Author's Note: No author's note this time.


"Wake up! Wake up!" Inuyasha, now jumping on Melissa's side.

"What, baka?" She replied, using some of the Japanese she had learned.

"Number one, I am not a baka, and number two, you said you were going to make Ai's lunch today. So you better hurry."

"Oh yeah!" She jumped out of the bed and ran for her closet.

"You're supposed to wear these today." Inuyasha said, tugging at a white collared T-shirt.

"A school uniform?" Melissa asked nobody in particular. She then decided to dress in the T-shirt and navy blue skirt.

"You forgot these!" Inuyasha handed her a navy blue tie and loose socks that went up to just below her knees.

"Thanks Inu-kun." She then put the two on, then brushed her hair. Today was straight. "I'll be back in a few." She said before leaving to go downstairs.


Downstairs

"That looks good Melissa." Kuno said, looking over homemade hamburger and French fries.

"It's not all that great. Quite easy to make, really." She replied, packing them into a box and slipped it into Ai's lunch bag. She also put a note in it.

"Good morning!" Ai called, walking into the kitchen/dinning room wearing his navy blue gakuran.

"Gooood morning!" Melissa replied, flashing him a warm smile.

Ai leaned over towards his father. "Why is she wearing my school's uniform for girls?"

"Because she's going to school with you!" The two children looked at their elder with surprise.

"What?!" They yelled at the same time. Then Melissa regained her cheerful personality.

"Here's your lunch." She said, handing him the lunch he had made.

"We're about to leave." Ai told her, it was almost his normal time to be leaving. Maybe she would be in another class. He liked her, but he knew that for a fact that she would most likely cling to him, which would make the other boys think something else was going on.

"I'll go say good-bye to Inuyasha-kun." She ran back upstairs.


On the way to school

"Look at the pretty pencils!" A voice came from Melissa's messenger bag.

"You brought him?" Ai exclaimed.

"Who knows what could happen there." Melissa replied, pulling Inuyasha out of her bag. "Besides, I couldn't leave him all alone."

"Sure you could've."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Inuyasha asked, a mad look coming onto his face as his partner and her friend were walking.

"We're here." Ai sighed as Mel slipped Inuyasha back into her bag.


Inside

"I'll see you later, 'k?" Melissa said, then went into the office to see what class she'd be in.

Ai sighed, then went to his classroom on the second floor.

Before school

"Ai, you got one of those weirdo Americans right?" A boy asked him as he sat down.

"Yeah," He replied, getting out his supplies.

"Good morning class! Today I've got a surprise for you!" Oohira-sensei said as he walked into the door.

"What is it?" Some of the class cried out, all sitting in their desks now.

"We've got a new student!" Ai could feel his stomach drop. "You can come in." And in walked Melissa.

"Wow she's cute!" Some boys called out. "She can eat lunch with us today!" Some girls called.

"Her name is Connors Melissa. She's come all the way from America and is currently boarding with Iiragizawa, right?" She nodded. Then to the class she bowed.

"It's very nice to be here." She told her classmates, in perfect Japanese. (A/N: They'll be speaking in Japanese from here on, but it'll be typed in English.)

"You can take the seat behind Kishi." He pointed to a girl who had raven hair pulled into a ponytail and brown eyes. She was smiling at Melissa. Melissa smiled back as she walked to her seat.


Lunchtime

Ai opened his lunch and found the note.

I made you lunch!

It read, with a chibi cat in the bottom corner. Melissa had made him his lunch. He smiled at the note, then put it away. As he looked towards Melissa he noticed that she hadn't clung to him. Right now she was surrounded by girls and boys asking her about America, and about herself.


"Well, the classes are large and we move from class to class, different students in each class." Melissa had replied to a question.

"That's so cool!" One girl squealed.

"What are you doing after school?" A boy asked.

"Reika asked me to go shopping with her." Melissa replied, relieved that the girl most people called Kishi had been nice enough to ask her to do something.


After school

"How are you going to get home?" Ai asked Melissa.

"I…I…"

"You didn't think about it!" A muffled voice from her bag answered for her.

Before anything else could happen, a giant praying mantis came around from behind the school. It seemed to be searching for something.

"A mantis demon?" Melissa asked herself.

"Let me handle it!" Inuyasha jumped out. They both concentrated and Inuyasha turned into his bigger self, ready to fight.

"Inuyasha…" The mantis started. "…must….die…Naraku's….wishes…"

"Does it look like I give a rat's ass?" He replied, getting ready for iron revere.

The mantis then sprayed a purple mist at them, poison to human lungs. Inuyasha grabbed both Melissa and Ai in his arms and put them on the top of the building. Ai was amazed he could jump that high.

"Time for you to die." He made his nails grow longer. "Iron revere soul stealer!" And then he let out his attack. It sliced the demon into tiny bits, which dissolved as soon as they touched the concrete. The only thing that was left as a small dark purple orb.

Inuyasha took Ai and Mel down to where the stone lay, untouched. Melissa reached a hand out and grabbed it, then started to look it over closely.

"Look at this." She held it towards Ai. In the orb there was a praying mantis, seemingly caught in the orb. "Is this a demon stone?"

"Looks like it." Inuyasha replied, now in plush form again. Melissa then tucked it away safely in her bag, along with Inuyasha.


In the darkness there was the same figure that had been spying on them the night Inuyasha had come alive. She took out her feather and flew off as soon as they had picked up the demon stone.


Melissa's email

Dear mother, father, and unborn sibling,

It's so cool that I'm going to have a sibling of my own! Mom, you hope it's a boy, don't you? Anyway, everything's been pretty uneventful here. Oh yeah, Ai took me to an anime convention. It was fun. Tomorrow I get to interview Iiragizawa-san. It'll be after school, so don't worry. Reika, my new friend, and I were going to go shopping today after school but we had to cancel due to other things that needed to be done. And tomorrow I'm going to go out with this boy from school. He's really nice. He told me the sky was blue because a famous painter wanted it to be blue. Anyway, I better go, dinners ready.

Love ya lots,

Melissa