Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha

(AN: The following chapters are what happens to the group (either day by day or I'll try to move it along quickly. Since they live in a kingdom with no parental control, it might get a little boring. I apologize for that)

Another Note: This takes place like in the 1800's or so, when electricity was invented already. LOL. I had to ask someone when they invented electricity and they told me Benjamin Franklin did it somewhere in the 1800's. I completely blanked out that information I learned in middle school. -_-;; So yeah, if I get it wrong, sorry but I hope you know what I meant. ^-^)

The Golden Rule

Chapter Six:

Things That Go 'Bump' in the Night

When Inu Yasha and Kagome finally got Miroku free from the tree he was tied to, everyone noticed that the sun had begun to set. Dusk settled into night and so owls were heard screeching through the night.

Back at the castle, Kagome's chef and maids have already had the table prepared for four. The table was a very long, rectangular table with a very big floral arrangement in the middle. Since it was cut that same morning, it still smelled very fresh. Before anyone could sit down, Sango had to say something.

"Wait!" Sango said, putting her hands in the air to signal that no one should move. "I can't sit here!"

Kagome sighed. "Why not?"

"Because," Sango said, glaring at Miroku's direction. He just smiled an innocent look with angelic eyes saying 'I'm an angel!' "He's going to sit next to me."

"Aww, come on Sango! I know you want to sit next to me! I know you want me." Miroku said with a casual tone. This caused Sango's anger to flare up.

"What?! ME want YOU?! Ha!" Sango scoffed, she was about ready to kick his ass again.

"Calm down Sango. Do you want me to sit next to Miroku then? You can sit on the other end of the table. Are you happy now?" Kagome said being reasonable. Now, she was facing Inu Yasha when sitting at the table. Inu Yasha was just trying to hide his smile (same goes for Kagome! ^-^).

During dinner, a storm moved into the lands. Fierce winds made the trees tap on the windows and it made Kagome a little nervous. She fiddled in her seat and she tried to keep her mind on her food, but it wasn't helping. When thunder roared, it made Kagome yelp.

"What's wrong?" Inu Yasha said as he looked up from his food. He noticed the scared look from Kagome's face.

"N-Nothing" Kagome could get out. One thing she hated was thunder. That always freaked her out. She sighed and tried to continue eating her food.

When dinner was done, and there was nothing left to do, the group decided to go to the spookiest looking place in the castle, the attic that hasn't been in use for years. Miroku and Inu Yasha thought of the best idea of then night! Story Telling! (*sigh* remember, they are guys, which means that they don't think very much. No offense to any other guys… ^-^)

Kagome and Sango sweat dropped at the idea. What was so scary about story telling… in an old attic… in the middle of the night… with ghosts? Ok, they finally caught on and were now officially scared. Goosebumps seemed to travel throughout their bodies as they came closer and closer towards the attic. Their hairs stood on-end. Yup, Sango and Kagome were chickens!

"Are you scared Sango? Do you want me to hold you?" Miroku said, Sango just glared at him and she almost hit him if it wasn't that Kagome was in between herself and Miroku.

"Shut up Miroku." She scoffed at him. 'Damn Miroku, being so perverted at a time like this…' Her thoughts said to her. She sighed and continued to follow Inu Yasha into the dark and spooky attic.

Being old and spooky, the attic was also covered in dust. The slightest move in the attic would make piles and piles of dust come into the atmosphere of the attic. Everyone just tried to avoid touching anything. Inu Yasha got a hold of a candle with its candle holder and lit it. At least now it provided more light in the dark place.

The storm was still outside, raging with fury; it also seemed that the storm was right above them. The thunderclap was stronger than it was an hour ago. This made Kagome even more uneasy about coming to the attic.

She gulped. "Who's bright idea was it to come here?" she said a little scared.

Inu Yasha just turned around to her and smiled. "Me" he said with a grin. Miroku decided to chip in too. "Me too! Don't forget me!" he said in a childish manner. Kagome could only roll her eyes at the Hanyou and that pervert. She started to curse at herself for letting these idiots drag her down up here.

The group sat in a circle, well almost. Kagome sat next to Sango and Sango sat next to Miroku who sat next to Inu Yasha. Of course, Sango was always on the watch for Miroku's hands. What was strange is that Kagome noticed a fork in Sango's clothes… I wonder what she could be doing with a fork?

The story telling began with Miroku. "It was a dark and stormy night…" he started off. Before he got any farther than that, everyone was groaning.

"Oh come on!" Kagome said.

"That's so lame Miroku!" Sango said, assisting Kagome.

"Yeah Miroku, come on! That doesn't even scare a 3-year-old!" Inu Yasha said with his arms crossed.

"If you think it's so lame, let's see you do it!" Miroku said, defending himself. He had a slight grin as to saying that Inu Yasha that he cant do better than Miroku could. This made Inu Yasha kind of ticked-off.

"Is that a challenge Perv?" Inu Yasha said with an evil grin.

Miroku could only do the same to him. This was a clash of testosterone. Sango and Kagome could only sweat drop at their stupidity.

"Come on guys! Stop arguing and would someone tell a REAL SCARRY story?!" Sango insisted. This girl was not afraid of anything the guys had planned.

"Ok, ok, ok. I'll do it since SOMEONE can't" Inu Yasha said looking at Miroku's direction. He only turned away and looked at the wall or the window, wherever it was more interesting.

Inu Yasha cleared his throat and started telling the story. "Many years ago, while Japan was still young, there was this demon, this bloodthirsty demon. He ravaged the lands of the west while every victim in his wake died a miserable death. He would kill them ever so slowly and in nights like these, he would commit his most horrendous slayings…" He went on to tell them that his victims were young maidens with long, dark hair and other important stuff… like how he killed them. (Inu Yasha has such an active imagination… ^-^)

Its time like these, that Kagome was already shitting bricks. She was never the one to stand a scary story especially in the dark, spooky attic. She tried to drone out Inu Yasha's voice with humming or something like that, but it wasn't working as well as she thought it would.

Then a thunderclap struck down, which seemed right next to the castle, and it made Kagome cry out. Of course (^-^) the nearest person to her right was Inu Yasha. She was so scared she lunged towards him and clung on to him like a bad stench. Of course, he stopped and blushed.

Sango and Miroku started snickering. Miroku leaned toward Sango and started to whisper things in her ear. "I think he planned it." He said grinning at the confused Hanyou and the scared girl.

Sango started grinning as well. "I think he did." She was smiling at the couple until she noticed the way Miroku was close to her. She started to blush very lightly.

Miroku saw an opening! A perfect opportunity to grope Sango! He smiled at himself and went in for the kill. Before he even got an inch close to her, he felt something on his hand; something cold and pointy. When he went to see what it is, it was Sango with a fork. 'What the hell…' He thought.

Sango could only look at him with fire burning in her eyes. The fork was still in her hand and she was stabbing Miroku with it as hard as possible. Unfortunately, the fork was dull and it didn't even make a cut on his skin. "MIROKU!" she bellowed. "DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN ONE DAY YOU'RE MISSING A LIMB!" (*wink wink* 'limb'… get it? -_-;; *sigh*…) she warned. Miroku could only laugh nervously.

This little quarrel made Inu Yasha and Kagome snap out of their 'situation' and see Miroku on the verge of being killed (once again) by Sango. They too laughed nervously and tried to reason with the crazy bitch… I mean Sango (^-^).

"Sango" Kagome said, a little scared. "Put the fork down and calm down. Don't kill Miroku now… That's just wrong."

"Wrong?!" Sango yelled. "Wrong?! This pervert just ruined a good moment!" She quickly realized what she said and went quiet. "Forget it," she said sadly. With that she got up and left. All three of them looked at her oddly, but then Kagome realized what she meant.

"I'll go talk to her." Kagome told the guys. She left Inu Yasha's warm embrace and went to find Sango who had left very quickly.

Both men looked dumbfounded for a second, then Miroku started talking. "What was that about?" he asked.

"I have no clue" Inu Yasha (sort of) answered him. He just stood looking at the doorway where both females had just left. Without worry, both of them decided to do 'manly' things together. "So…" Inu Yasha said, breaking the silence. "Want to arm wrestle?"

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Kagome found Sango in her room with the lights off. She was sitting near her window and was just looking outside at the dancing trees in the storm. She sighed and looked back at Kagome. "It was almost perfect." She whispered.

Kagome smiled sadly and took a seat on her bed nearest to her. "So that means you like him huh?" Kagome said jokingly, this made Sango snap out of her little depression.

"I do not!" Sango said, averting Kagome's gaze. She just looked out the window and continued talking. "He just makes me… I don't know…"

"I know how you feel." Kagome said. Apparently, Sango thought Kagome meant that Miroku made her feel the way he makes Sango feel.

"Really?" Sango inquired. Kagome took note of this and waved her hands in defense.

"Um, no, that's not what I meant," she started off. "It's not Miroku! It's Inu Yasha". She said, quickly she covered her mouth. 'Damnit Kagome! You made it slip!' she thought. She laughed nervously and pointed something outside. "Hey, isn't that a cow flying by?"

Sango didn't buy it. "Come on! Spill it! You love Inu Yasha!" She said happily. Kagome only blushed.

"Well, not LOVE, maybe like… a lot…" She trailed off and sighed. "I feel like when we were kids and he took me to that lake." She said, butterflies fluttering in her stomach as she recalled that memory. "It was wonderful."

Sango smiled. "I guess we're lost in love." She said out of the blue. Kagome smiled and yawned. "I guess it's time for us to go to sleep. It's late." Sango said. Kagome nodded and bid her friend goodnight then walked off to her room.

Kagome quickly got her nightgown on and went to sleep. During which, both Inu Yasha and Miroku, that were up in the attic got tired of arm wrestling and went the sleep themselves.

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During the middle (or late hours) of the night, there was this strange noise coming from inside the castle.

*Bump*

Kagome awoke to that noise and looked around confused. 'What was that?' she thought. Thinking it was nothing, she went back to sleep.

*Scratch*

A second time she wakes up and looks around the room. 'Everything seems pretty normal.' She thought cautiously. She looked outside where it was still pouring. She also noticed the little flashes of light that appeared here and there every so often and got a little scared. Shrugging it off, she tried to go back to sleep.

*Tap Tap*

Kagome quickly got up put on her robe. She went to look for someone who was awake at this hour to see if they were hearing those noises too. When she was in the hall, she noticed that there was a light coming through Inu Yasha's room. Thinking he was awake, she knocked on his door.

"Are you awake?" She said quietly.

Inu Yasha decided it would be fun to say the wrong answers. "No" he casually said. She knocked again.

"Stop acting stupid!" she said a little agitated. "Can I come in?" she asked again, her voice sounding a little scared.

Again he wanted to act stupid. "No." he answered back. Kagome could only take so much stupidity and opened the door. "Hey! I said no you can't come in!" he said playfully. He noticed that she looked a bit shaken up. "Are you ok?" he asked a bit worried.

"I've been hearing things," she said. "Weird things."

Inu Yasha looked at her oddly. "If it's the elf people, saying to return their king, don't worry about it. They talk to me all the time too. In fact, I think they've been trying to…" before he could say anything else, Kagome threw a pillow to his face.

"Shut up! You're acting stupid again. I'm only here to save you from the depths of you stupidity." She said playfully. Inu Yasha shot her with an annoyed glance then mumbled something under his breath.

While Inu Yasha was talking to himself, Kagome heard another noise.

*Scratch*

She was so nervous she turned pale. "Didn't you hear that?" she whispered. "Something is making that noise."

Inu Yasha looked at her oddly and didn't take into consideration that she was trembling. "It's probably nothing Kagome; maybe you're just imagining things." But then he heard the noise too.

*Bump*

This made his hair stand on edge. Something WAS making that noise and he was going to figure out what. When he was about to leave, Kagome clung on him again. "Where are YOU going?!" she shrieked. "You don't plan on leaving me here are you?" she said with big puppy eyes. Inu Yasha couldn't possibly say yes now could he?...

"Well actually yes…" he said, he received a punch on the head for that comment. "But since I see you're too scared, I guess I'll take you with me." He got a hold of her hand and they walked out of the room looking for the strange noise.

In the midst of their findings, Kagome was babbling about idiotic ideas. "What if it's a ghost? Or what about the demon you were talking about earlier? Or what if it's a big chicken monster? Or what if it's the Elf King?!"

Inu Yasha was about ready to leave her in the middle of the dark, but since his heart didn't allow him to, he just tried to block out her ramblings. "Kagome, now that's just stupid. I made up the story about the demon."

They continued to look everywhere until they heard a noise get louder and louder. It was in the kitchen! Both of them cautiously went towards the door that led them to the inside of it and turned the knob slowly. They were prepared to encounter some freak monster…

But what they found…

Made them even more nervous…

It was like the end of the world was happening…

Because…

They found Sango and Miroku at the employee table drinking something warm and were in a very casual conversation. This made Inu Yasha and Kagome very stumped. What the hell happened?!

"Oh, hey guys." Sango said, still holding the mug in her hands.

"What's wrong? Looks like you two had just seen a ghost." Miroku commented. He too had a mug in his hands.

Kagome and Inu Yasha were just dumbfounded. "I put myself through all that for this?!" he yelled. Inu Yasha turned back and was starting to head towards his room. What he didn't notice was that Kagome was still holding on to his hand. So, he just took her with him.

On their way back, Inu Yasha noticed that Kagome's hand was trembling slightly. He then remembered that there was still a storm, and the whole castle was dark. He sighed and led her to her room.

"Will you be ok?" Inu Yasha asked at the door, Kagome still looked a bit frightened, but still said she was going to be ok. He didn't buy it for a second. "You suck at lying" he said. "I'm gonna stay with you all night… or until you fall asleep…" he muttered.

Kagome smiled weakly and whispered 'thank you' to him and led him inside her room. He sat next to the window until she fell asleep in her bed. Then, he himself fell asleep near the window in the early hours of the morning when the sun was rising and the storm was passing.

(AN: Well, yeah stupidity and fluff all in one long chapter. Yay! Well, hope you like!)