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            "Ah! Hey, hey!! Gomen!! I'm sorry!!"

            Kagome's scream ceased as she paused, staring at the boy before her. His hands were held out in front of him defensively, during which he backed away slightly. His eyes were chocolate brown, innocent and childish under long lashes. A mat of not-too-short-not-too-long hair resided on his head, brushing his fine eyebrows. He adorned a decent white shirt along with soft cloth pants. On his shirt bore the school symbol.

            "I'm sorry for scaring you, but you looked like you fainted or something! It looked pretty bad from where I was standing," the boy explained with a small chuckle.

            Kagome wiped a patch of dirt from her crimson cheek. She was burning with embarrassment that someone had actually saw her walking down the sidewalk. 'Well, it's not like you were paying any attention either...' she reminded herself.

            "Are you alright though? Did something happen?" the boy asked, concern written earnestly all over his features.

            "Ah...yeah, I guess," Kagome replied, turning her head away.

            "Here, let me help you up," the boy insisted. 'Why the hell is he being so nice to me anyway?' Kagome thought curiously. 'Maybe he's part of one of those stupid upperclassmen who like to act nice upfront and humiliate you at the last moment.' Kagome cringed. 'I hate people like that...' Kagome found herself squirming away from the brown-eyed boy's grasp.

            "Is something wrong?" he asked. Kagome's eyes remained down cast.

            "Who are you anyway? Why are you here? You go to my school, right? Why aren't you in school right now?" she asked, her voice hostile and suspicious as she snapped her face around.

            "I could ask you the same exact questions!" he laughed. Kagome's cold, suspicious mood was swiftly replaced with embarrassment. Not wanting to lose any more of her dignity, she ended his laughter with "My name is Kagome Higurashi. My business is my own."

            "You're quite secretive!" he smiled, "But it's ok, I won't pry."

            Kagome, growing quite frustrated whenever the boy laughed at her, demanded, "And your name?"

            "Hojo. Just call me Hojo," the boy answered with a wry smile.

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AN: I actually added Hojo in this story!!! The reason??? Inu yasha doesn't have any love rival EXCEPT for Hojo in the anime. (sad sad...) I was thinking of using Miroku, but Miroku belongs to Sango and Sango only!!! ^_______^

****Update!!!! Ok, me, being the stupid person I usually am, was SO stupid that I forgot about Kouga. Nooooooooooooo!!!!! How could I forget KOUGA?!?!?!? ::hits self on head:: Xp;;;;;;; It's a little too late to change it and plus, Hojo fits the part better. I've decided I'll add Kouga in later if I can. Until then, I'm sorry to all those Kouga fans!!! The stupid thing is, I'm a Kouga fan myself and I even FORGOT about him!!!! T___________________T please, shoot me!!!!! T_____T

Miroku: why can't I have Kagome AND Sango? ;__;

*Sango and Inuyasha glare viciously, raising their weapons*

Miroku: *puts on fake beard* See, uh, I'm not Miroku, I'm this guy called uh, Mr. Nobody!!

Everyone: =_____=;;;;;

Miroku: So uh, I'll be going now! Tell Miroku that I said hi!! *starts scooting away* *gets the **** beaten out of him by both Inuyasha dn Sango* X___X;;;;

Kagome: *walks in* *looks at Miroku* did I miss something?

Sango: *stuffing Miroku into a closet* oh, nothing really important. ^___^ ::smile smile::

Kagome: ¬_¬ erm.....

Inuyasha: ok, to wrap up this crap, we're going to go to the special thanks section now! ^_^

Me: this isn't crap!!! It's good crap for your information!!! :-(

Special Thanks to:

Wait!!!

Something just cam in this last hour!!

Attention, everyone!!! An incredible discovery has been made today!! Hojo...has no LAST NAME!!!! Well, uh, it's either he has no last name or he has no first name... ah, w/e.

We now return you the special thanks section that *cough* everyone reads. Really. They do.

HanyouGohan: Heeheehee, BAKA HOJO!!!!! ^_________________^

MysticalDreamer: Thank you so much for your hilarious reviews!!! Hehe, the randomness is a nice relief from everyday life!!! Peaches and grapes!!! ß trying to be random (not working -_-;;;; ah well)

Kitten Kisses: it's a conspiracy. I swear. O_O

Nightangel: another l337!!!! Wahoo!!!! This is so cool!!! I'm meetin' new peeps everyday!!! ^v^ *puts on kindergarten happy face on* *goes to color a picture with crayons* (J/K!!!)

Ice Dagger: Lol!!! Hojo's doesn't deserve a last name, muahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Shahrezad1: Mega Tokyo's great!!! Love that site!!! Largo is so friggin funny!!! ^______^ I like ping too!!!! *carrying a huge telephone pole* "why are you running away? Largo-sama!!!!!" XD wahahahahhahahahhahaaaaa!!!

Hobo who?: hobo!!!!! Heeheehee!!!! Luv it!! Looks like you need a cough drop, buddy...^.^ lol!

Eddie: and he does!!! ^____^

Aejavu: Kikyo is an ~itch who wants to drag everyone to h*ll!!!!!!!! She must die!!!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! The sad thing is that no one disagrees with me!!!!! ^___________________________^

Mizuiro Ookami: cool name. And yeah, you're prolly right. Hmmmm......what shall I do???? ;__;

Laura: hey, I'm glad someone likes my story enough to request an email update! ^____^ I'm overwhelmed...O_O but gomen, I probably won't be able to do email updates. -_-;;;;;;;; I'm so lazy, forgive meow-chan!!!! *barely dodges horde of sharp objects* WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH~!!!!!!! O________O Gomen Gomen Gomen Gomeeeeennnnn~!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, sorry to the other people that requested email updates too!!! T___T I'll think about it, but for now, I won't. Too lazy.......u_u;;;;;

Taina: Ack, I did???? Ergh, I'll go find it... they slip right past my eyes when I read over it sometimes, y'know?? ::sigh:: -_-;;;;

REGGIE: YOU HAVE ALL THE MANGA?!?!?!!!? *faints* oh the jealousy!!!!! T___________T

Vixie: dude, that really is scawee......O__O

Meh: Well than I guess you hate me. Cuz I suck at updating.....u_u;;;

Megu-chan: heh, sorry for the sudden-ness for Inu-chans mean-ness. You'll know why soon!!! (well, when I come up with something...)

Ame Tenshi: oh yeah, it did!!! *muahahahaaaa* (Kagome: leave me alone, dammit!!!)

Well, er, I kinda did today's special thanks section quite randomly, so I might have missed some people. Gomen nasai if I did!!! So to those of you I missed, thanks for your support (or non support *grumble grumble* ¬_¬)!!!!!

Luv ya all!!!! ♥

Ja ne!!

~meow-chan~