Here's another chapter for everyone! I hope that you all like it!

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I wasn't considered weak, or treated gingerly like glass, and everyone talked to me as if they had known me their whole lives, I was happy. The happiest I had felt in a long time. I fell asleep instantly, excited for the next day to come and hit me. Several weeks passed by and I grew stronger by the day, absorbing everything I learned and using it in training and in lessons.

My grandmother decided to home-school me herself instead of a tutor, so that I could get more work done and also so it could take my mind off the 'incident' and prepare me for when I revisited the sort of life that wasn't on the mountain, but with other people who weren't as accepting or kind as all the ones that I knew here. I switched to the regular training, this one taking a little longer and making me stand on my hands on a branch above rapids in the river, do flips above sharp rocks, and fence with vines.

Those being the easiest things in my new schedule. Eventually months passed, and then a year, I turned twelve, about a year since I had started living with my grandmother. Then another year passed by quickly, and then another, and then I was seventeen, and going to the high school in the city, where I met my first love, but it was like a crush, but the feelings were much much stronger, but, I had never spoken to him, not once. Who knew that the first time for doing that would be today?

I walked down the halls of my high school at a fast pace to the library, one of my most favorite places in the school, catching the shy glances of many girls as I walked by and smiling at them, making them all turn red each time, I smirked internally, thinking that many girls were swayed so easily, then again, it wasn't everyday that one of the few heartthrobs of Sakura High smiled at you directly.

I swung my bag over my shoulder and continued my way down the hall, turning left into the large room, two floors of rows and rows of books waiting to be opened and read, their pages stroked and spines held, yeeaahh, I am kinda obsessed with books, but I'm not the only hot guy in the school who loves the library.

I slid my gaze across the room as I walked to the isle I had left off on last time I was here and spotted the man I had crushed on since I first saw him, he was sitting in his usual spot, silver hair splayed across his shoulders and back, gold eyes moving back and forth while reading, his elegant hands holding the spine of his book gently and loosely, his grip tightening every once in a while when there was an exciting part, his eyes subtlety showing his eagerness as for what was going to happen next.

He sat at one of the tables scattered around the room in-between the shelves crammed with books, one of the ones away from where people usually sat. He liked to be away from the noise and the people, basically he wasn't a very sociable person, but he got great grades and made all the girls that went for the anti-social or stoic type swoon whenever they saw him.

I had actually never seen him speak to anyone except for the teachers, but even then I could never hear him. I walked over to the area I had left off on and reached for the next book to start on and sat down on one of the stools used to reach books that were up higher on the shelves, reading about Macbeth and his lust for power. Walking alongside him as he went to kill the king, kneeling beside him as he was declared the new monarch of that region, and falling with him when he died.

When I had finally finished the story, no one else was in the library except for the old lady at the checkout. I stood and quietly slid the book back in its place, next to Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It. I quietly wandered around to several other shelves, going farther into the library until I couldn't see the front counter anymore. I was currently in the action romance section, a place I had gone to often when I got a little weary of just plot lines and wanted to see some exciting action that had this unique suspense that I sometimes craved.

I spotted a paperback that looked good, so I reached up on my tippy toes to grasp the novel and pulled it down with no incident, then reading the back and placing it back where I had gotten it so I could come back to it. I knelt down so as to look at the books on the lower shelves and found none to be good hookers, so after about ten to fifteen minutes I got up from my crouched position on the carpeted floor and reached up for that one book I had looked at earlier, my fingers suddenly colliding with someone else's ivory colored ones.

I looked to my left and was surprised to see the man I had crushed on for three and a half years, Sesshomaru Nakamura.

"You can take it." I said, pulling out the book and handing it to him.

He took it, putting into his bag and said "Ren Hayashi, right?"

"Yeah." I said, not really believing that this was happening. Sesshomaru was talking, to someone other than a teacher, and it was me.

"Can you take something seriously?" He asked suddenly. I nodded in what I hoped was a serious manner, but really I was bouncing around like crazy inside, frantically wondering what he might say next. "Can I kiss you?"

My eyes widened and I managed to wrestle out a slightly surprised "Why?" before my throat seemed to block up and not let me say anything else.

"Because I've never kissed a boy." Now I was wondering if I was dreaming or not, so I bit my cheek. Slow motion, so that he wouldn't notice. It hurt. I didn't wake up in bed. I was still in the library. Thankfully my throat became unclogged just in time for me to reply to the silver haired hottie in front of me.

"Sure." I said, wondering if he was really going to do it. Then Sesshomaru reached forward with one hand and used it to hold the back of my neck gently and pulled me to him, using a couple of fingers from the same hand to support my head at the same time. He brought his lips to mine, the ones I had craved in my sleep sometimes, and I was sent into pure rapture.

The feel of those cool, satin lips against my warm ones was just too nice. He slid the tip of his tongue across my bottom lip, as if requesting access to my mouth, and I let him in, twirling his hot tongue with mine in a dance of the salsa. He wound his other arm around my waist and I had somehow entangled my fingers in his hair, tugging at his long, silky locks the way I had always wanted to, pulling him further into the kiss.

I moaned softly, slowly going into oblivion, the sweet oblivion, with this super hot god seeming man by my side, his well formed chest against mine. I slowly opened my eyes, which I had at some point closed, to see Sesshomaru's clouded with lust, probably the same as mine. I sucked softly on his bottom lip and bit it lightly, making him moan quietly. I smiled internally with success.

"The library will be closing in five minutes, anyone still in the library after that time will be suspended unless if with special permission, I repeat, the library will be closing in five minutes at four 'o clock. Please bring any books you wish to check out to the counter now as it will be closing in two minutes. If you are on a computer, then please log off now, if you don't, it will do so automatically." The lady at the front desk announced through the library speaker system.

Both Sesshomaru and I kind of snapped out of our make out session and let go of each other.

"Please don't tell anyone about this." He whispered, picking up his dropped book bag.

"Ok." I whispered back. "Wait a second, let me fix your hair, or some people might think something is up." He bowed his head so that I could rearrange some of the strands that strayed from his usually neat bangs and part. When I had finished that, he jogged off silently towards the front entrance of the library, leaving me to pick up my own bag and ruffle my hair before going a different course up to the front desk to give the library lady a bag of cookies that I had made today in home economics.

"Oh Ren, you are the sweetest young man I have ever met. Giving this old woman cookies that you made, you are such a gentleman." Mrs. Chindin remarked with adoration after I had given her the chocolate chip cookies.

"Thank you." I said, bowing and giving her one of my most brilliant smiles. Then I walked out of the library and pushed open one of the school doors and then exited the building, running to the bus stop for the city bus. I waited a few minutes before the bus came around the corner and stopped in front of me, the doors opening and letting me in. I walked to the back and sat down, taking out my homework and working on it until I finished it, then putting it back in my backpack and staring out the window, wondering what sort of things could have pushed Sesshomaru to do what he did back in the library.

My stop was the last one, leaving me to be the last one on the bus by the time I got off. I thanked the driver and got off the bus, then walking up the gravel driveway until he drove away. Then I ran into the trees on the edges of the driveway of sorts, finding the perfect trees that I discovered years ago, climbing up one and started jumping from one to the other, going up the mountain to my home.

"Grandma! I'm home!" I yelled, plopping my backpack by the door and taking off my shoes. I wandered into the kitchen, looking for a snack to eat. A plate was in the middle of the table, with grilled chicken kabobs on them, all laid out neatly and still hot, with a note on light blue paper right next to them saying 'You are free to eat.' I grinned, "Lemme guess grandma, did you watch Kung Fu Panda today?"

Suddenly grandma seemed to materialize right behind me and started to throw a roundhouse kick at me, but I stopped it with my wrist and blocked another attack from her with my arm, then targeting her midsection with a kick, but she blocked downwards and accidentally left herself open to be tripped, which I did and then pinned her down by sitting on her, gently mind you, and started to eat my afternoon snack.

"This is really good grandma, thanks for making it, want one?" My grandma chuckled and took the kabob that I held out to her, and tapping her other hand on the floor in the sign of surrender so that I would let her up. I stood up and pulled her up beside me using her empty hand.

"Yes I did, how did you know?" She said, walking out of the kitchen and in the direction of the dojo, leaving me to follow her with the plate of goodies.

"I watched that movie so many times when I was a little kid that I basically have it memorized, and thus the instant knowledge of all the lines." I replied, then continuing to chew on the chunks of chicken. We reached the doors of the dojo, which she pushed open easily to reveal five other students currently training on the three subjects that the dojo taught. Archery, sword fighting, and martial arts.

All of the pupils were male, because there wasn't any female that was strong willed enough to continue with our training every morning and day and get sweaty that had come here and tried out. Well, also the fact that no girls have even tried out for this at all. Jakotsu and Bankotsu were sword fighting, not with real swords at the moment, but bamboo ones. If those whacked you, then it stings a lot and leaves a large welt on your skin, so they are a good substitute.

Hakudoshi was working on the long range archery shooting, while running and jumping through trees, each target was sixty feet away. He hit the first three targets in the bulls-eye and the fourth in the first ring surrounding it, with the last five in the bulls-eye as well. Akago and Byakuya were training with each other, blocking and hitting, jumping and landing.

"Who wants chicken kabobs?" I yelled loudly.

"Me!" All the guys training shouted back, abandoning their training to run to the plate of yummy food that I held aloft with one hand.

I had already eaten two pieces, leaving eleven sticks on the plate, two for everyone else. Grandma quickly snatched her last kabob right before the guys reached the dish, all of them grabbing two and then hugging me, welcoming me home from school. They were like older brothers to me, and that's how I treated them. All of them were only a little older than me, about a year or half a year, so they were all out of high school, the one I was currently going to.

They spent most of their time here, at the dojo, hanging out with me, sensei, and each other. Jakotsu and Bankotsu are twins, and like to be very funny and outrageous, and love pranks, they are currently planning on making a haunted house, one scary enough to make a grown man pee his pants. They always love to scare people, I guess they got it from their parents, who are Hollywood famous actors.

Akago is an only child and his parents are often away on important business trips, so the dojo and everyone at it are very important to him, like his second home and family. He is shy in front of anyone he doesn't know, but very happy and bouncy in front of us.

Hakudoshi is part of a theater troupe, and has acted in some movies, all of which I have watched. He is a very good actor, many people pay a lot of money to see him. Sometimes he might ponder over something and end up being very quiet for a few days but otherwise he would be quite chatty and sometimes act out something funny he saw one time, making us all roll on the ground with laughter.

Byakuya is the oldest child of four, and the inheritor of a large and wealthy company that he will be taking over in a few years, but he is not all stuffy like some people might make him out to be. He is extremely gregarious and has told me that he has over two hundred friends on Facebook that he knows personally and has met face to face several times, surprising for someone like him right?

Me? I'm just a kid whose parents are away on vacation trips so much that they had me stay with my grandma and never visit me at all, just send me Christmas cards and birthday cards that all come about a week late.

I handed the plate to Kaede, thanking her again for it and ran to the storage room, grabbing my bow and arrows, then hoisting them over my shoulder and running to the hardest long distance archery shoot.


I'm actually reading over this (which I haven't done in about a year) and laughing at parts that seem so awkward to me now that were totally fitting at the time. Do any of you guys notice any awkward parts too? If so, you should point them out to me, because it will be useful when I go back over all of my chapters and revise them.

Thank you all for reading this!

Until next time,

BlackFoxGun