:Runs around room screaming: I'M SO SORRY! It's been freakin'm forever! Since DECEMBER! Pitiful! Well, if you want me to present an excuse, I blame school. It's so blasted tiringand fast-pased that I'm either too pooped out, orI don't have acess to a computer with internet. Anyhoo, I'M SORRY and onwith thesuper later chapter!

Catch-up

"Now, now. Ladies shouldn't fight." Came the taunting voice of Sanosuke from the doorway. He ended up having another controller chucked at him, this time an Xbox one. "Stop throwing things at me Sojiro!" Sano said angrily.

"No, that time it was me." Kenshin grinned innocently, knowing Sano couldn't resist (being a slight pervert). Okay, so that's one advantage to being female.

"I'll let that one slide for now." Sanosuke said and Kenshin suppressed a chuckle at how darn predictable he was. Sanosuke had set a large kettle of hot water and several teabags on the table, drawing Aoshi over. He had also brought three two liters of pop up, saying each person got one. (This doesn't bode well ;;) Sojiro snagged the Mountain Dew, Sanosuke kept the Dr. Pepper, and Kenshin claimed his Pepsi. Sanosuke exchanged challenging looks with Sojiro and Kenshin. Getting the message, at the same time, they all started chugging down their two liters. Aoshi calmly ignored them, sipping his tea and remaining blissfully unaware of the mass amounts of sugar and caffeine consumption being done. Kenshin slammed his bottle down triumphantly just ahead of Sano, and Sojiro smashed his on the table, claiming third.

"Victory is mine! Ha ha!" Kenshin cried loudly, jumping up and down while Sano burped with enough force to shatter the Grand Canyon.

"Sorry about that guys…girls." He added to himself. Luckily no one heard him, or just chose to ignore it.

"Who's up for some 'Mario Kart'!" Sojiro smiled wildly, sugar kicking into high gear, and obliterating his previous grumpy mood. Receiving approving nods from the other three, (Aoshi saw this as the perfect distraction) they got lost in the colorful racing world of Mario.

An hour and a half later—

"Hah! Take that rooster head!" Sojiro cried as his character fired a missile at Sano's person.

"So? I'm still winning!" Sanosuke shouted back.

"Not for long you're not!" Aoshi stated as his character closed in on Sano's.

"Bah! Eat my dust slowpokes! Haha!" Kenshin said on cue as his person whipped past everyone from a boost.

"Ah-ah-ah! Don't start celebrating just yet Himura!" Sojiro teased when his character crossed the finish line first.

"Where did you come from? You were way behind!" Sano asked rather loudly.

"How else? There's a shortcut that cuts the course in half just past the ramp." Sojiro stated simply.

"Dangit." Sano said unhappily, kicking the tale as he did so, causing Aoshi's tea water to spill on Sojiro.

"Yowch! That's hot you idiot! Watch where you're kick…ing." Sojiro's anger died in his throat as he realized that something was different. He patted his chest just to be sure he wasn't imagining it. "Oh my gosh! I'm cured! I'm back to normal!" he fan faired, jumping up and down. Kenshin and Aoshi exchanged looks.

"How?" Sano asked.

"The hot water!" Kenshin declared.

"Of course! It's the only possible answer!" Aoshi agreed. With that, the two rushed off to the bathroom to get more hot water. A few minutes later, they returned with triumphant grins.

"It works! It works!" Kenshin shouted enthusiastically. The fact that Aoshi was grinning ear to ear was plenty to convey his happiness.

"Yay!" Sojiro cheered. "Now, let's hope that was a one time freaky thing."

"No kidding." Kenshin agreed. "Imagine if it wasn't." The three shuddered.

"Yeah. That would be a bummer." Sano smirked, completely giving away his true thoughts.

"Pervert." Aoshi muttered with Kenshin and Sojiro nodding in agreement.

"Am not!" he shouted defiantly.

"Fine. Womanizer." Sojiro fired back.

"Hey!" Sano lunged at the teasing group of three. They scattered, and wound up running to the dojo.

"Well, isn't this convenient? I was just thinking that dueling might be fun." Kenshin commented. Sano harrumphed loudly, clearly remembering what Sojiro had said earlier.

"Aww, c'mon! Don't be so sore!" Sojiro said in a slightly whinny voice with a mischievous grin on his face.

"How about a no-holes-barred-free-for-all?" Kenshin suggested, looking from Sano, who grinned, to Sojiro, who looked thoughtful.

"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Sanosuke said happily, making fists. He charged at Sojiro first, who sidestepped his brother and lunged to the wall where the bokkens were located. Kenshin and Aoshi did like wise, and Sano got up, looking at the three swordsmen around him, all holding a bokken. "Oh I see." He smirked, and, as if to declare he wasn't playing around, took off his shirt and tossed it aside. This time, Aoshi lunged for Sano, and the bird head managed to dodge his attack. Kenshin and Sojiro glanced at each other.

"Well, shall we?" Kenshin asked. Sojiro nodded back, smiling. So they began their own duel while Sano and Aoshi continued theirs. Everyone was more goofing off than seriously fighting.

After a few minutes of this, Sano got bored and decided to change the pace a bit. After dodging an attack from Aoshi, Sano swung a right at his younger brother nearby. Sojiro, caught off guard, messily dodged the fist, dropping his bokken, and backed against the wall.

"No fair Sano!" Sojiro cried, glaring slightly at his brother, who just grinned.

"No rules, right?"

"Right." Kenshin smirked. Sano grinned back, and threw a punch at Kenshin, which he easily dodged. Sano had to nearly bend himself in half to evade Kenshin's thrust to his chest, and then rolled to the side as his friend brought the sword down to where he had been a second ago. Sano lunged at Kenshin, who back peddled, causing bird head to miss, flying into the wall.

And, by some stroke of really dumb luck, Kenshin stepped on Sano's tossed-aside shirt and, on the highly polished dojo floor, slipped…

…causing him to fall backward…

…into a badly-placed pond just outside the open door.

Sputtering, Kenshin surfaced; and as soon as he did, he noticed the shift in his balance again. He glanced down, already knowing, and dreading, what he'd see. Yup. Sure enough, he had a bust-line again.

"Kenshin…?" came Sojiro's voice. No doubt they were wondering why he wasn't moving.

"Crud." He muttered in his new high, girly voice. "I'm regretful to say that it's not a one-time deal here." Sojiro and Aoshi's eyes widened, noticing the change in pitch and fearing the worst.

"Really?" Sano asked, sounding both surprised and…happy! 'That pervert…'

"Yeah. Thanks for your understanding." Kenshin mumbled sarcastically, glaring at Sano as e pulled himself out of the pond.

"C'mon. Now you're the one being sore!" Sano defended, red appearing on his cheeks as Kenshin walked back into the dojo, dripping water but not caring. "Don't be so grumpy. You gotta admit you've got a real cute figure when you're like that." Kenshin shot him a death glare that said 'shut it or you'll find your teeth in the back of your throat' as Sano's eyes moved up and down his now-female body. Quickly, Kenshin sped walk down the hall and into the nearest bathroom and, hoping like crazy that it still worked, drenched himself again in hot water.

Thankfully, just like before, he felt his body return to normal. He walked back outto meetthe curiouse stares of his friends.

"Well, once again, hot water saves the day." Kenshin declared, and ...did Sano's face just fall!

"So, it seems that as long as we avoid cold water, we'll be fine." Sojiro concluded,causing everyone to nod in agreement.

"Cold water, huh?" Sano smirked, lookihng very mischiviouse, and recieving death glares from the other three. "Whaat? I'mnot ploting anything against you. Really." A seriese of 'yeah right's and 'sure, we beleive you's circled around in response to that. "HEY!"

Well, I was gonna stop here, but not only have I been told to do longer chapters, but also it's been too long and I feel guilty. However, I don't think that that part was too good ;;

After that, the three guys had managed to avoid Sano, and live with their new issue. Now, they've all gone to Kenshin's house to hang out for the night and, being summer, his parents are convinetly out on a weekend get-away trip! So, they're wasting away playing games infront of the TV! ; And, let'spick up on theREAL story, insted of this lazy catcher-upper! ;;

Kenshin heard a knocking on the front door. Curiously, he walked down the stairs to the door, wondering who would be crazy enough to be out in the mid-day heat. Kenshin, Aoshi and Sojiro, when the door revealed Kaoru and Misao holding squirt guns, feared the worst. Sano smirked.

"Hey Kenshin!" Kaoru smiled.

"Hey Kaoru, what's up?" Kenshin asked, even though the answer seemed obvious.

"Ya wanna have a squirt gun fight?" Misao asked enthusiastically. "We saw that Sojiro, Sano and Aoshi are here too, and figured it was a good day for one!"

"In this heat?" Sano asked incredulously.

"It's not as hot when you get wet." Kaoru pointed out. 'Except that's what we're trying to avoid' Kenshin thought

"Um, maybe later Kaoru." Sojiro answered.

"Yeah, we're in the middle of a game right now, and-" Aoshi's excuse was cut off by Kaoru.

"Aw, it'll still be there when you get back. Please?" and, as if on cue, the two girls put on their best 'puppy dog' eyes. Kenshin was just about to answer when Sano beat him to it.

"Of course Jou-chan. Be glad to!" he grinned. 'Note to self,' Sojiro thought. 'Remember to kill Sanosuke.'

"Yay!" They cheered. "Well, be outside in five minutes, okay!" Misao said happily as she and Kaoru ran off nearby. Kenshin closed the door and he, Aoshi and Sojiro shot deadly glares at Sano.

"What's up with that?" Kenshin asked angrily.

"C'mon! It'll be fun! Besides, you guys shouldn't get touched. You're fast enough." Sano reasoned.

"Yes, but," Aoshi's voice was lethal. "We all know the real reason for this right?"

"Pervert." Sojiro added.

"What ever. Let's just go out and have fun. " Sano walked away, heading to the garage. The remaining three looked at each other.

"Okay. We're in this together. If any one of us is discovered, we're all discovered." Kenshin said seriously.

"Yeah. So don't get shot." Sojiro said.

"Easier said than done." Aoshi murmured. They walked into the garage, meeting Sano who stood there with a large squirt gun.

"Hurry up guys! The girls are waiting." Sano teased. After shooting a glare at rooster head, they each picked up a squirt gun. Following their own standard rules, they filled up a five-gallon bucket with water for easy refilling. Across the street, Kaoru and Misao had set up their base as well, and were now walking over to them.

"How should we split up the teams?" Kaoru asked. The four guys exchanged glances. There was no way Sano would go on their team, and it wasn't exactly in their favor to be on either team.

"Kenshin, why don't you go on their team?" Sojiro asked, forcing a grin.

"Oro?" Kenshin looked questioningly at Sojiro.

"C'mon Kenshin! It'll be fun!" Kaoru said eagerly, pulling his arm gently. When Kenshin still looked hesitant, Sojiro whispered so that only he could hear.

"Kick Sano's butt." Sojiro smirked and Kenshin gave a short nod back.

"Alright." Kenshin said to Kaoru. With a war whoop from Misao, the three ran across the street.

Kaoru and Misao were sisters, and had lived next to Kenshin for ten years, so they knew each other pretty well. However, Kenshin was determined that they wouldn't learn his new secret.

"Okay, so what's the plan of attack?" Misao said in a confidential manner.

"Well, I want to focus my attack on Sanosuke." Kenshin said, glaring at him across the street.

"Why? What did he do?" Kaoru asked.

"He's just been a real butthead lately, and I wanna pay him back." Kenshin said guardedly.

"Ah. That makes sense. I guess we'll focus on Sojiro and Aoshi-sama then." Misao said.

"READY?" Kaoru shouted to the other team.

"READY!" Came Sojiro's enthusiastic shout

"Lets go." Kenshin smirked. Both sides charged at each other, screaming various versions of 'I'm gonna kick your butt!'. Misao open fired on Sojiro, who immediately leapt to the side and firing at the same time. Had she not been a ninja, Misao would have been soaked. But she too dodged off to the side.

Kaoru took Aoshi on, knowing that Misao could never go against him and Kenshin was going for Sano. And, Kaoru noticed, that iceman seemed unusually jumpy today. Usually he'd move just enough to avoid the water, but now he was evading the spray as if he didn't want to be in the same zip code with it. But, she set that aside for now, and decided to just concentrate on the battle.

And it had seemed as if Sano had planned to go after Kenshin in the first place, so they had no problem separating from the others. Sanosuke was smirking and taunting the whole time, while Kenshin just glared silently at him, dodging his friends shots.

Periodically, a pair would break up and refill quickly, then return to battle. And this is pretty much the pattern that continued for about fifteen minutes, until Fate decided to twist things around a bit.

Sojiro and Misao were so focused on their fight that they were oblivious to the other two duels. So, when a missed shot from Sano came in Sojiro's direction, he didn't notice it until it had hit him. When he cried out in surprise and crouched on the ground, Kenshin and Aoshi both looked in his direction.

"Ohhhhh…shoot…" Kenshin said quietly, paling a bit. Aoshi shot a nervous glance at Kenshin who returned his expression. Kaoru and Misao looked at each other questioningly, not understanding why everyone stopped just because Sojiro got hit.

"Uh, why'd everybody stop…?" Misao asked, attempting to break the strained atmosphere.

"Cuz…um…I-it's a long story." Kenshin fumbled.

"Actually, it's just complicated." Sano corrected.

"And very uncomfortable." Added Aoshi.

"What happened?" Kaoru asked.

"Well…I guess you have to know." Kenshin said reluctantly. "Just go sit on the lawn and we'll all explain." Kenshin emphasized. As Kaoru and Misao walked over to the grass, Aoshi walked over to Sojiro, who had his knees pulled close to hide his figure.

"On your feet now. C'mon." Aoshi said quietly. Slowly, Sojiro stood up and followed everyone to the lawn. When Kaoru and Misao saw Sojiro, their eyes widened in astonishment.

"S-Sojiro!" Kaoru asked in amazement.

"How-" Misao started but Sano cut her off.

"We're gonna explain that."

So, for the next ten minutes, the four guys gave the two girls a nut shell version of what happened. When it came to the part about them coming out of the spring, Sano had to be hit several times for perverted remarks. But, other than that, they just told it like a story…a very embarrassing story. An uncomfortable silence fell once they finished with the girls just sitting there with blank expressions. Sharp in contrast to the guys who looked anxious and fidgety. Suddenly, Kaoru and Misao both started giggling, which then turned in to a hysterical laughing fit.

"See? It's not just me! They think it's funny too." Sano pointed out.

"But it's-" Sojiro began.

"It could have been worse." Aoshi said.

"True." Kenshin agreed as Misao and Kaoru calmed them selves.

"So THAT'S why you guys didn't want to have a squirt gun fight!" Kaoru giggled. Kenshin nodded sheepishly.

"You're lucky Sano." Misao smirked.

"No kidding. I'd hate to have to deal with that!" he chuckled.

"Thank you so much for your kind sympathy." Kenshin muttered sarcastically.

"Aw, it's okay Kenshin." Kaoru said sweetly, offering a small smile.

"Really…?" Kenshin asked cautiously.

"Yep!" Misao said happily. Then she shot a stream of water at Kenshin, hoping to catch him off guard. He saw it coming just barely in time and dodged, flipping away. "Darnit." Misao muttered.

"Hey Kenshin!" Sano called tauntingly as he tried to shoot him too. Kenshin leapt out of the way and onto the rooftop.

"Aoshi! Get up here!" he called down to his icy friend who was also a target. Gladly, Aoshi joined Kenshin up on the roof. "Hah! Can't get us up here!" Kenshin called down to them. He could just make out Sojiro smirk as he jumped up to them.

"I've already been exposed, so now I don't care." Sojiro smiled that never-ending smile of his as he took aim with his squirt gun. Kenshin and Aoshi exchanged panicked looks. Sojiro was the only one who rivaled them in terms of speed and accuracy, so having him chasing them wasn't good.

"Yeah Sojiro! Get 'em wet bro!" shouted Sano from the ground. And so began the roof top chase.

Sojiro went after Aoshi first, using his Tenken skills, while it was all Aoshi could do to stay just ahead of him. Eventually Sojiro got in front of him and soaked Aoshi. Kenshin heard his yelp and immediately started running, knowing Sojiro would be hot on his trail. Sure enough, he heard Sojiro's pounding footsteps right behind him, and so he jumped quickly to the side. As expected, Sojiro kept right with him. Aoshi had apparently found a safe place to hide because they ran all over the roof and didn't see ice man. In a desperate effort to get rid of Sojiro, Kenshin jumped off the edge of the roof, landing at the end of the long driveway. No sooner had he touched down then he felt himself get nailed by a super soaker. Kenshin looked up to see Sano's triumphant smirk, and everyone else looking at him.

"Sano, I am so going to kill you." Kenshin growled.

Okay, I did it again. Another really stupid cut-off. My insparation just...stopped. But, it should come back soon because SPRING BREAK IS IN TWO DAYS! Yay! So, I'll try and get another chappie up real soon again! Please review too! x