What's a Hanyou to Do?

by lighthawkdemon1

Inu-Yasha goes through a horrific tragedy early in his life, but manages to move on. Years later, the poor hanyou has three attractive women on his…uh…tail, and he wants them too, but can only have one. What's a hanyou to do?

5. Scroll Four: Competition

Inu-Yasha
A Feudal Fairy Tale


Disclaimer: This episode of Inu-Yasha and the character Saeko are of my own creation. I do not own any portion of Inu-Yasha. "Inu-Yasha" and all related characters, names, etc. are ©1998-2003 Rumiko Takahashi/Shogakukan, Inc. Inu-Yasha is a trademark of Viz Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.


What's a Hanyou to Do?
Scroll Four:
Competition


Inu-Yasha tosses and turns on the top of his bed, unable to get to sleep. He normally doesn't really need a whole lot of sleep since he is a hanyou, but he hasn't even been able to get a single wink tonight. He is both confused an amazed at the day he had yesterday. His first day at Takahashi High...what a day. The thing that surprises him the most is the fact that he is attracted to three different women simultaneously.

With Saeko...well since she is a hanyou like him he has a natural attraction to her. As he got to hang out with her, he realized that she is also a good person, despite always knowing to get on his nerves and push all the right buttons. He even tried to kiss her a few hours ago, something he's never done before. Yep, something's definitely brewing up there.

Then there is Professor Higurashi. At first he just though it was lust that he was feeling for her, but for that brief moment when they stared each other eye to eye in class...well he had felt something more there. It was the same feeling he felt with that younger girl he saw after school.

The inu hanyou suddenly sits up on his bed, just now realizing that Kikyo and the girl look a lot a like. They also have the same beautiful eye color and even their scents are similar, with the girl smelling like wildflowers and springtime and Professor Higurashi also smelling like wildflowers, but she also has a warm, earthly smell to her that seems to match her personality.

He looks over to his bedside clock, which says that it is only three in the morning. "Five hours until school," he sighs out loud. Inu-Yasha lies back down on his bed and folds his arms behind his head. "Something tells me that it is going to be another...interesting day."

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About four hours later, a sleep deprived hanyou boy slouches around his apartment. He goes into the kitchen, where his instant ramen and extra strong coffee are awaiting him. Inu-Yasha first takes a sip of his coffee, not bothering to add in any cream or sugar. His eyes flutter for a moment before shooting wide open. He shakes his head slightly while muttering, "That always does the job!"

Ten minutes later, a full stomached and now completely awake Inu-Yasha is strolling down the sidewalk on his way to school. He is wearing his black boots and another pair of baggy black jeans, but has opted to wear a large red t-shirt and not have on his special baseball cap. Just below his neck, he has a rubber band around his hair so it doesn't flow so freely and possibly get in his way.

The hanyou is keeping all of his senses on full alert today, hoping to see that girl he saw yesterday again. Suddenly, his dog-ears perk up as they catch the sound of laughter from a voice that sounds so full of life around the corner ahead of him. In other words, the girl he is looking for is just ahead.

Inu-Yasha feels a strange pang of nervousness fill up inside of him with each step closer he gets towards the girl. Just at that moment, she comes around the corner, along with the two other people she was with yesterday.

Kagome looks away from Sango and Miroku and notices the young man in front of them. She feels herself tense up as her mind screams, 'It's him!'

Her friends notice that she has stopped moving and is staring ahead of them. They both turn their heads to see what she is looking at. They are mildly surprised to see the person she said she met yesterday while they were walking home from school. Miroku becomes slightly jealous as his girlfriend Sango looks the guy up and down a few times, the interest clearly seen in her eyes. She frowns as she takes in his long silver hair, gold eyes and dog ears. 'Now I know I've seen this guy before,' she thinks to herself.

Inu-Yasha decides to break the somewhat awkward silence. "Um...hey."

Kagome comes to and replies, "H...hi," in a rather squeaky voice. Sango and Miroku both raise their eyebrows at their friend.

The hanyou coughs a little. "I'm...well my name is Inu..."

"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome suddenly shouts, causing everyone around her to jump back in surprise. The inu boy's sensitive dog-ears flatten against his head. Kagome giggles slightly. "Sorry about that."

"How'd you know my name?" Inu-Yasha asks.

The young woman suddenly finds the ground very interesting. "Well...uh...my sister Kikyo told me."

The hanyou looks mildly surprised. "She's your sister?" Kagome nods shyly. "Well that does explain why the two of you look so much alike," he adds thoughtfully.

"Oh!" she shouts loudly, just remembering something, "I'm Kagome!" She points to her two friends. "And these two are Sango and Miroku!" She holds out her hand for him to shake.

Inu-Yasha lifts his hands off of his ears, looking strained, and reaches over to shake her hand. As soon as their fingers touch, they both feel a strange amount of friction from the other and pull back quickly. "Feh, are you always so hyper?" he says, trying to act like nothing just happened

That first word he said triggers a memory inside of Sango. "I remember you now!" she begins proudly, getting everyone's attention. "You're that hanyou my father and I met when we were fighting a kamakiri youkai about four years ago!"

The inu boy looks over at Sango, studying her features. She blushes a bit under his penetrating gold eyes. "You're that female taijiya with the large boomerang."

Sango is about to respond when suddenly someone appears next to Inu-Yasha. The three humans back up slightly. "Hey there," the hanyou girl says cheerfully to the inu boy.

"Hi Saeko," Inu-Yasha responds. He notices the different clothes she is wearing today, a pair of very tight low cut jeans and another tank top that dips in the middle, this one being black. She is still wearing her pink and yellow girl's sneakers and her 'Hello Kitty' headband.

The neko hanyou turns her back on Kagome, Sango and Miroku, paying her full attention to the inu hanyou. The two girls look annoyed, but Miroku just stares lustfully at the new girl's rear. He starts to reach out for it when his girlfriend slaps it away, staring daggers at him. He gives her an apologetic look, his eyes clearly saying, 'Sorry, force of habit.'

"We'd better hurry to school," Saeko begins, "I don't feel like being late for first period again." She grabs Inu-Yasha's hand and leaps into the air, dragging him along with her.

"Can I at least say goodbye to them?" he asks.

"But I don't want to be late!" she moans at him. They are soon gone, leaving a confused couple and one angry/jealous young woman behind.

"I guess we should get going too," Miroku says to Sango, who nods in agreement. They walk off in the opposite direction that Inu-Yasha and Saeko went, dragging along Kagome, who is still upset that she didn't get a chance to talk more with the hanyou boy.

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Saeko and Inu-Yasha arrive at their school just as the first bell that alerts them that class will be starting soon rings. "Perfect timing!" she happily shouts, still dragging the hanyou boy along with her.

They both go inside and separate to their lockers to toss their book bags in. A loud rumbling coming from the Janitor's Closet catches everyone's attention. Koga suddenly comes bursting out, looking very tired and haggard and carrying the large wrench that knocked him out yesterday. He instantly finds Inu-Yasha and growls out, "Alright inu-kkoro, you're gonna pay for what you did to me yesterday!" He walks forward a few steps, when he is suddenly tripped and falls to the floor, his arms shooting up in surprise. He smacks down hard and is about to get back up when the wrench, which he threw up in the air while falling, cracks down onto his head, once again knocking him unconscious.

Saeko stands up from where she was kneeling over when she tripped the baka ookami and dusts her hands off. "Serves him right," she mutters.

Everyone who witnessed Koga's second downfall shrugs it off and goes about their own business. Inu-Yasha walks up to the hanyou girl, smiling all the way. "That looked like fun," he chuckles at her.

"Well it did help to make me feel better for what he tried to do yesterday, the baka bastard."

The inu hanyou shakes his head slightly. "Come on, let's go to class."

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Saeko notices to her great dissatisfaction that Inu-Yasha and every other male in class are looking excitedly towards the door, anxiously awaiting Professor Higurashi's presence. She growls angrily in her seat, wanting very much to hit something really hard right now. After the hanyou boy nearly kissed her yesterday, she realized how much she really liked him and that he must also like her a lot too. But upon seeing the way he looked at that girl earlier and the way he is looking now while waiting for their instructor, she knows that she has some competition for his attention and affections.

Kikyo suddenly comes in, dressed similarly to yesterday in a dark blue women's business suit. Her long slender legs make the skirt look like it is shorter than it really is. She looks up at her class, her blue gray eyes lingering a little bit longer on a pair of deep gold ones. The instructor sits down in her seat and quickly takes down attendance. She then reaches inside of her briefcase and pulls out a stack of papers and stands up and gives them to the nearest student. "I want every student to take one. This is a pop quiz of sorts." She pauses to smile at the sounds of groans and complaints. "Do not worry, I will not be grading you on it." She pauses again to the sounds of cheers. "This is just a test to see how much you actually know of math. It basically has everything that I will cover over this year and some stuff you should have already learned and some that you will learn next year. I meant to give it to you yesterday but I had forgotten to bring them. I will give some extra credit to the student with the highest score so try your hardest. You have forty five minutes now so get to it people."

For the next half an hour, the class takes the pop quiz. Inu-Yasha easily breezes through it, answering every single question correctly. He may not look or act it, but he is very intelligent. His mother realized that when he was much younger and taught him at an early age and at an advanced pace.

The inu hanyou looks around at the class and smiles at everyone else who are still taking their quizzes, most looking confused or strained from thinking too hard. Even Saeko is having her troubles. He chuckles at her, getting a small growl in response from the neko girl.

Inu-Yasha decides to see what the instructor is doing. He looks her way, and is surprised to see her looking pointedly at him. She mouths, 'Your quiz.'

The hanyou boy mouths back, 'I'm done,' and leans back in his seat while crossing his arms over his chest, a very smug smile plastered on his face.

Kikyo sighs and goes back to her weekly planner to check and see if she is on track. 'He had better have done very well on it,' she thinks to himself, 'or I will most certainly give him an earful later for giving me such a smug look.'

Soon, time is up for the pop quiz and the instructor is gathering them all up. "You may have noticed," she starts, "that I have written down a few page numbers on the poster board," she indicates while pointing behind her. "That is the introductory chapter in your math books. I would like for you to read up on it tonight and do the handful of questions at the end for homework. Since we still have about ten minutes left in class, I will allow you to either convene with one another quietly or get a head start on your homework while I examine your quizzes." She sits back down at her desk while the students go about their own things.

Saeko turns to Inu-Yasha and asks, "So...how do you think you did on it?"

"Aced it easily," he boasts while checking his claws.

The hanyou girl snorts at him. "Oh yeah? So what makes you think you did so well huh?"

The inu boy turns to look at her, his deep gold eyes penetrating her forest green ones. She feels herself begin to blush as his eyes seem to be searching through her very soul, like he is looking for something in particular. After a few seconds, he replies, "My...my mother taught me at a really early age. I've always been used to learning at a fast and advanced pace. I don't know why, but school has always been very easy for me. I...I kept on teaching myself even after my mother died..." his eyes go wide as he realizes that he said too much. The hanyou boy quickly turns away from Saeko.

The neko girl leans towards him and places a hand on his shoulder, noting how he tenses at her touch. "Your mom is gone too?" she quietly asks.

"I don't want to talk about it," he responds in a gruff voice while shaking her hand off of him, getting Saeko by surprise.

She clasps her hands together and leans in towards Inu-Yasha a little more. "B...but Inu-Yasha..."

"Drop it," he growls in a warning tone, turning his head towards her just enough so she can see the anger in his eyes.

The neko hanyou is startled by his sudden change in behavior. She slumps back into her seat, her eyes down cast and sad. "I'm...I'm sorry," she whispers out just loud enough for Inu-Yasha to hear.

"You don't even know what you're sorry for," he snorts, his anger still quite present, "so just do me a favor and drop it!" He says the last part a little louder than he wanted to and gets the stares of several students around him. "What the hell are you looking at?" the hanyou boy snarls at them, freaking them all out and getting them to look away.

He is just about to get his math book and read up on the introductory chapter when Professor Higurashi calls to him, "Mr. Inu-Yasha?"

"Yeah?" he spits out, his head jerking up in her direction. He is surprised at the menacing look she is giving him. Sweat begins to form on his brow. "Uh...I mean...yes Professor Higurashi?"

Kikyo allows herself a small smile. "I wish to speak with you after class so please do not leave when the bell rings." She frowns at all the 'oohs!' and 'uh ohs!' the students are making after her comment.

Inu-Yasha shrugs his shoulders and mutters out, "Feh, whatever."

A few minutes later, the bell has rung and all the students, minus a certain inu hanyou are gathering their things and leaving class. Saeko gives him one last glance before leaving as well. Inu-Yasha calmly strolls up to the instructor's desk. "Close the door please," she begins, "I do not like to be disturbed when discussing something important."

The hanyou boy shrugs and walks over to the door and closes it. He walks back to her desk and casually leans on it. "So what do you want to discuss?"

"First off," she starts while standing up and walking up next to him, her face dead set, "while in class, I expect for you to show me a certain level of respect. I am your instructor after all. I do not appreciate it when you are rude to me."

"Okay, what else?" His eyes begin to travel down to her legs. 'Oh man,' he thinks to himself, 'she has incredible legs! Long, slender, luscious, teasing...perfect. What I wouldn't give to just toss her on her desk and...' his thoughts are cut off by Kikyo clearing her throat. His eyes shoot up to hers, a mild blush adorning his face.

"Admiring something now are we?" she questions, her voice filled with amusement. Upon seeing his face redden even more, her smile widens. "The second thing I wanted to discuss with you is the quiz you just took."

"What about it?" he asks while crossing his arms.

"Well...you aced it!" Her eyes are now filled with shock and amazement. "I...I mean you got every single question correct, not a single mistake! I am simply astounded at how well you did!" She takes a few steps closer to Inu-Yasha, making him slightly nervous. "But really, who would have thought that inside that cute head of yours, there is actually an intelligent mind?" Kikyo suddenly reaches up and gently touches one of his dog-ears, marveling at how soft it is. Her fingers trace along the edges of them and slowly work their way down to the side of his face. She notices that he is still blushing and his breathing has quickened. Well...so has hers. She is also quite aware of the increasing warmth that is growing in her lower abdomen.

"W...what are you doing?" Inu-Yasha asks in a deep husky voice, only adding to the heat that is building up inside of her.

"I...do not know?" she answers. "I guess I am giving into temptation." Her hands find their way to the back of his head and she pulls him down into a deep kiss, which he readily returns.

Both of them are now so engulfed in each other that neither notices the pair of forest green feline eyes watching them, the beautiful eyes which are now filled with tears as the neko girl whispers, "Oh Inu-Yasha...why?"

To be continued...

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Translations (in order of appearance):

No new words ~ Sorry, I don't know a whole lot of Japanese words!

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Author's notes: Uh oh! Looks like the competition meter for Inu-Yasha's heart has just risen up some more! Three lovely ladies are interested in our dear Inu-Yasha and the poor hanyou is interested in all three of them as well! What a dilemma! Probably soon I will skip ahead to the next school year where Kagome, Sango and Miroku will be enrolled at Takahashi High. That will be when the real excitement and fireworks begin! Until then... - lighthawkdemon

Questions or comments? E-mail me at: lighthawkdemon@yahoo.com