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"Glad you could join us Kayomi" said the teacher as Inuyasha and Kagome entered.
"It's Kagome." Inuyasha corrected. "Whatever." Said the teacher as she pointed with her eyes to a empty science table. "Welcome to Environmental science. Take a good look at the person sitting right next to you because your gonna see a lot more of them then your planning too. This year, instead of individual studies we'll be broken up into partners. So I'll assign the partners right now." The teacher looked around and continued. "The person sitting next to you is you partner, any questions? No? Alright then if you'll look on the board you'll see this year's syllabus."
"You will be doing some out of school projects so it might be a wise decision to swap e-mails and addresses. I'll be your teacher Mrs. Yamada. There are textbooks on all your desks, we'll be doing some worksheets, I know its only the third day of school, but get used to it. Open your books to page 13" Mrs. Yamada sat down and started instructing on what to do.
Science class was a bore, Kagome's leg wouldn't stop twitching (mine does that when I'm nervous) addresses? What if he asks to come over to my house? She took a side glance over at Inuyasha who was now drawing little devil smiley faces on his notebook.
Kagome sighed and continued her nervous racking. She looked up slightly when she noticed her heart rate get faster, what if he did find out her mother beat her? Would he do something? Kikyo didn't know, but if she did it wouldn't matter, Kikyo was Kikyo, inside and outside.
Kagome gave a small huff and ruffled her hair a little. She had finished the worksheet a long time ago, but there was still forty five minutes of class time to burn, and everyone was silent.
She guessed Inuyasha didn't care about the worksheet judging by how many little drawings he made.
Kagome was so deep in her little nervous world she didn't notice Inuyasha lean over to her to ask her something. "Boo." He said quietly in her ear.
Kagome jumped slightly, but not enough to get the attention of the class.
"Heh." Inuyasha laughed a little but stopped when he noticed Kagome turn away.
"Hey you ok?" He said leaning over again so not to disturb the class.
Kagome nodded a little but was still looking away. When she jumped it had made the bandages on her arm get loose and now you could see the cuts across her wrist.
"Oh crap." Kagome whispered to herself.
"Oh crap what?" Inuyasha looked over her shoulder to see her looming over her wrist. "What is that?"
"N-nothing, um, excuse me." Kagome said as she got off her stool and went out of the classroom. Inuyasha guessed the teacher supposed that she was going to the bathroom. He had no proof that she wasn't, but he would've felt better if Kagome had gone to the nurse like he told her to.
That was so close, but, what if he did know about mommy and her drinking? Would he even try helping? I only knew him for an hour or two, but what if he could help me get away from—no that's getting my hopes up again, not this time, not again.
Kagome sighed and looked at the deserted hallway. She had pulled her sleeve down over the cuts for now, but she needed to get to her locker for her sweater.
And out of nowhere she was pushed against the lockers. "Ah." Kagome whispered wincing, there was a bruise on her back that just hit the handle of the locker.
"What are YOU doing here?" Kagome looked up, it was Hojo, he had went to her old school, and suddenly all the memories came back as if he was telling her the story.
"Hey Kagome, wanna hang out at your place after school, Mrs. Dakota wants me to get some tutoring in math." Hojo said walking up to a small girl, roughly the age of 12.
"Sorry Hojo, I can't I'm, um, going somewhere with my mom." Kagome lied.
"Kagome what's up with you? Your always skipping out on me, I knew that when the other kids made fun of you it was mean. But now I'm starting to think maybe I should join them, Kagome your so worthless." Hojo stated, half angry half disappointed.
"I-it's not that, my mother, she, she beats me alright! You happy! My mom beats me! There I said it!" Kagome yelled back, afraid that if he got mad at her they wouldn't be friends anymore.
"Your such a liar, Kagome I don't even know why I became your friend in the first place, all the other kids say your weird and being your friend makes me weird too. Now I see they were right, Kagome Higurashi we hate you." Hojo said like a know it all jack ass before running off away from her.
"I…hate me too." Kagome slowly started walking home, for the first time that school year…alone.
"I go to this school." Kagome said in her usual innocent voice.
"Pfft, once worthless always worthless." Hojo said walking off.
But when he was passing the corner a textbook popped out and hit him strait in the face. "Oh I'm sorry did that hurt?" Inuyasha said dropping the textbook, what looked like very hard, onto Hojo's head.
"You jerk!" Hojo said getting up and throwing it off somewhere.
"You should be the one talking smart ass." Inuyasha said opening the locker beside him and grabbing Hojo's collar to stuff him in it. After slamming the locker door shut Inuyasha put the lock back on it and starting whistling when a teacher walked by.
"Whew." He craned his neck and looked around the corner to see if the teacher was really gone. Kagome slid down the locker wall and sat down. She blew some hair out of her face.
"You ok?" Inuyasha asked kneeling down.
Kagome slowly stood up using the lockers for support. She seemed as though she was fighting herself not to say 'no, I'm hurt'.
"Yes, I—I'm fine." Kagome stood up completely, but her shoulder never left the lockers, still half using them for weight.
"You sure?" Inuyasha said skeptically.
"Positive - negative + positive." Kagome said. (positive minus negative is neutral, and neutral plus positive is positive.)
"What?" Inuyasha blinked.
"Nothing." Kagome said.
"Come on." Inuyasha huffed grabbing the handle of her bookbag again, remembering she didn't like it when he touched her.
"Where are you taking me?" Kagome said going along obediently.
"Nurse." Inuyasha said gruffly.
Kagome jerked back causing Inuyasha to slam into the lockers. He had his eyes closed as if slowly counting to ten, and his eyebrow was twitching slightly. "Ow." He said after a second of silence.
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" Kagome said bowing again.
"Yes alright I get it. Why don't you want to go to the nurse? And don't tell me your not hurt, I saw you limping." Inuyasha crossed his arms and waited, knowing he'd won.
Kagome remembering that Inuyasha didn't really know what she was saying when she talking scientific, tried to think of a really big word. "I'm a, uh, Refutasiousamorasoisis" (Ref—oo—tas—si—oo—am—or—as—so—si—sis--)
Kagome would've smiled but she was a very bad liar, you would think she would've gotten used to a thing like that by now.
"Liar. You think I'm dumb don't you? I know that's not a word." Inuyasha sneered getting closer to Kagome's face to gloat.
"Eh?" Kagome said, obviously he hadn't noticed how close there faces were, but it was very uncomfortable for her. "Hm, I win, your going." Inuyasha said jerking around and grabbing her bookbag handle again and this time walking a bit faster.
"Inuyasha-sama, please let go of my bookbag, I don't want to go to the nurse." Kagome said.
"Why would you rather me examine you?" Inuyasha said, already knowing her answer, he continued walking, and draggin her along.
"But Inuyasha-sama, people are staring, could you please at least let go of my bookbag?" Kagome pleaded, paying attention to the students walking by giving them glances and then second glances.
"How do I know you won't run away or something?" Inuyasha said raising an eyebrow and getting close to her face again. "I won't Inuyasha-sama." Kagome said looking down. "Good, because if you do, I'll tackle you to the ground." He was laughing, he made a very threatening comment, and he was laughing.
Kagome not knowing he was joking started laughing nervously too, afraid if she didn't he'd hit her or something. But she stopped imeediately when he turned around and looked at her.
"I was only joking." He said looking at her shaking.
Kagome nodded and continued ahead of him. "The office is this way." She said.
They both stepped into the office and down a small hallway leading up to the nurse's office. "Well hello Kagome, I'm sorry, but you aren't supposed to come and help me with the kids till Friday, I don't have anyone today." The nurse said looking up from her desk. She was tall, and middle aged, maybe in her early twenties. Her name tag said, Ms. Tachkoon.
"Actaully, Kagome's maybe hurt, you mind taking alook at her?" Inuyasha said.
"Course, anything for Kaggie." Ms. Tachkoon got up from her table and walked up to Kagome. "Well, let's take a look, lift up your shirt." She said lightly.
Inuyasha cleared his throat loudly and the nurse looked over to him. "Oh right, sorry." She said to him before pulling a curtain around her and Kagome. Inuyasha turned around and shuffled his feet while waiting. He heard a couple whispers and fabric sliding, but nothing he could make out very well. Maybe she just had spraned her ankle a little at home and it was nothing?
Then he heard the nurse gasp and say, "Kagome how did you get those injuries?" Inuyasha shot around and was aobut to pull back the curtain when he heard Kagome's quiet voice cut the silence.
"I fell down the stairs, I'm sorry Ms. Tachkoon-kun, I'm just clumsy is all." Kagome said you could hear the samll forced smile on her face.
"I want them to get banddaged up this second, and Kagome...just, be more careful." Ms. Tachkoon said before pulling back the curtain. Inuyasha was caught in the act, his ear had been centimeters from the cutain and now it was facing Ms. Tachkoon's face. "Well better you eavesdrop than peek." She sighed before shuffling Kagome into the back room. "We'll be out in a minute." She said before closing the door.