1Sorry peeps for the long wait. High school is a hammer and it beats you till you turn to paper. Yup I'm feeling the strains. But it's summer now so I can get back to doing what I love. Ok well here's the next chapter hope you all like.

Disclaimer: Roses are red violets are blue, I don't own Inu so boo hoo hoo.

Yumi crept around the corner of the showers, peering around to make sure no one witnessed her entry. As quietly as she could she pushed the door open a crack, and found that at least five boys were in there showering. She had never seen any of them before, so it was a good chance they didn't know she was a girl. While tugging at her jersey so it appeared that she had a boyish figure, Yumi looked around nervously again. She really didn't want to get caught, and have some one hold this over head for the whole remainder of summer. Her hands darted to push all her curls under her cap. Now it seemed she was eligible to inconspicuously shower. Yumi took one last glance around and finally pushed the door open, and attempted to swagger in. The boys that were inside already looked over to her, then went back to their conversation. It seemed that there was a big argument over which baseball team was the best. None of them payed her much attention. Easy for them to say, they thought she was a boy, meanwhile Yumi's face had lighted up with an immense shade of scarlet. There were naked boys in here.

Quietly she went over to the very last shower stall, and closed the curtain quickly. Her heart pounded, as she looked at the algae-green floor. She had made it in without anyone noticing her real gender. Well, better make this fast in case the bathroom started filling up.

About halfway through cleaning herself, it seemed all the sweaty boys in the entire camp had dredged in the door, judging by the sound level of course. There were boys across from her and next to her, all shouting and jostling with each other. The really awkward thing was that most had the shower curtains open, and were talking to each other. Yumi might have been the only one with it drawn.

"Hey are you done in there?" Someone called to Yumi. Yumi practically jumped out of her skin, now she had to get out. And god dammit she only had her whip cream clothes, sneakers and a towel. Of course she had her cap too, which she shoved on her head. Once again concealing her curls.

"Almost finished." Yumi called back. Her voice was much higher than the rest of the boys inside there. Some of the chatter died down a little.

Most were thinking "no real guy could have a voice like that. It sounds like a freaking girl!"

Ok it was now or never. She wrapped the towel around her body covering up her most important parts, and then whipping the curtain back she sped for the exit. Not many people had even looked at the nearly naked streaker. But it was just her luck that there was a crowd by the door. Great just perfect. Some of the guys gave curious looks but many ignored her. Almost there! She elbowed her way to the front. Many of the guys were giving protesting yells, at being shoved.

"FREEDOM!" Yumi shouted when she was outside. Now she only had to make it back to her cabin. Ok this is going to be hard in nothing but a towel. It's a good thing Yumi's not a slow runner.

At the defiled cabin...

"Hey! I'm working here! Go find another spot!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome. She was about to set a bucket of soapy water down next to him.

"Fine, I didn't want to work next to you anyways..." Kagome trudged to the end of the line where Tom was. This was her chance to talk to her without being overheard. The other guys had separated themselves from Tom. He was working alone at the corner of the cabin.

"Hey." Kagome said and plopped her bucket down next to her. She got out her own sponge and silently began to scrub. After a few moments Kagome leaned over and whispered,

"What's your real name?" Tom looked stunned, but quickly regained her composure.

"My name is Tom, I thought you knew that already." She said in her fake low voice.

"You don't have to put on the act with me, I know you're a girl." Kagome whispered back. Tom froze, dropping her sponge at the same time. Her mouth hung open in shock.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about, I'm a man." For emphasis she made a fist and lightly pounded her chest. Kagome lifted her eyebrow at this, in a are-you-kidding-me? Kind of way.

"I know you're a girl, I was sitting on top of you remember?" Tom's shoulders sagged in defeat.

"My name is Sango... Are you going to turn me in now?" This time her voice was as it should be for a young girl.

"Why would I turn you in?" Kagome asked while rubbing a particular spot off the cabin.

"Because I'm not a boy. I'm not allowed here."

"What are you talking about? I'm not a boy, and I'm here aren't I? So is Yumi. Why can't you be here? Explain the whole thing to me."

"Because my father owns the place. This camp has been in my family for generations. My father used to come here when he was younger, and his father too. He knows what's it like with all these boys around. He doesn't think it's... proper for a female to be here. But I've lived with seven older brothers, and one younger brother for my entire life. I know what it's like by now. I can hack it!" She said the last part a little louder than she should've, because the closest person, Miroku, looked over with puzzlement.

"I'm sure you can hack it man, it's just cleaning a cabin." Miroku went back to his scrubbing while the two girls giggled madly.

"My father just doesn't approve. He's very conservative you know." Sango said going back to their previous conversation...

Kouga worked alone near the door. He alternated between scrubbing away with his sponge, squeezing it out and dipping it back into the frothy bucket of soap suds. It was boring work, but it was his punishment. He shouldn't have let InuYasha talk him into this. Personally he didn't mind that there was girls on his team. Especially that curly haired one, she was a fox. Back home there was this awful red haired chick forever chasing after him. Ayame was her name. She was desperate in her attempts to capture his heart. Plainly he really just didn't like her. She was a bitch. She was always on his back because of something he had said when they were little. Another boy was making fun of her calling her fat. She was average sized not too skinny but not fat either. He was rather scrawny himself, no muscle at all. She came sobbing to him over something so meaningless, that he said "one day I'll carry you."To prove she wasn't big at all. She flipped out thinking he said I'll marry you, and now no matter how hard he tried to make her stop, she was always proposing to him. Stupid girl...

A noise in the woods caught his attention. Bears still roamed the forest, although not usually down this way, who was to say that noise wasn't one now? Quickly Kouga ran to his baseball bag which he had with him when he came to clean the cabin. He took out his bat and stepped into the shadows of a large tree. Whatever was coming, was approaching on his blind side, where a bush and another tree blocked his view. It didn't sound like the heavy footsteps of a bear, maybe it was an older cub? It came closer. Now it was on the other side of the tree he was hiding behind. With swing worthy of a home run Kouga hit the thing with a mighty force. It let out a muffled "Oh!" It fell to the ground crunching leaves underneath it. Kouga came around the tree to inspect his kill. What he saw horrified him.

He had just clubbed Yumi in the stomach. She had passed out on the ground, and to make matters even hairier, she only wore a towel. He shed his bat and kneeled down next to her. As he was taught in health class, he put his head above her lips to hear if she was breathing. She was. That was about the only thing he had payed attention to. After that her didn't know what to do.

He gathered her up in his arms, one hand under her knees, the other supporting her back, and raced to his cabin. There was no possible way he could explain this to anybody. No would understand why he hit her, and why she was practically naked. He lay her on his bed, and paced back and forth. Hmmmmm what to do... First thing she needed clothes. Firmly shutting his eyes he put one of his jersey's on her, and slipped a pair of his boxers over legs. His pants would be way too long for her. Hmm now what? Kouga got a cloth and poured some water from his water bottle on it, and mopped her face, something he had seen in the movies, although he had no idea why they did it. Next he examined her stomach.

He had really pulled one on Yumi. There was a striped bruise laying across her middle, about a hands width. It was already turning a deep purple under her skin, and the top layer was bright red. He could see where he carved his name into his bat was imprinted backwards just above her belly button.

She started to stir, murmuring something. Kouga watched intensely as she began to wake up. Yumi's eyes had not yet opened yet, but she was reaching around with her hand for something. Kouga, who was sitting on the bed next to her, watched as she finally found his hand, and grasped it. Her hands were shaking. Kouga felt awful. He had never hit a girl in his life, and now when he does, it has to be this pretty little, girl who already looked frail, although he knew she wasn't because he had watched her batting practice.

Yumi's eyes blinked open, to find someone filling her vision. Startled he drew back. Slowly she started to sit up. "No don't! Don't get up! Stay there." the voice said. Refusing to listen to him she sat up, and stared at one of her team mates.

"K-Kouga? What happened?" She winced and glanced down out her stomach. Moaning, she gasped "Ouch! Kouga what the heck happened? I was coming back to the cabin from the showers, I went through the trees so no one would see me, then Wham! I-I don't remember anything after that!" Her voice had raised up a notch and she had started to become hysterical. "And my stomach..." She was staring at her skin where her shirt was pulled up. The bruise was now an angry reddish, blackish cloud spreading over her lower tummy. It was dark with splotches of collected blood underneath. Her breathing started coming fast, as her eyes widened in fear. "Oh-oh my god!" Her voice cracked and tears squeezed out of her eyes.

"It's alright don't freak!" Kouga having no idea how to deal with hyperventilating hysterical girls, did the only thing he could think off- calming them by saying it was nothing. "It'll go away! Don't worry! Ice will fix it right up!"

He sprung out of his chair and ran for another cloth. He came back with a lukewarm cloth, since his bottle had been sitting outside in the sun. He wet the cloth and placed it over her bruised area. He handed her the bottle for her to drink. Although she had some difficulty, because her hands were shaking so hard, and it was hard to swallow and hold the bottle at the same time. In the end, Kouga supported her back and held the bottle to her lips as she took small sips from it. He then sat back down in silence.

"I-I thought you were a bear..." He mumbled staring at the ground. At the time it seemed perfectly reasonable but now it seemed extremely foolish.

"I beg your pardon, you thought I was a what?" Yumi exclaimed indignant and perplexed at the same time.

"Well..bears..used to live around here...you came from the woods...how was I supposed to know?...I didn't mean to hit you." He muttered still fixing his stare at the crack between the floorboards.

"You thought I was a bear so you slugged me?..." She asked confused.

"Well..." he trailed off clearly embarrassed.

She tried moving her legs over the edge of the bed, not wanting to be in some boys bed any longer than she had to. As soon as she did though her vision went black and she collapsed back on the pillows.

"Hey!" Kouga started to warn her not to. He shook his head, and put a blanket over her, he then headed back to the door. Someone had to clean this side of the house, might as well been him. For all he deserved it.

InuYasha scrubbed off the last mark and stood back to look at his own handy-work. The cabin looked bright, and clean. There were no more visible slurs on the girls. Everything was wiped away, like turning over a new leaf. Tom and Kagome sat on the ground exhausted from the days work. They were leaning back to back. InuYasha narrowed his eyes. It was not even a full day and already that Tom guy was moving in. Well not as long as he was captain would any other guy have first picks. He walked over and hauled Tom up by the upper arm. "Hey man, lets go get some batting practice in kay?" InuYasha asked him, but not really caring the answer, because he started dragging Tom away to the cages.

"O-ok." he said reluctantly, obviously tired from the days work. InuYasha snagged Miroku, and then swung around the other side to claim Kouga. It turned out Kouga still had some wall left to scrub so only InuYasha, Miroku, and Tom left briskly at a trot to the cages, so they could get there before the sun went down and it got too dark to see.

Kagome yawned and headed back inside. She was plain wiped out and sleep was going to take her before she even made it to her bed. With half lidded eyes she dressed herself in her shorts and tank pajamas, and plopped into bed. Before she conked out fully, she turned to see a lump, laying in Yumi's bed. Good she already went to bed... And those were the last thoughts Kagome thought before she admitted defeat to the lord slumber.

The real Yumi lump was somewhere next door, sleeping in a strange boys bed, with a striped stomach bruise. This in itself ensured that a hectic morning was to follow.