Posted: 3/24/03

NOTE TO ALL READERS- I **NEVER** POST AN AUTHOR'S NOTE WITHOUT A CHAPTER!

Hello! Hyperchica here! GUESS WHAT!!! MY FICCY IS MORE THAN 1 MONTH OLD!!! YEAH!!!! I posted the first chappy on 2/19, and it's more than a month past that, so!!!! Ya . . . uh huh. I'm sick right now. I've got a fever, sore throat, pounding headache, painful ears, and a tummy ache. PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE!!! Ok. I'm serious tho. My head hurts. It practically hurts to think. So this chappy is gonna be really short.

Here's another problem: I'M NOT AT SCHOOL!!! Yeah. That is a problem. You see, every day, at 10:10 am, I go to the snack shack at my school and get the following: a large water bottle, Shock Tarts, and Airheads. The number of airheads is either 1, 5, or 6, depending if the people who run the snack shack want to give me a discount for being such a good customer.

Seriously, I walk up there, and the second they see me they take out my order. The water bottle I get is $1, the Shock Tarts are 75 cents (does anyone know how to do the cents symbol on the comp?) and Airheads are 25 cents each. If they see I have 3 dollars, they get me 5(or six) airheads. If they see $2, they only give me one. It kinda works out very well.

And also, at lunch, I ALWAYS get powered donettes and another water bottle from the cafeteria. Usually by lunch I've finished the other water bottle.

Anyways, I'm really, REALLY used to getting those every day, so when I don't, I get grouchy. Actually, grouchy isn't the word. But my entire day is thrown off. I go into sugar withdrawal. And that's a BAAAAD thing. And since I'm at my house, I can't even get a substitute candy for the stuff at school, cuz my mom doesn't keep candy in the house. She says I get too hyper off of it. Now where would she get that idea? n_n

Anyways, I am not going to go searching for a one-and-only-love-of-my-life- for-ever-and-ever-at-least-for-a-week this chapter, because, as I said, I am in sugar withdrawal and I feel like I wish I had a sit necklace on me because then someone could tell me SIT a bunch of times and then I could be knocked unconscious and I wouldn't have to deal with my headache and horrible cough and . . . yeah. And I don't have enough hyper-ness or energy to kidnap any cartoon characters today.

Oh. BTW. Reviewer responses @ end in place of really long author's note.

SO! Without further comments from the peanut gallery--

Peanut gallery- WE WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT!!!

Hyperchica- Too bad. Are you guys salted?

Peanut Gallery- Yeah.

Hyperchica- YUMMY!!!! **Eats the peanut gallery**

Where was I? Oh yes. WE PROUDLY INTRODUCE---- THE CHAPPY!

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Chapter 12

Desayuno (Breakfast)

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3~~~~~Where we are starting from~~~~~3

Huddling close, he tried to go to sleep, and eventually, the sandman got to him. He fell asleep listening to the quiet sounds of the forest.

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3~~~~~And now we continue~~~~~3

The sun was just peeking over the horizon when Rin's eyes fluttered open. She lazily looked around at her surroundings, only to find that she couldn't see anything. With her eyes still blurry with sleep, she only saw brown surrounding her.

Her senses became more attuned after thirty seconds of being awake. She could now tell she was inside some type of tree, and directly in front of her was an exit.

Rin stooped down to avoid the low clearance of the tree, and stepped out into the open. She was confused by her surroundings.

'How did I get here? I thought I fell asleep in the grass,' she mused. 'And what time is it?'

She looked up at the sky, searching for the position of the sun. When she turned her eyes skyward, she noticed Shippo, still fast asleep in the branches of the same tree whose trunk she had spent the night in.

Rin smiled as she looked upon his peaceful face.

'He must have brought me here,' she thought. 'How nice of him. What can I do to repay him?'

Rin sat down on a conveniently placed nearby rock, and brainstormed. Suddenly, the feudal equivalent of a light bulb (a candle, maybe?) went on in her head.

'Food!' she thought. 'I'll make breakfast!'

Rin hurried to her pack to find what she still had in it to eat. She rummaged through the pack and took out all the contents, not bothering to put them back in.

'Where is that stupid food!' Rin thought furiously.

She suddenly spotted what she was looking for.

"YUMMY!!!"

Rin reached to the bottom of the bag for her favorite food: rice!

(A/n oh my goodness that was lame. Rice. Why couldn't I have come up with something better than RICE! I blame it on the fever.)

She got a fire started and brought out a collapsible pot she had made herself from the impenetrable skin of the fire rat.

(I am so lame. I should just stop now.)

She poured a little bit of rice into the pot, only to realize it was the last of her supply.

'I guess this means I should be going back to Sesshomaru's castle soon. The cook only gave me enough rice for a month and a half. Sesshomaru said I must come back in that period of time. Oooooh, he's gonna be mad at me!' Rin shuddered involuntarily at the thought of an angry Sesshomaru.

In her deliberations about returning home, Rin had forgotten about the second most important ingredient for making rice. (The first being the rice)

'Dang it! I have to go find water now,' she thought.

"Where am I gonna get water in this place?" Rin asked quietly to no one in particular.

Rin heard the sound of slow moving water from somewhere behind her. It was as if the forest had wanted to answer her. She turned around, then dashed and weaved through the trees and the underbrush towards the sound.

Sure enough, when she got to its source she found a spring. Rin went down on one knee and felt the water with her hands. To her surprise and delight, the water was warm.

'YES! Now, not only will it take me less time to cook the rice, but also I have a place to bathe! I feel so grimy right now! This is exactly what I need!' Rin dashed off toward the location of their makeshift camp with the pot filled up with water.

She placed the pot over the fire, and then went to her bag to search for bathing supplies. She grabbed a little dress, a piece of cloth, and a thing called "New-treh-geen-uh" that Sesshomaru once found for her after fighting with his half-breed brother.

That was the time he came back with a lot of odd stuff, like the magical freezing mist blower that you could spray in someone's hair and make it stop moving. Sesshomaru had told her that the things were a gift from the girl with the odd kimono, Kagome, who followed Inuyasha around all the time.

"What did she say again? Something about how no girl in her right mind could live without these necessities?" Rin muttered as she headed of back towards the spring, leaving the rice cooking and Shippo still sleeping in the tree above.

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Ok, peeps, I'm really sorry this is so short, but I'm not feeling good enuf to write more. Actually, I feel miserable. The stuff I go through for you guys . . . oh well. Enjoy this chappy, as it may be the only one where you will ever see a sane hyperchica. Savor it while you still can.

Ok, I forgot where I stopped off with reviews, so! Just gonna scan for questions I haven't answered . . . or one that I have but can't remember.

Starting with . . .

**Lord of the Fat**: thank you. I'm glad you love my story. I feel so special!

** Kari-chan ^-^ ** : um . . . I would take your advice . . . except my sweet wittle Koga I've already kidnapped. And I don't know who Ryoga is. What show is he from? However, if Ryoga looks like Koga's twin . . . MINE!!! MY BISHI!!! MEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEEEEEE! Ok calm now. If he's yours I won't steal him. At least not without your permission anyway. And I wouldn't turn him into a pig. I would turn him into . . . AN ELEPHANT!!!! CUZ ELEPHANTS ARE AWESOME!!!!

(You guys, I think this fever is getting to me . . .)

**Asher Tye** Hm . . . I think I already answered that one . . . oh well!!! I'm not telling you if Urissa is coming back or not. And I'm not telling you what her motivation for kidnapping them was either . . . CUZ I'M EVIL!!!! (And drugged. Very drugged. The doctor gave me 2 different medications. Plus told me to take Excedrin migraine, Aleve, Ibuprofen, and Sudafed. One of the prescriptions is powerful enough to put a baby in a coma. It was to help me go to sleep. I tried it last night. And boy, did that baby work! Ok. Enuf of that)

**ArtanisAE** I'm glad you're glad that I finally let them kiss . . . ok now I know I already answered these reviews.

Ok, already answered to dark pride (I think) and silver destiny

**YoukaiTaiji-ya** kewl name. Demon demon exterminator. A demon exterminator who is a demon. KEWLKEWLKEWL!! Tonk ooz for reading my ficcy!

**mpu** BUT I DID UPDATE! See! The chappy b4 the one you reviewed! Also, isn't your name from Cowboy Bebop? I remember the episode with Em- pew. I know that's not how you spell it. It's spelled MPU. Just like your S/N. ok I'm calm.

NOTE TO ALL READERS- I **NEVER** POST AN AUTHOR'S NOTE WITHOUT A CHAPTER!

**ArtanisAE** I know! Captain Obvious is the KEWLEST!! And guess what? In addition to being on a perpetual sugar high and also being a super-dee- duper (did I just say that. May society shun me forever.) writer, I am . . . SUPERGIRL!!! And my cousin is BATGIRL! And my sister is . . . annoying and addicted to Hamtaro. I don't know how the superhero gene missed her, but it did. (Note to nice people in the white lab coats: I am not crazy! I swear!!)

**darkpride** hello! I just wanna know, what is a Sota Grin Goten plushie? Is it a hybrid of all those characters . . . except I don't know who Grin is . . . OOH! And thanx for putting me on your bio! I am now famous through out the land! Err . . . never mind. The evil alter ego of hyperchica bent on world domination just took over there for a second! ALSO: I kinda explained why the last chappy needed 5 reviews. From now one, I will set the review total on the bottom of the end of my fic. And I'll try not to make the chappies to long.

**HamHamIbm** is Shippo cute when he is older? Hm . . . I intended him to be, but my drawing of him qualifies for the worst drawn anime picture in the world. :) however, he is supposed to be a BISHI!!!! Heehee I love that word. Also, technically, Shippo doesn't have a girlfriend. :) Not yet anyway . . . lol!

**LilInuyashaMonkey** I LOVE YOUR SCREENNAME!!! oh, and I will still try and get at least one chapter out a week, two weeks tops. :) monkeys are kewl. :)

OK! THAT"S THE END OF THAT!!! :) see you all next time when I'm (hopefully) feeling better.

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