Disclaimer: Okay, it is sad for me to say, i do . . . not own InuYasha or any of it's characters. All of the InuYasha storylines, characters, etc., belong to Rumiko Takahashi . . . . . . not me :sigh:
Character info:
Note: I think there aren't four years in high school in Japan, but in my story there is.
Kagome Higurashi: Age 16 She's pretty tough, but not as tough as her older sister. She has sapphire blue eyes, and black, almost jet-blue hair. She is sort of the trouble maker and it seems like she has anger problems and can be pretty rash at times, and she loves sleeping. She's the main character and has secrets no one knows of. Although she is lazy, she is very smart in most of her mandatory classes such as English, Global studies, and Sciences therefore she is in sophmore classes for these. The only mandatory classes that she is not good in is Japanese and Math. (Gym is also mandatory but it doesn't count as a level based class.)
Kikyou Higurashi: Age 17 She's much tougher than Kagome and is very strict about impressions and behavior. She looks almost like Kagome except she has chocolate brown eyes, and pure black hair. Kikyou flunked math so she had to retake freshman math again. She's a sophmore.
Inuyasha Taisho: Age 16: He's sort of a clown and is also much like Kagome with the anger and rashness. He is Sesshomaru's younger brother. He has silver hair and light amber eyes. He's a rowdy student, but still manages to pass. He's a freshman.
Sesshomaru Taisho: Age 17: He's Inuyasha's older brother and he's they type to keep to himself. He is rude, and sort of cocky, as well as arrogant. He and his brother sort of get along, not too much though. He has silver hair as well and darker amber eyes. He is good in class and is a sophmore.
Sango Nakamura: Age 16: She has a short temper, especially towards Miroku, but she is a really good friend. She is the 5th richest family, tied with the Kaneda family. She is a freshman in school and has known Inuyasha, Miroku, and the reserved Sesshomaru since she was little.
Miroku Kaneda: Age 17: He's a pervert who can't keep control of his wandering hand. He is a close friend with the Taisho brothers as well as Sango since before he could remember. His family is tied with the Nakamura family in wealth. He has a sense of humor, but also knows when to be serious. He is a sophmore in high school.
Kouga Oukami: Age 16: He's very controllive and has his own posse. His family is the 3rd wealthiest in Japan. He is an ecchi (not a big pervert) and can't stay out of trouble. Close friends with Naraku and Kagura. He's a freshman and has something against the Taisho brothers, Sango and Miroku.
Naraku Onigumo: Age 17: He's a sophmore and is a troublemaker, worse than Kagome and Kouga. His sister is Kagura (not too important so I don't have to write her down in this list.) who has a thing for Sesshomaru. He hates the same people as Kouga and he is the second wealthiest family in Japan.
Well those are all of the "main" characters that I have in my mind right now. There are other characters, but they aren't really important. If another "main" character appears, I'll write them down in a chapter where they start to become important. Only Kikyou and Kagome appear in this chapter right now, the rest of the appear in the next chapter . . . . hopefully so please don't kill me.
By the way: Okay this is my first ever story, so please bear with me. I will try my hardest with my grammer and i will try to update as frequently as possible. So without further adu ( -- not sure if that's how it's spelt.) here's the first chapter of my story.
Chapter 1: Off to A Bad Start
"Kagome! Wake up!" Kagome stirred in her bed as she heard her name being yelled out in her room.
"We're going to be late on our first day of school!" She yelled as she realized that Kagome would not wake.
"Leave me alone Kikyou." she mumbled. " I don't want to go to a new school anyway." She turned her head away from Kikyou and then pulled her covers over her head.
"Argh!" yelled Kikyou, annoyed by her sister's laziness. Kikyou left the room, slamming the door on her way out. Moments later, she came back into the room with a cup of freezing cold water in one hand. She walked towards the bed and with her free hand, she pulled the covers down from Kagome's face, and before Kagome had the chance to pull the covers back over her face, Kikyou dumped the freezing water on Kagome's face. Kagome instantly woke up and jumped out of bed. "What the fuck Kikyou!" What's your freakin' problem!" she yelled to her sister.
Kikyou, keeping her calm composure simply stated, "If you weren't so damned hard-headed, then I wouldn't have had to do that. I suggest that you get ready for school, unless you want me to do something far worse than throwing water on your face."
Upon hearing her sister's threat, Kagome ran up to her walk-in closet, where she grabbed a pair of black baggy pants, and a tight red shirt that read: "Death is just the beginning." in bold black letters. She then went to her chestnut dresser next to her bathroom and pulled out her undergarments. As she was walking into her bathroom, she mumbled under her breath "Fucking goody two shoes bitch."
About 10 minutes later, Kagome finally got out of the shower dressed in her clothes. She looked at her clock next to her bed and realized that they could still make it on time if they left now. "Damnit Kikyou! You rushed me and we won't even get there that late! We'd be there just in time or something!" Kagome yelled knowing that Kikyou could hear her from her room one door away.
Kagome grabbed her socks from her dresser and then went back to her closet to grab her black and red Vans, which she quickly placed on her feet.. She then headed to her sisters room which was the second door to her left, the room inbetween was an office that she normally used to go talk on the phone, on her own personal line, only because this room had soundproof walls and the door was also soundproof. This was just one of three offices in the house, this one being hers, the one down the hall was Kikyou's, and the one on the third floor was thier parents.
Kagome knocked on Kikyou's door and then entered. What an ugly looking uniform, glad I'm not planning on wearing that. Thought Kagome. As she looked at the outfit, she realized that the skirt was awfully short, and the shirt had an big ugly embelm on it. The only thing that she liked was that the uniform had a nice color. It was one of the only schools (in my story at least .) in Japan that had a black and red uniform that was mandatory. "At least it's black and red." Kagome said out loud to herself.
"What?" asked Kikyou as she grabbed her school blazer from her bed. She then grabbed her keys which were also on her bed, and then looked over to Kagome who was still standing at the door. "Oh no. I really hope that you plan on changing your clothes." She told Kagome as she glared intensly at her outfit. Not only was she wearing guy pants, but the shirt had those stupid comments that she hated.
Kagome pondered for a bit on what she was going to tell Kikyou, and then thought of a perfect excuse. "Well you see, I was going to wear it, but then I realized that I haven't picked it up from the cleaners." She intensified her gaze. "And as you know I wash several of my clothes before I actually wear them." By her gaze, Kagome could automatically realize that Kikyou didn't buy her story. Kagome broke the gaze between the two and looked at the clock on the wall. "Oh my god, would you look at the time! We're going to be really late for our first day in a new school!" She quickly left the room and you could hear her running down the stairs from the second floor to the first floor, leaving Kikyou in her room alone again.
"C'mon Kikyou, Tanaka - kun is waiting for us out front!" yelled Kagome form downstairs. As Kikyo came down the stairs, Kagome grabbed her black velvet sweater from the coat rack next to the front door.
"You're lucky Kagome, because I'm not in a bad mood right now. "She turned the knob and walked out of the front door with Kagome following suit. They walked to front of the house where their limo was waiting. Their chauffer, Tanaka, walked out of the drivers seat door and was going to open the door to the passenger seat, when Kikyou opened the door first. "Don't worry Tanaka - san, we can open the door ourselves." She sat in the limo waiting for Kagome to enter. He was going to say something, but he let it go, not really caring, he was supposed to follow their orders as a chauffer. He got back in the limo and headed to their new school.
After a 20 minute ride, they finally managed to get to their school. They exited their limo and said their farewell to Tanaka and walked to the front gates of the school. They looked around the rather large high school campus. "Wow, this is way bigger than our old school, guess it's because we live in a richer area. Well, it doesn't matter let's get this over with." Said Kagome as she started walking to the what seemed to be the main building. Kikyou, looked around a bit more and let a small smile form on her lips. Finally a school worth our presence. Thought Kikyou as she quickly walked to catch up to her sister.
Before they moved, Kagome and Kikyou used to go to a school in one of the more common parts of Tokyo, they went to a regular high school where normal kids lived, but now that the lived in the rich parts of Tokyo. Kikyou always complained that they should go to a richer school so they could socialize with people in thier standards. Kagome never had any problems with where they lived as long as she could make friends, but she wasn't too happy when she found out she was going to live in a very rich area, because there were several snobbish people who lived in those types of areas. Their family, are the 4th richest family in all of Japan, the first being the Taisho family, the 2nd being the Onigumo family, the 3rd being the Oukami family.
When they finally entered the building, they were greeted with nice pale blue walls, which were grafitti free and looked recently painted, the floor as a nice off-white color, which looked recently polished. "Whoa, this school must be perfect. Look at the walls and the floors." Kagome also looked down the corridors and saw that no one was in the hallways. "This is amazing, there are no students in the halls. First time for everything I guess." She looked around for Kikyou and then realized that she was already down the hall and was about to enter a room. "Kikyou wait up!" She yelled before being hushed by the lady sitting at the front desk. "Jeez, if they're this strict with silence during classes, I hope they don't freak too much with my outfit." She said to herself as she ran down the hall and entered the door where she saw her sister go.
"Damn Kikyou, you could've told me you were going somewhere. Jeez." She looked around the room, it was nicely decorated, and it wasn't a pig-sty like their old school. She sighed and said to her sister, "I guess I have a lot to get used to around here."
"Looks that way Kagome, and I'm begging you, please don't cause too much trouble, better yet, don't get into any trouble at all." She look at Kagome, and in her brown chocolate eyes, Kagome could see how much that meant to Kikyou.
"I'll try Kikyou, but I can't --"
"Ahem." The voice cut of Kagome mid sentence, and she was about to yell at the guy who interrupted her, but when she looked to see, she realized that it was the principal. He had been principal of this school for over 15 years, or at least thats what the website said. (She knew it was the principal because of the pciture it had on the official high school website.) "Welcome girls, I presume that you are the Higurashi sisters?" When they nodded he continued. "Well it is my pleasure to welcome you both to Hikari High. This is one of the best high schools in Japan and disipline is very important to us." When he said that last sentence, he looked over to Kagome.
"Why are you looking at me? Is there something on my face?" She said, forgetting that she was supposed to try and not cause trouble. But she couldn't hold it in, she didn't like people who thought she was stupid or something.
"Kagome! What did I just finish telling you!" Yelled Kikyou to her sister. Kagome looked at her eyes and immediately wanted to take back her smart comment/question. Kikyou's eyes had sorrow, and anger shining in them. Oh God, here we go. "Wait until we get home Kagome, I am going to beat the crap outta you." She whispered to her sister, who gulped the moment she heard the threat.
"Ms. Higurashi!" Said the principal. "We have no tolerance in this school for disrespect, or do we have tolerance for breaking the school rules, and the rules state that you MUST wear the uniform unless stated otherwise. I am sorry to say that you must attend detention today and tomorrow for your insolence."
"But sir, this is our first day here! Can't you cut my sister some slack for today. I promise you it won't happen again." Pleaded Kikyou.
"I am sorry miss, but I cannot do so, she will have to learn to pay the concequences for her actions. And I hope that this will not indeed happen again. Now if you'll excuse me I have a staff meeting to attend to. Ask the lady at the last desk to the right to print out your schedules, and by the way, you are about 30 minutes late for class. Both of you will have detention for being tardy today during your luch period."
"Are you fucking kidding me!" Kagome quickly covered her mouth as the words left her. Damnit I have to get better control of myself and my actions. I better start thinking before I talk.
"Ms. Higurashi! Again with your insolence! Another 2 detentions for you. One for talking back, and another for using inappropriate language."
"But it was a mistake sir, honest!" She said trying to wiggle her way out of the 2 extra detentions she managaged to add on her first 10 minutes on school campus.
"No buts Ms. Higurashi, if you continue to talk, I will add another detention on your list. Now I expect you to be more aware and careful of what you say around here. So now I expect both of you to go to lunch detention today, and as for you" He said looking at Kagome, "I expect you to also go to four afterschool detentions. One today, tommorow, Wednesday, and another one on Thursday."
At this point Kagome was fuming with anger. She just wanted to punch the principal in the face. But Kagome made a fist in both hands and held her anger, knowing that Kikyou was extremely mad and embarassed due to her chidlish behavior. She would really beat the crap outta Kagome once she got home for detention. "Now get your schedules and head to class." As he walked out of the room he said, "By the way the lunch detention room is room 354 and the afterschool detention room is room 438. You'll find a lot of kids in the lunch detention room, but only delinquents in the afterschool room." He left the room after his statement.
"OH MY FREAKIN' GOD! THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE SHITTIEST DAY OF MY LIFE! I HATE THIS FUCKING SCHOOL!" She yelled, once he was out of the room.
"Detention on Friday aferschool!" She heard him yell from the hallway. Kagome got even madder and punched the first thing she saw, which happened to be a pair of clean grey lockers, leaving a clearly visible dent on one of them.
"KA - GO - ME!" Yelled Kikyou breaking her name into syllables. She was mad. The moment Kagome turned around she felt Kikyou's fist connect to her face, hitting her right in the mouth, making her bust her lip. Luckily for her, the only person in the room was picking up something from underneath her desk so she didn't catch anything.
"Itai Itai!" (Equivalent to our "ouch") Yelled out Kagome as she licked her lip, tasting her blood that was coming out freely from her wound. "God Kikyou, that really hurt, and it's still bleeding."
"Be glad Kagome, that's all I'm going to do to you right now, but wait until we get home, because that's just the tip of what you're in for." Out of the two, Kikyou proved to be stronger than Kagome, both mentally and physically, so getting a threat like that meant a lot of pain for Kagome. "This is our first day in school and you managed to fill up all of your days for today as well as for the rest of the week with detention afterschool. Plus we both have a lunch detention today thanks to you and not wanting to get up. I hate you Kagome, don't talk to me for the rest of the day." Kikyou walked away and walked towards the lady behind the desk and asked for both schedules. When they were both printed out, she compared the two and wrinkled her nose when she realized that she had her first class, math, with Kagome. She also had lunch and gym with her sister as well.
She roughly handed Kagome's program to her, and then thanked the lady. "Oh and Higurashi - san, you will both be recieving your ID cards tomorrow morning during your first class. Well have a nice day." Kikyou thanked the lady again and walked out of the room.
She looked down the corridor and saw the staircase, and as she headed towards them she said, "We have the same class, so follow me, I have the directions to the classroom. That's all I'm going to say to you." Kagome tried to talk to Kikyou afterwards but she ignored her. So Kagome sighed and followed Kikyou quietly to their class, which was her least favorite subject, math.
To Be Continued . . . . . .
Notes: I personally love all of those shirts that have comments on them. I am making this up solely for the purpose of my story, I'm not sure if their really is a rich, and/or middle part of Tokyo. Let's just say they lived in the crowded areas, and now they like in a quiet and more reserved area.
I hope you enjoyed my first chapter of A Changing Life. I know the title isn't that great, but what can I say, I am horrible at titles and this was the first thing that came to mind. Well I hope I didn't make too many mistakes in my story and I will try to update as fast as I can. Umm . . . what else, oh yeah, please review, leave construvtive criticism and things like that. Um, if you have any advice or want me to e-mail you whenever i update, just send me an e-mail at bloodlustessence at aol . com I will be more than happy to notify anyone when I update, and I would extremely happy if you could give me any sort of advice as I am new to this. Well enjoy, and please review. Arigatou gozaimasu. I'll update asap!