Chapter 1- Like the Storm

He caught my heart like a storm causing flood that swept away the unfortunate living and non -living creature that is on its way, like a howling wind blowing up the roof, or a thunder striking a tree and causes fire. He was like a raging tornado standing up and catching everything in its path. Unfortunately, he caught me, and my heart.

I never expected this, she thought, when a handsome guy walks up to her table. He was tall, lean, and part of the basketball team of our High School. He came from a rich, traditional family, and he was the heir to his father's multi-million business.

He was cool, calm, and collected. He doesn't really socialize much, even with his teammates. He was smart, and everything a girl would want in a boy. And he approached her. Her, the never - really - belong her. A nobody, and a miss invisible, she doesn't stand out.

He came to her table at lunch in the cafeteria, sat in front of her, and didn't speak until she looked up at him. "Higurashi Kagome, this Sesshoumaru invites you in a party to be my escort."

Escort. What does it mean again? She thought. "Why, Mr. Taisho?" She heard a lot of whispers around her, mostly harsh and criticizing.

He looked straight at my eye and said, "The Senior prom."

She brought down her eyes, couldn't meet his. "I am not attending," she said in a meek and quiet voice.

"Hn." A pregnant pause, then, "I will going to pick you up at seven." Then he left.

That jerk, she thought. How dare he command what to do?

Week comes and goes with crazy things happening to her, the worst part was the girls began to bully her. She suffered from their mistreatment and got detentions too for being the "cause" of troubles lately. In all of these, Sesshoumaru never showed up to help or defend her. She also caught him sometimes staring at her from the distance while the bullies grab her notes and throws it to the trash.

So instead of staying at the dorm, she went home and stayed locked up in her room. She told her mother what happened, and they decided not to open the door if Sesshoumaru is true to his words and pick her up.

She came back to the school and to her shock and devastation, she learned that the administrators expelled her.

When she walk through the hallways to the front gate, she didn't expect the other students to crowd her pathway. Most of them look at her with disgust, pity, haughtiness, and mostly smirk of triumph.

At the end of that seemingly long hallway was Sesshoumaru Taisho, the man who asked her to go with him to the prom, and turned down. His face was blank, his eyes cold.

She walked passed through him, but without hearing his whisper first. He said, "This Sesshoumaru punished those who denied him."

So she paused, and said in a loud voice, "This Kagome Higurashi is very thankful to you. I realized that this school is a trash." And I also realized that my heart belongs to you, her mind whispered. And with that, she walked away from her first love.

A/N: To those who asks why she fell in love with a stick-in-the-butt kind of guy so fast was because he's the only guy who showed any interest in her, and as the summary stated, HE fell for her first. We know that Sesshoumaru would never ever going to show any feeling if he deemed it as weakness, and for him to approached her in the middle of a crowded place, that's saying something. But Kagome turned him down instantly without hearing more from him, so what to expect in a guy who built up courage for almost three years just to be turned down?

As for Kagome, she realizes this at the last second, of course, but she also have pride. If she would let the things that happened to her to just passed by without her any say or act in it, it was like Inuyasha insulting Kagome without her sitting him. She doesn't fall in love in appearance only, and Kagome always have this great understanding and perception in all things. If she realizes that Sesshoumaru is somehow truly felt something for her, a guy that everyone wish for themselves, then why couldn't she return those same feelings, too?

This is for Kyon-sama. Thank you for the great review. I was also a bit confused with that, and for you to caught it, I am grateful. I thought about it and formed conclusions that might help both of us and other readers who read it. I hope you can see it this way, too, once you read my explanation.