The start of the second week was an interesting one. She had learned at lunch that the one who shot at Scott, her cousin, was in fact Allison's dad. Oh how things just complicated. It reminded her of the Romeo and Juliet play they were studying in English class at the moment. Only, this seemed like something that would get a little more bloody.
Her cousin was dating a hunters daughter. Oh, how that boy loved to play with fire. Live a little dangerously. The list of metaphors she could use for his current situation could go on and on. At least he didn't have an evil twin or look alike plotting out to kill him. Oh wait! Allison's dad was doing just that!
Kagome made her way to the bleachers, planning on keeping an eye on Scott, while also starting whatever homework she had received. She was thankful that the school work that they gave, collage entry exam materials, was in fact rather easy. Well it was now that she had spent the last two years doing nothing but studying, studying and wouldn't you know it! More studying! Some of this stuff she could do in her sleep.
Pulling out her books she decided to work on her math homework first and get that done and out of the way. Even though she understood the material, it didn't make her hate it any less. She still loathed math, and with a passion and she could count on one hand the things and people she loathed. Naraku was one, top of her list, followed by Kikyo and then math. True she would forever be Inuyasha's friend, the fact that his ex came back from the grave and used a portion of her soul and tried to kill her countless times to get the rest of said soul, not with standing.
She would forever love Inuyasha as a dear, dear friend, and something of a brother. But Kikyo... yeah, she was an all out bitch, and she had no hard feelings saying so. Well, think it really, but it was the principle of the matter all the same.
A sudden commotion out on the field drew her attention away from her homework. As soon as she saw Stiles crouched over her cousin, she immediately stuffed her books back into her bag and followed the two as Stiles guided Scott back to the locker room. She had seen the way her cousin was goaded into tackling Jackson.
"Idiotic coach! If he were to try that in my playing field, I'd strangle him!" she quickly made her way after the two, completely not noticing that a certain Derek Hale was also observing the whole ordeal. Or the fact that the coach felt as if someone just walked all over his grave.
"And now I have a hormonal cousin with animal instincts, more so then a steroid pumped jock, who's dating a hunters daughter! Oh nothing stressful about that! Not at all!" she marched right past Derek, not at all put out that she was talking to herself. It was in Japanese and no one could understand what she would be saying.
Grey eyes watched after the fuming young woman. Emotions roiled within him, his secret was becoming known to far to many, and all because of Scott. Things seemed to be falling apart far to quickly. But this woman... there was something, different, about her. But his mind was occupied with his sisters death and the alpha.
Before she entered the school, she threw a glare skyward and knew whoever was up there was finding this whole thing, pretty. Damn. Funny!
"I hope you're laughing it up, up there!" she pushed the door open to the boys locker room, knowing full well that it would only be Scott and Stiles in there, where Stiles would try to calm her cousin down before anything too drastic and bloody could happen.
From what she could see, it wasn't going as planned. Stiles just stumbled past her and a growling Scott was chasing after him. When he set his eyes on her, he let out a growl, to which she answered with one of her own. Which wasn't as powerful, as she was only human.
She had spent to much time around canines, normal and demonic, as well as wolves. So she picked up on a few things during those three years. But then she remembered that this was her cousin, not some idiot who was trying to force their dominance on her, so she relaxed her posture and let her aura out and hoped to calm him down before he did something he would regret.
"Scott it's me, Kagome. Your cousin." his growling seemed to subside and sniffed at the air around her. So far, so good. She stood there with her hands open and palms facing him, but continued to allow her aura to sooth him subtly.
"What are you doing?" Stiles whispered as he peeked from around the corner he had ducked behind to get away from Scott, clutching a fire extinguisher?
"Allowing his more... animalistic side to get to know me. If he loses himself like this, I have a feeling he will sort of not remember what he's done and be more... primal." they watched as Scott also seemed to take in the air around Stiles.
"I suggest we allow him to do this."
"And why should we do that?" Stiles twitched when Scott neared him.
"He's memorizing our scents. Doing so will let him be able to identify us as none threatening. So should something like this happen again, he won't attack us. Hopefully."
"Hopefully?"
"Look! I know how to deal with wolves and dogs. Werewolves are new to me, okay?"
"Why are you yelling at Stiles? And what happened?" both turned to see Scott back to his old self, if not slightly disorientated.
"Buddy! Glad to see you back to your old self again!"
Kagome rolled her eyes, leave it to Stiles to break the mood, no matter what sort of mood it was, with being himself.
"But to answer your second question... you tried to kill me." letting out a deep breath, he put the extinguisher down and threw down his gloves down as well.
"It's like I told you before," he just sat down on the floor in front of Scott as Kagome leaned against the door frame. "... it's the anger, your pulse rising. It's a trigger."
"But that's lacrosse. It's a pretty violent game if you haven't noticed."
"Well it's going to be a lot more violent if you end up killing someone on the field. You can't play Saturday, you're gonna have to get out of the game."
"But... I'm first line."
"Not anymore."
The air around them all seemed to tense up. Just as Scott's dreams of becoming first line, getting to date a girl that he actually liked, this happened. Letting out a sigh, Kagome took in her cousin's distraught face.
"Calm down. Before you all go gloom and doom, there has to be a way to..." Kagome waved a hand about, trying to find the proper word.
"Conquer? Overcome? Manage?" she looked to the two of them hoping they understood what she was trying to say.
"Please tell me you understand what I'm trying to say here." when they nodded she let out a relieved sigh.
"Good. Now that this is over and the day is done, I'm gonna head home. What a way to start the week." she left them to do whatever it was they planned to do.
It was a great idea to take a shower. Letting the hot water sooth her body and just wash away the day. This was one of those days she would never forget, and also add to the number of reasons why she hated Mondays.
Remembering that Scott also wanted to take a shower, Kagome sighed and pressed her forehead against surprisingly cool tile of the wall before her as she turned the water off. She was getting a headache from all of this. At least she didn't have to do any math homework today!
Stepping back, her hands moved to squeeze the excess water from her hair before stepping out of the shower and dry herself off. Wrapping the towel around herself, she stepped to the mirror only to wrinkle her nose at it's fogged up state. With a few quick wipes to be able to see herself, she was able to brush and tame her hair and all other nightly and after shower rituals.
Such tasks allowed her to not think. A sort of state of meditation, something that was hard to do in the normal meditation pose, which consisted of sitting straight and letting all go while still being able to be aware of everything. So maybe when she came too, dressed in her chosen sleepwear, did she finally understand what Miroku and Kaede actually meant.
Her head dropped though when she left the bathroom and reality came crashing back down on her. Karma could be such a bitch.
"One of those days, huh?" her aunt laughed at the pathetic sounding whimper that was all Kagome could come up with.
"Tell me about it. It's like, a whole world is dropping on my shoulders and the stress of high school is not helping." a whole other world couldn't have been more accurate.
"That, and it's Monday." she lifted her head and took in her aunts appearance.
"Oh, Mondays and high school. They'll do that to ya. Listen, I'm pulling another late shift tonight, but I'll be seeing you both at the game Saturday." she took a pause and raised a brow in Kagome's direction.
"You will be going Saturday, right?"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" especially not when your only child could potentially turn into a wolf and kill his team captain or the opposing team. But~, she felt it was safer to not share that with her aunt.
"Alright. Thanks for dinner by the way, and the extras ya keep throwing in. You're becoming popular among my co-workers. Try not to stay up too late, even though you're 18. Alright?"
She hugged her aunt and nodded, wishing her aunt a safe drive and a none stressful night. Kagome watched and felt her aunt leaving, also feeling Scott in his room, talking to Stiles and that Derek person. Though it unnerved her that he just suddenly appeared, she felt no ill will or any malice, just a slight amount of agitation.
"Hey Scott?" she knocked on his bedroom door, and got a muffled reply.
"Sorry to keep you waiting. Hot water's all yours. Listen, I'm gonna head off to bed, so try not to keep it too late, alright." another muffled reply came through the door. She almost walked in, but thought it better and went to bed, really looking forward to a good nights rest.
Scott and Derek both eyed the door, listening to the retreating sound of footsteps. Though, despite his current position, Scott let out a relieved sigh, knowing Kagome didn't just walk in on a potentially dangerous situation. But also kinda wished she did so he wouldn't be in this situation.
"You play that game next Saturday, I'm gonna to kill you myself."
Scott let out a grunt when the force Derek had on him against the wall disappeared. Pushing himself away from the wall, and taking in his room, only there was no Derek to be found. Like Kagome said after today's practice, what a way to start the week.
Other than Monday, the week was rather uneventful and went by rather quickly. The same couldn't be said for her cousin though. Seems this Derek person threatened him to not play the game tomorrow, but seeing as Jackson was injured from Mondays practice the weight of the game fell onto Scott's shoulders.
Then there was the fact that he was dating Allison, who just so happened to be a hunters daughter. So, with the game coming up, and everyone going to be there, the pressure and stress was more than likely trigger him changing... shifting, transforming... whatever they wanted to call it, in front of everyone.
As much as it wasn't really herself that was effected by this whole werewolf thing, Scott was her family, blood or not. So what effected him, in a round about way, effected her as well. So when she had learned that the coach was not allowing him to step out of tomorrows game. Her head fell forward, a bang ringing our through the air. Now she could add headaches to her list of things that made her life a giant tangled mess of stress right now.
Lifting her head back up, she rubbed the sore spot where her forehead and locker met, and used her other hand to open said locker so she could grab her books.
"You okay Kagome?"
Kagome turned about and saw Allison on the other side of the hallway, also grabbing something from her own locker.
"Yeah... just, one of those days." that seems to be a new thing for me lately. She was pretty sure, with all the stress, she would wound up in an early grave.
"I understand the feeling."
"Mmm, it doesn't help that my locker is on the other side of the building where my current class is. Man, I'm going to be late."
"That... sucks. I'm gonna head off to my French class. I'll see you at the game tomorrow, alright?"
"Yeah. I have a feeling it's gonna be... interesting. Allison?"
The girl turned around to look at Kagome, giving her a questioning look. Sighing, Kagome closed and locked her locker before turning her gaze back to the younger teen.
"Don't forget to cheer Scott on. He's been really beating himself up due to last week, and ya kinda make him... nervous. But don't tell him I said that. I have a feeling that Scott would embarrass me big time if he found out I did."
Allison's brows rose and eyes widened in shock. To hear that a guy was nervous because of her was, new to her, but also left her feeling... giddy. She smiled lightly and nodded her head in understanding. It felt good that she had someone that, while looking out for Scott, was also in a sense looking out for her as well.
"Sure, I can do that. Better hurry, or we'll both be late."
Kagome nodded her head before stuffing the books she just grabbed from her locker and into her bag, and turned to make her way to her own respected class. A sudden chill froze her on the spot, and she furrowed her brows as she scanned the hallway. Looking over her shoulder to the set of doors that led outside, her scan proved fruitless, but she still felt like she was being watched.
Her grip on the strap of her bag tightened and with one last sweep of what was in her sights, she turned and made her way to her class.
The day was finally done and Kagome found herself lounging on the living room sofa, using her oasis to sort through what had happened since the first day of school and into a ranking system from the least to most stressful. Along with that, to what she could deal with and how.
Helping or dealing with causes that increased Scott's heart rate. The list was as so; Allison, lacrosse, Jackson, apparently Derek and his own hormones. Maybe she could teach him some methods she herself had been taught to calm down? Like the breathing exercises, cause she knew for sure that counting from 10 backwards didn't work worth shit, meditation would take too long for him. Maybe a more physical activity to relieve the stress, like how she ran, did yoga and kept her skills sharp. Only, not with others. As much as she herself was a people person, when she wanted to relieve her stress, being alone allowed her to work through her thoughts and find solutions to any problems she would have.
She would suggest them to Scott later, whenever he got home from whatever he and Stiles were now up to. Now as for this whole werewolf thing, he'd need a sort of mentor for that himself. And as far as she knew, Derek seemed to be the only one, besides the alpha that was going around killing people and drawing the attention of these hunters. Unless Derek was the alpha. Not that she could tell.
Looking down, she frowned and noticed that she would have to redo the last math problem she had just finished. She had learned to multitask her homework, studying with other more important matters. After her three year stint in the Feudal Era, she could be considered a pro on the subject matter. Erasing her work, she went about redoing it while her mind sifted through the other problems that were currently apparent with Scott, and therefor herself.
The alpha. Not a lot she could do there, short of hunting him down, but then she wasn't sure what she would do with... them once she managed to get a hold of them. Did her miko abilities even affect werewolves? Well, calming her cousin down was a proven fact, but was that all? And she really didn't want to test them out on her own cousin.
Derek. Uh, she was still on the fence with him. True, he was actually looking out for Scott, he was going about it in a way that had Scott rear up and go against his... advice. Not only that, Scott was either going to him for answers, or trying to get rid of the other werewolf. She was going to have to get a clearer view of what Scott thought of him, and what Derek was intending with her cousin.
Allison and her hunter father. She wasn't about to tell Scott that he shouldn't date her, but to be careful what he did around her. God. She felt like her mother, about to have the talk with her own cousin. Talk about weird. As for Allison's father, yeah. Thin ice, or what an even better metaphor would be; Playing with a live time bomb! One wrong move and the shit would hit the fan.
Lacrosse, he wasn't about to quit not that he managed first line and tomorrows game rested on his shoulders. She would mention taking up another activity that allowed him to get all his stress and anger out, something he could do alone and away from others.
Jackson. It would be hard to ignore him, seeing as he was Scott's team captain. But from her own experiences, even in the worst of times, beings who hated each other could come to terms with one another. But that was war, this was high school. The two couldn't be thought of as the same, and she was sure if Sesshoumaru were to attend any form of high school, it would be a blood bath before lunch. And as for hormones, her aunt could deal with that particular conversation. No way in hell, was Kagome taking that one upon herself.
Looking down, she noticed she was finished with her homework, and she didn't care for the parts that were wrong, it was done and that was all that she cared for. Closing her books, she picked them up and went to her room, and with most her thoughts cleared up, she figured it was time to work the stress off. Going for a run seemed like a good idea. She changed into a set of clothes she usually wore for yoga, but they were good for any form a work out. A long tank top, simple zip up hoodie, and a pair of surf capri.
She was going to be so thankful she decided to go for a run instead of doing something that would allow her to stay inside. She wouldn't be around to hear Scott and Stile's planning about how to put a certain Derek in jail.
AN: Ch.3... uhhh, not much to say about this. All I ask is that if anyone spots any goofs, spelling/grammar wise, please let me know. Other than that... thanks for all the reviews!
