Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. I do, however, own Kiro, and I know who owns Nuku. It's not you. Believe me. I know. Also, Mr. Keene belongs to me, he is my creation. evil laugh.... Uh... If you read it you'll get it... I think...

This chapter is dedicated to all of the poor people that thought I was making InuYasha gay. Wink This is also dedicated to the people who read the first chapter and went 'What an idiot this author is! Kiro was a girl in the beginning and now she's a guy!'

Yep. Here's to you guys.

The teacher, sitting at his desk, looked up when the girls entered. He raised an eyebrow, looking at them over his rectangle glasses, but otherwise gave them no attention, returning to his work.

The room was arranged in Science lab tables— tall tables with four chairs apiece, all facing the blackboard. Sango looked for a good seat, smirking to herself. "I wonder if the office warned him about us," she mused aloud. Kagome and Nuku smirked as well, exchanging looks, and they all sat at a table in the back. The door opened again, and the girls (and the teacher) looked up as the three guys walked in. Nobody else seemed to notice, too absorbed in their own business to care.

"Okay, everyone up," the teacher said, in a bored, inflectionless British voice. "You're all fools if you think I'm letting you sit wherever you want. I learned from last year," he said bluntly, looking at them all with a mixed bored/annoyed expression. A couple of students snickered, so he continued, "Haha, yes, as hard as that is to believe."

"I know you're all too engrossed in your own selves to care," he continued snidely, "But if you'll all turn your attention to the back, you'll notice we have three new students: Sango Taija, Kagome Higarashi, and Nuku Megami." Looking at the girls, he smirked and continued, "I do hope I pronounced your names right— besides sucking the blood out of last year's C students, learning how to pronounce your names was all I did."

Kagome, Sango, and Nuku exchanged looks. This guy was okay... For a teacher. Sango, noticing the silver haired Porsche driver glancing at her, gave him a two-finger salute. The teacher raised an eyebrow.

"I see you've met Master Sesshoumaru," he said, sneering. He stood up straighter, nose in the air. "I have been instructed to select a student or two to guide the new blood around this hole they call a school," he said snobbily. A bunch of the students laughed, and Nuku, Sango, and Kagome exchanged glances— apparently there had been some inside joke they weren't privy to. 'Sesshoumaru' first glared at Sango, then the teacher.

Kiro gave the teacher a thumbs up. "Good one, Mr. Keene," he said quietly, grinning impishly.

"I aim to please," Mr. Keene said, also grinning, tilting his head for a small, flourished bow. "Anyway, back on topic here. Miss Kanna and Miss Kagura..." he began, and paused, waiting for the two girls to look up from their conversation, then continued, "Would you two like to guide them around the school?"

Kiro and the black haired guy exchanged looks, before the latter said, "Uh... Mister Keene... Do you really think that's wise?"

"Yeah," Kiro piped up, glowering, "Look at the newbs— do they really look like the kind of people who'd want to be led around by the leaders of the Prep Empire?" he asked, staring daggers at the white haired girl, who ignored him.

Mr. Keene paused, looking at the three girls, then Kanna and Kagura, then back. "Perhaps you're right, Miss Kiro," he said with a shrug. "Anyway—" he began.

"Don't call me that!" Kiro cut him off, as Sango and Kagome looked at eachother, hissing, "MISS?!" in perfect, not-so-quiet unison. "He's a girl?!"

"Don't sound so disappointed," Kiro said with a lazy half smile, turning to look at the girls. The black haired boy was cracking up. Mr. Keene was trying very hard not to laugh. (It'd probably spontaneous combust him, Nuku thought.)

"Yes, Kiro's our resident cross dresser," the teacher said with a smirk, "And we all love her for it."

"She can prove she's a girl," the black haired guy said, grinning. Kiro smiled slightly. "Miroku..." he— she— said quietly, "Stop it..."

"No, we're fine," Kagome spat, making a face. Nuku was cracking up, and Sango was glaring at her. "You knew she was a girl, you jerk!" Sango accused. Nuku was too busy trying not to burst a lung to respond.

"Oh, come on, let her prove it!" Miroku said, before Kiro punched him, hard. "OW!" he said, rubbing his shoulder and glaring at her.

"Settle down, please," Mr. Keene said dryly. "We'll figure this out later. Well... We'll never figure out Kiro. But we will figure out the whole guide-around-the-school ordeal. For now, I'm continuing with the seating arrangements, as I'm tired of standing up with all of you. In the front, table one," he said, picking up a pool cue that was leaning against his desk, pointing at 'table one'.

"Abi, Ayame, Kagura, Kanna," he said, hitting the table each time with the cue.

"Eccentric, much?" Kagome asked sarcastically.

"But—" Kiro hissed, "He didn't even break up the preps! I can't believe this!"

"Dangit, Kiro, I can't hear! Shut up!" InuYasha snapped, glaring at her. Kiro wrapped her arms around him, squeezing the breath out of him. "Inu's in a bad moooOOOoood," she said, all happy-like. "Be happeeeeeee!" InuYasha pretended to gag, trying to breathe. Kiro let go, grinning triumphantly as numerous people stared at her.

Meanwhile, Mr. Keene was on Table Three, and instead of hitting the tables, he was just wildly waving the pool cue around. The prep girls at table one eyed him warily. "Table three. InuYasha, Miroku, Kiro, Sesshoumaru." No sooner were those words out of his mouth, did Kiro and InuYasha shout, "WHAT?!?!"

"I'm not sitting by that creep!" Kiro hissed, at the same time InuYasha shouted, "I'm not sitting at the same table as him!!!"

"Yes, you are, and... Yes, you are," Mr. Keene said smugly. "Master InuYasha, I am trying to place you by your friend, so Miroku sits by you. I enjoy hearing Miroku and Kiro's perverted banter, so she's sitting next to him, and Kiro's the only one I know can resist Sesshoumaru's...." he paused, then clasped his hands together in a very girly fashion, and squealed, "UNGODLY BEAUTY!!" As he did so, the pool cue hit the ceiling a couple of times.

Kagura, at Table One, glowered.

Kiro and InuYasha opened their mouths angrily again, but Mr. Keene pointed the pool cue at them. "Shut up! Now! InuYasha, you are TWO SEATS from him. And Kiro......" he tried to think of something to say, but apparently couldn't, as the next thing he said was, "Shut up!"

"Quit the incessant whining, will you?" he snapped, back into his snobby British-ism.

Kiro frowned, looking away, before reluctantly sitting down. Sesshoumaru sat next to her, not even looking at her... And she got up again, nearly knocking over Miroku, and stealing his chair. Miroku stared at her a second, (kind of scared,) before taking her seat. Kiro sat there, fuming, as did InuYasha.

"Table four. Kouga. Kagome. Nuku. Sango." Mr. Keene said, waving the pool cue again. Kiro and InuYasha stared daggers at him.

Kagome sighed heavily and looked around, trying to figure out who 'Kouga' was, finally sitting in her seat, soon followed by Sango and Nuku. Eventually, a boy with messy brown hair sat down next to them. He had his hair pulled back into a ponytail, but his bangs were every which way.

"..." Kagome looked away, yawning. The guy poked her on the shoulder, saying, "Hey. I'm Kouga, nice to meet you and all that stuff." Kagome looked up, annoyed, and Sango piped in, "If you say so."

"So you just moved here, then?" he asked, ignoring Sango. Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Wow. How did you know?" she asked with flat sarcasm. Kouga held his hands in the air in an 'I surrender' fashion. "Boy... I'm not trying to start a fight or anything..."

"That's good," Kagome remarked offhandedly, slamming her backpack onto the table and taking her math book and journal out of it, then dropping it back onto the ground. Kouga raised an eyebrow, but turned away, towards the blackboard, smirking unnoticeably.

"Okay, now, back to the transfers... Who wants to lead them around?" he asked. Several people looked up, looking amused. You really think we want to lead some stupid newbs around? It was plain they were thinking along those lines.

Kiro and InuYasha continued to sulk, and Miroku kept staring at them, concerned. "Okay, fine then. Miroku, you lead the girls around, and InuYasha, you keep him from grabbing their—" Mr. Keene began.

Kiro, in the middle of glaring at the table, coughed loudly, hearing his words. She tried desperately to hide her smirk. "Hey, hey!" Miroku objected, "Don't warn them about me!"

Kagome and Sango exchanged looks. ".... -.-"

"Okay, now if you'll all open your textbooks to page 17, let's get started, shall we?"

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They got through math without any important disturbances, (Kiro kept throwing stuff randomly at Sesshoumaru, and Miroku was looking for places to hide by the end of the class,) and Nuku, Sango, Kagome, InuYasha, Miroku and Kiro all headed towards the science classroom, Miroku pointing out the sights.

Everything was normal, and they got to Lunch. Miroku got all of their butts at least once, (except InuYasha.) (Miroku's face was now bright red. The students passing didn't even spare him a second glance, which led the girls to think that it was normal for him to have slap marks on his face.)

"Miroku, give it a rest, will you?" Kiro asked, grinning all the same. "Lunch time... Manoman, I'm hungry," she said. They went through the line, and the transfers found a spot in the back. Kiro dragged InuYasha over there by his hoodie, and sat him down next to Kagome, before sitting next to Sango. Miroku sat between InuYasha and Kiro, but was soon up again. "... Man... Kagura wants me to sit by her... Well, anyway. Nice meeting you, girls... I'll see you next period," he said.

Kiro glared at Kagura, and then at Miroku's back. "I don't know how he can date that prep...." she muttered darkly.

"Someone jealous?" Sango remarked lightly, eating her pizza. Kiro raised an eyebrow, and scrunched her face up as if thinking. ".... Hmm... InuYasha... Am I jealous?" she asked, sipping on a can of Pepsi. InuYasha glared at her, and mumbled something dark underneath his breath, poking at his pizza.

"Don't make me hug you, Yasha..." Kiro warned, whispering and glaring back. "People will stare."

".... You are not jealous..." InuYasha said in forced monotone. Apparently, being threatened with a hug was enough to make him talk, however begrudgingly it was. "Okay," Kiro said happily, "I'm not jealous."

Sango raised an eyebrow. I think this girl has taken the cake on strange-ness, Sango thought.

Jealous or not, Kiro kept glancing back and watching Miroku and Kagura, and didn't even drink the rest of her soda.

".... So... uh..." Kagome finally said, "How did he end up dating a prep, anyway?" she asked, attempting to make conversation. Kiro turned back to her, raising an eyebrow. "We used to be preps," she said quietly, poking at the table with a straw. "But that was a year and a couple of months ago... Well, for me it was a year and whatever ago... For InuYasha it's been about... 6 months... Miroku's the only one who didn't sever ties with the prep gang..." she finished, sounding quite depressed.

Kagome frowned. "... Why... aren't you preps anymore? Not that I want you to be, or anything... but..."

InuYasha, still poking at his pizza, said in the same tone, "Kiro was attacked and my girlfriend was murdered." Kiro looked up, obviously a little shocked that he had said that... And she looked away again, plastering on her normal big-happy-grin, (which, Kagome now realized, looked quite fake,) and saying, "Anyway, that doesn't matter! Let's not talk about that! So depressing!" she said cheerfully.

Nuku looked from Kiro to InuYasha and back, a dark expression on her face, remaining quiet. Kiro began poking at her soda with her straw, sighing heavily, and Kagome, Sango, and Nuku kept up light conversation. "Anyway... I guess... I better go... uh... see Jakotsu or something..." Kiro murmured finally, getting up.... And then the bell rang. Kiro looked up at it for a couple of seconds, as if trying to figure out what it was.

"... Oh," she murmured quietly, walking off, "Um... I'll see you next period... I guess..." she continued, giving a half wave over her shoulder.

Kagome looked at Nuku, kinda worried, and Nuku shrugged, so Kagome looked back to InuYasha... Who was staring at her. Once their eyes met, he looked away, and stood up abruptly, leaving without a word.

"... Freaks..." Sango murmured, her lip curling. Kagome shook her head, sighing. Miroku, at the other end of the cafeteria, saw Kiro and InuYasha leave, and looked at them worriedly.

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Kiro walked to her next class, absorbed in her own thoughts. How could InuYasha just talk about That so easily? And, when she was around? Couldn't he have waited? She rubbed her arms, shivering. It had been the end of the school year, right after finals...

If she hadn't've dyed her hair... If she hadn't been trying to look 'normal'... She shook her head, clearing her thoughts. Don't get depressed until the school day's over, okay, Kiro? She asked herself as she walked to her next class.

"... She looks just like Kikyou..." InuYasha said, approaching her from behind. Kiro jumped about a foot in the air. "InuYasha-don't-do-that-to-me!" Kiro hissed, turning around to glare at him. He blinked a couple of times, then apologized. "Oh... Sorry..." he mumbled.

Kiro took a couple of deep breaths, looking at him. "What did you say?" she asked finally.

"... Kagome... She looks... Just like Kikyou," he repeated quietly. Kiro bit her lip, frowning, trying to remember the girl's face. "Yeah... She does..." she murmured quietly. InuYasha nodded, beginning to walk off.

Kiro's eyes widened. "No, InuYasha, don't go there!" she hissed. InuYasha turned around, confused. He had been just about to go into the History classroom. Kiro waved her hands a little, frustrated. "That's not what I meant!"

"Don't you dare date that girl because she reminds you of Her... Don't even!" she warned. InuYasha shrugged her off, walking into the classroom. "I didn't say anything about that..." he murmured, closing the door behind him.

"Yeah, but I know how your mind works, InuYasha..." Kiro mumbled, leaning against the door, "Oh man, this is going to be one heck of a year..." she continued morosely, rubbing her arms again, worried.

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Miroku looked up worriedly, hearing the end-of-school bell. Kiro and InuYasha had barely spoken a word (to eachother or to him,) since Lunch, and both were sitting at opposite ends of the Language Arts classroom. Kagome kept glancing over at InuYasha, Nuku kept to herself, and Sango bit off anything's head that moved.

"Hey, Miroku," Kagome began quietly, "How about we all go to a burger joint or something, and you fill us in on all of the Cliques and junk... Maybe..." she continued, "Maybe you could get Kiro and InuYasha to come, too?"

Miroku looked at her, surprised. Kagome, as tough as she tried to act or appear, was very kind-hearted — Miroku had learned that quickly. "... Uh... Sure," he said, shrugging, and smiling at her. She smiled back, ignoring as Sango pretended to gag. Nuku rolled her eyes, "Grow up, Sango..." she murmured, putting her stuff back into her backpack.

"Wait a second, I'll see if I can get them to come," Miroku said, getting up and slinging his backpack over his shoulder, walking over to InuYasha, who had tried, (and failed,) to leave the classroom before Miroku noticed. "Hey, Yasha..." Miroku greeted, blocking the hanyou's escape route. "We're going to eat... Do you want to come?" he asked.

InuYasha stared at him blankly. "Does it look like I want to?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, "You do realize I was trying to leave before you could ask me somewhere," he finished bluntly.

"Oh, come on, InuYasha!" Miroku hissed, looking around, "How long are you going to hole yourself up in your room?" InuYasha thought for a second. "Oh, I don't know. As long as I can, I suppose. Now lay off, willya?" he asked, walking around Miroku.

Miroku watched him go, sighing heavily. He turned and looked at Kiro, at the other end of the room, still sitting at her desk, leaning her head on one hand, staring blankly at the front of the room. Either she was really engrossed in the writing on the black board, or she was spaced out. Miroku walked up to her, putting a tentative hand on her shoulder, opening his mouth to ask her, but she interrupted, saying, "No... I don't want to go..." Miroku clenched his jaw, about to tell her off, (he was sick of the two of them!), but she interrupted again. "I might drop by in a bit," she said quietly, and Miroku frowned. Great, now she said she might come by, so now he couldn't tell her off.

"Fine!" he spat, "Bye, then!"

"Yeah, yeah," Kiro mumbled, rolling her eyes, "I love you too." Miroku scowled at her, giving a disgusted sigh before walking back to the three girls. "Looks like it's just me," he said. "OH NO!" Kagome said in mock-terror, laughing and walking out the door.

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"Meh...." Kiro mumbled, watching Miroku, Sango, Kagome and Nuku walk out. "He's sure getting smarmy with those girls..."

"You worried?" came a snide voice that made Kiro bristle. Kiro looked up and glared at Sesshoumaru.

"Go... away..." she said, making one of her specialty two-year-old faces.

"I was just making sure we had a few things straight. On Saturday... We'll meet around 7, okay?" he asked, but didn't wait for her to reply before continuing, "And, you will dress like a girl, please-and-thank-you," he said, turning around and walking out.

Kiro blinked a few times, just staring at him as he walked out. ".... What an idiot..." she said, a totally bewildered look on her face. "I'm not going, you moron!" she yelled out, but he was already out the door. She shook her head, picking up her bag and slinging it over her shoulder. "Jerk... asking me out... Who does he think he is?" she muttered darkly, walking out of the classroom, ignoring the looks she received.

"... I... will kill her," Kagura said murderously, looking at Kanna. Kanna smiled very slightly, and did not reply.

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"Okay, so the preps..." Kagome prodded. She was sipping on a strawberry shake, Sango was stuffing her face with a triple ultimate cheeseburger, and Nuku was eating fries. Miroku was stealing Nuku's fries, much to her annoyance.

"Kagura, Kanna, Ayame... Abi, the 'Princess', Kouga... Somewhat... I guess me, from how Kiro teases," Miroku said with a grin, "Sesshoumaru... Well, I don't know if he's a prep... He's just an arrogant jerk that no one likes... He's creepy too... Dated practically every girl in the school with demon blood... Bankotsu, and his friends... Are all jocks, I guess... Except for Jakotsu... He's too gay to function; Kiro's dating him."

Sango raised an eyebrow. "Do I want to know how that works?" she asked hesitantly. Nuku smirked.

Miroku grinned, "It doesn't really. Kiro dates him so people don't think she's weirder than she wants them to think, and he dates her so the whole school doesn't know he's gay... Which, the whole school knows he's gay anyway, so then people think Kiro's weird for dating a gay guy. It's quite hilarious."

"Sounds hilarious," Nuku said, smiling. "So... InuYasha... uh... Mentioned that Kiro had been attacked and his girlfriend was killed or something?" she asked tentatively. Miroku looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "He did?" he asked.

Kagome nodded, so Miroku took a deep breath. "...A little more than a year ago, right at the end of 9th grade... Kiro was fourteen... Fifteen. Uh... Well, something happened at school, and she ran off heading towards her house...

"Anyway, she took a shortcut through some alleyway, and some guy got her in the back with a crowbar. She was in the hospital for almost a week. Broke a bunch of ribs, punctured a lung..." he said quietly. "They couldn't really do anything, just let her demon healing take over it..."

"Anyway, let's not talk about this. If Kiro or InuYasha want to, they can. I can tell you that that's when Kiro stopped dressing like a girl. She was relatively normal before all of that. I won't say completely normal, though," he continued with a grin, trying to lighten dark atmosphere the conversation had started.

... It didn't work.

"And InuYasha's girlfriend?" Kagome prodded, wide eyed. Sango had stopped eating her burger, and Nuku was poking at her fries.

"Same thing," Kiro said, and they all jumped about two feet in their seats. Kiro had walked into the place and up to their table without them even noticing. She gave them a toothy, fanged grin (that reminded the others more of a tiger baring it's teeth.) She looked down at them darkly.

"Something happened at school, and Kikyou ran off towards home, or wherever she was headed, she got hit with a crowbar... It went through her spine, though... She wasn't as lucky as me," she said, in the creepiest tone the girls had ever heard before. Miroku looked scared.

Manoman, I'm in so much trouble... Kiro's gonna kill me... I shouldn't have talked about her... he thought, sighing heavily.

Okay, there it is, chapter two. Enjoy, and please review. Flames, ravings, whatever, is appreciated. Next Chapter: A little more about the attacks, and a little more school... And some more of Sesshoumaru being a jerk.

Well, Ja ne, tomodachi. See you next chapter!

Legacy-

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the one I used to be,

There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Yesterday- The Beatles