Tony watched his daughter. "And we're back to this Hojo character."

"Yeah." she looked at him with a grimace.

"What is with the guy?"

"Well, when I first started Jr. High he was the cutest guy and I..." she looked off to the side with slightly furrowed brows. "I guess I just fell into the stereotype of crushing on him. Nothing didn't happen till second year. Three of my friends encouraged our would be relationship, three dates later though, it died."

"Dates?!"

"Oh please, those were harmless, and very, very boring." she once again threw him a sly smirk. "Which is more than I can say what you did in the past."

He opened his mouth as if to put up a good face, but at a pointed look from Kagome he closed his mouth with a snap.

"Hey, it's not like I'm complaining! You got me out of it." she smiled at him, one that was full of life and made her all the more beautiful.

"That I did." he smiled softly, in a way that Pepper hadn't seen him smile before. "But let's get back to this training thing. What exactly did you do?"

Kagome continued to smile and waved Pepper in, who gladly took the invitation and pulled a desk chair to sit next to Tony.


AN: I may or may not be able to update this coming Thursday. If not, I'll be updating on Friday. Other than that; read, enjoy, and review!