A young woman walked down the sidewalk heading for Tokyo High. Chocolate brown eyes scanned the road for cars before she crossed the street, hefting her book bag more securely onto her shoulder. She tucked a lock of raven hair behind her ear as she continued her ritual trek to school. She was required to wear a plain green uniform that prohibited her, or any other Tokyo High student, from sticking out in a crowd of their fellow class mates. Kagome Higurashi was in the last year of high school and was a fresh age of seventeen. Her best friends since childhood of course were the infamous pair: Sango Kira and Miroku Tashami. They were well known for their interesting squabbles, but Kagome would be lost without them.

She walked past the school gates and melted into a crowd of students making their way into the school. She headed straight for her locker to unload the oppressive weight of her book bag. She carefully put in the code of her old fashioned lock, thanked Kami she got it on the first try this time, and grabbed her necessities for her first few classes. Closing the locker door, she spun the lock and headed for her first class to wait for school to start. She noticed her two friends were already there. Sango was glaring at Miroku who had a satisfied grin plastered to his features.

"Did he grope you again?" Kagome asked already knowing the answer. Miroku was a 'hand-friendly' guy who didn't mind sharing the love. Obviously no one wanted the love today. He had his eyes set on Sango, but Sango curbed his advances with a vengeance. She was determined not to be just another piece of ass to him, even though she was hopelessly in love. But she'd cut out her tongue and set herself on fire before she admitted it to anyone other than Kagome.

Kagome laughed at the two. Sango gave Miroku one last dirty look before joining Kagome. Their group was small, but close-knit.

"Yes, Kagome, he rubbed my butt again. If he doesn't stop he's going to wake up without any hands." Sango seated herself in front of Kagome. Miroku smiled slyly at her and helped himself into his set beside Kagome and Sango. "But that means you'll be spending the night first..." He wagged his eyebrows suggestively at her. Kagome tried to stifle her laugh, but failed. Sango just rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Miroku." His grin grew wider.

"I heard we are getting a new kid today. Wonder what they're gonna be like." Miroku attempted at making new conversation. "Yeah I heard about that too." Sango said. "What, am I always the last to know everything?!" Kagome sighed.

"Geez, Kagome. Everyone was talking about it all last week. Maybe if you weren't so oblivious you wouldn't have to be the last one to figure stuff out."

"Maybe I'll grow up and be just as cool as you, Miroku." Kagome replied dryly. "So where's he coming from?"

"I heard he was coming from Central because he got kicked out!" Some girl from across the room helped.

"I heard he was a model in the States!" Someone else said. Soon the class erupted into rumors of the new kid. Obviously it was a guy, who killed his family, ran away to America, became some super rich model guy, came back to finish school for some reason, got kicked out for fighting and put some guy in intensive care because he stabbed him with a fork? Now he was coming here.

"Yeah, that's a lot of help. Forget I asked." Kagome muttered to Miroku and Sango. Miroku chuckled, and Sango and Kagome just smiled.

The door opened and Kikyo walked into the room. She looked very much like Kagome, but with more skin showing, and looser morals. It was a well known fact that she hated Kagome. The two got along like matches and fire. She looked over at Kagome and rolled her eyes as she sauntered over to her group of scantily clad friends. Kikyo's attire consisted of the required skirt, hiked up all the way to her ass, and her shirt was tied in the back to bare her stomach. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and caught Kagome's eyes. "What, jealous? I'll tell you what, you can turn your bitch ass around, or I can do it for you."

"Yeah, Kikyo, I am jealous. I mean, I've always wanted to look like a hooker, just like you." The room fell silent, and felt like a vacuum was sucking everything but Kikyo and Kagome out. Kagome continued without missing a beat. "What you can actually do for me is buy some clothes that actually fit your fat ass size. Not to mention something to cover up that thing that looks like a face, but just doesn't cut it." Kagome smiled sweetly, daring her to try something else.

Kikyo's venomous expression was all the due Kagome could ask for. Before she could make a retort, the teacher stepped in pushed for everyone to be seated.

Sango and Miroku looked at Kagome with all of their mirth shining in their eyes. Miroku was the first to praise her. "Way to go Kag-chan!" Sango agreed. "Yeah, way to put her in her place!" Kagome smiled. Their teacher, Ms. Kaede walked in and hushed them. "Now class be quiet. Take your seat. We have a new student. Now treat him as you would like to be treated. I must attend my illness of diarrhea. Please excuse me, this is a nasty business." The students grimaced and Kaede rushed out to the restroom as a new boy walked into the class.

He wore simple jeans with a local band's t-shirt. He had silver hair with dog ears. Demons in their school was common, since the segregation had ended years ago. He had no flicker of emotions as he looked around the room. He spotted a girl who was winking at him and was suggestively licking her index finger. She was trying to smile at him seductively. 'Wow, there's some walking STD's right there.' Standing in the front of the room being stared at and whispered about were unnerving him and he looked around for a free seat. He automatically opted out of the seat beside the girl who would most likely do him before he actually sat down.

"Hey, man, seat's got your name all over it." A guy motioned at a desk in front of him. He headed over there and dropped his stuff down as he slid into the desk. He noticed the girl across from him was talking to another girl in front of her. He caught himself staring and quickly looked away. He started to tell the guy thanks for the save, but was a little surprised to see him smirking at him.

"Hey, no need to thank me. Name's Miroku." Miroku stuck out his hand. "InuYasha." InuYasha said as he shook Miroku's hand. Now the two girls' attention was on him. He felt something strange slither up his spine as he met eyes with the girl who's hair was down. He quickly ignored it and tossed the feeling aside. "This is Sango," Miroku motioned to the girl with the pony tail. "Sango, this is InuYasha." "Hey." Sango smiled. "And this is Kagome, InuYasha." Kagome smiled cheerfully at him, and he couldn't help the grin that stretched wider across his face. Kagome's cheeks flamed and she tucked some hair behind her ear. InuYasha knew he wanted to get to know this girl better.

"So where are you from?" Sango was the first to ask. She could see the other students listening intently. Some were trying to hide it while others were blatantly staring.

"I moved from Central." InuYasha supplied.

"Well, at least some of the rumors are true." Kagome laughed, and InuYasha found himself wishing he could hear her laugh again. 'Arg, man! You're being seriously lame.' He mentally berated himself.

"What rumors?" He inclined.

Miroku chuckled and landed a hand on InuYasha's shoulder. "Man, you don't even want to know. You're supposedly some kind of model killer!"

InuYasha smirked at that. "That's hilarious. I don't model." The room got quiet, and the three kids he was sitting with exchanged glances before they busted out in laughter. InuYasha joined them.

"We like you, InuYasha!" Miroku said through his laugh. "Welcome to our humble little group here!"

"Thanks." Was all InuYasha could figure to reply. He already liked these people, especially the one named Kagome. It was new to make friends so quickly. At least they looked past his being a hybrid.

But the next thing he knew was that he had a face on his shoulder. InuYasha noticed it was the first girl he noticed when he walked in. He skin crawled a little, but he shook it off. The girl wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned her chest into his back. "Hey baby, why are you sitting all the way over here with the losers?" She whispered in his ear. He shrugged her off of his shoulder and supplied her with a 'feh.'

This girl, he thought, obviously wasn't used to this treatment, so she tried again. She caressed his ears while whispering into his neck, "How about you and me come to my house this afternoon. We can skip the introduction until later. Do you like it rough or hard?" This chick was about as subtle as a bomb. He was getting annoyed at her antics. He also noticed Kagome's murderous expression from the corner of his eye. These two definitely didn't get along. He decided to keep that he thought they looked sort of similar to himself. "How about you just get off of me and leave me the hell alone." Kikyo was surprised at being rejected so quickly. 'I'm just going to have to try a little harder. Why is he hanging around the bitch and her freaks anyways?' Kikyo shot Kagome a hard look before she returned to her seat and pouted.

"Are all the girls here as aggressive as that?" InuYasha asked his new friends to break the tension.

"Only in my wildest dream." Miroku sighed. Sango and Kagome rolled their eyes and InuYasha remained a little confused.

"Oh, don't worry. You'll find out what he's talking about eventually." Kagome laughed at Miroku's crestfallen face.

"So what is your schedule?" Sango asked Miroku, taking the paper he had set down on the top of his desk and scanned it. "Well, you have lunch with Kagome and I, that's about it. InuYasha felt a pang of disappointment for a moment but angrily pushed it back. 'What the hell's wrong with you!?' "But you have some classes with Miroku."

Miroku took the schedule from Sango. "Yeah, man! This is going to be great. Just follow me and I'll lead the way. Oh, and I'll point out what you need to know about almost everyone around here."

InuYasha nodded thinking he was really going to like this new school.

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It was time for lunch and half of their classes were over. Kagome and Sango couldn't find Miroku and InuYasha anywhere. "Sango, where do you think they are?" Kagome asked.

"Why? You never really got all worked up at Miroku for being late before. Or is it because of InuYasha?" Sango smiled wryly at her friend and her blush.

"What are you talking about Sango? I don't even know the guy." Kagome's quick denial was all the proof Sango needed. She decided not to push the subject right now, but they were definitely going to talk about this later. "Besides, Miroku is probably rubbing up on some poor defenseless girl and getting the crap slapped out of him or--" Sango didn't finish her sentence because of the elbow that was jabbed into her side. "Here they come." Kagome said.

"Ow, that kind of hurt, Kagome."

Kagome smiled sheepishly at Sango as they sat down at a table. "Sorry."

"Mhm, yeah. Whatever." Sango rubbed her side playfully.

"Hello there, Lady Kagome and Lady Sango." Miroku sat in front of Sango and InuYasha took a seat in front of Kagome. The girls replied with a 'hey' of their own.

"So tell us about yourself InuYasha-san." Kagome asked as they all started to eat.

"Well, I live with my brother. Um, I'm half dog youkai if you haven't already noticed. My brother's mom was demon and my mom was human. My parents died a while ago. My little cousin Shippo lives with me as well. Oh, and Kikyo scares the hell out of me." They all laughed.

"I'm sorry about your parents," Kagome told him. "My dad died a while ago, too."

"Yeah, it sucks."

They left that touchy conversation alone and started talking about how InuYasha liked is first day so far.

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It was after school and Miroku came up with a great idea. "Hey guys, lets go over to my house! We can swim and stuff in the pool. What'da say?" He asked everyone.

"Sounds good to me." Kagome said brightly.

"I don't know. Are you planning to try what you did last time?" Sango doubted with a hint of a threat.

"Oh come on Sango. I'll be a good boy. I promise. Besides, it was an accident. I didn't mean to cut off your bathing suit on purpose." He smiled innocently. Sango rolled her eyes and sighed out a 'yeah' in response.

InuYasha agreed as well."Yeah sounds good. Just let me pick up some stuff at home."

"Ok. Let me give you directions, and we'll meet you there." Miroku said. InuYasha nodded and Kagome and Sango headed to their own cars.

"See you guys there!" Kagome called while walking away.

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InuYasha dropped off his bags and got his bathing suit. He wrote his brother a note about where he would be, not that he would really care. He then jumped in his car and pulled out the directions Miroku had written down for him and headed off.

He arrived some fifteen minutes later. 'Wow, I didn't know he lived so close.' He thought. He heard some people in the back and followed the noise. He came up on people in the pool splashing and screaming. Miroku was again being pounded for most likely molesting Sango. Again.

"Oh, hey InuYasha. You can change in those stalls over there." Kagome pointed out. He headed the direction of the burgundy colored stalls. He came out a few minutes later with navy trunks on with sky blue lines on the side. He walked over to the pool and found Miroku who was wearing red trunks. "Hey man. The waters great. Jump in." With that, Miroku slipped back in. He motioned for InuYasha under the water. InuYasha shrugged and jumped in as well.

Kagome and Sango were sitting on the side of the pool with their legs dangling in. Kagome pulled her hair around and squeezed out the excess water. "How's Miroku looking today, Sango?" Kagome teased. Sango blushed faintly and glared at Kagome.

"Like he does everyday, Kagome." Kagome caught Sango glance in Miroku's direction and instantly felt bad for bringing it up. Those two were meant for each other, but Miroku was such a hentai. She couldn't blame Sango for being wary of getting her heart broken.

"I'm sorry, Sango." Sango looked back at Kagome with a smile.

"Don't worry about it. What he doesn't know wont hurt him right?" Sango laughed. Kagome lips twitched. "But why don't you tell me about how much you're not drooling over dog boy there."

Kagome blushed, not denying the fact that InuYasha looked great, and she most definitely noticed already. "Shut up." They both laughed this time and continued talking.

Miroku motioned to InuYasha in the water and pointed to the girls who were in deep conversation. He had a mischievous glint in his eyes, and InuYasha instantly got the picture. He felt a little weird since he didn't know the girls so well, but what better way to speed along the bonding process? They crept up to the girls as quietly as they could under the water. InuYasha looked at Miroku who was counting to three with his fingers. As soon as his third finger shot up, they gave each other a look of recognition and latched onto each girls' ankles and pulled them under. There was a faint screeching sound from under the water before Kagome and Sango ripped in. Miroku and InuYasha high tailed it to the surface, laughing hysterically.

When Kagome and Sango reached the top, they were glaring intensely at the laughing guys.

"I've got an idea." Sango whispered. She told Kagome, who looked horrified.

"No way!"

"Kagome, it's the only way that it'll work. Besides, I can get a little revenge on Miroku for being such a pervert this way. C'mon! It'll be fun." Sango tried to persuade.

Kagome thought a moment before exasperating, "Ok, fine."

"Don't even act like that. You know you want to." Sango laughed as Kagome smiled back at her.

"Yeah, you're right. This is going to be great."

Sango winked at her, and they swam over to the wary boys who knew that they were up to something. Sango wrapped her arms around Miroku and rested her head on his neck. Miroku was taken aback. He didn't know whether to touch her or not. She whispered sweetly in his ear, "You know, I've been waiting a long time for this." Sango looked up at him. She looked at his lips then back into his eyes. She raised herself a little, and while she was a breath away from kissing him, she whispered, "Your going under." Without registering what she had just said, Sango jammed his shoulders down. Miroku quickly was lost under the depths of the pool.

Before Sango tricked Miroku, Kagome gently rested her hands on InuYasha's back. She could feel him tense up. She moved closer to him. She slowly, and gently roamed her hands from his back to his shoulders and to what she could reach of his nicely muscled chest. She soothed in his ear, "I know we just met and everything but I am so attracted to you. I..I think that you should turn around, look into my eyes as I....COOL YOU OFF!" She reeled her hands to his shoulders and put her weight into pushing him under. She and Sango retreated to the side of the pool and quickly pulled themselves out. They heard the guys sputtering out water and they moved even faster.

Kagome and Sango were laughing so hard the were holding their sides. InuYasha and Miroku looked each other. Oh this meant pay back. Big time. Never mind the fact that they started it, that was just mean. Miroku started to think that Sango felt the same about him, but no. InuYasha barely held back a growl. They would have to work out a good plan for another time. It was getting late. But seeing Kagome's and Sango's smiling triumphant faces was very tempting to throw them back into the water right now, but they were out of their reach

"This so means war." InuYasha ground out.

"Definitely." Miroku agreed.

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This is the new edited chapter one! I just need to vamp this story up a little, so I'm going back and editing the chapters. I'm not going to lie, this is going to take me a while, but don't worry, I've been receiving your reviews, and thank you so much! It has motivated me to make this story better for you guys! But please continue to review, and let me know how you like the changes.

I'm in my busy senior year, but I'll be working on mending the chapters one at a time in my spare time.

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