Chapter 7
Back at the castle, Kagome and Sango are tending Ayame's leg. "What were you doing on that cliff? It's off limits to civilians." Kagome kindly scold hers. Ayame watches carefully to see Kagome finishing wrapping the bandages on her leg. "I didn't know that. I'm sorry." She apologizes to the two girls. "Well accidents happen. At least you're not dead." Shippo spoke a bit too rudely to the red head. Sango softly hits him on the head. "Ow! What did I do?" He looks up to her. Sango looks down to him, "You should know better not to say something that could hurt someone's feelings." She speaks to him with a disappointed look on her face. "All I said was…" Soten covers his mouth so he wouldn't say another thing that might be rude. "I think he learned his lesson, Sango." Soten glares at the kid. "Sorry about him. I forgot your name." Soten looks up to Ayame.
Ayame blushes in her rudeness. "Oh, I'm sorry about me not introducing myself. I'm Ayame." She said to them with a smile. 'I know that the orange haired kid is a fox, and the girl next to him is from somewhere else.' She said in her mind as she turns her sight back to Kagome. 'And she's pregnant. How nice.' She smiles wickedly in her head so she would ruin her charade in the group. "Well, are you hungry, Ayame?" Kagome asks as she puts the first aid kit away. Ayame wasn't going to say anything until her stomach growls in protest. "Sounds to me that you are hungry." Kagome smiles to her. "Any requests?" Ayame had to think of something. "Maybe a steak please." She asks shyly. Kagome smiles, "Sure. I'll get the chef to make you some steak." She leaves the room. Sango ushers the kids to leave the room as well. With the door closed, Ayame smiles to herself. 'Going according to plan.'
Miroku and Kohaku jump off of their boat when it gets closed to the dock. Inuyasha throws the rope overboard so the others can tie it down. "So this is the place." Inuyasha states as they look over the hill to see a castle looking place. "Looks like it." Kohaku replies as they begin to walk up towards it. "Got any idea what it looks like?" Miroku asks Inuyasha. Inuyasha shoves his hands into his sleeves. "How should I know? I've never been here before." He answers bluntly. Kohaku runs up ahead to get to the top. That is what he sees made him gasp. "What's the matter, Kohaku?" Miroku asks him. "Guys, you're not going to believe me even if I told you the truth." Kohaku answers as he turns around. Inuyasha and Miroku look at each other and run up to see what's beyond the horizon. "Just what is this place?" Inuyasha asks Kohaku. They see it's a castle looking place, but in the center of the property are spots with various purposes of some sort. "It's High School." Kohaku tells him. Miroku doesn't seem to worried about it, and neither is Inuyasha. "Why so tense about this place, Kohaku?" Miroku asks the boy.
Kohaku takes a deep breath. "This is where I came from before I left for Far Far Away." He honestly replies to them. Inuyasha looks down to see students just minding their own business. "I don't see anything wrong about this place." He comments the place. That is until Kohaku takes hold of his sleeve. "Oh you don't even know the half of it. Have you ever been to school before?" Inuyasha raised his eye. "Please don't tell me you never been to school." He asks in shock. "Nope." Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Then where on earth did you get your education?" Kohaku asks him.
"HEY LOOK IT'S KOHAKU!" A kid's voice shouts from down the hill. Kohaku looks down to see some of them coming toward them. Kohaku widens his eyes, "Uh-oh." He runs in different direction of the property. "AFTER HIM!" Another kid shouts in madness. Miroku and Inuyasha look down to see a few of the kid have big items in their hands, as if they're going to attack him. "Doesn't look good." Miroku tells him as he is about to go down to intervene. "Nah, let's just give a few minutes to see how this goes. I don't sense anything dangerous about them." Inuyasha disagrees with Miroku's idea. Miroku can see Kohaku is running rather quickly. More than ever. It'd be as if he's the fastest runner of the group. "Hey what bring you two here?" An elderly person asks them. Inuyasha shows a look of annoyance. "We're here looking for…" Inuyasha grabs Miroku's robe and pulls him away. "Bad idea." He whispers into the monk's ear.
The elder smiles, "Well, well, well. If it isn't Inuyasha Takahashi." He spoke in satisfaction in his voice. Inuyasha groans, as he drops the monk, "It's been a long time, hasn't it my boy." The old man walks up to him. "Hello, Totosai." Inuyasha turns half way to with a not so happy look on his face. "My goodness, you've grown over the years. How's is going?" Totosai comes up to his former pupil. "So this is your master, Inuyasha?" Miroku dusts himself after getting back up. "Indeed, I am. I'm the headmaster of this facility. Totosai." He gestures his hand. Miroku gladly shakes his, "I'm Miroku. A traveling companion of Inuyasha." He introduces himself. Totosai smiles and the frowns, "Wasn't there another one in your group?" Totosai asks him.
Inuyasha points down to the group. "He's down there getting chased." Inuyasha points down the hill. Totosai narrows his beady eyes and smiles to see a familiar boy. "Ah, Kohaku is here. That boy was the top one in the school. And then he left." Totosai tells them what he knows so far about the boy's backstory. "Nice. But we're here looking for someone." Inuyasha wants to get to the point of their visit. "Oh really, and who would that be?" Totosai strokes his beard. "We're looking for Sota Higurashi. He's here in this school, isn't he?" Miroku asks the question. Totosai ahs, "Ah yes, he's here. And thankfully he's not in that crowd going after Kohaku." He gestures the two men to follow him into the school.
Somewhere in the school, a classroom is dark with just a person trying to practice, "Now!" He tells himself as he is about to do a stunt of some sort. Until the door open, "Sota, you have visitors." Totosai shouts in. that made Sota lose his balance and crash onto the floor. "Sorry, Mr. Totosai, I was just practicing." Sota rubs the back of his head where he feels the pain. Totosai steps aside to let Inuyasha and Miroku enter. "Who are you two?" Sota stands up to them. Inuyasha can tell resemblances between him and Kagome. Both with brown eyes, raven black hair, while Kagome's is long, and Sota's is short to the ears. "Hey kid, do you want to get out of this place?" Inuyasha asks him immediately. Sota looks at wearily. "There are times I want to, and there are times I won't." He answers him. Miroku comes up to him, "And why is that?" He asks him nicely, to see if he'll be more honest than he's telling them. Miroku goes to the windows and let the natural light illuminate the room. Inuyasha looks around the room to see various weapons, almost like Kohaku's. "Are you trying to be a demon slayer?" Miroku asks him. Sota sighs, "Yeah. Ever since I was sent here, my dad wanted me to be something else instead of royal blood." He starts off. Totosai clears his throat. "Sota, you know better not to mention anything about royal blood." He tells him seriously. Inuyasha looks confused, "What is it a bad idea to talk about royal blood?" He asks Totosai. Totosai turn his sight to him. "Just mentioning it would be chaotic. If a word to be slipped, they're do whatever they could to be part of it. Wars, calamity, you get the idea." He explains to them. "So that's why you want to be a demon instead of your old man?" Inuyasha kind of figures it out. Sota smiles, "Sure do."
"Yeah about that. You see, your father passed away." Miroku had to bring the bad news. Sota widens his eyes, "He died?" He asks in disbelief. "Afraid so. You see you're the only one left in the family to the take the throne." Inuyasha tells him nonchalantly. "But what about my sister? Shouldn't she be the one to take the throne?" Sota tries to see if she's up for the job. "I'm afraid Kagome is married and her husband isn't too thrilled about it." Miroku answers the question. Sota raised his eyebrow, "I had no idea my big sister would get married. She must be happy to have him as a husband." He smiles fondly. "So what is her husband like?" He asks Miroku. Miroku points with his thumb towards Inuyasha. "If you want to know more about Kagome's husband, he's right here." Sota turns the direction and widens his eyes. "You're my sister's husband?" He shouts in delight. "Wow, I would never have guested that you would wed my sister." He is now admiring his new brother in law.
But then something crossed his mind. "Wait a minute, if you're my sister's husband, wouldn't you be the next king of my hometown?" He asks him curiously. "I'm not royal material. No kingdom would want a half-demon like me to rule." He reasons casually. Sota nods sadly. "So this is why you came for me. To go back to my hometown. I'll pass." He refuses and walks out of the room. "Hey, you're not going anywhere." Inuyasha goes after him, But Totosai firmly grips his upper arm. "He just found out what happened. He needs to time to calm down so he can think this through." He explains this for a teenager's point of view. "Besides you may want to know that your parents were from a high class position that it should make you proud." He tries to remind Inuyasha about what he had to go through.
"I'm going to take a look around." Miroku sneaks out of the classroom. "Just stay out of my student's businesses." Totosai warns the monk. "Will do." Miroku agrees and goes off on his own. "Now, Inuyasha. I have something I want to show you." Totosai walks out of the classroom with his former pupil behind him. Inuyasha crossed his arms, not really interested, 'Might as well.' He mentally growls as he follows the old man.