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Because of Him, Chapter Four- Inuyasha's First Taste of Kagome's World

Inuyasha walked into school, looking around in amazement. He had never seen so many people in one place before. Sure, the mall was full of people, but they were spread out in different shops and stores, here, people hurried past in small groups, talking loudly, or whispering and giggling.

Swarms of girls were passing by him as he walked to the locker he had just been assigned from the office. As each from past, they pointed and smiled and waved at him. Twice Inuyasha swore that he heard one of them say something that sounded much like, "Hey hottie!"

Inuyasha scanned the crowd for Kagome, not seeing her anywhere. He gave up after a few minutes of searching and proceeded to his locker. After opening it and putting all his books in except his science (which was his first period), he went back to his search.

After a moment or two, he spotted a bench where a group of people in all black were standing. Inuyasha walked that way, hoping he would find Kagome among them. She was the only person that he knew here, his only connection to the people here; he just had to find her.

When he reached the bench, he saw all the people were dressed like him. They were all laughing and talking like everyone else, but somehow, they were different. He only paid attention to this fact for a while, before something caught his eye. Kagome was sitting on the bench in front of him.

He pushed through the small crowed of people who surrounded her until he reached the bench and sat down. Kagome looked at him for a moment, surprised to see that he found her. Everyone else looked at him like they were ready to pounce on him and cut his head off. Inuyasha was glad that Kagome quickly recovered from her state of shock.

"Inuyasha!" she said, sounding happy to see him. "It must have been hard to find me, not knowing your way around the school and all." Inuyasha nodded, relieved that she was talking to him in this friendly manner. He thought that she would take him in and show him around, but for a little while, he had his doubts.

"Yah, it was hard. But then I spotted this sea of black and I thought that this is where you would be." It was just then that he looked around him. The rest of the group was still looking at him like, if given the word by Kagome, they would kill him. Kagome seemed to notice this too.

"Everyone, this is Inuyasha. He works at Hot Topic, Tony introduced him to me. He's my friend." Kagome stressed the words Tony and friend and the crowd around them seemed to settle down.

For some reason, Inuyasha had a slight twinge of happiness when Kagome called him her friend, though when thinking about it later on he could not understand why. Then Kagome tugged at his arm and began pulling him away from the rest of the people.

"I'm going to talk to Inuyasha for a minute. I'll meet you all here next period as usual okay?" Kagome's friends nodded and she continued walking, pulling Inuyasha into a hallway.

"Inuyasha let me explain a few things to you." Kagome sat Inuyasha down on a deserted bench in the quite deserted hallway. Inuyasha blinked at her a few times questioningly, which Kagome had to admit to herself, was very cute.

"One, you cannot just walk up, a perfect stranger, and sit at 'The Bench'." Inuyasha thought that the words the bench were said very oddly, but he dismissed it for now. "Two, I know you noticed the death stares. You can't just sit by me of all people. I know I'm not in the 'in-crowed', but I'm very in with the people I hang out with. I originated 'The Bench' and am like a little sister to all of them, they are very protective over me."

"Why do you say the words 'The Bench' like it's the title of something?" Kagome sighed and then shook her head at Inuyasha's stupidity, as if everyone should automatically know about 'The Bench.'

"It is a title Inuyasha. Let me try to explain this to you. Look at them, and me, and you, notice how we dress different? Well, people don't like that. They call us 'The Freaks' and so, I got together a bunch of these people, and we all sit at this one bench. It's our bench and everyone is scared of us I guess. It's our territory, our place to hang out, and it's known throughout the school."

Kagome finished and Inuyasha stared at her. That was odd, why would people not like other people by the way that they dressed? It just didn't make sense to him. The more Inuyasha heard, the less logic Kagome's world made to him.

"Look Inuyasha, I know it's hard to understand," she put her hand on his that was resting on the bench. "But it's just the way things work around here. Don't' worry about it." Kagome smiled sweetly.

Inuyasha's eyes darted towards their hands. It was only a small gesture, but Inuyasha's heart skipped a beat when she touched him. He moved quickly off the bench, hoping she wouldn't notice his discomfort.

"Yah, whatever." He tried to recover and reclaim his cool attitude, but Kagome noticed and giggled. "What are you laughing at?" Inuyasha was till trying to hard, and Kagome knew it. She forced back her giggles.

"Nothing Inuyasha, nothing at all." She stood up. "Now, let's go." Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's hand once more and pulled him back to the group.

Inuyasha sat on 'The Bench' cross-legged. The entire group had their eyes on him and him and Kagome both noticed. Kagome sighed. 'This is going to be one hell of a long day…'