Day Three
Inu-Yasha's Day
(There is still no Kagome's day. Don't go expecting one.)
The next morning was not as bright and sunny as the two earlier. In fact, it was dark and cloudy and I knew it would start raining anytime soon. But I found myself awakened by Mr. Shawn once again, as opposed to it being the annoying dying animal.
"Good morning Mr. I!!" he greeted me. He clearly enjoyed his job way too much and I would definitely have to put him out of his misery.
"What?" I said.
"Time to make breakfast!" he declared.
I stared at him long and hard. "I made breakfast yesterday." I reminded him.
He nodded, showing that he remembered. "Yesterday was your day to choose two other people to make breakfast with you." He explained. "Today, it was somebody else's turn to chose two people to make breakfast with them and guess what?! YOU WERE CHOSEN!!!" He looked way too excited about this and then got confused when I wasn't excited.
I don't remember what actually motivated me to stand up and follow Mr. Shawn out the door. Maybe it was the fact that I was definitely going to punish Miroku or Sango or whoever had picked me to make breakfast. This would make the…THIRD time that I've made food for this camp?!
I slammed open the door and expected to see Miroku and Sango standing there with stupid grins on their faces and Miroku would be there with his…STAFF and Sango…she'd have her HAIR and they'd just both be STANDING there as if I thought this was funny with their stupid demon extermination powers and then I would severely harm them both within an inch of their lives. But, when I did open the door, I didn't see Miroku with his hair and Sango with her boomerang…or was it Sango with her hair and Miroku with his air void? Wait no…that wasn't it… Geez!! I was so angry that I couldn't even think straight!!
They were hiding!! The nerve!! They were trying to escape their fate!! They feared my power!!
"Good morning Mr. I!" said Ms Keri who, oddly enough, was standing outside my cabin as if she belonged there.
"SILENCE Ms Keri!!" I commanded her, pushing her out of the way. "I'm looking for Miroku and Sango!"
"Why?" she asked me.
"Because they dragged me out of bed early to make breakfast." I explained to her even though I later realized that I didn't need to explain anything to her.
"No, silly!" she laughed. "That was ME!! It's MY turn to make breakfast and I chose you and Ms April to help me!"
"Ms Who?" I asked. (I guess that it didn't process to me at first that Ms Keri had been the one who had waken me up early.)
"You know, the ceramics teacher!" she said. "Since ceramics is right next to candle making, we've become really good friends since we do a lot of girl talk during the passing time and our off periods."
"LET'S GO!!!" yelled Mr. Shawn randomly as he began to march off in some direction. I found myself following him and Ms Keri…I don't know why…
We went to the main building area to see that the one I assumed was Ms April was already there. Mr. Shawn told us to have fun and before he left, he pointed to the stack of plates over in the corner and then chuckled warmly. I looked over at Ms Keri and Ms April who were staring at me as if they hadn't forced me to come.
Then they started whispering to each other. I, of course, could hear them loudly and clearly because of my freakish dog-ears that everyone seemed to be helpfully disregarding. Their conversation sounded similar to one of the ones that Kagome would have with herself while Sango just stood there. Ms April took on the role of Kagome and started insisting that Ms Keri had a 'major-league crush' on me and that she wanted to set us up. And then I decided to butt in and told them to just forget about it.
"You could hear us?!" Ms Keri yelled, turning red. Ms April started giggling and then pulled Ms Keri over to the other side of the room and then began to whisper some more. I could still hear them, but I decided not to say anything about it.
It didn't occur to me until much later that the reason we were here was to make breakfast and since the girls were on the other side of the room, I had to start by myself. So I started by myself, and finished by myself. Of course, since I had started late and I was working by myself, we didn't have nearly enough food for the entire camp but I decided not to tell Mr. Shawn about that as I casually made my way back to my cabin.
On my way back, the rain began to fall. At first, it was only a few drops but pretty soon, it began to pour so I quickened my pace until I was finally back inside just as I heard that very same animal making its mating call or something.
Then Abigail ran up to me. "MR I!!" she shrieked. "I'M AFRAID OF THE RAIN!!!!"
"No you're not." I said.
"Yes I am!!" she continued to wail. I told her that if she was afraid of water then she would have serious problems growing up so she stopped crying. All of the girls got ready and pulled out their pink rain jackets and umbrellas and boots and other things that they had packed just in case it were to rain.
We walked slowly on the way to the main building. Of course we walked slowly. Rachel had to jump in EVERY single puddle and then she cried when she got wet and Abigail was just plain slow.
We were hardly half way there and I was already soaked since I didn't have any rain jackets or umbrellas or whatever but it's not like I needed them. I already knew that this would not be a good day.
Julia offered her umbrella to me. I told her that I would never use an object needed by women and children and she only looked utterly confused so I told her that she was too short. Though I could tell that she was still incredibly confused, she only nodded her head and pretended to understand. So we finally got into the building and ate the breakfast that I had made all by myself and I must say, it was by far the best meal.
"What do we have first, Mr. I?" asked either Katie or Leah. Actually…I think it was Katie. Leah, I think, is the chunky one and Katie is the uh…NOT chunky one.
"I haven't gotten my schedule yet." I told her, barely keeping myself from insulting her on her obvious stupidity. But then at that exact moment, Mr. Shawn walked by and handed me my schedule so I looked at it and told her that we had archery first.
"In the rain?" said Emily.
"AWSOME POSSUM!!" yelled Sarah so loudly that I thought I'd just have to smite her.
But I didn't.
So then we walked through the woods for a while until we finally came across an opening with a bunch of targets. There was some hideous aging man standing there. He talked and talked for what seemed like hours and I had no idea what he was saying. I kept saying 'WHAT?!' and he just repeated what he said again and I thought I would go insane if I had to listen to another word but he suddenly walked away. All the girls ran over to a station that had a bow and a bunch of arrows and began to attempt to hold the bow but they all held it wrong.
I was a bit hesitant to go near the arrows since I had kind of had a few bad experiences with arrows so I sat underneath the overhang so I could not only stay dry but also keep myself from dying again.
There were about three bows total so the girls had to wait about fifteen minutes before they got to shoot arrows again. Julia came over to me and sat down and asked me why I was afraid of arrows. I told her because they were sharp and pointy. She told me that these arrows weren't sharp or pointy at all since they were safe for little kids to use.
"I choose not to take that chance." I said.
Archery continued much like that and I was almost relieved when the guy came over and said something that sounded a bit like 'GET OUTTA HERE!!' I decided to let him live…for now since I wanted to leave after all. We walked back through the woods until we finally reached back at the main camp area. Since it was open and not protected by trees, it was raining much harder. All the girls screamed in terror as if the rain was going to hurt them and then ran to the next activity called basket weaving.
Just the sound of that made me unhappy. Why would I want to spend my time weaving a basket?
We finally got inside the basket weaving building. The counselor in there told me that I was wet and I wanted to harm her severely for saying that as if I didn't know but just I was contemplating on exactly how I should do it, Sango walked in. She, for some reason, had an umbrella and jacket.
"What are you doing here?" I immediately questioned her.
"My group's off on an all day hike." She told me. "So I get to do whatever I want today."
"So you came here?" the basket weaving counselor AND myself said at the same time.
"Yes." She said.
"If I had the fortune of being separated from my group all day then I would either go home or go to the fun activities." I said as we all sat around a table. Then I thought about what I just said. "Then again, I would DEFINITELY go home."
"I have no way of getting home." Sango said.
That appalled me. "You have legs don't you?" I said.
She frowned and then began to defend herself but I chose to ignore her. I picked up a few basket piece things and began to weave them together. Within minutes I had completed an entire basket while the kids struggled to put theirs together.
"Wow!" said the basket-weaving counselor. "I didn't even have to explain anything to you! You must do this a lot."
"No." I said. "Are you telling me that that was basket weaving? That wasn't even hard."
"You must be a natural!" she said. This woman needed a good smack.
Sango finished a basket about half way through the period and then stated that it wasn't hard and that she had just been at drama with Miroku and he was ranting on how hard it was. I said that Miroku was obviously far too incompetent to complete even the simplest of tasks.
By the end of the period, I had constructed about five baskets but I had long since stopped since I was getting far too bored with just making baskets for an hour. The girls in my group all screamed that they wanted the baskets since they had failed at making their own. Since I didn't want them, I gave one to each of the Julia triplets and the other to Katie and Leah since those were the three who annoyed me the least. I told the rest of the girls that if they wanted a project from me then they would have to be less annoying.
Abigail, Emily and Rachel started crying and I told them that they were off to a very bad start. Jesse didn't say anything and that annoyed me since she's never said anything to me this entire time. I think she can't talk or something. It didn't seem to bother Sarah at all since she had created a mildly good basket that she wanted to keep.
I didn't know what we would be doing for the swim period considering the fact that it was raining outside. I was hoping that it was canceled but it turned out that it wasn't and Mr. Shawn was standing out there saying that we would continue with all the activities, rain or shine.
So my group left me, and then I was approached by Miriam, Russell and the other two boys whose names escape me.
They were all shivering and whining. I instructed them to go over and get some kickboards and then come back. When they came back, told them to follow me into the water. They didn't seem to mind going in the water as much since they were already wet to begin with but the two boys who weren't Russell really only went up to their knees.
"Mr. I, swimming is my FAVORITE period!!" Russell said randomly.
"You lie." I said to him.
"No, it's true!!" Russell said. "I especially like it when it's raining!!! I just LOVE swimming!!!" And then he started splashing about and frolicking so I couldn't help but believe the fact that swimming was his favorite period. Miriam came up to me and said that she was cold and I told her to suck it up but she started sniffling so I told her that if she was going to cry then she would have to go away since I didn't feel like dealing with her. The opposite of what I wanted happened, actually. She stayed and stopped crying whereas I wanted her to run away in tears. Oh well.
Then I noticed off in the distance Miroku and Sango inside of a building talking and laughing and being all DRY and NOT outside teaching small children how to swim! I then became insanely jealous and stomped over to the building that they were in and demanded to know why they weren't outside. They laughed as if there was anything remotely funny to laugh at.
"Our swimming groups are on hikes so we don't have to do anything!" said Miroku. "It turns out that it wasn't JUST Sango's group who left. It was everyone over the age of thirteen. Since my group was over the age, they left."
"Same here." Sango said as she let out a laugh. "This is actually a very nice day! Who would have thought that such a raining disgusting day could make me so happy?"
"This is NOT a good day!" I said since it definitely wasn't. It was at that time that I noticed that Miroku also had a jacket and umbrella at his side. "Where do you get those?! Not that I want to wear them or anything, I'm just curious…" I quickly added.
"They were in the cabin." Miroku replied, acting as though he knew everything.
"Well I obviously didn't get one considering the fact that I had to make breakfast all by myself this morning." I said, crossing my arms.
"Why did you do that?" asked Sango.
"I didn't WANT to!" I yelled at her. "Someone just chose me!"
Miroku all of a sudden changed the subject since he knew that I was right. "Shouldn't you be watching your swim group?" he said, pointing outside.
"You just want me to go back outside in the rain so you can laugh at me like you were earlier." I said.
"I don't know where you're getting that." Miroku said. "I just want to make sure there are no more mishaps like yesterday since those kids are all around the age of six."
"Shows how much you know. Russell is FIVE, not six." Stupid Miroku.
"Well I knew THAT." Said Miroku. I could tell he knew he was defeated. "I said AROUND six."
"Sure, sure." I said.
"Just go out and make sure that they don't drown!" Miroku said as he stood up and tried to push me outside. I easily kept my feet planted as Miroku pushed with all his might and just when I was about to laugh at his expense, he pulled a demon ward out and placed it on my shoulder.
I leapt up as the pain started surging throughout my entire body as I watched Miroku looked at me with a satisfied expression. I attempted to peel it off my shoulder but every time I touched it, the pain grew.
"I'll take if off if you go out and watch Russell and the other three." Miroku said to me.
I could hardly manage to spit out FINE!!! When he already had it off and pocketed. He threatened to put it right back so I calmly told him that I was going to go back out anyway and then turned and walked away from him. I felt very down after that and it didn't make it better walking through the rain as it poured from the sky.
"Mr. I, where'd you go?" asked Russell. "We missed you!!"
By this time, my self-esteem was at an all time low and I was in a bad mood so I ignored him and sat down on the muddy beach with my back to them. They all came over and started climbing all over me while asking me if I was feeling okay. Luckily, I heard the bell ring at about that time so I pushed them all away from me and hurried back to my cabin.
Even now as I look back on it, I don't know why I bothered changing into something dry. It would have made more sense to put on my wet clothes so that I wouldn't just have to get wet again but I did feel a little better as I waited for my group to gather inside the dry cabin as they all changed into dry clothes and put on jackets and opened their umbrellas. I told them that we would be having lunch and group time here today.
Some random counselor came to our cabin and gave us an assortment of what I thought was breakfast, lunch and dinner from the previous days. As if I didn't find them repulsive the first time around!!
Most of the girls finished lunch early since none of them really decided to eat very much. All they did for the remained of lunch and group time was choose which counselor they wanted to be for the lawnmower skit. They all wrote down who they wanted to be on a piece of paper. When they finished, I looked at the list.
"Okay, we can't have THREE people being me." I said, looking down the list and seeing that Julia, Emily and Abigail all wanted to be me. Normally, I wouldn't give this a second thought and let them work out their OWN problems but today, and I don't know why, I just needed to perfect this. "Since Julia is my favorite, she can be me. Emily, you can be that gaseous woman from drama and Abigail, you can be that hideous old woman at arts and crafts."
"THAT'S NOT FAIR MR. I!!!" screamed Emily and Abigail as they both began to cry. I didn't feel bad for them.
"Jesse." I continued. "You did two things wrong. Not only did you have the nerve to want to be Miroku, but you went and put yourself first on the list. But…I guess you can be him…" I looked down the list. "Who is Mr. Czhekov?!" I could hardly pronounce that! Who knew how to SPELL that?!
"That's me!!" yelled Sarah. "He's awesome! You know, he's that archery teacher! I wanna talk with his cool accent!!"
I stared at her and this only confirmed my suspicions that Sarah had very well been dropped as a child.
I didn't have any problems with Julie wanting to be Sango and Juliana wanting to be Ms Keri. (Of course, it could have been the other way around for all I know!) Katie chose to be Ms Dottie who I gathered was the horseback riding teacher and Leah wanted to be Ms Lauren from dance since both of their names started with L's.
I was literally saved by the bell as I told the girls to follow me down to painting. We arrived at the arts and crafts building where Miroku, his group and Sango were already waiting.
"Wow, all three of us in the very same activity!" said Miroku as if I wouldn't be angry at him anymore.
"Actually, technically I'm not really in this activity." Said Sango.
"Miroku, don't think I'm not mad at you!" I told him.
Ms Kara then came out of nowhere and began pouring paint into little bowls in front of us and then handing out paper.
"I want to finger paint since I missed it yesterday." Said Russell. Before Miroku could stop him, he already had his entire hand in the green paint. "My favorite color is green!!" Then he stuck his other hand in the yellow paint and made two handprints on his paper. "My other favorite color is yellow."
I then realized that Miroku had probably not heard me. "I'm still mad at you, Miroku." I said.
"That's nice." Said Miroku as he pulled out a paper towel and began cleaning off Russell's hands.
I knew he was ignoring me so I told him again that I was mad at him only in a louder voice.
"I KNOW!!" Miroku yelled. "I heard you the first two times you said it!!"
"But you never acknowledged me." I pointed out.
"Do I really NEED to?" said Miroku, sounding annoyed. I was glad he was annoyed since he had so recently annoyed me.
"Yes." I said. "And if you don't, I'll just have to kill you."
"No way. I'd like to see you try."
"I could kill you easily!"
"I could kill you easily only FASTER!"
"I'd kill you much faster and I'd have an easier time too!!"
At that moment, Sango suddenly screamed for us to stop. Actually, she really only screamed 'HOSH-SAMA!!' So I crossed my arms and scoffed at Miroku since I didn't even want to look at his stupid face anymore.
"Don't worry, Mr. I, we know you could so beat up Mr. Miroku!" said Julia. All the other girls agreed. "We've seen how strong you are and how high you can jump!"
"Yeah, I guess I can jump higher than Miroku." I said.
"A lot higher than he can ever dream of jumping." Said Leah.
"And you can pop tetherballs better than anyone else!!" said Sarah.
"Um…okay." I said slowly.
"And your hair is the longest out of the boys and the girls!" Sarah continued even though she could have stopped with the tetherball comment and I would still have a LITTLE respect for her.
"That's enough." I told her.
"And you lose your temper faster than anyone I've ever seen before in my entire life!!" she continued as if I hadn't told her to stop. "And you have really bizarre mood swings!!"
"STOP IT!!" I finally yelled at her.
"See?!" Sarah said, looking at everyone else and then pointing at me.
"Stop pointing out all my bad qualities!" I demanded.
"But those ARE good qualities!!" she said. "I mean, will you EVER see Mr. Miroku yelling at HIS kids?" And then we looked over at Miroku who was yelling at Russell for putting his hands in the paint again. I decided to disregard that and go back to my needless sulking.
The bell rang a little while later and I was all too happy to leave. All the girls chased after me with their umbrellas and jackets and boots and everything else that would keep them dry that I didn't have. We had shop next, with that shop counselor in the wheelchair who had so exploited my services on the very first day. When we got there, he gave each of the girls a block of wood, a hammer and a handful of nails and told them to just hammer the nails into the wood.
"This is dumb!" whined Juliana.
"Yeah, counselor in a wheelchair, what is this proving?" I said. "What are we making?"
"Nothing." Said the counselor in a wheelchair. "You can't make anything in an hour. Most groups have two shop classes but you guys only have one because the first one was on the first day at the way beginning." He continued to explain but I was distracted because the door had just opened and Sango had walked in.
She shook off her umbrella and told me that I had left so suddenly that she didn't have a chance to follow. She said that she didn't want to go to rest hour with Miroku since that was boring. But then she suddenly looked as though she got a change of heart, opened her umbrella and then darted off into the rain. I raised an eyebrow and decided to ignore that. By the end of the period, we all had some nice blocks of wood with nails in them and we had a BLAST doing that for an entire hour.
I would have beat up the counselor in the wheelchair if not for the fact that he was in a wheelchair and you can't beat up people in wheelchairs. So I let him live.
Not to mention the fact that our next period was candle making. I knew that not only would we have to make candles again but I would have to see Ms Keri and Ms April again and they had just rubbed me the wrong way ever since day one.
"Let's take the long way to candle making." I said to the girls.
"YAY!!" they all cheered. "SECRET PASSAGE WAY!!!" I was about to take them to the other side of camp when I bumped into Sango.
"Are you guys going to candle making?" she asked.
"Unfortunately." I answered.
"I'm going there too!" she said. "Let's go together! You can share my umbrella if you want."
"I'm already completely wet." I said. "It's not like there would be any point in using an umbrella. Plus, I would never use anything that women and children need to…"
"Yeah, I didn't think so." Sango interrupted me. She led us to the candle making building as if she were the counselor. Well, I guess she technically was the REAL counselor of this group since she was assigned to it but I was the one now and there's nothing she could do about it. We stood outside the candle making building for a moment and before we went in, I asked Sango if she could pretend as though we were going out so that Ms Keri would leave me alone but she gasped and told me that I was a sicko for even thinking about that. I guess it was worth a try.
So we went in and Ms Keri was there to greet us. And wouldn't you know it? Ms April had a free period so she came in to help Ms Keri with candle making as if Ms Keri did anything anyway.
The kids asked me if they could dip their projects from the previous periods in the wax. I told them to go ahead until Sarah emerged from the corner of the room holding a mouse by its tail.
"Can I dip this in the wax?" she asked eagerly.
Since I never pass up the opportunity of making innocent things suffer senselessly, I said yes. But then I realized that I usually do the opposite and I'm not really all that barbaric so I quickly rescued the poor creature from certain demise.
"Aw man, I really wanted to have a mouse candle." Said Sarah. "I was going to put the wick in his mouth and have it stick out of the wax."
"Sarah, you are psycho." I told her.
"Yeah…" said Sarah as she skipped off in search of something else to put in the wax.
Then Ms Keri came over to me. "That was really nice of you to save that poor mouse!" she said.
"Leave me alone." I said as I grabbed Sango and pulled her in next to me. "I'm going out with Sango here."
"WHAT?!" Sango yelled as she spun around and slapped me.
"What was that for?!" I demanded.
"I already told you that I wasn't going to do that!!"
"Couldn't you just pretend for an hour?!"
"Why didn't you just say that you were going out with Kagome who is in the nurse's office?!"
"Because I'm not going out with her."
"You're not going out with me either."
I then looked at Ms Keri and then back at Sango.
"So what is it really?" Ms Keri asked, crossing her arms.
"Look Ms Keri…I'm old enough to be your GRANDFATHER." I said finally, using that as a last resort.
"What?" said Ms Keri and Sango at the same time.
"You know, that whole fifty years thing." I said to Sango.
"That doesn't count!" Sango said, almost as if she was appalled that I was counting that.
"Sango, you're hurting me here." I said.
Sango threw her arms up into the air and then quickly left the candle making building with a sigh, leaving me there alone with Ms Keri.
"So, now that we've got that all cleared up…" Ms Keri started. "Do you want to go to the dance with me?"
"What dance?" I said, pulling out the schedule and looking down to see at the bottom that it said 'The Dance' instead of campfire and the last activity of the day. I quickly thought up some excuse. "I can't. I have to…um…do other stuff. I'm not even going myself!"
"But you have to take your group there!" Ms Keri pointed out.
"Well then I'm going with my group." I clarified for her.
"I'll meet you there!" Ms Keri said, sounding way too happy on a rainy day.
Luckily, I didn't have to answer her because the bell rang. She waved goodbye and told me that she'd see me there but I didn't respond.
The girls spent all the time on our way to 'sports' singing some insipid song about how Ms Keri and I had a crush on each other since they had obviously heard us talking. I decided just to let them sing their stupid song since I at least knew that I didn't like her at all. I mean, I've been called a two-timer by a lot of people and the last thing I needed was to be called a three-timer.
Sports wasn't really sports at all. We just sat under a tent and played hand-slapping games while Mr. Carl just stood out in the middle of the rain as if he was proving anything.
Rachel begged me to play a hand-slapping game with her but I just decided to intentionally scratch her so that it would teach all the other girls to leave me alone as well, especially on a bad day.
I watched Miroku, Sango and his group way off in the distance run around in circles and throw things at each other and fend each other off with sticks. He didn't have a counselor to supervise him so he clearly was just trying to confuse his kids and make them think that they were doing something important. Then they all lined up and Miroku handed things out to them. I couldn't tell what he was giving them from my current position but I knew that if it had come from Miroku then it must not be anything that I would want. After they received their prize from Miroku, they all ran over to Sango who just looked as though she was showing them how to properly throw a stick or something like that.
Sarah then pulled out a whole mess of gimp that she said she had cleverly swiped while we were at painting. Of course, she had taken all the discarded gimp so she had about three inches of each color so she couldn't really make a bracelet or something.
So I concluded that sports was stupid but Julie argued with me for quite a long time, defending sports and saying that it was usually more fun and that she had been at this camp since she was in The Bunnies and every OTHER time she went to sports it had been better. I heard the bell ring and I immediately stood up and walked down to the waterfront with all the girls following behind me while stomping in every single puddle.
I stood by the area where I always met up with my group. Miriam came over first, wearing her towel. I told her that it was counter productive to wear her towel while it was raining and that her towel was just getting wet but she insisted on keeping it and I didn't argue with her anymore since I didn't feel like it.
The other two boys came over, and it was annoying me because I couldn't remember their names. They told me that they were Luke and Louis.
We waited for a few minutes and I watched as other groups got into the water and began their lessons. "Where's Russell?" I said. "That kid is so stupid. He probably forgot that…" But I was interrupted because I suddenly felt a piercing feeling on my leg. When I looked down behind me, I saw Russell standing there with his hand up against the back of my leg and then he pulled his hand away to reveal a demon ward.
"Hi Mr. I!!" he yelled.
"Where did you get that?!" I demanded and then told him to immediately take it off.
"Mr. Miroku gave it to me." He said as he peeled it off of me and I felt instant relief.
"Oh. REALLY?" I said, thinking of Miroku handing Russell a demon ward and telling him to sneak up behind me and put it on me.
"Yup!" Russell said.
"Get rid of it!!" I yelled. "If I ever see you with one again then I will do something so horrible that I don't even know what it is yet!!"
"Okay." Said Russell as he dug a hole and put the ward in it and then covered it back up with the sand/mud. I decided that it was now time to go over to that building where Miroku was laughing and talking and being dry and give him a piece of my mind! So I stomped over to him.
"Yeah, that was REAL funny." I said to Miroku.
"You heard what we were saying?!" gasped Sango as she turned red.
"Um…no." I said. "You specifically gave a demon ward to Russell and told him to put it on me!"
"No, I gave a demon ward to everyone in my group and told them no special instruction." Miroku so obviously lied.
"That's not true, Hosh-sama," said Sango. "You told them that they react on demons and then you used Inu-Yasha as an example."
"Oh right." Said Miroku. "But I never told them to use them on you!"
"That's true…" Sango said to me.
"Okay, if THAT'S so then why did Russell us it on me?" I said.
"Well, I never told them NOT to use them on you." Miroku said. "You were probably just the first person that Russell saw and, since it was still fresh in his mind about the demon wards, he most likely just wanted to use it on SOMEONE!"
I paused. "What mind?" I asked.
Miroku frowned. "Aren't you supposed to be watching your swim group?" he said. "I still have more demon wards, you know."
"Well I was going now anyway." I said since I had already had my fill of demon wards today. I stomped back over to my swim group and told them that if they didn't go in the water then I would smite them all.
Luke yelled that he didn't want to get his head wet. I reminded him that it was raining and that his head was already wet but he just continuously said the word 'NO!!' to anything I said. Louis refused to go in the water as well so once again, I found myself only with Russell and Miriam. I told Louis and Luke that they were wimps and they were letting a girl and a little kid be braver they were.
It was at that time that Russell pulled out another demon ward and threw it at me. Luckily, I have quick reflexes and easily dodged his pathetic throw but then decided that if I didn't punish him right here and now then he would just keep doing it. But before I did that, I dropped a humungous rock on the spot where the ward had sunk just to make sure that it didn't wash up on shore, blow around for a little while before inevitably landing on me. So I yelled at Russell for a few minutes but he seemed unfazed so I knew I would have to take it all the way to Miroku.
When I reached the shore, however, it felt as though I had just stepped on something very not good to step on. I then noticed the mound that Russell had made when he had buried the demon ward.
So I picked up another gigantic rock and dropped it on that mound and then went over to Miroku.
"What do you want this time?" Miroku asked me as if he was getting sick of me telling him what he was doing wrong. "We're just trying to enjoy our periods off. Tell me, what did I NOT do this time?"
"SHUT UP!!!" I yelled at him. "You gave Russell TWO demon wards on purpose, didn't you?!"
"I gave them ALL two demon wards." Miroku said with a sigh. "Except for Kelsey. I only gave her one and it was kind of ripped because I don't really like her all that much."
"Oh, THAT'S reassuring!" I yelled. Then the bell rang and Miroku was out in a flash since I could tell that he feared my wrath.
Sango stood up more slowly. "Inu-Yasha, do you mind if I join you and your group in tubing after dinner?" she asked me. I told her that I couldn't possibly care less so she ran off to have dinner. My group met back up with me at the cabin where that very same woman came around with a bunch of plates of spaghetti and told us to eat up until we felt as though we were going to explode. Of course, we didn't really eat up until we thought we were surely explode since we barely had enough spaghetti to cover the plate, not to mention the fact that it was disgusting.
We spent the remaining forty-five minutes of the period being creative with Sarah's gimp. Actually, I shouldn't say 'we', I should say 'they' considering I didn't play with the gimp.
Then they all got their rain jackets and umbrellas back on and we all went down to tubing. I was hoping that this would be a good activity since I was feeling a little down. Make that REALLY down. The guy at the tubing place said that his name was Mr. Darrin and told us all to get into groups of three.
I didn't know what the other groups were but I knew that Sarah and Julia had partnered up and then decided right then and there that I would be the third person. Juliana and Jesse started complaining (actually it was only Juliana since Jesse was silent) that there group only had two people but then Sango came over and said that she'd be in their group.
Rachel, Emily and Abigail cried so Mr. Darrin let them go first. While he was taking them around in a tube, he told everyone to get on life jackets and just swim around in the area. I just decided to watch, as did Sango.
"I feel a lot better in my bathing suit around younger girls." She said. But then she looked at me, screamed and covered herself up with her shirt.
"Don't worry, I'm not aroused or anything!" I yelled at her.
"A girl can never be too careful!" she insisted as she put her shirt back on and then pulled her jacket on. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms and decided to just let her do whatever she wanted since it's not like I was becoming unhappy because she was putting her clothes back on.
After a little while, Mr. Darrin came back and my three least favorite girls climbed out of the tube talking about how fun it was. Katie, Leah and Julie pushed themselves forward and jumped into the tube and told Mr. Darrin to go as fast as he could get the boat to go. Mr. Darrin sped off and all the girls jumped back into the water and started asking Emily, Rachel and Abigail about the ride and asking for tips as if they were experts on tubing.
Mr. Darrin came back a little later and Katie, Leah and Julie got out.
Juliana declared that she wanted to go next so she, Jesse and Sango got in the tube next and Mr. Darrin left. I continued to just watch the girls swim around and wondered just how much time was left of this period since so far, I was not having fun.
"Mr. I, come and swim with us!!" yelled Leah. "It's fun!!"
"I'll pass." I said.
"PLEASE?!" they all pleaded but I only turned around so I wouldn't have to look at them anymore. They all had to get out of the water when Mr. Darrin pulled back in and Sango, Jesse and Juliana got out of the tube.
"Wow, that was so much more fun than I had with Gordon!" Sango said, acting as if I even knew who Gordon was.
"It's our turn, Mr. I!" said Julia excitedly as she jumped in the tube.
"GO FAST!!" screamed Sarah. I told them to move over as I got in as well.
"You might want to hold on." Mr. Darrin called back to me. I ignored him as he shrugged and started up the boat.
The ride was long and somewhat relaxing as I looked up at the sky just as the sun dipped behind the horizon. I suddenly felt very strange as my whole body seemed to pulsate at once, threw me off balance and the next thing I knew, I was skidding across the water before finally coming to a stop. I looked around for the boat to see that it was heading right towards me.
"Mr. I?" Mr. Darrin said, staring at me as if I had more than one head.
"Yeah?!" I said, trying to sound as agitated as I could. He raised an eyebrow and held out his arm for me to grab onto. When I grabbed a hold of him, I noticed that I didn't have any claws. Mr. Darrin pulled me up into the boat and I looked into the rear view mirror to see that I had turned human. It turned out that the reason I was having such a bad day was because it was the new moon! At the very same time, I felt relieved and annoyed because I now knew that there wasn't anything seriously wrong with me but then again, I was also a human and that ALWAYS pisses me off.
Mr. Darrin, rode around the lake and then pulled back to the dock. I could tell that he was looking at me out of the corner of his eye. (Well, I guess I would stare too if I were an incompetent human who didn't know any better.)
"Inu-Yasha, is it that time again?!" was the first thing that Sango said to me as I climbed off the boat.
"Apparently." I said to her. "I guess I lost track…"
"Well…I guess that would explain a lot." Sango said.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" I demanded. She was lucky that she didn't have to explain herself because my entire group had run over to me and was now questioning my new appearance.
"I bet Mr. Miroku can't do that either!!" yelled Sarah.
"Hey, it's not like this is a GOOD thing!" I said.
"YES IT IS!!" screamed all the little girls. Then Mr. Darrin came over, told me that my magic trick was amazing and that he had to go to the dance since he was meeting 'Ms Nicole' there or someone like that.
"Hey wait…this COULD be a good thing." I said to Sango as she walked with me and the rest of the group down to the main building where the dance was going to be held. "This way, I bet Ms Keri won't be able to recognize me so she'll think that I didn't even come."
"That's brilliant." Said Sango though I could tell she was being sarcastic but I chose to ignore it since if things aren't going my way, I just ignore them. Then, we reached the main building and the music was pounding and loud, and I could only imagine how loud it would have been if I wasn't human right now.
As soon as we entered, I saw Ms Keri's face in front of us.
"Hi!" she said to Sango. "Have you seen Mr. I?"
"Sorry." She said.
She then looked me up and down. "Who's your friend?"
"Um…my brother." Sango replied. "His name is Kohaku."
"Kohaku?" I said.
"Yes. Kohaku." Sango answered.
"Oh." Said Ms Keri. "Your brother's kind of cute!" she added with a giggle. I wanted to slap her right then and there but then I heard someone calling my name behind me. I turned around to suddenly be bombarded with Kagome.
"Inu-Yasha!" she wailed. I tried to shut her up as she just continued saying my name. "I hardly recognized you like this!"
I slapped my forehead and looked back at Ms Keri who was nodding.
"So you dyed your hair and got color contacts?" she said. Once again, I wanted to slap her.
"Inu-Yasha, I snuck out of the nurse's office so I could see you!" she said as she leaned up against me. "I'm so sickly and frail." I could tell she was lying so I pushed her away.
Then Miroku walked over, holding hands with one of the girls from his group who looked all too happy. "Isn't this just great?" he said. "Aren't you having fun?! We finally get to stay up late."
"Dance with me again, Mr. Miroku!" said the girl.
"Hosh-sama?!" gasped Sango.
"I'll dance with you LATER, don't worry." Said Miroku.
"I never asked for that!!" Sango yelled, turning red. Just then, a hoard of hideous pubescent boys entered the building. They were all smelly and gross and dirty.
"WE'RE BACK MS SANGO!!!" they all screamed.
I decided that I now wanted to leave. So I walked off and both Kagome and Ms Keri followed after me.
"I like your new look, Mr. I." Said Ms Keri. "I have to admit, you just didn't look like a human when you had all that white hair."
"No…REALLY?!" I found myself yelling so that she could hear me since we were standing right by the speakers. She nodded, looking way too happy. Kagome then wedged herself between the two of us and grabbed my hands, giving them a gentle tug.
"Will you dance with me?" she asked.
"No." I answered. "I don't dance."
Suddenly, the music stopped and Mr. Shawn was standing up on the stage. "It is now time for The Bunnies to go back to their cabin for the night." He said. A loud bellowing 'NEVER!!' came from the crowd and was soon followed by six other quieter 'NEVER!!'s. Mr. Shawn then spoke for a few minutes before he finally seemed satisfied.
"Now it's the moment all of you counselors and older kids have been waiting for!" Mr. Shawn continued. "The DANCING GAMES!!!" All the counselors and older kids cheered. "We'll start the dance off with a friendly game of Snowball. Any volunteers to start?"
The game Snowball consisted of Mr. Darrin and some random girl dancing for a little while and then when somebody screamed 'SNOWBALL!!' the two of them had to dart off and find someone else to dance with so that there were two groups of people dancing. Then when somebody yelled 'SNOWBALL!!' again, all four people had to find somebody to dance with. This continued on and on and I got bored very soon.
However, it got very confusing when both Ms Keri and Kagome got picked at the same time. I knew that at the next 'SNOWBALL!!', they would both run over to me so I was just about to make my speedy getaway when I heard someone yell 'SNOWBALL!!'
"I WAS HERE FIRST!!" Kagome yelled.
"NO, I WAS!!" Ms Keri argued. They fought for a few seconds until somebody yelled 'SNOWBALL!!' again so they both looked very sad and went off to dance with somebody else. I was just about to laugh at their expense when Ms Alice literally came out of nowhere and grabbed my hands and started swinging me around. Considering Ms Alice is an incredibly large and obese woman and I was currently in my human form, try as I might, I couldn't escape her wrath.
It seemed to take forever for someone to scream 'SNOWBALL!!' again but when they did, I was just about to run away when Ms Alice let go of me but then somebody else grabbed onto me very tightly.
I looked down to see that it was Sango. "Inu-Yasha, please," she said, pointing to one of the boys that were in her group.
"Yeah, and you wouldn't pretend to be going out with me for just an hour so that Ms Keri would leave me alone!" I reminded her.
"This is different!!" she yelled. I could tell that she was desperate so I decided just to let her cling to me until someone yelled 'SNOWBALL!!' When they did, she ran off as fast as she could and then leapt over to Mr. Carl who was just standing in the middle of the room while staring off into space.
I was going to start whistling and casually walk away when I was faced with some random teenage girl in a very slutty outfit who declared that she was going to dance with me. I told her that she was wrong and that if she didn't get away from me then I would smite her. She told me that I was playing hard to get and I asked her how should could possibly know better than I would. Before she could argue, someone screamed 'SNOWBALL!!' again.
"Too bad!" I said with a shrug. She didn't seem affected and turned around to find some other guy who was not being danced with. It was at that time that Julia ran over to me.
"I've been looking for you everywhere!!" she yelled. "I just couldn't find you because I couldn't remember what you looked like!!" I raised my eyebrow and wondered if Julia actually expected me to dance with her but then I saw Ms Keri looking around for something (I assumed it was me) so I hastily agreed and she grabbed my hands. She really just jumped around insanely while I just stood and watched her and I was thankful when Mr. Shawn stood back on the stage again.
"That was sure fun!" he said with a slaphappy attitude. "We're going to play a slow song and then it's off to bed for all the campers younger than the age of twelve!"
All the females screamed with delight as a slow song started playing. Julia turned completely red and ran off and I was glad that I wouldn't have to deal with her anymore. I also decided that this was my chance to 'run off' as well but I suddenly saw Kagome right in front of me.
"I've been waiting for a chance like this!" she said, her eyes getting teary. "But unfortunately, there are no dancing places in your world and that's where we are most of the time!" I was just about to threaten her life if she touched me but she suddenly coughed and fell forward. I could tell that she was faking so that she could fall into my arms since she's kind of prone to doing stuff like that I so moved out of the way but she kept falling until she hit the ground.
"Um…Kagome?" I said, bending down and waving my hand in front of her face. I quickly came to the conclusion that she had fainted since, after all, she was allergic to marshmallows and should be in the nurse's office right now.
Just then, Mr. Shawn ran over and slapped his cheeks. "DEARY ME!!!" he yelled. "Just what we need, another person fainting!!" But then he looked at me. "Um…I mean…go get the nurse!!"
"Mr. Shawn, I prefer the term 'passing out' as opposed to 'fainting'." I said since passing out sounded more manly than fainting.
"I don't want to make a big deal out of this." Mr. Shawn told me, looking around to make sure no one had seen us so he quickly picked Kagome up and hurried out of the building as fast as he could. I decided to forget that that ever happened and to just go about my life as if it were normal even though it so obviously wasn't.
When Mr. Shawn returned, he instructed all the campers under the age of twelve to hurry off to bed. On my way out with my group, I passed by Ms Keri who was standing at the door.
"We didn't get a chance to dance!" she said.
"Oh well!" I said. "I have to take them to bed." Then I quickly walked off but Ms Keri followed me.
"Do you mind if I walked with you?" she asked.
"Yes." I replied.
"Okay." Said Ms Keri as if I had said that I enjoyed her company. The walk back consisted of the girls quietly singing their stupid song that they had started earlier, acting as though we wouldn't notice.
When we got back to the cabin, I told all the girls to go inside and get changed.
"Why, so you can get some alone time with Ms Keri?" said Sarah.
"No, so you can get changed into your pajamas!" I yelled at her as I pushed her in the door and then looked at Ms Keri. "Okay. I'm at my cabin. You can leave now."
"I looked at your schedule for tomorrow to see that you don't have candle making or ceramics…" Ms Keri started.
"Good." I said.
"But maybe we can eat lunch together?" she suggested as she twirled her umbrella around.
"I don't think so." I said, knocking on the door. "Are you girls done yet?!"
"YES!!" they all yelled.
"Bye." I said to Ms Keri as I pushed the door open and then slammed it shut. I watched her walk away from my window and gave a sigh of relief that she was finally gone.
"Mr. I and Ms Keri sittin' in a tree!" said Sarah as she jumped up and down on her bed. "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!!"
I paused and put all the letters together to see that they spelled 'kissing'.
"NO WAY!!" I yelled. "GET TO BED!!" All the girls screamed and got under the covers and I turned off the lights. I kicked my bed over in my crazed rage and then sat down on the floor, trying as hard as I could to get to sleep faster.