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Is It Really For The Best?

Chapter 1: Today has stopped too...

She sat at her desk staring blankly at the black computer screen. "What are you doing Kagome? You do know the computer isn't on, right?" Kagome snapped out of

her daze and quickly turned around to see her younger brother Souta with a questioning look on his face. "Ah, I'm just uh, admiring the uh, computer's um, wonderful f-

features. Yeah." she forced herself a smile and nodded, trying to convince him that everything was fine. Souta just rolled his eyes and walked off thinking nothing of his

sister's strange behavior. Kagome let out a long sigh and warily turned on the computer at her desk. "There are only a few weeks left until..." she trailed off and continued to

sit at her desk staring at the computer screen which had just finished loading. "I guess I can't do anything about it so I should just start getting back to work." She opened

the word program and got ready to type but her fingers just rested on the keys. Kagome's teacher assigned everyone to write a short story about any experiences, dreams,

or future plans they've had or they could just make a short story about whatever they wanted. Kagome had no idea what kind of story she'd write or what it would be about.

Her mind was too busy focusing about the problem she was dealing with now. She had been home from the fuedal era only two days to try to catch up with her studies and

all she could think about was what InuYasha told her. While still in the fuedal era with everyone she explained what school was, what you had to do in it, and why everyone

had to attend it. "Oh so the best you can get is an 'A', and the worst an 'F'?" Sango asked tapping her chin gently. "And all those...'homework assignments' you have to

complete them or you'll get an 'F'..." Miroku said akwardly. "If I get 'F's I'll fail, and if I fail it will be hard to get a good job and support myself when I'm older." she stated

simply. "Sounds tough." Shippou sighed taking another lick of his lollipop. Kagome nodded. InuYasha, who seemed like he had no interest in their conversation, was

actually paying close attention to the information being shared between everyone. However he said nothing and kept listening to the conversation as they all walked down

the path. That night everyone stopped and made camp in an old abandoned hut they found along the path. When he was sure Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were sleeping,

he decided to talk to Kagome. Kagome sat by the fire warming herself up. InuYasha walked over and sat down beside her. "Kagome..." he started. "Oh hi InuYasha, what

is it?" she replied. He started again,"Kagome...it's about you. I think you should go home and work on catching up with your studies." She was surprised at what he was

saying, but managed to speak,"InuYasha, it's my fault the jewel was shattered, I'm obligated to help you find the shards-" InuYasha cut her off, "No. Kagome, from what

you've been saying about school, it sounds very important that you do well in it. How you do in it affects your future, right? With you being out of your era it's hard for you to

keep up with school." Kagome was taken aback again, "InuYasha, are you saying...I should stay in my time?" InuYasha was quiet for a few moments. Kagome waited

earnestly for an answer hoping she wouldn't hear 'certain words'. "Stay for a few more weeks and then you'll have to leave this era. You should go back to your time now for

a couple days to see what you have to and you can come back...but only for a while." he said finally. Kagome was too hurt to speak and seeing that what she had most

feared just happened, she only nodded in acknowledgement. InuYasha really didn't want her to have to leave but he didn't want her to have a hard life in her time. He sat

next to her a few more minutes then finally said goodnight and walked back to the corner of the hut he was in earlier. Kagome sat by the fire and let everything sink in

before finally going to bed herself. "That was two days ago...but it feels like years ago." she thought to herself still sitting at her desk. She glanced up at the blank word

page and tried to focus on doing the assignment. After ten minutes she realized it was no use so she decided to take a nap. "Hopefully after I rest, I'll have a clear head.

The assignment's due in only a few days..." she sighed and flopped down on her bed, soon falling asleep.

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So what'd you think of chapter one? I'm sorry if it's bad, it's my first fanfic, I'm trying!