Author's note: This is the final part of the summer festival chapter. I hope you guys will enjoy it.

SUMMER SPECIAL (PART 2)

Next morning

Back to the resort

"Thank you for helping us paying the bill yesterday, Shiomi-san. That was really embarrassing."

Akane thanks me for the helping them cover the last incident as we gather together into a circle to enjoy grilled sea food. Sitting next to her counting from the rear is Ranma, the Panda, her father then Nabiki, Inuyasha, Kagome, me and lastly, Sesshomaru.

"It's okay, we're also at fault too. What important was that no one got hurt from the incident."

I assure her, watching Ranma and their panda pet stealing each other's food.

"Ran-chan! Ranma!"

Suddenly we hear two girl's calling for the pig-tailed boy from afar and turn around to look. There we see the owner of the Okonomiyaki's cart from before and an attractive long black haired Chinese girl walking next to her.

"Huh? Ukyo, Shampoo."

Akane greets them once they approach.

"What do you two want?"

Ranma, who's still fighting with his dad over a grilled corn, asks them when they sit down next to him.

"We just found out a really interesting place which happens to be near by! And we want to invite you all there with us!"

Hearing their announcement, Ranma raises an eyebrow suspiciously. Since whatever coming from them are nothing but trouble. "Interesting place? What kind of an interesting place are you talking about?"

"We will explain once we get there!"

Ukyo snatches his left arm while Shampoo's on his right, urging him to leave. "Come on! Hurry and get going!"

"Alright, alright I get it. No need to drag me. Seriously, what are you two planning this time?!"

Ranma struggle within their grips, having no choice but to leave the grilled corn and stand up with them.

"Akane-san, is it true that the girl named Ukyo's also Ranma's fiancée?"

Curios, I whispers to Akane and she explains, doesn't sound quite amused. "Yes, and not just her. Shampoo is also his fiancée."

"What? Are you for real? Don't tell me you are seriously okay with that?"

Just how many fiancées does this guy have? Is he some kind of a playboy?

"Hmph! Not like it's my problem!"

Watching Ranma being drowned within those girl's embraces, she huffs and turns away.

"Senpai, should we come along?"

Kagome walks over and asks me whether I want to join as well. Thinking that it's still too early to leave and she's also curious about this mysterious place they're talking about.

"Sure, why not? They did invite all of us, didn't they?"

Natural haunted Caves: The Tunnel of Lost Love.

"Ladies and Gentlemen! The main attraction of the Merchant's Association Tour...Natural Haunted Caves!"

Once we're there, both Shampoo and Ukyo introduces the cave to us. "It's a famous date spot."

Who the heck would date in this kind of place?! I frown in disbelief.

"Famous? Why is that?"

Kagome tilts her head, confused why this old, lame looking date spot is being called famous. However, Ukyo and Shampoo don't answer and keep on grinning. Claiming that it will spoil all the fun if they say anything about it.

"D-Date spot?! I take a trip with Shampoo and now we tour a cave together! It's like a dream!"

Suddenly among the crowd, a guy in glasses with straight long black hair jumps in joy.

"Only 100 yen per couple. Come one, come all!"

Once we get near the desk, an old creepy looking man speaks up. And before I can even ask him anything about this strange cave of his, the two girls beside me gasp out loud.

"Eh?! You can't get in unless you pair up?! Shampoo forget to check that part!"

Weird, why do they sound so excited about that? And I'm starting to have a strange feeling about this trip.

"Akane! Ranma! You two go ahead!"

Then they approach Akane and Ranma from behind and push them in front. "Got no choice, you two go together!"

After hearing the owner's explaination that they should go in as a couple because it's too scary to go alone inside. Ranma huffs in embarrassment. "W-What? I-I got no interest in Akane clingin' to me!"

"Me neither! Just go in with somebody else!"

Annoyed, Akane tries to push him inside and he grins, taunting her. "Hey! Good idea!"

"Mousse, come with me!"

Not wasting time, Shampoo grabs the man in glasses's hand and drags him inside. Much to his joy.

While I'm still trying to figure out what is happening, all of the sudden, the huge pile of rock on our right starts to crumble and appears behind the dust is a boy, who seems to be around Ranma's age, yelling in despair. "Where am I?!"

Needless to say how happy Ukyo is to find him so unexpectedly. "Ryoga! So there you are! Let go in!"

"H-Hey! Wait!" Despite his unwillingness, she drags him into the cave anyway.

Watching everyone goes in as a couple one by one, Kagome speaks to Inuyasha when they are standing at the head of the line. "I guess it's our turn next, Inuyasha."

"Heh! Let's see what they've got in there! I ain't afraid of no ghost!"

The Hanyou states confidently and steps into the cave up ahead. Once done paying the fee, Kagome turns to me before following him inside. "I will see you outside, Senpai."

"No choice! We must enter as lovers. Shall we proceed, Tendo Akane?!"

From behind me, Kuno, who is Akane and Ranma's upperclassman, hugs Akane by surprise, much to her disgust. In return, Akane knocks him out cold with a fist to the face.

After that Kasumi, the Tendo eldest sister, goes into the cave with their father. Following them in turn are Nabiki – Kuno, Mr. Saotome – Shampoo's great grandmother. And now there are only Ranma, Akane, me and Sesshomaru left.

"Well, I suppose we're stuck with it. Come on, let's go in."

Having no choice but to give in, Ranma sighs, hands on his hip.

"Let's us go too, Sesshomaru."

I call out to him and we quickly follow the couple into the creepy cave.

Inside the cave.

"Wow, these effects sure look pretty realistic. If the owner has the money to advertise this place, he will be rich in no time."

Needless to say I'm impressed by their professional performances after going through several *ghost* encounters. The timing they make their appearance are really unexpected. Not to mention that I can't find any of the actor's hiding spot, it's as if they disappear into the void or something.

"Yahh!"

However after facing too many jump scares at once, Akane drops her tough side and screams. Dashing away in fear while dragging Ranma along with her. Much to the guy's surprise. "Eh?!"

"Ah! Akane-san! Ranma-san! Wait up!"

I call out for them but to no avail as they've already gone, "Aww… I guess we're on our own now, Sesshomaru."

Not too long after that we come across to a fork and my head tilts. Not knowining which path to take. After spotting some guests taking the right one, I suggest. "Alright, we're going to the right then!"

Minutes later…

"Where are we?!"

Getting tired from all the walking, I lean onto the wall nearby to get some rest. Different from my attitude, Sesshomaru acts pretty calm in this situation.

"Everything looks the same no matter where we're going!"

I huff, hands on my hips. "And there's still no sight of the others too. Not even Kagome or Inuyasha. Wait…."

We weren't lost, were we? Was that why we didn't find anyone around? If that's really the case then I should ask Sesshomaru to sniff our way out of here. Maybe everyone's already outside waiting for us by now….

"Huh? Hey! It's that guest I saw from earlier!"

Just then I notice someone familiar at the corner of my eyes and quickly approach. It turns out that there are more than just one person who are in the same situation as mine.

"Excuse me!"

And one of the girls, who has dark brown hair with two pig tails around my age, wearing a simple yellow dress turns around to meet me.

"Oh Hello."

Then a red haired and eyes guy, who is wearing an old middle school track uniform and a white Haori with fire decoration as a coat, gasps in surprise by my appearance. "What? Why is there a human here?!"

"What do you mean if there's a human here? Isn't this place open for everyone?"

Suddenly after hearing my answer, everyone in the groups gasps in shock. Huh? Did I say something wrong?

"Miss, you can see me?!"

The boy points at himself to confirm that I'm not blind and I nod in response. "Uh…Yeah? Am I not suppose to?"

"Because human usually doesn't see him."

The two pig-tailed girl explains to me briefly. Making it even more confusing.

"Eh? This girl can also see Rinne? So there's actually someone other than Sakura and Tsubasa able to see us huh?"

A long black haired girl in white sailor outfit that is also bearing a couple of red eyes and having a red bow on the left side of her head, comments about this phenomenon.

"I guess that's understandable. Since the ability to see ghost is not really that rare in this world."

The last guy in the group with short black hair and dark gray eyes, wearing tuxedo speaks up.

"Uhm… What are you guys talking about?"

Lost deep within the conversation, I ask them and all of a sudden, a black cat which bears a human face, sitting on the two pig-tails girl's shoulder appears.

"It's really simple! Human can't see Rinne-sama and Ageha-sama because they are Shinigami!"

Then the girl shrugs as there is no need for her to explain any longer. And this time, I'm the one who shocked. "What the-?! A talking cat?!"

"Rokumon!" The red haired boy immediately scolds the cat for making unnecsasary appearance and it shrieks. "Uwah! I'm sorry!"

"Wait, Shinigami? Did you just say that you are Shinigami?"

Ignore the cat stuff, I jump back to the main subject.

"Urg…Since our secrets have already been revealed. I suppose there's no point hiding, is there…"

And the boy in Haori sighs and starts to explains to me about his *job*.

"We take those who have regrets tying them to the material world and lead them to the wheel of reincarnation so they can pass on. Therefore, people call us as Shinigami."

Also, Shinigami is invincible in normal people eyes. Only the ones who have a special ability are able to see them, as well as seeing ghosts.

Shinigami?! In our modern world?! Unbelievable!

Then I notice something odd at his feet. Where is his shadow?! He has no shadow!?

Curious, I grab his arm to confirm my theories. Shocked to find that my hand passes right through him. Does that mean he's speaking the truth?! Shinigami really exist?!

Seeing my funny reactions, the girl in pig tails assures me. "I know that right now you're overwhelmed with these new information. But don't worry, you will get used to it."

"Yeah…Thank you."

I nod and Rokumon jumps onto my shoulder, grinning, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you!"

Hmm...My guess is that this cat here is a youkai. It feels so weird, since I have never expected that youkai still exist in the future. Well, except for that Kuchisake Onna from that time.

"So I take that the the four of you are Shinigami?"

However, the girl shakes her head. "Not really. Only Rokkudo-kun and Ageha-chan here are Shinigami."

Therefore she introduces herself as Sakura, the red haired boy standing next to her is Rokkudo Rinne. While the girl in sailor costume is Ageha, and the guy in Tuxedo is Jumonji Tsubasa, an exorcist.

The black cat then raise its paw, "My name is Rokumon, Rinne-sama most loyal assistant!"

"I see, it's nice to meet you all. By the way my name is Sogo Shiomi"

I greet them and gesture my hand to the Inu youkai standing beside me. "And the guy here is my friend, Sesshomaru."

Sesshomaru? What an odd name. The four of them stare at him curiously.

"It's nice to meet you too. Sogo-san, Sesshomaru-san."

Sakura smiles to me.

"Shiomi is fine,"

Just as we're getting to know with each other, Rinne urges us to get out of the cave. "You two should leave now. This place is too dangerous for human to stay."

Yeah… Except that's what we are trying to do right now. "Wait, what do you mean by too dangerous? What's in here?"

"What? You mean you don't know? To have come this far you should have met them already."

Ageha's surprised and my head tilts. "Them? Who?"

"Ghosts." Tsubasa simply replies.

"Oh yeah I've met some. They look pretty real to me." I clap my hands in realization.

Annoyed by my overly carefree attitude, Ageha huffs. "That's because they ARE real. Jeeze, for someone who's so dense, I'm surprise that you are alive till now."

"What?! You meant those were real ghosts?!"

Therefore Rinne nods to confirm. "That's right. And for some reasons these ghosts are revealing themselves to human and even attacking them. That's why today we're here in this strange cave to investigate the cause."

"Didn't you see the notice at the entrance of this path, Shiomi-san?"

Sakura asks, causing my eyes to widen. "Notice? What notice?"

"In order to exit this cave you would have to take the left path since the right one is leading even further inside."

Tsubasa mentions an old wooden board with a warning message hanging on the wall by the entrance. But I was too focus following them to see it. And my face darkens, cannot believe that I've made such a stupid mistake.

"Those things you've seen out there are still pretty harmless. And I bet that everything happened here is all Damashigami's doing!" Ageha states.

Also according to Rinne, the reason that this way is banned due to the evil sources/ malevolence are coming out directly from here. The deeper we're going in, the stronger evil spirit we encounter.

So those jump scares that were aiming at Akane earlier... They were actually trying to harm her?

Only then I recall to Akane's utterly terrified face back then, starting to feel bad for her since she has to suffer from these horrible things out of nowhere. Gosh, I hope she's okay. Ranma's with her. Isn't he? I'm sure that he can protect her.

"…To me!" Suddenly some unfamiliar voices appear nearby and gain our attentions. The moment we all turn around to check, there is a bunch of ghosts are flying toward to our direction. "Give the girls to me!"

"Everyone stays back!"

Immediately, Rinne summons his scythe and slashes at one after another. And for every ghost that gets hit by his scythe, they turn into a white ball of light and vanish into the thin air.

Impressed by everything is going on before me, I can't help but gasp. Wow, is that the power of Shinigami? Incredible!

On the other hand Sesshomaru, instead standing aside like he's told to, draws out Tenseiga and slashes any ghosts that coming at him. Causing them to scream in pain before disappearing.

Not only he can see ghost but also getting rid of them with his sword? Just who exactly are these people?

Rinne frowns, cannot believe that there is someone who is not a Shinigami nor an exorcist can harm the ghosts that much, actually exists. However, things start going sour when Sesshomaru eliminates too many of them and Rinne has to speaks up.

"That's enough, Sesshomaru-san. I appreciate that you wanted to help but this is not the right way to do it. We are trying to do right now is to purify these evil spirits, not killing them.

Therefore he claims that the sword Sesshomaru's carrying does not inherit the purification power and requests him to leave the cleaning job to them.

"And what makes you think that I, Sesshomaru will listen to you?"

However being as stubborn as always, Sesshomaru refuses to back down and keeps on attacking.

"Damn it! I said stop!"

Rinne has no choice but to jump in and uses his scythe to interfere. And what's coming has to come, Rinne's scythe and Sesshomaru's Tenseiga collide.

"Challenging me now, huh? Just because you're a Shinigami doesn't mean that I, Sesshomaru cannot eliminate you."

Amused by his fearless action, Sesshomaru smirks.

This guy isn't normal! He's strong! Rinne cringes when being's overwhelmed easily by his power. Soon he gets knocked into mid-air, before being able to get back on his feet however, another sword line is flying right at his body.

"Rokkudo-kun!" His friends gasp in horror once seeing Rokkudo got hit. "Rinne!"

Fortunately, Rinne's able to dodge the attack just in time and he gulps, noticing that his Haori's sleeves is received a long sharp cut. If I didn't act fast just now, I would have been a goner…

"How dare you hurt Rinne! Take this!"'

Angered that Rinne's being treated horribly, Ageha launches forward with her scythe in her hands to strike at Sesshomaru before I even have a chance to stop her.

"Idiot, get back! He will kill you!"

However, Rinne's warning happens too late as Sesshomaru easily blocks her attack and knocks her away. She curses when seeing him jumps up to get her. To save Ageha's life, Rinne pushes her aside to block Sesshomaru's sword with his scythe.

"Sesshomaru, please stop! You know that they're not our enemies!"

From below I call out to him helplessly, hoping that he will snap back to his senses and cease this pointless battle. Yet he won't listen to me and keeps on battling against the Shinigami.

"You're mine!"

Then all of a sudden, a giant skeleton ghost appears right behind me and Sakura. Catching us both into its palm. Taken by surprise, we can only scream to alert the others. "Kyah!"

Trying to save his friend, Rokumon turns into its bigger version of himself to confront the ghost but it whacks him aside easily. While Tsubasa takes out something looks like a bazooka and fires multiple of small balls at it but does zero damage.

"Rokkudo-kun!" Witnessing the others failure attempts. Sakura and I call out. "Sesshomaru!"

Finally hearing our desperate calls from afar, both Sesshomaru and Rinne halt their fights and charge forward to seize the skeleton. However, it has opened gate to the different dimension and and carries us away into the portal. Much to the Shinigami's shock. "A Spirit Road?!"

"Crap! It escaped!" Tsubasa curses as Ageha lands next to him. "Rinne, that thing just now must be the boss, who responsible for all these bizarre things in this cave."

"Hurry, we have to chase after it!"

Not wasting anytime, Rinne opens another Spirit Road for them to go through. Hang in there, Sakura! We're coming!

At the farthest point in the cave

"Kyah! Ouch!"

We yelp in pain once the skeleton drops us to the ground harshly, then it creates a small magical barrier to trap both of us inside. Without thinking, I approach the shield and touch it but only to have my hand electrocuted.

"Shiomi-san! Are you okay?"

Sakura asks me as I stare at my right hand, almost crying when seeing it has turned bright red due to the impact. "Yeah, I'm alright."

"Heh heh heh. Beautiful girls just my luck. I'm going to take my time and enjoy you two slowly."

The giant skeleton laughs, watching us struggle inside the barrier.

Great, another pervert…I sigh in defeat and Sakura comforts me. "Don't worry, I'm sure Rokkudo-kun will save us"

"You must be really trust him to be able to say that."

I turn to her and she nods, smiling when my words hit the nail. "Yes, I do!"

Meanwhile…Somewhere not too far away.

"I lost his track in the spirit road around this spot. He should be close by."

Rinne states. Suddenly, they hear a girl and a boy voices are coming from up ahead.

"For god sake just how deep is this cave?!"

"Renge, I'm starting to doubt that this place here is actually a maze."

Surprised to find those two here, Rinne approaches them. "Renge? Kain? Are you guys here for the ghosts too?"

"Ghost? Don't tell me you two are here because of the poster?"

Shima Renge, the long straight black haired girl in black sailor suit with a small lotus on her head, gasps in surprise once seeing her fellow colleagues.

"Poster? What poster?"

Ageha raises an eyebrow at the new info and Rinne explains the reason he's in this hellish place to Renge. "I am here to investigate the strange evil source in this area."

"Evil source, huh? Kain-senpai, could it be…?"

Renge turns to Shirushigami Kain, her upperclassman, the boy in white Haori with white hair and blue eyes. Therefore he hands Rinne a paper. "I was ordered to come here to catch a dangerous criminal."

"What's this? A wanted poster?"

Out of curiosity, Rinne and the others take a peek into it. Seeing the so-called-criminal appearance, Rokumon shouts out.

"Hey, it's that skeleton from earlier!"

"And the reward is…" Rinne's and Rokumon's eyes instantly widened at the huge reward number. "50,000 yen?!"

"Due to this high reward, I doubt that this evil spirit won't be easy to handle."

Renge explains that she's here to help Kain catching it. However, Rinne and Rokumon are too dazed by the money to listen to what she's saying. "Hey! Are you listening to me?!"

Though he snaps back to reality pretty quickly. "No, Rokumon! This is not the time for us to daydreaming! Right now, the most important matter is to save Mamiya Sakura!"

"Saving Sakura? What happened?"

Renge asks about the incident and Tsubasa sighs. "That criminal you're looking for, it took Sakura away while we were distracted."

Her eyes then land on one guy standing separately from the group. "And who is this Kain-senpai look alike over there?"

"Oh, that is one of the guests who got lost while visiting the haunted cave. The reason he's now tagging along with us is because his friend is also being captured."

Notices Sesshomaru's eyes are watching her, she whispers to Tsubasa. "Hey, can this guy see Shinigami?"

"Yeah, apparently both him and his friend have the ability to see ghost. And no only that, this guy can even fight them too."

Why do I have such an uneasy feeling about this man? As if he doesn't belong to this world at all…Is he even human? After studying the strange man from head to toes, Renge frowns in deep thought.

No longer able to stand waiting, Sesshomaru walks straight into the path further ahead.

"Huh? Where is that guy going? Hey, you will get lost if wandering aimlessly like that"

Therefore both Ageha and Tsubasa warn him before he wanders off too far alone.

"I know where they are."

Not bother to look back, Sesshomaru answers and continues moving forward, much to their surprise.

"What? But how?"

However he doesn't response and gradually disappears into the darkness up ahead.

Rinne, after spending some seconds considerations, eventually decides to follow Sesshomaru. When being asked why he would do such a thing, Rinne explains. "Perhaps that this guy knows something that we don't."

"We should get going too."

Now that they're gone, Kain turns to his underclassman before walking to another direction and she nods.

Back to Shiomi and Sakura.

"Hmm… Who should I pick first."

The giant skeleton's debating between the two of us before pointing at Sakura at the final result. "Alright, you then."

"What?!"

We gasp in horror once seeing its hand is starting to get close.

"W-Wait! How about you take me instead?! We're both as good, right?!"

Quickly I step up to volunteer to be picked, hoping to buy us sometime till the others get here. I can't let him take her. Sakura is, after all, only a normal human! She may die!

"If you insist that much. Then you shall be my first wife!"

It laughs and reaches out its bony hand toward me. Leaving its palm wide open and waits for me to offer myself to it.

"First…. wife?"

My jaw drops after hearing the skeleton's ridiculous announcement, getting hesitated to move forward and its head tilts. Confused by my sudden change of attitude. "What? You don't wanna?"

"I…Uh…"

Seeing my frustrated expression, Sakura whispers to me.

"Shiomi-san, there's no need for you to do that. I will be fine."

"No, it would be better if I go first. I mean, who know what it's going to do to you?"

"What about you? You're not worrying about yourself?"

"It's okay, I've actually gotten used to with these kind of situations..."

I assure Sakura before walking toward to the skeleton ghost up ahead. Suddenly something passes by in the air and in a blink of an eye, the skeleton's arm being cut apart and disappears.

"W-What?! My arm!"

Due to the sudden attack, the ghost takes a couple of seconds to adjust before glaring at the silver haired man standing in front of us, roaring in anger. "You! How dare you!"

"Sesshomaru!"

I jump in joy by his arrival and soon we hear Rinne's call near by. "Mamiya Sakura!"

Sakura rushes to his side as Rinne lands before the barrier and breaks it easily with his scythe.

"Mamiya Sakura, are you okay?!"

He asks in great concern and she nods, smiling. "I'm fine. Thank you Rokkudo-kun."

"Mamiya-san!" Just then both Tsubasa and Ageha arrive to the scene. "What? They're really here?!"

"How dare you interrupt my important moment! You imbecile! Do you even know who I am?!"

The giant skeleton tries to grab Sesshomaru and smash him into pieces.

"It shall be death penalty for whoever dares to touch what is mine."

With Tenseiga, Sesshomaru launches forward and strikes a long line from its head to toes. Split the giant skeleton into half.

"His?" Sakura turns to me in much curiosity and I avoid her eyes, making up an excuse. "H-He means friend! His friend!"

"Wow did that guy just one hit the skeleton?! Amazing!"

Meanwhile, Rokumon and the others are too awed by Sesshomaru's immerse strength. Just then notices something drops out from the criminal's body before vanishing, Ageha walks over to pick it up.

"A necklace?"

Seeing the jewelry in her hand, Rokumon recalls to a stolen necklace from that wanted poster. "It said that you would only receive the reward money if you bring it back!"

"However, it wasn't us who defeated this evil spirit. I say that all the credit should be going to him."

Rinne glances at Sesshomaru who is standing not too far away. Despite not liking the guy much but he has to admit that without his help, they are going to be in much more trouble taking the giant skeleton down.

"Uh huh." Tsubasa shoots him a bored look as the Shinigami begins to shed tears of blood, cringing his teeth.

He really want it, doesn't he. Sakura sighs, watching him battling with his own morality and Rokumon groans. "Aww…Does that mean Rinne-sama will not be getting anything? And we have already decided what to do with that money too…"

"Sesshomaru? What do you think?"

Feeling bad for Rinne, I ask Sesshomaru for his opinion and he turns away, refusing the reward. "I don't want it."

"What?! You don't want it?! But that's like 50,000 yen!"

Upon hearing Sesshomaru's angelic answer, both Rinne and Rokumon gasp in surprise. Then after hearing me ensuring that it's okay for them to keep it, their jaw drop, cannot believing what is happening anymore. For real?! Such a good guy!

"Lucky you, Rokkudo-kun."

Sakura congrats Rinne and his black cat, watching them cry to each other in joy. "50,000 yen…!"

Can't no longer stand watching their drama, Tsubasa claps his hands to bring them back to reality. "Alright, save that happy part for later. Right now we should find a way out of this hellhole."

"Easy, this way should lead us straight outside."

Ageha opens another spirit road in front of her. Not wasting time, Rinne orders Rokumon to turns big again to carry me, Sesshomaru, Sakura and Tsubasa into the spirit road.

At the cave's exit

"Finally, some light."

Tsubasa sighs in relief once stepping outside and Ageha shoots him an unamused look. "Will you stop overreacting? We were in there for no more than 3 hours."

"Thank you, Sesshomaru-san for helping us back there."

Once we land onto the ground, Rinne bows to him in appreciation. Though the guy only responds shortly with a "Hn" and walks off.

"I hope we will meet again someday, Shiomi-san."

Sakura shakes my hand and I smile, totally agreeing with the idea of seeing each other again. I mean, why shouldn't be after seeing how the Shinigami work by purifying ghosts and investigating mysterious stuff. Everything is so new and interesting.

"Take care." She gets back on Rokumon with the others and bid us goodbye.

After spending more time walking, we eventually reach to a small sweet shop full of familiar-looking people.

"Oh? Everyone's here."

I blink in surprise, seeing the Tendo family and the others are enjoying colorful shave ices at the table.

"Senpai!"

Kagome calls out for me within the crowd. "There you are! I thought you would never come out! We're about to go back in there to find you two. What happened?"

She walks up to me, her expression shows a lot of concern.

"I'm so sorry for running away, Shiomi-san. Were you okay in there?!"

Then Akane approaches us.

"It's nothing. We kind of got lost, that's all." I nod to confirm everything is fine and she sighs in relief. "Thanks god."

Curious about their experiences inside the haunted cave, I ask them. "So how was the trip? Did it go well?"

"Yeah I think so."

She responds dully and glares back to Inuyasha, who's too busy eating Dango to care. "Except he almost destroyed the whole cave at the end."

"Something happened?"

"Weird ghosts appeared near the exit and tried to separate us apart, a lot of them."

Akane recalls to that strange phenomenon in the end. "Yes, the same thing happened to me too. But they let us go once I and Ranma got into a fight though, I wonder why."

Thinking that her upperclassman could have gotten the same treatment, Kagome asks. "And what about you, senpai? Did something strange happen to you?"

"More than I can imagine!" I reply with a grin, causing Kagome and Akane look at each other in confusion. "?"