Author's Notes: I'd like to thank you all for your reviews and I'd also liked to apologize for how long it took me to update. -ducks from barrage of vegetables thrown by angry fans- Hope you like it! Kagome and Ranma are going to meet in this one. And I've decided to put in the views of Ryoga, Shampoo, Miroku Sango, but there won't be much of that in this chapter.

But first I have to reply to a few reviews. (Feel free to skip if your not listed here.)

Midnight Youkai: Sorry if Im spoiling for anyone. In the Manga, the school (with the exception of Kuno) finds out about Ranma's curse probably during Volume 4, because of the Full Body Cat-Tongue. In the Anime, I'd say they find out during the cheerleader episode, when Ranma does martial arts cheerleading against Mariko Konjo.

Tessa-Chan: Don't worry; I don't plan on discontinuing this fic, EVER.

Hiei's Ningen Mate: I'm not sure if Sesshoumaru will be in this, but probably not, sorry.

Hime Shinidama no Megami: Yes, Ukyo is a girl but she used to crossdress as a boy. I don't really have time to explain it all, but if you want to know the full story, try

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Make Him Green With Envy

Chapter Two: And So the Half Male Meets the Miko

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Kagome clicked her pen anxiously; the Furinkan students were coming at 5:00 tomorrow afternoon and she was still worried on how she could gather up the courage to flirt with a guy she didn't know. Sure, she was brave in the Feudal Era, but flirting with a complete stranger was just plain terrifying. "Inu Yasha, look what I'm about to go through, just to make you jealous!"

She now changed to chewing on the top of the pen instead. "Maybe, I shouldn't go through with this…Inu Yasha usually does come around anyway." She was tapping her pen against her desk. It was pretty easy convincing herself not to do it, but Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi was a different story.

Kagome rested her head into her hand and continued her internal debate. "But what if Inu Yasha doesn't come around? He such a stubborn dog!" Kagome tapped her pen against her desk harder (to emphasize her anger with Inu Yasha), so it was making a disturbingly loud noise.

"Well, if he doesn't come around, I'll just have to go back!" she thought determinedly. "But then he'd just say he was right, and rub it in." She grunted softly from exasperation, while still tapping her pen, but more loudly than before (causing several students around her to stare). "But then if he rubs it in I'll just 'sit' him about a million times. Yeah! That's what I'll do!"

Her expression brightened at the idea, but then fell as she thought of something else, "But then Ranma wouldn't be able to his project without a partner, and he could fail if I'm not here. I'd probably feel a little guilty…" She sighed again, stood up suddenly and screamed out loud without thinking "THIS IS THE WORST PROBLEM EVER!"

Every head in the classroom snapped forward or backward to stare at Kagome, the girl whose sudden outburst had disrupted the class.

For five minutes the class was silent, but to the embarrassed Kagome it felt like an eternity.

"Kagome," the teacher finally said. "Please sit down."

Kagome did as she was told and sat down, still thinking what she had just shouted, "This is the worst problem ever!"

Ironically someone else was thinking the exact same thing.

"This is the worst problem ever!" a certain pigtailed martial artist thought.

Ranma looked at his card again. Kagome Higurashi, Age 15. His partner was a girl, and he had to live with her for a whole month. He had yet to decide whether to expose his secret or not, but he was leaning towards not. What if she thought he was a pervert? He had had enough of that already. And besides, she didn't really need to know? Did she?

"Ranma? Hello? Are you listening to me?"

"Huh?" Ranma said, snapping out of his thoughts. "What did you say?"

Akane sighed and muttered something about idiots before repeating what she had just said, "Who's your partner?"

Ranma opened his mouth to reply, but thought better of it. If Akane found out he had a female partner, she'd get mad, or start stalking him to make sure he didn't do anything untoward. Instead Ranma shrugged it off and said shortly, "Just some guy."

Akane eyed him carefully before looking back at her card. Hojo. She had to admit, he was pretty cute.

While Akane was lost in her thoughts, Ranma looked over her shoulder to catch another glimpse at that Hojo guy Akane was going to live with. "I'm not jealous. What do I care what that macho chick does." He uncertainly assured himself.

Now while Ranma was lost in his thoughts, he left himself unguarded, giving Akane an opportunity to snatch his card from his hand. Akane's eyes widened as she read at the card.

Before Ranma realized what she had done, Akane thwacked him with a mallet that came seemingly from nowhere and stomped off, letting go of the card to float in the wind and land next to Ranma.

"What's got her pissed?" he thought aloud. He got up and dusted himself off, and rubbed the back of his head where Akane had hit him. "All I did was lie about my partner." Ranma picked up his card and a pang of almost-realization hit him. "Wait, maybe she's not mad because I lied…maybe she's jealous because my partner's a gir—"

He never really did to get to finish his sentence because suddenly a purple haired girl on a bicycle landed on the back of Ranma's head (right where Akane had hit him) and exclaimed oh so cheerfully, "Nihao, Ranma!"

"Hey…Shampoo." Ranma said, getting up off the pavement and out from under Shampoo's bicycle.

Ranma expected a cheerful response from Shampoo, but instead a bitter sounding question was the reply, "Who this?"

Ranma turned around and saw Shampoo crouching on the pavement, where Ranma's assignment card was. She looked angrily at Ranma and asked more persistently, "Who this?!" The angry Chinese Amazon shoved the card in front of Ranma's face, almost hitting him. "Why you have picture of girl?"

Ranma nervously gave a short nutshell of an explanation, making Shampoo seethe inside with rage. With trembling hands, Shampoo stared at the card longer, lost in jealous thought, thus giving Ranma a chance to escape.

Shampoo stood there, oblivious to the absence of Ranma and vowed to herself, "Kagome Higurashi…you I kill!"

Because Shampoo couldn't keep an eye on Ranma, she saw this girl as more of a hazard to her. Of course, the Amazon custom was to kill a foreign woman who has defeated you, but Shampoo saw her death threat as 'killing before the enemy defeats you, in this case, in 'the game of love'...

"Why don't you just go after her and apologize, Inu Yasha?" Miroku commented, as the light of their bonfire flickered fiercely. "It was quite insensitive of you to call her a—what was it?; oh yes—'just a Jewel Detector'…"

"Like that's ever gonna happen!" Inu Yasha retorted turning his head away. "Name 5 good reasons why I should apologize to that wench."

"Well, when she comes back, you don't want any unsettled problems in the air, do you?" Sango said casually. "That's one."

Miroku nodded in agreement and proceeded with the second reason, "Don't you full guilty Inu Yasha?"

At this said demon replied irritably, "Feh!"

The monk pretended not to here him and continued, "Even just a little at fault? Don't you want to clear your conscience and make up with Kagome? That's two. And also, when she's angry at you she always 'sit's you.

"Can you guys just shut the hell—"

"Here's one I know you'll pay mind to." Sango said, interrupting Inu Yasha's angry request, "Kagome told me she's going to be temporarily living in another town"—a mischievous smile crept on her face before continuing—"with another person, that might very well be a man."

Inu Yasha whirled around and stared at Sango to make sure what she was saying was truthful. Half wishing that in a minute or two Sango would burst out laughing and reveal this information as a joke; he glared harder at her, his eyes almost pleading for the punch line.

For a while, it was silent, save the crickets and scurrying of forest animals. It could definitely be classified as one of those awkward times you have when one of your friends says something disturbing.

Miroku eventually broke this silence by first clearing his throat, and then saying: "Need we say the last reason or do we have you thoughrally convinced yet?"

Inu Yasha, though inside he was burning with rage, sat down, resisting the urge to retrieve Kagome from her time to explain herself. His pride just wouldn't let himself do that. "No you don't got me convinced, and no, I don't want to hear you or Sango's friggin last reason."

"Oh I know the last reason!" Shippo piped up for the first time in awhile. His eyes narrowed mischievously and said in a serious tone, "The fifth reason you should go to Kagome and apologize is…"

The hanyou was curious in spite of himself. "…Is?" he repeated.

Shippo's stern expression abruptly changed into a playful smirk and his serious tone suddenly changed to a singsong voice, "Is because you lii-ke her!"

Thus came to be, the giant bump on Shippo's head.

Later that Night:

It was night. The gang of four was asleep. Or so it was thought. Inu Yasha sat silently in the darkness wondering how Kagome could run off for a moon cycle to live with some guy. Was it a guy like Kouga? Or for the love of the gods, was it a guy like Miroku? What if he tried to do something to her?

He couldn't let that happen.

He wouldn't let that happen.

Miroku stirred slightly in his sleep; he opened his eyes as he heard the closing of the door and the soft sound of someone running in the grass. Silently, so he wouldn't awaken Sango, he said, "Good for you Inu Yasha."

"It's the day. It's the day. It's the day." Kagome repeated in her head. Ranma Saotome was coming today, in about 5 minutes, and Kagome was dead nervous.

She and her schoolmates were asked to arrive at school an hour before the Furinkan students were anticipated to come, so they could help set up the school (put up welcome banners, make sure they're desks are clean, etc.). And after that, line up outside the school, in their uniforms and greet the Nerima students.

And since all that was done, they were now lined up outside the school, on this particularly windy day. Somewhere in the front, Kagome and her friends stood trying to keep their skirts from blowing up, giving a show to all the boys.

Kagome held her breath as the bus carrying the Furinkan students came into view. One by one, the students exited the bus, chatting happily with each other. Kagome scanned the Nerima crowed, looking for the face she saw on her card. She didn't have to look very hard, because in the open area of her school, Ranma made himself ridiculously noticed, along with another boy with a kendo sword.

"Ranma Saotome! You openly discard Akane Tendo like a piece of trash to live with another woman?! I will not have you insulting the beautiful Akane in such a way!" said the kendo boy, brandishing his bokken.

"It's part of the project, stupid!" Ranma replied angrily dodging a blow from the sword.

Eri tapped Kagome's shoulder and asked, "Isn't that your partner? The one with the pigtail?"

Kagome stared at him. The boy with the Chinese clothes and the pigtailed hair. Ranma Saotome. In many ways, he was like Inu Yasha. His build was good. And from the brawl that was now going on, she could tell that he was an excellent fighter. And he was just as handsome as—

Kagome stopped her thought there and blushed furiously. She returned her attention to the fight and noticed that already Ranma had won and was now talking (or maybe it was arguing?) with a girl with short hair.

Kagome wondered vaguely who that girl was, before walking up to Ranma and his friend.

"Um," she said nervously looking down at her feet. "I'm Kagome Higurashi. And, um, I think I'm you're partner…unless this girl also attends the school." She took out the picture of female Ranma that was clipped to her card.

Ranma flinched slightly and his short-haired friend smirked slightly as if saying, "What's your big explanation going to be?"

The short-haired girl then turned her attention to Kagome and glared daggers at her. But strangely she smiled so cheerfully and said with equal cheerfulness, "Well you must be Ranma's partner! Glad to meet you! I'm Akane Tendo! Well I guess I'll leave you two alone. I have to look for my partner after-all! Bye!" She waved and skipped cheerily, only stopping to punch a light post.

Kagome observed Akane for a few minutes, subconsciously remarking that Akane's mouth was smiling but her eyes were filled with anger, and that her excess cheerfulness seemed strained.

Kagome turned her interest back to Ranma who looked awkwardly at the ground. She waved her hand in front of his face and said a little concerned, "Hello?"

He snapped his head up and replied his short answer, "Hi."

Ayumi passed by Ranma and Kagome and gave her an encouraging smile, mouthing, "Go." (She's looking for her partner.)

Kagome, remembering she wanted to teach Inu Yasha a lesson, was determined to start a conversation with Ranma. "So…uh…I saw your fight. You're really good!"

Ranma's eyes brightened and he responded arrogantly, "Yeah. I know."

"And his attitude's like Inu Yasha's too."

Okay, I know that was kinda weird. Nothing really happened. It was mostly texts and hardly any conversation. But atleast I got it in before the end of the summer. Thank you so much for your continued patronage.

Also, I noticed a mistake in my last chapter. I wonder why no one pointed it out. Here's the excerpt where the mistake was:

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?"

I meant the second 'Ayumi' to be 'Yuka'. Sorry. I doubt anyone noticed though because no one pointed it out. If its not too much trouble could you guys help me out by pointing errors and mistakes out?

Kagome and Ranma get to know each other in the next chapter and also Ryoga makes his first appearance.

As usual, review please!