Okay, so i guess not everyone got my memo. The only reason I am re-posting this is because it was ERASED! Fanfiction.net DELETED it! Please, understand, this was not easy for me and still is not. I hope you can understand the wait I have put you all through and the last chapter will be posted on February 15, along with- if I can get my way- the first chapter of the sequel. Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this story. Happy day to you all! ^_^

Parents are so Strange and Sango is a Little Crazy




~Yes, today was definitely one of those days that takes its precious time just for the pleasure of messing with your already screwed-up life. Walking home from the last day of school that had started out blissful and ended embarrassingly. And time just had to go on twice as long for you're so-called friends to tease and torture you for something that would never have happened to you had they just been considerate and friendly. Friends were not meant to be had to humiliate you and laugh at you with the ever so clever comeback of ,"We were laughing with you, not at you!" Yeah, I'm laughing. See? HAHAHAHA-No, not funny! Some friends, huh? And here you are walking home just so that you can request going to a concert and spending a few weeks with these friends of yours. Oh boy, you're a smart one!~

Sango and Ayame were never going to let me forget my embarrassing little act of begging for passes that I didn't even want. I still don't understand what made me do it, but all was said and done and I was going to this concert one way or another. Begging might be needed to convince my mother and grandfather. Oh well, I've already done it once today, twice won't hurt anything, right? At least they won't make me bow.

I climbed the cement stairs up to the shrine at which my family and I resided. I'd be leaving soon anyway and my thoughts whenever I climbed these steps were of a finality that took be somewhat aback. I had lived at this house my whole life and now I was old enough to go out and experience the 'real world'. With permission, of course. I still loved and respected my mother and grandfather and would do nothing-okay, almost nothing- without their consent. Goshinboku, the Sacred Tree, loomed over with an authoritive air about it, as its branches spanned out protectively over the shrine grounds. The tree was always a reminder of her father though she remembered nothing of him. Weird, huh?

She found her mom sitting on the bench next to the tree smiling that smile of hers that told you she either a) knew something you didn't, b) did something without asking thinking it was for the best, c) was totally oblivious to everything else around her, or d) ALL of the above.

"Tadaima!" I said, smiling at my mom.

"Oh, Kagome, I didn't see you coming!" She gasped startled, but the smile never wavered from her face. Soooo creapy!

"Mama, Sango and Ayame are going to a 'Demonic's concert in Kyoto and are staying for a few weeks. They have an extra pass and I wanted to know if I could go?" I told her hopefully.

"You're bags are all packed, I did it for you so that you could go get yourself a place sooner than later. You don't want to lay around her getting lazy, ne? You might not ever leave then," she said cheerfully, the smile still in place. I, believe it or not, was not all that surprised. She was always this way. "But I don't want you going to that concert!"

"Na-nani?" I asked, startled. That was weird. Pack my bags, give me money, I buy a place, go to on pack my thing's and find a letter saying that I already have a place bought for me. That was the kind of feeling I had. Happy, extremely happy, thrilled, then dazed and confused. "Oh, mama, onegai? Sango and Ayame are going! Why not?"

"You have to find yourself a husband," she answered, still smiling.

I groaned at the familiar conversation that was starting. She had been telling me to find the perfect guy when I was still in Middle School. "Ma, I have my whole life ahead of me to find a husband, but this concert is a once in a life time chance!"

"Iie, I want grandchildren before I'm old enough to be called a baba, ne? That's not very far of Kagome!"

"Ma, I really want to go! I can look when I get back! It's only a few weeks."

"Iie-"

"Ma-"

"Kagome, let's make a deal, okay? If I let you go, you WILL bring home a guy, agree?" Her smile hasn't yet left. How does she do that?

"Mama-"

"Agree?"

I could always find someone to pose as a boyfriend. She'd never know the difference, what could it hurt? I sighed aloud as I complied. "Hai, mama. I'll bring home a guy, IF you let me go."

"Good."

I swear parents- especially mothers- are soooo strange sometimes. How do they do it?

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"Itakimasu!" I yelled as I left my house caring the huge bags my mom had packed me. Sango and Ayame were waiting in Sango's new convertible at the base of the shrine stairs, honking at me to hurry up.

I threw my bags in the already packed trunk and hopped in the back seat. The concert wasn't until tomorrow, but we wanted to get our hotel room at a nice place and maybe go on a possible shopping spree. Oh, yippee... I, personally, didn't see the point. Oh well.

For once in my life, riding in the back seat with my hair billowing out beside me, I was glad for the invention of the safety belt. Sango was not the best nor safest driver on the road. She was the exact opposite. Doing 20 over the speed limit, Sango weaved in and out of cars in a hurry for no particular reason.

Ayame was in hysteric's clutching onto anything that would keep her from sliding around. She was mumbling something under her breath that sounded suspiciously like, "I will never swear again, I will never lie again, I will never- oh dear God-" she screeched as Sango cut in front of an oncoming car while nearly colliding with another,"We're all gonna DIE. I'm to young to DIE. Help us all, Sango's gone mad, she has. I promise to never swear again, I will never lie again, I will never-"

This continued for another 30 minutes before Sango turned on to an off ramp. Or so I thought. Muttering something about crazy drivers going the wrong way, Sango stomped on the gas. I looked up from staring at my now white knuckles to find cars coming directly at us and a sign saying 'ONE WAY'.

"AHHHHHHHHH, SANGO YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US!!!! THIS IS A 'ONE WAY'!!!!!!" I screamed over the honking of horns and shouts from oncoming traffic.

Sango pulled over on the side of the road and laughed giving a nervous and apologetic 'Oops'.

"What were you DOING!?!" Both Ayame and I yelled at the girl in the drivers seat.

"Uhmm, you guys..... We're lost."