Theme #3: Cover-up
Chapter Three: Chronic
Kagome carefully packed the mountain of stuff that was lying on her bed into the monstrous yellow backpack, checking each one off her list as it was placed inside. Another day, another trip through the well. Through the thin bedroom wall she could hear her grandfather on the telephone, talking to the school's headmaster about why exactly Kagome was missing yet another day of school.
"Actually, sir, it turns out that Kagome's bronchitis last week turned out to be full-blown whooping cough... I know that no one has had whooping cough in decades, that's what has been puzzling the doctors to no end... Yes, it was certainly fortuitous that Kagome could at least go to school yesterday- every good day she has is like a gift from the gods."
Carefully, Kagome tip-toed over to the slightly-open door, hacking up fake coughs in her grandfather's direction. With a few more moments of her grandfather's reassurances, however, the headmaster's suspicions were assuaged for the time being, and her grandpa tottered off, muttering old proverbs about elders and ungrateful granddaughters.
Tripping lightly down the stairs, Kagome, shouting for Inuyasha to hurry his ever-hungry butt up, her voice ringing out loud and crystalline clear.