A/N: I apologize for the lack of updates, it my fault really. I've been focused on everything else and completely forgot about the unfinished chapter in my computer. ^-^; Now that I've gotten into it! On with the story. Also it may seem a little bit off and crappy since I've gotten rusty over this past week.
Disclaimer: I no own Inuyasha because Rumi is no genius. Rumiko Takashi is!
Beyond the wiring
Chapter eleven
Kagome: Offensive mode
Kagome smiled swinging her backpack back and forth, she wouldn't be riding with Inuyasha she'd be walking to school with him instead. She could hardly contain herself, Sakura would be blooming this time around and had taken a liking to them. Mrs. Akuma suggested that they should walk today to take a good look at the scenery and to have a few moments of fresh air.
"Sakura...Saku" She chimed twirling happily down the hall.
It was too late, she had lost her balance and fell directly on top of Inuyasha who in turned huffed, squirming away from the overly excited 'girl'.
"Oi wench! watch where your going you could of killed someone" He barked dusting off his blazer.
She only giggled grabbing a hold of his wrist and dragging him down the corridor, he only groaned complaining about skipping breakfast because of S.H.C.O.R.W or Sugar-high-crazy-over-reacting-wenches. Kagome ignored his pleas stopping by the kitchen to toss him a apple and maybe a few breakfast hot pockets.
"Are you sure you didn't choke on something cause we really need to get going"
Before he could even answer, he was dragged out the door and into the warm crisp morning air. Kagome shivered wrapping the newly bought jacket around her lithe form. Inuyasha just stuffed his hands in pockets grumbling about being woken up in the morning by ugly hyper active wenches.
Kagome ignored him continuing to twirl down the sidewalk catching the falling sakura petals, Inuyasha shook his head. She was more of a child that he thought but what did he really think of her in logical sense. He always thought of her as some ethereal being who fell in love with someone who wouldn't love her back, he snorted, that showed how much he knew.
They continued their walk unaware of the time that was wasted, Inuyasha cursed staring at his wrist watch.
7:45
If they continued at this pace, they wouldn't have enough time to get to school before the bell. He dashed forward dragging a clue less Kagome behind him. She blinked, didn't Inuyasha know that she set his watch back by twenty minutes? She shrugged, the less he knew the better.
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They had arrived to school with a breathless Inuyasha and a unusually bubbly Kagome who couldn't stop talking. The school grounds were practically desolate except for a crowd of girls smothering a very delighted Miroku.
"Looky there's Miroku-kun!" Kagome chirped wavering her index finger at the Miroku's faint outline in the morning light. Inuyasha sighed, deciding whether to ask if Kagome had taken to many blows to the head, the girl was too damn hyper.
"Yeah come on, let's go help him with the invasion" He replied, once again dragging Kagome to the other side of the front lawn where much help was needed.
Miroku sighed in relief as Inuyasha pushed through the crowd along with Kagome, he was delighted with the responses he was getting from the girls but this was too much. They were practically savages, ripping at his blazer and they even tried to load him on to a truck and keep him in a storage closet.
"Oh god, they're like monsters"
Inuyasha merely nodded ignoring the looks he received from the W.L.M.F.C or the 'We Love Miroku Fan Club'. For a moment he glared back with a satisfied smirk tugging at his lips, he pushed his way through the crowd.
Miroku gasped for air, he had nearly suffocated for the lack of breathing space and their bodies pressed up so close against his.....70;
WHAM
Inuyasha had knocked him out with one fluid motion, he kicked Miroku disgustedly. To think he would of gotten those nasty thoughts out of his head, knowing Miroku he probably had some hormonal problem.
Kagome hopped around, accidentally stepping on one of Miroku's limbs, she just giggled some more muttering a 'oops' before continuing her escapade. She was just too hyper for her own good, maybe she was on something?
Sango arrived minutes later, chatting happily with Kagome who was bouncing like no tomorrow.
Soon flocks of students steadily arrived crowding the front lawn, Seniors, froshes, juniors and sophomores. Each doing their own thing or bugging each other, footballs went flying and the chatter buzzed on. They decided to hang inside the buildings since it was too crowded at front lawn, all four of them sat on the near the stairs laughing at the unconscious Miroku and Inuyasha's hilarious antics to mimic the school slut, Yura Fujisawa (A/N: Horrible last name)
Yura was one of those girls who slept with guys to get what she wanted, she possibly slept with the male population of the school faculty as well. While Inuyasha was poorly impersonating Yura, the members of the W.L.I.F.C stood there shocked. The great Inuyasha was mocking Yura, their club leader. Yura pushed through the crowd looking thoroughly disgusted, she wrenched her face away flouncing down the hall. The four continued to laugh uncontrollably, the W.L.I.F.C looking very lost and very clue less.
As they continued to ridicule the school whores, a whole mess of girls started the crowd around the stairwell sending Sango and Kagome dirty looks. They glared back causing a few girls to step whilst other pushed forward seemingly wanting to start another fight. Inuyasha sensing turmoil between Kagome, Sango and the mass of girls, stood up glaring at the crowds menacingly.
"Well? what do you want?" He barked watching them flinch back, the tremors of his voice slightly rising. In a flash, they had scattered each going in their own direction.
RING RING RING
The bell chimed, the four scrambling up the steps and to their homerooms. Kagome and Inuyasha and took the seats in the back of the class, slouching lazily in their seats. Her encounters with school had been enjoyable and somehow she felt like she had actually belonged. She had learned the ways of school and met a few people as well, school was something she could look forward to. That and spending time with Inuyasha himself.
"Higurashi?"
"Here" Came her muffled reply as she lifted her head up meeting eyes with the impatient teacher. She blinked innocently, what was the teacher so grumpy about? She said here didn't she?
"Akuma?"
"Eh!" The teacher merely rolled his eyes due to the lack of social skills Inuyasha was showing. Inuyasha glared at Harumei-Sensei, who was staring at him and it was irritating him. He had a strong urge to punch Harumei-Sensei out, this guy was just plain annoying and someone needed to teach this guy a lesson, no matter how pathetic this guy was someone would knock him out preferably him.
After boredly waiting for the bell to ring, he decided to bug Kagome instead who was busily trying to help this girl, Ayumi or what's her name out. (A/N: Pure coincidence I swear, All I could think of is Ayumi Hamasaki)
Inuyasha gingerly tapped on her shoulder causing Kagome to flinch, "Eh! What do you want? that really hurt you know!" She barked rubbing her injured shoulder. He continued to poke at her shoulder and back testing to see if it really did hurt, "Hey ow! what are you doing stupid? what do you want from me? all I'm doing is helping Ayumi-chan out!" She retorted irritated that Inuyasha kept on poking her and her shoulder was starting to throb. 'Wait? Hurt?! Am I supposed to even feel such pain?' She thought questionably, shaking her head curtly she turned her attention back to helping Ayumi out completely ignoring Inuyasha.
Kagome was confusing, first she says that she can't feel pain because she was a humanoid and he pokes her and suddenly she says it hurts? Kagome herself was a mystery, if she really was a humanoid, why would tears run down her cheeks when he had encountered her in the garden and in his dream, and feel pain by him merely poking her? Running a hand through his hair, he decided he'd brush it off until he'd was able to get answers.
The bell rang with Ayumi gathering her books and Kagome smiling brightly bidding the departing Ayumi good bye. She turned to Inuyasha waving a hand in front of his face seeing that he was spacing off again. He snapped out of his reverie grabbing his backpack and hanging it over his shoulder leaving Kagome to follow.
They soon pushed through their way down the hall and into their period six class, trigonometry. Yet again they sat in the back unaware of all the curious and wondrous stares they were getting, a fiery glance from Kouga directing at both Kagome and Inuyasha. Rinako-sensei sent the class a stern look, her sharp green eyes scanning through the rows like a hawk.
"Ohayo class" She greeted.
"Ohayo Rinako-sensei" They replied giving her a respective bow.
Only the shuffle of papers and the soft ticks of the clock were heard as the lesson droned on, Kagome listening attentively and jotting down notes every once in a while and Inuyasha snoring away with his feet propped on his desk. They were just in the middle a pop quiz when the bell rang drawing a sigh of relief from the students of A-110.(A/N: I didn't know what to write since it was soo boring)
Inuyasha woke up with a start learning that class was over and break had begun, hurriedly he slung his backpack over his shoulder waiting impatiently for Kagome to finish packing up her stuff. After doing so, they rushed over to the courtyard where Sango and Miroku would be lounging under one of the Sakura trees supposedly waiting for them. Inuyasha sped down the hallways with Kagome running close behind wondering where the hell were they going and why the hell were they running for?
They screech to a halt under one of the Sakura planted in the courtyard and under the shade sat a impatient and a sleeping Miroku hugging the tree trunk. Sango gave a slight wave before beating Miroku into oblivion, the innocently sleeping Miroku had hand practically attached to her backside.
WHAM! SLAP! POW!!
Miroku was knocked out in a few seconds flat with his trademark hand print on of his cheeks. Sango inwardly seethed continuously kicking Miroku into a deeper unconsciousness receiving a few stares and dirty stares from passerby's and teachers as well. Inuyasha and Kagome could only watch amusedly as Sango continued the beat the living daylights out of Miroku. With Miroku successfully disposed of for the time being, she returned her attention back to her two friends brushing a stray strand away from her face. (A/N: Woah there Sango almost killed Miroku -_-; hope that never happens again)
"Sango are you okay?" Kagome asked, a hint of concern in her voice.
"Peachy just peachy"
"Okay um Inuyasha how much time do we have before break ends?" Kagome asked tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. Inuyasha cursed repeatedly before fumbling in his backpack for his watch, after successfully fishing it out of his backpack he curses once more seeing that they only had five minutes before break ended.
"Not enough" He walked over to the tree climbing on the branches before setting to rest on the main branch. Kagome stared at him questionably before being hoisted up and set down of one of the branches. She cocked her head sideways, questioning the mischievous look in Inuyasha's amber eyes. They continued to sit on the branches peacefully watching the crowds from below taking comfort in the silence.
A gentle breeze swept through, the sakura showering the people from below, creating a almost picture perfect scene of beauty and grace. They smiled as Sango snuggled closer to the slumbering, the moment almost romantic in a sense. Kagome chuckled, even though Sango wouldn't admit it she knew that her best friend had a crush on Miroku. She just hoped that they would get to together soon, she wanted all of her friends to be happy. Even if it meant that she would have to give Inuyasha up to make him happy.
The next few minutes where filled with silent bliss as they continued to lounge under the shade of the Sakura tree. Kagome leaning against the main branch napping peacefully, Inuyasha watching the clear blue sky lazily and Sango and Miroku cuddling one another down below.
The loud shrill of the school bell awoke them from their reveries, each going to their separate classes unaware of the events that took place. Sango hadn't slapped Miroku when she woke up and Miroku strangely made no indication of anything happening between Sango and himself. As for Inuyasha and Kagome, they had been strangely quiet as if they were still daydreaming. They made haste as they continued to trek to the other side of the campus in hope of avoiding any tardy slips from the infamous literature teacher that probably had something crawled up his ass because of his skittish behavior. He was crawling walls if you were late and as sure as heck nobody wanted to see some loony crawling walls. (A/N: sorry, I just watched stand up comedy and it kinda sorta rubbed off on me)
Inuyasha gave a sigh of relief as he entered the classroom avoiding the freakish stares that emanated from the lit. teacher, Kagome like the rest of the class shuddered, what the hell was wrong with the guy?
As the teacher continued to ramble, Kagome did her usual routine of listening and taking notes and Inuyasha did his which consisted of bugging the hell out of everybody else especially Kagome who had either shunned like he didn't exist or find some way to occupy him.
"Miss Higurashi please tell me what have we gone over in the lecture this far?" Fujisairo-Sensei interrogated.
"The terms of a stanza sir" She replied meeting the teacher's gaze before sitting back down to take more notes. Fujisairo-sensei nodded approvingly before continuing on with the lecture.
Inuyasha sighed taking another shot at bugging Kagome who in turn brushed him off mouthing 'jerk'. Okay, irritating Kagome was off his list since she'd probably pummel him he tried to bug her for the thousandth time this period. He scanned the crowds wearily in hopes to find some sort of entertainment. But he found nothing, he had only come across a few flirty glances from the girls and hateful looks from the boys.
"Is something bothering you Mr. Akuma?" Fujisairo-sensei asked indignantly.
"Keh"
The teacher rolled his eyes continuing his lesson once more, that damn Akuma needed social skills and something that could fix his language gap. Maybe he could pair up Higurashi and Akuma, Higurashi seemed approvable according to her attentive listening skills and spotless record. He smiled devilishly, his plan to put Akuma in his place would run smoothly.
"Class you will be assigned into a pairs and work on a project which reflects on your semester grade." hearing the class groan, he continued " The project consists of two parts, the first it the composing of a stanza made by both you and you're partner and the second is to perform it in class by next Friday. And you must turn in you're stanza draft by Wednesday and it must be appropriate and no cussing as well."
This brought many groans from the male population of the class, and many cheers from the girl who were happy that their butt-head opposites couldn't do anything idiotic if they paired with them.
"I will now be announcing the pairings for the project" he announced.
"Higurashi and Akuma"
"Kaze and Ookami"
"Fujisawa and Hiroshima"
The list droned on with only two protesting and begging the teacher to change the pairings, Inuyasha and Kagome who had always seemed to be paired up to together.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" They both screamed.
"WHAT? MY FAULT NUH-UH IT'S YOURS!"
"BITCH"
"BAKA"
"JERK"
"WENCH"
"ASS"
CRASH! SHRIEK!
Figures clad in black crashed through the window surrounding Inuyasha and herself flashing several snipers and small handguns with knives as well. One in particular boldly held a pocket knife against Inuyasha's throat laughing as if it was the most amusing thing in the world. She lowered her head, ebony bangs shielding her face from view.
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Midoriko exe. Completed
"Don't you dare..." She hissed vehemently. Her blood ran cold with anger, she would protect Inuyasha even it meant she have to kill to do it. She turned to look at their jeering faces contorted with laughter and amusement, her eyes a piercing ice blue. She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning ghostly white.
She charged forward delivering swift punches to the few who had gotten in her way. One of them came forward charging at her with a short bladed knife, he gave a swipe at her arms, the pain going unnoticed. Kagome directed uppercuts to his stomach leaving him to cough blood. Blow after blow, they fell to the ground unconscious. The shallow cuts on her arms barely noticeable except for the fact that thin lines of blood seeped out of the wounds. Inuyasha could only watch as she continued to fight the barricade of black clad figures. Panting, she knocked the last guy out leaving idiot who had held the knife against Inuyasha throat.
A soft click was heard as Kagome cocked her gun which seemed to appear out of nowhere pointing assertively at the man's forehead. Her hand struggled whether to pull the trigger, her mind debating the issue. Her heart told her not to while her mind said differently. Begrudgingly, she lowered the gun aiming for his heart instead.
'Shoot him or Inuyasha will die' her mind argued.
"If you do not back down now you shall surely die by my hands. Is that what you wish?" She regarded coldly eyeing the knife held against Inuyasha's throat. The rest of the class stood silent possibly contemplating whether Kagome would or would not pull the trigger. Fujisairo-sensei didn't budge still petrified with fear. Inuyasha stared at Kagome in shock, would she really kill someone to protect him? She didn't seem like Kagome at all, her tone of voice was different and her eyes.....held no warmth at all. He shuffled uneasily in his seat, the blade brushing against the base of his throat.
Her hand trembled as she pull the trigger, the shot resulting with a bang as the knive clattered to the floor. The black clad figure lay in a shallow pool of blood of his and kagome's, they all watched the scene before them, it seemed so morbid. Kagome lay a clutter on the floor still clutching the small gun in her hand. She stood up stumbling the first few steps, Inuyasha came to her aid holding her up.
"Fujisairo-sensei, call the police" She gritted out clutching the side of her stomach.
He complied fishing the cellphone out of his pocket, dialing the numbers with lightning fast precision.
"Kagome, your bleeding"
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Very awkward, I know! Kagome doesn't really feel much but there will be emotional damage along with pyshical damage. All will be explained in the next chapters or so! REVIEW!!!!