Chapter 3 - The first day
Kagome woke up to a loud buzzing in her head. She groaned and rolled over. She looked at the alarm. It read 7 a.m. She hated getting out of bed before noon.
She walked downstairs and made herself some coffee. She then stumbled in the shower. That woke her up somewhat. Still wrapped in her towel she went into the kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee.
After her second cup, she finally had the energy to climb back up the stairs to get dressed. She grabbed her uniform and put it on. The skirt was long and green; it fell to her mid-calf. The shirt was long sleeved white collar, with the school crescent on the pocket. She took out the blazer, which was the same color as her skirt. She looked at herself in the mirror.
Kagome groaned at what she saw. The person in front of the mirror looked nothing like the person she saw everyday. She took a giant scrunchy and put her hair in a bun.
'Oh well. Guess everyone looks this hideous! Well I certainly hope so,' she said trying to give herself a pep talk.
She walked into the study and grabbed her bag off the floor. She slung it against her back, and she headed back down stairs.
She drank another cup of coffee while she packed her lunch. That was one thing she liked about school here; the classes started later and ended earlier. This was a win-win situation.
She glanced at the clock. It was 8 a.m. Good she had enough time to walk and have a few minutes to spare.
Kagome looked up at the three story building. She felt butterflies grow in her stomach. 'Remember, the first day is always the worst; now take a deep breath.' Kagome told herself.
She took a deep breath for every two steps. Soon the butterflies were gone. Kagome sighed in relief. Her relief was short lived.
The guys were openly staring at her, and the girls were giving her death glares.
She wanted to groan. She had no idea what she got the looks for. 'This is going to be a great year!' She told herself with disgust.
She stood in front of the office. This was the place she was supposed to meet the person that was supposed to show her around.
Kagome was looking around, when she felt a light tap on her shoulder. "Excuse me?" Kagome turned around. "Oh sorry Kikyo, I thought-" the girl said.
"My name isn't Kikyo," Kagome interrupted, "My name is Kagome."
The girl blushed. "I'm so sorry, but I'm glad I found you. You are actually the person I'm looking for. My name's Sango."
Kagome smiled. "Hi Sango. Now who's Kikyo?"
Sango groaned. "She's the devil. The cold frigid bitch of the school. You know. The one girl that the whole school hates because all the guys want her and all the girls want to be her." Sango laughed. "Actually you look like her!"
"Great!" Kagome said rolling her eyes. "All I wanted to do was graduate, and be oblivious at the same time," Kagome said sighing.
Sango opened a manilla folder, and pulled out a sheet of paper. "Wow all your classes are on the third floor, except for P.E." Sango grabbed Kagome and headed for the stairs.
"Here you'll need this." Sango handed Kagome her schedule. "The classroom numbers are above the door, and the gym is in the basement. To get there you'll those stairs," Sango pointed to the stairs from where they came.
A bell rang from somewhere down the hall. "Here's your class. Most of mine are on the second floor, so I'll see you later." Sango bounded away.
Kagome walked into the class and took the first desk she saw. She looked at her schedule and saw that it was advanced biology. She placed her binder on her desk, and she held her head down. She didn't know who this Kikyo chick was, but she didn't want to give off the wrong impression until then.
Kagome heard a silky laugh come into the classroom. Her head snapped up and she stared at her double.
Kikyo stopped dead when she saw Kagome.
'Wow she does look like me!' Kagome pondered.
Kikyo took a seat in the back. Now Kagome wished she had done the same. She felt Kikyo's eyes glaring at her.
She was about to turn around and create hell, but she was stopped by two guys fighting at their classroom door. Both guys were kinda cute. One had hair that was white was snow and yellow eyes. While the other had brown hair. She couldn't see his eyes, but she was sure they'd be stunning.
Then out of nowhere another student with white hair came and broke up the fight. "What is the meaning of this?" His voice was cold.
"Feh! Kouga started the whole thing." Inuyasha crossed his arms and smirked, "But it was nothing I couldn't handle." He looked passed them and started walking over to Kikyo.
She stood up and embraced him. "Inuyasha, did that mutt hurt you?" She started fussing over him.
Kagome wanted to puke.
Kouga took a seat in front of Kagome, and the other stranger sat beside her. Kagome was making sure her things were in order for class.
She didn't see the teacher walk in. "Good morning class." Kagome's head shot up. This was truly a small world. Kagome couldn't believe her luck. Her favorite teacher from Japan was now teaching half way around the world. "My name is Ms. Kaede, and although this is my first year teaching here, this is not my first year teaching. I'm going to take roll call, then I will tell you what is expected of you."
The teacher was calling out names, but when she saw Kagome's name she chuckled. Kaede started to speak in Japanese, "Good morning Kagome. Here I thought I'd be all alone teaching. I'm surprised and pleased that you are here child. How has life been treating you?"
The class was staring at them. Kagome stood, that was the polite thing to do. 'Some traditions were hard to break,' Kagome thought. "Kaede- sensei, I'm getting my life back together, although I was hoping to remain invisible this year. I just want to finish."
"Child, that was not possible then, and it is not possible now. Now sit child. I'm sure you'll be the best student in my class again."
Kagome sat down, and the teacher continued to call out the names.
Once she finished, Kaede passed out a sheet of paper. The first students to get it groaned. When Kagome got the paper she grinned. 'Quiz' was marked at the top.
"This is an advanced class. I want to make sure that everyone should *be* in this class."
The questions were hard, well for everyone but Kagome. She was finished the quiz, which more looked like questions to an entrance exam.
Kaede grinned at her as Kagome handed in her paper twenty minutes later. "I hope that school will not be too easy for you. I know this country has a much lower standard, but not in this class."
Kagome smiled. "I would not expect the hardest teacher in Japan to become mush."
"Mush? You think so highly of me Kagome." Kaede said playfully and laughed drawing the attention of the students. "Oh you will never guess who came with me to work in a law firm! You remember Hojo?" Then saying more to herself, "How could she forget him, they were the terrors of the school for years! I know I should forget to tell him and blame it on my old age!"
Kagome laughed. " I know you'll tell him after he mentions it to you." Kagome shook her head and returned to her seat. She pulled out a novel from her backpack. She decided that she could have the whole thing finished by the time class was over.
The teacher's voice snapped Kagome out of her reading. "Kagome, since you're finished, you can leave and explore if you want. I assume it will take them the rest of the class to finish. Now go and be off child." Kaede waved her hand motioning for Kagome to leave.
Kagome grabbed her books, bowed to the teacher. "Thanks sensei," she said as she left the class.
Kagome soundlessly explored the halls. She walked the whole school without interruption. All she had to do was walk the halls once and she had the whole school memorized.
Kagome backtracked to the library. She pulled the giant oak door open, and immediately the smell of mold and mildew hit her nose.
She wanted to turn around and leave; the smell was so bad. 'Suck it up. Otherwise you'll never come back and explore the treasures,' she sternly told herself.
She sat down at one of the tables and finished reading her book. She put her book away and looked at the clock. She had five minutes to spare.
With a sigh Kagome opened her schedule, and saw that she had advanced English.
The bell rang while she was on the stairs. She hurried along and slid into the classroom, only to discover that it was still empty.
Kagome took a seat in the back. She looked at the books aligned on the back table. They were all thin books. Kagome picked up one that she never read before: The Old Man and the Sea. It looked interesting enough.
After five minutes, other students started filing in. The first ones to come in were either staring at her, or whispering about her.
She ignored them until a voice broke her concentration. "Hi Kagome. I'm sorry I should have shown you around better, but I had to have Mr. 'If- you're-late-I-don't-care!-You-are-not-a-part-of-this-class-this-morning.' I promise to show you around at lunch." Sango clasped her hands together in a sign of promise.
"That's okay Sango, I've explored the school already, and I'm pretty confident, but I have one question." She waited politely for Sango to respond.
"What's that Kagome?"
"Are we entitled to lockers, or must we carry our bag around everywhere we go?"
"Oh my god Kagome, I'm so sorry! Let me see your schedule?"
Kagome opened her binder and handed the paper to Sango.
"See here at the top, it says B104?" She pointed to Kagome who nodded. "That's your locker number. B stands for basement, and 104 is your locker number." Sango took out her schedule and compared classes. "Wow we have three classes together! English, Gym, and Chemistry! That's pretty good."
"Ya that's great news." Kagome said taking back her schedule.
The teacher stood at the front of the class. He started taking roll call, and Kagome went back to reading her book. She finished the book by the time the teacher had waited for stragglers to come sauntering into the class. The book was not bad, she'd read better, and she'd also read worse.
The teacher passed out booklets. "Our first unit will consist of short fiction. There are books on the table in the back. After we have gone through the questions and due dates, everyone can go and pick a book from the back and start reading."
Most of the students groaned. Kagome was handed her booklet, and she flipped to her section and started writing her assignment.
'These questions are meant for children, not for advanced English students.' She thought to herself.
It was only when Sango groaned did she remember that her standards were much lower. 'I wish there was a super advanced class, otherwise I'd be bored stiff all year.' Kagome shook her head. 'It will get more challenging, I'll just have to make it.'
The assignment only called for 1000 words, but Kagome was already on 1500.
By the time the teacher went over the details and discussed the assignments in great detail, Kagome had finished her argument and was starting to proof read her essay.
"What are you doing?" Sango rasped when the teacher finished explaining.
"I just finished the assignment." Kagome's voice whispered.
"You what?" Sango's voice raised a few decibels. Thank goodness the other students were preoccupied otherwise Kagome would have blushed, and even better, the teacher failed to notice.
"It was a short book, and an easy assignment. I thought it would have been easier to just get it done and over with."
Sango rolled her eyes and grabbed a book. "Now I know where to go for help." Sango laughed and started reading.
Kagome walked up to the teacher and handed him her essay. "I finished the assignment. I was wondering if I could return to the library?"
The teacher, Mr. Williams, removed his reading glasses. "You're telling me that you read the novel and completed the assignment in half an hour?"
"Actually sir, I was almost finished the book before class even started." Kagome bowed her head in modesty.
"Go sit down Kagome, I'll look this over, and if it's not to perfection, I'll have you complete three assignments for trying to make a mockery of this class on the first day." The class fell silent as Mr. Williams tried to humiliate Kagome in front of the class.
Kagome let out a breath as she slid back into her seat. She almost felt like crying.
Sango gave Kagome a look that mocked how Kagome felt. "That's so harsh! I heard he was a prick, but damn, he's an asshole!"
Anger began to well up inside of Kagome, but ceased the moment the teacher called her name. Her head shot up to look at him. The class was still silent and watched them both.
He was shaking his head. "Go to the library Kagome. Even if you did this extremely quickly, it's brilliantly done."
Kagome smiled and looked at Sango who was shocked. "I'll see you in gym." She grabbed her bag and started to leave. Sango nodded.
The whispers started again. Kagome shrugged them off. 'This is going to happen all year, better get used to it,' she told herself. Kagome looked at the class for the first time. Her eyes darted to the same guy that had sat beside her in biology. He had glanced at her quickly before his eyes went back to his text.
Kagome headed out. She really didn't feel like heading back to the smelly library. She decided to find her locker instead. It was in the basement by the cafeteria, which also happened to be across from the gym. Gym was also her next class.
Once she stuffed her bag inside the locker. She grabbed another novel and a snack from her lunch bag, and walked into the cafeteria.
Kagone sat in a corner. She heard the silky laughter and looked up. Kagome gave an inward groan. Kikyo, Inuyasha, and a trio of others she had no clue as to who they were, were all sitting at the center table.
So far she ignored them and they ignored her. Kagome opened up her book and started reading.
Her attention was dragged to their conversation. "Have you heard anything from Miroku lately?" Kikyo's voice purred.
"I've talked to him once on the phone, but he said he was going to spend some more time with his baby. Whatever that means!" A girl said. "He completely blew me off. I mean even at the rave, he pushed me aside to go and talk to another girl. The nerve of the asshole! Doesn't he know that I'm one of the most beautiful women he can ever get?"
"Calm down Kagura. This must only be a crush. He'll come back, he always does." Kikyo patted Kagura on the back.
"Feh! He can have his so-called baby, we don't need him." Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly.
"Inuyasha," Kikyo's eyes slanted in warning, "He is your friend. I say we go and pay him a little visit and remind him why we are friends in the first place. He knows he owes Naraku over 12k, so he'll have to come back, or we'll tell his precious mother exactly he has been doing for the past five years."
Kagome sat dumbfounded. 'These people are going to con Miroku into coming back to work for them. Whatever he has been doing,' Kagome thought, 'I'll help him out of it. I have over 50k in the wall safe in the study, so I'll just pay them back with that.'
"What the fuck are you staring at wench?" Inuyasha barked to Kagome.
"I was just wondering if Darwin would have changed his theories of evolution based on you guys alone." Kagome started reading her book.
"What did you just fucking say to me?" Inuyasha stalked closer.
"I said you are a complete imbecile, now I'll probably have to explain what that is to you." Kagome glared back at him.
"I know what that means."
"What does what mean?"
"That word."
"What word?"
"The one you said."
"I've said many, which one are you referring to?"
"The one you called me."
"I called you a moron, and I have just proved myself correct."
"You wench!"
"It's true, the girl's right you are an imbecile." Kouga said stepping into the cafeteria.
"But she called me a moron!"
Kagome was starting to get a headache. "They both mean the same thing. Gawd! I've never met a nitwit as dense as you!" Kagome popped the rest of her snack in her mouth, and threw the wrapper in the garbage. Kagome started to walk out.
"Wait a minute wench," Inuyasha said grabbing her arm. "You are not going anywhere. I'm going to teach you a lesson in manners."
Kagome turned around and glared at him. "You are going to teach *me* manners? You are the one in desperate need of lessons."
Inuyasha let go of Kagome and took a swing at her.
Kagome easily ducked. She delivered a quick open-handed blow to his stomach, and a quick one to his forehead.
Before Inuyasha could do anything, he was flat on his back and developing a wicked headache.
To make matters worse Kouga was laughing at him.
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A/N: BIG hugs for all my reviewers.....except EEevee! -.- she gets nothing! Keep the reviews coming, and since I didn't get one single flame, I'm going to post this chapter early! If I get 10 reviews for this chapter, I'll post the next one...*big evil grin* yes it's done, but I like to make people stew and wait! 10 is not too much to ask right? *Shouts to beta reader* Don't make me steal Kenny! So R&R! Oh I should say, if you're a Kikyo fan.....beware..I'm on a blood hunt with her name written all over it...
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Kagome woke up to a loud buzzing in her head. She groaned and rolled over. She looked at the alarm. It read 7 a.m. She hated getting out of bed before noon.
She walked downstairs and made herself some coffee. She then stumbled in the shower. That woke her up somewhat. Still wrapped in her towel she went into the kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee.
After her second cup, she finally had the energy to climb back up the stairs to get dressed. She grabbed her uniform and put it on. The skirt was long and green; it fell to her mid-calf. The shirt was long sleeved white collar, with the school crescent on the pocket. She took out the blazer, which was the same color as her skirt. She looked at herself in the mirror.
Kagome groaned at what she saw. The person in front of the mirror looked nothing like the person she saw everyday. She took a giant scrunchy and put her hair in a bun.
'Oh well. Guess everyone looks this hideous! Well I certainly hope so,' she said trying to give herself a pep talk.
She walked into the study and grabbed her bag off the floor. She slung it against her back, and she headed back down stairs.
She drank another cup of coffee while she packed her lunch. That was one thing she liked about school here; the classes started later and ended earlier. This was a win-win situation.
She glanced at the clock. It was 8 a.m. Good she had enough time to walk and have a few minutes to spare.
Kagome looked up at the three story building. She felt butterflies grow in her stomach. 'Remember, the first day is always the worst; now take a deep breath.' Kagome told herself.
She took a deep breath for every two steps. Soon the butterflies were gone. Kagome sighed in relief. Her relief was short lived.
The guys were openly staring at her, and the girls were giving her death glares.
She wanted to groan. She had no idea what she got the looks for. 'This is going to be a great year!' She told herself with disgust.
She stood in front of the office. This was the place she was supposed to meet the person that was supposed to show her around.
Kagome was looking around, when she felt a light tap on her shoulder. "Excuse me?" Kagome turned around. "Oh sorry Kikyo, I thought-" the girl said.
"My name isn't Kikyo," Kagome interrupted, "My name is Kagome."
The girl blushed. "I'm so sorry, but I'm glad I found you. You are actually the person I'm looking for. My name's Sango."
Kagome smiled. "Hi Sango. Now who's Kikyo?"
Sango groaned. "She's the devil. The cold frigid bitch of the school. You know. The one girl that the whole school hates because all the guys want her and all the girls want to be her." Sango laughed. "Actually you look like her!"
"Great!" Kagome said rolling her eyes. "All I wanted to do was graduate, and be oblivious at the same time," Kagome said sighing.
Sango opened a manilla folder, and pulled out a sheet of paper. "Wow all your classes are on the third floor, except for P.E." Sango grabbed Kagome and headed for the stairs.
"Here you'll need this." Sango handed Kagome her schedule. "The classroom numbers are above the door, and the gym is in the basement. To get there you'll those stairs," Sango pointed to the stairs from where they came.
A bell rang from somewhere down the hall. "Here's your class. Most of mine are on the second floor, so I'll see you later." Sango bounded away.
Kagome walked into the class and took the first desk she saw. She looked at her schedule and saw that it was advanced biology. She placed her binder on her desk, and she held her head down. She didn't know who this Kikyo chick was, but she didn't want to give off the wrong impression until then.
Kagome heard a silky laugh come into the classroom. Her head snapped up and she stared at her double.
Kikyo stopped dead when she saw Kagome.
'Wow she does look like me!' Kagome pondered.
Kikyo took a seat in the back. Now Kagome wished she had done the same. She felt Kikyo's eyes glaring at her.
She was about to turn around and create hell, but she was stopped by two guys fighting at their classroom door. Both guys were kinda cute. One had hair that was white was snow and yellow eyes. While the other had brown hair. She couldn't see his eyes, but she was sure they'd be stunning.
Then out of nowhere another student with white hair came and broke up the fight. "What is the meaning of this?" His voice was cold.
"Feh! Kouga started the whole thing." Inuyasha crossed his arms and smirked, "But it was nothing I couldn't handle." He looked passed them and started walking over to Kikyo.
She stood up and embraced him. "Inuyasha, did that mutt hurt you?" She started fussing over him.
Kagome wanted to puke.
Kouga took a seat in front of Kagome, and the other stranger sat beside her. Kagome was making sure her things were in order for class.
She didn't see the teacher walk in. "Good morning class." Kagome's head shot up. This was truly a small world. Kagome couldn't believe her luck. Her favorite teacher from Japan was now teaching half way around the world. "My name is Ms. Kaede, and although this is my first year teaching here, this is not my first year teaching. I'm going to take roll call, then I will tell you what is expected of you."
The teacher was calling out names, but when she saw Kagome's name she chuckled. Kaede started to speak in Japanese, "Good morning Kagome. Here I thought I'd be all alone teaching. I'm surprised and pleased that you are here child. How has life been treating you?"
The class was staring at them. Kagome stood, that was the polite thing to do. 'Some traditions were hard to break,' Kagome thought. "Kaede- sensei, I'm getting my life back together, although I was hoping to remain invisible this year. I just want to finish."
"Child, that was not possible then, and it is not possible now. Now sit child. I'm sure you'll be the best student in my class again."
Kagome sat down, and the teacher continued to call out the names.
Once she finished, Kaede passed out a sheet of paper. The first students to get it groaned. When Kagome got the paper she grinned. 'Quiz' was marked at the top.
"This is an advanced class. I want to make sure that everyone should *be* in this class."
The questions were hard, well for everyone but Kagome. She was finished the quiz, which more looked like questions to an entrance exam.
Kaede grinned at her as Kagome handed in her paper twenty minutes later. "I hope that school will not be too easy for you. I know this country has a much lower standard, but not in this class."
Kagome smiled. "I would not expect the hardest teacher in Japan to become mush."
"Mush? You think so highly of me Kagome." Kaede said playfully and laughed drawing the attention of the students. "Oh you will never guess who came with me to work in a law firm! You remember Hojo?" Then saying more to herself, "How could she forget him, they were the terrors of the school for years! I know I should forget to tell him and blame it on my old age!"
Kagome laughed. " I know you'll tell him after he mentions it to you." Kagome shook her head and returned to her seat. She pulled out a novel from her backpack. She decided that she could have the whole thing finished by the time class was over.
The teacher's voice snapped Kagome out of her reading. "Kagome, since you're finished, you can leave and explore if you want. I assume it will take them the rest of the class to finish. Now go and be off child." Kaede waved her hand motioning for Kagome to leave.
Kagome grabbed her books, bowed to the teacher. "Thanks sensei," she said as she left the class.
Kagome soundlessly explored the halls. She walked the whole school without interruption. All she had to do was walk the halls once and she had the whole school memorized.
Kagome backtracked to the library. She pulled the giant oak door open, and immediately the smell of mold and mildew hit her nose.
She wanted to turn around and leave; the smell was so bad. 'Suck it up. Otherwise you'll never come back and explore the treasures,' she sternly told herself.
She sat down at one of the tables and finished reading her book. She put her book away and looked at the clock. She had five minutes to spare.
With a sigh Kagome opened her schedule, and saw that she had advanced English.
The bell rang while she was on the stairs. She hurried along and slid into the classroom, only to discover that it was still empty.
Kagome took a seat in the back. She looked at the books aligned on the back table. They were all thin books. Kagome picked up one that she never read before: The Old Man and the Sea. It looked interesting enough.
After five minutes, other students started filing in. The first ones to come in were either staring at her, or whispering about her.
She ignored them until a voice broke her concentration. "Hi Kagome. I'm sorry I should have shown you around better, but I had to have Mr. 'If- you're-late-I-don't-care!-You-are-not-a-part-of-this-class-this-morning.' I promise to show you around at lunch." Sango clasped her hands together in a sign of promise.
"That's okay Sango, I've explored the school already, and I'm pretty confident, but I have one question." She waited politely for Sango to respond.
"What's that Kagome?"
"Are we entitled to lockers, or must we carry our bag around everywhere we go?"
"Oh my god Kagome, I'm so sorry! Let me see your schedule?"
Kagome opened her binder and handed the paper to Sango.
"See here at the top, it says B104?" She pointed to Kagome who nodded. "That's your locker number. B stands for basement, and 104 is your locker number." Sango took out her schedule and compared classes. "Wow we have three classes together! English, Gym, and Chemistry! That's pretty good."
"Ya that's great news." Kagome said taking back her schedule.
The teacher stood at the front of the class. He started taking roll call, and Kagome went back to reading her book. She finished the book by the time the teacher had waited for stragglers to come sauntering into the class. The book was not bad, she'd read better, and she'd also read worse.
The teacher passed out booklets. "Our first unit will consist of short fiction. There are books on the table in the back. After we have gone through the questions and due dates, everyone can go and pick a book from the back and start reading."
Most of the students groaned. Kagome was handed her booklet, and she flipped to her section and started writing her assignment.
'These questions are meant for children, not for advanced English students.' She thought to herself.
It was only when Sango groaned did she remember that her standards were much lower. 'I wish there was a super advanced class, otherwise I'd be bored stiff all year.' Kagome shook her head. 'It will get more challenging, I'll just have to make it.'
The assignment only called for 1000 words, but Kagome was already on 1500.
By the time the teacher went over the details and discussed the assignments in great detail, Kagome had finished her argument and was starting to proof read her essay.
"What are you doing?" Sango rasped when the teacher finished explaining.
"I just finished the assignment." Kagome's voice whispered.
"You what?" Sango's voice raised a few decibels. Thank goodness the other students were preoccupied otherwise Kagome would have blushed, and even better, the teacher failed to notice.
"It was a short book, and an easy assignment. I thought it would have been easier to just get it done and over with."
Sango rolled her eyes and grabbed a book. "Now I know where to go for help." Sango laughed and started reading.
Kagome walked up to the teacher and handed him her essay. "I finished the assignment. I was wondering if I could return to the library?"
The teacher, Mr. Williams, removed his reading glasses. "You're telling me that you read the novel and completed the assignment in half an hour?"
"Actually sir, I was almost finished the book before class even started." Kagome bowed her head in modesty.
"Go sit down Kagome, I'll look this over, and if it's not to perfection, I'll have you complete three assignments for trying to make a mockery of this class on the first day." The class fell silent as Mr. Williams tried to humiliate Kagome in front of the class.
Kagome let out a breath as she slid back into her seat. She almost felt like crying.
Sango gave Kagome a look that mocked how Kagome felt. "That's so harsh! I heard he was a prick, but damn, he's an asshole!"
Anger began to well up inside of Kagome, but ceased the moment the teacher called her name. Her head shot up to look at him. The class was still silent and watched them both.
He was shaking his head. "Go to the library Kagome. Even if you did this extremely quickly, it's brilliantly done."
Kagome smiled and looked at Sango who was shocked. "I'll see you in gym." She grabbed her bag and started to leave. Sango nodded.
The whispers started again. Kagome shrugged them off. 'This is going to happen all year, better get used to it,' she told herself. Kagome looked at the class for the first time. Her eyes darted to the same guy that had sat beside her in biology. He had glanced at her quickly before his eyes went back to his text.
Kagome headed out. She really didn't feel like heading back to the smelly library. She decided to find her locker instead. It was in the basement by the cafeteria, which also happened to be across from the gym. Gym was also her next class.
Once she stuffed her bag inside the locker. She grabbed another novel and a snack from her lunch bag, and walked into the cafeteria.
Kagone sat in a corner. She heard the silky laughter and looked up. Kagome gave an inward groan. Kikyo, Inuyasha, and a trio of others she had no clue as to who they were, were all sitting at the center table.
So far she ignored them and they ignored her. Kagome opened up her book and started reading.
Her attention was dragged to their conversation. "Have you heard anything from Miroku lately?" Kikyo's voice purred.
"I've talked to him once on the phone, but he said he was going to spend some more time with his baby. Whatever that means!" A girl said. "He completely blew me off. I mean even at the rave, he pushed me aside to go and talk to another girl. The nerve of the asshole! Doesn't he know that I'm one of the most beautiful women he can ever get?"
"Calm down Kagura. This must only be a crush. He'll come back, he always does." Kikyo patted Kagura on the back.
"Feh! He can have his so-called baby, we don't need him." Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly.
"Inuyasha," Kikyo's eyes slanted in warning, "He is your friend. I say we go and pay him a little visit and remind him why we are friends in the first place. He knows he owes Naraku over 12k, so he'll have to come back, or we'll tell his precious mother exactly he has been doing for the past five years."
Kagome sat dumbfounded. 'These people are going to con Miroku into coming back to work for them. Whatever he has been doing,' Kagome thought, 'I'll help him out of it. I have over 50k in the wall safe in the study, so I'll just pay them back with that.'
"What the fuck are you staring at wench?" Inuyasha barked to Kagome.
"I was just wondering if Darwin would have changed his theories of evolution based on you guys alone." Kagome started reading her book.
"What did you just fucking say to me?" Inuyasha stalked closer.
"I said you are a complete imbecile, now I'll probably have to explain what that is to you." Kagome glared back at him.
"I know what that means."
"What does what mean?"
"That word."
"What word?"
"The one you said."
"I've said many, which one are you referring to?"
"The one you called me."
"I called you a moron, and I have just proved myself correct."
"You wench!"
"It's true, the girl's right you are an imbecile." Kouga said stepping into the cafeteria.
"But she called me a moron!"
Kagome was starting to get a headache. "They both mean the same thing. Gawd! I've never met a nitwit as dense as you!" Kagome popped the rest of her snack in her mouth, and threw the wrapper in the garbage. Kagome started to walk out.
"Wait a minute wench," Inuyasha said grabbing her arm. "You are not going anywhere. I'm going to teach you a lesson in manners."
Kagome turned around and glared at him. "You are going to teach *me* manners? You are the one in desperate need of lessons."
Inuyasha let go of Kagome and took a swing at her.
Kagome easily ducked. She delivered a quick open-handed blow to his stomach, and a quick one to his forehead.
Before Inuyasha could do anything, he was flat on his back and developing a wicked headache.
To make matters worse Kouga was laughing at him.
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A/N: BIG hugs for all my reviewers.....except EEevee! -.- she gets nothing! Keep the reviews coming, and since I didn't get one single flame, I'm going to post this chapter early! If I get 10 reviews for this chapter, I'll post the next one...*big evil grin* yes it's done, but I like to make people stew and wait! 10 is not too much to ask right? *Shouts to beta reader* Don't make me steal Kenny! So R&R! Oh I should say, if you're a Kikyo fan.....beware..I'm on a blood hunt with her name written all over it...
MIkki-inu-luva - I have NO clue what the pairings are, that's why it's a drama, so you'll just have to wait and see......that's the best I can do
Laer_Minuial - Thanks for the homemade lasagna, but really I had to black mail my beta reader to get my chapter back in time. ^_^ Homemade Lasagna is my favorite, that and sushi!
ASHLEY CORTEZ - Glad you like it, I'm pleased!