a/n: (secretly sneaks in chapter whispering) Shh! Be quiet! I'm not supposed to be updating this story right now! I was supposed to update "A Spy With A Partner", but I just LOVE this story and an update was long overdue! Plus, I was having a bit of trouble writing it and it was a bit too short.

BUT BE QUIET ABOUT THIS or else the fans will come find me and kill me!

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Let the Classes Begin

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She was hot. She was sexy. But... who was she? No one at school seemed to know just who this newly formed angel from heaven was, and most certainly, no one thought that she had been attending school from the very first day.

So... she must have been new, right?

Wrong.

How easily everyone seems to forget everything when something beautiful and shiny comes around. And pretty much, Kagome was that beautiful and shiny something...

A very unconfident and unknowing something.

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Kagome walked shyly to her locker and opened it. A feeling of nausea dominated within her body as she realised that most of the student body was watching her, anxious to know who she was and what she was doing.

Suddenly, all previous happiness of becoming beautiful was gone. What were they doing just watching her? Didn't they have a life of their own?

"Monday, January 5th

Dear Diary,

HAVEN'T PARENTS EVER TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN NOT TO STARE? I mean, HELLO! Is there a huge stain on my BUTT that everyone must stare at!-"

She quickly stopped writing in her diary and gasped. 'Is that why everyone is staring at me?' she mentally asked with slight panic as she looked down to her rear end.

After a moment of chasing her ass, Kagome concluded that no, there was no stain on her jeans, and she went back to her writings.

"Okay, after checking my bottom like a crazy dog, everything is clear. But back to my problem: Everyone is staring at me! I'm feeling as if I was wearing a clown costume today. Not only that, but it seems like everyone is singling me out even more so as opposed to when it was just plain old me. I'm really starting to feel sick, as if I'm about to throw up. Oh... And the flooded bathroom on the second floor is really a bathroom closed off by the popular girls here at school. Don't tell anyone though. I've been sworn to 'secrecy'. Heh... Yeah. Whatever, as if anyone would even believe m-"

"Hey!" came a sudden voice behind Kagome.

Kagome squeaked quickly, slammed her diary shut, threw it behind the brown lunch bag in her locker, and turned around to become face to face with the speaker.

It was Inuyasha and he was smiling broadly. "Wow! It seemed that Kagura really knows how to use those lip-poles!" Inuyasha stated.

Kagome looked at him confused as she started to back up to her open locker. "Um... Don't you mean lip 'stick', Inuyasha?" she asked.

Inuyasha kept looking and smiling at Kagome until her question finally hit him. He frowned at her. "Oh... Yeah. Whatever. Sticks, poles... They're still same damn thing at the end of the day..." he shrugged.

Kagome's back was now finally against her locker, and she slowly raised her arm up to shut it. "Uh, actually, a stick is a bit different compared to a pole. A pole is-"

"So what were you doing?" Inuyasha asked with childlike curiousity as he looked over her shoulder, completely ignoring Kagome's argument.

"W-what?" Kagome asked stiffly as she brought her hand down. She didn't want to seem as if she was hiding something, so what the heck, she'd might as well try her new look and see if she could play it off.

Inuyasha looked back to Kagome. "You were writing something, weren't you?" When Kagome didn't answer him he went on. "You were, I know it. Every time I would pass you and your locker, you always were deep in thought and scribbling something down in that little purple notebook of yours.

Just what are you writing about, Kagome?" Inuyasha smiled.

"I.. Nothing," she fibed with a cool tone. 'How the hell can he know about that book? Does he actually look at me? Does he take note that I'm always writing?' she asked mentally.

"You're probably writing about how much you love me, huh?" he cooed to her.

Kagome blushed immediantly. "No! I am not writing about anything that concerns you!" she lied again.

Inuyasha nodded his head as if he understood that she was telling the truth. "Yes. Of course," he continued to nod. Suddenly, he smiled. "Probably just hearts with the words 'Inuyasha + Kagome' or 'Kagome loves Inuyasha', huh!" he teased as his arm lunged her head.

"NO!" Kagome screamed as she shut her eyes and slammed the locker door. Abruptly, she heard Inuyasha gasp and his breathing stop.

That was not a good sign.

Kagome froze in place, eyes still shut. 'Oh no! What if I cut off his hand,' she thought frightenedly, 'Or snapped off a finger!' Kagome slowly began to open her eyes and look up to Inuyasha.

He looked pale and his eyes were wide with, what seemed like, terror. Frantically, Kagome looked to his hand, expecting to see a huge amount of blood leaking from her locker.

Thank goodness! His hand was still there! It appeared as if his hand was just resting on the crack of her locker casually. Plus, he wasn't even looking at Kagome or the locker.

"Inu...Yasha?" Kagome asked the stunned hanyou. He was staring off into the distance and Kagome decided to see if anything interesting had caught his attention.

And something had. Kikyou and Naraku.

Naraku and Kikyou easily made their way down the hall. His hand resting on her hip, and hers to his, just as Inuyasha and Kikyou had done just mere weeks ago. Both seemed to be powerful as they moved, each silent but so deadly... Just as Inuyasha and Kikyou were before.

'Is it really the woman that makes the man?' Kagome couldn't help but think as she watched the newest and hottest couple pass her. 'Before Kikyou came along, Inuyasha was just the jocky loud-mouth that was doomed for trouble. And now...' Kagome looked at Naraku. "And now, it seems that he is the new ruler of the school..." she accidently said alound.

Swiftly, Inuyasha slammed Kagome roughly into her locker, each of his hands several inches beside her head on both sides.

"What did you say?" he growled as he looked into her eyes.

"I-I didn't say anything!" Kagome cried. She had never seen this side of him before and she was quite scared.

"Yes, you did! You fucking said something about them and I want to know what the fuck it was!" Inuyasha whispered dangerously.

Kagome stared into his huge and amber eyes. Anger was stirring inside of them and he wasn't playing around. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him because it appeared as though he still had feelings for his old girlfriend who had obviously moved on.

But that's when her pitty, and surprisingly her fear, left and an anger that matched his now took hold.

Kagome clenched her teeth tightly out of irritation. "Just who do you think you are?" Kagome said shockingly. "You think that now your ex-girlfriend has left you, you can boss anyone around and that you can demand anyone to not talk about them? Ha! I don't think so, buster! And there is NO WAY in hell that you can tell me who I can and can't talk about!" she said dangerously as she came closer to him to show that she wasn't afraid. She was so deep in her words that she didn't even realise that her and Inuyasha were now alomst touching noses. Inuyasha had to move back a bit to get some room, but he still had one hand in it's previous position next to her head.

Suddenly, a light ring was heard, indicating that class was now starting. Kagome remained where she was, looked to the clock displayed in the hall, and looked back into Inuyasha's eyes. "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get to class."

She picked up her backpack and left the stunned and still Inuyasha.

Once Kagome was no longer in Inuyasha's presence, he exhaled the breath he had been holding throughout Kagome's little speech. "Damn..." he sighed. "I didn't think she would of had the balls to stick up to me..." He gently smiled to himself. There was hope for her yet.

Just as he tried to move to get to class, his hand didn't budge. Inuyasha swiftly looked to his arm and began tugging excessively. "Oh, fuck!" he said aloud as he dropped his backpack from his free arm and began tugging violently once again. "No way!" he yelled, trying to pry his hand from the locker. "That bitch shut her locker on my jacket!"

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Kagome walked into her first class of the day smiling. She was quite proud of herself for sticking up to Inuyasha. It's not everyday someone like her stood up to someone like him.

Actually, that kind of thing never happened.

But she wasn't thinking about that right now. She was just thinking about writing in her diary. And if she was lucky, she would be able to write in it all day because this class actually was her writing class.

As Kagome entered the room, everyone suddenly went quiet. 'They're talking about me,' she thought. Whenever someone talks about someone else, they always stop and hush themselves. Kagome had observed that from watching people. Countless numbers of times girls would talk about other girls, but when the discussed girl entered the room, everyone would stop. Boys would do it too, but it was mostly the girls; Girls are just plain evil. 'They probably want to know who I am, just like everyone else in the school.'

She walked to her desk and placed her things down. The last bell hadn't rung yet so students were still walking around and chatting with their friends. But as usual, no one had talked to her. Kagome quietly reached into her bag and took out the required materials for class. She didn't really care that no one noticed her or talked to her though. After about five years of neglection from peers, Kagome was used to being ignored.

And that's probably why she was extremely shocked when someone had actually talked to her that morning.

"Hi!" came a voice next to Kagome. At first, Kagome just looked ahead and actually wondered if someone was talking to her but then decided that they weren't and went on with what she was doing. Several seconds later, the voice came again. "Hi! I haven't seen you around here. Are you new?"

'Okay, now this time I'm positive someone was talking to me...' Kagome thought as she looked to where the voice had come from. It was her desk neighbor to the left, Ayame Yamine, and she was smiling happily at her.

"E-Excuse me? Did you j-just say something to me?" Kagome asked the girl. She was looking at Ayame with wide eyes. The last time Ayame had said anything to Kagome was when she had told her to move out of her way when they were passing in the halls once. It was hard to believe that such a cute girl like her could be so rude and mean whenever she was in a bad mood. But the time that when she was really horrible was when a girl, aside from herself, was talking or flirting with Kouga Phillips. No one ever understood why she would get so mad when Kouga wasn't even her boyfriend, but they didn't exactly want to challenge someone that intimiding and tough like her.

Ayame laughed lightly. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking to you! So, are you new?"

Kagome couldn't help but smile in an annoyed manner. School was almost halfway over, she had been sitting next to this girl since the first day of school, and she had the nerve to ask her if she was new? Kagome had to hold her tongue to restrain herself from telling Ayame off, but she breathed in deeply and smiled a bit more easily.

Kagome nodded softly. "Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm new."

"You didn't get your schedule changed, did you? My friend had to get one of those so now she's not in my next class, which totally sucks..." she said quickly.

Kagome looked at Ayame. She never understood what boys meant when they said that girls talk on endlessly at a pace too fast for them to interpret, but now she knew exactly what they meant.

"Uh... yeah. I did," Kagome agreed. She didn't want to have to explain that she had been there for half a year, so she just went with what Ayame said.

"Oh, wow! How horrible! Did you get changed out of any of your friends' classes?" Ayame asked with keen interest.

Kagome mentally laughed. 'Ha! Friends? What friends?' She was about to answer with another lie, but she was cut off as the bell rang and the teacher began to speak. The two girls, and the rest of the class, began to do their work that was required to do at the beginning of class; otherwise, known as a 'warm-up'. It was completely silent in the classroom. Their teacher was very strict and wouldn't tolerate any rule-breakers.

"What lunch do you have?" Ayame suddenly asked Kagome in a hushed tone. The school had divided the lunch time into two seperate lunches in order to keep the peace instead of the pandemonium. The first lunch was mostly made of first and second year students, and the second consisted of third and fourth year students. If you were unfortunate to have a horrible class schedule though, you would have lunch with students that you didn't know or didn't like.

"Second," Kagome whispered back.

"Awesome! Come have lunch with me today because I have that one too!" Ayame whispered excitedly. Kagome looked at Ayame in surprise.

Was one of the school's most popular girls inviting Kagome to have lunch with her and her friends? Surely not, right? But then again, she was going through this whole transformation with the hair, the make-up, and the clothes.

Maybe looks really did effect how people truly saw you. Perhaps the kids with the newest clothes with the brand names sewn on the side were seen as the crème de le crème, whereas the children with the holes in their clothes and the faded colors, which were obviously hand-me-downs, were seen as the 'losers', the 'geeks', the 'nerds', and the 'posers' of the school all because their parents were different in comparison with other parents with money.

Yes, it's mean, but it's true! At school, everyone will always come across at least one person who picks on someone for their clothes. They may not be the bully or the one being picked on, but they always meet them.

"Are.. are you sure?" Kagome said in a voice above a whisper, earning a suspicious glance from the teacher and several shushes from her peers.

Ayame quickly brought her finger to her lips to indicate that Kagome be quiet and smiled. "Yeah," she whispered. "Plus, it must be hard moving from first lunch to second lunch," she smiled.

Kagome put on a smile painfully. "Yep... It's... it's pretty hard..."

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Kagome quickly entered her second class, not because she was eager to get to math, but because everyone was still staring at her! It was becoming really annoying.

Kagome took her seat in the back of the room and plopped down tiredly with her body slumping over the desk and her head laying down. She just felt liking dying, or going to sleep, or hiding, or pretty much which ever one could get her out of school.

"Why, hello there, Gorgeous! Are you in the wrong classroom?" came a familiar voice.

Kagome slowly brought her head up to see the speaker and saw none other than Miroku.

The two were looking at each other with wide eyes. "You!" they said in unison. "What are you doing here?"

"What do you mean?" Miroku asked. "I've always had this class!"

"No, you haven't!" Kagome said quickly.

"Yes! I have! My stuff is over on top of that desk over there!" he said as he pointed to a desk that was on the opposite side of the room in the corner.

"Oh..." Kagome said stupidly. 'That's odd... I'm sure I would have noticed him before.' However, that seat was in her blind spot.

"But you! What in the world are you doing in this class?" Miroku asked.

"I've always been in this class too!"

"No, you haven't! Trust me! I never forget a beautiful face like yours in my classes!"

Kagome blushed slightly and turned the other way. 'Beautiful?' she choked mentally. She quickly shook her head. "No. It's probably all the damn make-up," she muttered silently.

"What?"

"Nothing! But I'm telling you, I've always had this class!"

At that precise moment, Inuyasha entered the classroom with such suaveness and such grace. He currently had his jacket hanging over the side of his shoulder and cooly strided over to the desk where Miroku and Kagome were currently. It was funny, but he had never noticed that Kagome was in his class, but that didn't matter anymore because he know knew her whole schedule due to the whole 'jacket' incident. While waiting for one of the janitors with a key, he headed to the library and got into her school folder. He laughed once he saw her grades though. She wasn't exactly a 'perfect student'. Hell, she wasn't even an average student!

"Ahem!" Inuyasha coughed loudly.

"No, you w-... Oh, hey, Inuyasha! Where were you in first hour?" Miroku asked as he and Kagome stopped arguing for a brief moment.

Inuyasha clenched his fist immediantly. "Hey Miroku. Would you mind leaving us alone for a moment?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"Uh, yeah. I'll talk to you later then, Kags," he said before leaving.

As soon as Miroku left, Inuyasha took a seat on Kagome's desk, leaning closely to Kagome.

"Eww! What are you doing!" Kagome whispered as Inuyasha grabbed her hand and started rubbing it affectionately.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Just go with it. It's called 'affection', but it's not like your ugly ass would know what that is, now would you?" he smiled fondly, not because he was enjoying this, but because of the act he was putting on.

Kagome smiled back. "No, I suppose I wouldn't know affection like you know affection because for one, I don't fool around with every girl that catches my eye!"

Inuyasha smiled a bit wider. "Yeah. That's because you can't get a girl or a guy!"

"Oh, and what's that supposed to mean!" Kagome asked as her smile dropped down a bit.

Inuyasha gently shook his head. "Nothing. And to let you know, when you slammed your locker shut today, you slammed it on my jacket and I had to miss class because of you, bitch!" he announced to her, his grip tightening around her hand as she laughed lightly.

"Ha ha-ow! That hurts!" Kagome said.

"It does? Well, good! I'm glad! Oh, and I'm going to ask you out sometime this week."

"What?"

"Well, since we didn't 'hook up' over the vacation, we're going to have to do it pretty soon. It's already the fifth of January..."

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As Miroku watched his best friend flirt with the new class beauty, a girl in front of him named Yura turned around to face him.

"Is that Inuyasha's new girlfriend?" she asked in her high pitched voice.

"It looks that way, I'm afraid..." Miroku sighed.

"What's wrong?" Yura asked concerned.

"Nothing... It's just, he always gets some of the most beautiful girls of the school... Jeez, Yura. Why couldn't you be beautiful?"

"Oh, ha ha," she laughed sarastically as she looked to Inuyasha and the girl. She squinted her eyes a bit as she looked to Inuyasha's obvious soon-to-be girlfriend. "Hey, isn't that were that nerdy girl used to sit?" she asked Miroku.

"What nerdy girl?" Miroku asked as he looked to Yura.

"You know, the one with the glasses, the h-actually," she paused, "if you look at her for a while, she does seem awfully close to her."

"Actually," Miroku started, "if you look at her for a while, she seems to get prettier..." he smiled.

"My goodness, Miroku. Aren't you already interested in that one 'Sango' girl?" Yura asked.

Miroku sighed once again. "Yes, but sadly, I think she's afraid of me..."

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Well... I WAS going to make this chapter EXTREMELY long, but then that would have took till the end of the week probably and I most likely wouldn't have had time to post this chapter. School is continuing to steal my soul, really. It's as if all of my other teachers hook up with my english teacher and plot against me with plans of making me write essays... I'M SERIOUS! I've had to write three essays in the past WEEK! So stop being mad at me and just be thankful I still UPDATE!

Next Chapter: Lunch w/ the Elites


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