"Ame!" Momiji yelled. "If you don't hurry up, we'll be late for the first day back!" Ame ran down the stairs. She was dressed in her new school uniform, and had her bag. Momiji smiled. "Ready already?"

Ame scowled. "I've been awake from 6 o'clock. I'm nervous as hell." She walked over to the table and started on her breakfast. She kept dropping food; her hands were shaking that much. Momiji rested his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry, we'll look after you." Ame looked puzzled. "H-" A large bang interrupted him.

"Morning all. Ready for school?" Shigure walked in and sat down next to Ame. I thought you might like some supporters to walk to school with you." Ame turned around to see Tohru, Yuki, Kyou and Haru at the door. Tohru waved. Kyou scowled at her.

Ame got up and went over to him. "Listen, I'm sorry for slapping you. I wouldn't do that normally, but I was half asleep, and I hadn't had my tea. I wasn't thinking properly." Kyou grunted.

"That's OK. I guess I should apologise to the shrimp for making him cry." Ame smiled and hugged him. "What!?" She let him go and laughed. Everyone else stared, apart from Momiji.

"I had to do that, just to see the look on your faces. I'm cursed too. With the spirit of the rabbit." She laughed and looked at her watch. "We'd better get going." With that, the teenagers left for school, leaving Shigure all by himself at the table.

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"L-O-V-E M-E! YUKI!" 'Prince Yuki' chanted as the group walked past. Yuki sighed while Ame watched the performance with interest. The three girls scattered when two girls came up behind them.

"Ame, these are my friends," Tohru pointed to the blonde girl. "Uo-chan," and at the brunette "and Hana-chan." Uo went up and shook Ame's hand.

"Another Sohma? How many of you guys are there?" Ame shrugged.

"Hundreds? I haven't been here long enough to count." Uo laughed. "Who were those three girls? And why did they run away from you two?" Yuki sighed again.

"They're Yuki's fan club, 'Prince Yuki'. Their soul aim is to annoy anyone who has anything to do with him. Now they've seen you, you probably should watch out." Kyou stated quietly. Ame looked at him quizzically *I wonder what he means.*

"They ran away because Hanajima is a denpa. It terrifies them. It also doesn't help that she keeps jolting them with electricity." Uo looked at the brunette. There were stars and flashes coming from Hana-chan's head. "Hanajima. Stop sending electric jolts."

*This is going to be an interesting year* Ame thought to herself as they walked down the hallway.

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"This is the Principal's office. I'll see if I can show you around the school, seeing you don't know anyone yet." Momiji stopped in front of a door. He knocked gently and walked in quietly. He stopped and owed slightly. "Sir, this is Sohma Ame. She is new and doesn't know around here. May I show her around and introduce her to her teachers? Thankyou sir." The both bowed and walked out.

Momiji bounced on the balls of his feet. "Yay! Now we can get out of class! I'll show you to the teachers, if they're not teaching, but that won't take too long. We can take our time going around the school, and then make our way back -slowly- to class." Ame nodded, and they walked off.

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"We're home" Momiji and Ame called as they walked inside. Seeing Hatori was probably still at work, they went straight upstairs. Ame went into her room and pumped up her stereo.

Momiji went into his room and hummed along with his CD in his Discman. He sat down at his desk and started his homework, while Ame walked downstairs. She had changed out of her uniform, into shorts and a t-shirt. She went and got a drink out of the fridge, sat down at the table and doodled.

Momiji came down from his room to see Ame still drawing at the table. She had drawn the face of a baby form of each Jyuunishi animal. She was struggling on a baby dragon. "How long have you been doing this?" He asked. She looked up at him and smiled.

"'Bout 20 minutes. They're not that good, I just didn't want to do any homework." Momiji shook his head.

"No, how long have you been drawing in your life?" Ame shrugged.

"Ever since we started getting homework? I always hated that part of school. They say keep your home life separate from your school life, but how can we do that if they give us school work to do at home?" She stopped. "Want to have a closer look?" He sat down and she handed him her drawings. All but the dragon, she went back to work on that one.

Momiji looked in awe at the detail of each animal. "Do you have any other pictures?" Ame nodded and went to get them. Momiji looked at the dragon picture and saw where she didn't like it. There were lines she hadn't quite rubbed out, and redrawn again.

"I'm thinking of screwing that one up and starting again." She came down and gave him some of a pile of papers. I did those a fair while ago. These," She waved her pile. "are more recent. They're from over the last few weeks." She went back to drawing, but left the dragon alone and went on to something else.

"Can I have a look at those ones?" Momiji asked. Ame nodded absently, concentrating on her picture. They were mainly of animals or nature; there were even some poems, which had decorations around them. But a few of them were people. The one that caught Momiji's interest was a girl doing martial arts. He was able to see the girl's facial expressions, even the tiny bit of a necklace poking out from underneath the uniform. "Who's this?" Ame looked up from her picture.

"That's me. I got one of my friends to take photos while I practiced my Tae Kwon Do. All my friends picked out the best one- it was hard; she's a good photographer- and I drew it. I really should do my homework. I'll be back soon." She went upstairs; leaving the picture she was so intent on drawing.

Momiji looked to see what caught her attention so fully. He gasped when he saw it. It was a picture of him, looking down at her pictures. He could almost see the rays of light shining down on his face. It was amazing the intricacy of the picture. He left it there and went to cook dinner. *I don't understand her at times. She has obvious talent, but doesn't admit it. She's so confusing.*

He was just about to put dinner on when he heard a screech coming from Ame's room. He ran up the stairs as fast as he could. "Ame!"

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=^.^=: Another chapter, gone. (My Dumbledore impression) Thankyou to everyone for your reviews and comments, they're really greatly appreciated.