Love Comes to Those Who Wait
Chapter 3
Author's Note: Yay I got more reviews, so incredibly happy. As for the suggestions I was asking for well lots of you asked what I was looking for, my questions were things like whether or not you want Ayame to be friends with Kagome and Sango, um did you want Kouga and Inuyasha to be competing over Kagome. (I think that's gonna happen), umm do you want Kikyo/Kagome/Inuyasha triangle, that sort of thing (you get the picture). Yeah well I got some really good suggestions thanx a ton!
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Turning around Ayame sniffed the air, now that she thought about it; the sent of this school wasn't entirely human. Sniffing Ayame was startled she could smell a full dog demon somewhere, what might be a toad demon. Turning her head her heart leapt as she saw the only other group of people outside. She had thought they were humans but her nose had picked up on a familiar scent, the scent of wolf demons!
Ayame's heart leapt as she stared longingly at the four wolves sitting eating their lunch chatting away just on the other side of the courtyard. What should she do, should she get up and join them, introducing herself as a member of the silver moon wolf tribe? (A/N: sorry I don't know the name of Ayame's pack from the anime) She rose to feet and was just starting to gather her things up when the group just got up and left leaving no trace, except their scent, that they had ever been there. Ayame sat down disappointedly, biting her lip. She shouldn't have debated going over there for so long. Left her shoulders drop Ayame sighed and in doing so noticed one of the girls she had recently been observing – the one with long black hair and bangs – looking at her intently as she picked her garbage up. Blushing furiously at being caught staring at Ayame the girl dropped her eyes and walked off with her friends.
Ayame looked away from the sight and picked her sketch book up and from memory drew the girl's face, capturing almost perfectly the moment where she had tilted her head laughing at something her other friend had said. Next Ayame sketched the other girl, and after that the boy with black hair and the earrings. She paused a moment before sketching the hanyou, he was trickier what with his ears and long white hair. Turning over the page she wondered what to draw next. As she closed her eyes searching for inspiration the image of the boy who had crashed into her that morning came into her mind's eye. Smiling she opened her eyes and lovingly started to draw a full-page sized sketch of him opposed to the quarter-sized sketches she had drawn of the others.
She had almost finished when Ayame happened to look at her watch and realized that it was time to leave. As she packed up Ayame could hardly believe that an entire hour had gone by! Walking to her locker Ayame was glad she hadn't been forced to dash off to art class, it was always so stressful. At least she had made note of where her future classes would be with the extra time she had had in Biology class. Ayame was grateful as she gathered up her art portfolio and art supplies that all she had that afternoon was Art! She really didn't feel like having any more quizzes on how much she knew. Taking out her map before she closed her locker Ayame turned around to see what direction the art studio was. Unfortunately for her though when she turned around she collided head on with another girl causing all her stuff to fall on the ground as she was knocked backwards landing on her butt.
"Oh my gosh," the other girl said falling to her knees and putting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright? I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there, oh I'm such a klutz. Here let me help you pick everything up."
Ayame opened her eyes and looked up at the same girl she had been observing at lunch, the one with long black hair and bangs. "Oh its alright," she said. "My fault, I should have been more careful." Changing her position so that she was on her knees Ayame began to pick up her art supplies that had somehow managed to fall out of their case. She was slightly surprised when the girl started to help her pick everything up.
Ayame was just looking for her sketch book when she heard Kagome gasp and say, "wow, that's amazing!" Ayame winced as she saw Kagome staring in awe at Ayame's sketchbook which had fallen open to the page where the sketches of her and her friends were. Looking up at Ayame the girls blue- grey eyes met her green ones and she said. "You captured me perfectly, Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha too! You're a really talented artist Ayame."
Ayame blushed profusely at the praise. Then it hit her that this girl actually knew her name! Wait......now that she thought about it this girl had been in all her classes so far! But none the less she had bothered to remember her name! "Thank you," Ayame said softly as Kagome reluctantly handed her sketchbook back. The girl got to her feet and then flashed Ayame a smile and offered her hand to Ayame. Taking the girl's hand Ayame allowed herself to her pulled to her feet.
"Are you in art?" the girl asked.
Ayame nodded unsure of what so say. Could this girl not see she was a wolf demon? But then again maybe it didn't matter to her, she was friends after all with a hanyou.
"That's so cool, me to," the girl went on and then offered her hand. "I'm Kagome Higurashi, by the way."
"Hi Kagome," Ayame said shaking Kagome's hand. "I'm Ayame."
"Nice to meet you Ayame, you just transferred from-" Kagome started but suddenly she stopped as her eyes caught sight of the artwork Ayame had put up in her locker. "Did you paint those yourself?" Kagome breathed. Ayame nodded slowly unsure once again of what to say. The only people that had ever seen her art before were her father and her art teachers, none of her peers. "They're gorgeous," Kagome sighed staring longingly at the pictures. Looking back at Ayame she said, "You're an amazing artist has anybody ever told you that?"
"Uhhh no," Ayame said blushing. No one her age had ever complimented her work before.
"Well you are," Kagome said her eyes falling back to the picture. Sighing she went on, "I wish I could paint like that. I only started this year, I'm not really very good."
"Oh," Ayame said. "Are you in art too?"
"Yep," Kagome said and was about to say something else when suddenly the bell rang. Kagome's eyebrows raised in surprise and she let out a little "eek" and hurriedly opened the locker next to Ayame's. Ayame watched as Kagome hurriedly threw her things into her bag. Ayame let a small smile cross her face, she was startled to realize it but she was happy Kagome's locker was next to hers and that they were in most of the same classes. "This Kagome," Ayame thought. "She's really nice, maybe we could be friends...." Ayame trailed off and her smile fell. What was she thinking Kagome would never want a wolf demon for a friend.
"Okay! Ready!' Kagome exclaimed locking her locker and turning around to face Ayame. "Thanks so much for waiting Ayame! Let's go!" And much to Ayame's surprise Kagome grabbed her hand and dashed off to the art studio presumably.
They reached the art studio just as the second bell rang. The teacher was just closing the door when they reached there. "Sorry we're late," Kagome panted.
"You're lucky Kagome you just made it," the teacher said and then turning to Ayame the lady said. "Oh and you must be Ayame, our new student. Welcome." Turning back to Kagome the lady said, "Kagome you can take your seat I was just telling the class that you're working on your clay projects once again."
"Okay," Kagome said and flashing Ayame a last smile and then walked away and took her seat.
"So Ayame, my name is Mrs. Boyce. I'm the art teacher in this school, right now we're working on a clay piece. You may choose any subject or style of your choosing. A piece of pottery, a sculpture, a clay engraving (A/N: I'm not sure what you call them but its when you have a flat piece of clay and you use tools to "draw" a picture.) There are very few rules, in my class, I'm a firm believer in allowing students to express themselves. My only two rules are, that when I'm speaking or anybody else is you put your tools down and give your full attention to whoever is speaking. I often have students get up in front of the class after a project and explain briefly they're art, I'm not sure if your previous teacher made you do that. And secondly that if you use something in this room, whether it be paint or a tool you put it back. You will see that everything has a "home" as I like to call it; since you're new I do not expect you to remember everything but just informing you in advance if you forget where something goes do not hesitate to ask me. I would rather you ask, then put something back in the wrong place. Apart from that I really have nothing else to say. Do you have any questions?"
Ayame paused for a second and then replied, "no."
"Wonderful, now I was saying before we are currently working with clay. Are you familiar with it?"
"Yes Mrs. Boyce I've worked with it before," Ayame replied smiling.
"Great," Mrs. Boyce replied. "Well I'll just dash into the back room to grab you some clay." Motioning to the classroom which was filled with tabled and stools she went on, "grab a seat anywhere I'll be right back."
Ayame looked around hesitantly, where should she sit? At that moment Kagome looked up from whatever she was doing and waved at Ayame and pointed at a seat next to her. Smiling relieved Ayame headed over and placing her books down took the seat. "Thanks," she said.
"No prob," Kagome replied smoothly. "You looked a little lost standing up there."
"I was, I had no clue where to go," Ayame admitted. "This school is pretty small compared to my last one. Before I could just blend in but here's there's so much extra space everyone notices you."
"Well don't worry, this is your seat from now on," Kagome said. "You can hang out with us too, I noticed how you sat and had lunch all by yourself today. I've been wanting to talk to you all day but the teachers kept you busy with all those stupid tests. I was going to ask you after chem. if you wanted to come sit and have lunch with us but you vanished. I'm so glad I finally have a chance to talk to you."
Ayame sat stunned beyond belief staring at Kagome. Did she really mean that? Had Kagome just offered to let her hand around with her and her friends?!
Kagome looked up and seeing Ayame's stunned face exclaimed. "Ayame what's wrong?"
"I- I- I've just never really had a friend before," Ayame said and then furiously blushed, she sounded like such a dolt!.
"What!" Kagome exclaimed. "What do you mean you're so nice!"
"Well ever since I left California," Ayame said. "I've had problems fitting in, nobody wanted to be friends with a wolf demon...." She trailed off softly.
"Oh, you poor thing," Kagome said unsure. "Well you don't have to worry about that here. All the humans here are comfortable with demons, easily a third of our grade is. We've got a full dog demon, Sesshomaru, and then there's Jaken a creepy little toad demon who follows Sesshomaru everywhere, there's a pack of wolf demons in our city so we've got five wolf demons who go to the school, there's Ginta, Hakkaku, Kouga, Haya and Naomi. And then we've got Inuyasha who's Sesshomaru's half brother. He's a hanyou, that's" Kagome said pulling over Ayame's sketch book and pointing at the picture she had drawn of the boy with long white hair and dog ears, "him."
"Oh okay," Ayame said pulling out a pencil and writing Inuyasha next to her sketch of him. Then she wrote Kagome's name next to her picture.
"This is Sango," Kagome said pointing at the picture of the girl with long brown hair. "We've been best friends since grade 3 I think. You and Sango are going to get along great. What other option are you taking?"
"Gym," Ayame replied.
"Excellent," Kagome said. "So Sango, Inuyasha, and Miroku will be bin your gym class." Going on she pointed at the sketch of the boy with black hair and earrings. "This is Miroku, watch out for him he can be a little perverted at times. It drives Sango absolutely nuts, you see he has a fetish with her butt and can't seem to stop groping it. We sometimes joke that he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to groping her because no matter how many times Sango hurts him he always does it again."
Just at that second Mrs. Boyce came back with a block of clay for Ayame and said, "here you go Ayame. If you need a pottery wheel feel free to grab one. They're in the second bottom cupboard on the left." Giving Ayame a smile she said as she left. "Can't wait to see what you decide to make."
As soon as Mrs. Boyce was gone Kagome was about to go on telling Ayame about the pervert Miroku when suddenly a loud voice yelled "HENTAI!!!!!" from some other classroom and they heard a loud thud. Ayame looked over at Kagome questioningly. Kagome just sighed and shook her head. "That," she said. "Was the sound of Miroku groping Sango and then getting hit by her gigantic boomerang." Looking up Kagome said, "You should get her to show it to you, it's really impressive. She Miroku and Inuyasha are in wood shop and they're project right now it to make a weapon so Sango's making something she saw in a manuscript about weapons in the feudal era of Japan. It's called a Hiraikotsuese, really cool. Inuyasha's making something or other and Miroku's making some sort of cool staff thingy with a metal circle on the end. He got the idea when he saw the manuscript Sango brought in. Apparently wandering monks used to use it, and it could serve a dual purpose as a walking stick. So if you hear Inuyasha, Sango or I refer to Miroku as a perverted monk well its because Inuyasha was asking why in the world Miroku was making a monk's weapon considering he's about the farthest thing away from a monk. And well the name sort of stuck, so we sometimes refer to him as the perverted monk." Kagome stopped talking and turned to resume her work on her clay but suddenly remembered something and said. "Oh and Ayame just a warning so he doesn't surprise you, Miroku asks every girl he's ever met to bear his child. When he asks you just ignore him, he doesn't really mean it. And if he gropes you just smack him. Or if your not comfortable hitting him just get Sango to, she probably will anyways if she's there."
Ayame nodded smiling, this Miroku boy was pretty funny. "So those are your friends?"
"Yeah, well they're yours too if you want. I know they'll like you. Or you can go and hang out with the wolf group, I just sort of saw how when you went to talk to them they were already leaving. So I knew then that you didn't really know any of them."
"No I never seem to know anybody," Ayame said sadly. It was really overwhelming. Ever since she had started to move schools, she had never fit in; not even once. And now suddenly she came to this school and she had not one possible group that she could hang out with but two!!!
"Oh yeah and I forgot to mention Rin," Kagome said. "She's in art to but she's sick today with the flu. She's actually only 15, but since she's really smart they moved her up to our grade. She likes to tag along with Sesshomaru, which is just about the oddest thing this school was ever seen. You see Sesshomaru, is one of those demons that thinks humans are beneath him, and therefore never hung out with them or even talked with a human for that matter. Then this year Rin showed up at the school, and one day she fell and Sesshomaru caught her, and ever since then has followed him around. We we're all surprised at the fact that Sesshomaru had saved her but when he actually allowed her to hang around with him I think Inuyasha almost had a heart attack. It's weird but I'd say Sesshomaru almost likes Rin. Of course he'd never admit to it, but I think he's got a major soft spot for the girl."
"I take it," Ayame said as she started to soften her clay. "Inuyasha and Sesshomaru don't get along very well?"
"Not at all," Kagome said. "You see Sesshomaru was the oldest sibling and having a full demon mother that made him a full demon, but then his mother died and his father who was also a full demon remarried but this time he married a human woman and they had Inuyasha who was due to his mother only a half demon. But don't tell Inuyasha I told you any of this he's a little touchy on the subject of being a hanyou."
"Promise," Ayame said with a smile slightly surprised at how easy it was to talk with Kagome. Looking at Kagome's piece which resembled a large tree Ayame asked, "so what are you making?"
"I'm making something I saw out of our Japanese textbook; we're studying Japan in social by the way. It's called a God Tree, and one was found at each shrine. The only thing is I'm having problems with making the trunk look real," Kagome said exasperated. "You're good with this, what would you suggest."
"Oh," Ayame said taking her hands off her clay and taking a moment to look closely at Kagome's 'tree'. "Well," she said slowly, "Why don't you try adding some texture to the bark by drawing lines with a pin or something and then lightly smoothing it by gently wrapping plastic wrap around it."
Kagome stared at her for a second, and then her face lit up, "I did try using the needle but it just looked really liny so I smoothed it out again. But wrapping it with plastic wrap would smooth it out perfectly. Great idea!" Dashing off Ayame watched Kagome grab a needle and a sheet of plastic wrap and come back. "So," she said sitting down and starting to make lines on the trunk using the needle. "What are you making?"
Ayame looked down at her lump of clay and sai, "I think I'm going to make a wolf."
"Oh that'll be cool, in what sort of pose?" Kagome asked. "Howling at the moon, or running perhaps, sleeping?"
"Running I think," Ayame said. And now knowing what she intended to create set to work on creating the basic shape of a wolf for the rest of class while she and Kagome chattered away happily.
AT THE END OF CLASS
"Okay class," Mrs. Boyce said. "Make sure you put your pieces away carefully we wouldn't want to clay to harden after all your hard work." Hearing the bell ring she said above the talking of the students leaving the classroom, "have a nice day everyone!"
As Ayame packed up for the first time ever she actually felt reluctant to leave, which was strange because everyday other day she hadn't been able to get out fast enough. Ayame was glad she had no homework that night, because she still needed to finish unpacking, make supper and she wanted to go check out the local martial arts center. "Well," Ayame said as she shut her locker. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow Kagome."
"Yep," Kagome said as she just opened hers. "See ya tomorrow."
Ayame was just walking out of the doors when she heard Kagome call out to her. She turned around and saw Kagome running towards her. "Hey Ayame," Kagome said panting slightly. "Do you want to come to the mall with me and the gang?"
Ooooh evil cliffie I know. Well what do you think. I know many of you wanted Ayame to meet Kouga this chapter but last night I thought my plot through and I now know where I want the story to go. So she'll meet Kouga and the rest of the wolf gang next chapter, and she's also gonna meet Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango. Well still looking for suggestions. So please review and peace ya'll till next chapter.
Chapter 3
Author's Note: Yay I got more reviews, so incredibly happy. As for the suggestions I was asking for well lots of you asked what I was looking for, my questions were things like whether or not you want Ayame to be friends with Kagome and Sango, um did you want Kouga and Inuyasha to be competing over Kagome. (I think that's gonna happen), umm do you want Kikyo/Kagome/Inuyasha triangle, that sort of thing (you get the picture). Yeah well I got some really good suggestions thanx a ton!
Last chapter:
Turning around Ayame sniffed the air, now that she thought about it; the sent of this school wasn't entirely human. Sniffing Ayame was startled she could smell a full dog demon somewhere, what might be a toad demon. Turning her head her heart leapt as she saw the only other group of people outside. She had thought they were humans but her nose had picked up on a familiar scent, the scent of wolf demons!
Ayame's heart leapt as she stared longingly at the four wolves sitting eating their lunch chatting away just on the other side of the courtyard. What should she do, should she get up and join them, introducing herself as a member of the silver moon wolf tribe? (A/N: sorry I don't know the name of Ayame's pack from the anime) She rose to feet and was just starting to gather her things up when the group just got up and left leaving no trace, except their scent, that they had ever been there. Ayame sat down disappointedly, biting her lip. She shouldn't have debated going over there for so long. Left her shoulders drop Ayame sighed and in doing so noticed one of the girls she had recently been observing – the one with long black hair and bangs – looking at her intently as she picked her garbage up. Blushing furiously at being caught staring at Ayame the girl dropped her eyes and walked off with her friends.
Ayame looked away from the sight and picked her sketch book up and from memory drew the girl's face, capturing almost perfectly the moment where she had tilted her head laughing at something her other friend had said. Next Ayame sketched the other girl, and after that the boy with black hair and the earrings. She paused a moment before sketching the hanyou, he was trickier what with his ears and long white hair. Turning over the page she wondered what to draw next. As she closed her eyes searching for inspiration the image of the boy who had crashed into her that morning came into her mind's eye. Smiling she opened her eyes and lovingly started to draw a full-page sized sketch of him opposed to the quarter-sized sketches she had drawn of the others.
She had almost finished when Ayame happened to look at her watch and realized that it was time to leave. As she packed up Ayame could hardly believe that an entire hour had gone by! Walking to her locker Ayame was glad she hadn't been forced to dash off to art class, it was always so stressful. At least she had made note of where her future classes would be with the extra time she had had in Biology class. Ayame was grateful as she gathered up her art portfolio and art supplies that all she had that afternoon was Art! She really didn't feel like having any more quizzes on how much she knew. Taking out her map before she closed her locker Ayame turned around to see what direction the art studio was. Unfortunately for her though when she turned around she collided head on with another girl causing all her stuff to fall on the ground as she was knocked backwards landing on her butt.
"Oh my gosh," the other girl said falling to her knees and putting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright? I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there, oh I'm such a klutz. Here let me help you pick everything up."
Ayame opened her eyes and looked up at the same girl she had been observing at lunch, the one with long black hair and bangs. "Oh its alright," she said. "My fault, I should have been more careful." Changing her position so that she was on her knees Ayame began to pick up her art supplies that had somehow managed to fall out of their case. She was slightly surprised when the girl started to help her pick everything up.
Ayame was just looking for her sketch book when she heard Kagome gasp and say, "wow, that's amazing!" Ayame winced as she saw Kagome staring in awe at Ayame's sketchbook which had fallen open to the page where the sketches of her and her friends were. Looking up at Ayame the girls blue- grey eyes met her green ones and she said. "You captured me perfectly, Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha too! You're a really talented artist Ayame."
Ayame blushed profusely at the praise. Then it hit her that this girl actually knew her name! Wait......now that she thought about it this girl had been in all her classes so far! But none the less she had bothered to remember her name! "Thank you," Ayame said softly as Kagome reluctantly handed her sketchbook back. The girl got to her feet and then flashed Ayame a smile and offered her hand to Ayame. Taking the girl's hand Ayame allowed herself to her pulled to her feet.
"Are you in art?" the girl asked.
Ayame nodded unsure of what so say. Could this girl not see she was a wolf demon? But then again maybe it didn't matter to her, she was friends after all with a hanyou.
"That's so cool, me to," the girl went on and then offered her hand. "I'm Kagome Higurashi, by the way."
"Hi Kagome," Ayame said shaking Kagome's hand. "I'm Ayame."
"Nice to meet you Ayame, you just transferred from-" Kagome started but suddenly she stopped as her eyes caught sight of the artwork Ayame had put up in her locker. "Did you paint those yourself?" Kagome breathed. Ayame nodded slowly unsure once again of what to say. The only people that had ever seen her art before were her father and her art teachers, none of her peers. "They're gorgeous," Kagome sighed staring longingly at the pictures. Looking back at Ayame she said, "You're an amazing artist has anybody ever told you that?"
"Uhhh no," Ayame said blushing. No one her age had ever complimented her work before.
"Well you are," Kagome said her eyes falling back to the picture. Sighing she went on, "I wish I could paint like that. I only started this year, I'm not really very good."
"Oh," Ayame said. "Are you in art too?"
"Yep," Kagome said and was about to say something else when suddenly the bell rang. Kagome's eyebrows raised in surprise and she let out a little "eek" and hurriedly opened the locker next to Ayame's. Ayame watched as Kagome hurriedly threw her things into her bag. Ayame let a small smile cross her face, she was startled to realize it but she was happy Kagome's locker was next to hers and that they were in most of the same classes. "This Kagome," Ayame thought. "She's really nice, maybe we could be friends...." Ayame trailed off and her smile fell. What was she thinking Kagome would never want a wolf demon for a friend.
"Okay! Ready!' Kagome exclaimed locking her locker and turning around to face Ayame. "Thanks so much for waiting Ayame! Let's go!" And much to Ayame's surprise Kagome grabbed her hand and dashed off to the art studio presumably.
They reached the art studio just as the second bell rang. The teacher was just closing the door when they reached there. "Sorry we're late," Kagome panted.
"You're lucky Kagome you just made it," the teacher said and then turning to Ayame the lady said. "Oh and you must be Ayame, our new student. Welcome." Turning back to Kagome the lady said, "Kagome you can take your seat I was just telling the class that you're working on your clay projects once again."
"Okay," Kagome said and flashing Ayame a last smile and then walked away and took her seat.
"So Ayame, my name is Mrs. Boyce. I'm the art teacher in this school, right now we're working on a clay piece. You may choose any subject or style of your choosing. A piece of pottery, a sculpture, a clay engraving (A/N: I'm not sure what you call them but its when you have a flat piece of clay and you use tools to "draw" a picture.) There are very few rules, in my class, I'm a firm believer in allowing students to express themselves. My only two rules are, that when I'm speaking or anybody else is you put your tools down and give your full attention to whoever is speaking. I often have students get up in front of the class after a project and explain briefly they're art, I'm not sure if your previous teacher made you do that. And secondly that if you use something in this room, whether it be paint or a tool you put it back. You will see that everything has a "home" as I like to call it; since you're new I do not expect you to remember everything but just informing you in advance if you forget where something goes do not hesitate to ask me. I would rather you ask, then put something back in the wrong place. Apart from that I really have nothing else to say. Do you have any questions?"
Ayame paused for a second and then replied, "no."
"Wonderful, now I was saying before we are currently working with clay. Are you familiar with it?"
"Yes Mrs. Boyce I've worked with it before," Ayame replied smiling.
"Great," Mrs. Boyce replied. "Well I'll just dash into the back room to grab you some clay." Motioning to the classroom which was filled with tabled and stools she went on, "grab a seat anywhere I'll be right back."
Ayame looked around hesitantly, where should she sit? At that moment Kagome looked up from whatever she was doing and waved at Ayame and pointed at a seat next to her. Smiling relieved Ayame headed over and placing her books down took the seat. "Thanks," she said.
"No prob," Kagome replied smoothly. "You looked a little lost standing up there."
"I was, I had no clue where to go," Ayame admitted. "This school is pretty small compared to my last one. Before I could just blend in but here's there's so much extra space everyone notices you."
"Well don't worry, this is your seat from now on," Kagome said. "You can hang out with us too, I noticed how you sat and had lunch all by yourself today. I've been wanting to talk to you all day but the teachers kept you busy with all those stupid tests. I was going to ask you after chem. if you wanted to come sit and have lunch with us but you vanished. I'm so glad I finally have a chance to talk to you."
Ayame sat stunned beyond belief staring at Kagome. Did she really mean that? Had Kagome just offered to let her hand around with her and her friends?!
Kagome looked up and seeing Ayame's stunned face exclaimed. "Ayame what's wrong?"
"I- I- I've just never really had a friend before," Ayame said and then furiously blushed, she sounded like such a dolt!.
"What!" Kagome exclaimed. "What do you mean you're so nice!"
"Well ever since I left California," Ayame said. "I've had problems fitting in, nobody wanted to be friends with a wolf demon...." She trailed off softly.
"Oh, you poor thing," Kagome said unsure. "Well you don't have to worry about that here. All the humans here are comfortable with demons, easily a third of our grade is. We've got a full dog demon, Sesshomaru, and then there's Jaken a creepy little toad demon who follows Sesshomaru everywhere, there's a pack of wolf demons in our city so we've got five wolf demons who go to the school, there's Ginta, Hakkaku, Kouga, Haya and Naomi. And then we've got Inuyasha who's Sesshomaru's half brother. He's a hanyou, that's" Kagome said pulling over Ayame's sketch book and pointing at the picture she had drawn of the boy with long white hair and dog ears, "him."
"Oh okay," Ayame said pulling out a pencil and writing Inuyasha next to her sketch of him. Then she wrote Kagome's name next to her picture.
"This is Sango," Kagome said pointing at the picture of the girl with long brown hair. "We've been best friends since grade 3 I think. You and Sango are going to get along great. What other option are you taking?"
"Gym," Ayame replied.
"Excellent," Kagome said. "So Sango, Inuyasha, and Miroku will be bin your gym class." Going on she pointed at the sketch of the boy with black hair and earrings. "This is Miroku, watch out for him he can be a little perverted at times. It drives Sango absolutely nuts, you see he has a fetish with her butt and can't seem to stop groping it. We sometimes joke that he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to groping her because no matter how many times Sango hurts him he always does it again."
Just at that second Mrs. Boyce came back with a block of clay for Ayame and said, "here you go Ayame. If you need a pottery wheel feel free to grab one. They're in the second bottom cupboard on the left." Giving Ayame a smile she said as she left. "Can't wait to see what you decide to make."
As soon as Mrs. Boyce was gone Kagome was about to go on telling Ayame about the pervert Miroku when suddenly a loud voice yelled "HENTAI!!!!!" from some other classroom and they heard a loud thud. Ayame looked over at Kagome questioningly. Kagome just sighed and shook her head. "That," she said. "Was the sound of Miroku groping Sango and then getting hit by her gigantic boomerang." Looking up Kagome said, "You should get her to show it to you, it's really impressive. She Miroku and Inuyasha are in wood shop and they're project right now it to make a weapon so Sango's making something she saw in a manuscript about weapons in the feudal era of Japan. It's called a Hiraikotsuese, really cool. Inuyasha's making something or other and Miroku's making some sort of cool staff thingy with a metal circle on the end. He got the idea when he saw the manuscript Sango brought in. Apparently wandering monks used to use it, and it could serve a dual purpose as a walking stick. So if you hear Inuyasha, Sango or I refer to Miroku as a perverted monk well its because Inuyasha was asking why in the world Miroku was making a monk's weapon considering he's about the farthest thing away from a monk. And well the name sort of stuck, so we sometimes refer to him as the perverted monk." Kagome stopped talking and turned to resume her work on her clay but suddenly remembered something and said. "Oh and Ayame just a warning so he doesn't surprise you, Miroku asks every girl he's ever met to bear his child. When he asks you just ignore him, he doesn't really mean it. And if he gropes you just smack him. Or if your not comfortable hitting him just get Sango to, she probably will anyways if she's there."
Ayame nodded smiling, this Miroku boy was pretty funny. "So those are your friends?"
"Yeah, well they're yours too if you want. I know they'll like you. Or you can go and hang out with the wolf group, I just sort of saw how when you went to talk to them they were already leaving. So I knew then that you didn't really know any of them."
"No I never seem to know anybody," Ayame said sadly. It was really overwhelming. Ever since she had started to move schools, she had never fit in; not even once. And now suddenly she came to this school and she had not one possible group that she could hang out with but two!!!
"Oh yeah and I forgot to mention Rin," Kagome said. "She's in art to but she's sick today with the flu. She's actually only 15, but since she's really smart they moved her up to our grade. She likes to tag along with Sesshomaru, which is just about the oddest thing this school was ever seen. You see Sesshomaru, is one of those demons that thinks humans are beneath him, and therefore never hung out with them or even talked with a human for that matter. Then this year Rin showed up at the school, and one day she fell and Sesshomaru caught her, and ever since then has followed him around. We we're all surprised at the fact that Sesshomaru had saved her but when he actually allowed her to hang around with him I think Inuyasha almost had a heart attack. It's weird but I'd say Sesshomaru almost likes Rin. Of course he'd never admit to it, but I think he's got a major soft spot for the girl."
"I take it," Ayame said as she started to soften her clay. "Inuyasha and Sesshomaru don't get along very well?"
"Not at all," Kagome said. "You see Sesshomaru was the oldest sibling and having a full demon mother that made him a full demon, but then his mother died and his father who was also a full demon remarried but this time he married a human woman and they had Inuyasha who was due to his mother only a half demon. But don't tell Inuyasha I told you any of this he's a little touchy on the subject of being a hanyou."
"Promise," Ayame said with a smile slightly surprised at how easy it was to talk with Kagome. Looking at Kagome's piece which resembled a large tree Ayame asked, "so what are you making?"
"I'm making something I saw out of our Japanese textbook; we're studying Japan in social by the way. It's called a God Tree, and one was found at each shrine. The only thing is I'm having problems with making the trunk look real," Kagome said exasperated. "You're good with this, what would you suggest."
"Oh," Ayame said taking her hands off her clay and taking a moment to look closely at Kagome's 'tree'. "Well," she said slowly, "Why don't you try adding some texture to the bark by drawing lines with a pin or something and then lightly smoothing it by gently wrapping plastic wrap around it."
Kagome stared at her for a second, and then her face lit up, "I did try using the needle but it just looked really liny so I smoothed it out again. But wrapping it with plastic wrap would smooth it out perfectly. Great idea!" Dashing off Ayame watched Kagome grab a needle and a sheet of plastic wrap and come back. "So," she said sitting down and starting to make lines on the trunk using the needle. "What are you making?"
Ayame looked down at her lump of clay and sai, "I think I'm going to make a wolf."
"Oh that'll be cool, in what sort of pose?" Kagome asked. "Howling at the moon, or running perhaps, sleeping?"
"Running I think," Ayame said. And now knowing what she intended to create set to work on creating the basic shape of a wolf for the rest of class while she and Kagome chattered away happily.
AT THE END OF CLASS
"Okay class," Mrs. Boyce said. "Make sure you put your pieces away carefully we wouldn't want to clay to harden after all your hard work." Hearing the bell ring she said above the talking of the students leaving the classroom, "have a nice day everyone!"
As Ayame packed up for the first time ever she actually felt reluctant to leave, which was strange because everyday other day she hadn't been able to get out fast enough. Ayame was glad she had no homework that night, because she still needed to finish unpacking, make supper and she wanted to go check out the local martial arts center. "Well," Ayame said as she shut her locker. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow Kagome."
"Yep," Kagome said as she just opened hers. "See ya tomorrow."
Ayame was just walking out of the doors when she heard Kagome call out to her. She turned around and saw Kagome running towards her. "Hey Ayame," Kagome said panting slightly. "Do you want to come to the mall with me and the gang?"
Ooooh evil cliffie I know. Well what do you think. I know many of you wanted Ayame to meet Kouga this chapter but last night I thought my plot through and I now know where I want the story to go. So she'll meet Kouga and the rest of the wolf gang next chapter, and she's also gonna meet Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango. Well still looking for suggestions. So please review and peace ya'll till next chapter.