Chapter 22
"How could he say something like that?" kagome cried desperately. "How could he not know how much I want to stay here? He knows I love it here! Why else would I stay here as much as I do?" She was furiously pacing back and fourth. Her sadness had all disappeared and was replaced by pure, raging anger. Inuyasha watched from a distance as she fumed and vented to herself. He was kind of afraid of her at the moment.
"What are you waiting for?" A voice hissed quietly from behind him, soft enough so Kagome wouldn't hear but loud enough to make him jump a little.
"Shut up Sango!" he spat. "Look at how angry she is right now! It would be suicide to go over there now. Anyways, what are you doing here?"
"I knew you would be too chicken shit to go and talk to her so I came to make sure you did. And it would be suicide to stay here with me, Kagome wouldn't kill you, she's much to angry to do that, and she loves you, I however, will and I will make sure that it is very slow and very painful. Now, should I go and tell Miroku to start digging your grave now?" Sango asked rhetorically before pushing him out of his hiding place and into the clearing where Kagome was pacing, and she left as to leave them privacy. She soon learned that it was not necessary, for the couple could be heard back at the camp.
"How could you say something like that?" Kagome demanded angrily.
"How could you just decide that you could be leaving? When where you planning on telling me? The day you left?" Inuyasha shouted.
"I thought that was what you would have wanted! You are always telling me how useless I am. How annoying I am. How you're tired of having to save my life all the time! You told me you wanted me gone through the words that u hear over and over again. Can't you see it?" Kagome screamed back.
"There you go again!" He yelled, throwing his hands up in the air in exasperation. "Shoving my face in my mistakes!"
"When do I ever shove your f…" Kagome stopped with a shocked look on her face. "Your mistakes?" She asked, face softening a bit.
"Damn right!" He said gruffly.
"You mean, you didn't mean all those things?" She asked in a whisper, as thought afraid if she spoke loudly, she would find out she was dreaming.
"Well, you are annoying-" Inuyasha was cut off when Kagome got angry again and started to storm off, but he grabbed her arm and pulled her to him. He wrapped his arms around her waist, but Kagome turned her head away from him, to stubborn to look at him. "But the other things I didn't mean." He added giving her puppy eyes.
"No! Don't look at me like that! Look the other way!" She cried desperately after she glanced at him. "I'm angry at you! I'm not supposed to want to kiss you!" She sighed annoyed.
"Oh really?" He smirked; Kagome turned her head to head to deny what he had heard. Her lips were captured by the lovable half demon who's arms she was in. She tried to control herself, but she ended up kissing him back with as much passions she was being given.
Back at the Camp
"I think they stopped fighting." Miroku said as the shouting stopped.
"Really?" Sango said sarcastically.
"Yes, have you not heard the silence in the air?" Miroku asked her, clearly missing the sarcasm.
Sango rolled her eyes. "You're impossible." She sighed.
"Dear Sango, what would make you say such a thing?" Miroku asked grabbing her hand and rubbing his cheek against in affectionately. Her face became so how she thought that she might have caught fire.
"Miroku!" She cried, yanking her hand away roughly.
"Whatever is the matter Sango?" Miroku asked innocently, but Sango could the mischievous glint in his eyes.
"You know what the matter is!" She screeched, "Shippou, Rin, and Kirara are here!" She whispered harshly as she glanced over to the young demon child, the young girl, and her small demon companion.
When Kirara saw Sango glace at her, her tails wagged and she mewed happily. Sango smiled kindly at her and turned back to Miroku. "Now that I think of it, where's Sesshoumaru?" She asked looking around the camp for the demon in question. When she didn't see him she shrugged. "He's probably fine, he is a demon after all." She decided.
But little did she know that he was not fine. Physically yes, he was perfectly fine. Emotionally, he was broken. Not that anyone would ever find out for he had his cold, emotionless mask placed on his face, but he was watching the passionate kiss shared between Kagome and Inuyasha. He had wondered what the two had been fighting about, and of course he was hoping that when Kagome ran away from Inuyasha for his stupidity, he could comfort her. Maybe then she would fall madly in love with him and leave the worthless half demon, Inuyasha. But he was depressingly mistaken. How could he not think of all of the possibilities? This was nothing like him! He thought of everything first, then made careful plans that were foolproof! What was happening to him?
Taking one last heartbreaking look at the not embracing couple, he walked away, feeling extremely foolish.
He walked back to Miroku, Sango, Shippou, Rin, and Kirara.
"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin squealed enthusiastically when she noticed him. She ran forward and attached herself to his legs.
"Hello Rin." He said his voice was void of any emotions. He did, however, pat her head…rather affectionately.
"Hello Sesshoumaru, where were you?" Sango asked kindly.
"I decided to go for a short walk." He answered.
"Was it enjoyable?" Miroku asked, hoping to start a conversation.
"No." his attempts were demolished.
"You should have had Kagome go with you." Shippou said innocently. "She always goes with me and we have so much fun."
Silence filled the group as Shippou continues to play with Rin. He had no idea what his words meant, or reminded the demon lord of.
"Where is Kagome?" Rin asked curiously to Shippou, neither of them noticed the silence among the other group members.
"I don't know, probably fighting somewhere with Inuyasha, poor Kagome." Shippou said with a sigh.
"What did you say you little runt?" Came the oh-so-familiar growl from Inuyasha. Everyone's heads turned in the direction Inuyasha's voice came from and moments later he and Kagome walked out, hand in hand.
Kagome greeted everyone kindly, letting go of Inuyasha's hand and walked over to her backpack. She went searching through it for a few minutes until she started to look annoyed.
"Is something wrong Kagome?" Sango asked gently.
"I can't find the Shampoo!" Kagome said with a frustrated growl. "How far are we from the well?" She asked.
"About 30 minutes. We spent most of our time fighting demons, we haven't gotten very far." Miroku said.
"Ok, well I'm going to go and get my shampoo, so I'll be back before you know it." Kagome said, Inuyasha was about to argue when Kagome threw him a glare.
"Sango, when I come back why don't we go and take a bath in the hot springs." Kagome suggested. "Rin, would you like to come?" She offered the young girl.
"Oh yes! Rin would love to come!" Rin squealed excitedly.
"Who would love to come?" Sango asked, Kagome had explained what she was doing and Sango was helping her to teach Rin how to speak properly.
"Oh! I would!" She corrected herself.
"Oh good." Kagome said. "Now off to the well. It shouldn't take too long." She said.
"Kagome, Rin and I will get everything ready and we can just meet the boys back here tomorrow. We might as well camp over at Kaede's village. She won't mind." Sango said, pointing out some rather obvious information.
"Good idea Sango." Kagome nodded her head as she spoke. "Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Miroku and Shippou, Sango, Rin and I will be staying in Kaede's village tonight, and we will return here tomorrow morning. We are going to take the night off, alright?" She said, as more of a demand or statement then a question. They only nodded.
"Alright then, you go and start for the well, because with the bag that you bring I'm sure it will take about 15 minute for me to find everything." Sango joked. "And Rin and I will meet you there, we should be there by the time that you get back, and if not then we'll be there moments later."
"Alright." Kagome said, before waving goodbye to the boys and walking away.
After about 10 minutes, Sango and Rin found all of the needed supplies and head out after Kagome. The boys were starting to get bored. And Inuyasha was wondering what had come over him, letting Kagome go through the forest all by herself! There are demons out there that would love to absorb a priestess' powers.
"Why couldn't I go also?" Shippou complained.
"Because." Was his answer, coming from Inuyasha.
"But why? Kagome always lets be bath with her." He wined.
"God you're so annoying Shippou, get over it! Kagome probably didn't want to hear you complaining all night so she left you here!" Inuyasha snapped, getting very angry with the poor demon child.
Shippou sniffed back tears. "Inuyasha you're such a bully! I bet you're just mad because Kagome never let's you bath with her!" He yelled making Miroku burst out laughing.
"Why Inuyasha, I never knew you would dream of such a thing with Kagome." He choked the words out in-between his fits of laughter.
"Shippou, I'm going to KILL you!" Inuyasha yelled chasing Shippou like there was no tomorrow.
"Why do we not just go and ask Kagome if the demon child may bath with her? She most likely thought that he would not wish to join them so she left him here. I am guessing that if we explain the situation everything will work out fine." Sesshoumaru suggested. Inuyasha stopped chasing Shippou and thought for a moment.
"Fine, we'll go and ask kagome if you can stay with her, but you have to be quiet. And it's only me and Shippou." Inuyasha growled. He didn't want to deal with everyone.
"I would like to see Kagome also. Sango and Rin have left just moments ago. We may have enough time to catch up to them." Miroku said.
"Miroku, you idiot! They left 20 minutes ago." Inuyasha snapped. Miroku got a confused look on his face, he was certain they had just left. It seemed arguments took more time then he thought they did.
"I shall accompany you also." Sesshoumaru informed.
"Fine, but we have to bring everything. Kagome will kill us if we leave all of the crap here." Inuyasha grumbled.
With Sango and Rin
Sango and Rin had just arrived at the well, and were taking a seat next to the well. A faint voice could be heard in the distance, but they thought nothing of it, it was probably just some random villager walking through the dangerous forest. But soon the calling seemed less random, and more like a name.
"Sango! Oh SANGOOOOO!" "Miroku's voice could be clearly heard now.
Sango looked at Rin and rolled her eyes in a goofy way causing the young girl to giggle. When Miroku came into sight, Sango sighed.
"No Miroku, you may not bath with us." She said; assuming that was why he had came.
"Why Sango, what a lovely idea. But unfortunately we have not come to bath with you." He informed her; with his hand over his heart to show how downcast he was that he could not bath with the ladies.
"We?" She asked, now very curious.
"They should be here any moment now." He waved his hand carelessly.
"Gees Miroku. Go off running full speed at the sight of Sango." Shippou teased from Inuyasha's shoulder.
"And after making sure we didn't walk to fast too." Inuyasha growled. "If only you would move that fast when it really was needed!" Miroku turned red from embarrassment.
'I wonder why such a thing embarrasses the lecherous monk, but asking any beautiful young woman he sets eyes on to bear his children does not effect him what-so-ever.' Sesshoumaru thought as he watched the scene unfold. Miroku, yet again, had a throbbing red mark on his face shaped as a hand, courtesies of Sango. Shippou was running for his life from Inuyasha and Rin was watching them both as though she was watching an exiting sports game.
"Kagome is certainly taking a while." Sango said. Sesshoumaru almost jumped for he had not seen or heard the argument end between the monk and demon slayer.
"Yes, she had been gone for a rather long time." He said, nodding his head while he replied.
"I wonder what could be taking her so long." Miroku said, not joining to conversation.
"She was probably held up by her friends from her time, or that Hojo boy she has told be about." Sango replied.
"What about Hobo?" Inuyasha asked, stopping his Shippou chase to join the conversation also.
"We're wondering what's taking Kagome so long." Sango informed.
"That weak human couldn't even slow down a turtle." Inuyasha huffed, puffing out his chest, as though trying to prove how much stronger he was then Hojo. "What a pathetic, weak, useless, smelly human."
"Oh man, I hope you're not talking about me?" Came Kagome's voice from the bottom of the well. Everyone brought themselves over to the well and peeked in "Inuyasha, since you're here…" Kagome let her question hang with an innocent smile gracing her face. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and jumped into the well, grabbed Kagome, and jumped out again.
"What would you do without me?" he said with a cocky smirk.
Of course I would wither away at the bottom of the well." Kagome said, but with a mischievous grin she added "Or get some other demon to help me out." Inuyasha glared at her "Hey! I was talking about Shippou!" She defended, winking playfully at Shippou who started laughing along with Rin.
"Very funny." Inuyasha said sarcastically. He was about to say something else when an odd scent caught his nose. His eyes widened "You WERE with Hobo!" He shouted, pointing an accusing finger at Kagome who just rolled her eyes.
"No, I wasn't with Hojo. But h came to the house when I got there so I had to pretend to be sick. Because you know that everyone over there thinks that I'm sick because I haven't been at school. And well, Hojo insisted upon seeing me so my mother let him in. Luckily I had my blankets over my nose and when he walked in he started crying on my bed saying that I didn't deserve to be as sick as I am. I felt horrible for him and I told him that I was feeling slightly better and he instantly stopped crying and asked me to go out with him on Saturday." Kagome said, laughing nervously, not very exited to see Inuyasha's reaction to her story.
He started growling and Sesshoumaru had many thoughts going through his head. He had a confused look on his face.
Sango noticed this and decided to help him out with the details. "Hojo is a boy from Kagome's time who is completely in love with her. He keeps giving her gifts and asking to court her."
After knowing that information, Sesshoumaru was angry. If only he could teach that Hojo a lesson.
"What did you do then Kagome?" Miroku asked, rather liking the story.
"I ran into the bathroom and pretended to be sick so my mother rushed him out of the house. He didn't even notice that I was in my school uniform1" Kagome giggled.
"Smart idea Kagome?" Shippou complimented before pretending to be sick, like me imagined Kagome had done.
"I must agree with Shippou. But I don't see why you don't just tell him that you just aren't interested in courting him." Sango said, scratching her head in confusion.
"It would break his poor little heart. I couldn't do that." Kagome insisted.
"Fine, then I will." Inuyasha said as he jumped into the well.
"Oh no! He's going to beat up poor Hojo! Oh no! What am I going to do! OH NO! I have to go after him!" Kagome was freaking out. "I'll be back soon, WITH Inuyasha!" she jumped into the well.
"INUYASHA!" She screamed when she got to the other side. When she didn't get an answer she started to worry. She pulled herself out of the well as fast and she could and dashed into the house. "Mama! Where's Inuyasha?" She asked.
"He was just here." Mrs. Higurashi said calmly.
"What!"
"Yes, he went into the bathroom to change into some clothes from this time and he was just in the kitchen ready to leave when I told him that he needed a hat."
"Where is he now?" Kagome asked, calming down slightly.
"Most likely in your room dear."
Kagome rushed upstairs, to find Inuyasha half out of her window. "Inuyasha!" she called. He slowly turned and stared at her like a child who was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
"What. I was going to tell Hobo to back off." He growled when the look finally passed.
"Inuyasha, come on, does it really mean so much to you that you have to crush Hojo's heart?" Kagome asked, trying to make Inuyasha change his mind.
He thought for a minute. "Yep." He simply said.
"Fine, but I'm coming with you." Kagome said, figuring that the best way to have it go was with her there to stop any violence.
"Feh." He said, crouching down so kagome could get on his back. She did and they were off. Looking for Hojo.
"Do you even know where he is?" Kagome asked after a few minutes.
"Oh course I do. He's in that big place with lots of scents." He explained.
"Ummm, the mall?" Kagome asked, trying to figure out what he was talking about.
"Sure." Inuyasha answered, shrugging his shoulders.
"OK, well, when we get there we have to walk because it would look weird with me riding on your back in the mall." Kagome explained.
"Feh, whatever." He said getting to the entrance and gently putting Kagome down.
"Lets go. I want to get this over with as soon as possible." Kagome sighed grabbing Inuyasha's hand and walking into the mall. "And before something happens where I get angry at you, you look really good in those clothes." She said with a smile before continuing to look for Hojo. Inuyasha just stared at her in shock; she just told him he looked good! He definitely had to rub that in Sesshoumaru's face later.
Then came the dark cloud, passing over Inuyasha's face. Remembering Kikyo's hurtful words, and how he had almost killed her! He had lost control and that couldn't happen again. He could have hurt his friends or worse…Kagome! What confused him the most was that he had turned full demon when he had his tetsuiga with him. That had never happened before, and it was never supposed to happen. He would have to speak to Totosai (is that spelled right?) about that. Maybe the seal was broken or something of that sort.
"Inuyasha are you alright?" Kagome asked, tearing him from his thoughts. He silently nodded his head 'yes'
"You know when we get back, I'm leaving to go and take a bath with Sango and Rin, right?" She informed him.
"Yeah, lets get this over with." He growled, but soon Hojo could be spotted waving his arms like a lunatic and walking over to Kagome.
"Inuyasha I found him?" Kagome giggled, she had seen Inuyasha glaring at the boy for a while before announcing her discovery.
"Gee thanks Kagome! I don't know what I would do without that helpful information." Inuyasha said with sarcasm dripping from his voice before adding quietly "Does this guy have no pride?"
"No problem, and to answer your other question…probably not." She giggled again. As Hojo continued his walk toward Kagome, she found fewer things to giggle about. 'This was a bad idea, I shouldn't have come.' She thought frantically.
"Kagome! Shouldn't you be in bed? You were sick just an hour ago!" Hojo said when he finally reached the two, although he either completely ignored Inuyasha, or just didn't see him.
"Well, ummm, yes, I started feeling better so I decided to go for a walk." Kagome lied through her teeth.
"Well do you think you will be well soon?" Hojo asked hopefully.
"Umm, I don't think so Hojo." She answered scratching her chin uncertainly, hoping tat Inuyasha would help her out.
"Kagome!" the half demon yelled, thinking that she was actually considering the unsaid invitation to a date.
"Yes Inuyasha?" She whipped around to face him. A pleading look in her eyes, which of course, he took the wrong way.
"No! You can't go out with him! I won't let you go." He said loudly, attracting a fair bit of attention.
"Whoever you are, I don't really think that you have any right to tell kagome who she can or cannot date." Hojo said matter-of-factly.
"Why don't you stay out of this!" Inuyasha snapped.
"Excuse me!" Hojo yelled, furious about being treated so badly.
"Yeah, you'd better ask to be excused, butting into peoples conversations." Inuyasha grumbled before turning back to Kagome, leaving a fuming Hojo at the back of his mind. "Kagome, we came here for a reason, now do it!"
"Hey! No way! You came here for a reason! I just came with you" She yelled. The three teenagers had now caused quite a commotion and a large crowd had surrounded them.
"So you're not going to do anything? You're just going to watch me handle this?" He asked with a smirk on his face.
"Yes, that would be the right idea." Kagome nodded until she noticed her mistake. "NO! Inuyasha! Of course I'm going to interfere if you start fighting!"
"But you said you weren't going to do anything!" He complained.
"Would SOMEONE explain who this guy is?" Hojo yelled, catching the arguing couples attention.
"Oh." Kagome squeaked. "This is Inuyasha."
"Oh very nice Kagome." Inuyasha whispered sarcastically in her ear. She could feel his warm breath tickle her ear.
"Don't make me say it!" She hissed, turning her head without thinking to face Inuyasha, but her lips met with his cheek.
Inuyasha pulled back quickly turning red "Feh" He said.
"He's from out of town?" She said, trying to act ask thought she hadn't just kissed Inuyasha right in front of the boy who kept asking her out all of the time.
"I see," Hojo didn't even notice, "Kagome, you really need to think about the people you hang out with." He said rudely.
"Holy crap! He's so corny!" Inuyasha laughed, "Even the stupid wolf can come up with some better shit then that!"
Hojo was appalled by Inuyasha's uncaring for the insult he had received, and his rude language. "Come on Kagome. You shouldn't be near people like that." He said, grabbing Kagome's upper arm and starting to drag her away. This made Inuyasha stop laughing right away.
"Remove your hands from kagome or I'll remove it permanently." A cold voice growled from inside the crowd. As the crowd cleared a path for the speaker, there stood Sesshoumaru! In future clothes and NO tail!
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome and Inuyasha cried. Sesshoumaru spared them a glance before glaring back at Hojo.
"Did you not understand me or are you simply extremely dense?" He asked. Hojo gaped. Who were these odd people that Kagome associated with.
"You really are stupid, why don't you just listen to him?" Another voice called from behind Sesshoumaru.
And out stepped Sango!
Kagome and Inuyasha did a double take. "SANGO!" They screamed, Kagome's knees gave away and she would have hit the floor if Inuyasha had not scooped her up in his arms. And by now, it looked as though the whole mall was watching the teenager's interaction.
"Ok, Now I'm confused." Hojo wined. "What's going on here?" he was completely ignored.
"Sango! Sesshoumaru?" Kagome said, looking closely to see it if was truly her friends.
"Am I left to be forgotten?" Miroku said stepping out from the crowd also.
"Miroku!" It was a good think that Inuyasha was holding her because she was ready to faint. "What are all of you doing here?" She asked.
"Well, actually, we're not quite sure." Sango said.
"We were discussing how Inuyasha was going to kill Hojo and we could not help in any way when we were suddenly not standing in the forest. We were standing in front of a house which we assumed to be your own Kagome." He explained quiet enough so the nosy crowd could not hear. "We were correct."
"Oh, but how did you know where the mall was?" Kagome asked, shooing away the crowd with Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku.
"Your mother brought is." Sango answered this one. "She and you are so much alike. Did you know that? She's so kind."
"Do you think that this is just a one time thing? How are you going to get back? Where did you get the clothing?" Millions of questions popped into Kagome's mind and not all of them could come out of her mouth, to the luck of her group members.
"Kagome!" Hojo finally yelled, catching the group's attention.
"Oh Hojo! I'm sorry, I completely forgot you were here." Kagome giggled nervously.
"Who are these people? You certainly do have odd friends. When do you get the time to meet new people?" He asked, "You are always so sick."
"Well, this is Sango, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sesshoumaru." Kagome said, pointing to each person as each name was called. "Where is Shippou and Rin and Kirara?" She asked, thinking of the other members of the group.
"They are with your mother." Sesshoumaru said, still glaring at Hojo, his fingers were beginning to turn green from the poison that was practically begging to be used from his claws.
"Probably being spoiled, she simply loved Shippou…I can imagine you know why?" Sango giggled, remembering how Mrs. Higurashi had reacted to Shippou's tail.
"Oh, I can imagine." Kagome giggled, "Back to your question." She turned back to Hojo. "They are not odd, they are perfect! And I make time to meet new people! Am I not allowed to make new friends anymore?" She demanded.
"But Kagome! Those two have hair longer then yours." He said pointing to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. "And his hands are glowing, and he has tattoo's on his face!" He said, now pointing solely on Sesshoumaru.
"What." Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru's hands, which were indeed glowing green "Sesshoumaru control yourself!" She scolded.
The glowing stopped, but the intense glare stayed firm.
"We will most likely go back when our mission here is complete. It is a common spell that is used to allow individuals to go forth or back in time. Once the mission or problem is solved then the spell is broken and awaiting the return to the proper time is expected." Sesshoumaru said.
"Oh well when we get back we should try and find out who conducted the spell." Kagome said, thinking out loud.
"Yes, that would be a reasonable idea. Find out why these measures were taken." Miroku agreed.
"Well now that you've finished the small talk, lets get back to the point." Inuyasha growled.
"Kagome, is he Hojo?" Sango asked, pointing at Hojo, who was beaming at the thought of Kagome talking about him to her friends from out of town, of course he expected them to be all positive.
"Yeah." Kagome nodded.
"Oh Kagome!" Sango cried sympathetically, running to her friend and embracing her. "You poor think! Even the men back home are better then him. He's so scrawny!"
"Sango…he can hear you, you know." Kagome whispered with another nervous laugh, looking at the sickly red Hojo. She wasn't sure if it was an angry or an embarrassed red though.
"They are rude beyond belief Kagome! Are you sure you should be with people like that?" Hojo asked, puffing his chest and deepening his voice as though he was trying to seem more macho and less scrawny.
Sango and Kagome exchanged glances before bursting out laughing. All of the boys looked at them with beyond confused looks.
"We're sorry Hojo." Kagome choked out.
"It's just…SO…FUNNY!" Sango managed to gasp between her laughing.
"What's so funny?" Hojo asked, utterly confused.
"Nothing Hojo, we just have a lot of energy today." Kagome said, trying to make an excuse for their laughter.
"But I thought you were sick?" Hojo brought up an obvious point.
"oh, yes…that.." Kagome was stuck.
"Anyways." Miroku coughed, taking the attention away from Kagome, who mouthed a 'thank you' to Miroku who nodded his acknowledgement.
"Yeah." Inuyasha remembered why he had come in the first place. "Stay away from Kagome! Stop bothering her." He said, completely serious.
"And who are you to ell me what to do?" Hojo asked rudely.
"Holy crap! DO we need to go over this all over again?" Inuyasha shouted, "Kagome already made the introductions! If your pea brain mind can't hold that much information then SUCK IT UP PRINCESS!" He yelled, not understanding the slang in Hojo's question. Who just stared at him in shock?
"Did you just call me princess?" Hojo asked, trying to sound menacing.
"Damn straight." Inuyasha smirked. Hojo sent his fist flying at Inuyasha's jaw/ It was about to make contact when Inuyasha's hand show into the way and grabbed the now white fist. "I hope that wasn't supposed to hit." He said sarcastically while squeezing Hojo's fist harder and harder until he heard the boy gasp in pain.
Hojo looked at the boy who he thought was human in horror. No one ever stopped his punch before. He was the best fighter in his whole school. Not that any of the ladies knew though, Kagome was the first to see him make a fist at anyone…oh NO!
Kagome's eyes were wide in shock. Who was this boy? This not the Hojo that she knew. She soon caught Inuyasha's stare and nodded "He started it. It's called self-defense here. But don't go too hard on him." She knew it was wrong to let Inuyasha push him around a bit, knowing Hojo didn't stand a chance, but he did deserve it for trying to hit her Inuyasha.
'Wait, MY Inuyasha Since when?' She asked herself.
'Since you both confessed your love for each other.' She answered herself subconsciously.
Sp she let Inuyasha hit Hojo twice, and then she stopped him.
"Inuyasha that's enough." She said strictly.
"Feh." Was the reply, he left Hojo on the ground and walked over to her, not even caring about the boy he beat.
Although no one noticed, Hojo had gotten up and was sneaking up on Inuyasha. He quickly and swiftly punched him in the back, making Inuyasha turn round, only to be punched in the stomach. Inuyasha didn't even flinch.
"Damn, you're even weaker then I thought." Inuyasha sighed "Stupid, smelly weak, idiot human."
"What are you talking about? There is nothing but humans." Hojo insisted.
The group exchanged mischievous looks before Kagome said ":Of course Hojo. Now we are leaving. I would recommend listening to Inuyasha's warning. " She sighed looking at the boy beside her. "He doesn't like having to repeat himself."
"But Kagome! I thought that our love could conquer all?" Hojo probably would have said more but he was not a foot above the ground with Sesshoumaru gripping his neck.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome screamed.
"You're going to break his neck!" Sango yelled.
"Let him go!" Miroku advised.
"Come on Sesshoumaru just let him go." Kagome pleaded. Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome's face and let Hojo fall to the floor gasping for air.
"You have your mercy. If I hear of you bothering Kagome again you will hear from each one of us." Sesshoumaru said pointing behind him to Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango.
"Y..yes Sir." Hojo stuttered before scrambling away.
"I think you scared him half to death." Kagome watched as Hojo bolt from the mall with a worried look of her face.
"Well if it's only half to death then he'll live." Sango shrugged. "When do we get back home? I still want to have a bath."
"I don't know." Miroku said, thinking about the same thing now.
"Do you know if my mom stayed here after she dropped you off?" Kagome asked
"Yeah, she said she had to go and get something called gas, then come back and wait for us." Miroku said.
"KAGOME!" An extremely hyperactive called down the mall's hallway, which was oddly empty for this time of day.
"Shippou?" She gasped, "Aren't you supposed to be with my mama?"
"She's here! She has Rin with her too. But she made us wear these weird clothes Kagome! Why'd she do that?" Shippou asked, clearly on a sugar high.
"Well Shippou, if I could see you I would tell you how you look in the clothing." She said, looking around for him.
"Oh, right." He giggled before running from around the corner and into Kagome's arms. "I forgot"
"Shippou you look fine." Kagome assured.
"Ok, well you should see Rin! She looks like a princess but different! Her weird looking kimono has more lace on it then anyone I've ever seen!" he gushed hyperly.
"Well Shippou, she is probably wearing a dress. I'm guessing it's one of my old ones." She explained.
"I hope you don't mind." Mrs. Higurashi said coming around the corner that Shippou had appeared from with Rin holding her hand, jumping around in excitement.
"Kagome I am wearing your dress!" She squealed happily.
"Yes Rin, it looks lovely on you." Kagome smiled.
"Yes, well those two" Mrs. Higurashi pointed to Sesshoumaru who was wearing black pants and a blue button up shirt, and Miroku who was wearing jeans and a purple button up shirt. "Took some clothes from Inuyasha, it is a very good thing I bought some more items a few weeks ago." She turned her gaze to Sango, who was wearing a white skirt and a pink tank top. "Sango here just went through your closet and picked out whatever she liked best."
"Yes Kagome I never knew you had so many articles of clothing!" Sango sighed as she thought of the multiple pants, skirts, shirts and sweaters Kagome had in her closet. In their time, not even a princess had so many pieces of clothing.
"Well, you can use them if you'd like, but you will be getting the same odd looks that I get every day." Kagome offered.
"Really? That would be lovely! Then I would be able to clean my clothing without being worried that the Monk will come and watch!" Sango said with a glare at Miroku.
"Of course, why don't I actually run all of your clothes in the washing machine?" Mrs. Higurashi nodded at Kagomes idea.
"Good idea Kagome, I'm sure your friends would like that." She said.
"Kagome, are you certain it wouldn't be too much trouble?" Miroku asked, not wanting to inconvenience Kagome.
"Not at all. But I think I'll have to bring them back to you, the spell is wearing off I think." Kagome informed. "But you may keep the clothes if you'd like. But Inuyasha, you have to leave yours here for the next time you come."
"Feh" Was his reply. But when they looked for the group they were gone and the only people standing around were Kagome, Inuyasha, and Mrs. Higurashi. "Did they leave or did the spell wear off?" He asked.
"I think the spell wore off because mama's still here." Kagome guessed.
"Yeah, whatever. Lets get back to your house and get some ramen!" Inuyasha said enthusiastically.
"Alright." Kagome agreed before turning to Mrs. Higurashi. "Mama! We're ready to go now."
"Alright Kagome. Are you going to leave the way you came, or are you going to come with me in the car?" She asked.
"Oh, good question." Kagome thought out loud "Inuyasha, do you want to try traveling by car? Or do you want to run?" she asked.
"NO way am I getting into something that kills people." Inuyasha screamed, taking a step back from Kagome as though she were dangerous. He was attracting the attention of the newly entered shoppers.
"Ok, do you want me to go with you, or with my mom?" She asked, rolling her eyes at Inuyasha's childish behavior.
"Why are you asking me?" he barked.
"Well, you'd be the one carrying me, if you've forgotten, I can't run as fast as you! It's not my choice." Kagome explained calmly.
"Since when have you cared if I wanted to carry you or not?" Inuyasha asked, getting irritated.
"Since you came all this way just for me." She answered with a huge grin on her face.
"Yeah…well…Feh!" Inuyasha turned his back in hopes that she wouldn't see the red spreading across his face.
"So how am I getting home?" She asked after another moment.
"I guess by me, cause your mother left 10 minutes ago." Inuyasha said, pointing out how long their argument had lasted and the absence of Mrs. Higurashi.
"Oh!" Kagome pursed her lips together.
"Feh. Lets get out of here; this place is making me dizzy. There's too many smells. Don't these people ever take a bath!"
"Alright, lets go." Kagome smiled.
As always i wanted to thank everyone for reading! But special thanks goes out to my reviewers! (And look for those of you who wrote about it…I DIDN'T PUT A CLIFFIE :D i hope you like it :) )Sechichab16 : They made up :P I hope it was good enough.
CelstialDragon219 : I'm glad you like the story. At the moment I'm not really sure what it's going to turn out to be. So it's going to be a last minute thing. I hvae an idea but it's going to be a secret until it's on paper and posted on the story :P .
Zakura : Thanks for the advice, if it didn't show in this chapter it;s because I already had it written down on paper, but I'm working on it for the later chapters :) Thanks again. I like getting advice, anything to help the story.
Anna : I'm so exited :) It's your favorite :D That's amazing. But I'm not sure if Inuyahsa and Kagome are going to end up together. I have an idea of what's going to happen in teh end but i can't make any promices about the couples. Other then Miroku and Sango.
Bushes283 : I'll try and put some more demon Inuyasha in the story just for you :) and i'm glad you like the story.
Kougaismyhomeboy : Well, Sango didn't exterminate Inuyahsa, but I hope you liked this chapter just the same. I figured that the story just wouldn't be the same without Inuyasha :P
Torie : I'm glad you like the story! And i hope you like this chapter and the chapters to come just as much.
MartinaM89 : Well this chapter didn't turn out sad, and i can assure you that this story will NOT end sadly. I like happy endings more then anything…well exept chocolate, but you know what i mean :P
Paulita448 : I'm glad you like the story, and thank you so much It's really nice to say that :D it means a lot to me. But sorry about the cliffhanger, I made sure that this chapter wasn't a cliff hanger just for you and the other people who didn't like them :)
Midnight Mist0l : Well there was some jelously in a Sesshoumaru in this chapter, I hoped you liked it.
Loove.animeSTAR : Yeah, Inuyasha can be a jerk, but if he was never a jerk then no one would ever notice when he's doing something really sweet….hint hint for the fugure…not that i know when in the future though :P
Thomas : Thanks :D I love it when people like my story :) I hope you like this chapter as much as you've liked the ones before it.
FineHanyou : Thanks i'm glad you like it. Just tell me what your story is called and i'll definitly read it as long as i can find it :P I'd love to read your story.
Haley : Here's your chapter without a cliffhanger, and i'll slow down with the cliffangers…i promice
Punkgurl : I'm glad that you like the story/
Lady Sess08 : Well here's a chapter without a cliffy. Tons of people don't like them so you weren't the only one. But i'm glad you still like teh story :)
Hey everyone, I know this chapter people aren't being very affectionate, but it's coming ok. Sorry aboutt hat for those of you who like the affection between characters.