Sorry I haven't updated in awhile I've been kind of busy. Hope you didn't miss me too much. Okay I know you guys are probably sick of reading this from all the other fanfics you've most likely read but I would appreciate it greatly if you guys would just take a minute or two from your time and review my story and tell me what you think. I'll love you if you do!

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CHAPTER SIX

Fighting Fridays part II.

"Miroku?" Kagome asked as she gazed up at her friend curiously. "What are you doing in here, your class is all the way on the other side of the school."

Miroku just shrugged his shoulders, "I heard you were stuck in here with just Inuyasha so…I got a schedule change."

Kagome jumped up out of her seat and quickly wrapped her arms around her friend's neck, "Thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you! Miroku have I told you how much you rock?" she said excitedly.

He grinned, "Only about a million times but I don't mind hearing it again."

She giggled, "Cute…real cute." That was so Miroku, he always had some sarcastic comment to say…but that's why she loved him so much…he was awesome…and completely sweet.

"So you wanna go walk along the hall with me, we have five minutes till school starts?" Kagome asked as she glanced down at her watch, the watch Miroku had given her for her birthday two years ago.

He nodded, "Sure…I've got time to kill…shall we?" He quickly opened the door taking on the role of a gentleman and took her arm in his, before they walked down the hall with silly expressions on their faces.

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"So…have you decided how you're going to ask Sango out?"

Miroku shook his head no, as they blindly walked around the school, zigzagging in and out of the crowd, with no specific destination in mind. "I don't know…I mean, s-she doesn't exactly like me, Kagome…she kind of hates me…she thinks I'm a complete jerk…have I mentioned that she hates me? I mean-she has a shirt that says 'Anti-Miroku' on it for crying out loud."

"Oh please…Miroku, she obviously likes you…I mean besides her beating you up every time you touch her, and she thinking you're the biggest perverted pig to have ever walked the halls…and that whole restraining order thing –she definitely likes you. She's always acted like she likes you. It's a girl thing, trust me."

"Thanks Kagome, that makes me feel so much better." He hung his head in self-pity; "she sure has a weird way of showing affection."

When he heard someone call out Kagome's name from behind them they both turned around and watched as Sakuya and a couple of other cheerleaders stomped up towards them. Oh great here comes trouble.

"Nice skirt." Kagome giggled as she walked around Sakuya scanning her cheerleading uniform with a smirk. That has got to be the shortest and slutiest skirt in history…where's a tape measure when you need one?

Sakuya glared menacingly at her. "Watch it…I know where you live." Sakuya smirked as she pushed Kagome away from her.

Kagome tightened her fists …Come on Kagome you're on probation-keep calm…10…9…8…7…6…5…4-oh screw it. "What do you want?" Kagome snapped.

"I want you to stay away from Inuyasha."

"You're kidding right?" Kagome laughed.

"NO! I'm tired of you taking up all of his time; he's always to busy for me, he's mine bitch-so stay away from him."

Kagome snorted. "You're an idiot…in case you haven't heard I tried to kill your

lame-ass boyfriend last year …we're not exactly crazy about each other, dumb ass."

"Oh yes you are…you were hanging all over him last night at that disgusting trailer of yours."

"Sakuya why don't you just go away and stuff your damn flat pompoms."

"Listen here…STAY AWAY FROM MY BOYFRIEND FREAK!"

"OH! You so do not want to get me mad today. Trust me, if I could have my way I would have your damn boyfriend stay as far away from me as possible…but in case you haven't noticed we're sort of STUCK TOGETHER!"

"Leave Inuyasha alone…he's mine." And with that Sakuya struck Kagome across the face.

Oh she's dead now.

Kagome leapt out at Sakuya trying to strike her down with a good punch but Miroku quickly stopped her. "Settle down Kagome, she's not worth you getting expelled over." He coaxed, he had to keep Kagome away from Sakuya he knew just how angry Kagome could get, and it wasn't pretty.

"Just let me beat some sense into that fat head of hers." Kagome growled as Miroku began to pull her away from Sakuya. "She hit me damn it…NOBODY HITS ME! WITHOUT GETTING THEIR ASS KICKED!"

"Look at you," Sakuya fumed, "Your so…barbaric, no wonder Inuyasha can't stand the sight of you, you're absolutely abusive." Sakuya smirked at the flame she had emitted in Kagome's anger…but she could tell that her plan to get Kagome expelled wasn't working, and all because of Kagome's friend Miroku, he was trying to calm her down, and it was working. He's getting in the way. So she did the only other thing she could think of…Sakuya turned her attention to the boy.

"I'm amazed you aren't covered in bruises from hanging around with a monster like Kagome, I can't believe how much of a loser you are Miroku." She grinned happily at her own 'cunningness' "…Hey wait a minute aren't you that guy who works at that gay bar downtown."

Miroku just shrugged his shoulder's, completely unfazed by her remark, what people think or said about him had never really bothered him all that much. "Nah…but my uncle's husband does…you'd like Sam. He-I mean she's pretty cool, she used to be a cheerleader too, of course she didn't wear the skirt though…it was before the whole operation thing and all. But she has a lot of trophy's and stuff. You two would get along great…you know now-that-I-think-about-it you look 'kinda' like her in this light…I can definitely see it in the eyes"

Sakuya's jaw dropped. What the heck. "EWE! Disgusting you little bastard…I ought to have Inuyasha come and kick your ass."

Miroku sweat dropped, Inuyasha was his best friend they were like 'brothers from another mother'…just how stupid is this girl? He just shrugged his shoulders again. "That was a pretty good insult…now if you just say it again, with a little growl at the end-you might seem a little more threatening."

Sakuya blared at him, "YOU JERK!!! You better watch it I am THE most popular girl in this school…I COULD RUIN YOUR LIFE JUST LIKE THAT!" she snapped her fingers for affect.

Miroku just shrugged his shoulders again. "And this is supposed to scare me how?" he asked sarcastically. Popularity had never really been all that appealing to him anyway.

"I MEAN IT I COULD RUIN YOUR REPUTATION JUST LIKE I DID KAGOME'S." Oops! I wasn't supposed to say that. Sakuya put her hand's over her mouth in horror, Kagome wasn't supposed to find out.

"THAT WAS YOU?" Kagome shrieked, "YOU HELPED START THOSE RUMORS?" Kagome went to leap on her again but Miroku just tightened his grip around her waist even harder.

Sakuya growled angrily as she watched Kagome scream in fury while she tried to pull away from Miroku. Darn it-let her go. Sakuya growled as she once again attacked Miroku. "Why aren't you sticking up for your friend, Hayashi?"

"Leave him alone!" Kagome whaled, "I'm the one who's 'gonna' beat your damn head in and POP your damn WATER bra."

Sakuya just smirked Great I've got her as mad as I can possibly get her…she's right where I want her-if only that stupid lecher would let her GO. If I could just get him angry enough to release her. "What you CAN'T even stick up for yourself-you have to let her do it for you? Just how big of a loser are you, Hayashi?"

"The biggest." Miroku shined her the biggest and most goofy-toothy grin possible

"I SAID LEAVE HIM THE HELL ALONE…"

Sakuya stomped her foot on the ground. Damn it. She glared angrily at the 'freaks' in front of her as a couple of her cheerleader friends stepped up from behind her, joining in on the verbal assaults.

"I swear…look at her, she like TOTALLY needs to go to some anger management classes or like something." One girl barked with her valley-girl accent.

The other girl, Kagura grinned, "yeah I know what you mean…but at least she's not as bad as that other friend of theirs…oh-what-was-her-name?" Kagura grinned evilly as she added an extra little enthusiasm and venom to her words, trying to get the others to follow along.

The first girl nodded in understanding "Yeah- I like totally know who you mean…you're talking about that Sakamoto girl-right?"
Kagome and Miroku's eyes both went up in flames as they glared at the cheerleaders, daring them to continue.

Sakuya grinned evilly as she quickly caught on. "I think the whore's name is…Sango."

That did it.

Kagome screamed out her rage, her eyes so full of hatred that it was like it wasn't her anymore, she tried to push Miroku off of her kicking and screaming all the while. Sakuya let out a gasp as she saw just how murderous Kagome was looking at her. She's going to KILL ME!

Miroku glared at them, he was furious…too furious for words…nobody talks about his Sango and lives to tell the tale. Part of him wanted to release the even-more-furious Kagome in his arms-but he couldn't do that…not to Kagome. He knew she would literally rip them apart while she was in her primitive stage. He racked his brain for something to do-he was making sure they weren't going to get away with what they said.

So instead of beating them to a bloody pulp like Kagome wanted to do; he somehow miraculously held Kagome with one arm as she tried to rip out of his grasp, and with his other-free hand he began searching through his many pockets for something.

He grinned triumphantly as he pulled out a small folded up piece of paper with little hearts and cherubs scribbled on it. "I swear Sakuya if you don't leave us the hell alone and take back what you said about Sango, I'll have this printed on the FRONT page of the school newspaper." Ah! The perks of being on the newspaper staff.

Sakuya's eyes widened like a dear-in-the-headlights when she recognized the wrinkled piece of paper. It was the note she had written during English yesterday. That letter had to be the most sexually R rated letter in existence. "How…how di-did you-you get th-that?" Sakuya stuttered.

"My uncles the janitor…he found it on the floor."

"Give it back…that's not yours." She tried to snatch it away from him but he just pulled it away from her.

"Finders keepers-losers weepers."

She tried to grab it from him again but Miroku just held it over her head and out of her reach, "I swear if you don't give me that back…" Sakuya demanded angrily.

"You'll what?" Miroku snorted, "ruin my reputation…Oh! I'm so scared-I'm quivering in my boots. Get out of here Sakuya-NOW!"

Sakuya glared angrily at the 'freaks' as she gathered up her friends and high tailed it out of there with her tail-between-her-legs. She ran as far as she could, knowing just how much embarrassment and trouble she would get in if anyone read that note.

Kagome turned around to look at her friend; her face still flushed from her screaming, "Why wouldn't you let me have her?" she barked at him.

"Come-on Kagome it was obvious what she was trying to do-she wanted to get you mad enough to do something stupid and then get you expelled…I couldn't let that happen to me best friend now could I?" Kagome smiled as she glanced at the letter.

"What's that?" She asked still a little angry that she wasn't able to kill Sakuya, but she was grateful to her friend from saving her from making a stupid mistake…I still think we should have wrung her neck for good measure though.

Miroku grinned, "It's a note Sakuya wrote to Inuyasha…here read it… it's the biggest load of crap I've ever had the displeasure of coming into contact with. I know that that article of parchment has surely scarred me in some form or fashion. Oh I know that my therapist will most definitely be displeased…what ever shall I do?"

Kagome giggled as she took the note from him. "Don't use so many big words Miroku you might hurt yourself." She quickly read the note scanning over each word, her face turning a darker shade of green with each syllable… "NASTY…Ewe-gross here take it back-take it back!" She crumpled the note up into a ball and threw it at him, smacking Miroku right between the eyes. "YUCK!!! Miroku you pervert-throw it away! How can you keep something like that?"

Miroku was just in the middle of defending himself when they heard the bell ring-signaling that they were late…CRAP!

They both took off sprinting down the empty hall, quickly turning corners and skidding into fore-walls. Kagome, with Miroku at her heels; rushed past classrooms as they made it down the Language wing, until they came to their door, C-17. They peeked in through the small rectangular window just in time to see the teacher staring back at them his face pressed against the glass as he began to make funny faces at them. Uh-oh!

Mr. Himura grinned about five minutes later when he was done distorting his face and motioned for them to come in. Kagome gulped as she slowly twisted the doorknob and pushed the door open, the class was rolling around on the floor laughing. "Ms. Hirugashi Mr. Hayashi, I am pleased you could make it to my classroom, that I am. Better late than never, please take your seats." He exclaimed excitedly, with a big smile. Kagome sweat dropped. He isn't mad at us?

She reluctantly took her seat where she had left her stuff, Miroku beside her, and unfortunately Inuyasha behind her.

"Class I have great NEWS." He held up a small stack of papers high over his head. "Two of our very own, have been accepted for the martial arts team."

Kagome felt her heart skip a beat as she crossed her fingers and closed her eyes for good luck. Oh please…oh please…oh please…

"Hayashi, Miroku…."

The black belt jumped up out of his seat, "I MADE IT?!?!" The teacher grinned and nodded as Miroku through his dignity to the wind, stepped up on top of his desk, and began in a round of his infamous victory dance The funky Chicken. Sweat drop. Kagome sighed, how anyone on God's green earth would dance like that willingly was way over her head-how ridiculous.

"Ah yes and our other finalist-drum role please." A couple of people began beating on their desk rhythmically. "…MS. HIRUGASHI!"

Kagome screamed as she leapt out of her seat. "OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD…OH MY GOD!!!!" She began jumping up and down with her acceptance sheet in her hands and then without hesitation Kagome jumped up on top of her desk and joined in on a round of Funky Chicken with Miroku. Yeah! Now I can go to the anime convention!

The rest of the class simultaneously turned to stare at Inuyasha, everyone had thought that he was a shoe-in. He had been on the team last year and had brought home the second place trophy, he was one of the highest belts in the school; very few people ever made it to black belt. He was also the schools best sparer. Something wasn't right. I mean how did a junior black belt like Hirugashi and an amateur black belt like Hayashi beat a full on almost second degree black belt like Osuwari.

"Oh I'm sorry class I missed one…we have a third winner…Mr. Osuwari." The teacher exclaimed, grinning evilly before he hastily passed Inuyasha's papers down the row to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha just shrugged his shoulders, trying his best not to look too excited, when in reality he was on cloud nine. He knew Mr. Himura had played a trick, you could tell by the evil little glint in his eye. He had scared the crap out of Inuyasha, the teen was afraid that they might have been disappointed with his second place and had decided to drop him, stupid teacher…waste of tax dollars. Inuyasha grinned inwardly as he watched Kagome dancing up on her desk along with Miroku, half debating to just give-in and join her. Yes! Now I can go to the Disturbed concert.

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Finally the hours passed on, and martial arts class came. The period went by pretty fast, until the end when Coach Hiei had had a message on the schools announcements ring over the intercom, asking the team to please meet in the gym. So Kagome, Inuyasha, and to her delight Spike stayed behind; along with a few other people Kagome and Inuyasha didn't recognize, one dark headed boy who was quite and self kept named Daisuke Osagawa and another loud mouth, hyperactive, purple haired, clumsy nit-wit named Taki Ishinomori.

Kagome waited patiently as she kept her focus on the gymnasium doors watching to see who entered. The biggest smile possible spread across her face as she watched Duo and Katsumi walk in mano y mano. Kagome waved to them and they walked over to her and sat down beside her. "This is so awesome." Katsumi and Kagome squealed together.

The girls sat chatting away until they saw Asuka and Sango walk in, they ran over to each other, the four girls meeting in the middle of the basketball court, jumping around in hysterics at seeing one another.

Unnoticed by the hysterical schoolgirls, another girl walked in. She was tall and rough looking. She was a senior, with spiky blue hair that reminded you of Sonic the HedgeHog. She had mischievous amber eyes and a bold smirk permanently set in place.

She had on a black short sleeve t-shirt with the Japanese flag on it and a white long sleeve shirt on under that. She was wearing a pair of shiny red lether pants, and a lot of gothic jewelry; spiked choker, bike chain bracelet-the works.

She smirked as she walked through the back door right beside Duo, she sat down beside him and smiled, "She looks happy." The senior stated as she glanced at Duo for a moment and then back to the four girls in the middle.

Duo nodded, "yeah I've never seen your sister so happy, Ryoko."

Ryoko Sagara, Katsumi's older sister, leaned up against the wall as she kept her eyes on her younger sibling and her friends, "so Inuyasha…you still go out with the other Hirugashi girl?"

Inuyasha growled under his breath, "H-E-double L…NO!"

Ryoko grinned as she kept her gaze on Kagome, "Good, I never really liked her-too stuck up…what about the other Hirugashi?" she turned to look at Inuyasha on the other side of Dou, an evil sneer spread from ear to ear. "She's a lot cooler than her mirror image…I think you and Kag would make a cute couple, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha shot her a bird and received one back. "Shut up, Ryoko. That's not funny. We hate each other and you know it."

Ryoko sighed, "Or is it that you just LOVE Kikyo still…and it's just so hard to look at anything that reminds you of her."

Miroku walked in through the same back door that Ryoko had and sat down beside his fellow senior, having heard most of their conversation he joined in. "Nah, I doubt it…I think he just has a crush on Kagome instead. Hey! Maybe that's why he went out with the 'Gloomy Girl' in the first place." He looked up into Inuyasha's eyes as he feigned hurt, his hands cupped together while he acted like he was begging. " Maybe he was just trying to go for the next best thing to Kagome."

Inuyasha smacked Miroku across the head leaving a fairly visible knot. "What the heck was that for?" Miroku whined as he rubbed his newest bruise.

"That was for being a pain-in-the-ass." Inuyasha growled through gritted teeth.

Duo snorted, "I think I'm 'gonna' have to agree with Miroku on this one."

SMACK!

"Owe! Watch it Inuyasha!" Duo whined as he began to rub his newest bruise.

"STOP talking about Kagome and Kikyo-I hate that witch now so don't mention her name around me-got it?" Inuyasha demanded glaring equal daggers to each of his friends, with the exception of Ryoko; in all honesty-he was kind of scared of her. She was a tough girl; it was no surprise that she made it on the team. She was known for getting into fights, and always winning. All you have to do is look at her rough appearance and you could tell she wasn't someone to bargain with. But she wasn't as bad as people made her out to be-on the contrary. She was in actuality really nice…and incredibly protective of her family and friends. Inuyasha and Ryoko were a lot alike in someways.

"Speaking of the devil." Ryoko groaned. Everyone turned to look in the same direction as she was.

Inuyasha followed their gaze to the front doors…KIKYO!

"How the heck did she make it on the team? She's not even in the martial arts class." Duo asked as he scratched the back of his head.

"Maybe she lost her way?" Ryoko thought aloud.

Miroku shrugged his shoulders as he answered their questions. "I over heard the coach and the principal talking yesterday, the principal said we had to take a student from the student council with us on our trip, to be an assistant coach or a suprivisor or something like that. I guess they chose her."

"That's stupid." Duo remarked as Katsumi, whining like a puppy, walked over and sat down in his lap. He wrapped his arms around her as she leaned her back against his chest.

"I really don't like her." Katsumi moaned as she laid her head against Duo's neck, "No offense Kag."

"None taken." Kagome stated as she took a seat beside Miroku, scooting away from him just enough so that Sango could sit between them. Sango took her seat inbetween Miroku and Kagome and sighed as everyone watched Kikyo walk up to them.

Kikyo flashed everyone a big smile before she turned to Inuyasha. "I've missed you." She sighed as she sat down on the floor beside him. Looking up in his eyes with an unpleasant aspect to her. "I think about you all the time when I'm with Naraku."

Inuyasha felt his heart stop at the mention of that jerk Naraku. Inuyasha knew what Kikyo was trying to do…get him jealous-well not this time sweetheart. "I wish you wouldn't" Inuyasha snapped, shocking Kikyo, her smirk fading away. "I don't want anything to do with you…if you know what I mean?"

Kikyo glared at him, and then nodded. "Well that's fine with me mutt." She stood up and dusted herself off and marched over to the other side of the gymnasium to stand with her boy-toy for the moment, Naraku Onigumo.

Naraku was not exactly the nicest person on the block either. He was the leader of the school's only gang; but what was sad was that the gang, Youkai, was nothing but a bunch of rich kids with bad tempers-let's just say the gang was relatively pathetic. But on the other hand the senior Naraku was not a push over like his Youkai members. He was cruel and ruthless, he was known for beating up girls for no reason.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Inuyasha had been asked to join Youkai, he had turned them down, and Naraku had tried to have Inuyasha beaten; luckily Inuyasha had been stronger than Naraku had thought and Inuyasha had gotten away with out to much damage. But that didn't change the fact that Naraku still wanted Inuyasha dead. Damn you Kikyo, it would figure you would pull a stunt like this.

Everyone watched in disgust as Kikyo and the long-black-wavy-haired Naraku started flirting repulsively in the corner as they waited for the rest of the team to come.

"This isn't for little ones." Ryoko growled as she covered her sister, Katsumi's eyes with her blue finger-nail painted hand.

"Just for the record…I was adopted." Kagome stated as her left eye began to twitch in disgust. She crossed her arms over her chest as she kept a look out for Kouga; he never came. It seemed like forever, as she sat there next to Spike and Sango.

"That has got to be the grossest thing I have ever seen." Sango moaned as she covered her face with one of her books she had pulled out of her book-bag. They were starting to kiss now…oh God!

"I don't know I find it rather entertaining…sort of like HBO…only in person."

Everyone turned to look at Miroku with disgusted, grossed-out, freaked-out, angry, annoyed, and just all-around horrified and shocked expressions on their faces.

"Please tell me you and Ms. Kikyo never participated in such unmoral and secular activities Mr. Inuyasha." Miroku asked as line after line of that letter from Sakuya to Inuyasha flowed through his mind.

Inuyasha's face turned BRIGHT red as Kagome and Miroku burst into incredibly loud laughter; everyone just stared at them like they were idiots, completely oblivious to the little inside joke about the note.