Okay I'm sooooo terribly sorry that this is tres tres late....but I thought I would give you a bit of what I'm trying to do here....

Don't worry you won't really get it until the end of the chappie....

I really hope you don't hate the way I've built the story to go. If you do, just review and I'll find another way to build a story!!!! I am totally accepting in any other ideas!!!

So on with the story, after a very long break ::sweat drop::....

Chapter 3

One month later…

Lily packed up what clothes that she could fit into a small blue duffel bag. She couldn't believe it; she was finally going to a sleepover! Tohru was the best friend that she'd had ever had. The best thing was that her boyfriend was going to be there, Haru that is. Yuki invited Momiji and him to a sleepover. So they were all going to be over at Shigure-san's, who was Yuki, Kyou, Haru, and Momiji's older cousin from what she was told, house. This wasn't the only time that they'd ever hung out outside of school; they'd all been to the movie's two weeks ago and the ice cream parlor the week after that. The past month had been the best month in Lily's life; she finally had friends and someone better than a friend. Haru and Lil had to keep their relationship from the teachers and the rest of the Haru's family other than Yuki, Kyou and the rest. Mostly because he was afraid what the head of his family would say, who, from what she gathered, kept a close handle on every member of the family.

Lily picked up the bag and started towards the door, just then there was a knock, Lil rushed towards the door. When she opened it she found Haru holding his own duffel bag, "Oh, hi!" Lil smiled.

"You ready to go?"

"Definitely!" Lil smiled brightly at Haru, he had come to pick her, just as he had told her he was.

"Okay, then!" Haru took her hand and led her to his bicycle. Lil stared for a second, shrugged and then looked at Haru, who was strapping his own duffel bag to the back of the bike. "Is there a problem?" He asked, with a worried expression on his face.

Lil smiled again, "Nope, no problem!" She handed him her duffel bag, which he gladly took and strapped it on next to his. Haru then hopped on to the seat and turned to her, "So, hop on!"

Lil looked at him for a moment and tried to formulate what he was trying to tell her to do, it was a little difficult translating things from time to time. When she finally got the drift, she hopped on to the handle bars and Haru started peddling.

It turned out to be a short distance from her, Shigure-san's house that is, it only took about five minutes on Haru's bike. Lil was pretty glad, she was a little worried that she would weight the bike down and make Haru really tired. She almost thought to ask him if he wanted to switch places after awhile, but she thought against it, he liked to keep his manhood in the relationship and her driving him around on the handle bars of a bike would be very undermining.

When Haru stopped the bike, he stopped in front a beautiful Japanese house, Lil almost thought she had stepped into an ancient Japanese village.

"Oh Haru, this place is just wonderful!"

"Really? It's a dump compared to the Sohma estate." Haru said over his shoulder as he unpacked the duffel bags from his bike.

"Then, your house must be just wonderful, my house could never compare to something like this! I can just breathe the traditions in, they're so plentiful!" Lil twirled around.

"That was almost poetical!" said a voice coming from the door of the house. Lil turned around from facing Haru to find a tall Japanese man coming down the stairs of the house towards her.

"Hey Sensei-san, how's it going??" Haru greeted the man.

"So Haru, are you going to introduce me to your flower? She is a pretty one, indeed." The man said, as he picked up Lil's hand to kiss it.

"Yes, well 'Sensei-san,' this flower has thorns!" Lil then slapped him across the face.

The man didn't seem discouraged at all. He simply said, "Well, Haru, you've picked a feisty one, huh? I always knew you had good taste."

Haru turned to Lil, "You must forgive him, Lil-kun. My cousin is a bit of a pervert."

Lil's jaw dropped. "This is Shigure-san?" Haru nodded his head. "Oh, god, forgive me Shigure-san!" Lil bowed towards Shigure, she couldn't believe she had just insulted her host. She looked up to see Shigure chuckling.

"And respectful to elders, I must say you've caught a good one, Haru! She's better than most Americans!" Shigure then turned towards Lil, "I am sorry, Lily-san, I was sure you knew my 'reputation' as my younger cousins like to inform everyone around me."

"No, sir, I regret to say that they didn't mention anything of the sort."

"Well, as an American I used to know said, 'No harm, no foul!' Let's get you settled!"

Lil broke out laughing, she looked up at Shigure, who seemed not to understand the joke, "You see, sir, that's a baseball saying, and I haven't heard anyone but my grandfather say it. And let's just say he's a little on the crazy side."

"Oh, I see now, yes, well I will use the saying when talking about baseball, then. Thank you very much, Lily-san. I would love to hear more of your American customs, you see I'm a writer and I…"

Shigure was cut off by Haru, "Yes, well, you really don't want to know what kind of books Sensei-san writes, their not your basic acceptable books."

"What porn?" Lil said sarcastically. However, the look she got from Haru and Shigure was a strange one, it said "yes." "Oh, dear…" Lil broke off.

Shigure led the two flippers into the house and to where everyone else was. Tohru and Yuki were there of course, they lived there, but Momiji had already arrived and they were all sitting at a table playing a card game.

The moment Tohru saw the both of them; she jumped up and ran towards Lil. "Oh, I am so glad that you were able to have a sleep-over with me. It will be just so much fun!"

Lil looked down at Tohru's smiling face and thought about how odd it was that she made her feel so at home in a country across the world from her real home. "It must be the fact that she's so like grandma." "Yes, I'm sure it will."

Just then, Kyou walked in from the kitchen with a bottle of water. He was just saying, "Hey, so everyone's finally here," but he only got to 'finally' when he tripped over Haru's bag, that he had just left in front of the door way. He had to, of course, fall strait on to Lil, who had her arms out to catch him.

Then as they were falling, a horrified look came over her face, "No, not bottled of water!" Now, everyone was expecting a loud poof, but what they weren't expecting was a louder poof after it. And what they found when the clouds cleared was very surprising.

A very surprised orange cat lying on top of a very pissed endangered black and white panda.

Okay, again, terribly sorry that this is so late!!! ERG....sooooo much work to do....I hate having a social life...it takes away from my artistic tendencies....tehe...

Anyway....please please review, I really need to know that people like the way this is going!!!!

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