(Okay, I know I"m late I'm so so so so sorry!!!!! But I"m only a day late so better then not at all eh? so I don't own Inuyasha, etc. NOW the story will get back to the Inuyasha Kagome triangle thingy :D Our favorite miko will be the center of attention from now on, well through the eyes of Zuki) Okay so, according to the site, I have at least 71 'visitors' I think that means readers, but w/e, what I'm getting at is, where are the reviews? I have NONE! Lol I won't know if this story is any good if no one tells me what I'm doing wrong, or what I'm doing right, hell even a simple "read your story I like it" would be fine, just something! So please please please please!!!!! I'm begging you let me know!!!!!!

achike: fuck off

Baka yaro: stupid bastard

Everything was happening so fast Zuki was having a hard time keeping up. Kikyou had woken up, no one could figure out why, but she was awake. At first Kagome was ecstatic that her cousin was awake, but something had changed. Namely, Kikyou had changed, Kikyou had always been a bit reserved and cold, but her coldness had turned to seething rage towards Kagome. At the moment Kikyou had woken up Inuyasha had promptly forgotten about Kagome and returned to Kikyou's side. Kagome was crushed, she and Inuyasha had gotten closer after the festival and were seen holding hands a lot lately, Zuki had been thrilled for her friend. Now, Inuyasha was visiting Kikyou every day after school and when at school he didn't talk to or even acknowledge Kagome. Kikyou had to stay in the hospital for a few more days to be looked over, she was then released to bed rest at home. For awhile Kagome was doing okay, but when Kikyou moved into the spare bedroom at the shrine, her strength started to fail. Zuki was seething, it was bad enough that Kagome had to deal with Inuyasha ignoring her at school, but when he was at her place every night as well, it started to ebb at her sanity. Zuki was putting everything she had into helping her friend through it, it was a good distraction from her own boy problems. Bank still tried to talk to her, at one point he had gotten up the nerve to come banging on her door. Zuki was relieved that Yasu was home, and she had told him everything that was going on. For once she appreciated his overbearing older brother complex. Zuki wasn't exactly sure what Yasu had done to Bank, but Bank stopped trying to talk to Zuki after that, he had taken to giving her forlorn looks. Right now, Sango, Kagome, and Zuki were sitting at a kotatsu with a heater in Sango's living room studying for their upcoming tests. Zuki glanced up at Kagome and noticed that while she looked like she was reading, her eyed were glazed over. Zuki smiled sadly and went back to her work.

"Hey, Zuki who was the general who helped unify Japan?" Sango asked pushing some of her notes around.

"You mean Hideyoshi, Toyotomi?" Zuki asked not looking up from her notes.

"Yes!" Sango yelled and quickly scribbled down the name. Zuki glanced up an laughed a little before going back to her notes. When Zuki laughed Kagome looked up from her day dream looking a bit confused.

"Welcome back," Zuki said noticing Kagome was aware of her surroundings.

"Oh, sorry, just was thinking…," Kagome trailed off looking around the room. Zuki reached out and grasped her friends hand.

"It will be okay," Zuki said with a encouraging smile. Kagome looked at her hand then up a Zuki.

"Yeah," se responded with a small smile. It was almost ten when they started to pack up their things and Kagome and Zuki said their goodbyes. Sango lived in the Setagaya ward which was about forty minutes away from where Zuki lives and fifty minutes from Kagome's shrine. The walk to the station was only about ten minutes, but Zuki got Kagome to open up on that short walk.

"I know it makes me a horrible person but, sometimes, I wish…no I shouldn't say that," Kagome said softly hugging herself.

"Kags, you can tell me, in fact I bet I know what you were going to say. You wish that Inuyasha had forgotten about Kikyou," Zuki said pulling her book bag higher up on her shoulder. Kagome looked over at her, her eyes glistening.

"Does that make me a bad person?" She asked softly. Zuki shook her head and gave Kagome a warm smile.

"It's only natural, you have feelings for Inuyasha, and well, you were there for him when Kikyou was in a coma, and even if he won't admit it, he cares for you more than a friend," Zuki said scanning her rail pass through the gate. Zuki waited for Kagome to do the same then they made their way to the train they needed. Zuki was waving to Kagome to go to her train when she noticed Kagome looking at the line.

"Hey, Kags, you okay?" Zuki asked walking over to her friend. Kagome looked over at her, she looked close to tears.

"I don't want to go home, he, he might be there," she said softly. Zuki's heart went out to her friend.

"Come stay at my place, it's Friday, we can watch my collection of Disney movies and eat mochi," Zuki said cheerfully. Kagome gave her a watery smile and nodded. They made their way to Zuki's train and made small talk for the ride. Zuki was happily forgetting about her problems talking with Kagome, but that stopped when the door to the elevator opened. Zuki had been laughing and not paying attention so she was halfway into the elevator when she saw Bank. It was like someone had pressed pause, Zuki stopped laughing and walking and just looked at him. The happy mood that Kagome and Zuki were in disappeared quickly. Before Zuki and Kagome could get off the elevator Bank had pressed the button and the doors closed. Zuki held back a growl then punched the number for her floor. Kagome saw that Bank kept glancing over to Zuki who was resolutely staring at the doors. Kagome was nervously chewing her thumb nail, she could almost feel the anger radiating off of Zuki.

"Um, Zuki…?" Bank said tentatively. Zuki spun and glared at him.

"What!" She hissed. Bank flinched then mustered up his courage to talk to her.

"Look, will you just let me explain-."

"What is there to explain, you used me, and humiliated me, I don't see how you could explain that," she said turning to glare up at him. Bank's apology might have worked, if he didn't have a temper.

"I used you?! Where the hell did you get that idea? I never used you, if anyone used anyone, you used me!" He growled clenching his fists and trying to tower over her.

"What?! What the hell did I use you for? Company? Oh yeah, I love to hand out with arrogant, pigheaded, baka, assholes!" Zuki looked like she was going to punch him with the elevator doors opened on Bank's floor.

"Whatever, achike," he mumbled stomping off the elevator.

"Baka Yaro!" Zuki screamed after him before the doors closed. Zuki was breathing heavily when the elevator stopped at her floor. Grumbling to herself about assholes she stomped her way to the apartment. Kagome wanted to calm her friend down but she didn't know how. Zuki threw her apartment door open letting it bang on the wall making it shake. Zuki pulled her loafers off and threw them at the wall then stomped to her room slamming the door. Kagome walked into the apartment slowly and saw Yasu look through the living room door.

"Bank was on the elevator," she said pulling off her loafers. Yasu groaned and quickly walked to his little sisters bedroom door.

"Zu, hey, come out here," he said leaning into the door. Zuki threw the door open, she was in her bra and sweat pants.

"What!" She demanded seething. Yasu crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at her.

"I'm not the jerk that lied to you so don't take your anger out on me," Yasu said leaning against her door frame. Zuki sighed and walked back into her room pulling on a tank top. Kagome walked in glancing up at Yasu before she put her book bag next to Zuki's desk. Zuki threw herself face first down onto her bed ad screamed into her pillow.

"Zu, just forget about him, he isn't worth it. If he tries to talk to you again tell me and I'll set him straight," Yasu said before he left closing the door gently. Kagome sat at her friends desk and let Zuki moan and grumble into her pillow for awhile.

"Your brother is right you know," Kagome said. Zuki stopped grumbling and looked up at Kagome with half closed annoyed eyes. Zuki groaned then pushed herself into a sitting position.

"I know," she sighed before putting her head in her hands, "it's just, I guess I let myself like my mysterious neighbor a bit too much."

"Yeah, I know all about that," Kagome said sardonically. Zuki looked up and smiled at her friend before standing up.

"Okay, what do you want to watch, my uncle sends me Disney movies all the time, most of them are in English though," Zuki said moving to pull open her closet. Zuki pulled out a box labeled 'Disney' and pulled off the top. Kagome got up and moved to sit next to the box.

"Well, I've only ever seen Sleeping Beauty, what is your favorite?" Kagome asked pulling out 'The Little Mermaid.' Zuki looked at the movie Kagome had grabbed and took it out of her hand. Zuki was pulling all the movies out and putting them into three piles.

"I love them all, okay, the pile to my left is 'no' the pile to my right is 'maybe' and the pile in front of you is 'yes'," Zuki said putting Aladdin in the 'yes' pile. They sorted movies for about thirty minutes. Zuki put all the movies from the 'no' pile pack into the box. Kagome was going through the maybe pile and putting some movies on the floor and the others in the box. By the time they were done they had; Aladdin, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Robin Hood, The Black Cauldron, Hercules, Anastasia (even though it isn't Disney), and Treasure Planet. They were just trying to decide what to watch first.

"Let's ask Yas," Zuki said picking up as many movies as she could. Kagome picked up the rest and followed Zuki into the living room. Yasu was sitting on the futon reading a book with the TV on low.

"Hey Yas, we wanna watch some movies," Zuki said sweetly hugging the DVD's to her chest. Yasu looked up at her over his glasses then at the movies his eyes going wide.

"No, I am not watching any more Disney movies with you," Yasu said getting up quickly.

"But Yaaassss," Zuki whined pouting. Yasu groaned, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes then looked at his sister.

"Fine, I'll watch two with you, what do you have?" He asked tossing his book on the futon and walking over to her. Zuki and Kagome presented the movies to him so he could pick.

"Mulan, it's the least mushy," he said pulling said DVD out of Kagome's arms. Zuki looked at Kagome with a huge grin before dropping the rest of the movies on the floor. Yasu put the movie into the DVD player then grabbed the remote and sat down on the couch. Zuki ran back to her room and pulled her blanket off the bed before dragging it back to the living room. Kagome was sitting on the futon a couple feet away from Yasu. Zuki skipped over after turning off the light and plopped down between her brother and friend covering the three of them with the blanket. Yasu wormed his arms out from under the blanket and pressed play. Zuki was worried it would be hard for Kagome to follow the movie because it was in English, but Kagome's English was good enough to understand the movie. Zuki embarrassed her brother by singing along to almost all the songs. Kagome even giggled happily at the end when Shang and Mulan got together. Yasu only rolled his eyes before getting up to change movies.

"Okay what next?" he asked crouching before the TV.

"You're gonna watch more?" Zuki asked excitedly. Yasu nodded laughing a little bit.

"Your turn to pick Kags," Zuki said with a grin.

"Oh, well, how about Robin Hood?" Yasu nodded and switched out the DVD's. As he sat down Kagome's cell phone rang loudly making the girls jump.

"Oh no, I forgot to tell me mom where I was, hold on," Kagome jumped up and answered her phone, "hey mom…yeah I'm fine….I'm at Zuki's….her brother is here…yeah I'm gonna sleep here…it's okay mom…I'll call you tomorrow, bye." Kagome flipped her phone closed and sighed.

"You're mom okay?" Zuki asked looking at her friend. Kagome nodded and sat back down.

"Yeah, she knows how I feel about him," Kagome said looking at her lap.

"Feel about who?" Yasu asked leaning foreword to look at Kagome. Zuki glared at him and he sat back looking at the TV slightly scared.

"Well, lets watch the movie, it will cheer you up!" Zuki said nudging her brother to press play. Kagome sighed and grinned widely at all the romantic parts of the movie. At the end of the movie Zuki got up and went to the kitchen to get drinks and snacks.

"Oh I just love happy endings," Kagome said smiling her eyes sparkling. Zuki handed Kagome a soda then plopped back down on the couch.

"Okay my turn to pick, umm Anastasia!" Zuki said to her brother.

"I can deal with that," he said pushing himself up to put the movie in the player. Yasu pressed play after he sat back down and pulled the blanket over his legs. At the beginning Zuki was happy and singing along but by the time they sang "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart" both Zuki and Kagome were out like a light. Zuki was leaning against her brother with Kagome curled up her head in Zuki's lap. Yasu smiled down at the two exhausted girls before shaking his sister awake.

"Mmm, what?" Zuki said sitting up rubbing her eyes. Zuki looked down at her friend and smiled.

"Let her take my bed," Zuki said. Yasu stood up and moved to pick up Kagome to carry her to bed.

"She can sleep through anything huh?" He whispered walking to Zuki's room.

"Yeah, she sleeps like a rock," Zuki said pulling her sheets down so Yasu could put her in bed. Zuki pulled the sheet over her friend then followed her brother out to the living room. Yasu pulled the futon out and laid it down before Zuki crawled in. Yasu covered her with the blanket then sat down to talk to her.

"Hey, Zu. You shouldn't worry about that jerk, you're a better singer, musician, and person." Yasu rubbed her shoulder while he talked. Zuki smiled up at her brother and nodded. Yasu chuckled and kissed her forehead before heading to bed. Zuki rolled over and tried to get comfortable. She tossed and turned for an hour before giving up and going into the kitchen to get some water. Zuki was leaning against the sink when she heard the guitar through the balcony door. She didn't want to go out on the balcony and listen, but the music called to her. Zuki put her used cup in the sink, grabbed her blanket, and walked out onto the deck. The guitar strumming sounded sad. Zuki tightened the blanket around her shoulders and sat down in a chair to listen, this time knowing that the singer was Bank.

I think I've already lost you

I think you're already gone

I think I'm finally scared now

You think I'm wear- but I think you're wrong

I think you're already leaving

Feels like your hand if on the door

I thought this place was an empire

But now I'm relaxed-I can't be sure

I think you're so mean- I think we should try

I think I could need- this in my life

I think I'm just scared-I think too much

I know this wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone-maybe it's time to go home

There's an awful lot of breathing room

But I can hardly move

If you're gone- baby you need to come home

Cause there's a little bit of something me

In everything in you

Zuki felt her eyes burn, music was the only thing that made her cry and this song was working on her. She didn't want to react to a song that Bank had written but she couldn't help it, his voice and his guitar held so much emotion.

I bet you're hard to get over

I bed the room just won't shine

I bet my hands I can stay here

I bet you need- more then you mind

I think you're so mean- I think we should try

I think I could need- this in my life

I think I'm just scared- that I know too much

I can't relate and that's a problem I'm feeling

If you're gone- maybe it's time to go home

There's an awful lot of breathing

But I can hardly move

If you're gone- baby you need to come home

Cause there's a little bit of something me

In everything in you

Zuki found that she was on her feet leaning over the railing trying to get a glimpse of Bank. She hadn't realized she was looking at him until he looked up at her making eye contact.

I think you're so mean- I think we should try

I think I could need- this in my life

I think I'm just scared- do I talk too much

I know this is wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone- maybe it's time to go home

There's an awful lot of breathing room

But I can hardly move

If you're gone- baby you need to come home

Cause there's a little bit of something me

In everything in you

In you

Bank strummed the final chord and put his guitar down not breaking eye contact.

"How long have you been there?" he asked leaning his back against the railing.

"Since the beginning of the song, it's really good," Zuki said hugging the blanket tighter.

"Thanks," he said looking down.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Zuki asked softly. Bank looked up at her a pained expression on his face.

"Renkotsu told me how competitive you are when it comes to music, I thought you would try to sabotage me," he said shrugging. Zuki felt her temper flare but tried to suppress the rage.

"I'm not that petty," she said not being able to keep the chill out of her voice. Bank had looked down at his feet again. Zuki sighed and looked out at the skyline.

"Well, you didn't really act that nice after you found out," Bank said through clenched teeth. Zuki looked back down at him, he wasn't looking at her.

"Because you knew who I was and let me help you without telling me. You had ample opportunity to let me know that you were the guitarist living under me, we work together!" Zuki said her voice rising.

"Yeah, well, maybe I didn't want to tell you!" He shot back looking up to meet her glare.

"So, I was right, you were just using me," she said this time not even trying to keep the venom out of her voice.

"So what if I was!" He shouted back at her clenching his fists.

"Nothing, that's what, I just wanted to know the truth, good night Bankotsu, don't try to talk to me ever again," Zuki turned away from his shouting responses ignoring him. She couldn't ignore the mix of anger and pain in her chest. She felt betrayed, it sounded stupid but she had developed feelings for Bank, both as her cocky coworker and as the mysterious musician. Zuki crawled onto the futon and curled up in a ball, silently crying herself to sleep.