Disclaimer: Ss pie is trying to hypnotize Inuyasha with a yo-yo but all she's receiving in return is death glares from him. "I OWN you, I OWN you, I OWN- Drats. It's not working on him. But maybe…JUST maybe…"

She turns to the screen and does the yo-yo thing on the reader. "You'll R & R, You WILL R & R, you shall review just as soon as you read the fic…" Honestly guys. I only got two reviews for the last chapter. Guys, review this time, please? Whenever you don't I… I… (starts to sob) I get the blues…PLEASE! I'll do anything! Anything!"

"Anything?" Jaken comes up from behind with Ah Un on a leash in one hand and a really big pooper scooper in the other.

Ss pie: "Uh…well…" she high tails it to the nearest exit with her laptop while screaming back, 'R-E-V-I-E-W!'

Last time on F. E. High:

The Band of Seven has made their debut and has started cranking up the death chart. Len found out that her sword has a name (yes, there is a reason) and Kagome has learned that her life lies within Naraku's hands (hehehe). Also, Naraku spoke of a legend that goes back 500 years ago and wants to take over the world.

This is the last chapter for day two, all part of the big 'intro' to the school and such. After this, we'll be skipping a few weeks into the future and start with some more good stuff. Enjoy!

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Chapter 6: The Buddy System

Len turns to Kagome with a happy expression on her face. "Oh my gosh Kagome! Do you know what this means!"

Kagome says dully, "Yeah. We finally get to take a class together."

Len throws up her hands in the air. "Yippie!"

Kagome: 'Argh. Why me…"

The girls had met each other in front of the doors of their next class. The sign on the wall on top of the doors read "Team Training" Class. The girls had arrived right on time for it, but it seemed as if everyone had arrived already. A lot of whacks and thuds and screams could be heard inside. This made them hesitate on whether or not they should enter…

Len jumped up with amusement after curiously hearing the commotion. "Come on, Kagome! Let's go!" She opened the door before Kagome could tell her to stop. Kagome held her breathe trying to expect the worst but all she could see were a bunch of students, most of them in their fighting cloths, scattered around an immensely large room just a tad bit larger than their weapon training rooms, all forming little groups ranging from 2 to up to about 10 students in each one.

"Come on Kagome!" Len pulled on Kagome's arm, seeing that she was still reading the room. "I bet this'll be fun!"

Kagome let Len pull her inside. 'Riiight…That's what you said before we entered the training facility…'

They walked in, Len dragging a long box behind her, both girls unnoticed by everyone else; well, except when…

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- Ouch!" Miroku had fallen from what seemed to be the ceiling and had landed right in front of the two, then started rubbing his behind and shouting out enraged lifting a fist in the air and yelling, "Damn, Hachi! I TOLD you to practice that move before I got on!"

Len, bewildered: "Hey. It's raining men. Hallelujah…"

Kagome, before Len could finish the song, walked up to Miroku. "Hey Miroku. What happened?" she extended a hand to help him up.

Miroku looked up at Kagome, her angelic voice erasing any former anger within his mind. "Kagome! Why fancy meeting you here. Did you just come in?"

Kagome: "Yeah. Len came with me too and-"

GROPE GROPE

Did I mention when I said that Miroku thought of Kagome's voice as an angelical call from the heavens, he was thinking rather among the lines of finally getting to feel her butt?

SLAP

Miroku lay on the floor, a clear red hand mark embedded on his left cheek. "Hehe…"

Kagome: "You perverted monk! I SWEAR I don't know HOW you got to be a monk!"

Miroku: "Well…That's a long story, one I'm willing to tell if you'd accompany me to my home one day…"

Kagome, outraged: "Sleazebag!"

Len, just coming up to the two: "What? Who or what's a sleazebag?"

Kagome turned away from Miroku. "He is! I swear he just HAS to be a demon in disguise."

Miroku: "No! You have it all wrong! It's my hand! It's possessed!"

Kagome: "Riiight, right. Next you'll tell me that you actually HAVE monk powers and that you hold some sort of secret weapon."

Miroku, slightly smirking, "Well, actually…"

Kaede interrupted him when she arrived just when no one expected her to (as it usually occurred in any normal day at the school). "Hello girls. Glad ye made it to this class. I have been waiting for ye."

Kagome: "Huh? You have?"

Miroku took the time to get up from the floor, whipping of the dirt from his robes. He then quickly put his hands together and bowed at Kaede. "Lady Kaede. Pleased to meet you. I was just going to explain to the ladies what it IS we do around here."

Kagome, annoyed, hissed 'Nice cover up, monk.'

Len pondered Kaede's words. 'Ye, ye, ye…Is that supposed to mean YOU or something?'

Kaede: "Very well then, but I believe that I should take it from here, Miroku. Thank you for your help."

Miroku: "Why of course, Lady Kaede! You know I'd do ANYTHING to help out a lady!" Kagome snickers at his remark.

Kaede: "Yes, I do; in fact, more than I even care to know. Come now my children. We shall get ye to your stations. Miroku, I trust ye know where to go?"

Miroku: "Of course, Lady Kaede. See you later!" He turns around while mumbling to himself: "Where IS that raccoon!"

Kaede started to walk away followed by the girls close behind her and Len's box, dragging across the floor. "Now, children, ye need some recruits."

The girls: "Huh?"

Kaede: "Ye don't expect to take this class if ye don't have a partner?" The girls are still wondering just what it is this class is supposed to be about. Kaede, seeing the looks on their faces, tries to clear some things up. "Ye see, I am not only the school's headsman-or should I say, mistress- but I also teach the 'Team Training' class-- or as I prefer to call it, the BUDDY SYSTEM. It has a nice ring to it, no?"

Kagome thought for a second. 'The Buddy System? Sounds a little bit childish, don't you think, Kaede?'

Len's eyes widened with joy. 'Wow! A buddy system! Cool!'

Kaede returned to her lecture. "The name speaks for itself: here ye shall learn to coo operate and to fight alongside other students. Usually everyone is pared with one or more individuals, each possessing a skill that adds another strategic piece to the team, making it become a strong alliance thanks to the diversity or unique coherence of their powers together, otherwise creating a strong team when in battle, both offensively and defensively."

Len had to try and keep up with all those 'huge' words that Kaede was reciting. 'Skill? Got it. Strategic? Got it. Strong alliance? Got it. Diversity…Coherence…'

Kaede elegantly jumps over a bleeding chopped-off arm that was left on the floor and kept talking. "In this class we mostly practice fighting, but in teams. Most of the students have partners as well, either within the teams they already take part of, or without the team. Aw, here we are."

The three stopped, now between new groups of students, the girls not seeing why they had to stop there in the first place.

Kaede: "Len, first I shall address ye to your companion." She goes over to a huge iron safe box, cracks in the code to open the lock on the door, and puts on a pair of thick, iron gloves as she takes hold of a very small iron cage about a foot and a half long and wide that read 'Caution: Beware of Wild Beast Inside' and tried her best to hold it in place as the cage seemed to be alive as it shook madly, apparently trying to escape from Kaede's grip.

Kagome sweat dropped. 'What in the world IS that!"

Len, intrigued, 'Wow! That looks cool!'

Kaede's arms were squirming from the cage's fight. "Here Len. Take this."

Len, a little hesitant: "W-what? Now?"

Kaede: "Yes, now."

Len: "But…what is it? And don't I need gloves or something?"

Kaede: "Ye don't. Trust me. As soon as ye touch it, the beast from within the cage shall calm down. Ye have the sword I handed you yesterday with ye, am I correct?"

"Uh, yes. I have it here with me." Len brought the box she had been dragging in front of her, reaching in it and taking out her sword. "Heh. I'm sorry; I couldn't carry it in any other way."

Kaede: "That is alright. Now, ye must take the cage." She slightly comes to shake the cage a little in front of Len, trying to per sway her into finally taking it herself. "Ye need to have the sword with ye to be able to calm down the beast."

"Why is that?"

"As ye youngsters say, it 'comes with the package', meaning it must always be with the sword ye hold. Since ye is now the holder and owner of the sword, ye must bare with it's creature-like companion."

'Wow. An ACCESSORY!' that last bit helpe pump up her courage. Still worried that some thing- some weird thing- could come out in any moment and bite her arm off though, she stretched out her hand slowly. Sure she was used to the whole 'demons as friends' thing, but she was supposed to get close to this? She didn't even know what it was, and that made her question to whether or not she wanted to go through with it.

The 'thing' inside the cage seemed to grow restless and Len just kept delaying as at times the cage became calm, but as soon as her hand got near the little door the cage started jumping madly again.

Kaede had expected that this would have turned out to be easier than it was at the moment. "This isn't good. I thought that once…Never mind. Here," she settled the cage on the floor, "stay with it until I come back. I must tend to Kagome's needs before the class starts." Kaede took off the gloves and set them close to the cage. Then she told Kagome to follow her and they left Len alone with the little monster- I mean, her little partner.

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Kagome glanced at all of the groups of students that seemed to be having a good time just chatting with each other. She hoped that her new teammates would treat her that well.

"Damn it, Shippo! How many times have I told you to STAY PUT?"

Kagome noticed a voice that was all-too familiar. 'Huh? That sounded much like…oh no. He's in this class too?'

"Ah, there's the voice of the lovely young man who will take part in your team battles" Kaede said in a sweet voice.

Kagome gasped. 'Oh no…she doesn't mean…'

"Shippo come BACK here!"

"Na na na na na!" A little fox kid was running around a very pissed off hanyou with his arms up in the air. "Haha! Bet you can't catch me!"

"Why you little- oh, Kaede, what a pleasant surprise. I was just about to kill the little worm!" Inuyasha immediately stopped trying to grab Shippo by the tail and looked up at the two women. "Oh. It's you." Apparently he wasn't too pleased of finding Kagome there beside the old principal. "Don't you have some sort of little fan club you have to attend to like, the 'wench club'?"

Kagome could just choke the bastard for that. Surely he must have had been raised by demons! (She has NO clue…hehe…)

"Well then, I can see that you two are going to be just fine." Kaede had that sort of grin on her face that could scare people. The kids looked at her weirdly.

"Yeah, like I'M going to even make sure that THAT happens. Feh, I have NO NEED of putting up with her."

At this he just got Kagome more irritated.

"Now Inuyasha what have I told ye about watching your tongue? She is a lady and even so, those type of manners are-"

"Oh cut the crap, Kaede. What is it you want?" Inuyasha had heard enough and just KNEW that Kaede was up to something, again.

Kagome couldn't take any more of Inuyasha's insolence. "Inuyasha! You can't talk to the principal like that! I SWEAR you were raised by animals!"

"Hah! Actually I was raised by dogs- dog demons to be exact- but hey, who's counting?" Inuyasha couldn't have a more sly face on.

"Argh!" She had to face it. He had him there.

Kaede, being the peace maker she was, took the time to bring them the good news. "Come now. This is no way for partners to be treating each other, is it?"

Both kids hit rock bottom at her comment.

Both: "What! PARTNERS?"

Kaede: "Yes, of course. Why else did ye think I brought ye here to Inuyasha, Kagome?"

Both: "But, but-"

Shippo, currently sitting on the sidelines, couldn't be happier. "What! You mean Kagome's gonna be in our group? Wow, that's SO cool!"

Inuyasha grumbles and lifts a fist at him. "No it is not!" He turns to Kaede for an explanation. "What in the world are you thinking, Kaede!"

"Calm down, Inuyasha. Ye shall see soon enough what it is that I see between you two. Come now; we need to start practices." Kaede slowly turns around and heads towards her place in front of the classroom.

'What! You can't LEAVE me like this, Kaede! What am I supposed t do!' Suddenly being part of a group wasn't so 'hot' anymore to Kagome.

"Feh! Fine! Leave! See if I care!" Inuyasha just started pouting like he always did. "Grr. That no-good old hag has ruined my life enough as it is!"

Kagome stopped being quiet. "Hey! Stop calling people names! Your such a jerk, Inuyasha!"

"Feh! Who asked you, wench?" He crossed his arms and turned his back on the girl. "Go chase a pig for all I care!"

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Len, on the other side of the room, was tired of staring down at the cage. It had stopped going crazy for some time now, and even though snorts and growling noises still came from inside it she had gathered enough courage to go for it. She was going to meet her partner, at last.

Without the use of the gloves, she let out her steady hand and in touching the door she realized she couldn't see where the lock had been put. 'Wait, what did Kaede say? Oh right, that I need my sword…'

She reaches out to pick up her sword with her free hand and as soon as she came to bring it closer to her a light beamed from it and a second light came from the cage's door. The lights were so intense that Len had to cover her eyes and didn't have time to protect herself from the creature's incoming attack. The cage's door had swung open and Len was caught off guard, not being able to notice the body coming out of it because of its fast reflexes.

It was going to pounce right on her.

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A very annoyed Miroku came walking towards a fighting pair, dragging along by the collar a very sorry raccoon-dog.

Hachi: "I-I'm sorry master! I PROMISE I'll do better next time!"

Miroku didn't need to look back at him for the answer. "There isn't going to BE a next time once I get through with you!" He instantly let go of the demon as soon as he noticed the sight in front of him. "Kagome!" He ran towards the girl, happy to see that she still hadn't been killed/tortured/menaced/slaughtered by anyone in the school yet.

"Wench? You DARE still call me wench!"

"Wench, wench, wench! I'll say it again if I have to! Wench!"

"Argh! Jerk!"

Kagome didn't seem to have heard Miroku's cry, so he steadied for asking Shippo what was going on.

"It all started when Lady Kaede said that they had to be partners and then Inuyasha mentioned that Kagome was a pig." The little fox's innocence was just too cute.

Inuyasha, being a dog demon and all, had heard the whole thing, even though his ears still ringed from kagome's girly screeches. "I SAID that she could 'go chase a pig for all I cared', not that she actually WAS one!" He paused, after getting a slight vision. "In fact, hey, Kagome, I've never seen a pig in a school uniform; that is, until now!" Yup. He could get his insults from out of the blue.

"Grr. Inuyasha…" If Kagome had a volcanic thermometer on her, it would have popped by now. She could feel her anger come down to her clutched fists and setting on fire. She did the best she could to try and come up with menacing insults against Inuyasha, but to no avail. He was the king of bastards, and she had no experience in that territory. Then, she came up with an idea.

Kagome relaxed, turned around, and headed for the exit.

The three boys were stunned at this sudden change of pace. Inuyasha was the most surprised one of them all; he was left speechless for even HE hadn't expected such a daring and off-guard move like that from anyone he had ever met. He stood staring at Kagome's back.

Shippo got worried. "Huh? Where is she going?"

"By the look on her face I'd have to say to the little girl's room." Miroku knew too much about women that it even frightened him at times.

Shippo almost exploded at this. "What! There's a room just for little girls! How come I never heard of that and how come there isn't one for us little boys?" Again, his innocence was just too darn cute for his own good.

Inuyasha and Miroku looked down at him. Sometimes they forgot just how young Shippo was. He could be pretty energetic (not to mention annoying) for a little kid.

Inuyasha only did what was right in situations like this.

He drove his fist to land on Shippo's little head.

PUNCH

Shippo, grabbing his head, cried out. "Hey! What did you do THAT for?"

Inuyasha let down his fist and said in a laid-back tone, "Sometimes I still have to check whether or not you even have a brain in there."

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Len shrieked as soon as the 'thing' jumped on her, attempting to devour her whole. "Ahhhhhhhh! Someone, help me!" She aimed to either kill the thing to death or scratch it down to shreds with her clawing fingers that seemed to miss its target every time Len tried to pry the thing off her. There she was, struggling for her life and no one came to the rescue. She was all alone with the horrible, gruesome monster and could relay on no one's help.

Len's fear of seeing the creature eye to eye hadn't allowed her to open her eyes ever since it had come out of its cage. But she new that one small peek could stun her make her forget about fighting it once and for all. She constantly struggled to get free but to no avail; she was trapped under its heavy weight and grotesque body.

"Argh…Some..one…HELP!"

She gave it her all: girly swings with her fists and baby kicks in the air; but her energy was depleting fast and for every heavy breathe she let out, the more…tiny streaks of slime …she got from the monstrosity on top of her.

"Huh?" After ceasing her embarrassing movements for a second, Len finally realized that this whole time she had been afraid, the creature had been giving her sloppy saliva in return. ' Is it…licking me?' She started opening one eye in fear of what she was about to see but couldn't spot anything in front of her. Surprised at seeing nothing at all and for a moment believing it could be a ghost of some sort, she lifted up her upper body and as soon as she did she felt another wet string of something gooey on her forehead.

"Wha!" It gave her goose bumps to feel it but in turning to look around her, up and down and then to the floor, the thing that had caused it was no where in sight.

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Kagome splashed water on her face trying to cool off her temper and looked at herself in the mirror. She had gone into the girl's bathroom and was now all alone.

(sigh) 'What am I doing here? I don't belong at this school. One second I feel as if I've met all these people somewhere before and the next thing I know I'm hating them again…Well, Inuyasha, anyways.'

She dried off her face and let herself smile. 'The truth is, I feel as if I'm right at home on one side and in the other as if something is still missing, like something is inside of me and I can't let it out…'

Before she could continue with her thoughts, the door to the bathroom swung open.

"Blast that Naraku! I swear one day I'll get my revenge and then Kohaku will be his normal self again!"

"Huh?" Kagome identified that voice as Sango's. "Sango, is that you?" She turned to find Sango in her pink and green wear, throwing a punch at the wall and looking down at the floor. At Kagome's voice, Sango looked up and behind her irritated eyes Kagome could see that she was about to cry. Forgetting her own problems she ran towards Sango to see if she was hurt. "Sango, or you okay? What's wrong?"

Sango, not wanting to trouble Kagome with her sad stories, let it pass. "Oh, Kagome. I didn't see you there."

"What is it, Sango? Are you hurt?"

"No, no, I'm fine, really. I just…got caught up in a bad memory, tha'st all." She let out a small smile and tried to hide her worry, but Kagome could see that something had really hurt her emotionally and, figuring this wasn't the time for Sango to let her in on her problem, she walked her to one of the faucets.

"Here, Sango. You may want to wash your face before you go out again."

Sango looked into the mirror at her rosy eyes. "You're right. Thanks, Kagome."

Kagome just smiled. "It's alright. No big deal." Finally she had had a more charming moment with one of the girls at the school. She was slowly feeling better about everything and Inuyasha and the guys were now at the back of her head.

Sango turned on the faucet and let the water run in her palms for a minute still thinking of her brother and what it was she could do, but then splashed her cupped hands full of water on her face. Somehow every time one did this they felt better, and Sango was feeling just that. After a splash or two more she turned the faucet off and reached for a towel. Fancy that the F.E. High would have such classy taste and manners, leaving even little towels to dry off your hands in inside the bathrooms. "K-Kagome…"

"Hm? What is it, Sango?" Kagome wanted Sango to know that she would be there whenever she needed her.

Sango saw into Kagome's sweet eyes and shook her head. "No, it's nothing." Maybe she would tell her some other time, but right now she needed to get her mind off of her situation. "Kagome, how come you too washed your face?" Sango had noticed some drops on a corner of Kagome's left cheek. It was obvious Kagome had a trouble of her own.

Inuyasha, Miroku and Naraku's faces came back to Kagome in a flash. 'Oh great, NOW I remember why I was so sad before I saw Sango come in…' She sighed and said with a squeaky voice, "I've got BOY problems."

"Huh? What kind?"

"Let's just say the boys here aren't as 'charming' as the ones I used to know."

Sango grinned; maybe for the first time in the whole day. "Yeah, they get to you sometimes. But I've got just the thing to cheer you up. Here." She handed Kagome a small, red, leather bag of beads. "These are sacred beads, ones used by priestesses and everyone of the sort. Once I saw them they reminded me of you, as if they were meant for you. You can think of them as good luck charms."

Sango's thoughtful gift and warm smile made Kagome all cheery again. "Wow, Sango. I don't know what to say. I-I don't have anything for you…"

"It's alright. Besides, it was sort of Lady Kaede's idea. She told me to give these to you and told me to tell you that you were destined to have them and that you would know what to do with them once the moment came up."

Kagome had no clue to what it was Kaede was referring to but opened the bag and saw that it contained many small, navy-blue beads with just a few white tooth-shaped ones between all the rest. "Wow. They look very pretty!"

"I know, don't they? By the way, your 'boy' problems don't have anything to do with Inuyasha or Miroku, do they?"

She missed to mention 'Naraku' in that list but Kagome nodded just the same. "Uh-huh. Well, sort of."

Sango laughed. "Those two are incredible. They're all what you'd definitely hate in a guy and a bag of chips."

Kagome laughed too. "Yeah. Too bad I got stuck with Inuyasha as my fighting partner."

Sango stopped laughing and a surprised look was now on her face. "You mean you're with Inuyasha now?"

"Yeah."

"That's great!"

"What?" Kagome didn't expect this reaction from her. '…and I though she was on my side…'

Sango waved her hands from side to side to calm Kagome down. "No, what I mean is, now you're part of our group. You see, since you are now Inuyasha's partner, you get to be part of his group, which he is sort of the leader of. The group includes Miroku, Shippo and I which you have already met, and some others who you're going to see today at the class."

Kagome's life was getting bigger and more complicated by the minute.

Sango signaled Kagome to the door. "Let's get going before we're late."

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"Ahhhhhh! Help me! Some one PLEASE help me! I'm being eaten alive by a cute monster!"

"Meep!"

Len was laughing while rolling on the floor, attacked by licks and kisses coming from a very, VERY, tiny lizard-thing on top of her face. "Teehee…Th-that tickles! Hey- st-stop it!" Len's cries for help were in a playful manner ever since she found out that the 'thing' she was supposed to be companions with had a mere 5-inched body with a 3 ½- inched tail. It was a charismatic, happy-go-lucky blue-green gecko-like male from the reptilian family. It had very tiny dark-blue spikes running along the back of it's head to the tip of it's tail and had tiny claws that tickled more than they could hurt.

Len tried to stop laughing for a second and lifted it up with both her hands even though one was more than enough to lift it up. "My, you're one happy little critter!"

The lizard-thing closed it's huge, shinny green eyes and opened up a gigantic smile that consumed his whole face while wagging it's tale like mad. "Meep!"

"Teehee! You're SO cute!"

"Meep!"

His high-pitched cry made her ear ring for a couple of seconds every time he 'meeped' but the combination of it's cuteness and joyous character made her forget all about it.

"Hehe. You had me worried for a moment there while you were in your cage. Funny how a thing like you could make so much racket."

"Meep!"

"Well then, I guess we're going to be partners, huh? I'm Len, what's your name?"

"MEEP!"

"Meep?"

"Meep, mmmeep!"

"Teehee! That's a cute name!"

"MMMEEP!"

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On the other side of the room a very irritated and impatient Miroku paced from once side to the other in front of a loud mouthed dog demon and an equally high pitched fox. The two had been fighting ever since Kagome had left their side because of Inuyasha's taunting. "Guys, will you keep it DOWN? I can't think."

Inuyasha, holding Shippo back with his foot as Shippo reached out for him with his little arms, looked without concern at the monk. "Miroku, you're pathetic getting all worked up over a mere woman." He had meant Sango, who was yet to arrive.

Miroku stopped dead in his tracks. "Excuse me? Am I just witnessing a 'suggestion' made by the old, faithful, EX-boyfriend of Kikyo, who he would always go gaga over whenever she walked pass him, talked to him, made eye contact with him and whom STILL roams the mind of THY pea-brained head?"

At that moment Shippo stopped fighting with Inuyasha, grabbed some random box of popcorn and sat down, munching loudly and thinking to himself: 'BOY is this going to be good! Watching Inuyasha in one of his fits is always better than cable!'

Inuyasha had focused all his rage upon Miroku now. Pointing a finger at him, he screamed, "Grr…How DARE you say all that! I do NOT have a peanut brain!"

Miroku smirked at this. Surely Shippo wasn't the only one who needed to have a 'brain check' every now and then… "Hehe, Inuyasha, ONE- I said PEA brain, not peanut brain…although it goes well with the whole fact that you're a nut sometimes… and TWO- if my ears haven't deceived me, I don't believe you denied the whole 'Kikyo' thing." Miroku knew Inuyasha's weakness better than anyone else: his ex.

Inuyasha, of course, fell for his teasing once again. "Why you!" He flexed his fingers making them crack and darted towards Miroku.

Not too far away, the two ladies were on their way back.

"…and that's how my Hirakotsu is made." Sango was having a friendly conversation with Kagome until she noticed the familiar sound of two titans clashing one another. She looked at the boy's direction and brought down her face to her open palm in embarrassment. "Oh boy, they're at it again."

Kagome looked at Miroku and Inuyasha; Inuyasha was throwing punches at the air and Miroku was dodging them with ease. 'Gee, if THAT's how they treat their friends, then I wonder how they treat their enemies…'

Kilala, who had been introduced earlier on to Kagome, scampered from under Sango's legs and ran off to greet the fellows. She stopped in front of them for a moment, staring at the two and finally spoke up after being seen by Shippo. "Oh, Kilala. It's you!"

"Meow."

"Huh?" Miroku turned his head away from the fight and at that time Inuyasha (who also knew Miroku's weakness better than anyone else- Sango) took the upper hand and threw a massive blow at Miroku who, in turn, dodged it easily by ducking down and looking at Kilala face to face. His sudden movement had made Inuyasha loose his balance and he fell over face-first onto the hard floor.

"Kilala!" A sudden burst of energy overcame the monk and he stood up as he put a hand over his eyes while looking all around the room, trying to find a certain 'someone'. It was then that he spotted the girls coming over. Holding a big grin, he laughed overjoyed and yelled for them to come over. "SANGO! YOU'RE HERE!"

The girls, a little hesitant at first, walked up to them. Miroku held his arms wide, as if to give a big bear hug to Sango, but she just ignored him and walked on, her arms crossed in front of her. "Yeah, yeah, just make sure your hands are as FAR AWAY from me as possible."

Miroku gave a short laugh as a reply while stating innocently, "Oh come on, Sango. You KNOW you want me…"

Before Sango had a chance to take out her Hirakotsu a whistle was heard from across the room.

It had been Kaede. "ALRIIIIIIIIIIIGHT, KIDS! TIME TO GET INTO YOUR PLACES! YE MUST HURRY IT UP, NOW!"

Everyone in the room straitened up at the sound of the whistled and the noisy chatter started to calm down a bit. Inuyasha stood up and minded Miroku, tucking his arms under his red sleeves.

Kaede's voice rang through the loud-speaker again. "TEAM CAPTAINS; MAKE SURE YOUR TEAM IS READY!"

Every student in the room huddled into groups. Inuyasha and gang got (some of) their grip together and stood tall. Kagome noticed Hachi and before she could say anything, Miroku introduced her to him. 'Funny how a sweet and kind raccoon-dog could follow such a lecherous guy', she thought.

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Len, now standing up with her new 'pet' -as she would call it- on her shoulder opened up a smile. "Wow! This is going to be SO exciting!"

"Meep!"

"Uh-huh. You tell'em, Meep!"

"MEEP!"

Suddenly a little girl with hip-length raven hair and an orange outfit skipped happily in front of her with arms stretched out in a "T" position, apparently humming a little tune as she passed rows of demons giving her death glares and whispering to one another.

"Hum, humhumhum…humhum…Lord Sesshomaru, where- are- you? I need to find Ah -Un too…humhumhumhum…humhum…."

Len followed the girl with her eye sight and then got curious when she heard her say 'Sesshomaru'. 'Oh my gosh! I so forgot about him! I wonder where he is…'

The jolly child skipped along, apparently missing all the stabbing glares she was getting behind her back. Of course, why wouldn't she get them?

From time to time she ducked under everyone else's legs to see if she could find a trace of either boots, tiny green feet or dragon claws; jumped fairly high enough to try and spot a glance of silver hair or a two-headed beast and walked left and right to get through the many groups that stood in her way of finding her goal. Too bad she couldn't be taller. Finally, she reached Inuyasha's group and, recognizing her Lord's brother, asked for his help.

"Mister Inuyasha, sir, have you seen Lord Sesshomaru around?"

Inuyasha, just noticing her arrival because he had maintained his eyes closed this whole time, looked down at her with the same face he always showed Shippo whenever he disapproved of something, if not worse. He talked in a gruff voice. "So…The little pipsqueak is lost, huh?"

The innocent child just nodded and waited for a 'real' answer that she could use.

Inuyasha continued in a wry, slick voice, "Well now, it seems that my dear brother has misplaced his wench and-"

WHACK

THUD

Sango stood above Inuyasha's still body, which had fallen dead on the floor. With her Hirakotsu in hand, she menaced him with another whack on the head. "Honestly, Inuyasha! You should NEVER talk like that to Rin! She's just a little girl! In fact- you shouldn't be speaking of women like that, EVER."

Inuyasha's muffled voice came up from the floor and Sango crushed him again with her all-powerful, yet VERY heavy boomerang. "And STAY down. Good boy."

Kagome didn't know what she was more amazed about; the fact that Sango could single handedly deal with these men by herself or the fact that Inuyasha could still live through her attacks.

Rin looked down at the hanyou in disappointment. "So you do not know where my Lord is?"

"Rin, come to me." A stern and cold voice called to her behind the group. She laughed with joy as she recognized all-too-well this voice.

"Coming, Lord Sesshomaru!" she ran to Sesshomaru, receiving a death glare by a little imp holding a dragon on a leash in one hand and a staff in another as she came to her lord's side, almost having to lean back to fully see his face from where she stood.

Sesshomaru stared emotionless at the hanyou's fallen body. "So, I see you are left eating dirt again, Inuyasha, as always."

Inuyasha instantly jumped up, trying to make Sesshomaru take back his words but failing. "Grr…I was NOT eating dirt!"

"Yes, but you WERE kissing the ground, dear brother."

"Grr…That's it…I'm WARNING you…"

"What? Have I hit a soft spot on that filthy half-human body of yours?" Sesshomaru started to grow a little smirk, which always made Inuyasha get more pissed off. (ss pie: Squeal!)

"Grr…"

Miroku put a hand on Inuyasha's shoulders. "It would b wise to continue this ELSEWARE, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha whirled around to look at Miroku in the eye. Surely he had meant to deal with this as soon as they both got home, but Inuyasha just couldn't stand the fact the he always had to delay for some reason a fight with his brother. "Lay off, Miroku! This doesn't concern you!"

Kagome changed her gaze form Inuyasha to the foursome behind him. Although they were an odd site and didn't seem to have anything in common to be part of the same group, which she inferred, she saw that their etiquette and their relationship with one another was far too above her own team. Sesshomaru seemed to stray his sight from Inuyasha and be looking at nothing in particular, while the little girl called 'Rin' kept throwing him smiles. The two headed dragon was the first she had ever seen and intrigued her, but not as much as the little imp who spent all his strength on lecturing the poor girl with 'you have no respect' and 'petty human' speeches, which the girl had ignored completely.

An odd site they were, but not as odd as her own team.

Kagome looked back at her friends, Inuyasha still bickering at Miroku, Sango slapping the monk every time he took the chance to grope her, then Inuyasha taking it out on her as he saw that nagging a man on the floor wasn't much help to let off his steam, all the while Kilala and Shippo innocently watched the others until they too fell pray to Inuyasha's attacks just as soon as he got tired of fighting with Sango after she focused more of her attention on Miroku's prying hands. The raccoon dog had mysteriously disappeared for a while now, and so Kagome was left to herself.

'Wow; a very heroic and close group indeed. Yup; we're just like a family…'

Sesshomaru and the others left unnoticed to the rest of the group and Kagome sighed inwardly as she saw a speck jumping very high above the other students' heads, getting closer and closer to her friends. 'What's that?'

She followed it with her sight until it vanished close to where Inuyasha and Shippo were chasing each other. Inuyasha then almost instantly stopped what he was doing, slapped his neck and looked down at his hand, whispering something that Kagome was almost unable to hear: "Myoga…"

Kagome walked over to him but before she could find out just what a 'Myoga' was Kaede spoke up through her loud speaker again.

Kaede: "I trust that everyone is in their places?" She received no answer except the silence of the room. "Alright, then let us begin."

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After a very long lesson of 'how to treat your fellow companions' and 'trusting one another', Kagome slumped down on the front steps of the school for a while before deciding to ride her bike home. This school was a lot farther than her old one was from her house, and thus would have to use it every day.

She had left her fighting group as soon as the class ended and was more than happy to go home. 'Inuyasha's partner? More like his stupid sidekick...' she remembered just how he wouldn't stop bugging her and how he would refuse to converse with her when Kaede spoke out loud how everyone was to get to know their partners better. He still objected to have her as his new partner, while she still thought of a way to find a cure for 'yakity yaks'.

"Feh. I wonder just how it is that I keep bumping into you when this school's so huge. So it's a small world after all." Kagome didn't have to turn around to know just who's voice that was behind her on a higher step. Two days and she could distinguish it between thousands more between a busy construction site.

"Give it a rest, I was about to leave."

"Heh. Is that a disturbed voice I hear?"

Kagome swung her head back as her hair swayed in the air. Inuyasha shut is mouth and his eyes sparkled for a moment, picturing Kagome as Kikyo. "Yes, it is. Now will you drop it? I just want to go home."

Hearing Kagome's voice got him to wake up to reality and it disappointed him to see her instead of Kikyo in front of him. His sudden change in attitude and the sad look he had on his face as past memories of him and the priestess overcame him baffled Kagome. She remembered seeing him this way before while watching Kikyo from across the lockers the first time she met him and fell for his sad expression and droopy ears.

"Inuyasha, is something wrong?"

Inuyasha looked strait into her eyes as he realized he was still in front of Kagome.

"What are YOU still doing here? Weren't you just leaving?" His sarcasm was back.

Kagome harrumphed and turned around to go get her bike as she saw any other comment would further delay her leave.

At that same moment the rest of the Inuyasha gang came up from behind Inuyasha and Shippo, apparently having witnessed the whole thing, jumped onto Inuyasha's shoulder and started cheery, "Hey! I know that song!" Before Inuyasha could react to his appearance, Shippo began to sing in a cheery (but annoying) tune: "It's a world OF love and a world of tears; it's a world OF hopes and a world of fears. There's so much, THAT WE SHARE, that it's time, WE'RE AWARE, it's small, small…ACK!"

Inuyasha stood over a dizzy Shippo with a throbbing vein on his forehead and his fist still out. "Damn it! Don't remind me of any Disney songs, will ya?"

Miroku and Sango laid back for this one. They too were pleased that Inuyasha had stopped Shippo on his tracks. 'Thank God that song is over', they both thought.

Kagome looked back after noticing the rest of her friends had come. Kilala then ran towards Kagome, jumping into her arms. Kagome caught her and started stroking Kilala's back, receiving a soft purr in return. She broke into a smile, forgetting about her and Inuyasha's past discussion. "You're so adorable!"

Miroku brought down his head and arms in a slump. (sigh) "If only the ladies would say that to ME once in a while…" Sango gave him a look through the corner of her eye.

Inuyasha folded his arms this time, not being able to hide them under his sleeves because he had changed back into his school uniform. "Feh." He tried to match Kaede's voice, saying in a high-pitched tone: "The BUUUddy System! Feh! Be GOOD to your partners, TRUST your partners, have a nice conversation with them over a cup of TEA and then invite them over for dinner and a sleep over! Ha! (now in his own tone) Partners! Don't make me laugh. Sidekicks are more like it."

Miroku and Sango didn't complain about this either. For once he was telling the truth. Kaede would always talk in 'code' whenever it came to teaching. Between other things, she would usually mix low-ranking students with high-ranking ones into groups; having a low-ranked 'partner' really meant having a sidekick by your side.

Kagome had recognized Kaede's attempt to hide those obvious facts in her class and had learned to decipher her 'code', but all in all she couldn't resist throwing Inuyasha another disturbed comment. "And what is THAT supposed to mean?"

Inuyasha smirked. If he couldn't find a way to tick off or beat up his own brother, than ticking off everybody else was a well compensation; not the best he could have, but it still counted for something.

"I mean, you're just a lackey."

Kilala found that it was time to jump off Kagome's steaming hands and ran as fast as she could into her owner's arms.

"So THAT's all I am, huh! You could at least treat your only 'sidekick' with the proper manners!"

Inuyasha hissed. "I can treat them any way I want!"

Kagome pointed her thumb at her chest, "Well, you won't treat THIS one any way you want!"

"The HELL I will!"

Kagome, about to scream out another insult or defense on her behalf, stopped for a minute to think over their conversation. "...Wait. Do you even have other 'sidekicks'? "

A miniscule and yet scrubby-sounding voice came from out of nowhere. "Of course he does! I've been here all along!"

Kagome was the only one who seemed startled at this. "Huh?"

The same voice seemed to sigh deeply. "On Lord Inuyasha's bangs."

Kagome then stared closely at Inuyasha's forehead. Inuyasha blinked kind of uncomfortable having her face so close to his. Still, he remained with both arms crossed in front of his chest.

Kagome: "Um, Inuyasha? Is your HAIR talking?"

Inuyasha, closing his eyes, replied annoyed, "NO it isn't, it's MYOGA."

"Huh?"

Suddenly they all see a spot jumping up and down out of Inuyasha's bangs.

It was talking, flickering something in the air, which would be known to the rest as tiny arms; but for Kagome, it was just a speck of dust. "I'm here. HERE!"

Kagome crept closer to Inuyasha's bangs, making the hanyou grow more uncomfortable but not complaining about it, and studied the jumping speck.

Kagome then realized that it was a 'thing' and gasped while pointing to Inuyasha's hair. "Inuyasha! You have a BUG in your hair!"

The 'thing' tripped after hearing her comment but nothing could prepare him for what she said next; "No, wait! I believe it's lice!"

All fall down, anime style.

Myoga, dishonored, slowly got up and spoke through strains of hair, "I…am not…lice…I AM…Lord Inuyasha's Faithful servant, Myoga!"

Kagome, still in awe and pointing, "No, wait! It's an ant!"

Inuyasha, throwing his face at Kagome with wrath, yelled "He's a FLEA, damn it! A flea!"

Kagome sweat dropped. "A…flea…?"

Len, just arriving with Meep on her shoulders and still dragging the box, put 2 an 2 together and cried out, "So…Hey! Since you're a dog demon, (Inuyasha), than you must have a FLEA demon in your hair!…I mean…fur…or…whatever…That's neat!" She smiled brightly as everyone around her gave her strange looks. Surely she hadn't been missed. In fact, they had forgotten all about her.

They thanked Kaede for not having put her in their team. She was enough to bear as it was.

Kagome just thought, 'Try more on the lines of DITURBING…' She tried to imagine just how any guy could have a flea on him. Talk about unattractive. 'Ewww…'

Inuyasha responded to Len's weird but rather MARVELOUS observation. "He's just an old friend of my old man's. Nothing else."

Myoga, now on Inuyasha's nose and in everyone's view, crossed all of his hands and said with indignity, "Hm. I see. So after taking care of you for all these years and having even built a dog house for you, you STILL consider me as your father's faithful servant and nothing more?" He grabs a tiny newspaper and started to swat Inuyasha's nose with it countless times. "What an ingrate! I thought I had brought you up to be better than this!" He gave up hitting him and just sat on his nose and started to sob. "Lord Inuyasha, I though you cared for me better than that!"

The rest of the guys staring at Inuyasha's face gave him a mean look.

Inuyasha felt cornered. "WHAT? It's not like YOU guys have a bloodsucking 'nanny' too!" Miroku, Sango and Shippo nodded to confirm. He was right.

Kagome almost choked with laughter. "He's your… 'NANNY'?"

Inuyasha huffed. "No. I was just being sarcastic."

Kagome laughed. Her world was getting more interesting by the minute. Never could she imagine Inuyasha receiving orders from that tiny little thing. She then remembered what the flea had said and pointed out, "Hey; didn't he just say that he built you a 'doghouse'?"

Miroku, Shippo and Sango giggled. They were the only ones who knew that secret until now.

"Grr. I do NOT have a doghouse!"

Kagome looked at Inuyasha slyly. "SURE you don't…"

Myoga stopped crying. "…and you DARE try to deny the fact that I spent HOURS on it?"

Inuyasha growled. "You didn't even BUILD it! Sesshomaru did!"

Now THAT the guys didn't know.

Len was still overjoyed with something else. 'Wow! I've never seen such a tiny newspaper before!...Wait..did he just say…Sesshomaru?'

"Sesshomaru built it?" Miroku was curious to know.

Inuyasha now got the meaning of 'keeping your mouth shut' as clear as a button. He tried to divert the conversation elsewhere. "So…uh…Hey!" One of Naraku's poisonous insects!" He stretched out his hand and pointed towards the sky, making Myoga fall off from his nose because of his fast reflexes.

Sango narrowed her eyes. "Oh SURE…Like we'd fall for THAT one…"

Inuyasha whined. "But it's THERE! Right there!" He kept emphasizing with his finger.

Shippo spoke to make him get noticed. "Right, right…" Somehow comments like that always made him feel tall.

"But it's TRUE I tell you! Grr…Stop badgering me and look, or else it well get away!"

Kagome smiled inwardly to herself. She couldn't of have found better friends. Although they were 'strange' at times, they were all ok. The situation that Inuyasha was in was priceless. For once he was left without words. She recognized his situation with one of her own and said; "Only badgers can do that, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha, remembering all the times he had answered the same thing whenever she told him to stop 'bugging' her, directed his anger towards Kagome. "What? You've got something to say, wench!"

Kagome just turned around laughing and ran towards her bike. She looked back from time to time to meet Inuyasha's face, who tried 'desperately' to try and catch up to her. She got on her two wheels as fast as she could and rode out of the school's front gates, catching surprised glares from every student she passed, and then later making them do a double-take as to why she was being pursued by the half dog demon. "Come back here!"

Kagome laughed even after he had stopped chasing her a few blocks from the school. Though Inuyasha could get on her nerves BIG time, she could find ways to hit him back.

She looked over the hill she was about to go own and saw the many streets with the busy crowds in them in total happiness, remembering what she had thought of in the girl's bathroom earlier that day.

'I feel as if I've met all these people somewhere before… It's as if I'm right at home…'

She smiled to herself as she approached the front doors to her house.

Suddenly having Inuyasha as a 'partner' didn't sound so bad…

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