A/N: From this point onward, I'm placing all oneshots here, I didn't want to keep making new stories. Some oneshots may be interconnected, some not. There might be some mistakes, I read it numerous times before posting and despite that, some minor errors may have escaped my super eyes lol. Anyways enjoy this first installment!
Summary: As student council president, she wanted to know everything, especially the enigma named Sesshomaru Taisho.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
Beauty and the Beast
She couldn’t help but stare at him.
Most people avoided him, some even made snide remarks about him. He wasn’t much different from the other students, except everybody calls him a delinquent. She couldn’t see that. How can they possibly say that when he was in class nearly everyday, jotting down notes from the lecture; he doesn’t make a fool out of himself, doesn’t warrant any attention to himself, with the exception of that unlikely title.
Kagome doesn’t mean to say that she was observing him ever since he transferred from another school, even though she was, she just wonders what were the circumstances, what made him receive that title. Sometimes she was too nosy for her own good, but the curiosity was overwhelming her. She tapped her pencil against her notebook, her cerulean-hued eyes lingering on the lean form of the new student. Long hair was tied in a simple knot, his complexion slightly pale, his eyes a light shade of brown, there was no denying the fact he was incredibly handsome.
Too handsome to be called a delinquent.
His handwriting was too neat, his uniform too pristine and went accordingly with the regulations, his posture was too rigid. She must have stared too long as she was blatantly looking at him, that she came face to face with his, a subtle confusion in his eyes. She froze, she should have looked away, should have looked at him with spaced intervals, now he was going to think she was some sort of creeper, or a stalker just staring at him.
Calmly, she looked back at the teacher, her face ablaze with heat, her thoughts racing. From the corner of her eye, she noticed the male looking away as well. She wanted to release the sigh that was lodged in her throat, but held it in, she didn’t want him to think she felt relief that he looked away, even though that was the case. The teacher drawled on about the lecture, she wasn’t paying any attention and the fact she didn’t know jack about math didn’t help either.
Sneaking a peek at her partner’s notes, she noticed fully elaborated notes, another unlikely thing for a delinquent. While peeking at his notes, her eyes wandered up, staring at the boy once more. What made her stare at him so much? Was it because he was handsome, or the fact he was an enigma? Could be both, she didn’t mind staring at his aristocratic features, she was after all a woman. What woman wouldn’t mind staring at him?
She must be really bad at this observing thing as the boy besides her once again looked at her, a faint hint of annoyance in his eyes. Her jaw wanted to drop as she caught a sight of a pale blush across his cheeks, making him appearing unbelievably adorable. Another fact delinquents wouldn’t do. Delinquents never look adorable, they look thuggish all the time.
Kagome was about to open her mouth to say something, but the bell rang, signaling that it was lunch time. He hurriedly placed his materials in his bag, and she could barely keep up as her materials were scattered everywhere on the table.
“What a second Taisho-san!” Maybe she shouldn’t have said that out loud as everyone paused in their activities to stare at her in surprise and shock. Even the male stopped, looking at her with a veiled curiosity. She knew it was strange for the student council president to talk to the number one delinquent in school, or at all. But she wasn’t someone to follow the perception of others, and with a pleasant smile, she approached the boy. “I was wondering if we could have lunch together?”
There was a tensed silence with a few gasps mingled within. Most of them came from girls, and as she looked around, she spotted a few jealous glances aimed towards her. Why they were jealous, she would never know since they didn’t have the guts to approach Sesshomaru Taisho.
Are they taken by his looks, or the fact, in their mind, he was considered the bad boy type? Maybe, since most of the girls giving her nasty looks were goody-two shoes, and everyone knows that good girls and the bad boys are attracted to each other despite being polar opposite. She guessed it was from the thrill of doing something bad. But that didn’t matter, their petty jealously wouldn’t phase her in any way, she was determined.
She patiently waited for his response, she wouldn’t be surprised if he refused. But if he did, she wouldn’t mind being persistent with this male. Kagome nearly did a victory dance when he nodded, hesitantly of course. But he accepted and that was what mattered. With a big grin, she fluttered out the room, the towering male behind her.
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She munched on her cool rice, staring at him again, watching as he calmly ate his meal, though there seem to be a flush of light red across his cheeks and ears.
“Why do you keep staring at me?” He finally spoke, and Kagome could have swoon after hearing that deep baritone voice; she never heard him speak before, despite the fact she sits next to him in class. It was a rich and velvety, she would have melted right then and there if she was a normal female student, but she wasn’t, she was the student council president, and such thing shouldn’t have phased her. She cleared her throat however, almost choking on a piece of rice.
“I’m observing you.” She started, shoving a chuck of bite-sized vegetables in her mouth. She noticed there was a flash of annoyance in his light eyes, before he turned his face away from her and focused on his meal. “Does it… unnerve you?” She smirked after she asked, knowing such a thing would annoy anyone, but luckily she doesn’t make it into a habit staring at people, he was the only exception.
He gave no answer, stabbing his rice nonchalantly and taking a sip from his drink.
“I’m curious about you, you act so unapproachable, but you’re not right?” She gave a faint sigh when he didn’t answer once again, seemingly ignoring her as if she was some pest. “How did you receive the title of being a Yankee?”
“That is what I am, now stop asking so many questions.” He must be getting annoyed from all the talking she was doing, but if she stayed silent and minded her lunch, then they would be getting nowhere. And she couldn’t have that, she needed to know, the curiosity was nearly strangling her.
“But you’re not one, right? Are you hiding something?” Sometimes she hated being so damn curious, but she can’t help it, he was an enigma. A handsome-looking enigma who seemed more intent on his lunch than her ramblings.
“Are you interrogating me now?”
“I’m just curious, I think it’s strange you would be a Yankee, I know how one acts, you don’t act like one.”
If she wasn’t staring at him intensively, she would have missed the amused smirk that graced his face before it disappeared. He didn’t answer and she didn’t expect him to. She was content with eating her lunch and staring at him quietly from underneath her bangs.
“So… are you going to tell me how you became a delinquent?”
“It’s irrelevant.” He merely said, his voice a deep monotone, nearly sounding like a robot.
Kagome pouted, “I heard what happened, but something is nagging me.” Sesshomaru didn’t seem like the person who would vandalize a school building, or any building at that. Maybe her mind has been poisoned by the constant rumors circulating, she wanted to vindicate the male, wanted to know the entire story.
“If you know what happened, why are you persisting on finding an answer?”
“’Coz I don’t believe it, not one bit.” Kagome pointed her chopsticks at him. “So, you gonna tell me or no?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
He seemed very tight-lipped about it and right then Kagome made the decision to let the matter rest for now. It wouldn’t do her any good if she stubbornly asked him repeatedly the same question, he might actually snap at her. Not that she would know that since Sesshomaru doesn’t give a hint at all of what he was thinking, besides those scant few moments of when he seemed to blush lightly.
Kagome narrowed her eyes, it was always the quiet ones that tended to be very complex. But that didn’t deter her from approaching him, in fact, she thought their personalities complimented each other, since she tended to be very outgoing and talkative while, from what she could deduce, Sesshomaru seemed to be the exact opposite.
“Well since we’re gonna be friends from now on,” She ignored the pointed glare from the male besides her; if she was anybody else, she would have been scared or at least put-off by his attitude, but she was Kagome Higurashi, student council president, she was definitely not some weak-willed person. “I would eventually find out what happened.”
Sesshomaru merely hn’ed.
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Prompt: Still waters run deep
Word Count: 1523
Stella’s Proverbial Challenge