Slowly but surely Winter break was over for all the kids. Sesshomaru was glad because he was actually getting bored just staying at home the whole day. even if he had about everything possible that could entertain him. They had an indoor pool in their large basement for crying out loud. Kagome packed her item that she was going to show the class for Show and Tell. These days were her favorite. If she could, she would bring in about ten items that were all very special to her. Kagome's school wasn't very far from the Higurashi shrine so she decided to walk to school.

Mrs. Amunelite was just finished writing " Show and Tell " on the white board in fancy letters when Kagome walked in. " Good morning Kagome."

" Morning Mrs. Amunelite."

Normally in the mornings kids would play outside until the bell rung but it was a bit chilly and Kagome wanted to be inside. She took all her supplies out that she would need for the day and hooked her backpack in he back row on the rack. She wrote her daily journal log in her notebook and watched as her classmates started to pile in the room once the bell rang. InuYasha had on a new blue jacket that he got from his dad for Christmas. He patted Kagome on the head before putting his backpack on the rack.

"Good morning InuYasha."

" Morning. How come you weren't outside today?" He asked taking his seat next to her also taking out his journal.

" too cold."

" oh, well I got the whole class to play a game of four square."

" Really? Who won?"

" Well obviously me." InuYasha bragged.

" Cheater."

" It's not my fault I'm strong."

" It's like you're on steroids."

" I guess you could say that."

" Did you see Kikyo this morning?"

" Yeah, She was crying because she didn't win yesterday at the talent show and how she practiced for like two hours and all that hard work deserved for an Ipod Shuffely puff."

" What retard named it that..." ( An: :'( Me...)

" I don't know. Probably gave it a weird name so people would buy it. Do you want to come over after school to swim for a little bit?"

" Okay!"

" Now class! To start off the morning we are going to get our Show and tell out of the way so who wants to go first?"

" Me me me me me me me me me me me! ME!" Kagome growled actually scaring InuYasha.

" Hmm... alright Billy! Your first."

What just happened...? Did she really not here Kagome's outburst saying that she would like to go first!

" Um... I brought my worm... wait hold on it's in my pocket..." Billy dug into his pocket before pulling out a brown slimy worm. " His name is fishy."

" And why is that?" Mrs. Amunelite asked.

" Because he stinks."

All the children burst out laughing. Billy walked around the room showing everyone his worm and then throwing fishy in the trash.

" Billy! Why'd you do that to Fishy!" Mrs. Amunlite asked.

" Well I told you he is stinky... I found him this morning in the playground and I didn't have time to put him back where I found him."

" Oh my gosh..." InuYasha got up and looked in the trash can picking up the worm with his claws and walking out of the classroom. once outside he ran over to the grass flicking off the worm.

InuYasha walked back in the classroom squirting some hand sanitizer in his hands and taking a seat.

" okie... dokie then... um.. Kagome! Your turn."

" Gee... thanks." Kagome got up out of her seat and walked to the front of the classroom.

" This is one of my most prized possession and I got it on Christmas." Kagome then held up her locket from InuYasha. " InuYasha gave it to me and I absolutely love it!"

Some kids whistled while others called out " Ooooo Kagome has a boyfriend!" InuYasha plastered his ears to his head sinking in his seat trying to hide the blush. Kagome just ignored them. All the time kids that were friends with the opposite sex got teased. Who said girls had to be friends with just girls? Or boys had to be friends with just boys? Or even have to be friends with people our same age? That didn't matter to Kagome. InuYasha was her best friend and she would scream it to the world if she had to.

A few others kids had shown their items but not everyone went. Show and tell was for the ones who were anxious to show their personal belongings to their classmates and why they were special to them. Mrs. Amunelite erased the board and handed out a script to each student while speaking. " Now as you know, our class was chosen to preform a play for the whole school. Today we are going to cast parts and practice in the auditorium with our scripts in hand."

" Mrs. Amunelite? What play are we going to do!"

" The play is called 'Mizu's splash.' There is just enough parts for our whole class so I hope none of you get sick during the performance otherwise we are going to have to improvise. And you know how much I despise improvising.."

The kids just nodded.

" Okay who wants to be Mizu? Mizu is tear drop who falls from her master's eye and wonders the streets of Tokyo mistaken for a rain drop."

" …..."

" I will." Kanna said softly. Gently raising her hand.

" Awesome Kanna! Who wants to be Lady- Marhime?"

" I do..." Shiori said.

" okay. Master Marhime? This is a male part."

Nobody raised their hand because they knew that Master Marhime was Lady Marhime's husband. It was just common sense and Shiori was weird!

" Alright InuYasha! Thanks for volunteering!" Mrs. Amunelite called out writing his name down. InuYasha raised his head with his mouth open. He didn't volunteer...

" Rozomi? Master Marhime's enemy."

" ME!" A girl Nadine called out standing up.

" okay.. angel Loledai?"

" I do! I do!" Kagome raised her hand hard enough that it could have pulled out of it's socket.

" Okay the rest of you are going to be rain drops!"

" Wooo..." They said so enthusiastically... not really...

" To the gym!"

In the gym all the students that were rain drops sat on the floor until it was their turn to be on stage. A few of the students had difficulty reading their lines but in the end they got it.

" Class it's a very short play so you have 2 days to learn your lines. We will be preforming Wednesday." (An : It may seem like they don't have enough time to learn their lines but in second grade you really don't get challenging scripts with paragraphs of dialogue.) After math the whole class had to go to their elective, which had been P.E that day. Their P.E teacher, Mr. Calm was a real brutal hot head. He was only that way because before he became a physical education teacher he was in the military and that had hardened his heart to a rock. Kagome sat by InuYasha playing with his long hair. What was with girls and touching other people's hair? InuYasha had no idea. Mr. Calm was talking something about there was going to be a mile run race today. There were three rules. "You have to finish the race, even if you have to crawl!" He said. " The second rule, if you girls chat and walk you will have to go around the field twice each day for the rest of the week! Lastly, no tripping people so you can get ahead. Do you understand!"

" Yes..." The kids told him.

" Take it outside."

All the kids got up and walked outside to the start position. InuYasha always was in the top ten due to his speed. Their were a lot of other demons and hanyous as well so he wasn't necessarily the best of the best. Kagome tied her hair up in a ponytail and stretched her legs. She wasn't even close to InuYasha's speed but all that mattered was her feet passing over the finish line.

" On Your mark! Get set! Stay!"

A few of the kids sprinted running. Even Kagome was going to until InuYasha caught her by the hair pulling her back towards him.

" Ow! Inu! What was that for."

" We aren't allowed to go yet. It's called listening."

A few of the kids realized they had made a mistake and were very embarrassed, running back to the starting line.

" Now if you were listening and not talking to your friends- MORGANI!- then you would have heard me say ' Stay!' and not ' GO!'"

Everyone then took off running leaving Mr. Calm sighing. InuYasha gently took Kagome's hand.

" Here I'll give a boost. Just try and catch up." InuYasha sprinted off running with a screaming Kagome right behind trying to catch up. Her feet were moving like the characters in cartoons running for their lives. It felt... AMAZING!

" Inu!"

" I'm going to let go okay?"

" Okay!"

InuYasha gave her hand a squeeze before letting go. He actually got her in front of all the human kids. InuYasha took off with all the other demons. In order to complete a whole mile the kids had to run the whole grass field four times. Kagome was trying to steady her breath and still continue to run. And InuYasha liked to run!

By now everyone had finished their first lap. Someone sneezed with all the pollen in the air while he was jogging with his friend.

" Bless you!" his friend said.

" Thanks."

" ONE MILE EACH DAY FOR YOU BOTH!" Mr. Calm yelled.

" What!" they both screamed shocked. He just sneezed and she was trying to be respectful!

" And another MONDAY for arguing with me!" Mr. Calm wrote both the kids names down so he wouldn't forget.

InuYasha loved the breeze rushing through his silver hair as he ran. He always brought a brush to school because it always got tangled when he ran. When Mr. Calm wasn't looking he removed his shoes and socks running bare foot in the soft grass. ' ah... that's better.'

Kagome was running so fast that her legs were going numb. The finish line was so far but at least she was now on her last lap. InuYasha was now joy running... He already over lapped everyone so now he was just waiting to cross the finish line for the last time with everyone else. And when I say joy running I mean... prancing.

That's when it happened. Kagome's legs finally gave up on her making her collapse to the ground. InuYasha stopped skipping in circles after hearing someone fall. ' Kagome!' InuYasha ran to her side.

" Kagome! Are you okay?"

Kagome was in shock unavailable to give an answer. She couldn't make it to the end of the race because she was too weak. She let herself down.

" Higurashi! Keep moving!" Mr. Calm yelled blowing into his whistle from a distance.

InuYasha growled deep in his chest at the coach and back at his friend.

" Kagome...?"

" I cant make it to the finish... I'm too tired." Kagome smiled with tears in her eyes amazed.

InuYasha scooted in front of her looking behind him. " Get on."

Kagome was confused but got on his back. 'He must be taking me to the nurse...'

" If you can't finish the race on your own we'll finish it together." InuYasha held tight on her small legs and took off running. Kagome was shocked by his words but held on. They passed a lot of people earning a bunch of weird stares.

" Hey Kanna can I get on your back!" Billy asked.

" Touch me and die." Kanna said and returned to her conversation with Shiori. They had both been walking the entire time.

InuYasha and Kagome passed the finish line in triumph. " Thanks InuYasha..."

" No problem."

InuYasha set Kagome down and sat next to her in the grass.

" Hey? How are your legs."

" fine." Kagome smiled looking at the grass. " I'm just a weak human is all."

" You're not weak Kagome... You just pushed yourself too hard."

" I could've collapsed after the race though. Then it would be okay."

" Okay Kagome stop trying to beat your body with a hammer. Can you walk now?"

Kagome moved up her leg slowly stretching it and then trying it with the other. " Possibly. Inu..." Kagome laughed.

" What!" InuYasha touched his face frantically to see if he had anything on it. " What are you laughing at!"

" calm down. I'm laughing because you don't have any shoes on. Where did they go."

" Oh that's right! I forgot all about my shoes. Be right back." InuYasha got up and went to sniff out where he had put his shoes in the grass so Mr. Calm wouldn't be able to see them. The nurse rushed over to Kagome crouching near her' resting a hand on her shoulder. Then offering her a bottled water.

" Are you okay Hun?"

" I think so..."

" What happened?"

" I just... I pushed myself harder than my body could handle." Kagome said then taking a swig from the water. It was delicious, freezing cold water. Kagome wondered who had noticed her fall besides InuYasha and got the nurse. The Nurse smiled at Mr. Calm that just nodded putting away his walkie talkie.

' looks like Mr. hot head isn't so mean after all...'

Later that day as promised, Kagome came over to swim. Their indoor pool was very large. Sesshomaru went swimming also well... some wouldn't call that swimming... more like laps back and forth. InuYasha on the other hand was in the corner splashing around in circles. Sesshomaru's friend Rin and her friend Nadine also came over to swim. But they were Sesshomaru's guests so InuYasha just ignored then blowing bubbles in the water and doing flips.

Kagome removed her pink flipflops dipping her toe in the water and sat down.

" kagome." InuYasha said to her underwater then coming up for air. " It isn't cold." He then grabbed her ankle grinning. " Or am I going to have to pull you in!"

" NO!" Kagome giggled shooing him off. " I can get in just fine by myself." She said getting up. " oh! Hi Sesshomaru!" Kagome waved to him but he said nothing. " Sesshomaru!"

InuYasha looked over at his brother, with his amazing hearing skills he would have heard Kagome say hi to him and he wasn't one to be rude and ignore greetings. InuYasha got out of the pool shaking like a dog and patted his wet feet over to one of their pool side tables where the radio was.

" I know how to get his attention." InuYasha pressed the play button on Cd mode. (* Wake me up before you go-go*) and started dancing. Sesshomaru poked his head up from the water glaring at his younger brother. He loathed this song. He despised this song. He held so much hatred for this song that he'd rather be bitten by a poisonous snake than listen to this rubbish. Repulsive. Immature. No love at all for this song. Once the chorus came on InuYasha sung.

" Wake me up before you go-go don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo. Wake me up before you go-go I don't wanna miss it when you hit that high." InuYasha danced goofy while singing then he noticed his brother's deathly cold stare. All of the kids in the pool laughed except him. " Oh sorry Fluffy. Maybe next time you wont ignore my friend when she is tryin' to be nice and say hi to you!" InuYasha growled. Sesshomaru rolled his eyes sighing.

" Need I remind you brother that no matter how good a person's hearing is it's quite difficult to hear under water when your ears are full of it!" Sessomaru expertly swam over to Kagome. " Kagome." Sesshomaru nodded in greeting and went back to swimming laps. InuYasha crept behind Kagome and pushed her in. Kagome gasped grabbing her nose so no water would get in and took a huge breath. InuYasha soon followed her in.

" Inu! That was mean!" Kagome said splashing him.

" Well were you going to sit there the whole time? I's not like you can get a tan... I mean... we're inside."

" Well I don't know..."

" Your silly."

" You are."

" And that's why were friends."

" I'm glad."

InuYasha smiled and swan over to the other two girls Nadine and Rin. " You guys want to play something with us?"

" Only if Sesshy does too." The two of them said together. InuYasha sighed and swam on his back over to Sesshomaru. " Fluffy... play with us."

" I have two more laps to go and then I will."

" Are you doing that stupid one thousand thing again!"

Sesshomaru just gave his brother a look and kept swimming.

" Perfectionist..."

InuYasha, Kagome, Nadine, and Rin all watched as Sesshomaru finished his two laps and swam to them. " Okay now what was it that you wanted to play little brother?"

" Um... I don't know what do you girls want to play."

" Colors!" Rin shouted.

" Marco Polo!" Nadine suggested.

" Okay." Sesshomaru said. Swimming away from them going under water and then back up for a few short seconds like a dolphin saying " Not it."

" Not it!" Rin, Nadine and InuYasha all shouted, followed by Kagome a second later.

" Aww man.." Kagome frowned. " What game are we going to play first?"

" Marco polo." InuYasha told her." You have to count to... 19 under water."

" Why 19? Why not 20..."

" Because 20 seconds is too long."

" You are so stupid." Kagome laughed. " Okay I'm counting!" Kagome dunked her head in the water closing her eyes while everyone made their escape.

Everyone slyly and quietly got out of the pool so she wouldn't be able to reach them. Kagome came up from the water with her eyes shut tightly and reached in front of her. " Marco?"

" Polo!" They all screamed. Now normally you wouldn't want to say a word but if you weren't in the pool you would scream it to the world.

" Marco?"

" Polo!"

Kagome reached the end of the pool and changed directions.

" Marco!"

" Polo!"

" Wow... You guys are good at this." Kagome kept reaching in front of her but it never seemed like she was getting closer to Anyone!

" Okay enough messing around with her." Sesshomaru whispered low enough so Kagome wouldn't be able to hear.

" Marco!"

" Polo!" They all screamed. Sesshomaru picked up InuYasha making his squirm.

" Hey! What are you doing!" He shouted in a whisper.

" Oh Kagome... Polo polo polo.." Sesshoumaru sang Baiting InuYasha in the water. Kagome got closer and closer to InuYasha. Finally she touched a familiar dog ear.

" Heh! I got you InuYasha!" Kagome cheered finally opening her eyes.

" How'd you know it was me."

" The ears!"

" Curse these ears. Now let me down Fluffy!" Sesshomaru spun around and tossed InuYasha into the pool as if he was an unwanted fish that had just been caught and was flung back into the sea.

" Hey!" Kagome said seeing that everyone else wasn't inside the pool. " Cheaters!"

Sesshomaru dived into the pool with a tiny splash and came up like a graceful god flipping his hair back. He kinda reminded Nadine and Rin like the dudes they see In cartoons that have long flowing hair, are shirtless, and ride on Pegasuses in the clouds. They couldn't help but stare. Kagome found that a little creppy. ' Just wait until he hits puberty girls and then you'll be swooning.' Kagome said mentally.

" Hey Inu? Did you learn your part for our play?"

" duh... I have one line! It's ridiculous."

" Really?" Rin laughed.

" Yeah, all I say is ' It's time for me to leave now...' and then poof! I never appear on stage again..."

" Are you still going to watch the whole thing or just wait backstage."

" I feel like watching it." InuYasha smiled. " You better not mess up Kagome."

"How hard can it be."

" don't jinx yourself."

" Kagome dear?" Mrs. Higurashi called out. Her and Izayoi came out in one pieces with magazines and sat in the two lounge chairs.

" Hi mama. Your going to swim with us?"

" In a little Kagome."

"We should play Marco polo." Sesshomaru suggested winking at his friends.

Sorry I couldn't update yesterday :'( Please leave a review.