Deviant Variations

A Sesshoumaru/Kagura Fan Fiction by:
Rissi-Sama

Chapter One: The Atomic Communist

Little appealed to Kagewaki Kagura, especially the current geometry lesson. She twirled a blue-ball point pen, found on the floor of Science Hall during second passing period, and was fully aware that math was only to be done in pencil. The act of defiance was miniscule and would only deduct ten percent from Kagura's actual score. She was also unable suppress a yawn as their insane, and rumored lesbian teacher cracked another of her infamous jokes.

"Poly gone.... get it?" A few students chuckled for the sake of stage manners, and several laughed heartily knowing it reflected on their participation grade. Miss Kariuno continued to explain the deeper meaning of the joke for those who failed to laugh and Kagura contemplated committing ritual suicide for the third time that morning. This, however, failed to go unnoticed as Miss Kariuno centered on her wounded and dying victim, readying the final and lethal strike. Miss Kariuno sauntered over to Kagura and knowingly inquired,

"Miss Kagewaki, are you wearing your school shirt underneath that sweatshirt?" Kagura raised her eyes to the math teacher and stated,

"No, should I be?" Miss Kariuno sent Kagura an angry glare, and walked to her desk picking up a white and yellow detention slip. She filled the sheet out with a frightening smile.

"Here's your detention." Miss Kariuno stated cheerfully as she set the yellow portion on Kagura's desk. Kagura's eyes scanned the accusing slip of paper,

'Great, willful disobedience...just what I needed...' Kagura mentally noted and placed the detention in her math book.

"Miss Kagewaki?" Miss Kariuno asked. Thoroughly annoyed, Kagura looked up to her approaching math teacher and awaited her next scolding in best humor.

"Is there any work you could be doing, there's five minutes left of class." Kagura nodded and explained,

"Yea, but I plan to finish it in detention."

"I'd like to see you work on some of it here." Miss Kariuno insisted pleasantly, rage glimmering in the corner of her eye. A minor staring contest commenced as the Herculean wills competed for domination then the bell rang, and sent the students scrambling into the halls. Kagura, casually walked out, and did not say good-bye to Miss Kariuno.

Inuyokai Sesshoumaru impatiently tapped his mechanical pencil on the blank notebook paper, having no desire to listen to Mr. Daimyoske explain the technicalities of an egg drop.

"O.K., now remember, this will count as your quarter project so make sure you or your partner doesn't slack off. I have no time to give two separate project grades, if your partner fails to do his or her portion that's your problem to sort out later." Sesshoumaru sighed, remembering his last joint project with one of the smarter, but clumsier students.

'Tripped over a damn floor tile and dropped the spaghetti bridge the day of testing . That git! I spent a whole night on construction, and then got an F for the quarter project.'

"I will be assigning you partners, I remember what happened the last time I didn't," Mr. Daimyoske paused at Sesshoumaru's desk and added with a chuckle, "we all remember what happened to Mr. Inuyokai's spaghetti bridge." Sesshoumaru suppressed a growl and his former partner, Jimusho Shinnosuke, looked down, extremely embarrassed. Moving back to his desk, Mr. Daimyoske picked up a plain brown clipboard where the class list was attached and sat leisurely at his desk.

"Higurashi Kikyo you are working with Hiten Soi. Jimusho Shinnosuke your partner is.... Ryoske Jaken." Mr. Daimyoske stopped as he looked at Sesshoumaru and said deliberately, "Inuyokai Sesshoumaru you are working with," grinning he finished, "Kagewaki Naraku." Sesshoumaru looked with dread at his new partner.

"Wonderful," Sesshoumaru said dully to himself as the bell rang. Gathering his books Sesshoumaru left quickly, avoiding Kikyo who looked at him with calculative and seductive eyes.

Senior hall was noisy, crowded, and littered with fallen locker decks. There was little more than two weeks of school and the anticipation of final freedom was apparent. Sesshoumaru placed the five-pound; one thousand page physics book on a checkered wire shelf, and then picked up an American Literature book and its corresponding binder. He saw the reflection of Kikyo in the shiny, new book cover and sighed internally.

"Hi Kikyo." Sesshoumaru said dully, shutting his plain, khaki colored locker.

"Hi Sesshoumaru. What a wonder! Mr. Daimyoske sure hates you. Placing you with Kagewaki Naraku, what did you do to offend him?" Kikyo said conversationally. Sesshoumaru shrugged his shoulders and said,

"I don't mean to sound rude, but I'm in a hurry Kikyo."

"I know what you mean Sesshoumaru. I've been really busy lately, preparing for all the projects. Speaking of projects, Hiten Soi, I can't believe I've been placed with that dork!" Kikyo added, somehow unable to take a hint.

"Hiten Soi is very intelligent and a hard-worker. Knowing your work ethic I would be grateful to have such a 'dork' as my partner." Sesshoumaru criticized while speeding up his pace.

"Yeah, I know that, but she's such a dullard! I mean, she has never gone to a single party her entire high school career—we'll neither have you, but your different—anyways, she's so quiet too, seems kind of snobbish to me." Kikyo said simply, struggling to keep up with Sesshoumaru.

"You call her snobbish. I find that amusing." Sesshoumaru bemusedly stated. Sesshoumaru and Kikyo went around the corner and were now in the English hallway, also the sophomore hallway. Kikyo continued talking, and Sesshoumaru was attempting to ignore her.

"Oh, that must be Naraku's little sister. Her names Kagura, she's a total freak of nature from what I've heard." Kikyo said as she pointed to an irritated looking sophomore at her generally unruly locker. Sesshoumaru merely nodded, "Yeah, Naraku says she's an atomic communist, and whenever I come over she's always in her room. You should come to some of Naraku's parties, they really are a blast, and we could get to know each other better. "Kikyo added with a wink, and walked ahead of Sesshoumaru to catch up with her girlfriends. Her hemmed school skirt revealing a tanned and toned thigh.

Kagura could see nothing that would pass for food on the peach standard menu sheet, and coincidentally skipped lunch. Sitting outside with her usual water, Kagura removed her gray, hooded sweatshirt and let the sun warm her pale arms. Some seniors played a pathetic game of hacky sack in the parking lot and a group of lacrosse players hurled a rubber ball back and forth via their lacrosse stick. Kagura became oblivious to it all, just wishing to get away from this school and everyone in it.

"Hey, you know you're supposed to wear your school shirt, right?" Kagura did not answer Housi Miroku. Hanyou-Inuyokai Inuyasha added contemptuously,

"Course she does. She's a Kagewaki; they think their Bad Asses because they break school code."

"Now Dog-boy is that fair? I mean, she may be different." Miroku added, not desiring to make Kagura any angrier than she already seemed.

"What does C-C-C-P stand for, Kagewaki?" Koga demanded from across the grassy lot as he noted the white letters inscribed across the chest of her dark red t-shirt.

"You idiot! It's an acronym for the World Communist Party. Didn't you ever listen in class?" Inuyasha reprimanded Koga, and hurled the rubber ball back toward him.

"Dude! So it's true then...you are an atomic communist." Koga exclaimed, hurling the ball to Miroku who caught it expertly with the lacrosse stick.

"Miroku, great catch!" Inuyasha said, and then added, "Of course she's an atomic communist, everyone knows that! Koga, just stop talking."

"Shut up Dog-boy! I can talk all I want to! Communists of the World unite! Right Kagewaki!" Kagura continued staring off into space, and thought,

'So the rumor spreads.' Kagura stood up, and walked in the building without a word. She never enjoyed being spoken about as if she wasn't there, though it happened all to often.

The bell rang loudly, and the students darted out of the rooms in the blink of an eye. Sesshoumaru walked causally out, knowing the parking lot was hopelessly crowded in the five minutes following the last bell. Opening his spotlessly clean locker, Sesshoumaru set his books down and began to pack his navy-blue book bag. Sesshoumaru heard the click of Kikyo's sandals and moaned to himself,

'Won't she ever leave me alone?' He looked up to notice Kikyo not caring that he could see her small red underwear that fit her flat stomach flirtatiously, and then focused his attention toward his book bag.

"Hey Sesshoumaru. Sup?" Sesshoumaru coughed lightly, feeling uncomfortable and responded,

"Nothing really Kikyo." Diverting his attention back to packing his bag, Sesshoumaru placed his Calculus II book in and when he looked back up saw Kagewaki Naraku standing near his locker as well.

"How's it hangin' Sesshoumaru!" Naraku said with great enthusiasm and gave Sesshoumaru a high five. "I see you've met my lovely Kikyo." Naraku added as he grabbed Kikyo's rear. Kikyo smiled politely, but Sesshoumaru could tell by her dark eyes she wasn't enjoying the gesture. Feeling slightly sorry for Kikyo, Sesshoumaru changed the topic,

"Kagewaki, when are we going to work on the physics project?" Sesshoumaru asked as he stood up and closed his locker.

"Oh, you mean the egg drop thing, right?" Naraku asked, as he placed his arm around Kikyo's waist and started walking to catch up with Sesshoumaru.

"Yes, I mean the egg drop." Sesshoumaru said simply, searching for his car keys.

"That ain't due for five days though..." Naraku said. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and cringed.

"For once Naraku, wouldn't you like to get something done and get a good grade?" Sesshoumaru criticized. Naraku grinned proudly and said,

"Nah, I can just go into the military and get paid for shooting people. See, Sesshoumaru, you're an academic, and I'm an athlete. It's just the way the world works." Kikyo rolled her eyes and Sesshoumaru felt like hitting his head against a locker.

"Naraku, from one academic to an athlete I don't care what you say. I refuse to do poorly on another joint project," Sesshoumaru demanded harshly and opened the glass doors that led outside to the parking lot.

Seeing his car, a red Toyota Corolla, Sesshoumaru walked to his car quickly, and saw that his half-brother sat on the hood brooding.

"What took you so fucking long!" Inuyasha demanded, his glossy black hair shined in the sunlight. Sesshoumaru did not respond and opened the car door,

"I could always let you walk home." Sesshoumaru bitterly complained, and started the car.

"What's wrong Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked, curious about what was tweaking his half-brother. Pretending he could not hear Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru sped through the parking lot and the first stop sign. "Whoa!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "You really must be tweaked today," Inuyasha added. Sesshoumaru slammed on the breaks in enough time to make the next stop sign, nearly throwing Inuyasha towards the windshield.

"I'm not 'tweaked' nor am I angry." Sesshoumaru falsely said while embers of hate glowed in his eyes. Inuyasha smiled doubtfully and moments later the front end of Naraku's car and the rear end of Sesshoumaru's care made contact, shattering both cars lights as Naraku's junky 92' Taurus sped toward the stop sign.

"Shit!" Sesshoumaru yelled as he got out of the car, and saw the damage to his once pristine Toyota." How much of an ass can you be Naraku!" He exclaimed while glaring into Naraku's eyes with unbridled contempt. Naraku got out of the car and put his hand on Sesshoumaru's shoulder.

"Buddy, calm down, its just a few lights, and a trunk, and a.... O.K. Fine I did a fair amount of damage, but hey, I'll make it up to you." Naraku reasoned while Sesshoumaru stared blankly at him.

"Sesshoumaru! What the hell just happened!" Inuyasha exclaimed, running out of the passengers side and then he saw Kagura's slightly amused face." Oh, it's the Kagewaki's who did this. Mother fuckers!" Inuyasha hollered, glaring directly at Kagura. Both parties ignored Inuyasha and Naraku began scheming while attempting to dig himself out of another ditch,

"Sesshoumaru, you're a man of business, correct? Well, since you are I have a deal, per say."

"Naraku, I am in no way interested in any of your 'deals', per say. I just want the damage on my car paid in full!" Sesshoumaru explained angrily.

"Tough customer, I understand. That was a pretty nice car, and I know a guy who fixes nice cars for half the price. I'll loan you my ride and take yours to the guy." Naraku charismatically offered.

"Do you take me for a fool? I wouldn't trust a hundred of 'your guys' to do anything to my car. So just give me the money when you have it and I shall consider it forgotten." Sesshoumaru firmly stated.

"There's too much anger there, pal. We are supposed to be working on a project, that won't help your GPA." Naraku drawled, mocking Sesshoumaru.

"You bastard! You just wrecked the fucking car!" Inuyasha ranted, Naraku looked at the junior,

"Who are you?" Naraku asked and continued with his conniving.

"Whatever, Naraku. Just please, back up your...car...so I can get home." Sesshoumaru added dully, and Naraku put up his hands in a gesture of peace,

"As you wish, my good man." Naraku said with a smile and got back in the car, which was when Sesshoumaru noticed Kagura's small and amused smile for a moment. Then Kagura observed Sesshoumaru's stare and glared angrily as the car was backed away from Sesshoumaru's. He heard Naraku say to her,

"Sis, people these days you'd think they wouldn't be so angry about a little scratch." Kagura did not reply, as Sesshoumaru saw, and shut her eyes momentarily in an attempt to suppress her ire. Then, Sesshoumaru turned his head as he heard the back-up lights fall onto the dark asphalt and crack into a million diverse pieces. He cringed, and dreaded the coming physics project.

End Chapter One.

Rissi's ramblings:

I hope you readers will enjoy this fiction undertaking of mine. It's going to take a lot of effort and is obviously rated for language, among other things. This is my first try at anything AU in the Inuyasha realm of writing. So, any feedback, complaints and compliments would be helpful in your reviews so if you can muster more than a good job that would be VERY helpful. And if you have any suggestions, I am VERY open to them.

I also must thank Zero27 for being a sort of unofficial editor to me in Deviant Variations. So remember to thank her in your review as well!

Ciao!