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Chapter 8: A Surprise Visit And A Wake Up Call

Kagome sat on her bed as she examined her text book. It had been two weeks since Inuyasha had been going to school already and he was doing better than his first day. Both the students and the teachers were beginning to enjoy him being there. Though other than school and homework nothing else really happened. Things had been kind of boring.

Kagome was glad that Takamura, Shiyuu, Choyuu, and Wakai were his main source of friends in the school, besides her of course. As stated earlier the four teen boys were good influences. They were cool and smart, plus they weren't half bad looking.

Kagome was currently studying for a test she would have in science. Science was confusing when you missed so much of it, but Inuyasha seemed to be zooming through, like it was no problem. She would definitely have to get some help for him later.

He was downstairs doing homework. She had sort of kicked him out to study. He had gotten better in school like he said he would, but he was still fidgety. She didn't blame him really. It was just he had an extremely high energy span. He needed some way to work of steam and energy. Kagome decided to keep a mental note that she would have to find some other activities for the hanyou.

Kagome found studying a little complicated when she felt guilty for kicking Inuyasha out of the room. She groaned. Guilt was evil and that was all there was to it. She needed help on science anyway.

Kagome moved her book and shut the cover. She stood up, straitening her pink, silk pajamas and heading downstairs. It was only 8:00pm, do everyone was still awake doing there own thing.

Kagome came to the living room and saw Inuyasha sitting on the couch in the dim room, while he hovered over his homework. His ears twitched as he acknowledged Kagome's presence. He looked over to her.

"What now?" Kagome ignored the snap in his voice. He had the right to be a little angry.

"How about you come on up? Are you finished with your homework?" Kagome questioned. Inuyasha grabbed his books.

"Yeah." He answered. Kagome smiled, she could tell his attitude was getting lighter.

"Could you.. um.. help me study for science?.. I don't really understand." Kagome asked with a small blush. Inuyasha stood up.

"What's there to understand. It's common sense."

"For you maybe."

"Yeah, sure I'll help." Inuyasha walked up to Kagome and his ears suddenly began to twitch. He looked to the door.

"What is it?"

"Someone's coming."

"Really. Do they smell familiar?"

"Not really, but sort of... kind of like your mom."

"My mom's upstairs." Kagome walked over to the door and peeked out the blinds. She could see a figure walking to the door, but it was still dark and she couldn't make out who is was, but for some reason she was getting a little nervous.

Kagome went over and locked the door.

"MOM!" Kagome called from downstairs.

"Yes, dear?" Kagome's mother called in reply as she began to make her way down the steps.

"Someone's here." Kagome retorted.

"Really?" Mrs. Higurashi went to the door and she too checked the blinds and she too was unable to make out the person. Then the knock came. It was loud. A loud knock that only a man would make. "I'll see who it is." Mrs. H went to the door and opened it. She was shocked to see the person who stood there.

Kagome's eyes went wide and Inuyasha was just confused. He had no idea who it was.

"Hey there." The man said to Mrs. Higurashi.

"Shin!" Mrs. Higurashi hugged the man in joy. The man who happened to be her husband. "How have you been? How was it? Did you get to see a lot of the country?"

"I saw all I needed to know I was better of here with you and the kids."

"The kids?" Inuyasha looked to Kagome.

"He's my dad." Kagome said holding in some of her excitement. Her dad, also known as Shin pulled away from his wife and looked at Kagome. He smiled brightly at her. "Dad!" Kagome hugged him happily. She had missed him so.

"Kagome, dear. How are you?"

"Everything's fine." She pulled away and wiped a stray tear of joy from her eyes. "Oh.." Kagome had forgotten for a moment that her father had never met Inuyasha. "This is Inuyasha." Kagome placed her hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Inuyasha.. eh? I've heard a lot about you. Every time I get on the phone with Kagome she's always talking about you and the Mrs. is always mentioning how she loves your ears. I think Kagome's even more fond of them though."

"So you know everything."

"Of course, I'm Kagome's father." The man smiled at Inuyasha an Inuyasha just gave him the normal expression he gave to anyone who wasn't Kagome. Bored and annoyed.

"Dad!" Sota came running down the steps after hearing all of the commotion and jumped into his fathers arms. Gramps followed shortly behind Sota, but settled for a hand shake with his son-and-law, Shin.

"Come on." Mrs. Higurashi began to go towards the couch. "We want to here all about your adventures."

"Um.. mom, me and Inuyasha are going to head upstairs. We have to study I wanted to get an early nights sleep." Kagome walked up the steps with Inuyasha and headed into her room.

"Wait.. they're staying in the same room?" Shin looked at his wife.

"Yes."

"What about the whole feudal era, well thing?"

"The well is closed. Inuyasha will be staying until it's reopened."

"But you're allowing them to sleep in the same room...?"

"I trust them dear and you should too. Kagome is a smart girl and she is old enough to make her decisions."

Meanwhile

Kagome plopped down on her bed and Inuyasha took a spot next to her.

"So who's this Shin guy?"

"He's my dad. I just told.."

"No.. I mean why was he gone and why haven't I ever even heard of him?"

"Because he left before I met you. He went on a trip around America to study different cultures and people and stuff. He had wanted to go ever since he was little and he left about a month before my fifteenth birthday, which was right before I met you."

"So what made him decided to leave so suddenly?"

"Ah... I don't really know. It was just something he decided to do."

"Feh." Inuyasha crossed his arms.

"What do you mean 'feh'."

"Something smelt fishy about that guy."

"Inuyasha he's my dad!"

"So what? That doesn't change the way he smells." Inuyasha said with a small glare. Kagome sighed and picked up her text book.

"Let's just study alright?"

The Next Morning

"Good morning Kizoku." Shin kissed his wife on the cheek. (A/N: Let's call Mrs. Higurashi Kizoku.)

"Morning."

"Is about time we get Kagome and Inuyasha up for school."

"Yeah, the alarm clock usually wakes them up, but I'm sure Kagome's wouldn't mind you getting her up."

"Alright." Shin made his way up the stairs and into Kagome's room. He slowly peaked through the door after opening it a crack and was met by two sleeping teens. One problem. They were sleeping together in the same bed.

Shin didn't know what to think of it. He was - after all - the father to the seventeen year old girl, who was sleeping cuddled against what looked like an eighteen or nineteen year old hanyou man. He noticed the text book still open and came to the conclusion they had fallen asleep while studying. He had an inner battle with himself whether to wake them up and separate them or just let them get up on their own.

Since he hadn't been near Kagome in over two years and since he had barely even met the hanyou, he had no idea how they would react to certain things. They could be embarrassed.. angry.. glad. He was clueless as to how they would feel.

He decided as a father it was he duty to separate their sleeping forms. He walked over to the sleeping two and looked on as to how he should wake them. He went to place a hand on Kagome to shake her, but before his hand could touch his daughter another hand shot forward and grabbed his arms. He winced in pain.

"Owe." He noticed the hanyou was now half awake, since it was the hanyou who grabbed his arm.

As soon as Inuyasha realized what he had done to Shin he pulled his arm back and rested it peacefully on Kagome beside him. Wait... Kagome! Inuyasha jumped up blushing and sort of pressed himself against the wall.

Kagome was awoken by all the jumping around and noise and looked at Inuyasha who looked like he was about to get sat until he reached hell.

"What's wrong?.. and why are you on my bed?"

"I... I.." Inuyasha studded and it was obvious to Shin the two had no idea the way they had been sleeping.

"You two had fallen asleep beside each other." Kagome's eyes widened. She had no idea her father was in the room. She slowly turned her head away from Inuyasha to face her father, Shin.

"Oh." She answered. "We must have fallen asleep while we snuggled... I mean studied! Studied." She had gotten her hope mixed up in her words. She blushed deeply and her father smiled.

"I figured. You had the text book sprawled out across you two.'

"Text book?" Kagome looked at the book on her bed and remembered her test. "Oh no.. we fell asleep before I had a chance for any serious studying..." Kagome frowned. She hoped the test wasn't as hard as the teacher made it sound.

Later

So much for hope. The test was just as hard as the teacher had warned, if not harder. Mr. Gifu paced the classroom. He checked on each student and watched to make sure no one was cheating.

Kagome looked over to Inuyasha. He sat beside her. He seemed to be bored with the test and yawned. Kagome glared a little. He could get through things so simply, while she had such a hard time. She was glad he was smart though. 'Hope shouldn't even exist... all it does is get people's hopes up.' Kagome thought with irritation. She realized the sentence didn't sound correct, but ignored it.

"Ms. Higurashi, now is not the time for day dreaming." Mr. Gifu warned. Kagome looked at him and blushed. She hadn't realized she had been staring at Inuyasha. She turned back to her test and began trying to work on it. It was sort of useless. She had to guess most of it.

Kagome had been doing better in math now that she had gotten extra help. She had always zoomed through history, especially since for one her gramps was always talking about it and second she pretty much lived it. She had health and enrichments, which were simple. Science was her only complicated subject now.

Kagome tapped her pencil as she went to think over another question. She bit her lip in thought. Inuyasha wasn't in her social studies class, which was third period. He was in all of her other classes though. Inuyasha's only class, which he didn't pass simply was language arts. He hared grammar and writing. Kagome personally thought that class was just as easy as history. Writing was no problem for her.

Kagome went back to thinking about the test. She decided since she didn't understand much about valence electrons she could just guess.

"Alright times up class. It's about time to move onto your next period classes." Mr. Gifu informed. Kagome groaned in annoyance. She hadn't even had time to finish. "Pass your test up and the front person from each row bring them up.

The students did as told.

I'm going to end it here, because the next parts are going to be more on the school subject, which has nothing to do with the title to this chapter.