InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The More Things Stay The Same ❯ Chapter 7: I'm Not Jealous! ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Lady_ravenwaves
Hanyou high... a day of school with Inuyasha in tow, what could be better? ( A root canal.. that's what.)

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.15.2005 | Updated On: 07.16.2005 | Pages: 9 | Words: 6.8K | Visits: 405 | Status: Completed

 
 
 
The smells in the classroom were an assault on his senses. The chalk, the graphite pencils, the perfumes and cosmetics… the body odors. He never had thought that anyone in the worlds could smell worse than Kouga, but the boy sitting off to his right would have been a very formidable contender for worst smelling creature in Sengoku Jidai.
It wasn't merely that he smelled foul, although it was likely he hadn't bathed in a few days from Inuyasha's standpoint, but the fact that to cover the aroma, he had generously applied a cologne made of goat musk and imitation pheromones.
 
He was sitting in a modern looking plastic chair; intended to be ergonomic and comfortable. Kagome was a couple of seats in front of his and off to the left. He wondered how she did it. He had been sitting there quietly for soooooo long and wondered how much longer until someone came in to attack her so he could at least get up and have something to do. When he thought he could bear the tedium no longer, the instructor came in and stood at the front of the room. The class head led them all in a morning greeting.
“Good morning class. We will take roll call when first class starts in three minutes.” The sensei looked up from her papers and glanced across the class until her eyes fell on Inuyasha at the back of the room; wearing his red haori and hakama, a blue baseball cap covering his silver head, and squirming around madly.
“Ah so…. The Higurashi family guard. And what is your name?”
Inuyasha stood to his feet regally and bowed to the sensei. “I am Inuyasha, Son of Inu-no-Ta…”
He heard Kagome make a disapproving sound, and he stopped mid-sentence. His temper flared slightly. And he was trying so hard to use his best manners!
“No need to be so formal. I'll admit, I've never had a temple youjinbou in the classroom before, but I imagine that it shouldn't be a problem. You have finished school I take it?
He glanced at Kagome before nodding. “Hai.”
“Well, as long as you aren't missing your own class or interrupting mine… all right everyone, time for roll.”
 
 
“Aritsugi Makoto?”
-“Present”
“Asumauzu Kenta?”
-“Present.”
 
 
Inuyasha pulled out the small notebook Kagome had given him to use, tore out a page and scratched out a note, and handed it to Ayume to pass to her. Ayume giggled and took it.
“Why did Ayume tell him she would help him pass me notes??” Kagome unfolded the paper and read:
Dear Kagome-san,
This sucks. When is lunch?????
Your respectful bodyguard,
Inuyasha.
 
Kagome sighed, and ripped a small piece of paper out of her own notebook.
 
Dear baka,
The first class hasn't even started yet. Lunch is in 4 hours. If you're so bored, try paying attention to the lesson. BAKA!!!!!! If you did... Maybe you wouldn't be so incurably stupid at the end of the day.
 
She calmly folded the note and tucked it between her middle and forefingers to pass to Ayume. She knew Inuyasha received it when she heard him snort. She turned around and gave him a dis-effected expression, as though she had no idea what could have been bothering him.
He tore a page out of his notebook and furiously scribbled something down. He crossed it out and wrote something else. He crumpled up the paper and pulled out another piece before he began the mad scribbling again.
 
He finally passed his new note to Ayume, crossed his arms and stuck his nose in the air. Ayume attempted to pass the note to Kagome, who ignored it and began to copy the teacher's outline on the overhead transparency. Ayume looked over at Inuyasha and shrugged in apology.
 
 
 
 
Two hours later, the Hanyou was still seething. Kagome could sense the intensification of his youki, and knew he was staring daggers at the back of her head. She was about to turn around and look… any minute now… just so he didn't think she was worried about him or anything.
 
“Since you all seemed to have difficulty on the last English essay assignment, I thought we would do some verb and pronoun reviews today. Let's see…. Tsugara-san, please conjugate the verb; koshikakeru, past and present tense.”
 
A young man stood up and cleared his throat.
“Koshikakeru; to sit. I sit. You sit. He sits. She sits. We sit. They sits. I sat. You sat. He sat. She sat. We sat. They sat.”
 
“That was good, the `eses' were very pronounced, however, it is `they sit' not `they sits'.”
 
The teacher scanned the room. Higurashi looked uncomfortable and was glancing back at her bodyguard.
 
“Higurashi-san.”
“Hai? Stuart-sensei?”
“Higurashi-san, please conjugate the verb and pronouns for: uchiyaberu.”
“In english?”
“'Yaa' in english please.”
“Uchiyaberu…. to…. Um…..”
Ayume punched Kagome's back lightly.
“To hit!!!” “Thank God,” Kagome thought. “an easy one.”
“I hit, you hit, he hits, she hits, we hit, they hit.” Kagome smiled and sat back down.
“Higurashi-san? Past tense?”
“Oh!” Kagome sat up again, embarrassed. “I….. um…. I….. hat?..........hitted? ”
Ayume smacked her forehead as the class erupted in laughter.
“That's enough Higurashi-san. Takeuchi-san, conjugate `kakeru'.”
Another student stood up.
“Kakeru; to run. I run, you run, he runs……”
Kagome put her head on her desk. Ayume poked her in the back with a pencil and handed her another note, presumably from Inuyasha. Kagome unfolded the note quietly.
 
Dear Kagome-san,
Now who's stupid?
 
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Lunch-time had finally arrived. Kagome stood up and stretched out. Inuyasha was staring up at the ceiling, lips moving, and had appeared not to have heard the bell at all.
“Inuyasha-kun, are you eating lunch with us?” Ayume asked.
Inuyasha help up his hand, and his lips kept moving.
“Inuyasha, what in the heck are you doing?”
“Shhhhhh, counting.”
“Counting what?”
“The dots on the ceiling.”
“The dots on the ceiling???”
“DAMMIT! Kagome, you made me lose count!!!!!”
“I don't blame you Inuyasha-kun… I used to do that in middle school.” Ayume piped in.
“Baka.”
“You know… you can get a pretty accurate estimate by counting the dots on the side and bottom of the tile and multiplying them?”
“Ayume-chan, you're not helping.”
“I'll have to try that after lunch.”
“Oh for God sake, can we go eat now?”
 
Inuyasha insisted on going through the cafeteria line with Kagome, just in case. It seemed to Kagome that he took one of everything. Two hamburgers, a hot dog. A couple sandwiches, potato chips, among several other things, while she settled for some simple pizza.
Inuyasha juggled his tray behind Kagome as she found a seat in the cafeteria next to Ayume. Yuka and Eri had some sort of a club meeting during lunch that day, thank God, and wouldn't have a chance to interrogate Inuyasha.
 
Ayume was chattering about an American boy she'd been talking to online that was living in Izumo with his host family. Inuyasha had wolfed down all of his lunch and was looking at Kagome's extra untouched piece of pizza with longing.
“Touch it, and I'll purify you dog-boy.”
“Dammit bi…. iya… woman! I'm fucking hungry!!”
“Inuyasha… those are not words for public are they?”
“Well… you're being such a…. well, BITCH!”
“I guess I didn't appreciate the humor in your note.”
“Keh! You had it coming!”
“What?!?”
“Calling me a baka… after I was being so polite…. Then you fucked up in your class… so apparently I'm not the stupid one. KEH!!”
“It's YOUR fault that happened too!!!!!!!!!!”
“How do you figure??????”
Ayume looked between the two of them nervously. People in the cafeteria were starting to give them funny looks.
“How do I ever have time to study English when I'm always….. well…… doing what we do all the time??”
Ayume gave them both a strange look and Kagome blushed.
“Oh forget it…. It's not like I'll ever need English anyway!” Kagome shoved her pizza over to Inuyasha, and picked up her book bag before storming off to the classroom.
“What the fuck was that about????”
“I…. uh… don't… know…but I think she likes you.”
“Likes me? She just started screaming at me!”
“No… I mean she….” Ayume sighed. “Never mind. You want me to find her while she cools down?”
“Yeah… I need to find a tree anyway.”
“A tree? What on earth for?”
“Uh… I mean a….. never mind.”
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Kagome returned to the empty classroom and was greeted at the door.
“Konnichiwa, Higurashi-san.”
“Oh, hello Tsugara-san.”
“Not eating in the cafeteria today?”
“No, I wasn't hungry.”
“So ka….. Where's the Youjinbou?”
“Inuyasha? Eating lunch with Ayume.”
“Interesting name. So does he work for your family or something?”
“He's an old… friend.”
“I see… anyway, I was going to ask if you wanted someone to tutor you in English sometime?”
“It's kind of you to offer, but I honestly don't have any free time.”
“Temple stuff?”
“Yes.”
“Did you know I'm a Buddhist?”
“No I didn't, how interesting.”
Kagome began to look longingly at her desk and scanning her brain for a way to extricate herself. She really just wanted to be annoyed with Inuyasha in peace.
“Oh yes… Japanese Buddhism and Shinto have very close roots.”
“You don't say?”
“I spend quite a bit of time meditating and what-not, so I understand where you're coming from… maybe better than anyone else here, so if you ever want to talk to someone about religion or anything, I'm here.”
“Arigato Tsugara-san.”
“No, please, call me Shun.”
“Um… sankyuu…. Shun.”
“Your shrine sells charms right?”
“Yeah, just like every other shrine.”
“Do you make them yourself?” Good God… could the conversation be more awkward? Kouga was a more scintillating intellectual conversationalist.
“Well… most of them come made… um… My grandfather makes them…. Uh... holy.”
“I'll have to come by on Saturday and get some.”
“Wonderful.”
“So I'll see you then?”
“What?”
“I'll see you at the shrine on Saturday?”
“Maybe.”
“Then maybe I can treat you to something?”
“Uh… sure why not…. Excuse me please?”
 
Kagome dropped one of her books next to her desk and bent over to pick it up. Shun allowed himself to watch her bend over and grinned stupidly as her skirt rode up to the tops of her thighs. Inuyasha had chosen about thirty seconds before to return and was standing behind Shun as he made a noise of approval. Inuyasha yanked him out into the hallway, and bobbed him on the head the same manner he would Shippo.
“Itai!!! Temee! What was that for????”
“Leave Kagome alone.” He said simply.
“Or what??”
“Just leave her alone.” Inuyasha growled.
“Aren't you taking your job a little seriously?”
Inuyasha's eye twitched as he pursed his lips and said simply: “Fuck off.” He spun around on his heel and marched to his seat in the classroom.
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“I SAID I was sorry!!”
“For what?”
“For saying you were stupid earlier.”
“HMMPHF!” Kagome crossed her arms and looked away from him. “Anything else?”
“Punching that jacka……”
“I'll say `it'.”
“You wouldn't. That's an empty threat bitch, and you know it.”
Kagome looked up and down the empty hallway.
“Oswari.”
“EAIGH!!!” Inuyasha cracked his chin on the tiled floor.
“You've had it coming.”
“GET BACK HERE!!!!”
“No.”
Inuyasha fought against the subjugation and ran after Kagome once it wore off. He followed her scent to a door she had just entered, and he yanked it open.
“AND another THING!! I don't……”
Inuyasha heard several women scream and he looked around. All around him girls in Kagome's class were in various stages of undress.
Inuyasha rushed out the door, shuddering and twitching all the way. Kagome sighed and dropped her book bag on the bench before she followed him to the door, stuck her head out in the hallway, and said sweetly:
“Ne, Inuyasha? OSWARI!” she then let the door swing shut and strode over to her gym locker muttering “baka.”
 
 
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“So Kagome… what was going on during lunch with Tsugara?” one of her classmates asked.
“Not much since Inuyasha saw him!” Ayume giggled.
“I think he asked me out…”
“Really??” The girls were milling around while the gym teacher paired up basketball teams. Inuyasha had found a station on the bleachers where he could watch Kagome from anywhere in the gymnasium.
“So who is that Inuyasha to you Higurashi?” a girl named Kaoru asked.
“He's my bodyguard. We work together.”
“Lucky you! I wish I worked with a guy that cute… only gangly nerds come to work part time at the convenience store…”
“It's not like that. Actually he'd make a lousy boyfriend.”
“Why? He seems so….. Chivalrous?”
“It's just the sword. He's rude, and a two-timer, and a jerk, and an idiot, and immature….. He doesn't know the first thing about how a girl feels” Kagome tossed her basket ball at Kaoru as the girls lined up to take turns at free throws.
“Kagome would know” Ayume added conspiratorially. “They went out when we were in junior high.”
“Oooooooooh! Were you a hot couple?”
“That's ridiculous!”
“Is he big?”
“Is he…. What???”
“You know… is he…. Well endowed?”
Kagome flushed a lovely dark pink. “I said; IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!”
 
Inuyasha's ears swiveled in her direction under his hat. He pulled his knee up to his chin and was resting on it while he studied her.
God those shorts were short. They also seemed impossibly tight and form fitting. Inuyasha swore he could make out every curve. She was much more fit than any of the girls out there. Like she was a sculpture or something. Her body was indeed a fine work of art to him.
 
“Hi up there.”
Inuyasha looked down.
“What?”
“I said hello.”
There was a girl sitting on the bottom step of the bleachers that looked nothing like anyone Inuyasha had ever seen. She was very tall, perhaps as tall as Inuyasha himself. Her facial features were different from anyone else he had seen before; her eyes were wide, as well as bright blue. It was her light colored hair however that was most perplexing. It was like liquid gold in color.
“Are you youkai?”
“Youkai? Sorry, I don't know that word. Japanese isn't my first language.”
“You're not from here?”
“No, I was born in California.”
Inuyasha caught himself staring at her hair. She giggled.
“Gomen ne, I've just never seen hair quite like that before, and I've seen a lot.”
“Likewise. I mean I've never seen anyone that looks quite as exotic as you do.”
Inuyasha wasn't sure what she meant by that.
“I hear you're Higurashi's bodyguard?”
“I guess.”
“She's very lucky.”
“She doesn't seem to think so.”
“She is! I'd love to have such a strong good-looking guy following me around all day.”
She stroked, and Inuyasha's ego responded. He puffed out his chest a little bit more.
“Is that a real sword?”
“Yes.”
“Can I see it?”
“I was told not to take it out.”
She tossed her hair.
“What if you need to guard Higurashi from somebody?”
“I don't need a sword to do that.”
“I bet you're very strong.”
“Why do you say that?”
“You look like it.”
“Looks can be deceiving.”
 
 
 
 
 
“I don't care what you say Kagome, first love never dies.”
Kagome's expression turned sad. She knew Ayume was right. Better than anyone she ought to know.
“That was the problem.”
“What was the problem?” Kaoru asked.
“I wasn't his first love. And he couldn't forget about her.”
“Ouch… did they have a painful breakup or something?”
“She…. Died.”
“I read somewhere that that's bad for a new relationship. If someone the other person cared for died while they were together, they remember them perfect, while you are still alive to make mistakes.”
“I guess.”
Maybe that was it, not exactly it, but something similar. Perhaps because Inuyasha felt such loss every time he thought Kikyo was dead, he was so…. Overjoyed to have her back he couldn't help it?
“It's like scratched CD, you just need to find someone to help you skip over the scratched part, then you'll be able to keep right on going.”
“Honto des?”
“Yes really. Besides… I think Tsugara likes you.”
“Ayume, did he go to junior high with us?”
“I don't think so… in fact I'm pretty sure he went to Averson.”
“There's something… familiar about him, but I can't put my finger on it.”
 
“Ne, is Amy-san talking to Inuyasha?”
“My God! It isn't enough that that Gaijin hogs the attention of every boy in school… she has to hit on your bodyguard too???”
Kagome's pulse quickened and her jaw set. She looked slowly up at Inuyasha. He was now sitting next to the American blond with enormous breasts. She was laughing at something he was saying, and he had the gall to be smiling and staring back at her.
For some reason, unknown to her, Kagome threw the basket ball at Inuyasha, hitting him in the head.
“OW! FUCK!” He picked up the basketball and looked at it, then scanned the floor furiously, looking for who had hit him. His eyes stopped on Kagome who smiled sweetly and waved at him, then came over to retrieve it.
“Sorry! It slipped….”
 
 
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“Now what did I do?”
“Nothing. Not a thing.”
School was over at last and Inuyasha was walking Kagome home. They were about four blocks away from school, and Ayume had already left them.
“Give me a break… I've known you long enough to know when you're punishing me. You haven't said two words to me since school let out.”
“I have no reason to be angry.”
“Damn right!”
“After all, it's none of my business what you do with Gaijin giantesses.”
“We were just talking!”
“I had no idea you were so chatty.”
“She was interesting!”
“You mean her gazongas were interesting.”
“Her what????”
“I wish you could just keep it in your pants!”
“What, exactly am I keeping in my hakama?”
“UGH! I expect the boys in my class to be drawn to her, but not you, you're… different. You should be more adult than that.”
“Kagome…. Are you…. Jealous????”
“Don't be ridiculous!!”
“You are!!!!”
“Am not. I just…..look, I'm not, ok???”
She sighed and looked at her watch.
“I just don't think it was necessary to hug her when class was over, that's all!”
“Hey! She hugged me… and I was only being polite.”
“You shouldn't encourage her. It would never work out.”
Inuyasha smirked and fell into step behind her. Now where had he heard that before?
 
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They were planning to return in the morning. Another school day had passed and Kagome was doing some research online before dinner. Mrs. Higurashi insisted Inuyasha stay, she had even said she planned something special to thank him. The Inu-Hanyou in question was sitting on Kagome's bed flipping through a magazine and glancing periodically at the laptop computer screen.
“So, when you say you can access information anywhere in the world, you mean anywhere?”
“Yes.” Kagome sighed and kept scrolling down and reading the information.
“About anything??”
“More or less.”
“Does it do anything else?”
“Yes.”
“How does so much stuff fit in one box?”
“Information is very, very small.”
“Would it work in Sengoku Jidai?”
“Does my cell phone?”
“Keh.”
Kagome rubbed her eyes and stretched.
“Be right back.”
“Where are you going?”
“To get a soda, and ask when dinner is.”
“Fine.”
Kagome left, and Inuyasha started to glance over at the computer screen. There was a flashing purple banner add at the top of the screen that caught his attention
 
Want to Please Your Girl? Click -here- now!
 
“This thing even has information on how to make Kagome happy with me? I'd be stupid not to look into it!” Inuyasha imitated how she had used her fingers to move the little arrowhead until it hovered over the banner, and then he clicked the button. In the blink of an eye, there appeared an enormous picture of ……
“Shit!! How do I get rid of it?”
Inuyasha started clicking every square inch on the screen to make the offending image go away, but more pictures started to pop up; pictures of women, and worse… The more he tried to get them to go away, the more popped up. Inuyasha could hear Kagome's steps, could smell her coming. He had to get rid of the pictures.
“SANKON TESS….”
“OSWARI!!”
“EAIGH!!!”
“Don't….. you….. dare!”
“You don't understand! The thing is possessed!!”
“It's a piece of technology, it can't be possessed baka!”
“Just don't look at….”
“EEK!!!!!!”
“Shit.”
“Hentai!!!!!! What did you do?”
“Nothing!!!!!”
“Thank your lucky stars I didn't need the page I was on!” the schoolgirl reached behind the machine to shut off the power. “But I can see how you would think it's possessed.” Kagome sighed in agitation. “At least we're going back tomorrow… I don't think the 21st century can handle you on a full time basis.”