Hey everyone, I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time! I really am! Don't hurt me! If u do you'll never find out how the story goes on. Well, I've decided to keep the story name because almost everyone seemed to really like it, heh, and I didn't even give the name much thought, I just put whatever popped into my head, weird. Much going on since I last updated, I'll try to write it all into the next few chapters, and again REALLY sorry, summer's here and my brain is starting to atrophy, plus I haven't been able to sleep at night, so I stay up all night AIMing with "Inu" and sleep all morning till around noon when my mom wakes me up yelling cause I'm oversleeping, ah well, there u go, that's my excuse….not very good I know, but hey, u guys chose to read my story, I never forced u (hides device behind back that says 'Reader attracting device') so um…yeah….on with the show!

IMPORTANT: For some reason, I can't put lines...so for now, the line breaks will be the "123" sequence you see...sorry! I'll fix this the second i can!

MyheartsDesire : it sounded serious? Wow…I should change that then, hmm….ah well, I know aren't Kikyo and Eyes sweet! He's such a gentleman, and he's british! (makes him even more gentlemanly (don't know or care if there is such a word)

Kurimuson Chishio: Yeah, it was supposed to be….i wanna keep u guys guessing, it's part of my mystique…

00 Azalie 00: Thank u so much for checking it! I'm glad u like it, and I know I use a lot of dialogue, but I like dialogue more than just description, besides between me, Ayame, rin and Kikyo we never shut up! Ah well, please update ur story soon too! I want to know what Kikyo has over Inu!

Inu Youki x3 Summer: Oh you did? That rocks! And I know, Silverstein? One of the bloody best bands EVER!

Ok, to everyone else: I'm again, very sorry I didn't update in so long, and all your questions will be answered in a few chaps, man, u all have trippy guesses at what happened, oh yeah that reminds me, I have to make ONE more note.

Angeldiane: HAH! That's funny, a record of screaming, Kiks was over with me when I read that and she said that I should write that that's what happened, cause she would totally do that….but no that wasn't it, good guess though….man, the thought alone makes me crack up :D

Disclaimer: Don't own …(pokes Inuyasha) him….or do i? (evil laughter)….no really I don't (cries because she realizes she never will)

Chapter 8

Crap! I'm late, thought kagome as she ran a brush through her hair, running towards the College office.

It was the day of the College fair and she had overslept….perfect.

Pulling on the bottom of her black "Fall out boy" concert tank top, she made her way through the parking lot and hallways. She hadn't even had time to really change, only managing to get a pair of semi-clean pants (she wore them two days ago…heh) the shirt she got a month ago at the concert, her black star studded belt, and her black and white converse. Luckily, her watch and cell phone had been in her backpack, or else she would have left without them.

"I'm here!" she yelled, almost tripping on the floor as stopped in front of Ayame and Kikyo who were waiting in front of the office door with everyone else.

"God Kags….you look like crap," Kikyo said as she looked her over, "why the hell is your hair all…I don't even know how to describe it."

"Well thanks Miss Perfect, you see, unlike you, who gets out of the shower and just lets it dry and it looks perfect, mine gets a little frizzy and stuff if I don't brush it!" Kagome said, once again reaching for her brush and trying to tame her hair.

"Everyone! I need you to come into the library and sign your names in," Mrs.Teromi the college counselor, said.

As the girls went in they met up with Rin who was speaking to a friend of hers….yes someone other than the Inuyasha gang…she DOES have a life you know!

"Hey chick," Kagome called as she put her brush away, her hair finally back to it's normal look of wavy straight (hah, oxymoron)

"Hey guys, what's up?" said Rin with a yawn.

"The stock market?" asked Kikyo

"The sun?" Ayame pointed out

"A 17 year old somewhere halfway across the world where it's 4 am and she can't sleep so she's writing a fanfic about her favorite anime?"

"What?" everyone asked, looking at Kagome.

"What? You know that somewhere in the world it's happening,….why are you trying to hide the truth from me!" she yelled, looking crazed and somewhat accusing.

"Riiiiiight," said Rin as Ayame shook her head and Kikyo pondered what kind of mental institution would be best suited for Kagome's….um...condition...

"All right everyone! I need to take roll call to make sure everyone's here," Mrs. Teromi announced, beginning the incredibly long, long, long list of names.

"So yeah…why are we here again?" Kikyo asked as she took out some gum from her kitty head shaped bag (kuroneko from trigun) and offered it to everyone.

"Because we're supposed to go to the convention centers and talk to college reps and plan out our lives after high school," Ayame said.

"….THAT'S what I woke up early for? Why didn't anyone tell me what this was! I could have slept!" Kikyo yelled looking annoyed.

"What did you think college fair was? A fair with rides and games and food that was sponsored by colleges?" Rin asked.

"yeah, that's what the name leads you to believe!" Kikyo said.

"I know! I found out about the truth last year…but it's not that bad, it's actually pretty fun, that's why I'm coming again this year," Kagome said from her seat on top of the desk.

"Higurashi, Kagome?" Mrs. Teromi called out.

"HERE!" Kagome yelled out, waving her arms erratically to make sure they saw her.

"um…yes, I see you Kagome….you can stop now," Mrs. Teromi said as the 17 year old kept waving.

"So have you guys seen the new RVB? HAH, i love Caboose, he's just so weird," kagome said once her persistent waving ceased.

"….HE'S weird? Look who's talking," Ayame said as she raised her hand when her name was called.

"Tanaka, Reen?" (well, she said Rin, but she made it sound like REEN")

"um…here?" Rin responded/asked, as Mrs. Teromi continued down the list.

"Wow, REEN, I never noticed, REEN, how weird your name is, REEN," Kagome laughed.

"Tsukishima, Kikyo?"

"HERE!" Kikyo yelled before turning to Rin, "Yeah, REEN, it's so odd, REEN," prodded, laughing right along with Kagome.

Rin turned towards Ayame, who had stayed silent as the other two poked fun.

"Aren't you going to say anything?" Rin asked, not really caring, I mean it was pretty funny..how do you mess up saying a name like Rin!

"Nah, I'd never make fun of you…..Reen!" Ayame said, not being able to hold back her own taunting.

"Man, I swear, you guys are supposed to be older than me, therefore my rolemodels…and you're so immature!" Rin said laughing.

"We're sorry," all three said, "….REEN!"

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"REEN is sitting next to me on the bus," Kikyo called.

"NO me! She loves me more!" Kagome cried.

"No she doesn't, she loves me!" Kikyo retorted clutching Rin's arm and pulling her towards her.

"GAH! Let go! She's mine!" Kagome cried pulling Rin towards her and away from Kikyo's grasp, while Rin laughed at the hilarity of it all.

Suddenly Kikyo got very watery eyed and looked at Rin.

"REEN! Why don't you love me!" she cried looking like a sad little kid.

All Rin could respond with was "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (gasp) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

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On the hour long bus to the convention center, the four girls in 2 pairs (AYAME ended up sitting with Rin), talking the whole way.

"Ok, so I was reading this Hout fic (again read bottom AN), it's so funny!" Kagome said to Kikyo, "it's about the Hout characters, but if they were in high school in modern times, and Hout is the new kid at this genius school, and he's all popular, and Marla is a bitch and she's his girlfriend, but he keeps cheating on her, but the story's really about Celest, who is really into Hout, but she's not super popular or rich, so he can't be seen socializing with her, and she has really odd friends, like they put in Vash from Trigun! He's hilarious! He has this scene where they go to a restaurant called "Jack's" and he freaks out cause there is no jack…..man, he reminds me of Potatoe tot, he did the same thing at Denny's remember? But yeah, this is one kick butt fic, you have to go read it!" (by the way, this is an actual conversation, the story I'm talking about is Popular, and it's on this site, go read it's great!"

"wow, sounds hilarious, I can't believe they put Vash in!" Kikyo said as she laughed at the thought.

"Oh, I know, they also put in Ed and AL from Full Metal, and Spike from Cowboy Beebop, and a few others I think," Kagome said, practically bouncing off her chair.

"How many chapters is it?" Kikyo asked, intent on reading this story when she got home.

"Oh it's only fifteen or sixteen so far I think," Kagome responded.

"…so far? Oh damn! I hate it when the stories I read aren't complete," Kikyo said looking forlorn, "cause then I get into them and they don't update for months!"

"Oh I know, some authors are so inconsiderate, I mean, letting their faithful readers hang on for weeks on end, sometimes months, waiting to hear what happens next (REALLY REALLY SORRY!) ! I swear, we should just kill all of them!" Kagome said, getting ready to get a pitchfork and torch if necessary.

"Uh…yeah….or we could send them reviews and guilt them into writing more….or threaten them…that always works!" Kikyo finished with a happy smile.

"No it doesn't," Kagome responded, putting away her mini pitchfork (hah, she calls it a mini pitchfork, the rest of us call it a fork).

"Works with you and your story Kags," Kikyo shot back.

"well…that's because I actually know you…and you bug me…a lot….with pokes, and AIM messages or calls….and several other torture devices that I can't say right now or I'd scare the readers to know what I go through for being friends with you and being bored one night and thus starting my story." Kagome replied all in one breath ( big lung capacity remember?)

"Eh, either way you get it done…..so you should thank me!" Kikyo said, ending the conversation with a smirk. (we all really should thank Kikyo…cause let's admit it, I would have given up on this fic long ago if it weren't for her persistent nagging, everyone say thank you to Kiks!)

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"Would you like to learn more about Seattle University?"

"No, no! You want to know about the University of London! WE HAVE A BIG CLOCK! We even named it! Its name is Ben!"

"Forget that! Come learn about the University of Ithaca…..we're named after Odysseus' island home place!"

"But…but…we're in Canada! Maple syrup and leaves ey? Come on, learn 'aboot' us!"

"No! Look at our brochures! We cost more than all of these schools combined so we must be better!"

"Man," Kagome said, looking at all the college reps, "I haven't even applied and I already don't like college."

"I know…all of these guys are weird," Kikyo said. Suddenly she spotted a table with a diagram of the school…that folded up into a briefcase…yup that's the next stop on their college quest all right!

"Look, cool fold up thingy!" Kikyo said as she, Ayame and Kagome made their way to the table.

"Hello, can I help you? Perhaps you'd like to know more about the University of Santa Barbara." A young man said with a smile.

"Sure, thanks," all three said as he handed them some brochures.

"And you have a very nifty briefcase thingy!" Kikyo called back as they went to another booth.

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Look at them… so happy and carefree. Picking out colleges, having fun, planning out their futures….all of them so happy with their perfect lives…but I'll make sure that they know what it's like to lose…their PERFECT lives are about to come crashing down around them…and there's nothing that any of them can do to stop it...

They'll pay…they'll pay for what their parent's did to us…

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An hour later

"AHH! When are we leaving!" Kikyo asked as all three slumped against a wall and slid down to the floor to sit.

"I think in about 30 minutes actually, at least that's when they told us to go back to the bus," Ayame said looking at her watch.

"Man…I have like 20 pounds of information on schools I don't even think I want to read about!" Kagome said, looking at the plastic bag they had provided them with….all three were about to burst.

"Hey, you think they have any coffee around here?" she suddenly asked.

"I think I saw a Starbucks thingy around here, let's go check it out, maybe they have muffins and stuff," Kikyo said as they made their way towards the place.

Finally getting out of the traffic of college-hopeful students who were running around looking at colleges they found…..that there was a thirty person line for the coffee.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!" Kagome yelled.

"Ok…you don't NEED coffee sweetie…in fact…you need a tranquilizer shot," Ayame said as she scooted a little away from the coffee deprived teen.

"…no…mocha….latte!" Kikyo said as she twitched….

"GAH! HOW DARE THEY NOT GIV US COFFEE! I SHALL PROTEST UNTIL THEY DO DAMN IT!" she cried, breaking out with a poster and markers out of nowhere.

"SHIKON HIGH STUDENTS! I NEED ALL SHIKON HIGH STUDENTS OVER HERE! THE BUS IS LEAVING!" Mrs. Temori called over the roar of the students.

Deciding that it'd be against the rules of reality to expect to get coffee now, Kikyo put away her posters back into the rip in vortex she had gotten it from (nah, not really, it was her purse…oh no! I've said too much!), the girls hustled back to the bus, where they set it upon themselves to entertain the bus with laughter, songs, stories, and a few pleas to stop at the many passing Starbucks' (they're everywhere!)

After the long ride back to school, they made it back by lunch, meaning they could still go to third and fourth….joy

"Oh well, I guess I shall see you later my dear and lovely friends," Kagome said with a bow and a smile.

"Yeah yeah….get the hell away from us!" Kikyo replied jokingly.

And so they parted ways till fourth period. Kagome going to Physics, Kikyo to the Computer lab and Ayame to the Service thingy which no one really knew what it was but decided that it was probably for the best.

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1 hour and a half later

"So what other colleges did you guys see?" Inuyasha asked Kagome as they worked on their bridges in class (the one I was complaining about, at least he let us do some of the work in class).

"Oh so many, most of them were U.S ones although I saw two from England, one from Australia, three from central America (brazil, mexico, Guadalajara…etc.), and a bunch more." Kagome responded as she glued some more balsawood to the 'train' of the bridge.

"Oh," said Inuyasha, "well that sounds gre-"

"I STILL can't believe that line for the coffee though!" Kagome said, still annoyed about her being deprived of her precious beverage.

"Well, it's not that ba-"

"I mean, come on! There was like five hundred people there, and only one Starbucks kiosk!" Kagome continued to rant.

"Um..yeah, bu-"

"There should have been at least three to five more!" she insisted, eye twitching at the thought of OTHER people getting her well deserved coffee.

"Kago-"

"I should sue!" Kagome proclaimed.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and sighed.

Here we go again, he thought.

"Kags-"

"I really should! I mean, I think I speak for all coffee lovers when I say that this is an injustice that should be corrected as fast as possible!"

"Kagome, can I just-"

"You know what? All those Miss. Universes, the chicks that are in pageants? Yeah, they're always saying how they wanna stop war, and help the environment!" Kagome said as she hacked away at the balsawood to make more anchors for her bridge. "But have any of them really applied their minds to the real issues? Issues that affect all people? No! If I was a pageant winner, this is what I would try to correct, the immoral, ill intended, lack of coffee kiosks in the world!"

"Will you marry me?" Inuyasha suddenly asked, looking straight into her eyes, and grabbing her hands, which had been thrown up in the air in her rant, in his own.

Kagome's eyes turned as wide as saucers and her jaw dropped as her ramblings came to a sudden halt.

"WHAT!" she asked, looking confused and disbelieving.

"Eh," Inuyasha said as he let go of her hands and put his gloves back on his hands and turned to pick up his glue from the side table.

"I was just looking for something to shut you up." He finished as he looked back up to her face and smirked.

"….," was all that Kagome said, mostly because her mind was still processing the words that had come out of his mouth.

-Twenty minutes later-

"Hey, let's go, the bell rang," Inuyasha said as he grabbed his backpack.

Kagome however was still silent, although she had put her stuff away, she had done it with a surprisingly blank look, as if she didn't know what was going on.

"Hello?" Inuyasha said as he waved his hand in front of Kagome's face, "Kagome? Are you all right?"

Suddenly Kagome looked at him, smiled, and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"I'm just fine," she said with a cheery smile, "let's go, we're gonna be late!"

"….," is all that Inuyasha said, mostly because he had replaced Kagome in the "let's-stare-blankly-at-nothing-and-look-like-a-zombie-and-creep-people-out-cause-we're-in-shock-over-something-game." (I'm sure you've all played at least once!)

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Arriving in fourth period, after Inuyasha had finally come out of his stupor that is, they met up with everyone in class….except Kikyo

"Hey, where's kiks? Her class isn't that far is it?" Miroku asked, his arm around Sango's waist….yes her waist….and here's what's more surprising….it was STAYING there!

"I dunno, maybe she got held back by the teacher or something," Rin replied.

Just then Kikyo came in, laughing and talking to none other than…..Eyes Rutherford! (hot british guy from the ball)

"Hey guys, guess what? Eyes is starting school here!" Kikyo said with a beaming smile.

"Wow, that's great! How'd you guys meet up?" Sango asked.

"He's in my third period, and he doesn't have a fourth, so maybe he can even join Decathlon," Kikyo said as she turned towards the teacher, eyes begging.

"Of course, we can always use more people on the team," he replied, "and he seems to be a nice enough guy."

"Oh, if your really looking for more people, my brother Kadaj is also attending here now, I'm sure he'd love to join," Eyes said, with a look over to Ayame.

Ayame meanwhile had an extremely happy smile on her face.

"Great…wow, it looks like we're going to have a great team this year!" Mr. Block said with an ecstatic grin.

As the guys went over to talk to Eyes, to get him officially initiated into their little club (heh, you can just imagine the initation rituals...oh god), the girls swept Kikyo over to the other side of the classroom to dish about him. (hey, they're not girly but they're still girls!)

"Isn't he hot? And he's British! I mean, listen to his accent, it's hypnotic i swear!" Kikyo gushed.

"So, i suppose it's safe to say you no longer like Inuyasha?" Kagome laughed, she'd accepted it a while ago, although she would be happy to hear she no longer liked him.

"Nah...Eyes has cooler eyes," Kikyo said with a wide smile, "I have a thing for white haired guys."

"Hah! Kikyo's so in love, she's rhyming!" Sango taunted.

"Oh yeah? Well you're so in love, you don't even mind that Miroku is staring at your ass right now," Kikyo retorted.

"...you know what? You're right...i don't mind really," Sango said, looking over to her boyfriend and giving him a Miroku like smile.

-With the guys-

"Inuyasha?" Miroku said, after hearing and seeing what had happend with the girls.

"Yeah?"

"Today...there is non revocable proof...that there is a God..." he said, his voice filled with awe

"Allll...right then..." Inuyasha said, not understanding what was going on, but sure it was something perverted that made sense in Mirokuland...

-Back to normal POV-

"It's kind of weird that you ended up here though, isn't it?" Kagome asked, thinking that the coincidence was a little too good.

"Well, not really, this is the best demon high schools in the country, everyone knows that." Eyes said from his seat next to Kikyo (they sat down while everyone was talking)

"Well yeah, I suppose it is, especially cause it's always been run by really powerful demons," Miroku said, "I mean, a little under a decade ago, it was run by my father, and now it's run by my mother."

He finished this sentence off a little solemnly, and everyone, even Eyes understood why. Everyone knew what had happened to Nobu Houshi, the once great principle of Shikon high and famous demon.

"Um…so yeah, anybody know what we're supposed to do?" Kikyo asked, breaking the tension.

"Oh, nothing to do today," Mr. Block said from his desk, "but tomorrow I'm not going to be here, so you guys are going to have a sub, it's going to be Ms. North."

"Oh, god no!" Rin yelled out.

"She's STILL here!" Miroku asked incredulously.

"The woman has been here since the days of Sesshoumaru and Kagura!" Inuyasha exclaimed.

"Excuse me, but if I may ask, who exactly is this "Ms.North?" Eyes inquired.

"Argh, only the most evil, sadistic, heartless, vicious, wicked woman on earth!" Kikyo blurted out.

"Yeah, she's been a substitute for this school for eons…and she loves to mess with us for some reason," Kagome said, remembering the horrible punishment she had been assigned last time, to write 1 + 2 -1 2….1+3-13….1+4-14…etc. until she reached 500, in perfect print! Something she had never mastered so she had to redo it several times…

"Man…I can't believe we have to put up with her again!" Sango said

"Hey…" Kagome said with a mischievous smile, "I have a kind of a crazy idea…."

"Those are never comforting words coming from you," Shippo said as everyone in the room nodded.

"All right, everyone gather round, Kikyo, I'm going to need your help, because your probably going to be the best at this," Kagome said as everyone got into a huddle.

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All right, so I reposted this chapter only because It was WAY too long...so i cut it into two! Anyway, no song in this only because it's in the second part, it was originally one big one that i posted on this site, but Ayame thinks it's too long so i decided to change it, so REVIEW! For BOTH parts! Or i won't update for teh rest of forever! Ok, click the purple button on left and review and then click the one on the RIGHT to continue to part two...he he, wonder what Kagome's planning...