Disclaimer: I...don't...own... anything... alright? Except for a rather twisted imagination, I guess.

AN: My last... chapter in reserve. For a few more chapters, its going to be mostly humor until I get my plot fully worked out. Kay? It's going to be a serious fic, but it will be pretty funny (I hope)

On a random note, anyone ever read the manga Peach girl? My dad brought me back the first one from Japan. I read ahead in the bookstore, and she ended up with the guy I wanted her to. YAY!

Chapter Five

(Shana's POV)

I turn towards Keiko very slowly in the dark.

"You are a sick, sick puppy, you know that Keiko?" I chuckle.

"Wha?" She groans, half asleep.

"Do you realize that this is the fifteenth time tonight that you've thought about Yusuke undressing? Geez, you're thinking like a guy." I laugh. I can almost see her blush glow through the darkness in the room.

"I don't want to talk about it." Keiko says into her pillow. I look over at her. Is she... drooling? Oh my God... this girl has got it bad. (AN. One person reading this will get it fully. Heheheheheh...) "I don't think about him like that, alright?"

"Look, Keiko, saying that to anyone else may work, but saying that to someone who actually knows what you are thinking doesn't work all too well. Even without my powers, I would've figured it out by now."

"... is it that obvious?" Keiko asks nervously.

"What do you think?" I answer. Keiko huffs out a sigh.

"I don't want to tell him. I mean he's my best friend, and I don't really know what he feels for me. And he's the sort of jerk that would use it against me. Unless... you had any idea?" She asks me hopefully.

"I don't... like to tell people what others are thinking. I feel like I'm invading people's thoughts enough when I listen in on them, but telling others just makes it much too complicated. For example, I'm sure that you wouldn't want Yusuke to know what you were just thinking." I can feel Keiko get a little nervous after my last statement, and I can't help but agree with her. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have Kurama know what I thought about him.

Wait... why did I just think about Kurama there?

Keiko has flipped on the light in the room, having decided that we're probably not going to be going to sleep for a little while. I watch her break out into a feminine and decidedly evil grin as she sees that I'm blushing.

"Oh... Shana! Who are you thinking about."

"No one." I mumble. Drop it, drop it, drop it, drop it....

"We've been talking so much about my love life that I completely forgot about yours!" She is grinning like a fox. This girl is really nosy.

"It's non-existant."

"Are you trying to tell me that a girl that looks like you doesn't have a boyfriend?" She asks. Despite the obvious compliment that she had just paid me, my heart sinks a little bit. It's really not good for people to be noticing me like this.

"Look... Keiko. You know about my powers, right?"

"Mmm-hmm." She responds.

"Even the negative parts?"

"Yeah. You have to fufil people's desires and stuff, right?"

"Yeah, I do. Now think about it: what do teenage guys want all the time?"

"Food?"

"No, Keiko." I say, rolling my eyes. She is sort of right though. "Teenage guys think almost all the time about girls and going... places with them."

Keiko blinks once, then it hits her. "Oh my God! That's horrible! So you can't even be around guys one on one without the fear of being raped. And it's not really even rape because they didn't really force you."

"Exactly." I sigh. Luckily, I didn't have to learn this lesson the hard way. I figured it out in fifth grade when a boy made me kiss him. Not really through physical force, but just through wanting it so bad. As I grew up I learned that some boy's wishes were not as innocent as that ones. Again, boys think about sex almost every fifteen seconds. Not all of them, mind you. There are some exceptions to this rule. But the majority do.

"That's so bad."

"Uh-huh."

"I guess you just have to figure out the right guy before anything happens, huh?"

"Even the right guy can make mistakes."

"That's true. But the guys said they were going to try and do something to help you tame your powers. And I bet there's something that Genkai could do to help you. She knows a lot about this kind of stuff."

"That... would be nice." I whisper very softly.

"Mmm... good night, Shana." Keiko sighs, turning off the light again.

"Good night."

I roll over on my back and think about what Keiko has just said. I know it's unlikely, but what if... somehow... these people could help me get control of my powers? To not have to worry every time I pass someone with bad intentions...

That is the type of thing that I only dream about.

My eyes feel like they are weighted shut. Slowly, after a little bit of struggle, I drift into a thoughtful sleep. Usually my sleep is immaculate and only consists of a feeling like I have just blinked and now it is morning. I didn't know that I would be dreaming that night. Well, not dreaming, per say...

AN: Well, there was a lot of my personal experience put into this chapter... I'm really planning some humor around an experience that I had at camp. Heh. D-rock. You have to read to see! Thank you to everyone who has been reviewing!