A/N: O-tay, we've got an extra-long chapter today! I had a lot of ideas I wanted to inlcude this time.Thank you everyone who reviewed!!
"Okay, children, let's have a pre-test," Pirate-Sensei took a stack of paper with big lines on it and began passing them out.
"What's a pretess?" Yucky-Miroku asked Kagome, fixing his big eyes on her.
"It's a lady that fights demons, a magic lady. My sister tells me stories all about them," Kagome whispered back.
"Oh. What's your sister like? Is she pretty?"
"She's the prettiest lady in the world!" Kagome closed her eyes and sighed. Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Pirate-Sensei set sheets of paper on each of their desks.
"No, Kagome, that's a priestess, not a pre-test. A pre-test shows me how much you have already learned." Pirate-Sensei smiled. Kagome was confused. They just came to school! They were supposed to know something already? That wasn't fair! Kagome felt tears welling up in her eyes. It wasn't fair!
"Don't cwy," Inuyasha whispered from across the table. "I'll hewp you if you can't do it."
"Huh?" Kagome was surprised. Inuyasha had been a nasty creep all morning! He'd been especially mad after she broke his sword, but all of a sudden, he was being nice. That gave Kagome courage. She could take this pre-test!
"Take a crayon out, whatever color you like best," Pirate-Sensei said with a smile. "I want all of you to try to write your name. If you're having trouble, I'll come and help you."
That's it? Kagome thought. That's easy. Kagome took out a purple crayon, not because it was her favorite, but because it had the sharpest point out of all her crayons. Yucky-Miroku noticed and took out a purple crayon too. Kagome concentrated hard on forming a good G. She always had trouble with that.
For a moment, she couldn't remember what came next. After she had finished, she looked up to see how Yucky-Miroku was doing. He was writing busily, concentrating on carving letters into the paper with his crayon. He must have a long name, Kagome thought. It didn't sound that long, but names on paper were different. Letters were funny, mysterious things.
Inuyasha just sat and stared at his paper, Kagome noticed. She leaned over her desk to look him in the eye.
"Are you having trouble?" She asked. At first, he glared angrily at her for suggesting that, but when he noticed Pirate-Sensei walking around checking everyone's progress, he seemed get nervous. He nodded.
"I know how to wite the lettews," He whispered. "But I can't wemembu which ones to use."
Kagome thought hard. She was good at spelling, her sister Kikyo told her often. She remembered what to do, she needed to sound it out. Inuyasha...she spoke the letters out loud to him. His name was very hard.
"Inu...I...N...umm, O...ya...eyah...yah....oh! E, SA!" The second half of his name was harder than the first. Inuyasha scribbled them down as Kagome said them. His writing was big and didn't stay on the line. He wrote all over the page. Kagome giggled. Inuyasha wrote like a two-year-old!
"How's everyone doing?" Pirate-Sensei asked. She leaned over Kagome's desk and looked at her paper and nodded. When she got to Inuyasha, she frowned, but patted him on the shoulder and told him he did a good job anyway. Inuyasha pouted, as usual.
Pirate-Sensei gasped aloud when she got to Miroku.
"Miroku! That's very good! You wrote more than just your name. Wonderful...Let's see, what does it say?" Miroku held the paper proudly out to her. Pirate-Sensei read, her eyes going over every carefully written line. Suddenly, her face flushed bright pink. She folded the paper up and put it in her pocket instead of returning it to Miroku.
"Um, Miroku, dear, we don't say things like that. Or write them. Okay? That's not the kind of thing people say, so don't do that anymore. Okay?" Pirate-Sensei looked very flustered. Kagome was burning with curiousity.
"What did it say?" Kagome asked. Yucky-Miroku shook his head.
"I can't tell you. Kaede-Sensei told me not to."
"If you don't tell me," Kagome warned. "I won't like you one bit, Yuckie." Miroku looked pale at that. He leaned over and whispered into Kagome's ear. "What does that mean?" She asked.
"I don't know either," Yucky-Miroku replied. "Daddy says the ladies like it."