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 Two: The Higurashi Jinja's Greatest Secret
It was early enough in the morning for Kagome, Sango, and Miroku to head back to the Higurashi Shrine, spend about an hour there, and for Sango and Kagome to get to school on time, praying Miroku and Inuyasha won't destroy the shrine.
"I cannot wait to see Inuyasha again!" Miroku said merrily, as he followed Sango and Kagome to the Higurashi Shrine. "I always wonder where he disappeared off to all of a sudden, and it so happens he's with a beautiful young lady!"
Kagome flushed and Sango elbowed Miroku.
"Miroku, get those thoughts out of your head," Sango hissed. "I know you're thinking of something perverted! You always are! Hell, if you weren't thinking of something perverted, you wouldn't be you!"
"Exactly," Miroku said seriously.
Kagome giggled and Sango smacked Miroku silly.
"Baka!! Why are you even a monk?" Sango cried in anger, as she gave Miroku one last slap.
"I do make a rather handy monk, if I do say so myself," Miroku replied. "I am a real genuine monk, believe it or not. You can even asked Inuyasha, or...or...what's her name...? ...Kikyou I think..."
"Who's Kikyou?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Ummm...some miko chick," Miroku shrugged. "All I know is that she guards the Shikon no Tama. She seems rather...I dunno...smitten with Inuyasha. She never kills him whenever he tries to steal the Shikon no Tama. I think something's up, but that's me."
Kagome frowned lightly. "Oh." Somehow, the thought that this...Kikyou...person liking Inuyasah was not a very pleasant thought.
"You know, come to think of it, you look alot like Kikyou!" Miroku rambled on aimlessly. "But she's a bit more mature looking, and no doubt more serious. Other than that, she has a nice ass..."
"MIROKU!!!" Sango and Kagome screamed, slapping Miroku.
"I soooo don't need to know that!" Sango yelled. "Just shut your freakin mouth until we get there!"
"Well, we've been 'there' for two minutes," Miroku said lightly, running up the steps to the Jinja by two witht the happy smile still glued to his face. "INUYASHA!!! GET DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE....BEFORE...before...ummm...I...I DO SOMETHING YOU REALLY DON'T WANT ME TO DO!"
Inuyasha's head came out of Kagome's somehow open window. "You mean you really would sell yourself to Sesshoumaru and help him devise plans to steal the Tetsusaiga?"
"Of course not!" Miroku yelled igdignantly. "I would never sell myself to anyone! Even if I would, your brother is the last person I'd sell myself to!"
"He's Inuyasha?" Sango whispered to Kagome, pointing to the Hanyou in the window, her eyes wide.
Kagome stared at Sango in disbeleif. "You can see him?"
Sango nodded.
Kagome was beyond confused. Sango had been in the same room with Inuyasha before, but she never was able to see or hear him. But Kagome had been in the same room as Miroku before, no doubt, and she never seen or heard him. She had a slight suspicion that she felt him, in a place that was off limits to his wandering hands, but what was the change?
Kagome was way beyond confused.
"Well, yeah. The one and only," Kagome muttered, with a light frown. Life hadn't been quite normal ever since Inuyasha first climbed up the Bone Eater's Well that faithful day, so why should it now, even though it was weider than usual? She then yelled, "Inuyasha! Miroku's gonna be here until we come back from school!"
"WHAT??" Inuyasha shouted in disbeleif. "HOW COULD YOU KAGOME??"
"Well, I feel insulted," Miroku muttered irratably under his breath. "People insult me, abuse me, but does anyone appreciate me? Nooo, always smacking me around..."
"We'd appreicate you if you weren't such a pervert!" Inuyasha yelled at Miroku, throwing a rock out of nowhere at him.
"Ummm...maybe you two should give the Sengoku Jidai a visit?" Sango suggested nervously. She had a feeling that the jinja would be in ruins soon if they left the boys on there own here. "I mean, why not meet up with some family, old friends..."
"...people who want to kill me, annoying idiots who won't leave me alone..." Inuyasha continued. "I get it!"
"Good! We got school!" Kagome whirled around and ran off down the steps, with Sango following her. "See ya!"
When the girls were out of sight, Miroku looked up to Inuyasha and asked, "What now?"
"Well, I still have to get back on this ookami youkai..."
~*~
"I'll be finish with homework when I'm seventy," Sango grumbled, as she walked along, struggling to carry her bookbag which was so full of homework, it looked like it was about to burst. "I swear, teachers are such slave drivers."
"I just hope Inuyasha doesn't hide my homework in the blender again," Kagome muttered under her breath.
Sango looked at Kagome in surprise. "He actually put it in the blender?"
"Yeah, and it was plugged in, too. And then Souta got bored, and thought the blender was unplugged and pressed the on button." Kagome glared at the sidewalk as she replayed that particular memory in her mind. "And I got a flat out F for each assignment! I sat him til I he was about to the point where his back would break."
"Sat?"
"I dunno, but whenever I say 'osuwari', he falls flat on his face," Kagome said thoughtfully, tapping her chin. "I think it's the rosay around his neck. He can't get it off, I've seen him do it. He said a woman named Kaede put it on him."
"That's interesting," Sango commented. "I wish I could do that to Miroku, although, since he's human, I might accidently kill him."
"At least you can smack Miroku around," Kagome muttered with an annoyed tone. "I swear, with Inuyasha, nothing seems hurts that thick head of his."
Sango snorted. "You also mean he's thick, don't you?"
"Yes, in a way I guess."
Sango and Kagome walked up to the steps and found Inuyasha sitting crossed legged on the God Tree with his eyes closed, Miroku sitting underneath Inuyasha's branch reading a book labelled 'Mythology'.
"This place is still in one peice? Amazing!" Sango said in awe, causing Kagome to giggle.
"I can hear you, ya know!" Inuyasha shouted at Sango.
Miroku perked up. "Sango's here?" When he spotted the girl, he ran to Sango happily. "SANGO!! PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THIS GROUCH!"
"Who ya calling a grouch??" Inuyasha growled as he dug his claws into the branch he was sitting on.
"What happened?" Kagome asked the irratated hanyou in the tree.
"Miroku had to go see the village women bathe," Inuyasha snarled. "And he so happens to drag me along for the ride! Damn stupid monk..."
Sango shot a glare at Miroku. She was sorta hoping he would've behave. She snorted inwardly at that thought. Fat chance. "I knew you were perverted and all...but dragging someone who isn't into doing something lecherous? ...it's a shame to call you a friend..."
Miroku winced. "Eh heh, Sesshoumaru was beating us pretty bad, we had to get away!"
"Sesshoumaru?"
Miroku opened his mouth, but Inuyasha cutted in by saying quickly, "He's no one important..."
"I remember you compaining about Sesshoumaru before!" Kagome said slowly.. "He wanted that sword you have..."
"Huh? That rusty katakana? Well yea," Miroku planted his staff into the ground. "Sesshoumaru says that sword, better known as Tetsusaiga, so he can become mroe powerful. How such a thing gives you more powerful, we have no idea actually..."
"I only keep to annoy Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha said, before sprawling out on the branch again, resting a hand on the old sword at his side. "It pisses him off to no end..."
Miroku rubbed his shoulder, with a small wince. He could still feel the pain of a bruise from earlier on his arm. It hurt! Well, he expected that. Sesshoumaru never hits lightly... "It isn't that bad, but it hurts...I think I'll have some bruises for a few weeks..."
"Keh."
"Well, at least I don't have a hole through my stomach..."
"Keh."
"I highly doubt you'd be able to stand," Sango said loftily, as she followed Kagome into the house. "See you upstairs."
Inuyasha shrugged and jumped through Kagome's window. Miroku frowned, and followed the girls. Sometimes he wished that he could jump like Inuyasha could...sigh.
~*~
Inuyasha and Miroku were sitting crosslegged on Kagome's bed, playing checkers, a game that Sango taught them earlier so she and Kagome could study. As for the girls, they were huddled together in front of Kagome's desk, trying to study and answer math problems that had no sense to them.
"King me," Miroku said boredly, as he moved his black peice to Inuyasha's side of the board, before flipping it. 'There has to be something better to do...'
Inuyasha stared at the board, before moving his red peice, not only capturing two of Miroku's peices, but also got 'kinged'. "King me." 'This is boring.'
"This game is starting to bore me," Miroku said in a bored tone. "Remember how to play poker?" Miroku pulled out a deck of boxed cards from his sleeve. 'I really wish I could play strip poker with Sango...'
"Yeah. You deal."
"...." Miroku's thoughts won't be mentioned becuase I don't want to raise the rating. ALl I'm telling you is it's about Sango.
"...." 'It's never good when Miroku smiles like that!' Inuyasha glared at Miroku who had a faraway look on his face.
"...." Miroku's thoughts are still censered.
"Well??? Aren't you gonna deal??"
"Huh? Oh sorry, I was just thinking of how lovely Sango looks today."
"Keh. You're hopeless."
"Hopeless? At least I know how to care for women."
"I could care less! And if caring for women is groping and asking them to bear your child, I think I rather not know how to care for women in any shape or form."
"It does not."
"Then why do you do it?"
"You know why I ask!" Miroku leaned in closer and whispered, pointing to his right hand with the wrappings and beads. "Don't tell me you forgot! I don't wear this for fashion, you know!"
"You would if it attracted more girls."
"Keh."
INuyasha burst out laughing, which broke the girls' concentration, and MIroku covered his mouth in surprise.
Kagome nearly snapped her pencil in half. "Inuyasha shut up! I'm trying to study!"
Inuyasha laughter died down into a snicker, and Miroku glared at his hanyou firiend.
"I think I have been hanging around you too long," Miroku said, dangerously calm.
"I knew you would say it after awhile!" Inuyasha said in between snickers.
"Damn you!"
Everyone but Inuyasha looked at Miroku.
"What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?"
Inuyasha was still snickering. He knew about Miroku's use of language when he was thinking, or muttering to himself. He could hear Miroku mutter obcentities under his breath from time to time.
"Miroku, Inuyasha, shut up!" Sango nearly growled. "I'm trying to study!"
"It's not my fault he's a loser," Inuyasha retorted.
Miroku grabbed Kagome's pillow and began whacking Inuyasha, as the hanyou tried to strangle the monk.
Kagome and Sango rolled their eyes. If one thing was for sure, it was that Inuyasha and Miroku were complete idiots.
"KAGOME!!!!"
Kagome and Sango looked up from their homework, and stared at the door where Kagome's Jichan had burst through. Miroku, luckily, had put the pillow down just in time.
"Kagome!" Jichan shouted. "I must tell you something important!"
"The shrine can come later!" Kagome said, as she slouched back. "I"m busy Jichan! I failing math horribly enough as it is."
"Come on!" Jichan shouted, tugging Kagome out of her room. "IT must be passed down!"
Kagome gave Sango a appolegtic look. "SOrry Sango. Hold on for a sec kay?" Kagome shot a dirty look at the boys which said all: Stay here and behave. If you don't, you die.
WHen Kagome was out of sight, Sango turned around to say something to the boys, but they were gone, and Kagome's window was open, her pink curtains fluttering in the light breeze.
Sango was quite aware that Miroku dragged Inuyasha along to see what was so 'important'.
She just hoped they would tell her later.
~*~
"Jichan! This better be important!" Kagome scowled, and reluctantly followed Jichan out into the forest around the shrine. "I have homework!"
"It is, it is," Jichan said absently, walking ahead.
There was a rustling in the nearby bushes. Suspiciously, Kagome narrowed her eyes and muttered, "Osuwari." There was only more rustling.
"Said something, Kagome?" Jichan asked without turning around.
"Huh? No, nohting at all..."
~*~
"Exactly why did you plant your face into the ground like that, Yasha?" Miroku whispered curiously, as he watched Kagome and Jichan walk off.
To be honest, Inuyasha looked quite stupid planting his face deep into the ground unexpectedly.
Inuyasha lifted himself up, and peered intently over the hedge. "I'm not getting in trouble for your ideas, bozou."
"Err...what do you mean, exactly?" Miroku asked, scratching the back of his head in confusion. "And why did that rosary glowed?" Miroku paused, then smirked evilly. It couldn't be...could it? "Oh....so you and Kagome share a bond?"
"Shut the fuck up!" Inuyasha hissed. "No we don't!"
It was an obvious bold-faced lie.
"I didn't hear what she said, but I know she mouthed something," Miroku insisted. "Errr...Osquari? Ocuyari? Or maybe...osuwari?"
"Shut up!"
"Fine, but details later!"
"No!"
"Yes, now shut up so we can follow them!"
"This is stupid."
"I sense evil over there, Yasha. If Kagome-sama's Jisan is heading over there, I'd say we go just in case. Who knows what might be lurking over there?"
"Keh. Whatever."
"Glad you agree my friend!"
"Yeah, whatever."
~*~
"Grrr...those boys better tell me what the heck is going on!" Sango growled, pacing Kagome's bedroom, Buyo sitting on Kagome's bed, watching her. She was growing impatient, and there was a feeling in the pit of her stomach that said she should've followed. "What could be so important here anyways?"
Buyo meowed.
Sango glared at him. "Stupid cat," Sango muttered. "You're absolutely no help!"
Buyo pounced onto Sango's bag, and Sango's necklace she got from Miroku--which had to be the sweetest thing Miroku ever did before he groped her--had fallen out, and it the oval gem was glowing slightly.
Sango picked it up. "What in the world...?"
~*~
Kagome's hand instinctively went up to her chest where she could feel the lump of the stone Inuyasha gave her. It seemed pretty warm, she thought, taking the stone out to discover it was glowing slightly. "What the...?"
"Kagome!"
The raven haired teen immediatly shoved the jewel back underneath her school blouse, before Jicahn could see it and try to 'purify' it. He was a phony, but whatever.
"The thing I wanted to show you is in here," Jichan said, pointing to, what Kagome finally noticed, was a small acient shack. "Acient evil lies in this thing. It was sealed by a powerful miko..."
~*~
"...powerful miko who died by the wound it inflicted up on her. Only the miko's reincarnation could enter this place. Of course, it happened in the Sengoku Jidai, so her reincarnation could be dead already..."
"Sengoku Jidai!" Miroku breathed. "I sense incredidble evil there!"
"I can smell it," Inuyasha replied, wrinkling his nose. "It's so damn foul."
"Hehe, I just thought of something!" Miroku said with a grin.
"Maybe I don't want to know."
"It's not that bad. Silly, that's all. I mean, what if Kikyou sealed the great evil in there and Kagome was her reincarnation?"
"That is silly. She showed no sign of miko powers what-so-ever! Not even when I poured that disgusting stuff you gave me on Hobo."
Ignoring Inuyasha, something seemed to tell the monk to take the stone out that he kept with him for some reason. Miroku frowned, and pulled something out of his robes. It was a small shiny rock that was glowing slightly. "What in the name of Buddha...?"
Inuyasha frowned, and from inside his shirt, he pulled out a rock that looked very similar to Miroku, which was also glowing. "I knew this rock wasn't good luck.."
"That's silly!" Miroku frown deepened. "They're average rocks I found on the road from my trip from Kyoto several years back."
"Honestly," Inuyasha said, dropping his rock. "These things freak me out."
"Keep it!" Miroku said. "It might have to do with something in there!"
"And how--"
"Just shut up! I can't hear!"
~*~
"...blah blah...Kagome why don't you give it a chance?" Jichan asked.
"JICHAN!!! I GET PULLED AWAY FROM MY HOMEWORK JUST FOR SOME STUPID STORY????" Kagome screeched, and if she was paying attention, she would've heard wincing from the bush a little ways off. "THIS IS STUPID!!"
There was a rattle, and Kagome shut up, as she and Jicahn stared at the door with wide eyes. The doorknob rattled.
And the door swung open.
~*~
"What do hear and smell?" Miroku asked eagerly, tugging on Inuyasha's hair. "Well??"
"A hear something something coming from that shack," Inuyasha answered with a frown. "It's like, I dunno, like a box opening, I guess."
"AND???"
"Shut up. The fould smell got stronger, and I hear...is that...footsteps...?"
Both the boys watched the door intently, as the door knob unexpectedly rattled...
...and the door swung open.
~*~
Sango sat impatiently in a chair, looking out the window, glaring at everything. Until her eyes landed on a small familar cat outside.
"Kirara?" Sango whispered, eyes wide as she watched the cat sat outside, watching her with large red orbs as she sat patiently outside.
Something drawed her outside, and the next thing she knew, she was running, following Kirara who ran through the forest, until she came across Kagome and Jichan...and an opened shack.
To Be Continued...
AN: I need to update my other stories. I know, I really need to. But. . .I was just suddenly inspired when I sat down and tried to type it out. I need a life.
Reviews:
Silver Magiccraft: Thanks for your review!
Imoen: . . .you were absorbed, leaving your popcorn to burn. But I suppose it happens to all of us. I really didn't think anyone would like this story, it just popped into my head and bugged me to death. ¬_¬ And thanks for your review! ^_^
Trinity Kirara: Thanks!
RedHerring: I'm glad you like my story! Description isn't really my specialty. I've never been good describing stuff, and I have hard time writing a story that's in. . .errr. . .what's it called? I dunno, but usually when I write a story, it focuses around a certain person' POV, and stuff. What I'm trying to say is, the last chapter was probably my best work. This story is going someplace, and will have some sort of a plot, but it's getting there, slowly. . . As for Miroku and Inuyasha being poltergeists. . .well, I suppose you can call them that. . . ^_^
~Kumori Ryuuzaki