Beginning Notes: I will warn you now, this is very creepy. I got scared just trying to plot it. But I think it'll turn out good...
This isn't going to be a romantic story at all, but the 'pairings' are KohakuRin, SesshomaruKagura, SangoMiroku, InuyashaKagome. If you don't like them, it isn't a big deal. They don't really play a big part. No making out or anything.
Disclaimer: I own the amusement park and plot. Nothing else.
The Midway
Written By - Stripe
Chapter 1 - The Dare
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"Inuyasha! Truth or Dare?" Kagome called, turning to the boy sitting next to her.
"Dare!"
"I dare you to..." Kagome paused, trying to think of a good dare. "to do the chicken dance!"
"Aw... C'mon! That's a lame dare!"
"Just do it. Oh, and sing the song too,"
Inuyasha stood up. "Fine." He started to sing, which was funny enough in itself without the ridiculous dance moves. "I don't wanna be a chicken!" He held his arms to his sides and flapped them as if he was a chicken. "I don't wanna be a duck!" He put his hands up in the air in a position that looked somewhat similar to a duck bill. "So I'll shake my butt!" And with this, he did just as he said. All six teenagers in the room, including Inuyasha, burst out laughing. He sat down with a devilish grin on his face.
"Rin!" He pointed a finger at her. "Truth or dare!" He knew that his adopted sister was going to pick truth, she was a bit of a scardey cat when it came to these things. Now all he had to do was think of something to ask her...
"Dare!" Everyone turned to Rin with surprise.
"Ok then..." Inuyasha stopped to think of something that Rin would never do. Surely going from fifteen to sixteen hadn't boosted her courage that much. "I dare you to go to the amusement park on the north side of town!"
"What's daring about that?" Rin looked around her friends, hoping one of them would offer an answer. Why was it that she was always unaware of these things?
"Don't tell me you've never heard the legend of The Midway!" Miroku looked at her surprised, which only helped make her feel even more foolish.
"Legend?"
"Oh Yes... A horrible legend indeed. Seven years ago, many mysterious muders began to take place at the park. The bodies were bloody and disfigured. You almost couldn't tell they were human and- Ow!" Miroku got a shoe thrown at him.
"A couple of murders took place there." Sango said, much less dramatically than Miroku had. "No one wanted to go there any more, and the place had to shut down. That's it."
"And ever since then there's been a bad feeling to the place." Miroku added on at the end, a little sour by his story being interupted.
"You don't have to go if you don't want to." Kagome offered. Rin just shook her head.
"I'm not going to back down on a dare! But... Could someone come with me?" She looked around the room somewhat pathetically.
"I'll go." Kohaku offered.
"Me too" Kagome and Sango said in unison.
"Sounds like a plan!" Inuyasha stood up.
"I would rather not stay here alone." Miroku stood up as well. "But there's one problem."
"What's that? You too scared to go or something?"
"Of course not. I'm talking about how we'll get past the babysitter and his girlfriend." The dark haired boy stated simply.
"Sesshomaru and Kagura won't be paying attention to us. We'll just have to be quiet when we go downstairs."
The teenagers prepared to pack for the trip, being as quiet as six sixteen year olds could be when trying to find flashlights. It was especially hard when they had already gotten Rin's room incredibly messy. Eventually, however, they did find six flashlights. They stuffed them in a simple backpack, along with a couple of snacks, and prepared to leave.
"How are we going to get there?" Kohaku asked just as they were about to leave.
"I'll drive us there of course." Inuyasha said matter-of-factly.
"Have you gotten any better at driving?"
"Huh?"
"I remember last time you offered to drive you nearly got us all killed." Kohaku said this with a serious tone of voice, and even those who hadn't been on that particular trip knew that he wasn't joking.
"Oh yeah. My new car's still intact." Somehow, this didn't do much to calm anyone's fears, but no one decided to try and argue with him. Inuyasha could get quite loud in arguments.
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Kagura and Sesshomaru stared blankly at the TV screen, wrapped up in the movie they were watching. Kagura shoved another fistful of popcorn into her mouth, watching as the Lord of the Western Lands fought with his half demon brother. It was one of the loudest scenes in the movie, with swords clashing against each other and cursing from the younger brother. 'Kind of reminds me of Inuyasha...' She thought for a moment, savouring the taste of popcorn in her mouth.Perhaps she should have been paying more attention to the real Inuyasha upstairs. Maybe she would have heard him and his friends as they quietly tiptoed down the stairs and outside.
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Inuyasha hadn't lied. His car WAS intact. How long that was going to last no one was quite sure of. Everyone doubted it would last much more than a month, there were dents in several places, one of the windows was cracked, and the mirror on the passenger's side was gone completely. The people who were about to be the passengers in this wreck of a car all paled.
"Inuyasha, are you sure you don't want me to drive?" Miroku offered.
"No way! Its MY car, so I drive!" Inuyasha climbed in the drivers seat. "Just get in already. Unless you're too chicken." Everyone else exchanged terrified glances and climbed in.
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"Inuyasha... You do know the way there, right?" Miroku asked while clutching onto the sides of his seat.
"Feh. 'Course I do! I've been there a million times!"
"Yeah... right... whatever you say..."
"Get back on the road!" The two in front were interupted by Sango's orders from the back.
"Ok, Ok! Stop being so bossy!"
VROOOOOOM!
"Wrong side! We're going get hit!" It was Kagome this time.
SCREEEEEEECH!
"Let Miroku take over! Please!" Kagome pleaded, fearfully covering her eyes with her hands
"No way! Its MY car!" Inuyasha said again for the tenth time that night.
"And YOU'RE going to ruin it! And kill all of us in the process!" Surprisingly, it was Kohaku who decided to argue.
"Well, its MY birthday and I say Miroku drives. Pull this car over now!" Rin screeched as Inuyasha hit the curb again.
"Whatever. We're here anyways!" The beat up car screenched to a halt in front of the park, with two more dents and one more cracked window. The passengers of the car decided that even a haunted amusement park would be better than what they had just been through.
How wrong they were.
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Ending Notes:
Whee! Chapter 1 done! And yes... I promise this is about a haunted amusement park, not Inuyasha's driving skills... And I know that this chapter might be kind of stupid and somewhat funny... but its for you to get to know the characters. This IS a horror fic.
Anyways, reviews are nice. Review? Puh-lease? I'll be your bestest fwiend!