Chapter 35

Sharp blades seemed to shoot towards Hojou, with just one of Inuyasha's fuming looks. His teeth gritting, his eyes slitted, he glared daggers at the boy, his grip on Kagome tightening by the second.

"Hey, Kagome!" He called again, a snapping snarl pushing up from Inuyasha's throat at his words. He stepped forward, boldly, awaiting the school boy's next move. "Who's your friend?"

The hanyou sank low, his eyes narrowed at Hojou with a glare that could bring a man to his knees. The look in his amber eyes could tell anyone that he was just daring them to take another step into his territory. One more step. One more growl. Just a matter of minutes until those razor blades nails scraped across Hojou's face.

"Inuyasha, calm down! He's alright, he really is. That's just Hojou!" Kagome tried to calm Inuyasha, cooing to him as if he were an animal. That only made him act up more, shifting the girl behind him so that she could slide from his back with ease.

"This is Inuyasha, Hojou." She introduced, late from when the boy had asked it. She slipped from the hanyou's back, shifting her weight and experimenting her hurt foot, mildly surprised when she didn't feel a single ounce of pain strike through her. She parted her lips again to say something when she felt a warmth spread over her side. Glancing down, she realized a pale, clawed hand secured on her hip. Her confusion-filled eyes switched back to Inuyasha as he pushed back into her.

'W-What? What's he doing?' She wondered, feeling her heart flutter at the feel of his touch. 'He never gets this way around Kouga! But then again…Kouga didn't kiss me. Oh no. Inuyasha! Please don't hurt Hojou!' She mentally pleaded with him, her concerned eyes joining in on the silent begging rant.

"Oh. Hello, Inuyasha." Hojou said, politely as he thrust out a hand. His skin was tan, so much darker than Inuyasha's when it was already hard to believe that the hanyou could be so colorless when he got so much sun.

The hand stretched towards him received multiple dagger shooting glares before Hojou lowered it to bow softly. Such a polite boy, maybe that was why Kagome didn't take much of an interest in him.

"Go, Kagome." Inuyasha commanded, not even sparing her an explaining glance as he ordered her on, his eyes never leaving Hojou's.

"Wha-"

"Go!" He demanded again, his voice louder and harsher than before, signaling Kagome to go then and not any later. That was, unless she wanted to get caught in the brawl along with them.

She shot Hojou a strange glance, almost as if to say 'I'm sorry. I can't help you anymore.' Before she slipped away, leaving Inuyasha's warm hands behind, though she never pulled her eyes away from them as Inuyasha took a bold step forward with a sneer on his face.

"Are you okay?" Hojou asked, his voice wavering slightly as his eyes moved up and down the muscular hanyou's body. He was rather terrifying to a mere mortal when he was angry.

"What the hell's your problem anyway?" Inuyasha shouted, ignoring his question and raising a threatening fist that stole a gasp from Kagome's throat a few yards away.

"I-I don't know what you mean." Hojou stammered, his eyes flitting wildly from the hanyou's clenched fist and raging amber eyes. It was clear to see that he really didn't know what he had done to make the stranger so angry at him. And that innocent sparkle in his eye could turn anyone around or bring on a smile, but not this hanyou.

"Don't play dumb, Hobo!" Inuyasha retorted, advancing on the confused boy only to have Kagome's frantic voice reach his ears, pinned down beneath the blue bandana she had given him.

"Would you just chill out, Kagome!" He shouted back to her, barely hearing her words before. He knew it would just be a futile plead not to end poor Hojou's life.

"It's Hojou." The boy suddenly corrected.

"Whatever!" Inuyasha breathed, rolling his eyes slightly before grasping Hojou's shoulder and yanking him close to whisper dangerous words in his ear.

"She will never be yours…" He said, eerily, into the confused boy's ear before he shoved him away. "So would you BACK OFF?"

"I don't get it! I'm sorry! I was just trying to get Kagome something for her fly syndrome!" Hojou explained, each word without a drip of humor despite the impossible disease which made Inuyasha squint with annoyance.

"…What?…" The hanyou blurted in a low, irritated voice after a long pause. He blew out a breath, blinking slowly and seriously to mount with the eeriness of the entire encounter.

"Okay. I'm going to make this short…and simple." Inuyasha started up again, gripping Hojou's shoulder even tighter as he did so. He wanted the startled boy's full attention, and if he ever was to lose it, the hanyou would lose himself.

"Please, Inuyasha!" Kagome pleaded again, begging now, nearly on her knees to get him to leave Hojou alone, let him go unharmed. She couldn't stand it. She just didn't want him to be another body lying cold in the gutter. And, Inuyasha could do just that, if he really wanted to.

The determined inu half demon ignored her every word, dripping with that deep pleading. She really meant it, she really wanted the boy to go free and unharmed. Somehow, the hanyou seemed to droop a bit, his eyes lost a little of that confident shine and his sneer lessened into a tiny frown.

'Does she…love him? Why is she so set on letting him go free! I could just kill him, right here, right now!' He argued with himself for moments on end, what to do about the boy who had begun to tremble slightly in his grip. 'If Kagome wants him….if she's in love with him…then I guess I have no say in it.'

His hand fell from Hojou's shoulder, but he wasn't pleased yet. He had no say in it, he couldn't make Kagome fall out of love, but that didn't mean a thing of whether he could slaughter the boy right then and there or not. He raised a hand, sharp nails glinting in the sunlight. His amber eyes raged and shot daggers at the both of them with such a horrible glare that could shut anyone up at once.

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BLOOD WILL BE SPILT TONIGHT!

-snort- Hence the 'overprotective, obsessive, two timing, biker boy boyfriend' poor Inu has been labeled as.

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