Hikaru- San: Ok... finally decided to update. I'm a little mad at myself for forgetting MY computer

so I'm kinda working off my aunts computer so sorry if i don't reply to you guys asap like

I usually do. anyway... here's an update!!!!

p.s... thank you angel- chan...

Ryusei kicked another rock on his way home. His car was still at his friends garage so driving home was completly out of the picture for now. Sayuri told him earlier today that she wasn't going to be able to pick up Rin from school today so she asked Ryusei to make sure she got home ok.

Ryusei sighed. Sure, the people he was living with now were nice to him and everything, and they made sure that he was comfortable and stuff, but the rest of the family seemed like they were only nice to him because he lived with Sayuri and Sesshomaru.

Sorry that i was... kind of unplanned... Ryusei thought bitterly to himself.

He could usually tell when people were only pretending to be nice. the rest of the family kind of seemed half heartedly kind to him. he sighed.

Guess you can't expect everything to be alright. Mom always said to be careful what to expect...

"Hey Ryu! Wait up!" a girl's voice called out.

Ryusei turned to find his long time friend running up to him.

"Oh... Hey Lili." Ryusei said, with a small smile.

"You seem down in the dumps... don't tell me that father of yours is transfering you to some prep school!!!" Lili said, looking like she was ready to give someone a piece of her mind.

Ryusei couldn't help but laugh.

"No... I'm not getting transfered. Sayuri said it would have been messed up to have me start over somewhere else when i'm in my last year in high school."

Lili calmed downed and smiled.

For a human, she sure didn't act as weak as one. She was 5' 6, pretty tall for her family. She often wore a lot of braclets and necklaces, customly made by her, but cleverly hidden under her school uniform. unlike the other girls at school, Lili was one of the few that looked like a model in the black and white sailor uniform. with black knee socks and brown loafers. Her jet black hair was often in a long braid in the back. She was from a military family that lived on one of the bases. So she was a Chinese American.

You would have never guess that either, unless you asked her.

"Ya know, Ryu... I'm starting to like your stepmother more and more!" Lili said, cracking a bigger smile.

"You still want me to get you one of her designer bags, aren't you?" Ryusei asked with a sigh.

Ever since Lili discovered that his stepmother co- own one of Japan's most popular fashion and interior Lines, Lili's been asking for one of the bags that Chiyo's been desgining lately.

"Sorry Ryusei... but you can't come across a girl and her asccesories. and you still owe me from that soccer scrimage we had two weeks ago..." Lili snapped back. Then she looked ahead.

"Hey... isn't that one of Sessh's kids?" she asked, pointing to a small figure up ahead.

"That's Rin..." Ryusei said, reconizing the figure. "I wonder what's up..."

Lili and Ryusei started to run over to her.

Rin kept running. the bathrooms were out of the question. they would still get in. The troublesome sixth graders from the third floor. She didn't know why they kept on picking on her. She started to wonder of it had anything to do with how she was in the special advance placment classes, or if it was her family? Either way, it wasn't good.

"YOU WHO!!!!! Miss Smarty Pants..." a taunting voice called out. Rin stayed hidden in a dark corner. She was just standing where Ryusei was suppose to meet her.

He wasn't running late or anything, but then the sixth grade girls suddenly decided to pick on her today. As if making her spill her lunch at noon today wasn't enough...

"Oh there you are Rin..." a snobbish tiger youkai said, standing in front of rin with her group of other tiger youkai and two dog youkai and one human.

"Please leave me alone..." Rin said.

The others just laughed.

"Oh really? You want us to leave you alone?" the tiger youkai, Nana, asked. "We can't do that sweetie pie. Not after that smart ass remark you said at lunch."

"If you're looking for an apology, then i'm sorry for saying that you're nothing but a waste of nine lives..." Rin said meekly.

"Apology accepted..." Nana said, but still not moving, or stopping with the killing stare at Rin. "But you're still going to pay the consequences..."

Nana suddenly punched Rin in the gut. Rin lost her breath. Then one of the other tiger youkai tripped Rin so she fell to the ground. Rin cried out in pain, as she landed on her ankle weird. Nana and a few of the others were digging through Rin's school bag., while the others were still beating her up.

"This is what they're teaching third graders!?" the human girl said, picking up a copy of Rin Antropology book.

"You really are a nerd, aren't ya?" Nana said, throwing the book in the mud.

"Hey! Stop that!"

the sixth graders turned around, as a dragon youkai and a human girl came running up.

"What the hell do you think you're doing!?" Lili shouted at the girls.

The gang of sixth graders looked at each other.

"Nothing..." the girls replied meekly.

Ryusei gave them one glare that would have made Sesshomaru proud (and proving the fact tha they're related...)

"If you mess with my little sister again..." Ryusei said deadly.

The girls began to freak.

"OH! this... this is your sister... did you know... no i didn't know!!!"

Nana was pushed ahead of the other girls. She face Ryusei.

"We're really sorry..." she said meekly.

Ryusei didn't let up on his killer stare.

"Come back when you mean it. And in the mean time, stay away from my sister..."

The girls screamed and ran off. Lili was already helping Rin.

"Is anything broken?" Lili asked. Rin cried out when she tried to stand up. Ryusei was all too familiar with ankle injuries and took a look at Rin's.

"You're lucky kid..." Ryusei said. "It's just a sprain."

"Are... you sure?" Rin asked, in between tears and cries.

"Trust me darling. Ryusei's knows a lot about ankle stuff... considering how often he kept spraining his during basketball season..." Lili said, giving Ryusei a look.

"Come on... we'll get you home..." Ryusei said, picking Rin up, after wrapping her ankle in atheltic wrap that he kept in his gym bag. Lili picked up Rin's school bag, and the three were off.

"I'm a little tea pot short and stout! here is my handle! Here is my spout! When I get all steamed up, hear me SHOUT! Tip me over and pour me out!" Akane sang rather loudly. Sesshomaru sighed.

It's not that he didn't ove his niece and enjoyed watching her when Kagome and Inuyasha had to go to work... but Five hours of that would drive any sane person crazy. Karei tried to sing along in her usual baby gibbrish, but resorted to her usual giggling. Sayuri's birthday was next week and Sesshomaru was trying to plan something special... but there was too much distraction.

"Akane..." he muttered.

"yes uncle?" Akane asked, in a cute voice.

"Couldn't you and Karei go watch a movie or something?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Ok!" Akane said cheerfully. She took Karei by the hand and led her into the living room.

Sesshomaru couldn't help but smirk. Akane was definantly her mother's daughter. She was looking more like Kagome every passing day, if not for the puppy ears and golden eyes she got from her uncle.

Sesshomaru suddenly heard the front door open and close.

"Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me! Don't Cha!" a voice sang out.

Sesshomaru would recongize it anywhere. he immediatly hid all the stuff he was working one. Sayuri entered the kitchen with her arms full of groceries.

"Don't you wish your girlfriend was raw like me! Don't ya wish your girlfriend was fun like me?..." Sayuri kept singing, completly oblivious to her surroundings.

"Isn't that why I married you?" Sesshomaru asked playfully. Sayuri zipped around.

"Oh Hi Honey! I didn't know you were home..." Sayuri said, knowing perfectly well that he was, since it was his day off today.

"Mama!" Karei said, running into the kitchen as fast as her small legs could carry her.

Sayuri smiled as she picked up her daughter.

"They only reason you came running was that you sniffed the treats out..." Sayuri said playfully to her daughter, as Akane came running too.

"I never thought I'd be buying this..." Sayuri muttered, as she pulled out a giant bag of Pedigree dog food. (tee hee! get it?)

"Did I say 'i love you' today?" Sesshomaru asked.

Sayuri rolled her eyes.

"Whatever..." Sayuri said, as she got out three bowls and filled them with dog food. Hey, who would have thought that Dog Youkai liked dog food? Sayuri gave it to them on father's day as a joke suggested by Kaulani, but it turned into a very popular snack item...

"Thanks!" the dog youkai and hanyos said, immediatly taking the bowls and went to the living room.

"Do I live in a house or a kennel?" Sayuri asked herself, as she started to finish putting the groceries away.

Then the back door opened.

"where have you two be..." Sayuri stopped in mid sentence.

"oh my god! What happened?" Sayuri said, when she spotted Rin.

"Some stupid sixth graders were picking on Rin today..." Ryusei said, carrying Rin into the living room, so she could lie down on the couch.

Lili froze at the doorway.

"oh... my... god... you're really her..." Lili said to Sayuri in a dazed chant.

"Um... who are you?" Sayuri asked, confused.

"Lili..." Ryusei said warningly.

"Right! Sorry! I'm Cheng Lili! I'm one of Ryusei's friends!" Lili said.

"What happened?" Sesshomaru asked, when Ryusei and Rin were in the living room.

"Some sixth graders beat me up today..." Rin said weakly. "But Ryusei scared them off before they did worse..." Rin added proudly, looking at Ryusei.

Sesshomaru and Sayuri gave Ryusei a look.

"Uh! In a non- violent way mind you! I don't hit younger people or girls!" Ryusei hastily added.

"Scared them off with ine killer stare!" Lili added. All eyes turned to her. Lili giggled nervously.

"I'll wait in the kitchen..." Lili said, then disappearing.

Lili...

"I'll... uh.. be going up to my room... LILI!!!!!"

"Coming!"

The two teenagers ran upstairs.

Sayuri, Rin, and Karei gave Sesshomaru a look.

'Talk to him...' The look said it all...

Women...

"I think it went pretty well..." Lili said, while turing the pages of her chemistry book.

"Oh my god... you're opening a science book..." Ryusei said teasingly. Lili gave him a deadly look.

"Sorry that i find studio arts more interesting..." Lili added bitterly. "besides, YOU're my chemistry tutor, so let's get to work..."

There was a knock at the door.

"Yeah?" Ryusei said.

"Ryusei..." Sesshomaru said, opening the door.

"I'll leave you two alone!" Lili said, immediatly jumping on the chance to avoid chemistry homework and ran downstairs.

Lili...

"So... what do you want?" Ryusei asked.

Just like Sara... always suspicious...

"Nothing... just... good job today..."

"Huh?"

"With Rin, i mean..." Sesshomaru said.

This was new. He was way too used to giving Rin advice. Now he has to learn how to do that for teenagers... oh well...

Ryusei was suprised. This was the first time that the two had one on one time since Ryusei moved in.

"Uh... thanks... I guess..."

Sesshomaru just smiled. Maybe having a son wasn't so bad. At least... he has some other guy around the house, that's ruled by girls...

In speaking of which...

"So... those are the kinds of courses you need to take if you're going to be a designer?"

"Yeah... well... it also depends on what kind of desginer you want to be..." Sayuri continued.

"Hold on... I got to get my notebook out..." Lili said.

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