Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha.

The next day, when I got to school, instead of the usual Sango standing at my locker, it was Inuyasha. He looked like he was bored out of his mind, but also was pulling off the 'cool' look leaning against the lockers. All the girls who went by were fawning over him like usual. Most girls in my school would die even to get to talk to him. That's the one thing I hate about being popular, besides the rules, you always have a 'fan club' where ever you go.

"Hey," he greeted as I approached him. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, I figured since Miroku is out sick today we could work on a plan to get them together. After all, the sooner we finish that mission the less time we have to spend with each other."

"Good point. So, we'll talk at lunch?" I suggested.

"What about Sango?"

The one obstacle that stood in the way. I hadn't even thought that far ahead; I guess he is smarter than I gave him credit for.

"Um, I'll make up some excuse to sit at your table instead of the one I usually sit at."

"Alright, I'll see you at lunch," he said before walking away.

I opened my locker and took out my books for my first couple classes, and then headed towards first period.

"Alright class, for today, tomorrow, and all of next week, you will be assigned a partner to work with for our first project of the year. You will get to pick your partners with the condition that it has to be boy girl and preferably pairs who have opposite strengths to be able to get the most out of this project," Ms. Omoshi, our reading teacher, told us.

Once she stopped speaking, students scrambled about the class finding their partners. Kouga came up to me and asked me if I wanted to be his partner, but I said no due to the fact that he is always trying to get me to go out with him, even though it is A) against the rules and B) totally impossible because he is way to clingy.

Almost everyone in the class had a partner. The only people left were Sango, Kouga, Miroku, who was absent, Inuyasha, and me. Right now I was stuck choosing between my enemy, and the guy I can barely stand. Sango and I exchanged glances and walked towards our new partner. Sango with Kouga, and me with Inuyasha.

It seemed fate keeps going against us, and keeps pushing us together in every possible way. I couldn't help but to keep asking myself if Sango was right, and maybe we were suppose to end up together. I shook those thoughts from my head and sat down next to Mr. Pig Head himself. The worst part was, he looked just as miserable as I did.

Ms. Omoshi explained the project, and while I was taking notes and trying to pay attention, Inuyasha was, once again, staring dead at me. Even when I glanced or glared at him, it seemed almost as if he was in a trance because he wouldn't acknowledge it, he just kept staring.

"So what do you want to do our project on?" I asked, causing him to finally snap out of it.

"Huh?"

"I think we should do Romeo and Juliet, since it has to be one of Shakespeare's plays. We have to give Ms. Omoshi our play we are doing and she picks a scene she thinks most appropriate for us," I stated, knowing he wasn't paying attention when Ms. Omoshi said it only moments before.

"Fine. That is the only play that I have ever read all the way through."

I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing, mostly because we did a whole unit on Shakespeare last year.

I went up and told Ms. Omoshi our play, and she divide the scenes amongst the class so all the main parts are provided with however many people decided to do that play since you could pick any of Shakespeare's plays.

My jaw dropped as she told us what scene Inuyasha and I had to do. Inuyasha gave me a confused look as I went back to my seat.

"What?" he asked when I sat down.

"We have to do the very end," I muttered.

His eyes went wide with disbelief. It's bad enough I have to tutor him, and work with him to get the lovebirds back together, but now this?

"We can't get a different scene?" he asked hopefully.

"I already tried; she said all of it was final."

"Great, just great."

"Now we have to schedule practice time, tutoring time, and planning time. All this when we tried our best to avoid each other."

He nodded in agreement as we began to discuss out time schedule for everything.

You would think since Inuyasha and I are worst enemies we wouldn't have anything in common, but we are more alike than Sango and I, and that is just scary.

We are both interested in most of the same sports, and we both are friends with practically the same people. Being around Inuyasha more, it makes me realize that at one point in time, we were actually best friends.

Inuyasha can make me laugh like he used to, and he is learning the right things and the wrong things to say around me. All of this, it really scares me because it means we are getting closer and I just can't do that.

We have only been really spending time together for 3 days now since today is Friday, but it's like seeing your old friend that you haven't seen in years but you still remember everything about them.

With Inuyasha, it's really hard to remember just the good times we had because all the bad ones come and corrupt it. I can't explain it, but it's like having a gun to your head, and if you move, you'll die.

I have been at Inuyasha's house ever since school let out since it's 'tutoring day'. We moved for subject to subject, but in between, we've been catching up and learning more about each other. I don't know how, but I don't totally think of Inuyasha as my enemy anymore, more of just a really bad friend, but at least it's something.