Okay, so here's Chapter 13 for you all....and I'm going to apologize again. I never thought that I was ever gonna post and author's note. But enough of my gabbing........

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Inuyasha: Ugh! Bout time you updated Bitch!

Kouga: Shut it Mutt-face! The readers have waited too long for this chapter to listen to you bitch and complain!

Inuyasha: HMPH!

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Chapter 13: Back to Prison

The pair walked through the school gates hand in hand. The first thing that Kouga noticed was the mass of people that were standing around. Many of the females were dressed in the same attire as Kagome while the males seemed to be dressed in the most ridiculous suit Kouga had ever set eyes on. It made him grateful that he was wearing what he was rather than that.

It seemed that as soon as people noted that Kouga and Kagome had arrived, they just stared , especially the girls, who looked at the couple with incredulous eyes, as if they had seen a ghost or something completely unbelievable. Once most of the girls had taken in what they saw, they would trot over to another close to them and whispered some unknown gossip. Kouga tried his best to hear what the girls said but to no avail, they were either too far away or their voices were far too low for his ears to pick up. The boys on the other hand would just stare at Kouga, then their entwined hands, then Kagome, then Kouga again.

Kouga was beginning to get a little uneasy with being the center of attention. Was Kagome always this popular at this 'school' thing? "Um Kagome, exactly why are all these kids staring at us?", he asked the girl who was stringing him along behind her, she didn't really seem to be listening to him.

Kagome was in a stupor at the moment. She was there holding Kouga's hand greedily with no regret whatsoever, who said she couldn't get over Inuyasha? Oh yeah, she did. Just at the thought of the hanyou caused a slight pang in her heart to swell up. But it disappeared as soon as a strong masculine voice reached her ears. She looked around their now visible surroundings, that seemed to appear out of the blue, to see what Kouga was talking about. Seemed they had an audience....again, except it wasn't for the same reason as the last. Thank God. 'Looks like Yuka, Ayumi and Eri started with their daily gossip preaching'. She looked back to the anxious wolf demon price behind her, he had his eyes narrowed and giving any one that was unlucky enough to make eye contact with him a death glare. Sure, Kouga liked attention, but not this genre of attention. "Don't mind them Kouga, it's a natural occurrence at school...they'll get over it".

"They'd better or else they ain't gonna have any eyes left in their sockets to stare at us with!", Kouga growled more to himself than Kagome. 'These kids are worse than the woman'.

Suddenly, Kouga didn't feel so eager about the school thing anymore, the people in Kagome's time were really strange, well the humans in his time were bad for staring too, but...well maybe they weren't so different. But one thing was for sure, if he were in his own time right now, he could kill the annoying humans or send his pack on them. But for now, he could deal with it, for Kagome. He didn't want to lose his temper like the mangy mutt they left behind.

From behind, Kouga could hear the pacing of feet hasten. He turned around quickly in a defense stance, making sure Kagome was behind him.

Three girls stopped a few feet in front of the pair, all had a strong look on their faces, "Yup, he's a weird one", Yuka whispered loudly to the other two.

Without and adieu, Ayumi cast aside Kouga's strange behaviour and plastered a bright smile on her face, "You never told us you were bringing your boyfriend to school with you Kagome!"

"Yeah, what do you plan on telling Hojou?! It'll break his heart to see that you were having an affair", Yuka spoke up, dramatising her sentence, clasping her hands together and looking up to the sky as if asking that Kagome be forgiven.

Kagome sweat dropped at the girl's actions, "what're you talking about? I never ever went out with Hojou remember!", Kagome sighed exasperatedly and folded her arms, reluctantly separating from Kouga, "didn't I explain this to you at the mall, or do I have to spell it out for you?"

All three girls twitched slightly at that memory and began to nervously laugh, rubbing the back of their heads, "Uh, sorry Kagome", Ayumi apologized. The last thing the girls wanted was an instant replay of the incident and Kagome's 'freak out' at the mall.

"Well, we'd better get going, the bell's going to ring in a minute anyway", Eri finally said something. The girls began to walk on by, "by the way, I told Hojou that you would probably be in school today, I didn't think Kouga would be here", she waved her hand and the girls began to pace to the front door.

Kagome lolled her head back then leant it forward into her palm with an annoyed groan, 'great, I'll have to deal with Hojou today'

Kouga took in consideration the last words the girl called Eri had said. So, he would finally get to meet with this ever so popular all worshiped Hojou guy. By the way the girls made him sound, he seemed to be the one that got many of the ladies' attention, and there was apparently some thing between this guy and his Kagome. Well he would have to see how big a threat this Hojou really was, he didn't predict much anyway, after all Kouga was a demon and could offer Kagome much more than a puny human.

He began to think of ways of how to intimidate the human, when Kagome grabbed his hand and began to tow him to what seemed to be the entrance of the huge building before them.

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"Kagome!?"

Kagome slammed her locker shut with a surprised but fixed smile on her face, someone had come a little earlier than anticipated. She really wasn't in the mood to deal with her admirer at the moment.

Kouga, who was leaning against a locker next to Kagome's and watching her busy hands shift threw the many books in her locker, looked over to the direction the voice had been emitted from. There was a tall boy, just a little shorter than Kouga himself, with styled brown hair, running through the hallways with a bright smile on his face directed at Kagome.

"Oh uh...hi Hojou!", Kagome feigned yet another bright smile and gave the boy a girly little wave with her fingers at his arrival, "how have you been?"

Kouga raised an eyebrow at the boy, 'so this is the famous Hojou I've heard so much about?', Kouga scoffed at this thought; the boy didn't even seem to be a threat. He seemed more like some lovesick clumsy oaf, he figured this out when Hojou tripped over his own steps as he reahed the raven-haired girl.

"How am I?! I think the real question is how are you?", the boy started with wide grateful eyes, "your grandfather told me that you had a bad case of hemaroids along with constant migranes!"

Kouga was listening intently at the boy's words, but so far he didn't have the slightest clue what the hell he was talking about...maybe the boy was crazy and Kagome only knew him because she felt pity for him.

Kagome's eye began to tick, 'hemaroids?! Gross, just wait 'til I get home and get a chance to see grandpa, he's gonna have to do a lot of praying to save his life', she laughed nervously, "uh yeah, good 'ol grandpa", she said as she began to unconsciously rub the back of her neck.

"Yeah, well I told me mom and she told me about this really good cream that could really help, so I bought it for you", he blushed and handed her a prettily wrapped bag, trimmed in a cute purple ribbon.

Kagome took the bag gratefully and opened it up to reveal a small tube of Preparation H . 'greeeat, I hope this rumor hasn't spread around', "You shouldn't have Hojou"

"It's no problem whatsoever, as long as it helps", he smiled down at her, "It's been so long since I've seen you, can I walk you to class?"

Kouga emitted a deep growl within his throat at that question, first the kid gives his woman a gift, which wasn't so bad, but now he planned on taking her away. He definitely wasn't going to settle for that!

Kagome's eyes grew wide when she heard Kouga's growl. She had almost forgotten that he was there. She laughed tensely and stepped back to stand beside Kouga, "That's quite alright Hojou, I already have an escort for the day! This is Kouga, Kouga this is Hojou!"

"Nice to meet you", Kouga said in an almost deathly tone and smirked as he held his hand out in the gesture he had learned at the wall. When Hojou took his hand, Kouga leant towards the boy's ear and in a deep threatening voice whispered, "Kagome's my woman, stay away from her...or you'll regret it"

Hojou's brown eyes widened ever so slightly and an inaudible gasp left his lips as the sound of the cold voice reached his ear drums. When he pulled away to regard the dark haired boy, Hojou saw narrowed eyes and an evil smirk developed on the boy's lips. He let out a slightly nervous laugh, "yeah, nice to meet you too". And Hojou thought Yuka, Eri and Ayumi were weird, "um Kagome, you didn't tell me that this guy was your boyfriend? I didn't even know you were dating anyone else?"

Kagome rubbed the back of her neck. Now, what to tell Hojou. Her biggest admirer of all time. Well she had to let him down at some point right? What better time than now? "Yeah,it was kinda sudden. So, sorry Houjou, I can't see you anymore". That was kind of blunt.

Houjou saw Kouga's smirk grow wider. The boy sure didn't seem like Kagome's type. There's no way she would stay with this....freak for long, he seemed like the muscles-for-brains type. He smiled brightly at Kagome, "No worries Kagome", he walked over to her and bent down to her ear, "he's a bit vicious, but I'm sure you'll make the right choice soon". With that he left to go to their first class. He was always there before the bell.

Kouga's ears practically began steaming when he heard the boy. Didn't his threat get through that thick skull of his?! "Bastard", he grumbled under his breath.

Kagome put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "don't mind Hojou, he's a bit of an air-head but he means well", she smiled up at him, 'even though I have no clue what his last comment meant, now that he thinks I have a boyfriend, he'll leave me alone'. The bell rang for first class. "Well let's get going, we can't go missing class on the first day!". She grabbed Kouga's hand, it seemed to be becoming a natural occurrence that she never really noticed, and led him down the hall as she tossed the tube of Preparation H in the garbage along the way.

They had Math class.

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Math class didn't start off too bad Kagome supposed. When her teacher, Mr. Takenawa, asked her about Kouga she made a simple reply saying that he was a friend from up north and that he was just visiting. Satisfied with that excuse, the teacher allowed them to take their seats.

That's when everything went downhill.

Kouga was obviously sharing a book with Kagome since he didn't have one. Like he would have been able to use it anyway. He was examining the book with great interest but he could barely read it, "what's with all the characters in this thing? This is either some other language or someone doesn't know their calligraphy"

This kind of took Kagome by surprise. She didn't actually think that Kouga was able to read in any way, let alone know what calligraphy was...maybe there was a brain planted between his ears after all. Of course, it also caught some of the eyes in the classroom, it's not everyday you see someone flipping wildly through a book and getting flustered because they couldn't read their native language.

Least we forget, that this class was also Yuka and Eri's math class. Shortly after Kouga's reading fit that they thought it the perfect time for a gossip session. And it wasn't long before till word spread around the class about the 'sick girl's' relationship with the strange boy. The girl had been sick for weeks at a time, where did she even get the chance to start dating anyone let alone go out with someone. Mybe he felt pity on her? Then everyone caught wind of the incident at the mall....

Kagome was oblivious to all the stares and gossip floating around the room. She was too busy trying to explain a few things to Kouga, so he could at least pretend to work and listen as if he knew what was going on.

Mr. Takenawa soon caught the word of the hushed whispers and turned around to regard the said couple. Kouga was picking at Kagome's pencil while she was righting down her few notes and Kagome playfully slapped Kouga's hand away with feign annoyance and giggled slightly. "Well I hope I'm not disrupting you Ms. Higurashi", she looked up at him, "but please try to keep your eyes on the board and not the boy hmm?"

Kagome blushed instantly when she realized that she'd forgotten Yuka and Eri were in her math class. She should have been prepared or at least watched out for something like this to happen. Kouga smiled inwardly to himself, he had heard everything that was going around the room. Nice to see things were going around that Kagome was his woman, at least that would keep most of the males away, if they knew what was good for them.

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"What're you eating?", Kouga gave the food sitting before Kagome a screwed up face.

It was lunch time finally. Only one more class till they could finally go home and away from this place and all the prying eyes.

"Real food", Kagome happily answered, still glad that she wasn't eating her ritual meal of ramen, "You want some?"

Kouga eyed the strange food again, "no thanks". Instead he let his eyes rest on the girl in front of him, carefully tracing over the contours of her perfect features. And to think, she was his, well....she would be.

Kouga's eyes shifted around the room as if expecting someone to be listening to him, not that he was hiding anything that he couldn't say aloud. He was after all very outspoken. "Kagome, what's with that wimp Hoji? What's your relation to him? And what's all this about you being sick?"

Kagome regarded the boy incredulously for a second, "Hoji?...Oh you mean Hojou!", she gave a small wave of her hand as if to dismiss the situation, "don't mind him, he's just a really good friend even though he's really annoying sometimes". She was suddenly questioning herself, it was almost like she was making up excuses as if to prove she wasn't cheating on him or something. Oh well, as long as it saved Hojou from being slaughtered by the wrath of Kouga. but how'd he hear about her being sick. 'Oh yeah, I forgot Kouga's hearing is a lot more sensitive than a humans...and with all the attention they'd been getting, he had probably overheard the rumors. "As for being sick...well, Grandpa makes up excuses for me while I'm off in the Feudal Era", 'that reminds me...I have to strangle Granpa when I get home'.

The bell rang for the last class of the day. History. 'Well Kouga shouldn't do too bad in this class...after all, he lives it'

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Kagome was now sitting at the desk in her room, doing her homework. She began reading the question and quirked an eyebrow up. It'd been weeks since she was in school and she didn't have the slightest clue what she was doing anymore. "Ugh, why do I even bother?", she asked in a groggy voice to the teddy bear, she had happily named Fluff Bag on her 5th birthday, who was sitting on a book that was laid in the top left hand corner of the desk.

Of course it didn't answer her, if it did she would have declared herself nuts and would have signed herself into a mental asylum.

She looked over to her clock by the bed; 10:00. Whoa, time flew by pretty fast. She had been attempting her homework for an hour and a half now and she hadn't got it through her head. Was it possible for school to make you dumber?

After watching a movie earlier that night, which was very peaceful and enjoyable since Kouga hadn't asked many questions because his eyes had practically been glued to the TV, Souta had dragged his new hero to his room to play video games. And so that left Kagome alone to do her homework, and she was actually missing Kouga's company. She glanced over to her clock again, Souta would definitely had gone to bed by now or their mother would have made him. So where did that leave Kouga? Homework had made Kagome far too tired to bother to investigate that at the moment. He was probably be mystified by something that caught his attention.

She changed into her pajamas for once since she'd been home and plopped face first onto the soft, cushy blankets of the bed, moments after lying still to lazy to move, she straightened up and pulled the blankets up to her shoulders and let the sandman whisk her away to dreamland.

Kouga one the other hand was much more awake. He was sitting on the couch downstairs in the living room watching the so called 'TV'. He had figured out how to use the remote, even though he still couldn't figure out how it switched the channels at such a distance.

He was paying very close attention to everything that passed by on the screen. The he found a channel showing two people, well at least he thought it was, the camera was closed in on a patch of sheen skin. The he heard the moans and pants and then he saw the full picture. Was that two people...mating?! Late night Tv, too bad no one warned Kouga of this.

Kouga scrunched up his nose, "that's disgusting! Don't they know that people are watching them!?". Of course, Kouga had no objections to mating, he enjoyed it just as much as any other male demon. But watching two humans doing it in front of, what Kagome had told him, millions of people...it was almost degrading to their own race. Kouga pressed the button to turn the device off and decided to go upstairs to see what his Kagome was doing. And he tried to get the mental picture that seemed to be stuck there out of his head. It was arousing...but disgusting. It was very late.

He arrived in the room and saw Kagome curled up under her blankets. He was about to descend to his lovely, comfortable bed when Kagome began to stir not to gently in her sleep. She started to toss and grunt violently, then whined. A nightmare? Kouga went over to her bed and tried to calm her down. He climbed up on the bed with her and hugged her gently in attempt to sooth her.

As soon as his arms cradled her lithe form, she stop tossing around and melted into his arms and clung to him, "Kouga", she let out a faint, breathy whisper. When Kouga looked down at her face, she was smiling.

Was she dreaming about him?

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Dun dun dun! Hmmm, that was my sad attempt of a cliffie. Yup, very sad. Well anyways about this chapter...I didn't want to go in too much detail with them in school because it would have gotten exceptionally boring in my eyes....but I had to have Kouga meet Hojou. by the way I figuered out how to spell his name correctly lol. ^-^.

Kouga: Are you dreaming about me Kagome?!

Kagome: I don't know, it's not like I've read the next chapter!

Inuyasha: *scoffs* Like she'd dream about you wolf!

Miroku: Who really cares who's in it....well I guess that could be a factor, but more like what kind of dream is it! *wiggles eyebrows*

Sesshoumaru: You disgust me monk.

Ashley: Let's Sango and Shippou out of the closet* Miroku was supposed to let you guys out.

Sango: MIROKU!

*Miroku runs out of the room with Sango and Shippou at his heals*

Review Replys

Playful Kagome: Sorry if I stopped in the last chapter like that, but I hate to stop where I did in this one more becuase I know exactly what I plan on happening.....but of course I can't tell ya! I'm glad you find my chapters funny, I try my best to keep the genre the truth! ^-^ And sex is always a funny thing when you add it the right way in a story lol. I wouldn't say my fics funnier than yours, yours is pretty hilarious you know! By the way, when do you plan on putting up the next chappie hmm?

Evil Cheese: Yes, I agree it was about time Kagome admitting that she liked holding hands with Kouga. i just had to wait for the perfect moment. And I'm so grateful that your not rushing me with the chapters, it's a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be. Don't worry, no need to start campaigns for Shippou anymore. But i'll glady take any money you made ^0^.

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Warning! Next chapter will live up to it's R rating. So those who don't like reading sexual situations of any kind, you'll have to stay clear of the next chapter. You have been warned. And to you who do enjoy it.....happy waiting! ^-^ Muahahahahahaha.

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