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Nekomata-17

Kouga and the Assignment

Sango and Kagome made it back to the table to find Inuyasha eating his lunch, while Miroku lay unconscious on the ground.

"Um, will he be okay?" Asked Kagome as she poked at the unmoving form she was now crouching next to. Sango only waved her hand to Kagome, telling her this happened all the time. Kagome just shrugged and sat next to Sango to finish eating their lunch. Soon enough, Miroku awoke and joined the lunch group acting as if nothing ever happened. And when I say this I mean-

"HENTAI! smack Keep your hands off me Monk!" Warned a very irritated Sango. As soon as the pain on Miroku's head subsided, Sango decided it was best to leave early; she may be a punk, but she still liked being to her classes early.

"Well see ya in history, Kagome!" Sango called to her new friend as she gathered her stuff and headed to her next class.

"Yes, until we meet again, Lady Kagome." Miroku replied as he too went the same direction as Sango. He too shared the next class with Sango.

As soon as Sango and Miroku were out of sight, it was just Kagome and Inuyasha.

'Maybe I should try to be friends with him…' Kagome thought, sure she and Inuyasha started off at a bad start, but maybe a friendship could come out of this.

Kagome put on one of her smiles, and walked next to Inuyasha as they headed toward the building. "So Inuyasha, what class do you have next?" She didn't have any other way to start a conversation.

"Keh, what's it to you?" That was her only response.

"Just asking." Kagome answered, her smile never wavered. Inuyasha looked at her for a minute before finally answering.

"Art… you?" Inuyasha asked, as if not caring.

"Me too, in room 919." Kagome answered. 'Does this mean he's in my art class too? Maybe… oh well…' "Well, see you later; I gotta head to my locker." Kagome ran into the building got to her, switching her books for her Sketch book and History binder. Then she headed up to her class. When she got here, not a lot of people were there yet, so she figured to talk to her new teacher and find a seat.

After talking to her teacher, she was told to sit wherever she liked. She sat at the corner of the room closest to the window. She just decided to wait for the bell to ring. After waiting a couple minutes, she took out her sketch book and worked on a picture she had been working on for a while. She took out her cd player as well and began listening to Green Day, 'When I come around'. She began working on the shading of the picture before her. It was of a great dragon, talons held in mid air and it wings spread behind him. In front of him lay riches. Gold that the dragon hovered over, as if protecting. His scales of his belly and shoulders shone from the glow of the gold.

So lost was Kagome that she didn't realize the ten minute warning bell had rung or that someone had moved to the empty seat beside her. She didn't realize until she felt as if she was being watched. As she looked up, she wondered if maybe Inuyasha came to join her. Instead, she came face to face with crystal blue eyes.

"Well hello there. You must be new, I'm Kouga. I'm in the art class next to this one." Kouga replied. As Kagome looked him over, she could tell that she wouldn't really like him. He wore dark blue jeans, a brown shirt, with a matching brown head band. Not too bad right? Well the thing Kagome noticed quickly was that he was wearing a jacket. It had a purple torso and white sleeves. The jacket had the letters S H on the right side of the jacket, above his heart.

'Jock…' Kagome heaved a sigh. Sure he was kind of good looking, but she could sense he had a big ego. Plus, at her old school, Jocks were not her favourite people to be around. "Well Kouga, it's really nice to meet you and all, but I'm a little busy right now… so bye." Kagome turned back to the drawing she was working on, but she soon figured out that he was not going to leave her so easily.

"Aww now, there is no need to be shy. That's why I decided to come over to you, seeing how you were just to shy to come up to me." Kagome gave her a seductive smile before continuing. "So, how about you telling me your name and then maybe going out later with me, huh?" Kagome could only stare at him with an are-you-kidding-me look.

"Umm, how about no, and, I have other plans." Was all Kagome said before once again trying to get back to her work. She was once again disturbed as she felt his arm slide around her back.

"Oh come on, you don't mean that." Kagome's hand twitched as she was ready to pummel this guy to the ground. But someone had other plans.

"Oi, she said no. So shove off wolf breath." Kagome looked up, giving a sigh of relief as Inuyasha glared at Kouga. "And anyways, you're in my seat." Before Kouga knew it, he was face down on the ground.

"Who the hell do you think you are, mutt-face! For your information, I was talking to my woman!" Kouga yelled. Before Inuyasha could shove him back to the ground, someone else beat him to it.

"Hey asshole! Who the hell do you think you are, calling me your woman! You don't even know my name for Bloody Sake! So go FUCK OFF!" Kagome was furious. Before she could hurt him further, Inuyasha picked him up and threw him into his own class room. That would be the last time they would see him for the rest of that day.

The bell rang, signaling the starting of third period classes. Kagome cursed under her breath as she made her way back to her seat. She looked over to see Inuyasha sitting next to her, working on his own picture. She continued on working on her own picture before turning to look at Inuyasha.

"Hey Inuyasha... Thanks for helping me back there…" Kagome said, giving a small smile.

"Keh... Whatever... He was in my seat." Inuyasha replied, never looking up. "Though I warn ya, stay away from him. He's bad news."

"Oh my, is the stone cold Inuyasha actually being nice?" Kagome giggled before returning to her work.

During the class, their teacher had told them that they would begin charcoal drawings tomorrow and that today they could draw whatever they liked. After a while, Kagome got a little bored and looked over at Inuyasha to see what he was drawing. The drawing was amazing. There stood a woman; her hair, shaded dark, was very long, going down past her waist, almost down to her knees. She wore a beautiful kimono. The sleeves seemed to be a dark solid colour, along with half of the kimono going past her waist. But the torso half was white with lightly drawn flowers. Even though it was black and white, you could clearly see the beauty. The women seemed to have a perfect face, with a gentle smile. But her eyes were what made her look so real. They seemed so gentle and caring, like a mother. As the woman seemed to be looking out of the picture, there was another form sharing the sheet of paper. There was an enormous dog behind her. A white dog, which had a great shaggy mane and more shaggy hair around its paws and on its tail. It bore its stainless fangs as it seemed to be landing on an unknown space after leaping. It seemed to be watching over the woman that was in front of him. It seemed to protect…

Kagome stared, amazed at the drawing before her.

"You know, you're going to catch flies if you keep it up." Kagome hadn't realized her mouth hung open in awe until she snapped it shut. Kagome looked beside her to see a smirking Inuyasha.

Kagome turned away blushing.

'What! NO! I never blush! How is it that he can make me blush?' Kagome thought to herself before turning towards Inuyasha once again. "That's a really amazing picture Inuyasha.' Even though Kagome wasn't too fond of the guy, she had to give him credit on his drawing skills.

"Well, the wench actually gave me a compliment." Inuyasha put on a fake shocked face, before giving one of his famous smirks. "Well, your picture ain't so bad either."

"Well, it looks like the jerk can give a compliment back." Kagome replied with a smile.

"Keh. Whatever."

Kagome turned back to her drawing, once again listening to her Green Day CD. Inuyasha has also taken out his own CD player and was listening to his own music. His head slightly nodding to the music. Near the end of class, the teacher notified them that the upcoming Monday, everyone would have to hand in a drawing of their choice. Picture and measure.

'Yes! I already love the class.' Kagome thought to herself before the bell signaling fourth period rang.

Kagome gathered her stuff and headed to her last class. History. As she was heading down the hallway, she bumped into the one person she did not want to see ever again.

'Kikyo…' Kagome thought with a look of disgust.

"Well, if it ain't the freak." Kikyo gave a smug.

"What is it Barbie? That beating not hard enough for ya?" Kagome replied with her own smirk as she noticed Kikyo still wincing from the pain given to her gut.

Kikyo's face paled a bit before continuing. No sooner had it come was it gone.

"Whatever… just listen up Higurashi. I saw you hanging around my Inuyasha. If you know what's good for you, you'll back off." Kikyo warned before looking Kagome over in disgust and walking off. Her fan club following close behind.

"Oooh I'm so scared." Kagome replied sarcastically, knowing Kikyo heard her before continuing down the hall to her history class.

She entered her class, introducing herself to the teacher and sat down in a desk near the back, next to a window, waiting for the official bell for classes rang. She was still quite mad about her encounter with Kikyo. She could hang out with Inuyasha if she wanted to.

'Well, it's not like I actually want to hang out with him. It's strange; he was acting so nice in art. Feh, it was probably just a fluke.' "Fucking bitch." Kagome muttered to herself as the bell rang.

"Who?" Kagome turned to find Sango in the seat beside her. Along with Miroku in the seat behind Sango and Inuyasha behind Kagome.

"Oh hey guys, I didn't realize you guys came in." Kagome replied. She was so lost in thought; she hadn't realized they were there.

Sango just gave a smile before asking again. "So who was it that you were cursing?"

"Kikyo." Kikyo was disgusted just by thinking of her.

"Boy, you'd think she'd leave you be after what you did this morning. Man, now that was a show." Miroku commented. Slowly inching his hand away from him.

"Wait, how do you- Hentai!" Sango yelled while whacking Miroku on the head. Kagome and Inuyasha could only sweat drop anime style.

"As I was saying… glare how do you know what exactly happened?" Sango asked, keeping an eye on Miroku's hand.

"Well, we meant to tell you, but Inuyasha and I have the same gym period as you. We saw the whole thing. But tell me Kagome, what did Kikyo say this time?" As Kagome was about to answer Miroku's question, the teacher had asked for everyone's attention. Now the four really didn't care for their other classes, but history was one of their favorites.

"I tell ya after school." She whispered to them before turning her attention to the front of the class.

Mr. Tengelis stood at the front of the class. (okay I'm actually using my English teacher form last year cuz he is my favourite teacher, and history is my favourite class as well… well besides English. Anyways, back to the story.)

"Kay class. We have a project we are starting now." Groans came from the class before he continued. "Yeah yeah, well get over it. I have to teach you something in order to get paid. But since you all are going to die if I make it too difficult, I decided to make it a little more different." He laughed a little at his own joke. "Well, this doesn't really follow the history subject, but I want you to research and find a legend that you find interesting. You will be in pairs, and no group can have the same legend as another." He picked up a folder, opening it up and looking at the contents. "Now I have taken the liberty of picking your partners for ya!" Replied Mr. Tengelis, with enthusiasm, groans following after. "Oh you'll live. Okay, well I'll post this up on the board and whenever you want, you can check who you will be partnered with. Now, for this project…" Mr. Tengelis went on discussing what was needed for the assignment. What was mandatory and what was optional. They the time he was done, it was ten minutes before the bell.

"Well okay, we still have ten minutes to go, so now I will let you see who your partner is and will give some time to get to know one another!" Mr. Tengelis called sitting at his desk.

Everyone got up to see who was with who. When Kagome got up there, she really hoped that she was with Sango. She put her finger at the top of the list. Running her finger down the paper, she looked for her name. Name after name passed before she found her name. She looked to the name next to hers…

'Shit.' The name next to hers was non other than…

Inuyasha.

Kagome returned to her desk, sitting sideways so her back was against the wall/window with her arms crossed over her chest. As Sango returned, she didn't look too thrilled either. Before Kagome could ask what was up, Sango spoke.

"I'm with the lecher…" Kagome tried to hold back a giggle. Not only was she trying not to laugh at Sango's face. But she looked to see Miroku with a smile on his.

"Well, my dear, Lady Sango. It looks to be that you and I will be partners for this assignment." Miroku said with a glint in his eye. "And you remember what the teacher said. He wants up to get to know each other." Miroku slithered his hand, but was smacked away by Sango.

"Don't even think about it Monk." Sango replied with a death glare that made Miroku swallow nervously. "So Kagome, who are you with?"

Immediately Kagome's smile turned into a frown.

"Dammit… Why did I get stuck with the wench?" Eyes turned to see Inuyasha with his arms crossed, slouching in his chair.

"Well I'm not too happy with it either but we had better get used to it." Kagome replied her eyes shut in frustration. 'Great, not only do I have him in most of my classes, but now I have to be his partner… great.'

Their ten minutes were up and then bell rang. Everyone packed up their stuff and headed out of the class. Kagome headed to her locker, grabbing all her books and leather jacket before heading outside. When she got to her bike, she was met with Sango, Miroku and a very grumpy Inuyasha.

"Hey Kag. You still up for pizza?" Sango asked, getting her own helmet on. It looks like Miroku had their own bikes as well. Sango had a Magenta bike with black flames running from the front towards the back. Miroku's had the same pattern except his was purple with black flames. It seemed the four of them though all had the same type of bike. Honda CBR 1000 RR. (I don't know much of bikes, but his is my favourite style. Don't like it. Get over it. )

"You bet." Kagome answered, getting on her own bike.

"I don't see why the wench has to come." Everyone turned to look at Inuyasha, obviously.

"Well get over it already Inuyasha. She's coming." Sango glared at Inuyasha. "Besides, it's good to have another girl around here. It's not easy to just hang out with guys." Sango gave Kagome a smile before signaling her it was time to go.

"Yes Inuyasha, you do not need to be so hostile toward Lady Kagome." Miroku replied.

"You only say that because it gives you another ass to grope." Inuyasha growled out. Getting ready to head out. Before Miroku could say anything, the other three were already starting up their bikes. Miroku soon followed.

They headed to the small pizza shop. As soon as they secured their bikes they headed in and grabbed a booth. Kagome next to Sango, Miroku across from Sango and Inuyasha across from Kagome. As they ate, they went o discussing what they would do for their history projects.

"So, where will we find a good legend?" Sango asked biting into her pepperoni pizza. "And no Miroku, I am going no where near your house. The last time I went, you were unconscious and I was furious." Sango added after swallowing her pizza bit.

"Well I may be able to help with that." Everyone turned to Kagome curiously. "Well see, I live at the Sunset Shrine. My grandfather is always saying how he has all these stories and that we should read them more. So if you guys like, after this we can go up to my house and check it out. What do you think?"

"Wow, that's cool Kagome. And yeah, if it's okay with your grandfather, we can check it out." Sango answered.

"Yes, we are very grateful, but as Sango said, will it be okay with your grandfather?" Miroku asked.

"Are you kidding? The old goat loves it when people come asking for legends!" Kagome laughed. 'Gramps loves attention.'

They continued eating, having a conversation to get to know each other. When the pizza was almost done, the girls enjoyed themselves by watching Miroku and Inuyasha fight over the last pizza. Of course Inuyasha coming out as the victor.

"Well, since everyone's done, let's get his assignment over and done with." Inuyasha said, pushing Miroku out of the booth so he could get up.

"Oh come on Inuyasha, you could be a little nice." Miroku stated, only getting one of Inuyasha's famous 'Feh's'.

They all set off towards the Shrine, with Kagome in the lead. As the parked into the shrine parking lot, they made their way towards the house.

"Kay guys, I just gotta let my Gramps know that I'm home that we will be using his scrolls." As Kagome entered the house, she was hit with a force that sent her butt first into the floor.

"Kagome! I had the greatest day today! And we won a game today!" Came a voice from the very excited dark haired boy. Kagome could only laugh at the boys antics.

"Hey squirt. I'm glad you had a good day. Sorry I missed your game." Kagome said as she struggled to sit up with the boy on her chest hugging her back.

"It's okay, but today I got 3 goals in!" Souta exclaimed with a smile on his face as he clung to his sister.

"Way to go, but can you let go so I can get up?" Kagome said, still laughing at he kid as she gave him a light squeeze, and then letting him go. As they both got up, Souta finally noticed the three people with very confused faces, standing behind his sister.

"Hey Sis? Um... Who are they?" Souta whispered to his sister.

"Don't worry Souta." Kagome whispered back. She turned her friends while ushering Souta in front of her. "Souta, these are my friends. Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha." Kagome said, gesturing to each person. "And guys, this is my kid brother, Souta."

"Hello. So you are on a soccer team? So is my little brother. His name's Kohaku." Sango said as she smiled down at the small boy.

"Kohaku? Hey I know him! That's what I meant to tell you Sis, I met Kohaku at school and found out we were both on the same soccer team. Sango, could you say hi to him for me?" Souta asked.

"Will do." Sango answered.

"Hey Souta? Where's Gramps at?" Kagome looked to her brother.

"Oh, he had to go to the doctors. He kept complaining about having a sore back. He said he'd be back in about half an hour."

"Oh okay squirt, thanks." Kagome told her brother while ruffling his hair. "Well guys, we can head to the Shrine house and look for some scrolls. Souta, if Gramps comes home before we come back in, just tell him we've gone to read some of the scrolls." Kagome said waving at Souta as she ushered everyone out of the house.

Once they were outside, Kagome led them around the Shrine grounds to the Shrine house. As Kagome slid the doors open, they came face to face with an enormous table with many scrolls and books laid neatly on top.

"Well this is it. Your welcome to look around, but I do ask that you treat these scrolls gently. They've been in my family for ages." Kagome warned as she walked down the steps leading to the table.

"No need to worry Lady Kagome, we will be very gentle with these scrolls." Miroku assured with one of his handsome smiles.

"Yes Kagome, we will be very careful, we don't want you getting into any trouble." Sango added.

Miroku and Sango looked through the scrolls together, as Kagome and Inuyasha did the same.

"Hey Inuyasha." Kagome called as she laid out a scroll. "Come look at this will ya."

"What is it?" Inuyasha asked in his gruff voice as he peered over Kagome's shoulder.

Kagome continued to look down at the scroll and its contents. She began talking, her eyes never leaving the page. "Since I was a child, I was always told of a story that tells of The Shikon no Tama. Have you heard of it?" Kagome asked, finally looking up into Inuyasha's face.

"I remember something about it. Wasn't it shattered into millions of pieces?" Inuyasha asked, now getting interested in the legend.

"Yup. It was said that a young girl, a miko actually, was sent into the past and met a Hanyou who was pinned to a tree. After he was set free, they found out that she had the Shikon no Tama in her body, but then it was cut out by a centipede demon. They soon get it back, only to get it stolen again. This time by a crow demon. When trying to kill it, the miko accidentally broke the jewel. So the two of them set off, looking for the pieces of the jewel and they meet people on the way. Two demons, a Demon Slayer and a Monk. They soon discover that they have to destroy a great evil… it goes on and on of how there travels went. What do you think? Would you like to do this legend? Of course there are two other legends behind this one. So we may have to use those as well." Kagome said rubbing the back of her neck.

"Feh, sure." Inuyasha said turning his head away from Kagome.

"Okay then. Well can you help me bring these scrolls in?" Kagome asked as she grabbed three scrolls from the table. Inuyasha turned and grabbed two of them. "Thanks."

"S'okay." Was the only reply she got.

Kagome turned to check on Miroku and Sango. "Hey, how are you guys doing over there."

Sango and Miroku walked over to Kagome and Inuyasha with a scroll held firmly but gently in Miroku's hand. "Well Kagome we had found this scroll about this Miko by the name of Midoriko. But then we heard you talking, and we weren't sure if you were doing this one or not." Sango said.

"Well actually Sango, we are using one that is related to it, but you can use that one if you like." Kagome said.

"Cool, thanks." Replied Sango.

"Well we had better get inside, my grandfather should be home by now. I need to make sure that we can use these, but I doubt he will let you borrow, so you may have to come here to do your assignment, okay?" Kagome asked.

"This is no problem Kagome. We would be glad to work on it here." Answered Miroku.

"Well alright. Well let's go in now." Kagome said leading the way out of the Shrine house, leading the way to her own house.

As Kagome reached the door she could hear Gramps talking to Souta about one of his famous stories. As she and the others walked in she began calling to her grandfather.

"Hey, Gramps? I need to talk to you." Kagome called as she made her way to the kitchen. She turned to face the others first. "You guys are welcome to wait in the living room. Just follow the noises of my brother playing on his video games." As the others agreed to do so, and turned to walk into the living room, Kagome continued her trek to the kitchen. There she was face to face with her grandfather. "Hey gramps."

"Well hello Kagome. Souta told me how you and some others were going to read some scrolls. You know, it's nice to hear that young kids these days are willing to spend some time concentrating on reading about times before their own." Gramps would have continued if Kagome hadn't spoken up.

"Well Gramps, we have am assignment to do for school and we need to do a legend, so it's okay with you if my friends and I use them?" Kagome asked as she watched her grandfather make tea for himself.

"Why of course it's fine, I just don't want them leaving the grounds you hear?" Gramps warned before returning to his tea.

"Okay, thanks Gramps!" Kagome said, giving a kiss on her grandfathers' cheek before heading to the living room.

She saw her friends talking to her brother and Inuyasha actually playing a video game against her brother.

"Hey guys, it is alright with Gramps that we use the scrolls, but you're going to have to use them here okay?" Kagome said, grabbing everyone's attention.

"Yes, okay. Thank you so much for letting us do this Kagome." Sango said walking up to her and giving her a friendly hug. "But right now it's getting late. I have to go home soon or my dad and brother will worry."

"I as well have to go. But thank you for these scrolls." Miroku said, holding her hands in his. "Beautiful Kagome, you are very kind and-" Before Miroku could finish, he was dragged out the door by Sango.

"Bye Kag, see ya at school tomorrow!" Called Sango as she and Miroku headed toward the Shrine parking lot.

Kagome turned to look at Inuyasha who was now just getting up from the floor.

"Thanks Inuyasha, for playing with me." Souta said as he looked up at Inuyasha. "Keh, no problem kid, my cousin has lots of games just like you, I should have him come over dome time." Inuyasha said as he walked towards the door.

"Well, see ya at school tomorrow." Kagome said to Inuyasha as he was walking out the door.

"Yeah, see ya tomorrow Kagome." Was his reply as he also headed to the parking lot.

'Huh? Did he just call me by my name?' Kagome thought to herself. 'Maybes he's not as bad as I had thought. To be honest, he is kinda cute.' Kagome surprised herself with that thought but didn't bother to argue with herself. Kagome closed the door and walked into the living room to find Souta looking at her.

"Is it alright to change now?" Souta asked. As Kagome nodded her head, the two of them removed their spells so that they were in their Hanyou from.

Kagome sighed. "That's better." She waked upstairs. She would have to get changed in a few hours.

As time passed, it was almost ten thirty before she got ready.

She undressed herself as she grabbed another out fit. A black leather outfit.

First were the pants. Tight leather pants that fit her figure nicely. Next was the shirt. It was a sleeveless black shirt that had a wide v-neck that showed much cleavage. The hem of the shirt stopping just below her breasts, showing much of her stomach. She had leather wraps around her palms and wrists, and leather cords tied on her upper arms. Last of the outfit was the boots. Leather, knee high, high heeled books. Next were the weapons. A pair of Sais secured at either sides of her waist.

She was ready.

Still in her Hanyou from, she walked to her window. Making sure no one saw her, she escaped into the night…

A/N: Hey, what's happening to everyone! I only got three reviews for my last chapter! Please, I need reviews people. I need you people so I have a reason to write. Please R&R!

Well for those readers who did review. I have updated, and I hope that you enjoyed this chapter!