Arts of Domestic Violence

Disclaimer: Don't own Inu Yasha & Co.

"talk"

(thoughts)

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In Toyko Japan…

Today was the day. The twins had been extremely hyper and exhilarated for the two weeks that followed the day that had gotten the letter. They both actually went out to go buy frames to put their dear letters in them and hang them up on their wall. Kikyo was the first to awaken. Unlike her twin, she had packed all day yesterday and got a good night's sleep…well after she threatened Kagome with the pain of death for Mr. Snuggles if she didn't go to sleep. Mr. Snuggles was Kagome's white and dark blue plushy their father had given her birthday. She lay in bed for awhile with one arm rested over her forehead. The sun was going to come up soon; she glanced at her clock, 5:32 am. A soft sigh escaped her rosy lips as she closed her mahogany eyes. She had a weird sensation down to the tip of her toes when she woke up, that usual meant that something big was going to happen. She giggled, of course there was! They were going to Yokohama! They had never seen the ocean before and today she was going to see it first hand, (I got to make sure I pack my camera) She thought idly. She was so lost in thought that it wasn't until the first rays of sunshine started to appear in the window that she snapped out of her daze. She looked up at the bed above her, its' indentation spoke for the body resting in it.

She smirked; Kagome's hand and legs were dangling off the side of the bed above her. She pondered on kicking the mattress above her but then she might miss the chance to take a shower first. She shuddered at that thought. If Kagome had gotten the shower first she would surely catch ammonia for her sister's flaw of taking ALL the hot water! She rolled over on her side and cuddled Mr. Fluffykins, her white and dark red fluffy dog plushy. She snuggled it momentarily fighting the urge to fall asleep. She groaned and flipped the covers back and shivered. (Damn air conditioning! C-O-L-D!) She looked outside as the sun rose higher above the tree's lighting up the shrine in a warm golden tint. She could already see the ground look smoldering hot. She was happy though, it didn't start getting cold in Yokohama till late October. Looking around her room she was still surprised that with two suitcases for each of them; full of belongings, that their room still looked inhabited.

She picked up her choice of clothes and headed into the shower. Disregarding her pajama's she jumped into her steamy shower. The way things were planned today was at eight their mom would drive them to Yokohama. Yokohama was a few hours drive from Toyko which the girls were grateful for. That meant they could always come back on days off or the weekend. Kikyo closed her eyes and savored the touch of the warm water running down her body. She let a dreamy smile cover her shapely lips and started to sway her hips. She started to sing softly to herself allowing her body to twirl in the shower giddily. Now, the effect of finally being able to leave was kicking.

"Yes! We are leaving!" She cheered in the shower twirling and raising her arms above her head swinging her head a bit causing the pristine droplets to slide down the length of her waist length raven locks and glimmer off the tips around her as they fell. Suddenly she heard something clatter in the sink. She froze and looked over shoulder. Kikyo heard a strange scratching noise and she gulped nervously. She slowly peeked out from the curtain and saw a brown fuzzy blob crawl towards her. She whimpered as she backed against the wall as it climbed on the side of the tub. With a mighty leap it was on her head causing her to scream and slip in the shower. She let out a 'oof' as she landed on her back and glared at the little creature on her stomach… (I'm…going…to…kill him. I'm going to kill him! Wait till I) she stopped her train of thought and let a blood curling scream, "SOUTA!" Souta was leaning against the bathroom door and he laughed manically as she took off down stairs and outside to hide.

Kagome was snoring softly when she heard the scream of anger. She jolted awake but laughed as she heard her brother pound down the stairs. She sat up in her bed a yawned stretching her hands high above her head. Then she heard the rushing of water from within the bathroom (Damn! She beat me to the shower!) She frowned and stuck her tongue out at the door. She stumbled down off the side of her bed and looked out her window with a grin. Today was it! She smiled dreamingly turning around to walk… THUD… "Kikyo!" She screamed as she lay on the floor with her face snuggly making out with the carpet. Her feet tangled up with clothes and Kikyo's opened suitcase. (SHE SO DID THAT ON PURPOSE!) She screamed mentally. Oh just she wait, when she comes back in here she grinned evilly. She decided to be "nice" and zip up all of their suitcases while grumbling death threats under her breath.

She heaved the last of the suitcases up by the door which she dubbed the leaning tower of mass destruction. She also had two backpacks opened and ready, one toss on her bed and one on her sisters. On the door, hanging, were a few plastic covered kimonos. When they had read into the school plans for Shikon they discovered that they were still able to celebrate the festivals through out the year which included the Latern Festival that was actually started today for them and lasted for 3 more days (1) , in September they would be able to celebrate Higan which held a lot of personal value to the girls, Sakura Festival which was one of Kagome's personal favorites, and finally Tanabata Matsure which was the star festival. Kikyo had loved that one the best because usually Kikyo would perform the story for the little kids. Kagome heard the bathroom door open and she smirked and hid behind the door. When Kikyo walked in she was still hissing death threats under her breath.

"HHYYYAAA!" Kagome cried as she tackled her sister from behind and they landed on the bed. Kikyo let out a scream and soon erupted in fits of laughter when Kagome started to attack her ribs. Kagome continued her gruesome tickle attack on her sister when she felt a pillow hit the side of her head. Kagome looked dumbstruck and then glared at her sister,

"This is war!" Kikyo smirked and Kagome launched at the nearest pillow,

"Pillow Fight!" She yelled back and the two twins continued to bash at each other when the door opened,

"What's going on in here?" Their mother asked and they turned to each other and laughed nervously.

"Pillow fight?' They offered weakly.

"And you left me out?" Their mother huffed putting her hands on her hips.

"Wha?" They stared and started laughing when they felt the beanbag hit them. They fell back on the bed from impact and looked up to see her mom holding a pillow in one hand with a devious look on her face.

"Get her!" They cried and the three women continued to hit one another with the pillows. So far Kagome was the best off for having many pillows in her clutches and catapulting them at her mother and sister from the safety of her top bunk.

"Mom?" Came the timid voice of Souta. He peeked in a saw a flurry of feathers drifting around the room and his Mom just landing another blow to Kikyo with a pillow and his other sister on her bead laughing evilly as she looked at him. He sweatdropped as a pillow collided with him. "You are not getting away with that!" He cried grabbing the offending pillow and ran across her room and clamored onto the dresser and then successfully leapt at his sister with a wild call of rage and continued to beat her with a pillow. Grandfather happened to walk down the hallway to inspect all the noise and saw his grandchildren and daughter in a huge pillow fight. A smile covered his wise features as he shut the door and went back into the living room. The Higurashi Shrine echoed with laughter all morning.

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In Yokohama Japan…

Inu Yasha sat in his blazing red Imperial at yet another red light. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair that today he had let wave freely. It was his responsibility to go to the school and help the school committee make sure everything was ready. Today was Obon, the Latern Festival, and they were decorating the school to commemorate the event. He grumbled,

"I don't see the need to decorate, we aren't even celebrating here." He glared at the red light, "Change damn you!" He cursed loudly ignoring the curious and worried glances from passer bys.

"Inu Yasha your causing people to stare" Miroku chuckled while sitting in the passenger's seat. Inu Yasha groaned and rested his forehead against the steering wheel growling at the light.

"Why are all the lights like this here in Yokohama!" He all but yelled at the dastardly light. Inu Yasha's golden hues blazed against his bangs as he leaned against the dark covered seats. "Thanks for coming with me man. I don't want to have to deal with all these bone heads alone." Inu Yasha said casting a would-be attempt of a grateful look towards Miroku. Miroku laughed a bit shaking his head,

"Don't worry bout it. It's better than being with all the stuffy priests back in Noshigato." Miroku sighed. His brother was taking care of those duties. Hojo and Miroku being of the Priest line, this holiday was an important but unfortunately a lot of work for the boys. The Kaze brothers had hosted this event for school ever since they turned 12. Now, all of them were seniors in Shikon, six years later. Sure the event was second nature for the brothers but it still was a lot of work!

"So, think we will get any hot girls this year?" Inu Yasha asked knowing this would cheer up his forever friend…and he wasn't kidding. That statement meant more than this present Miroku would ever know. (If only he knew how much of a spitting image Miroku is of his ancestor Miroku; before the accident.) Inu Yasha thought quietly and let out a wild cheer as the light turned green. He floored it with a hoot and with wild call from Miroku who threw his hands in the air. Suddenly a car beside them revved his engine, a sign of a challenge that he would never back down from.

"Your screwed bitch!" The hugely buff man called out his window,

"Bring it on asshole!" Miroku called back with a smirk,

"Down to the end of Rachio!" Inu Yasha yelled. That was where his school was and he was going to win.

"50 bucks says you eat my rubber!" The man called back.

"Says you fucker!" Inu Yasha growled and floored it. With a screech of tires the two cars blazed down the highway zig zagging through all the cars.

"Whoo-hoo!" Miroku yelled with a laugh throwing his hands in the air flipping off their challenger casually whom was behind them a tad. The two boys leaned towards the right as they swung into a sharp left leading them down an alley way. Floating debris and smoke was the only trail left behind for anyone to conceive that a car had raced by. The man was hot on his trail as they squealed around the corner. It was only a mile down the vacant road, he would win. The two cars were nose to nose beside each other, their engines roaring and the wind screaming past them. Suddenly a squirrel leapt into the road right in front of Inu Yasha's car.

"Shit!" He screamed as he swerved off to the side leaving behind a dark trail of tire streaks. His car did a series of circles down the road by his challenger that slowed to avoid being hit. Both cars finally came to a halt at the gate, Inu Yasha's car at a slant by the other mans. The two teens looked at each other, their hair blasted everywhere and they started laughing so hard they were clutching their sides.

"My fifty bucks please." The man said cockily out his window. The wind blasted Miroku caste him a look of 'oh-shut-the-hell-up-cause-you-ruined-our-fun' and leaned into the back seat and grabbed his monk staff. Leaping out of the side he walked to the end of the cars and held his staff to the fronts. He smirked,

"Yes, please hand over the money dear sir. For I am a humble monk who speaks the truth and my staff does not lie. We won." The man stared wide eyed and flung the money at them and squealed off.

"I can't believe he believed that." Inu Yasha laughed as his picked up the money and Miroku shrugged with a smile. Inu Yasha then parked his car and the two walked past the decorators and walked in one of the set of double doors.

Sesshomaru Taisho. The emotionless statue of perfection and beauty had sat quietly on his cliff. His one leg was brought up as an armrest for one his arms, using the other arm for support as he allowed his free leg to swing off the side of the cliff. His dark amber orbs gazed out at the end of the ocean through his silver bangs. His long hair once more swept back into a low pony tail. Obon, the Lantern Festival. Unknown to the rest of the world, his heart ached and reached out for two souls. He lowered his head and opened his hand and his long fingers uncurled and revealed the two jewels in his hand. There were two bells. A small silver one with the name of his dearest child he missed so much written in kanji. His eyes hardened when he thought of why she had left his grasp, his little angel. Her large mahogany eyes stared at him in fear, longing, praise, love, and affection before she disintegrated right in front of his eyes with her hand out stretched to him. Her loss still festered in his heart like a fresh wound.

The second bell was a larger golden one, his mother's beautiful was carved into it. Small ribbons were entwined the bell with small purple flowers tied into it. His dear mother. He would never forget her celestial perfection. Maybe that was why he strived for perfection; his mother was practically the definition. His heart yearned to see her once more and maybe this year she would find her way home with the lamp he had personally set out on the door step. It sat there just waiting to be lit at dusk. Today was a day that if anyone knew Sesshomaru well enough, it meant to stay out of his way. Especially the following month that celebrated Higan. Inu Yasha and Sesshomaru only settled their qualms for one day. That day was Higan, for both of them had the full impact of sorrow as they would personally set out on their own to the place which made both of them suffer. Where they both suffered the loss of loved ones. He shook his head. Now was not a time to think of that, he would pay his respects tonight. He stood up placing the bells in his pocket and headed back towards home.

When he arrived he saw his Father sitting in the limo waiting for him. His mate had left on a jet earlier that morning to go to some demon's house that held two of their students. They were heading to the school waiting for students to arrive. The first flight of students would be arriving within the hour. They sent Inu Yasha ahead to overlook everything and then Miroku would borrow Inu Yasha's car and go ahead and drive back to Noshigato and prepare why the Taisho family took care of the regal manners. Sesshomaru groaned mentally as he calmly sat down and the limo pulled off. While sitting in his seat the limo was full of an eerie silence and his father spoke first.

"Sesshomaru. Thank you for once again for agreeing to teach the drama and theater students. You will be a big key to success this year if we are to enter the broad way festival." His deep voice seemed to echo in the vicinity of the back of the limo. Sesshomaru's golden hues turned slowly to meet the gaze from his father that seemed to bore into his skull

"Hn." He responded with a half grunt and then turned to gaze out the window again. He watched the trees file after one another in a blurry line but scoffed mentally. If only he could have the freedom to run through the trees to his heart's content in his own demon form again. He missed being able to stretch his own true limbs. That was the only sport he enjoyed in school, track. The people in the Olympics called many times yet he refused. He did not work for humans' enjoyment. He was his own person who ran to get away to get that same adrenaline rush he would get many hundred years before. They arrived at the school to see his half brother leaning against the fountain in the front. The fountain was inspired by both brothers and brought to life by Hojo. The statue on the fountain was Sesshomaru's true form, a statue of the massive phantom dog demon he was. The phantom inu youkai stood proudly on a "cliff" which was the arch of the fountain, the two sister swords engraved and jutted out forming an X with their true forms. From the massive snarl formed by his massive jaws sat the no longer existent Shikon no Tama. Sesshomaru ached to be in that form again but it was not the time. One day each year was devoted to Inu Yasha and Sesshomaru where the spell was lifted and they were allowed to be in their true form. Still five months away. Inu Yasha and Sesshomaru shared a glance of understanding and both looked at the statue. Soon the first jet black, bus arrived in the loop of the entrance and opened its doors to release eager students. So it began.

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In Kyoto Japan…

Sango was sitting quietly on to the top bunk of her bed. Her legs were crossed and her arms were folded across her chest as she leaned against the wall. She was already dressed and everything was packed, hell she didn't even go to bed. By the time she had finished packing the sun was rising. Her dimmed golden eyes looked at the clock 6:14. She was dressed in red tank top and some black jeans that were ripped at the knees. She smiled as she looked at the torn jeans at her knees and the wild strings that were unraveled. With her life and how much Kouga and her wrestled with her, she would be surprised if she find a pair NOT ripped. She wore her favorite black sneakers and had tied her hair up in high pony tail with her favorite black scrunchi. Her wolf ears flickered on her head as she listened to her siblings snoring. There were three sets of bunk beds in the master bedroom where the siblings resided.

One of them held all the girls. Two were paired on the top curled against each other and the last two girls were snoring softly on the bottom. The next one held two little boys on the top that were sprawled all over each other and on the bottom was a massive mound of blankets from where the two boys were curled beneath them. Then on the last one had Kouga on the bottom bunk that lay on the mattress looking at the bottom of the mattress above him. His muscular arms were folded under his head where his untied dark locks spilled over his arms. His ice blue eyes were lost deep in thought thinking. His long, well built form was stretched across the bed. He wore very dark green baggy pants and a chocolate hued shirt. His tail flicked on the bed tossing to and fro and coiled like a snake before flickering around idly. (After we go to Yokohama and I get a chance…I should visit the Higurashi shrine and Her grave.) The her he was referring to was not that of the young miko that plagued his mind in his younger years that was nothing but a memory but his dead mate. Wolves mate for life and when he lost his Ayame it felt like another hole formed in his heart. He sighed and saw the occupant in the bed above him shift then his sister's head poked down from the side of the bed,

"Good morning." She said with a smile and he returned it with a small fanged smirk. Suddenly they heard the knock they had been waiting for all morning. They looked from the window to each other giving each other a nod of confidence. They got up and walked to the door and opened it. There was Mrs. Taisho with a gentle smile.

"Kouga and Sango I presume?" She asked. Her voice was gentle and soft and they nodded and let her in their small abode. She paid no heed to the surroundings and offered a charming smile, "Ready to change so we can head back? You will be accompanying me back on my jet when we are done."

"Ready as we could ever be." Sango said while stifling a yawn. She nodded as Kouga led them to the living room. They sat down and Mrs. Taisho went over a few guidelines.

"Alright, the spell I use fades away every new year. My boys have the same spell on them and so if you got any questions you can ask them or me. It's a basic concealment spell that hides your demon attributes from the human eye. Only thing I suggest it be a bit weary because, for instance, you have a tail Kouga and with this spell; you wont have to hide it but someone might sit on it or something if you are not paying attention." The two wolf siblings nodded. "Ready?" She asked and they nodded mutely and she motioned for them to kneel in front of her and close their eyes.

She placed her hands in front of them and let an eerie glow consume them. Everything around them seemed to loose it's color and the ticking of the clock stopped. Their heart beat had even paused as she began to chant. Her words were full of meaning but devoid of any emotion. They made the room feel cold and their bodies non-existent. Finally, in front of her eyes she watched at the demon appendages started to fade away. She smiled as she noticed them finally leave their presences unknown and she had to use her special senses to feel the demonic aura's around them. "There." She said as the time continued to click, the room began to come alive with colors, and their hearts started to beat once more in their chest leaving them lightheaded. They looked at each other and still saw the wolfy appendages and arched a brow at each other but before they could say anything she had beat them to it, "Don't worry. It is naked to the human eye for I can no longer see them but demons still can see them and others."

"Thank you so much." Sango said with a grand smile and Mrs. Taisho smiled back happily and shooed with her hand,

"Alright get your things." She urged. They stood up and walked back into their room and saw their family awake and poised in their room.

"Oh Mom, Dad, everyone I will miss you!" Sango suddenly burst teary eyed. She embraced her parents sniffling quietly and they embraced her tightly. The little ones ran to the hugging adults and wrapped their small arms around Sango's legs and started to whimper. She laughed a bit and leaned down and hugged her younger siblings. "Oh I love you all so much." Sango said nuzzling them all making the wolf cubs let out growls of comfort. The younger cubs then launched themselves at their older brother, their role model, and hugged him crying.

"Sango." Her mother addressed her and she looked up quietly to see her mother holding something in her hand. "I think it's time I gave you this…"

"You know we are not your real parents….but we will always be here for you." Her father said. She nodded tearfully and grasped the item her mother gave her. She opened the small box and inside laid a photograph. Her eyes widened as she looked at the figures in the picture. The flashback hit her like a ton of bricks.

"Daddy, Kohaku, Mommy!" A young little girl cried out. The four of them were sitting under a tree at a picnic and Sango was wearing her little summer dress. She looked at her family with such love and affection. Her mother was wearing a beautiful light blue dress and her long raven tresses rippled down her back and her blue eyes shown brightly. She offered her daughter a sweet smile. Her father, his short and unruly black locks chopped and danced with the breeze. His dark brown eyes shown bright with happiness and he laughed at his daughter's antics of trying to hold the Polaroid camera correct in her small hands. Her little brother had his wild black locks tied up in a ponytail and had freckles adorning his cheeks and his brown eyes matched hers. Her baby brother stuck his tongue out promptly at the camera as she snapped the picture. She giggled and ran over to her family with a hug.

Later that night they were in silence in the car. It was a comfortable silence though. The rain clattered down on the car and the lightening had struck unmercifully and lit up the sky revealing it's daggers of rain. A blinding light occurred around the corner and loud clatter was the last thing before she felt the drop in her stomach. The car plunged over the side of the cliff as she let out a scream before the car slammed into the rocks below. When she awoke she saw a woman peering over her soaking wet.

Sango had to fight the whimper in her throat and looked at her parents.

"I will always consider you my parents." She said and offered them another smile and hug.

"Have this too. They are relatives of you." Her mother said quietly handing her a piece of paper with an address scribbled on it.

"Thank you." She said.

"Sis, let's go." Kouga said walking over to them. "Take care mom; dad." He said lowering a bit to hug them and nodded to Sango. The two let the room in silence with a duffle bag tossed over their shoulders. They walked out to the car hearing their family say goodbye and waving through the windows.

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In Okinawa Japan…

Shippo lay in bed snoring quietly. His body sprawled out in a tangled mass of blankets and clothes. Shippo was defiantly the typical teen because no matter what was on his bed he would sleep with it and his room was always trashed. His feet were resting on top of a light he was trying to fix the night before for sake of trying to make him fall asleep, his clothes were tangled around his waist and he was drooling on the light plans on his pillow. His light orange locks drifted across his face quietly and flew up and floated back down every time his fan blew in his direction. "HELLO OKINAWA JAPAN! Today is O-bon and make sure you have your lanterns today!" Screamed a voice from his radio.

"Aaaahhhh!" Shippo screamed and toppled off of his bed causing papers to flutter around him and his clothes and blankets practically hogtying him on the floor. He whimpered with watery eyes. His landed on his chin and was stuck with his butt in the air. "Owww…" He whimpered as he tried to sit up. When he sat up something very heavy clanked down on his head. "Owiiiieeee!" He whimpered clutching his skull biting his lip with even more watery eyes. The light he had been working on clanked on his head. He glared at his screaming radio and picked up the light and chucked it at the alarm to hear the pleasing smash. "Hahaha…ha…ha….kuso!" He cursed, "I just spent all night trying to fix that!" He complained. He huffed and stood up stretching his arms above his head and stretching to the tip of his toes. He grinned he looked at the calendar. Today was it and on the calendar was marked in black ink, 'Be at airport at 8:00am.' He looked back at his clock and rolled his eyes as he only saw the sparking insides but grinned when he remembered that his pen pal's flight and his would arrive at the same time. He turned on his computer monitor and looked at the time and let out a high pitched girly scream. 7:10.

In the living room the two parents chuckled and looked at the clock in the living room. 6:10. they looked at each other and snickered once more. Now you wonder where Shippo got his mischievousness from. They heard their son clanking around his room cursing in every language he knew…which wasn't that much in the first place. He was swearing with every word in the book and Shippo's mother shook her head.

"Such a vile mouth." She chided as she continued to cook her son's breakfast. Her mate chuckled while sitting on the couch when suddenly she hissed, "Dammit!" when some sizzling egg got on her hand.

"Well he didn't get it from me love." He teased and she tossed a glare at him before pegging him with a nearby fork. They heard a knock at the door and Mr. Kitsune walked down the little flight of stairs and opened it to reveal their spell caster. Mr. Hachi the raccoon demon. Always good at masking things he was.

"Morning Hachi." Shippo's father said with a laugh as Hachi came up the stairs with him sniffing after smelling breakfast.

"Mmmm! Eggs and bacon!" Hachi cried happily and rushed to the table waiting to be served. Mr. Kitsune chuckled. Shippo was a spitting image of his father; right down to their laugh. Soon Shippo ran in with his bags and ruffed up and wild hair. His stared with wide green eyes at his father who was still in his pajama's.

"Dad! What are you doing? We have to go!" He cried. Shippo had managed to roughly brush his teeth and throw on some baggy khakis and a dark green shirt; his fox appendage flailing around wildly. His father pointed to the clock and Shippo stared at it and smirked. He walked over to the table by the couch and picked up his father's watch and threw it at him. His father caught it and saw it was actually 7:10 indeed. His mother laughed, it appeared that after his father had changed the time on his clock he must have forgotten the computer and Shippo some time in the night changed them. His father let out a scream,

"Hachi, do it fast!" His father yelled running around the house gathering a few things and already rushing down the steps with the bags. Suddenly a loud thud made its self present with mild cursing and grumbling. His mother laughed at her tumbled mate. Hachi did the same spell as Mrs. Taisho and Shippo sighed in relief. He grabbed a apple and ran out the door waving,

"Bye mom!"

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Flight to Yokohama Japan…

Rin gazed out the window with another yawn. She was bored out of her mind! She had to adjust so many times that she had forgotten. She had been on the plane for hours while sailing over the Pacific Ocean. Her CD player had died on her two hours into the trip and her extra batteries were in her suitcase. She had tried reading but with the constant hum of the engine and the annoying baby in the row in front of her and the little brat kicking her seat from behind, hell a dead man couldn't sleep. She sighed and leaned her forehead against the window. The only thing that was half exciting so far was when she saw the whales in the water a little after take off and god knows that was hours ago and still had hours to go. She couldn't help but groan aloud. The plan had mostly Japanese people, besides the fact that it was a flight heading towards Japan, it was today was O-bon for them so it was a rush and very crowded.

She tried drawing but with the god awful turbulence she couldn't even make a zig zag right! It would come out looking like a line trying to look like a lightning bolt that had acid. She frowned, there was nothing to do! She had fallen asleep for awhile but with that little spawn of evil kicking her seat, she would have been better off trying to think this as a sad excuse for a massage. (God what ever I did to piss you off I am sorry!) She screamed mentally as she continued to jut back and forth in her seat from the kicks. She let a gleeful laugh as the attendant gave her a glass of soda. She grinned and took a sip. SPLASH! Rin froze. Her eye started to twitch as she sputtered out the soda that was in her mouth. Her white shirt was now drenched brown from her root bear. She crumbled the plastic cup in her hand angerly as she clenched her fists. If one were to look hard enough you might see steam coming out of her ears.

She spun around her seat with anger and flames rising from her being glaring at the spun around to see the spawn of all hell. Her jaw went slack. It was a cute little girl with a bow tied in her hair, I white frilly dress, and was sucking on a cheery lollipop contently. She didn't have the heart to yell at this little girl. THWAP! Was the sound of the lollipop that was thrown at her face and stuck to her cheek. Yes she did have the heart, and a very pissed off and angry heart to do it with.

"Listen little girl…you just made me ruin my favorite shirt. If you don't want me to bound you up by your frilly little skirt and dangle you from the wing of this plane so I can drop you into the jaws of hungry man eating sharks so they can nibble on your little body, stop annoying me!" Rin all but screamed at the little girl with her fist still clenching the cup and her eyes practically spasming from angry twitches. The little girl whimpered and looked at her with watery eyes. The parents came back to the seat right after she finished from going to the restroom and such and Rin put a heart melting smile on as they addressed her, "Just talking to your beautiful daughter!" She cheered happily and turned around and savored her sweet victory. Now how to shut up the baby in front of her! She thought evilly. Maybe the flight wouldn't be that bad.

After another seven hours she gleefully clapped her hands as they started descending through the clouds. Her shirt had dried and she felt disgusting and sticky. Her hair, that was tied up in its usual side pony tail, smelt like root beer soda and had to fend herself from root beer sucking flies during the flight. The baby had silenced itself when she had threatened it with its binky. She stretched in her heads and fixed her black capries and checked her light blue tennis shoes to make sure they were tied. She slipped on her light blue jacket cringing at the feeling of her wet shirt against her skin. When they landed she smiled, she was finally in Japan. She flocked over to the luggage station and picked out her suitcases. She then walked a ways and saw the terminal her pen pal should be coming from. It wouldn't be to hard to pick him out, I mean how many Japanese people had orange hair now a days? Suddenly she saw a head of orange hair bob in a see of black. She would test her luck.

"Shippo!" She called out was greeted with happy grin eyes. Shippo grabbed his bags and ran over to the girl who called him. They stood in front of each other not saying anything and just taking in each other's features. Rin had to battle with tooth and nail to make sure her blush didn't show up on her cheeks. Shippo though wasn't that strong and a red tint covered his cheeks. They grinned and hugged each other when Shippo leapt back looking at her shirt and Rin's laughter echoed in his ears. "Yeah, umm I had to fight with the little kid that kicked my seat over and over making me spill my soda." She laughed making sure not to speak in English. Shippo laughed when he saw a little girl walk by, look at Rin, and then squeal and run off.

"That one I guess?" He laughed. Yes they would make good friends indeed.

"Come on Shippo let's go find our ride!" She grinned and grabbed his hand and started to tug him through the crowd. Their young laughter echoed through the airport as they when out front.

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Ha! Done! So now everyone is heading over to the school! Next chapter is finally when everyone meets one another! Please Review!

(1)- O-Bon lasts from August 13, to the 16th.

lilred-07 – Yey! I am glad you like the way I format the story, I was worried that people wouldn't like it.

Lunarcat12 – Thank you! I'm glad you are one of my readers! I like writing long chapters cause I know I hate it when I read short ones. xD I Hope to hear another review from you!