Chapter 1: New Beginnings

My name is Kagome Higurashi. I'm 17 years old and a Junior in high school. I live in a three bedroom apartment located in Tokyo, Japan with my 14 year old brother Souta, whom is a freshman in high school. We used to live in a beautiful shrine house with our mother and grandfather. But our lives were flipped upside down after the 'incident'. After 2 years Souta and decided it was in our best interest to sell the Sunset Shrine in Kyoto and move into our new apartment. We're also switching schools. Instead of going to Sakura High School, Souta and I will be attending Shikon High. It's a school for monks, priestesses, demons, demon slayers, etc. We needed too get a fresh start or a 'new beginning' as Souta put it. I can't say I disagreed. Our lives back at the shrine had never been the same since the 'incident' and it felt good to be away from those haunting memories. Honestly I'm ready for this so-called 'new beginning'.

5:30am Monday

August 19, 2013

BEEP BEEP BEEP BE- *SLAM* *CRASH*

I awoke angrily to the sound of my alarm clock signalling it was time for me to wake up. I bitch slapped the annoying thing across my room which caused it to slam into the wall and unplug from my outlet.

'Finally! Some peace and quiet!' I thought as I settled in for another few minutes of sleep.

Awoken from the battle of my wall and alarm clock Souta maneuvered his way into my bedroom, air horn in hand. He knew I was not a morning person and disliked being disturbed early in the morning so he took it upon himself to find new ways of forcing me to get my ass out of bed. Souta stealthily moved to the side of the bed I was laying on.

HOOOONNNKKKKK

Souta let off on the air horn and laughed at me as I propelled myself out of bed screaming.

"SOUTA! WHAT THE FUCK!" I screeched at him.

"Good morning sunshine!" He said as he smiled brightly before flipping me off and exiting my room.

"WHY DID I WANT CUSTODY OF YOU AGAIN?!" I yelled from the bathroom we shared.

I took a quick shower and got dressed in my school uniform. Afterwards I fixed my hair, makeup, and brushed my teeth.
(Kagome wears her normal school uniform as she does in InuYasha and Souta wears the uniform Hojo wears. Kagomes hairstyle is how it looks in ep. 3 of InuYasha when she wears her priestess garb. I dunno why but I just LOOOVE her hair like that lol)

After I finished getting ready I grabbed my school bag and walked downstairs to the living room. Souta was sitting on the couch watching Spongebob. I plopped down next to him and gave him a once over. He was already dressed for school and had his school bag on. I stood up and Souta turned off the television before standing up as well. We weren't going to eat breakfast. We NEVER ate all three meals. We didn't have the money. Plus, we were fine without it. Souta opened the front door and waited for me outside. I met him on the sidewalk and we began walking together to our new school. We didn't have enough money to buy a car, shit we couldn't even afford bus fare, so we walked everywhere. The school was a fifteen minute walk from the apartment so it wasn't too bad. After five minutes of silent walking Souta looked over to me.

"Sis.. do we have any money for lunch? I heard Shikon High's food is expensive." Souta looked pleadingly at me. His eyes bore into mine, begging for me to say I actually had enough to feed us today. I wasn't able to look him in the eyes as I answered.

"Souta.. you know times are hard now.. I have $5. You take it." Shame filled my voice as I handed him all the money I had left but he shoved it right back at me.

"No. You know we split EVERYTHING equally. You get $2.50 and I get 2.50. You're the one who told me that, remember." Souta scowled at me. He was one tough kid. Wait, that's right.. Souta isn't a kid anymore and neither am I. We've both done a lot of growing up these past two years.

Minutes later the School came into view. It was an incredibly large building. We walked up the stone steps and up towards the double doors. Souta looked at me with a smile on his face beofre grabbing my hand and leading me into the building. I pointed to a door that had the word "office" written on it. We walked into the rather large office room hand in hand.

"May I help you?" The secretary asked us without looking up from the paper she was filling out.

"We're the Higurashi's. We came to get our schedules." Souta answered for us. The secretary rummaged through some files before handing us two slips of paper. Souta took them without hesitation.

2013 FRESHMAN SCHEDULE : SOUTA HIGURASHI
1st- ART : MRS. AIKO
2nd- GYM : MR. TAKAMURA
3rd- ALGEBRA : MS. AYAKO
LUNCH
4th- ENGLISH I : MS. YUINA
5th- GEOGRAPHY : MR. ZENSHIRO
6th- CHORUS : MRS. KIYOKO
7th- BAND : MR. NAGASAKI

2013 JUNIOR SCHEDULE : KAGOME HIGURASHI
1st- ART : MRS. AIKO
2nd- GYM : MR. TAKAMURA
3rd- ENGLISH III : MR. NOBU
LUNCH
4th- JAPANESE HISTORY : MRS. SUZUKI
5th- ALGEBRA II : MS. YORI
6th- CHORUS : MRS. KIYOKO
7th- BAND : MR. NAGASAKI

"Looks like we have 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th period together sis!" Souta exclaimed as he handed over my schedule to me. I was happy that I had my brother in all of my elective classes. I noticed how we didn't have to take a science class at all but brushed it off because that meant less work for my brother and I. Souta led me to our first class of the day; Art with Mrs Aiko. He slowly opened the door and led us both inside. The teacher took notice of us and led us to the front of the class. She waited until the tardy bell rang before hushing the class.

"Alright class, it would appear we have two new students. Please introduce yourselves." Mrs Aiko motioned towards Souta and myself.

"My naime is Souta and this is Kagome. Nice to meet you all." Souta spoke for both of us once again. It didn't bother me. I didn't really feel up to talking at the moment.
Souta and I spotted two empty seats next to each other. We snagged them and placed our belongings. When I looked up I noticed the teacher was missing. Not long after that I noticed everyone got up and started to act as if we weren't in class.

'Must be a free period. I'm guessing this teacher gives zero fucks.' I thought to myself. I felt a hand tap my shoulder and looked over to see a girl with long brunette hair tied into a low ponytail.( Like how Sangos hair is when she wears her casual outfit)

"Hey, I'm Sango Taijiya." The girl said as she took a seat next to me.

"Kagome Higurashi." I replied smiling at her.

"So what school did you transfer from?" Sango asked me with interest.

"Sakura High." I told her. I could tell this girl was going to be a good friend of mine.

"Looks like Souta and my brother Kohaku are hitting it off just as well as we are!" Sango said pointing behind me. I turned around and sure enough Souta and Sangos little brother were chatting away excitedly. Sangop and I shared a laugh and continued to talk the rest of the hour. After a while Sango asked for my schedule to see what classes we shared.

"We have every single class together!" Sango exclaimed giving me a high five.

First hour ended and Sango and I linked our arms together and sped off to gym. Souta and Kohaku followed suit. We arrived in the giant gymnasium and my eyes nearly popped out of my head. Mr Takamura blew his whistle and everyone ran up towards him.

"ALRIGHT YOU GUYS! WE'RE GOING TO DO RANKING TESTS TODAY! THREE CLASSES: ADVANCED, AVERAGE, AND AMATEUR! FIRST Up ARE OUR DEMON SLAYERS!" Shouted our loud gym coach. Sango ran over to what I assumed were her fellow demon slayers in the middle of the gym. Souta and I walked up to the bleachers and watched the ranking test unfold. Most of the demon slayers were placed in average, a small amount in amateur, and a decent size in advanced. The top ranked demon slayers that got the top 3 captain spots in the advanced class were posted...

DEMON SLAYER CAPTAINS
1. SANGO TAIJIYA
2. RIN MAKA
3. KOHAKU TAIJIYA

I found out that the captains were the best in ranking and each was the leader of an individual class. This meant Sango was the leader of the Advanced, Rin of the average, and Kohaku of the amateur class.

"DEMONS NEXT!" Shouted the coach as the demon slayers took a seat in the bleachers while the demons took their place in the middle of the gym floor.

DEMON CAPTAINS
1. SESSHOMARU TAKAHASHI
2. INUYASHA TAKAHASHI
3. AYAME TOSHI

"NEXT UP, PRIESTESSES AND MONKS!" Souta and I made our way to the middle of the gym. The coach asked us to perform a task individually. When he asked Souta to erect a barrier and hold it it extended over the entire gymanisum. However, when he asked me to do the same, mine extended over the entire school yard. The coach and nearly everyone in the room looked at me in shock. Souta and I kept sending everyone into states of shock with every task we performed.

MONK / PRIESTESS CAPTAINS
1. KAGOME HIGURASHI
2. SOUTA HIGURASHI
3. MIROKU HOUSHI

"YES! We did it Kags!" Souta said excitedly as he gave me a bear hug. I smiled down at him. My brother and I were finally some place we felt accepted.

Okay guys this is my rewrite of Shikon High. I feel this one will be a lot better. The story line has been altered drastically.

YES I will still have Kina in this story so no worries!

R&R !

-Sydnie