A young, fine built woman of about 18 stood in the dim lit room
wearing a pair of silk, black boxers and a white, v-neck tank top. She was
panting lightly from the excruciating workout. Sweat beads formed on her
forehead while she gracefully padded her way into the kitchen for bottled
water. After grabbing the bottled water she made her way to her room and
stepped into the bathroom adjoined to her room.
Stripping off the sweat soaked clothes she turned on the cold water. Slowly stepping in she yelped at the cold water beating against her chest. Grabbing for her tropical splash scented soap bottle, she squeezed a small amount onto a sponge and started working it into a foamy lather on her skin. After rinsing away all the soap she washed her mid-back ebony hair. When she finally finished in the shower she grabbed her blue thick towel and wrapped it around her tiny frame.
The young woman slowly made her way to her closest to pull out a blue tub top mixed with green and pulled it on. She then pulled out a pair of cargo harem pants and put them on. After she was all set she slinked out of her room and made her way to the room across the hall without being seen. She creaked open the door soundlessly as not to make a sound.
The door swung open quietly as not to give away to the intruder. The woman padded her way over to the bed and grabbed a pillow that was thrown onto the floor and was being unattended to. She raised the pillow above her head and brought it done with a loud * THUMP * on the sleeping form.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" the sleepy form screamed and bolted out of bed to grab her large boomerang.
"It's okay Sango, it's just me," the other woman replied trying to suppress a laugh.
"Kagome!!! I'm going to kill you!" Sango screeched, but lowered her voice once she remembered that there were three other people in the household. Sango turned and glared daggers at Kagome.
"Were you up early again this morning?" she questioned silently. All Kagome did was nod in response.
"Well get ready Sango, today is the day we * sigh * apply for high school." Kagome muttered. Sango turned and headed into her bathroom leaving Kagome in the deserted room by herself. Kagome was about to turn to leave when she felt a pair of little arms hug her thighs. She looked down and saw two bright, green eyes look up at her. She smiled down at him and patted his orange-brown hair.
"So Shippo, what shall we have for breakfast?" She questioned with a grin. She knew full well that Shippo loved to eat. Being her adopted son she loved him like he was her own.
"PANCAKES!" he screeched. Kagome calmed down the young boy telling him there were still two people sleeping in the household. Stopping his sudden outburst they made there way to the kitchen. Kagome whipped up pancakes of all kinds. She made chocolate chip, blueberry, raspberry, apple, cinnamon, and strawberry. Just as she set up the whole table two girls about 17 entered the kitchen.
"Hello Kagome and Shippo," they said in unison.
"Ohayoo gozaimasu Aiko and Masumi," she sang cheerfully. Aiko and Masumi were twins, but barely looked like each other. Masumi had flaming orange hair that ended around her chin and Aiko had silver white hair with gold tips that went to her waist.
The similarities were they both had beautiful forest green eyes; both 5'5 and they were deadly martial artists. Aiko wore gray drawstring pants, with a black ribbed, scoopneck tank top with a light black hooded jacket. Masumi wore a pair of black jeans, and a red short sleeve top.
Sango came down the steps in a hurry. She entered the kitchen wearing embroidered stretch jean pants and a floral corset top under a thin jean jacket. All four girls ate in a rush, but not as fast as Shippo he was finished eating before they had a chance to sit down. After successfully finishing the meals and the dishes washed they all headed for the garage.
"Um. which one should we take?" Kagome questioned pointing to the four cars. They all walked over towards Aiko's car, which was silver, 2002 Ferrari 360 Modena Spider F1, it was made especially for her. It had four seats and a roof that could stay up or down. Currently it was down since it was such a gorgeous day out.
Aiko was an excellent driver, she had her times when she needed to be fast and reckless, but this wasn't one of those times. She had her hood pulled over her head and was driving a little over the speed limit. The wind whipped everyone's hair about.
Once at the school Aiko brought the top up and locked the car up. All four girls and Shippo walked into the massive school. It was deserted no one in sight besides the teachers readying the classes for the start of the day.
Walking to the guidance counselor's office took a good 10 minutes since they kept getting lost. Finally finding the office they all entered to find an old woman typing at a computer like a mad man. When the door shut she looked up from where she sat. She smiled sweetly at the girls.
"Yes, what may I do for ye?" she asked.
"We were wondering where do we need to go to sign up for classes?" Sango replied humbly.
"Ah yes, you four must be the new students," she muttered to herself. "I am Kaede, the guidance counselor." She handed the girls the paper work and they went on a frenzy to finish it up.
"Here you go!" all four said in unison. Kaede eyed them wearily.
"That was fast, did you all want to be in the same classes?" she offered.
"Hai, if that isn't to much trouble." Aiko answered. Kaede smiled and nodded.
"Well here you go, all the same classes, most of them are AP if they need to be changed come back here and I will gladly do it." She smiled. "Have a great first day, I know you will enjoy it, oh one more thing do you want a guide?"
"Um. no we will be fine." Aiko smiled innocently. After they were done conversing they all headed to their homeroom class. They were halfway there when the bell rang. They all ran down the hall at a great speed.
Shippo was on Aikos back and the rest following her. Coming to an abrupt stop they entered the room. Aikos hood was drawn over her head once more. Entering the class was Kagome, Sango, Masumi and Aiko with Shippo in her arms.
"Well aisatsu young ladies, arigatoo for joining are class, care to introduce yourselves?" he questioned quickly. "Oh by the way my name is Mr. Hasimoto." They all nodded towards him and started to say their names.
"Higurashi, Kagome." She smiled and bowed
"Tayjia, Sango." She repeated what Kagome did.
"Inukai, Aiko and Masumi." They bowed at the same time. "Oh and this is Shippo." Aiko added.
"Um. Ms. Aiko can you please remove your hood?" He asked politely. She nodded and slowly drew back her hood. The class's eyes were like saucers looking at her hair and her sisters. The two twins heard the class whisper to each other that they must have dyed their hair those colors and that no one can be born with hair like that, naturally anyhow.
"Well before more time is wasted you can take the four seats behind InuYasha and Miroku." He muttered to them. Walking silently to their seats the teacher began his lecture again. Aiko and Shippo took the last seat in the row. Shippo sat on her lap, while the teacher lectured the class, while Aiko and Shippo played tic-tac-toe.
Miroku leaned over and introduced himself to the three girls except Aiko since she was so into playing with Shippo. Sango and Kagome glared at Miroku, while Masumi was busy making killer airplanes and throwing them around the room while the teachers back was turned. Aiko saw this and started to giggle.
She reached down in her book bag and grabbed a straw and some paper. Snickering to herself she loaded the straw and shot the back of Masumi's head. Masumi turned and glared daggers at her, but soon she had an evil grin to replace the glare. Aiko knew that look and freaked out.
Aiko jumped out of her seat and ran to the opposite side of the class and ducked. Masumi loaded her straw and shot at her. Aiko ducked just in time, but the boy that was her guard got hit square in the face. Masumi and Aiko lunged back into their seats before the teacher saw any of this, but the whole class was watching them with shocked expressions. The boy that was hit finally came out of his daze and jumped out of his seat and yelled.
"HEY THAT WAS NOT COOL!" he screeched. The teacher turned and told the boy named Kouga to go to the dean's office. Kouga stomped out of the class leaving them snickering. Masumi and Aiko felt sorry, but started to bust out laughing like hyenas.
Once everything calmed down the boring lecture went on for another twenty minutes. All four girls jumped out of their sits as quickly as possible and headed for the gym.
Upon walking their a girl of about 16 walked up to them smiling cheerfully.
"Hi, you must be new, I'm Rin." She said in a cheerful voice her smile never faulting.
"Yeah, we're on our way to gym." Masumi replied.
"Oh, that's where I'm headed," she remarked. "We are currently learning how to do fighting with various types of martial arts."
"Really, that's awesome, we're really good at it." The twins said in unison. They ended the conversation and went into the locker room. They got changed into a pair of black shorts and white tank tops. Once they finished they scrambled out to sit with everyone else out in the main gym. A large, thick blue mat was laid out in front of them as they sat down.
"Hello class, I'm Mr. Fukuro, and I see we have some new students." The teacher said coolly. Then he turned and gave a grin and pointed at the two twins.
"You two will demonstrate how much you know." Mr. Fukuro muttered. The two twins looked at each other and gave a wide smile. They knew that they would show the teacher. Apparently he seemed like he wanted to put the new girls on the spot.
They winked at each and gave a we-will-show-you-we-know-more-than-you look. When walking up to the mat out came the boys they saw from their earlier class, InuYasha, Miroku, Kouga, and three other guys. Once all the class was out, the girls took their positions on the mat.
Masumi took her position on the right side of the mat. She was standing with her right side in front. Her feet were shoulder length apart and her knees were bent slightly, but not locked. Her arms and elbows close to her body. She was ready to begin the best match.
Aiko did a few stretches and took her place on the left side of the mat. She took the same stance as Masumi, but crouched a little to give a crouching tiger look. Once they felt comfortable and ready the teacher told them to begin.
Masumi came at Aiko and did a high kick with a low punch, but did not exceed in getting her target. While Masumi was coming up from her attack Aiko jumped and flipped over her. Aiko turned and grabbed Masumi's free hand and flipped her on her back. Masumi got up in the blink of an eye it was so fast no one saw her up and preparing for a new attack. Aiko once again crouched in her tiger stance.
Aiko ran up to Masumi and was about to punch her, but Masumi caught her punch and twisted her arm to the side. Aiko leaned towards that side as to stop the sudden pain rising in her right arm. Upon doing this gave Masumi the opening to her side. She drew up her leg and kicked her side hard, but not painful. Aiko fell to the floor, but wasn't going to give in. The girls circled each other and were prepared. Aiko charged Masumi, but this time flipped Masumi on to her stomach.
Masumi got up and took her stance; she looked around the room for an object. She gasped when she found what she was looking for. Aiko turned to see what she was gasping about. Aiko grinned and they both ran towards it. They both grabbed at the two katanas on the wall. Once they had it in their hands they went back to the mat.
The teacher was now looking at them flabbergasted. The girls took new stances. Aiko took the waki [AN: waki means hidden stance ] stance where as Masumi took the chudan [ AN: sword held in both hands and tip of blade facing opponent] stance and they began.
They ran at each other and there was the sound of both katanas colliding. Masumi brought her katana down in a sweeping motion and caught Aiko on the side of the leg. Aiko didn't fault by the wound instead she swung her katana around and caught Masumi on the stomach.
Once the girls both had wounds they looked at each other and grinned. They placed the katanas back and went to stand back on the mat. Mr. Fukuro just stood looking at the girls with his jaw hanging. The girls giggled then high-fived each other.
"Um. well that was interesting, but I think you two should go to the nurse and have your wounds checked." He said shakily.
"We're fine, the wound isn't even noticeable." They replied. Mr. Fukuro looked down and saw that there was no wound, but there was just a stain of blood. He was really confused. The class started whispering to each other.
"How can there be no cut when there's blood?" once girl whispered to another. Masumi shot the girl a don't-even-question look. The girl took one look and closed her mouth.
"Keh, I can do that too you know." InuYasha muttered. Sango and Kagome gave him a look that could freeze hell, but he wasn't bothered by it. Aiko and Masumi looked at him as well, but only smiled in return. The two girls took their seat next to Sango and Kagome once again. The teacher dismissed class and everyone went to the locker room and changed.
"That was awesome Masumi, Aiko, can you guys teach me to fight like that?" Shippo questioned with his puppy dogface. Masumi smiled and nodded.
"Do you guys think you should have said anything about the cuts?" Sango wondered out loud.
"No, but I didn't feel like being late to lunch." Aiko and Masumi replied. Kagome just burst out laughing,
"You guys * laugh *could never pass * laugh * up on food could you?" Kagome said. Once the girls were finished dressing they headed for the cafeteria, deciding that the food didn't look appetizing they wanted to go to a restaurant. Walking out of the school passing the students that were eating outside they headed towards the Aiko's car.
While walking Aiko and Masumi turned around all of a sudden and let out a low growl that could only be heard by Sango and Kagome. Sango and Kagome looked at the two with a perplexed face until they turned around to face a girl that looked identical to Kagome only she looked like a total slut.
The girl brought back her fist and was about to punch Kagome in the face with Aiko and Masumi stepped in to protect her. Masumi and Aiko grabbed both of the girls' swinging arms and put them tightly behind her back. "Let go of me you freaks!" she shouted.
"Sorry can't do that till you tell us why you were going to punch Kagome." Masumi growled out.
"Do you know who I am?" she retorted. "I'm Kikyo no one touches me." All four of the girls and Shippo roared out with laughter. Kikyo just glared at the group.
"That still gives you no right to go after Kagome, she did nothing to you, so stay the hell away before you get hurt." Aiko growled out this time only it was low and deadly. Aiko and Masumi shoved Kikyo to the ground and the group started back to what they were doing earlier before they were so rudely interrupted.
While they were walking back Kikyo slowly got up and charged Masumi. Masumi was quick enough and got hit head on into the chest. Masumi was left breathless. Kagome turned and gasped, while Sango rushed over to Masumi to see if she was all right.
Seeing this Aiko got pissed off. She turned and took her crouching tiger stance. Kikyo smirked and was preparing for the attack. Aiko rushed at Kikyo and threw a punch, but Kikyo was too slow she got caught in the eye.
Kikyo fell to the ground clutching her eye, but she wasn't going to let something to small get to her. While they were fighting a massive crowd of students all ran to see the fight. Kikyo charged at Aiko, but Aiko did a flip in the air over Kikyo and grabbed her around the neck in a headlock.
Aiko slammed Kikyo to the ground and straddled her, pinning down her arms and legs. Aiko flipped her wrist and out of her sleeve slid a sharp twisting dagger. She placed it close to Kikyo's throat and applied pressure, but not enough to break skin.
"Don't you ever go near my sister again and for the fact stay the fuck away from my friends, unless you want a short life!" Aiko said through clenched teeth. Before getting up Aiko hit a pressure point on Kikyo and made her pass out then shoved off of her.
Once Aiko was up she glared at the massive crowd that surrounded them. The crowd scattered and the only ones left were InuYasha, Miroku, and Kouga. Aiko rushed over to her sister.
Masumi got up shakily still trying to get her breathe under control. Masumi then turned and grinned at her sister giving her an I'm-okay look. Aiko grabbed Masumi and hugged her around the shoulders while sighing.
"Bitch, what the fuck did you do to Kikyo?" InuYasha hissed out.
"What are you talking about she were like that when we got here." Sango said while smirking and got up. The group once again walked away. Finally they reached their car and started it up. Leaving school they came to a small restaurant called 'Shikon no Tama'. Sango, Masumi and Shippo all got out of the car and walked into the restaurant while Kagome and Aiko were still in the car.
"Are you all right Kagome?" Aiko questioned without looking up.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just wanted to thank you for protecting and standing up for me." Kagome replied. Aiko looked up and smiled her eyes looked glassy, but a single tear didn't fall. Kagome reached over and hugged Aiko for reassurance. Quickly Kagome and Aiko jumped out of the car and locked it up and headed inside the place.
* I really hope that Masumi is okay, she took a pretty hard hit, I know she never complains about it, but I have never seen her get the breathe knocked out of her like that. I'll ask her later about it. I -* ~ Aiko's thoughts were broken when Sango tapped her on the shoulder.
"Are you ready for dessert?" She asked happily.
"Sure." Aiko replied. Sango handed everyone at the table a menu that the waitress left. Masumi looked at her sister she knew something was bugging her. * I wonder if she's all right about earlier. Maybe I should tell her about . no not yet * ~ Masumi shook the thought from her head and smiled sweetly at Aiko.
Kagome turned and grinned while pointing to the menu. She chooses a supreme sundae with everything on it and a few other treats for them all to share. Once they all had their fill and paid the bill they left.
Kagome looked at her watched and screeched out they only had ten minutes to get back to school and into class. They all jumped into the car. Aiko shoved the key in and put the gear into reverse. Stepping on the gas the car speed back doing a 360 in the parking lot. Slowly switching the gear into drive she sped off and dangerous speeds. Screeching into the parking lot they had five minutes to get across campus and into their class. Swiftly Masumi grabbed Shippo and placed him on her back and ran. Aiko grabbed Sango and Kagome and took off towards the others. Making a dive into the class all five stumbled and landed on the ground.
Noticing no teachers around the five got up and raced to their seats, while getting stares from all over the room. The teacher entered as soon as they were all seated in their spots.
As the rest of the day passed by they had been receiving glares and glances from a number of students. The four girls just ignored it while Shippo started to feel uncomfortable. Once the day was out they began their long walk back to the car for the drive home.
They all reached the car and were about to get in when that Rin girl ran up to them.
"Hey guys, I heard what you did to Kikyo," she muttered, but then turned and yelled. "Good job, it's about time someone put a stop to her evil ways." All the girls busted out laughing. Once they were all calm Rin began again.
"Anyway, I was wondering if you guys wanted to come to my place this Friday for a party I'm holding." Rin said while handing all the girls fliers. They nodded in response, which they got a squeal of joy from Rin. Rin walked away as happy as can be. They all took their places in the car and started home. The drive there was extremely quiet which surprised everyone.
Aiko pulled up the drive and into the garage. Silently everyone stepped out of the car and headed inside to start homework or just lounge.
Aiko immediately dashed up the stairs to her room leaving behind Sango, Kagome, Shippo, and Masumi. Kagome went to the kitchen to start making dinner while Shippo set the table.
Sango went and plopped down on the couch and turned on the movie 'Bringing Down the House' that was playing on paper-view. Masumi padded her way up the stairs as not to make a sound. She slowly made her way down to Aikos room.
When she was near enough she saw the door was open a crack, inside she saw Aiko on the floor meditating in her true form. Masumi walked in and sat down in front of Aiko as not to disturb her too much.
Upon feeling Masumi's presence Aiko slowly opened her eyes to meet the same forest green eyes she had. She smiled sweetly while Masumi kept looking at her.
"Aiko, what's wrong, you usually don't come home and relax that much to show your form." Masumi stated.
"Nothing's wrong I just I needed to relax and that it would be better in my demon form." Aiko retorted kindly. In her demon form she had pointy ears, two light gold slashes on both cheeks and a tiny gold star on her forehead giving her a very mature and beautiful look.
"Its just strange for you to do that, I'm worried something is troubling you." Masumi replied sadly. Aiko leaned forward and hugged her sister.
"I'll be fine I was just thinking about earlier today what happened and all," she said coolly. "Anyway, want to go get some training clothes on and head down to the training room in the basement?" Masumi grinned devilishly and ran to her room and tossed a pair of gray sweat pants and a black tank top on and headed down to the training area.
Aiko soon followed wearing the same training clothes as Masumi. Walking down the stairs she was still in her demon form. Once she was at the bottom of the step Sango turned around and looked.
"It's been a while since we have seen that form, you look as wonderful as ever." Sango said with a cheerful smile. "Feeling better?" Aiko just nodded and headed on her way to the training area to meet Masumi.
Aiko falls down on the floor with a staff held by her throat while Masumi stands over her grinning. Both panting heavily they dropped there sparring weapons. Masumi plopped down next to Aiko and looked up at the decorative ceiling. Masumi turns and props herself on her elbows looking at Aiko.
"So what is really bothering you?" Masumi questioned raising her eyebrow.
"Nothing is wrong, everything is fine," Aiko stressed. Masumi raised her other eyebrow giving Aiko a questioning look.
"Oh fine," she blurted out. "I was thinking about what happened today, with InuYasha and all." Masumi changed her expression into an unreadable one. Aiko stared at her blankly with confusion written on her face.
"Did you feel the same thing?" Masumi pondered out loud. Aiko turned and nodded.
"It felt like he had some dormant power, I think he is a hanyou, but doesn't know it." Aiko replied. Masumi and Aiko then turned to each other and gave each other an evil smirk. They had the same thought.
"Lets toy with him!" they shouted in unison while laughing.
The next few days of the week went by uneventful, until Friday came. The night of the party at Rin's house. Rushing home all the girls went to their rooms to pick out what to wear. Kagome came down wearing Blue London rust wash color jeans that hugged her curves in all the right places. Her top was a black, crochet ballet top and she let her hair swing down to her mid-back.
Sango wore vintage wash jeans that hug off her waist giving her an exquisite look. Her top was a buttercream, floral crochet cami with wooden beads and drawstring empire waist. Both Masumi and Aiko wore denim, cargo harem pants with a lot of pockets and drawstring hem.
Masumi wore a blue halter-top while Aiko wore a forest green halter-top. Once they were all ready they walked towards the door to leave all slipping on their sandals. The next-door neighbor to them was going to watch Shippo while they went out.
Once they locked up and secured the house they all hopped in Aikos car. Looking at the address and starting the car they were on their way. Once they were by Rins house they wowed the house in amazement.
Finding a parking spot they started up the stone steps to the door. Kagome pushed open the door and to their surprise half the student body was there. Upon walking in Rin saw them and rushed towards them giving them each a short embrace.
"I'm glad you guys could come!" She shouted excitedly. "If you want you guys can look around or you can hang with me in the loft." Kagome and Sango followed Rin leaving behind Aiko and Masumi. They were in there own little world. They wanted to be outside and away from all the noise and smoke that was taking place inside. Finding the balcony they walked onto it and sat down looking up at the stars that were shining so bright. While looking up at the sky they didn't notice a tall, slender man walk onto the balcony.
"So I see we meet again." The man said with a sneer. Masumi looked at him while Aiko was still occupied with the stars. Masumi stood up and walked over to Aiko. Gently tugging on her arm Aiko snapped away from her thoughts. Aiko turned and looked into Masumi's eyes. Reading her thoughts Aiko turned and looked at the man in question. When they were about to walk away the man stepped in front of them.
"Where do you think you two are going?" he questioned slyly.
"No where we just had enough of being outside we thought we would go back in." Masumi snorted. Once again they tried to push their way back, but this time the man shoved them making Masumi fall. As she fell Masumi braced herself for the fall landing gracefully. Aiko turned toward the man and growled deep in her throat.
"Its okay Aiko, lets just leave we'll jump off the balcony and go into the garden." Masumi whispered barely audible to the human ear, but loud enough for a tiger demon. Aiko helped Masumi up and they turned towards the edge of the balcony.
"I don't think so." The man growled out. "No one gets away from Naraku!" Both the girls turned and looked at him grinning. They both made a grab for the rail still looking at Naraku. * They wouldn't jump we are three stories up in Rin's mansion, they aren't that stupid they would hurt themselves, good now I have them where I want them*.
Naraku chuckled low to himself. He looked at the girls and proceeded to walk near, but before he was close enough both girls jumped over the rail.
Naraku dashed forward and watched them fall knowing that no one could survive that. As he watched longer his eyes were as wide as saucers.
They landed on the ground perfectly. No fault. No injury. It was like they just jumped in the air and came back down again. Walking away he started to curse under his breath "bitches..."
Masumi and Aiko looked up smiling and laughing. They wandered through the gardens until they spotted Kagome and Sango sitting on a bench in the middle of the garden maze.
Stripping off the sweat soaked clothes she turned on the cold water. Slowly stepping in she yelped at the cold water beating against her chest. Grabbing for her tropical splash scented soap bottle, she squeezed a small amount onto a sponge and started working it into a foamy lather on her skin. After rinsing away all the soap she washed her mid-back ebony hair. When she finally finished in the shower she grabbed her blue thick towel and wrapped it around her tiny frame.
The young woman slowly made her way to her closest to pull out a blue tub top mixed with green and pulled it on. She then pulled out a pair of cargo harem pants and put them on. After she was all set she slinked out of her room and made her way to the room across the hall without being seen. She creaked open the door soundlessly as not to make a sound.
The door swung open quietly as not to give away to the intruder. The woman padded her way over to the bed and grabbed a pillow that was thrown onto the floor and was being unattended to. She raised the pillow above her head and brought it done with a loud * THUMP * on the sleeping form.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" the sleepy form screamed and bolted out of bed to grab her large boomerang.
"It's okay Sango, it's just me," the other woman replied trying to suppress a laugh.
"Kagome!!! I'm going to kill you!" Sango screeched, but lowered her voice once she remembered that there were three other people in the household. Sango turned and glared daggers at Kagome.
"Were you up early again this morning?" she questioned silently. All Kagome did was nod in response.
"Well get ready Sango, today is the day we * sigh * apply for high school." Kagome muttered. Sango turned and headed into her bathroom leaving Kagome in the deserted room by herself. Kagome was about to turn to leave when she felt a pair of little arms hug her thighs. She looked down and saw two bright, green eyes look up at her. She smiled down at him and patted his orange-brown hair.
"So Shippo, what shall we have for breakfast?" She questioned with a grin. She knew full well that Shippo loved to eat. Being her adopted son she loved him like he was her own.
"PANCAKES!" he screeched. Kagome calmed down the young boy telling him there were still two people sleeping in the household. Stopping his sudden outburst they made there way to the kitchen. Kagome whipped up pancakes of all kinds. She made chocolate chip, blueberry, raspberry, apple, cinnamon, and strawberry. Just as she set up the whole table two girls about 17 entered the kitchen.
"Hello Kagome and Shippo," they said in unison.
"Ohayoo gozaimasu Aiko and Masumi," she sang cheerfully. Aiko and Masumi were twins, but barely looked like each other. Masumi had flaming orange hair that ended around her chin and Aiko had silver white hair with gold tips that went to her waist.
The similarities were they both had beautiful forest green eyes; both 5'5 and they were deadly martial artists. Aiko wore gray drawstring pants, with a black ribbed, scoopneck tank top with a light black hooded jacket. Masumi wore a pair of black jeans, and a red short sleeve top.
Sango came down the steps in a hurry. She entered the kitchen wearing embroidered stretch jean pants and a floral corset top under a thin jean jacket. All four girls ate in a rush, but not as fast as Shippo he was finished eating before they had a chance to sit down. After successfully finishing the meals and the dishes washed they all headed for the garage.
"Um. which one should we take?" Kagome questioned pointing to the four cars. They all walked over towards Aiko's car, which was silver, 2002 Ferrari 360 Modena Spider F1, it was made especially for her. It had four seats and a roof that could stay up or down. Currently it was down since it was such a gorgeous day out.
Aiko was an excellent driver, she had her times when she needed to be fast and reckless, but this wasn't one of those times. She had her hood pulled over her head and was driving a little over the speed limit. The wind whipped everyone's hair about.
Once at the school Aiko brought the top up and locked the car up. All four girls and Shippo walked into the massive school. It was deserted no one in sight besides the teachers readying the classes for the start of the day.
Walking to the guidance counselor's office took a good 10 minutes since they kept getting lost. Finally finding the office they all entered to find an old woman typing at a computer like a mad man. When the door shut she looked up from where she sat. She smiled sweetly at the girls.
"Yes, what may I do for ye?" she asked.
"We were wondering where do we need to go to sign up for classes?" Sango replied humbly.
"Ah yes, you four must be the new students," she muttered to herself. "I am Kaede, the guidance counselor." She handed the girls the paper work and they went on a frenzy to finish it up.
"Here you go!" all four said in unison. Kaede eyed them wearily.
"That was fast, did you all want to be in the same classes?" she offered.
"Hai, if that isn't to much trouble." Aiko answered. Kaede smiled and nodded.
"Well here you go, all the same classes, most of them are AP if they need to be changed come back here and I will gladly do it." She smiled. "Have a great first day, I know you will enjoy it, oh one more thing do you want a guide?"
"Um. no we will be fine." Aiko smiled innocently. After they were done conversing they all headed to their homeroom class. They were halfway there when the bell rang. They all ran down the hall at a great speed.
Shippo was on Aikos back and the rest following her. Coming to an abrupt stop they entered the room. Aikos hood was drawn over her head once more. Entering the class was Kagome, Sango, Masumi and Aiko with Shippo in her arms.
"Well aisatsu young ladies, arigatoo for joining are class, care to introduce yourselves?" he questioned quickly. "Oh by the way my name is Mr. Hasimoto." They all nodded towards him and started to say their names.
"Higurashi, Kagome." She smiled and bowed
"Tayjia, Sango." She repeated what Kagome did.
"Inukai, Aiko and Masumi." They bowed at the same time. "Oh and this is Shippo." Aiko added.
"Um. Ms. Aiko can you please remove your hood?" He asked politely. She nodded and slowly drew back her hood. The class's eyes were like saucers looking at her hair and her sisters. The two twins heard the class whisper to each other that they must have dyed their hair those colors and that no one can be born with hair like that, naturally anyhow.
"Well before more time is wasted you can take the four seats behind InuYasha and Miroku." He muttered to them. Walking silently to their seats the teacher began his lecture again. Aiko and Shippo took the last seat in the row. Shippo sat on her lap, while the teacher lectured the class, while Aiko and Shippo played tic-tac-toe.
Miroku leaned over and introduced himself to the three girls except Aiko since she was so into playing with Shippo. Sango and Kagome glared at Miroku, while Masumi was busy making killer airplanes and throwing them around the room while the teachers back was turned. Aiko saw this and started to giggle.
She reached down in her book bag and grabbed a straw and some paper. Snickering to herself she loaded the straw and shot the back of Masumi's head. Masumi turned and glared daggers at her, but soon she had an evil grin to replace the glare. Aiko knew that look and freaked out.
Aiko jumped out of her seat and ran to the opposite side of the class and ducked. Masumi loaded her straw and shot at her. Aiko ducked just in time, but the boy that was her guard got hit square in the face. Masumi and Aiko lunged back into their seats before the teacher saw any of this, but the whole class was watching them with shocked expressions. The boy that was hit finally came out of his daze and jumped out of his seat and yelled.
"HEY THAT WAS NOT COOL!" he screeched. The teacher turned and told the boy named Kouga to go to the dean's office. Kouga stomped out of the class leaving them snickering. Masumi and Aiko felt sorry, but started to bust out laughing like hyenas.
Once everything calmed down the boring lecture went on for another twenty minutes. All four girls jumped out of their sits as quickly as possible and headed for the gym.
Upon walking their a girl of about 16 walked up to them smiling cheerfully.
"Hi, you must be new, I'm Rin." She said in a cheerful voice her smile never faulting.
"Yeah, we're on our way to gym." Masumi replied.
"Oh, that's where I'm headed," she remarked. "We are currently learning how to do fighting with various types of martial arts."
"Really, that's awesome, we're really good at it." The twins said in unison. They ended the conversation and went into the locker room. They got changed into a pair of black shorts and white tank tops. Once they finished they scrambled out to sit with everyone else out in the main gym. A large, thick blue mat was laid out in front of them as they sat down.
"Hello class, I'm Mr. Fukuro, and I see we have some new students." The teacher said coolly. Then he turned and gave a grin and pointed at the two twins.
"You two will demonstrate how much you know." Mr. Fukuro muttered. The two twins looked at each other and gave a wide smile. They knew that they would show the teacher. Apparently he seemed like he wanted to put the new girls on the spot.
They winked at each and gave a we-will-show-you-we-know-more-than-you look. When walking up to the mat out came the boys they saw from their earlier class, InuYasha, Miroku, Kouga, and three other guys. Once all the class was out, the girls took their positions on the mat.
Masumi took her position on the right side of the mat. She was standing with her right side in front. Her feet were shoulder length apart and her knees were bent slightly, but not locked. Her arms and elbows close to her body. She was ready to begin the best match.
Aiko did a few stretches and took her place on the left side of the mat. She took the same stance as Masumi, but crouched a little to give a crouching tiger look. Once they felt comfortable and ready the teacher told them to begin.
Masumi came at Aiko and did a high kick with a low punch, but did not exceed in getting her target. While Masumi was coming up from her attack Aiko jumped and flipped over her. Aiko turned and grabbed Masumi's free hand and flipped her on her back. Masumi got up in the blink of an eye it was so fast no one saw her up and preparing for a new attack. Aiko once again crouched in her tiger stance.
Aiko ran up to Masumi and was about to punch her, but Masumi caught her punch and twisted her arm to the side. Aiko leaned towards that side as to stop the sudden pain rising in her right arm. Upon doing this gave Masumi the opening to her side. She drew up her leg and kicked her side hard, but not painful. Aiko fell to the floor, but wasn't going to give in. The girls circled each other and were prepared. Aiko charged Masumi, but this time flipped Masumi on to her stomach.
Masumi got up and took her stance; she looked around the room for an object. She gasped when she found what she was looking for. Aiko turned to see what she was gasping about. Aiko grinned and they both ran towards it. They both grabbed at the two katanas on the wall. Once they had it in their hands they went back to the mat.
The teacher was now looking at them flabbergasted. The girls took new stances. Aiko took the waki [AN: waki means hidden stance ] stance where as Masumi took the chudan [ AN: sword held in both hands and tip of blade facing opponent] stance and they began.
They ran at each other and there was the sound of both katanas colliding. Masumi brought her katana down in a sweeping motion and caught Aiko on the side of the leg. Aiko didn't fault by the wound instead she swung her katana around and caught Masumi on the stomach.
Once the girls both had wounds they looked at each other and grinned. They placed the katanas back and went to stand back on the mat. Mr. Fukuro just stood looking at the girls with his jaw hanging. The girls giggled then high-fived each other.
"Um. well that was interesting, but I think you two should go to the nurse and have your wounds checked." He said shakily.
"We're fine, the wound isn't even noticeable." They replied. Mr. Fukuro looked down and saw that there was no wound, but there was just a stain of blood. He was really confused. The class started whispering to each other.
"How can there be no cut when there's blood?" once girl whispered to another. Masumi shot the girl a don't-even-question look. The girl took one look and closed her mouth.
"Keh, I can do that too you know." InuYasha muttered. Sango and Kagome gave him a look that could freeze hell, but he wasn't bothered by it. Aiko and Masumi looked at him as well, but only smiled in return. The two girls took their seat next to Sango and Kagome once again. The teacher dismissed class and everyone went to the locker room and changed.
"That was awesome Masumi, Aiko, can you guys teach me to fight like that?" Shippo questioned with his puppy dogface. Masumi smiled and nodded.
"Do you guys think you should have said anything about the cuts?" Sango wondered out loud.
"No, but I didn't feel like being late to lunch." Aiko and Masumi replied. Kagome just burst out laughing,
"You guys * laugh *could never pass * laugh * up on food could you?" Kagome said. Once the girls were finished dressing they headed for the cafeteria, deciding that the food didn't look appetizing they wanted to go to a restaurant. Walking out of the school passing the students that were eating outside they headed towards the Aiko's car.
While walking Aiko and Masumi turned around all of a sudden and let out a low growl that could only be heard by Sango and Kagome. Sango and Kagome looked at the two with a perplexed face until they turned around to face a girl that looked identical to Kagome only she looked like a total slut.
The girl brought back her fist and was about to punch Kagome in the face with Aiko and Masumi stepped in to protect her. Masumi and Aiko grabbed both of the girls' swinging arms and put them tightly behind her back. "Let go of me you freaks!" she shouted.
"Sorry can't do that till you tell us why you were going to punch Kagome." Masumi growled out.
"Do you know who I am?" she retorted. "I'm Kikyo no one touches me." All four of the girls and Shippo roared out with laughter. Kikyo just glared at the group.
"That still gives you no right to go after Kagome, she did nothing to you, so stay the hell away before you get hurt." Aiko growled out this time only it was low and deadly. Aiko and Masumi shoved Kikyo to the ground and the group started back to what they were doing earlier before they were so rudely interrupted.
While they were walking back Kikyo slowly got up and charged Masumi. Masumi was quick enough and got hit head on into the chest. Masumi was left breathless. Kagome turned and gasped, while Sango rushed over to Masumi to see if she was all right.
Seeing this Aiko got pissed off. She turned and took her crouching tiger stance. Kikyo smirked and was preparing for the attack. Aiko rushed at Kikyo and threw a punch, but Kikyo was too slow she got caught in the eye.
Kikyo fell to the ground clutching her eye, but she wasn't going to let something to small get to her. While they were fighting a massive crowd of students all ran to see the fight. Kikyo charged at Aiko, but Aiko did a flip in the air over Kikyo and grabbed her around the neck in a headlock.
Aiko slammed Kikyo to the ground and straddled her, pinning down her arms and legs. Aiko flipped her wrist and out of her sleeve slid a sharp twisting dagger. She placed it close to Kikyo's throat and applied pressure, but not enough to break skin.
"Don't you ever go near my sister again and for the fact stay the fuck away from my friends, unless you want a short life!" Aiko said through clenched teeth. Before getting up Aiko hit a pressure point on Kikyo and made her pass out then shoved off of her.
Once Aiko was up she glared at the massive crowd that surrounded them. The crowd scattered and the only ones left were InuYasha, Miroku, and Kouga. Aiko rushed over to her sister.
Masumi got up shakily still trying to get her breathe under control. Masumi then turned and grinned at her sister giving her an I'm-okay look. Aiko grabbed Masumi and hugged her around the shoulders while sighing.
"Bitch, what the fuck did you do to Kikyo?" InuYasha hissed out.
"What are you talking about she were like that when we got here." Sango said while smirking and got up. The group once again walked away. Finally they reached their car and started it up. Leaving school they came to a small restaurant called 'Shikon no Tama'. Sango, Masumi and Shippo all got out of the car and walked into the restaurant while Kagome and Aiko were still in the car.
"Are you all right Kagome?" Aiko questioned without looking up.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just wanted to thank you for protecting and standing up for me." Kagome replied. Aiko looked up and smiled her eyes looked glassy, but a single tear didn't fall. Kagome reached over and hugged Aiko for reassurance. Quickly Kagome and Aiko jumped out of the car and locked it up and headed inside the place.
* I really hope that Masumi is okay, she took a pretty hard hit, I know she never complains about it, but I have never seen her get the breathe knocked out of her like that. I'll ask her later about it. I -* ~ Aiko's thoughts were broken when Sango tapped her on the shoulder.
"Are you ready for dessert?" She asked happily.
"Sure." Aiko replied. Sango handed everyone at the table a menu that the waitress left. Masumi looked at her sister she knew something was bugging her. * I wonder if she's all right about earlier. Maybe I should tell her about . no not yet * ~ Masumi shook the thought from her head and smiled sweetly at Aiko.
Kagome turned and grinned while pointing to the menu. She chooses a supreme sundae with everything on it and a few other treats for them all to share. Once they all had their fill and paid the bill they left.
Kagome looked at her watched and screeched out they only had ten minutes to get back to school and into class. They all jumped into the car. Aiko shoved the key in and put the gear into reverse. Stepping on the gas the car speed back doing a 360 in the parking lot. Slowly switching the gear into drive she sped off and dangerous speeds. Screeching into the parking lot they had five minutes to get across campus and into their class. Swiftly Masumi grabbed Shippo and placed him on her back and ran. Aiko grabbed Sango and Kagome and took off towards the others. Making a dive into the class all five stumbled and landed on the ground.
Noticing no teachers around the five got up and raced to their seats, while getting stares from all over the room. The teacher entered as soon as they were all seated in their spots.
As the rest of the day passed by they had been receiving glares and glances from a number of students. The four girls just ignored it while Shippo started to feel uncomfortable. Once the day was out they began their long walk back to the car for the drive home.
They all reached the car and were about to get in when that Rin girl ran up to them.
"Hey guys, I heard what you did to Kikyo," she muttered, but then turned and yelled. "Good job, it's about time someone put a stop to her evil ways." All the girls busted out laughing. Once they were all calm Rin began again.
"Anyway, I was wondering if you guys wanted to come to my place this Friday for a party I'm holding." Rin said while handing all the girls fliers. They nodded in response, which they got a squeal of joy from Rin. Rin walked away as happy as can be. They all took their places in the car and started home. The drive there was extremely quiet which surprised everyone.
Aiko pulled up the drive and into the garage. Silently everyone stepped out of the car and headed inside to start homework or just lounge.
Aiko immediately dashed up the stairs to her room leaving behind Sango, Kagome, Shippo, and Masumi. Kagome went to the kitchen to start making dinner while Shippo set the table.
Sango went and plopped down on the couch and turned on the movie 'Bringing Down the House' that was playing on paper-view. Masumi padded her way up the stairs as not to make a sound. She slowly made her way down to Aikos room.
When she was near enough she saw the door was open a crack, inside she saw Aiko on the floor meditating in her true form. Masumi walked in and sat down in front of Aiko as not to disturb her too much.
Upon feeling Masumi's presence Aiko slowly opened her eyes to meet the same forest green eyes she had. She smiled sweetly while Masumi kept looking at her.
"Aiko, what's wrong, you usually don't come home and relax that much to show your form." Masumi stated.
"Nothing's wrong I just I needed to relax and that it would be better in my demon form." Aiko retorted kindly. In her demon form she had pointy ears, two light gold slashes on both cheeks and a tiny gold star on her forehead giving her a very mature and beautiful look.
"Its just strange for you to do that, I'm worried something is troubling you." Masumi replied sadly. Aiko leaned forward and hugged her sister.
"I'll be fine I was just thinking about earlier today what happened and all," she said coolly. "Anyway, want to go get some training clothes on and head down to the training room in the basement?" Masumi grinned devilishly and ran to her room and tossed a pair of gray sweat pants and a black tank top on and headed down to the training area.
Aiko soon followed wearing the same training clothes as Masumi. Walking down the stairs she was still in her demon form. Once she was at the bottom of the step Sango turned around and looked.
"It's been a while since we have seen that form, you look as wonderful as ever." Sango said with a cheerful smile. "Feeling better?" Aiko just nodded and headed on her way to the training area to meet Masumi.
Aiko falls down on the floor with a staff held by her throat while Masumi stands over her grinning. Both panting heavily they dropped there sparring weapons. Masumi plopped down next to Aiko and looked up at the decorative ceiling. Masumi turns and props herself on her elbows looking at Aiko.
"So what is really bothering you?" Masumi questioned raising her eyebrow.
"Nothing is wrong, everything is fine," Aiko stressed. Masumi raised her other eyebrow giving Aiko a questioning look.
"Oh fine," she blurted out. "I was thinking about what happened today, with InuYasha and all." Masumi changed her expression into an unreadable one. Aiko stared at her blankly with confusion written on her face.
"Did you feel the same thing?" Masumi pondered out loud. Aiko turned and nodded.
"It felt like he had some dormant power, I think he is a hanyou, but doesn't know it." Aiko replied. Masumi and Aiko then turned to each other and gave each other an evil smirk. They had the same thought.
"Lets toy with him!" they shouted in unison while laughing.
The next few days of the week went by uneventful, until Friday came. The night of the party at Rin's house. Rushing home all the girls went to their rooms to pick out what to wear. Kagome came down wearing Blue London rust wash color jeans that hugged her curves in all the right places. Her top was a black, crochet ballet top and she let her hair swing down to her mid-back.
Sango wore vintage wash jeans that hug off her waist giving her an exquisite look. Her top was a buttercream, floral crochet cami with wooden beads and drawstring empire waist. Both Masumi and Aiko wore denim, cargo harem pants with a lot of pockets and drawstring hem.
Masumi wore a blue halter-top while Aiko wore a forest green halter-top. Once they were all ready they walked towards the door to leave all slipping on their sandals. The next-door neighbor to them was going to watch Shippo while they went out.
Once they locked up and secured the house they all hopped in Aikos car. Looking at the address and starting the car they were on their way. Once they were by Rins house they wowed the house in amazement.
Finding a parking spot they started up the stone steps to the door. Kagome pushed open the door and to their surprise half the student body was there. Upon walking in Rin saw them and rushed towards them giving them each a short embrace.
"I'm glad you guys could come!" She shouted excitedly. "If you want you guys can look around or you can hang with me in the loft." Kagome and Sango followed Rin leaving behind Aiko and Masumi. They were in there own little world. They wanted to be outside and away from all the noise and smoke that was taking place inside. Finding the balcony they walked onto it and sat down looking up at the stars that were shining so bright. While looking up at the sky they didn't notice a tall, slender man walk onto the balcony.
"So I see we meet again." The man said with a sneer. Masumi looked at him while Aiko was still occupied with the stars. Masumi stood up and walked over to Aiko. Gently tugging on her arm Aiko snapped away from her thoughts. Aiko turned and looked into Masumi's eyes. Reading her thoughts Aiko turned and looked at the man in question. When they were about to walk away the man stepped in front of them.
"Where do you think you two are going?" he questioned slyly.
"No where we just had enough of being outside we thought we would go back in." Masumi snorted. Once again they tried to push their way back, but this time the man shoved them making Masumi fall. As she fell Masumi braced herself for the fall landing gracefully. Aiko turned toward the man and growled deep in her throat.
"Its okay Aiko, lets just leave we'll jump off the balcony and go into the garden." Masumi whispered barely audible to the human ear, but loud enough for a tiger demon. Aiko helped Masumi up and they turned towards the edge of the balcony.
"I don't think so." The man growled out. "No one gets away from Naraku!" Both the girls turned and looked at him grinning. They both made a grab for the rail still looking at Naraku. * They wouldn't jump we are three stories up in Rin's mansion, they aren't that stupid they would hurt themselves, good now I have them where I want them*.
Naraku chuckled low to himself. He looked at the girls and proceeded to walk near, but before he was close enough both girls jumped over the rail.
Naraku dashed forward and watched them fall knowing that no one could survive that. As he watched longer his eyes were as wide as saucers.
They landed on the ground perfectly. No fault. No injury. It was like they just jumped in the air and came back down again. Walking away he started to curse under his breath "bitches..."
Masumi and Aiko looked up smiling and laughing. They wandered through the gardens until they spotted Kagome and Sango sitting on a bench in the middle of the garden maze.