Ghostly Loners

Summary: High school AU, InuKag, MirSan. When Inuyasha's just a kid, he witnesses his best and only friends death. Now he's in High school, and she's still there, helping him through his difficult life.

Prologue

A boy with long silver hair and puppy-dog ears sat alone on a bench by the day-care door. A little blond girl saw his lonely face and walked over, sitting down beside him.

"My name's Jennifer. What's yours?" The little blond girl asked.

"Uh... Inuyasha..." The boy trailed off. His voice was rough, like he cried often, or didn't talk much.

"Do you want to play, Inuyasha?" Jennifer asked. She held up her bright blue inflatable ball.

"Uh... S-sure.. I guess..." He trailed off again, but got up anyways and played catch. Jennifer was soon laughing, and that gave Inuyasha the power to laugh too. His voice carried over the playground to his mother, who was sitting on a bench beside the road. She smiled gently.

The Inuyasha's mother had died soon after the day Jennifer and he had met, leaving him in a cloud of despair. He moved, and started living with Kaede, his mothers' best friend. Jennifer broke through that cloud again, and again, each time it would well up. But on his birthday, they weren't so lucky. Jennifer was running late.

"Hey!! Look at the half-breed!" Manten shouted. His bother, Hiten, laughed.

"Where's your human slave, huh, Inu-kurro?" Koga asked, laughing with them.

Inuyasha just ignored them. He was sad that Jennifer wasn't here today, but he wasn't going to give into these pathetic weaklings.

"Why aren't you talking to us, huh?" Hiten said. Manten pulled something out of his vest.

"Yeah, doggy, what's the matter?" Koga said.

"Let us put this pathetic half breed out of his misery." Manten said, aiming the gun he had pulled out of his vest at Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha!" Jennifer shouted, her voice carrying across the playground as his laugh had that day.

"Oh, look, the human is here." Koga said. Manten didn't care, though. He was rearranging the gun so that he could have a clear shot at Inuyasha. Jennifer ran across the playground, shoving other kids out of the way to get to him.

"Manten, what are you doing!" Koga asked as Manten shot the ground, right next to his foot. Meanwhile, Jennifer was getting closer.

"Manten!!" The teacher shouted, beginning to run across the yard. Every child had their eyes on Manten as he aimed the gun, yet again, at Inuyasha. His older brother had said nothing of it, simply backing away.

"STOP!!" Jennifer shouted, reaching them. She barreled into Manten, the impact jarring his finger to the trigger.

Time seemed to stop as the gun went off. The bullet passed through Jennifer's brittle body and past Inuyasha, hitting the school or the ground somewhere behind him. The teacher stopped in her tracks, staring at what had happened. Jennifer seemed to groan, falling to the ground. She was bleeding. And soon, she was dead.

Inuyasha stood in shock. He still couldn't believe it. The hole had been so large... The amount of blood that was covering her, him and Manten was massive. He hadn't known there to be that much blood in the world. As the paramedics took her away, as the police took Manten away, as the parents took their children away, all he could do was stand there.

Now, though, he was standing in shock as the little girl who had accepted him for what he was, for who he had been born, was being buried. She sat in the coffin, a serene look on her face. Her dress, her second favorite dress, was clean, and you almost couldn't tell there was a hole where her lung and heart were supposed to be.

As the preacher read the eulogy, and as they closed the shining, teal casket, Inuyasha felt a presence. He turned around to see her parents coming to him.

"Inuyasha... are you feeling alright?" Jennifer's mother asked, bending down and hugging him.

"Don't blame yourself, dear. It was an accident." She continued. He looked down at the ground. For some reason, they weren't angry at him, and they weren't blaming him, they were touching him without hitting him, and they were making him cry. He couldn't help but let the tears flow.

"Dear... It's okay... Calm down... There, there..." Her mother whispered to him.

The tears continued to flow, like a river, until it was time to go. When he was almost to the car, he felt someone with a small hand take his and lead him to the car. It was only when he got there did he see her. Still pale compared to her former self, and seemingly barely there, Jennifer smiled at him.

"Inuyasha... Inuyasha! Wake up!! Jeez, you're even more tired than usual." She said. She was seemingly standing on the dark hardwood of his bedroom floor, seemingly wearing some clothes she had seen in a commercial. That was one of the perks to being a ghost. You didn't have to buy clothes to wear them.

"I'm awake..." He said, turning over in his bed. His golden eyes reflected the little light given by the alarm clock on his dresser. He didn't know why he had one, Jennifer got him awake every day.

"Then get ready. Today is the first day of school." Jennifer said. She ran her non-existent fingers through her similarly non-existent golden blonde hair as Inuyasha got ready. She might be a ghost, but she still felt like looking decent.

Twenty minutes later, Inuyasha was ready for his first day of the new year. He had actually been going to this school for the past two years, being in the eleventh grade today. He walked out to the kitchen, grabbing something to eat. To his surprise, Kaede was up and had already made breakfast.

"Good morning Inuyasha, Jennifer." she said from her seat at the table. "Do you two want a ride to school? If you hurry, we can get there before they open the doors."

"Yes, please." Jennifer said for her and Inuyasha. Kaede, being a priestess by practice, could see her, and it truly helped. It had helped many times that Inuyasha had a 'Guardian Angel' and that Kaede would believe him about it. She was also a secretary at Inuyasha's school.

"Thanks..." Inuyasha said. Though he had been living with her for eleven years, he still didn't trust her fully. Partly because her sharp aura and powers could fry his demon half.

"You're welcome, child." She said, continuing to eat. Inuyasha had sat down and was eating, well, more like shoving everything within arms reach into his mouth. He soon finished, and they packed into the two-seated Oldsmobile. Jennifer, however, sat on top of the car the way there.

When they arrived, almost no body was there, except for a few new students who were sitting in the front office. As Inuyasha helped Kaede into her office and carried her bag of papers, the three new students looked up at Inuyasha. There were two females and a male. The female in the middle, with large blue eyes, dark black hair, and the powers of a priestess looked up the longest, her gaze caught by a blonde-haired girl who was wearing something she had seen on a commercial earlier in the week. A girl who had no presence.

Hey there. Kinda angsty in the beginning, but it gets better. Tons better. Anyway, time to go. There might not be much here, but it's going to get longer.