well, i for one, have not been having a good week. Mainly stemmed from video game deprivement. (Chibi Black Cat sadly pokes the wall) So, none the less, I've been sad, miserable, and bored (yes, I know sad and miserable pretty much mean the same thing. Don't patronize me! ) So, here's this chapter while I'm waiting for inspiration to come for Sinful Perfection(A Beyblade story).
Scroll Two: Inuyasha's First Day of School
"Alright, Inuyasha." Kagome started to give the hanyou the battle strategy for the school day. "You'll stay here until...about three."
"Three?" Inuyasha asked. "What's that?"
"Er...it's the time."
"Time?" Kagome let out a sigh. She wasn't in the mood to teach Inuyasha the simple wonders of the future.
"Look, just...see that thing on the wall? With the numbers on it?" Kagome pointed at the clock.
"Yeah..." Kagome pointed to the minute hand.
"You see, when this is on the twelve..." she pointed to the hour hand. "And this is on the three, then you come."
"Uh..." Inuyasha watched Kagome start to leave. "How long is that?" He asked.
"About nine hours." She replied as she put on her shoes to leave the shrine.
"Nine hours?!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "That'll be forever!" He walked up to the schoolgirl. "I'm coming with you."
"What?" Kagome looked at Inuyasha like he was crazy. "Y-you can't!"
"And why not? All I need is that weird hat thing."
"No! I mean, that's not just all you need!"
"Then what else do I need?" Kagome pulled Inuyasha outside to see the sidewalk.
"Look at the teens over there." She told him. "What do they mostly have in common?" She pointed to a group of kids who seemed to come from the same school.
"Uh...their clothes seem to be the same color?" the hanyou guessed.
"Right. That means they go to the same school." Kagome then gestured towards their outfits. "What's in common about our outfits?"
"Um...they're warm?"
"Nothing, Inuyasha." Kagome told him sternly. "It'll be too obvious to know you don't even go to school."
"So, where do I get some of those school clothes?" Inuyasha asked.
"You have to be a student, Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled as she walked down the stairs to the sidewalk.
"Where do I become a student?!" Inuyasha asked.
"You can't just become one, Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "Good bye!"
Inuyasha pouted.
I don't even know how long nine hours is, but if that girl really looks like me...Inuyasha got out of his thoughts, seeing some boys who's uniform looked the same color as Kagome's.
"I can't believe how far Hisakata is." One of the boys told his friends.
"Yeah, I mean, any farther and it'd be in China!" his friend agreed.
Hmm...Hisakata...Kagome mentioned that name...Inuyasha smiled and went back to get his hat. If the clothes I need, then the clothes I'll get.
"Hey, Kagome!"
"Hmm?" Kagome put down her bag and looked at her friends. "Hey, guys."
"Did you hear? There's a cute new guy now, too!" Ayumi told her.
"Really?" Kagome asked, feigning interest.
"Yeah! I heard he transferred somewhere from the north!" Yuri said.
"Well, it's completely obvious if you look at his hair color. It's silver!" Eri said. Kagome shuddered.
"S-silver?" H-he can't...he wouldn't...how would he...
"Yeah. And I heard his eyes are amber, can you believe it?" Ayumi added to Kagome's horror.
A-amber...
"They're probably contacts." Yuri said. "And he probably just bleached his hair. People in the north do that."
"Really?" Eri asked, Kagome slowly dropping out of the conversation. "How do you know?" The conversation continued as Kagome nervously looked out into the hallway.
Inuyasha better not be here...
"Kagome, there you are." Inuyasha called from behind her. Kagome turned around and stared. Inuyasha's fire-rat robe was gone and was replaced with a Hisakata boy's uniform. A hat was over his ears. "I was looking all over for you. This...is the right uniform, right?"
"W-wh-where did you get that?!" Kagome asked.
"There was this room with a lot of benches and small doors." Inuyasha told her. "This uniform was inside some of the doors, so I took the one that fit best." (Meanwhile, the track team is wondering why their school uniforms are on the floor and their lockers are slashed open, and one member can't find their uniform.)
"Y-you stole it?"
"It's only for the day!" Inuyasha defended. "I'll put it back in that room when I'm done."
"Oh, you must be the new boy." Inuyasha and Kagome turned to the teacher.
"Oh...um, hello, Mr. Kyouyu." Kagome stated. "Er, um...This is Inuyasha, alright!" Kagome then turned to Inuyasha and hissed. "Bow."
"Why—eerm!" Inuyasha instinctively bent forwards when Kagome stepped on his foot.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Inuyasha." Mr. Kyouyu said. "How about we all go inside and start our math lesson, hmm?"
"Alright, then!" Kagome said cheerfully, dragging Inuyasha inside to the empty desk next to hers. "Sit here, and don't do anything attention grabbing!"
"Hmph." Inuyasha pouted. "Didn't need to step on my foot..."
"What was that?"
"Nothing." Inuyasha said.
"Ok, then class." The teacher said. "Let's start with this problem." The teacher wrote a math equation on the board. "Now, who can come up here and solve it?" the teacher looked at Inuyasha. "How about you, young man?"
"Eh?" Inuyasha asked, confused. "Wh-what?"
"Come up here and solve the problem."
"Uh..." Inuyasha gave Kagome a worried look as he followed directions. Kagome looked like she would choke.
Inuyasha doesn't know Algebra, let alone math! Kagome thought, worried. If he doesn't get it, they may think...Inuyasha, on the other hand, was having his own moral problems.
W-what am I supposed to do? Find something? Cast a spell? Sweat marks formed on his head. What am I doing?! Whenever a person is panicked, there's a short period of time of calmness. If they don't grasp it, they become permanently panicked, but this wasn't one of those times. Wait...I recognize these things from Kagome's books...Inuyasha picked up the chalk and started to write on the board. Kagome watched, speechless. Inuyasha was actually doing the problem correctly.
"Um...this thing...er..." Inuyasha pointed at 'x' and looked at Kagome, who mouthed it. "X...equals seven?" he asked, looking at the teacher. He gave Inuyasha a stern look, then smiled.
"Very good, Inuyasha." The teacher stated. "You can sit down now." Inuyasha went back to his seat. He smirked at Kagome.
"And you were worried." He whispered.
"Well, duh! Not many hanyous from five hundred years ago can do algebra!" Kagome whispered back. "Speaking of which, where did you learn it?" Inuyasha shrugged and turned his head towards the window.
"Nowhere." He muttered.
Luckily for Inuyasha, there were no tests that day, but it was still hard. The only things Inuyasha did well in was Math, P.E., and History. Everything else was downhill.
"Ok, Inuyasha, read the paragraph." The English teacher said.
"Um..." Inuyasha looked at the book with the funny symbols. He had never seen them before at all, besides Kagome's 'x'. Did the future have some funny way of writing now? "Er..." After a while, the teacher gave up on Inuyasha and turned to another student.
While walking out of the school, Kagome looked normal, while Inuyasha looked like he might die.
"Well, Inuyasha," Kagome turned to the hanyou triumphantly. "I hope you have a little more empathy for me now."
"What?" Inuyasha asked.
"You know what it's like to be me." Kagome told him. Inuyasha groaned. "Oh, yes. And the 'tests' are like a review of all the things that we learned." Inuyasha groaned louder.
"If that's how you feel, then why do you keep going back?" he growled.
"Because, if I don't, then I can say 'good-bye' to a good future, Inuyasha! You know that!" Kagome yelled back. Inuyasha growled.
"Forget about that! We were at school all day, and you didn't even point Izzy out to me!"
"Hmm..." Kagome thought about it. "Actually, I don't think she was even in school today..."
"What?!" Inuyasha yelled. "I went into that...that place, and gained nothing from it?!" Kagome looked at Inuyasha with narrowed eyes.
"You gained someone's uniform." She told him.
"Well, I can't give it back now." Inuyasha stated. "Unless you want me to go home naked."
"No!" Kagome yelled. "You know what, just keep it. The school may replace that guy's uniform anyway..."
"Hmph. I thought so."
"Kagome!" Izzy ran up from in from of the school yard. She stopped in front of Inuyasha and Kagome and panted. "Aww...I can't believe I overslept so late..."
"Over...slept?" Kagome asked, confused.
"Yeah...must be the time difference..." Izzy said, then noticed Inuyasha. "Oh, who's this?"
"Oh, yes, Inuyasha, this is Izzy." Kagome introduced. When there was no reaction, she turned to see the speechless wide-eyed hanyou. "Inuyasha?" Izzy smiled.
"Does he do this to all girls he meets?" she asked playfully.
"Er...he must be in shock from his first day of school." Kagome said.
"So, he's new as well?"
"Yep!" Kagome's cheerfulness was cut off by a growl. She turned to see the now glaring hanyou.
"Who are you?" he growled. Izzy cocked her head to the side, almost as if she had expected it.
"I'm Hidenka Izzy." She replied, which made Inuyasha glare darker.
"Um..." Kagome noticed that at any moment, Inuyasha might charge and kill Izzy. "How about I help you get home, eh? He's my neighbor." She told Izzy.
"Alright." Izzy waved and smiled as Kagome dragged Inuyasha off. "Bye, Kagome, Inuyasha!"
"What is your problem?!" Kagome yelled when they were at the house and Inuyasha had changed back into his clothes. Inuyasha didn't reply, but turned his head. "You said you just wanted to see her, not glare at her like you wanted her dead!"
"...it's not that." Inuyasha stated.
"Well, what is it, then? Do you two look that much alike?!" Inuyasha didn't reply. "Inuyasha!"
"...she...she smells like..."
"Like?"
"..." Inuyasha looked out the window and saw two birds fly. "...never mind." Kagome looked like she would want to argue more, but then saw Inuyasha's forlorn expression.
"...Hey, it's ok, Inuyasha." Kagome said softly. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"I...I want to tell you." Inuyasha protested. "But...I'm not so sure myself."
"Eh?" Kagome watched Inuyasha walk to the well house. "Where are you going?"
"I...need some time to think." Inuyasha told her. And with that, he jumped into the well, back to the feudal era.
"..." Kagome remain
silent, not sure what to say. What smell could make Inuyasha act
like this?
What spell indeed. Anyways, I might not post for a while (I'll try to post for the other stories though) so expect a long pause...
Mizuki Sakura
