"The guy's just plain weird. Bummer you got stuck with him." Sango
whispered in my ear. "He is rather cute though..."
I back away from her "Whoa, down girl!" I mutter backing away a few steps.
As I walk into the classroom, nearly the first person I saw was Inuyasha, he was talking to somebody though. "Oh shoot, Kikyo's work just never ends..." I said as I saw just who he was talking to.
'Poor guy, I feel sorry for him though.' I think to myself watching the unfolding drama.
Kikyo was performing her usual seduction tricks on the poor boy; inching closer and closer to the boy. Inuyasha was inching nervously away each time she inched closer until suddenly a panicked look appeared on Inuyasha's face. He opened his mouth nervously as he backed up against the wall.
"Come on, we can be friends, can't we." Kikyo said in a rather sexual tone of voice. "None of the other girls are very nice you know." She muttered stepping closer to the boy. She grabbed one of the silvery locks of hair on his shoulder.
"Hey, hands off!" Inuyasha muttered, while grabbing her hand and, without much effort, pried her hand off his hair.
"My, My, feisty this one is!" Kikyo said as she stepped closer to the boy.
"Hey, give him a break, will yaw!" I told Kikyo as I walked a bit closer. I was lucky though. Inuyasha neatly slid down the wall and snuck out while Kikyo was distracted. Just as the teacher walked in.
"Inuyasha, I'll place you between Miss. Higurashi and Kikyo." The teacher said pointing to the empty seat.
"I'm doomed..." I heard Inuyasha mumble as he sat down. "Ok, must keep a two foot separation..." He whispered as he looked at the ground between his chair and Kikyo's.
"Today, we will continue our lesson on ancient Japan. Specifically demons. It is rumored that there were many demons alive. So many, it was common to be attacked at night." The teacher explained.
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"Hey, Kagome, any ideas for our term project?" Inuyasha asked walking up to me after school.
"No," I answered, " but would you be interested in getting into any of these clubs?" I asked him while pointing at the bulletin board behind me.
Inuyasha curiously stepped up to the board. Suddenly, he grinned. "Yes, both archery and fencing! Sports I can live with." He muttered under his breath, just loud enough for me to hear.
"Yeah, I'm in archery and have friends in the fencing club." I told him. "Sign up soon though, next practice for fencing is in three days. You want to join soooonnnn!" I screamed the word soon as Kikyo pushed me aside and stood next to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looked over at Kikyo. His face showed absolutely no trace of anything near nervousness, actually, he looked more annoyed then anything. "If you'll excuse me Kikyo." he said helping me up. "We've got to work on our term project to work on." he said motioning to me as he calmly walked through the crowd that had gathered.
"You're making a mistake Inuyasha, I'm the most popular girl here, and I deserve you more than anyone..." Kikyo muttered so silently that not even the girl beside her could hear her.
"You're wrong, Kikyo." Inuyasha said stopping in the middle of the small path that the students had created to help him get out. "The most popular isn't always the best for men."
I just shrugged my shoulders at the now fuming Kikyo and followed Inuyasha out the door. "How did you manage to make Kikyo shut up like that?" I asked him once we were out of earshot of the school.
"Are you sure that you want to know how I do it?" he asked.
"Yeah!" I replied.
He turned away from me so that I couldn't see his face. Then he turned his face to me. His eyes, usually full of emotion, showed nothing but hatred. His bangs cast shadows over his face. His facial expression showed anger and with all those things combined, his usually normal face was so intimidating. It was hard for me to believe that it belonged to the same person.
"Ahhhhh!" I screamed as I looked at him. "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!"
"You asked me to!" he said, his face back to normal. "By the way, I may have a good idea for our term paper."
"Great, what is it." I asked.
"Why don't we do demons?" He replied. "They're mainly myth so it's not very difficult to achieve good historic accuracy."
"Hmmm, I'm impressed..." I said as we walked up the doors to the shrine.
"If you want to base it on the demon Inuyasha, I've got some items in my pack..." he said making his voice trail off.
"What do you have?" I asked
"I'll show you at the shrine."
"Fine!"
They both walked into the shrine a while later.
"All right, what's your preferred demon?" I asked him as I took off my shoes.
"You'll see shortly...." he answered mysteriously.
"Whatever...?" she said sounding bored.
He asked me where the bathroom was. I pointed him towards the room and he left.
When he stepped out, he looked completely different. He was wearing a red yukata and a matching hakima. "Nice yukata, you look like someone I've seen before..." I told him thinking where I saw him before. Then I saw something odd under his yukata. It was a necklace with prayer beads on it. It also had some teeth on it.
"Just on a thought........sit." I said barely above my breath.
"Oh shoot!!" he gasped as the necklace glowed and suddenly, Inuyasha's face was smashed against the floor.
"Cool, that face fault and the glowing prayer beads looked so real. You should go into acting....I knew I've seen you before, Inuyasha, a picture of the hanyou Inuyasha was in our history book..... Ya' know, with different clothes on, the resemblance would be amazing. All that you would need would be doggie-ears and a...." I started until he interrupted me.
"A sword to use." he finished for me. He stepped up to his backpack and, out of one pouch, pulled out a large umbrella.
"What, that's your version of the legendary Tetsusaiga!!?" I yelled at him.
"Hey, don't go jumping to conclusions!" he said as he pulled the cover of the 'umbrella.'
"Whaaaaat, is that!" I screamed as he pulled off the nylon. It was a black sheath for a sword. She noticed the handle sticking out of the end. "So, that's your version of the Tetsusaiga." I gasped as he tossed it to me.
"Yep, just don't pull out the sword..." he told me.
"Wha,.....I wanna see!!" I pleaded.
"Nooooo! I won't le........." He never finished the sentence. He was just starring out the window. I looked at his face but noticed that his eyes, the ones loaded once with confidence, now shoed nothing but fear and worry.
"Inu...ya...sha, are you Okay?" I asked him while waving my hand in front of his face.
".............."
".............."
"......Huh, K'gome?.......My mom's gonna kill me, it's already dark, it's late!" He yelled pointing out the window.
He grabbed his backpack and ran for the door and was gone before I even knew it. "Wow, he left hit katena here, maybe now I can see it." I whispered to myself as I fiddled with the worn handle, I tried to pull it out, but it wouldn't budge. I remembered what Inuyasha told me.
I slipped the katena into my pack then decided to hit the sack. 'Well, tomorrow I get to see how good Inuyasha is with swords. I hate the new moon, it makes everything so much darker.'
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*Yawn* 'time to get up.' I thought. I looked over at the clock. "Darn, I'm late!"
Five minutes later, I grabbed my pack and ran out the door. As I ran to school, I could have sworn that I heard a thump like something landing right behind me. I turned around to see Inuyasha behind me. He sped up a bit to catch up with me then slowed down.
"Any proposals for a certain history project?" he asked me.
"No new ideas, I think I'll go with your demon legend idea." I told him. After I said this, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head. "What? Is something wrong Inuyasha?"
"Did I leave my sword at your house?" He asked me.
"Yeah, it's in my pack." I told him. He slowed a bit then opened my pack and pulled out the sword. He did this just as a large truck shot over the curb, right at them. He just grabbed his sword and shoved me out of the line of fire just as a huge explosion shook the ground.
I covered my head just as I fell and then looked up. The truck was literally cut in half. I saw Inuyasha in the middle of the wreckage with an expression on his face that clearly showed no surprise.
Just then I heard a creaking sound. The truck halves were still leaning on each other but they soon fell to the sides. And it just so happened that one half was falling right at me.
"Aaaaahhhhhhh!" I screamed. "I could use a miracle right now!"
Just then, in a flash of silver, I felt a strong lurch on my waist and it felt like I was being ripped in half. Something was behind me. Then I hit something soft and stopped falling. I opened my eyes and saw Inuyasha literally underneath me. He still had his arms around my waist. He looked okay for a person that just hit the ground and skidded five or so feet while having another person on top of him.
"You okay?" he asked as I stood up.
"Yeah, what happened?" I asked him while helping him up.
"I have no idea, but let's just keep that incident between us." He said as he started walking to the school.
I just nodded and followed. The back of his sweater had a large rip in it. "Sorry about your sweater, you should see he nurse, you must be pretty scratched up." I told him.
He just said that it was okay and waited for me to catch up. "Are you hurt at all?" he asked me.
"Nah, few scrapes, but I'm alive."
He ran to the school with me at his heels. We made it to our first class on time with just a few seconds to spare. "Whew, just in time!" I panted looking up at him.
He looked normal. 'He just ran here and saved my life- AND HE'S NOT EVEN BREATHING HARD!' I mentally screamed.
All went well until school ended and the fencing club began. Inuyasha was the first one there. He was suited up before even I did. He was in front of the player's benches, swinging his sword around like a master.
"Ladies and gentlemen." the announcer yelled. "The students from Ayenkan Academy have arrived." Let the games begin!"
Around fifty minutes later, all but one of our school's players have been defeated. All but one who has not yet played. All but one player from Ayenkan academy is still in play."
"Wait a minute, the last player is going to deny fighting in the protective suit. He has chosen to fight in a traditional Japanese Yukata. The judges have allowed it, GO!"
Inuyasha jumped into the ring in the same yukata that he wore at my house. The opponent did the same, they bowed to each other then entered their stances. The opponent entered a fancy stance while Inuyasha just stood there.
The opponent ran forward and Inuyasha just stood there. The opponent wicked Inuyasha in the side with the 'sword'. Everyone gasped as though it was very bad, even I was scared for his safety.
"Is that all you've got? You've gotten your daily free hit, that way your team got one hit on me." Inuyasha said. The opponent tried the same thing again which Inuyasha easily avoided. Inuyasha just parried his opponents 'sword' before whacking his opponent out of the ring with a single blow.
All of his matches went the same way. Thirty minutes later, our school was the undoubted winner.
"Wow, you looked like you were having fun!" I gasped as Inuyasha walked out the door.
"Too easy, need better opponent!" Inuyasha gasped pretending to act crazy.
I couldn't help it, I just broke out laughing.
"Time for me to go, see ya tomorrow Kagome!" Inuyasha said walking a little faster by me. He followed the same path as to my house before turning towards the woods.
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*Yawn*
*Stretch*
'Inuyasha, is that him? He's the only guy I know with silver hair' I practically screamed in my head. "Oh my, where did you come from?" I gasped as me eyes focused on the boy's face. He was sitting on the windowsill of my window. "Hey, what are you doing here!?" I yelled out to him.
He just shook his head and jumped down. "Wait a minute, I'm on the second story of our house! The guys probably hurt from the jump." But I was surprised as I looked out my window. He was walking away, perfectly fine.
As I got to school, I saw Inuyasha, sitting in a tree, with a very serious look on his face. "Hey, what's up? Why are you in the tree."
"It's nothing, let's get to class." He replied.
"If you're sure..." I told him as we entered the classroom.
I back away from her "Whoa, down girl!" I mutter backing away a few steps.
As I walk into the classroom, nearly the first person I saw was Inuyasha, he was talking to somebody though. "Oh shoot, Kikyo's work just never ends..." I said as I saw just who he was talking to.
'Poor guy, I feel sorry for him though.' I think to myself watching the unfolding drama.
Kikyo was performing her usual seduction tricks on the poor boy; inching closer and closer to the boy. Inuyasha was inching nervously away each time she inched closer until suddenly a panicked look appeared on Inuyasha's face. He opened his mouth nervously as he backed up against the wall.
"Come on, we can be friends, can't we." Kikyo said in a rather sexual tone of voice. "None of the other girls are very nice you know." She muttered stepping closer to the boy. She grabbed one of the silvery locks of hair on his shoulder.
"Hey, hands off!" Inuyasha muttered, while grabbing her hand and, without much effort, pried her hand off his hair.
"My, My, feisty this one is!" Kikyo said as she stepped closer to the boy.
"Hey, give him a break, will yaw!" I told Kikyo as I walked a bit closer. I was lucky though. Inuyasha neatly slid down the wall and snuck out while Kikyo was distracted. Just as the teacher walked in.
"Inuyasha, I'll place you between Miss. Higurashi and Kikyo." The teacher said pointing to the empty seat.
"I'm doomed..." I heard Inuyasha mumble as he sat down. "Ok, must keep a two foot separation..." He whispered as he looked at the ground between his chair and Kikyo's.
"Today, we will continue our lesson on ancient Japan. Specifically demons. It is rumored that there were many demons alive. So many, it was common to be attacked at night." The teacher explained.
............................................................................ .
"Hey, Kagome, any ideas for our term project?" Inuyasha asked walking up to me after school.
"No," I answered, " but would you be interested in getting into any of these clubs?" I asked him while pointing at the bulletin board behind me.
Inuyasha curiously stepped up to the board. Suddenly, he grinned. "Yes, both archery and fencing! Sports I can live with." He muttered under his breath, just loud enough for me to hear.
"Yeah, I'm in archery and have friends in the fencing club." I told him. "Sign up soon though, next practice for fencing is in three days. You want to join soooonnnn!" I screamed the word soon as Kikyo pushed me aside and stood next to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looked over at Kikyo. His face showed absolutely no trace of anything near nervousness, actually, he looked more annoyed then anything. "If you'll excuse me Kikyo." he said helping me up. "We've got to work on our term project to work on." he said motioning to me as he calmly walked through the crowd that had gathered.
"You're making a mistake Inuyasha, I'm the most popular girl here, and I deserve you more than anyone..." Kikyo muttered so silently that not even the girl beside her could hear her.
"You're wrong, Kikyo." Inuyasha said stopping in the middle of the small path that the students had created to help him get out. "The most popular isn't always the best for men."
I just shrugged my shoulders at the now fuming Kikyo and followed Inuyasha out the door. "How did you manage to make Kikyo shut up like that?" I asked him once we were out of earshot of the school.
"Are you sure that you want to know how I do it?" he asked.
"Yeah!" I replied.
He turned away from me so that I couldn't see his face. Then he turned his face to me. His eyes, usually full of emotion, showed nothing but hatred. His bangs cast shadows over his face. His facial expression showed anger and with all those things combined, his usually normal face was so intimidating. It was hard for me to believe that it belonged to the same person.
"Ahhhhh!" I screamed as I looked at him. "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!"
"You asked me to!" he said, his face back to normal. "By the way, I may have a good idea for our term paper."
"Great, what is it." I asked.
"Why don't we do demons?" He replied. "They're mainly myth so it's not very difficult to achieve good historic accuracy."
"Hmmm, I'm impressed..." I said as we walked up the doors to the shrine.
"If you want to base it on the demon Inuyasha, I've got some items in my pack..." he said making his voice trail off.
"What do you have?" I asked
"I'll show you at the shrine."
"Fine!"
They both walked into the shrine a while later.
"All right, what's your preferred demon?" I asked him as I took off my shoes.
"You'll see shortly...." he answered mysteriously.
"Whatever...?" she said sounding bored.
He asked me where the bathroom was. I pointed him towards the room and he left.
When he stepped out, he looked completely different. He was wearing a red yukata and a matching hakima. "Nice yukata, you look like someone I've seen before..." I told him thinking where I saw him before. Then I saw something odd under his yukata. It was a necklace with prayer beads on it. It also had some teeth on it.
"Just on a thought........sit." I said barely above my breath.
"Oh shoot!!" he gasped as the necklace glowed and suddenly, Inuyasha's face was smashed against the floor.
"Cool, that face fault and the glowing prayer beads looked so real. You should go into acting....I knew I've seen you before, Inuyasha, a picture of the hanyou Inuyasha was in our history book..... Ya' know, with different clothes on, the resemblance would be amazing. All that you would need would be doggie-ears and a...." I started until he interrupted me.
"A sword to use." he finished for me. He stepped up to his backpack and, out of one pouch, pulled out a large umbrella.
"What, that's your version of the legendary Tetsusaiga!!?" I yelled at him.
"Hey, don't go jumping to conclusions!" he said as he pulled the cover of the 'umbrella.'
"Whaaaaat, is that!" I screamed as he pulled off the nylon. It was a black sheath for a sword. She noticed the handle sticking out of the end. "So, that's your version of the Tetsusaiga." I gasped as he tossed it to me.
"Yep, just don't pull out the sword..." he told me.
"Wha,.....I wanna see!!" I pleaded.
"Nooooo! I won't le........." He never finished the sentence. He was just starring out the window. I looked at his face but noticed that his eyes, the ones loaded once with confidence, now shoed nothing but fear and worry.
"Inu...ya...sha, are you Okay?" I asked him while waving my hand in front of his face.
".............."
".............."
"......Huh, K'gome?.......My mom's gonna kill me, it's already dark, it's late!" He yelled pointing out the window.
He grabbed his backpack and ran for the door and was gone before I even knew it. "Wow, he left hit katena here, maybe now I can see it." I whispered to myself as I fiddled with the worn handle, I tried to pull it out, but it wouldn't budge. I remembered what Inuyasha told me.
I slipped the katena into my pack then decided to hit the sack. 'Well, tomorrow I get to see how good Inuyasha is with swords. I hate the new moon, it makes everything so much darker.'
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*Yawn* 'time to get up.' I thought. I looked over at the clock. "Darn, I'm late!"
Five minutes later, I grabbed my pack and ran out the door. As I ran to school, I could have sworn that I heard a thump like something landing right behind me. I turned around to see Inuyasha behind me. He sped up a bit to catch up with me then slowed down.
"Any proposals for a certain history project?" he asked me.
"No new ideas, I think I'll go with your demon legend idea." I told him. After I said this, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head. "What? Is something wrong Inuyasha?"
"Did I leave my sword at your house?" He asked me.
"Yeah, it's in my pack." I told him. He slowed a bit then opened my pack and pulled out the sword. He did this just as a large truck shot over the curb, right at them. He just grabbed his sword and shoved me out of the line of fire just as a huge explosion shook the ground.
I covered my head just as I fell and then looked up. The truck was literally cut in half. I saw Inuyasha in the middle of the wreckage with an expression on his face that clearly showed no surprise.
Just then I heard a creaking sound. The truck halves were still leaning on each other but they soon fell to the sides. And it just so happened that one half was falling right at me.
"Aaaaahhhhhhh!" I screamed. "I could use a miracle right now!"
Just then, in a flash of silver, I felt a strong lurch on my waist and it felt like I was being ripped in half. Something was behind me. Then I hit something soft and stopped falling. I opened my eyes and saw Inuyasha literally underneath me. He still had his arms around my waist. He looked okay for a person that just hit the ground and skidded five or so feet while having another person on top of him.
"You okay?" he asked as I stood up.
"Yeah, what happened?" I asked him while helping him up.
"I have no idea, but let's just keep that incident between us." He said as he started walking to the school.
I just nodded and followed. The back of his sweater had a large rip in it. "Sorry about your sweater, you should see he nurse, you must be pretty scratched up." I told him.
He just said that it was okay and waited for me to catch up. "Are you hurt at all?" he asked me.
"Nah, few scrapes, but I'm alive."
He ran to the school with me at his heels. We made it to our first class on time with just a few seconds to spare. "Whew, just in time!" I panted looking up at him.
He looked normal. 'He just ran here and saved my life- AND HE'S NOT EVEN BREATHING HARD!' I mentally screamed.
All went well until school ended and the fencing club began. Inuyasha was the first one there. He was suited up before even I did. He was in front of the player's benches, swinging his sword around like a master.
"Ladies and gentlemen." the announcer yelled. "The students from Ayenkan Academy have arrived." Let the games begin!"
Around fifty minutes later, all but one of our school's players have been defeated. All but one who has not yet played. All but one player from Ayenkan academy is still in play."
"Wait a minute, the last player is going to deny fighting in the protective suit. He has chosen to fight in a traditional Japanese Yukata. The judges have allowed it, GO!"
Inuyasha jumped into the ring in the same yukata that he wore at my house. The opponent did the same, they bowed to each other then entered their stances. The opponent entered a fancy stance while Inuyasha just stood there.
The opponent ran forward and Inuyasha just stood there. The opponent wicked Inuyasha in the side with the 'sword'. Everyone gasped as though it was very bad, even I was scared for his safety.
"Is that all you've got? You've gotten your daily free hit, that way your team got one hit on me." Inuyasha said. The opponent tried the same thing again which Inuyasha easily avoided. Inuyasha just parried his opponents 'sword' before whacking his opponent out of the ring with a single blow.
All of his matches went the same way. Thirty minutes later, our school was the undoubted winner.
"Wow, you looked like you were having fun!" I gasped as Inuyasha walked out the door.
"Too easy, need better opponent!" Inuyasha gasped pretending to act crazy.
I couldn't help it, I just broke out laughing.
"Time for me to go, see ya tomorrow Kagome!" Inuyasha said walking a little faster by me. He followed the same path as to my house before turning towards the woods.
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*Yawn*
*Stretch*
'Inuyasha, is that him? He's the only guy I know with silver hair' I practically screamed in my head. "Oh my, where did you come from?" I gasped as me eyes focused on the boy's face. He was sitting on the windowsill of my window. "Hey, what are you doing here!?" I yelled out to him.
He just shook his head and jumped down. "Wait a minute, I'm on the second story of our house! The guys probably hurt from the jump." But I was surprised as I looked out my window. He was walking away, perfectly fine.
As I got to school, I saw Inuyasha, sitting in a tree, with a very serious look on his face. "Hey, what's up? Why are you in the tree."
"It's nothing, let's get to class." He replied.
"If you're sure..." I told him as we entered the classroom.
