Disclaimer: Sorry to say, but I do not own the characters of the show Inuyasha. But I do own most of the orphan kids, the plot, and block fighting. Yeah me!

"Words"- talking

'Words'- thoughts

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Kagome looked at Inuyasha in disbelief. 'I couldn't have chosen him…not when there's a room full of all these other guys! Oh why him…' Kagome's mind was a jumble of thoughts as she stared at the boy in front of her.

"Well here's a King and Queen of our Fall Prom everyone!" the principal's voice interrupted Kagome's thoughts. She turned towards him to see him putting the microphone back on the stand.

When she turned back to Inuyasha she nearly jumped out of her skin when he was merely inches away from her. She looked into his golden eyes.

'Oh my God! I could…I could just drown in his eyes,' Kagome thought dreamily, 'and I'd probably die a happy death.'

The gym had started being filled with noise again, as the students began dancing and talking once again.

"So is this your true form?" Inuyasha suddenly asked.

Kagome's eyes got big again as she remembered that she didn't have her necklace on.

'God damn it! The little heathens must have taken off my ring too!' And sure enough when Kagome checked through her glove, the bulge of her finger met her touch not the bulge of a ring.

"I have to go…" Kagome mumbled as she went around Inuyasha.

"What? Why?" Inuyasha asked as he turned with her.

"Because I do okay?" Kagome said tensely.

"Well you have to have a better excuse than tha-" Inuyasha said, but was interrupted with a girl's voice yelling.

"It was you! The whole time! Oh my God! Someone just shoot me now!"

"But Sango-" Miroku's voice began.

"Inuyasha!" Sango screamed. She stormed over to the stage and slammed her gloved hands onto the wooden stage. "You knew it was me. Why the hell did you let me go and dance with him?" She demanded to know.

"To get this reaction from you." Inuyasha smirked.

Sango's face lit red. "Oh why you little-" Sango began but was cut off by the clunking of heals against wood. The three looked over to see Kagome's retreating form go out the side door.

"Kagome wait!" Inuyasha called. He ran after the girl, the door slamming shut behind him.

"How long you think it's gonna be?" Sango asked Miroku.

"I give them until January." Miroku said.

"So quick?" Sango said raising an eyebrow at him, "I give them until the end of the year."

"How long do you give us?" Miroku asked after a minute of silence. A slap across the back of his head was his answer.

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It was Monday, the weekend after the prom. A beautiful sunny November day, about sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit, not a cloud in the sky, and a slight breeze making the day enjoyable.

Inuyasha had just got out of his silver Mercedes when he heard a wolf whistle to the left of him. He looked over to see a couple other seniors looking over at an approaching figure. As the individual came closer he made out that the brown haired person as Kagome Higarashi. He watched her keep her head high as she made her way towards the tree in the yard, ignoring all the side remarks that everyone was giving her.

He shook his head and started walked towards the front doors, knowing that this was going to be a long day.

Just as he was about to walk in, a loud scream was heard and his head shot up to see a flash of brown hair before a heavy mass rammed into him. He felt the thing that crashed into him wrap something around him to cling to the back of his shirt. Then he heard his name come from beneath the hair; he recognized the scent coming from the creature and he just about puked when he realized who was clinging him.

"Kikyo, I'd appreciate it if you would let me go now." Inuyasha said as he started to push at her shoulders in an effort to make her let go of him.

"But Inuyasha!" she said sobbing into his shirt, "She just left you on the stage! You know I wouldn't do that…" She looked up at him seductively but lost the battle when she came face to face with a very pissed off Inuyasha.

"Kikyo, I'm only going to ask you one last time…" Inuyasha started but he didn't have to finish because the young girl let go of him, turned around and ran off screaming in terror. Inuyasha simply blinked in surprise.

A moment after she had ran through the front doors, almost knocking four people over in the process, he heard a laugh to the right of him. His head turned to see Miroku coming towards him, still clutching his stomach, and still laughing.

"Nice job Inuyasha!" Miroku said giving his friend a hard slap on his back. Inuyasha almost fell forward; he righted himself and gave his friend a hard glare. "What? Don't give me that look! You just scared away the most ugly and annoying girl in the whole school! You should get an award for it!" Miroku started laughing again, but when he looked back up he saw Inuyasha walking away. "Hey!" He started after the silver haired boy.

"Where's Sango? Or did you scare her away after you took off your mask at the prom on Friday?" Inuyasha gave Miroku a look.

"No I didn't" Miroku said proudly. "Besides you're the only one who's date went running out of the room."

"Thanks, you know I think that just made my day." Inuyasha said sarcastically.

"Well sorry! Just telling you the facts." Miroku said shrugging. Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Then an arm came out and stuck out in front of his stomach, stopping him from walking forward.

"Oof! What was that for?" Inuyasha asked quickly, he looked at the arm then followed it to see it belonged to Miroku, but Miroku's eyes weren't on him, they were towards the side of the school. Inuyasha looked up also to just about have his eyes pop out.

Kagome was in front of the tree and had her arms out, in the middle of two boys looking between the two and trying to stop the fight. The boys were trying to hit each other over her head, which they were succeeding at, since Kagome was a good head smaller than them.

"Kevin!" She said to the one on her right, "James!" She said to the one on her left, "Stop it! You know what will happen if-" But she was cut off by a remark from Kevin.

"Come on James! That the best you got?" He taunted to his twin brother.

"No! But if you come over here I can show you what the best I got!" James said back. The two boys pushed towards each other again but were pushed away by a very mad Kagome.

"If you two don't stop it-" Kagome threatened but was cut off again by one of the twins.

"You know if you just stay out of my personal life, we wouldn't have this problem!" James yelled.

"Hey! I didn't do anything!" Kevin defended himself, "I answered the phone and she thought that I was you!"

"Then why didn't you tell her-" But this time, Kagome cut off James.

"Would you two knock it off for once!" She pushed harder this time on their stomachs and they took a couple steps backwards to look at the smaller girl in front of them. "You guys are really pathetic, you realize that?" Kagome looked back and forth between the two. "You two are striving for so much attention that you wait until you get to school to fight over this? This happened Friday night!" Kagome got louder with each sentence. "You two are a perfect example why I don't want to have kids." Kagome said quietly. A couple snickers were heard throughout the crowd that had formed around the three fighting, including Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Rin.

"Jeez, Kagome's in a bad mood." Sango whispered to Rin. Rin nodded as an answer but neither of the two girls took their eyes off of the three in front of them. Miroku and Inuyasha were looking at Kagome in awe and confusion.

"No, Kagome we're not trying to get attention, he is!" James said pointing towards Kevin.

"Me! You're the one who started hitting me when we got here!" Kevin shot back.

They started yelling at each other again, and the crowd started cheering for who they thought would win. Kagome shook her head in shame then looked up at the two boys towering over her.

'They may be the same age as me, but their mental level is of a two year old I swear!' Kagome thought. Then when the two boys were close enough for Kagome to reach them, which meant that they could reach each other also, she extended her arms over her head and grabbed one of each of their shoulders. The two fighting boys didn't realize what was going on until they got closer together. Next event that the two boys knew, they were on the ground, their foreheads hurting and a Kagome wiping her hands above them.

"Promise to stop fighting?" Kagome said as she squatted down to the fallen boys.

"At school, and around you." James said rubbing his head.

"Yeah I think we can manage." Kevin finished for him.

"Good," Kagome said satisfied, "Now if you excuse me, I have a Science class to go to." And with that she turned on her heel, and started walking towards the front door.

"Damn, she's more hard core than Mistress!" James said quietly as he started up, the crowd dispersing, as there was nothing else to see.

"Well cut her some slack, she's just looking out for us. And with what she's been through." Kevin said extending a hand to his brother who was still on the ground.

"Point taken." James said as he stood up.

Inuyasha watched the two walk into school, and then followed them, to start his school day.

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"Don't you ever eat?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome looked down at him form the tree branch. "I had a big breakfast." She simply said.

Inuyasha shook his head and sighed, knowing that she was lying but didn't push the argument any further. "Mind if I sit up there with ya?" He asked, looking back up to the girl drawing.

Kagome looked down at him for a couple seconds then shrugged her shoulders saying, "Sure."

Inuyasha jumped up and settled in front of Kagome, who was sitting against the tree trunk.

After a couple minutes of awkward silence Inuyasha asked, "Whatcha drawin'?"

Kagome looked up at him, and shrugged. "Just a couple thumbnails of different things that pops into my head." She took the notebook out of her lap and extended it towards Inuyasha.

Inuyasha took it and admired Kagome's work. Various pictures of flowers, people, cars, snakes, and other objects were scattered all over the page.

"Wow. That's good." Inuyasha complimented. He handed the notebook to Kagome again, and she took it.

"Thanks." Kagome said blushing slightly, and slid down the tree more to hide behind her notebook. She turned a page, and looked up at Inuyasha. She smiled a small smile, as big as the scar on her face would allow, and the scratching of pencil met Inuyasha's sensitive dog-ears a moment later.

Inuyasha eyebrows came together in a look of confusion. Kagome looked back up at him, and chuckled. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow as a question of 'What-are-you-doing?' Kagome just smiled and looked back at her work. Inuyasha shrugged and brought his left leg up to the tree branch and rested his left arm on it. Slouching slightly he looked over the schoolyard, his ears moving sometimes when a loud noise met them.

A good fifteen minutes passed when Kagome said, "There, all done." Before she could finish the sentence though, her notebook was snatched out of her hands and was being inspected by Inuyasha. "Hey! I was going to let you see!"

"Well, then what's the harm of me seeing it now?" Inuyasha asked still looking at the sketch.

"Because it's not completely finished." Kagome mumbled, as she looked out to the schoolyard herself.

"But didn't you say that it was done?" Inuyasha asked confused.

"Yeah sketching the sketching part, but I wanted to make it better before anyone saw it." Kagome said.

The picture that she had drawn was Inuyasha again; in the position that he was just in, but what caught his attention was that she put a lot of detail in his face. He looked up to her, her hair blowing slightly with the wind.

Kagome felt Inuyasha's eyes on her, and she turned her head to look at him. Her coffee eyes were looking deep into his auburn ones. A mix of emotions was in her eyes, but nothing showed on her face other then a grim setline of her lips and her scar.

"Where did you get that?" Inuyasha asked. He turned towards her, so his legs were on either side of the tree branch.

Kagome's eyes averted away from his, she brought her legs up to her chin to rest her head onto them. "I-I-I can't tell you…" Kagome said gently.

"Why?" Inuyasha asked, as he scooted closer to the shaking girl.

"Because something might happen to you, your friends, your family, or to the kids at the orphanage." Kagome said, her legs muffling what she was saying but Inuyasha could still hear it.

"Well, why don't you show your half demon form?" Inuyasha asked, trying to get information out of her by a different approach.

Kagome smiled vaguely. "Because I feel a little weird when a little kid with his mom or dad says really loudly on the street, 'Mommy! Daddy! Look at that girl! What happened to her face?' and point right at you."

Inuyasha gave her a sympathetic look.

Kagome shrugged in an answer, "I was always getting pointed at anyways. My clothes were weird or my hair but usually because of my face, even before the scar."

"Why?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because, I guess, I was so ugly." Kagome said quietly.

Inuyasha blinked a couple times in surprise. "Oh…" He mumbled.

"It's fine, you get used to it." Kagome said shrugging; she looked over at him and smiled. Inuyasha smiled back at her. "I have one question for you." She tucked her legs, so she could sit Indian style. "Whom would you rather go out? Me or Kikyo?"

"What made you think of that?" Inuyasha asked startled.

"A couple over there kissing." Kagome said innocently as she pointed towards two freshmen in a lip lock.

Inuyasha sighed and said, "You want the truth?"

Kagome snorted, "No I want you to lie." Kagome said sarcastically.

"Well I've already gone out with Kikyo and I hated it," he said rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly, "so probably, I'd choose you." Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome's jaw open and almost touching the tree. "You know, the flies would most likely love that as a home."

Kagome snapped her jaw shut then asked, "You went out with Kikyo?"

Inuyasha sighed in exasperation. "Yes, worst month of my life."

"Why did you? Were you on some drug…?" Kagome asked, scooting closer.

Inuyasha chuckled. "I wish that was the case but it was that damn Kouga who dared me to go out with her for a month and pretend to like her. As soon as the thirty days were over I broke up with her, and brushed my teeth for a good three hours and I burned all my clothes that I wore around her." Inuyasha said.

Kagome laughed, but stopped after a second and put her hand over her scar.

Inuyasha looked gave her a look.

"It still hasn't healed completely. Some of the muscles were damaged also, so they're still sore." Kagome said reading his mind.

"Doesn't hurt to talk then?" Inuyasha asked.

"Sometimes, only if I talk for a while." Kagome said scooting back to rest against the tree trunk again.

"Yeah but you sure do argue enough." Inuyasha said, indicating to their Science class this morning when she had fought with the teacher about a formula.

"Yeah but I had a point and I was right." Kagome said.

"Point taken." Inuyasha said.

They both turned towards the schoolyard again. A comfortable silence fell over them.

"Inuyasha!" a singsong voice said from underneath the tree. Both half demons looked down to see Kikyo smiling seductively at Inuyasha. But when she saw Kagome her face turned into a sour scowl. "What are you doing up there with my Inuyasha?"

"One not your Inuyasha, two none of your business, three why the fuck do you care, and four it's a free country." Kagome simply said bored.

Kikyo looked up at her in shock. "I told you-" she started.

"Yes yes we all know, you marked him in places you can't see." Kagome finished for her.

"Say what?" Inuyasha suddenly said. "She didn't do anything like that!"

Kikyo's face lit up like a red light as she looked down at her feet.

"And she also said that you were 'her Yasha'." Kagome sneered to Kikyo.

Inuyasha's gaze looked back down onto Kikyo. Kikyo smiled sweetly up at him.

"I'd suggest that you leave, like fast." Kagome said quickly as she looked quickly at Inuyasha. Kikyo looked at him to see Inuyasha's eyes flashing red.

"Okay I'll go." Kikyo said hurriedly. She ran towards the doors not turning back around to see if the pissed off half demon was following her.

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha, who was still growling and was changing into his demon form more rapidly each minute. Kagome sighed and closed her eyes.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Inuyasha asked nearly yelling after Kagome hit him in the back of the head.

"To get you out of your trance." Kagome said. She turned to her right and picked up her sketchpad again.

"Well you didn't need to hit me!" Inuyasha yelled angrily.

"Well," Kagome said shrugging and leaning back against the tree trunk, "it worked didn't it?"

"Yeah but-" Inuyasha began.

"Kagome!" Sango's voice rang out.

The two looked over towards the voice to see Sango, Rin and Miroku running after them, yelling, "Don't do it! He's goin' to flip!"

"Who's going to flip?" Inuyasha asked. Peering over the tree branch to look at his friends.

"And over what?" Kagome asked. Also peering over the branch.

"I think you better come down here for it." Rin said up to them as Sango and Miroku kept arguing.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other. Kagome just shrugged and jumped down. Inuyasha followed suit, and landed a moment later next to her.

"Okay I really need to lose weight." Kagome mumbled as she stood up form her crouching position.

"Why?" Inuyasha asked, amazement in his voice that she would suggest such a thing.

"Because I land too heavy, meaning I'm too heavy." Kagome said matter-a-factly.

"You can't possibly-" Inuyasha began but was cut off by more yelling of Miroku and Sango.

"They have a right to know!" Sango yelled.

"Yes they do, but they shouldn't find out by us. They should figure it out by themselves!" Miroku argued back.

"Yeah but they're goin' to fond out anyways so why can't we tell them?" Sango said crossing her arms.

"Okay! Knock it off!" Kagome interrupted. "I've had enough of fights today so can we please just decide if you're going to tell whoever you're going to tell what you need to tell them or not and move on please?" She looked back and forth between the two fighting teens.

"Well it has something to do with you." Rin said quietly.

Kagome looked at her questionably.

"And with Inuyasha." Miroku said.

"Something tells me this isn't going to be good…" Inuyasha mumbled.

"Yeah, that makes us two." Kagome said.

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Okay I am so sorry! I tired to update sooner but I had play practice and junk so- Oh screw I really don't have an excuse other than pure laziness. I promise you I will try and update by the end of the month and if I don't well better send a search party, because I probably ran away from the story. Please review!