Ugh, too tired to go over it.~_~;

Hey everyone!^_^ As you will soon find, this story starts out pretty rushed, and evens out later on. Also, the romance is always the first thing to come into effect for me. I am SUCH a romantic! *swoons* they're all so cute!^_^

Made a few changes to chapter 1, sorry. I had originally intended Sango and Kagome to be in the same grade and decided to change that a little later on, but it was never changed in the first chapter.^_^; If you guys can find it anywhere else, it'd be much appreciated. Sorry again.^_^;

Finally, a shout-out to TalonKarrde and whisperingmoon. Thanks so much for all the reviews you guys!^_^ Luvs ya!^_^

TalonKarrde- You've done it again!^_^ Heh, how is it that you usually find a way to inspire an idea in me without trying?^_^ With that arrow comment, man, I would've never thought of having Kaede fire arrows at students.^_^;;; It's a weird idea on my part, but it'd be an amusing class at least right?^_^; And thanks for the shard thing.^_^ It took me forever to think of a way to include them.^_^; Oh, another idea!^_^ yay!

Whisperingmoon- I figured that Inu's stubborn, haughty attitude could create a bit more tension and show more change if he were the tutor, instead of if it were the other way around.^_~ Besides, she hates math.^_^ Oh, and sorry. Kouga's here, but he'll be the catalyst later on. Though I don't make him a bad person, he chooses to do something at a very inopportune time. So whereas he isn't the bad guy, he'll look it for a couple chapters later.~_~;

Goku's Daughter- No problem.^_^ And yeah, Inu is sexy isn't he?^-^

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters in it. If I did I'd be rich, but I'm not... and if I had lots of money I'd probably spend it on anime anyway so pleeaasseee, don't sue me.^_^ lol

Oh, and as always,

_= thoughts *_* = sound/ italicized "_" = speech

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Recap:

Eventually things died down and they continued to eat, as they always did. This was a usual cycle for them. Hey, they had to get it out of their systems before their next class right? Normally they wouldn't have cared, but Inu Yasha had Geometry next, and that Kaede Miko wasn't your ordinary math teacher.

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Do the Math

Chapter 4: An Apple a Day... Doesn't Work on Vets.

"Child, child?" Inu Yasha snickered from the doorframe he had been leaning against for the past five minutes, watching as Mrs. Miko poked Kagome for about the hundredth time. She had fallen asleep in geometry... again. No wonder she had such a low grade. "Miss Higurashi!" The room quieted, even the noise from the outside hall seemed to dim as Mrs. Miko scurried slowly towards her desk. There was the sound of release from a taut string, and an arrow pierced through the air, landing only half a centimeter from Kagome's head. The girl stirred, her chocolate-brown eyes opening sleepily. Reluctantly she sat up, upset that she couldn't find her blanket. It must've fallen off of the bed. As the thought formed, she reached over and, coming up with nothing, reached even further until she fell out of the desk, coming to a rather rude awakening on the cold classroom floor. She hadn't even been awake enough to scream.

Mrs. Miko sighed and smiled. "Miss Higurashi, your homework, should ye choose to accept it, is to make a perfect ying yang and decorate it. The instructions are on page eighty-nine in the textbook. Ye also have a test tomorrow, and it'd be best if ye studied the last chapter or two. You'll have plenty of time in detention after school today, so I suggest that ye bring a book."

"Detention?"

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"Kagome, I'd love to but..."

"Pleeeaasseee Sango?" If the floor hadn't woken Kagome up, the thought of detention sure had. Of course, having Inu Yasha snickering in the background while she was being given a lecture, and the fact that she was already about to die from embarrassment, hadn't exactly helped either. Kagome was just happy to get out of that classroom and to her next without ridicule. Sure, it would come soon enough, but thankfully, Mrs. Miko and Inu Yasha were the only ones to have seen. Unfortunately, she still had one more problem to deal with.

"I don't know." Walking through the locker room doors, Kagome's face fell into a puppy dog pout.

"PLEEAASSEEE????" Prepare, prepare for full puppymode! The gigantic, deep chocolate eyes, the big, pouty, pink, quivering lip, what friend could refuse?

Sango sighed; "All right, but you owe me."

"Yay! Thanks so much! I'll make up for it, promise!" As Kagome did a mental happy dance around the room, Sango had finished getting changed, and was already heading out into the gym. Following suit, Kagome trailed behind her best friend, ecstatic that she had finally agreed. It felt as if the world had been lifted from her shoulders.

"Why is it that big of a deal anyway? Can't you just ask your mother if you can take Buyo to the vet another time?" Kagome stopped, and tried to recall all of the times Buyo probably should've been taken to the vet, but never had been since his last visit. There was her grandfather's family sickness remedy that had shattered on the ground; Buyo had probably tasted some of that. Kagome cringed at the idea, drawing some attention from Sango. Then there was that mermaid scale, and just yesterday he ate an entire apple whole. Actually, she hadn't thought a cat could do that. No wonder he was so fat; Souta should really learn not to feed him people food... or scales... or anything really. Either she or her mother would take care of feeding him. Kagome didn't think that the cat could live much longer this way.

"Kagome?"

"Hm?" She looked up and giggled at Sango's confused expression. "No, it'd probably be better if he go today." And with that, the girls were bombarded with every size, color, and texture of dodgeball known to man.

"You're out!"

"No fair!"

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"I can't believe I'm doing this!" Okay, so Sango had agreed to take Buyo, but Kagome was SO going to pay for this! She pulled another Band-Aid out of the box and applied it to her arm. "Stupid Buyo. No wonder Kagome didn't want to do this."

Getting to Kagome's house was fine; it wasn't as if she didn't know the way. Mrs. Higurashi was always nice to her and treated her as a second daughter. Even Mr. Khioto, upon arriving home from work, bid her good afternoon. Everything seemed fine, well, until she spotted the large blob wandering around the kitchen. Stupid animals and their sixth senses! You would think that he'd be afraid of Kagome taking him, not Sango, but nooo. She never knew the ball of lard could run so fast. She'd have to talk to Kohaku about feeding Buyo while they were over. Sango knew that she should've said something sooner, but it was getting ridiculous.

After getting Buyo into a cat carrier, the only problem was getting him into the waiting room at the vet's office. Every time the vet's door opened to admit or release and animal, Buyo went ballistic in his box, scaring all of the other animals, and making a mess out of everything. Sango had had enough dirty stares in that fifteen minutes to last her a lifetime. And then, out of all the stupid things she could've done, she decided that maybe all he needed was a little comfort and patting. He was a cat after all. How wrong could a person be? He wasn't a cat; he was evil. She tried to pet him, but nooo... he insisted on slicing her up like tomatoes for a salad. She was certainly the right color for it now.

Sighing, Sango deposited a magazine onto the table to her right. She picked up another and began leafing through the pages, looking for nothing in particular, just something else to be thinking about. Kagome was so dead.

"Evil cat..."

"You don't say?" Sango turned and jumped what must've been at least five feet in the air, hand over her heart.

"H... H... Houshi?!" she stuttered. The shock had relieved her of the ability to think clearly, causing a malfunction somewhere, and her lips refused to move past gaping for breath. How ironic, she looked like a fish in the vet's office. Maybe they'd give her a check up. Coming out of her stupor, Sango realized that, though no longer surprised, her heart was steadily quickening. What was with her? She was like this every time he came around. If she couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, maybe the vet could. A hand massaging her rear shook that thought.

Or maybe they'll dissect him.

"Hentai!!!" *SMACK!* (The demon huntress strikes again!)

"Eh?" He blinked. Miroku, meet dog butt, dog butt, Miroku. *YELP!* The dog took off, racing around the office and scaring the birds. The birds, in turn, shook their cage until it fell off of the owner's lap, where upon the door broke open and the birds went scattering everywhere, attracting the cats who, when running into each other, set about a vicious whirling ball of claws, scaring the dogs even further. All the while Miroku ran around, trying to put right everything that went wrong, and only caused more havoc throughout the room until he finally tripped, his face landing squarely between two, squishy round things.

The receptionist stood, eyes blazing with fury, and fists clenched. She pointed at the door and yelled, "You two, OUT!!!" That was one mad receptionist.

Sango loomed over him. "HOOUUSHII!!!"

"Ah, Sango, do not worry." Miroku rubbed the back of his head nervously. "We can sit in my car."

This was just not her day.

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"So, you're here with your father's pet raccoon?" Miroku smiled and nodded happily. He was sitting on the driver's side, laying down in his seat with his hands behind his head comfortably. In the back seat, Buyo and the raccoon were sniffing each other, each trying to get accustomed to the other.

"Yes, and you fair Sango?"

"Kagome's cat." Miroku nodded understandingly, as if that one phrase held all of the knowledge in the world.

"Why isn't Kagome-sama here as well?"

"She got detention for falling asleep in class again, and asked me to do it for her." Sango looked out her window. She could see a few people enter and leave the building, but mostly leave. In truth, most left after the little escapade earlier, but a few remained. In all honesty, she didn't want to be with those few, so she had opted for staying out here until they had all gone. An awkward silence filled the car, and the animals took to laying in the back seat.

You know, this isn't that bad, Sango thought to herself. She snuck a peek at Miroku, watching his chest rise and fall as he breathed, and smiling slightly at that quirky grin he always carried. Why was he so happy all of the time anyway? Maybe it was just a lecher's grin, but she had to admit, it was still cute; he had been a perfect gentleman this whole time, well, except for the grope in the office, and she realized that he could actually be quite charming when he wished to be. Miroku shifted slightly and Sango turned, just before he noticed her, The car is a lot more comfortable than the chairs anyway, and it smells better too.

From his laid back position, Miroku smirked, My my, I wonder if she thinks I hadn't noticed her looking? His grin grew a little wider, and he shifted again to lay on his back, eyes closed so far that, though they seemed to be fully shut, he could still see the ceiling overhead. A few more moments passed by, and the two sat there in silence, both wondering what to talk about.

"Those scratches look like they hurt." Sango turned and, following Miroku's gaze, looked down at the Band-Aid she had been unconsciously fiddling with.

"Um yeah, they did." Both turned back towards their respective windows. "So... do you think it's safe to go back in there?" Miroku simply shrugged.

"It's worth a try."

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"Okay Miss Hiraikotsu, all done. Will you give these to Miss Higurashi for me? Buyo will need to take two of these pills a day with water. I'm also prescribing a diet. Nothing was wrong with him, but it may become an issue later. Feeding him regular food might help as well. I could smell the frenchfries." Sango blushed and nodded, walking with the vet as he led her from his room. "Oh, and next time, we could do without the ruckus." He gave her a slight wink, and retreated back into his office.

"And next time, we could do without the groping! Humph!" A nurse stormed passed Sango, Miroku following sheepishly behind.

"Ah, Sango, how did it go?" The demon huntress eyed him warily.

"It was fine, but I have to give these," she held up the bottle of pills, "to Kagome, and I have to have a talk with a certain brother of mine." Miroku smirked and gazed at the ground warily.

"Um, Sango," her stomach growled loudly and Miroku's head snapped up as she blushed and looked away.

"Sorry, I..."

"Would you care for some WacDonalds? My treat." Sango looked at him, eyeing him carefully. She wasn't in the mood to be patted or groped, but was it just her, or did he look... nervous?

Houshi silently waited, his heart pounding in his chest. He was so incredibly thankful that her stomach rumbled; he hadn't known what to ask, and that gave him a perfect opportunity to spend time with her. Miroku had had a crush on the raven-haired beauty ever since he was six years old, and had approached her the only way he had ever seen, by touching her. His foster father was a drunkard, not to say that he wasn't a good guy, he was just drunk half of the time. Growing up, Miroku had spent a lot of time in bars with him, giving him an amazing alcohol tolerance, and a hesitation to drink it at the same time. He knew how stupid people could be when they were drunk, and tried to stay away from that as much as physically possible. The only thing about women he knew was how to kiss them and how to grope them; it was all he ever saw, but Sango, she was different. He didn't want to do it because that's what he knew, he loved her; he always had. He just didn't know how to make her love him back. She tended to avoid him because of the reason so many came to him. He didn't understand her, and that was but one reason that he loved her all the more.

A timid voice broke him from his trance; "O... okay." It took Miroku a second to comprehend what she had said, and then it hit him like a ton of bricks. Sparks exploded in his mind as his eyes widened slightly, radiating surprise and true happiness from deep within the depths of the violet pools. His aura actually seemed to lighten as his spirits flew, soaring above anything he had ever known, and all of this for a once in a lifetime casual lunch. What would their first kiss do? A lunch here, a lunch there, and who knows, it could happen. .As quickly as possible, he looped her arm through his, and headed out the door, Buyo's case in her hand and the raccoon's case in his. They got in Miroku's car, both nervous, and yet content at once, and went on their way.

Meanwhile, at a certain shrine nearby...

make a circle measure half of it set protractor to the length in 2. Make a circle in the lower left and upper right hand parts of the first circle, making sure that one side connects to the larger circle for each Trace over the outside and the middle lines, connecting the two smaller circles Measure half of the smaller circles Set your protractor to that length, and, suing that, make a circle around the center of each small circle Decorate

Well, that looked easy enough. Okay, so, she had the paper, the colored pencils, the compass... now wait a minute, where had the compass gone?

."Looking for something?" Souta smirked from her doorway and ran.

"SOUUUTTTAAA!!!!"

(Hey guys!^_^ Should I make an Inu Yasha ying yang?^_^ I could post it here! Yay!)