Hey everybody I'm back, obviously. Again I'm sorry, not that I think that you care all that much about how sorry I am, for the long wait. Good news is that I already know what goes in next chapter. I had to cut this chapter short cause it would have been to long and I wanted to put this up.

The italicized words, or sentences, are just the second conversation. Basically its there to divide up the arguments or whatever you want to refer them to.

Angles In Waiting
Chapter 4
School Sucks

"Inuyasha, I'm going home!" Kagome shouted.

Miroku and Sango sat on the sidelines, leaning against the Goshinbaku, watching the argument go back and forth. Shippo had awoken as Keade had predicted with a vicious headache, luckily it had faded rather quickly thanks to something Kagome's called 'Excedrin.'

"No, we have to keep looking for the jewel shards!" Inuyasha yelled back at Kagome.

At one time the houshi and tajiya had entertained themselves by putting wagers on the arguments between their two friends but no longer bothered. Kagome usually won and on the rare occasions that it was the other way around it was highly dangerous to pay the due without one of the enraged teenagers catching them. That tended to leave to a lengthy and emotionally; and sometimes physically painful interrogation.

"I need to spend time with my family." Kagome was screaming.

On the sidelines the two bored friends were making their own observations. "You'd think they were married," mumbled Sango, Miroku nodded in agreement.

"You can see them all you want after Naraku is gone." Inuyasha screamed back at Kagome, ignoring the ringing in his ears.

The monk sat in thought for a moment, "You realize that he loses more and more ground for the I-don't-care-about-Kagome argument every time he does this." Miroku said informatively. "What make's you say that?" Sango asked quizzically. "If he cared so little it wouldn't if she left." The monk informed using his never-ending wisdom. "But as he will say," Sango said pointing to Inuyasha knowing that he would finish her thought. And he did.

"We have to look for the shards if we're going to find him." Inuyasha continued his earlier thought, because you see this argument is not happening over a long period of time, it all takes place in a short few moments.

Miroku nodded in understanding and pointed to Kagome once Inuyasha had finished speaking.

She immediately began screaming her response, "Look for them without me. You've done it before, no need to wait up."

Sango made a short sound signaling that she understood. The young tajiya sat in thought throughout the rest of the argument thinking of the possibilities and how she could use this new information. Miroku, knowing the conversation was over sighed and went back to watching his only current source of entertainment.

"Inuyasha I have three big tests coming up." Kagome said desperately.

"But for a week?" Inuyasha asked in exasperation, he didn't think he could handle it. It killed him when she was gone for three days at a time, an entire week would destroy him.

"I need time to study for them." Huge tests in Math, English, and History were not something to be trifled with.

"Then why the crap don't you study here?" Inuyasha asked heatedly not thinking the comment through all the way first.

"There are to many distractions!" Kagome shouted, she was extremely irritated, what did it matter to him anyway, it's not like he cared about her.

Inuyasha scrambled for words but it was useless, Kagome had him stumped. He knew demon attacks were to frequent and they were constantly on the move. When he finally came out of his stupor Kagome was half way to the well.

He growled in frustration, "Kagome!" he shouted but before he could go after her she said the dreaded word. "Sit!" And Inuyasha once again paid a visit to his good friend the dirt.

By the time the spell wore off Kagome was long gone. Inuyasha looked down at the prayer beads, the bane of his existence. All over Japan villagers and demons alike puzzled over what seemed to be human shaped holes in the ground ranging from two inches to two feet deep.

"Inuyasha, when will you learn?" Miroku asked exasperated. Inuyasha spotted the course of the monks hand, he quirked an eyebrow as it reached its destination. "Probably about the time you learn yours." The hanyou stated blandly. The confused look on Sango's face quickly dissolved, "Hentai!"

As Sango was storming off she called over her shoulder, "Hopefully, if only for Kagome's sake, there's more hope for you." Inuyasha feh'd and Sango rolled her eyes. 'You keep thinking that you don't care, keep pretending, the only thing your gonna do is lose her you idiot.' She thought sadly.

Once Sango was out of earshot Inuyasha helped Miroku up, "You really need to stop doing that." Inuyasha informed Miroku. Miroku glared at his bestfreind, "You make it sound as though you have any room to talk." He sneered.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the monk and both began to walk back towards the village. After a few seconds they froze in mid step and looked at one another, "Is it just me or was that entire conversation completely backwards." Inuyasha said, usually he was the one sneering at Miroku. "I do believe it was, how odd." Miroku said thoughtfully and looked up at the sky only to notice that it was nearing sunset.

"Let's worry about this in the morning shall we." Miroku said calmly, Inuyasha nodded as he fell into step with Miroku, "Of course we could always say screw it and not worry about it at all." He said. Miroku nodded in response, "Wonderful idea, one of us should probably get Shippo and Kirara from the village." It was Inuyasha's turn to nod, "I'll do it, later Monk." He said and ran off to get the two demons.

'I wonder what we'll do about the shards.' Miroku thought. He pondered asking Inuyasha when he got in but decided against it, "I'll ask in the morning so we don't stay up all night talking." The monk mumbled as he arrived at the hut.

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It was Tuesday and the day of her first test, English. She had started studying immediately when she arrived home and luckily the English test wasn't going to be to hard, fortunately her math test was tomorrow and her History test Friday so she would have an entire day to study for that.

Kagome quickly into the courtyard of the school, she was hoping to avoid her three friends Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi. Kagome adored the three of them but they could be so irritating. She had succeeded the day before, but only getting to school early and going straight to the library to study…some more.

Lady Luck was not on her side this morning. Kagome had not taken but five steps onto the school grounds when, "Kagome, Kagome over here!" It was none other than the Kagome's oldest friends. Oldest as in the ones she had known the longest; Kaede won that award in another sense.

Kagome took a deep breath and turned to face the on coming interrogation with a smile. "Hey guys, how's it going?" she asked, her fake smile never wavering. "How are you? Are you feeling better?" said one voice, "How's your tetanus?" came another, "Tetanus? I was told it was pneumonia?" inserted a third. "Really, I thought it was arachnophobia." Said the first, the other two gave her an odd look "Arachnophobia, that's a fear of spiders." They said in unison.

The first girl just shrugged and turned back to Kagome, "More importantly, are you still seeing that two timing jerk?" Kagome, who had been rolling her eyes at her friends' gullibility, nearly fainted but quickly got over it and insteadgot angry, it wasn't because of the comment about being with Inuyasha, it was what she knew they were going to try to do. "I'm not seeing him alright. I never was, nor am I going to go out with Hojo." Kagome said, the last comment far more firmly than the first.

The first and second girl coward in fear and slowly backed away a few steps before running away. 'Eri, Yuka, you idiots.' thought Ayumi who was of course the third girl. She turned back to Kagome, "The better question is; do you want to go out with him?" Ayumi wisely turned and quickly walked away to leave Kagome with her own pondering.

Kagome sighed and walked to class, 'Yes I do want to be with him, but he'll never feel the same way I do.' She thought. She sighed again as she entered her English class. She quickly went to her seat and sat ready for the test.

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Kagome had aced the English test, she was sure of it; it's amazing what three days of studying could do. It was the next to the last period of the day, unlike a lot of school her high school had seven classes a day that were a little shorter than an hour, so it was about to be 6th period.

Kagome, for the hundredth time that day, ran into Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi in the halls. "Hey Kagome, they said once again in unison, that was really getting annoying. "Hey guys." Kagome greeted. Kagome noticed Eri's eyes widen, "Kagome, when did you get highlights?" she asked. "Umm." Was Kagome's answer, "Excuse me see you guys later." Kagome said and made her escape to the bathroom.

When she got in she quickly moved to one of the mirrors and stared at her reflection. Kagome now had blue streaks all through out her hair. "Wasn't expecting that." She said slightly disbelievingly. She didn't know what she had been expecting but it wasn't so simple.

She continued to stare at her reflection examining her hair; then the bell rang. "Shit!" Kagome cursed, "I'm late for P.E. again!" she shouted as she ran from the bathroom.

When she arrived everyone was still getting changed; she walked in and bowed to the teacher, "Sorry I'm late sensei." She apologized. "Bathroom." The coach answered, at Kagome's nod, "Do you need to go home?" she asked, the coach new to well about Kagome's frequent illnesses and didn't' want the girl to force herself when she was ill.

Kagome shook her head no, "I'm fine." She said, the coach nodded and sent her to the locker room to change. Kagome slipped into her P.E. uniform and went back into the gym. The coach once again called her over, "Higurashi."

"Yes coach?" Kagome asked. "I kept you out of class yesterday because you looked tired and today you look like your feeling better so I'll let you participate today." The coach said after she took a step back to make sure she could look Kagome in the eyes.

The coach was an extremely tall American woman, about 6" 3", she had blond hair and green eyes. She was very muscular but not to the point that she was scary. Her voice was slightly deep in tone. No student knew her name, first or last. If the teachers knew they were careful to refer to her as Coach. Even the class schedule had Coach printed out where the name of the teacher was put.

She always wrote her lesson plans and talked about classes in English so no one ever knew what to expect. Some thought that it was unconscious, other that she didn't know how to write Japanese and missed America so spoke in English to remind herself of home, some thought she was just insane.

Kagome had the sneaking suspicion it was the exact opposite and she was terribly clever. No one ever sat out of class because they didn't know if they would like classes that day.

"We've been working with weapons. We spend half the week on one weapon and we'll switch on Wednesday. Got it, good. Now is their any weapon that you know how to use already?" The coach said and asked. Kagome nodded, "I'm pretty good at archery." She said.

The coach nodded again and led her out onto the field. The school had three separate fields. The football field, the field where everyone went at lunch, and the P.E. field. It also contained some other courts for different games and they were also used for the P.E. class but only when a hard surface was needed to play whatever game was chosen for the day.

"Today you'll spend half the day with archery then we'll start working on other weapons, you can shoes to work on a different one everyday or end up sticking with your favorites but you will always work with two weapons a day. I want you all to have some experience with other weapons." The coach gave a relatively long-winded explanation that lasted them until they had arrived at the archery course.

Kagome quickly made her way over to choose a bow and after testing the weight and the tension of each of the strings she chose the bow she liked best and moved over and grabbed ten arrows. One of the more popular girls noticed, "Oh, Higurashi thinks she can beat us at bow and arrow girls." She sneered.

"No." Kagome stated calmly. The girl just laughed and turned back to face her target. "I know that I can beat you." Kagome finished. "What did you just say?" the girl asked in disbelief. "I think you heard me just fine." Kagome said preparing to fire an arrow.

"Oh yeah, you think you so hot, take a shot then, hmmm." The prep sneered. Kagome lowered her bow slightly, "You first." She said. The girl rolled her eyes and fired the arrow. She hit the edge of the target which had everyone cheering and she gave Kagome a cocky look, Kagome quirked an eyebrow, 'Your kidding, that's all they can do' she thought. Kagome turned back towards the targets and fired one of her own arrows. This one hit dead center.

After much huffing and puffing the snobbish girl declared that it had been a lucky shot to which Kagome shot the remaining nine arrows, all of them hit dead center. Kagome turned to the coach, "Well that's half the class, what other weapons do we get to choose from?" she asked as though nothing had happened. But of course for her ten arrows hitting a non-moving target really wasn't.

Bad place to end I know. Well like I said, I figured that 6 pages, or at least that's what it is on my computer, was long enough. I have to get to work on my other story now then I'll immediately go onto the next chapter of AIW. I'm really falling behind, as I'm sure some of you noticed. Well I guess that's about it.

Tell me what you think about the chapter or story. Love it? Hate? Really don't care? Whatever it is I want to know what you think. I'm open to any suggestions that anyone has for the story as well.

Ja Ne