AN: Hello, and welcome back to another exiting chapter of Teenage Secrets. I'm your author/narrator/host/what ever else you can think of…lol. Anyway I would LOVE to take this opportunity to say that YOU ARE ALL WRONG! ^_^ No one guessed right at who's at the door…hum…it kind of makes me not want to write it, but I'm not evil. Lol.

SO HERE YOU GO!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Disclaimer-I DONT OWN INUYASHA DUHHH....
Title-Teenage Secrets
Summary-Inuyasha is the star quarterback who has a crush on Kagome, the popular kindhearted cheerleader. Yet she never seems to give Inuyasha the time of day. What will happen when they both end up at a party and share something that can only be shared once? (No you perverts I know what your thinking.)
Genre- Romance/Humer/Suspence
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Chapter 21-Protection…You're kidding Right
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Kagome blinked a few times with a shocked look on her face. There was no way this was the person she thought it was. A man in his late 30's, maybe early 40's was standing timidly in front of her. He had a sharp face, with striking features, that fluently resembled her own. That face, a face she'd know anywhere. Those piercing brown eyes, that stared back at her. Kagome rubbed her own eyes. After realizing that the figure was truly and physically in front of her, the clueless and shocked face quickly turned into a face of rage and hate.

"Kagome…My Kagome…" The man started to advance toward her, but she stepped back.

"What are you doing here?" Kagome cut the man off with nothing but venom in every word.

The man bowed his head out of respect for the girl. No doubt in his mind that she wouldn't want to come near him. But who could blame her. He had missed so much of her life over the past few years.

"How did you find me? Why are you here? What do you want? How did you even get up here with out a passkey?" Kagome was trying to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.

"I'm here because…"

"NO!" Kagome covered her ears. In truth she didn't want an answer to her questions. All she wanted was this man out of her face. "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!"

The man sighed. "Kagome…please don't do this to me. I'm you dad."

"You…YOU! DON'T DO THIS TO YOU! YOU'RE NOT MY DAD! YOU STOPPED BEING MY DAD THE MINUTE YOU WALKED OUT THAT DOOR 8 YEARS AGO!" Kagome's legs gave away, and she fell to the floor. She didn't need this, not now, not ever.

"Kagome!" Her father quickly ran to her side and pulled her into his arms. "My girl…my little girl."

Kagome felt as if she was going to faint again. Her body was shaking. She tried to pull out the mans grasp. "Let me go! Let Me Go! LET GO!" Kagome pushed away with every ounce of power she had and ran to the other side of the room.

Her father looked at her with sorrowful eyes. Somehow he knew this encounter was not going to be easy. The man started to rub his chin.

"Kagome, I want to make up that last 8 years of your life to you. I want to be here for you, to hold you, to…protect you."

Kagome started laughing at what was just said. "Protect…protect…I don't believe you have the nerve to say that…protect…" Kagome chuckled in between words.

Her father looked at her with concern. He really hadn't intended his daughter would laugh at what he said. And quite frankly, he wanted to know where she was going with it. "Baby girl what's wrong?"

"I don't need you to call me that…AND I DON'T need your protection."

"Kagome, what aren't you telling me?"

Kagome's laughter almost instantly turned into hysterical tears. "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED PROTECTION? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I CRIED MYSELF TO SLEEP AT NIGHT WHEN MY MOM DIED? And…where were you…when I got molested at night…" Kagome said the last sentence almost in a whisper, but was definetly loud enough for him to hear.

Kagome's dad knew exactly what she was talking about. For that was the reason he was there in the first place. He'd gotten contacted by social services, about gaining custody of his first-born. Yes, he knew. He also wanted to see the man dead for defiling his daughter.

"Kagome…sweet-heart. I promise I'll protect you, but you have to let me back into your life."

Kagome looked down at her toes. Her mind was telling her to just kick her father to the curb like he'd done with her and her mother. But her heart was telling her believe him. Her father approached her while she was still looking toward the floor. He wrapped his arms around her tiny frame, and held her close to his heart.

"You don't have to be afraid anymore…I'm here to protect you."

Kagome sniffled a few times and threw her arms around her father.

"That's all I've wanted to hear the past eight years."
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Inuyasha was sitting at a lunch table trying his best NOT to snap on Kikyo, Yura and the two other girls whose names never entered his mind. They were driving him crazy all week. However it was mostly Kikyo, he had to see her four times out of the day, everyday. The other three were tolerable because they weren't throwing themselves at him. Inuyasha figured that had something to do with Kikyo, but he really didn't care. What he cared about was the fact the Kikyo was currently trying to sit on his lap, something he knew was definetly NOT going to happen.

"Inu-poo, stop resisting. You know you want me." Kikyo said in a high voice that irritated Inuyasha.

"What ever." Inuyasha said still trying to push the girl away without being too physical.

"Kiss me!" Kikyo said giving up her seating attempts. She now had her lips puckered and was trying to embrace Inuyasha's face.

Inuyasha backed his head away, and if trying to attempt whiplash.

"Mwah, mwah, mwah." Kikyo made launches but kept missing.

"Get off me!" Inuyasha said in a calm but stern voice. He picked up the girl and stood her up.

"Just one kiss, I won't tell, and…that girl…she doesn't have to know." Kikyo said now feeling a little hurt that she wasn't winning Inuyasha heart like she hoped she would.

"Um…Not If My Life Depended On It." Inuyasha said as he started walking away. But Kikyo grabbed his arm, causing him to look at. And what he saw could have made an Angel feel guilty. Kikyo looked like she was going to cry.

"Why…why do you continue to go after that girl?" For some reason Kikyo felt as though she deserved to know. "I had you're heart once upon a time. And you just expect me to act as though it never happened?"

Now Inuyasha felt the guilt bomb hit him hard. Because it was true, he and Kikyo DID have a thing in the past. But that was in the past, even before they were told to marry. Inuyasha lowered his head to think for a moment. Then grabbed Kikyo's arm and pulled her out in the hallway where there was no audience.

Feeling like he was away from as many people as possible he let go of Kikyo. "Okay, what's this REALLY about. Why do you choose now to bring up a past relationship."

A tear rolled down Kikyo's face as she wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's body. At first Inuyasha was going to push her away, but then he could really feel the sincerity and hurt in the girls hug. That's what caused him to hesitantly wrap his own arms around her.

"Inuyasha…I'll go back home, and you'll never hear from me again if…I could get one thing in return…"

Inuyasha sighed deeply. "What is it?"

Kikyo let go of Inuyasha. She then forcefully, yet softly grazed her lips across his. Inuyasha's widened at first out of utter shock. He knew this was wrong, and he'd never want to hurt Kagome in such a way. Not to mention he wasn't in the least bit unfaithful. But even with those thoughts in his mind, he still managed to close his own eyes, and return the kiss. Then Kikyo pulled away.

"Remember the feel of my lips on yours, for it's true and real." Kikyo then ran down the school hall without even one look back.

Inuyasha looked truly lost standing in the hallway now. He wasn't sure what to do. Something told him to go after the girl, just to make sure she wasn't trying to deceive him. But part of him was having a party on the inside that the girl was gone, and that's the feeling he decided to go by. But he was still confused.

"I'll never understand that girl…"
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Kikyo ran to the other end of the hallway were she met up with Yura…and the other two.

"Did you get it?" Kikyo said with a sneaky smile on her a face.

"Oh yea." Yura held our her digital camera to show Kikyo the picture,

Kikyo laughed. "Since I can't get him to leave her…"

"We'll just have to make him leave her…" Yura finished, which caused Kikyo to look at her up and down.

"Do yourself a favor, and don't finish my sentences."
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Kagome spent the last few hours telling her father about her life, and he in turn told her about his after their separation. And in truth Kagome was glad she decided to let her father back into her life. Though she knew better then to completely trust him all in one day. The trust thing he would have to earn over time, but this was a start. She told her dad about pretty much everything that popped into her head.
[AN: well with the exception of being pregnant, and getting married]
She had also learned that she had a little brother names Souta, and that he was eight. She learned about why her dad left her mother, though it didn't quite make her feel better. It was made clear that he left because he had an affair, and the woman was pregnant…with Souta. However Kagome knew that if she wanted to patch things up with her dad, she would have to accept the bad with the good.

"So…this is your…boyfriends house is it?"

"Yes it is." Kagome said it like she had practiced it.

"So…uh…what exactly do you and your boyfriend do alone in a house like this." He wasn't trying to be nosey, even her knew he really didn't have the right to ask since he hasn't been in his daughters life to prevent anything that may have already happened.

"I'm not going to answer that."

Her father had expected that answer. Which means what he was thinking had already happened.

"I guess I can't make you tell me. But I would like to know if he's treating you right…that…boyfriend…" The man cringed at the word. But that was pure fatherly instinct.

Kagome let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. She then smiled sweetly, as she thought about her memories with Inuyasha. "Yes…he does. When I wake up, he the first thing I think about. And when I'm sleep, he's what I dream about. The main reason I smile, is because of him. And even when I'm ready to kill him…I still love him." It wasn't long later that it had clicked in what she just said to her father. She had said a little more then necessary. "I mean…uh…yes he treats me right." Kagome tried to hide the embarrassed blush that masked her cheeks.

Kagome's father nodded to his daughter. "I would love to meet then guy lucky enough to claim my daughters heart."

Kagome looked up, and smiled out of delight. "Do you really want to meet him?" Kagome said taking a look at the clock on the wall reading 2:24.

"Of course…but…"

"Then you'll be able to in…three…two…one…"

The front door opened, to Inuyasha entering his house at exactly 2:25.

"Kagome! I'm about to run a few errands, do you want me to pick up those prenatal pills…"

Kagome tried to flag Inuyasha to stop talking but it was to late.

Kagome's fathers eyes widened by three fractions. He hoped he didn't hear what he thought he heard.

"Kagome…did your boyfriend just say…prenatal pills…please say no. And if the answer is yes…please lie."

"Who are you?" Inuyasha said glancing at Kagome out the corner of his eye.

Kagome took a deep breath. "Inuyasha, this is my father. Tasuki Higurashi. And dad this is Inuyasha…the father of my unborn child and…my fiancée.
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AN: hum…should I leave it here or not…think, think, think. Do I feel like being evil today and leaving you guys with a cruel cliffhanger…who am I kidding…OF COURSE I DO!

LMBO!!! Here we are at the end of another chapter. To be truly honest I want to keep writing so I think I'll start chapter 22 immediately after I post this but…it may not be up till tomorrow or Monday possibly…you never know but in other news….

YAY MY BIRTHDAY IS LITTERALLY 21 DAYS AWAY! [[[I'm growing impatient.]]]
But I shall wait! ^_^

Okay yes I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. It answers A LOT of questions I've gotten over time and…well yea please R&R and just to let you all know the story is nearing its end…AWWW but don't get to upset because its still not over yet!

oxox,
-Dia