Chapter 4:

The girls arrived at school on time, aboutan hourbefore the bell. Traffic wasn;t as bad as they thought it would be.They quickly got to their class room, avoiding any of the jocks and cheerleaders as much as they could as they walked down the hallway. And once they got to their homeroom, they sat at their desks, which were all next to each other.

"What happened to kicking Koga's ass?" Kagome asked Rin and Sango.

"There's not enough time." Sango replied. "Plus, we can get him later."

"Whatever. But I'm not contributing at all." Kagome said. Then she looked at Rin. "We have to try out for the talent show today during study hall."

"Don'twe have that first?" Rin asked, looking like she was about to fall asleep at her desk.

"Yeah." Kagome replied.

"Isn't that kinda early?" Rin asked, now looking awake, and looking at Kagome like she was crazy. "I mean, I know today is the last day to try out. But still. It's 8:30 in the morning!" Rin exclaimed, still looking at Kagome like she was crazy. "Can't we try out later?"

"You could always skip detention soyou could try out." Sango suggested.

"Detention is in the auditorium today." Rin said flatly.

"We have to try out!" Kagome told Rin. "There is no way we can let those slut cheerleaders win us up at the one thing we can do better than them other than kicking ass."

"I know. Butwhich song are we gonna do?" Rin asked.

"What songs do we have memorized?" Kagome asked.

"Well,you guysknow any song by Christina Aguilera." Sango said. "Soyou should do something by her." Sango said.

"I don't know all of her songs." Rin informed Sango.

"Which ones do you know?" Sango asked her.

"I only know Dirty and Fighter." Rin told her.

"And I know weboth know that one song by Willa Ford." Kagome added.

"We spend too much time at those dance clubs." Sango laughed.

"Well, the only songs we know are the ones that the Disc Jockeys play at the clubs." Kagome replied.

"Which song by Willa Ford are you talking about?" Rin asked.

"I Wanna Be Bad." Kagome replied.

"I know that one!" Rin exclaimed. "But that's it." Rin confessed to her friends. "I don't know all the words to any other songs."

"Then do Fighter." Sango said. "The other two songs are kinda slutty compared to that one."

"I'm all for that." Kagome replied. "And weboth know which lines who does for that song right?" Kagome asked them.

"Yep." Rin replied.

"You've sung those songs together so much that you've memorized which lines to sing and which to not Kagome." Sango told Kagome.

"Just making sure." Kagome told her.

"Are you ladies trying out for the talent show?" A voice asked. Then the three girls looked up to see the last faces they wanted to see; Sesshomaru, Hiten, and Koga.

All three girls let out heavy sighes as their heads hit their desks at the same time. They really didn't want this this early in the morning. And they were too tired to beat any of them up too. Which made them feel even worse. "You guys shouldn't do that." Sesshomaru said.

"You'll hurt your head." Koga added.

"Look!" Kagome yelled.

Then Sango stood up, glaring daggers at the guys. Then she slammed her palms onto the desk. "Go away!" Sango yelled at them, but they didn't move an inch, except moving closer to the girls. That's when Inuyasha and Mirokucame up to them.

"Oh god." Kagome groaned as she sunk in her seat.

"Hey, why don't you guys give the girls a break?"Inuyasha told them.

"Isn't kinda early for you to be bugging them now?"Miroku asked them. "And if they are trying out for the talent show, then it would be better for you to leave them alone now so they could get ready." Miroku was the only guy near them who wasn't a jock. He was in the drama club. But he still hung out with all jocks and acted like them too, so Kagome, Rin, and Sango all saw him as a jock, whether he really was or not.

"Who died and made you boss?" Sesshomaru asked as he stepped up to Inuyasha, being his older brother and all.

"I made myself the boss." Inuyasha said as he glared at Sesshomaru, not showing any signs of fear at all.

"We'll see if you still feel that way at practice." Sesshomaru told his younger brother cruely. But Inuyasha's expression still didn't change. He only watched as Sesshomaru, Koga, and Hiten all walked out of te classroom.

"Why are you guys standing up for us?" Kagome asked, a glare on her face.

"Why not?" Miroku asked.

"Because we don't need you to." Sango told them.

"Why do you hate us so much?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because you guys are assholes." Rin replied. "All jocks are assholes, immature, and idiots who think they can have any girl they want."

"I'm not a jock." Miroku told them.

"You hang out with them though." Sango replied.

"So?" Miroku asked.

"So back off!" Kagome yelled at them. "Isn't that what you just told those jackasses to do? Why don't you leave us alone so we could get ready for the talent show."

"Well I have a reason to come here othr than just to save you from those guys." Miroku told them.

"Do you dare touch me." Sango said as she glared at Miroku.

"Wasn't about to." Miroku said as he held up his hands as if surrendering. "But I have a favor to ask you Sango." He said.

"I'm not going on a date with you." She told him.

"Not that either." Inuyasha said.

"Was she talking to you?" Kagome asked him.

"Don't you two start now." Miroku said. Then he turned back to Sango. "I happen to know that you can sing, and was hoping you would do a duet with me for the talent show." Miroku informed Sango.

"Why don't you go ask one of your cheerleader friends?" Sango asked, trying to sound like she really didn't want to do it.

"Have you EVER heard them sing?" Miroku asked.

"Can't sing worth shit." Sango stated. She looked at Kagome andRin. They didn't seem to care whether she sang with him or not. They were probably more accepting towards Miroku than the others, since he techincally wasn't a jock. But he still hung out with them all the time. Which is why they still tries to avoid him.

"So will you help me out?" Miroku asked. "It would really mean a lot to me."

"Why do you want to do a duet with me anyway?" Kagome asked.

"Because the director for the drama club, he says that he won't let me back into the drama because I can't do duets worth shit." Miroku explained. "But I talked to him, and he said that if I can do a duet in the talent show, and get into the top three, then I can be back in the drama club." Miroku explained.

Kagome and Rin thought about it for a minute. He WAS one of THEM. But they knew about Miroku's love of the drama club, and he was really good at it. It would be so wrong of Sango to not sing with him and deprive him of getting back into the drama club. "You should sing with him." Kagome suddenlt told Sango.

"What?" Sango asked, not believing what she just heard KAGOME say.

"Huddle!" Rin exclaimed as she grabbed both Kagome and Sango by the arm and pulled them away from the guys so neither of them would hear, not even Inuyasha with his acute hearing.

"What is with the sudden huddle?" Sango asked.

"And since when do we have huddles?" Kagome asked.

"We don't. But we don't want the guys to keep listening on us either." RIn told them. Then she looked at Sango. "YOu should sing with him. Even if he is one of THEM."

"What?" Sango asked. "Where is all this coming from?" Sango asked.

"It would be so wrong of you to not Sango." Kagome added. "Miroku is really good in the musicals and plays and everything. And we all know how much he loves it." Kagome told Sango. "And me and Rin are already doing a song together, and you KNOW none of the bitch-leaders can sing like us."

"Sing with him." Rin replied. "And then we ALL can be in the talent show."

"Fine." Sango groaned. Then the girl broke up their huddle and looked at the guys. Sango went up to Miroku. "So what song were you planning on?" She asked.

"Well, what duets do you know?" Miroku asked.

"I only know Broken by Seether and Amy Lee." Sango replied. "Do you know that one?"

"Yeah." Miroku replied, then he sang the chorusreal quick to make sure he had the right song.

"That's the one." Sango said, a small smile appearing on her face. "OK. I'll do it. But only because Kagome, Rin, and I think it would be wrong for you to not be in the drama club and all."

"And I thankyou very much." Miroku replied.

"OK. So we're all in the talent show." Kagome exclaimed.

"You aren't, are you?" Rin asked as she looked at Inuyasha.

"Actually, I am." Inuyasha replied.

"What are you doing?" Kagome asked.

"You'll see." Inuyasha told her.

Why did Inuyasha telling her this make her feel kind of weird inside. She had felt this way before, but it was a long time ago, and with a different guy. And she was hurt badly in the end of that relationship. There was no way she going down that road again. Inuyasha was the enemy, so why was she even being this nice to him. She, Sango, and Rin were usually beating up others in his popularity group; the other jocks and cheerleaders.

Then Kikyo walked in. She was the leader of the cheerleaders. And the sluttiest and bitchiest of them all too. She was new this year too, so no one really knew what she could do. She ran straight to Inuyasha. "Inu-baby!" She called to him. Then she ran up next to him, looking and Kagome, Sango, and Rin with a disgusted look on her face. Inuyasha didn't look like he was enjoying her being there though. Kikyo hung all over him, clinging to him like bacteria.

"What do you want Kikyo?" Inuyasha groaned.

"I was just wondering, areyou going to be in the audience whenme and my girlstry out for the talent show?" Kikyo asked, using a very flirtatious voice.

"I told you already Kikyo, I'm in the talent show too." Inuyasha replied, sounding pretty annoyed.

"You didn't tell me that!" Kikyo exclaimed. "Well, then that means you'll definitely be there then. I'll see you there then." She said as she kissed Inuyasha on the cheek, Inuyasha not knowing what she was doing until after she placed the kiss on his cheek. Then she ran off.

Inuyasha immediately reached up and wiped his cheek with his hand, as if her kiss could kill him. "Shit!" Inuyasha yelled as he wiped his cheek off. There was a mark on his cheek that looked like Kikyo was wearing lipstick that would leave a mark on his cheek.

"Here." Kagome said as she pulled out a hankercheif and wet it with water from her water bottle and walked over to Inuyasha and wiped Kikyo's mark off his cheek.

Inuyasha stood still as she did this. "Thanks." He said to Kagome.

"Well, I'm still not your friend or anything." Kagome told him. "I'm only doing this because no one, not even a jock, deserves to be marked as territory by that bitch-leader." Kagome told him, sounding as cruel as possible. Then she noticed that the lipstick wasn't coming off. "Shit." She said.

"What?" Inuyasha asked.

"It's not lipstick." Kagome told him. "It's lipgloss." She informed him.

"So?" Inuyasha asked.

"It's gonna be a bitch to get off." Sango told Inuyasha.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked, sounding a bit fearful. He had this huge, dark red lip print on his cheek, and Sango just told him that it wasn't going to come off easily.

"Lipgloss is A LOT harder to get off than lipstick." Rin added. "It's kinda sticky and junk."

"You're gonna have to swallow your pride and come into the girls bathroom." Kagome told him.

"WHAT?" Inuyasha yelled.

"It won't be that bad." Kagome told him as she grabbed her purse. "There's still about a half hour before school starts." Then she grabbed Inuyasha's wrist and started pulling him towards the door. But there was no way Inuyasha was stepping foot in the girl's bathroom without a fight.

"Girls don't start going into the bathroom to check their make-up and everything for like twenty minutes." Sango said.

"Do you girls have a schedule or something?" Miroku asked.

"Most girls do." Rin said.

"Or." Sango said, andKagome stopped pulling Inuyasha towards the door.

"Or what?" Inuyasha asked, hoping that Sango knew some other way to get this stupid kiss print off his cheek.

"There's one of those bathrooms that boys and girls can go into in between both of the bathrooms." Sango told them. "It one of the handicap ones, and it's one person. So both of you could go in there without either being embarrassed." Sango said.

"Thank GOD!" Inuyasha exclaimed.

"Then let's go." Kagome sighed as sheand Inuyasha head towards the bathroom.

AN- OK. I think this chapter is long enough. Now, the only question is, will Kagome and Inuyasha get Kikyo's mark off of Inuyasha and be able to getto the talent show? I mean, Inuyasha can't go try out for the talent show with a kiss print on his cheek. THat would be bad. And what is Inuyasha planning on doing at the talent show anyway? Hmm... Plz R&R. Thankee!