InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Family Secret ❯ Part 4 ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
02/10/2011
Part 4

I didn't do anything wrong
why are you yelling at me?
Oh how I love you
that's why I don't flee.


Another painfull day of middle school, good thing she didn't have to ride the bus anymore. If the kids at school were bad the ones on the bus were worse. While in class she only got picked on by children her own age the bus mixed middle schoolers with high schoolers. And high school students loved middle school students. Notice the sarcasm. It was okay though, she had managed to make more friends this year besides Shippou and Kanna. She was still top of her class, because her father wouldn't accept anything but. Her baby brother started first grade this year and she was excited to hear how his day went.
As the final bell rang she hurridly stuffed her school planner and binder into her backpack and scurried out the door. This year her parents had trusted her with her own copy of the house key. She was a big girl now. Well that and her parents didn't get out of work until five while her brother and her got out at three thirty.  In a rush she walked the one block between the middle school and her house, her brother already waiting for her by the front door. She unbolted the door just like her father had taught her the night before and they both hurried inside. Jr. automatically went to his room to start on his homework. Rin on the other hand had a different idea. She set up her books and homework on her desk, very quickly. You see Inuyasha only allowed his children one hour of tv a day except on weekends, most of the day was to be spent studying or helping their mother with house hold chores.
So Rin had a system, Sailor Moon started at four and lasted half an hour, the earliest her parents ever came home was four thirty. She had to time it very carefully, and after some time she had it down perfectly. Rin set up her study area as if she had been studying all along and then turned on her tv, which was already preset to the needed channel. Yeah she cheated, but what her parents didn't know wouldn't hurt them right?
As soon as Sailor Moon ended she could hear the bolt on the door unlock, with practiced ease she turned off the television and sat calmly at her desk and continued with her homework. So that her parents wouldn't get suspicious, she already had started it during comercial breaks. Her parents walked in, arguing, like usual. About what? Who knows? She stopped paying attention to them a couple of years ago. It was a routine, almost, that they had. No one spoke of it though. Everytime Inuyasha had a new girlfriend, he seemed in a horrendous mood at home, because he had to come home instead of being out and about. When he got tired of said girlfriend and dumped her, he would be home in great spirits. So If Kagome and Inuyasha were arguing, it only ment one thing. Inuyasha had a new girlfriend.
Rin let out a sigh. Dad had been pretty nice lately, for the last year and a half actually. Good thing he had already signed the permission slip for this years class trip. The tv in the living room was heard signaling that her father had ended the argument and had began his routine tv watching. Wich ment her mother was in the kitchen crying her eyes out while trying to keep herself busy making dinner. 'Well no point putting it off longer'
Everyday after she finished her homework, before she could watch her hour of tv, she had to show her work to her father. Today was english and the assignment was to write a short book report on Of Mice and Men, which they had just finished reading as a class today. She loved this type of homework, her father didn't because he couldn't read english, and it frustrated him. Hesitantly she walked into the living room with her newly finished report on hand, a little nervious since Inuyasha only wanted perfection and Rin's hand writting wasn't as neat as he would like.
"Daddy, I finished my homework. Here."
"Keh, what is this?"
"It's my book report. Thats the only homework we had today."
"Hmm."
Inuyasha couldn't really read it, and that pissed him off. He hated when the kids had english homework, peffered math. Numbers he could read and Rin wasn't very good at math so he actually could justify taking away her tv privilages until she got it right. And by the time she did it would be eight o'clock, bedtime. It was amusing to him to watch his kids hold in their complaints. Unfortunatly today, he was even more ticked off than usual, Kikyou had cancelled on him cuz her husband was coming back from his business trip and she was needed at home. So not really finding much wrong with the report, because he couldn't read it, he had to come up with something else. He scanned the report a second time and there, on the second paragraph, it was small, but it would do.
"Feh, what did I tell you about smudges!"
"Daddy, what are you talking about, i was really careful."
"There on the second paragraph, you erased something, left a smudge and wrote over it. It's messy! We have been through this before, when are you going to understand! How many time must I go over this stupid girl! Is it that hard to understand! Is your brain broke or something! Do you have shit for brains?! No Mistakes! Now you have to do it over again until I say its good!"
"Y-Y-Yes Daddy, I'll do it right this time. I promise!"
"Keh stupid girl, what are you crying for! You wanna cry? I'll give you a reason to cry! Bring me my belt! Kagome!"
"No Daddy, please, I'm Sorry. Don't."
"Here," he threw the paper back at her, "Do it again, and right this time."
Quickly picking up the crumpled paper, she ran to her room, where she wouldn't be seen until the next morning when she sleepily left for school.
Finished: 2/10/2011
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