easy. "Ok." Kagome walked back to her desk just as the bell rang.

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The final bell rang and everyone was pouring out of their classrooms. Kagome walked out the door and down the street for the ice cream shop.

She walked into the store and dropped her bag in a booth and went up to the counter. "May I help you?" said a 20-year-old blonde.

"Medium strawberry sundae."

The woman nodded her head and started making her sundae. "It comes up to $1.87"

Kagome paid the lady and sat in the booth. She started unpacking her bag as she waited for Inuyasha.

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Inuyasha sighed as he walked down the hall with Kikyo.

"Why can't you just blow her off?" Kikyo asked.

"Because Kaede would kill me. Besides I'm failing the class. If I fail my dad is going to kill me."

Kikyo sighed. "Well I'll tutor you."

"Yeah, because that works oh so well." Inuyasha said sarcastically. He walked out the door with Kikyo on his heels.

"Well I'll go with you. That way you aren't bored." Inuyasha sighed.

"Kikyo just go home. I'll call you afterwards I promise."

Kikyo sighed and walked away. Inuyasha continued walking toward the ice cream shop.

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Kagome sat, eating her sundae, as she continued to wait for Inuyasha. She hadn't been waiting long before he entered.

He sat his bag down and smiled at her before going to get his own ice cream. He came back a moment later with a chocolate sundae and sat down.

"So, where do we begin?"

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It'd had been a half hour, and Kagome was still trying to get Inuyasha to understand.

"y 3x + 2 Now If x increases by 1 y increase by...how many?"

"How should I now?" Inuyasha asked, taking a bite out of his third ice cream sundae.

"Pick a number. The lower it is the easier it is to figure out."

"Ok, 2"

"Alright. So x2. So 3x2+2. What that equal?"

"8"

"Right, now we add 1 to x so now its x3. So 3x3+2. What's that?"

"11"

"So 11-8 is?"

"3"

"So if x increases by 1 y increases by-"

"3"

"Right!" Kagome smiled at Inuyasha's smile. "Good. Now let's try this: Predict how many times a number cube will land on an even number in 50 rolls."

Inuyasha sighed and rolled his head back so it leaned against the booth behind him.

"Come on, you can do it."

"1/4?"

"Nope..."

"1/8?"

"No..."

"1/16?"

"Try 1/25."

"Why is it 1/25?"

"Because on a number cube it's the numbers 1-6, meaning that it has half a chance that it'll land on even. 50 divided by 2 is 25 so is 1/25."

Inuyasha nodded his head, though he had no idea what the hell she was talking about.

"Ok, let's move on to integers."

Inuyasha sighed and looked at his watch. "How about we call it a day?"

"Ok, sure." Kagome was packing up her things when she looked up and out the window. It was Mr. Renkzo, shaking hands with a man.

Mr. Renkzo was a very rich man. He owned a huge house, right across from the ice cream parlor, and he hated teens. He was a grumpy old man and he often held parties for his employees and other important people.

So Kagome was confused on as to why he was shaking hands with a bald man, no older then 20 that had tattoos all over his arms. "What do think they're doing?"

Inuyasha looked up and shrugged. "Probably making some sort of deal."

Kagome nodded. She grabbed her bag and walked out the door with Inuyasha.

"See you tomorrow." he said over his shoulder as he went left and she went right.

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And that was the awesome first chapter of 'Curiosity Killed the Cat'. Ok, maybe it wasn't all that awesome but it will be. Trust me. Till Next Time…