"So Kagome?" Yuka asked, sitting down on the front step to Kagome's house to take off her shoes. "Did your mom know that we were all coming to study yet?"
"No, I forgot," Kagome sighed, "but she won't mind."
"Now if we could just get your Grandpa to except it, then we're in." Eri mumbled, scratching under her yellow headband."
"He'll let us." Kagome said, opening the door. *...I hope...*
"I really need to study math, so could we do that first please?" Eri asked, walking in behind Kagome.
"Yeah, let's have Ayumi teach us! She's good at everything, right!"
"I'm not that good!" Ayumi shot back at Yuka, playfully tugging at her short hair. "I'm not doing so good in English."
Yuka frowned. "Oh yeah! What do you have? Like a B+! Ayu's gonna fail!"
"Shut up!" Ayumi laughed, shoving Yuka in the door."
"Is that you Kagome?"
"Oh crap!" Yuka whispered loudly.
"Um...yes!" Kagome answered back.
"Oh. Come here." Kagome's mom called again. "Quickly! I have something I want to show you!"
"K!" Kagome walked over into the livingroom, gestering to her friends to follow her.
"Trust Kagome to bring school home with her!" Souta yelled as the four schoolgirls came in and sat at the little table in the middle of the room.
"Hi to you too Souta." Eri said sarcastically.
"If you or Mom don't mind, I brought friends over so we could study together 'cause there's a test coming up soon." Kagome said to her Grandpa, who was eyeballing the girls as if they were some new specuies of human he's never seen before.
"Just don't make a mess of things, K?" he said.
Eri smiled at Kagome, who was grinning back. "So it's settled then."
"Oh good! You're all here!" Kagome's mom said from the hallway entrance. "Hold on everyone! I have someone I want you all to meet!" she said excitedly, disappearing into the hall.
"What's going on?" Kagome asked.
"Mom's all excited for nothing." Souta replied. "She says she needs to show us something, but we had to wait until you got here to see it 'cause you walk so slow."
"Whatever." Kagome mumbled, rolling here eyes at her little brother.
"Hey, if all of you girls are here, might as well cook dinner tonight." Souta instigated.
"Yes!" Grandpa suggested too. "The girls can prepare a big meal for us later."
"Understood." the girls sighed, giving dirty looks to Souta who was liking his tongue at them.
"Okay everyone!" Mom yelled, coming back into the livingroom. "I want you all to meet someone." she smiled as a man appeared in the hallway. "Everyone, this is Himitsu Kawamura. He works for the schoolboard her in this part of town."
There was this dead scilence then Yuka broke it by saying "Wow, Mrs. Higurashi, he's hot!"
"Yuka!" Kagome shoved her firend's head under the table. "So, do you have any special positions in the schoolboard?" she asked afterward.
"I'm the one who makes sure your schools get the funding they need."
"Well in that case," Yuka muffled from under the table, "The softball team I'm on needs a new court-"
"Yuka!" Kagome shouted again.
"We've been together for a while now, but something is happening with the area around his home and the FBI has blocked it from the public for a while and he needs a place to stay, which is why I needed to ask you guys' permission first, expecially my kids."
"I see no problem with it, really." Kagome said, running up and taking his suitcases from him. "If you're too shy to sleep in Mom's room, there's an extra room for you, if don't mind it being a little messy."
"Not at all." Himitsu said, smiling. "So then, you must be Kagome, am I right?"
"Um, yes."
"You're mom has told me a lot about you. She says you're very intellegent-"
"It's a lie," Yuka whispered loudly from behind the other two friends giggling. "She's failing almost everything!"
"Don't listen to them; they're idiots. "Kagome said nervously.
"Okay then." Himitsu's eyes scrolled over to the little boy seated on the couch with a dumb-founded look on his face. "And you must be Souta."
"What's it to you!" Souta said sternly.
"Souta?" his mom said back, suprised at his attitude. "Be polite."
Himitsu smiled. "That's alright. I heard you're really good as Soccer."
Blowing air, Souta hopped off the souch and stormed up the stairs, into his room, slamming the door as hard as he possible could and rattling all the walls.
Everyone looked around the room at eachother. Each with a different expression on their face.
"I'll go talk to him." Kagome said, going up the stairs after her little brother. "Souta." she called when she got to the top of the stairs. Kagome walked up to Souta's bedroom, but paused when she heard sobbing.
Kagome knocked softly on the door. "Souta," she said, opening it and going in, closing the door behind her.
"Go away!" he yelled, his face burried in his knees, his arms wrapped around his legs.
"Hey, it's okay." Kagome sat next to her brother on his bed.
"No it's not!" Souta said starnly. "Mom's only supposed to love Dad! Why is she doing this to us?"
"Souta..." the schoolgirl wrapped her arms around the poor boy. "Maybe Dad wants Mom to be happy."
"We're not enough for her!"
"It's not that..." Kagome sighed softly. "It's much more complicated then that. And besides, he's only staying here for a month or two at the most."
"Why are you so open about this Kagome?" Souta asked, wiping his face dry with the sleeve of his orange sweater. "Would it be the same with InuYasha?"
"Let's see...if something were to happen and InuYasha were to end up alone, I would want him to be happy. Me trying to force him to stay with me or to only think of me is selfish." she said blankly, thinking about the love triangle with Kikyou.
"Okay. So Mom still loves Dad?"
"Of course." Kagome gave Souta a huge hug. "Even if you don't like him, just be nice for Mom's sake, okay?"
"K."
"Kagome! InuYasha's here!"
"Okay!" Kagome stood up, grabbing Souta. "This is the only time I'm carrying you!"
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