Teacher's Pet

Chapter 26: Planting Seeds

That next morning, Kagome still hadn't figured out what she was going to do about Kanna and Naraku. And that stayed on her mind the entire morning.

"You're really still thinking about this, aren't you?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yeah. Kanna will get punished for not bringing Naraku any answers." Kagome brushed her hair the way she wanted it to go.

"You need to calm down and stop stressing yourself out." Inuyasha ruffled her hair.

"Hey!" Kagome pouted, but her hair fell back into place without any help from her.

"Wait…your hair does that too?" Inuyasha mussed up his own hair and Kagome laughed as she watched his fall back into place.

"You need help. But back to what I was saying…she has a week to get some information, but I don't know where to begin. Or else he's gonna send her with someone named Hakudoshi." Kagome grabbed her car keys and they headed for the door.

"Who's that?" Inuyasha asked, sliding into the passenger seat.

"I have no idea. But whoever he is, I'm sure he's really bad." Kagome drove down the street, her mind on Kanna and what she was going to tell her. She didn't want to be the cause of Kanna getting hurt in any way. Kagome chewed on her bottom lip.

"Stop stressing Kags. You're eating your lip."

"How am I supposed to stop stressing? Kanna could really get hurt.

"Naraku still needs her, right?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes."

"Well she'll be fine. We just have to give her information to give to Naraku. And you said we have a week so you should calm down. It's not good when you stress."

Kagome thought for a minute. "You're right. If the three of us can come up with things for her to tell Naraku, then she'll be fine." She pulled into a parking space at school with a smile on her face. Kagome hopped out of the car and hugged her best friend. "I love you Yash! You're the best!"

People saw them embrace and Kagome had almost forgotten that Inuyasha was her 'boyfriend'.

"Oh yeah…uhhh…" Kagome kissed Inuyasha on the cheek. "Let's go."

Inuyasha nodded his agreement. They headed for school, ignoring everyone around them.

Kagome didn't pay attention in any of her classes before Sesshomaru's. She rarely did, though she was still passing with an A in every class.

"Have you come up with anything to tell the spider?" Kagome asked her best friend, after briefly speaking to Kanna.

He shook his head. "Thought you were gonna do that."

Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed. "We'll figure out something at lunch. All three of us."

Inuyasha went to his seat and his half-brother began teaching. Kagome, on the other hadn, was distracted. What can I say to Kanna that will please Naraku? Kagome wasn't paying any attention to Kagome and he knew it. He wondered what was on his petite miko's mind.

When the bell rang, he made it a point to say, "Kagome, may I see you after class, please?"

The entire class said, "Oooooh" and looked at Kagome before the left the classroom. Kagome gathered her things slowly and watched as the other students filed out of the room.

"Yes?" Kagome asked.

"What are you plotting?" Sesshomaru got right to the point.

Kagome smiled. "That's for me to know, and you to find out." She tapped his nose and walked out of the classroom.

Sesshomaru shook his head. "I don't know what I'm going to do with her."

Inuyasha chuckled. "Yeah…she's something else." He followed his best friend to the cafeteria, but he thought he heard Sesshomaru's phone vibrate when he was leaving.

"I'm still trying to figure all of this out Kanna, but I'm getting close. I can feel it." Kagome was talking to Kanna when Inuyasha caught up with them.

Inuyasha actually began to worry about Kagome. When she set her mind on something, she was dedicated to it. "I'm sure we'll figure out some things to say to him."

Kagome smiled. She was glad that Inuyasha was at her side. The Taisho brothers were alike in ways, but they didn't want to see them. "Thanks Yash."

Kanna smiled. "You two are really great at being best friends."

Kagome shrugged. "It kinda just happened. He was the only person who knew about you know what, and he was the only person I could talk to about it."

Kanna nodded. It made sense. With a secret that big, you would need someone to talk to about it. But she didn't have anyone to share her secrets with…until…she looked at Kagome…now?

The three of them sat down at the table with their food.

"So what did Mr. Taisho have to talk to you about?" Sango asked Kagome.

Kagome shrugged. "Nothing really. He just wanted to know if I was following him in class today."

"Yeah, I noticed you weren't paying attention."

"I'll follow that man anywhere." Ayame said in a breathless voice. "He's so damn sexy! I wonder if he has a girlfriend."

"I don't think so. He probably has plenty of women he sleeps with though. There's no way he can limit himself to one woman, being that attractive." Sango said.

"Why does it matter?" Kagome asked, annoyed with the conversation.

"Oh come on Kagome. I know you've fantasized about sleeping with him. I have!" Ayame giggled.

"C'mon Ayame. Kags is dating his brother. That's like the next best thing, right?" Sango asked.

Kagome shook her head. "You all need help."

"No, but seriously. Mr. Taisho is way too fine to have a 'girlfriend'. He doesn't wear a ring, so he's not married." Ayame said.

"Engaged?" Sango asked.

Ayame shook her head. "Doubt it."

"Well, I'd sure like to have the skills he has. I'm almost positive he has a different woman gracing his bed every night." Miroku said.

"Even if he has a main squeeze, like one he keeps coming back to, I'm sure he has someone else whenever she's not available." Ayame said and got nods of approval around the table.

Kagome got up from the table and stormed off. The conversation has pissed her off.

"What's her problem?" Ayame asked.

"I don't know." Sango said. As she was about to get up to check on her, Inuyasha and Kanna were getting up as well. "I'll go check on her. She's my best friend."

Inuyasha looked at Sango. "That may be true, but I'm sure I know what's wrong with her. Ditto for Kanna. Let's go." The two walked off, leaving Sango behind, fuming as well.

"You're just gonna let them take over your best friend duties like that?" Ayame asked.

"Hell no!" Sango said and went after them. She found Kagome, Kanna, and Inuyasha standing in the middle of the hallway.

"Calm down. You know that isn't true." Inuyasha said, rubbing her back.

"Yeah. You don't need to get yourself worked up over anything that you already know about." Kanna had never thought she'd ever comfort a person or even have…a friend. But here she was, comforting her friend Kagome. Her life had changed. And she hoped it was for the better.

"What's not true?" Sango asked.

The three of them jumped, none having noticed Sango approaching them. Kagome was the first to respond, and all she did was shake her head. "Nothing. Don't worry about it. It's not important."

"Is must be for those two to know about it and not me." Sango had an attitude.

Kagome sighed. Could she really tell her best friend about her and the love of her life? Hell no! What was Kagome thinking?! Sango couldn't keep a secret for anything. "It's nothing Sango."

"You're constantly keeping secrets from me Kagome. I don't know what happened."

"You can't keep a secret, so I know what happened. You can't even keep your own secrets." Kagome rolled her eyes. "But I really don't feel like doing this right now. If you wanna get mad about it, then that's fine."

Sango gasped. Kagome had never said anything like that to her. "What's wrong Kagome?"

"I just don't feel comfortable when you talk about Mr. Taisho like that." Kagome blurted. 'I'm dating his brother, remember? He could one day be my…brother-in-law." Kagome almost choked on the title.

Sango smiled. "You could've just said that then, silly." She looked at Kanna. "How would she know more than me?"

Kagome shrugged. "She just picks up on things really quickly."

Sango seemed to accept both lies that Kagome had given her. And for that, Kagome was thankful. Finally, though, it was time for them to go to class and Kagome was relieved.

"I don't understand how if you can do shit like that on the spot, why can't you make up something for Kanna?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome shrugged again. "I have no idea." They stopped at her locker for all of their books. Since Kagome's locker was in the middle of all of their classes, Inuyasha and Kanna kept their books in her locker. "Oh! Kanna, before I forget, who is Hakudoshi?"

Kanna paused in reaching her hand into Kagome's locker. "H-how do you know about him?"

"I have Naraku's eyes." Kagome said.

Kanna was confused, but didn't question her. "Hakudoshi is one of Narkau's little minions and he does whatever Naraku tells him to do. And that includes hitting me whenever I'm locked in the dungeon. I've had broken bones, bruises, and he…sometimes he…" Kanna couldn't finish her sentence.

But she didn't have to, Kagome knew that Hakudoshi raped her, just as she knew Naraku did. "Oh kami Kanna! We've gotta get you out of there."

Kanna sighed. "You're the only person I've ever told that to."

Kagoma nodded and rubbed Kanna's back. "And you don't ever have to tell anyone else, not if you don't want to."

"Thank you." Kanna whispered, her voice tight with emotion, just like her throat.

The rest of the day passed fairly quickly. It wasn't until after school that things started getting a bit strange, at least for Kagome. She was about to go into Sesshomaru's classroom after cheer practice, but the door was closed and she heard another voice inside the room with him. It was Kagura. And she was laughing.

"I was thinking that maybe one day I could come over your house and we could grade papers together." Kagura was saying.

Before Kagome heard Sesshomaru's response, Inuyasha called her from behind.

"What's going on?" Inuyasha asked.

"Kagura is in there and the door is closed. It's locked too." Kagome looked at the handle and from the way it was angled, she knew it was locked.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. "No. Don't you even start thinking that."

They heard heels clicking down the hallway behind them, and turned to see it was another History teacher. She taught both freshmen and juniors. She stopped at Sesshomaru's door, completely ignoring the fact that Kagome and Inuyasha were standing there when she pulled her skirt a little higher and her blouse a little lower.

"This bitch really just did this…all in my face." Kagome could feel her temper rising. It was then that the teacher in front of her realized her.

"Oh. I didn't see you two standing there. What are you two doing?" She asked.

"I could be asking you the same thing." Kagome's attitude was evident.

"I'm minding grown people's business." The teacher said with a smile. She knocked on the door, refusing to say anything else to Kagome.

Sesshomaru opened the door with Kagura behind him, the other woman in front of him, and Kagome off to the side. The only one he cared about stormed off, with his brother hot on her heels. He knew that the scene didn't look good, but she had to know that he wouldn't do anything. She had to, right?

Kagome got in her car and slammed the door. She was livid.

"Kags, I think you should slow down." Inuyasha was holding onto the handle connected to the door.

"Why?!" Kagome zoomed through a red light, not caring if there was a police officer around. She pulled up at her house and parked in the driveway. Kagome grabbed her bag out of her car and marched up the stairs into her room. She slammed the door and flung herself on her bed.

Inuyasha opened the door gently. "Kags, you're overreacting. Call him."

"No."

"Fine. I'll do it." Inuyasha pulled out his cell phone and dialed his brother's number and put it on speaker phone. It went straight to voicemail. Inuyasha instantly regretted calling Sesshomaru.

Kagome rose from her bed and glared at him. "See?! He's probably having sex with both of them right now!"

"Why would you think that Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because I'm so…plain. Why would he ever wanna commit to someone like me? I mean, I'm decent in bed, and I give pretty good head, but I'm so plain." Kagome said.

"From what I hear, Kagome, you're more than just 'pretty good' in bed." Inuyasha said with a frown. "And you're far from plain. Every guy in that school wants you. They all look like they wanna fight me 'cause I supposedly have you. You're so much more than you think you are."

Kagome smiled just as Inuyasha's phone started to ring.

"Hello?" He answered, looking at Kagome so she knew it was Sesshomaru. Listening to his gut, Inuyasha walked out of Kagome's room and out of the front door. "You don't want us to come there tonight because of why exactly?!"

"Because I have something to do." Sesshomaru answered simply.

"You know she isn't gonna take that well." Inuyasha sighed.

"Well make her take it well."

"Why should I? You already know what she's thinking." Inuyasha was actually getting mad at his brother.

"Yes, I know what she's thinking. But that's not at all true." Sesshomaru said. Inuyasha was sure that he heard a woman's voice in the background.

"Sesshomaru, who's with you?" Inuyasha asked. "Is that the same woman who called you last night?"

"Mind your own business haynou." Sesshomaru hung up the phone.

This wasn't good. At all. And now he had to go back in the house and tell Kagome that they couldn't go to the house. He knew that this wasn't going to be a good night.