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Chapter 3: Kagome's Bad Day and Another Bad Encounter

'BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!'

It was a Monday morning, the one day Kagome disliked the most of course, and the only sound heard in the Higurashi Shrine was Kagome's clock radio sounding for minutes.

"Kagome-chan, wake up and turn that blasted thing off!" Kagome's mother hollered from the kitchen, and Kagome finally woke up, ending a sweet and satisfying dream.

"Kids these days..." Kagome heard her grandfather mumble. "All this hi-tech equipment they buy...letting it all go wild...Pfft! Waste of money I say!"

"Five more minutes mother!!!" Kagome pratically begged.

Souta barged into her room and shook Kagome as hard as his little arms could. He was still weak from the running so Kagome barely budged. When he finally realized his effort was no good, he took one deep breath and hollered at the top of his lungs, "Kagome-neesan!! WAKE UP!!!!"

"Huh? Wha?" Kagome immediatly snapped out of her lazy state and sat up quickly before her short, dark-haired and snobby little brother could scream once again. "Hai, Souta....I'm awake!!"

"Good! Now get dressed and walk me to school!" Souta demanded with an evil grin. "And there's no time for breakfast!!"

'So that's the thanks I get for saving him from another thousand laps yesterday?!' Kagome thought as her brother hopped happily out of her room. "Lousy no good brother...." Kagome mumbled. "I can't believe I let a little runt that still wets his bed order me around..." Kagome rubbed her eyes and was just about ready to hop out of bed when she realized that some kind of force was holding her down.

Her legs were stiff from all the running!

"IIE!! NOT TODAY!!!" she bellowed.

"Kagome-chan, what's wrong?" her mother asked frightened, entering her room.

'Don't these people know how to knock?' Kagome thought, but she was still grateful her mother came to help. "Mommy! My legs won't move, they're stiff!!!"

"Would you like me to get your grandpa to preform one of his rituals, maybe it would help."

"IIE!!! MA!!! ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

"Okay...maybe I'll call one of your friends over to help you get up and I'll walk Souta to school."

"Sango-chan! Not Miroku!!" Kagome warned her mother. She knew Miroku would take advantage of her misfortune.

"Hai! Don't worry dear, though you should bring that handsome friend of yours often you know, I haven't seem him in a while...."

"MOTHER!!!"

"Sorry dear..."

'Why do both my mother AND grandfather need to interfere with MY social life?'

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After an hour of endless pain, Kagome and Sango found themselves half an hour late for school! Kagome was lucky that her friend had a knack for these kinda problems, but Sango's solution was pounding Kagome's legs mercilessly! It took them about twenty minutes to walk to their highschool, but it seemed as if Kagome's luck hadn't wore off yet. There happened to be a problem so school hadn't started yet.

Kagome sighed when she saw another crowd forming around the school. "Not again..." she said to herself.

"What's the matter? Aren't you glad we're not gonna be in trouble?" Sango asked Kagome. "I mean...maybe there's another fight or something...it's good entertainment, ne?"

Kagome groaned. Another fight? That was the last thing she wanted to be 'entertained' by.

"C'mon, let's check it out!" Sango said with an unusual high-pitched voice, running ahead of Kagome.

"I'm coming...." Kagome replied, but without Sango's support, she could only drag her legs to the crowd. 'How embarassing....' she thought.

"Can I help you Kagome?" said a cool voice.

Kagome turned her head, she could feel her face get hot and she knew she was cherry-red, it was Houjo! The tall, brown hair and clueless hottie was standing right behind her and both his hands were holding her, giving her the supoort she needed.

"A-arigatou...." Kagome spoke softly as he helped her walk toward the other students.

"It's no problem, say...I had a very awkward talk with your grandfather the other day...."

Kagome, was no longer blushing but her face was still hot because of the anger rising in her. Her gramps wasn't bluffing! 'Why that no good....ARG!!!' Kagome screamed in her head. When she finally calmed down, she spoke again, "Nani?"

"Yeah...I mean it wasn't the first time...I talked to him before...it wasn't long..he just asked about how you were doing in school..."

Kagome sighed heavily, maybe her grandpa wasn't so evil after all.

"But then there was the second chat we had...."

She was dead wrong. Her grandfather was acutally beyond the chart of evilness.

"He said something about you....getting on the chubby side....forgetting to exercise....it was very strange, if you ask me.."

She was about to scream, she knew she resembled a steaming kettle at the moment....she wouldn't be surprised if smoke was blowing out of her ears! She pulled herself away from Houjo when she was near the main entrance, and without looking at Houjo or thanking him again, she entered the school, huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf.

"How dare he?!" she screeched and she knew that she had just frightened the school secretary and a few parents in the office as she passed by. "That evil, evil man!!!"

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Kagome roamed the halls, waiting impatiently for the bell to ring. "C'mon! Any day now!!" She said angrily. Her legs were still sore, so she sat down against the wall. today was one of the worst days for Kagome, and it was only the beginning! She wanted to go home, but she couldn't leave so early, what was the point? She almost fell asleep until she notice a familiar boy dressed all in red, wandering the halls. She got up quickly and studied his face as he walked by though he didn't seem to notice her at all.

'Is that the boy I ran into? Is...is he the new kid?!' she thought, she had almost forgotten about expecting a new kid and about the incident the other day. Kagome definetly didn't want him at her school, he had the worst attitude, and he'd probably make her life a living hell! She had no choice: she ran up to him before he was out of sight and screamed. "YOU!!!"

"NANI?" he hollered. It seemed Kagome had woken him up from an absent state. He looked at her like she was some insect and then turned his head, avoiding her face once again. "Who the hell are you?"

Kagome was shocked, she knew it was just an act, he'd pretend he'd never seen her to avoid another screwed conversation, but did he really had to be so mean? "Y-you don't remember me?" she asked playing along.

"Feh! I've never seen you before....leave me please, I have to get to class."

So he was the new kid.

"Hmph!" Kagome had enough with pretending. "I know you know that I know that-Arg! Lemme start again- I know you're pretending you don't know me!" She finally said after untying her tonguetwisted tongue. (x.X lol.)

The boy walked away, ignoring Kagome and headed up the stairs.

"It's called a UNIFORM!" she bellowed.

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When the bell finally rang at a quarter pass eleven, the students piled into the school, starting with their usual chats.

Sango quickily ran into the classroom she found Kagome in and screeched. "Oh my God!!! You'll never believe what happened!!!"

"Nani?" Kagome asked rudely, she was still pissed at her grandfather and the boy, she didn't want to hear another 'shitload'.

"What's up with you?" Sango asked calmly, "Weren't you happy with Houjo?"

The tone of Sango's voice when she said his name really ticked Kagome off. "No! Of course not! My grandpa had to open his big trap, and totally humiliate me and worst of all-"

"Ya that's nice to hear, anyway..." Sango didn't seem to care anymore, she just wanted to burst out her news. "You know the crowd? Well, it turns out they were all eavesdropping on the new kid and the principal's interview from an open window, and I gotta tell ya, I was sooo wrong...I haven't seen his face, but his voice...it's to DIE for!!"

"Oh..." Kagome wasn't in the mood to explain her meeting with the new guy, so she wasn't gonna tell Sango....yet.

"That's all you can say? 'Oh'? Kagome, I thought you'd be excited!!"

"Listen...I'm having a bad day...my head hurts, you should just get to your class...ja ne..."

"Alright...."

Kagome didn't want to send her best friend out, but she just didn't want to socialize. But just when Sango walked out, Miroku walked in! And with enough bad luck, he also had a new 'shitload'.

"Hey Kag!" he said walking toward her.

"Hi Miroku....."

"I have news for you!"

"What now?"

"You remember Kouga, right?"

"Hai...."

"You know how he seemed to be the only guy that never had a thing for you...."

"Hai...." Kagome repeated.

"Well, he's been concealing it for awhile, Kagome, he's practically in LOVE with you!"

"Oh..." Kagome said, again she was uninterested by the news. A guy fell for her each day, why was Kouga so special?

Miroku seemed to have the same expression as Sango, but he didn't say anything, he just took his seat and stared blankly at a few girls in the corner of the room.

When the teacher walked in, everyone took a seat and he quickly took the attendence. When he was done he handed the sheet to Kagome. "Please take this down to the office."

"Yes, sir." she replied.

As Kagome walked down the hall, she notice the boy again, he was leaning against the wall. 'Not HIM again.....' she thought.

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Hooray!! Another chapter done!! Thanks everyone for the reviews, you inspired me to continue this story and this time this chapter is A LOT longer, lol. PLEASE R&R!!!! And the next chaper is on it's way too!!! ^.^