Silver Tree Academy

Work Cited Entry 3: The Sober and the Intoxicated

After another week or so of having to cram all the member's of Kagome's little study group into Sango's small dorm that was shared with an over compulsive music student she decided to continue things in her living area. Before she had done so because she didn't want Naraku creeping them out or anything, but he hadn't been around too much lately. It seemed like everything had gone back to normal with her studies.

"Feh, I can never get this stupid tie off quick enough!"

It would have gone back to normal if Inuyasha didn't invite himself over! The first two years of Silver Tree Academy had been awkward enough having her best friend turn into her fiancée, but this year it seemed that he had to be everywhere. So now when Naraku wasn't around lecturing about how she needed to take more advantage out of life and not discredit prostitutes Inuyasha was one step behind her driving her crazy. Right now he was dishonoring her school by removing his silver and black stripped tie and chucking it across the room.

"Hojo can you help me with this," Kagome pointed to her math book, "I always feel a bit rusty when it comes to Trigonometry."

Kagome was lying of course. She had a perfect score last year when she took Trig, but she wanted to keep everyone occupied with their work as possible. This way they couldn't see how much of an idiot the man Kagome was going to spend the rest of her life with was.

"Sure Kagome," he wore his friendly smile again like he always did before inching closer to her.

"Hold on a minute math wiz," Inuyasha made him stop nervously in his tracks worried that getting close to his fiancée was not a good idea.

"No helping Mrs. Goody Two Shoes until someone explains these binomials to me," he seemed to be struggling over his Algebra 2 book even though Kagome had taken that class in her freshman year.

Sango burst out laughing, "Binomials? Inuyasha we learned about those in middle school."

"Excuse me for not being a mega nerd. It's basic Algebra, which is something I never got a chance to take in middle school, and this hell on earth won't offer it."

"Well maybe you should be in public school," Kagome whispered, but Inuyasha heard it anyways.

"See Kagome this is why I call you Mrs. Goody Two Shoes. You are all sweet and innocent, until you feel that someone near you isn't worthy enough to be there."

He hit a nerve because he made her out to be a snobby educated girl who stomped on those lower than her, "Inuyasha that's not what I meant."

"Mrs. Goody Two Shoes?" Ayame looked up from the English homework her and Kikyo were going over, "I thought it was Mrs. Murashu."

"Not yet," both Kagome and Inuyasha snapped at the same time.

"Sorry, it's just so weird you know. I remember middle school where Inuyasha was the popular rebel, and Kagome was his annoying friend that followed him around everywhere lecturing him."

"Yeah it's weird," Kagome couldn't get attention off of Inuyasha now so she just waved Hojo off and went back to work.

"I already heard Kikyo was trying to catch you up in Biology," Hojo gave that warm smile to Inuyasha, "so maybe I can help you with your math Inuyasha."

Inuyasha slammed his book with an expression that showed he was pissed beyond all reason, "Stay back lover boy. According to Kagome I am nothing more than a lost cause, so don't waste your time."

"I didn't say that Inuyasha."

"It's written all over your face. You are probably thinking about how you are going to have a loser supporting you and how your gigantic brain is going to shrivel up."

"Inuyasha…"

Kagome felt horrible! She had been thinking that about Inuyasha, and it was selfish of her. In middle school Inuyasha had gotten decent grades, because if he didn't his father would kill him, but no one paid much attention to it since he was the popular rebel that everyone, including Kagome, wanted to be around. Here he was nothing but trash to the students. He was seen as stupid, because he was flunking advanced classes that were seen as easy. Inuyasha wasn't stupid, things were just moving too fast for him.

"Inuyasha sit down and study," Kikyo spoke for the first time since study group, which was odd because she was always engaging in conversations about sports and family.

Inuyasha sat back down and began to work on some English assignments like Ayame suggested for him to do. It would be better for him that way because English rarely got harder except for vocabulary, but that could be looked up in a dictionary. Kagome still felt bad, because now there was a tension in the room and Kikyo want back to not talking. Around six o' clock it was a rule that everyone of the opposite sex had to return to their side of the building, so Kagome would make sure to apologize to Inuyasha around that time.

"So where is this male roommate of yours?" Inuyasha asked just wondering if Naraku was doing his job.

"Spill Kagome," Sango came closer, "you rarely talk about this Naraku guy. What is it like having to share your dorm with a guy?"

"He isn't mean or anything is he?" Hojo tried to put on the concerned friend look which for whatever reason bugged Inuyasha to no end.

"Naraku?" Kagome questioned his name as though he was some acquaintance that she hadn't seen in twenty years, "well at first I always thought he was some kind of a professor since he is suppose to give me a credit and all, but I have seen him doing homework so he must be taking classes here as well, so he is probably at a night lecture or something."

"That doesn't tell us much Kagome," Sango was obviously in a gossip mood.

"What do you possibly want to know? He is just a jerk who hasn't even told me what he is supposed to be teaching. Every time I ask he says its Lifelogy."

"Biology?" everyone in the room except Inuyasha asked for he didn't care that bio meant life in latin or greek or whatever the hell they were learning.

"No, lifelogy, he even gave it a definition. He calls it the study of having a life outside of brain closing buildings like Silver Tree Academy."

There was a gasp in the room like Kagome had repeated a sin.

"He insulted the school?" Ayame asked, "but he works for it doesn't he?"

"I am not sure about this guy Kagome," Hojo seemed a bit angered because he was one of the most school spirited of the bunch, "Inuyasha what if he isn't what he says he is and he hurts Kagome somehow? Shouldn't you check up on this?"

"No."

Inuyasha was a bit ticked at the moment. What was that Naraku idiot doing taking classes with his money? The more time he was out messing around the less time he was helping Kagome.

Kagome was a bit surprised with Inuyasha's answer. When freshman year at the academy began and Kagome knew she was destined to become Inuyasha's housewife he kept a close eye on her. He knew that if Kagome turned to another man before marriage some of the blame would be put on him so he often did things like interrupt when she was conversing with a guy, and if the man working at the café so much as looked at her the wrong way he made sure the guy would be fired the next day, but this time he was just going to sit back and let Kagome handle her problems on her own.

"Inuyasha," she smiled before realizing everyone was looking at her again.

"So besides hating our school what else is wrong with this dude?" Ayame had since long put her homework away leaving the dead silent Kikyo to continue.

"Nothing else, he is just a little free spirited," Kagome was obviously eager to get back to work, "as long as I don't wind up in his lap again."

"Well it's almost time for us guys to leave," Hojo stood up, "coming Inuyasha?"

"I'm not tired."

"But it's a rule that- never mind. See you girls later."

"I will walk with you Hojo," Ayame packed up her things, "sorry Kikyo, but it doesn't look like you are in a good mood."

Kikyo appeared ready to leave also, "Sorry Ayame. Just not that talkative today."

"Don't worry Kagome I have nowhere to be right now," Sango sat next to Inuyasha creating sort of a small circle on the floor.

Things were quiet for a while when the other three left, but fate wouldn't let things stay that way. The door opened up and Naraku entered carrying a brown paper bag that he laid on the counter. Kagome looked up at him for a moment before returning to her homework hoping the jerk did his own food shopping.

"What's in the bag Naraku?" Inuyasha asked, but not in a threatening tone like Kagome had been expecting.

"Isn't it time for little boys like you to return home?" Naraku didn't pay much attention to his student's fiancée as he went looking through the cupboards, "it doesn't matter I was going to retrieve you anyways. We're having a drinking party."

"All right!" Inuyasha cheered shutting a poetry book that he wasn't even reading, "toss me a beer!"

"Not quite yet," he continued, "come back with a couple of guys. Miroku and someone else who would be for this, will you be joining us young lady?"

"What is this man thinking?" Sango stood up, "Kagome if the headmaster or a teacher comes across your dorm and finds you here with liquor you will be expelled no questions asked."

"Naraku," Kagome already knew the consequences and tried to settle this before Inuyasha could return, "get that stuff out of here."

"Miss. Higurashi you need to learn to accept my teachings without causing trouble every time. These drinks contain meaningless ingredients followed by alcohol, which I believe if my high school memories serve me correctly is used a lot in chemistry."

"That's a different kind," Sango interrupted, "you can't do this."

"Sango you should leave," Kagome then said.

"And further more- what?"

"Naraku knows what he is doing, and there is no arguing with him. I have tried, so if you don't want to get in trouble you should just go."

"Kagome he can't- fine," Sango grabbed her books and left slamming the door behind her.

Kagome sighed heading towards the couch, but she then had to look at a smirk that played on Naraku's lips. She couldn't help but stare at this guy. Why wasn't he a model? Every time he did something that resembled a pose she found herself looking at him.

"I am proud of you Miss. Higurashi," Naraku took a glass and poured some clear liquid before sitting out a twelve pack, "I should give you a merit. You have finally realized there is no sense in defying me."

"I knew the longer Sango argued the longer we would be stuck in this room with those drinks close to being expelled, so let's just get this over with. So what meaningless health-affecting task are you going to ask of me? Do you want me to get drunk?"

Surprisingly he shook his head, "Why Kagome if I allowed you to drink then you would be hung over tomorrow and unable to focus if I decided to lecture. I want to teach you that you don't need to drink to have fun, and how to act around others who won't remember the fun they are having tomorrow."

That amazed Kagome. So was Naraku going to teach her something that held morals and truth? He was going to tell her that drinking was bad and could cause long term health problems and what could happen if she was going to get behind the wheel?

"You may notice that seducing a man when his mind becomes absent won't be difficult."

Of course he wasn't! He was going to use this opportunity to promote stupid behavior as usual. And worse of all it would be stupid behavior with a member of the opposite sex. She wasn't ready for this.

"Don't be alarmed," Naraku then said, "you won't be doing anything tonight except observing. Unless of course you would want to invite one of the men into your bed."

"No!"

He had a diabolical smirk again before handing her one of her many note books and a mechanical pencil, "Then I expect great notes."

Notes? When Inuyasha and Miroku entered the room like expected Kagome couldn't believe she would be taking notes on them while the two trashed her apartment in a drunken rage. It was unbelievable.

"Hey Kagome," that didn't sound like Inuyasha or Miroku.

It was then that Kagome noticed a tall and tan man with a wolfish smile looking down at her. His name was Kouga Urashima and he belonged to a well-respected family where Kagome and Inuyasha were from. He also went to their middle school and that's where Kagome developed a small crush on him. Unlike the academy the school they went to years ago had sports, and Kouga dominated them all so he was quite popular and since she was as well for her work in the community and student council the two talked, but in this eventless school she only seen him once in a while at the café.

"K-kouga," Kagome tried to smile and not believe he would ever drink and break rules, "you are here?"

"Actually I was going to refuse but when I actually heard this was going on in your apartment I became skeptical, and now that I believe it I will just have a beer."

"Help yourselves," Naraku told them now that everything was laid out, "Kagome you will join me."

Kagome had her notebook in hand as she followed Naraku to her sleeping area and the two sat on the bed. She tried to jot down what they were drinking and it's contents before Naraku shook his head.

"Kagome did you or did you not once say that we are humans and not animals?"

"I believe so."

"Then why are you treating this trio like lab rats who needs to have what they consumed recorded."

"Because they are acting like monkeys at a beer filled watering hole sir," Kagome noted.

"Hmm," Naraku shifted his eyes, "never knew you had a sense of humor."

"Kagome," Inuyasha came over to the bed with a beer in hand, "want a drink? It's too much of a sausage fest over there."

"No thank you."

"Inuyasha," Naraku glared at him, "I provided you with some drinkable entertainment so respect my boundaries and leave Miss. Higurashi to her work."

"Fine," he grumbled before joining the others.

Now that she knew Naraku was there to protect her from the idiocy that was her only male friends besides Hojo she went back to taking notes. Still they weren't the most exciting notes for they were able the effects of alcohol and how it affected the mind.

"This is something interesting to take note of," Naraku must have been seeing something that Kagome was not because all they were doing was throwing quarters into a beer filled mug, "this game began was it was confirmed you wouldn't be joining them. A theory would be because they have no sexual desires to chase at this party, and they are afraid of bonding too much since they're all men, so they play meaningless games that makes them even more muddled in the head. Also make sure to put that it is still a good time, but not a wise time to seduce an intoxicated man. Competition isn't the best place for women interruption."

Kagome did put it down and tried more of reading between the lines when it came to their behavior. When the quarter's game ended they all entered a conversation about women. Naraku said it was the best time for a girl to come around and them and seduce, and yet the talk was still so the men could avoid finding friendship in each other during their drunken phase. Naraku may have put an invisible I-told-you-not-to barrier around her, but during their sexual talk she had been the subject.

"Well the first thing you notice of course is the boobs," Miroku commented after taking a drink, "but if she turned around we might get a kick out of the thing that jiggles."

"Talk about her nice tits and ass all you want," Inuyasha smirked as he drank a bit more as well, "she is mine to keep even if she is annoying and too smart."

One of the three monkeys from the beer filled watering hole was missing though. Kagome looked up and saw Kouga was standing near the bed.

"It's getting late," he commented to her, "so I better go. I just wanted to say good-bye to you Kagome."

Kouga still had been breaking school rules by being in her dorm so late and drinking, but he was officially higher up on the evolutionary chain than the other two. He was calling it quits before real chaos ensued.

As a farewell gesture Kouga patted her on the shoulder as she blushed, "Good-bye Kouga."

Naraku once again chuckled as soon as he was out of the picture, "So is that the man you are cheating on Inuyasha with?"

"What? No! I am uncomfortable with the whole Inuyasha thing, but I would never betray him and his family. Kouga was just a middle school crush that never went anywhere."

"I saw you blushing."

"We are supposed to be observing these idiots, not me!"

"Quit yelling over there wench!" Inuyasha insulted her with a term that he learned in English class when talking about medieval times, "go on Miroku."

"Now we're to the part of male bonding," Naraku made sure to tell her, "even if you could seduce a man by this point he is too drunk to know what you look like. And though they might still be talking about women it is still not a proper time for it's just a mechanism for the two to have something in common."

"I will trade you Kagome for Sango," Naraku's words were proven right when the two were trying to exchange girls or whatever in the hell they were doing.

"Sango isn't my girlfriend and she refuses to be," Miroku sighed, "but I could trade her for Kikyo."

"Ah Kikyo, now that was a nice one."

Kagome wasn't going to question his drunken gibberish.

"What's your favorite movie?"

"That one with that guy in it."

Kagome wrote down a lot of things late into the night until Inuyasha fell asleep under a table and Miroku crashed on a couch, "I did learn some useless information I didn't know before Naraku, but what now? If these two are caught then I will definitely be expelled."

"Well we don't have to worry about the drinks being discovered, these two really sucked them down, but my guess is that Inuyasha will be okay since he can bribe anyone I don't know much about the other one."

"We just need to get them out of here."

"Fine then Miss. Higurashi. Drag your fiancée by the arms."

Kagome did so, but almost stopped a few times when it seemed like Inuyasha was going to wake up, but nothing happened. The two were dragged out and abandoned in the hallway. It was 3 a.m. and she was supposed to wake up by 5, so this wasn't good. She couldn't even have another two hours asleep since she had to hide all of the evidence in her apartment. Usually when students were in class random checks were done on their rooms.

Before she could let out a heavy sigh she noticed a pink glint caused by one of the hallway lamps and she walked forward. She went into one of the main hallways that was close to her dorm and looked at the wall. Here was one of many of the decorations that were installed in the building. Behind a case of glass was a brilliant dragon statue done by an art student along time ago.

"What is that?" Naraku quickly joined her, which was a bit scary since there wasn't much light in the room except one little light bulb and the light from the display case.

"A stupid reason why I wanted to attend this academy."

"What are you talking about?"

Kagome had a faint child like smile as she pointed at the dragon statue's face. One eye looked like some kind of very cheap gemstone, but the other was a round beautiful pink jewel.

"That is the shikon no tama," she explained, "the artist who created that statue was actually the daughter of a very famous woman jewel thief named Midoriko."

"Yes I have heard of her."

"Well the shikon was a priceless jewel that was stolen among many others so the girl was able to pay tuition here. She never knew her mother was a thief and she assumed the shikon was another gemstone, so she used it in her art. Thanks to the girl's carelessness the school figured out who Midoriko was and reported her. Her daughter was of course expelled, and as a reward for solving one of the great mysterious of the time the school was allowed to keep the art work and the jewel."

"So you're school is a snitch and they keep a piece of work that was made by an artist they expelled and treated horribly even though none of it was her fault. This statue isn't even credited to her."

"Well when I was little my family was invited to some kind of ceremony that was here for somebody, I can't remember exactly, but I remember being so bored until I found this. I liked to stare at it for hours and, you know, make up little stories about dragons in my head and such. I think the jewel was hypnotizing me or something, but ever since seeing it I had always told my parents this was the school I wanted to go to and no other. Just so I could gaze upon the shikon on my to and from classes everyday."

"Miss. Higurashi."

"Yes?"

"That is the most childish thing I have ever heard of. Return to your living quarters. You have a mess to clean up."

Kagome groaned as she followed him, because she already knew he had no intentions of helping her when he was the one who caused everything.