Chapter Two: Lessons in Love
The morning just came up and kicked Inuyasha in the head, as he felt the sunbeams on his body, he squirmed in his pink flannel pyjamas that his mother bought to make him look girly. He yawned and sat up, looking over to Kagome. She lay in her bed, her hair strewn across her pillow like a splash of water. She looked so... beautiful and soft... he wanted to reach out and touch her face.
Ashamed of these secret thoughts, it was no wonder when Inuyasha practically hit the ceiling when Kagome's alarm went off.
Kagome was the perky type, and she seemed to skip the whole tired stretching phase and jump straight to operation GO!. She sat up almost robotically and smiled at Inuyasha.
"Good morning, Inuyasha! Isn't it a beautiful morning?"
Inuyasha looked groggily over at her as if she'd gone completely barmy. He didn't give a damn about the beauty of the morning, but apparently she did. He lay back down and muttered.
"Ten more minutes wont kill anyone."
"Oh no!" Kagome hopped out of bed, her wild hair falling into place. "You wake up right now, missy"
"Make me" Inuyasha groaned.
Kagome calmly took a run-up and jumped on his bed, crushing him with her full weight.
"Gettup, gettup, gettup!" she sang in a shrilly falsetto"Get UUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPP!"
Inuyasha squirmed under her "Get off me, woman! I'm dying under here!"
Kagome laughed and rolled off of him, clutching her stomach in pearls of laughter, he sat up dazedly and pulled his uniform from his cupboard and groaned.
"Goddamn PINK in the morning! I cant be doing with this…"
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Kagome chirped, already dressed and clutching her schoolbag.
"What's your goddamn hurry?" Inuyasha glared, people had NO RIGHT to be happy in the morning.
Kagome blushed, "Hurry! I'm not in a hurry! I just want to get to class on time"
Inuyasha looked at his uniform then at Kagome and said quietly, "I'm getting changed now."
"Oh. Right" Kagome turned away from him as he got dressed, "You're so shy, Inuyasha-chan, it's cute"
"I'm not being cute," Inuyasha stated, pulling his skirt up and doing up the ribbon. "Trust me, its not that" he added in an undertone, so she couldn't hear.
Kagome grinned "I think you are cute."
Inuyasha glared, red in the face.
000
As soon as Inuyasha was dressed, Kagome pulled him from the room and they tore down the corridor, Kagome dragging Inuyasha behind her.
"C'mon, we've got class with Hojo!" She said as she ran.
"Hojo?" Inuyasha asked, pulling his hand from hers "And who, may I ask, is Hojo?"
"He's just-! He-!" Kagome blushed, "He's just a teacher from my old school"
"One who Kagome swore she was going to grow up and marry" a voice from behind Kagome laughed cheerily.
Kagome and Inuyasha turned to see a girl with long brown hair and brown eyes, she hugged Kagome gleefully.
"Oh, Kagome, my love" the girl jested "It has been far too long!"
"Oh, my lovely Sango! You didn't cheat on me in the lonely nights we were apart, right?" Kagome laughed, playing along.
"Would I, my sweetie?" The girl giggled.
"Hey- uh- are you two-?" Inuyasha spluttered.
The girls burst out laughing.
"Inuyasha, this is my friend Sango. Don't mind that little display, it's an inside joke." Kagome introduced them, "Sango, this is Inuyasha, she's my roomie!"
"I promised Kagome in middle school that if she was going to swear to marry Hojo, I would swear to make her mine to save her from that awful fate!" Sango laughed, shaking Inuyasha's hand. "To this day, she still resists my charm!"
"Speaking of charmers," Kagome said suddenly to Sango "Have you spoken to Miroku? I bet lover-boy misses you"
Sango released Kagome from the hug and sighed "I'm sure Houshi-sama is drowning his sorrow in another girl's mouth."
"You know Miroku Houshi?" Inuyasha started, "Weird! I grew up with him! He was my neighbour, the pervert!"
Sango looked suddenly awkward, and then asked "You and him… you never, I mean-"
"Oh! God! No!" Inuyasha burst out, "I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole!"
Sango tried to conceal a sigh of relief.
"Sango fancies him" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha, who laughed.
Sango blushed and looked away "I do not! Anyway, we're gonna be late to see Hojo darling if we keep hanging in the hallway."
000
"Hello, my class, I am Mr. Prince, but you may call me Hojo, all my students do. Ah! I recognise a few of you from the old middle school I used to teach." he waved at them, Kagome turning scarlet.
He wasn't attractive at all, Inuyasha thought, staring at the man. Maybe he was attractive once, but now he just looked too old.
"I can't believe you like him, girl" Inuyasha retorted.
Kagome only sighed and carried on with her work dreamily.
Inuyasha felt a shadow fall over him, and looked up to see Hojo grinning broadly.
"Well, you look familiar, do you have an elder brother?"
Inuyasha straightened up, and glared, "You know Sesshoumaru?" he asked viciously.
"Ah! Sesshoumaru! A bright boy, no doubt, didn't talk much, though. Had his own fan club you know!" Hojo grinned, ignoring Inuyasha's death glare.
"I know. Girls who didn't even go to my middle school were harassing me all the time just to get his god-damn number"
Hojo grinned even wider, as wide as possible without breaking his face in half. "Well I never knew he had such a cute, or loyal sister."
"He doesn't" Inuyasha sulked "I gave them the number."
Hojo laughed and drifted off to charm other girls, Inuyasha wondered vaguely if the weirdo had even listened to a word he'd said.
"You really don't like Hojo, do you?" Kagome sighed.
"Of course not! Guys like him give me the creeps. Supid... pervert lady-killing guys are gross" Inuyasha said, skipping around the fact that he was male as carefully as possible.
Realisation dawned on Kagome's face, and she stared at him searchingly.
Oh, no! Inuyasha you IDIOT what did you say that for? She's figured you out for sure!Inuyasha thought worriedly, scanning Kagome's face carefully, and that was certainly realisation on her face.
"Kagome… you… you… that is…"
Kagome put her finger to her lips, "Lets just get on with our work" she whispered, not looking at him.
Inuyasha felt sweat running down his face.
She knew. She knew, and there was nothing he could say to explain.
The double-lesson passed with a painful slowness, Inuyasha churned over an imaginary conversation with Kagome, trying to find the right words. Then his mind wandered to his mother, they couldn't afford tuition.
What would he tell her?
Sorry, mom, I blew it?
Kagome elbowed him gently, "It's break time" she said, "Can we talk?"
Inuyasha gulped "S-Sure thing, Kagome"
Kagome led him into their dorm and sat on her bed. "It's alright, Inuyasha-chan" she smiled, "You don't have to worry that I know, I don't mind"
Inuyasha was stunned to hear that, "You… don't… mind?"
"It was obvious from the way you reacted about me and Sango. And about Hojo" Kagome shook her head, her raven hair tossing from side to side. "It's just you were looking at me in class like I was going to stand up and yell it to the class. It's no big deal."
"No big deal? I…! I thought you'd think it was a big deal" Inuyasha didn't know what to say "So… you won't tell anyone?"
"No! If you don't want anyone to know, I won't tell a soul!" Kagome said, standing up, "It's just between us."
Inuyasha sighed and hugged Kagome thankfully, "I thought you'd make a big deal and tell everyone" he admitted.
"Oh, Inuyasha-chan, I really don't care that you like girls!"
Inuyasha froze, WHAT? … WHAT? She really doesn't know! She just thinks I'm gay! Oh this is wonderful! This is great! But this does mean I have to be a girl and gay. This is going to be difficult.
Playing along Inuyasha smiled "I'm glad we cleared that up."
Kagome nodded, leading Inuyasha by the hand "Right, let's go find Sango and get to class"
Inuyasha sighed inwardly, for now, at least, his secret was safe.
AN: Woo, finally.