School had just let out as Kagome made her way down the stairs. She watched as some students gathered to catch their bus or paraded to the parking lot. She just made it to the bottom of the stairs when she felt an unfamiliar presence behind her. She turned to see a guy about her age with short black hair tired into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck and deep purple eyes.
"Hello, my dear," he greeted her with a sly smile, "I was hoping I could ask you a question." She noticed him eyeing her up and down.
Slightly uncomfortable she replied,"Uh, sure.. Go ahead." But before she could react he was on one knee gripping her left hand rather tightly.
"Will you give me the honor of bearing my chi.." He was abruptly cut short when all of a sudden a girl with long brown hair in a high ponytail and light brown eyes smacked him.
He rubbed the back of his head while sighing in defeat. "Ah, Sango darling, what a pleasure."
"Miroku! What have I told you about scaring the new girls?!" Sango was fuming. "Aren't I enough for you?" She blushed realizing what popped into her head. She looked up to finally notice the girl still standing there. "Hello there, I'm Sango." She smiled while extending her arm for a handshake.
"My name's Kagome." Kagome smiled back, shaking Sangos' hand in return.
"You're in my math class, right? Third period with Mr. Yamoto?"
"Oh! I think I am!" Kagome exclaimed. She was happy to finally begin meeting new friends.
"Um, ladies?" Miroku asked. He had been forgotten about. How rude.
"Oh, Kagome, this is Miroku." Sango motioned towards Miroku who smiled wide while greeting Kagome with a polite bow.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Kagome. I am terribly sorry for my behavior, I hope you can forgive me?" He asked while raising a brow and smirking.
"I guess so," Kagome said returning his smile, "It's nice to meet you both!"
"Say Kagome, where do you live? Not to seem creepy or anything! I just wanted to see if we could walk home together!" Sango sounded flustered as she realized how weird that could have came across.
Kagome just chuckled, "I live a few blocks that way," pointing left of the school, "you?"
"Me too!" Sango gasped, grasping Kagomes' hand and heading towards home. "Maybe our houses are near each others and we can walk to and from school together! I'm tired of being left alone to fend for myself with this pervert everyday." Sango began, and ended with a small sigh as she got to the end of her sentence.
"Sounds good to me! Are you two neighbors or something?" Kagome question as she walked along the sidewalk with her new found friends.
"Something like that." Sango sighed yet again looking down. "Miroku lives with his grandparents at their shrine and my brother, Kohaku, and I live in their guesthouse. Our parents were killed a few years back and Mirokus' grandparents were kind enough to take us in."
Kagome gasped, "Oh I'm so sorry Sango! That's terrible.."
"It's alright, Kagome. Kohaku and I have each other and thats what's important." Sango gave her a weak smile while feeling Miroku wrap an arm around her shoulders for support. "He can be so sweet sometimes.""You're right." Kagome looked up to see her families shrine approaching. "Oh guys here's my stop."
They looked up to see the Higurashi shrine in front of them. Sango cheered noticing where they were at. "We live just two houses down from you! This is great, you'll have to meet us tomorrow morning, right here, and we'll walk to school together!"
"Okay! Sounds good guys!" Kagome smiled whiling turning to make her way up the many shrine steps. "See you tomorrow!"
"See you, Kagome!" Miroku and Sango said in unison while waving and making their way home.
Inuyasha starred at the paper in amazement. He never expected his soulmate to be so breathtaking. He was overjoyed until a thought crossed his mind. "What about Kikyou? I got into this relationship knowing she wasn't my soulmate, but how am I going to break this to her?" He let out a small sigh, "And Kagome. She probably doesn't know about this kind stuff. What if she thinks I'm some kind of psycho? What am I going to do?"
Inuyasha slowly stood up off his bed and began to pace. "I guess I can't make any rash decisions just yet. I need to just wade things out with Kagome. I'll end it with Kikyou when I feel it's right." With that Inuyasha placed the paper back into its box and left it on his desk.
"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha heard his mother call. "Kikyou's here!" Inuyasha slowly made his way down the stairs to be greeted with a cheery Kikyou.
"Oh Yasha! Baby, I didn't see you once today. Where were you?" Kikyou asked while wrapping her arms around his waist. He couldn't help but notice an unfamiliar scent on her.
He ignored his nose as he looked down at her. She looked strikingly similar to someone he knew. "Kagome." Inuyasha sighed, stepping back. "I was late to school. Sorry." He didn't know what it was but he just didn't want to be around her anymore.
"Oh? Well that's okay I was busy most of the day anyway." She retorted crossing her arms with a slight smirk on her lips. "Busy with Koga." Her smirk quickly faded as she saw Inuyasha make his way towards his front door.
"Kikyou, I think you should get going." He opened the door for her.
"But why Yasha?!" She screeched. "I haven't see you ALL DAY!" Kikyou stomped over to where he stood.
"Because I have a ton of homework tonight and would like to get started. I can't do that with you here." He replied sternly. "That and I don't want to be anywhere near you right now."
"Ugh! Fine."
She was noticeably unhappy and confused. So Inuyasha bent down to give her a small kiss but she grabbed hold of the back of his head, shoving her tongue into his mouth. After she released him she waved and walked out the door. "I have him wrapped around my pretty little finger."
Closing the door Inuyasha wiped the slobber off his mouth. "Gross." He turned to make his way upstairs to shower before beginning his homework. Only to realize about 15 minutes in that he never does his homework. Sighing he got up from his desk to make his way back downstairs.
"Mom, I'm going for a walk!" Inuyasha called out while grabbing his coat.
"Okay dear! Make sure you don't stay out too late. I'll save you some dinner!" He heard a reply from the kitchen before heading over to the door.
Kagome made her way over to her bed finally finished with todays homework. "Wow for being new I sure didn't get any kind of exemption from the homework." Kagome looked over to the window just in time to see a white haired hanyou stroll down the sidewalk.
"Inuyasha? Whats he doing around here?" She smiled at the thought of his name. "I hardly know him but I feel like he's apart of me." She shook her head trying to rid herself of her thoughts.
Laying down she closed her eyes picturing the handsome Inuyasha. "He's such a dream." Sighing she opened her eyes to stare at the ceiling. "What am I thinking? He'll never like me. Especially if he finds out my secret.."
With that final thought Kagome drifted off to sleep dreaming of the day she didn't have to hide her true self any longer.