Lex Luthor read over the copies of official school records for Kagome. "Odd, she appears healthy for someone with these aliments, and what self-respecting school would provide excused absences for inferiority complex and bunions?"

He looked up as the door opened, "Clark, I thought you had to work at the Talon today?"

"Yeah I just got off and decided to see how you were."

Lex stacked the folders he was rifling through and placed them into a drawer, "So what's on your mind, Clark?"

Clark shifted, "What makes you think something's on my mind?"

He stood up chuckling, "Because that's when you usually come and visit and when something's not on your mind, you knock."

Clark nodded, "I'm just worried about my cousin."

"Ah, so your hero complex has kicked in. What are you worried about?"

"She left the farm to stay with that guy, Kouga, and I caught a bite mark on her, it looked like a dog bite or something like that."

Lex tapped his chin, "Well if I remember correctly Mr. Ookami owns several dozen wolves, but he would never let them hurt someone."

Clark nodded and turned towards the window, "I was wondering if you know where he's staying?"

Lex raised an eyebrow, "You aren't thinking of doing something foolish, are you?"

The Kryptonian denied planning anything foolish. Lex looked up the information then asked Clark, "How well do you know your cousin?"

"Well this is her first visit here and her mother kept correspondence with us telling us about her illnesses and explained that Kagome was too weak to write."

The billionaire nodded thoughtfully his gears moving at this new information, "Well, she recovers well. She doesn't look like she's been ill at all."

Clark shifted uncomfortably, "Yes I suppose being away from home has done wonders to her immune system."

The bald man ran a hand along the edge of his desk, "I also heard that she would be attending school with you so at least your complex will be staved for most of the day."

"I don't have a complex; I just want to help people. I guess I'll see her at school."

"Well, could you also ask if she would stop by, I haven't seen her since that time at the Talon."

Clark nodded and thanked Lex for the advice and told him that he would bring her by.

Kagome dressed in a pair of comfortable black slacks and pulled on a green sweater. Turning around she smiled at the Taiyoukai who was standing at the doorway, "If you have preened sufficiently, I shall be taking you to the school."

The miko giggled and looped her arm through his. He caught her sending sidelong glances at his tail, "Miko, if you wish to pet a tail go and bother the ookami."

Kagome blinked, "But, I thought that only family and mates could go and play with the tail."

"Take it as you will; now I wish to instruct you on how to behave."

"I love you too, Sesshomaru."

"There is no need to state the obvious but it will still not get you out of how to behave. First I want you to avoid unnecessary contact with the males of your species; I will not have you cavorting like some geisha. Secondly you are to maintain an appropriate schedule; I will not have you shirking your responsibilities. Also you and the wolf are not to mate until you finish this task as to finding the source of the oddities; this Sesshomaru does not want for you to be with pup while attending to this."

Kagome grinned, "Wow, Sesshomaru anymore talk like that and someone could accuse you of actually caring."

"I do not care; this Sesshomaru merely protects what is his."

She laughed as she entered the car with Sesshomaru sliding into the driver's seat. Turning to look at the retreating house she asked about Kouga. "The wolf merely found a compromise that I would tolerate."

Kagome sighed, "Am I going to like it?"

He merely smirked and Kagome pressed herself against the door, "Scary…"

He slammed the brakes in front of the school and allowed her to exit, "Give the wolf my regards."

"Wha…"

She jumped when she felt a familiar youki behind her. "Miss me, love?"

Kagome twirled around, "Kouga-kun, what brings you here?"

The wolf smirked, "I convinced the school to let me attend."

She smiled weakly, her mind already going over all the possible ways this could go wrong. Her gaze wandered around the school yard, settling on her cousin and his two friends. Turning back to Kouga she gave him a slight pout. He leaned down and gently tugged at her lower lip with his teeth, "I can think of something to do with that lip, Kagome."

She pulled her lip back in, "You're lucky you're so cute."

Kagome then turned towards the group and jogged over; leaving Kouga stunned before a lazy smirk graced his lips. "Ohayo, Clark-kun, Sullivan-san, and Ross-san, it is good to see you again."

Clark looked his cousin up and down making sure she looked healthy his eyes narrowed on her red lower lip. Pete and Chloe greeted her while telling her to just call them by their first names. Chloe then smiled, "I saw that moment between you and that guy over there."

Clark turned to look, relaxing when he recognized Kouga. 'I've tried calling you, Kagome."

Kouga reached Kagome and slung his arm around her shoulders, "Yeah, I broke the cell, so to call her just call my number and Ayame will patch you through to her."

He introduced himself to Chloe and Pete, while pulling Kagome towards him. Kagome shot him a look which he ignored while he and Chloe were conducting a mini-interview. She stiffened when she heard a familiar voice call out, "Keep your dirty mitts offa, Kagome."

She pulled away and froze when she saw InuYasha standing there with an illusion coving up his claws and ears. She quickly recovered and ran into his chest fisting his red t-shirt. "Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying."

"Blubbering, then."

"I'm not blubbering; I thought you were dead…" She pulled away glaring at him with her eyes shining from the repressed tears, "…how could you not tell me anything."

InuYasha flinched, "Sesshomaru had me in London working on some business crap for the past 20 years. The bastard just told me yesterday that you were here in America and not only that that some little fucker's been stalking you. Shit, Kagome, do you just have the knack for attracting trouble, what would you do without us?"

Houjo looked up from the book he was studying when the door opened, "What is the interest in Clark's cousin, Houjo?"

Houjo puts his finger to mark the spot then closes the book, "Don't worry about it Lex-san, I've merely got her best interest at heart besides when I heard from you a month ago I was rather surprised to hear that you wanted information on Higurashi."

Lex sat down in the chair across from Houjo, "Yes, I was surprised to see Tashio so kind to someone and Ookami seemed to know her very well. He doesn't normally allow for people to enter his home, even I haven't been in there and I've worked with him for the past three years."

"Yes, and Higurashi has never mentioned knowing them, she has mentioned an InuYasha, but never a Sesshomaru or a Kouga."

Lex blinked, "You mean she also knows Tashio's half brother, he hasn't left England for awhile now. Who else has she mentioned?"

Houjo shrugged, "She was closer to Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi so if you want any information you should ask Ayumi, she is the most gullible of the three."

Lex nodded and stood, "I hope you aren't doing anything illegal."

Houjo looked up at him smiling, "Don't worry, I'm not."

Lex left allowing Houjo to return to the book, 'So Kagome likes demons, huh. Well with this book I can attach demons to my soul and become strong enough to take her from that demon. Or at least make sure if I can't have her no one can.'

He smiled softly reading the passage on how Naraku was formed and how the Shikon no Tama was formed.

Kagome banged her head against the locker apparently both InuYasha and Kouga both decided to go to school with her and spent the first four periods arguing with one another, when she heard a voice behind her, "I'm not sure how you go about things in Japan, but here in America we open lockers by turning the handle."

She turned around rubbing the lump on her forehead and scowled at Chloe Sullivan, "Yeah, I was hoping if I hit my head long enough this will turn out to be only a vicious dream."

Chloe giggled at the miko, "Come on, let's go and ditch those guys while their stuck in the office getting yelled at."

Kagome gave a slight smile, "That would be nice."

Chloe took her hand and pulled her towards the Torch's office. Kagome took in the sight of the out of breath American who was gaping at the miko who had not even broken sweat at the run across the campus, before her gaze trained towards a wall full of newspaper clippings, "What's this?"

Chloe closed the door and locked it shutting the blinds, "Oh that? That's my 'Wall of Weird' I've put on it all the weird things that have happened in Smallville since the meteor shower 14 years ago."

Kagome nodded then her gaze went to a magazine cover, "Heartbreak in the Heartland. That's Lang-san isn't it?"

Chloe nodded a bit surprised, "How can you tell?"

Kagome sighed, "Simple, those eyes are the same as the one's I saw at the Talon that one time I was there. Her eyes, even when she's happy, still show her hurt."

Chloe nodded, "Wow, I would have never noticed that."

The miko took in all the other articles, "So your theory is that all the phenomena are caused by the meteor rocks."

The journalist nodded, "It sounds strange I know, a rock causing all sorts of supernatural abilities."

Kagome shook her head fingering the Shikon no Tama, "Not so strange, in Japanese lore there is a fabled jewel that could give beings special abilities and it could even grant a wish."

Chloe smiled at Kagome, "You were the first to believe me so quickly, it took Pete and Clark a while to admit it and Principal Kwang still won't believe me."

Kagome dropped to her knees trying to draw in a breath, a powerful and malignant youki had suddenly flared choking her with its oppressive aura. "Kagome? Kagome! Are you alright? What's wrong?"

Kagome began coughing, the ground getting coated with flecks of blood. Her breath suddenly returned as the youki disappeared. Chloe helped her up giving her tissues to wipe up the mess, "Are you okay?"

Kagome nodded, "Don't tell anyone, I don't want them to worry, especially Kouga, InuYasha and my cousins. Clark seems to be a worrier."

Chloe nodded her expression still showing concern for the miko. Kagome walked to the washroom in the back of the office and rinsed out her mouth and she flushed the tissues down the toilet. 'What was that youki, I've never felt anything like it before. It actually affected me physically.'

Kagome thanked the American girl, "I have lunch this period perhaps you have ideas where I can eat."

Chloe linked her arm around hers, "I can do one better; let me take you out."

Kagome smiled and allowed the girl to take her to the familiar yellow beetle.

Kouga grumbled as the Asian finished his lecture and he left with InuYasha, "Inu-Kuro, why the hell did you have to come back. You're fucking things up between me and my woman."

"She isn't your woman, baka ookami."

They paused looking around, "Shitmatta, where's Kagome?!"

InuYasha followed her trail to the Talon office entering his gaze darkened, "She was bleeding."

Kouga growled, "Fuck this is your entire fault, if you hadn't started that fight she wouldn't have been hurt. It was probably that youki we felt while in the office listening to that ningen."

InuYasha snarled, "And leave it to Kagome to go out alone after feeling that, I swear this wench just looks for trouble."

Kouga had left him following Kagome's scent with that journalist to the parking lot where it was drowned out by the smell of exhaust fumes.

Kagome looked around the fast food restaurant, 'McDonalds…where I live we have a WacDonalds."

Chloe laughed, "Well, lets get some burgers and fries."

Kagome nodded and allowed the American to order for the both of them. She handed the blond her money and sat down listening to the journalist describe all the odd occurrences. Kagome ate her fries slowly, wincing when she felt InuYasha's and Kouga's youki flare. Chloe's watch beeped bringing her out of her tale about the woman who was using pheromones to make men do what ever she wanted, actually controlling Jonathan Kent using him to try and kill Lex Luthor. Chloe threw out the trash and then they went back to school.

Kagome sighed as she listened to the two guys yell at her in Japanese. She waved good-bye to Chloe and allowed the two canines to lead her back to class. She sat down at the lab table near the door and introduced herself to the table. A blond man in a football jacket smiled, "So you have taken the last chair at our table, I guess your friends will have to sit in the back. My name's Whitney Fordman, it's nice to finally see the person Lana was talking about."

Kagome smiled and introduced herself, pointedly ignoring the low growling, "Yes, I heard you two were dating."

Whitney nodded, "Yes and here's your new lab group, Pete as you probably know, one of the best defensive backs the Crows have, Clark as you know and thirdly me, the almighty Whitney, star quarterback."

Kagome laughed, "I guess I'll have to take your word for it. So Clark-kun, we've got together to talk."

Clark nodded then turned to Pete, "You mind if Pete comes?"

Kagome shook her head, "No, I don't, perhaps we could go some where after school and talk. Do you mind if I brought Chloe?"

Clark shook his head, he knew that Chloe had learned his secret and had promised to keep it to herself. Kagome then turned her attention to the teacher trying to ignore the bickering between the two canines when her pencil snapped and she raised her hand. "Yes, Kagome?"

"May I be excused?"

The teacher merely waved her away and she left. She closed the door behind her and she could hear Kouga and InuYasha try to leave. She hid a small smile when she heard the teacher snap, "No, you may not leave, you two have been disrupting the class and I don't blame that girl for wanting a break from listening to you two go at it from what I understand all day."

Oh and Yes I have brought Whitney from the dead, I panicked and didn't feeling like making up a character. Gwah, I can't stand my family, the only reason I tolerated it so well is because of my dad and now he's dead…yeah, I'm not going to spend much time at home, my 'almighty perfect know-it-all' sister, I can't stand her and my other sister is annoying with her MTV obsession and my brother has no patience while my mom can't let any argument go. And to the one person who said 'update' umm…sorry I haven't but, my dad was KILLED in Iraq this past Wednesday so sorry if I'm not that much in the mood to update…

Dedicated to my dad, my biggest fan and the only fan and ally in the house, te quiro y te amo mucho

EDIT: Reposting this on the 4 year anniversary of his death. Papi, Love you lots and hope my writing can still make you smile. ^^