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Sango waited for someone to pick up the phone. She was calling the person she had known that had a part of the responsibility for what had happened to her friend today. Ah at last someone picked up the phone.

"Hello, this is the Houshin residence. Miroku speaking. With who …"

"Miroku, cut the crap and tell me who's that white-haired guy from school."

"Aahh Sango, my dear. So miracle does happen. For you to call me in the middle of the night. I'm so happy I would cry. In fact I will cry right now." Miroku faked a cry on the other phone line. Sango just rolled her eyes.

"Miroku, I'm not in the mood for jokes. Now tell me who was that guy?"

"Heeeeyyy, I'm insulted. You're speaking to me now and yet you're talking about another guy."

"Miroku~~~~" Sango gritted her teeth to keep herself from snapping at the annoying chatterbox on the other side.

"Just kidding, Sango. Just kidding. His name is Inuyasha."

"How long have you known this Inuyasha?"

"Almost a year. Why?"

"Oh nothing."

"Sango, what happened today is an accident. I think Inuyasha got enough punishment for that."

"No way, he took away a girl's first kiss. He can't be forgiven."

"His apartment was burnt down this evening."

"EH? Poor guy."

"See, there is no point in getting revenge on him. Just forgive him."

"…"

"Sango?"

"We'll see."

First Kiss

Chapter 3 : When another surprise is in order

By : Lafine

Beta-read by : LilFoxGirl

KRING KRING KRING

The alarm clock on the table beside Kagome's bed went off. Kagome sleepily reached over to the clock and hit the snooze button. She opened one eye to look at the clock.

'What time is it? 5:30? Still sleepy.' Kagome put the clock back onto the table and drifted back to sleep. 'Just another ten minutes.' Kagome almost slept again before the reason kicked in 'Oi your homework is still not done. You know better than making Rei-sensei angry. Do you want to clean the school's toilet ALONE.' Kagome grudgingly woke up.

She yawned and trudged down the stairs. What she needed now was a nice refreshing shower. She rubbed her sleepy eyes with one hand while the other turned the bathroom's doorknob to open it. Only to get one of the biggest shock in her life. The kiss was on the top list of the most shocking things that have happened in her life.

The boy who had kissed her was in her bathroom. Half naked with only a towel wrapped around his waist. His long silvery hair was wet and spilled around his torso. Obviously he just took a bath. He turned his eyes to looked at the intruder. And his lower jaw almost went off its hinges when he looked at Kagome.

So Kagome did what a girl would normally do when there were unknown people in her house uninvited, or in this case her bathroom.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAA PERVERT."

She screamed. And with such an intense volume that made Souta fall from his bed, her grandpa jump out his bed ready to slay the evil demon (in his dream), and her mother woke up immediately. Even Buyo opened one eye and stretched for a moment before it decided that sleep was the most important thing to do now.

Kagome slammed the bathroom door closed, trying to rationalize the thing that just happened. 'There is no one in the bathroom, there is no one in the bathroom, there is …. There is someone in the bathroom!!'

While Kagome tried to straighten her brain, Inuyasha on the other hand cursed and dried his body. He threw his clothes on within ten seconds. When he buttoned his shirt hastily, he could hear the footsteps coming and also the other house's occupant's voice.

"Kagome what's wrong?"

"Nee-chan, don't scream so loud, I fell from the bed because of it."

"Kagome, where's the evil demon?"

The last one was from grandpa. With a shaky hand Kagome pointed to the bathroom. Disbelief and shock was written all over her face. Her grandpa being the wacky person he is kicked the door open in an attack stance with a lot of ofuda in his hands, ready to seal the demon.

"Okay, you evil creature, this seal will … huh? Who are you?" He went into deep thinking mode before he hit a fist into his palm. "I know. You're a thief. ARRRGGHH Shiori, call the police."

Inuyasha, Kagome, her mother and Souta sweatdropped while Grandpa was already making a ruckus. Enough with the craziness. Shiori, Kagome's mother, took matters into her own hands. She cleared her throat. And did another with a louder voice since grandpa wasn't listening.

"Ahem, Kagome, grandpa, calm down. This boy is not a thief or a pervert." The other family members looked at her with a curious stare, well a glare from Kagome. "This is Tsuga Inuyasha. He will live here for the time being."

"EEEEEHHHHHHHHHH." Guess whose reaction. "How come?" Kagome demanded her mother. Not a difficult question, ne.

Shiori looked at her daughter disapprovingly. "Kagome do you remember where I went last night?"

"…Hospital?"

"Right, and Sakura, Inuyasha's mother got wounded from the fire. Their apartment burned down and poor Inuyasha here doesn't have any relatives in Tokyo so I decided to let Inuyasha live here until Sakura gets out of the hospital." She looked at Kagome who shook her head. "And that decision is final."

Inuyasha feeling a little forgotten and uneasy talking to Ms. Higurashi. "Really Ma'am I don't want to trouble …" He didn't manage to finish his talk before Shiori cut his words.

"Nonsense, your mother and I have been friends since high school. It's a friend's job to help another friend."

Inuyasha couldn't say anything (rude) to Ms. Higurashi. So he just "keh"ed and kept silent.

"Inuyasha, you will stay in Souta's room. Souta do you mind sleeping with mommy again when Inuyasha sleeps in yours?" Shiori smiled sweetly to Souta who just nodded sleepily.

"Un, can I bring the Playstation too?"

"As long as you don't play far into midnight, it's a yes."

Shiori clapped her hands happily. "Now with that settled, Inuyasha you can bring anything you brought to Souta's room and after that, come down for breakfast. Kagome, Souta, take a bath and Grandpa, put those ofudas away."

She went into the kitchen, humming happily, and left the others to do what they were told.

"Me first." Souta entered the bathroom and locked the door quickly so Kagome couldn't enter.

"Mou, it's not fair, Souta. I woke up first."

"It's the punishment for waking me up with your scream."

The argument between the brother and sister went on. Grandpa sighed and turned to Inuyasha.

"Let me show you your room."

The morning went on without any important things happening. They just had breakfast and went to school. On the way to school, however …

Inuyasha and Kagome walked down the street together in silence. Both felt annoyed and didn't want to see the other so they settled their gaze on the sky or the road. The tension was spreading in the air. Kagome didn't like it one bit.

"Hey," Kagome started to speak without looking at Inuyasha. Inuyasha answered carelessly.

"What?"

"We don't know each other."

"Doh that's obvious. Who'd want to know an ugly girl like you." Inuyasha snorted. Kagome repressed the urge to beat the guy senseless; she needed to be the mature one so she could get her point across.

"I'll let that pass, Inuyasha. What I mean is that we don't know each other in school. I don't want rumors to spread." Kagome calmly said.

"So does that mean we can know each other when we're not in school?" Inuyasha smirked.

Kagome's vein popped. "NO. I don't want to know you even when we're not in school."

"Good, just asking. I don't want any rumors about me being friends with a teacher's pet. My friend would laugh at me."

"Excuse me. It is I who got the misfortune of knowing you. What my friends would say if they knew that you, the jerk of all the jerks from class E, lives at my house."

"Hey, don't bring my class into this. You arrogant sissy people from class A always look down to us."


"That is not our fault that class E never had any good reputation other than being the dumbest, and the lowest class at school. You guys never did anything worthy to be remembered."

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!!"

"Did not!!"

"DID TOO!!!"

"DID WHAT?!!"

Forehead against forehead. Blue eyes vs golden eyes. Glares were traded. Both were ready to rip each other's head off. Their battle auras were flaring high, and all the pedestrians chose the other road to walk...away from those two. Both teens didn't realize their rather close proximity until a passerby that braved enough to enter the battle arena, coughed.

"Ahem."

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at the intruder of their sacred fight for a moment, then looked back at each other. Both blushed and broke away immediately. The old lady just shook her head.

"Really, young people these days." She went on her way leaving the blushing teenagers.

Those two didn't say anything even after the grandma was already out of sight, too busy with their own thoughts.

~*~*~*~*~*

'Okay Kagome, that was embarrassing. What were you doing, fighting like a kid in the middle of the street.' She snaked a glance at Inuyasha to see him taking a glance at her.

~*~*~*~*~*

'What the hell were you doing, Inuyasha?! You're not a kid so stop acting like one.'

'She started it first.'

'Well doh, I don't care about that. You don't have to insult her back. You promised yourself to be matured and this?!'

'Shut up.' Inuyasha peeked at Kagome only to find her doing the same.

~*~*~*~*~*

Both glared again and they looked the other way stubbornly with a "Humph."  They walked to school without looking at each other anymore. Yare yare they're still kids.

When they almost reached the school, Inuyasha walked faster and left Kagome. Kagome just huffed and went to her locker to change her shoes. Sango greeted her.

"Morning, Kagome." And with a lower voice she said "What were you doing, walking to school with that Inuyasha?"

"Sangoooooooo, this is bad, terrible. This is disaster." Sango was shook violently by Kagome. "It's the end of the world!!"

"Whoa whoa calm down, Kag. What happened?" Sango pried Kagome's fingers from her collar. Kagome dragged her to the nearest woman's bathroom. She opened the door and looked around the room. When she found that no one was in there, she pulled Sango in.

"What is it, Kag? You look like you just got an obsessed stalker following you."

"No, this is worse than that."

"And what could be worse?" Kikyou suddenly appeared. The other two girls shrieked.

"Kikyou!! Don't appear from behind me like that ever again," screamed Sango, clutching Kagome's arm.

"You scared me to death," Kagome was clutching to Sango's arm too.

 Kikyou just shrugged and asked her question again.

"So, what could be worse than an obsessed stalker, Kagome?"

Kagome took a deep breath to recover her dignity, and then she whispered that Inuyasha was living in her house now. Sango's eyes went as wide as a plate and said "Eeeehhhh?!" rather loudly. Kikyou just raised an eyebrow.

"How come?"

"His apartment was burnt down and his mother got injured. My mother and his mother are friends so my mother told Inuyasha to live with my family."

"Sou ka. It can't be helped, Kagome," Sango said to the depressed Kagome. "Just don't let any other person know about this or rumors will surely spread around."

"That is what I want to tell you, Kagome."

"What is it?"

"The rumor about yesterday event is the hot news today. Kagome, as the student from class A and Inuyasha from class E are the Romeo and Juliet of this school."

"Romeo and Juliet?" Sango was in the border of being sympathizing for her friend or just laughing at the stupid rumor. "Inuyasha and Kagome?"

"Yes, and the kiss was an open declaration of their pure untainted love to show the society that nothing like class difference is mattered. Their love is so pure and they will show it to the teachers and all the students. That is the version I heard."

Sango chose to laugh. "Aha ha ha how stupid ha ha ha do they forget about the big fight that happened after the kiss? Ha ha ha that is soooo stupid."

"Indeed." Kikyou tried to hide the grin from showing on her lips. She failed. Now she was giggling with Sango who laughed hysterically. 

Kagome groaned. Her life can't become any worse than this. What did she do to receive such punishment from God? Even her friends are laughing at her now.

"Mou, stop it you guys. This is not funny."

"Sorry, Kagome but it's funny for us." Sango said between laughters. Kagome pouted.

"Fine, then I'll leave you guys to laugh and go to my class alone."

"Forgive us, Kagome, but it is funny. I wonder who spread such an idiot rumor around?" Kikyou wiped the tears away from her eyes.

"I don't need to know."

"Okay okay. Don't be angry." Sango slapped Kagome's back playfully. "Now let's go to class. The bell will ring soon."

And the bell did. Kagome, Kikyou and Sango went into their respective class and didn't get any chance to talk until lunch.

End chapter 3