Hey! I'm terribly sorry for the late update! You all know how busy, busy, busy I am, right?... I'm really SO sorry I haven't updated sooner... thanks for all the reviews anyways forgive me will ya?! And I want to make something clear... I do not want to get married with the computer, k... And I also want to make another thing crystal... Touya Akira is an OC. His name is based from a character from another anime called Hikaru No Go. I don't own him but I want to make it clear that this Touya is different... and I've never even watched Hikaru No Go... thanks for understandingÜ well, hope you like this next chappie 'cuz I really worked hard on this... R&R!!!

Disclaimer: Even if I wish I could, I do not own Inuyasha!!!

Because of you

Chapter 3- Detention with Akira

It seemed like forever until the bell rang.

The class was quiet for a while but then they heard it. To them it sounded like the Alleluia chorus.

As soon as it finished ringing everyone went running out the door bumping into each other like hungry animals.

"Ok class!!! Don't forget your home works!!!" shouted Ms. Kikyo as she saw her class ran out of the classroom. Finally, she said to herself as she too walked out.

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"Don't worry Emiko, detention is not that bad!" said Kagome.

"How do you know Kagome? Have you ever been in detention?" asked Emiko.

The gang was now walking towards their lockers to get their things when Emiko brought up the topic about detention. She said her hands were already getting sweaty. She never had detention before anyways but heard it was boring and teachers had to let you do something.

"Well... actually, I never had a detention before," said Kagome as she came to a stop at locker 233. Everyone stopped too. "But I know Inuyasha and Miroku had gone to tons of detentions before they met us, and look! they're still alive!"

Inuyasha snorted. So much for a reliever.

"C'mon Emiko, don't be such a baby. It's only one hour," he said and put his hands in his pockets.

Kagome slammed the door of her locker. They went to the band of lockers behind Kagome's. Sango and Emiko took their stop beside each other.

"But then one hour is long too, ya know," said Emiko. She put her head in her locker and put her books. She got her bag as well.

"Like Inuyasha said, don't worry lovely Emiko. We've been there before and it wasn't bad trust me. All the teacher's will do is just watch you. But then some even sleep," said Miroku.

Emiko windrowed her head out of her locker and nodded.

"That's my girl!" said Miroku.

And after saying that, he was once again on the floor.

"He's groping me again!" shouted Emiko.

"Leave Emiko alone, will ya. She's new for heaven's sake!" said Sango as she passed Miroku. She knelt down and gave him a punch on the head.

Miroku got up. "What was that for, my lady Sango?" he asked as he rubbed his soar head.

"For not behaving yourself! And stop calling me that!"

"What my lady Sango? Calling you what?" asked Miroku confused.

"That!"

"What?"

"'My Lady Sango'," Sango replied mockingly.

On the other side of the wall, Kagome, Inuyasha and Emiko stood watching. Miroku and Sango were like cats and dogs fighting but the three knew they were perfect for each other. It was pretty obvious that they were in love with each other even with or without the groping.

Emiko looked at the steel clock right above her locker. It was 3:15 pm. She took a brush from her bag and started combing her coffee colored hair which now laid down like a curtain of silk. She didn't tie it in a ponytail anymore, she just let it hang.

She kept her comb in her bag once again and braced herself. This was it, she thought.

"Well, guess I'm off guys!" she said. Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango and Miroku looked at her direction with serious faces.

"Good luck!" they said in chorus. Emiko sweat dropped –anime style- thinking the gang was going to say something more like a 'Hope you get through!' or 'See you later' because 'good luck' seemed to her like something bad was going to happen!

Well, Emiko said to herself. Better than nothing.

Emiko took steps away from her gang which just watched her disappear from their sight. Emiko took the left hallway and she was out of their way.

"How come she's so nervous? She was so cool about it at lunch," said Kagome looking at Inuyasha.

"No. She was also nervous at lunch. She just covered it up by laughing," he answered.

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Emiko was steps away from the detention room. She felt drops of sweat pour from her head.

Relax, she told herself.

She took a deep breath and stepped forward. She turned her hand into a weak fist and made it collide with the door. She raised it again and knocked once more.

She opened the door to see an empty room with only two people inside. An old man and a brunette she couldn't notice because he was sleeping with his face covered with his hands. The room was smaller than the normal classrooms but was filled with chairs and tables. In front she saw the old man wake up from his sleep because of Emiko's knocking.

"Hello dear," he said in a weak elderly voice. "May I have your slip please?"

Emiko put her sweaty hand in her pocket and pulled out a small, rectangular piece of paper.

"Ah," the old man said in his sleepy voice. "The classic, eh? Sleeping in the classroom. Oh! What's this?! On the first day of school?!"

Emiko looked flushed and found herself addicted to the floor.

"Well then lass, take a seat. I'm Professor Totosai by the way. But I like to be called Pro," the old man said. He sat down once again as Emiko took her seat.

"See here?" he said pointing at the board. "A couple of rules 'ere in detention. Read and follow, lass."

Emiko looked at the evergreen board. There she read, written in a nice penmanship:

Rules in Detention:

- NO EATING - OBSERVE SILENCE AT ALL TIMES - NO WRITING - NO READING - NO SMOKING - NO PLAYING - NO FIGHTING - NO ANYTHING!!!!!!

THINK OF WHAT YOU DID! (you may sleep though)

Emiko switched her gaze. This was easier than she thought! All you had to do was stay quiet for a while nothing that bad.

The girl looked in front once again hearing a click sound. She saw Toto- "Pro" fixing his things and putting his top hat on his bald head.

"Excuse me pro. Where are you going?" asked Emiko.

"SILENCE! Can't you see the board?" was the reply of the senior citizen. "I know it's not proper to leave you here but I have more important business to attend to. I trust both of you enough to stay right here, eh? I'm callin' lady Kaede too."

Emiko looked at him strangely. What kind of teacher leaves his pupil?

"Well, I'm off lassie. Do me a favor and guard that troublemaker beside you, please. He's a real pain. Never had a day that I didn't see him since September and that meant I never had a day off. And also try not to disobey any rule on the board, ne? Or I'll be seeing more of you. Ja!"

With that her exited the room and slammed the door. The boy beside Emiko jerked up his head surprised of the sudden noise.

"Wha-"he said looking around. Seeing that Pro had gone out, he stretched his arms and looked at Emiko.

Emiko looked at him too. She was shocked to see it was Touya Akira sitting beside her. So he was the troublemaker Pro has been talking about.

"Hey new girl," he greeted with a big smile.

Emiko blushed. "Call me Emiko please," she said. "I feel uneasy if you call me that."

"Ok, Emiko," Touya replied pronouncing Emiko with sarcasm. "Why are you here anyway? And on the first day of school!"

"Yeah I know," Emiko said laughing. "I think I slept at the wrong side of the bed last night. Didn't sleep well, ya know."

Touya's smile didn't fade. "Sleeping in class, at least it's not that serious," he said looking at Emiko's emerald orbs.

Emiko looked at his turquoise eyes. They seemed so perfect. But then she snapped out of her daydream.

"How about you?" she asked. "Why are you here for like... ever?!"

Touya couldn't help but laugh. Emiko looked confused. "Well, I was caught vandalizing the boy's lavatory today. Wrote something disgusting. Better not knowing."

"Why do you enjoy that anyway? I never thought vandalizing could be fun," said Emiko as she turned her gape in front.

"Well, Ms. Trouble's-not-fun, I happened to think this school is pretty boring. We never do anything exciting around here. All we do is follow those old farts around," answered Touya. Emiko still didn't understand. What makes trouble so fun?

"Is that why Naraku formed the group of bullies?" she asked looking at Touya who was now looking at the board.

"'Bullies'?" he asked surprised turning his head to her knowing she was looking at him. "Is that what you think of us? Bullies?"

"Yeah," was the smart answer of Emiko. "If that's not who you are then, what do you call people who terrorize people who they know are 'weaker' than them for fun? What do you call a bunch of people who roam around school thinking they're better than everyone and always carrying their huge amount of pride, showing it off?"

Touya thought for a while. "Hmm," he said. "Guess your right. We are bullies."

"Good," Emiko said mockingly. "Now you know."

"But I have another question for you," said Touya.

"And what's that?"

"What do you call people who goes on dates with bullies?"

Emiko looked at his eyes with any hint of sarcasm in that statement. She saw absolutely nothing.

"Are you asking me out?" she asked obviously blushing.

"What do you think?" Touya bounced the question beck to her.

"I dunno," Emiko said, her eyes stuck on the floor. She felt a soft hand touch her chin. It raised her head to Touya's eyes.

"Yeah," he said casually. "I'm asking you out."

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After an hour, Emiko emerged right out of the room. She could not believe she was stuck in that room for an hour without any teacher and with a really cute guy who just asked her out.

She was first hesitating thinking it was some kind of practical joke his gang was playing on her. But then she saw Touya's beautiful eyes and that told her everything so she finally said yes.

The two lovebirds planned to meet at the mall the day after tomorrow at 11:00. Emiko was so excited though she didn't really know what Touya felt for her. So she has convinced herself not to think she likes him because, for Pete's sake, they only knew each other for a day! But Emiko didn't brush the thought that even if she did have detention, have an unfriendly welcome and "accidentally" bumped into the school bullies, Touya asking her out made her day the best day ever.

Sure Emiko has dated. But only once since her mother was too overprotective for her to date more. The guy's name was Rei. It was good for a couple of days until Emiko found out she was being two-timed. The nerve of some people!!! But then, love works differently.

Before heading home, Emiko thought of visiting Sango or Kagome for this. So she took a different route than she did going to school.

She looked at the sky like it was almost falling on her. She couldn't keep but spread an irresistible smile on her face.

Once again her stupid daydreaming lead her to bump into another person. She fell on the ground not too hard.

"Oh I'm so sorry," she said getting up.

"You should be. That's the second time around," said a familiar cold voice that sent shivers to Emiko's spine.

She looked up to see, once again, Sesshomaru looking at her with his cool amber eyes with anger.

"Hey I already said sorry so bug off will ya?!" with that Emiko ran faster towards the townhouse Sango's living at.

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"How 'bout playing Life Sango-chan?" asked a sweet voice.

"I dunno Kagome. I think it's with Kohaku now. He just loves that game. And going into his room would be like going to a jungle," Sango replied looking at her friend.

"Then what are we going to do Sango-chan?" asked Kagome.

They thought for a while until they heard the door bell ring.

Sango got up from the couch in the living room. "That must be the pizza I ordered!" She ran out of the room carrying her money.

She opened the door without looking at the person in front. "Thanks for delivering the pizza! Here's your money, keep the change!"

"I'm sorry ma'am, I've seemed to have forgotten your pizza," said a low voice. It was more like a girl pretending to be a boy.

Sango looked ahead to see Emiko at her doorstep still wearing their green uniform.

"Oh Emi-chan! I didn't notice you there!"

"Yeah, I noticed that," Emiko replied.

"Well come in!" Sango welcomed. "Hey Kagome! Emiko's here!!!"

Kagome looked at Emiko and smiled. Emiko smiled back as much. She entered the house. It was almost like hers except it was bigger and had more furniture. She took off her shoes and walked to Kagome with her bare feet covered in clean white socks. Emiko sat down beside Kagome who was lying down the other side of the couch.

"So," Sango said. "How was detention?"

Emiko looked at Sango trying not to show the excitement in her eyes. She decided, while on the walk, she didn't want to tell them yet that Touya had asked her out because they might pass out. She also didn't want to worry them since she knows they don't like Touya that much.

"Good," she answered in a shaky tone.

"That's good!" Kagome squealed. "So are you goin' with us tomorrow?"

"Yeah," she answered sitting like an Indian. "I'm sure my mom would allow me."

"How are you so sure?" asked Sango who was now switching the channel while slouching at her lazy boy chair.

"I dunno," said Emiko looking at the widescreen TV right in front of her. It was amazing how Sango's family could afford that. But then again, maybe they were millionaires. "But what I do know is that I can convince her with my powers!"

Both Sango and Kagome laughed with that statement. Emiko laughed along too.

"So how are things going with you and Inuyasha?" asked Emiko changing the subject.

Kagome didn't dare look at the one who asked the question because she could feel her cheeks burning up. Emiko and Sango noticed this and laughed.

"C'mon Kagome, answer the question," said Sango as she lowered the volume so she could hear Kagome talk.

"Well, things are going good," she whispered still blushing. "We've been out on dates and that's probably it..."

"Uh-huh," Sango and Emiko said unconvinced.

Emiko looked at the TV once again.

"But I bet you two have been kissing," muttered Emiko just enough for everyone to hear. And again Kagome blushed 50 shades of red. She bowed her head sitting up not even thinking of showing Emiko her bright crimson face.

"Kag? Why are you blushing?" asked Sango. Then she gasped. "Oh my God!!! You two have BEEN kissing!!!"

Both Emiko and Sango squealed. For the first time, Emiko felt like she was going to faint in excitement. These memories would surely stay in her mind.

Kagome said nothing. She didn't even look at her friend's happy faces.

"So how was it Kag?" asked Sango who headed straight to Kagome. Emiko knelt down too near her new friend and the two were now crowding the scarlet faced girl.

"C'mon tell us!" convinced Emiko. "We're you're friends. We won't tell."

Kagome looked up to see two girls who looked completely out of their minds. "Promise," she said putting out her two tiny pinkies right in front of her so-called "best friends".

"Promise," Sango and Emiko said in unison while ramming their pinkies with Kagome's.

Then there was silence for a while.

"Well," said Sango impatiently.

Kagome nodded her head flushed. "Yeah," she mumbled. "We've had a couple 'f kisses."

Sango covered her mouth while Emiko could just stare. She was wondering why Kagome didn't want to tell them this.

"How was it then?" Sango repeated not satisfied.

It took a while for Kagome to answer. It took Sango some more repetitions too.

Finally, getting quite annoyed Kagome shouted: "Alright! He's the best kisser ever ok! Happy?!"

"Couldn't be better," muttered Sango under her breath while spreading a grin on her face. Then Kagome's voice was heard once again.

"... Alright! He was the best kisser ok! Happy?!..."

Emiko looked at Kagome who seemed as shocked as she was. On the other hand Sango was smiling like crazy. Then Kagome stood up with an expression like she could kill.

"SANGO!!!" she shouted. "YOU TAPED IT YOU- YOU- BAKA!!!!"

Sango took out a recorder much like the ones reporters use. Then she ran upstairs with Kagome running after her like a snake running after a big rat, her hands really ready to murder. But it was a good thing no one was in the house. Emiko could tell because if this happened in her household, her mother would have been screaming that they were too noisy. And her brother would, well, he wouldn't mind since he was always stuck whether on the computer or their play station.

Emiko was left sitting down at the living room. She scooted a little backwards comforting herself. She thought of this day. The accident, the class, the bullies but most of her attention was still on the part of detention.

But something in her says she shouldn't go out with him. Something says that he wasn't the one. And that the same something says bug off him. He's a bully for heaven's sake. But apart from that, she ignored it all thinking it should go smooth.

She rested her head on the pillow and closed her eyes just to relax. She could still hear footsteps from upstairs. Loud ones, to be exact.

Soon she could feel herself drifting into sleep. But the last picture on her mind couldn't let her. It wasn't any of her friends. It wasn't Touya either. It was no other than, Sesshomaru...

TBC...

A/N: Tell me if it's good. Or should l revise it? Please review. And again I'm sooooooo SORRY for updating sooooooooo late. I'm really busy and my teacher in creative writing needed my article soon. And I'm not kidding around with this. But hope you do like this chappie. And pray that I will update soon! TY!!!