Live for Tomorrow

Author's Note: All these ideas for this story have been spinning around in my head. I've gotta get them out before they throw off my balance!


Inuyasha finished locking his bike up in the bike rack and turned around to see his best friend. "Hey."
"Hey." Miroku replied, "How have you been this summer? I haven't seen you at all since school ended."
"I wonder why?" Inuyasha said sarcastically. They started towards the door of the school. "Maybe it could have been that fact that you were in France all through out vacation."
"Perhaps." his friend agreed, "But it was worth it. You'll never believe how beautiful the girls are in that country are."
"You're such a pervert." Inuyasha grumbled.
"I am." Miroku admitted, "And for that reason I must ask you this. Who was that beautiful girl that was riding on the back of your bike this morning. You'll have to introduce me to her."
Inuyasha stopped next to his locker. "What are you talking about it?" he asked, playing with the lock on the door. "That was Kagome."
"Kagome!" the girl chaser exclaimed, generally surprised, "God she's even more lovelier than she was when I left!"
His books in his arms, Inuyasha slammed his locker. "Let's get this one thing straight." he told his friend seriously. "Don't even think about messing with Kagome. If you do I'll beat you to a bloody pulp."
"Threatening your best friend?" Miroku asked in mock horror, "I feel so hurt. But you did it in protection for your darling littleKagome. Do I sense I bit of jelousness? Could it be that you've fallen for your old family friend? Well it's not like I can blame you. She's a beaut-"
Inuyasha hit him over the head with his books. "Don't you dare repeat what you just said." he growled, "I do not have a crush on Kagome. It's just my responsiblity to keep her out of trouble. She doesn't need someone like you hitting on her."
Miroku laughed. "Say what you want Inuyasha." he said, "I promise I won't tell anyone." This resulted in another wack on the head."

Kagome ran into the school and straight to her homeroom class, not even bothering to drop her backpack off at her locker. She was going to be late! Running through the class door, Kagome was relieved to hear the bell ring just as she sat down in one of two empty chairs left.
"Well, well, Miss Kagome Higurashi. What a pleasant surprise to see that you decided to finally join the class." the teacher said from his desk. The teacher was a man in his later years with a gray balding head and a very round stomach. He wasn't very tall either.
Kagome looked from her teacher to the name on the board and inwardly groaned. Mr. Docolm. That was the guy that Inuyasha had warned her about.
"I'm very sorry for being on the bell Mr. Docolm." Kagome said standing up and bowing.
"I hear that you're a good student Miss Higurashi." the teacher said, "But I also hear you spend quite a lot of time with that trouble maker, Mr. Inuyasha Taisho. His behavior must be rubbing off on you. You will recieve a late slip. If you recieve another you will be attending detention."
"But sir! I wasn't late!" Kagome insisted.
"Then never mind the late slip."
She sighed in relief.
"You will be attending detention tomorrow. No one speaks back to me. I believe you will learn this as you participate in my class."
Kagome gasped. Inuyasha was right. This guy was hell!
"Now that we have the entire class here, I'd like to introduce you to a new student. Miss Sango Tsukisto. She'll need someone to help her around the school today and introduce her to people. Miss Higurashi? Perhaps you would like to do this and make me think better of you."
"Yes sir." Kagome said nodding.
"Miss Tsukisto, please sit next to Miss Higurashi."
Nodding, the new girl sat down in the last empty seat in the room.

"I'll introduce you to my friends Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka." Kagome told Sango as they grabbed their food from the cafeteria, "They'll join us at the table as soon as they get in here.
"Sounds good to me." Sango replied, "Where should we sit?"
Kagome looked around the room until she spied an empty table in the corner. "How about there?" she suggested, pointing to the table.
"Sure."
The two girls walked over to the table, and sat down. "So what school did you go to before this?" Kagome asked.
"Just to the school in the next district over." Sango replied, "I, uh, got kicked out for missing too many days."
"You weren't playing hooky, were you?" Kagome asked surprised.
"No." her new friend said laughing, "My parents wanted to teach me other things... Things I can't learn in school."
Kagome nodded absently. She knew what that was like. Her father, who was the new priest of the Higurashi shrine, had taken her out of school every once in a while to teach her a thing or two about being a miko.
"Oi! Kagome!"
The girls looked over to see Inuyasha walking towards them. He still wore the hat he had been wearing that morning. The boy sat down at the table and looked at Sango. "Who's this?" he asked.
"Sango. She's a new student." Kagome replied, "She just transfered over. Sango, this is Inuyasha."
"Is he your boyfriend?" Sango asked.
"No!" Inuyasha and Kagome said together.
Kagome laughed a bit while Inuyasha scowled. "He's just a friend." Kagome explained. She turned to Inuyasha."What's up?"
"How's the day going so far?"
"I'm already in detention tomorrow." Kagome groaned.
"Mr. Docolm?" Inuyasha guessed.
"How'd you know?"
"Guessed." he replied, "Don't worry. Detention's not too bad. I'll probably be joining you too."
"You've already misbehaved?" she said, raising an eyebrow.
"No, but the teachers don't like me here. It's just a matter of time."
"Hey Inuyasha!" a boy yelled from a table on the other side of the room, "Get back over here! We're not finished talking to you!"
"Well I've got to go." Inuyasha said standing up, "Talk to you girls later. And Kagome? Watch out."
"Watch out?" Kagome repeated, confused. But Inuyasha was already walking away, yelling back to his buddies.
"Hey Kagome?"
Kagome looked back to Sango. Her new friend's tone of voice was serious. "Yeah?"
"Your friend, Inuyasha..."
"What is it?"
"He's a demon." Sango finally said sighing, "You've got to be careful around him. He might have been warning you about himself. I don't know you've known each other, but it might be in your best interest to stay away from him. Demons are dangerous."
"Actually he's a half demon." Kagome replied cheerfully.
"You already knew?" she said, surprised.
"Yeah." Kagome said nodding. "He and his family are family friends. He lives next to my family's shrine. He's perfectly safe to be around. Just a bit grumpy. How'd you know?"
"Knack." Sango mumbled, blushing a little. She became very interested in her food.
"Hey Kagome!" a girl yelled, running over to them. She was followed by two other girls. "You've got to introduce us to the new girl.
Kagome smiled. "Sango, this is Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi."

Kagome found herself walking out of the school alone that day. Her friends had joined a scrapbooking club that met every Monday and somehow talked Sango into joining. Today was Monday so they were staying late for the first meeting. Kagome also didn't see Inuyasha. Not even one of his friends was around. She was bummed.
Kagome scanned the school yard one more time for someone to talk to. She remembered what Inuyasha had said that morning. There was a seperate entrance to the school for each grade level. She walked off to the side of the school where Inuyasha had said the Junior entrance was. Maybe he was there.
"Hey look at the babe over there."
"She's hot."
"Have you seen her around here before?"
"Must be one of the freshmen."
Kagome turned to see a group of four boys leaning against the school building. They were all smoking while passing a bottle of some liquour around. They were all drunk. Worst of all they were all looking at her.
"Hey girl!" the first one shouted over to her, "Come over here!"
"Yeah!" the second said grinning, "We'll share some booze with you. You want that?"
She was about to respond to the question when she found herself being pulled towards the group by the third boy.
The fourth boy pulled her away from the third, and brought her close to him. She was then pulled to the first boy. Kagome was so close to him that she could smell the alcohol on his breath. "Come with me sweetie." he said grinning drunkenly, "I'll show you a good time."
"Get away from me!" Kagome gasped, trying to push away. The boy only held on tighter.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!"
Kagome found herself pulled out of the boy's grasp and into another. The four looked surprised. The second one, who had been holding the liquour, dropped it. Kagome looked at her rescuer to see a very angry Inuyasha.
"Up-upperclassman Inuyasha!" The first one exclaimed.
"Answer my question!" Inuyasha growled.
"We were just playing." The third one insisted.
"Play!" Inuyasha replied, "My ass! Never talk to Kagome again, you got that!"
The four nodded quickly.
"Now get out of here!" The group of boys hurried away, running in somewhat curvy lines. They were definitely drunk.
Inuyasha looked down at the girl he was holding and quickly let go. "You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah." Kagome replied, "Thanks."
"I told you to watch out!" Inuyasha half yelled, "You always get into trouble like this!"
"Well excuse me!" she exclaimed.
Now Kagome and Inuyasha were well known for bickering among themselves, but surprisingly this argument went no where. Both just glared at each other.
Finally Inuyasha broke the silence. "You're riding home with me."
"And why's that?"
"Because if you don't you're going to get into even more trouble! I know it!"
"Fine!" Underneith her angry face, Kagome was touched. She had no clue Inuyasha cared about her enough to save her from a group of drunks who would have done who knows what and then bring her home so that nothing else would happen to her. She followed him to the bike rack.

The ride home was silent until it was almost over. "How'd you end up in that position?" Inuyasha asked his passenger.
"I was going to look for you." Kagome replied.
"Oh." There was a short moment of silence. "If you ever get into something like that againg just yell." Inuyasha said, "I'll come... Or one of my friends. We'll watch out for you."
"Thanks..."
"Don't mention it." Once again there was another pause. "It would be easier if you were uglier."
"WHAT!"