InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Gorenk Grunge ❯ School Daze ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1 “School Daze”

 

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Kagome Higurashi hardly twitched when her alarm clock started blaring a warning/wake up call directly next to her left ear. Sure it was annoying, but it was even more annoying to actually move her left hand a quarter of a foot and turn the damn thing off. She let the high-pitched ringing continue until a very irritated little brother stormed into her room.

“Kagome, could you at least turn of the frigging alarm clock?! It's too bad for you if you have to wake up early but don't wake me up too!” he yelled turning off the alarm clock. Kagome rolled onto her back.

“Rawr. Don't get pissy, Souta, I'm sor-ry… next time I need to remember how cranky you get in the morning.” Souta sighed and walked out of her room. Kagome was alone now, and she had a total of 10 minutes to make it out to the bus… 10 MINUTES?!

“Awwwwww, shitake!” Kagome yelled as she got out of bed. Sure, she knew she was going to get up late in the morning, but not this late! She didn't need to shower, she did so before going to bed, she was already dressed (clever enough to sleep in her clothes), and her book bag had everything she needed in it, including homew- crap! She didn't do her math homework! Quickly, she sat down at her desk with her math book. 3x6=18, 9+7=16, 11/6=fish, good enough! She jammed the book back into her messenger bag and ran like the wind to the front door.

“Ok, I love you, bye-bye!” she yelled before ramming head first into the door. `Smooth, Kagome,' she thought to herself, `Open the door, then go through.' She looked frantically for a key to open the door before realizing she was inside the house and didn't need a key. She opened the door and sprinted to the bus stop just in time to see her bus turning the corner to go to school without her. She was close enough to see a girl in the back laughing at her and some random guy flipping her off but not close enough to run for it. She, broken spiritedly, walked back to her house. She made it to the door just to find out it was locked. `Mental note- don't need key on inside, don't have key on outside. Greeeeeeeeaaattt.' She looked up in the sky and spoke.

“This close, you know. This close! I almost made it! Blame math, dammit. Just this once, couldn't you have let me catch the bus? Why does everyday have to be torture Kagome day? Mom won't give me a ride now; it'll take an hour to walk, and at least half an hour to board. You really screwed me over royally this time, God. Thanks. This couldn't get any worse.' Predictably, she had no clue what she was talking about. That's when the sprinklers came on.

 

=^-^= Buyo! =^-^=

 

Kagome was boarding for her life, soaking wet, with school still a good 20 minutes away. It's then she realized she hadn't eaten all day. Her stomach was growling like an angry little Chihuahua. She didn't feel like she could make it the rest of the way to school. Deprived of food, sleep, and more food, she was feeling nauseous. She stumbled off her board, feeling weak, and sat on a bench to regain herself. Soon a five-minute break turned into fifteen and off in the distance she could've sworn she heard a school bell ring. She was late, with twenty minutes to go. She might as well not have gone to school, but she was determined. Sort of. Mostly, she wanted to go to school because her school had vending machines. Woot. Kagome tried to stand on both of her feet, barely succeeding, and began to walk, slowing, carrying her bag and her board to school. Normally she would have eaten her lunch, but in her rush she forgot that too.

After a few minutes of dragging her feet to her destination she saw a high school boy, one in the homeroom next to her, walking ahead of her, headphones on. He was a grade above her, with long silver hair tied back into a ponytail, wearing all black (as usual), and carrying a bag almost identical to hers. That's not what surprised her though. In the boy's hand was a fresh, delicious, crème-filled donut. She strained hard, trying to think of his name, but to no prevail. `Emutasha? Enuwasha? George? Oh, who cares, all I want is the friggin' donut.'

“Hey, hey… hey, kid!” Kagome yelled. She was surprised when she realized the boy actually heard her over his music. He removed his headphones, cocked an eyebrow, but didn't speak. He stopped. Kagome ran to catch up with him. When she thought about it, he was actually really, really hot. He had a black t-shirt that said `I'm not anti-social, I just hate you,' baggy black pants with skulls at the bottom, tattered black converses, and a pink ponytail holder. Normally she would be too shy to confront him, but, damn, she wanted that donut. When she walked over to him she noticed why he had heard her. His headphones weren't plugged in. The cord was just hanging out in front of him. What a weird guy.

“Hey, I'm Kagome, you gonna eat all that? I didn't really have breakfast, so…um….” The boy looked at the donut in his hand. He broke it in two and gave her the larger piece. She took it, gratefully, and stared at the pastry lovingly before jammed most of it in her mouth. The boy laughed. She nibbled on the remaining piece before giving up and shoved that in her mouth too. She pouted.

“I miss my donut,” she said sadly. The boy, once again, broke the remaining donut-half in half and gave her the larger piece. She squealed when she saw it. The boy threw his piece in the air and caught it in his mouth. He practically swallowed it whole. Kagome inhaled her piece and they began to walk again. After some ten minutes of silence the school came into sight. Kagome was beginning to feel uncomfortable. Sure this guy was sweet, nice, generous, and cute, but he was creepy. He had his headphones on again, still not plugged in, and would occasionally mutter something to himself. As them came closer to the school they both sighed. He pulled off his headphones again.

“Me neither,” he said. Kagome was startled. He spoke! Wait, now she had to figure out what the heck he was talking about…

“You neither what?” she asked.

“I didn't have breakfast either. I was waiting for school to have ramen,” he said, looking down. Now she felt bad for eating most of his donut.

“Oh… sorry… you didn't have to give me that, you know,” she apologized. He looked up and smiled. She stared at his fangs.

“Nah, no problem. I didn't really want that. My friend Miroku made me take it because he said I eat too much ramen. You can never have enough ramen, you know.” Kagome nodded. “Oh,” he added, “By the way, I'm Inuyasha.”

“And I'm Kagome. Your homeroom's next to mine, isn't it? I have Mr. Myouga, A5.”

“Miss Kaede, A6. You're with Sango Mikako, aren't you?”

“Yeah, she's in my class. She's one of the people I actually talk to. Most everyone else sucks rocks. They're so cruel, especially that Kikyo girl.” Inuyasha froze at the name Kikyo. Kagome stopped too, but continued to speak. “She's a bit of slut, I heard she got pregnant off some random guy while she had a boyfriend. Needless to say, he dumped her, she got an abortion, and now she's permanent PMS. She was nice before. Not anymore. Poor guy, I wonder who her boyfriend was.” They began to walk again, and Inuyasha put his headphones back on. Soon they were in the school. They meandered through the concourse to A5 before stopped.

“So,” Kagome said as Inuyasha pulled off his headphones, “Thanks a lot, for the donut, walking me here. You know, I just moved here and it's been pretty hard on me. I don't talk much to anyone. I mean, sometimes I'll chat with Sango, and I'm a `big sister' to a little boy downtown, but not many people here really seem to want to know me at all. Maybe you want to hang out at lunch or something? Which lunch period do you have?”

“Whenever I feel like it. Fourth isn't the greatest class in the world so it's ok for me to miss it every now and then.”

“Oh! You don't want to ditch too much, they can actually arrest your parents for that.”

“That's not going to happen to me anytime soon.”

“If I ditched one class, my mom would totally kill me! Luckily I have A lunch, so I don't have to wait for a long time to eat.”

“Doesn't your dad care if you ditch?”

“Well, um, my dad—” Kagome began before the door swung open violently and whacked her in the face.

“Who's out here?” a very angry Mr. Myouga yelled as he walked out. Kagome clutched her bleeding nose and raised her hand.

“Me sir! I came in late, sir, it was an accident.”

“Well, Miss Higurashi, I'm glad you finally made it, now if you would please enter the room and explain why you have caused such an interruption it would be greatly appreciated, thank you.” Kagome lowered her head and paced into the room with a melancholy air. As Mr. Myouga was pulling the door closed a clawed hand caught it. Mr. Myouga, wondering why the door did not shut, turned around. He was startled to see the hand.

“Um, so then the fanciful flightless faerie ponies whisked me away to Flowertopia to drink the silky smooth floop floop syrup from the gooey pools of which beautiful colors arose. They told me they wanted me to be their queen and I was to banish the evil dark kitten knight of Lardtown with Chuuky-chuuky the magical goat companion as my trusty steed! If not for-” Kagome was telling the class through a mist of confusion.

“Miss Higurashi, you may sit down, and Miss Mikako, please come here.” Sango sighed and grabbed her book bag.

“That moron! He was supposed to come to school on time so I could give it to him in advance, but no! Stop for the pretty girlies, why not?” she muttered as she walked out. Kagome cocked an eyebrow. `Are Sango and Inuyasha dating? What about those claws? And the fangs? Just what is going on with those two? WAIT- Did Sango just call me a “pretty girly?”' Kagome was very curious about her new friend and Mr. Myouga's lecture on why ticks are the most noble creature in the world was boring, so she devised a plan. She was pretending to take notes when her pencil tip “broke” so she walked up to the sharpener- on the other side of the room next to the door. She sharpened very, very slowly and leaned on the wall, her ear right by the door. She could hear part of their conversation.

Sango: You idiot! I said to come ten minutes early today, not half an hour late! You knew this was going to happen!

Inuyasha: I had to walk to school!

Sango: No, you were just having “fun” with Kagome.

Inuyasha: Well, Kagome's a “fun” person!

Sango: You perv! You've been spending too much time with Miroku!

Inuyasha: You know I didn't mean it like that!

Sango: Whatever! I thought you still loved Kikyo!

Inuyasha: She laid some other dude, how could I love her? OW! Watch the ears!

Sango: Sorry, just stop moving. So, you're over Kikyo, and now you got a thing for Kagome.

Inuyasha: I don't even know her!

Sango: She seems nice.

Inuyasha: She's a wench.

Sango: That's a nice thing you call your lover!

Inuyasha: She's not my lover! She's a wench and you're a wench and you're all wenches!

Sango: Inu's got a cru-ush! Inu's got a cru-ush!

Inuyasha: You like Mega Prevent Miroku! OW OW OW OW OW!

Sango: Sorry, my hand slipped, now what were you lying about?

Inuyasha: You're so immature!

Sango: You rape donuts!

 

Kagome's ears were getting tired. She had been standing so long her legs were hurting as well. She continued to sharpen her stub of a pencil but sat on her knees instead.

 

Sango: Kagome's a great person. Not too social. What do you think about her? For real.

Inuyasha: Feh.

 

Kagome leaned closer to the wall.

 

Sango: Tell me!

Inuyasha: Well…

 

Kagome let out an ear-piercing shriek. She tugged viciously to get her long strands of hair out of the sharpener. Sango and Inuyasha ran inside the room as Mr. Myouga took a pair of scissors out of his desk.

“Are you ok?” Inuyasha asked over the roaring laughter of the class. Kagome tried hard not to cry. She didn't want to cry in front of these people.

“I think so,” she whimpered. She nearly fainted at the sight of the scissors.

“Don't cut my hair! Please, please, please no!” Kagome pleaded as tears slid form the corners of her eyes. It had taken her seven years to grow that long and it was important to her. Mr. Myouga simpered.

“We won't have to if we slide it out, see? Maybe if we turn the spinny thingy…” He twisted the sharpener. Her hair shrunk closer to it. He moved it the other way. Closer. It wasn't looking too good for Kagome's hair.

“Please just try one more time! Maybe if we take it apart or something!” Kagome offered. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

“It's not that bad. So what if you have short hair for a while?” he told her. She winced at the thought.

“What if it were your perfect silver tresses caught in this demon machine?” she responded. Now Inuyasha winced. Meanwhile, behind Kagome's back, Sango grabbed the scissors from Mr. Myouga. After a few wild snips Kagome was free. She felt her skull being released of the tension.

“See? We got it out without even cutting my hair!” she yelled gleefully. Sango simpered now.

“Um, Kagome, not exactly,” she explained.

Some say Kagome's scream could be heard all around the city.

 

=^-^= Buyo! =^-^=

 

 

Kagome sat twitching at her desk. There were just a few minutes of Biology with Mr. Myouga left. Sango had sliced the rest of her hair off for her but the nurse insisted that having a bad haircut was not a plausible excuse to leave school sick. Sango was sitting on the opposite side of the room (next to the pencil sharpener) and Kagome could almost swear that every time she looked Sango was staring at her. Kagome was getting really sick of this class really quickly. Something interesting had to happen soon.

Kikyo sat behind Sango. `Kikyo, the girl who crushed Inuyasha's heart! Oh what could have led her to do such a thing to such a noble boy! Alas, how he must have loved her!' Kagome thought, her mind going into soap opera mode. `Ay, what a tragic story! Inuyasha was probably soon to propose! They were meant to be together forever! Ay, woe is I; a simple bystander wedged in-between the two ex-lovers. Only I could fix this! Why, oh why did Kikyo do this? I, Kagome Higurashi, detective extraordinaire, am bound to find out!' Kagome was smiling at her thoughts, but at the same time they sort of hurt her. She was tried of thinking. She lay her head down upon her desk and closed her eyes, drifting off into sleep. Unfortunately, her sleep only lasted about three seconds. She was jilted awake by Sango's scream.

“Unhand that pickle you masked fiend!” Kagome demanded, half asleep, as she jumped out of her chair. She was pushed to reality but the eyes of some 30 classmates staring at her. Sango was being lifted into the air by her hair, a nastily angry Kikyo on her desk holding her up.

“This is your fault, bitch! You took him away! You lied to him! You started the rumor to get closer to him!” Kikyo yelled, fire burning in her eyes. Sango tried to remain calm.

“How dare you accuse me, whore! You got pregnant and I had nothing to do with that!”

“I was never pregnant! You wrote it! You're the one!”

“I would never-” Kikyo's grip pulled stronger. Sango's head throbbed like crazy. She could barely hear anyone else. Mr. Myouga was trying to calm the class, failing, but trying.

“Miss Sanatu, put Miss Mikako down this instant!” he yelled to no prevail. Kagome didn't like to see Sango being pushed around by the girl who killed Inuyasha's heart.

“Hey Whore! Put Sango down, she didn't do anything!” Kagome commanded, surprising even herself. Kikyo dropped Sango on the floor with a thump. Sango lay, barely conscious, trying to regain herself.

“You! You're the girl who my Inu was walking with! You shouldn't hang out with his kind. Eyes deceive, girlie, and that boy isn't what he looks like. He's a thief, a liar, a demon! Untrustworthy! I spit on him! I spit on him and all the others!” Kikyo screamed. The room was silent except for her heavy breathing. Sango pulled herself off the floor and held on to her desk for support.

“Kikyo, calm yourself. Anything you say can be used against you. We're not the only ones that can hear you in this school,” Sango warned. Kikyo's eyes widened.

“Oh, oh dear god no…” she said stumbling backwards. The bell rang and she ran out of the room.

“Class dismissed,” Mr. Myouga said dully. The class left slowly, until only Sango, Kagome, and Mr. Myouga were left. Everyone sat at their desks quietly until Kagome spoke.

“Sango? What did Kikyo mean by Inuyasha being a thief? And a liar? A demon? What did you mean by others could hear her? Please, I need to know!” she asked, looking down at her shoes. She was so confused now. Sango slung one strap of her backpack onto her back. She walked over and placed her hand on Kagome's desk.

“I'm not sure of all the answers myself, and I'm not sure Inuyasha wants you to know some of them just yet, but, Kagome, I want to thank you. For helping me and all. Maybe we can hang out some time, and I'll try, just try, to explain.” At this Sango left, leaving a piece of paper from under her hand on Kagome's desk. Kagome looked up at Mr. Myouga.

“You don't know what you're getting yourself into, kid,” he warned before picking up his briefcase and leaving the room. Kagome was left to herself to think now. She unfolded the paper to see an unfamiliar handwriting. It read:

 

Kag-

Yes. I'd love 2. A lunch. Under the stairs. San and Mir will come 2, if u don't mind. C u there.

-Inu

 

Kagome read the letter aloud. The bell rang. She picked up her bag and left. She was now late for second period.

 

=^-^= Buyo! =^-^=