Disclaimer: I do not own the Inuyasha characters but the story plot belongs to me. Nor do I own the songs that may be presented.
Schooled
"Why the fuck did you do that for?" screamed a very irked Sango to her roommate.
Kagome rolled her eyes at her friend. "Lower your voice, we are in public."
"I don't give a flying monkey," Sango replied but she had lowered her voice.
They were walking to the TU campus. Today was the first day of the college semester and Kagome had dragged Sango out of bed at an untimely hour to go get some breakfast and to get to class early. After their breakfast she had told her roommate about seeing Inuyasha, telling him about where they were staying and that he and his roommate should come over and hang with them. Actually that had been fine with Sango until Kagome had to try and sneak the fact that Miroku lived with Inuyasha.
"What? Flying monkeys? Why would you say something like that?" Kagome said mischievously.
Sango looked at her like she should remember the reference. "You know flying monkeys, like in the Wizard of OZ…" Sango paused and frowned at Kagome. Kagome knew that frown. Ah man I almost got away with it, she thought. "And no changing the subject." Sango said screaming again.
"It is not that big of a deal Sango."
Kagome didn't look at her friend but she could feel the chocolate eyes on her glaring daggers. "Not… that… big… of a deal," it was spat out in a half craze. "Of course it's a fucking big deal. I don't want that perve to know where I live."
Kagome rolled her eyes again because there was nothing else she could do. They walked into the English building for their first class, which was creative writing, and they were 30 minutes early. They decided to sit in the middle of the rows near the door.
"See we didn't really have to get up at that ungodly hour this morning. Now we look like dorks being here so early and not the sexy people we are," Sango whined as she put her forehead down on the desk.
"Oh hush its better than being late."
Kagome just heard a 'humph' from her friend. Both turned as they heard, "Oh good I'm not the only dork who wanted to get here early. Come on Ayame."
The red head walked in, seemingly half asleep, and went to sit in front of the roommates. "You are annoyingly perky in the morning Rin."
Sango looked at Ayame with a smile and said, "You have the right idea about mornings these two are dorks. I'm gonna sit with the only other sane person here." She picked up her stuff and moved next to Ayame so Rin sat by Kagome.
Ayame yawned but stated, "I'm bored. Let's play a card game."
"That would be fun but we don't have any cards," but Kagome had spoke too soon as she watched the wolf demon pull out a deck of cards from her pocket. Kagome smiled and suggested innocently, "Why don't we play Texas hold 'em?"
Both Rin and Sango saw the devilish smile and practically shouted their answer together, "NO!" At the same time Ayame said, "Ok."
Ayame was a bit surprised at the other two girls' seemingly irrationable response and all the while the devilish grin was still on Kagome's face. Rin turned to her roommate and explained in a more reasonable tone, "My cousin comes from a long line of mikos so betting against her is almost like just giving her your money directly. Don't misunderstand me she doesn't cheat but her lineage gives her an advantage that most don't."
To Kagome she proposed, "Why don't we play presidents?"
Kagome sighed and nodded as Ayame accused, "You tried to swindle me?"
Teasingly she replied, "Swindle sounds like such a dirty word… but it's the right one so ok. Yes in a way I tried to swindle you. Like Rin said I don't cheat but sometimes I have this voice that tells me things that I wouldn't know ordinarily, such as if another player has a better hand, I may not know exactly what the cards are but I still know if it is better. Or the voice could tell me that I can bluff my way out of it or not."
Ayame liked Kagome so she teased back. "You know that if anyone else were to tell me that they heard voices I would have to call some nice people with a very nice white jacket for you."
Rin stiffened, Sango made a soft gasp and Kagome just kept on smiling but this time it didn't go to her eyes. When she noticed that, Ayame realized that there was something about mentioning the funny farm that didn't sit too well with these three.
The wolf demon kept eye contact with the one with the miko lineage and gave her apology in a small smile. Almost imperceptibly Kagome shook her head as if to say that she didn't know so she didn't need to apologize.
After that slight silence the girls started playing. About the third round of presidents some other students came into the classroom. They were so engrossed in the game that they almost didn't hear a certain other wolf demon say, "Well, well, well, look at my luck I get to be in a class with my lady."
"I'm not your lady Koga," Kagome growled but it didn't seem to faze him in the least.
"And who are you?" Koga asked in a not quite flirtatious voice.
Ayame thought he was good looking so she answered in a way to match his voice, "My name is Ayame."
They could say anymore because it was now 9 o'clock and the professor walked in so Koga went to go sit with his friends. The two and a half hours seemed to speed up at times and drag on at others. When the teacher had told them that they were done for the day the girls hurriedly picked up their stuff and left because three of the four of them didn't want Koga to walk with them.
They all had to have some physical activity on their schedules to keep the scholarship that they had so they all chose to do martial arts together. As they walked to the gym for their martial arts class across campus they heard thunder.
"Oh I hope it rains," Kagome stated looking up to the blackening sky.
Ayame looked at her new friend with a raised eyebrow, "Really?"
Kagome looked at the red head and said seriously, "Yes. I think the best times in the year are when it rains."
The wolf demon just shrugged and opened the door to the gym letting the others go first and then following. When their eyes adjusted to the light in the gym they saw that it was all guys staring back at them. There may have been 17 guys but one, thinking he was so macho looked them all up and down and said, "Girls this is a martial arts class not a fashion design class."
Sango, who was on Kagome's right, balled her hands into fists and Ayame, on the other side of Kagome, started growling at the misogynistic comment. Rin just looked at Kagome who put her arms out to stop the other two. They both seemed to be surprised at the gesture.
"Oh good gracious girls we seemed to have come to the wrong building," Kagome said in a deceptive sweet southern bell voice. The guy who had spoken to them gave a smug smile as if he had just won not realizing the wrath that was coming.
Unknown the group of girls three people were watching from the sidelines; a full demon dog, a hanyou and a human. One was upset at how the guy had spoken to the girls but the other two held him back, curious at how they would handle themselves.
Still speaking in the same voice Kagome said, "Well if this is a martial arts class do you think that you could show me a few things."
The misogynistic tone never left his voice as he replied, "I could but you have to back up so I don't hurt or scare you." She humored him and stepped back as he did a few moves.
When he stood back up facing her she walked back over to him and said, with her southern bell accent gone but her tone was still sweet, "That was cute but I think that if you talk so tough you should be able to back it up with a sparring partner. I know a few things so I'll volunteer but go easy on me I am a girl after all."
The three observing girls relaxed just a little at the suggestion, this was how Kagome was going to get her revenge. Rin and Sango knew that Kagome was an excellent martial artist and Ayame knew it in the way that she held herself and the way that the other two respected her.
The three in the corner weren't as confident. "What is she thinking?" whispered the hanyou.
"Of course I'll take it easy on you little girl. I'll even let you make the first move," patronized the guy who was still oblivious of his error.
They both got in their stances. As he said should could she made the first move and in a blink of an eye Kagome had the jerk on the ground.
The demon was so surprised at the speed of her he had to ask his companions, "I thought you said she was human?"
"She is," replied the two.
The jerk was also very surprised but he got up rubbing his shoulder and motioned for her to go again. So she obliged him finding pleasure in hurting him some more. This time he attacked first swinging punches and then tried to round house kick her but she dodged every assault. He growled out in rage and opened his mouth to yell at her but all that came out was the whoosh of his breath. The jerk left himself open for her to side kick him in the gut. He bent over in pain and she slammed both of her fists on his back, dropping him like a box of rocks.
He rolled onto his side and looked up at her with surprise and rage battling in his eyes. She looked back at him, no sweetness from any part of her, and said, "Next time keep your misogynistic comments to yourself or you might not get off this easy." As if to accentuate the point a loud clap of thunder sounded.
After hearing her speak the stupefied guys came out of their revere and they decided that they had been offended by their leader getting beat by a girl and attacked Kagome. The three other girls saw that and went to her rescue. All the girls were good fighters dodging and blocking most of the attacks. But seeing as it was four guys for each girl – the leader had yet to get up – the guys did land some lucky punches.
To the three observing it looked as if the girls were dancing rather than fighting. The hanyou noticed that none of them were really working very hard because they were using their opponents' movements against them. For a second he thought he detected a smile on all of their faces at one point.
The guys were all on the floor when Rin commented, "It looks like it was raining guys in here."
Sango giggled as Ayame replied, "I wouldn't call them guys. I would call them little boys who just got their asses handed to them."
Kagome smiled at the other girls. Just then they heard clapping coming from one of the many doors in the gym and they turned and easily moved into a fighting stance just in case.
A/N: I'm sorry it took so long to update. Please review it gives me incouragement to keep going.