Kalli: Hi minna! Thanks for all the reviews! It was greatly appreciated! ^^
So, here's the review replies/ thanks:
Chibi chibi-sama- *hugs* You are SO nice! That's very flattering! I hope you like this chapter as much as the last one! ^^
Squeakyinuears- *gapes* OMG, such a good author reviewed my story?! Wow...and you left a nice, long one too! First off, I'd like to say I'm a huge fan of your story 'Til' you return to me'! If what happened in the last chapter is like what goes on between you and ur friends, it must not get boring! ^^ And I especially like how you said to take my time (cuz as it's quite obvious, I did), and yes, I got my title from the song in 'Fiddler on the Roof'. It just seemed right for the story! And thanks for telling me about Inutaisho!
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Sprout- Sorry about the slow update! That's not the reason why she dumped him, but..we shall find out...in due time..*evil laugh* I'll update whenever I get the chapter done, which varies, but I'll send you an e-mail about it when I do! ^^
asianvietgirl52 - Thank you, and I promise that I'll continue this story until it's done!
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Musiq-Mistress101- I remember u, u reviewed 'Criminal Affairs' too! Thanks so much for reviewing this story too! And the cookie! ^.~
veggiechan342- OMG, the BEST you've ever read? *faints* Surely you jest, there's so many other ones out there that are WAY better than this! You sure know how to flatter an authoress! ^^
AnkukoTenma - Aww, thank you! I agree, I would LOVE to be in one of the girl's shoes...and kiss Inuyasha..now, back to the reply before I start drooling...Thank you for putting me on your list! It may take a while, but I promise to keep on writing until it's done! And I LOVED your quote, it was hilarious! ^^
Fire of Infinity - *rolls eyes* Oh, great, THAT bitch reviewed again...just kidding T, cuz you know I love to make you mad.*innocent smile* And I will e-mail it, even though I won't be expecting a review until about chapter 20- something.
Nightswift - Nightswift! *huggles* It's good to hear from u again! ^^ There's not much S/M OR I/K in this chapter, but there'll probably be a lot of S/M in the next chappie! And your not alone in hating Hojo...*twitch* Hojo is bad....
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Kira: Well, now that we're done with that, it's time to introduce our guest!
Kalli: Please welcome our dear Fluffy! Or Sesshy-chan, whichever you prefer!^^
Kira: Traitor! You stole my job! *sob*
Sesshomaru: I don't believe this. I've been demoted from the great youkai Lord Sesshomaru to............Fluffy.
Kira: Sesshy-chan!
Sesshomaru: Or Sesshy-chan. *shudder*
Kira: *glomp* I love you!
Sesshomaru: *glare* *throws Kira to the lands of the unknown* I've even been glomped by an otaku freak!
Kalli: . You just killed my muse.
Sesshomaru: That thing was your muse?
Kalli: *nod nod*
Sesshomaru: Then I probably did you a favor, wench.
Kalli: Good point. I think it's time that we got on to the next chapter though. Yep, yep. . .
. Kalli: Just thought I'd mention something randomly. I was watching Rurouni Kenshin and I got to thinking, when I realized that in both series, Kagome and Kaoru (main girl from RK if u don't watch it) are both in love triangles with males that have extreme ablities and dead lovers from the guy's past. It's Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kikyo, then Kaoru, Kenshin, and Tomoe. Ok, I'm done with my random thought now!^^ .
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~~~Tokyo High~~~ #$Inuyasha P.O.V.#$
I quickly glanced over my schedule again before finally looking around to find the room where I was supposed to be in about 2 minutes. Room 308..........
I looked up to see room 521 in front of me. I groaned. 'Shit.'
I checked over my schedule once again. 'Maybe the teacher will be forgiving... nah, it'll probably be a bitchy old hag.'
All the sudden, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I whirled around and came face to face with a tall male with black hair in a small ponytail dressed in the school uniform.
"Are you new here?" he asked curiously.
I looked at him suspiciously. "Yeah."
"What room are you looking for?" he asked, grabbing my schedule straight out of my hands.
"Hey!"
He quickly handed it back. "You've got the same homeroom as me."
"Goody."
"Sorry about the bad introduction. Name's Miroku Houshi." He said with a lazy grin, sticking out his hand.
I hesitantly shook it. "Inuyasha Katobe."
"Nice to meet ya. Can I call you Inuyasha?"
"Feh."
"I'll take that as a yes. So, what other classes do you have?"
"Algebra, chemistry, gym, and English 2. In that order." I said, reading quickly off my schedule.
Miroku pursed his lips. "Then we have chemistry together. I've got gym right after you."
"Hmm."
"A bunch of people are in chemistry, and I think you've got English with 2 of my friends, Kagome and Sango. Their pretty nice." He turned to me with a quirked eyebrow. "What lunch do you have?"
"Um....11:25-11:55."
"Ah, first lunch. Then you, me, Kagome, Sango and another girl named Rin have the same lunch."
"I see."
We finally stopped in front of room 308 and slipped in right as the bell was ringing. A few people looked up, then started whispering excitedly while pointing at me.
Miroku grinned. "Looks like you've got some of the ladies talking, Inu."
I scowled. "Great."
Miroku looked at me in disbelief. "So, you don't like women or something?"
"Bad experience with an ex-girlfriend. Women are fine, but the break-up was pretty recent."
"The long distance thing?"
"No."
"Dude, if she told you that you were bad in bed or something, that's just a tricky way for her to get you to-"
*BAM* Miroku hit the ground face first in front of me.
I looked up to see 2 angry looking girls glaring at Miroku.
"Miroku, stop tainting this poor guy's mind! He doesn't need to here your stupid, perverted stories!" yelled the tallest one.
The shorter one nodded her approval. "Honestly, if you keep this up, we're telling your uncle that you have those 'special' magazines of yours hidden under your bed."
"He knows. He reads em' to." Was the muffled response of Miroku.
Both girls gave him a look of disgust. I was tempted to do the same thing. "Don't ever tell us that again. We'll show you home movies of when you used to think girls were 'icky'!"
"I was 5!"
They exchanged glances. "Then you leave us no choice."
The taller one swiftly took off her shoe and threw it into Miroku's head. "Ouchie....." Was all that we heard.
After the girl had put her shoe back on, they finally looked up at me. "We are SO sorry, we knew there was going to be a new student, but we had no idea that Miroku was going to try to recruit him as another pervert. He didn't say anything too bad, right?" asked the taller one apologetically.
I shook my head, still a little confused. "No."
#$Kagome P.O.V.#$
After we were done pounding Miroku's head farther into the ground, I got a look at the guy Miroku had been talking to and squinted my eyes.
He looked so familiar, but......
Why did he look so familiar to me? I was sure I'd seen him in a picture or something before, but where?
"What are you staring at, wench?" a deep voice snapped beside me.
"Was I staring? Sorry." Then I paused to absorb what he had said. "Wench?! Excuse me?"
"Well, you obviously heard me, so why are you asking?"
"Why'd you call me a wench?"
"Well, in general, that's what I'd USUALLY call some girl I don't even know that's been staring at me for about 3 minutes!" he said rudely.
"You jerk! Did no one ever teach you how to talk to a lady?"
"No."
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........shut up, moron!" I yelled angrily.
"Look, I'm not the one with the staring problem."
I couldn't say anything to that, so I just glared. Then, I finally decided to try to have a decent conversation instead.
"Sorry. Have we met before?"
Then he drew back and looked at me as if it were the first time he'd really seen me, which it probably was.
Then his eyes widened and flashed in what seemed recognition.
Then he whispered something in a very small voice.
My face screwed up in confusion. "Excuse me?"
Then the recognition faded from his eyes and he shook his head. "Nothing. I don't think we've met before, but you do look a little familiar." He looked like he was going to say something else, but instead shifted his weight to his other foot and looked back and forth as if he was expecting something.
Then I heard Sango pipe up next to me. "Oh! I'm sorry. I'm Taijiya Sango. Call me Sango."
"Katobe Inuyasha." He said lazily.
"Erm.....I'm Higurashi Kagome."
"Oh, so the wench has a name." He said with a smirk.
"I'M NOT A WENCH, DAMNIT!" I clapped my hand over my mouth and blushed deeply after my little tantrum.
The teacher, who was at her desk sipping coffee, looked up in a bewildered state. "Is there a problem, Higurashi-san?"
"No. Sorry." I mumbled.
The teacher quirked an eyebrow then decided it was time to get everyone to sit down and shut up. "Will all of you please take a seat?" she asked calmly.
I hurried to sit down next to Sango and behind Miroku where he couldn't grope me. Unfortunately Miroku stole my seat, so I decided that I had 2 options.
1, I could take the lovely seat in front of Sango and end up where Miroku could stare at my ass and I'd never know, which was also the seat beside the one directly in front of Miroku where the stupid Inuyasha was currently residing.
Or 2, kick my very best male friend out of his seat after all the good times and fun memories we shared when his birthday was coming up soon.
I couldn't possibly kick him out of his seat after all that, could I? It'd just be mean.....
"Miroku, move to another seat."
Miroku didn't move. "And why should I do this?"
"Cause I wanna sit there, and you knew it! You seat stealer!"
There was a snicker from Inuyasha. "Ooh, nice insult. I'll have to remember that."
"Shut it, you!" I turned, giving him a withering glare before turning back to Miroku.
"What's your point?" asked Miroku.
I sighed. 'Fine Miroku, we'll do this the hard way.' I picked up my foot and kicked him straight off the side of the chair, then watched him hit the floor with an 'oomph!'.
I smiled triumphantly and slid into the sit beside Sango, who smiled deviously at me in approval.
Miroku just got up and dusted himself off, then took the seat in front of Sango.
Inuyasha twisted around to face me in his seat. "You're not a nice wench either, are ya?"
I scowled at him. "I'm only nice to people I like."
Miroku stared at me in disbelief. "Hey!"
"Not now, Miroku!" I snapped.
Inuyasha snorted. "Well, then you must really hate me."
"I don't hate you. Yet. Right now it's just a strong dislike of sorts."
He rolled his eyes. "Whatever, bitch. I don't like you either."
Unfortunately, neither of us noticed the identical grins that lit Sango and Miroku's faces................
#$Sango P.O.V.#$
I watched Kagome and Inuyasha exchange 'conversation' with interest until finally, it hit me.
I quickly jabbed my finger into Miroku's back.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"Shut up. What do you see here?" I asked, nodding my head towards Kagome and Inuyasha.
"A mean ex-best friend who just gave me a bruise on my butt and my new best friend, the nice guy, Inuyasha arguing against each other."."
I whacked him over the head and made a buzzer sound like the kind you hear on game shows when people get a question wrong. "No! Look again and look close!"
He sighed and turned back to look at the 2 arguing. After a few seconds, his face lit up with realization. "I see it now."
I smiled gleefully. "This is gonna be good."
"So, are they our new target, my cunning partner?"
"Oh, yes. Revenge is sweet."
"Revenge? What for?"
"She kept on saying that I li- uh, lied about how her hair looked and I never did."
He gave me a suspicious look. "Hair? You're getting revenge for that?"
Time to use the all-purpose excuse that always gets a man off your case. "It's a girl thing, okay?"
"Right. So, what's our first step for this?"
"Well, you find out his common interests and try to see which ones Kagome likes, then we get them to sit near each other at lunch and-"
"Across from each other or beside each other?"
"What?"
"At lunch. Where do you want them to sit in relationship to each other?"
"I don't care, as long as they sit near each other! Now, after that's accomplished, you somehow insert into the conversation one of the things they both like and make sure their both included in the conversation. You do have lunch with him, right?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Same as Kagome and me. I'll pass this along to Rin so that she can help."
"Got it."
"Wait. Do you have other classes with him?"
"Yeah. We've got chemistry together."
"Excellent. Get the info from him then."
"Got it."
"Good. Now, remember that Kagome knows our tricks, so be very careful. We're treading on dangerous ground as it is, but if she finds out, your dead and I'm in the hospital."
"Why do I die?!"
"Because I'm nicer than you, and I know blackmail. Plus, I've never groped her."
"I've got blackmail!"
"Miroku, she was 6, and nobody even remembers that kid since he moved away. A 2-week crush does NOT count."
"What kind of blackmail do you have on her exactly?"
"Nice try, but I'll never tell."
"Damn. You females sure are mean."
"Only to you. Now, don't forget the plan, okay?"
Suddenly, the teacher stood up. "Miss Higurashi, and.....Mister Katobe, I assume?"
Inuyasha nodded.
"Will you two PLEASE stop arguing. I prefer not to give students detention on the first day."
They did shut up, but not before the 2 exchanged glares and Kagome stuck her tongue out.
The teacher sighed. "Okay, now, mister Katobe, will you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about you?"
Inuyasha smugly stood up. "Name's Inuyasha. Transferred from Aomori, and I like martial arts and sword fighting. I'd also like to add that I think that she" he paused and pointed to Kagome with a huge grin on his face. "Is the biggest bitch I've ever met."
Kagome flushed red from embarrassment and she let out an outraged gasp. "You jerk! How dare you insult me?! You don't hardly know me!"
"I know that you're a bitch."
"STUPID! I AM NOT!"
"OH YEAH?!"
"YEAH!"
"OH YEAH?!"
"ENOUGH!"
They all jumped at the teacher's thundering voice. She was standing up and frowning deeply. "That's it! Detention, to you, Inuyasha, for profanity and yelling. To you, Kagome, for yelling. He deserved it, yes, but I'm afraid I have to follow school policy." She paused to take in a breath. "What lunch period do you 2 have?"
"First." They answered in unison.
"Then just come to this room for lunch for the rest of the week, starting tomorrow. Understood?"
"Feh." Grumbled Inuyasha before plopping down in his seat.
Kagome miserably nodded and sank into her seat.
A few seconds later, the bell rang, and the class hurried out the door to get to their next class.
#$ Normal P.O.V.#$
Sango fell into step beside Kagome. "Man, Kag, I haven't seen you get that mad since the time that Buyo ate your journal and your favorite pen."
"At least Buyo apologized."
"Buyo......apologized? Um, Kag, how exactly did he 'apologize'?"
"He looked up at me with these big, googly eyes that were just screaming 'I'm sorry for eating your pen and journal, Kagome.'"
"Did he look up at you with those big, googly eyes at dinner time, Kagome?"
"Yeah."
"Then I don't think that was an apology. I think it was more of a 'Aren't I so cute that you wanna feed me?' look."
"Whatever." Snapped Kagome crossly.
"Well, I gotta get to Home Ec., so I'll see you later."
Kagome waved weakly. "Bye!"
She walked into the auditorium and sat down in one of the chairs lined up, and looked around, only to be met with the sight of Hojo smiling brightly at her.
She smiled weakly and waved at him.
Fortunately, he kept his distance and didn't speak to her, even though when Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi arrived, they encouraged her to speak to him rather strongly.
After the bell had rung, the teacher stepped up to the podium set up in front of the chairs.
He was a little on the short side, with tanned skin, dark hair, and glasses. Nothing out of the ordinary, but when he spoke, everyone jumped at his booming voice.
"WELCOME students, to drama. Now, how many of you are in this class because they ran out of other places to put you?"
A few hands raised hesitantly.
"Thank you for being truthful. How many of you are here because it was a 2nd or 3rd choice, and your others were full?"
Again, a few raised their hands, including Kagome, Yuka, and Ayumi.
"How many of you are here because it was your 1st choice, and your glad about it?"
Eri's hand gleefully shot up with a select few others who looked happy. Eri's passion was drama, and as one of the local drama queens of the school, it was easy to see she had a flare for it.
The teacher nodded. "Well, at least all of you are honest students. Now, regardless of why you're here, you are still required to do something. You can act, you can do props, you can do costumes, or you could do lights. There's something for everybody."
"Well, we have plenty of work to do. So, who wants to act?"
Eri's hand was the first up, followed hesitantly by Kagome, who had been nudged by Eri. The teacher surveyed the room quietly.
"You." He spoke, directing everyone's attention to Eri. "You will be the leading lady in our play."
Eri spoke hesitantly. "What exactly is our play?"
He grinned. "A story about 2 girls, a peasant and a spoiled princess, both in love with a knight's son. I think you'll be pleased."
Eri grinned. "Which one am I?"
He pursed his lips thoughtfully. "The peasant. And you....." he trailed off, gazing steadily at Kagome, who was getting nervous. "Will play the princess."
Kagome nearly fell out of her seat in surprise. She hadn't expected anything of the sort to happen. But instead, she nodded dumbly.
"You!" he spoke, pointing to a boy with long black hair in a ponytail and bright blue eyes. "Will play the knight's son."
"My hand wasn't even raised! I don't wanna be the knight's son!"
"Even though these 2 ladies will be the ones fighting over you?" he asked, gesturing to Eri and Kagome, who were staring at him curiously.
He blinked, then grinned. "I guess I'll do it."
That got a few laughs over the classroom, along with some eye rolling from the 2 girls.
The teacher then turned his gaze on Hojo. "You will play the peasant's childhood friend."
Hojo smiled happily and nodded.
"Any volunteers for costumes?"
Ayumi raised her hand happily. The teacher nodded at her to show approval.
As he went on to assign roles, Kagome was in shock. 'I got one of the lead parts? There's no way I'm gonna pull this off! I'll get too nervous!'
Eri saw her nervous face and poked her arm. "Hey, don't worry about your role. I'm sure you'll be fine."
Kagome gave a weak smile. "Yeah..sure.."
Eri grinned at her. "I'm serious! No problem! I'll help you with it, and I'm sure those 2 guys are gonna need ALL the help they can get, so we can study with them." She gestured to the still smiling and dense as ever Hojo, and the uncaring black haired guy.
Kagome giggled a little. "I guess."
"Atta girl!" Eri whispered, turning back around to see who was getting what part.
After a few minutes, the bell rang, and Kagome bolted out the door, eager to share the news with Miroku and Kagura, who were in her next class, chemistry.
As soon as she got there, Kagura was already seated in the second row behind one of the lab tables.
Kagome sat down beside her. "Guess what?!" she burst out excitedly.
"What?"
"I got one of the leads in the school play!"
"Congratulations! I can't wait to see it!"
"See what?"
The 2 girls turned to see the curious faces of Miroku, and much to Kagome's disappointment, Inuyasha.
"The school play! Kagome got one of the lead parts!"
Miroku smiled. "What kind of character are you playing?"
"Well, it's a snobby princess, actually."
"I thought you were playing something different from you normal self, bitch."
Kagome narrowed her eyes dangerously. "It's bad enough that you in here too, but opening your mouth just makes it worse."
Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly cut off by Miroku dragging him by the elbow to a table behind Kagome and Kagura.
Kagome mouthed a 'Thank you' to Miroku, who just smiled.
A few seconds after the bell had rung, a woman came in smiling. "Welcome to chemistry 1! I'm Miss Atawa. To start off with, I thought we'd pick your lab partners. That would be the person sitting next to you. If you would like to change for any reason, see me after class and we'll talk about it."
Kagome and Kagura smiled at each other. Kagome winked. "I think I'll have to do that. I can't be working with someone so far away from the normal level of sanity."
Kagura stuck her tongue out in return.
"Now, let me tell you about this class. You will have some small projects, about 3. I don't usually assign homework besides that, most of what you'll be doing is work in class."
Everyone smiled at this. Because everyone knows how much a high school student loves to have to do homework.
"However, you will have one big project that I am assigning today that I expect to be done by the end of the semester. You and your lab partner will join up with another pair to do your project. It can be anything at all, relating to science. You will present it at the end of the semester, and I expect it to be good."
Meanwhile, towards the back of the classroom, Miroku's brain was starting to develop a whole new idea of the words 'Science project.'
"Since it's your first day back and I don't feel the need to lecture you about chemical safety, I'll let you form your groups now, and discuss your project for the rest of the class period."
Kagura immediately started walking towards Miroku's table, but was stopped by Kagome's fierce tug on her uniform. "We can't work with them!"
Kagura frowned. "Why the hell not?!"
"Because I can't stand Inuyasha."
"Look, Miroku's your best friend, and I'll bet that Inuyasha will co- operate with you to make a good grade! Get over it, and let's GO!"
So, before she could protest, Kagome was dragged over to Miroku's table.
Miroku greeted them with a suspiciously happy grin. "Ladies."
"Wanna work together for the project?" asked Kagura, glancing at a silently fuming Kagome.
"Of course. I've already turned down many an offer just to-"
"What offers?" asked Inuyasha.
Miroku glared at him. "Oh, right, those offers! Oh, yeah, there were tons of the non-existent offers."
Everyone but Miroku laughed at the perfectly said explanation of the 'offers'.
Then Inuyasha glared at Kagome. "Only one problem. I don't wanna work with the wench."
"I don't exactly wanna work with you either, stupid!"
"We're working together anyway. Inuyasha, Kagome, you'll just have to get over the fact that you don't like each other." Snapped Miroku. "But, for now, we'll separate and think of ideas for the project."
As Kagome grabbed Kagura's arm and stormed off towards her seat, Miroku grinned slyly. "So, Inuyasha, tell me about yourself. Got any hobbies?"
"I thought we were working on the project?"
Miroku shrugged. "We'll just let the girls think of something." (Translation: "I've already got an idea, it just happens to involve you, Kagome, and a whole lot of scheming, so I don't wanna tell you about it.")
"If ya say so."
"Now, hobbies?"
"Uh........listening to music, going online, sword fighting....."
"You can sword fight?"
"Yeah. Learned from my dad."
"Oh. So, what kind of music do you listen to?"
"Rock, heavy metal, that kind of thing. Some rap, some punk, if that's what you wanna call it."
Miroku thought on this for a moment. 'Well, Kagome does like rock, just not heavy metal. That'll do for now.'
"Hmm. Rock. That's good."
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "Right.."
"What's your favorite color?"
"What are you, an e-mail survey?"
"Just answer the question."
"Red."
"Favorite animal?"
"Dog."
"Favorite flower?"
"What?"
"Favorite flower."
"I don't have one. I'm not totally sure you should either."
"Yeah, yeah, ok. Now, that's your favorite subject?"
"Gym, I guess."
"Not a thinker person, I getcha."
"Well, I'm thinking right now that I'm gonna pound you into the ground if you don't stop asking me these stupid questions."
"Uh, just a few more." Said Miroku, getting nervous.
"Actually, if you let me ask you one question, and you give me an honest answer, you can ask me as many idiotic questions as you want."
Miroku grinned cattily. "Shoot."
"Ok, remember, HONEST answer."
"Sure."
"What are you on?"
There was a silence as Miroku stared at Inuyasha unbelievingly as he waited for an answer. "Well?"
"Um....nothing."
"Is that your honest answer?"
"Yes."
"Then why are you asking these questions?"
"I'm just curious. And you can ask me the same questions if you want."
"You are truly one of the weirdest people I've ever met."
"Thank you, thank you. Now, on with the questions."
Inuyasha groaned. "How long till lunch?!"
~~~~An hour later~~~~
"Ok, what's your favorite tree?"
"Screw off."
"Inuyasha, 2 things. 1- 'Screw off' is not the name of a tree. 2- that's been your answer to every question since" he stopped to check his watch. "58 minutes ago."
"Well, isn't that special."
Miroku sighed. "Be that way."
*RING* Inuyasha grabbed his backpack and was out the door in a flash with Miroku hot on his heels.
Kagome rolled her eyes at the 2 boys. "Geez, it's either sex or food, but they still have a hunger for it."
Kagura snorted. "Oh, Kagome, I need to write that down. That's a good line."
"I got it from Sango last year when we had lunch with Miroku and he was hitting on Eri while at the same time stuffing his face full of a burrito. Needless to say, Eri wasn't too impressed."
Kagura burst out laughing. "Man, I need to videotape you guys at lunch and send the tape into the show in the U.S., America's funniest home videos."
"As long as we get a payday for it. We don't show our most embarrassing moments on national TV for free."
"Right on. Well, see ya later!"
"Bye!" Kagome waved, then grabbed her packed lunch and headed to the cafeteria to meet Sango.
When she got there, Sango was already at the table eating. "Hey Kagome!"
"Hey! Where's Miroku and Rin? They have lunch with us, don't they?"
She nodded. "Miroku's in line for food, and Rin should be here any minute."
As if that was her que, Kagome spotted Rin walk into the cafeteria from the hallway, but she wasn't alone. Rin was chatting happily to a guy who was at least twice her size with lightly tanned skin, long, silver-white hair that was pulled into a high ponytail, and he had an expressionless face as Rin talked away.
"Hey, Sango, who's that guy Rin's with?"
Sango squinted her eyes. "I have no idea. He must be new."
"New?" Then it struck me. "Oh! That must be Sesshomaru."
"Who?"
"Well, a new family just moved into a house in Rin's neighborhood, and she was telling me about their 2 sons, a junior and senior, and that one must be the senior, Sesshomaru."
"Wait a sec, a new family? With 2 sons, one of em' that's a junior?"
"Yeah."
"I wonder if Inuyasha is his younger brother."
"Maybe. But they look so different." (a/n- keep in mind that Inuyasha has a human appearance right now, but Sessh still looks the same. Just take away the face markings and his ears aren't pointy.)
"I guess we'll see."
Then Rin spotted us and waved enthusiastically. "Hi guys! This is Sesshomaru Katobe!"
Sango smiled weakly. "Hi."
"Kagome blinked. "Are you Inuyasha's brother?"
"HALF brother!"
Kagome jumped back. "Whoa. Sorry, just curious."
He grumbled and shot me a glare in return. "I take it you two don't like each other?"
"That would be an understatement."
She smiled. "Finally, someone else who doesn't like him!"
"What's your reason?"
"He's a jerk! He's an idiot! He's insulting, rude, stupid, and obnoxious!"
Sesshomaru gave an approving look. "I like the way you think, girl. About Inuyasha, anyway. You may actually be sane."
Rin sweatdropped beside him and shook her head. "Um, Sesshomaru, let's go get lunch!" she cried, dragging him off with her.
"That's Sesshomaru-SAMA, to you!"
Kagome and Sango blinked. "Now, THAT must be an odd family."
"You ain't kidding me." Said Sango.
"Hello, ladies!"
"Hey Miroku." They answered in unison to the oh-so-familiar greeting.
Miroku set his tray down next to Kagome and Inuyasha plopped down next to him. "Uh, hey, you 2, tell me, does Miroku usually ask really stupid questions if he meets someone new?" he asked casually.
"Well, a lot of times, if it's a girl, he asks them to bear his child. Does that count?"
"No. But that's still a stupid question."
"Why do you ask?"
"Well, he started asking me all these annoying questions during chemistry, like what my favorite color was."
Kagome quirked an eyebrow at Miroku. "Oh, really? Why WERE you asking those questions, Miroku?" she asked suspiciously.
Miroku twitched slightly, realizing that Kagome was slowly realizing their plot. "Oh, well, just curious."
"Sure. Did you come up with any good ideas for the science project?"
Before Miroku could reply, Inuyasha answered for him. "He said to let you girls decide it, while he asked me questions."
Kagome's glare was murderous. "Miroku...."
"Now, Kagome, don't get upset, it was just my way of, uh, recognizing your talents for coming up with good project ideas........"
Sango, who had finally decided that Miroku had suffered enough, cut in. "Kagome, you're in Drama first, right?"
"Yeah." Fortunately for Miroku, Kagome's attention was now diverted to Sango instead.
"What did you think of the teacher?"
"He was a little scary. Very intimidating."
Sango nodded rapidly. "Definitely. Our play is a musical, with all kinds of music. It's a comedy of sorts."
"All kinds of music?"
Miroku grinned, realizing what Sango was doing.
"Yeah. Jazz, classical, rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, even pop."
Inuyasha looked up from his pizza. "You guys are doing rock and heavy metal?"
Sango nodded. "Yep."
Kagome groaned. "You're so lucky! I would much rather be a dancer in a musical than the lead in this play. That'd be so fun, doing rock and roll musicals! And jazz! I've always wanted to learn ragtime dancing styles..." she trailed off dreamily.
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "You? In a rock and roll musical?"
"Yeah. You got a problem with that?"
"I just can't see you being into rock and roll. You seemed more 'pop princess'."
"Your saying I seemed like the Britney Spears type?!"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm not! You shouldn't stereotype so quickly!"
"Feh. Whatever, bitch. You just don't pull off the rocker image."
Kagome looked like she was about to explode. "I'm not TRYING to!"
Inuyasha ignored her and went back to munching on his pizza.
"Ugh, how stupid..." Muttered Kagome.
Sango gave Miroku a desperate look. They needed something to spur a NICE conversation, and they needed it soon.
"So, Inuyasha, you were telling me that you can swordfight?"
"Hi guys!" Rin chirped before he could reply, sitting down next to Sango, with Sesshomaru in tow.
Inuyasha looked up and growled. "Sesshomaru, why are you sitting here?"
"I was invited to."
Kagome glared at Inuyasha. "Leave him alone, he's not hurting anybody, idiot."
"Why does it matter to you if I leave him alone or not?"
"Because it's annoying the rest of us."
"Whatever, wench. You just like him, that's what it is!" he cried accusingly.
"I do not! And even if I did, why should you care?!"
"I didn't say I did!" he yelled, slamming his fist down on the table.
As they continued to argue, Sango and Miroku exchanged smiles across the table. They had found the way to get the 2 together. The thing that makes people possessive makes them want what they can't have. The thing that would bring Kagome and Inuyasha together.
Jealousy.
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Kalli: Well, I hope you guys liked that! ^^ Here's another preview for ya:
Miroku has a project in mind, but what is it exactly? That will be (slightly) revealed. And when Miroku suddenly starts running off quicker than usual, Kagome, Sango, and Inuyasha decide to investigate, but what they find isn't something Sango wanted to see (whether she admits it or not)....
Kira: *limping* Sesshy! Why'd you throw me so far?! It was a game, wasn't it?! And now I found you again!
Sessh: *groan* You again...
Kira: Sesshy! *runs in slow motion to glomp*
Sessh: I'm outta here...*Disappears*
Kira: *falls into the ground* No...he's gone..*sob*
Kalli: Oh brother..well, anyway, please R+R! It's very appreciated!
Chibi chibi-sama- *hugs* You are SO nice! That's very flattering! I hope you like this chapter as much as the last one! ^^
Squeakyinuears- *gapes* OMG, such a good author reviewed my story?! Wow...and you left a nice, long one too! First off, I'd like to say I'm a huge fan of your story 'Til' you return to me'! If what happened in the last chapter is like what goes on between you and ur friends, it must not get boring! ^^ And I especially like how you said to take my time (cuz as it's quite obvious, I did), and yes, I got my title from the song in 'Fiddler on the Roof'. It just seemed right for the story! And thanks for telling me about Inutaisho!
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Musiq-Mistress101- I remember u, u reviewed 'Criminal Affairs' too! Thanks so much for reviewing this story too! And the cookie! ^.~
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AnkukoTenma - Aww, thank you! I agree, I would LOVE to be in one of the girl's shoes...and kiss Inuyasha..now, back to the reply before I start drooling...Thank you for putting me on your list! It may take a while, but I promise to keep on writing until it's done! And I LOVED your quote, it was hilarious! ^^
Fire of Infinity - *rolls eyes* Oh, great, THAT bitch reviewed again...just kidding T, cuz you know I love to make you mad.*innocent smile* And I will e-mail it, even though I won't be expecting a review until about chapter 20- something.
Nightswift - Nightswift! *huggles* It's good to hear from u again! ^^ There's not much S/M OR I/K in this chapter, but there'll probably be a lot of S/M in the next chappie! And your not alone in hating Hojo...*twitch* Hojo is bad....
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Kira: Well, now that we're done with that, it's time to introduce our guest!
Kalli: Please welcome our dear Fluffy! Or Sesshy-chan, whichever you prefer!^^
Kira: Traitor! You stole my job! *sob*
Sesshomaru: I don't believe this. I've been demoted from the great youkai Lord Sesshomaru to............Fluffy.
Kira: Sesshy-chan!
Sesshomaru: Or Sesshy-chan. *shudder*
Kira: *glomp* I love you!
Sesshomaru: *glare* *throws Kira to the lands of the unknown* I've even been glomped by an otaku freak!
Kalli: . You just killed my muse.
Sesshomaru: That thing was your muse?
Kalli: *nod nod*
Sesshomaru: Then I probably did you a favor, wench.
Kalli: Good point. I think it's time that we got on to the next chapter though. Yep, yep. . .
. Kalli: Just thought I'd mention something randomly. I was watching Rurouni Kenshin and I got to thinking, when I realized that in both series, Kagome and Kaoru (main girl from RK if u don't watch it) are both in love triangles with males that have extreme ablities and dead lovers from the guy's past. It's Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kikyo, then Kaoru, Kenshin, and Tomoe. Ok, I'm done with my random thought now!^^ .
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~~~Tokyo High~~~ #$Inuyasha P.O.V.#$
I quickly glanced over my schedule again before finally looking around to find the room where I was supposed to be in about 2 minutes. Room 308..........
I looked up to see room 521 in front of me. I groaned. 'Shit.'
I checked over my schedule once again. 'Maybe the teacher will be forgiving... nah, it'll probably be a bitchy old hag.'
All the sudden, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I whirled around and came face to face with a tall male with black hair in a small ponytail dressed in the school uniform.
"Are you new here?" he asked curiously.
I looked at him suspiciously. "Yeah."
"What room are you looking for?" he asked, grabbing my schedule straight out of my hands.
"Hey!"
He quickly handed it back. "You've got the same homeroom as me."
"Goody."
"Sorry about the bad introduction. Name's Miroku Houshi." He said with a lazy grin, sticking out his hand.
I hesitantly shook it. "Inuyasha Katobe."
"Nice to meet ya. Can I call you Inuyasha?"
"Feh."
"I'll take that as a yes. So, what other classes do you have?"
"Algebra, chemistry, gym, and English 2. In that order." I said, reading quickly off my schedule.
Miroku pursed his lips. "Then we have chemistry together. I've got gym right after you."
"Hmm."
"A bunch of people are in chemistry, and I think you've got English with 2 of my friends, Kagome and Sango. Their pretty nice." He turned to me with a quirked eyebrow. "What lunch do you have?"
"Um....11:25-11:55."
"Ah, first lunch. Then you, me, Kagome, Sango and another girl named Rin have the same lunch."
"I see."
We finally stopped in front of room 308 and slipped in right as the bell was ringing. A few people looked up, then started whispering excitedly while pointing at me.
Miroku grinned. "Looks like you've got some of the ladies talking, Inu."
I scowled. "Great."
Miroku looked at me in disbelief. "So, you don't like women or something?"
"Bad experience with an ex-girlfriend. Women are fine, but the break-up was pretty recent."
"The long distance thing?"
"No."
"Dude, if she told you that you were bad in bed or something, that's just a tricky way for her to get you to-"
*BAM* Miroku hit the ground face first in front of me.
I looked up to see 2 angry looking girls glaring at Miroku.
"Miroku, stop tainting this poor guy's mind! He doesn't need to here your stupid, perverted stories!" yelled the tallest one.
The shorter one nodded her approval. "Honestly, if you keep this up, we're telling your uncle that you have those 'special' magazines of yours hidden under your bed."
"He knows. He reads em' to." Was the muffled response of Miroku.
Both girls gave him a look of disgust. I was tempted to do the same thing. "Don't ever tell us that again. We'll show you home movies of when you used to think girls were 'icky'!"
"I was 5!"
They exchanged glances. "Then you leave us no choice."
The taller one swiftly took off her shoe and threw it into Miroku's head. "Ouchie....." Was all that we heard.
After the girl had put her shoe back on, they finally looked up at me. "We are SO sorry, we knew there was going to be a new student, but we had no idea that Miroku was going to try to recruit him as another pervert. He didn't say anything too bad, right?" asked the taller one apologetically.
I shook my head, still a little confused. "No."
#$Kagome P.O.V.#$
After we were done pounding Miroku's head farther into the ground, I got a look at the guy Miroku had been talking to and squinted my eyes.
He looked so familiar, but......
Why did he look so familiar to me? I was sure I'd seen him in a picture or something before, but where?
"What are you staring at, wench?" a deep voice snapped beside me.
"Was I staring? Sorry." Then I paused to absorb what he had said. "Wench?! Excuse me?"
"Well, you obviously heard me, so why are you asking?"
"Why'd you call me a wench?"
"Well, in general, that's what I'd USUALLY call some girl I don't even know that's been staring at me for about 3 minutes!" he said rudely.
"You jerk! Did no one ever teach you how to talk to a lady?"
"No."
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........shut up, moron!" I yelled angrily.
"Look, I'm not the one with the staring problem."
I couldn't say anything to that, so I just glared. Then, I finally decided to try to have a decent conversation instead.
"Sorry. Have we met before?"
Then he drew back and looked at me as if it were the first time he'd really seen me, which it probably was.
Then his eyes widened and flashed in what seemed recognition.
Then he whispered something in a very small voice.
My face screwed up in confusion. "Excuse me?"
Then the recognition faded from his eyes and he shook his head. "Nothing. I don't think we've met before, but you do look a little familiar." He looked like he was going to say something else, but instead shifted his weight to his other foot and looked back and forth as if he was expecting something.
Then I heard Sango pipe up next to me. "Oh! I'm sorry. I'm Taijiya Sango. Call me Sango."
"Katobe Inuyasha." He said lazily.
"Erm.....I'm Higurashi Kagome."
"Oh, so the wench has a name." He said with a smirk.
"I'M NOT A WENCH, DAMNIT!" I clapped my hand over my mouth and blushed deeply after my little tantrum.
The teacher, who was at her desk sipping coffee, looked up in a bewildered state. "Is there a problem, Higurashi-san?"
"No. Sorry." I mumbled.
The teacher quirked an eyebrow then decided it was time to get everyone to sit down and shut up. "Will all of you please take a seat?" she asked calmly.
I hurried to sit down next to Sango and behind Miroku where he couldn't grope me. Unfortunately Miroku stole my seat, so I decided that I had 2 options.
1, I could take the lovely seat in front of Sango and end up where Miroku could stare at my ass and I'd never know, which was also the seat beside the one directly in front of Miroku where the stupid Inuyasha was currently residing.
Or 2, kick my very best male friend out of his seat after all the good times and fun memories we shared when his birthday was coming up soon.
I couldn't possibly kick him out of his seat after all that, could I? It'd just be mean.....
"Miroku, move to another seat."
Miroku didn't move. "And why should I do this?"
"Cause I wanna sit there, and you knew it! You seat stealer!"
There was a snicker from Inuyasha. "Ooh, nice insult. I'll have to remember that."
"Shut it, you!" I turned, giving him a withering glare before turning back to Miroku.
"What's your point?" asked Miroku.
I sighed. 'Fine Miroku, we'll do this the hard way.' I picked up my foot and kicked him straight off the side of the chair, then watched him hit the floor with an 'oomph!'.
I smiled triumphantly and slid into the sit beside Sango, who smiled deviously at me in approval.
Miroku just got up and dusted himself off, then took the seat in front of Sango.
Inuyasha twisted around to face me in his seat. "You're not a nice wench either, are ya?"
I scowled at him. "I'm only nice to people I like."
Miroku stared at me in disbelief. "Hey!"
"Not now, Miroku!" I snapped.
Inuyasha snorted. "Well, then you must really hate me."
"I don't hate you. Yet. Right now it's just a strong dislike of sorts."
He rolled his eyes. "Whatever, bitch. I don't like you either."
Unfortunately, neither of us noticed the identical grins that lit Sango and Miroku's faces................
#$Sango P.O.V.#$
I watched Kagome and Inuyasha exchange 'conversation' with interest until finally, it hit me.
I quickly jabbed my finger into Miroku's back.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"Shut up. What do you see here?" I asked, nodding my head towards Kagome and Inuyasha.
"A mean ex-best friend who just gave me a bruise on my butt and my new best friend, the nice guy, Inuyasha arguing against each other."."
I whacked him over the head and made a buzzer sound like the kind you hear on game shows when people get a question wrong. "No! Look again and look close!"
He sighed and turned back to look at the 2 arguing. After a few seconds, his face lit up with realization. "I see it now."
I smiled gleefully. "This is gonna be good."
"So, are they our new target, my cunning partner?"
"Oh, yes. Revenge is sweet."
"Revenge? What for?"
"She kept on saying that I li- uh, lied about how her hair looked and I never did."
He gave me a suspicious look. "Hair? You're getting revenge for that?"
Time to use the all-purpose excuse that always gets a man off your case. "It's a girl thing, okay?"
"Right. So, what's our first step for this?"
"Well, you find out his common interests and try to see which ones Kagome likes, then we get them to sit near each other at lunch and-"
"Across from each other or beside each other?"
"What?"
"At lunch. Where do you want them to sit in relationship to each other?"
"I don't care, as long as they sit near each other! Now, after that's accomplished, you somehow insert into the conversation one of the things they both like and make sure their both included in the conversation. You do have lunch with him, right?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Same as Kagome and me. I'll pass this along to Rin so that she can help."
"Got it."
"Wait. Do you have other classes with him?"
"Yeah. We've got chemistry together."
"Excellent. Get the info from him then."
"Got it."
"Good. Now, remember that Kagome knows our tricks, so be very careful. We're treading on dangerous ground as it is, but if she finds out, your dead and I'm in the hospital."
"Why do I die?!"
"Because I'm nicer than you, and I know blackmail. Plus, I've never groped her."
"I've got blackmail!"
"Miroku, she was 6, and nobody even remembers that kid since he moved away. A 2-week crush does NOT count."
"What kind of blackmail do you have on her exactly?"
"Nice try, but I'll never tell."
"Damn. You females sure are mean."
"Only to you. Now, don't forget the plan, okay?"
Suddenly, the teacher stood up. "Miss Higurashi, and.....Mister Katobe, I assume?"
Inuyasha nodded.
"Will you two PLEASE stop arguing. I prefer not to give students detention on the first day."
They did shut up, but not before the 2 exchanged glares and Kagome stuck her tongue out.
The teacher sighed. "Okay, now, mister Katobe, will you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about you?"
Inuyasha smugly stood up. "Name's Inuyasha. Transferred from Aomori, and I like martial arts and sword fighting. I'd also like to add that I think that she" he paused and pointed to Kagome with a huge grin on his face. "Is the biggest bitch I've ever met."
Kagome flushed red from embarrassment and she let out an outraged gasp. "You jerk! How dare you insult me?! You don't hardly know me!"
"I know that you're a bitch."
"STUPID! I AM NOT!"
"OH YEAH?!"
"YEAH!"
"OH YEAH?!"
"ENOUGH!"
They all jumped at the teacher's thundering voice. She was standing up and frowning deeply. "That's it! Detention, to you, Inuyasha, for profanity and yelling. To you, Kagome, for yelling. He deserved it, yes, but I'm afraid I have to follow school policy." She paused to take in a breath. "What lunch period do you 2 have?"
"First." They answered in unison.
"Then just come to this room for lunch for the rest of the week, starting tomorrow. Understood?"
"Feh." Grumbled Inuyasha before plopping down in his seat.
Kagome miserably nodded and sank into her seat.
A few seconds later, the bell rang, and the class hurried out the door to get to their next class.
#$ Normal P.O.V.#$
Sango fell into step beside Kagome. "Man, Kag, I haven't seen you get that mad since the time that Buyo ate your journal and your favorite pen."
"At least Buyo apologized."
"Buyo......apologized? Um, Kag, how exactly did he 'apologize'?"
"He looked up at me with these big, googly eyes that were just screaming 'I'm sorry for eating your pen and journal, Kagome.'"
"Did he look up at you with those big, googly eyes at dinner time, Kagome?"
"Yeah."
"Then I don't think that was an apology. I think it was more of a 'Aren't I so cute that you wanna feed me?' look."
"Whatever." Snapped Kagome crossly.
"Well, I gotta get to Home Ec., so I'll see you later."
Kagome waved weakly. "Bye!"
She walked into the auditorium and sat down in one of the chairs lined up, and looked around, only to be met with the sight of Hojo smiling brightly at her.
She smiled weakly and waved at him.
Fortunately, he kept his distance and didn't speak to her, even though when Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi arrived, they encouraged her to speak to him rather strongly.
After the bell had rung, the teacher stepped up to the podium set up in front of the chairs.
He was a little on the short side, with tanned skin, dark hair, and glasses. Nothing out of the ordinary, but when he spoke, everyone jumped at his booming voice.
"WELCOME students, to drama. Now, how many of you are in this class because they ran out of other places to put you?"
A few hands raised hesitantly.
"Thank you for being truthful. How many of you are here because it was a 2nd or 3rd choice, and your others were full?"
Again, a few raised their hands, including Kagome, Yuka, and Ayumi.
"How many of you are here because it was your 1st choice, and your glad about it?"
Eri's hand gleefully shot up with a select few others who looked happy. Eri's passion was drama, and as one of the local drama queens of the school, it was easy to see she had a flare for it.
The teacher nodded. "Well, at least all of you are honest students. Now, regardless of why you're here, you are still required to do something. You can act, you can do props, you can do costumes, or you could do lights. There's something for everybody."
"Well, we have plenty of work to do. So, who wants to act?"
Eri's hand was the first up, followed hesitantly by Kagome, who had been nudged by Eri. The teacher surveyed the room quietly.
"You." He spoke, directing everyone's attention to Eri. "You will be the leading lady in our play."
Eri spoke hesitantly. "What exactly is our play?"
He grinned. "A story about 2 girls, a peasant and a spoiled princess, both in love with a knight's son. I think you'll be pleased."
Eri grinned. "Which one am I?"
He pursed his lips thoughtfully. "The peasant. And you....." he trailed off, gazing steadily at Kagome, who was getting nervous. "Will play the princess."
Kagome nearly fell out of her seat in surprise. She hadn't expected anything of the sort to happen. But instead, she nodded dumbly.
"You!" he spoke, pointing to a boy with long black hair in a ponytail and bright blue eyes. "Will play the knight's son."
"My hand wasn't even raised! I don't wanna be the knight's son!"
"Even though these 2 ladies will be the ones fighting over you?" he asked, gesturing to Eri and Kagome, who were staring at him curiously.
He blinked, then grinned. "I guess I'll do it."
That got a few laughs over the classroom, along with some eye rolling from the 2 girls.
The teacher then turned his gaze on Hojo. "You will play the peasant's childhood friend."
Hojo smiled happily and nodded.
"Any volunteers for costumes?"
Ayumi raised her hand happily. The teacher nodded at her to show approval.
As he went on to assign roles, Kagome was in shock. 'I got one of the lead parts? There's no way I'm gonna pull this off! I'll get too nervous!'
Eri saw her nervous face and poked her arm. "Hey, don't worry about your role. I'm sure you'll be fine."
Kagome gave a weak smile. "Yeah..sure.."
Eri grinned at her. "I'm serious! No problem! I'll help you with it, and I'm sure those 2 guys are gonna need ALL the help they can get, so we can study with them." She gestured to the still smiling and dense as ever Hojo, and the uncaring black haired guy.
Kagome giggled a little. "I guess."
"Atta girl!" Eri whispered, turning back around to see who was getting what part.
After a few minutes, the bell rang, and Kagome bolted out the door, eager to share the news with Miroku and Kagura, who were in her next class, chemistry.
As soon as she got there, Kagura was already seated in the second row behind one of the lab tables.
Kagome sat down beside her. "Guess what?!" she burst out excitedly.
"What?"
"I got one of the leads in the school play!"
"Congratulations! I can't wait to see it!"
"See what?"
The 2 girls turned to see the curious faces of Miroku, and much to Kagome's disappointment, Inuyasha.
"The school play! Kagome got one of the lead parts!"
Miroku smiled. "What kind of character are you playing?"
"Well, it's a snobby princess, actually."
"I thought you were playing something different from you normal self, bitch."
Kagome narrowed her eyes dangerously. "It's bad enough that you in here too, but opening your mouth just makes it worse."
Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly cut off by Miroku dragging him by the elbow to a table behind Kagome and Kagura.
Kagome mouthed a 'Thank you' to Miroku, who just smiled.
A few seconds after the bell had rung, a woman came in smiling. "Welcome to chemistry 1! I'm Miss Atawa. To start off with, I thought we'd pick your lab partners. That would be the person sitting next to you. If you would like to change for any reason, see me after class and we'll talk about it."
Kagome and Kagura smiled at each other. Kagome winked. "I think I'll have to do that. I can't be working with someone so far away from the normal level of sanity."
Kagura stuck her tongue out in return.
"Now, let me tell you about this class. You will have some small projects, about 3. I don't usually assign homework besides that, most of what you'll be doing is work in class."
Everyone smiled at this. Because everyone knows how much a high school student loves to have to do homework.
"However, you will have one big project that I am assigning today that I expect to be done by the end of the semester. You and your lab partner will join up with another pair to do your project. It can be anything at all, relating to science. You will present it at the end of the semester, and I expect it to be good."
Meanwhile, towards the back of the classroom, Miroku's brain was starting to develop a whole new idea of the words 'Science project.'
"Since it's your first day back and I don't feel the need to lecture you about chemical safety, I'll let you form your groups now, and discuss your project for the rest of the class period."
Kagura immediately started walking towards Miroku's table, but was stopped by Kagome's fierce tug on her uniform. "We can't work with them!"
Kagura frowned. "Why the hell not?!"
"Because I can't stand Inuyasha."
"Look, Miroku's your best friend, and I'll bet that Inuyasha will co- operate with you to make a good grade! Get over it, and let's GO!"
So, before she could protest, Kagome was dragged over to Miroku's table.
Miroku greeted them with a suspiciously happy grin. "Ladies."
"Wanna work together for the project?" asked Kagura, glancing at a silently fuming Kagome.
"Of course. I've already turned down many an offer just to-"
"What offers?" asked Inuyasha.
Miroku glared at him. "Oh, right, those offers! Oh, yeah, there were tons of the non-existent offers."
Everyone but Miroku laughed at the perfectly said explanation of the 'offers'.
Then Inuyasha glared at Kagome. "Only one problem. I don't wanna work with the wench."
"I don't exactly wanna work with you either, stupid!"
"We're working together anyway. Inuyasha, Kagome, you'll just have to get over the fact that you don't like each other." Snapped Miroku. "But, for now, we'll separate and think of ideas for the project."
As Kagome grabbed Kagura's arm and stormed off towards her seat, Miroku grinned slyly. "So, Inuyasha, tell me about yourself. Got any hobbies?"
"I thought we were working on the project?"
Miroku shrugged. "We'll just let the girls think of something." (Translation: "I've already got an idea, it just happens to involve you, Kagome, and a whole lot of scheming, so I don't wanna tell you about it.")
"If ya say so."
"Now, hobbies?"
"Uh........listening to music, going online, sword fighting....."
"You can sword fight?"
"Yeah. Learned from my dad."
"Oh. So, what kind of music do you listen to?"
"Rock, heavy metal, that kind of thing. Some rap, some punk, if that's what you wanna call it."
Miroku thought on this for a moment. 'Well, Kagome does like rock, just not heavy metal. That'll do for now.'
"Hmm. Rock. That's good."
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "Right.."
"What's your favorite color?"
"What are you, an e-mail survey?"
"Just answer the question."
"Red."
"Favorite animal?"
"Dog."
"Favorite flower?"
"What?"
"Favorite flower."
"I don't have one. I'm not totally sure you should either."
"Yeah, yeah, ok. Now, that's your favorite subject?"
"Gym, I guess."
"Not a thinker person, I getcha."
"Well, I'm thinking right now that I'm gonna pound you into the ground if you don't stop asking me these stupid questions."
"Uh, just a few more." Said Miroku, getting nervous.
"Actually, if you let me ask you one question, and you give me an honest answer, you can ask me as many idiotic questions as you want."
Miroku grinned cattily. "Shoot."
"Ok, remember, HONEST answer."
"Sure."
"What are you on?"
There was a silence as Miroku stared at Inuyasha unbelievingly as he waited for an answer. "Well?"
"Um....nothing."
"Is that your honest answer?"
"Yes."
"Then why are you asking these questions?"
"I'm just curious. And you can ask me the same questions if you want."
"You are truly one of the weirdest people I've ever met."
"Thank you, thank you. Now, on with the questions."
Inuyasha groaned. "How long till lunch?!"
~~~~An hour later~~~~
"Ok, what's your favorite tree?"
"Screw off."
"Inuyasha, 2 things. 1- 'Screw off' is not the name of a tree. 2- that's been your answer to every question since" he stopped to check his watch. "58 minutes ago."
"Well, isn't that special."
Miroku sighed. "Be that way."
*RING* Inuyasha grabbed his backpack and was out the door in a flash with Miroku hot on his heels.
Kagome rolled her eyes at the 2 boys. "Geez, it's either sex or food, but they still have a hunger for it."
Kagura snorted. "Oh, Kagome, I need to write that down. That's a good line."
"I got it from Sango last year when we had lunch with Miroku and he was hitting on Eri while at the same time stuffing his face full of a burrito. Needless to say, Eri wasn't too impressed."
Kagura burst out laughing. "Man, I need to videotape you guys at lunch and send the tape into the show in the U.S., America's funniest home videos."
"As long as we get a payday for it. We don't show our most embarrassing moments on national TV for free."
"Right on. Well, see ya later!"
"Bye!" Kagome waved, then grabbed her packed lunch and headed to the cafeteria to meet Sango.
When she got there, Sango was already at the table eating. "Hey Kagome!"
"Hey! Where's Miroku and Rin? They have lunch with us, don't they?"
She nodded. "Miroku's in line for food, and Rin should be here any minute."
As if that was her que, Kagome spotted Rin walk into the cafeteria from the hallway, but she wasn't alone. Rin was chatting happily to a guy who was at least twice her size with lightly tanned skin, long, silver-white hair that was pulled into a high ponytail, and he had an expressionless face as Rin talked away.
"Hey, Sango, who's that guy Rin's with?"
Sango squinted her eyes. "I have no idea. He must be new."
"New?" Then it struck me. "Oh! That must be Sesshomaru."
"Who?"
"Well, a new family just moved into a house in Rin's neighborhood, and she was telling me about their 2 sons, a junior and senior, and that one must be the senior, Sesshomaru."
"Wait a sec, a new family? With 2 sons, one of em' that's a junior?"
"Yeah."
"I wonder if Inuyasha is his younger brother."
"Maybe. But they look so different." (a/n- keep in mind that Inuyasha has a human appearance right now, but Sessh still looks the same. Just take away the face markings and his ears aren't pointy.)
"I guess we'll see."
Then Rin spotted us and waved enthusiastically. "Hi guys! This is Sesshomaru Katobe!"
Sango smiled weakly. "Hi."
"Kagome blinked. "Are you Inuyasha's brother?"
"HALF brother!"
Kagome jumped back. "Whoa. Sorry, just curious."
He grumbled and shot me a glare in return. "I take it you two don't like each other?"
"That would be an understatement."
She smiled. "Finally, someone else who doesn't like him!"
"What's your reason?"
"He's a jerk! He's an idiot! He's insulting, rude, stupid, and obnoxious!"
Sesshomaru gave an approving look. "I like the way you think, girl. About Inuyasha, anyway. You may actually be sane."
Rin sweatdropped beside him and shook her head. "Um, Sesshomaru, let's go get lunch!" she cried, dragging him off with her.
"That's Sesshomaru-SAMA, to you!"
Kagome and Sango blinked. "Now, THAT must be an odd family."
"You ain't kidding me." Said Sango.
"Hello, ladies!"
"Hey Miroku." They answered in unison to the oh-so-familiar greeting.
Miroku set his tray down next to Kagome and Inuyasha plopped down next to him. "Uh, hey, you 2, tell me, does Miroku usually ask really stupid questions if he meets someone new?" he asked casually.
"Well, a lot of times, if it's a girl, he asks them to bear his child. Does that count?"
"No. But that's still a stupid question."
"Why do you ask?"
"Well, he started asking me all these annoying questions during chemistry, like what my favorite color was."
Kagome quirked an eyebrow at Miroku. "Oh, really? Why WERE you asking those questions, Miroku?" she asked suspiciously.
Miroku twitched slightly, realizing that Kagome was slowly realizing their plot. "Oh, well, just curious."
"Sure. Did you come up with any good ideas for the science project?"
Before Miroku could reply, Inuyasha answered for him. "He said to let you girls decide it, while he asked me questions."
Kagome's glare was murderous. "Miroku...."
"Now, Kagome, don't get upset, it was just my way of, uh, recognizing your talents for coming up with good project ideas........"
Sango, who had finally decided that Miroku had suffered enough, cut in. "Kagome, you're in Drama first, right?"
"Yeah." Fortunately for Miroku, Kagome's attention was now diverted to Sango instead.
"What did you think of the teacher?"
"He was a little scary. Very intimidating."
Sango nodded rapidly. "Definitely. Our play is a musical, with all kinds of music. It's a comedy of sorts."
"All kinds of music?"
Miroku grinned, realizing what Sango was doing.
"Yeah. Jazz, classical, rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, even pop."
Inuyasha looked up from his pizza. "You guys are doing rock and heavy metal?"
Sango nodded. "Yep."
Kagome groaned. "You're so lucky! I would much rather be a dancer in a musical than the lead in this play. That'd be so fun, doing rock and roll musicals! And jazz! I've always wanted to learn ragtime dancing styles..." she trailed off dreamily.
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "You? In a rock and roll musical?"
"Yeah. You got a problem with that?"
"I just can't see you being into rock and roll. You seemed more 'pop princess'."
"Your saying I seemed like the Britney Spears type?!"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm not! You shouldn't stereotype so quickly!"
"Feh. Whatever, bitch. You just don't pull off the rocker image."
Kagome looked like she was about to explode. "I'm not TRYING to!"
Inuyasha ignored her and went back to munching on his pizza.
"Ugh, how stupid..." Muttered Kagome.
Sango gave Miroku a desperate look. They needed something to spur a NICE conversation, and they needed it soon.
"So, Inuyasha, you were telling me that you can swordfight?"
"Hi guys!" Rin chirped before he could reply, sitting down next to Sango, with Sesshomaru in tow.
Inuyasha looked up and growled. "Sesshomaru, why are you sitting here?"
"I was invited to."
Kagome glared at Inuyasha. "Leave him alone, he's not hurting anybody, idiot."
"Why does it matter to you if I leave him alone or not?"
"Because it's annoying the rest of us."
"Whatever, wench. You just like him, that's what it is!" he cried accusingly.
"I do not! And even if I did, why should you care?!"
"I didn't say I did!" he yelled, slamming his fist down on the table.
As they continued to argue, Sango and Miroku exchanged smiles across the table. They had found the way to get the 2 together. The thing that makes people possessive makes them want what they can't have. The thing that would bring Kagome and Inuyasha together.
Jealousy.
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Kalli: Well, I hope you guys liked that! ^^ Here's another preview for ya:
Miroku has a project in mind, but what is it exactly? That will be (slightly) revealed. And when Miroku suddenly starts running off quicker than usual, Kagome, Sango, and Inuyasha decide to investigate, but what they find isn't something Sango wanted to see (whether she admits it or not)....
Kira: *limping* Sesshy! Why'd you throw me so far?! It was a game, wasn't it?! And now I found you again!
Sessh: *groan* You again...
Kira: Sesshy! *runs in slow motion to glomp*
Sessh: I'm outta here...*Disappears*
Kira: *falls into the ground* No...he's gone..*sob*
Kalli: Oh brother..well, anyway, please R+R! It's very appreciated!
