Hojo's Discovery

Disclaimer: Read the one from the ninth chapter. Oh! But I own Jou, my little made up character.

"Hojo, where did you get that idea?" Sesshomaru asked Hojo. Sesshomaru's look was one that said that he thought Hojo was an idiot. He pretty much was, though his intentions were good.

Hojo made his glare even more toxic. "I saw you walking out of her garage. I always saw that Kagome had been in the garage too and was walking out of it. That was only one incident." His hands clenched into fists. Why isn't Mr. Sukago owning up to what he did? He thought.

"I know I was in her house. Her mother was a previous business associate of mine." Sesshomaru lied, covering up his story. "Have you heard the rumours going around about me? The ones that said I was an ex-company owner?" He asked Hojo.

Hojo nodded, not faltering in esteem. Sesshomaru had to be a stalker! He just, you know, had to be! He had spread it around. To Kagome, who had not picked up on it, to Eri, Ayumi and Yuka, who thought it couldn't be true, to Jou (AN: I made him up!) who completely believed him and a whole bunch of people! How stupid he would look if he was wrong…

"They're true." Sesshomaru said, not lying this time. He was, but actually still owned the company, which was rather successful. "But I still own the company. I was having a meeting with her mother, who had an injury and also had laryngitis, forcing me to come to her house with my other associates, who walked, like me, being close to her house." He made a semicircle with his hand towards Hojo. "Do you understand now?" He asked him.

Hojo's brow furrowed. "Yes, sir. But couldn't you just have the meeting without her?" He asked.

Sesshomaru almost smiled. Another lie was going to have to be spun. "You see, Mrs. Higurashi was the most important part of my company's project. It would have been completely idiotic to hold a meeting without her. I hope you understand."

Hojo looked down and turned a bright red, embarrassed. Then he regained his confidence, looking up at Sesshomaru with pure hate. "Mr. Sukago," He said, "There is something else I want to discuss with you." Hojo's glare intensified. "I have reason to believe you are a demon, from the years of the Shikon Jewel and are a murderer."

"Why, Hojo, why would you think I am such an evil person? A demon, nonetheless?" Sesshomaru said to Hojo.

It was dangerous to be a demon nowadays. If you were caught a demon, you would be thrown into a laboratory to be tested on by scientists to see how you could be quickly exterminated. There were also other categories you could be put in. You could be put in a training facility and treated like dogs and be raised as obedient killing machines to guard people that could afford to have and be passed on generation to generation. Many other inhumane options were there also.

Hojo did not falter in his glare. "I saw you walking from Kagome's house. Somehow, you went at such a high speed you were a blur. Cars could travel slower than you were by hundreds of kilometres. I am wholly sure that you are a demon, Mr. Sukago." Hojo's glare only intensified after his speech.

Sesshomaru was now panicking, well, for him. "I think that you need a bit of help Hojo, I did no such thing…" He trailed off. Sesshomaru flexed his hands flowingly, allowing the toxin within them to be let out.

"Or did I?" Sesshomaru smiled, showing his canine teeth.

Hojo's eyes widened. He knew that Mr. Sukago was a demon, but how was he making the green gas in the air appear? It was making him woozy, and his teeth… His sharp, carnivorous, canine teeth. How could he be so powerful…? Hojo's thoughts trailed off as he fell back in his chair with tremendous force as Sesshomaru's lethal toxins knocked out the last of his consciousness.

Sesshomaru jumped out his chair, knocking it onto the ground and dashed out of the windowless room. He needed an escape, not a door. A door was too obvious, too clear. He would go to his classroom. Should he take Kagome? No, he would just be reported, not only as a demon, but a kidnapping one, too. Where could he go? Maybe he could stay at the Higurashi house? No, too obvious. Maybe, just maybe, he could break the seal of the well and return to the Feudal Era and find his brother. But first he would have to take care of Kouga.

He entered his classroom, the door falling off from the force of it falling. He jumped over the desks in his way, not wanting to hurt anyone. Thankfully the students couldn't see him, except for Kagome, with her intuitive miko senses.

Sesshomaru crashed through the window, not noticing the glass shards flying towards him. Simple glass could not cut this Sesshomaru. His demon skin would not let it break through. It was barely a tickle to him.

Kagome got out of her desk and grabbed her bow and arrows she had stored in her backpack in case an evil demon appeared. She regretfully loaded the arrow and aimed panicked at Sesshomaru, only wanting to, in her plan made in less than a second, nick him to stop him.

"Sesshomaru!" She called as she launched the arrow, not thinking of her classmates. Kagome realized what had happened and climbed hurriedly out of the fourth floor window, not caring that she could fall.

By now Sesshomaru had stopped. He had run around eight kilometres in that second while Kagome had pulled her bow and arrow. The demon pulled the arrow out of his arm and swore. It was a deep gash. He could tell it was Kagome's arrow. It possessed her aura. He knew she didn't mean to hurt him. He would have bandaged it, but he didn't have the time.

Sesshomaru ran to Kagome's house in a matter of seconds. He realized that he may not be able to protect Kagome anymore. He would have to imprison Kouga in something. Kagome would never forgive Sesshomaru if he killed Kouga. And now it didn't matter that Kagome wouldn't understand now about his imprisonment of Kouga. She would learn and forgive.

Author's Note: Ooh, cliffhanger! I don't like cliffhangers, so I'll give you guys a break and if you want to read a few insider tips about next chapter, scroll down. If not, just wait for the next chapter.

Okay. Sesshomaru is going to have a pretty epic battle with Kouga and Kagome will help seal him away, but I may do that in the chapter after next. Sesshomaru in the next few chapters will be on trial, which I was going to have in this chapter, but I changed it to help finish the Kouga plot. I might include Kagura sometime. This is all the information I will give you.

Oh yes, if any of you like S + S from CCS please look out for a story I am writing. It's a Valentine's Day fic that I may put out next Valentine Day or sooner. It'll be an AU that puts S+S in 11th grade. It'll be long (for me), which is over 1500 words. At 5:50 on Feb. 16 it was 1059 words, when I finished this story. If you LOVE candygrams don't read the first part, because Syaoran disses them.

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