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Kaede stopped in front of an oak mahogany door that bore the number 128. "Ah ha, here it is." She turned to the sullen and reluctant new student of Shikon No Tama Boarding School. "Here is your room, your roommate is Sango Sysuki. She should be returning from the orientation shortly." She handed Kagome a brown package.

"Your key is in there, along with school books and your time table. Tomorrow school will start, at exactly 8:30." Kaede informed her, receiving a nod and a mumbled "Thanks." Taking out the key, Kagome swung the door open and walked in. Nodding a goodbye to Kaede, she shut the door.

Kaede sighed towards the closed door.

'She took the news well.' mused the Headmistress.

Kagome's POV

The room was…nice. Spacious, it had two windows in the northern part of the room. It was painted yellow with plain but cheery white curtains. One bed was pushed into one corner and another into the corner beside it. Each bed had a white comforter and pillow. Between the beds was a single four-shelved bookcase.

At the foot of each bed, was a plain mahogany desk with a lamp and two drawers. The desks faced the other from across the room so the two students would have their backs to the others.

Beside each desk was a tall wooden dresses with hangers to hang clothes and ledges to fold them. To my right was a door that led to a bathroom with a shower, two sinks and two mirrors. There were also a shelf jammed full of fluffy white towels, a hairdryer, and facecloths.

It wasn't bad, not like the termite infested, paint crumbing one room flat I had imagined, no bad at all.

Except it was.

My situation is horrible! This old lady was keeping me here with no way for me to leave! This is like a jail cell! Horrible, horrible!

I just want to curl up and die.

With lots and lots of ice cream, the ultimate comfort food.

But there was no refrigerator, damn it!

Neutral POV

These two sides of the room were almost symmetrical except for the fact that the left side had posters all around it and a bulletin board covered with pictures. Kagome, unable to resist temptation, peeked at all the pictures. There was some of a pretty girl in a high ponytail with a handsome looking guy (boyfriend?) with a small lock of hair tied into a ponytail at the nape of his neck. He also had a rosary around his hand. They were also with the strangest boy Kagome had ever seen.

He had long silver hair and dog-ears. His golden-amber eyes showed ferocity but a sort of softness also. And sorrow? Kagome scanned the other pictures. Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving… his eyes sometimes showed laughter and happiness, but rarely, and still had that sad, sad look. This intrigued Kagome, not his unusual dog-demon features, but who can be sad, for that long?

Suddenly, the door creaked open and Kagome jumped and backed away from the bulletin board, embarrassed. At the door, panting as if she had just won the 400-meter dash was the girl in the photograph.

Looking around the room wildly, she suddenly saw Kagome and her eyes brightened. "Kagome Higurashi! It's nice to meet you!" She walked over to the startled girl and shook the shocked girls hand. "My name is S-"

"Sango Sysuki, I know." Kagome said quickly, and then feared that she had been rude to her new roommate, and that is not how she wanted to start the year. Instead Sango laughed, "Wow, so is your ability psychic or something? Okay, what am I thinking, RIGHT NOW?" the strange (and apparently hyperactive) girl closed her eyes.

"NO! I mean, err… no, that's not my…ability." Disappointed, this Sango girl opened her eyes and cocked her head to one side and said, "Oh, I see, then what is your reason to come to Shikon No Tama?" Sango said.

Kagome's eyes trailed to her big stack of luggage, "Why don't I explain this while I unpack, it might take a while…"

But it didn't, because Sango had immediately pitched in, despite Kagome's protests. Their conversation strayed from what they were talking about before and it landed on what more girls talked about. Boys, clothes, favorite bands… stuff like that. By the time they had more than half of Kagome's stuff unpacked, they acted like they knew each other since the day they were born.

Once Sango's hyperactiveness wore down, they discussed family issues in a more serious fashion. Sango's reason to be here was because her family was that her family were demon slayers and that made her family in danger from evil demons that sought revenge.

"It's their own fault though, it's them that goes and gets it into their head to try to massacre a village, and our problem to exterminate them." Sango showed Kagome proudly her weapon, a huge boomerang. She also revealed that she had a younger brother, Kohaku in room 54.

Unfortunately, Sango asked the question again, and Kagome had no alternative but to answer it. And when she did, Sango nearly dropped the portable radio Kagome had brought. "Power? What kind?" Kagome shrugged and dusted off the many books she had brought.

"Headmistress Kaede was very vague, and I'm just as curious as you are." Sango let out a low whistle. "That's intense though, Kagome. But when Headmistress Kaede said you had to be trained to control it, what kind of power would it be? I mean, we all have talents and powers in Shikon No Tama but never did Kaede say it in general and never did someone come here without knowing what power they had already." Sango sat down on her bed to think.

Kagome, had different worries. "What if I can't control this power thing that Kaede said! What if I accidentally blow up the world when I blow my nose or something?" That comment sent Sango into a fit of laughter.

When she managed to calm down she said as seriously as she could, "That's highly improbable Kagome, I mean, it's-" But she was interrupted by a scratching at the door. Kagome jumped. Judging by what Kaede had said, anything could come through that door. But Sango had no such worries. She cheerfully opened the door and a two-tailed cat strolled in.

"Hi Kirara! How was your walk?" Sango crooned. She picked the cat up and showed her to Kagome. "This is by pet cat Kirara. Isn't she adorable?" Sango said, showering her pet in attention. "It's so… so…"

"So what?" Sango arched her eyebrow. The I-will-cut-you-in-two-with-my-enormous-boomerang-if-you-don't-compliment-my-cat look flashed across her face. Unluckily, Kagome didn't see this. Luckily, she said the right thing anyway.

SHE'S SO ADORABLE!" Kagome squealed and petted Kirara, as the two-tailed cat purred. Sango fished a ball of yarn from the bottom of her bed and the two girls laughed over this cute cat's antics.

Kaede closed the door as silently as she had opened it and breathed a sigh of relief. If Kagome kept this up, she wouldn't do too badly at Shikon Boarding School.

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Chapter 3: Of Lecherous Monks and Hanyous

Kagome starts her first day of class and meets Miroku the cursed monk. Despite the fact that all around her are demons or people with special abilities, she gets along okay until lunchtime. Then she meets Inuyasha, the half-demon who, for some reason, avoids her from the first time he sees her. And who's this 'Kikyo' person that he keeps muttering about?