InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Man of Her Dreams ❯ Trouble at the Cafe ( Chapter 21 )

Kagome sipped her shake slowly looking at her friends. They babbled on and on about things that the miko pretended to care about. She actually took notice of them when she heard her friends gasp. "What's wrong?" she asked looking at them. Ayume leaned over the table and whispered a name into her friend's ear. `Hojou?'

As soon as she heard her friend's words a familiar voice greeted her. "Hey Higurashi. Care if I join you?"

"Not at all Hojou-kun," she said with a nervous smile. Her friends watched anxiously.

He smiled warmly and sat down across from her. After a few moments of silence he casually asked her a question. "Where is Inuyasha?" Kagome sighed and stared at her half empty shake glass.

"Somewhere," she answered even more casually, "I don't need to be with him all the time…I have a life."

"Speak of the devil," Hojou muttered under his breath a silver haired boy entered the café. She smiled when she saw him sniff at the air and then began following some invisible string that seemed to lead to her.

"Inuyasha," she said happily and flashed him a warm smile as he sat down. He `keh'ed and didn't say anything. Just growled low in his throat at seeing Hojou. Hojou in return just stared at him with a look Kagome didn't know he was capable of giving.

"Got something to say to be Hobo?"

"I'd rather not talk to you period."

"Why, scared?"

"Disgusted would be a way to put it…" Everyone gasped as a clawed hand wrapped around Hojou's throat. Hojou struggled for a moment before successfully wrenching away from the enraged hanyou.

Kagome `eep'ed and jumped up form her seat. She grabbed Inuyasha arm and began pulling at him. "Come on!" She was heaving him toward the door. Inuyasha growled.

"You got lucky Hobo…" With that statement he let Kagome pull him out of the restaurant. "What's your problem?"

"What's my problem? Not only did you go and do that to Hojou-kun, you- well- your ears…" He gasped and reached for his head. There they were. He muttered a few words to put a sailor to shame and ran off leaving the miko staring after him.

`Who saw me besides Kagome?' he turned the corner, `I mean…what if people knew? Miroku and Kagome were the only humans that knew…wait…maybe no one will believe them!'

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Kagome let out a nervous sigh and began walking home. `Only a few had noticed them. Hojou and a few others that was all, but still…'

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Miroku jumped when a hand touched his shoulder. He removed his headphones and looked around. "Inuyasha?" he said quizzically, "why are you here?" He sat down a dirty magazine he'd been reading and stood up. "Well?"

Inuyasha didn't answer, he just pointed. Miroku gasped. "How many people?"

"I don't know…one for sure though."

"No one will believe just one person-"

"But there were more than that I know…Kagome dragged me out and pointed out that my ears were there…someone else must have seen." He cleared away dirty magazines form the sofa and sat down.

"Maybe you should ask Kagome…if anyone else noticed…" He felt guilty leaving her there like that. But what other choice did he have?

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