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Chapter 1: Grounding and the Boyfriend
She tip-toed into the house, trying to sneak into her small room. She hid behind a corner as she heard footsteps on the other side of the hall. She held her breath until the offending steps walked away.
She ran to her room, and shut the door quietly behind her. She let out all of the breath she had held. Seconds later, the door was opened, and there stood her mother.
"Kagome, don't think you can sneak past me, little lady. You know I wanted you home before school started today. Your Grandpa had to call in and say that you suddenly took ill…again. The Feudal Era has not had a good effect on your grades!"
"I know, but…."
"No buts. I do not want you to go back to the Feudal Era and gallivant around like you have no problems until I see a significant improvement on your grades. That also means that Inuyasha cannot visit unless I am there with you."
"But, Mom…."
"Shall I make you not at all be able to see him?"
"Fine." Kagome started cleaning her room as her mother left. 'How to tell Inuyasha….' She thought, 'If Mom sees us, then my punishment will be worse. Maybe if I put a barrier around my room, then he won't be anywhere near it, and I'll just spend time outside of here, but pretend that I am in here. Inuyasha better come when Mom isn't here, so I can tell him the situation.'
She stayed home that day from school, seeing as she didn't get to the house until school was already half over. She began on her stacks of homework, and was almost finished with it all by the time she would have gotten home. She wrote a note to Inuyasha, and snuck out to the well house. Maybe he would see it and not come looking for her.
The next day, she went to school as usual. Her friends flocked to her, asking her questions about everything from her illness to her two-timing boyfriend. She overlooked all the questions, and asked her friends what had happened in school lately.
"Well," started Yuka, "The science lab caught on fire again, and we had to leave school after the first half of school yesterday. You should have been here! We won't be able to have any classes there, so we have to have our classes outside for science!"
"Anything else?" asked Kagome, wishing that they would say something along the lines of "Oh yeah, and Hojo found a girlfriend, and is no longer interested in you!", but fate is not so kind. Speak of the devil……
Hojo came running happily to her and her friends, calling out her name as he approached.
She put on her best fake smile, and greeted him when he huffed up to her. They talked for a few minutes, until the school bell rang, sending them off to their respective classes. Yuka and Eri were in her class, and they made her talk about her two-timing boyfriend until the teacher asked the class to be quiet.
The rest of the day went on as such. Yuka tried to hook the two up at least half a dozen times, but Kagome dug into her long list of excuses, and pulled out a winner each and every time.
The quartet went to WacDonald's after school, and they ate their routine cheeseburgers. Yuka and Eri fired questions at Kagome. She tried to dodge the onslaught of questions, but it proved no use. She gave up and started with her half-lies.
She told them that Inuyasha was a friend of hers that she met at the hospital when she was sick. He helped her with her illnesses, and they were nothing more than that. He had a girlfriend who also was always sick, to the point where she might as well be dead. He had trouble deciding between the living Kagome, and the dying Kikyou. Kikyou didn't want to die, and she would always amaze the doctors in her will to live.
But, Inuyasha wasn't perfect. He had a quick temper, and he was an orphan, and he didn't understand the true meaning of family. Kikyou was a strong minded individual who wanted to change him for the better, but that would take away his unique identity.
"So, that's all there is to that two-timing boyfriend?" asked Eri, the most suspicious of the group.
"It's so romanitic!" exclaimed Ayumi, the dreamiest of the group.
"I still say that Hojo is better!" said Yuka, the most blunt of the group.
Kagome sweat dropped. She glanced down at her watch, and then suddenly remembered that she was grounded. "Uh, guys…..got to go!" she exclaimed as she ran out the door, leaving three very confused girls in her wake.
She didn't get very far, though, because she ran straight into Hojo, who was carrying a box. "Oh, Kagome. This is for you," he said as he handed her the box, "This is all you'll need to make a special herbal tea that they made back in old times to heal all sorts of illnesses! I think it will help you out with all your conditions!"
"Um….Thanks?" Kagome said, unable to say much else about the package. Hojo beamed.
"You're very welcome! Bye!" he said, as he jogged back to his house.
'That boy tries too hard!' thought Kagome to herself, 'It should be obvious that I don't like him, and I don' want to tell him so. Maybe one of these days……Oh no! I need to be home!' she thought to herself as she looked once again at her watch. She had five minutes to get home without it looking like she was avoiding it, and the distance was at least ten minutes away. She took off running towards her house.
She made good time, at least in her mind. She controlled her breath before she strolled into the house. Her mother was sitting on the other side of the room, talking on the phone. Kagome walked up the stairs to her room, where she did all her homework.
She was about half an hour into her work when there was a knock on the door. She continued with her work, but listened in on the conversation downstairs.
"Oh, Takashi! You're here!" came the cheerful voice of her mother.
"Of course, Love. I wouldn't miss you for the world," came a soothing voice. Kagome had to reprocess what she had just heard. Her mother had a boyfriend? How strange. She continued on listening.
"Well, I'll just go call down Kagome and Souta. You remember Souta, don't you?"
"Why of course. I don't believe I have met this Kagome before. Where has she been for these last few visits?"
"Oh, you know teenagers these days. They would rather be out with their friends instead of at home with their family. She really is a nice girl, but she thinks her friends are more important than her schooling."
"Well, I'll deal with that. I am a teacher, you know."
"Of course I know. Maybe you can tutor her. Right now, she is grounded, and she isn't allowed to see a certain group of her friends. They are having negative influences on her."
Takashi nodded in agreement.
"Well, Love ((I don't know her name, and I can't think of a good one….)), shouldn't you be calling your two children down here so we can start dinner?"
"Oh, yes. KAGOME! SOUTA! COME DOWN HERE!" she yelled, not out of anger, but rather to get their attention.
Minutes later, Kagome and Souta were downstairs. Kagome got her first glance at the new man. He was in his late thirties, similar to her mother, and he had light brown hair that fell to the very top of his shoulders. He was wearing a casual suit, and he had a mustache that was neatly cut. All in all, he was an attractive man.
But, Kagome didn't know what to expect from this seemingly innocent, harmless man.
END CHAPTER!
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