Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

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A/N: Ok… So… new fic! It feels weird starting a new fic considering how long Love Pentagon went on. If you haven't read it already, do it! Yeah, and I'm not going to annoy you guys with the music, quote, etc, etc… But yeah.

I can already say this isn't my best work. Yeah. But, that's ok. Because I think I just needed to start something new. But we'll see how you guys like this whole thing.

My next fic is going to be a little cliché… Yeah, I know. That sucks. And I know I'm the one who always complains about everyone doing the same things… But I decided maybe they have something going. Maybe I'll get some new fans and things by making a cliché fic, so I figured I'd try it. It's only 5 chapters and … agh! Why am I telling you about this now? It's not coming out for a while! I'll tell you more about it on the last chapter.

This fic is only going to have 10 chapters, sadly. Yeah, I know. It's nothing compared to LP, but oh well. I didn't feel like making an uber long fic this time. That stresses me out. SOOOO HERE WE GO!

Date: 9/20/05

Pre-Chapter Note: The title of this chapter is called Yuuzai, which means "guilty". You'll see what this has to do with the story later… By the way, all the chapter titles are going to be in Japanese, so I'll tell you guys the translations.

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Wait Till I Can Dream

Chapter 1

Yuuzai

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"Has the jury reached a verdict?"

"Yes, Your Honor. We have found Kagome Higurashi guilty for—"

Kagome's mind just shut off. She couldn't hear what the rest they were saying, not that she'd wanted to. She felt her jaw drop and a tear slid down her pail cheek. She felt so empty right now. Her life was already stressful enough, now this happened. What was she going to do?

"For your punishment, you will be sent to the Fukuzatsu Boarding School for Juvenile Delinquents. You'll stay there for four years. We hope you can adjust quickly to your new environment. You'll receive further information on your room number, your classmates, classes, and other things when you meet with the school's administration."

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Kagome Higurashi sat alone on the stuffy grey bus. She stared out the window at the plain scenery of farms that seemed to go on forever. Wherever she looked there was a field. And the fields were just as colorless and dreary as her. They weren't a healthy emerald, more like a sickly, pasty green color. It all looked like hell to her. She was riding on the boat down the River of Styx and Hades awaited her at the end.

And it's not like poor Kagome deserved any of this... She tried protesting to the judge, but the bastard just wouldn't listen. Nobody understood it was all an act of self defense.

Kagome took out her compact mirror to fix her smudged makeup. For a sixteen year old, she looked at least twenty. Her eyes were puffy and red from crying, and her skin was grey and dirty. Her raven hair hung plainly without bounce like usually had. Her smiled vanished a long time ago, and her lips were extremely chapped from chewing at the skin too much. And to put it all together, she had dark circles under her eyes. Yep, this was just another painful day in Kagome Higurashi's life.

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Flashback to the night before…

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"I hate you! I can't believe you're letting them do this!" Kagome screamed as she jammed some sweatshirts into her hot pink suitcase.

Kagome's mother calmly responded, "Kagome, honey, calm down. We can't help what you did," she paused. "And what you tried to do."

"I did not try anything, dammit! No one understands that I let anger out through drawing things!" Kagome's voice shook the ceiling light.

Kagome's mother was talking about a drawing she found stuffed in the front of Kagome's diary. It was a picture of her mother with stitches over her lips so she couldn't say anything to Kagome, who was looming over her with a smirk on her face. Kagome's mother found the most shocking thing was the blood seeping from her neck in the picture. She was almost positive this was Kagome's plot to kill her, although that wasn't the case at all. Kagome was just angry and frustrated towards her mom because she wouldn't stop trying to control Kagome's life. She always wanted her to be more girly, be friendlier, smile more, get better grades, hang out with new friends, and all that shit. But no. Her mother thought she was so "dark" that she was planning to kill her own mother. As if! Kagome wasn't crazy, although when her mother showed the drawing the judge and the jury, they all looked at Kagome like she was some kind of lunatic.

"Please, don't get so… excited," her mother soothed. Fear was in her eyes.

"You know what! I can't wait to get the fuck out of here! At least people I'll be living with will understand me!"

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But Kagome wasn't so sure of that anymore. She was scared out of her mind.

Just the bus ride was creeping her out real bad. The bus was way too white for one thing. The warden in the back was breathing creepily, and the few others riding looked unfriendly.

One of the people was a boy with long black hair and blue, pupil-less eyes. He noticed her looking at him, and he smiled wide, revealing shiny white fangs. Kagome looked away. God, she could smell the lust coming from that youkai.

A girl was humming to herself. Kagome looked at her and felt like she was looking in a mirror, except this girl looked more mature. She had some of the saddest eyes Kagome'd ever seen. This girl's hair was knotted up and she had cuts all down her wrists. The girl had on a mini mini skirt, so short Kagome could see the very tip of the girl's crotch. She noticed her shit was cut low, and showing way too much cleavage. Kagome rolled her eyes at this and focused her attention elsewhere.

She could only imagine what these kids were in for. The youkai boy was probably in for being in a gang or something, and the sad girl was probably a prostitute considering her apparel. 'But none of them are as horrible as I am…' she thought and looked at her hands, which still felt covered in blood.

Someone plopped next to her and the bus started moving again, not that Kagome had noticed it stopped. "Hey!" they said cheerfully.

Kagome looked up to see an odd looking boy; at least she thought it was a boy. He had his dark chocolate hair in a bun, and he had two blue streaks coming from his eyes. By the boy's tight fitting clothes, Kagome was 99 positive he was gay. "…hey."

"What'cha in for?" he smiled.

"Don't want to talk about it."

"Oh, one of the quiet types, ne? I'm in here for disobeying my restraining order. I'm just in love with this one totally hott guy at my school, so I stalked him. He noticed and put a restraining order on me! But a tiny piece of paper can't stop true love!" he sighed and then stuck out his hand. "I'm Jakotsu."

She took his hand. Might as well try to make friends if she was going to be staying here for four years, right? "I'm Kagome."

The bus came to a halt and Kagome peered out the window. It was a huge school with gothic gates, an arched doorway with gargoyles at the top and bold letters that read Fukuzatsu Boarding School in grey stone letters against the cleanest brick wall she'd ever seen. It looked very uptight and strict. Oh, how she couldn't wait to step inside.

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"Another small shipment of newbies is here!" the silver haired boy called from the window.

"Oh. Great! Just what I need – more fucking psychos…" the girl laughed.

"Don't laugh," the other one warned. "One of them is staying in here with us."

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'Room 69. Right at the end of this hallway…' Kagome couldn't help but smirk at the room number. She just dreaded seeing the handful of crack baskets she was stuck with.

Her small, shaky hand grabbed the gold doorknob and opened the door quickly to see her new home.

The room was enormous. It had four beds that were close to the door. Ahead of her were a decent sized television and a black couch with a black haired boy sitting on it. There was a small kitchen to her left, complete with a tiny sink, a small refrigerator, and a bit of a counter. A silver haired boy was standing at the window above the sink, drinking a glass of water. Then there was a room in the far right corner where the bathroom was. A girl about Kagome's age was walking out of it. All around her were brick walls, which some band posters above beds.

"So you're our new roomie?" she asked. She wasn't wearing any expressions so Kagome couldn't be sure whether she was happy or not.

"Yeah… where should I put my stuff?"

"Just here. This will be your bed." Of course it was. It was the only one without posters above it. "I'm Sango," she held out a dry hand.

"I'm Kagome."

"That's Miroku sitting on the couch, and that's Inuyasha over by the sink."

Miroku got up and walked over to Kagome to give her a kiss on the hand, while Inuyasha just stood there and gave a slight wave.

"How long are you staying?" Miroku asked.

"Four years," Kagome sighed.

"My god! What'd you do?" Sango exclaimed.

Kagome felt tears sting her eyes. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Aw, c'mon," Miroku pried. "If you're going to be with us for that long, you might as well tell us!"

"No! I said I didn't want to talk about it!" Kagome sat down and folded her arms across her chest.

Sango hit Miroku on the arm. "Can't you see she's scared?"

"Of course she is," Inuyasha finally spoke up. "Her outfit says it all. She wants to have a 'tough' exterior so no one will ask questions, but she's just a scared little girl on the inside."

Her outfit? She was wearing a blue Shiina Ringo shirt and a black zip up sweatshirt with safety pins around the hood. She just wore plain blue Dickies jeans with colored safety pins hanging from the pockets. How was this guy, a guy she didn't even know, able to read her so well just from looking at her?

"You have no business sauing that! You don't know what I've been through!" she yelled. This was going to be a long stay if this Inuyasha person was going to be such a jackass.

"Well it's true, isn't it?" he snickered.

She stood up to look him in the face. "Shut up! You know nothing about you!"

"I know you're an insecure little girl who is just scared to be here!"

Kagome felt tears pierce her eyes.

"We all are," he said quietly yet harshly and walked off.

"What the hell is his problem?" Kagome asked to nobody in particular. 'They all probably think I'm such a drama queen already…'

"Eh, he's Inuyasha… He's bitter and loud, competitive, stubborn… but he doesn't deserve to be here either. Once you get to know him, you'll love 'im. You'll get used to our crazy bunch in no time," Sango explained.

"Crazy bunch," Kagome laughed. "What makes you all so crazy? I don't see any straight jackets."

"Ha, ha. They're needed. At least for Miroku. Poor boy simply can't keep those hands to himself. I'm here because I got busted for fighting with too many gangs. I was in a gang called the Taijiyas. We were always picking fights with youkai because we thought we were so much better than all youkai. But then I got busted for shooting one in the leg, and I was sent here." She smiled. "But I don't feel that way anymore, especially now that I've met Inuyasha."

"Oh, and Kagome," Miroku put a hand on her shoulder. "I know how you feel about being secretive at first. I didn't say why I was here for the first eight months."

"How long have you been here?"

"Nine months."

"Yeah!" Sango punched him on the arm. "This fucking pervert is here for attemted rape!" She gave him a disgusted look.

Kagome sat down, her knees not able to hold her. A rapist? Her roommate? Tears brimmed her eyes as sobs started making their way up her throat. She swallowed hard and stared at her chipping black fingernail paint.

"Oh, Kagome." Miroku sat down next to her. "It was attempted! I never did anything! I wouldn't dare touch any of you girls in here…" he put his arm around her reassuringly. "…Unless, of course, you wanted me too…"

"Hentai!" Sango whopped him in the back of the head, making his ears ring. He jumped up from his seat on Kagome's bed. "Say you're sorry!"

"G-gomen…" he said and went to join Inuyasha, who was flipping through channels on the couch. "She's hott, ne?" Miroku elbowed Inuyasha.

"You're sick, dude," he laughed. "You just want to fuck every girl you see, don'cha?"

"You know me too well…" he sighed. "But seriously – this one's a fucking babe. She's hott!"

"She's okay. I thought you 'only had eyes for Sango'?"

"it's still true. I never said I was in love with this new one. I just said she was hott."

Inuyasha laughed. "Okay."

"Here, I'll help you unpack," Sango offered.

They unpacked loads of clothes. Everything from shirts to hoodies to PJs to jeans to socks to bras and underwhere, which were hidden from Miroku's eyes. Sango gasped when she reached under Kagome's huge CD case. "You better not let anyone see any of this! This place is strict. They killed me for wearing my gang's name in permanent marker tattoo!"

"Trust me, they won't find it. I've kept it hidden from my family for three years without getting caught once," Kagome stared down at the items. One was her very precious pocket knife. She usually kept it strapped to her leg just in case, but she figured they'd strip search her or something before letting her to her room. There was also three baggies of pills. One bag was full of white pills; Sleeping pills. Another was full of pain-killers. The last one were just random pills she found in her medicine cabinet. They were probably her mom's antidepressants. And lastly, there were four bags on weed. She would just have to limit herself to one bag per year.

"Will you share it?" Sango asked hopefully.

"Hell yeah!"

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