Chapter Three

Inuyasha meet Hojo!

Kagome and Inu arrived at her house around 4:00 pm. "Mom, I'm home and I brought a new friend over."

Her mother walked into the hall drying her hands. "Hello…" She stopped dead in her tracks and looked at Inu. Then she turned and looked at Kagome.

"Oh I'm so glad you're here Hojo is here to see you and I didn't expect anyone else so I invited him for dinner. I'm sorry if I had only known."

Kagome smiled and walked by her mother and into the living room, Inu following closely. "Hi Hojo I didn't expect you to be here."

Hojo turned to look at her and saw she wasn't alone. "Oh! Am I here at a bad time? I just came to give you a gift for your knee. Here it's to help you gain your strength back in that leg."

Kagome smiled "Thanks Hojo, its okay you came, Inu is just my partner for a school project so he came over to work on our project."

"I'm already done Mizuki and I have already finished. I could help you if you would like me to."

Inu felt his blood start to boil, he had to remain calm and cool, if he blew up now Kagome would be upset and kick him out. He had planned on telling Kagome the truth about his identity tonight, but with this guy here he couldn't.

"No we don't need your help at all."

Hojo looked over at Inu. "Oh, well thought I would just offer my service to the prettiest girl in school." Hojo smiled at Kagome who blushed a strawberry red.

What! She never blushed at anything I said! I have to tell her it's me before it's too late.

Kagome turned whispering to him, "Inu? Are you okay? Look Hojo isn't my boy friend and never will be."

Inu turned red. "NO, that's not it!"

Kagome shrugged and turned back to talk to Hojo.

The two of them seem to get along great, I bet if she had never met me she would be going out with him right now.

Inu got up, "This was a bad idea, and I need to head home anyway." Inu turned and walked out the door, leaving Kagome sitting in the living room.

"I wonder what is wrong with him." Hojo commented.

Inuyasha walked out into the open air, looking around he noticed he was in front of the sacred tree. He walked up to it placing his hand on the mark on the tree where his body had been.

"It has a really sad story behind it, you know." Inu turned around and found Kagome standing behind him.

"Really, what happened? Will you tell me?"

Kagome looked up at him. "Are you okay Kagome? Why are you crying?" Kagome turned away.

"OH it's nothing." She smiled and turned walking away.

"Come here and sit with me and I'll tell you my version of the story."Inu walked over to Kagome and set down and leaned against the tree.

"May years ago a girl come to posses great power, you see she could travel through time to the feudal era. Now, this happened all on a chance. You see her cat had gotten stuck in the hut where the family well was. This well had long since been dried up and was steadily collecting spider webs. Well, that day she went to save the cat. Suddenly out of nowhere she was stolen by a demon and pulled into the well where she found herself in the feudal era. She looked for a way out and saw this tree in the distance. It was taller than all the other trees. Majestically standing like a beacon of hope. In hope of finding a way home she ran to the tree. There pinned to the tree was a boy. Now, this wasn't an ordinary boy he was a half-demon. She ended up freeing him from a spell placed on him by a priestess named Kikyo, whose hatred for him ran like a never ending stream down a mountain. But, you see the girl that chanced upon the other world began to fall in love with the half-demon as their journey progressed, but felt no return of it. The half-demon, she knew, was truly in love with the priestess that had pinned him to the tree. So on the day before the girl left she waited for the half-demon to tell her he loved her. That was all she needed to hear was him saying, 'I Love You', and she would have stayed, but when it came time for her to leave he said nothing, so the girl left bringing home a darkness within her that can surpass any she had ever felt in her life. That is the story behind this mark, you see this mark is where the demon was cast and that building over there is the well."

Inu dropped his head in disappear. If I had only told her we could be with Sango and all the others right now not me 'Inu' sitting here with a new friend.

"That's really sad, but I think that the half demon really loved the girl but was too afraid to tell her because of the fear of rejection."

Kagome looked at him with tears in her eyes. "Why do you say that Inu? Do you love me?"

Inu turned and looked in her eyes. "Kagome I get the feeling you were the girl in your story."

Kagome frowned, "Yes it was me and the story ended only two days ago."

Inu thought about it, "Kagome why did you just ask me if I loved you?"

Kagome turned to him laughting, "It's just because you look like Inuyasha's twin and your names are so similar. I thought maybe it was him when I first saw you but, I knew he would never make such a sacrifice for me. I mean sure, Inuyasha protected me, but he put me in many dangerous situations because of Kikyo."

Inu picked up Kagome's chin and placed his lips squarely on hers. Kagome was shocked at first but slowly began to relax letting tears roll from her eyes. They pulled out of the kiss and she could swear that she was back in the feudal era sitting with Inuyasha under the sacred tree. "Kagome, I do love you."

Next Time!

Chapter Four: Happy Ending