A/N: This is my second fanfic. I have to say that this has been on my mind for a while now, so…I hope you like it. Enjoy.
Brainery
Chapter 1
Kagome sighed softly; she was so tired. She bounced her head back on the seat before shifting her gaze to all the other people on this plane. It was filled with kids her age and children that barely reached her mid-thigh. Most children had a proof of "ownership," as she so eloquently dubbed it, strapped around their wrists, with their names, home addresses, and their destination on it. She wondered if their parents ever thought of sending them through FedEx or UPS…
Kagome groaned softly into her hand. How in the hell did she get convinced to do this? 'No, wait. It was all that conniving, daughter of a dachshund, called my mother!' She thought pissed. 'A present, she says! Tch-I wonder what she got dad for their anniversary!'
She turned slowly to the person sitting next to her when she felt the light pressure of head resting on her shoulder. Her lips quirked upwards when the silver haired child started to snore softly, his little puppy ears twitched every which way. She gently pushed him off to move the armrest between them, so he could lie more comfortably on her lap.
Earlier, it was so hard to keep him quiet and still enough to strap him in, but now…it was just so adorable. Actually most children were sleeping peacefully…in the aisles, on strangers laps, and the one that actually fell asleep on the toilet, which was quite a hilarious site. He fell asleep reaching for the toilet paper. One of the passengers had entertained the thought of taking a picture of him…
She turned her head to the seats across the aisle from her when she heard a loud groan and a, "I can't believe this is happening to me."
She giggled when the sight of a boy drooling all over on the person's thigh (in his sleep, no less), registered in her mind. The female redheaded wolf demon looked over, to glare at the amused ningen, laughing at her.
The female demon winced when she felt the gooey substance slip down her thigh, to the seat.
"Here, use this." The ningen passed her handkerchief to the grumbling Youkai. She accepted it begrudgingly, wiping off the clear liquid, before passing it back to the human girl.
Kagome waved it away from her, "No thanks, you can keep it." She said with a grimace. She giggled softly at the huff she got from the demon. She smiled slightly before extending out her hand to shake the wolf demon's unoccupied hand, the other one shifting the little boy up before placing the handkerchief under his open and still drooling mouth, "I'm Kagome and my partner for this flight is…Inuyasha, or so it says on his name tag." She said after lifting Inuyasha's wrist to get a closer look at the information it said on there.
Although she already knew his name, the wolf demon beside her acted as if she didn't know her own partner's name. Maybe she didn't? She didn't want to make her feel bad for being inconsiderate. Kagome softly laid it back under his chin before turning back to the female demon.
"Ayame, nice to meet you." The redhead looked over at the small boy on her lap, or more specifically his wrist. "This is Shippo."
"What part of Europe are you from?" Ayame asked. This flight was a one-way trip to America and it only left from one point. She had heard earlier that there were different flights around the world heading to the same destination. And considering that this particular airplane came from Europe and had come from no other place before Europe…
"I'm from Spain." Kagome responded. "And you?" She asked the wolf demon, absentmindedly running her hands through the hanyou's silky silver hair. The half-dog demon purred in response, shifting its position to rub his face gently against her stomach. Kagome only glanced at him before turning back to the other female.
"London. Although, I was born in Switzerland." Ayame's lips pulled into a frown and grimace at the familiar feeling of wetness between her thighs. This time, there were no stimulating activities…"Aw, man. It soaked through, it actually soaked through!" Ayame groaned before slapping a hand on her face.
She whimpered before growling softly, "That's it!" She shrieked. She stood up, mindful to put the smaller demon back on his chair (which he returned to just drooling over the arm rest) and grabbed the handkerchief from her upper thigh. She tried to get as much liquid off of her, before walking down the aisle. "I'll be back!" She threw over her shoulder at the laughing woman.
Kagome stirred Inuyasha awake. A stewardess had come back to explain that they were going to land in a couple of minutes, after the signal to buckle the seatbelts had come on awhile back.
She was actually reluctant to disturb his sleep. He just looks adorable, sleeping like a little angel. Although she doubted that he was the angel he looked once awake. The furry-eared hanyou awoke to his name being called softly.
His ears twitched and two amber colored eyes revealed themselves. He sat up and yawned, his little fangs gleaming in the soft light that the airplane provided them. She took a picture of him then. He tucked his legs in under him to move more easily and to get a better view of the earth below. Which was pretty close for his comfort.
Kagome leaned over to whisper softly in his ear, trying not to disturb other people from their naps. "We're almost there, so buckle up, okay?" She pulled back slightly to get his affirmative nod and pulled back all the way to buckle her own.
The stewardess walked down the aisle, every now and then stopping to tell some of the students on the plane to buckle up for the landing. Once she was satisfied, she went back behind the curtains, to seat herself in, Kagome assumed.
Kagome turned to Ayame, only to see her snoring and drooling…on herself. The hypocrite. And Shippo was back on her lap, somewhat strapped in awkwardly, the back of his head lying nestled in between Ayame's smooth thighs. No water came from his mouth…interesting. When one drooled the other stopped.
She pulled out her camera and took a quick snapshot picture of them...for future…reference. She turned around to see Inuyasha staring at her weird. She only put a finger to her lips, motioning for him to be quiet.
Her stomach lurched when the airplane descended to quickly for her tastes, but she was better prepared for the second one. 'Ugh…that's a horrible feeling.' She off-handedly thought.
She shoved Ayame awake when Inuyasha told her that he could see the road they were going to land on. It was a small strip of pavement, making her worry if they were actually supposed to land smoothly on that!
The small strip was heavily surrounded by trees and by an extremely large building surrounded by smaller buildings. Which she assumed was the school from the look of people milling about, inside what she thought was a schoolyard.
Upon closer inspection, she notice it was two closely connected buildings that from a higher view looked like a regular sized apartments, but from here…it looked to be an extraordinarily tall building, being about eighteen stories high each. 'That's probably where we'll live.' Kagome thought.
Inuyasha looked on with her. Smaller sized buildings were scattered around here and there. A playground nestled smack dab in the middle. And a barn was barely seen on the outskirts of the smaller buildings. The whole school alone looked to be on about twenty-four acres of lush green grass. And the surrounding forest…
"Wow…" Inuyasha said in a hushed whisper, there were probably people still taking naps. Kagome silently agreed with him. Actually, the students that were awake were making similar small murmurs of awe.
There were some other private jet planes parked near the barn, suitcases upon suitcases were being taken out, and the students were standing near to retrieve their items before walking over to the school.
Ayame was still grumbling over the hard shove. Her right hand was running up and down her left upper arm. 'Damn, that human sure has a hell of a punch!' She grinned; Kagome sure was interesting…for a human at least.
All students and stewardess settled back in their seats, when they felt the first tremor of the wheels landing. The airplane came to a stop after being parked to another plane.
People were unbuckling their seatbelts and standing up to get their stuff from the compartments above and Kagome and Ayame followed suit. The door opened and stairs were placed. Kagome grabbed onto Inuyasha, holding her satchel and his raincoat in the other hand. They followed closely behind Ayame and Shippo.
Once they reached the bottom they moved to where the other students were looking for their luggage. Ayame had agreed to get their luggage while Kagome, Inuyasha and Shippo stood just out of the way from people scurrying to get to the school.
"Hey! Is this one any of yours!" Ayame yelled over the other students, holding a black rolling suitcase over her head. Inuyasha nodded, yelling a "Yeah!" to make sure she knew.
A little later Ayame came strolling back, many suitcases in her hands and two rolling suitcases trailing behind her. The straps to them being strapped to her waist, and three carrying bags on each of her shoulders.
It was quite a load for her and Kagome was there to remove some of the bags teetering from her hands. They placed the bags and suitcases down and sorted them through each of them.
"I'll be back." Ayame said retreating to get the rest of the bags. She came back with two more rolling bags strapped on her waist and a little over six suitcases in her hands. With that done, they joined the rest with another school representative.
"All right! This is where I give you your keys to your new home." He flashed the handful of keys. "Now, if you want, you could join up another group to make it easier on me." He said flashing those pearly white teeth at us.
Immediately I felt Ayame grab my arm, tugging Shippo closer to us. I raised an eyebrow at her and looked down at Inuyasha to see his ears twitch comically. I stifled my laughter with a fake cough.
"The groups of two and more come on up."
Ayame dragged us to the front where almost instantly, the representative thrust to pairs of keys at us. "This is for floor eighteen, suite a, rooms one and two. Building number one." I took the keys from him and started to walk to the direction of the appointed building. There on the wall of the building had letters A through M and the second one had N through Z.
The third and the forth building were the exact same thing with buildings number one and two. The third had letters A through M and the fourth building, N through Z. The fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth buildings were on the other side of the campus.
Kagome only saw the first and second building from the airplane. Now, how was that possible?
The elevator ride was cramped, and when people had to get off it took a hell of a long time to get their luggage out. Now as they stepped into the suite, it was refreshing. On their left hand side there was a kitchen and a table only able to seat ten and on their right hand side there was a small hall leading to a living room with a TV and a small laptop in the corner. The couch was set in front of the television.
Another hall had the rooms on either side and at the end; there was a small bathroom. Which got Ayame more than disgruntled until she saw that her room led to a bathroom and which led to Kagome and Inuyasha's room.
Each room where set up the same way. Where a closet was installed in the wall on the far right side followed by a twin sized bed and a door that opened up to a beautiful terrace that ran around the floor without any breaks in between rooms. On the far left side it had another twin sized bed with another installed closet. There was a small working desk on the far left side, beside the closet. And on the far right side near the closet was the door that led to the bathroom.
Of course, for Ayame and Shippo's room it was the opposite, where the desk was on the far right side beside the closet and the desk on the far left.
Kagome and Inuyasha took room number one and Ayame and Shippo number two. Right next to Ayame's room was the third room and at the end of the hall: the bathroom. It worked the same way for the other side, except for the fact that it had no doors that led to the balcony.
In the kitchen there was a window above the sink and a door that led to the terrace next to the cabinets.
"There's one thing that's been bugging me," Ayame said from her reclined position on the couch. Kagome raised an eyebrow from the seat for the computer. They had gotten done unpacking their luggage and were now relaxing in the living room. "They said we'd only have to share with about two other groups, but we have six rooms." Inuyasha and Shippo came in from their respective rooms.
Surprisingly it was Shippo who answered. "That guy at the airport in Paris said we'd most likely share a suite with about two other groups from the same region." It was the first time Kagome heard him speak, and was cute? Hell yeah! "He never said there was only three rooms." He said, wagging his finger at Ayame in a condescending manner. He ducked from the pillow that came hurdling at him and stole a seat in front of Ayame on the floor.
Inuyasha came to seat on the floor next to Kagome. Ayame stood up stretching her back. "Let's go explore, yeah?" She suggested. Kagome rose to her feet and all four of them headed towards the elevator.
They stopped by the postal office; to check for anything they might have received. The only two that got mail were Shippo and Kagome. Shippo receiving just an envelope while Kagome got two big boxes and three thin ones. Ayame had to help with them, although they were coming back until they end of the tour to take them back to the suite.
"It says here that there's a little over thirty buildings, including the LRC or the Library Resource Center. The first level is actually underground. How cool is that!" Ayame said out loud.
"Hey, where'd you get that!" Shippo exclaimed pointing an accusing finger at the person that held out on them. Ayame waved her hand at him disinterestedly. "And those buildings over there, ya' know with the fence around them, that's where lil' Inuyasha and Shippo will be going in the mornings till the afternoon." She said ruffling their furry heads. Both boys looked at the three, three story buildings in interest.
"Will you walk me there in the mornings', 'Gome?" Inuyasha said softly, tugging on her blue shirt. Kagome only nodded in his direction, glaring at the whispering girls sneering in Inuyasha's direction. 'Those sniveling bitches!' She thought in anger. She wrapped her hand around his head bringing him closer to her hip and glared at the youkai girls.
Inuyasha looked confused and Kagome only gave him a gentle smile in return. She heard the growls that the youkai girls sent her and her hand went to her hip absentmindedly. 'You don't have the swords on you, you idiot!' She cursed herself, it's not as if she could actually carry them with her. Her lip pulled back in a silent snarl that got the youkai girls
raising their noses up in the air. 'As if they were superior…' She snorted mentally; she doubted that they could take her on with her thirteen years of experience in the art of the swords under her belt.
'Let them try…they'll regret approaching me or Inuyasha!'
Ayame raised her eyebrow because of Kagome's odd behavior, but when she looked in the direction Kagome's anger was and what the real problem was…it got her blood boiling. 'Calm is better to have in any situation…' She chided herself. Ayame embraced Kagome from behind, giving those youkai pups a fanged grin and a low (to low for human hearing) deadly growl in warning. Her rusty colored tail twitched belying her calmness and showing her true anger at those girls' ignorance. Her tail rested soothingly on Inuyasha's shoulder. Kagome's facial expression didn't change until those girls left.
"Ya' know, for a human, you ain't that bad." Ayame cheerful voice had Kagome relaxing her tense muscles. Inuyasha knew, he knew the consequences for being a half-demon, the hardships that he'd probably go through. Inuyasha's downcast features pulled at Kagome's heartstrings.
"They won't come near you, okay Inuyasha." Kagome drew him up for a hug and made him rest on her hip, supporting him under his bottom with her forearm and drawing him closer to her warmth. His shaking form drew Kagome's maternal instincts into high gear. "Hey," She called to him softly, lifting his chin up with her finger she ran it over his wet cheek, "I'll be there to protect you…you just call my name and I'll be there, okay?"
"That's right, if those bitches give you any trouble…you know Aya will be more than happy to take out the trash!" Shippo said in adorable voice that drew out a giggle from both Kagome and Ayame. "Her instincts will tell her to kick some serious ass to those who are messing with her pack! If she can't kick their ass, then I'll clean up Aya's sloppy work up!" At this, Ayame's eye twitched and her tail flicked in Shippo's direction.
Both Kagome and Inuyasha laughed loudly at their playful antics. 'As long as 'Gome's here with me…I'll be okay.' Inuyasha thought, gazing at Kagome with such admiration that he wondered if he'd ever look at his own parents like he was now.
"Yeah, right Shippo! Let's just get this tour over with. It rubs my fur the wrong way when I'm with liars for to long." She said, pointedly looking at Shippo. He just huffed and exclaimed loudly, "Your just jealous that my tail is more softer than yours!" He dashed off, Ayame on his heels.
Kagome gave Inuyasha a soft kiss on his brow, startling him and getting a surprised look from him, she settling him back down to his legs. "Don't worry about it." He nodded happily, his hand clasped firmly in Kagome's. They walked past the growling forms of Shippo and Ayame and continued on with the tour.
A/N: For those who wanted to know, Brainery does not have a definition, but if you look for Boarding School in a Thesaurus.
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-Celestial Fox