Disclaimer: I do not own Inu-yasha and company (but I wish I would). However, I do own Kiken, Koishi, Gin, Aliz, Chaz and Mike that may show up in this fic (I use them in most of my fanfics).
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ¤¤¤new place or time¤¤¤
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Chapter 4 Denial
On the next morning Sesshomaru walked out of his room yawning. It was a school morning to him as well to Inu-yasha. Jaken didn't even bother to stand up from his basket. He just turned around and continued sleeping.
Scratching his hair Sesshomaru walked down the stairs to get something to eat. He didn't wonder when he heard his father to be still sleeping in the second floor. His father had a late morning today. He walked down to the first floor and straight to the kitchen. His stepmother was there already waiting.
She had made breakfast to all and now it was on the table waiting for eaters. She smiled to him when he sat down. The relationship between these two wasn't the best possible. Sesshomaru's real mother was a mystery to Inu-yasha's mother since no one really ever talked about her. Especially Sesshomaru himself was very silent about the matter.
"Have you seen Inu-yasha?" she asked when she sat down by the table. "He has an early morning, just like you." She took her bread and looked at him. He only grumbled.
She sighed and shook her head. "Could you go and wake him up?" she asked and that made him look up at her. "I must leave any minute now and your father is sleeping."
Sesshomaru grabbed his bread and started toward the stairs cursing under his breath. Usually he didn't go and wake up Inu-yasha this willingly, but he had found a perfect way to wake him up. Taking a bite of his bread he started up the stairs cursing in his mind. Why couldn't they have a lift here!?
When he got to his floor he first walked to one of the smallest rooms (that still was real big). There he had worked on some small projects during these few days in here. Most of them were still unfinished like an electrified fence that he was planning to use on the stairs for Inu-yasha. However one of his projects was ready to be used and so he grabbed a green hose with him.
¤¤¤just changing the view¤¤¤
He saw her again. He saw that transparent girl with black hair and pattered kimono. She was crying and he tried to calm her down but all the time he tried to get nearer she went further away. Then suddenly she disappeared.
He looked around in the darkness. There was nothing. There was no floor or walls but for some reason it didn't bother him. He just wanted to find that girl because he could still hear her crying.
Suddenly a bright light appeared before him. It was so bright that he had to cover his eyes. "Actually... I don't know who I am. I can't remember" he heard her say... again. The bright light turned into the girl from before. She was standing there with a sad face and one finger on her lower lip. "Actually... I don't know who I am. I can't remember" she said again.
He tried to walk closer. He tried to say something. It was no use. It felt like his words would be stuck in his throat and like he had heavy chains on his feet. When he looked down he saw that he actually had chains keeping his legs together.
Then he looked at his hands. His nails were growing into long claws and he noticed with his tongue that he had long fangs in his mouth. He looked up at the girl, but she was gone. Now there was a huge mirror where he saw himself... or did he?
In the mirror was a boy just like him, but with white dog ears and red kimono. He tried to get back from the mirror, but the chains in his legs didn't let him go.
"Oi, Inu-yasha!" he heard a call from his side. He saw Sesshomaru there strangely clothed having some big fluffy thing over his other shoulder. Sesshomaru had some streaks on his cheeks and for some reason he didn't have his other hand.
Inu-yasha gasped and tried to get away from him, but something pulled on his legs. He looked down and saw a little green creature with a staff. His eyes widened. He didn't know why, but this had something to do with Jaken, Sesshomaru's dog. Suddenly the little creature pulled him down on his back.
He gasped and saw from the corner of his eye the transparent girl looking disappointed. She shook her head and slowly walked away. He tried to shout after her, but no sound came. Then Sesshomaru was standing beside him with that green creature.
The staff that had two heads started suddenly blow fire on him. Inu-yasha tried to scream, but it didn't help. The flames touched him, but for some reason it felt cold and wet...
¤¤¤back to reality¤¤¤
"Wha...!?" Inu-yasha shouted standing up on his bed. Ice cold water came at him and he could hear Sesshomaru evil laughter. "Sesshomaru!" he shouted. "Stop!!"
Then the shower stopped and the older one was standing there grinning evilly at his little brother. "How did you like it?" he asked knowing well that Inu-yasha didn't like it. "I was planning to use it on you more that often." His evil grin didn't disappear.
Inu-yasha breathed heavily leaning on the wall when standing on his bed. The cold water was falling on his face and he wasn't the only one wet. Also the wall and his bed got wet. He stared angrily at his older brother who threw the hose over his shoulder.
Suddenly Inu-yasha growling attacked his brother and so started one of those many fights they had too often.
¤¤¤Later after breakfast¤¤¤
"Damn that Sesshomaru!" Inu-yasha growled when looking for dry clothes from a bag he had unfortunately left under his bed. That meant it was wet as well. He was lucky enough that he found everything else but not a shirt from those bags that were far from the wet bed. He had left all his shirts in this bag and now they were wet.
"Please" he pleaded when throwing wet shirts over his shoulders. "One dry shirt!" Soon he had thrown the last of the shirts out from the bag. He sat down legs crossed cursing Sesshomaru under his breath. How would he now go to the school? There was no way he would go like this!
"Problems?" he heard a girl's ghost-like voice ask. He didn't bother to look up on the bed knowing that he would see that image again.
'You have listened too much on Sesshomaru' he thought in his mind standing up and walking toward his other bags hoping that he happened to have one shirt in one of those. 'You are imagining things!'
The transparent girl was sitting on his bed swinging her legs over the edge. She looked at him curiously. "What are you looking for?" she asked but didn't get any answer. She floated over to him and looked over his shoulder.
He threw clothes right trough her and didn't pay attention to the cute face that appeared over his shoulder. However he felt his heart beat faster than before when the transparent girl came this near him. 'What's with you?!' he shout in his mind closing his eyes. 'Getting nervous like this, over an image that's made by your imagination.'
When he opened his eyes again the girl was gone and he sighed. 'You're becoming crazy!' Then he continued looking for a shirt.
Suddenly a white T-shirt was hanging before him. He looked up and saw the girl smiling at him. She was giving him one of his shirts that to his surprise happened to be dry. 'How is this possible?' he thought standing up. He looked at the girl who smiled sweetly.
"Now you can go to school" she said offering the T-shirt. He took it carefully. Then he stood up and put it on. When he looked at her again she was gone. He didn't know what to think anymore.
He sighed and walked to his school bag when she appeared before him again. "Can I come with you?" she asked bleeding. "Please?! I want to see the world outside. Please let me come?" She gave a very sweet smile and it almost broke Inu-yasha's heart.
Almost...!
"What are you thinking?!" he shouted. "What would I say to all the people in school if I would talk to some kind of fancy creature all the time?!"
She backed a step and now her sweet face turned into in a way angry face. "I'm no fancy creature!" she growled standing on her ground.
He was surprised by her reaction, but why should he be?! She was only a fancy creation of his. From the very first cry... Just like Kikyo had said "There are no such things as ghost." She was right, but why was his heart beating like this then? Was he really becoming crazy?
"Yes, you are!" he shouted. "You are a fancy creation of mine!"
She came nearer him. "Are you sure about that?" she asked and saw hesitation in his eyes. He was confused. That was what he was. "I have been here before you! I have been here... I don't know how long, but it doesn't matter!" She came even closer staring at him angrily floating above the floor.
"I once lived like you. I was once blood and flesh like you!"
Inu-yasha backed a step hesitantly, but then he got a hold of himself again. He stared at her angrily. "There are no such things as ghosts!" he shouted borrowing Kikyo's words. She backed in disbelief. "You are only a fancy creation of mine! Nothing more!"
He was surprised to see the girl to be very disappointed. She looked down and floated toward the wall of the room. She sighed and he didn't know what to do.
"You saw a ghost, Inu-yasha" she whispered and looked slowly up at him. "But you denied what you saw." She was long silent making him very uncomfortable. "That will lay a curse on you." She floated trough the wall.
"Inu-yasha" he heard her say last. He sighed looking down. He didn't know what to think. He bit his lower lip taking his school bag.
Then he stepped out of the room sighing deep. Soon his expression returned to that usual one when he got a hold of himself again. "There are no such things as ghosts" he heard Kikyo's voice in his mind followed by Kouga's laughter. He wouldn't give them more reasons to laugh only cause of his too wild imagination.
When he walked out from the house and toward the gates of the yard he didn't notice the transparent girl sitting beside the window. She looked after him sadly. She looked down and slowly disappeared.
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A/N
11.5.2006 (05/11/2006):
Just read trough and fixed some mistakes.
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A/N
(May 28, 2008):
Had little to do after last time, but still some
pretty important things to fix.