A/N: I made up this idea in the shower… This was an attempt of humor on my part.


Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha nor the characters. They respectively belong to Rumiko Takashi.


Meeting Death

Meeting One: Let me Introduce Death!

By: AngelMiko289


Summary: When I was in my second year of middle school, even though I was expecting many things, meeting Death was not one of them...


Ever since I was hospitalized during my second year of middle school, I had many meetings with Death.

Every meeting that I've had with Death has been very informational and interesting. After all, who gets to meet Death every night?

If you all are confused, let me explain.

My name is Higurashi Kagome. I'm not dead. But ever since my second year of middle school, when I was hospitalized for the stupidest reason, I have been quite acquainted with Death.

You ask the reason why?

I have no idea.

It might be because… Not everyone can see him. Of course, unless everyone in the world was dying… But, that's not the case.

Anyways, yes, Death is a he. Actually, he prefers to be called Inuyasha instead of Death.

It might have begun when I started seeing things. No, I wasn't hallucinating things, but actually, much to my amazement, seeing spirits and ghosts and etc.

I know, it sounds stupid.

But who knew it'll lead to meeting Death… In other words, I guess you can call him the infamous 'Grim Reaper'.

It had all began when I was sitting up in the hospital room, my parents had agreed for the hospital to keep me overnight, just for observation.

It was at the middle of the night, and I was debating either to count the cracks on the ceiling or to creep around the hospital.

You can probably guess which choice I chose.

I chose to count the cracks in the ceiling.

I know, it's not what it is expected when one asks that type of question, but I'm what you call a 'goody two shoes', and didn't want to get caught by the nurses. Despite all of that, I didn't want to be walking around a freezing, cold hospital half-naked. That wouldn't be a nice image wouldn't it?

Luckily for me, well if meeting Death is considered lucky, I did that. But, before that…

"One… Two… Three…" Let's just say that there were a lot of cracks to be accounted for.

After a few minutes passed, (Okay, maybe hours or seconds, I'm never too sure about time) I heard a strange noise, one that didn't quite match the rhythm of the hospital. Something like when you know something is out of place, but you can't see it, and don't know what it is.

Although the latter was right, I could clearly see what it was that disrupted the rhythm and my counting.

I lifted my head out of the warm, blaringly white bed, and looked at the figure albeit quizzically.

"What are you doing here?" I had said as I stared at him with curiosity, apprehension and a bit of… now that I think about it, excitement, having the feeling my life will never be the same after I talk to this person.

If, I guess, if you call him a person of course.

But at the time, I had no idea, and continued to stare at him.

For a second, he didn't reply, and I wondered if he couldn't hear me well. Maybe he's deaf… I wondered and I repeated my question, a bit louder this time.

The figure turned around, in a way that was a bit dramatic, and stared at me incredulously.

For me, at the moment, I just thought his face was funny looking. So, I chuckled, and asked him, "Are you deaf or mute? Of course I mean you…"

"…You… can… see me?" the figure asked with a hesitation in his voice as he pointed to me, "but…" he walked over to the chart near my bed and peered down at it, "you're not even dead!"

I blinked once more, with one occurring thought in my head. 'Dead? Why would he want only dead people to see him?'

So, instead of asking that question, I decided to ask, "Of course I can see you! What person wouldn't?" I smiled, what I hope, a bright smile into his direction.

He blinked at me and frowned, "Then you must not be a person… Because I'm the Grim Reaper baka onna…"

Then, I started laughing, "The Grim Reaper?" I asked between laughs, "I've heard of weird excuses, but this takes the cake!" I continued to laugh despite him glowering at me.

Of course, at the time, how could have I known he was telling the truth?

So, after I composed myself a bit better, he had rearranged his self so that he was leaning against the wall nearest to the door, his expression flashing in neon signs that he wasn't happy with me not taking him seriously.

"Are you done yet?"

"Yeah…" I looked at him expression and almost started to laugh, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh at you, but when I thought of the Grim Reaper, I thought of someone wearing a black cape, without legs, and wielding a scythe, chopping people's heads off."

This time, he was the one that snorted, "You humans have such odd imaginations…" he pushed himself up, and turned to the door.

"Wait!" I had remarked before he turned the door handle.

"What?" he asked gruffly as he turned to me.

"Why are you here then, if you're not trying to chop people's heads off then?" I asked, curiously.

"My job?" he smirked at me, "My job is to ferry the souls to where they belong", then, just as he was halfway through the door, he had to just add one small comment that made my blood boil.

"You finally get it? Baka wench…"

Needless to say, I wasn't happy…

After that incident, I never saw him that night again. But the next day, when I was finally discharged, I overheard the nurses talking about one of the patients had died peacefully last night. Apparently it was an old man, suffering of leukemia.

However, when I over heard that conversation, I knew that what that guy said was right. And somehow, to my surprise, I found myself smiling.

I had actually met the Grim Reaper.

However, what I didn't know was that, that wasn't the only time I was going to see him…


A/N: I had originally had planned this to be a one-shot, but I was in a good mood, and decided that this was going to be a very short fic, with maybe in total 5 meetings (or less) in cases, including a epilogue where Kagome does meet with Inuyasha again. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed, and as for my other fanfics, I'm thinking of finishing typing up the chapters I have already, and do some editing. Please review:-)