Secret Admirer by ITL

Secret Admirer

(A/N this is in response to Momodesu's challenge on Feudalfairytale.com, if you haven't ever checked out the site you defiantly should.)

Chapter 1

Secret Admirer

Dear Diary,

You will never guess what happened to me today! I have a secret admirer, and right in time for Valentines Day! I have no idea who it could be! It all started this morning when I woke up...

On the first day of February, the start of her final year in school, Kagome was readying herself for the peril that was High School. She had just finished eating breakfast, when she went up stairs to her bedroom to check her e-mail one last time before she went to school. Normally she didn't have anything new in her inbox, but today was an exception. Sitting there blinking at her was one single unread e-mail. Even though she didn't recognize the address the e-mail had been sent from she opened it out of sheer curiosity, her blue eyes scanning over the small black words as her interest suddenly peaked.

Dear Kagome,

Roses are red, violets are blue, you don't know this, but I would be nothing with out you. (A/N poorly written poetry check!)

Your secret admirer

Doggie_man_249

P.S. find me on your instant messenger so we can chat 'Gome!

She was surprised more than anything. It took a few minutes for the short e-mail to register in her mind. She had a secret admirer! She sat back and stared at the screen. She was brought out of her daze by her mother's yelled warning of being late to school. Kagome quickly gathered her school bags and rushed out the door and off to school.

All throughout the day she kept thinking about that stupid little message she received. She was sitting in lunch trying to figure out who the Secret Admirer could be when one of her good friends (and one of the people she thought could be the Admirer) came up to the table and sat himself right next to her.

"Hey 'Yasha" she said as she reached for her apple and took a bite.

"Hey Kags. Anything new today?" he asked as he dug into his ramen with vigor.

"Ummm not much. And you?" She lied. She really didn't want him knowing about the letter yet until she knew who it was from.

"About the same, I tanked a stupid math test today." He said as he finished off his ramen.

"Ahh poor baby!" Kagome said as she gave his ears a scratch. You see InuYasha is a half demon or Hanyou as some may call him. Kagome goes to the very first school in all of Japan to permit half demons to attend. Before it was permitted the half demons had to find their own schooling. Even though the hanyous were allowed to attend they were still considered outcasts. InuYasha was having a particularly bad day when Kagome met him for the first time.

~~FLASHBACK TO FRESHMAN YEAR~~ (here I would put either a "~" or a "---" because the big bold letters kind of throw readers off. At the top, in an Authors Note, you can say "a '~' means a flashback" or something to that extent.)

InuYasha was sitting at an empty lunch table waiting for the bell to ring so he could go to another one of his pointless classes of the day. He had been the tail end of too many jokes for one day and he just wanted to skip out for the rest of the day, but he knew if he did his brother would kick his ass. Then, out of no where, this ningen girl came over and sat down right across from him.

"Hi, I'm Kagome Higarashi, and I'm new here!" she said cheerfully as she stuck out her hand for him to shake. He just looked at it as if he didn't know what it was.

"Ok.." she said as she took her hand back and continued to talk to the irritated hanyou. She asked him his name and just random other small talk questions. He didn't answer any of them, and it didn't seem to bother her at all. He had hoped that when the bell rang that she would leave him alone, but oh was he wrong. Not only did she follow him and keep talking, he found out she had the last four classes with him. He just couldn't understand how a pretty girl like her would want to talk to a hanyou like him without insulting him. Normally he could just ignore people like her but she just grated on his nerves. Finally at the end of the day just before the final bell rang, he snapped at her.

"Can't you just shut up you stupid wench?" he yelled at her, the vein in his forehead visibly pulsing. "Can't you see that I am a HANYOU? My kind and your kind don't get along." He stated matter of factly as he crossed his arms.

The teacher, Kaede-sama, saw InuYasha's outburst and reached into her desk and grabbed a set of subjugation beads incase things started to get ugly.

"Your kind and my kind can get along just fine," she countered back, "One of my best friends back at my old school in America was a half demon. You need to learn some respect if you ever want to be respected. Do you know who I am?" she asked as she got in his face.

"No and I don't really care who you are you stupid little ningen." He replied as he cracked his knuckles menacingly

"I am the Shikon Miko, you Baka, and you should care who I am, because if you piss me off I will purify your ass to dust before you could even blink." She countered.

"I bet that you couldn't even lay a single finger on me."

"I'll take that bet."

While the two were bickering Kaede-sama had come up behind InuYasha and just before InuYasha was about to strike Kagome she placed the beads around InuYasha's neck.

"What the fuck!" he yelled as he felt the beads fall against his chest.

"Child ye need to use a subduing command."

"Like sit?" she asked, and as the word 'sit' came out of her mouth the beads glowed and InuYasha was forced to kiss dirt...err... tile. A string of muffled profanities came flying out of the hanyous mouth.

"What was that?!" Kagome asked. Even though she is the Shikon miko her knowledge of all things miko is very lacking. (A/N 1000 word minimum CHECK!) At her old school she wasn't able to do much miko work.

"You can now control his person with a simple word." Kaede-sama said as she walked around InuYasha's prone form. A few seconds later InuYasha was back up on his feet and back in Kagome's face.

"Don't you ever do that again or I swear that you will regret it." He threatened.

There was nothing that Kagome hated more that when people got in her face and threatened her. "Oh yeah is that so? Well guess what? SIT!" once again InuYasha kissed the floor.

After a few more sits from Kagome InuYasha realized that yelling at Kagome would get him no where fast. So instead he decided to just go and sit in his seat quietly, and fume. Kagome saw that he didn't want to fight and frankly she was tired of it too. It was completely against her nature to fight with anyone no matter how much they ticked her off. After the final bell rang InuYasha darted out of the room and rushed out to the parking lot to meet up with his half-brother, Sesshomaru. He wasn't expecting to see Kagome leaning against his brother's car.

He sighed as he continued to walk towards the car. "What do you want?"

"To apologize for being such a bitch; I normally don't ever fight with anyone. I shouldn't have sat you like that, it was rude and mean, and completely against my nature. Can you forgive me?" She asked on the verge of tears.

"What have you done now, insolent little half-breed?" came the cold stoic voice of Sesshomaru Taisho, a sophomore and InuYasha's older brother.

"He didn't do anything!" Kagome said as she stepped in front of InuYasha.

"Then why are you crying, miko?"

"I was asking him for forgiveness, I did him wrong and I want him to know that I am sorry."

"Hn. Well you should not be apologizing to a hanyou, for you are a priestess and whatever you are apologizing for was most likely his fault anyway."

"Hey! It was not my fault!" InuYasha finally chimed in.

"He's right, it was mine. All I tried to do was befriend him. You see, I'm new here and my only friend back at my old school in America was a hanyou named Jinenji, so I thought I would try and find a hanyou friend here because I know that hanyous have difficult lives and I feel that I can understand them better than I can understand ningens or youkai. I should have just left him alone when he didn't respond to my questions." She sobbed as she looked up to meet two different golden gazes.

The one was cold and made her feel like if she said the wrong thing that she would be killed, and the other was full of light and hope. InuYasha for the first time in his life had someone that truly wanted to be his friend and what did he do? He pushed her away. When neither of the two said anything else to her she turned on her heel and ran to her car.

Once she was safely in her car she locked her doors and curled into a little ball in her seat and just cried. Over and over in her mind she jus kept chanting 'I'm so stupid, I hate this place I just want to go home! The more she cried the angrier she became, and finally she punched the wheel and that caused the horn to honk. So while venting her anger she successfully scared herself with the horn. All the while InuYasha sat outside of her car and waited for her to calm down. When she honked the horn and scared herself he couldn't stop him self from laughing. She looked up and out her window and saw he was laughing at her. She thought he was laughing at her just to spite her, but in all actuality he was laughing because she scared herself. Unfortunately, this just made her cry harder.

InuYasha saw her start to cry harder and this time he decided to act. He pulled open the door and grabbed her hand and pulled her out. She stood in front of him head down, shoulders slumped, her hair forming a curtain around her face, crying her eyes out. InuYasha carefully lifted her chin with one clawed finger and looked in to her eyes.

"Please don't cry... I hate it when girls cry." He said.

Kagome forcibly stopped herself from crying and continued to hold his golden gaze.

"What do you want?" she asked as she sniffed and rubbed her eyes dry.

"I'm sorry for what I did to you. I never should have snapped at you. If you still want a friend I guess I could try and be one for you."

"Really?" she asked in a barely audible whisper.

"Yeah really. Besides, you said it yourself - I don't want to be on a miko's bad side."

"No you really don't!" she laughed as she brushed away another stray tear. She just happened to glance at her watch and her eyes nearly fell out of her head when she saw how late it had gotten. "I really have to go; I need to make sure my brother gets home ok. I'll see you tomorrow ok?"

"Ok. I'll see you tomorrow, Kagome." He said as he turned to walk back to his brother's car only to find that it was gone. "Hey Kagome, friends do favors for other friends right?" he asked as he turned back to her car.

"Yeah they do. Why?"

"Cuz the ass hole I call my brother already left, and I really need a ride home."

"Come on hop in." she said as she leaned over and opened the passenger door.

On that first ride home together he answered all of her questions and even asked some of his own. He directed her to his house and to their amazement they found that they only live a block and a half from each other. Ever since that day they have been very good friends and their friendship had grown to include a full youkai kitsune named Shippo, two humans, a monk, Miroku, and Sango, a demon slayer.

~~END FLASHBACK~~

"Will you stop that?" he said as he batted her hands away from his ears.

"Now why should I? I know you like it when your ears get scratched. Yet every time I do you gripe at me."

"Because I hate it when people scratch my ears, it makes me feel kinda inferior, ya know. 'Cuz even youkai have ears that look normal, whereas hanyous like me have these things." He said as he pointed to his little triangle shaped ears, he even wiggled them for added emphasis.

"I'm sorry." She said as she grabbed on to his arm and leaned her head against his shoulder.

"Keh, it ain't no problem, just don't do it again wench, alright?"

"Mm, kay." She replied as she started to wonder off in to her own little world, but she was brought back by the voice of another one of the people that she thinks could possibly her secret admirer, Kouga.

"How's my woman today?" he asked as he took a seat next to her, and pulled her off of InuYasha so he could wrap his arm around her waist.

"I'm fine." She said. It had been a long time since she stopped trying to ask Kouga to stop calling her 'his woman'.

"Hey wolf, get your hands off of Kagome, if you hadn't noticed she was kinda giving me a hug."

"I don't really care you mangy mutt. Someday I am going to make Kagome my wife, and there isn't anything you can do about it."

Kagome, at this point, just stood up and walked around to the other side of the table and sat down to watch how this battle of the dumb asses was going to play out.

"Didn't you already tell Ayame that you were going to marry her?" InuYasha asked as he stood up, crossed his arms, and looked down at Kouga.

"I ain't marrying her - she's not my type anyway." Kouga said as he stood and took the same pose.

"Then why did you tell her that you were?"

"Cuz I was young and stupid, that's why."

"Have you ever asked Kagome to go out with you?"

"It's not like I'll have to! Someday I will just come knocking and she'll come willingly in to my arms."

At the same time InuYasha and Kagome just snorted and then started to laugh uncontrollably.

"Sorry Kouga, but it is not going to work that way," Kagome said, "You're a great friend and all, but I just can't see us hooking up like that."

"What if I was to just ask you out straight up?" he asked hopefully.

"I don't know Kouga. I have a lot on my plate right now with it being our senior year and all. I don't really have the time."

"That wasn't a no!" he said with a huge smile on his face.

"Yeah but it wasn't a yes either dumb ass." InuYasha said as he took his seat again.

At that moment both Kouga and InuYasha looked up at the entrance to the Cafeteria. Ayame Takahashi and Kikyo Higarashi both walked in.

Kagome had a bit of... hatred for Kikyo, her cousin and rival miko, and it wasn't anything like mere family rivalry. Kikyo was one of those people who everybody just loves to hate. But in InuYasha's case it was the complete opposite. He has a love and hate relationship with her. Back in the day, not long after Kagome moved back to Japan, Kikyo decided to make a move on InuYasha. He fell for her...hard. She played him for a fool, and he knows that fact well, but still every time she walks into the same room he's is in has to see her, no matter what might get in his way. He watched her form, one which is eerily similar to that of Kagome's, walk straight over to her new boyfriend, Naraku, and she gave him a big, wet, nasty kiss. InuYasha's face instantly fell and his ears flattened against his head. Kagome gave him a sympathetic look. It isn't fair to InuYasha; Kikyo needs to learn to not be a bitch. And Kagome was just the person to teach her that lesson. She just needed the perfect plan. Later on she would meet up with Sango and they would come up with the perfect plan. An evil grin spread across her face as she thought of some of the possibilities. Miroku decided to walk into the cafeteria at that moment and he mistook Kagome's evil grin for a lecherous one.

"Why, Kagome, I never expected that of you! Thinking of impure thoughts during school... It seems my dear miko is more lecherous than I." He said as he came and sat down beside her.

"Huh?" she asked in genuine confusion. He leaned over and mumbled some lecherous thoughts in her ear. Her face flushed red, and her eyes got really wide. "You are such a lecher!" she screamed as she smacked him square across the face. "You shouldn't be thinking thoughts thought either, Miroku, seeing as you are a monk !!!" (A/N the Miroku slap CHECK!!)

"Nice one!" Sango said as she came up and sat down on the other side of Kagome.

"Yeah, thanks." She said in a not too enthusiastic voice.

She then reached in to her backpack at her feet and pulled out a sheet of paper. She was in desperate need of writing Sango a note, so she might tell her friend of her email in private. But, because of previous interceptions of her notes by a certain monk and hanyo that turned out all too disastrous, she wrote in a code she and Sango had created for obvious reasons.

Bloody Slayer,

Hey I need u to check sumthin out 4 me kk? Go 2 my e-mail, (u still no the pw right? It's kikyohater497 jic u 4got.) U need 2 check out the 1 from Doggie_man_249. And I have a plan 4 us, so far it involves me, u, THAT BITCH, and some form of humiliation. It's gonna b gr8. Well I gtg, I'll ttyl, I have a friggin math test that I have 2 study 4 today and 'Yasha says it's friggin hard. Byez

Bloody Shikon

Ok translation in to normal words.

Sango,

Hey I need you to check something out for me ok? Go to my e-mail, (you still know the password right? It's kikyohater497 just incase you forgot.) You need to check out the one I got from Doggie_man_249. And I have a plan for us; so far it involves me, you, Kikyo, and some form of humiliation it's going to be great. Well I got to go; I'll talk to you later. I have a freaking math test that I have to study for today and InuYasha says it is really hard. Bye

Kagome

She quickly and quietly handed the note to Sango who slid it into her back pocket with out anyone noticing. Her eyes met that of Kagome's and she gave her a small nod acknowledging that she wasn't to read it now. While everyone else was eating Kagome felt small hands rest on her shoulders, she quickly looked up and over her should to see who in the world was touching her. It was Shippo! (A/N in this he is about the same height as Kagome instead of being like 2 feet tall.)

"Oh hey Shippo-kun, you startled me!"

"Sorry Kagome. I didn't mean to."

"That's alright Shippo," she said with a grin, "What's new with you?"

"Not much, really... Did you know that your locker has been vandalized?"

"What!?!?!" she shrieked as she darted up from the table and ran to her locker, as did everyone else. When they reached her locker they all stopped and laughed. The door was covered in bright red duct tape, and in black sharpie was written, "Roses are red, dandelions are yellow, I really want to be your fellow." (A/N hey look more poorly written poetry!)

"Who did this?" she practically yelled. A chorus of "I don't know!" and "not me!" surrounded her. She let out a low growl of sorts and reached for the lock on her locker. Out of reflex she spun in the combination, and opened her locker. A waterfall of roses fell out of the locker to her feet. On the top shelf of the locker were three different heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. (A/N Flowers of some sort and Heart shaped box of chocolates Check and Check!)

"What the fuck is going on?" Kagome yelled in a very InuYasha like manner.

"Excuse me?" Came a strong masculine voice, Kagome face lost all of her color and she turned as white a as a sheet of paper as she turned to see Mr. Payne, the principal.

"I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to yell out like that, really I didn't!" she stammered out.

"I'm sure you didn't, but still fact remains that you did, and so you will serve a twenty minute detention this afternoon in my office, and I expect a five hundred word essay on why you shouldn't swear but study hall tomorrow afternoon. Is that understood?"

"Hai, sir." Kagome said as she looked down at her feet.

"Good, and it would do you well to clean up this mess and to remove the tape from your locker, because if you don't that twenty minute detention will turn into a two hour detention and a second essay on vandalism will be required by tomorrow as well. Understood?"

"Hai, sir."

"And for the rest of you get to where you are supposed to be, unless you wish to join Ms. Higarashi here after school."

"Hai, sir." All of her friends replied.

"Now!" Mr. Payne barked out, and all of the peopled scattered.

Kagome sighed, and bent down to start picking up all of the fallen flowers. She had no idea what to do with all of the roses. They couldn't go back in to her locker, and she had no other place to put them, other than in the trash. But she really didn't want to do that, they were really pretty. After she had gathered an arm full of the roses up, she stood and started to walk over to the trash but was stopped by a familiar voice.

"Miko, why are you throwing away those roses?" inquired Sesshomaru.

"Because I thought that that trash can would make a good vase." She replied in a sarcastic tone as she turned to look him in the eye. He lifted on sculpted eyebrow at her, and she just rolled her eyes. "Ok it's because I have no where else to put them, I really don't want to throw them away because they are very beautiful."

"Why not put them in your car until you can take them home?" he asked as he bent down and picked up one single rose and brought it up to his nose and inhaled its sweet scent.

If Kagome's arms hadn't been full of roses she would have smacked herself in the head for not thinking of that. "Oh god... I'm stupid... But I can't go out and put them in my car right now! If the principal sees me he will yell even more. I already have a detention and an essay due tomorrow because of all this."

"Hn. Well, this Sesshomaru will take these roses out to your car if you would like." He said as he walked up to her side.

"Well that would be great! Thanks! Hey wait why are you here? You graduated last year."

"Hai, I did. But I felt the need to come back and visit during one of my off hours."

"Yeah visit my butt, you came to tick off your brother and you know it."

"Well that goes without saying. Who put all of these roses in your locker? I am not aware of you dating anyone as of right now."

"How would you know if I was dating anyone or not?" she asked as she started to bundle the roses up into bunches of two dozen.

"Because InuYasha would do nothing but complain about the guy and how you could do so much better."

"Would he now? Well I don't know who put them in my locker, look at what they did to the door!" she said as she went and closed the locker after she removed the last of the roses; Sesshomaru just looked at the duct tape and quirked an eyebrow.

"It looks like you have a secret admirer."

"Yeah I know I do. I received an e-mail from him this morning with a similar poem. I don't know who it is but I do have a few ideas of who it could be."

And guess what buddy, you are on my list too.

"Care to share?"

"Not particularly. I don't want to say anything until I know for sure."

"Hn. Well, if you give me the keys to your car I will take these out for you, and when I'm done I'll put the keys in the glove compartment of InuYasha's car. You can retrieve them after school."

"Ok thanks," she said as she handed over her keys and all of the flowers. "I owe you one!"

"More like you owe me two" he replied as he turned on his heel and walked away. She watched his retreating form until he turned the corner and was out of her sight.

She gave a small sigh and turned to her locker to start picking the tape off of the door. She found when she went to pick it off starting at the corner that instead of it being stuck to the door, it was attached to a big sheet of paper. It came off with just a small tug. She was surprised to find that there was writing on the back.

Kagome,

By now I bet you are wondering who I am, I just wanted to let you know that I really do know you. I'm not just some crazy stalker person. I promise to you that if you don't figure out whom I am by Valentines Day I will come to you and tell you who I am. On Valentines Day I have a reservation made at [u] The Red Carpet [/u] for 7:30, I would be honored if you came and ate dinner with me that night.

With eternal love,

Your Secret Admirer

Doggie_Man_249

Kagome was left speechless. There was only one comforting thought that was running through her mind, and that was the fact that who ever her secret admirer was, was one of the people she actually knew. Life was just getting more and more complicated by the second. Instead of throwing the paper/tape away she carefully rolled it up and stuck it into her backpack. Just as she was closing her locker the bell rang for her to go to her next class. She sighed for what seemed like the billionth time that day and hurried off to her next class. The rest of her day was spent answering questions by all of her friends and all of the other random people that heard about her little fiasco. After the final bell rang Kagome trudged her way to the principal's office to sit through her twenty minute detention. Unfortunately, she forgot that her keys were in InuYasha's glove box and so after her detention she was stranded in the school parking lot with her car but no keys.

She took out her cell phone and was just about to call InuYasha and tell him to drive back to the school and bring the keys with him but was stopped by the sight of Sesshomaru's silver Lamborghini. He pulled up right beside her and rolled down his window. She felt so plain standing between his awesome car and her little powder blue Prius. (A/N this is my tribute to Jeff Dunham, if you have never heard of him, go google him and then check out his videos on youtube.com they are awesome and really funny!)

"Come and get in." he said as he rolled the window back up. She walked back around the car and slid in, not without her undying nervousness. She knew that Sesshomaru never let other people ride in this car - it was his baby. She quickly buckled herself in and held her backpack on her lap.

"I'm guessing that InuYasha drove off with your keys?" he said in his monotone voice, the car roaring to life beneath him.

"Yeah, I never got the chance to tell him that they were in his glove compartment, and I had detention today after school so I couldn't have gotten them before he left."

"I see. This Sesshomaru will take you home, and the hanyo will take you to school in the morning. Is that fine with you?" he asked as he pulled out of the school parking lot.

"Yeah that's fine with me..." after a moment she realized they weren't going to her home and she realized that Sesshomaru probably didn't even know where she lived, and as the confusion settled an uncertain question slipped through her lips, "...Where are we going?"

"This Sesshomaru is hungry, and I observe that you are as well," as if on cue, her stomach rumbled, "I will take you out to eat, and then escort you back home. Is this acceptable."*

"Yeah sure Sesshomaru, that would be great. Do you mind if I ask you something?"

"You just did, but go ahead and ask your question." He replied as he continued to navigate around town.

"You are acting really different today, normally you are very quiet and stoic, but not today. It's not that I mind or anything it's just different that's all."

"That wasn't a question." He pointed out.

"Well I guess what I am asking is... Is why?"

"This Sesshomaru is unsure. It seems... right to do this today."

"Well once again I thank you. Now I owe you like five, don't I?"

"I believe that is a reasonable number." He said with the smallest smirk as they pulled in to a little diner and went inside. The rest of the afternoon was spent eating and talking about what each other was doing now, and what plans they had for the future. It was getting a little bit dark outside when Sesshomaru finally looked at his watch and saw how late it was getting.

"Hn. This Sesshomaru better be getting you home."

"Yeah, I guess so." Kagome said somewhat reluctantly.

She really didn't want this day to end. Finally she was having some fun, and with a really great guy to. But to no avail, twenty minutes later she was at home in her room working on all of her home work. Right before she went to bed she checked her e-mail just incase she had another message from her secret admirer, but to her disappointment her inbox was empty save a message from Sango that she would read in the morning. And as she listed to the sounds of the city outside her bedroom window she fell in to a deep, heavy, dreamless sleep.

A/N ok so how was it? Just review and tell me what you would like to see in the story, I still have to add a few more things to the story to make it fit the criteria for the challenge but other than that what else would you all like to see? Also here is a poll... who do you think the secret admirer is? If you get it right I will post your name at the end of the final chapter as an award! Remember reviews are a writer's fuel!!!!!!!

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