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CHAPTER FOUR: THE FIRST NIGHT
Sango laid her back against the heater with her eyes closed. She was wrapped in a blanket, her head tilted forward. Sitting on the bed, Kagome was drying her hair with a blanket. Miroku and Inuyasha stood there, backs against the wall, dry and content. Outside, the rain and wind pounded against the windows and walls.
Alicia walked into the dorm room, now wearing a pajama tank top and pants with her hair wrapped in a towel. "Now, I might be insensitive and about the whole situation, and excuse my bad British accent, but what the bloody hell made you run into the rain like that?" Alicia asked them, with, like she said, a bad British accent.
Flashback:..
Alicia put back the door to tell them that it was ok for them to stay, but no one was where she had left them. She screened the campus and noticed several mud covered figures walking towards her. "Oh crap." She muttered, before running out in the rain to help them. She helped Kagome walk Sango to their dorm, getting her side and arms covered in mud, and severely soaking her hair. Now she looked just like everyone else walking towards the shelter.
End flashback:..
Kagome couldn't answer her. It wouldn't matter if she were trying to hide anything. She didn't know herself. Kagome looked over at Sango sympathetically.
A trickle of rain water ran from her hair down her cheek and disappeared in the blanket. "Kirara..." She said softly.
Alicia looked at her blankly. "Kirara?"
"My best friend. My battle partner. She was there when my village was massacred. When I almost died. She lived through it all. She was always there. And now she's gone..." Sango then mumbled something inaudible and sunk deeper into her blanket.
Alicia looked at her and then at Kagome.
"Kirara is a beloved, uh, cat. She recently lost her and she loved her dearly." Kagome said.
"I'm sorry. But what about the thing about the battle partner thing that she was talking about." Alicia asked.
"Err..." Kagome couldn't tell her that. And she couldn't think of anything to say that wouldn't blow their cover.
Fortunately for her, Melody walked into the room with a bunch of pillows and blankets, also wearing pajamas. She dumped it all onto Alicia and ignoring Alicia's cries of "HEY!" clapped her hands together and said, "Ok, everyone into bed."
Alicia clawed her way out of the mass of blankets and pillows. "Ya know, your maternal ways are really starting to tick me off." Alicia growled at Melody, sitting on her bed.
Melody ignored her. "OK, so since we are short on beds, we are gonna give ya some old blankets and pillows until we get something to work, kay?"
"Sure that's fine." Kagome said, looking at Inuyasha who positioned himself in the corner like he normally does to go to sleep.
Alicia noticed this. "Yo sleepy butt, get over here and sleep like a normal person."
Inuyasha shot her a glare and Alicia threw a pillow at him. Inuyasha ripped the pillow from his face and growled at her, his hand on his sword's handle.
Acting quickly, Kagome lunged at Inuyasha, embracing him. She squeezing his hand so he would let go. Inuyasha, shocked, complied.
Attempting to stifle a yawn, Alicia noticed none of this, only saw Kagome hug Inuyasha. "Awww..." Alicia cooed, giggling slightly, only cause it's cute to see lover's embrace.
Melody laid down more blankets and tossed pillows in random places. Alicia got up and helped lean Sango, who was asleep from exhaustion, grief, and sorrow, into their homemade beds. She was not disturbed by the movement.
Alicia yawned again, said goodnight to everyone, tucked herself in and went to sleep.
Melody crossed to the other side of the room, and got into her own bed. With a quiet, "Good night." She too was asleep. Miroku tucked himself close to Sango (so gonna be smacked Miroku) and soon was asleep was well. Inuyasha twitched his ears and was asleep as well.
Only Kagome lay awake, listening to the soft pat-pat of the rain on the roof and against the windows. There was the soft boom of thunder that would sound far off. Before she dosed off to sleep, before she closed her eyes for the night, she looked over at Inuyasha in the dim light and smiled. But her peaceful thoughts were overcome with questions. Like, what was Sango doing in the rain? Was Kirara really there? Who will help them and how will they get back?
Kagome fell into a troubled sleep from these thoughts. She had continuous nightmares of everyone leaving her. They managed to get back without her. Everyone disappeared from her. She heard sounds of slapping and she heard screams. Someone called out to her. She thrashed around, trying to see who, but she couldn't move.
"Kagome!" The abrupt noise startled Kagome and she woke up with a start. From where she lay, she looked around. She didn't know where she was.
She sat up quickly. She realized where she was. For some reason, and somehow, she had rolled into Inuyasha's lap.
Inuyasha didn't notice this and she had her head in his lap for who knows how long.
The peace was broken when Sango woke up, feeling a bit too hot. She turned her head and noticed something that shouldn't be there. "Hentai!" She screamed and smacked Miroku across the head, waking both Inuyasha and Melody.
They were right under Melody's bed so she screamed from the sudden violence. Alicia fell from her bed, startled at Melody's scream, landing on her head with a sharp CRACK!
Inuyasha finally pulled himself from the shock that he was in, and finally noticed Kagome. Twitching, he called out to Kagome until she finally woke up. (she sure is a heavy sleeper, not that I would know, but still.) Pretty chaotic for the first night.
25 minutes later:...
Everyone was sitting on the floor or on one of the beds. Alicia sat on the floor, rubbing her head from falling on it. Inuyasha sat there with his eyes closed and his arms folded. A red cap was slammed on his head thanks to Kagome, who didn't want to have to deal with the issue of his ears again, trying to explain and whatnot.
Sango sat on the bed, glaring at Miroku who smiled innocently. Kagome sat next to Inuyasha, head pointed away from him, blushing furiously. Melody looked around like she was about to give a lecture.
"Alright." Melody began.
"Here we go." Alica muttered, rolling her eyes.
"We," Melody began, warning Alicia by glaring at her, "Do not have the privilege of banging around like this. If anyone complains--"
"The dean will find out blaghdy, blah, blah." Alicia mocked.
Melody slapped her in the back of the head. Alicia clutched her head in pain. Since her head was already in pain, this hurt several times worse.
"This is serious!" Melody yelled at her. "The dean doesn't even know you guys are here."
"What the--" Alicia and Kagome said in unison.
"I thought you asked!" Alicia shouted, baffled.
"I did... but the dean was busy." Melody said lamely, fumbling her fingers. "Not like he was gonna anyway, with boarding fee and everything."
"Irresponsible." Alicia muttered, which resulted in another blow to the back of the head. Alicia fell backwards, knocking her heels against the floor in agitation and pain. Everyone flinched by just looking at her.
"Well then, what are we going to do?" Sango asked.
"I dunno." Melody said, shrugging. "What we need to worry about is I guess inspections. But what are the chances of that? Besides, we'll get some sort of warning ahead of time. We'll be able to think of something."
Melody glanced at the clock. It said 9:30. She looked at the schedule that was conveniently taped next to it, on the wall. "Hmm... I got computer science. Should I skip and get you more accustomed to the town, Or should I go to class and have you fend for yourself? Do you guys know the town at all? Just wondering."
"No, sorry."
"It's Ok."
Rubbing her bruised skull, Alicia got up and asked them, "What do you guys want to do?"
She received another blow to the back of the head. After 2 hits already, Alicia crumpled to the ground.
With tears in her eyes, she screamed at Melody, "WHAT THE HELL AS THAT FOR!"
Melody was trying to choke back laughs. She pointed to behind Alicia.
Alicia furled around, furious. Kagome, staring at Alicia, somewhat creeped out, pointed her thumb at Inuyasha.
Alicia glared daggers at him. Inuyasha showed no sympathy, however looked quite smug. "You got what you deserved."
"FOR WHAT!" Alicia thundered.
"The thing with the pillow." Inuyasha said calmly, not phased at all by her anger.
"Ok tough guy. If your gonna be like that, I'm going to math. You guys get to work things out on your own." Alicia growled, grabbing her bag, lifting it over her shoulder, opened the door and slammed it.
Melody flinched at the door slamming. "Well, I might as well go to computer science. Will you guys be alright?"
"Does Alicia hate Inuyasha now?" Miroku asked.
"With a passion. I can tell." Melody replied. Miroku snickered.
"I guess we'll do alright by ourselves." Sango responded to Melody's question.
"Ok then. You guys can't really come back to the dorm room until we get back from out classes. Normally me and Alicia go for lunch, so... would you meet us at the local Chinese restaurant around one? It's right across the street."
"Do you mean literally across the street or--"
"I mean at Washington street, you walk another block and it'll be right there."
"Ah."
"Will there be Ramen?"
Melody looked at Inuyasha's eager face with an eyebrow arched. This sure was a change of heart. "Well, they do have noodles. I'm pretty sure they do."
"Awesome."
"Kagome, do you have a watch?"
"Yeah."
"Ok then, meet you guys at 1:00."
Melody saluted to them and shut the door. Everyone looked at each other.
Even through the chaos, they still managed to get changed without fuss. Kagome was changed into a clean black miniskirt and tank top. Sango had Jeans and a plain red long-sleeve shirt. Miroku also had jeans and a good T-shirt. Inuyasha had the biggest change of them all cause he never changes out of that red kimono (not that I know of anyway) He had a red bandana, a black hoodie, and baggy jeans with a clean rip at the knee.
So now they look normal. But will they act normal?
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Will they act normal? Will they get lost? Ah, I can't keep this up. Well, I also gotta say for my disclaimer is that I am also making up streets and stuff cause I'm don't have that great a sense of direction (nor do I know the streets at all even though I live in MA). So a lot of this stuff I am making up. So don't hold me against it. Ok? And lastly, like I always say, I'm still writing, please still be reading.
Alena Rio.