Thank you so much for your encouraging reviews you guys:sniffles: I feel so loved...

Yeah, fuf, I think I'm allergic to something. I just don't know what and I don't want to get tested.

Anyway, this is the pep rally and the mayhem that follows.

Kagome snuck into the crowded student body by climbing the fence that ringed the parking lot behind the school. Jostled by nameless people that were going to watch her run around like an idiot after a ball, she kept her head down and hoped that Inuyasha wouldn't catch sight of her.

She thought that she saw Sango and Rin, but it turned out to be two entirely different girls. Kagome decided that it was best to avoid her insanely cheerful friends and took off for the football field.

Avoiding eye contact with anything that possessed a vaguely human shape, she didn't realize when she walked straight into Kouga.

He, of course, immediately assumed that she was throwing herself at him and decided that it was high time she expressed her undying love and devotion to his manly self. Without a single thought for Kikyo—his GIRLFRIEND—he turned around and practically glomped her, one fist raised in victory.

"Kagome, I always knew that you would choose to be my woman!" he exclaimed.

The victim of the idiot's air-filled head sweat-dropped and tried to get away from him. All of Kagome's efforts were in vain however, because the jerk had the nerve to work out and eat healthy meals, building up his muscles and endurance levels.

As Kagome continued to struggle, she snapped something vital in Kouga's brain. He suddenly became akin to a monkey in his hefting the lightweight Kagome and placing her on his shoulder like a small child getting a piggyback ride. Kagome, in a very undignified position, swallowed her pride and looked up to see if any of her friends could help her.

They were, par normal, residing in the uppermost rows of the bleachers. Sango and Rin were pointing over at the gathered powder-puffs and probably looking for Kagome. Sesshoumaru was...asleep...and Miroku was reading what Kagome assumed to be a porno magazine, from the way he kept looking up to see if anyone had caught sight of him yet.

She found Kikyo easily enough. Why?

She was sitting on top of Inuyasha.

Kagome let out a small growl of frustration that turned into a full-fledged scream of annoyance, beating Kouga until he let her down and marching towards the stands.

Everyone thought that he was asleep.

In truth, he had been asleep.

His exceptional hearing picked up the sound of Kagome's frustrated cry and he looked over at his brother. The Makahoto with the obligations to the enraged female was currently engaged in outright flirting with his ex girlfriend, and appeared to be in a rather compromising position.

Suddenly, the truth became clear.

Sesshoumaru knew why Kagome was angry, and attempted to right the situation before it could get any worse. Getting to his feet faster than he ever had in his life, he picked up the offending ex girlfriend and chucked her head-first down the bleachers.

She landed somewhat haphazardly in the bandstand, gaining cries and curses from the crowd. Several kids in the bandstand pushed the ex off of them, making her land rather painfully on her already abused butt. From what Sesshoumaru could see, she took down a handful of flutes and a bass clarinet with her.

By now, his brother had jumped up to call his ex's name in feigned alarm, before turning and discreetly thanking him.

Sesshoumaru thought that this was odd behavior for Inuyasha, who usually was blunt in his opinions and had a low tolerance for facades. In this situation, it appeared that Inuyasha was for some reason putting up with Kikyo, even though in the past he would have brazenly told her to 'fuck off'.

Contemplating the reasons for his brother's actions and getting himself nearly trapped in the paradoxes of the logic of his twin, he simply observed that Kagome had reached the area and he could no longer prevent any damage done to the idiot he shared a room with.

Sesshoumaru decided that Inuyasha was, in his own words, a 'sad fucker' and needed to go and 'fuck off' himself.

Kagome's jaw dropped as she watched Kikyo sail over the heads of half the bleachers and land in the band. She resisted the giddy feeling in her stomach and restrained a giggle as Inuyasha pretended to be concerned.

At least I know he's faking it now. If he really cared about her, Sesshoumaru would be in deep shit. But then, why the hell is he putting up with her?

Kagome hesitated before ascending the final rows of the bleachers. She said her hellos to Sango and Rin, paused to punch Miroku in the gut and throw his porno into the backyard behind the bleachers and gloat as he groped after it, and then threw her arms around the hoodie-coated form of Sesshoumaru.

The Elder Twin sputtered at being awoken and blinked at the woman thanking him so sincerely for eliminating the problem at hand.

"I have no idea why Inuyasha is being so passive," Sesshoumaru said by way of apology.

"Neither do I. In fact, that's what I came up here to find out." Kagome announced.

Turning, she struck up a female war pose against Inuyasha—hands on her hips, feet braced, glare in place, brows creased, head lowered. Inuyasha turned to her from his gaping at Kikyo as she beat one of the band members over the head with a foldable chair, only to blink and make a little hop backwards.

By now school officials were reaching the rabid Kikyo and attempting to restrain her. She was crying out piteously for Inuyasha to help her, when she finally got angry and whipped a flute up at him.

Lucky for Inuyasha, her aim sucked. The airborne flute ended up hitting Miroku and knocking him out cold before he got the chance to connect his fingers with Sango's butt. The girl called a thank you down to Kikyo before continuing her conversation with Rin.

Inuyasha stared at Kagome for a minute. "Why are you up here? Shouldn't you be on the field with the other cheerleaders?"

She huffed, concealing how hurt she was at his remark. "Is there a reason I shouldn't be up here? What the hell were you doing? What the hell HAVE you been doing? All week I've been putting up with this! Do you have any idea how many classes I'm failing right now because of you?" she advanced, jabbing him in the chest with a finger as she continued. "Everything that's wrong right now has happened because of YOU! You told me you loved me, Inuyasha, but then you go running off to Kikyo. What the hell is your problem? Is your idea of love that warped? Asshole!"

"Bitch! You haven't let me explain!"

"What is there to explain? I've been watching you all week!"

"For five minutes! Wench, did you ever stop to ask what was happening!"

"What would you say? You're teamed up for a science project? You've joined the float committee?"

"Circumstances are a little bit beyond my control! I love you, bitch! I always will! You can't always believe what you see, Kagome!"

She was silent for a moment, shaking with silent fury. "What I see?" she asked, voice deathly silent. "WHAT I SEE?" she roared, eyes brimming with tears. "I see the person I love turning away from me with no reason at all, Inuyasha Makahoto! And if that's not reason enough for me to come storming up here, then I'll tell you what is! The pain of having your heart ripped out and fed to you as that person tries to justify everything! Just leave me alone!"

She turned and stormed back down the bleachers after punching Inuyasha in the gut one more time. She didn't look back or stop until she reached the powder-puff mob, fists clenched and muscles tight with stress and anger.

While they had been exchanging such...colorful words, the school had fallen silent. Even Sango and Rin had stopped their prattle to listen to their best friends argue. Kikyo had been led into the school and the paramedics had been called to test her sanity, but other than the sirens and bustle caused by returning school officials, there was silence.

The powder-puff girls applauded lightly when Kagome arrived in their midst, patting her on the back and parting to let her through until she chose a place to sit and wait for the festivities to continue. Slow and scattered applause filtered out of the bleachers as well, until a voice came on over the PA system.

"SESSHOUMARU MAKAHOTO TO PRINCIPAL MACAZE'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!"

The school was in shock that it had not been Inuyasha's name called. Sure, his twin wasn't perfect, but it was rare that he got in trouble. It sounded as if Sesshoumaru was in a great deal of trouble to boot.

Sesshoumaru made his way down the bleachers and a slightly more calm voice claimed the PA systems.

"Now that the...um...accidents have been taken care of, and the show is over, we're going to continue with our program. First we will have the naming of the football players and a short statement about each of them from our captain, Kouga."

Said pompous ass walked onto the field as if he owned it and made sure that his team was lined up. He lifted a microphone to his lips and proceeded to name each of the players.

Every single statement after each name was, "He's too ugly to have my woman,"

Kagome resisted slapping her forehead when she realized that he was actually talking about her, instead of Kikyo. Maybe if the ex got more attention from her new boyfriend, she wouldn't have to try and take Kagome's.

Kagome settled down for what would prove to be a long, drawn out afternoon.

IN THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE...

Sesshoumaru settled down, after casting a quick glance around at his brother's obvious presence in the office. Yuka Macaze did not look happy to see him, nor forgiving and playful as she usually did when dealing with Inuyasha or some of Sess' minor offenses.

"Tossing a girl into the air and letting her land a fair distance down is not a minor offense, Sesshoumaru Makahoto,"

He jumped, regarding the principal as if she were dangerous. "So what they say is true. The Macaze-beast possesses the power of mind reading,"

Her eyebrow twitched but she ignored his comment. "I've called the authorities. Since you're not out of High School yet, you can work the offense off your record through community service. Otherwise, it will be recorded as malicious conduct and intent. If Kikyo's parents decided to press charges before you agreed to community service, you could end up serving jail time."

Sesshoumaru tried his hardest not to doze off. She sounded like a teacher, and those always meant sleep for him. He knew that she was saying things that were important, but...hey, sleep is important too!

"Might I suggest a community service project? Let me make a quick phone call over to the after school orchestral program that your brother has become so very fond of,"

"No Inuyasha, that's okay. I'll take jail over Inuyasha any time, Macaze-beast."

Her eyebrow twitched again. "Don't call me that, Makahoto. If you don't want to work with the music students, then I have the perfect tutoring case for you.

"Sesshoumaru, I would like you to meet Jaken Ninkotsu. He's going to be your sibling in the Big Brother program for the rest of the year."

sorry this is so incredibly delayed. Thanks sooooo much for supporting me and not chewing my head off when I said I was depressed...everyone's so nice to me...

anyway, I am sort of officially ill. I'm a few days behind my dad with this illness thing, so I'll probably update soon too. School is a bitch, but I don't think I'm very depressed any more.

'Sides, I get to play a new song on Saturday with Kitty:D

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