Kagome really couldn't concentrate for the life of her. In one of the many rowed desks in a sterile classroom sat Kagome, idly twirling her hair as she replayed the events from the previous day. The teacher's words bled into one monotone void until Kagome simply shut his voice out altogether.
For some reason she couldn't stop thinking about it. Not when she went to bed, not when she slept, and not when she should've been listening to lessons being taught by the teacher.
She couldn't forget the jealousy in Naruto's eyes as he stared at Gaara's arm near her breast. Sasuke's jealousy was there too, but it had been veiled better than his blonde companion.
Naruto glared at Gaara with a visible hatred.
"What do you think doing?" He hissed. His glowing blue eyes darted between his brother and Kagome.
Gaara stared back coolly, moving closer to Kagome. This did not go unnoticed by the other two demons. "I was catching up with an old friend."
The blond growled menacingly. "That looked a bit more than just friendly…"
Gaara raised a thin red brow. "And if it was? I don't see why you're being such a dick about this. I don't sense any mating mark on her person."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "As if you don't have a nose that can smell."
Gaara mirrored his brother's exasperated expression. "Just because your stench is all over her doesn't make her yours." His eyes darted to Kagome's uneasy expression and smirked. "I have just as much of a right to her affection as you do."
"Kids have no right to Kagome's anything."
Gaara snorted and threw his hands up. "You're not even a full year older than me, dick-head." He shook his head. "You're just mad because you saw me make her smile instead of cutting her up and making her cry."
Sasuke bowed his head down. Gaara had a point there.
He turned when he felt Itachi brush past him and between Gaara and Kagome. Sasuke shook his head. It seemed Itachi was in big brother mode.
"I know we're all excited that Kagome is back, but this is a bit ridiculous. You're father asked me to look after you two while he was away on business, and I intend on returning you both in the condition you came here in." He looked at them sternly. "Got it?" The brother's nodded reluctantly.
Itachi smirked. "Good. Now, I see Sasuke and I are the only ones able to behave ourselves around Kagome. Although, since Naruto and Sasuke share a room, Kagome will spend the night with me until her room is prepared."
Out of respect every demon in the room resisted the very, very strong urge to growl. Gaara rolled his eyes.
"I was behaving myself. I did nothing wrong. It's not my fault Naruto decided to throw a hissy fit."
Itachi stared at him coolly. "Even so. I don't wish to try Naruto's anger even more. Although, if it will make you feel better, should we ask Kagome herself where she would like to stay?"
Kagome looked at Itachi alarmed, and then felt the intense heat of every demon's eyes on her.
Kagome jumped out of her stupor when she felt her head being whacked. She made a quiet noise of pain and brought her arm up to cover her throbbing head. Ignoring the snickers of her classmates, she looked to the book in Kakashi Sensei's hand and raised her eyebrow.
"Ecchi paradise? Written by Jiraiya Sensei?" She looked at him dryly. He rolled his eyes.
"Don't try and wiggle your way out of this, Higurashi. See me after class." She nodded with her eyes averted.
"Yes, Kakashi Sensei." She remained focused for the last fifteen minutes of class, and then internally groaned when the dreaded bell rang.
She'd never gotten in trouble with a teacher at her old school. So why did it have to be now? She was supposed to be starting fresh in her old home.
Although, it seemed she was doing a bang up job of that. Her best friend hated her and all of her classmates thought she was retarded for staring out of windows all day.
She slowly rose out of her desk and gathered her things. She shuffled to the front of the room where Kakashi Sensei was wiping off the notes he'd written during class.
She inhaled deeply to calm her nerves. Why was she even nervous? It was just a teacher. She'd battled fierce evil demons who literally wanted to eat her soul. So, in comparison this should be a piece of cake! Right? Right!
Kagome set her face in determination. "You wanted to see me, Kakashi Sensei?" He didn't even twitch; he merely continued silently wiping the dry erase board.
Kagome whistled a tune to fill the awkward silence as she stared out the windows.
She could see all her friends at their usual lunch table. She even spotted Gaara not to far away from there. He was with a blonde female and a brunette male. He had weird face painted markings on his face. Wait- were those real?
"You're easily distracted, aren't you, Ms. Higurashi?" She blinked. He was finished cleaning the board and was sitting at his desk with his hands folded.
"I suppose so. I never really noticed it."
Kakashi's eyes crinkled as he smiled at her. "You could say I'm an astute person."
She smiled back at him. "So, what did you need to talk to me about?"
"I just wanted to welcome you here to Konaha High School. I understand moving can be difficult, but it seems you've already made friends." He glanced at the table where Naruto and Sasuke were seated.
"Naruto's unusually subdued today. I have him in third period, and he's usually the class clown, but today he was silent." He looked at her knowingly. "You wouldn't happen to know why, would you?"
She remembered yesterday's events with a grimace. She replied, "No, I don't. I can ask him if you'd like?"
He chuckled. "You're a bad liar, Higurashi. Oh well, that's all. Try your hardest to pay attention in my classroom. Enjoy your lunch."
She nodded then exited to make her way to the cafeteria. As she walked, her thoughts left her once more.
She squirmed and looked down at her hands.
"I think… Itachi knows what's best in this situation."
Naruto brushed past her and up the stairs to his room. Kagome looked after him sadly.
She didn't want to upset him, but this was the only way to be fair to everyone. Itachi was a neutral party since he was like an older brother to her. He didn't think of her that way.
Sasuke and Gaara stayed with Kagome in the living room watching random channels on the flat screen TV. At first they all stayed in their separate section of the couch until Sasuke broke the ice by wrapping his arms around Kagome. In turn, this made Gaara jealous, so he laid his head in her lap.
Eventually they all dozed off until one of them woke up in the middle of the night. Sasuke and Gaara groggily led Kagome to Itachi's room, and then went to their own separate rooms. Itachi himself had been in the office doing paperwork until long after Kagome was back asleep. When he did decide to go to sleep, instead of joining Kagome in the bed, he slept on the couch out of respect for her personal space.
Kagome was brought out of her reminiscing when Gaara poked her in the forehead. She jumped then looked around. She was in the courtyard, by a tree. Just standing there. All alone.
She spotted Gaara's friends, the girl and the boy, a few feet back. He brought her attention back to him by waving a hand in her face.
"Hey, are you okay, Kagome? You seem a little out of it."
She laughed. "Yea, I'm okay." She spotted Naruto in the cafeteria staring off with a sour expression. "I was just thinking about last night…" She trailed off sadly. Gaara waved his friends away and sat down.
Gaara glanced back at Naruto when she joined him on the grass. "He'll be okay, Kagome. He just… I don't really know. Sasuke would know better than I would. Those two think more alike than Naruto and I do."
She patted his shoulder. "I know they do." She smiled as she saw Sasuke flick a noodle on Naruto's head playfully. "They've only had each other all these years." She looked down sadly.
"Maybe I have no right to come back and try to be a part of their bond. We've all grown up in so many different ways, maybe we're not like how we were as kids."
He wrapped an arm around her. "They've missed you so much all these years, they just don't know how to deal with you being here again. Give it some time. You'll all be close again." He smiled down at her. "But in the meantime, do you think that maybe… we could bond too?"
She smiled brightly back at him. "I'd like that."
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