June 22, 2002

Going Back to School

By Yashira

Note: (Pardon me for the shortness, I'm trying to get back into the swing of this story, but it's been a while so I've decided to try this by way of an intermission so that it gives me a way back into my own story. Hence the title has the word "break" in it. ^-^ Anyway please let me know what you think and whether or not I should continue this.)

Going Back to School

Chapter 4 Washroom Break

Miroku was muttering huffily to himself as he slided into the boy's washroom. After Sango's little "accident" with the bucket, he had to go and get himself dried up while she ended up, by the teacher's rightful insistence, to clean up the mess. "Why can't she at least try to be as cute as all these lovely girls." He sighed as he walked into the washroom, noticing for the first time that Kouga was about to pry the door off one of the stalls and use it as a club. "Hey! What are you doing? I'm not sure what the problem is… but I'm pretty sure that's not something Kagome would be happy with it."

"Eh?" The wolf youkai whirled around glaring soundly at the dark haired houshi. "What would you know, this boy has some delusional ideas about MY woman. I just…" he said as he flexed his hand into a fist before making a gesture with it, "want to clear them from him."

"Boy?" Miroku cocked his head to the side and whistled knowingly. "Are you sure you want to confront him in such a place. After all what would your "woman" do if news like that got out?"

Kouga's face seemed to bugle for a moment and he had apparently been about to say something, but surprisingly he stopped in mid rant with a "Hmmm" on his lips. Glaring at the metal door where Hojo had gone, he gave a kick, enough to dent the door, before issuing his challenge. "Outside human-koru… after class. I'll beat you to a pulp." He turned away from the door and stalked forward, "By the way what the hell happened to you? Isn't it a bit late to come to the bathroom now?"

It was Miroku's turn to get nervous now. "Well… you see Sango got excited and um…"

"That just sounds perverted… how'd you manage to get it all over your clothes?"

"..."

"WHAT the fuck do I have to go in here for?!" The familiar voice cursed angrily as someone pushed him inside, interrupting and saving Miroku from what would have been an embarrassing conversation. "I never had to go into a stupid little room before!"

Then another familiar voice, muffled by the slamming door, echoed back. "You just can't do it outside… they have rooms for that here."

"I don't see how..." Abruptly Inuyasha's words stopped short as he turned and looked behind them with a "erk-like" expression on his face.

"Ah.. so Inu-koru has to go…"

"Shut up you wimpy wolf…" he growled back, adjusting the cap he'd miraculously been allowed to still wear as he glared right back at Kouga. "I see you're in here too."

"Yeah so?" The impertinence in Kouga's voice was matched by the gleam of his fangs and claws as he flashed them towards Inuyasha.

Miroku waved his hands at them, clearly concerned that if Inuyasha was in here, and that other boy who Kouga had nearly killed also, then that meant one of the breaks called "recess" or "lunch" was probably upon them and that meant more students would probably make there way here. With the way Inuyasha and Kouga were about to start tearing up at each other, it would be wiser to get them out of here. "Hold on you two... isn't Kagome outside the door?"

"Yeah, what about it Miroku.."

"So."

He rubbed his still damp hair and gestured to the doorway behind them. "And she can hear you arguing right?"

"Ah fuck…" Inuyasha grumbled, his fingers grasping the rosary beads as if he could feel a "sit" coming on.

Kouga blinked in surprised, his pupilless eyes glanced over to where Miroku had pointed. "That's right, my woman is outside… seeya Inu-koru!"

Inuyasha's hand whipped up, nearly catching Kouga by the collar as the wolf youkai ducked and dashed out the doorway crying out, "KAGOME, you came!"

"Hey, you son of a bitch, don't touch her!!! She isn't yours!!" Inuyasha growled, already turning to follow after them, his braided white hair swinging down his back in a wide arc.

"Aside from the fact that he's a wolf youkai and you're a dog that comment would be more correct on you," Miroku muttered before suddenly waving his hands innocently at the dark look of venom Inuyasha shot at him. "But anyhow, didn't you have to go?"

Gold eyes glowered on Miroku as they took a quick sweep of the condition of his clothes. "I can hold it… unlike you."

"Hey this is water, I'd have you know."

"Sure it is.. if you say so…"

* * *

Sesshomaru stood proudly with Kagome, just having left math class a few minutes prior, as he flipped through his textbook with as telltale smirk. "Simple and too easy…" He remarked as he looked with disdain at a page he had mastered in class. "But I must remember that I was born with the superior intellect.. what I can accomplish in mere seconds, Inuyasha must take years if never to accomplish…"

"You really find this easy?" Kagome asked in surprise as she stared at the page the teacher had asked him to accomplish. It made her eyes swim and her head to ache as she stared at the complicated words and symbols. She still couldn't understand the first question which went along the summary of "If one train left such a place at noon and the other at dinner time…" What was so important about trains anyway? Wasn't this a math class, not an engineer class? (ooc Don't engineers need math ^_~)

Kouga was bouncing out of the washroom, placing his hands suddenly against hers as he smiled his self-gratifying smile, "Kagome…"

"I wouldn't be surprise if a low-life like him didn't wash his hands," Sesshomaru murmured between his perusal of the text in question and the arrival of Kouga. "Although your tastes are pretty low as it is with Inuyasha so you probably wouldn't care."

"I heard that," Inuyasha growled as he stormed from the washroom with his golden eyes as hard like diamond ice. If only he'd brought Tetsusaiga with him, but nooooooh, he couldn't bring his sword. Kagome had taken one look at it, when they'd got to class and forced him to stow it away into her locker. "If my thoughts were bad, what about you and RIN!"

"Surprise, surprise," Sesshomaru remarked rather aloofly as he continued to stare into the book he held with his right hand pretending not to lift up his own angry gold eyes. That remark had hit rather too close. "You think you can compare to your older brother? How pathetic…"

Miroku pushed through the washroom doors and glanced up at the group hanging by the doorway as he felt Kagome and Sesshomaru glance over at him with a questioning look at his wet clothes. "Don't ask!"

End Chapter 4.