The sun rays warmed Kagome's face as she stirred in her warm bed. She opened one eye and stared at her alarm clock. Seeing the time she jumped out of bed and straight to the bathroom to go wash up and get ready.

'7:25!? I'm gonna be late!'

Afterwards she got dressed in a hurry and gave her hair a good brush. She hardly wore any make-up, so it didn't take her an 'hour' to do it. She rushed downstairs to the kitchen, managed to get a slice of toast and run out with her book bag. Before she could run out the door, her grandfather called out to her.

"Kagome, go outside to the old well house and check if the cat is in there."

Kagome came to a shrieking halt and stomped out through the back door, all the while grumbling to herself.

'Doesn't he know the time!? I'm already going to be late!'

She sighed and walked through the backyard. She hadn't noticed, but it was really quiet outside. The wind was fresh and the only noise she heard was the chirping of the birds in the trees.

'This is nice. . .'

She was admiring her yard when she came upon staring at the 'Sacred Tree'. Her grandfather had told her about it, how it had grown to be at least a couple of centuries old already. She decided to walk towards it when she noticed someone was standing in front of it. She really couldn't tell because the person's hair was covering the backside.

'Whoever this is, he/she has really nice hair. Wonder what he/she is doing in my yard?'

She smiled and was about to call out a greeting. But as she walked, she forgot to watch her step and stumbled on a small ball. She fell butt first on the few steps leading towards the great tree and landed on her knees.

"Ow!"

She looked back at the stupid ball and mentally thanked herself for wearing jeans and not a skirt. By the time she looked up, the person was standing right above her. It seemed to be a guy because he was a tad good looking and had the cutest. . . dog ears? She stared at him in confusement until he began to speak. He smirked cockily and stared down at her.

"You look pretty stupid down there, Kikyo."

"Huh?" She didn't know what he was talking about.

"The Kikyo I knew wouldn't have stood up for that one!"

'Who is he talking about?!' She was about to stand up but decided to hear his next comment first.

Inuyasha turned to walk away but glanced back at his last comment.

"By the way, nice hair cut, if you could call that MESS one, anyway."

That's it. Kagome wasn't about to keep quiet. He didn't even know her and he was already calling her names and stuff.

'The nerve of that guy!' She stood up and brushed the dust of her pants and straightened her shirt.

Inuyasha heard this and turned to face her.

'Something's different about her. . .'

Kagome walked right up to him until they were face to face.

"Look! I don't know who you are, but you have no right to be so rude to me!"

"And why the hell not, Kikyo?!" He was angry. Kagome almost flinched.

Almost.

"Kikyo! Kikyo! I'm not this 'Kikyo'! My name is Kagome! Ka-go-me! Got it!?"

Inuyasha wasn't about to fall for one of her stupid tricks anymore.

"Look! I know you're HER! And there's no way that you could smell so. . ."

He quickly stopped himself and sniffed. He paid close attention to this, scent.

"You're not her. . ." Kagome turned her face and crossed her arms.

"Duh!" Inuyasha looked away and put his hands in his pockets.

"She smelled different. She was cuter, much cuter." Kagome turned to look at him.

"Hey!" He looked at her and just walked away. Kagome was in slight bewilderment.

She grabbed her back pack from the pavement and ran up to catch up to him. Before he knew it, she was walking next to him. They were walking out of the yard and onto the sidewalk. He caught her staring at him a couple of times.

"What are you staring at wench!?"

"I'm not a wench!"

"Then what, you got a staring problem?!"

"No! I was just wondering what you were doing in MY yard."

Inuyasha stopped walking and stared as she kept on. She noticed he wasn't there anymore and looked back.

"YOU'RE yard?" Kagome nodded her head.

"Mm hmm."

Kagome turned back and began to walk. Inuyasha was just staring at her.

'She looks so much like her.'

He snapped out of his daze and caught up with her.

"So that's your house?"

"Yeah."

"Since when?"

"Since forever, but we hadn't moved in because my grandfather was still very attached to the other shrine. But we sold that one and came back here."

"You used to live here, before?"

"Yeah. But I went to St. Peters back then." Inuyasha scoffed.

"Figures." Kagome looked at him with annoyance.

"What?"

"Keh! Nothing."

Kagome decided she would let that one go and continued to walk on. Neither had noticed but they had walked to school together. Once they got to the school Kagome suddenly felt a little nervous and stopped walking. It's been a whole year since she was last in the states and was a little nervous about the whole 'starting over' thing. She really didn't like being left out and the only people she really knew were Sango and Miroku. To top it off, she didn't even know where her best friend was. She began to fidget with strap of her back pack and looked down in discomfort.

Inuyasha noticed her absence and looked back at her.

"Hey wench! What's the problem?" Kagome's shot up in anger.

"I'm not a wench! Stop calling me that!" Inuyasha shrugged his shoulder's and sighed.

"You're not scared are you?"

Kagome uncomfortably shifted her weight to her other foot and looked elsewhere. Inuyasha sighed out loud and walked up to her. He stood right next to her and looked at her right in the eye.

"What's the problem? Poor little St. Girl scared of going in with the big crowd?"

She narrowed her eyes to him and he flinched.

"No."

With that she walked away with her head held high and into the school's office. Inuyasha watched as she left through the crowd of students and into the office.

'Her eyes back then. . .'

He shook off the memory and walked towards the building called 'school'. He hated school. If anything, the only reason he was doing all his work was so that he could graduate and get the hell out of there. There were too many memories of 'her' and he didn't want to remember them.

Kagome walked slowly inside the office and stared at all the students walk in and out of doors and some waiting in the 'lobby'. She secretly wished that the guy she came walking with came in with her. She didn't even get to catch his name. She sighed as she waited in line to the registrar's desk. She heard the yelling of a student in front of her as she was waiting. She seemed to be a very angry girl.

"No freakin' way! I did NOT sign up for this class!" the counselor just looked at the student and nodded her head.

"I'm sorry but that's what I have here, in YOUR writing." The red head just turned her head and stormed out of the office.

"Whatever!"

Kagome got to have a good look at her and noticed that the girl had very pretty green eyes. She shrugged her shoulders and stepped up when the counselor announced who was next. Kagome cleared her throat and began.

"Hi, I'm new here. My friend and my mom fixed my papers for me to begin this year. I'm Kagome Higurashi."

The counselor rummaged through papers and pulled out a folder from a filing cabinet.

"Here you are. Higurashi?" Kagome nodded her head in happiness.

"Well here you go dear. Your class schedule is inside. Have a nice day."

Kagome nodded in excitement and walked out. She couldn't believe the school bell hadn't rung yet. She looked at her watch and frowned.

'It's already 8:05.'

She looked around the front of the campus. There were students every where. The girl's hugged and greeted each other; the guys did their 'handshake'. She sighed to herself.

'It seems ordinary.'

As she turned around she bumped into a guy. She quickly said she was sorry with out looking up. When she did, she saw a tall boy with brown orange hair, and brown eyes. He smiled handsomely to her.

"I'm sorry; I wasn't looking where I was going. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, thank you."

They smiled at each other for a while longer until they heard a gasp. They both turned there heads and looked where the gasp came from.

"Kagome! You're here already!? I told you to call me this morning!"

Kagome smiled and put her hands behind her back.

"Sorry Sango. I woke up late and ran into someone."

Sango looked at the guy next to her and smiled.

"Obviously." Kagome's face went shy red. The guy next to her cleared his throat.

"I'm sorry. I've been rude, my name's Houjo." Kagome quickly recovered and took out her hand for a hand shake.

"Kagome Higurashi." They smiled and Sango quickly hugged her friend and broke them apart.

"Well now that you have met, sorry Houjo, but she's new and I gotta' show her around." He smiled and looked at Kagome.

"Sure. It was nice meeting you Kagome." He began to walk away slowly.

"You too, Houjo."

As Sango put her arm around Kagome, Kagome looked back at Houjo.

"He was nice." Then she heard a familiar voice and turned her head.

"Yeah if you like 'pretty boys'."

She already knew who it was. Part of her was mad at him for being rude, though a piece of her was glad that she got to see him again. Maybe she could ask his name before taking off.

"Why are you always so rude to people?" Sango looked at her friend and smiled.

"Don't worry Kagome, he's ALWAYS like that."

Then Kagome noticed Miroku walking up to them.

"What a fine morning to be at school, huh?" Inuyasha then turned to him.

"Yeah, nothing but fresh meat!"

Miroku and Inuyasha chuckled and did their 'handshake' while Kagome and Sango just rolled their eyes. Kagome began to take notice of her surroundings and just looked around.

The campus was a little big, compared to the school she went to in Japan, but St. Peter's was bigger than this one. She looked at the students again and noticed some were playing football on the grass and some were already reading on near by tables up front. Sango waved her hand in front of Kagome's face.

"Hello? Kagome?" She came out of her daze and looked at Sango.

"Yes?"

"Are you okay?" Kagome smiled warmly.

"Yeah, it just feels a little weird. That's all." Sango smiled.

"You just need to get used to it. Till then, welcome to Shikon High."

Both girls smiled and giggled while the guys mimicked them. As they were walking Kagome was asking questions.

"It's already 8:15, how come the bell hasn't rung yet?" Sango smiled at her friend.

"It's the second week of school. Only the first and second week on Monday, are the students allowed to go in late. You know, for new comers and all."

Kagome then heard Inuyasha behind them.

"Yeah, like you St.'s." Kagome turned and looked at annoyingly.

"Will you shut up!" Sango giggled and stopped suddenly.

"Wait a minute. You two know each other? I didn't even introduce you."

Kagome and Inuyasha stared at each other for a moment before looking elsewhere. Kagome started to tell them where she had met him, but before she could tell them where, Inuyasha ran to her and covered her mouth. He didn't want to let them know that he wasn't over 'HER' yet. So he interrupted Kagome's explanation.

"I was walking by the shrine and she walked out."

Sango and Miroku switched glances and looked at them both.

"Well, I guess. But knowing YOU, you probably didn't introduce yourself!"

Kagome took his hand off her mouth and scoffed.

"You got that right." Sango smiled.

"Well, Kagome, this is Inuyasha. Inuyasha, this is Kagome, my best friend from Japan."

They switched looks and stared at sango. Inuyasha stated the obvious.

"Keh!"

Kagome just turned around and greeted.

"Nice to meet you."

Sango and Miroku started talking about something, something that kagome didn't really care about. She looked at the school building then at her new friends, well, besides sango. Then she looked at Inuyasha. He was off in a daze, so it seemed. She smiled when she looked at his ears. They were so cute!

'Hmm. . . maybe this school isn't so 'ordinary' after all.'