Under the Pale Autumn Moon

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The taxi drove away, it's taillight illuminating the road from which he stood. His black hair cascaded down his back in a loose ponytail. His violet eyes lifted from the ground and up towards the large house that he was to be staying in. His cousin, Sango, had invited him to live with her after the accident.

It was early morning, about four in the morning, according to his watch. He shrugged, since there was no use in waking them up so that he can just go and sleep. He picked up his two suitcases, filled with the belongings. One was just his clothes, the other one...it just had things that he couldn't bare to part. Mementos of his pack-rat life.

He walked up the stone pathway and onto the porch, he jiggled the handle: locked. Figures, Sango was always so protective. He sat himself in a little lawn chair. He could be rude, but he wasn't mean enough to wake his cousin from sleep, after she'd been so kind as to invite him into her home.

The house was huge; it looked to be at least three stories. No wonder she wanted company, he did know that she had maids and servants but he believed that she was the only resident. The workers slept in the servant quarters, he supposed.

He sighed, Sango was lucky, having been born into a rich family, she never had to worry about the hardships he faced, and the hardships he would have faced if she hadn't taken him in.

He brushed his black hair from his face and stared off the porch and into the forest pointed east of the house. It seemed dark, sad, lonely and jaded.

He continued to stare at the forest before drifting off into a peaceful sleep.

He awoke about two hours later when something hard hit him in the face. He jumped straight into the air and looked around for his offender.

A little boy holding a newspaper stood staring up at him.

"What the fuck are you doing?" he growled at the boy. The boy stood up on his full three feet height, if not smaller, and whacked him in the shins with the newspaper, "God damn it, what are you doing?"

The boy stuck out his tongue and continued to whack him, "You're a peeping tom, spying on Sango-Sama, get your rump of our property, you bum!"

Suddenly, the front door opened and a woman with long black hair, held up in a loose ponytail, came strolling out. She stopped when she noticed the two boys yelling and whacking each other.

She smiled, "Shippou, what are you doing?"

The auburn haired boy looked up with triumphant eyes, "I was getting rid of the peeping tom!"

Sango raised an eyebrow at the 'peeping tom', he stared back, and suddenly Sango broke into a grin and flung herself around his shoulders, "Inuyasha it's been so long!"

Inuyasha shot a glare at Shippou before patting Sango's back, "Yeah, it has."

Sango pulled away and stared dragging Inuyasha indoors, "Shippou, carry his stuff up to the guestroom, it will be his room from now on."

Shippou stared dumbfounded, "But he's the peeping tom!"

Sango walked down the halls with Inuyasha, "So how have you been Inuyasha?"

"Fine, I guess," Inuyasha looked away out windows, around the walls, that sort of stuff.

"I hope we didn't keep you waiting," Sango smiled as she climbed the staircase.

"Well I got here at four, but I didn't want to wake you up so..."

Sango smiled and rubbed Inuyasha's head like he was a dog; "You're so sweet, looking out for others, now let's see, where is that guestroom?"

Sango's face suddenly turned dark and her eyebrow began to twitch. She reached for the closest thing she could find, a broom, and started to whack a man who was holding her butt.

Inuyasha looked stupidly as his cousin bashed this man who was obviously touching her.

Sango straightened up happily as soon as she was done, dusting off her hands she cast a sidelong glance at him, "Inuyasha, this is my cook, Miroku, Miroku, this is my cousin, Inuyasha, touch me again and I'll have him kick your ass."

Inuyasha looked briefly at the unconscious Miroku, "Sango, I think he's dead."

"Good." Sango dusted off her hands as if killing an innocent bystander was dirty work, "Shall I show you to your room then?"