Chapter 7-Blurted words that should never have escaped
Sota smiled wearily from his position at the other end of the one of the living room's plain white couches.
Inuyasha inhabited the matching armchair and was glaring at Hojo, who was too busy peering at Inuyasha's puppy-ears to notice.
Sota cleared his throat and the other two residents of the room turned their heads to look at him automatically.
"Where is Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded.
"What is this?" Hojo asked.
Sota froze, and thought to himself. Maybe I shouldn't have cleared my throat, sure, the silence was eerie, but it is better than all these hot-seat questions!
"Well…uh…you see…"Sota tried to explain, but didn't know what to say. The random words just pooped into his mind, and before he knew it, they slipped out of his mouth, too.
Hojo and Inuyasha stared at each other and then back at Sota.
"What?" They both questioned in union.
"Well…you know…she is…Kagome is my sister…it was raining…" Sota's mind went blank. What was he to say? Sota couldn't explain to Inuyasha that Kagome wasn't here and she was supposed to be with him in the feudal era with Hojo here! And what was he to tell Hojo? Hojo wasn't dull, and he had already noticed Inuyasha's….difference between he and Hojo…what was he to say?
Sota continued blurting out random words that formed themselves into careless and confusing sentences and he had lost track of what he was saying…before he knew it, a surprised expression crossed Hojo's face and his eyes seemed to bulge. Inuyasha's face showed a mixture of glee and embarrassment.
"What?" Hojo practically screamed with shock. Inuyasha was silent, his face as red as his kimono (ha-ha Jess)
"Huh?" Sota's voice quivered with nervousness. "What did I say?"
No one replied and an awkward silence spread over them like thick mist. The silence was only broken as the birds sang their sweet melodies from outside the stifled house.
Sota gazed at the TV set longingly. Sun rays were pouring from the window and onto the TV's screen. He would rather be watching TV than be caught in the middle of this awkward situation. What was he to say? Oh, how he wished Kagome was here. She would know exactly what to do and what to say. She would make up a smart lie for why Inuyasha had silver hair, amber eyes, claws, and ears and was dressed in strange clothes. She would think up an excuse for Hojo to leave at once in the blink of an eyes, and all Sota would have to do was watch TV.
"You said," Hojo started after a few minutes of suffocating silence; his voice cracked from lack of use. "That Kagome loved Inuyasha…and not me…you said that she always talked about him…"
Sota blinked. "Did I really?" He wondered aloud. Inuyasha and Hojo shook their heads, yes.
Uh oh, He thought. This might cause some trouble…
Sota forced out a dry nervous chuckle. "I didn't mean that!" He suddenly cried out.
"I, uh, mean…" Sota added quickly, retrieving his cool once he saw Inuyasha and Hojo's shocked expressions. "I didn't know what to say because…" A cover-up story to explain everything popped into Sota's head and he announced it proudly.
"I didn't know what to say because, Inuyasha, my dear cousin, you have changed so much!" Sota smiled. Inuyasha looked at him as if he were nuts, and Hojo looked as if it made perfect sense.
Well, that did sound better in my head…
Sota stretched his smiled wider, until he thought that his mouth would snap and slowly got up and, after a moment's hesitation, hugged Inuyasha for effect.
"You have changed much indeed!" Sota exclaimed. "I see you like dressing up now! I remember when your obsession was eating nothing orange!"
Sota hoped that Inuyasha understood his plan…but no luck…
"What are you talking about?" Inuyasha exclaimed, entangling Sota from around his neck. "I ain't your cousin! I ain't even related to you!"
Hojo's face clouded up, erasing the look on his face that said that he believed that Sota and Inuyasha were cousins.
"I know what is going on here now," He replied, indignant. "Kagome is cheating on me and is now dating this…this…CROSS-DRESSER! Well Sota, tell your sister if she is going to go to such far lengths to avoid me, then she can just-" Hojo's fury quickly turned to plain and overwhelming hurt.
"No, no, no!" Sota interrupted. He knew that Kagome loved Inuyasha more, but she would never want to hurt Hojo, and neither did he. "That's not it at all!"
"Oh yeah?" Hojo snapped. "Well then, what is it?" Sota saw a faint glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"Well…you see…uh…" Sota has another mind blank and he dared not start blabbering on and on, detaching his brain from his mouth like he did moments before. That turned out to be a disaster!
"I knew it!" Hojo shouted. The faint sparkle of hope shattering like the Jewel Shards. "You are covering for your sister! Well you can tell her that she is now free to date whatever weirdos she wants to! She won't have to worry about cheating anymore!" Hojo turned sharply on his heel and stalked out of the room.
Sota sat there, stunned at what happened, and replayed the scene over and over again in his mind until the loud slam of the front door brought him back to reality. What had he done? He sat there wondering how this had all happened, slowing sinking back out of reality, and into his thoughts…
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