6OKAY mustardyellowsunshine THANK YOU FOR TAGGING ME I AM DOING THE WRITING PROMPT! My brain has been dry of inspiration so this little exercise got some ideas flowing! This is a University!AU (my guilty pleasure)! Hope y'all enjoy.
Kagome grunted as she walked into the Duff Medical Building. It was her first semester at university and she was already so behind. The jump from high school to university was even worse than she had anticipated. The course load was unbearable. It didn't help that she was placed in the largest residence the campus had to offer, and there was no end to partying and drinking in the hallways at night. And it definitely didn't help that she usually couldn't resist joining her hallmates for the fun.
Instead of spending the night hitting the books for her biology midterm, she'd spent the night hitting shots. You've made some better decisions than this, Higurashi, she chastised inwardly. She was certainly going to get an awful grade on this midterm.
Kagome, like many of her classmates in her first-year biology class, wanted to become a doctor. She had chosen the top university in the country, which also happened to be the toughest. She was beginning to regret her decision. She was supposed to be getting all A's if she stood a fighting chance of getting into medical school. A's didn't come by her very easily at her school. And it definitely didn't help that the university was in a bustling city with an endless amount of bars, parties, and cute boys.
Sighing, she plopped down right next to one of those aforementioned cute boys with dog ears and short silver hair. He seemed to be in even worse shape than she. He looked like he'd spent an entire night at a kegger. He smelled like it too.
Damnit, I'm going to be inhaling the smell of beer this entire midterm. Again, Kagome was questioning her judgement. Sitting beside the hot guy in class seemed like a good idea, just like her decision to attend the top school. The beer smell was not helping her deal with her hangover whatsoever.
The TA passed out the test booklets, and the midterm commenced. Kagome could barely focus on the words in front of her due to her splitting headache, but she forced herself to answer every question as best as she could. And her best was not even close to good. She found herself making up answers as she went along.
As the test went on, she began to notice that the boy sitting to her right was arching his body ever so slightly. Kagome began to feel his eyes burning onto her paper. Is this asshole cheating off of me? She shifted her body so that he couldn't see what she was writing. After a couple of minutes, she became sore from the awkward position and she readjusted, so the fucker used the opportunity to cheat off of her again. The nerve of this guy!
Kagome's blood began to boil as she continued taking the test. It was her fault for the headache, lack of preparation, and nausea. She could maybe have forgiven the beer smell of this dude. But him cheating off of her? That was a stress that she did not need. And there was no stopping this guy. Just about every moment she readjusted herself, he would steal completely noticeable glances at her test. And they were in the middle of a giant auditorium with tons of students squished together. There was no way the TA was noticing what was going on.
This is the issue with underfunded education. She cursed her school. She cursed her headache. She cursed the test. But most of all, she cursed the dickhead sitting next to her who had the audacity to cheat off of her. And the joke's on him, because I don't think any of my answers are correct!
By the end of the exam, Kagome was boiling with rage. After the tests had been handed in and the students filed out of the auditorium, she made a beeline for the silver-haired boy, ready to give him an earful. She hoped to God that he had a bad hangover, so the sound of her yelling at him would be even more unpleasant.
She tapped her new arch-enemy on the shoulder. As he turned his head, she jumped into her accusations. "Did you seriously just cheat off of me for that entire midterm?"
The boy in the red hoodie shifted his gaze guiltily, crossed his arms, and simply said: "Keh!"
"Keh? KEH?! That's ALL you have to say to me? It was unpleasant enough to have to inhale your odour the entire exam, but the stress of trying to stop you from cheating off of me? UNBELIEVABLE!"
"Oh, you're complaining about ME? You look like a hag who just rolled out of bed after taking a bunch of tequila shots!"
Kagome was seething. She didn't really have a projection of how this conversation was going to turn out, but she didn't expect to be insulted! And anyway, they were vodka shots! Not tequila shots! She had a little bit more class than that!
"How DARE you! What are you, some kind of wannabe frat boy? How the hell did you get into this school anyway?"
"Keh! Coming from YOU! Half the answers you wrote down were wrong anyway!"
"WHAT? HOW... I... SCREW YOU!" It was bad enough that the boy cheated off of her, but acting all shameless about it? Kagome really had found her new arch-enemy. Before she could even think about what to say next, she slapped the boy straight across the face and stomped off. I am so ready for some hangover brunch. And a nap.
The dog-eared boy watched her walk away, too stunned to move. He wouldn't admit it, but he hadn't been cheating off of her. He'd caught a glimpse of her face as she sat down beside him and thought she was gorgeous. He'd noticed her before; they happened to be in the same ginormous residence together. He became totally enthralled when he noticed the intricate centipede tattoo on her left wrist. He kept glimpsing at it during the midterm. Of course, he caught an eye at all of her wrong test answers as well. He considered offering her tutoring services after the exam, just so he could have an excuse to talk to her. Inuyasha was actually fantastic at memorizing so he was getting straight A's in his biology class so far.
Well, that plan had backfired. Inuyasha stared longingly at the stomping girl. Now he was marked as a cheater and an asshole.
He could only hope that maybe he'd have the chance to redeem himself later in the year.
Author's note: This story is based off of something that actually happened to me during school. I sat down next to some smelly guy during a midterm and he cheated off of me the entire time. It was so distracting and infuriating (not to mention idiotic on the guy's part, because half my answers were wrong anyway). Unfortunately, this guy wasn't a cute hanyou dude. He did get in some trouble though because I totally tattled on him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯