Chapter 4: First Day of Crisis

Kagome wakes up to the alarm on her phone. She sees and turns it off. She gets out of her bed to go into her closet that has a few of her clothes that she put away when she moved here. After browsing the rack she realized that she's missing a few articles of clothing. For what she's so far is her pink pj bottoms with a purple flower tank top. She goes down to the kitchen to see her mother making breakfast for her brother so far. "Hey mom, where's the rest of my clothes?" She asks her frantically. "Oh I had to get rid of them." Ai replies to her casually as she give Sota a plate of waffles. "But why mom? Those clothes are my favorites. Why would you do that?" Kagome asks her in shock.

Ai looks at her. "First of all Kagome. Those clothes are not allowed at school." Kagome crossed her arms. "Why are they not allowed at school? I thought that the school I'm being sent to doesn't have the uniform attire." She points out. "Because they're not up to the dress code of the school. For example, your skirts are way to skimpy to reveal such inappropriate sights." Sota answers the question this time. All Kagome does is twitch her eyes. "Oh so my skirts that are that short are not allowed. You on the other hand should know about that." She stares at him. "Kagome put something on appropriate and come back down for breakfast." Ai told her seriously this time. Kagome groans as she goes back upstairs to change.

Kagome goes back into the closet to see what the rest of the clothes that she can wear for her first day of school. She finds a fine pair of jeans alone with a belt to hold it up. The tops are mostly tank tops and fleece sweaters. But luckily there were a few nice shirts that can go with the jeans. The one she picks is a forest green short sleeve t-shirt with a lynx on the side.

After changing, she grooms her long raven black hair to make sure it stays put. She heads back into the kitchen to eat her breakfast. "Much better, sweetie." Ai said nicely to her. Kagome one the other hand isn't liking this one bit. The clock chimes the hour that the kids have to leave the house. "Ok, you two head off to the corner of the street. A bus will stop there to pick you guys up." Ai instructs the kids. Kagome and Sota as they get their backpacks and head out the house.

As soon as Kagome and Sota left the house, Inuyasha and Miroku turn around to the sound of the door closing. "Hey that must be Kagome that my dad told me." Inuyasha turns to see the girl in full view. The moment he saw her struck him hard. "Inuyasha, now's not the time to go gaga for the girl." Miroku shakes him out of his trance. "Let me help." A familiar female voice said as she flicks Inuyasha's forehead. "Ow. Sango. Really?" He rubs the sore spot. "It was necessary." Sango smiles her replies. She's in a nice pair of khaki jeans with a pink tank top on with her hair in a low ponytail. She turns to see the new kids going the same direction of the bus stop. "We can introduce ourselves." Sango suggests.

Sango runs up to Kagome and Sota. "Hi there." She smiles to them. Sota smiles as he waves his hand at her. Kagome, does the same but very shyly though. "I'm Sango Taijiya." Sango introduces herself. "I'm Sota Higurashi and this is my big sis Kagome." Sota introduces himself and his sister to the girl. "I wish my little brother was here. But he's in the hospital sadly." Sango said to him with a slight frown. "Oh no. What happened?" Kagome asks her quickly.

"He's fine. He just broke his leg during his last game. He won't be able to play for the rest of the year. He's quite disappointed." Sango explains to her. "Oh I hope he recovers quickly." Kagome said kindly to her. "Don't worry. He'll be out by the end of the week." Sango said back. "Come on I want to you two to meet my two friends." Sango gestures them to follow her.

Kagome sees two boys up ahead. "Sango, who do you have with you?" Miroku asks her. "These here are Kagome and Sota Higurashi." Sango gestures the two. Miroku walks up to them. "Pleasure to meet you two. I'm Miroku Houshi." Miroku bows to her. "And I'm Inuyasha Takahashi." Inuyasha waves at them. Kagome recognizes the last name. "Oh you must be Mrs. Takahashi's son?" She points at him. "Yeah, too bad I couldn't meet you yesterday because I was down with that cold." He explains his excuse.

Soon enough the bus turns to the corner of their street. "Well that's the bus." Sango said the obvious. The bus doors opens up to allow them to get on. Everyone one found an empty seat. As the bus drives off, Sango taps Kagome's shoulder. "Hey what's up?" Kagome asks her. Sango sits across from her. "When you came out of the van, I said hi to you, and then you bolted into the house? Did something happen?" She asks her. Kagome knows exactly what she's talking about. "I just went through something terrible and I'm having a hard time getting over it." That was all Kagome could tell her. There's no way she's going to tell someone that she just meet know more or her secrets. She's not really. Not yet at the least.

The bus arrives at the school that Kagome has been sent to. Sota is to remain in the bus along with the other kids around his age to the middle school. Kagome grabs her bag. "Kagome." Sota grabs her arm. Kagome looks down to him. "Be careful." He tells his big sis. Kagome nods with an assuring smile. "I will." She gets off the bus with the other teenagers. As such. There's a few groups of students talking among themselves about various topic.

"Kagome." Sango comes up to her. "Huh?" Kagome looks at her. "I said let's go." Sango explains to her. "Oh. Sorry." She then doesn't see Inuyasha and Miroku. "Where are the guys?" She asks Sango as they enter the building. "Oh they have to help clean up the mess in the cafeteria." Kagome didn't see that coming. "What happened?" She asks. Sango shrugs her shoulders. "I don't know. I know that Inuyasha was sick so someone else had to take his place. So I guess Inuyasha has to return the favor." Kagome is aware about students have to do various chores either before class or after school. There's no telling when she's going to be one of those students.

Sango takes Kagome to the office to receive her schedule. "Here you go, sweetie." One of the receptionists hands over the sheet. "Thank you." Kagome smiles as she takes the offering. She looks through the schedule to see where she needs to go. "Oh you're pretty much in most of my classes." Sango smiles. "Oh ok." Kagome realizes that. "Come on." Sango gestures Kagome to follow.

Back in the cafeteria, Miroku and Inuyasha are mopping the floors. "So what's the mess this time?" Inuyasha asks his friend as he leans onto the mop's stick. "Rumor has it that it was sloppy joes. And to be honest, it was the cause of the food poisoning." Miroku holds his chin to think thoroughly. Inuyasha can see a few spots that's been the victims of the vomits. "Looks like the kids have different ideas from that." He comments as he resumes his task. Miroku sadly agrees with him. "Let's get this cleaned up. We should be able to get this finished before class." He resumes his mopping. "And then wait til next month for our next cleaning duty." Inuyasha reminds him. "Exactly."

Luckily enough, the guys managed to clean up the floor in record timing. "Alright boys. You can go." The janitor tells him after seeing the results on the floor. "Thanks." Inuyasha smiles gratefully as he and Miroku grab their backpacks and leave. "So we just need to get to homeroom." Inuyasha said as they make a run for their assigned room number. "There." Miroku points to the door. As soon as they entered the room, the bell rings. "Oh thank kami." Miroku said in relief. He spots the girls in the room. He elbows Inuyasha. "Hey look." He gestures his head.

Inuyasha looks up to see Kagome and Sango talking with each other. "Hey guys." Kagome waves her hand to them. Inuyasha smiles as he walks up to them. "We just got Kagome's schedule." Sango said to them. Miroku and Inuyasha look at it. "Not back for you have gym with all of us." Miroku comments the class. Inuyasha nods. "You have science and history with me." He tells her. Kagome now feels safe for once after learning that she's in class with each of them.