A/N:Yay! 60 reviews! I'm so glad ppl love this story so much! This chapter happens to be my favorite. Aww....L'amour....anyways....It's also kind of funny and if anything weird pops up in this chapter...blame it on the trance music im listening to right now...o.O
Disclaimer: I no own the InuYasha characters....just Kago and Nanura...they do my geometry homework ^____^
Nanura: The Daughter of InuYasha and Kagome
Chapter 10 ~ Back to the Past
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Nanura looked about her at the grandeur of the shrine. It had been five years since the incident in the past. InuYasha and Kagome had been married and were due to celebrate their 4 year anniversary very soon.
InuYasha happily held a job at a local buisness center as a security guard. Kagome was employed as a C.E.O's secretary in the same center. Nanura was 20 and just graduated from Junior College. She was moving out soon.
She walked towards the well house and had just put her hand on the door when a large, strong hand came down on her shoulder. She yelped and spun around.
"Daddy! You scared me! Nanura chuckled and clasped a hand to her chest.
"Don't try that 'Daddy!' crap with me. I know you're trying to make me forget that I caught you trying to go down the well. Kanoe's here to see you." InuYasha said forcefully and pushed her off in the direction of the kitchen. "Your mom made lunch for you two girls."
Nanura nodded and walked into the house, They had moved into the shrine to help her grandmother in her failing health.
"Nanura!" Kanoe yelled and gave her best friend a hug. "How ya doin', girl?!"
"Fine, Kanoe. How's life with you?" She responded politely.
"Great! I just finished my sophomore year of college!" Kanoe eagerly announced. Nanura just smirked.
"I've finished Junior college already."
"That's just 'cause you're too damn smart for your own good. You need to move out of your parents' place, girl! It's crampin' your style. You've been so depressed lately." Kanoe remarked.
"Not more than I've been in the last five years. And I am moving out soon. Tomorrow." Nanura smiled at her friend.
"Where?"
"America."
"WHAT?!" Kanoe shrieked, "Are you insane!?"
"Probably."
"Why are you going there?"
"I'm going after a higher education and some of the best, most elite colleges are in the states." Nanura explained calmly.
"More school?"
"Yeah. I'm also afraid that I won't be able to get in touch with you often. So much to do and the telephone bill would eat up all my savings. I'll write you though. Postage isn't that expensive. Even for overseas. I won't be able to keep much in touch with my parents either so don't feel left out." Nanura started crying a little. Kanoe was her best friend after all. It was going to be so hard to leave her. It was going to be hard to cut all of her ties. But it had to be done.
The two friends embraced and shed a few tears together before Kanoe remembered her date with her fiance. "Sorry you'll miss the wedding, Nani. Maybe you can make a special trip out?"
"I'll see if I can. Love ya, Kanoe. I'll miss you." Nanura wipped a tear from her cheek.
"Miss you too, girl. Bye!" Kanoe gave her a kiss on the cheek and ran out the front door. Nanura went up to her room. SHe would leave tonight. When everyone was asleep. For now she would work. She finished making and mending some of the clothes she had collected and seen in the feudal times five years ago. She slipped on one of the traditional villager dresses and packed the rest up in a large peice of cloth she tied onto her back. She tied back her hair in a scarf and put on some old-fashioned sandals she had bought at a retail store. Besides the shoes (which held a made in china stamp on the bottom), she would take no other things from this time.
She pocketed all the money she had saved from her time in the past. It should be enough to see her though all she wanted to do. And if it wasn't she would find some work somewhere. She snuck downstairs after dark and crept out to the well house. She pulled back the doors and stepped inside. The wood creaked and the bottome stair cracked in half under her weight. It smelled horribly of dryrot and missuse.
Breathing hard, Nanura pulled off the well cover and put her foot on the top rung of the rope ladder leading down into the well. She closed her eyes tightly and descended down the well. As her foot hit packed dirt she was sent spinning through the blue mist. She landed in the Feudal Era wheeling slightly from the dizzyness of time travel. She climbed out and took a deep breath of the fresh, crisp air of the breaking dawn. After adjusting her scarf, she walked through the forest to the village.
Now, Nanura was a very smart woman and knew that she wasn't likely to find Shippo right off the bat. She had already planned out where to stay and what to do with the place. She stopped in front of InuYasha's hut. Home, sweet home.
She pulled the bamboo door back and looked inside. Dust and cobwebs were everywhere. An old ramen bowl from their dinner five years ago, lay in the fire pit covered in ashes. Nanura pulled it out and tossed it outside by the door. There was a broom in a corner so she picked it up and started cleaning. She pulled the door up and out of the way before dumping all the dirt out into the road. She worked all day and well into the night to make her meager hut into a livable home.
She scrubbed the walls, the floors, and the kitchen till they shone. She shook out the futon and fixed all the window coverings before starting on her outdoor clean up. She bought fabrics, food, and roof thatching from the local market and got to work quickly. She made curtains and hung them up. She patched up the old, leaking roof and replaced the bamboo door with a fresh, uncracked one. She lived happily in her little world for a good two weeks and by the end of it even had a little garden where she grew some vegetables.
It was on one of the days she was working in the garden that the fateful reunion would take place. Nanura was slaving away with a hoe when Shippo walked by. He looked at the woman doing a man's labor and frowned. He walked up behind her and said quite loudly, "It's so sad to see such a beauty breaking her back and dirtying her hands with such rough, men's work."
Nanura screamed and swung around with her hoe raised above her head. She lowered it slowly as she saw the man standing behind her. He was tall, and with long red hair. She stuck her hoe in the earth and wiped her hands on her skirt.
"Can I help you with something, sir?" She asked politely.
He just stared at her. "You seem really familiar to me..." He commented sort of dazedly.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know you. My Name's Kanoe. kanoe Ushida." Nanura used a fictitous name in order to keep her identity secret....in case of spying parents...
"Well.....Miss Ushida. I'm sorry I startled you. My Name's Shippo. Don't have a last name. Mostly called Kitsune though.....Are you okay? You look pale..." The last was said because Nanura had gone terribly pale and was mumbling something...
"Shi...ppo...." She murmered and fainted.
"Poor girl." Shippo clucked as he caught her. "She must have worn herself out, slaving away like that in the hot sun." He picked her up and took he into her bedroom where he laid her down before going and making some soup for her. As soon as he was done he carried two bowls into the bedroom. She wasn't there. He dropped the soup and rushed out of the hut.
"Miss Ushida!" He called from the front door. Nanura came around the corner holding a watering can and a hoe.
"Yes, Shippo?" She asked as she wandered into her house. She had just knelt down to set down her stuff when Shippo caught her hand. She dropped her gardening tools.
"What are you doing out of bed?" He asked.
"I thought I had been dreaming. And....I had so much work to finish. This hut was a major fixer-upper and I still have a few things to do." Nanura said simply.
"So....you just took over this hut? What if the previous owner comes back?" He quirked an eyebrow at her.
Nanura forgot about her fictitious identity for a while and blurted out, "Oh, he won't. He's off in Tokyo."
"Excuse me?" You know the previous owner?" Shippo stared at her incredulously.
Nanura blushed and started stammering, "No!...I....He's my....no....mom...and...dad...oh! No!...I don't....maybe?No...certainly not...c-can I buy a vowel?" She finally finished.
Shippo got extremely close to her face and pulled her scarf off her head. Her soft, chesnut brown hair tumbled about her shoulders and her green eyes grew large as she looked at him.
"I knew it." He breathed, "My Nani..." He grasped her chin and drew her mouth up to his and kissed her utterly senseless. Nanura held tightly to his shoulders, feeling quite faint again. When he finally pulled back she could hardly breath.
"Shippo..." Was all she could manage.
"My sweetest Nanura. I missed you so! I finished the jewel after you left and turned human. I look different...don't I?" Shippo touched her cheek lightly.
Nanura chuckled. "Yeah. You do." She looked at him intently. "Will you marry me?" She asked timidly after a moment's pause.
Shippo opened and closed his mouth like a landed fish. He was nearly speechless. "I-isn't it the man's job to ask?" He managed to eventually squeak out.
That recieved a chuckle and then an anguished plea for an answer. He looked at her sadly. "I...uh....that is...do you remember Kagome?" He said at last.
"My mom?" Nanura asked with a stupid look on her face.
Shippo quirked an eyebrow. "Uh...noooo....Miroku and Sango's daughter. She's about your age. Just a tad bit younger..."
Nanura's eyes grew large and perceptive. "What about Kagome?" She said slowly and then gasped. "No! You...you didn't! You didn't marry HER did you!? I thought you only loved me! How could you go and get yourself hitched to that chick while I was gone!? You can't have possibly thought that I wouldn't have come back eventually! How could you!? I loved you so much!!" Tears clouded her vision and she kept mouthing the word betrayl over and over again like a mad person. She ripped her scarf from his hands and bolted out the door. She eventually stopped in, ironically, the very same glad InuYasha proposed to Kagome in.
She sat down on the mossy rock and stared, unseeing, at the sparkling brook running through the glade. Memories came flooding back to attack her senses.
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The door flew open and Shippo walked in. He was tall and slender. One of his fox ears twitched slightly as he gazed at Nanura.
"Who, pray tell, is that fascinating creature?" Shippo asked as he jerked his thumb in Nanura's direction. She blushed deeply.
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Nanura sighed as she remembered their first meeting. It hadn't been romantic, but it proved that something had sparked at first sight. She only hoped she would be able to get over him. Another memory assaulted her.
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Shippo's hand slowly went to her side and pulled her down on top of him. He looked into her eyes.
"Why'd you follow me?" Nanura asked breathlessly.
"Why? Because you intrigue me you sexy thing you. Don't ask stupid questions." He replied huskily.
"I don't ask stupid ques-" She was cut off by Shippo pulling her head down nad kissing her deeply. Chaos ensued.
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Nanura bit back a slight moan at the amazing clarity of that particular memory. God. Where was he?
He happened to be running around to Kagome's hut.
"Kagome! Kagome! I need to talk to you!" He called to her door. She came out quickly.
"Shippo? What is it?" She asked in a sweet, worried voice.
"It's about us." Shippo responded impatiently.
Her young eyes grew wide. "Are you going to finalize our engagement?!" She squealed happily.
"No. I'm here to terminate it." He announced in a flat voice.
"What?! Why?!" Tears came to her eyes.
"It's Nanura..." He began.
"That little bastard flake of InuYasha's!?" She yelled in an annoyed voice. Shippo grabbed her by the shoulders and slapped her across the face.
"Never speak of her that way. I don't care is she was born in or out of wedlock. She is more of a woman than you'll ever be." He spat the words at her in disgust then turned around and ran off in search of Nanura. Kagome sat there in shocked silence with a hand to her stinging cheek and tears welling in her eyes.
Nanura sat engrossed in yet another wonderful memory...
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Shippo and Nanura ran hand in hand as fast as they could. When they stopped they were a few good miles from the hut.
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It was short one but it had been the start of what had given them such a strong bond of love. Why'd he have to go off and get engaged to Kagome!?
"Nani!? Nani!? Where are you!? I have to talk to you!" Shippo came charging into the glad calling for her. She dived behind the rock, her heart hammering. She heard him sigh heaviliy and then he sat down on the rock she was hiding behind. "She's gone. She ran out of town. Probably to the well. I've lost her. I've lost her..." He mumbled miserably and started crying softly. In all her years she had never heard or seen a man cry.
She stood up behind him and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He gave a sudden jerk of surprise before Nanura whispered into his ear. "You haven't lost me till I'm dead." He spun around and drew her into his embrace.
"Nanura! You're still here!" He cried with sheer joy. "Oh, Nani....all the years you were gone I suffered. Recently I had started seeing you in Kagome and had gone to the extremem of shackling myself to her. I just broke off the engagement. Can you ever forgive me? I will marry you, if you'll still have me." He pulled her close to him and inhaled her sweet scent.
"Of course I will, my love. I'm sorry about my outburst at the house. I was really upset." She bowed her head.
"Forget it. Let's just enjoy the sparkling romance of this little glade." And with that said he gathered her to him and did all those things Kagome had described as adult five years ago.
A/N: Ooooo....How romantic! All pretty and sparkly! Sigh....I just broke up with my boyfriend this morning and got engaged half an hour later o.O my life's so weird...and really odd. My love life never takes a break these days...-.-' I could sure use one though... Review plz
Disclaimer: I no own the InuYasha characters....just Kago and Nanura...they do my geometry homework ^____^
Nanura: The Daughter of InuYasha and Kagome
Chapter 10 ~ Back to the Past
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Nanura looked about her at the grandeur of the shrine. It had been five years since the incident in the past. InuYasha and Kagome had been married and were due to celebrate their 4 year anniversary very soon.
InuYasha happily held a job at a local buisness center as a security guard. Kagome was employed as a C.E.O's secretary in the same center. Nanura was 20 and just graduated from Junior College. She was moving out soon.
She walked towards the well house and had just put her hand on the door when a large, strong hand came down on her shoulder. She yelped and spun around.
"Daddy! You scared me! Nanura chuckled and clasped a hand to her chest.
"Don't try that 'Daddy!' crap with me. I know you're trying to make me forget that I caught you trying to go down the well. Kanoe's here to see you." InuYasha said forcefully and pushed her off in the direction of the kitchen. "Your mom made lunch for you two girls."
Nanura nodded and walked into the house, They had moved into the shrine to help her grandmother in her failing health.
"Nanura!" Kanoe yelled and gave her best friend a hug. "How ya doin', girl?!"
"Fine, Kanoe. How's life with you?" She responded politely.
"Great! I just finished my sophomore year of college!" Kanoe eagerly announced. Nanura just smirked.
"I've finished Junior college already."
"That's just 'cause you're too damn smart for your own good. You need to move out of your parents' place, girl! It's crampin' your style. You've been so depressed lately." Kanoe remarked.
"Not more than I've been in the last five years. And I am moving out soon. Tomorrow." Nanura smiled at her friend.
"Where?"
"America."
"WHAT?!" Kanoe shrieked, "Are you insane!?"
"Probably."
"Why are you going there?"
"I'm going after a higher education and some of the best, most elite colleges are in the states." Nanura explained calmly.
"More school?"
"Yeah. I'm also afraid that I won't be able to get in touch with you often. So much to do and the telephone bill would eat up all my savings. I'll write you though. Postage isn't that expensive. Even for overseas. I won't be able to keep much in touch with my parents either so don't feel left out." Nanura started crying a little. Kanoe was her best friend after all. It was going to be so hard to leave her. It was going to be hard to cut all of her ties. But it had to be done.
The two friends embraced and shed a few tears together before Kanoe remembered her date with her fiance. "Sorry you'll miss the wedding, Nani. Maybe you can make a special trip out?"
"I'll see if I can. Love ya, Kanoe. I'll miss you." Nanura wipped a tear from her cheek.
"Miss you too, girl. Bye!" Kanoe gave her a kiss on the cheek and ran out the front door. Nanura went up to her room. SHe would leave tonight. When everyone was asleep. For now she would work. She finished making and mending some of the clothes she had collected and seen in the feudal times five years ago. She slipped on one of the traditional villager dresses and packed the rest up in a large peice of cloth she tied onto her back. She tied back her hair in a scarf and put on some old-fashioned sandals she had bought at a retail store. Besides the shoes (which held a made in china stamp on the bottom), she would take no other things from this time.
She pocketed all the money she had saved from her time in the past. It should be enough to see her though all she wanted to do. And if it wasn't she would find some work somewhere. She snuck downstairs after dark and crept out to the well house. She pulled back the doors and stepped inside. The wood creaked and the bottome stair cracked in half under her weight. It smelled horribly of dryrot and missuse.
Breathing hard, Nanura pulled off the well cover and put her foot on the top rung of the rope ladder leading down into the well. She closed her eyes tightly and descended down the well. As her foot hit packed dirt she was sent spinning through the blue mist. She landed in the Feudal Era wheeling slightly from the dizzyness of time travel. She climbed out and took a deep breath of the fresh, crisp air of the breaking dawn. After adjusting her scarf, she walked through the forest to the village.
Now, Nanura was a very smart woman and knew that she wasn't likely to find Shippo right off the bat. She had already planned out where to stay and what to do with the place. She stopped in front of InuYasha's hut. Home, sweet home.
She pulled the bamboo door back and looked inside. Dust and cobwebs were everywhere. An old ramen bowl from their dinner five years ago, lay in the fire pit covered in ashes. Nanura pulled it out and tossed it outside by the door. There was a broom in a corner so she picked it up and started cleaning. She pulled the door up and out of the way before dumping all the dirt out into the road. She worked all day and well into the night to make her meager hut into a livable home.
She scrubbed the walls, the floors, and the kitchen till they shone. She shook out the futon and fixed all the window coverings before starting on her outdoor clean up. She bought fabrics, food, and roof thatching from the local market and got to work quickly. She made curtains and hung them up. She patched up the old, leaking roof and replaced the bamboo door with a fresh, uncracked one. She lived happily in her little world for a good two weeks and by the end of it even had a little garden where she grew some vegetables.
It was on one of the days she was working in the garden that the fateful reunion would take place. Nanura was slaving away with a hoe when Shippo walked by. He looked at the woman doing a man's labor and frowned. He walked up behind her and said quite loudly, "It's so sad to see such a beauty breaking her back and dirtying her hands with such rough, men's work."
Nanura screamed and swung around with her hoe raised above her head. She lowered it slowly as she saw the man standing behind her. He was tall, and with long red hair. She stuck her hoe in the earth and wiped her hands on her skirt.
"Can I help you with something, sir?" She asked politely.
He just stared at her. "You seem really familiar to me..." He commented sort of dazedly.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know you. My Name's Kanoe. kanoe Ushida." Nanura used a fictitous name in order to keep her identity secret....in case of spying parents...
"Well.....Miss Ushida. I'm sorry I startled you. My Name's Shippo. Don't have a last name. Mostly called Kitsune though.....Are you okay? You look pale..." The last was said because Nanura had gone terribly pale and was mumbling something...
"Shi...ppo...." She murmered and fainted.
"Poor girl." Shippo clucked as he caught her. "She must have worn herself out, slaving away like that in the hot sun." He picked her up and took he into her bedroom where he laid her down before going and making some soup for her. As soon as he was done he carried two bowls into the bedroom. She wasn't there. He dropped the soup and rushed out of the hut.
"Miss Ushida!" He called from the front door. Nanura came around the corner holding a watering can and a hoe.
"Yes, Shippo?" She asked as she wandered into her house. She had just knelt down to set down her stuff when Shippo caught her hand. She dropped her gardening tools.
"What are you doing out of bed?" He asked.
"I thought I had been dreaming. And....I had so much work to finish. This hut was a major fixer-upper and I still have a few things to do." Nanura said simply.
"So....you just took over this hut? What if the previous owner comes back?" He quirked an eyebrow at her.
Nanura forgot about her fictitious identity for a while and blurted out, "Oh, he won't. He's off in Tokyo."
"Excuse me?" You know the previous owner?" Shippo stared at her incredulously.
Nanura blushed and started stammering, "No!...I....He's my....no....mom...and...dad...oh! No!...I don't....maybe?No...certainly not...c-can I buy a vowel?" She finally finished.
Shippo got extremely close to her face and pulled her scarf off her head. Her soft, chesnut brown hair tumbled about her shoulders and her green eyes grew large as she looked at him.
"I knew it." He breathed, "My Nani..." He grasped her chin and drew her mouth up to his and kissed her utterly senseless. Nanura held tightly to his shoulders, feeling quite faint again. When he finally pulled back she could hardly breath.
"Shippo..." Was all she could manage.
"My sweetest Nanura. I missed you so! I finished the jewel after you left and turned human. I look different...don't I?" Shippo touched her cheek lightly.
Nanura chuckled. "Yeah. You do." She looked at him intently. "Will you marry me?" She asked timidly after a moment's pause.
Shippo opened and closed his mouth like a landed fish. He was nearly speechless. "I-isn't it the man's job to ask?" He managed to eventually squeak out.
That recieved a chuckle and then an anguished plea for an answer. He looked at her sadly. "I...uh....that is...do you remember Kagome?" He said at last.
"My mom?" Nanura asked with a stupid look on her face.
Shippo quirked an eyebrow. "Uh...noooo....Miroku and Sango's daughter. She's about your age. Just a tad bit younger..."
Nanura's eyes grew large and perceptive. "What about Kagome?" She said slowly and then gasped. "No! You...you didn't! You didn't marry HER did you!? I thought you only loved me! How could you go and get yourself hitched to that chick while I was gone!? You can't have possibly thought that I wouldn't have come back eventually! How could you!? I loved you so much!!" Tears clouded her vision and she kept mouthing the word betrayl over and over again like a mad person. She ripped her scarf from his hands and bolted out the door. She eventually stopped in, ironically, the very same glad InuYasha proposed to Kagome in.
She sat down on the mossy rock and stared, unseeing, at the sparkling brook running through the glade. Memories came flooding back to attack her senses.
~*~*~
The door flew open and Shippo walked in. He was tall and slender. One of his fox ears twitched slightly as he gazed at Nanura.
"Who, pray tell, is that fascinating creature?" Shippo asked as he jerked his thumb in Nanura's direction. She blushed deeply.
~*~*~
Nanura sighed as she remembered their first meeting. It hadn't been romantic, but it proved that something had sparked at first sight. She only hoped she would be able to get over him. Another memory assaulted her.
~*~*~
Shippo's hand slowly went to her side and pulled her down on top of him. He looked into her eyes.
"Why'd you follow me?" Nanura asked breathlessly.
"Why? Because you intrigue me you sexy thing you. Don't ask stupid questions." He replied huskily.
"I don't ask stupid ques-" She was cut off by Shippo pulling her head down nad kissing her deeply. Chaos ensued.
~*~*~
Nanura bit back a slight moan at the amazing clarity of that particular memory. God. Where was he?
He happened to be running around to Kagome's hut.
"Kagome! Kagome! I need to talk to you!" He called to her door. She came out quickly.
"Shippo? What is it?" She asked in a sweet, worried voice.
"It's about us." Shippo responded impatiently.
Her young eyes grew wide. "Are you going to finalize our engagement?!" She squealed happily.
"No. I'm here to terminate it." He announced in a flat voice.
"What?! Why?!" Tears came to her eyes.
"It's Nanura..." He began.
"That little bastard flake of InuYasha's!?" She yelled in an annoyed voice. Shippo grabbed her by the shoulders and slapped her across the face.
"Never speak of her that way. I don't care is she was born in or out of wedlock. She is more of a woman than you'll ever be." He spat the words at her in disgust then turned around and ran off in search of Nanura. Kagome sat there in shocked silence with a hand to her stinging cheek and tears welling in her eyes.
Nanura sat engrossed in yet another wonderful memory...
~*~*~
Shippo and Nanura ran hand in hand as fast as they could. When they stopped they were a few good miles from the hut.
~*~*~
It was short one but it had been the start of what had given them such a strong bond of love. Why'd he have to go off and get engaged to Kagome!?
"Nani!? Nani!? Where are you!? I have to talk to you!" Shippo came charging into the glad calling for her. She dived behind the rock, her heart hammering. She heard him sigh heaviliy and then he sat down on the rock she was hiding behind. "She's gone. She ran out of town. Probably to the well. I've lost her. I've lost her..." He mumbled miserably and started crying softly. In all her years she had never heard or seen a man cry.
She stood up behind him and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He gave a sudden jerk of surprise before Nanura whispered into his ear. "You haven't lost me till I'm dead." He spun around and drew her into his embrace.
"Nanura! You're still here!" He cried with sheer joy. "Oh, Nani....all the years you were gone I suffered. Recently I had started seeing you in Kagome and had gone to the extremem of shackling myself to her. I just broke off the engagement. Can you ever forgive me? I will marry you, if you'll still have me." He pulled her close to him and inhaled her sweet scent.
"Of course I will, my love. I'm sorry about my outburst at the house. I was really upset." She bowed her head.
"Forget it. Let's just enjoy the sparkling romance of this little glade." And with that said he gathered her to him and did all those things Kagome had described as adult five years ago.
A/N: Ooooo....How romantic! All pretty and sparkly! Sigh....I just broke up with my boyfriend this morning and got engaged half an hour later o.O my life's so weird...and really odd. My love life never takes a break these days...-.-' I could sure use one though... Review plz