-One-

Another weekend, here and gone, Rin thought as she lay in bed after slamming her alarm clock off.

Rin's head pulsed lightly behind her sensitive eyes. Damn all hangovers. Well, at least it wasn't as bad as last weekend's. Glancing at her clock, Rin slowly sat up. After stretching and scratching her hair lazily, she stood. Waving away the dizziness, Rin stumbled to her door and turned the lock so it stayed open when she stepped out. Walking down the hall was painful due to the bright lights of the dorm's hallways.

Rin stepped into the bathroom at the end of the hall and found Sango and Kagome—her two best friends—already out of the shower and doing their hair. One glance at Rin and Kagome pulled out a bottle of Ibuprofen and tossed it to Rin.

Rin smiled as she caught it. "How's your guy's heads? Are they bitching like mine?"

Sango chuckled. "Take the drugs, Rin. Tell us how you feel in twenty minutes, 'kay?"

"Will do." Rin gave a mock salute with her first two fingers. She sauntered over to the cubbies that held her shower bag and a clean towel. Grabbing both, she heading into a shower stall, locked it, and then began to strip.

Once bare and freezing, Rin stepped into the shower and turned the water on. The hot water against her cold skin felt like a blissful dream. As Rin soaped up her loofah, Rin tried to dig through her memory and see how much she remembered last night.

Miroku greeted his three new guests with red cups and a kiss for Sango. Rin took her cup and glanced around the room. Twenty people max were dancing, drinking, making out, and whatnot in Miroku's dorm room. Three included Rin, Sango and Kagome.

"Welcome, ladies!" Miroku exclaimed. "Enjoy, enjoy! We have Kohaku spinning the music and I, personally, am making the drinks."

Rin laughed and took a sip of her drink. "Mmm. Margarita! My favorite."

"Hey, Kagome," Miroku wagged his eyebrows. "InuYasha has been asking for you for the last twenty minutes."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Better go tame the mutt. See you girls later."

Sango and Rin shared a look.

Rin heard a snide voice behind her. "Rin."

Rin turned at her name. She tried not to gag when she found Koga in front of her, reeking of alcohol and pot. How students even get that kind of stuff into David Wolfe Academy, Rin will never know.

"How's it going, Koga? High as always?" Rin didn't even try to hide the sarcasm dripping from her words.

"Aw, Rin, baby! Don't get all stiff on me!"

Rin scoffed. "Stiff on you?" She glanced down. "I bet you're getting stiff on me."

Sango tried to swallow her laugh but ended up choking on it. Miroku hid his smile by drinking from his cup.

Koga went on as if Rin didn't just insult him. "So, I was thinking. . ."

"Oh, my! I hope that didn't hurt you too much." Rin took another sip of her drink and raised it to Miroku. "My thanks, good sir. I shall be asking for another soon."

The pulse of the music suddenly called to her and Rin ended up making her way to the dance floor, drinking and moving to the music for the rest of the night.

Rin opened her eyes and began to rinse the conditioner out of her hair. After turning off the shower and drying off, she put her shower bag back in her cubby and informed her friends that she'd be back in a few minutes.

Rin returned to her room, her head still pulsing, even after the relaxing shower, Rin grabbed a bottle of Aquafina from her mini-fridge. Twisting the drug bottle open, she dumped two pills into her hand, plopped them into her mouth and chased them with the mineral water.

Rin wrapped her wet hair in the towel and began to dress for the third Monday of junior year at David Wolfe Academy. Summer went by too quickly. Mom and Dad were away so much from the mansion that Rin decided to come back to her dorm early and party every night with her friends that decided to stay as well.

Rin dressed herself in the school's uniform. Gray knitted sweater with a small black bow at the point of the low cut V. She slid on a black, gray and white plaid skirt. Black socks that went just a little over her knee and black shiny shoes with a buckled strap over the top of her foot and a half inch heel.

Gathering her blow dryer, flat iron and little make up she had, Rin trudged back to the bathroom, where Sango and Kagome were just starting on their faces.

Rin gave a smile and announced, "I'm feeling much better, thank you."

"Anytime, Sunshine!" Kagome teased.

Rin blow dried her hair and was beginning to style it with her iron when Sango started the morning gossip.

"I hear Mrs. Nakamoto finally decided to retire!"

"Oh, thank Kami! Her monotone and perfume were really starting to get on my nerves," Kagome commented.

"Don't forget her beady hawk eyes that always caught me and you chewing gum and passing notes," Rin added.

Kagome nodded in agreement. "Wonder who will be our homeroom and history teacher now?"

"I wish for a hot, look-at-his-six-pack, I-wanna-grab-his-ass demon," Kagome teased.

The three girls laughed. Rin's head completely pain-free filled with images of a tall man with hair like the moon and eyes like the sun. Ooh, baby!

After styling her mid-back length hair into two curly pony tails, the trio left to put their tools back in their rooms, grabbed their book bags and headed to the dining hall for breakfast.

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"Sango! Rin! Kagome!" Hana, the freshman that the trio picked for their group this year, came running to the table the three sat at. Her breathing was ragged, so she pulled out her inhaler and took a drag from it.

"Take your time, Hana. Sit down and have some breakfast," Rin suggested. When people hear that they choose a freshman, they automatically think that the freshman will be their slave and do what the trio tells them to do. They are sorely mistaken. Rin, Sango and Kagome choose a girl freshman that seems to be the odd one out, the one nobody sees, the one who can't find a group to fit into. Kanna was last year's freshman. Sadly, she moved to the other side of the country after her parents divorced. They keep in touch via email and text.

Sango was the one to choose this year. Last year, Kagome chose. Senior year was Rin's year. When Sango saw Hana sitting the dining hall with a Jane Austen book and nothing—and no one—else, her heart went out to her and she invited Hana to sit with her and the other two girls smiling like crazy. Hana was, at first, uneasy about upper classmen being nice to her, but now, three weeks into their first semester, Hana was still timid, but more open and fun around the girls.

Hana sat down and recollected her breath while Sango rubbed her shoulders and handed her some orange juice. Hana drank the liquid and took a deep breath before beginning to speak.

"I heard about Mrs. Nakamoto retiring and decided to do some digging, right?" She swallowed another gulp of orange juice and continued. "Well, turns out that the new teacher coming in is a full blooded inu yokai and his father is Inu no Taisho and—"

"And he's the world's worst brother."

The girls all jumped at the sound of InuYasha's voice. With him were Miroku and Kohaku; both were smiling and had the look that told everyone they were the popular boys on campus. Miroku took a seat next to Sango. InuYasha went to sit by Kagome. And Kohaku surprised Hana by sitting right beside her. Hana glanced nervously at Rin. Rin answered with a small nod. Kohaku was old news; she used to date him freshman year. Hana knew all about it from girl's night out last Friday. Kohaku and Rin were now on best friend bases. She knew he wouldn't treat Hana like shit, so she encouraged Hana to flirt.

Okay, note to self: break Hana from her nervous habit of looking down.

"So, the new guy is your brother?" Kagome asked InuYasha, trying to pick up a convo.

"Sadly, yes. The bastard's only half, though, thankfully," he answered.

"Why do you hate him so much?" Sango questioned curiously, but with a hint of amusement in her tone.

"The dickwad called me half-breed way too much in our brief time together."

Rin raised an eyebrow. "That's it? That's why you hate him so much?"

"That and the fact that, since we have different mom's, he's always calling mine a worthless human and all this other shit that I tried to defend, but . . ." InuYasha shrugged.

"What happened to his mom?" Rin asked.

"Left after Dad picked Mom over her." Another shrug. "I guess that's why he hates me so much. Dad got Mom prego and decided to leave behind his family and stay with her. He blames me and Mom for his family breaking up and falling apart. He doesn't know what love is and doesn't act warmly to humans."

"Then why is he teaching here?" Sango pointed out. "This school is, like, sixty percent human."

InuYasha nodded. "The Council sent him here. I don't know anything else."

Strange, Rin thought. Why would the Council send a full dog demon to David Wolfe?

Rin mentally shrugged before hearing the morning bell signaling end of breakfast and beginning of classes. The group picked up their empty trays and put them in the food belt. As they exited the dining hall and made their way to the buildings that held their classes, they laughed and gossiped. The group began to grow smaller as the others left for their classes until on Kagome and Rin were left to walk to their homeroom halfway across campus.

They entered the building just as the warning bell went off. Five minutes later, they were in the classroom, seated at their desk in the back with Kagura, the girl Rin didn't like too much. Known as the slut of the school, Kagura could get any guy she wanted. She went after Koga end of last year and that lasted for about a month before they both moved on. Which is the main reason Rin wouldn't date Koga, even if he wasn't the heir to the southern yokai-wolf tribe.

The final bell rang. Still no sign of the teacher, the class continued to talk in loud voices. Rin and Kagome were talking about the crazy party last night and Kagura was filing her nails. Koga, who sat on the other side of the classroom, was staring at Rin—again. Jeez! The boy can't take the hint!

Everyone's attention was brought back when a flash of white appeared and a name was written on the blackboard in chalk. Yes, the school hasn't updated anything but the computers, so that means blackboards instead of white and chalk instead of Expo markers.

Rin's eyes went to the man standing in front of the room. Instantly, she took in a silent breath and her heart jumped into her throat.

The man standing at the front of the classroom, wearing a pale blue buttoned-up shirt and light khaki pants, with hair like the moon and eyes like the sun, was no other than the man Rin vision in the bathroom.

"My name is Mr. Taisho. I'm going to be your homeroom teacher and, to some of you, your history teacher as well." His eyes wandered the room slowly. "Now, I'm going to assume that most of you didn't finish, or didn't start your homework over the weekend. I give you the class hour. You may begin."

His eyes finally found Rin in the back right hand corner next to the window. Rin literally shrunk back into her desk and tried desperately not to squirm. Mr. Taisho's eyes narrowed in on her face. Rin's uncomfortable state brought her to sit up straight and stare at his golden eyes defiantly. She was not to be intimidated by this new teacher.

Rin almost flinched when Mr. Taisho made a quick movement with his lips. Was that a smile? Rin already got the impression that this tight-lipped teacher wasn't going to be a push-over or be nice enough to gift the students with a smile. Tough, stoic, determined, stubborn, and calm described his personality traits just from a glance by Rin. Beautiful and tall described vaguely what was seen on the outside.

Rin was the first to break eye contact. Instead of looking forward, she looked to her right and saw that Kagura had stopped filing her nails. Instead, her eyes were fixed on the fresh meat at the front of the room. She licked her lips and leaned forward. What a hoe.

Rin stole a glance back at the front of the room. Mr. Taisho sat down behind the desk and seemed to be getting settled. Kagome gave a "Psst!" to Rin, who looked over at her friend. Kagome threw a fold piece of lined paper at Rin. Rin glanced up at Mr. Taisho, who was still at his desk, setting up his things.

Looking back at the note, Rin opened it and found two words written in all caps.

WISH GRANTED!

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