Not Another High School Fic

Chapter 4

Adomaye and Ruoku

Like he promised Kouga returned to Kagome and took her to her second period class. Of course the wolf demon kept calling her a nerd when he learned that she was a freshman who was taking English 12.

“I can’t help it,” Kagome told Kouga, “I have always been good in English. I actually want to become a writer some day.”

“A writer? Why even work.”

“What do you mean?”

“Your pretty enough to marry a man who will support you,” Kouga smirked.

“I don’t want to live my life that way,” Kagome declared, “Humans aren’t like youkai.”

“Whatever. Well here is your class.”

“Thanks Kouga,” Kagome said as she went towards the door.

“Thank you future girl friend,” he said as he took hold of her hand and kissed her palm before taking his leave.

Kagome sighed as she entered the English room. She pretty much was Kouga’s girlfriend if he was going to escort her to every class and touch her. Hopefully writing and reading in her new class would get her mind off of him.

She sat down at an empty desk in the front that wasn’t currently next to anyone. There were a lot more humans in this class than were in her Algebra class, so maybe she wouldn’t feel so uncomfortable.

“Did Sesshoumaru pick up his phone when you called?” a neko demon that was sitting behind Kagome was asked.

“No and now there’s no service,” she sighed.

“I heard you kept bugging him for the number in first period, so how did you finally get it?”

“You know that freshman cheer leader Ayame?”

“Yeah.”

“Well she is banging Inuyasha, so it wasn’t hard for her to get it.”

“Inuyasha must be turning into his brother if he is messing around with that slut.”

“Well I know for a fact Inuyasha didn’t take any virginity. I think she was pregnant in middle school, but her mother made her get an abortion.”

“I wonder why. I thought family was important to those wolf demons.”

As those two carried on Kagome began thinking about wolf youkai. Kouga said he just wanted a small four-year relationship to keep him busy until he was suppose to marry Ayame, but the way he acted it was as though he wanted more. What if he got too attached to her and had a child. If the wolf demon Ayame could have a child at a young age Kagome would be no exception.

“Speak of the devil,” the neko then said as her cat ears twitched.

Right as the bell rang a demon entered the room, and Kagome stared right at him. Like the hanyou she seen earlier he had irises that were colored gold and some strange hair. Before taking his sit he stared right at her and her whole body froze up.

“This class isn’t for you freshman,” he stated after seeing the color of her school uniform.

“Actually it is Sesshoumaru,” the teacher said taking her place in front of the black board, “class this is Kagome Higurashi, a freshman. She has done exceptional on test from other schools and she is advanced enough to take class with us.”

Kagome looked up at the teacher who was only a bit shorter then Sesshoumaru. The teacher had red hair and brown eyes, but she had the same markings on her face that Sesshoumaru did. Did the markings mean anything?

“Now brother if you will so kindly take your seat,” the teacher told Sesshoumaru.

Sesshoumaru slowly sat down at the empty desk next to Kagome and opened up his notebook.

“I know it will be hard to get started again after our semester break,” the teacher continued as she started to write youkai/human literature on the board, “but we must get to work. Now for those just joining the class you can just call me Ember, and those we have pissed me off last semester must answer to my sur name.”

Kagome looked at the words written on the board. Youkai literature? She had never read anything written by a youkai, so what if she didn’t understand the terms used in it? She would look stupid compared to everyone else.

“I thought we studied human literature last semester with that hillbilly book,” Sesshoumaru stated.

“Right you are my little brother,” Ember smirked, “and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn only sounded like because that’s how the people of USA spoke in that period of time. For a short period we will be comparing and contrasting that different types of literature before we move on to our short story sessions.”

“Please refrain from addressing me as family,” the inu youkai replied.

“No can do little brother. By the way I am to make sure you call your mommy after class.”

A few classmates snickered about this as Sesshoumaru tried his best to ignore his older hanyou sister.

“Hey Sesshoumaru,” Cali whispered as Ember continued talking, “why didn’t you pick up the phone?”

“How did you get my number Cali?”

“I have my little ways. I just wanted to call you to ask who you were going to go out with for the Winter Dance.”

“That dance is weeks away and I don’t go to dances. I have to prepare for sectionals.”

“You are the best and the hottest basketball player on the team; you don’t need any practice dear.”

“Brother and cat whore pay attention!” Ember snapped.

“You’re a teacher you can’t call me that!” Cali yelled back.

“Wrong little kitty cat slut. Just because I am teaching humans as well as youkai doesn’t mean this is any human school with laws and regulations. If I wish to sell drugs to one of you I won’t get fired, if I wish to sexually harass one of you don’t try and take it up with the school board, and if I want to call you are a whore I sure as well can.”

“Well you’re a whore.”

“Now insulting a teacher will buy you a one way ticket to Naraku’s office, so lets not travel down that road. Now we are starting on a project…Kagome you look as though you have a question.”

“Well…” Kagome started a bit nervous in fear that the teacher would start insulting her.

“Oh don’t worry you can ask me anything,” Ember replied with a motherly voice, “I am always kind to those who want to learn. I am only rude to little bitches who don’t hand in their assignments and talk while I am talking.”

“Well its just that I have never even been around youkai before, so I don’t know what their books look like or how to read them,” Kagome explained.

“Oh don’t worry dear. You see all the books were written in a different language at one time, but when countries like Japan were shared youkai adopted human languages and all the books were translated.”

“Another thing touched by human filth,” Sesshoumaru commented.

“No tata krisouno kun,” Ember spoke in a strange accent.

“Have you gone mad?” Her brother asked.

“I am speaking in the old language, and seeing as how you didn’t know a word of it you have nothing to insult. That’s what I thought, shut up!”

Both Sesshoumaru and Cali remained silent after that as Ember went back to teaching, “Now then where as humans and youkai have written about many different things and ideas there are some that are very similar.”

“Perhaps one copied off the other’s ideas,” a student spoke up.

“In many cases that has been true. For example the book you all read last year ‘The Tamed’ that was written by a youkai was a remake of a human book called ‘The Scarlet Letter’, but the books you will be reading were all written around the same time in different countries. Now every human in this class will read a youkai book and all the youkai will read a human book. Both books will have their similarities and differences, so you are all to partner up and write a compare and contrast essay.”

“I call you as my partner,” Cali whispered to Sesshoumaru.

“Hold up there whore,” Ember interjected by slapping a ruler against the neko’s desk, “all partners must be of a different race so you two have to partner up with a human.”

“But all the humans in here have greasy hair and smell funky.”

“Well I don’t believe they are happy about it either, because all the youkai don’t brush their hair or clean out their vaginas after a night of sex with a random drunk person, because no stable man will have you.”

“She is good,” one of Cali’s friends commented.

“Thank you,” Ember said pretending to bow, “now partner up.”

While youkai and humans slid their desk together Cali bugged Sesshoumaru who was trying to ignore her, and Kagome sat at her desk in a bit of turmoil. This is the situation where someone like Kouga would have been useful, because there was nothing more dreadful to a new student then the first time when they are told to partner up. There is nothing you can do but sit at your desk and look like a fool to someone sees how pathetic you are and feels sorry for you.

“Brother, whore, Kagome, and kid who has no intention of passing my class partner up,” Ember repeated again to the only ones who weren’t sitting next to anyone.

Sesshoumaru looked to his left and saw a human who had nothing better to do then sketch some kind of drug leaf on the front of his notebook before looking at Kagome.

“Kagome you are my partner.”

“No fair Sesshoumaru!” Cali yelled, “I wanted the nerd. You are already going to get an A.”

Sesshoumaru ignored the demon’s cries as Ember went over to him and Kagome, “okay Sesshoumaru you will be reading Romeo and Juliet while your partner will read Adomaye and Ruoku.”

Sesshoumaru held up his book and examined it as though he were looking at a bruised fruit, “didn’t that English guy write it?”

Ember ignored him as she handed Kagome Adomaye and Ruoku along with another book, “you said you have never been around youkai before.”

“Right,” Kagome answered, “I am from a fishing village.”

“An innocent girl from a village then. I see. Well Kagome take my advice and be careful here at this school. Every time someone like you enters these doors the men start targeting you wanting to complicate you. My advice is to become a lesbian and then when you graduate tell your girlfriend your converting back to men because you’re becoming confused.”

“Uh thanks,” was the only thing the freshman could reply with.

“I would appreciate it if you would refrain from scaring my partner,” said Sesshoumaru.

“This coming from the leader of booty chasing boys. Anyways Kagome I have given you a handbook that holds some old demon terms in it. If there is anything in the book that confuses you just take a look at the handbook.”

“Thanks.”

Ember returned to passing out books as Sesshoumaru was already reading his. Kagome took a look at hers and kept reading until the bell rang. She had a feeling that she wasn’t Sesshoumaru’s first choice for a partner. He must have liked that Cali girl, but was just too afraid to talk to her.

“How long does it take a human like you to read?” Sesshoumaru asked her as he gathered his stuff.

“Well I was sort of studying the hand book ahead of time,” she explained.

“I will have mine finished by tonight, so just give me notes on your book and I will write the essay as soon as possible.”

“I thought we both had to work on the essay.”

“Nonsense. No human is going to add anything to my work; especially a freshman.”

“But-

And Sesshoumaru then faded into the sea of people in the hallway. Kagome could do nothing, but return to Kouga’s locker waiting for her only guide to take her to gym class.

(End of Chapter)

AN: Another chapter done on my dad’s computer…yippee!!! It’s surprising how much you can get done when all that’s on TV is a Scrubs marathon. How do you all like character Ember?