These characters do not belong to me. Duo Maxwell From Gundam Wing, Kenshin Himura from Rurouni Kenshin, and Asuka Langely from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

These characters are mine, if you dare take them I will rip your heart out and feed it to my pet shark, Jim. Katsumi Sagara; she's is mine all the way (I based here on my whack-o sister) Nobunaga Matsumoto (a.k.a. Spike-based on my cousin, Chris) Spike's mine, all mine…Mwahahahahahahah.

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CHAPTER TWO

Meet the Gang, Crew, Whatever!

Inuyasha turned the music up as loud as it could go on Kouga's stereo, a big grin spread across his face at the look Kouga was giving him. Inuyasha was pretty sure the entire United-States-of-America could hear their sound system thumping. Kouga was such a pansy. He hated loud music which was kind of ironic considering they were both members of an amateur heavy metal rock band, PACK. They were actually pretty good, but of course you ended up deaf if you were exposed to too much. But with the right stereo system the guitar solo their friend Duo played was sweet.

Inuyasha quickly jumped out of the car as soon as Kouga screeched to a stop in his student parking space, the smell of burnt rubber filled the air. "Where are you off to in such a hurry, Inuyasha? School doesn't start for another twenty-five minutes?"

"Feh. I have to go meet Kikyo."

Kouga looked at Inuyasha with a raised eyebrow; "You still go out with 'The Gloomy Girl'?"

Inuyasha just rolled his eyes, although he had to admit his girlfriend was pretty cold and zombie like. "I know she's a little…morbid, but at least she's not a loud mouth like your girlfriend." And with that he took off leaving his cousin Kouga before he could defend himself. Kouga just narrowed his dark blue eyes.

"Mutt-face" Kouga growled under his breath. He quickly tightened his long waist length black hair in its pony tail before Kouga headed off towards the school, his muscular build outlined by his black football jersey. GO FIRE CATS!

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Kagome made her way through the front doors; she glanced around the lobby for a sign of one of her friends…no luck. She looked down at her schedule she held in her hands. Locker number 413. Kagome walked across the large lobby and turned left; heading down the long hallway that stretched around the school, destination…her locker.

She could feel eyes on her, she could here the harsh whispers being said about her to the 'poor unsuspecting freshman' as she slowly weaved in and out of the heavy hallway crowd:

"That's Kagome Hirugashi over there if you don't want to get beaten to a bloody pulp stay away from her." Or "Who that girl…oh no, she's not exactly the best person to get mixed up with, if I were you I wouldn't hang around with her or any of her friends."

Poor Kagome couldn't help but feel like trash. She just kept her gaze on the dull gray tile floor, trying to keep herself distracted from the glares she kept receiving. She and her friends weren't as bad as everyone made them out to be they were actually pretty harmless. But what was the use to try and argue.

Kagome turned the corner, and suddenly she didn't feel so alone anymore, a bright smile spread from ear to ear as Kagome quietly sneeked up behind an unaware girl facing the inside of her locker. Kagome wrapped her arms around the girl picking her up off her feet in a big bear hug. "SANGO!" Kagome squealed.

Sango Sakamoto, a junior like Kagome, had been Kagome's number one best friend for the past three years…ever since the rumors had started.

Like Kagome she was an outcast too, but she had become one willingly. Sango was never really a big fan of popularity, though everyone knew that she was pretty enough to make it. Sango had long dark brown hair that cascaded down her back. Most of the time she had it pulled back in a high ponytail but today she had left it down, revealing her hairs natural silky length, framing her gentle face. She was a pretty girl-no doubt about that; she had deep blue eyes, a good personality, and a long slender body. She had to be a good head taller than Kagome.

Sango had a unique air about her; she was a very kind and trustworthy person. But she was always really serious and decided, she had a straight-humorless face…until you got to know her, then things went just a little too wacky for their own good, especially when a certain unmentionable someone was around, then all hell broke loose. Sango was also a big athletic person, the principle had even offered her a spot on the cheerleading squad, but she had turned him down, she liked track and the martial arts team better.

"Hey Kag! What's up? Why didn't you call me yesterday? I thought we were going to go bargain hunting."

Kagome's smile widened even more at the mention of her nickname, Kag. "Sorry I was so busy babysitting Souta…. I completely forgot about it." It was nice to be with a friend again.

"That's alright yesterday we had Kohaku's tenth birthday party anyway and I promised my mom I would help, I couldn't have made it anyway. Plus my dad ended up coming so somebody had to play messenger between my mom and dad."

Sango shut her locker door after she had finished decorating it, and turned to face her friend. Her hair draped over her shoulders, completely flowing over her black pullover hoodie, with 'Saved by the Bell' written across the front. She wasn't wearing anything out of the ordinary today, just her hoodie, some faded jeans, and white and red stripped Adidas tennis shoes. That was just the way Sango was…keep things simple.

"They're still not speaking to each other?" Kagome asked.

Sango sighed, "No, my mom's still mad at my dad for leaving. It's been seven years, you'd think they'd have grown up and gotten over it by now…So have you found Kouga yet?"

"No, I haven't seen him, but I think they're supposed to have a band meeting or something this morning?"

Sango nodded, "Yeah I think your right."

"Hey speaking of band members, do you know where they're meeting? Katsumi promised me she was going to help me with something this morning?" Kagome glanced around the hall for a sight of her blue-haired comrade.

Sango nodded, "yeah I think I saw her go in that direction, opposite of the meeting…she looked a little upset so I didn't bother her." She motioned to her right.

Kagome and Sango's eyes widened in realization as they looked at each other in horror, "Kagura!!" they both shrieked in unison, as they took off down the hallway as fast as they could pushing and shoving their way through the large crowd. They quickly turned the corner as they ran farther down the hallway towards the science wing. CRAP!

Kagome swerved around another corner and came to a complete stop, nearly toppling over a couple of marching band boys carrying their tuba's. There stood Katsumi, screaming and hollering threats at another girl on the other side of the hall. Kagome sighed in relief as she noticed Kouga holding Katsumi back, keeping her from pounding the other girl to the ground.

"Face it bitch you're trailer trash!" Kagura sneered, glaring daggers at Katsumi Sagara with her dark burgundy eyes. Which just made Katsumi even angrier. Katsumi growled as she tried to rip out of Kouga's grip, her blue pigtails flailing in her anger. Katsumi was always really spirited; a little too spirited in actuality. She was incredibly hyper, when she wasn't about to beat you to death. But unfortunately she was also gifted with an unpredictable temper. Katsumi was relatively short and curvy. And incredibly tough for someone of her stature.

"Let me go Kouga," Katsumi shrieked, "I'm gonna rip her HEAD OFF!"

"No way Kitty." Kouga protested, tightening his grasp on Katsumi's hood from her pullover sleeveless sweater, his hold was slipping on her arm, he tried to stiffen his grip as best as he could without hurting her. When he noticed Kagome approaching him a sigh of relief spread across his face. "THANK GOD!" he exclaimed, "I don't think me and Duo could keep them apart much longer." They both knew that for some odd reason Katsumi would only listen to Kagome when she was angry. She wouldn't even listen to her boyfriend Duo.

Kagome examined the scene quickly, she saw Kouga holding back Kitty and the preppy cheerleader Kagura glaring evilly from behind another boy named Duo who stood in between the girls. Kagura was in her usual pink and off-white stripped sundress, and her hair was pulled back in a tight bun…she looked just as much of a bitch as she always did. Everyone hated her that much was obvious.

Kagome rushed in between them, taking her ground next to her friend Duo. "Come on Katsumi, settle down." Kagome coached as she reached out and caught one of Katsumi's flying arms. Kagome held on to her wrist securely, trying her best to calm her friend down without being stabbed by one of Kitty's spiked bracelets.

The angry fire burning in Katsumi's eyes slowly began to die down. And then without warning Katsumi wrapped her arms around Kagome's neck… "KAGOME!" she squealed completely forgetting about her date-to-the-death with Kagura. That was Katsumi for you-completely unpredictable.

Everyone sweat dropped. Even Kagura did as she stomped away angrily, probably to go complain to her older brother Naraku- but that's for later in the story.

Katsumi pulled away slightly, giving Kagome a big grin, "Thanks Kag." She whispered to Kagome so no one else would hear. Kagome glanced over at Duo Maxwell as he walked up behind Katsumi and wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on the top of Katsumi's head, giving Kagome a wink with his sky blue eye's, his long brown braided hair draping over his shoulder.

Those two had to be the weirdest couple ever! Duo and Katsumi just like all of Kagome's friends were just wearing black until they found something darker… they both were to weird for words. Did I mention they were both FREAKIN AWESOME!

Katsumi had shoulder length bright-neon-blue hair that she always had put in low pigtails, with these really cool hair-wraps around the braided part, and her bangs were always swept to one side covering up her left eye. She had large sparkly green eye's, that seemed to reflect the world around her with excitement and hilarity.

Katsumi was wearing her usual skin-tight black pullover sleeveless sweater that formed to her curves and had the words 'la la la…I can't hear you!' written in red to make it look like blood on it. A pair of black and red horizontal stripped capri-pants, black Birkenstock's, and so much gothic jewelry that it looked like she had robbed Hot Topic, including her favorite skull nose-ring.

Duo had on a navy Harley Davidson muscle T-shirt, a pair of black leather pants with multiple rips and holes in them, a pair of black flip-flops, and two black spiked wrist cuffs. And of course the coolest choker on the face of the earth. It was a cross that he had made himself, out of two nails that were welded together in the form of a cross and knotted to a thick black strip of ribbon that tied around his neck. Kagome had begged Duo for months to make her one, and when he finally did she had worn the thing forever, she still had it at home on her dresser.

Kagome was just about to say something when she heard the loudest SMACK echo through the school. She glanced over her shoulder just in time to see Sango jump on top of a boy and give out a battle cry. "DAMN YOU LECHER!!" Ah finally the unmentionable someone had arrived. He had probably just tried to grope Sango; he always did every morning, which everyone figured was just his way of saying 'I love you'. And since Sango was the only person he ever did it to…

Kagome sighed, Miroku Hayashi was probably the biggest pervert in the school, and he just happened to have a crush on Sango, which of course everyone in the world knew except her. But if that wasn't funny enough she had a crush on him, and he was to blind and brainless to see it, so things between the two of them was always really awkward, but mostly it was nothing but slap-stick comedy…free entertainment.

Sango growled as she smacked him across the hall and began hitting Miroku repeatedly with Duo's black and white-lightning guitar! See what I mean.

Miroku, like Duo, was a senior this year. He had short black hair and a small little rat tail in the back. His deep violet eyes were always reflecting Sango's every move, unbeknownst to her of course.

Today he was wearing his usual, a purple muscle T-shirt, baggy black jeans, shiny black combat boots, and a black wrist band with a PACK patch sown on-Kagome had made it for him. And at least seven earrings in his right ear. Kagome couldn't help but giggle to herself…the way he acted with Sango trying to beat the crap out of him was always too funny for words…those two really should just stop fighting it.

"Hey Guys!" Kagome said smiling as Kouga bent down and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She had the sweetest boyfriend. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close to him.

Every one smiled happily, "Well the gangs all here!" Duo said as Katsumi rested against his chest.

"Not quite." Kouga said sighing, against Kagome's returning kiss on his cheek, "Inuyasha's around here somewhere," Kouga could hear Kagome growl at the sound of his cousin's name, she hated Inuyasha. She thought he was nothing but a sexist pig, who thought about nothing except getting laid, which was kind of true. "And I think I saw Spike looking for Asuka, right before I found Katsumi."

Miroku nodded in agreement as he staggered trying to stand up, he was a little beaten from Sango's rage. "I saw Spike too. He said he was going to the guidance counselor for a schedule change."

Everyone nodded and then just sort of stood there in awkward silence until Sango added, "How come you guys made Inuyasha the manager of the band, when he's never around?"

Miroku, Katsumi, Kouga, and Duo; shrugged their shoulders in unison, "He did start the band." Katsumi moaned. Stupid Inuyasha.

The PACK, probably the most loudest and offensive band ever put together, consisted of the following members: Katsumi as the singer (she mostly just danced around and screamed cusswords at the top of her lungs-which actually looked and sounded really cool.) Inuyasha as the drummer (he was pretty good on that drum set of his.) Duo as lead guitarist (wicked awesome.) Kouga as back-up guitarist, (Kagome thought he looked so cute up their on the stage at the local nightclub, Creepy Coffin Coffee Club a.k.a. CCCC or 4-C, where they had most of their gigs.) And Miroku on the keyboard (musician was a definite turn on of Sango's…so all was right with the world.) And of course their biggest fans, Kagome, Sango, Spike and his step-sister Asuka. Oh did I mention that Kagome wrote all of their songs…though she didn't put as many cusswords as there ended up. Katsumi always ended up changing it around a little, which didn't bother Kagome at all, as long as she didn't have to go up there and sing-she was happy. Stage fright.

"Hey guy's what's up?"

Everyone turned around to see Spike and Asuka running towards them. Spike stopped next to Kouga and smiled, "Sorry I'm late…I had a little schedule problem."

Spike stood tall in his black Slip-knot T-shirt, black denim vest, and baggy washed denim jeans. His green spiky hair poking out from under his black backwards baseball cap in every direction. His hazel eyes sparkled.

Asuka by his side smirked at everyone, before sticking her tongue out at Katsumi, who just stuck her tongue out right back at her in response; it was there way of saying, morning. Asuka had on a black zip up short sleeved polo shirt, a black school girl mini-skirt, and tall lace-up boots that covered her entire calf. Her reddish-brown hair had a collection of purple, green, and white strips blended in and she had her locks pulled back by two black bat clips. Her blue eyes showed brightly from behind her thick black eyeliner and her veil of bangs.

Ten minutes filled with-laughter-and-stories-of-summer later

"Well Guys I've 'gotta' go." Kagome sighed as she slowly backed away from Kouga, "We've only got five minutes left till school starts and my first class is all the way on the other side of the school near the auditorium." Kagome waved goodbye as she hoisted her book-bag up over her shoulder and took off into the direction of her first class. ENGLISH………………………………………………Mr. Himura.