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Chapter 2: Don't look at me

With in the next twenty minutes Kagome and Sota had their schedules, locker numbers, and combinations. "Hey sis?" Sota asked, looking up into his sister's eyes with his innocent ones.

She couldn't help but feel like his eyes were looking into her soul. She broke the eye contact afraid that he would look into her soul and see all of the sin there. "Yes Sota?"

"Will you come with me to my locker?"

"Of course." They walked down the hall to his locker where he deposited his all of his belongings except a notebook and a pen. Kagome then walked him to class and headed to her locker. When she was opening it she heard someone walking threw the hallway towards her. She could tell by their aura that the person was a full demon and a dog demon at that. Her body froze when he stopped behind her. She could feel his aura pressing on her and her breath started to come out in short pants, it felt as if her lungs were being restricted.

"What are you doing out here?" A cold emotionless voice asked causing her to jump out of her skin.

She turned around to see a gorges man who wore black suit pants and white dress top that had the first few buttons undone exposing a little of his well toned chest. She was surprised not only by his attire but by his beauty, he had long and perfectly straight silver hair, and you could tell that underneath his black suit pants and white dress top that there was more muscle then meets the eye, but his handsome face was just as emotionless and cold as his voice.

"I am putting my backpack away, and grabbing a notebook instead. Am I not aloud to do so?" She asked in her own emotionless voice while raising a perfectly sculpted eyebrow in question.

"No not unless you have a hall pass."

With out braking eye contact she grabbed a green notebook and black pen from her locker behind her and slammed said locker's door shut with a loud bang. Neither of them flinched at the offending sound. "I'm new here and I have not been to my first class yet, so no I don't have a hall pass."

"Well then I shall escort you to your first class to make sure you get there." Cold sarcasm was laced within his words.

"I don't think I want a creepy old guy escorting me." She thought she saw anger flash in his eyes as he moved closer to her, but when she looked closer it was gone so she just figured it was the lighting.

"I am only a few years older then you, and I am hardly creepy. And just so you know I happen to be a teacher here."

She felt her cheeks heat up in slight embarrassment for being rude. "I'm sorry I didn't know."

"That is fine. It is nice to know that some girls still actually have some values. Now, where is your class?" He watched as she pulled out a small piece of clean white paper and handed it to him. He looked at the paper's neat black ink printed across it in orderly lines. "Brenton's classroom is this way." He said handing the paper back to her and gesturing down the hall where he had just come from.

"Thank you." She said as he started walking in the direction indicated. She fell in step next to him. They quietly walked down the hallway until they reached the door with a black and white label that read: Calculus - Brenton.

"Here we are." He said curtly.

"Again thank you Mr... uh you never did tell me your name."

"Tashio. I'll see you in 4th hour." With that said he walked away leaving a slightly shocked Kagome behind.

She pulled out her schedule to see written in plain black words: 4: Tashio—Creative Writing. She sighed and walked into her class.

Everyone looked at her with scrutinizing looks.

She looked towards the teacher not liking all of the attention drawn to her. The person who she assumed was Mr. Brenton looked at her and asked: "Yes?"

"I'm in your class." She held out her schedule to him and he took it. After briefly glancing at her schedule he pointed to a seat in the back. "Take a seat in the back next to Sango." He didn't even bother telling her who Sango was before returning to his lecture, but when Kagome looked in the back of the room she spotted the girl from earlier that morning who was waving her hand.

She walked to the back and took her seat, she was behind Inuyasha, and to the right of Sango, and to Sango's left was Miroku. Sango turned to Kagome and smiled, Kagome only stared at her. "Yes?" Kagome's emotionless voice was starting to get on Inuyasha's nerves but instead of saying anything he just listened.

"I was wondering if I could see your schedule so I could see if we have any other classes together." Kagome just handed her the small white paper that was starting to get annoying. "Well that's lucky... the four of us have the same schedule."

Inuyasha scoffed. "Oh joy." He said sarcastically.

"What's your deal? I haven't done anything to you." Her voice hadn't changed from its emotionless state.

"You're annoying and a bitch."

"I have barley said a few sentences to you how can you say I'm annoying if you don't even know me?"

He gave her a simple 'feh' and turned away.

They turned back to the front of the room and tried to follow the teachers lector but they all found it rather boring and as Kagome was about to let her head fall to her desk a note popped in front of her face on the smooth desk top. She stared at it for a little while before opening it.

Kagome,

Hey I'm really sorry that we got off on the wrong foot, but I wanna be friends.

Sango.

Kagome held her pen poised above the paper ready to write something nasty but for some reason she couldn't force her self to do it. Instead she jotted down a few quick sentences. Praying silently in her head perhaps this time would be different.

Sango,

No its ok, I'm just tired. I would like to be friends with you guys. You guys are the only ppl who have talked to me so far... well except for this one teacher who escorted me to this class, I think his name was Tashio, I'm not really sure.

Kagome.

Sango coughed when she read that Tashio had helped someone. Her cough drew the attention of Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kagome. Sango looked at Kagome then quickly wrote:

Kagome,

Tashio, as in Sesshomaru Tashio? The English teacher?

Sango

Kagome read Sango's hurried writing with slight difficulty then replied:

Sango,

Yeah, he is our 4th hour teacher.

Kagome.

Sango was in such shock, all she could do was stare at Kagome after she had read the note.

Kagome wasn't sure how to take her silence so she leaned over and asked: "Are you ok?"

Sango just nodded dumbly. "Sorry I'm just shocked." She whispered back. "Tashio is one of the coldest and most heartless bastards I have ever met."

Kagome heard a growl from in front of her. She turned her attention to Inuyasha, and almost gasped when she saw fierce golden eyes starring straight in to her green ones. "Wh-what?" She stuttered but still kept her cold tone.

"Was that bastard actually nice to you?" He asked. His voice was calm but his eyes held such strong hatred.

"Y-yes. Why? Is that something big?"

Miroku chuckled and answered for Inuyasha. "Big? Are you kidding? It's the sign of the apocalypse. I don't think I have ever seen Sesshomaru be nice to anybody in the time I have known Inuyasha, and that's 11 years."

"Wow... not even once?" Kagome asked.

"Nope. He's a real hard ass." Sango laughed silently.

"How do you guys know him?" Kagome questioned innocently enough.

"He's my older half brother." Inuyasha growled out.

"Oh, you can really see the family resemblance." Inuyasha's upper lip lifted in a snarl. "I'm sorry." Kagome added quickly and lowered her head not wanting to start a fight and get in trouble. She knew what her step-father would do.

Inuyasha could smell her sadness, and for some reason felt guilty. "No, it's ok. It's my fault anyways..." Inuyasha said lightly, his guilt went away as he smelled her sadness go away as if it had never been there. Being half dog demon had its perks.

Now Sango and Miroku seriously thought that hell had frozen over and the world was coming to an end. First Sesshomaru helps her out and then Inuyasha apologizes. Was this girl some fallen angel or a devil in disguise?

Kagome looked up into Inuyasha's eyes and was shocked that the strong emotion in them was not anger but that of something she didn't recognize.

He smiled at her and she felt the corner of her lips tug up in a ghost of a smile. Inuyasha felt like a weight was lifted off of him when he saw her smile. All of a sudden he saw tons of flashes of him and a girl playing on a playground. Then it changed to her crying in his arms because it was thundering, then the same girl crying again with bruises on her small frame. Then the last one was of the little girl standing next to a moving truck hugging him tightly before being pried away from him forever. When the flashes stopped he looked up pain evident in his eyes.

"Inuyasha, Are you ok?" Sango asked looking at him trying to catch his eye but he was looking at Kagome who in turn was looking back at him with an emotionless face but her eyes betrayed her and showed slight worry.

He remembered her now. He remembered everything. "Is your mother still with your step-father?"

Kagome gaped at him in silence. 'How does he know?' She thought to her self. She nodded her head not sure what to think or do.

Inuyasha couldn't help but move forward and pull her into his arms.

She winced at the warm contact but let him hold her. She looked at Sango and Miroku for help but they just starred open mouthed at them.

They were both shocked beyond words. Even with his girlfriends Inuyasha never displayed much public affection, and now he was holding some girl who he had just met.

"Do you remember?" He asked whispering in her ear.

"I'm sorry I don't know what you're talking about or how you know about my step-father."

"Oh Kagome, you don't remember." He pulled away and looked into her eyes, watching as she just shook her head. He could smell and see that she wasn't lying to him, she truly didn't recognize him. "You used to live here like 10 years ago, you were my best friend. I recognized you but I just couldn't place you."

Kagome felt horrible that she didn't know what he was talking about. "I'm sorry." She wasn't sure what to do, she had never been in this kind of a situation before.

Inuyasha sat back in his seat, releasing her from his hold.

Miroku finally decided to speak up once he had found his voice. "Inuyasha what's going on?"

"Kagome used to live here like I said. Don't you guys remember?"

"Sorry Inuyasha we don't know what you're talking about." Sango said but then both her and Miroku suddenly had a similar experience to what Inuyasha had had but not as intense because they hadn't known Kagome as well or as long.

Sango and Miroku looked at her with a similar look that Inuyasha had.

Kagome just looked at the three of them not sure what to think, everything was just too much for her to handle. They were all looking at her expectantly and she didn't even know these people like they claimed. "Don't look at me like that." She said emotions running wild. "I don't know who you people are but if this is some kinda of joke it's not funny."

"If this was some joke then how would I know about your step-father? His name is Naraku and your mother's name is Kemi, how would I know that?" He was confused and angry.

"I don't know. Maybe you're a stalker or something."

"But you told us this morning that you were new here." Sango said looking at her trying to get her to remember, she felt bad that Kagome thought that this was a joke, but it wasn't.

"Shut up, this isn't funny." Kagome wasn't going to play into their sick joke. She shook her head as Inuyasha continued.

"Your birthday is the 26th of December, and Sota's is the 3rd of May. Your favorite holiday is Halloween, not because of the candy, but because you get to dress up and be a princess even if it's just for that night."

"No, shut up. Stop it." Kagome couldn't take it anymore this sick joke had gone too far. She grabbed her note book and ran out of the room the teacher calling after her:

"That counts as sluffing."

"She isn't feeling well, she ran out to go to the bathroom and puke." Sango said so Kagome wouldn't get in trouble.

"Ok." Was all the teacher said before turning back to the work on his desk.

Kagome stopped running, tears falling from her eyes as she slid down the wall. She brought her knees up to her chest and buried her face in her face in them, and for the first time in a long time she cried.

"Excuse me?"

She heard a colder and more emotionless voice then her own ask. She glanced up to see the last person she expected. "Tashio?"

"Yes. Miss Higurashi, what are you doing out here? Did I not just take you to your class?"

Kagome flinched at his cold tone. She wiped her tears away. "Y-yes, you did."

"Then why are you out here, and crying for that matter?"

"I don't care if I get in trouble I'm not going back there... at least for now."

"Well you can not stay out in the hall way unless you want to get a detention or worse." He held out his hand. "I am in a good mood at the moment and if you come with me to my classroom and grade papers I will give your teacher an excuse."

She grabbed his hand and he easily helped her into a standing position. "Really?" She asked not believing him.

"I will not repeat my self." He started to walk away leaving her to fallow him or stand there crying. She chose the former of the two and ran after him wiping all evidence that she was crying away. Once they were in his empty classroom he walked over to his desk grabbed a stack of papers, a green grading pen, and then put them on one of the front desks. "The key is on top, the test has fifty questions at two points each and one bonus question at the end for six extra points. Do you understand?"

Kagome felt a flare of anger, she wasn't stupid, but she bit her tongue and nodded not wanting to say anything that would wined her up in trouble not only at school but at home. She started grading the papers while thinking: 'It's not really a home. Home is where you feel safe and loved.' Kagome didn't feel either of those when she was in her 'home'. When she was in her house all she felt was dread and imposing doom. She was brought out of her musings by a cold voice.

"So why were you crying?"

Kagome looked up to see Mr. Tashio's head still bowed as he worked on papers similar to hers. "Does it matter?"

"No. I was simply wondering why." He set his own green pen down and folded his hands neatly, looking up at her with bright golden sun kissed eyes.

"It was your brother." She heard him growl.

"Half brother. What did he do if I may be so bold as to ask?"

"I don't wanna talk about it." She stated coldly.

"I do not really care but it is my job as a teacher to care about my students."

"Something tells me you don't do that very much." He chuckled lightly while saying:

"No I do not."

"Can I ask you a question since you asked me one?"

"As long as it is not too personal." He said coldly.

"How old are you?"

He looked slightly shocked by her question but covered it quickly. "24."

"Why are you working here, aren't you a little young?" She asked feeling stupid about calling I'm old earlier.

"I skipped a few grades, and I enjoy being a teacher. Even though I teach insolent brats such as my half-brother and his little girlfriends." Mr. Tashio turned back to his work and Kagome just starred at him.

"Then why don't you teach a different age group?" He didn't look up at her when he answered:

"Because if I teach people my own age they don't give me any respect, and I cannot stand snot nosed brats."

"That's a little harsh don't you think, I mean you were a snot nosed brat at one time." She turned back to the work she had been assigned to grade. "So I hear you're a hard ass." She heard him chuckle again.

"Yeah I guess I am. All you have to do to please me is your homework and not be loud and obnoxious."

"Are most of the people here obnoxious?" She was half way done with the papers now.

"You have no idea." He had a hint of amusement in his cold emotionless voice. "I think the worst is one of the most popular girls, Kikyo, she has this annoying high pitched voice, and wears the skimpiest clothing I have ever seen. She probably has all STD's known and a few that are unknown." Kagome laughed for the first time in a long time, and even if it was just a short one it felt good. Her laugh was light but meaningful, and it sounded like a sweet melody.

"Wow I didn't think you could be funny." She told him.

"Well considering you do not know me…" He trailed off.

"Well anyways I'm done." She said proudly, smacking her hand down on the pile of papers she had just graded. He looked up but not at her, he looked at the clock to see that the bell was about to ring.

"And so is this period." The bell rang and she stood up and handed him the papers, which he took. "So do you think you will be able to stay in your next class?"

"Yes. I will see you in 4th hour."

"Don't sluff this time." Kagome gave him a ghost of a smile and walked out so she could attempt to look for her next class.