Chapter 2: He could have killed me!
Kagome's grandfather, whom also lived on that shrine, use to tell her odd stories about powerful demons that took human form. The less fortunate demons that did not possess this power blended into normal society by acting like wildlife. Those demons were closely monitored due to their interactions with the human world.
'Figures, only demons can be that beautiful,' thought Kagome.
Unbeknownst to Kagome, the beautiful demon in the red convertible noticed the glace from the girl in the common sedan. It was no surprise to this demon, as he disregarded the woman's curiosity.
Today he was careless with his demon markings. Correction, he felt a bit more daring— careless something that other lower than himself would idiotically do. He hid his demon markings instantly and waited for the light.
Finally the red light turned green and Kagome floored it again, secretly hoping that all the police officers had something better to do then to give out speeding tickets today.
The demon watched the girl in the sedan speed off as his demon eyes noticed the uniform she wore that indicated that she attended his same school.
Kagome cursed out loud when she reached the next intersection and it turned red. She disparately wanted to bang her head against the steering wheel, repeatedly. She was going to write the longest letter to her city representatives about these malfunctioning lights. It's like the road gods were mocking her—at least her car was on her side.
Kagome had ten minutes left, and she was so close to the school. If the light would just turn green already!
While waiting for the blasted light, she noticed that the same demon in the red convertible was next to her again. This time, she got a closer look and noticed her school emblem embroidered on his shirt.
'He goes to my school,' Kagome though as she rejoiced that she would know one familiar face in her school, even if she never officially met him.
All joys aside, she needed to focus all her attention to making it to school on time. The anticipation of the intersection light was killing her.
Fortunately, someone up "there" must have known her desperation because the light finally turned green. She took off, no longer caring about the guy in the red convertible—her goal was the school.
Unnoticed by Kagome, the demon sped off as well
'Maybe I won't be late to school after all.' she thought to herself as the anxiety slowly seeped away.
Just that moment the demons red convertible passed by her so quickly that she felt as though her car must have been moving as a sail's pace.
The convertible car switched into her lane so close her car that she sure there was going to be a collision. Although her reaction was a millisecond late, she swerved while slamming on the breaks. Her hand shot to her steering while as her little car made the longest most unthreatening noise!
Anger filled Kagome; she was almost mute with shock of the events that just happened.
"Oh my gods, he could have killed me!"
It took her a few seconds to regain her composure, but she kept driving and saw the sign that said "Shikon School: Student Parking."
She found a parking space and once she had parked, Kagome took off running for her class. Quickly glanced at her watch she noticed that she still had five minutes left and changed to a quick walk. She politely as the first person she saw to direct to her class and, lucky for her, it was extremely close.
Once Kagome reached her classroom door, took a big breath to calm her quickened heart. ' Alright, here goes nothing,' she though as she opened the door.
A 30-year-old balding man who wore a white button up shirt, black pants, a red tie and glasses instantly greeted Kagome.
"You must be, Kagome Higurashi"
Kagome, being so nervous, could only nod in response.
"Good, I'm Mr. Kaijen and it is very nice to meet you. Please stand here, when class starts, I will introduce you and you will take your seat."
Kagome nodded.
She felt like she was standing there for a long time as she watched her classmates settle into their seats and wait patiently for their teacher to start and more importantly to introduce their new classmate.
'I hope everyone will like me', she thought when the bell rung.
Kagome looked around at her new classmates. The diversity of the class was shocking. Her very limited Miko abilities picked up the aura of the demons instantly. Almost everyone in the room had very kind faces; it was exceedingly different from her old school.
She spotted demon that cut her off in traffic, sitting off to the side.
Kagome quickly glared at him, 'Jerk,' and continued to wait patiently for her introduction to the class
This didn't go unnoticed by the demon. His face stayed completely emotionless and reveal whether or not he noticed the girls visual communication.
Kaijen-sensei signaled for the class to settledown.
"Hello class, good to see you. I'd like you to meet a new student... Kagom"...
Kaijen-sensei was interrupted by the classroom door slamming open with great force.
It was a boy her age with long silver hair and just above his head were little pointy cat-like ears. He had the most beautiful shade of golden eyes that were bright with wildness.
You could almost just tell this boy was trouble.
The boy bowed slightly and bit out an apology.
Kaijen-sensei turned to him and said frankly,
"You're late again, Inuyasha."
Kagome resisted the urge to laugh; the name sure did fit him.
"As I was saying, this is your new student Higurashi Kagome. I want you all to make her feel welcome."
He then turned his attention to Kagome.
"You can sit there," and gestured between Inuyasha and a guy with black short hair tied back in a little ponytail.
Kagome said thanked the teacher and hastily took her seat
While the teacher was introducing her, Inuyasha could only stare at her and think of Kikyou.
He was in a strange trance until the boy a seat away from him, pushed him.
Inuyasha turned his attention to the person whom obviously wanted his arm ripped off, "...w-what Miroku?" Thankfully, it was his best friend, Miroku.
Miroku just looked at him and grinned, "Listen Inuyasha, I know she's beautiful, but you're drooling."
Inuyasha eyebrow twitched-he gets the dog jokes a lot
"I'm not drooling and she's not beautiful."
Miroku just smiled at his oblivious friend and said, "Ok good, then I can have her."
Although pledging a life of servitude to Buddha, Miroku was the school's womanizer. He couldn't help where his hands ended up and it often got him into a lot of trouble. He couldn't help it; he loves women and it's the only thing he thanks Buddha for the most.
Inuyasha just looked at him with an annoyed face, "Feh, she's out of your league."
Inuyasha stiffened as he noticed that the teacher had asked her to sit at the desk in between himself and Miroku.
Miroku, smiled and got up, pulling out her seat of her.
Kagome felt her face starting to flush as the boy with the small ponytail pulled her seat out for her.
'Aww he's so nice, I guess today isn't going to be a bad day after all.'
Before she sat down, she looked back at the boy and noticed that he had his eyes fixed on her backside.
'I take that back. Officially the worst day ever!'
Miroku noticed the look on her face and was filled with embarrassment.
"I'm Miroku, sorry it's just a reaction."
Kagome whispered back sarcasticly, "I'm sure, and if you do it again I'll make sure it's the last thing you do."
Miroku having heard this reaction many times said, "A death I will accept happily. So, kind of late in the school year to be transferring schools"
"I'm a miko in training, and my old school just wasn't right for me," Kagome replied honestly.
" I'm a monk in training," Miroku began, "and Dog-boy next to you is a hanyo-"
Miroku's sentence was interrupted by Kaijin-sensei clearing his throat loudly and exaggeratedly. Both turned their attention to Kaijen-sensei who had a very annoyed look on his face and said, "turn to page 59 and..."
Everyone open their books, some took notes, and others stared into outer space.
Speaking of staring, Kagome noticed that this Inuyasha guy would glance at her every few seconds or so, and it was starting to make her feel unease.
She continued to take notes, but in her peripheral she could still see him glancing at her. At one moment she decided to look around the room and stop when she met his eye. "Hello," she said. It didn't sound as nice as she had hoped it would.
Inuyasha shook himself from staring at her, noticing that she was talking to him.
He didn't like her tone, but imitated it as he replied, "Hello."
Kagome opened her mouth to continue the conversation, but the bell rang.
The sounds of chairs scratching the floors filled the room and everyone scrambled to get their things together and head to their next class.
Inuyasha was one of the firsts ones out the door.
"Weird', Kagome thought pointedly.
Kagome was still gathering her things when Kaijen-sensei turned around and called her and the demon "Sesshoumaru" to his desk. He looked at Kagome and said,
"Kagome, this is Sesshoumaru. He is the senior TA for my class. Although he does have your same classes, his fairly close to yours and I'm sure that it would help you feel more welcome if you didn't feel lost in this new place."
'So his name is Sesshoumaru—that fits too,' Kagome though smugly.
The professor has not mentioned this arrangement to Sesshoumaru and had Sesshoumaru known, he would have denied any request to assist this this human.
"Kaijin-sensei, I'm sure you are aware that I, Sesshoumaru have more important things to do than to lead a human around school.
Kaijin-sensei responded curtly, "Well, This is another important thing that you'll have to add on your list. Good day."
Sesshoumaru said nothing as he turned and walked out of class.
Kagome just looked confused for a minute but started to follow him.
Noticing that Kagome wasn't behind him anymore. Sesshoumaru stopped walking and turned around
Sesshoumaru wanted to walk away, but this human would most likely get lost, and end up missing her class, then when they asked her what happened she'd probably accuse him.
Sesshoumaru sensed the confusion and anger that swirled around Kagome, and she walked slightly behind him.
You didn't even have to be a demon to sense what she was feeling. Her face expressions and eyes told it all.
It felt very strange walking behind Sesshoumaru. He didn't even have the slightest impression of wanting to talk.
His face was emotionless, but at the same time hard and cold.
'How could someone so beautiful, be so cold...'She mentally kicked herself...'You're getting as bad as that..ummm… that Miroku guy.'
The silence was killing her.
"Ummm…Sesshoumaru?"
No answer.
'Maybe he didn't hear me.'
She spoke a little louder
"Sesshoumaru?"
Her anger now rising
'I know he can hear me'
"At least you can acknowledge that I'm here and talking to you."
Kagome head her aggressive tone and recognized her BIG mistake, and put her hand to her mouth.
Her mouth did always get her in trouble. Every since she was little she always got in trouble for talking too much.
'Oops, I think my life expectancy was just cut in half"
Sesshoumaru stopped, and turned around.
Getting really close to her so that only she could hear him.
He spoke is a low threatening voice, "Human, it would be in your best interest to be silent. Our laws govern us against murdering your kind, but sometimes we slip."
Out of the corner of her eye, Kagome saw a green light glowing from Sesshoumaru's hand. He held it up and slowly brought it to the sleeve of her shirt. As his finger touched the fabric, it singed the edges. The glowing of his hand was actually acid! Kagome, slightly horrified, took a few steps back.
Kagome had enough of this jerk.
First he cut her off in traffic, second, he burned her new shirt, and third...well one and two are enough.
He stared at her with his cold golden eyes daring her to speak.
To his surprise, she did.
" Are you crazy? You could have burned me!"
"Unlike lower species, I have full control of my abilities," he said as he raised an eyebrow, amused that she had the courage to answer him back.
She ignored his little comment and continued,
"Oh and by the way, you shouldn't cut people off in traffic. It's rude," Kagome finished as he crossed her arms over her chest.
Sesshoumaru found this very amusing and annoying all at the same time. He was not use to other telling him what not to do, or arguing with him. He took a step back, and glared at her. He had wanted to scare her with his acid, but instead she became more disgruntled. What was worse was that her eyes were distracting him.
"You lack of intelligence and driving skills are not this Sesshoumaru's concern," he said in a very calm voice, and with that he turned around and resumed walking.
As she followed him, she continued to argue but half-heartedly as she was glad she was having a full conversation, "I wasn't driving slow, I was already 15 miles over the speed limit."
Sesshoumaru was tired of this human and her incessant complaining.
But he kept his composure and his stoic face, "I was able to bypass you, therefore you were driving lethargic."
She felt her anger rise but only mumbled, "Demons."
Sesshoumaru heard her comment and said coolly, "Astonishing are they not?"
Kagome imitated his calm voice and said, "They are not."
They reached her next class. "I will returned after you class," Sesshoumaru said coldly and continued to walk towards his class.
All the girls in that class looked at Kagome with curiosity.
'Some of these girls must be wondering if I know Sesshoumaru or something. Gods, who would want his girlfriend? Such a terrible first impression. He's cold, emotionless, rude, cuts people off in traffic, hot...ok… I'm going to stop thinking now.'
Kagome shook her head, and started concentrating on the teacher and his boring lesson.
Sesshoumaru wasn't paying attention in his professor's lesson. He did exceptionally well in school, without even having the need to excessively study
His eyes scanned the room from student to student
He mentally signed,as everyday to him seem almost like groundhogs day. It was the same teachers, the same students, the same lectures…everything was the same—except for her.
He stopped to consider the girl was obviously pretty, but there was something odd about her. She spoke her mind and was not afraid to confront him. Most girls, when not staring, cower in his presence once they meet his eye. Never had anyone, beside close family, met his glare with a glare. Sesshoumaru noticed that the girl looked like his brother's former wench, Kikyou.
However, this girl was different; the human had more life in her. Every emotion showed on her face, especially those eyes.
He humorously wondered if Inuyasha had noticed the slight resemblance.
The lunch bell rang loud as everyone excitedly made his or her way to the cafeteria. Lunch was Kagome's favorite subject and as she she walked out of the classroom, she noticed Sesshoumaru waiting on the side.
Everyone was talking, laughing, and eating. She wasn't exactly sure what she should do – she might have to eat lunch in the bathroom
Kagome mentally groaned, 'Can this day get any worse?"