A/N: Hey… uhh, sorry for taking longer… I know I said it would (hopefully) be up by Saturday, buuuut… well real life got in the way. Besides, each chapter gets harder and harder to write! . it took me two week to finally finish this one!

So, really really really sorry T.T

Don't own anything!

Sengoku Gakuen

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"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you

should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you

will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

- Fanny Brice

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Chapter V- Maybe fitting in is not an option.

Emitting a sound between a gasp and a strangled cry, Kagome woke up in the middle of the night. Again. She shakily brought her right hand to her face, taking deep breaths to calm her rapidly beating heart. She quickly swallowed her fear, shaking her head to get rid of the remaining feelings; absently noticing the raw emotions that felt so vivid in these last few dreams –or, nightmares.

Well, two days in a row… that's nice. Gramps would be so proud of me, freaking over a stupid dream she thought dryly, still breathing deeply.

Yet, this time it had felt so real; his hand gripping her wrist so tightly, it actually hurt. She had felt the desperation, the urgency in his voice. Perhaps it was a good thing she had kept her eyes fixed on the ground, she'd not seen his eyes this time. Kagome sighed, scratching the back of her neck and squeezing her eyes shut for a few seconds, next time I really should pay attention to what he says and not what I feel, maybe then I could- Kagome frowned, staring at her hands helplessly … what exactly could I do?

She took a quick peek at Inuyasha's side of the room, it was the second time this had happened and she really didn't want him to wake up because of her. From her bed she couldn't actually see his face, but his chest was slowly rising with every breath, so… hopefully he was still asleep. Once she was calm enough she sighed, laying back on the bed and staring intently at the ceiling for a few minutes, letting the silence magnify the sound of her heartbeat in her ears.

Might as well try to go back to sleep again, tomorrow was a school day after all. Kagome closed her eyes, trying to relax her body; imagining she could fly always helped her. What was that other technique? Ah never mind, a nice meditation session would certainly help her.

… Or not.

"What the hell!" Kagome mumbled restlessly, kicking the blue comforter away from her body. It was a little past two in the morning and she was still awake. Somehow every single time she tried to go back to sleep, bits from the dream flashed before her. So yeah, this was getting rather irksome.

Why? She mentally whined, bringing her hands up to her face and ran them down hard. She had been tossing and turning for two hours already. Sighing dejectedly, Kagome made up her mind. Ah, might as well get up, I won't fall asleep any time soon...

She relaxed her body, idly staring out of the balcony

Maybe I should just take a walk, clear my mind… or get something to eat, sleepless night always get me hungry. I know I have some change on my hoodie, thankfully there are lots of vending machines in the school.

She slowly and quietly got off the bed, put on the sweater that was hanging from her desk chair, grabbed her history textbook, and her shoes with the same hand as she skillfully tiptoed her way towards the door, hesitating for a moment as she opened it. Kagome looked back and scoffed soundlessly, staring jealously at her sleeping roommate, Inuyasha was sprawled over the bed breathing deeply. Such guard dog he is.

Kagome held her breath as she quietly closed the door, only releasing it as soon as she had taken a few steps back.

As soon as Inuyasha heard the door close, he opened his amber eyes and stared at the ceiling furrowing his eyebrows. Nightmares two nights in a row, huh? This time he was sure it was not his fault, he had been kind enough today. Well, as kind as he could be; altruism was not his thing. His eyes shifted uncertainly to the door.

Should he follow Kai? Was that common protocol between male roommates? Any type of roommates at all? He'd never cared enough to do something like that before.

No no, what the hell am I thinking? That would seem very stalkerish… plus, it would look like I care –which I don't. He thought adamantly, turning to face the wall, inwardly crossing his arms. Ha, as if his prettiness would aff- pettiness, I meant as if his pettiness would affect me! He would most certainly not leave the room, at all.

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Kagome stood in front of the door as she put on her sneakers. Well, what now? It was the middle of the night and a quick run didn't sound very entertaining, not to mention she had already jogged for an hour after dinner time again today. The library? It was certain to be closed and she still couldn't pinpoint its exact location, much less at night. Cafeteria? Perhaps, but the chairs were kinda uncomfortable.

No no, she needed somewhere se could sit down and relax for a while –maybe all night long, if she didn't get sleepy.

Hmm…Maybe I should check out that recreational room.She thought, turning to making her way to the stairs, slowly descending until she was on the ground floor, and absently wonder if there were any elevators on the school. Well, there was no rush anyway; she probably had all night long. She took a left turn and found herself facing an oak door to her right, and the corridor that led to the cafeteria to her left. So she turned left, for the first time entering the room when none of the guys were pigging out or joking around.

The only light that came was from the crescent moon through the large windows, creating long shadows. It wasn't like she was afraid of the dark, but one could never be cautious enough these days. Especially when you're guarding something this important she thought, gripping the Shikon no tama through her shirt. As she did, she could feel her heart beating in trepidation.

She grimaced as she felt a chill ran down her spine, talk about bad feelings. Glancing around, she felt as her breathing hollowed, making it easier to listen to any suspicious sound; she was met with an eerie silence. Kagome had only felt like this once before –last week to be precise-, the feeling of being in the middle of something very, very wrong. She felt eyes on her back and decided it was time to leave the cafeteria. Vaguely, out of the corner of her eye, she saw something move on the other side of the room. Yep, time to get the hell away from here.

Kagome gulped slightly, turning her head toward the doors she'd seen her classmates sporadically disappear, especially after dinner time. That must be it she though, quickly closing the distance, happy that she was leaving behind whatever it was that gave her the chills.

She opened the door cautiously and immediately turned on the lights, better safe than sorry; and her jaw touched the ground. This isn't real! "This isn't real…!" she said, voicing her thoughts and already shoving her apprehension to the very back of her head. She'd deal with that later.

Kagome gaped as soon as she opened the doors, the room itself was very spacious almost as big as the cafeteria itself. She made a 360 degrees turn, surveying the room in amazement and her eyes came across a black Steinway and Sons piano sitting elegantly near the center of the room, making it seem as if the whole room revolved around it.

The heart of it Kagome smile, placing her textbook on the cushioned seat and moving to the left, were three tall bookshelves in the far corner filled to the top with classics, best sellers, encyclopedias, and history books rested. The three bookshelves were positioned in an 'u' shape, leaving space in the middle for two beanies and a coffee table.

There were two poker tables –or at least they looked like poker tables to her- and a pool table. The walls were paint in a dark elegant red, a nice contrast with the black leather couches sitting in front of a home theater system with a giant LCD TV. Along with the TV there were a few game consoles and a couple of dozen video games, and a karaoke system.

I can't believe it! What kind of school is this? Pool… poker tables… at least 30 different video games. These guys are really spoiled…she snorted, still staring disdainfully at all the luxuries around her, wondering for the millionth time what kind of school she was attending. Typical spoiled children that will grow into spoiled men Kagome frowned and looked away from the TV, but did a double take halfway and- Oh, for the love of Buddha… it even has an arcade!

On a far corner were three arcade machines, as Kagome got closer she squinted; not being a fan of arcade games she could scarcely recognized them as a Guitar heroarcade,some zombie-annihilating game, and a fighting game. I wasn't even aware there was a guitar hero arcade game. She thought, still very much amazed by all the stuff confined in that room.

Whoa, I bet these guys must never get bored!

Kagome kept admiring the place, absolutely dumbfounded. It seemed every day she discovered something new about the school. Her eyes shifted quickly between the reading corner, the piano, the pool table, the arcade, the TV and all its gadgets, the absolutely heavenly bending machines neat the door –which she'd just notice-, and she couldn't help but grin gleefully.

… But I guess I could enjoy it as long as I'm here.

Still grinning and letting out a rather unusual squealing sound, she decided to settle in the two seat leather couch in front of the TV, and pressed the ON button on the remote. Might as well try this beauty. She was immediately greeted by a few girls playing beach volleyball, bunch of perverts she thought, rolling her eyes and changing the channel. After going through all the channels at least twice, she settle for one in which she knew run old movies; only to grin as she recognized it as the first of the Indiana Jones movies.

Ever since she was a little girl, she'd loved the archaeology teacher. Maybe it was because of all the adventures she'd secretly recreated with Souta back when they were kids, and it was now it was burned into her memory as one of the happiest moments of her childhood and a break from her spiritual training. Maybe it was because of her dad; they always watched these movies together in between his business trips. Well, either way, Raiders of the Lost Ark was a great movie.

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Inuyasha opened his eyes for the third time that night and straighten up in his bed to look at Kai's side of the room, which was stupid because he would've heard him come in. He had not returned and it was already five am. Inuyasha sighed audibly, clearly his inner turmoil –between looking for Kai, or not looking for Kai- wouldn't let him sleep anymore, so he lazily got to a sitting position and huffed in irritation, staring intently at the door for a few minutes. Well, he didn't need to sleep anyway. Hesitantly, he got to his feet, put on his shoes and move to the bathroom, splashing his face with cold water as he looked as his reflection.

What's getting into me? He stared for a few seconds and then shook his head slowly.

Closing the door to his room, his hand lingered on the doorknob for a few seconds. Why the hell am I doing this? Normally I would just shrug it off, but now I'm worrying over this kid… well maybe it because he's really pathetic, and doesn't stand a chance against any demon.

This is stupid…

"Now, where could he be?" he sniffed the air slightly, finding Kai's scent very faintly leading downstairs. I'll just make sure he's ok and then I'll go back. He told himself sternly.

A couple of minutes later he entered the cafeteria and frowned. Someone had been here, besides Kai. It reeked of demon, and he knew which one might have been. He'd have to warn that stupid kid no to go out at night, as nice as the school might seem, it still had demons –some of them exceedingly hostile. Inuyasha rolled his eyes, that guy could be really reckless, going out in the middle of the night in a school full of demons, where was his sense of self-preservation? He turned his head to the big oak doors leading to the recreational room, and saw light from underneath the doors. Ah, so that's where he went.

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An hour after the movie ended, Kagome was sitting comfortably on one of the two beanies reading her history book. The TV was still on too, if only to drown the silence; early in her childhood she had discover that she could not concentrate when there was absolute silence, so she'd always study with the TV or her iPod on.

Being so concentrated she didn't hear the click of the door closing.

Somewhere in the back of her head she registered another presence in the room and froze, trying to discern any kind of sound; footsteps, breathing, anything would do. But she certainly wasn't expecting a hand on her shoulder. Kagome sent her history textbook flying in panic, and her mouth opened in a silent scream, why had she never been able to scream when she was scared? That was a horrible flaw, what if she needed help? She immediately stood up and turned to face the person, thing, creature that had touched her and furrowed her eyebrows at the person in front of her, giving her an amused smirk.

"What the hell, are you trying to give me a heart attack?" the hanyou merely shrugged as he watched Kai lean down to pick up his fallen book. He looked up and gave him a nasty glare "You did, huh? I would be dead by now if I had a delicate heart." She snapped, slightly pouting as Inuyasha tried not to laugh.

"You do have a delicate heart" he said chuckling "you were scared shitless."

Kagome frowned, ignoring him while she walk to the same couch she had used before, when she was watching TV. That would give her time to think. "Well, not as much as you may think! I've had my share of bad situations, I've seen horrible things too, you know! That automatically revokes the 'delicate heart' theory." She said, still not looking at him.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Why did you almost jump to the roof five minutes ago, then?"

"Because I was slightly freaked out, it's absolutely normal!" She said defensively. "By the way, were you in the cafeteria a few hours ago?"

"No… why would I be?" what was he talking about? Oh- so he did notice. He was not that stupid after all.

"Never mind… I just- I felt something really weird, and for a moment I thought it would hopefully be you messing with my head."

"That would've been a really messed up joke. Don't get me wrong, though, I still don't like you." He said with a serious tone, shaking his head and Kagome had to roll her eyes at his last statement; he had made that very clear by now. "But, I would be more careful if I were you. There are some demons that don't really get along with humans –or other demons." There was a brief paused as he considered the next statement. "Half-demons included."

"Hm" she simply said, noticing the way he had hesitated before referring half-demons. Maybe when he was a little boy demons picked on him. It was a possibility, seeing as he wasn't exactly a full demon nor a human. Not many people could understand how wonderful that could be, being a child of two worlds… Not like she would tell him that anyway.

"What are you doing here anyways?" he said, changing the topic.

"Anyway." She corrected absently from her spot on the couch before shrugging "I couldn't sleep, you?"

"Same…" he said, hands in his pockets and slowly walking to the couch, plopping next to the small boy.

They sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes before Kagome decided to be the one to break the ice. "Hey, now that you're here… wanna play?" she asked hopefully, nodding toward the arcade zone. "I really want to try those games now."

"Whatever." He grunted, yet got to his feet and move to the arcades with her.

"Great!" Kagome grinned. "I'm gonna totally kick your ass." She said, punching him on the shoulder. "What do you want to play? You don't care? Oh, so guitar hero it is!" she said taking a guitar and setting the game on medium. They would start easy.

Fifty minutes later they both plopped back into the couch, Inuyasha scowling all the while. How could he lose 6 out of 9 of the songs? Meanwhile, Kai was greening gleefully "See? Told you so!"

"Shut up, my claws got in the way." Inuyasha said, sulking.

Kagome scoffed, still grinning "Yeah right, keep telling that to yourself." She felt really tired now. Trying to keep her eyes open, she bumped Inuyasha's shoulder with her own. "So, are we friends now?"

Inuyasha hesitated for a minute, contemplating his answer. "Think of it as a truce."

"I see…" he heard the small boy reply quietly.

Inuyasha felt a bit guilty, but then frowned when he remembered how close Miroku and Kai seem to be getting, in just two days. "Isn't being friends with Miroku enough?" he asked roughly.

It took a while for Kai to answer, and when he spoke, his voice was slow and quiet. "Oh… well, the friendship with him was brought by unfortunate circumstances –and Shippo's to an extent too. It's really hard to explain, but…" Inuyasha kept his eyes on the screen as he waited for the boy to continue, and he waited… and he waited.

How polite… didn't his parents ever taught him to finish his sentences coherently? He thought dryly, now focusing his attention on the morning news. He saw the time at the corner of the screen and realized it was close to six in the morning now.

He felt a sudden weight on his shoulder and jump slightly, his eyes diverting from the screen to the mass of unruly hair resting against his left side. "Hey, Higurashi" he whispered, a little flustered and shaking him slightly, but he got no reply "A-are you really asleep? Hey, wake up!" he hissed trying to wake up the boy sleeping against his shoulder. Oh, if anyone walked into them right now it would be really hard to explain this. He'd have to get him out of here, right now.

Oh greathe thought dryly, now I have to carry him back to bed. Thank god it's still early.

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Kagome entered the cafeteria with a big smile plastered on her face; she quickly spotted Miroku and Shippo sitting in the same table as last time and grinned. As she got closer the two of them they just kept staring, their heads slightly cocked to the side. "And why are you so happy all of the sudden?" Shippo was the one to break the silence while Miroku went back to his unfinished homework.

"Isn't life just wonderful?" she said patting Shippo's head and sitting onto the empty chair next to him "Do you smell that?" she asked inhaling deeply.

"Breakfast?" Shippo answered dubiously as he played with his bowl of colorful cereal, swimming in rainbow-colored milk. Nothing like a nice dose of sugar to start the day with the right foot.

"No Shippo, is something so much better than breakfast, it's the smell of victory –success!" she exclaimed as she brought to her mouth a piece of maple syrup covered waffle.

"Uh, Kai… ar –are you ok?" Shippo asked tentatively, still afraid of his odd behavior.

"I've never been better!" she said in between mouthfuls of waffles.

"Kai," Miroku started not looking up from his notebook "how many cups of coffee have you had?"

"This is my third one, and then I found this colorful can of concentrated energy!" she exclaimed pointing to an empty can "I couldn't sleep yesterday so I need something that'll keep me awake through the whole day. We have to make a plan, remember?"

"Oh yeah… I was thinking that maybe we could start by playing secret admirer."

Kagome groaned, bringing a hand to her forehead "Oh… please don't tell me we're going to really stick with the secret admirer crap!"

"It's more romantic!" Miroku exclaimed, wildly gesturing with his hands. What was so wrong with that?

Kagome rolled her eyes "Which part, being constantly stalked by a random guy or the gifts with surreptitious questionable motives? Mhmm, I can see the romance in that." She added sarcastically, while Miroku glared back at her, tickled by her lack of seriousness. After a minute of silence, Kagome rolled her eyes, giving into his pouty glare. "So… where exactly do I stand, then?"

Miroku straighten in his seat and gave her a charming smile. "You'll be the delivery boy! … Because, well… leaving an anonymous package is creepy these days." He said, poking her in the forehead with the pencil.

Kagome frowned, slapping his hand away. "I have a feeling your plan will backfire. Besides, the easiest thing we should do is just verbally express your int-…" Her attention drifted to one of the doors, at the sight of a pair of dog ears she waved eagerly, earning a few odd looks and an embarrassed flush from her roommate and Shippo; Miroku, seeing as their conversation was over reluctantly turned to his homework again, muttering about her short attention spam. "Hey, perpetual frowner! Over here!"

I should've just skipped breakfast. Inuyasha tried to ignore him for a few minutes while he got a nice serving of pork ramen, all the while feeling eyes boring into his back. Usually meals were the only time Inuyasha would share with Miroku and/or Shippo, so he was pretty used to them being around him whenever he ate at the school's cafeteria, but Kai… brought a new level of attention to their table, at least today. Their table had always raised controversy, really, why would outgoing and cheerful Miroku hang out with a nerd and a hanyou with a foul attitude? And now add this socially inept boy; yeah, a nice little disfuctional group they were.

Not being able to prolong the food serving process any longer, he turned and slowly began heading to their table. "What's up with him?" Shippo asked him as Inuyasha got closer.

And he's supposedly one of the smartest guys on the school… "Caffeine overdose, can't you tell?" he said gruffly, taking a seat in front of the three, immediately focusing on his ramen. Ah, that blissful noodle dish always got him al warm and fuzzy inside. There was nothing in the world like ramen.

"That's your breakfast?" Kagome asked disbelievingly as she leaned over the table to sniff it. "Pork ramen?"

The chop sticks stopped millimeters from his face, the comment strong enough to make him divert his eyes from his food and to the boy's blue eyes. He lowered his eating utensils and Inuyasha crossed his arms defensively, narrowing his eyes into slits "What's wrong with it? I happen to like it."

Kagome shrugged, slightly caught off guard by his over protectiveness. It was just ramen for god's sake. "I'm just saying that's not breakfast, at all." She said, still regarding him skeptically.

"Ha! Breakfast, mid-morning break, brunch, lunch, teatime, dinner, supper, midnight snack… That's all I've seen him eat since I came here." Shippo muttered to her quietly. She scoffed, trying to suppress her laughter. "No wonder he's so fat." Kagome whispered back, knowing full well that the hanyou could easily hear them. She smirked when he made a face.

He was not fat! It was all muscle; he even worked out three times a week, besides P.E. "You two, shut up already." He grunted halfheartedly, pointedly going back to his ramen and determinedly ignoring the two boys snickering childishly. He would leave this place with his stomach full and getting all aggravated would really be a waste of time.

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The morning classed had come and gone by fairly quickly and all that caffeine rush had dissipated by the time her history class had begun, and now she was left with nothing to do but absentmindedly staring out of the window. It sure was a nice day, Kagome cracked a tiny smile, perhaps she'd get some sleep tonight. Yeah, that was possibly wishful thinking, but she just didn't seem to care at that moment, bed time was over eight hours away.

Ah, maybe things will get better… I don't have any homework left for tomorrow, most of the guy have been less hostile to me, and Inuyasha seems to be getting a little bit friendlier… ok, maybe that was an overstatement, no point in lying to myself.

She was interrupted from her musing by someone loudly clearing his throat "Any comments about last night's assignment?" Myoga-sensei asked hopefully, it had been a while since anyone had –willingly- participated. He was met with silence. Again. "Uh, how about you, Hojo-kun?" said student gingerly stood up and regarded him apologetically.

"I'm sorry Myoga-sensei but I had a student council meeting yesterday and it took longer than we expected, so I didn't have enough time to finish the reading." he said bowing his head slightly. Myoga-sensei looked a little crestfallen, but smiled nonetheless; Hojo was one of his best students.

"Don't worry Hojo-kun, I know your activities as class representative are vital. Anyone else?" He surveyed the classroom, finding most of the boys sinking in their seats or hiding their faces –as if the mere action would make them invisible-. Everyone seemed to be avoiding his gaze except Kai Higurashi, who was playing idly with his pen. Well, maybe the new student would prove to be responsible. It was his last shot. "Higurashi-kun?"

The pen fell from her hand as her concentration broke. Suddenly realizing where she was, Kagome looked up "Hm? Oh, yes." She said as she stood, imitating Hojo's actions. "Well, I must say I found it highly entertaining." Inuyasha snorted from beside her, feeling the collective eye roll that crossed the entire class.

"I mean, regarding the actions of Amaterasu, Susano-o, and all the other Gods and Earth-borns during that creation perion, and what came afterwards; there was an avoidance of moral judgment as to good and evil, and Susano-o did some pretty cruel things." Kagome paused and Myoga-sensei nodded eagerly, encouraging her to continue. "I believe that their actions were only judge as disruptive instead of evil, and I must say that some of those gods did things that were extremely nasty. I found that really distinctive in our mythology, because from what I understood, behavior here is accepted or rejected depending on the situation, not according to any obvious set of universal principles, as it is in other countries, or cultures." She closed her mouth, somehow feeling she had said too much, and from the look on Inuyasha's face… she had.

"My cutie turned out to be a geek." Jakotsu muttered to himself, shaking his head sadly.

There was an awkward silence. Halfway through her speech everyone had gone back to doodling, snoozing, inconspicuously listening to music or updating their status on social networks and texting, but Myoga-sensei paid no heed to those, he was absolutely beaming, he couldn't remember when was the last time someone cared to give such a complete answer. "Well done Higurashi-kun, they rest of you" he said, glaring at the distracted students "could learn a thing or two from him." At that, most of the class turned to glare at her.

Kagome cringed, sitting down awkwardly Damn! Maybe I should've just said it was interesting and STOPPED there… those looks are killing me.

"Now, finish that chapter and if you have time, get to work on your projects." Kagome raised her hand, not knowing what project he was talking about. "You're with Taisho-kun, Higurashi-kun" Myoga-sensei said grinning slightly. She nodded, lowering her hand. She saw most of the guy reluctantly opening their books and Kagome sighed. She had read that last night. Well… might as well use this time to catch up.

And so, the rest of the lesson was spend in relative silence, Kagome reading previous lessons, most of the guys pretending to be reading, Inuyasha no even bothering, Koga sleeping with his eyes open, Bankotsu actually snoozing in the back of the room. The usual, it seemed. She even tried encouraging her 'roomie'.

"Don't you ever read?" she leaned over to ask, blinking.

Inuyasha just waved his had dismissively, not even turning to face him "Course I do."

"Then why aren't you now?" she asked tilting her head slightly.

"Not interested." He replied curtly, focusing on the drawing he was making about him beating the sh-… living daylight out of Koga in all the activities in the cultural festival.

"But this is going to be on next week's test." Kagome insisted, but Inuyasha didn't seem to care.

Inuyasha sighed, gripping his pen tightly. "I know." Wow, he was being very patient.

Kagome inwardly grin, he would soon cave in. "Then?"

"Then, what?" he asked through gritted teeth. The things he had to do just to keep the fact that he had read half of the lesson already, he had an image to keep, and that didn't include doing school work.

"Shouldn't you be reading…?"

"Look, I'll read when I feel like it." He said, pinching the bridge of his nose slightly with his index finger and thumb.

"But-" Inuyasha felt irritation bubbling in the pit of his stomach. Enough. Cute or not he was getting tired of this.

"Look, I got tired of this game. I'll solve my own problems, thanks. So, please shut the fuck up already." Inuyasha snapped, finally turning to face Kai.

There was a long pause.

"…Fine." Kagome said pouting. Wasn't he just a basket of sunshine, rainbows and unicorns?

Needless to say, it didn't end very well. After that it wasn't long before the bell rang and everyone got up from their seats.

"Hey, move it nerd!" the wolf demon snapped as he pushed his way out of the class, Kagome sulked –rubbing her shoulder gently- knowing Koga was referring to him… her! Damn, she thought she had gotten over that already…! Well, she would have known either way, had he not pushed her out of the way to make a point.

It wasn't her fault that she knew all the answers, she even limited to answer ONLY when she was asked, especially in physics and history, which were her favorite subjects.

So, in the lapse of three days she had gone from 'new guy' to 'nerd', 'dork' or 'geek' depending on who was talking to her.

Turning her head, Kagome saw Inuyasha trailing lazily behind her. Perhaps she should ask about that project. She slowed down a little bit to walk side by side, "So…what legend do we have?" she asked Inuyasha while they made their way downstairs and out of the school building.

He hesitated for a bit, still a little irked with him, but he pushed it aside in order to brag about their project."The Shikon no tama" he said, looking at her sideways, but something in his eyes told her that he was actually exited with the whole project.

"Oh… great" she said weakly, trying to muster a smile. "Did Myoga-sensei pick the topic?" Figures, nothing like a nice small reminder in the shape of a history report to cheer her up. Sure fate had a dry sense of humor.

Inuyasha shook his head "Nah, this time we got to choose."

"Ah, I see. So… of all the amazing myths out there, why do you want to write a ten pages long essay on the Shikon no tama. Surely there are happier, light-hearted legends that would be, uh… easier to investigate, eh?" she said forcing a grin.

Inuyasha got closer to her, invading her personal bubble –making her feel slightly wary and flustered, she'd always felt uncomfortable when people were too close- as he lean to whisper quietly "Because the Shikon no tama is not just a legend, as you may think." Wouldn't I know it, I'm its keeper… Kagome mentally rolled her eyes. "I've been reading about it, fantasizing since I was a kid. I know this is real, and I'm going to find it." She turned to him and noticed that for the first time his eyes were shining with something akin to determination. This was something important for him and somehow he was sharing this with her, but instead of feeling camaraderie or at least honored that he had told her something about him, she couldn't help but feel her stomach turning violently. Funny how fate has a way of putting right in front of us that which we most try to avoid, huh? Her dad was right when he told her many people –especially demons- were after that pink jewel. Now this puts me in a very uncomfortable situation, somehow is like sleeping with the enemy…

Kai just stared at him with an unreadable expression, his face a little pale. "Why in the world would you want it? As far as I know, it only brings pain and suffering to the ones who bear it." For a fleeting moment his cobalt eyes darkened and he could almost swear he saw a flash of pain, but he decided to ignore it for the time being; it was probably his colorful imagination, anyway.

He couldn't trust his head these days… So, composing himself, Inuyasha regarded him with a scowl and quickened his pace, already feeling the irritation building up again. He shouldn't have bothered telling him this; Kai was human, he wouldn't get it. "You don't understand it, do you?"

How would I NOT understand it?

"Hm?" Kagome sighed, bringing a hand to her forehead. Great. "No, I-… I understand, I just- never mind." She said shaking her head, and trailing slowly behind him. Kagome pursed her lips, staring at the back of his head dejectedly.

Just what I needed, another poor, blinded soul after the stupid marble.

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thanks for taking the time to review!

PriestessTeeTee

Lol, I'm really glad you like it :D thanks for the review!

inu-baby123

Thanks! Here's you update –sorry for the wait- XD

CaseClosed621

Lol, I love messing with his head too, it's pretty funny XD! Thanks for the review!

Sonyadore

First of all, sorry for the long wait! I just can't seem to get the hang of this.

Haha, yeah, that's the best way I could think of explaining that awkward bit of information XD. Not gonna reply to that 'mystery pianist' comment yet. Lol I loved writing that scene, it's really funny messing with Inuyasha's head.

Thank god! I really thought I was making no sense there! I swear I made a fool out of myself with that reply D:

I think it's great that you created that account (I was gonna suggest that last time ^^) I always enjoy reading your reviews!

angel

Haha, yeah it was fun writing it XD

thanks for your review as always! =)

so, this chapter was a real pain. I only checked it twice so if you find any mistakes don't be afraid of letting me know please! It'll certainly improve my English XD

Until next time (this time I'm really not sure when I'll be able to update…)!