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Disclaimer: I don't own 'Inuyasha' or any of the original characters (Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and Shippou). They belong to Rumiko Takahashi (and Viz). Yeah, please don't sue. I created the other characters.

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Author's Notes:
This is mah first fanfic; so don't be cruel if you have negative feedback. ^.^;; I hate negativity! Anyways, enjoy your reading. They're kinda OOC. :( Also, I'm not gonna use many Japanese terms, because not everyone will understand. K, please read and enjoy ^.^

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A School Story:
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Chapter One: Remembrance

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"Kagome, Kagome! It's time to wake up!" Her mother pounded her fist on the door. "You're going to be late!"

Kagome sat up and rubbed her eyes, the covers falling from her shoulders to her waist. Blinking, she focused her attention to the digital alarm clock by her side. It was 6:58 am.

"Kagome! Hurry up!"

She mumbled and slid her feet into her ugly hot pinks slippers. She hated them, but wore them anyways, because they were a gift from her cousin. They were especially ugly on her. Right now, Kagome believed anything was ugly on her. Ugh. Morning. How she loathed it.

Gently slapping herself a few times, she peered into her vanity mirror. She wasn't exactly pleased with the image of herself, her black hair mangled and she needed to wash her face.

She began to brush her hair,

Her eyes began to close again; she'd stayed up so late screaming and arguing... She thought everything would run smoothly, hoping it would be like telling Buyo 'Eat.' But noooooo! Inuyasha had to make everything hard. He always put up a fight, and things would always end with her giving him a violent 'Sit!'

All she told them was that she was starting high school, and that she could only come down the well about once every month...Sango and Miroku understood. They were good and honest friends. Yeah.

She then flashed back, and she was finally beginning to wake up....

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"Why?" Shippou pouted and folded his arms. Kagome smiled weakly. He was so adorable upset.

"Because," Kagome had said, "I'm in high school. The grades really start to count now! I *do* want to go to college."

"Why?" Shippou asked again. Sango glared at Shippou, with her classic 'Shut the f&^% up!" look.

"You'll understand won't you? I really need to go, plus I'll still come back. It's not like I'm permanently leaving you guys." Kagome grinned a fake grin.

Sango nodded, and Miroku looked shocked. She elbowed him, he grinned in response.

"Yes, Kagome-sama, we understand. The Shikon Jewel is not as important to us as your educational life. But, you see, I may be dead upon your return if I don't get the-" Sango jabbed him in the stomach.

"You can go Kagome. It's a good thing you told us instead of Inuyasha. He would have thrown a fit." Sango stood up straight, arching her back and stretching. "We should at least all do something together before you go though."

Kagome smiled, "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I don't have to leave for a while."

Miroku gave a lecherous grin. Sango stared at him angrily.

"Oh, do I know what you're thinking..." She snapped.

"How can you see as that type of man? I am a monk you know..." He snorted, and walked off.

"I bet he has that stupid grin on his face...oh well. He's not annoying though unlike some people." Kagome sighed, and tucked her long black hair behind her ear. It had been a while since she had first come here, and she felt she was beginning to see Kikyo in the mirror instead of Kagome.

"I guess it's just us, then."

"Yes, it appears that way," Sango watched Shippou run off after Kirara, who was chasing a butterfly. "We should take a walk."

They both walked in silence for quite a long time, Kagome stopping every once and while by a patch of flowers to pick some. She found it amazing that decades of years later, all that natural beauty would be gone. Fewer flowers. Almost no wildlife.



"Kagome-chan," Sango suddenly blurted, inhaling the fresh air deeply. "What exactly are you planning to do after you leave? Are you going to look for a husband?" Sango grinned devilishly, her long black hair flipping back. "Well?"

Kagome blushed. She hadn't expected that question. Well, maybe the 'What are you going to do?' but not the husband one...! She had no idea what to say or do...so she blushed.

"Well, well..." Sango laughed. "I guess I finally caught you off guard. I do wonder what you do back in your realm. Do you have a lover?"

"Ummmm...*blush*fidget* N-n-no I don't."

"Oh really?" *grin*

"Yeah, I don't have a boyfriend. I'm not even thinking about it I'm concerned with my academics." Kagome huffed.

"Academics?" Sango asked.

"School work. I don't imagine you'd have heard of that word before." Kagome sighed. Boyfriend was practically a foreign word. She never said it. Never thought about it. She didn't even think she had a crush. Well, 'think' wasn't exactly a strong word.

"So, do you have a 'secret love?'" Sango asked prying deeper. "If you do, I can keep it. I'm good with secrets." She gave a warm and offering smile that Kagome felt she could trust.

"No I don't. I can think of anyone I could ever think about that way. No Hojo, Katsuaki, no body." Kagome grumbled and looked away.

"What about Inuyasha?" *grin again*

"Hello! Are you kidding?" Kagome's eyes widened in shock. "He's still in love with my *past* life. You know, Kikyou. I'm just his little Tama-Detector. Geez, that sounds like a game."

"Oh really?" Sango gazed at the sky, which was going to darken in a few hours.

"Really...?" Kagome tried to figure what she was looking at, and looked up herself. Nothing but a blank sky. As usual. At least in present day there was a plane or something.

"I think you'll have to let Inuyasha know. He'll probably be much more violent to me than you. Of course, if things get out of hand I could kill him! I'm sure he'll understand though." Sango grinned at Kagome, who smiled faintly in return and looked away.


"He's not stupid! He'll figure it out, and if he does the hard way, he'll be even angrier. I believe it's best just to tell him," Sango suggested, "even despite your wishes."

"Oh, thank you for thinking about me, I feel so loved." Kagome replied sarcastically. She continued walking, the soft crunching of the leaves mesmerizing her. She wanted anything to take her mind off telling him that she had to leave. He would be very, very angry.

She remembered many times before, confronting him with certain problems such as these, and they all ended awfully. Yelling, screaming, and 'Sit!'" That's all that happened, they weren't what she would call productive conversations. He was definitely *not* the listening type.

She sighed. Sango was right.

"I'll tell him tonight. I guess you're right; I can't keep it much of a secret. He does come for me every three days." She grumbled, annoying memories flooded through her mind. Some how though, she couldn't help wondering what he was doing...


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"I don't get it..." Inuyasha mumbled, fiddling in Kagome's yellow backpack. "Miroku," he muttered, holding a box, "What the hell is 'tampon?'"

"I haven't the slightest idea. Let me see one..." Miroku looked up from one of Kagome's teen magazines. My, did they wear such little clothes! He grinned. "Open it up."

Inuyasha did, and pulled one out. "Hey, look! Instructions!" Inuyasha held up a little booklet, and scanned it. He paused.

"Miroku, your family in the future must have invented these!" He yelled, throwing the box and directions down.

"Why, then let me see..." Miroku took one out of the plastic baggies and took out the tampon. He studied the directions, looking from the booklet to the tampon.

"Why, yes, these are quite...weird. Hmmmm... I wonder why a woman would have such a use for these? Don't you?" Miroku held it up and looked at it carefully. "How disturbing. Perhaps some sort of *cough* pleasurable device?"

"I have no i-" Inuyasha was interrupted by Kagome's shrill scream. He noticed Sango jump back, and some birds fly out of the trees.

"Kyaaaaaaaaaa~what are you doing with that?!?!" Kagome's face flushed, and she slapped Miroku's hand. The tampon was sent directly into a lake, where it swelled, absorbing water. Kagome blushed even harder.

"Well..." Miroku muttered, "That's very interesting!"

"Why are you going through my stuff?" She screamed, shoving everything into her stretched out backpack. She snatched the box from Inuyasha and threw it in. "You're gonna be sat so many times, dog boy!"

"Hey! YOU'RE the one that leaves all her crap lying around all over! It's you're fault!" He snarled, his ears flattening against his head. "What do you expect me to do?!"

"LEAVE IT ALONE!" She hollered, snatching the magazine Miroku was happily going through. "I don't go through your stuff! So don't go through mine!"

"I don't HAVE any stuff, wench!" Inuyasha stood up, Miroku and Sango stepped back about ten feet.

"You listen and you listen good, girlie!" He roared, stepping forward. She stared him back directly in the eye. "I can go through your stuff all I want, you got that? I wasn't PLANNING on ever doing it again, but now that I know it annoys you, I'm gonna do it! Feh!" He stuck out his tongue.

"SIT boy!" She clenched her fist as his face smacked the ground. "Ok...I've decided. Sango, Miroku. Ja ne. Say bye to Shippou and Myoga for me. I'll see you in a while. As for you Inuyasha, you better have GROWN UP when I get back!" And with that, she jumped down the well.

"Oi! Where are you going?!" She heard Inuyasha yell after her. She yelled 'sit' again before he could jump after her.




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Kagome sighed. She was fully dressed now, and she stared herself in the mirror. She noted it was the begging of the second week of school, and Naoko Kobayashi was already making it hell. "Nao-chan" as she was called by her doting sister, Etsuko, was quite the school "whore" as Sota would put it. She wore the most provocative outfits on 'Free Dress Friday' (well, only one had passed) and it was rumored from Naomi that she had slept with every boy in the student body.

Kagome thought that everyone was just making fun of her because of her shocking baby blue eyes and wispy blonde hair, jealous. But, Naoko was really annoying. She told Kagome that 17 different things were wrong with her make up that day, and completely insulted the beginning of her sewing project.

That wasn't the worst. Kagome had an enormous crush on Katsuaki, Naoko's boyfriend. She was so-so flirting, and Naoko had walked up on Friday, in her mini skirt/high heeled glory and stared Kagome down.

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"Higurashi!" She had snorted, her hoop earrings jingled. Her ears were pierced twice.

"Huh?" Kagome looked up and had blinked. Katsuaki looked up as well and gulped.

"Are you flirting with him?" She asked coldly, setting her file folder down. Placing a hand on her hip she frowned.

"N-n-n-no, I'm not."

"Naoko..." Katsuaki placed his head in his hand, and closed his eyes.

"Good. You better not ever. I don't like that, you know. His is my boyfriend. She leave him alone. Plus you ain't got the righ' looks to hang around a cute guy like Katsuaki-kun. See ay later, hussy!" Naoko started laughing, and so did her group of preppy friends.

Kagome fumed.

"Hey listen, you hoochie!" She snapped, "I wasn't flirting with your boyfriend. And if I was, it wouldn't matter! You have enough of them!"

Naoko turned slowly; her and her friends bear the same expression. Annoyance.

"Well," Naoko grinned cockily, "At least I have *one*!" She laughed. So did the class, apparently they had been listening.

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Kagome growled, applying final touches of makeup.


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Author's Notes: Heehee one done. I hoped you enjoyed it enough to make it this far. I would really love to hear suggestions for improvement, just as long as they're not flames. Yeah, yeah. Cheesy title. ^.^;;;


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