Disclaimer: Ok yeah, I don't own Inuyasha and I never will so let's get on with the story.

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CHAPTER THREE: Visit from Old Friends

Four ½ demons and four humans all sat at the table eating ramen. ((A/N beef flavored... mmm ramen...)) InuYasha and Shirrow were eating the sloppiest of them all.

"InuYasha… Shirrow…" Kagome warned.

"Sorry mom..."

"Sorry K'ome"

"InuYasha! Don't talk with your mouth full!"

InuYasha swallowed his ramen. "Sorry Kagome" He said sheepishly. ((A/N: haha, he's a sheep))

"Daddy, why do you eat so messily?" Noriko asked.

"I dunno… I just do..."

"Keh... more like because he was prolly brought up in a dog house! HAHA! DAMN, I'm funny!" Shirrow exclaimed.

"Ok. First off..." InuYasha cleared his throat. "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT TALKING LIKE THAT?" he cleared his throat again. "Secondly, it's 'Feh' not 'Keh.'

Shirrow had jumped behind his mother when InuYasha yelled and was still in shock. But he managed to let out a shakey "y-yeah ok… sorry"

Meanwhile, Kotaro started crying because his cute, fuzzy, adorable, little, black and silver ears hurt from his father shouting. He covered his ears with his little hands as tears formed in his little eyes ((A/N ohhhhh poor little guy… hoojie boojie boojie!))

"Owwwwww Daddy! That hurt my ears!" Noriko wailed.

"Aww I'm sorry, squirt…" InuYasha said as he rubbed Noriko and Kotaro's ears.

Suddenly there was a ringing noise. It was the doorbell. "Now who could that be?" Mrs. H asked. Then she walked out of the room. She opened the door and saw Kagome's friends, Eri, Ayumi, and Yuki. "Oh… hello girls! Kagome! Your friends are--! Oops..."

"Kagome is here?"

"After all this time?"

"Where is she? Can we see her?"

"Of coarse you can! Come in… now wait here while I go get her..."

Kagome's mom rushed back into their eating room and whispered to Kagome, "Kagome your friends are here! What are we going to do about-"

"Don't worry about that mom; I'll take care of it. InuYasha, take the kids and go upstairs to my room, I'll come get you when they leave."

"What if they go upstairs?"

"You're right… umm then go to Grandpa's room"

"Why my room?"

"Because you don't have anything breakable in your room."

"Alright, so go to the geezer's room?"

"Hey!"

"InuYasha, sit!"

InuYasha fell to the ground and Shirrow, Noriko, and Kotaro giggled.

"Daddy funny!"

"Shhh… quiet, sweetie!"

"Mom what's goin' on? Why are we goin' upstairs? Is there a demon?" Shirrow asked excitedly.

"No, no demon, but I can't let the people here see you guys."

"Why not?" he asked in a hurt tone.

"Because you're all part demon and there aren't demons in this time. The people here wouldn't understand…"

"Alright guys lets go upstairs." InuYasha said as he picked up Kotaro and let him ride on his shoulders, then picked up Noriko and Shirrow in his arms and went upstairs.

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After InuYasha had gotten up the stairs, Kagome rushed to go see her friends who were waiting by the door.

"Hey guys!"

"Kagome! How was your trip?" one of her friends asked.

"Uhhh... my trip?"

"Yeah you know… you were traveling around Japan, right?"

"Yeah, that's what your grandpa said."

"Did he now?" Kagome said as she shot a glare back towards the room that her grandpa was in.

Great, Gramps... now I have to come up with more lies... she thought.

"So are you gonna invite us upstairs to talk or are we just going to stand here?"

"Oh... right sure come on let's go upstairs... and talk..." she said as she lead them up the stairs. InuYasha… you guys better be in Grandpa's room like I told you..

As they reached Kagome's room, Kagome saw a flash of red fly across the hall into her grandpa's room. The door closed with a soft 'click.'

"What was that?" Eri asked.

"W-what was what?" Kagome asked nervously.

"Are you hiding something Kagome?" Ayumi asked suspiciously.

"Hiding? HAHAHA what could I be hiding? Heh heh heh... HAHAHAHA" she exclaimed as she shoved her friends into her room.

"You ARE hiding something aren't you?"

"Come on Kagome... you aren't good at lying... just tell us."

"It's... nothing..." she said. "I'm just... embarrassed that... I umm... didn't get you guys any souvenirs...?"

"Is that all?"

"Kagome, that's nothing to worry about!"

"Yeah, we don't care! We're just glad you're back!"

"Ummm... yeah about that..." Kagome said.

"You don't mean you're leaving again do you?" Yuki asked.

"Well, yes, but I'll visit a lot! I promise!"

"Where are you going?"

"Uhhhhh..." Ohhhhhhhhh crap... come on girl... think of something that you won't need to explain later!

"Well?"

"I'm going to be... trans...fering schools a lot getting an education!"

"Uh huh..."

"Yeah well you know since I missed so much school during high school... I'm going to go to high school again at a different school to start over. And umm… it's kindda embarrassing so let's not talk about it when I come back to visit, kay?" Kagome said. Everything she had said was whatever popped into her head, and it was pretty good.

"Alright Kagome. No problem we won't talk about it."

"Yeah, we have to go though. We didn't expect you to be back. We just came to check to see how your mom was doing. So we'll have to see you some other time, kay?"

"Alright! See you guys later!"

"Bye Kagome! Oh and happy birthday!"

"Thanks!" They remembered after all this time…

Kagome's friends walked down the stairs and out the door. As soon as they were out the door Kagome let out a big sigh of relief.

"Thank God THAT'S over..." she muttered. "Guess I'll go get InuYasha and the kids and let them know they're gone..." Then she walked over to her grandpa's room and opened the door.