Disclaimer: I. Don't. Own. The. Inuyasha. Characters. But I do own Kaori.

Notes: Still posting from the library! My brother-in-law, Brad, is supposed to be making me a new computer, but he won't get his lazy butt over to my house and hook it up. I'd go over there and get it myself but I have no car. It sucks being 13 with a monkey for your sister's husband.

"KAORI!! Get up!!"

An attender of Shikon High rolled over in her bed and covered her head with the pillow. "I don't want to!!!"

Her big sister slammed open the door, saw her baby sis in this defenseless state, and started jumping on her bed. "Get UP!!"

Kaori threw the pillow at her and started laughing, "Suzume, get off! I'm up!"

Suzume took one last jump off the bed and started tickling her. "Yeah, but you're not out of bed,"

Kaori jumped up and began running into the bathroom. There, she slammed the door shut and locked it. "Ha, ha, I get to shower first!" she said through the door.

"I don't care, I took one last night. I was just trying to get you out of bed for your last week of school before summer vacation."

Kaori sighed. "She always wins..."

Her sister, Suzume, was 27 and took care of her. Strangely, she could never remember her mother or father, or ever having one. As far back as she can remember was when she was five. Kaori had seen a flash of blue light, but Suzume had said it was the crash that killed their parents. Kaori didn't believe her. Besides, how could a car crash make a blue light?

When she got out of the shower, Kaori wrappped her hair in a towell, then covered herself with one to go pick out her clothes for the day. She chose blue jeans and a baby-tee with Happy Bunny on it, saying, "I'm Cute But Evil."

Suzume drove her to school that day, letting her out at the main entrance. "Have a good day, Sis!" she called, waving out the window. Kaori waved back before running to get in before the bell rang and hang out with her friends.

After putting her backpack up in her locker and closing it, there was someone behind it and she screamed. "Hojo! You freaked me out. Don't creep up on me like that,"

"Sorry," he laughed and said, "but I wanted to ask you if you've seen Kagome."

Kaori shook her head. "No, sorry, Hojo. I called her last night, but her gramps answered and gave me the name of this wierd illness... I think he said mononucleiosis, you know, the one that makes you sleep alot."

Hojo's eyes got all wide, but she comforted him as they walked down the hall together. "Don't panic, I bet she's just fine with all the stuff you give her,"

He kept his head down and blushed. "By the way, Hojo," Kaori continued with a sly smirk, "I can tell that you like her,"

He jerked his head up and said, "Oh, you noticed that, huh?"

"Yeah... Look, why don't you just ask her out? All the girls in school say you're the hottest guy here. I don't because me and you have been friends since forever, and I don't like you that way, but Kagome might,"

All the rest of the day, Hojo was happy, but when Kaori was walking home, she saw him head to Kagome's house with a big box. "He scares me sometimes..." she muttered.