Ecstasy

Chapter Five

Kagome murmured curse words as she hopped out of the school bus, and back onto Milestone Manner property. Finally. She had just spent another terrible day of hell at her high school; she was amazed that she had even survived it.

Kagome treaded up the sidewalk and walked through the front doors of her demon exterminating boarding school. She groaned as she followed the crowd of students towards the classroom wing of the mansion. Okay, as if seven hours of normal high school wasn't enough, she had to take an extra three courses at Milestone…talk about cramming education down your throat. This was her first day too, great…just great

"This really sucks you know?" Kagome groaned to Riho as the two girls waved to Miroku, who was heading back to his dorm room.

Riho plastered on a smile. "Which part? The one where we have way too much work to do? Or the one where your brother doesn't have to do any of it?"

"Both."

Riho giggled. "You think it's bad now…wait 'til you get to class." She snickered.

"Why? It shouldn't be that hard."

"It's not."

Kagome put her hands on her hips. "Then what's so bad…other than the fact that it's work?"

"Oh you'll see." Riho giggled as she whipped one of her platinum curls out of her eyes.

"Riho…what do you know that you're not telling me?" Kagome glared at the witch.

"Nothing." Riho giggled suspiciously.

"Riho…come on just tell me…don't make me have to hurt you." Kagome whined.

Riho cleared her throat. "Well…you do know that most students who start coming to Milestone are freshman in high school right?"

Kagome nodded.

"And you're not a freshman."

Oh no.

"All the juniors, like us, have Demonology III…" She snickered, "while you have Demonology I…with a bunch of freshman." Riho burst out laughing, collapsing against a classroom door.

"Stop laughing." Kagome groaned. Everyone she knew was in different classes, while she was stuck with a bunch of kids who were two years younger than her. Kagome didn't understand it; ever since she was a little girl her parent's had been training her on demon extermination…she probably knew more than half the bozos in this school. So why was she the one in the beginners classes? "Stop laughing damn it. It's not funny, Riho."

"Oh…yes…it…is." She managed to get out between giggles.

Kagome just rolled her eyes and made her way to her first class. "Damn it I hate Mondays…" she turned to glare back at the still laughing Riho. "I hate you, you know?"

Riho held her sides and bit her lip. "And…I…care…because?"

Kagome hmphed as she pushed the door open and took a seat in the back of the fancy classroom. Just as Kagome had expected, the room was filled to the brim with teenagers that were all shorter than her…with the few exceptions. My life sucks.

The teacher at the front of the room, an old man with a long narrow face and gray hair smiled at his students…and then frowned. "Welcome to Demonology I Ms. Hirugashi…I am professor Totosai." And that was it, before the teacher turned to his lecture for the day. He didn't seem happy or cheery, just over excited about demons.

"Alright…first off…all demons are alike. As we have learned already, but I must do a quick recap for our new student…though I still require that you take notes…consider this as a review."

The room groaned simultaneously.

"A demon has four pressure points. One is here." He pointed to a model of a demon head that sat on his desk. The head was grotesquely accurate. "Here on the temple. A demon's skull is extraordinarily thick compared to any other creature in the animal kingdom. There are very few sensitive areas," he turned his angry glare at a boy and girl who were talking to each other, "therefore pay attention." He snapped bitterly. "You need to know these things if you're ever in a fight that you might actually need this knowledge to survive." The two shut up. "Alright…the four points are here: the temple; the area below the chin, a good upper stab with a sword is very affective here; then you have the eyes. Demons' eyes are very sensitive…they are filled with a thick green fluid called Mclucid…this allows them to see in the dark far beyond any other animal. But Mclucid is toxic, by puncturing the eye; the Mclucid fluid will drain into their sinuses…and well…basically burn a deadly hole in their head."

Kagome started ignoring him right about here. He spoke monotone, and she knew all of this from her dad…the fourth weak point would be the area behind the ear.

"And the last point is right behind their ear, this area has no bone at all, a good stab and you could dig all the way into their medulla oblongata…or also known as the brain."

What did I tell you? What's the point of even going to school when you already know it all?

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The rest of Kagome's classes that day seemed to be the same, even Psychic Awareness and Control, Kagome was so far ahead…she had talked to Ms. Rumiko and had found out that Kagome was even ahead of the third years…which she should be with. Kind of ironic don't you think? Kagome did find out that other than herself, Rumiko, and Kikyo there were four other mikos. That's four out of five hundred students.

~*~*~*~

That night Inuyasha lied on his bed in the darkness, his eyes glazed over as he stared up at the stucco ceiling. He could hear his roommate mumbling in his sleep about some girls in a hot tub.

Inuyasha groaned as he grabbed a shoe that was lying on the floor beside his bed and tossed it over at Spike. The green haired youth didn't even stir when it hit him on the arm.

The werewolf snorted. "Only you, Spike."

"No…no…don't…" Spike started kicking in his sheets. "Ladies don't drown each other over me." Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "There's plenty of Spike to go around."

Inuyasha snickered as Spike completely rolled off the bed and landed on the floor with a thud followed by a yelp.

"Ah damn." Spike groaned, rubbing the bruise on his head as he sat up. "That hurt like hell…I'm gonna have an egghead tomorrow for sure."

Inuyasha laughed, "having pleasant dreams?"

Spike Matsumoto nodded. "Oh yeah." He gave Inuyasha a thumbs up. "You should have been there, Inu. They were everywhere…beautiful, hot, gorgeous, women…and each and every one of them was in love with me." He smirked as he tried to stand back up, but it only resulted in him getting even more tangled up in his sheets. "Heck, Pamela Anderson was sitting right beside me, feeding me grapes…now that's the life right there." Spike was the only person in Milestone Manner that Inuyasha would actually consider as a friend or anything close to it. They had been roommates for the past two years…and neither boy would have it any other way. Spike, out of everyone else, didn't care about the whole werewolf thing; because his best friend from childhood had become one. Spike had seen firsthand just how much people threw werewolves out of proportion…to him they were relatively normal human beings. Of course…Spike himself wasn't very normal either.

Inuyasha sat up and stared at Spike in bewilderment. "Pamela Anderson? You do realize you have no chance?" Inuyasha smirked.

Spike sighed as he ran his fingers through his messy green hair. "I know I know…only in my dreams. But seriously you should have seen it…the hot tub was the size of the damn ocean…no-no-no even bigger…stretching as far as the eye could see." He began exaggerating with his hands. "And every pretty girl I've ever seen in my life was there…heck the new girl was there."

Inuyasha's eyes narrowed. "Kagome?"

Spike nodded, shining Inuyasha a sly smile. "Yep…she's a pretty girl ain't she? Got a pretty face anyway…she'd be even prettier if she'd actually smile…but still."

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders. "Feh."

The green-haired boy slowly pulled himself back onto his bed as he flipped on a lamp. "You guys are having to work the same streets now aren't you?"

Inuyasha growled. "The damn bitch is driving me crazy."

"Already? God it doesn't take long to get on your nerves does it? She just got here Friday. She's only been here three…" he checked the clock: 12:14 A.M., "make that four days."

Inuyasha sat back, leaning against his headboard. "She's just a bitch."

"What did she do?"

"…"

"Inuyasha?" Spike's voice hardened sternly. Spike was used to Inuyasha pleading the fifth, so he knew the only way to get the werewolf to talk was to treat him like a puppy that had just messed on the carpet. "Did she try and attack you or something?"

"No."

"Did she try to stab you with a tranquilizer like Kikyo did the first time she saw you?"

"No."

Spike's brows furrowed. "Did she make fun of you because you're a werewolf?" Awe…he's getting bullied.

"Does being called puppy-wuffy count?"

Spike snorted. "Are you serious…that's great." He chuckled to himself, "I like this girl already. So…getting a pet name is what's got your panties in such a bunch?"

"First off…it's boxers not panties." He spat the word out as if it were toxic. "And second…do you really think puppy-wuffy is enough to make me hate her?"

"Yeah." Spike blurted. "That's all it takes…considering this is the great bitchy Inuyasha we're talking about."

Glare.

"So if puppy-wuffy isn't what got you hating this girl…what is it?"

Silence.

"Inuyasha." Again with the stern voice.

"Alright…so she hasn't done anything exactly…she just irritates me ok?"

Spike rolled his eyes as he turned off the light and laid back down. "You're a lost cause, Osuwari. If I got a pet name from a babe like that I'd be excited…" and with that he drifted off to Never Land.

Inuyasha yawned. Why didn't he like Kagome? She seemed ok…sort of. She had called him puppy-wuffy and asked if he was a pedigree…a definite no-no. But other than that…she had come to sit with him at lunch so she didn't mind the fact that he was a werewolf, or did she and she was just picking on him because of it? Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders as he stood up and walked out onto his dorm room's balcony. He sighed as he stared up at the stars. He was all alone, and he liked it that way. No living soul in sight.

He suddenly backed up into the shadows when he saw a figure emerge from a balcony just below him. Speaking of the devil…

Kagome walked out onto her balcony, she knew that twelve 'o' clock in the morning was passed curfew, but she couldn't help it. She wasn't tired. She sighed as she leaned against the balcony's cement railing, and glanced around the campus. From what she could gather through the darkness, the only light being the moon, there didn't seem to be any signs of life. All the other balconies around her looked empty, and the lawn itself seemed calm and serene.

Everything was quiet as a silent wind blew past her, taking her black and purple hair with it. Kagome smiled. It wasn't too hot or too cold outside…it was just right. The breeze whipped at her pajamas and hair as she closed her eyes and embraced the free feeling of the sky around her. Ever since she had been a little girl, Kagome had wanted to be able to fly like superman. She wanted to spread out her arms and rise up into the sky…she wanted to be free, like the birds. She wanted wings, like an angel.

She raised her arms up and pretended she was flying against the wake of the moon, a juvenile thought but since no one was looking she didn't care how stupid she looked. It was so beautiful outside, like a painting on a crystal canvas. In the moonlight everything seemed to sparkle, the rocks on the sidewalk to the large pond on the left side of the mansion. The dark navy and black colors of the night seemed so pure and majestic.

Kagome took in a deep breath and then exhaled, letting her soul cleanse against the current wind. The most genuine smile edged across her gentle features, she felt…happy, something she hadn't felt in a long time. But the second she realized what she was doing and just how stupid she looked, Kagome pulled her hands back down by her side and glared angrily…her usual face.

Kagome groaned as she walked back into her dorm room, shutting the sliding glass door behind her. She felt incredibly stupid…wanting to fly like superman. Sounds like something Souta would have done. Kagome choked back tears. Souta…

She collapsed onto her bed and buried her face into her pillow, drowning out Riho's snoring.

Kagome felt like crying her eyes out until she shriveled up and died. Which she would have done had it not been for Miroku. He was all she had left. Kagome had lost everything, her mom, her dad, her grandfather, and her ten-year-old brother, Souta, hell she even lost her cat that her nana had given her when she was five. And she didn't even have a photo…nothing was left…all of it had gone up in flames. She had nothing to remember her family…and Kagome was so afraid that she might forget what they looked like. She felt guilty for surviving…for not being there.

Kagome didn't understand it. She didn't understand why Souta had to die when he was just a stupid little kid. She didn't get it…he was so young, why didn't he get a chance to live a life?

Inuyasha stared after Kagome's retreating figure for the longest time, his sensitive ears picking up the sound of sobbing. He had watched her that whole time…and was it just him, or had he actually seen her smile? He couldn't help but wonder what was up with that girl. She seemed so dead set on being miserable…and then she just all of a sudden came out and smiled…and then went back to being miserable? He sighed as he retreated back to his room and the talking-in-his-sleep Spike.

~*~*~*~

The next day seemed to go by like any other typical day. And too Kagome's torture, it was team B's day to go out on the prowl. She zipped up the back of her stealth suit and smiled over at Riho as the poor girl stumbled on the floor, trying to pull her boots on and not trip. Kagome rolled her eyes. "Do you need help?"

"Nope…I'm goo-" She fell, "-d."

Kagome giggled. "You're hopeless, Riho." Kagome pulled her crowbar out of her drawer and stuck it into her makeshift sheathe before she snapped her utility belt around her waste.

The two girls gathered everything together and ran out of their dorm room, through the hallway, and out of the building completely. Each girl scrambling in opposite directions towards their streets. Kagome unfortunately meeting up with Inuyasha.

~*~*~*~

Kagome edged her way down the sidewalk, briefly stepping through the light of a dull street lamp. "This way, puppy-wuffy. I think I see something."

"Would you stop calling me that!? I'm not a dog you know?" Inuyasha screamed as the two tiptoed down their streets.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Would you shut up? You're scaring all the demons away, puppy-wuffy."

"Stop it damn it!"

Kagome sighed. "You wouldn't by any chance be pregnant would you?" She giggled.

Inuyasha growled. "That's not funny. I'm not a girl."

"You're PMSing like one!"

"…" Inuyasha glared at her. "You're a pain-in-the-ass, bitch."

Kagome turned around to angrily stare him straight in the eye. "My name's not bitch, whore, or wench. It's Kagome…do you want me to freaking spell it out for you? I'm Kagome…Ka-go-me…not bitch so stop calling me that."

"But I think bitch sounds a 'helluva' lot better…don't you?"

"Fine have it your way, puppy-wuffy."

Inuyasha gritted his teeth. "You know it's freaks like you who always end up on Unsolved Mysteries."

"Yeah well it's jerk-offs like you who end up on Jerry Springer."

Inuyasha snorted. "Please…as screwed up as you are I can picture you up on that stage with some guy screaming the baby isn't his, you damn whore."

Kagome slapped him clear across the face, the sound of his pain echoing throughout the alleyway.

"Owe…pain." Inuyasha moaned as he rubbed his jaw, but this time he didn't need to ask what it was for.

"Just to get it through your thick skull, I'm a virgin; V-I-R-G-I-N…much unlike yourself." She scanned him from head to toe, it was obvious that if Inuyasha wasn't such an asshole he'd have girls hanging all over him. He was easy on the eyes, she'd give him that, but his personality just ruined it completely.

Inuyasha rubbed his wound as he gave her a quick look up and down. She was pretty, really pretty, but a pain-in-the-ass. "We're never going to get along are we?" He sighed.

Kagome snorted, she thought about grabbing her crowbar and giving him one good whack over the head but she didn't. "Probably not." She turned around to give the alley a quick look down.

Inuyasha stared at her as she entered into the clearing of the street. He felt bad for her, the Headmaster had told him all about Kagome's past (at least what he knew) and about Kagome's family. Dante had told Inuyasha because he knew just how much the werewolf could easily offend people…so in actuality Headmaster Doi had given Inuyasha a strict warning to steer clear of the 'past' subject. It was sad…her whole family other than Miroku going up in flames while she stood by and watched, not being able to help at all.

Inuyasha sighed as small droplets of rain began to sprinkle down around him, stinging his bare arm. He watched with interest as Kagome held her crowbar by her side and began searching dumpsters for demon infestations…all the while her stealth suit getting soaked. An evil smirk spread across Inuyasha's face, Kagome had a nice body. He leaned his head over to the side…somehow giving him more concentration to study her with. He knew that her father, being a demon hunter, had been training Kagome ever since she was a little girl. Inuyasha could tell…her years of work showed.

Kagome lifted the last dumpster lid finding that it was empty. She smiled as she turned back around. "All clear."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, and then suddenly he stiffened. He saw a small flash of gray sprint just behind Kagome. "Stay perfectly still." He ordered hoarsely.

Kagome looked at him with a raised eyebrow as she took a step towards him. "What's gotten into you?"

"I said stay still." He growled as he used his demon reflexes to jump up and pick her up into his arms, he stayed airborne for a brief second before landing on a building's window seal without so much as making a sound.

Kagome stared up into his amber orbs dumbfoundedly. "What's wrong?" She whispered.

He hushed her. "I think I saw something…"

"A demon?"

"No…this was silver…" He motioned to his hair. "I think it's a werewolf."

Kagome gulped as she stared up at the moon. "But it's not even a full moon tonight." Oh God she did not want to fight another one of those things again.

Inuyasha scanned the alley below him with his keen wolf eyes. "That's why I'm being extra precocious…the only way for a werewolf to morph on a full moon-less night is if they were openly attacked…and if so…then they're even more dangerous than usual, so be quiet."

"Hey wait…if it takes a werewolf being attacked to make them change…then why can you do it all the time?"

Inuyasha let out an annoyed sigh. "Because my werewolf blood's not as strong it's easier for me to controll."

Kagome nodded, and then realized she was still in the werewolf boy's arms. She tapped him on the shoulder.

"What?" He shot her a nasty glare.

"Can you put me down?" She whispered.

Inuyasha snorted. "We're three stories high…that's a long fall." He faked like he was going to drop her, forcing her to wrap her arms around his neck in fear. He smirked.

"If you drop me I swear to God I'll kill you." She hissed.

Inuyasha laughed. "You'd be dead."

"Then I'll pull you down wit-" Inuyasha covered her mouth with his hand, cutting her sentence off.

"Shh."

Kagome gave him an icy glare and almost bit his hand but she stopped herself.

"There." He pointed to the farthest corner of the alley. "You see it?" A flash of silvery gray darted behind another garbage can and accidentally knocked it over.

"Is it a werewolf?"

Inuyasha nodded, his eyes seeing more than she was. "Yeah but it's just a pup."

"A pup?"

Inuyasha groaned in frustration. "Yeah a pup…you know…like a puppy…"

Kagome's brows furrowed.

"It's just a damn kid."

Kagome giggled which just irritated Inuyasha even more as he leapt down and fell to the alley floor with ease. His landing was silent, almost like a leaf falling to the grass. He slowly let her climb out of his arms. "Be quiet." He whispered as softly as possible. "It's got to be terrified. If it's just a kid then…it was probably attacked by some bullies or something. But none-the-less he's most likely really shaken up."

Kagome nodded as she pulled a tranquilizer out of her belt she began to tiptoe towards the area where she had last seen the flash of gray when Inuyasha caught her by the arm, stopping her in her tracks. The rain was now pouring around them, drowning out any hopes for Inuyasha of hearing the other werewolf's movements. "Let me do this." He took the tranquilizer from her. "I'm more experienced in this…field." He made his wolf ears twitch to prove his point.

The half werewolf sneaked up to where the pup was hiding. "Come here…" he began to chant, "I'm not going to hurt you. Don't be afraid." He gently moved a mattress out of the way, and to Kagome's surprise there lay a small almost Labrador Retriever looking pup, with floppy ears and blood caked fur. Its eyes danced as it pushed itself as far into the corner as possible. It looked so helpless and scared. The pup whimpered in fear as Inuyasha crouched down and smiled. "Just as I thought." Inuyasha called back to Kagome. "He's been attacked. Come over her, Kag."

Kagome obeyed, she tiptoed over to look at the small werewolf as Inuyasha reached out and grabbed it by the fur of its neck. The small werewolf howled as it kicked and snapped at Inuyasha, the pup bared his fangs and bit into Inuyasha's arm. The older werewolf just ignored the pain as he fumbled with the tranquilizer. The pup squirmed and yelped as Inuyasha took the tranquilizer and buried it into the pup's fur.

Kagome covered her eyes as the pup yapped in pain and then slowly it morphed back into an unconscious human. Kagome's eyes widened as the figure of a small boy came forth. A very small boy, around the age of six or seven. He had flaming red hair and freckles. Inuyasha pushed the boy's unconscious body back into the corner and up under the mattress where he would be hidden before the white haired youth stood back up and dusted himself off.

Kagome's eyes widened as a frown scratched across her face. "You're just going to leave him here?" She practically shouted.

Inuyasha just nodded like he didn't think anything of it. "Yeah…I can tell he's a runaway…the little runt's probably got no family. Besides…I'm sure he'll get picked up by someone soon."

Kagome's eyes narrowed dangerously at him. "We're not going to leave him here…we'll take him to an orphanage. That's where he belongs anyway." Her voice was final as she crawled down on her hands and knees and picked the boy up and cradled him in her arms.

"You're shitting me right?"

"No I'm not shitting you." She barked at him protectively.

"You can't take a werewolf to an orphanage…he'd just runaway again. They wouldn't have the faintest idea on how to handle him."

"Oh but the streets will?"

Inuyasha groaned, how was he supposed to answer her without giving out his most well kept secret. He knew something, and he knew that it would be best if they left the pup there…they would come find him and take care of him.

"Fine." She sighed, not in a negotiating mood. "If he can't go to an orphanage then he's going with us."

"No way!" Inuyasha's heart stopped. This girl had to be kidding.

"I said he's coming with us." Her voice was unyielding. "He's just a little kid…" just like Souta. "And I refuse to just leave him here to…get abducted or something. He could starve to death out here…or get run over by a car…or worse."

Inuyasha sighed. "Kagome he's not like a real dog…and he's no house pet. We can't just take him back to Milestone."

"We can and we will." She snapped at him, she smiled gently down at the boys fragile little face. That smile…that smile Kagome had on…Inuyasha recognized that smile. It was just like the one she had had on the balcony.

"Do you realize how much trouble we could get in? Let me correct myself 'will get in,' when they find out we brought a werewolf onto school property."

"We're going to hide him." She gave him a weak smile. "No one will find out…I promise."

"How in the hell are we supposed to hide a little kid?"

"He'll stay in my dorm room of course. Nobody ever checks them."

"But what about full moons…how in the hell are we supposed to baby-sit a little monster?" He argued, he had to find a way out of this and fast.

"I'll just have to be extra careful and remember to give him a shot of tranquilizer before he changes every month." She smirked.

"What about while we're at school? Huh? Didn't think about that did you?"

"He'll go to his own school of course."

Inuyasha groaned as he pulled at his hair. "You're hopeless you know that?" But Kagome wasn't listening to him, she was already making her way down the alley way towards Main St. Her eyes lit up as her motherly instincts kicked in and she held the boy close to her. She wondered what his name is.

"I'm going to fucking burn for this." He groaned as he followed after Kagome. "I can't wait 'til the Milestone staff finds out we brought a werewolf on campus…I'm doomed." Dante won't care but…oh God Kikyo will, and her dad's one of the school's main sponsors.