Author's Note: Hiya peoples!!! I'm baaaaack!!! Right on time for my birthday too! (Or for those in the northern hemisphere, tomorrow it will be). I had to fight what seemed to be the universe to post (stupid glitch). Some have been enquiring to what and when I'm going to post next. Wait no more! This is my latest work in process, hope you like. Also, I'd like to add that I have three or four lines in here that are an extract from Chapter 14 of Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever, it was a spontaneous decision of mine.

Disclaimer: I can safely say that I did not receive Inuyasha as my birthday present *sobs* So for the moment, I don't own Inuyasha, or anything to do with Maximum Ride...yet. They have their own respected creators.

Dedication: This is for all who are suffering from the horrible Victorian bushfires here in Australia. In addition to this, it is Soulless Lover's birthday soon! So Happy Birthday to her!

Enjoy! (I apologise for the length of these notes.)

Teaching a Half Dog-Demon New Tricks

Drabble Series

By: kagomesbutterflyfeeling

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Chapter 1:

Lie Down

Kagome heaved herself over the aged, wooden ledge of the magical well hidden on the Higurashi family's shrine grounds, adjusting her painfully yellow backpack to make sure that it would remain on her right shoulder. She then quickly pulled both of her long, slender legs over the rough outcrop and stood, now in the dark shrine house of her own era.

'It's nice to be home,' she thought peacefully, recalling all the hard work it took her to get here thanks to one stubborn half-demon. Huffing angrily and turning her back to the mystical object that had forever changed her life, the junior high school girl paced forwards and wandered up the small flight of stairs that creaked under her as she climbed up them, disregarding the eerie sound. She was met with a wide wooden, unpainted door and without a thought heaved it open, leaving the dark, cold shrine behind her to be amiably welcomed by a bright, clear morning in modern day Japan.

"Ah, this is perfect. I can use the day off to catch up on work and all those sit commands will keep Inuyasha away for a while," she resolved to herself, shutting the door behind her as she hopped out and leisurely walked her way over to her home.

Upon entering the house through the back kitchen door, Kagome ran into her mother who was organising a small, but no doubt delicious morning tea for the family, "Hi Mama! I'm home!"

"Oh, Kagome dear! It's so good to see you home and well. How's Inuyasha?" Mrs Higurashi warmly smiled and both of them shared a comforting hug, relishing the contact after the few weeks of absence they had had from the other.

"He's alright, probably tired and sore from our latest fight with a demon." 'And all those sits,' Kagome repeated from earlier in her head as an afterthought.

"Well, as long as no one was hurt, that's good. Why don't you go run upstairs and enjoy a bath, I should have some cookies and milk waiting here for you by the time you get out and then you can catch up on your schoolwork," Mama Higurashi advised, going to search through a few Cyprus pine cupboards and then the pallid refrigerator looking for those exact items.

"That would be great, Mama. Thanks," Kagome happily skipped up the stairs, pausing briefly to greet her brother and grandfather who were reclining on the auburn couch in the lounge room lazily, watching some silly gaming show and getting way too caught up in the excitement.

Kagome detoured into her room, to unpack her bag, along with grabbing some fresh, clean clothes to change into after her long over-due bath. She relaxed at the simple thought of the warm, bubbly water and the lack of worrying about being attacked or peeped on, smiling happily as she rushed about in preparation of a long soak in the tub.

Satisfied with what she had done, she ran into the bathroom and immediately got the hot water pouring into the pristine bathtub, accompanied by a certain amount of herb remedies and an even larger quantity of scented bath salts, melding perfectly and without being overwhelming to the nose; the way she liked it.

With a sigh of heavenly bliss, Kagome seated herself in the steaming water, dipping her head down till the water reached just under her chin, closing her eyes and enjoying the moment as it was. Forgetting all her qualms and stress from the day, her thoughts numbed and put off to ponder about later.

Oh how she'd missed this modern aged luxury. It was such a blessing that the teenager had never really thought much of. And to think, even some unfortunate people in this age were suffering and missing out on this simple comfort.

Kagome groaned, realising she'd be leaving home in only a number of days, and then she'd be back to skipping baths until they all came across a hot spring or some body of water her and Sango, the strong demon slayer, could wash in.

She was going to be in here for a while, that was a given.

~*~*~

Kagome reached out to grab the last cooling, mouth-watering chocolate chip cookies her mother had freshly baked just before, and brought it to her awaiting mouth, nibbling lightly on the cooked dough as she rotated her pencil around her nimble fingers, staring at one of the equations on the paper. She took another big, frustrated bite, sitting back in her pink computer chair at her desk, annoyed that she was having so much trouble and had completed so little of her homework after all the time she had spent on the piles of after school work.

'Maths and English—English and maths, the two subjects I struggle the most with and they're the two I get the most homework for.'

She was getting nowhere fast, and since she had finished the other small lots of designated work from her other subjects, she was left with the stacks of the two subjects she took great effort with to keep up in the classes. Just great.

Kagome shuffled through some of her books, taking note of a novel she had long ago bought in the hopes of being able to kick back and get lost in, but had never had the chance. Running two lives at once did that to beings. Small things you did to entertain yourself with, or just thoroughly enjoyed had to be put off.

Still probing for the notes Eri had kindly gone through the effort of copying for her, Kagome eventually called out in triumph when she was rewarded with the object almost instantaneously, once she concentrated on the task at hand.

She held out the dull, but brand new orange book with both arms straight in front of her, scrutinising the pink flowers decorating the border, obviously doodled on by her easily bored friend, as she wondered why she had jumped ahead into all that confusing work when she had this with her the entire time. That was incredibly dim-witted of her, the things she put herself into these days.

Kagome continued to mentally berate herself; it could be dangerous to wander into areas of the unknown unprepared when one had no idea what they were doing. She should have realised this earlier, she had to face literal situations on the other side of the well. If this had been a life-or-death situation back in the Feudal Era, she probably would've been dead right about now...or Inuyasha had rushed in and saved her.

Inuyasha...

She had been kind of rough and ungrateful to him. He had shoved her out of the way of that giant chicken's attack. The one they had all battled against earlier that morning and had all rather underestimated, to be frank. But come on, it was a chicken for Pete's sake. It was most presumably all the jewel's shards doing as to why it had been so tough and unwilling to perish, not that that had hindered her, Inuyasha and the gang much.

Still, after Inuyasha's heroic act, he had wound up with yet another torso injury, and a few abrasions here and there. Miroku had copped a bit of a pounding himself, but Sango had reacted the most to it, and most likely right now was nursing him to health, or beating him to a pulp for his lecherous habits. The latter seemed most believable.

In any case, that had been the third demon they had fought with this week, the single one that had been carrying a shard of the Shikon no Tama. Naturally, Inuyasha was getting testy about it, while the others were silently complaining about the physical strain, since two out of the three encounters had been during the night, disrupting their sleeping. It'd been a hard week, and they were still not a step closer to defeating, or even finding Naraku.

Of course, the verbal argument with the angry half-demon previously that morning didn't put either of them in a better mood. And despite what some might think, Kagome definitely didn't enjoy forcefully using the beads of subjugation on the half dog demon.

Now, Kagome was starting to feel the guilt that always came after returning to her time by means of their usual routine she and Inuyasha went by. After everything they'd been through, they still carried on in such a way when she was leaving. Of course her 'sitting' him sure didn't improve things by any stretch of the imagination.

'Oh Inuyasha...he's probably still angry with me.'

Kagome shook her head, sending the baby blue towel that was wrapped around her head—holding up her hair—flying, and her raven locks swayed freely around her head. She was getting too distracted for her own good.

The fifteen-year old sighed, returning back to her school work, wishing she was doing anything but at that precise moment.

~*~*~

"That wench," Inuyasha growled out, lying face up on a mat in Kaede's hut while she rubbed some stinging, putrid, sickly green ointment into the gashes he'd received previously that day after saving Kagome's ass from a demonic chicken, fuelled by a tainted jewel shard, that had at one point swiped its sharp claws at her.

"Now, now, Inuyasha. It be not Kagome's intention to re-open ye's wounds. Bare the child no ill-will, it is ye's own fault for being so against Kagome's returning to her own time," Kaede told him, pressing—in Inuyasha's own opinion—a little harder than absolutely necessary while further inspecting his injuries.

"Lady Kaede is correct, Inuyasha," Miroku spoke this time from the corner of the hut, resting against a wall, bandaged up and sporting a few bruises and a glowing hand mark on his cheek that was not caused by the walking piece of poultry.

Inuyasha snorted loudly, "Whatever. Why do you all take her side when she's the one who hurts me?" It seemed that everyone always defended her, which just didn't seem fair.

"Because, Inuyasha, it was you who wrongly told her she could not return home, when you know that she has been away from her family for quite a while now. You were being selfish and this is the consequence," Miroku reasoned. "Besides, was it not the demon we engaged in combat with that placed you in this current condition and hurt you anyways?" Miroku smirked when Inuyasha abruptly looked away, "You cannot tell me that after everything you've faced and all the injuries you've experienced, that this one is causing you so much unbearable pain."

"Keh!" He was still facing the opposite direction of the bothersome, know-it-all, damn monk, a slight pink tint of embarrassment noticeable on his cheeks, "She's going to pay for this one way or another."

"That seems very unfair, Inuyasha. Don't you think you are over-reacting a bit, perhaps?" Miroku persuaded, trying to get through the hanyou's thick skull, reason being that this was indeed what Inuyasha was doing, along with complaining and acting like an immature child.

"Damn it! I am not over-reacting!" he protested, shooting up to pummel the cool, calm and collected monk who stared at him with an irritating gleam in his violet eyes.

Kaede slapped him down with her hand, to which Inuyasha gave a yowl and a cuss to, not that it really hurt much. She continued with her ministrations, ignoring the many comments and her patient's fowl attitude. "There is no need to act foolhardy, Inuyasha. Ye are just whimpering like a pup. I am sure young Kagome is not happy with how things turned out either, just, as I heard Kagome once say, 'let sleeping dogs lie'," Kaede advised, giving a chuckle to her pun.

Miroku joined in at the expense of teasing Inuyasha, who was now in a huff at all the remarks from his dog demon lineage.

Inuyasha would have made a rebuttal, but he thought it over, the old hag would just take advantage of the fact she was helping heal him, and therefore make him look more of an idiot, which—especially with Miroku hanging around—was not very appealing, or, worth it. So instead, Inuyasha just sulked quietly, ignoring anything else that was said and planned how he would confront Kagome as soon as he got the chance.

Inuyasha felt Kaede motion him up, and he did as instructed, now being bandaged up by the priestess who was focusing intently on her actions at that moment, her one visible eye staring and observing how she spun it around the muscles of his lean torso. He'd admit, he enjoyed the experience a lot more when Kagome's delicate hands were the ones doing this job. He'd just have to deal with it though; he was supposed to be furious at her now, not missing her tremendously, which he didn't for the record.

At the completion of her task, Kaede sat back in her kneeling position, happy with what she had pulled off for the unappreciative dog. Inuyasha picked at the bandages with his claws, seemingly uncaring of them, he wouldn't need them for long, he would be fully recovered by sunrise the next morning considering how fast the skin was sealing up. Although he wouldn't even have needed them now if it weren't for that wench re-opening them with that wretched word and this stupid necklace!

It was at that moment Sango pushed the cover of the door to the side, allowing herself, Kilala and Shippo to enter. Miroku's grin widened and he stood to embrace Sango suddenly, but was stopped by her Hiraikotsu when his arms lowered in the air just a tad before contact with the stunning demon slayer. All occupants besides the two in the commotion shook their heads, whilst Sango pushed past the womanising monk and muttered a slight "pervert" in accusation, it being the complete truth.

"So, what's been going on while we were gone?" Sango simply asked, seating herself by the fire pit on her calves, stroking Kilala's soft, cream fur after she ran over and nestled into her lap.

"Nothing much, Sango dear. Inuyasha is just being his usual, sulking self when it comes to the disappearance of our lovely, time-travelling friend," Miroku stated casually, unfazed by the dark glare he was sent by the object of that answer.

"For the last time, I am not moping! Or over-reacting, or anything! And I certainly don't miss Kagome!" He yelled out, hitting his fist against the wooden-planked flooring furiously. He was pleased when he heard it creak under the pressure, and then he sighed when he knew the old woman would make sure he was the one to repair it.

But these were his friends—or so they titled themselves—and were not easily intimidated by his violent and irate nature. Instead they just looked at him blankly, disbelieving of his protesting. Inuyasha grumbled somewhat, overlapping his arms over his chest, just like his legs were crossed.

"If you miss Kagome so much," Shippo began, pausing when Inuyasha's growl was heard in the cosy hut, and proceeded carelessly, "then just go and see her and ask her to come back."

The teenage boy who was the target of this declaration merely gaped incredulously. How were they able to just ignore all his earlier proclamations like that? He wasn't that obvious, was he? Not that there was anything to be obvious about—right?

Inuyasha stood up abruptly and walked out of the hut, punching poor Shippo in the head to which he gave a loud, shrilling wail in objection, and leaped up into one of the tall, towering trees nearby, bounding from branch to sturdy branch, heading in the direction of the Bone Eater's well. He had made sure that he called out a loud, "I need to get back at her anyways!" Just to make sure the lot of them didn't get any false ideas in their sly minds.

Reaching the structure that allowed Kagome and himself to transport between eras, Inuyasha didn't hesitate as he jumped down into the dark void. Bluey-violet streams of colour swirled around him and then dissipated as he landed at the dirty bottom of the well, now in Kagome's time.

Back at the hut, Shippo was gloating about his success whilst sucking on a lollipop Kagome had thoughtfully given him before she had left, set on returning home for a few days. Sango and Miroku were listening patiently, smiling wryly at the kit, while Kaede had left to re-stock her herbs and declined all the offers of help she had received.

"Do you think Inuyasha will drag Kagome back?" Sango whispered to Miroku, being careful with her movements as her fire cat companion was now peacefully in the land of dreams.

"I highly doubt it," was the reply.

"Inuyasha will probably get himself into another fight, what with his crabby attitude and all," Shippo said, joining the conversation uninvited, but still welcomed.

"He has been in a rather foul mood lately," Sango voiced out loud, raising a hand to her chin, bored.

"It's because he's tired," Shippo enlightened, dragging out his crayons and paper also provided by Kagome, laying on his stomach before the fire pit and kicking his legs around in the air behind him.

Sango and Miroku turned their gazes to him, both repeating at the same time, "Inuyasha's tired?"

The kitsune nodded sagely, gleeful that he had picked up a miniscule detail that neither of them had, "Yeah. He hasn't been able to sleep lately." Shippo told them, busying himself with drawing a bug out of memory he had seen previously that day. "If you think about all those battles he's fought and the injuries," Shippo listed, "plus running around and arguing, well..."

"He's worn out." Sango summarised. "Oh, boy. I hope Kagome can manage him," Sango's fist clenched and loudly slapped Miroku on the cheek, screaming out a, "PERVERT!"

Miroku smiled broadly, cradling his vibrantly glowing, pink cheek and sighing, "It was worth the pain." His eyes hardened slightly for a moment as he reassured Sango, "Kagome will be able to handle Inuyasha; she has managed to do so after all this time and there's the rosary's assistance if that is any condolence."

Sango frowned in thought, "I'm going to take your word for that."

Miroku just beamed merrily.

~*~*~

''And you're blind?'

'Uh-huh,' Iggy said, trying to sound bored.

'Were you born that way?'

'No.'

Kagome bit her lip to refrain a chuckle. These kids, characters in the book she was currently reading, were just so...quirky. She couldn't believe she had put this book off, reading it now brought back memories of holding her gut while she laughed, or holding her breathe through one of the serious battle scenes as she was captured by the first book of the series. She had to give the famous, American author credit; he knew how to combine humour, action, adventure and a hint of romance so well.

Unbeknown to Kagome, her canine companion had snuck up to her bedroom window by the use of a conveniently planted—many years before even her grandfather's birth—tree, and as he swiftly crawled in through said window and crouched on her carpet, he was mildly surprised that even though Kagome was merely laying on her bed and could have effortlessly caught sight of him from the corner of her chocolate brown eyes, she did not. Instead her head quirked to the side a little in his direction, a raven lock falling down her shoulder at this motion as she read the next page from some lousy book.

Inuyasha stalked closer, at a dramatically slow pace, wanting to see how far he could go before being detected. Before he knew it, he was at the bed's side and still had received no sign she was aware of his presence.

'Is the wench blind?!' Inuyasha found himself furiously demanding mentally, miffed at the new found knowledge that this girl would leave herself so defenceless while he was gone! She was damn lucky he wasn't a demon—one that was aiming to attack her anyways—at that moment; otherwise she'd have been in one hell of an amount of trouble then and there.

Biting back a growl, Inuyasha made note that she wasn't out of the woods yet, he would make sure she learnt her lesson. He smirked at the idea and silently waited—like a predator would for their delicious prey—for the perfect moment to arise.

Not even a minute later Kagome let out a spontaneous giggle, and that was when Inuyasha pounced. "Wench, what the hell are you laughing at?"

"Ahh!" Kagome screamed, startled by the low, gruff voice that echoed out of nowhere, turning quickly—which she was lucky enough to somehow avoid whiplash—to come face-to-face, or, moreover, nose-to-nose with her silver-haired, amber eyed, half dog demon companion.

"Inuyasha! Don't scare me like that!" She pulled away from their awkward closeness, giving him back his personal space; her cheeks stained a rosy pink. Pressing one of her pale soft hands to her chest, she felt her heart rapidly thrashing around in her ribcage; she inhaled and exhaled slowly; hoping to calm her body down after attaining such a scare.

"What? I was sitting here for ages! It's not my fault you weren't paying any attention!" He protested indignantly, observing her actions with a quirked eyebrow.

"You've been sitting there?" Kagome repeated, astonished.

"Yes!" Exasperation was thick in his tone as he scowled at her. Sitting back into his trademark Indian style position, hiding his hands in the large sleeves of his haori, he held a steady gaze with her, penetrating through and looking into the depths of her own soul, or so it felt to Kagome.

"Ooh. I'm sorry. Guess I got caught up in my book," she waved the aforementioned object in the air, giving a short laugh.

"Whatever, stupid. What in Kami's name are you doing? You come home to work and I find you slacking off!" Inuyasha accused, glaring at the book that was now resting on her lap.

Instead of blowing her top off at him, Kagome calmly explained, "I have to do a book report for my English class. That requires me to actually read a book, and since this one has been lying around for a bit, waiting for me to pick up and enjoy, I figured 'Why not?' and here I am."

Not fully comprehending, but shrugging anyways as a sign he hoped came across as that he did, Inuyasha watched her open up the book once again, but paused, her chocolate brown orbs locking into his and she asked, "Why are you here Inuyasha?"

With an unintentionally audible gulp, Inuyasha answered. "W-well, wench, I wanted you to know that with all those damn sits you gave me, I had to be patched up again because you re-opened them. Happy?"

The blood in Kagome's pretty face seemed to drain away at the news, and she looked down, for some unfathomable reason thinking she would be able to see the damage she had done. Fortunately he had bothered to dress back up, realising this, her gaze returned to his.

Fixated, Inuyasha thought he saw her lenses go glossy and glimmer in the light. Oh no. She wasn't...she's not going to...cry...was she?

"H-hey, you're not... going to..." but his sentenced died off as Kagome leaned forward and gave him a tight hug, to which he was immediately puzzled by, not to mention flustered.

"I am so sorry Inuyasha! I didn't mean for that to happen! I just wanted to go home. I'm sorry!" She continued to ramble for a few minutes, her stranglehold on him never loosening.

"For fuck's sake, stop apologising, okay? I get it, you didn't mean it. It's fine. Just stop blubbering, please." It was meant to come out a lot more considerate then it did, his words opting for the more harsh and rude.

Kagome did not fail to miss this, instantly backing up, the tears dried up and now an angry flare replaced them. "Blubbering?! I'm apologising to you for hurting you and you say that?! Inuyasha, you are so...so...so inconsiderate! So insensitive!" She growled and actually threw her pillow at him, which collided with his face.

Pulling the item off, a dry look crossed his face as he stared at her, "That was supposed to hurt me? Besides, the apologising wasn't the problem, you just wouldn't shut up!"

"You shouldn't even be here! I'm coming back in three days anyway!" Kagome changed the subject, crossing her arms over her chest, inadvertently imitating the person she was arguing with.

"Keh!"

"Inuyasha..." her voice was dangerously low, and said boy cringed, anticipating the next move after all the experience he had in such situations as these. "SIT!"

WHAM!

His face was now firmly implanted into the plush carpet of Kagome's appropriately pink decorated bedroom. He could hear her stand up in a huff and stomp her way over to her desk; he imagined it in his mind as if he was actually watching her. He'd been in this exact room so many times now that he could picture things with ease.

He groaned as the spell wore off and struggled to lift himself up with his arms. It took a lot more effort than it normally would have, his muscles twitched at the strain, aching with each second he relied on them to right himself. Kagome must have noticed as she bent down beside him, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. Comforting for what, he had no idea.

"Inuyasha...you look exhausted," she stated, now a worried expression on her face.

"Huh?" Was all he said since he was such the eloquent and just spilling with intelligence.

"Inuyasha, when was the last time you slept?" Kagome questioned, a pointed look specifically sent his way as to warn him she'd know if he lied.

As if he'd lie to her, he just...wouldn't directly answer.

"Inuyasha," she probed. And when he still didn't proceed to answer she sucked in a large amount of air and was presumably about to say the word when he cut her off.

"Maybe a week or so ago," and that was the undeniable truth. It wasn't that big of a deal, he'd lasted longer before, even as a kid. Perhaps he had grown soft after all this time spent with Kagome, or maybe it was more to do with the fact he had been using a lot of energy lately, between conflicts with demons and bickering within the group.

Kagome didn't follow his thought pattern as she gasped and immediately assisted him in standing up straight, which she managed to do while he was still lost in deep thought. She then nudged him over towards her bed and seated him upon it, beginning to pressure him down to lay on her pillow and coverlet. That was the exact position Inuyasha found himself in after snapping out of his little daze.

"What are you doing?" He barked.

"You need to rest. Missing out on so much sleep is bad for you." She advised and persisted in fighting against him, hoping to succeed in him lying flat against the single bed.

"Yeah, right, I'm fine. Leave me alone." He replied, defying her wishes and instead he shot up, his half-demon strength too much for her weak, human arms.

"Inuyasha...lie down." She commanded, returning to her upright position, instead of being hunched over him, Kagome pushed back a lock of her washed raven curls behind her ear, ready to wrestle him if it boiled down to that point.

Inuyasha must have seen the determined glint in her eyes and in her tone as he relented and laid back, tense as a board. Tetsusaiga now lay alongside him, despite the fact he couldn't remember removing it from its ties and placing it there. Kagome sighed and lightly hit him in the shoulder.

"Oi! What was that for?!"

"You don't need to be so tense. Nothing's going to come and hurt you here. You're safe, I'll be sitting right here, doing my work." The futuristic, reincarnated priestess reassured him, and he trusted her.

His form lost the edginess and the sweet scent of Kagome that lingered on the bed's covers soothed him right down. He could hear Kagome attempt to be silent as she padded her way to her chair, the seat squeaking slightly as she sat down on it. To confirm to himself that he was dog-tired and that sleep was indeed what he unconsciously desired, he let out a rather dog-like, tongue-curling yawn, earning a giggle from across the room.

Kagome was watching him sleep? Or fall asleep, as it was at that precise moment in time? He wasn't concerned about it and slowly his lids drifted shut, hiding his honey orbs from the world as he dozed off into the realm of dreams. A small smile adorned his face.

Kagome observed him intently, a unique smile of her own brightening up her face. It was wonderful to see Inuyasha letting down his guard and just getting a good forty winks. The fact that he had trusted her made her heart warm.

As the afternoon had now slipped by, and the oranges, pinks and purples of the sunset glowed through her still opened window, Kagome admired how Inuyasha's face was highlighted by them. His silver locks glowing golden, his face shining faintly. It was ethereal.

Knowing that she'd end up either sleeping on the floor tonight, or on the couch downstairs, Kagome still couldn't rid herself of the goofy grin she was sporting.

Today had turned out perfect.

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Tada!!! Hope you liked it. Personally, I think this was my least favourite out of what I have written so far.

Now, this is a little series I thought up of really randomly about half a year ago and sat down to write the day after I posted my New Year's one shot, which, by the way, blew me away with the responses! Thank you guys sooo much! This should be a series of one shots based around dog commands. I've written a few chapters already, but this is the only one edited. So, I'm hoping you'll all stay to read more. Oh and feel free to try and take a guess at the command will be for next chapter!

Now, I must give thanks to the dear friend I have who read over this for me, criticising me in such a friendly but effective manner. Soulless Lover everybody!!! This wouldn't even be half as good if it weren't for her!

I also would like to give a big thank you to Jwelstone who repetitively asked about when I was posting this, which lead me to posting it ASAP, without rushing of course. Plus she encouraged me a lot throughout the way, and made many offers and suggestions for me.

As well as all my friends, Kurinju-sama, Notes-and-Photographs, Plawere, inuyashafan424567 and Wolvefire (she doesn't even read much else besides Pokemon). Your support moves me in ways that words cannot describe, and that's in a good way, considering I'm such a klutz (fell up the stairs again today...and ran into a window.)

Okay, this is really long. Let me just say, please review and stay tuned for the next chapter!

Thank you!

KBF