Oh wow... I've completely denied InuYasha his ramen. He'll be angry with me. -hides behind a tree from him- Well, you'll all be happy to know that he finally gets it soon! Heh. Little unimportant spoiler there. xD Anyways, read, review, bake cookies.

Chapter Seven

InuYasha ran through the forest with his hanyou speed, the sleeves of his haori flapping in the breeze.

"Kagome!" he summoned out for her.

She was sitting under the Goshinboku quietly. When he came up to her, she smiled, and placed a hand down next to her, motioning for him to sit down.

"Kagome," he began, "I've got something very important to ask you: ..."

She blushed and a smile began to grow.

"Salted or unsalted?"

"Huh?" Kagome came back to the grips of reality by shaking her head. InuYasha and Goshinboku and the forest faded, making way for Hojou, a movie concession line, and a movie theater.

"Do you want salted or unsalted popcorn?" Hojou repeated.

"Oh, um, salted please."

Hojou told the cashier, and soon they had all their snacks and left for the theater.

Once seated, Kagome automatically resumed her InuYasha-themed daydreams.

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'WHY did I ever agree to letting her go?' InuYasha asked himself. 'Oh yeah... She cried. I always lose all sense of everything when she does that.' He jumped into a tree near the well to wait for Kagome's return.

Meanwhile, a certain threesome were watching him from some nearby bushes.

"Why doesn't he just go jump in?" Sango questioned softly.

"He's too proud to," Miroku answered.

"I wish he would just go get Kagommeee!" Shippo complained rather loudly.

Miroku whacked him with his staff. It was quite useful for things like that.

"Be quiet! He'll hear us!" He told the kit in a sharp whisper. "That's another reason he won't, he probably knows or feels a bit like he's not alone," he added.

InuYasha's ears twitched. He faintly heard three familiar voices behind him. He closed his eyes, folded his arms in his haori, and scowled. 'Stupid spies. They always watch me. Can't they just leave me be?' He thought. He came up with a plan. He pretended to fall into a deep sleep, until he heard his 'stealthy' friends noisily leave the bushes. 'Feh, that's better. Now, for Kagome.'

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Kagome stared at the movie screen, and pretended to be actually watching it. The reality of it was that she wasn't. She was still daydreaming of InuYasha. She felt something on her hand. She looked down, and saw something she'd have rather not seen. Hojou was holding her hand. 'Oh great. Good thing InuYasha's not here. Poor Hojou'd be ripped to shreds.' She decided to humor him and let him hold her hand.

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InuYasha jumped down the well, greeted by the blue-purple light within. When he got to the other side, he jumped out effortlessly and attempted to sniff Kagome out. It was late afternoon, so she wouldn't be at that 'school' thing. But she wasn't home either. InuYasha tracked her scent across town, careful to sneak into her room and grab his cap so people wouldn't gawk and stare at him. As if they didn't do that enough already because of his gaudy outdated outfit. He finally came to a large building, that read something like "moo-vies", as he stated it.

He dashed inside, ignoring the people yelling at him for a 'tikit', whatever that was. He sniffed the air and ran up to a room that had a large '11' over it. He ran through the door and into the dark room. He was quite surprised to find that one wall of the room was lit up with what looked like pictures... Only they were moving. After a few seconds of staring, he squinted into the dark room for Kagome. He found her, and immediately saw some guy grab Kagome's hand. That was too much for the poor jealous and overly protective hanyou. He slowly began to walk over, preparing to beat the guy to a pulp.

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Suddenly, Kagome saw something else she would have REALLY rather not seen. InuYasha was walking towards them. And Hojou was still holding her hand.

"Hey Kagome."

"Um, hi, InuYasha... ?"

Hojou looked at the guy in the weird outfit with the long silver hair, obviously very muddled.

Then InuYasha's poor little brain exploded.

"Kagome, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THIS GUY?" He screamed at her, while everyone in the audience looked at him, peeved that their movie was interrupted, but anxious to see a fight.

"I'm watching a movie with Hojou, is that such a big deal?" She snapped back.

"THIS is that Hobo guy? AND WHY THE HELL IS HE HOLDING YOUR HAND?"

"Um, that's Hojou," Hojou pointed out.

"Well, uh, you see, it's a funny story really,--"

InuYasha immediately unpried Hojou's hand from Kagome's, and glared ferociously at poor Hojou, who was still extremely confused by all this.

"Kagome, I don't want you EVER getting near this guy AGAIN, ya hear me?"

"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled, getting really annoyed by the hanyou.

"Um, Kagome, is this like, your boyfriend or something?" Hojou confusedly asked Kagome, trying to clear up at least a little of what was happening.

InuYasha, who obviously had no idea what a boyfriend was, answered for her.

"Yeah, I AM, and if I EVER catch you with Kagome again, I'll slash you to ribbons with my Tets--"

Here, Kagome instantly blushed bright red and covered a surprised InuYasha's mouth with her hand.

"Um, InuYasha, let's just uh, go, okay?" She looked back at Hojou, who had the same expression frozen on his face as when InuYasha first yelled at them. "I'm sooooo sorry Hojou!" She gave him a sad smile and apologetic eyes.

Silence.

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Outside the movie theater, InuYasha was still seriously mad at Kagome.

"Hey. I thought you were doing something IMPORTANT. Is this Shojo(1) guy more important than finding Shikon shards?"

"Well, um, okay, so I lied. But he's really nice, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings! And it's Hojou, InuYasha."

"Keh, whatever, let's just get back to the Sengoku Jidai."

Kagome stopped for a second, sighed, and started after him.

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A/N: Well. I must say, this is my absolute FAVORITE chapter. It was sooooo much fun writing this. I really hope you guys think it's as good. xD For this, I better get, um... TWENTY cookies! Well, thank you so far to all my loyal reviewers, you know who you are, you guys deserve cookies too! -hands 10 cookies each- Anyways, read, review, cookie give, all that jazz. For now, Sayounnara! - Hiiragi-chan

(1) 'Shojo' means 'girl' or 'maiden'. xD