InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Little Stone of Secrets ❯ Chapter 3
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By: Tae girl 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.22.2010 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 189 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.22.2010 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 189 | Status: Completed
Note:
So as always I send out much love to both Shoroie and Rami not only for there great editing skills but also for the moral support and willingness to kick my ass when I get lazy and don’t even want to turn on my computer. Another special thanks I want to send out would be to my wonderful readers who actually take the time to read my story!!! I hope you enjoy!!! Read & Review ppl LOL ^_^
“Morning ladies,” Inu Yasha and Miroku both called in greeting as they got out of the car and walked over to us.
Miroku’s eyes came to rest on Sango‘s right hand. “Sango, are you alright?” he said startled as he checked the bite mark. “What happened?” he questioned.
Her eyes slightly bulged, “She fucking bit me,” she said as she shook her finger at me before pulling it back as I glared at her. “Do we really have to go through this every time you have to start at a new school?”
“Come on, Kagome, you’re a big brave bear!” I sighed and shook trying to ease the stress from my shoulders. “Big strong bear,” I repeated again.
“Is she alright?” Inu Yasha asked cocking his head to the side and stared at me. “Kagome, you know you can’t actually attend classes unless you remove yourself from the car,” he said sarcastically.
“Go to hell,” I snarled as I unbuckled my seat belt. “Big brave bear, big brave bear, big grave bear.”
Inu Yasha impatiently tapped his foot “The hell with this!” he yelled as he scooped me out of the passengers seat of Sango’s car making sure to keep his hands away from my mouth and flung me carefully over his shoulder. “Sango, grab her bag and, for god sake’s, make sure you lock the car so the ‘Big Brave Bear’ doesn’t book it back into hibernation.”
My eyes widened in horror as I went completely still. Everyone that happened to be in the parking lot stopped what they where doing and stared at us. “Inu Yasha, so help me, if you don‘t put me down this very instant I‘m going to murder you in your sleep!” I hissed as I pounded my fists into his back with the very likelihood it was going to hurt me a lot more, in the long run, then him. ‘I HATE DEMONES!’ I seethed in my mind. “Come on, put me down! I‘ll be good!”
“Like hell,” he snorted “Besides, I kind of like the view,” and just to prove his point gave my ass a slight pat.
“Sango,” I called pleading to her to rescue me.
“YOU BIT ME!” was her only reply as she shouldered my school bag and walked ahead with Miroku.
Inu Yasha chuckled as he jogged to catch up with them before falling in stride all the while carrying me as if I was weightless. It became apparent that all my thrashing was worthless so I took solace in pulling his hair. It was from a different angle then what I had seen before but I could tell when we had entered the cafeteria. Plus it smelled of heavenly scents of food. As if on cue my stomach growled.
“Now, I‘m going to put you down but I don‘t want you trying anything funny. Okay?” he said cautiously. “You don‘t think she‘s going to try to bite me, to do you, Sango?”
I swear I could feel her roll her eyes, “I highly doubt that she tends to be single minded and she hasn’t eat anything yet, today.”
My eyes narrowed into little slits as Inu Yasha held me for a few more seconds while thinking things over before I felt his hands move to my waist and carefully lower me to the floor. “Better?” he asked.
I swiftly kicked Inu Yasha in the shin with as much force as I could. “Much better.” I smirked smugly as Inu Yasha hissed in pain. I limped over to the counter and grabbed a plate and pilled a couple pancakes, three sausage links and a apple onto it before grabbing a orange juice from the walk in refrigerator.
“Hiya!” I said greeting the cashier “My friend, Inu Yasha Tashio, over there said he was treating me to day so just add this to his bill. Thanks!”
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I sighed as I continued walking. Maybe, I shouldn’t have turned down Miroku’s help in finding my philosophy class? Boy, was I ever lost. Taking out the school map I had sketched out from memory, I stared at it trying to get my bearings. A hand shot out and snatched it away.
“Can I have that back?” I growled looking up staring at a beautiful demoness. She had sharp looking dark blue eyes. Her black hair was long and shiny. She was flanked by two snotty looking girls who where glaring at me.
The paper drifted to the ground, in pieces as the demoness tore it. “No, I don‘t think you can,” she wiped her hands on her True Religion designer jeans before laughing and walking away.
“Oops,” one of the lackeys said as she body checked me as she walked by.
“And, yet, she wonders why I‘m a little apprehensive about going to new schools,” I said aloud as I bent over to pick up my school bag the incredible she hulk had knocked off my shoulder.
“Umm, excuse me?”
“What?!” I snapped as I looked up meeting eyes with a pair of soft brown eyes. Her hand was out stretched towards me holding my cell phone. She had shoulder length dark brown shiny hair and beautiful light brown skin “I‘m sorry,” I said shaking my head in shame as I took my cell phone back.
“It’s all right. It’s Kaguya‘s joy in life to bring misfortune to others,” she said smiling kindly at me.
“Yah, but on the plus side the one with short, brown hair pined up had a great future ahead of her as a line backer,” I said jokingly.
“That Kagura does” she said softly with a sad smile as she nervously looked around. “You look a little lost. Is there any way I can help?”
“Know any good caves to hibernate in?” I said laughing at the private joke.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?” she asked with a confused look.
Giggling I shook my head “I‘m sorry but do you know where Philosophy with…”
“Mr. Shaw?” I nodded. “Yah. I‘ll take you there. It’s on my way.” We walked a little further until she stopped and gestured to the door she was standing by. “Here ya go. Have a good class,” she said with her million watt smile again before turning and scurrying down the hall towards her own class.
I walked into the class and signed in frustration at the fact all the tables looked full. Taking a further scan I finally noticed a table with only one person sitting at it. No wonder, the vibes he was sending off were enough to send any sane person running the opposite direction. ‘However, desperate times call for desperate measures,’ I reasoned with myself.
Sesshomaru’s POV
I almost smirked as the light, cherry blossom fragrance mixed with a hint of rain, floated in the room. Except, it seemed to be catching several others, as well as Youkai’s attention. Her eyes searched the room over, briefly landing on me before searching on it wasn’t hard to guess what she was looking for.
“Why, Sesshomaru Tashio, aren’t you looking spiffy this fine day,” she said in greeting as she sat in the seat next to me. “Terrorizing the local village people, I take it?”
“Hn” was my only respond as I took in her attire. Today, she was wearing a light purple tank top with a short cropped denim jacket over it and a tan peasant skirt and a pair of purple flip flops to pull the whole look together. As to the reason, I was paying so much attention to what she was wearing but it still baffled me. All I know for now is, I happened to find her entertaining. So, why not indulge myself in this little pre-doomed creature’s existence while it lasted?
I heard a soft grunt as a female student marched her way up to our table. “Uh-oh, I think I‘m the one stirring up the local village folk, now.”
“Hiya, Sesshy!” she practically purred while leaning over the table giving me a view of the great twin, plastic mountains, barely covered by her stretch t-shirt. I couldn’t help but see an image of her with a tail wagging for me, excitedly. ‘Disgusting,’ my eyes narrowed before looking away and ignoring her presence.
She gulped before turning on Kagome and glared. “And who said you could sit there?”
She innocently looked around her before taking her finger and pointing to herself, “Who me?”
“Yes, you!”
Kagome grabbed her purse. “I‘m, so over this,” she made a move to get up and my hand rested on her knee stopping her. Her eyes snapped to my hand and back up to my face.
“Actually, I kind of like this spot,” setting her purse back down, she turned and glared at Kagura.
“Know what I think?”
“Actually, honey, no, I don‘t and I really don‘t care. How about you, Sesshomaru?”
Kagura‘s eyes widened in shock. “Sesshomaru, are you going to let that, bitch, talk to me like that?”
“Hn” was my only response at I carefully watched Kagome go from a gentle kitten to a cat with its claws out.
“Oh snap! Guess that means you have to go. Bye-bye, now,” her lips pulled up into a smirk. “That means, you go away, now.” Turning on her heels, Kagura quickly ran off in retreat.
Slowly, I removed my hand from her knee as she settled back into the chair. I was surprised she didn’t mention any thing about what had just happened. She just leaned back and shrugged out of her jacket revealing a dark blue and purple bruise covering her shoulder.
“What happened?” I brought my hand to her shoulder and gently ran my thumb over the bruised skin.
“Huh? This must be a parting gift,” her eyes darted over to Kagura. “The ‘incredible hulk’ over there, rammed me earlier but it’s all good. How about we just keep this between the two of us?”
“Hn” I felt a twinge of and unfamiliar emotion.
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Kagome’s POV
Jakotsu was leaning against the wall, next to my philosophy class, looking upset about something as I walked into the hallway with Sesshomaru next to me.
“Hiya, Jak! What’s wrong? Are you alright?” It was a stupid question. Really, there was something obviously wrong. The look in his eyes told me that much.
He locked his eyes with me and gave me a smile that didn’t quite make it to his eyes before looking at Sesshomaru and scowling. “It’s nothing, Kag‘s. I was just talking to my brother.”
“Is he alright?”
“He’s fine, I ran into Sango and she said you had philosophy with Shaw so I thought I’d come get you and walk you to your Physical Geography class.”
“Oh ya, sure! That would be great, let me just say bye to Sesshomaru, first,” turning I waved good bye before practically being dragged off. “Alright, will you tell me what’s wrong, now?” I yelled as I dug my heels in making us come to a stop.
His eyes softened as he looked at me. “Just do me a favor and stay away from him, alright?” brushing his lips across my forehead before pressing his forehead to mine.
“You mean Sesshomaru? Why?”
“It’s nothing. Come on, lets get you to class,” he walked right next to me and seemed to be shooting dirty looks at anyone who happened to walk to close by us. I kept shooting him questioning looks that he decided to ignore.
I found a seat in the front row and waved Jak off before checking to see why my cell was vibrating. Apparently, I had a text from Inu Yasha and Sango. I decided to reply to Inu Yasha’s text first:
“Kag’s I’m sry about being a bake earlier! We gud? - Inu
Yah we gud! - Kag
U alright seemed kind of out of it this morn? - Inu
I’m gud prom! g2g t2u l8tz - Kag
Now on to Sango.
Jak looking 4 u. seems worried. - Sango
Ya big bro all ready found me. C u @ lunch - Kags”
I growled, okay, once or twice. It was an accident but that was the forth, god damn, time someone had stepped on my toe’s. ‘Ignore them and they will go away,’ grabbing a pen out of my purse, I opened my sketch book and started doodling till the professor showed up. Shooting up right, I turned and glared “What are you, five years old?”
He let go of my pony tail. “Having a tough day, are you?” his bright blue eyes sparkled mischievously as he smiled at me with a wolf-like grin.
“Nope, it’s been a fantastic day,” I went back to drawing the elaborate circles into a Celtic knot design. The seat beside me moved back as the wolf, Youkai sat down in it.
“We met a couple weeks ago, in the cafeteria,” he snatched my sketch book off the table and flipped through a couple pages looking at the art in it. “Not bad. By the way, my name’s Koga. Koga Wolf.”
“Oh, umm, I‘m Kag--”
His eyes scanned my body. “Kagome Higurashi, but then, again, who doesn’t know you, by now?”
My eye’s narrowed “I‘m sorry, what?”
Moving his hand up to my bruised shoulder, he gave it a slight squeeze through the denim jacket. I gasped in pain as I bit my bottom lip. “You’re not an idiot so I‘ll give it to you that you understand that demons have heightened senses,” he released my shoulder, “So, you should understand when the muscle fibers and connective tissue underneath the skin are crushed by someone striking you. When this occurs, blood from the ruptured capillaries near the skin's surface escapes by leaking out under the skin. With no place to go, the blood gets trapped, forming a red or purplish mark that's tender when you touch it or as its better known as a bruise.”
“And what exactly are you trying to say, Koga?”
Sitting up, he stretched. “Just wondering how the bruise is. That’s all Kagome,” he sauntered off.
After my encounter with Koga, the rest of geography went well enough. It was easy to see I was going to really like taking this class. Even though, I hated his name, I was really going to like Mr. DeBunce as a teacher. Gathering my things up, I walked to the cafeteria to meet up with Sango, get something to eat and I only got pushed into the wall 5 times by various demons. Hanyou‘s, with the occasional human joining in on the fun. ‘Hmm, karma check: have I been doing anything really bad, lately?’
Sango snapped her fingers in front of my face. “Kagome, have you heard a thing I’ve said to you, space cadet?”
“I‘m sorry. What where you saying?” I said with my best apologetic smile.
Her smile widened. “I was just trying to tell you how great this place is. It’s way better then high school. I‘m having a really great time.”
I used my fork to push the salad around on my plate. “I‘m happy for you, Sanggie.”
Her eyes softened, “Kagome, just give this place a chance before you decide you hate it,” she gently grasped my hand from across the table. “I‘m sure you’ll just love it, given the chance.”
I sighed, “You really like it!” insert fake smile as I got up from the table. “Well, I‘m sure you’re right. I‘m going to love it here, given it some time. Now, come on! Time for art!”
Art turned out to be the only class I had really been able to enjoy. I was, actually, able to relax as I sat between Sango and Miroku. It was weird. No one seemed to, accidentally, step on my toes or bump into me. However, no matter how much I enjoyed it, I couldn’t wait for that sweet car ride home. I wanted to be far, far away from this place. Up until this point I couldn’t wait for the weekend to get here so we could move into the apartment but, now, I was actually dreading it.
“Can you say, ‘pathetic’?”
Sango took her eyes off the road and looked at me, “Did you say something Kag‘s?”
I smiled, “Nope, not a word.”
So as always I send out much love to both Shoroie and Rami not only for there great editing skills but also for the moral support and willingness to kick my ass when I get lazy and don’t even want to turn on my computer. Another special thanks I want to send out would be to my wonderful readers who actually take the time to read my story!!! I hope you enjoy!!! Read & Review ppl LOL ^_^
Chapter Three
The school was just as beautiful every time I see it. Even though the structures were all the same color of aged light yellow. Combined with all the ivy climbing the school, the structures had a kind of “old world” enduring charm to it. Some how, it just made my heart warm being here. Inu Yasha’s silver ford mustang powered the parking lot and made it’s way towards us.“Morning ladies,” Inu Yasha and Miroku both called in greeting as they got out of the car and walked over to us.
Miroku’s eyes came to rest on Sango‘s right hand. “Sango, are you alright?” he said startled as he checked the bite mark. “What happened?” he questioned.
Her eyes slightly bulged, “She fucking bit me,” she said as she shook her finger at me before pulling it back as I glared at her. “Do we really have to go through this every time you have to start at a new school?”
“Come on, Kagome, you’re a big brave bear!” I sighed and shook trying to ease the stress from my shoulders. “Big strong bear,” I repeated again.
“Is she alright?” Inu Yasha asked cocking his head to the side and stared at me. “Kagome, you know you can’t actually attend classes unless you remove yourself from the car,” he said sarcastically.
“Go to hell,” I snarled as I unbuckled my seat belt. “Big brave bear, big brave bear, big grave bear.”
Inu Yasha impatiently tapped his foot “The hell with this!” he yelled as he scooped me out of the passengers seat of Sango’s car making sure to keep his hands away from my mouth and flung me carefully over his shoulder. “Sango, grab her bag and, for god sake’s, make sure you lock the car so the ‘Big Brave Bear’ doesn’t book it back into hibernation.”
My eyes widened in horror as I went completely still. Everyone that happened to be in the parking lot stopped what they where doing and stared at us. “Inu Yasha, so help me, if you don‘t put me down this very instant I‘m going to murder you in your sleep!” I hissed as I pounded my fists into his back with the very likelihood it was going to hurt me a lot more, in the long run, then him. ‘I HATE DEMONES!’ I seethed in my mind. “Come on, put me down! I‘ll be good!”
“Like hell,” he snorted “Besides, I kind of like the view,” and just to prove his point gave my ass a slight pat.
“Sango,” I called pleading to her to rescue me.
“YOU BIT ME!” was her only reply as she shouldered my school bag and walked ahead with Miroku.
Inu Yasha chuckled as he jogged to catch up with them before falling in stride all the while carrying me as if I was weightless. It became apparent that all my thrashing was worthless so I took solace in pulling his hair. It was from a different angle then what I had seen before but I could tell when we had entered the cafeteria. Plus it smelled of heavenly scents of food. As if on cue my stomach growled.
“Now, I‘m going to put you down but I don‘t want you trying anything funny. Okay?” he said cautiously. “You don‘t think she‘s going to try to bite me, to do you, Sango?”
I swear I could feel her roll her eyes, “I highly doubt that she tends to be single minded and she hasn’t eat anything yet, today.”
My eyes narrowed into little slits as Inu Yasha held me for a few more seconds while thinking things over before I felt his hands move to my waist and carefully lower me to the floor. “Better?” he asked.
I swiftly kicked Inu Yasha in the shin with as much force as I could. “Much better.” I smirked smugly as Inu Yasha hissed in pain. I limped over to the counter and grabbed a plate and pilled a couple pancakes, three sausage links and a apple onto it before grabbing a orange juice from the walk in refrigerator.
“Hiya!” I said greeting the cashier “My friend, Inu Yasha Tashio, over there said he was treating me to day so just add this to his bill. Thanks!”
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I sighed as I continued walking. Maybe, I shouldn’t have turned down Miroku’s help in finding my philosophy class? Boy, was I ever lost. Taking out the school map I had sketched out from memory, I stared at it trying to get my bearings. A hand shot out and snatched it away.
“Can I have that back?” I growled looking up staring at a beautiful demoness. She had sharp looking dark blue eyes. Her black hair was long and shiny. She was flanked by two snotty looking girls who where glaring at me.
The paper drifted to the ground, in pieces as the demoness tore it. “No, I don‘t think you can,” she wiped her hands on her True Religion designer jeans before laughing and walking away.
“Oops,” one of the lackeys said as she body checked me as she walked by.
“And, yet, she wonders why I‘m a little apprehensive about going to new schools,” I said aloud as I bent over to pick up my school bag the incredible she hulk had knocked off my shoulder.
“Umm, excuse me?”
“What?!” I snapped as I looked up meeting eyes with a pair of soft brown eyes. Her hand was out stretched towards me holding my cell phone. She had shoulder length dark brown shiny hair and beautiful light brown skin “I‘m sorry,” I said shaking my head in shame as I took my cell phone back.
“It’s all right. It’s Kaguya‘s joy in life to bring misfortune to others,” she said smiling kindly at me.
“Yah, but on the plus side the one with short, brown hair pined up had a great future ahead of her as a line backer,” I said jokingly.
“That Kagura does” she said softly with a sad smile as she nervously looked around. “You look a little lost. Is there any way I can help?”
“Know any good caves to hibernate in?” I said laughing at the private joke.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?” she asked with a confused look.
Giggling I shook my head “I‘m sorry but do you know where Philosophy with…”
“Mr. Shaw?” I nodded. “Yah. I‘ll take you there. It’s on my way.” We walked a little further until she stopped and gestured to the door she was standing by. “Here ya go. Have a good class,” she said with her million watt smile again before turning and scurrying down the hall towards her own class.
I walked into the class and signed in frustration at the fact all the tables looked full. Taking a further scan I finally noticed a table with only one person sitting at it. No wonder, the vibes he was sending off were enough to send any sane person running the opposite direction. ‘However, desperate times call for desperate measures,’ I reasoned with myself.
Sesshomaru’s POV
I almost smirked as the light, cherry blossom fragrance mixed with a hint of rain, floated in the room. Except, it seemed to be catching several others, as well as Youkai’s attention. Her eyes searched the room over, briefly landing on me before searching on it wasn’t hard to guess what she was looking for.
“Why, Sesshomaru Tashio, aren’t you looking spiffy this fine day,” she said in greeting as she sat in the seat next to me. “Terrorizing the local village people, I take it?”
“Hn” was my only respond as I took in her attire. Today, she was wearing a light purple tank top with a short cropped denim jacket over it and a tan peasant skirt and a pair of purple flip flops to pull the whole look together. As to the reason, I was paying so much attention to what she was wearing but it still baffled me. All I know for now is, I happened to find her entertaining. So, why not indulge myself in this little pre-doomed creature’s existence while it lasted?
I heard a soft grunt as a female student marched her way up to our table. “Uh-oh, I think I‘m the one stirring up the local village folk, now.”
“Hiya, Sesshy!” she practically purred while leaning over the table giving me a view of the great twin, plastic mountains, barely covered by her stretch t-shirt. I couldn’t help but see an image of her with a tail wagging for me, excitedly. ‘Disgusting,’ my eyes narrowed before looking away and ignoring her presence.
She gulped before turning on Kagome and glared. “And who said you could sit there?”
She innocently looked around her before taking her finger and pointing to herself, “Who me?”
“Yes, you!”
Kagome grabbed her purse. “I‘m, so over this,” she made a move to get up and my hand rested on her knee stopping her. Her eyes snapped to my hand and back up to my face.
“Actually, I kind of like this spot,” setting her purse back down, she turned and glared at Kagura.
“Know what I think?”
“Actually, honey, no, I don‘t and I really don‘t care. How about you, Sesshomaru?”
Kagura‘s eyes widened in shock. “Sesshomaru, are you going to let that, bitch, talk to me like that?”
“Hn” was my only response at I carefully watched Kagome go from a gentle kitten to a cat with its claws out.
“Oh snap! Guess that means you have to go. Bye-bye, now,” her lips pulled up into a smirk. “That means, you go away, now.” Turning on her heels, Kagura quickly ran off in retreat.
Slowly, I removed my hand from her knee as she settled back into the chair. I was surprised she didn’t mention any thing about what had just happened. She just leaned back and shrugged out of her jacket revealing a dark blue and purple bruise covering her shoulder.
“What happened?” I brought my hand to her shoulder and gently ran my thumb over the bruised skin.
“Huh? This must be a parting gift,” her eyes darted over to Kagura. “The ‘incredible hulk’ over there, rammed me earlier but it’s all good. How about we just keep this between the two of us?”
“Hn” I felt a twinge of and unfamiliar emotion.
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Kagome’s POV
Jakotsu was leaning against the wall, next to my philosophy class, looking upset about something as I walked into the hallway with Sesshomaru next to me.
“Hiya, Jak! What’s wrong? Are you alright?” It was a stupid question. Really, there was something obviously wrong. The look in his eyes told me that much.
He locked his eyes with me and gave me a smile that didn’t quite make it to his eyes before looking at Sesshomaru and scowling. “It’s nothing, Kag‘s. I was just talking to my brother.”
“Is he alright?”
“He’s fine, I ran into Sango and she said you had philosophy with Shaw so I thought I’d come get you and walk you to your Physical Geography class.”
“Oh ya, sure! That would be great, let me just say bye to Sesshomaru, first,” turning I waved good bye before practically being dragged off. “Alright, will you tell me what’s wrong, now?” I yelled as I dug my heels in making us come to a stop.
His eyes softened as he looked at me. “Just do me a favor and stay away from him, alright?” brushing his lips across my forehead before pressing his forehead to mine.
“You mean Sesshomaru? Why?”
“It’s nothing. Come on, lets get you to class,” he walked right next to me and seemed to be shooting dirty looks at anyone who happened to walk to close by us. I kept shooting him questioning looks that he decided to ignore.
I found a seat in the front row and waved Jak off before checking to see why my cell was vibrating. Apparently, I had a text from Inu Yasha and Sango. I decided to reply to Inu Yasha’s text first:
“Kag’s I’m sry about being a bake earlier! We gud? - Inu
Yah we gud! - Kag
U alright seemed kind of out of it this morn? - Inu
I’m gud prom! g2g t2u l8tz - Kag
Now on to Sango.
Jak looking 4 u. seems worried. - Sango
Ya big bro all ready found me. C u @ lunch - Kags”
I growled, okay, once or twice. It was an accident but that was the forth, god damn, time someone had stepped on my toe’s. ‘Ignore them and they will go away,’ grabbing a pen out of my purse, I opened my sketch book and started doodling till the professor showed up. Shooting up right, I turned and glared “What are you, five years old?”
He let go of my pony tail. “Having a tough day, are you?” his bright blue eyes sparkled mischievously as he smiled at me with a wolf-like grin.
“Nope, it’s been a fantastic day,” I went back to drawing the elaborate circles into a Celtic knot design. The seat beside me moved back as the wolf, Youkai sat down in it.
“We met a couple weeks ago, in the cafeteria,” he snatched my sketch book off the table and flipped through a couple pages looking at the art in it. “Not bad. By the way, my name’s Koga. Koga Wolf.”
“Oh, umm, I‘m Kag--”
His eyes scanned my body. “Kagome Higurashi, but then, again, who doesn’t know you, by now?”
My eye’s narrowed “I‘m sorry, what?”
Moving his hand up to my bruised shoulder, he gave it a slight squeeze through the denim jacket. I gasped in pain as I bit my bottom lip. “You’re not an idiot so I‘ll give it to you that you understand that demons have heightened senses,” he released my shoulder, “So, you should understand when the muscle fibers and connective tissue underneath the skin are crushed by someone striking you. When this occurs, blood from the ruptured capillaries near the skin's surface escapes by leaking out under the skin. With no place to go, the blood gets trapped, forming a red or purplish mark that's tender when you touch it or as its better known as a bruise.”
“And what exactly are you trying to say, Koga?”
Sitting up, he stretched. “Just wondering how the bruise is. That’s all Kagome,” he sauntered off.
After my encounter with Koga, the rest of geography went well enough. It was easy to see I was going to really like taking this class. Even though, I hated his name, I was really going to like Mr. DeBunce as a teacher. Gathering my things up, I walked to the cafeteria to meet up with Sango, get something to eat and I only got pushed into the wall 5 times by various demons. Hanyou‘s, with the occasional human joining in on the fun. ‘Hmm, karma check: have I been doing anything really bad, lately?’
Sango snapped her fingers in front of my face. “Kagome, have you heard a thing I’ve said to you, space cadet?”
“I‘m sorry. What where you saying?” I said with my best apologetic smile.
Her smile widened. “I was just trying to tell you how great this place is. It’s way better then high school. I‘m having a really great time.”
I used my fork to push the salad around on my plate. “I‘m happy for you, Sanggie.”
Her eyes softened, “Kagome, just give this place a chance before you decide you hate it,” she gently grasped my hand from across the table. “I‘m sure you’ll just love it, given the chance.”
I sighed, “You really like it!” insert fake smile as I got up from the table. “Well, I‘m sure you’re right. I‘m going to love it here, given it some time. Now, come on! Time for art!”
Art turned out to be the only class I had really been able to enjoy. I was, actually, able to relax as I sat between Sango and Miroku. It was weird. No one seemed to, accidentally, step on my toes or bump into me. However, no matter how much I enjoyed it, I couldn’t wait for that sweet car ride home. I wanted to be far, far away from this place. Up until this point I couldn’t wait for the weekend to get here so we could move into the apartment but, now, I was actually dreading it.
“Can you say, ‘pathetic’?”
Sango took her eyes off the road and looked at me, “Did you say something Kag‘s?”
I smiled, “Nope, not a word.”