CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION OF THE HAUNTER


This week Inuyasha was starting to get creeped out. He kept finding things in different positions than when he left them, doors were opening and closing on their own, and he still felt like he was being watched sometimes. At first he thought it was his imagination after he read all that stuff on the internet about the mansion being haunted and tried to ignore it all, but now he wasn't so sure. He still stubbornly refused to believe in ghosts and looked for any rational explanations, but had yet to find any.

One time he was busy painting on a large canvas in the ballroom now art studio, when he could have sworn he saw a figure standing behind him in the reflection of one of the mirrors, and when he turned around there was nothing there. He was so scared that he had to call his older brother, someone as cold and logical as Sesshomaru could put his mind at ease.

"Hey Sesshomaru"

"What is it little brother?"

"Sorry for bothering you, but I was wondering, do you believe in ghosts?"

"Of course not, why would you ask something ridiculous like that?"

"Well I've been noticing some strange things around this mansion"

"Oh so you decided to live there after all?"

"Yeah I moved in over a week ago, it's a nice place, but I think I see why dad never wanted to live here. I've been getting creeped out vibes all week, I'm not sure if its just in my head though".

"I've been looking into the Okami Manor history lately and what I found may scare you even more little brother"

"You mean about how the mansion is supposed to be haunted right, yeah I read about that too".

"Well there you have it, you read the articles and now you have that idea of ghosts in your head"

"You're probably right, it's just an old mansion, I'm just spooking myself the fuck out".

"Obviously, you should probably look to renting rooms out at the manor"

"No I like my privacy, thank you".

"Just a suggestion little brother"

"Did you ever find out why our grandfather bought it if he never wanted to live in the mansion?"

"Something about a curse he thought he could break according to my research, it seems many people thought the hauntings were part of curse that the original lord of the mansion Lord Koga Okami invoked".

"How would he have done that?"

"Apparently it seems that this Koga Okami was believed to be a practitioner of magic and sorcery and his disappearance had something to with this magic".

"Holy shit"

"It's just a bunch of superstitious rumors and old accounts, it doesn't mean anything"

"I guess so, that makes me feel better, but it would be nice if you could come up here and visit to see it for yourself, just to be sure there's nothing wrong with this place".

"I'll come visit when I get some time off"

"So never then"

"Very funny Inuyasha, even I take breaks"

"All workaholics say that"

"Your one to talk"

"Alright I'll see you soon Sesshomaru"

"I look forward to it little brother"

Inuyasha hung up and decided to go for a walk to clear his head, he ended up exploring the mansion more, finding more new rooms and corridors. The sheer size of this place still amazed and impressed him every time he walked the halls.

"I don't think I'll ever get the hang of this fucking layout!" Inuyasha winded around another realizing he might be lost in his own home again. Meanwhile in the master bedroom a dark figure materialized in the center of the room.

"Now how should I introduce myself, perhaps the rotting maggot filled face trick, no I want to save the repulsive stuff for later. Maybe that bit where I pull off my own head, that could freak him out, decisions, decisions", the black haired apparition floated above the bed trying to come up with a plan to scare Inuyasha. He thought it might pointless if Inuyasha is the scaredy cat type that pisses himself at the first real appearance of ghost, leaves and never returns.


1 AM

"Dammit where the fuck is he, is he pulling another all-nighter with his art again?" the spirit growled in frustration, he was waiting for Inuyasha to go to bed where he would be waiting to scare him out of his house, but he had yet to show up. Being late to be scared was just rude in his book. Finally the door knob started to turn and he took that as his cue to disappear and get ready for the big show.

"I probably should have picked a closer bedroom to the studio", Inuyasha said walking into the master bedroom heading towards the spacious bathroom. "Although this is the biggest one in the whole house", he walked into the bathroom and switched the lights and the shower on.

"Fuck its late", he stripped down and got in the shower to wash the paint off, one of the first things he got for this house was some decent plumbing and a new water heater. The spirit who was currently hiding in the bathroom attempted to quietly slip out, when Inuyasha walked in he was momentarily startled and had to faze partly through the wall so he wouldn't be seen yet and spoil the surprise. Unfortunately he got distracted by the sight of Inuyasha completely undressed in the shower, seeing the water run down his lithe muscles would have made his pulse race if he still had one, it didn't help that Inuyasha was exactly the type he took to his bed back when he was alive one hundred and fifty years ago. Steeling himself the specter left the bathroom and waited for his target to get out so he could scare him out of his domain once and for all, he had some fun moving the furniture and doors around at Inuyasha's expense, but it was time to end this.

"Good thing I don't have to get up early tomorrow", Inuyasha came out in a pair of dark red boxer briefs and sat down in front of a large mirror to blow dry his long snow white hair.

Get out

A low whisper caught his attention making him turn off the blow drier and look around the bedroom.

"What the fu-", he was interrupted by a sudden cold chill, right down his spine, making him shiver and look around nervously.

"Did you not hear me, I said get out of my house now!" the mysterious voice said, this time louder and coming from everywhere.

"Who the fuck is there, come out you coward!" Inuyasha yelled back bravely, the voice just chuckled at him.

"Well if you insist", the lights began to flicker as a figure rose up out of the floor in front of Inuyasha. It took the shape of a man in his earlier twenties with long black hair tied in a tale, pale blue eyes glowing with eerie light with dark circles underneath, light tan skin, wearing a loose fitting white frilled shirt left slightly undone to reveal solid muscle underneath, black pinstripe pants, black pointed shoes, and a black torn and frayed Dracula-like cape draped on his shoulders. Blood appeared to be gushing out of his eyes and spilling from his mouth that was set into a mischievous grin.

"Greetings my name is Lord Ko-", this time he was interrupted by the sudden fist in his face that took him completely off guard, he didn't even get a chance to make himself intangible so the punch actually landed sending him flying back a few feet. "What the fuck, you're lucky I can't feel pain or I'd be pissed!" he said flying back.

"Alright who are you, I don't know who put you up to this but it's not funny", Inuyasha was annoyed, but also a little creeped out that this guy looked exactly like the handsome nobleman in the painting located in parlor.

"Well before I was so rudely interrupted I was going to tell you that I am Lord Koga Okami and you need to get out of my mansion", he said letting the blood on his face fade away since the effect didn't seem to be scaring his prey, in fact Inuyasha didn't seem to be scared at all by the fact that a ghost was standing right in front of him.

"Yeah right and I'm Arthur King of the Britons", Inuyasha said sarcastically crossing his arms over his bare chest. "Nice try, but I don't believe in ghosts, asshole".

"A good a nonbeliever, I know just the thing to prove it", he floated up into the air until he was touching the ceiling.

"Wires and cables, try another one prick", Inuyasha watched him unimpressed.

"Okay how about this", Koga fazed through the wall and back like any typical ghost.

"Mirrors and projectors, keep it up Chris Angel", Inuyasha was starting to get amused by this guy's pathetic attempts to prove he was ghost.

"Fine how about this!" Koga was finally frustrated enough to just shove his ghostly hands through Inuyasha's chest letting his limbs come out the other side, it wouldn't hurt him, but it would feel very weird.

"What the, how?!" Inuyasha stumbled back at the cold feeling that spread throughout his body when Koga's hands passed through him.

"I told you I'm a fucking ghost, a spirit, a phantom, a specter, whatever you want to call it you fool!" Koga was pissed, he had never had to try so hard to prove he was a ghost before; it must be a different time period where people don't believe in the supernatural anymore.

"Whoa no way", he got up and walked around the caped figure with interest. If Koga had a blood stream he would have blushed seeing Inuyasha's exposed body getting so close to him. "You really are a ghost", Inuyasha said touching Koga and seeing his hand passed through it.

"Good now that we've established the obvious", he did a couple of fake coughs before continuing, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Inuyasha was taken aback by the loud harsh voice yelling at him.

"Why would I leave, I live here asshole!" he yelled back standing up to the specter.

"Um, okay that's new, normally people do what I say", Koga was now dumbstruck, no one had ever argued back with him before, what type of fool would argue with a ghost. "Is there something wrong with you, are you one of those touched in the head types, is that why you're not scared", Koga said coming to stand close to the white haired man examining his face with scrutiny.

"Hey are you calling me stupid?" Inuyasha stomped his foot and got up in the ghost's face.

"Why aren't you afraid of me?" Koga was growing more confused by the second.

"Because you're a person", Inuyasha said back walking over to sit on his bed.

"Huh?"

"Well it was scary when furniture was moving around because I had no idea what was going, the unknown will always be terrifying, but now that I know that you're the one behind it all there's nothing another person can do to me that would scare me away from this place", Inuyasha said defiantly to a stupefied Koga.

"This isn't making sense I'm haunting you so you get out of my house, how can you not be scared of what I could do to you", Koga gripped his head in frustration, this situation was so foreign to him, even when he was alive no one had dared argue with him due to his wealth and power, but this man was standing up to him like no other had. It was both annoyingly frustrating and yet interestingly enticing.

"I don't know who you haunted before in the past dick, but my dad gave me this place, I'm not leaving no matter what you do, so you better get used to me, roommate!" Inuyasha crossed his arms again in defiance.

"Listen you"

"Can we talk about this in the morning I'm very tired", when he got no response he got under the covers and turned out the lights with a quick goodnight to his ghostly guest. Koga left the room flabbergasted with the way this Inuyasha talked to him, the arrogance and stubbornness rivaled his own. He decided he would in fact wait till morning and set this white haired man straight about a few things, even though that was his bedroom originally. He eventually found himself in the study pacing the floor in thought.

"This is insane, why isn't he scared, how I'm I going to get him out?" these things plagued his mind. Koga finally stopped to think about this rationally. There had to be something Inuyasha was afraid of, there must be some way he could drive him out of his mansion. He just had to actually put some effort into this haunting for once. Koga found himself smiling in spite of resent events; it had been so long since he had a real challenge like this, too long in his opinion. He looked forward to the coming days with his new prey Inuyasha.

"Well he certainly is the most beautiful person I've ever haunted", Koga imagined all the future showers he could spy on.


Well that's another chapter down.

I usually like to get a couple chapters out quickly for a new story, before I slow down the pace a bit. I also like doing AU stories where Inu and Sess actually get along, I just feel like they could have accomplished so much if they learned to get along in the original series. Also even though he's a ghost Koga can make himself solid at will, just in case anyone was confused over how they might be able to get it on later in the story.

Thank you for reading, until next time