Sethra: WOOT! (Heh heh, that's my best friend Amanda's favorite saying, and it just kinda rubbed off on me!) Chapter 5 is finally here! After I post the next chapter, I'll delete my annoying author's note, for your convenience. BTW, I found my muses! And can you guess where they were! Hiding under my bed the whole freakin' time! rolls eyes I swear. I don't know what I'm going to do with those two. Right now they're cleaning my bedroom as punishment. Shudders Then again, that may be the reason why I couldn't find them for so long!

Kitsu: Ya think!

Asha: Oh be quiet. You're just mad because she made you wear that frilly pink apron while you clean.

Sethra: Here we go again. Anyways, sorry guys. Inuyasha isn't in this chapter. I guess this one could be classified as a "filler chapter." Also, I know I said I'd post within two weeks, and I think it's been three. Gomen nasai! I didn't work the few days I normally do last week because of another headache, so I couldn't post it here at work. And Okami just started college, so I didn't want to interrupt her new schedule.

Also, there won't be any notes to you reviewers in this chapter, but there are two reviewers I would like to address.

Gothicsexy101: I'm really glad you like my story. I'm sorry that you had to go through a situation like that, though. I can't say that I understand, because I can't speak from experience, but I can say that I'm sorry. And that I hope you're not in a situation like that now. I know it sounds stupid coming from a stranger, but I'm available to you, and all of my reviewers if y'all (yes, I'm Southern) just wanna bitch about something to an open ear.

Kagome1514: Thank you so much for your review! You don't know how much it means to me that someone I haven't even met would ask a doctor about different conditions for someone they've never met. Your review made my day. I had to print it off and show it to my mom! Oh, and please tell your mom that her suggestions were really helpful, and that I said "Thank You!" Your review made me all warm and fuzzy inside, because I just love it when people are nice to each other! (Mean people suck!) In gratitude, I'm going to dedicate one of my chapters to you. Not this one, though, because it's kinda boring!

Lily-chan:Don't worry about not noticing about my uncle. I try not to make a big deal out of it, because then it seems all too real. And he's actually doing pretty good right now. Also, thanks you for being one of my closest friends in the whole world! I love you!

I'll try to get to the rest of the reviewers in the next few chapters!

Sethra: all right, now to the next chapter! Oh, and I no own Inuyasha!

Help Me…Save Me

Chapter 5

Sango and Kagome leave the lunchroom after waving goodbye to the others. As they walk down the hall, Kagome's eyes roam around as she acquaints herself with her new school. 'I didn't notice earlier how many people attend this school. It doesn't seem like a private school.' Sighing, she reaches into her bag and scrounges around for her schedule. 'Maybe I shouldn't have just stuffed it in there. There's no telling what kind of shape it's going to come out in!' Feeling a loose piece of paper, she yanks it out. "Aha!" After straightening out the wrinkles, she scans over her listed classes. "Woot! Only three more classes left!"

Sango grins. "That anxious to get home, are we?" She stops grinning when she sees the distressed look on the other raven-haired girl's face. "Kagome? What's wrong?" She studies her new friend's face, trying to figure out why she's so upset.

'Home! No… I don't want to go back there…but I can't tell Sango that.' She takes a calming breath and wipes the distressed look off her face. "Nothing, Sango-chan. I'm fine." She smiles encouragingly. "Really. I just remembered that I haven't cleaned my room, and my stepdad is a neatfreak. If I don't get home and get it cleaned before he gets off of work, he'll ground me until Judgement Day!" She grins. "I really hate being grounded, don't you?"

Sango sighs in relief. 'For a minute there, I thought something was seriously wrong.' She grins back at Kagome. "I totally agree, Kagome-chan. Being grounded is the dumps." She laughs as a fond memory floods back into her mind. "This one time, Kohaku and I were trying to prove that the old lady next door was a witch. We had just watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail the night before, and decided that in order to prove that she was a witch, we needed to see if she could float."

Kagome interrupts Sango with a burst of laughter. "Oh no…you didn't…"

Sango smirks mischeviously. "Oh, but we did. You see, we followed her to the local park. She took daily walks there, and we were convinced she was trying to find some plump little children to bake in her oven like the witch in Hansel and Gretel." She pauses to grin at Kagome's snort of laughter before continuing on in a very matter-of-fact tone. "And she couldn't go after us, of course, because she lived right next door, and it would seem too suspicious. So we followed her to the park and waited in the bushes until she began to feed the ducks in the small pond located in the middle of the park. As soon as she got close enough to the water's edge, we…well, I guess you can get the picture."

Kagome laughs so hard that tears begin to stream down her face. She nods in agreement at Sango's comment. "Well, of course, for investigative purposes, you just HAD to push her in." Sango smiles, pleased at Kagome's eloquent deduction. She notices Kagome still has her schedule clutched in her right hand, now with exceptionally more wrinkles in it.

"So, Kagome, what class do you have next? We still have a few minutes left in our lunch period. I can show you around. Well, not all the way around. This place is so big, that it would take at least half the day to show you everything!" She throws her arms up in the air dramatically. "This place is too freakin' big!"

Kagome just rolls her eyes at the other girl's antics.

"Well, well. Up to your no-good behavior again, are we, Onaji?"

Kagome gasps and whirls around. She was having so much fun talking to Sango that she never heard anyone come up behind her. 'I'm going to have to pay more attention. What if that was Naraku? There's no telling what he could do to me if he caught m in such an unprepared state.' She shakes her head of such thoughts and begins to study the girl in front of her. The newcomer stands slightly above Kagome, with jet black hair that reaches down past her thighs. She has a coldly beautiful face, that could've been classified as pretty if it was holding any emotion at all. Kagome's mouth drops open slightly. 'She looks just like me.'

The other girl looks at Kagome with disdain. "Who are you, and why do you look like me?" She glares down her nose at the offending girl.

Sango snorts in disgust, ready to defend her new friend against her oldest enemy. "I don't see how that's any of your business, Kikyo."

Kikyo impatiently taps her foot against the hard tile of the school floor. "When I see a new girl that looks like me-who, I might add, is probably an idiot, and will therefore ruin my reputation-it then becomes my business, Sango dear." The endearment is said, not with affection, but with a sneer.

Sango just sighs. "Here we go again. Number One, darling Kikyo, is that you never, EVER call my best friend an idiot. I do hope you haven't forgotten what happened when you called Miroku a male prostitute behind his back?" Sango nods knowingly as Kikyo pales slightly. "Thought so. Number two, you've done enough damage to your reputation, without trying to lay the blame on Kagome. Number three, and I do believe I've told you this several times, Do. Not. Mess. With. My. Friends. And that includes Inuyasha." Up to this point, she's been talking in a very condescending tone. At her last statement, though, her eyes narrow and she steps closer to Kikyo. "When it comes to protecting my friends, I can be mean, and I can be dangerous. And trust me, you don't want to see either side. Got that?"

Kikyo coughs once, trying to clear her throat, which seems to have clogged up in fear. After a few efforts to talk, she gives up and stares at Sango for a few seconds. Almost immediately, she turns to walk away, but as her eyes pass by Kagome, she sends the girl a death glare that causes Kagome to unconsciously shiver.

Sango glares at her retreating. "Bitch." She turns to look at Kagome, and her eyes widen as she notices her friend shaking in fear. "Oh, Kagome-chan! I'm sorry ! Did I scare you.?"

"Umm…just a little." At Sango's crestfallen look, she rushes to finish explaining. "But I wasn't scared that you would hurt me or anything! Really! You remind me of a mother wolf protecting her cubs. You don't seem to be the type to threaten someone unless they were threatening somebody you cared about. I admit, that look you gave her was kinda chilly. But so was the one she gave me. And I think it's really sweet that you stood up for me like that. Arigatou, Sango-chan!"

Sango blushes. "Did you really mean all that, Kagome-chan?" Kagome nods happily. "Arigatou to you too, Kagome-chan!"

"Iie, it's nothing. What are friends for, right?" Sango nods in agreement. Kagome looks down the hall in time to see Kikyo turn a corner. "So…Inuyasha actually dated that?"

Sango blinks at the girl owlishly for a few seconds before she is overcome with laughter. "Kagome-chan, you and I are going to get along just fine. Come on, I'll show you where your history class is." The two new best friends continue on down the hall, laughing and talking as the head towards their next classes.

Sethra: Well, that's all for now folks! I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. AND I'll try to actually have something entertaining in it. To me, this one was kind of boring! Anyways, Jya matta ne!