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Chapter 4: Five Star

"Get up!" GD slammed the door open making Kagome shoot up in bed. "Time to get ready for school!"

He left, leaving the door open, and continued slamming on walls and doors yelling, "Get up!"

Inuyasha groaned and turned over and Kagome rubbed her eyes.

"Nice alarm clock." she grumbled throwing the thin blanket off her body.

"I'm thinking about throwing it against the wall like my last one." Inuyasha said though it was mostly incomprihensable mumbling.

Kagome stretched, trying to work the kinks out of her body that was not used to sleeping on such a thin and old matress.

PJ's, like uniforms, seemed to be...well...uniform. For guys, long gray pants and a gray shirt. Girls, white shorts and a gray tank top. She had been cold all night.

She looked out the window onto the large, grassless, courtyard that was muddy from yesterdays storm.

"Time to get up." she said, much more gently, as she stood up to close the door. The wood beneath her feet was cold and gritty.

The blob of silver hair mumbled some thing she couldn't understand before rolling over.

Kagome bent down and dug under her bed. Inuyasha said that's where people kept their stuff. Not to hide it from the guards because they searched their rooms anyway, but to keep it from getting wet when it rained and the roof leaked.

She pulled out her uniform, underwear, and shoes and set them on her bed.

"Come on, Inuyasha." Kagome said standing up and walking over to his bed. "You don't want to get in trouble."

The blanket moved down slighty and a half closed golden eye looked up at her. "Tired. Sleep."

"I know. Come on." she smiled down at him as the noise of the dorms getting up and coming to life echoed around them. "If you hadn't stayed up until three in the morning you wouldn't be so tired."

He mumbled some thing but she didn't hear him.

"What?"

He pulled the blanket down some more and said, "Hanky panky going down. Three doors to the right."

Kagome laughed. "That's disgusting."

"So are they." he said stretching his arms above his head. "That guy is such an idiot. She probably doesn't feel anything from his inexperienced hands."

"Like you're any better?" Kagome asked with a slight smile. "Woh!" She cried as his arm, with demonic speed, snapped out and snagged her by the waist before pulled her down. In another swift movement she was on her stomach with Inuyasha laying half on top of her.

"Want to find out?" he asked breathing hot air in her ear.

Kagome laughed breathlessly. "I see you're up."

He smirked at the double meaning of her words. "We could skip class. Have a little fun. I know a guy who can sneak in condoms."

Kagome laughed and turned her head to look at him. "Thanks but no thanks." She elbowed him gently in the gut. She knew he could have stayed there all day with her punching him full in the face without any effect but he moved at the small force she applied.

She climbed out of bed as he scratched behind his own trianular dog ears.

Kagome shook her head at his lounging position. "Get out of bed."

"Yes, mom." he smirked. He didn't though, he just reached under his bed and pulled out the clothing he needed without looking.

"Let's go!" GD opened the door again making both of them glare at him. "Hurry up and get dressed. Breakfast is already being served.

"Asshole." Kagome said quietly as he left.

Inuyasha nodded and stood up.

"Alright. Let's get dressed then get you your first 5 star meal." he joked as he began to take off his pants.

Inuyasha didn't sleep with his white PJ shirt on, just his pants. Kagome blushed hottly and turned around. Inuyasha saw her and chuckled.

"What are you, a virgin?" he asked and Kagome could hear cloth moving behind her.

"So what if I am?" she asked back.

He laughed at her. "Just hurry up and get dressed. You were the one nagging a minute ago."

"I was not nagging." Kagome protested.

Inuyasha was about to say something back when Helga entered the room.

"Come on, you two." was all she said in her stern, man-like voice.

They finished dressing without speaking again and went outside where the students had gathered and were surrounded by a ring of tough looking guards.

Inuyasha walked right up to his friends and Kagome, without anywhere else to go, followed him.

Sango smiled in welcome and Ayame did the same but she was clinging to Kouga's arm who was trying to silently get her off without making too much off a fuss.

"What are we waiting for?" Kagome whispered to Miroku. She only whispered because no one was talking.

He leaned in and said softly, "The headmaster likes to give us a speech each Monday morning. Not sure why."

"Miroku?"

"Yeah?"

"Get your hand off my ass please."

He smiled charmingly. "Sure thing."

She leaned back and glared at him as he removed the offending appendage.

Inuyasha looked back, having easily heard the whispered conversation with his superior senses, and glared at Miroku. "When will you learn to keep your hands to youself."

Miroku just smiled.

"Look." Sango said pointing.

Kagome looked up at the large window in the headmaster's tower. The window was open and the headmaster, may he rest in hell she prayed, was looking out at them. She couldn't make out the details of his face but she could remember them all too easily in her mind.

"Good morning, students." he called out pleasently his vioce reaching them depsite the three stories between him and them.

"Good morning, headmaster." they echoed dully. Kagome noticed Inuyasha and Kouga had quietly replaced headmaster with Satan.

There was a moment of silence as the headmaster drew in a deep breath. "Ahh...I love a morning after a rainstorm. Don't you?"

No one answered his question but he didn't look like he expected them to.

"A new week. A new chance to get out of here and graduate. We all know the new girl, yes? Let's make sure Miss Higurashi feels welcome here."

Kagome expected peopel to turn and look at her but everyone watched the headmaster. Their eyes were flat and uncaring.

"Math and anger managment today. I know you can't wait to get started so I'll let you get to breakfast so you can hurry to class."

"That's likely." Inuyasha and Kouga said at the same time.

The headmaster's head disapeared back inside and his window closed.

"Prick." Kagome said as the students started talking again as they walked toward the main building.

"My thoughts exactly." Ayame said. "Although," she got a wicked gleam in her eyes, "I'll say Sango can't wait to get to anger managment."

"Shut up." she said smiling.

"Ayame. LET ME GO!" Kouga cried still trying to free his arm from the death grip she had on it.

"Uh-uh." she said smiling.

"Sango?" Miroku said suddenly.

"What?" she asked still smiling.

"I'm curious; How are your anger managment courses coming along?" he smiled softly at her.

"Great. I suppose. I didn't want to punch the anger managment teacher last time so I guess I'm getting better. And..." she stopped mid-sentence and rammed her fist into Miroku's face.

"FUCKING PERVERT! KEEP YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF ME!!!!"

The gang stopped when Miroku landed in a heap.

Sango breathed heavily for a second her fist still clenched and held up threateningly when she paused and rose out of her crouch. "Huh? What just hap...Oh man! Dammit Miroku. You made me black out again."

"Worth it." he grunted standing up slowly.

Sango growled and stomped away, preforming her breathing excersizes again.

Kagome laughed and continued walking with Inuyasha at her side, his arms behind his head.

"You think he'd learn." he said dryly.

Kagome shook her head as Miroku walked next to Sango, with her keeping a careful distance between them, with a large red mark on his face. Though he was still smiling.

"So. What do you people eat for breakfast around here?" she asked.

Inuyasha shrugged. "I wouldn't recommend it. They say it's healthy but I wouldn't believe them."

Kagome nodded as the students filed into the bleak gray building.

The school wasn't very complex. There were two comunal shower rooms, one for guys and one for girls, a gym, a large cafeteria, a big auditorium-like room for classes, and a bunch of smaller rooms where private session where held for things like solo therapy.

One would be surprised that the cafeteria for Hell was surprisingly similer to a standard high school cafeteria. Of course, most high schoolers would tell you high school is hell. But Kagome was surprised to see that Hell's cafeteria reminded her so much of a normal high schools.

There were a variety of mismatched chairs in different chades of gray. They surrounded a bunch of rectangular, faux wood tables that had been carved into. Kagome had never figured out how people did that. The bottoms of which were covered in a bright rainbow of chewed and discarded gum pieces. It was even more odd how they got the gum considering that they were basically in prison.

The once white linoluim was worn from years of teenage feet and the florescent light bulbs that hung overhead were even more faded than the floor. The paint on the walls was yellow like old newspaper and the stench of bad food was permiating the air.

Kagome entered the large cavern like room and was immediatly standing in line. Following Sango who was in front of her, she picked up a thin metal tray and set in on three long, identical, horizontal bars and started walking down as if in an essembly line.

She passed the first cook, a male with barely any hair who still wore a hairnet even though his beard was what worried Kagome the most about getting into her food. He scooped up some yellow-ish, mushy-liquid, and dumped it unceremoniasly into one of the small rectangular dips on her tray.

She tried not to grimace and moved on after Sango.

The next 'cook' was a very skinny lady who looked as if she might wither away in the next breeze. Her face was so wrinkled and lined that it looked as if she kept her heart beating by sheer will alone. She scooped up some other yellow-ish thing that was lumpy with black specks and dumped it onto the biggest dip in her tray.

Kagome moved on again to the next person.

Kagome wasn't exactly sure what this one was. It was very large so those boobs could have been male or female, that they weren't in a bra meant very little. Their salt and pepper, and oily, hair was confined in a hairnet so Kagome couldn't decide gender by the length. And whatever it was had a very nice mustache forming in the same salt and pepper mix as her hair.

She scooped up an interestingly shapped and red-ish orange colored board like thing with a pair of tongs and dumped a few onto her tray.

She moved on again and grabbed on of those small milk cartons they served everywhere and left the line.

"Come on." Inuyasha said leaving the line after her.

She sighed and followed him and the others to a table in the far corner.

Miroku sat down and looked at his slop in what looked like a happy face.

Kagome sat between Sango and Ayame as Ayame cuddled Kouga's arm.

"How do you eat that?" Sango asked watching Miroku scoop the lumpy yellow things into his mouth with a gusto.

"Ith prei goo." he said around a moutful of the things.

"It tastes like cardboard." Inuyasha said dryly pokin his around with a plastic fork.

"What is it?" Kagome asked poking it suspiciously.

"Eggs, bacon, and I think this might be applesauce." Kouga said giving up in his fight against Ayame.

Miroku shoved some in his mouth and nodded. "Yu! Ahle thoth." he smiled around the bite.

"That is so gross." Kagome said pushing it away. She decided to wait until lunch to eat.

Sango and Ayame followed her example but Kouga and Inuyasha lined the lumpy eggs barricade style and flicked them across the table in turns each one ducking and trying to hit the other.

Kagome sat back and watched Helga who stood guard at the door watching the students with a grim look on her face.

"What you looking at Brune Hilda for?" Sango asked seeing her gaze.

"Brune Hilda?" Kagome laughed.

"She looks like a Valcarie!" Sango laughed and Kagome nodded.

"I know. I've been calling her Helga."

Everyone else laughed and Inuyasha smirked.

Miroku pushed back his empty tray and smiled happily.

"That is disgusting, Miroku." Kouga said unhappily.

"Five star couldn't beat this." he said.

"That has to be the nastiest thing I have ever seen." Kagome admitted dryly.

"To each his own, sweetie. The woman I'm planning on marrying can't cook and her food tastes like this. So I'm adjusting to it. After all this time, I think I even love it." he said smiling still.

"'Planning on marrying'?" Kagome repeated and for some reason Sango's eyes narrowed dangerously. "You've already decided? What are you, 17?"

He nodded. "When you know, you know, you know?"

Kagome laughed as Sango glared but Miroku just grinned happily.

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