Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha in my sleep, and in my dreams he shall stay with me.
Note: Chapters 2-6 are very long, but after that they become more comfortable and reasonable length-wise. You're free to tell me if there's something you don't like about their longevity. Please Review!
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Chapter 2: My Name is Kagome Higurashi
Kagome was led to her first classroom by Miroku, but not soon felt him groping her, so she did the only reasonable thing to do; she slapped him. "You pervert!"
"Uh, heh…" Miroku rubbed off the heat of his cheek with his hand. "My. You can surely hit hard."
"Humph! You deserve more than that, trying to take advantage of me!"
Miroku shook his hands. "No! I-It's nothing like that! You see, I do that to every girl I meet."
Kagome just kept getting worse first impressions from the guy. "Well you're not doing that to me! Not ever again!"
He chuckled. "Right, of course. I promise…" He stopped a few steps later in front of a door. "Now here's your room. Pardon me, but I've got to get going now to my own classroom. See you later, ok?" Miroku waved her good bye and darted towards his own classes.
Kagome didn't even think out her reply. "Alright, see ya!" She waved and smiled at him before adding, "And thanks for helping me!" As soon as she came to her classroom door she then realized what she had just done. What was I thinking! Meet him later? He's such a pervert! …But it will be nice to start making friends from the very first day…even if it means including him as one. Putting a hand on the door knob another image came to her head. Inuyasha? What about him?… She began a mental argument with herself, shaking her head. Now way! He's a jerk and an idiot and a meanie and he has no manners at all and I hate him!
All that came out at once, not realizing she had all those feelings toward someone she had just met only three minutes ago. …And those ears of his… Her face changed from an angry jester to a more relaxed one. …A-And those eyes… Her eyes began to shine a little. …Wait a sec! I'm doing that again! Kagome shook her head, trying to get Inuyasha off her mind. The last thing I need is someone like him as a friend. He's a demon, for crying out loud! Her prejudice against demons being all evil was still ringing a bell upstairs.
Shaking away her thoughts she turned the knob and the door slowly opened, silently praying that she wasn't the last one to arrive and that everyone wouldn't stare at her once she came in. In a glance she scanned the whole room. The blackboard was to her right and all the desks were facing it. There were seven rows of seats facing the board and about six desks in each row. But the room was empty. She wondered where everyone could be.
The only soul that was present in the room was a cute little girl that seemed to be coloring in the first seat of the middle row of desks. She had a big green bow on her head and didn't have the school uniform but strange, baggy clothes on that seemed too big for her tiny body. Kagome asked her sweetly if she had gone in the correct room.
The little girl looked up from her coloring books. "Oh, hi! Yes, yes it is." She had a high- pitched voice and was all cheery and happy, glad to see this sweet human that had just come in. Somehow, her voice was strangely familiar to Kagome, though she just couldn't put her finger on it.
"Thanks." Kagome started walking towards the desks but then stopped. Glancing everywhere, she asked, "Um…Where can I sit?"
"Well, it's not like everyone has a chair with their name on it or something…But I guess no one will mind if you sit anywhere. It is the first day of school, after all…"
Kagome smiled. "Then could I sit here, next to you?" The girl nodded and Kagome sat to her left, smiling.
Kagome noticed then how small this student really was. She looked like she could be at least two years old because of her height. Kagome could only think that she could be a demon but decided to ask instead about the empty classroom. "Oh they're coming, alright. They always wait till the last minute to come in."
"And where's the teacher?"
"He'll come in soon, too." The small student grinned wide and showed demonic teeth. "Hey. You're new here, aren't you?"
"It's that obvious, huh?" Kagome said with a warm smile, closed eyes and a small sweat drop.
"Aww, don't worry. I can protect you," the student answered in a very heroic way. Kagome looked at the girl confused.
Why would I need protection?
Suddenly a bunch of students (mostly demons) entered the room, all hollering and yelling and pushing recklessly at each other in total chaos. Kagome leaned closer into the girl, shivering.
A seven foot tall reptilian demon was one of the first to catch the girl's attention. "…So then I said 'lay off' and then she said 'make me' and that's why Megan has no legs anymore…" the demons surrounding him laughed their heads off.
Kagome gripped on her new friend's shirt tightly, which made the student jump surprised. Oh no…I am so dead…someone help me!
"Alright class, settle down, settle down…" In that instant a young man with a brown head band wand his hair tied up walked in. He was wearing an armor that covered his chest and a brown, fur skirt-like wear that left most of his well-toned legs out in the open. All the demons instantly shut up and sat down in their desks, the human students already in them since they entered the room. The young man sat in the teacher's chair and put up his bare feet on the desk. Kagome's impression was that it was very unprofessional-like for a teacher to come in to school like that, but then again, this wasn't any regular school…
"Now. Let's see what we have for today, shall we?" He opened up his backpack and took out a notebook. "Hmm…let's see…," he said, flipping threw the pages. "Ah! Here it is. 'Torturing the humans'. Right. Now, who will be today's victim?" All humans lowered their heads cowardly and wished they were at home, which made the stranger's smirk even broader.
The young man searched the room when he spotted Kagome. "Ah! And what do we have here?"he said, smirking widely. "A new student, perhaps?" Kagome's heart rate fell a couple notches. The boy smiled evilly and Kagome realized that she couldn't possibly escape whatever was coming up. "New here, huh? Hmm…so what's your name, woman?"
Kagome winced at the word 'woman'. "Uh…my name is Kagome." She now blushed scared, hoping that that was it and prayed that no one would do onto her something that involved the words 'death' or 'near death'.
"Hm. Kagome, is it? Well; it seems, class, that Kagome will be our little guest of honor today…So why don't we show her the ropes?" Immediately two, big, muscular demons stood on each of her sides and she looked up at them, scared.
The demon on the left crunched his knuckles. "Of course, Koga. With pleasure."
"W-Wait a second! W-What are you guys going to do!"
The demon on the right spoke up this time in his eerie, screechy voice. "Just a little something we do to all the new students we like to call 'the bone crusher'."
"What! What do you mean, 'b-bone crusher?'" Kagome was sweating now.
"Mr. Wolf. Will you please get your feet off my desk, please?" a calm, but disturbed voice broke in. Everyone looked towards the door where a tall male with pointy ears and very long, light- green hair that went all the way to his ankles and a blue diamond sign on his forehead now stood.
Koga put his feet down. "Right, 'teach. But there seems to be a girl in my seat." All eyes turned on Kagome now.
The teacher then noticed he had a newcomer. "So we have a new student? Will you please announce yourself to the class, then?" His voice was slick and sweet, compared to Kagome's previous attackers.
"Uh, y-yes, o-of course." Kagome, still rattled from what was almost about to happen and this 'real' teacher asking her to talk in front of everyone like a dumb newbie, stood up next to him and faced the classroom. They all looked on with interest. Well, most of them in a scary-looking type of interest, as if they were to wait for her outside the classroom so that when she were about to leave, they could do some sort of mischief. Koga was still in the teacher's chair. "Uh…what should I say?"
"Just your name and a little bit about yourself," the teacher answered.
She nodded. "Ok. Well, my name is Kagome Higurashi and I just moved here a couple of days ago and," whispers started circling around the classroom, making Kagome more nervous, "…and I enjoy talking with friends and spending time with my family and…" Kagome's voice started to croak since the whispers had gotten louder.
"That's enough, Kagome. You may sit down now."
Kagome thank you'd the teacher inwardly and went to her seat when Koga whined, "But she's in my seat."
The teacher sighed. "Koga, just sit somewhere else."
Koga stood up and walked towards the small student with the green bow on and looked down on him, smirking. "This shall be my seat now, so get out, Shippo!"
Shippo looked at him angry. "Uh-uh! I was here first! This is my seat."
Koga grabbed Shippo by the front collar of his shirt and threw him towards one of the far desks, Shippo landing with a hard thunk on the wood. "It's mine, now!" Shortly after throwing all of Shippo's belongings in the air, each hitting Shippo on the head, he sat down.
Kagome was surprised with such cruelty and she stood up in a flash, pounding her open palms on her desk. "Hey! Why did you do that for! She's just a little girl! Besides, she was there first!" With her comment, the whole classroom fell silent and then filled up with head-cracking laughter. Kagome blushed. Did I say something wrong? "What?"
Koga, now teary eyed from laughing, answered Kagome's question between breathes. "Haha! Hahahaha! Sh-Shippo's not a girl! Hahaha. She's…Hahaha…I mean he's, haha…a, haha…boy…hahaha!"
Kagome turned as red as anyone could ever get and just wished that she was never born. Oh…my…God… I've just made such a big fool of myself…I'll be the laughing stock for years to come! Way to go, Kagome. That was a terrific first impression… She looked over at Shippo with a worried face on. Gee I hope I didn't hurt his feelings or anything… Shippo was red, too. He was embarrassed, and didn't look up from the ground. (ss pie: poor Shippo!)
"Now class, settle down, that's enough." The teacher sat down in his desk. "We're already behind as it is."
After a while it seemed that everyone could pull themselves together and pay attention. Kagome still wanted to kill herself and then bury herself under an anonymous tombstone, or at least change her name and move to another planet without demons. They always made her feel bad for some reason.
"Alright. Now, for those who don't know me, I'm Prof. Heds…"
Kagome sighed. And it just had to be in my History class… She could just imagine her previous world-class stupidity act being written down in the books for all eternity as the day Kagome Higurashi made a complete fool of herself.
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After class was over, which felt like forever for Kagome, everyone rushed out the door once the bell rang. Kagome got up last on purpose just in case anyone wanted to attempt a fiendish move behind her back but Koga came up to her, still laughing. "I like you, Kagome! You crack me up! Hahaha. Maybe not all humans are lame…" With that he left.
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows. Lame? That's it! I'm calling mom. I just know I'm not going to make it out of here alive …
"Hey…Kagome…" Shippo came up to her, jumping onto a desk and speaking in a sweet, caring (and a little embarrassed) voice.
"Oh hi Shippo! I am so, so sorry for what happened earlier." She clasped her hands together and bowed. "Please forgive me! I am so sorry! I didn't mean to!"
Shippo smiled. "That's alright, Kagome. In fact, that happens to me a lot, but mostly it's teasing. I know you didn't mean it that way, though."
"I am so sorry, Shippo! I swear, I had no idea--"
He cut her in, "Kagome, I said it was ok. Besides, you're new here, right? So…"
"Yeah. Actually, I come from an all-human school, so I've never had any contact with demons before like this." Kagome paused for a second and added innocently, "You are a demon, a-aren't you?"
Shippo grinned. "Uh-huh. That's right! A fox demon, to be exact…" He puffed out his chest in honor.
"A fox demon?" Kagome then noticed his little feet and puffy tail. She squealed, holding her cheeks with both hands. "You're so cute!"
Shippo chuckled back at her. She was so nice and kind! "Thanks! Your very nice too, Kagome!"
"Thank you, Shippo. I really haven't made any good friends yet…" Kagome blinked and continued nervously, "You think we could be friends?"
Shippo chimed, "Yeah! That would be great! The truth is, no one really ever hangs out with me, either…I guess they don't like me very much…"
Kagome shook her head. "That's nonsense! You're very nice to be with! I bet you mean jerks like that 'Inuyasha' guy. Those are the ones who are always picking on everyone else as if they owned the place! Boy, was he a jerk!"
"Inuyasha? You've met him?"
"Yeah. This guy Miroku helped me out, and then he introduced me to him."
"Oh, you mean that lecherous monk? He's such a pervert…" Shippo folded his arms in front of him and turned so that he was now looking at her from the corner of his eye.
"Yeah…Uh-huh!" Kagome nodded and then did a double take. "Wait a minute- he's a monk?"
Shippo nodded and closed his eyes. "Uh-huh. Incredible but true…long story…" The kitsune was now enjoying his little chit chat with the girl and felt like a grown up.
Kagome sweat dropped. "Right.I could just imagine…" Remembering that Miroku had helped her get to her class, she then noticed how late she could be to her next one. Shippo offered her his help and she accepted kindly, "Thanks Shippo. I'd need that a lot" Shippo jumped up onto her shoulder happily and though Kagome was startled at first, she soon got the hang of it and brushed off her nervousness as he showed her around. Both started walking down the hallway.
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After a long walk across dozens of hallways and two floors up, Shippo had leftKagome and she was now entering the classroom. She read the words near the door that read Harnessing your true powers and wondered what they could mean.
Going inside she moaned, noticing that al the seats had been taken already, the students throwing about paper airplanes and talking to each other. Someone from the front row of seats noticed her coming in. "Well if it ain't that wench from this morning."
Kagome turned around to see Inuyasha smirking at her. "Did you just call me wench!"
"Keh. Yeah, what about it?" Inuyasha chuckled.
Kagome's temperament came back and she held her hands into fists. "You jerk! You can't go around talking to people like that!"
"Hah. What if I want to?"
That made Kagome even more pissed off and she growled. "You, you, you big jerk!"
"Hah. Whatever. Like I care."
"Well, you should!"
"Why should I?"
"Inuyasha, shut up," a voice interrupted. Kagome looked towards one of the desks from the back of the room, trying to find out who had talked in such a deep, dry voice.A student in uniform looking up from a book he had been reading was now staring cold-stoned at them. He had some markings on his face, which startled Kagome a little. Not many people wore makeup like that in public.
"Feh. Sesshomaru, you keep out of this!" The name resounded in Kagome's head, reminding her she had heard it before.
"Inuyasha. Shut you pipe hole before I rip it out for you." Again, his voice came out emotionless, which matched his features, and menacing. It made the girl take a step back, even though she was so far away from him.
"If you have something to say to me, than say it to my face, you moron!" Inuyasha got out of his seat and the whole room turned their eyes on him and Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru just blinked and kept staring at Inuyasha. "Oh… I get it," he smirked cockily. "You think I can't deal with you right here, right now. Well, I'll show you! It's time you finally got a lesson!" Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsusaiga out of no where and it transforms. All of the students sweat drop. They know what's coming…
"Argh!" Inuyasha swung his sword upward as all students-- except Kagome, who had no clue what was going on-- ran away from their desks to the sides of the walls and stayed as close to them as possible, shivering like mad. In their path some of them tripped and desks fell towards the ground and papers and playing cards flew in the air. Sesshomaru didn't move an inch and kept looking at Inuyasha without worry, as usual.
"Grr. Not worried huh? Well, you should be! 'Cause this time no one's here to stop me!" If his older brother were another, he would've yawned; but he just kept staring. Inuyasha growled again and finally yelled, "Tetsusaiga!"
As he swung his sword down a female demon came running through the front door and yelled angrily, "I-nu-ya-sha!" Inuyasha gasped and stopped dead in his tracks. He knew that voice very well. In fact, he hated it. A lot. Maybe even more than Naraku's.
"What the Hell have I told you about your fighting in class, huh!"
"Grrr…what ever, you old hag!"
"I swear! If I could kick your bloody ass out of my classroom I would have done it on the day you were born, you mutt! But no. Those idiotic, no-good head-of-the-staff guys won't let me! It's been six years too long, Inuyasha. Six bloody years! I thought I would've gotten rid of you by now, but look at me! I swear I'm up to four lives now…"
"Yeah, yeah, keep swearing, you wench; I bet you only have one left by the look of the winkles on your face," he laughed back.
"Why you…Meow!" The demon slashed her claws out at Inuyasha but he stepped back and dodged them. Kagome thought this was the perfect time to take cover and joined the rest of the students on the walls.
"Feh! You couldn't even hurt a fly with those old, scrawny claws of yours!"
The woman growled and hissed at him again before sitting down on the teacher's desk and composing herself. Speaking now in a more "gentle" voice, she first cleared her throat and said, "Inuyasha, sit down. You know I can whoop your ass any time, but it's those--"
"Yeah, yeah, I know," he interrupted. Then, in a girly tone, he mocked, "Those no-good head-of-the-staff guys won't let me, Inuyasha. Boohoo…" He changed back into his normal voice, "Hah! That's a lousy excuse for you, Mancle. I bet you're scared of me, aren't you. That's the real reason why--"
"It's Prof. Mankle to you, mutt! And I wouldn't be talking so arrogant if I were you…"
"Feh. What's that a threat of some kind?" he challenged.
The teacher smirked and her beady eyes glared wickedly. "Just wait and see what the first assignment is," she laughed. Forgetting about him for a moment and looking around at the room she screamed, "What is this, a pigsty! Everyone back in your seats, pronto!" All the students finally broke away from the walls and rushed to clean up and sit down in their seats with worried faces. "And what about you, miss 'I don't care what the teacher says!'" Mankle turned to watch Kagome, the only one still standing.
Kagome looked at her frightened. "Um. Excuse me, but, I-I'm new here and I--"
"You're what now? New?" she started laughing. "Honey, if you thought you could just make your way through this school by just being 'new' here, you're deadly mistaken!"
Kagome was officially freaked out now by her. What a horrible teacher! Not like the last one… "Um. I'm sorry but…"
"Sorry isn't going to prove your worth, human! Hah! And you're human, to boot!" She kept on laughing like some maniac witch who'd escaped from some kind of convention for the crazy.
"What does being human have to do with it?" Kagome had washed away all signs of fear and was now irritated. Funny how she can do it with quite ease, huh?
Mankle turned her serious but scary face on. "What I mean is that all of you are very Weak! Get it? Now shut up and introduce your damn self before I kick your ass out of here!"
Kagome gave in, seeing this one was as dumb brained and hardheaded as the hanyou. Fine! She silently cleared her throat. "My name is Higurashi; Kagome Higurashi, and--"
Inuyasha interrupted. "What ever!" He imitated her with his girly voice impression, "Hi. My name is Kagome and I'm stupid!"
"Hey! Stop that, you jerk!" Kagome threw at him.
The teacher hissed. "Kagome, just sit down. That's enough."
Kagome looked around the room, thinking what a lousy teacher this was. "Um, where do I sit, Mrs--"
"Anywhere you want at all, human! I have no means of wasting anymore of my time with you, so just sit down in any empty seat, you fool!" Kagome noticed how demons cats could be just like regular cats: annoying and beastie-like—unlike her Buyo at home, though.
Kagome got red and walked between the silent desks. There were three desks unoccupied in the back of the room, all between that Sesshomaru guy and…Kikyo? Kagome tried to decided in a flash where it was she could sit and be more comfortable at. This is going to be a tough decision…Yeah right! Kagome sat in the middle chair between the other two unoccupied ones. She looked towards Sesshomaru on her far left and noticed he had gone back to reading and looking towards her far right Kikyo was staring back at her.
Kikyo whispered, "Are you all right?"
Kagome smiled warmly. She had such a nice voice. "Yes, thank you, but is the teacher Always like this?"
Kikyo chuckled a little. "I'm afraid so…you see, she's been teaching Inuyasha for six years now and she's a cat demon and you know how they are…they can't get along with dog demons…you know, like Inuyasha. They always get into a fight before class starts, so your going to have to get used to this."
"Wow. I've never heard of such teacher and student rivalry before. And you said that Inuyasha is a dog demon," she gasped.
"Well, yes. Can't you tell? I thought you knew, since you seemed to know Inuyasha from somewhere…"
Kagome sweat dropped. Right. This morning Inuyasha said he had dog ears and that he was a demon, but I never put two and two together… boy was she behind.
"Kikyo! Kagome! Pay attention!" the teacher screamed. Both girls turned around in a flash. "Now, as I was saying before being rudely interrupted by those human girls, in this year's 'Harnessing your true powers' class we will take things a little bit differently than usual…"
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I can't believe our first subject will be dieting! I hate diets… Kagome slid her tray on the counter and began to look at the cafeteria food and sighed. I knew I should have brought lunch from home. But no. Mom said it'll be better this way 'cause I could make friends! Hah! That is so funny right now…I knew I shouldn't have had come here…
"Hey! You! Get a move on, your holding up the line!" Kagome snapped back to reality. A human cafeteria lady was yelling at her to hurry it up. "Man, they don't pay me enough," she complained under her breath.
"Oh! Sorry!" Kagome then picked up the first thing she saw (which looked like a mushy, jello-y blob) and went to pay. "Now. Where do I sit?" She looked around the humungous lunch room. As always, the students who most made a racket were demons. Some were even throwing food around. Man…just my luck.
After a minute or so she then spotted a table that had a human girl in it. The girl had long, brown hair with big curls in the end, half of it held up with a bow and the rest lay softly on her back. She seemed to be really nice, so Kagome walked over to her and asked all cheery, "Hello, good morning! May I sit with you?"
The girl looked up from her tray and instantly smiled once she saw that it was another human girl. "Why yes, of course!"
"Thank you." Kagome sat down in front of her. "I'm kind of new here, so I really don't know where I should sit." She was mainly referring to the demonic frenzy and company.
"Me neither. You see, I'm new here too."
"You are?"
"Uh-huh!" The girl smiled even broader.
"I bet you were obligated to come here too, right?"
She rolled her eyes. "Tell me about it." She and Kagome laugh.
"My name is Kagome. What's yours?"
"I'm Ellen, but everyone calls me Len. Nice to meet you!"
After five minutes of talking, Kagome found out that Len had also come from an all-human school and felt better. Suddenly a group of about fifteen demons come up to them and were looking up to no good. Kagome and Len looked up at them, a little scared.
"Heh heh…You girls seem a little lost, don't you now?" said one with a raspy voice.
"No, we are just fine, thank you!" Kagome tried to put a tough face on.
"Well then, I guess you wouldn't mind spending some quality time with us, huh babes?" said another. Both girls opened their mouths, frightened by what they could have meant by that and knowing they weren't going to go away any time son. Half of the demons sat down on each side of the girls in the table, too close for comfort.
Kagome kept insisting, "Excuse me, but we don't want any 'quality time' with you, so if you would just leave--"
"Aw. Did you hear that, boss?"
A tall, handsome, human-looking demon walked over from behind the group, grinning. "So you mean you wouldn't want to chat a while, ladies?" The girls blushed but soon washed it away when they saw the demons starts taking out swords and clubs and start banging them against their open hands. The girls looked at each other fearing the worst and silently praying that some one would come to their rescue.
As the group huddled closer and closer on the girls, a familiar voice cried out in the lunchroom, breaking the tension. "Where is he, damn it! Where is he!" The whole cafeteria seemed to hush a little and the girls and the demon group looked over to see what was going on.
"Where are you, you little worm!" Inuyasha was walking around between the tables holding up his sword not yet transformed, apparently looking for someone. Finally he stopped at a table where only Sesshomaru was eating, his eyes closed.
"Damn you! I swear I'll kill you this time!" Sesshomaru didn't even look up and Inuyasha lifted his sword while transforming it. "Grr. That's it! Wind Scar--!"
"W-wait! Wait! I give up!" squeaked Sesshomaru, shaking his hands out at the hanyou. Everyone who knew him all to well almost fell back out f their seats, confused.
It was then that Sesshomaru transformed into Shippo; or vice versa. Inuyasha kept swinging his sword in the air like mad. "Shippo! I swear if I ever see you going through my stuff again It'll definitely kill you next time!" Shippo was now trembling with fear on the table while covering his head with his little arms in a bowed-down position.
"I-I'm s-sorry, Inuyasha! I promise I'll never do it again!" he cried frantically.
"Feh! That'll teach you!" he finished by hitting the kitsune on the head and started walking away.
"H-how did you know it was me!"
"Because you don't have Sesshomaru's scent, moron!" Looking around he noticed that everyone in the lunch room had been staring at them for a long time now. "And what are you guys staring at, huh?" he yelled. All the students turned to their food and started eating frantically, hoping the hanyou wouldn't harm them.
Inuyasha feh'd once more and thought of leaving when he spotted the group of bullies around Kagome's table. Kagome had had her eye on him the whole time. He was kind of scary to her, but at the same time, very authoritarian.
Inuyasha walked over to her table and looked at her, recognizing the small, frightened look in her face from being around the bullies. He knew too well what they would do to her. Awful stuff, he thought. He then had a slight urge to not let them be able to put her through such misery. I mean, she is a hassle but still, no one disserves such cruelty on their first day of school…even if it means this lousy girl…
Inuyasha stopped at the table and directed his attention to the demons now. "Alright. Back it up, back it up! The show's over! Move along, now." He made a shooing motion with his hands.
The leader spoke up, defensive of his territory. "Why should we, huh? We found her first. It's none of your business." True enough, in this school you shouldn't mess with the intentions of other demons because it has to do with a whole 'respect' issue thing, but then again, you shouldn't mess with Inuyasha, either… Everyone knew that.
"Feh. You got a problem with it being my business?" He put his still transformed sword on his shoulder.
All the demons except the group leader who had an angry look on his face got scared. "Um, boss? Maybe we should be leaving…"
"Oh for crying out loud! He's not gonna mess around with me!"
"Keh! Fine by me!" Inuyasha put his tetsusaiga in attack position in front of him.
"Y-you're on your own, boss!" All the other demons ran out of the lunch room and left their boss alone.
"Cowards! Come back here! Grr…" The leader turned towards Inuyasha. "This isn't over, you'll see!" Taking a quick look at the girls he added, "I'll be back for them when you least expect it!" and with that he ran off.
"Hah! That will show 'em not to mess with me!" Inuyasha smirked and put away his sword, sitting down to Kagome's right side. He looked into her eyes, mocking, "So, you just can't get out of trouble, huh?"
Kagome just minded this last comment. "Thank you, Inuyasha, for saving us."
"Yeah, whatever. It seems you need a miracle to get through just one day here."
"Well, either way, thank you," she smiled back.
Huh? Inuyasha couldn't figure out why Kagome was speaking in such a sweet tone to him all of a sudden. He blinked, confused. It was as if she was bipolar or something. "Uh… You're welcome," he responded sweetly.
Kagome laughed softly. Maybe he isn't that bad, after all…
"Who's she?" Inuyasha pointed towards Len.
"Oh! This is Len, she's new here, too." This got Inuyasha excited for some reason.
"Heh! This is going to be great! One rookie is funny enough, but two rookies? It's just damn hilarious!"
"What are you talking about, Inuyasha?" Kagome didn't like where this was going at all.
"You know! In the afternoon, when everyone goes to the battle grounds."
Both girls blinked. "So…?"
"So, everyone must fight there, even if it means it's their first day of school!" The girls jump up, startled.
Len spoke up first. "What! You mean we have to fight today! That is so unfair!"
"Yeah! Like, I know zilch of weapons and stuff…"
Inuyasha started laughing very hard while pointing to the girls, having a great time. "Even better!"
"That is so mean, Inuyasha!"
"Ha ha ha…Kagome, don't look so upset! Ha ha ha!"
"Y-you just wait and see! We'll get out of it! They won't make us fight! W-we can't!"
The hanyou dried off a tear. "Ha! They'll make you fight, alright. It's your obligation. This is going to be so fun! Ha ha ha…"
"Well, it can't be that bad, r-right?" Len asked, trying to find some comfort.
"Are you kidding!" Inuyasha stopped laughing for a moment to point towards a table. "You see that guy over there?" Both girls nodded. "Well, he was last year's newbie."
The girls look at him closely, and then gasp. Len screamed. "Oh my God! What happened to him?"
"He was supposed to fight with Naraku on his very first day and got whooped by him, that's what! Naraku cleaned the floor with that guy!" The girls were terrorized now.
Kagome still couldn't speak; she had enough scares for one day. Len hadn't, so she kept asking. "You mean all those scars are from that battle?"
"Uh-huh! And not just the scars see? His tail was cut in half and he lost most of his teeth and his skin--"
Kagome interrupted him, too afraid to hear the rest of the sentence. "Alright! We get it! We're history! If that happened to a demon, imagine what can happen to us…" The girls were now way too uncomfortable.
Inuyasha opened a sly smirk, "Ha ha! Don't worry, I bet you guys can make it out alive with at least one or two limbs still left attached to ya'…".
"Your cruel, Inuyasha!" Kagome almost had tears in her eyes. "Just…leave us alone!"
Inuyasha noticed her worry. Gees, she's this scared? He thought up of something really quick. Somehow he had a soft spot for crying women."Fine then. If it makes you feel better, than I'll come and save you if something wrong happens."
Kagome took her head out f her hands and stopped crying for a moment. She looked up at him with hope in her eyes. "Really?"
Inuyasha looked away and said as if he really didn't care, "Yeah, whatever. Just stop crying, all right!"
Kagome's emotions took a sharp turn again. "I am not crying!" She no longer felt sad, but rather defensive against Inuyasha's mockery.
Inuyasha turned to her in a flash, his hair swaying. He crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Oh yes you are!"
"Oh no I'm not!"
"But you were about to!"
"No I wasn't!"
"Oh yes you were!"
"Oh no I wasn't!"
"Uh-huh!"
"Nu-uh!"
"Uh-huh!"
By now both were in each other's faces, hands into fists. This went on for a while and Len sweat dropped and decided to keep eating, seeing this would go on for ever, thinking, as my parents always used to say, this is how mommies and daddies get together…
Kagome inched closer to the half-demon. "No I'm not!"
Inuyasha did the same. "Yes you are!
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!"
"Stop calling me an idiot, jerk!"
"I would if you weren't one!"
"I'm not, jerk!"
"You are too, idiot!"
Len sighed and sipped some milk out of a straw from her milk carton. Getting her things together, she got up and waved them good bye. "Goodbye, Kagome. Goodbye, Inuyasha. It was nice meeting the both of you." She stayed to see if they noticed her leaving, but both were too into their fight to notice, so she left quietly.
The two continued their argument. "You jerk! Argh!"
"Wench!"
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The school's bell rang, marking the end of Kagome's last class. Boy am I ever glad to hear that bell! Time to go home! She exited the classroom and walked down the hallway.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the newbie. Your name's Kagome, right?"
"Huh?" Kagome turned to look behind her. It was that guy with the fur skirt from her first class. "Uh, yeah."
"Humph. How has your first day been?" He stood with a hand resting on his hips.
"Pretty rough I guess…"
Koga smirked. "Well, you've seen nothin' yet!"
Kagome blinked, hoping he wasn't talking about something related to the school. "What do you mean?"
"It's time to go to the battle grounds, that's what!"
"Oh no." I forgot about that. She tried to make a run for it and escape her fate, so she made up a lame excuse. "Well, you see… I really, really have to go home and my mom's waiting for me and--"
"Your not trying to back out, are you Kagome?"
She sweat dropped. "Who, me?" She put on an innocent-looking face on. "Of course not, heh heh…"
"Fine then! I'll lead you to the Snake!"
"The what!"
"The Snake. You know, it's a little trolley that takes the students to the arena. Since it's so far away and the whole school has to go, it would take a ton of time to get them all there, so there's a trolley that takes us there. The truth is though, us demons can handle getting there without a sweat, but humans waste too much time, so it's actually for their benefit." Koga had talked in a so-to-speak tone.
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows. Who does this guy think he is? He talks bad about humans as if I weren't even here!
"Well then, don't be shy now! Let's go!" Koga grabbed Kagome's arm and pulled her as he started to run.
"Ah! You're going too fast for me! Wait!" The girl ran helplessly through the mazes of halls.
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At the front gates of the backyard there were about 30 big trolleys that all looked like snakes, since they were painted to look like that and because each had at least 20 cars with only a roof and side bars to keep in the students resembling it's long body. In each car there were enough seats to hold up to 30 students at a time comfortably since they were about 27 feet long and 13 feet wide.
"Wow! These are big!" Kagome admired the trolleys. "I can see why they call them 'snakes'!"
"Yeah, well, that's 'cause you haven't seen the Anacondas yet!"
"Wha!" she turned around to look at Koga. What else could there be!
"Uh-huh. There are far less of them but meant for the bigger demons," nodded Koga, proud of his school.
"Oh my."
Koga smirked at her but looked off to the left after noticing something. He looked disturbed now. "Oh boy, here comes that mutt."
Kagome looked towards the direction he was looking at and saw Inuyasha running full speed towards them. He looked strange the way his arms were held outward as he ran. Kagome held back a chuckle. He looked sort of… cute.
"What are you doing with this mangy wolf, Kagome!" Inuyasha snorted once he got to them.
"Who are you calling mangy, you mutt!" By now the girl noticed the truth about what Miroku had told her early that morning. It seemed that everyone had an issue with someone else here.
"You and me, in the battle arena, till the first one dies, you got that!"
"Why you… It's your funeral, mutt face!"
Kagome saw that this was going to get nasty so she got in between them. "Guys, stop it! No one is going to kill no one, you got that!"
"Hey! Kagome! What are you defending this wolf for, huh? I can take him!"
"Yeah! Same goes with me, Kagome!"
"You guys stop this instant! I will not let anyone get killed, alright!"
"Feh! Like you'd actually prevent the inevitable! Stand aside, while I murder him!"
"Inuyasha! Don't talk to a woman like that!" Koga turned and faced Kagome, speaking to her in a soft tone, "Sorry you have to put up with him, Kagome." Koga looked into her eyes.
"Uh…" Kagome blushed a little. "It's all right, uh, Kougah, is it?"
Inuyasha laughed. "Ha ha! You're on her side and she can't even pronounce your name right!"
Kagome and Koga screamed at him at the same time. "Shut up, Inuyasha!" Noticing the jinx move, they turned to stare at each other and blushed.
"Ha ha! You two are meant for each other! Both of you are idiots!" Inuyasha laughed. Before they could start arguing again though, he noticed that Len had been waiting beside them for a while now and looked as if she had wanted to say something. "And what do you want?" he inquired.
"Um, sorry to interrupt, but I thought we could sit with each other, Kagome," she suggested to the human girl.
"That's a very good idea, Len!" Kagome took her by the wrist and both ran over to the trolleys. She silently thanked her for helping her get out of that tight mess she had gotten herself into and away from the dog fight. The boys blinked at her as she ran away, rattled by her sudden change of plans.
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After a long struggle trying to get on a trolley that no demon would push them out of, the girls finally found good seats at the very end of one of the trolleys, in the back part of the last car. "This is going to be so exciting!" said Len as she plumped her butt down on a seat.
"What? Len, are you mad! If I were you, I'd be calling my mom to give her my will over the phone."
"Oh, come on, Kagome! This could be fun! You wait and see…"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "So optimistic…"
The trolleys traveled a little slower then they expected but Kagome didn't mind since they were no where near Inuyasha.
"Hey. Looky here." Oops. Spoke too soon. "Hey wench."
A very troubled Kagome looked up, fearing that that hideous, scratchy voice belonged to the one and only mutt. In fact, it had, and he was standing against a bar with his arms crossed in front of him, looking sly. "Bug off, Inuyasha!"
He smirked. "Only bugs can do that."
Len coked her head to one side. "Oh. That's true…"
Kagome looked at her menacingly. "Don't help me too much, Len."
Len sweat dropped at Kagome's fiery stare. "Uh…sorry…"
"Feh. You should be nicer like this girl, Kagome." Inuyasha mocked, referring to Len.
"Uh, thank you," Len smiled, closing her eyes.
"That wasn't a compliment, Len!" Kagome showed, making Len step back a little, away from Kagome's hand's reach.
"Yes it was, Kagome," Inuyasha butted in.
"No it wasn't you just want to bug me!" Kagome said that in one quick breath.
"I told you only bugs could do that!"
"Shut up!"
"Wench!"
"Jerk!"
"Uh, guys…"
The two arguing teens turned their direction towards Len and asked at the same time, "What is it!"
Len sweat dropped. "Not wanting to bother you or anything, but," she looked over towards the other side of their car and continued, "…beside everyone else staring at us, that student over there was looking over here with a wicked death glare…"
The two stopped their bickering for a moment to look and find out that the 'guy' that Len was referring to was none other than Sesshomaru. He was on the far side of the car, sitting alone in a full row of empty seats with one leg over the other and his arms crossed in front of his chest. His head laid down a little with both eyes close. His hair moved softly with the wind and if you didn't know they were inside a car full of racket, you'd guess he was in a park or something.
"Sesshomaru, huh? Don't mind him, he's just an ass…" Inuyasha snorted.
"What?" Len couldn't believe someone could talk so badly about some one else. She's a little innocent and naive at times, unknown to her.
"Inuyasha, I can't believe there are people like you who talk about their brothers that way. You're so low," commented Kagome.
"That's his brother?" Len looked at Sesshomaru. For a second she could have sworn she could've mistaken him for a female because of his long, well kept silver hair. And those markings on his face…they kind of looked like makeup or something.
After a few seconds she noticed he had opened his eyes and stared back at her, as if he had felt that she was looking at him. She slowly fell into an entrancement; he had such luring, gold eyes. Just like Inuyasha, she thought, but these were different. They were more serious, like in deep thought or wanting to keep something hidden inside them and keep it from getting out. She started to slowly blush.
Inuyasha called out to her. "Hello. Earth to Len."
Len snapped out of her trance as she heard Inuyasha's voice. "W-What is it?"
Inuyasha continued, "You were looking at Sesshomaru as if thinking about somthing. Kinda scary if you ask me…"
Kagome sensed what Len had been thinking about, since girls just 'know' things at times. She tried to change the subject. "Inuyasha, just sit down, alright? Let's try and make it through the rest of the day without biting our heads off more than we can chew."
"Huh?Well that's a new one…" Inuyasha sat down next to Kagome, again captivated by her sudden sweet change of voice. "Feh, yeah, whatever."
The rest of the way seemed rather quiet, everyone (except Sesshomaru) looking out towards the greenery they passed, until finally coming up to big cement-colored brick-like walls that seemed to reach the sky and a humungous front-wooden door. The girls "oo'd" and "awe'd" at everything they saw that could only be compared to a castle or a roman coliseum that could only be seen in fairytales. A big sign on top of the door read "Training Facility of the Feudal Era High School" in bold, golden letters and the doors started to open slowly as the trolleys entered 3-by-3 through them. It was only a matter of time they would finally get to see what the big fuss was about, this being the most respected and famous part of the school…
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I originally had this next info out if someone ever forgot what the school or uniforms looked like and it's all here, for future reference. Sorry if the info seems too long, but I think it helps in the imagination and putting a better focused image in your head…
About the world: It is in our times (meaning technology rules! Some characters could own a cell phone, for example) and it's as if demons and humans have lived for ever together. Demons were never "exterminated" (like in the series). Sure, there have been wars, but not to THAT extent. There ARE humans/demons that hate the opposite race though, so it's like we're living the feudal era (of the series) in our times, you know?
About the schools: Lets put it this way: just like there are only girls schools and only boys schools, there are humans-only schools and demons-only schools in the world. And just like the schools (in real life) that have both girls and boys in them, there are both humans and demons schools in the story. Since there's still some sort of grudge between many parents (human/demon alike), there are fewer of these schools around. So students like Kagome that come from an all human school don't really have that much contact with demons. (That's why she didn't want to come here in the first place…long story).
About the Feudal Era High school: Yup. You've guessed it. It's a human and demon school. It is VERY big since it has to hold a ton of students together (including demons of all shapes and sizes) and it is a highly prestigious school at that. Its measurements are about a big mall in width and length and it's about four stories high (if I don't make it bigger later on, but you get the idea). All the characters of the series will show up sooner or later in it, so no one will be left out. I'm trying to make it as a sort of reflection upon the series thing if it had happened inside a school environment. Since it teaches every grade known to demon and human kind, students spend years in the school and it's very rare for a new student to come along in any older grade. These tend to be at a disadvantage since everyone else has known each other for many years.
Education: To make it interesting, the school is half-normal education and half-battle education. Almost everyday the students must show up at the battling arena, or training facility (instead of a classroom or a gym) and duke it out. The facility is so far from the school (at least two miles away from it) because the students get so strong at fighting and get fired up in battle(even though it's still a school thing, they take it seriously and avenge or whatever their dishonor and such). The school teaches weapon skills as well as other things. Just like all schools there is an "intention" of keeping order, but as you read in the first chapter, students go crazy and do what they please most of the time, anyways.
Uniforms: It is a rule that both humans and demons must wear the same type of uniform (well, the ones who follow the rules, anyway). Many just show up as they please. There is really no forcing of these rules what so ever. The boy's uniforms are of a navy- blue color with the exact style of the boy's uniform in Kagome's school from the series. The only difference is that they also have whitish-silver half-inch lining on the trims of the sleeves, the bottom and neck part of the shirt, as well as were the buttons are, creating a strait line down the middle of their chests (By the way, it goes well with Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's hair : p). The girl's style is a navy-blue short skirt with a long-sleeved white shirt that goes to the wrists and a navy-blue vest on top that goes up to the neck with three little buttons to close it and no sleeves. Kagome is one of those that wears something other than the Feudal Era High's school uniform, having on practically all of the time her white and green uniform from the series. It's her "old school's" uniform that she treasures a lot (according to my story).
Well! What do you think? Understand so far? Any questions? Ask me. Unhappy with a character or their actions? Well, you'll just have to take it up with them…
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