Okay just so you people know I have not dropped off the planet, and have been doing some work on my own various stories. 

I am posting one of the segments to the first chapter of Graduation Day, another of my Onégai Teacher stories I have still in the works. So you know this takes place after the events of Ichigo's Dance, and will probably not be posted till that one is closer to finished. But I did want to let you have a little peak.

Graduation Day - Chapter 1 segment

\\ Ichigo’s Apartment the next morning \\

Ichigo was busy putting the finishing touches on the two bentōs that she was making for lunch when the door buzzer went off. She hit the intercom button, “Yes?”

^Hey, Ichigo are you ready yet?^ came the boys voice over the intercom.

She smiled and hit the talk button again. “Sorry, not quite yet, just come on up the door is unlocked.” She hit the main door switch on the side of the intercom that unlocked the building door downstairs. A couple minutes later her front door opened and Matagu walked in.

“So Ichigo what’s the holdup.” As he closed the door and started walking through the living room towards the kitchen. Ichigo put the lids down on the lunches she had just finished. She turned around and started to walk out of the kitchen. As she came out Matagu stopped dead in his tracks and started to stare at his girlfriend.

“What’s so shocking, hmmm…” she got an indignant look on her face, put her hands on her hips and looked back at her boyfriend of the past couple months.

“Aaa… mmmm, well you’re not dressed yet.” He shook his head and tried to get rid of the dumbfounded expression on his face as it started to turn red.

“Oh really, I am so dressed, I just haven’t had a chance to get my socks and shoes on yet.” She was finding it hard that her appearance would cause this much of a problem. She just shook her head in exasperation.

“Gomen… It’s just you look so… beautiful.”

Ichigo stopped midstep and felt her face heat up. She was instantly sure she was blushing a bright red. She continued walking over to the sofa watching Matagu’s expression as she sat down and picked up a sock. He was starting to get nervous and shuffling his feet. «He thinks I’m beautiful, wow. Maybe I should give him a little show. Hold it where did that come from. No way, I don’t want him getting the wrong idea about us” She started to put on her sock and was watching him out of the corner of her eye.

“Ichigo, Gomenasi, I didn’t mean it.” She looked at the floor and her expression shifted. Matagu might not have had lots of experience with girls but that. “I mean, I did mean to say that you’re beautiful, I just should not have said it out loud, Gomenasi.” He bowed to her because he meant it and he really didn’t like to make her sad.

She smiled and looked back up at him, as she put on her other sock. “It’s ok Matagu.” Getting her sock on she stood up and walked over to him. “You really think I’m beautiful?” and she looked up at him.

Matagu felt even more nervous then before, “Yea, you really are.” «I’m sure about that» But Matagu was in for a bigger surprise. She started to blush again at his last comment. Then she stood up on her toes, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. Matagu lost all sense of everything around him, but the girl in his arms and the feel of her lips on his. They had hugged, and snuggled with each other before and even kissed a few times, but it had never been like this. «Is this what love feels like?» He held her tighter and deepened the kiss, surprisingly she responded. He lost all sense of time, until after what he thought might have been several minutes had passed, the both slowly pulled away from each other, but neither released the hold they were sharing.

Ichigo smiled up at him. «That was incredible, if I knew he was that good a kisser…» she let that thought trail off. She was sure she must be blushing even worse then before, but right now she didn’t care. That is until she noticed the time that was showing on her micro. “It’s getting real late, we had better hurry.” She reached up and gave him one last quick peck on the lips then hurried into the kitchen, grabbed their lunches and wrapped them quickly. Grabbed Matagu’s hand as she started for the door and they both slipped there shoes back on and headed to school.

After several minutes of jogging or walking very fast they caught up with the first three of their classmates. Hyosuke smiled and waved at them, “Hey guys, what’s the big hurry. You look like you were running all the way here?” The girls on the other hand were looking intently at Ichigo with a few occasional glances over at Matagu.

Both girls stared to get big grins on their faces, but Kaede was the first to speak. “Ichigo, what’s happened, you look…” She lost the ability to speak and looked at Koishi.

“Yea Ichigo,” Koishi said, “You’re absolutely glowing.” Kaede started to nod with her friends’ statement. “Were you and Matagu doing IT, before school this morning?” Both guys looked at the girls with lost expressions on their faces.

“Whaaatt, are you crazy, NO we weren’t.” Ichigo could not believe they asked that. The guy’s kept looking around with the same looks on their faces. Then the comments by the girls started to sink in and reality dawned on them.

“Yo, Matagu way ta go buddy. It’s about time.” Hyosukes’ grin got even sillier then normal. Matagu looked at his girlfriend and saw the scowl building there.

He started waving his hands in front of him, “Ah… No, no way we just left her apartment late because she had been making our lunches, and hadn’t finished getting dressed yet…” Matagu stopped talking because the other girls’ faces went bright red. Kaedes’ hand went to cover her mouth, Hyosukes’ eyes got large and his grin even bigger.

~GULP~ Matagu turned slightly to see Ichigos’ scowl get darker, then her expression shifted to more of a smile, almost seductive. She took a couple of steps towards him; her hips were swaying more then her normal walk. As she stood in front of him she looked up into his eyes and smiled. She started running her finger over his chest lightly making little circles around his coat buttons. “Oooo, Matagu-kun” she cooed, “Would you like me to help you to dig that hole…” ~GULP~ Her expression turned darker, “Or can I just wait till your finished, then bury you in it.” With that she smacked him in the side of the head.

“Gomenasi, Ichigo.” And Matagu lowered his head and looked at the ground. Their friends started laughing, and Ichigo turned to face the others.

“What Matagu was trying to say, before he so kindly stuffed his foot down his throat” She looked back at her koibito, and her expression softened a little. «It is nice that he gets so tongue-tied around me, he’s really cute when he gets all flustered» She looked back at her friends, “is that I still hadn’t put on my socks and shoes yet. Really, you guys, sometimes…” Reaching over and grabbing her koibitos’ hand and pulling him close, she started walking towards the school again.