Poor Inu...but...WHY ARE THEY SO SHORT?

-breath-

Okay, Okay...Sooorrryyyy...

And these things better start getting better before I chew my own bottom lip off...

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Chapter 5

Kagome's eyes opened slightly and saw the one person she wanted to be here the least.

'Inuyasha…' She thought guiltily as she pulled away from Hojou.

"I don't want to give you my mumbalidous…" Kagome said, thinking up an excuse to end the kiss.

'He saw everything…Inuyasha saw me kissing Hojou. He must feel so hurt…or jealous…I don't want to start a whole other situation with like Kouga's again.' Kagome thought, backing away from Hojou and up the steps to her house.

She wanted to shout the poor hanyou's name, run after him, do anything but just walk back inside and pretend like nothing had happened. She knew she couldn't. She knew she had to protect his identity.

"Good bye, Kagome! I'll see you at school!…That is…if you'll be there?" Hojou asked, raising a hand to wave at her. He seemed so gleeful after he kissed her.

"I'll try to be there!" Kagome called over her shoulder as she walked to her house.

Stepping inside and kicking her shoes off, she wondered what Inuyasha thought of her now. He shouldn't have had to see that. He had gotten so jealous when Kouga had confessed his love to her…but he hadn't kissed her like Hojou had.

Kagome trudged to her room, deep in thought of what next action to take.

'What do I do…I know if I go back, he'll just reject me…but I can't just avoid him!' Kagome thought, closing her bedroom door behind her. She walked over to her desk and unzipped her bright yellow book bag. She hadn't moved it since she had came home the other day. She reached in and pulled out her art book. She plopped down in the pink wheelie chair at her desk and began to flip through the book. It was nearly full with drawings. Kagome held that book close to her. She brought it with her every time she went to the feudal realm yet none of her friends knew about it. She'd rather keep it that way.

Believe it or not, Kagome couldn't think up one comforting word to say to Inuyasha. What was there to say when someone witnesses something like that. 'Sorry' just wouldn't cut it…and Inuyasha was a tough guy to get through to. It had taken so long just to get him to call Kagome by 'Kagome' instead of 'girl'.

Kagome raised a pale hand to her throat and held onto the tiny bottle around her neck that contained three sparkling jewel shards.

Suddenly, a low growl rumbled through the room. It was faint but Kagome could hear it. She looked around frantically.

'Is Inuyasha here? Did he come back to yell at me for kissing Hojou?' She wondered.

"Oh…it's just my stomach!" Kagome said aloud as she realized that the grumbling was coming from her stomach.

"I must be hungrier than I thought…well…I didn't eat anything at the pancake house and I hardly ate any dinner last night either." She said, walking into the kitchen to get something to eat.

She groaned as she pulled open the fridge and realized that there was nothing decent to eat.

"GUESS I'M GOING TO THE STORE! BYE, MAMA!" Kagome yelled, hoping her mom could here her from inside her bedroom.

Kagome jogged back to her room and grabbed her long strapped, blue pocket book. She ran back through the house and slipped her sandals on and then darted out the door to go to the local food mart.

Kagome dropped random cans into her cart, not really paying attention to what she threw in and hardly caring. She was lost in thought again. How would she make it up to Inuyasha? Then her thoughts drifted to herself, the pleasure of kissing Hojou. It was the first time that a boy had kissed her.

She stopped, something catching her eye. She turned her face slightly to look at the rows and rows of packaged ramen. Tears almost filled her eyes.

'Ramen will cheer Inuyasha up!' She thought, dumping an armful of ramen into her cart. She quickly hurried to the checkout line when, again, something caught Kagome's eye. A pair of black dog ears on a headband stuck out of the magazine rack. Someone must have just set it there and walked away. Perhaps a young child had begged their parents for it but was only turned down and forced to put it back.

Kagome quickly snatched it up and rubbed her fingers over the dark fake fur on the ears.

'This is perfect! It will defiantly cheer Inuyasha up!' She thought, setting the headband into her cart and pushing it forward in line.