Chapter 8
Sango, Shippo and Kirara were surprised by Ai's answer. "Her father's scent is in there too?" Shippo asks after recovering for the shock. Ai nods. "Yes. There are a few things that belonged to Kagome's father. She keeps a few of his things under her bed. That's why his scent is in there." She explains to them. "What happened to him?" Shippo asks her. Ai frowns for a slight of a second, "He died a few years ago." She only tells them.
Sensing that this is where that this conversation is getting depressing, the group decide to drop it. "So then is there anything else you want us to do at this point?" Sango asks a different subject. Ai shakes her head. "No there's nothing else to do around here for now." Sango and Kirara head outside. "Maybe you could play with Sota's toys." Ai suggests to the fox kid. Shippo smiles brightly and goes upstairs to Sota's bedroom to play with his toys.
Back in Kagome's bedroom, Inuyasha makes himself comfortable on Kagome's bed. He sets his Tetsusaiga to the bedside table. As soon as he lies down, Kagome's lingering scent calms him down greatly. But there's something else that goes with it. 'It has a masculine scent. But it's not her little brother of grandpa.' He thinks to himself trying to figure out what that mysterious scent belongs to. As soon as he flicks his ear, he heard that Kagome's mother telling the group downstairs about her husband, in other words, Kagome's father. He even heard about a few things that Kagome keeps under her bed.
Too curious for his own good, Inuyasha gets off of Kagome's bed and looks under the to see a few boxes. He digs his one hand to pull out a box with a name on the lid. "Kaoru." That must be the father's name. Inuyasha opens up the box lid and can see a few pictures of him from various times. A few of him with Ai. A few with the family together for a family portrait. But the last one is what got him intrigued. It was a picture of Kagome when she was Sota's age on Kaoru's lap. Inuyasha can tell that Kagome has inherited the hair style, despite her hair length. And the facial is identical. And the eyes. That shape of it. But the eye color is Ai's chocolate brown.
Inuyasha puts the pictures back into the box and noticed a video cassette tape. He doesn't know about the device so he would ask Kagome about. But then again, maybe he shouldn't do such a thing. First of all, he practically snooped into a box without permission so that's not going to happen. So instead he puts the box back under the bed and takes his well deserved nap.
"I'm home." Kagome calls out to her family. "Hey, welcome back, Kagome." Ai hugs her daughter as she comes out of the kitchen while making dinner. "Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome asks her as she takes off her coat and shoes.
"I think he's upstairs in your room." Ai answers the question. Kagome nods and heads upstairs. As soon as she gets to the second floor, Sota's bedroom door opens up. "Kagome!" Shippo smiles brightly and hops into her arms. "I take it you had a good day?" Kagome asks him as she carries him to her bedroom. She opens the door to see Inuyasha still sleeping on her bed. Shippo is about to get out of Kagome's arms until Kagome hold him tightly. "Hey" Shippo is about to shout until Kagome covers his mouth to stay quiet. "Let him sleep. He's been awake for a long time. I know he may be sleeping every night, but he had to stay awake to keep an eye out of trouble. The least we should do is let him sleep." She explains to Shippo as she comes back downstairs to join with Sota who just got home.
Kagome puts Shippo back to the floor so that he can play with Sota. "Make sure you do your homework before you play with Shippo, Sota." Kagome reminds her little brother. "Yeah, yeah." Sota waves off and heads to his bedroom with Shippo behind him. Sango and Kirara comes into the living room to see Kagome about to start with her homework. "Ever after school, you have to do more work when you get home." Sango comments as she sits down onto the couch to see Kagome is looking through some of the homework assignments. "Yeah. I just wish that they didn't have to hand out so much homework. School work is to be at school and nowhere else." Kagome agrees with her.
Sango looks at the subjects sorted out by subject. One that interested her was the feudal era. "You honestly think you could pull this off?" She asks as she picks up the history assignment. "To be frank with you, I doubt it. It's ironic when I was with you guys, I wasn't able to get the right information for the assignment." Kagome replies back to her. "Maybe I can fill out this." Sango offers her assistance. Kagome smiles for awhile but then something else crossed her mind. "Are you sure about this? I know for sure you have more knowledge about the feudal era, but I don't want the teacher to think that someone else is doing my homework instead of myself." Kagome said to her. Sango gets that. "All I have to do is give you the answers to write down. I know that it may be odd but this could be the only way to get this taken care of more efficiently." Sango explains to her.
Kagome had to admit that Sango has a point. Even though she has been in the feudal era for a few months so far, Sango has been there since the day she was born. As such she has more knowledge than Kagome. Let's just hope it works in their favor.
Back in Sota's bedroom, Sota is busy with his own homework. "Why do you have homework? You're supposed to be playing?" Shippo asks him after playing with one his toy cars. "I have to make sure I keep my grades up. As well I know exactly what's going on. I can't ignore." Sota answers the fox's question as well as one of the problems on his math homework. "If I did that, I'd be in trouble, and trust it's not good." Sota comments that part dryly. Shippo curiously looks at the problem. "You have to do that?" He gazes at Sota. "Yeah." Sota places his chin onto his palm as his elbow is holding it up while resting on his desk. Shippo decides to ignore the boy so he can finish his homework. The only thing is how long it takes him to complete the task.