Ichigo's Dance

by Bluedragon81

Onégai Teacher The Onégai students are starting their Senior year. Ichigo as Student Body President this year talked the school to host a Spring Dance. But the classmate she asks to be her date has other plans. She decides to take his advice and ask som

3. Bumps n Bruises

Onégai Teacher – Ichigo's Dance

A Fanfic by BlueDragon

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Authors' notes: Okay gang here is the next chapter, and I hope you like it. The Kami's only know it's taken me long enough to get it ready to post. Let me thank Sailor Kechara for prereading this and all of my other stories, I only wish she hadn't been transferred. Now all our correspondence is via E-mail, and I find it only a little annoying. And also to JohnnyG for his skills as both proofreader and sounding board, I only wish he had more time available too have picked over this chapter with his finetooth comb. Also because of JohnnyG's break from proofing work, I have enlisted the aid of ST Pika, and the members of Shinjis Sharing Inc. Those I've talked to liked it so far and as nobody has been making any comments about stupid spelling errors I will assume that this is ready too go. Thanks Guys.

Well on with the story…

Chapter 3 Bumps-n-Bruises

/Several days later/

It had been just over a week since Ichigo asked him to be her date to the dance. And his mind was still having problems dealing with the whole concept. Of course he knew that he was her second choice, and for that he was eternally grateful that Kei was going back to Ota-ku that weekend to see his folks. But still Ichigo asked him, Normally when Hyosuke or the girls recommended something like this to her she would practically snap their heads off then immediately follow that up by warning him not to get any dumb ideas.

To top it off it had started to get around school the Matagu was taking her to the dance. Of course that was because of his imootó-chans big mouth sounding off when it should be shut. «Its not like Ichigo and I want to keep it a secret, we just didn't want to make a big deal out of it» The only thing that made it worse was the fact that school gossip tended to get exaggerated very quickly out of proportion. Only Ichigo's reputation seemed to keep the rumors from going way off the deep end, most of the students just didn't quite know how to interact with her. She never was one to keep her opinions quietly to herself, and normally only the guys seemed to get the scathing comments out of her when they did something stupid, or just plain left themselves wide-open for some cutting commentary, fortunately Hyosuke tended to be her main target to most everyone else's delight.

As he was buttoning up his shirt, he was starting to think back about what he thought of her after they first met at the start of high-school. Then a familiar image came to mind, of Ichigo sitting back on her legs in her winter school uniform. Leg socks, the short black skirt, white blouse, and long sleeve sweater almost hiding her hands. She was looking at him playfully while chewing on the end of her bow. Of course Kei had been right way back then, that the Ichigo of his fantasy was nothing like the real thing.

She was quiet but definitely not shy, exceedingly intelligent but again she never tried to flaunt it. But if you did something stupid in her presence you were going to hear about it. Now she wouldn't say anything to be spiteful and her opinions were well thought out. But she also didn't mince words, or try to be very polite about her suggestions. But she did seem to be very honest. Also she was one person you could never keep a secret from for very long, she had this uncanny ability to find out anything about almost any one. Just last week he had made a comment about Mizuho-sensei and she told him to not even think about it that she was already married. Since no one was around he asked how she knew. She calmly replied that if you looked closely at her left hand you could see the signs on her ring finger even though she did not wear the ring at school for some reason.

He knew she was right when he ran into her in town a couple days later and saw the small diamond ring on her finger. He had been surprised he hadn't noticed it before. Even though another of his fantasies was ended that afternoon, he just knew that Ichigo hadn't done it to be mean or spiteful to him. She had simply pointed out something she had uncovered as fact, and told him as a friend. It probably also explained why she would just shake her head when they overheard other students still talking about the rumors that Kei and Mizuho-sensei were secretly lovers… what a joke, even he thought those were stupid now and just ignored them when he heard others saying that.

But even though many of his fantasies were impossible, and he had gotten over many of them, the one about him and Ichigo becoming his koibito still persisted. He figured that it was because she was his first real crush that he had on any girl, and at times he thought he understood her so well, then suddenly he would find out that he didn't. «Oh well, at least she is one of my friends, and she even wants me to take her to the dance anyway. Me the pervert» Of course he didn't really think he was all that perverted, but he knew the girls thought he was. But they still liked him anyways.

Matagu finished getting dressed for school and went downstairs for breakfast. His Kasan made him another delicious meal to start the day which he was enjoying, until that peace was ended, in the evil form of his imootó-chan. Sure he thought she was cute and all, but she could also be such a nuisance at times.

"Kon'nichi wa, Kasan what's for breakfast, it smells wonderful." Being her usual cheery self.

But before their okasan could answer, Matagu chimed in. "Well I'm not really sure what your having but if I had a choice, I'd like it to be something that would keep your mouth glued shut and put an end to your gossiping streak."

His okasan gave him a disapproving look but she could also sympathize with her son. «This town is just small enough for gossip to be most everyone's favorite hobby.» She had already heard enough around her shop, fortunately most of the ladies thought her son and the Morino girl made a nice looking couple, but never commented on if things being talked about went any farther then just friendship.

"Hey, it's not like I told anyone Ichigo-sempai and you were lovers, or anything Oniichan." Haruko complained.

Matagu growled at his imootó "That's another thing, will you stop calling me 'ONIICHAN'. Kasan please tell her to stop calling me that…"

"But its so kawaii to call you 'Oniichan'." She tried to give him her cute imootó-chan face, Matagu only growled at her again.

"Rukochan your brother is right, this is his last year of high school. You should not still be calling him Oniichan. Remember he is going to start college next year, and that means he is almost an adult and you should respect that." Mrs. Shido chided her daughter.

"Arigato Kasan… well thanks for a great breakfast. Gota go so I can catch everybody on the way to class. Bye" With that Matagu grabbed his bag and was running out the door.

"Rukochan shouldn't you be getting ready to go to."

"Hai Kasan" she finished her last couple of bites and took her dishes to the sink. "Kasan, would it still be ok if I still used Tagichan every so often?" She asked.

Mrs. Shido looked at her daughter and smiled, "Well I don't see why not.

Shortly after leaving his house he caught up with Hyosuke and Kaede, who were heading towards his house. Walking a couple more blocks by the train tracks; Kei, coming from one direction just beating Koishi and Ichigo this morning.

As the six friends walked towards school, today the girls were in front locked in an animated discussion about something Matagu was not following as he was again lost in his own thoughts. He wasn't even able to bring himself to focus on what Hyosuke and Kei were talking about right next to him.

Of course it only took Ichigo a little while before she noticed Matagus' mood. "Matagu, what seems to be bothering you today." She asked.

Koishi actually took his arm and hugged him a little closer. "Yea, Matagu you look pretty depressed. What's up?" When she saw him start to blush at the contact, she couldn't help but start to laugh. This was soon joined in by everyone else in the group. "Oh Matagu just relax, I promise I don't bite."

"Yea, yea very funny." Matagu sighed. "Sorry just been getting a little frustrated with Haruko. Her and her big mouth started all these rumors that Ichigo and I are dating now, and I just don't want people getting the wrong idea, Okay." To Matagu's surprise it was Ichigo who responded.

"Really Matagu, I don't think Haruko was the only one that got these rumors started. So you shouldn't be worrying about it; that is as long as you don't get stupid and tell someone that we are dating. Are you?" She asked fixing him with a quick glare. When he nodded his agreement she continued. "People are naturally going to talk and as long as we make it clear your not, my koibito then I don't see any problems."

Matagu was more then slightly surprised again buy the petite girls' response, but if it wasn't going to bother her then he figured he could get used to the idea. As they continued to school topics began passing through the gambit of mundane student topics. It wasn't long before they got to the campus. After heading into the building Kei hurried off to pick up something from one of the teachers. Hyosuke and Matagu went to their shoe lockers, while the girls went where ever it is girls go first thing in the morning when they don't want guys around.

It was about ten minutes before the first bell and Hyosuke and Matagu were talking by the lockers. "Shido, just were do you get off…" An angry voice demanded, but before Matagu could turn and confront the speaker he was slammed back into the lockers. "Just who gave you permission to ask Morino to the dance?" The speaker was another upperclassman Dai Aida and he was flanked by two of his friends. None of them looked real happy.

"Dai, just go away and leave me alone, will you?" Matagu said

"No way Shido, you listen, you don't tell me what to do. Besides I asked a question and I expect an answer."

"Oh… Gomen nasai my mistake I didn't realize you knew how to ask questions." Matagu bit back sarcastically. "Besides for your information I did not ask Ichigo to the dance… She asked me to the dance."

"Do you really expect us to believe that she would want to ask a báka like you to the dance. Get real." With that he slammed Matagu into the lockers again.

"Hey…" Hyosuke smacked Dai on the shoulder. "You got what ya wanted to hear now bug off, before something happens"

"Sure beside if I was in the mood for a good fantasy I'd go to a bookstore." With that they left.

Hyosuke shook his head in disgust. "Man how can they be so jealous, besides this is Ichigo we're talking about." Matagu just shook his head at his friends comment. "But even more importantly they have no looks and a rotten personality to top things off. You'd think they would just give up on life and go far, far away."

About that time the girls show up. "Hey Matagu, what was that all about?" Koishi asked

"Ah… nothing important, don't worry about it." They all started down the hall to their classroom. The girls were walking behind the two guys.

"Matagu, what is on the back of your head?" Ichigo asked

Koishi's hand went to her mouth "Hey that's blood. Matagu you're bleeding."

Matagu reached back and felt his scalp. "Oww…" he looked at his hand and saw some blood there.

"You should go straight to the nurses' office and have her look at it," Kaede said.

Ichigo stepped up and took Matagu's arm. "I'll take him to the nurse. You all go to class and tell Miss Kazami where we are, and will be back as quick as we can." And with that she led Matagu down the hall towards the nurses' office. When they were far enough away from their friends. "Matagu, was Dai giving you a hard time because of me?"

"No, He is just always causing me trouble; I think it's what he lives for."

They walked into the nurses' office, and the nurse turned to great them. "Mr. Shido, Miss Morino, what seems to be the problem today."

Matagu walked over to her. "I hit my head on the lockers; it seems to have cut it open."

She pulled out a rolling stool. "Here sit down, and let me have a look." She started to part the hair around the back of his head. "Mr. Shido did you get into a fight?'

"No, Ma'am," was his fast reply. The nurse looked over to Miss Morino.

"No, Ma'am it looked to us like another student was in too big a hurry to get down the hall to just walk around Matagu, so he just pushed him out of the way."

"Really, could you tell who it was?" She reached over to her supplies counter and grabbed a jar of long Q-tip swabs and a bottle of what looked like some kind of antiseptic. "Matagu I'll need you to hold still while I clean this, it will probably sting a little." Matagu nodded in response. As she started to work cleaning the wound she decided to get some more information and she was sure none would be coming from Matagu. "Well Miss Morino, would you be able to tell who it was that pushed Mr. Shido here?"

"Oowww"+ Matagu tried to be quite in his moment of pain.

Ichigo looked back up at the nurse, "Well we were still pretty far down the hall when it happened, and I really couldn't say for sure. But I could make an educated guess, and narrow it down to two or three. I still would rather not say because I can't be absolutely sure given the facts"

She was now using her third swab, but had been watching Miss Morino as she spoke. She nodded after being given the girls answer, many around the school were very familiar with the girls reputation as an information hunter, and she wasn't fooled in the least by her quite nature.

wince+

Also she got the feeling the she was not telling the whole truth, but she remembered her days in high school and the students unwritten rule about 'ratting' on other students. Besides she had grown up with a sister who was the quintessential Master of Lies and Half-truths. Miss Morino was definitely fudging her information for one reason or another.

"Well, I understand Miss Morino and no, I won't ask you to tell me who you think the suspects might be." She finished and stepped around in front of Matagu, poked him in the chest fixing him with a hard look. "And as I understand Mr. Shido here will not 'rat out' a fellow student for something like this, I'm not going to force the issue." She then smiled at Matagu, "Mr. Shido, do you have PE today?" Matagu shook his head. "Well good then, please try to be careful it should heal up nicely but don't press your luck, Okay."

Matagu smiled at the thought that this was not the first time the school nurse had to clean up some scrape he had received. He stood up collected his book bag and headed out the door with Ichigo.

As Ichigo and Matagu were leaving the Nurses office the school principal was walking in.

"Ojisan, what do we owe for the honor of this visit?" as she finished putting things away.

"For starters what was that about…" He replied pointing back out into the hall at the two students who just left.

She smiled at him, and it seemed to light up the room, as she offered him a chair by her desk and sat down to start filling out paperwork on the last injury. "Oh… well it seems that someone was in a hurry this morning and pushed Mr. Shido into the lockers rather then walk around him. He had a small laceration on the back of his scalp, it was bleeding worse then it really was though."

"Really, then I suppose I need to send a notice to the homeroom teachers to remind students about proper conduct in the halls later." He paused for a few seconds and took note of his niece's office; it was immaculate, even cleaner then her house and that was always spotless even with three kids. "Oh well, I wanted to stop in and see if you would mind bringing the family over for dinner tomorrow night, Takako was wanting to have you come over. She just loves having kids running around the house."

"I'm sure that would be wonderful, Ojisan" She replied with a big smile on her face.

/Kusanagi Living room – Early evening/

Kei is sitting on the floor by the low table furiously trying to enter commands into Mizuho's laptop.

Wrrrp, Wrrrp, Wrrrp… Boom+

"Damn, not again…" Kei was starting to get pretty frustrated with this, as if homework wasn't bad enough. He had decided he need to learn some of Marie-siel's command systems incase he ever needed to pilot the ship himself. He didn't want to create another chaotic mess like the first time he inadvertently launched the ship. He ended the Sim and laid his head back on the sofa. It was then that his wife walked into the living room fresh out of the bath, already wearing her favorite nightie, the one with the chocolate brown ribbon.

"What's wrong Kei-kun?" she asked as she sat down next to her husband, scooting as close to him as she could.

Kei sat back up and leaned his head on his wife's shoulder. "Just trying to get used to the ships command system on your Sim. But since I still don't have a good grasp of written Federation, I have problems reading the displays."

She leaned over and kissed her husbands forehead. "I suppose we could try using a mind probe trainer, that would give you a better understanding of written Fed."

Kei was back up and had his hands on his wife's shoulders. "NO, no way, isn't that how the council had discovered about us before they took you away from me the first time. I don't want to do anything to let them know you came back to me. I don't want to loose you again." He looked really worried about that prospect. Mizuho couldn't resist, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply, until he started responding himself.

Several minutes later they pulled away from each other, both with big smiles on their faces. "Kei-chan, it would be OK. The council was able to detect it before because I created a mental representation of myself so I could interact with your subconscious. The teaching probes don't use as much energy. Unfortunately Marie-siel doesn't have the programming available to do it, but maybe Okāsan would have the resources on Miruru-siel, we can ask her when she comes to visit again?"

"Do you think that would help, I don't want to do anything that might get your being here noticed buy your old boss's." He was looking at his wife obviously worried, but she just smiled serenely back at him.

"I do really understand how you feel Kei-chan, and I think Okāsan would be happy to help us out with this. Besides the governing council has very little control over her because of her job."

Kei looked a little surprised, "What she has a real job; I was thinking she just worked at making me miserable." He smiled at his wife but only got smacked in the arm for his comment.

Mizuho glared at her husband for a couple of seconds after hitting him. "Kei, how could you say something like that. She does really like you, you know. Unlike how my mother-in-law seems to treat me." She tried to suppress the scowl that thinking of her mother-in-law inevitably brought on.

Kei could feel his wife's mood going sour, and thought of a way to fix it. "And that's what scares me so much, I think she likes to like me 'Too' much. Sneaking into our bedroom can get me into more trouble then I want to deal with." He smiled back at his wife.

Mizuho only thought for a second before she remembered what her husband meant, and a blush quickly spread across her face. "Gomen, Kei-chan. I forgot all about that." She looked away for a second, as she remembered the rest of the things that happened that morning. "I don't think Okāsan will try something like that again." «At least I hope not» "But she actually works in the Intelligence Branch, so the council has very little authority over her. That's also why Miruru-siel has no problems bypassing the security/monitoring satellites."

"Wow, I never thought…" his voice trailed off. «If Hatsuho can do that, maybe…» his thoughts were broken off when his wife spoke again.

"You know there might be another way to help you out with this." She paused for a second to collect her thoughts. "The databanks in Marie's computer were being programmed with information on both the Japanese and English language. What if we set up a subroutine that would translate the data from Federation Standard to Japanese and then displayed it in proper Japanese for us to work from?" She looked expectantly at her husband.

Kei actually started to look excited at that possibility. "Now that's an idea that has real merit, I would rather set up systems ourselves then have to get your Okāsan involved in our lives any more."

Mizuho almost glowed with her husband's words of approval. "It will probably take lots of work and even more system debugging to make sure all the systems function properly. Besides it's something we can do together, just the two of us." And she smiled at her husband.

Kei couldn't help but smile back at his wife and he started to hug her close. This also started another series of thought processes in the young mans mind, namely the activities the two of them could have alone in the room just down the hall. And as these thought were going through his mind he couldn't help but notice again just how his wife was dressed at the moment, and he realized he was staring at her, or rather them… He started to blush as he broke that train of thought and looked at his wife's face.

Mizuho started to blush a little, noticing her husbands' current attention. Then when he was finally shifted his focus back to her face she couldn't help but giggle softly. Of course the same thoughts were running rampant through her mind as well at the moment. «Maybe we can hurry up and go to bed early tonight.» Just the idea of the activities happening soon made her face turn a brighter red, and she gave her husband a quick kiss, in hopes that he might want to go to bed now.

"Hey, that reminds me you said you wanted to tell me something after dinner, what was it?" He hugged his wife closer, practically pulling her into his lap.

She settled herself in her husbands lap and kissed him on the cheek. "That's right, well actually it a couple of things really. Since you told Ichigo about our marriage I decided to see if the principle would let me become the facility advisor for the student government, and he said I could. That gives me the chance to spend more time with Ichigo too make sure she doesn't find out anything else." Grin

"Do you really think that's a good idea I mean she is really good at piecing things together and she might find out about you."

Mizuho kissed her husband on the cheek for being concerned. "I don't think that's too much of a problem, since I'm only teaching now, and we really don't use many of Marie-siels systems on a daily basis we should be fine. Besides it gives me a chance to keep closer tabs on what she does know."

"Well probably, just remember to keep a close eye out on her, she can be pretty sneaky." He hugged his wife close again. "What else?"

"Everyone will find out tomorrow but he also reassigned my homeroom today. Starting tomorrow I'll be with one of the first year classes instead of your class." She looked a little disappointed by this.

Kei was also a little surprised, "Then who will be our new homeroom teacher, if not you?"

"Well I'm still going to be assigned as the homeroom teacher, but for now Ichigo as the class rep will fill in, kind of as an advisor. With the staff shortage our principle has to try and find another teacher to replace Mr. Ooshima, since his father past away a couple weeks ago. His mothers' health hasn't been very good lately either, I guess and none of his brothers or sisters wanted to take care of her. He is moving back to the family house in Matsumoto with his wife to take care of her. From what I understand, he will end up getting the house after she passes on. But until then the staff may have to double up on some assignments."

«Now that's just great» Kei thought sarcastically. «Even more work for Mizuho, It's not like teachers make a lot of money for the work they do, but sometimes this gets a little ridiculous. Yea, she gets most of the same holiday's off that the students get, but jeeze, she has papers to grade most every other night, staff meetings at least every month. Now this.» All Kei could do right now was shake his head. Kei could only look at his wife for a second before asking, "Are you going to be Okay with all the extra work that this is probably going to mean. You were going to help me get ready for entrance exams, as well as improving my general grades. Plus our new project with Marie-siel, and then when we find out where I can go to college we are going to have to start looking for a new posting for you closer to my college. Now you have all this extra work because of this staff shortage. Are you sure that it's not too much."

Mizuho could not help but be happier at her husbands concern. Of course in her excitement she started to squirm in her husbands lap while she started to kiss almost any part of him she could easily reach. Now while cavorting like this while being something her husband greatly enjoyed, also because of her current attire was having several effects on the young man in question, in particular the very firm object that was currently starting to poke her in the hip. When she realized the reaction her husband was getting she let out a very pleasurable moan into her spouses deepening kiss.

Mizuho quickly got up from her husband lap and grabbed his hand to lead him down the hall to their bedroom. There were big grins on both their faces.

/ Next morning in homeroom /

Ichigo had pulled the small stool out from the podium and was beginning to go over the notes she had for class announcements. Most of the students were already at their assigned seats or talking in small groups. «This is going to be so much fun now» She couldn't help but think to herself. But all good things must sometime come to an end, and this particular ending came now as Hyosuke rushed into the class a big smile on his face. She had seen that smile several times before.

"Yo, gang. Big News, really Big News." Hyosuke yelled to the class as he rushed in slamming the door behind him. He stood next to Ichigo by the podium as she looked over at him with what almost seemed like an evil smirk. "Aaaw" He cringed away from the class rep. and turned back to the class. But before he could say anything the door opened letting in one Kei Kusanagi who looked sadly like death warmed over… maybe three days ago. "Man Kei, what happened to you, you look like…"

Hyosuke never got to finish his comment as a quiet female voice, too close to his ear in his opinion. "Don't even say it Hyosuke." Stated in a no-nonsense manner. He cringed away again.

Kei looked at the diminutive class rep. and gave her a thankful smile. "Gomen, I stayed up later then normal with homework and a project. When I finally got to bed I just couldn't get to sleep. I ended up being awake till after three this morning before I fell asleep." Kei had continued walking to his desk and was by now close enough for Koishi to offer to help him get to his desk, though he did refuse her kind offer.

"Kei you weren't drinking coffee or sodas late last night were you" Koishi asked trying to be helpful.

Kei had lifted his head off his desk to answer, "No, only had water after I was done with dinner. Just after working I had problems falling asleep right away." Several of the other students were watching and listening to their conversation. "Then when I did get to sleep morning just came too early for the rest of my body." «Man what am I complaining about, last night was incredible. And incredibly fun too. I just wish I could have fallen asleep right away like Mizuchan.» Fortunately for one Kei Kusanagi he was tired enough that he was not grinning at the thought of last night, if he was the Cheshire Cat could have hid behind his smile not to be seen by anyone.

Finally one of the other guys in the class drew the attention away from the almost asleep student and back to where he thought was of the most import. "So Hyosuke, what is this great new you wanted to tell us?"

Hyosuke took a quick look at the class rep. who appeared to not mind his impromptu announcement. "Well I heard this morning the Mizuho-sensei has been reassigned as the homeroom teacher for Ooshima's first year class."

Matagu heard this and realized that was his imootó's homeroom.

"So if we're as lucky as last year when Fujimoto quite and Mizuho-sensei became our teacher, then maybe this time our new homeroom teacher will be almost as much of a babe as her." Of course Hyosuke did have a slight problem thinking that many women could be more gorgeous then Miss Kazami.

At this several students started to cheer, all boys mainly, many of the girls were just as talkative but for totally different reasons. And one student in the class just took note of the reactions of the others. «Gee, Kei's head never even came up off his desk, grin Too bad Hyosuke's not quite right this time.» Ichigo's thoughts were interrupted.

Briiiinggg+

Ichigo smiled at Hyosuke again, and where before that smile made him nervous, now he was almost scared of what she was planning for him. "Thank you for that news Hyosuke, but could you take your seat now please." He did and very quickly. "Now for the announcements; First students are reminded to maintain proper decorum on school grounds, No street shoes in the building, and no running, pushing or fighting in the halls. Second and last I might add, any students who are interested in helping with decorations for the dance are asked to attend a planning meeting Saturday morning at ten AM. That's tomorrow." She looked around the room noticing everyone's relief at the short list of announcements.

She couldn't help but smile now about her next announcement. "That is all the official announcements for this morning, but I do have another one that I need to pass on to the class." She made sure to watch Hyosuke's reaction without making it look obvious. "Mr. Magumo, was correct in the notice that Miss Kazami will no longer be our active Homeroom advisor. But unfortunately he is incorrect that a new teacher is currently being assigned the post." She looked around to make sure she had everyone's attention. "As of this morning, I will be operating under Miss Kazami's guidance as the classes' homeroom advisor, until such time as the principle is able to find a facility replacement for Mr. Ooshima."

Several of the girls in the class almost cheered, most of the boys groaned, Hyosuke's being the loudest. Kei's head never moved from the desk. Ichigo couldn't help but feel good about this particular accomplishment.

After homeroom was over and there first class was about to start; Grammar and Composition. Mizuho-sensei walked into the room carrying her grade book and class text. But what might have been most surprising to her first class of the day, was her big smile and almost glowingly bright eyes. She proceeded to go over the topic of today's lecture Speaking in a more animated fashion then normal, and never once making a comment about the young male student in the back who appeared to be sleeping.

Ichigo smiled to herself and then took a quick look around the other students in her class. She finally focused her attention on one almost sleeping Kei Kusanagi. «Yea, right Kei some special project. Stay up till all hours of the morning making your wife a very happy person today. 'Geeze' you made it sound like you hated every minute, Yea, right.» she turned back around shaking her head, and got ready to begin another day of school.

Authors' final rantings; Well now, another chapter completed and hopefully people will enjoy it. Also I should have a better grasp of the modifications I need to make to upload to any of the FanFic sites that I'm on. With this chapter I am also updating the first two for the final time as well (I think).