I hope everyone enjoyed my first chapter. Now it's the really good stuff…they're going to school!!
Negotiations and…Public school
"Excuse me?" Taro asked, believing that he heard wrong. Kagome sighed.
"I said we want to go to public school. We all do. Even Sota and Shippo." she said. Taro blinked and looked back to his paper work.
"Absolutely not." He said shortly. Kagome and Kikyo jumped to their feet.
"But that's not fair! We want to go!" They said simultaneously.
"You girls have got to stop doing that…twin thing." Taro said pinching the bridge of his nose. It's not that he didn't love his children. On the contrary, they were the world to him but he just couldn't bear the thought of losing them.
"Dad you know that's not fair. We've been cooped up in this house for ten years! We're suffocating!!" Kikyo complained
"Don't be over dramatic. You have not been in the house for ten years." Taro said rolling his eyes.
"Ok so we haven't been somewhere other than our house or to some charity or promotional thing for your company. Kikyo and I are seventeen years old. We want to enjoy life! We want to go to school, make friends, meet boys!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Meet boys? Don't you have a boyfriend? That….Hojo boy. He seemed nice." Taro said absent-mindedly.
"Please dad, get real. Hojo is so not my type and I'm pretty sure he just wants me to buy him nice things." Kagome said exasperatedly. She looked over at her sister, brother, and almost adopted son. They all nodded in agreement. The next time Taro looked up they were all clasping their hands together and had on the best puppy dog faces known to man. Taro's resolve was no match for those big sad eyes and perfectly pouted lips.
"Arg! Fine!" He groaned. His children started to get very excited and squealed but Taro held up a hand to silence them. "But…you will not fall behind in your studies or your training. You will not become a couple of those 'wild' girls or whatever."
"Ok ok. We'll agree to that if you agree to some of our conditions." Kagome started and Taro nodded for her to continue. "Ok. We promise to keep up with our studies, training, and not become 'wild' girls or whatever if you give us a little freedom. That means we don't have to come right home after school unless we have a lesson…we are seventeen. And I think an eleven o'clock curfew for weekdays and a one o'clock-"
"Twelve"
"Twelve thirty"
"Deal"
"-ok twelve thirty curfew for weekends. And we don't want to go to school in a limo. We don't want to attract a lot of attention. Soooo we were wondering…since we do have our licenses…uh…" Kagome didn't really want to finish her question.
"You two want cars." Taro said knowingly and the girls sheepishly nodded. "Well. Already done. They were going to be a Christmas present but I guess you can have them now." He said with a smile and almost fell out of his chair when the girls assaulted him in a hug. "Now go away so I can call the high school and elementary school to make arrangements."
It had been one week since that conversation and the next day school started. Kagome and Kikyo were excited beyond belief. Sota was excited to finally have friends who weren't his sisters. But Shippo was a little upset about not having Kagome around him all day but was nonetheless happy about going to school and feeling like a big boy.
Kagome and Kikyo wanted to look their best for the next day so Kikyo took a shower in bathroom adjoining to her room and blow dried it in the "vanity room" she and Kagome shared. This room used to be a bathroom but it was redone when they reached their teenage years. Now along one wall was a counter and a mirror that expanded to touch both walls. On the counter was hair care products, skin products, bath bubbles, bath oils, toothbrushes and toothpaste, mouthwash, and makeup. About five feet from that was a hot tub built into the floor. That also spread from one wall to the other. Kagome and Kikyo often came here after a stressful day to relax in the spring. Their father never stepped foot in their. It was much to girly for him.
Kagome was also in the vanity room, putting her hair into large hot curlers so the waves in her hair would be perfect. After that they said their goodnights and went to their own rooms to dream about the day to come.
Kagome didn't have to wait for the alarm clock to wake her up. She was out of bed by 6am and school started at 7:30. She was currently in her closet trying to pick out what to wear. After ten minutes of standing there she finally decided on a pair of dark gray skinny jeans and a black t-shirt with a scoop neck and metallic writing down the side that said "couture." Kikyo was in her closet in the same predicament. She turned in a circle until she spotted the perfect outfit. A pair of white skinny jeans and a short sleeve purple top with a v-neck and silver swirly designs coming up from the bottom left corner.
They met up in the vanity room, approved each others outfits, and set to work on their appearance. They each put on a touch of eyeliner and mascara. Kikyo applied some very light shimmery purple eye shadow while Kagome chose to go without eye shadow. They applied sparkly clear lip gloss and Kagome took out the rollers in her hair. When they got downstairs the boys were already waiting for them at the kitchen table. They each grabbed a cereal bar and their over sized Burberry bags for their school books. Kagome put on a pair of black boots that had straps with metal studs wrapping around her foot/ankle while Kikyo put on a pair of purple flats that matched her shirt.
The girls both got 2010 Audi s5's. The hard top convertibles were in white and in silver. The white one was Kagome's and the silver one was Kikyo's. Thankfully they weren't two seater's like most convertibles because the girls had to drive Sota and Shippo to the Elementary school on their way to the high school. The boys threw their bags into Kagome's car and climbed in. They decided that they would switch driving days to save on gas. Kagome got first day.
Kagome and Kikyo pulled up to their new school at 7am. They had a half hour to go to the office to get their schedules and find their lockers. As they pulled up they got many stares from the kids spread out across the front of the school and the parking lot. As they got out everyone got quiet before breaking out into fierce whispers.
"Well…so much for trying to be inconspicuous." Kikyo whispered to Kagome, who nodded in agreement.
They made their way to the office where a rather plump lady sat behind a computer screen.
"Uhh…Kagome and Kikyo Higurashi." Kikyo said warily. The lady didn't even look up as she handed them their schedules. "Uh thank you. But we don't really know where any of our classes are." The lady finally looked up at them, got up, and grabbed two students from the hallway. Kikyo looked over the desk to see that the lady was in an enticing game of solitaire.
"Taiija, Houshi, show these two girls around school will ya?" She said as she sat back down to her game.
Kagome and Kikyo silently took in the two teenagers who were staring at them in awe. The boy was rather tall…well anyone was tall to them and their oh-so-intimidating height of 5'3"…and had dark hair that was pulled into a rat tail at the back of his head and violet eyes. He also had a devilish smile that kind of creeped the girls out. The girl was rather tall too. At least 5'6". She had long brown hair pulled up into a high ponytail and caramel colored eyes. She was wearing a pink t-shirt and green skirt and the boy was wearing black jeans and a dark purple shirt.
"Hi! I'm Sango Taiija! This lech is Miroku Houshi." She finally said after she got over her surprise. "And you're Kagome and Kikyo Higurashi!"
"Heh yeah we are." Kikyo said. "It's nice to meet you." All of a sudden the boy was kneeling in front of them holding their hands.
"Would either of you lovely ladies do me the honor of bearing my children?" He asked with a charming smile. The girls were shocked speechless. Luckily, Sango took care of him by whacking upside the head.
"Stop it you perv! Here let me see your schedules." She said grabbing them out of their hands. "Wow you guys are in AP classes?"
"Just a couple. Our home schooling kind of put us ahead." Kagome said.
"Well luckily I'm in a lot of your classes because I just happen to like school, heh. Miroku is only in some of the same classes as you and I think Inuyasha is in some too." She said thoughtfully…forgetting that the girls were there.
"Who's Inuyasha?" Kikyo asked.
"Oh he's our other friend. He's kind of a jackass at first but you get used to him eventually." Miroku laughed. Kagome and Kikyo laughed nervously and followed the two out into the hall to start their first day ever of real school.
