Chapter One : Souta's Diary... In Plain sight!
SLAM!
" ARG! SOUTA! GET BACK HERE!"
" No Way! Kohaku and I are gonna be having some late night reading!"
clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
"kagome dear, calm down and help me in the laundry room..."
"coming..."
Kagome left off chasing her annoying little brother, who had once again snuck into her room to find her diary, to trudge back to her mother, as Souta ran outside.
He nearly bowled Sango, Kagome's one and only best friend, over in his hurry to get to the car. Sango had her hair pulled back in a low ponytail, to accent how long her gorgeous dark brown locks were. She had a green T-shirt on, that said Thunderbirds, in dark blue writing, and a pair of faded blue jeans. Sango was on the school's soccer team and the Thunderbirds were their mascot. Pin wheeling her arms to gain balance, she stopped on the stairs and looked up at the house.
The house was built on a huge shrine. The well house was off to the back a little, so you could just see it once you topped the stairs. A huge tree sat beside it that had been there for well over 500 years. Two flights of stairs and a short walk lead Sango to the door of her friend's house.
As she stepped into the house, the smell of good cooking wafted by on the breeze she had let in. Even though nothing was cooking, the house always smelt good. Sango heard voices coming from the back of the house where the washer and drier were, so she started that way.
But as she stepped into the bright kitchen, a high squealing noise, followed by some quick footsteps caused her to stop where she was.
Suddenly, Kagome, in a red shirt and some faded jeans practically flew through the door way and crashed into her best friend.
As the two tried to pick themselves up off the floor, Kagome excitedly waved an old and battered looking brown leather book in Sango's face.
"You will NEVER guess what I found in the laundry basket!" Kagome practically screamed.
"Is that?... No it CANT be! ... What kind of idiot hides their Diary in their LAUNDRY basket!" shouted Sango in excitement.
Souta and Kohaku, Sango's little brother, had been stealing Kagome's diary for years. But the girls had never found Souta's diary. Sango normally found Kohaku's Diary, so he didn't really write much in it. But Kagome was sure they would never find it in her hiding places. But Souta did every time.
For once though, they had his Diary!
" All right Souta, did you get it?" asked an excited Kohaku. Every other weekend, they would have a sleep over and read one of their sister's diaries.
Kohaku had heard screeching in the house, all the way from the street and was worried Kagome had gotten it back before Souta could get out of the house. But as he looked at Souta, he saw a small smirk and knew Souta had gotten away with his crime.
"Yeah, I got it. She's so easy to fool. She looks all over the place for the hardest to find hiding spot. So that's the first place I look." He giggled as he told all this to Kohaku.
Kagome's Diary was almost as old and battered looking as Souta's, but hers was a pale pink, and had a lock on the side that had been changed 6 times. It's pages were full of her neat script, and the book was stuffed with crumpled note and papers she wanted to keep. There e were also some pictures in there.
Their father had given the their Diaries before he went on that trip, and he had told them to write all their thoughts in it so when he got back, they could tell him exactly how their days went. But he never came back from that trip, and the two had just kept writing in it.
As Kohaku reached under his bed to find his lock picks, he asked " So where do you hide your Diary Souta. Your sister never finds it, and I need a good place to hide mine."
Finding the bag of elusive lock picks, Kohaku turned to see a now white Souta sitting down on his bed.
"what's wrong?" Kohaku asked worriedly.
" I hide my Diary in my laundry basket, and whenever we do the laundry, I just take it out and put it on my bookshelf. We usually do the laundry on Sunday... But we had to do it today since Kagome's school is starting on Monday... I never took it out... And Kagome's doing the laundry today."
As Souta finished his story, Kohaku looked on in surprise. He didn't know what Souta had written in his Diary, but it couldn't be that bad... could it?
Kagome and Sango rushed up the stairs to Kagome's bedroom to read the little Diary. As they entered the large room, Sango looked around for a place to sit.
Kagome's room was mostly pale pinks and yellows with a few light blues and greens. She had gone for a kind of morning colored room and so her walls we a soft pink. The carpet was white and on the back wall she had a window that faced the East. Her bed was set up beside the right wall, and across the room from that was her large maple wood computer desk. Her desk was cluttered with pencils, paper, and books and on the far corner, near the lamp, she had a small microsoft iBook G4. Her dress was also against that wall and her mirror was on the back of her door.
the two girls sat on Kagome's bed and opened the Diary carefully.
As they read, Kagome and Sango both got more and more upset. Apparently, someone at Souta's boarding school was pushing him around. He never actually mentioned his name, but it wouldn't have done the two any good.
Kagome was Souta's older sister, and was very protective of him. Knowing he was being picked on and not being able to do a thing about it was clearly upsetting her.
And Sango considered herself Souta's adoptive older sister when Kagome couldn't be reached, and was equally upset by some ass bullying Souta.
"Oh Sango... What can we do?" cried Kagome as she through the book across the room. It bounced up against the wall and stuck there in the floor near her door.
"We've got to help him, but I don't see how we can without being at school with him! And we cant go because we're GIRLS!" Kagome was obviously upset about not being able to help her brother, but there was nothing they could do.
'Unless...' thought Sango.
"Kagome... There is something we could do... but you might not like it. I can't think of any other way though!" Sango said quietly, not wanting to get Kagome even more worked up.
"What is it? I'll do it, I swear!" said Kagome, her attention now all on Sango.
"Well... we could dress you up as a guy, and you could go to Souta's school this year and set this bully in his place..." suggested Sango. She had read about situations like this in some of her fantasy book, but she wasn't sure if it would actually work.
" OK... well we'll never know unless we try it!" shouted Kagome, and immediately dragged Sango out of the room, completely forgetting about the Diary.
As she and Sango rushed down the street to the mall, her mother pushed open her door to check for dirty cloths. But she found Souta's Diary instead, and began to read...
"Ok Kagome, I think that fits you fine." commented Sango.
They had been all over the mall that day, and had already bought more than enough shirts in normal colors like red, and black, and white, socks and boxers, some of them having interesting things printed on them, to last a few weeks.
They had also bought Kagome a few pairs of new shoes, since all of her shoes were high heeled. Right now, they were searching for some pants.
Kagome had on a pair of dark green, almost black, baggy, cargo pants, and was showing them off to Sango in the dressing room.
"Well... if you say so..." replied Kagome. She was a little unsure of how to wear the baggy pants. She wa afraid they would fall off if she didn't get a belt, but Sango insisted they were supposed to be baggy.
Oh well... She also didn't understand why they had to buy boxers, but Sango had made a good point of, "If the other guys see women's underwear in your drawers, they are going to wonder what's going on."
The two girls got a few pairs of cargo pants in different colors, and then hightailed it out of the men's section.
They left the mall at a fast pace, anxious to get back home at a decent time. They also needed to get a few more things done to fix up Kagome's look, so she could pass as a guy.
they quickly ran up the two flights of stairs to the house and up to the door without being noticed. The girls quietly snuck back into the house and went in two different directions once the door was closed
Sango, ran off through the living room and up the stairs to Kagome's room so she could put the cloths away. She had spent enough time around Kagome to know where she would put the different items, and so she went to put them away herself before her mom could see.
Kagome ran off towards the kitchen to find a good pair of scissors. There was no way she would pass as a guy with hair as long as hers so Sango had offered to cut it for her.
But once she reached the scissors, she had enough time to stick them behind her back before her mom came in.
"Oh hello Kagome! I didn't hear you two come back! Did you have fun at the mall?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.
Beginning to sweat a little, Kagome answered, "oh yeah... we had a lot of fun... ran into some friends and lots track of time... gonna go help Sango unpack now... Bye!" Rushing off in a crab like way, since she didn't want her mom to see the scissors, she was halfway up the stairs before she heard her mom call.
"Well that's good. I'm fixing oden for supper, so be sure to come back down in about an hour!"
"OK mom!" she quickly replied and shut her bedroom door with a sigh.
"quit fidgiting Kagome! You're gonna make me cut the wrong part!" cried a frustrated Sango. She and Kagome had been working on her hair for almost an hour. They were cutting it to look like a normal boy's hair that was mostly messy.
It was now only a few inchs long, and flying all over the place.
" I can't help it Sango, you're getting it in my eyes!"
"Well then Close You r Eyes Kagome!"
"Grrrrrrrrr"
" Alright, I think I'm done." Sango said as she sat back with a sigh. Kagome's hair now resembled her brother's short hair.
"Wow. Sango you did a really great job! Now nobody will know I'm a girl!" an excited Kagome exclaimed.
But when Sango only replied with a muffled squeak, she turned to see why her friend was so quiet.
"Sango, whats" A look of horror passed over her features as she turned around in her chair.
Ok. Im gonna leave it here. I know its REALLY short, but I wanted to leave it as a cliffhanger and I had to stop here to do that. I'll post the next chapter as soon as I get at least 5 reviews for this one. I'm already working on it, and I hope you'll like it when I'm through.
And... I already have one review for my Quick Summary Chapter! wow... I didnt think I'd get a review on that one since it's not realy part of the story... oh well...
Reality says : First of all, let me warn you that someone will eventually report you because of the lack of story...
Second of all, I do like this plot-concept...if it is well thought out...there are all too many 'Inuyasha gang are in school' type of stories on this site...
Good luck to you...
p.s.: It may do well not to beg for reviews...you should write for yourself...not for anybody else
First of all, sorry if it bothered you with the lack of story. Second, I'm glad you like my plot concept. I will try to make sure it is well thought out. I even have a beta who will check for spelling and/or gramatical errors if it pleases you. This is not a story about Inuyasha and the gang in school. This is more about how Kagome will do almost anything to protct the ones she loves. She will also makes some friends and enemies, and hopefully some romance in this story. Its at school because its an easy setting to move into. Also, I'm not begging for reviews. I'm just saying that I dont want to post a story that no one wants to read. I will continue to write it, but will probably take it somewhere else if I dont get a sufficient amount of reviews.
Thanks for your well thought out reviews!
Cya next chapter!
Hoshi
