Wow! Not even 12 hours after I posted chapter one I got about 100 hits! Glad you guys like it so much. Here's chapter 2.
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Kagome almost fainted when she saw her class mates. Some were very large, accounting for the doors and ceilings, some were very small and sitting on, not in a desk. Some looked almost normal, except for a tail here and pointed ears there. There were humans, thank goodness, but their dress almost made them look like they belonged in the fuedal era. Most of the demons were about her size, if not human like. But they all had one thing in common: Staring at the strange girl in the door way.
A hesitant man at the front of the room looked at her confused and asked, "Can I help you?"
She surprised herself by keeping a calm expression and walking to the front of the class to hand the man (human thankfully, even if he was in monk robes) her schedule.
"Class, believe it or not, we have a new student." Every one gaped at her. She thought it was fairly funny. She smiled and gave a small wave. She lost her smile when a boy her age with a pony tale and headband right over his pointed ears and a tail came right up to her to introduce himself.
"I'm Koga. You are the most atractive female I've ever seen." He grabbed her hands and got on one knee in front of her. "You will be my mate." All she could do was stare at him. (Well, what would you do? The first demon you ever talk to claims you. She wasn't about to do the hokey pokey.) She didn't have to do anything because as she was about to talk a girl looking alot like Koga only in white instead of tan walks torwards them shooting daggers with her eyes.
"Koga! How dare you! We're ENGAGED you moron! Let go of her!" The girl proceded to pound on him. Concluding from the few yelps of 'Ayame, stop' this girl must be Ayame. Kagome had completely forgot where she was. She was so intent on the fight she nearly jumped out of her skin when the teacher finaly decided he better do something.
"Koga! Ayame! If you don't stop this second you will both have detention for a week!" That got their atention. They stopped and stared at the teacher and realized they had been in front of the whole class. Blushing slightly both made their way back to their seats. "Okay, Kagome," he said her name and she flinched, "I guess you can take the only empty seat by Songo."
Kagome looked around and the only emty seat was by a friendly looking girl she assumed to be Songo. She sat and noticed no one had bothered to stop staring. She found that Songo was the most friendly looking person close enough for her to try this, so she did. "Hey, I'm Kagome." She said louder than necessary and held out her hand which Songo took. "I'm from Tokyo and before I moved here I didn't even know demons existed. Ever had one propose to you?" She didn't wait for an answer, which is good because Songo wasn't about to. "Ain't plesant." She made a face to go with her words and Songo automatically laughed, shortly followed by every one in the class, except for the wolf demons.
"I'm Songo." She didn't exactly give a short biography like Kagome, but it made her feel a little more welcome any way. Kagome threw her a smile and turned to the teacher who took the non-hostile moment to start class.
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When the bell rang Kagome had launched from her seat, determined not to be late for her next class. While she looked at her schedule and the numbers on the doors Songo ran up to her.
"Hey, Kagome! Wait up. I'm sorry I was rude. It's just that we've never had a new student before." She didn't even wait for Kagome to forgive her. "What's next for you?"
Kagome looked at her schedual and told her "Demon Control 101. Where's that at?" She looked at Songo who was smiling.
"I have that too! I'll show you." Kagome follow Songo out of the building to what she assumed was an athletic field. There were scarecrow figures dotting the field and a man standing in front of a small set of bleachers at the closest end. "That's my dad. See the kid next to him? That's my brother, Kohoku (sp?). He's a grade below us but the only human in his grade so he gets this class with us so he has some one to train with." They sat on the bleachers and waited for the rest of the class to arive. Songo was explaining basically what this class was when a boy in monk robes popped up behind her.
"Ah, my lovely Songo." Kagome didn't see his hand but assumed what he had done when Songo muttered 'pervert' and slapped him. Despite the hand print on his face he looked odly pleased with himself. "Oh, who is this? I thought from far off it was Kikyou, but upon closer inspection I find myself pleasently surprised." Kagome blushed at his flattery.
"I'm Kagome." She stuck out her hand for him to shake which he kissed instead, deepening her blush. She cleared her throat and turned to Songo. "Who's Kikyou?"
"I am." Some priestess had joined them without any of them knowing. She was wearing a modest white shirt and red skirt, trational preistess clothing. She looked amazingly like Kagome, except no emotion showed on her face. "Who are you?" Short, sweet, to the point.
"Kagome, the new girl." Kikyou seemed to think about that for a moment before sitting on the bleachers ram-rod straight.
"Alright class!" the man in front of them said in a too-cheery voice. Songo and her brother began to take off their outer clothing to reveal similar ninja suits. "I know you all know this but regulations say I have to go through it any way. We no longer kill demons, even the demon slayers don't. We simply keep them from doing to much damage to the city or the citizens. This class is to teach you how to fight in a restrained fashon to keep you, the demon, and any bystanders from harm. Alright, go practice on the targets." He hadn't even noticed Kagome. He looked at his clip board and Kagome cleared her throat.
"Um, sir?" He turned to her, mildly surprised.
"Oh! Who are you?" It was rude, but he never had to deal with a new student before.
"I'm Kagome. I'm not a demon slayer or priestess and I'm not sure what I should be doing."
"Why are you in Demon City then?"
"My grandfather is care taker of the shrine down the road. I moved here with him."
He looked at her odly for a moment and said," Okay, come with me." He led her to a small shed she had seen Songo and her brother run to a moment ago. Inside were all kinds of weapons, most she didn't even know existed. "Close range or far?" He looked at her expectantly.
"Huh? What do you mean?" She had no idea what this man was asking.
"Close range battle or far range battle?" He looked at her like it was the simplest question he could ask her.
"I...I don't know. I've never actually been in battle. I've never been in a fight. If I had to choose I'd say far range, though. I have week knees." He looked a little curious about this fact and her blush at it but let it slide.
"Ooooooookaaaayy, lets have a look at what we've got." He rummaged around in some stands and boxes before he pulled out a bow and a quiver of arrows. "I think this will do nicely. Ever shot an arrow before?" She shook her head no. "Well we'll have to fix that. Come on."
They walked out of the shed and Kagome completely forgot about the teacher. Songo was holding a large boomerang type thing above her head. She said something to her brother and threw it, slicing the head off of half of the dummies. Kohaku looked at his sister with such adoration Kagome sighed. Songo's father, however, wasn't impressed.
"Songo, control, not kill. Remember?" Songo had the decency to look down for a moment before weilding the weapon slightly different and letting it fly. It bounced off of the torsos of the closest ten or twenty dummies and came right back to her. "That's better. Kagome, are you coming?" She blushed and ran to catch up with the instructor. Kagome watched Kohaku as they walked away. He was holding what looked like a scyth head on a chain and knocking down dummies with out ripping off limbs, to the praise of his sister, of course.
They passed by Miroku who was holding out his staff with one hand and had the other to his mouth chanting something. A hazy blue orb surrounded him, Kagome guessed it was probably a barrier. Suddenly he stopped and threw a small peice of paper at one of the dummies which turned to smoke and disapeared.
The priestess was not far off, either. She was holding her hands in front of her concentrating when four or five snake-looking demons appeared and put a barrier around her as well.
They finally reached the far end of the field. He told her, "Aim for that one," indicating a certain target. He moved her feet and hands to the propper positions. "I know you said you weren't a priestess, but every one has some spiritual energy. You seem to have a lot more than normal people, more like Kikyou's. For now lets just work on aim. Pull the string to the farthest it will reach... Good. Now hold it to you mouth to anchor it. Excellent. Now let it fly." It completely missed, flying over the head of the dummy and into the arm of one two or three behind it. "Nice try. Your stance looked excellent. Try it again with better aim." She did and it barely missed the head this time. "Much better. But try to aim for the stomach. We're not here to kill, remember." She mumbled an 'I was' before reloading her bow and releasing. This time it actually managed to hit the target. She jumped when she realized she had actually done it. She looked at the teacher who was clapping. "That was amazing. I've never had any one pick up on their weapons so quickly. Tomarro we can work on spirtual arrows."
She was about to reload when some alarm went off. "Code 4 blue, room 19. Code 4 blue, room 19," said and emotionless voice over the speaker. "Students please remain in your classes until further notice." Kagome looked at the teacher. He nudged her in Miroku's direction and took off with his two kids.
"Um, Miroku? What's going on?" She didn't know if she should be scared or bored.
Miroku looked up, noticed he was in the presence of a teen age girl and smile brightly. "It's nothing to worry about, fair lady. It's just Inuyasha acting up again." (Inuyasha shows up, YAY!) He noticed her blank stare and remembered she knew nothing about demons and the code system. "Code blue is when a demon student has decided to get dangerous. The code goes from one to five, one being almost no threat and five being the most threat."
"Wait, if five is the most threat, and they just said four, how can you not be worried?" Kogome was still having trouble grasping any of this.
"It's simple. Inuyasha has practically owned code four since fifth grade, even if he is only a half demon. He's the worst person to get into a fight with here. The only demon stronger than him is his older brother Sesshomaru, who's a full demon, but he never does anything to cause the alarm to go off. If he did it would be a five for sure. If after about thirty minutes the demon slayers can't get Inuyasha under control, Sess normally steps in. Besides, he wouldn't hurt any one because Kikyou wouldn't let him. They're dating you know." He watched as Kagome took all this in with a stunned expression. He took the oportunity to rub her bottom.
"PERV!" The slap was heard reverbing off the school.
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100 hits in a day! Woohoo! I know, I know, you still haven't met Inuyasha (or Naroku, but who cares about him?),but I swear to you he'll come out in the next chapter. This turned out longer than I thought it would. I don't want to put too much in a chapter.
I didn't want Kikyou and Kagome to both have arrows, so Kikyou has spiritual powers and Kagome has arrows, and spiritual arrows soon.
Kohaku is only a year and a half younger than Songo.
Did I do ok in keeping every one in character? REVIEW OR I SHALL STOP AND YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IF INUYASHA IS HUMAN OR DEMON! (and don't think I won't do it!)
Just let me know what you think! Later!