And the winner for the latest update ever is….Me! T.T Sorry everyone. I have no excuse for not posting this chapter until now and, like the last one, it's been in my notebook forever! I wrote them about the same time too, yet they're about 2months apart. That's sad. -- I do torture Inu a bit in this chapter. I don't know why, maybe I was in a bad mood when I wrote it. Well, I'll get to the chapter now. Please, don't' anyone kill me because of the amazing lateness of this chapter! Oh, and Kanji, if you're reading this, good luck in college!

"The festival is starting soon." Claire said as she watched a small parade of lantern bearing children walking into the village.

"And you have a very short time to get ready!" GK said, hurrying past her and Erin.

"When did you get here?" Erin asked.

"Just now." GK said. "Come over here and pick out a dress. Sarong. Kimono. Whatever they're called here." She jogged to the rest of the group. "Come on! Come on! Not much time. Move!" she shoved past Inuyasha. "Everything you need for tonight is in this bag. I have to go. Dream! Moon! You have to come with me." She dropped the bag in front of Kagome and left in a rush with Todd and Alicia trotting after.

Shippo was in the bag before they were even out of sight, but Kagome pulled him out and started a more organized way of riffling through the bag.

"Wow!" she pulled out a blue kimono with pictures of gold and yellow koi swimming all over it. Soon all the girls were at the bag trying to find a kimono of their own.

In the end (after everyone, even Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo had chosen and gotten dressed) this is what everyone ended up wearing: Kagome had given her blue koi kimono to Sarah and now had a red kimono with cherry blossom branches. Kanji and Becky also had cherry blossom kimonos but their background colors were (respectively) white and black. Sarah had the blue kimono with yellow and gold koi, Kilana had a green kimono with silver and grey koi, and Sango a green kimono with bronze and brown koi. Claire had a dark green kimono with white lotus flowers and Yuki had a blue kimono with white lotus flowers. Erin and Clara both had gold phoenixes, but Erin's back ground color was black and Clara's red.

Shippo had a young boy's kimono that was simply red and white. After some digging a red ribbon was also found to keep his hair in that little bun. Miroku got a dark blue and white kimono and Inuyasha refused to wear any kimono at all for a while. He finally came around after some pleading from the American girls, a whap from Sango, and a few 'sit's' from Kagome. Now he was sitting in a huff away from everyone wearing a kimono that looked so much like the one he normally wore no one believed him the first time he said he had changed. (If it look so similar, why did he fight you ask. Well, it's Inuyasha and I think he likes to argue.)

Anyway, after everyone had dressed and Inuyasha had been convinced to actually go to the festival since he was all dressed up anyway, everyone did some final "Do I look alright? No, you're missing a shoe. Oops!" and they were off!

((And now a quote for the math people!

Life without Geometry is Pointless.

-A sign on my math teacher's door))

DOM DOM DOM DOM

Everyone moved in time with the slow steady drum beat. Even though some of the girls had never danced anything more complicated then Cotton Eye Joe (Guilty.), they did just as well as Sango. That is to say, they knew what was going on, but still got lost a couple of times.

Speaking of lost, so were Inuyasha and Shippo. Early on in the night, a group of little kids had caught sight of Inuyasha and thought he was an actor or the ancient Japanese equivalent of a clown. Long story short, he and Shippo were currently giving horse-y rides to all the little kids in some unknown part of the village.

DOM DOM DOM CLACK

The drummers crossed their sticks signaling the end of the dance.

(("I don't think that's legal. Though the door handling that is."

From the list of things that sound wacky out of context.))

"Look!" Yuki had spotted the little shop selling painted cats.

"Cats!" Sarah exclaimed looking excitedly at the shop. After the drum dance, the group made more or less split up. Sango and Kagome had gone to rescue Inuyasha from whatever kids still wanted horse-y rides. Miroku (who had only watched the drum dance) had suggested that he go find food for everyone, but Sango dragged him along in her search anyway. All the other girls had gone in search of the wooden cat booth.

"Let's go!" Claire said and grabbing Erin's kimono sleeve marched forward. Yuki rushed forward, more excited then anyone and soon everyone was lost to everyone else (except Claire who still had a firm grip on Erin) because a large group of people had just crossed in front of the shop and many had stop to look. Eventually the crowd left and the girls regrouped.

"So," Kilana commented. "Anyone know what we're looking for?"

"Nope!" Claire said cheerfully. Since no one else knew either, they compensated to looking alternatively at the cats and at passers-by.

"Aww." Yuki was looking at a painted that looked like one of her own cats at home, only quite a bit fatter.

"Excuse me," Yuki felt someone tugging on her arm. She looked down and saw a little boy with short brown hair and bright brown eyes. "What's your name?" He was dressed in a black and yellow kimono similar to the one Shippo was wearing.

"He's so cute!" Yuki thought as she leaned down to look the boy in the eyes. "My name's Yuki." She smiled.

"Yuki?" the boy repeated her name and looked thoughtful for a moment. "Yuki!" He suddenly cried jumping forward to hug her.

"Huh!" Yuki straightened up, confused. The boy let go and stepped back.

"My name is Seth!" He said energetically. He grabbed her hand and started to walk away while still talking. "You have to come see…my mom and Lilly…" They had reached to side of the shop and Yuki was literally asleep on her feet. Erin saw her and dragged an oblivious Claire over with her.

"Wait…mom…" the boy sat down next to Yuki and then fell over onto her as deeply asleep as she was.

And so ends my uber late (and quite whimpy) chapter . I hope everyone liked it! Next chapter is already half written and should be posted tomorrow. Yay! Well, I have to go help make dinner now. I must leave. Please review! Bye all!

(insert cuss words here) Stupid FF. It tkane away my tabs! It's so annoying! Grrrrr. (insert more annoyed cuss words here)