Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Except this plot. yeah.
A.N. If I could pick another genre I would also put romance… well I guess. There's some Inu/Kag fluff in this chapter so read if you want to! Thanx to all of you who reviewed!
Trapped and Haunted
Chapter 4
The Note
The group looked at the two figures on the ground. Sango looked frightened, Miroku looked worried, Inuyasha looked confused, and Kagome looked sad. She took a step closer and then another step until she was only a few inches away form the little girl. Although they were ghosts they were almost solid and they looked like real people except for the fact that their pale skin was dimly glowing. Kagome kneeled down as she touched a necklace around the little girl's neck.
"What are you doing?" Inuyasha sharply whispered with a small hint of worry in his voice.
"Give me the necklace you found earlier." She replied.
The hanyou walked over and gave the necklace to Kagome who held it in one hand and held the other one in the other hand. She looked at them both carefully trying to find any difference she could.
"Hmm the one that you found Inuyasha is older than the other one that was on the little girls neck. On this one the message was scratched only a short time ago. Plus on this one there is a name that's actually readable. I think this little girls name was Kiki (A.N. No I did not get that name from Kikyo. Kiki is the name of my cat.)The message on the necklace says the same thing though." Kagome said as she looked at the two necklaces.
"And how is that going to help us get out of here?" Inuyasha asked.
"I'm not sure yet but it might be a clue. If you want to get out of here then you have to collect all clues possible." Kagome snapped back.
"Feh. Let's go in that room. There might be something in there." He said pointing to a door in the far corner of the parlor.
They all agreed and walked over to it and saw that it was slightly opened. Sango and Miroku went in first fallowed by Kagome who was tightly gripping Inuyasha's arm who was walking next to her. Inuyasha looked down at her and saw she was looking around nervously and breathing quickly.
Once again he leaned down and whispered to her "It'll be ok."
Her grip softened but she still didn't let go. Inuyasha blushed as they continued to walk into the room. The room was clearly Kiki's old room because it had a lot of small toys and old dolls inside. On the left side there was a soft pink and white canopy bed. On the right side there was a small table with kid sized chairs around it. On top of the table was a tea set and a vase. On the walls were pictures of animals and flowers and bookshelves also lined the areas were no pictures were much like the parlor they had been in earlier. After looking around for awhile the group was about to give up when Kagome noticed a small book on the floor by the table. She walked over and picked it up. Inside there was a piece of paper with a little girls nice handwriting. The note read:
If you get this note please continue reading it. You will be trapped in this house until you can find me and my sister's murderer. That is because our murderer is not human and is pure evil. Only if you find the necklace that has a diamond shaped charm on it and destroy it will you be able to leave. Please be careful though! It is very dangerous and you might not make it out alive. My sister and I lived in this house after our parents died mysteriously. As I'm writing this letter I am hiding from the murderer and I know I won't make it but I do hope that you will! Please go to the bathroom on the 3rd floor. There should be a note somewhere that my sister left that should help you. Please hurry! I don't want any other person to suffer the same fate as us.
"Oh my go that is horrible!" Kagome said after she had read the note out loud. "This girl is so caring and nice and she was sent to such an early grave! She's even trying to help us! I think her ghost is trying to tell us something… We need to keep our eyes open!"
"We can go to the 3rd floor bathroom in the morning but we need to get some sleep. If we are tired we might miss something important. Plus we need to be in top shape if we're going on a search for a necklace." Miroku said as he reached his hand down to Sango's butt.
"HENTAI! Even when we are trapped in a haunted mansion with a little girl who needs our help you still don't neglect your sick pervert habits!" Sango yelled while slapping Miroku on the cheek. Even in the dark you could see the bright red hand print on the side of his face.
"Miroku's right about the sleep thing but so wrong about his pervertedness. I don't think we need to sleep in any of the beds in here though. You never know when you're going to turn around to a corps, a blood stain, or even a ghost." Kagome said while crinkiling her nose. "Unfortunately I think we should all sleep in the foyer where we know it's safe.
They all went back down to the foyer where they picked a place to sleep for the night. Even though they all laid in different directions (you have to remember the foyer is huge) they pretty much laid like this: On the far left was Sango, then Miroku who had made sure he got between the two girls, then Kagome, and then Inuyasha. They all said their goodnights and laid down. A large bolt of lightning flashed outside fallowed by a huge crash of thunder. Kagome thought the sound of the rain was relaxing but she found the thunder kind of annoying. Eventually she drifted off to sleep but she woke up about two hours later to a loud boom of thunder. She sat up and looked at Sango and Miroku who were both asleep. She turned to look at Inuyasha but found he wasn't there.
'He probably woke up at the sound of thunder too. His ears are so sensitive it would be no surprise.
She stood up and looked around again. She noticed that the door behind them was slightly opened so she went to investigate. She found herself in a large hallway with a few doors here and there. She walked to one that was slightly opened and looked inside. The door lead to a teenage boy's room with bunk beds and a dartboard. As soon as she walked inside she saw a certain hanyou digging through a closet on the other side of the room.
"What are you doing?" She asked in a soft, tired voice.
"Huh? Oh it's you. I was just looking around." Inuyasha had jumped when she had first spoke but he continued looking through the closet.
Kagome walked over and sat down next to him and started to look through some of the things herself.
"I couldn't sleep. The thunder kept me up. I was wondering where you were." Kagome said as she picked up a whistle that was sitting on a shelf. "Oh look a whistle!" She whipped the mouth hole and blew it hard but no sound came out… that she could her anyway.
"YYYEEOOOOOCCCCHH! STOP BLOWING THAT DAMN THING!" Inuyasha yelled as he covered his ears.
"Oh sorry! That must've been a dog whistle. Hey I could use this rather then the word…" Kagome said looking at the whistle.
"No way, give that damn thing to me!" He said trying to grab it from her.
"No I don't think I will…" She said with a smirk as she stood up and held it above her head.
"C'mon Kagome give it!" He said also standing up.
He started walking to her but tripped on one of the many things on the ground that he had pulled out of the closet. He fell down taking Kagome with him and the both landed on the ground hard, but laughing harder. Inuyasha reached up and grabbed the whistle Kagome had dropped when they had fallen.
"Oh no I'm not letting you keep that whistle" She said while sitting up.
She started tickling his sides and he let go of the whistle while laughing uncontrollably. She started walking around when she felt a hand on her ankle. She fell down on the ground (don't worry it's also carpet) and started laughing again as Inuyasha started to tickle her. They both got in a tickle fight with each other, still laughing uncontrollably. After awhile they got to a point where they were knocking each other to the ground. Kagome accidentally did the same thing Inuyasha did and tripped on one of the many items on the ground only this time she landed on top of Inuyasha (don't get any sick ideas). She blushed and then quickly scrambled off of the hanyou who was blushing too. After they stopped laughing they sat down next to each other and looked out a window. They saw the rain gentely tapping against the window. Kagome leaned against Inuyasha's chest as he put his arm around her. They soon fell asleep in that position and they stayed like that until morning.
A.N. That was a pretty long chapter but it could have been longer…. Oh well I hope you like it. I'm going to Colorado for a few days so if I don't update soon that's why. R&R please! See you later!