Well...originally this was planned to be a one-shot, but I got a few requests for a continuation.

Here goes!

DISCLAIMER: Inu-chan, his friends, his anime, and his manga belong to Takahashi-san. As I am not Takahashi-san, I do not own Inuyasha. All I own is this fanfic and it's included poem.

Kagome Had a Hanyo
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Kagome sighed. It had been a long day. Normally, going to Wacdonald's with her friends was a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of daily life; today, however, the fast food restaurant was her safe haven from one ticked-off hanyo. She figured the scents of people and food that wafted through that corner of downtown Tokyo would confuse her keen-nosed friend long enough to think of a plan. If only her friends would stop talking long enough for her to actually formulate a plan...

"So Kagome," began her friend Eri, "How are things with your jealous, violent, two-timing boyfriend?"

The look on Kagome's face would have made Sesshomaru screaming for his mommy.

:Flashback:

"KAGOOOOMMMMEEE!?"

A loud cry rang through the forest. Not too far from the village, two women and a fox kit were relaxing in a hot spring.

"Kagome, did you hear something?" Asked Sango.

Shippo - whose yokai hearing had picked up the yell very clearly - suppressed a chuckle. Unfortunately, Kagome had motherly instincts for the kit and saw this.

"Shippo, what was it?"

"Inuyasha...he's looking for you." The young kitsune rolled over on all-out laughter.

Kagome shot her friend a look of horror, and both women climbed out of the hot springs as fast as they possibly could. By the time Inuyasha tracked Kagome's scent to the hot springs, both she and Sango were dried, dressed, and on their way back.

"What the hell is this?" The outraged hanyo asked, waving Kagome's assignment in front of the miko's reddening face.

'Great...fate must have a death wish for me,' Kagome thought. "Well...you see, Inuyasha...it's for school."

Inuyasha just stared at her like she had grown a second head. "It's for school." He didn't know whether to be furious that she had chosen him to be the subject of one of her ridiculous 'school projects,' or honored.

Kagome just sighed. "Yes, Inuyasha. I had to write a poem for school, based on a folk rhyme. Gomen nasai if I offended you...but the original poem reminded Shippo and I of you so much!"

Inuyasha looked stunned. He glanced back down at the 'po-im,' before asking slowly (and in a quite un-Inuyasha-like voice), "Kagome...?

The miko was tensed in front of him, waiting for the proverbial thunderstorm she expected to ensue. "Yes, Inuyasha?"

"Did you mean what you said?" He turned pink. "I mean...the last part."

Kagome gulped and nodded. "It is true. I...I didn't mean for you to see it...gomen..."

"Keh..." Inuyasha leapt into a nearby tree, his face still an unusual shade of pink.

'Oh, yes,' Kagome thought. 'He'll be angry.'

:End Flashback:

Yes, Inuyasha had run off. 'I had hoped, at least, that he would acknowledge my feelings. The poem clearly stated that that I loved him...he'd really have to be dense not to get the hint. Then again, the poem also said that he loves me too, and he didn't deny it. Maybe he just needed some time to think...'

"...Kagome...?"

At the sound of her name, the time-traveling schoolgirl snapped her head up. Her three friends were staring at her with worried expressions on their faces. "Er...it's nothing...I'm just not feeling quite back to normal, that's all."

The girls nodded understandingly. "If you had just said you weren't over your diarrhea yet, we wouldn't have brought you all the way out here," Ayume said, searching through her purse. "I think I have a laxative in here, somewhere..."

"NO! No, it's not that." 'I'm gonna KILL you, Jii-chan!' "I've just...been having...well, boyfriend troubles."

"AHA!" Eri cried, pulling a paper out of Kagome's school bag. All Kagome could see was the "A" written at the top of the paper.

'Now when did I give her permission to go through my stuff...' Kagome mentally sighed.

Suddenly, all three of her friends began to jump up and down in Kagome's face. "Kagome! That's so sweet!" "Yeah! I mean, you included us in here, too!" "I didn't know you two were so far along in your relationship! When are you going to get married and have kids?" "Do you think they'll have his hair? It's an unusual color, but it's gorgeous!"

"What are you talking about?"

In response, Eri shoved the paper into Kagome's face. To her surprise (and embarrassment), it was the poem she had written the day before in the Sengoku Jidai. She grabbed it and stuffed it back in her bag. "So tell us, Kagome; this is about your boyfriend, right? Why do you call him a hanyo?"

Kagome gulped. Her teacher had laughed off that slip of the pen as 'creative license' (and had even given her extra credit for originality), but her friends would be harder to convince. "Well..." 'Come on girl, think! You can take out full-grown yokai; a couple modern teenagers shouldn't be so hard!' "You see, it's a...a..a pet name! Yeah! 'Cause he's got unusual eye and hair color...and he always lets his nails grow so long, kinda like claws...and he wears traditional clothing and all...it's like he's practically half yokai! Plus, 'Inuyasha' means 'dog forest spirit,' so it fits!"

Her naive friends apparently bought it. "Wow, Kagome!" Ayume gushed, "That's so cool! For a two-timing, rude, selfish, arrogant, violent guy, he sure sounds cool!"

Kagome chuckled. 'You guys have no idea...' "Yeah, he's great...when he's not being a jerk. He's stayed with me all through my journeys - um, you know, to different hospitals to treat my illnesses - and even when he sees his old girlfriend he always comes back to make sure I'm okay! And we're not getting married anytime soon, but I...well, I guess I do like him...a lot. Besides, Inuyasha's just Inuyasha. He cares about me - I can see it, sometimes - so all I want is for him to be happy!" Her face was bright red by the time she finished. The fact that a familiar aura was coming from the top of the restaurant was not helping at all.

"That's so sweet, Kagome! Hey, wouldn't it be great if he really was a hanyo? He'd be even stronger than he is now!"

Eri laughed. "Don't be silly, Ayume. Yokai aren't real - much less half yokai. Don't tell me you guys actually believe those old fairy tales?"

"No!" "No way"

'I do,' Kagome thought. Suddenly, the aura on the roof began to grow in an odd fashion. "Well girls, it's been nice having lunch with you, but I've really got to go. I...uh...have an appointment soon!" '...with my hanyo 'boyfriend,' 500 years in the past.'

"Okay, Kagome! We'll see you later!" "Bye!" "Make sure your boyfriend takes care of you!"

As Kagome rushed out the door to beat the living daylights out of the supernatural being on the roof of Wacdonald's, she nearly bumped into someone going the opposite direction.

"Higurashi-chan!"

'No wonder Inuyasha's aura is doing funny things.' "Why hello, Hojo-chan!"

The boy opened his mouth (probably to ask about whatever her latest disease was supposed to be) but Kagome cut him off.

"Sorry, Hojo-chan! I have an appointment! See you at school!"

The moment Kagome set foot outside the restaurant, she vanished in a blur of red. A moment later, two teens - one with conspicuously white hair only partly covered by a baseball cap - appeared on the roof of an apartment building two streets over. The boy was the first to break the awkward silence.

"Just what the HELL were you doing, wench?"

Kagome put on her innocent puppy eyes. "Doing when, Inuyasha?"

"Just now, baka." (Hanyos, being only half human, are apparently immune to innocent puppy eyes most of the time.) "Were you going on a 'date' with that 'Hobo' guy again?" His ears drooped.

Kagome hugged him tightly, and reached one hand under his cap to scratch a particularly sensitive spot behind his left ear. "Inuyasha...you silly puppy," she laughed. "I told you that I...I meant what I wrote yesterday. I couldn't lo...cough I couldn't feel the same way about anyone else. Besides, HOJO was the guy I nearly crashed into on my way out. We didn't see each other for more than ten seconds."

"Keh." 'That's good...because if that guy comes anywhere near my Kagome again, I'm gonna have to rip him to little itty bitty pieces. And Kagome won't be happy about that.'

Kagome gave the proud boy a knowing smile and squeezed his hand. "Let's go home," she sighed. "Through the well, I mean."

As the pair practically flew over the rooftops of downtown Tokyo, Kagome heard a stifled mutter from the hanyo she was riding. "What was that, Inuyasha?" She asked.

"I said that...I think your po-im thing is right. You know, that last part."

Kagome was so happy that she could have laughed, cried, danced, sang, and done a handstand if she had not been 20 feet above the ground and traveling at a rate of 30 miles per hour. Because of her...awkward situation, she contented herself with wrapping her arms further around her true love's shoulders. 'I love you, Inuyasha,' she thought.

'I love you, Kagome...and someday, maybe I'll be able to tell you like you told me.'

"How can she love that stupid jerk?"
Kagome's friends all cry;
"He loves her and protects her, girls,"
Her mother softly sighs.

Well, I think this turned out well. Sorry I couldn't think of any more verses for the poem, but my poetic muse was exhausted. I decided to make a fluffy sequel about how Kagome's friends react to her project (that's for you, reader238!), while incorporating my own ideas on how her teacher graded her paper (he's almost oblivious as Hojo) and what exactly Inuyasha thought of the whole incident. Let's just hope he doesn't kill Shippo for the kit's part in the scheme.