Chapter 3: Our Foes

"Kai?"

The vampire-youkai only smirked and folded his arms across his chest,

"The one and only"

Daisuke snorted, "Yeah the one and only pain in my ass"

Kai looked down at him, "I suggest you keep your mouth shut Halfling, you're treading on dangerous territory fucking with me"

Daisuke put his hand on his cheeks and feigned a look of horror, "Oh I'm so scared please don't hurt me Blood Sucker" He pulled down his collar, "I'll let you suck my blood"

Next to him, Alexis coughed, to hide her laugh, while Inuyasha clutched his stomach in hysterics. Kai growled and grabbed Daisuke by his collar,

"You think you're funny?"

Daisuke shrugged, "I make people laugh don't I?"

Kai moved his grip from his collar to his throat and tightened his grip slightly, " Your smart ass just landed a one way ticket to an ass whooping"

Daisuke choked, "Is that a round ticket"

Kai growled and punched Daisuke in the face making him fall to the ground in pain. Everyone in the lunch room stopped doing what they were doing and looked over at the fight that was bound to break out. Inuyasha stood up and Alexis was at Dai's side in an instant a worried expression on her face, "Dai are you okay?" She asked helping him up. Daisuke cursed,

"Damn that shit hurt like a Mother Figga!"

Inuyasha growled at Kai, "What the fuck is your problem Kai!"

Kai snorted, "Me? That mongrel deserved what he got and he's lucky I didn't go full force on him"

Inuyasha stepped closer to Kai, "Call my friend a mongrel again and you're going to regret it"

Kai didn't back down, "What are you going to do about it, half-breed?"

Inuyasha smirked, "This" He pulled his fist back and then forward successfully knocking Kai off of his feet but only for a little while. Kai was back on his feet charging at Inuyasha who got into a fighting stance. Kai swung suddenly and connected with the right side of Inuyasha's head making him stumble. He then kicked him in the chest with an incredible force that made Inuyasha fall onto his back. He growled. There was no way he was letting this wimpy vampire get the best of him.

He shot to his feet and charged at a expected Kai. Kai dodged the first swing that went his way but missed the others as Inuyasha began to punch him at an incredible speed.

The crowd behind the two teens, started cheering and rooting for their side. The humans, however, only observed.

Kagome was among one of them. She didn't see as the fight began but she did see Kai when he punched Inuyasha's friend. That was so wrong in her book. Unfortunately it didn't get any better. She knew the second Kai punched his friend that Inuyasha was going to jump in, but she didn't expect them to be in an all out fight.

"That Inuyasha kid sure throws a punch" she heard Miroku say. She nodded solemnly as she tried to come up with a way to break the two up without physically being involved. Kai was a full fledged demon and could easily kill Inuyasha if he wanted; not that Inuyasha wasn't strong because he was…but only to a certain limit.

She need to stop this fight before it gets out of- well more out of hand. She sighed. She couldn't just run out there and tell them to stop like she wanted to do because then everyone will suspect something. She needed something creative and smart. Something that wouldn't make it seem like she was helping out her boyfriend.

"I got it"

Sango looked towards her best friend and frowned, "Got what?"

Kagome stuttered, "To pee?"

Sango gave her a suspicious look but shrugged, "Okay"

Kagome smiled, "Be right back"

Kagome quickly exited the cafeteria and made her way towards the girls bathroom. She quickly passed the two freshman and went into an empty stall.

" I hope this works" She whispered. Carefully she reached and grabbed the ring on her finger that hid her scent and pulled it off.

No one but Inuyasha knew her scent so no one would suspect anything if she just kept her cool. Stepping out the bathroom Kagome moved her way back into to the cafeteria where Inuyasha and Kai were still fighting, although this time his friend and Kai's had jumped in. Kagome bit back whimper. She did not want Inuyasha to get hurt. Taking a deep breathe, she opened the doors to the cafeteria and stepped inside, and almost instantly Inuyasha's head snapped in her direction. His face scrunched up into to one of confusion, then anger, and then apologetic. She knew he knew what she wanted because without the ring he could sense her emotions.

When she knew he got it, she placed the ring back on her finger, and walked over to Sango and Miroku.

"Did I miss anything?"

Sango shook her head, "No not really just more people fighting. Honestly you'd think they'd be tired by now"

Miroku shrugged, "They are demons, they have way more stamina than humans so they could basically go on forever"

Kagome nodded, "True but I hope it doesn't last that long"

As soon as the words left her mouth the bell signaling that lunch was over rang and the fighting ceased at once. Kai chuckled,

"Guess we got to finish our little fight next time huh, mutt?"

Inuyasha growled, "You can count on it, smelly vamp"

With a deep chuckle, Kai walked away from Inuyasha followed by his friends. Inuyasha huffed,

"Damn vamp, always gets under my skin" he looked back at his hanyou friend, "You okay Dai?"

Dai smirked, "Me? Of course; it'll take more than Kai and his friends to keep me down"

Alexis rolled her eyes, "Oh yeah cause you stayed on your feet the whole time"

Dai snorted, "It's called faking Alex I was never hurt"

Alexis crossed her arms and gave Dai a dry look, "Really, because where I come from its called getting your ass kicked"

"We're not in Chicago are we?"

"It doesn't matter an ass whooping is the same in every country"

"But Chicago isn't a country it's a state dummy"

"You idiot its apart of a country"

"So? You said any country not any state"

"Dumbass Chicago's a city!"

"How was I-

"Shut up!" Both bickering immediately stopped their argument and looked over at their Inu-hanyou friend.

His face was contorted into that of despair, a look of longing, almost like a boy who lost his dog or something. It was unnerving. Well at least to Alexis it was.

She had seen it many times when he hadn't noticed; during class, after school when they hung out, and she could even hear it in his voice when he spoke to her. There was something bothering her best friend and she didn't know what it was…

She sighed and looked back over to that girl he was obviously staring at a while ago. Kagome Higurashi. Alexis had to admit, she was a very beautiful girl and the kindest ningen she had ever met. She was totally different from the rest of the youkai's and ningens at her school that's for sure. She looked back over to her friend.

Did he like Kagome?

She shook her head. No, it was something much deeper than that. The way he looked at her, made it seem as if he only had eyes for her, someone who he longed to hold but could never touch…

Is it love?

Alexis eyes narrowed in thought. Could it be possible that her best friend was in love with the ningen Kagome? Her forehead was scrunched up in thought as she tried to figure this out. Inuyasha and Kagome barely even talk to each other; heck she would even think they barely acknowledged each others existence, by the way they act.

Alexis looked between Kagome and her best friend. Was there more to Inuyasha than he led on?

"Let's go" was Inuyasha's gruff command as he got up from there seats and headed to their next class. Alexis followed slowly letting the boys leave her behind as she stole a glance at Kagome. She was looking in the direction that Inuyasha and Dai had just disappeared into, with a similar look of longing in her bright blue eyes. Alexis raised an eyebrow at this.

What is going on between those two?

Inuyasha sighed heavily, rubbing his hands through his thick silver tresses. This day just seemed to get longer and longer-almost similar to that song that never end- and he didn't know if he could endure the same torture for nine months. Hell this one day ad felt like an eternity and he didn't know if his body and heart could remain without his mate…err…girlfriend. And to make things worst his youkai was coming of age and right now it wanted Kagome with a passion and he knew it wouldn't be long before he made Kagome his officially.

Trying to get his mind off of the agonizing wait he decided to ponder on what to do for he and Kagome's anniversary next month. It will officially be their 3rd year together as a couple and sixth as best friends. He couldn't wait. He wanted this year to be special; to make it unforgettable for her and of course show her how much she meant to him. Okay so she already knew how much he cared for her, but it never hurt to show her. His life was nothing but an empty shell before she came and he'd be damned if he didn't make her feel like she was the luckiest girl alive.

"Okay so on the fifteenth we can go here" he mumbled taking out his pencil and calendar to mark the date, "And the on the 17th we can- he froze in mid-sentence as he recognized the date that lay before him.

September 17

The day before he kissed Kagome, the day after they became an item…the day Korari Higurashi, Kagome's mom,… was murdered.

He remembered Kagome telling him that her mother had been murdered when Kagome was merely six years old. He remembered the dead expression on her face when she told what little she knew about her mother's death. He remembered the pain and sorrow that filled his Kagome as she recalled her mother's horrendous accident and her downfall. But what he would always remember, even after all these years, would be how Kagome blamed herself for her mother's death.

All that he knew was what Kagome and investigators had said, that she was shot, nothing more and nothing less. Kagome never went into specific details because she would always go about how it was her fault, and then how she wished she was never born. It tore Inuyasha, really, to see his girlfriend so distressed, but all he could do was convince her that it wasn't her fault, and that her mother would not want to see her only daughter so worked up. However, Kagome was next to him in being the most stubborn person alive and he could never fully convince the girl that it wasn't her fault-but that didn't mean he doesn't try.

Inuyasha sat quietly, like that, until his last period bell rung and a herd of students came rushing in. He paid them no notice. He thoughts were and always will be on his girlfriend no matter who entered the room. He took a glance around the room and for the first time saw that it consisted of only ningen and hanyou; no youkai were present in the least. He smirked, finally a class he didn't have to worry about things getting out of hand.

Most of the time.

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"That had to have been the longest day in the freakin' world!" Miroku shouted as he exited the school.

Sango grinned, "For once I agree with you, I thought it would never end" she looked towards her best friend, "What about you Kags? You agree with the perv?"

Kagome giggled, at Miroku's protest, but nodded, "Yes I do. But at least it's over"

Miroku smiled, "Yeah! Now only 256 days left and then were out forever !"

"Thirsty much?"

"Yeah who actually counts the days they have left in the school year. It only makes it seem longer"

"Not to me"

Sango smirked, "That's because you're a weirdo Roku"

Miroku only smirked and moved to hug Sango from behind, "But you love me as a weirdo, my lovely Sango" he stated letting his hand inch down to no mans land.

"Pervert!"

Kagome winced at the echoing slap her best friend gave the hentai, but as much as she tried she couldn't help that giggle that somehow escaped through her lips a she watched said hentai crumbled to the floor. It was a funny sight really.

"Miroku I don't understand why you always do that…are you a masochist?"

Kagome laughed when Miroku sprung to live at the accusation only to be knocked right back to the floor by the flaming slayer.

"He's perverted that's what he is"

Kagome chuckled, "And you're a sadist Sango" Sango glared in her direction, "Think about it. Miroku tends to do a lot of things that ends with him either getting hit or beaten up and you are so bent on beating his ass it's not healthy" Kagome stopped to giggle, "I bet you couldn't go one day without hitting him Sango"

Sango snorted, "I so can. As long the perv can keep his hands to himself"

"Well then we all know that will never happen in this lifetime...or maybe the next if you two reincarnate into a different body"

Sango scowled and made a swipe at her friend only to be laughed at.,

"Face it Sango your whole person screams 'I'm going to kick your ass' and hell you even have the attitude to match"

Sango crossed her arms over her chest and stuck her nose in the air, "Damn straight"

Kagome only shook her head and giggled a little, "I feel sorry for you husband. Poor Miroku will more than likely end up in the hospital after being subjected to so many rash beatings"

"Ye- Hey! I am not marrying that thing!"

Kagome smirked, "You say that now"

Sango made a noise that sounded uncharacteristically like a growl and stomped away from her friends, mumbling about weird friends and stupid perverts.

Yep she was in denial alright.

Kagome looked back down at her fallen friend and made an attempt to try and pick him up but stopped halfway when she remembered something very important.

Naraku's gets home early today.

Without another glance toward the unconscious pervert, Kagome took off in the direction of her house, praying that she'd get there before her step-father.

Luck was never on her side…

Naraku Onigumo sat impassively in his office as he waited for his last client to walk in. His long greasy black hair cascading off of his shoulders to lay flat against his chest as his arms and hands extended in front of him as he played with his watch.

Tick-tock Tick-tock

He would be leaving work early today and his lunch had better be prepared when he got home or that wench will surely pay. Speaking of that wench he had to think of a way to think of a way to get her to tell him where her impudent mother placed that damn jewel. He had been so sure that she would reveal it to him after being such a loving and caring husband to the bitch but no. She had to defy him, betray him after he mended her broken heart.

"Stupid bitch…"

He would have to admit though, Korari was a fine woman and the perfect wife for any man. Unfortunately that was not why he had chosen to marry her. He had found out three years prior to their engagement that she was the one who protected the Shikon No Tama; The Jewel of Four Souls.

That jewel was the most powerful object in all of Japan and if used would give it's user immortality and ultimate control.

He needed that jewel.

"Naraku, Rukaisutsu is here to see you" A dull voice murmured. His secretary-the oh so dainty-Kagura. He never knew why he had hired her. At fist he had believed it to be because she was remotely beautiful, but appearances really can fool you. He hated that bitch.

"Thank you Kagura you are dismissed" He said not looking up from his watch. He never saw the glare that was sent his way by the dull secretary but maybe if he had seen he wouldn't cared. Kagura was a cold-hearted one.

Suddenly a tall and lanky man walked in. His red hair was cut into a messy blob along his pale skin. His eyes were a sickly green color that contrasted perfectly with his wild look and he wore a plain red shirt and black dickies as he approached his superior.

"You wanted to see me Naraku?"

Naraku finally stopped looking at his watch to smile crookedly at the young man before him,

"Yes Rukaisutsu I have a proposition for you"

Rukaisutsu looked at Naraku skeptically, "Go on…"

"I involves you getting something for me and return me rewarded you with what you most desire. Kind of like a I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine deal"

Rukaisutsu growled, "Stop with the damn riddles what the hell are you getting at Naraku?"

Naraku's grin only seemed to get wider, "Patience my boy, patience in time you will know what I request" He stood up, "But for now I need you to get all the information you can from that wench of a step-daughter I have"

"Kagome?"

Naraku nodded,, "She doesn't open up to me and I figured if she was well 'acquainted' with the opposite sex, getting information out of her will be as easy as 1..2...3"

Rukaisutsu nodded, "Okay but what exactly am I getting out of her?" He smirked, "She isn't the most talkative chick I'll tell you that"

Naraku pursed his lips together in thought before moving around his desk to stand in front of Rukaisutsu, "You're right she isn't the most talkative person in the world. But she can easily be persuaded once given a chance"

"Meaning?"

"Kagome is a very kind girl. She cares deeply for others whether she likes them or not. For example that damn hanyou she met when she was a little girl"

"Hanyou?"

"Yes. That damn half-breed. I knew she loved him; it was always I her eyes when she left with him, mentioned him, talked to him…it was sickening."

Rukaisutsu narrowed his eyes, "What did you do?"

Naraku smirked, "To make a long story short. He is no longer the center of her attention"

Rukaisutsu stared at the man before his, the shock clearly written on his face. Was this guy for real. Was he so jealous of the connection with his step-daughter and this hanyou that he considered-no actually got rid of him? Somehow Rukaisutsu found that he didn't want to know the details,

"So what do you pose we do?"

Naraku smirked evilly and silently walked over to the black file cabinet that sat in the corner of his room,

"Kagome is naïve and would do anything for those she loved. Anything. So your job is to become friends with her; show her you care and all that jazz. Once she becomes close to you she will eventually open up. And then that's where the plan initiates. You should be able to know so much about Kagome, including her weaknesses, that manipulating her to do whatever you want should be easy"

Rukaisutsu was skeptical at first, but if he got what he desired, "Alright you got yourself a deal"

Naraku grinned, "Now we're talking" He pulled out three black folders from the file cabinet and then threw them at the teen, "This will be all you need to get close to Kagome and her friends"

"And what happens if they don't except me?"

Naraku rolled his eyes but smirked nonetheless, "Then …we'll make them"

A/N Well That's it for me. Sorry I couldn't make it longer. But what I wanted to do didn't fit right with this chapter. Besides if you hadn't noticed it was a filler anyway. Boring if you want to call. But I assure you it will get better.

So People don't mind this BORING chappie…I am a bit disappointed but yeah…I have to deal with it. Lol

Tell me what you think,

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