AN: *sniffle* I love you all!...and that's all I have to say. No, no…jk, jk, but I got some awesome reviews from you guys so I decided to update this little dahling. *is in a sound meeting with parents and is typing slowly and quietly if that's at all possible with her laptop*

Gonna cut this intro thingy shorter today and get on to the story since I'm pretty sure 90% of you don't read these things anyway! (I could be wrong, it's happened before) Music was Mermaid Melody stuff since I wanted this to be a funny chapter and I'm re-watching Mermaid Melody and it brings back lovely nostalgia~

(I love Ever Blue!)

CHAPTER 9:

"So who's the most annoying guy in the class?" Kouga was going around to all the girls in class saying. Now he was at a girl named Kotomi (Itazura na Kiss XD), a giggly brown-haired girl. Inuyasha and Miroku were trailing behind their friend. Inuyasha looked like he could care in the least. Miroku seemed to enjoy meeting all the young ladies of the class, which irritated Sango (though she denied it strongly later).

"The most annoying would have to be Chiharu-kun." Kotomi explained lightly, which caused a depressed sigh from aforementioned boy. Kagome snickered. Rumor had it that Kotomi and Chiharu used to date and were really close, until Chiharu was caught kissing Kotomi's best friend Hime. This is a situation that just went further to prove that relationships between girl and boy never worked. Inuyasha was far at the back of Kagome's mind while she thought this.

"I'm telling you, Kotomi-" Chiharu began.

"That's Michiyo-san to you, hentai!" Kotomi snapped angrily.

"It's a misunderstanding-" Chiharu tried again.

"Save it." Kotomi snapped.

"Anyway, sweetie…" Kouga began, causing an eyelash-flutter from Kotomi and a snarl from Ayame, sitting next to Kagome and the empty seat that belonged to Sango. "Who's the hottest guy in the class?"

"Oh that's easy, Kouga-kun!" Kotomi squeaked, causing a louder growl from Ayame at this girl's familiarity with her Kouga.

"And it is…?" Kouga asked.

"You, of course!" Kotomi giggled, and Kagome had to hold Ayame down so she wouldn't maim the poor girl.

Chiharu looked away, and Kagome almost felt bad for him. True, he had been caught kissing the famous sexy Hime, Kotomi's best friend, but…somehow, it seemed like not even he deserved this. She half-wanted to go over to Kotomi and say she knew exactly how she felt. But she didn't. She had settled things with Inuyasha for the time being, and she didn't want to just turn around and stab him in the back.

"Ugh, sorry I'm late everyone." Sango sighed as she brushed into the room gracefully, setting her down her bag and herself as well.

"No prob, you're just missing the beautiful survey." Kagome sighed, fiddling with a pencil.

"Oh, well in that case, I'm out-" Sango's sentence and stand-up was interrupted by Miroku grabbing her hand, which surprised and scared the hell out of Ayame and Kagome, who had both only ever seen the monk grab an inappropriate part of the taijiya's body.

"Please don't go, milady Sango." Miroku begged with beautiful sparkling eyes.

Damn those gorgeous eyes of his…Sango growled internally, glaring at the pathetic soul holding her hand.

"What do you want, houshi?" Sango snapped.

"Only you." Miroku whispered, causing Sango to blush in surprise.

"W-what?"Sango stuttered, reddening a little more, IF that was possible. Off to the side, Kagome and Ayame wouldn't stop snickering.

"And your beautiful body, that is." Miroku explained, beginning to rub her rear affectionately.

"SAVE YOUR LOUSY AFFECTION, HOUSHI!" Sango yelled, slapping him se he in-turn sported the all-too-familiar red hand mark on his cheek. "I'M. LEAVING."

Kagome sighed. "Every time…this happens every damn time."

"You're telling me." Ayame groaned, flipping through her notebook.

"Sooo…Kagome." Kouga whispered into her ear. Inuyasha flicked his ears in their direction, a low growl rumbling in his throat.

"Relax, Inuyasha. Kagome's open ground now-" Miroku's helping gesture was stopped when red ebbed at Inuyasha's irises. "-technically." The monk finished nervously.

Inuyasha calmed a bit. "Technically." He grumbled, looking away.

"Yes, Kouga-kun?" Kagome asked sweetly, flashing the wolf youkai a pretty smile.

Inuyasha felt his heart clench. Kagome hadn't smiled at him like that in what seemed like ages. Jealousy tugged at his heart, but he ignored it best as he could.

"Who's the most annoying guy in class?" Kouga asked, leaning in closer to the raven-haired girl staring up at him with glittering brown eyes.

Their moment was interrupted by a flying pencil eraser that thwacked Kouga's cheek. Kouga looked up in annoyance to see Ayame staring at him coldly with narrowed eyes.

"Whadda ya want, Ayako?" Kouga growled.

"You writing a book or something?" Ayame growled, ignoring the name-mixup.

"So what if I am?" Kouga challenged.

"Then leave this chapter out and call it a mystery." Ayame shot back before grabbing her pile of books as well as Kagome's wrist before leaving the room just as the bell rang.


"Hey, I heard Ayame stood up to Kouga in homeroom!" whispers echoed through the hall as Kagome and Ayame made their way to Literature. (English for me in my school, Language Arts for others…you get the idea, right?)

"Well you're the talk of the school now, Ayame." Kagome pointed out as the wolf youkai's grip on the human girl's wrist grew tighter. "Ow! Ayame, what the-"she was interrupted as Ayame pulled her into a quiet corner.

"What were you thinking back there?" Ayame hissed into Kagome's face, her grip on her friend's wrist tightening even more.

"Back where? OW, Ayame!" Kagome winced as she saw the faintest trickle of blood escape her wrist. She ignored it, if Ayame found out she had made her bleed, she would never figure out what she was mad about.

"In homeroom! You know Kouga has a huge crush on you, and you still flirt with him! In front of Inuyasha, no less! Have you no shame?" Ayame growled, hiding the tears that were biting her eyes.

"That was hardly flirting, Ayame! He greeted me, so I greeted him!" Kagome snapped.

"You were smiling like it was Inuyasha you were talking to! And you honestly couldn't tell he was about to…to…" she bit her lip to keep it from trembling.

"To what?" Kagome snapped icily. Her wrist was starting to hurt and she really wanted to get to class.

"Damnit, Kagome! He was about to freakin' kiss you!" Ayame cried, louder than she had probably meant to.

Kagome froze in her friend's grip and replayed the whole situation in her mind. No. Way. So that was why Kouga's face had been seemingly getting closer and closer! It's a good thing their lips never made contact, or wolf guts would have spattered the windows and desks for weeks! She tried to hide a smile at the thought of Inuyasha's raging jealousy. It faded quickly though, when she remembered that technically he had no right anymore to protect her from other guys. Technically, she could be Kouga's girlfriend now. And technically, Inuyasha and Kikyou were dating now anyway-

No. She couldn't be thinking such thoughts. Technicallies were just technicallies and therefore not the truth. But now she was confusing herself. So instead, she found a way out of Ayame's death grip on her wrist and threw her arms around her friend.

"H-huh?" Ayame stuttered.

"Ayame, I am so sorry!" Kagome whispered. "I hadn't even noticed…normally he never gets that close to me as long as Inuyasha is within 30 yards of me. But since Inuyasha and I split up, I've been kind of…not myself. I would normally notice when Kouga's affections shine through, but today…my mind's been elsewhere. I'm really sorry, Ayame. I'll be more careful from now on."

Ayame smiled and hugged her friend back. "It's okay Kagome. Since Inuyasha is clearly going to be of no help, I'll protect you."

Kagome laughed. "Thank you. Now," she began, pulling apart, "we have to get to class.

Ayame looked blank for a moment.

"…Literature?" Kagome hinted hopefully.

"OH CRAP CLASS!!!" Ayame exclaimed and she grabbed Kagome's hand this time and pulled her through the halls and plunked her into her seat just as the late bell rang.


"So, continuing on with our poetry unit…" the teacher drawled on. Ayame yawned stiffly. Kouga was glaring at her from the back of the class, but, truthfully, Ayame was happy he was looking at her the whole period. Sango snorted when she explained this later.

"I've mentioned that not all poems have rhyming words, for instance…" Ugh…why doesn't she just shut up and admit she has no idea what she's talking about? Inuyasha thought angrily, his mind going numb from the teacher's robotic tone. He sent a sharp glare in Kouga's direction. Damn wolf…flirting with Kagome like that…

"Relax, Inuyasha. Kagome's open ground now…technically." Inuyasha winced as his friend's words replayed in his mind. It was true…technically…but it annoyed him to no fucking end. Come to thing of it…damn monk. He though bitterly.

"So, with that, we will now be writing rhyming poetry. Get to work now." It took about 5 whole seconds for the class to realize the teacher had stopped talking and they had to actually do something productive now. Right at the 6th second, the room was a-fill with chatter as classmates "wrote rhyming poetry." (Translation: talked about weekend plans, how Kikyou-sama was doing, who was hotter, Inuyasha or Kouga?, did Kagome and Inuyasha really break up?, What is Sango's problem, and what kind of therapy does she need?, oh, Miroku-sama, you're so cute! *cue growling Sango*)

Kouga sighed as he stared down at his various doodles, most were epic plans on destroying Inuyasha and stealing Kagome away. He was looking at a particularly gruesome one, where Inuyasha's head was rolling away as Kagome cried a single tear for her fallen lover before leaping into Kouga's arms and smothering him with true affection, something mutt-face could never give her. He smirked as he imagined it. He glanced over at the desk where Kagome, that damn Arake, and that taijiya Miroku was always pissing off were sitting. Kagome looked so beautiful as she concentrated on writing a poem. Oh yeah, that damn poem…he thought bitterly. He might as well write a love poem to Kagome, now that she and Inuyasha were officially broken up. He thought he would never see the beautiful day…

Inuyasha plunked his stuff down next to Kouga. "Might I join thou stinkiness?" he smirked.

"Of course, thy mutt-faced." Kouga retorted as he started the first stanza. Miroku joined them as well, sporting yet another lovely red-hand mark across his face.

Ayame sighed as she twirled her pencil around, creating strange squiggles on a page. "What should I write about?" she wondered aloud dreamily.

"Unrequited love?" Sango suggested bitterly, receiving a notebook-slap-on-back from Kagome.

"Brilliant!" Ayame cried, and in her excitement, breaking the lead of her pencil. "Damnit…" she muttered, standing to walk over to the pencil sharpener, passing Kouga's group in the process.

"What rhymes with June?" Kouga was asking now.

"It doesn't." Ayame muttered as she stalked by.

Inuyasha, Miroku, Kagome, and Sango sniggered appreciatively, though Kouga looked completely clueless, which caused a headdesk sort of reaction from Ayame. I have GOT to get a better taste in men…she thought bitterly.

Kagome smiled as she watched the various interactions between Kouga and Ayame, already seeing a beautiful relationship forming sometime in the future. She couldn't help but wonder if the same relationship was still holdable between her and Inuyasha…deep in her heart, she felt it wasn't.

Hojo, a stuttery, nice, somewhat good-looking boy entered the room and left behind a note on Kagome's desk. Kagome blinked in surprise. She didn't think Hojo was capable of being that sly. She read the note with growing interest, then glanced up at Inuyasha. The image of his lips pressed passionately against her sister's burned in her mind once more, fueling the hidden fire within her. She re-folded the note. Technically, she was free of a relationship right now, so it wouldn't be cheating to go out with Hojo, right? Technically, she didn't belong to anyone. Technically, Inuyasha wouldn't rip Hojo's intestines out his mouth if he caught them kissing. Technically, Kagome deserved a guy who wouldn't go behind her back with her sister. Screw it, technically, Inuyasha was a goddamn jerk.

Technically.


I'm pretty sure this one was slightly longer, though I could be wrong. Oh, dear memories from my own school life and the idiots that make up my class. Ayame's answers to Kouga's crap was something I would probably do XD as I'm planning to when we start writing in our poetry unit. I'm so excited to use the "it doesn't" line!

Thanks guys for the wonderful reviews. I love you all! I'll probably update MKXB tonight too, because I got my homework done right after school and my anime-watching spree is on hold. I started Special A last night, but for now, the second episode can be on hold while I update for my adoring fans~

By the way, on a random note before I leave you all for a while, I'm going to host a kind of contest where I post something and you "review" as your entry. Or something. I'll explain it more later, but until then, check my profile for update info on the contest and my stories.

*whew* this was longer than the intro! XD Love ya!

~August out