Disclaimer: Anyone you recognize doesn't belong to me. Anyone you don't, does. Especially Kusaraku Fujii. He's my pride and joy.

Title: Body, Mind, and Soul

Chapter: Two – Weirdness

"Naraku!" As Kagome stared at this supposed new student, the circuits in her brain fired more rapidly than usual, sending thoughts rushing through her brain as she stared in shock. Oh God he's here he's actually right here right here in front of me I have no weapons I'm defenseless my friends are all in danger oh God Inuyasha I need Inuyasha! But no I can't leave him alone when I'm gone he'll kill my friends and it'll be all my fault oh no what do I do?

"Eh?" His glasses back on, Kusaraku raised an eyebrow at the girl - Higurashi. "No, my first name is not Naraku, but Kusaraku, not that we are on a first-name basis…" He looked at the girl, who had a stunned look upon her face. The stunned look changed quickly to one of terror as she backed away, step by step, before turning away and running off.

What was that all about? He wondered. His thoughts were interrupted when the school bell rang, signaling that it was time for classes to start.

Kagome now sat in class, and the teacher was lecturing to everyone on some math subject, but, even though she really should have been, she was not listening to him.

He sat just two desks to the right of her. Naraku. She kept glancing at him out of the corner of her eye, sweating. Why was he here? How the heck did he get here? WHY was he here?

But there were several things weird about the situation, other than the obvious.

One: She didn't sense any jewel shards with him.

Two: She couldn't sense any evil or anything coming off of him.

Three: Other than thinking she looked a bit familiar, he didn't recognize her, it seemed.

Four: He didn't look completely like his usual self. It wasn't just the glasses and braid, either… he actually looked younger.

Five: If she didn't recognize him as Naraku, she would not have thought anything unusual about him. By the way he acted, he seemed as though he'd gone to school all his life… he looked like he was used to it, even if he did look a bit bored. He just seemed like a normal student, except for the fact that he seemed a bit… separate from the other students, if you know what I mean.

What the heck was going on? Was Naraku just acting like he didn't know her? What was his motive for being here? Was it her jewel shards that he wanted? Did he want to capture her and use her against Inuyasha? Was he maybe here just for the pleasure of seeing her in torment over his very presence?

She'd thought about skipping out on class for once to go get Inuyasha, but had decided against it; no way was she gonna leave him alone! He could kill everyone she cared about in an instant.

All that she knew for sure was this: She needed to find out exactly why he was here… she needed to figure out how the heck he had got through the well, and when. Lastly, she needed to figure out what to do about him… how to send him back through the well, namely, so that Inuyasha could finally give the bastard what he deserved.

Queen Serenity: Would anyone out there like to try to draw Kusaraku for me? Hmm? If you did, you'd have to be sure and put him in a boy's uniform for her school, like Hojo wears. For position, you could pick, but a possible one would be the way he was under the tree when he was reading in the first chapter. Or maybe you could drawing him standing with Kagome.