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Chapter 5: A Misunderstanding'I'm having so much fun, it's nice to unwind with my friends like this,' Kagome thinks as she dances. She looks at the faces of her friends, and they all smile. She turns her face forward again and, suddenly, stops moving.
'Inuyasha? It can't be, but,' she thinks as she watches in surprise as the person turns around and walks away.
"Kagome-chan, is something wrong?"
'It must have been my imagination, that person was human and wearing clothes from this era but – wait, it's the night of the new moon!' she thinks.
"Higurashi?"
She quickly looks at the four confused teens and says, "I'm sorry, I just need to get something to drink, I'll be right back."
"I can get that for you, Higurashi."
'Hojou-kun, oh no, what if that was Inuyasha and he took this the wrong way!?' she thinks.
"Oh, that's all right, thanks though," she says as she quickly makes her way through the crowd, trying to follow the path of the boy that looked like Inuyasha.
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People yell at Inuyasha as he roughly pushes them out of the way, but he doesn't care, he needs to go outside, to leave this place. He finally reaches the door and opens it with such force that it crashes against the wall.
He is about to step out when he hears a voice.
"Well, looks like your Kagome's not a 'one man woman,' huh?"
Inuyasha whirls around angrily and sees the girl who had annoyed him earlier.
"Do you ever shut up?" he says before turning around and stepping out onto the porch, not caring if she has a response. He leaves the door open and moves to the lawn.
'What is the matter with me? If it were that whimpy wolf, I'd charge in and get Kagome the hell away from him with a second thought! Why did I walk away from a stupid, puny human?' he thinks.
He saddens as he realizes, 'Of course, it's because he is a human, like Kagome. The whimpy wolf is an annoying youkai and I – I'm a half-breed. Obviously, Kagome would want to be with one of her own kind. And, as angry as I am that she's with me and him, I'm just the same, after all. As important as Kagome is to me, I can't give up my feelings for Kikyou, either.'
Feeling foolish that he had tried to impress Kagome with the clothes from her country, he is about to take off the sneakers and throw them away, when he hears a voice that he had not expected.
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"Inuyasha, that's you, isn't it?" Kagome says as she walks towards him.
He looks away from her and says, "Keh, so what if it is?"
Appearing embarrassed, she looks downward and says, "I – I didn't expect to see you here."
He snickers and says, "Yeah, that's obvious."
'He did misinterpret what happened!' she realizes.
To his surprise, she takes hold of his arm and says, "It's not what you think, Inuyasha!"
He looks at her anxious face but then away again, unable to bare that expression.
He remains silent, so she moves so that they are facing each other again and says, "Inuyasha, I'm telling you, I don't like Hojou-kun at all!"
Confused he says, "Then why were you dancing with him?"
"I wasn't, I promise. My friends and I were dancing, and Hojou-kun joined us."
His expression brightens, but then becomes serious, "So you're not going to let that Hoto idiot court you then?"
She steps forward and, to his shock, embraces him and rests her head on him as she says, "Of course not."
Ashamed, Inuyasha says, "I – I'm sorry I acted like that. I shouldn't have, especially because…"
She holds him tighter and says, "I know, I understand about that."
Grateful, he embraces her in response.
Soon after, they break from the embrace and smile at each other for a moment.
"Kagome-chan?"
Kagome blushes as she turns to see her friends, and Hojou, on the porch.
"Oh my gosh, is that the boy?!"
"Is it, is it him?!"
"I think it is!"
"Higurashi?" Hojou says with a confused and concerned expression.
Kagome hurriedly turns to Inuyasha and says, "We have to go now!"
Kagome turns back to them and says, "Sorry, I'm really not feeling well, my – friend - came to pick me up!"
The three laugh and say, "Have a nice time going home with your friend!"
Hojou turns white as the realization dawns on him.
Kagome blushes as she turns back to look at Inuyasha.
"Are you ready to go?" she says.
Confused, Inuyasha says, "You don't want to stay longer?"
Her blush deepens as she answers, "Well, I thought it might be fun earlier, but I realize now I'd rather spend time with just you."
He looks away embarrassed, his face slightly red, and says, "Is – is that so? Well, I don't like that noise and bright lights in there anyway, so, ok."
She smiles at him and says, "Shall we go then?"
"Ok."
While Kagome looks ahead, Inuyasha turns his face so that he is looking at Hojou, and grins broadly at him, enjoying the expression on Hojou's face.
He turns his face back to Kagome, and changes his expression to a slight smile. She takes hold of his hand and they walk away from the house, leaving a giggling few girls and a crushed boy in their wake.