*Hello people, thank you for those of who reviewed, (3, sniffle), and I would just like to point out that since the italics didn't work, I put the characters thoughts in these thingies ' and'. I hope the previous chapters were not confusing because it's hard to distinguish if someone is thinking or not w/o the italics. ***







Chapter Three: Over the Wall+Jealousy

"Oh no! I'm gonna be late! Ack!!! No please please, stay!" cried Kagome as she ran to the bus stop with a full bus that had was ready to leave.

Barely squeezing into the over crowded bus; she finally finds a seat at the back of the bus next to the window. Next to her is Inu-yasha, but she doesn't realize this because she already fell asleep.

"Ahh!!! Where am I?" Kagome cried. Turning to see who was seated next to her, she quickly spotted the solemn face of Inu-yasha, and realized that they were the only ones on the bus.

"Why didn't you wake me up? Now I'm going to be late!" roared an anxious and angry Kagome.

Passively Inu-yasha turned to look at her.

"What's your problem, wench?" Inu-yasha glared back.

Angry at the thought of being late- again, Kagome gave him her most evil eye, and got off at the closest bus stop. But not before Inu-yasha had gotten the head start, going off to the wrong direction- away from school.

'What the heck is he doing?' Kagome wondered as she started to follow him.

Finally spotting the silver-haired hanyou, Kagome stopped in surprise as she saw him digging through his coat for a cigarette and a lighter.

Rushing before he could put that disgusting thing in his mouth, she yelled and grabbed the arm that held the cigarette. "What do you think you're doing? Didn't anyone tell you that smoking is bad for you? You Idiot! Come on, we're already late for school!"

'Who does that wench think she is? Why does she even care? Oh well. '

Dragging a reluctant hanyou along, Kagome felt relieved that everyone else was too busy to notice the scenario.

Fifteen minutes of walking fast paced, they finally reached the front gates of their school. "Dang it, it's locked!" Kagome cursed herself for sleeping late and again for sleeping on the bus. "Well, come on, we have to go this way!"

They went around the school until they reached a head high brick wall.

As she had started to take off her shoes, she explained, "Look Inu-yasha, I've never done this before, and if it weren't for you, I wouldn't ever do this. Anyways, you just crouch on the ground so I can get on your back to get over this wall. OK?"

Silently Inu-yasha obeyed. With too much on the poor guy's mind, he had no strength to argue. Snow covered his hands and legs as Kagome started to get on his back. His flow of thought was interrupted when Kagome's demanding voice commanded, "Don't you dare look up my skirt, Inu-yasha!"

"I couldn't even if I wanted to- you're just too heavy!" he retorted, feigning pain and weakness.

When she finally got on the wall, she reached down her hand so Inu-yasha could get over too. Ignoring her hand, he picked up her shoes, put them on her feet, and jumped over with ease and grace.

'Show off," Kagome muttered, while feeling awed as an affection for him became just a bit stronger.

"Come on, I'll help you down," he said, putting up both arms towards her, so she'd safely jump down.

The stubborn part of her wanted to just jump down without his help, but quickly gave in to his arms, sensing that though this guy had a sharp tongue, there was a deep kindness in him.

As they entered the classroom, Kagome and Inu-yasha immediately felt uncomfortable. On the chalkboard was something that was just unspeakable. Kagome and Inu-yasha's names in a crudely drawn heart. [pic]Who did this?

Kikyou's glare of hatred and jealousy had traveled to her face from across the class, Miroku and Sango's questioning stare was apparent, as well as Hojo's worried smile was strong, though oblivious to all the others , who were suspecting a scandal of some sort.

When Professor Kaede approached the chalkboard, she mercifully erased it without a glance.

Lunch time came too soon for Kagome's point of view. Immediately she was bombarded by ridiculous questions about her and Inu-yasha.

"Are you guys. You know. ?" Sango dared to venture.

Miroku interrupted before giving Kagome a chance to explain herself. "Why do you even question that, Sango? It's obvious, isn't it?"

"You guys! You have it all wrong. I just fell asleep on the bus. Nothing happened!"

Sango tried to calm her. "Ok, we believe you, nothing happened."

"But Kikyou's not going to believe that," Miroku whispered, half talking to himself.

A soft worried groan came out of Kagome. "Oy. she's planning something evil for sure."

But little did any of them know how much anger Kikyou had stored against Kagome..

'I better get him before she ever has another chance with him again.'



"Dang it! Some one messed up the radio equipment!" Hojo said with controlled frustration.

The group of girls, Kikyou, Kagome, Sango, and Miroku crowed into a corner, afraid of the unknown wrath of Hojo. (Does he even have other emotions than happy or worried?)

Everyone was also warily watching Kikyou, but she seemed to behave herself because, surprise, surprise, Inu-yasha was there too.

Suddenly, Inu-yasha wordlessly went up to the radio equipment, rummaged around the space between the wall and the valuable equipment.

In less than a minute, the radio equipment was quickly fixed. A happy Hojo, and a googley-eyed Kikyou entered the recording room to see if it worked.

Hojo's smiling face graced the doorway, with everyone else staring in awe of Inu-yasha. Kikyou selfishly grasped that chance to flirt with Inu-yasha.

"Hey! How did you do that? You are so goooooooood at this kind of stuff, aren't you?"

Silence was his only response.

Walking home was pretty annoying that day for Inu-yasha. Kikyou had followed him like a dog and was saying ridiculous things.

"I know what kind of guy you are."

"....."

"You're the shy type, and I know you like me."

"....."

"Ok, fine. I'll do you a favor. YOU can take ME out for dinner tonight." This made Inu-yasha stop walking. 'Who does she think she is? As if wasting my money on her is a favor.' He turned and raised his eyebrow at her in a you-don't-know-who-i-am-look. This stopped her following him.

Although there was not much outer reaction, one look at Kikyou's fiery eyes showed how angry and embarrassed she was. No one had ever turned her down! How dare he refuse her! 'It's all the wench Kagome's fault. I'll get him. I will.'

It was the next day, and Sango was clearly worried.

"Oh no... This is my worst subject, and we have a test today!"

Unlike Miroku's normal teasing character, he tried to calm her. "Hey, it's ok." Or so she thought. "A 10 percent is great, just multiply that by 10 again, and you have an A!"

*Smack* The victim WAS Miroku, but this time, it was Kagome who hit him.