Chapter 10: The School Boy

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha; I only own the girl Koiba, and she only appears in this fanfic (I hope).

A/N: This is kind of like a continuation of chapter nine, but as you can see, the chapter title is called: This is just NOT my day part two. Oh yes, thank you for the ONE review that belongs to InuYasha Obsession. I owe this fanfic all to you.

At the 'Crime' Scene

Hojo was still under the youkai's attack, and the high-school boy was terrified. Somehow managing to free himself of InuYasha's grip, he scrambled away, pursued hotly by the demon.

"Wow, now who was THAT hottie?" Eri joked sarcastically. "He looks really nice with those golden eyes, but why did they turn crimson?"

Kagome blushed. What was she to say now? "Um...actually, when his eyes turn crimson, like most people see, it's actually a...an illusion!"

"Oh, really? Kagome, are you sweating? Maybe you should go back to bed. We'll see you tomorrow at school!" Erika waved and Kagome gratefully accepted the excuse.

Rushing home, Kagome opened the door and shouted wildly, "Mom? Grandpa? Sota? I'm..."

She was about to tell them that she was home but then changed her mind.

"Mom? Grandpa? Sota? I'm so gonna kill you senseless!" Kagome yelled, outraged that her only relatives had played such a mean and ruthless trick on her.

That was when InuYasha also came back, looking quite baffled. He had nearly caught up with Hojo when Tetsusaiga suddenly took over his body and he turned back into a hanyou. So, being in the middle of a big crowd, the for-once embarrassed hanyou raced out of the surrounding crowd and disappeared, leaving a red-faced and puffing high-school boy behind.

"Hello InuYasha, I see you're back from your Hojo-smashing quest?" Kagome asked dully.

"Nothing much...where is your relatives?" the dog demon replied, fiddling with one of Kagome's grandpa's 'evil spirit charms'.

As if InuYasha's inquiry had been answered, Mrs. Higurashi appeared from the kitchen wearing an apron and an evil grin. The two teenagers gulped; Mrs. Higurashi smirking was not a good omen.

"Hello, dearies," Kagome's mother said, her eyes twinkling. "Kagome, I've made a decision; you can't go back to the feudal era for at least three weeks, since I want you to catch up on your grades."

This speech was answered with a groan from Kagome and a puzzled look from InuYasha. "What?! No other friends but InuYasha to talk to?"

The stupid dog demon, finally catching the hint said, "But that's absurd! I insist that Kagome go back with me to the sengoku jidai!"

Mrs. Higurashi shook her head, smiling. "No, I'm sorry, InuYasha, but my daughter won't be able to get a decent job if she doesn't get good grades. Either you stay here with her, or you leave without her."

After mulling over this, the dog demon reluctantly agreed that he would stay with Kagome and spend three weeks with her without leaving for the past.

"Perfect! I knew that you always make good choices!" Mrs. Higurashi tweaked one of the hanyou's ears and laughed. "I've got one of Hojo's old uniforms ready for you, for he's grown out of this one. It was supposed to be for when Sota grows up, but evidently you'll need it more than him right now," Mrs. Higurashi whipped out Sota's 'uniform' and began measuring InuYasha, who looked bewildered.

"What the...? Mom, does this mean InuYasha has to go to school with me? That's not fair; he hardly knows anything!" Kagome burst in rudely, and InuYasha glared at the teen for mentioning the last part.

"Don't be so worried, Kagome. InuYasha will do fine at school, I'm sure," Kagome's mother reassured her daughter.

"Yeah Kagome, don't misunderestimate me. I'm not as-stupid-as you think," InuYasha just felt like insulting Kagome when he said the word 'stupid'.

"Oh InuYasha, when are you going to learn your vocabulary?" Kagome laughed and patted his head in a doggy like manner. "There's no such word as 'misunderestimate'!"

This made the hanyou blush, but it was kind of hard to blush when he saw Kagome laughing so hard. Mrs. Higurashi, on the other hand, shook her head in disbelief at her skeptical daughter.

"Don't mind Kagome, InuYasha. From now on, you can share Kagome's room and that's all there is to it. Ms. Tashikama will give you all your books. There's no need to worry...Kagome! Put on your..." Mrs. Higurashi was interrupted by a loud clashing of sound as her daughter rushed up the stairs, still determined to hide her secret. InuYasha held his nose-Kagome's scent was too smelly for the likes of him.

In the sengoku jidai

Five days had gone past, and Sango, Miroku and Shippo were still waiting on their friends. For the first few days it had been very fun as every night after supper the trio would discuss strategies on bringing InuYasha and Kagome together, but soon it got boring, as all things tend to.

One day Miroku couldn't take it any longer. Abruptly standing up, he demanded, "I'm getting bored. What can we do now?"

Sango gulped. She knew that Miroku always wanted productive answers for his questions, and if she answered 'I don't know', then Miroku would surely blow his top. The monk, patient as he usually was, always didn't have any patience for anything in situations like this.

"I-I don't know, and...my last idea got us all in trouble," the demon exterminator whispered timidly.

Miroku must've noticed that he had scared Sango, so he sat down and draped himself over her comfortingly.

"I'm so sorry I scared you, but do you think Shippo has any ideas?" Miroku asked gently and quietly so only Sango could hear.

Looking up, Sango saw that Shippo wasn't there. Giving an unexpected whoop of joy, she jumped to her feet and began dancing around.

"YAY! We've got something to do, since Shippo's missing!" Sango danced and sang for what seemed like forever and a day.

"Wow! Thank you, Shippo! I am so happy I could..." Miroku's voice trailed off as a loud smack echoed through the trees.

"Don't you even think about it, hentai," Sango nursed her hand, which was stinging. Wow, this was her hardest slap yet...

At School

Kagome and InuYasha lugged their packs to school. Kagome wasn't used to this kind of exercise, as she always rode her bicycle to school, but her bike's tire had 'somehow' run out of air (coughs: an 'innocent' hanyou took a careful look at the tires). Glaring once more at the guilty dog demon, Kagome was about to continue on her walking trip when she heard a squealing of tires and Kimashi's car came into view.

Kimashi was Kagome's rival in history, and today Kimashi, that annoying boy idiot (as Kagome likes to call him), had a smirk on his face.

"Hey, lover girl!" he yelled, waving a photo of InuYasha and Kagome around. "Who's the boy who was unfortunate enough to come across you?"

InuYasha's blood began to boil. Whoever this punk thought he was, he wasn't going to get away with that remark about Kagome and him.

"Just you wait, you stupid punk boy, just you wait until school starts," the hanyou muttered, and Kagome looked at him in a confused manner.

At school everybody was chattering about Kagome's little 'incident'. Only Hojo, Eri, Ayumi and Erika did not wave the photos about in Kagome's face and make a snide remark.

At the lunch hour Kagome was about to grab her tray when she felt a hand close around her wrist. Looking up in surprise, she saw Hojo dragging her away from the lunch line looking both worried and sad.

"Kagome, I've got to know this right now. Do you love me or not?" the boy demanded. "Or are your illnesses just an excuse to cut off the dates I arrange?"

"No Hojo, my illnesses aren't an excuse to get rid of you. And...I don't love you that way, I'm sorry," Kagome hung her head down, like as if InuYasha himself had told her that he didn't love her. Her expression, however, did not show the melancholic expression she wanted to save for when InuYasha rejected her feelings.

"Oh...well, Higurashi, can I just have a hug to mark that we're friends?" Hojo asked, and Kagome's body stiffened before relaxing. The two embraced each other briefly before separating (A/N: Let's just pretend they're good friends, ok?)

InuYasha had collected his books needed for the next class and brought them to lunch. Sighing, he began to dig in and take a look at his books. His first few lessons hadn't gone very well. Even though he was now the envy and hate of boys and the love of girls, he still had to admit that he was still pretty dense in the eyes of the clueless. What the heck was calculus, anyways?

The hanyou had finished his lunch and was about to leave the locker rooms (the lunchroom was all full), he heard two people talking and the word 'mark' mentioned. Finally unable to stop himself, the hanyou set his books down in a safe place and hide behind the corner to the next row of lockers. And what did he see? Kagome and Hojo embracing each other warmly.

Losing entire control of himself, the dog demon stormed into the scene, looking both baffled and angry. Kagome had confessed her love for him, yet she went off hugging other boys?

"What are you doing, Kagome?" InuYasha asked, and Kagome darted away from Hojo. She wasn't blushing, as her excuse was both the truth and that excuse was harmless to anybody who would understand.

"InuYasha, you silly boy, I was just hugging him to show that I'm still his friend," Kagome replied innocently, maddening InuYasha even more. "Is there anything wrong with that?"

The dog demon, however, was thick enough to not get the idea. "FINE, GO AND HAVE YOUR HAPPY TIMES WITH HOJO!" the hanyou yelled, and stomped out of the scene.

"Oh dear," muttered Kagome. "This is going to be a troublesome day..."

In the sengoku jidai

Sango and Miroku walked leisurely through the woods, not wanting this happy moment to end. They still hadn't found Shippo, and they didn't want to find him until sunset came.

The journey was very uneventful, and the two adults were already starting to get bored. Finally Miroku said something that put Sango off her bomb:

"Sango, you're dirty."

"PERVERT, YOU STUPID MONK! DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN?" Sango screamed, and covered her body like as if Miroku could see right through her demon exterminator clothing.

"What the...? Lady Sango, I am merely stating that you are dirty now," Miroku repeated, and soon the two got into a big fight.

Sango and Miroku were about to start fighting when a sudden voice spoke up out of the blue and scared them witless. "Gees, what are you humans arguing for? You get nowhere with fighting when you like each other."

Sango and Miroku jumped and turned their weapons to where the voice had originated from. "Who speaks?" Miroku demanded.

A second voice spoke up, but it wasn't a reply. Instead, it just reflected on what the first voice had said.

"Yes, the first demon is right. You humans argue day and night, it's funny how you can actually cooperate together well!" the second voice mocked, and two more voices laughed along with the speaker.

"You human beings are so confusing! Well, it's lucky that we demons always manage to keep ourselves in good conditions!" the third voice said, still in hysterics about what the second voice had said.

Sango and Miroku were still staring at each other in horror about what the first voice had said. Sure, each one liked the other a lot, but how did the...?

"Hey! How would you know anything about us? Go away and leave us alone!" Sango yelled awkwardly. Shouting into the woods was like shouting at thin air.

"Typical human beings," the first voice muttered, and all three voices could be heard scampering away-in what seemed like one pair of feet walking.

"Well...let's continue our search for Shippo; it's nearly sun-down," Sango said, breaking the icy silence.

As the two walked off, nobody saw a bushy tail flicker away from a certain clump of bushes, giggling like crazy.

In the Future

Kagome had collected all her homework together. Sighing with relief of having survived a school day, she was about to set off when she remembered something: InuYasha. The dog demon would never be able to find his way home, not unless he followed her scent home, and Kagome didn't want to have him find Naraku's scent all over her.

Sighing, she rounded the locker corner and turned to go down a deserted hallway in search of InuYasha. She was just passing a classroom when she heard a voice moaning in happiness and someone else who kept saying things like 'go away'.

Kagome decided to take a big chance. For the past 10 minutes she had been debating on whether or not she should burst in and see what was going on. Now she had decided to find out who the romancers were, so the teenager held her breath and opened the door.

Two faces gazed at her, and she gazed back at the two faces in horror. Was she seeing things? Kagome rubbed her eyes hard before taking another look. She wasn't seeing things; InuYasha and Koiba, the school geek, were in each other's arms. InuYasha was looking stoned, and Koiba, after a short stare at Kagome, went on nuzzling InuYasha.

"So much for confessing," Kagome hissed so that only the hanyou could hear.

"No Kagome, it's not what you think..." InuYasha began but Kagome had already rushed out, tears brimming in her eyes.

"Ignore the freak, my dear," Koiba snuggled deeper into InuYasha's chest. It was too late however-the geek fell over as the dog demon had already freed himself from her grip and was running towards the door, trying to follow Kagome's sounds.

A/N: Ha ha, I'm stopping the fanfic here, as I've been writing too much. Anyways, don't worry because I'll SOMEHOW get things straightened. Please review!