Title self-explanatory… AU. Kaoru, Misao, and Megumi all use to live on Sky Mt, until Kaoru's dad and business partners (Megumi's dad and Misao's grandpa) decided to expand their company. 6 years later they're back and all hell breaks loose! k/k, s/m, a/m…OOCness.

Setting: Pretty large town called Sky Mt. Sky Mt. is also the name of the mountain.

Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin or any other big brand names that might be or have been used, so please don't sue! I DO NOT OWN anything but the plot of the story. As far as I know there is no mountain to my knowledge that goes by the name of Sky Mt., or town for that matter. If there is it was merely coincidental and I mean no harm.

Ch 4

A variety of reds, oranges, and yellows lit up the sky. Weaving in and out of each other

creating an amazing sunset, that a certain group of girls were watching from the top of the mountain.

"Wow I forgot how amazing the sunset looked form up here," said Misao in awe; suddenly the wind picked up causing a thin blanket of snow to engulf them.

"Ok, I think that's our cue to head home," exclaimed Kaoru.

Getting nods of agreement they began to make their way down the mountain. Not a care in the world filtering through their minds, just the pure adrenaline rushing through their veins, as they did tricks the whole way down.

Reaching the porch to their new house, (uuhh cabin…you choose) they stopped simultaneously taking off their boards.

Waiting for them was Misao's Grandpa Jiya. "Hey Gramps, what are you doing here," asked Misao running up the porch to give him a big bear hug.

"Hello to you too Misao," chuckled Jiya, "Why don't we all go inside and I'll tell you."

Having successfully started a fire, Jiya wasted no time in telling them that they would all be starting school in two days. Having expected an outburst of some sort he turned around to be greeted by three stunned faces, staring at him as if he were a maniac.

Letting out a wave of laughter Jiya said, "NOT!"

Sighing in relief Misao was about to say something when Jiya again decided to say something, "You guys start tomorrow." Jiya was immediately tackled to the ground by Kaoru and Misao. Misao tugging on his white beard, while Kaoru was ringing his neck, Jiya's usually tan face was beginning to turn purple.

"I was only joking," wheezed Jiya.

With that said Megumi told her two not so happy friends to stop. Gasping for breath Jiya thought it best to sit opposite of Misao and Kaoru.

"Ok you girl's have two weeks before you start school," said Jiya eyeing them carefully to see any sudden movements. "Usually you would start a lot sooner but we thought it best for you all to get acquainted with the mountain and the town again," continued Jiya.

The girls were ecstatic. Two whole weeks of no school. They could unpack and get settled in by tomorrow and then still have 13 days to do whatever they wanted.

Having said what he went their to say, Jiya was ready to leave the girls to do whatever they wanted, but not before getting a bonk on the head for his not so funny jokes made earlier.

Deciding that they should go get a quick bite to eat before they unpacked, they took Kaoru's navy blue H2Hummer into town. Popping in an AC/DC c.d. (greatest band ever! ) Kaoru cranked up the volume as high as it would go and sped out of her drive way.

"Misao…WEASEL," shouted Kaoru over We're on the Highway to Hell.

"What," shouted Misao.

"Turn it down a bit!"

"What? I can't hear you," said Misao turning down the music.

"Never mind…gees," said an exasperated Kaoru.

Finding their old favorite place to eat the Akabeko, they turned into the parking lot and got out to whispers on who they were and how loud their music was. Having dealt with the same situation many times, they walked into the Akabeko unfazed.

The girls loved the Akabeko for its traditional setting. The sliding doors were made out of rice paper, the seat cushions had beautiful Japanese flowers on them, and a wooden table in the center of each room.

It only took about 15 minutes for them to be seated. And another 15 minutes for them to get their rice balls and green tea.

Kaoru and the others had barely finished eating their rice balls, when they noticed a swarm of girls all waiting to be seated.

"Guess the Akabeko has gotten pretty popular over the last six years," whispered Misao. The other two nodded, as they paid for their meal hurriedly as to not get sucked in.

On their way out they heard bits and pieces of different girl's conversations. While one girl with blonde hair and hazel eyes was talking about an absolutely hot "bad boy" another with black shoulder length hair was talking about a mysterious boy with icy blue eyes, but the one boy who had all the girls swooning had violet eyes, and was a complete gentlemen.

As soon as they were outside Kaoru, Megumi, and Misao burst out laughing, they figured as much. They never did quite understand as to why girls acted that way. Sure they had a couple crushes here and there, and had gone on a few dates, but nothing to the point that it became their whole world. In fact none of them had ever had a boyfriend. But they didn't care, to them no guy was worth their friendship. They even had a motto that they held true to "Hoes before homies." (LMAO… hehehe I got that one from my friend )

Around five in the morning, the gang was all done unpacking and their home, which consisted of three bedrooms and bathrooms (they each get their own bathroom) a loft, a living room, kitchen, and dining room looked great. Considering it only took them about eight hours to unpack everything and get situated. Having decided to sleep in Kaoru's newly furnished room, they were ready to go to sleep.

(Going to speed up the story a bit ) two weeks later

"Being woken up by Kaoru's constant snoring is not how I'd like to wake up. And she's in the next room,' thought a groggy Megumi.

The sun was already rising when Megumi stepped out of the shower. Wearing a bright pink tank top over a fish net shirt, accompanied by a black lady-like business jacket, and a pair of navy green pants with a few loose strings hanging on them. Deciding to leave her hair down, Megumi applied some red cherry lip gloss, grabbed her black and white Vans she headed out of her room to see what her friends were doing.

"Still sleeping," mumbled Megumi, as she peeked into each of their rooms. Fox ears popping up Megumi thought of an evil but brilliant plan to wake up the two sleeping beauties. Walking up to Kaoru's alarm clock she changed the time to read 7:50 instead of 7:00. Then with stealth only a fox would have managed to change Misao's wrist watch to read the same.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Bolting up Kaoru took one look at her clock and shot out of bed cursing.

"Huh, was with all the noise," yawned Misao appearing at Kaoru's bedroom door.

"We're goin to be late," said Kaoru heading to the shower.

Taking a look at her watch, Misao let out a scream before running to her room to get ready.

Coming back to Kaoru's room after showering, Misao found Kaoru already dressed in all black with her hair up in a ponytail. She was wearing a black shirt that said 'And you thought you were weird, until you met me,' black punk pants with stars lining the front and back pockets with star studded suspenders hanging low, and black high top converse shoes. Accompanied by a happy bunny wrist band on one hand, while the other hand had many little rubber bracelets as well as just plain studded bracelets.

Putting her studded belt through the last loop of her pants, Kaoru noticed Misao standing at her door again, but this time she had practically every single piece of clothing she owned. Eyeing her weirdly, Kaoru asked Misao what she was doing.

" I need you to help me pick out what I should wear," said Misao.

"Ok…why," asked Kaoru.

"Cause its our first day of school," said Misao as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Kaoru wasn't buying it, and Misao new it. "Oh come on, Kaoru! Please," said Misao giving Kaoru puppy dog eyes.

Sighing, Kaoru told her what she thought and in a flash Misao was gone and dressed. She was wearing a black and white striped long sleeved shirt with the Nightmare Before Christmas' Jack in the center of it, and tan cargo pants with zippers everywhere, and checkered converse shoes. She was also wearing thousands of rubber bracelets and a pink happy bunny wrist band that said 'cute and psycho' on it. And her hair was in its traditional braid. (lol feeling very descriptive)

Ready to go they made their way down stairs, to get themselves a quick bite to eat before leaving.

Reaching the kitchen they found Megumi eating a bowl of cereal.

"Megumi! You know you could have woken us up. Now we're all going to be late," glared Misao.

"Relax weasel, its only 7:20...and here I thought it would take you guys longer to get ready," said Megumi, " If I would have known that when I set your guy's clocks ahead I would have let you guys sleep more."

Eyes bulging, mouths agape, and veins popping out, Megumi found their reactions quite funny.

Megumi being the clever one was able to sneak her way out of trouble, with the mention of school and their ever present friends that they had yet to speak to- thanks to screaming girls and not to mention literally slamming into each other on the slopes, yet again thanks to the screaming fans.

Deciding that they had enough time before school started, Misao was able to talk her friends into walking to school. In no time they were out the door.

AN: HA! How's that for chapter 4? I know still probably plenty of mistakes but no one's perfect! Yea and I know I wasn't even close to having 15 reviews, but hey what can I say I set my goals high… besides you try having a frickin week off of school due to snow and nothing to do because of that snow! (besides snowboarding …even sledding…) but I am literally like trapped in my frickin house cuz the roads are really bad and they even closed off highways…looks around and swear drops - ok yea enough of me telling you about things that are pointless…OH crap before I forget to the reviewers!

LLL: I know short chapters but I hope the next two I put up are long enough for you. - I hope you continue reading my story too. And thanx for taking the time to R&R it meant a lot seeing as you were the first one. lol ok well before I freak you out anymore hope you stick around!

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