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Hope Lies Hidden
Chapter One – A New Student
Kagome launched herself out of the well, and ran like lightning towards her house. She burst through the doors of the house, calling out rapid-fire greetings as she did.
"HiMomHiSotaHiGrandpaI'mHome!" she called, rushing up the stairs into her room, and grabbing her book bag of her bed. She ran back down the stairs at top speed, passing a very stunned looking Sota up on the stairs. She practically flew out the door, barley even pausing to rush a:
"ByeeveryonesorryIhavetoleavebutIhavetogotoschoolorI'mgonnabelate!" as she ran out of the front door.
She was going to kill Inuyasha one of these days…she just knew she would. He had made her late to school almost every time she went now, which is almost never… she thought guiltily as she ran, but it was just the fact that if she did try to go, she could never be on time that irritated her. Not even fashionably late. Nooooo…it was always the so late that you earn the reproachful comment from the teacher and are embarrassed beyond words for the day kind of late.
"So help me Inuyasha, if I'm late again your gonna get it!" she cried as she skidded around the corner, and up into the schoolyard.
She was lucky today. She had made it into the school just as the bell wrung. That meant she wouldn't be to horribly late if she kept running to the classroom…
Kagome slid the corner in the hall and slammed into someone else going the other way. There was a mutual eep! On both their parts, and they both bounced back onto the ground. She sat up and rubbed her head to see a girl she did not recognize doing much the same thing. She got up and offered her hand to the girl, a smile on her face. She smiled up at her and took it, letting Kagome help her up.
"So much for getting to class on time huh?" she asked, a smile still on her face.
"Yeah…"admitted Kagome with a slight laugh. "I'll never make it for roll now…"
"Hey I'm new here, and I am really lost," said the girl, pulling out a course schedule, "Do you know where room 22B is?"
"Yeah! Go down this hall here and it'll be the second door on the right."
"Thank you!" said the girl, running off down the hall. "Hope to see you around!"
Kagome waved and walked the rest of the way down the hall, and entered her first period class.
"Ah Kagome, so nice of you to finally join us, I guess we have finally been deemed worthy of your presence?"
She blushed slightly as she took a seat next to one of her friends. "Sorry I'm late Sensei, I had a hard time waking up on time this morning."
"So it would seem." Her teacher said with a slight smile as he turned back towards the blackboard to continue the lesson.
"So where have you been?" asked Yuka.
"Yeah, your Grandpa said that your rheumatism was really acting up and that your bunions were causing a lot of pain so you were staying at home…" Ayumi chimed in.
Kagome fought down a blush. She had had just about enough of her Grandpa's interference in her life. "Okay, let's get one thing straight guys, I don't have any of these weird diseases, my grandpa does, and he keeps telling people that I've got all his funky problems because he can't think enough to say I've got a cold, or mono, or chicken pox or something that a kid would have…ignore whatever he says from now on okay?"
"Wow Kagome, okay…" said Eri.
"All you had to do was say that your grandpa was covering for you while you ditched."
Kagome nearly fell out at this remark, but kept herself in check, and bent over her work, determined to keep herself calm as she fought down her rising blush.
When I get back you are so dead Inuyasha!
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Akina walked through the empty halls of her new school, completely alone. She liked it that way though. Alone was always better for her. Her classes had gone well so far. Some had even tried to make friends with her, including a group of obviously popular girls. But Akina wanted none of it. She just wanted to be alone for now.
She paused in her walk, putting her hand over the hidden necklace and sighed. So much had changed…Her mother was dead, she had been forced to move to Tokyo with people she did not know, nor really cared to, and now she was wandering through unfamiliar halls in an unfamiliar school…
What had she done to make everything go so wrong?
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Kagome had walked through most of her day with no truly eventful thing happening…besides slamming into that new girl earlier on. She walked into her last class with a sense of relief, she was glad the day was almost over.
She chose a seat closer to the back of the lab, not really wanting anyone to see her. She was getting far to many questions about her various ailments for her liking. She sat on the edge of the stool and sighed as the bell rang…today had been such a long day…
"Good afternoon class, today we have a new student in our numbers…would you all say hello to Akina?"
The teacher motioned to the girl standing next to her as the class chanted its greeting. Kagome recognized her instantly as the girl she had run into earlier that morning. She got her first really good look at the girl now though, as she studied her.
Akina was about her height, with unusually short hair that was a darker shade of strawberry blonde. She had brilliant green eyes that were so deep; they looked as if they went on forever. She wore thin-rimmed glasses that covered them though, drawing attention away from their startling depths. She wore a normal school uniform, but it seemed to look different on her…
"Why don't you partner up with Kagome dear, she hasn't been here in a while, so she has not started this lab either…Kagome darling raise your hand."
Kagome sighed, and obediently raised her hand, and Akina spotted her, a smile on her face. She obviously recognized her too. She made her way to the back of the room and seated herself lightly next to Kagome.
"I'm glad to see you again." She said quietly with a smile. "I was beginning to think I never would see you around…"
Kagome noticed that her warm smile didn't quite reach her eyes, giving her an eternally sad look. She smiled back at her despite this; she actually kind of liked Akina, despite the fact she barley knew her.
"I'm not always here, but I'm definitely around…"
Akina laughed slightly, and began to pull out the lab equipment that the teacher was specifying on the board. The two talked all through the entire period, laughing and joking like two old friends.
"Hey, would you like to come over to my place sometime?" asked Kagome as they exited the classroom at the end of the day.
"Sure, I'd like that…Where do you live?" asked Akina, brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"At the Higurashi Shrine, just a few blocks from here."
"Wow Kagome, you live at a shrine…that must be so cool!"
"Yeah kindda…tomorrow good?"
"Tomorrow is wonderful." Said Akina, a bright smile lighting up her face.
"Alright, see you then!" said Kagome, turning around the corner as Akina went straight on. She had to admit, Akina was really nice, but there was something strange about her, something she couldn't quite put her finger on…and there was something she was hiding. Her eyes had told Kagome that much. But whatever it was, Akina was very good at acting like there was nothing for her to hide…
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Akina didn't know what it was about Kagome, but she had felt almost instantly drawn to the girl. She was not like the others at the school…she was different.
She pulled out the jewel necklace and played with it as she walked thinking about the date she had set up for the next day…a Saturday as it was. It wouldn't bother her aunt and uncle, she knew that much. They had told her that as long as she didn't get arrested, they could care less what she did.
Some good home mom… she thought bitterly as she walked up the steps towards her apartment, tucking the necklace back into her shirt.
But despite her bitter thoughts, she found herself actually looking forward to seeing Kagome tomorrow…maybe things would turn out okay after all…
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