Yes, Coach Hiei is Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho.

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CHAPTER THREE

Isolation…Help ME!!!!!!!!!!

Kagome walked down the hallway brushing her way through the heavy traffic as she kept her thoughts to her friends.

Kagome's best friend Sango was wicked awesome, she was dependable, and was always there to watch Kagome's back, ever since those rumors Sango had become Kagome's truest friend, she had stuck up for her when no one else would. They always did everything together, they were practically inseparable.

Katsumi was awesome, she was really cool, and incredibly creative, she had to be the biggest rock-n-roll fan to have ever worn purple mascara. She also was an amazing actress-I mean she has been in every school play for as long as anyone could remember. She could take on any character any role at…the drop of a dime. Seriously I mean sometimes she would pretend she was a pirate or whatever she could think of…and she could keep in character for weeks, literally- you learn to ignore her after awhile.

Duo was totally cool, his parents were awesome…they were both punks too, so he was sort of born into the whole punk thing…literally he has baby pictures of himself running around in a diaper and an over-sized Leonard Skinnard T-shirt on. Plus having the parents cool with the whole band thing, they held the PACK practices at his house, not to mention the fact that if Kagome ever wanted to get a tattoo Duo's dad said she could come down to his parlor and he'd do one free for her. Kagome's mother had had a mental melt down when she found out.

And Kouga Sumi, Kagome's boyfriend…he hadn't always been a punk friendly person, I mean you could tell he wasn't one because he was on the football team and all, but he was trying. When he found out about the rumors that were said about Kagome, had been made up by a couple of his friends he went ballistic and decided to join the dark side-it was the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for her. So Kouga was sort of a newly born punk who had not completely matured yet.

And of course there was Miroku, he was so sweet, he was always looking out for 'his girls', which basically meant that if anything ever happened to Sango, Kagome, Asuka, or Katsumi; someone was going to die a horrible and painful death. He was like the older brother Kagome had always wanted to replace Kikyo.

Of course next there was Nobunaga Matsumoto a.k.a. Spike, he was totally cool, he was sort of a dare-devil though, all he ever did was try and wreck stuff or hurt himself, he was like a walking reenactment of the movie Jackass. Like there was this one time he rode his Moped off the roof of his house and into his below ground pool, in nothing but a Speedo…it was the funniest thing Kagome had ever seen in her life, of course Spike had been grounded for all eternity. It was a miracle he had survived. But other than that he was sweet, he was always sticking up for her, he had even gotten into a fight with a 'former' friend over her-according to his sister he just had a crush on Kagome. But if he ever found out she told Kagome he would kill her. Those two were always arguing, but they did have a lot in common, like they both are big into art…though they would never admit it. Every where he went, he had his video camera permanently attached to his hand. He video taped ALL of The PACK'S gigs at 4-C, he has a mile high stack of filled video tapes in his bedroom.

Asuka Langley was really nice; she was of course Spike's younger stepsister; a sophomore. She was really creepy though, sort of gory, she loved to fight, and she was really big into drawing morbid anime, and you had to admit she was really good at both. Like there was this one picture she drew of a guy chained down with a sword through his heart. And a caption down at the bottom that said, 'Your blood will boil, your skin will burn, your soul will bleed; to be locked forever, in pain for all eternity; and never die.' Some pretty dark crap if you ask me. She was amazing, she had a really weird personality…she was incredibly stubborn, and she had a temper like no other…of course hers was fairly predictable, unlike Katsumi, who would loose her cool over almost anything.

And all that left was Inuyasha…they weren't friends. Kagome was sort of anti-Inuyasha. SHE HATED HIM WITH A PASSION! The whole school knew that those two hated each more than anything in the world. They had never gotten along for the four years Kagome had been living here. He was such a jerk, why girls liked him so much was past her, I mean he had a new girl hanging on his arm every week and he was constantly cheating on them anyway. Grrrrrrr! I guess it was because of that whole bad boy image that made him the most popular guy in school, but that still didn't change the fact that Kagome thought he was the spawn of Satan. And she had a perfectly good reason too. He had done something to her a while back, and she had never forgave him…of course he never apologized either.

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Kagome slowly turned the corner and walked into the crammed classroom. She moaned when she noticed only one seat was left open and it just happened to be next to a boy with long black hair and amber eyes.

Inuyasha smirked, "look what the cat dragged in."

Kagome stuck her middle finger out at him as she dropped her book-bag on the floor and collapsed into her seat. I think God hates me. "Screw you Inuyasha."

Inuyasha just shrugged his shoulders, "When ever you're ready."

Kagome glared at him, "Where were you this morning…you let everyone down."

"That's none of your business." He snapped, pissing Kagome off even more.

"Did you forget about the band meeting this morning, or were you just THAT eager to get into my sister's pants." Kagome hissed glaring daggers at Inuyasha.

"Take that back he growled…Kikyo's not like that."

Kagome snorted, "Please you don't live with her. Besides it's not like you care about her, she's just another name added to your list."

"It's not like that…Kikyo's different, bitch" He yelled as he jumped up out of his desk and glared down into Kagome's eyes.

Kagome jumped out of her seat too, her annoyance matching his, "what was that… don't call me that you asshole." She growled as she glared angrily at him their eyes parallel to one another as they stood there threateningly, both completely oblivious to the stares they were getting. "Fine. If you actually give a rats-ass about her than you'll now what her favorite color is."

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes as he racked his brain for the answer. "It's blue" he said triumphantly.

"Wrong stupid it's red…what's her favorite food?"

"Ramen."

"That's yours dumb ass."

Oops. Oh yeah that's right.

Kagome was just about to rip Inuyasha in half when she heard someone clear their throat in front of them. They both turned their heads in the direction of the interruption in unison. Both sweat dropped when they realized that the teacher had walked in. Kagome sunk down into her seat as her cheeks turned at least five shades of red.

The teacher just smiled as he leaned back against the edge of his desk. He had long red hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail, and bright doe like green eyes that were masked by his unruly bangs. "I take it that you two are Ms. Hirugashi and Mr. Osuwari?"

Kagome and Inuyasha nodded in unison.

He smiled, "Good I've been warned of the two of you…according to this letter sent to me from the principle here in my hands, both of you are in isolation together."

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other in horror. "WHAT!?!?!?"

The teacher nodded, "That is what it says…the two of you are to have all the same classes together, and you are supposed to be paired up with one another for every project and assignment assigned this year."

"Are you sure?" Kagome shrieked.

"That I am."

Inuyasha banged his head on his desk as the class roared into laughter, why me. "Why? What did I do to deserve this." He moaned before banging his head on his desk again. He'd heard of this kind of thing happening to people before but it's one of those things you doubt would ever happen to you.

The red haired teacher grinned as even he had trouble suppressing a laugh. "Well…My name is Mr. Himura, Kenshin Himura. You can just call me Mr. Ken for short, that you may."

Kagome glared at Inuyasha, "This is all your fault." She hissed.

Inuyasha just banged his head again for his reply. So this is why people commit suicide.

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Kagome jumped up eagerly when she heard the bell ring, anything to get away from Inuyasha although she knew she was just going to be stuck with him for another hour. Damn it all!

Kagome searched the halls looking for someone she could take out her rage on. Like I said-I think God hates me.

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Inuyasha slowly made his way towards Biology II, to be perfectly honest he still didn't understand this whole isolation thing yet, all he knew was that he was basically handcuffed to Kagome for the rest of the year. Yep that pretty much summed it up-just shoot me now and get it over with. Inuyasha turned the corner and walked down the science wing, third classroom on the right. He opened the door and walked in just in time to hear the bell ring.

That class turned out to be relatively boring, it was taught by some little pink-haired child prodigy or something or other, named Washu, who just kept saying she was the worlds greatest genius over and over…go figure. And of course Kagome had been in there too so that didn't help much, but luckily she sat on the other side of the classroom with Sango and Katsumi so it wasn't a total nightmare.

Finally when it was time for third period Kagome quickly jumped up and took off at lightning speed towards the girls locker room, at last martial arts class the greatest elective to have ever been conceived.

Kagome quickly changed into a pair of black cotton workout pants, a black tank top with a little pink bunny wearing demon horns, printed across the chest, her black and red stripped belt, and she hastily pulled on her black shin-guards and arm protectors. Kagome had been in the martial arts class for three years and had been working through the summer program long enough to earn her junior black belt. She was one of the highest in the class, and she was finally a high enough rank to join the martial arts team, and that gave her a good feeling. Though she wished she had started in middle school, she knew she would have had a higher belt, and a sooner chance to join the team.

Kagome entered the gymnasium, as she looked around for her friends, they weren't to be seen…darn they must all have it fourth period, that was just her luck, she spotted Inuyasha leaned up against the wall in the corner to her left. Kagome sighed as she made her way towards him, losing all aspects of her self pride with every step. Kagome plopped down on the floor next to him and flashed him a small smile. "Hey Inu…" Kagome just trailed off when Inuyasha interrupted her.

"What the heck are YOU doing over here?" he growled.

"What's the use you know we're just going to end up paired together for something anyway."

Inuyasha took a deep breath and closed his eye's she was right.

They sat there for awhile in silence until finally Inuyasha decided to speak. "I ran into Kikyo this morning. We broke up…she said it was over"

Kagome glanced at Inuyasha with a raised eyebrow "and you are telling me this because?"

"I figured you were 'gonna' here it anyway, I might as well tell you…you're the first person I've told." Inuyasha turned to Kagome and smiled at her weakly before he turned back around and closed his eyes again.

For a brief moment Kagome felt bad for Inuyasha…she had actually seen hurt in those pathetic eyes of his, but of course her pity didn't last long. "You mean she basically dumped you like yesterdays trash and you willingly STUCK UP FOR HER this morning!?" Inuyasha winced at the first part. He didn't know why but he had felt differently about Kikyo, he had definitely dated her longer than he did most girls. They had been together throughout the whole summer, breaking his one week record. He actually thought she might have been the one-oh how stereotypical he had been. But apparently she thought differently.

The events from this morning began replaying themselves in Inuyasha's mind, bringing back all the remorse:

Kikyo grabbed his arm and led him into an empty classroom. A small smirk spread across his face, man she's persistent. Kikyo whirled around and stared at him with those soulless eyes of hers, her face was expressionless as usual. He half expected her to rip his shirt off but instead she took a few steps away from him, never leaving his eyes.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha" she said, her voice empty of all emotion.

"For what" he asked as he took a step closer to her trying to close the gap but she just backed away even further.

"You don't love me anymore" she whispered.

Inuyasha's jaw dropped, "What? Where the heck did that come from?"

"Inuyasha you no longer belong to me…I feel as if you have given yourself to another…and have no more a longing for me or to be with me. You are always some where else when you are near me."

"B…bu…but Kikyo, I…of course I still belong to you…what the heck gave you the idea that I didn't." He growled as he began to pull his hair out of his head. He reached out and grabbed Kikyo by both arms bridging the space between them and forcing her to look him in the eyes, but she just turned her head away and stared down at the floor.

"Face it Inuyasha…we no longer belong to each other, we have both obviously fallen for another…you…you just haven't realized it yet. I…I love…Naraku now."

Inuyasha glared down at her…"What?"

"Don't be a fool Inuyasha…you knew this was coming…you have fallen for another girl, completely forgetting about me…tell me who is she? Do you love her."

"I don't know what the heck you're talking about…and what the hell does that jerk Naraku have to do with anything."

"We part here Inuyasha." And with that she pushed away from him and walked across the room, opened the door, and just before she walked out she called to him over her shoulder. "I feel that this is the end Inuyasha, although your heart no longer belongs to me, I believe that your soul always will be mine…unless you will come to hell with me…we break all ties here." Fool-I will always own you puppy…I know your secret she thought to herself as she slammed the door behind her.

Kagome and Inuyasha just sort of sat there for a moment watching as the gymnasium slowly began to fill up. It seemed like just this morning Inuyasha would have followed Kikyo to the ends of the earth and back, but now that was the last thing on his mind, the thought was absurd. Inuyasha had been loyal to her and had given her his all, he had bought her things and took her places…and she just ran off for Naraku using the excuse that he Inuyasha had fallen for another girl. Puh-leeze. Kikyo had obviously done nothing but used him…and yet he knew she had been special to him… but Inuyasha knew there was no use- so then and there he just gave up on her. Who in the hell talks like that anyway…? "We part here Inuyasha." She needs to be put in a straight jacket and carried off to the loony-bin.

At last the teacher made his way in, turning heads from every direction. He was new; the school had had to hire a new martial arts coach since the last one had been carried off to rehab, after meeting Katsumi and Asuka.

Everyone sweat dropped at the sight of the small little man. He had to be maybe three feet tall at the most, four with the black-spiky hair. He glanced around the room, his face was stern and angry.

"My name is Coach Hiei …got it." He glared angrily at a couple of green belt boys in the corner who were snickering at him. "Do you find something funny."

The tallest boy nodded, sticking out his chest proudly. "Yeah, why did they replace Coach Kamiya with a…troll?" a couple of people laughed but honestly Kagome and Inuyasha were to afraid too because of the look on the coach's face…like he was going to rip them apart and tear them to pieces.

Coach Hiei motioned for the boy to come to him, his face was still stern, but it was full of confidence. Coach Hiei pulled off his long black cape that had been draped around his shoulders, revealing his white T-shirt and black sweatpants. Kagome felt her heart stop when she saw the size of his arms and his belt rank. Sixth degree black belt-holy crap!

The boy, who Kagome recognized as Hojo, did as Coach Hiei instructed, taking his ground in front of the short statured man, a big smirk spread from ear to ear-dumb ass.

And then completely without warning Couch Hiei grabbed the boy by his shirt collar and his right arm and slung him clear across the padded basketball court, landing against the wall under the goal with an echoed bang. "Anyone else have a comment," he asked turning around to face everyone else lined up against the wall.

Everyone shook their head no frantically.

"Good…now this is an example of a fool," he gestured to the dizzy eyed Hojo, "this is an example of a fool who won't make it on my martial arts team. As you all know, only a selected few get chosen to be sponsored by our school to go to the Martial Arts High School Division Competition in Texas. And unlike your previous coaches, I won't let just anyone on my team. I'm only aloud to take sixteen this year, eight from both of my classes, instead of your usual fifteen…"

Kagome glanced around the room, there had to be at least fifty to sixty people in there, and this was just third period, fourth was always even more packed. Oh no what if I don't make it…or worse what if I'm the only one who does and I have to go alone. I need Sango…sniff.

"I will be holding tryouts for our schools entry competitors over the rest of this week, on Friday the lucky few who make it will get a letter from their first period teacher…any questions?"

A girl all the way in the back with wavy blue hair pulled back in a low ponytail, raised her hand hesitantly, she was shy you could tell by the look on her face.

"Yes?" Coach Hiei asked, his voice still hard and stern but you could tell his face had softened just a little.

"If…if we…when is the competition being hel…held?"

Coach Hiei nodded and glanced down at a clipboard he pulled out of nowhere, "It says here, from November 29 through December 1st, Yukina."

He knew her name? Hey wait…it's right after Thanksgiving, sweet I've heard of an Anime Convention being held in Texas…right where we'd be staying, now I HAVE to make IT! Kagome thought.

Hey…we'll be there during the Disturbed concert…it's right next to where we'd be staying; now I HAVE to make IT! Inuyasha thought.

"Any OTHER questions?"

Silence.

"Alight then, I want to see just how bad you weaklings are…I'll pair up each of you with a sparring partner and give each pair a number, observing each couple as they go in numerical order to the center of the mat and…spar."

He went around and did as he said; of course pairing Inuyasha and Kagome together and gave them number nine. The funny thing was, you could tell the short spiky haired teacher liked Inuyasha, he had stopped and complemented him on Inuyasha's belt, and had even asked if Inuyasha wanted to just sit out on the sparring activity, (Inuyasha turned him down). I mean come on I know Inuyasha is a black belt and the highest student in the room…but letting him sit out of class? Of course the teacher had made his comments sound sort of rude but you could tell there was favoritism in there. I heard it with my own ears…it's creepy enough to make your skin crawl.