The World Can Be Very Strange
Chapter 21: On Kiss Can Change the Rest of Your School Year
Sango's POV:
It's the first day of 8th grade, and the picture of me and Miroku hasn't been shown to anyone.
Yet.
I have to keep an eye out, though. You never know when an embarrassing photo of you could be spread around the entire school without you knowing it...
Lets move on to a different topic now.
By chance, and luck, Kagome and I are in the same home room!
and guess who else appeared in our class?
Ayame!
apparently she skipped another grade, which kinda sucks for her cuz 7th grade is usually one of the best years of your life.
Also, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Koga are in our class too!
But apparently the teacher has no clue about us because she put Inuyasha and Koga next to each other, Ayame the other side of Koga, Me right in front of Ayame, and Kagome and Miroku on either side of me.
Half good, half bad.
at lunch, Kagome, Ayame, and I joined up with Rin and Kirara again, exchanging info about our new lives.
And the rest is mostly like last year, only spending more time with Ayame than before.
It's been a month since school started, and I still haven't heard anything about the picture?
Did she really take a picture or am I imagining it?
Did I imagine the whole scenario?
But... I'm sure it happened...
I'll just have to keep my eyes open a little longer.
Kagome's POV
Its been about a month science the start of 8th grade.
When I get to the classroom, I see the first edition of our school newspaper for this school year sitting on a desk.
I pick up a copy and walk to my seat, reading the first article.
Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a good summer. During the summer I have been going from place to place all take pictures of some of the students who were 6th and 7th graders last year. The following page holds the memories of this past summer vacation, which I have chosen myself. Read on or die. I'm serious, look at the next page or else I will blackmail you until there is nothing left of you. Beware, I have the information to do so...
-President of The Newspaper Club, Ayumi
Well she's creepy...
I turn the page and begin to look at all of the pictures, and one in particular catches my eye.
Why is there a picture of my best friend kissing the most perverted guy in school?
I turn to Sango, who apparently was reading over my shoulder, embarrassed.
"Uh, Sango? Is this photoshopped?" I ask.
"I can't lie to you, Kagome, but I will say that it wasn't-"
"Oh my god, Sango! Are you serious?!"
"Kagome, I didn't do anything!"
"But Sango this is proof that you-"
Sango clamped a hand over my mouth and took the newspaper from my desk.
"Kagome! Be quiet!"
Too late.
Miroku took the newspaper from Sango and looked at the picture.
Sango stared at him in horror as Ayame took the paper, from him, Koga took it from her, and Inuyasha took it from him. Then Koga took it back and Inuyasha grabbed it from him. Then the girl sitting next to Inuyasha took it, and so on.
Sango looked so embarrassed!
"s-sorry Sango..."
"It's ok Kagome, it wasn't you that took the picture. And besides, other kids will read the newspaper too, every classroom has enough copies for everyone in the class."
"Ok, but explain to me what actually happened later kay?"
"Yeah, definitely. At least somebody will know the real story. Miroku's no help with that."
Sango's POV:
Omigod, I'm so embarrassed! I knew I wasn't safe. That Ayumi girl creeps ame out though...
At lunch my other friends were questioning me too. So I told them what happened.
"Well, Miroku was hiding behind the snack bar after Koga and Inuyasha were chasing him, right? Well after everyone went home, including me, I realized that we had left Miroku there the whole time. So I went back and apparently he had fallen asleep behind the snack bar. I woke him up and we started walking home together. I warned him not to try anything, and he picked me up and started running down the sidewalk. He wouldn't let me go, and eventually he stopped running. By now we were near my house. But instead of putting me down he kissed me, and I couldn't pull away or anything cuz he was holding me so I couldn't move. And so I didn't struggle anymore and just tried to enjoy it cuz it was my first kiss. But then Ayumi snapped a picture and I couldn't catch her so I just went to my house."
The others were staring at me, it was awkward.
"So how was it?" Kagome asked.
"How was what?"
"The kiss!"
"W-what?"
"Well it was your first kiss, wasn't it, so how was it?"
"B-but it was Miroku I-I wasn't really paying attention to-"
"What?! I thought you said you tried to enjoy it!"
"That's kinda hard considering how lecherous he is, I mean, I have to warn him not to try anything every time I'm around him."
"But think about it, did the actually try anything lecherous that day?"
"Huh?" I think back to that day, trying to remember. "I don't think so..."
"Then that means he was at least trying to be romantic!"
"Kagome, he picked me up bridal style and started running. That's a little shady, don't you think so?"
"Come on Sango, get in the right mindset! You have to at least try to see improvement if you're ever gonna get married!"
"Kagome, what are you talking about?!"
"Oh, uh, well I just thought... Since you're the prettiest girl in school you should-"
"There's no way I'll ever marry that pervert! Are you out of your mind?"
"I-I didn't mean him but since you're so pretty and nice you deserve to get married when you get older."
"Huh? What do you mean? Why are you planning my wedding now I'm only in 8th grade!"
"Yeah... But since your first kiss was with Miroku..."
"Kagome, your first kiss means nothing! That is the person you're most likely not to fall in love with!"
"Oh... Then I... I guess I'm not..."
"Huh? Oh, no, I didn't mean anything about Inuyasha! Kagome, just listen to me! That pervert Miroku is more likely to get killed by me than to marry me. You and Inuyasha might be different, I didn't mean that, but Miroku and I aren't remotely close to being lovers, do you understand me?"
She looked up at me with a devilish smile. "Are you sure?"
"Uh oh... You have that look on your face... I don't know what it means but I'm pretty sure I don't want to..."
"Sango, are you sure you hate Miroku THAT much?"
"W-well not that much... I can't really call him a 'friend' But I don't hate him either..."
"Then what exactly is your relationship with him?"
"What do you mean by relationship?"
"Oh, come on Sango, you want to love him and you know it! He kissed you and you didn't even slap him afterwards!"
Wait, I didn't slap him afterwards did I?
"I didn't... Wait, why didn't I slap him? Oh yeah, I was planning to kill him after the story got out."
"Um, why?"
"Because if the story didn't get out then-"
"So you weren't going to kill him just for kissing you, you were going to kill him for embarrassing you!"
"What's the difference?"
"Don't you see? If no one had found out you wouldn't have wanted to kill him! If you hadn't been interrupted..."
"Kagome, I'm pretty sure I would have still slapped him as soon as he stopped kissing me."
"But if you hadn't been interrupted by the camera flash you would have kissed for longer and it would have been different!"
"Might I remind you that this is my life and you have your own love problems to deal with?"
"Ha! You tried to change the subject! That means you're embarrassed to talk about this!"
"Kagome, you're speaking too loudly!" I whisper-shout.
it was true, a few heads from nearby lunch tables ahead turned towards us.
"I don't care! I'm going to make sure you know exactly who you're in love with!"
"What the heck is that supposed to mean?!"
"I'm talking about-"
I cover her mouth and say "You're embarrassing me!"
She crosses her arms and glares at me, then her eyes widen as she sees something- or someone- who is behind me and points in that direction.
I slowly turn my head to see what she was pointing at.
it was Miroku.
He is sitting at his lunch table and his head is turned to look at me and Kagome. He blinks at me, and I blink back. There is a somewhat innocent look on his face and he looks... Almost cute, actually. I blush at the thought then shake my head as if to erase the thought from my mind. The the bell rings, and I guess I could say I'm saved.
Everyone pours out of the cafeteria and I'm lost in the crowd.
At the beginning of class, the same seats as before, Miroku won't stop looking at me with that look on his face.
Even when I'm not looking at him, as soon as I turn towards him he's looking at me like that. Which also means I tend to look at him a lot to see if he's still doing it.
And the weird thing is, I don't really mind that much. I mean I don't know why he's doing that, but it's like... Well I don't really know. I don't necessarily want him to keep looking at me but I don't care...
The thing is, he's had a crush on me since 5th grade, but he's such a pervert I didn't think it mattered whether it was me or somebody else.
But now that I think about it he doesn't go after any of my friends...
This is so confusing, what do I do? I can't have him staring at me like this for the rest of the school year!
But I'm not ready to give Kagome what she wants.
I mean, it's not like I want to date Miroku!
At this I glance over at him again.
He's still staring at me with that same look on his face!
Why why why why why!
I just want to know!
After class he comes up to me.
"Hello, Sango." He says.
"What?" I reply.
"Why so sour? I only greeted you."
"Um, maybe because there's a picture of us kissing in the school newspaper?"
"My dear Sango, if there is a reason-"
"Just shut up, ok? I don't want anything to do with you anymore. You've basically ruined the whole school year just because of what you did! And I'm tired of having to basically destroy you every time you do something perverted, so just leave me alone."
"But Sango-"
Gahh why does he have to make that 'innocent' face?!
"No, I don't care how cute you might look when you make that face, or whatever made me not destroy you lately, don't come anywhere near me anymore. If you aren't around, I don't have to do anything about you."
He blinked at me.
"You think I'm cute when I make this face?"
Wait, did I say that out loud?
oops...
I blush a bit, but then yell at him.
"Is that all you heard?! I told you to stay away!"
"Sango..."
"What is your problem? Leave me alone!"
"But I sit right next to you."
That's a good point...
"Well then at least stop looking at me! Every single time I see you you're staring at me with that weird face! It's creeping me out!"
"Well I have to look at something, why can't it be you? You are beautiful after all."
"You-" my mind processes what he just said. "What? How can you say something like that after what I just said to you?"
"Well it's true, it doesn't matter what you say. That doesn't change the fact that you're the prettiest girl I've ever met."
Ok, this time I blush.
"Miroku? Wait, what? Are you seriously going to say this now?!"
"What, you don't like me back? Why Sango, I am hurt."
There was something about his voice that made it sound like he wasn't actually mad at me for anything.
"Miroku, I don't give a crap about if you like me or not, so do what you want, but you will never get me to-"
Just then, my phone rang.
It was the hospital.
Kohaku.
I actually had a lot of trouble with this chapter. I'm sorry if it was too blabby, sometimes it's hard to read conversation like this. But at the last second had an idea, so I decided to leave you with a cliffy.