Chapter 5

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Kagome wiped the sweat from her brow and took a break from working under the hood of the car. She walked over to the cooler and took out a bottle of water to drink. The cool liquid felt beautiful compared to the warm garage.

To her delight she noticed someone walking trough the door. There was a big smile plastered on her face as she greeted him.

"Hey Sesshoumaru!"

He turned his head to stare at her as she bounded towards him.

"I knew you would come. Let me introduce you to some of the guys," she took a hold of his wrist and pulled him forward to the car that was being constructed.

"Everyone! This is Sesshoumaru," she used both arms to present him like a big prize of sorts. "He's a professional mechanic."

"Sesshoumaru this is J.J.," she named.

J.J. walked up and held out his hand, "Nice to meet you." Sesshoumaru took it and gave a firm hand shake.

"That's Yuta." Yuta gave a salute off to the top of his head. "The twins Hachiro and Kurou." They nodded their heads at Sesshoumaru.

"Then Rocket."

"Hey mon," Rocket greeted.

"Then-"

"He's a demon," Aoi stated stepping forward. Aoi was a water demon and was able to control the liquidsmovemtn to his wishes. His hair was white and shaggy with a pony tail down the center to keep some of his hair out of the way of his face. He stood there staring at Sesshoumaru with a pair of dark indigo eyes.

"Aoi," Kagome finished.

Kagome looked between the two males. "Huh, I guess he is," she announced nonchalantly.

The whole garage moaned in exasperation.

"Kagome, you should be able to sense that more than any of us," J.J. raked a hand through his carrot colored hair.

"He's got markings," the twins pointed out together.

"Oh." Kagome inspected Sesshoumaru's face and arms. "I thought those were tattoos."

"They're markings," Aoi explained without taking his gaze from Sesshoumaru. In turn Sesshoumaru stared right back.

"We've told you that how many times?" Otoya spoke sarcastically. He showed his pointed ears and snarled to show off his set of fangs. "Demons sometimes have odd shaped ears and or a set of fangs. But it's hard to tell these days with humans having their teeth sharpened to look like fangs." His comment was directed at one of the members in the garage.

"Up yours man!" Lee yelled from the other side of the garage.

"Whatever you say wanna be!" Otoya yelled back.

"Ok, calm down," Kagome interrupted before they started fighting. She looked at Sesshoumaru to explain. "I have an ability to sense demons but I don't pay it attention to it very often," she smirked and shrug it off.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at her.

"That's little sister alright," Yuta spoke up. "Always so oblivious."

The rest of the garage chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"Anyways," Kagome said, "Sesshoumaru is considering joining us so be polite," she announced.

"Let me show you our baby," Kagome winked and urged him to come inspect the car.

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Sesshoumaru was impressed with the level of professional work the group had done. There were a few things here and there that definitely needed improvement though. He had to wonder how they had afforded some of these parts however.

"Everything put into this car is either from a junk yard, donated, or we've raised the money to buy it." Kagome patted the car with her hand. "There is a firm no stealing policy."

He nodded. "This is impressive work."

The female next to him seemed to light up with the compliment.

"But there are a few amateur mistakes in it's built."

Instead of taking offense or getting a sour expression as some of the guys in the garage did Kagome just smiled.

"Great, that means there is room for improvement and you'll just have to help us do just that. So tell us what needs to be fixed."

Sesshoumaru started to speak and point out the things he saw. In the middle of his review Sesshomaru had noticed a lot of the garage members had gathered around to listen intently to the knowledge he spoke. By the time he was done the bell had rung for lunch.

"Alright!" Kagome exclaimed. "We've got a lot of work to do this week before Saturday boys. I'll see some of you in last class period to get started."

The boys started to change and shuffle out of the room with their things.

"Wait here a sec," Kagome spoke to him and went into the back room, shutting the door closed.

A few minutes later she came out dressed in her school uniform. A dark blue pleated skirt, white colored shirt, with a navy blue tie. she had her bag slung over her shoulder -a very male stance Sesshoumaru noted.

"Alright, let's go get some food!" she exclaimed with much excitement. "You can eat with Sango and I."

Sesshoumaru walked out of the room with the female.

"You seem to be making all the decisions here," he stated.

"Oh... do you have somewhere else to be?" She asked.

"No."

Her lips curved into a smile as she looked up at him. "Well then it's fine."

A few moment later after they had gotten their lunch Sesshoumaru was sat down at a table across from a glaring female. Her hair was a dark brown and tied up in a pony tail with a pink hair tie. Her dark brown eyes seemed to be set on Sesshoumaru for a reason unknown to him.

Obviously he was not welcomed though.

Kagome sat by the female and greeted her. "Hey Sango! This is Sesshoumaru."

"Hi," Sango greeted half-heartedly.

Sesshoumaru didn't respond to her.

"Sesshoumaru will be working in the garage with me from now on," Kagome spoke care free. "He's a mechanic so it will be a huge help." Kagome stopped to look at the glaring female.

"Hey what's wrong?" she asked.

"Kagome I need to talk with you for a minute." Sango grabbed Kagome's hand. "Excuse us," she snarled at Sesshoumaru.

The two walked away a good distance before Kagome's friend stopped.

The tactic was hopeless though. Sesshoumaru had a heightened sense of hearing so he could narrow in on their conversation.

"Kagome are you insane? Why are you hanging out with that guy?" Sango scorned.

Kagome seemed to be unaware of doing anything wrong. "He's nice Sango. He's new to the school and doesn't know anyone so I invited him to eat with us. We're being rude leaving him there by the way," Kagome frowned.

"Who cares! The guy is dangerous! You saw him fighting with those guys the other day. He has a violent reputation and nick names like the "The White Demon" and "The Killing Perfection". What does that tell you?" Sango inquired.

Kagome cocked her head and really seemed to think about it. "He's really popular?"

Sango's face dropped.

Sesshoumaru felt a hand on his shoulder and another person sit down next to him.

"Hey there friend," the guy greeted. He had black hair with a short pony tail and a set of dark colored eyes that bordered violet or a blue.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at him.

"You're new right? The name's Miroku."

Sesshoumaru ignoredhim and went back to listening to the girl's conversation.

"I'm telling you he's a nice guy Sango. Give him a chance like you gave me," Kagome pleaded.

Sango's face softened. "That was different..."

"How?" Kagome asked.

Sango sputtered for a reply but came up empty handed.

Miroku followed his gaze. "Ah! Staring at the lovely ladies over there huh? The taller one with brown hair is in love with me." Miroku called over to the girls and waved. "Hey Sango!"

The female in question glared and threw up her middle finger.

Miroku chuckled and turned to Sesshoumaru, "She's so in love with me. She just doesn't realize it yet."

He's delusional, Sesshoumaru thought dully.

But Sesshoumaru realized what was happening. This Miroku was merely trying to state that Sango was taken. He was trying to ensure that Sesshoumaru did not have any interest.

"I have no intent on pursuing your female," Sesshoumaru stated.

Miroku grinned. "Then we will really get along then!" He slung his arm around sesshoumaru who shot him a glare. "So that means your interested in Kagome huh?"

"No," Sesshoumaru answered.

"Sure," Miroku rolled his eyes.

The two girls started to walk back to the table. Kagome smiling brightly and Sango scowling.

"Hey Miroku," Kagome greeted.

"Greetings lovely ladies," he said to them both earning a glare shot at him from Sango.

Miroku nudged Sesshoumaru with his elbow. "Told ya."

"Your deranged," Sesshoumaru told him.

"He wins a point toward me liking him," Sango told Kagome with a smirk.

"Looks like you two are getting along," Kagome looked between the two males with a bigger smile.

Sesshoumaru assumed she had already made them friends in her mind.

"No," Sesshoumaru corrected.

"Best buds," Miroku announced.

Kagome giggled and Sango rolled her eyes.

What mess had Sesshoumaru been pulled into?

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AN: Aw Sesshoumaru made a friend :3 lol