Okay this I just a little side note so you don't get confused, it has been two months since the last chapter.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Trick-or-Treat! Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat.

Kagome sighed as she plopped down on the couch in her pajamas with a bowl of popcorn in hand. She quickly grabbed the remote and turned the power on before she swiftly began to surf the channels finally siding with some Saturday morning cartoons. She yawned as she glanced over at the clock; nine fifteen a.m. joy…it's not even ten yet, curse you Kikyo and that stupid alarm clock of yours. Kagome sighed heavily, she was still a little warn out from yesterdays martial arts team practice, it had been two months since she had made it on the team, she had progressed a lot, she had definitely gotten a lot better, but they still had a month before they left. However, who cares about all that stuff…today's Halloween, the best holiday on the damn calendar.

"What are you doing up so early Kag," Souta yawned as he stumbled down the stairs and into the living room. He sat down on the couch next to Kagome and rested his head on her shoulder as she wrapped an arm around him and pulled down the blanket from the back of the couch and wrapped it around her little brother.

"Oh you know Kikyo, when she decides to wake up, she gets you up with her." Kagome giggled.

"You two huh?" Souta asked as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"I heard that." Kikyo growled from the kitchen.

Kagome and Souta laughed to each other as they turned up the volume to the television.

Kikyo sighed as she shook her head and continued with her breakfast making, honestly when will those two ever grow up? "Kagome don't you have somewhere to be today?" Kikyo asked as she began to stir her pancake batter.

Kagome turned down the volume for a minute. "What?"

Kikyo growled under her breath as she repeated herself, "Don't you have somewhere to be today?"

"Yeah, Inuyasha's having another one of his Halloween parties at his house tonight, but I wasn't planning on going…why?"

"No reason." Kikyo started pouring her batter into a frying pan. "Though I think you should go…. "

"No way." Kagome snorted. "Not after what happened at the last party of his I went to…."

Kikyo shook her head, as she flipped the pancake in the pan and placed it on the paper plate she had set aside on the counter. "You shouldn't hold on to things from the past so much, dear sister." Kikyo smiled at her stack-o-pancakes as she carried the plate into the living room and handed it to Souta. "Here sweetie."

Kagome looked at the plate with a raised eyebrow. "Since when did you call Souta sweetie?" Kagome turned to look at Souta.

"Since I felt like it…eat up, its not poisoned or anything." Kikyo said smiling happily at her 'family'.

"Okay who are you and what have you done with my evil twin." Kagome snorted.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Kikyo stated, still smiling. "Honestly Kagome, can't I do something nice for my own brother?"

"Um…yeah, sure."

"So Kagome," Kikyo giggled excitedly. "What do you think…about going to the party. We can go together, sort of like a sisterly bonding activity."

"Alright that's it, you're up to something…what do you want."

Kikyo's smile widened as she sat down on the couch next to Kagome; "I was really wanting to go but…."

"Let me guess, you didn't get invited."

Kikyo nodded as she puckered out her bottom lip, shining her best pouty face, which had taken years to master. "Please."

"Oh not the face, not the puppy dog face." Kagome moaned.

"Please Kagome…I really want to go." Kikyo cupped her hands together as she began to beg.

Kagome took a deep sigh, "Um, let me think…no."

Kikyo just batted her eyelashes as she persisted. "Please Kagome…please."

"Why, I thought you hated Inuyasha…and won't Naraku be pissed off if he finds out you went? AND I thought you hated Halloween."

"Please Kagome…I'll clean your room for a month."

Kagome's eyes widened as she thought of how good of a trade that was, "No…but you know what, I think I will go, just for the heck of it."

Kikyo glared at her sister.

"You know." Kagome smirked. "Just to rub it in you face."

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Inuyasha sighed as he walked down the long hallway of his large gated community home. He slowly made his way down the expensive staircase; he was about halfway down when he quickly glanced around making sure no one was in sight before he jumped the railing and took a joyride to the bottom. That never gets old.

He smiled when he noticed his aunt and sister were cooking in the kitchen. Inuyasha walked across the living room and entered the kitchen, smiling cheerfully.

"What might two lovely ladies such as yourselves be up to this morning?"

Rin giggled excitedly as she held up her arms waiting for Inuyasha to pick her up. He grinned as he lowered one of his arms, letting her latch onto it before he lifted her up and gently swung her around onto his back. Rin wrapped her legs around his neck and tangled her fingers in his hair, giggling happily. Their aunt just shook her head and smiled to herself.

"Well someone obviously hasn't lost their charming touch over night…nice boxers Inuyasha." Inuyasha grinned happily as he glanced down at his 'pj's'.

"You really think so…I thought they were kind of revealing…you don't think they make me look fat?"

"Not at all." Mrs. Sumi chuckled as she patted Inuyasha's bare abdomen. "I think the fact that you are fat makes you look fat."

"Ouch…that was harsh." Inuyasha smirked as he heaved Rin off his back and sat her down on the counter before he began to play a round of tickle-monster with her.

"I'm just kidding sweetheart your fat-rolls are very attractive."

"They're called love-handles." Inuyasha whined feigning hurt.

The two broke out into laughter for a moment before they began discussing the party. "Inuyasha tell me, just how many people are going to be here tonight."

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulder's, "I 'dunno' around two-three hundred I guess."

Mrs. Sumi let out a heavy sigh, "My dear! That'll be a record for us won't it?"

Inuyasha nodded, "Yep. So uh…what exactly are you doing?" Inuyasha asked as he glanced down at a large bowl that was made to look like a witch's cauldron, sitting on the counter full of peeled grapes.

"Eyeballs."

Inuyasha picked up one of the fleshless grapes and eyed it curiously. "Eyeballs?"

"Yep, it's an old trick me and your dad used to play on each other back when we were young. You see you take a bag of grapes 'an' peel 'em' and then put 'em' in a bowl." She gestured to the oversized bowl beside her, as Inuyasha followed along with her instructions. "Next; you take somebody and blindfold 'em'; you have to make sure they can't see or else the prank's ruined. Then you take one of their hands and stick it in the bowl and tell them its eyeballs. People always fall for that joke; it's been around for years…since before I was around, you know the stone ages. I swear the first time your father got me with that trick, I was mad at him for weeks, refused to talk to him, and when I did, I told him he was the worst brother in the world…those were the days. Oh! Did I mention it's a great way for picking up girls? How else do you think your father meet your mother…one of my own Halloween parties."

Inuyasha grinned. "Cool."

She took a deep breath, "yep…you see your mother and I both worked at that law firm and this was about the time your father was getting his big break as a lawyer, so the two of them; God-rest-their-souls, got to talking about business. And I guess they just hit it off; because they were married about a year later...but that's enough down memory lane, have you started on the decorations yet."

"Nope."

"Well hurry up boy, we don't have all day."

"I'm on it." Inuyasha gave his aunt a kiss on the cheek; "The decoration's and stuff are still in the hallway closet right?"

Mrs. Sumi nodded. "Yeah, and I went and bought us more streamers and fake spider webs from the store yesterday, I left them in the den. Oh! And that friend of yours…Katsumi she brought over some of her stuff for us yesterday, she said they were props from a play or something, I laid all of her stuff in the garage. That girl goes all out, can you believe she brought us a real life antique coffin."

"Good…what about the DJ did we find someone for that? I still want PACK to play some of our songs but…I mean if it's too much money we can play all night…."

"I understand sweetheart…it's your party and you want to enjoy it, money's not a problem."

"Thanks Aunt Misao. I asked the school DJ but he said he was booked…do we know anybody who could, my friend Spike could but you know Spike…" Inuyasha grinned as he stuffed a skinless grape in his mouth.

Mrs. Sumi smiled, "your uncle's on that right now. One of his client's son works at a night club downtown, I think he said he could do it."

"Sweet." Inuyasha rushed off back upstairs and headed towards the hallway closet. He quickly stopped at the bathroom door to glance in at his brother, while he washed his face, in his silky maroon pajamas.

"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru scolded as he kept his gaze at his reflection in the mirror, refusing to look at his brother. "Having another one of your ridiculous Halloween costume parties again I take it?"

Inuyasha growled. "So."

"What sort of monster shall we be parading as tonight, dear brother?"

"Why do you care?" Inuyasha sneered as he glared seethingly at Sesshomaru.

"I thought that perhaps instead of putting on the mask, you could take it off…why don't you take your necklace off Inuyasha and show them what you really look like."

Inuyasha's heart stopped as he glanced down at the black rosary beads draped around his neck. He hadn't taken the beads off since he was born. He depended on them way too much to remove them. They were made especially for people with his problem. Without the necklace, he was different. They were his life line.

"No way Sesshomaru…you know what'll happen if I do."

"Oh come now Inuyasha, be a man,"

Inuyasha snorted, "and this comes from a 'man' who wears makeup to hide his pimples…I mean identity…Mr. Albino."

Sesshomaru finally turned to look at Inuyasha. If Inuyasha hadn't known his brother, he would have been shocked. Sesshomaru's face looked different than it usually did. His eyes were no longer red; from where he had taken out his colored contacts, they were amber now, just like Inuyasha's, except with cat like slits for pupils. His cheeks had three purple slashes on each side of his face, and he had a blue crescent moon in the center of his forehead.

"At least I do not try and conceal my true blood, I've accepted who I am…I am proud of what I am."

"A freak." Inuyasha hissed.

"A demon." Sesshomaru snapped. "And so are you, we all are You, Rin, Aunt Misao, Uncle Jin, Cousin Kouga, and Myself, not to mention quite a few of your friends as well."

Inuyasha clenched his fists in anger. "Go to hell, Sesshomaru." And with that, he stomped off to finish with the decorations before the party started.

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Inuyasha was just in the middle of heaving the heavy coffin up the garage stairs that led into the kitchen when the door bell rang echoing throughout the great house. Inuyasha moaned as he set the casket aside and took off to the front door.

Inuyasha turned the doorknob and opened the door only to be bombarded by his friends: Katsumi, Duo, Miroku, Asuka, Kenji, and Spike. (No Sango and Kagome they are together somewhere else.)

"Well Inuyasha we're here to help." Katsumi exclaimed as she eyed the pile of decorations in the middle of the living room floor just waiting to be hung.

"Actually." Duo smirked as he set his guitar case down, "she was just worried something might happen to her 'precious' coffin."

Inuyasha smiled. "Thanks guys."

"Whoa…nice getup Inuyasha, I'm totally 'diggin' the rubber 'duckies.'" Miroku chuckled as he glanced down at Inuyasha's boxers. "Very chic."

Inuyasha's face turned twenty shades of red when he realized he hadn't changed out of his 'pj's' yet and there was girls there, oh well it's not like they haven't seen it before.

"Gee thanks Miroku now I know what to get you for your birthday."

"Yes just what I always wanted…so where do you want us to set up the equipment?" Miroku gestured to his folded up keyboard under his arm.

"Down stairs in the basement."

"The basement?" Duo questioned as he picked his guitar case back up.

"Yeah Kouga and Shippou are down there already working with the strobe lights." Inuyasha motioned towards the basement door, which was hidden behind the staircase.

"Rainbow's here?" Katsumi asked excitedly. She loved that little guy.

"Yeah he got here an hour ago, his uncle's letting us borrow a lot of his props from 4-C so he's in the basement now putting everything in place."

"Why are we having our bash in the basement." Miroku asked as he readjusted his keyboard, making sure that he didn't drop it.

"I'm glad that you asked." Inuyasha smirked as he shut the door and led everyone to the basement; "We owe our moving to Sesshomaru…he showed his ass 'I'm not going to be able to have my beauty sleep' so we had to move everything down here."

"Awe man." Katsumi whined, "remember last time we had it down here…."

"That was the first time Kagome ever came." Spike growled, finishing Kitty's statement.

Everyone stood at the foot of the stairs in silence. Kagome had over the years become to be like family to everyone; they felt sorry for her because of what happened. Sure during normal conversations she acted like it was no big deal and that she was glad it happened but deep down you could tell those damn rumors had destroyed her, especially over the most recent couple of months, everything seemed to be really hitting her hard. Spike had been the first one to notice it; when Kagome had gone up onstage a few months ago, when she sang that song Revenge everyone knew she had written that song about Yusuke, and when she had sang it, it was like it had become her. Those rumors that were spread about Kagome had ruined her reputation. The people who had started those rumors had basically ruined Kagome's life all together. People ruin lives. Rumors ruin reputations.

"I say we get that asshole Yusuke, Sakuya, and all their damn friends back once and for all. Let's kick some ass…who's with me?"