Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha............but maybe they'll sell it to me to make a better ending...
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Two sides of a oneway mirror (OMG! I can't believe I put "a oneway" ahhh! It should be AN and oneway's not even a word! AHHH! Ms. Scott would KILL me!)
By Crystaltears41090
Chapter 2
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"Aw come on Kagome! Stop being such a girl!"
Uh oh. Better not go and take that shower...
"I am not!" she said roughly.
"I know that, but stop acting like one!"
"I'm not! Just cause I care about my personal hygiene doesn't mean I'm a girl!" Kagome argued, she fished for an excuse in her hazy-still-asleep mind, "And...uh...I haven't taken a shower since...yesterday morning!"
Miroku gave her a blank look.
"Uh! FINE! I'll take one...after classes! But I gotta go change..."
She entered the bathroom, throwing her clothes around. Greeaatt... School uniforms...who made up such a stupid rule? She threw on her clothes and ran out of the bathroom.
"Alright man! Hang with us before school eh? We'll probably be on the field playing baseball or something. Ya know how to play?"
"Kinda, sorta..."
The two left the room and walked to the field. Just as Miroku had said, the guys were out on the field.
"So, what're we doing?"
"Nothing..."
Everyone sighed. What a wonderful impression for Kag huh?
They sat there for what seemed like ETERNITY! Time doesn't pass when you're not having fun. Then, Kagome brightened.
"I have an idea! We could play charades!"
"Keh! That's a stupid kiddy game!"
"Aw man, Inu, stop being such a spoil sport, at least we won't be bored, right?" Miroku added.
Inuyasha grumbled for some time, then finally sighed. "Alright, but don't blame me if we end up being the laughing stock..."
The group ripped some pieces of paper, split them up, and each wrote some words on each of the divided sheets.
"Now, teams, teams, teams."
"Kouga and Inuyasha are captains."
"Why do they get to be captain?"
"Cause they always are."
"Whatever."
"Ok, Kouga goes first."
"Hmmm...I'll take Niiga. He's a good actor..."
"Miroku."
"Ketsuki"
"Higurashi."
So the teams were Kouga, Niiga, and Ketsuki against Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kagome.
"Since Kouga's team was assembled first, we get to pick paper first."
Miroku slowly drew a piece of paper, unfolded it, and stuffed it in his pocket.
He got up and put his hands up to his face. His fingers were shaped as if it were holding something similar to the shape of small circular tube. He made a motion as though he were smelling it?
"Uh....flowers!" Kouga guessed.
He shook his head no...
"Uh, a sugar packet..." Inuyasha tried.
Miroku rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Lipstick!" Kagome yelled.
Miroku nodded and pointed at her. "That's it!"
"Lipstick?! Who wrote lipstick on the paper?"
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(20 minutes later)
Kouga was crawling on the ground, whipping his hands in this weird motion. Then he got up and started flapping his arms around like a bird. Next, he was on the ground crawling like a worm...or bug, or something. Next, he made gesture like he was holding a microphone and started to mouth-sing.
Everyone was puzzled. What the hell was he doing?
"Animals?"
"Living things!"
"Stuff!"
"A mentally challenged person who does imitations and such of other people!"
"Life on earth!"
"The wild!"
"Mother Nature!"
"God's creations?"
"The frustration of a student caused from continuous stress?"
"THE APOCALYPSE!"
Kouga bit back a growl. If he was gonna have to act anymore...
"Pokemon!"
Kouga cried out happily. "Yes, that's it!"
"FINALLY!" everyone cheered. However, they still pondered over who would want to write Pokemon on a sheet of paper. That was like, soooo six years ago.
RINNNGGG!!
Oh, there was 1st bell, better get going. Everyone went their own directions. Kagome rifled through her bag for her schedule card, but couldn't seem to find it anywhere. Where the heck was it?!
'Oh crap! They're still in my clothes from yesterday. With a rustle of the leaves and wind, Kagome ran for the dorms, smacking into the unfortunate person now and then. Muttering apologies to everyone, she quickly ran up the stairs, where she charged for the open door. Too bad she'd seen it incorrectly...::SMACK!::
Darn it. She coulda sworn that stupid door had been left open when they left. She reached for the handle to find that it was locked! Who'd locked it?! She KNEW Miroku had left with her without locking the door. She kept on hurling herself at the doorknob hoping to get it open. She pushed up against it, pulled against it, twisted it as hard as she could, but still couldn't seem to manage to pull the door open. She banged and knocked on it. She leaned on it in her effort and the door suddenly jolted open. She ended up falling backwards and falling into her room, which turned out to not be her room at all.
A young man stood before her with long braided black hair. He looked...majestic, kinda, suave, I guess you could say. He had an air of confidence surrounding and he was looking at her with humorless eyes. "What are you banging on my door for?! Don't you know not to bother us?!"
"Well, uh...I'm s-sorry." Kagome stammered, "I'm n-new here, and, and, I thought this was my dorm."
"Well, you were wrong weren't you, kid? You should know better than to come into this hall. It's dominated by the Shichinintai. (AN: Is that spelled rite?) I'll let you off this time. But next time you won't be so lucky! You're on my list, so stay out of my face!" He said, all the while shoving her roughly out of the room and slamming the door in her face.
Kagome stared at the door.
"Jeez, what's his problem? 'It's dominated by the Shichinintai...blah, blah, blah...'" Kagome mimicked. "Hmph! How rude!"
She stomped down the hall. After about 10 minutes, she finally found her dorm. The door had been shut and a sticky note on it. It read:
Dear Seiji-san and Higurashi-san,
Shut the door tomorrow. Nobody wants to look at that pigsty of a room. Next time, I'm not going to come and shut it for you; you will be promptly moved into the lower dorms.
-Headmistress Kaede
Kagome blinked. The lower dorms? Weren't those the dorms occupied by ditchers and stuff? Great, her second day here, and she was already on some guy's 'list' and she was on Headmistress Kaede's bad side. Not to mention she'd be really late to 1st period.
She marched into her room and retrieved her schedule. Promptly shutting the door as soon as she stepped out, she strolled down the hall. Oh well, she was already having a bad day, it's not like it wasn't going to get worse, as bad days always do.
She glanced down at her schedule while walking...making sure to pay attention to where she was walking this time.
1st Period: History Rm. B125
2nd Period: English Rm. B60
3rd Period: P.E. Gym B2
4th Period: Japanese Rm. B56
Lunch (B)
5th Period: Art of Japan Rm. B379
6th Period: Biology (L:B) Rm. B23
7th Period: Algebra II Rm. B219
She could already tell what was gonna be her weak spots. History and Japanese were going to be tough. She had grown up in America, what did they expect from her? She knew nothing about Japan's history or much of the language. She knew how to read, write, and speak it, but she didn't like to think about what level it would be on...
Kagome sighed. At least she could look forward to English. Before she knew it, she stood before the door of her first period...twenty minutes late to class. She had missed half of the class already.
'Maybe Miroku or someone will be there to help me get out of this...'
Kagome tentatively twisted the knob and walked in.
As always, everyone's head turned to investigate the disturbance. The old teacher looked at her. "Excuse me sir, can I help you?"
"Um...I'm the new exchange student, Higurashi Kagome? My schedule says this is my first period..."
"Ah, Higurashi-san. Come in, come in."
Kagome shuffled inside, expecting some type of trap. The teacher was supposed to be snapping at her! Not inviting her in calmly!
"Alright, class. This is the new student, Higurashi Kagome. He's transferred from America. Please, tell us about yourself."
"Well...um I went to a public high school in America..." Kagome trailed off.
"Any questions for Higurashi-san?"
A random guy in the class raised his hand.
"Yes, Kioto?" (AN: not Kyoto, the city!)
"Isn't Kagome a girl's name?"
Snickers could be heard.
Kagome rolled her eyes. What was with guys and this whole name thing?!
"Yes, Higurashi-san, you do have an interesting name. Would you be kind enough to tell us the etymology of your name?"
"I think I just had some weird parents. I dunno. My parents never told me since I never bothered to ask about it. My American friends couldn't tell the difference between male and female names."
The teacher nodded in "understanding." "Any other questions?"
Silence...
"Ok then, Higurashi-san, please take a seat behind Hojo. Third row, last seat."
And so History passed with some homework worksheets...and lots of reading. Did I mention Kagome's a slow reader? (AN: I would be too....)
The bell rang. 'Thank GOD!'
Kagome hurried to her next class: English, which I might add was at the beginning of B Hall.
She rushed into a seat as the tardy bell started ringing.
A man about the age of forty or so walked into the class. "Um...is there a Kagome Higurashi in the class?"
Kagome raised her hand. He didn't look Japanese...but he didn't have an accent.
"Oh, good, I'm glad you made it here. Welcome to English class. My name's Mr. Work. I'll be your English teacher. I'm happy you're not late, or else I'd have to give you detention and you'd have to write a ten page essay!"
(AN: I seriously had a teacher in 7th grade whose name was Mr. Work)
The man smiled eerily at her and burst out laughing. Kagome just looked at him and kinda laughed too. The class rolled their eyes. That's when Kagome suddenly spied Miroku. He gestured for her to move into the seat next to him. Kagome nervously shifted out of her seat and snuck past her laughing teacher.
"Eh hem." Mr. Work coughed. Anyways...Mr. Higurashi, please take a seat next to Mir-" he cut himself off, "My! You move quickly! Or were you reading my mind?" He quirked his eyebrow and looked at her suspiciously. Then burst out laughing again.
Kagome turned to Miroku with a look of clueless-ness on her face.
"Don't worry. Mr. Work's pretty cool about stuff...he's just always laughing at his own 'jokes.'" Miroku grinned. "His only policy is N.B.E."
Kagome looked at him, confused at ever.
"It stands for Nothing But English. So we're only supposed to speak English in here, well, at least during actual learning time, or whatever."
"Ooohhhh..."
(Ok, anything underlined is them speaking English)
"Well! Let's get this class started!"
He wrote a few words on the board. "Now, when I call on you, I want you to pronounce these words for me."
"Mr. Seiji."
It was obvious the students were supposed to study yesterday. And it was just as obvious that Miroku hadn't.
"Erm...En-cer-da-blee?"
It seems Miroku was one of those students who had problems pronouncing stuff, even with instruction on vowel and consonant sounds...
"Incredible." Kagome muttered.
"Oh! I mean...Incredible."
Mr. Work nodded happily, "Mr. Seiji, you're finally catching up! Next word"
"...Overneet?"
"Overnight!" Kagome hissed.
"I mean, overnight!"
And the class went on.
At the end, a review worksheet was passed out. Something about subject-verb agreement.
Kagome scanned the paper. 'Let's see...numero uno! The rabbit blank little.'
She was done in like......thirty seconds. --
Everyone else was scribbling furiously and cross referencing their textbooks. The class had learned the stuff a long time ago, but this was a review to see how much they remembered. Obviously, some people had really short-term memory.
RINGG!
"Wait up Kagome!" Miroku yelled catching up to Kagome.
"What's up?"
"What's your next class?"
"I think...it's PE. Wait, no! Think...yeah, wait...think...yeah!"
"Awesome, then you have it with me and Inuyasha. Then you'll get to see Inu in action. And you'll know why exactly he's captain for everything."
"He's that good?"
"Yeah."
The two went to the changing rooms. Kagome immediately flew to the bathrooms with her clothes. She quickly put on her sweats and t-shirt and came back out.
"Why do you dress in there...?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well...um...ya see..."
Inuyasha cut her off, "Kagome, today, we're starting a new unit: Archery. It's time to prove yourself." He smirked at her.
"Ever played before?"
"Kind of." Ok, that was a lie, she played archery a lot back home. And by lots, she meant...everyday after school ever since she could hold a traditional beginners re-curve bow. She'd played with every single bowed her family ever owned. And she'd shot every bow the top Archery club in the city could offer. Her favorite was still the wooden re-curve. It was a bond she could never quite explain. She just felt like a better shooter with wooden re-curves. Maybe cause her dad had made her first bow, which happened to be a wooden Prodigy re-curve. Great for beginners. Her father had been an archery champion and an incredible bow smith...or whatever you'd like to call it.
Inuyasha stood up from tying his shoe. "Then, I challenge you, Kagome Higurashi, to an archery contest."
"And...what do I get out of this?"
"You get to be captain of the archery team."
She grinned, "You're on."
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Okie dokie! Archery contest next chapter!
kinda strange chapter, but what can I say? I had such a good start, and now...it's just kinda fuzzy in my mind. Like...blah...
But please read and review!