A High School Story by Moonlight Shadow

The New Girl

Alright guys and gals. This is my first attempt at a good clean story. No curse words or nothing bad. Hopefully you will enjoy this as much as you have enjoyed my previous stories. This was asked for me to do by me best friend slash sister's mother. I would appreciate any and all criticism. Tell me if you love it or hate it. Well here it is.

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Kagome sighed as she pulled up to the school parking lot. She had a pale as the moon skin that contrasted with her raven shoulder length wavy hair. She wore rock star jeans with a white long sleeved oxford shirt with a black oxford vest. She grabbed her black leather bag and got out of her black 2004 Honda Accord. Locking her car she preceded to the front desk. She was a little late but it was her first day of school. It is the middle of the school year. So of course she'd be a little late.

She walked up to the front desk and got her schedule. Her counselor led her to her first period class which was English Honors. The counselor, who she learned was named Mr. Tanaka, led her to Mrs. Johnson's class. "Mrs. Johnson, this is Kagome. She's going to be your new student." Mr. Tanaka said introducing Kagome. "Hello Kagome. Thank you Mr. Tanaka." Mrs. Johnson said. Mr. Tanaka left and Kagome was left standing in front of the class. "Well Ms. Higurashi, you can take a seat next to Sesshoumaru Takashi." Mrs. Johnson said.

She pointed to a seat next to a silver haired boy with pale skin and amber eyes. His face showed no emotion and his eyes were eerily cold. He was dressed in a clean white button down pressed shirt with black slacks. Kagome took a seat next to him and took out her notebook.

"Okay class tomorrow we're going to be picking parts to play Romeo and Juliet. We'll be performing this for the school. So I want you guys to practice and pay attention to the story. We'll be picking parts out of a hat so no complaining about parts." Mrs. Johnson said. Collective groans were heard throughout the classroom.

After first period ended Kagome was putting things away when a hand was presented right in front of her face. The hand belonged to a girl with tanned skin and long straight hair that was mid way down her back. Her eyes were a chocolate brown and she was smiling down at Kagome. "Hi. I'm Sango Mosahari." Sango said. "Hi. Kagome Higurashi is what I go by." Kagome said. "Can I see your schedule?" Sango asked. Kagome handed her schedule and Sango smiled even wider. "You have all my classes. Come on. The next is Science Honors. Mr. Himura is cool! You never wanna miss his class." Sango said.

Kagome smiled. It seems she had found a friend in Sango. "What's your locker number?" Sango asked. "Um, 357." Kagome said. "Good your locker is next to mine against the wall. Come on, we need to put that backpack away." Sango said. Sango led her to the lockers where she was introduced to Sango's friend Miroku. "Hi Miroku. This is Kagome. Kagome, Miroku." Sango said.

A second later Kagome screamed and a loud slap was heard followed by "Pervert!" Kagome yelled. Her face was red and her hand was clenched in a fist. "Miroku! How many times must I tell you not to grope people?" Sango said. "I can't help it if a pretty girl happens to come near my hand." Miroku said. Sango just hit him on top of the head and gathered her books while Kagome put away hers and got out a new notebook.

At lunch the trio was walking to the sakura tree in the courtyard when Kagome heard someone yell. "Kikyou! Kikyou! Hey Kikyou! Why are you hanging out with these losers?" a boy asked. He had long silver hair and amber eyes. He looked a lot like the Sesshoumaru boy in all her classes so far. "Excuse me? I'm Kagome not Kikyou. Kikyou is my cousin. Didn't you know she's been in a coma for at least four months? Who are you anyway?" Kagome asked.

The boy looked at her closely and leaned back. "Keh. I knew you weren't her, wench. Of course I know she's in a coma. I'm her boyfriend." He said. "Oh so you must be Inuyasha. My aunt told me mom about you. You're Inuyasha." Kagome said. "Yea, what of it wench?" Inuyasha said.

Kagome clenched one of her fists. "My name is Kagome. Ka-go-me! Not wench." Kagome said. "Keh. Whatever." Inuyasha said. He walked off to join a group of people in the corner. "Argh. He gets me so mad. Who does he think he is? Just because his dad owns the richest business in Japan doesn't mean he can act however he wants." Kagome fumed. "Don't mind him. He's just like that." Sango said.

Kagome nodded and both she and Sango left an unconscious Miroku behind for groping them. They sat down under the Sakura tree and enjoyed there lunches. While Kagome was munching on an apple Miroku woke up and joined them. "So Kagome what brings you to Tokyo?" Miroku asked. "Well my mother's father recently passed away and he owned the Sunset Shrine. In his will he left it to my mother. She, my brother Souta, and I moved into the shrine to continue to taking care of it and leave it in our family." Kagome said.

Sango nodded and continued eating. "So Kagome you wanna hit the mall after school?" Sango asked. "No I have to get home. My mom has an interview for a job. I have to go pick up Souta from school and watch him until my mom gets home." Kagome said. "Alright. Well, that's the bell. Time to go back to the prison they call school." Miroku said. They packed up their food and trashed it at a trash can in front of the door.

Their last class was Art with Mr. Chen. "Ok class, today you can make whatever you like. You have two days to do it in and you can use anything in this classroom. Just don't make a mess." he said. Kagome grabbed some graphite pencils and sat at an easel on a stool. Looking around she tried to find some inspiration. Grinning when she found it she began her artwork.

She was finished with the body when Sango came up beside her. "Oh my lord, Kagome this is wonderful. It looks almost like him. If you take away the clothes and markings." Sango said. "Shh Sango. Don't tell anyone who I'm drawing. Ok?" Kagome said still working on the drawing. This time she was working on the landscape. "Alright. I just wanted to tell you it's amazing." Sango said.

Kagome smiled. "Thanks. I don't know where I got this idea from. It just suited him, you know?" Kagome said. Sango nodded and got back to her drawing. Once the period ended Kagome put her drawing away in a place no one could see it but where she would find it the next day. After gathering her bags and saying good bye to Sango, Kagome left to pick up her little brother.

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The next morning Kagome drove to school and met Sango at the front of the building. "Hey Sango, ready for first period? We're picking out our parts for Romeo and Juliet." Kagome said. "No, I would hate to be Juliet." Sango said. "Why?" Kagome asked amazed. "She has to kiss Romeo. Imagine if Miroku was him." Sango said. Both girls thought for a moment and shuddered. "That's disgusting." Kagome said. Just then both girls felt a hand on their bottoms. "Eke! Pervert!" Bbth yelled.

They turned around to see Miroku on the ground with twin handprints on each cheek. "Good morning ladies." Miroku said. "Don't you ever learn pervert?" Sango asked. "I don't think he ever will." Kagome said. Both girls started laughing and walked into the building with Miroku following behind them.

"Alright people. I'm going to walk around with the hat up high so you can't see the papers inside. Take only one and that will be your role for the play." Mrs. Johnson said after everyone was seated. Once it came her turn Kagome reached into the hat and pulled out her role. On the slip of paper in neat cursive writing was the name 'Juliet Capulet'. Kagome sighed. "What did you get Kagome?" Sango asked. It was then that Kagome noticed Sango had a seat next to her.

"I got Juliet. What about you? Who did you get?" Kagome asked. "I got the nurse. I wonder who Miroku got." Sango said. "Sadly Sango, I have the part of the wonderful and handsome Tybalt cousin to fair Juliet." Miroku said. "You do know dear cousin that you will die?" Kagome said. Miroku's face fell. "Mrs. Johnson I don't want to be Tybalt. You never told me I had to die." Miroku said. "Well Miroku, almost all the guys besides the fathers die and you can't change your roles. Now when I call the names tell me who got the part." Mrs. Johnson said.

Kagome didn't pay attention when the other roles were called but when Mrs. Johnson called for Romeo Kagome looked up. Sesshoumaru raised his hand and put it down quickly. "Alright now who's Juliet?" Mrs. Johnson called. All the girls glared at Kagome since she was the only one without a part. Kagome slowly raised her hand and Mrs. Johnson wrote it down.

"Alright, we'll start with Act 1 Scene 5 line 95." Mrs. Johnson said. "This is where Romeo first meets Juliet. Will my Romeo and Juliet please come to the front?" Mrs. Johnson said. Kagome shyly walked to the front with Sesshoumaru following behind.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Sesshoumaru said.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand to much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss."

"Have saints lips and holy palmers too?"

"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."

"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair." Sesshoumaru said.

"Saints, do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."

"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips to yours, my sin is purged."

"Then have my lips the sin that they have took."

"Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."

Sesshoumaru and Kagome looked at Mrs. Johnson. She realized what they were looking at her for and she spoke. "Go on. You're going to have to kiss anyway. Might as well start now." she said. Sesshoumaru bent down and presses his lips lightly to hers and got up again after a second.

"You kiss by the book." Kagome said. Mrs. Johnson motioned for Sango to go up to finish the part. "Madam, your mother craves a word with you." Sango said.

Sesshoumaru says, "What is her mother?"

Sango says, "Marry, bachelor, her mother is the lady of the house, and a good lady. And a wise and virtuous: I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal; I tell you, he that can lay hold of her shall have the chinks."

Sesshoumaru says, "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe's debt." Just then the bell rang. Mrs. Johnson called out that they needed to practice their lines and that tomorrow they would start from the beginning.

Once again it was time for Art Class. Kagome fetched her drawing from her hiding spot and sat at her easel. Grabbing some paint she sat at her easel once again trying to figure out how to go about her painting. Smiling she decided to start on the scenery first and paint the body later. She was so absorbed in her work she didn't notice the students that were around her. Once she finished everything else she looked at the eyes which she kept white.

She began mixing paints to get the color of amber she wanted. Once she was satisfied she took the smallest brush she had and carefully colored in the eyes. Once she was finished she looked fondly at her finished product. In the middle of the canvas was Sesshoumaru or his likeness at least. He was dressed in an old kimono from the Feudal Era.

The painting wore a baggy top with three red hexagons on the front near his neck with white flowers in them surrounded by red on the inside and outside. The ends of his sleeve had the same design. His pants were completely white and he wore black boots. He also wore black armor that had a spiky shoulder guard on the left side and a long fluffy thing on the right shoulder. The body portion of his armor was pitch black and covered his chest. At his hips it parted like a flower. Two oval shapes adorned the armor at his sides and one in the front. The point ended just above his knees. The armor was lined with silver. Around his armored waist tied twice was a yellow sash that was tied in a bow. On the top outside corner of the sash was a pattern of sort's and then dark blue. The excess of the sash ended just below his knees and ended the same way as the bow ends. At his sides were two swords. One was in a simple black sheath with a blue ribbon making a white diamond pattern in the hilt. The other sword was in a plain black sheath as well. The hilt was wrapped in black silk.

His skin was also pale which made his markings stand out. On his forehead was a blue crescent moon and on his cheeks were a pair of maroon strips that started from his ear and ended under the middle of his eye. The first stripe rested on his cheekbone and the second stripe is half an inch below it on both sides. His wrists also held magenta strips that almost circled his whole wrist. His eyes were cold emotionless amber and reflected his emotionless face. His silver bangs framed the crescent on his forehead and his hair reached to the back of his knees. His hair was blown to the left as if by an unseen wind as well as the sash and kimono. The forest around him was lush and green sakura trees in bloom. The trees surrounded him. Behind him was a beautiful sunset. Its pinks, oranges, and yellows blended wonderfully creating a halo around the person in the painting.

It was then that Kagome noticed her classmates standing in awe around her and her work of art. "What are you guys looking at? My painting isn't that good." Kagome said. "Good? Kagome, it's amazing! Where did you learn to paint like that?" Sango asked. "Well my mother was an expert painter and I take after her. I took many lessons when I was five. Up until today I still take them." Kagome said. The bell rang and Kagome put her painting up to dry.

Kagome met her friends in the parking lot by her Honda. "Alright, so what do you guys want to do today?" Kagome asked. "Do you even need to ask? We're hitting the mall. I need a new wardrobe." Sango said. "Alright, so whose car are we taking?" Kagome asked. "How about we take yours? I need gas in mine." Sango said. "Miroku, are you coming?" Sango asked. "You bet! I need that new game that came out." Miroku said. Sango shook her head and entered the passenger side door while Kagome sat in the driver's seat.

Once they got to the mall Sango jumped out and led her friends to the front door. "Ok, I got a plan. We'll each split up and do some shopping for stuff like games, knick knacks. You know that sort of stuff. We'll meet back here in half an hour and go clothes shopping. Sound good?" Sango asked. The other two nodded their heads and they split up.

Kagome walked around the mall and found that she didn't find anything that looked remotely interesting by the time half an hour was up so she met Sango and Miroku at the meeting spot. "Alright, now it's time to hit DEB's. Kagome and I will shop first and then we'll go shop for you Miroku." Sango said a little too eagerly.

When Kagome got home she collapsed on the couch. She now remembered why she hated the mall. Sango had dragged her to almost every store and bought her two things from each store despite Kagomes objections to the idea. She had said something about getting her out of the dorky clothes she owned. Kagome saw nothing wrong with her pressed shirts and slacks but Sango obviously did.

Kagome lifted her head when her mother came in. "Hello Kagome. How was your day?" her mother asked. "Mom, school was great but I was reminded of why I hate shopping at a mall of any kind." Kagome said. Her mother smiled and walked into the kitchen. "Kagome put those clothes up in your room. We'll figure out what to do with them and which ones to keep." her mother said. Kagome nodded and trudged upstairs where she put the clothes down and fell asleep instantly on her nice warm bed.