Friend or Enemy, Perhaps Lover by Tsurara-hime

The first day of school

"Riiing... riiing... riiing... ri-thmpb bang!"

"Oh brother... I hate going to school!" Kagome groaned aloud. The sun is shining brightly, birds chirping happily, cars everywhere, and school! It's the first day of school! Kagome grab her pillow and covered her eyes from the rays of the sun hitting her cerulean eyes. She don't want to go to school, school is just boring. She reached up to snatch her alarm clock on the table beside her bed, but notice it was missing. 'What the hell! I always place my alarm clock on this table, and I knew my alarm clock was present this morning, I heard it rang just a few moment ago, so how could it be missing?' she thought sleepily. Rubbing her eyes, she tried to focus where her clock was. At last, she found it but frowned at the sight, her clock was broken, 'what happened to my clock! Who broke my clock?!' she thought angrily. Just then, her mother came knocking softly at her door and silently entered.

"Kagome? Daijobu?" Mrs. Higurashi asked worriedly, she immediately ran to Kagome's room the moment she heard something banged on the wall.

"Hai, daijobu desu, doshte?" Kagome asked with a smile on her face, completely forgotten the 'alarm clock incident'.

"Uhhh... nothing I guess, I heard your alarm clock rang a few times and then there was a bang on the wall and the ringing stopped," Mrs. Higurashi explained.

"Eh? I think it must be me, I'm the only one in here that time anyways; I think I threw my alarm clock on the wall when it rang." Kagome replied sheepishly. "Gomen ne for making you worry." She added with an apology.

"It's okay Kagome. Now prepare for your first day of school!" Mrs. Higurashi smiled while leaving the room. "It's already 7:00, you don't wan to be late on your first day of school right?" she asked while walking downstairs to fix a breakfast for her daughter.

"What! 7:00 already?! Why didn't you say earlier?!" Kagome screamed while hurrying to the bathroom for her daily hygiene. She finished brushing her teeth, change school uniform, comb her beautiful black hair and grab her school bag in record time. She took some toast bread and drank her milk, hurrying towards the front door to and slipped her shoes.

"Ittekimas!" Kagome yelled back, not bothering to glance back to her mom. Her mom just smiled as she watch her daughter run to school. 'Some things just don't change.' She sighed and proceed to clean the house. *~~~~~* at school *~~~~~*

'I wonder how this year would be? I hope the guys gave up by now.' She thought silently. Hoping this year would be different. But seems to be disappointed every time she hoped it. All her years in Yume High School where all the same, even when she was in kindergarten.

"Look she's here!" "Yeah! She's so pretty!" "She's hot!" "Look at the way she acts, she's natural!" "I wish I could see her smile towards me!" "I want to date her!" all the guys whisper to one another while looking at Kagome's walking figure. Kagome sighed again, 'Things really don't change in here. When will they learn?' she thought silently. She was the most popular girl in school, all the guys love her and begging for her to be their girlfriend. All the girls are jealous because she caught every guy's attention everyday, but also love her because of her attitude. Kind, helpful, honest, caring, friendly. She was perfect! But one thing is missing... she doesn't have a boyfriend; they say that she never had a relationship before in her life. How would someone like her appearing to have no boyfriends in all her life? The thing is an enigma to all her friends, every guy asked her out and she was kind enough to refuse without hurting a single guy's feelings.

She noticed the guys staring at her while she walks through the main gate of their school. They all stared at her as if she was an angel descending from above. She shrugged off the staring and enters the gate without a noise.

"Uhhh... hi Kagome!" "Ohayou Kagome!" "Konnichiwa Kagome!" the guys greet shyly, a blush can be seen in their faces.

"Ohayou mina-san. Good to see you all." She greet back, earning more stares from the guys, some are drooling, some are jumping excitedly because they were greeted by the most popular girl in the school. She proceed to her locker to deposit some of her things. 'I wonder if there is a new guy this year? If there is, please don't let add them to my boy list.' She thought with a sigh. She reached her classroom five minutes early before the bell ring. All her classmate greeted her happily, she greet back, hoping that this year would be different.

"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing"

All the students gathered in their classroom and waited patiently for the teacher to come inside. A woman step in the classroom, she has long black hair that was braided behind her, reading glasses in front of her brown eyes. She smiled at the class in front of her, she notice Kagome and smiled. Everyone in the school knows Kagome, the friendly girl who doesn't have even a single enemy in Yume High School. All are friends with her, she doesn't care how popular she is and she doesn't take advantage of it either. 'She's a great child. I know she would be a great woman someday.' Ms. Koshi thought happily.

"Good morning class, my name is Ms. Koshi, your Math teacher." Ms. Koshi greeted happily with a smile. "I'm just a new teacher here. So far Kagome Higurashi is the only student I knew, could you all please introduce yourselves to me later?" Ms. Koshi requested. "Oh and by the way, this year we have a couple of new students, and they are all in this section." She said merrily. Just then, six persons walk in the classroom, four boys and two girls. All the students gape in surprise, two of the new students have long silver hair, piercing gold amber eyes. They've never seen anyone who has long silver hair like that!

"Please introduce yourselves one by one in the center of the classroom." Ms. Koshi said happily welcoming the new students in this school. They all nodded at the same time.

"I'm Sesshoumaru." Said the boy with long silver hair, piercing gold amber eyes. He stood in front of the class and bowed to show respect.

"Very well Sesshoumaru, let's see... you can take your seat beside Higurashi, Higurashi please make yourself known to Sesshoumaru." Ms. Koshi requested happily. Kagome stood up and bowed, Sesshoumaru seeing her bowed in respond. 'Maybe this girl isn't so bad compared to the other girls, at least she didn't freak out when they so the silver hair of mine.' He thought silently walking towards the girl. He studied the girl's appearance; she has black hair, cerulean eyes, and a head shorter than him. 'She's beautiful... wait, what am I thinking! I would never thought of a girl would be beautiful; all of them are just the same. Flirty, ugly, stubborn, proud, greedy, unfriendly.' He thought angrily. But his icy face is still the same, without a single emotion. After Sesshoumaru introduce and sat himself beside Kagome, a guy almost similar to Sesshoumaru stood in front of the class.

"I'm Inuyasha." Inuyasha introduce himself monotonously, he didn't even bow to show some respect.

"Inuyasha, please take your sit beside Kagome. (S-K-I sitting arrangement)" Ms. Koshi said cheerfully. She watched Inuyasha as he walk towards the seat beside Kagome grumpily. Inuyasha stared at Kagome as he walks, 'She look like the new student Kikyou, I wonder if they are related to each other.' He thought amazed how this 'Kagome girl' look like Kikyou he has known earlier. Kagome notice him staring at her amazingly, she shrug it off and just smiled at him. After Inuyasha sat beside her two guys stood in the middle.

"Let's introduce by twos from now. We don't have much time." Ms. Koshi explained. All students nodded in response.

"I'm Miroku and this guy beside me is Kouga." Miroku introduced happily with a bright smile. He bowed followed by Kouga and proceed to their assigned seat.

"I'm Sango and this woman beside me is Kikyou." Sango gladly introduce herself and Kikyou. They bowed at the same time and proceed to take their assigned seat.

"Now that they are finish introducing themselves, we will start our lesson. Math" Ms. Koshi said sternly. All the students groaned aloud, they all hate Mathematics. *And the class began...*

Ms. Koshi started discussing in the blackboard, writing details and homework. Everyone groaned, Math is the most boring subject of all for all of them. (My opinion. Don't know yours.) Sesshoumaru notice some boys whispering to each other and glancing every minute at Kagome. Kagome don't seem to care, she just listen to the teacher discuss when she heard Ms. Koshi announced that they have a test tomorrow. Sesshoumaru stared at Kagome for a few minutes, seeing her beautiful face makes him relax. 'What does this woman have that everybody like her? Maybe she's just friendly to others.' He thought silently wondering why so many guys talk about her every time. He notice some girls glancing at him too, whispering and giggling, passing notes. 'What the hell! What are they doing looking at me? Damn.' He thought angrily.

"What's noise all about?" Ms. Koshi asked, annoyed at her noisy students. She caught a girl passing a note to Kagome, but she didn't get it because of the sudden question of the teacher. Correction. Almost all the students are passing notes, they all froze when Ms. Koshi stared at them pissed.

"Give me all the notes. Now! Kagome please collect the boy's papers and Sesshoumaru collect the girl's paper." Ms. Koshi ordered strictly. The students hurriedly scrambled and gave their papers to Kagome and Sesshoumaru. Kagome stood in front of the teacher followed by Sesshoumaru, both stared at the fuming teacher calmly.

"Since you two are the only ones who didn't pass letters, please read those papers aloud." Ms. Koshi said, finally calming her face. Kagome and Sesshoumaru nodded and proceed to stand beside the teacher. "Sesshoumaru, you read it first followed by Kagome." Ms. Koshi said monotonously. She stared at the two as they froze, 'I wonder what's in that paper.' Ms. Koshi thought silently. "Well?" she asked patiently.

"I think I don't wanna read these papers Ms. Koshi." Both said at the same time, the two stared at each other like statue, how come they said it the same time? Coincidence? "Have you been reading my mind?" they both said it out the same time again. This time everybody froze, how come they said it the same time again?

"Okay, okay, I'll be the one to read it. Now take your seat you two." Ms. Koshi said with a smile. "Don't bother." They both mumbled at the same time, again! Unfortunately everyone heard it, they stared at the two amazed. They both said something at the same time three times already!

"Okay let's see... I'll read the girl's first." Ms. Koshi started. Sesshoumaru stiffen a little. 'Damn, all those papers are all about me. Now this teacher is going to say out loud. Anyways, I didn't see the last piece of paper, might as well listen to what it says.' He thought silently wondering what was written on that piece of paper he hasn't read yet.

"Let's see... ~paper~ Hey! The new guy Sesshoumaru is so hot! *another paper*, yeah he's so kawaii *another*, he's gorgeous! *another*, look! Sesshoumaru is looking at Kagome almost a minute already! *another*, look at his hair! I've never seen such long hair before. And it's silver! *another* (this is the one Sesshy didn't see), I think he likes Kagome at first sight! *no more*. Well that's the end of papers for the girls; all of them are talking about Sesshoumaru. Let's see for the boy's." Ms. Koshi finished with a sigh; looking for the boy's papers she read it aloud again.

"Now the boy's papers." Ms. Koshi started. Kagome gasp, 'Shit! All those papers are all about me. Damn you guys, I wished I read the last one so that I don't wanna hear anymore.' She thought cursing under her breath.

"Ummm... ~paper~ Kagome is prettier than ever! *another*, Kagome is so hot! *another*, she doesn't seems to mind us looking at her beautiful face *another*, will she ever have a relationship? I heard she didn't have from kindergarten up to now *another*, she and Sesshoumaru are perfect! *another*(this is the one Kag didn't see), I've seen her glance at Sesshoumaru a few times, do you think she likes him at first sight? *no more*. That's the end of paper for the boys; all of them are talking about Kagome. What's the big deal? Does it matter to look at somebody?" Ms. Koshi asked boringly.

Kagome looked down to her feet, pretending the floor was interesting, but Sesshoumaru notice she is blushing harder every minute. 'How dare they think I love this Sesshoumaru guy?! I didn't even know him!' she thought angrily blushing harder. She didn't even notice that the bell had rung already saying it was the end of the class, Sesshoumaru waited for the others to get out of the room and stood beside Kagome's table.

"Hey, the bell has rung already. You don't want to be late for the next class do you?" Sesshoumaru asked calmly enjoying the sudden increase of her blush. He notice that her shoulders were rigid, he suddenly put his palms on her shoulder and she suddenly relaxed a bit.

"Arigatou Sesshoumaru. I'll go now." Kagome said as she silently stood up and walk towards the door followed by Sesshoumaru behind her. Everybody on the hall looked at them as they walk, Kagome seeing everyone stared at her just ignored the stares and proceed to her next class.

"What's your next class Kagome?" Sesshoumaru asked quietly.

"History." She said plainly as she walks towards the classroom. She spotted a seat in the middle and placed her things on the table and sat down. Waiting for the class to start, she notice Sesshoumaru sitting next to her.

"You're next class is History too?" Kagome asked surprised, Sesshoumaru just nodded his head and took out his History book and began to read some of the contents. He was surprised when Kagome shut her mouth not like other girls who kept on babbling nonsense.

"So, you seem to be popular around here. Why?" Sesshoumaru asked softly, he wanted to know about this girl. 'What so special about her? She seems to be a normal girl. Except she's more mature in her ways.' He thought silently.

"I don't know why, it started when I was kindergarten in here. The first time I study here, I always heard someone calling me kawaii girl, gorgeous girl, pretty girl or something like that. And almost all the guys in this school are begging me to be their girlfriend. I always refuse." She replied happily, she was wondering why she was discussing her popularity to this new guy. 'He seems to be nice to me.' She thought gladly.

"So, do they suffer from heart broke?" Sesshoumaru asked curiously, he wanted to know everything as possible. He was curious about knowing if she broke someone's heart.

"No. I don't think so. I didn't go that far anyways, they just asked me out for a date but all I say is that I wanted to be friends with them, no relationship. Because they are all so fast, a single date then they wanted a relationship, I don't want to end up alone. So, as you've heard a while a go, I don't have a relationship until now." She explained softly.

"Gomen for being so chatty!" she apologized sheepishly, never had she talk that much to a guy. She waited for the bell to ring for the start of the class. She glance at her watch 5..4..3..2..1..0

"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing"

Students gathered inside the classroom and stared at the two, they are the only student inside the classroom and they sat next to each other. Kagome notice the stares and began to blush, Sesshoumaru watch Kagome blush and chuckled slightly. 'She looks prettier when she blush. Damn I'm already being so nice to her. I've never been this close to girls.' He thought silently.

"Okay class, sit down I'm Sir Myouga, your History teacher." Sir Myouga introduced himself. Everybody groaned except Kagome and Sesshoumaru. Everybody notice the two, they seems to focus on the two lately, they call the two 'the popular love birds'.

"Psst! Psst! Kagome!" Sango called with a soft voice. Kagome turned her head slightly to see who was calling her. She recognized it was Sango, the new student earlier.

"What?" she whispered back, careful not to let the teacher caught she was talking to somebody on class time.

"Let's eat lunch together later okay?" Sango whispered softly, her seat was behind Sesshoumaru so that she can talk to Kagome. She saw Kagome lifted a thumb up and nodded. 'Yes! I can talk to someone now! Kikyou didn't even say anything when I was talking to her. So emotionless, she's so cold to everyone!' Sango thought angrily.

(,") (Gomen but I'll skip the class time. Not important anyways. Boring.) (",)

"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing"

Everyone gathered their things and headed for the cafeteria for lunch. Kagome glance at Sesshoumaru, he seems to be kind to her lately, when almost everyone was gone but the three. Kagome bid goodbye to Sesshoumaru and walk with Sango.

"Hey Sango, may I go to my locker first? I'll have to get something." Kagome asked her friend happily.

"Sure! I'm going to get something in my locker anyways." Sango replied with a smile.

When Kagome was about to open her locker, she readied herself; she knew what was going to happen. She pulled out her padlock key and insert it to the hole, she back away a little. Sango stared at her surprised of her actions, Kagome open her locker and a bunch of envelopes fell down. Everyone in the hall sigh, Kagome shook her head.

"Why don't they give up? I've already them I'm not going to have a relationship until I wanted to. And they can't have me with this letters." She mumbled silently cursing whoever sent these letters.

"Whoa! You really have many admirers at a time don't you? How come you know that there would be letters in your locker?" Sango asked curiously as she help Kagome pick up the letters that have fallen a while ago.

"It's always like this since kindergarten. They just don't give up on me." Kagome explained followed by a sigh, she was used to this kind of things. Always the same. She gathered all the letters and put it in her small paper bag, readied always to be full of letters everyday.

"Let's go, or else the cafeteria won't leave a food for us." Kagome said followed by a giggle, she was happy to be friends with Sango; they've just known each other for five minutes but they seems to act like best friends already.