InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Reason ❯ School Days ( Chapter 1 )

Kagome sighed as she desperately tried to concentrate on her schoolwork. She and the rest of her little group were now living in her time. The jewel was nearing its completion, and no one actually knew where the last shard was. They, she and the rest of the shard-hunting group, expected that they would finish the jewel when they defeated Naraku, but they were wrong. It not only turned out that Naraku didn't have the remainder of the jewel, but it was missing a good portion of it. Not a very large piece, about 1/8 of the actual jewel was missing, but it was still enough to keep the jewel from its completion. No one had ever gotten wind of the whereabouts of the remainder, not even a piece of the remainder either. So, the group decided that it may still exist in the future, and they decided to stay in Kagome's time to find the remainder in her time (a suggestion by Kagome, of course).

And so here she was. The great Kagome. Adroit archer. Quasi miko and

healer. Protectress of the Shikon no Tama. Would-be demon slayer. Sitting in a high school class like any normal girl her age would. She sighed again. After leading a double life between her time and Sengoku Jidai, normal life seemed… boring. `Isn't this what you wanted though?' she thought to herself. Letting out another sigh, a frustrated one, she finally gave up on her schoolwork and stared out the window.

She turned to her own thoughts as her history teacher droned on and on about something happening during Sengoku Jidai. Like she needed to know! She was there, after all. Being in Sengoku Jidai was a lot more interesting then learning about it. she sat there, waiting for the bell to ring so she could go home. Finally, the old man droning at the front stopped and told them to pack up, just as the bell was about to ring. As Kagome left the room, she heard the old man yell out to read the next to sections and to take notes.

As she walked out the building, someone called out to her. It turned out to be her friend Yuki, along with the rest of her friends. She came running up to her and said, "Hey Kagome! Wanna go to the movies with us?"

Kagome shook her head with an apologetic smile on her face before replying, "I'm working at the shrine today."

"Awww, but you work there everyday!" Haruka said.

"Yeah, can't Sango cover for you or something?" Ayame whined.

"Sango covered for me enough already. Besides, I still need to pay my grandfather back for the scroll incident," she replied.

All the girls nodded knowingly, having heard the story of how Kagome was practicing archery in her yard and hit some scrolls and stuff her grandfather was organizing. Of course, her grandfather had said that it was a very important artifact and contained some historical event and launched into another story. He ended by telling her that it was only a replica and that she should be grateful because if she hit the real one, she would have to work till she was older than her grandfather to work it off. So now she was stuck working at the shrine until she paid off how much the scroll was worth. When she saw how much the scroll was worth, she was very glad that she didn't hit the real one because she would have to work on for the rest of high school and some college, even though Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango were helping her.

"Oh well," Yuki said with a small smile. She added "Maybe another time then."

"Okay," Kagome replied. "Well, I gotta go if I wanna get there in time for my shift."

"Bye," all her friends said before she left to get home.