Hi! I don't own Inuyasha. And the summary comes from the manga "Mars", which I also don't own. I wish though… Rei… drool… Some of the plot in this story may resemble that of the manga.

So this will be a Kagome/Inuyasha, Sango/Miroku, and Rin/Sesshoumaru story. Guess who the bad boys are… sorry if the plot is predictable. I'll try to add some twists.

Hope you like it!

"I don't know, Sango. I don't think we should…" Kagome whispered, leaning over the desk.

"Oh come on Kagome! It will be so much fun!"

"But I have so much homework…"

"Like what?"

"Well, um," Kagome hesitated. "I wanted to write that English paper-"

"Which is due in two weeks."

"And study for the anatomy test-"

"Which is next week."

"And then I have my piano lesson this afternoon-"

"And the show's in the evening."

"I just can't, Sango! My RA wouldn't let me anyways."

"Please Kagome? Please? For me?" Sango gave her best impression of puppy eyes, causing her friend to giggle quietly.

"Is something the matter, Higurashi?" Kagome looked up into the twitching eye of her math teacher. The classmates snickered around her.

"I'm sorry, sensei," she blushed. "It was just that-"

"I don't want to hear your excuses, Higurashi. See me in my office after class." He marched off, ruler dangling behind him. Kagome sank deeply into her chair, praying that the blush staining her face would fade quickly.

"God, I hate him…" sighed Sango, giving her friend an apologetic look.

"Shhh!" Kagome hissed back, irritated that she got in trouble on cause of her friend's chatter.

The teacher, Naraku, definitely had it in for her. It was his first year at Reagan Academy (one of the best boarding schools in Japan) and he was quite the sensation. Super rich and powerful, and acting chairman of the board, he was the dream of every girl in the school. Despite the age differences. Despite all laws. He looked like a god and could break all the rules that he wrote, and that was all that mattered to the majority of the school's population; rumor had it that he had slept with Kikyo on the first day, and still called upon her… "services"… weekly.

Which was weird because everyone knew that Kikyo was smitten with Inuyasha, playboy extraordinaire. They had been going out since sophomore year, and were in the beginning the most talked about couple in the whole school. Kikyo- brilliant, beautiful, and athletic- accepted Inuyasha, a loaded jock, model and flunker. Then the scandal with Naraku broke out, but Inuyasha managed to overlook his girlfriend's cheatings… or maybe he didn't, seeing as after that first night she came to class with a black eye and bruises across her body. Gossip went on a rampage, before it was stopped by Sesshoumaru, brother of Inuyasha, and most desired (and feared) student in the school.

Sesshoumaru was something else. He was a senior, gorgeous and aloof- the strong and silent type that all the girls swooned over. Even more popular than Naraku, he was loved for his upholding of justice (by force if necessary) and his ability to win any competition, be it soccer, fencing, debate, dance, music… there was nothing Sesshoumaru was bad at. Except that he hung out with the crowd that your mommy would tell you to keep away from. He was dangerous; you didn't want to be around him unless you didn't value your life all to much or were a masochist. That was Sesshoumaru.

While speaking of this gang, no one in Reagan Academy could leave out Miroku. Confident and best friend of Inuyasha, he was the second biggest playboy on campus. He'd had every girl at least twice. Naturally, Kagome and Sango do not count as girls.

They were nerds, to put it softly. Without much sex appeal, unless you were Naraku and seemed to find Kagome disturbingly attractive. Neither was ever seen without the other, even though they were opposites in any possible definition of the word. Except that they were shy, loyal and smart. Those traits they had in common, and may be what kept them together at the bottom of the social group. Because Sango definitely had the potential to rise to the level of cheerleader. It was her love of Kagome that kept her down, and many jocks shook their heads sadly that such a body was wasted on a nerd. She came in second in many athletic competitions, preceded only by the all-powerful Sesshoumaru.

So that is the social make-up of the Academy, from top to bottom. Everyone knew their place, and god forbid they were to exceed the boundaries in anything but dreams. Of course that all changed when Kouga and his little sister Rin moved onto the campus… but that's a story for the next chapter.

So if you want to know what happens, please review! This is an uncharacteristic chapter. The following will be longer and have much more character interaction and dialogue; this was mainly to give the setting and introduce you readers to the AU.

I really hope you liked it, or at least are still awake…

Looks around to see everyone has left. Wait! Don't Go! It'll Get Better! I Promise!!!