Cursing

By Icka! M. Chif

"That is IT!" Kagome growled, slamming her hands down on the table top and rising. Some of the upperclassmen had decided to come down and pick on the underclassmen during lunch. This happened every so often and was usually expected and ignored, but today Kagome had had enough.

"Kagome-chan!" Her two friends looked around fearfully, "What are you doing? Sit down before you attract their attention!"

"Exactly." She faced down hostile youkai and oni almost on a daily basis in the Warring States, a couple of over bearing upperclassmen rated as merely as annoying in her eyes. She'd come back to the modern times to relax and get away from the quest for a while, not to sit and listen to a couple of pompous over stuffed jerks.

"You can't! You're still sick!" Her short haired friend protested. Kagome merely growled wordlessly in annoyance and stalked over to where the upperclassmen were taunting one of the geeks.

"Hey! You stupid half breed mutt!" She snapped, gaining their attention.

The leader glanced over at her and snickered. "You got something to say to us, twerp?" He inquired lazily.

"Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do!" And for the next 10 minutes (which is when the teachers finally broke it up) she proceeded to explain in great detail just exactly what and how they could stick where and when. And when she had finished with that, she launched into just what their family lines had been doing for the past two00 years in a such a way that would have made Miroku blush if he had been there for it.

Inuyasha growled irritably. The wench was late again. It was bad enough that she had left for several days (and after yelling 'sit' too), but now she wasn't even back on time!

Shippou looked up at him. "You gonna go get her?" He inquired. The kitsune was bored without Kagome around to play with.

"Yes." He finally agreed. Enough was enough. They had shards to find after all. He launched himself off the branch he'd been pondering (sulking) on and dove for the well. He fell for a moment, then hit the bottom of the well and bounced back up out of it, into Kagome's time.

He paused at the top, sniffing the air. The most recent scent of hers was hours old. She'd yet to even return to her home. He squelched the panic that rose and resolutely took to the air, following her trail.

Inuyasha's head suddenly appeared upside down in the window, startling Kagome.

"Kyaaa!" She gasped, before reconising who it was and getting angry.

"INUYASHA!!!" She roared, storming over to the window and opening it. "What the heck are you doing here?! What if someone saw you?"

He snorted and casually flipped to land on the window sill. "You're late." He commented, as if that explained everything.

"I know I'm late!" Kagome stamped her foot in irritation "I'm in detention!!!"

Inuyasha snorted. "What did you do? Accidentally shoot the sensei with an arrow?"

"No!" She blushed.

He tilted his head, an ear twitching. "So what did you do?"

"I... uh..." She turned an even deeper read. "I cursed out a sempai..." she whispered.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "You? Curse?" He scoffed, disbelieving.

"It's Shippou's fault!" She exclaimed.

He crossed his arms. "Uh-huh. And just HOW is it Shippou's fault?"

Kagome growled and stormed over to her backpack and pulled out a notebook. She paused, flipping through it for a second then walked back and handed it to him.

Inuyasha glanced at it. Cursewords. Lots of them. And he recognised many of them, he and Miroku used them against each other all the time.

"Shippou's been writing them down and keeping track of them when you Miroku fight." She explained, her arms crossed. "There's several pages of them, not including the ones he's torn out of the book."

"You-?" Inuyasha glanced between the pages and the pink faced human, "You didn't..."

Kagome blushed neon for a second, then guiltily cast her eyes down. "The sensei said it didn't count as 'Creative Writing'. She mumbled.

Inuyasha snorted, a small smirk on his face. That grew into a snicker.

Then as Kagome watched in a combination of shock and amazement, he started to chuckle. Within minutes he was laughing.

He laughed so hard and so loud that the teachers decided NOT to come and investigate.

Fin.