A/N: NEXT CHAPTER & I DON'T OWN INUYASHA!
Small sniffles came from her tiny body as she walked down the hall holding her English text book close to her body.
'Pull yourself together.' she told herself as she quickly wiped a small tear from her eye, but herself motivation wasn't working very well.
She was feeling 'dirty' and disgusting, her English teacher had asked her to stay after school again yesterday. It carried on longer yesterday then it usually did, it had been carrying on for a month now and she kept promising herself that she would tell someone; she kept telling herself that she didn't deserve to be treated like this.
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"You actually saw that weird Kagome girl without her glasses on? What did she look like?"
"What do you care Sango?" replied Inuyasha
"Well I always wondered what she actually looked like without those massive things on her face, was she butt ugly?" Sango shoved some-sort of text book into her locker and quickly shut it, so everything wouldn't tumble out.
"You're starting to sound more like your boyfriend with each passing day you know that." smirked Inuyasha.
"I think you're avoiding my question Mr. Inuyasha, how'd she look?" pushed Sango
"How did who look?" Miroku butted in,
"Inuyasha says he saw that Kagome-chick without her glasses on, and I wanted to know how she looked. So come on, spit it out…" Sango started to tap her foot in front of Inuyasha, displaying her impatience.
"Oh, yes Inuyasha please do tell, is she a gorgeous character of mystery or a…well a not-so gorgeous character of mystery." Miroku finished awkwardly.
"Miroku, do us all a favor and never become a poet." Inuyasha started to walk down the hall
"Oh my Sango, it's true! He is avoiding our question!"
"I told you that! Come on are you so self-absorbed that you can't admit you think a nerd is actually half-decent!" Sango pleaded,
Both she and Miroku followed and nagged Inuyasha down the hall way, when all of a sudden Inuyasha halted, causing the two of them to crash into his back.
"Cut it out you stooges." Inuyasha hushed as her turned the corner to look at the person who caught his attention.
Sango and Miroku then looked to the same person Inuyasha's attention was drawn to, Kagome.
She stood out side her English class room, which was also their English class, with her back to the wall and her back pack on the floor. No one else was in the hall way, class had already started. She looked somewhat stressed out, and then, to Miroku and Sango advantage, she took off her 'large' glasses to wipe her red, teary eyes.
"My, my, she's fairly attractive I'd say!" Miroku spoke up. "Shhh, you dumbass!" Inuyasha hushed, but Kagome obviously heard the small fight from behind the corner wall and hurried her way into the class room after quickly placing her glasses back on.
"You faggot, I swear she went to your elementary school, you should know what she looks like, know she thinks we're her spies or something." Inuyasha spat
"She is a pretty girl." Sango simply stated
"Well, I've never seen her without her glasses, and you know how I get when I see a new pretty face." Miroku admitted
"…and you know how your girlfriend gets when she hears you talking like that while she's around." Inuyasha sighed as he watched Sango slap Miroku's head.
During class Inuyasha still heard sniffles coming from Kagome's desk, which was right beside his. All four of them ended up in the back row as a punishment for being late for class.
'Does this man have no conscience; he treats me as if nothing happened, does he feels no guilt?' Kagome thought to herself while staring at the teachers back with her angry eyes.
Inuyasha couldn't help but stare at the trembling girl, 'what was up with this chick?'
Sango nudged Miroku's foot, signaling for him to look over at Inuyasha, who held a concerned face while looking at Kagome. She passed a note to Miroku,
Do you think he's worried?
His note read back,
I think our boy has developed human feelings, I'm so proud.
Sango snorted as she read his reply.
"Miss Sango, is there something you'd like to discuss with the class or do you simply like making pig noises?" sarcastically said the teacher.
"No Sir, I prefer to make cow noises." she said as the rest of the class snickered
"I see all I'll be receiving from you today is sarcasm as usually." and her turned his back to her and backed back to the black board, as he turned his back towards her she gave him the finger.
The class snickered again.
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During lunch Inuyasha had a swarm of people around him, why would he, he was practically their leader.
"Kouga, I told you earlier, I'm not driving you to Holy Trinity."
"Why not mutt-face, are you in a fight with Kikyo or something?"
"If you must know, I am you fuck head, so piss off!" Inuyasha got up from the group of people and walked out side to where he said he'd meet Sango and Miroku.
"Hey buddy, wanna skip next period and head over to the mall," Miroku waved him over to where he and Sango were standing "I need a new pack of smokes." he finished.
"Naw, I can't be caught skipping this week."
"Why not?" asked Sango
"You guys know my dads for this whole week, so it's not just me and Sessohmaru this week. If I get the school calling my house while my dads home you know what will happen to me…"
"Oh, yeah, I remember last time you got on the bad side of your old man, you had that black eye for sometime." Miroku winced
Inuyasha stayed silent, reflecting on what happened last time his dad found out about him getting in trouble with the school. When his father got angry, he got angry. That's why Inuyasha was glad his father had the job he did as a traveling business man. Takahasi Corps., one of the biggest international corporations in the world. It was rare that he was home for longer then a week, and if he was it only happened about twice a year.
"I'm not going home after school tonight, well not at least till' 9:00 p.m. I don't want to deal with him tonight." said Inuyasha as he lay down on a grassy hill, looking toward the sky.
"What are you going to do until' 9?" asked Sango, "I'll probably stay at the library." he sighed, closing his eyes.
"The library? What the hell would Inuyasha Takahashi do at a library!" laughed Miroku as he lay beside Sango, taking her hand.
"Catch up on my homework and junk like that…"
"Inuyasha, I think you've smoking to much of something…" Miroku said in a daze
"Maybe…" he spoke back, in sort of a daze himself
"Hey, Inu, you wonder what that Kagome was crying about." asked Sango suspiciously
"…"
"Come on Inuyasha, we both saw you staring at her during class," Miroku added,
"I think she got in trouble with her father because I stopped by the house that last night, he didn't look to happy to see me at the front door." admitted Inuyasha
"So you're feeling guilty?" Sango questioned deeper
"If that's what you'd call it, then sure."
ring ring ring – classes were about to begin again, the three best friends got up from the hill and walked back towards the school building.
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It was about 4:30 when Inuyasha made his way into the library after having a smoke outside with some of his friends. When he first walked in a confused look hit his face as he had no clue where he was or where he was suppose to go to work. He made his way to the back of the library where he found more people then he thought would ever be in a library, studying at desks, with tutors and study groups. Not one table was available, his eyes scanned the area once more, and then he came across her, sitting alone.
"Hey," he started quirkily, "you think I can share a table with you?"
Kagome looked up from her math text book into his amber eyes; she waited a moment before she responded, "sure."
He scanned the room again to see if any of his 'friends' were around; he wouldn't want them to catch him sitting beside her. Finally when he realized none of his 'friends' would even consider going into a library,
"None of your friends ever come into the library after school." Kagome said quietly while looking down at her work, she knew what he was doing.
"Feh." he answered.
He sat down and opened his history text book and brought out a thin laptop from his bag. He'd read the text book then his fingers would quickly type brief notes on what he had just read. Moments later he stopped and looked over at Kagome and caught her staring at him,
"sorry." she mumbled.
"Don't sweat it." he replied with a smirk.
They didn't talk until' 20 minutes later when she let out a cry of frustration and scribbled all over the math problem she had been working on for the past half hour.
At first he was surprised at her reaction, she looked kind of …cute when she got mad and her cheek flushed a soft red.
"Nice drawing." he smirked, she gave a slight chuckle which also surprised him and then she took off her glasses to rub her eyes, she was tired.
"What are you working on, maybe I can help?" he offered, she wrote out the math equation on a new sheet of paper and passed it to him.
He looked it over twice, "You may not believe this but I actual get this shit! I may not be a straight A student but math, I can do."
He came and sat beside her and walked through the math equation step by step, she just started at him in a daze,
'How can someone who goofs off in class so much be this skilled in grade 12 advance calculus?' she asked herself, just staring at his face as he solved the problem.
"Thank you." she said meekly, "No problem, hey, if you don't mind could you make sure I have these history notes right so I don't fuck up tomorrow's history test?"
"sure." she replied, he turned his laptop towards her as he tried to restate all the history notes he had just made.
After Inuyasha made it through his history notes and sharing a few laughs, Inuyasha was actually having a conversation with Kagome Higurashi, social outcast, all of a sudden he wasn't so worried about one of his friends catching him with her.
"Hey, Kagome, why do you use those glasses, you seem to read fine without them." Inuyasha noticed she still hadn't put them back on
"I need them for far distances."
"Oh, I see…"
There was a weird silence, they both knew why; she was just waiting for him to ask why she was crying in the hall. Her eyes went watery again just thinking about it. She quickly wiped her eyes and looked down.
Inuyasha knew she was crying. He packed up his stuff, "Hey, let's get out of here, we've been here for over 3 hours, and I'm starved."
She looked up at him in total confusion, "Huh?"
"It will be my treat, let's go get a burger or something." he offered
"Um…" she packed up her books and stood up with him, she could believe what she was about to do, she stopped to think about it.
"Oh come on, it's not like I'm going to make you do drugs or anything, I'm just asking you out to eat with me, that's all."
He looked honest enough, "Ok." she answered.
It was already dark out at 7:30 p.m. it was a warm night in early September, a perfect night for a walk.
"Kagome…"
"Yes."
"I saw you in the hall today, before English, and you were…"
"Crying…" she answered looking down
"Yeah, I was just wondering what about…"
"…"
"You don't have to say, I was just wondering that's all."
"…our English teacher just gets me really frustrated sometimes, that's all."
There was no way in hell Inuyasha Takahashi would be the first one she told, but when she thought about it, who was she going to tell about her 'situation'? She had no friends in school, no family member she was close enough with…maybe her school guidance counselor was her only answer.
They finally arrived at the burger joint and sat down in a small booth. Kagome kept off her glasses; she decided not to put them back on. Maybe she did it to impress Inuyasha, she didn't really understand what she was feeling towards Inuyasha; maybe she just wanted a friend.
"You are truly different outside of school." she mentioned again,
"Yeah, I know…" he confessed,
he then started up again, "You want to know something, I promised myself I wouldn't fall victim to the cliques in high school, but by the end of grade 9 it was all about becoming popular and skipping classes…don't you ever wish you were… well you know…"
"Popular? I don't think I ever wanted to be. Maybe in grade school, but I got over it in high school." Kagome replied back while playing with the salt shaker.
"Don't you ever want a…"
"What will it be kids?" the waiter disturbed, "I'll have a double burger with a large coke and large fries." ordered Inuyasha without looking at the menu.
Kagome was quickly scanning the salad section of the menu, "Oh come on Kags, a salad…Just get a burger, I' am paying."
She looked up at him to see if he was being sincere, "Ok, I'll get a single burger with water."
"Coming right up." said the waiter as he collected the menus.
"Kags?" she questioned, rising a devilish eyebrow
"Yeah, I gave you a nickname. Got a problem with it?" he said jokingly
With a small smile she answered,
"I guess not."
A/N: Thank you to all my reviewers and thanks to who ever read this chapter. Chapter 4 should be posted by Saturday night.