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All eyes followed the sound of my voice and traced it back to me. I felt the colour return to my cheeks in the form of a blush. Suddenly someone snorted.
"Awwwww! Is widdle Kagome afraid of the name Naraku?"
I glared at Kikyo hard. She flinched but smirked back.
"Leave her alone, Kikyo! Just because you don't have a life or any friends, doesn't mean that you have to ruin hers!" a voice (male) spoke up.
There was a round of 'OoOoOoOoO, Kikyo got burnnnnned!!! TSSSsssss...!' from the class mates and then the bell rang. I left the classroom with out a backward glance and looked at my schedule to see what I had next. Lunch (!).
Sango caught up to me to show me to the cafeteria. I wondered whether to tell her about my dilemma. I wasn't sure, as I was new here...but I needed to tell someone. Suddenly I realized what my life was going to return to: Hell.
I hate him.
I hate his name, I hate his old house, I hate his new house (even though I don't know where he's living yet), I hate his money, I hate his STUPID baboon pelt that hangs in his room (that I 'accidentally' *not* spilt coke on to), I hate his dad (his mom mysteriously died), I hate his dog, I hate his fish, I hate his rat, I hate his posters, I hate his bed, I hate his TV, I hate his game systems and I HATE the way he LOOKS LIKE A FRICKEN GIRL ...Basically I hate everything about him. I. Hate. Naraku. And he was coming back into my life.
Before I knew it, I felt the tears weld up into my eyes. I brushed them away before anyone could see but (just my luck) Sango noticed.
"Kagome! What's wrong? Did they tease you in S.S? I'll bet it was Kikyo! I told you not to do anything to her! She would get you back in the end. Don't even think about getting her back because she'll get you back even harder next time!"
"Sango! Calm down!"
"Well then, what's wrong????"
I didn't want her to get involved...which probably means I should tell her to just...leave me alone.
"Sango, I need to tell you something...private..."
"What? Do you already have a boyfriend??"
"...WHAT???"
What is wrong with people here??
"Good. You're sensible! Now...let's go to the girls room. No one is there during lunch."
I followed her to the washrooms in the main building. She was right: it was completely empty.
"Now, what is it??" she demanded.
I took a deep breath.
"There's a new guy coming here, to this school. His name is Naraku...he's...he's followed me here." I paused to find out where to start to tell her about him but she took my pause as an 'I have finished'.
"So...you know him...and it doesn't sound like you're friends."
"No, I hate him with-a-passion! But I used to be his girlfriend. Not his first though. He goes for the good-looking and according to his books, I'm good looking."
"Well, you're not terrible looking. I mean all of the guys in math already have a crush on you!"
Thanks Sango.
"But to go with that, I'm smart, sportive, and fun to be with." I ticked them off my fingers as I recalled him trying to flatter me.
"I'm also 'sexy'" I quoted.
"I'm sure you are too. I mean I don't know you very well but-"
"SANGO!!"
"Sorry!" she squeaked.
"The thing is that he is the bully of the school, with all of 'daddy's money' and basically, he gets everything he wants. Almost any girl at my old school would want to be in my position because they were all fluff and no brain and only cared that he had money. As soon as he asked me to be his girlfriend, my life changed. I said 'no' but that didn't matter, because he doesn't take 'no' for an answer."
At this point Sango looked thoroughly disgusted.
"And he...is coming to our school...?"
"Yup. So basically, let's go have lunch together, because it'll be the last one we have together until he finds someone else who is smarter, prettier, and more sportive than me."
Sango suddenly looked wistful, "Pity that Kikyo isn't any of those..."
"She's gonna have her authority around the school threatened. But what can she actually do? I'm still waiting."
"She's a big rumor spreader. Anyways, if she's smart, she'll suck up to him and he'll be smart to take her in and dump you-"
"I've already dumped him 20 times."
"Hear me out. And then Inuyasha will see the light and ask you to be his girlfriend, and then you'll say 'yes' and he'll be a social guy again. At the end of my happy story, Naraku takes Kikyo back to his old house and Shikon high can breath freely again!"
"I'm so glad you're world is perfect. Mine's hell. Have a nice day."
Sango sighed, "You're right...let's go have lunch."
"Wait. As soon as he comes in here again, he's not gonna let me be with you guys."
"So? Just stick around with us anyways. What's he gonna do to us?"
"He's not like Kikyo. He's got guys that follow him and all he has to do is snap his fingers and if you're standing up for me, you're gonna end up in the dirt."
"Physical is he? Well then...Inuyasha's got some background with that kind of stuff...and Miroku knows the basics. Your Naraku sound sort of like Kikyo, in a way. Inuyasha moved here about a year ago and he met us first and he thought we were cool but Kikyo thought he was cool too. She always wins and gets her way...well, until this morning when she spoke to you."
"Will you keep Inuyasha out of this? I'm tired of hearing his name!"
"But he is a really cool guy! We'd really like it if you could try to show him that his world doesn't have to just be Kikyo. In fact, it would be nice if you could help him see that Kikyo is nothing."
"Look. I don't want to get more people involved in this issue than necessary. I'll go boy chasing after my life's mess is cleaned up, ok? Now, let's go get some lunch before Haruna comes to find us."
"You mean Miroku, don't you?"
"B-b-but...this is a GIRLS bathroom."
Sango shook her head at me.
"Do you think Miroku cares?"
I stared. This guy has no limits. Dear Lord.
I opened the bathroom door and a shriek escaped my lips.
"Oh, I'm sorry...did we startle you?"
It appears that Miroku and Tadashi were eaves dropping from behind the door.
"Sango, dear, how could you say that I couldn't care that it was a girls bathroom? Of course I care! That's why I only listened from the door!"
"We were only wondering why you didn't show up at lunch!" Tadashi grinned.
"Uh huh...and you just happened to come to this girls bathroom...right..." Sango and I were very disbelieving.
"Anyhow," Miroku waved the affair away as if it was nothing, "we happened to overhear your problem. From start to finish."
"You guys didn't have lunch either!" I accused.
"Well fine then...we saw Kagome with a not-so-cheerful tear in her eye and wanted to know what was wrong. We do have our limits which is why we didn't follow you two into the bathroom." Tadashi impatiently explained.
"So we merely pressed our ears against the door."
Sango and I were both just kind of "......"
"So, you want some help with your boy problem, do you?" Tadashi started to think hard.
"No, actually, I don't. I just want to make sure that my problem doesn't become yours. I don't want you guys to get hurt." I corrected.
"Tough luck, girl, cause you're getting our help." Miroku shook his head.
Tadashi turned to Sango, "And why does Inuyasha get first dibs on her? Why can't I?"
That does it.
"NO ONE get any 'dibs' on me, OK?? What I'm TRYING to do is make Naraku see that!"
There was a muttered 'whoops...' from Tadashi and I decided to finish this up.
"Lunch time." I declared. I stomped away from the bathroom. I then stopped and ran back to them and grabbed Sango by the arm.
"Where's the cafeteria..." I started to drag her away from the boys and she started to lead me in the complete opposite direction that I was going to head in.
* * *
Sango showed me the way to the science classroom after lunch and then headed off for her fourth period class.
As I walked into the science classroom, I looked around for familiar faces. None except for that Inuyasha guy.
"Are you Kagome H?"
I looked at Mr. Myoga and nodded.
"Please sit in the middle row, next to the boy with long, black hair." He politely instructed me.
I nodded again and looked at that boy with long black hair.
Guess who.
Inuyasha looked up at me and then skooched his huge pile of stuff off of the other half of the table that I was going to sit at. I smiled in response and then sat down and as soon as my butt hit the chair, my mind zipped back to Naraku. I knew I had to fight back but he was rich and had boys that followed him that would be registering to this school, at the latest, in a week. Big whoop. At the moment I felt like a star who was trying to run away from the circus. It just doesn't happen. And when you try to quit, it refuses your resignation. It sucks. (oh, excuse me, nothing sucks, it pulls...lol). Then I thought of the two girls that hung around Naraku. Kanna and Kagura. Kanna's like a spy or something. She's so quiet and small that no one suspects that she's up to something. Kagura just has an attitude. I don't know how they're related to Naraku (maybe cousins or something) but they seem to exist only to come to Naraku's every beck and call. And I hate them too.
Mr. Myoga explained to us that because we were finishing up on density, we were going to wrap it up by doing a project on it by making balloons with tissue paper. He basically spent the entire period telling us how we were going to do it. We would be picking partners tomorrow. What fun...not...the only person that I knew was Inuyasha. Just my luck.
* * *
After a demo on how to make cinnamon rolls, my cooking teacher, Ms. Nakashima, stood up to give us some dreaded news.
"First off, I would like to announce that tomorrow we will be making the cinnamon rolls that I was demonstrating today and so I hope that you all were paying attention! (there was an 'oh, crap' from Inuyasha) Second, I would like to announce that we will be having a new student join us!"
The pit in my stomach grew into a hole.
"His name is Hibara, Naraku. I hope you'll all make him feel welcome!"
"He'll make everyone make him feel welcome." I muttered to Sango. Yumi and Sayori looked at me curiously.
I was getting sick of Ms. Nakashima and her 'Everything-is-bright-sunny-and-wonderful~!' attitude. If a volcano erupted, and everyone around it died, she's probably just say that the spirit of the earth need to get some fresh air. I was very relieved when the bell excused us to our 6th period class.
Miroku met me outside of class.
"Shall I lead you to our last class of the day?" he bowed politely.
"We have L.A. together?"
"Yup!"
"Alrighty then. Lead the way......and watch your hands!"
His hand zipped back next to him.
"I'm gonna handcuff you someday..." I threatened.
We stepped into the classroom and Miroku...galloped I guess...up to Ms. Yamamoto and bowed low.
"May I present to you: Higurashi, Kagome!" He said gallantly.
She giggled (yes, she giggled) at him and then said I could sit next to him if I wanted. What could I do? He was the only person I knew in the class and plus he was already half dragging me to his desk anyways. I dropped my very thin binder down onto the desk next to him.
"How about I introduce you to the people who are full of fluff and no brain!"
"How about no...they'll all hate me for Naraku anyways as of tomorrow."
"Good point. So about this Naraku guy..."
"Just...don't talk about him."
"Okaaaaayy..."
"Did you know that he tastes like an eel?"
"You've KISSED him???" .
I stared at him, "Do you think I've had a choice??"
"...No, I guess...why don't I at least tell you the names of the girls over there?"
"Fine."
"That's Shizuko over there with Yuki, there's Sachiko, and Hanae and Hihumi are the twin girls over there."
"Not very many."
"Nope, but they're all stupid and nosey at the same time."
"Stupid and nosey isn't a very good combo..."
"Nope."
"But if they're nosey, then why aren't they coming over to find out who I am?"
"Cause I'm here."
"Ah...that explains everything."
"Sachiko has a nice butt."
"I'll bet you said that to her face."
"Yup...but only after she slapped me."
"You are so sad."
"It's just a hobby."
I cannot believe him.
"A hobby?? You don't have an obsession with female butts for a hobby! It's just...not right!!" I exclaimed.
"I know."
That wasn't quite the answer I expected.
But, the bell rung and so I counted down the minutes until we were released.
* * *
I found out that Sango only lives about a block away from me. We walked home together and I introduced her to my mom when we arrived at my house.
"Kagome! I'm so glad that you've made so many friends so fast but did you have to bring one of them home when you know that the house is still a mess?"
I rolled my eyes, "What's Sango gonna do? Publish pictures? We were just on our way home and so I decided to introduce you guys."
"I really don't care what state the house is in, Mrs. Higurashi. My room is definitely worse." Sango observed.
My mom smiled, "I'd offer you two a snack but there really isn't anything in the house just yet."
"Don't worry about it! I've got to get home to do my homework anyways!" Sango smiled.
"See you tomorrow, then!" I showed her to the door.
I then hopped up to my new bedroom that overlooked the street, and did my tiny amount of math homework.
* * *
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEE-*
SMASH~!
"friggen alarm clock..." I muttered sleepily as I rolled over. The morning came too soon...
Suddenly-
"MERRRRRRROWWW!" My cat, Buyo, jumped up onto my bed and then decided that my head was the perfect spot to clean his feet.
Cheers.
"You STUPID CAT!! I'm just trying to get a few more minutes of NEEDED sleep!!! GEEZ!!" I snarled as I practically threw my cat off of my head and on to the floor. Buyo obviously though that was unfair, as he had just been dragged half way across the country on an airplane because of me and just wanted to borrow my head to clean his feet. Tough. As I tried to get some more sleep, a damn bird started telling its life story to my window. As if my window could care. After getting up to open my window, and then telling the bird to fricken shut up (with much nastier language) I realized that the world had something against me and I wasn't likely to sleep anymore this morning. I went out into the hall and practically bulldozed my brother.
"Souta! What are you doing up at this ungodly hour called 6 o'clock in the morning? Get back into bed, you lucky pest."
"I wasn't d-doing anything!" He replied with a sheepish grin as he tried to hide the horn that he was about to bring into my room.
"Right. Get back to bed before I choke you with that instrument." I ordered. He scurried back into his room and I continued for the bathroom to wash my grouchy face.
Great. A Bleeping alarm clock, a drowning cat, a choking bird, and my oh-so-loving brother was about to add his horn. I checked outside after I came out of the bathroom to make sure that the band wasn't waiting to ambush me when I left for school.
* * *
After eating a rather big breakfast and guzzling down a cup of coffee, I felt much better.
Amazing what a cup of coffee can do to the non-early risers.
However, when the doorbell rang unexpectedly, my mom nearly had to call the roof repairmen to fix the hole that my head nearly made in the ceiling.
Meaning that I jumped about 20 feet.
It was probably the band...
I went to answer it.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WAN-Sango? What's up??"
"I was just going to walk with you to school." She said innocently.
I have a slight nagging feeling that Sango won't want to be doing that again any time soon...
"damn early risers." I muttered before saying that I just had to brush my teeth.
Sango waited patiently in the doorway for me to tie my shoes up and then we left to walk the four blocks to school.
After the 3rd block I really started to pay attention to this black Mercedes that seemed to be going up and down the same street that we were on. I got a really bad feeling that we were being followed by someone named-
"Kagome-chan is it just me or is that car-"
"Yes, Sango, it's following us...me..."
"How do we ditch it?"
"I'm thinking...but you know the route to school much better than I do..."
We finally got to a curve in the road. There were still houses lining along the street but at the very end of the street, you turn right and there's the school property. I just got a risky plan that involved going into a stranger's backyard, a fence, and jumping. Sango seemed to have come up with the same idea.
"It's risky but the next time that car passes us and turns the corner-"
"We run into that house's back yard because it looks like it would be the easiest and we jump the fence onto the school property, am I right?" I interrupted.
"You are! Let's do it!"
As the car drove by us and then turned right at the end of the road to the direction of the school, we dashed to the gate of the house that had the fence that we were going to jump. Lucky for us, the gate was hidden behind a bush so we were able to hide while we found the latch. Little did we know that the car was finished following us and was stopping at the school. Too bad for us.
"I got the latch!" I exclaimed in a whisper.
I eased the gate door open and slid inside. Sango followed me in and shut the door silently behind us. She checked her watch, "we have 15 minutes till the tardy bell: Plenty of time!"
"Good. Now what are the chances that the person who lives here is going to look out of the window when we run across his yard?" I asked her.
"Not much."
"Oh crap."
"What now??"
"Just our luck. They have a dog. A very big and mean looking dog. And the only reason that it hasn't let the people who live here know we're here is because it's getting over it's shock that someone is in it's back yard."
"What kind of dog is it?" Sango pushed past me to look around the corner of the house.
"Run." She stated simply.
We took off across the yard and the dog seemed to have realized that it was supposed to scare us and took off behind us, barking and snarling something awful. I felt it snapping at my heels and I ran even faster.
"Who idea was it to use this back yard anyways??" I squealed franticly.
"Ours!! And by the way, it's a German Shepard that's following us."
Brilliant. Just how I wanted to start my morning. No sleep, almost paying a bill for the roof, getting followed to school, and now getting chased by a huge dog with a temper. Although I have to say that it's better than Naraku any day.
I leapt for the fence and scampered up to the top. I suddenly heard this 'KA-CHINK!' as the chain leach that it was apparently attached to was pulled taut.
"It was on...a chain...?" I nearly fell off the fence as I found out that there was still about 10 feet between the dog and the fence.
"Never doing this backyard again." Sango panted. We hopped down and charged up the hill to the school.
We were met by Miroku at our lockers.
"What happened to you?"
I looked at the mirror in Sango's locker and noticed that there wasn't really anything wrong with my hair because it's bushy and I wore it down today but Sango definitely had more than a few hairs that managed to work their way out of her pony tail elastic.
"Long story." Sango stated simply.
Before either of us knew what was happening, Miroku put his hand on Sango's head (you thought I was gonna say butt didn't you ^^) and yanked out her elastic. Then he snatched up the hairbrush lying in her locker and whipped her hair back up almost perfectly.
Sango blinked, "Thanks..."
"Sure thing!" Miroku grinned.
As they got lost in their own little world (I have sneaking suspicions that, that was what Miroku was looking for...) I saw Inuyasha round the corner in the halls with Kikyo tightly latched onto his arm like a leech. He looked up from talking to her and our eyes met. We both quickly looked away and at that moment a very familiar, calm, cold voice spoke from behind me.
"Kagome! It's so nice to see you again." And a chill ran up and down my spine as a hand ran down it.
Miroku and Sango looked up from their flirting and their smiles dissolved as they saw the face of the creepy guy behind me. Inuyasha's eyes turned hard and Kikyo looked up and stared first at me and then at the face that was already breathing down my neck.
He's back...
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~*SHOUT OUTS!!*~
Not very many shout outs but if anyone has any questions, then I will be happy to answer them under this section or, u could just leave me your e-mail addy. K? ^__^
Momori: Thanx 4 being the first to review dis fic~! I luv yours and u had better keep the bloopers up!
Weirdo C: Hi there! *ahem* wow....you guessed it...Kagome DOES already know Naraku. Lol ^^
Twin Star of Suzaku: *ahem* You're smart too. Lol. ^_________^
Tenshineko: Thanx for letting me know that 'Shi' means death instead ^^ My friend Momori told me that after I posted but I was hopping that no one would notice...(darn) If u notice any other...mistakes...feel free to let me know~! ^.~
Guess who I am: Urr...do you mind if I call u that until u tell me who u are? ^^ I have to say that I'm not surprised that u fell asleep in his class. But I have him 5th and I sit next 2 the most annoying boy in our class, so it's hard to fall asleep. ^___^ last thing, thanx 4 pointing out that I changed the fact that Sango and Kagome had science together ^^ I was changing it around off of the comp. so I guess I forgot 2 check. ^^
Please R+R!!
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All eyes followed the sound of my voice and traced it back to me. I felt the colour return to my cheeks in the form of a blush. Suddenly someone snorted.
"Awwwww! Is widdle Kagome afraid of the name Naraku?"
I glared at Kikyo hard. She flinched but smirked back.
"Leave her alone, Kikyo! Just because you don't have a life or any friends, doesn't mean that you have to ruin hers!" a voice (male) spoke up.
There was a round of 'OoOoOoOoO, Kikyo got burnnnnned!!! TSSSsssss...!' from the class mates and then the bell rang. I left the classroom with out a backward glance and looked at my schedule to see what I had next. Lunch (!).
Sango caught up to me to show me to the cafeteria. I wondered whether to tell her about my dilemma. I wasn't sure, as I was new here...but I needed to tell someone. Suddenly I realized what my life was going to return to: Hell.
I hate him.
I hate his name, I hate his old house, I hate his new house (even though I don't know where he's living yet), I hate his money, I hate his STUPID baboon pelt that hangs in his room (that I 'accidentally' *not* spilt coke on to), I hate his dad (his mom mysteriously died), I hate his dog, I hate his fish, I hate his rat, I hate his posters, I hate his bed, I hate his TV, I hate his game systems and I HATE the way he LOOKS LIKE A FRICKEN GIRL ...Basically I hate everything about him. I. Hate. Naraku. And he was coming back into my life.
Before I knew it, I felt the tears weld up into my eyes. I brushed them away before anyone could see but (just my luck) Sango noticed.
"Kagome! What's wrong? Did they tease you in S.S? I'll bet it was Kikyo! I told you not to do anything to her! She would get you back in the end. Don't even think about getting her back because she'll get you back even harder next time!"
"Sango! Calm down!"
"Well then, what's wrong????"
I didn't want her to get involved...which probably means I should tell her to just...leave me alone.
"Sango, I need to tell you something...private..."
"What? Do you already have a boyfriend??"
"...WHAT???"
What is wrong with people here??
"Good. You're sensible! Now...let's go to the girls room. No one is there during lunch."
I followed her to the washrooms in the main building. She was right: it was completely empty.
"Now, what is it??" she demanded.
I took a deep breath.
"There's a new guy coming here, to this school. His name is Naraku...he's...he's followed me here." I paused to find out where to start to tell her about him but she took my pause as an 'I have finished'.
"So...you know him...and it doesn't sound like you're friends."
"No, I hate him with-a-passion! But I used to be his girlfriend. Not his first though. He goes for the good-looking and according to his books, I'm good looking."
"Well, you're not terrible looking. I mean all of the guys in math already have a crush on you!"
Thanks Sango.
"But to go with that, I'm smart, sportive, and fun to be with." I ticked them off my fingers as I recalled him trying to flatter me.
"I'm also 'sexy'" I quoted.
"I'm sure you are too. I mean I don't know you very well but-"
"SANGO!!"
"Sorry!" she squeaked.
"The thing is that he is the bully of the school, with all of 'daddy's money' and basically, he gets everything he wants. Almost any girl at my old school would want to be in my position because they were all fluff and no brain and only cared that he had money. As soon as he asked me to be his girlfriend, my life changed. I said 'no' but that didn't matter, because he doesn't take 'no' for an answer."
At this point Sango looked thoroughly disgusted.
"And he...is coming to our school...?"
"Yup. So basically, let's go have lunch together, because it'll be the last one we have together until he finds someone else who is smarter, prettier, and more sportive than me."
Sango suddenly looked wistful, "Pity that Kikyo isn't any of those..."
"She's gonna have her authority around the school threatened. But what can she actually do? I'm still waiting."
"She's a big rumor spreader. Anyways, if she's smart, she'll suck up to him and he'll be smart to take her in and dump you-"
"I've already dumped him 20 times."
"Hear me out. And then Inuyasha will see the light and ask you to be his girlfriend, and then you'll say 'yes' and he'll be a social guy again. At the end of my happy story, Naraku takes Kikyo back to his old house and Shikon high can breath freely again!"
"I'm so glad you're world is perfect. Mine's hell. Have a nice day."
Sango sighed, "You're right...let's go have lunch."
"Wait. As soon as he comes in here again, he's not gonna let me be with you guys."
"So? Just stick around with us anyways. What's he gonna do to us?"
"He's not like Kikyo. He's got guys that follow him and all he has to do is snap his fingers and if you're standing up for me, you're gonna end up in the dirt."
"Physical is he? Well then...Inuyasha's got some background with that kind of stuff...and Miroku knows the basics. Your Naraku sound sort of like Kikyo, in a way. Inuyasha moved here about a year ago and he met us first and he thought we were cool but Kikyo thought he was cool too. She always wins and gets her way...well, until this morning when she spoke to you."
"Will you keep Inuyasha out of this? I'm tired of hearing his name!"
"But he is a really cool guy! We'd really like it if you could try to show him that his world doesn't have to just be Kikyo. In fact, it would be nice if you could help him see that Kikyo is nothing."
"Look. I don't want to get more people involved in this issue than necessary. I'll go boy chasing after my life's mess is cleaned up, ok? Now, let's go get some lunch before Haruna comes to find us."
"You mean Miroku, don't you?"
"B-b-but...this is a GIRLS bathroom."
Sango shook her head at me.
"Do you think Miroku cares?"
I stared. This guy has no limits. Dear Lord.
I opened the bathroom door and a shriek escaped my lips.
"Oh, I'm sorry...did we startle you?"
It appears that Miroku and Tadashi were eaves dropping from behind the door.
"Sango, dear, how could you say that I couldn't care that it was a girls bathroom? Of course I care! That's why I only listened from the door!"
"We were only wondering why you didn't show up at lunch!" Tadashi grinned.
"Uh huh...and you just happened to come to this girls bathroom...right..." Sango and I were very disbelieving.
"Anyhow," Miroku waved the affair away as if it was nothing, "we happened to overhear your problem. From start to finish."
"You guys didn't have lunch either!" I accused.
"Well fine then...we saw Kagome with a not-so-cheerful tear in her eye and wanted to know what was wrong. We do have our limits which is why we didn't follow you two into the bathroom." Tadashi impatiently explained.
"So we merely pressed our ears against the door."
Sango and I were both just kind of "......"
"So, you want some help with your boy problem, do you?" Tadashi started to think hard.
"No, actually, I don't. I just want to make sure that my problem doesn't become yours. I don't want you guys to get hurt." I corrected.
"Tough luck, girl, cause you're getting our help." Miroku shook his head.
Tadashi turned to Sango, "And why does Inuyasha get first dibs on her? Why can't I?"
That does it.
"NO ONE get any 'dibs' on me, OK?? What I'm TRYING to do is make Naraku see that!"
There was a muttered 'whoops...' from Tadashi and I decided to finish this up.
"Lunch time." I declared. I stomped away from the bathroom. I then stopped and ran back to them and grabbed Sango by the arm.
"Where's the cafeteria..." I started to drag her away from the boys and she started to lead me in the complete opposite direction that I was going to head in.
* * *
Sango showed me the way to the science classroom after lunch and then headed off for her fourth period class.
As I walked into the science classroom, I looked around for familiar faces. None except for that Inuyasha guy.
"Are you Kagome H?"
I looked at Mr. Myoga and nodded.
"Please sit in the middle row, next to the boy with long, black hair." He politely instructed me.
I nodded again and looked at that boy with long black hair.
Guess who.
Inuyasha looked up at me and then skooched his huge pile of stuff off of the other half of the table that I was going to sit at. I smiled in response and then sat down and as soon as my butt hit the chair, my mind zipped back to Naraku. I knew I had to fight back but he was rich and had boys that followed him that would be registering to this school, at the latest, in a week. Big whoop. At the moment I felt like a star who was trying to run away from the circus. It just doesn't happen. And when you try to quit, it refuses your resignation. It sucks. (oh, excuse me, nothing sucks, it pulls...lol). Then I thought of the two girls that hung around Naraku. Kanna and Kagura. Kanna's like a spy or something. She's so quiet and small that no one suspects that she's up to something. Kagura just has an attitude. I don't know how they're related to Naraku (maybe cousins or something) but they seem to exist only to come to Naraku's every beck and call. And I hate them too.
Mr. Myoga explained to us that because we were finishing up on density, we were going to wrap it up by doing a project on it by making balloons with tissue paper. He basically spent the entire period telling us how we were going to do it. We would be picking partners tomorrow. What fun...not...the only person that I knew was Inuyasha. Just my luck.
* * *
After a demo on how to make cinnamon rolls, my cooking teacher, Ms. Nakashima, stood up to give us some dreaded news.
"First off, I would like to announce that tomorrow we will be making the cinnamon rolls that I was demonstrating today and so I hope that you all were paying attention! (there was an 'oh, crap' from Inuyasha) Second, I would like to announce that we will be having a new student join us!"
The pit in my stomach grew into a hole.
"His name is Hibara, Naraku. I hope you'll all make him feel welcome!"
"He'll make everyone make him feel welcome." I muttered to Sango. Yumi and Sayori looked at me curiously.
I was getting sick of Ms. Nakashima and her 'Everything-is-bright-sunny-and-wonderful~!' attitude. If a volcano erupted, and everyone around it died, she's probably just say that the spirit of the earth need to get some fresh air. I was very relieved when the bell excused us to our 6th period class.
Miroku met me outside of class.
"Shall I lead you to our last class of the day?" he bowed politely.
"We have L.A. together?"
"Yup!"
"Alrighty then. Lead the way......and watch your hands!"
His hand zipped back next to him.
"I'm gonna handcuff you someday..." I threatened.
We stepped into the classroom and Miroku...galloped I guess...up to Ms. Yamamoto and bowed low.
"May I present to you: Higurashi, Kagome!" He said gallantly.
She giggled (yes, she giggled) at him and then said I could sit next to him if I wanted. What could I do? He was the only person I knew in the class and plus he was already half dragging me to his desk anyways. I dropped my very thin binder down onto the desk next to him.
"How about I introduce you to the people who are full of fluff and no brain!"
"How about no...they'll all hate me for Naraku anyways as of tomorrow."
"Good point. So about this Naraku guy..."
"Just...don't talk about him."
"Okaaaaayy..."
"Did you know that he tastes like an eel?"
"You've KISSED him???" .
I stared at him, "Do you think I've had a choice??"
"...No, I guess...why don't I at least tell you the names of the girls over there?"
"Fine."
"That's Shizuko over there with Yuki, there's Sachiko, and Hanae and Hihumi are the twin girls over there."
"Not very many."
"Nope, but they're all stupid and nosey at the same time."
"Stupid and nosey isn't a very good combo..."
"Nope."
"But if they're nosey, then why aren't they coming over to find out who I am?"
"Cause I'm here."
"Ah...that explains everything."
"Sachiko has a nice butt."
"I'll bet you said that to her face."
"Yup...but only after she slapped me."
"You are so sad."
"It's just a hobby."
I cannot believe him.
"A hobby?? You don't have an obsession with female butts for a hobby! It's just...not right!!" I exclaimed.
"I know."
That wasn't quite the answer I expected.
But, the bell rung and so I counted down the minutes until we were released.
* * *
I found out that Sango only lives about a block away from me. We walked home together and I introduced her to my mom when we arrived at my house.
"Kagome! I'm so glad that you've made so many friends so fast but did you have to bring one of them home when you know that the house is still a mess?"
I rolled my eyes, "What's Sango gonna do? Publish pictures? We were just on our way home and so I decided to introduce you guys."
"I really don't care what state the house is in, Mrs. Higurashi. My room is definitely worse." Sango observed.
My mom smiled, "I'd offer you two a snack but there really isn't anything in the house just yet."
"Don't worry about it! I've got to get home to do my homework anyways!" Sango smiled.
"See you tomorrow, then!" I showed her to the door.
I then hopped up to my new bedroom that overlooked the street, and did my tiny amount of math homework.
* * *
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
*BLEEEEE-*
SMASH~!
"friggen alarm clock..." I muttered sleepily as I rolled over. The morning came too soon...
Suddenly-
"MERRRRRRROWWW!" My cat, Buyo, jumped up onto my bed and then decided that my head was the perfect spot to clean his feet.
Cheers.
"You STUPID CAT!! I'm just trying to get a few more minutes of NEEDED sleep!!! GEEZ!!" I snarled as I practically threw my cat off of my head and on to the floor. Buyo obviously though that was unfair, as he had just been dragged half way across the country on an airplane because of me and just wanted to borrow my head to clean his feet. Tough. As I tried to get some more sleep, a damn bird started telling its life story to my window. As if my window could care. After getting up to open my window, and then telling the bird to fricken shut up (with much nastier language) I realized that the world had something against me and I wasn't likely to sleep anymore this morning. I went out into the hall and practically bulldozed my brother.
"Souta! What are you doing up at this ungodly hour called 6 o'clock in the morning? Get back into bed, you lucky pest."
"I wasn't d-doing anything!" He replied with a sheepish grin as he tried to hide the horn that he was about to bring into my room.
"Right. Get back to bed before I choke you with that instrument." I ordered. He scurried back into his room and I continued for the bathroom to wash my grouchy face.
Great. A Bleeping alarm clock, a drowning cat, a choking bird, and my oh-so-loving brother was about to add his horn. I checked outside after I came out of the bathroom to make sure that the band wasn't waiting to ambush me when I left for school.
* * *
After eating a rather big breakfast and guzzling down a cup of coffee, I felt much better.
Amazing what a cup of coffee can do to the non-early risers.
However, when the doorbell rang unexpectedly, my mom nearly had to call the roof repairmen to fix the hole that my head nearly made in the ceiling.
Meaning that I jumped about 20 feet.
It was probably the band...
I went to answer it.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WAN-Sango? What's up??"
"I was just going to walk with you to school." She said innocently.
I have a slight nagging feeling that Sango won't want to be doing that again any time soon...
"damn early risers." I muttered before saying that I just had to brush my teeth.
Sango waited patiently in the doorway for me to tie my shoes up and then we left to walk the four blocks to school.
After the 3rd block I really started to pay attention to this black Mercedes that seemed to be going up and down the same street that we were on. I got a really bad feeling that we were being followed by someone named-
"Kagome-chan is it just me or is that car-"
"Yes, Sango, it's following us...me..."
"How do we ditch it?"
"I'm thinking...but you know the route to school much better than I do..."
We finally got to a curve in the road. There were still houses lining along the street but at the very end of the street, you turn right and there's the school property. I just got a risky plan that involved going into a stranger's backyard, a fence, and jumping. Sango seemed to have come up with the same idea.
"It's risky but the next time that car passes us and turns the corner-"
"We run into that house's back yard because it looks like it would be the easiest and we jump the fence onto the school property, am I right?" I interrupted.
"You are! Let's do it!"
As the car drove by us and then turned right at the end of the road to the direction of the school, we dashed to the gate of the house that had the fence that we were going to jump. Lucky for us, the gate was hidden behind a bush so we were able to hide while we found the latch. Little did we know that the car was finished following us and was stopping at the school. Too bad for us.
"I got the latch!" I exclaimed in a whisper.
I eased the gate door open and slid inside. Sango followed me in and shut the door silently behind us. She checked her watch, "we have 15 minutes till the tardy bell: Plenty of time!"
"Good. Now what are the chances that the person who lives here is going to look out of the window when we run across his yard?" I asked her.
"Not much."
"Oh crap."
"What now??"
"Just our luck. They have a dog. A very big and mean looking dog. And the only reason that it hasn't let the people who live here know we're here is because it's getting over it's shock that someone is in it's back yard."
"What kind of dog is it?" Sango pushed past me to look around the corner of the house.
"Run." She stated simply.
We took off across the yard and the dog seemed to have realized that it was supposed to scare us and took off behind us, barking and snarling something awful. I felt it snapping at my heels and I ran even faster.
"Who idea was it to use this back yard anyways??" I squealed franticly.
"Ours!! And by the way, it's a German Shepard that's following us."
Brilliant. Just how I wanted to start my morning. No sleep, almost paying a bill for the roof, getting followed to school, and now getting chased by a huge dog with a temper. Although I have to say that it's better than Naraku any day.
I leapt for the fence and scampered up to the top. I suddenly heard this 'KA-CHINK!' as the chain leach that it was apparently attached to was pulled taut.
"It was on...a chain...?" I nearly fell off the fence as I found out that there was still about 10 feet between the dog and the fence.
"Never doing this backyard again." Sango panted. We hopped down and charged up the hill to the school.
We were met by Miroku at our lockers.
"What happened to you?"
I looked at the mirror in Sango's locker and noticed that there wasn't really anything wrong with my hair because it's bushy and I wore it down today but Sango definitely had more than a few hairs that managed to work their way out of her pony tail elastic.
"Long story." Sango stated simply.
Before either of us knew what was happening, Miroku put his hand on Sango's head (you thought I was gonna say butt didn't you ^^) and yanked out her elastic. Then he snatched up the hairbrush lying in her locker and whipped her hair back up almost perfectly.
Sango blinked, "Thanks..."
"Sure thing!" Miroku grinned.
As they got lost in their own little world (I have sneaking suspicions that, that was what Miroku was looking for...) I saw Inuyasha round the corner in the halls with Kikyo tightly latched onto his arm like a leech. He looked up from talking to her and our eyes met. We both quickly looked away and at that moment a very familiar, calm, cold voice spoke from behind me.
"Kagome! It's so nice to see you again." And a chill ran up and down my spine as a hand ran down it.
Miroku and Sango looked up from their flirting and their smiles dissolved as they saw the face of the creepy guy behind me. Inuyasha's eyes turned hard and Kikyo looked up and stared first at me and then at the face that was already breathing down my neck.
He's back...
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~*SHOUT OUTS!!*~
Not very many shout outs but if anyone has any questions, then I will be happy to answer them under this section or, u could just leave me your e-mail addy. K? ^__^
Momori: Thanx 4 being the first to review dis fic~! I luv yours and u had better keep the bloopers up!
Weirdo C: Hi there! *ahem* wow....you guessed it...Kagome DOES already know Naraku. Lol ^^
Twin Star of Suzaku: *ahem* You're smart too. Lol. ^_________^
Tenshineko: Thanx for letting me know that 'Shi' means death instead ^^ My friend Momori told me that after I posted but I was hopping that no one would notice...(darn) If u notice any other...mistakes...feel free to let me know~! ^.~
Guess who I am: Urr...do you mind if I call u that until u tell me who u are? ^^ I have to say that I'm not surprised that u fell asleep in his class. But I have him 5th and I sit next 2 the most annoying boy in our class, so it's hard to fall asleep. ^___^ last thing, thanx 4 pointing out that I changed the fact that Sango and Kagome had science together ^^ I was changing it around off of the comp. so I guess I forgot 2 check. ^^
Please R+R!!
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