A.N. This chapter is dedicated to one of my best friends Noko317, who is my first reviewer on this story. She also gets some chocolate when I see her next at school!

After a few more days, the doctors released her from the hospital.

"I can official say, I am so glad to be out of there!" Sakura said as she sat in the car on the way back to the orphanage. "Wait a minute; this isn't the way back to the orphanage."

"I forgot to tell you, we have to make a stop first." Kagome said as she leaned forward. "Isn't it great that my school let me have the day off so I can be with you?"

"Yea that's great Kags…"Sakura said, drifting off into silence.

"Ready girls? We're here!" Mrs. Chiba chirped, filled to the brim with excitement.

"Wait, why are we at school?" Sakura asked, looking around at the school.

"You'll find out in a minute or two, Saku-chan" Kagome said, gently pushing her forewords. After a few minutes of walking they ended up at the gym entrance. They walked into the dark gym. Mrs. Chiba flipped on the lights revealing that the gym was full of people who shouted "WELCOME HOME SAKURA!"

"Wow, you guys did this for me?" Sakura murmured to Kagome and Mrs. Chiba.

"All we did Saku-chan was to get you here, everything else was done by volunteers." Kagome said.

"Speech! Speech! Speech!" Everybody chanted as someone shoved a microphone into Sakura's hands.

"Well I can say that I was surprised is an understatement." Sakura paused as a few people chuckled. "What I am amazed at is the amount of support everybody has given me through this tough time. Thank you all. Now I have an announcement to make, I'm getting adopted!" A round of cheers followed her announcement. While they were waiting for the cheers to die down, Kagome snatched the mike from Sakura to make an announcement of her own.

"Sakura, this isn't just a coming home party, you know. Now, just to remind you, because you've probably forgotten with all that's been going on, you turn 17 tomorrow. So we decided to also make this a birthday party for you. And because it's a birthday party, BRING ON THE CAKE!" And with that, the crowd parted to reveal a huge sheet cake with the words "Happy 17th birthday Sakura!"

Someone in the crowd yelled "Make a wish!" as Sakura blew out her candles. After a while, unfortunately the party had to be brought to an end. After everybody had left, Sakura got her first glimpse of the stage full of presents.

"Wow, those are all for me?" She asked Kagome who had stayed to help clean up.

"Yeah Sakura, almost everybody in the school brought a present or a card of some sort. But opening them can wait for later, you look exhausted."

"Yea, I feel exhausted."

"Well let's go let Mrs. Chiba know, so you can go home and get some rest."

That weekend Kagome and Sakura were sitting in Sakura's room, about to undertake the huge task of opening presents.

"Well, we'd better get started, otherwise we won't finish this weekend." Kagome said grabbing a random gift off of the stack.

"Alright." Sakura agreed, grabbing another gift from the pile. "Okay…. This one is a rather skimpy set of underwear. And it comes with… A MARRAGE PROPOSAL!"

"I think you'll like this one, it's a set of hidden leaf earrings and a necklace." Kagome said holding them up for inspection.

"Those are defiantly keepers. This one's from Kabia Corp. more specifically, from Seto and Mokuba. Let's see, there's the newest duel disk, two briefcases full of cards, and a letter." Sakura said as she rummaged through the large box. "It's funny, in Mokuba's letter; he said that Seto went through about twenty attempts before finally finishing his letter. Seto's letter is all Seto, at first glance, it looks like a really formal letter, but especially if you know him, you can tell he's got no clue what to say."

"How do you know the Kabia brothers?" Kagome asked, tearing into another present.

"Well, Seto and Mokuba lived here for about a year before they got adopted by Gouzabura Kabia, and I haven't seen them since. It looks like they are doing extremely well though." After a while, Mrs. Chiba informed them that Sakura had guests.

"Hey Sakura, how are things going?" Yuuske asked as he and Kayko entered the room.

"Just fine, Kagome and I were just trying to make it through the huge pile of presents. I was just reading a letter from a friend of mine who used to live here with me."

"Oh, and who might that be?"

"The one, the only Seto Kabia!" Kagome announced dramatically as she reached over and grabbed the letter out of Sakura's hands.

"Give that back! AND I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH ON SETO! We're just friends." She yelled, attempting to grab her letter back.

"You two would be perfect for each other." Kayko commented, her hand on her chin in thought.

"WHAT!" Both Yuuske and Sakura cried out.

"What?" Kayko said, trying to look innocent. "Okay, he's in my class at school; he's pretty distinguishable, being over 6 feet and all. He's pretty quiet though, always working on his laptop."

"He's over six feet… wow, he's really tall…" Sakura said, struggling to match up the image of Seto she had to the one Kayko described.

"Now we weren't able to be here for your birthday party, so we'd figure we would stop by and take the two of you out for ice cream. How does that sound?" Yuuske asked

"You know what, that sounds better then opening presents." Sakura said.

"Hey I'd be glad to open presents any day." He replied.

"Well seeming how I've received 10 marriage proposals, and 3 requests that I bear their child." Sakura said, silently counting them off in her head.

"But one of those was from Miroku, so that doesn't count." Kagome pointed out. "Oh that reminds me, everybody teamed up to make you this. Even Miroku unfortunately." She held out a long tube. It was made out of cherry, and had phoenixes in flight carved into it. It also had a strap attached to it, which was supposed to go across the chest. Sakura gently opened the tube and pulled out an exquisitely made longbow. The bow looked like one sinuous dragon, with emeralds imbedded in it for the eyes. On each scale was a small kanji, each one different.

"Wow, you guys made this?" Sakura asked, staring in wonder at the beauty of it.

"Yea, and that's not all. You see the kanji on the scales of the dragon? Well those enable it to send an arrow wherever you want it to go. It's also enchanted to never break, and the bow will adjust itself automatically to what you need, draw length and weight wise. Also Sesshomaru sends his love and the quiver of arrows in there as well."

"Wow that's a pretty impressive gift Kagome" Kayko said. Yuuske just whistled.

"Would you thank everybody for me, especially Sesshi, for this wonderful gift. I can tell I'm going to have a lot of fun with it." Sakura smirked, just thinking of all the fun things she could do with it.

"If you guys want ice cream, we'd better leave soon."

After a short car ride, they arrived at a local ice cream parlor. Yuuske had piña colada ice cream, Kayko had some delicious, she claimed, wasabi ice cream, Sakura got a combination of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, and Kagome got plain chocolate.

While they were eating Kagome said "I've been waiting for the right time to ask you this Yuuske. I know you are a really strong demon, and I need to know what your intentions are towards my friend."

"Well you certainly caught me off guard there, Kagome. Our intentions towards Sakura are to give her a loving home where she can learn to harness her incredible abilities. Now I have a question for you, Kagome. I can tell you have a completely different energy signature then anyone I've ever met, and my question is; what are you?"

"Yuuske!" Kayko scolded, giving him a good solid smack on the back of the head. Sakura giggled as Kayko gave Yuuske a fierce glare.

"That's a perfectly acceptable question. There is a bit of a story to this, so my explanation may take a bit." Kagome started to explain about the feudal era and the Shikon no Tama. "Sakura has been to the feudal era with me, so she knows about all of this already. She is the only person I know of who can call Sesshomaru "Sesshi" and not get killed."

"Yea, it was hilarious seeing Sesshi's reaction the first time I called him that. But what was even more impressive was Inuyasha's reaction. I so wish I had a camera with me." She chuckled. "On that note, I feel about as full of ice cream as I'll ever be."

"It's getting pretty late, we'd better get the two of you back to the orphanage, otherwise Mrs. Chiba will have my skin." Yuuske said, grimacing at the thought of a Yuuske-skin rug.

After a short ride full of laughter and Yuuske's antics they returned to the orphanage.

"Night Sakura, night Kagome, it was nice meeting you." Kayko called as the two of them walked up the sidewalk to the front door of the orphanage.

"Have fun opening all those presents Sakura!" Yuuske called

Sakura and Kagome gave a groan at the thought of all those presents they still had to open.

A.N. Chapter four is finished! I'm going to give another big thank you to Noko for being my first reviewer.