Warning! Please read if you are new to my stories. I'm only going to say this once.
This story has the most cliche idea in this whole fandom: a high school story. Why am I doing it? You can answer that.
I have no rules what so ever when it comes to content. What happens in this story happens. Don't expect sunshine, rainbows, and all that other jazz. There will be moments where you will hate what happens and moments when you will be in love with this story.
OOC ahead! 0.o Please be aware of that. Chances are at some point you aren't going to like something that happens or something Sesshomaru or Rin does. Chances are he is going to be an asshole and/or douche bag. And chances are Rin will be making a stupid mistake and you'll say WTF! WHY IS SHE DOING THAT!?. But don't worry, it doesn't last long. There will be smut, drama, humor and probably some angst in there. I guess in a sense it could be a parody.
If you can't handle stuff like this then exit out. You'll only be mad at me later.
And to those who are continuing, please fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a long ride.
Genre: Romance, Humor, Drama, Parody
A/N: You can get ideas from anything these days. Even from reviewing! I wrote the first chapter in my head during a skiing trip one day and couldn't wait to type it out. Let see where this goes...
Disclaimers: I own nothing.
Know Thy Enemy
By: December Sapphire
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."- Sun Tzu
Chapter 1
Welcome to the world of being human
This was my routine every single day.
Get up. Go to school. Go to work. Eat. Homework. Sleep.
Wait, forget about eating. I didn't have time or the money for that. Oh and forget about sleep either, there was no sleep in my life while I worked, and had five hours of homework every night. Some said I need a break and I agreed, I mean no girl should ever have a life like mine. Every girl should have a servant to do everything for them while they get pampered head to toe like a princess. Yeah, I wish life was like all rainbows and unicorns; however this is the real world where people had to work a living and breathe themselves.
While everyone I knew went to parties every weekend, I would be bussing table at a local diner until closing, and usually closing for them meant when the diner was officially empty. This translated into and I quote 'if there a customer, we won't close.' Too bad for me, this happened every night and usually the last customer would leave around eleven. I think I hate Tuesdays the most because every Tuesday, Mr. Kawa comes in with twelve of his drunken buddies and eats until three in the morning. Try serving a dozen of drunken perverts while they try to touch your ass every second; kind of reminds me of a guy at my school too. I guess when I found out that was his dad it got kind of…awkward.
But girls got a do what girls got to do. How else was I supposed to live? It wasn't like I got parents or anything.
My parents and my older brother died when I was five. Since then, I've been in foster homes. Well, until I was fourteen, when I decided to leave. They treated me like shit so I said 'screw it' and started to live by my own rules. I got some money from my parent's life insurance and rented a small apartment. It wasn't much but it was home. It's been three years and my life hasn't been better. No, really my life sucked. My apartment was what some people called a run-down shack and I don't blame them; there is never hot water and it's usually brown and what heating? Heating doesn't' exist in my life. But sometimes I do get lucky and get a few minutes of clean, clear cold water and I also have a lot of blankets. Hey, it's better than smelling like a sewer and getting hypothermia. Then there's the electricity. I was good at paying my rent but the guy who paid the bills, sucked. He was mostly drunk and passed out so...what could I do? I did it for him; secretly, of course.
At school, it's feels like I was in a whole different world where I didn't exist. Seriously, I was literally invisible to everyone, especially to the opposite sex. If Google Earth was a guy, they wouldn't be able to find me if I was dressed up as a ten story building.
Now I might be sounding like I was some poor girl that went to this public high school full of rich snobs, but I don't. I was poor, and I did go to public school but there were only a few rich snobs and usually they'd stick together in there rich, snobby group. Whoever was beneath them, which means whoever didn't have a mommy or daddy who owned or invented something, was walked on like cockroaches.
But the thing was, cockroaches were hard to kill and I was the worst one.
The walk to school gave me time to think that maybe, just maybe this year wouldn't be so hard. That some of the rich snobs had decided to go to some excusive boarding school in Switzerland and I wouldn't have to see them ever again. In my mind I hoped it was…
"Hey watch it jerk!" I screamed out, flipping the bird off to the driver who almost ran me over on the side walk.
I swear people didn't even know how to drive. And some kid in a black corvette decided it would be nice to try and kill a cockroach (not likely). This meant that the driver of the car was none other than my favorite person in the world.
Sesshomaru Takahashi.
When I said 'favorite person' I meant worse enemy. God this guy pissed me off like the old lady that takes the last can of soup in the grocery store. He and his girlfriend Kagura were called the star couple of the school because they were both filthy rich. Oh and they were both strong demons.
Sesshomaru was a dog demon, one of the strongest and rarest of the demons in the world. Meeting a dog demon was like meeting the president of the United States; a pleasure. Yeah, more like torture. The first time I met Sesshomaru was in grade one, right after my parent died. He had come up to me asking me all of these questions and all I could do was look at him because I was mute. In the end, he called me dumb and took my red lollypop saying I didn't deserve it or something like that. Anyways, since then he's been teasing me and calling me names, which earned him a spot as public enemy number one on my list.
Kagura, a wind sorceress, was probably the worst female to ever walk the earth and I think the dumbest too. Her IQ was lower than five year olds. How she passed classes, I have no idea. But I was pretty sure she has people to do her homework and doubles to do her tests. Her dad is some creepy bastard that became a millionaire by finding this rare jewel worth over one billion dollars. But I don't know? By the way, did I mention she was the biggest slut in the school as well? Apparently she has slept with over hundred guys, but that's just a rumor. I bet she's cheating on Sesshomaru as well and maybe one day I'll be polite and tell him. But that will be when he starts being nice to me and I'm certain hell will freeze over before that happens.
I glared as he stepped out of his fancy new car, sporting his famous expression: nothing. This guy showed no emotion at all, and yet he had a girlfriend and called me names like no tomorrow. His long silver hair blew freely in the wind, as he wrapped his arms around Kagura. It made me sick to my stomach. His deep, golden eyes lingered on me as he walked towards me stopping five feet away. "Morning Freakazoid."
"Takahashi, I see you got a new car this summer. What? Did the other one grow ugly?"
"No, it went out of style but maybe you should stay out of my way when I drive. Didn't your mother ever tell you to stay off the road?"
That hurt but I crossed my arms anyways, pretending I wasn't wounded. "Oh I did but somehow you didn't see the sign saying 'side walk pedestrians only'. It's called a sidewalk for a reason, Takahashi. But I guess some people are too dumb to figure that out."
He growled low, narrowing his eyes. One thing humans should never do, or anyone for that matter, is call Sesshomaru Takahashi 'dumb', and those who do, usually end up in the hospital with life threatening injuries. Well except for me. We've been at it for years and the worst I got was a week's detention for calling him a jackass in front of the class. Never doing that again; not in the classroom anyways.
"Or maybe you should move your fat ass!" A high squeaky voice sounded out hitting my ears like a truck crashing into windows. "God and why the hell are you standing so close to us? Haven't you heard of private air?"
I rolled my eyes at Kagura question. "Private air? Really? Kagura, there is no such thing as private air. If you haven't noticed, we all breathe the same air."
The next thing I knew she was screaming like a little spoiled girl who found out she broke a nail. There's a reason why the couple stopped five feet away from me instead of four and eleven inches. Kagura has this theory of if you step less than five feet away from the 'cockroaches' aka the students who are beneath them, you'll contract this horrible disease called 'loseritis' where you'll lose all your money and would have to live in…a house. Sometimes I had fun with it bumped her in the hallway. It's hilarious.
"Sesshy, we must move away and relocate to a cleaner environment. Quickly, before I catch the…disease!" Kagura waved her hands in the air, trying to get rid of the invisible germs.
I called out to them before they walked too far away. "Good luck! I hear it's worse inside!"
"Wow, first day of school, and you and the snobs are already at it." A calm, female voice called from behind me. Her long red hair was up in two pony tails sticking from each side of her head, the curls bouncing with every step.
"Hey, it's what I do," I said, grinning ear to ear. "I mean what's school without some drama from the snobs, and you know how much I love to hate Takahashi." My eyes burned at the entrance where he'd just entered. "All I want to do is tell him what an ass he is while I dump dirt on his pretty silver hair and say how pink isn't his color-"
"Rin!"
Oops. "Sorry." I know she hated it when I complained about Sesshomaru.
Ayame. In a word, intimidating, and she has been through everything with me. We've been best friends, actually more like sisters, since the second grade. She was one of the ones who helped me talk again. She's that type of girl who everyone fears in the school. Seriously, she's scary as hell and I don't blame them. Wolf demons are scary. But somehow, when I met her, I didn't see her as that type. Well, until I saw her beat up another demon for calling her weak. Yeah, she's not weak at all.
We started to walk inside our lovely hundred year old, three story high school. I was so glad this was the last year I would be in that hell hole.
"I'm sorry Ayame," apologizing for my earlier spaz, "I just hate Sesshomaru so much! Arg, he gets on my last nerve. I kind of hoped his parents would've ship him off to Switzerland already."
Then Ayame stepped in front of me, stopping me in my path. "I am sick and tired of you talking about Sesshomaru! Every day it's the same. Sesshomaru this, Sesshomaru that, I hate Sesshomaru. You know I bet you can't stand ten minutes with him."
My eyebrows rose in surprise. "Wow Ayame." I smiled sweetly at her. "I had no idea you had it in you! I'm so proud. But you're wrong. I can stand ten minutes with him. I mean I survived ten years with him what's another ten minutes."
"Okay, then make me a deal that this year you won't talk about or to Sesshomaru at all."
"What do I get in return?"
"The feeling of being free from all that anxiety and guilt?" she smiled.
I thought about it but… "Ah….no. Sorry Ayame. He's my worst enemy and will always be my worst enemy. I can never stop talking about him or talking to him about how much of an asshole he is." I walked around her, continuing my trek to my first class.
She sighed realizing she'd lost. "Oh well, at least this is the last year I'll hear any bickering from you two. I swear you two act like an old married couple. "
I halted, not wanting to believe what I just heard. "What?" I snapped, gridding my teeth in anger.
"Nothing, nothing. It's not like people don't know why you two pretend hate each other and call each other names."
"Pretend? Pretend!? I am not pretending dear Ayame. I hate him. I hate everything about him! I HATE HIM!"
"Chill Rin…I'm just saying."
"And what are you saying?" I eyed her…ready to blow another fuse.
She came to my ear and whispered three little words, "you love him."
"WHAT?! I DO NOT LOVE HIM!"
And yes, everyone in the hall way heard me. Heck people in France heard me.
"Again…chill. Don't worry because I'm pretty sure he loves you too." I crossed my arms in a big 'X' not wanting to hear anymore. "Whatever Rin," she sighed, "just don't be surprised if you fall for him."
I watched her turn a corner, leaving me standing awkwardly in the middle of the hallway. I clenched my teeth realizing everyone was still staring at me. "What are you all looking at!? Get to class!"
I turned on my heels and stomped into my first class, grumbling to myself on how much Ayame was wrong and I hated Sesshomaru like a dog hated a vacuum. I wasn't in love with him. I couldn't be. Ever since he stole my red lollypop he had become my enemy. And I hated my enemy. End of story.
"Psss Rin." I turned my head to see Kagome smiling. "Are you okay?"
Kagome has been a good friend of mine since the first day of middle school. She understands my hatred towards Sesshomaru because she has one herself, and guess who it is, none other than Sesshomaru's younger brother; Inuyasha.
The two brothers are in the same grade and have different moms. I think what happened was that their dad got Sesshomaru's mom pregnant after an arranged marriage then decided to fall in love with a human, getting her pregnant five months later. Anyways, all I know is Sesshomaru hates Inuyasha too which means Kagome as something in common with Sesshomaru. Huh, strange. Anyways, she hated Inuyasha from the first day in middle school where he 'accidently' dumped spaghetti all over Kagome's favorite outfit which is now ruined by tomato sauce. Since then, he's called her bitch, wench, and idiot. Oh, boys and their name calling, so creative. NOT!
"Peachy, I'm just listing in my head all the things I hate about Sesshomaru," I answered, sweetly. "Wooo, that's a good one."
Kagome laughed, amused by my morning comedy. "Hey, a few of us are going to the senior party tonight. You coming?"
Ah the perks of living alone. "I can't. I'm working."
"Rin, you always work! Why don't you ask Kaeda for the night off? It's you senior year! Have some fun!"
"Kagome, I can't afford fun. I can barely afford food."
I knew Kagome was feeling sorry for me. It was that look on her face saying 'oh god Rin, do you want to stay at my place?' then making me feel like a homeless person wanting warmth and shelter. I had that; I just didn't have much warmth. "I just wished you didn't work so much. We never hang out."
I grinned at her. "Yeah, well welcome to the world of being human."
The final bell rang just as the last students rushed in, including Sesshomaru. And how am I not surprised. God, every year is the same. I've been in the same class with this guy since first grade. He even showed up in my life science class in grade ten. Man was that ever bizarre. But still could I have one, just one class without him? It's like god had punished me with making him my number one enemy.
His dark golden eyes remained on me for a moment until sitting down right behind me. Yeah, did I mention that Sesshomaru doesn't follow the five foot rule? No, I don't think I did and neither does his brother. I think it's because they're dog demons and would rather play by their own rules. Too bad for me since because that meant sitting behind me and playing 'let's bug Rin!' Yeah, let not and say we did.
For the rest of the class I was poked, pulled, picked, and annoyed like I was a rubber eraser. It wasn't until our teacher decided to pick partners for our big project, to get to know each other, when I totally lost it. "Rin Mori you will be with Sesshomaru Takahashi."
Now Mrs. Abe is a really nice teacher, but right now, I literally hated her. How could she pair me up with my worst enemy!?
At lunch all I could talk about was how much god had punished me for hating Sesshomaru by pairing us up as partners.
"Well maybe it's a good thing," Kagome commented. "Now you get to know him better than Kagura."
"Says you! You got an easy one. All Mari likes is boys and boy bands," I said, picking up my chicken strip and staring at it like it was alive. "Does this place have any real food?"
"Come one Rin. It won't be that bad. I bet a lot of girls are jealous you got the hottest guy is school," Sango added.
Sango moved to town last year with her younger brother. Like me, they're orphans too except they have family here. She's probably one of those people you would go to for advice. But she does have a dark side.
"Who are you calling hot, Sango my love?" A calming and teasing voice echoed behind us and I was just in time to see Sango slap him across the cheek.
The pervert, or Miroku, is the biggest lady's man in the whole school. He's the one I always feel awkward around because I see his dad every Tuesday at the diner I work at.
"Get lost before I make you," Sango threatened him.
I block out the argument until Ayame sat down beside me. "What's with you?"
"I'm miserable."
"Why?" she asked, grabbing one of my chicken strips.
Kagome cut in. "Oh didn't you hear? Rin is partnered with Sesshomaru in our history class. We're supposed to get to know our partner and their history, then present it in front of the class at the end of the semester."
"That's why you're miserable?" Ayame asked, the sound of her tone clearly angry. So I nodded slowly waiting for her to freak. "Oh for Pete's sake Rin. It's just a fucking project!"
"But Ayame I'm don't have a lot of patients for him," I whined. "How am I supposed to work with him when he calls me names every two seconds?"
"Good god," she whispered. Oh yeah, she was upset.
I decided it was best to not speak to her for a few minutes. We had our moments but always forgave each other. So I just sat there quietly and waited.
"Mutant!" A velvet cold voice ringed one of my many nicknames. I sighed heavily when he stopped right beside my table. "What do you want me to say about you in the project? Oh wait, I already know! Never mind then."
Before he walked two feet, I stood up. "Hey Takahashi!" I stopped in front of him, our body's inches from each other. "I don't care what you say about me because my feelings are mutual. I hate you Takahashi and I always will. I'd rather be partnered with a monkey then with you because at least the monkey will have some pride not to insult the person who's helping them receive a good grade."
For a second, a split second, I thought I saw his eyes flash red. I think that was a signal that I had made him angry. "Listen here little girl. I'm not to please with being paired with you either. If I had a choice of being paired with a pig or you, I'd pick the pig because at least the pig will have some proper manner while in the presence of a dog demon."
Oh hell no! I laughed out loud as you all would say, but sarcastically of course. Sesshomaru was not funny. "I can't stand you!"
"I can't stand your face!" he yelled back.
"I love how I can't stand you!" I yelled louder, getting the attention of everyone in the room.
"Well I can't stand the both of you!" Another voice yelled. It was Ayame and she was more furious then a lion.
That's when I felt something cold on my skin followed by a loud click. My eyes looked at the round silver bracelet wrapped around my wrist, then I followed a chain and ended up finding another bracelet wrapped around Sesshomaru's wrist.
Then I realized what Ayame had done.
She'd handcuffed me to my enemy.
Muhahahahahahahahahaha! I've started a new story! Muhahahahahahaha! Reviews please and I'll continue!
