Me: Hi ya'll!

Naru: Wtf?

Mai: Naru since when do you use text lingo?

Naru: Since Silver went country.

Mai: Oh.

Me: Any way, will ya'll please R&R so that my pony there yander stops a eaten all the grass?

Naru: Someone, please make it stop!

Mai: Pussy.

Naru: What did you call me?

Me: Ya'll Review!

Mai's POV:

*In the bathroom with the ignoramus bathtub that you can go swimming in*

Mai's POV:

Mom's tension came completely undone as she stepped into the huge bath filled to the brim with boiling water and bubbles. When I was younger I always wondered how she could stick her hand into fire without getting hurt and why she preferred boiling hot water instead of just warm water, but now I understand that it's due to the fire element that she got in the test. It seems that each element changes your body's composition just a little, although the Air and Water elements held the most change.

I hesitated wondering if my temperature resistance stood a chance against the heat, but quickly discarded it (and my towel) and stepped into the water. Surprisingly it didn't burn, instead it soothed. 'Weird' I thought as I noticed for the first time what the scent coming from the bath was.

"Mom, why does the water reek with the scents of Lavender and Chamomile?" I asked raising a brow, but lowering down even farther feeling my stress melt away, while calmness and sleepiness took its place.

"Cause I needed to calm down. After all, it's not good to deal with a packed schedule all stressed out like we all are. Plus, I needed a sleep agent to help me slip into Summerland." She said slyly.

"Oh yeah, how's it like ruling the spiritual domain, yet living in the human realm where they think that all this demon stuff is hocus pocus?" I asked wondering how she could mange with so much stress in her daily life, only to have to decide which souls went where and how to rule her realm.

"Actually, it's surprisingly easy now that Dark and I are ruling together. He's not doing the whole women-should-only-be-for-show-and-sex that a lot of the Dukes and Nobles believe in." she described in a disgusted tone, and let's face it, what girl in their right mind wouldn't be disgusted by that little tid-bit.

"Men like that are really hard to come by, make sure he doesn't get away." I teased nudging her in the side with my elbow.

"Hence the reason I'm getting married to him in less than a week." She sighed dreamily, most likely thinking about their wedding, or more accurately their honey moon.

"Which reminds me, why did you schedule your wedding right after my birthday?" I asked, truly wondering what had possessed her to do something like that. After all, these are two hugely major events in not even twenty-four hours of each other.

"Well, I just thought consistent party mode for a weekend and that it would help distract the fact that you're, oh, I don't know, a wolf-ess. You never know how your friends will take it, so I thought that it would be a good distracter." She explained making it so that I actually could understand her voice of reason.

"Well, at least that's one mystery solved." I sighed rolling my eyes. Where my eyes landed I saw a jar of, well, a jar of stuff right by Mom. "Now the next one is trying to figure out exactly what that stuff is." Mom looked at where I was looking and laughed. "What?"

"It's just that, I'm surprised that you don't know what this is." She giggled calming down just a bit as she unscrewed the cap to the jar.

"Since I don't, how about you explain it to me?" I stated making her giggle even more.

"It's a sugar scrub." She stated slathering on a pasty like substance onto her skin, then slowly working it into her body.

"A what now?"I asked even more confused than I had been when I first saw the stupid stuff. 'Maybe I should just stop asking questions.' The thought quickly flew out the door since that was one of my only defenses against Naru, so I decided that I would just have to deal with even more confusion than I started out with.

"A sugar scrub. It's just like a salt scrub except with just a few minor differences. I just started experimenting with them, and I have to say that they work wonders on the skin." She took some more and began rubbing it on her legs, sticking them out of the water, and causing ripples around her body.

"Why don't you just use salt scrubs? At least that stuff people know about." I pointed out making myself feel a little bit smarter that I could out think Mom on something for the first time in, well, in as long as can remember!

"Simple, because salt does exfoliate skin, same as sugar, but salt dries out the skin where as sugar retains moisture and some nutrients. And it's not even sticky like you'd expect it to be." Never mind, feeling of accomplishment has barrowed my wings and flown out the window. "Here, try some." Before I could protest her actions, she took a big chunk and began to rub it into my back. I had to admit, this scrub was a lot gentler then the salt scrub, also it felt so soothing and relaxing, and a bit… hungry? 'Huh, again weird.' "How does it feel?" She asked as she washed off my back, resuming doing her chest and arms with the same rubbings.

"That was really good, although now I feel kinda hungry." I commented making her laugh at me slightly.

"That's because it's vanilla scented. I've been experimenting with other essence oils, but I like vanilla the most." She explained holding up the jar to me to get a better whiff of the scrub. 'Oh yeah, defiantly vanilla.'

"Did you make it yourself?" I asked knowing how Mom loved to make home-made stuff and use all natural ingredients when she can.

"Yep, and it's really simple too. First, you mix equal amounts of white and brown sugar until you can't really see that much separation between the two. Then, fill a container all the way full with it, but don't back it down. Next, you pour some olive oil on it and wait for it to soak to the bottom, or you could just mix it. After that, repeat those two processes until you're happy with the results. Finally add in the vanilla extract and bada bing bada boom, you have yourself a sugar scrub!" she excitedly said, obviously very happy that she could make something that made your skin so awesomely soft with only basic ingredients.

"Wow. Do you want me to get your back?" I asked turning the subject into something else.

"Sure. Oh also I'm making a new batch tomorrow, do you want me to make you some, and if so what scent?" She asked as she leaned against the rim of the tub while I began rubbing in the sweet scrub into her skin.

"Why not, and if I have to choose, then I would say cinnamon." I said, since that was the scent closest to my actual scent.

"Going for the sugar and spice with everything nice?" she teased as she washed the rest of her body with just some water.

"You know it." I giggled fallowing Mom's example and washing everything off.

"Nice, well I don't know about you, but I think that it's time to get out of the tub if we even want five hours of sleep, and that is something that I don't want to miss." She eagerly said as she pulled the drain's plug and watched the water go down.

"Ditto." I said as we got out of the bath. We changed and saw that everyone was asleep already and parted ways into out rooms. I crawled into bed and curled up with the scent of vanilla tickling my nose, while only one thought ran through my head. 'Vanilla, Naru's favorite ice-cream flavor is vanilla.'

Me: That actually is a legit sugar scrub recipe for those of you who want to try it out. If the olive oil smell is too strong, then you can use mineral oil. Oh also Naru nearly killed Mai so I had to sedate him, but missed the first time and hit Mai instead. No worries though I got him the second time, but they unfortunately won't be with us as I finish this chapter. So any patoodle, please Review!