Chapter 15: The House Of Dreams

"This! Is 'your' house!" Kagome said in awe and almost fainted at the size! It was old-fashioned Japanese style house with two floors and a balcony on the second floor. It was right outside the edge of the forest. She smiled and walked up to the door as Inu-Yasha lifted a box over onto his shoulder.

"Yep." He said with a hidden smile as she placed her hand on the door and looked at him, for the first time in years, with pure happiness. "C-can I go in?" she asked like a child with a new toy. Inu-Yasha nodded and said in a amused voice, "Under the mat, there is the key." She said nothing and stepped back, lifted the corner of the mat and picked up the key. She stood up and placed the key into the lock, turned it once and unlocked the door.

She then entered the house and her jaw almost literally it the floor. There was a staircase to her left and a long hall way in front of her that lead to the kitchen two doors to her left. She ran up stairs as Inu-Yasha brought her things in, he was happy that he had a reason to get out of his dorm. ["She looks so happy."]

Kagome ran to the top of the stairs and blinked, there was a hallway that leads to the balcony on her right and in front of her was a hallway. She walked down the hallway that was before her, one door on her right and left and two other doors down the hallway. She went to the one on her left and opened it.

Inside was a nice sized room with a king sized bed, the walls where a mix of gray and white with antique looking stone leafs and flowers, but it only took her a moment to see it was wall paper. The bed was made out of green brass, the head board was brass also and was shaped at the top like a triangle and within the triangle was a brass cat. Little grass balls sat on the bed polls, a dressing screen with black trim and the pattern of black bamboo imprinted in the middle of the screen, which sat in the corner of the room.

"You like it?" a voice said from behind her and she turned around to find Inu-Yasha leaning against the doorframe. "Like it? I love it!" she exclaimed as Inu-Yasha pushed himself off the doorframe, "Then this will be your room, mine will be across from yours." He said as he turned out the door and started down the stairs to get her things. She stood there in awe. "My . . . room?" she stuttered

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Within three hours the house was in order and the rooms sat up, Inu-Yasha scratched the side of his neck in thought as he sat down on the step outside in front of the screen door. The wind below at his hair gently as he heard the door open and Kagome came out and sat down beside him.

"T-Thank you." She stuttered, "I'm sorry . . . about last night."

"Don't worry about it." he said off handly as she sighed and drew her legs up to her chest and then wrapped her arms around them and rested her chin on her knees. "This is the second time . . . for me to live . . . with a man. You know?" she paused, "This place reminds me of home, I used to live in an ancient shrine with my family. Ji-chan, Mom and Sota, my little brother. I'm supposed to go back home after my schooling and take care of the shrine." She laughed a little, "I'm sorry, I must be boring you." ["Why I am I telling him all this?"] she asked herself as Inu-Yasha shook his head.

"I was supposed to help my brother run our families business, but we never go alone or never could for that matter." He said for a moment and then looked at her, "Oi, Kagome, would you umm . . ." he blushed slightly and looked away from her, "Go to the Carnival with me?" he asked and was reward with silence, he frowned.

"Hai." She said and then stood up, "I would like to." She said with a small smile as Inu-Yasha looked up at her, "R-Really?" he stuttered and she nodded to him and started back inside as she looked over her shoulder at him, "Do you have a dream?" she asked suddenly which caught him off guard. "Hai." He said as she pushed the door open, "So do I. I wish I could sing on a stage, just for once, to know who it feels." She said and then went into the house as Inu-Yasha looked towards the horizon.

["My wish . . . is to be with you."] Inu-Yasha thought as the wind suddenly picked up and blew his hair about him.

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Naraku walked into his house, or rather lair which was an old ruin down building in the worse side of town. He throw the door open and stomped into the main room where two girls sat playing checkers, one with white hair and very pale, the other with black hair that was placed in a bun. She was much taller then the pale girl with bows in her hair. They both jumped when Naraku stomped in, "Geez." The black haired woman said as she rolled her eyes. "Thanks for the scare." She snapped

Naraku glared at her and the white haired girl said nothing, "Kana, bring me your mirror." Naraku growled as Kana stood up and picked up the mirror beside her and walked over to the man and held it out to him, where he could see.

The mirror glowed once and an image appeared before him, he saw Kagome sitting next to Inu-Yasha. Naraku growled at this site. "Blast it!" he yelled out as their words echoed through the mirror. That's when Naraku suddenly smiled as he watched Kagome enter the house.

"May's Carnival, eh?" he said in more of a statement the question as the mirror's images disappeared and Naraku waved his hand to dismiss the girl and he scratched his chin. "Carnival . . . perfect." He said out loud to no one but himself as he began to plot his act of attack.

Meanwhile Kagura raised an eyebrow as her elder sister came back and sat down in front of her and moved a black checker across the board. "Naraku is at it again." Kana stated as she removed five red checkers from the board as Kagura was left with one checker left. "He just wont give up will he?"

"Nope."

"Hmm." Kagura moved her single red checker and took four black checkers off the board and one red and black checker was left.

Naraku slide his clawed hands into his shirt and then back out and growled as he looked at his hand that was covered in blood. "Damn that girl, she'll pay for this." He then snickered as he licked the blood from his fingers. "Oh yes, pay indeed."

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Okay I know that was REALLY! Short and im sorry! I just wanted to update really really bad lol. The next chapter will be A LOT longer!

Until next time

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