Day Three
Sango's Day
The sound of motion awakened me that morning. I was still tired and in a daze so I watched out of the crack of one of my eyelids as all the boys moved about the cabin, filling their bags and whispering quietly to each other. I was glad that they had enough decency to try to be quiet in the morning but I did keep my eye on them to make sure nothing happened. I assumed that they were away on their all day hike that I wasn't invited on.
They were led out of the room by a counselor and I was alone in the huge cabin all by myself. No sooner had I began to fall asleep again did I hear the sound of the horn that woke me up the first day. I wondered if I had to even get up at all considering my group was on a hike but I pushed myself up anyway and got myself dressed very quickly.
I decided to go and check to see what Hosh-sama was doing and perhaps eat breakfast with him. Not for any real reason, I just don't want to eat breakfast all alone. I opened the door to see that it was raining a bit and I definitely didn't want to get wet so after a quick scout of the cabin, I discovered a rain jacket and an umbrella that seemed to be laid out just for me. I made my way down to the cabin that I remembered was Hosh-sama's and was about to knock on the door when all of a sudden it opened and Hosh-sama was standing there.
He looked up at the sky and then back at me.
"Are you going to breakfast now?" I asked.
"Yes." Was all he said. I explained to him how my group was away on an all day hike and I was not included so was simply allowed to go around to any group I desired and spend time with them. I then realized that I was ambiguously saying that I wanted to spend time with Hosh-sama, even though that was NOT true, so I quickly told him to run and get a rain jacket.
Hosh-sama's group was mini in every single way. Not only were the kids themselves small, but the group was small as well and I found this to be so very unfair because I was stuck with this gigantic group. He had three boys, Russell, Cody, Matthew, and three girls, Madeline, Laura and Kelsey.
The trudge through the rain was slow and silent and we finally reached the main building. I sat down with Hosh-sama and his group at the table with the picture of the bunny on it. I had Madeline and Laura on either side of me as they talked and laughed, thinking they had something intelligent to say so I laughed along with them, having the time of my life as Hosh-sama just sat across the table and stared at me. I hardly had any time to get a bite down, but it was very good.
Mr. Shawn handed out schedules to everyone and told me to have fun with my day off. Hosh-sama informed us all that we had drama first and led us out the door and up the hill to the drama building. I told a few stories about the boys in Kazoom but tried to make them a little more G-Rated for the kids but also not too boring for Hosh-sama. I told Matthew, Russell and Cody never to grow up like the boys in my group and they assured me that they wouldn't.
"I'm excited to finally get to drama!" I told Hosh-sama. "My group had refused to go when we had it yesterday so I finally get to see what we do in it! Do you know if it's fun?"
Hosh-sama shrugged. He had said a total of one word to me the entire morning. I wonder if perhaps he has something on his mind? We got in the drama building and was greeted by a gigantic woman who passed gas with every step. She shook my hand vigorously, saying that she was Ms Alice, and also questioning why my group wasn't here the other day. I explained that my group had simply refused and she nodded. The drama building smelled foul but I didn't want to be in the rain anymore so I tried to adjust.
Ms Alice told everyone that we would be playing 'Ghost in the Graveyard'. The object of the game was to lie down and be the last one to move. I hardly kept myself from asking how this had anything to do with drama but before I could go and engage myself in the came, Hosh-sama sat down next to me.
"What did you think of breakfast this morning?" he asked me.
"I hardly ate a bite!" I explained.
"Oh, me too." Said Hosh-sama. I thought for a minute. Hosh-sama hadn't said a word at breakfast…
"Why is that?" I asked. "It tasted pretty good."
"Did it?" Hosh-sama said with two raised eyebrows in a sarcastic tone. I suddenly heard Russell running around a screaming and was soon joined by Kelsey who later ran over into the corner and cried. I looked at Hosh-sama, waiting for him to go over and comfort Kelsey or discipline Russell but he didn't do either. He just sat there looking as though he was playing the Ghost in the Graveyard game as well.
"Hosh-sama?" I asked, waving my hand in front of his face.
"Yes Sango?" he said, looking at me.
I gave him a moment to figure it out. "Oh never mind." I said finally. Then, completely out of nowhere, Russell ran up to me and told me that drama was his favorite subject in the whole world. Before I had time to respond or react, he had already run off as if he had somewhere to go.
"After this we have animal care." Hosh-sama said abruptly.
"Oh…I don't really want to go to animal care…" I said, rolling my eyes, trying not to sound rude. "I've just heard some nasty things about it and I can only imagine it in the rain. I think I just might go to basket weaving with Inu-Yasha's group or something."
"Basket weaving?" Hosh-sama said, his eyes widening. "I had that the other day. It was so hard and excruciating. I could not figure it out."
"Oh!" I said with a laugh. "Now I just want to try it some more!" I laughed again but then realized that Hosh-sama was completely serious so I cleared my throat and stopped. "Um…do you know how much time is left in this period?"
"Only a few minutes left!!" Ms Alice sang as she skipped by. I tried not to scrunch my nose.
In the end, Cody ended up winning. I told him that he did a good job and he nodded and thanked me. I heard the bell off in the distance ring so I turned to Hosh-sama and said, "Hosh-sama, I had a lot of fun. I promise I'll have lunch with you."
We said goodbye to Ms Alice and left then went and left the building while everyone congratulated Cody on his victory. As Hosh-sama and his group went to across the street, I waved goodbye to them and went down the hill. It took me a moment to get oriented and figure out where basket weaving was. I stopped a group walking by and asked them where it was located and after being pointed on my way, I thanked them and left.
I finally reached the building to see Inu-Yasha and his entire group already in the building. I pushed the door open and Inu-Yasha looked me up and down as if he didn't know exactly who I was.
"What are you doing here?" he demanded.
"My group's off on an all day hike." I said, remembering that I had only really told Hosh-sama about my day off. "So I get to do whatever I want today."
"So you came here?" the basket weaving counselor AND Inu-Yasha said at the same time.
"Yes." I replied. I didn't see what the issue was here.
"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." Inu-Yasha told me as everyone sat down around the table. I sat down at the opposite end as him and the basket weaving counselor, Ms Betty, began putting down some basket making materials on the table in front of us. "Then again, I would DEFINITELY go home."
"I have no way of getting home." I remembered him.
"You have legs don't you?" he said, looking almost appalled.
I frowned. "I'm not going to walk all the way back to Kagome's house." I defended myself as I watched him begin to make a basket. "Besides, I don't even know where it is so it doesn't matter anyway." I picked up a few of the materials as well and began to construct a basket when I realized that Inu-Yasha didn't really care about what I had to say. Ms Betty came over to me and asked me if I needed any help.
Before I could reply, she looked over at Inu-Yasha's completed basket as he looked at it as if it were nothing. "Wow!" she said, marveling at it. "I didn't even have to explain anything to you! You must do this a lot."
"No." Inu-Yasha replied. "Are you telling me that that was basket weaving? That wasn't even hard."
"You must be a natural!" she said.
I worked hard on my basket for a good half a period. I was pleased with the end result and one of the girls asked me to help her. I tried my hardest to be helpful and mature especially in front of this group that is SUPPOSED to be mine, not that I'm bitter or anything.
"This isn't as hard as Hosh-sama described!" I said as I began another basket.
Inu-Yasha looked up from his making of a fifth basket. "Miroku is obviously far too incompetent to complete even the simplest of tasks." He concluded. I was going to defend Hosh-sama but I decided not to. Inu-Yasha passed out all of his baskets at the end of the period and I thought that was rather nice of him.
"Are you going to be staying with our group the whole time?" asked one of the girls who had not gotten a basket from Inu-Yasha. Her name was Jesse.
"No," I answered. "In fact, I'm leaving right now. It's your swim period."
"Can you come back AFTER that?" she continued.
"Why?" I asked finally. (Maybe this girl just really liked me.)
"Because…I'm kind of scared of Mr. I…" she whispered. "He's always threatening to hurt us and kill us and no one seems to be bothered except for me. Plus, he's got claws and fangs and he's just really mean."
I stared at Jesse, not knowing how to react but the bell rang. "Hold that thought." I told her. "I will be back eventually."
And then I left to go to swimming. Of course, I didn't really have swimming since my group was away at the all day hike so I sought out Hosh-sama who was just standing aimlessly on the shore, obviously waiting for his swim group.
"Hosh-sama, all the older kids are away on the hike." I told him. "That means your swim group is away too."
"Oh." Said Hosh-sama. I led him over to a designated building that had been set up for counselors who were in similar situations as Hosh-sama and I.
"Basket weaving was a snap, Hosh-sama." I said, trying to start some conversation. Hosh-sama looked at me as if I were crazy so I showed him my finished and unfinished basket.
"I think that basket weavers should be commended for doing that every day of their entire lives." Hosh-sama paused. "You should have seen my basket." He suddenly reminisced. "If you touched it, it would fall apart. It was the most hideous thing you have probably ever seen."
"Not as hideous as Kazoom." I reminded him.
"Of course not." Hosh-sama agreed. We both began to laugh, not only at the hideousness of my group but at the mere image of Hosh-sama's basket.
Just when I had finally got some conversation out of Hosh-sama, Inu-Yasha came out of nowhere, incredibly angry. "Why aren't you guys outside?!" he demanded.
"Our swimming groups are on hikes so we don't have to do anything!" said Hosh-sama. "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." I said with 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!" Inu-Yasha insisted even though I was talking about myself and not him. Inu-Yasha has a bad tendency of switching the subject to himself. Oh well. Who's going to question Inu-Yasha? "Where do you get those?!" Inu-Yasha said suddenly, pointing at the jackets and umbrellas that Hosh-sama and I had. Then he quickly added, "Not that I want to wear them or anything, I'm just curious…"
"They were in the cabin." Hosh-sama answered.
"Well I obviously didn't get one considering the fact that I had to make breakfast all by myself this morning." Inu-Yasha said, crossing his arms.
"Why did you do that?" I asked.
"I didn't WANT to!" Inu-Yasha yelled at me. "Someone just chose me!"
Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha then engaged themselves in a senseless argument so I sighed and tried to ignore them. Somehow, the argument got a bit physical with demon wards to get Inu-Yasha to finally go outside and watch his swim group since they were still out there in the rain.
"Maybe you should give Inu-Yasha a break." I said to Hosh-sama after he sat down looking rather content with himself. He only looked at me and smiled so I decided to just drop it. Not much later, the bell rang and we both put our rain jackets back on, opened our umbrellas and made our way back to the cabin called The Bunnies.
"Swimming is my FAVORITE period of the day!!" Russell greeted Hosh-sama when we had stepped in the cabin.
"I went in the deep end where I can't even touch!" Matthew added since he was standing right behind Russell. He was about to continue but Russell started growling at Matthew so the two ran off while clawing at each other and growling.
I looked at Hosh-sama. "Don't worry about their sanity, this is normal." He told me, knowing that I was about to question him. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door and a woman was standing there with a pot of a foul smelling substance and handed it out in plates to us all. No one really ate it since it was the most disgusting thing any of us have ever seen and believe me, I have seen a LOT of disgusting things in my life.
Since it was group time, I felt a bit excluded when Hosh-sama's group began to discuss their skit, which sounded a lot better than our ridiculous dating game. It was actually very cute watching them rehearse as Matthew ran around pretending to be Hosh-sama even though he looked nothing like him. Suddenly, Madeline came over to me.
"Mr. Miroku, could Ms Sango be in our skit?!" she asked. "Maybe… maybe…MAYBE she could walk up to Matthew who is really you and pretend as though she doesn't know it's you!!"
"YEAH!!" screamed the other five.
"That is a good idea." Said Hosh-sama even though I could tell he was sarcastic but luckily the children are a bit too incompetent to understand that.
"I'd love to!" I told Madeline. All the kids ran around and cheered and started thinking of what I should say in the skit. Why couldn't I have gotten this group and Hosh-sama get Kazoom because then he'd be around a bunch of kids who were JUST like him so he'd be completely at home! When the bell rang, we all went to arts and crafts. We had just sat down when the door opened and Inu-Yasha and his group walked in.
"Wow, all three of us in the very same activity!" said Hosh-sama.
"Actually, technically I'm not really in this activity." I reminded him.
"Miroku, don't think I'm not mad at you!" Inu-Yasha yelled randomly.
"I want to finger paint since I missed it yesterday." Said Russell. Before Hosh-sama 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 was going to clean his hands off but Hosh-sama got there first.
"I'm still mad at you, Miroku." Inu-Yasha said again as Hosh-sama cleaned Russell's hands off. I stopped to wonder what he could possibly be mad about but then I remembered what happened at swimming and I figured that he did have a good reason to be angry at Hosh-sama.
"That's nice." Hosh-sama said.
"I'm still mad at you." Said Inu-Yasha for a third time. If I were Hosh-sama, I would probably hurt him for saying it three times. If I were Kagome, I would 'sit' him. If I were Shippo…I'd say something stupid but get hit for whatever I said. But since I'm just Sango, I really only just sat there pretending as though I didn't care at all.
"I KNOW!!" Hosh-sama yelled. "I heard you the first two times you said it!!"
"But you never acknowledged me." Inu-Yasha said.
"Do I really NEED to?" said Hosh-sama, sounding annoyed.
"Yes. 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 couldn't believe that Hosh-sama was sinking to Inu-Yasha's level. Especially since Russell and Matthew were sitting around cheering him on but also there was an entire room filled with small children and Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha were talking about killing and hurting and other not so nice things. (I now knew why Jesse wanted me to stay with her group.)
"I'd kill you much faster and I'd have an easier time too!!" Inu-Yasha continued.
"HOSH-SAMA!!" I yelled before Hosh-sama could say anything. He looked at me and then I suppose he realized what he was doing and then stopped.
"You're so awesome, Mr. Miroku!" said Matthew.
"I bet you could kill Mr. I!" said Russell.
"Of course." Hosh-sama said. I tried to subtly tell him to stop but then he told me to relax so I turned away from him. But then Hosh-sama started yelling at Russell for putting his hands in the red paint again.
"I'm Mr. I and this is my blood all over me because Mr. Miroku has just beaten me up!" said Russell as he smeared the paint all over his body.
"First of all, Russell, I do not enjoy bloodshed so I would not kill Mr. I in such a way that would make him bleed so profusely." Hosh-sama tried to explain to him. "And another thing, there is NO way that anyone's blood with be THIS bright red and finally…STOP THAT!!"
"OKAY!!" screamed Russell very loudly with a big smile on his face.
"Hosh-sama, what do you have next?" I asked him.
"Rest hour." He said, rolling his eyes.
"I have no interest of going to rest hour." I confessed. "It sounds really boring. I'll just go with Inu-Yasha." The period ended soon after that and I was going to follow Inu-Yasha to shop (since that's what he had next) but he sprang up and seemed to tear out of the room as fast as he could. "Bye Hosh-sama! Wait up, Inu-Yasha!!" And I quickly ran after him.
I wandered around for a few minutes, not knowing exactly where to go but I finally did find the shop building. I pushed the door open to see Inu-Yasha and his group standing around just hammering nails into blocks of wood.
I shook off my umbrella. "I didn't really want to go to rest hour with Hosh-sama." I told Inu-Yasha. "It seems really boring."
"I'd go to rest hour." Inu-Yasha said. "Then I'd get time to sleep."
I was about to laugh at him and tell him that he was silly because the children were supposed to sleep and the counselor was just supposed to supervise them while they slept but then I remembered the last time I had walked in on Hosh-sama while he was in rest hour and realized that HE WAS SLEEPING!! So no doubt he was sleeping right now so, without any time to spare, I opened my umbrella and ran off as fast as I could back to the cabin The Bunnies.
I swung open the door to the cabin to see Hosh-sama sitting over in the corner with his eyes closed. I folded my umbrella up and stomped over to him. When I reached him, I hit him right over the head with the umbrella.
He looked up immediately, frowned and then stood up. "I thought you said that you were going with Inu-Yasha this period." He said.
"Yes but when I got there, I remembered just how irresponsible you were during rest hour!" I said. "I wanted to make sure that you were watching them this time!"
"Don't trouble yourself." Hosh-sama said. "Just…run off…"
I could tell he just wanted me to leave so he could go to sleep again so I hit him over the head with the umbrella again. Then I sat down in the corner that he had been sitting in. "I'm staying right here." I said. Hosh-sama sat down next to me. I edged away from him so that he wouldn't try anything. "You are far too irresponsible to be watching little kids."
We didn't speak for a moment.
"What do you have next?" I asked suddenly since Hosh-sama wasn't really one for starting conversation.
Hosh-sama pulled out his schedule. "Playground." He said.
"I think I'll go see what Inu-Yasha has next." I said.
"Are you sure you'll end up staying with him the whole period?" he asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I demanded.
"Well, you clearly just want to spend time with me." Hosh-sama said.
"That is not true!" I yelled.
"Don't tell me that you actually WANTED to come to rest hour. I'm sure that if Inu-Yasha had rest hour then you would not have come. That's all right Sango, you don't have to deny it. I wanted to spend time with you as well."
"Stop saying that Hosh-sama!!" I yelled, slapping him. We sat in silence for a little while.
"Was it really worth it to not let me meditate during this period of nothingness?" Hosh-sama said randomly.
"You call it meditation, I call it sleeping." I replied, rolling my eyes. "I'm just worried about tomorrow's rest hour."
I heard the bell ring. "Time to go." Said Hosh-sama, standing up. I pulled my rain jacket and opened my umbrella. I left without even saying goodbye to Hosh-sama since he had been perverted earlier but he didn't really seem to notice so I guess it didn't prove anything.
After walking through the rain for a few minutes, I stumbled upon Inu-Yasha and his gigantic group of girls that should be mine.
"Are you guys going to candle making?" I asked Inu-Yasha.
"Unfortunately." he answered.
"I'm going there too!" I told him. "Let's go together! You can share my umbrella if you want." Inu-Yasha gave me a look.
"I'm already completely wet." He 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." I interrupted. I didn't want to listen to him rant so I started on the way to candle making and everyone followed after me. We stood outside the candle making building for a moment and before we went in, Inu-Yasha turned to me.
"Could you possibly pretend that we're going out so that Ms Keri will leave me alone?" she asked me
I gasped because I thought Inu-Yasha was above something like that. "You're a sicko for even thinking about something about that!!" I don't remember where I had pulled sicko out of but it got the point across.
So we went in and Ms Keri was there to greet us. There was another counselor there who I gathered was the ceramics teacher, Ms April, who had a free period so was helping Ms Keri out in candle making. As the girls in Inu-Yasha's group ran around and made candles, Ms Keri wandered over to me and started a conversation.
"So…how well do you know Mr. I?" she asked me.
"I know him pretty well." I replied. "Too well, as a matter of fact. We've just been doing a lot of traveling together for a little while."
"Together?" Ms Keri said.
"Yes…" I said slowly. "With Kagome, Hosh-sama and another kid too."
"Oh." Said Ms Keri. "So it's not just YOU and HIM then."
"No, it's not just me and him." I repeated since Ms Keri clearly wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
"So you're not dating or anything?" she said suddenly.
"Um…no." I said. She nodded and then walked over to Inu-Yasha. I decided not to wonder about Ms Keri since she obviously had a crush on Inu-Yasha and I kept wondering why all these girls would develop a crush for someone who was so short tempered, rude, has long hair, dog ears, and really big thick black eyebrows. But then again, he wasn't like a NORMAL guy, meaning that he wasn't perverted like the boys in my group or Hosh-sama or anything! Oh that Hosh-sama, always violating me in front of people! All men are horrible in every way! Except for Kohaku. He was so wonderful.
But not like Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha!! Both are so rude but especially Hosh-sama and…
Suddenly, I felt Inu-Yasha pulling me over next to him. "I'm going out with Sango here." He said.
"WHAT?!" I yelled as I spun around and slapped him. I must admit that that was probably the first and last time that I would slap Inu-Yasha and I was surprised that he didn't just smite me right then and there. I guess I was just getting way too excited thinking about Hosh-sama!! Of course, not excited in a GOOD way, but in an ANGRY way and I always want to slap someone when thinking about Hosh-sama, ESPECIALLY him!!
"What was that for?!" Inu-Yasha 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."
Then Inu-Yasha looked at Ms Keri and then back at me.
"So what is it really?" Ms Keri asked, crossing her arms.
"Look Ms Keri…I'm old enough to be your GRANDFATHER." Inu-Yasha said randomly.
"What?" said Ms Keri and I at the same time. That kind of statement was just kind of weird and random and I couldn't really figure it out.
"You know, that whole fifty years thing." Inu-Yasha explained.
That took me a minute. "That doesn't count!" I said finally, remembering that whole thing with the tree and the arrow and all that other stuff that I had really only HEARD about.
"Sango, you're hurting me here." Inu-Yasha whispered.
I decided that I wasn't needed or wanted here. I threw my hands up into the air and left the building. I didn't really know what to do with my time since there was still a while left of the block and I couldn't very well go and see Hosh-sama since that would only look like I actually DID want to spend time with him which I don't.
After wandering around for a minute or two, I found myself at the water front. It then occurred to me that Kagome was in the building that was right behind me so I turned around and went inside to see Kagome sitting there.
"Sango!" said Kagome, leaping up. "I haven't seen you at all today! Have you been with Miroku this whole time?" She winked.
"No." I said. "I've been with Inu-Yasha."
Her face dropped. "Why?" she demanded in her angry scary voice that she really only used when she was talking to Inu-Yasha when he was being bad so I was a bit offended that she had used it on me.
"Fine, I've been with both of them." I confessed.
"I bet you've been with Miroku more." Kagome said, using her cheerful voice again.
I couldn't really deny that…but I did anyway.
"So you've been with Inu-Yasha for most of the day?" Kagome asked, switching back to her angry voice.
"No, I've spent an EVEN amount of time with them!" I tried.
She sighed. "Well, I don't want you to trouble Inu-Yasha." Said Kagome. I could tell that this meant that she didn't want me to spend any more time with Inu-Yasha even though it wasn't like I was going to try and steal him or anything. Just when I was about to tell her about Ms Keri, I decided not to since Kagome was weak and sickly.
"So what have you been doing all day with your time?" I asked Kagome, wondering what she could possibly do in the nurse's office that whole time. I also wanted to direct the conversation away from Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha since all Kagome ever wants to talk about is them.
"Random tasks that the nurse COULD do by herself but I do it instead." Kagome responded as if that really explained anything. "This whole ordeal wouldn't be AS bad if it wasn't…you know…THAT TIME."
"What time?" I asked, having absolutely no idea what she was talking about.
"You know what I mean." Said Kagome even though I didn't. I suppose she took a hint by the confused expression on my face. "You know…THAT TIME of the month…"
I paused and thought about it. "Oh…" I said finally. "Yeah…me too."
"Out of all the weeks!!" Kagome said, throwing her hands up in the air.
"Yeah…" I agreed. She had a point.
"You know what else?" said Kagome as she started giggling. "It's Inu-Yasha's time of the month as well!!"
I stopped. "What?" I said. "I could have sworn that that was a female thing. Or…is that a half-demon thing…?"
"No!!" laughed Kagome as she slapped her knee. "It's the new moon tonight!!" Then she pointed to a calendar that stated that it was, in fact, the new moon tonight.
"I see." I said, feeling foolish.
"We all have our days together!!" said Kagome. (I kind of wanted to end this conversation.) "We could start a club and just NOT include Miroku!"
Before I could say anything else, the bell rang. "Um…I have to go." I said.
"Where?" Kagome said. "You don't HAVE to be anywhere."
"Well…I just want to go and do something." I said. "I could either go to sports with Inu-Yasha or Various Constructive Teamwork Activities with Hosh-sama. I'm definitely leaning towards sports since that just seems like more fun all together than various constructive teamwork activities."
Kagome cleared her throat. "So…you interested in spending more time with Inu-Yasha or something?" she said.
I wanted to tell Kagome to get a grip right then and there but it wouldn't really be in my nature to do so. "Does that mean that you want me to go to various constructive activities with Hosh-sama just because you don't want me to spend time with Inu-Yasha for whatever reasons that you have?"
Kagome stared at me for a minute. I swear she was giving me the evil eye so I quickly left the building and made my way over to various constructive teamwork activities. I didn't know why I was letting her scare me since I could take her on any day but Kagome can be a little frightening at times and you never really know when she's watching you so I finally made it over to the soccer field where I saw Hosh-sama, once again, standing there aimlessly. I suppose that if he doesn't know what to do, he just stands there and waits for someone to come over and tell him what to do.
The kids in his group cheered and ran over to me when I approached. This made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside as I came closer and greeted Hosh-sama.
"Back so soon?" Hosh-sama said to me.
I couldn't have him go winning so I thought quickly for an excuse. "I didn't want to go with Inu-Yasha since he violated me so I just decided to come here." I told him. It was, in a way, true but Hosh-sama has and will violate me infinitely more than Inu-Yasha can ever imagine and on MUCH higher levels as well. "So I'm just going to stay with you guys. Not to mention the fact that I have to keep an eye on you since there's no counselor here and I know from the past that you are incredibly irresponsible."
"Please Sango, not in front of my group." Said Hosh-sama. We waited for a moment in silence when suddenly, Hosh-sama instructed the kids to run off and get long sticks.
"Hosh-sama, what do they need sticks for?" I asked him.
"I'm going to teach them how to defend themselves from horrendous demons." Hosh-sama replied. I nodded. The kids came back eventually and Hosh-sama pulled out a demon ward and showed it to all of them. "This here is a demon ward." He explained. Then he launched into a very long explanation that I could hardly understand so I don't know WHY he thought that it would make ANY sense to the kids in his group.
"Hosh-sama, I don't think they understand." I said.
"Very well." Hosh-sama said, turning to me. "Let's all pretend that Ms Sango here is a demon. We all know that she's not, but we can just pretend."
"A demon like Mr. I?" asked Russell.
"He's not really a demon." Hosh-sama replied. "He's only a half demon but these wards would work on him too. Okay, back to what I was saying." He went back to his senseless explaining and then handed each of them two demon wards to do with what they pleased. "Now, if you go over to Ms Sango, she'll show you how to properly throw a very large boomerang just in case you come across one."
"Isn't this kind of dangerous?" I asked Hosh-sama.
"Now, now Sango, they need to know how to defend themselves." Hosh-sama said. I could tell that he just wanted to drop the kids on me so he could go off and…do his thing or something like that.
I didn't have my boomerang with me so I did the best I could with teaching them how to throw the stick. Now, a few of the kids could hardly even pick up the sticks, let alone throw them as far as I could which was practically across the entire field. YAY!!
The bell rang sometime after that and we all walked down to the water and then Hosh-sama's kids ran off to their swim groups. Hosh-sama and I sat down in the designated building.
"You know what happened earlier today?" I said since Hosh-sama obviously wasn't going to say anything. He really only looked at me with that expression that was obviously telling me just to continue. "At candle making, Inu-Yasha wanted a certain girl to leave him alone so he asked me to pretend to be his girlfriend for the period!"
I found myself laughing at my little story.
"Sango, did it ever occur to you that you are doing the very same thing so that the boys in your group will leave you alone?" Hosh-sama interrupted. "Not that I mind or anything, but you are."
I was just about to deny it and slap him for even trying to make up stories about me but then it hit me that I WAS doing that. But no more! So we both sat there and laughed for a few seconds before Inu-Yasha came out of nowhere, still mad at…I can't even remember!!!
"Yeah, that was REAL funny." Said Inu-Yasha.
I gasped and realized that he must have heard what Hosh-sama and I were talking about so that meant that he was going to be mad at ME too!! "You heard what we were saying?!"
"Um…no." Inu-Yasha answered. Then I felt foolish. "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." Hosh-sama said.
"That's not true, Hosh-sama," I pointed out. "You told them that they react on demons and then you used Inu-Yasha as an example."
"Oh right." Said Hosh-sama. "But I never told them to use them on you!"
"That's true…" I assured Inu-Yasha.
"Okay, if THAT'S so then why did Russell us it on me?" Inu-Yasha continued.
"Well, I never told them NOT to use them on you." Hosh-sama clarified. "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!"
There was a short pause. "What mind?" Inu-Yasha said suddenly. Then it occurred to me that RUSSELL was the psychopathic one.
Hosh-sama frowned. "Aren't you supposed to be watching your swim group?" Hosh-sama reminded Inu-Yasha. "I still have more demon wards, you know."
"Well I was going now anyway." Inu-Yasha declared as he left right then and there.
Hosh-sama looked at me and shrugged.
"Inu-Yasha must be having a bad day." I said when I was pretty sure that Inu-Yasha was out of earshot but you can never really tell with him. "I'll ask him about it later since I don't really want to go to nature. Tubing sounds much better."
"I don't blame you." Hosh-sama said.
Yes, I DID remember that Kagome had specifically told me in her own special way that she didn't want me to spend anymore time with Inu-Yasha but I REALLY didn't want to go to nature.
"So I spoke to Kagome today." I said.
"Oh?" Hosh-sama said. Then all of a sudden, Inu-Yasha was back over again, just as angry as before, if not more.
Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha began a horribly petty argument that I just decided to tune myself out to. I was suddenly jolted back when I heard the bell rang and when I looked up, Hosh-sama was already gone. I looked at Inu-Yasha who was still standing there looking angry, like he USUALLY looks so I stood up casually.
"Inu-Yasha, do you mind if I join you and your group in tubing after dinner?" I asked.
"I don't care." Inu-Yasha said. I though that was kind of rude and I was actually considering eating dinner with him but now I'm not so I guess I'll HAVE to go and eat with Hosh-sama even though I don't want to. I looked around for Hosh-sama for a few minutes but he wasn't at his table so I decided that I would go and eat with Kagome. I did that. It wasn't really all that fun since we were both eating the whole time since we got special dinners for some reason. Then, when the bell rang, I hurried off to tubing.
I came over just in time for Jesse, the girl I remembered from earlier, and another girl came running over and asked me to be in their group for tubing. I didn't mind so I agreed.
All the girls got on life jackets and all but three jumped into the water and started swimming around. The three that didn't got into the tube and rode off with Mr. Darrin to have the time of their lives. It felt good to finally be able to walk around in my bathing suit without some horny teenage boy staring at my chest or violating me.
"I feel a lot better in my bathing suit around younger girls." I told Inu-Yasha. But then it occurred to me that Inu-Yasha was a teenage boy himself and even though he might not be horny (or does a good job hiding it), I decided that I had to cover myself up.
"Don't worry, I'm not aroused or anything!" Inu-Yasha yelled as if he was angry at me.
"A girl can never be too careful!" I insisted since he was yelling at me so that meant that he wanted to look at me in my bathing suit. I put my shirt back on and then put my life jacket on over it. Inu-Yasha just turned around and scoffed at me so I decided not to start conversation with him, or even TRY.
Mr. Darrin returned a little while later and let off the three girls and then let in three more.
"We're going next, Ms Sango!" said Jesse.
"Okay!" I said. I was hoping that it would be more enjoyable than the time I had with Gordon since we were going at a crawl with him.
Mr. Darrin swung back around a few minutes later so Jesse, the girl and I jumped into the tube.
"So I never really caught your name," I told the girl who I didn't know.
"I'm Juliana!" said the girl. "Not to be confused with Julie or Julia. We're triplets you know!"
"Wow!" I said, trying to sound amazed.
"Put your thumb up if you want to go faster and thumb down if you want to slow down!" Mr. Darrin called to us from the boat. We all hung on tight and began to go around the lake. Jesse and Juliana had their thumbs up nearly the entire time so we were going reasonably fast so I had a blast. When our ride came to a stop, I felt like a little kid since I wanted to run over and tell someone how much fun I had had. Unfortunately, the only person who I could really talk to was Inu-Yasha and I highly doubt that he would care but I told him anyway.
"Wow, that was so much more fun than I had with Gordon!" I told him. Like I had predicted, he didn't really care.
"YAY MS SANGO!!" screamed Juliana and Jesse as they jumped up and down as if I had really done ANYTHING.
"It's our turn, Mr. I!" said another girl as she jumped in the tube. Without a word, Inu-Yasha walked off towards the tube. I was surprised that he was actually going as I watched them speed off but I didn't have TOO long to ponder because I had noticed Hosh-sama approaching out of the corner of my eye.
"Hosh-sama!" I gasped. "What are you doing here?!"
"We had nothing better to do so we came here." Hosh-sama replied. His group greeted me and I waved right back. Then Inu-Yasha's group started being sarcastic with Hosh-sama since they clearly didn't like him very much. It was probably because they were brainwashed. Or perhaps he violated them but I don't even want to THINK about that…
Hosh-sama didn't seem fazed.
"Where's Inu-Yasha?" he questioned me.
"He's out there!" said one of the girls, pointing to the lake. I looked up just in time to see a figure, who I assumed was Inu-Yasha, fall out of the tube and skid across the lake. I nearly burst out laughing but I suppressed it because I noticed Mr. Shawn standing behind Hosh-sama looking quite angry. Hosh-sama turned around and tried to explain himself but Mr. Shawn told him to run off and go to the dance.
When Hosh-sama left, I asked Mr. Shawn what dance he was talking about.
"It's an all camp dance." He replied.
"I didn't hear about a dance." I told him.
"Well it's on your schedule." Mr. Shawn said. I was about to tell him that I didn't have a schedule for the day but I didn't since I didn't want to get in trouble so I only pretended to feel foolish and say OH!
Mr. Shawn left and the boat came back in. The two girls got out of the tube and Mr. Darrin got out of the boat, followed by someone else who I two seconds later concluded was Inu-Yasha.
"Inu-Yasha, is it that time again?!" I said since he was human. But then I felt stupid after that since I had already known that.
"Apparently." He replied. "I guess I lost track…"
"Well…I guess that would explain a lot." I said but regretted it.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" I demanded. I felt cornered but I was saved by Inu-Yasha's group of girls running over and asking him why he looked different.
"I bet Mr. Miroku can't do that either!!" yelled one girl.
"Hey, it's not like this is a GOOD thing!" Inu-Yasha argued.
"YES IT IS!!" screamed all the little girls. Then Mr. Darrin came over, told Inu-Yasha that my magic trick was amazing and that he had to go to the dance since he was meeting Ms Nicole there.
"Hey wait…this COULD be a good thing." Inu-Yasha said randomly to me even though I was really only half listening since the night sky reminded me of Kohaku and he was on my mind. "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." I said. Then, we reached the main building where this ominous dance was supposedly being held.
I entered the building and was just about to wander off when this woman came up to me. It took me a minute to remember who she was, but I soon realized that she was Ms Keri, the girl the Inu-Yasha had been avoiding and had wanted me to pretend to be his girlfriend in front of.
"Hi!" she said with a wave. "Have you seen Mr. I?"
"Sorry." I answered. I felt like I owed it to Inu-Yasha since I had kind of screwed him the last time around.
She then looked at Inu-Yasha. "Who's your friend?" She apparently didn't recognize him in his human form.
"Um…my brother." I said. I needed a name for him and since the only thing that was on my name was Kohaku…"His name is Kohaku."
"Kohaku?" Inu-Yasha said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes. Kohaku." I replied.
"Oh." Said Ms Keri. "Your brother's kind of cute!" she added with a giggle. I was about to leave since I had done my part when I suddenly heard Kagome behind me calling for Inu-Yasha.
"Inu-Yasha!" she screamed as she ran over. Inu-Yasha looked like he was trying to quiet her since he didn't want to give his cover away. "I hardly recognized you like this!"
I looked back at Ms Keri who seemed to be getting it. I was kind of frustrated that I was stuck in the middle of all this.
"So you dyed your hair and got color contacts?" she said. I guess she forgot about the whole Kohaku thing.
"Inu-Yasha, I snuck out of the nurse's office so I could see you!" Kagome continued as if Ms Keri wasn't still standing there. "I'm so sickly and frail." Inu-Yasha pushed her away. I suppose he was angry at her for giving him away.
All of a sudden, Hosh-sama came out of nowhere, holding hands with Madeline and looking quite content. "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 Madeline.
He was dancing and making the moves on a five year old?! "Hosh-sama?!" I gasped.
"I'll dance with you LATER, don't worry." Said Hosh-sama.
"I never asked for that!!" I yelled, turning red since I was definitely not asking that and I knew that Kagome would give me crap for that later. Just then, a whole mess of smelly people entered the building. I assumed that these were the older kids who had returned from the hike which meant that my boys were back!!
"WE'RE BACK MS SANGO!!!" they all screamed. Inu-Yasha, Kagome and Ms Keri had all left so I didn't know who to turn to except Hosh-sama so I jumped over to him.
"HOSH-SAMA!!" I yelled, hugging him. Then he started stroking my head and whispering things to me so I told him to stop or I would smite him and I think he took a hint because he did stop after that. When the boys in my group left, I decided to ask Hosh-sama a very important question. "Hosh-sama, is it okay if I stay with you all night so that the boys in my group will leave me alone? They kind of think we're going out."
"Of course, Sango." Hosh-sama replied. "I'd want to spend time with me if I were you." Suddenly, the music stopped before I could punish Hosh-sama.
"It is now time for The Bunnies to go back to their cabin for the night." Said Mr. Shawn who was standing up in front of the stage. Hosh-sama gasped and bellowed 'NEVER!!' and every single one of the kids in his group followed suit. It was then that it occurred to me that Hosh-sama and his group was 'The Bunnies'. After a good lecture, Hosh-sama finally seemed defeated and left the building.
I gasped and pushed myself through the crowd until I was finally outside faced with Hosh-sama with his group circled around him. "What am I supposed to do now?!" I demanded.
"Seek out Inu-Yasha." Hosh-sama replied. "He's as good a protector as one could get. Unless, of course, you're not on his good side."
"Hosh-sama!" I yelled but he left anyway.
I knew that this meant that I would have to find Inu-Yasha. I went back into the dance and looked around for his blaring white hair only to remember a second later that he was human at the moment, meaning that he would prove to be very difficult to find. The people in the dance were playing a game called Snowball that Kagome had helpfully described to me during one of our girl talk sessions so I knew that the boys in my group would be seeking me out.
I heard someone yell SNOWBALL!! I watched as Mario closed in on me so I looked around and spotted Inu-Yasha making his way quickly towards the door. The only thing I could do was latch onto him. He seemed surprised when he saw me.
"Inu-Yasha, please," I said, pointing to Mario.
"Yeah, and you wouldn't pretend to be going out with me for just an hour so that Ms Keri would leave me alone!" Inu-Yasha said with an annoyed tone.
"This is different!!" I yelled. But I didn't have to give any more explanation because he seemed not to mind my desire to be protected. I suddenly heard someone yell SNOWBALL!! I considered just staying with Inu-Yasha but I didn't want to look obsessed so I quickly ran over to Mr. Carl who was just staring off into space. He didn't really flinch for the entire session of snowball in which I was with him as if he didn't even notice that I was there.
When someone yelled SNOWBALL again, I didn't know where to turn since all the guys around me were already dancing with girls. Suddenly, I felt someone tap on my shoulder and I knew it had to be one of the pubescent boys so I shuddered as I turned around only to see an incredibly attractive boy standing there with his hand out.
"May I have this dance?" he asked in a very deep, soothing voice. I almost felt as though I knew him but I couldn't place his face. I agreed before I realized that I did and we both danced until Mr. Shawn came back and declared that there was going to be a slow song and then children under the age of twelve would have to go to bed.
I looked back over at the boy whom I had just danced with. He was younger than me, but he was very handsome. I found myself dancing with him for the slow song as well. I felt relieved that I was almost protected by this boy and when the song ended, Mr. Shawn came back on and told all the kids under the age of twelve to go to bed.
"Thank you very much for the dance, Ms Sango." The mysterious boy said.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" I asked since he obviously knew who I was.
"You don't recognize me?" he questioned. "Well, that's understandable. After all, I'm fifteen now. It's me, Dexter!"
I didn't know what to say to that. "No, really." I said.
"It's true!" said the so-called Dexter boy.
"I don't believe you." I said with laugh. "That's really funny."
"I am!" 'Dexter' assured me. "But don't call me Dexter anymore. I'd rather be known as 'Cool Dex'."
"Yeah, sure whatever Cool Dex." I said, deciding just to go along with his joke since he was clearly just trying to make me laugh. I spent nearly the rest of the night with Cool Dex, and would occasionally dance with a few of the male counselors like Mr. Ulysses or Mr. Simpson (who was the teenage son of the shop counselor and had just arrived that night) or Mr. Grant.
I wondered what had happened to Kagome but I was having a little too much fun to wonder TOO long. I actually didn't see too much of Hubert, Mario, Bort, Bailey, Gordon, Raphael, Dimitri, Travis, Borris or Dexter. YAY!!
At around eleven, Mr. Shawn came up and told everyone that it was time for bed. A few people moaned a bit but eventually the building was cleared out and the older half of the camp made their way back to their cabins for the night.
I walked with Cool Dex. We talked and exchanged conversation and when we finally reached Kazoom, I asked him what cabin he was in.
"I'm in this one, Ms Sango." Said Cool Dex. "Do you still not believe me?"
"This is getting a little old. Go back to your cabin." I instructed him.
"This IS my cabin!" Cool Dex said persistently.
"COME ON IN COOL DEX!!!" screamed all the pubescent boys. "TELL US MORE ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN!!"
I couldn't believe my eyes or my ears. Could Cool Dex POSSIBLY be Dexter? But Cool Dex pushed his way past me and began talking to all the boys who were still hideous and disgusting and told them about his night with me and I suddenly felt very used.
"ALL RIGHT!!" I yelled. "BEDTIME!!" And I turned off the lights.
"NO!! TELL US A BEDTIME STORY MS SANGO!!" yelled one of them.
"YEAH, WE MISSED YOU ALL DAY!!" yelled another.
"WELL I DIDN'T MISS YOU!!" I yelled back. I had been beginning to forget how awful it was to spend time with these boys but I was hoping now that there was one less and that he was attractive and not annoying that maybe it wouldn't be quite as bad.