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Chapter 5: Family Party and School Troubles

Shessomaru explained to Kira the technicalities of her heritage. Of course, she had a hard time believing the facts. She had to learn about the history of her parents, from the life of Inuyasha, to the betrayal of Kikyou, to the knowledge of Naraku, to the death of Naraku.

She was amazed that her parents could have gone through so much. It really surprised her how long she had not had an inkling idea of the truth. She couldn't wait to tell Yuki…..Tell Yuki? 'Oh, No!' she thought, 'I haven't told her anything yet! She'll hate me now for sure! How can I tell her?'

Her thoughts were consuming her as she listened to some of the adventures. The talk lasted for hours. She didn't get to leave until 10:00AM, and that was because the guests had begun to arrive. Hitari and his parents, Koga and Ayame, were the first to arrive.

Had it been any other day, Kira would have screamed at the sight of Hitari, but because of all the weirdness going on that day, she refrained. He had two brown tails, fangs, and hair that went down past his shoulders in the front. It slanted up in the back, and it touched just barely the top of his shoulder.

His father, Koga, had long hair up in a ponytail, and he had one tail. Ayame had red hair, but a silver tail. The three REALLY resembled wolves, just as Kira's uncle had said they did.

The Koga and Ayame had other sons and daughters, but Hitari was the only lone living with them at the time. Hitari was about to turn 15, and soon he would have to move out of his house and into the real world. He was to move to the same area where Kira lived, but that wouldn't be for a few years.

Akio, who was allowed to stay home from school as well, became friends easily with Hitari. The fox and the wolf ran off somewhere to talk about the difference between the countries, or something like that.

Kira was left to her own devices until the rest of the people showed up.

Next came Totosai, and after him came Kagura and Kanna. After them came many demons of royalty, and so on until the group had gotten to a size of ten people. Then, the dwarf that Kira had seen in Shessomaru's office showed up, as did a flea.

One of the guests was Souta, her other uncle. By this time, he had grown up, and he had a family. He didn't really talk about her mother much, but he said that he would keep in touch and tell her all about it as the time comes. He had been in touch all the time, but hadn't really done much more than a gift at her birthday and Christmas, and a few visits a year.

After the group was seeing who was absent, in the door came two cat demons. They resembled Yuki's parents. The female had black hair that went down to her upper back, and the male had short hair. The female had cat ears, while the male had elf ears.

They introduced themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Yushima. Kira almost fainted. That was Yuki's last name. She asked immediately if they were Yuki's parents. They gave their usual smile and said, "Yes, we are."

The party started. Shessomaru had ordered caterers to fix food for the party. Mostly, the guests told of their experiences with the Taiyoukai family (sp?).

Koga and Ayame were going to move into the area soon with their son, and he was to attend Kira's school when they did. Kira learned of everyone's adventures with wide eyes. It was amazing how people could go though so much, even if they were demons.

The day passed by quickly, and at 6:00, the group ate dinner. She got to open her presents when they were done eating. From Totosai, she received a katana. It held the power to keep her demon blood in check. From her Uncle Shessomaru, she received a necklace with the family crest on it—a crescent moon. It held the ability to hold her concealment spell, so she wouldn't have to concentrate in it as much.

From Souta, she got a black tee-shirt that said "What is with people's obsession with reading other people's shirts?" in white letters ((never seen such a shirt, but it probably exists. If it doesn't, and you are a clothes designer, you have all rights to use it!))

From Yuki's parents, she received a complete outfit—black fingerless gloves, gray bandana with ear holes, black jeans, gray tank top, and a black silk button-up shirt to wear over it.

From the two spawns of Naraku, he received a fan and a vanity table where she could put her make-up and such.

From the royalty and such that showed up, she received jewelry, makeup, dresses, and other goodies. The flea and the dwarf didn't give anything, which caused Shessomaru to get angry at the dwarf and "accidentally" step on him.

The party ended at 8:00, because Kira had school in the morning, and she had to do all her homework that she conveniently had forgotten until the last minute. Akio had also done the same thing, so the two formed a study group as Hitari bugged them about how irresponsible they were being.

The homework took both of them two hours. After that, they went to bed, Kira exhausted from the new information, Akio exhausted from the tricks he played on the poor defenseless cooks, maids, and butlers who just happened to work at the Inu-Taiyoukai mansion.

Friday morning came too quickly. Kira had to get all her stuff together, put up the spell, eat breakfast, call Yuki to plan to pick her up, keep Akio from skipping school, endure the teasing of Hitari and how he didn't have to go to school, and many other things that make up morning franticness. Veronica was a big help, but there was only so much that she could do.

Yuki was picked up at the end of her street, and the three—Kira, Yuki, and Akio—were in the limo driven by Ferdinand. They arrived at school as everyone that congregated outside the building migrated inside.

"Where were you yesterday?" asked the strict teacher, Mr. Olon ((lol….he's my teacher….but he's not this bad!))

"Ummm…." Started Kira.

"You were skipping, weren't you?" he stated, rather than said, "Just be glad that I am feeling generous today. I won't give you a demerit, but I will not do this again!"

The class laughed at the poor teacher. Things like that were common in his class. If no one did their homework, he would tell everyone that he figured that the homework was too much for one night, and gave them another night to do it. But, he was so boring. Kira, who was still tired, almost fell asleep in his boring class.

Yuki and Kira kept a note going back and forth, and Mr. Olon didn't notice it. The note read:

Yuki, what did I miss in class yesterday?

You just missed a test in Computer, a quiz in English, and oh yeah, we are starting that science project.

You mean the one in which we are to prove that a basketball falls at the same rate when ebing thrown horizontally and dropped?

Yeah. Mrs. Steele wanted us to do that off the school roof, but Mayowa, Shuck, and Mike the evil triplets, decided to break a lot of the equipment for the previous project, and we had to redo that one.

Those two are always breaking stuff…sooo…..ummmm….my party's tonight….I don't know how to say this but…ummm….did you know that your parents are demons?

Yeah, I knew that……wait a minute…….that means that they were at your house yesterday?

Yeah. I know that I am a hanyous, and you must be a demon.

Actually, about 99 percent demon, and like 1 percent human

The conversation would have gone on longer, but Mr. Olon saw the note, and started walking towards Kira, who was reading it. He grabbed the note from her hands, but she ripped as much of it into her hands, and ripped the piece she had into little pieces until he couldn't piece anymore than the first two lines.

"I see, you two were planning this all along! You made sure that you had a spy to see which subjects you would need to work on instead of going to the teacher's websites like most kids! Both of you, straight to Mrs. Sancomb's office! NOW!"

The two "culprits" walked down the hall to the Vice Principal's office. There were little decorations on her wall, giving it the proper feeling. The mean, chubby lady was sitting at her desk, looking over the attendance program for the school, giving the tardy students their 3 or more demerits. The long detention list was just printing out on the other side of the room. Plans for the next school dance were under the large pile of disciplinary work accumulated from only one week. Mixed in them was a petition from the students to get their French fries back.

"What are you two in here for?" she asked rudely as the two walked in.

"We were passing notes during class, and apparently cheating on a test while doing so," said Yuki, the designated speaker.

"Cheating, huh?"

"Apparently."

"That is not in my jurisdiction. I'll send you to the Honor Council. Now, if you'll excuse me, I just received an email saying that the band room has been raided of all the guitars and flutes. You'll receive your punishment next week."

The two were stunned that she didn't even really care about the note. They just headed back to class and just sat back in their seats and enjoyed the peace, whereas on the other side of the school, people were probably crying over their instruments.

END CHAPTER

Whew….that took long enough!

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