"The Meteor Garden Story"
An Inu Yasha A/U Fanfic by Nozomi
[A/N: Whoohoo! So many reviews after the first post, I'm sooooo happy! Here's the 2nd installment folks! Some review responses first:
Rurede: Yes, I know it's similar to "The Red Card" and "Dango". It's because our fics are either based on the Taiwanese TV Series "Meteor Garden" or the original Japanese Anime titled "Hana Yori Dango" (I believe all three of us authors pointed it out in our Author's Notes) ^_^. I'm trying to change my fic from the other two in terms of which characters are playing which roles, and how some of the events will be played out, but I will try to stick to the story of MG, as well as keep everyone in character. Hope you keep reading! ^_^
EmiKarei: Thanks, I did tell Sorena that some things may be the same. I'm mixing up character roles, trying to fit everyone into a role which I believe suits them best. Yeah, I kinda liked sticking Yura and Kagura in the same category, but Yura is actually Lee Jen (the girl Shan Tsai was friends with in the beginning of MG). The two rich bitches are supposed to be Kagura and Kanna, as you'll see later on as the story progresses. ^_^
Sarah Hinkle: Don't worry, I prefer reading Inu/Kagome fics too, and this one will be an Inu/Kag fic, though for purposes of following the story line, it will seem like a Sess/Kag or a Kouga/Kag fic at first. ^_^
Angel and Jazzy: No offense taken, but please read my Author's Notes at the start of Chapter 1, as well as my response to Rurede. Again, this story is based on the Taiwanese TV Show "Meteor Garden" (if you don't believe me, you can also check Sorena's notes on her fic's first chapter), so it will definitely be similar. Oh, and I did get Sorena's permission before I started this fic. She gave me the go signal. ^_^
Ambarina: Well, no, sorry. I'm trying to stick to the original story plot of Inu Yasha as I make them play roles in MG. This will be an Inu/Kagome fic all the way, though there will be some Kouga/Kagome and Sess/Kagome in the beginning (due to MG's story plot). When I think about Sess' personality in the Inu Yasha series, I can't see him falling for Kagome so… there *will* be some Sess/Rin later on.
Morlana: Thanks for compliment, here's your second chapter. ^_^
For Sorena, when you finally find time to read this, thanks for the note in your email to me, I see what you mean! Hehe, and to think I made it really obvious with the story title!
Oh yeah, for further clarification, here are the who's who:
Kagome = Shan Tsai (played by Barbie Hsu)
Inu Yasha = Dao Ming Sz (played by Jerry)
Sesshomaru = Hua Ze Lei (played by Vic Zhou) / Mei Tsuo (played by Vanness)
Kouga = Mei Tsuo (played by Vanness) / Hua Ze Lei (played by Vic Zhou)
Miroku = Shi Men (played by Ken)
Kagome's Grandfather = Shan Tsai's weird, money-hungry mom
Kagome's mom = Shan Tsai's dad (since he's more quiet than the mom)
Sango = Shiao You (Shan Tsai's childhood friend who works with her at the café)
PS. It will be revealed later on why Sesshomaru and Kouga are sharing roles. But of course, you'll have to watch Meteor Garden to understand. ^_^]
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Chapter 2: The Girl Who Defied D4
"Those guys sound like unbelievable assholes," Sango remarked to her friend as they arranged the cakes in the display.
"Oh they are! You wouldn't believe their nerve! They're all jerks, especially the one called Inu Yasha. Hmph! Those guys with their unfashionably long hair, and the silver color on two of them? Geez, you'd think they didn't get enough attention without looking like freaks!" Kagome seethed.
Sango regarded her friend with amused eyes. "So, how come you haven't beaten the shit out of them yet?"
"I wish I could, but then I'd get a red card, and I'd be forced out of school. My grandfather will kill me."
"That bad? How could a group of boys force you out of school?"
"They have enough influence. They're the sons of four of the richest and most influential families in all of Japan," Kagome emphasized the word influential with disdain. "They want their kids to grow up to handle the business, so they get free reign in the school and outside of it. Their parents control the school board, plus their money keeps the school going. Even without the exorbitant tuition fees, the contributions from their four families alone could keep the school running smoothly for years!"
"It would be so nice to have lots of money," Sango sighed.
Kagome gave an unladylike snort. "If it turns me into a snob, I'll do without it, thanks very much."
"Kagome, why are they called the D4 again?"
"Hahaha, it's stupid really. D4 stands for Demonic 4. I believe it's supposed to stand for how big, strong, and bad they are!" she said sarcastically.
Sango laughed. "If they're comparing themselves to demons, maybe you can get rid of them by calling in some exterminators. It shouldn't be against the law to kill demons, right?"
"That would be interesting."
~*~*~*~
"Yura, you're walking funny. Are you alright?"
Yura smiled at Kagome as they slowly descended the stairs. "It's my new shoes. They pinch my toes, and the 3-inch heels don't help at all."
"Then why are you wearing them?"
"Because they're Kenneth Cole, and his brand is the 'in thing' nowadays," Yura pointed out, still going down the steps slowly. She grabbed her bag. "I need to retouch, where is my lipstick?"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Maybe you should rummage later in the washroom, and concentrate on not tripping--"
As soon as the words left her mouth, Yura's heel caught the edge of a step and sent her flying down the stairs. Her purse flew out of her grasp, its contents spilling everywhere.
Kagome raced down the rest of the steps. "Yura, are you al--" she started.
Yura was still sitting at the bottom of the stairs, sprawled out, but she made no attempt to get up, her shocked gaze locked on the irate man standing in front of her.
"Yash, dude, are you alright?"
Kagome stopped in her tracks, a sense of foreboding creeping up her skin. Inu Yasha was standing at the bottom of the stairs, with Yura's purse sitting lopsidedly on his head. He had a long red streak that began from his temple, ran across his cheek, continued on to his new white polo, and ended at his knees. Yura's open tube of fire-red lipstick lay quietly at his feet. The one called Miroku was silently standing behind Inu Yasha.
"You ruined my new shirt. This is a Ralph Lauren."
Yura gulped. "I'm sorry, I- I fell down the stairs and… I'm sorry…"
"Why the hell is everyone apologizing to me?" he yelled out.
"I'm really sorry…"
"If apologies work, what do we need the police for?"
Yura slowly got to her feet, trembling. "I'm sorry, let me clean it up."
"Go away!" Inu Yasha shoved Yura down to the floor again.
"Yash…" Miroku began, but was instantly silent with a glare from his friend.
Inu Yasha looked down at Yura before walking away. "You know what's next, right?"
Something exploded inside of Kagome.
"HOLD IT!"
There was an ominous silence in the stairwell as onlookers turned their heads towards the girl who shouted the command to the leader of D4.
Inu Yasha slowly turned his head to look at her. Kagome didn't flinch under his gaze. "What's the matter with you? She already apologized!"
Miroku was already shaking his head at her, warning her to stay silent, but the anger she felt would not let her keep her mouth shut.
"You guys think you're so tough because you feel like you own the school. People are afraid of you coz you act like you own them. Well here's news for you! I'm not afraid of you, and I think you guys are the world's biggest assholes! I'm not gonna stand here and watch you humiliate and scare my friend! You bully people, even the teachers! Who do you think you are! The D4? The D4 is just a stupid group you guys made up so you can bully everyone around. Well duh! You're nothing more than a bunch of cowards! And hitting a girl, too! You're all despicable! And you," she pointed her finger at his face. "You're nothing more than a dog!"
The quiet in the air was unbearable. It seemed like a long time before Inu Yasha moved. He cupped her face roughly with his hand.
He put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered "That was brave of you. But it was also very, very stupid." Then he walked away without looking back once.
Miroku patted her shoulder, then walked away as well. Kouga and Sesshomaru had been watching the whole thing a little below her, and she caught the looks on their faces before they joined Miroku and Inu Yasha. Kagome looked at Yura, who was watching her helplessly. She closed her eyes and sank down to the floor.
What have I done?
~*~*~*~
The next day, the first thing she did was run up to her locker. Please don't let there be a red card, please, she thought pleadingly. Then she tugged her locker open.
Nothing. There was no red card.
Whew. She took out the books she needed for class, then walked happily to her classroom. As she walked down a crowded hallway, people starting turning their backs to her as she approached. This didn't strike her as overly odd, until the groups of guys she just walked past took a good look at her, then jumped into the hedges, as if trying to get away from her. The other girls were also giving her a wide berth.
What?? What's going on? I didn't get a red card, so why is everyone acting this way?
She finally reached her classroom. As soon as she walked in, people hurriedly got into their seats. When Kagome sat down, the people closest to her moved their tables as far away as they could from her.
Eh?
She looked under her table. Nothing. Behind her chair? Nothing.
"What the hell is wrong with you people, I didn't get a red card!!!" she finally yelled in frustration.
"Oh ho. So you haven't seen your red card yet, have you?"
Kagome turned to the girls beside her. It was Kagura and Kanna, two girls she never got along with, and they looked her over with obvious contempt. When she looked at them questioningly, they just giggled harder.
"Go home, Kagome. Pack up your things and leave the school."
"Yeah, go away!"
Some of her other classmates jeered at her too, but she stubbornly remained in her seat, thinking. I got a red card? Where? Then she caught Yura's eye. She was pulling at her shirt collar behind her neck.
Kagome panicked. She hurriedly groped behind her back, and felt dread when her hands came in contact with a piece of cardboard. She closed her eyes as she felt her hands bring the cardboard slowly in front of her.
"Finally found your red card, huh, Kagome?" Kagura twittered.
She opened her eyes. Screaming right in her face was a red card, with the D4 logo painted in the middle of it.
~*~*~*~
Everyone was quiet when she entered the classroom the next morning. She had already walked over to her desk before she realized what was wrong.
"Where the hell is my desk!?"
The teacher came in. "Ah Higurashi. Where's your desk? You can't attend the class until you are properly seated. Please get a desk from maintenance."
When she got to maintenance, the janitors kept telling her that no good desks were available and that she would just have to find her missing desk.
She missed two hours worth of classes before she finally found it hidden in the backstage of the auditorium.
~*~*~*~
She sprinted across the lawn, late for her class, not minding the students who were practicing baseball. Then a mitt caught her squarely in the face.
"Oy! What are you throwing?!"
She was answered by dozens of balls, bats and mitts coming her way. She ran.
~*~*~*~
Kagome sat down to eat in the cafeteria, exhausted. She had spent a good time running away from her bloodthirsty classmates this morning. She laid her elbows on the table and put her head in her hands a moment to soothe her headache. Then, she tried to pick up her spoon.
Her arms were stuck to the table!
She tried to get up, but found her pants glued to the seat. This is ridiculous! Then a group of boys pulled a long string of firecrackers across the table.
"What are you--? Eeek! Noooo!"
Exploding firecrackers could be heard popping from the cafeteria.
~*~*~*~
Going into the girls' washroom, she made sure that no one else was inside before she entered one of the stalls. No sooner than she had closed her door when she heard footsteps rush into the washroom.
"What's going on out there?" she called out as she pushed her door open.
It wouldn't budge!
It was after a good half hour of pounding at the door before she finally decided to crawl out under the door, eyeing the wooden bar they had laid against her cubicle's door with murder in her eyes.
~*~*~*~
"Gym, why do I have to have gym today, I've been running around all week," Kagome groaned as she reached her locker.
Her locker door was open, her padlock hanging brokenly.
"WHO TOOK MY SHOES?!?!?!?!"
~*~*~*~
As Kagome was leaving the cafeteria, she spotted Yura walking with Kanna and Kagura across the hall.
"Yura!" she called out, already hurrying over to her friend.
Yura took one look at her, then quickly disappeared with Kanna and Kagura at the nearest corner. Kagome was stunned. She thought Yura was her friend.
"So, this is how friendships are among the common folk huh? Goes to show that you poor people have nothing, not even friends."
Kagome whipped her head to find Inu Yasha standing behind her. She kept silent. Inu Yasha walked closer to her, his voice loud enough for everyone in the hallways to hear.
"You offended us for your friend, and she won't even talk to you," he laughed. "There is nothing for you here."
With a regal sweep of her head, she turned around and walked away, refusing to let him see just how much the truth in his words had hurt her.
As soon as she had closed the doors of the cafeteria, she picked up her pace until she broke into a run. She wasn't really running anywhere in particular, but she ran furiously, following where her feet would take her. She saw the door that led to the roof, and burst through the entrance, stopping only when she touched the railing.
"INU YASHA, I HATE YOU! I HATE D4! I HOPE YOU ALL GO TO HELL! ALL OF YOU IN THIS SCHOOL TOO! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF RICH, HEARTLESS JERKS!"
She calmed down immediately after the tirade. After one week of torture, she just had to let it all out. Grasping the rails, she lowered herself to her knees and rested her head against the rail.
"You're filthy."
Kagome gasped and stood up quickly, jerking her head around to the sound of the voice. Standing there was Sesshomaru.
"What, are you following me?!" she bit out, annoyed that someone had crashed her only place of solitude.
"I've been coming up here since I began school. I believe I have every right to be here." His voice was quiet and calm, quite the opposite of Inu Yasha, and it was this lull in his tone that called to Kagome.
"Oh. Then you've heard me before."
"Yes."
Kagome could feel her cheeks burning. "Uhm, I didn't mean you, you know, I was talking about your jerk friend Inu…"
"It's of no concern to me."
"But you're one of them, aren't you? Shouldn't you be bullying me around or something?"
Sesshomaru caught the confused tone in her voice and repeated calmly "Others' business is of no concern to me."
He walked to the door behind her, ready to leave, then he turned and held out his hand. "Here, clean yourself up."
Kagome stared at the handkerchief he held out to his hand, and took it. She wiped her face, feeling self-conscious as he watched her. "I'll wash this before I give it back to you."
"Don't bother. It's trash now."
And he stepped out the door, out of her sight. Kagome sighed. She had thought for a moment that Sesshomaru was different.
~*~*~*~
Kagome half-pushed, half-carried her bike as she walked home. Those stupid bastard classmates of hers had dismantled her bike, and as she didn't have the proper tools to put everything back together properly, she would have to walk home today. It was going to be a long trip.
A black jaguar came zooming up behind her and screeched to a stop as the driver reached her side.
She and Inu Yasha stared into each other's eyes for a moment. She was looking at him with all the hate she felt in her heart, but his eyes regarded her with amusement. A few minutes of the staring contest, and Inu Yasha spoke.
"I have good news and bad news for you."
Kagome, determined not to let this bully intimidate her, merely raised her eyebrow. She saw another wave of amusement wash over his amber eyes.
"The good news is, you've earned my respect for holding up really well this entire week. I congratulate you."
She merely kept silent, and Inu Yasha took the opportunity to examine her closely. She really is pretty, he thought to himself. Even after being bullied for a week, her blue eyes still had a definite fire in them, although it was probably due to anger. She was dirty, her clothes were messed up, but he could see that this girl was different. He examined her smooth skin and rosy cheeks, and wondered what it would be like to untie her braids and run his fingers through her hair.
"If you're quite finished drooling, what is the bad news?"
Her question made him flush, his cheeks burning at having been caught staring at her. But as he fixed his steely eyes on her, he could grudgingly feel his respect for her go up a notch higher. With a firm voice that belied his admiration for her, he said "The bad news is that I will try harder to bully you in the days to come."
And with those words, he put his car into gear and sped away, his thoughts still lingering on the girl named Kagome.