I updated this one right after the other one, because I thought that since I made you all wait so long: You diserved this.
Chapter 49: Hojo's Change
Kagome was about to panic. There was no where to run, no where to hide. She didn't want everyone finding out about her having kids, especially at such a young age. She wasn't ashamed, because they were hers and Inuyasha's, but she didn't know if her friends would be ashamed. Who knows what her friends would think they could be so unpredictable at times. Than there was Hojo. Who knew what Inuyasha would do to him.
The four friends got closer. They all smiled and waved.
"Kagome! It's so nice to see you again!" Ayumi said enthusiastically.
"We thought you moved. What happened?" asked Eri.
"Hey Higurashi!" Hojo greeted.
"Ah... what's going on here?" Yuka asked, noticing Inuyasha and the twins.
"Oh, this?" Kagome gestured to Inuyasha and the twins. "It's nothing. We're just shopping." Kagome laughed falsely. her friends still didn't know that Umi and Uchuu are hers and Inuyasha's children.
Her friends knelt down and looked at the twins. They noticed some of their features were a little odd, but they easily over looked that as they admired how adorable they were. The squealed.
"Oh Kami, they're so adorable!" cued Eri happily. She tickled Uchuu's stomach. He giggled a little.
"Awe." Ayumi scratched under Umi's chin. She too giggled. "Precious!"
"What are their names?" Eri asked. Yuka was growing suspicious as she looked from the twins back to Kagome and Inuyasha and noticed the resemblances. She also remembered when Kagome went to school last and she brought Inuyasha. They were together. (A/N: That happened in an earlier chapter.)
"Their names are Umi and Uchuu." Kagome replied. "Umi is the girl in the white and Uchuu is the boy in the green."
"Who's are they?" Yuka asked suspiciously.
"Are they your new brother and sister?" asked Hojo. Kagome's nervousness rose. Inuyasha didn't answer, because he didn't know what Kagome wanted them to think, so he let her say whatever she wanted to say.
Kagome didn't want her friends to think less of her, but she hated lying, especially to her friends. She took a deep breath.
"Well... you see." Kagome gulped preparing for what was next to come. "They are mine and Inuyasha's." Kagome said slowly, waiting for what they had to say to her. They were all silent for the time, taking in this new load of information. They all looked back and forth between Kagome and Inuyasha. Hojo just stared as if his heart was crushed.
"Higurashi?" Hojo stepped up to her and took her hands like Koga usually did. 'Hobo!' Inuyasha thought angrily. He growled.
"Don't touch her." Inuyasha bit out as he pulled Kagome away from Hojo and against his chest.
As son as Kagome felt Inuyasha's strong arms and muscular body against hers her scent sky rocketed with need for him. She moaned light enough that only Inuyasha could hear. It was than Inuyasha realized what it was the was happening. Why both her and his urges were stronger than usual besides the fact they hadn't 'mated' in a few months. Spring. Oh they were going to have fun later. He grinned. He would finally be relieved of his constantly throbbing member.
"Kagome, how exactly did this happen?" Eri asked finally. Kagome blushed. "I didn't mean it that way!" Eri said quickly.
"Higurashi," Hojo began. "Can I speak to you in private?"
"Sure Hojo." Kagome said. Inuyasha growled telling her to stay. "Inuyasha, let me go." Kagome struggled from his grasp. She finally got out.
"Whatever you say to Kagome you can say to me." Inuyasha said to Hojo.
"It's private." Hojo said with a little irritation in his voice. Inuyasha glowered at him.
"I'll only be a second." Kagome said. She followed Hojo to the hallway which led to the bathrooms. "What is it Hojo?" Kagome questioned.
"Higurashi, I don't think he's good enough for you. I can take care of you. I can even get a job to help support your children."
"Hojo... I have kids with him! I love him and care about him. I trust him with my life. If he wasn't good enough for me it wouldn't make a difference to me. Anyway he's more than good enough for me, maybe I'm the one who's not good enough for him." Kagome stated truthfully.
"I can't let him have you. I love you!" Hojo said as he put his hands on Kagome's shoulders. Kagome tried to pull away, but he wouldn't let go. She could feel bruises forming. She winced and glared at Hojo.
"Let me go!" Kagome screamed. He covered her mouth with his hand. She bit him. He let go for a moment. "Inuyasha!"
"Kagome, this is for your own good." Hojo stated. "he isn't as good for you as I am."
"You're obsessed!" Kagome bit out earning a quick slap from Hojo.
"You're a whore, perfect match." Hojo laughed devilishly. Kagome's eye's went wide as a memory flashed in her mind.
Flashback (This happened on chapter 10)
"Hey sexy." Kagome came to halt at the smirk in the voice. It wasn't Inuyasha. She didn't bother to turn around and kept walking. Then she felt someone grasp her arm. She shrieked as the man covered her mouth with his hands and dragged her into a nearby ally way. She struggled. When they were in the ally the man threw Kagome down. She dropped the bag and out came the pregnancy test. The man picked it up and looked at the box.
"So your a whore." he said throwing the box back into the bag and placing it down. "This'll be fun then."
"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed with all her might. The man slapped her across the face and then held her chin in his hand.
End Flashback
Inuyasha had saved her from that incident before the man had a chance to do anything to her, but that never made his words hurt any less. They had also ended up in the hospital from the mans greed. A 'whore'. Was she really a whore? She had children already. She was sixteen, going on seventeen. A tear dropped from her eye.
Suddenly Kagome remembered her birthday was tomorrow. That was also the day she met Inuyasha. Flashes of that day flashed throughout her mind and than flashed of their adventures. 'No!' She thought forcefully. 'I love Inuyasha with all my heart and he loves me. I wouldn't take back any of it. None. We have two precious kids now and we can be together. Inuyasha was my first and he will remain and be my last. I am not a whore!' She tried to convince herself, but she still felt a little bit as though she was one. She continued to glare at Hojo.
"Let go of me!" Kagome continued to yell.
"Or what?"
"Inuyasha will kill you! I'm serious. You have to let me go." It wasn't that she was going to tell Inuyasha to kill Him. She was actually warning him of what Inuyasha would do it he found Hojo hurting her, because Inuyasha was after all, dangerous.
"Like he could harm me. He looks scrawny." Hojo stated plainly. 'Well he has never really seen Inuyasha.' Kagome thought referring to Inuyasha without a shirt off and stuff.
"You know 'you shouldn't judge a book by its cover'." Kagome used the old cliche to make her statement. Hojo only smirked.
"Not all the time, but in this case..."
"I thought you were above all of that, Hojo."
"Yeah well a man changes."
"You're no man! You're a pig!" Kagome moved her head and bit his wrist. He pulled it away quickly and slammed her head into the wall. She felt a little dizzy, but now wasn't the time to be passing out. He replaced his hand on her shoulder and this time he squeezed harder. She whimpered.
"I want you." he said.
"You can't always get what you want."
"Yeah.. I can." He moved his head closer to hers ready to kiss her. Closer... closer...
"Get the hell away from her!" Inuyasha's enraged voice came. He punched Hojo into the bathroom. The door flung opened and closed as Hojo went in. Inuyasha slowed his growling as Kagome slid down the wall and sat. He knelt down next to Kagome and looked her over.
"What did he do to you?" asked Inuyasha.
"Nothing much." Kagome said. "Lets just get the stuff and get out of here. Where are Sota and the twins?"
"Right here." Sota came around the corner wheeling the twins, with Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri by his side. "Inuyasha heard you call for him and told me to watch them for a second."
Inuyasha placed his hand on Kagome's shoulder for comfort. She winced. His keen eyes of course didn't miss it as she had hoped.
"What the hell?" Inuyasha moved the sweated off of Kagome. She was wearing a t-shirt under it of course. He moved the shirt down her shoulders only to find a bruise on each. "Oh hell no!" he growled and stood up letting Kagome put her sweater back on. He started towards the bathroom Hojo was flung into.
"Inuyasha, no!" Kagome called knowing his goal. He stopped and turned to look it her pleading eyes. "We don't need to make trouble here."
"Kagome!" All her friends leaned down by her side.
"Hojo hurt you?" Yuka asked.
"He's been this way ever since he joined that gang." Eri informed.
"Hojo joined a gang!" Kagome was shocked.
"Well yeah. He used to be so nice, but his brother joined and well... Hojo just made some bad choices." Eri said. Kagome nodded understanding Inuyasha just listened.
"What's a gang?" He asked. Kagome's three friends looked shocked.
"Ah guys Inuyasha isn't from around here." Kagome defended quickly getting up and beside Inuyasha. She explained what a gang was quickly.
"That doesn't mean I won't kill him anyway." Inuyasha said while crossing his arms.
"Kagome is he serious?" asked Yuka.
"Yeah." Kagome stood in front of Inuyasha as a form of protection. "But don't worry, he'd never actually go through with it."
"The hell I won't!" Inuyasha growled surprising Kagome's friends.
"To be honest I don't think you could take Hojo." Eri commented. "I mean no offense, it's just Hojo's pretty strong and he works out with his brother and stuff."
"Um.. Eri." Yuka moved to whisper. "He just threw Hojo through a door with a single shot."
"Oh yeah." Era laughed nervously forgetting that particular concept. She looked at Inuyasha and over his form a little more therally and realized he was pretty formally and she liked it, but he was already Kagome's for the taking. She shrugged it off. 'Oh well. Lucky Kagome' She thought with out worry. 'There are plenty more fish in the sea.'
Hojo suddenly walked out from the bathroom rubbing his now throbbing head. Inuyasha growled.
"How dare you touch Kagome?" Inuyasha yelled getting closer to Hojo. Hojo grinned.
"She's mine." Hojo said. He was lying of course!
"What do you mean 'she's yours'?" Inuyasha asked as his anger grew.
"I had her first."
"What!" Inuyasha grabbed Hojo's collar. "No, you didn't have her in the 'first' place." Inuyasha would have known if Hojo had ever so much of kissed Kagome, because she would have smelt of it at some time and she never did.
"You're no good for a woman like her." Hojo said. Inuyasha let go of the boy. He had thought of it as though he never disserved Kagome, but being told by somebody hurt more than he was willing to admit, but he knew now wasn't the time to think about this.
"Stay away from Kagome. If you ever touch her again you'll pay with pain. If you ever harm her again you'll pay with your life." Inuyasha tossed Hojo into the bathroom once more with little effort. he walked over to Kagome and used a hand to guide her forward towards the twins. Her friends were a little amazed at Inuyasha's strength to just 'toss' Hojo like that. Sota just sat by and watched with amusement. The twins sensed their parents uneasiness and began crying wanting to help. Kagome picked up Umi and Inuyasha got Uchuu. As soon as the babies were in their parents arms they almost stopped crying. Now they whimpered.
"Enough." Inuyasha said firmly. This wasn't time for their whimpering. As 'Alfa male' or dominant male the twins of course knew to listen, so they stopped and looked around curiously. They blinked cutely and looked at each other and then back around.
Well I hoped you liked it! Please tell me what you think would be interesting to happen next. I think I'm going to have something about Dayu, but it's your choice.