Hey mina-san!! I'm SOOOO sorry it took so long to update my story!!! I've been terribly busy. lol
With school and swim and everything going onI haven't had time to type up the chapters I've written and I haven't had time to write a whole bunch of new chapters. I'll try to update as soon as I can.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Though we all wish we do. Sorry I forget the disclaimer in the last chapter. But we all know that I don't own Inuyasha sadly.

Chapter 3- Surviving the First Day

Kagome looked at her schedule again right before the bell for her second class rang.

Kagome Higarashi- Dorm 213

1 Mr. TakaiGeometry
2 Mr. Nawarobi History
3 Mr. HosekiScience
4 Mr. KaishaEnglish
5 Mr. RyogawaGym
6 Mr. AshitaComputer Technology
7 Mr. Bungaku Literature

Lunch is after third bell.

"Lemme see that," the Seijin boy said as he grabbed her schedule. "Cool, you have all the same classes as me and Inuyasha over there. I'm Miroku by the way."

"Kagome."

"Want me to show ya around?" he offered.

She smiled gratefully, "Sure, thanks. I have no idea where I'm going. Do you happen to know where dorm 213 is?"

"Yeah, that's Inuyasha's dorm, why?"

"Apparently I share it with him," she replied frowning. This could lead to trouble.

"Really? He's probably going to be pissed. He hated sharing his dorm with someone. He's had it to himself ever since Iseki quit last month. He likes his space," Miroku explained.

Kagome winced. "Great. Just great," she groaned.

She followed Miroku to their history class with Mr. Nawarobi and went through the introduction process again. History turned out to be especially boring and 16 pages were assigned to be read for that nights homework. Kagome could tell that her history teacher was the no nonsense kind of guy. Three boys had had to stary after class and talk with him. Inuyasha included.

'Great,' Kagome thought, 'My dorm mate is a trouble maker too.'

She picked up her books and bag then once again followed Miroku out the door.

Her science room was in another, much smaller, building on the Reika campus. When she entered the room her eyes widened. Once wall was covered in shelves that occupied many different sizes of glass cages. All kinds of various creatures were moving around in them. One seemed to contain colorful fish, another, mice-like creatures, and yet another was occupied by some kind of black snake that was seemingly sleeping on a rock under a bright lamp hanging above its cage.

Another wall was covered in maps and cork boards covered in pictures of plant life from around the world.

"Wow," she murmured.

"Huh?" Miroku looked at her questioningly and saw her staring at the glass cages. "Oh," he chuckled.

"Mr. Hoseki's our science teacher. He lived in America for most of his life so he's got a bit of a… different way of teaching than other teachers," Miroku explained.

As if Mr. Hoseki had heard them talking about him, he appeared from an adjoining room with a large snake wrapped around his shoulders. "Welcome class to another, of what I'm sure will be a, fun year of science. For our first order of business, is Kagome Higarashi here?" he asked.

Kagome raised herself slowly out of her seat for yet another awkward introduction. "Yes sir," she said.
"Ah, wonderful. Now that everyone knows who you are, would you mind telling me your favorite animal?"

"My favorite animal, sir?" she asked puzzled. Why on earth… would the teacher want to know her favorite animal.

"Yes Higarashi," he replied.

"Well a cat I suppose. I have a cat named Buyo," she answered.

"Ah, thank you Higarashi, you may be seated now."

"Thank you sir." She bowed and sat down then turned to Miroku. "What in the hell was that about?" she hissed.

Miroku snickered and replied, "That's sort of his way to greet new students. Last year he did that to the two new guys we got, I guess he decided to make it a tradition.

Kagome just shook her head and pulled out her science books from her book bag. 'If I have any more interesting teachers like this nut,' she thought, 'this is going to be a long year.' She could already tell the year was going to be very busy.

After science was lunch. Freedom for 45 minutes. Miroku offered to let Kagome sit with him and his friends at lunch. She gladly agreed.

"Hey guys," Miroku greeted his buddies, "This is Kagome. Transferred from Meio High," he told them as he sat down next to a boy with shaggy brown hair. Kagome sat next to him.

"Kagome, this is Hojo," he introduced her to the boy with shaggy hair. "You already met Inuyasha. The other guy with the longer silver hair is Sesshomaru, Inu's older brother. Next to him with the black hair is Naraku. The carrot-top over there is Shippo and the one with the long brown hair in the pony tail is Kouga," he said, pointing to each in turn. All but Inuyasha and his brother waved.

Kagome nodded, knowing that she would never remember all of the names.

"Hey. Isn't Kagome a girls name?" the one with the pony tail asked.

Kagome looked down and shrugged.

"Leave him alone man," Miroku ordered, coming to his defense. "It ain't his fault if he's got a girly name! What if your name was Serena or something?"

"Okay, okay," Kouga grumbled. "Sorry Kag."

"It's okay," she replied still staring down at her food. She wasn't sure how to act around these boys. As a girl she would have been flirting. Especially since all of the boys were so cute. But as a boy she had no idea what to do. She was afraid she would say or do something wrong and someone would find out her true identity.

Kagome had worked herself into such a tizzy that when the bell signaled the end of lunch period rang she was so startled that she jumped so high her knees banged the top of the table. "OUCH!" she cried out.

"Ha ha! You scream like a girl Kagome. Maybe that names catching up with you," Miroku joked.

She glared at him and he help up his hands in defeat. "Sorry, sorry. Lets just get to class ok?"

English turned out to be one of Kagome's best classes. She had taken it up the year before for fun and was a lot better in it than all of her new friends.

"Hey Kagome! Can you help me with this?" Kouga asked.

"Why don't you get a real man to do it?" she shot back tartly, still trying to feign anger for her name being called girly. "Someone with a more 'manly name?"

"Aww, c'mon man. You know I was only joking! Plus, you're the best one in here at this stuff," he added, trying to get in her good graces and causing her to blush. Thankfully no one noticed.

"Hey Higarashi, mind helping me too?" Shippo inquired.

Kagome signed in resignation. "Okay, how about we make it a study group? We'll meet in someone's dorm and work on English and whatever else each person needs help with," she suggested. The others nodded. "Okay, does anyone else want to be part of our study group?" she asked the rest of the class.

A few guys came over, Miroku and Hojo included to say they'd join. Two boys she didn't know, Yusuke Hiragishe and Kyo Akari, also said they would and try it out.

Before she knew it, the bell for fifth period had rung and the class was filing out.

Grinning, she pulled out her schedule but when she saw her next class the grin immediately disintegrated. Her next class was gym. The locker room! Frantically she searched for some excuse but nothing came and before she knew it Miroku was dragging her out of the room and towards the gym.

"W-wait!" she cried and Miroku stopped and gave her a funny look.

"What?"

"I uh…" she struggled frantically for a reason, "I have to go to the bathroom. I'll catch up with you." And with that, she shot off down the hall and into the bathroom. Miroku still stood in the hallway staring after her with a confused look on his face.

Luckily no one was there. She still wasn't sure what she was going to do when she walked in and there was someone there. And it was bound to happen sometime or another. But she would cross that bridge when she came to it.

Sighing, she turned on the faucet, cupped water in her hands and splashed it on her face. She toweled it off and fixed her uniform then exited the restroom and headed to the office. Somehow she had to convince them that she could not go to gym until he had a plan.

Getting an idea, she veered off of her original course and turned into the nurse's office, putting a pained look on her face.

"My stomach hurts," she said shakily to the nurse when he asked what was wrong. He directed her to a bed and told her to lie down as he took her temperature.

"No fever. But I suppose that if you feel bad enough then you can stay through your next class," he offered. Kagome nodded. "Well, who's your teacher?" he asked.

"Mr. Ryogawa," she replied gratefully with a fake wary smile.

The nurse nodded and left the room to inform her teacher that she would be absent to gym and why.

When he had left the room, Kagome sighed. 'I've got to be more prepared!' she scolded herself.

So she sat in the nurse's office until gym class was almost over then told the nurse that she was feeling a little better and left to get a head start to computer technology. Since she had no idea where it was.

When she got there the bell had just rung and students were filing our of the classroom.

Computer technology passed by quickly with the teacher, Mr. Ashita, explaining what he expected from the class and all of his rules.

After that was her last class of the day. Literature.

Literature had always been Kagome's best subject. She loved reading and writing poems and such. Mr. Bongaku, her new literature teacher, turned out to be exceedingly nice. He was friendly and Kagome could tell he was going to be a good teacher.

"Hey Kag, missed you in gym," Miroku commented when he saw her.

"Yeah, my stomach started hurting so I skipped out and stayed in the nurse's office for a while," she replied shrugging.

"Anyway. So what are you doing tonight? I was thinking of throwing a party in my dorm. Sort of a welcome to a new year kind of thing. You wanna come?"

"No thanks. I think I'm going to do homework, shower, and go to bed. It's been a hectic day and if I don't get some sleep I'm going to die tomorrow," she declined grinning.

It was Miroku's turn to shrug. "Suit yourself."

A minute later the bell rang and everyone rushed out of the room and to their dorms. Kagome followed Miroku to his dorm, said goodbye, and walked across the hall to her and Inuyasha's dorm.

She began to knock on the door but then realized that she had a key and unlocked it herself.

Inuyasha was already there, sleeping it seemed, on the couch. Kagome set her bag down softly by the door and crept over to look at him. He was so beautiful when he slept. His slivery hair fell into his face and his chest rose slightly with each breath. Then he opened his eyes.

"What are you looking at?" he growled at her as he sat up and ran his hand through his hair.

She felt a blush rising in her cheeks so she busied herself with getting something out of her book bag. "N-nothing," she shuttered. "Sorry."

He grunted and walked over to their mini refrigerator. He opened the door, sighed, and closed it again then grabbed his keys (A/N: he can drive for the sake of my story so don't question it, m'kay?). "I'm going out. We don't have any good food in this godforsaken place," he snarled. "You want anything?" Kagome shook her head and Inuyasha left.

As soon as he had closed the door Kagome slumped onto the couch, breathing in his scent.

It was going to be a very interesting year indeed.

I hope you liked this chapter. Again, so sorry that it took so long to update it. I really will try to update more often from now on!! Please keep reading and reviewing! I'm always gald to get new reviews!! And I will keep trying to make my chapters as long if not longer than this one.

Kaji no Miko