Author's Notes: I don't know how this suddenly got into my head, but I think it's a stroke of genius. Just to say, Kagome will be pretending to like Ranma to make Inu Yasha jealous. This will NOT be a RanmaXKagome fic so don't worry. I'm a full InuXKag and a RanXAka fan and am not planning to change that.
Disclaimer: If I'm not mistaken the ownership of Inu Yasha goes to Kagome and the ownership of Ranma goes to Akane and they're all owned by Rumiko Takahashi like one big happy family.
Summary: In a group project between Furinkan and Kagome's school, Kagome meets Ranma after having a fight with Inu Yasha. Her friends urge her to use an ignorant Ranma to make Hojo jealous, but Kagome has something else in mind… InuXKag RanXAka
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"A collaboration project between us and Furinkan!?" the whole class exclaimed upon hearing the teacher's words.
The teacher explained, "The students of Furinkan will be coming here to work on a project. You have each been given an individual partner. Your task is to get to know your partner and let them get to know you. You have to submit a report about their good traits and their bad traits. This will count of 75% of your grade so I hope people who need catching up"—he eyed Kagome weirdly— "will use this to their advantage."
Kagome's friend Ayumi had her hand up. "Isn't Furinkan in Nerima?"
The teacher nodded. "Yes, but they'll all be coming over here two days from now. In fact, your partner will be going to this school and living in with you for the next four weeks."
"A whole month?!" Kagome exclaimed. In her mind she thought, "That means I can't go down the well without a tag-along going with me!"
The teacher raised an eyebrow. "Yes that's what I said. Now please sit down Ms. Higurashi."
Hojo had his hand raised. "What's the point of this project? Couldn't we just do it with the students in our homeroom?" He eyed another girl hopefully. Kagome wasn't particularly upset or surprised that Hojo had a new interest in that other girl instead of her. She hadn't actually officially dated him or anything, and it wasn't much of a loss to her anyway.
"Well yes we could, but we'd like you to have the experience of having someone from somewhere else living with you. We hope that this will spark a new interest in meeting new people and making new friends, and I'm sure the esteemed principal of Furinkan hope that too…"
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Meanwhile, with the "Esteemed" Principal:
"Okay kids, we gonna do dis collaboration project wit dis school in Tokyo. We be given you a pa'tner. You gots to get to know your partner and let them get to know you. You have to submit a report about deir good traits and deir bad traits. In fact, you kids will be goin to dis school and livin' in with your pat'ner for de next four weeks so's we teachers can get ou' deys off while you be gone in Tokyo two deys from now." announced the principal to the students of Furinkan High. (A/N: I'm trying to mimic how Principal Kuno speaks in the Manga as best I can, so sorry if it's a little weird.)
A student raised her hand, "Isn't this project more of an experience of living with someone from somewhere else so that it will spark a new interest in meeting new people and making new friends; I mean I bet the people at that other school hope that…"
The principal raised an eyebrow and answered awkwardly, "Well, yeeah, but dis project's really's just so de faculty can have der deys off." Behind him several of the faculty members were nodding and murmuring sounds of agreement to each other.
With that the school assembly ended and hoards of students ran through the doors chatting excitedly. Among those students were Ranma and his two friends that I think are basically nameless throughout the whole series.
"If we're going to live with our partner for a month I hope I get a girl…" said one friend with a glazed look on his face.
"Why?" asked Ranma, "What if she's not cute? You wanna live with an uncute girl for a whole month?"
"That depends on what you think is cute…"
The other friend got into the conversation, "Hey Ranma, you and Akane aren't going to be living in the same house…s'pose her partner's a guy…then what're you going to do."
Ranma scoffed and put his hands behind his head. "I don't care what the hell that tomboy does."
"Then why are you turning red?" asked one of his friends.
They passed by a window and Ranma glimpsed at his reflection. He was turning red but it wasn't because he was embarrassed. He was going to explode with anger inside. He could just imagine some perv trying to hit on Akane in Tokyo.
"Well I guess we should go to the office. That's where we find out who we got assigned to," said one his friends.
The three walked towards the office. They saw Akane there. They greeted each other and asked the secretary whom they were assigned to.
"Name?"
"Akane Tendo."
The secretary filed through some papers in a folder, took out a standard sized card and handed it to Akane.
Ranma looked over Akane's shoulder to read the card. So her partner was a guy and his name was Hojo. Attached with a paperclip was a picture of him.
Ranma murmured, "It's not like I'm jealous or nothin'…"
Akane eyed him strangely and punched his head, "I didn't ask you if you were jealous moron!"
"…Can I get my partner now?"
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"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE LEAVING FOR A WHOLE DAMN MONTH?!" Inu Yasha shouted, in an apparently very pissed manner (no duh), at Kagome.
"Well if I want to actually go to highschool, I have to get a good grade on this thing! If I get a good grade on this, it'll make up for all the things I've missed while I was here." Kagome reasoned, trying to keep her temper.
"I thought you gave up on your 'grades' a long time ago!"
"Just because I'm here almost everyday, doesn't mean I don't care about my grades!" Kagome snapped viciously, about to lose her control over her rage.
"WELL YOU SHOULDN'T CARE! YOUR JOB IS TO BE A JEWEL DETECTOR HERE, NOT TAKE YOUR TESTS THERE!" he shouted, pointing to the well for an emphasis on the word 'there'.
"SO THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK OF ME? A LOUSY JEWEL SHARD DETECTOR!? GEE, THANKS FOR YOUR HIGH OPINION OF ME!! YOU'RE SUCH A JERK!" Kagome screeched back.
She slapped his face, swung her bag over her shoulder, and jumped down the well.
"That jerk, under-appreciating me like that! All I asked was for a month off, and he explodes on me like that! I'll get him one day…honestly."
Kagome landed in her time and climbed out of the well. She checked her wristwatch. 4:17. She could hang out with her friends for a while. Maybe they had some advice…
Later:
Kagome, Ayumi, Eri, Yuka sat at a table at WacDonald's (A/N: I've noticed that this is the fast food restaurant they always seem to go to whenever they talk So…yeah)
"So who're your partners, guys? For the project, I mean." asked Yuka, curiously.
"I got my card in an envelope, but I didn't look at it yet…" said Eri nonchalantly, with her head resting in her hand.
"You know, neither have I." Kagome realized.
"So why don't we open them together?" Ayumi suggested brightly.
Kagome took her envelope out, along with all her friends. They anxiously slipped their respective fingers under their envelopes' flaps, and took their cards with an attached picture out.
"So who did you get, Kagome?" Ayumi asked looking over her shoulder.
"Uhm…you first."
Ayumi smiled broadly. "I got some cute guy named 'Ukyo Kuonji', age 16." She showed off the attached school picture of 'him'. (A/N: The picture was of Ukyo cross dressing in the male Furinkan uniform)
"Ooh! And he gets to live with you?" exclaimed Eri excitedly with a hint of jealousy. Eri's partner was a girl.
"You're lucky!" said Ayumi, who had also gotten a female partner. "Okay, that leaves you Kagome. Who did you get?"
Kagome stared at her card one more time. It read 'Ranma Saotome'…but with two pictures attached. One was of a handsome boy in a pigtail, and another of a pretty cute redhead girl with a bust that seemed a tad big for her. So which was this Ranma? The girl or the boy?
"Kagome?" Yuka said, waving her hand in front of said person's face.
"Huh? Oh. I got some guy named Ranma Saotome…" Kagome said. Before showing them the card, she unclipped the girl picture and stuffed it in her pocket. It must have been clipped on by mistake. Ranma's a guy's name, right?
Upon seeing the picture, her three friends gasped. "Kagome!"
"What?" she quickly snatched the card back. "What's wrong?"
Yuka and Eri looked at her eagerly. "Don't you see?!"
"See what?" Kagome asked uneasily. Her friends were starting to freak her out.
Eri has her index finger up. "Don't you get it? You could make Hojo jealous! Since this cute guy's gonna live with you for a whole month, why don't you use it to your advantage? Make Hojo jealous! You've seen how he's been eyeing that other girl in our class! And besides, his partner for the project is some bimbo named Akane Tendo " She looked at Kagome for a few seconds. "Come on, Kagome, you can win Hojo back!"
Kagome blinked. "But I don't even really want to win him back."
Her friends' faces dropped a bit. Yuka sighed, "Don't tell me you're still hooked on Mr. Possessive and Insensitive!"
Kagome lowered her head a little. "Well the two of us got into a fight after school today, actually…"
Ayumi spoke up for the first time in a while, "Ya know, you can use this Ranma to make your other boyfriend jealous…instead of Hojo I mean."
"Oh c'mon, don't be stupid!" Kagome said nervously. But in her mind she thought, "That's not a bad idea! Perfect revenge. This'll teach him not underappreciate me!"
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-Smiles- Is good yes? Well I sure hope so; I worked my ass off this one. I busted my brain to get the perfect Ranma/Inu Yasha crossover! I'm pretty sure that this hasn't been done, but if it has, sorry. As usual, please don't read it without reviewing it. Reviews motivate me!