InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Turning The Tables ❯ A school Confrontation ( Chapter 1 )

Kagome opened her eyes and sighed, dark circles underneath her eyes from yet another sleepless night. She brushed her hair back out of her face and stood up pushing back the covers. She got ready for school and headed out the door, meeting up with her friends, once again starting her daily routine of pretending to listen while her friends droned on and on and she lost herself in her memories of Inuyashas, her haphazard looking appearance going unnoticed once again as she stepped into her homeroom class.

The teacher entered the room and placed his brief case down in his desk, "Class today we have a new student and I would like for one of you too show him around the school." A tall boy stood next to him in the black school uniform with his long dark black hair pulled back into a braid. "This is Tsukino Inuki." The boy looked around the room with his dark piercing eyes as he stood there in silence.

All of the students sat there motionless, it still being too early in the morning for them to be awake. Kagome continued to look down at the desk completely uninterested, as usual. The aforementioned teacher had been becoming rather irritated at her behavior, as she had been becoming a chronic slacker ever since she started coming back to school regularly. Once again, she hadn't done her homework and hand no interest in making it up.

The teacher sighed in agitation, "Mr. Tsukino, take a seat next to Ms. Higurashi. Maybe your good grades will rub off on her." He pointed to any empty desk near the back. A familiar voice rang out, "Yes, sir." He walked back to the desk and took a seat and began digging out his books.

Kagome blinked at the voice and raised her eyes to land on the familiar looking boy that sat down beside her, causing her to scream in shock, "Inu Yasha????" Her heart leapt up into her throat and her vision went black before her. Inuki leaned over the girl fanning her with a note book, "Hey wake up damn it I ain't that ugly to cause you to faint."

She groaned and pried her eyes open at the cool breeze on her face and saw the boy, and yelped, backing up slightly. She tried to calm herself and eyed him. His ears were gone... and it wasn't the new moon... but she was sure... she was positive it was him! She looked down at her notebook where she had painted a picture of Inu Yasha in his ningen form one night.

He sat back on his heels and raised a brow at her actions "Are you on drugs or something?" he shook his head and stood up offering her a hand up, "At least get up off the floor would ya?"

She stared at his hand for a few moments before holding a trembling hand out to him, her crazy hair wisping about her face, framing her pale skin, "A-ari-arigatou..." He flashed a smile down at her as he pulled her up to her feet "Dou itashmashite....just don't pass out every time you look at me would ya?" He laughed as he let go of her hand and sat down in his seat, "You would swear you saw a ghost or something."

She choked and looked away trying to regain her composure, "G-gomen..."

He looked at her pale face, "I think you should go to the nurse. Do you want me to help you get there...you don't need to go alone." Kagome blinked and looked up at him, "I...I think maybe you're right...I think I'm hallucinating... but you don't have to come with me if you don't want me to..."

He stood up taking her by the arm "I think you're ill and you're gonna go to the nurse ....no arguments got that?" He looked at her with dark eyes that gave no room for argument. She blushed and nodded standing up still a bit shaky, "H-hay...yes, sir..."He rolled his eyes as he took her to the desk to get a note to go to the nurse. They walked out the hall, "Now, I have no idea where the nurse's office is, so you will have to show me." He looked at her, "Hush by the way what's your name?"

She looked down at the ground, sneaking glances up at him, "Ka...Kagome." She blinked and turned down the right hallway, "And yours...is Inuki..."

He nodded "Yep, that's my name." He ran a hand through his dark bangs, "I have heard only one name similar to mine, but it's just a legend."

Kagome blushed and looked away, "Inu Yasha.....

He looked at her, "So, you have read about it, huh?" He laughed, "I have only read a few stories about him in my history books." She blinked and watched him silently, "...I guess you could say that..."He glanced at her from the corner of his eye, "What is it? Do I have a booger hanging out of my nose or something?" He smirked as he looked at the doors in the hall, "Now, where in the hell is that damn nurse's office?"

She blushed, "I...iie...last door on the left," She ducked her head and mumbled, "I just can't believe you know about Inu-kun..."

Inuki stopped at the nurses door and looked at her, "You talk like you knew the hanyou." He chuckled as he opened the door, "Now, go in the before you fall over again."

Kagome stumbled over what to say next and blurted, "Wait! Don't go!" She blushed at her outburst and stuttered, "She ... d-doesn't get here until 8:30... I-I have to wait for her... and I ..d-don't want to pass out beore she gets here... w-would you mind too terribly to wait with me?"

He sighed and nodded, "I didnt feel like sitting in class, anyhow." Kagome blushed again, "S-sorry... I probably made you think that all the people at our school are freaks... they aren't... I am just... different.."

He raised an eyebrow as he closed the door behind him, "You're not pregnant, are you?"

Kagome choked and looked up at him sharply, "N-nani?!"

He sighed, "She must not hear good, either," he grumbled, "I said ARE YOU PREGNANT?!"

She yelped and slapped a hand over his mouth, "Shut up!" she hissed, then blushd at the feel of his lips against her hand and pulled it away, "No, I'm not pregnant...you just...remind me of someone that I used to know..." she grumbled and leaned against the wall.

He blinks, "Of who? An ex or something?"

She stiffened slightly and looked at him, "...He was very dear to me."

"Was...you mean, he's not anymore." He tilted his head to the side looking at her.

She felt her throat clenched and she looked away before tears filled her eyes, "..he died. A long time ago."

He sat up feeling guilty "Dont cry ...I can't stand to see girls cry." He handed her a box of tissues from a nearby table "Kagome, dont cry."

Kagome looked up at him, as he sounded just like InuYasha when he said that, and she stared blankly at him for a few moments watching his face, peering into the gaze that she had watched as it went dull, holding his dying body in her arms."

Inuki waved his hand infront of her face "Yo, Earth to Kagome ...you in there Kagome?"

She blinked and started, "Yea... sorry.... I'm sorry Inuya-- Inuki." She stopped her self just in time and looked away.

He frowned, "Was his name Inu Yasha? Is that why you keep calling me that?"

She looked away avoiding his gaze balantly, "...Yes. It was."

He sat back in the chair looking across the room, "Who would name their son after a hanyou from a fairy tale?"

She scowled at him and snapped, "He's not a fictional character out of a story book, and he isn't part of my imagination, I can guaruntee you that, if that is what you are implying!"

He looked up at her, his eyes wide with shock,"I don't imply shit, Kagome. If I thought that I would say it!" he stood up and scowled at her looking exactly like the Inuyasha she knew."I think you're in some serious pain from the loss of your boyfriend."

She looked up at him and the ability to breathe and think clearly flew from her and sank against the wall, unable to tear away from the sight before her, "Inuyasha...." Tears filled her eyes and spilled over her cheeks as his words hit her and she stared at him... the one she loved... that she had watched die so long ago.

He knelt down beside her, "Kagome, come on, snap out of it. Kagome ...I didn't mean it, I'm sorry." He placed his hands onto her shoulders and shook her gently, "Kagome, speak to me!"

She leaned into his shoulder and closed her eyes trying to bite back her sobs, 'He even smells like him...' she thought as her sleepless exhaustion caught up to her and she passed out, her arms going slack, and her arms going slack, her bag slipping from them and spilling open.

His eyes widened, "Damn, she did it again." He picked her up and laid her down on a couch across the waiting room."Poor girl...she is exhausted." He watched her for a few moments as a considerable length of time went by. After a while he shook himself out of it and walked back over and picked up her belongings that spilled from her bag. He picked up a note book and a picture fell out of it. He looked at it wide eyed, "What the hell?" He saw a hanyou that looked like him staring him straight in the face.