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A/N: Hey everyone! I'm a newbie so please advise and critizise me as much as your hearts desire! But with proper language... And please, please, review to tell me how I'm doing! ''> ...(I can't make a smiley...crap) Thank you all!


The sun rose beautifully behind the glass window on one of the high rooms of a shrine. One of the strong morning rays slowly creped on a sleeping girl's face, until its warmth covered her soft, smooth, and vivid peach skin fully. Many other rays followed soon after. The girl seemed to finally give in as she slowly scrunched her face up a bit, and gave a big yawn. She opened her mysterious dark blue eyes, and found that it was morning. She sat up and stretched. But then it seemed as if a bolt of lightning had hit her when she perked out of her bed with tons of energy from a good night's sleep. She quickly followed by making her bed, tiding up the room a bit, and going to the bathroom to brush her teeth and her vibrant black locks, then change into a school uniform.

When she was done she ran down the stairs with a small attachment on her back, her school bag. She headed straight for the kitchen.

"Good mornin' mom!" she greeted a kind lady behind the kitchen counter who was making pancakes, according to the sweet smell in Kagome's nostrils. The lady had black also vibrant, short hair, cut into a feminine style though, and eyes the color of honey that only seemed to represent her sweet and caring personality. Eyes truly uncover hints about any kind of person, if the person doesn't mind showing them: Kagome's belief. She thought that her dark-colored eyes were not just coincidence, even though she was the only one in the family who inherited such 'blue' trait, she thought they were dark because she was too shy to show her real self at times…

"Good morning, honey!" she smiled.

Kagome approached the kitchen table only to find a sleeping grandpa of hers and a little anxious boy waiting for breakfast. This boy had dark brunette hair, almost black, and eyes to match.

"Good morning grandpa, good morning Souta!" she cheerily said.

"Mornin' sis!" answered the boy, while the old man with gray hair and closed eyes seemed to still lay his head on the table and only grunted something in his sleep as a response, then he let some drool escape his mouth. Kagome just sighed at her gramps.

After what seemed like a lifetime of waiting for Souta, his mother finally came in with two plates full of pancakes. She set them down, and then herself on top of a fourth chair. "Here, let's eat" she said as she took a fork and a knife.

Kagome swiped a pancake and went after the syrup at the same time as Souta. Kagome won, and she happily splattered the sweet liquid on her pancakes.

"Golden brown, mom, just how I like them!" Kagome complemented her mom's cooking.

After eating the first and most important meal of the day, Kagome went to brush her teeth again, only a precaution so as not to have bad breath when she arrived at her school. Then she ran down and took her schoolbag, then glanced at the clock. "I'm going to be late!" she shouted.

"Well, you better go then, I'll take Souta to school." Her mom said, and then planted a kiss on Kagome's forehead.

"Right! Love you mom, bye!" she got outside, and on any other day would have gladly walked and taken in the view, but today she was almost late, so she practically jogged to school.

When she finally arrived, she spotted her three best friends; one with short brown hair, another with long hair, and one with medium length, all of them had cute styles and eyes of pretty dark brown. They talked and chatted, and one of them asked Kagome "How come you're late?"

Kagome shrugged, "Guess I wasn't paying attention to the time…"

"Tsk, tsk…Kagome, a few minutes later you could have been late for first period, and Mr. Taskeiro wouldn't have been happy!" her friend said( in a bossy, motherly tone).

" To say the least" another friend, with short hair, added.

"I know, I know.." Kagome accepted.

The school bell rang. And all the crowds outside the high school slowly walked inside, knowing this was the start of another Monday, a horrible school day. Kagome sighed at the boringness of it all, because lately her life seemed to be a movie that was played over and over again, only it was real and she had to live it. The only thing that turned her thoughts to excitement in her head was the upcoming sleepover that weekend at her house, to celebrate her fifteenth birthday that was really that Thursday only it was going to be celebrated Friday with her friends.

She sat down in first period, chemistry. What a way to start the day…, that was what Kagome always thought during mornings in that class.

The day seemed to breeze by, jus like any other day. A bell finally rung, it announced lunch. At that particular school, the students were aloud to have a sort of picnic during lunch, since really the just brought their lunch (or bought it) and picked any place outside in the yard of the school to sit and eat. Most students sat under the many trees that cast huge shadows, and were pleasant to sit under. Each clique seemed to have their own tree where they always sat.

Kagome and her friends sat under a nice tree full of branches, and leaves to cast a huge shadow, but not the biggest of all, or the darkest…

Kagome opened her school bag and took out her lunch she prepared the day before. The other girls took theirs out too. It was funny how they all brought the same brown bags to hold their lunch. Another little sign that proved that everything was always the same in Kagome's life, so she thought, as she bit into an apple.

She soon spotted the infamous group of teens about her age that seemed a little on the weird side, the outcasts. It was strange how they always stuck together, always the same group of people, although new members were added sometimes but no one seemed to notice, or care. They were a huge group, and they all looked human. But they didn't feel human to Kagome. She didn't know what it was about them that every time Kagome came across them, she sensed a distinct aura around them. She pondered on this thought until one of the kids seemed to notice her staring, and he looked at her with and intense color of eyes. But Kagome couldn't tell if they were hazel or maybe…amber? No, they couldn't be amber; no person ever had that eye color, though she couldn't tell because the group chose the most gigantic tree, to sit under the blackest shadow…under which they all seemed to have very vibrant and vivid hair, almost unreal! They were normal colors though, such as blacks, browns, and this particular boy's short, light blond. Blond was an odd color in these areas… Kagome broke the stare to look down at her lunch. What did those eyes try to show her about the person? She couldn't understand…

One of her friends noticed what happened and said "Weird, aren't they? They never try to talk to anyone, just seem to kind of be there and no one really notices…"

"It's not that no on notices, it's that they have this kind of…look that just sends a message to anyone sane to STAY AWAY." Another one piped up.

"You're right! I get that too" the third one agreed.

"But you guys, they're (pause) humans like us…Don't you think that's kinda mean?" Kagome hesitated before the word 'humans', because she wasn't really convinced herself, but that sounded even meaner than what her friends said and would make her seem like a total hypocrite.

Kagome was so bored; it was just one of those days… Or maybe it only seemed that way because she had her period? She did tend to have slight mood swings now and then… Just as one of her friends, the one with the short hair, and by destiny's hands she had her period then too… Kagome looked at the sheet she and her friends were sitting on (so they wouldn't make contact with the grass and get all itchy… it has happened before!) and she spotted one last chocolate-brownie cookie with chocolate chips on the top. Kagome knew she had to have it. She was reaching slowly for it, and that's when she realized her friend (of short hair) was reaching for the cookie too! How dare she want the last cookie! She was reaching for it first!

Suddenly, Kagome started feeling very protective of her cookie. After all she hadn't tried those cookies yet.

"Back off! It's my cookie!" Kagome shouted at her pal, who had her eyes on the prize.

"I don't see your name on it!" she shouted back

"Well, uh… I was reaching for it first!

"No, I was!"

"I haven't tried those cookies yet!" Kagome was yelling now.

"Neither have I!" her friend only yelled back.

Kagome took the cookie and stood up so her friend couldn't take it, and it was just halfway on its way to her mouth too, but her friend caught the other side of the cookie while standing up as well. The two other girls still on the sheet looked at their fighting friends from below, their expressions showed they were torn between being worried and confused if they should take this seriously.

Kagome pulled the cookie in a desperate attempt to eat its chocolaty goodness. Her friend pulled back, and for some reason the cookie didn't break…yet. Maybe this was because it was so packed with sugar. They kept tugging it between each other with one hand while trying to shove each other with the other hand. This was getting serious, but the sitting ducks of the two other friends were literally still sitting on the sheets, and decided they should just watch and enjoy the show. If they could have the mad girls' lunch leftovers, heck, why not watch a good show while they're at it? This was free entertainment!

The bell finally rang, and Kagome and her friends had ripped the cookie to pieces, so now they were mad at each other for making the gloriousness of chocolate shrink before their eyes. They looked like they were about to rip each other's throats by now and the other two girls had to actually stand up to try and set them aside from each other, since a crowd was now forming around the two. The small crowd was mostly boys who were cheering them on, while many of them still informed more incoming male students of the "Catfight!" So when the bell rung, their faces fell at its timing, and one boy just summed up all of their feelings when he shouted in disappointment "Just when it was getting good!"

Lunch ended 'peacefully', and everyone went back to their classes. Kagome and her friend were mad at each other, as a result of the cookie fight. Kagome thought all the blame went to her friend who refused to give over her cookie. (AN: don't mess with PMS…That rhymes!)

Kagome had art next, her favorite class next to music, and so she was glad. Also glad that her best friends weren't in this class so she wouldn't have to see her, the cookie cruncher who destroyed the cookie.

She arrived at her class, and sat in her usual seat, but the teacher Ms. Tsukido (a woman) cleared her throat to stop Kagome. Kagome almost set her bottom down, when she picked it up quickly and asked "Yes, ma'am?"

"We have new seats today Miss Higurashi, so please stand while I search for your new seat."

Kagome picked up her schoolbag, in hope of receiving a seat closer to her friends in this class, which were limited to Hojo, a very nice boy of fifteen. But Kagome was ready and willing to make new friends. The teacher instructed her to sit down in the table number three, out of six tables which were round and fit comfortably about seven people each. She sat down in the seat which her teacher pointed to, and waited as the rest of the class was walking in. She wasn't usually early for art or any other class for that matter, but she was happy to be there and not have to wait in line to be taken to her new seat.

She waited, and waited, and waited…For almost fifteen minutes in all the students' confusement at the seating chart the teacher gave them, this was the first time they had their seats changed in that class, and one of the few times when this teacher decided to change things a bit. Almost every student was personally instructed to their seat by the teacher. She found Hojo on her left side and an empty chair on her right.

"Hey Kagome-chan!" he greeted with a charming smile. He was cute, with his light brown, short, free hairdo, and honey brown eyes like Kagome's mom, but his eyes were a lighter shade. Cute, but not my type… Kagome thought, though her friends seemed to think she was really hiding a huge crush for him under all the refusing statements and "He's just a friend!" junk she pulled. But she wasn't pulling anything, she didn't like like him…

"Hey Hojo!" she smiled nicely.

"How have you been? It seems like we almost don't have any classes together this year…"

Thank god, Kagome thought, because even though this boy was cute, he could become highly annoying once you get to know him from every angle like she so bitterly was made to do when she had all of the classes together with him and sat next to him in every one!

"I've been okay, the shrine's fine and everything, how about you?"

"Oh, good, good… I started doing all these extracurricular activities, you know, like piano lessons, and automobile repairments, and woodshop, and …" he kept on going, but Kagome just smiled politely and tuned him out. Here he goes again, blabbing about himself…boring! Just then the teacher cleared her throat again for the students to be quiet. Hojo had to comply, much to Kagome's relief, and the teacher started to talk instead, "Well, now that we are all settled down, let's" she broke off, and silenced herself as she noticed that a student now ran to her door, and walked in.

He was obviously confused at why some 'fatso with dimples' according to him, had his 'fat ass' on his chair. The teacher was forced to clear her throat yet again to gain his attention, and the rest of the class's as everyone watched the tardy boy. "You're late, and now have missed about (she glanced at the clock) almost twenty minutes of class, please take a seat next to (she looked at her own seating chart on her desk, and after practicing it so much earlier she mastered it successfully, so she could rapidly indicate which seat, as she had originally planned)…Ah! Miss Higurashi." She was such a nice teacher she didn't give him a detention, Kagome thought, although maybe she didn't want to waste any more class time.

The late boy sat next to her, and the empty chair now had a body that lay upon it. He let his small black bag, what seemed to be his schoolbag, down and turned to face forward, and on the round table that meant looking directly between Kagome and Hojo. Kagome recognized that unyielding and piercing gaze; he was the boy she saw at lunch! She recognized the hair, now, and he looked well, actually, perchance even cute! Real cute!

She tried to look at him closer now that they sat next to each other, and the teacher had gone back to starting the lesson. She intended to put an end to her wonder as she moved further towards him, to catch the tiniest hint of the color of hazel or, amber? "Hey! What the hell are you staring at!" he hissed threateningly, and loudly, but surprisingly not many noticed.

"S-sorry!" she whispered, but he heard. She sat properly on her chair, and looked at the table, ashamed. When she finally had the courage to look back up, she decided to focus on the teacher, and scolded herself for loosing track of what the teacher was, what's the word? Teaching! Right, now pay attention Kagome!

"Now what are we going to start on right when we enter this room tomorrow, Miss Higurashi?" The teacher asked Kagome, out of the blue.

"Uh, uh… (Something to do with art?) Colors!" she gave her intelligent response.

"We are not in the first grade Miss Higurashi, now please class?"

"Sketches of landscapes" replied the whole class in perfect unison, except for Kagome. Then the aforementioned girl let a visible red-hot blush place it self on her face instead of her nose and cheeks. Now she looked barely different from a tomato, or a chili pepper. Why was she blushing so much? This wouldn't have embarrassed her on another day, she thought, so she did as every other girl would have done and blamed it on her period.

When the bell rung she sneakily walked past all the students, and planned to do as she had done before, and leave out early. Why stop myself from continuing a healthy trend of arriving and leaving before schedule? She used as an excuse but she really just wanted to leave her embarrassment behind, and she would have gotten away with it too (AN: 'if it hadn't been for those meddling kids'scooby doo) if only she hadn't tripped over a certain foot. "Hey, watch where you're going!" the same blond haired boy shouted, and snickered. Kagome was willing to bet her shrine that he tripped her purposely!

"Hey! You tripped me!" she remarked her observation.

"Nothing gets past you." He replied sarcastically.

"Ugh!" she left him there to just get out of the class already; she didn't have to put up with him just because he felt like picking on her that day. I haven't seen him before, come to think of it, maybe he's new…


A/N: Okay, I know this is confusing, but I split chapter one into two. But everything in the story is still the same, except there is an extra chapter, k? And for the new readers, enjoy. Thank you, and if someone doesn't like this change, please post a review explaining why and I'll consider it.

Ja ne!