Lil'Pup: I do not own Fruits Basket or Yu Yu Hakusho.

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"You made friends with a prince?" Shigure asked.

"Yeah, and all I had to do was beat up some people," I said. "Now that I think about, every friend I made on my own evolved beating somebody up."

"Who said violence doesn't solve anything," Hatori said.

The Madubachi Trio and I were sitting on a bench in the playground talking about our summer.

"Did you bring us back anything," Ayame asked. "I've never gotten anything from a another dimension before."

I smiled and nodded, pulling the gifts out of my bag. I got Hatori a craving of a dragon, Shigure got a wolf helmet, and I gave Ayame a doll. I also got them some fire flakes.

Some people would find it strange giving a boy who's in the second grade a doll, but then again we're strange kids.

"Let's see, what should I name you," Ayame said holding up the doll.

"How about Mimi," Shigure suggested trying on his helmet.

"Perfect," Ayame said, "Now what to do with Mimi's hair?" He started messing with the dolls hair and I told them what I did in the Fire Nation.

"I think I may have messed up Mimi's hair." I heard Ayame say.

I looked at the doll, and its hair was a tangled up mess. Sighing, I took the doll, and had Ayame give me the little hair brush he was using.

"How do you want her hair?" I asked after I untangled the hair.

"Can you try to put her hair in braided loops?" Ayame asked with pleading eyes.

Nodding I went to work, and by the time recess was over, Mimi had a new hair style.

"Aw… she's so cute!" Shigure and Ayame cooed.

"I didn't know you could style hair Shizuru," Hatori said.

"It's new to me too," I said earning the look Hatori usually gives to Shigure and Ayame.

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Hatori, Shigure and I were outside of the school waiting for Ayame. For some reason he was taking a long time. Soon he was running out of the doors waving a piece of paper.

"Everyone, I forgot my bag so I went back to get it, and on the way back I saw this," Ayame said holding up the piece of paper.

We looked at it and it turned out being a flyer for a kid's hair styling completion.

"So?"

"So? Shizuru you should enter." Ayame said.

"Just because I did the dolls hair," I asked.

"The doll has a name Shizuru," Shigure said.

"Sorry. Just because I did Mimi's hair?"

"Yes, I think you could win it," Ayame said.

"You might as well Shizuru," Hatori said, "Ayame won't give you a moment's peace until you agree. Besides it's for kids, you're not going to have to go up against professionals or anything."

"Come on Shizuru, this could be your big break," Shigure said, "When you win, we can say that we know the next big thing in the world of hair."

I looked at the three of them for a minute then said, "You guys won't leave me alone until I agree to this will you?"

Hatori didn't say anything but Ayame and Shigure had big smiles on their faces.

I sighed, "Fine I'll do it."

"Do what?"

I turned to see Aglaia standing behind me, leaning on her car.

"Shizuru's going to enter a kid's hair styling contest," Shigure and Ayame cheered.

"That's great," Aglaia said, "Let's all go get supplies for Shizuru to train with then we can all get ice cream!"

Ayame and Shigure ran to the car then Shizuru looked at Hatori. "How is it that I only agreed to it a minute ago but I already regret it?"

"I don't know, it's just something those two are good at," was his responses.

Sighing we got into the car, listening to them talking about the contest.

A month later…

Every day for a month Aglaia had me cutting the hair of those mannequin heads. But still had to do my regular training as well.

But tonight was the night. The night we see if that training was a waste of time or not, and the night of the hairstyling contest.

"Well, here it is Shizuru. The moment of truth," Aglaia said. "Are you excited?"

"As excited as I can get," I said. That didn't seem to impress her.

"I haven't seen you here before, are you new?" A voice asked.

We looked over and saw a boy who wasn't much older than me. He had light brown hair, a shade or so lighter than mine. I couldn't tell what his eye color was because he was sunglasses.

"Yeah, I'm new, this is my first contest." I said. Then I held out my hand, "Shizuru Kuwabara, and you?"

Smirking the boy said, "I'm Chihiro Osawa, last years winner, and I plan to win again this year."

"Good to hear," I said, "But you should know not everything goes as planned."

Chihiro scowled with a vein bursting through his head, said "whatever, "then walked away.

"Have you ever tried not making enemies?" Aglaia asked.

I turned to look at her, "Have we just met?"

Sighing Aglaia said, "You better go, it's about to start."

I was standing in front of my table. It had a mannequin head, scissors, hair spray, irons, etc.

"All right," said the announcer, "You will be given an hour to make a hair style that will impress the judges. Begin."

I looked at the mannequin head; it just had really long black hair, nothing really special about it, everyone's was the same.

I decided to do a jagged hair style. I started by cutting the hair, making sure it was all the same length. When the hair was medium-short I got to work, I parted the hair down the middle, taking a small section of hair across the nape of the neck.

I brought all the remaining hair down and cut it in sections. After the back section was cut, using the ear to ear parting section a small one inch section of hair, and comb it down. I combed down the side section, and then I cut along the guide line joining the back to the front. Then I repeating on the other side until both sides was even. I took a small section of the hair then clipped the remaining hair out of my way. I then parted a section of hair to be cut in the center and cut downwards.

When the cutting was done, all I had to do was straiten the hair. Picking up the hair straighter I saw that I only had five minutes left! I was about to plug it in when I saw that someone had cut the cord.

I took a quick look around, that Chihiro kid was already done and when he saw me he gave me a smug smile. I knew right away that it was his doing.

Instead of going over there and beating the crap out of him, I tried to think of a way to get the hair straighter to work. The only thing I could think of was to try to make it heat up using my spirit energy.

Seeing as I had nothing to lose, I consecrated my spirit energy into the hair straighter. I tested it by ironing the hair. It had worked!

My spirit energy had made it heat up faster so I was able to finish with only thirty seconds to spare.

After the time was up they made us go back stage until the judges had made a decision. When I got back there, Algaia and the trio were waiting for me.

"How do you think you did?" Hatori asked.

"Okay I guess," I said. "I almost wasn't able to finish because someone cut the cord to my hair straighter."

"How did you finish then," Algaia asked.

"I used my spirit energy to make it heat up," I said in a low voice so no one else would hear.

"Shizuru, that boy's glaring at you," Shigure said.

I turned around and I saw Chihiro staring at me angrily. "Yeah, just ignore him."

"Do you want me to flirt with him to scare him off," Ayame offered.

"I said to just ignore him."

"But where's the fun in that?" Shigure and Ayame asked.

"Would all of the contestants please come back on stage." The announcer guy said.

'Thank God,' I thought to myself as I walked away from them.

Everyone stood by there hair, waiting for them to announce the winner. Chihiro had a smug look on his face, while I just stood there looking bored.

The announcer started to speak again. "While it was close ladies and gentlemen, each one of these kids has unique skill. But the winner of The Junior Hairstyling Contest is… Shizuru Kuwabara!"

The crowd cheered, along with some disappointed looks from parents. But shrew them, I won.

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"See, I told you that you would win," Shigure said.

"And look at the great trophy you won," said Ayame.

"Come on everyone," Aglaia said, "It's time…

"Kuwabara!" Someone shouted.

We all turned around to see Chihiro Osawa standing there out of breath holding his second place trophy.

"I swear that the next time we meet, that I'm going to walk away the winner." Chihiro said. Then he ran off with out looking back.

We all just stood there for a while before Hatori said, "You've got to stop making enemies."

I looked over at him. "Have we just met?"

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Lil'Pup: Please review, and if you want to know what a jagged hairstyle is, you can look it up on the internet.