InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Serendipity ❯ The play ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

The bell rang, dismissing the final class of the day, Biochemistry. The students quickly rushed out. Kagome slung her bag over her shoulder before being stopped. "Kagome, may I speak to you for a moment?"
Mr.Hotchi asked, gripping the frame of his glasses. She raised a brow but quickly nodded.

"O-Of course!"

She stood uncomfortably in front of his desk, fidgeting with her fingers. He flipped through papers, and finally pulled out one from the seemingly endless stack. He quickly shoved it only inches from her face, it obviously being her assignment. She gasped, her eyes widening at the red numbers that were circled at the very top of it. She could actually feel her heart quicken its pace.

"A 58? I scored an F?!"

The raccoon dog sighed, stuffing the paper back into the stack.

"Kagome, you're a wonderful student. You're very attentive, and you take amazing notes. I think you may need extra help."

Her breath caught in her throat.

"You mean like a tutor?"

He nodded, folding his hands in the center of his desk. "Just maybe a few days a week. Would you consider it?" She struggled to swallow the lump in her throat, but slowly nodded. "I will. Thank you for your time, Mr.Hotchi." He simply nodded. She left the room, holding her hand to her chest. She was actually failing. 'I knew I sucked at Biochemistry, but I had no idea I was this bad.' A sudden thought struck her.

'I wonder how InuYasha's grade is in that class.'

She continued out of the building, spotting the hanyou only feet away, heading toward the sidewalk. "InuYasha!" she called, catching up to him. He turned around, his face showing no expression, while she struggled to catch her breath, falling in stride next to him. "You're going to miss the bus," he said nonchalantly, stuffing his hands into his pockets. "I just want to ask you a quick question," she bluttered out quickly. He raised a brow.

"What is it?"

"What's your grade in Biochem?"

"100%" he replied, without even a second of hesistation. Her mouth fell agape.

"What?! How?!"

He continued to eye her like she was insane, but answered. "I'm good with equations. Comes naturally to me." She wiped the sweat from her brow, getting ready to ask the question of a lifetime.

"Um, well..I-I..um.."

"Just spit it out, already," he snapped, getting annoyed. "Can you tutor me? Please, please, please? I'll continue to help you with Psychology, and maybe I could come to your house to-" "No," he said lowly, his expression darkening. She was not going to his home, not for anything in this world. Not with his sick father there, hell no. She jumoped slightly at the sudden change of his attitude.

"No? But why?"

"If i agree to this, it has to be at your place. Every time. We will not go to my house for anything. Got it?"

She nodded quickly, happy that he agreed.

'Still...why doesn't he want me to go to his home?'

"So, what's your grade in the class?" He asked, after a moment of silence, his nonchalant mood returning. She blushed, embarrassed, and quickly looked away. "Fittyate." She mumbled quickly. He raised a brow, a smirk forming on his lips. "Even my dog demon ears couldn't pick up that. What is it!?" She sighed in defeat.

"A Fifty Eight, ok?"

She could have sworn he was trying to hold back his laughter. She narrowed his eyes at him, before looking away and crossing my arms. "Welp, I can see why you need help," he said, a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "And by the way, the bus is taking off," he pointed out, tilting his head in the direction toward the moviing vehicle. She clinched her first a few moments before muttering a few unintelligible words. The hanyou only smirked. "Looks like you're stuck with me, princess." Her eyes turned into slits, glaring angrily at him. He gulped nervously.

***

"You will need to know what enzyme-catalyzed reactions are, how to identify the endocrine system, and every Synthesis that scientist have studied," InuYasha spoke, lifting the arms of the fat cat that sat in his lap. Kagome copied everything InuYasha said, while stting at her desk. Like always, he had positioned himself against her bed, occupying himself with her cat. "Okay, break time!" She declared, stretching out her limbs, after spinning around in her chair and facing him. He couldn't help but notice how her thin, miniature shirt slid up, revealing a sneak peak at her well toned, even stoamch. He cleared his throat awkwardly, making her survey him in curiousity. He quickly stood, feeling the blush enter his cheeks.

"I-I should go." He saw the sadness enter her cerulean eyes, giving him an eerie feeling. "Why? Is something wrong?" He quickly shook his head, grabbing his backpack, not realizing it was open. The moment he did, everything slid out of it, and onto the floor, including his many sketchbooks. She gasped, immediately picking one up.

'Crap.'

"I-InuYasha.."

She immediately flipped through the pages, her draw dropping further and further. "You're an artist," she whispered, in more of a statement than a sense of questioning. He slowly nodded, putting his other components back in is backpack.

"Y-you knew I loved to draw. Why didn't you tell me that you do too?"

He huffed, snatching the book from her hands, and plopping back down on the floor. "I don't need you finding more reasons to be interested in me. If you do, you'll continue to stick around like you have been." Hearing him say those words caused an unfamiliar pain to shoot through her heart. Her pained expression made him regret those words. "Kagome, I'm just not used to this, alright? You know that." She nodded, exhaling unevenly. "I know that, InuYasha. It doesn't make the words you say any easier to hear though." He cursed inwardly, finding himself always crushing this girl's feelings. "I just thought.." Her voice began trailing off, her gaze out of the window.

"I just thought we were at least friends."

"I don't have friends," He grumbled, watching his clawed hands. He squeezed them.

She suddenly smiled, watching him warmly. "Rather you accept it or not, you do. So you can continue to put up this facade of wanting to be alone-" He narrowed his eyes at her."Or, you can get used to the idea of having someone else around." When she finished, she stuck her tongue out at him, making goosebumps appear on his skin. She stood, pointing a finger at him. "The choice is yours, InuYasha."


***

Surprisingly enough, that idiotic ultimatum that Kagome had given him was trapped in his mind.

'She's out of her damn mind if she thinks I want a friend.'

He exhaled loudly as he reached his doorstep, his hand resting on the knob. He had just left her house, pondering over her ways. He quietly opened the door, the appendages on his head shifting in many different directions, attempting to pick up any noise. He heard his older brother talking to someone on the phone.

"Correct, run it by him first, then get back to me," Sesshormaru spoke into the phone, his voice dripping with ice as usual. InuYasha quietly shut the door behind him, and hurriedly walked by his brother, attempting to avoid confrontation. "You smell of a human, half breed," Sesshomaru blurted out, snappig his phone close and watching his brother attempt to sneak pass him. InuYasha stopped in his tracks and faced him, keeping a nonchalant attitude. "I was just around one," he answered, not bothering to explain any further.

"You realize, since you are a mutt, no human will ever accept you, yes?"

The hanyou's jaw clinched at his words, but he held his tongue. "If I wished for her acceptance, then that would matter," he seethed. Sesshomaru raised a brow.

"So in other words, the bitch doesn't, does she? She doesn't accept you, just like everyone else."

InuYasha could literally hear something inside of him snap completely. Maybe it had been his common sense, or his control. He had no clue. But for some strange reason, it really offended him hearing Sesshomaru call Kagome a bitch. Sure, he had called her that before, but he wouldn't dare do it now. 'She's not a bitch..at all.'

"Don't call her that."

The demon smirked. "I knew it. A human girl has stolen your heart? Father would never allow-"

"Father, can kiss my ass. And she has stole no such thing," he shouted, stomping upstairs and shutting his door. His heart was practically beating out of his chest. He leaned against the door, his hair sheilding his eyes.

'What in the hell impelled me to stand up for her?'

***

"Why don't you come sit with us?" Kagome chirped, breaking InuYasha's thoughts as he slirped on his ramen. His eyes shot up, eying her curiously, as a noodle dripped from his mouth. She chuckled at the site of him. They were in the cafeteria, and instead of him sitting in his usual, alone spot, this cheery girl was inviting him over to her friend's table. He peered around her, at the table, to see a happy Miroku, waving at him, and a still bitter Sango, leering at him. She was still pissed about what he had said to Kagome. Finally, he glanced back up at the girl in front of him, before mumbling a "No thanks." She frowned.

"Oh C'mon, you stubborn thing!"

He raised a brow.

"Stubborn? Please, I'm far from it, girly."

"Ha! Yeah right!"

"What does that 'Ha' mean? Are you contradicting me?"

She raised a brow, smirking. "Maybe I am! Watcha' gonna do about it?" He continued to slirp on his noodles.

"Nothing."

She furrowed her brow in frustration.

"Fine, see if I care! Stay here all alone!"

"That's the plan."

She stuck her tongue out at him and stalked back over to her table. He smirked, enjoying her anger. Gosh, it was so fulfilling to piss her off. She had so much fire in her.

The day went on, and before he realized it, he was in 7th period, tapping his pencil impatiently against hid desk. "Attention!" Mr. Hotchi called, causing the side chatter to cease. He cleared his throat and continued.
"As you all know, besides teaching Biochemistry, I also teach theater. I will be directing Romeo and Juliet this week, and I was wondering if I had anyone in this class interested in a part."

No hands were raised. Someone yawned loudly, obviously disinterested. The teacher rolled his eyes. "Anyone who participates will get 100% in my class for this term." Many hands raised then, including Kagome's. InuYasha watched her suspiciously. 'She's interested in acting?' He thought for a moment, then a realization hit him.

'Duh, she has 58%, of course she needs the extra points.'

Mr. Hotchi smiled at the students who raised their hands, and quickly began to copy their names down. "For those who are interested, we will start tomorrow during class. Those who are not participating will sit in the audience and help me judge." InuYasha groaned, placing his forehead in his palm.

'The last thing I want to see is a group of pre Madonnas act.'


***



"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"



Mr. Hotchi stood from his stool, clapping proudly.

"That was amazing Hojo! Absolutle amazing! Congratulations, you have the part!" The once called Hojo smiled brightly, as he stood on stage. InuYasha, along with the majority of his class, were sitting in the audience of the auditorium. The hanyou rolled his eyes. Something about that boy really irked him. Hojo took a seat onstage, rather happy with himself. Flipping through papers, Mr. Hotchi got ready to call the next audition for Juliet. So far, he had had so very little luck.

"Kagome, take the stage!"

InuYasha's ears acted on their own accord, shifting rapidly, hearing the girl's footsteps take the stage. The stage lights were drawn to her, making her body glow a beautiful gold. She cleared her throat awkwardly, her eyes roaming over the script. Her azure eyes shot up, grazing the audience before she spoke.



"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."



InuYasha watched her quietly, taking in every word that she spoke. He couldn't help but notice how that Hojo boy had been eying her the entire time either. He scoffed. "You, my dear, are Juliet," Mr. Hotchi exclaimed in excitement. Kagome exhaled, a sudden feeling of relief wahing over her.

'Finally, I'll have a decent grade in his stupid class.'

The hanyou watched as Hojo appraoched Kagome, pulling her into his arms as if she were his. He grimaced. The nerve of that kid. The bell rang, dismissing school for the day. In more of a hurry than usual, InuYasha quickly exited the building, unusually irritated.