Title: Secrets
by: Captain-Danger

Note: Kagome isn't aware of Kurama's association with the supernatural which is why she refers to him as Shuichi, just so you all know.

On another note, I would like to inform those of you who will read this that I am going to try and return to as a two year hiatus from writing has left my quite nostalgic. Slowly but surely these drabbles will be finished. Due to a change of interests, I've regrettably lost contact with wlk and Seri-chan, however please be aware that some of the already published drabbles are their works and theirs alone.

Shuichi Minamino; number one again.

Kagome slanted her eyes minutely to the left, observing the brilliant boy with the scarlet hair. He paid her no attention, staring up at the class rankings, his name at the top of the list for the umpteenth time. No emotion registered across his smooth face as far as she could tell. No pride, no pleasure at his accomplishment as the most intelligent boy in the school. He was just there.

"I really envy you, you know," she confessed suddenly, a little surprised that she had relayed her ponderings to him. Her voice broke his own reverie and he finally glanced her way with his old, emerald eyes.

Old? Kagome wondered where that had come from, but she supposed there was no other way to describe them because they really did look that way, as though he had seen a lot in his time. Just like me.

"How so, Kagome-san?" he inquired softly. Curiosity was a power force and she could see it in those bottomless depths. She smiled, though more to herself than to him at the notion. Curious like a little fox she knew.

"Well," Kagome began, spinning lightly on her heel to lean against the wall, clasping her arms behind her back as she thought about her answer, "—anyone would be envious of you, I guess. Your grades are unmatched, but I really wonder how you do it sometimes," she pushed off the wall, restless all the sudden; his eyes followed her every movement, flashing a lustrous gold that caught her off guard. Her train of thought was swept away in the light breeze that flowed in through the open window.

Shuichi chuckled at her and her brows furrowed, "How I do it, Kagome-san? You seemingly imply that I have secrets to my academic success."

"Everyone has secrets, Shuichi-san," she said, a note of solemnity in her soft voice he noticed astutely. She quickly regained her bearings, coaxing back to the surface that enigmatic smile from before, "but you're right. Though you disappear sometimes for extended periods of time I'm sure that you maintain your schoolwork somehow. Ja ne!" her eyes were laughing at him as she strolled away and he stared after her until she disappeared, left alone in the empty hallway.

Shuichi moved to the window, spotting her once again as she crossed the courtyard to the entrance gate, the waning light glinting off her raven hair. Did she suspect something about him? A smirk pulled at his mouth.

And just what are your secrets, Kagome?