Whoo hoo ! Another chapter! Well, for the record, I don't know when I'll end this fanfic. It's sort of a on-going thing. Heh-heh-heh...
Chapter 39 – Next To You
"Hello class. I am your teacher, Mr. Yamashira. I'm going to be teaching you Drama. Now, raise your hand if you have ever starred in a school play. Anybody?"
Kagome thought for a second. Well, there was that one play when they were doing a play about eating your vegetables. She remembered this because she had to dress up as a red tomato and she was always falling down and tripping. She raised her hand hesitantly.
"Higurashi, right" Mr. Yamashira asked her. Kagome nodded. "Ok, I want you to partner with... Inuyasha for now. I want you to re-act this scene from a famous movie. The scene is: 'two lovers are together and one of them is dying. One has to save the other in a record time.'"
Inuyasha groaned as he got up from his seat as Kagome walked up to the front of the class. There was a few mats lined up, representing a stage and Mr. Yamashira had made them sit on the floor because there were no chairs in his class at the time. Inuyasha had sat down in the center of the 'stage' and Kagome looked around nervously.
"You're supposed to be dying," Inuyasha hinted to her. The class snickered as Kagome lied down in Inuyasha's arms.
'This is comfortable... if I wasn't going to die,' Kagome thought as the lights dimmed and was suddenly pointed at the stage.
"Ok... start!" Mr. Yamashira said from the back of the room.
Inuyasha took a deep breath. "God... Kagome... look at you..." Inuyasha said, his voice in a soft whisper. Kagome fake coughed and pretended there was blood in her hand.
"Oh... I'm dying..." Kagome choked out. 'That came out very well...'
"Don't die on me, girl! I'll bring you to a hospital... we'll buy a house... then we'll start our own little family... just don't die on me!" Inuyasha said, making his voice sound desperate.
'Damn, he's good...' Kagome thought. "I... Inu... Inuyasha... don't forget me..." She managed to whisper. She sounded so real...
"No! Don't leave me like this! You can't leave me like this... you just ... can't..." Inuyasha said in the same desperate voice, sounding more and more desperate. Kagome faked another cough. She lifted her hand and touched his cheek lightly.
"Don't... forget...-"And with a hushed whisper, she fell silent. Her hand dropped from his face and her eyes closed. She grew limp in his arms. She couldn't help but giggle like a little girl in her head.
"No! NO! Don't leave... me...!" Inuyasha faked whimpered. He took one last look at her and in one quick movement he hugged her tightly in his arms. The lights slowly turned off then on again as the class erupted in applause. Kagome opened her eyes again and quickly got out of his arms. She could have sworn he saw her blush furiously. Kagome stifled back a laugh from embarrassment.
"That was awesome. Truly awesome. You guys looked like it was real, full of life." Mr. Yamashira grinned at the two. "That is what I'm looking for here, people! Drama! Not the kind of drama that happens between you kids, but drama like in the movies! That was great! Let's give the two another encore." The class erupted into another applause. Kagome blushed even harder, and she could have sworn she saw a light pink tint rise on Inuyasha's cheeks as well.
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Miroku sighed as boredom took over him. Here, he sat next to Sango in math class, where he could be somewhere else with Sango. Math was so boring today... Normally, he would have snuck out minutes ago, or he would have gone to sleep. The teacher's droning was going on for hours. He thanked the bell as it rang. Following Sango, he couldn't help but give her butt a little rub.
"HOU... SHI ...SAAAAAMA!" Sango shouted out as a loud smack was heard.
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"Yum... Lunch!" Kagome said as she sat down in a table. Sango was there too, eating her pizza while Miroku rubbed a rather large hand mark on his cheek. She could tell it was throbbing with pain. "What happened to you?"
"Sango's fist made contact with my face," Miroku said innocently. Sango snorted.
"That's because your hand made contact with my ass, thus my fist made contact with your face. My hand slipped! So, what's your excuse?" Sango scoffed.
"My hands have a mind of their own," Miroku said in a dry tone. He drank his soda and looked behind him. "Hello Inuyasha!"
Kagome looked up from her ramen noodles and looked at him. He had a cup of ramen noodles as well.
"Keh. I see your hands were... 'wandering' again?" Inuyasha snorted. Kagome nearly spit out her food from laughing.
"So, I heard your drama scene with Kagome. How was it?" Miroku grinned as he looked at Inuyasha. A blush was starting to form on his cheeks.
"Keh! I wasn't paying attention," Inuyasha lied. Kagome looked down into her cup of noodles. It was empty.
"So, Kagome. Who do you have after lunch?" Sango asked as she took a sip of her soda.
"I have... Ms. Kaede for P.E." Kagome smiled. "I used to go to a training school before this school. Cool, huh?" Kagome took her empty cup and tossed it in the trash.
"Ooh, I have her too. Maybe this will get interesting," Sango said as she flashed a smile at Miroku and Inuyasha as she walked off with Kagome towards the P.E. area.
"You think she's hot, huh?" Miroku grinned as he stared after the two girls. Inuyasha nearly burst out choking out his soda.
"Keh! Who are you talking about, pervert?" Inuyasha answered hotly. Miroku held his hands up defensively.
"I'm asking if you like the girl! Don't think I didn't see the blush on your cheeks!" Miroku's grin grew wider.
"Keh. Whatever man," Inuyasha said as he got up to go to his next class. The four had P.E. together, so they were all headed in the same way. Miroku ran to catch up.
"What do you think about that Kagome girl then? I think she's cool," Miroku said with a dreamy smile. "Sango is getting prettier every day, ne?"
"If you say so. Keh, I could care less about that girl," Inuyasha huffed. "So, I tell you haven't asked Sango yet? Or maybe you're still making the moves?" They walked down the hallway full of kids and classrooms.
"What moves? She's the one that's doing stuff to make me move," Miroku laughed. Inuyasha grinned as he playfully shoved Miroku into an open door. Miroku immediately got out of it and shoved Inuyasha in the wall. Inuyasha glowered at him as he shoved Miroku in another door, this time it was the girl's bathroom.
"Don't enjoy yourself too much!" Inuyasha called out as he stuck a nearby broom under the doorknob. He counted down. '5... 4... 3... 2...-'
A large series of smacks was heard throughout the school.
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"So, see any cute guys lately?" Sango questioned with a grin on her face as they changed into their gym clothes.
"Well, I haven't really looked yet," Kagome answered with a laugh. She fished a hair tie out of her backpack and fixed her hair in a tall ponytail. Few strands of hair fell loose as she pulled a shirt over her head. She tucked the loose hair behind her ear and smiled. Sango was already dressed up in this weird suit.
"You didn't see any guys, huh? What about... Inuyasha? What do you think about him?" Sango asked. She reached over in her gym locker and pulled out a large boomerang.
"Uh... what are you wearing? And what's that big boomerang?" Kagome asked. Sango chuckled.
"Here, this is your clothes," Sango said. She handed Kagome a miko robe and stifled her giggle. Kagome was looking at it as if it was a weird piece of food.
"I saw that somewhere before!" Kagome exclaimed as she pulled it over her own clothes and adjusted it. It fit her loosely around the sleeves, and the pants were a little too big. "Am I supposed to run around in this?" Sango laughed out loud.
"It's ok if you don't want to wear it. I told Ms. Kaede that you're knew," Sango said as Kagome pulled off the miko robes. Kagome smoothed out her skirt and brushed off her shirt. "You know archery, right?"
"Yeah. It was one of the things I learned while at that training school thing," Kagome answered as Sango handed her a quiver of arrows and a bow.
"Good. Ms. Kaede is looking forward to your skills. She knows that you're a..." Sango's voice turned down to a whisper. "A miko."
Kagome nearly laughed. "Why? What's so wrong with being a miko?" Kagome said out loud. There was a gasp and all the girls looked at her strange.
"What? A mouse? Why, nothing's wring with being a mouse! Ha-heh-ha..." Sango nervously laughed loudly. The girl's stares turned away.
"That's weird... care to fill me in, Sango?" Kagome asked. Sango waved her hand, dismissing the thought.
"No, no. Maybe later. Right now we've got to get ready! It's time for the tournament." Sango took Kagome's wrist and led her out of the gym locker room.
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Inuyasha walked calmly on the pavement. What was it about her that made him... feel so content? That scene in drama class... if that wasn't strange, then he didn't know what was. He walked over to the benches and waited impatiently for the P.E. teacher to start. Miroku probably recovered from the bathroom incident, so he should be coming in right about-
"Inuyasha, you back-stabber. Shoved me in the girl's bathroom! These bruises ought to be here for weeks," Miroku plopped down on the bench.
"Hah! You deserved that!" Inuyasha said. He reached up and toyed with the rosary around his neck. He didn't know how it got there, but it was just there.
"Class, today we're starting the tournaments. I'll be picking fighting teams for you, and then I'll set you up so you can battle," Ms. Kaede grabbed a quiver of arrows and a bow. She aimed at a bulletin board and fired. The sheet that covered it before fell, revealing the teams and who they were going to battle against.
Kagome and Inuyasha was paired up to be partners... what was it that gave him a nasty feeling about that?
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Kagome glanced down at her bow. Surely she had practiced almost everyday, but she was nervous at what the other people might think of her.
'Baka... since when did you care about what others think?' She scolded herself. She stood up to find her partner, Inuyasha. Sango had already left her to go find hers, and in Kagome's opinion, Kaede must've made a mistake. Sango and Miroku were sure to be drawing all sorts of trouble, but mostly because Miroku was the number one hentai in the whole- if not Japan –school.
"We're the first ones to battle," A voice said. Inuyasha stood next to the billboard and his angry expression was as clear as ever.
"Oh... you're my partner, huh?" Kagome answered him. She glanced at him. "Where's you weapon?"
"Feh. Who cares? I'm going to beat them anyway," Inuyasha snorted and stalked off. Kagome stared at the back of his head.
'What flew up his butt?' Kagome wondered. She followed him to the empty field and heaved the quiver of arrows on her back. She took one out and held it steady in her bow. A team was standing across from them, a girl held a rusted katana and the boy had nothing. 'Was this part of the tournament?'
"Kouga, you dip shit! I figured Kaede matched us up against you. That old hag," Inuyasha snarled. He cracked his claws and lunged at Kouga.
"Hey there dog shit! Aren't you as lively as my foot? Would you care to meet it?" Kouga said as he swung his foot over to kick at Inuyasha's head. Inuyasha dodged and sent a punch at him.
"Say hello to 'MY FIST'!" Inuyasha shouted as he punched Kouga squarely in the stomach.
Kagome glanced at the girl. Apparently, she was watching the fight between Kouga and Inuyasha with great amusement.
"Aren't we supposed to be fighting?" Kagome called out to her. The girl laughed and shook her head. Her orange colored hair went well with her amazing green eyes.
"Nah... this is more fun!" She said. She jogged over to Kagome. "Hey, I'm Ayame. You must be new, ne?" Ayame held out her hand. Kagome took it and they shook.
"Yeah. I'm Kagome. So that guy out there is Kouga?" Kagome asked. Ayame nodded her head.
"Sometimes he's a complete idiot, but he's all right," Ayame giggled. Kagome took aim at a tree with her arrow and shot it. Ayame looked at the tree with interest. The arrow had sliced through the trunk, leaving a clean hole in the middle. "Nice shot. You're a pretty good archer."
Kagome nodded. "I'm not that good, but I can manage."
"You're probably better than Kikyou!" Ayame exclaimed excitedly. "Nobody has been better than Kikyou before."
Kagome was confused. "Who's Kikyou?" A figure walked up behind the two.
"I am."
Heh, heh, heh. Kagome's in for a little surprise and we meet Kouga and Ayame... again. Whee! What was going on in Inuyasha's head today ?!?! LOL
Inuyasha ; FEH! Nothing was goin' on in my head.
Kagome ; Oh, come on! You were thinking about something!
Sango ; It better not be anything perverted...
Miroku ; Now that you reminded me... ::reaches over to Sango and rubs::
Sango ; HOUSHI - SAMA ! ::whack whack whack whack!!::
Inuyasha ; I'm surrounded my idiots and morons put together...