The Golden Years

By Angel of AnimeXOXO *****

Disclaimer: Inu Yasha is not mine!!! Stop rubbing it in already, do you want me to cry?!? *Sniffle*

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* Wheu I made it in time! What would the teachers think if I was late for the first day of my freshman year *

Hagurashi Kagome took her seat near the back of the classroom. She had long wavy black hair and steely blue eyes. The new uniform was still a bit stiff and had that just came out of the box smell to it. It was a hunter green mini skirt with a white-collar shirt and a cream knitted vest overtop with the school's emblem in the upper right hand corner. It was such a change from the sailor suit of her middle school, it made Kagome feel very grown up.

Kagome chanced a look around the room, the teacher was in the front gathering up some papers, a few students were chatting. There was a guy in front of her who was really cute, but looked like a perv, he was checking out all the girls in the room and smiling to himself. There was a girl beside him, she was very pretty, she had her hair pulled back in a high ponytail, the pervert seemed especially interested in her, and all she could do was look away with a red face. Kagome chuckled to herself as she watched the faces of the boy and girl.

"Ok, ok everyone, take your seats. We'll begin now."

All the students slowly drifted towards their seats when suddenly the door flung open. Everyone turned to see who it could be, when in waltzed a boy. Kagome suddenly felt a blush creep over her features; he was tall and very muscular and had strange golden eyes and long white hair, and. were those dog ears on top of his head? He scowled a little at the teacher and took the last remaining seat in the back, which happened to be the one next to Kagome.

"Well since this is your first day I will excuse the tardy, now for the attendance. Hagurashi Kagome"

"Present!"

"Misaki Koyga"

"Hai,"

"Takahashi Miroku"

"Hai!"

"Tendo Yuki"

"Present"

"Wanatabe Inu. Yasha?"

"Feh,"

"Well moving on. Wakaohji Sango?"

"Hai"

Kagome glanced over to her left, the boy was slouched in his chair looking extremely bored.

*Inu Yasha. What an odd name.* Kagome could see the boy peering at her out of the corner of his eye, what was he thinking?

"Ok class, now that that's done, onto the syllabus."

The teacher began passing out the papers to each student. He talked of homework assignments and books, tardies and make up work.

*It's the same every year. hopefully they wont make us do any of those stupid get to know your classmates first day activities.* Kagome was so lost in thought she almost missed the piece of folded paper that landed on her desk. Slowly she unwrapped it. Ah the fair Kagome- sama, will you bear my child?

- Takahashi Miroku /Sweat drop/, Kagome quickly scrunched up the piece of paper and beaned the guy in front of her in the head with it. Kagome could see Inu Yasha snicker out of the corner of her eye.

Eventually the class ended and the students filed out, on to the next class. It was the same routine, roll call and syllabus, then the next and the next, all the same. The only thing Kagome paid attention to is how Inu Yasha seemed to be in all her classes, and the teacher always seemed to sit them close to each other, if not next, then in front, or behind, it was a little creepy.

Finally it was lunch! Kagome made her way to the lunchroom with her Bento Box and looked for a place to sit. She spied Wakahoji Sango sitting with Takahashi Miroku at a table and she paddled over to them.

*Well since we have homeroom together I might as well introduce myself*

"Hi I'm Hagurashi Kagome! I noticed you two were in my homeroom, mind if I sit with you? .hello?" The two were completely ignoring her, Miroku kept trying to talk to Sango and she just kept turning away her face as red as ever.

"Um. hello??"

"Ah! Hagurashi- sama, please join us. you are looking lovely today, might you want to bear my - oof!"

"Miroku no Hentai! I am very sorry Hagurashi- san, he is like that with EVERY girl."

"Not every girl, just the pretty ones! Oof!"

Kagome giggled to herself, these two were certainly funny together, and it seemed that they liked each other too.

"Uh. you can call me Kagome!"

"Ok, my name's Sango and this hentai is Miroku!"

Kagome just smiled, High School was going to be so much fun!

"So what's your next class, Kagome?"

"Uh. lemme check my schedule." Kagome pulled out a small rectangular piece of paper and began comparing it with Sango's.

"Wow, we have four classes together!"

"That's good, now I don't always have to sit next to him!"

The two girls giggled as Miroku continued to rub his bruised shin that Sango had kicked a total of five times today alone. *This is gonna be a looooong year.*

The trio ate their lunch and chit chatted a little, then the bell rang and all the students rushed off to their classrooms. Kagome tried to head for the language labs, but got lost along the way, she found herself outside in the courtyard lined with cherry blossom trees. *I am soooo late! I wonder if the teacher will understand I got lost? * Kagome started to tear up, she just knew something like this was going to happen to ruin the first day, and it was going so well up until now. Suddenly leaned up against one of the trees in front of her was the figure of a boy. It was Inu Yasha! The boy had his eyes closed and . *Is he sleeping?? I wonder if. if those ears are real!* Kagome slowly walked up to the sleeping boy, she slowly reached out and touched an ear, it flicked a little, like when you touch a cat's ear. Kagome reached up to tug on both at the same time, when she slipped on the cherry blossom carpeted floor [Hey it might be romantic, with cherry blossom carpeted grounds, but those suckers r slippery when they r wet! Sry back to the story.] and fell completely on top of Inu Yasha, of course he woke up and was fast enough to catch her before she fell to the ground. They just stood there in shock for a little bit, their noses slightly touching, when they both seemed to snap out of their trance and stood up, a blush over both of their faces.

"Wha. what were you doing?? Kikyo??"

"Gomen, Gomen Nasi Wanatabe- kun, I just wanted to see if your ears. if they were well real. gomen again"

Kagome bowed deep, trying to hide her crimson face.

"Kikyo?? What are you doing?"

Kagome was a bit surprised, but managed to stammer out "I- I'm not Kikyo"

"Ah, you're Higurashi Kagome aren't you,"

"You remember me?"

"No, it's just you looked like her, who else could it be."

"Huh, her? Who's her?"

Inu Yasha looked a little taken aback by this, but quickly regained his composure. He searched Kagome's face a little, and looked her all over.

"That doesn't matter, at first I thought u were her, but now I see you are defiantly not, Kikyo is much prettier, and slimmer, she's better built and looks as if she's smarter too."

Kagome didn't like his smug attitude. She bashed him on the head and turned to go.

"The language labs aren't that way. they're over there." Inu Yasha pointed towards the school building."

Kagome looked that way, but her face clouded over with confusion.

"/grumble, grumble/ common I'll take ya, its where I'm supposed to go anywise."

When the two arrived they quickly found English level 3 and walked in, Kagome deeply apologized to the teacher, who was nice enough and seemed to understand that they had in fact gotten lost and let them off with a warning.

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"Mom! Tadaima[1]!"

"Okaerinasai[2], are you hungry?"

"Famished!"

"Come into the kitchen and I'll make you a snack while you tell me how your day was, don't leave out anything? So. what's it like in high school huh? Very different from middle school?"

"It was ok, I only got lost once, and I made two new friends, hey do I smell oden?"

"Yes, I thought tonight would be a good night for it."

"Oden.."

"Kagome- chan stop drooling, here have some strawberries."

"Arigato." Kagome started stuffing her mouth with strawberries.

"Slow down honey! Hey where's your bento box?"

"Here," Kagome handed her the box "It was great,"

"Honey, why didn't you eat your carrots?"

"I don't like carrots!"

"Fine, so you had a good day?"

"Yes, my teachers are nice."

"That's good, so tell me about these two new friends,"

"Oh, there's a girl Wakahoji Sango and a guy, Takahashi Miroku, I think they must know each other from middle school, but I have four classes with Sango, we ate lunch together,"

"That's great honey!"

"Yeah, can't wait until tomorrow." She grabbed a few strawberries to go and stood up to head to her room.

"Thanks for the strawberries mom, call me when dinners ready,"

"Ok honey," Kagome ran up the stairs and into her room, where she changed out of her school uniform. Her room was neat and tidy; she had a small desk in one corner, and all her textbooks on a shelf next to it.

*Wheu, I am sooo glad exams are over!* She plunked herself down in the chair and pulled a small diary from the shelf. She fished around in the top drawer of the desk and found the key and unlocked it. She glanced at the cover, there was a panda with a lima bean shaped head doing a hand stand [TARE PANDA KICKS!].

Dear Tare,

Today was my first day of high school. I did well on my exams and got into a pretty good school, I am so happy. I met two new friends today, Sango and Miroku, Sango seems really nice, I think we'll become really good friends. Miroku is a bit of a pervert, but he seems nice enough. I think him and Sango have a love/ hate relationship going on or something. I got lost on my way to English today, and I ran into this boy called 'Inu Yasha', he called me Kikyo! Who's that? He was kinda cute tho, and really buff. he's in all my classes, isn't that weird. Maybe I'll find out more about him tomorrow, but I smell oden from downstairs, gotta go!

Love,

-Kagome

"Kagome! Come help me with dinner!"

"Hai! Coming!" Kagome quickly shut her diary and replaced it on her shelf and ran downstairs to help her mom.

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Hi all, this was an idea I played around with a while back, I just kinda finished this chapter. I am not sure if I am gonna continue it. I think tho for the next chapter, Kikyo= hottest chick in school, Inu Yasha's girl friend, Inu Yasha & Kagome do a project together (most likely the 'what is marriage like' project or something) Kagome joins archery team. Plus, homecoming!! And what's the theme? Why feudal Japan of course!

A note on the school, It really sounds like a normal American high school in this chapter, but it's gonna be a fusion of Japanese and American, ie Students clean rooms, girls in guy shorts, whatever.

If ya like this fic so far (not much to go on.) or ya like my ideas for the rest please review, otherwise I won't continue it, cuz unlike my other fics, I don't have any more chapters to this right now.

[1] - 'I'm Home!'

[2] - 'Welcome Home!"