Author's Note: Thanks to SiriousB1, Celtic*Kokoro*Knight, Kitsune Neko-chan, ginagurl1234, O2, Inu-Angel, Laurel Meredith and Millenium Elf for reviewing the first chapter! I LOVE you guys!  Special thanks to SiriousB1 for reminding me I need a gym teacher. This chapter's for you…. ^__~

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Shikon High

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Chapter Two:  To Have a Duel

The door to the detention room opened and Jakken stormed in, two students trailing behind him.  Miroku grinned and waved at the newcomers; finally some company!

"What did you do with His Lordship's itinerary?" Jakken demanded shrilly.

Miroku shrugged.  "I don't have it."

"YES YOU DO!" Jakken shouted.

"Nope.  I looked for it, but got distracted by Sango's chocolate covered kiwis.  Those things are addictive!"  Jakken screamed and slammed the door behind him as he left to scurry all over the school in search of the missing itinerary.

Now that the annoyance was gone, Miroku turned to eye his new companions.  The first one was tall and rather good looking, someone Miroku would have considered a rival were he still a student himself.  But since he wasn't a student nobody could be his rival.  The other was short and rather fat with a funny looking nose.  He was someone Miroku would have tormented endlessly in the old days. In the old days?  He'd torment the poor kid now!

Leaning back, Miroku said, "So, who are you and what are you in for?"

The good-looking one staked out his desk and lazed all over it.  "I'm Hiten, dude.  The Bean put me in here 'cause I called him an old man."

Picking a seat behind Hiten, the other one said, "I'm here for calling the geezer an elementary schooler. Name's Manten.  Yo."

"What about you?" Hiten asked.  "What'd you do to bleep off a teacher?"

Miroku shrugged halfheartedly.  "Oh, I tried to steal from Sango."

Spluttering, Hiten leaped forward.  "Seriously, dude, you tried to snick from the front desk chick?  She's a babe, I tell you what, but as vicious as a rubber band!  Stealing from her is like the ultimate deed, dude.  Nobody ever comes away from her desk unscathed, but you look like your skin's still attached.  What's the secret?" 

Miroku shrugged again, this time accompanied by a mischievous grin.  "I think she likes me."

"Dude, you're just a student.  She's too much of a babe to go below her level," Manten said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Below her level indeed!  If anything Miroku was twenty of her!  He felt safe in the knowledge that the Decent People Committee would choose him over her any day.

"I'm not a student," Miroku said.  "I'm a teacher."  The two boys would not stop laughing.  Miroku didn't like that.  "What, don't you believe me?" he roared.  Still their laughter was not subsided.  "It's true! I'm the meanest, leanest, greenest history teacher this school has ever known!  Only one kid has ever passed my class and I think it's because she cheated!"

Their laughter finally stopped.  "History teacher?" Hiten asked.  "What's your name?"

"Miroku."

He choked.  "Sensei!" A bow followed by both boys.  "So sorry sensei, we were not aware that you are our first block teacher."

Miroku sat up, suddenly excited.  "I'm your first block teacher?  You mean you're in my class right now?" The two boys nodded, making Miroku giddy with glee.  "I'm so happy to meet you!" he gushed.  "It's been seven years since I've seen a student of mine on the first day of school!  It's so nice to get to know you!"

Manten and Hiten exchanged looks.  Obviously they didn't understand what seven years meant.  Hmm, Inuyasha must have been their math teacher… "Well, sorry we won't get to know you further," Hiten said.  "Manten and I are usually in detention every day."

"So am I!" Miroku said.  "And since you've already claimed your territory, it's certain we'll be in the same detention room every day!  Oh, this is so exciting.  I get to be in detention with my students!"

Miroku's glee was interrupted by the entrance of Sango with a girl who looked like a freshman, judging by the horrified expression on her face.  "Miroku, this is Mizuna.  She forgot to call Inuyasha My Lord.  Please don't scare her any more than she already is. And no indecent anything." Sango turned heel and left, leaving the frightened freshman in Miroku's charge.  Miroku offered her his most charming grin.  She screamed and shrank back.  He shrugged.

"Your loss if you don't like my smile," he said.  "Come, have a seat! Meet Hiten and Manten.  They're going to be like family to you!"

Inching her way to a desk as far away from everybody as possible, Mizuna said, "I don't like men." 

Well, Miroku was just going to have to change her mind.

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Leaning back in his chair, Inuyasha smiled.  He'd had a wonderful first block.  The kids had been so lost their eyes swirled and he'd sent a perfectly respectable young girl to detention for failing to address him as My Lord.  All in all it was a great way to overcome his anger at seeing Kagome with Kouga.

Glancing out the window, he noticed it was sunny, making his smile grow even larger.  Nothing like good sunlight and warm weather outside to make a student feel utterly miserable while trapped inside of school.  It added to his good mood and he even found himself whistling a tune—until Kikyo stepped into his classroom, that is.

"Don't you have a class this period?" he asked sourly.

"You know I do," she responded.  "I teach German this block.  I was wondering if you could watch my class while I run to detention to see if one of my students is there."

"Sure," he said, leaping up and all but running to Kikyo's class.  If there was one thing he liked more than torturing his own students, it was torturing another teacher's students. Laughing maniacally he entered the language classroom.  Was it his imagination or were the students backing away from him?  Taking a closer look he realized that they were.  Hey, wait a second, these were exactly the same students he'd just had!  He abruptly cut off his laughter and gave the students a stare before opening his mouth.  "All you idiots take German?"

"Yes, My Lord," they responded as one.

"Feh."  Ignoring the students he walked back to Kikyo's desk and started rummaging through her things.  Ooh, a gradebook.  Whistling innocently he picked up a red pen and started randomly marking throughout its contents.  It would have been more fun if it wasn't the first day of school and there were actual assignments, but he could make do with his limited resources.

Several students tried to call out to him, but he ignored them all.  No use destroying his good mood by listening to the less-than-dust try to talk to him.  Becoming vaguely aware that they were whining about his whistling, he purposefully made it louder and more off-tune.  Hah.  That'd teach the little imps to whine—

"Kouga was right, you really can't whistle," a feminine voice winced.  "I thought he was just saying that because he hates you."  Whipping his head up, Inuyasha worked very hard at preventing his face from becoming red.  Kagome was standing in the doorway looking as beautiful as ever.  Realizing he had Kikyo's gradebook in hand he dropped it on the floor and pretended he'd never seen it before asking the school counselor what she was doing there.  "Kikyo asked me to check in on you and make sure you weren't terrorizing her class.  She's busy yelling at Miroku.  Some poor girl got sent to detention and Miroku is trying to convince her men aren't bad.  I know she'll be in my office before the day is out.  If Miroku tried to explain the birds and the bees to me, I'd go crazy too.  Anyway, I also came down her for another reason.  Totosai needs your help in the gym.  I'll take over Kikyo's class."

"Oh, uh, sure, anything," Inuyasha rushed before dashing out of the now stifling German classroom.  The last thing he needed was Kagome to find out he'd been the one to send that poor girl to detention.  He was, after all, trying to subtly steal her away from Kouga…

Pushing that train of thought out of his mind, he wondered just what the old man Totosai needed him for.  Totosai was the only gym teacher Shikon High had to offer, and the man looked like he'd croak any day.  Being so old, Totosai could only teach one thing in gym—fencing.  His prized aluminum fighting swords that he had so lovingly named Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga were the sum total of equipment he had to work with, and woe to the unwary student who happened to bend or break the swords.  Inuyasha couldn't even begin to fathom why he was there.

Slamming open the gym doors Inuyasha made a grand entrance that he knew could not be rivaled by anyone.  Except that it was rivaled at the exact same second by Kouga.  They had both entered the gym at the same time in the same way, both expecting mass amounts of applause for their spectacular show.  Daggers formed in Inuyasha's eyes and flew out towards Kouga's heart.  They hit their target and Kouga fell over in a pile of his own red blood.  His arch nemesis was finally dead.

In theory, anyway.  The daggers were definitely present in both men's eyes, and Inuyasha could have sworn he felt tiny pins piercing the skin around his heart.  Stomping over to Totosai he very pointedly ignored Kouga.  "Whaddya want, old man?"  A gasp resonated throughout the students, but what did Inuyasha care?  They were scum anyway.

"Hello Totosai, lovely day, isn't it?" Kouga said, making light conversation.  "Anything I can help you with, sir?"  Normally Kouga would have said something very similar to what Inuyasha said, but of course the two of them had to do everything exact opposite of each other so naturally he was a perfect gentlemen.  Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at the man.

"Oh, I want a demonstration!" Totosai rambled.  "The kids need to see how real men duel, so I thought I'd call you two down here to fight seeing as how you hate each other so much!"

Ouch.  Even the old blind geezer could see it.  Well, Inuyasha wasn't interested a duel right now.  "Don't you have a class right now, Kouga?" he snapped.

"His Lordship is looking after them while I'm here," Kouga replied blithely.  His Lordship? But Inuyasha was right there…oh, wait, Sesshomaru.  Inuyasha kept forgetting that his older brother had copied him by insisting everybody call him His Lordship.  "He was your inspiration for having your students call you My Lord, am I not mistaken?"

Inuyasha glared.  Oh yeah, his happy mood had definitely fled when he entered those gym doors.  Snatching Tetsusaiga from Totsai, he decided that he was interested in a duel right now.  "En garde, you stupid wolf."

"Such manners, doggie," Kouga replied as he hefted Tenseiga.

"See kids? This is how you do it!" Totosai cried out gleefully.  "They've even got good insults!  Insulting messes with your opponent's mind.  Now pay attention as they slash each other to pieces."

Circling Kouga, Inuyasha assessed his situation and tried to find the best way to defeat his enemy.  Lurching forward he slashed at Kouga, only to be blocked.  Kouga returned his blow in kind, but Inuyasha blocked him as well.  Several minutes of attack-blocking occurred before the insults were revived.

"You know, Kagome and I like to fence together a lot," Kouga said snidely.  Inuyasha growled and launched a series of particularly vicious attacks—all of which Kouga easily evaded. 

"Is that what you call it, fencing?" Inuyasha replied.  "From what I've seen all you can do is slice bread."

"You're doing exactly the same thing I am, dog breath," Kouga pointed out.  Oh yeah. He was, wasn't he? 

"Bite me, wolf breath."

"Oh how your words cut me!" Kouga said dramatically.  Inuyasha pulled back wide to smack Kouga hard with Tetusaiga only to be whapped first with Tenseiga.  "Touché."  Inuyasha had lost.  He'd lost! To Kouga!  It was almost unbearable.  Almost.  He had one recompense, though…

"AIEE! MY BEAUTIFUL TENSEIGA!!" Totosai cried out, wailing to all the world as if he had just lost a baby.  "YOU BROKE MY BEAUTIFUL SWORD!!!!" 

Heh heh heh.  Inuyasha quickly left before any of the old man's anger could be turned on him, but he enjoyed his sweet moment of victory.  Now Kouga would be forced to re-forge Tenseiga into its seven-hundred thirty-sixth remake.  Sucker…

Strolling along the hallways back towards his classroom, Inuyasha let his good feeling return.  He felt like he'd accomplished something today.

"Inuyasha!"  Refocusing his eyes, he noticed Kagome running his way.  "What did Totosai want you for?"

"A duel with your lover boy," he said.  Suddenly he smirked.  "I kicked his can.  He destroyed Tenseiga." 

"Oh no," Kagome cried and ran towards the gym.  Inuyasha smiled.  A good day indeed.

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A/N: I was going to make this chapter longer, but I lost my inspiration, plus I figured y'all were lucky to be getting an update at all. ^___^ I'm such a lazy butt… School's out and my parents are all the way across the country, so hopefully I'll be getting the next chapter up within a week, but that's only if I write it in a week! I might spend that week reading fanfiction because Momma's not around to tell me to get off the compy.  We'll see!  Remember, review!  Reviews are like stomach medicine to an aching stomach.  Nasty little brutes but they make you feel good inside.  Namarie!  ~~Callisto