A/N: This chapter is also dedicated to XNekoKagsX, so thank you so much for commenting on my story, helping me out with ideas, and supporting me all the way! I am SO sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time, I really am! PLEASE forgive me, and please dont give up on me yet! Here's this chapter. This one's about Shippo.

Shippo was over by the academy with his best friends Akatsuki and Kakate. He hadn't been to the academy in daylight before, it was considered bad luck. But Akatsuki, Shippo, and Kakate were brave and curious kitsunes, and had decided to go there anyway.

Shippo was very grateful to have friends like his. They were always there to help him out. Of course he loved being with Kagome, Sango, Rin, and Miroku, and every once in a while, Inuyasha, but they were all more like parents than anything else. He had once had a crush on Kagome, but that was in the past. She was with Inuyasha, and he had Kakate.

"Look at this!" said Kakate gleefully as she held something metal up in the sunlight. Shippo and Akatsuki ran over to where the little girl fox was standing and saw that it was a compass.

"It's shiny," she giggled cutely and gave Shippo an adorable smile, making his ears turn bright red.

"You know, Shippo, Rin would love something like this," said Akatsuki thoughtfully.

"I know! Let's find something for everyone in the village!" laughed Kakate happily.

"That's a great idea!" said Shippo. So the three kitsunes set out to find something for everyone. Kakate picked some medicinal herbs for Kaede. Shippo found some beads and strung a necklace for Kagome. Rin was to get the compass. Kakate found some catnip, and stuffed it in a little pouch for Kirara. Akatsuki found a triangle of green tinted glass for Sango, and some pieces of cloth for her children. Shippo said he wouold draw something for Miroku, an Inuyasha was the only one left.

"What are we going to give Inuyasha?" wondered Kakate sadly after all these goodies had been discovered.

"Trust me," said Shippo with an evil grin, "I'll sort something out for Inuyasha."

Kakate just smiled widely, but Akatsuki returned the evil look. "I'll help you find something," he said, winking.

"I'll go back to the village and give everybody their presents. See you tonight at the academy. I think I'm in for a promotion. Se you!" he said. Akatsuki laughed, and Kakate gave him a kiss on the cheek, making him go so red that he had to shake his head rapidly to clear the blush.

As he walked home, he began wondering what his greatest wish was.

His first thought was to get promoted to the highest ranking in the academy. To pull of a king of pranks on Inuyasha, make him wallow in embarrassment. To make him bow before Shippo, to understand which was the superior-

But no, thought Shippo, smiling thoughtfully. What he truly wanted was to stay with Kakate and Akatsuki and the other forever.

But he still wanted to work the prank in there somehow.