Second Chapter! Sorry for the cliffhanger at the end of the
last one. Couldn't help it. In fact, I'll probably do it again!
This Chapter is for Marie, who
encouraged me to continue writing this because she was "intrigued". Love ya, Marie. In a strictly platonic, non-lesbian kind of way. ^.~
I'd also like to say that Princess Faux was a big influence in the birth
of this strange little story, just by writing such quality fan fiction so
well. Ja ne!
(PS, beware of the
penguins……..Doobedoobedoooooo……)
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Inu-Yasha: The High School Experience Chapter 2 "The
Fight"
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Kagome stared up
at the face of the cute boy, wondering why he was calling her someone else's
name. Still a little dazed from her
plunge from the tree and near miss of the ground, she didn't really know how to
respond. She settled on the simplest
and most straightforward thing she could think of.
"What?"
The
boy gave a start, visually shaking himself.
After a moment his eyes, previously warm and wondering, grew cold and
remote. The look on his face glazed
over, reminding her of an actor slipping on a mask, until it was eerily
reminiscent of the Jerk's glacial expression.
She could have sworn they were brothers.
"Nothing! What were you doing climbing that tree, you
idiot? Don't you know that is against
the rules?" He demanded, his voice gone
harsh. It was a far cry from the soft
tone he had used when he had first spoken to her, labeling her with another
girl's name. For a moment, she doubted
that he had ever been touched by the warmth that she had seen in his gaze. She almost chalked it up to a moment of
insanity due to the shock of falling out of the tree, but the image flashed too
vividly in her mind for her to dismiss it so easily.
"Put
me down!" She snapped, fed up with
having boys who didn't even know her sniping at her about what she was doing
wrong. She struggled a bit in his arms,
trying to enforce her demand, but he held tight until she knew that it would be
HIS choice to put her down. She
realized that he, too, was a Youkai, as the Jerk was. Or at least, he had to have Youkai blood. He was too strong to be merely human.She was
still glaring her displeasure at him when she spotted the ears.
Fuzzy, white,
dog-ears.
Cute, fuzzy,
white dog-ears. On top of his head.
Unable to
resist, she reached up and rubbed them, taking in their soft texture and the
warmth that the gave off.
For a stunned
moment, the boy was unable to react, just staring at her in disbelief,
uncomprehending of the fact that a girl—a HUMAN girl—was petting his ears.
Then he growled.
"What the HELL
do you think you are doing?!"
He was bellowing
in her face, and his grip was getting uncomfortably tight around her. She was stressed and emotionally overwrought
from the events of the day. The day
that still hadn't officially started.
Something inside
of her snapped, and she started yelling, not taking into account the fact that
she was talking back to a bearer of Youkai blood.
"What did it
LOOK like I was doing, enjoying the view?!
I was trying to get to a school that I don't even want to go to that has
a cursed gate that won't let me in, trying to deal with a smart-ass Jerk who
makes fun of me and a Jackass who yells at me after making me fall out of the
tree I was climbing to get over the wall because NO ONE will tell me how to get
in!" Her breath was accelerating with
the force of her anger, and blood was rushing to her cheeks.
After her
outburst all was silent. She could hear
the distant sounds of cars driving by, and the sounds of the other students
making their way to the school, their conversations flowing to her over the
moist breeze.
Into that
near-silence the distinct and prettily delicate sound of the school chimes
rang, announcing that school was starting.
Kagome let her head drop in defeat, all but feeling the world closing in
around her.
"Now I'm going
to be late. This is the worst day I've
ever had the ill fortune to have to suffer through. What did I do to warrant such bad luck?" Her sigh turned into a gasp as she realized
that the boy was setting her down. He
kept his grip on her arms as he looked at her, almost as though she were some
strange, exotic insect to be studied.
Or as though she
were a sideshow at a circus.
"I meant, what
were you doing rubbing my ears?" He
said carefully, too taken aback to make it sound belligerent. Kagome flushed a deeper shade of pink than
the hue her anger had painted her, making her face feel as though there were
flames licking underneath the surface of her skin.
"Oh…" She said
in a small voice, her mind racing to give her a rational explanation for her
fondling of the Youkai's ears.
"W-Well…um…" she stammered, unable to find a way to justify it. The boy looked like he was getting angry
again, and was about to say something—doubtless something that wouldn't be very
nice—when they were interrupted.
"Ah, little
brother. I see you are socializing with
humans again. How appropriate."
Kagome
recognized the voice right away. And
began to scowl.
As she turned
away from the cute boy's now-lax arms, she wondered how she had managed to have
enough bad luck to have to deal with the same gorgeous Jerk twice in a ten
minute time period.
The boy next to
her growled, a dark and animalistic sound that rose from his chest and throat. Kagome could feel the vibration of it in her
stomach, much as one would a g-force.
"Sesshomaru!" The boy barked.
'I was right,
Kagome thought, 'they ARE brothers'.
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The boy looked
angry.
Very, very
angry.
'Good,' Sesshomaru
thought. 'He and that human were
getting too close'. He shook his
head in disgust, disbelieving that anyone with Youkai blood running
through their veins would associate themselves with humans.
Humans were
stupid, only good as servants.
Sometimes, they weren't good for even that.
If one
associated oneself with servants, they would become no better than those
servants.
Sesshomaru
didn't want his little brother to become stupid and useless. He cared for him…to a degree. As much as one could care for a half-breed
bearing human blood. Enough to want to
keep him from the company of the idiot girl.
After all, any stain that his little brother put on the family name
would also reflect on Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru
didn't like stains.
"Keeping company
with fools won't get you anywhere in life, Inu-Yasha. Don't you know that?" Sesshomaru taunted, throwing the words out
like barbs to catch his little brother.
Inu-Yasha
growled, about to yell something.
Probably a challenge. That was
just like his hanyou little brother; too stupid to know how to argue a
point. Obvioulsy a result of bearing
human blood. To Sesshomaru's vague
surprise, the girl with Inu-Yasha beat him, tearing out an angry response.
"Who are you
calling a fool, pretty boy? I'm not the
one making myself late to class for a stupid stand off. You're the one making anything an
issue! Thanks to you, we'll both be too
late to even make it to class!" she
snarled.
He arched one
eyebrow. Pretty boy?
"As I recall, you
are the reason that he is running late, human. Don't involve yourself in arguments with your superiors." Sesshomaru dismissed her.
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The girl was
fuming.
"And
as I recall, oh mighty superior one, I wouldn't have been running late
if you had just told me how to get in through the stupid gates!" her
voice started quiet. By the time she
had finished the sentence, she was yelling at the Youkai, making Inu-Yasha
flinch and cover his sensitive ears.
Inu-Yasha looked
between the two combatants in confusion.
A human was arguing with Sesshomaru.
A human was arguing with his brother, who was known for his utter
hatred of the species. He blinked as he
realized that Sesshomaru was speaking to the girl again. Normally, if a human spoke back to
Sesshomaru, they would have been critically wounded before the first word was
completely spoken.
"—f
you would go back to the vermin school you came from. Better yet, go find a master to serve under, as an education does
nothing for a human anyway." Sesshomaru
finished. His voice was level and monotone,
but Inu-Yasha
could see a spark of anger in his
eyes. It matched the light of anger in
the girl's eyes.
"Is
THAT what you think?! That humans are
worthless? That we are idiots?! You don't know anything—"
"Ah-hem."
Everyone
looked in the direction that the voice had come from. An older woman stood near them, lines of wisdom carved in her
face. One eye was covered by a black
eye-patch, but for some reason it didn't cast her features in a cruel
light. She looked gentle.
"Excuse
me. I'm afraid I'll have to take you
all to the office. You are all tardy,
and loitering on school grounds."
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Translation notes
Youkai = demon
Hanyou = half demon
Ok, the lady IS Kaede. One of my friends (prolly Marie) figured
that Kaede is only in her mid fifties.
In the comic, she
looks much older than that. My mom is fiftyeigh--*cough* um, in that age
range, and she doesn't look like a hag.
We
figured it was probably the
stress of growing too old too fast that is common in history. It was a hard life. Since this is
set in modern settings, I figured
I could make Kaede look more her age.
So there! That's that.
Doobedoobedoooooo……
