Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. (dreams of Sess in just big fluffy towel) Ahh... but a girl can certainly dream.

A/N: Here's the next installment. To my reviewers- thank you. Now: is Adrien Rin? Yes and No. Adrien is Rin reincarnated but like Kagome and Kikyou, she is really nothing like Rin in some ways. The fact that she is an orphan and will be with Fluffy I think are the only ways where she is like her, I may change it though where she is more like her. I hope that answers all ur questions.

Also, this chapter is dedicated to my friends Kim, Sharon, and Hannah- all of whom are represented here. You'll understand what I mean when you read it. I kinda based Adrien's friends on them- just a little with the personalities.

Ch6: Singled Out

Takomaru High School

"Okay class let's begin with our lesson, shall we? I understand that this is the last period of the day but we will do work and we will do it without complaint. Do I make myself clear?" asked Mr. Sachitory. He was the hardest, meanest history teacher at Takomaru High and it just had to be Adrien's luck that she would get him for her worst subject.

"Now- you will turn to page 364 in your book. Your assignment today will be on the myths and legends of Japanese demons and how the demons were killed. You will read the entire chapter and when you are done you will do the study questions at the end of the chapter."

Even though their teacher said no complaints, Adrien could still hear low moans and groans about it. Just when she began pulling out her text book, Adrien felt something hit her in the back of the head. It was a balled-up piece of paper thrown from Kikame, who was one of the three smartest and sweetest people Adrien knew. Kikame was also Adrien's very first friend in Japan. Adrien was curious to know what was so urgent for her to know that it would make Kikame risk getting caught passing notes in class to tell her.

Not wanting to waste anytime in stalling, Adrien opened her book to the right page and when the evil teacher wasn't looking picked up the note and began reading it. Adrien had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing out loud at what her friends had drawn. There on the little crumpled piece of notebook paper was a drawing of Mr. Sachitory sitting at a vanity and putting on make-up while wearing a short black dress. Adrien thought he looked as if he was getting ready to go out.

Underneath the illustration was a little note that said, "I bet Sachitory takes longer getting ready in the morning than we do and then he remembers that he is a man and therefore must change out of his pantyhose back into his briefs. Of course, he could do what you said and not wear briefs at all but keep the pantyhose on over his thong."

Adrien read over it once more to make sure she didn't miss anything and looked behind her to the back of the class to see her only three friends smiling at her. She knew that they did it to cheer her up. With the holidays coming it was going to be difficult not to think of her family even though Japan didn't celebrate the holidays like she did in America.

'I don't think they celebrate Thanksgiving here,' she thought.

She looked back down at the paper and tried to figure out who did what. 'Kikame must have come up with the idea because she is always saying that Sachitory must be gay or something. Kim drew the picture that's for sure, and Rhea wrote the note. I've got some kinky friends.'

Adrien was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't realize that she had been caught by the very person she and her friends were making fun of. "Higurashi, read the next paragraph."

Adrien jumped in her seat and she knew that she had been caught. 'Maybe he didn't realize that I was reading something other than the book. Maybe I can pass it off as me just sleeping in class,' Adrien thought has she felt the eyes of every student in that class bore into her like she was a freak at some freak sale.

"Higurashi, we are waiting for you to continue to the next paragraph. Seeing as how you don't know where we are, perhaps you would like to read us something else," said Mr. Sachitory while making his way over towards Adrien, "Something that is written on notebook paper and has nothing really to do with what we are discussing in class. Please let us have it?" Mr. Sachitory asked.

Adrien looked up to see that her teacher was standing right in front her desk. 'Busted! I guess he won't buy my excuse for falling asleep then', Adrien thought and cleared her throat to answer him.

"Well, Mr. Sachitory I would but I don't have a piece of notebook paper to show you. Actually, I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about," she said. Adrien could hear her fellow classmates try to stifle their laughter but Mr. Sachitory didn't think it very amusing at all.

With Adrien distracted with the laughter that was steadily growing, Mr. Sachitory reached down and took the note from her hands. The laughter that had suddenly filled the classroom had just as suddenly quieted down, and the volume in the room settled to the sound of a tomb. The time it took for Sachitory to read over the note and study the illustration made Adrien and three other girls become very unsettled.

By the time Sachitory finished with the note, Adrien was busy making a mental will of everything she owned. "Did you do this Higurashi? If not than I expect you to tell me who did and I might lessen your punishment," Mr. Sachitory said trying to persuade Adrien to give up her friends.

Adrien knew what he was trying to do so she just decided to play along with his little game. "Actually, Mr. Sachitory, I just found that little note on the floor. I don't know who wrote all that stuff. By the way, is it true about the cross dresser thing?"

As soon as the words left her lips, Adrien knew she had made a big mistake. The whole room was an uproar in fits of laughter. There were even a few students who were laughing so hard that they had fallen on the floor rolling. It was no secret that everyone believed that their most hated teacher had a secret life as a woman but not one of them had ever had the guts to ask him to his face about it.

"SILENCE!" Mr. Sachitory screamed. "I want everyone in their seats now! Well Miss Higurashi, I suppose this is your idea of a joke. Well go ahead and get your laugh now but it will be me laughing when you and your little friends are in detention for the next four days." Mr. Sachitory announced as he made his way back to his desk to start writing the girls up.

Adrien couldn't believe what she was hearing. 'Four whole days in detention! He can't do that; he doesn't have any proof that we had anything to do with it.'

Fueled by her anger, Adrien slammed her hands on her desk and stood up to confront the little rat nosed man. "You can't write us up for making that note."

Shocked by Adriens outburst, Mr. Sachitory had to take a minute to pull himself together before taking the girl on again. "As a matter of fact young lady, I am the teacher and can do whatever the hell I want to do. And if that is writing you four brats up, then so be it." Adrien couldn't believe this; he didn't have any proof that her friends had anything to do with that note.

"Mr.Sachitory, you don't have any proof that we did that note. You have other classes and other students who could have written that note. And you're not the only one who can turn a written report into the principal," Adrien said in her most threatening voice.

No one could believe what was happening in their class that day. Not only did Adrien ask their teacher the one question that they themselves were too afraid to ask but that she was also threatening him as well! Mr.Sachitory couldn't believe it either, nor could he believe that the little wench was right about two things: one, he didn't have any proof that she and her little friends did this. Second, she could write up a report as well saying that he wrote her up for detention without any solid proof that she did anything wrong besides picking up a piece of paper on the floor and that he wrote her friends up as well without any solid proof on them. Besides he was already walking on eggshells around the head principal, and he didn't need this little bitch making more trouble for him.

'Damn her! I thought I had them in detention for good this time! I'll get them some day. One way or another I'll get them.'

Sachitory was taking so long to answer her that Adrien was afraid that he wasn't listening to her or taking her seriously. Adrien looked up to see that they had less than five minutes of class left and Mr. Sachitory still hadn't answered to her threat. She had just about given up all of hope when Sachitory finally stood up and addressed the class.

"Since we didn't get to finish our lesson today I would like you to do it and your homework both to turn in tomorrow completed. Your homework is to do the review questions at the end of this chapter and give me two reports on this chapter and the next chapter. Both reports are to be at least two and half pages long." Sachitory smiled when he heard the groans of his students thinking about all the homework he had put on them along with their other subject assignments.

"Oh please, don't blame me for this. You wouldn't have all the extra homework if a certain someone would just pay attention in class and not spread lies about her teachers," he said, smiling like a crazed lunatic as he felt the hatred move from him to be directed at someone else.

Then he got an idea that made him as happy as a child again when he looked up to see they only had one minute left in class. "Oh by the way, you have a pop quiz tomorrow on one of the chapters we have already covered. Class dismissed."

The Wacdonald's

"Guys, I am so sorry that I got you more homework than you needed. I don't know what got into me!" Adrien said as she waited along with her friends to get their burgers and drinks.

"I wish they would hurry up with our order. Don't worry about it Adrien; so what if our entire class hates you right now? I bet they've never seen a show like that in their whole lives. I'm proud to call you my friend," said Kim.

As they got their food and found some seats, Kim's words still didn't ease Adriens guilt about having the entire class pay for what her and her friends said about Mr.Sachitory behind his back. It began raining hard when the girls sat down to eat but Adrien had no interest in her food or the conversation going on. Instead, she just turned towards the window and began to think back to the other day when it was so stormy like this and how she was scared to death from a nightmare that had her killing herself.

She hadn't dreamed of that nightmare since that stormy night but she did think about it all the time. She still thought about the tall, silver haired stranger in her dream. She could never see his face except his eyes and it was those eyes that scared her most of all. 'Who are you? Why can't I see your face? What do you wa-'

"Hello, Japan to Adrien. Girl, are you okay?" Kikame asked.

"Huh? Yeah, I'm okay; I was just thinking for a minute," Adrien answered, "Really guys I'm fine, let's eat before our food gets cold. So what's the newest gossip around school Rhea ?"

After taking an enormous, unhuman bite of her burger and swallowing down with a gulp of coke, Rhea told them who all was going with who to the Halloween dance that was only a little ways off.

"I totally forgot about the dance coming up. I guess I need to start looking for a date then. Are you sure Nikkei is going with Lisa? I mean they hate each other," Adrien asked her friend.

"Yup, I'm sure. Lisa was bragging about it today in the girls locker room. She was sayin' what a scumbag Nikkei was but he was the best guy to go to the dance with. I bet he is the best thing at other things as well." Rhea mouthed out before taking another bite of her burger.

Kikame, who had been quietly eating her salad, suddenly popped into the conversation, "Yeah, but I bet Kura is the same way with you Rhea." Rhea's face turned to a shade of red that would make a rose envious of it.

Before any of them could tease Rhea more, Kim jumped in to defend her. "Guys, leave her alone."

Rhea thanked Kim for taking up for her before she had to kill them and was looking smug about it when Kim added, "Your welcome, and don't let them tease you. It's not your fault that you have a boyfriend with insatiable appetites."

All the girls busted out with laughter, except Rhea who was looking at the other customers hoping none of them had heard what they were talking about. "Yeah, you all laugh but at least I have a boyfriend and a date to the dance and you don't." Rhea pointed out as she polished off her last of her meal.

Adrien looked at her friend and knew that she was right. She had never seen it until now, but the real reason that they picked on Rhea so much when it concerned Kura was that they were jealous.

'Yup, it's true. I'm jealous of Rhea and all the girls actually. They have no idea how lucky they have it. I bet they never have to worry about having nightmares of killing themselves. Not to mention the guy with the dangerous animalistic eyes that is also in those same dreams. I bet they don't get plagued with memories of seeing their family torn to pieces by glass, metal and whatever a car is made out of. They don't hear the firemen's voices, the screams, the sirens, every minute of every day. No, they don't hear those things. They have never heard those sounds in their life. They have their families so why should they worry about hearing them?'

Adrien looked up from her half eaten meal and looked at her friends arguing with each other as always. She had to get out of there, the air was suffocating her and she couldn't breath. Her lungs felt as if they were being crushed. Without saying anything to her bickering friends, Adrien grabbed her stuff and left.

The rain was freezing, so freezing that it felt as if your blood tuned to ice every time one little drop fell on you. Adrien didn't care, she liked the rain. She didn't see the people scurrying on the sidewalk beside her, each trying to find their way back to their warm, comfy home fire. She didn't have a home to scurry back to unless you counted her aunts' house and that wasn't exactly her home. That was their home and she was just a long term guest there.

She had finally made back to the shrine and house but didn't go in. Instead, she just stood there and looked over the city. This wasn't her city; none of this was hers. 'Damn it, why do I have to ruin everything? I was having a good day up until I started remembering. Maybe I should listen to my doctor and take some anti depressant pills. I think I'm going off the deep end,' Adrien thought to herself but still made no move to go inside.

The rain began to pick up more speed, the wind began to blow harder, colder, and the thunder was becoming a crescendo of booms. Adrien began to shiver from the unrelenting cold of the pre-winter storm. 'This is the last week of October and soon the cold front will move in. This is only a small taste of the cold weather we will get this winter. I will have to ask grandpa what the weather is like here during the winter,' she thought and turned around to go inside.

When she stepped up onto the small deck she heard something crack and looked up to see it was the giant God Tree's branches shifting in the whipping wind of the storm. She sighed and went inside of the house.

End A/N: Don't forget to review on your way out. I know a few people are reading without reviewing, and I really gotta ask you to say SOMETHING. I really want more response, or I mighttake a break to work on other stories. Ok, that's all- don'tforget to R and R!

Seductively Yours,
Dream Toxin