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THE GHOST OF OKAMI MANOR
"To my oldest son Sesshomaru I leave the company I built and groomed him to take over", the lawyer read the last will and testament out loud for the family of the now deceased Inutaisho. Sesshomaru's expression didn't change since his father told him he would be left their family's business. Inuyasha sat there not really paying that much attention, he figured his father wouldn't leave him much, not after he refused to be part of the company. What Inuyasha truly loved was art, not business, everything that had to do with art, from drawing and painting, to writing, and music. It's why he went to a famous art school and eventually received a master's degree. He was such a prodigy in all forms of art that he ended up becoming famous for his work, but he never let himself get tied down to a single career. He worked as a professor sometimes, he sold his paintings for quite a bit of money and his writings were popular bestselling books.
His father though didn't approve of his free life style and so they didn't talk much. Inuyasha only came to visit on holidays and join Inutaisho and his older half-brother Sesshomaru when they went to their yearly visit to his mother's grave. Despite that Inuyasha still loved his father very much and cried at the funeral, Sesshomaru was always the stronger one, he didn't cry, but he could see the sadness in his brother's eyes.
"To my youngest son Inuyasha, I'm sorry I never supported your career choices, I want you to know that all always be proud of you, so I leave you a mansion I owned up north called Okami Manor, I know you move around a lot, but maybe you can make it your home", Inuyasha had to wipe the tears away, even though it was some lawyer reading the will, it was still his father's own words. After the will was finished and the necessary documents were filled out the family left the office.
"Hey Sesshomaru, did you know dad owned a mansion, we always lived in that pent house apartment?" Inuyasha questioned his older brother.
"Yes Okami Manor is an old mansion that are grandfather purchased and handed down to our father, but from what he told me he never desired to live there", Sesshomaru explained.
"Why didn't he live there?"
"I'm not sure little brother, but I would be careful if I were you", Sesshomaru left with a quick hug and a promise to visit him for Christmas. Inuyasha looked down at the map and the picture of the large mansion that he now owned.
ONE WEEK LATER
Inuyasha drove down a street leading into the woods; he wasn't that far from the city, Okami Manor rested deep in the heart of a large forest reserve. He finally arrived at his new home passing an old rusted gate that was nearly falling apart. Parking his car near the entrance he stepped out to stare in awe at the humongous mansion, he noticed the large stain glass windows depicting wolves howling at a moon.
"Wow", was all he could say, walking up to the large double doors and unlocking them with the keys he was given, the wooden intricately carved doors opened with a loud groan. Walking into the gigantic foyer, he instantly noticed the elegant Gaudi style of architecture. The floor was tiled in the shape of a big black and red spiral, and surrounding the large open circular entrance room were staircases leading to multiple floors and hallways. A big chandelier hung from the ceiling, that wouldn't light up making Inuyasha realize there was no power switched on yet.
"That's weird I thought the electrician was supposed to come by and look at this place", he said to himself while marveling at the impressive architecture. For a brief moment he suddenly felt like he was being watched, but the feeling left as quickly as it came. He eventually found the door to the basement and after half an hour of tweaking the switches in the fuse box, he was finally able to get the power in the mansion going and the lights switched on throughout the manor instantly. He gathered all the suitcases he brought from his car, picked a staircase and floor, and began to wander the halls looking for a good room to stay in and hopefully make his own.
"This place is going to need some serious work", he was once again talking to himself as he noticed all the dust and cobwebs, and thank god most of the furniture seemed to be covered in sheets. Eventually he arrived at a set of double doors different then all the others, for starters this door had a pack of wolves carved into the dark wood. He walked in and saw it was a large master bedroom, with a big king size bed that looked very comfortable right now. Taking off the dusty sheets he put down some of his own that he brought and decided to call it night since it was late and he had been driving all day.
"This is comfy, I could get used to this", Inuyasha said stretching out on the big bed and slipping into blissful sleep. He didn't notice the lights go out on their own, nor did he get to see the black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of the bed watching him sleep for a bit then faded into the darkness like it was never there.
The next morning Inuyasha called the cable company to come over and set up a connection, the weird thing was the guy had to be practically dragged into the mansion. He kept saying stuff about this place was said to be haunted, but Inuyasha didn't believe in all that superstitious nonsense. After some exploration he found a large library that he chose to make the study, that's where he currently found himself setting up his computer on the desk.
"Alright let's find out what's so spooky about this place", Inuyasha surfed the internet looking up information on Okami Manor. He discovered that the mansion was built about a hundred and fifty years ago by a man named Koga Okami, a young, rich, eccentric business owner who disappeared mysteriously when he was twenty four years old and ended up being declared dead.
"What a colorful history", the rest of the articles consisted of claims that the mansion was haunted by the ghost of Lord Koga Okami, anyone who bought and lived in the mansion never stayed for more than a year and so the mansion passed through the hands of different people until being purchased by his father's father, but neither of them ever lived in the mansion.
"How stupid can people be, there's no such thing as ghosts", Inuyasha sighed thinking how many people must have let this place go to waste after flinching at few shadows and creaking floors. "Well I guess it was a different time back then, they didn't have the same science that we have today".
The next couple of days Inuyasha continued to explore the mansion, he found a large ballroom that he decided to use as his art studio. The kitchen was the first place cleaned up; he also ordered a new stove and fridge since the old ones were pieces of junk now. More of his belongings were delivered to the mansion from his previous home and as the days passed he began cleaning and dusting, and little by little the mansion was starting to become his home.
However he was beginning to notice some strange things happening, furniture appearing in different places, the sensation of being watched, and the occasional shadowy figure in the corner of his eye that always disappeared in an instant. Inuyasha just ignored all these things thinking it was all just in his imagination.
"What was that", Inuyasha was currently sitting in the parlor at night watching the new television he set up went he suddenly felt a cold chill. The parlor had an interesting large painting resting above the fireplace, it was a big portrait of a young man with black hair tied in a tail, youthful light blue eyes, handsome features, and dressed as a wealthy noble in the mid-1800s. Inuyasha original was going to take it down because the cocky smirk on the paintings face looked like it was mocking whoever looked at it, but the portrait quickly grew on him, with its stunning realistic style and the fact that he realized it was a portrait of Lord Koga Okami, so he left it up as respect for the original owner.
"I should probably get these windows fixed", he said thinking the cold chill came from a crack in the nearby window. He turned out the lights and the TV and decided to go to bed. In the now quiet parlor a figure formed out of the floor.
"So this guy thinks he can live in my mansion, and sleep in my personal bedroom", the apparition said to the darkness.
"Well I guess I better introduce myself and show this Inuyasha who the lord of the manor really is", the figure chuckled to himself as the moon light shown through the window revealing the appearance of the man was exactly the same as the portrait behind him.
New Story here we go again, this will be an Inu X Koga romance eventually. This is just the intro it will get more fun later. Okami means wolf spirit or something like that for those interested, a lot of writers use that word for Koga's last name in AU stories.
For the mansion, has anybody seen the mansion from Casper the movie 1995, Whipstaff Manor it was called, well I you haven't look the movie up, because that's the mansion I'm using for this story, since it was that movie that inspired this story.
Thank you for reading, until next time.