When her alarm clock went off, Sango reached over and switched it off, and then she lay in bed for a few seconds, letting herself wake up. She didn't let herself succumb to falling back into the oblivion of unconsciousness (which most call "sleep"), because she couldn't trust what she doesn't have control over, when her memories might terrorize her.
She often had nightmares of how her family died, haunting her every night, but sometimes, it wasn't so bad; sometimes she'd simply slumber, reminiscing upon the times when her family was still among the living- the days when the sun still shone for her.
Sango rolled out of bed, and was greeted by her pet cat, Kirara. Sango fixed herself some food, and fed her cat, also, as she readied herself for the first day of school.
She dreaded it. She didn't want to go and worry about meeting new people or fitting in, but despite her desire to stay home, she found herself on the bus to school, then after the 30 minutes of staring into space, Sango found herself in front of her new school.
She was intimidated by the size of the school, and felt a bit left out since everyone was talking amongst themselves, smiling, happy to see the friends after the summer break. With a sigh, she searched through her backpack and pulled out her schedule to find her homeroom, and when she found it, she decided to walk around the school until she located the said, "C6."
Sango, busied with her search for C6, her eyes glued to the paper with the school's map on it, wasn't paying attention to her surroundings, and, unfortunately, neither was the schoolboy whom she was nearing, for he was far too busy analyzing the skirts of the many schoolgirls occupying the halls. The next thing Sango knew, she could no longer concentrate on the paper she clutched in her hands once she slammed into the passerby, since she had been walking with speed, in hot pursuit of her classroom.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" they both apologized at the same time, bowing as doing so, leading to them hitting each other's heads.
"Ah," the guy began with a laugh, "sorry again!"
"Oh, no, it's my fault," Sango took the blame as she stared into his eyes, "... entirely..."
The guy just smiled kindly as Sango found herself lost in his eyes... She found it so amazing that the guy standing in front of her had such beautiful blue eyes, yet he had seemingly naturally black hair to go with his eyes. His hair was a bit disheveled, but it somehow fell about his face attractively. Although normally she'd think that his eyes and hair would be an odd pairing, she found that it worked well with him, giving him a bit of a mischievous look.
The blue-eyed guy laughed and asked her playfully, "Hasn't anyone told you that it's not nice to stare? Ha ha... Well, maybe I'll see you later! Bye!"
Sango, in awe was only able to wave weakly as he left, and then she focused on the map again, wanting to get to class before everyone else.
Two wrong classrooms later, Sango walked into C6 and went to the teacher first to see where she was assigned to sit.
"Excuse me, I'm new here," Sango introduced herself to the teacher, "... where do I sit?"
"Oh, you sit right," the teacher, Mrs. Maeda, pointed to one of the desks near the center of the classroom, "there."
After thanking the teacher, Sango made her way through the ocean of empty desks until she found the one the teacher had pointed to earlier, and sat down. Not knowing what else to do, being the only person other than the teacher in the classroom, Sango searched through her backpack until she pulled out her Detective Conan manga, immersing herself in Shinichi's world.
After hearing someone set their things down on the desk next to hers, the dark brown haired girl was brought from the famous detective Shinichi Kudou's deductions to her own reality around her. The girl who was now sitting beside Sango smiled at her in a friendly manner, introducing herself as Kagome Higurashi, then Sango introduced herself to the raven-haired girl.
"I haven't seen you here before. Are you new or something?" Kagome questioned the brown-eyed schoolgirl to her right.
"Yeah, actually, I am. I moved here from Saitama just this week."
"Really? Saitama? That's not too far from here..." Kagome stopped the conversation there as a silver-haired boy with golden eyes approached them after seeing the teacher to see where he was supposed to sit.
The guy with the long silver locks sat in front of Kagome and she commented, "How lucky! I get to sit next to you, InuYasha!"
"Feh..." was InuYasha's only reply.
After some bickering between the two, the guy whom Sango had bumped into in the halls earlier that morning entered the room, arousing Sango's attention, although she tried her best to hide it by burying her face in the Detective Conan manga again. He sat down right in front of Sango, and to the right of InuYasha, with a big smile formed on his lips as he faced forward.
"Okay, Miroku, what are you so happy about?" growled InuYasha in a displeased tone of voice.
"What? Can't a guy smile without being interrogated?" Miroku retorted, trying his best to sound innocent, although that's not what he came off as.
"Miroku, maybe we don't want to know, since with you, it's bound to be something perverted..." Kagome concluded.
"It's just so refreshing to come back from summer break," Miroku explained, "to see all of the girls in their short skirts."
Needless to say, Kagome hit him on the head with her book for that comment, as InuYasha only sweat-dropped at Miroku's utter stupidity when it comes to "watching what you say" in front of a girl.
"Oh, yeah, InuYasha, Miroku, this is Sango; she's new here. Sango, this is InuYasha and Miroku." Kagome introduced them.
"N... Nice to meet you..." Sango said in a quiet voice, just above a whisper.
"Hello, again, Sango." Miroku greeted her with a grin, making the shy girl blush profusely.
Sango didn't know what to do, so she just stared down at her desk awkwardly while the others raised their eyebrows, wondering why she was acting like that. Sango's cute blushing went away quickly as her face drained all of its color, turning as pale as if she'd seen a ghost. With a scared look on her face, she ran out of the classroom. Her new friends, startled by Sango's odd actions, followed behind nonetheless.
"W... Wait, Sango!" Miroku called out, although the words never caught Sango's ears.
Well...? What did everyone think of the first chapter? I know that my writings have been really monotonous and emotionless lately... I'm sorry... I hope that you like it anyway...? Well, please review and tell me what you thought! Thanks!
