Highschool Dilemma

Chapter 3

Kagome opened her mouth to respond, but before she did the bell rang. Inuyasha and Miroku looked at each other. "Crap!" They both ran off so they wouldn't get caught. Sango was sitting with her back against the tree trunk, staring at the ground.

"Sango? Are you okay?" She looked up.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She sighed.

"Sorry for asking."

"It's okay, Kagome. I know you didn't mean to."

"Are you ready to go?"

"No. I'll sit here a while. You can go."

"No, I'm not leaving a fellow member of the Demon Syndicate behind." Sango looked up.

"So, you're joining us?"

"Yeah, but... I, sort of, have a question."

"What?" Sango said seriously.

"Will I have to kill anybody?" Sango dropped the serious face and smiled, even laughed softly.

"Inuyasha will be very good at protecting you. He's vowed to do it and he won't break his promises. Hell, Miroku and I will cover your back as well."

"Yeah right."

"He will. Trust me."

"Do you mind if I ask a more personal question?"

"Sure."

"Have you killed anyone?" Sango looked down and took a deep breath.

"Yeah, I've killed before."

"Do you regret it?"

"I regretted only one, but all of the others was in self defense. The one I regret- he was about to hit Miroku from behind. I didn't know what to do, but I attacked him before he got to Miroku. He died."

"Oh, I see." The bell rang telling them they were late for class.

"We're late now." Sango stated.

"I'm sure that we'll get away with it."

"How?" Kagome smiled mischievously. "I'm new, remember?" Sango laughed.

"You forgot where your locker was..." Kagome nodded.

"Well, let's go. If we're gone too long, they'll se right through it."

In Class:

Inuyasha and Miroku sat too far away from the girls to ask them what was going on. He looked over at Kagome and Sango. Sango looked back at him. Inuyasha scribbled something down on a piece of paper, wading it into a ball. He acted like he was going to scratch his back and threw the paper from behind his back. Sango caught it behind her back and brought it around to her front, smoothing it and setting it on her desk. Kagome, who was sitting next to Sango, peered over to see what it said. She could barely read the sloppy handwriting.

'Is she joining us?' Sango wrote back.

'No.' Kagome gave her a confused look but Sango shot her a look telling her not to worry. She threw it back. Inuyasha opened it. He, clearly, didn't like what he read. He wrote back and tossed it back.

'Why not? It'll be so much easier making sure Naraku doesn't get her.'

'I know, but she doesn't want to kill.'

'She won't have to. I'll protect her no matter what.' Sango smiled as she opened the note. Kagome leaned over and read it. She blushed.

'In that case, she accepts.' Inuyasha's face lightened up considerably. He looked over at the girls and smiled.

"Inuyasha? Quit flirting and pay attention." the teacher called from the front. Inuyasha growled at her, but acted like he was reading along in his book.

"Pst..." someone whispered from behind him. He glanced back.

"What?" she whispered to Miroku.

"Is she joining?" Inuyasha nodded. Miroku smiled.

"Yes!"

"Miroku." the teacher yelled from the front. Sango and Kagome laughed from the other side of the room, knowing what it was about.

After school, Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango met up by the tree. "So you decided to join us?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.

"Yeah."

"That's good. It'll be easier for us to watch your back with you in our group."

"I see."

"Kagome, have you ever handled any weapons?" Miroku asked.

"Yeah, I've done things like archery and hand-to-hand combat."

"Excellent. Would you mind showing us how you are on that?"

"Sure." Miroku thought for a second.

"Inuyasha, where should we practice at?"

"We can go to the club or one of our houses."

"Let's go to the club. Then, maybe, we'll show her your places."

"I forgot. The club is your home." Miroku muttered.

They twisted and turned down many alley ways. 'How am I going to remember where it's at?' Inuyasha and Miroku looked around.

"Okay, we're here." Kagome looked around.

"We're in the middle of an alleyway."

"Ah, but that's the disguise." Miroku said. Inuyasha walked over to a dumpster. He slid one side of the dumpster out, revealing a hole in the side of the building that it was next to. Sango went in first followed by Miroku.

"Go on in." Inuyasha said, Kagome went inside the hole. Inuyasha followed behind her, pulling the dumpster shut. Kagome was surprised on the outside of the building it looked like an old abandoned warehouse. On the inside, it was fix up to where it was livable.

"Welcome to my home." Inuyasha said.

"You live here?" Kagome asked.

"Well, basically. Anyway, let me give you a pager and cell phone."

"Pager and cell phone?"

"Just in case of an emergency."

"Okay." Inuyasha walked into a back room. Sango looked at Kagome.

"You say your good in archery." Kagome nodded.

"Well, let's go practice." Sango walked Kagome to a room in the back. 'This must be their training room.' Kagome looked around. There was all sorts of weapons. Swords, knives, daggers, bows and arrows, staffs. In the corner was a huge boomerang. Kagome walked over to it.

"That's what I use." Sango said. Kagome looked at her surprised.

"How much does that weigh?" Sango shrugged.

"I don't know, probably 100 or 150 pounds."

"Whoa." Sango walked over to the bows and arrows.

"Which on do you prefer?" Kagome looked at some of the bows. Her eyes finally landed on a wooden carved bow. It had carvings around the center of the bow with a flat spot in the middle for a grip. Kagome picked it up. Sango nodded.

"You definitely have an eye for quality." Kagome picked up a quiver of arrows.

"What do you want me to shoot at?" Sango gestured to the targets lined up on the wall across from them. Kagome looked at the floor and saw marks every 5 yards away from the target. Kagome stepped up to the 15 yard line. 'Too easy...' She notched the arrow into her bow and raised the bow to aim. She shot and it hit dead center.

"Whoa." Sango said. Kagome smirked as she went back to 20 yards.

Inuyasha saw looking through the boxes. "Damn, where are they?"

"What?" Miroku said from behind him.

"The pagers." Miroku rolled his eyes.

"Right here in the box labeled 'gadgets'." Miroku walked over to the shelf, picking up a pager.

"Oh."

"That's bad, Inuyasha. You live here and don't know where you put things. I have a home and know where things are at yours."

"You spend to much time over here."

"Whatever." Inuyasha and Miroku walked out of the back room.

"Where did they go?"

"Sango took Kagome in the back training room." They walked back into the training room. They stood in the door way as Kagome was about to make a shot from the 35 yards. She concentrated on the mark. Inuyasha was surprised. Kagome looked fierce, unwavering as she aimed at the target. Kagome shot and Inuyasha heard a whizz. He couldn't even see the arrow. He watched the arrow vibrate as it hit the target. After it finished vibrating, he saw it was straight on the bull's eye. 'Whoa, she's good.' Kagome took another shot from the 45. She aimed and fired. It hit the middle. He whistled.

"That's some awesome shooting you have." Kagome blushed. She didn't know he was watching. "Thanks." Inuyasha smirked.

"Let's see how you are against a human adversary."