That was when Nodoka decided that it was time to tell Kagome the truth. She had been pacing the living room, waiting for her children to come home from school. She looked at the clock and noticed that they should be arriving any minute. Nodoka went to the kitchen to make some tea, while she was in the kitchen her children arrived.
"Mom, we're home!" Souta yelled as he entered the house.
Nodoka popped her head out from the kitchen and smiled at her children, "Wonderful, why don't the two of you go change and come back down for tea, there is something I have to tell you."
Kagome looked at her mother, quirking an eyebrow at seeing the stress on her mom's face. Kagome began to worry about what it was that her mom had to tell them.
"Mom, are you alright?"
Nodoka smiled at her daughter, "Yes I'm fine, dear, there is just something very important that we need to discuss."
"O-okay Mom, let me go change and I'll be right down." Kagome informs her mother, still with a concerned look on her face.
After about twenty minutes, Kagome and Souta made their way downstairs. They entered the living room where Nodoka had tea prepared and waiting for them. Kagome and Souta look at each other and sat down. Their mother pours each of them a cup of tea and waited. They sit there in an uncomfortable silence drinking their tea, until finally Nodoka spoke.
"How was your first day of school?" She asks them.
Kagome and Souta give her an odd look then look at each other again.
"It was good, Mom, but I don't think that that's what you wanted to talk to us about." Kagome says.
Nodoka sighs, "No you're right, Kagome, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about, it's about your father."
"Dad, what about Dad?" Souta asks.
Nodoka takes a deep breath and continues. "First, I want you to know that your father loved you both very much and loved you both the same."
"Yeah, Mom, we know that Daddy loved us equally. What is this all about?" Kagome asks.
"Kagome, dear, this may come as quite a shock to you, but you and Souta do not have the same father."
Kagome fell off the sofa in complete shock, Souta stared at his mother wide eyed. Kagome sat back down on the sofa, she placed her head down in between her knees trying desperately not to have an anxiety attack. Nadoka sat there waiting for her daughter's response. Once Kagome had her breathing under control, she looked up at her mother with tears in her eyes.
"Who is my…" Kagome squeaked out, then cleared her throat, " my father?"
"He's an American business man, who I had met during a science expo that was being held here. He was very handsome and incredibly charming, but at first I wasn't interested in him. Apparently that was a challenge for him because from then on he continued to pester me until I agreed to go out on a date with him." Nodoka remembers fondly.
Nodoka then began to tell Kagome and Souta about falling in love with the American and that her father had dropped everything to move to Tokyo just to be with her. She told them about their break up and later on finding out that she was pregnant. And that Toshi, Souta's father, still agreed to marry her.
"I don't want you kids to get the wrong impression, I came to love Toshi very much and am grateful that he married me and that I had you, Souta."
"Why didn't you tell my father about me?" Kagome asks.
"I was going to until I saw in a magazine that he had quickly forgotten about me and moved on with his life. I decided that it would be best that he not know, we would never had fit in his playboy lifestyle."
"So who's Kagome's dad?" Souta asks.
Nodoka gives them a sad smile, "I'm sure the name will ring a bell, Souta, his name is Tony Stark."
Souta's eyes widened as he stares at his mother. "Are you serious, Mom, Tony Stark? THE Tony Stark!" Souta nearly yelled as he leaped to his feet and began jumping up and down.
Kagome looked at her little brother, completely confused.
"Who's that?" Kagome asked.
Souta stopped jumping and stared at his sister as if she had grown another head.
"What do you mean, Sis, Tony Stark, Iron Man?"
Kagome continued to stare at Souta with a confused look on his face.
"I can't believe you have no idea who I'm talking about."
"Well, in case you have forgotten, I spent the last two years 500 years in the past being chased by demons. I'm sorry that the cord to the TV didn't reach that far back!" Kagome snapped at her brother.
Souta huffed at her and began to explain to her who Tony Stark is. He told her that he's a genius and a Billionaire and that he invented Iron Man to escape from his captors when he was kidnapped in Afghanistan. He told her about his arc reactor that keeps him alive.
"You mean to tell me that this man almost died if it had not been for this thing called the Arc Reactor that he build in a cave that is now implanted in his chest?!"
"Yep."
"Wow." Kagome said.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Hey, Kagome, maybe that's where you get all that courage to do all the thing that you did in the past?"
"Maybe it is, Souta."
Then suddenly something occurred to Kagome, "Mom, why are you telling me all this now?"
"Because, sweetheart, I have decided to send you to your father."
"What?!" Kagome and Souta said at the same time.
"Why, Mom, why would you want to send me to a man I don't even know?"
"Because, Kagome, you need to get away from this place. I know that you are doing better academically, but you still don't associate with anyone outside of school. And don't think that I don't know that you have been crying yourself to sleep every night since you got back."
Kagome began to tear up, she lunges for her mom, wrapping her arms around her. " Oh, Mom, I just miss them so much!"
"I know you do, dear, that's why it's time for you to get away from here, maybe a change in scenary will help mend your heart. At the same time you'll get to know your father."
Kagome sniffled into her mother's shoulder, Souta got up, walked over to Kagome putting his hand on her shoulder trying to comfort her.
Finally Kagome looks up at her mother, "When do I leave?"
