Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed! You all are so great!
I'm sorry, but Miroku doesn't die in this chapter. Hehe, you got to wait for the next one! HAHAHAHA! Okay, I'm done being evil......for now. DUN DUN DUN
Oh, and any OOCness in this story is done for one of three reasons: 1.) it was accidental. 2.) it was necessary. 3.) it was purely for my enjoyment. ^_^ Most of the time, it's done for reason number 3.
And PS, I'm pretty sure (for the moment anyway) that I'm putting the characters in an American school system----since I have no idea what the Japanese one is like and I'm not even sure if they have Homecoming dances there. I'm sorry if this bother's anyone. But hey, this A/U right? Doesn't that mean I can do what I want with them? Being the authoress is sooooo much fun!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. And, if you thought I did-----don't worry. If you sit very still, the voices will get bored and leave you alone.
Chapter Three
In Which There Is Some Door Slamming, Some Sketches, And A Food Fight.
Inuyasha stood in front of his make-shift home.....it was probably the best place he had every stayed in----even if it was only a two-bedroom, one bathroom, one story flat in the middle of no where. It did have a large back yard, which had its good points.
He growled angrily; his fists curled into balls as he stared evilly at a random bush. All of his life he had been bounced around from family to family like an unwanted burden all because of his father's heritage.
He had been called a freak his whole life.....well, until Kaede took him in and taught him a concealing spell.
Keade was his current and longest-running foster mother. She was not a demon herself, but knew of them very well. In fact, several years ago (before Inuyasha even lived with her) a demon of the name Sesshomarou came to her asking if she would take care of his daughter named Rin.
Well, Sesshomarou was gone----to where Inuyasha had no clue, and didn't even bother asking. It was sort of a touchy subject....so, he ignored it. Ignoring his problems was a very easy way to deal with them.
But then there was a very annoying problem that was incredibly hard to ignore----and that's problem name was Shippou. Shippou----his foster brother whose sole purpose in life was to make Inuyasha's life a living hell. He was a demon himself, a kitsune at that, and was always using his illusional, magical toys to torture Inuyasha with.
Sighing, he shoved his hands in his pockets and walking into the small house.
He barely got the door closed before Shippou pounced on him, literally.
"Get off my face, twerp!" Inuyasha exclaimed, prying the small boy off of his head. He held him up by his hind legs and smirked evilly at him. "Now that I have you, what should I do with you? Give you a swirly perhaps?"
"Put me down, DOG BREATH!" Shippou squealed, wriggling in an attempt to get out of Inuyasha's hold.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and let go of Shippou, sending him crashing to the ground in a very unceremonious manner.
"Inuyasha!" Kaede scolded, suddenly appearing in the doorway to the kitchen.
Kaede was a short and stout woman, with a stern face and gray hair. She wore an eye patch over her right eye for reason's unknown to anyone but herself. Though her appearance was that of an old, tuff woman, she was kind (when she wanted to be) and agile for her old age.
"I know he's annoying," Keade continued, picking up a now crying Shippou, "but that's no reason to hurt him."
"Well, he asked me to let go of him," Inuyasha stated.
Kaede gave him a Don't-You-Dare look.
Inuyasha shrugged and walked off. "I'll be in my room," he told no one in particular.
"*Our* room," Shippou corrected. Amazingly enough, his tears had stopped.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and slammed his and/or Shippou's bedroom door.
Rin came out of her and Kaede's bedroom, a sour look on her face.
"Rin, are you studying?" Kaede asked, setting Shippou down.
Rin crossed her arms against her chest indignantly. "I don't wanna."
Keade sighed and put her hands on her hips. "Why?"
Rin shrugged, looking away from her foster mother angrily.
"Rin," Kaede warned, raising her eyebrow.
The young girl 'hmmph'ed before storming back into her and/or Kaede's room, slamming the door behind her.
Kaede sighed and shook her head.
"What are we gonna do with them, Miss Kaede?" Shippou asked from his seat on the ground.
"Well, I'm going to call Rin's teacher." She announced, walking to the kitchen phone. "I don't know why she's taken such a disliking to school....she's always been so diligent in her studies."
Shippou sighed and shook his head. "Kids these days."
Kaede chuckled slightly before dialing Rin's teacher's phone number.
*~*~*~* At the hospital *~*~*~*
Sango chewed on her bottom lip as she carefully drew sketches for the float design in her notebook. This year's homecoming was going to be the greatest ever!
"Sango," her mother's voice began in a disapproving hiss, causing her to look up from her sketches.
"What?" Sango asked in the same hissing tone.
Her mother glared at her. "We are in a hospital."
She nodded in agreement. "I am well aware of that, Mother."
"Your brother is in major surgery right now and you are working!" Her mother exclaimed in an angry whisper, sitting down next to her.
"What do you want me to be doing now, Mother?" Sango asked. "Pace back and forth like a crazed lunatic when I could be working? That makes no logical sense."
"Is you school more important then your brother's transplant?" She snapped.
Sango sighed. "No, it's not. But there's not much I can do----Kohaku is going to come out from his hear transplant healthy as a horse and he won't ever get sick again, save the flu and what not. So now, while we wait, I'm going to finish my sketches so that I can take my mind off of the surgery and, that we can get sponsors in time for the dance."
Ms. Yukimura let out a disgruntled sigh before slouching down in her chair. "I'm sorry, honey. I'm just worried about your brother.......well," she sighed again, "may I look at your sketches?"
Sango nodded and handed over her notebook to her mother.
"Well," her mom said in an amazed tone, "this is different."
Sango smiled brightly. "Ain't it, though? See, I was thinking the homecoming princesses and princes can ride in on this float----each pair on their own little hill. And then, I give a speech and announce the winners, and then the two winners will go stand on the castle tower-like thing."
Ms. Yukimura nodded, going over her sketches. "But, how will they get up on the tower?"
"There's a ladder in the back. So once they get up there, we drive the float around the field and the winners get to wave and what not."
Her mother nodded again. "You've put a lot of thought in this----it will be a great place to hold the crowning ceremony."
"Yeah, plus it's a great platform for me to give a speech from!" Sango smiled, taking her notebook back.
Ms. Yukimura rolled her eyes----her daughter seriously needed to get a life.....and not one full of school politics.
*~*~*~* The Next Day *~*~*~*
Miroku's head dropped to the table very unceremoniously as soon as he got off his cell-phone. He had discovered that it was impossible to get big companies to invest in something that had yet to be developed.
Hell, even *he* had no idea what 'floats' Sango had been talking about! And, he hadn't gotten a chance to talk to her since yesterday so he couldn't really ask her about it.
The bell rang and Miroku heard his fellow students scatter to lunch, talking happily about random things.
"Wow, you're productive."
Miroku looked up drowsily only to see Inuyasha standing over him, a smug look on his face.
"That wench has you jumping threw hoops," Inuyasha stated, crossing his arms against his chest.
Miroku rolled his eyes and slowly rose from his seat. "One day, you'll understand Inuyasha. One day you'll meet a girl, and you'll want to giggle whenever the two of you touch, you'll get a funny feeling in your pants, and then everything goes woozy."
Inuyasha froze and gave Miroku a Did-You-Just-Say-Giggle-And-Woozy-In-The- Same-Sentence look.
Miroku was giving himself a Did-I-Just-Say-Giggle-And-Woozy-In-The-Same- Sentence look before he shook his head and smacked Inuyasha in the shoulder "Come on.......lunch.......me hungry."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and walked out the door.
"You're an idiot." He stated.
"And yet," Miroku began with another smacking of Inuyasha's shoulder, "you love me anyways."
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, you're just so damn pretty."
Casually (and by casually I mean Miroku falling and/or was pushed by Inuyasha into the cafeteria door and sending it flying wide open----hitting a teenage boy who was carrying a tray full of food in the process. This caused the tray full of food to fly over his shoulder and hit some random girl, covering her in food. And so, as is the natural order of things, started a food fight) they walked into the lunch room.
"Smooth," Inuyasha nodded as he looked around the room to watch what would later be known as 'The Great Food Massacre of 2002'.
Miroku opened his mouth to say something, but his cell phone ran.
"Hello?" He questioned, answering the phone. "Oh, hey babe."
At that statement, Inuyasha heard screaming on the other end of the phone.
"Sorry," Miroku began when the screaming had died down enough for him to put the phone next to her. "I know, it's Sango.......I won't call you 'babe' anymore, all though there are a lot of girls who would kill to have me call them babe."
Again, more screaming.
Inuyasha stopped listening and instead looked around the room once more, only to have his breath taken away by the most beautiful blue-gray eyes he had ever seen.
They appeared to be looking right threw him, and they were filled with such amazing warmth, and understanding, and love----and yet, there was a sadness he couldn't place.
The girl they were attached to stood in a corner, hiding behind a tower of trays, but was laughing at someone off in the distance.
The girl.....was beautiful. Her silky, raven hair cascaded down around her face and landed gently on her shoulders. And there was something about her smile....
"Okay, that was Sango," Miroku announced, suddenly appearing at his side. "Kohaku's fine. He's in recovery right now."
Inuyasha peeled his eyes off of the beautiful girl to look at his friend. "Who's that girl?" he demanded, jabbing his thumb in her direction.
Miroku looked around before giving Inuyasha a strange look. "What girl?"
"That one." Inuyasha said, turning to see her......but as quickly as she had come, she was gone.
"Ya mean Bertha?" Miroku asked, since the ape-like lunch lady was the only woman in the direction Inuyasha had indicated. "Ahh, Inu! Did you get that funny feeling in your pants from Bertha?"
Inuyasha's hand came into contact with the back of Miroku's head in a very, very hard manner.
"NO, NUDNIK!" He growled angrily. "The girl! The one with.......with the eyes!"
Miroku smacked his lips together. "Wow, do you have high standards."
"She had.......hair too!" Inuyasha fumbled.
Miroku rolled his eyes. "And lemme guess, she had ears? Maybe a nose even? Come on," he smacked Inuyasha's shoulder yet again, "let's get some lunch."
The two walked to the counter. Well, Inuyasha walked to the counter; Miroku was attacked by a group of ninth graders with peas.
A/N: I'm sorry if this chapter was a little short too. I also apologize for no Miroku killing. But don't worry, he'll get what's coming to him. I also had to come up with a last name for Sango, since I have no idea what her's is......if anyone knows, please tell me. And, if I spelled her little brother's name wrong tell me that too! And Sesshomarou's name....I didn't know how to spell that either. Wow, I am just so useful.
MORE FLUFF IS ON THE WAY!!! I love fluff, it's just so sticky.....did that make any sense?
Oooh, I wonder who's eyes Inuyasha saw??? It's a mystery. Really. But, will he ever get to meet the mystery girl? You'll never know, unless you review!
So Review!
I'm sorry, but Miroku doesn't die in this chapter. Hehe, you got to wait for the next one! HAHAHAHA! Okay, I'm done being evil......for now. DUN DUN DUN
Oh, and any OOCness in this story is done for one of three reasons: 1.) it was accidental. 2.) it was necessary. 3.) it was purely for my enjoyment. ^_^ Most of the time, it's done for reason number 3.
And PS, I'm pretty sure (for the moment anyway) that I'm putting the characters in an American school system----since I have no idea what the Japanese one is like and I'm not even sure if they have Homecoming dances there. I'm sorry if this bother's anyone. But hey, this A/U right? Doesn't that mean I can do what I want with them? Being the authoress is sooooo much fun!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. And, if you thought I did-----don't worry. If you sit very still, the voices will get bored and leave you alone.
Chapter Three
In Which There Is Some Door Slamming, Some Sketches, And A Food Fight.
Inuyasha stood in front of his make-shift home.....it was probably the best place he had every stayed in----even if it was only a two-bedroom, one bathroom, one story flat in the middle of no where. It did have a large back yard, which had its good points.
He growled angrily; his fists curled into balls as he stared evilly at a random bush. All of his life he had been bounced around from family to family like an unwanted burden all because of his father's heritage.
He had been called a freak his whole life.....well, until Kaede took him in and taught him a concealing spell.
Keade was his current and longest-running foster mother. She was not a demon herself, but knew of them very well. In fact, several years ago (before Inuyasha even lived with her) a demon of the name Sesshomarou came to her asking if she would take care of his daughter named Rin.
Well, Sesshomarou was gone----to where Inuyasha had no clue, and didn't even bother asking. It was sort of a touchy subject....so, he ignored it. Ignoring his problems was a very easy way to deal with them.
But then there was a very annoying problem that was incredibly hard to ignore----and that's problem name was Shippou. Shippou----his foster brother whose sole purpose in life was to make Inuyasha's life a living hell. He was a demon himself, a kitsune at that, and was always using his illusional, magical toys to torture Inuyasha with.
Sighing, he shoved his hands in his pockets and walking into the small house.
He barely got the door closed before Shippou pounced on him, literally.
"Get off my face, twerp!" Inuyasha exclaimed, prying the small boy off of his head. He held him up by his hind legs and smirked evilly at him. "Now that I have you, what should I do with you? Give you a swirly perhaps?"
"Put me down, DOG BREATH!" Shippou squealed, wriggling in an attempt to get out of Inuyasha's hold.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and let go of Shippou, sending him crashing to the ground in a very unceremonious manner.
"Inuyasha!" Kaede scolded, suddenly appearing in the doorway to the kitchen.
Kaede was a short and stout woman, with a stern face and gray hair. She wore an eye patch over her right eye for reason's unknown to anyone but herself. Though her appearance was that of an old, tuff woman, she was kind (when she wanted to be) and agile for her old age.
"I know he's annoying," Keade continued, picking up a now crying Shippou, "but that's no reason to hurt him."
"Well, he asked me to let go of him," Inuyasha stated.
Kaede gave him a Don't-You-Dare look.
Inuyasha shrugged and walked off. "I'll be in my room," he told no one in particular.
"*Our* room," Shippou corrected. Amazingly enough, his tears had stopped.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and slammed his and/or Shippou's bedroom door.
Rin came out of her and Kaede's bedroom, a sour look on her face.
"Rin, are you studying?" Kaede asked, setting Shippou down.
Rin crossed her arms against her chest indignantly. "I don't wanna."
Keade sighed and put her hands on her hips. "Why?"
Rin shrugged, looking away from her foster mother angrily.
"Rin," Kaede warned, raising her eyebrow.
The young girl 'hmmph'ed before storming back into her and/or Kaede's room, slamming the door behind her.
Kaede sighed and shook her head.
"What are we gonna do with them, Miss Kaede?" Shippou asked from his seat on the ground.
"Well, I'm going to call Rin's teacher." She announced, walking to the kitchen phone. "I don't know why she's taken such a disliking to school....she's always been so diligent in her studies."
Shippou sighed and shook his head. "Kids these days."
Kaede chuckled slightly before dialing Rin's teacher's phone number.
*~*~*~* At the hospital *~*~*~*
Sango chewed on her bottom lip as she carefully drew sketches for the float design in her notebook. This year's homecoming was going to be the greatest ever!
"Sango," her mother's voice began in a disapproving hiss, causing her to look up from her sketches.
"What?" Sango asked in the same hissing tone.
Her mother glared at her. "We are in a hospital."
She nodded in agreement. "I am well aware of that, Mother."
"Your brother is in major surgery right now and you are working!" Her mother exclaimed in an angry whisper, sitting down next to her.
"What do you want me to be doing now, Mother?" Sango asked. "Pace back and forth like a crazed lunatic when I could be working? That makes no logical sense."
"Is you school more important then your brother's transplant?" She snapped.
Sango sighed. "No, it's not. But there's not much I can do----Kohaku is going to come out from his hear transplant healthy as a horse and he won't ever get sick again, save the flu and what not. So now, while we wait, I'm going to finish my sketches so that I can take my mind off of the surgery and, that we can get sponsors in time for the dance."
Ms. Yukimura let out a disgruntled sigh before slouching down in her chair. "I'm sorry, honey. I'm just worried about your brother.......well," she sighed again, "may I look at your sketches?"
Sango nodded and handed over her notebook to her mother.
"Well," her mom said in an amazed tone, "this is different."
Sango smiled brightly. "Ain't it, though? See, I was thinking the homecoming princesses and princes can ride in on this float----each pair on their own little hill. And then, I give a speech and announce the winners, and then the two winners will go stand on the castle tower-like thing."
Ms. Yukimura nodded, going over her sketches. "But, how will they get up on the tower?"
"There's a ladder in the back. So once they get up there, we drive the float around the field and the winners get to wave and what not."
Her mother nodded again. "You've put a lot of thought in this----it will be a great place to hold the crowning ceremony."
"Yeah, plus it's a great platform for me to give a speech from!" Sango smiled, taking her notebook back.
Ms. Yukimura rolled her eyes----her daughter seriously needed to get a life.....and not one full of school politics.
*~*~*~* The Next Day *~*~*~*
Miroku's head dropped to the table very unceremoniously as soon as he got off his cell-phone. He had discovered that it was impossible to get big companies to invest in something that had yet to be developed.
Hell, even *he* had no idea what 'floats' Sango had been talking about! And, he hadn't gotten a chance to talk to her since yesterday so he couldn't really ask her about it.
The bell rang and Miroku heard his fellow students scatter to lunch, talking happily about random things.
"Wow, you're productive."
Miroku looked up drowsily only to see Inuyasha standing over him, a smug look on his face.
"That wench has you jumping threw hoops," Inuyasha stated, crossing his arms against his chest.
Miroku rolled his eyes and slowly rose from his seat. "One day, you'll understand Inuyasha. One day you'll meet a girl, and you'll want to giggle whenever the two of you touch, you'll get a funny feeling in your pants, and then everything goes woozy."
Inuyasha froze and gave Miroku a Did-You-Just-Say-Giggle-And-Woozy-In-The- Same-Sentence look.
Miroku was giving himself a Did-I-Just-Say-Giggle-And-Woozy-In-The-Same- Sentence look before he shook his head and smacked Inuyasha in the shoulder "Come on.......lunch.......me hungry."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and walked out the door.
"You're an idiot." He stated.
"And yet," Miroku began with another smacking of Inuyasha's shoulder, "you love me anyways."
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, you're just so damn pretty."
Casually (and by casually I mean Miroku falling and/or was pushed by Inuyasha into the cafeteria door and sending it flying wide open----hitting a teenage boy who was carrying a tray full of food in the process. This caused the tray full of food to fly over his shoulder and hit some random girl, covering her in food. And so, as is the natural order of things, started a food fight) they walked into the lunch room.
"Smooth," Inuyasha nodded as he looked around the room to watch what would later be known as 'The Great Food Massacre of 2002'.
Miroku opened his mouth to say something, but his cell phone ran.
"Hello?" He questioned, answering the phone. "Oh, hey babe."
At that statement, Inuyasha heard screaming on the other end of the phone.
"Sorry," Miroku began when the screaming had died down enough for him to put the phone next to her. "I know, it's Sango.......I won't call you 'babe' anymore, all though there are a lot of girls who would kill to have me call them babe."
Again, more screaming.
Inuyasha stopped listening and instead looked around the room once more, only to have his breath taken away by the most beautiful blue-gray eyes he had ever seen.
They appeared to be looking right threw him, and they were filled with such amazing warmth, and understanding, and love----and yet, there was a sadness he couldn't place.
The girl they were attached to stood in a corner, hiding behind a tower of trays, but was laughing at someone off in the distance.
The girl.....was beautiful. Her silky, raven hair cascaded down around her face and landed gently on her shoulders. And there was something about her smile....
"Okay, that was Sango," Miroku announced, suddenly appearing at his side. "Kohaku's fine. He's in recovery right now."
Inuyasha peeled his eyes off of the beautiful girl to look at his friend. "Who's that girl?" he demanded, jabbing his thumb in her direction.
Miroku looked around before giving Inuyasha a strange look. "What girl?"
"That one." Inuyasha said, turning to see her......but as quickly as she had come, she was gone.
"Ya mean Bertha?" Miroku asked, since the ape-like lunch lady was the only woman in the direction Inuyasha had indicated. "Ahh, Inu! Did you get that funny feeling in your pants from Bertha?"
Inuyasha's hand came into contact with the back of Miroku's head in a very, very hard manner.
"NO, NUDNIK!" He growled angrily. "The girl! The one with.......with the eyes!"
Miroku smacked his lips together. "Wow, do you have high standards."
"She had.......hair too!" Inuyasha fumbled.
Miroku rolled his eyes. "And lemme guess, she had ears? Maybe a nose even? Come on," he smacked Inuyasha's shoulder yet again, "let's get some lunch."
The two walked to the counter. Well, Inuyasha walked to the counter; Miroku was attacked by a group of ninth graders with peas.
A/N: I'm sorry if this chapter was a little short too. I also apologize for no Miroku killing. But don't worry, he'll get what's coming to him. I also had to come up with a last name for Sango, since I have no idea what her's is......if anyone knows, please tell me. And, if I spelled her little brother's name wrong tell me that too! And Sesshomarou's name....I didn't know how to spell that either. Wow, I am just so useful.
MORE FLUFF IS ON THE WAY!!! I love fluff, it's just so sticky.....did that make any sense?
Oooh, I wonder who's eyes Inuyasha saw??? It's a mystery. Really. But, will he ever get to meet the mystery girl? You'll never know, unless you review!
So Review!
