Inuyasha The Middleschool Student

Chapter Eight: No Pencil Tapping!

Inuyasha tapped his fingers on the desk and waited for the preppy voice to subside. When it finally did, he let out a great big sigh of relief. Then, as if just to spite him, the voice came back because it had forgotten two or three announcements.

Kikyo, without getting up from her desk, pressed a button on the overhead. The overhead came on and a bunch of loosely scribbled notes appeared on the wall.

Everyone rushed to get out paper and write the notes. Inuyasha looked at them curiously and then mimicked them.

After approximately ten seconds Kikyo turned the projector off. "Now turn to page 364. Read that chapter and..."

"Hey! Turn that back on, I'm not done copying!" Inuyasha shouted to her.

Kikyo had been holding a pencil in her hands up until then, and at that moment, the dagger-sharp pencil snapped in two. If anyone had the courage to look up from their desks they would have seen a vein pop out of Kikyo's forehead.

"Do NOT interrupt me!" She said through gritted teeth.

"But you interrupted me." Inuyasha responded.

"I'm allowed to interrupt whatever I want!" Kikyo declared to him.

"Who died and made you head hancho?" Inuyasha questioned her.

Just then, a faint tapping could be heard across the room. It went: .. -. ..- -.-- .- ... .... .- ... .... ..- - ..- .--. ... .... ..- - ..- ... .... . ... --. --- -. -. .- -.- .. .-.. .-.. -.-- --- ..- for your benefit it says: Inuyasha! Shut up! Shut up! She's gonna kill you!)

"I did!" She shouted back to him.

Suddenly she turned and stomped across the room, still in a tizzy. She put her hand on a boy's shoulder. She glared straight into his eyes so that he trembled. "I told you before to stop tapping your pencil!"

She then grabbed the pencil out of his hand, broke it and threw it back at him.

"Stop being such a bully, Kikyo!" Inuyasha shouted at her.

The whole class gasped.

"Go to the office, Inuyasha!"

"That's not fair!" He protested.

"You too, Kagome!"

"What'd I do?" She was taken aback.

"You stole my true love! Now go!"

Inuyasha and Kagome walked out of the classroom slowly, dragging their feet.

Inuyasha didn't want to go because, in his opinion, he hadn't done anything.

Kagome didn't want to go because she hadn't done anything at all and she had never been sent to the office before. She was such a perfect student. This was going to ruin her permanent record!

"Kagome... It can't be that bad, right?"

"..."

"I'm sorry, Kagome."

Kagome had pretty much shut down. She had retreated into her own mind. It was like she was sleep-walking into the office.

Inuyasha walked up to a woman at a desk. She was chubby with artificially died hair.

"Our teacher told us to go to the office." He told her mournfully.

"Let me see your infractions." She told him and held out an empty hand.

Inuyasha handed the half slips of mulit-layered paper to the woman. She lifted her thick glasses off her face and read it briefly. She burst out in laughter. "Hey! Cindy! Come look at this, she sent some more kids to the office!"

"Really?" A short skinny woman with shoulder-length hair appeared through a doorway and grabbed the slips away from the other woman. She read it aloud: "Higurashi, Kagome... nothing's checked.. . it just says 'Is a bitch.' Inuyasha, doesn't even show his last name, says, 'killed me with his claws and left me for another woman.' nothing's checked." The woman was in tears from laughing so hard. "Mr. Takeda, more students to see you! She sent some more!"

Mr. Takeda looked at the slips and laughed. He tore them up and put them in the trash can.

Kagome snapped out of her trance. "Does this mean we aren't in trouble?"

"That's exactly what it means." Mr. Takeda assured her. "Your teacher, however, isn't so lucky. Somebody, go get her and bring her here."

The whole room was silent.

"Alright, guess we're gonna draws straws."

The woman who worked at the desk pulled five straws out of her top drawer and cut one of them. She held them in her hand so no-one could see which straw was short.

Everyone drew a straw. Mr. Takeda got the short straw. "Dammit!" He declared as he walked out of the room.

As soon as he left Kagome asked the woman, "Does this mean that we can go back to class?"

The woman laughed at her. "Does that mean you want to? If I were you I'd just chill here until third period is over and she gets over her little hissy fit."

"I've got a feeling she isn't going to get over this in one period." Inuyasha told the woman.

A few moments passed and Kagome was telling the woman about all that had happened in that class that day.

"Oh! That's rich! You're telling me that she used your paper to squish a bug?"

"Yeah, I've got it right here."

"Ewwwwwwww!"

"Yeah, gross, huh?"

Just then Mr. Takeda walked in with Kikyo and the room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop... that is, if you're stupid enough to drop a pin. Someone could get hurt like that, dummy! Don't drop a pin! I'll end up stepping on it!

He walked into his office with Kikyo, and the door clicked shut.

The four people listened. Since no-one was talking, they could hear the conversation going on inside. "Listen, you need to stop sending kids to the office for such petty things. Tell me why you sent these two."

"He killed me! And.. And he left me for her!"

"You look pretty alive to me."

"But I'm not! I'm made out of the bones and earth from my gravesite!"

Mr. Takeda's head popped out of the door. "Will you two kids step in here for a minute?"

Kagome and Inuyasha walked into Mr. Takeda's office and shut the door behind them.

"Inuyasha, Your teacher claims that you had some kind of romantic relationship in the past. Is that true?"

Inuyasha took this oppurtunity to punk her. "No, she must have me confused for someone crazy."

"But! How can you say that? You said you would become human and we would live together like humans!" Kikyo burst out.

Mr. Takeda looked at Inuyasha and Inuyasha shrugged at him.

"Just as I suspected." Mr. Takeda announced. "Kikyo,"

"That's Lady Kikyo." She corrected him.

He looked at her in a 'whatever!' sort of way and continued.

"Kikyo, I want you to take some time off from work. Don't come back until you can give me a note from a psychiatrist saying that you are all better, got that?"

"Yes sir..." she said mornfully.

Mr. Takeda called a sustitute teacher to take over for her, and then Kikyo went home.