InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Going Against the Flow ❯ First Meeting ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Frost Fae 
Excuse any mistakes... this story was written some time ago on ff.net, okay?
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Classic | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.06.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 240 | Status: Completed
Excuse any mistakes... this story was written some time ago on ff.net, okay?
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Classic | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.06.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 240 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: Leave me alone! If you really want to know, go back to square one! I mean, Chapter 1.
A/N: And now onto Chapter 2! I am so happy! I love writing! Soon enough I'll get tired of my earlier enthusiasm and updates will get slower.
Just make sure to check daily. Otherwise you may miss an update (or two in my hyper case).
~*~Against the Flow
Chapter 2
First Meeting
~*~woke up with the beginnings of a head ache; her grey matter's muddled thoughts were being punctuated by piercing rings.
She hurriedly slammed her alarm clock off and wiped her eyes blearily. She was still groggy at breakfast and barely gave the scrumptious French toast and cold, tangy lime smoothie before her any recognition.
When she realized that she had to get up to walk to school sooner or later she grew mildly depressed.
'Back to school... back to school... ALWAYS back to school...'
By the time she was walking wearily up the stairs, she was so swathed with lost dreams and bad memories, that she wasn't watching where she was going.
With her head down, she banged straight into something. She looked up to see nothing but blue denim... slowly she looked up... now she could see a neck... now a chin... now a mouth... a nicely pronounced nose. Structured cheekbones, and finally, two amber eyes flecked with gold. What startled her most was the pair of dog ears at the top of the head and the long, swaying, white hair.
The boy practically through her off him and dusted himself off. Finally, he spoke, "This is what I get! The first day and someone is already abusing me! What is it?! Do you think that just because I'm half-demon, I'm half- witted?! Is it that I'm dog demon at all?! What's your problem?!"
Kagome was speechless, but soon her temper got the better of her. Her nostrils flared and her cheeks reddened ruddily. The boy backed down visibly and was noticeably put in his place already. Kagome was starting to feel bad.
"Look," she said gently, "I don't care if you're part demon or full demon... or foreign, as you don't seem to know what goes around here... If you're a nice guy, you're a nice guy, and nothing can change that. And anyway, we bumped into each other. It was an accident. Got that?"
Now it was the boy's turn to be speechless, but he nodded slightly and regained his composure. A smile slowly spread across his face and Kagome had fleeting glimpses of sunlight in her mind. She smiled just as deliberately and waited in a comfortable silence.
Then he broke it happily. "I'm Inuyasha. And you are?"
"Higurashi. I'm Higurashi Kagome. Just call me Kagome.
"Okay, Kagome. So, would you care to show me around?"
"Sure."
They were just about to enter the school together when Sango and a tall boy with his hair in a small ponytail ran up the steps and went separately to Kagome and Inuyasha respectively.
They both looked terribly flustered. And both had the same expressions that screamed, 'I am bewildered and angered... just wait until I get my hands on you!'
"Kagome! What were you thinking?"
"Um... Sango, can I have the pleasure of finding out what the heck you're talking about?! I was just about to give... umm... his name was Inuyasha... a tour of the school!"
On the other side of the steps, Inuyasha and the other boy were having relatively the same conversation.
"Miroku, what are you talking about?! I was just about to get a tour of the school with that girl over there... Kagome I think her name was."
Miroku shook his said at the same time that Sango stamped her foot angrily.
"It's the person that you're supposed to hate!" They both said this simultaneously; at the same time that they shot each other dirty looks. Inuyasha and Kagome just stared bemusedly at each other, wondering if it could be true.
"Why does Inuyasha hate Kagome, Miroku?" Sango said this calmly, but with a slighty metallic edge to her tone that Kagome recognized as anger.
And he asked in turn, "Why does Kagome hate Inuyasha?"
"He's popular, and also her enemy."
"She's scum, and also his enemy."
Here Kagome came in, she could handle most unpopular girl or whatever... but not scum. "I am not scum. If I'm the scum of this school, he's the scum between my toes!" Of course, by 'he', she meant Inuyasha.
"Me? Scum? You wish!"
Sango and Miroku were getting anxious; the usual stampede was starting to come... "Quiet! Both of you! You'll be seen together! Move away! Move away! Come on!"
But Kagome and Inuyasha were so immersed in their spiritedly heated argument, that they didn't realize that the 'school paparazzi' was heading for them, until the cameras started flashing. And by the looks of it, the gossip was especially sweet, even better than the incident of '03, of the last year, when Kikyo and Kagome had had a go. For to the outsiders, it looked liked something much more sinister... it looked like they were warming to each other! The scandal was at a high... and the headlines were already in print... Inuyasha and Kagome, Popular and Unpopular People, Join Together, Going Against the Flow of the School!!!
Kikyo was fashionably late, as usual, and when she snapped her fingers for a copy of the Underground, she was not pleased about what she saw... a picture of her already claimed new boy and her ex-best friend... together. Again she shrieked, but no-one paid any heed... no-one cared anymore, Kagome was in the spotlight for once... a negative spotlight, but a spotlight nonetheless.
She was being interviewed for the paper, and not just her either, Inuyasha was being interviewed too. And they were glaring daggers at each other and at the people all around them... especially the paparazzi.
"So, how do you feel about each other?"
Inuyasha: She's plain, old scum.
Kagome: He's scum between my toes.
No-one liked to think about this prospect, and just then, to their intense relief, Kikyo burst in with a hearty laugh.
"As if!" Everyone turned, "Your toes aren't even worthy of him!"
Inuyasha smirked; the not-so-pleasant facet of his personality was surfacing.
Kikyo noticed and continued with even more fervor, "You're scum! And you're not even graced with being scum between his toes! In fact, he doesn't even have scum between his toes! You do! However much it shames me to say so, I should know, seeing as you used to be my best friend. How worthless you were, and still are! You worthless piece of-"
Kagome had had enough. She got up and smacked Kikyo across her smooth, unblemished face. Then again, was any part of Kikyo blemished? (Kagome knew that her left elbow that she always kept covered was.) And she didn't stop there; she cuffed both Kikyo's ears and slugged her mouth. And then she swiftly uppercut her chin and slammed her in the stomach. Three people had to restrain her, and even then it took Sango's reasoning to calm her down. She was angry, and frustrated. Inuyasha looked completely shocked, and Kagome was glad to see that the smirk was wiped from his face.
But he noticed her staring and put it back on, Kagome fumed silently but kept calm and collected on the outside.
'Does he ever lose his cool?'
But Inuyasha was thinking, 'I've got to stay out of her way! Her temper is atrocious! But her looks aren't that hideous... even when she is horribly and terribly angry." He laughed a bit at this and his sneer softened into a wan smile.
Sango shuffled her feet and Miroku rolled his eyes at her. They giggle at each other for a few moments before they realized that they were each the best friend of mortal enemies. So they continued to give each other the evil eye.
Kikyo was bent over doubly and was wheezing. Her face was was all red and welts coursed through it. Her stomach ached and burned and her ears were as red as her face. Her eyes were pink with unshed tears and she was terrifyingly angry. She really wanted to use her priestess powers to tear the very fabrics of the world apart with her own dark and pure energy. Usually she was completely pure. She was cruel, but pure. But now she was mostly filled with darkness. She would've ripped everyone in the room to shreds, but then... she wouldn't be popular anymore... and also, Kagome's own power would be unleashed, and Kikyo definitely didn't want that. Kikyo wasn't even sure if she had as much power as she thought she did.
'For all I know, the only thing I can do is grow a blade of grass.' She was fairly convulsing with bare anger, and her shivers of loose power were just thought of as shivers of contempt and ill-concealed annoyance.
Inuyasha and Kagome were the only ones that sensed it all, Inuyasha focused on the trembling Kikyo with a dawning light...
'I have to stay clear of her bad side... she has dark, dark miko powers.'
But all Kagome thought was that there was delight coursing through her veins at the plight of Kikyo. Her bloodlust was satisfied, and her frustration was satiated, and she felt at peace with the world. She felt strangely weak, but she didn't realize that that was because her own miko powers were starting to pool out of her pores. There had been too much dark energy in her, and if she hadn't been stopped, she probably would have killed Kikyo. (She would've stopped herself before she even got as far as a concussed Kikyo.)
Now, she was filled to the brim with light energy. And if the principal hadn't come in, she would've floated off of the ground.
"Higurashi!" He barked knowingly, "There always was a problem with you and Kikyo... Detention for you and..." he saw that Inuyasha had stood and was staring at both Kagome and Kikyo with awe. "And... Inuyasha."
"But- but-" he couldn't understand the unjustness of it all... Kagome and Kikyo got all miko-ish and he was blamed! For he had sensed it all... Kagome and Kikyo... they looked so alike... and at the moment... Kagome was Yin and Kikyo was Yang... Good and Evil. At the moment anyway... Before he had sensed goodness in Kikyo, and it had all drained away. But no, Kagome was slipping back to earth, and her head came out of the floating nimbus clouds. He knew that she had been close to flying and that Kikyo had been close to sinking into the earth... her eyes were aflame with burning coal, and yet, they were being doused. She liked Kagome getting in trouble...
"No buts! I sense that you were part of this too!"
'And I sense, old man, that you're a crazy old man who doesn't have any sense. Was that redundant?'
Inuyasha was in a very irritable mood, and Kagome knew to stay out of his way.
So all the long walk down the corridor to the detention steps, Mr. Oriko wondered why the two accomplices were walking at opposite ends of the hall.
And so they were left alone with their thoughts in the almost empty detention room.
A voice from the back of the room spoke in a smooth and dangerously calm voice, "Inuyasha and Kagome. What a pleasant surprise!"
"And you are?" Inuyasha said gruffly, he knew bad news when he came across it...
"Naraku, my name is Naraku."
Then Kagome, with the hairs on the back of her neck raised, spoke with the soft Japanese lilt that came when she was nervous, "What an... interesting name..."
"Oh, you mean how its definition is 'hell'? Talk to my parents about it. On second thought, don't, they're dead."
He said this so eerily that Kagome wondered if he himself had killed them.
"And no, I did not kill them. They died in a fire."
"And where were you when this happened?" Inuyasha's voice was raised slightly.
'He probably started it, regardless of what he says.'
"I did not start it," but he did not sound very remorseful, in fact, he sounded apathetic. "I was in it. And before you get any stupid notions of me simultaneously committing homicide and trying to commit suicide, I did not. I escaped the fire with first degree burns. And a part of me was left in that fire." Here he smiled secretively.
Certainly, Inuyasha could sense a dark presence somewhere deep in Naraku's otherwise soulless entity. But everyone had that, as far he knew.
Kagome didn't like the look of Naraku. He wore his hair down, like Inuyasha, only it was jet-black. He had all-black clothes and wore spiked rings on his army boots, wrists, shoulders and one thick ring on his neck. He also had one ear completely covered in studded earrings, one of his eyebrow was pierced too, as well as his tongue, nose and upper lip. Where Inuyasha had cute, adorable doggy ears, Naraku had pointed ears. And where Inuyasha had too very long bang-sideburn-thingies, Naraku's hair just... hung.
Kagome realized with a start that she was comparing the two! She shook her head warily. What an awful day!
Kagome slumped in her chair and determinedly looked straight ahead, refusing to look at either of them. So she missed the glaring contests and the certain gestures that they kept shooting at one another.
By the time they finally got out of the detention room, Inuyasha and Naraku were unofficially sworn enemies. And Inuyasha and Kagome were on no further speaking terms.
On their faces they showed nothing but relief... but inside, Kagome sighed.
'Another friend-to-be lost to the world of Kikyo... my former partner... I wish things could go back to how they were before!' she thought forlornly. 'At least I understand why everyone thought he would be popular when they saw his picture...' She blushed, but everyone took that as anger once again.
Inuyasha and Kagome walked at opposite ends of the hall once again, albeit parallel to one another. Kagome was just leading him around the corner, when Kikyo appeared. She wrapped her arm around his and sauntered along. Every once in a while she sent Kagome a piercing glare. Both Kagome and Inuyasha were uncomfortably aware of this, and in spite of himself, he wanted to get away from Kikyo. He fidgeted altogether too much for Kikyo's taste, and suddenly she let go. Needless to say, Kagome and Inuyasha were quite pleased. She stalked off.
Kagome smiled. 'Looks like that little problem is taken care of!' Little did she know that Kikyo was still continuing to watch them from a distance... she was planning something...
Inuyasha noticed Kagome's smile, and found that the feeling was mutual... and her good mood was just contagious.
They were starting to become friendly again... Kikyo was not pleased.
Kikyo waited until Kagome and Inuyasha had parted ways to strike. She immediately took off after Inuyasha, and she couldn't help but notice the poorly-hidden grimace that dominated his features.
"Inuyasha... I have something important to tell you... about Kagome."
Inuyasha's ears perked up involuntarily. "Yes?"
"Well... I heard her talking to her friend, Sango. And she was laughing about your ears. She said that of course you would have them... seeing as you're a stupid dog and everything..." Kikyo feigned an apologetic expression.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I don't know... I guess I've just been drawn to you since you came... You're just... how do I put it? You're just like royalty."
Inuyasha, as Kikyo had guessed, liked compliments.
'I guess she's not so bad after all... Kagome on the other hand...'
"Thanks for telling me." He gave one of his award-winning smiles.
'Score 1 for Kikyo, score negative 5 for Kagome!'
"You're welcome. I've got to go, but I'll see you later! Bye."
"Bye."
***
"Kagome... I swear that he actually said that..."
"He said that I really am scum and that I'm probably lower-class and live in a ditch?"
"I'm afraid so, yeah..."
"Complete with the whole mocking my voice and walk?"
"Yes." Kikyo attempted to look remorseful, and thankfully, for her anyway, it worked.
"But why are you telling me all this? Weren't you the one that made fun of me and who I just beat up?"
"Well, yes..." Kikyo tried not to look too peeved. "But we used to be best friends, and I don't want to see you hurt by Inuyasha."
'I can't believe it... she actually sounds sincere!'
"Well, thanks. I've got to get back home, but I'll... see you later?"
"Yeah... I guess so."
Kikyo waited for Kagome to leave; then she rubbed her hands together...
'The plan worked perfectly. Kagome will never stop me from getting to Inuyasha ever again. In fact, I'll get the pleasure of seeing Inuyasha make fun of her!'
Inuyasha and Kagome were enemies.
That was much longer than the first one! Please review! I haven't even gotten one!!! Just to tell you people, it's supposed to be satire... so I'm making fun of the stupid highschool cliches. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
A/N: And now onto Chapter 2! I am so happy! I love writing! Soon enough I'll get tired of my earlier enthusiasm and updates will get slower.
Just make sure to check daily. Otherwise you may miss an update (or two in my hyper case).
~*~Against the Flow
Chapter 2
First Meeting
~*~woke up with the beginnings of a head ache; her grey matter's muddled thoughts were being punctuated by piercing rings.
She hurriedly slammed her alarm clock off and wiped her eyes blearily. She was still groggy at breakfast and barely gave the scrumptious French toast and cold, tangy lime smoothie before her any recognition.
When she realized that she had to get up to walk to school sooner or later she grew mildly depressed.
'Back to school... back to school... ALWAYS back to school...'
By the time she was walking wearily up the stairs, she was so swathed with lost dreams and bad memories, that she wasn't watching where she was going.
With her head down, she banged straight into something. She looked up to see nothing but blue denim... slowly she looked up... now she could see a neck... now a chin... now a mouth... a nicely pronounced nose. Structured cheekbones, and finally, two amber eyes flecked with gold. What startled her most was the pair of dog ears at the top of the head and the long, swaying, white hair.
The boy practically through her off him and dusted himself off. Finally, he spoke, "This is what I get! The first day and someone is already abusing me! What is it?! Do you think that just because I'm half-demon, I'm half- witted?! Is it that I'm dog demon at all?! What's your problem?!"
Kagome was speechless, but soon her temper got the better of her. Her nostrils flared and her cheeks reddened ruddily. The boy backed down visibly and was noticeably put in his place already. Kagome was starting to feel bad.
"Look," she said gently, "I don't care if you're part demon or full demon... or foreign, as you don't seem to know what goes around here... If you're a nice guy, you're a nice guy, and nothing can change that. And anyway, we bumped into each other. It was an accident. Got that?"
Now it was the boy's turn to be speechless, but he nodded slightly and regained his composure. A smile slowly spread across his face and Kagome had fleeting glimpses of sunlight in her mind. She smiled just as deliberately and waited in a comfortable silence.
Then he broke it happily. "I'm Inuyasha. And you are?"
"Higurashi. I'm Higurashi Kagome. Just call me Kagome.
"Okay, Kagome. So, would you care to show me around?"
"Sure."
They were just about to enter the school together when Sango and a tall boy with his hair in a small ponytail ran up the steps and went separately to Kagome and Inuyasha respectively.
They both looked terribly flustered. And both had the same expressions that screamed, 'I am bewildered and angered... just wait until I get my hands on you!'
"Kagome! What were you thinking?"
"Um... Sango, can I have the pleasure of finding out what the heck you're talking about?! I was just about to give... umm... his name was Inuyasha... a tour of the school!"
On the other side of the steps, Inuyasha and the other boy were having relatively the same conversation.
"Miroku, what are you talking about?! I was just about to get a tour of the school with that girl over there... Kagome I think her name was."
Miroku shook his said at the same time that Sango stamped her foot angrily.
"It's the person that you're supposed to hate!" They both said this simultaneously; at the same time that they shot each other dirty looks. Inuyasha and Kagome just stared bemusedly at each other, wondering if it could be true.
"Why does Inuyasha hate Kagome, Miroku?" Sango said this calmly, but with a slighty metallic edge to her tone that Kagome recognized as anger.
And he asked in turn, "Why does Kagome hate Inuyasha?"
"He's popular, and also her enemy."
"She's scum, and also his enemy."
Here Kagome came in, she could handle most unpopular girl or whatever... but not scum. "I am not scum. If I'm the scum of this school, he's the scum between my toes!" Of course, by 'he', she meant Inuyasha.
"Me? Scum? You wish!"
Sango and Miroku were getting anxious; the usual stampede was starting to come... "Quiet! Both of you! You'll be seen together! Move away! Move away! Come on!"
But Kagome and Inuyasha were so immersed in their spiritedly heated argument, that they didn't realize that the 'school paparazzi' was heading for them, until the cameras started flashing. And by the looks of it, the gossip was especially sweet, even better than the incident of '03, of the last year, when Kikyo and Kagome had had a go. For to the outsiders, it looked liked something much more sinister... it looked like they were warming to each other! The scandal was at a high... and the headlines were already in print... Inuyasha and Kagome, Popular and Unpopular People, Join Together, Going Against the Flow of the School!!!
Kikyo was fashionably late, as usual, and when she snapped her fingers for a copy of the Underground, she was not pleased about what she saw... a picture of her already claimed new boy and her ex-best friend... together. Again she shrieked, but no-one paid any heed... no-one cared anymore, Kagome was in the spotlight for once... a negative spotlight, but a spotlight nonetheless.
She was being interviewed for the paper, and not just her either, Inuyasha was being interviewed too. And they were glaring daggers at each other and at the people all around them... especially the paparazzi.
"So, how do you feel about each other?"
Inuyasha: She's plain, old scum.
Kagome: He's scum between my toes.
No-one liked to think about this prospect, and just then, to their intense relief, Kikyo burst in with a hearty laugh.
"As if!" Everyone turned, "Your toes aren't even worthy of him!"
Inuyasha smirked; the not-so-pleasant facet of his personality was surfacing.
Kikyo noticed and continued with even more fervor, "You're scum! And you're not even graced with being scum between his toes! In fact, he doesn't even have scum between his toes! You do! However much it shames me to say so, I should know, seeing as you used to be my best friend. How worthless you were, and still are! You worthless piece of-"
Kagome had had enough. She got up and smacked Kikyo across her smooth, unblemished face. Then again, was any part of Kikyo blemished? (Kagome knew that her left elbow that she always kept covered was.) And she didn't stop there; she cuffed both Kikyo's ears and slugged her mouth. And then she swiftly uppercut her chin and slammed her in the stomach. Three people had to restrain her, and even then it took Sango's reasoning to calm her down. She was angry, and frustrated. Inuyasha looked completely shocked, and Kagome was glad to see that the smirk was wiped from his face.
But he noticed her staring and put it back on, Kagome fumed silently but kept calm and collected on the outside.
'Does he ever lose his cool?'
But Inuyasha was thinking, 'I've got to stay out of her way! Her temper is atrocious! But her looks aren't that hideous... even when she is horribly and terribly angry." He laughed a bit at this and his sneer softened into a wan smile.
Sango shuffled her feet and Miroku rolled his eyes at her. They giggle at each other for a few moments before they realized that they were each the best friend of mortal enemies. So they continued to give each other the evil eye.
Kikyo was bent over doubly and was wheezing. Her face was was all red and welts coursed through it. Her stomach ached and burned and her ears were as red as her face. Her eyes were pink with unshed tears and she was terrifyingly angry. She really wanted to use her priestess powers to tear the very fabrics of the world apart with her own dark and pure energy. Usually she was completely pure. She was cruel, but pure. But now she was mostly filled with darkness. She would've ripped everyone in the room to shreds, but then... she wouldn't be popular anymore... and also, Kagome's own power would be unleashed, and Kikyo definitely didn't want that. Kikyo wasn't even sure if she had as much power as she thought she did.
'For all I know, the only thing I can do is grow a blade of grass.' She was fairly convulsing with bare anger, and her shivers of loose power were just thought of as shivers of contempt and ill-concealed annoyance.
Inuyasha and Kagome were the only ones that sensed it all, Inuyasha focused on the trembling Kikyo with a dawning light...
'I have to stay clear of her bad side... she has dark, dark miko powers.'
But all Kagome thought was that there was delight coursing through her veins at the plight of Kikyo. Her bloodlust was satisfied, and her frustration was satiated, and she felt at peace with the world. She felt strangely weak, but she didn't realize that that was because her own miko powers were starting to pool out of her pores. There had been too much dark energy in her, and if she hadn't been stopped, she probably would have killed Kikyo. (She would've stopped herself before she even got as far as a concussed Kikyo.)
Now, she was filled to the brim with light energy. And if the principal hadn't come in, she would've floated off of the ground.
"Higurashi!" He barked knowingly, "There always was a problem with you and Kikyo... Detention for you and..." he saw that Inuyasha had stood and was staring at both Kagome and Kikyo with awe. "And... Inuyasha."
"But- but-" he couldn't understand the unjustness of it all... Kagome and Kikyo got all miko-ish and he was blamed! For he had sensed it all... Kagome and Kikyo... they looked so alike... and at the moment... Kagome was Yin and Kikyo was Yang... Good and Evil. At the moment anyway... Before he had sensed goodness in Kikyo, and it had all drained away. But no, Kagome was slipping back to earth, and her head came out of the floating nimbus clouds. He knew that she had been close to flying and that Kikyo had been close to sinking into the earth... her eyes were aflame with burning coal, and yet, they were being doused. She liked Kagome getting in trouble...
"No buts! I sense that you were part of this too!"
'And I sense, old man, that you're a crazy old man who doesn't have any sense. Was that redundant?'
Inuyasha was in a very irritable mood, and Kagome knew to stay out of his way.
So all the long walk down the corridor to the detention steps, Mr. Oriko wondered why the two accomplices were walking at opposite ends of the hall.
And so they were left alone with their thoughts in the almost empty detention room.
A voice from the back of the room spoke in a smooth and dangerously calm voice, "Inuyasha and Kagome. What a pleasant surprise!"
"And you are?" Inuyasha said gruffly, he knew bad news when he came across it...
"Naraku, my name is Naraku."
Then Kagome, with the hairs on the back of her neck raised, spoke with the soft Japanese lilt that came when she was nervous, "What an... interesting name..."
"Oh, you mean how its definition is 'hell'? Talk to my parents about it. On second thought, don't, they're dead."
He said this so eerily that Kagome wondered if he himself had killed them.
"And no, I did not kill them. They died in a fire."
"And where were you when this happened?" Inuyasha's voice was raised slightly.
'He probably started it, regardless of what he says.'
"I did not start it," but he did not sound very remorseful, in fact, he sounded apathetic. "I was in it. And before you get any stupid notions of me simultaneously committing homicide and trying to commit suicide, I did not. I escaped the fire with first degree burns. And a part of me was left in that fire." Here he smiled secretively.
Certainly, Inuyasha could sense a dark presence somewhere deep in Naraku's otherwise soulless entity. But everyone had that, as far he knew.
Kagome didn't like the look of Naraku. He wore his hair down, like Inuyasha, only it was jet-black. He had all-black clothes and wore spiked rings on his army boots, wrists, shoulders and one thick ring on his neck. He also had one ear completely covered in studded earrings, one of his eyebrow was pierced too, as well as his tongue, nose and upper lip. Where Inuyasha had cute, adorable doggy ears, Naraku had pointed ears. And where Inuyasha had too very long bang-sideburn-thingies, Naraku's hair just... hung.
Kagome realized with a start that she was comparing the two! She shook her head warily. What an awful day!
Kagome slumped in her chair and determinedly looked straight ahead, refusing to look at either of them. So she missed the glaring contests and the certain gestures that they kept shooting at one another.
By the time they finally got out of the detention room, Inuyasha and Naraku were unofficially sworn enemies. And Inuyasha and Kagome were on no further speaking terms.
On their faces they showed nothing but relief... but inside, Kagome sighed.
'Another friend-to-be lost to the world of Kikyo... my former partner... I wish things could go back to how they were before!' she thought forlornly. 'At least I understand why everyone thought he would be popular when they saw his picture...' She blushed, but everyone took that as anger once again.
Inuyasha and Kagome walked at opposite ends of the hall once again, albeit parallel to one another. Kagome was just leading him around the corner, when Kikyo appeared. She wrapped her arm around his and sauntered along. Every once in a while she sent Kagome a piercing glare. Both Kagome and Inuyasha were uncomfortably aware of this, and in spite of himself, he wanted to get away from Kikyo. He fidgeted altogether too much for Kikyo's taste, and suddenly she let go. Needless to say, Kagome and Inuyasha were quite pleased. She stalked off.
Kagome smiled. 'Looks like that little problem is taken care of!' Little did she know that Kikyo was still continuing to watch them from a distance... she was planning something...
Inuyasha noticed Kagome's smile, and found that the feeling was mutual... and her good mood was just contagious.
They were starting to become friendly again... Kikyo was not pleased.
Kikyo waited until Kagome and Inuyasha had parted ways to strike. She immediately took off after Inuyasha, and she couldn't help but notice the poorly-hidden grimace that dominated his features.
"Inuyasha... I have something important to tell you... about Kagome."
Inuyasha's ears perked up involuntarily. "Yes?"
"Well... I heard her talking to her friend, Sango. And she was laughing about your ears. She said that of course you would have them... seeing as you're a stupid dog and everything..." Kikyo feigned an apologetic expression.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I don't know... I guess I've just been drawn to you since you came... You're just... how do I put it? You're just like royalty."
Inuyasha, as Kikyo had guessed, liked compliments.
'I guess she's not so bad after all... Kagome on the other hand...'
"Thanks for telling me." He gave one of his award-winning smiles.
'Score 1 for Kikyo, score negative 5 for Kagome!'
"You're welcome. I've got to go, but I'll see you later! Bye."
"Bye."
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"Kagome... I swear that he actually said that..."
"He said that I really am scum and that I'm probably lower-class and live in a ditch?"
"I'm afraid so, yeah..."
"Complete with the whole mocking my voice and walk?"
"Yes." Kikyo attempted to look remorseful, and thankfully, for her anyway, it worked.
"But why are you telling me all this? Weren't you the one that made fun of me and who I just beat up?"
"Well, yes..." Kikyo tried not to look too peeved. "But we used to be best friends, and I don't want to see you hurt by Inuyasha."
'I can't believe it... she actually sounds sincere!'
"Well, thanks. I've got to get back home, but I'll... see you later?"
"Yeah... I guess so."
Kikyo waited for Kagome to leave; then she rubbed her hands together...
'The plan worked perfectly. Kagome will never stop me from getting to Inuyasha ever again. In fact, I'll get the pleasure of seeing Inuyasha make fun of her!'
Inuyasha and Kagome were enemies.
That was much longer than the first one! Please review! I haven't even gotten one!!! Just to tell you people, it's supposed to be satire... so I'm making fun of the stupid highschool cliches. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!