Chapter 2: New Exchange Student
Kagome knew that the moment she got to Cross Academy, she'd be labelled as a new 'exchange student.' How she hated labels. She wasn't the type of girl who stereotyped people, putting them into groups. No. That was not her at all. She was now standing in front of Cross Academy, or should she say a castle. It was magnificent. The building was huge, there was two passage ways, one heading to a castle-like dorm for the day class students and one heading to a while castle-like building for the night class students.
Kagome knew that this was not just your average school. She knew about the vampire's that were in the night class. How Chairman Kaien Cross wanted to keep the vampire's seperate from the day class students. He also wanted to have them co-exist with each other. She scoffed, that was a load of bullshit. If youkai wouldn't co-exist with humans, obviously vampire's wouldn't either.
Kagome wasn't your average teenaged girl either. But with her concealment charm on that made her look human people assumed she was. She was still a very beautiful girl, she held a dark beauty that vampire's had. With her dark midnight black blue hair that had red streaks, her sun kissed skin and her sapphire blue eyes. Shippo had said once that she looked like a goddess of the night. Whatever that means. She was half vampire a part of her that she always hated. Why? Because once a month she craved blood like every vampire did.
Funny how she was the very thing that she mostly killed when in Feudal Japan. Inuyasha would have been laughing if he heard of her new development. Hell she didn't even want to find out what Sango or Miroku would think. Miroku would probably ask her to bare his children. Oh hell that was a horrible thought. She might have nightmares just thinking about it.
Shuddering in disgust, she didn't want to even think about that. She started to walk forward towards the day class dorm where she would meet Chairman Kaien Cross for the first time. What was he like? Was he a nice person? Or was he a bad person? What did he like? What did he hate? What was his favorite things to do? And why was she thinking about this? Giving an irritated sigh she walked into the building.
On the way there she saw many students dressed in a black shirt with a red tie and black skirt that looked similar to her old high school skirt. She shuddered, the princible at Shikano High was a pervert. He would do anything to see the girls in short skirts. Just the thought of it made her want to gag.
She finally arrived in front of two double doors, knocking softly she waited. A voice called her in, although it was a little muffled, she heard it. Walking in, she saw a middle aged blond haired blue eyed handsome man wearing a black uniform with a green shawl over his shoulders.
"Ah! You must be Kagome, the exchange student!" he said excitedly as he stood up from his chair.
Kagome nodded, then raised an eyebrow at him. He was a strange one, who wears a shawl in school?
"Welcome! I am Kaien Cross, I suppose you know that, yes?" he said, again she nodded.
She didn't feel like talking at the moment. What was the point? They would continue asking her questions if she did.
Moments after he said that, two students walked in. One with short shoulder length brown hair and cinnamon brown eyes, pale skin wearing a black day class uniform she had seen earlier. She had black school shoes on with long black stockings that stopped at the beginning of her thighs. The other one however reminded her of Sesshomaru, he had silver hair and light lavender eyes that looked silver. He was pale also wearing a black uniform. But he smelled different, not entirely human. This had her curious, making her want to help him in anyway she could. First he had to trust her.
"This is my adopted daughter Yuuki Cross, and my adopted son Zero Kiryuu. Yuuki shall show you around the academy." He said with a bright smile on his face.
Kagome nodded, "hello I'm Kagome Higurashi, the exchange student." Kagome said finally speaking.
Yuuki smiled, "hello! I will show you around, come along!" Yuuki said, Kagome followed closely behind her not wanting to get lost.
All the while as she toured around the school, she completely forgot about Shippo. Kagome gasped her eyes widened with shock and utter guilt.
'Oh no! How could I forget about Shippo?! He was supposed to be enrolling too!' Kagome thought worriedly. Yuuki seeing Kagome's expression turned to her with a concerned look on her face.
"Are you alright Kagome? You look a bit pale." Yuuki said frowning with concern for the new exchange student.
"I'm fine. I just forgot about Shippo..." Kagome said letting out a guilt filled whimper.
"Who's Shippo?" Yuuki asked.
"He's my adopted son," Kagome replied with a smile. Though she felt entirely guilty for leaving Shippo behind.
"You have a son? How old are you anyway?" Yuuki asked as she raised an eyebrow.
Kagome laughed, the look on Yuuki's face was priceless. This was the expression and response she got from everyone. They all asked her how old she was and why she already had a son. They sometimes asked if she had a father figure for the child. How rediculous that was, he was too old to be a little child; but he did need a father figure. Kagome didn't have any male friends not since Inuyasha. She couldn't go back to him, so there was no point in that.
Kagome didn't have any friends period. Because of her travels, Ayumi, Eri and Yura had drifted away from her. Not that she minded, they were nosy and forced her on dates with Hojo, who she didn't even like. But she couldn't get anything in edgewise with them. They all assumed that she liked Hojo, hell he was annoying. All she wanted to do was scream at them, tell them right off. But being the person that Kagome was, she couldn't do that to them.
"I'm 17, I adopted him when I was 15 years old. Most people were skeptical that someone so young would adopt a young child." Kagome replied to Yuuki's question.
"Hell I'm already skpetical. Are sure you could raise him?" Yuuki said frowning.
"Yes, I can. I've been raising him for two years." Kagome snapped, she hated when people asked that.
Yuuki nodded, Kagome could tell that she was just worried. Most people were, and because of that became skeptical about her abilities to raise a child. Shippo was a teenager now, he was Souta's age and just starting high school. He was no child, he was a growing man. Shippo would agree with her on this one.
As they were walking, Kagome heard someone call her name. She turned around only to see Shippo with a grin on his face.
"Hello Shippo. Where'd you run off too?" Kagome asked, trying to forget that she had forgotten him.
"Oh, I was talking to the chairman. Who's this?" Shippo said then he noticed Yuuki's presence.
"This is Yuuki Cross. She's the chairman's adopted daughter and she's showing me around the academy." Kagome said.
Shippo nodded, "hi! I'm Shippo Higurashi. Nice to meet you Yuuki." Shippo said as he smiled.
Yuuki's eyes were wide with amazement. She looked at the guy in front of her, he had long red hair with black streaks and bright green eyes that had sapphire specks. He had sun kissed skin, and a body that only most guys could dream of. He was the hottest guy she had ever seen. Was this really Kagome's adopted son? He looked like one of male models off of vogue magazine. He had all the looks just like Kaname-senpai and the other night class students did.
The rest of the day however was rather boring, or so Kagome thought. Nothing interesting happened, the classes were all boring and all the girls in day class wanted to do was gossip about the night class students. They talked about how handsome they were, or how amazingly beautiful they were. Kagome rolled her eyes, she didn't care about gossip. As gossip only started rumours that most times were quite hurtful. She had her fair shares of gossip, rumors and hurt feelings from those rumors. She hated it every time someone talked about her behind her back just because they were jealous of her.
Kagome then found that the Academy wasn't exactly safe. There were these creature's called Level E vampire's that were a threat. It was ordered by Chairman Kaien Cross that the Prefect's and night class students dispose of these Level E's. It was like fighting demons all over again.
Recently Kagome found out that Yuuki and Zero were the Academy's Prefects. They often protrolled the Academy ground at night. It just so happened that tonight was the night that Kagome decided to take a moonlit walk. She was bored, and needed something to occupy her time. She then came across two day class students who shouldn't be out at night. It was dangerous, the night class students could be anywhere at this time of night. What were they doing anyway?
"What do you think you two are doing?" Kagome asked as she stepped out of the shadows of the trees.
"We're just trying to get pictures of the night class students." One girl said who was kneeling beside her fallen friend who looked to have sprained her ankle.
"Why?" Kagome asked raising her eyebrow. These girls were stupid.
"Go back to your dorm now. It is not safe out here at night." Kagome snapped.
"Kagome what are you doing here?" Yuuki asked as she jumped from a tree branch.
Kagome looked over at Yuuki. "Just trying to get these girls back to their dorm is all." Kagome replied.
"It is forbidden to be out at night, you two return to your dorm, you too Kagome." Yuuki said.
Kagome sighed, she was about to leave when she sensed two vampire's coming their way. Yuuki whiped out her Artemis. A orange haired reddish brown eyed male stopped her weapon from hitting him with his hand. Behind him was a blonde haired blue eyed male that looked rather arrogant. He had this smirk on his face that proved to Kagome how much of a pompous arrogant asshole he was. If it wasn't for his arrogant aura she would have thought otherwise.
"Aw, what's little Yuuki doing out here at night?" The blonde asked in a teasing mocking voice.
"Hanabusa. What are you doing here?" Yuuki asked as she narrowed her eyes.
Kagome narrowed her eyes as well, as she looked the two vampire's over.
"I smelled something delicious so I came to investigate." Hanabusa said giving his best answer as he shrugged.
"No, Hanabusa. Yuuki will not let you drink from her. So just leave," Kagome growled out.
"Who are you?" Hanabusa asked rudely taking notice of Kagome's presence finally.
"Kagome Higurashi the new exchange student. So leave already." Kagome snapped.
"Well Kagome-" Hanabusa had started to say, but was interrupted.
"Hanabusa, go back to the dorm at once." A smooth deep voice said, then the owner of the voice walked out of the shadows of the trees. He had shoulder length dark brown almost black hair, reddish brown eyes, he was pale and wore a white uniform that showed he was from the night class.
"Yes, Kaname-sama. Come on Akatsuki." Hanabusa said before he walked away Akatsuki following close behind him.
Kagome smiled happy that Hanabusa was gone. She looked back at the dark sexy handsome male that was currently looking at Yuuki with a kindness that Inuyasha had only shown her on his human nights. Kagome frowned, she remembered when she felt the happiness she had gotten from just that one simple look Inuyasha used to give her. Now she didn't have that, she wanted to feel that again.
"Kaname-senpai" Yuuki said smiling softly.
"Hello, Yuuki. Who is this?" Kaname said, then took in Kagome's presence. When he looked at her, he wore he saw a dark angel. Her long flowing midnight black blue hair, her amazingly beautiful sapphire blue eyes and wow she had the body of a super-model. But there was something about her that didn't feel right. Something that recognized, and that only vampire's had. It was in their blood, her body had waves of power flowing from her.
Just what was she?
Kagome gave the best warmest smile she could muster at the moment. She knew that he was checking her out, she didn't mind it in the least. It was nothing new to her, all the guys at Shikano High did the same thing. His face showed no emotion, he had this dangerous but dark beauty to him. Something that only a pure blooded vampire would have, he had power. And lots of it.
How powerful was he really?