A Modern Day Fairy Horror by Nekette

Meetings Of A Peculiar Nature

Disclaimer: I no own, yes?

Five years had passed since that eventful day in Kindergarten, leaving many meetings unsaid, many secrets untold; let's revisit them for old times sake.

Kagome and her new self proclaimed tachi were playing on the playground; InuYasha digging holes with Shippo while Kikyo and Shiori played on the swings. Kagome was playing ball with Naraku, when, suddenly, a glowing green whip snagged it from mid air, only to fling it with unnecessary force at Kagome's head.

Sensing, instinctively, the danger to her cranium, the little miko threw up a barrier, effectively bouncing the ball right back at Sesshoumaru's tail boa. Now, this wouldn't be quite an offense if the ball weren't covered in mud and Kami knows what other insects and critters Or if little Sesshy-sama had seen it coming...

It landed with one of those cartoonly dramatic 'SPLORCH!' noises, mussing up the pristine fur and flinging bits of mud onto the mini lord's face.

"Ut-ohs..." Kagome whimpered, backing away slowly, Naraku completely forgotten on the sidelines.

Sesshoumaru growled angrily and advanced upon the glowing blue child, molten gold opticals bled crimson with rage. How dare she assault his person?!

"Leave her alone you bully!" Another voice screamed as a dark haired cannonball barreled into Sessh's back, throwing him off balance and into the dirt, "Just because Teacher's afraid of you doesn't mean I'll bow down." She continued angrily, tugging viciously on the shimmering silver mane.

Man...That girl's got issues...

"Allow me to help you up." A faux suave voice called from her side, leading Kagome to the fact that she had indeed fallen and not realized it, "Sure..." She mumbles, only to screech at the disturbing feeling of his hand upon her butt.

Unnoticed through all the chaos, Naraku watched, amused, until the holy male child dared to grab his Kagome's butt. Acting the role his adopted age put him in, the demon child threw himself at the monk in training and beat him about the head with his fists, "It's not nice to grab little girl's butts!" He lectured while his fists kept flying in weakened blows around the violet-eyed boy's head. That is, until, a fist curled in his shirt, lifting him bodily from the crying child with his broken nose.

"What's going on here?" The supervisor boomed, his other hand curled in the other girl's messy vest to keep the two troublemakers separate from the rest of the kinder and first graders.

"He started it!" They yowled at the same time, dangling helplessly a food four feet in the air.

"I don't care who started it, all I care about is bad behavior and who threw the first punch. That'd be you two." He rumbled ominously.

"Um...Mister Guard Person," Kagome began, chewing on her thumb, "They really did start it." Throwing a dirty look at the full dog demon, she crosses her arms mulishly over her chest; "He threw a ball at my head! And he grabbed my butt!" Pointing at the respective perpetrators, she scuffs her shoe in the dirt.

"Alright, time out for all four of you then. Shame on you, first graders, picking on the kindergarteners, you should know better." The supervisor growled, another set of hands picking up Miroku and Sesshoumaru. Doing a double take at Miroku, he mutters an amendment, "Well, you should go to the nurse first. You there! Take him to the nurse." He orders Kagome, foisting the first grader off on her, "She's just down the hall with the plus on the door."

Stalking off to deposit his cargo in the time out gate, Kagome stares at the spider demon's back before blinking at Miroku, "If I hafta..."

Kikyo blinks again at her twin's odd behavior from her swing, maybe Kagome's cranky and didn't eat enough breakfast. That must be it...

Watching the two stumble into the building, she shrugs and returns to her conversations with Shiori.

"Hah! My brother got what he deserved." InuYasha crowed as he noticed Maru in the bad kids cage. "Your brother?" Shippo questioned, turning to look over his shoulder curiously. "The one all covered in mud with the boa?" He tittered.

"Yeh, Sesshoumaru's always acting all high and mighty. Nice to see him taken down a peg." Grinning smugly, Inu throws another handful of dirt out of their impressive hole into the ever-growing hill.

"I wonder who the other two are..." Shiori murmurs, her ears twitching slightly beneath her white silver hair, "They look so interesting."

"Now sit here and stay quiet, we wouldn't want a repeat occurrence tomorrow, now would we?" The elder kumo youkai growled, dropping his burden down amongst the other troublemakers.

"Now would we?" An ookami mocked when the kumo was out of earshot, he stood imperiously on a mound of dirt he obviously built himself. "Name's Kouga, I'm King of the trouble makers 'round here." The other first grader gloated, tail wagging excitedly by the backs of his legs.

"My ass you are." Naraku growled with a shocking show of mouth, tackling the puppy off his mountain to pin him and growl, "That's my title now, Wolf."

Sesshoumaru snorted, choosing to ignore the petty fool as he groomed the ick from mokomoko-sama. He was the heir to the Western territory; he couldn't care less about grade school shows of dominance. He'd show them all in high school.

The slayer child just rolled her eyes, sitting with her hands wrapped around the bars in a sulk, "Stupid demons...Getting me in trouble."

A loose hair wiggled from the dirt around her wrists, floating away to a red comb held in another girl's hands, "Hi! Name's Yura, hair's my game." She coos, stroking the comb adoringly, "What's yours?"

"Sango," The chibi slayer replied with a grudging smile, "That was cool. All I got is this boomerang." Brandishing her weapon proudly, the two girls set to chattering about varying properties of thickness and strength of weapons.

Kouga, meanwhile, whimpered and sullenly submitted to the more powerful hanyou above him, "Fine!" He snapped, "Just get offa me you mangy spider."

Smiling wickedly, Naraku calmly backhanded his new beta and rolled off of the cub to take his position on the dirt throne, "We can learn much from each other" He chortled, reminiscing in the back of his mind about the old days...

"Oh...Um um um..." Kagome mutters, staring around her blankly at the collection of doors around the end of the hallway. "Um..."

Turning, she sneezes at the cloud of chalk dust billowing away from a set of floating erasers and a red-eyed girl with a fan, "Excuse me! Excuse me! Do you know where the Nurse is?" She worries, holding Miroku tighter, for, indeed it was Miroku, he had muttered his name blearily somewhere between now and entering the cooled hallways of the elementary wing.

"Yeah, it's right there." The kaze youkai points, popping her gum as she flicks her fan shut, "Name's Kagura by the way. What's yours?" She asks as she stoops to pick up the now clean erasers.

"Kagome...And he's Miroku. Thank you!" She calls as she hurries over to the correct door, "Let's be friends!" She adds over her shoulder before she disappears.

"Sure...Why not?" Kagura murmurs, bemused at the younger kids. There was something about the strange eyed girl's aura...It reminded her of something...

The scene begins now, five years after the events described above, where this chapter truly begins. The background of the hidden drama Kisiagure Learning Center, a facility big enough to contain the grades K through Eight. Currently our main characters are enrolled in Fifth grade, with some sixth, and one seventh grade exception.

Lounging comfortably on the steps leading to their wing of the education facility, the group chats semi amiably, points of tension ever available for dissection. For example; Sesshoumaru's presence was ever something to question, doe he did not necessarily like any of the group members, however, he liked the rest of his age group even less, finding them too immature and weak for his regal tastes. Another notation of interest would be dull eyed, silent, Kagome sitting intimately in Naraku's lap; they had been going through a courting process since second grade, when Naraku's control over her life tightened. The others did not fail to notice the slow decline of Kagome's personality around her 'boyfriend', but none of them were quite brave enough to break it to Kagome, fearing what would happen to either themselves or her. The kumo hanyou had accumulated quite a reputation for himself in the years since they met in kinder garden, and the only one with enough power to oppose the spider was Sesshoumaru, but he didn't really care either way, he always found the girl too loud and annoying.

Kikyo leaned against InuYasha, stroking his hair absently, they, too, were somewhat of a couple, though not as serious as Kagome and Naraku. "Let's go watch that new movie in the theatre," Kikyo suggested, "I hear the animation is really good."

The myriad members of demon, human, and hanyou nodded in unison, it sounded like a plan. The bell rang for school to begin seconds after, prompting Kagome to crawl from Naraku's lap and gather her backpack. Standing stock still with her face closed off impassively and her eyes closed, she allows Naraku's cold lips to brush her cheek before grasping Kikyo's hand and strolling off with her sister to class.

Maru, in the back of his mind, noted the awkwardness of the situation with a critical eye; his beast had been whispering to him as of late, almost worried about the spitfire and her weakening independence. For fucks sake, the man actually hand fed her at lunch like a slave. First period was dedicated to the advancement of the student's inborn abilities, be they holy or demonic, or simple training to defend ones self against the multitude of feral mononoke and oni roaming the wilds uncaptured.

Turning to the gym, Sesshoumaru stalks ahead of the other four youkai to the training arena, leaving the hayou and ningen to their devices.

Pairing off with both Kagura and Yura, he summons his acid whip and grins in feral anticipation. The wind demoness flicks out her fan and wavers it through the still air to gain control of the razor sharp frisbee like disks, flinging them all together at Sesshoumaru while Yura rigs her own obstacle course for the lordling.

Slicing deftly at the frisbees, he curses as they split in half and sent shrapnel flying in his direction; his whip was already passed the backlash arc, his only choice was to leap backward and trust that he wouldn't be entangled in Yura's web before Kagura could throw a Dance of Blades at his prone form.

Just his luck, the hair wrapped around his right ankle, at the exact moment Kagura announced her attack, leaving the disk remains for her final attack. Swinging mokomoko-sama from his shoulder, he fends off the arcing crescents while slicing the strands of hair with his poison claws; leaping upwards, he swings his boa like tail out at Kagura, hoping to ensnare her while she was distracted with the control of her empty air.

Yura, spotting this, sent a strand of flaming hair at the fluff, intercepting it and dragging it from Sesshou's grasp to leave it dangling. Cursing, they had learned, the lord braces himself against a strand before breathing a cloud of acid down upon the pair, leaping into the green mists to incapacitate them while they fought off the affects of his cloud, "I win." He growled, pleased as he pinned the two beneath his knees, "Again."

Meanwhile, Shippo and Kouga faced off in their animal forms, Shippo gaining the distinct advantage against the wind wolf, since his flames drew power from the oxygen-laden air. However, Kouge had brute strength on his side, and was teaching the kit a thing or two about brawns over brains. Nothing too spectacular, just a spectator hazard of stray fire bursts.

Darting under a jet of flame, the fox kit throws himself between Kouga's legs to bury his teeth in the cub's ruff, "I win..." He growled, sounding pleased and smug before releasing the earth brown fur and darting away again, just as Kouga's jaws snapped shut where his tail had been seconds prior.

"Runt..." Kouga muttered sulkily, he hated losing...It was time to beat on Ginta and Hakkaku to soothe his wounded pride.

InuYasha cursed blackly as he, once again, ran smack dab into Shirori's barrier, "Damnit, that's cheating!" He snarled, swinging his bokken angrily at the invisible shield, "Is not," the koumori hanyou countered, readying her bow to shoot a volley of arrows at the inu's chest, "I'm just taking advantage of my natural abilities." She taunted smugly, only to pout as a gust of wind emanated from the seething youth's body, throwing her projectiles off course.

"Feh!" Slamming the practice sword once more at the barrier, he grins viciously as an intelligent light glints in his amber eyes. Flinging a smoke bomb at the half circle, he leaps above the swirling smoke, riding his own created air currents to drop down from above where she usually forgot and left an open space for her to flee from. Dropping triumphantly into the black depths, he swings wildly at the darkness, puppy ears twitching constantly for a footstep to bely her presence.

The smoke screen abruptly roiled inwards as a miniature barrier forms around InuYasha's hands and the bokken's hilt, limiting his movements cripplingly. A brush of lips against his neck sealed his fate, "I win." Shiori cooed triumphantly, patting the puppy boy's head with a giggle.

"Keh!"

Naraku, meanwhile, was employing tactics similar to Yura's with his spider web, flinging balls of miasma at the edges to keep his prey in the center. He wasn't fighting just one opponent, oh no, he was fighting three unnamed elementals. Fire types, all of them, new students. "I'm the top dog around these parts." He sneered, shooting an elongated limb into their raging midst's to bitchslap the triplets casually, "The sooner you accept that, the sooner we can get past this farce of a battle."

Chuckling at the ensuing wave of flame, his entire web was catching, the flames fed by his entirely too flammable miasma, the kumo drops down into his pot of flies and, with a blur of motion, knocks the three unconscious, "I. Win." Leaping free of the inferno, he stands smugly above, balanced with his feet wedged into the trapeze rings for acrobatic training.

Kagome's eyes were cleared mostly of the haze that ensconced their colored depths as she closed her right eye to sight down the shaft of her arrow at the target; it was just right. Releasing her first with a blinding arc of power, she pin missiles her remaining quiver of projectiles in the flashy leader's wake, hidden in the excessive display of power.

When it cleared, the sight pleased the training miko; her target rather resembled a porcupine at this point, "Excellent work, Kagome." Kaede, their instructor praised. "Kikyo? Why don't you give it a shot." Smiling kindly at her pupils, she motions for the elder twin to take her place at the range.

"Hai, Kaede-sensei." She answered with a bow, swinging her own long bow from her shoulder to stare down the center of the circle. Pistoning her hand movements, she shoots one after the other into the center, splitting each arrow successively down the center to form a flower pattern with the opened wood.

"Very good Kikyo!" Patting her acolytes on their heads, she turns to continue instructing the remainder of her class.

"Nice shot, Kags." "You too, Kiks."

"Hirakutso!" Sango screamed, flinging the bone boomerang down at Miroku from atop Kirara's flying back. They had the aerial advantage, but Miroku was 'cursed' with a wind tunnel -- a localized black hole somehow melded to his flesh in a spell gone wrong – which could throw her weapon off course easily and threaten Kirara, though he'd never actually do it.

Swinging his staff at the oncoming weapon, Miroku forces it to veer off into the wall before leaping up a good ten feet into the air, "Wind tunnel!" Undoing the containing rosary around his right hand, he sucks up the air around the fire cat, dimming her flames and forcing her to land. Quickly resheilding the void, he arcs the jingling staff above his head to battle Sango head on, sacred weapon to slayer's katana.

Minutes into their battle, the lunch bell rang, "Aw, shoot." Sango cursed, huffing, "Meet you at the usual table?" She asked as she turned to present the hentai a perfect view of her well worked ass, "Of course." He answers with his trademark lecherous grin, "Seeya there."

First period lasted three hours, with intermittent breaks when the occasion called for it, then it was Lunch, and after that was another three hours of academic courses.

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Nekette: So...You like this chapter a bit more? I added meeting Sesshy and the others back on the first day for y'all, and training fight scenes for your viewing pleasure. Class was cancelled, and my ride abandoned me, so I've been working on this in the public computer lab. Yay for Microsoft Word access!

Well, chapter three should come out sometime Sunday or Monday, depending on how long I take to finish beta-ing Yellow Brick Road and get Leash's first chapter –finally- done. I hope I can post it later today or tomorrow. =)

Please rate and review, hokaii? Hokaii.