Hierarchy Within The Class

Meeting the lives of the characters... at least the main ones- PAY ATTENTION AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER!!!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA... but I do dream

16 year old, Kagome Higurashi rolls over to the sound of her blaring alarm. Groaning after looking at the glaring red digits on the clock, she silences her alarm before rolling back over and ducking her head underneath her nice, warm comforter. Her room remains dark, the shades drawn closed as she lingers in bed for a few more precious moments. Just as her eyelids became heavy with tire again, her bedroom door bursts open with a bang as Souta runs over to his sister’s bed and begins jumping on her cocooned body. As Kagome ignores his bouncing, he takes the next step in waking her up and begins shouting, making sure to land practiced punches square in her shoulder. Kagome groans one more time before shouting, “OKAY, I’M UP, I’M UP ALREADY! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU LITTLE BRAT!” Shooting up from the sheets, Souta jumps off her bed to throw open her curtains, throwing a burst of sunlight into the room.

Kagome subconsciously shields from the glaring sun light as Souta skids away and into the bathroom to get ready for school himself. Slowly, Kagome’s eyes adjust to the sun-kissed, light pink shades of furniture within her room. Sliding out of her warm cocoon, she makes her bed with slow vigor and in a massive haze before going through her closet for her uniform. Clutching the necessary items, she stands outside the bathroom, waiting for her little brother to come out of the bathroom. Soon the tell-tale sign of completion makes her more alert as the sound of the sink turns off and her brother comes bounding out of the bathroom to change into his uniform in his bedroom. Kagome walks into the room, closing the door behind her as she completes her morning routine.

After finishing in the bathroom, Kagome exits the room, to the welcoming silence of the upstairs quarters of the family home. Grabbing the massive yellow knapsack, leaning against the maple wood desk, she closes the door to her bedroom. Kagome stomps down the stairs, planting kisses on her mother’s cheek before grabbing a pop tart from the toaster and a cool glass of milk on the nearby kitchen counter as she hollers a good-bye at the remaining inhabitants of the house.

Just as Kagome downs the rest of her milk, she leaves the glass on the end table by the front door, knowing her mother will get it before throwing on her knapsack and shoes. As she exits down the porch stairs of the house, she waves off the last signs of her brother as he hops onto the awaiting school bus. Walking down the silent sidewalk, she comes face to face with her best friend, exiting her own house. “Good morning, Sango…”, she yawns as the girl in question pulls on her pink satchel over her shoulder. “I take it, you went to bed late again”, 16 year old, Sango Tajiya teases as she plays with her long, dark brown ponytail. Kagome smiles sheepishly as Sango’s fingers find their way to Kagome’s head and rakes through the raven locks to give it a slightly tousled look.

Both girls wore a matching uniform of girls of their year, junior year, in Feudal High School. The uniform was basically a white blouse and matching tights or socks but with each grade is a different color for the tie or skirt/pants/blazer. For freshman, the color was light blue; for sophomores, the color was red; for juniors, the color was dark green; and for seniors, the color was black. Sango’s slight tan complimented the green tones in her uniform, while Kagome’s pale skin made her brown eyes stand out more against the green uniform. As the girls walk the next few blocks to the school entrance, the chattered about homework before a speeding, navy blue corvette rounds the corner outside the school.

Luckily, Sango placed a hand in front of Kagome in time before she would have walked into an accident. The girls let out a sigh of relief as they watch the passing car, rush to the student parking lot. “WATCH WHERE YOU GOING YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!”, Sango shouts at the exhaust fumes left behind. “Sango…”, Kagome tsks. “They could’ve almost killed you, Gome”, she pouts. “You know just as much as I do, whose ride that was, and you would sooner drool before you remember to worry”, Kagome teases as Sango quiets her anger to mildly blush. Turning her chocolate eyes onto her best friend, she nearly smirked as she uttered, “Like you wouldn’t think of doing the same if that was… InuYasha Takahashi.”

An even more redder blush graced Kagome’s cheek as they walked to the entrance of the school, making sure no one else heard the little statement to leave her best friend’s lips as she unexpectingly bumps into the offending person in question with a soft “oof”. “Watch where you’re going underling”, he glares before stomping off to his locker. Somehow blushing shades deeper, Sango shakes her head before leading her friend to their shared locker. Feudal High was recently inhabited by students of a nearby rival school that burned down. But rather than have all those students relocate to other schools, the two schools combined and now everyone had a locker mate and had to share spaces.

With the change, InuYasha’s locker was now around the corner from Kagome and Sango’s and his locker mate was his confiding best friend, the only junior he deemed worthy of his attention, Miroku Houshi. Putting away their backpacks and taking the only necessary items, the two girls head off to their first class together as the school bell rings.

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As the school bell rings for the third time to signal the approach of tardy, Kagome and Sango take their respective seats next to the their third friend to complete the trio. Rin Seiga, was an advance sophomore in their calculus class for the upper classmen and from the rival school but made friends with the duo despite their differences. A smaller, more petite version of Kagome with her coloring, Rin smoothes the edges of her red uniform skirt, as she tightens the two ponytails before clearing away her desk except for the needed supplies. “Where were you guys, you were about to miss role call?”, she teases as the girls in question follow routine and take out their belongings.

“Sorry, Rin, we nearly ran into some trouble this morning”, Kagome mutters. “I mean it can’t be nearly as bad as sharing a locker with that slut”, Sango seethes as the classroom door opens to let in the girl in question. Kikyo Miko, age 17, senior in Feudal High, and heiress of Miko Cosmetics Chain, walks into the room with her posse: her boyfriend-InuYasha, Miroku, fellow senior bitches from the rival school: Kagura Kaze, Yura Hea, Naraku Hihi, and Kanna Kagami. All the girls in this gathering, roll up their skirts a couple of more inches as they wore white garters and high heeled boots or shoes.

Kikyo was the only one of the group who had the first few buttons of her shirt undone, with no tie blocking the world from seeing the edges of her black lace bra underneath. The group took their usual seats in the back corner of the classroom, right behind where Rin, Sango, and Kagome sat in the third to last row from the back. The teacher tsks at the noisy arrival of the group before checking off each accordingly. “That was a close call Ms. Miko”, the teacher announces as she closes the attendance book. “Sorry, Ms. Baba, we’ll try not to do that again”, Kikyo snorts before sitting in the desk, next to InuYasha, who sat behind Kagome with Kikyo behind Rin and Miroku behind Sango.

“Hey locker mate, your stuff is taking up too much space, move it or have it be moved”, Kikyo whispers tauntingly to Rin as Ms. Baba begins her lesson on logarithms. “I’m sorry Ms. Kikyo”, Rin lowly mutters as she sighs at the weight of her green backpack under her desk. Kikyo nearly takes up the entire locker, leaving one corner on the highest shelf for Rin to use. Rin was too shy to say anything to her to the mean senior and she continues to let her boss her around. But Sango wasn’t having that. Overhearing the words from Kikyo’s mouth, she begins making spitballs as she searches for a shooting instrument. Turning to Kagome she asks, “Hey, Gome, you wouldn’t happen to have any extra straws for lunch?”

Kagome, turning away from the teacher’s lesson, looks quizzically at her friend before nodding. “Did you forget yours again?”, she whispers as she digs into the hidden compartment of her pencil case for the few extra straws she kept in situations when Sango packs too fast for school. “You can say that”, was all Sango muttered before being called on by Ms. Baba. “Ms. Tajiya, what was the last thing I said?”, Ms. Baba asks. Sango takes the straw on her desk, quickly loading it with wet balls of paper before standing and reciting, “Ms. Tajiya, what was the last thing I said?” The entire class snickers at Sango’s commentary as Ms. Baba gives her that knowing look that she has just been written to detention. Grabbing her stuff, she walks up to the front of the class to grab the offending pink, detention slip.

Right as she was about to exit the classroom door, Sango turns to Kikyo and aims the straw at her chest before blowing out the spit balls. At the feel of the wet and slimy pieces of paper sliding down her shirt, Kikyo shrieks as she shakes out her shirt, the entire class erupting in laughter as Ms. Baba writes up another detention slip before sending Sango out. Sango winks at Rin and Kagome as she waves out of the class with Kikyo finally settling down and huffing from embarrassment.

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After Sango’s departure, the remainder of the class went by fairly quickly as Yura, Kanna, and Kagura whispered during the entire session while Naraku and Miroku played touchdown with their notes and InuYasha snoozed. Soon the school bell rings, signaling the end of the class period as Ms. Baba assigns the class their homework for tonight. Taking leave of the class, Kagome and Rin went their separate ways as Rin had gym with Sango the next period and Kagome was left alone with the rude popular kids in their next class of foreign language: French.

Quickly, taking her seat in middle row of the class, Kagome ignores the group of rude students as they headed to the back of the class. Turning in her seat, she sees Hojo Akitoki, taking the seat to her left and Kouga Ookami to her right as the instructor takes their place at the head of the class. Hojo was a fellow junior from the rival school while Kouga was a senior. Both boys have a constant affection for Kagome and she knew they purposefully transferred into her class in order to get ‘closer’ to her. But to both of their avail, Kagome ignores both of their attentions. As the class begins, the instructor hands back the results of the recent quiz. As she gives judgmental comments to a few students, she stops next to Kagome and hands her, her paper.

“Amazing job Ms. Higurashi. I swear you write and think like a native”, she comments passing by Kagome and frowning at InuYasha before saying, “As for you Mr. Takahashi, I usually don’t say this, but I truly recommend you switching out and taking another language course. I have no idea how you pass the previous levels of French, but you do not belong here. Maybe you simply need tutoring.” Looking down at his test paper, InuYasha slightly growls at the multiple red marks all over the page. “Might as well color the entire sheet red”, he mentally chastises before tucking the result in his text book.

With the rest of class passing by quickly, the school bell sounds again as it signals the next period. As Kagome lingers in the room to organize the last of her notes, Kikyo passes by her desks, knocking over her notebook as she continues walking over the strewn sheets of paper. Her posse falling out after her, with only Miroku taking a detour around the strewn sheets of paper and InuYasha standing still. After the entire posse exits the room, Kikyo lingers a few moments, expecting InuYasha to follow after her. “Inu… aren’t you going to come?”, she calls out sweetly, with sweet eyes on him. “Go on ahead of me babe, I’ll be there soon enough”, he shouts back as the door to the room closes.

The classroom being entirely empty, InuYasha kneels down to help Kagome pick up her notes before handing them back to her. He was surprised to see tears threatening to leave her eyes as she looks away, allowing her bangs to cover her eyes. “Sorry about that”, he mutters. Quickly Kagome sucks up those tears before plastering on a false smile on her face beaming, “it’s no big deal… I’m sure it was an accident. Besides they all have places to go as well do you. So I’ll be going.” Before she can make it to the door, InuYasha grabs her wrist, spinning her around to face him again. “Um… Kagome, right? … I have a favor to ask of you”, he whispers, not trusting the walls. Kagome looks at the boy before her as brown meets amber eyes. Looking away again, she focuses on his silver hair, tied into a low ponytail at the base of the neck, before replying, “Yeah, what do you need?”

“I was wondering if you’ll be willing to tutor me… in private sessions”, he mutters, ashamed at having to ask someone below him in social status. “Oh… I see… Meet me at the Shrine behind the sacred Goshinboku tree… no one really knows about it. We can study in the well house”, she lightly comments before turning heel and speeding out of the classroom and to her next class. Luckily, she had gym with none of them, only sophomores and other juniors. “I haven’t done anything to that witch. What does Kikyo have against me? And the galls to ask me for help after he just sat there and let that happen…. But I can’t ever say no to him”, she mentally confides as she enters the gymnasium to get ready for her next class.

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As he wonders over to the library for his free period, InuYasha replays the encounter with the shy girl. “Was she crying?”, he mentally questions as he enters the quiet studying area. Making his way over to his favorite quiet spot, he finds Miroku there sitting across from the same girl from first period who pranked Kikyo. Looking closely he sees tense features gracing her face as Miroku has his knowing smirk on his face but looks nonchalantly at the book in front of him. Taking a seat next to his comrade, he ignores the disbelieving stare of the girl as she grabs her stuff and prepares to move to another table. Just as she turns around to leave, Miroku reaches a hand out to lightly graze her backside before a fist connected with his jaw.

The librarian looks over and shushes the group as the girl hmph’s before throwing her books down on the table next to them. Receiving another silencing warning, she merely glares at the librarian before returning to her studies in a fuming mood. Lightly snickering, InuYasha punches the shoulder of his friend. “You just couldn’t resist, could you?”, he teases as he fights to remember the girl’s name. “That one there is a feisty one, I accidentally felt up her leg and she’s been glaring at me the entire time”, Miroku lightly comments, rubbing his sore jaw before readjusting his black dragon’s tail while slicking away remaining hairs. “How do you accidentally feel up someone’s leg?”, InuYasha asks with a knowing look on his face.

“My dear friend, you have much to learn”, Miroku comments before winking his blue eyes as the girl flips him off before completely ignoring him. “At the way you pick up girls, I think I’ll opt out. What’s her name anyway?”, he whispers as the librarian sends a warning glare at the two. “Sango Tajiya. Ain’t she a babe? How can anyone resist?”, Miroku whispers back. “I guess she’s hot… at least enough for you”, InuYasha lightly taunts before beginning his studies. Twenty minutes into studying, InuYasha leans over to whispers, “You wouldn’t know where Kagome Higurashi lives would you?”

Miroku gives his friend a skeptical look before handing him a sheet of paper and whispering, “Just don’t get caught by Kikyo”. InuYasha glares at his friend before smiling and replying, “I’m not like you.” “Ouch, my friend, that hurts”, Miroku comments as the two return to their works.

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