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Title: Shout!
Author: Miss Selah
Summary: It all started when Kagome asked out Inuyasha. Now the entire school thinks she’s dating Sesshoumaru, and now matter how hard she tries, all she seems to be doing is proving them right…(AU)(SesshoumaruxKagome)
Plea for Reason: Okay, so I’ve been working on this and NOT Fish Don’t Sleep for a while, but oh well. I LIKE this idea, and I had it ready just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Plot? Shamelessly stolen from a South Park fic, Life is Better Under a Totalitarian Regime, in which Stan tries (and fails) to convince the whole school he is NOT dating Kyle. Go read it, it’s great. I like to think that mine’s w-a-y different, but the first 1000 words or so are very similar. So bear with me.
It just wasn’t fair that he had to look so good all the time.
Taisho Inuyasha, with his silver hair, golden eyes, and gorgeous smile… not to mention the fact that he was funny. Plus, she knew that they were into some of the same things. Why, just last week she had been in the computer store, looking at the latest and greatest computer programs and bemoaning her empty wallet when Inuyasha had walked by, not noticing her, and gone right to the new programming area of the store.
She wasn’t stalking him, per se, but she did sneak up behind him and manage to catch a glimpse of the software he was picking up. It was the new programming software that had just come out which allowed people to make their own computer system, top of the line, that she would have committed felonies to get her hands on. And he,Inuyasha, her best kept secret, had purchased it.
If for no other reason, she had to ask him out so that she had the opportunity to touch it.
So that was how she, Higurashi Kagome found herself Monday morning, fiddling with the ends of her skirt and frowning petulantly up at Inuyasha.
She had planned it perfectly, right down to the soft smile she was going to use to tempt him. She had worn the eye shadow that subtly brought out the blue of her eyes, and had applied shiny pink lip gloss to her bottom lip to give her a fuller, poutier look. Her shoes had been polished. She had even worn her nicest underwear, just to give herself an added bit of confidence. Nothing was left unaccounted for.
“So… would you like to go to the movies with me this Saturday?”
He had to say yes.
Inuyasha looked stunned for a moment, and then a bit horrified. “Listen, Kagome, it’s not that I don’t like you or anything, because really, you’re great, it’s just that I don’t really approve of people cheating on each other.”
Her first thought was that Inuyasha had said no. She had managed to work up the nerve to talk to him, and he had said no.
Her second, nearly debilitating thought, was a parrot of the words he had just said.
I don’t approve of cheating.
Kagome’s heart sunk like a piece of lead. “Oh…” she murmured, trying to not let the hurt show in her eyes. “I didn’t know you were dating someone.”
Inuyasha’s eyebrows drew together. “Not me.”
“Then… what’s the problem?” She saw the two pieces. She really did. There was just no way that Inuyasha could possibly think that…
“Wouldn’t your boyfriend be upset that you’re going out with me?”
Kagome blinked. Again. “Excuse me?!” Her voice hit a nearly inhuman pitch and her face flushed terribly. What in the world was he talking about? She didn’t have a boyfriend - she had spent too much time idolizing Inuyasha, her friend, her crush, to notice any other men, much less date them. What in the world was he talking about?
“Well, you know.” Inuyasha was able to infer from her startled expression that obviously, she didn’t know. “Sesshoumaru.”
Kagome’s mouth dropped, her image forgotten with one, fatal word. Sesshoumaru.
A jerk who was her TA in Bio Lab, he took great pride in taking points off of her homework for incomplete thoughts, or things that weren’t clarified well enough. He was a cold hearted manipulative jerk who spent most of his time abusing his rights as an Upperclassman. She had told her friends so, repeatedly, and they had commented that maybe he had just been trying to make her work sound better. She was, after all, the most brilliant student in her class - she worked tirelessly on he studies, her only distractions being her minimum wage job at her family’s shrine, her long sought after crush Inuyasha, and the occasional burger from WacDonalds. Her work wasn’t just good - her work was phenomenal. It wasn’t her fault that Sesshoumaru was too ignorant to see it.
Which brought her back to the subject at hand.
“Why in the world would you think I’m dating Sesshoumaru?!” Her voice came out shaky and high, but she was too high strung to put much thought in to it.
He winced. “Oh, I’m sorry. Did you two break up?”
“Wait… what? I’ve never dated Sesshoumaru!” A small crowd had started to gather, and Kagome’s face turned bright red. “What!?”
“Listen, this is kinda embarrassing and I don’t want Sesshoumaru to know that we had this conversation. I mean, I live with him.”
Oh yeah. Kagome sometimes forgot they were related; they acted nothing alike. While Inuyasha was fun, outgoing, and just a bit devilish, Sesshoumaru was cold, introverted, and just a bit mean. Polar opposites, but one can’t pick ones family, she supposed. She was willing to not hold it against him that his brother was the only thing keeping her from getting all A’s in school.
Kagome let him go. There was nothing else she could do.
Luckily for her (or unluckily, depending on how you looked at the whole thing) Bio was her next class; and her last, before the end of the day. That meant that she could confront Sesshoumaru at the end of it under the premise of complaining about his unfair grading schema (something that she did quite often, so her friends should have nothing to question her about) and grill him until she had some sort of idea what was going on. All that she could think was that somehow, for some reason she didn't quite comprehend, he had started this whole debacle. It was his fault, dammit, and she was going to find some way to blame it on him.
Not blame. Blame infers that it wasn't his fault in the first place. And it had to be.
She wasn't willing to think of any other explanation.
Bio couldn't pass quickly enough for Kagome, who spent the entire period tapping her foot and glaring holes in the back of Sesshoumaru's pretty little head. It wasn't fair that he looked so much like her beloved Inuyasha from behind. It was a shame that they came from the same gene pool... on more than one occasion, Kagome had accidentally grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm, thinking that it was Inuyasha. She had always blushed and stammered her way out of it, feeling horribly embarrassed. It wasn't as if, other than their ungodly nice hair, they looked anything alike. Inuyasha was the younger brother, having barely made the deadline, and Sesshoumaru was the elder, having just been too young to be in the grade higher. They were both upperclassmen, but Inuyasha looked like a high schooler while Sesshoumaru had the air of an important business man, someone who knew what they wanted and how to get it, and would stop at nothing to obtain everything they set their eyes on...
"Kagome." Sango hissed at her from beneath her breath, drawing her attention away from Sesshoumaru.
Kagome glanced over at her friend. What? She mouthed, not willing to invoke the teacher's wrath. Not today.
Sango quickly pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it, then dropped it to the floor and kicked it gently so it slide across the smooth floor and stopped right next to Kagome's backpack. Kagome leaned down, her eyes on her bag, and grabbed the note, pulling it up slyly. The thing about notes was that teachers always expected them to be passed high and never thought to look at the ground; an insight that Inuyasha had provided for them, when they were freshmen and he seemed like the coolest person she had ever met... it was unbelievable to think he was only a sophomore!
Do you think you could do that on your own time? The note read.
Kagome's brows drew together, and she quickly scribbled a question mark down and passed it back.
Sango grabbed it, wrote something, and kicked it over.
You've been eyeing your boy-toy ever since you walked in. It's kinda sick. Not like you. You aren't paying attention to the teacher. Is something wrong?
Kagome's eyes got stuck on one word. Boy-toy boy-toy boy-toy. Blushing, she wrote back.
Sesshoumaru is NOT my boy-toy.
Sango sighed when she read the note.
Boy-toy, boyfriend, same thing. So what's up? Why are you so intent on eye-fucking him?
Kagome blanched, paling as she read the words. But that was nothing compared to the following humiliation.
"Studying hard, Higurashi-san?" Sesshoumaru asked, standing right behind her.
Kagome started, shocked. She had taken her eyes off of him for one minute and he sneaked up behind her? The God's were devils, she swore. After all she had always been a good girl, so there was no reason for the devil to be manipulating her fate. Unless, of course, she had done something horrible in a past life.
"Sempai?" Kagome stuttered, trying to look as cute as possible. Not that it had ever worked before. But then again, none of her tricks seemed to work with Sesshoumaru.
His eyes seemed to be caught on her lower lip (she thanked God that she had remembered to apply a liberal amount of lip gloss, that at least seemed to catch his attention). But the Gods, being the Indian giver's they were, left her on her own. Sesshoumaru's dazed expression faded and he grabbed the note, smirking. "I see that you are captivated by our sensai's speech."
Someone in the class oohed, which incited a few stray giggles. The teacher had long since stopped talking, opting instead to watch Kagome's humiliation. It was far more interesting than the process of osmosis anyways.
Sesshoumaru began to unfold the letter and Kagome looked back at Sango, horrified, but her friend had returned her attention to her work, leaving Kagome to fend for herself. Later, she would explain that it was Sesshoumaru, and she hadn't thought that her boyfriend would make such a big fuss over a silly note between girls, and Kagome would protestantly scream that Sesshoumaru wasn't her boyfriend, much as she would many times in the following weeks. But for now, with no explanation and no way of laughing it off (had she written his name in there? did he have any way of finding out they were talking about him?) Sesshoumaru unfolded the note and silent read it to himself.
Kagome dropped her head to the desk in shame and missed the way his cheeks flamed up, causing the class to murmur.
Sesshoumaru looked away, embarrassed, and put the folded note back on her desk. "Please refrain from discussing your personal matters until your own time." Kagome peeked up at him, shocked that for once, he wasn't all cool and collected. For once, he almost looked human like the rest of the student population. "Class cleanup today, by yourself." He made a gesture at the teacher, who began to continue his lecture from where he left off.
And Kagome, our poor, unfortunate heroine, tried to think of a new way to breach the topic of their relationship that wasn't with Sesshoumaru.
Kagome groaned. "Well he's not." She took a long gulp from her soda and sighed. "Where did you ever get that idea from? Is Kagura spreading rumors again?"
Sango snorted. "Please. If she were to spread a rumor, it would be that she and Sesshoumaru were dating. Not you. You know she's had the hots for him for forever."
"Well then where?!" She exclaimed, exhausperated.
Sango shrugged. "I guess I just assumed. I mean, you're always complaining about him, and you look so embarrassed when you try to get his attention, and all those after school sessions where you were 'checking your grades,' or 'complaining about unfair marks.' I just assumed you guys had hooked up."
Kagome blinked. "You mean you're the one that started the rumor?!"
Sango ducked her head. "I'm sorry, I thought it was true. I mean, you haven't ever seen your face when you talk about him. You get all flushed and breathy..."
"That's because I'm usually livid with him, Sango, not because I like him." She cupped her head in her hands and looked out the window. Inuyasha chose that moment to walk by, standing close to her cousin, Kikyou. Her jaw dropped almost comically. "Oh, that's so not fair." She hissed, practically bristling when Kikyou dipped her hand in to Inuyasha's, smiling prettily up at him with a perfect pouty lip-gloss coated bottom lip. "And that's my makeup technique." Kagome slouched in her chair. "Things can't get any worse!"
Sango let out a tiny giggle. "You know how they say you should knock on wood so that you don't jynx yourself?"
"Yeah?"
Sango smiled behind her hand so that Kagome wouldn't see it. "You didn't knock on wood."
"Higurashi-san."
Kagome closed her eyes. No way. No. Way. There was no way that Sesshoumaru would - could - show up now.
"A word if you please?"
Kagome groaned and Sango stiffled another laugh. "Yes Sempai."
Senpai (先輩, Senpai?) and kōhai (後輩, kōhai?) are an essential element of Japanese age-based status relationships, similar to the way that family and other relationships are decided based on age, with even twins being divided into older and younger sibling. Senpai is roughly equivalent to the western concept of "mentor", while kōhai are roughly equivalent to "acolytes". A young person may be considered the senpai of an older person at times if the older person entered an organization, such as a company, at a later time than the younger person did. Senpai is often seen romanized as "sempai".
More than simple seniority, senpai implies a relationship with reciprocal obligations, somewhat similar to a mentoring relationship. A kōhai is expected to respect and obey their senpai, and the senpai in turn must guide, protect, and teach their kōhai as best they can. Senpai/kōhai relationships generally last for as long as the two people concerned stay in contact, even if the original context in which the senpai was senior is no longer relevant.
These terms are used widely among otaku, as they appear frequently in anime and manga. Romantic crushes on one's senior are a popular theme in shōjo and romantic stories. In translated anime and manga, senpai/kōhai are more commonly retained in fansubs and scanlations, as official translations tend to use familiar English terms.