Just Friends?

Friendships that go beyond that, hidden feelings and emotions. Can the four good friends find true love in their cemented bonds?

Chapter 1

"Hey everyone!" Kagome Higurashi waved to her group of friends who had been standing outside the school gates waiting for her. "Sorry for my tardiness!"

"Hi 'gome! Never mind about your being late, let's just for class now!" Sango Mahitsu replied.

"Hi Kagome, looking pretty today huh," Miroku Kazzana said and earned a scathing look from Sango while Kagome just laughed.

"Feh. Let's go everyone," and Inuyasha Takahashi started walking towards the classrooms. The other three followed and a typical school day started.

A very bored Kagome started drifting off during Mathematics. Looking to her right where a dozing Inuyasha was, Kagome couldn't stop a wave of pleasure from washing over her. How good it felt to have three best friends whom she could rely on. She always marveled at the fact that four such different personalities could come together and form a strong bond, a wonderful friendship, though she rather thought that Sango and Miroku looked cute together. Aww! Kagome wondered just when that two would look past their differences and Miroku's perverse likings and discover their true feelings. Tilting her head to look at the sleeping boy, Kagome thought that he looked very adorable all of a sudden. As though sensing her gaze, the pair of furry ears atop a head of Luna-silver hair twitched and Kagome quickly averted her stare to the blackboard and its many algebraic equations. Whatever was I thinking about! Kagome chided herself and then went back to outer space.

During lunch break, the four friends met up and went to the canteen to eat. "Look at them bickering again! I swear, they must have been enemies in their previous lives." An amused Sango and Miroku stood looking at Inuyasha and Kagome arguing over yet another minor issue. Suddenly, Sango felt a familiar sensation on her butt. Why can't he just touch my shoulders or something the hentei! Sango swung and gave a mighty good slap to Miroku's cheek. She stalked off towards an empty table leaving behind Miroku, who rubbed his abused cheek with something glittering in his deep purple iris, something akin to regret.