A/N: It's just another high school fic. But I had a lot of fun writing it.

Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha, just like I am a man!!! And no, I am not a man, so that means I, sadly, don't own Inuyasha. *tears*

"words words" - Talking

'words words' - thinking

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Chapter 4: First Days are filled with Surprises

"Class, allow me to introduce two news students." A pretty and young teacher stood between Inuyasha and Miroku. "This is Taisho Inuyasha-kun, and this is Houshi Miroku-kun." She then turned to the two. "Is there anything you'd like to say to the class?"

Inuyasha grunted as shrugged. He looked around the classroom and saw several pairs of girly eyes looking at him and Miroku with great interest. He "keh"ed and stuffed his hands into his uniform pant pockets.

Miroku, however, didn't shy away. He noticed the girls looking at him as well and took his chance. Kagome warned him several times before not to grope people or ask girls to bear his children, but that didn't mean he can't charm them. "All the lovely ladies, please call me Miroku," he gave a bow; "I'm always here to serve."

The girls all giggled at his suave introduction. Inuyasha snorted and looked away.

"Well, Taisho-kun, Houshi-kun, please take your seats in the back. This will be your homeroom and you'll be spending all time here except for P.E. and Art. You may call me Tsuzuki sensei. Oh dear," The teacher exclaimed as she glanced over their schedules, "Oh, I see, you'll only be spending a class each in this room. Alright, I understand. Please take the two empty seats behind Mikagi-kun. Mikagi-kun, please raise you hand."

A bored looking boy raised his hand half-heartedly. His name triggered a memory in Inuyasha and Miroku's heads. Suddenly, the mood in the room got very tense.

The teacher noticed that the two boys weren't moving, "Mikagi Toji-kun is right there. Please take your seats."

Miroku snapped out of his daze and pinched Inuyasha slightly on the arm. The two moved slowly to their seats. Inuyasha sat directly behind Toji, Miroku sat next to Inuyasha. The two shot venomous stares to the back of Toji's head.

They've found their target.

^_~

Meanwhile, the mood in Kagome's classroom was much happier. Takagi sensei, Kagome's homeroom teacher had just finished introducing Sango to the class, and assigned her a seat right next to Kagome.

"Kagome-chan," There was a few minutes left until homeroom ends and then Asian Literature would start. A couple of students had finished introducing themselves to Sango, and the two friends were left to be in peace. "Is that girl here? The one that threatened you?"

Kagome shook her head with a smile. "She's two rooms away. We won't have to see her until gym class." Sango smiled back, and Kagome continued. "Sango- chan, you have no idea how happy I am that I get to come to school with you and the guys. Thank you so much."

Sango patted Kagome's hand. "We're best friends. Don't thank us for such a small task."

"Hello girls!" Miroku's head stuck out of nowhere and greeted them with a happy face.

"Miroku!" Kagome shouted in surprise. "Oh, I forgot that you have Asian Literature with us! Sit!"

Miroku sat behind Sango and placed his briefcase on the desk. "I'm actually a little worried about leaving Inuyasha alone. It just so happens that we were both assigned in the same homeroom as Mikagi Toji. And the teacher made Inuyasha sit directly behind him. He wasn't looking so good when I left. If he didn't have Tessaiga, then we would've been in deep trouble."

"I was afraid of that." Kagome sighed. "But Shippo disguised Tessaiga. At least he can carry it around without too much suspicion."

Miroku nodded. "It was a really good idea. There was already this guy from the Kendo club that invited Inuyasha to join them."

"What did Inuyasha say?" Sango asked.

"Yes, of course, he said exactly what Kagome-sama told him to say." Miroku answered with some amusement. "Kagome-sama, you've got Inuyasha on a pretty tight leash."

Kagome blushed. "Miroku, how many times do I have to tell you? Don't call me with 'sama' while we're in school. Just called me Kagome."

"Hai, hai." Miroku answered with a smile. "So who's our Asian Lit teacher?"

Sango looked at her schedule. "Chie sensei. Kagome-chan, is she nice?"

Kagome nodded. "And she's really fun too. We're reading haikus right now. And she's even making us write some."

"That's perfect." Miroku said while taking out the notebook Kagome's mother prepared for them the night before. "I'm quite the haiku writer. I was even a part of a haiku festival once."

"A haiku festival? What's that?" Kagome asked.

"Good question, Higurashi-san." A woman's voice loomed over the room. "Can someone explain what a haiku festival is?"

Miroku raised the hand with kazaana high up. The woman called on him and he stood up to answer, just like Kagome taught him. "It's where hundreds of poets gather together to write chains of haiku. One poet would start using a phrase or some words. Then the next poet would write another one, but with reference to the previous haiku."

He sat down and the woman clapped her hands together. "Very good. I'm surprised you know this since the haiku festival originated from a few hundred years ago and isn't practiced very often nowadays."

Miroku gave a charming smile. "I know a lot about things from several hundred years ago. I can even recite some old haikus."

The woman smiled. "No need. You're Houshi Miroku-kun, are you not? You may call me Chie sensei. Class, we have a new student with us. He is in the 3rd grade, however, and will leave for some other classes, I'm afraid. But you've proved yourself quite enlightening."

Miroku smiled again and bowed his head slightly. In front of him, Sango was beaming with pride.

"And you must be Miss Kirara Sango. It's nice to have you here too." She turned to Sango and smiled. "Now, class, let's start writing some haikus!"

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"Here you go, Taisho-kun, your copy of Tales of Genji. Don't lose it." The teacher handed Inuyasha a thick book and went back to the front of the class.

"Today, we'll start to study the world's first novel, Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji. Genji's mother was one of the lord's concubines and she died young. And so no matter how handsome or talented Genji was, he couldn't become crowned prince. Well, I'm just putting it in layman's terms. Genji's not his real name; it's the name of his job. Tales of Genji isn't something that you'll fully understand unless you study it in depth in college. But I'm giving you guys' a head start. Now open your books to page one, and I'll introduce some ancient terms that you all should know before reading......"

Inuyasha drifted off. He didn't need to know what those ancient terms for ranks meant; he knew them all too well.

'His fate ruined just because he wasn't the official prince.' Inuyasha scoffed. 'Genji, I know exactly how you feel.'

Inuyasha ignored the teacher's boring lesson and stared at the back of Toji's head as if though he wanted to burn holes in it. Toji wasn't listening either. He was passing notes to this guy sitting next to him.

'Bastard, you're dead.'

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Miroku stretched. "What's next, Kagome-sa......." he stopped before the complete slipup, "Kagome?"

Kagome smiled. "We get five minutes of break time, and then Math, my favorite subject." She said sarcastically.

"So Inuyasha should be joining us." Sango remarked as she took out her math textbook.

"Hey, Kagome, isn't your math teach the one you suspect of being threatened by that Toji guy?" Miroku whispered as he put his books on the empty desk behind Kagome to save Inuyasha a seat.

Kagome nodded gravely. But their discussion was cut short by a squeal. "Kagome-chan!" Ayumi's head stuck into Kagome's classroom.

"Ayumi-chan!" Kagome gasped. Miroku and Sango looked at her with puzzled eyes. "Oh, um, hi."

Ayumi walked in and faced Kagome. "I came to visit you. Who are your friends? I've never seen them before."

Kagome looked back and forth from Sango to Miroku. "Oh, um, they're new here. This is Kirara Sango, and Houshi Miroku."

Miroku restrained his hands as best as he could and pasted a smile on his face. "Nice to meet you, lovely lady."

Sango rolled her eyes, but she was still grateful that Miroku didn't try to grope the girl. "Hi, how do you do?"

Ayumi smiled sweetly. "It's nice to meet the both of you." Then she turned to Kagome. "Well, break's ending, I'll see you after school, Kagome-chan!" With that, Ayumi left.

"After school?" Sango asked Kagome.

"My friends and I usually meet after school to eat. Ayumi-chan and Hojo-kun are both in Mikagi Akiko's homeroom." Kagome answered absentmindedly as she got herself ready for Math.

The classroom door opened loudly as a very angry human-looking hanyou stepped in. Inuyasha ignored people's stares and searched for his friends. He found them without trouble and took the seat behind Kagome.

"I saw the bastard." Inuyasha growled through gritted teeth.

"Inuyasha, stop growling." Kagome slapped him lightly on the arm. "We know, Miroku told us."

"Well, Inuyasha, you're about to meet another bastard." Miroku added with amusement. "Remember that math teach Kagome told us about? Well, he's going to be our teacher for this class."

Inuyasha's head snapped up. Kagome noticed that his eyes were slowly turned red. She made a grab for his hand and placed it over the disguised Tessaiga. Inuyasha's youkai blood calmed down immediately and he snapped back to reality.

"Inuyasha? Are you alright?" Kagome asked with concern. People all around them were watching the silver-haired boy with great interest now. And to Kagome's discontent, most of them were giggling girls.

Inuyasha nodded as he took out his notebooks and textbook. The bell rang and Mori sensei arrived a second late.

"Gomen, everyone, I realize that I'm a little late." The short and bald man said while dropping his briefcase down on the teacher's desk. He glanced over the attendance sheet and noticed Inuyasha and Miroku. "Ah, Taisho Inuyasha, Houshi Miroku, and Kirara Sango, eh? Well, it's nice to have you here. Did you get your books yet?"

'Wish I could say the same.' Inuyasha grimaced. "Hai, Kagome got us copies."

Kagome blushed as she heard Inuyasha say her name aloud in front of the entire class. The girls were beginning to whisper now, and she doesn't need Inuyasha's ears to know what they were saying.

Even though Inuyasha appeared human at the moment, he was still half youkai. And he can hear the girls' whispers loud and clear. 'Boyfriend? That sounds like that English crap Kagome's learning. Doesn't "boy" mean otokonoko? And "friend" means tomodachi. Hey, I'm not a boy, I'm a man! Well, I'm a male, and I'm her friend, so I guess they're right.'

"Oh, you know Higurashi-san? Well, that's wonderful." Mori said while wiping away some sweat on his forehead.

Inuyasha said it without thinking. "Yea, I know her, I'm her boyfriend." He half smirked; something about that word amused him.

Kagome almost chocked. 'What did he say?!? Does he even know what it means?' Kagome blushed deep red. Sango snickered and Miroku had a confused look on his face. Kagome had told Sango what the word "boyfriend" meant.

The whispers were getting louder. Kagome was able to hear some "see, I knew it", and some sighs of disappointment from the crowd. 'Jeez, should I kill him or hug him?' Kagome buried her face into her arms. 'Maybe I'll do both.'

Mori sensei was a little shocked at first, but he snapped himself out of it pretty fast. "Well, Taisho-kun, we don't need to discuss that kind of matter here in class. Anyway, let's open our books and do some exercises."

But Inuyasha couldn't concentrate. 'That kind of matter? What kind of matter? What did I say?'

^_~

Math was hideously long. But Kagome didn't want it to end. Because she knew that as soon as it ended, she'll be bombarded with questions and comments.

Math ended, the break came, and Science was next. The entire class rose to their feet and walked out to go to their biology lab for a double period of Science class.

"I'll see you later!" Miroku waved and headed to other way to his Earth Science class. The gang waved as well and started trudging through the crowded hall way.

"Wow, Kagome-chan, there are so many people here." Sango whispered as she walked on the right side of Kagome. Inuyasha walked on her left side, carrying his briefcase over his shoulder.

Kagome nodded. She didn't want to start talking. What happened last period was still fresh in her mind. She can only pray that no one will bring it up again.

Her prayer wasn't answered.

"Higurashi, how lucky you are." A cocky female voice stopped the three friends in their tracks. They all turned around to see who it was, and it was a gang of three girls that was in their math class. The crowd in the hallways seemed to have noticed the tension, and everyone stopped to watch.

"So I guess Hojo-kun isn't enough for you." The girl standing in the middle said. She wore a high ponytail. And her body was emitting arrogance (along with a strong perfume that was making Inuyasha dizzy).

Kagome rolled her eyes in disdain. "What do you want, Kamiya?"

The girl walked closer to them. "'Kamiya'? Why being so distant, Kagome- chan? Just call me by my first name, Sonoko." Though she was talking to Kagome, her eyes were all over Inuyasha. "Why don't you introduce me to your yummy boyfriend?"

'Did this bitch just call me yummy? I ain't food!' Inuyasha thought while putting on a sour face. Sonoko's perfume was really getting to him. "What's that smell?"

Sonoko seemed delighted that Inuyasha was "smelling" her. "Do you like it, Inuyasha-kun? It's called 'Irresistible'." She put on a puppy face and leaned closer. But that just made Kagome growl and Inuyasha back away.

Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and Sango's arms and turned away. "Irresistible is right. You stink so much that I can't resist getting away from you. Kagome, Sango, let's go already!"

Inuyasha said that so loud that the entire crowd that was gathering in the hallway heard him. Everyone broke out in laughter. That Sonoko girl was so embarrassed that she began to run the other way.

"Sonoko, we have class!" One of her friends yelled after her.

"I have a headache; I'm going to see the nurse!" Sonoko ran at top speed. The crowd was howling with laughter until the late bell rang and broke them up.

The three friends walked toward their lab room. Inuyasha was constantly rubbing his nose. Sango was having a laughing fit, and Kagome was in a daze for the millionth time that day.

Finally, Kagome managed to speak up. "You just pissed off Kamiya Sonoko." She turned to Inuyasha with a surprised look on her face.

Inuyasha stopped rubbing his nose and asked curiously. "You mean that smelly bitch back there? So what if I pissed her off? I don't give a crap."

Kagome shook her head. "She's Mikagi Akiko's best friend. Kamiya Sonoko and Mikagi Akiko run the first grade."

Inuyasha raised his right eyebrow. "That's good, isn't it? Don't we want to have revenge? And what better way than to get that Mikagi bitch than to humiliate her best friend?"

Kagome groaned. "But Inuyasha, you're attracting too much attention. Soon Mikagi Akiko will be on you. And that will ultimately lead to a face-off against her brother and their entire gang!!!"

Inuyasha only "keh"ed at her concerns and opened the door to their biology lab room. Several students were already seated and chatting. From what Inuyasha can catch, they were all talking about the incident earlier in the hallway. Most girls were treating him like a hero. But the majority was apparently very concerned about him as well.

The three took their seats. The lab desks were seated for four people. But since most chairs were already occupied, they couldn't find a desk where there were three vacant seats. Being the good friend she was, Sango moved voluntarily to sit with three guys and left Inuyasha to Kagome.

Inuyasha sat down with Kagome opposite of two girls who were chatting. As soon as they noticed Inuyasha was sitting at their table, their faces turned red. And from what Inuyasha could hear, they stopped breathing for quite a while.

"Oi, Kagome, who's our teacher?" Inuyasha ignored those girls' watery mouths and started to play with the dissecting equipments. "Are we gonna eat or something? What's with the knives?"

Kagome sniggered. 'He's so cute when he's ignorant.' Kagome glanced around, the teacher wasn't there yet. "Those aren't eating knives, they're for dissections. And our biology teacher's name is Tomoeda sensei. He's also a gym teacher and adviser to the school's kendo team. You'll have to meet him personally later for the kendo thing."

Inuyasha kept on playing with the knives, throwing them up high in the air and then catching them without hurting his hands. "Is he a bastard?"

Kagome watched his knife-throwing activity intently, just like all the other people in the class. "No, he's actually the best teacher in the entire school." Kagome blushed. 'Not to mention young and handsome.' But if she has said that out loud, Inuyasha would probably pop a vein.

Suddenly, Inuyasha stopped moving. He turned to face Kagome with a serious look on his face. "Oi, Kagome, do you smell that?"

Kagome blinked. "I don't have a nose like yours, Inuyasha. What do you smell?"

Inuyasha growled slightly and began to look around. A single word came out of his mouth:

"youkai."

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