InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkest Child ❯ Chapter Six - Sadness and Pixy Stix ( Chapter 6 )
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By: monkeymary89 
Aww, gets a little angsty, but its nothing compared to how Angsty it WILL get! MWUHAHAHA! Just wait!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.30.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.9K | Visits: 275 | Status: Work In Progress
Aww, gets a little angsty, but its nothing compared to how Angsty it WILL get! MWUHAHAHA! Just wait!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.30.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.9K | Visits: 275 | Status: Work In Progress
A/N This chapter is dedicated to Manga Girl!! THANKS FOR MY FIRST REVIEW! You rock! I'll answer your review at the end of the chapter!
Anyway, I'm hyped on bagles and creamy creamy cheesy cheese. As I post these already written chapters, I continue to write more. I swear, this is a VERY long story, and I'm not even done writing it. I don't own Inuyasha, cause if I did then Kikyo would have stayed dead. (Sorry to all Kikyo lovers. She will play a part VERY VERY much later in the story)
Now on to the story! Enjoy!
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Rin pulled Kagome to the lunch line and Sango joined them. Kagome asked what was going on but the duo refused to tell her till they had their lunches and were seated outside.
“What’s wrong with you guys? Why can’t you tell me now?” Kagome questioned the two nervous girls.
“Well in all honesty, we want you to be somewhere where there aren’t breakable things” Rin said.
“Yeah, and breakable people” Sango added sagely.
“Come on guys, do you really think I have such a bad temper?” Kagome asked, sad that her new friends would think so little of her.
“No” Rin said soothingly, “Anyone would blow up when they hear this”
“Oh.” Kagome said lamely, wondering what could be that bad.
The girls found a seat on an empty stretch of grass. It lay in the shade of a huge tree, and Kagome squirmed uncomfortably, not touching her food.
“Okay, we're outside now, will someone please tell me what’s going on?”
“Okay Kagome” Sango said from her seat beside her on the grass “You said your mom didn’t tell you a lot about this school so me and Rin are guessing she didn’t tell you about the dorms since you hadn’t asked about them.” Kagome stared at her new friends and couldn't believe where this was going. She refused to believe it.
“Okay Sango, you just said dorms, and if we are speaking the same language then that means that some of the kids live at the school.” Kagome said, a leaden weight setteling in her stomach.
Rin grimaced and said “No, Kagome, not some of the kids. All of the kids.” Kagome’s jaw dropped and couldn’t help but stutter when she spoke next
“B-but I saw kids walking to school.”
“Well that’s because we are allowed to go home on Saturday nights, but we have to come back on sundays. Some kids just don’t listen, and wait to come back on Monday.”
'That’s it. I’ll have absolutly no time to myself. I’ll have to go to even greater lengths to train, and mom will probably make me use all my time at home to practice. Mom knows this stuff. Why does she always try to make my life harder?’ Another thought hit her ‘The longer I’m around these people the liklier it is that I’ll be discovered. What if I hurt someone by accident, even worse, what if someone finds me out and I have to hurt them on purpouse?’
Kagome looked at the ground. Most of her shock was gone now and it was quickly replaced by anger. “Guys, how long is lunch?”
“45 minutes” Sango replied hesitantly, understanding what Kagome was about to do.
“Perfect” Kagome said with an evil smile on her face.
“What are you gonna do?” Rin asked suspiciously. She flicked some of her peas onto the grass in a nervous gesture.
“I’m gonna confront my mom” Kagome said, all traces of a smile were gone, leaving only a look of anger and betrayal in its wake.
“Kagome, just wait till after school, then we’ll go with you and help you move your stuff” Sango said with pleading eyes. Some of Kagome’s anger lifted.
‘It’s strange how fast I made friends. It’s as if I’ve been waiting to find these guys forever’. She smiled at Sango and Rin. “Okay, I’ll wait, but I don’t think you want to come. We only just met and seeing me fight with my mom isn’t exactly going to help strengthen the bonds of friendship.” Kagome said.
“Don’t worry about it, fighting is normal, plus I think the bond is already really strong” Rin said happily. Finally she conceeded. Kagome agreed to let them come along. Rin and Sango ate in companionable silence but Kagome simply sat. She wasn’t all that hungry. She had gotten like this before so she knew it was normal. Well, as normal as she could get.
The youkai energy coming from the demons was making her lose her appetite but it was not as bad as it used to be. Before she started her training the small amount of energy she felt would have caused her to vomit and possibly go into convulsions.
‘Okay’ she admitted to herself. ‘Its not really the youkai energy that’s doing it. It’s the evil. Sesshomaru doesn't make me feel this way. Niether does Myoga' She knew all demons weren’t evil, she had simply come to think demons and evil as one in the same.
‘Well Kagura isn’t all that bad I guess.’ Kagome thought idly. ‘Yeah, she only tried to kill me a few times and she didn’t even want to.’
‘Come on you know how crazy that sounds’ a small voice said from the back of her mind. Yeah, she knew she sounded crazy, I mean she was talking to herself after all.
The fact was, there wasn’t much evil here, and not all of it was coming from demons. Some of it was coming from humans too. ‘Guess kagura was right about one thing. Being too pure does suck.’ (AN: just for anyone who doesn’t get it, because she’s so pure, even a little evil can make her sick if she doesn't have control.)
Overall lunch had been downright shitty, and she really didn’t think music was going to be any better. ‘Why did I even chance it?'’ she wondered as she walked to the music room with Sango and Rin. ‘I mean, what if I have to sing. Even if I control myself enough not to effect anyone, which is a big if, I might still give away my power. Why can’t I just be normal?’ Kagome thought with remorse as she walked slowly into the music room.
I mean, what kind of mother wouldn’t tell her own daughter that she was going to have to move into a dorm after she just moved into her new house? Apparently Kagome’s mom. He had watched as the shock and anger passed over Kagome's face and her scent. He had expected that, but what he didn’t expect was the sadness and betrayal he had detected in her scent. He couldn’t shake the memory of how, though there was shock, there was no real surprise. I mean, it was as if that kind of thing happened a lot.
For that fleeting moment when Kagome had stared at the ground, Inuyasha had felt the urge to go and comfort her. It only had gotten worse when he smelled tears. They never actually fell as it seemed Kagome was too strong to let that happen. Still, he had known that he had to leave before he jumped down there and ran off with the raven-haired girl, taking her anywhere just to make her happy again, so he snuck off and had been sitting in the bathroom for the past half hour.
When he had first gotten in the bathroom, he had dropped his spell and tried to think of anything but Kagome, but she just kept popping up in his mind. He put his spell back up, in order to go to class, and out of nowhere he wondered if he could ever show Kagome his true form. Miroku, Rin, Sango, and Sesshomaru all new who he and what he was, but he couldn’t help but think that if Kagome ever found out his dirty little secret she would hate him.
‘What am I saying, she hates me now, and why do I even care?’ He didn’t, of course. He didn’t care about what that annoying, hard-headed, sexy, bitch thought. Wait, sexy? Since when was the bitch sexy? “Feh” he said to the emptiness around him, as if challenging nonexistent people to say differently. “I don’t care what that bitch thinks, but I am going to find out more about her mom.” He was just curious of course, and with that lie and a new boost of purpose he set out to the music room.
Some where just ferns, but some four leafed ones looked very suspicious. ‘Okay, one teacher is ‘super’ gay, and one is growing wacky tabaci in the classroom, great choice of school mom. I bet she’d shit a brick if she knew half of this stuff' Kagome thought, stifling a giggle.
The walls where a deep blue and the carpet was just a shade darker, and very soft. There where no desks but a motley group of furniture. There were several bean bags and a few stools. There where three couches and a love-seat and two lazy-boy recliners, one of which sat behind a dark mahogany desk where the teacher was sitting.
The teacher himself matched the furnishings perfectly. He was a cat demon, with dirty blond hair that fell to his shoulders. He had two slightly droopy cat ears perched on top of his head that where the same color of his hair. He was wearing very worn and very baggy jeans and a tie-dyed shirt. He was wearing small blue tinted sunglasses and behind them he had equally blue eyes, but it was hard to tell since they where half closed in what appeared to be sleep.
They opened fully though and landed on Kagome. She sat with Rin and Sango on one of the couches. “So, like, we have a new student today class. I know most of your teachers have asked you to speak about yourself but I want this class to be like a family, so come on up here and introduce yourself.” He waved Kagome over with one lazy paw.
Kagome walked to the front of the room and stood next to the desk. “Well my name is Kagome Higuarashe and I just moved here.” Kagome said simply, hoping that he wouldn’t ask anymore.
As if reading her mind, he spoke. “So Kagome, what kinds of music do you groove to?”
“Well, I like rock, and stuff, but I’m really not that picky. If it sounds good, I listen to it. Though I do have a certain distaste for bluegrass.”
“Ride on little chick, that’s what I like to hear. People have to be more open to the kinds of music they listen to you know.” he said as Kagome walked back to her seat.
“Anyway, my little friends, I want you to know the assignment that you will be working on for the rest of the year. I personally think that you guys don’t need to be formally ‘tested’ on anything” the neko said, making his fingers into little quotation marks when he said tested. “But the man, thinks you do, so there’s gonna be a music show thing for the rest of the school. I’m gonna put you into groups of six. I’m not sure how many songs you’ll be doing but you’ll choose some and I’ll choose some. Some of the group members will play instruments and some will need to sing, so I’ll group you based on that.”
‘Damn, I should have expected something like this to happen. It’s times like this I wish I knew how to play an instrument’ Kagome thought in utter terror.
“Oh I almost forgot, Kags, what do you do?” Kagome tried to think quick, she didn’t know any instruments but didn’t necessarily want to say that she was a singer, but it seemed she had no choice.
“Well, I can’t play an instrument for my life so I guess that would make me a singer” Kagome said half heartedly.
The teacher didn’t seem to notice her dejection because he brightened up considerably. “Really, that’s great. Most of the other kids don’t sing so well so . . . I’ll put you in a group with Sesshomaru, Rin, Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha. You look to be a tight little group anyway." Kagome rolled her eyes at this. "By the way, are you any good little dudette?”
Kagome was getting a little annoyed at the nicknames but once again pondered how to answer. She guessed ‘I’m good enough to die for’ wouldn’t be a good idea cause she’d either bust out laughing or crying so she settled for a simple “Yeah, I guess you could say I’m okay.” The teacher quickly gave out the other groups and told them to start thinking about songs. He then promptly fell asleep.
The gang was silent for a minute before Sango said in an eerily calm voice “Miroku move your hand right now or I’ll shove my foot so far up your ass you’ll be chewing boot-leather” Miroku reluctantly took his hand from her ass.
“A bit kinky now, aren’t we my Sango?” Miroku said from the beanbag chair he was sitting on, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. As Sango pummeled Miroku with a giant plastic baseball bat (don’t know where she got it, and frankly I don’t wanna know) Kagome leaned over the arm of the couch to the lazy-boy that was placed only a few inches away. It was where Inuyasha sat.
“He can make anything perverted can’t he?” she asked the silver haired boy.
“Yeah” he smirked “it’s his gift” Inuyasha watched as Sango took the beanbag chair and smashed Miroku’s poor abused head through it, sending the stuffing everywhere “And his curse”
Kagome laughed lightly. Inuyasha looked at Kagome and smiled wider. He liked her laugh. It was soft, feminine but slightly deeper then the usual giggles that the air-headed girls around the school had.
“So” Sesshomaru’s cool deep voice broke through Sango’s mutterings and Inuyasha’s staring. “Are we actually going to get anything done or is Inuyasha simply going to ogle Kagome for the rest of the class?” Inuyasha’s face turned red and Kagome gave him a questioning look, but he simply growled at his half brother.
Rin, ever the peacemaker, decided to do something. “We know you weren’t staring Inuyasha, and you shouldn’t provoke him Fluffy” she said to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru’s eye twitched.
“ I thought I told you never to call me that” Sesshomaru said coldly.
“No, I thought you just said not to call you that in public. I guess I slipped” Rin said with an (obviously fake) innocent smile.
Miroku pulled out a peace of paper and said “Okay love birds lets just list what everyone can do first.” His pen moved over the paper. “I can play drums and sing. What about you Inuyasha?”
“Lead guitar, and I can sing” Inuyasha said with a cocky smirk directed at Kagome.
“I can play bass” said an ever stoic Sesshomaru.
“I can play the keyboard, and I can sing backup” Rin said bouncing up and down on her seat, obviously excited.
“I can sing and play backup guitar” Sango said with a thoughtful expression. “Okay and Kagome can't play an instrument, so I guess she could be a lead singer. Do you think you can do that Kagome?” Sango asked.
Kagome was about to make some excuse as to why she couldn’t, like she was sick or it was against her religion, when Inuyasha broke in.
“I bet the wench can’t sing worth shit” he had said this loudly and now the whole class was looking at the two (with the exception of the drooling teacher). All thoughts of backing down vanished and Kagome only knew she had to show him how wrong he was.
“I sing better then you ever will” Kagome said acidly.
“Than prove it” Inuyasha shot back. Everyone was waiting now.
Kagome looked to Sango and said “What should I sing?”
“Hm, I know just the one” Sango said happily and started to whisper to Kagome.
“Really?” Kagome asked.
“Yeah, I mean these people have probably never heard it before since it’s an Irish folk song but when I heard you singing it to yourself earlier it sounded good”
Kagome blushed realizing that she’d been caught. “Okay, but it’s not exactly rock. Its really soft and slow”
“Perfect!” Rin said “I’m sure you’ll do great” Kagome looked at Inuyasha and took a deep breath.
The song Sango was talking about was really important to her and she didn’t feel right singing it around all those other people. It would kind of be like walking around naked, but she didn’t have much choice. She opened her mouth to sing and the bell rang. ‘Saved by the bell’ Kagome thought happily.
“How about this” Sesshomaru said. “We’ll meet at one of the rooms tonight, and Kagome can show Inuyasha that he’s an idiot, and we can start to pick songs” Everyone agreed but Inuyasha just growled. Everyone left and Sesshomaru was deep in thought.
He knew a lot more about this Kagome girl now, and was getting more interested by the second. He could feel the spell that she used to conceal herself and had a feeling that this singing thing would be a way to gauge her power. It was obvious to him that her aura must be very strong to need such an intricate spell. ‘Song is a very good conducter of spiritual energy, and from the looks of her, she was very nervous about singing, so maybe she isn’t trained to control it.’ That would be bad. ‘A miko who is not properly trained is bad enough, but I have a feeling that she isn’t quite the average miko.’
His thoughts were interrupted however when one very excited Rin jumped onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck in a death grip. “Oh fluffy, I am so happy that we made a new friend, and that you stood up for her singing. Oh, fluffy I have such good friends!” she said this all very quickly and Sesshomaru turned and smelled her. She reeked of sweets.
“Rin have you been eating sugar again?”
“Oh no fluffy, I know you guys all say not to even though I don’t know why, I just ate some pixy sticks! Those aren’t sugar. They tasted like orange!” Sesshomaru sighed. Whenever Rin got sugar, she was as annoying and destructive as a six-year-old with A.D.D. and a flamethrower.
“Right Rin, come on, lets get you some coffee.” Sesshomaru dragged a screaming Rin into the cafeteria.
“NO, NOT THE COFFEE ANYTHING BUT THE COFFEE, ITS SO BITTER AND HAS NO SWEETNESS!! SOMEONE HHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!”
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Manga Girl - Yes, Inuyasha is a formidable opponent, but really, he can’t stand up to Kagome’s off-the-wall personality. He really has met his match. His pride will just have to learn to live with it. I’m really glad you like it! I am a bit self-conscious about it since it was really the first story I ever tried to write, but I think it only gets better. Yes, it’s the traditional pairings. I’m a bit of a romantic at heart, so they will all end up with a happily ever after (I think so at least O_O) Still, I will make sure to add plenty of drama! There is murder, jealousy, angst, magic, prophecies, and all kinds of cool stuff in store! Still, I’m rewriting this as I post it, so I might make Inuyasha and Kag’s relationship a little more rocky. I think I made it too easy on them the first time around. MWUHAHAHA! ^_^ I hope you continue to enjoy the story! Its people like you that keep me going!
Anyway, I'm hyped on bagles and creamy creamy cheesy cheese. As I post these already written chapters, I continue to write more. I swear, this is a VERY long story, and I'm not even done writing it. I don't own Inuyasha, cause if I did then Kikyo would have stayed dead. (Sorry to all Kikyo lovers. She will play a part VERY VERY much later in the story)
Now on to the story! Enjoy!
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Rin pulled Kagome to the lunch line and Sango joined them. Kagome asked what was going on but the duo refused to tell her till they had their lunches and were seated outside.
“What’s wrong with you guys? Why can’t you tell me now?” Kagome questioned the two nervous girls.
“Well in all honesty, we want you to be somewhere where there aren’t breakable things” Rin said.
“Yeah, and breakable people” Sango added sagely.
“Come on guys, do you really think I have such a bad temper?” Kagome asked, sad that her new friends would think so little of her.
“No” Rin said soothingly, “Anyone would blow up when they hear this”
“Oh.” Kagome said lamely, wondering what could be that bad.
The girls found a seat on an empty stretch of grass. It lay in the shade of a huge tree, and Kagome squirmed uncomfortably, not touching her food.
“Okay, we're outside now, will someone please tell me what’s going on?”
“Okay Kagome” Sango said from her seat beside her on the grass “You said your mom didn’t tell you a lot about this school so me and Rin are guessing she didn’t tell you about the dorms since you hadn’t asked about them.” Kagome stared at her new friends and couldn't believe where this was going. She refused to believe it.
“Okay Sango, you just said dorms, and if we are speaking the same language then that means that some of the kids live at the school.” Kagome said, a leaden weight setteling in her stomach.
Rin grimaced and said “No, Kagome, not some of the kids. All of the kids.” Kagome’s jaw dropped and couldn’t help but stutter when she spoke next
“B-but I saw kids walking to school.”
“Well that’s because we are allowed to go home on Saturday nights, but we have to come back on sundays. Some kids just don’t listen, and wait to come back on Monday.”
'That’s it. I’ll have absolutly no time to myself. I’ll have to go to even greater lengths to train, and mom will probably make me use all my time at home to practice. Mom knows this stuff. Why does she always try to make my life harder?’ Another thought hit her ‘The longer I’m around these people the liklier it is that I’ll be discovered. What if I hurt someone by accident, even worse, what if someone finds me out and I have to hurt them on purpouse?’
Kagome looked at the ground. Most of her shock was gone now and it was quickly replaced by anger. “Guys, how long is lunch?”
“45 minutes” Sango replied hesitantly, understanding what Kagome was about to do.
“Perfect” Kagome said with an evil smile on her face.
“What are you gonna do?” Rin asked suspiciously. She flicked some of her peas onto the grass in a nervous gesture.
“I’m gonna confront my mom” Kagome said, all traces of a smile were gone, leaving only a look of anger and betrayal in its wake.
“Kagome, just wait till after school, then we’ll go with you and help you move your stuff” Sango said with pleading eyes. Some of Kagome’s anger lifted.
‘It’s strange how fast I made friends. It’s as if I’ve been waiting to find these guys forever’. She smiled at Sango and Rin. “Okay, I’ll wait, but I don’t think you want to come. We only just met and seeing me fight with my mom isn’t exactly going to help strengthen the bonds of friendship.” Kagome said.
“Don’t worry about it, fighting is normal, plus I think the bond is already really strong” Rin said happily. Finally she conceeded. Kagome agreed to let them come along. Rin and Sango ate in companionable silence but Kagome simply sat. She wasn’t all that hungry. She had gotten like this before so she knew it was normal. Well, as normal as she could get.
The youkai energy coming from the demons was making her lose her appetite but it was not as bad as it used to be. Before she started her training the small amount of energy she felt would have caused her to vomit and possibly go into convulsions.
‘Okay’ she admitted to herself. ‘Its not really the youkai energy that’s doing it. It’s the evil. Sesshomaru doesn't make me feel this way. Niether does Myoga' She knew all demons weren’t evil, she had simply come to think demons and evil as one in the same.
‘Well Kagura isn’t all that bad I guess.’ Kagome thought idly. ‘Yeah, she only tried to kill me a few times and she didn’t even want to.’
‘Come on you know how crazy that sounds’ a small voice said from the back of her mind. Yeah, she knew she sounded crazy, I mean she was talking to herself after all.
The fact was, there wasn’t much evil here, and not all of it was coming from demons. Some of it was coming from humans too. ‘Guess kagura was right about one thing. Being too pure does suck.’ (AN: just for anyone who doesn’t get it, because she’s so pure, even a little evil can make her sick if she doesn't have control.)
Overall lunch had been downright shitty, and she really didn’t think music was going to be any better. ‘Why did I even chance it?'’ she wondered as she walked to the music room with Sango and Rin. ‘I mean, what if I have to sing. Even if I control myself enough not to effect anyone, which is a big if, I might still give away my power. Why can’t I just be normal?’ Kagome thought with remorse as she walked slowly into the music room.
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‘Why can’t I just be normal?’ Inuyasha thought sadly. He was currently sitting in one of the stalls of the boy’s bathroom, Edd Ed and Eddy was playing faintly in the background (remember the boys got a tv in the bathroom). Inu had been told by Sango what she and Rin were planning to tell Kagome and had watched from one of the higher branches of a tree for a while. He had gone there originally because he thought it would be funny to see her reaction. He thought he might even make fun of Kagome and get back some of his broken pride from that morning. Still, deep down he had thought Kagome would know already about the dorms, and that Sango was just overreacting.I mean, what kind of mother wouldn’t tell her own daughter that she was going to have to move into a dorm after she just moved into her new house? Apparently Kagome’s mom. He had watched as the shock and anger passed over Kagome's face and her scent. He had expected that, but what he didn’t expect was the sadness and betrayal he had detected in her scent. He couldn’t shake the memory of how, though there was shock, there was no real surprise. I mean, it was as if that kind of thing happened a lot.
For that fleeting moment when Kagome had stared at the ground, Inuyasha had felt the urge to go and comfort her. It only had gotten worse when he smelled tears. They never actually fell as it seemed Kagome was too strong to let that happen. Still, he had known that he had to leave before he jumped down there and ran off with the raven-haired girl, taking her anywhere just to make her happy again, so he snuck off and had been sitting in the bathroom for the past half hour.
When he had first gotten in the bathroom, he had dropped his spell and tried to think of anything but Kagome, but she just kept popping up in his mind. He put his spell back up, in order to go to class, and out of nowhere he wondered if he could ever show Kagome his true form. Miroku, Rin, Sango, and Sesshomaru all new who he and what he was, but he couldn’t help but think that if Kagome ever found out his dirty little secret she would hate him.
‘What am I saying, she hates me now, and why do I even care?’ He didn’t, of course. He didn’t care about what that annoying, hard-headed, sexy, bitch thought. Wait, sexy? Since when was the bitch sexy? “Feh” he said to the emptiness around him, as if challenging nonexistent people to say differently. “I don’t care what that bitch thinks, but I am going to find out more about her mom.” He was just curious of course, and with that lie and a new boost of purpose he set out to the music room.
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The six teens entered the room at about the same time and quickly sat down in one of the empty corners. The room wasn’t exactly the normal classroom. The lights were slightly dimmer than the normal florescent school lights. and there was incense burning somewhere in the room. There where instruments of all types scattered among the room and there where potted plants everywhere.Some where just ferns, but some four leafed ones looked very suspicious. ‘Okay, one teacher is ‘super’ gay, and one is growing wacky tabaci in the classroom, great choice of school mom. I bet she’d shit a brick if she knew half of this stuff' Kagome thought, stifling a giggle.
The walls where a deep blue and the carpet was just a shade darker, and very soft. There where no desks but a motley group of furniture. There were several bean bags and a few stools. There where three couches and a love-seat and two lazy-boy recliners, one of which sat behind a dark mahogany desk where the teacher was sitting.
The teacher himself matched the furnishings perfectly. He was a cat demon, with dirty blond hair that fell to his shoulders. He had two slightly droopy cat ears perched on top of his head that where the same color of his hair. He was wearing very worn and very baggy jeans and a tie-dyed shirt. He was wearing small blue tinted sunglasses and behind them he had equally blue eyes, but it was hard to tell since they where half closed in what appeared to be sleep.
They opened fully though and landed on Kagome. She sat with Rin and Sango on one of the couches. “So, like, we have a new student today class. I know most of your teachers have asked you to speak about yourself but I want this class to be like a family, so come on up here and introduce yourself.” He waved Kagome over with one lazy paw.
Kagome walked to the front of the room and stood next to the desk. “Well my name is Kagome Higuarashe and I just moved here.” Kagome said simply, hoping that he wouldn’t ask anymore.
As if reading her mind, he spoke. “So Kagome, what kinds of music do you groove to?”
“Well, I like rock, and stuff, but I’m really not that picky. If it sounds good, I listen to it. Though I do have a certain distaste for bluegrass.”
“Ride on little chick, that’s what I like to hear. People have to be more open to the kinds of music they listen to you know.” he said as Kagome walked back to her seat.
“Anyway, my little friends, I want you to know the assignment that you will be working on for the rest of the year. I personally think that you guys don’t need to be formally ‘tested’ on anything” the neko said, making his fingers into little quotation marks when he said tested. “But the man, thinks you do, so there’s gonna be a music show thing for the rest of the school. I’m gonna put you into groups of six. I’m not sure how many songs you’ll be doing but you’ll choose some and I’ll choose some. Some of the group members will play instruments and some will need to sing, so I’ll group you based on that.”
‘Damn, I should have expected something like this to happen. It’s times like this I wish I knew how to play an instrument’ Kagome thought in utter terror.
“Oh I almost forgot, Kags, what do you do?” Kagome tried to think quick, she didn’t know any instruments but didn’t necessarily want to say that she was a singer, but it seemed she had no choice.
“Well, I can’t play an instrument for my life so I guess that would make me a singer” Kagome said half heartedly.
The teacher didn’t seem to notice her dejection because he brightened up considerably. “Really, that’s great. Most of the other kids don’t sing so well so . . . I’ll put you in a group with Sesshomaru, Rin, Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha. You look to be a tight little group anyway." Kagome rolled her eyes at this. "By the way, are you any good little dudette?”
Kagome was getting a little annoyed at the nicknames but once again pondered how to answer. She guessed ‘I’m good enough to die for’ wouldn’t be a good idea cause she’d either bust out laughing or crying so she settled for a simple “Yeah, I guess you could say I’m okay.” The teacher quickly gave out the other groups and told them to start thinking about songs. He then promptly fell asleep.
The gang was silent for a minute before Sango said in an eerily calm voice “Miroku move your hand right now or I’ll shove my foot so far up your ass you’ll be chewing boot-leather” Miroku reluctantly took his hand from her ass.
“A bit kinky now, aren’t we my Sango?” Miroku said from the beanbag chair he was sitting on, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. As Sango pummeled Miroku with a giant plastic baseball bat (don’t know where she got it, and frankly I don’t wanna know) Kagome leaned over the arm of the couch to the lazy-boy that was placed only a few inches away. It was where Inuyasha sat.
“He can make anything perverted can’t he?” she asked the silver haired boy.
“Yeah” he smirked “it’s his gift” Inuyasha watched as Sango took the beanbag chair and smashed Miroku’s poor abused head through it, sending the stuffing everywhere “And his curse”
Kagome laughed lightly. Inuyasha looked at Kagome and smiled wider. He liked her laugh. It was soft, feminine but slightly deeper then the usual giggles that the air-headed girls around the school had.
“So” Sesshomaru’s cool deep voice broke through Sango’s mutterings and Inuyasha’s staring. “Are we actually going to get anything done or is Inuyasha simply going to ogle Kagome for the rest of the class?” Inuyasha’s face turned red and Kagome gave him a questioning look, but he simply growled at his half brother.
Rin, ever the peacemaker, decided to do something. “We know you weren’t staring Inuyasha, and you shouldn’t provoke him Fluffy” she said to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru’s eye twitched.
“ I thought I told you never to call me that” Sesshomaru said coldly.
“No, I thought you just said not to call you that in public. I guess I slipped” Rin said with an (obviously fake) innocent smile.
Miroku pulled out a peace of paper and said “Okay love birds lets just list what everyone can do first.” His pen moved over the paper. “I can play drums and sing. What about you Inuyasha?”
“Lead guitar, and I can sing” Inuyasha said with a cocky smirk directed at Kagome.
“I can play bass” said an ever stoic Sesshomaru.
“I can play the keyboard, and I can sing backup” Rin said bouncing up and down on her seat, obviously excited.
“I can sing and play backup guitar” Sango said with a thoughtful expression. “Okay and Kagome can't play an instrument, so I guess she could be a lead singer. Do you think you can do that Kagome?” Sango asked.
Kagome was about to make some excuse as to why she couldn’t, like she was sick or it was against her religion, when Inuyasha broke in.
“I bet the wench can’t sing worth shit” he had said this loudly and now the whole class was looking at the two (with the exception of the drooling teacher). All thoughts of backing down vanished and Kagome only knew she had to show him how wrong he was.
“I sing better then you ever will” Kagome said acidly.
“Than prove it” Inuyasha shot back. Everyone was waiting now.
Kagome looked to Sango and said “What should I sing?”
“Hm, I know just the one” Sango said happily and started to whisper to Kagome.
“Really?” Kagome asked.
“Yeah, I mean these people have probably never heard it before since it’s an Irish folk song but when I heard you singing it to yourself earlier it sounded good”
Kagome blushed realizing that she’d been caught. “Okay, but it’s not exactly rock. Its really soft and slow”
“Perfect!” Rin said “I’m sure you’ll do great” Kagome looked at Inuyasha and took a deep breath.
The song Sango was talking about was really important to her and she didn’t feel right singing it around all those other people. It would kind of be like walking around naked, but she didn’t have much choice. She opened her mouth to sing and the bell rang. ‘Saved by the bell’ Kagome thought happily.
“How about this” Sesshomaru said. “We’ll meet at one of the rooms tonight, and Kagome can show Inuyasha that he’s an idiot, and we can start to pick songs” Everyone agreed but Inuyasha just growled. Everyone left and Sesshomaru was deep in thought.
He knew a lot more about this Kagome girl now, and was getting more interested by the second. He could feel the spell that she used to conceal herself and had a feeling that this singing thing would be a way to gauge her power. It was obvious to him that her aura must be very strong to need such an intricate spell. ‘Song is a very good conducter of spiritual energy, and from the looks of her, she was very nervous about singing, so maybe she isn’t trained to control it.’ That would be bad. ‘A miko who is not properly trained is bad enough, but I have a feeling that she isn’t quite the average miko.’
His thoughts were interrupted however when one very excited Rin jumped onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck in a death grip. “Oh fluffy, I am so happy that we made a new friend, and that you stood up for her singing. Oh, fluffy I have such good friends!” she said this all very quickly and Sesshomaru turned and smelled her. She reeked of sweets.
“Rin have you been eating sugar again?”
“Oh no fluffy, I know you guys all say not to even though I don’t know why, I just ate some pixy sticks! Those aren’t sugar. They tasted like orange!” Sesshomaru sighed. Whenever Rin got sugar, she was as annoying and destructive as a six-year-old with A.D.D. and a flamethrower.
“Right Rin, come on, lets get you some coffee.” Sesshomaru dragged a screaming Rin into the cafeteria.
“NO, NOT THE COFFEE ANYTHING BUT THE COFFEE, ITS SO BITTER AND HAS NO SWEETNESS!! SOMEONE HHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!”
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Hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Silliness abounds here, but things DO get serious soon. I think. *grins* Just keep reading friends!Review Responses
Manga Girl - Yes, Inuyasha is a formidable opponent, but really, he can’t stand up to Kagome’s off-the-wall personality. He really has met his match. His pride will just have to learn to live with it. I’m really glad you like it! I am a bit self-conscious about it since it was really the first story I ever tried to write, but I think it only gets better. Yes, it’s the traditional pairings. I’m a bit of a romantic at heart, so they will all end up with a happily ever after (I think so at least O_O) Still, I will make sure to add plenty of drama! There is murder, jealousy, angst, magic, prophecies, and all kinds of cool stuff in store! Still, I’m rewriting this as I post it, so I might make Inuyasha and Kag’s relationship a little more rocky. I think I made it too easy on them the first time around. MWUHAHAHA! ^_^ I hope you continue to enjoy the story! Its people like you that keep me going!