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OkamiSedai - Welcome back! Did you have a good time? I missed your words of encouragement. *Tackle/hug you back*

Sweet Sad Jess - don't we all, don't we all. Well, don't get a seizure over it or anything, I won't hurt Kagome or Sango that badly. Although as an author I kinda have to. But don't worry, they can handle themselves. And even if they can't, there's always Inuyasha and Miroku.

Toku-chan - *sweat drop* I was afraid of your punishments if I "disappointed" you. I wouldn't make Kagome grovel, never. She's my favorite anime female character, ever.

Wakadori Ramen - Last time I tried, I could only do 5 pushups at once. Yeah, don't we all feel sorry for Miroku. Well, it can't be helped, you guys requested humor, and so I did my best to deliver. Hey, I'm Chinese, and I live in NY, maybe I'll see your chicken noodle soup one day and tell him what you said. *nudge nudge*

Zonza - Remember how I said that there wasn't going to be a bad guy in this fic? Well, I changed my mind, if anything, that teacher's gonna get a trashing (kinda like your computer).

Kagome Loves Inuyasha - I tried my best, but it wasn't as nearly as funny as some of the other great fics I've read.

Carr - Yeah, read what I said to Zonza, two names above yours.

Lady Hawke2 - thanks. *sigh* But I do have a lot of grammar mistakes. I'm a FOB... I want to sob... (This is scary; I'm getting good at this rhyming thing)

Sayori - I'll let the end of this chapter speak for itself. You'll see later. I can't say too much about it as of now since I really don't know what I'm gonna do with them yet. I have a skeptical idea, but I'm still debating.

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Kenkaya - I've read If Wishes. Hehe, seems like I've read every fic you name. You have no AC in your room? Tsk, tsk. Well, there was a huge blackout in my area earlier, and we were without ac for 24 hours, so I know the feeling. Haha, Sano hugged Kenshin. I felt sorry for Sano, how his best friend couldn't remember him. And Kenshin's illness was enough to make me wanna trash the disc. I agree with the kissing thing, I even mentioned that in my first fic (not on this site). As for Baywatch... well, let's just be glad that it's an American show. I don't want to hurt Miroku too badly. What's "Grave of the Fireflies"? As for your ego? HAHA, I wish your head blows up and pop 'cause this chapter is dedicated to you! And no, I really don't want to see you spilling your brains.

Ses - o no, I don't have a problem at all. In fact, I think it's cool and rare. Woohoo for you! Oh no, I just drank pepsi, entering hyper mode...

Del_kaidin - I'm gonna do my best. But if my best still can't change the readers' mind about the Mikagi siblings, then... I'LL JUMP OFF A BRIDGE AND KILL MYSELF!!! *clear throat* That was the Pepsi talking. I'll just shrug.

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Silver Mystic - I'll let the end of this chapter speak for itself.

Pimmy-chan - HAHA, TOO LATE, I JUST DRANK PEPSI AND NOW I'M INSANE. INSANE!!!!!!!

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Sana ChiChi- Is that a flame? Would that count as my first flame? I don't know the exact definition of a flame. So were you flaming me? ... Yes, I'm weird. But I didn't want to make them act out of character. Just think about it, Miroku saw Sango in the brief-like uniform, there is no possible way that he can control his hand. More fluff will come, and serious ones. This fic ain't going anywhere soon.

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Majel - with all those PLEASEs, how can I not update?

Now for Bodyguards:

Chapter 8: Love Letters and Appointments

"I'm so tired!!!" Kagome groaned as she dabbed her paintbrush in red-orange paint. Her left hand moved to rub the biceps on her right arm. "I think I got rope burns as well."

Next to her, Sango set on a stool and was mixing yellow paint with white.

"Aren't you tired, Sango-chan?" Kagome asked. They were trying really hard to ignore all the whispers and points they received from around the art classroom. The girls were telling the boys about Sango and Kagome's feats in gym class. Some guys even went over to congratulate them.

Sango smiled slightly and shook her head. "I'm used to such intense training." She pointed at the beige paint she just made. "Ne, Kagome-chan, does this look like Kirara's skin color?"

Kagome glanced sideways and nodded. "I just knew you'd pick her as your subject."

Sango looked at the outlines of the fire cat youkai she drew in pencil on the paper canvas and smiled. "I was only eight when father gave Kirara to me. You have no idea how surprised I was when she first transformed."

Kagome giggled. "I can imagine." On Kagome's canvas was an outline of Shippo. "Hmm, I think I'll start coloring his tail, it's so fluffy."

Art class was almost over. The assignment the teacher gave was to paint an everyday animal with special features. Kagome immediately thought of the kitsune, and the two-tailed cat definitely made a good subject for Sango. They spent the entire period working on it. The two just chatted and kept to themselves most of the time. But they were getting stares from all around the classroom.

"Class is ending, please put away your drawings and wash your equipments." Their teacher shouted as there were only three minutes left in the class. Kagome and Sango were lucky, they got the sane art teacher who actually lets them draw.

The class followed the teacher's instructions. Soon the ending bell rang and the students filed out of the classroom.

Kagome and Sango walked next to each other down the hallway with the rest of their class. They were still getting stares and looks from just about everyone. But Sango didn't care and Kagome just ignored them.

"We have English this period." Sango said while she looked over her schedule. "And History for our last class."

Kagome nodded. "The four of us would be able to remain together for both classes."

"Speaking of which, where do you think the guys went for lunch?"

Kagome sweat dropped. "Hopefully they were smart and just stayed on the school grounds and enjoyed the bentoo mama packed for them."

"But they have the same lunch schedule as you-know-who, I think YOUR Inuyasha might be tempted to pick a fight with that guy." Sango smirked inwardly, she was sure that Kagome heard her stress on the "your". And her guess was confirmed with a deep flush on Kagome's cheeks.

"Well..." Kagome stuttered, "Then I hope YOUR Miroku had the sense to stop him."

And so, two very red and pretty girls entered their homeroom to see two bodies buried under two piled of paper. They had to be Miroku and Inuyasha since they were sitting in their desks. Students around the classroom were looking at them with amusement. Suddenly, a silvered hair boy popped out of one of the piles and gasped for air.

"Oh (pant) hey Kagome, Sango, (inhale)" Inuyasha's face was distorted, but he still looked handsome, "what took you guys so long?"

Kagome and Sango took their seats. Miroku was still buried under the pile of paper. Sango reached over and pulled the monk out by his ponytail. Miroku shot up like an arrow and clenched his head.

"Ah, my dear Sango, don't pull so hard, I don't want to become bald just yet." Miroku pulled himself out of a grinning Sango's wrath.

"What are these papers doing here on your desks?" Kagome asked nonchalantly as she picked up and random piece and read it out loud. She hasn't noticed the blush on Inuyasha's face. "'Dear Taisho-kun, I was mesmerized the minute I looked into your golden eyes (by the way, you must tell me where you got those contacts from). I heard you were going out with that Higurashi girl, but if you ever tire of her, give me a call, 555...'"

Kagome stopped reading. Without even a look at her friends, Kagome reached into the pile and picked up another note. "'Inuyasha-kun, I think you're cute, how about a movie this Friday? - Himiko, class 3-2.'"

Kagome tossed it aside and picked up another one. "'Dear Inuyasha-kun, I really like you. You shouldn't be going out with a first-grader. Meet me next to the school gates after school and I'll show you what a real woman is like. XOXOXO - a secret admirer.'"

And another... "'I don't normally do this, but will you go out with me this weekend? I think I've fallen in love with you and your silvery hair. Please, Taisho-kun, be my boyfriend. - Ayumi, class 1-3...'"

Kagome was about to scream. "Even Ayumi-chan is acting like this!!" The other one hundred or so pieces of paper were just about all the same. Half of them left numbers and asked Inuyasha to go out with them. The other half spent more time trying to convince him to "dump" Kagome and be their boyfriend instead.

Sango was reading some of them as well, and she was laughing so hard that her sides were about to split. Miroku sat on his desk and surveyed his friends with a smug grin.

"Inuyasha, what's the meaning of this?!" Kagome meant to say it casually, but it came out with anger and jealousy.

Inuyasha shrugged with a huge blush on his face. "I dunno, me and Miroku came in here after we ate to wait for you guys. Then a whole bunch of girls just came in and began dumping this stuff on us."

Kagome was still steaming. 'How dare they?!?!?!? Even after Inuyasha publicly announced in class that he was my boyfriend. Okay, so he didn't even know what that meant, but they did!!!' Since Kagome was too busy cursing out all the girls in her school in her head, Inuyasha just went on talking.

"Oi, Kagome, a lot of these notes said that they want me to 'dump' you and be their 'boyfriend'." Inuyasha pointed to a note in his hand. "Since when did so many people want me to be their friend?" Inuyasha looked so innocent and so clueless, but that only pissed Kagome off more.

A wrinkled vein appeared near Kagome's temple. 'I can't tell him, it's too embarrassing, and he'll take it back. I don't want him to take it back!'

Inuyasha blinked at Kagome's silence. Miroku was looking through his own love letters and Sango was still trying to suppress her laughter.

"Hello, Kagome?" Inuyasha waved a hand in front of her face. "Answer my question, wench!"

Another vein appeared on Kagome's head, ready to pop. 'Don't sit him, you can't sit him here...' Kagome counted back from ten in her head. 'Just breathe; you can kill him when you get home.'

Inuyasha was still staring at Kagome, trying to get her to say something. Sango finally stopped laughing. She reached over to Miroku's pile and pulled out a note. And she was about to have a fit as well.

The content in Miroku's notes was more... intense than Inuyasha's. Sango had a feeling that it was due to the fact that Miroku probably flirted with all of them already. And so these girls know that he's not a shy one and decided to be "overly-friendly" as well. She had an urge to smack the monk into a coma.

Suddenly a hand snatched the paper of out Sango's hand, the four friends all turned around. It was a girl, a very angry girl who wasn't in their class.

"How dare you read other people's personal love notes?" The girl asked, she was pissed as hell. "Who do you think you are?!" Her voice was so loud that the entire class was watching them now. Actually, they were watching before. But now the room was silent as well.

Sango blinked several times, her hand remained in the same pose. She didn't regain herself for quite a while. "I... I was just reading... I'm his friend, that's all... Sorry, was that note yours?"

The girl calmed a bit. "No, but you still shouldn't invade other people's privacy." She took a deep breath and let go of the note. She reached into her briefcase and handed a piece of paper to Miroku. She bowed to him and ran out the door.

Needless to say, the class was slightly stunned by the sudden intrusion.

"Umm... wow," Sango turned her head to face Kagome, "Kagome-chan, girls from this age are really open with these kinds of things, aren't they? Who was that girl?""

Kagome giggled. "I think she's in the second grade." She looked over Sango's shoulder to peek at the note that girl shoved into Miroku's hand. "What does it say?"

Miroku opened the folded paper with the same smug grin. He cleared his throat and read it so loud that the entire class was able to hear him. "'Dear Houshi-kun, I heard about your performance in gym class from a friend. And after seeing you in the hallway, I can't help but fall for your purple eyes and ponytail. Please, I know you must hear this a lot, but please, be my boyfriend. - Aoko, class 2-1.'"

Some of the guys in the class applauded for the monk. Some girls giggled, others groaned. But Miroku only smiled at them sweetly and turned to wave the note in front of Inuyasha's face.

"Now I have ninety-nine, I'll only need fifteen more to beat you, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and shook his head. He was still confused about the whole ordeal. The words in the notes made butterflies dance around in his stomach. Words like "hot muscles" and "hypnotic golden eyes" came up a lot.

"I still don't get this." Inuyasha cleaned up his desk. He read only some of the notes, but stopped after he realized that they all had the same meaning. Apparently, all those girls thought he and Miroku were good- looking and wanted to be their friends.

Miroku sighed. "What's not to get?"

"Well, what's a 'date'? And what's so interesting about us being their friends?" Inuyasha crossed his arms and leaned forward, slumping onto the desk. In front of him, Kagome had her back to him so he couldn't see her blush. Next to him, Miroku sighed.

"Not just a friend, Inuyasha, boyfriend!" Miroku's eyes lighted up like a torch.

Inuyasha gave the monk a deadpan look. "Yea, a male friend. I'm not stupid!" Sango coughed at that and decided to face forward as well. The class was going to start soon.

Miroku shook his head in disappointment. "I can't believe you still haven't figured it out. Inuyasha, a boyfriend doesn't mean 'male friend', it's a title that binds two lovers together. It's similar to marriage, or mating in youkai terms, but not as serious or permanent. 'Boyfriend' is only half of the title, the other half is 'girlfriend'. All these girls want us to be their 'boyfriend' and become our 'girlfriend'."

Miroku's face was serious during the whole thing. In front of Inuyasha, Kagome sank into her seat. She didn't stop the monk during his little speech because she wanted Miroku to take care of it for her. 'I can't believe how dead-on he is.' Kagome marveled at Miroku's knowledge. 'And I didn't even have to tell him all those things.'

Inuyasha sat up straight, and his face became distorted once again. He said in a choking manner, "hell no! I don't want to be like that to them!!!" Apparently he had forgotten for the moment what he announced during math. Sango was giggling like a madwoman and kicking Miroku under the desk at the same time. Miroku was reading his love notes again. Kagome sank into her chair more.

Inuyasha looked at the back of Kagome's head, about to complain about the craziness of girls from this era. Then something screamed in the back of his head.

'O CRAP!!!!'

(A/N: I soooooooo wanted to end it here.)

'Oh holy shit!' Inuyasha was now ranting inside his head. 'I said I was... O damn, o crap, o shit, o FUCK!!! "Boyfriend", it meant potential mate, that's what it meant! Damn it! Why didn't anyone tell me?!?!?!? Kagome must be pissed at me, I can't believe I said that without her permission, and in front of her entire class too!!!'

Inuyasha was silent, and that's always not good. Kagome sat frozen in her seat. 'Great, now he knows and he probably regrets that he said it. Stupid Inuyasha, why did he have to be so... so... so stupid!?'

A sound reached Inuyasha's invisible ears. 'Kagome's heartbeat, it's so fast.' Inuyasha had two choices: act like he doesn't remember what he said in math class and let everything go back to normal; or just go along with it. 'Kagome won't forgive me if I just pretend to have forgotten.'

'Why isn't he saying anything?' Kagome shivered as she felt Inuyasha's eyes on her. 'He knows how I feel. But how does he feel?'

"Ano... Taisho-sempai?"

Everyone's head snapped sideways at the new intrusion. It was a blushing girl, probably in the first grade. Like many of the girls before her, she was clutching a folded piece of paper in her hand.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her and said nothing.

The girl lowered her head and handed Inuyasha the paper in her hand. "Please accept this."

Inuyasha didn't move. The class had gone to their usual conversation a while before, but the girl's entrance quieted them down, and all eyes were on Inuyasha once more, include Kagome's.

Inuyasha looked at the paper the girl had in her hand. The poor girl was shaking like crazy.

With a sigh, Inuyasha pushed her hands back and said in the gentlest tone possible: "Keep it. I already have a girlfriend, and I have no intention of dumping her anytime soon."

Inuyasha didn't need to look at Kagome to know that she has stopped breathing. The sound of her thundering heartbeat was a lullaby to his ears. And to his surprise, his own heartbeat was amazingly calm.

The girl in front of him raised her head and stared into his amber eyes. After two seconds, she managed to smile sweetly. "I understand, Taisho- sempai, thank you for your time." Then she left with a last look at Kagome, a look so full of envy and admiration.

Right after the girl left, the teacher walked in and the bell rang for the start of the class. Inuyasha ignored the looks he got from everyone and took out his notebook and acted as though nothing happened.

But despite the teacher's entrance, Kagome couldn't take her eyes off the hanyou. Sango and Miroku decided to leave the two to themselves and started to scribble in their notebooks.

'Damn it, she's still looking!' Inuyasha groaned inwardly as he felt Kagome's intense glaze. Finally, after much consideration, he looked back.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Inuyasha barked a whisper at her. "What? I'm not good enough for you?"

Kagome's eyes widened. Thankfully, the teacher was writing on the board and didn't notice the couple's little talk.

Inuyasha sighed. He leaned forward and whispered into Kagome's ear. "Pay attention, Kag, we're still in class." With that, Inuyasha sat back down and began to copy the notes.

Kagome was now permanently shocked. 'Did he just call me... Kag? Only Souta calls me that sometimes.' Slowly she turned to face the front, but was unable to pay attention the rest of the afternoon.

Little else happened in English and History. But the five-minute break they received between classes was hard to forget.

Their English teacher had just left the room, and the class fell into chatter to wait for their History teacher to enter.

Kagome was in a spell of silence ever since the "incident" earlier in class. Inuyasha was walking back and forth between his desk and the garbage can. Miroku and Sango were still bickering about the love notes he received. Actually, Miroku was showing off and Sango was the one doing the bickering.

When Inuyasha finally succeeded in dumping out all the love notes he received. He sat down in his seat with a sigh and turned sideways to look at Miroku and Sango. But his ears were picking up the slightest sounds of Kagome's breathing and heartbeat.

"You should give them all back, or dump them like Inuyasha." Sango insisted with a full blush.

Miroku chuckled. He flashed one of the longer notes in front of Sango's face. "Getting jealous?"

Sango groaned and crossed her arms. She finally decided to ignore the monk and turned her back on him.

"Kirara-san?" A boy's voice reached their ears and all looked up.

"Oh, Yamato-kun, hi again." Sango greeted her lab partner with a warm smile. Unknown to her, Miroku's face had turned serious behind her.

The tall boy with short hair smiled back. After a moment's hesitation, he leaned forward a little and fidgeted with his sleeves. "I've been meaning to ask you since Art, are you free this weekend? Would you like to catch a movie... or something?"

Sango blinked, Kagome grinned, and Inuyasha smirked inwardly, not at the situation, since he still didn't understand the concept of dates, but he was smirking at the fact that he could no longer hear Miroku breathing.

Sango blushed and began to panic. 'O no, he's asking me out on one of those date things Kagome-chan told me about, isn't he? Okay, breathe...'

Seeing that Sango wasn't responding, Yamato scratched his head uncomfortably. "But if you're too busy or ..."

"Yes, I'm busy," Sango sighed in relief at the provided excuse, "I just arrived from Hokkaido and I need to get settled in first."

Yamato nodded sadly. "O, I see. Um, how about next week then?"

Sango panicked again. She was just about to say that she's busy next week as well when her monk in shiny school uniform came to her "rescue".

"Can you see she doesn't want to go out with you?" Miroku's face was serious and Kagome didn't need Inuyasha's hearing to know that his breathing was uneven.

Sango frowned immediately. Yamato's face fell and his attention darted to the boy behind Sango.

"Actually, Houshi-sama," Sango bit back bitterly, "I do want to go out with him. And Yamato-kun, next week will be perfect."

Yamato's attention was back on Sango. He smiled brightly. "That's great, Kirara-san, I'll contact you when I get movie tickets."

Sango ignored the stunned monk behind her and smiled back. "Okay, and just call me Sango." The boy smiled even happier. He practically hopped back to his friends.

Sango turned sideways to face her shocked friends. Kagome grabbed her friend's hand and was split between whether to shake her or congratulate her. Inuyasha yawned like it wasn't very interesting and focused his attention on a very silent monk. Too silent.

Kagome and Sango had their little girl talk about what to do on a date and how happy Kagome was for Sango. Miroku remained silent, and his smile didn't return for quite a while.

Sango would glance at the monk from the corner of her eyes from time to time, but would always catch herself and turn back to her conversation with Kagome.

Kagome was having a hard time keeping up her smile. She felt happy that Sango was popular with the boys. But she also felt bad for Miroku, who even though he's not showing it, was very sad about Sango's decision.

-_-

"So what did you guys think about your first day in school?" Kagome asked happily as she and her friends went to the cubicles and changed into their regular shoes.

Inuyasha shrugged, a little annoyed that there were still so many people whispering about him as though he couldn't hear them.

Sango was having a ball. She simply ignored Miroku's reaction from earlier and was already making friends, with both guys and girls. "I love it!"

Miroku decided to "drown" his sorrow in a crowd of girls. All the love notes he received were in a plastic garbage bag he got from the janitor. "O yes, it's a wonderful place indeed."

Kagome shook her head with a smile and led her friends out to the school yard.

"Oi, Inuyasha!" Someone yelled from behind and the group stopped in their tracks.

"Wolf, what do you want?" Inuyasha barked not so friendly as Tomoeda sensei/Kouga approached them.

Kouga rolled his eyes. "Why are you in such a nasty attitude again?"

Inuyasha raised a fist at him. "You fucking chickened out! What kind of youkai ARE you?!? You groveled in front of that fat human man. The Kouga we knew would've beaten that guy to a bloody pulp!"

Kouga looked around nervously, glad that no one was within earshot. Then he faced Inuyasha and barked back.

"Well, five hundred years can do a lot to you. I can't go around beating up every human that disrespects me. I have to keep peace or face the consequences! And he was the principal, my boss!"

"What fucking consequences?!"

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT CURSING?!?!?!?" Kouga looked like he was about to reach a limit. He sighed and rubbed his temples. "Okay, look, a lot happened in the past five hundred years, stuff that an idiot like you obviously doesn't know."

Kouga looked around once more and handed Inuyasha a card. "Look, here's my card and it has my address on it. All of you, and that include the kitsune pup, come to my place this Saturday, I have to take you all somewhere."

Kouga turned and walked away with a low wave and an audible sigh.

"What did he mean by that?" Kagome snatched the card from Inuyasha's hand and looked at it. "Hmm, Tomoeda sen... uh, Kouga lives in the suburbs."

"Oh, one more thing," Kouga appeared in front of them again. "Kagome-chan, do you know the basic rules of basketball?"

Kagome blinked. "Not really, but my little brother plays a little."

Kouga nodded and pointed to Miroku and Inuyasha. "Good, then tell your little brother to teach these two."

Kagome nodded in confusion and watched Kouga run back to the school building.

"Keh, stupid... wolf..." Inuyasha mumbled and walked out of the school with his briefcase under his arm. His friends followed loyally.

^_~

Mikagi Akiko took out some water from the small refrigerator. The limo door opened and her brother stepped in.

"Onii-chan, what took you so long?" The engine started as soon as Mikagi Toji was seated.

Toji snatched the bottle from his sister's hand and drank it empty. "Marusato and the guys wanted to teach a first-grader a lesson and they wanted me to supervise it."

Akiko scoffed. "Ne, onii-chan, remember that Higurashi girl?"

"Of course. Did she forget our threat and went near Hobo again?"

"It's Hojo." Akiko crossed her arms. "And I don't care about Hojo-kun anymore. I want that new guy, the one you fought in gym class today."

Toji almost choked on the water he was drinking. "You (cough) mean (cough) that Inuyasha guy? The one with the long white hair?"

Akiko nodded with a smirk. "It turned out that he's Higurashi's boyfriend. Hojo-kun only wanted to date Higurashi, but he never had a chance. Now I know why."

Toji shook his head and sighed. "Girls... So now you want me to threaten her to break up with Inuyasha?"

Akiko nodded once more.

"I dunno, imooto," Toji shook his head, "that Inuyasha looked like he wanted to chop off my head today. He probably knows who I am and wanted revenge for his girl. Besides, as I was walking here, I saw him and his friends talking with Tomoeda sensei. They have the gym teacher on their side. They probably didn't know I could fight and wanted Inuyasha to have a legitimate reason to hurt me. And he can fight. This could be trouble if we force it."

If they weren't in a limo, Akiko would've jumped up already. "But onii- chan..."

Toji smiled confidently and held up a hand. "Calm down. I didn't say I wasn't going to help. Since we can't force this, then I'll have to think of something else. From what I've seen, Inuyasha's the kind of person who doesn't think before he acts. The way he fought showed that he's stubborn and pretty impatient, and very easy to bait."

"And your point is..."

"People like him have a major character flaw: jealousy." Toji stretched his legs. "He'll lose all senses if he's jealous, and that's when he's most vulnerable."

Akiko raised an eyebrow at her brother. Toji laughed at her facial expression. "Don't worry about it, let your onii-chan handle this. Besides, life is getting too boring, this should be fun."

Akiko smiled brightly. "Ne, onii-chan, do you remember what tomorrow is?"

Toji leaned back and laughed. He reached into his briefcase and took out a canvas. "You caught me. There was no fight. I just went back to the art room to get this. I had to leave it there to dry."

Akiko reached over and grabbed the painting eagerly. "O, onii-chan, it looks just like me!"

Toji laughed even more at her reaction. "Of course, I spent a month working on it. Sorry it's so small though, I can't draw big."

Akiko slumped over and hugged him tightly. "Thank you so much, onii-chan!"

Toji patted his sister's head. "Happy early birthday, imooto."

Tears came to her eyes as she hugged her brother. But there was no sadness in them.

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What can I say besides: I'M SO HAPPY THAT I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THIS STUPID CHAPTER!!!

Things are going to get more interesting from now on. Since I'm going kinda slow with this, Sesshomaru won't be appearing for quite a while. It's been 5 chapters and I'm still not done with Monday. I've finally decided that Naraku won't appear, and neither will be Kikyo. Their names will be mentioned but they won't appear in the chapters.

A little preview:

Monday will be done by tomorrow, and the next chapter will most likely end with a cliffie. Tuesday is important, but after that I'll just skip right to their meeting with Kouga on Saturday.

The date as of now is somewhere in the middle of April. There's a pretty long vacation in early May called Golden Week, where a lot of holidays are in the same week, and something will happen during that time.

A little about Japanese school systems: With the exception of P.E., Art, and Lab, they are all spending their classes in their homeroom with their homeroom students. In Japan, students stay in the classroom while teaches run around. The cubicles are where they keep their shoes. In Japanese schools, students wear separate shoes inside and outside the school. Ehh, I think that's all I have to say for now.