A/N: well, I would like to proudly announce that you may be hearing from me a lot more. As of yesterday, I set up (okay, my dad set up.) my new computer. That's right. I now have a working computer! Yay! I am very happy! Sooooo… Now on with my little story thingy.

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Getting home was much easier. Kazuki seemed so traumatized by the ordeal that he had just been through, that he didn't put up a fight when the vet put him in a cardboard box used to transport hamsters. Kyo just carried him home, one finger looped through the handles of the box.

For once since Kazuki had entered their lives, the Sohma plus Tohru Honda family got a good nights rest. Kazuki had quieted down immensely after the whole nightmare, so Kyo was not up half the night tromping around upstairs, yelling at Kazuki for the various things he had gotten into or done. This usually kept everyone else up, so the night was the first semi restful night for the household in some time.

After getting their goodnights rest, the family was able to wake up much more refreshed and ready for school than they would have usually. Tohru was able to make a more delicious lunch than she had lately, Kyo wasn't as grouchy and Yuki actually managed to make it to school on time, not having slept in. All in all, they were in high spirits when they entered the school building. At least as happy as you could be when entering school.

The three teens sat down at their respective desks. Mayu-chan came in and asked them to pull out their books. Being the only three in a good mood, they were also the only ones that pulled their books with out cursing Mayu under their breath. They flipped to page nineteen on Mayu's order and began to read. Mayu took the chance to grade some late work. The class soon fell into silence, only broken by the occasional page turn, or a sigh of boredom. Such sighs were silenced by a sharp glance from the teacher.

A rap on the door was a sharp break from harsh reality to all but the three good humored students, who could care less whether anyone knocked on the door or not. The teacher from across the hall poked her head in the door after a say so from Mayu.

"Mayu-chan? Do you think you could watch my class for me? I have to zip down to the office. I'll be back soon. All you need to do is stand in the hallway between the two classes. Mine'll be good."

Mayu nodded and took her feet off their perch on the desk. She stood up and addressed her class. The other teacher waited patiently at the door.

"Okay. I am going to stand out in the hallway. You guys have been really good so I think you deserve a break. You can talk quietly until I get back." Mayu started to make her way to the door.

"Oh, Mayu-chan," the curly haired teacher stated as an afterthought. "I'm supposed to bring Sohma-san with me. Kyo Sohma." She nodded toward Kyo.

Mayu gestured to Kyo with her hand. "You heard the lady. Follow her down to the office."

Kyo tromped up the isle to the front of the class and preceded Mayu through the door.

Once Mayu was out of the door, the class erupted into whispered conversations. Most of the near silent conversations where all about Kyo.

"Oh! What'd Sohma do this time?"

"Sohma is in trouble again isn't he?"

"Oh, I hope nothing is wrong with Kyo-sama! If so, we won't be able to follow him home after school today."

Tohru however had a different topic of conversation. She walked over to Rei, who was giggling with another girl in the corner. Once she saw Tohru come over, she immediately bid the girl farewell and zoomed over toward Tohru.

"Oh! Tohru! Do you think that Kyo-kun was called up to the office because of Yuu and his fight? You should have seen Tsujiai this morning! He was as happy as a lark! Yuu is going home! Tsujiai was almost singing. Tohru! Do you want to say something? It looks like you want to!" She said this all in one breath, and in rapid succession.

Tohru's head swirled around as she tried to catch up with the speed of Rei's talking. It was a full minute before Tohru realized what Rei had asked her.

"Um. Well, I was wondering, no actually I had an idea. Well, at the end of this year, Kyo has to go… somewhere. And you probably won't see him ever again. So I was thinking we should have a party for him. I don't know what we will do yet, but we should do something, send him off with a good memory of sorts."

Rei fixed Tohru with a quizzical stare. "Where is he going?" She asked.

Tohru shook her head. "All I can tell you is that it is for his family, and that Kyo-kun doesn't want to go. I'm sorry, Kuno-chan. I wish I could tell you more, but I can't."

Rei looked like she wanted to ask more, but she didn't. The awkward silence that was threatening to fall on this doomed conversation was chased away by the appearance of Sana.

"Hi you two! What's up? You look confused and depressed." Was Sana's way of greeting.

Rei looked at Tohru to explain. She did so. Sana nodded.

"Lets do it! I mean, I haven't had anything to plan for a while and I am bored. I got my homework done and I have nothing else to do. Let's plan it now!"

The three girls crowded around Rei's desk, searching through the old travel magazines that Mayu had stashed on top of the bookshelves at the back of the classroom. The workers were soon joined by an extremely jovial looking Tsujiai and the normal somber face of Kaji.

"Hey Tohru-chan!" Tsujiai beamed up at her, leaning his hands on his elbows. "Did you hear the good news? My evil, vile, nasty, horrible, unpleasant, revolting, disgusting, obnoxious"—

"Tsujiai, we get the point. Get to it." Kaji cut him off.

"Anyway. He's GONE! Tsujiai Hibiki is a free man again! Woohoo! Aren't you so happy! Happy for me, and you, and Kyo, and Rei, and Sana and everyone in this whole school! Kaji doesn't care, so he doesn't count. But aren't you so happy?"

Tohru nodded and smiled, although she didn't understand why Tsujiai was so happy. But to each his own.

"So, now that Tsujiai has got that out of his system"—

"Free as a bird!"

'What are you guys doing?" Kaji asked, after being interrupted but Tsujiai.

"Oh," Sana started. "We're planning what we are going to do for the party for Kyo-kun. He is going away this summer, and according to Tohru-chan, he won't be coming back. So we are going to plan a super cool summer get away for all of us plus all other invitees."

"Oh." Kaji muttered.

"So right now we are trying to decide what location we should be at. We have nixed a few ideas because they won't allow all the people that we have on our list." Rei pronounced.

"Who do you have on your little list?" Tsujiai asked.

Rei shoved a piece of paper under his nose and continued perusing through outdated magazines.

Tsujiai read the list out loud. "Tohru, Yuki, Kyo (of course,) Rei, Sana, Tsujiai, Kaji, Shigure, Kagura, Kunimitsu, Shishou, Momiji, Hatori, Haru, Ayame, Hiro, Kisa, Ritsu, Rin, Arisa, Hana, and any others that would like to come. Wow, you got yourselves a list.

"That's at least twenty-one people, assuming that everyone you invite comes, right?" Kaji said after Tsujiai was finished.

Tsujiai went back and counted all of the names. "Yep, that's right! Wow, Kaji, dude. Did you count all of those as I read them? You're more of a nerd than I thought!"

Kaji ignored Tsujiai's latest and greatest little out burst and went on.

"Well, I think I know just the place."

Everyone turned and faced him, surprised looks on their faces.

"Wow! Kaji! You are the king of Nerd-dom. Did you memorize the atlas of Japan as well?"

"No, actually, I haven't" Kaji said coolly, his eyebrow raised slightly in frustration. "It's just, my parents own a beach house near a lake, and it has bunk houses that would fit all of those people if you squished. My parents say it will be used for 'family reunions.' But everyone that knows my family knows that we can hardly stand to live on the same island, let alone the same bunk house."

Tsujiai tackled Kaji in a flying leap and proceeded to give him noogie upon noogie. "How come you never told us that your parents owned a beach house? Huh? Don't you think that that is a very important piece of information that is required to tell your best friend and friends?"

Kaji just turned his head to look up at the still noogying Tsujiai. "Actually, they just bought it. They are planning to rent it out until we use it. But we never will. My parents are gone too much. If you will all remember, I don't even live with my parents. I live with my aunt and uncle."

Tsujiai stopped his noogie assault on Kaji upon him finishing his explanation.

"Well, if that's how it is, then theirs no problem!" Tsujiai beamed. Mayu-chan walked through the door.

"Okay class. Get back to work. That took longer than I thought and this is taking up valuable grading time!" Ordered Mayu.

As the other students of the class said their goodbyes and headed back to their desks, Kaji slipped in one last word.

"I'll call my parents tonight and ask them if we can use the house."

"Alright! High five dude!' Tsujiai cheered. Kaji slapped him a high five and couldn't help but smile at his exuberant attitude.

"But they'd better be in a good mood, or me asking will cost me my computer privileges for a week!" Kaji warned.

"That proves it!" Tsujiai exclaimed. "You are the king of all nerds."

"Shut up!" Kaji teased, whacking Tsujiai upside the head.

"Nerd!"

"Hibiki!" Came Mayu's thunderous, yet teasing voice from the front of the room

Tsujiai flinched then answered, "Yes ma'am?"

"Hallway, you, now."

"Yes ma'am" Tsujiai saluted and marched out of the classroom.

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A/N: well, there it is! I finished it!! I know this is a little short, but I had to get that over with. I hope you liked seeing Tsujiai, Rei and Kaji again! We haven't seen them in a while… It was fun to play with them! I hope that the next chapter will be up sooner, although I can't promise that. School is going to take a turn for the worse (AKA get harder) in a few weeks so I don't know if I will be able to post all that soon.

On a happier note, this chapter was written from 11:00 to 12:20 PM after being slap happy for hours from lack of sleep. So my battery was completely drained. But!! For the second time (I think) in my history of writing on fanfiction, I wrote an entire chapter for a story in one sitting! And this was with out the help of FOJ! Yay me!

I did just write a one-shot for LOST today, and that was all in one sitting to, but I had planned that all out in the midst of a bout of coughing in the middle of the night last night. If you like Charlie, please read it. It is my ending of season three!

Review! Or a slap happy, FOJ powered Have Socks. Will Travel, will come and start singing 'Wonderful Days' at the top of her lungs to you in the middle of the night. And if that doesn't give you nightmares, I don't know what will.