We're so sorry skeletons

You're so misunderstood

You only want to socialize

But I don't think we should

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Spooky Scary Skeletons

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"While you were out, another boy went missing," Ms. Higuarshi began in a worried tone, "This time in broad daylight, in the middle of a crowded theater. I really would prefer you stay home."

"Inuyasha will protect me," Kagome groaned, "And besides I just dropped all my allowance on our costumes!"

"I will give you more allowance money," Ms. Higuarashi answered quickly, "Why don't you stay in and watch a movie? I'll order pizza and if you want to have friends over..."

"They're all going to the party!" Kagome begged, "Please I'll be careful! I'm already letting Inuyasha bring his sword and he's basically a weapon with or without it. You let me to go to the feudal era but a party here is too dangerous, really?!"

Ms. Higuarashi knew her daughter was right so begrudgingly she acquiesced. Still the back of her mind she knew there were threats in this world that even Inuyasha may not be able to handle or even recognize.

"Has he ever seen a gun before?" the elder woman sighed heavily.

"Honestly I don't think so..." Kagome sighed heavily, her confidence waivering. Knowing she'd tapped onto something, Ms. Higurashi battled forward, "What about a tazer or pepper spray or has he even drank before? Do you know his tolerance?"

"There isn't going to..." Kagome began heatedly before her mother gave her a knowing look, "Okay, so I doubt there will be alcohol but if there is - and that's a big if - we won't drink any."

"The party isn't until tomorrow night, right?" Ms. Higuarshi began casually. Kagome nodded slowly, an uneasy feeling growing in her stomach.

"Then we're going to have a movie night," the elder woman began in a tone that left no room for argument, "We'll start slow and go from there and then we'll see how unshakable your little hanyou really is."

"You're on," Kagome hissed with false bravado, secretly loathing having to explain to Inuyasha that what was happening wasn't real and his potential reactions. Hell, he'd tried killing a cockroach with the wind scar what was he going to do to Freddy Krueger!

"I'll order pizza then," Ms. Higuarshi said as she smiled evilly at her daughter, "I'll pick it up on my way back from the video store."

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The club was electric, everyone feeding off of the smiles and fast dancing. The young woman wanted to go like this all night long, feet moving to the crazy beat like they belong to the music. She moved in her dress like her hips were made to sway, the sequins catching the flashing strobe light and colorful lights twirling above.

"REMEMBER TO COME OUT TOMORROW NIGHT FOR OUR HALLOWEEN BALL!" the DJ announced over the loud speaker in between the heavy base beats, "COSTUME CONTESTS, DRINK SPECIALS..."

Sighing heavily, the young woman rolls her eyes as the DJ slowly killed her buzz with his drill announcement. Glancing around the overly crowded bar, she pouted until something caught her eye. There was another bar. It must've been just manned as she noticed a few other people from the quite full bar turned around and began heading that way. Quickly trying to beat the rush, the girl giggled her victory as she stared at the boy behind the counter who looked strangely familiar, like she'd seen him on TV. Maybe he was an actor or something doing this on the side.

"Hey, I need a..." the girl began before the music slowly died around her, looking up her eyes widened in horror at the realization that the bar had vanished behind her into a velvety black canvas. Tapping the man's shoulder next to her, she screamed when his flesh began to melt straight off his bones before her eyes. Glancing around, the girl's screams intensified as everyone - literally everyone - began to wither away until they were merely mottled flesh and bone - jaws hanging from their hinges, eyes popping out of sockets and blood pouring out of every orafice. As she turned to run, crimson eyes appeared before her and the world went black.

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"Their lips aren't going to match what they're saying, alright?" Kagome began, glancing over at Inuyasha sitting crossed legged on the floor casually leaning against the couch donning his fire rat hakama and - much to her surprise - the white cotton shirt she'd gotten him.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Bring it on," Inuyasha snorted as he glanced up at her with a smirk on her lips, "How bad can this really be?"

One hour later...

"What the fuck is that?!" Inuyasha managed to gasp in between laughter the likes of which Kagome had never heard. Fighting back giggles herself, the miko watched the hanyou rolling around the ground clutching his side before glancing up at the giant Stay Puft marshmallow man walking up the street of New York City.

"This...this is what...people in your era...think is scary?" Inuyasha choked out, tears welling up in the corners of his eyes.

"This is a comedy. It's supposed to be funny," Kagome snorted deciding against reminding him that she'd had to explain all sorts of things from elevators to libraries,"A warm up before we get to the really spooky stuff."

"Ooooohhh I'm so scared," Inuyasha sighed happily as he scooted back up to sit by Kagome's feet. After a moment, he glanced up at her and gave her a goofy grin, "Next year I want to go as that Vankman guy. He's my favorite."

Thirty minutes later...

"I ain't afraid of no ghosts," Inuyasha snorted as he gave Kagome a goofy grin before humming the Ghostbuster tune to himself as Kagome's mother made them popcorn. As Kagome looked through the remaining videos, she squealed when she saw Hocus Pocus and quickly held it up for Inuyasha to see.

"Okay, so this is one of my favorites. It came out a few years ago," Kagome squealed as she clutched the VHS to her chest, "Its not scary at all but it's pretty fun. It's about these witches who steal kids and..."

"I thought the point of this was to scare me and see if I can handle this future shit," Inuyasha smirked at her, gesturing pointedly to his ears as Kagome and her mother blushed furiously, "Even without these I could've heard you guys fighting. Bring on the scary crap already."

"Fine," Ms. Higuarashi commented casually as she held up another VHS, "This one is called Aliens. Scared the fool out of me when I was younger."

"Oh, I'm so scared," Inuyasha snorted, "Does this one have fat floating green blobs too?"

"No," Ms. Higuarashi smirked as she pushed in the video, "It doesn't."

Thirty minutes later...

The movie was having the desired effect on both teenagers. The smug grin had faded off Inuyasha's face slowly and he had very subtly moved off the floor to sit beside Kagome. Both of them had scooted closer together than was strictly proper but she wasn't going to chide them on that, especially with the way the hanyou's ears were pinned flat against his head.

'Wait a minute, there's movement...' the man whispered on the screen moments before a small slimy creature launched out of its egg and latched itself securely against the helmet of the spacesuit.

In that moment, Inuyasha made a yipping sound, jumping then cowering slightly against Kagome on instinct as she cowered back before realizing what he'd done and getting up to storm out of the living room on the pretense of getting something to eat.

Fifteen minutes later...

"FUCK!" Inuyasha screamed as the small slimy creature dropped down on one of the people's shoulders. Again, a dusting of pink graced his cheeks as he once again took in his position and response. Folding his arms across his chest, he defiantly set his jaw. Nothing was going to scare him again. This wasn't real. He'd fought way worse than this and never been scared before. Fuck this shit.

Ten minutes later...

As the small alien ripped its way out of Kane's chest, Inuyasha finally stopped lying to himself and admitted this was pretty fucking scary. People watched this to be entertained?! How was this supposed to be fun?!

"Is my big bad inu-hanyou afraid of a little tiny alien?" Kagome teased lightly in a baby voice as she leaned her head against his shoulder. Rolling his eyes, he almost denied it altogether before a much better idea entered his head as they both jumped at something on the screen. Resting his cheek against her head, he slowly reached an arm around her and hugged her tighter against him with a softly muttered, playful sounding, "Maybe...just a little."

There was nothing wrong with admitting afraid every once in a while...especially when it was all in good fun and when it earned him such a breathtaking grin from the girl tucked securely in his arms.