"Uh, Kagome...listen...there's something I need to...tell you..."
Kagome smiled and looked at him intently.
"What is it?"
"Well...I...-"
Screwed by the bell.
Yori quickly took over again and panicked.
"AH! THE SCHOOL BELL! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"
He grabbed Kagome's hand and ran to the school, leaving yet another bike behind in their wake.
"Come on Kagome! We're gonna be late!"
"Yori, please calm down! Whoa! Watch out for the c-"
FWAM! Yori ran without looking, and was hit by a car as it screeched on the brakes, and fell back, tumbling over the sidewalk.
"Yori?" Kagome screamed. She pulled him up and looked at him, shaking him.
"Yori, wake up! Are you okay!"
A flash of gold told her that Inuyasha had taken over. He gripped the side of his head in pain, wincing and grinding his teeth.
"Inuyasha, is he okay?"
"No, even I'm dizzy from that...DAMN he hit us hard!"
"What are we going to do!"
Kagome thought for a minute, trying to figure something out.
"Hmm...I don't think there are any tests today...Inuyasha, would you mind pretending to be Yori today?"
"...What. Did. You. Just. Say?"
"Come on! I promise all you have to do is sit there and pretend to write stuff down! I'll give Yori my notes to copy when he's better!"
"Are you frickin' serious! What about my eyes!"
"Oh, that's right! Your eyes! What are we gonna do?"
"But Kagome, I really need to tell you some-"
"I know, I know! You don't know what school's like; don't worry!"
"KAGOME, I HAVE TO-"
"Aha! Here! One of my friends gave them to me yesterday..."
She pulled out a pair of sunglasses.
"KAGOME!"
"Put these on!" She reached for his face, lunging at him as he titled back his head.
"DAMMIT! WHAT THE HELL?"
"We're going to have to tell them something as an excuse..."
"What the hell are these things!"
"Now come on! We have to get to class!"
She picked up her bookbag again and rushed to class. Grabbing Inuyasha by his arm, she pulled him up the steps and into the school, regardless of the fact that they had just scared the total crap out of the driver in that car. He sat there dumbfounded for five whole minutes, until he shook his head and drove off in shock...
Inuyasha continued to blink, trying to adjust to the change in light. His vision was dark as he lumbered across the hall...
-WHAM!
Somebody hit him in the face with a locker door.
Kagome was reeled back as he stopped dead in his tracks, his nose bright red for a moment as he held it.
"THAT WAS MY NOSE! I CAN'T SEE A DAMNED THING WITH THESE ON!"
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-"
"INUYASHA!"
Kagome ran over to him and pulled him to the girls room as fast as she could. After checking the stalls to see if anyone was there, she quickly rushed back over to Inuyasha.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS!" He said as he ripped them off.
"No time, quick, in here!"
She yanked him into a stall, locking the door as she turned around to talk to him.
"Well, at least nobody will see you for the moment."
"Kagome, I really need to-"
"Look, I'm sorry about just sticking those things over your eyes, but I panicked! My classmates would freak out if they saw a guy with yellow eyes...Oh, it wouldn't have mattered anyway...like my teachers would let you wear sunglasses in class..."
"Kagome, now that-"
She slapped her hand on his mouth, and stared at him with a strong expression.
"I really need you to calm down. I need to think here..."
She sighed, then shrugged.
"Well, Yori hasn't been here very long, and he's kind of timid...so I'm pretty sure nobody would notice if you just kept your gaze down."
"...Fine."
Inuyasha gave up on telling her. He'd wait until after this whole school thing had blown over. He let her grab him by his arm and lead them to the first class, the whole time keeping his gaze towards the floor.
"Mr. Takumi, you're not paying attention."
"Psst! Inuyasha! He's talking to you!" Kagome hissed.
"Huh? Oh!"
"Please answer the question on the board..."
"Uh..."
"Just say six!"
"Six?"
"Right. Now, the sum of the angles of a hexagon...-"
Inuyasha was bored out of his mind. What the hell was a hexagon, anyway? Suddenly he felt sorry for all the times he had bugged Kagome while she was studying. This was pretty weird stuff, and if she had to know all this...-damn.
"Okay class, today we're going to have a mile dash. First up, let's have...Houjo, Toriyama, Sonoda, Kamijyo, and...Takumi. Come on over."
Inuyasha stood in the line of boys, staring at the ground and tapping his foot in boredom.
"Mr. Takumi?"
"..."
"Yori Takumi!"
"Huh? Yori?"
He walked over to where the selected boys were, and stood in line.
"Takumi, why won't you look up?"
Inuyasha panicked, clearing his throat.
"Uh, sometimes my eyes get sensitive to light..."
"Hm. Well, just be careful when you run.- Alright boys, you know how this works, when I say 'go', run around the track for five laps. First one to finish wins. Ready, go!"
Inuyasha ran at a brisk pace, figuring he didn't need to exert himself. As he finished, he mumbled a "Finished, sir" and walked off to the side. Had he been looking up, he would have seen a dozen or so young men staring at him in sheer confusion. The teacher was shaking as he looked at the stop watch, which said fourteen point sixty-seven seconds.
Later that day, Kagome and Inuyasha came out of the school. Kagome appeared exhausted, while Inuyasha just seemed confused. They had been in detention because Inuyasha had snapped at the teacher, and Kagome had defended him.
"But Kagome! That was total bull what he said in there! That wasn't how it was done in our time, it was-"
She stuck her hand up in his face.
"I don't wanna hear it. First, the teachers kept calling on you because they said you didn't seem to be paying attention; then, you scared EVERYBODY in gym; THEN, you go and start on that...that...-!"
Kagome shuddered as she walked down the steps. All Inuyasha could do was blink, and follow a pace behind, looking like a puppy that had just been scolded.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked you to do this today. I should've tried something else...I just panicked. You want to come back to my place for a bit?"
"...Sure..."
Now wasn't the right time yet. They continued to walk down the street, while Inuyasha pondered what to do. He'd tried to talk to her in detention, but the teacher there kept shushing him. When they reached her house, they walked upstairs and went into Kagome's room.
Inuyasha lay on Kagome's bed while she went downstairs to fix something to eat. He winced as he felt a slight pain in his side, near where the car hit Yori's body. He was starting to feel very drowsy.
-Should I tell her now? I could have been wrong...for all I know, Kikyo might still be out there somewhere with that one chunk of Kagome's soul and she's waiting for me to come put her to rest or something.
He sat up when he heard the door creak open, standing up to grab the food Kagome had brought up. He muttered a thanks and dug in, staring at her.
-...Still, it's not so bad right now. At least I got to spend some normal time with her today...
She looked up at him, raising an eyebrow when she noticed he was staring.
"What?"
He stuttered then looked away.
"Uh, n-nothing."
-If I it isn't really what I have to do, then I don't want to do it in this body. I want to tell her when I'm back to normal again.
He took another bite of ramen, sighing.
-But what do I have to do then? Why would I be hurled into the future if I wasn't supposed to find Kagome? -...Maybe I just needed a reincarnation for a vessel, and my soul's been sleeping since she cast that spell on me.
"Inuyasha? Is something wrong?"
"Hmm?"
"You've had that one bit of ramen dangling out of your mouth for about two minutes now..."
Inuyasha choked for a second then sucked the ramen into his mouth, turning his head away in embarrassment.
"I was just thinking."
"What about?"
He couldn't say about her, not just yet.
"...About how I'm going to get out of this damned body. It's not much fun being in somebody else's head all the time."
-That was close...I started to feel dizzy there for a second...
"...Can we talk for a minute?"
"Sure. What about?"
"Well, earlier you said you needed to say something to me. I just wanted to give you the chance to say it."
-SHIT!
"...It...it doesn't matter anymore. I don't need to say it now."
Inuyasha started to sweat, his eyes going out of focus. He squinted, feeling faint.
"Don't start that with me, Inuyasha. I know when you're trying to hide something."
"...Kagome?"
She smiled and turned to look at him.
"Yes?"
But as she looked up, and he wheezed out...
"Something's wrong..." and his eyes faded to dark brown as he fell to the floor, and coughed a pool of blood.
"INUYASHA!"
Before all turned dark, Inuyasha looked out the window to see the daylight fade and give way to the night of the new moon.