This is my first Inuyasha fanfic... I'm so excited! All my spacing out in math class certainly has paid off, considering this is the result Anywho, I hope you enjoy the first chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it Your writing extrodinaire, Signy
Chapter 1 – Hiraikotsu Sango
Hiraikotsu Sango stood outside the Shikon Jewel High gates gazing tensely at the groups of people inside. She had just transferred from Osaka and was nervous about starting another high school. This would be her third in the past year. Tugging on her yellow side-slung bag, she courageously walked up to the first semi-friendly face she saw; a dark haired girl reading on a bench.
"Konnichiwa!" she brightly said, trying to make the knot in her stomach dissipate. "I'm Hiraikotsu Sango and I'm new here, do you think you could show me how to get around?"
"You don't want to talk to me." The girl darkly said. Sango's face clouded over with confusion as the girl looked up from her book and gave a small smile. "What I meant, was that you'd be better off asking one of those kids over there. Ask for Inuyasha, stay away from Miroku."
"Inuyasha? Miroku?" the names sounded strange to Sango's tongue.
"You may have trouble locating Inuyasha, he's the one with silver hair. Miroku will be no problem, you'll know him as soon as you meet him." With that the mysterious girl shut her book and walked away from Sango and the bench.
"How totally strange." Sango said to herself. She looked around the school yard in search of the boys the dark girl had referred to and noticed two tall boys that fit the description standing next to what looked to Sango to be the stupidest group of people she'd ever have the displeasure of meeting. Her suspicions were confirmed as she approached the group to hear a girl in a pink mini-skirt exclaim loudly, "Oh, I broke a nail!"
"Oh great, stupid and preppy. Just what else can go wrong here?" Sango muttered under her breath before walking up to the boy with the long silver hair. "Are you Inuyasha?"
The boy turned around and looked at her with a sullen look. "What's it to you?"
"Well, this girl said I should ask you for help getting around the school. She said to ask Inuyasha and to stay away from Miroku." Sango said, uneasy at the boy's expression. He looked as if he had never been happy in his life.
"Well this girl you speak of sounds bright, but I don't think I can help you." Inuyasha said. He briefly looked over at the girl next to him as if he were checking to see if she were watching before he leaned over and said, "Kikyou would kill me for telling you this, but try Kagome. She's a good person, but a lot of people have a beef against her. I have a feeling she was the girl you were talking about."
"Innie, where is my nail file?" the girl Inuyasha had glanced at asked. Sango realized her to be Kikyou, and figured that this Kikyou was Inuyasha's girlfriend. Thoughts swarmed Sango's mind from Kagome to Inuyasha and this Miroku who she was supposed to avoid. Where was this Miroku, anyway?
"Hello pretty lady." A tall boy about eighteen whistled, snaking his right arm around Sango's waist. Sango turned and blushed as she studied the brazen boy who had come up behind her. Suddenly her mind went blank as she felt his hand snake below her belt and found it's way into her jeans pocket. "Now this is what I'm talking about." The boy said with a saucy grin.
"You must be Miroku." Sango flatly said. In one swift movement she grabbed his arm and flung the boy over her shoulder. He landed hard on the ground and she heard a painful 'ow' from below.
"I do like em rough." Miroku managed to say with another grin. Sango felt the blush return to her cheeks. This boy sure was brash!
"Keep your paws off lech." She warned, stepping over him and heading into the school. She had to get away from these people, they were crazy. 'What did I get myself into?' she asked herself as she located her homeroom and found the mysterious girl from earlier.
"I see you can survive talking to Inuyasha and company. I'm impressed." The girl said with a warm tone. She let out a laugh and patted the seat next to her.
"What's your story Kagome?" Sango asked, watching to see if her words impacted the sitting girl.
"You're a lot brighter then the usual new students. Where you from?" Kagome said with a goodhearted grin.
"Osaka. So do you want to explain what is going on, because I am royally confused." Sango admitted, sitting down in the chair Kagome had indicated earlier.
"Higurashi Kagome, official outcast, reporting for duty. At least, since last summer. You see, I used to be friends with Kikyou, Naraku, and Kagura. Last summer Kikyou went away and when she came back she thought she was too good to be my friend, so she had Naraku start a rumor about me so she'd have a reason to stop being friends with me." Kagome said, still with a smile on her face. She'd obviously had time to deal with her problems.
"What a freak! Do you remember what the rumor was?" Sango asked, extremely interested in Kagome's past.
"It changed from day to day. My favorite was that I'd mailed my nail clippings to Kikyou, stalker style. People in high school are creative. I pushed you away so you'd have a chance to choose where you stood social wise."
"I see…" Sango said, pondering her situation. "I choose to be an outcast." She said with a smile.
"Seriously?" Kagome asked with doubt.
"Hell yeah! I heard about two sentences of what Kikyou had to offer to the world and I wasn't impressed. One thing gets me though. You said that people stopped being friends to you, but Inuyasha suggested that I talk to you. In fact, he was the one who said that you were probably Kagome."
"Inuyasha said that?" Kagome inquired, feeling her chest expand with hope.
"Yeah, right before I met Miroku. He said that Kikyou would kill him for telling me to talk to you." Sango replied. "I take it Kikyou is his girlfriend?"
"Since year nine." Kagome admitted. She stared into space for a moment before processing what Sango had previously said. "So you met Miroku?"
"I see now why you warned me." Sango laughed.
"What did you do?" Kagome asked. A few students trickled through the door as the minute bell rang. She knew a rush of students would come in the final seconds as the bell began to ring.
"I flipped him over, onto the ground." Sango said with a smug smirk.
"Really? Most girls just scream and slap him. Did he get to asking you to have his children?"
"No, but I'll keep that in mind." Sango said. She felt herself groan as she looked up to see Miroku and Inuyasha walk through the door. Suddenly she had a burst of inspiration as she motioned for Kagome to get close. "Watch this." She whispered into Kagome's ear.
"Hmm?" Kagome asked, but Sango had already stood up and saucily walked over to where Miroku was sitting.
"Hey pretty lady, won't you sit with us?" Miroku called as he saw Sango approaching. Sango threw her hair over her shoulder and shot Kagome a wink as she leaned over Miroku's desk, making sure to flash just enough to keep him wondering.
"You know, when I first saw you I thought you were the sexiest man at this school. I only hurt you to play hard to get." She lustfully said, running her forefinger along Miroku's chin. "You are just so arousing, can I bear your children?" she asked in an innocent voice as Miroku's eyes went wide and he practically drooled on the arm she had on his desk. He began to nod when Sango's voice changed and became aggressive. "But if you even attempt to repeat that performance, I'll make sure you never use that hand again, got it hentai?"
Sango returned to her seat as the class busted out in laughter. Miroku's face turned so violently scarlet that he slid down into his desk and opened up his history book to cover it. Kagome almost fell out of her chair laughing as she high-fived Sango. From across the room she managed to catch the eyes of the one person who wasn't laughing. She felt transfixed as she spaced into Inuyasha's golden orbs. As suddenly as she had entered the abyss, Inuyasha turned away, as if embarrassed.
"So you were saying?" Sango cockily said, a wide grin plastered on her face. Kagome snapped out of her daze and looked at Sango with wide eyes.
"I think you'll do just fine here." She laughed as the teacher walked in to begin class.
"So I see that new girl has decided to join our little wench in holy outcastness." Kikyou said with disgust, looking over at Kagome and Sango as they stood up to dump their trash. "She must be having a hard time adjusting to having someone to talk to." She coldly laughed, pointing Kagome out for Kouga, the senior sitting next to her.
"Wench or not, she's still hot." Kouga said, licking his lips. He'd been trying to seduce Kagome since the day he'd met her, but she rejected him quicker then Sango had Miroku. As they walked past, he spoke up loudly so she'd hear him. "I still wouldn't mind giving her a go, you know she's got to be wild in the sack." Kagome felt a pain in her chest as she heard Kouga's words. She knew it was she that he was so sickeningly speaking about, and she almost felt like crying.
"Why don't you guys just leave her alone for once?" Inuyasha suggested fiercely but still somewhat calmly at the same time. Kikyou, Kouga, and Kagome all stopped and turned to look at him. It was like someone announcing they had slept with the pope, and Sango held back a giggle at the image as she watched the scene in front of her unfold.
"Excuse me?" Kikyou sputtered nastily. "Leave her alone? You must be on something Inuyasha Taishi for you to suggest something that stupid."
"Strange concept, being nice to someone, isn't it Kikyou. What has she really ever done to you?" Inuyasha demanded, his voice raising only very slightly. Kagome could tell that he was fighting to control his anger, it was evident in his voice.
"That wench slandered my name. I had to go to therapy!" Kikyou defensively said. Kagura nodded at Kikyou's words, but said nothing, like a puppet.
"Kikyou, you go to therapy when you break a nail." Inuyasha savagely said. "And you know those things about Kagome were all rumors, that you started yourself because you knew that more people liked her because she had a heart and knew how to use it."
"How dare you? Well if you want to defend that poor excuse for a human, go ahead, but you won't be doing it at this table." Naraku said with hatred from Kikyou's right.
"Fine." Inuyasha huffed, grabbing his books and stalking past Kagome and Sango. He paused for a moment as if contemplating stopping. "Hey Kagome." He said in a cool voice before catching up to Miroku and his table of, what else, teenage girls.
"The nerve of him." Kikyou yelled, hitting the table with her fist. She stood up and flipped her hair over her shoulder before walking past Kagome and Sango with her nose turned up. She made sure to flaunt so she'd hit Kagome in the shoulder, but Kagome stepped backward and Kikyou tripped slightly. She let out a yell of frustration that filled the lunchroom. "AUGH!"
"What just happened?" Kagome said more to herself then to Sango.
"I take it that doesn't occur often here?" Sango humorously commented, looking at the look of confusion of her new friend's face.
"He'll regret it." Was all Kagome said. Sango pulled her towards their next class as she asked Kagome a few questions about Kikyou.
"So is Kikyou a credit card baby?"
"Huh?" Kagome asked, snapping out of her stupor.
"Someone whose dad buys them their heart's desire and more? I mean, from what I've seen Kikyou is one of those people who would buy something just because someone else wanted it." Sango concluded.
"Hit the nail on the head my friend, on the head." Kagome nodded, finding herself moving voluntarily towards Maths. Sango was following her, contemplating the interesting characters she'd met so far at Shikon Jewel High.
There was Miroku, the lech that for some reason made her blush. Then she had Kagome, with a troubled past but a bright smile. Kikyou, obviously the top dog at the school, which meant the cruelest as well. Inuyasha, who acted as if he didn't even like his girlfriend, and for all she knew he didn't. Kouga and Kagura who were merely pawns for Kikyou to use when needed. Naraku seemed to be another one of Kikyou's pets, but a crueler brand. This new life of hers was turning into a bad soap opera.
"Ms. Higurashi, I'd like to have a word with you." Mr. Totusai said, bringing both Kagome and Sango out of their dazes. Kagome nodded sullenly and wished they had gone the long way to Maths. After giving Sango directions to their class she bravely walked into her counselors office. "Sit, please."
"And this is about? I have a class to be getting to." She coldly said.
"Exactly what I was expecting from you. You certainly have changed over the past summer, haven't you Kagome. Well I know things have been rough for you and your family, but this attitude change is not permanent I hope. You have so much potential, and you'll find yourself maturing to a point where you can better understand this change, but until then I think—"
"Look, if I wanted a speech I'd be in Maths right now listening to my teacher. Just get to the point already." Kagome interrupted.
"Very well. We feel that you need to get into more social classes, or at least one. Let's say art, or music?" Mr. Totusai explained. Kagome rolled her eyes at the old man.
"How about no."
"Then I will be assigning you to a class. Miss Rin is our new Journalism teacher. Or rather, your new Journalism teacher. Have a nice day Ms. Higurashi." Kagome got up to protest but he shoved her out of the room with her new schedule and shut the door behind her.
"F-wit." She muttered to herself, studying her new schedule. She should probably thank the old man, he had rearranged her schedule so she had a total of six classes with Sango. Unfortunately she had them with Miroku and Inuyasha too. With a sense of dread she headed to Maths and awaited the end of the day.
"What was that about?" Sango whispered as Kagome slid into the seat next to her. Kagome slid her schedule across the table and briefed the brunette on the current events.
"Hey I'm in almost all of these!" Sango exclaimed quietly. "Miroku and Inuyasha are in these too." She noted. She peered at the list and noted the class that she didn't share with Kagome. "Journalism?"
"Being forced." Kagome muttered, noting Mrs. Kaede staring at her.
"Advanced Chemistry too? Aww, is our little Kagome a genius?" Sang teased, tugging on Kagome's hair. Mrs. Kaede sighed, giving up on the girls and returned to the notes on the chalkboard.
"Must not be if I'm sharing all of these classes with Ms. Hiraikotsu." Kagome teased back, returning the hair tug.
"Oh, nu-uh, you have that whole Advanced Journalism thing going on for you." Sango joked.
"Yeah, but you have Honors Physical Education to make up for that." Kagome responded, starting the laugh. They drew attention from Miroku and Inuyasha, who were sitting in front of them, but they ignored the boys. The bell rang as the girls laughed, setting them free for another day. "Hey, see you tomorrow, ne?"
"Wouldn't miss it." Sango replied. The two separated, Sango going to her car and Kagome starting on her long walk home. In the parking lot Miroku and Inuyasha watched with interest from Inuyasha's red Mercedes.
"Want to get to school a little earlier tomorrow?" Miroku suggested. Inuyasha gave him a confused glance so he continued with a cocky grin. "I think I have a subject I need to study."
Ah, so that's the end of the first chapter... I will post the next one of someone should review... I usually never get reviews on my stories in the first chapters... but I'm hoping someone at least likes this one, I've been working hard on it. Until next time, Your writing extrodinaire, Signy.