Ten Guys, Eight Girls and One Seriously Warped Storyline

By: ShadowMage21 and ShadowWarrior16

Chapter 5

ShadowWarrior finally finished chapter 4! It's wonderful. Anyway, I'll shut up now and write...

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It was a strange sight that would assault the eyes of any brave enough to journey into Sessho-maru's apartment. Loud music issued from Inu-Yasha's room, it was Disturbed. He didn't seem bothered by the ear-splitting volume. Sessho-maru had long ago given up trying to make Inu-Yasha turn his music down, so as he made dinner in the kitchen, he wore a pair of large, head-phone like things, designed to protect the ears from loud sound, a pair of earmuffs and a think wool hat. Rin on the other hand, was sitting on the couch, trying to do her homework. She looked as though she was fine with the loud music, until you saw her periodically twitching. The twitching had increased to a jerk of her body by the time she finally heard Kagura, Kanna, Miroku and Koga knocking on the front door. She put her hands together as though praying and looked skyward, mouthing the words, "Thank you, thank you!" Before running into Inu-Yasha's room and pulling the plug on his boom-box.

"Hey, put the plug back. I was listening to that!"

"The others are here. That means no electronics!" Rin said joyfully in return. She then rushed to open the front door.

Of the four that filed in Koga was the first to speak, "What the hell took so long?"

Miroku hit Koga over the head, "Forgive my companion's rude language. But I too must inquire as to why you were so delayed in answering our knocking."

It was not Rin but Kagura who replied, "Because Inu-Yasha had his stinking music on so loud she couldn't hear us."

"Keh. My music does not stink." Came from a sullen Inu-Yasha sitting on the couch.

No one paid any attention to him but instead sat down on the floor and started on their homework. It was at least ten minutes before Rin looked up and told Inu-Yasha he should start on his homework. He refused to reply, but did disappear into his room and come out a few minutes later with his homework.

Almost half an hour later Sessho-maru came in with dinner, "Here," he set a tray with twelve bowls on the table, "Applesauce, and broth. You can drink water when you get thirsty." After presenting them with their pathetic meal, he retired to his room for the evening.

The six of them forced down their cold applesauce and cold broth. their only motivation for eating it was the knowledge that it was their only food until breakfast. After their dinner they spent the evening finishing homework and playing "Don't Wake Daddy."

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Sango was stretched out on the floor of her living room, doing her homework. Kohaku sat in a chair while doing his homework, and Kirara sat at the kitchen table to do hers. Sango was struggling through a math assignment, hating every boring minute of it, when the phone rang. Glad for a break she hopped up and dashed into the kitchen, grabbing the phone only seconds before her mother.

"Hallo. Können Sie vorbeikommen und Heimarbeit mit mir?" Came the voice on the other end of the line.

It sounded like Kagome, but what was she saying? "Hello, I think you might have the wrong number."

"Sango, it's me, Kagome! I was practicing my German. I said, Hello. Can you come over and do homework with me?"

"Oh, sure!"

"K, see ya soon. Bye."

"Bye."

Sango hung up the phone and was half way out the door with her homework and the keys to the car when she was stopped by her mother. It didn't take long to gain permission to leave, provided she was back by 10 o'clock.



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Kagome sat on the front porch, waiting for Sango to arrive. Her brother Sota and cousin Shippo were in the front yard kicking a soccer ball. Her cousins Kikyo and Kaede were coming soon too. She, Sango and Kikyo could do their homework together and Shippo could work with Kaede.

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ShadowMage: I just noticed, soon the entire main cast in high school or lower will be at either Kagome's house, or Sessho-maru's apartment...creepy.

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At the Olive Garden Jaken a.k.a. Jake, Naraku a.k.a. Waiter Dude and Matt a.k.a....Matt, were hard at work trying to make a living for them selves and their wards. Okay so they were only serving food, but it was their only source of money except the small amounts money their parents had left them.

As usual, the customers were having trouble grasping Jaken and Naraku's name, so they had to revert to their nicknames, Jake and Waiter Dude. They found it amazing that the entire Olive Garden going population all seemed to go into a trance when they heard their names, a trance they only came out of when they were told the waiters nicknames. Could it be a conspiracy to take over the world? Perhaps...

Anyway...they worked late, everyone went home blah, blah, blah.

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It was a sunny and warm Wednesday morning that found Kikyo in her Algebra ll class. Unlike most of the people there Kikyo was interested in math, she was good at it, even if she didn't particularly like it. As the teacher droned on about stuff she already knew Kikyo was staring out the window, fingering the strips (I don't know what to call them, but you probably know what I am talking about) of hair that hung down the sides of her face because they were only partially pulled into her ponytail. Eventually she moved from her hair to fiddling with the overly large sleeves of her white shirt. Finally her gaze fixed on a white haired boy in the front row. He was wearing a red shirt and red pants that would probably blind you if you looked at them for to long. He was strangely familiar, but she didn't know why...

She was pulled from her wondering by the teachers annoying,

whiny voice saying, "That's all for today class. Do problems 1-63 on page 10 tonight an turn them in tomorrow."

The whole class, including Kikyo and the white haired boy groaned. 63 problems was a lot of work. Before Kikyo could start on any of the work the bell rang and she hurried off to gym.



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Kaede was sitting in French class next to a bluish-white haired girl. She wished she was still in biology, she liked science, especially the field of medicine. Her French teacher was too over-dramatic. She had come in wearing and black and white striped dress and a black beret. She spoke with a French accent that even Kaede could tell was fake and she claimed her name was Marie Depardieu, the sign outside her class room said Ms. Brown. Losing interest completely Kaede stared off into space and thought about what her sister Kikyo would be doing in gym right now... Probably basketball she decided, almost ever gym teacher seemed to start with basketball. Then she started to wonder why they started with basketball and ended up thinking about how nasty soy milk is...



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Two periods after Kaede's French class, in other words, fourth period Kagura was probably one of the only students in the school listening attentively to her teacher lecture. Her chemistry teacher was an old man but very nice, and very normal, unlike her other teachers. He was talking about what they would be learning that year, safety while performing experiments, and a radio show called Prairie Home Companion. It was actually kind of interesting, but Kagura seemed to be the only one who thought so. Everyone else was either staring out the window or, in the case of the girl behind her, staring out the window and playing with their hair. Come to think of it, the girl playing with her hair looked a lot like Koga's description of the girl who he had sat with at lunch. And she could have sworn she had seen a picture of that girl somewhere... And then Kagura was gone, not paying attention to the teacher at all, any hope of learning occurring in the building during 4th period disappeared...

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How was everyone else's day? Whose apartment will be terrorized tonight? What will happen tomorrow? And, what is happening in college?