Okay, I really haven't got a clue how these "corners" work so that's why I didn't do one last chapter. I see them all the time with other peoples' fanfics so I figured that I'd try it too. Anyway, I've been trying to keep this fanfic really funny and so far I think it's working out okay...? Oh well, I'll see. I decided that it would be better if I caught the reader's attention with some really funny stuff first. Oh, and yes, I know that all of the stuff that happened to Sesshomaru would never happen to the great lordlyness but I couldn't think of anyone else to be the victim. Anyway, this next chapter isn't nearly as funny as the first but Kagome comes into this one. Well, enjoy!

Chapter Two

The Girl

Inu-yasha smartly took his silver Spyder Eclipse to school. After he splashed Sesshomaru with a cup of water in his waist to make it look like he'd peed his pants (another old trick) Sesshomaru was just about ready to take his head right off his shoulders. He'd only barely made it to his car and locked the door before Sesshomaru could do so though. He'd taken off before his brother could take out a window. Sesshomaru looked mad enough to be able to do anything.

Ten minutes after pulling away from his house he reached the car parking lot. Students in casual clothes chatted away about their summers: who was going out with who now, who was pregnant with who's child, etc. He smiled at the sight of everyone in normal clothes and not some uniform that everyone hated. He parked and immediately saw some sort of commotion not too far off. It involved a very red-faced girl, her friends, and a certain young pervert…

Inu-yasha sighed. His best friend was already at work. He jogged over to a boy who had his hand held to his cheek and a sly grin planted on his face. He had black hair, enough to pull back into a small tail. His violet eyes always held mischief.

"Hey, you dumb pervert!" Inu-yasha called. The girls were just walking away when he reached him.

The boy turned, slightly surprised, and his face lit up in a bad-thought-free grin. "Well, isn't that a way to greet your best friend!" he laughed. He held his hand out and the two exchanged a friendly handshake/hug.

"I see that you're already trying to get a girl," Inu-yasha grinned. "God Miroku, the first bell hasn't even rung yet!"

Miroku laughed. "You know me, I'm an early starter."

Inu-yasha laughed. Miroku watched his friend's face go from happy and laughing to pale and slightly scared. Miroku followed his line of vision and saw Sesshomaru, his friend's half brother.

Miroku chuckled and said, "Oh no, what did you do now?"

Inu-yasha turned to his best friend and his face looked like he was about to explode with laughter. The bell rang and both boys turned toward the school. "Come on, I'll tell you while we go in," Inu-yasha said grabbing his arm and walking in the opposite direction than Sesshomaru.

Both Miroku and Inu-yasha were laughing hard when they reached their lockers that were conveniently right next to each other. They'd been to the school a week before and got their lockers and schedules.

"I can't believe you did that," Miroku said, eyes concentrated on the combination dial.

"I know, but this was no doubt the best prank I've ever pulled on someone. I've never tried to do two in a row. In the end it turned out to be four! And the day isn't even over!" Inu-yasha couldn't help the smug smile on his lips.

"I wouldn't do any more on him today though," Miroku said as he opened his locker door. "In fact, I wouldn't do any more on him period."

"Yes, my dear friend," Inu-yasha said, "but you aren't me. And be happy you aren't. You don't want to go through the beating that is sure to come." Inu-yasha was leaning on the locker beside Miroku's which was his. He'd already put his stuff away. They didn't have books yet for the year so all he had to do was put some extra paper and other school supplies in. Miroku was just being really slow.

"Yeah, you're right about that," Miroku laughed. He closed his locker and looked at his friend with teary eyes. "I will remember you and go to your gravestone every week," he said with mock sadness.

"Shut up, you asshole," Inu-yasha laughed. Miroku joined him and they walked to their first class.

"Hey," Miroku said, "what's your homeroom class?"

"Umm…" Inu-yasha pulled a piece of paper out of his backpack. His eyes scanned it for a second before he said, "History with Myoga-sensei."

"Good," Miroku said. "I'll be there to protect you if Sesshomaru has that class," he said with a note of amusement in his voice.

"Shut up," Inu-yasha said. "I can protect myself."

"Not from your brother. If I remember correctly, it was Sesshomaru who gave you the black eye right before homecoming last year," Miroku snickered.

Inu-yasha reddened at the reminder, but he said defensively, "I got a hit or too in…."

"Yeah, of course I believe that!" Miroku said with a doubtful sideways glance.

Inu-yasha pouted but didn't say anything else. They reached an open door and walked in. A few students sat chatting with each other but other than that, no one else was in the classroom yet. The boys walked to two seats in the back, passing a chubby man with bug-eyed eyes who was behind the teacher's desk. Inu-yasha guessed it was Myoga-sensei.

When they sat down, they casual talked until the bell rang. In that time, several students came up to the two of them and thanked Inu-yasha for stopping the use of uniforms. He gave each of them a smug 'you're welcome.'

After the bell rang the teacher got up from his seat and said cheerfully, "Good morning, class."

A few students murmured a bored 'good morning' in response.

The teacher paused for a second and then said, "Well, don't you guys sound excited." A few students smiled at this. "Okay, this is History class and you may call me Myoga-sensei. Please make sure that you're in the right class."

The students shuffled around and after a while two students got up with embarrassed looks on their faces. Myoga waited patiently as the two practically ran out of the classroom to get away from the snickers coming from the other students.

"Okay," Myoga said while clamping his hands together, "on with the class!"

Inu-yasha groaned. This was going to be some year.

"Okay, let's start with names. Ah, yes, you in the blue jacket," the teacher said while pointing at a little girl in the front row. "Please, give us your name, grade, and an interesting thing about you."

The girl said, "Well, my name is—"

"Please stand up so everyone knows who you are," Myoga cut her off.

With an irritated look on her face she stood and said, "My name is Kami, I'm a sophomore and I know five different languages." She had blood-red hair and narrowed black eyes. Her pale skin was caked in make-up to make it seem like she had light brown skin. Inu-yasha thought her voice was very shrill.

"Oh really," Myoga said with interest. "What five languages?"

Kami sighed impatiently and said, "English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish."

"Wow and how did you learn these?"

"By using that thing called a brain," came the smart-aleck reply.

Myoga gave her a look that said quite plainly 'I just know you'll be such a joy to have in the class.' Out loud he said, "Yes, well thank you Ms. Kami."

Kami instantly sat back down.

Inu-yasha was so bored. He was all the way across the room from where the teacher started so he let his eyes wonder. All the classroom desks were full. The walls were mostly blank except for the couple world maps that were all black and white. There was almost no color at all in the room. If he didn't know any better, Inu-yasha would've guessed that the man was from the early 1900s. He looked at the students and remembered a couple of faces here and there. He smiled to himself when he saw someone he'd pulled a prank on in the previous years. There was one girl who was just doodling on a piece of paper. She wore a hoddy that looked entirely too big for her and blue jeans that hung loosely on her legs. He guessed they were hiding very thin legs. Her hair blocked her face so it was kind of hard for Inu-yasha to get a good look at her. He was trying to get a better look at her doodle and face when Miroku broke him out of his thoughts.

"Hey!" he whispered. "Are you alive?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Just… looking."

"Oh, me too. See that blonde chick over there?" Miroku suddenly got a very perverted look on his face.

"Ugh, would you stop doing that around me! I didn't even mean it that way," Inu-yasha whispered.

"Oh, what's the matter? Does little Inu-washy not like gwirls?" Miroku said in a mocking baby voice.

"Shut up," he snapped.

Miroku laughed and then got serious again. "So, have you found a project yet?"

Miroku was talking about something that Inu-yasha did every year. Basically, Inu-yasha had one big goal for the year. It didn't matter what it was, the only rule was that he had to have it done before the year was over. His ex-girlfriend had gotten him started on it.

Back in 8th grade, Inu-yasha had a girlfriend named Kaori. She had been in the hospital for one and a half years before she'd meet Inu-yasha for some type of cancer that he'd forgotten the name of. When she finally pulled out of her illness, she went back to school. That's when she met Inu-yasha. They were inseparable for months. Inu-yasha thought of her as his first true love. She had the biggest blue eyes he'd ever seen and thick brown hair that was about as long as his. She had a soft smile that went well with her cream colored skin. A few freckles dotted the bridge of her nose. He loved her for her kind heart though, not her looks. She just happened to be a good-looking girl so it was a bonus. Her kind heart sort of balanced out the bad in his.

During their months together, a little boy in the 6th grade had been diagnosed with leukemia and had to stay in the hospital. She'd felt sorry for him and could relate. She decided to get the whole community to make 'get well soon' cards. It took a while and she had everyone keep it a secret from the boy. Right before homecoming dance, she had nearly ten thousand cards, and she stopped by his hospital bed and gave them all to him. She knew how good it felt to receive get well cards from friends. The day before homecoming, they'd found out that the diagnosis was wrong. Everyone at the school believed it was her good deed, not good luck.

Unfortunately, Kaori had to move after that school year.Inu-yasha andsheloved each other very much, but they both decided they'd be better off if they stopped seeing each other. Neither of them believed in long-distance relationships and they figured they were still very young and should see other people.

Although the break-up was tough, Inu-yasha did get over it and her, but in memory of her, he'd started to make one huge goal a year. He called it his 'project.' Since he was such a prankster, he decided it didn't necessarly have to be a nice deed. There was no way in hell that was going to happen.Kaori didn't do it to become something annual, she just wanted to show the little boy that he mattered in the world. But Inu-yasha felt it was his obligation to do it.

"Well?" Miroku whispered slightly impatiently, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Huh? Oh, no not yet. Jeez, it's only the first day of school. I still have a whole year."

Miroku was just about to say something back but Myoga-sensei cut him off. "So, you feel like you don't have to pay attention?" he said loudly.

Inu-yasha looked up and soon discovered that the teacher wasn't speaking loudly, he was just standing right next to him. He nearly jumped out of his skin.

"Woah old man, don't scare me like that!" he said.

"Ah, I see we have a class clown in here," Myoga said crossly.

"Yup, that's me!" Inu-yasha said smugly. He stood up and bowed to the teacher. "Inu-yasha Taisho, at your service!"

"Yes, well," Myoga-sensei said a little uncomfortable by the gesture since the whole class was snickering. "Since you're up, why don't you tell us your grade and an interesting fact about yourself?"

"Wouldn't mind if I do Myoga-sensei," he said in a TV talk show voice. "As I said before, my name is Inu-yasha Taisho, I'm a junior and I'm the son of the owner of Taisho Cybernetics," he said, unable to keep the note of pride out of his voice.

Before Myoga-sensei could respond, a girl from the classroom shouted, "Taisho Cybernetics? The Taisho Cybernetics?" Several other students murmured excitedly.

"Yes, the one and only," he replied.

Many students murmured 'wow's and 'I can't believe he's in my class' and several other comments regarding his looks (of course he smiled smugly at those).

"So, that means you have, like, a lot of money?" Kami spoke up in her annoying voice.

"Yes my dear gold digger..." he said. He shook his head suddenly and then said, "I mean money grubber! No, I mean ugly whore! I mean… I'm so sorry!" Several students were laughing now, which was what Inu-yasha wanted. Kami looked red from embarrassment and anger. "Aww, is little Kami embarrassed because I told the truth?" The class exploded in laughter. Kami looked like she was about to throw a chair at him. Inu-yasha noticed the girl who was doodling earlier laughing softly. He suddenly wanted to know what her laugh sounded like… Her raven hair blocked most of her face but he could see her eyes which were full amusement.

"Alright kids! That's enough!" Myoga finally spoke up. He walked to the front of the room, his back to most of the kids, but Inu-yasha caught the grin on his face. He smiled smugly, all thoughts about the girl temporarily forgotten.

They finished the introductions without anymore interruption. Inu-yasha listened closely to see if he could catch the name of the raven-haired girl but she never spoke. He guessed that she introduced herself when Miroku and he were talking.

"Okay, where you're sitting now is your assigned seat for the next couple of weeks or so," Myoga-sensei said. He went behind his desk and then said, "When I call your name please come up to get your book."

For some reason, Inu-yasha's heart skipped a beat when he realized that that meant he could still find out the girl's name. He baffled himself for wanting to know her name so bad. He decided to ignore it.

He waited impatiently as the teacher called student after student. "Kami… Johanna…. Hojo… Kouga… Tyme…" It seemed the list would go on forever. Finally he said, "Kagome…" The girl stood up and he was so caught up in watching her go to the front of the classroom that he almost didn't hear Myoga-sensei call his name. He hurried to the front, trying to catch her eye as she went back to her seat. She looked straight ahead but Inu-yasha smiled at her anyway.

Kagome… he wondered what her last name was… No, he told himself. Quit getting so caught up in some girl you know nothing about. After he sat back down, however, he still looked her direction through the rest of the teacher's yammering.

When the bell rang, he was snapped out of his daze. He watched her get up and go out the door. Suddenly, he made up his mind. He was going to follow her.

"Hey," Miroku said. He paused and gave him a weird look. "You alright, man?"

"Oh, yeah, sure," he said distractingly without looking at his friend.

Miroku followed his friends gaze and saw Kagome just before she went out the door. "Oh, I get it now," he said with understanding. "Go and do what you must."

"I'm not like you Miroku," Inu-yasha said. "I'm not going to her to grope her… I just wanna… talk…"

Miroku blinked. "W—" he paused, "What?"

"Sorry buddy, gots to go," Inu-yasha said with a determined glint in his eye. Miroku just looked after his friend in confusion. Whatever, his lose, he thought with a shrug and hurriedly caught up with the blond from earlier.

Inu-yasha looked both ways when he got out the door. He looked desperately for her in the sea of students. He finally spotted her and went after her, bumping into people along the way. He didn't notice at all. His eyes trained on her form, he made his way down the hallway. In the back of his mind he realized he was going the way to his next class. She turned down a nearly deserted hallway and he saw it as his chance to catch up to her. Readjusting his grip on his books, he quickened his pace. Just as he was rounding the corner, he bumped into a small body and both of their books went flying. The body he bumped into practically flew backwards onto the floor and their butt. He moved but not enough to fall.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Inu-yasha exclaimed. "I was… kinda in a hurry and didn't…" Then he saw who he'd bumped into. It was her, Kagome! She was rubbing her butt with her hands and wincing when he looked at her. "Um… please, let me help you up," Inu-yasha said after he wiped the goofy look on his face. He held out his hand for her. She looked at it uncertainly. "Oh, I don't bite, promise," he said kindly, "well, not beautiful young girls anyway." He winked.

She smiled shyly and took his hand. When he pulled up, he overestimated her weight and pulled too hard. She came crashing down on him, putting them in an... interesting position.

"Woah, you're a fast one," he laughed. She blushed and hurriedly got off of him, much to his relief. He didn't let it show on his face but if she'd stayed on top of him any longer, well, let's just say she would've met his "friend" a little earlier than he would have liked.

She started to pick up her stuff before he even got up. "Woah, are you in a hurry?" Just then the late bell rang.

She sighed and said, "Not anymore."

Inu-yasha laughed nervously and said, "Sorry." All she said was two words but he already loved her voice.

"That's okay. It was my fault. I had forgotten something in my last class and was in a hurry to get it back. I wasn't looking where I was going."

"Oh, no, I wasn't looking where I was going either. I was…" he stopped because he realized that he couldn't just say 'I was following you, trying to get your number.' "…Um…" Then he grinned casually. Who said he couldn't say that? "I was following you."

Her eyes widened in surprise. He almost forgot their whole conversation when he looked into her chocolate brown eyes. They were so big, especially when they were widened in surprise… Surprise? Why was she surprised again? he thought.

"You were following me?" she asked, snapping him out of his quick daze.

"Uh, yeah." He sounded so stupid!

"Why?"

He paused for a moment and regained his composure. "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to, you know, go to the movies with me sometime."

She looked at him and he almost got lost in her eyes again. "I'm sorry. I'm sure you're a nice guy, but I'm not interested."

Well, that was definitely not what Inu-yasha had expected. He wasn't one to brag but he knew that he had the looks and the money to get virtually any girl he wanted… So what was with this girl?

As she walked away in the direction shecame from,she used one slim gentle finger to lift his jaw back into place.

Oh, she did not just do that, he thought. "Hey!" he said when he found his voice again.

She turned around gracefully. "What do you want?" she said it with impatience, yet it wasn't a completely mean tone.

He was slightly confused by her tone and how she made it sound like that but he regained his previous train of thought and said, "But you didn't even give me a chance!"

"Like I said," she said in a kind voice, "I'm sure you're a sweet guy, but I'm not interested." She said the last two words very slowly.

"Then will you let me make you interested?" he said with a sly grin.

She looked at him in thought. For a second he thought she was going to say yes. "No," she said flatly. Then she turned on her heel and left.

His jaw fell open again. He just stared at her as she rounded the corner. Suddenly, he smiled mischievously.

I believe, he thought, I just found my project.

Yay! And it's the end of chapter two. In this chapter, there were more funny words than actions, but it works. I hope it wasn't too confusing, with Kaori and all.Yes, she was someone I made up. I need the other characters for something else... dun dun duuuuun! By the way, since I'm kinda new, I'm not sure if my chapters are too long or too short or what, so I hope it's okay the way it is. Anyway, I hope you liked it and please review! Oh, and thank you to those who have already reviewed. It really keeps me going! Thanx!

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