AN: Woop! I updates earlier than I thought I would! I dunno, but all of a sudden, I had an unexpected inspiration. Oh well, it's updated! Review responses at the bottom!
Summary: A/U Ever since she was five, Kagome had alway shad a friend only she could see and hear. Anyone could feel him though, it's like he was a ghost. He has been dubbed Kagome's "Imaginary" friend, but is he really "imgainary"? But when Kagome's Jichan decided to tell Kagome the Higurashi Shrine secret, will he always be "imaginary" to the world? And why is Sango acting all weird?
Everyday Tickery
by Kumori Ryuuzaki
Chapter One: I Thought It Was a Day Like Any Other
It was a peaceful spring day, very early in the morning. All the inhabitants of the Higurashi Shrine were in bed, except for one...
"KYAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
Kagome sat up sbruptly under the ice cold covers and ice cubes, soaked and shivering to death. Next to her, Inuyasha was laughing his head off, holding a bucket with a few cubes of ice in it.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome shrieked. "What the heck do you think you're doing!!!!"
"Well, I thought since you're almost always late, I thought you would like to be up early for once in your pethetic life," Inuyasha answered simply, a few chuckles escaped from his lips. "All the other methods won't work. I tried about almost all of them."
Kagome glared at him, and got out of the bed. "Jerk."
"Wench."
"Numbskull."
"Bitch."
"Idiot."
"Come on! What's with all those lame overused ones?" Inuyasha complained, turning around to face a wall while Kagome changed.
"Well, maybe I don't feel like cursing," Kagome said shortly, who finished dressing and was now packing up books and her homework.
"You don't feel like doing anything!" Inuyasha mumbled, turning back around. "You rather stay home all day reading mangas and watching TV."
"You would in my shoes," Kagome retorted. "You're lucky. You don't have to go to school."
Inuyasha snorted. "School's stupid and pointlesss and is for idiots."
"It is not!" Kagome snapped indignantly. "I am not an idiot, and I have to attend school by law and so I can survive out on my own!!"
"Makes me glad I didn't grow up here," Inuyasha said absently, leaning back against a wall, a rusted katana in his arms. "Makes you obsessed with studying. Keh, you're always busy nowadays!!"
"Well, I have several hours of freedom now," Kagome said. "I'm going to get breakfast. Lemme geuss, you want ramen don't you?"
Inuyasha nodded eagerly.
"Well come on, dog-boy, the ramen doesn't cook itself you know."
Kagome laughed lightly when Inuyasha was downstairs in a flash, raiding the cupboards of ramen. SHe could remember when Inuyasha first had ramen. It took forever to convince Inuyasha to eat it, and it also took eternity to get him to stop eating all the ramen in the house. He was a pain, but she didn't really mind at all.
~*~
Kagome reluctantly dragged herself to school, wishing that it was a SUnday, and she could stay home with Inuyasha and do whatever. Anything was better than school and homework.
"Higurashi!"
Kagome winced. It was Hojo, and as of now, she wasn't in the mood to deal with him. He never set foot near her house lately, and that might be because of the little prank Inuyasha pulled on him one time. The hanyou poured something over Hojo (to this day, she still doesn't know what), and it made bees and misquitoes somewhat attracted to him, which wasn't very good since Hojo was allergic to them. Kagome refused to speak a word to the hanyou, so Inuyasha spent the whole week at the other side of the well doing who knows what. He was probably lounging in the tress, thinking u other nasty things to do to Hojo.
"Oh hi, Hojo-kun!" Kagome said, turning around and giving Hojo a fake smile. She really didn't want to go through this right now.
"Hello to you too, Higurashi!" Hojo gave her a bright smile. She REALLY wasn't in the mood for this. "You wouldn't mind if I walked you to school, would you?"
"Err...actually..." Think, Kagome, think! What lame excuse are you going to use? "I err...promised to..umm...meet a friend! Yeah! Sango! That's er...why I'm up so early! To study for...today's...quiz?"
"Oh," Hojou said, looking completely disappointed. "Maybe some other time?"
Kagome face faulted. He bought it? "Err...yea...some other time...See ya Hojou!" Kagome raced off to Sango's house that was a few houses down, praying to god that Sango was up and still at home.
As it turned out, Sango was sleeping since it was only six in the morning, and school didn't start until eight. Why Kagome was out this early, she'll never really know. But anyways, Kagome was sitting in the dining room while Sango sat across from her, eating breakfast.
"Thank you so much!" Kagome gushed for the millionth time that hour. "I don't what I was going to do if you said no!"
"I wouldn't say no," Sango said, stuffing sausages into her mouth. "You're my best friend, why would I?" She suddenly sent a dark glare to something besides her.
Kagome followed Sango's glare, but there was nothing she could be glaring at, except a bunch of pictures of Kohaku and Sango while they were growing up. What the heck was she glaring at?
Kagome stiffened immediately at the fell of something on her backside. With a scream, Kagome jumped and turned around, clutching her backside. "What the heck--?"
"I need to take a shower!" Sango said hurriedly, rushing foward with her hands and arms outstretched, sorta like she was pushing someone. "I'll be back in 30 minutes, okay?"
Kagome noddedly dumbly and watched Sango run off, who was muttering obcenities under her breath.
~*~
"Damn you Miroku, where the hell are you?" Inuyasha muttered, trying to pick up Miroku's scent. It was obvious the monk didn't want Inuyasha to follow him, since his scent was covered up so well. The hanyou sniffed the air, and followed Miroku's scent to the well. "It stops here, and it's more fresher here, so that must mean Miroku must be on the other side of the well." Realization dawned him. "Oh no! Miroku's probably being killed by some woman he groped!" He paused. "Oh well, he deserves it."
Inuyasha walked away from the well, deciding that if Miroku was being killed by angry women, there wasn't really much he could about it. It would be extremely hard to track down Miroku's scent in the modern era, especially since the monk was hiding it pretty well. Besides, it was Miroku's fault.
Inuyasha wondered mindlessly around think of many mean things he could do to Kagome when she gets back home. You know, pour a bucket of honey and feathers onto her when she walks into the house, hide her homework in the blender, ect ect ect. It was fun, despite the fact he would be sat to kingdom come, which really wasn't what he liked at all.
He could hear some villagers in the distant, in other words, he wasn't very far from the local village Miroku came from. In fact, the only reason he actually lived in the forest before he met Kagome was an object that reside in the village. He had tried to get it a few times, but the village miko made sure he never got his hands on it, but she never killed him. He met Miroku trying to get the jewel one time, and ever since then the monk wouldn't leave him alone. And because the stupid idiot pushed him into the well, he had met Kagome. So in a way, it was all connected somehow.
Inuyasha stood silently, debating whether or not he should try to steal the Skikon jewel or not. Ever since Kagome said she liked him just the way he is, becoming a full blooded demon didn't seem as important as it used to be. Well, she was the reason he didn't go after the jewel anymore. He practically lived there now, so Miroku probably got annoyed, and decide to follow him down the well. But where could he be? He didn't remember smelling him at all while he was there.
He jumped up onto the nearest tree's branch, fingering the rosary around his neck. He was a bit worried of Miroku. In fact, he had every damn right to be worried. With Miroku's habits and morals, it's a wonder why he was a monk. Hell, it was a wonder why he's still alive! Of couse, it's times like these that he wonders if Miroku really was a human being.
Inuyasha lifted his head when a familiar scent reached his nose. He could smell her coming. And that was the last thing he really wanted.
~*~
Kagome sat on the sofa in the living room. She had the distinct impression that she was being watched, but she was in the room all alone. So her morning with Sango had been a little wierd, but she shouldn't be talking. Best friends with a half demon that she could subdue with the 'magic word' and a magical well in her backyard was weider.
Sango came down the stairs, all dryed and dressed, her school things in her hand as. She glared at something across from Kagome, but the girl shook it off. What could Sango glare at besides the sofa?
Other than that, the day was perfectly normal. When he left her house, Sango hadn't done anything remotely weird. Kagome had managed to avoid Hojou, and quite honestly, she still wasn't in the mood to deal with Hojou. Lately, she was never in the mood to see Hojou, and it was getting more and more tempting to ditch school and hang out with Inuyasha, especially since exams were coming up.
Kagome was happily speeding home so she could finish her homework and prehaps play a few games with Inuyasha. But her happiness faded when she couldn't find Inuyasha anywhere in the house. She couldn't call for him, her family in the house, and they already thought she was nuts. Only she could see or hear Inuyasha. No doubt Souta would think Inuyasha was cool if he knew the hanyou in person.
She sighed, and decided to do her homework, and hope Inuyasha wouldn't be out too long.
~*~
Inuyasha came through Kagome's window a few hours later when Kagome had fallen asleep on her homework, with a serious look on his face. He was thinking. Thinking of the quesion that he was asked earlier. He clutched the object in his hand, still thinking of an answer.
Kagome yawned and slowly opened her eyes and looked at Inuyasha. "Inu-kun? Where were you? You had me worried." Inuyasha often goes through the well, but he never stayed there for long.
"Met up with an old friend, found some old things," Inuyasha answered with a shrug, settling into a corner of her room. "Nothing much."
"Oh," Kagome started to put her homework away. "So, wanna do anything?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I dunno. But I am hungry."
"Cool, I'll go cook some ramen. My family already ate and probably are watching TV now," Kagome said, getting up.
Inuyasha nodded and got up to follow her out the door. "Oh yeah, I want you to have this!" Inuyasha said pulling out a surprised Kagome's hand and putting an object in it.
Curiously, Kagome examined the heart shaped stone in her hand. "This is pretty," she commented. "Where did you get this?"
"It used to be my mother's," Inuyasha said absently. He rushed past Kagome. "Ramen now!"
Kagome shook her head. Inuyasha could really be a child. Sometimes, she wondered if he really was older than her.
~*~
Kagome hummed happily as she skipped off to Sango's house. Inuyasha had gotten her up eraly again, but today she was in a happy mood for an unknown reason.
Kagome ringed the doorbell, and Sango had answered it, looking like she just got up out of bed. Of course, she was invited in with a promise that she would never visit before seven in the morning.
Kagome thought the day would be perfectly normal, just like yesterday, until she saw a man clad in dark colored monk robes sitting at the dining room table, examining a blender in awe.
"Ah, Sango-sama!" he said, amazement clear in his ovoice. "What job does this strange contraption do?"
Sango made funny hand movements.
"Ehh...Sango-chan? Who's he?" Kagome asked, curiously, eyes wide. The man looked like he jumped out of the same era Inuyasha came from!
"What do you mean?" Sango asked, staring at Kagome. "You can see him? A man dressed up as a monk?"
Kagome nodded hesitantly, fingering the jewel Inuyasha gave her the night before that was hanging from a cahin around her neck.
"Well..." Sango started. "He's...well...Miroku..."
Kagome stared at Miroku in disbelief. "...Miroku...?" she asked weakly.
"Ah!" Miroku said jumping up and grabbing Kagome's hands. "Yes, I am Miroku, my fair Lady!"
"I know someone who has a friend named Miroku," Kagome started slowly. "And Miroku's a perverted monk..."
"Well, I have a friend named Inuyasha!" Miroku said, giving Kagome a charming smile. "Of course, because of him, I do have alot of colorful nicknames!"
Kagome's jaw dropped. "I...inuyasha?"
"Uh huh," Miroku nodded. "He's pretty much a jerk, but once you get to know him, he isn't really bad. I wouldn't blame him that much, with the way he's treated these days. He is a hanyou afterall..."
"Then you must be that Miroku!" Kagome shouted. "Inuyasha's a hanyou! He has a friend named Miroku who's pretty much moralless, and came from the other side of a magical well!"
"I am not moralless!" Miroku said defensively. He brighten up immediately. "Ah! YOu know my friend, Inuyasha? Please lead me to him! I have been looking for him for a while!"
"He's at my house," Kagome blurted out. "Either in my room or at the other side of the Bone-Eater's Well..." Miroku gave her a weird look. "What?"
Sango smacked Miroku. "I highly doubt they would do something like that, pervert!" Sango screamed.
"DO what?" Kagome asked innocently.
Miroku opened his mouth to say something, but Sango cut him off by saying, "YOu don't want to know. Trust me, you don't want to know."
Looking at the grin on Miroku's face, Kagome decided she really didn't want to know. " I don't think I want to either."
"Oh come on! It's just an innocent thougth!" Miroku protested.
"I remember you telling me one of those inocent thoughts!" Snago snapped. "I couldn't sleep for days! Now shut up so I can get ready and we'll pay Inuyasha a quick visit, okay?"
Miroku grinned brightly. "But of course!"
To Be Continued...
AN: Yeah! People actually read it! Anyhow, please review and tell me what you think!
Mel-chan: Thanks!
Silver Magiccraft: Second reviewer! Special something...? I dunno, this idea just popped into existance in my head when I was planning out my other stories a bit more. Of course, there will be a few twists and turns. Partner in story-line? I'm afraid I don't know what that means... Anyways, Thank you for reviewing!
Anti [.] Poptarts: Actually that was indeed a flashback. I just thought that since Inuyasha's a half demon, he's a lot older than he looks. *shrugs* Trying something new. And I'm glad you like my stories!
Imoen: Yeah, wouldn't it be cool? I'm really honored you think of my story like that! I also love your story, Slave to Love! I do hope you update soon!
Trinity Kirara: YOu seem to reivew nearly all my stories... I'm afraid the writer's block and school will make the next update in forever. I cannot promise, but I will try to get over my writer's block on Hardly There before Christmas. Although, if I'm lucky enough not to get caught, I probably will try to sort out my ideas and get over my writer's block at school. I really wish I could update everyday like I used to. Anyways, thank you for reviwing!
~Kumori Ryuuzaki