"Oh my gosh! He touched you!" Yuka screamed, standing up on the stairs to Kagome's property. "Why didn't you tell your mom or something!"

"You've got it all wrong, Yuka." Kagome sighed, tugging on her friend's arm so she could sit back down. "There was a scorpion under my skirt. That's why I thought he'd touched me."

"Oh." Yuka sat up straight. "I remember the last time you got bit by a scorpion. They had to rush you to the hospital from P.E." Yuka chomped down on her orange popsicle. "So have you caught them doing it yet?"

"Yuka!" Kagome yelled, frowning at her friend who shrugged her shoulders sarcastically. "That's disgusting!"

"No it's not..." Yuka chewed up her mouthful of popsicle, then swallowed it all at once. "You will eventually...I remember when I caught my parents...oh boy did I get nightmares."

"You had bad dreams?" Kagome asked, concerned.

"No. I'd get them at school." she said in a jokingly serious voice. "I'll make a bet with you."

"A bet?" Kagome wondered out loud, chewing her last piece of her popsicle.

"Yeah." Yuka giggled. "If you can snap a picture of them doing it and sent it to my phone, I'll cover you 100% in school when you're gone. Including homework." She smiled, then ducked when a flying popsicle stick came whizzing by her face. "Hey!"

"That's the same bet I made with you in the fifth grade!" Kagome shouted.

"But I managed to get the picture." Yuka smirked. "And then as soon as I showed it to you, the principle walked by and snatched my camera right out of my hands."

"The looks on your parents' faces were classic!" Kagome laughed hysterically. "But I still ended up doing your homework for the rest of the year."

"Yeah...now I want to return the favor." Yuka said calmly. "It's at a time when you need it too. With the Feudal Era and all."

"True." Kagome smiled.

Yuka stared at Kagome for a long moment, then gasped loudly. "I'm gonna be late!" she yelled, standing up.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"I have to cook dinner tonight! And I haven't even gone to the store yet!" Yuka turned to run down the stairs, the stopped. "Are you sure you're gonna be okay?"

"Yes." Kagome laughed. "I'm okay. I'm gonna go take a nap and then study anyways." she said, waving to her friend as she walked off before going inside, then hearing loud thumps coming from upstairs.

"Don't tell me..." Kagome crossed her eyes, thinking out loud. "Ewgross!" she yelled out loud, heading upstairs, then realizing that her door was standing wide open. "Souta!" she growled loudly, storming towards her room and pausing when she saw that it was Himitsu coming out of her room instead.

"I-it's me."

"What are you doing in my room!" Kagome yelled, shoeving Himitsu out of the way to peer into her room, seeing her desk and closet completely a mess. "What the hell, man!"

"I need-"

"Stay out of my room!" Kagome screamed, stepping up very close to Himitsu in a threatening manner.

"Kagome, stop yelling in the house." her mom called, coming up the stairs. "What's going on?"

"He was in my room and he totally destroyed everything!" Kagome yelled, thrusting her finger at Himitsu, who stood there staring dumbfoundly into space.

Kagome's mom glanced at Himitsu then back at Kagome. "Why would he be in your room?" she said next, watching the expression on her daughter's face change. "Are you sure it wasn't Souta again?"

"...mom?" Kagome swallowed, pulling her hair behind her ears. "I just saw him come out-"

"But that doesn't mean it was him."

"Mom!" Kagome stomped her foot.

"Don't you dare take that tone with me!" Kagome's mom shouted, pointing with her finger so close to Kagome's face that it was touching her nose."Don't just assume until you know for sure next time." her mom mumbled sternely next, walking away to her room.

"Stay out of my room." Kagome said to Himitsu after her mom left.

Himitsu shrugged, turning to walk back into Kagome's room.

"I said stay out!" Kagome yelled, blocking his way. "You made my mom angry with me. She hasn't been stern with us since I was eight, and now she's mad at me." she whined next.

Himitsu shrugged again and tried to move Kagome's arm so he could go around her, but she moved in his way again.

"Whatever you want, I'll get it! But you are not going in my room!"

Himitsu grabbed Kagome by her shoulders and shoved her into her room, then going in and closing the door behind him.

"Get out!" she screamed. "I can't believe you!"

"Not until I'm finished." he mumbled, going over to Kagome's desk and knocking it over.

"Mom!" Kagome yelled. "Mom! Get him out of my room!"

Himitsu stormed over to Kagome and grabbed her by her jaw, slamming her down onto her bed head first.

"Souta!" she yelled, trying to push Himitsu away.

Himitsu climbed over Kagome, pinning her arms to her bed, then grabbing her by her head. "Welcome home, Kagome" he said, grinning.

Kagome layed still for a moment, staring at the man in disbelief, then frowned. "I'm telling Mom."

Himitsu grabbed Kagome by her jaw again. "You wouldn't get the chance to because I'd snap your kneck long before."

Kagome tried to push Himitsu off again, but it didn't work. "Who are you?" she asked, trying not to cry. "Because you're not the Himitsu I met."

"You've known me for a very long time Kagome." he said with a smirk, squeezing her jaw tighter and watching her wince. "I just want to torture you, let you die nice and slow because I hate you so much."

"Get off of me." Kagome growled loudly from behind clenched teeth, sighing when Himitsu let go of her jaw and slid off of her, hurrying out of her room.

Kagome grabbed her pillow and thrusted it at the door, making it slam shut, then sat up, running her fingers over the forming bruises around her chin. "I know him already?" she whispered to herself.

"You rang?" Souta asked, busting through Kagome's door. "Woah! What happened here?"

"Souta, what have I told you about knocking?" Kagome said blankly.

"That's it?" Souta balanced himself on his crutches, slowly making his way over to his sister's bed to sit down. "Is something the matter?"

"What gives you the idea that something's the matter?"

"Well for one, you'd scream at me for coming in your room without asking, and also, you're staring off into space." Souta scanned over the mess in Kagome's closet and her tipped over desk. "And from the looks of it you're pretty angry."

"Souta? Have you seen Himitsu around town anytime before he was with Mom?"

"Uh...no, not really." Souta sighed. "The day Mom brought'em home was the first day that I'd ever seen him."

Kagome exhailed, a little disappointed. "Darn, I thought maybe you knew...a few minutes ago, he told me that I've known him for a while."

"What if he's our real dad and our real dad isn't really our real dad!" Souta shouted with a huge smile.

Kagome glanced over at him, then out her window. "Souta, that's not funny." Kagome pulled the covers back on her bed and crawled under them. "I'm gonna go ahead and take a nap. InuYasha might come for me later. Could you tell him to come in here when he does?"

"Yeah, but sis?" Souta stood up, balancing on his crutches again. "Aren't you gonna clean your mess?"

"Tell him that I need help carrying my textbooks to the well." she continued, ignoring what her brother had just said.

"O-okay." Souta said, leaving his sister to sleep.

"I've got it! Finally!...now what of this wench...I hate it just as much as I hate the former...it's done..."