Disclaimer: Birthday candles, wish bone, shooting stars…I've tried everything and still my dream to own Inuyasha did not come true.

A/N: I hope you guys like the story! R&R

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All's Fair In Love And War

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Old Habits Die Hard

It was the third period of the first day of school and Sango had already lost Kagome. Sango walked through all of the hallways trying to find her friend but no luck. The only place she hadn't checked was near the stairs where there seemed to be a huge crowd. Out of nowhere she heard a big splash of something landing, for a minute all went quiet but the quietness was soon replaced by a piercing scream. Sango sighed deeply, she found Kagome. She quietly tiptoed toward the center of the crowd and tired to push herself to the middle. The spectators kept a good five meters away from the syrup-covered girl, as if afraid that she'll pounce on the first person she sees. The first person she saw was of course none other than the most popular playboy the school's ever seen, Inuyasha. She glared up to the second floor where he held a giant empty bucket that used to be filled with syrup laughing like there was no tomorrow.

Sango finally managed to squeeze through the sea of students and found her syrup-covered friend, who didn't seem to notice her or anyone except for the laughing maniac on the second floor. The moment Sango saw Kagome she knew that Inuyasha had taken it too far, apparently he didn't know what Kagome was capable of doing if you got her really mad. Sango shuddered as her thoughts went way back to Kagome's fifth birthday; Sango had smashed her entire birthday cake into her face. It was all a blur after that, all she remembered was that when she was conscious again she had somehow ended up sitting in a cake on the very top branch of a Sakura tree. It was not a pleasant thought, but then again that was eleven years ago and Kagome was way more mature. She could probably do much more damage now than she could ever do eleven years ago. Sango smiled to herself and secretly prayed for Inuyasha because when Kagome decides to fight back she will take no prisoners, even if he was the cutest boy in the entire school.

Sango pulled Kagome away from the hallway and dragged her sticky friend into the change room where there was a shower. Kagome had gone with her but her eyes were glued onto the boy on the second floor who was apparently still laughing. Sango thought Inuyasha might of stopped laughing to breathe but that didn't seem to happen because his face was turning a dark shade of red, which soon turned into a dark shade of purple. Even when Sango managed to pull Kagome into the changed room Kagome continued to stare. Sango could've sworn she saw the door start to burn from Kagome's deadly gaze.

" Kagome…Are you ok?" Sango asked cautiously as she washed the syrup off her hands. Kagome just kept on staring when a small grin appeared on her face. Sango took this as a bad sign; whenever Kagome smiled at a bad situation it meant that it was about to get a lot worse.

Sango was scared out of her mind when she felt Kagome's head snap back and faced her. Kagome's grin was getting bigger by the second, which scared Sango a lot. She wasn't sure what Kagome had been thinking but that evil grin she had on her face wasn't a good sigh. " I'm fine Sango…. I'm perfectly fine." Kagome's voice didn't sound like herself, she was planning something, Sango could feel it and it wasn't pretty.

Kagome stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around herself and headed for her gym locker. She had a few changes of clothes in there ever since the egg incident. She chose a white shirt with a blue skirt and got dressed. Sango was waiting on a bench in the change room while Kagome got washed up. Neither of them had class for the following hour so Kagome took her time. She stepped out of the change room feeling clean, refreshed and most importantly non-sticky. Their free period was connected to lunch so she and Sango took their lunch and headed for the school park because Kagome didn't feel like facing everyone after the syrup incident.

" I'm glad you're feeling better, Kagome." Sango took a bite out of her sandwich and looked at her friend who still looked like she was in deep thought. Kagome didn't seem to hear her so she continued eating her lunch and left her friend to her thoughts. It had been nearly twenty minuets since Sango had finished her lunch and Kagome hadn't even started yet. Kagome hadn't thought this much about a prank since the prank on her evil English tutor. Sango shook her head sadly, that evil but poor woman never knew what hit her until it was too late. The poor woman was forced to go to intensive therapy for many years.

Kagome didn't use her pranking skill for fun; she only used it for revenge. It wasn't like she pranked everyone who got her mad; it was more like someone who gets on her nerves all the time and then they place the last straw on and all hell breaks lose, or in her English tutor's case it was the last verb that did it. But that was a very long time ago and Kagome hadn't pranked anyone in years. Nobody except her knew Kagome had the ability to do such things. Kagome had told her that she gave up on pranking and jokes. Four years ago she had said that she was too mature to play petty jokes and so just like that she gave up on her life as a prankster.

Sango was broken out of her train of thoughts when Kagome jabbed her finger into Sango's shoulder. " Hey! What did you do that for!" Sango rubbed her pained shoulder as her friend giggled. Well at least she was feeling better. " I poked you lightly but you didn't respond so…" Kagome gave Sango an innocent look." So you decided to poke a hole through my shoulder" Sango finished. " Yup."

" So, you're ok?" Sango asked her friend with concern. " Well…if you call getting soaked in syrup on your first day of school by the most annoying guy in school ok, then I guess I'm ok." Sango gave her friend a half smile. " Good, because you had that look in your eye that I haven't seen in a long time." Kagome grinned. " Do you think that just because he had been making my life miserable for the past three years and that today was the final straw that I would play some trick on him?" Kagome asked Sango innocently as she gave her friend a fake smile. " Um…yeah." Sango answered bluntly.

" Tsk, tsk, tsk." Kagome shook her head in disagreement. " Sango I would never go as low as him and play the same childish tricks as he did to me." Sango sighed in relief " Good cause I thought you would." Kagome gave her friend a grin. " Nope, I'm just going to return all the kindness that he inflicted upon me over the years." It was going to be a school year that he'll never forget. Kagome laughed like maniac, while poor Sango shrunk into a corner, scared half to death. Yes, it was going to be a year to be remembered.

TBC...

This chapter is longer than my usual chapter length, which is pretty short so I'm considering having longer chapters. Plus no cliffhangers! Did you notice? Not having cliffhangers are a rare thing for me cuz I can't resist. So if you guys want to encourage me to write more then send those reviews in!

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