Story Notes: Me again! Please enjoy!
Inuyasha shrugged the worry off his shoulders. So what if Kagome was a bit mad at him? Ok, furious at him, but it wasn't his fault that he didn't know not to talk to her! Or at least, that's what he thought. He found himself lost in thought bounding up the school stairs, which were shoe stained from students jumping down them. Not looking where he was going, Inuyasha ran head on into another student racing down the stairs. They collided, one hitting the wall, and Inuyasha, the unfortunate one, ended up tumbling down the stairs.
"Ow!" Inuyasha shouted when he reached the bottom of the stairs. He sat up and glared up the stairway. Immediately, Inuyasha jumped up the whole thing in one leap. 'Keh! Should've done that the FIRST time! Jeez!' As Inuyasha looked down against the wall, he saw the student against it rubbing his head, wincing from time to time. All of his notebooks and pens were scattered, some still sliding. A flute made of oak wood it seemed hit Inuyasha's foot. He stared quizzically down at it. The other male student pushed himself up.
"I'm sorry about that. I'm in a bit of a rush you see." The victim said.
Inuyasha shrugged then nodded at him. "Nice hair. Purple, never would've thought."
The man responded coolly with a shrug of the shoulders in perfect calmness. Slowly, he bent down and started retrieving his stuff. Inuyasha didn't miss that he grabbed his flute first.
"Well? What's your name? Or do I have to pull it out of you?" Inuyasha said irritated. He didn't know why but, the man's eyes made him uneasy, thus bringing out his temper.
The whitely dressed man hesitated, but shrugged off whatever was bothering him. "Tenma. Hirokoi Tenma."
"Keh, don't speak much do ya? You're not like that girl Silent, are you?" Inuyasha asked seriously. He did NOT want to get punched through a wall again.
Hirokoi looked at Inuyasha strangely. "Silent? I haven't met her before." Hirokoi's eyes were downcast, as if needing to get away somewhere.
"Keh, the antisocial girl. You don't get around much do you? Hey, I remember you! You're that dude who wouldn't enter the crowds yesterday! I remember, it was at the play! Yeah, I saw you, you were in backstage, keeping out of peoples eyesight." Inuyasha accused, jabbing a finger at his chest. "Just remember, I got my eye on you." Inuyasha said darkly, eyes narrowing into slits. Hirokoi's eyes widened suddenly, showing the purple depth. Inuyasha took a deep breath then started to walk away. About halfway up the stairs he turned around to where Hirokoi was still standing and did the 'I'm watching you' sign before running out of sight.
Hirokoi sighed. All he wanted to do was go outside, sit in a tree, and play his flute before class started again. Checking the clock, he realized he only had three minutes left. 'Damn! Now I can't play my music! Maybe during lunch hour…' Hirokoi gritted in his mind. Jumping down the stairs three at a time, he rushed off to his class.
Iridian growled as she led her sisters out of the school doors over to a Sakura tree which she had claimed hers. Her youngest sister, Ai, was the cute, sweet, and innocent one. To make it simpler, the exact opposite of herself. The middle sister was more of the statistic type, always thinking ahead and knowing many things. Each had reddish whitish tails poking out from under their school uniform miniskirts, and with matching ears that twitched from different sounds.
"Awww, but sister, we have class now! Where are we going?" Ai asked her face tilted and full of innocence.
"We're ditching that class." Iridian growled, still walking at a quick pace.
"But why ever would we do that? It's only history class." The middle sister Kaka asked. The kids' nicknamed her Kaka, for her real name was Karakanetasinata. Iridian looked back at Kaka,
"Kaka, today they will talk of the Fire Fox's tribe's defeat in the great battle when we sided with the panther demons. We shall not be shammed by that loss." Iridian spat. As they arrived silently to the tree, Iridian jumped up to the first branch while the other two sat on the roots. Silence issued them into their own thoughts until Iridian spoke urgently.
"A human is coming!"
Ai and Kaka stood up immediately. After sniffing their noses, they looked in the direction the scent was coming from. The school. Iridian swiftly and quietly jumped down, landing if perfect precision, ready to move at any time. Ai stood there, head tilted with wide eyes and a finder to her cheek. Kaka, eyes slightly closed in concentration was calculating the distance and speed and all of the other stuff that Iridian and Ai had no clue about.
Along the tall grass came a beautiful girl with headsets in her ears while her eyes were closed. She carried an apple in one hand and held the music player in the other, her head bobbing up and down with the rhythm. As the female beauty opened her eyes she found herself face to face with three demons.
"Oh, hello! I didn't expect anybody up this far! I suppose it is pretty quiet though, a spectacular place to just get lost in your music!" The girl said cheerily.
Iridian showed her fangs and growled. Iridian rarely liked humans, and so far the only one she has ever liked was her father. Kaka just tried finding a scientific fact for why a human would come to this specific tree, and Ai had a cute and innocent smile spread on her face with happy eyes and arms outstretched as if she might run over and hug the newcomer at any moment.
"I hope you're all doing great, right! I mean, by the looks of it you could use an apple pie." The female said jollily. That was all Ai needed. Ai started jumping up and down in the exact position, then ran over and hugged her, tail swishing back and forth.
"Oh! You are very kind! Not like those mean ole teachers who give me homework and then I have to pay Kaka to do it for me and…" Ai babbled in a rush, still hugging the lady.
"Yes, yes! I know exactly what you mean! Of course they will give me homework too, but it's for a reason…" The unexpected human babbled along with Ai.
Iridian began tapping her foot in impatience and Kaka estimated a reasonable estimation for how long the conversation could last. She guessed around four hours since it was Ai. Ai was a talker for one. So, Kaka tried to interrupt.
"Well, we don't want to stand out here all day, so we better get going." Kaka started.
"It is very sunny out isn't it! Not a single cloud in sight! Mmmm, I like this song, here come and listen to this one! Of course, silly me! What's your guises names? Mine is Terra!" Terra chatted excitedly.
"Ouuu! I love this part! Ok, I'm Ai! And this is my sister Kaka, and see that grumpy, evil looking, impatient demon over there? That's me sis, Iridian. Don't worry about what I said about her Terra! She just ignores what she doesn't want to hear or pretends not to hear it. Oh! I adore that song! And…" Ai answered quickly with no prodding. Somehow, Kaka too got sucked into the chit chat.
Iridian ignored Ai's comment on her. "We should get going. Come on now, leave the human alone. We're leaving." Iridian managed to say it the sentences without spitting them out.
"Mmmm, yes, that does sound wonderful! Oh great! You can come with us then!" Ai said enthusiastically.
Iridian whirled around. "WHO'S going WHERE with WHO?" Iridian yelled, empathizing some words.
"Oh, she has the same classes as us, Iridian! And she will sing for us after school! Isn't this so exciting?" Ai asked, jumping up and down while clapping her hands.
"No, no, no, no, NO! I absolutely refuse! I won't have some human coming with us!" Iridian yelled, hands balled in fists.
"Too late, Kaka and I already voted and we outnumber you." Ai said sweetly with a drop of poison on it. Kaka nodded in agreement while Terra stood there. "Besides, she's our friend!"
Iridian put her balled fists to her side stiffly and walked quickly forward, forcing the others to walk faster too. She quickly began ignoring Ai, pushing her voice out of her head. A HUMAN as a FRIEND? What were her sisters thinking? She felt hatred toward Terra, but also a molecule of happiness, for Terra is giving herself to Iridian's sisters, as a friend.
Maia was found in cooking class with her sister and everyone watching her. Of course she was a fabulous chef, and everyone agreed. Maia saw her sister Raia shifting uneasily by her for it was crowded. Raia came over to Maia and whispered,
"I can't take it here. I'm going to the school roof to sit."
Maia nodded her acceptance as she rolled the dough and Raia scurried out of there as quick as a mouse. The men around her kitchen area were talking,
"Huh, you wish you could get Raia to go out with you! She won't even talk to you…!"
"Mmmm, it smells good already Maia!"
"Well, I think both of them girls are pretty. Either one I'm happy with…"
Maia sighed as she carefully worked with her spices and precision.
"Hey, Maia! Are you free maybe sometime this Friday?" One boy from the crowd asked.
Maia smiled, "Oh, I'm busy that day. I really can't." Maia wiped her floury hands on her apron, then took a try a freshly baked cookies in her hands. "Make way, cooky lady coming through! Now stay here." Maia told the men as she left the room and saw them about to follow her. She decided to check on her sister and see how she was faring.
As Maia climbed the stairs she saw a sad girl walking down, tears streaming her cheeks. The girl looked up and light caught her hair. It turned a deep blue and her eyes were coal black. Silent looked at Maia slightly then nodded her greeting. Taking it as a signal, Maia started talking in her own soothing way,
"Oh, Silent! How about you have some cookies? I just made them!"
Silent just shook her head and continued slowly down the stairs, in her own sad little world. Maia only has seen her once before her parent's murder, and that was at the park. The little girl she remembers at the park had a smile crested on her cheeks with warm chocolate swirls for eyes. Maia sighed and continued up, memory of Silent in her kind, gentle, always smiling childhood, and the sad, broken willed, tear stained teenager that has taken the little girls place. When Maia looked back to where Silent was, Silent was gone.
Raia sat in the roof, looking at the clear blue sky. It felt way too crowded with Maia because Maia had a thing with people. She sighed and was about to start resting again when she heard footsteps in front of her. Raia looked up to see Kikyo and her gang of girls.
"Kikyo…" Raia said, the distaste evident on her tongue.
"Raia, I was hoping for a better greeting!" Kikyo said, the sarcasm on her voice ruined her gentle gestures. Her gang of girls nodded in agreement then snickered at some unknown joke.
"What do you want now, Kikyo?" Raia asked wearily.
"Why don't you join us girls, Raia? You would have a much better time!" Kikyo pleaded.
"Why are you asking me this? I hate you and you hate me, remember?" Raia said, suspicion crossing her features.
"Well, Raia! How rude! I never hated you! Actually, I'm very jealous of you, so why not come along?" Kikyo persuaded.
"I don't think-" Raia started.
"Now, now, let's just say yes and have some fun like friends would." Kikyo said lying thickly on the word, 'friends'.
Just then the door to the roof banged open. Maia stepped up and was in the middle of calling for Raia and telling her she had cookies when Maia saw Kikyo.
"Kikyo." Maia said, feeling poisoned by the name.
"Maia." Kikyo sneered back.
"You keep the hell away from Raia, Kikyo." Maia said dangerously, her protectiveness of her sister kicking in.
"Hmph! I had to go anyway! I hope you think this over Raia! I would love it if you came along!" Kikyo said sweetly to Raia. Before going of the roof, Kikyo glared at Maia one last time before disappearing down the steps with her gang of girls behind her.
Maia sat down next to Raia. She asked no questions. "Raia, why don't you dance for me? I would really enjoy it." Maia murmured. Raia nodded, stood up and danced like it was born within her.
Through all of this, Kagome was silent…
End Story Notes: I proofread so I hope it's alright!
