Chapter 3
Kagome shuffled through the tightly packed halls, Sango was holding onto her hand and they were on their way to class. They finally made it and Sango hurried off to join a little girl with her red hair in two little braids. Kagome went and hid behind a bunch of coats in the coat room. The bell rang and the teacher, Miss Kaede came in, she was about late thirties, her hair was a lovely black color but it seemed faded. She was wearing a white long sleeved shirt and some blue jean overalls. She looked around the room, took attendance and stood up, "Uhh...Sango? Do you have any idea where the new student is?" Sango shook her head, "Nope. I brought her in here but now I think she's hiding." Miss K thanked Sango and told her to put a gold star on her chart. Sango skipped across the room and placed a shiny sticker on the end of the longest row of stickers then she sat back down. She was a model student, loved school, had perfect attendance, she was really sweet to her teachers, and she had top grades. Miss K began to speak but Inuyasha stood up. "I need something out of my jacket!" He ran into the coat room and shut the door behind him. Kagome curled up even more and Inuyasha heard her move, he pulled back some coats to see her sitting there with her knees to her chest and her bag next to her. She was crying and Inuyasha felt bad. "Hey? The old lady is looking for you." Kagome stopped crying, Inuyasha was sitting in fornt of her holding out a hankie. She wiped off her face and set it next to her bag. "I-I'm scared I mean... Sango left me alone and I got scared. I can't be alone..I don't wanna! Ever!" She started crying again and Inuyasha tugged on one of her pigtails. "You don't have to be alone anymore okay? Wheneva you get scared uhh...come find me. I'll always be your friend okay? Ummm...here." He dug into his jacket pocket and pulled out a crackerjacks prize. It was a plastic little gold ring with a plastic red jewel. He found some string from his old yo-yo and used it to make a necklace, he tied it around her neck so she could take it off and on. "Its a best friend ring. Whenever I act stupid or I'm not there for you just wish on this ring. It'll uhh...fix me." Kagome looked at the ring with wide sparkly eyes and Inuyasha almost fell over,' She actually believed me? Well that's good...I s'pose.' Inuyasha watched the happy little girl and without realizing it he raised up his hand and storked her face, "You're pretty.." Kagome looked at him, "huh?" He blushed, "Uhh...n-nothing let's go." Inuyasha stood up holding out his hand, and Kagome took it; standing up next to him. They held hands and Inuyasha walked to the door, Kagome realized where he was going and stopped, "I-nu-wyu-sha...ugh..I'm scared still..." he squeezed her hand, "C'mon I'll stand right next to you at the front of the class, but you have to be brave. And call me Yasha." She nodded but she still didn't move. "No...yasha sounds yucky and old...Yashie! That's what I'll call you!" She hugged his arm then she walked them out of the coat room before he could get out his protest. "Inuyasha Tama! You do NOT go out of the class when a teacher is talking! You don't leave without permission! And you don't run! That's a big red X for you Mister! Now go to your seat! Young lady you come up here to the front and introduce yourself." She Pushed Kagome to the front center of the room then she sat at her desk. Kagome was standing stock still, mouth shut, knees shaking. Her bottom lip began to quiver. "She's gonna cry again...I gotta make her smile.." Inuyasha was whispering to himself. He waved to get her attention then he began making silly faces and wiggling his ears. She giggled and her fear melted away. "Okay...my name is Kagome Hi-gu-ra-shi! I am seven years old, I live at the Higurashi shrine on...Sa-ku-ra street, my favorite colors are blue and pink, and my mommy is teaching me how to cook! I've always wanted a puppy for a pet but Grandpa says that if I got a doggy he'd probably go potty on the Sacred tree and that's not good." She held her hands behind her back and smiled. A young boy with blue eyes and black hair in a ponytail called out, "She's my new sweetheart so no one else touches her or I'll tell on you!" Inuyasha threw his math book at the little boy, "Shut up Kouga!" They began yelling at each other and oinly stopped when Kagome whimpered. A boy with red eyes and long black hair had walked to the front of the room and he was now standing in front of her, clutching her ring. "Why are you wearing pocket trash around your neck? Its ugly and stupid! Just like you!" He broke the necklace and threw it on the ground. He went to step on it but Kagome dove for it and he stomped on her hand. She cried out again and Inuyasha abandoned Kouga. He tackled the boy to the ground and started punching him in the face, the teacher picked Inuyasha up and put him in the corner. Naraku was escorted to the principals office and the nurse came and put a bandaid on Kagome's hand, she refused to open it though so the woman left.
Later on in class kagome got put in the corner for not listening. She stood next to Inuyasha and started crying silently. He reached over and tugged on her skirt, she peeked at him and he made more silly faces. She briefly smiled and opened her hand, he took the note and with great difficulty, read the misspelled message.
I'm sawry, Yashie. Meany-pants brok the rink.
He looed at her hand and saw the real reason why she'd been crying. The plastic gold ring band was in tiny little pieces. The jewel was broke in half and badly craked in other places. He wanted to tell her it was okay but the lunch bell rang and she ran into the hallway.