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Couples Skate: Part 1

The race was now over, and people were skating around the rink like nothing had even happened. They had forgotten the victor of the race, but Inuyasha had no problem with that. Kagome and her friends still congratulated him constantly—and that was all he needed.

During the bustle of everyone rushing to the floor of the rink to see the winner of the race, Inuyasha had snooped out a pair of skates that were his size, carelessly lying on the glossy ground. The hanyou had pulled them onto his own feet, leaving his 'broken' skates for someone else to find.

He had gone to the snack bar with the girls to receive his free pitcher of soda—his prize for coming in first for the Hill-Billie-Race.

When they had finished off the pitcher of Cherry soda, they resumed their skating.

None of the noticed the missing presence of Hojo—they didn't really care. Of course, Hojo was watching them the entire time. No one felt the constant glare of eyes following them, except for a certain hanyou. But Inuyasha didn't tell the giddy girls around him, he did not want to dampen the mood. So he kept to himself and tried to have a good time. He was with Kagome, after all.

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Skate World could never be a quiet place, oh no! It could not just leave people to lifelessly skate around an oval rink, drowning in the blaring music emanating from the speakers above. It just had to interrupt everyone's 'fun' with pointless announcements of dull games for people to join. But this announcement was an exception; it was not a game, but a different event. This announcement informed the skaters that the normal skating was now switched; now, only couples could skate. Everyone else had to exit the rink and wait for the normal skating to come back.

Of course, you didn't have to be a real couple or anything to skate during the couples skate. Maybe that is what they intended, but no one really follows. It's just like adult swim at a swimming pool; it's just to give a certain party some 'alone' time—although they really weren't alone.

Kagome didn't think much of it, not until Hojo approached her. She forgot he was even here.

Her friends were busy pushing her into going to skate with Inuyasha when Hojo rested his hand on her shoulder, causing her to jump slightly. "Inuyasha-" she breathed out, but stopped dead in her tracks when she turned to meet Hojo. "Hojo? Oh, it's you. I just thought…" She was a little disappointed that it wasn't the hanyou in front of her, but she wouldn't let it show—or so she thought.

"You thought I was Inuyasha?" He all but spat at her. But upon noticing her hurt expression, he quickly switched his mood to a more cheerful one. "Kagome, I came to ask you if you would mind-"

A rude entrance was made, cutting Hojo off. "Kagome! There you are! Common', lets go." Inuyasha slipped passed Hojo, ramming into his shoulder along the way, grabbing for Kagome's hand to lead her to the skating rink filled with 'couples'.

A hand gripping his broad shoulder halted the hanyou's attempt to escort the miko to the rink. He spun his body around to meet the culprit face to face.

Hojo probably would have peed his pants from the death glare Inuyasha was giving him, had he not been so enraged from the interruption.

"What do you want?" Inuyasha sneered, looking up and down his body in disgust.

"I was talking to Higurashi when you interrupted us." He replied calmly, his hand still on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"And what is a wimp like you gonna do about it?" The hanyou growled while brushing the hand off his shoulder as if it were a revolting bug.

Hojo's straight face did not falter; even though on the inside he was shaking like a leaf. Hojo was sure that he would soon have a fist sized imprint on his face any second now, but he could not back down, not in front of Kagome.

"Inuyasha, lets just go." Kagome tugged on the hanyou's stiff-arm in an attempt to keep him from harming Hojo.

"Keh," Inuyasha scoffed, turning away from Hojo—he gave into the miko.

A hand shot out and grabbed hold of Inuyasha's shoulder, "I'm not done talking to you." Hojo's voice was not as confident as he wanted it to sound, but at least he got Inuyasha's attention.

"Wrong move," The hanyou growled.

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Sorry, I know it's short. But I wanted this to be out by Christmas. I will start working on the next chapter soon enough. Have a Merry Christmas!

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Muah!