THE BULLY AND THE BOSS

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Summary: As children, Inuyasha enjoyed making Kagome's life miserable--but what happens when the tables are turned when she ends up being his boss 10 years later?

Author's Note: I just simply couldn't resist NOT writing this idea down. Some inspiration came from 'My Boss's Daughter' but most of it came from the reality of bullies who pick on my brother, and a certain story from the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul I or II...I forget. Many thanks to PinkStarz with the summary--I just added a few words ;) Go check out her Yu-Gi-Oh fic, "With the French Maid in Kaiba's Room". It's an amazing Seto/Serenity fic! ^_^

Fiction Note: Inuyasha doesn't have LONG silver hair...he has SHORT silver hair, like, up to his shoulders...and no ears either! Sorry to all the Inuyasha-lovers out there...but in my story, there's no hanyou...

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~ Chapter One ~

The Silver-Haired Bully

"They only pick on you because they like you," Mr. Higurashi constantly reminded his distressed daughter, who came home from school every afternoon with wet spitballs stuck in her hair; tears pouring from her eyes. She was a popular target for a certain silver-haired bully and his friends, who always threw spitballs at her from behind when they followed her home.

There really was no reason why the bullies decided to make her their top choice to verbally abuse. She was pretty, kind, popular, and was friends with nearly everybody. Everyone loved her; she was never rude on purpose. Of course, there were times when she lost her temper, but she was never the cruel spreading-evil-lies-about-someone type.

The girl was none other than 13-year-old Kagome Higurashi, who was always bullied by the short silver-haired kid who was a year older than her; Inuyasha, along with his 'back-up' buds, Miroku, Kouga, and Naraku.

Kagome hated them. She hated all four of them. They always picked on her because they thought it was funny. She was always taught to never make anyone feel small just to make herself feel bigger, but it was exactly what *they* were doing. The worst thing about it all was that they were actually popular at school, and girls loved them because they were the good-looking and rich guys.

Inuyasha was a stuck-up show-off, who always thought he was the best. Miroku was a follower. He and Inuyasha had been best friends since kindergarden, and Miroku did whatever Inuyasha did... Kouga was the 'new' kid, who came in grade six. He was a loner at first and admitted having a crush on Kagome. When she didn't feel the same way about him, he joined forces with Inuyasha and decided to make her life miserable. Naraku was probably the meanest next to Inuyasha. He was the one who came up with all the 'plans' to torture poor Kagome.

Before grade 5, though, Inuyasha and Kagome were generally friendly to each other. They were not friends, but they weren't enemies. Inuyasha seemed too brutal for Kagome. They didn't say 'hi' when they saw each other in the mornings, but they did say 'excuse me' instead of 'move out of the way'. They *did* apologize to each other for small things, like accidentally flicking a pencil at their head (as Inuyasha did to Kagome once when he wasn't paying attention in class).

But one day in the middle of the school year in grade 5, the relationship between Inuyasha and Kagome changed from "he/she's my schoolmate" to "he/she's my enemy".

It happened during recess, when Kagome was surrounded by her usual group of friends. Inuyasha was playing quite dangerously playing basketball but it turned into a 'dribble the basketball while leaping over fences' game. When Inuyasha got hold of the ball, he ran away with it with Miroku chasing after him. He was leaping over the fences which were the borderlines between the kindergardners and the older grades, while dribbling the basketball at the same time.

Inuyasha was a daring kid, and didn't really pain when he was supposed to. He was running too fast and lost control of dribbling the basketball, and tripped over it, and fell right in front of Kagome and her friends. Kagome immediately rushed to help him up. His face was red in embarrassment, and said he didn't accept help from brainer goody-2-shoes. She had wondered if he always looked at her as what he said she was--a goody-2-shoe.

Inuyasha and Kagome left each other alone after that. But one day, Kagome was rushing home from school in a terrible mood. She was afraid that she would lash out at anyone who talked to her, so she ran home quickly and decided to lock herself in her room until she had calmed down.

But on the way, she saw Inuyasha and his usual gang--and when she ran past them, Inuyasha accidentally tripped her. His friends laughed, and Kagome totally threw a temper tantrum, being in the terrible mood that she was in at the time. Inuyasha seemed to think getting her mad was funny, because after that, he did it more often on purpose.

Inuyasha always had a smirk on his face when Kagome came up to him, shouting in rage at him. She was used to Inuyasha and his friends following her home and throwing spitballs in her hair, and snickering behind her back. She was also used to hiding her tears until she got home. She was starting to consider that this was harassment, and when she told her parents, all they could reply with was, "They only do that because they like you."

But they were *wrong*. These guys were different. They were tormentors who enjoyed seeing other people in bad moods and purposely getting them mad. They thought it was funny when they felt terrible about something.

In grade 7, they all moved onto Junior High School. Kagome had her first boyfriend there; a nice, young boy named Hojo who was shy but equally as kind as Kagome. Her friends always giggled when Hojo came near; they thought he was quite handsome and complimented Kagome that she was lucky to have him.

But the torture from Inuyasha and his friends didn't stop there. Kouga was in Kagome's history class and he always chose to sit right behind her, where he could silently whiz spitballs into her hair. Kagome wanted to prove she wasn't a teacher's pet, so she never told the teachers once. The other students always hid their laughter and tried their hardest to pay attention.

After school, Inuyasha and the gang continued to follow Kagome home. Half the time she walked with Hojo, and Inuyasha made comments like, "Why do you go out with a nerd?" and "I guess you could only get your kind--dumbasses!". That was when something unexpected happened. Kagome whipped around and swung her hand as hard as she could across Inuyasha's cheek. Everyone--including her--was surprised.

"Get a life, you bastard." Kagome muttered angrily, and she and Hojo walked away.

A few months later, Kagome and Hojo broke up. It was the perfect time for Inuyasha to rub it in.

"What happened, is your own kind not good enough for you?" Inuyasha sneered as he and his friends stalked her after school. Half the time, Kagome remained calm and wanted to prove that all of their jerking-around and bullying wasn't doing anything, so that they might give up, but they didn't. As hard as Kagome tried to look like she didn't care, she couldn't fool Inuyasha.

And she vowed that someday, she will...someday, she'll make *him* look like the fool...

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"What?!" Kagome exclaimed, eyes widening fearfully. She looked up at her mom and dad, who had just made this astonishing announcement.

"We're moving. Far. And you will have to move schools. Now, I know you might be upset--"

"Oh, my God!" Kagome jumped up from doing her homework with frightened and an overwhelmed look on her face.

"--but there's no need to worry...two of your friends will be moving there next year too--Sango and Eri. Many families are moving to that new area, including them. It has a shopping mall near there so I won't have to go far to go grocery shopping, and it's closer to your father's work. Souta's school isn't that far from there, so he can still go to his school, but your school's too far from there, Kagome...you'll have to change schools." Her mother explained, with her hands folded and trying to remain calm, waiting for her daughter's response.

"Mom," Kagome said, and stood up. "That is the *best* news I have received in my life! I can *finally* move away from that *jerk* of a jerk, Inuyasha...I'll be free! Finally freeee!" Kagome yelled in a sing-song voice and danced around lamely around the house.

The news of Kagome spread in the school like wildfire. Surprisingly, she wasn't sad to leave the place where she knew her many friends for over 8 years since kindergarden. She was sure she'd make new friends in her new place, and plus, her two best friends were going there. And best of all, she'd get away from Inuyasha.

When Inuyasha heard this, of *course* he had to plan something special for Kagome on her last day...

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Weeks passed quickly. Kagome had her whole house packed in boxes, and she couldn't believe that this very day was the last day she would ever spend at her Junior High School. But thankfully, today would also the last day when Inuyasha and his gang would stalk her, spitting spitballs in her hair.

Inuyasha had a plan to make this the most memorial day for Kagome, since it was her last day. When he went to school that day, he also had a video camera inside his bag. He was planning to tape a fake conversation of people talking bad about her, and try to make her upset--but somehow, he had a feeling that Kagome would know it's fake. But it was worth a try...

"It's working," Miroku spoke up as he turned the video camera off. He, Inuyasha, Kouga, and Naraku were in the cafeteria during their lunch hour. Kagome and her usual group of friends at the very back of the cafeteria; their usual spot. But Kagome had more than just her friends surrounding her--it was predictable that since it was her last day here, many people were trying to be friendly before she left and they'd never see her again.

"So what's the plan?" Kouga asked.

"We have to tape a conversation where people are talking shit about her. It'll work better if her friends do it, but they probably won't..." Inuyasha mumbled, tapping the floor with his foot.

"A conversation..." Naraku said. He stared into space for a while, and blinked. "I have an idea. But you have to get Kagome away from her friends."

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When the bell rang, the students left their trays on the table and didn't hesitate at all to quickly run out of the cafeteria to go outside. Kagome and her friends stood up to leave, and Inuyasha and his gang made sure they followed her quietly so she wouldn't notice them. They were waiting for a chance when Kagome would leave and her friends would be left alone.

They followed Kagome and her friends everywhere outside as they were milling and chatting around the school field area. Just when Kouga was about to go up to create a 'diversion' to get Kagome by herself, she had gone into the school building--alone--to go to the bathroom.

Seizing this opportunity, the four of them quickly ran up to five of the girls whom Kagome was with. They all turned around and gave the four of them a strange what-are-you-doing-here look.

"Um...aren't you Inuyasha?" One of the girls, a brunette, asked, who was a little startled to see a very popular boy in school randomly come up to them.

"Yeah, you know, me, Miroku, Kouga, and Naraku," Inuyasha said, pointing to each one of them as he said their names. "Anyway, that's not why we're here. We need to get this done *really* quickly. We're making a movie, and we need you girls in it." He explained.

Inuyasha hated how these girls were just staring at him without blinking. It was creeping him out, and he wished they would answer quickly before Kagome came back.

"So...are you girls up for it? Or do we have to go find another group of five who's nice enough to help us out...?" Inuyasha asked, rolling his eyes in his half-sweet voice.

"No! Of course we'll do it...right, girls?" The brunette asked, turning to face her friends.

"So...where's Kagome, isn't she usually with you? I heard she's a good actress, she was in last year's drama play..." Inuyasha said, to make this sound less suspicious.

"She went to the bathroom for a second. So, girls, we're up for helping Inuyasha out with his movie, right?" A redhead asked.

Three of the girls nodded in agreement and smiles on their faces, but a raven-haired girl was giving a very chilly glare at Inuyasha.

"Just a second, Rina. You, Inuyasha--what do we have to do for this? Is there a catch?" The raven-haired girl spoke up, crossing her arms and looking quite darkly at Inuyasha's gang.

"Sango, how could you say that?" The brunette said.

"No, there's no catch. It's just a movie; we're going to edit it later to make it look more realistic..." Naraku added in, noticing Sango's suspicion.

"So, what do we have to do? Do we get paid?" A chirpy blonde asked.

"Okay..." Inuyasha said, and glanced at his friends before turning back to the girls. "What you have to do is...just pretend that there's this girl you really, really hate...and she does bad things to you. This is a scene where a group of girls is just talking bad about that mean girl. Say stuff like...'She thinks she's the best and it pisses me off' or something like that. Got it?" He said.

The girls nodded.

"And you *don't* get paid," Kouga added in, shaking his head impatiently.

"Have enthusiasm, make it look like there really *is* a girl you hate and you're talking shit about her right now." Inuyasha explained, and lifted up his video camera. He unfolded the small attached screen on the camera and turned it on. The image of the five girls standing in front of them showed up in the small screen.

"So, does this girl have a name or something?" Sango asked in a cold tone.

"No--I don't know, just don't mention a name." He lifted up his video camera and turned it facing the five girls. He focused the image and nodded. "Okay, you can start...now."

Sango didn't look too thrilled about this at all. In fact, she suspected Inuyasha and his gang to be up to something, so when Inuyasha told them to start, she silently slipped away, not wanting to be a part of whatever this was. She had a feeling it was something *bad*.

"Doesn't she just bug you?"

"The way she walks, talks, looks, listens..."

"No, just the way she *stands*. I just want to go up to her and slap some sense into that girl!"

"She is *such* a teacher's pet. Okay, last year, I had this crush on this guy...and she stole him away! She started going out with the guy, and...she is such a backstabber. I wish we could do something to her!"

"Let's jump her after school!"

"No way, that's too cruel, Rina..."

"The worst thing about it is that she thinks everyone likes her..."

Miroku, Kouga, and Naraku smirked to each other as Inuyasha folded back the attached screen against the video camera, and turned it off. He, too, had a wide grin on his face.

"That was perfect." He complimented.

The brunette frowned. "Just that? Well...that was really short."

"We're gonna edit it, so it'll seem like it's longer. You helped us greatly, young ladies," Miroku said, and flashed his even, white teeth at them.

"Psst," Naraku hissed in Inuyasha's ear. "Kagome Higurashi at 1 o' clock!" He nodded his head towards the figure which looked like Kagome, who was coming out of the school building.

"Alright, thanks girls!" Inuyasha said. "C'mon, let's get outta here!" He said, and the four of them started to run.

Sango kept a glare on her face until the four figures disappeared from their sight around the corner.

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This was probably the longest walk that Kagome had ever walked--the distance between her school and her home that she would very soon be leaving. This was probably the only walk that Kagome had really looked at the trees in front of the houses that were neatly lined up. She felt like she was leaving the earth as she walked along the sidewalk as the cars drove slowly past her on the road.

Kagome didn't really think she would feel a bit sad to leave the place that she had known for more than a decade. She looked up to see the autumn leaves falling off of the trees, and it was then when it hit her that she would not be here with her friends at school when winter came. Their tradition of making one special snowball and hiding it until winter was almost over wouldn't happen, because she wasn't going to be here.

She sighed and put her hands in her pockets, trying to think positively. The new community she was moving into had a good reputation. The school there had just been built, so probably most of the kids would be new also, and she wouldn't be the only one who was nervous or worried. Plus, Kagome would have a chance to meet new people. She was sure that the place she was going to move to was going to be just fine.

Was she going through some weird feeling she had never felt before? Kagome looked up at the sky and had never noticed how blue the sky was, and how clear its light reflected through the atmosphere. She blinked softly and knew she was going to miss something that so regularly happened after school...but she couldn't quite put her finger on it what it was...

Kagome shook her head. No...she *wasn't* going to miss Inuyasha and his gang's daily spitball routine...or was she? Kagome knew that her heart was beating faster than usual, and she was scared of what she was feeling.

"Yo, Kagome!"

A sharp voice had interrupted her thoughts, and she turned around to see who it was. She groaned when she noticed that Inuyasha and Miroku had run just around the corner and was chasing after Kagome. All of her feelings disappeared in less than a second when she caught the sight of Inuyasha and Miroku. She was happy that this would be the last time they would come up behind her, snicker behind her back, and throw spitballs in her hair...and never again, will she have to endure this...

"The normal spitball thing, huh? Go ahead, I don't care anymore." Kagome muttered furiously, looking at the road from the corner of her eyes.

"Not this time," Miroku said.

"What?" Kagome asked, looking up at them. "And where's Kouga and Naraku--?"

"They're busy," Inuyasha said quickly--a little *too* quickly. "Anyway, listen. We know today's your last day, so we decided to save you the trouble of having to have spitballs in your hair today. Besides, my tongue hurts from poking a straw down my throat everyday."

Kagome frowned. Okay, this wasn't how Inuyasha acted reguarly...something was up.

"And also, we wanted to make it a little bit easier for you." He added in.

"Um...make *what* easier for me?" She questioned, totally confused and lost.

Inuyasha held up his hand and rattled an expensive-looking video camera. "This," he said. "Miroku and I were just...walking around, and we were out to capture footages of cool shoplifts that happen around town. But we stumbled upon your friends...and at first, we just wanted to spy on them with the camera, but their conversation was rather..." He looked at Miroku and grinned.

"Interesting," Miroku finished, nodding his head.

"My friends? What did they say? Show me!" Kagome demanded. The curiosity had gotten the best of her.

"I don't know if you *want* to see it...they said some pretty bad shit about you." Inuyasha warned, but there was a tone in his voice that told Kagome that he was lying.

"Just show me, don't tell me you came all the way here just to tell me you have footage of my friends talking bad about me and not actually show me?" Kagome asked, making an impatient motion with her hands.

"Inuyasha, just show her...it's her fault if she goes home crying, not ours." Miroku urged.

Inuyasha sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "Fine, whatever." He lifted up the video camera and unfolded the small screen. He pressed the 'ON' button, and pressed 'PLAY'. He gave it to Kagome, and she held it firmly, holding it up high in the air. An image came on the small screen. It was four of her friends, Rina, Hotaru, Kari, and Eri. They were standing and talking...

"...now." A male voice said. Miroku looked with shock at Inuyasha, but Inuyasha brushed him off by slightly shaking his head.

"Doesn't she just bug you?"

"The way she walks, talks, looks, listens..."

"No, just the way she *stands*. I just want to go up to her and slap some sense into that girl!"

"She is *such* a teacher's pet. Okay, last year, I had this crush on this guy...and she stole him away! She started going out with the guy, and...she is such a backstabber. I wish we could do something to her!"

"Let's jump her after school!"

"No way, that's too cruel, Rina..."

"The worst thing about it is that she thinks everyone likes her..."

Then the image went blank, and Inuyasha took his video camera back, adjusting it. Kagome was too shocked what she had just heard. She never knew that her friends had felt that way about her.

"Um...what was that 'now' at the beginning of the video?" Kagome asked in a trembling voice.

"That was me," Inuyasha spoke. "Miroku and I were wondering around and when we saw your friends, I was like, 'Hurry up, they're talking right now' and I decided to record it...and show you, since you're their 'friend' and you should really know what they think of you."

Kagome was absolutely crushed at what she had seen, and heard. All of them were bugged by her. Hotaru thought she was a teacher's pet. The only guy who Kagome went out with last year was Hojo--and Kari never told her that she had a crush on Hojo. Rina wanted to jump her after school. Hotaru said that she thought everyone liked her--which she did think for all this time.

"Are...you sure this was them?" Kagome asked. Her voice was shaky.

"No, it was aliens disguised as them." Inuyasha answered sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

Kagome didn't know what to feel right now. These were her best friends--and they thought so bad about her...she didn't know *what* to feel...

So she cried. She burst out sobbing and covered her face with her hands, and just started to cry in front of Inuyasha and Miroku. Kagome didn't care if she was embarrassing herself in front of the two bullies; all she could think about right now was what she had seen on Inuyasha's video camera.

Miroku nudged Inuyasha's arm and snickered quietly. But all Inuyasha could do was watch as the girl he bullied for years cried, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for her...that he didn't pull this prank...he actually felt *pity* for the helpless girl crying in front of him...

"Hey, are you--" Inuyasha started, but his sentence was cut off when he suddenly found himself forced to fall onto the pavement sidewalk.

"Hey, what'd you do that for, you bitch?! Inuyasha, you alright?" Miroku said.

When Inuyasha looked up, he found Kagome's hand in the air, ready to strike again. Her eyes were teary, and her face was red.

"You--" She grumbled, and a tear strolled down her cheek.

Inuyasha just continue to stare at her, doing nothing to defend himself. He wasn't even getting up. Kagome raised her hand to slap his face as she had done so the first time, but Miroku grabbed her arm.

"Are you crazy, you--girl? What did he do?!" Miroku shouted, and he let go of her arm.

"You've *always* made my life miserable, Inuyasha! You and your stupid gang, stalking me home, and spitting spitballs in my hair--do you know how many times I came home crying because of your stupidity?! I'm *never* going to forget this--and someday, someone will pick on you the way you did to me, and you'll know exactly how I feel!" Kagome shouted angrily. She turned around and started to run down the sidewalk.

"Man, are you okay?" Miroku said, helping him get up.

"Yeah...what a bitch," Inuyasha mumbled. But at that moment, he felt something he never felt before--guilt.

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a/n: So how was that for the first chapter? ^_^ Oh, and those who watch the subbed version of Inuyasha from Anime-Kraze, they stopped subbing it. It's a very cruel April Fool's joke. When I first read it, I literally screamed. But then I was like, 'Right, today's April Fool's Day...' LOL, now watch them really have stopped subbing it--oh, don't jinx it, Annie, don't jinx it...