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Sango awakened before her alarm clock went off, having plenty of sleep, since she went to bed so early the night before. After lingering in the warmth of her bed a few more minutes, she got up and headed to the bathroom for a shower to properly wake herself up.

While the hot water poured against her back, Sango reminisced upon the day, smiling. She was quite pleased that she'd just moved here and already had some new friends.

"Nya, nya…" Sango heard Kirara's incessant mews outside the bathroom door. "Hold on…" Sango told her cat, stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel around herself. She opened the door, but Kirara just sat there. "Are you coming in or not?" Sango asked, a hint of annoyance in her voice. "Nya" was Kirara's tired reply with a yawn.

Sighing, Sango shut the door, only to hear Kirara mewing at her again. "Okay," she informed Kirara, after reopening the door and picking up the cat, "You're coming in whether you want to or not."

Sango was happy to return to her nice warm shower, singing to herself, Kirara joining in with a mew every so often. She weighed her options with Miroku in her head. (A/N: Does anyone else do this with a guy they just met? I know I do hehe.) On the negative side, it seemed that Miroku could be a bit perverted, but maybe he doesn't normally do that… Sango couldn't really tell since she hadn't known him long. On the positive side, Miroku seemed really nice, outgoing, fun, positive… So many nice first impressions… 'And his smile…' Sango added to the list that was forming in her head, 'Ooohh… Such a nice, warm smile. I could melt!' Not to mention this guy happened to be very attractive.

When Sango emerged from the shower, drying herself off, Kirara noticed the blush staining Sango's face. "Nya!" Kirara accused her owner of having a crush, to which Sango quickly denied, her face turning a darker shade of red. "Fine. If I feed you, will you leave me alone about it?" Sango proposed. Kirara purred at hearing the word "food" and sat down patiently next to the door waiting while Sango finished getting herself ready for school.

After gathering all of her school supplies and feeding herself and her companion, Sango left the apartment, unfortunately, she forgot to lock the door behind her. The bus ride to school didn't seem so long this morning, since Sango was indulging in the current volume of Hana-Kimi she had borrowed from Kagome the day before. Before she knew it, Sango was getting off the bus, still reading the popular shoujo manga.

Sango tentatively turned the page, the drama getting intense on the pages before her, but Sango should've been paying more attention to the path before her as she hopped up the steps to the school, because Miroku, also not paying attention, (due to a lack of sleep), was on his way down the stairs when they both collided, sending their belongings flying around the two.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Miroku asked with a cute smirk, "If it isn't Miss Sango."

Sango laughed, her cheeks turning a shade of crimson as he picked up Hana-Kimi, handing it to her. "Goo-Good morning, Mi-Mi-Miroku…" Sango greeted him shakily, remembering her conversation earlier about Miroku that she had with her pet.

"So it seems that we both have a bad habit of bumping into each other, hmm?" Miroku commented with a laugh as he finished gathering Sango's things, handing them to her. Sango thanked him, apologizing for running into him, as she gave him his papers and such.

"Sorry about that… I couldn't fall asleep last night… Guess I was too busy… thinking…" Miroku stated with a dazed look in his blue eyes… and was that a slight blush? Sango wondered, smiling.

"Well, would you like to accompany me to class?" Miroku asked.

"I thought that you were going down the stairs…" Sango caught him.

"Well… I guess I was… I'm just so disoriented this morning, aren't I?" Miroku laughed, "Well, would you like to walk with me or not?"

Sango graciously accepted the offer as Miroku extended his hand to help her off the stairs. Once she was standing upright, he placed one hand onto her bum; Sango flinched at this, smacking him as he laughed guiltily.

"Sorry…" He apologized with a laugh.

Sango forgave him easily, her heart melting at its core when she saw his wonderful smile, but she added to her mental list about Miroku, "Definitely a pervert."

Kagome eyed Miroku and Sango cautiously as they entered the classroom together. She gave a knowing smile and stood up, saying, "I have to go to the bathroom… Sango?"

"Yes?" Sango asked, not catching onto the tone in Kagome's voice.

"Why don't you come with me?" Kagome said blatantly.

"Uh… okay." Sango answered, following Kagome as she walked quickly out of the classroom.

"So… How are you?" Kagome asked her friend casually.

"I'm fine. You?" Sango replied, wondering why Kagome had asked her to accompany her to the bathroom of all places.

"Okay. Let's just cut to the chase. Someone has a crush on Miroku."

"Who?" Sango asked innocently.

"Oh, don't act so naïve, you're blushing!" Kagome teased the girl, "He's a good guy, but he's a perv, so watch out for roaming hands."

"Uh…" Sango tried to think of an appropriate response to Kagome's warning, "Thanks?"

Kagome grinned, ear to ear, devising a plot, tapping her finger thoughtfully against her chin, making Sango wonder just what Kagome was up to.

"Well," Kagome dismissed, "I guess that's all."

And with that, Kagome turned around, walking back to class with a confused looking Sango tagging along behind, wondering why Kagome decided not to go to the bathroom.

"That didn't take very long." InuYasha commented upon the girls' arrival.

"I don't get why girls have to go to the bathroom in pairs…" Miroku added mindlessly as he scribbled something into his notebook then shut it closed.

The bell rang, and the remainder of students filed into the classroom to their assigned seats.

Miroku sighed, "I hate Mondays…" to no one in particular.

Sango looked at him oddly, "Today's Tuesday."

"Well, I hate Tuesdays, too…" he added with a laugh.

"Quiet down, students." Warned the teacher, Mrs. Maeda.

In Miroku's dazed state, he only caught a fraction of the words that came out of the teacher's mouth during history. "Blah, blah, blah, Warring States Era, yada, yada, yada, sectional crisis…" Miroku misunderstood. He lifted his head from his desk, thinking that the teacher was talking about something along the lines of "sexual crisis" but she was only saying "sectional crisis." He slept through the rest of the teacher's ramblings until the bell rang dismissing the class for lunch.

InuYasha shook his friend violently to wake him up to accompany them to lunch. With drool rolling down the side of his face, Miroku asked groggily, "Huhhh??"

Kagome rolled her eyes and informed him that it was time for lunch, so Miroku quickly rubbed the drool off of his face (as Kagome and Sango giggled) and followed them out of the classroom and into the cafeteria, going into the same line as InuYasha.

Sango sat alone at the table, munching on the contents of her bento. After a few minutes, Miroku sat down next to her, tapping her on the shoulder, making her look the other direction to confuse her. When she turned around, Miroku was sitting next to her with a smile.

"Hey, these are for you… I hope you'll like them." Sango said eagerly as she pushed a bento full of onigiri and fried pork sandwiches to him.

"Really?" Miroku's eyes widened in at the delightful surprise, "Thanks!" After inhaling one of the rice balls, he told her how great it tasted, making her blush at the compliment.

"Thanks… My mom taught me how to make food…" Sango told him, adding mentally, 'before she died…' She pushed the thought aside, knowing that her mom wouldn't want Sango to get depressed when she could be enjoying herself with the company.

"Noticed you slept through most of Mrs. Maeda's class." Sango remarked with a grin, moving on to the next dish in her lunch.

Miroku gave a nervous laugh, "Yeah… I tried to sleep last night, but couldn't. I guess I should've guessed that I wouldn't last a school day without sleep."

Sango's grin grew wider, "What kept you up?"

Miroku blushed, not wanting to tell her that he was up all night thinking about Sango, so he lied, "Oh… well, you know… After watching some arousing movies, I couldn't sleep."

Sango fell silent, but that's also when Kagome, who had captured InuYasha, forcing him to stay aloft to let Miroku and Sango talk, decided to arrive back at the table, with a big smile to them both, setting her lunch down next to InuYasha and Sango.

Little did Sango know that back at her apartment, in the shady area of town, the only area that she could afford with the money left to her name, at that apartment, which she had accidentally left unlocked, an intruder was letting himself in.

Wow! That's my longest chapter! I hope that you guys liked it! Sorry for the delay in posting… I was… busy… and preoccupied with my hectic life… Yeah… broke up with my bf, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, since I have 2 weeks off school, I'll try my best to post the next chapter… As long as you guys review!

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