Everyone, I AM SO SORRY! It's been soooooo long since I've updated any of my stories. It's these damn hurricanes teamed up with school. Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne all hit us pretty hard and we've had a lot of school to make up. And, since I'm in pre-IB, we've been loaded down with work, not to mention I have practice (for a very boring sport) from 3 to 5 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and matches on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So, all I can say is... I'm sorry. Please forgive me!
Oh, and for the school in this chapter. I have no idea how the school system in Japan works, so I'm using our school system in Florida! Four classes a day (the same four for the entire semester), each an hour and a half (or something like that). For the art teacher, I'm not even going to try to find a Japanese name. The teacher I'm using had me as a student for three and a half semesters (Half the time I cut my elective for the second semester of eighth grade and went to his class) and he is the best teacher ever! Even though he's kinda old. And, just so ya know, Makoto is using an illusion to disguise his true appearance (duh).
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha
A Life Saved Is an Ally Made
By Sesshieluver89
Chapter Five- Makoto Goes to School
"So this Koenma could be targeting you and now you have to have a guard?" Kagome's mom was sitting in a chair, looking up at her daughter in concern.
"Yep." Noticing her mother's worried gaze, she added, "But don't worry. Makoto and Sesshoumaru won't let anything happen to me, right?"
Makoto nodded. "No harm will come to you while under my care, milady."
Kagome sighed in exasperation. "I told you to call me Kagome."
"I apologize. It is second nature to honor my superiors."
Kagome laughed. "If I was your superior, I wouldn't need to be protected. So, I guess I'm not superior, huh?"
Mrs. Higurashi smiled at the somewhat child-like behavior of her daughter and watched as Makoto tried to find a way around answering her question. So she answered for the kitsune. "Of course you're not, dear."
"But Sesshoumaru-sama has implied that you are in fact my superior. So, I must call you milady," Makoto pointed out.
Kagome thought for a minute before making a suggestion. "How about you call me milady while we're around Sesshoumaru, but you call me Kagome all the other times? That's alright, isn't it?"
He nodded. "That is fine with me Kagome."
She smiled at him. "Now that we have this agreement, I think we'll get along pretty well."
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"Kagome! Hurry up or you'll be late!"
"Coming 'Kaa-san!" Kagome ran out of her room, with Makoto following close behind. She grabbed him and pulled him along faster as she sprinted out the door. She quickly crossed the courtyard and started down the steps. When she reached the bottom, she ran straight into Makoto. She stumbled backward and then glared playfully at him. "You know, you could have brought me down here with you."
"Perhaps you should worry more about getting to school on time, Kagome." She looked down at her watch and her eyes widened. She squeaked and Makoto chuckled lightly. "Allow me to get you there faster." He picked her up and appeared in an alley by the school a few seconds later.
"Thanks." She pulled him into the school just as the bell was ringing and they ran into her first period. She walked up to her seat by the window and Makoto slowly followed to stand by her.
The teacher walked into the room and scanned the class, his eyes stopping on Makoto. "Excuse me, young man, who are you?" The whole class turned to the kitsune, but his face remained still, eyes never wavering (think Buckingham Palace guards). "Young man, I can't have you in my classroom without permission from the school."
Kagome asked, "You mean, you weren't told that he would be here?"
"No, I wasn't. Is there a particular reason why he is here?"
Just then, the door opened and the principal walked in. "Takahashi, I forgot to inform you of a guest in this class." She looked up at Makoto. "I see you have already noticed him."
"Yes. Why exactly is he here?"
"He is here as a personal guard to Higurashi. I wasn't given any further details. However, I was wondering if Miss Higurashi would like to tell us how she knows Taisho Sesshoumaru?"
Kagome struggled for an answer, but finally elbowed Makoto in the side, making him answer for her. "Kagome-sama and Sesshoumaru-sama are old friends. That is all you need to know," he said in a deadpan voice, while staring intently at the principal, making her nervous.
Kagome whispered to him, "Makoto! You didn't have to be so rude!"
His eyes shifted to her and he said, "I believe I just helped you."
"Sorry. But you could have been a little nicer about your answer. You're not Sesshoumaru, you know." Her voice took on a teasing tone. "Although you are just as good-looking."
Makoto blushed lightly and a few girls who heard the comment giggled in agreement.
The principal cleared her throat and said, "Class has already started and I believe your teacher would like to start his lesson."
Makoto resumed his post and the principal found a seat in the front row so that she could monitor the class. The teacher started to teach about the recursive rules for sequences and Kagome got confused the minute he started to talk. By the time he was done (which on average for our class is a little over an hour), Kagome had dropped her pencil and was staring at the blackboard with her mouth slightly open. "Alright, now for the assignment. Pages 684 to 685, numbers 26 to 48. Evens only." Everyone took out some paper and a pencil and immediately got to work. Kagome looked at the first problem and was instantly confused.
She poked Makoto in the side and he turned to her. "Do you know how to do this, Makoto?"
He nodded. "Yes. Do you need help?"
Kagome nodded and he looked at the problem and began to explain the process. Once he was done helping her solve that problem, he made her do one on her own to see if she understood the method. Noticing she didn't, he began to help her again.
Meanwhile, the teacher and the principal were talking quietly in the front of the room, glancing up at Kagome and Makoto every once and a while.
"He doesn't act like a normal bodyguard, does he?"
The principal shook her head. "No, it seems as if he is her friend. When you think of bodyguards, you expect tall men with huge muscles, bad tempers, and no brains."
"Yes, but he is the complete opposite."
Makoto looked up at them and they smiled nervously at him. He walked over to them and said, "Despite the fact that you implied that I am smart, I do not like the fact that you are implying that I cannot do my job."
"W-we di-didn't mean it like th-that," Takahashi stuttered.
"We meant that you are a change to the stereotypical bodyguard. You are not overly large and you are very intelligent. And I am quite sure that you do your job quite well."
He eyed them critically, then said, "Perhaps you cold refrain from talking about me all together. It may keep anything like this from happening again." He turned and walked back to Kagome, who was trying to stifle her giggles.
"Think you scared them, Makoto?"
He glanced back at them and nodded. "I think I scared them. Now, let's see if you got any of the problems correct." He glanced at her paper and was slightly surprised to see that all of her answers were correct. "You got all of them right, Kagome."
She smiled and looked down at her paper happily. Then she jumped up and gave him a quick hug. "Thanks so much for helping me Makoto!"
"It was my pleasure, Kagome." All of a sudden, the bell rang, signaling the end of class. "Shall we go?" Makoto held out his hand to help her up and she gladly accepted it. They walked down the hall and stopped in front of Kagome's next class: art. They entered the room and Kagome quickly went to join Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi at their table.
"Hey guys! How are you this morning?" She looked at them, but smile when she realized that they were staring at Makoto. "Makoto, I think you have some admirers." Her friends snapped out of their dazes and blushed at being caught staring.
"So, who's your friend Kagome?" Eri asked.
"Guys, this is Makoto. Makoto, this is Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi."
"You look too old to be a student, so why are you here?" Ayumi asked curiously.
Makoto's left eyes twitched. "Did you just call me old?"
Ayumi shook her head. "I didn't mean that you're old. I just meant that you look a few years older than us."
"That's because he is. Makoto is here as my bodyguard, you guys," Kagome said.
"Why in the world do you need a bodyguard?" The teacher walked in then and Kagome didn't get a chance to answer as she quickly pulled up a chair for Makoto.
Mr. Herr looked around the class and his eyes fell on Makoto. "You must be Makoto."
The kitsune nodded. "Yes, I am."
Mr. Herr nodded at him and said to the class, "The assignment for this week is a value study project. You need to make a preliminary sketch and then, based on that sketch, create a refined copy that will be used as your final project. Medium choices are conté, graphite, and charcoal, meaning, of course, that this project will be in black and white. You can get to work now."
All of the students got a few large pieces of paper and started on their sketches. It took Kagome a few minutes to decide what she was going to draw, but when she did it only took her ten minutes to draw it. "There! I'm done with the sketch!"
Makoto looked over at her picture and his eyes widened in surprise when he saw what she had drawn. "Kagome, that's..."
She smiled and said, "Yep." She had drawn Sesshoumaru in his demon form (giant dog) sitting at the edge of a cliff, looking at the full moon. Sitting beside him was a little girl in a checkered orange and yellow kimono with a little bunch of her hair tied up on the side of her head. Far behind them, in the background, a castle gleamed in the moonlight and a lake off to the right sparkled.
"This is magnificent, Kagome." He smiled. "You managed to catch Rin-sama's happiness quite well."
"Thanks." She giggled suddenly. "It's so weird hearing little Rin-chan being called Rin-sama, even if she's grown up now." (Kagome had seen Rin for a few minutes when she was at Sesshoumaru's castle. Sesshoumaru had found a way to turn her into a youkai, so that's how she's still alive)
"Why does it sound odd to hear her be called Rin-sama?"
"I knew her best as the little girl that always followed Sesshoumaru around. We played together when he and Inuyasha were fighting. When she was with Sesshoumaru, she had more responsibility than a normal girl her age. But when she was able to play with Shippou and myself, she was just another little girl having fun with friends. That little girl is forever imprinted in my memory as Rin-chan. Just as Shippou is still my little Shippou-chan."
As she was talking, she had started to work on her final project and by the time the bell rang, she was already halfway through with it. The rest of the day went by uneventfully and when the bell rang at the end of the day, the two walked happily out of the school, only to be greeted by...
"Shippou-chan!" Kagome ran up and gave him a hug and asked him what he was doing there.
"I'm here to see you of course. I just got you back yesterday. I haven't had enough time to spend with you, so I took off work to spend the afternoon with you."
"Are you allowed to do that?"
He shrugged. "If I want to."
"Well then, let's go have some fun!"
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Another shitty ending. But, oh well. Good enough right? After all, I started writing this chapter right after I woke up from a four hour nap. - Well, hope you liked it. Review please!