Authors Notes: Thank you all for reading! I'm sorry about the late release. I really wanted to get it up earlier, but school is getting crazy! Thank goodness for snow days! Please continue reading! ~Yoko

Chapter 3

Should I ask Kyo where the bath is? No he's mad and I don't want to bother him. But what should I do? The mental war in my mind ceased for a moment as I heard footsteps coming down the hall. Turning my head, I saw Miko walking towards me. She stopped when she reached me and I could see the bruise forming on her cheek. "Where are you headed?" She asked with a smile. "I was going to go take a bath, but I'm not sure where it is." I answered.
"I was headed there too, follow me." Miko walked past me and further down the hall before stopping at a door. She slid the door open, revealing two more doors, one labeled "WOMEN" and one labeled "MEN". She slid open the women's door and mentioned, "We're the only women who use this bathroom, there's another one near the dojo area that the students use."
"Oh" I replied sounding stupid, but the layout of the room had me completely stunned.

There were stalls for the toilets on the wall to my right and next to them were three sinks with a large mirror above them. On the small wall behind me, next to the door, were cabinets. The top shelf didn't have doors on it and inside were neatly stacked towels. The shelves below had doors on them and a spot to slide in a name tag, only one was labeled "Miko" in neat slanted handwriting. The left wall was completely covered in shelves with small open-top boxes lining the wall. Each box also had a place for a name tag; three of them were labeled, two said "Miko" in the slanted handwriting and one said "Laundry". The wall directly across from me had a single door and to the right of the door were hooks with a single robe on one of them.

"We use these cabinets to store some clothing for ourselves," Miko said, pointing to the cabinets behind us, "I usually have sleepwear in mine and my extra gi." She moved her hand to point at the wall to the left, "Those are boxes to keep things for your bath in. I use two, one for my products and one for my clothes." She shifted her hand again to point at the back door, "That door is to the hot spring and you can use one of the hooks for your robe."
"Thank you," I murmured, "but I forgot my things back in my room."
"We can go get them." She offered, opening the door and stepping out.

She lead me back to my room and stood next to the open door waiting for me to catch up. I heard a girl's voice come from inside the room, "Please except my feelings, I really like you." But before Kyo could answer I had reached the door.