Disclaimer: Why in the world would I be writing fanfiction if I owned the show? So in short, I don't.

AN: Another really good day! Our field hockey game got canceled, and I only have two classes tomorrow. Two! *Beams*

No, I'm not gonna name squirrels in this story because it got kinda overwhelming last time I tried. so sorry.

Here, Moosey moosey moosey..

"Hey Aoshi!" Misao came crawling out of the bushes, her short outfit torn slightly by thorns. "Found us some food!" She produced two apples she had been holding.

Aoshi had to restrain from smiling at her crawling appearance. She looked vaguely like a weasel, in the strangest way.

Not to say that she wasn't pretty.

He immediately cleared this thought out of his head, but allowed himself a slight smile as she tossed him one of the apples. Even a small smile was enough to send her heart pumping a little faster than normal. He was just so.

She realized that if she started to think about him, she would start to drool, and that was one thing that she really didn't want to do in front of him. She just blushed slightly and looked away, rubbing the back of her head.

"Isn't that a squirrel?" Asked Aoshi, pointing into a tree where a brown twitching figure sat. It watched him with wary eyes.

"Yeah. You don't believe what Monigue said, do you?" Asked Misao, chuckling slightly. She felt like beaming. He had talked to her!

Aoshi didn't answer, just watched the squirrel with narrowed eyes. It stared back at him, then vanished.

'Maybe there was some truth to that after all.' thought Aoshi.

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Kaoru had been sitting for the last hour with Kenshin in her lap.

He just looked so peaceful. she didn't want to disturb him.

And besides. she blushed a little. He wasn't the worst guy in the world to have unconscious in your lap. Without thinking, she ran her fingers through his long ponytail, and then caught herself.

'Bad thoughts! Out of the head!' She smacked herself on the head several times. She suddenly became aware that someone was watching her.

In particular, someone lying in her lap.

"Oh!" She exclaimed, as he jerked up quickly. She wondered if her face was as pink as his right now.

"Sorry, I didn't mean." he trailed of, realizing that any path he chose would lead to something ackward. Better to just forget about it.

It wasn't every day that you fell unconscious in the lap of a beautiful girl, however, and Kenshin found it very hard to get the memory out of his head.

Had she been stroking his hair?

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"HERE, MOOSEY MOOSEY MOOSEY!" Monigue cried, executing her wonderfully subtle moose call.

Very slowly a brown figure stepped out of the woods.

Funny thing was, it worked every time.

"Hey mister moose!" Monigue crooned, petting the moose gently on the head. "I have plans for you."

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Sanosuke and Megumi proceeded through the woods without a word.

Sanosuke shoved his hands into his pockets. Just his luck that he was stuck with HER. Monigue probably put them together just for fun too. Bitch. (AN I just insulted myself. woah.)

Megumi was thinking something along the same lines. She was going to have to spend the next WEEK with this idiot. She had been looking forward to this trip, too! She had even worn hiking boots.

"Hey look!" Sanosuke shouted, momentarily forgetting who was walking next to him. In front of then trickled a little crystal clear stream. It was the perfect place to set up camp.

"Wow. rooster head actually did something useful for once." Megumi mumbled under her breath.

"I heard that!" Sanosuke shouted. A little vein popped on his head. Why did everyone make fun of his hair? It wasn't his fault that it stuck up like that.

Megumi just laughed a little. "We should set up camp here." She stated.

"Well duh." Sanosuke retorted, rolling his eyes. She really did think that he was an idiot, didn't she?

Megumi didn't reply, but rather wandered out into the woods. Brain cells started to die in mass if you spent to much time with the rooster head.

But he did have the most gorgeous brown eyes.

Megumi stopped in her tracks. Where the hell did that come from.

A little voice in her head snickered at her, but didn't reply.

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" found some food!" Hollered Megumi, as she carried back an armful of apples. (AN There are a lot of apple trees. Kay?) She had considered making him fend for himself, but decided against it. She didn't want to spend a week with him whining about how hungry he was. It was a kind of peace offering.

He looked suspiciously at the food.

From past experiences he had learned that it wasn't really good to accept food from devious foxes.

But he was hungry. And they were just apples.

What could she do to apples anyways?

'Okay. don't answer that.' He thought as he took a bite out of the apple she had handed to him. They both ate in silence.

He was aware that a little squirrel was watching him, about a foot to his right. It's brown fur was sticking out in all directions. It looked hungrily at the apples at Sanosuke's feet.

Sanosuke rolled one to it, but Megumi caught it before it could reach the squirrel.

"Don't feed the wildlife." She said to a scowling Sanosuke. He felt bad for the squirrel. It kinda reminded him of himself.

The squirrel gave Megumi a dangerous look, and then vanished. Sanosuke couldn't help but feel that his obnoxious partner had just made a dangerous enemy.

AN: Well, how did ya like it? Beware the squirrels. A foreshadow of things to come, perhaps? (Wink.)

I leave you to your moosey fate.

Buhahaha.

A little hyper today. Can ya tell?