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. . . Everything will be explained at the end of the chapter. You all know what to do from here. Read.

Recognizing True Love

Unexpected Greetings

There was silence that spread throughout the room, except for the low noise coming from the TV, which was forgotten. Bankotsu loved silence, but this time it made him kinda uncomfortable. HE was about to say hi, but he felt the couch shift slightly and looked over to see Sango standing up. He watched as she went over to the other woman, who looked strangely familliar to him. Watching as Sango practically dragged the girl in the other room, he sat there being confused. What a strange friend Sango has, he thought to himself.

"Hey, Kagome! Mind helping me with these bags?" Bankotsu heard a familiar vouice from outside the apartment and in the hall, where he went to the moment he heard Inuyasha. He recognized the voice now, and the girl as well. Inuyasha was a friend, not a close one, but still he was a friend. Bankotsu saw Inuyasha outside the door, juggling over 5 large boxes in his arms.

"Oi, Inuyasha," Bankotsu exclaimed, tryign to help the angered unusually black haired friend. Must have been a full moon tonight, he thought while trying to steady Inuyasha and help him carry the boxes inside. How much stuff could one girl buy? Geez, it's like she bought a whole store of clothes that was in the mall. Once they got the boxes and bags situated and thrown carlessly into the apartment, Inuyasha looked at Bankotsu with a puzzled expression.

"What the hell are you doing here," he asked rudely, not really caring about the reason all that much.

Bankotsu shrugged his shoulders in a careless way. "Sango forgot her bag at the cafe. I returned it to her. That girlfriend of your's is acting strange. . ."

"Like always," Inuyasha finished not really caring about what he said either. They both shrugged and a minute later the two girl s came out with Sango having the same expression on her face as Inuyasha had moments ago (A very annoyed expression), and Kagome looked like she just solved one of the biggest puzzles in the world.

"Hey, Bankotsu," she said while Inuyasha and Sango gave eachother a nod in greeting. Bankotsu gave a curt nod to Kagome, then looked over at Sango.

"Well, I think I'm gonna go now. See ya Inuyasha, bye Kagome," he looked at both as he said this, then back at Sango. "I'll see you at work."

Sango resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the little eye contact hand motion he did before he turned to leave. After he left in the elevator, she turned back to her room, ready to get ready and go to bed.

"Oi, Sango! Me and Kagome are gonna watch a movie," he paused as he hushed his grammar-correcting girlfriend. "You want to watch it with us?"

Sango shook her head immediatly. "Nah. I think I'm just gonna go to bed. G'night you two," not even bothering to wait for their goodnights to her, she shut the door to her room. She walked over to her desk and put her bag on it, along with any other things she didn't want to wear for the night. After she got dressed, she went to the bathroom to go brush her teeth, ignoring the noisey movie Kagome and Inuyasha were watching, paying no attention to their tired friend. And she didn't really care. After brushing her teeth, going back into her room, and shutting the door, she put her hair into a low ponytail so that it wouldn't be as tangled when she got up for her shower. She set her alarm clock to 8:30 am so that she would have enough time before work to get ready. She already knew her schedule thanks to her memory. As she turned her light off and jumped into bed, her thoughts turned over to Miroku. She knew he didn't like Bankotsu from the start, but what she doesn't understand is how he could be so worked up over one guy she met, when she found him cheating on her tons of times. She often wondered, only for a moment, why she was still with him. Right now, was one of those moments. She thought for a while, until drowsiness finally claimed her, and she fell into a light sleep.

"Tomorrow we're having a special guest on our-"

Sango's hand fell limply off the snoze button on her clock, while the other reached up to try ridding some of the sleepiness that was there. She rolled on her stomach, used her arms to haul herself up so that she was kneeling, and stretched widely. A few seconds she was motionless, letting the drowsiness fade somewhat. Then she jumped out of bed and grabbed her things, including her uniform, and went to the bathroom, to sleepy to realize that Kagome was there near the counter holding a cup of coffee.

After that, the brown eyed girl came out of the bathroom, refreshed and more awake than before. She noticed that Kagome left already. Maybe she would just have to ride her bike to work? She wasn't in the mood to come face to face with Miroku ever since that little slip up she had last night.

Sighing, she grabbed her bag from out of her room and went out the apartment. She grabbed her bike from the bike rack outside, and started pedaling towards work. She knew she was gonna be early, but she wanted to be on time or before that. Who knows, maybe she won't even see Miroku anytime soon. For once, she hoped it was like that. Besides, she has her bike. He can't drive her to and from work.

(Sigh) Here it goes. After I updated this story last year (you know what I mean), my internet connection went haywire on the downstairs computer, so I figured that I could actually go on the upstairs computer, which is really my aunt's computer. But the thing is, I went on when she was only at work for a few days. That is until my sister ratted me out and my aunt changed her password on me -.-, I had a hard time trying to figure it out so I gave up on it. So I tried this computer (downstairs one) to see if it worked at all. To my luck, it did. So I figured I could update a few other stories and add a new one in. After that, I wasn't really in the mood for writing, more like in the mood for reading. Whenever I tried getting online here though, after like 5 minutes each time it would throw me off, throw me back on, then back off, than back on, and it would keep on doing that until it would just stay signed off and leave me frustrated beyond anything else and mad at my aunt because she wouldn't even let me get on her computer. Not even when she was right there and not out. Believe me, I tried figuring out her password, but it would help me if she actually had a friggin' hint instead of nothing for me to guess at. Around new years, my parents friend installed a cheap wireless router into our computer, thus making it even worse than before. He said it was fine and if there were any problems, I should call him. There were problems alright. But I didn't call him since it was his fault it wouldn't sign on at all on days and others would just let me on for a minor second. But that was after the sign on and off and on thing. It got worse day by day. So when that happened, I was more like in the reading mood, and when I was in the writing mood, I would have just gotten introuble during school since I would write chapters when I really should have been listening to the boring talks the people have. I read a lot of books in that time though, which was only for about 5 days. I read a 498 page book in less than a day (I'm a fast reader, so what?). And hey that was the best book I have ever read. I'm serious. But now I can't even look through it 'cuz I let Chrissy borrow it. So... yeah. There's more to this, but I'm sure you don't want to read every little thing that happened. And I'm taking too much space for just a... 'little' explination here...

So here... don't for get to R&R... well actually you already read the chapter. So now review please! And I'm sorry for the long delay!