A Little Problem
(Inuyasha is not mine. All rights and copyrights are held by the respective copyright holders. All feedback is greatly appreciated.)
Chapter 2: Large Corridors
Racing to the wall on the adjacent hall away from the door, fearing she would be stepped on from someone coming out of an opening door. Racing across the hallway, Kagome found another problem awaiting her. The stairs. She was about to leave herself incredibly vulnerable. She had managed not to see anyone on the way to the stairs.
Kagome suddenly heard a lot of thumping noises. She realized what it was. "Oh no, PE is over." She realized to herself. Bracing her back against the wall on the other side of the stair way, Kagome prepared for the inevitable. As the onslaught of students approached, Kagome braced herself against the wall and hoped for the students to leave soon. She knew she was stuck in that position for a little while. She concentrated on her situation and thought about what had happened to her.
"How did this happen to me? I didn't bring any shard with me to school so I doubt I was cursed through that. Is it because I have been shrunk before? Is this some kind of delayed reaction? But does that mean Inuyasha, Miroku and Shippou are also small right now?" Kagome wondered to herself.
The last of the students had climbed the stairs. The students would soon be leaving the locker rooms to go to their various classes. She decided to wait there a little while longer, sitting down with her back hunched against the wall. The possibilities were still racing through her mind. She wanted to see Inuyasha more than ever and find out if he was small as well.
Students started walking back and forth across the hallway. Kagome sat back and thought.
"Hey, what's that?" A male voice asked.
Kagome looked up and realized she had been spotted. She moved to slink away and find a place to hide, slowly getting up.
"Is that a bug?" A female student voice called out?
"Something's different about it. It doesn't really look like a bug." The male student said as he reached down and grabbed Kagome.
"Wait... it's a girl..." He said.
A large crowd had gathered around the male student. "Who is that?" Various voices asked.
Pulling Kagome closer to his ear in order to hear her, he asked "What is your name?"
"I'm Kagome Higurashi." Kagome explained.
"She says her name's Kagome Higurashi." The male student told everyone else.
"KAGOME!" Eri's voice called out.
Eri maneuvered her way through the crowd to the male student holding Kagome. "Can I hold my friend?" Eri asked. The male student held out his hands to Eri and Kagome maneuvered onto her friend's hands. Eri pulled her hands close to her ears in order to hear her now diminutive friend."Kagome?! What the hell happened to you?" Eri asked.
"I don't know. After you guys all left the locker room, I found myself like this." Kagome explained.
"What?! How the hell did that happen?! People don't just shrink like this. And why were you running around the halls. You could have been stepped on. Where were you trying to go?!" Eri asked in rapid fire precision.
Kagome found herself scrambling for answers and just blurted out "I don't know what happened. I was trying to get out of the locker room and find a place where I wouldn't get stepped on." She said.
"C'mon, let's get you to the nurse's office at least." Eri explained. Moving through the crowd, Eri joined her friends Yuka and Ayumi.
"Kagome, what's it like being so small?" Yuka asked as she moved closer to Kagome.
"Everything is just so huge. It's pretty scary that I could get stepped on or crushed so easily." Kagome answered.
"Ayumi, could you go to Kagome's locker and get her stuff?" Eri asked.
"Huh? Why do you want to get my stuff?" Kagome asked.
"You said you don't know what happened, right? There's just this weird feeling I have." Eri said.
"Weird feeling? What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"Like, I don't know how to explain this but I just have this feeling about your things. You don't know how this happened?" Eri asked.
"No." Kagome answered.
Ayumi had run off to get Kagome's stuff as the other girls entered the nurse's office. "Excuse me, Nurse. We have a little problem." Yuka said."Hey, no jokes!" Kagome shouted.
The school nurse approached the girls. "What seems to be the problem?" She asked.
"Well, this isn't normal. Our friend has been shrunk." Eri explained and held out her hands so the nurse could see Kagome.
"What?! How did this happen?!" She shouted out.
"We don't know what happened." Yuka said.
"Let's get her onto the desk so you don't have to carry her." The nurse signaled. Eri listened to the nurse and gently set her friend down.
"Uumm... I don't know what happened. I was alone in the locker room, I just closed my eyes for a second and suddenly I'm as tiny as a flea." Kagome said.
"Well, I suppose we should call your house. But this is a strange situation. Is there anyone you want to call?" The nurse asked.
"Call my house and ask them if they've seen Inuyasha. If they've seen him or if he's there, tell them that Inuyasha needs to come here as soon as he can." Kagome explained.
"Inuyasha?" Yuka asked.
"It's a long story..." Kagome said.
Just then, the door opened and Ayumi appeared. "I opened her locker and all of Kagome-chan's things were small too." She explained.
Ayumi held out Kagome's now miniature school uniform.
"My stuff has been shrunk too? Please, Inuyasha, get here soon. I don't know what the hell is going on here." Kagome said aloud.
To Be Continued...
