WARNING: slight allusion to mature content. NOTHING BAD, but if you think like Miroku, then you might call it that.

Grounded

Chapter 6: Come again?

"Why isn't she back yet?" Inuyasha said as he paced back and forth. She had been missiong for way too long for him. Had she not told him to stay away, he would have gone back for her long before.

"She isn't allowed to come back, and you know it," Sango said, "And besides, you know that she needs to deal with some stuff in her time. There is more to her life than just finding the jewel shards."

"You say that, but you know that killing Naraku is the only thing that we are concerned with right now. Without Kagome, we have nothing to really do, except just sit on our butts and wait for her to come back. I don't know about you, but I would rather be out on the road searching than sitting and waiting for Kagome's mother to allow her to come back."

"Sounds like someone misses their girlfriend," Miroku commented.

"Wanna say that to my face?" Inuyasha asked while blushing as he started to chase down Miroku. Sango just huffed and waited for the hanyou to knock out the innocent, at least this time, monk.

'Kagome, come back to me,' Inuyasha thought as he ran off into the woods. Sango just let him alone, returning to the village to help Kaede with a few things. Shippou walked at her feet, and they discussed how much they wanted Kagome to come back.

Half a millennia later, Kagome sat at her computer, rewriting the report for her geometry project. Scattered across her desk, numerous instructions to other projects lay. A few of them were simple, such as just having to make a study sheet for a chapter in a book, but some of the others were a little more difficult. She had to make a bunch of posters, and organize a light show for her physics class. In addition, all of her teachers gave her homework because she had a day off.

'When are they going to learn that my life doesn't revolve around school?' she asked herself. Her almost-step-father should have known that she had a life, but instead, he just added to her projects and homework.

She finished writing the paper, then she began on the rest of the pile that loomed over her head, almost literally.

For a current events project, Kagome needed a newspaper. She looked though the one she had, then gasped.

"Geometry Teacher Found Murdered: Killer Unknown"

She started to read the article:

"TOKYO. The geometry teacher at Tokyo High School has been found dead in bed. Four long gashes were found in his back, and he had bits of glass in his head. No fingerprints were found at the scene, nor did anyone have a reason for killing the man.

The teacher, Mr. Hatanaka, has been replaced by the famous college professor, Mr. Takashi, who had been substituting all of Mr. Hatanaka's classes while he was out on sick leave.

Police are calling this "The murder of the year" for it has absolutely no evidence of who could have killed Mr. Hatanaka. The man was a family man, and he was the father of three kids. He volunteered at the animal shelter and the children's hospital whenever he could."

Kagome looked away from the article with her mouth wide open. Takashi was going to be her teacher! For the rest of the year! She almost feinted with the shock, and she almost exploded with the anger.

She began to wonder who could have done the evil deed. Mr. Takanaka was a kind man. Many a time, he had missed class because of his children getting hurt, or something went wring at the animal shelter.

Rereading the article, she thought of something. 'Four gashes… the only thing that I know that can make four distinct gashes is a demon's claws, but there is no way that a DEMON could have killed such an innocent man, especially considering the fact that demons are not as common as they used to be…'

After finding a worthy article, she spent about an hour writing her current events paper—first handwritten, then on the computer. She didn't want to have to explain to her teacher why it didn't print if that was the case. However, whatever was wrong with the computer was fixed, and it printed out normally.

Tired of schoolwork, she took a glance out the window. The sun was currently in the process of setting over the horizon of buildings. Compared to some of the spectacular sunsets she had seen in the past with the rest of the gang, this one was nothing.

She sighed. Before looking back to her work, she noticed something outside her window. A broom lay uselessly on the ground, unused since her grandfather had left.

'Come to think of it,' she thought, 'No work has really been done around here. Mom is always out with Takashi, so she really doesn't do much about the house. I am always up here working. Souta is not responsible for any work around here. Takashi is always with Mom or doing work for his students.'

She began to work on the rest of her pile of homework. After several hours of working and a few phone calls to her friends for help, she finished most of it. She just left one of the homework assignments that she knew the teacher wouldn't care if she missed it. Because she was tired, she crawled off into her bed and fell asleep.

Downstairs, Takashi and Mrs. H sat on the couch, cuddling in front of the television. Takashi stiffened quickly when he heard Kagome's breathing go back to a steady pace.

"Love," he said to the woman hanging on him, "I'll be back in a few minutes. Why don't you go make the bed warm for us, ok? You can also slip into something more comfortable." Mrs. H just nodded her head and left to their room

Takashi silently walked up the stairs, avoiding the known creaks. He turned the corner, stopping at Kagome's door. He opened her door, the door creaking a little. Kagome just rolled over in bed, and he continued his entry into her room.

'I don't think that paper looks that great,' he said as he looked at her current event paper. The computer was still on. 'Maybe, I could 'fix' this for her…' he thought as he went into the computer and made all of the words grammatically incorrect. After saving it to the computer, he took out a jump-drive, and copied it so he could print it downstairs. He continued to sabotage all of her projects, using special precision on her geometry projects. All of her notes and such also had to be dealt with. But, he was fast in working, and was out of her room in fifteen minutes.

After taking the things to the printer and taking the completed copies to her room, he headed to his room.

'Why do I even bother with the humans?' he asked himself silently as he crawled into bed with his fiancé. He couldn't wait until he actually married the woman. Then, when she was to 'disappear' without second thought, he, Takashi, would be able to do whatever he pleased to the miko. After about a month of him abusing her, he would make sure she 'disappeared' the same way as her mother.

But, until the day he no longer needed the woman, he would be content making her happy. He did, however, wish for the day that he could have a demon as a mate. 'Humans are just too fragile for my taste,' he thought.

Souta woke up halfway to the sounds of moaning, but dismissed it as nothing and went back to sleep.

The next morning, Kagome, too tired to really notice anything, stuffed all of her work from the night before into her schoolbag, and headed off to school. With confidence, she handed in all of her work, thinking that she had really done quality work, for once.

Geometry class came and went well, until she was preparing to leave the room. "Kagome," Takashi said with feigned disappointment, which she did not know, "Stay here after class. I would like to have a few words with you."

"What is it?" she asked when she approached his desk.

"What is this paper?" he asked, holding up the paper. Red marks filled it all.

"It's the one I wrote for your class…"

"Why are the calculations all off? Heck, the measurements are all off, as well. Did you really expect me to accept a paper in this condition? It looks like you just sat at the computer and goofed off, randomly adding in numbers."

"I didn't…" she said, "I have my notes…" She took out her notes, and to her dismay, all of the calculations in the notes were off as well.

"I am afraid I must give you a week's detention," Takashi stated, "It is obvious that you were not paying attention when you were in the gym, and you just made up random numbers, trying to fit the numbers that your friends had used. Really, I should disconnect the phone and the Internet from your computer…. That actually doesn't sound like too bad an idea. I'll ask your mother about it when I get home."

"You can't do anything to me," Kagome said, "Because you are not my father…"

"Yet," Takashi finished for her. "Oh, and about that wedding. We've decided to cancel it…" Kagome almost jumped for joy "…That is, we are going to just go to the courthouse, and get married tomorrow. We wouldn't want you to have to go any more time without a father. So, though I technically cannot do anything to your computer or phone tonight, I can, and will, do something about it tomorrow night."

"Come again?" Kagome asked before feinting.

END CHAPTER

That seemed like a good place to end it. Yep, next chapter is about the wedding, or lack thereof (at least for the ceremony). So sorry for the wait, but school is an arse (thought I am out). Now I just need to buy five books for summer reading, and I need to get the assignments that go with them. Darn, I'm out, and they still haunt me with work.

Expect another chapter in the near future.

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