Prologue: Miss Higurashi (Kagome) begins the lesson with a nice, pleasant air about her like usual, and starts with some simple arithmetic questions, let us find out what area(s) of math it will be…..
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A/n: Sesshomaru has both of his arms in this story.
"Okay class, we have been studying on math that is used in 'modern' times and I have been bringing up, from time to time that are test would be in the second semester of classes, so I am going to ask everyone to stand up, because instead of a written test I thought it over, and I think it will stick in your head easier and would be more fun, to make up a game with math equations, but the game will be counted as a test grade, depending on your participation and cooperation." Kagome then pulled out the first drawer on the left side of her desk, and took out a thick booklet that seemed to consist of about maybe 40 pages and it was titled, "Modern Math," she placed it on top of her desk and was pleased to see everyone standing up beside their desks, all, but Sesshomaru, Kagome felt a wave of irritation circle around her, but tried hard to ignore it, she then asked looking at Sesshomaru with a forced smile, well aware that everyone was staring at him, apart form Inuyasha who had his arms crossed, and looked utterly bored with his beautiful eyes looking up at the ceiling. "Um….Sesshomaru, I asked everyone to stand up, did you not hear me?" Sesshomaru gave Kagome a cold stare that was so cold that she thought she was going to get burned to a crisp, before anything else Kagura spoke up irritated to the max, even though everyone in the classroom knew she had a crush on Sesshomaru apart from Sesshomaru, who seemed to be clueless to that obvious fact. "Sesshomaru, just get up, and stop being such a bother, I have things to do, places to go, and I don't want to spend another second in this stupid class." Sesshomaru didn't even flinch at what Kagura said; he simply just continued being as stubborn as ever and stared at his desk with an unreadable expression across his face, Kagome sighed and Kagura seemed to look hurt that Sesshomaru, once again ignored her, considering all the billion times she had tried to make a move on him, but always ended up suffering extreme humiliation; out of nowhere at that moment, Inuyasha said, with his arms still crossed across his chest, but now he was looking at the back of Sesshomaru's head with a sulky expression on his face, "Listen, brother, if you don't stop being an ass, and get up, I am going to tell the whole class what happened to you two nights ago and I know you won't like that, not that I care if you like it or not." Sesshomaru blinked twice, which kind of gave away that he knew what his little brother was talking about, but as if he was testing Inuyasha, he continued sitting and staring at his desk, with no sign that he was going to get up, Inuyasha then continued, "Okay, well two nights ago, on Monday night, we were both at home and our father had just shut the front door behind him and was off to run a quick errand, I went off to do my homework and Sesshomaru here was going to attempt to make dinner, so--- Inuyasha stopped when Sesshomaru looked up, turned to look Inuyasha's way, glared, interrupted, and said with a hint of anger in his voice, "Inuyasha, if you say one more word." Inuyasha continued in a provoking voice, "Sesshomaru put up the….." Sesshomaru stood up slowly from his desk hints of irritation written all over his face. Inuyasha smiled nastily and placed his golden eyes on Kagome, "Well I guess you can proceed with the lesson, seeing how everyone is standing up." Inuyasha emphasized on the word, 'everyone,' and Sesshomaru just looked at the wall and got back to pretending he had no idea what was going on, but every single person in that room knew that Sesshomaru and Inuyasha would be having a serious fight and if it was after school, they sure were ready to see it, but until then, finally the lesson, hopefully with no more interruptions was going to start. Kagome felt like kissing Inuyasha, the relief had erased all the waves of irritation that Sesshomaru had made her feel, but instead she smiled, inhaled and exhaled audibly, and began with, "Thank you, Inuyasha." She knew what the impact would most likely be due to saying 'thank you,' to Inuyasha, but half of her wanted to teach Sesshomaru sort of a lesson for causing a disturbance in her classroom, Sesshomaru flinched, his eyes slightly widened and he glared at Kagome with another of his cold stares, but she just ignored his glare and smiled kindly at Inuyasha, who blushed, tinges of pink appearing on both cheeks and who looked out the window with the usual sulk glued onto his face. Kagome continued, "Okay, well class, we will first start off with some basic arithmetic equations, I will pick on every student and at the end of this 'test' you all will have hopefully answered all of the ten questions I will ask you correctly, and if you answer 4 questions wrong, you will sit down, so I will get a type of estimate on who still needs some extra help." With that said, Kagome picked up the math booklet from her desk, held the base of the book with her left hand, and with her right hand she licked her index finger, and began leafing through the book's pages, when she got to page 10, which was chapter 4 she stopped flipping pages and walked over to her light brown wooden podium at the left side of the room, placed the book on top of it, and the questions began, "Okay Inuyasha." Inuyasha blinked and looked at her with irritation, Kagome continued, "What are all the multiples of the number 8 all the way up to 12?" Inuyasha thought for a moment, than said with no hesitation, "8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, and 96." Kagome smiled and said, "Excellent." Inuyasha looked back out the window, but Kagome could have sworn she saw a smile rest on his face for a split second. She continued after glancing at the book, "Rin what is negative 8 plus positive 12?" Rin was quiet for a rather long time, with her face screwed up contemplating like mad about the answer, Kagome had known that when it came to integers, Rin had difficulty, so she smiled and just waited, finally Rin announced nervously, "The answer is negative 20, wait, I mean, um… it is..uh…positive 4, wait…negative, no…. it is 4, no it is positive 4, right?" Kagome nodded and said with her kind, loving voice, "Yes Rin it is positive 4, can you explain why?" Rin looked like she was going to faint, but being who she was, instead of making an excuse to give up, she went on ahead and answered hesitantly, "When your adding two different numbers that have different signs…uh…..you have to change….um….the sign and the number that comes after it…..and than you subtract the numbers…..and…..and…..and keep the sign of the greater number." Kagome then said to Rin's pleasure taking attention off of her, "Yes Rin, and because 12 is the bigger number you would keep its sign which is a positive, your improving everyday." Kagome then smiled so warmly at Rin that she forgot about being nervous and just smiled back. Kagome then went on, "Miroku what is 13 multiplied by 20?" Miroku was so busy throwing kisses at Sango who was looking down at her shoes and blushing that he did not seem to have heard; so Inuyasha saving Kagome the trouble again, looked at Miroku, arms still crossed, said irritatingly, "Hey, Miroku, what the hell is 13 times 20?" Miroku answered dreamily still gazing at Sango, "Sango is making my body temperature go up to 260 with her dazzling good looks, so give me some more 13 and 20s to multiply because I don't mind catching a fever, due to my girl." Sango's face got even redder with a mixture of embarrassment and anger, she put her head up, looked straight at Miroku, got her left sandal and threw it at him hitting him squarely in the face, and yelled out, "LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE ALREADY, I TOLD YOU: I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT WITH YOU, WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!??" Miroku seemed pleased and said, "Oh I love it when you yell like that." Sango started, 'URRGH, LISTEN I----Kagome suddenly yelled out angrily, "BOTH OF YOU, BE QUIET RIGHT THIS INSANT, MIROKU GIVE SANGO BACK HER SANDAL, SANGO STOP YELLING, AND ANSWER ME PROPERLY, WHAT is 13 TIMES 20, MIROKU?" Everyone looked scared out of their wits, except Sesshomaru who looked just plain bored, Sango ran to get her sandal and then ran back to her desk quickly, and slipped it back on while Miroku wide-eyed looked straight at Kagome, gulped and said a little bit of fear audible in his voice, "13 times 20 is 260, ma'am." Kagome replied sternly and was now officially in a bad mood to everyone's dismay (apart from Sesshomaru of course), "Thank you." "Now Hojo what is 8 to the 2nd power?" Hojo answered with a shaky voice, "uh…. it is 64, Miss Higurashi." "Good. Renkotsu, what sign do you get when you divide two negatives or two positives together?" Renkotsu answered instantly, "The quotient will always be a positive because you are dividing two of the same sign together." Mukotsu, Bankotsu, Suikotsu, Kohaku, and Kanna with her faraway, distant voice, answered all their math questions rather well, apart from some pauses by Bankotsu and Kohaku, overall they all did not answer incorrectly, but then it came down to the last ten students who had not been called on, Kagome's anger had subsided some so she got her smile back and the twinkle in her dark brown eyes, "Okay Kikyo what is……what are you doing?" Kikyo, who sat at the very last desk in the 3rd row, was juggling with three white glowing balls that represented souls and one of her soul skimmers was brushing her hair holding the brush in its mouth. "Huh, oh." Kikyo calmly placed the souls back into her body making it seem like it was completely normal, signaled her soul skimmer to stop brushing, wrapped her hair back in its usual style, and asked as calmly as ever, "Is it my turn to answer a question, ma'am?" Her sleepy-looking black eyes stared at Kagome and she waited for an answer. Kagome realized her mouth was hanging open, so she closed it, cleared her throat, and said, "Um, what is the name of the slope that represents zero on the x and y-axis graph?" Kikyo replied with her deep, sleepy voice and without a flinch, "Horizontal." Kagome said, "Good." "Okay, Jaken, what is a quotient?" Jaken gripped his olive-green fingers tightly around his staff of Two-Heads and a sweat drop trickled down his forehead slowly; he then gulped and replied a little shakily, "The answer to a division problem, the finished product." Kagome nodded and wasn't surprised by Jaken's nervousness; it seemed that whenever Sesshomaru was around, he got all jittery when something was asked of him. After asking Shippo a fraction problem, which he answered quickly and cheerfully, due to him being very smart and intelligent for his age and asking Kirara a subtraction problem, which Sango translated Kirara's, "Meow's," into 18 subtracted by 40 being 22. It was time for Koga, Kagome rubbed her temples, knowing there would be another amount of time wasted on his silly remarks, but without further ado, she cleared her throat and asked, "Koga, what is x plus 2x?" Koga smiled widely and replied just as Kagome had foreshadowed, "If I answer will you make out with me and accept my hand in marriage?" Kagome replied, "No. Now answer the question." "I won't answer it until you say yes." Koga said confidently, Kagome sighed heavily and tried again a little more forcefully, "Koga, please just answer the question." "Listen, I---…." Koga's words were interrupted as he yelped and held his head, where a big pink bubble bruise had started to form, Kagome had seen something red in a blink of an eye get behind Koga, it was Inuyasha, he had quickly in one hop had landed behind him and whacked Koga hard with his fist, everyone looked slightly surprised by the sudden movement, except for Sesshomaru who had just stared at Inuyasha and Koga in boredom; Inuyasha with his hand still in a fist floating on air, spat out irritatingly, "Answer the damn question already, can't you see the teacher ain't ever going to go out with you even if her life depended on it, stop fooling yourself." After recovery Koga turned and looked straight at Inuyasha and an argument had been awaken from dormancy, he replied in an argumentative, angry voice, "You're just flat out jealous that she never looks your way, so you can just shut the hell up!" Inuyasha yelled back his forehead now touching Koga's, "Your disrupting the damn class, if you really cared about her you would let her teach, you mangy wolf!" "Who made you my therapist, no one was even talkin' to you Inuyasha; now fuck off before I really get angry!" "Oh, I am so scared, what you gonna do if I don't, huh!?" With that Koga pulled his fist back and was about to punch Inuyasha in the face, but Inuyasha was too fast, with one swift movement, he ducked, brought his right hand up, flexed his fingers and scratched Koga against his right cheek, Koga stumbled backward, holding his now bleeding cheek, the fight was about to continue with Koga charging at Inuyasha, when Kagome surprisingly said calmly, but a little sternly, "Please stop this fighting, if you two don't get back to your seats, I will call your parents, and this time no second chances, and I know what your parents would do if they found out about this." She glared at both of them, Koga was holding Inuyasha by the scruff of his shirt blinking at Kagome with blood dripping from his cheek and Inuyasha was doing the same, but with no bruises this time, which was usually the case when fights would begin between Koga and Inuyasha in the past. Koga angrily let go of Inuyasha's shirt with such a force that Inuyasha had to regain his balance by holding the edge of Sesshomaru's desk; Sesshomaru looked down at the hand with no emotion and then stared at Kagome like everyone else in the class was doing, secretly amused at what had happened and what was going to happen, Inuyasha flicked the finger at Koga, not really giving a damn that Kagome was watching, he then walked back to his desk, crossed his arms and with anger written all over his face looked out the window; Kagome then gave Koga a pass to the nurse for his cheek, the classroom door closed behind him. Kagome sighed yet again and then her eyes placed themselves on Inuyasha and she said sternly, "Inuyasha, you really have to stop this violence of yours, there is no excuse for it at all; I did not ask you for any assistance whatsoever in this matter." Inuyasha flinched and his ears twitched at that and he replied angrily looking at Kagome with his beautiful eyes, "So you prefer these little remarks of his to proceed?" Kagome did not waver and shot back, "How is that any of your concern?" Inuyasha was just as fast and glared, "All I did was leave him a little scratch, it's not like I was going to kill or butcher him." Something gleamed in his eye which creeped Kagome out, but still she replied still sternly, "Violence is not the answer, end of discussion." She immediately looked down at her book and read the next question and name, giving Inuyasha no chance to utter any comeback, Inuyasha just sniffed, looked back out the window and for the rest of the questions he went quiet, even after Koga had come back from the nurse, he did not show any sign of realization, and stayed almost as still as Sesshomaru; Kagome proceeded, "Jakotsu, what…(sigh)…" "If you don't put that mascara away right this instant, I will confiscate it." Jakotsu was touching up his eyelashes, in such a feminine way that he made all the girls in the classroom, (except for Kirara who was sleeping and Kanna who never showed any sign of even being alive) feel uncomfortable, Kikyo just stared at Jakotsu with her eyebrows slightly raised, Kagura had a 'what the hell' expression plastered on her face, Rin just looked confused, she wasn't at 'that age,' when girls wore makeup and grew other things….., Sango looked dumbstruck and slightly shifted in her chair, Kagome adjusted her glasses, cleared her throat and waited patiently while Jakotsu put away his makeup, she was uncomfortably amused, I guess you can call it, because she never recalled her own self looking that dainty while putting her makeup on in the mirror and at the same time she felt a little bit envious that a guy could look so much more graceful doing so, than a girly girl such as herself.
Author's note: Well I didn't want to go on forever in one chapter, so I figured I would stop here and just create a third chapter, oh and sorry for those of you who wanted me to hurry up and update, I remember that in my last chapter I said I would post my second chapter, A.S.A.P, but alas homework engulfed me, damn highschool, ugh, I had trinomials and polynomials to study for math, a map to do in World Geo., a sonnet to memorize, a eulogy to write on Romeo and Juliet, a solo to practice, a current event to turn in, and blah, blah, blah you probably don't care, but anyway, please review, I don't mind what your comments are, just keep them constructive, if their flames, remember I have feelings and if you flame too much they might get hurt, well peace out until next time, I won't say soon, considering final exams are just around the corner, I have to study, especially for math, God, I hate that subject, oh and also about the interview for each 'student' in my story, scratch that I will just add it as an epilogue in my next chapter, so stay tuned, okay I'll stop typing now, I know I am annoying you, okay, Bye.
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