Chapter 05 – In The School

In the morning I woke up surprised that I fell asleep at all. I got up, dressed myself and went to the kitchen for the breakfast. Mum was already there and when she saw me, she put a worried look on.

"Kagome, are you sure you want to go to the school today? I am sure no one will complain about you staying home after what happened." I just nodded. I didn't have the strength to say anything. I was sure that I would say something what I shouldn't anyway, so it was better to stay quiet. Mum handed me the breakfast and I headed to the dinning room when I crashed into Kei.

"I'm sorry my Lady, please forgive me." She said looking to the ground and I had to fight the urge to sigh.

"It's ok." I said and continued to the dining room. She didn't move from her spot the whole time I could see her. She was probably waiting for me to hit her or do something else to punish her, but I could never do something like that, even though that it was considered as a normal thing to do.

"You shouldn't go so easy on her." Mum joined me in the dining room and I almost frowned.

"I'm just tired." I told her, which was kind of true. I was tired of this world, of it's rules and I wasn't even outside of our house yet. That was waiting for me now. I grabbed my school bag and went outside and towards my school.

"Kagome! Are you alright? We heard what happened. It's horrible! How could someone do something like that to you!" Eri came running to me, followed by Ayumi and Yuka, when I reached the school. So it seems that we are friends even here and they already heard about my accident in the well. Though, for some reason they didn't think it was an accident but that someone did that to me.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little confused sometimes." I told them.

"You should have stayed at home if you still don't feel well." Yuka said with concern in her voice.

"I would die of boredom." I said wearily. The girls chuckled.

"Let's go inside, the school will start soon." Ayumi reminded us and we followed inside to the classroom.

The first class was history. I took out the book and watched the wrapper. I didn't notice it before when I was putting the book in my bag, but the wrapper was different from what I remembered. I looked at it more closely and also at the contents. It was completely different from what I have been learning about the history until now.

The main part? Demons weren't just the fairy tales. Actually, they were the main part of every important event. I could have think of that, Naraku wouldn't let humans to lead the history. I looked at the first chapter and Naraku was already mentioned there. Of course, the book referred to him just like about the Lord. I wondered why he didn't mention his name anywhere and decided that I would have to read this book very closely after I would get back home. It could give me some of the information I needed.

The class started and I tried to listen to the teacher, but I was completely lost very soon since I never heard about this version of history. To my luck, he never asked me anything so no one found out that I knew nothing about it, but if it was about to happen, I was prepared to say that I hit my head and that's why I couldn't remember. I didn't know if it would have actually helped me or not, but fortunately I didn't have to find out.

The rest of the classes were quite the same as I remembered. In some the demons were involved more, somewhere less but it were usually just details so I was able to catch up. Through the whole day I didn't meet a single demon in the school for which I was immensely glad. I considered that they probably had their own schools or completely different system of education. It was understandable, they had to learn other things than humans and they would probably be disgusted if they had to attend the same school as humans.

I somehow managed to pass the school without any serious slip. I chatted with my friends and for a while with Hojo when he came to greet me and give me something. It was something what was supposed to help me with healing the injury caused by that fall. The rumors were really spreading fast, since he was able to prepare some gift for me already. Though, I didn't pay much attention to what exactly was that thing.

After the school I went home and fell exhaustedly on my bed. I was lying like that for a while and then took out the history book, determined to find out as much as possible about Naraku there. I didn't find much of useful info though. The book didn't even mention that Naraku was originally a half-demon so I considered that he manipulated the history for his liking. At least I would know what the teacher would be talking about, now when I read it.

I left my room only when I went to eat the dinner and there I had to listen to mum's yelling as Kei broke something by accident. It seemed that she was quite clumsy and I wanted to help her somehow or comfort her, but I knew I couldn't. It would be strange to do something like that and I couldn't be acting strange so I focused on my food and just tried to ignore what was happening around me. Ignore her, that was the best thing I could do and the only way how to at least not add more suffering to her. I didn't like it, but I couldn't do anything about it. Not now and not here.

Ok, first part of the story is over. In the next chapter we are going to move on a bit and the things will start to get more interesting (hopefully XD). Also in the next chapter I am planning to do some kind of summary of how it works in this world, so...

Is there something about this world which was left unexplained and where you are not sure about how it works? Something what confuses you? If you have the feeling that something wasn't explained enough, please let me know so I can set it right. I want make everything clear before the next part of the story and your suggestions would really help me in this task. Thank you everyone :).