Across Time Part 11
Sorry its taken so long people, I would have posted sooner but I was skiing Saturday and Sunday,
if you can call hurtling down a hill and praying you can control yourself long enough to slow down
skiing, and I didn't have time to put the finishing touches on the chapter. I know this is very
short but I promise a long chapter next time. Really I promise it will be.
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-I am Sango- I'm afraid the only convention I've been to was a Star Trek one. No, never cosplayed
though I did dress up as a Star Trek character. I can't say I'd want to dress up as anyone, its
not really my thing I guess, but I'd have to say... Miroku or Naraku for simply appearance reasons.
-Eikou- Yep that's the one. And no Toshio won't appear in this fic. The name was just recycled. Not
the same person.
-TaiChiMaster8989- Ehehe just saw it. Funniest part is when she asks him if he's going to stop
chasing girls.
-inuficcrzy- Shippo's in college and I don't have any plans for any guest visits to the high school.
No I never said where Inuyasha's been in the past 500 years. All in good time..
-Kei- Unfortunately I'm not an industry. I can't make things faster and longer. And the chapters
really aren't all that short. They're all at least above 2000 words. Longer waits generally= longer
chapters, unless I need to finish a scene before I end it and have a really good one liner at the
end.
-fuma-the-dragon-of-earth- Ehe care to tell me just what I could have done more of? Doesn't really
help if I guess :P.
-Amygurl- No its not about those who write requests on AT reviews. It was about them going to
another story without reading it to ask for updates of AT. You can beg all you want as long as its
on AT or atleast a fic that you've read and reviewed.
-nimerin- Hmm. Works fine for me, but its on my website if you need it and I'll email you it if you
can't get it to work.
-Lunar InuYasha
and
-KagomeResurected- Its fine guys. I don't hate anyone, I can't for some reason
even if wanted to, which I don't. Just please keep requests to fics that you read and review first.
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Kagome stood impatiently in front of the shut door to Inuyasha's office, two words which she
had given up hope of ever hearing together. She shifted her bag to her other shoulder as the last
hopeful girl finally departed from waiting with her. Even her 'loyal' friends had taken off after
twenty minutes and no signs of life. Kagome glanced over at the clock attacked to the far wall of
the gymnasium. 3:50 it read. 'He has to come out of there some time." Kagome thought as she returned
her gaze to the closed and windowless door. Kagome waited for another few moments before looking
around the gym to make sure there weren't any hidden stalkers waiting to pounce.
Seeing no one any where in sight, Kagome moved to the door and knocked. She and many others
had tried this before but perhaps now Inuyasha would answer. "Inu- er Mr. Shiro?" Kagome called.
There came no answer from inside, though the sound of a whistling janitor in the distance greeted
her. If he didn't come out soon, he'd be locked in here for the night. 'Well if he won't come out,
I'll just go get him.' Kagome decided. She reached for the doorknob, but pulled away slightly at the
last second. It was kind of ominous to be doing this. Even though the room was now occupied by
Inuyasha, Mr. Takashi's office was a bit of a legend in the school. She had seldom heard of a student
entering it. Mr. Takashi preferred to give his verbal beatings to offenders in front of the class.
Only the worst of the worst had ever been taken inside, and they had stepped out later quite reformed,
for the day at least.
Kagome sighed and shook her head. This was silly, it wasn't like it was a torture chamber or
anything, right? Kagome reached the rest of the way and turned the knob. "Mr Shiro? Could I talk..to..
you?" As the door opened, Kagome found the room to be quite neat, with a new file cabinet in the corner
and a large brown desk in the middle of the room completely sparse of decoration, and quite empty as
well. In the rear of the white wallpapered room was another door, ajar and leading to the outside of
the school....
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When Kagome arrived at Inuyasha's home she found the gate unlocked for her. As she entered
into the walled yard she heard a testy voice from beside her. "Where the hell have you been?" Once
again Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin. "Would you stop doing that!" Inuyasha ignored the comment.
"Where have you been? I've been waiting." he said grumpily. "YOU'VE been waiting!?" That was the straw
that broke the tanuki's back. "Sit!" The rosary glowed and Inuyasha crashed into the ground with a
thud muffled by the thick grass.
Ok, so maybe the first one last week had been a welcome thing but that didn't mean he wanted
to get back into the habit of sits. "Damn it what was that for!?" Came the hanyou's unamused response.
"For making me wait for nearly an hour outside the office! Everyone thought you were in there!"
Inuyasha snorted, though regretted it as he was still face down. "Keh, I left two hours ago once all
the classes were done." He grunted as he pulled himself to his feet and brushed off his face, scowling
the whole time.
Kagome's eyes widened slightly. "You can't do that! Teacher's have to stay the entire school
day!" Inuyasha smirked. "Ha! So you accept that I'm your teacher now?" he asked, poking her on the
nose with his claw. Kagome rubbed her nose gently. It seemed Inuyasha had changed even less than the
little she had thought. "No, and we need to talk about that. Why in the world are you a substitute
teacher of all things? How could you have even got hired? There is no way you are qualified!" It
was then that Shippo made his luckless entrance into the yard in his human form. He jumped slightly
at the sight of Kagome on the rampage and gulped as she turned towards him. "Uh-Hi Kagome." He said
nervously, inching around her towards the house. Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Well this explains a lot."
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"There's no question, you have to resign today before something happens!" Kagome exclaimed
after getting the details of Shippo's forgery and dispensing a nice lecture to the two, more to
blow off some frustration than anything. "He can't." replied Shippo from where he was sitting
cross legged in shame at their short table. "The contract says that he must fufill his time unless
a major emergency or injury occurs. And besides, even if he could that might get people to look
harder into his background and my work can only last under so much scrutiny."
Kagome shot him an look that told him she was clearly unsatisfied with his response and the
poor boy cringed slightly. Inuyasha returned from the kitchen carrying a teapot and several cups.
Kagome looked a bit surprised as he sat back down, not even having noticed his absence. Shippo
gestured to the tea with the cup he took and Kagome politely declined. "There has to be something you
can do. Today was easy, but it's not going to be like that every day! Tomorrow we have a test and
there are sports you have to play with the class and exercise days. Do you even no what to do with a
test after they turn them in? You use an answer sheet to check all the answers and then divide the
right answers by the total number." Kagome sighed and sat down at the table. She decided to change
her mind about the tea and took the third cup, drinking half of it down at once. Inuyasha smirked.
"How hard could it be?"
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Inuyasha was starting to see just how hard it could be the next day. Things had gone fine
at first. On Kagome's insistence (and the fact that she had to sit close to look) he had opened the
file to see what was needed for tommorow. It had turned out that there was one copy of the test in
the file cabinet at school that had to be copied for all the students in a labeled folder in Mr.
Takashi's cabinet. The following day Inuyasha proceeded to obtain the test and copy it the correct
number of times, though the teacher lounge would possibly need a new copier.
After lunch, where he had found himself getting quite a few more hello's from the girls that
had been less courageous yesterday, the roll call went by without any jokers though the five minutes
of running had been less efficient as several girls (and to his discomfort one boy) had tried
Kagome's tactic of trying to talk to him while everyone else ran. Then came the dreaded, almighty
test that Inuyasha had once listened about in annoyance all of those years ago. There were, of
course, no desks in the gym so the students had simply sat on the floor. Strangely, a large number of
girls (and that boy again...) had seemed to have forgotten to bring a pencil to class for the test.
Luckily, Inuyasha had found a box of pencils specifically for this purpose in Takashi's
office and had distributed them to those who had asked, though had sworn a few had come up twice.
And so the rest of his classes had passed with ease until the last class had exited and had left
him with nothing to do but grade the tests, forbidden by Kagome to leave until the last bell.
"Damn." he growled as he stood in the middle of a office that appeared to have been raided
after Inuyasha had turned it upside down in search of the fabled grade sheet. "Where the hell is
it?" he asked himself as he kicked aside a few papers laying on the ground and made his way back
to the ransacked desk. He plopped into the chair and kicked the desk in annoyance, making it slide
a few inches across the carpet floor and crushing a folder under one of its legs. He looked down
at the accursed stack of tests and grabbed the top one none too gently.
'How the hell can you have a test in this class anyways?' he thought as he glanced down
at the first side of the sheet. Maybe he'd be able to wing the whole thing. The questions should
be pretty obvious..
1) Approximately how much of your energy should come from Carbohydrates?
A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 60%
D) 80%
2) Define metabolism
3) Name five exercises to build pectoral muscles.
4) During running, approximately how many calories are burnt in 10 minutes?
A) 5
B) 10
C) 15
D) 20
5) Write a short paragraph on the benefits of regular exercise.
Inuyasha resisted the urge to shred the whole stack of them. He was completely screwed.
Later, Inuyasha, who was leaning back in his chair with his feet resting on the stack of tests
stacked on the desk, heard a knock from the door he had used to escape yesterday. "Mr. Shiro?"
Inuyasha recognized it as Kagome's voice. Inuyasha glanced at the clock on the wall, perhaps the
only unmolested thing in the entire room. It read 3:20, school was out.
Inuyasha nearly fell out of his chair. Kagome was going to kill him, or make him the first
being to reach the center of the planet depending which came first, if she saw all of this. "Damn,
damn, damn." he hissed as he stood up and grabbed the ungraded tests and stuffed them into the red
folder. "Mr. Shiro?" came Kagome's voice again. "What?" he asked a little more gruffly than he had
intended as he yanked open the door. Kagome looked a little taken aback by his response and Inuyasha
began to feel the gnawing guilt that always had plauged him when he had hurt her feelings. Inuyasha
saw her eyes begin to wander from him to the destroyed room behind him.
Inuyasha grunted what might have been an apology as he quickly exited and slammed the door
behind him before Kagome could fully comprehend the destruction he had caused. "So.." Kagome said,
as she glanced at the closed door. "How did the grading go?" A small sweatdrop appeared on Inuyasha's
head. "Keh, no problem."
Unknown to the two, in the distance three pairs of eyes were watching them from behind a
bush. "See! I told you there was something up when Kagome said she had to stay after school!" said
Yuka. "I. Don't. believe it! She's walking with Mr. Shiro and they're talking!" Said Ayumi
dramatically. "How could she not tell us, her best friends? "Everyone knows that five is company after
all." said Eri. Yuka scratched her head. "I wonder if she knows him from somewhere. Maybe she's
related." "That would be great! She could introduce me to him!" gushed Ayumi, who was ignored by
the other two girls. "Lets follow and see where they go." said Yuka.
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Yes I know, short. I promise a long chapter, by AT standards, next time so go easy. I cut them off
where it feels right.
Sorry its taken so long people, I would have posted sooner but I was skiing Saturday and Sunday,
if you can call hurtling down a hill and praying you can control yourself long enough to slow down
skiing, and I didn't have time to put the finishing touches on the chapter. I know this is very
short but I promise a long chapter next time. Really I promise it will be.
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-I am Sango- I'm afraid the only convention I've been to was a Star Trek one. No, never cosplayed
though I did dress up as a Star Trek character. I can't say I'd want to dress up as anyone, its
not really my thing I guess, but I'd have to say... Miroku or Naraku for simply appearance reasons.
-Eikou- Yep that's the one. And no Toshio won't appear in this fic. The name was just recycled. Not
the same person.
-TaiChiMaster8989- Ehehe just saw it. Funniest part is when she asks him if he's going to stop
chasing girls.
-inuficcrzy- Shippo's in college and I don't have any plans for any guest visits to the high school.
No I never said where Inuyasha's been in the past 500 years. All in good time..
-Kei- Unfortunately I'm not an industry. I can't make things faster and longer. And the chapters
really aren't all that short. They're all at least above 2000 words. Longer waits generally= longer
chapters, unless I need to finish a scene before I end it and have a really good one liner at the
end.
-fuma-the-dragon-of-earth- Ehe care to tell me just what I could have done more of? Doesn't really
help if I guess :P.
-Amygurl- No its not about those who write requests on AT reviews. It was about them going to
another story without reading it to ask for updates of AT. You can beg all you want as long as its
on AT or atleast a fic that you've read and reviewed.
-nimerin- Hmm. Works fine for me, but its on my website if you need it and I'll email you it if you
can't get it to work.
-Lunar InuYasha
and
-KagomeResurected- Its fine guys. I don't hate anyone, I can't for some reason
even if wanted to, which I don't. Just please keep requests to fics that you read and review first.
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Kagome stood impatiently in front of the shut door to Inuyasha's office, two words which she
had given up hope of ever hearing together. She shifted her bag to her other shoulder as the last
hopeful girl finally departed from waiting with her. Even her 'loyal' friends had taken off after
twenty minutes and no signs of life. Kagome glanced over at the clock attacked to the far wall of
the gymnasium. 3:50 it read. 'He has to come out of there some time." Kagome thought as she returned
her gaze to the closed and windowless door. Kagome waited for another few moments before looking
around the gym to make sure there weren't any hidden stalkers waiting to pounce.
Seeing no one any where in sight, Kagome moved to the door and knocked. She and many others
had tried this before but perhaps now Inuyasha would answer. "Inu- er Mr. Shiro?" Kagome called.
There came no answer from inside, though the sound of a whistling janitor in the distance greeted
her. If he didn't come out soon, he'd be locked in here for the night. 'Well if he won't come out,
I'll just go get him.' Kagome decided. She reached for the doorknob, but pulled away slightly at the
last second. It was kind of ominous to be doing this. Even though the room was now occupied by
Inuyasha, Mr. Takashi's office was a bit of a legend in the school. She had seldom heard of a student
entering it. Mr. Takashi preferred to give his verbal beatings to offenders in front of the class.
Only the worst of the worst had ever been taken inside, and they had stepped out later quite reformed,
for the day at least.
Kagome sighed and shook her head. This was silly, it wasn't like it was a torture chamber or
anything, right? Kagome reached the rest of the way and turned the knob. "Mr Shiro? Could I talk..to..
you?" As the door opened, Kagome found the room to be quite neat, with a new file cabinet in the corner
and a large brown desk in the middle of the room completely sparse of decoration, and quite empty as
well. In the rear of the white wallpapered room was another door, ajar and leading to the outside of
the school....
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When Kagome arrived at Inuyasha's home she found the gate unlocked for her. As she entered
into the walled yard she heard a testy voice from beside her. "Where the hell have you been?" Once
again Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin. "Would you stop doing that!" Inuyasha ignored the comment.
"Where have you been? I've been waiting." he said grumpily. "YOU'VE been waiting!?" That was the straw
that broke the tanuki's back. "Sit!" The rosary glowed and Inuyasha crashed into the ground with a
thud muffled by the thick grass.
Ok, so maybe the first one last week had been a welcome thing but that didn't mean he wanted
to get back into the habit of sits. "Damn it what was that for!?" Came the hanyou's unamused response.
"For making me wait for nearly an hour outside the office! Everyone thought you were in there!"
Inuyasha snorted, though regretted it as he was still face down. "Keh, I left two hours ago once all
the classes were done." He grunted as he pulled himself to his feet and brushed off his face, scowling
the whole time.
Kagome's eyes widened slightly. "You can't do that! Teacher's have to stay the entire school
day!" Inuyasha smirked. "Ha! So you accept that I'm your teacher now?" he asked, poking her on the
nose with his claw. Kagome rubbed her nose gently. It seemed Inuyasha had changed even less than the
little she had thought. "No, and we need to talk about that. Why in the world are you a substitute
teacher of all things? How could you have even got hired? There is no way you are qualified!" It
was then that Shippo made his luckless entrance into the yard in his human form. He jumped slightly
at the sight of Kagome on the rampage and gulped as she turned towards him. "Uh-Hi Kagome." He said
nervously, inching around her towards the house. Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Well this explains a lot."
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"There's no question, you have to resign today before something happens!" Kagome exclaimed
after getting the details of Shippo's forgery and dispensing a nice lecture to the two, more to
blow off some frustration than anything. "He can't." replied Shippo from where he was sitting
cross legged in shame at their short table. "The contract says that he must fufill his time unless
a major emergency or injury occurs. And besides, even if he could that might get people to look
harder into his background and my work can only last under so much scrutiny."
Kagome shot him an look that told him she was clearly unsatisfied with his response and the
poor boy cringed slightly. Inuyasha returned from the kitchen carrying a teapot and several cups.
Kagome looked a bit surprised as he sat back down, not even having noticed his absence. Shippo
gestured to the tea with the cup he took and Kagome politely declined. "There has to be something you
can do. Today was easy, but it's not going to be like that every day! Tomorrow we have a test and
there are sports you have to play with the class and exercise days. Do you even no what to do with a
test after they turn them in? You use an answer sheet to check all the answers and then divide the
right answers by the total number." Kagome sighed and sat down at the table. She decided to change
her mind about the tea and took the third cup, drinking half of it down at once. Inuyasha smirked.
"How hard could it be?"
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Inuyasha was starting to see just how hard it could be the next day. Things had gone fine
at first. On Kagome's insistence (and the fact that she had to sit close to look) he had opened the
file to see what was needed for tommorow. It had turned out that there was one copy of the test in
the file cabinet at school that had to be copied for all the students in a labeled folder in Mr.
Takashi's cabinet. The following day Inuyasha proceeded to obtain the test and copy it the correct
number of times, though the teacher lounge would possibly need a new copier.
After lunch, where he had found himself getting quite a few more hello's from the girls that
had been less courageous yesterday, the roll call went by without any jokers though the five minutes
of running had been less efficient as several girls (and to his discomfort one boy) had tried
Kagome's tactic of trying to talk to him while everyone else ran. Then came the dreaded, almighty
test that Inuyasha had once listened about in annoyance all of those years ago. There were, of
course, no desks in the gym so the students had simply sat on the floor. Strangely, a large number of
girls (and that boy again...) had seemed to have forgotten to bring a pencil to class for the test.
Luckily, Inuyasha had found a box of pencils specifically for this purpose in Takashi's
office and had distributed them to those who had asked, though had sworn a few had come up twice.
And so the rest of his classes had passed with ease until the last class had exited and had left
him with nothing to do but grade the tests, forbidden by Kagome to leave until the last bell.
"Damn." he growled as he stood in the middle of a office that appeared to have been raided
after Inuyasha had turned it upside down in search of the fabled grade sheet. "Where the hell is
it?" he asked himself as he kicked aside a few papers laying on the ground and made his way back
to the ransacked desk. He plopped into the chair and kicked the desk in annoyance, making it slide
a few inches across the carpet floor and crushing a folder under one of its legs. He looked down
at the accursed stack of tests and grabbed the top one none too gently.
'How the hell can you have a test in this class anyways?' he thought as he glanced down
at the first side of the sheet. Maybe he'd be able to wing the whole thing. The questions should
be pretty obvious..
1) Approximately how much of your energy should come from Carbohydrates?
A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 60%
D) 80%
2) Define metabolism
3) Name five exercises to build pectoral muscles.
4) During running, approximately how many calories are burnt in 10 minutes?
A) 5
B) 10
C) 15
D) 20
5) Write a short paragraph on the benefits of regular exercise.
Inuyasha resisted the urge to shred the whole stack of them. He was completely screwed.
Later, Inuyasha, who was leaning back in his chair with his feet resting on the stack of tests
stacked on the desk, heard a knock from the door he had used to escape yesterday. "Mr. Shiro?"
Inuyasha recognized it as Kagome's voice. Inuyasha glanced at the clock on the wall, perhaps the
only unmolested thing in the entire room. It read 3:20, school was out.
Inuyasha nearly fell out of his chair. Kagome was going to kill him, or make him the first
being to reach the center of the planet depending which came first, if she saw all of this. "Damn,
damn, damn." he hissed as he stood up and grabbed the ungraded tests and stuffed them into the red
folder. "Mr. Shiro?" came Kagome's voice again. "What?" he asked a little more gruffly than he had
intended as he yanked open the door. Kagome looked a little taken aback by his response and Inuyasha
began to feel the gnawing guilt that always had plauged him when he had hurt her feelings. Inuyasha
saw her eyes begin to wander from him to the destroyed room behind him.
Inuyasha grunted what might have been an apology as he quickly exited and slammed the door
behind him before Kagome could fully comprehend the destruction he had caused. "So.." Kagome said,
as she glanced at the closed door. "How did the grading go?" A small sweatdrop appeared on Inuyasha's
head. "Keh, no problem."
Unknown to the two, in the distance three pairs of eyes were watching them from behind a
bush. "See! I told you there was something up when Kagome said she had to stay after school!" said
Yuka. "I. Don't. believe it! She's walking with Mr. Shiro and they're talking!" Said Ayumi
dramatically. "How could she not tell us, her best friends? "Everyone knows that five is company after
all." said Eri. Yuka scratched her head. "I wonder if she knows him from somewhere. Maybe she's
related." "That would be great! She could introduce me to him!" gushed Ayumi, who was ignored by
the other two girls. "Lets follow and see where they go." said Yuka.
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Yes I know, short. I promise a long chapter, by AT standards, next time so go easy. I cut them off
where it feels right.