InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Not Another High School Fanfic ❯ First Day ( Chapter 3 )
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By: akajazzy9 
Title says it all...
also Hana and Aoi make a bet with each other.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.13.2007 | Updated On: 04.13.2007 | Pages: 6 | Words: 8.0K | Visits: 165 | Status: Work In Progress
Title says it all...
also Hana and Aoi make a bet with each other.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.13.2007 | Updated On: 04.13.2007 | Pages: 6 | Words: 8.0K | Visits: 165 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 3: First Day
Hana’s POV
After Kagome (Sango had chased after Miroku and was never seen again) finished showing Aoi and I around we received our schedules, locker numbers and combinations, and our uniforms. We also received the standard white shoes we would have to wear inside the building. Afterwards we headed home to prepare for our official first day at Sunrise High School.
The Next Day…
“Well how do I look?” I asked nervously.
Aoi smiled and said “I’d say you look pretty darn spiffy.”
“Thanks. You look good too.”
“Why, thank you!”
Aoi had come over my house after my dad had gone to work. We decided to go to school together but since Aoi said she would never ride on my bike again we were going to take her car (her aunt’s old car that was just recently given to her). Aoi and I both had our new uniforms on. The shirts were a light beige/off-white color with the black bow and collar along with the black skirts. I decided to wear my hair out like Aoi. Now the only thing that set us apart was my glasses. I was really considering getting contacts soon.
These glasses drive me crazy, I look like a nerd, I thought while trying to adjust my glasses different ways to make them look cuter.
“I don’t think you look like a nerd.” Aoi said, reading my thoughts.
“You don’t?”
“Are you kidding? Those glasses are HOT!”
I laughed, “Thanks but I still think I’m going to get contacts. I wanna get an upgrade from glasses.”
“Okay. Well are you going to get them clear or in color?”
I thought for a moment and said “I think I’m gonna get them clear. I like having blue eyes.”
Aoi nodded in agreement. “Yeah, they set us apart from most people.”
After I finished my primping it was just about time to go. I made sure to grab a Pop-Tart on the way out the door. I couldn’t function in the morning on an empty stomach. On the way to school I told Aoi that my brothers Kazuke and Kyo would be going to Sunrise as well.
“For real? I thought they already went there.”
“What made you think that?” I asked.
“Well…” she seemed hesitant. “You know how you said your dad always wants the best for your brothers?”
I nodded and tried to act like it was nothing.
“Well I just figured since Sunrise is one of the best schools in Tokyo that your dad would have them go there.”
“I thought about that too but I found out that the only reason they stayed at Shikon was because their friends were there. The minute the school got bombed, after I told Dad about the school, he immediately decided to transfer them there.” I explained.
“I see…speaking of your brothers…do they know? About you being adopted and having a twin?”
“I haven’t said anything…but I know Kazuya and Kazuke already know, with them being older then me.”
“I see.” Suddenly I recognized a song on the radio and turned the volume up. It was “Broken Wings” by Tomoko Tane. “Oh! This is my song!” Aoi said.
I smiled and said “Mine too!” All the way to school Aoi and I sang our little hearts out.
“My broken wings, how far should I go drifting in the wind? Higher and higher in the light…”
Aoi’s POV
When we got to school Kagome, Miroku, and Sango were already there. Miroku greeted us the same as yesterday and he got the same response.
“Oh! You look so cute in your uniforms!” Kagome exclaimed.
“I know, right? Um, I mean, thanks.” Aoi and I said with a smile.
“Yup, and it’s all thanks to the school mascot.” Sango said. Hana and I then realized the small neko-youkai sitting on Sango’s shoulder. It had light beige/off-white fur and black stripes. They were the same colors as our shirts. Hana and I both squealed, “Oh!!! It’s sooo cute!!”
“Can I hold her?” We asked at the same time.
“C’mon Aoi, let me hold her first!” Hana begged.
“But I wanna hold her first!” I said.
“You can hold her as soon as I’m done. I promise!” she persisted.
“No you can hold her when I’m done.”
We went back and forth about who would hold her first until Sango spoke up. “Uh girls?”
“Huh?” It was then we realized we were arguing like a pair of two-year-olds.
“Why don’t you do rock-paper-scissors to see who holds her first?” she suggested.
“Good idea!” Hana and I said.
We held out our fists and started.
“Rock! Paper! Scissors!”
I came out with paper and Hana had rock.
“I get to hold the kitty, I get to hold the kitty!” I said in a sing-song voice.
Hana stuck her tongue out at me, “You cheater!”
“Come on Hana, how can you cheat at ‘rock, paper, scissors?’” I told her,” Don’t be a baby; you’ll get your chaa-AHHH!!”
My hand was burning! The kitty burned me!
“Sango! Your animal singed me! It’s EVIL!”
Everyone started laughing at me, including Hana. I swear to goodness even the cute-but-evil kitty was laughing at me.
“I’m sorry Aoi; I forgot to warn you…Kirara is a fire-cat demon!” Why Sango decided at that moment to inform me of this I don’t know. That just might’ve prevented me from burning my hand. “Ooooh, it hurts!” I complained. My drama queen personality was beginning to come out.
“Oh come on Aoi, don’t be such a baby!” Hana quipped.
“Oh I see, so the twin’s got jokes, huh?” I challenged her jokingly.
“Yeah, whatcha gonna do about it?” she retorted.
We closed the space between us until our faces were only inches apart. Just like in those little gangster movies when the two gang leaders are about to face off, and they act like they can’t see the person at a normal five foot distance so they get all up in the other person’s face.
“Yeah, that’s right Hana! You roll mad deep, yo!”
Sango, Me, Hana, and even Kirara all turned around and looked at Kagome.
“What did you just say Kagome?” Sango asked.
Kagome blushed, “I’m sorry! I was in the moment and it slipped out!”
Hana and I both laughed, “Ah, Kagome…” Hana said.
“You never cease to amaze us!” I finished. We both started laughing again.
“Wait!” Hana said, “Aoi, we didn’t finish what we started!”
“Oh yeah, that’s right! Bring it on!”
Hana and I started play fighting, when a cold, familiar voice destroyed our fun.
Hana’s POV
“Stop fighting, otherwise you face expulsion!”
Aoi and I quickly stopped pushing each other when we heard that voice tell us to stop. Of course it was none other than our favorite student council president, Sesshomaru Takahashi. In all of his hotness…I mean glory.
“Not you again!” Sango said, “Look Sesshy, can’t you give them a break? They weren’t even fighting and besides this is their first day. So can you just lay off of that ‘I’ve-got-a-stick-up-my-ass’ attitude for just one day?”
Just like my sister and I were doing before, Sesshomaru closed the space between him and Sango until they were only inches apart.
“Sango, after all this time you still don’t seem to understand exactly what kind of power I possess-“
I wonder if he means as the student president or as a demon, I thought.
Most likely both, my sister replied telepathically. We continued to listen intently to Sesshomaru’s conversation with Sango…
“And your point being what exactly?” Sango asked with a hint of sarcasm.
“My point being that if you keep stepping up to me with that attitude of yours, I can get you and your smartass comments suspended faster than you can say hiraikotsu.”
Sango just stared Sesshomaru down as if she was trying to burn a hole in him.
She probably could actually, with that fire-cat of hers, I thought.
“Well enough of you,” Sesshomaru said. He completely dismissed her and turned around to face Aoi and me. I don’t think Sesshomaru completely understood the concept of personal space, just like with Sango he was dangerously close to us.
“You two, what are your names?” Sesshomaru asked, I don’t understand why he couldn’t have asked a little bit nicer but whatever.
“My name’s Aoi,” I heard my sister say “and this is my twin sister…”
Oh wow, his eyes are so pretty…they’re like…gold…
“…um…my twin sister…”
Oh my gosh and look at his hair…it’s so long and white and silky…
I heard my sister coughing passive-aggressively, but I was focusing too much on Sesshomaru to notice…
And he’s so strong and muscular…
“MY SISTER-!” Finally Aoi pinched me out of my ‘Sesshomaru profiling’.
“Ow-! Oh I’m sorry! My name is Hana.” My, that was embarrassing. Sesshomaru didn’t seem to really notice or care though.
“Hmm. Well twins, just make sure you stay out of trouble, and I’m sure we’ll get along just fine.”
All Aoi and I could do was nod. It’s like his mere presence was like, silencing. Just like our last encounter, he walked away but then seemed to look back at us. And I could swear that for the slightest moment, Sesshomaru smiled at me.
Did you see that? I asked Aoi
No, what?
He smiled at me!
Are you sure you weren’t just imagining it?
No! He was really smiling at me!
Our telepathic conversation was interrupted with a comment from Sango.
“I cannot STAND him! I can’t believe he’s even a half-brother of someone like Inuyasha!”
Inuyasha? Aoi and I both asked in our minds.
“Oh Sango don’t even bring him up! I don’t wanna talk about him so early in the morning!” Kagome whined.
“Ah, come on Kagome!” Sango said slapping her on the back. “You know you like Inuyasha!”
“I do not!”
“Anyone wanna explain to us who ‘Inuyasha’ is?” Aoi asked.
Sango and Kagome both looked at us, “Oh.”
“Inuyasha is Sesshomaru’s younger half-brother. They have the same dad but different mothers. That’s why Sesshomaru is a full demon and Inuyasha is only a half demon.” Kagome explained to us.
“Half Demon? Interesting.” I said
“Yeah and that’s not the only thing different about them…” Sango added.
“What do you mean?” Aoi asked.
“Well, you’ve noticed how with Sesshomaru if you mess with him, unless you just really piss him off, he’ll leave you alone. However with Inuyasha…”
“Speak of the devil…” Kagome interrupted.
We all turned around and saw a boy lying against the wall minding his own business. Like Sesshomaru, he had long white hair and golden eyes. But unlike Sesshomaru he had really cute puppy dog ears.
This must be Sesshomaru’s aforementioned brother. I thought
Yeah…oh by the way, speaking of Sesshomaru…
What about him?
You like him don’t you?
What? No!
Hana’s got the love bug, Hana’s got the love bug…
I do not!
Aoi gave me her look of doom. I hated the look of doom. It made me confess stuff.
Okay, maybe…
Ooooohhhhh!!!!!!
Shut up!
Hey! Look at the aforementioned brother!
Some random boy happened to walk up to Inuyasha and pulled his doggy ears. If you were to blink you could’ve missed the fast motion of Inuyasha breaking the boy’s wrist. Aoi and I witnessed exactly what Sango was about to imply about Inuyasha’s temper.
“You touch me again and I’ll break every damn bone in your body you little bastard!”
Oh my.
The boy nodded vigorously and looked as if he was about to cry.
“What are you still doing here, get outta my face!” Inuyasha yelled some more.
The random boy ran away with utter fear in his eyes.
“Holy effing crap.” I said.
Sango smiled at my comment, “Need I say more?”
I let out a heavy sigh, Man this school gets more and more interesting every single day.
Ditto. Oh yeah, about Sesshomaru…
Aoi! Drop it!
Just wait a second. I wanna make a bet with you.
A bet? I thought while also raising my eyebrow at Aoi.
Yeah. You get seven days…
Why is it always seven days? Why can’t it be like six or four? A nice even number?
Hana shut up. Anyway, within those days you have to actually go up to Sesshomaru and hold a conversation with him!
NANI?
Yup, if you can do it, you win obviously.
I wasn’t sure if I could do it. I’m not exactly Miss Flirt. Besides talking to someone like Sesshomaru, like actually talking to them, would be a difficult task indeed.
You know what Aoi? You’re on.
Aoi’s POV
Just as Hana accepted my bet the boy Inuyasha noticed we were staring at him. He glared at us and started yelling unnecessary, “What the hell are you all staring at?” We all quickly turned away. “Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the dog house.” Hana whispered.
“I heard that!” Inuyasha yelled.
Hana gasped and said “Damn that boy has some good hearing…” she glanced at him and said “Uh…sorry…”
“Hmph, stupid freshman...” Inuyasha mumbled under his breath, but it wasn’t low enough to where we couldn’t hear. Hana suddenly became infuriated and said “Hey! How can you assume that just because I’m new that I’m a freshman? I don’t even look like a freshman! I’m an 11th grader! An 11th grader, dammit!” I could see how much being called a freshman bothered Hana but I was shocked at how mad she got. Inuyasha just turned his head and said “Whatever.”
Hana was about to say something else when Kagome grabbed her arm. “C’mon Hana don’t worry about him. Class is about to start, we should get going.”
We all began walking away and I glanced back at Inuyasha and was surprised at what I saw. At the same time Hana just yelled, “Yeah! You lucky she holding me back!” It was a good thing Kagome didn’t let go of her.
By some weird coincidence Hana and I along with Miroku, Sango, and Kagome had the same first period: English. We were also surprised to find that Sesshomaru was in there as well. I could have sworn he was a senior. I thought.
Yeah I thought so too. But it’s kinda cool that he’s in the same class as us. Hana said telepathically.
I grinned at her and responded Mm-hmm, you would be happy about him being in here, wouldn’t you?
Oh hush!
After the teacher forced us to introduce ourselves (against our will) she told us where we would sit. Unfortunately, Hana and I didn’t get to sit together like we had hoped. I had to sit next to some sick, snotty nosed boy that should have stayed home while Hana got to sit next to some normal looking girl in the front. Hana glanced back at me. Hey I think that boy is checking you out.
Oh please. I don’t want his attention or his sickliness.
Hana just giggled and turned around.
My next, dreaded period was Algebra 2, which I had with Kagome. I was very lost but she helped me catch up. Ten minutes after class started a boy walked in the room. One thought came to mind when I saw him. Wow…he’s gorgeous. The boy was tall; probably about 5’9 or 6’1 and he had long black hair that was in a braid. He had brown eyes, a cross like symbol on his forehead, (I think it was the symbol for ‘youth’) and the most amazing muscles I had ever seen (other than Sesshomaru’s). He carried a smug, almost cocky-like expression on his face. The teacher glared at him as he was walking in. “You’re late Bankotsu.” The boy named Bankotsu shrugged uncaringly and said “Sorry.” The teacher sighed, “Just go to your seat and start on your work.” As he walked to his seat Kagome whispered in my ear, “That’s Bankotsu. He’s really popular with the girls but not-so-popular with the teachers.” I sighed.
Hana, she did it again! Though I didn’t realize that Hana could hear me from where she was.
Lemme guess…Kagome stating the obvious again?
Holy crap! I didn’t know you could hear me…but yeah.
Well…might as well get used to it.
Might as well…
I suddenly broke from our connection when I realized the boy sat in the empty desk next to me. I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye to see him looking at me. I quickly turned away, trying not to blush.
Wait a minute! What the heck would I blush for? I thought.
Maybe because you like him…I heard Hana say.
Oh would you leave me alone! It’s hard enough to concentrate with this complete hottie sitting next to me. I mean…
Ha! So you do like him! So that’s the one you called ‘gorgeous’…
You heard that?!
Yep.
Man…I can’t have any secret thoughts can I?
Nope. Not really.
Well if you’re going to keep listening to me I might as well say this. I take back what I said before about this boy being ‘gorgeous’. He’s more than ‘gorgeous’ he is fiiiinnneeee.
Haha.
For majority of the class Hana left me in peace but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the boy Bankotsu was still looking at me. I suddenly became a bit irritated and turned to him. “Take a picture; believe me it’ll last longer!” I said without trying to be loud. He smiled and said “Nah, no pictures for me. Your name and number’ll do though!”
“W-what?”
Bankotsu chuckled and said “I’m just messin with ya.”
“Oh.” Embarrassed.
I wished he really did want my number though.
I’m getting all hot and bothered over some boy who I’ve only known for like, three minutes. That’s sad.
The man whose face, no not even that, who’s entire being looked like it was created by angels, or Bankotsu as previously mentioned, continued to laugh at me. I made a pouty face as I so often do in these situations.
“I like you, new girl!” Bankotsu said to me.
New girl, charming, eh?
“What is your name?”
“A-Aoi…” I replied.
“Aoi…I like it! ‘Cuz like, your eyes are blue and your name means ‘blue’.”
Wow. What a way with words he has. That was a sarcastic comment, for the record. He’s kinda weird…oh, but he’s soooo cute!
“My name’s Bankotsu, as you’ve probably guessed. Nice to meet ya!”
The teacher interrupted our flirting, if you wanna call it that. “Bankotsu, I would greatly appreciate it if you tried your best NOT to try and woo our new female student.”
Gosh, did the world know that my sister and I were new students?
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, old man.” Bankotsu said in such an innocent tone it conflicted with the words that came out of his mouth.
The teacher looked pissed and said with some restraint in his voice, “Just turn around, face the front, and leave the girl alone.”
“Whatever.” Bankotsu said, and obeyed the teacher, who continued on with his lesson.
Snap, now I’m crushing on someone. I sure hope Hana doesn’t find out, she’ll be sure to get back at me.
Hana’s POV
Aoi, you fool, of course I found out! I can read your thoughts! MUAHAHA! Ew, so sinister.
I couldn’t believe my sister thought I wouldn’t catch on to her developing crush on her new classmate. How I loved her naïveté. Well anyway, while my beloved sister was in Algebra 2, I was taking Pre-Calculus. I’ve always been good at math so I got placed into an advanced math class.
The teacher placed an equation that looked quite difficult on the board. He called on Sesshomaru (yeah, he’s in that class too, I just can’t escape from his gorgeousness!) to solve it and naturally, he solved it with ease. Such perfection, perfection and attitude. That’s what made up Sesshomaru.
The teacher gave us handouts to complete by the end of class, 15 minutes away. Only problem with this was that, the equations on the paper were seemingly impossible to do! There was no way I could possibly complete the paper by the end of class all by myself! So tell me how lucky I was when I saw Sesshomaru walk over to me and ask me, “Hana do you need any help?”
“Yes, please!” I told him. In my mind it was more like, YES, YES, YES you hot, gorgeous, sexy youkai!
But yeah, to him I said, “Yes, please!”
Sesshomaru helped me finish my paper with such ease, we were both able to finish our assignments with time left to spare. So basically we were just sitting there for the rest of the class period. I saw it as the perfect opportunity to win that bet between me an Aoi.
“So, uh, Sesshomaru?” I initiated.
“Yes?” Sesshomaru said. He looked intently at me with his sexy golden eyes and I felt like I was about to faint.
“Umm-uh, I met your brother today!” I just said the first thing that came to mind.
Sesshomaru looked like he was going to break the next thing he touched. I forgot that they apparently didn’t get along that well. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
“What did he do?” Sesshomaru asked me.
“To me? Nothing. I mean, he was kinda rude but other than that he didn’t do anything. But there was this boy, Inuyasha broke his wrist.”
Sesshomaru looked totally unfazed. “Of course he did. Inuyasha likes making scenes by severely injuring people for extremely irrational reasons. I’ve suggested to him numerous times that he needs anger management classes but every time I bring it up, he flips me off.”
I laughed, but then stopped myself, “Sorry, it’s really not funny…”
“No, go ahead and laugh. It’s okay.”
Come on, it’s working, it’s working! What else can we talk about before class is over?
“I despise that half-demon…” Sesshomaru continued. That was perfectly fine with me.
"Why?"
“It’s obvious that our father favors him over me. Inuyasha gets almost everything but doesn’t use it to his advantage. And I get basically nothing…”
“Why do you think that is?” I asked, trying to be more involved in what he was trying to say.
“Well, as you’ve probably already been told, Inuyasha is a hanyou, while I am a youkai. This is because after my father left my mother, he had a relationship with a human woman, resulting in Inuyasha’s birth.
“Wow…” That’s deep. “So you live with your father and your stepmother?” I asked.
“No, just my father. Izayoi, Inuyasha’s mother, died a long time ago. My mother lives somewhere in Osaka.”
“I see…but, what were you saying about Inuyasha being the favorite?”
“Oh yeah, well, my theory is that Father thinks that Inuyasha needs more care and attention than I do for the simple fact that he is a half-demon. And I don’t deserve much because I’m completely demon-blooded.”
I took in what he said; it reminded me of how I felt about my brothers. “I guess I sort of feel the same way about me and my brothers sometimes. My father is sort of sexist and he thinks that my brothers deserve more than me just because I’m a girl.” I couldn’t believe I had just told him that. It came out so naturally.
“That’s terrible.” Sesshomaru said.
“Yeah well I'm used to it. It seems we actually have some stuff in common, don’t we Sesshomaru?”
“I guess we do.”
He’s not as mean and nasty as he seemed the first couple of times.
“I know what you’re thinking…” Sesshomaru said suddenly.
“Do you?” Oh my gosh, don’t tell me he can read minds too!
“You’re thinking that I’m just pretending to be nice to you and later I’m going to go back to being a stuck-up bastard.”
Maybe he can’t read minds, that wasn’t exactly what I was thinking. “Oh no! I just...”
“Honestly, I don’t mean to act that way, it’s more like my nature. Besides, my job makes it so that I have to be aggressive. I can’t be a pushover.”
“I see…”
So he really wasn’t all that bad. Awesome.
“Hana, are you and your sister youkai?” Sesshomaru asked quite randomly.
“Uh, no why?”
“Your eyes are a very unique color, I just thought…”
“Oh no, our grandparents were Caucasian.” I explained.
“Oh, they’re really pretty.”
I don’t know what I looked like at that moment but I’m sure my face was redder than a tomato. “Thank you! Your eyes are pretty too!” AH, why did I say that? Dummy, dummy, dummy...
But Sesshomaru didn’t seem to care. We just stared at each other…I swear if we had just leaned into each other a little bit closer…
But of course that’s when the bell rang.
DAMN YOU, BELL!!!
Everyone worked their way up to the front of the classrooms to hand over their papers to the teacher. Sesshomaru offered to take my paper, of course I said yes. I love him more and more with everything he does, I swear.
“Well, I’ll see you around Hana.” Sesshomaru said to me and left.
“Uh-huh.” I said inaudibly. And what, Aoi? I won your bet! Now it’s your turn!
Aoi’s POV
I actually managed to survive a whole class period sitting next to one of the hottest guys I’d ever seen in my entire life. Mission impossible: accomplished.
I saw my sister walking out of her classroom as I was walking out of mine. She walked to me with an odd look on her face. A mix of pleasure and an urge for revenge.
“Hana! You don’t know how happy I am to see you! How was PreCal?”
“It was wonderful! Do you want to know why?”
“Why?” I was just so curious.
“Not only did I have a nice, ten-minute conversation with Sesshomaru. I won the bet!”
She won the bet. Damn. That blew me.
“And guess what Aoi? Now I’m daring YOU to talk to…to…”
“Bankotsu is his name.” I informed Hana.
“Yeah, I’m daring you to hold a conversation with Bankotsu. And of course, you have seven days! Oh and is lover boy around by any chance, so I may gaze upon his loveliness?”
“He’s a boy, not a painting! And he is…”
I looked around for Bankotsu, and I saw him six feet away doing some handshake with a boy I’m assuming was a friend of his.
“There he is!” I told Hana. I pointed over to his direction. Hana saw him and asked, “The one with the really long black hair and the sexy brown eyes?”
I laughed, “The one and only!”
“Wow, Aoi, he IS hot!”
And I saw him first, I decided to say telepathically rather than out loud.
Oh don’t worry! You know I’m striving for Sesshomaru, besides I wouldn’t have initiated that bet if I had planned to steal him from you!
You’re really proud of yourself aren’t you?
Yup! Oh hey, your man is comin’ over!
Indeed he was walking towards us. Crappity, Crap, Crap!
“Hey, Aoi! You never told me you had a twin!” Bankotsu said when he reached us.
“Well, you know now don’t you?” I said with a little bit too much hostility.
He ignored me and turned to Hana, “So twin, what’s your name?”
“My name’s Hana. It’s nice to meet you, Bankotsu!”
Bankotsu looked confused, in a really cute way of course. “How did you know my name?” he asked.
“My sister was just talking about you!”
He turned back to me, “You were, Aoi? Aw, I didn’t know you liked me that much!”
He put his arm around my shoulder. I’m pretty much sure that he did it in a friendly way but I couldn’t help but blush, a lot. “Get off!” I yelled.
Who are you kidding, Aoi? I know you were enjoying that.
Hursh!
“Aw come on baby, don’t act like that!” Bankotsu said jokingly.
But my face grew even hotter, “Don’t call me ‘baby’!”
You SO want him to call you ‘baby’.
Yeah, she was right. But I tried really hard not to think it so she couldn’t make fun of me anymore.
“Uh-oh, if I don’t get going now, I’m gonna be late again, and we don’t want that to happen do we, Aoi?” he asked winking at me.
Before I could actually give him a response he walked away, “Later, twins!”
The rest of the day went pretty smoothly. After about five minutes of third period the bell for first lunch rang which I found out I had. On the way to lunch I couldn’t help but think of the dare. Hana had somehow managed to complete her dare. But then again…she seemed more outgoing than I was, and she was more likely to talk to someone she didn’t know than I was. It’s not that I didn’t want to talk to him but it’s just that I couldn’t even look that boy in the face without blushing. But I couldn’t let Hana win the bet. Yeah, I was going to win!
You hear that Hana! I’m going to win! I yelled telepathically.
Girl I’m right next to you.
I looked next to me to see Hana looking at me. I jumped back, surprised. “Ah! I did not know you were right there.”
“I’ve been walking next to you for a while now. But you were sooo busy thinking about Bankotsu you just didn’t notice me.”
“I was not thinking about him!” I said, blushing.
“Then why are you blushing?” Hana asked with a smirk.
“Okay! I was thinking about him,” I said with a groan, “but I was only trying to figure out what to say to him so I can win your stupid bet.”
“How is it stupid? You were the one that originally thought it up.” Hana said matter-of-factly
“Darn you.” I said.
When we got to the cafeteria Hana dragged me in line, even though I told her I don’t eat school lunches. “Well you should at least get something. After all you can’t woo your guy on an empty stomach.” Hana said with a devious smile.
“He’s not ‘my guy’.” Though I wished he was. “Besides you’d be surprised at what I can do on an empty stomach. Unlike you, I don’t need to eat every five minutes.”
“If you say so, m’dear.” But obviously still not satisfied she bought some cookies and a soda for me. I heard my stomach growling, “I guess a snack wouldn’t hurt.”
When we got out of line I spotted Bankostu sitting down. Hana spotted him too.
“Well there he is. Here’s your chance.”
“Do I have to?” I said using my best pouty face.
“Oh stop fakin’ and go talk to him.”
I sighed and said “Fine.”
As I began to walk to the table I noticed Hana wasn’t following me. I looked back at her and said “Aren’t you coming?”
“Nope. You two need to be alone. I think I see Sango, I’m gonna go sit with her.
You little scut! “Alright.”
She waved at me as she walked away, and I was forced to walk to the table alone. As I walked to the table Bankotsu spotted me and waved at me. I could only smile back. When I got to his table I noticed the empty seat next to him and said “Is this seat taken?”
He patted the seat and said “Naw it’s free.”
I sat down and I noticed Bankostu looking strangely at what I had. “Is that all you’re going to eat?” he asked.
“Yeah, I don’t really eat school lunches.”
“Suit yourself. But you’re missing out.”
“Sure, okay. But when they say on the news that scientists have proven that public school lunches are in fact infected with some life-threatening disease, don’t go calling me psychic.”
Bankotsu laughed at me and said,” I’ll remember that.”
I shrugged my shoulders and started eating my cookie. I was enjoying it too, that is until Bankotsu made his little comment…
“Hey, you’re not, like, anorexic or sumthin’ are ya?”
“What? No!” I could not believe he just asked me that. “And even if I was, why in the world would I tell you?”
“I dunno.” And just like that he went back to drinking his juice.
Unbelievable, I thought to myself.
Aw, not going too well? Hana’s voice interrupted.
Go away!
Oh fine then! And she left me alone.
Now that my sister was out of my head, literally, I decided that it was time for some music. I took out the blue iPod that Aunt Risa bought me for my birthday and put the earphones in my ears. What should I listen to?
I went through the artists: Ayumi Hamasaki…BoA…Morning Musume…C-ute…L’arc en Ciel…
Sure, why not?
I chose ‘Ready, Steady, Go’ by L’arc en Ciel and started shaking my head to the beat of the song. I sang the words in my head as Hyde was singing in the song…
Ready, steady, can’t hold me back…
Ready, steady, give me good luck…
“’Hey, whatcha’ listenin’ to?” Bankotsu asked noticing my iPod.
I pulled it away from him, “Music, duh!” I said.
He looked at me as if to say, ‘I didn’t appreciate that comment.’
“I know that! I mean what kind of music are you listening to?”
“Music that one listens to on one’s iPod.” I replied smiling and enjoying his irritation at my sarcasm.
“Gimme!” He said snatching the iPod out of my hand.
“Hey! Do you know how much these things cost?” I asked angrily.
“Yup.” He said extremely passively. Did nothing faze this guy?
He looked at the iPod’s screen to see what I was listening to.
“L’arc en Ciel, huh? That’s some good stuff! Let me listen…”
Without even asking for my consent, he snatched one of the earpieces out of my ear and put in his ear.
“What in the world are you doing?” I asked him.
“I wanna listen to music too!” he said.
The song was on the first verse, and Bankotsu surprisingly, was singing along.
Fukitonde yuku fukei korugaru you ni mae e
Kurushi magure demo hyouteki wa mou minogasanai
“Hey! You’re actually pretty good, Bankotsu!” I said complimenting him.
“I know I’m good! I have to be a good singer if I’m going to be the lead singer of a band, don’t you agree?”
This boy never ceased to amaze me, “For real! You’re in a band?!”
“Yup, lead singer and lead guitar, impressed?” he asked cockily.
“Yes!” I couldn’t lie, I was beyond impressed.
It was barely halfway through the song when Bankotsu said,” I don’t feel like listenin’ to this anymore.”
“Good, neither do I.”
So I took the iPod back and chose a different song, ‘Amazing Kiss’ by BoA.
Donna yume mite iru no? Wasuretakunai
Matsuge ni kiss shita lips nemusou na smile
“Wow, you sound just like her!” Bankotsu said. “Why didn’t you tell me you could sing?”
“Well, you never asked…” I said…flirtatiously? Was I seriously trying to flirt? “I guess that’s something we have in common, huh?”
“I guess so.” Just then I heard someone’s phone go off. Bankotsu pulled out of his pocket a very expensive looking cell phone, “Moshi, Moshi”
Bankotsu listened to whoever was on the phone.
“Jakotsu, why would you call me while you know I’m in school? I mean, I’m at lunch right now but still!”
He listened to the said ‘Jakotsu’ some more.
“I’m gonna see you in a little while, talk to me about it then- alright, bye.” He hung up the phone.
“Who was that?” I asked out of curiosity.
“My older brother Jakotsu, he can’t find something so he assumed that I took it or hid it from him or something.”
So I now know he has a brother, I’m getting somewhere.
“Does he go to this school?” I asked.
“No, he’s in college.”
“Oooh, I see. What’s he like?”Bankotsu laughed,”Well, he’s very feminine…”
“Feminine?”
“Feminine as in, he’s ‘homo’.” Bankotsu said quite bluntly.
“Oh.” I didn’t know what else to say.
He laughed again, “He’s a nice guy though, especially since he takes care of me and all…”
“You don’t live with your parents?”
Bankotsu shook his head, “No, my dad was never in the picture, and my mom died a couple of years ago. So all I have is Jakotsu.”
“That’s so sad.”
“What about your parents?” I could not believe he actually sounded like he was interested in me!
“They both died recently. I live with my aunt now.”
I told him all of this while wondering why I was revealing this piece of my life to someone I didn’t even know all that well.
“Wow. Another thing we have in common, huh?” he asked.
“Yeah, you’re right.” I’m not sure why it happened, but tears started to well up in my eyes. Maybe it was because of my sensitivity towards my parents’ death.
“What are you crying for?” Bankotsu asked me.
“Nothing really,” I said “I just haven’t gotten over the fact that my parents are gone just yet I guess.”
Right then, Bankotsu put his arm around my shoulder and I felt my whole body shake.
“Don’t cry,” he said “you look so much prettier when you’re smiling; sometimes even when you look angry.”
I laughed and he said “See? You look even better already!”
He wiped the remaining tears off of my face with his hand.
“You know Bankotsu you’re really not that bad.”
“You’re not half-bad yourself, Aoi.”
For a long instant our eyes met…He is so handsome…He could never like me…
But then he said something that gave me hope, “I really do think you’re pretty, Aoi.”
I wanted to say, ‘Thank you; you’re pretty effing hot yourself.’ But I was so happy that he’d said that to me nothing came out of my mouth.
I looked at the clock on my iPod, which I just remembered was on since I was so into my conversation with Bankotsu. Apparently, lunch was almost over.
“Aw, it’s almost time to go!” I said.
“Yup…hey Aoi?”
“Yeah?”
“Smile!” Before I knew it Bankotsu had whipped out his cell phone and took a random picture of me with the built-in camera. He showed me the picture, it actually looked okay.
“What was that for?” I asked.
Bankotsu looked at me, “Well what else am I supposed to look at for the rest of the day?”
He actually took a picture of me?
Everyone started filing out of the cafeteria, including Sango and Hana who I saw ten feet away.
“Well Twin, it’s been real! See ya!”
I waved goodbye as I watched my potential boyfriend leave my presence.
Looks like I won my bet too, Hana!
Great! I knew you could do it! But um…there’s one problem…
What’s that?
I’m going to get you for calling me a scut!
He he…did I say that?
Hana’s POV
After third period, which was Physics, I had gym. I was happy because I had it with Aoi (along with Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Bankostu, and Sesshomaru’s brother Inuyasha) but she didn’t seem so thrilled. I asked her why and she said it was because she despised sports along with any type of physical activity. But when she realized who was there *wink, wink* she realized it wouldn’t be so bad.
“See? There’s a positive side to having gym after all.” I said.
“There needs to be! Like, this uniform? It doesn’t go too well for me…”
The uniform was a t-shirt and shorts, but the shorts were like, underwear-short! It wasn’t quite comfortable. But anyway…
That day we were going to play volley ball. After Aoi begged the gym teacher, he placed her all the way in the back. We weren’t on the same team, unfortunately, but she was lucky enough to have her potential boyfriend on her team. Kagome and Miroku were also on her team, while Inuyasha and Sango were on my team. During the game, Aoi of course wouldn’t do anything except flinch when it seemed like the ball would hit her. At one point Bankotsu looked back at her and said “C’mon Twin, don’t be scared!”
“Stop calling me ‘Twin’! I have a name you know.” Aoi yelled. “Besides I can’t help it!”
Both teams were doing pretty good but our team was suffering because of Inuyasha. He kept hitting the ball too hard and it kept going out of bounds, so the ball constantly went to the other team. This was decreasing our chances of scoring a good amount of points. I got irritated and started yelling at him, “C’mon man! We’re going to lose because you!”
Inuyasha glared at me and told me to ‘shut up’.
He suddenly hit the ball with all of his strength and it went flying towards Aoi. I gasped and yelled “Aoi! Look out!”
But it seemed she wouldn’t be able to dodge it in time. Suddenly Bankostu knocked the ball out of the way with amazing strength and speed.
Wow…that was HOT! Aoi and I thought at the same time.
“Yo man! Watch where you’re hitting that ball!” Bankotsu yelled.
“Inuyasha you’ve been fouling your team since the beginning of the game. I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to sit out of the rest of the game.” The coach said.
Inuyasha growled and said “Tch! Fine!” He stomped away while someone walked in to replace him. Watching him, I couldn’t help but wonder. What exactly is up with that guy? He really does need anger management.
As the game went on our team caught up but we still lost. While in the locker room Kagome, Sango, and I mentioned how it was sweet that Bankostu saved Aoi. She just blushed and said ‘He was just doing the right thing’. But both she and I knew it was more than that.
There were only four periods in a day (there were eight in all but the other four would be the next day) so gym was of course our last period. Although our first day was indeed fun we were glad it had reached its end. School was still school after all.
Hana’s POV
After Kagome (Sango had chased after Miroku and was never seen again) finished showing Aoi and I around we received our schedules, locker numbers and combinations, and our uniforms. We also received the standard white shoes we would have to wear inside the building. Afterwards we headed home to prepare for our official first day at Sunrise High School.
The Next Day…
“Well how do I look?” I asked nervously.
Aoi smiled and said “I’d say you look pretty darn spiffy.”
“Thanks. You look good too.”
“Why, thank you!”
Aoi had come over my house after my dad had gone to work. We decided to go to school together but since Aoi said she would never ride on my bike again we were going to take her car (her aunt’s old car that was just recently given to her). Aoi and I both had our new uniforms on. The shirts were a light beige/off-white color with the black bow and collar along with the black skirts. I decided to wear my hair out like Aoi. Now the only thing that set us apart was my glasses. I was really considering getting contacts soon.
These glasses drive me crazy, I look like a nerd, I thought while trying to adjust my glasses different ways to make them look cuter.
“I don’t think you look like a nerd.” Aoi said, reading my thoughts.
“You don’t?”
“Are you kidding? Those glasses are HOT!”
I laughed, “Thanks but I still think I’m going to get contacts. I wanna get an upgrade from glasses.”
“Okay. Well are you going to get them clear or in color?”
I thought for a moment and said “I think I’m gonna get them clear. I like having blue eyes.”
Aoi nodded in agreement. “Yeah, they set us apart from most people.”
After I finished my primping it was just about time to go. I made sure to grab a Pop-Tart on the way out the door. I couldn’t function in the morning on an empty stomach. On the way to school I told Aoi that my brothers Kazuke and Kyo would be going to Sunrise as well.
“For real? I thought they already went there.”
“What made you think that?” I asked.
“Well…” she seemed hesitant. “You know how you said your dad always wants the best for your brothers?”
I nodded and tried to act like it was nothing.
“Well I just figured since Sunrise is one of the best schools in Tokyo that your dad would have them go there.”
“I thought about that too but I found out that the only reason they stayed at Shikon was because their friends were there. The minute the school got bombed, after I told Dad about the school, he immediately decided to transfer them there.” I explained.
“I see…speaking of your brothers…do they know? About you being adopted and having a twin?”
“I haven’t said anything…but I know Kazuya and Kazuke already know, with them being older then me.”
“I see.” Suddenly I recognized a song on the radio and turned the volume up. It was “Broken Wings” by Tomoko Tane. “Oh! This is my song!” Aoi said.
I smiled and said “Mine too!” All the way to school Aoi and I sang our little hearts out.
“My broken wings, how far should I go drifting in the wind? Higher and higher in the light…”
Aoi’s POV
When we got to school Kagome, Miroku, and Sango were already there. Miroku greeted us the same as yesterday and he got the same response.
“Oh! You look so cute in your uniforms!” Kagome exclaimed.
“I know, right? Um, I mean, thanks.” Aoi and I said with a smile.
“Yup, and it’s all thanks to the school mascot.” Sango said. Hana and I then realized the small neko-youkai sitting on Sango’s shoulder. It had light beige/off-white fur and black stripes. They were the same colors as our shirts. Hana and I both squealed, “Oh!!! It’s sooo cute!!”
“Can I hold her?” We asked at the same time.
“C’mon Aoi, let me hold her first!” Hana begged.
“But I wanna hold her first!” I said.
“You can hold her as soon as I’m done. I promise!” she persisted.
“No you can hold her when I’m done.”
We went back and forth about who would hold her first until Sango spoke up. “Uh girls?”
“Huh?” It was then we realized we were arguing like a pair of two-year-olds.
“Why don’t you do rock-paper-scissors to see who holds her first?” she suggested.
“Good idea!” Hana and I said.
We held out our fists and started.
“Rock! Paper! Scissors!”
I came out with paper and Hana had rock.
“I get to hold the kitty, I get to hold the kitty!” I said in a sing-song voice.
Hana stuck her tongue out at me, “You cheater!”
“Come on Hana, how can you cheat at ‘rock, paper, scissors?’” I told her,” Don’t be a baby; you’ll get your chaa-AHHH!!”
My hand was burning! The kitty burned me!
“Sango! Your animal singed me! It’s EVIL!”
Everyone started laughing at me, including Hana. I swear to goodness even the cute-but-evil kitty was laughing at me.
“I’m sorry Aoi; I forgot to warn you…Kirara is a fire-cat demon!” Why Sango decided at that moment to inform me of this I don’t know. That just might’ve prevented me from burning my hand. “Ooooh, it hurts!” I complained. My drama queen personality was beginning to come out.
“Oh come on Aoi, don’t be such a baby!” Hana quipped.
“Oh I see, so the twin’s got jokes, huh?” I challenged her jokingly.
“Yeah, whatcha gonna do about it?” she retorted.
We closed the space between us until our faces were only inches apart. Just like in those little gangster movies when the two gang leaders are about to face off, and they act like they can’t see the person at a normal five foot distance so they get all up in the other person’s face.
“Yeah, that’s right Hana! You roll mad deep, yo!”
Sango, Me, Hana, and even Kirara all turned around and looked at Kagome.
“What did you just say Kagome?” Sango asked.
Kagome blushed, “I’m sorry! I was in the moment and it slipped out!”
Hana and I both laughed, “Ah, Kagome…” Hana said.
“You never cease to amaze us!” I finished. We both started laughing again.
“Wait!” Hana said, “Aoi, we didn’t finish what we started!”
“Oh yeah, that’s right! Bring it on!”
Hana and I started play fighting, when a cold, familiar voice destroyed our fun.
Hana’s POV
“Stop fighting, otherwise you face expulsion!”
Aoi and I quickly stopped pushing each other when we heard that voice tell us to stop. Of course it was none other than our favorite student council president, Sesshomaru Takahashi. In all of his hotness…I mean glory.
“Not you again!” Sango said, “Look Sesshy, can’t you give them a break? They weren’t even fighting and besides this is their first day. So can you just lay off of that ‘I’ve-got-a-stick-up-my-ass’ attitude for just one day?”
Just like my sister and I were doing before, Sesshomaru closed the space between him and Sango until they were only inches apart.
“Sango, after all this time you still don’t seem to understand exactly what kind of power I possess-“
I wonder if he means as the student president or as a demon, I thought.
Most likely both, my sister replied telepathically. We continued to listen intently to Sesshomaru’s conversation with Sango…
“And your point being what exactly?” Sango asked with a hint of sarcasm.
“My point being that if you keep stepping up to me with that attitude of yours, I can get you and your smartass comments suspended faster than you can say hiraikotsu.”
Sango just stared Sesshomaru down as if she was trying to burn a hole in him.
She probably could actually, with that fire-cat of hers, I thought.
“Well enough of you,” Sesshomaru said. He completely dismissed her and turned around to face Aoi and me. I don’t think Sesshomaru completely understood the concept of personal space, just like with Sango he was dangerously close to us.
“You two, what are your names?” Sesshomaru asked, I don’t understand why he couldn’t have asked a little bit nicer but whatever.
“My name’s Aoi,” I heard my sister say “and this is my twin sister…”
Oh wow, his eyes are so pretty…they’re like…gold…
“…um…my twin sister…”
Oh my gosh and look at his hair…it’s so long and white and silky…
I heard my sister coughing passive-aggressively, but I was focusing too much on Sesshomaru to notice…
And he’s so strong and muscular…
“MY SISTER-!” Finally Aoi pinched me out of my ‘Sesshomaru profiling’.
“Ow-! Oh I’m sorry! My name is Hana.” My, that was embarrassing. Sesshomaru didn’t seem to really notice or care though.
“Hmm. Well twins, just make sure you stay out of trouble, and I’m sure we’ll get along just fine.”
All Aoi and I could do was nod. It’s like his mere presence was like, silencing. Just like our last encounter, he walked away but then seemed to look back at us. And I could swear that for the slightest moment, Sesshomaru smiled at me.
Did you see that? I asked Aoi
No, what?
He smiled at me!
Are you sure you weren’t just imagining it?
No! He was really smiling at me!
Our telepathic conversation was interrupted with a comment from Sango.
“I cannot STAND him! I can’t believe he’s even a half-brother of someone like Inuyasha!”
Inuyasha? Aoi and I both asked in our minds.
“Oh Sango don’t even bring him up! I don’t wanna talk about him so early in the morning!” Kagome whined.
“Ah, come on Kagome!” Sango said slapping her on the back. “You know you like Inuyasha!”
“I do not!”
“Anyone wanna explain to us who ‘Inuyasha’ is?” Aoi asked.
Sango and Kagome both looked at us, “Oh.”
“Inuyasha is Sesshomaru’s younger half-brother. They have the same dad but different mothers. That’s why Sesshomaru is a full demon and Inuyasha is only a half demon.” Kagome explained to us.
“Half Demon? Interesting.” I said
“Yeah and that’s not the only thing different about them…” Sango added.
“What do you mean?” Aoi asked.
“Well, you’ve noticed how with Sesshomaru if you mess with him, unless you just really piss him off, he’ll leave you alone. However with Inuyasha…”
“Speak of the devil…” Kagome interrupted.
We all turned around and saw a boy lying against the wall minding his own business. Like Sesshomaru, he had long white hair and golden eyes. But unlike Sesshomaru he had really cute puppy dog ears.
This must be Sesshomaru’s aforementioned brother. I thought
Yeah…oh by the way, speaking of Sesshomaru…
What about him?
You like him don’t you?
What? No!
Hana’s got the love bug, Hana’s got the love bug…
I do not!
Aoi gave me her look of doom. I hated the look of doom. It made me confess stuff.
Okay, maybe…
Ooooohhhhh!!!!!!
Shut up!
Hey! Look at the aforementioned brother!
Some random boy happened to walk up to Inuyasha and pulled his doggy ears. If you were to blink you could’ve missed the fast motion of Inuyasha breaking the boy’s wrist. Aoi and I witnessed exactly what Sango was about to imply about Inuyasha’s temper.
“You touch me again and I’ll break every damn bone in your body you little bastard!”
Oh my.
The boy nodded vigorously and looked as if he was about to cry.
“What are you still doing here, get outta my face!” Inuyasha yelled some more.
The random boy ran away with utter fear in his eyes.
“Holy effing crap.” I said.
Sango smiled at my comment, “Need I say more?”
I let out a heavy sigh, Man this school gets more and more interesting every single day.
Ditto. Oh yeah, about Sesshomaru…
Aoi! Drop it!
Just wait a second. I wanna make a bet with you.
A bet? I thought while also raising my eyebrow at Aoi.
Yeah. You get seven days…
Why is it always seven days? Why can’t it be like six or four? A nice even number?
Hana shut up. Anyway, within those days you have to actually go up to Sesshomaru and hold a conversation with him!
NANI?
Yup, if you can do it, you win obviously.
I wasn’t sure if I could do it. I’m not exactly Miss Flirt. Besides talking to someone like Sesshomaru, like actually talking to them, would be a difficult task indeed.
You know what Aoi? You’re on.
Aoi’s POV
Just as Hana accepted my bet the boy Inuyasha noticed we were staring at him. He glared at us and started yelling unnecessary, “What the hell are you all staring at?” We all quickly turned away. “Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the dog house.” Hana whispered.
“I heard that!” Inuyasha yelled.
Hana gasped and said “Damn that boy has some good hearing…” she glanced at him and said “Uh…sorry…”
“Hmph, stupid freshman...” Inuyasha mumbled under his breath, but it wasn’t low enough to where we couldn’t hear. Hana suddenly became infuriated and said “Hey! How can you assume that just because I’m new that I’m a freshman? I don’t even look like a freshman! I’m an 11th grader! An 11th grader, dammit!” I could see how much being called a freshman bothered Hana but I was shocked at how mad she got. Inuyasha just turned his head and said “Whatever.”
Hana was about to say something else when Kagome grabbed her arm. “C’mon Hana don’t worry about him. Class is about to start, we should get going.”
We all began walking away and I glanced back at Inuyasha and was surprised at what I saw. At the same time Hana just yelled, “Yeah! You lucky she holding me back!” It was a good thing Kagome didn’t let go of her.
By some weird coincidence Hana and I along with Miroku, Sango, and Kagome had the same first period: English. We were also surprised to find that Sesshomaru was in there as well. I could have sworn he was a senior. I thought.
Yeah I thought so too. But it’s kinda cool that he’s in the same class as us. Hana said telepathically.
I grinned at her and responded Mm-hmm, you would be happy about him being in here, wouldn’t you?
Oh hush!
After the teacher forced us to introduce ourselves (against our will) she told us where we would sit. Unfortunately, Hana and I didn’t get to sit together like we had hoped. I had to sit next to some sick, snotty nosed boy that should have stayed home while Hana got to sit next to some normal looking girl in the front. Hana glanced back at me. Hey I think that boy is checking you out.
Oh please. I don’t want his attention or his sickliness.
Hana just giggled and turned around.
My next, dreaded period was Algebra 2, which I had with Kagome. I was very lost but she helped me catch up. Ten minutes after class started a boy walked in the room. One thought came to mind when I saw him. Wow…he’s gorgeous. The boy was tall; probably about 5’9 or 6’1 and he had long black hair that was in a braid. He had brown eyes, a cross like symbol on his forehead, (I think it was the symbol for ‘youth’) and the most amazing muscles I had ever seen (other than Sesshomaru’s). He carried a smug, almost cocky-like expression on his face. The teacher glared at him as he was walking in. “You’re late Bankotsu.” The boy named Bankotsu shrugged uncaringly and said “Sorry.” The teacher sighed, “Just go to your seat and start on your work.” As he walked to his seat Kagome whispered in my ear, “That’s Bankotsu. He’s really popular with the girls but not-so-popular with the teachers.” I sighed.
Hana, she did it again! Though I didn’t realize that Hana could hear me from where she was.
Lemme guess…Kagome stating the obvious again?
Holy crap! I didn’t know you could hear me…but yeah.
Well…might as well get used to it.
Might as well…
I suddenly broke from our connection when I realized the boy sat in the empty desk next to me. I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye to see him looking at me. I quickly turned away, trying not to blush.
Wait a minute! What the heck would I blush for? I thought.
Maybe because you like him…I heard Hana say.
Oh would you leave me alone! It’s hard enough to concentrate with this complete hottie sitting next to me. I mean…
Ha! So you do like him! So that’s the one you called ‘gorgeous’…
You heard that?!
Yep.
Man…I can’t have any secret thoughts can I?
Nope. Not really.
Well if you’re going to keep listening to me I might as well say this. I take back what I said before about this boy being ‘gorgeous’. He’s more than ‘gorgeous’ he is fiiiinnneeee.
Haha.
For majority of the class Hana left me in peace but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the boy Bankotsu was still looking at me. I suddenly became a bit irritated and turned to him. “Take a picture; believe me it’ll last longer!” I said without trying to be loud. He smiled and said “Nah, no pictures for me. Your name and number’ll do though!”
“W-what?”
Bankotsu chuckled and said “I’m just messin with ya.”
“Oh.” Embarrassed.
I wished he really did want my number though.
I’m getting all hot and bothered over some boy who I’ve only known for like, three minutes. That’s sad.
The man whose face, no not even that, who’s entire being looked like it was created by angels, or Bankotsu as previously mentioned, continued to laugh at me. I made a pouty face as I so often do in these situations.
“I like you, new girl!” Bankotsu said to me.
New girl, charming, eh?
“What is your name?”
“A-Aoi…” I replied.
“Aoi…I like it! ‘Cuz like, your eyes are blue and your name means ‘blue’.”
Wow. What a way with words he has. That was a sarcastic comment, for the record. He’s kinda weird…oh, but he’s soooo cute!
“My name’s Bankotsu, as you’ve probably guessed. Nice to meet ya!”
The teacher interrupted our flirting, if you wanna call it that. “Bankotsu, I would greatly appreciate it if you tried your best NOT to try and woo our new female student.”
Gosh, did the world know that my sister and I were new students?
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, old man.” Bankotsu said in such an innocent tone it conflicted with the words that came out of his mouth.
The teacher looked pissed and said with some restraint in his voice, “Just turn around, face the front, and leave the girl alone.”
“Whatever.” Bankotsu said, and obeyed the teacher, who continued on with his lesson.
Snap, now I’m crushing on someone. I sure hope Hana doesn’t find out, she’ll be sure to get back at me.
Hana’s POV
Aoi, you fool, of course I found out! I can read your thoughts! MUAHAHA! Ew, so sinister.
I couldn’t believe my sister thought I wouldn’t catch on to her developing crush on her new classmate. How I loved her naïveté. Well anyway, while my beloved sister was in Algebra 2, I was taking Pre-Calculus. I’ve always been good at math so I got placed into an advanced math class.
The teacher placed an equation that looked quite difficult on the board. He called on Sesshomaru (yeah, he’s in that class too, I just can’t escape from his gorgeousness!) to solve it and naturally, he solved it with ease. Such perfection, perfection and attitude. That’s what made up Sesshomaru.
The teacher gave us handouts to complete by the end of class, 15 minutes away. Only problem with this was that, the equations on the paper were seemingly impossible to do! There was no way I could possibly complete the paper by the end of class all by myself! So tell me how lucky I was when I saw Sesshomaru walk over to me and ask me, “Hana do you need any help?”
“Yes, please!” I told him. In my mind it was more like, YES, YES, YES you hot, gorgeous, sexy youkai!
But yeah, to him I said, “Yes, please!”
Sesshomaru helped me finish my paper with such ease, we were both able to finish our assignments with time left to spare. So basically we were just sitting there for the rest of the class period. I saw it as the perfect opportunity to win that bet between me an Aoi.
“So, uh, Sesshomaru?” I initiated.
“Yes?” Sesshomaru said. He looked intently at me with his sexy golden eyes and I felt like I was about to faint.
“Umm-uh, I met your brother today!” I just said the first thing that came to mind.
Sesshomaru looked like he was going to break the next thing he touched. I forgot that they apparently didn’t get along that well. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
“What did he do?” Sesshomaru asked me.
“To me? Nothing. I mean, he was kinda rude but other than that he didn’t do anything. But there was this boy, Inuyasha broke his wrist.”
Sesshomaru looked totally unfazed. “Of course he did. Inuyasha likes making scenes by severely injuring people for extremely irrational reasons. I’ve suggested to him numerous times that he needs anger management classes but every time I bring it up, he flips me off.”
I laughed, but then stopped myself, “Sorry, it’s really not funny…”
“No, go ahead and laugh. It’s okay.”
Come on, it’s working, it’s working! What else can we talk about before class is over?
“I despise that half-demon…” Sesshomaru continued. That was perfectly fine with me.
"Why?"
“It’s obvious that our father favors him over me. Inuyasha gets almost everything but doesn’t use it to his advantage. And I get basically nothing…”
“Why do you think that is?” I asked, trying to be more involved in what he was trying to say.
“Well, as you’ve probably already been told, Inuyasha is a hanyou, while I am a youkai. This is because after my father left my mother, he had a relationship with a human woman, resulting in Inuyasha’s birth.
“Wow…” That’s deep. “So you live with your father and your stepmother?” I asked.
“No, just my father. Izayoi, Inuyasha’s mother, died a long time ago. My mother lives somewhere in Osaka.”
“I see…but, what were you saying about Inuyasha being the favorite?”
“Oh yeah, well, my theory is that Father thinks that Inuyasha needs more care and attention than I do for the simple fact that he is a half-demon. And I don’t deserve much because I’m completely demon-blooded.”
I took in what he said; it reminded me of how I felt about my brothers. “I guess I sort of feel the same way about me and my brothers sometimes. My father is sort of sexist and he thinks that my brothers deserve more than me just because I’m a girl.” I couldn’t believe I had just told him that. It came out so naturally.
“That’s terrible.” Sesshomaru said.
“Yeah well I'm used to it. It seems we actually have some stuff in common, don’t we Sesshomaru?”
“I guess we do.”
He’s not as mean and nasty as he seemed the first couple of times.
“I know what you’re thinking…” Sesshomaru said suddenly.
“Do you?” Oh my gosh, don’t tell me he can read minds too!
“You’re thinking that I’m just pretending to be nice to you and later I’m going to go back to being a stuck-up bastard.”
Maybe he can’t read minds, that wasn’t exactly what I was thinking. “Oh no! I just...”
“Honestly, I don’t mean to act that way, it’s more like my nature. Besides, my job makes it so that I have to be aggressive. I can’t be a pushover.”
“I see…”
So he really wasn’t all that bad. Awesome.
“Hana, are you and your sister youkai?” Sesshomaru asked quite randomly.
“Uh, no why?”
“Your eyes are a very unique color, I just thought…”
“Oh no, our grandparents were Caucasian.” I explained.
“Oh, they’re really pretty.”
I don’t know what I looked like at that moment but I’m sure my face was redder than a tomato. “Thank you! Your eyes are pretty too!” AH, why did I say that? Dummy, dummy, dummy...
But Sesshomaru didn’t seem to care. We just stared at each other…I swear if we had just leaned into each other a little bit closer…
But of course that’s when the bell rang.
DAMN YOU, BELL!!!
Everyone worked their way up to the front of the classrooms to hand over their papers to the teacher. Sesshomaru offered to take my paper, of course I said yes. I love him more and more with everything he does, I swear.
“Well, I’ll see you around Hana.” Sesshomaru said to me and left.
“Uh-huh.” I said inaudibly. And what, Aoi? I won your bet! Now it’s your turn!
Aoi’s POV
I actually managed to survive a whole class period sitting next to one of the hottest guys I’d ever seen in my entire life. Mission impossible: accomplished.
I saw my sister walking out of her classroom as I was walking out of mine. She walked to me with an odd look on her face. A mix of pleasure and an urge for revenge.
“Hana! You don’t know how happy I am to see you! How was PreCal?”
“It was wonderful! Do you want to know why?”
“Why?” I was just so curious.
“Not only did I have a nice, ten-minute conversation with Sesshomaru. I won the bet!”
She won the bet. Damn. That blew me.
“And guess what Aoi? Now I’m daring YOU to talk to…to…”
“Bankotsu is his name.” I informed Hana.
“Yeah, I’m daring you to hold a conversation with Bankotsu. And of course, you have seven days! Oh and is lover boy around by any chance, so I may gaze upon his loveliness?”
“He’s a boy, not a painting! And he is…”
I looked around for Bankotsu, and I saw him six feet away doing some handshake with a boy I’m assuming was a friend of his.
“There he is!” I told Hana. I pointed over to his direction. Hana saw him and asked, “The one with the really long black hair and the sexy brown eyes?”
I laughed, “The one and only!”
“Wow, Aoi, he IS hot!”
And I saw him first, I decided to say telepathically rather than out loud.
Oh don’t worry! You know I’m striving for Sesshomaru, besides I wouldn’t have initiated that bet if I had planned to steal him from you!
You’re really proud of yourself aren’t you?
Yup! Oh hey, your man is comin’ over!
Indeed he was walking towards us. Crappity, Crap, Crap!
“Hey, Aoi! You never told me you had a twin!” Bankotsu said when he reached us.
“Well, you know now don’t you?” I said with a little bit too much hostility.
He ignored me and turned to Hana, “So twin, what’s your name?”
“My name’s Hana. It’s nice to meet you, Bankotsu!”
Bankotsu looked confused, in a really cute way of course. “How did you know my name?” he asked.
“My sister was just talking about you!”
He turned back to me, “You were, Aoi? Aw, I didn’t know you liked me that much!”
He put his arm around my shoulder. I’m pretty much sure that he did it in a friendly way but I couldn’t help but blush, a lot. “Get off!” I yelled.
Who are you kidding, Aoi? I know you were enjoying that.
Hursh!
“Aw come on baby, don’t act like that!” Bankotsu said jokingly.
But my face grew even hotter, “Don’t call me ‘baby’!”
You SO want him to call you ‘baby’.
Yeah, she was right. But I tried really hard not to think it so she couldn’t make fun of me anymore.
“Uh-oh, if I don’t get going now, I’m gonna be late again, and we don’t want that to happen do we, Aoi?” he asked winking at me.
Before I could actually give him a response he walked away, “Later, twins!”
The rest of the day went pretty smoothly. After about five minutes of third period the bell for first lunch rang which I found out I had. On the way to lunch I couldn’t help but think of the dare. Hana had somehow managed to complete her dare. But then again…she seemed more outgoing than I was, and she was more likely to talk to someone she didn’t know than I was. It’s not that I didn’t want to talk to him but it’s just that I couldn’t even look that boy in the face without blushing. But I couldn’t let Hana win the bet. Yeah, I was going to win!
You hear that Hana! I’m going to win! I yelled telepathically.
Girl I’m right next to you.
I looked next to me to see Hana looking at me. I jumped back, surprised. “Ah! I did not know you were right there.”
“I’ve been walking next to you for a while now. But you were sooo busy thinking about Bankotsu you just didn’t notice me.”
“I was not thinking about him!” I said, blushing.
“Then why are you blushing?” Hana asked with a smirk.
“Okay! I was thinking about him,” I said with a groan, “but I was only trying to figure out what to say to him so I can win your stupid bet.”
“How is it stupid? You were the one that originally thought it up.” Hana said matter-of-factly
“Darn you.” I said.
When we got to the cafeteria Hana dragged me in line, even though I told her I don’t eat school lunches. “Well you should at least get something. After all you can’t woo your guy on an empty stomach.” Hana said with a devious smile.
“He’s not ‘my guy’.” Though I wished he was. “Besides you’d be surprised at what I can do on an empty stomach. Unlike you, I don’t need to eat every five minutes.”
“If you say so, m’dear.” But obviously still not satisfied she bought some cookies and a soda for me. I heard my stomach growling, “I guess a snack wouldn’t hurt.”
When we got out of line I spotted Bankostu sitting down. Hana spotted him too.
“Well there he is. Here’s your chance.”
“Do I have to?” I said using my best pouty face.
“Oh stop fakin’ and go talk to him.”
I sighed and said “Fine.”
As I began to walk to the table I noticed Hana wasn’t following me. I looked back at her and said “Aren’t you coming?”
“Nope. You two need to be alone. I think I see Sango, I’m gonna go sit with her.
You little scut! “Alright.”
She waved at me as she walked away, and I was forced to walk to the table alone. As I walked to the table Bankotsu spotted me and waved at me. I could only smile back. When I got to his table I noticed the empty seat next to him and said “Is this seat taken?”
He patted the seat and said “Naw it’s free.”
I sat down and I noticed Bankostu looking strangely at what I had. “Is that all you’re going to eat?” he asked.
“Yeah, I don’t really eat school lunches.”
“Suit yourself. But you’re missing out.”
“Sure, okay. But when they say on the news that scientists have proven that public school lunches are in fact infected with some life-threatening disease, don’t go calling me psychic.”
Bankotsu laughed at me and said,” I’ll remember that.”
I shrugged my shoulders and started eating my cookie. I was enjoying it too, that is until Bankotsu made his little comment…
“Hey, you’re not, like, anorexic or sumthin’ are ya?”
“What? No!” I could not believe he just asked me that. “And even if I was, why in the world would I tell you?”
“I dunno.” And just like that he went back to drinking his juice.
Unbelievable, I thought to myself.
Aw, not going too well? Hana’s voice interrupted.
Go away!
Oh fine then! And she left me alone.
Now that my sister was out of my head, literally, I decided that it was time for some music. I took out the blue iPod that Aunt Risa bought me for my birthday and put the earphones in my ears. What should I listen to?
I went through the artists: Ayumi Hamasaki…BoA…Morning Musume…C-ute…L’arc en Ciel…
Sure, why not?
I chose ‘Ready, Steady, Go’ by L’arc en Ciel and started shaking my head to the beat of the song. I sang the words in my head as Hyde was singing in the song…
Ready, steady, can’t hold me back…
Ready, steady, give me good luck…
“’Hey, whatcha’ listenin’ to?” Bankotsu asked noticing my iPod.
I pulled it away from him, “Music, duh!” I said.
He looked at me as if to say, ‘I didn’t appreciate that comment.’
“I know that! I mean what kind of music are you listening to?”
“Music that one listens to on one’s iPod.” I replied smiling and enjoying his irritation at my sarcasm.
“Gimme!” He said snatching the iPod out of my hand.
“Hey! Do you know how much these things cost?” I asked angrily.
“Yup.” He said extremely passively. Did nothing faze this guy?
He looked at the iPod’s screen to see what I was listening to.
“L’arc en Ciel, huh? That’s some good stuff! Let me listen…”
Without even asking for my consent, he snatched one of the earpieces out of my ear and put in his ear.
“What in the world are you doing?” I asked him.
“I wanna listen to music too!” he said.
The song was on the first verse, and Bankotsu surprisingly, was singing along.
Fukitonde yuku fukei korugaru you ni mae e
Kurushi magure demo hyouteki wa mou minogasanai
“Hey! You’re actually pretty good, Bankotsu!” I said complimenting him.
“I know I’m good! I have to be a good singer if I’m going to be the lead singer of a band, don’t you agree?”
This boy never ceased to amaze me, “For real! You’re in a band?!”
“Yup, lead singer and lead guitar, impressed?” he asked cockily.
“Yes!” I couldn’t lie, I was beyond impressed.
It was barely halfway through the song when Bankotsu said,” I don’t feel like listenin’ to this anymore.”
“Good, neither do I.”
So I took the iPod back and chose a different song, ‘Amazing Kiss’ by BoA.
Donna yume mite iru no? Wasuretakunai
Matsuge ni kiss shita lips nemusou na smile
“Wow, you sound just like her!” Bankotsu said. “Why didn’t you tell me you could sing?”
“Well, you never asked…” I said…flirtatiously? Was I seriously trying to flirt? “I guess that’s something we have in common, huh?”
“I guess so.” Just then I heard someone’s phone go off. Bankotsu pulled out of his pocket a very expensive looking cell phone, “Moshi, Moshi”
Bankotsu listened to whoever was on the phone.
“Jakotsu, why would you call me while you know I’m in school? I mean, I’m at lunch right now but still!”
He listened to the said ‘Jakotsu’ some more.
“I’m gonna see you in a little while, talk to me about it then- alright, bye.” He hung up the phone.
“Who was that?” I asked out of curiosity.
“My older brother Jakotsu, he can’t find something so he assumed that I took it or hid it from him or something.”
So I now know he has a brother, I’m getting somewhere.
“Does he go to this school?” I asked.
“No, he’s in college.”
“Oooh, I see. What’s he like?”Bankotsu laughed,”Well, he’s very feminine…”
“Feminine?”
“Feminine as in, he’s ‘homo’.” Bankotsu said quite bluntly.
“Oh.” I didn’t know what else to say.
He laughed again, “He’s a nice guy though, especially since he takes care of me and all…”
“You don’t live with your parents?”
Bankotsu shook his head, “No, my dad was never in the picture, and my mom died a couple of years ago. So all I have is Jakotsu.”
“That’s so sad.”
“What about your parents?” I could not believe he actually sounded like he was interested in me!
“They both died recently. I live with my aunt now.”
I told him all of this while wondering why I was revealing this piece of my life to someone I didn’t even know all that well.
“Wow. Another thing we have in common, huh?” he asked.
“Yeah, you’re right.” I’m not sure why it happened, but tears started to well up in my eyes. Maybe it was because of my sensitivity towards my parents’ death.
“What are you crying for?” Bankotsu asked me.
“Nothing really,” I said “I just haven’t gotten over the fact that my parents are gone just yet I guess.”
Right then, Bankotsu put his arm around my shoulder and I felt my whole body shake.
“Don’t cry,” he said “you look so much prettier when you’re smiling; sometimes even when you look angry.”
I laughed and he said “See? You look even better already!”
He wiped the remaining tears off of my face with his hand.
“You know Bankotsu you’re really not that bad.”
“You’re not half-bad yourself, Aoi.”
For a long instant our eyes met…He is so handsome…He could never like me…
But then he said something that gave me hope, “I really do think you’re pretty, Aoi.”
I wanted to say, ‘Thank you; you’re pretty effing hot yourself.’ But I was so happy that he’d said that to me nothing came out of my mouth.
I looked at the clock on my iPod, which I just remembered was on since I was so into my conversation with Bankotsu. Apparently, lunch was almost over.
“Aw, it’s almost time to go!” I said.
“Yup…hey Aoi?”
“Yeah?”
“Smile!” Before I knew it Bankotsu had whipped out his cell phone and took a random picture of me with the built-in camera. He showed me the picture, it actually looked okay.
“What was that for?” I asked.
Bankotsu looked at me, “Well what else am I supposed to look at for the rest of the day?”
He actually took a picture of me?
Everyone started filing out of the cafeteria, including Sango and Hana who I saw ten feet away.
“Well Twin, it’s been real! See ya!”
I waved goodbye as I watched my potential boyfriend leave my presence.
Looks like I won my bet too, Hana!
Great! I knew you could do it! But um…there’s one problem…
What’s that?
I’m going to get you for calling me a scut!
He he…did I say that?
Hana’s POV
After third period, which was Physics, I had gym. I was happy because I had it with Aoi (along with Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Bankostu, and Sesshomaru’s brother Inuyasha) but she didn’t seem so thrilled. I asked her why and she said it was because she despised sports along with any type of physical activity. But when she realized who was there *wink, wink* she realized it wouldn’t be so bad.
“See? There’s a positive side to having gym after all.” I said.
“There needs to be! Like, this uniform? It doesn’t go too well for me…”
The uniform was a t-shirt and shorts, but the shorts were like, underwear-short! It wasn’t quite comfortable. But anyway…
That day we were going to play volley ball. After Aoi begged the gym teacher, he placed her all the way in the back. We weren’t on the same team, unfortunately, but she was lucky enough to have her potential boyfriend on her team. Kagome and Miroku were also on her team, while Inuyasha and Sango were on my team. During the game, Aoi of course wouldn’t do anything except flinch when it seemed like the ball would hit her. At one point Bankotsu looked back at her and said “C’mon Twin, don’t be scared!”
“Stop calling me ‘Twin’! I have a name you know.” Aoi yelled. “Besides I can’t help it!”
Both teams were doing pretty good but our team was suffering because of Inuyasha. He kept hitting the ball too hard and it kept going out of bounds, so the ball constantly went to the other team. This was decreasing our chances of scoring a good amount of points. I got irritated and started yelling at him, “C’mon man! We’re going to lose because you!”
Inuyasha glared at me and told me to ‘shut up’.
He suddenly hit the ball with all of his strength and it went flying towards Aoi. I gasped and yelled “Aoi! Look out!”
But it seemed she wouldn’t be able to dodge it in time. Suddenly Bankostu knocked the ball out of the way with amazing strength and speed.
Wow…that was HOT! Aoi and I thought at the same time.
“Yo man! Watch where you’re hitting that ball!” Bankotsu yelled.
“Inuyasha you’ve been fouling your team since the beginning of the game. I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to sit out of the rest of the game.” The coach said.
Inuyasha growled and said “Tch! Fine!” He stomped away while someone walked in to replace him. Watching him, I couldn’t help but wonder. What exactly is up with that guy? He really does need anger management.
As the game went on our team caught up but we still lost. While in the locker room Kagome, Sango, and I mentioned how it was sweet that Bankostu saved Aoi. She just blushed and said ‘He was just doing the right thing’. But both she and I knew it was more than that.
There were only four periods in a day (there were eight in all but the other four would be the next day) so gym was of course our last period. Although our first day was indeed fun we were glad it had reached its end. School was still school after all.