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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ {dream} "talking" 'thinking' Chapter 2

Finally, as they all settled down into their chairs in the classroom, all except...................Kagome......

"Tsk. Tsk. Tardy. What a shame." An older mid-60's woman stood at the front of the room with short gray hair up in a tightly packed bun.

"Sorry."

"On your permanent record it will be! Ms. Higurashi and Mr. Morimoto..shame shame.

'Huh? He's late too?' Kagome looked back at the door, and sure enough, there stood Inuyasha. "Your seats, you must get to. Now, go." She pointed to the back of the room, close to Miroku and Sango. She sat next to Sango, and a few rows back from Inuyasha, with Miroku on the other side of Sango. The boy in front of Kagome turned around.

"Sorry, she's always like that."

"Oh."

"I'm Hojo. Nice to meet you." He turned around, not wanting to get yelled at.

'He seems nice...' Kagome thought.

"Class, out your books, you must get. Reading today we will" (A/N: what is this? Yoda? Heh heh...guess so!)

Kagome tried to pay attention in class, but fell asleep.

"Kagome! Let's go!"

"Huh?"

"You fell asleep, let's go."

"K, Sango." Kagome stood up. "Where's everyone at?"

"In the hall! Class is over!"

"Oh! Let's go!" 'Darn, I'm already giving myself a bad impression..' Kagome followed Sango out into the hall. "What we got next?"

"Biology."

"Whoopie..."

"But, I don't. Heh heh, Miroku does... be careful..."

"Why?"

"Haven't you noticed?" Sango quickly left to go to her next class. Kagome looked for Miroku or Inuyasha, seeing it as they both had the next class with her. Seeing Miroku, or Miroku seeing her first, they met up. "Kagome! Ah, how good to see you again!" He attempted to put a hand around Kagome's waist, and it "slipped".

*THWACK* "EW! YOU PERV! WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"

"Oh..heh heh...it..slipped?"

Kagome sighed. "Come on, let's just get to class, I don't want to be late again." Kagome, keeping her distance from Miroku, followed him to biology. The room was towards the entrance of the school.

"Here," he motioned with his arms.

"Huh-uh! You first!"

"Oh.." He walked in gloomily and Kagome followed him, but smart thinking sat down a few rows behind him.

(now we skip to later in the day..like after school I think..?)

Sango had decided to walk home with Kagome after school. Then after Kagome was at home, she was going to keep going on to her house.

"This is where you live?"

"Uh huh. We thought with the grade school just a few blocks the other way, it was the perfect location."

"Oh. I see..." Kagome looked at Sango. She was just looking at the ground.

"Something wrong?" Kagome asked.

"Huh? No. I'm fine." Sango followed Kagome inside.

"Mom? Sota?" Kagome looked around and all the boxes were stacked in the corners. 'Wow, they must've come while we were at school..'

"Kagome! Oh good, you're home! What do you know, they came while you were away at school. Isn't that nice?"

"Since all the boxes are inside, can I go over to Sango's house?"

"Oh, hello!" Ms. H looked up from the box she was unpacking.

"Hi, Ms. Higurashi. I'm Sango, Kagome's new friend from school."

"Nice to meet you."

"So, can I go mom? To Sango's? Please?"

"Well, I suppose. Be back by 5. We're going to eat early tonight."

"Thank you!" Kagome grabbed Sango's hand, threw her school stuff on the ground and ran out the front door before her mom could change her mind.

"What's the rush?"

"Don't know, you lead!" Kagome let Sango in front of her, since (duh) Kagome didn't know where she was going. (now we're going to the garage @ sango's..)

Kagome was sitting on an old couch that was in the garage. Sango had told her they were going to sing her a song called "Tell Me*"(see a/n @ bottom). Tell me,--- Will we still be friends, After the sun goes down at night? Will we be friends when the sun comes to rise again? Will we still be friends, you tell me--- I remember waking up in the morning, Just wondering if-- If you were okay--- If you were aright--- If you made it through the night.. okay--- Tell me,--- Will we still be friends, After the sun goes down at night? Will we be friends when the sun comes to rise again? Will we still be friends, you tell me---

"What's she doing here?" Inuyasha looked up from his guitar and stopped half way through the song, as if he was totally oblivious to the fact that she had followed Sango in.

"Her stuff was all unpacked, so she came over here."

"Let her stay, Inuyasha, what would it hurt?" Miroku tried to coax.

"I give her a seat next to me. I wouldn't mind at all. Come on Sugar, right here." Koga patted a spot next to him (he plays drums..inu&mir play guitar & sango sings...)

"She ain't stayin and that's final! The wench don't belong here, so she can go home! Her Daddy pwobabwy misses her."

Kagome just stood there and stared at the ground, 'I sure hope I look invisible, how dare he..' Kagome turned and ran out the garage door. Tears flew as her feet carried her home. 'Dad dies a few years ago.........I was young and hardly remember him. And that hurts more. I hardly remember him. How can he say something like that? He's going to pay! Major!' Kagome flung the front door open and ran up to her room and grabbed the nearest available thing, luckily a pillow, and chucked it at the wall. She leaned against the closed door and slid down.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

*knock, knock* "You okay?" It was Sango.

"No....Is he always like that?"

"Yea. Pretty much." Sango sat down next to me. "Alright. Spill. Why'd you run away. He was just teasing."

Kagome sniffed and rubbed some tears from her eyes. "When I was little, my Dad was coming home from Kyoto on a business trip. He was driving at night and stopped at the stop light. He was going to turn right, but someone was driving in the wrong lane and...." She couldn't continue.

"Oh...I'm so sorry. To lose your dad at such a young age. I can relate. My brother disappeared about a year ago. We've had sightings of him, but nothing more."

"What' was your brother like?"

"Oh he was the best. Just like any other brother, only more special..." Sango's eyes got a little watery. "But enough of me. Just remember, Inuyasha's a big jerk and there's nothing anyone can do about it."

Kagome had to grin a little.

"Come on. I'll take you back again. I promise he won't do anything like that again."

/\/\/\/\/\/(back @ sango's garage..again..)

As they walked in, the music stopped. They all looked up and saw Kagome and Sango walk in.

"I knew you'd be back for me, Kagome. Come on, I saved you a spot."

"No, thanks Koga. I'm fine."

"Oh, did daddy's wittle girwl go and tattle on bad ol' Inuyasha?" Inuyasha made a pouty lip and pretended to wipe a tear from his eye.

"THAT'S IT!" Kagome turned to leave, but Sango grabbed her hand.

"Please stay, don't listen to him."

"Oh, she needs her wittle daddy to save her!" Inuyasha teased, he thought.

Kagome ripped her arm free of Sango's grasp and ran back home.

"See? I knew she wouldn't stay." Inuyasha said.

"You don't know half of it," Sango said.

"What do you mean? Half of it?" Inuyasha asked walking over to Sango.

"You want to know why she's so offended? Sit down. Maybe this will change your perspective on how you treat her..."

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The next day at school, Kagome had made up her mind not to talk to anyone. 'I don't care what Sango tells me, no matter how much Koga gets on my nerves, no matter what Miroku does, I'm not talking to a soul.'

In computer class, Kagome received an anonymous email that said:
Lunch, cafeteria, back table. Come alone.

'What the...' The email address was really helpful too. (A/N: okay. The email is dumb, but it fits.you'll know instantly who it is...just don't laugh and think I'm stupid..but I am...but still..it goes with my plot..) (A/N: heh heh..sorry. just had to get one last laugh before you do...heh heh)

'doggy_demon17? Who the heck has an email like that?! It doesn't make any sense. I'll go with it. Lunch is next anyway.'

/\/\/\/\/\/\/lunch/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

Kagome was towards the back of the line. She looked to the back of the room to see if anyone was at the back table. 'No one. Guess I get to pick one...' She picked a secluded table away from most people and sat down. Several minutes passed and a person plopped down really fast.

"What do YOU want?" Kagome added. She looked across at the person who sat down. 'Inuyasha? He looks really sad...'

"Look. I didn't know anything about your dad. Sango told me everything when you left. I didn't know he died when you were so young..I'm sorry."

Kagome looked up at him. She looked deep in his amber-yellow eyes...'He really does look sorry..'

"It's okay..I guess."

"No. No, I don't deserve it. I understand completely if you hate me. In fact, I give you permission to hate me."

'What? Is this Inuyasha? The same Inuyasha I had known from before? It can't be...' "I got one question for you, mister, and you had BETTER answer it!" Kagome said in a rather harsh tone.

"What?"

Kagome leaned across the table a little and looked him straight in the face. "......................................What's with your email address???!!!"

Inuyasha smiled and blushed.

"Well?"

"It was...an inside joke between me, Koga and Miroku..."

"Doggy demon?"

"Yea. It's a long story."

"I had to laugh. "So, when are we going to work on that long awaited history project?"

"Oh yea! I knew there was something I was forgetting..." He took a huge bite of the pizza that was getting cold. "You wanna come over to my house? I gotta ton of books we can go through."

"Uh, sure. You aren't going to miss practice because of this are you?"

"Nah, we only practice when we want."

"It's Friday, right?"

"Yea?"

"K.."

"Why?'

"Don't know. Just thinking. I missed school on Wednesday because of moving. And so that threw me off's all."

"Oh."

"Well, see you after school then. Your house?"

"Yea."

"K. Bye." Kagome got up and dumped what was left of her food in the trash can.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: okay. I'm going to stop there. Not much of a cliffie, but..still...o well..

Do u think Inuyasha was a little odd during that last conversation? He just didn't seem him self...but....i guess I wrote this fic.....guess I shouldn't complain.......

Thank you first reviewers!!!!!! waterlily216 and IYWriterGirl. & again, the song "Tell Me" is entirely IYWriterGirl's. That's only part of the song, but you'll hear the rest at the dance.

Oh, not that I meant to confuse anyone, but this is like the beginning of the 4th quarter of school. I kinda forgot to let you all know that...

Um....i don't know what else to say. So, see ya'll's later!!!

-animeblonde10
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