Chapter 3- High School
A girl around the age of 17 about 5'7'' walked out of her house at 7:30 a.m. The girl had long jet black hair that reached her rear and deep chocolate brown eyes. She wore a pair of navy blue sweat pants (the cotton sports kind) and a white t-shirt that read the number '23' in navy blue outlined in baby blue with white navy and baby blue K-Swiss. The said girl walked to the end of the sidewalk, her basketball hoop and net earrings and matching basketball pendant chain dangling.
She stopped short of the street as another girl walked up to her, around the same age and height wearing a pleated black mini skirt and a yellow wife-beater with white and yellow Nikes. The girl had brown hair and dark brown eyes.
"You ready Kag?" asked the brown haired girl.
"Always before you San" teased the black haired girl called Kagome.
"Yea whatever at least I'm not the one always forgetting things" teased the brown haired girl known as Sango.
"Ah, see I knew you would say that but this time I prepared, I washed my things and put them back in my locker when I went to the meeting" Kagome informed Sango triumphantly.
"Oh come off it Einstein let's go before we're late". The two girls began walking to school. Kagome broke out into a steady slow paced jog. It was slow enough for her to remain by Sango, but fast enough for Sango to have to walk faster.
They arrived at school in about 10 or 15 minutes, Sango irritated from kagome making her participate in her little work out.
"Kagome when I catch my breath I'm going to kill you" threatened Sango.
"You say that everyday, but you never catch me" laughed kagome.
At that moment the two girls were interrupted by two guys walking up two them. One of them slid their arms around Kagome's neck and pulled her into a sort of loose chokehold while the other came up behind Sango and groped her rear end.
Sango visibly shuddered as she turned around and smacked the perpetrator. Kagome and the other guy were busy struggling with each other or more like Kagome had somehow put the guy in a chokehold of her own.
After Sango was done with the perv who dared touch her she addressed kagome and the other.
"Can't you guys ever greet us normally…I mean is a hello or what's up that damn complicated?" asked Sango. "Kagome let him go" she added afterward.
"Damn Kag you could've killed me" joked the boy.
"Yeah well that's what you get Inu" She slapped him upside the head one more time.
"At least I didn't do what Miroku did to Sango to you." He grinned at her.
"Oh Kami" exhaled Kagome shaking her head.
"Well shall we get going now?" insisted Miroku dusting himself off. Kag, Inu and Sango all sweat dropped. He could be so clueless.
The four of them began walking into the school building. The day went by pretty fast. It was lunch time when they were all able to catch there breath. They sat at there usual table for the last 4 years.
"So Sango are you going to the prom" asked Miroku starting off a conversation.
"Yeah I'm going" she answered simply.
"Has anybody asked you yet" he persisted.
"As a matter of fact loads of guys have asked me, I'm just not interested in going with any. I mean this is prom not the 'spring fling' it has to be with someone special not some blundering idiot."
'hmmn' Miroku considered this in his mind. 'somehow I'm going to have to get Sango to go to the prom with me.' He began tuning everyone else while going into deep thought. The others left him be, thinking he was just being him.
"So are you going to the prom Kag?" asked Sango.
"I don't know… I doubt it, I hate wearing dresses and on top of that I don't feel like being bothered with some annoying date who only has one thing on his mind the whole damn time." She answered.
"Yeah besides the only guy who'd be willing to take you to prom is 'Spalding', I mean everyone else thinks you're a lesbian" he laughed at that last part.
Sango gasped and Kagome reached over and punched Inuyasha in the face.
"I am not gay you fucking prick!" she yelled in his sensitive ears. He cringed at the noise, but said nothing. Kagome sat back down. "And who the hell Spalding?"
Sango pointed to Kagome's basketball pendant and Kagome reached back over toward Inuyasha and punched him again this time in the arm.
"Geez Kag violent much?" he joked while holding his arm he may be hanyou but she did hit hard.
Just as everything had settled down a girl had come over to them wearing a skimpy little pink mini skirt and a light pink tube top.
"Hey Inuyasha" she smiled seductively at him.
Sango and Kagome twitched at the sound of her voice. Sango because it was pathetic and Kagome because she was disgusted.
"Hey Kikyo" Inuyasha responded looking her up and down.
Sango and Kagome rolled there eyes.
"So what brings you over here?" asked Inuyasha
"Well…" she sat down beside him bumping him over with her but and making Miroku fall on the grass. He came out of his deep thought and looked up at who caused him to fall. He saw Kikyo and Inuyasha and rolled his eyes as well while getting up and walking over to Kagome and Sango's side of the table.
"…I was just wondering if you had a date for the prom yet" she continued while batting her eyelashes.
Kagome almost choked on her French fry. Kikyo looked at her with a quick glare.
"Find something funny Higurashi?" she asked with a hint of attitude.
"Why nothing at all Kikyo." Kagome replied in a mock- sweet voice.
"Well something must have caused you to choke" Kikyo said in the same voice.
Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha all just sat there watching.
"Oh something caused me to choke alright… that cheap ass perfume" Kagome mumbled
"What was that" Kikyo dropped the nice act "I think you might want to make your presence scarce now because I didn't come over here to be annoyed by the likes of you"
"The likes of me" Kagome dropped the nice act as well. "Consider yourself lucky I'm in a good mood today because I would've told you to get lost before you could even open your mouth." Sango had to stifle a laugh.
"I'd like to see you try it queer" Kikyo retorted with a grin.
Sango stopped trying not to laugh and started trying to hold Kagome back. Kikyo looked taken aback.
"Inuyasha…ugh….Miroku…a little..help..over..here!" Sango yelled.
While Sango was yelling to Inuyasha and Miroku, Kagome got out of her hold and bolted toward Kikyo. She pounced on her and slapped the taste out of her mouth (just think of save the last dance when the two girls were fighting in the gym). Kagome wanted to do more, but Inuyasha had already grabbed her waist and pulled her off of Kikyo before she could.
"Kikyo I think you should go" he told her, she obeyed while holding her face.
"LET ME GO I'M GONNA BEAT EARTH, WIND AND FIRE OUTTA HER!" Kagome yelled.
"Kagome calm down she's gone" Inuyasha tried to calm her down.
"Oh hell no it's not over yet, wait till I see her ooooooooooh I'm gonna make her feel it!" she growled out. "and let me go" she pushed herself out of his grip.
"Sango I'm leaving school early I'll be back before the game" and she stormed off.
Sango just nodded then glared at Inuyasha.
"What the hell are you looking at me like that for?" he asked her.
"You should have just told that wench to go from the beginning, she does the same thing every time, but this time she went too far. The next person who calls Kag gay is gonna feel it from me. Ya hear!" Inuyasha nodded.
"I can't help it if girls come over here and want to talk to me though" he said like it wasn't his fault.
"You can help it, first off start by telling your little groupies to back off Kag because I'm not gonna keep holding her back." She warned him "and unless you want the girls who chase you to be all screwed up in the face I suggest you act like you know" and she walked of toward her next class.
"Yeah Inuyasha, remember when we were kids, what she did to you when you made her fall. Ooooh I'd hate to see a girl looking like that." He laughed and ran off in Sango's direction.
The rest of the day Inuyasha was ignored by sango, Miroku was the only one who would talk to him and Kagome wasn't there though he doubted she'd say anything to him anyway. The bell rang signaling the end of school. He was at his locker waiting for Miroku and sango. The two said people came around the corner with Kagome.
She looked a little happier considering the earlier incident.
"So Kag you ready for the game?" Sango asked her.
"Yea, I was warming up when I left school earlier at the park, and I needed to blow off a little steam" she replied throwing a glance at Inuyasha.
"Well sango and I are on our way to catch some seats at the top of the bleachers." Miroku informed.
"Are you coming to the game Inuyasha?" asked Sango, everyone turned to him.
"Yeah I'll be there in a little." He said. Miroku and sango walked off towards the gym.
Inuyasha watched until the two were out of view.
Kagome began taking her gym clothes out of her locker and completely ignoring him.
"Kagome I'm sorry about what happened earlier, I should've never said what I said and Kikyo shouldn't of either." He sighed inwardly and looked at her hoping she was listening to him. She wasn't and walked right passed him towards the girls changing room. He followed quietly.
He stopped her before she could go where he couldn't follow. He grabbed her wrist and spun her to face him. When their eyes met he silently gasped, her eyes looked fiercely at him and bore into his own as if she were ashamed of him. He understood. 'She expected more from me…how could she not when we've known each other for so long.'
She spoke. "Let me go I have a game." She tried to pull away but he wouldn't let go.
"Kagome, I said I was sorry and I meant it. Can't you just drop it, we've always made fun of each other since we were 11 and I didn't mean anything by it now just as I haven't back then." The truth in his words put Kagome at ease and she stopped struggling under his grip. He was right. Now was no different from back then for them.
'I'm not even mad with him it's that stupid bitch Kikyo!' she was fuming on the inside. 'How dare she call me that…that word!' Kagome resumed her attention back to reality and Inuyasha.
"You're right…I'm not even really upset at you it's just...that Kikyo…she…never mind all is forgiven…for you that is, okay" she flashed him a wan smile and he let go of her hand. She stepped into the girls' locker room and proceeded to get dressed.
When she came out Inuyasha was still there leaning against the opposite wall, arms over chest. His position changed to upright when she came out.
"Took you long enough…I know women take for ever to get ready, but that's something I didn't expect form you Kag." He was teasing her and she knew it, but she gladly took the bait as they made their way towards the gym entrance.
"What ever…I'd rather have some traits of a girly girl than to be a man whore" she carelessly replied.
Inuyasha smirked at her and stopped suddenly, grabbing her around her waists and pulling her back to his chest. He huskily replied "but I thought that's why you hang out with me…you're attracted to my ways." Kagome froze at the feeling of his warm breath on her neck. She quickly regained her composure before she lightly elbowed him in his abdomen and continued toward her teams' entrance. Inuyasha followed with a smirk.
The two made it to the double doors. "Alright I'm gonna go catch a seat by Sango and Miroku. Good luck Kag." Inuyasha ruffled Kagome's hair playfully like only he could.
"Thanks but I don't need luck" she grinned at him cockily.
"Yeah well watch the temper today…I don't think you'll get off with just a warning this time and you're lucky that girl didn't press charges."
"Whatever just root for me idiot and not look at the other team's boobs" she retorted.
"Oi I'm not Miroku." He whined.
The two separated. Inuyasha went into the gym and toward the bleachers, and Kagome stepped into the conference room to discuss last minute changes on the plays.
IN THE BLEACHERS
"Hey Inuyasha we saved you a seat" yelled Miroku over the music that started throughout the gym.
"I hope you got your head right where Kagome's concerned" stated sango.
"Yeah I handled my business…key word my business" replied Inuyasha.
"Yeah whatever I know her game had better not be off tonight because of you're stupidity." Replied Sango daringly.
"Come off it Sango, Kagome's gonna play fine, she always does. You and I both know that Kagome is the best player on the team she's probably the best in the school if you think about it really, she rivals some of the guys on your team Inuyasha." Miroku goaded.
"Whatever Miroku shut it, the game's about to start." They all quieted down at the start of the strobe lights and introduction of the home team.
The said girls came running out in chronological order wearing their royal blue, silver and black sweat suits, that bore their surnames and jersey number. The opposing team came out the other end of the gym wearing green, red and yellow sweat suits.
"INTRODUCING THE STARTING LINEUP FOR THE HOME TEAM…" the commentator's voice blared over the loud speakers of the gymnasium only to be matched by the equally loud applause of the crowd.
"…SHOOTING GUARD…LEIKO ONIWABA NUMBER 32…" the crowd applauded and showed their support as the girl ran down the line to the center of the gym.
"…POWER FORWARD…KAI SHINOBI 11…SMALL FORWARD…NAOMI KYLE 45..." the process was repeated as the girls ran down the line.
"…CENTER…SEIYA LINAO 22…" the girl ran down the line to the center and waited with the others slapping fives as she went. The lights stopped probing and landed in the middle of the line where the remaining girls stood.
"…AND NOW FOR LAST YEARS JUNIOR VARSITY MVP AND THIS YEARS' VARSITY POINT GUARD…KAGOME HIGURASHI 13." The crowd erupted in applause for the young star athlete for she had brought her school many victories. Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku did as always and stood in recognition of their friend's accomplishment as she ran out to the center of the gym having been stripped of the sweat suit and now sporting her number 13 rear length jersey and shorts just under her knees in the familiar colors of the sweat suit. Her hair was braided back into 10 long corn rows, which was surprising since Inuyasha hadn't noticed before. (Sango had braided her hair for her when she came back after lunch. Inuyasha didn't notice because he was too preoccupied with apologizing.)
Kagome reached the center and glanced at her friends. She flashed them a grin and winked, which only they and the nosey Kikyo caught. She began tucking in her jersey as the members of each team took their positions. Kagome was one of the tallest so she was jumping for the ball today. Although she knew this was the last game of her high school career and that there were scouts in the bleachers watching their every moves she kept her face determined and un-phased by the knowing attention.
3…the crowd went quiet, 2…Kagome stared her opponent dead in the eyes showing her that ' I'm Kagome bitch and if you want it come and get it' look, 1…the whistle blew and Kagome jumped up with lighting fast reflexes and smacked the ball toward her team. Leiko caught it and passed it to Kai who played the triangle and passed it to Naomi. Naomi forced the ball left to keep from being surrounded and fed it to Kagome who scored a 3 pointer. The 'Snow leopards' were cheering along with the rest of the school. The game was intense but Kagome was too. Even as the other girls were being substituted Kagome remained in the game, not willing to be replaced by someone who she know wouldn't do what she could. Kagome wasn't just playing to win like all the others, she truly loved the game of basketball and it was her passion that led her to victory. It was always that way with both her and Inuyasha, but when he was sidetracked by girls she was with basketball. They kept feeding her the ball and she kept making the shots.
Out of nowhere, one of the girls from the other team purposely rammed into Kagome as she was about to score the final winning shot. Kagome fell hard at an awkward angle and hit her shoulder. Everything went quiet as the buzzer sounded. The 'Snow Leopards' won the season and the final game but they didn't rejoice. Their star player looked like she was just injured badly and that wasn't anything to be happy about. Sango pushed past the stunned people to get to her best friend. She pushed past the coach and medical advisor to see what was going on. Inuyasha was faster but he dared not get in Sango's way when she was upset. Miroku was in tow with Inuyasha as they rushed to the middle of the court. There Kagome was on the ground holding her ankle.
Kagome's POV
That girl from the other team had bumped into me just as I had scored the winning shot. I fell and damn it I fell hard. Everything went quiet as the buzzer sounded rather than loud applause and cheers. I hear Sango yell my name and before I know t I'm surrounded. Coach, the nurse, the principal and a Sango are all standing around me asking me if I'm okay. Hell no my ankle hurts like hell but it's not broken thank Kami or I'd beat the life out of that damn girl. It is sore though I might have sprained it considering the way I landed. Damn it must've looked odd…shit that's how it felt! Okay Kagome don't worry about the pain just get up. I try to get up but Sango gives me the eye. Inuyasha and Miroku look really worried I mean gees you would think I was deformed or something. Alright enough of this pity-act people we won the damn game.
Normal POV
Sango looked at Kagome like she was crazy and Miroku was about to go toward her, but Inuyasha put a hand on his shoulder.
"Let her get up she'll be alright." Inuyasha informed as he watched intently.
Whispering could be heard as everyone watched Kagome slowly get up on her own and Sango steady her, putting Kagome's Arm over her. Inuyasha and Miroku went to them and helped brace her as well. The cloud screamed their applause and finally the streamers fell. All of Kagome's teammates applauded her as she and her friends made their way towards the nurses' office, with the nurse following behind them.
The girl who had pushed Kagome merely sneered at her and Kagome could have sworn she saw her glance in Kikyo's direction. This didn't go unnoticed by Sango and she and Kagome smirked and winked at each other before Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha's golden orbs staring at her.
"You did the damn thing tonight Kag…and I have to say that I'm a little surprised that you weren't yelling your head off at that girl. As a matter of fact did you hit your head because the something ain't right." he toyed with her jokingly.
"Thanks for the compliment, but don't be surprised…I have my ways of getting back at people and that girl and somebody else has it coming to them." Inuyasha arched his eyebrow at her little statement catching a mischievous glint in her eye.
TBC….
Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out…hehe my fault, I had writer's block, my sculpture for the art show in my school is taking a lot out of me, playing my PSP is a job OKAY, and New York Regents ain't no joke. Lol, Anyways I hope you guys like this chapter. I got my head right and thank God school in Brooklyn will be over June 15…I love high school! So I should be updating a little more frequently. HOLLA AT UR GURL! with some reviews on what's on your mind about my story. I'd appreciate it. And if you write a flame, you better believe your getting one right back…I plays no games. Lol, I'm feeling hood today! Phoenix-T