Faster. Faster. Just..a..little more.
Skirt up, leg reddening with exhaust, and hair in every angle.
Yep, today was not my day. Not in the slightest bit.
Sighing in relief, finally seeing the sign that signaled me that I was close, I pushed a little harder, a little faster.
It took longer enough. Thank Buddha, I'm close!
"Shikon Tama Academy For:
The Talented and Fortunate"
The sign was a little beaten up and was quite misplaced considering the place it hung for. I always questioned the standing of the sign: whether they kept it around because it was the last piece of history STA own or maybe they're just too cheap to purchase another one. I doubt the latter though. STA was anything but cheap. I digress.
I pass the sign and make my way to the front of head gates with my school card in hand. The security pad waited for me to slide to my card through. Only then will it grant me access to pass. That's one thing that I invariably love about STA. Their security systems were top-notch!
I quickly slide my card through. I have no time to waste at the moment, not even for the world's best security system.
That was probably an exaggeration. Just a little. Whatever.
I shake my head from my thoughts and read the big red letter on the pad.
INVALID
"What the fudge!" I slide my card again, this time with a little care.
INVALID
I slide once more with speed of a snail.
INVALID
Now. I. Go. APE SHIT! Slide.
INVALID
Slide.
INVALID
Slide.
INVALID BITCH!
I'm jumping up and down, occasionally hitting the pad, and basically screaming at the top of my lungs. Slide.
ENTER
"FINALLY!" Pass the pearly gates and up the marble stairs I go! I now I knew hatred for this high saditty, piece of crap academy.
I continue my running to the closest set of stairs that will take me to my destination on the second floor. On my search for the stairs, I pass a brunette wheeling her blonde friend, a couple violating each others mouth, and a line of bulletins that I think made out: Vote...Cla...Pretzel. We obviously have some weirdos in this school.
I make it up pass the flight, round the corner, and finally...
I'm not late! I'm not late! I'm no-
SMACK!~~~
"AAARGH!" I lay on the hard porcelain tile. Back too much in pain to even think about getting.
Here I die. Goodbye mom, Grandpa, Cousin Roku, Sota, and whatever I decided to name my cat this week. Goodbye life. All because of General Algebra class. Goodbye Yuka, Ayumi, and Eri. Goodbye-
"Hey! Get up!" yelled the boy shadowing my soon-to-be cremated body. He still yells and starts kicking my leg as well. Idiot.
"Shut up! And stop kicking the dead. It's rude!" I retaliated.
"You're not even dead, moron!" He argues back.
"Not yet!" I sit up ready to give whoever a piece of my mind.
Gold.
"Kagome you weirdo! Get your crazy ass up!" I finally take the time to look over the boy above me. Gold eyes, white long hair, red American baseball cap, fangs, and the average boys uniform: short-sleeved white buttoned down shirt with the all the buttons undone, red tight wife-beater underneath, black slacks, and black loafers. His school card hung from a chain around his neck. And his face worn its signature scowl. Inuyasha...idiot.
"Why the hell did you push me down for?!" I ask as I climb back unto my feet and steady my balance.
"Feh. Whatcha rushin' for? Gotta pee?" He inquired as he helped me. I tried to look him in the eye but found it very difficult do due to the fact his head was turned in the opposite direction. Wow. His face is really red.
"Are you sick?"
"What? N-no?" He shook his head and releases my wrist. "Why are you at school so early?"
...At school early?
"Early?" He looks over at the large black digital clock provide on every floor level. I follow his eyes and read the highlighted numbers. 6:45 AM. FML! Classes didn't even start filling 'til 7!
"You've gotta be kidding?!" I couldn't believe it. I drop to my knees and lay myself back on the floor. Eyes close. Face facing the ceiling. Hands clasped above my chest. I peek through my left eye and look up at Inuyasha and see him looking down at me, confusion dressing his features. "I'm dying again." I calmly say and close my eye.
"Oooh. Make sense...for a lunatic. Why are you here?"
"My alarm woke me up at *insert air quotations* 7:05 AM *Insert air quotation*. I just don't get it. I thought I was going to be at least five minutes late. I almost died from FREAKIN' hyperventilation! My alarm has never mess..." My eyes fly and shoot up into a sitting position. Out my peripheral, I see Inuyasha squatting on my right staring somewhat intensely. "SOTA!"
THIRD POV
7:04 AM
Conversating, or arguing considered by most students, Inuyasha and Kagome aimlessly walk through the halls on the second floor.
"Hey 'Yasha?"
"Yeah?" he asks as he cocks his head to the side to look at the side of his face.
"Why were you here at 6:45?" she questions while keeping her face ahead. As she continues a couple steps ahead, she stop in the realization the he had stop a foot back. She turns around and faces him. He was staring intently into the floor.
"We had a lil' 'situation' close by this morning. So after I finished the umm 'problem' I decided to just ahead on to school." He shrugs.
Demon. Kagome thought. They weren't unusual to spot. Heavens no. Especially in a town like Kiroku. If anything, they were more common. The elimination of a demon, however, wasn't taken so loosely. Demons, like human, came with three catergory in the world. Good, Evil, and the In-betweeners. With the uncanny decrease in humans over the past two years, there was has been an increase in demon. Evil demons to be more specific. Most humans believe that the demons are on the rise of a revolution caused by the fact that demons where not permitted to hold any office position anywhere across the world. Others believe that their race, humans of course, have become so paranoid with the rumors of the revolution that they kill themselves or lock themselves in their home having no contact with the outside world. But the true reason as to why humans are declining is simple. They are simply in the way, as Inuyasha likes to put it.
Demons have no conception to killing human. Not even evil demon. They prefer the killing of other demons to be honest. After the Enslavement Act dating two hundred years back was finally removed, human, demons, and other mystical creatures have been living side by side. Lord Ryukotsusei was stripped of his position as dictator. The power he used to put demons above other races, the power that he took well advantage of and ultimately led him to his miserable fate. As the myth goes: the day of his impeachment (his overthrow), all the demons led by no other than Inuyasha's father, Inu no Taisho, started a riot that rivaled any and every riot known to man. Humans were slain, demons decapitated, vamps torn limb from limb. It was known as the "Day of Red". Inu no Taisho's purpose for the riot was never explained. Where the riot originated was never explained. What happened to Inu no Taisho or Ryukotsusei for that matter was never explained. It was a part of history that became mystery.
Months after the riot died down, a group of four Buddhist monks referred as "Heart's Eye" took the remains and created something so powerful that they couldn't even take proper care of it. The Shikon no Tama (for which the school was named after). Midoriko, a great miko and psychic of her day, was entrusted with the Shikon care. Word quickly spread about the jewel, and in a desperate attempt of the jewel landing in the wrong hands, Midoriko returned to her original home in the Yōkai Taijiya Village. She kept the jewel hidden there, and in return, the jewel kept the village safe. That was until she died. During her last years, she requested "that the jewel be kept in the village until she is born." She was none other than Hitomi, Kikyo and she was born until 102 years after Midoriko's death.
While Kikyo took responsibility, a new evil began to arise as well as a hero. That evil took form in a spider demon named Naraku. He wanted that jewel, and Naraku always got what he wanted of course. Kikyo, never being one to receive love from anyone beside her younger sister, found love in the arms of a very brash, no shit taking hanyou-Inuyasha. Both were young (he 14 and she 18-forbidden love), hopelessly in love, and needed one another to feel the void in their heart. Two years passed and their love was going on strong. Naraku seized this opportunity and pinned love against each other. She, being the more dominated in her skill, pinned him to "Goshinboku" for the next ten years when he broke the "damned thing!" As for Kikyo, with the fear of more demon like Inuyasha, she took the jewel and had monks burn her alive figuring this was the best way to end the sacred jewel. The plan backfired, however. Instead of the jewel burn to ashes with its keep, it dispersed across all of Japan.
How were humans in the way? Easy, they most known for having pieces of the shard.
"Did the demon have any clues about Naraku?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha wasn't the type to randomly kill a demon without a cause.
"The bastard gave out before I had a chance to any. All he got to say was 'The academy. THE ACADEMY!' Stupid asshole." He responds as he shook his head and began walking again.
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGG G!~~
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGG G!~~
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGG G!~~
"Let's hurry before we become late!" Kagome grabbed his arm and dragged to their first class.
If I'm late, it'll be because of him...