InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Centennial Hunger ❯ The Price of World Peace ( Chapter 18 )

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Chapter 18

The Price of World Peace

This is a short piece to let you know what happened to Kagome.  I decided to post it, even though it isn't very long.  We'll be back with Sessshoumaru and Inuyasha in the next chapter, which I've already started. Please thank Neisha for her part in actually getting this posted. It has been sitting forever, but I hadn't been able to go through it and polish it up.

“Wake up, Kagome,” someone whispered.  The first thing she felt was slobber dripping from the corner of her mouth.  A book page was stuck to her wet cheek.  With a nearly silent groan, Kagome peeled her face from the page and noticed that her classmates were packing up their things and preparing to leave.

“Wha…what happened?” she asked as she tried to recall the past hour.  The jewel!  She rubbed her belly and felt nothing unusual.  That’s when her eyes really began to focus on her surroundings and her mouth fell open.  Some of her classmates had tails and pointed ears. Some had claws.  She looked up at her friend, Eri.

“Eri?” she choked out after noticing the kitty ears, green cat-slitted eyes, tail, and claws.  Did I eat too much chocolate?  That stuff always gives me weird dreams.

“Didn’t you get any sleep last night, Kagome? This isn’t like you,” Yuka cut in.  

At least she looked as human as ever, Kagome thought.

“Yeah, Kagome.  You never sleep in class,” Ayumi added, patting her on the shoulder with a clawed hand.

“Um, heh,” Kagome stalled.  “I guess I lost track of time when I was studying last night.”

I think I’ll officially freak out now,she silently screamed inside her traumatized mind.  Talk about culture shock...or is that future shock?  Or...future-past?  Past-future?  Gah!  What the heck is happening?

“Hello, Miss Kagome,” came a smooth voice from behind her.

Refusing to rise on what she was certain were shaky legs, she turned around in her chair.  It was her wannabe paramour, Hojo.  Crimson eyes, black, wavy hair, but human ears and no claws…He looks just like…like Naraku!  They could almost be siblings!

“Are you coming to the swim meet tonight?” he asked with a voice full of hope.

“She sure will!” Eri exclaimed, earning herself a glare from Kagome.

“You know it, Hojo!” Yuka interjected.

“Sure thing!” Ayume chimed in.

Kagome gulped.  Why can’t my friends leave well enough alone!?

“Great! I’ll see you there then!” Hojo effused excitedly, waving goodbye with a much too cheerful grin.  “See ya!”

Creepy, Kagome thought to herself and shuddered.

“He’s so handsome,” Yuka sighed dreamily.

“Yeah, and he’s from the Hitomi clan!  He’s a great catch if you ask me,” Eri added.

“Di…Did you say Hitomi?” Kagome stuttered.

“Kagome,” Ayumi sighed, rolling her eyes.  “Wake up already!  You knew that!  I mean, we eat at their Kage WakDonald's burger joint at least twice a week!”

“Kage…Waki?” Kagome replied weakly.  Dark spots with twinkling splashes of bright began to form before her eyes and she blinked to try and clear her vision, eyes crossing and rolling upward.

“What’s wrong with you?  Do you have a fever?” Ayumi asked worriedly, pressing a hand to Kagome’s forehead.  “You don’t have a fever, but maybe you should go lie down in the nurse’s office anyway.

“Yeah, you’re just a human,” Eri cut in. “Sounds like you’ve been pushing your weak body too far.”

Kagome’s eyes narrowed as her ire began to rise.  Oh, she’d heard similar remarks far too many times to count.  At just the thought, she wanted to 'sit' Inuyasha a few times.  Her lips pursed in her effort to hold back her temper.

“Higurashi.”  The call was a command, deep and rough.

I know that voice!  Turning slowly, dreading what she was about to find, Kagome cringed at the sight before her.  White, puppy dog ears twitched.  Hair of a matching color was tied in a low ponytail.  Golden eyes, full of amusement, stared intensely.

“I…Inuyasha?”

“'Sensei' to you, wench,” he replied with a smirk.  “Scatter, girls” he commanded with a wave of his hand to the other girls.

“Yes, Sensei!” they all said in unison, much too cheerfully for Kagome's currently broken frame of mind.  The giggling and ogling didn't help her fracturing corpus callosum.

“Good luck,” Eri whispered ominously before running out the door, leaving a friend to suffer the throes of culture shock alone while dealing with a smug hanyou that just happened to have authority over her.

"You have become lazy," Inuyasha continued with a smirk when the last student exited the classroom.  "Sleeping during class is unacceptable behavior, even if you are dating the son of Hitomi Kagewaki and Hitomi Kikyou. In order to pass my class, I have designed some additional studies that are tailored to your needs."

Kagome's jaw dropped open. "But...but..."

"No 'buts', wench!" Inuyasha shouted.  "Your first assignment is in cultural diversity. You will write on this board, fifty times:  'Dog youkai love to eat beef and pork, sometimes spiders, not worms and dirt!'  Then you will write fifty times:  Never say 'sit' to a dog youkai.  Strike that.  Just write 'I will never again command Inuyasha to sit' fifty times."

"Wait!  Just hold on!" Kagome interrupted.  "First, I fall asleep here because I'm having to live two lives, and you know it!  Second, you can't do this to me!"

Inuyasha quickly cut her off.  "As of now, you are only living one life, and I, as your teacher, intend to see to it that you are properly educated.  That's my job."  Inuyasha smirked.  "Now, we mustn't forget biodiversity.  There is a garden on my property.  After school, you will join me there and I will teach you the importance of worms in recycling soil."

Kagome glowered at Inuyasha.  If only she could use those beads on him, but they were long gone, courtesy of Sesshoumaru's trinkets and Inuyasha's own youki.

"By the way, Sesshoumaru sends his regards," Inuyasha continued as he opened a drawer in his desk and pulled out a long, dark blue, velvet box.  When he flipped up the lid, glittering crystals and fangs flew out and attached themselves to Kagome's neck.

"Wha..." Kagome began.

"Sit," Inuyasha purred.

"Ah!" Kagome yelped as she was ass-planted onto the floor, much more gently than Inuyasha had ever been sat.  Then again, Kagome was human and couldn't take near as much as a big, tough hanyou.

Inuyasha towered over her.  "You taught me what I needed most; that I deserved to be loved and cared for. Still, your lack of respect made the lessons very painful.  From now on, you will behave respectfully toward figures of authority and toward your elders."

"Respect!?" Kagome shouted indignantly. "You wouldn't know respect if it hit you in the face!"

Automatically, the band around her throat glowed bright green and she was thrown onto her back.

Inuyasha had the decency to blush before continuing.  "I didn't have the benefit of training and education and I've learned a lot since then.  You do, however, have those benefits.  Your mother and grandfather will not be around forever.  I intend to see to it that you speak to them kindly, treat them gently, and are thoughtful in regard to their feelings."

"This..."  He pointed at the jewels and fangs that created a tight band around her neck, "...will insure that you do.  Any time you fail, the subjugation necklace will plant your ass on the floor.  Don't worry, it won't put you in any danger.  On another note, Sesshoumaru has secured the shrine's finances so that your elders will never need to worry about losing their home.  It's the least we can do to show our respect for their support of our efforts in the war against Naraku.  As a member of the forces who defeated evil and the certain destruction of the human race, your future educational costs will be covered by my family."

"I can't believe this," Kagome gasped at the ceiling.  It was all so unbelievable--from the humiliating beads to the desperately needed financial support.  And in between, she hadn't had the chance to confront him about his relationship with Sesshoumaru.  But she would, once the subjugation necklace was removed.

"Believe it.  Now, let's begin your first lesson."

"I'm in hell," Kagome groaned.

"Hell is for losers.  We won and saved the whole world.  Now get the fuck up and start writing, wench," Inuyasha commanded with a smirk, holding out a helping hand to his friend and student.  "Damn, you're getting heavy.  Must be all of those fly burgers at WakDonald's."

"F..fly...burgers?" Kagome stuttered.  No wonder they'd been crunchy, something Kagome had always liked about them.

"Well, yeah.  Naraku, er, Kagewaki is a spider hanyou.  Spider youkai do have a thing for flies, you know.   Well, insects in general.  Who knows; there's probably all kinds of things thrown into those burgers.  Though, they are guaranteed to be at least forty percent fly, or rather, Diptera.  I wouldn't doubt if there were a few maggots thrown into the mix.  It would certainly explain why the burgers are so juicy."

Inuyasha smirked when Kagome turned green and started gagging.

From maggots to avenging instructors, the wish for world peace certainly had a price.

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Disclaimer

Inuyasha and all associated characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not own Inuyasha and make no profit from this story, nor do I intend to. My only goal is to occupy my demented mind with delusions of actually owning a life-sized, anatomically correct Sesshoumaru android to use and abuse at will.

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