Chapter 3 "The first day of school"

Kagome woke the next morning to a day of violent weather; it was gusty, cold, wet, and it was snowing to some extent. She ran to her mother's room with all of her blanketing wrapped around her throat. She crawled onto her mother's bed and began to dig in the covers and shake her mom. Kaneko finally woke to her daughter's face above her. She was shocked to see her up this morning and this early. She was planning getting some extra sleep and then waking up Kagome. There went her morning plan. "Hello baby. How are you?" she asked to the bundle before her. "I'm fine, but I don't know what to take with me. I have never been to a big school before." She said with fear and excitement in her eyes. "Don't worry honey I'll help you." The blanket-clad group walked through the house to Kagome's room to help her get ready. After around half an hour later Kagome sat at the dinner table waiting for her mom to come back with her grandpa and baby brother. Her mother came in a few minutes later carrying her brother and she sat him in his highchair and began to cook. After finishing breakfast, Kagome ran to the car and buckled in. They drove to school and chatted amiably the entire drive. Right when Kagome was about to get out her mother handed her a video camera and said "Kagome I talked to your principal and she agreed to let you film your first day." "Thanks mom." She hugged her mom and ran into the school. She wandered around until she found the principal's assistants room. She walked in and had to jump up to see over the desk. She got help in finding the classroom. When she and the principal's assistant reached the room the noise was flowing through the door. As they walked into the classroom, everything became quite. They all wanted to know who the new kid was. She was smaller than they were and she just looked weird. The only ones that weren't quite were six kids, five boys and one girl, who were fighting. The teacher who was a young man around the age of twenty or twenty-one who had long silver hair pulled into a ponytail at the back of his neck. His eyes were a liquid gold and his skin was a healthy but pale porcelain color. However, Kagome noticed he also had jagged purple stripes on his cheeks and a blue moon on his forehead. He strode over to the brawl and began to pull them apart. A few entertaining moments and loud yells later the children were separated and contained. He then walked over to the couple waiting by the door. "How may I help you two?" he asked cheerfully. "This is Kagome and she is going to be your new student for the rest of the year. Kagome this is where I leave you." "Bye Mrs. Sonya." Kagome replied. She walked up to the teacher and gestured for him to bend down to her level. "Excuse me, you are a demon. Aren't you?" she asked excitedly. "Why yes I am. How did you know?" "My mom and grandpa told me about demons and spells." "Well you just come along and sit right next to my son Inuyasha. He is right here." He led her strait to a young boy who had long silver hair and gold eyes, just like his father. The differences between him and his father were that his skin was tanned. He also had dog-ears instead of pointed ones on the side of his head like his father, and he didn't have the markings. As she sat down, she could feel eyes on the back of her head. She began to look around and found that it was the boy, Inuyasha. "Please, stop staring at me now?" "Why should I baby." He said sneering at her. A little while later during spelling, she felt a piece of paper hit her on the head. She looked at it and saw it was from Inuyasha. She read it and found it was insulting her again. The teacher then went up and started reading off correct answers. He then asked if anyone missed zero and Kagome quickly raised her hand. He clapped his hands and said "Very good Miss Higurashi. Maybe you could teach a few of my problem students."

Recess came a little while later. It was still terrible but they went out anyways. Kagome had been filming the entire day and was filming when they went outside into the cold. She was enjoying herself when a young boy with his black hair in a small ponytail at the back of his neck. They began talking about school and hobbies by the end of the day they had become close friends and Kagome had found out that the boys name was Miroku.

Kagome walked away from school limping. On the way home, she had run into some people who didn't seem to like her. flashback "Hey Miroku how was your day? We didn't see you during recess." A young girl with brownish black hair began to ask. "I was talking to a new friend. Come here Kagome." He said waving his hand behind his back. Slowly a young girl even younger than they were came out holding his hand. "This is Kagome. Kagome this is Sango, Inuyasha, and Koga." He said and pulled her out in front of him. "Hey that's the pest who out smarted me in class!" Inuyasha yelled. When she saw him, her eyes got big and she bolted. They ran after her and saw her dart into an alley. They ran in and saw her lying on the ground with a large pool of liquid under her. They ran up and saw she had a large bite mark on her neck. Miroku ran up and checked for a heartbeat. Sango was busy screaming and Inuyasha was in shock. Miroku began to panic she had a heartbeat but the bleeding wasn't stopping. Suddenly she took in a deep breath and blinked. They all began to cheer when they saw a shadow jump off the roof above them and disappear into the shadows surrounding them. She slowly sat up and reached up to touch her neck, only to pull back at the feel of blood. She tried to stand up but only managed to fall back onto her butt. She tried, succeeded, and began to limp away. They ran up to her and asked where she was going and she answered that she was going home and her grandpa could help her.end flashback She had finally reached home and collapsed upon the steps. Her mother found her as she ran out to the mailbox. She picked her up and brought her to her father. When they had found what had happened they chose to send her away for training to control what she had become.

At school, Mr. Taisho had the duty to tell the class that the new student wouldn't be coming to the school anymore. He could see the disappointment in Miroku. He knew even after only one day his son and his friends had become attached to the little girl. He knew that it hurt them, never being able to see her again. He just hoped that they would get over it eventually.

At the Higurashi residence, Kagome was packing somberly. She was going to miss her friends and family but she needed this training.