Dokyusei
by Nana
Chapter 6
His World
Neither girl felt like talking the next day. Sango, for reasons which she did not divulge, sat in a corner of the classroom, trapped firmly in her own world. She would frequently sigh, and sometimes, a spasm of rage would cross her melancholy features, making Kagome think twice about asking her what was wrong.
For Kagome's part, it was a shock for her to discover that they were going to have back-to-back periods of Science Lab first thing in the morning.
"Why~~~~?" She wailed, inwardly as the session started.
And to be expected, Inu Yasha was not helping things at all.
He had gotten over being silent (Kagome doubted very much if that was in his nature, to begin with), but at the rate he was going, Kagome wished he would just revert to his silent nastiness the day before.
After being addressed alternately as "Hey", "Oy", and "Hey, you" for the fifth time, Kagome turned her back stiffly on her partner, concentrating in mixing reagent X with the appropriate buffer.
"Hey, you!" Inu Yasha called again, annoyed. "Did you hear what I just said?"
Kagome shot him a look that effectively made him freeze.
"My name," she said, frigidly. "Is Higurashi. If you haven't gotten that name past that thick skull of yours, don't even bother talking to me. Don't talk to me, or look at me, or even do so much as get near me, OKAY?"
Inu Yasha looked taken aback, before rallying with "FEH! WHO WANTS TO, ANYWAY???"
"Inu Yasha, if you cannot keep quiet, I suggest you go out of the classroom," called Myouga-sensei from across the lab.
Inu Yasha shot the elderly teacher a look of undisguised loathing before sitting down to glare at the boiling contents of the beaker before him.
Kagome watched him from the corner of her eye, fuming. "He really thinks he looks SOOOO cool, playing the angry rebel, doesn't he?" She thought. "Well, he looks extremely baka, and I'm not going to let him get away with it!"
She finished preparing the solution, and made her way to the boiling beaker, adding the specified number of drops indicated in the manual. She made it a point to ignore him, although she could sense him watching her.
"Oy," he said a moment later.
Her first impulse was to hurl the boiling beaker and its contents onto his face. She restrained herself.
"Take it off," he continued.
"ExCUSE me?" Kagome asked impatiently, despite herself.
"That." He indicated the strip of white ribbon that held her long hair in a loose, low ponytail. "Take it off."
"Why should I?" She asked, suspiciously, before it dawned on her that, with her hair tied like that, she resembled someone. In fact, she had seen that particular someone only the day before, in the girls' comfort room.
A vein broke out at Kagome's temple. "Why?" she shot back, not bothering to hide the fact that she was on to him. "Because I look like Kitahara Kikyou when I tie my hair back?"
That effectively reduced Inu Yasha to a string of incoherent "Wha--? How--?"
He recovered quickly, though. "IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH HER AT ALL!!!" He bellowed.
Myouga-sensei was instantly at their side. "You two, get out of the classroom. NOW!"
"T--temo, sensei! The experiment!" Kagome gasped, aghast.
"And you will not return until you learn how to behave properly in a laboratory," finished Myouga-sensei with finality.
"Now look what you've done!" accused Kagome when they were outside the classroom.
"Hmph!" Inu Yasha said, stuffing his hands deep into the pockets of his lab coat and leaning back on the wall.
"You…you are so…" Kagome began furiously, wondering how this person can repeatedly reduce her to a state beyond words. "You're so…UNCUTE! And totally UNCOOL!"
Inu Yasha gave her a lidded look, plainly evident that he could not care less.
"No wonder Kikyou wouldn't give you the time of day, considering you're totally uncivilized, and…and…"
That hit home.
"How," he growled low in his throat, "did you come across that?"
"Aha!" declared Kagome. "So it is true!"
"I never said so!" He shouted. "What I want to know is how you managed to link me with that…that…girl?!"
It was Kagome's turn to gloat. "Feh! It's not exactly a secret in the school how much you hate each other."
Inu Yasha found he could not say anything to that.
After a moment of silence, Kagome's curiosity got the better of her, and she said, "well? Is it true or not that you used to go out with her?"
"Enough!" erupted Inu Yasha. "I don't intend to tell you anything because it's none of your business, so stop asking!"
"Well, I will if you stop being mean to me just because I look like her!" returned Kagome.
"Feh!" Inu Yasha turned away.
Kagome glared at him for a minute or two before shaking her head and turning her attention onto the window and the lawn outside.
She sighed. The guy was impossible, but what he said was true; it was none of her business. It's just that she wasn't used to people hating her at first sight. Since coming to this school, she could feel her world had gone upside down just because of this one person. It was totally unfair.
Inu Yasha heard her sigh, and caught himself stealing a look at the girl. She didn't see him--she was too busy looking out the window. And as much as he wanted to look away, he found that he could not do so.
So alike…why did they have to look so alike…? He wondered.
But no answer was forthcoming, and nothing was resolved as the school bell rang to usher in the second period.
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During break time, Kagome accompanied Sango to the second floor, and as they left their tiny world behind to enter the sophomores' domain, she could understand why her friend was nervous.
But Sango had to deliver a parcel to Takagi-senpai, along with the paper listing the track team's scheduled activities so that she can be spared from having to present it to the office of the Central Student Council herself. And since Sango wasn't going to see the sophomore after classes, as they had no practice today, now's a good time as any to fulfill her task.
Kagome doubted if Sango would relish telling her why she didn't want to bother with the CSC, so Kagome kept her questions to herself.
Kagome stood a distance away as Sango went to a nearby door. Pretty soon, a tall boy came to meet her at the doorway, smiling. They spoke a few words, the parcel and paper exchanged hands, and Sango rejoined her, relieved, if not a little flushed.
"C'mon, let's get out of here," said Sango, hurriedly.
But they were not fast enough.
"Sango," said a voice from behind her.
Kagome stared as Sango froze like a little rabbit.
Fukuzawa Miroku approached at his leisure, wearing a serene, pleasant smile.
"Imagine seeing you here, along with Higurashi," he declared, nodding at Kagome, politely.
If Sango had looked flushed after meeting Takagi, it was nothing compared to how she was looking now. And seeing her blush, Kagome could not help but feel another question budding in mind.
"Been to see someone?" inquired Fukuzawa casually.
"Hai," said Sango, almost defiantly.
"Takagi?" It was more of a statement than a question.
"Hai."
"You sure you don't have anybody else in mind you'd like to visit?" He asked, teasingly.
Kagome felt her jaw drop, and watched as Sango's face flared to a deep, deep red at those words.
"NO!" She said, sharply and with something suspiciously close to panic, and grabbing Kagome by the arm, ran for it down the stairs.
When they were safely back on their floor, Sango exploded.
"That…CREEP!" She stormed, shaking. "How dare he insinuate that I…that he…!"
"Sango-chan…!" cried Kagome, slightly alarmed.
Sango forced herself to be calm. After a few deep breaths, she said shortly, "I'm alright, Kagome. I'm sorry you had to be dragged into that. You go on ahead, okay? I'll just go to the girls' room…"
Kagome watched her go, feeling apprehension mixed with a little bit of amusement. If his words were anything to go by, could it be that Fukuzawa-senpai had a thing for Sango? And yet, Sango did not seem to appreciate his attention at all.
Too bad, though, Kagome thought. They look cute together.
A tap on her shoulder, and then suddenly she was being wheeled around and frog-marched out of the building.
"H--hey!" cried Kagome, turning her head to see who it was who was steering her from behind.
"Hi ya, sis!" cried a boy with the Mohawk hairstyle.
"YOU TWO AGAIN!!!"
"Don't fret, sis--we're just carrying out orders. Somebody just wants to meet you," he said, gleefully.
"Yeah, don't worry--we ain't going to hurt you, promise!" piped in his companion, from yesterday.
"Let me go!"
They were outside now, and there, leaning on the railings near the stone steps, was a boy with long dark hair tied in a ponytail. He looked like he just got out of an injury, as a roll of bandage was still wrapped around his forehead and temples. He wasn't bad-looking, either, although there was a fierce look to his light blue eyes.
He straightened when he saw Kagome and came around her.
"Hehehe…here she is, boss," announced his henchmen.
"What do you think you're doing? I told you to escort her out, not frighten her!" He said savagely.
The two shrunk away.
"I--I wasn't scared," Kagome said, careful not to get too close to this weirdo.
"I must apologize if they did," he said slowly.
"I told you I didn't get scared."
"Oh."
An awkward silence ensued. The boy started pacing around her, taking her in.
Kagome could feel her brows twitching. What is this…?
"What do you want from me?" she ventured.
He stuck his hand out. "My name's Kouga. Kouga Shizuki."
"Hi--Higurashi Kagome," said Kagome as she let him shake her hand vigorously. This was turning out to be a very strange meeting, indeed.
"Higurashi--" he said, and trailed off into silence again.
Kagome took back her hand, watching him uncertainly.
"Higurashi--I've been thinking…"
"Feh! Since when were you capable of that?"
That voice…!
Startled, Kouga whipped around.
"Y--You!" he said.
Kagome took a peek past Kouga.
True enough, Inu Yasha was there, standing a few feet behind Kouga, his hands in his pockets, surveying the whole scene with a dangerous smile.
"What are you doing here, you dog?" growled Kouga.
"What are you doing with her?" Inu Yasha indicated Kagome with a jerk of his head. "I reckon she's not here by her choice."
"Who's she to you?" snapped Kouga, then stopped as if a new and startling thought just occurred to him.
"You wouldn't have known we're here unless you followed her…" began Kouga slowly, as if putting the pieces of a puzzle together and coming up with a picture he didn't like. "And then there was that thing yesterday when you drove my kouhai away from her…"
Kagome stared at him, not sure what he was driving at.
"You've…you've been looking after her, haven't you?" Kouga seemed to find this all very meaningful, in a horrible way. " Who is she--don't tell me she's YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!!"
Kagome stiffened at that remark, a look of utter disbelief on her face. So did Inu Yasha. But it lasted only a moment.
"Hah!" said Inu Yasha with a smirk, his eyes closed derisively and a hand on his chin. "I don't know how you arrived at that thought, but you'd better have your head checked, you IDIOT!!!"
Kouga took a step back.
"There's no way," said Inu Yasha, furiously, "that THAT girl could possibly be my girlfriend!"
This, with a jab at Kagome's direction.
"She's…she's just my Science Lab partner!" He finished somewhat lamely.
"Then what're you doing here?" replied Kouga coolly.
Kagome had had enough.
"That's right," she ground out. "Inu Yasha could not possibly be my boyfriend! He's got somebody else he likes! Or rather despises! Or whatever! And if that's the only thing you want to know, you've got your answer! I'd like to go back in now."
She stalked past the two guys.
"Hey, wait a minute!" Inu Yasha and Kougai said, almost simultaneously. But Inu Yasha chose to follow her inside.
"HEY!! Where are you going?!"
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"HEY!!"
"Go away!" Kagome snapped.
"What did Kouga want from you?" Inu Yasha wanted to know, catching up.
"How should I know?" Kagome hurled at him. "You very conveniently showed up!"
"He was checking you out, wasn't he!"
Kagome stopped and eyed him with misgiving.
"…So what if he was?" she replied.
Inu Yasha could not believe his ears. "You mean you don't mind associating with riffraff like that?!" He said, incredulously.
"You'd find this hard to believe, Inu Yasha," said Kagome quite coolly, "but he's got better manners than you can possibly have."
With that she walked away, leaving a stunned Inu Yasha to stand there and make sense of the mess of it all.
"Y--you…BAKA!" was the only thing he could say.
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So unfair…this is just so unfair!!!! Kagome groaned inwardly as the school day ended and once again, she was going across the lawn with Sango on the way out of the campus.
Of course, it didn't help her any when she told Sango what happened and Sango told her Kouga and Inu Yasha were enemies, and that they regularly got into nasty brawls. The last fight, it turned out, had left Kouga with a nasty cut on his head and suspension for Inu Yasha.
"Well, at least…at least, he went after you," said Sango, trying hopelessly to salvage the situation and cheer Kagome up. "At least nothing happened between you and Kouga…right?"
Kagome let out a weary sigh. From day one, no matter how much she tried to steer away from Inu Yasha, why was it she felt she was inevitably being sucked back up into his world?
Kami-sama, what did I ever do to merit this kind of punishment?
"You'd better be careful, Kagome-chan," warned Sango. "Kouga might think that you're…you know, attached to Inu Yasha. Maybe that was why he was checking you out."
Kagome shook her head. Somehow, she didn't quite think Kouga would be that ruthless.
"If you want to know the truth, Sango-chan," said Kagome, "he's more likeable than Inu Yasha."
"Really?" Sango asked, wide-eyed.
"And speaking of the devil…" Kagome muttered.
There right before them, was the familiar figure with long, white hair, his back to them.
"I thought we left him behind in the building," said Sango.
"Hey, Inu Yasha!" called Kagome, resentfully before she could stop herself.
It didn't seem right that he should leave school today without being given a full account of what he did to make her day lousy. That could help ease her misery a bit…
"Hey, wait…Kagome, that's…" Sango began.
They saw the guy go still ever so slightly at the sound of that name, and it was only when he turned that Kagome realized he was not Inu Yasha…
by Nana
Chapter 6
His World
Neither girl felt like talking the next day. Sango, for reasons which she did not divulge, sat in a corner of the classroom, trapped firmly in her own world. She would frequently sigh, and sometimes, a spasm of rage would cross her melancholy features, making Kagome think twice about asking her what was wrong.
For Kagome's part, it was a shock for her to discover that they were going to have back-to-back periods of Science Lab first thing in the morning.
"Why~~~~?" She wailed, inwardly as the session started.
And to be expected, Inu Yasha was not helping things at all.
He had gotten over being silent (Kagome doubted very much if that was in his nature, to begin with), but at the rate he was going, Kagome wished he would just revert to his silent nastiness the day before.
After being addressed alternately as "Hey", "Oy", and "Hey, you" for the fifth time, Kagome turned her back stiffly on her partner, concentrating in mixing reagent X with the appropriate buffer.
"Hey, you!" Inu Yasha called again, annoyed. "Did you hear what I just said?"
Kagome shot him a look that effectively made him freeze.
"My name," she said, frigidly. "Is Higurashi. If you haven't gotten that name past that thick skull of yours, don't even bother talking to me. Don't talk to me, or look at me, or even do so much as get near me, OKAY?"
Inu Yasha looked taken aback, before rallying with "FEH! WHO WANTS TO, ANYWAY???"
"Inu Yasha, if you cannot keep quiet, I suggest you go out of the classroom," called Myouga-sensei from across the lab.
Inu Yasha shot the elderly teacher a look of undisguised loathing before sitting down to glare at the boiling contents of the beaker before him.
Kagome watched him from the corner of her eye, fuming. "He really thinks he looks SOOOO cool, playing the angry rebel, doesn't he?" She thought. "Well, he looks extremely baka, and I'm not going to let him get away with it!"
She finished preparing the solution, and made her way to the boiling beaker, adding the specified number of drops indicated in the manual. She made it a point to ignore him, although she could sense him watching her.
"Oy," he said a moment later.
Her first impulse was to hurl the boiling beaker and its contents onto his face. She restrained herself.
"Take it off," he continued.
"ExCUSE me?" Kagome asked impatiently, despite herself.
"That." He indicated the strip of white ribbon that held her long hair in a loose, low ponytail. "Take it off."
"Why should I?" She asked, suspiciously, before it dawned on her that, with her hair tied like that, she resembled someone. In fact, she had seen that particular someone only the day before, in the girls' comfort room.
A vein broke out at Kagome's temple. "Why?" she shot back, not bothering to hide the fact that she was on to him. "Because I look like Kitahara Kikyou when I tie my hair back?"
That effectively reduced Inu Yasha to a string of incoherent "Wha--? How--?"
He recovered quickly, though. "IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH HER AT ALL!!!" He bellowed.
Myouga-sensei was instantly at their side. "You two, get out of the classroom. NOW!"
"T--temo, sensei! The experiment!" Kagome gasped, aghast.
"And you will not return until you learn how to behave properly in a laboratory," finished Myouga-sensei with finality.
"Now look what you've done!" accused Kagome when they were outside the classroom.
"Hmph!" Inu Yasha said, stuffing his hands deep into the pockets of his lab coat and leaning back on the wall.
"You…you are so…" Kagome began furiously, wondering how this person can repeatedly reduce her to a state beyond words. "You're so…UNCUTE! And totally UNCOOL!"
Inu Yasha gave her a lidded look, plainly evident that he could not care less.
"No wonder Kikyou wouldn't give you the time of day, considering you're totally uncivilized, and…and…"
That hit home.
"How," he growled low in his throat, "did you come across that?"
"Aha!" declared Kagome. "So it is true!"
"I never said so!" He shouted. "What I want to know is how you managed to link me with that…that…girl?!"
It was Kagome's turn to gloat. "Feh! It's not exactly a secret in the school how much you hate each other."
Inu Yasha found he could not say anything to that.
After a moment of silence, Kagome's curiosity got the better of her, and she said, "well? Is it true or not that you used to go out with her?"
"Enough!" erupted Inu Yasha. "I don't intend to tell you anything because it's none of your business, so stop asking!"
"Well, I will if you stop being mean to me just because I look like her!" returned Kagome.
"Feh!" Inu Yasha turned away.
Kagome glared at him for a minute or two before shaking her head and turning her attention onto the window and the lawn outside.
She sighed. The guy was impossible, but what he said was true; it was none of her business. It's just that she wasn't used to people hating her at first sight. Since coming to this school, she could feel her world had gone upside down just because of this one person. It was totally unfair.
Inu Yasha heard her sigh, and caught himself stealing a look at the girl. She didn't see him--she was too busy looking out the window. And as much as he wanted to look away, he found that he could not do so.
So alike…why did they have to look so alike…? He wondered.
But no answer was forthcoming, and nothing was resolved as the school bell rang to usher in the second period.
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During break time, Kagome accompanied Sango to the second floor, and as they left their tiny world behind to enter the sophomores' domain, she could understand why her friend was nervous.
But Sango had to deliver a parcel to Takagi-senpai, along with the paper listing the track team's scheduled activities so that she can be spared from having to present it to the office of the Central Student Council herself. And since Sango wasn't going to see the sophomore after classes, as they had no practice today, now's a good time as any to fulfill her task.
Kagome doubted if Sango would relish telling her why she didn't want to bother with the CSC, so Kagome kept her questions to herself.
Kagome stood a distance away as Sango went to a nearby door. Pretty soon, a tall boy came to meet her at the doorway, smiling. They spoke a few words, the parcel and paper exchanged hands, and Sango rejoined her, relieved, if not a little flushed.
"C'mon, let's get out of here," said Sango, hurriedly.
But they were not fast enough.
"Sango," said a voice from behind her.
Kagome stared as Sango froze like a little rabbit.
Fukuzawa Miroku approached at his leisure, wearing a serene, pleasant smile.
"Imagine seeing you here, along with Higurashi," he declared, nodding at Kagome, politely.
If Sango had looked flushed after meeting Takagi, it was nothing compared to how she was looking now. And seeing her blush, Kagome could not help but feel another question budding in mind.
"Been to see someone?" inquired Fukuzawa casually.
"Hai," said Sango, almost defiantly.
"Takagi?" It was more of a statement than a question.
"Hai."
"You sure you don't have anybody else in mind you'd like to visit?" He asked, teasingly.
Kagome felt her jaw drop, and watched as Sango's face flared to a deep, deep red at those words.
"NO!" She said, sharply and with something suspiciously close to panic, and grabbing Kagome by the arm, ran for it down the stairs.
When they were safely back on their floor, Sango exploded.
"That…CREEP!" She stormed, shaking. "How dare he insinuate that I…that he…!"
"Sango-chan…!" cried Kagome, slightly alarmed.
Sango forced herself to be calm. After a few deep breaths, she said shortly, "I'm alright, Kagome. I'm sorry you had to be dragged into that. You go on ahead, okay? I'll just go to the girls' room…"
Kagome watched her go, feeling apprehension mixed with a little bit of amusement. If his words were anything to go by, could it be that Fukuzawa-senpai had a thing for Sango? And yet, Sango did not seem to appreciate his attention at all.
Too bad, though, Kagome thought. They look cute together.
A tap on her shoulder, and then suddenly she was being wheeled around and frog-marched out of the building.
"H--hey!" cried Kagome, turning her head to see who it was who was steering her from behind.
"Hi ya, sis!" cried a boy with the Mohawk hairstyle.
"YOU TWO AGAIN!!!"
"Don't fret, sis--we're just carrying out orders. Somebody just wants to meet you," he said, gleefully.
"Yeah, don't worry--we ain't going to hurt you, promise!" piped in his companion, from yesterday.
"Let me go!"
They were outside now, and there, leaning on the railings near the stone steps, was a boy with long dark hair tied in a ponytail. He looked like he just got out of an injury, as a roll of bandage was still wrapped around his forehead and temples. He wasn't bad-looking, either, although there was a fierce look to his light blue eyes.
He straightened when he saw Kagome and came around her.
"Hehehe…here she is, boss," announced his henchmen.
"What do you think you're doing? I told you to escort her out, not frighten her!" He said savagely.
The two shrunk away.
"I--I wasn't scared," Kagome said, careful not to get too close to this weirdo.
"I must apologize if they did," he said slowly.
"I told you I didn't get scared."
"Oh."
An awkward silence ensued. The boy started pacing around her, taking her in.
Kagome could feel her brows twitching. What is this…?
"What do you want from me?" she ventured.
He stuck his hand out. "My name's Kouga. Kouga Shizuki."
"Hi--Higurashi Kagome," said Kagome as she let him shake her hand vigorously. This was turning out to be a very strange meeting, indeed.
"Higurashi--" he said, and trailed off into silence again.
Kagome took back her hand, watching him uncertainly.
"Higurashi--I've been thinking…"
"Feh! Since when were you capable of that?"
That voice…!
Startled, Kouga whipped around.
"Y--You!" he said.
Kagome took a peek past Kouga.
True enough, Inu Yasha was there, standing a few feet behind Kouga, his hands in his pockets, surveying the whole scene with a dangerous smile.
"What are you doing here, you dog?" growled Kouga.
"What are you doing with her?" Inu Yasha indicated Kagome with a jerk of his head. "I reckon she's not here by her choice."
"Who's she to you?" snapped Kouga, then stopped as if a new and startling thought just occurred to him.
"You wouldn't have known we're here unless you followed her…" began Kouga slowly, as if putting the pieces of a puzzle together and coming up with a picture he didn't like. "And then there was that thing yesterday when you drove my kouhai away from her…"
Kagome stared at him, not sure what he was driving at.
"You've…you've been looking after her, haven't you?" Kouga seemed to find this all very meaningful, in a horrible way. " Who is she--don't tell me she's YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!!"
Kagome stiffened at that remark, a look of utter disbelief on her face. So did Inu Yasha. But it lasted only a moment.
"Hah!" said Inu Yasha with a smirk, his eyes closed derisively and a hand on his chin. "I don't know how you arrived at that thought, but you'd better have your head checked, you IDIOT!!!"
Kouga took a step back.
"There's no way," said Inu Yasha, furiously, "that THAT girl could possibly be my girlfriend!"
This, with a jab at Kagome's direction.
"She's…she's just my Science Lab partner!" He finished somewhat lamely.
"Then what're you doing here?" replied Kouga coolly.
Kagome had had enough.
"That's right," she ground out. "Inu Yasha could not possibly be my boyfriend! He's got somebody else he likes! Or rather despises! Or whatever! And if that's the only thing you want to know, you've got your answer! I'd like to go back in now."
She stalked past the two guys.
"Hey, wait a minute!" Inu Yasha and Kougai said, almost simultaneously. But Inu Yasha chose to follow her inside.
"HEY!! Where are you going?!"
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"HEY!!"
"Go away!" Kagome snapped.
"What did Kouga want from you?" Inu Yasha wanted to know, catching up.
"How should I know?" Kagome hurled at him. "You very conveniently showed up!"
"He was checking you out, wasn't he!"
Kagome stopped and eyed him with misgiving.
"…So what if he was?" she replied.
Inu Yasha could not believe his ears. "You mean you don't mind associating with riffraff like that?!" He said, incredulously.
"You'd find this hard to believe, Inu Yasha," said Kagome quite coolly, "but he's got better manners than you can possibly have."
With that she walked away, leaving a stunned Inu Yasha to stand there and make sense of the mess of it all.
"Y--you…BAKA!" was the only thing he could say.
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So unfair…this is just so unfair!!!! Kagome groaned inwardly as the school day ended and once again, she was going across the lawn with Sango on the way out of the campus.
Of course, it didn't help her any when she told Sango what happened and Sango told her Kouga and Inu Yasha were enemies, and that they regularly got into nasty brawls. The last fight, it turned out, had left Kouga with a nasty cut on his head and suspension for Inu Yasha.
"Well, at least…at least, he went after you," said Sango, trying hopelessly to salvage the situation and cheer Kagome up. "At least nothing happened between you and Kouga…right?"
Kagome let out a weary sigh. From day one, no matter how much she tried to steer away from Inu Yasha, why was it she felt she was inevitably being sucked back up into his world?
Kami-sama, what did I ever do to merit this kind of punishment?
"You'd better be careful, Kagome-chan," warned Sango. "Kouga might think that you're…you know, attached to Inu Yasha. Maybe that was why he was checking you out."
Kagome shook her head. Somehow, she didn't quite think Kouga would be that ruthless.
"If you want to know the truth, Sango-chan," said Kagome, "he's more likeable than Inu Yasha."
"Really?" Sango asked, wide-eyed.
"And speaking of the devil…" Kagome muttered.
There right before them, was the familiar figure with long, white hair, his back to them.
"I thought we left him behind in the building," said Sango.
"Hey, Inu Yasha!" called Kagome, resentfully before she could stop herself.
It didn't seem right that he should leave school today without being given a full account of what he did to make her day lousy. That could help ease her misery a bit…
"Hey, wait…Kagome, that's…" Sango began.
They saw the guy go still ever so slightly at the sound of that name, and it was only when he turned that Kagome realized he was not Inu Yasha…