Highschool Dilemma

Chapter 10

Kagome knew she was dreaming, but she wanted it to be real. It was a memory of the past summer. She was in Kikyo's room, where they used to hang out. Everything was as she remembered it. She stood up from the bed and walked over to the dresser, looking at the picture of them. Kikyo never really smiled too often, but she did have a heart. Kagome smiled as she ran her hands over the faces. That day was one of the best. They had a girl's night out. She smiled and set the picture frame down. She heard the door open and turned around. Kikyo...

Kagome opened her eyes. She hardly ever dreamed and that dream was awkward. The scene changed quickly- from a sweet, peaceful memories to a horrid scene of odd events. She only remember bits and pieces of it. Something about a dead crow and a light in the back of a dark room. After that, she remembered an image of someone laying in a ditch, seriously injured and possibly dying. She shook the thought from her head 'It was just a dream...'

The night was over, the sun was beginning to rise on the horizon. She found herself in the grasp on Inuyasha. His arms were loosely, but protectively around her waist. She smiled lightly and slowly began wiggling out of his grasp. She smiled as she successfully escaped without waking him up. She started heading towards the kitchen, until she saw the T.V. on. 'I fell asleep in the movie. The others must of too.' She shut it off and walked into the kitchen to find her mother already at the table, sipping a cup of coffee.

"Did I wake you?" She asked. Kagome shook her head, finding herself incapable of speech that early in the morning. She took a cup out of the cabinet and poured herself some. After taking a sip, she sat down at the table next to her mother.

"Kagome, can I ask you something?"

"Sure, mama."

"Did anything inappropriate happen last night?"

Kagome choked on her coffee. "No. Why would you think that?"

"I didn't suspect anything did. It's just that you are in a relationship with a boy I don't know. I expected them to go home, but I find you and him sleeping together on the couch and I don't know your friends."

"I fell asleep during the movie. I suspect that they did as well." Her mother had a 'oh' on her lips as she nodded.

"I see. Sorry."

"No problem." They sat in silence until someone came into the kitchen. Kagome smiled.

"Hey."

"Hey." Sango said as she stood spaced-out in the doorway. Kagome would have laughed, but she figured she ought not to.

"Coffee?"

"Please." Kagome laughed as she showed her where everything was. Sango was quiet as she leaned against the door frame sipping her coffee. Mrs. Higurashi stood up.

"I guess I can make some breakfast for everyone. What does everyone like?" Kagome shrugged.

"We all like scrambled eggs." Sango said. Mrs. Higurashi smiled.

"Scrambled eggs, it is." She turned and opened the fridge. Kagome heard Sango squeal and turned around to find Miroku laying on the kitchen floor. Her mother heard the noise and turned around. Sango laughed guiltily.

"I didn't see you there. Are you okay, Miroku?" she asked as she held her hand out to him. He took it and stood up.

"Peachy." he said as he rubbed his head. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Is Inuyasha still asleep?"

"Yeah." Kagome nodded as she walked into the living room. Miroku and Sango smiled at each other as they followed her in. Mrs. Higurashi shook her head and rolled her eyes. 'Kids...'

Kagome saw Inuyasha in the same spot he had been when she left. She shook her head. 'Lazy...' She snuck over to him. He was definitely still asleep. He snored, but it was hardly audible. She smirked as she poked him and he groaned in his sleep. She poked him again and he swatted at her hand. She decided that it wasn't enough. She began slowly pushing him towards the edge of the couch. He mumbled and groaned, but didn't quite wake up. She looked up and saw Miroku and Sango, trying not to laugh in the corner. She winked at them and rolled him off the couch. What surprised her was when he grabbed her hand and dragged her down with him.

"I thought I had you there for a minute." she said as she got up off of the floor.

"Yeah right. So, what are we planning on doing today?"

"Anyone have any ideas?"

"Not particularly."

"My mom's making us some breakfast for now."

"What about later?"

"We'll find something. Let's eat first."

"You never pass up free food, will you?" He grinned and nodded.

"What do you want to do?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know. What do you want to do?" Inuyasha said as he looked over at Miroku.

"I don't know." Miroku said.

"Enough of this, let's try to think of something." Sango said rather loudly. They had basically did the same thing all day. They ate at the Higurashi's. Then, everyone went to their individual places to change, shower, and whatever else they needed to do. They met up again later at Miroku's place and still didn't know what to do.

"I got an idea. I saw an old abandoned school or court house or something the other day. I don't know exactly what it is. I kind of wanted to explore it." Kagome said. Inuyasha shrugged.

"Might as well. We got nothing better to do. Where is it?"

"It's not to far from here, actually."

"Cool. Let's go."

It actually wasn't far from there. They walked over to it.

"Here it is." It was a two story old brick building. They circled the outside. All of the windows were busted out. Glass littered the ground. Beer bottles were laying all over the place.

"Must be a party place." Miroku commented.

"Hey. Check this out." Sango called from the other side of the building. They walked around. There was a staircase to the basement. The door to the basement was wide open, but it was flooded.

"I dare you to go down there." Sango said to Miroku. He looked down.

"Uh... maybe later." Inuyasha shook his head and leaned over to Kagome, who was standing next to him.

"He's just a coward." Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Then, you go down there."

"I will whenever we get out of the inside. I don't want to get my pants all wet, until we almost ready to leave."

"Sure." she said sarcastically.

"Come on, you two. Let's go." Miroku said. They walked over to the front door. Miroku went to open it, but it was locked. He picked up a block of wood that was sitting there and moved to hit the window.

"Hey. Let's not bust anything else. I don't want to be accountable for damages if we get caught." Sango said. Inuyasha took the log from him. They moved to a window that was already broken.

"Hello? Anyone here?" Sango called into the house. There was no reply. Inuyasha shrugged as put his hand with the block of wood in through the window.

"What are you doing?" Inuyasha dropped the block onto the wooden floors inside with a thud.

"I am checking the floors to see if they're weak or rotted with it and they apparently aren't." He said as he stepped in through the window. Next was Miroku. Then, came Sango and Kagome. Inuyasha looked around and started walking towards the front door. Miroku looked at the stairs. 'I wonder if they're safe.' Sango and Kagome walked right. They glanced down a short hallway.

"Whoa... check this out." Sango said as they walked to the end. There was a broken down door, but all of the shattered door fragments were on the outside as if someone had busted out of it.

"That is too freaky." Kagome said quietly.

"You're telling me." Sango said as she turned around and screamed Kagome did the same. Directly behind them where the guys who where chuckling.

"Didn't mean to scare you." Inuyasha commented as he held his hand out to Kagome and helped her up from the floor.

"Like hell you didn't." Sango yelled.

"Sh.." Miroku said as he put a finger up to him lips. "Don't want anyone to call the cops on us."

"It's not like it hasn't happened before." Inuyasha grunted.

"It has?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded.

"You didn't hear? After our last 'meeting' with Naraku, the police went to the site and found it all damaged up."

"Really? I didn't hear." Inuyasha nodded with a smirk. "All well." He looked behind him. Miroku was already gone into the next room on the bottom floor. He rolled his eyes and followed in suit.

"Come on."

There was one room on the bottom floor that was extremely interesting. They walked into it and it seemed like a normal room, until they saw the closet. The door was small. Inuyasha opened it and there was a little passageway back into a different part of the house.

"Sweet. This is awesome." Miroku said as he glanced down the little hallway. "Let's go."

"No way." Everyone was surprised to hear Inuyasha say this.

"Why not?"

"For one, it could be dangerous and I don't want to risk the girl's lives or safety for a little exploration." He heard Kagome trying to get her say so in and quickly finished. "Secondly, I won't do it unless I see where I'm going and that will require a flashlight." Miroku nodded.

"That makes sense." he admitted.

"I don't care about the exploration, but I would wait for some light." Sango nodded in agreement.

"We'll have to come back. Shall we continue with the upstairs?" Inuyasha nodded as he lead the way to the stairs. It wasn't a straight staircase, but one that went half way up, turned completely around, and went the other half. In other words, they couldn't see the top of the stair case. Inuyasha stepped on the first step and it creaked a little.

"I'll go first." He said as he started descending up the stairs. It creaked a little, but was okay.

"Okay. The next person come up. Watch out for the floor at the very top of the stairs. It's extremely weak. Step over it." They each made it up the stairs. There were four doors at the top of the stairs. They went to the farthest one and opened it up. There were hand prints in paint all over the walls, Children's hand prints to adults. Some in blue. Some of them in green. Others were in red. The red was most abundant. It was blood color.

"My guess is that this used to be a school."

Kagome looked around. The floor looked rotted, but there was a room in the back. Inuyasha began walking across it.

"Careful. It looks rotted." He smiled.

"No problem." He commented as he slowly walked across the floor. It creaked worse than the stairs did. He moved towards the other room until a door caught his eye. The others followed him and watched as he opened the door. Inside was a ladder, secured against the wall and headed up.

"Must be the attic. Let's check it out later." He said as he shut the door. Miroku took over and walked into the doorway of the other room. He walked inside and saw a dead bird on the floor.

"It must of got in, but couldn't find it's way out."

"Urg. That's nasty." Kagome commented as she glanced away. Sango nodded in agreement. Kagome looked at the bird. It was a crow, just like in her dream. 'That's weird. Wait! If this image was true. Then, the other part was too.'

"Kag, you okay?" Inuyasha asked as his eyes caught hers.

"We need to get out of here."

"What? Why?" There was a loud bang of a car door and Inuyasha glanced out the window. "Damn."

"What?" Miroku asked.

"Kagura's here. I don't have a clue why, but it looks like there's more of them on the way." He said as another car pulled up. Out stepped another one of Naraku's gang, Kanna, and there was another car on the way.

"There's no way we can take them on here. We don't have any weapons." Sango said. Kagura and Kanna began heading in.

"Where are we going to go?" Miroku said. Inuyasha looked back.

"The attic. Come on." They crept into the room, but the floor creaked horribly.

"What was that?" Inuyasha rushed them up the ladder, stepped in himself, and shut the door quietly. He didn't have time to climb the ladder whenever he heard footsteps creeping through the room. He felt a hand on his shoulder and saw Miroku waving him on. He shook his head and Miroku pulled back.

"This place is way too old." Kagura mumbled as she left the room. Inuyasha sighed as he turned around and quietly climbed the ladder of 8 steps into the dark, dank attic. The only source of light came from a small window in the far end of the attic. He felt around and his hand accidently brushed Sango's bottom.

"Miroku." She said harshly as she smacked Inuyasha. Rather hard.

"Shit." He growled lowly. He rubbed his cheek. It stung awfully.

"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I wasn't aiming for you."

"Yes, you were." He said as he took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it. It gave them enough light to see the outline of things and to see each other. Kagome was pale. Miroku had a bewildered look on his face. Sango shot an apologetic look at Inuyasha. "Sorry."

"My fault. I -uh- was feeling around in the dark and..." He looked away in embarrassment. "Anyways... let's get out of here." He said as he crawled over to the window. There was no glass left, just a torn old screen. He pulled it out, throwing it randomly behind him. He squeezed through the hole onto the roof. He reached his hand into the darken hole and felt another hand grasp his. He held Kagome out of the hole. She shot him a 'thanks' look. He nodded in acceptance and held his hand in to help Sango out. Kagome quietly walked over to the edge of the roof. She could hear the voices of the Stealth Assassin's below, but couldn't make out what they were saying. She heard Sango behind her.

"Kag, how did you know that they were coming?"

"I didn't know they were coming."

"Did you sense danger or something?"

"No. I'll explain it to you later." Miroku stepped out the window. Inuyasha looked around.

"I think that the porch in back slanted down. We can probably get off there." They all nodded as they tiptoed across the roof to the back of the old school. It was a eight foot drop from the roof. Inuyasha whispered something to Miroku and he nodded. Inuyasha looked at Kagome and waved her over to him. She did as he asked and he picked her up and simply jumped off of the roof, landing lightly on the ground. Kagome opened her mouth to ask him how he did it so gracefully, but he was watching as Miroku hang from the edge of the roof and dropped the distance in between him and the ground. Sango mocked his actions, but didn't land so gracefully. In fact, she fell and hit the side of the place with a rather hard thud. They all took off from the place as soon as Sango stood up.

"Is everyone okay?" Inuyasha asked as they reached his home.

Everyone glanced from one person to the other.

"Yeah." They answered simultaneously.

"Good." Kagome looked up.

"How were you able to land so easily?"

"I was able to tap into my demon powers without radiating a demonic aura." Kagome nodded.

"How did you know that we needed to leave?" She told them about her dream- all of it.

"It seems, Kagome, that Kikyo wanted to warn you of something or show you the way out." Miroku said.

"That's why I had the dream?"

"Possibly, but who was in a ditch?" She shrugged.

"I wasn't able to tell."

"Hopefully, we won't have to figure it out."