Chapter 4: The House

Hopelessly drunk. Yeah, that's what Miroku would describe Taiki now. The drunken fox demon had woken up in the middle of their journey to search for the abandoned house. Now he's driving everyone's patience to the edge with his senseless babbles and awful singing.

"Ohhhhh, what a beautiful niiiiggghhhttt, with the moon so hiiiigggghhhh, with twinkling starsss," Taiki sang. The others groaned as he started singing again. Even Sesshomaru had lost his patience on that fox demon. He was thinking of killing him already.

"Grrr…," Inuyasha growled. He walked over to Taiki, who was riding on Miroku's back, and hit him on the head with his delicate fist.

"Will you just stop it!?" Inuyasha yelled. "You're getting on my nerves!"

"Owww," Taiki groaned in pain, reaching up to rub the spot where Inuyasha hit him.

"If you sing one more time and I mean just one more time, I'll rip out your voice box!" Inuyasha threatened.

"Hey, lady! If you continue to be so rough like that you'll never marry!"

"WHY YOU---" Inuyasha became exasperated and raised his fist again and ready to clobber that fox demon.

"Inuyasha, SIT!" Kagome yelled. She wanted to stop Inuyasha from beating the daylights out of that fox demon.

"…"

Unfortunately for Kagome, it didn't work. Inuyasha whole body got tensed and he shut his eyes tightly. He was expecting to be thrown face down on the dirt like he always did when he was sat.

The others looked at Kagome like she had said something outrageous. Then, Kagome remembered, "Oh, yeah. I forgot. I'm not in my own body right now. Heh heh," Kagome was embarrassed.

"Ha ha!" Inuyasha laughed happily. "Now you can't sit me anymore!" Inuyasha forgotten he was able to control the rosary beads around Miroku's neck and he accidentally said the word to activate it.

THUMP!

Miroku fell face first onto the ground. Taiki shrieked as his carrier suddenly fell.

"Oops, sorry Miroku." Inuyasha said apologetically.

Miroku raised his head from the ground, spitting out some dirt. "Careful with that, Inuyasha!"

After tracking through the forest for a while, they finally found the house. It was old and rundown. It looked like there was nobody living in it for ages.

Why do I have a bad feeling about this house, Kagome thought to herself. And isn't this kind of house you're supposed to find in a horror movie when you need a lodging in the middle of the night?

"Is something wrong, Kagome?" Shippo asked when he saw the troubled look on Kagome's face.

"Er…nothing! Heh heh," Kagome said quickly. No sense telling them and scaring them for something I thought, she thought.

Sango slid the door open and entered first and followed by the others. Inside the house was as dark and gloomy as the outside. The floor boards creaked under their weight.

"Well, this should do for the night," Kagome said.

"Keh," Inuyasha said, looking around the house in disgust.

Once inside, Miroku dumped Taiki unceremoniously onto the floor. Taiki just let out a low groaned when he was dumped onto the floor.

"Finally!" Miroku said, flexing his shoulders. Sango proceeded to light up the place with candles. Kagome and Inuyasha started to take out the sleeping bag, mat and blanket out for the night. Sesshomaru went and sat at the corner of the room cross legged.

After that, they sat together and eat some bread and potato chips Kagome brought from her time.

"Kagome, can you not sit like a sissy?" Inuyasha asked not too politely.

"What's wrong with the way I sit?" she asked, giving Inuyasha a glare which was similar to the glare Sesshomaru always gave when he was about to strike at Inuyasha.

"Kagome, men sit cross legged. Not with their legs folded up beneath them," Miroku told her.

"Oh," Kagome said. Then she sat cross legged like the other men in the room.

"And Inuyasha, don't sit cross legged! You know you're wearing a skirt right now!" Kagome yelled in triumph when she saw how Inuyasha sat. She grinned as Inuyasha grumbled and switch the position of his legs. Finally, she could get back at him.

Then suddenly, Sango yelled, "Taiki, what are you doing!?"

Taiki was standing and undoing his obi. "What does it look like I'm doing? I'm undressing cause it's so hot in here," he said. He was still swaying a little from being drunk.

The others eyes except for Sesshomaru and Kirara, went the size of saucers.

BONK!

Miroku quickly went over and knock him out before he could finish undoing his obi. "This should keep him out until the next morning."

The Inuyasha, Kagome, Shippo and Sango let out a deep breath of relief. "I really don't want to see him naked," Kagome said.

"Tell me about it," Sango said.

"Keh. Let's all get some sleep."

That night, the others slept while Miroku and Kagome kept watch. Since they're a demon and a half-demon they didn't need to sleep as much as the humans do.

"Kagome, did you feel the wind in here?" Miroku asked softly. He felt the wind blowing in the room which he thought it was strange since the door was closed and the room had no window. The holes and cracks on the wall weren't even big enough for a wind strong enough to blow back his hair.

"Yeah," Kagome replied. "Why?"

"Nothing. It just feels kind of strange."

Suddenly, Kagome heard the sound of a bell and it's getting closer. Then it stopped.

"Did you hear that?" Kagome asked slowly. Something creepy was going on and it was sending a chill down her back.

Miroku gulped. "Yeah."

Then slowly a figure in white and long black hair that covered its face began to materialize before them. Its head was hung down. Judging by the shape of its body it was probably a woman.

Then slowly she raised her head and revealed the most horrible face. Kagome and Miroku were frozen in horror as the specter slowly closing in on them.

A/N: Sorry for not being able to update by friday cause I was busy. Hope all of you like this chapter :-). Please write me some reviews to tell me about your point of view and if you have any ideas for the next chapter for the encounter between Inuyasha's gang and the ghost, please write them to me.