The girls had woken up early the next day, most of them huddled around the ten large mirrors to do their make-upand hair, even though they all knew that both would be ruined by the end of the day but they still wanted to look good for breakfast. After all, Riku would be there. Yes all of the girls had gone nuts for the guy. Besides his obvious good looks, they had found out last night at dinner that he had a great sense of humour, was very intellegent and had the most charming, heart melting smile ever. He was now the girls dream guy. It was probably the only thing that all of the third year girls would agree on.

Once the girls were completely satified with their looks, they headed out for the lodge to get breakfast. They were barely able to contain themselves when the saw Riku sitting at a long table to the far end of the room with the teacher who had come with them, Tamiko and two other people they had never seen before. One of them was an old woman dressed in a red and white kimono. She had an eye patch over her left eye (A/N: i dunno which eye Keade had her eye patch on. yes it is Keade if you hadn't guessed... guess who the other is!). The other was an old balding man. Soon the lodge was full with students and breakfast was served.

About halfway through the meal Tamiko stood up and blew a whistle she had around her neck as hard as she could. Every one cringed. Tamiko just stood there silently waiting for the students to stop talking. Today she was wearing a light blue tank top with the camp logo in white on it and some kaki shorts. She still had her overly cheery smile. As soon as everyone stopped talking she spoke. "How is everyone? Good? Great! As you all know, today is your first day of training. Joining us is Lady Keade and Myoga." She said pointing to the old man and woman. "They will be instructing you on a few of the basic survival tactics like how to light a fire with stones and twigs, how to create shelter and so on. This afternoon they will be teaching you on what to do if you are faced with an animal or demon and have no weapon and the qualities of certain plants you may come across." At this point Tamiko sat down and Riku stood up.

He was wearing a black t-shirt with the camp logo in white and grey jogging pants. He was smirking at the crowd. "This is for the boys," He said calmly. "You will have time to yourselves later on tonight. Boys you won't be able to return to your cabin until 7 tonight. The exterminator will be.... well... exterminating and the cleaning staff will be cleaning. Don't worry your personal belongings will be taken out before anything happens. You are more than welcome to spend your free time here in the lodge or, for today and only for today, the boys will be allowed in the girls cabin if you wish. But, if it is reported that any of you are misbehaving in there, this privilage will be taken away." Oddly enough, riku seemed to glance over at Miroku while saying that last bit. "Alright, that all for now. Please finish you breakfast, lessons begin in half an hour." With that he sat down.

Everyone practically inhaled their food and put away their trays before heading outside for their training. The first lesson was on how to create a fire using tools that can be found in any forest, such as rocks, twigs and leaves. The were put into groups of three and sent to gather such materials. Once they had all returned Myoga and Keade inspected each groups materials and instructed them on how to start a small fire. Kagome, Sango and Ayames fire got a little out of control sending a rather large patch of grass up in flames. The girls were frantically stepping of it until Kagome got burned. Then they ran away as Myoga ran over with a bucket of water and put out the fire. The girls laughed nervously and decide that who ever they were going to be paired with should light the fire, it would be safer that way.

An hour later the students were brought into the woods and shown how to make mock tents using leaves and twigs. The lesson took until 11:30 to complete. The students were given until 1:30 to do what ever they wanted as long as they didn't go into the forest or into the boys cabin. Some of them headed back to the lodge to have an early lunch, most of the girls however headed back to their cabin to wash up or just relax. But relax was something that none of them would do. Miroku had practically dragged Inuyasha and Kouga with him as he followed the girls to their cabin, taking advantage of the days privilage. Sango was the first to notice the boys presence.

"Where do you think your going?" She yelled grabbing the collar of Mirokus shirt as he attempted to enter the washroom.

"I need to go to the bathroom," he said with a goofy grin plastered across his face.

"I don't think so!" She said dragging him and the two other boys as far away from the bathroom as possible. "Your staying right here if you insist on staying in this cabin." With that she turned on her heel and sat on the couch in the middle of the room beside Kagome and Ayame. Kagome was tending to her burn using a first aid kit she had come across. Ayame looked completely drained of energy. She had mummbled something about taking a shower when the washroom cleared out a bit. Sango was glaring at Miroku who was listening to Kouga as he and Inuyasha complained about being hungry.

Around noon the cabin had emptied signifigantly, including the three boys who had left to get something to eat. Ayame and Kagome decided to try out the jacuzzi and Sango went upstairs to lay down. She slowly drifted into a light sleep.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Sangos eye flew wide open and she bolted upright at the sound of the scream.

CRASH

She ran down stairs to see a rather bruised Miroku on the floor, and a very confused looking Inuyasha and Kouga standing in the doorway. It didn't take long to figure out what had happened. "MIROKU!" She screeched, her fists balled at her sides. "You have three seconds to get out of my sight..." She glared at the now standing boy who looked absolutely petrified. "One... Two... Thr-" The boys ran for their lives.

Kagome and Ayame walked out of the washroom, fully clothed a second later. Kagome was looking very annoyed while Ayames face matched her hair.

"That pervert came into the washroom while me and Ayame were getting out of the juacuzzi!" Kagome said with clenched teeth.

Sango had guessed right. She sighed and walked over to the door. "Lets go get some lunch before the lessons start up again," she suggested.

Kagome and Ayame looked at one another and shrugged. "Sure," Ayame said as she and Kagome walked out the door after Sango.

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The afternoon flew by. They spent until almost seven learning about different plants and their qualities and how they can be used in certain situations. It was really quite interesting at first, but after the two hour mark, everyone was bored to tears. It was such a releif to everyone when Riku and Tamiko came looking for them saying that diner had been seved an hour ago and was getting cold. The students had practically flown out of there in haste of getting food in their empty and grumbling tummies.

Once dinner was over the students were told to go straight to bed, it would be a long day tomorrow. They would also find out who their partner was going to be the next morning. They would have to go through the lessons with their partner. The girls returned to their cabin and the boys went back to theirs (which was now clean and insect free). All the girls prayed not to have Miroku as their partner and went to bed. The boys all took much needed showers in their now sparkiling washrooms and went to bed, loking forward to finding out who their partner was going to be, none more so than Miroku.

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A/N: Ok here it is... FINALLY! im so sorry for the wait. I had some writting issues for most of the week and then i started a new story. I hope this chapter isn't too bad. I know its alot of they did this and they did that but i promise after the next chapter everything will start to happen. Next chapter should be more interesting seeing as they will be all paired up. I bet you can all guess whode with who! lol.

Ok now im going to shamlessly pimp my new story :D. It's called 'Falling for the Guy in Room 1346' and I highly recomend it to any who LOVE Kouga/Ayame pairing. It's good (well i think it is), its gotten almost as many reviews as this one and ive only posted one chapter and that was yesterday. so yes please read it. pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssseeeeee!?!

Ok so i know all the lovers of this story may not be happy that I'm starting a new story, but i promise not to give up on this story. The updates won't be as often, maybe one a week depending on my mood. but i promise, i will NEVER give up. So enough of this super duper huge A/N. R&R pleasie! toodles all!