Look, look I rewrote...the first chapter. Yep I've decided to rewrite the story the best I can. This means not starting out with them in a relation ship and slowly introducing the fuedal era to Hojo...and the real reason for Inuyasha's ears.

Anyways here's the story

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha!

Chapter one: Maybe He's Not so Bad.

Inuyasha sat in the tree looking over at Kagome's window watching the two people talk, arms crossed and a small hint of a scowl on his face.

He had known about the boy since a while back when he first caught a hint of his scent on Kagome. He never asked her about him figuring she would only get irritated like usual when he asked her things. He had seen him once before at Kagome's school. The idiot was talking to Kagome about her fake illness. Obviously the kid was blind Kagome didn't even look sick.

Inuyasha huffed and jumped higher into the tree. Initially it was because of his crush on Kagome that he didn't like the other male, but then after his crush had disappeared the boy was just flat out annoying, always being polite and friendly even when others made fun of him it was pathetic, why didn't he stand up for himself? why didn't he punch them or something?

Inuyasha watched the two laugh at something that Hojo said and rolled his eyes. He really didn't see how anything that guy could say would turn out funny. Growling to no one inparticular, He turned his head away from the house and leaned back with against the tree.

If Kagome decided to stay home again, he'd have to drag her back to his time by force.

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Kagome sat at her desk waiting for Hojo to get done checking over her work. He was really a nice guy and she turned him down so much, she felt bad. But he had gotten over it and soon stopped asking her out all together and now he just helped her catch up on her school work.

"Very good Kagome, It all correct!" Hojo smiled happily handing the girl back her work. "You're a pretty fast learner, you shouldn't have any problems with the test tomorrow"

"Great I can't wait!" She chirped feeling happy at finally getting her work right.

Hojo nodded. "Keep up the optimism and I'm sure you'll do fine." He said walking over to her bedroom door. "I'll see you tomorrow Kagome"

"Oh wait I'll walk you out, Hojo!" Kagome exclaimed jumping out of her seat trialing after him.

"Thank you Kagome." The boy said remembering his manners as they reached the front door.

Kagome laughed waving it off. "It's not a problem you did help me with school after all!"

Hojo paused and was about to say something before closing his mouth and shaking his head. "I'll see you tomorrow Kagome. Try to get to school on time okay?"

Kagome nodded and waved good bye watching as he walked down the side walk and down the stairs. Kagome's smile turned into a frown once the boy was out of earshot.

"Sit boy!"

the shout resulted in a loud crash followed by a string of curses as the half demon waited for the spell to were off. The girl walked over to the new hole and glared down at her friend. "What are you doing here?! I told you I'd be back soon!"

"Yeah well we need you with us to collect the jewel shards! We can't do anything unless your there and you have been gone for three days!" He shouted back after jumping up to face her.

"I told you I have a test tomorrow, if I fail this test I'll fail the whole grade!" Kagome yelled back agitated by Inuyasha's impatient behavior. He was such a pain sometimes but what could she do He was one of her best friends.

"Look I'll go back to the feudal era tomorrow right after school. . .If you do me a favor and make sure Hojo get's home alright"

"What?! Why do I have to watch that guy go home it's not like he's a little kid! I'm sure he'll get home just fine and even if he doesn't it's not my problem."

"Inuyasha Hojo's a friend of mine and I would like him to get home in one piece and he lives all the way across town and it's the middle of the night! Now go make sure he gets home!" She demanded angrily.

Inuyasha growled back just as angry. "Fine but your going back tomorrow right after you get back! I mean it no more 'just one more day' crap!" He growled back and ran off before she could argue.

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Hojo looked around the streets, He had left The Higurashi shrine twenty minutes ago and for the past fifteen minutes he could swear someone was following him. He kept hearing footsteps but there was nobody out and trees shook when there was no wind.

Hojo had to admit he could be pretty clueless at times but, he was not a complete idiot. He knew someone was there, it was just that they weren't visible or they were hiding.

The teen stopped dead in his tracks as he heard low dull thump. This time he turned around but still there was nothing there, No people, no stray animals, no cars, nothing. Though for a second he could have sworn he seen a flash of silver when he looked up towards a building, but less then a second later it was gone.

Shaking his fear out of his head he turned around and continued his trek home, Maybe he was just being paranoid after all.

Hojo had gotten no further then a few feet when a loud crash sounded through the empty streets followed by someone shouting in a very colorful language.

So he wasn't Paranoid after all.

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Inuyasha was doing great in both stay unseen and freaking the living hell out of this wimpy kid. Inuyasha smirked as he jumped down right behind the other male making a thud on the concrete before immediately jumping up to the roof of a nearby building.

The silver haired half demon peered over the edge of the roof watching the younger boy look around for the source of the noise.

Inuyasha almost got too comfortable and barley escaped being seen when the human decided to look up. Inuyasha gave it a few seconds before peering back over the edge letting out a sigh of relief when the teen was walking again.

Standing up he let out a snort of laughter. This kid was an idiot, had it been him in that guy's place He would have done sniffed out the noise maker and killed it. Hell even one of the villagers back home would have been smarter then this kid. What was with the men in Kagome's time anyway? Did they grow stupider over the years or somthing?

Inuyasha who was arrogantly jumping from one roof to the next failed to measure out the distance of the next house and ended up missing the thing completely and came crashing down into a garbage dump.

"Dammit!" He yelled followed by almost every foul word you could possibly imagine to describe his situation. Jumping up he clamped a hand over his sensitive nose at the smell of something rancid and sour, something in one of those bags seriously reeked and inuyasha felt like he was ready to upchuck his dinner.

"Hello?"

Inuyasha completely froze in his ministrations, slowly looking over at the boy who had bravely ventured over to the dark alleyway. The boy was just standing there staring at him blankly. He didn't look disgusted or afriad and he hadn't freaked out he was just staring.

Inuyasha's ears twitched nervously waiting for the teen to give some kind of reaction, but it appeared the kid was having a hard time registering the situation.

Irritated Inuyasha crossed his arms defaintley, growling. "What are you staring at?!" he snapped, smirking when the other jumped.

"I was. . .I heard a crash. . ." Hojo replied slowly wondering if the silver haired man's fuzzy ears were real. "I wanted to see if you were okay. . ."

Inuyasha rolled his eye's jumping up into a nearby tree. "Of course I'm okay, So I look like some little weakling human to you?" he asked as the others eyes widened slightly from Inuyasha's large leap.

". . .Um. . .what. . .who are you"

"Inuyasha."

"Oh. I'm-"

"Hojo. Yeah I know spare me."

Hojo gave the man a weird look. "How do you know my name." Hojo asked suspiciously . He was pretty sure he had never seen this man before and he was positive he would of remembered meeting a guy like this. It wouldn't be easy to forget a young guy with silvery white hair and for crying out loud he had dog ears. How would anyone be able to forget some one like this.

The Half demon let out an irritated growl slightly scaring the younger male. "Kagome told me to make sure you got home in one piece."

Inuyasha sat back while Hojo looked completely confused. He knew he was wondering about his ears, Kagome told him before that no one in her time would have demon traits and as far as he himself had seen, she was right. He hadn't seen one person with even so much as one drop of demon blood in them. Which would explain the reason why Kagome told him to wear a hat constantly and told him to keep out of peoples vision. It would also explaion why this kid kept staring at his ears.

"Is there a problem?!" He shouted down at the boy who shook his head negatively at the angered man. "Good then can we get going, I don't want to waste my time standing around here waiting for you to get your senses back."

blushing Hojo tore his eye's away from Inuyasha and once again started on his way home. It would be another forty five minutes before he reached home. So Hojo had to wonder why anyone would go out of there way just to make sure he got home safely. The silver haired male didn't seem to happy about, and seemed a little antisocial to boot. So why would he agree to see him home.

Then again he did say that Kagome told him to but still why would he listen. Kagome knew he lived an hour away so why would this stranger take an hour out of his own time to make sure somebody who he didn't know all that well was safe.

Hojo concluded in his own mind that the question was to complicated for him to understand and decided to oush the thought to the back of his mind for now.

Inuyasha was following behind the darker haired teen watching as he would shake his head occasionally or when would stumble a bit from being tired. The boy slowly stopped and the half demon growled fromm impatience as the boy stop in front of a building looking at it questioningly.

Inuyasha's eye's narrowed. 'That kid better not...' However it was too late seeing as the boy walked into the store. "Dammit!" he yelled jumping up to the roof of the building to wait.

It was another fifteen minutes before he came back out three bag small plastic bags in his hands, a small smile on his face. Inuyasha waited until the other started walking again before jumping down landing slightly behind him.

Hojo not being used to the others presence jumped slightly and slowly looked behind him. "Hello, Inuyasha. . ."

"Don't you 'Hello Inuyasha' me! I told you I wanted to get back to Kagome's as quickly as possible! I don't have time for you to be stopping in places like this and taking forever!" He growled out glaring at Hojo.

Instead of looking scared or guilty like inuyasha first thought the boy would react, he seemed practically unfazed and gave him a smile.

"Sorry, here take this." He said reaching into on of the bags pulling out a smaller bag of chips. "Consider it a small thank you."

Inuyasha slowly took the bag blinking at it before opening it, he sniffed at the contents a few times before decide it was safe to eat them. Taking one out and testing it. "These don't taste like the ones Kagome brings us."

Hojo nodded in agreement. "They wouldn't, I got them from a health food store. Kagome most likely just gets you normal things from a regular grocery store." Hojo explained and continued walking, Inuyasha not too far behind.

"How long does it take to get to your home!" Inuyasha exclaimed braking the silence that had formed over the past ten minutes.

Hojo's smile faded and he looked over at him finally knowing why the dog eared man agreed. He didn't know how far away he lived. "Um well it usually takes about an hour, but considering how close we are now I'd say about twenty minutes or so if were lucky it'll be about fifteen." He said taking in his surroundings too judge how far away from his house they were.

He saw Inuyasha scowl and he sighed. "You didn't really have to do this. . .I'm pretty sure if you turn back now, Kagome wouldn't know the difference."

Inuyasha looked over at the boy out of the corner of his eye. It was true he didn't want to walk this annoying guy home and he did say he only had twenty more minutes before he got home but, if something happened in those twenty minutes Kagome would never forgive him and she'd probably get upset and that would make him feel guilty.

However there was a good chance nothing would happen, it didn't seem like there were any people out other then the occassional mechanical things called car. Although how many times had He and the others walked into traps without there being any sign of danger. . .it was better not to chance it.

Finally the Half demon shook his head. "No, it's too risky. If I turn back and you get killed on your way home Kagome would sit me till I reached the pits of hell."

Hojo smiled at Inuyasha again this time a little strained. "uh...I appreciate it, thank you." He replied shifting his bags in his hands. This guy was really weird and he was starting to think this guy was some kind of hybrid experiment from how big his canines were when he gave that arrogant smirk that proudly showed them off.

"You better. I don't normally go around doing stuff like this, so you better be grateful." Inuyasha said with a hint of a growl and started walking leaving Hojo to trail behind, only switching positions when Inuyasha remembered that he didn't know where he was going.

Inuyasha looked over at the teen as he lead the way to his house still smiling. He hadn't once said something about his ears or made a argued about any thing Inuyasha had said. He was even a little too polite but, that could have been over looked.

Hojo looked back at inuyasha, feeling the other staring. The taller male gave him a small glare before looking away offensively. His smile widened slightly as he looked back in front of him feeling slightly happier then before

Inuyasha turned his gaze back to hojo when he was sure he wasn't looking back anymore. Maybe this Kid wasn't so bad.

Well uh probably not the best thing but oh well, It actually turned out a bit longer then planned so. . . yeah. Well let me know if you liked it and hopefully I'll have the next chapter out as soon as I can!

-BS