By some God's miracle, I was now sitting in my first period class, face red and huffing, due to some recently happened incident. A shudder found itself up my spine as I found myself thinking about the incident which happened exactly 4 minutes and 26 seconds ago. Man, stalker… I now had a stalker who thought I was beautiful despite the fact that I just socked him in the face really hard enough to draw blood from his nose. Stalker… Damn it, stalker! Those pale blue eyes give me chills…

"Higurashi Kagome!" a voice suddenly rang out the classroom; apparently, the teacher was taking role ever since the bell rang. It was not even an ordinary bell; it was some kind of frog chirping… Wait, did the frogs chirp or was it the chipmunks?

"Ah… H-Hai!" I replied just in time. That teacher was creepy looking… I mean, what's up with that long curly black hair in a ponytail with that deathly pale skin that seemed to be better than my own skin? I was a girl too! And how old is he anyway? He's probably around his mid thirty! Don't mind me…it's just the jealousy taking its toll on me. And damn, I bet he wore red contacts just to freak out the kids… But what can I say? If I did say that to him, I'd get myself expelled…

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In the Same Room with a Dog

Chapter 6: Classes Begin – II

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Southwestern Wing; 8:54 A.M., exactly 6 minutes before the classes start

Seriously, I only had 6 minutes to get myself out of this wing.

I wandered around a little bit more, poking here and there, trying to find some kind of classroom or teachers' lounge. Why couldn't I even find Staff members? I mean, come on! They told us that they were spread throughout the whole campus, including around the closed off area! (The little voice at the back of my head silently reminded me that nothing like that was told during the orientation.) Come on, person with Staff member necklace! I only have six minutes to get to my class, dang it!

5 minutes and 30 seconds…

DDDDDSSSSHHHHH!

After slamming really hard into a person in the middle of the deserted Southwestern Wing, I fell back with a horrible screech, landing on my rear end. (What was up with the sound effect? Dsh? This had to be a joke…) Rubbing my sore butt, I glared up, meeting up with pair of pale but lively blue eyes. Scent of freshly sprayed cologne radiating off the person… Man, this person was a guy! What was up with Lady Luck tangling me up in a guy mess! This was not even close to being tangled up in a guy mess, though…

"What the hell are you doing over here?" the blue eyes narrowed, gleaming almost dangerously, "This is a closed off area… Judging by your thread color, which is gold, you are a sophomore, aren't you?" not giving me any chance to reply, he began again. "You know better than to wander around in the forbidden area!"

He was wearing the samurai styled clothes, wearing dark brown gi and white hakama with the Staff necklace around his neck. Long black hair was swept messily up into a high ponytail with a thick mess of silver thread, which probably indicated that he was a junior… After all, Inoukai-senpai had been wearing a silver threaded kimono with a matching hair tie…

"You!" he suddenly yelled, his dark hair swishing to the side harshly as he pointed his quivering index finger at my pathetic form on the ground, "You! You are the girl who almost strangled and beat me to death! You! You!" I almost strangled and beat him to death? Wha-?

Wait wait wait… Come to think of it, he does look familiar… I scratched my chin thoughtfully as my conscious ventured into the past…

I stormed down the corridor in a rampage and couple students looked at me as if I was some kind of psycho on the loose. Even few couples making out in the darkened hall way paused to look at a flushing, rampaging, and raging girl in a messy state.

My super tangled hair whipped around me as I stomped across the main hall. Oh, how much I HATE Inoukai! I gritted my teeth as I spotted a student with the "Staff" necklace. In fact, I hate him so much I could write a very long scroll about him even if I was a baby.

Once I stood in front of the staff member, I instantly grabbed his collar, almost choking him, "Tell me where the principal-san's office is," I said threateningly, my dull blue gray eyes flashing in rage. My hands tightened when he didn't answer in two seconds because he was in too much of shock.

"I'll give you five seconds to answer before I add another hole to your head," I narrowed my eyes, mentally counting in my head.

One…

Two…

"NOW!" I yelled impatiently, throwing his face into the wall next to us.

"That was only two seconds!" he protested against the wall, "And I'm afraid I can't tell you where…"

Before he finished his sentence, I started to shake him madly back and forth by his collar, "TELL ME NOW, YOU WUSS!"

"You take an elevator to the top," he managed to cough out, "then take a right turn at the hallway."

"Thank you," I said dryly before dropping him on the floor and stomping off to the elevator.

Ah, so he was that guy! No wonder he looked so familiar! Wait… Why am I acting so happy when he looks like he's ready to murder me? Uh oh… This was not good at all…

"You…" he repeated, his gleaming blue eyes narrowing dangerously into just barely audible slits again, "Do you know what I like in a girl?"

…what a psycho…what's up with asking a girl question like that before murdering her? Damn, he seriously needs to pay a visit to the nut house for all I care! "N-No…?"

"The feistiness," he said with a very irritating smirk that was all too similar to Inoukai's own irritating smirk, a pointy fang grazing the corner of his left lips…wait, since it's the left corner for me, would the teeth actually grazing the corner of his right lips? "Do you know who my ideal girl friend would be?"

Why the heck is he asking me that…? Does he really want to see me tortured, beat brutally till I die or something? "…No…?"

"Shinazuki Hina from My Gangster Wife movie," he replied, his smirk widening if that was possible, looking just like Inoukai, to my growing horror. "I'm sure you know that movie? It's been popular for a while, you know…"

…no I don't, you ass. I never watch movies that somehow bring romance into the picture even with all the violence. "Ah…you'd make a really nice item with her…?" I squeaked out nervously, keeping up my nervous sophomore act. Man, all these get-that-psycho-guy-away-from-me is taking too much effort for my liking…

"After you socked me in the face last time," I so did not sock your face. Can't you tell the difference between shaking and socking! "Can you guess what happened?"

Why would I want to know what you feel about our little 24 second meeting? "Um… You…want to kill me right now by slitting my throat open with those sharp teeth of yours?" I suggested with another of my nervous grin. To my surprise though, he laughed. I mean, that guy laughed. Complete with the 'Ha ha ha' sound effect and the sheer loud volume of it, echoing off every wooden wall of the school. I cringed at the sound, trying to steer myself away from it, but the guy held me in place with his right hand, laughing hard as he leaned on me. Eww… Stop touching me, dang it!

The laughter faded in about 15 more seconds, still echoing off the wooden floor and wall of the school. (Ha ha… ha ha…. Ha ha…. Echo… Echo…. Echo….) I carefully (carefully by meaning using the tip of my pinky to do the work) pushed the guy off of me, who came off quite easily despite that guy body. He wiped off the tears and smirked again, those freakish pale blue eyes focusing on me.

"Very funny, umm…" he glanced at my nametag briefly. "Higurashi… Your name's Kagome, huh? Nice name, Kagome-chan."

Eww… Did he just call me Kagome-chan? That is so…gross… "Um, thanks…?"

"So, where was I? Oh yes," he rubbed his hand together, smirking an arrogant smirk again… Maybe there was a way to somehow wrench those lips from that face to prevent him from smirking. How I wished for a fork right now… "I like you a lot, Kagome-chan."

A pocket of silence.

…………w-wait, what the hell did he just say right now?

"Come again?" I asked dumbly, gaping like an idiot fascinated with a screwdriver. I used my pinky to plunge it into in my right ear, cleaning out the ear waxes that seemed to be clogging my hearing senses right now. I know it's dirty, but hey, anything to get that psychotic bastard off my guy-web tangle! Inoukai was just enough, thank you very much! I don't need another trouble…

He twitched, a vein popping out of his forehead. Damn, of all stupid males existing in this world, why did I have to get the impatient dumb idiots? First Inoukai, now this stupid pale blue eyed freak! Why do older guys hit on me, dang it! If it was some younger guys, then at least have some emotion other than disgust! "I said," he said slowly through his clenched teeth, "I like you a lot, Higurashi."

"Okay, it was very unpleasant meeting you," I said flatly, turning around to leave this place I was lost in. I only had 2 minutes to get to class anyway.

"No, wait!"

Now that guy was getting too annoying for my liking. Eyes flashing dangerously, I swung around to deliver a direct punch to his face. With a sickening crunch, his face twisted in pain before blood started to spill from his nose. Oh no… I just punched a senpai! I had to run away from my crime scene…

"Higurashi Kagome. We're arresting you for showing such violence to an upper classman, nonetheless, a rich man's son. Not only are you arrested, you'll also be kicked out of this school, forever…

Forever…

Forever…

Echo…

Echo…

Echo…

FOREVER…

Face turning blue in horror, I turned around, running away from the place I was lost in.

"By the way, I still think you're beautiful!" that hysterical voice yelled from behind. What was he, some kind of masochist? And if he is a masochist, does that make me a sadist? I shuddered. "I still like you, you know! You'll be mine someday! Mwahahahahahahaha!"

Oh God, please have mercy and kill me.


By some miracle of running toward a random direction, I was able to find my first class, which was Pre Calculus, taught by the "The Evil Ooniya-sensei," as self-named by the teacher himself. He had creepy wavy black hair in a ponytail, pale skin, and had freakish red eyes. I didn't know if it was contacts, but it was still enough to freak out the kids anyway. Strict teacher, but went somehow soft when Kikyou no nee-chan, his T.A., was around him. I hope nothing's going on between him and her. I mean, Ooniya-sensei with Kikyou no nee-chan is…disturbing.

Eww…. Bad mental pictures…

Then there was my, no, half of the sophomores' PE teacher, Arisugawa Rikku-sensei. She insisted us on calling her as Arisugawa-sama instead of Arisugawa-sensei, and had us run for the whole entire period around that large school field. She was evil, I tell you! EVIL! While she was a simplistic hot headed woman, she was real good and clever at being evil and maniacal. There were no time limits, but we had to jog the whole way without stopping. It was pretty okay since I was in an okay shape and the fact that I jogged with Sango-chan. Ayame-chan was selected off to the other PE teacher, Hanashi Aiko-sensei, who liked to be dramatic and moody.

"She's single," Ayame shrugged, who had Hanashi-sensei last year also, "So I think that's why she's moody. I mean, she tries so hard to get this one guy out with her who lives in France – but too bad the guy is so dense and stupid, as she says. He can't sense anything that's going on around him. I'd feel real sorry for her since I know how it's like to be around a stupid guy you're trying to date with. Well, if it wasn't for all those tortures she put us through on her bad days that is…which is mostly on Mondays, because during the weekend she chats with the guy."

Our English teacher was really nice. She was a real sweetie, giving out free cookies to the class until…she got mad. Yes, Hokori Eiko-sensei was really scary when she was mad. She yelled, screamed, and…literally kicked one of our classmates out the door. His name was Ayama Nobunaga or something. No wait, it was Amari Nobunaga. Yes, he was the guy who secretly stuffed his pet monkey inside his bag and got caught by Hokori-sensei today.

"What the hell are you doing with that monkey, young man!" she yelled, pointing at the paranoid monkey running around the classroom, glaring her head off at this one frozen sophomore sprawled outside in the hallway, "I thought the TPHS said no pets allowed in the campus unless you raise it in the Nurture Center!" Cookies flew everywhere with her every violent gestures, and the students took cover underneath their desks.

"Hokori-sensei," the black haired girl with silver threads tying up her hair, junior, I presume, calmly handed an extra chocolaty and chunky chocolate chip cookie to Hokori-sensei as if this happened every day, "Here. Have a cookie."

"Waai! Thank you, Tsuyu!" the teacher was instantly back to her normal self, happily biting into the chocolate chip cookies her T.A. handed her. It was real fortunate that we had Tsuyu-senpai as T.A. in our period. If she wasn't here…I don't know what could've happen. "Nobunaga-kun? Why are you sitting outside in the hallway? Come over here and take a seat!"

The rest of the period went in silence as Eiko-sensei babbled on and on about the class rules and what she expected from the class, while she added in 'Don't eat soybeans' constantlyas if she wanted to brainwash us with that. Thanks to her, my head was full of 'Don't eat soybeans' for the whole entire 10 minutes I spent to walk across the castle in search of my science class.

My science teacher was…umm…strange. First he introduced himself by saying that we had nothing to know about him except his name, which was Toutousai. Then he went on and on about how he was working in this school to watch over these idiotic brothers, and that if we disrupt him, he'll cut off our noses with one of his swords. He also mentioned that he made two katana for those two idiotic brothers, and that they were manipulating his precious swords. He was strange. Yes, he was strange.

Then there was our Japanese History teacher, Myouga-sensei. (Ooh, Sango-chan and Ayame-chan were in my class! I was glad to see them!) I didn't know what was up with this school, and why the heck Kaede no ba-chan appointed them, but that teacher was peculiar too. A height that only reached my waist, and that flea-like behavior… But it was really funny when he fell over his pile of books he used to stand when he found out that I was a Higurashi. Even though I felt sorry for him, I couldn't help but laugh.

The lunch was great! They had oden! Banzai for oden!

Though, I freaked when I saw side-dish full of fried soybeans… I guess Hokori-sensei's 'Don't eat soybeans' lecture did brainwash me... Thank the Peter Pan that the other classmates who were in Hokori-sensei's class were freaking out with me. One of them were yelling, "Why, soybeans, people, wwwhhhhyyyyy! How could you eat soybeans, for the love of Captain Hook?"

Ah yes, and then our last class for the day… Japanese, taught by this weird teacher called Jakotsu. No first name or last name, but just his nickname used in his old group of friends who were still around in TPHS. Freaky teachers, I hear. Especially this one.

At first I thought he was a woman, but Sango-chan told me that he was a man, and that he had some homo relationship with this another teacher named Bankotsu. What was up with the teachers in this school? I thought Hokori-sensei was the most normal one out of all of them, but I was wrong! She was even weirder than rest of them if you saw it at a different angle! So anyways, Jakotsu-sensei was a homo. He looked like a woman, he acted like one, so I concluded that he was a one hundred percent homo. And besides, he dressed like one too! (He was wearing those Japanese female/male prostitute kimono, for Tinkerbelle's sake!)

So that's how my day went. I found myself at my dorm at 4:00 P.M. Ahh… So bored… I twitched against my mattress, drumming my fingers on the surface with soft ddum dum ddum dum. No Inoukai to diss… Sango-chan away in kendo club, Ayame-chan away in karate club, and Souten-chan in…computer club, I think? Meh. So I was generally bored out of my mind… Might as well as spend it on something useful… I got up and exited the dorm, in search of something more interesting than the patterns of my ceiling.

What was Souta's after school activity again…?


I wandered around the school a little more, poking here and there. I think Souta was taking Theatre Club, but I'm not sure… When I reached a part of the castle where there were paintings everywhere on the corridor wall, a group of students passed by, talking about the little freshman shrimp being the script writer of the play. Of course! The freshman shrimp! Souta! He loved to write! Yes, I was on the right spot!

Screaming in joy inside, I hastened my pace, passing by the Theatre Club members toward the end of the corridor. Ready to yell out my greeting, I grabbed the door, about to slide it open to scare my younger brother inside the Theatre Rehearsal Room.

"Inoukai-senpai? Can I have a word with you?"

I stopped, freezing in mid-motion, hand that was ready to jerk the door open halting abruptly. Was that Souta talking to Inoukai? But…why? I leaned toward the door, pressing my ear against the smooth wooden surface. There was nobody around to witness me listening into their little conversation, so I was pretty much safe from being caught…unless they decide to have their talk outside, that is…

"Sure, kid. Let me just finish," he grunted, as if he was lifting up something heavy, "cleaning this up. If I don't, that Miroku's gonna try to annoy the heck outta me this evening during dinner…"

Inoukai, I assumed, shuffled around the room a bit, setting down something with a thud and clangs. Then the footsteps moved to the center of the room, followed by a rattle and a dragging sound moving across the wooden floor with a slight creak. I squinted, trying to see through the door slit. I think Inoukai sat on the chair, judging by that black blur shortening onto that brown little thing…

"So, kid. What do you want to talk about?" the upper classman said breezily to Souta, who was stiff and was sitting on the chair across from him.

"I…" Souta started, but swallowed, a sign of nervousness, "I want to talk about my older sister with you."

"Ho?" Inoukai seemed surprised; his voice tone just went up kind of higher than usual, which is a sign of curiosity or surprise most of the times. "And your sister's name is…?"

"Higurashi Kagome," Souta answered. "Your roommate, I assume?"

"Ah, yeah, that Higurashi girl…" Inoukai trailed off, "…yes, what about her?"

My younger brother took a deep breath nervously, but raised his head to look Inoukai straight in the eyes defiantly, pinning him down with his overprotective younger brother glare…I assumed. "What you're doing to her right now is not helping any of her situations. You don't know her well, Inoukai-senpai, and she doesn't know you well either. I ask you to leave her alone for the rest of the year until you guys are assigned to new roommates next year."

A pause. "And why is that?"

Another pause. "I'm afraid that's none of your business," Souta said stiffly, anger pronouncing every single of his words, "Look, senpai, she had a hard life before, and she didn't get over it yet. What you're doing to her is only reminding her of what happened to her. It's not helping anything, or anyone. She's not your ordinary playing hard-to-get girl. She's not a toy, understand? She's not something for you to play or conquer with. I hope you understand that."

Souta breathed in and out roughly. "This is your second warning, isn't it? First Kikyou no nee-chan, and now me. You should've listened when Kikyou no nee-chan spoke to you. And…" a pause, "There won't be any third warning, senpai. Just remember that."

And with that, I detached myself from the door, and walked away, not wanting them to know of my presence.

I don't know what could've happened if I stayed there.


Author's Notes:
Hi! It's been a long time since I updated this fic! (gets hit by angry readers) Forgive meeeee!
I'm sorry it's short. But like I said on the Author's Note in the profile, I wasn't inspired enough when I was writing this. Gomen nasai…
So, the story is finally moving…I guess… Souta and Kikyou gave Inuyasha "the talk." XP

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