Day Four

Sango's Day

I had the strangest dream!  I dreamt that I went to Kagome's world with Inu-Yasha and Hosh-sama and we all enrolled as camp counselors and got stuck with some horrible, perverted teenage boys only because Inu-Yasha didn't like the name of the group!

But then I looked around to see a clan of sleeping, horrible, perverted teenage boys that I was stuck with only because Inu-Yasha didn't like the name of the group.

I gave a heavy sigh as I looked out the window to see that it was still too early for the horn.  I wonder why I had waken up this early?  When I looked back in front me I saw the face of one of the boys right in front of me.  However, it wasn't one of the horrible, perverted boys that I was stuck with only because Inu-Yasha didn't like the name of the group, it was, in fact, the face of an attractive, young man.

"Good morning, Ms Sango!" he said.  "Remember me?"

"Dexter?" I said.

"Hey, it's Cool Dex now." He corrected me.  I couldn't really say anything to that so I only nodded.  "So why are you up so early?"

He didn't need to ask me questions like that.  "Why are YOU up so early?" I demanded since it was okay for me to ask since I'M his counselor.

"Because it smells in here!" Cool Dex replied.

I thought for a minute.  "Um…yeah…"

We exchanged friendly conversation for a little while.  He told me that he was sincerely apologetic for his fourteen-year-old self and now that he was fifteen then I wouldn't have to worry about him.  I told him that I would be the judge of that and he nodded and told me that that was understandable but he also assured me that he could make sure the other fourteen-year-olds stayed in line and didn't harass or violate me.  I didn't know whether to believe him or not but what could I possibly lose by allowing him to try?

I heard the bell ring and the nine horrendous pubescent boys immediately got up and started getting dressed.  We went off to breakfast.  On the way inside, I saw Inu-Yasha talking to a girl who worked at the camp so I waved to him but I really don't think he noticed me.

I went inside and sat down for breakfast.  Cool Dex sat down next to me and told the other boys to leave the seat on the other side of me open and they all seemed to be listening to him.  Perhaps Cool Dex was taking over the role as bodyguard to make up for all the horrible things he had done to me as Dexter?  But I doubt it.  I bet he was just trying to get on my good side so I wouldn't expect it when he suddenly makes his move!

So I watched him more carefully than I usually would as I slowly ate my breakfast.  Yes, by this time I realized that there was no reason to rush through meals since we were given a bizarrely long time to eat.

I looked at the schedule that Mr. Shawn had passed out to see that I had kayaking first.  I wasn't too thrilled about that however I did remember that the counselor was female so I wouldn't have to deal with anymore men.  When we got to kayaking, Ms Nicole was there but so was her boyfriend, Mr. Darrin.  So all my hopes of speaking her was smashed because she was now constantly flirting and being sexual with her boyfriend who clearly had an off period and no one was at tubing at the moment.  But it's not like Mr. Darrin was being innocent either, and here I was thinking that Mr. Darrin was one of the decent ones!  You can just never tell with men, that's all.

I got into my kayak and pushed off from the shore.  I paddled out a little bit and I was suddenly reminded of all those times that I had taken Kohaku out rowing in the river behind the village.  I also thought about how much Kohaku would enjoy this camp and how much I would like to be the counselor of his group so that way I could always be with him and watch over him to make sure nothing bad happened to him.  But all of those dreams and hopes will just stay just dreams and hopes because Kohaku, much to my dismay is dead…or MOSTLY dead to some extent but still somewhat alive in some sort of strange, sick and twisted way.  I wonder if Naraku thrives on our unhappiness?  Clearly he does if he would do something as horrible as slaughter my entire village for no reason and then use Kohaku against me.

I found myself sighing needlessly as I slowed down my paddling but then realized that everyone else was heading back to shore.  I wondered why but my question was soon answered as I heard the bell ring.  I had clearly just been extremely distracted by thinking about Kohaku that an entire hour had passed and I didn't even know!  Wow!

So I took my time getting back to shore because I really didn't want to go to shop which was next.  When I got back to shore, Ms Nicole took a moment out of her flirting to tell me that the boys went ahead to shop.  I continued to take my time removing my lifejacket and putting my paddle away and then strutting all the way to the shop building.  I'm sure that at least a half of the period was over before I had finally arrived but all the boys and some random male counselor who I did not know greeted me, but then I remembered him being Mr. Simpson, one of the counselors who I had danced a bit with at the dance.

I suppose that he thought there was something between us because he kept engaging in conversation with me.  I looked around to see that my group was really just hammering some nails into blocks of wood and I assumed that doing a thing such as that could only have been THEIR idea.  I mainly spent the time looking at the projects that other groups had made and wondered why the boys had decided to make blocks of wood with nails in them instead of cute little bird houses in the shape of a cat's head.

Cool Dex walked over to me like the lecherous teenage boy he SO is and asked me if I was as bored as he was.  I humored him and told him that I was and pretty soon we got engaged in a meaningless conversation about him and how he regrets what he did to me over the past couple days.

Suddenly, he turned the conversation over to me and started asking me things about myself and that kind of caught me off guard.  So I talked and he listened (or pretended to) and we had a stimulating rest-of-shop period.  When the bell rang, we continued talking all the way to the waterfront where we would have swimming in the same group.

I'm beginning to think that Cool Dex secretly murdered Dexter and took his spot with the HORRIBLE excuse of being him but I like the new Dexter better than the old Dexter so unless this Dexter had intentions of killing ME, I wasn't going to say anything.

Only right now did I remember how extremely perverted my entire group was so rather than changing into my bathing suit while they all stood there and gawked, I stayed in my clothes and taught the class from the dock. 

I like swimming class because I feel like the ruler and dictator.  Whatever I tell them to do, they do.  So if I told them to swim to a buoy that they couldn't even see and back, they'd have to do it!  And they did!  I chuckled cruelly at their expense and then made them do it again.

I don't get it.  Cool Dex turns fifteen and all of a sudden, he's a much better swimmer.  He must have finished before all the others had even reached the buoy for the second time.  He climbed up on the dock but I KNEW he was up to something so I made him swim another lap.

I looked toward the shore and accidentally happened to look in the window of CPR building where Hosh-sama teaches his CPR class.  I saw Hosh-sama talking and laughing with the teenage girls and I was suddenly surged with anger.  I don't know why this happened though, perhaps the mere sight of Hosh-sama just makes me unbearably irritated that I feel I must hit him on the head with something large even if he didn't even do anything…yet…

So I stomped all the way to the CPR building and on my way in, I grabbed an oar.  Sure it wasn't a humongous boomerang but it will have to suffice. 

I walked into the building, right up behind Hosh-sama and hit him on the head.  After he had turned around looking surprised/taken aback/in pain, I felt slightly guilty but I wasn't about to show it.  I'll FIND something to yell at him about and chances are it will be true.

"How dare you do such a thing!" I yelled.  I suppose that was about as good as I was going to get.

"I didn't even do anything!" he said as I rubbed his head.  I didn't think I had hit him hard enough to justify a rub.

"Ms Sango, when are you getting married?" came a familiar sounding voice that I heard all too much.  It had to be one of the boys from my group.  They ALL sound the same.  I looked up to see Borris smiling like an idiot.

WHAT has Hosh-sama been telling them?!  Since when are we getting married?! 

I was about to smack Hosh-sama again when I realized that it had been me that had begun that rumor.  I sighed and left the room without saying anything else.  I was about to go back out onto the dock with my swim group I noticed them all standing in front of me in their towels asking if they could go to lunch early.

"There's still tons of time left in the block!" I yelled at them with no patience at all.

"No there isn't!" said Mario at the exact time the bell rang.  I want to smite that kid.

I took my time getting to the lunch table and only when I was walking in the door did I realize that I probably wasn't going to get any lunch since it would most likely be all out by the time I get there.  I sat down in the isolated chair that Cool Dex had saved for me and he handed me a plate of food.  I'm not sure exactly what it was but it WAS food.

"Thank you…" I said.  I don't know what this kid's up to.  He's probably going to sexually assault me in the middle of the night.

"No problem Ms. Sango." Said Cool Dex.  "You deserve it."

Then he turned and glared at the rest of the group.  They all cheered and nodded as if they had been practicing.

I noted out of the corner of my eye the argument that Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha were having.  I didn't know what was going on but Inu-Yasha looked angry as usual and Hosh-sama was just sitting there and practically ignoring Inu-Yasha.

The argument ended when Inu-Yasha took Hosh-sama's lunch but Hosh-sama didn't seem to care because it seemed, at least to me, that he was offering it to Inu-Yasha.

I meshed my food together a little bit before taking a few small bites just in case it was drugged or poisoned or something but it SEEMED safe enough so I finished it up.  After lunch was group time, probably my least favorite part of the day because there was no other counselor there so it was just me and my group.  When we reached the area in which we usually have group time, I told them to all sit down under the tree.

"Okay guys, we have to present our skit tomorrow." I said though I thought that something like that would be obvious.

"TOMORROW?!" screamed Bailey.

"We've hardly worked on it AT ALL!!" Gordon yelled.

"It's all good guys, I got an idea!" said Hubert.  "What we could do is just go out, do a quick dance number and then run off!"

"ALL RIGHT!!!!" they all screamed as they got up and started dancing around like fools.  I didn't really know how to react to this but Cool Dex suddenly came up from behind me.

"I've got an idea, Ms Sango." He said.  I decided that I couldn't lose anything by listening to Cool Dex's idea because whatever it was, it couldn't possibly be worse than these dances that the boys had planned.  So I started yelling at them to get their attention but I turned around to see that Hosh-sama was standing there!

"Sango, do you require my assistance?" he asked me.  I could tell he had specifically come over here to harass me and that his intentions were not innocent.  All of the boys in m group started taunting Hosh-sama and making stupid noises. 

I considered Hosh-sama's offer but then I looked behind me to see that Cool Dex was settling them all down and they were all listening to him.  This method seemed to work more efficiently than threatening to kill them through Hosh-sama, not to mention the fact that they all idolized Cool Dex and despised Hosh-sama.

"I'm okay." I told Hosh-sama.  "Cool Dex can handle it."

Hosh-sama then proceeded to completely change the subject.  "You have a dominant role in our skit." He said.

I gasped since I had completely forgotten.  "I forgot!" I confessed.  "But as you can probably see, my group needs my help."  Now, I know this might have seemed strange but how my group performed reflected on me as a person and if they went up there horribly unorganized then everyone would think poorly of me and I was on a role of getting on people's good sides so I didn't need to break my pattern now.

Hosh-sama leaned over.  "Would you rather be with your group?" he asked me.  I was about to respond when he continued.  "You complain about them non stop whereas you have told me on numerous occasions that you love my group.  Now come on.  Would you rather be with ME…or with them?"  And then he pointed at the boys.

"Couldn't you just…um…remove me from your skit?" I tried, trying not to sound mean in front of the kids in Hosh-sama's group.

"Doing such a thing might be confusing for my group." Hosh-sama replied but I could tell he was lying.

"You're just going to have to adjust." I said.

"Very well, if you would rather be with your disgusting group over me than I'm not going to stand in your way." Hosh-sama said.  He was obviously using the guilt trip and it was working since he is VERY good at the guilt trip.  It worked even more when he turned around and started walking away before letting me say anything to him.

Just when I was going to run over to him and apologize and tell him to put me back in the skit, Laura and Madeline came running over.

"Ms Sango, do you hate us now?!" Madeline cried, tears in her eyes.

"No, I don't hate you!" I tried to assure her. 

"Then why aren't you going to be in our skit anymore?!" Laura whined.  Hosh-sama must have sent them over to make me feel worse but now, since he did that, I was definitely not going to give in.

I brought Laura and Madeline back over to Hosh-sama who was waiting for their return.

"I can't believe you would do something like that!" I yelled at him.  He looked utterly surprised, like he was expecting his plan to work.  "And what's worse, you left these two behind and who's to say they know their way back?!"

"You sure you can't be in our skit?" Hosh-sama said as if I wasn't in the middle of scolding him.  "You'll hurt their feelings."  Since Hosh-sama had obviously planned this, all six of the kids gave me the puppy eyes.  I was almost about to agree when suddenly Cool Dex came over.

"Ms Sango, is Mr. Miroku bothering you?" he asked.

I looked back over at Hosh-sama.  I almost felt bad for him since I could tell he was hurt that I had pulled Cool Dex into this.

"Very well Sango, go back to your group." He said, doing that guilt trip again.  I wasn't going to fall for it so I did, following Cool Dex back to the group of boys who were sitting quietly with their hands folded.

Cool Dex took over the tedious job of thinking up the lines for the skit as I watched from afar.  I still felt a little sorry about how I had treated Hosh-sama and decided that I would apologize to him the next time I saw him since this was now really bothering me. 

The bell rang and we made our way to bombardment with the boys explaining what it was to me the whole way there.  When Travis was right in the middle of saying something, I saw Hosh-sama off on the field looking right at me so I figured that now was as good as a time as any so I ran over to him.

"Hosh-sama, I'm sorry for the way I acted earlier." I said.  I figured that I might have been a little self centered and short tempered with Hosh-sama because it was…well…YOU KNOW…THAT TIME…But I couldn't very well say that to Hosh-sama since he wouldn't understand what us females have to go through but the mere thought of sharing something that personal with him made me feel a little embarrassed.

"Who is that surly youth in your group that is following you around but definitely does not belong there?" he asked me, not even going and showing that he accepted my apology.  He's pretty forgiving.  He SHOULD accept it.

I looked back at the group that was still on their way and then back at Hosh-sama, smiling to see what his reaction would be.  "That's Cool Dex." I answered.  "And he DOES belong in the group.  He's fifteen."

"Well…where did he come from?" he questioned. 

"Supposedly he used to be Dexter but he turned fifteen during the hike and had come back as Cool Dex due to puberty." I replied.  Hosh-sama seemed lost in thought for a few minutes and I wondered if he had even been listening to me so I cleared my throat.  "I don't need you to pretend to be my fiancée anymore in front of the group."

This got his attention.

"Very well, Sango, as long as you are happy." He said, turning away, doing the guilt trip again.  I just HATE that!  I'm not going to give in because he does it WAY too much and he just knows it works on me but not anymore.  I watched as Hosh-sama quickly looked behind him to check to see if I was pursuing him but when he saw that I wasn't he turned his attention to Mr. Rick who was standing there explaining something about chicken pox.

"What?" I asked but Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha said pretty much the same thing with me.  I guess they weren't really listening either.

Wait…why is Inu-Yasha here?  Since when did he get here?  Oh well…

"I know." Said Mr. Rick.  I guess I had missed something so I decided not to say anything about it since I didn't want to look like I hadn't been listening.  "Isn't that weird?  I thought only kids got it.  But I guess adults can too if they didn't get it when they were kids but it's extra bad.  You don't have to worry though."

"And why is that?" asked Hosh-sama.

"You've all got chicken pox before, right?" Mr. Rick said slowly.  I didn't know what chicken pox were so I shook my head.  "Well…that's okay.  Mr. Carl doesn't really talk or interact with anyone so as long as you didn't talk to him or touch him, you should be fine."

"I had soccer with Mr. Carl this morning but he just sat in the shed over there for the whole thing." Inu-Yasha said.

"That's good." Said Mr. Rick.  "BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THIS!!  Let's split the teams up.  Wow!  It is just so ironic that you three NEW counselors would be put in all the same period even though your groups are no where near to the same age or skill level ESPECIALLY for a game such as bombardment!!  That is just incredible.  Okay, this is great.  We could just split all your groups in half and put half of each group on one team."

I was put on the same team as Hosh-sama and I REALLY wanted to go over and apologize to him even though I didn't really know what I'd be apologizing about.  Hosh-sama's guilt trips are just REALLY powerful.

I chased after him but he kept weaving in and out of all the campers almost as if he were avoiding me.  I can't imagine why he would be avoiding me so I figured that he was just walking around aimlessly and just so happened to seem like he was avoiding me so I called out his name but he didn't react.

Every once and a while, he would stop and look around and then start walking again.  I figured it was pointless to continue following him so I decided to get into the game.

It was fun.  I would pick up a ball and hurl it at random children running around on the other side.  I wasn't too violent with Inu-Yasha or Hosh-sama's kids but I tried hard to pelt the kids in my group as hard as I could…which is pretty hard.  I never realized just how heavy my boomerang is after throwing something that is so incredibly light.

I was just about to go up and allow Matthew to catch a throw so he would think he accomplished something by getting a counselor out but another ball came out of nowhere and knocked him down.  I turned around to see Cool Dex doing a victory dance and Hosh-sama looking at him with an appalled expression.

Well, Hosh-sama was standing in one spot so I hurried over to him.  I was going to apologize but for some reasons, I couldn't get the words out so I ended up saying something stupid.  "I got everyone on the other team out while you two were feuding." I said.  Yeah.  That was dumb.  I wish I didn't say that.

"No, Sango, you're wrong." Said Hosh-sama.  "Cool Dex here got Russell and Matthew out."

I didn't want to look at Hosh-sama's accusing eyes and was just about to apologize again when I, once again, couldn't find the words.  "Only Inu-Yasha's left and I don't want to get out so I didn't try to hit him because I just knew he would catch it."

That was dumb too…

Cool Dex was obviously trying to impress me as he ran past us both with a ball in his hand and then tossed it at Inu-Yasha.  Inu-Yasha easily dodged it like I knew he would and then threw a ball at Cool Dex so hard that he went flying into the air and landed on the ground.

"Are you all right?!" I yelled as I ran over to him to make sure that he wasn't dead or anything since I could only assume how hard Inu-Yasha had thrown that ball.

I looked up just in time to see Hosh-sama throw a ball to Inu-Yasha and then watch as Inu-Yasha looked as though he intentionally dropped it.  I know exactly what he did.  Hosh-sama told Inu-Yasha to drop the ball on purpose so that he could impress me but it DIDN'T work since I am not easily impressed.

"Congratulations, this team!" said Mr. Rick.  "That was a really fascinating game and I'm glad that you three groups were all together and…" He was interrupted by the sound of the bell ringing.  "Have a wonderful the rest of the day!" he said as he waved.

I turned around to see that Hosh-sama had already started walking away.  I called to him to stay awake during rest hour for the kids in an entirely joking manner but he must have not taken it as a joke because he didn't react and acknowledge that I had even said anything.  I guess he was offended because I call it sleeping and he insists that it's meditation.

But then I remembered that Cool Dex was still injured so I turned back to him to see that he was standing up looking fine.  "Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yes, I'm tougher than that!" he said with a laugh but I could tell that he was in immense pain.

"All right then." I said as I led the way to wall climbing in what must have been record-breaking time.

"Nice to see you all again!" Mr. Ulysses greeted us and then he nodded at me.  "You too Ms Sango."  Obviously he thought there was something there for he and I just because I had danced with him last night.

Cool Dex showed off his wall climbing skills and climbed the wall while carrying a glass of water with a blindfold on.  I wasn't all THAT impressed because I've climbed mountains while carrying my boomerang and being gravely wounded at night WITHOUT a harness.

I was just about to climb the wall without a harness but Mr. Ulysses insisted that I wear one so I wore it just to humor him even though I didn't need it.  So I climbed the wall no problem and then the boys climbed the wall and then some more people climbed the wall and then we talked about the wall and went and climbed it again.  In other words, the period was very boring and I was all too happy when it ended and ready to venture off to water skiing.

Mr. Darrin was there, clearly finished with his romantic excursion with Ms Nicole.  He told me that I could ride in the boat with him and I decided that would be a good idea so that way the boys wouldn't be able to violate me while Mr. Darrin was taking one around water skiing.

Bort boarded the water skies and then Mr. Darrin started the boat.  I am still fascinated how things work by themselves in Kagome's world and wish that I had one of these self-propelled machines when I needed to cross a river or any other sort of body of water.  Mr. Darrin started out slowly and Bort seemed to be doing a good job but then I noticed some canoes up ahead.  Instead of slowing down as to be careful around the canoes and not hit the people, Mr. Darrin seemed to speed up and make sharp turns until Bort couldn't stay on the skies any longer and went tumbling into the water.

Mr. Darrin spun around and stopped the boat where Bort was and then leaned over the other side and started speaking with Ms Nicole who was one of the people in the canoes.

I looked out to see that Inu-Yasha was in the far canoe.  How did I know it was Inu-Yasha?  How could you NOT know?  He has got to have the most distinguishable hair in the entire world.

I called out to him and he immediately looked up, searching for the source of the voice.  When he spotted me, he only kind of stared at me for a second, as if trying to figure out who I was and why I was calling out to him.  Come to think of it, I don't even know why I called out to him.  It's not like we had anything to talk about since we have absolutely nothing in common.

"Are you having fun?!" I called at a loss of anything else to say.  He replied but I couldn't hear him.  "WHAT?!"

"NO!!" he yelled.

"REALLY?!" I said.  "You SHOULD be!  I would be considering that's MY group that you're canoeing with!!"  Once again, I couldn't hear his answer.  "WHAT?!"

"NOTHING!!"

One of the girls that I hadn't noticed earlier started saying something from the canoe but I couldn't hear her either.  "What?!" I yelled.

"MR. I IS OUR COUNSELOR!!!" she screamed.  I didn't know why she was bothering to tell me since I already knew that.  But then Mr. Darrin suddenly sped off as if he didn't care that I was right in the middle of a conversation.  It was a pointless conversation, but still a conversation.

"You know Mr. I well?" Mr. Darrin asked me as he drove along in the boat since he clearly had noticed that we had been conversing.

"Yeah…you could say that." I answered.

"Cause rumor has it that he's already got a girlfriend." Mr. Darrin said.

I was going to correct him and explain to him that Inu-Yasha had two but then I decided against it.  "I don't know him in that way." I assured him.  "We're just friends and do a lot of traveling together."

"What do you think of him?" asked Mr. Darrin.

"Well, he's arrogant." Was the first thing that popped to my mind.  "He's got real high self-esteem and is short tempered but I guess he can be sentimental and kind sometimes.  Why?"

"My girl says that her friend wants to know some more about him." Mr. Darrin answered.

"Oh." I said, just now realizing that my opinions of Inu-Yasha would now be shared with the general public.  But I didn't really understand why Kagome was asking Ms Nicole to ask Mr. Darrin to ask me about Inu-Yasha when she knew very well from her OWN experiences but I decided not to dwell too long it.  "So you're going to tell people what I just said?"

"News spreads fast here at Camp Walawalabingbang." He said, sounding a bit mysterious as he pulled into the dock.  "Kind of like the chicken pox."

"Yeah, kind of like the chicken pox." I said, feeling a little stupid since I didn't really know what the chicken pox were or what he was talking about for that matter.

We took each camper out water skiing individually and everyone had recieved a turn when the bell rang and it was now time to go to candle making.  I knew that candle making was not going to be fun since the name really said it all when it came to wondering what it was.  We would be making candles.  That just doesn't sound fun.

But sure enough, I found myself pushing the door open to the candle making building to see the familiar face of Ms Keri looking surprised upon our arrival.  She quickly ran over and looked at a schedule and then came back over to us.

"I didn't realize that I had a group this period!" she said with a laugh but I could tell she was a bit upset for some reason.  "I was just on my way over to help Ms Kara with her arts and crafts group…but I guess I can't now…oh well."  She quickly explained some basic rules and then allowed the boys to begin their making of the candles.  She inched over to me.

"Hey…do you remember me?" she questioned.

"Yes." I answered.  "You're Ms Keri, right?"

"I am!" Ms Keri said, looking excited.  "I figured I could ask you a few questions about Mr. I." 

I stopped.  So Ms Keri was Ms Nicole's 'friend' who was supposedly going out with Inu-Yasha.  That completely changed everything.  "Um…sure." I said.

"Great!" Ms Keri said, looking excited.  "I figured that you're the best one to ask since he IS your brother after all."

"What?" I said.  "He's not my brother…"

"But you said he was!" Ms Keri said, looking confused.  I thought back to last night and tried as hard as I could to keep myself from slapping my forehead and then slapping her.

"Oh right!" I said.  "Ask away!"

She asked me many random and extremely obscure questions about Inu-Yasha that even his supposed sister couldn't possibly know, or WANT to know about their little brother and I could only sit there and make up a few answers that SEEMED to be right to me at the time.  When the bell rang, Ms Keri was already worshipping the ground I walked on and thanking me for all the useful information about Inu-Yasha.  As we made our way down to the waterfront to have another swimming period, Cool Dex approached me.

"Are you enjoying your day at camp?" he asked me.  I found this to be an utterly random question.

"Um…not really…" I answered truthfully.

"I haven't made it just a little better for you?" Cool Dex asked, looking a bit depressed.

"No, trust me, you have!" I assured him.  "You've definitely cut down on the harassment but even if there WASN'T any harassment, this whole experience wouldn't be fun."

"Well at least tell me that it's nothing that I'm doing." Cool Dex said.

"Don't worry, you're NOT the reason I'm not having fun here." I said finally.  He nodded and started walking ahead of me.

The swimming period was pretty much like every other one we've had.  All I did was force them to swim back and forth for a few laps while I watched Hosh-sama to make sure he didn't do anything perverted.  But he actually just got up and followed a male counselor off into the nurse's building.  I was going to go and inspect what was going on because I didn't want to be left out of another calamity at the camp but I just realized that the boys had gotten back from their laps and now a few of them were splashing me.  I was just about to scream myself hoarse when Cool Dex literally came out of nowhere and started yelling at them and scolded them and then made all of them go off and do a few laps for punishment.

I stopped and wondered if Hosh-sama would ever do something like that for me. Cool Dex was actually starting to grow on me, like he was an entirely different person than Dexter.  But then I wondered why I was wondering about whether Hosh-sama would do something that Cool Dex would do because I knew very well that Hosh-sama would sacrifice his life for me, as I would for him!

"Ms Sango, are you all right?" Cool Dex asked me.  "You look really red."

I looked at my reflection in the water to see that I was blushing wildly so I quickly covered it up.  "I'm fine." I answered.

"Are you thinking about Mr. Miroku?" he questioned.

I was very surprised and was just about to spit out a 'how did you know?!' when I became a little bit wiser and decided that I admitting something like that would only embarrass me more.  "What makes you think something like that?" I said instead.

"Well, usually when you're thinking about Mr. Miroku, you start out smiling and then you frown and then smile again and then frown again." Cool Dex explained.  "And then turn really red."

"That's ridiculous!" I yelled.  "Now go and do a lap!"  Cool Dex shrugged and dove into the water without emitting any sort of splash and then swimming off as if a lap wouldn't even effect him.  I then realized only after he was out of earshot that that was a bit mean of me to do and that I really should learn to control my temper ESPECIALLY when someone's intentions are good.  Oh well.  I suppose this should make up for how he treated me for the first two days.  Also, to make myself feel better, I made everyone else do laps as well so it wouldn't look like I was singling Cool Dex out even though I already had.

My group was mysteriously getting quite good at laps.  So I continued the torture until the bell rang to signal that we had soccer next.  I rushed the boys out of the water and told them to put their shirts on faster because they were so disgusting and I didn't want to have to see their disgusting flesh anymore. 

They were all taking an excruciatingly long time getting changed so I walked in the cabin to see what was the matter and I was bombarded by Raphael asking me if it was a good idea to wear his mouth guard.  I wasn't exactly positive what a mouth guard was but I was a little sure about what its purpose was.

"You've never worn it before." I said as I examined the object.

"I'll wear mine too!" declared Pubert.

"ME TOO!!" announced Gordon.

After everyone had decided to wear their mouth guards to protect their braces (except Cool Dex), we finally were off to soccer.

We were greeted by Mr. Rick and his cheerfulness that came out of nowhere.  "I was wondering where you guys were!" he said merrily.  "I'm Mr. Rick but you already know that cause we've been seeing a whole lot of each other lately!" Then he chuckled warmly and I figured that he could be one of those male counselors that had the basket so I didn't have to worry about him coming onto me.

"We are going to play World Cup." Explained Mr. Rick as he held a soccer ball in his hand.  "Everyone must get into groups of two."

At first I looked toward Cool Dex but then I remembered that our group had an even number of people in it so I could just sit this game out.

"Ms Sango, would you like to be the goalie?" asked Mr. Rick. 

"I don't really know how." I said.  Mr. Rick nodded and said that he would be the goalie and that I could just watch.  I didn't listen to the rules of the game because I wasn't playing but the boys, no matter how horribly not athletic they were, seemed to understand the game.

After playing for about three seconds, Cool Dex scored a goal, slapped Bort five and came to sit next to me.  Bort said something that I couldn't understand because he was wearing his mouth guard and insisted on not taking it out.

"I think I have this game in the bag." Said Cool Dex with a chuckle.  I nodded and laughed one of those 'that's nice' laughs.  He then started talking about something but I wasn't listening.  I looked off in the distance at a tree.  The tree kind of resembled a tree that Kohaku played on when we were little.  I miss Kohaku so very much that the mere thought of him brings a tear to my eye.  Especially thoughts of Kohaku being happy.  Hopefully, we will be able to save him.  Hosh-sama promised that we would!  …and Inu-Yasha…and Kagome and Shippo.  They promised too…  But if we WERE to save Kohaku, would he forever have to have a Shikon Shard in his back?  If so, would Inu-Yasha never be able to complete the jewel though he had wanted to for so many years?  What if we need to take it out?!  Maybe I could wish to bring Kohaku back to life!  That might be rather selfish of me but the wish IS for another person.  It's not like I'm wishing for myself to come back to life or anything.  While I'm at it, I might as well wish for my father to come back to life.  And my entire village.  Perhaps I'll also wish for Inu-Yasha's wish as well!  If Kagome wanted something, I'd wish for hers too!  And if by then, we haven't killed Naraku, I'll wish that Hosh-sama was cured of his curse.  We'd all be so happy and because Miroku would be cured, he'd ask me to bear his child.  But then again…he might not.  He might just say it because he 'asks everyone' but then again…what if he means it?!  But it's not like he would mean it so I don't have to worry about that sort of situation.

"Ms Sango, you're thinking about Mr. Miroku." Said Cool Dex.

"For your information, I happen to be thinking about a LOT of things!" I yelled.  "Some of which make me happy, some make me mad and some make blush!  At not point in time was there a single thought of Hosh-sama going through my mind!"

That sounded good.  I think he fell for it too because he shrugged and ran back out onto the field.

Soccer was a very insightful period for me.  I spent most of it thinking about the future and the past and the present and anything in between.  The bell rang in the midst of my thoughts and by then, I was actually pretty hungry so I rushed everyone off to dinner.

The eating room seemed slightly empty today.  I noticed that the younger groups were lacking in at least half of their members.  I peered over at Hosh-sama to see that there was a total of one kid at his table.  The kid looked full of energy and extremely rambunctious whereas Hosh-sama looked pitifully depressed and all around miserable.  This was definitely my fault.  I didn't realize how much I had hurt his feelings.  He wasn't even eating!

"Ms Sango!" sang Cool Dex.  "I got you some dinner!"

He handed me a mass of congealed yellow goo.  I had no idea what it was but I was hungry so I ate it.  It wasn't in the least bit warm but the taste was okay so I managed to stomach it.

Dinner came and dinner gone and next was another one of my least favorite activities: campfire time.

Mr. Shawn instructed every counselor to choose on camper from each group and come down with that camper.  Naturally, I chose Cool Dex and he escorted me down to the front area.  There, I saw Hosh-sama looking semi-out of it and disgruntled standing there with Russell so I figured that I wasn't going to beat around the bush anymore!  I was DEFINITELY going to apologize to him!

"Um…Hosh-sama…" I started.  "I feel kind of bad about the way…"

"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!" announced Mr. Shawn before I could finish.  No matter, I'll get Hosh-sama at some OTHER time.

The game was simple.  Basically, all I had to do was bend over backwards and not hit the pole or fall over.  I'm not a very flexible person so I got out rather quickly.  I moved off to the side and began cheering Cool Dex on who got out in the next round.  I found this game a bit unfair for the older campers because the younger campers hadn't even needed to bend over by the time all the counselors and older kids were out. 

I assumed that this game would go to Hosh-sama's group and he probably felt the same but Russell was being way too dramatic and wanted to stir the crowd up so he eventually fell over and some random other kid one.  The crowd cheered for the girl and Mr. Shawn laughed WAY too contently and sent us all to our next activity which, unfortunately for me, was Arts and Crafts.

"You may not know this but today is Mr. Shawn's birthday!" explained the Arts and Crafts counselor, Ms Kara, to my group as if they were five.  "So for today's project, we are all going to make him a card!"

"That's stupid!" whined Hubert.

"Give us a REAL project!" complained Mario.

Ms Kara turned to me.  "I'm sorry about this project." She said.  "It's just that by 9:00, I don't feel like doing anything and then having to stay up late cleaning it up."

"So is it really Mr. Shawn's birthday?" I asked.

"No." she answered.  "So I guess you can make cards for whoever you want!"

"I'm making my card for Ms Sango!" announced Bailey.

"Except for ME!" I snapped.

"But I think you deserve one!" complained Borris.

"That's quite all right." I said.  "I'll remember this camp enough without you guys making me cards."

"Well I'm going to do it anyway." Said Bort.

"Didn't you hear what she said?!" demanded Cool Dex.  "She said NO!!" Everyone winced and nodded at his command.  I have to admit that it's nice that they don't taunt me anymore but the fact that I know have a personal bodyguard is getting slightly irritating.  Especially since I am a very skilled demon hunter.  I don't NEED this kind of protection.

I folded a piece of construction paper in half and thought about what to make a card about and for who.  At first I thought about Hosh-sama but then I decided to just TALK to him.  Plus, I don't need Kagome getting on my case at all either.  Then that made me think to give Kagome a card for inviting me with her for this experience but it's not like I LIKED this experience.  Then I thought about making a card for Cool Dex but I won't go there.  So in the end, I eventually made a card for Kohaku.

"I thought Kohaku was dead." Said Dimitri.

"What would YOU know." I said rudely.

"Well, you told us in your story." Answered Dimitri.

"HEY!!" Travis bellowed.  "Isn't Kohaku FAKE?!"

"NO!!!" I yelled.  Then I tore up the card and threw it in the trashcan.  "I was only pretending to make that card.

In case you're wondering, yes, I was VERY glad when the bell rang.  We all trekked through the dark to our cabin where all the boys got dressed right in front of me as if it wouldn't bother me in the least bit.  I wisely made the choice of sleeping in my clothes so I wouldn't have to change.  Then I climbed into my bed and went to sleep.  I'm not sure how long it took me to do so but I know I eventually went to sleep.