Freshman girl

The Girl of the first-year is a student of Kagome's school. She is revealed to be in love with Hōjō, and seen as a possible rival for Kagome by of her friends.

History
After that Kagome Higurashi has quarreled furiously with Inuyasha for defending Kōga, back in the modern era, and here his friends, Ayumi, Yuka and Eri, to warn of this "girl of the first-year", who during her long absence because of "economy class syndrome" (it is one of the justifications invented by Grandpa Higurashi) runs after Hōjō.

The three friends, hidden in the bushes, show Kagome, this girl's first year, very pretty, happy run to greet her senpai Hōjō, while he recovers the bicycle, from a parking lot, liking and enjoyed the company of the girl.

According Yuka and the other girls, this girl in recent times is always behind Hōjō, and being her lively, Hōjō quiet as is, it will eventually fall in love. Kagome remains very indefferente by the thing, claiming that she has with Hōjō can not be called a real attendance. So her friends suspect that Kagome is already attending with another guy.

Later Hōjō, even if he is dating this girl for the first-year, invites Kagome to the movies for the following Saturday, she would refuse it because that day back in the 'Sengoku period and make peace with Inuyasha, but its friends to accept for her, because they do not want Kagome should attend a violent guy. Later however Kagome Thin with Hōjō and cancels his date, advising him to go to the same date with the girl of the first-year, but Hōjō claims not to want to attend other girls, and cheerfully takes that statement of Kagome as a reaction of jealousy.

Girl of the first year had not been seen since her for the rest of the series after she made her first appearance. However, three years later, when Kagome left to live forever in the Feudal Era and married Inuyasha, she can be seen on the streets of Tokyo, dating Hōjō for an appointment to the cinema, which he asks what movie she would like to see.

Physical description
The girl of the first-year has a short stature and is particularly pretty, wearing the robe of Kagome's school (first appearance), has brown eyes, and long brown hair dark, with his tail tied with a bow, and a few strands end that fall on the forehead. It brings with it a racket in a housing rose.

Relationships
The girl of the first-year is clearly in love with Hōjō and tries to attend often, and Hōjō its presence does not seem to mind, although his main interest has always turned to Kagome. According to friends of Kagome, the girl always being stuck at Hōjō will eventually change his mind in regard to Kagome, and then pull it away from her. The fact that the girl of the first-year frequent Hōjō, Kagome is completely indifferent, much to incite Hōjō at invite her to the movies.
 * Hōjō
 * Ayumi, Eri, Yuka
 * Kagome Higurashi

Manga VS Anime
In manga the girl of the first-year will only appear in chapters 139 and 140 (in the latter, in a flashback while Kagome mentions in Hōjō). In the anime appears in analogous stories of these chapters in episode 38 with the only difference that in the manga in these scenes there is no Ayumi. However in the series The Final Act, in the final scenes of last episode, the girl of the first-year, is seen going to the movies with Hōjō, this scene does not exist in manga, but only in the anime.