The next day at school, Kagome laid her head on her desk. How embarrassing. Yeah she'd always dreamed of someone saying those words to her, but not like that!

"It was an accident! He didn't mean them! Well, he did, but they were meant for someone else." Kagome kept repeating in her mind, but the scene kept replaying over and over in her head. Seriously, she needed to get over it. With a sigh, she left the classroom to change into her gym clothes. They were cleaning the pool today. Finally something to get her mind off those events.

Kagome joined her four friends. "Hey do any of you have an extra hair tie?"

"I've got one," Eri handed her a red hair tie. "I keep some around just in case one of mine snap."

"Thanks Eri," Kagome smiled as she pulled her hair into a pony tail.

"Hey Kagome, check it out. Looks like you're popular with the guys," Makoto pointed to a group of guys who were staring at her with dreamy eyes.

"Well I'm gonna go help Tenma! See ya!" Kagome jumped down into the waterless pool. "Hey Ten- Karasuma, what the hell are you doing?"

"It's nothing." he answered picking himself up from the pool floor.

"Pool sniffer..." she grumbled

"Woah! Did you see that? Harima totally missed a nice slap shot," the camera boy commented.

"He can be a real jerk at times, but Hanais an amazing athlete." one of the other kids chimed in.

"It appears that you lost something," Hanai said to Harima. "So I was just trying to return it to you as a curtsy. To fast for you, huh?"

"Whatever big man, but hey if that's the way you wanna play it, then fine by me." Harima swung his brush and hit the soap like it was a hockey puck.

"Oh boy. Here we go." Kagome sighed and leaned against her brush for support as she watched them pass the soap back and forth.

"Woah! check it out! They're locked in a dead heat!"

"Yeah. It's anybody's game! Wait. Maybe not."

Hanai smirked as Harima gasped for breath.

"Would you look at that," Eri pointed out. "For all his bad boy postry**, Harima turned out to be a real wuss, don't you think?"

"Actually, he's doing better than I expected," Makoto said, "Especially for a guy who's not into sports. Don't forget, he's holding his own against someone who has black belt."

"A master of martial arts can't lose to a thug! This ends now!" Hanai's confidence slipped as soon as Yakumo and appeared and her name was said. Hanai missed.

"In your face jerk!" Harima boasted.

"Damn it!"

"Hey why don't we make this competition beyond childs play!" He announced. "Lets engage in a real battle instead. As you know, the schools festival is approaching and if you wanna a say in what the class does this year, get down here and join me in the playing field!"

"Have you gone insane!" Makoto scolded.

"I haven't been able to decide which would be better: putting on a play or setting up a booth and selling refreshments. A friendly game will help with our decision. Unless somebody objects." Hanai explained.

"Ya know he wants to impress Yakumo so much that it's actually kinda scary," Eri said.

"Guys always fall to pieces when they're in love," Akira commented softly.

"I'll play! This sounds really fun!" Tenma shouted.

"I'm in!" Kagome said as well.

"Uh, wait count me in too!" Harima joined.

"Great! Who else?" Hanai seemed satisfied as others decided to join.

"Super awesome booth team, Unite!" Kagome, Harima, Tenma, and Makoto got together

"Super class play team, Unite!" Akira, Hanai, Eri, and another student got together.

"You're going down Akira!" Tenma challenged.

"We'll see about that," she said.

The eight of the participants got prepared. Harima and the others stretched as Kagome just stood there, deep in thought.

"Looks like Kagome is thinking of a strategy," Makoto commented.

"Yeah looks like she's really thinking!" Tenma noted.

"Whatever, let's just win!" Harima yelled.

"Yes. I'll fuse my miko powers into the soap and brush and score some points for my team." Sometimes her miko powers were a blessing and other times, it was a curse. She pulled the Shikon Jewel from beneath her shirt and kissed the marble jewel for good luck before putting it back out of sight, out of mind.

Karasuma blew the whistle, signalling they were about to start.

"Hey who you betting on gets the first score?"

"My moneys on Hanai."

"I got Harima"

"I don't know, that Kagome chick looks pretty confident."

"Akira!"

Everyone threw out names and bets.

"The Match will now begin. It's game time folks." Karasuma announced.

Kagome went head on head with Hanai.

"You may be the class rep, but I won't go easy on you! I'm tougher than I look!" Kagome smirked.

"Heh, new girl you are out of your league if you think you can take me on! I'm doing this for Yakumo!" he sure was confident, but Kagome had a weapon no else had.

The soap was dropped and Kagome was quick to take it. Hanai let out a growl as he chased after Kagome. She glanced back to see Hanai hot on her tail and quickly passed it to Makoto.

"There's an opening!" Eri interfered the pass.

"Damn,"

"Down the middle? To easy! I'm going for it!" Harima said.

"Harima don't thats a-" it curved away from him, "Curve...ball."

"What the hell!"

"Good work Eri!" Hanai said as he ran for the goal. Makoto stopped the pass from going into the goal!

"Hey take it easy!" She yelled at him.

"With the play at stake, no way. Besides I've seen you take way harder hits than that Makoto!" Hanai said.

"Harima, Tenma, we're counting on you!" Makoto called.

"Yeah... good luck with that." Kagome said. "I've got your back Makoto!"

"Thanks Kagome!"

Another player jumped in.

"Harima cover the center,"

"Huh? Who the hell are you?" he asked.

"Doesn't matter," Kagome said as she ran after him. "Do what he says!"

"Cover your own center."

"Tenma is about to pass to you," he said.

"Center! Right I'm so on it!" He yelled. He was so easy to persuade if Tenma was mentioned.

The student passed it to Tenma who missed. The soap hit the wall and headed straight for Harima.

"Take the shot Harima!"

Harima raised his brush over his head and hit the puck as it approached him

The crowd cheered when it went in.

Karasuma blew his whistle. "That's off sides. No goal."

"What kind of a stupid rule is that!" Harima yelled at Karasuma.

"Stop it! You can't argue with the referees!" Tenma scolded him for yelling at the love of her life.

Kagome wacked Harima on the head with her brush. "Karasuma is referee. His word is law."

Soon others began to join in on the fun, but the game also ended quickly after.

Behind the school building, the boys were buying pictures of some of the girls from Takeichi.

"Woah! Check out this one!" one of the guys held up a picture of Kagome. One hand was shading her eyes as she looked up at the sky, while the other rested by her side. The way the picture was taken, and the angle, Kagome had almost a holy look to her.

"Isn't that the new girl?"

"Yeah. I can't remember her name though. She's always hanging out with Eri, Makoto, Akira, and Tenma though."

"I've seen her talk with Karasuma a few times!"

"That boys," Takeichi said, "Is none other than Kagome Higurashi. The newest member of class 2-C. She's beautiful, smart, and athletic. Ranked one of the top five girls in our class and school."

Imadori took the photo. "Kagome Higurashi is 2-C hottest chick, just under Eri Sawachika. In the school, she's number two, right under Yamako Tsukamoto."

"I think Kagome is a lot prettier than Eri!" one of the boys threw out. Several others seemed to agree with this as well and thus dubbed Kagome was Class 2-C's hottest chick.

"It's scary how you know this." Takeichi grumbled from his spot on the stairs.

"I keep tabs." he grinned.

Harima snatched the photo from Imadori. "Hey!"

"I'll take that." Harima slipped the photo in his wallet.

"Give that back!" Imadori reached for Harimas wallet. "I was going to buy that!"

"If Kagome found out you had this picture of her, she'd slaughter you." Harima said.

"Oh, I see how it is Harima," Imadori smirked and crossed his arms over his chest. "You not only have thing for Tenma Tsukamoto, but Kagome Higurashi as well!"

"What?! No! Tenma is the only one I love!" He defended.

"Then give the picture back." Imadori grinned holding his hand out.

Harima looked back and forth between his wallet and Imadoris hand. He gulped. Death by Kagome's hand? No thanks. "I can't."

"Why not!?"

"Because she'll kill me! Kagome is scary when she's angry!" Harima let the shiver he'd been holding back slither down his spine and back up again. "She took down one of those thugs I always beat up like it was nothing! Put him in the hospital!"

"She's beautiful, smart, athletic, and tough." He wrote down something in the little black handbook he carried around with him. Imadori kept tabs on all his classmates. He flipped to another page. "Likes Tenma Tsukamoto and Kagome Higurashi." he smirked as he snapped the book close.

Harima took that chance to run and find Kagome.

"There goes a good amount of cash," Takeichi sighed.

It wasn't hard to find the priestess, however she was with her friends. He took her arm anyway and dragged her away from them.

"Hey! What's the big idea!" she yelled digging her heels into the ground.

"Just trust me will ya!" he said. Harima took her behind the shed where all the club equipment was.

"So. Why'd you drag me away?" she asked. Harima pulled out his wallet.

"Alright. Don't kill me or anything, but I got this," he pulled the picture out and showed her. Her face turned red and she snatched it from his hands.

"Harima Kenji! Where did you get this photo and why do you have it?" she smiled sweetly at him. A little to sweet.

"Takeichi took the photo and Imadori was going to buy it from him, but I took it before he could and put it in my wallet to give to you so no one would have it!" he explained as fast as he could.

"Oh. Well... at least your honest." she patted his head. "I'll have to punish those creeps." with that said, Kagome skipped away in search of Imadori and Takeichi.

Needless to say, both boys came to school the next day with broken arms, a black eye, and probably brain damage.