Ecstasy
Chapter Three
Kagome sighed as she changed into her workout clothes. They were loose, baggy, and made of spandex. She pulled her black and purple hair up into a ponytail, getting it out of her face. She groaned inwardly as she stepped into her flip-flops.
Kagome walked out of her dorm and headed off towards the room Dante had showed her the day before, the one Sango had been having a class in. As Kagome walked down the hall she chewed the inside of her cheek, dreading the next hour considerably.
"Maybe if I run away no one will notice." She groaned as she opened the door and walked in, finding herself face to face with the entire staff of Milestone.
"Ready for your test, Ms. Hirugashi?" Dante smiled as he walked across the mat to her, he patted her on the back, grinning as he did. "You nervous? Don't be. This is all standard procedure…all of our students have to go through a physical test before we allow them to work night shift."
Kagome shrugged her shoulders as she rotated her arm, stretching the muscles and easing her joints. "Whatever." She sighed, pulling on her 'everything's fine' face. She used that face a lot; actually she hardly ever took it off. She used it to mask her pain, problems, fears, and emotions.
Dante smiled. "That's what I like to hear. Are you ready to begin?"
Kagome popped her knuckles that were bound with athletic tape. "Yeah. Sure."
Kagome went to the center of the room; the teachers all lined up and sitting down behind a long table, perfect for them to spectate her. Dante, who now sat in the middle of the teachers smiled at her warmly. "Your name please."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Kagome Hirugashi."
"Age?"
"16." She sighed in annoyance. Why didn't they just look at her records for all of this crap? The Headmaster ignored Kagome's sigh as he typed the information into a program on his laptop.
"Date of birth?"
Kagome groaned. "July 21, 1987." (That's my birthday ^__^)
"Place of birth?"
"Tokyo, Japan."
"Have you moved at all, or are you still currently listed as a citizen of that state?" He continued.
"I moved to New York when I was three, and then last year I moved to Rhode Island with the grand mother…and have lived there ever since, until now."
"Your parent's or legal guardian's name?"
"I…I'm an orphan."
"Your gender?"
Kagome felt her head exploded, 'listen here.' She wanted to snap. 'You asked me to come here…not vise versa. I didn't ask for this but I have no choice. You know the answers to all these stupid questions. Lets not state the obvious…I'm a girl. What do you people think? I'm stupid?' "Girl." She groaned, debating on jumping out the window.
Dante chuckled, noticing Kagome's sudden irritated temperament. "You have your grandmother's attitude. You can understand Ms. Hirugashi that these questions are not meant to be discriminatory towards your intelligence, they are merely standard procedure. I of course apologize for any inconvenience."
Kagome fumed, but nodded none-the-less. "Whatever." She crossed her arms over her chest, and huffed.
Dante laughed to himself as he went back to typing. After a few minutes or so he finished off with his 'thank you Captain Obvious' questions, Kagome reluctantly answering all of them. He intern glanced up at Kagome and smiled. He couldn't help but marvel at the way she looked so much like her grandmother when she had been Kagome's age.
"Now Ms. Hirugashi, would you please take that chair beside you…" Kagome looked at the metal folding chair that sat beside her, "and picked it up."
Kagome grasped her hand onto the metal leg and lifted it above her head. She knew exactly what he wanted her to do…and she hadn't done it, she was trying her best to be difficult. "Is this good enough?" She asked in such an innocent voice that it had a few of the teachers convinced she was really that naïve.
Dante sighed, "I meant mentally, Miss."
"Oh." Kagome smirked, she literally let go of the chair and let it clatter to the padded floor. She stared down at it, and without hesitation it lifted into the air and flung around the room, flying circles around the miko. Her eyes remain unfaltering as she stared at the Headmaster, proving to him that she had perfect control of her powers, she didn't even have to look at the chair, and it was still obeying her.
A few of the teachers were already impressed, but the Headmaster wasn't amused, he knew she could do better than this. "Ms. Hirugashi, if you would, would you land the chair on the floor."
Kagome mentally let go of the chair; it flew over the teachers' heads and smashed into the wall behind them. She only giggled at all the teachers, who had ducked under the table, save for the Headmaster. He remained rooted to his chair, not even a flinch escaping from him. He just smirked. She's a cocky little brat…just like Kaede.
"Well…I've proved I can make a chair float around, anything else you want me to do?" Make a fool of you perhaps…oops. Already did that. She sent her thoughts telepathically to Dante and when he had received them he merely chuckled at her.
He clapped his hands together, "very nice, Miss. But now…do you see those weapons behind you, lined against the wall?"
Kagome glanced back at them and nodded.
"I would like you to telekinetically pick them all up."
The row of teachers stared at him in bewilderment for asking such a request. It was a hard task; a very hard task, they all knew that. Picking up so many items with your mind at one time could be very strenuous, and could literally drain you of your power. Not to mention the extra large headache you would end up with. Almost like a hangover.
Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "Ok." She stared back at the row of swords, boas, and assortment of weapons. There was a slight moment of hesitation, being a more difficult job than last time, the swords rattled a little before they lifted into the air and hovered in a circular motion just above Kagome's head.
One teacher turned to another in horror. "What if she lets them go just like she did with the chair? We could loose our heads." The two adults glanced back at the shattered chair behind them and gulped.
Dante smiled at Kagome, she didn't seem to be having a problem at all. She was living up to her grandmother's praise. He watched Kagome circle the around the room, making the inanimate objects come to life. "Now put them back." He smirked.
Kagome motioned her hand towards the weapons rack, but the Headmaster stopped her. "One by one." He added coolly.
Kagome turned to stare at him with a raised eyebrow; she had a feeling he was really trying to push her into having a whomper of a migraine. She sighed and this time, had to stare at the flying objects, half of her mind grabbed one sword and floating it back into it's rack, while the other half kept the rest still floating above her. This little request of Dante's took longer than the other two, but she was soon done, and smirking triumphantly as she heard Milestone's staff 'ooh' and 'awe.'
"Very good." A female teacher clapped as she stood to her feet. Kagome's eyes shot to the woman…but she didn't glare at her. The woman seemed so jovial that Kagome instinctively favored her over the rest of the teachers.
"Such a power." She cheered, walking around the table to stand in front of Kagome. "I'm Rumiko Osuwari…your Psychic Awareness and Control teacher." She shook Kagome's hand proudly. "You've turned into quite the miko." She turned to smile at her employer, the headmaster. "I wouldn't be surprised if she succeeds me by the end of the semester."
Kagome eyed Ms. Osuwari suspiciously; she was a pretty lady, a young lady. She looked to be about Kikyo's age…in contrast to her fellow teachers who all looked to be well over retirement age in Kagome's opinion. But there was something about her name that Kagome just couldn't get out of her head…it sounded familiar. But where had Kagome heard it before?
Ms. Osuwari had a pretty essence about her. She had long brown hair and really bright sparkly blue eyes. Her skin was Australian bronze and she definitely had a nicely shaped body, one that was so well refined it could only belong to a surfer or swimmer. Her face was delicate and yet wise, like a young woman who could be youthful or mature…whatever the situation called for.
Rumiko turned to the headmaster as he stood up and walked over to her and Kagome. She tilted her head to the side and smiled, her dangling diamond earrings catching Kagome's attention.
"So…" the young woman sighed, "what has my brother done this time?"
Dante sighed, "how'd you find out?"
"Mikos intuition." She giggled; looping her arm with Kagome's…without Kagome's consent.
Brother? Then it hit her: Inuyasha. That boy who'd gotten in trouble at breakfast this morning…this must be his sister.
"Oh you know Inuyasha. He dumped chocolate pudding on top of Kikyo and tried to attack a girl in the hallway…nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to him."
Rumiko nodded; a slight scowl on her face. "Sounds like something Inuyasha would do."
Dante snickered and then sighed. "I honestly wander how the two of you can come from the same gene pool."
Rumiko nodded and then subconsciously unlinked her arm with Kagome's, "I suppose I should go speak to him now." She let out a deep sigh and retreated towards the exit.
"Don't be to hard on him." Dante called back, it was just Kikyo. He sent his thought discreetly to the young woman but Kagome had picked up on it, her being a miko herself.
Rumiko giggled and closed the door behind her.
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She rapped on the door lightly.
No reply.
She knocked on it a little harder.
Silence.
Rumiko growled inwardly before she pounded her first harshly against her little brother's dorm room door. "I know you're in there." She growled.
Nothing.
"Inuyasha!"
She could hear movement behind the door, as he scuffled up and unlocked it, allowing her to enter before he went back into his dark and black light-less room and collapsed on his bed.
Rumiko sighed as she flicked on the lights, discovering Inuyasha was in his werewolf form.
Inuyasha rolled over and shielded his sensitive amber eyes.
"I heard what happened this morning."
"Same thing that I do every morning." He growled into his pillow. "Get somebody pissed off at me…accused of assault and battery by the bitch from hell…"
"But you got to cover Kikyo in pudding…that's a perk right there." Rumiko giggled.
Inuyasha snorted into his pillow before he rolled over and smirked slightly, his wolf like ears twitching. "You should have seen it…her face was so red."
The young teacher sighed. "I'm beginning to worry about you, Inuyasha."
The werewolf rolled his eyes. "Do you still think I'm going to join an occult and go on a killing spree?"
Rumiko shook her head as she ran her fingers through her step brothers silky white hair. "No. it's just that…"
"Let me guess 'you're not getting along with any of the other kids'." He mocked her getting a stern glare in response.
He laughed inwardly. "When you glared at me a second ago…I swear you looked just like Sesshomaru."
Rumiko's glare iced over, she didn't much like Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha knew it. Sesshomaru was Inuyasha's half brother, creepy half brother, though luckily Rumiko wasn't related to that side of Inuyasha's family. She was Inuyasha's half sister, she having a different (human) father than he had. But Rumiko knew not to judge a book by it's cover, and she didn't know Sesshomaru very well, they had only met a few times at family reunions. But those times few times was all it took for him to creep her out, he was very big into werewolf pride…he thought of humans as inferior beings, and Rumiko and her's and Inuyasha's mother being one of them didn't help much. He disowned the family, moving off to God knows where.
I just wish you weren't so alone and different from everybody else, Inuyasha…the Hirugashi girl. A slight smile edged over Rumiko's tan face. Kagome doesn't have any friends either…she's perfect. She sighed, brushing a finger over one of his werewolf ears, "love you, Squirt."
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
Rumiko giggled. "Oh so you don't love your sister anymore?"
"Nope."
She pulled his ear teasingly. "Is that so?"
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Kagome groaned as Sango went on and on about night shift procedures. The miko glanced down at her watch. 9:30 p.m. Kagome cursed herself, she'd only taken that test a few hours ago and they were expecting her to already be able to go out and fight demons like she'd been doing it all her life…okay she had been, but still. It's a lot to expect of someone who hadn't even been to her first class yet. She knew nothing about Demonology except that they don't deal well with crowbars being slammed into their heads.
"So…" Sango sighed smiling as she adjusted the headset walky-talky on Kagome's head. "We'll keep in touch by these. You see anything you tell me ok?"
Kagome rolled her eyes and nodded.
"And if you kill anything be absolutely sure that there were no witnesses."
Kagome's brows furrowed. How was she supposed to prevent that? What if a demon just randomly attacked some pedestrian? What was she supposed to do? Let the demon it him so there won't be any witnesses.
"If there are…" Sango continued. "Use this." She pulled out a pair of sunglasses and held them out to Kagome. "All you do is put them on, look the witness in the face and push this button." She pointed to a small red button on the side on the frames. "This'll knock them out cold…but be careful…they may wake up forgetting what happened but there's still the problem of having to deal with an unconscious person for a few hours."
Kagome nodded. Suddenly she felt like she had just sold her soul to Men In Black or something. Sunglasses that can render a man unconscious?
Sango took a few steps back to check and make sure she hadn't forgotten anything. She eyed Kagome's stealth suit before giving the miko a thumbs up.
Kagome on the other hand didn't much like her suit…at all. It was made out of some type of black stretchy elastic material that looked like leather, only it was easier to move around in. But it wasn't because it was black that Kagome didn't feel comfortable in it, oh no, it just had to be skintight? It fit Kagome like a glove, a second skin…that revealed way too much in her opinion. But luckily they would be running around in the dark so no one could stare or ogle at her. Which, as Kagome caught a glimpse of Sango in her suit, she was sure her pervert of a brother Miroku would be doing just that if he had the opportunity.
"Okay, just to give you the 411 on what demons you kill and what demons you don't. Any normal demon…you know, the green and slimy ones…go for it. Same goes for pretty much all demons actually…the only exceptions are werewolves…" Sango pulled out a strange looking needle and handed it to Kagome, "since werewolves are partly humans, we don't kill them…"
"I'm confused." Kagome moaned as she yanked down at the leg part of her stealth suit, willing it to suddenly not be so tight.
Sango just smiled. "When bitten by a werewolf you get a sudden animalistic personality…very hungry…very temperamental…very dangerous. Even when they're in human form their wolf-like rage still stays around…"
Kagome's brows furrowed.
Sango sighed deeply, this was all really hard to explain. "When you get bitten by a werewolf you're not the same person anymore…it's like you suddenly get rabies. So you're a human still but…you're no longer able to function in society. Not many at least. There are a few who find ways." She shot a dirty look across the room at Inuyasha who was easing his headphones over his white ears. Kagome had a strange feeling Sango was over exaggerating just a little. "But none-the-less, we don't kill them, instead we use these." She pointed at the needle, "It's a tranquilizer," she smiled, "This'll put 'em' in a coma. Not literally of course…just knock them out for the rest of the night so they don't cause any mischief and then in the morning they'll go back to being human-friendly…since this tranquilizer acts as sort of…a werewolf antidepressant."
"I'm still confused." Kagome moaned, her eyes wandering over to Inuyasha, who was baring his fangs yet again at Emiko, who had made fun of his ears. Kagome thought they were cute…like a puppy.
Sango sighed. "Don't worry, you'll learn it all in Demonology. All you need to know for now is this: you kill anything that reminds you of a slimy man eating lizard…and if it has furry ears, fangs, claws, and a bad temper you stab them in the arm with this." She pointed to the needle again.
Kagome nodded. "I think I get it…" She mentally groaned, when she had lived in New York and Rhode Island there weren't any werewolves…she'd never actually even seen one before. But the town Milestone Manner was located in was apparently covered in them.
Riho cam bounding across the large room, the living room. She giggled excitedly, "Oh Kagome…" she exclaimed with bright eyes, "you're going to have so much fun with us tonight…you're going to love demon hunting."
Kagome rolled her eyes as she picked up her weapon of choice that she had laid down on the coffee table. "I've been hunting demons since I was twelve." She glanced at the crooked end of her crowbar, making sure it was sharp enough to her liking.
Sango and Riho looked at each other.
"You've been demon hunting for four years?" Riho asked incredulously.
Kagome nodded, using her sleeve to polish her weapon. "I had a mother who was a miko and a dad who was a demon hunter remember? I was raised into this crap." That's why I really don't want to go to this damn school. I'm sick it. Sick of demons. Sick of being a miko. And sick of people using me because I am one.
Sango only nodded in agreement. "Yeah my family was like that too…" she eyed Kagome's weapon, "what's with the crowbar? Why don't you use a sword like everyone else?"
Kagome shrugged her shoulders as she stuck it into a makeshift sheath she had made to hang from her belt like a sword. "I've always used 'em' and I guess I just like being different." She smiled.
Sango and Riho just shrugged their shoulders. The demon hunter pulled out three pieces of paper from her satchel and passed them around to the witch and miko.
Kagome stared down at the piece of paper. It was a printout of a map of the city, with certain streets highlighted? "Why are these streets here red?" Kagome showed her paper to Sango.
"Those are the streets you've been assigned." She showed Kagome her own map, which had different streets highlighted.
"You mean…I have to go out alone?!"
Sango looked at the raven-haired girl as if her head had just fallen off. "Of course, what did you expect?"
That I'd have at least a partner to go with me.
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Kagome silently edged her way through the alley, her trusty crowbar in hand. She kept her eyes as keen as she could as she eyed everything, from the dumpsters to the cardboard box a hobo was living in. She gulped.
Kagome creeped around the corner, as quiet as a mouse. Nothing.
She found it odd that she'd been out patrolling the streets for little over an hour and hadn't found anything. Everything was whipped clean, no demons, no werewolves; nothing that went bump in the night was visible.
She gave out a deep sigh. Was this whole not having to fight anything a routine?
The second that thought ran through her mind Kagome heard someone scream, "Look out!" Before she even had time to turn around a flash of white and gray sped past her and then collided into the side of the dumpster with a loud bang. Inuyasha had jumped out and pushed the wolf away from Kagome and up against a dumpster.
Kagome's eyes grew like saucers as Inuyasha leapt back to stand by her side. But Kagome's eyes didn't fall on him, they lied on the large snarling werewolf that towered before her as it stood to its feet. it had to be at least nine feet tall as he stood up on its great hind legs. The werewolf look just like the way she had pictured one would always look like. A giant angry wolf that stood up on its back legs. It had the face of a wolf, the large snout with whiskers, the mouth full of teeth, and the red beady eyes that were sharp and angry as it turned to glare daggers at Kagome. it foamed at the mouth as it wrinkled his nose and bared its fangs in a howl.
Kagome's first instinct was run, wolf with rabies, but the miko in her forced her to remain rooted to her spot.
"You alright?" Inuyasha snapped, as if he really didn't care at all.
Kagome just nodded, not sure what to do as the werewolf shifted from side to side. That's when Kagome realized it was cornered, they had backed it up against the wall at the end of the alleyway…so the only way it could escape was through Kagome and Inuyasha.
Kagome panicked as the werewolf bound into the air, aiming to land on top of the pretty little girl with the black and purple hair. Inuyasha jumped in-between Kagome and the werewolf, leaping into an attack of his own. He flexed his sharp claw like fingernails, slicing across the monster's face. It howled in pain, falling to the floor on its side before it lifted itself back on its feet. Turning its murderous glare at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha leapt onto the werewolf's back, wrapping his arms around the rapid animal's neck in a chokehold. "Do you have a tranquilizer?" He growled.
Kagome stared dumbfounded at the scene before her. Not sure if it was real. It didn't seem right, where were the scales? The slime? The demon? She'd never fought a werewolf before, it was bigger than any demon she had ever seen, and it frightened her.
"Do you have a tranquilizer?" Inuyasha screamed as the werewolf jumped around, with Inuyasha riding it like a bull rider in the rodeo. "Are you even listening to me, you stupid girl? I've already used all of my tranquilizers. Do you have one?"
The werewolf jumped up onto the wall and ran across it, before leaping over another dumpster and trampling over an abandoned cardboard house.
Kagome, finally coming to, frantically searched through her utility belt. Where had she put her tranquilizer? She pulled one out just in time to see Inuyasha bucked off the wild animal and have a crash course with a pile of metal trashcans.
Kagome glared at the werewolf, the fear erasing from her, she mentally locked onto it. This was a difficult job. Controlling inanimate objects was fairly simple compared to this. Controlling a living breathing thing was literally impossible, and since the werewolf was so huge…it was basically a battle of wills. Who was stronger? She strained, her head pounding as the werewolf leapt out to attack her. She flung her hands out in front of her, and as the monster was just an inch from landing on top of her, it stopped in midair, hovering above her. Kagome's knees buckled as she mentally flung the wolf against the wall and pinned it there. Kagome fell to her knees, holding her head in her hands as she continued to keep the monster pressed between the wall and her mind.
"Get the tranquilizer." She screamed as she blindly pointed to where it had landed, "stab it in the arm now…" she ordered as she clenched her eyes shut, her head feeling as if it was splitting in two.
She heard Inuyasha scramble to his feet, and then a few seconds later she heard a loud yelp and then a thud, signaling her to let go. Kagome let her mental control over the monster go gasped as a feeling of relief washed over her. Was that what it was supposed to be like every time she came encounter with a werewolf?
She slowly opened her eyes when she heard Inuyasha growl gruffly. "Here." She stared down at his hand extended to her. He cautiously helped her to her feet. "So you must be a miko." He snorted
Kagome just ignored him to stare over at where she had last seen the werewolf, now there lay a young woman's unconscious body against the wall. "…it was a teenage girl?" she's looks like she's my age.
Inuyasha growled angrily. "What the hell are you doing on my street?"
Kagome's head snapped over to stare at the boy. She hadn't realized how human he looked, even with his white hair, amber eyes, sharp claw-like fingernails, canine fangs, and wolf like fluffy ears. This must be why the headmaster allowed Inuyasha to stay at Milestone Manner. Inuyasha looked human when he was in his werewolf form, at least compared to the werewolf that had nearly attacked her only a moment ago.
"I said 'what the hell are you doing on my street?'"
"Your street?" Kagome whispered curiously, her head still feeling like it was swelling.
Inuyasha murmured something about 'mikos are morons' before he pulled out his own map with his highlighted assigned streets. "You're on my assigned territory." He growled. "What kind of stunt are you trying to pull?"
Kagome glared icily at him. "Excuse me?" she pulled out her map, unfolding it, and shoved it in his face. "These are my streets…read it and weep."
Inuyasha eyed her paper. Sure enough, they were exactly the same. He snatched the paper out of her hand so he could compare the maps side by side. A low growl vibrated up his throat. "Are you like stalking me or something?"
Kagome snorted. "You wish. I just saved your life. You should be thankful…not rude." She put her hands on her hips, suddenly remembering her tight fitting stealth suit. She glanced up at the street light that hung just above her head by a few feet. Damn it.
"You? Save my life?" He snickered incredulously. "Dream on. And why did you steal a copy of my map?" He waved the identical sheets of papers in front of her face.
"I didn't steal it…it was given to me." She rolled her eyes at how immature the half werewolf was acting.
"You're lying." He seethed. "You just did this so you could follow me around and make fun of the werewolf…just like everybody else."
Kagome giggled. "Have I said anything about you yet?"
"…"
"Didn't think so." She snatched her paper out of his hands and folded it back up before stuffing it into a spare pocket on her utility belt. "It was just a mistake, they must have accidentally given you a copy of my map."
Inuyasha rolled her eyes. "You mean they gave you a copy of my map. I've had these exact streets for two years…they're mine."
Kagome murmured under her breath about strangling him to death. "whatever." She wasn't in the mood to start an argument, certainly not with a big puppy like him. "You stupid jerk. Can't even be thankful to someone for saving your life. I'm sacrificing a huge headache for you, you know?"
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. "If it hadn't been for me…you'd be dog food by now."
Kagome eyed his ears as they laid back against his white scalp. "Really now?" She giggled.
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Okay folks, yes Inuyasha is a werewolf, but I thought it was best, since in my story if he had been demon he would have been killing his own kind. And even though that's the way it's in the anime…I pictured Inuyasha to feel more sorry for werewolves than hating them, since he is part of one. And if you are wandering what the demons look like in this story; ever seen Blood the Last Vampire? There's your answer…the things that Saya has to fight…evil ugly looking things.
Is it just me…or did during Kagome's test did I give her the personality of Inuyasha there for just a few moments? ::stares down at the pretzel shaped chair:: yep, I did. Oops.
Have any questions, comments, or suggestions? I could sure use them, it helps me know what you guys want me to make my story like. Just leave them in a review or email them to me. I would be delighted to answer them. ^__^