Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I do own the plot, I guess.

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A/N: Hm… eh. I already know I'm not gonna like this fic. I've never done much of a cliché, so I decided I might as well try one for the hell of it and see why so many people do them so often. It's worth a shot, who knows, maybe I'll like it?

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Koishikute

Chapter One

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"Hey, Sango, we're going to the Easter Dance next Friday," Kagome said to her best friend as she sat down at their usual table in the cafeteria. You know the one, the table in the corner that nobody bothers with. Except these two, of course. Kagome looked at her best friend while smiling pleadingly.

"Okay, who the hell are you and what have you done with my best friend?" Sango ran a hand through her choppy bright red hair. She jerked her head to get the mix of red and a single black chunk of hair out of her pale face. Yeah, she had an emo haircut… so what? "You know we don't do that. Dances aren't our thing, Kagome. And who says you can decide for me anyway?"

"Maybe we need a new 'thing' then." Kagome batted her crystal blue eyes, a product of AcueVue colored contacts, and made her purple and black eye-shadow sparkle. "We've never even gone to one of the school's dances, Sango. How do we know if we like it or not?"

"Because we are against our school! This is the school's way of raising money, and we sure as hell don't want to give this shitty hellhole our money! Plus, do you really want to see all the lovebirds out there? Being emo comes with a price: no boyfriends. That's why we hate all those couples we see! I really don't want to take part in watching people get laid by the bleachers. Only posers fall in love!"

"Okay, Steve-O. You need to stop watching SLC Punk so much. Seriously, don't you think you should at least try it? C'mon!"

"What are you smoking? You're never like this." Sango put on her thick rimmed glasses that were perched on her head. She took a long stare at Kagome. "Who are you?"

Kagome laughed. "You're so… status quo, Sango. Why are you afraid of a little change? Are you just not wanting to go because we won't have dates? We could have any guy we wanted in this pathetic excuse for a school. I mean, look at us!" Kagome flaunted her Pink Spiders shirt while her car buckle belt shined and her keys jingled against it. She twirled a hand through her short, black, emo hair. She smiled with her tongue sticking out, revealing a tongue ring to match her lip ring.

"Uh, hello? If we were so beautiful, then why are we whispered about? Why are we called freaks? Why do we sit alone?"

"You already said emo has a price. And I bet those whispers and stares are because we are sexy beyond words. I bet you fifty dollars I could get a guy to ask me to the dance. I won't ask him. He has to ask me."

Sango smiled, making the sun from the windows hit her nose ring. "You're on." She could never resist a challenge. "But," she added, "IIt can't just be any guy. It has to be Mr. Popular, Inuyasha Ninki." Sango would not lose.

"Okay. No prob'! Kagome looked over at the inu hanyou. He was sitting with his little posse, smiling, laughing, and taking off his letterman jacket. God, he might as well be signing autographs; he was so popular.

The truth was that Kagome had no clue what she was getting herself into. She had a big ego, and huge self esteem. But she never had a boyfriend. So she didn't know if she was truly attractive or not. But she had faith in herself. As far as she knew, she never lost a challenge.

Never.

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"Inuyasha Ninki, right?"

The voice broke through his headphones' sound and right to his brain. He looked up at the person looming over him. "Uh… yeah. Who are you again?"

She made herself comfy and sat down in the seat next to his. "You don't know me. I'm Kagome Higurashi."

He stared at her, puzzled. Sure, he was the most popular guy in Takahashi High, or at least people told him he was, and he thought he ought to know everyone. He didn't. This was seriously the only girl he didn't get introduced to. He'd seen her around a few times, but he'd never spoken to her. He even spoke to her best friend Sango, so why hadn't be been acquainted with this girl, Kagome, was it? He shook the thought out of his mind. "What do you want?"

"Ah, nothing really."

"Then why are you here?"

"I'm bored."

"Oh, so I look entertaining or something?"

"Well I was just thinking why I wasn't acquainted with the most popular guy in the whole school. That's a little weird, ne?"

"Pfft. I guess." Inuyasha acting casually, which for him is very rude and snotty, but he was thinking the same thing she was.

"What's with the bad attitude?"

"What bad attitude? Maybe I just don't like you."

"You don't even know me. How can you not like me?"

They gave each other dirty looks while an awkward silence was between them. Kagome decided to break that silence. "So you going to the Easter Dance? I am," she stated proudly.

"Eh, I might. Why would someone like you go to something like this?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well… Just that the dance is a social event. Aren't you too busy being anti-social to go?"

"Oh, and like you're not antisocial? Unless someone comes up to you, you steer clear of conversations. What, aren't people's words good enough for you? And whenever you do talk to people, you're a smartass about everything, just like now!"

"You know what?"

"What?" She cocked her head to the left.

"Fuck you. Like you said, you don't know me, so stop trying to act like you fucking do. I don't need to know you to know that I don't like you."

Kagome stood up and stomped off. 'What a fucking jerk! I don't even know why I'm talking to him!' Then she remembered the bet. 'Shit!'

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"Okay, there he is! Go for it!" Sango pushed Kagome in front of the ocean of students towards their target: Inuyasha Ninki.

Kagome tried to keep her cool as she walked pas the growing crown of crawling students forming around his locker. She ran her hot pink nails through her jet black hair as she strode past. She winked and called, "Hey Inuyasha! Remember me?" before quickly leaving the scene.

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It was like that for a few days. Kagome kept catching his eye. It was almost like she was stalking him. Inuyasha was getting a little worried about her. He was starting to think she was getting a little obsessed with him. He'd said hi to her a few times and talking to her, and that ended in a fight! Why was she doing this?

Inuyasha didn't know that Kagome was just eager to win this stupid bet. She was a sore loser, especially when fifty dollars was involved! She would get him to notice her. And as far as either of them knew, it was slowly working.

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"Nagai?"

"Here!"

"Namida?"

"Here."

"Negai?"

"Oi!"

"Ninki?" The teacher waited for an answer. "Ninki? Inuyasha Ninki?" He looked up from his clipboard and scanned the room. "Is Ninki absent?"

"Hai!" one of Inuyasha's popular friends, the one with his hair pulled back into a tiny ponytail, Miroku, answered.

"Will anyone bring his papers to him after school? We're going over a lot today, and it wouldn't be good for him to miss this material."

Kagome's hand shot up before Miroku could even register what Sensei had even said. "I will, Sensei."

"Aa, sou desu? I didn't know you were friends with him. In any case, I'll expect you to take notes for him as well. Now where was I? Oh, here we are. Niwa?"

"Yo!"

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'I hope this is the right house…' Kagome wondered as she stood on the welcome mat and looked at the white door ahead of her. The house was large in size and it was all in brick with a white gat, a white door, and white shutters. It had a black roof and it was shaped like a square. She hastily rang the doorbell and waiting for someone to answer while clutching his papers in her hand.

She heard someone stomping around inside until they reached the door. The door swung open, revealing just the silver haired hanyou she wanted to see. But he apparently didn't want to see her. "What are you doing here!"

"You're sick. I offered to deliver your papers to you."

He just stared at her.

"Why are you up? Why don't you have any of your parents answer the door? You should be laying down."

"Okay, first of all, I'm not sick. I just skipped. And second, I live alone. Why do you care?"

"Um… I don't know. I was just wondering."

"Why do you keep showing up everywhere I go? You keep trying to talk to me at school, and now I'm seeing you out of school? Do you realize how annoying it's getting?"

"No."

"Well maybe you should back off. What makes you think you can talk to me? We're not even friends!"

"Can't you see I'm trying to be your friend? You don't have to get so fucking mad about everything!"

"The same can be said for you!"

"Just take the damn papers. I'll see you tomorrow!" She threw the papers in his hands and stomped away. 'What the hell is his problem? Oh shit… I have to get along with him! I need to win this bet! Well at least he knows who I am now and he notices me… But we keep getting into fights whenever we see each other. Agh… this is giong to be harder than I thought.'

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A/N: So what do you guys think? They length is surprising. I think it's fairly long, but I've done way longer. Um. Yeah. Please review with your thoughts.