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***
Chapter 13 It's painful, isn't it
Later on the evening when the darkness was falling and the weather was getting cold Inu-yasha walked forward in a part of the village he didn't like of. This wasn't far from Chaz's flat he realised.
He took the little peace of paper that Sesshomaru had given him. There was some more instructions on the paper on how he would recognise this guy. First of all. He shouldn't mention his name and he always had a big bottle before him even thought he didn't seem to be very drunk.
'Saloon Bar' he thought. 'What a stupid name.' Then he stopped seeing a red neon sign above a wooden door. The door was open and you could hear the music to the spot where Inu-yasha was. 'Well. It's not as loud as it's usually in Tokyo.' He walked toward the door wondering what kind of place was it.
However anything wouldn't surprise him anymore. This village was strange okay! He stepped in being happy that he was already eighteen but cursing the fact that he looked so much younger in some peoples eyes.
The place inside was very dark and the air was smoky. Not to wonder when everyone was smoking and there was no good air conditioner. He sighed and then put his hands into his jacket's pockets.
He walked straight toward the counter. There he sat on a high chair. When the barkeeper asked what he wanted he ordered a beer. Then he looked around. The whole place was like a saloon from old west movies.
The barkeeper brought the beer, but he didn't let him take it immediately. "Are you eighteen, babyface?" the barkeeper, a big man into every direction (especially horizontally), asked smiling evilly.
Inu-yasha glanced up at him from under his dark brows. "I am, so knock it of" he growled. He hated to be called baby face. Especially Sesshomaru called him that when he couldn't get anything from a bar in Tokyo when he was eighteen.
"Don't get angry" the barkeeper said lifting his hands as defeat and leaving the beer before Inu-yasha. "Even thought I don't believe you at least I have some excuse to the police if I need one." Inu-yasha glanced at the fat man. How crazy was the city?
He took a sip of the beer and then leaned heavily on the counter his white hair falling over his shoulders. How could he find this guy? What was he doing here in the first place?
His life was going crazy! Nothing made sense anymore. He just wished that Kikyo and Sango would come back soon and Miroku could finally come back to school, what ever were his reason's for his absence.
Suddenly someone real drunk guy walked past him and when going so hit accidentally on Inu-yasha's back. Inu-yasha hissed. Still every part of his body hurt.
"It's painful, isn't it" he heard a voice from behind. He didn't first turn around cause he thought that it wasn't for him.
When he felt something hit the back of his head he turned around. In a dark corner beside a table was sitting someone. This guy, who ever it was, was keeping his other leg on a chair and the other one on the table. Before him was a big almost empty bottle of strong alcohol.
"It's painful, isn't it" the guy repeated and leaned toward revealing his face to the light.
Inu-yasha's eyes widened.
***the mansion***
Kagome floated in a circle in the fourth floor wondering where Inu-yasha had gone at this time of night. Usually he was home every evening talking with her and writing letters to Koishi.
She had been watching on the TV when Inu-yasha's parents had been watching the news. She had been sitting on a high bookshelf and stared at the box with a picture. Inu-yasha had explained to her what it was couple of days ago. Still it was amazing.
In the TV they had told that it would start snowing any time now and that the temperature would go very fast below zero (Celsius). That made Kagome worry even more when Inu-yasha hadn't taken much on him when going out.
The ghost finally decided to go down stairs and so she went trough the floor down to Sesshomaru's floor. Just to find something else to think she decided to find Sesshomaru.
There were so many big rooms in this floor that she didn't know which place to look first. To find Jaken wasn't a hard task. The dog was sleeping in his basket. She sighed and went trough the walls from a room to another.
Finally he got into the small library. It was quite dark. Only one candle was on the table giving light and behind it was Sesshomaru sitting and reading on a book. She floated behind him wondering what he was reading.
To her surprise when she got behind him he closed the book quickly. Something else made her even more surprised.
"Reading over my shoulder again?"
Kagome's eyes widened. Could Inu-yasha's wicked brother see her. She floated carefully before him. He held his eyes closed and he seemed to concentrate.
"I can't see you but I can feel you" he told her and opened his eyes. To her surprise he was staring straight into her eyes. She felt uncomfortable. She moved to the left and noticed that Sesshomaru closed his eyes again.
"It would be much easier if you were still" Sesshomaru said with a neutral voice. Then he turned his head again and when he opened his eyes he was staring again straight into Kagome's eyes. She breathed hard. Or at least her chest was going quick up and down.
After a long moment Sesshomaru turned his eyes away from her. He didn't know that he was staring at her. He just somehow sensed that he was on that point and when she moved he had to concentrate very hard to find her again.
He stood up and blew the candle. "I have something to show you" he told her opening the door of the room. "Please follow cause I can't make sure are you near or far or here at all.2 Then he walked out from the room.
Kagome staid still for a moment wondering should she go. After a moment she didn't see anything bad in it so she went trough the wall following her into another room in the third floor.
***Saloon Bar***
Inu-yasha was very surprised by the fact that the same woman that had helped him back at the graveyard. "Come here, boy" she gestured for him to sit down by the table.
Inu-yasha was silent for a moment and then took hid beer. He sat down by the table studying now this woman more. She couldn't be more than two years older than he was. She had sleepy eyes, but in any other way you couldn't tell if she was drunk or not. However she had that bottle on the table. She had had a bottle back in the car as well, right?
Then he noticed her leg on the chair that was wrapped in bandages. He got a flash back of her seeing her to limp into the bar. This is the same bar! He suddenly realised. Well, it wasn't more to think about, but her leg. "Was it you who screamed so badly back then?" he asked nodding toward her leg.
She gave a smirk and scratched her hair. "Well. If you wouldn't have kicked the guy the bullet would have hit my heart" was all that she gave as an answer. "But I'm used with these kind of wounds."
Inu-yasha just nodded. Then he remembered the guy he was meant to look for. "By the way" he said and got the woman's attention just when she was going to take a gulp from the bottle. "You know a guy called Aliz?" he asked.
The woman put the bottle down on the table. He looked straight into Inu- yasha's eyes. "I do" she told him with a face that told Inu-yasha that she was studying him.
"Could you tell where to find him?" he asked.
"It's not him. It's she."
'What?' Inu-yasha shout in his mind. 'And Sesshomaru hadn't told me a detail like that.'
"Let me guess" the woman said. "You are brother to that tall white haired guy Sesshomaru, aren't ya?"
Inu-yasha stared at her hard. "How did you know?" he stammered. "I mean. How do you know him?"
"So you are" she whispered. "No wonder when you have both white hairs." She looked at him and realised that he wanted to know how she knew Sesshomaru. "He comes here often with his friends from the college and I'm almost living here." She took the bottle, "and drinking every night", and took a gulp of it.
They were silent for a long moment. Then Inu-yasha asked again the unanswered question. "Where can I find this Aliz?"
The woman glanced up at him. "Right in front of you" she said and took another gulp. His eyes widened and her lips curled up into a smile. She put the bottle down again. "Yes. I'm Aliz." she explained. "Also called the Native Alcoholic, but no more about it." She waved her hand like pushing her last words out from the conservation.
Then she snapped her finger's to the bar keeper taking the last gulp from the bottle. "Bring me the same and to my friend what he wants" she told the bar keeper.
"Haven't you already enough?" the bar keeper asked like he did every night after Aliz had been drinking three bottles of strong alcohol.
Inu-yasha saw how Aliz's brown eyes started t burn. "You are not the one to tell me that!" she growled like every night. "You are not my mom!" She was just about to stand up and go and hit the guy, but the bar keeper was already taking a bottle.
She relaxed down. "Don't forget my friend" she reminded the bar keeper.
"No!" Inu-yasha was quick to say. "This is okay."
She glanced at him and then shrugged her shoulder. "I will pay his beer" she then told the bar keeper when the fat man brought the bottle.
"There is no need for that" Inu-yasha told her when the bar keeper left.
"Don't worry" she told him. "It's not my money anyway" she told him smiling calmly. He just had to wonder who's money was it. She opened the bottle the bar keeper had brought and took quickly one big gulp from it.
Inu-yasha was silent taking now a bigger gulp from the beer than earlier. He had to get something out from this girl. He wanted to know more about these guys who attacked him, but what if this girl was just like her brother.
Inu-yasha was silent and decided to wait until she was drunk enough.
***back in the mansion***
Sesshomaru had showed a big painting of the man who had written the diary he was reading. He however didn't know what the ghost thought about it. He wished he could see her. He wished he could hear her. Talk to her.
He light the candle in the small library again. He opened the book sighing continuing reading. He could continue that for a moment, but then he heard the door bell to ring. He put the book down and listened.
He didn't hear his parents to move or anything but he did hear Jaken to run down the stairs barking. The bell rang again and Sesshomaru waited it to ring couple of more times before he stood up.
'Where are they?' he wondered in his mind. His father and stepmother should be home right. He walked down the stairs and heard nothing when being on the second floor. Just to check on wasn't they really home he pressed his ear against their bedroom door.
Nothing.
Then the bell rang again. He sighed and walked down not bothering to run. When he got down he saw a big peace of paper on the door and writing on it. he walked to the door and at the same time when opening the door he read the message.
His father and stepmother were in a restaurant. Well. That didn't bother him. He liked to be alone and Inu-yasha wasn't back home yet.
When he got the door almost wholly open he turned to look who it was. "You.!" he said surprised when Jaken attacked the intruder.
***on the way home***
Inu-yasha walked forward the dark streets. This time he didn't even think on crossing trough the graveyard. He took the longer way that had also more lights. His talk with Aliz was fruitless. She hadn't told even as much as Chaz.
Of her brother she talked only when he mentioned him. Then she had showed a long scar on her left arm. She said that she got it when she tried to save her brother. It also almost caused her death. This wasn't a game Inu-yasha realised.
When he asked about her drinking she was silent. She didn't tell was she drinking for her brother or not. Even so she was very drunk when he had started to ask about the happenings, but still she didn't even accidentally reveal anything.
Inu-yasha sighed and lifted the collar of his jacket to cover his neck. What was going on? He looked around when he finally reached the street where their mansion was. He stopped for a moment looking around wanting to make sure that there was no one following him.
Breathing deep he started forward. He stopped yet again right before his home. There were lights on in his floor. But he had switched the lights off.
With out another thought he toward the door trough the yard.
A/N: I know I'm making Aliz's drinking very hard and she needs very many bottles before falling asleep. Just don't let that bother the story okay. I just want to keep her that way I created her in the first place. She's the oldest one of the Inu-yasha characters I created. I created her long ago for a story I never wrote in the end.
I have also now spell checked chapters from 2 to 4. Quite good from me in one day. I must take care of the rest of the chapters as well. I try to work out my mistakes myself, but if someone is willing to read my chapters before I put them into ff.net you can send me an email so we can talk. Or actually write ~_^
I noticed some very often found bad mistakes. I always write shaked even thought it should bee shook. *sweatdrop* Now I try, however, to write it right all the time.
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
Chapter 13 It's painful, isn't it
Later on the evening when the darkness was falling and the weather was getting cold Inu-yasha walked forward in a part of the village he didn't like of. This wasn't far from Chaz's flat he realised.
He took the little peace of paper that Sesshomaru had given him. There was some more instructions on the paper on how he would recognise this guy. First of all. He shouldn't mention his name and he always had a big bottle before him even thought he didn't seem to be very drunk.
'Saloon Bar' he thought. 'What a stupid name.' Then he stopped seeing a red neon sign above a wooden door. The door was open and you could hear the music to the spot where Inu-yasha was. 'Well. It's not as loud as it's usually in Tokyo.' He walked toward the door wondering what kind of place was it.
However anything wouldn't surprise him anymore. This village was strange okay! He stepped in being happy that he was already eighteen but cursing the fact that he looked so much younger in some peoples eyes.
The place inside was very dark and the air was smoky. Not to wonder when everyone was smoking and there was no good air conditioner. He sighed and then put his hands into his jacket's pockets.
He walked straight toward the counter. There he sat on a high chair. When the barkeeper asked what he wanted he ordered a beer. Then he looked around. The whole place was like a saloon from old west movies.
The barkeeper brought the beer, but he didn't let him take it immediately. "Are you eighteen, babyface?" the barkeeper, a big man into every direction (especially horizontally), asked smiling evilly.
Inu-yasha glanced up at him from under his dark brows. "I am, so knock it of" he growled. He hated to be called baby face. Especially Sesshomaru called him that when he couldn't get anything from a bar in Tokyo when he was eighteen.
"Don't get angry" the barkeeper said lifting his hands as defeat and leaving the beer before Inu-yasha. "Even thought I don't believe you at least I have some excuse to the police if I need one." Inu-yasha glanced at the fat man. How crazy was the city?
He took a sip of the beer and then leaned heavily on the counter his white hair falling over his shoulders. How could he find this guy? What was he doing here in the first place?
His life was going crazy! Nothing made sense anymore. He just wished that Kikyo and Sango would come back soon and Miroku could finally come back to school, what ever were his reason's for his absence.
Suddenly someone real drunk guy walked past him and when going so hit accidentally on Inu-yasha's back. Inu-yasha hissed. Still every part of his body hurt.
"It's painful, isn't it" he heard a voice from behind. He didn't first turn around cause he thought that it wasn't for him.
When he felt something hit the back of his head he turned around. In a dark corner beside a table was sitting someone. This guy, who ever it was, was keeping his other leg on a chair and the other one on the table. Before him was a big almost empty bottle of strong alcohol.
"It's painful, isn't it" the guy repeated and leaned toward revealing his face to the light.
Inu-yasha's eyes widened.
***the mansion***
Kagome floated in a circle in the fourth floor wondering where Inu-yasha had gone at this time of night. Usually he was home every evening talking with her and writing letters to Koishi.
She had been watching on the TV when Inu-yasha's parents had been watching the news. She had been sitting on a high bookshelf and stared at the box with a picture. Inu-yasha had explained to her what it was couple of days ago. Still it was amazing.
In the TV they had told that it would start snowing any time now and that the temperature would go very fast below zero (Celsius). That made Kagome worry even more when Inu-yasha hadn't taken much on him when going out.
The ghost finally decided to go down stairs and so she went trough the floor down to Sesshomaru's floor. Just to find something else to think she decided to find Sesshomaru.
There were so many big rooms in this floor that she didn't know which place to look first. To find Jaken wasn't a hard task. The dog was sleeping in his basket. She sighed and went trough the walls from a room to another.
Finally he got into the small library. It was quite dark. Only one candle was on the table giving light and behind it was Sesshomaru sitting and reading on a book. She floated behind him wondering what he was reading.
To her surprise when she got behind him he closed the book quickly. Something else made her even more surprised.
"Reading over my shoulder again?"
Kagome's eyes widened. Could Inu-yasha's wicked brother see her. She floated carefully before him. He held his eyes closed and he seemed to concentrate.
"I can't see you but I can feel you" he told her and opened his eyes. To her surprise he was staring straight into her eyes. She felt uncomfortable. She moved to the left and noticed that Sesshomaru closed his eyes again.
"It would be much easier if you were still" Sesshomaru said with a neutral voice. Then he turned his head again and when he opened his eyes he was staring again straight into Kagome's eyes. She breathed hard. Or at least her chest was going quick up and down.
After a long moment Sesshomaru turned his eyes away from her. He didn't know that he was staring at her. He just somehow sensed that he was on that point and when she moved he had to concentrate very hard to find her again.
He stood up and blew the candle. "I have something to show you" he told her opening the door of the room. "Please follow cause I can't make sure are you near or far or here at all.2 Then he walked out from the room.
Kagome staid still for a moment wondering should she go. After a moment she didn't see anything bad in it so she went trough the wall following her into another room in the third floor.
***Saloon Bar***
Inu-yasha was very surprised by the fact that the same woman that had helped him back at the graveyard. "Come here, boy" she gestured for him to sit down by the table.
Inu-yasha was silent for a moment and then took hid beer. He sat down by the table studying now this woman more. She couldn't be more than two years older than he was. She had sleepy eyes, but in any other way you couldn't tell if she was drunk or not. However she had that bottle on the table. She had had a bottle back in the car as well, right?
Then he noticed her leg on the chair that was wrapped in bandages. He got a flash back of her seeing her to limp into the bar. This is the same bar! He suddenly realised. Well, it wasn't more to think about, but her leg. "Was it you who screamed so badly back then?" he asked nodding toward her leg.
She gave a smirk and scratched her hair. "Well. If you wouldn't have kicked the guy the bullet would have hit my heart" was all that she gave as an answer. "But I'm used with these kind of wounds."
Inu-yasha just nodded. Then he remembered the guy he was meant to look for. "By the way" he said and got the woman's attention just when she was going to take a gulp from the bottle. "You know a guy called Aliz?" he asked.
The woman put the bottle down on the table. He looked straight into Inu- yasha's eyes. "I do" she told him with a face that told Inu-yasha that she was studying him.
"Could you tell where to find him?" he asked.
"It's not him. It's she."
'What?' Inu-yasha shout in his mind. 'And Sesshomaru hadn't told me a detail like that.'
"Let me guess" the woman said. "You are brother to that tall white haired guy Sesshomaru, aren't ya?"
Inu-yasha stared at her hard. "How did you know?" he stammered. "I mean. How do you know him?"
"So you are" she whispered. "No wonder when you have both white hairs." She looked at him and realised that he wanted to know how she knew Sesshomaru. "He comes here often with his friends from the college and I'm almost living here." She took the bottle, "and drinking every night", and took a gulp of it.
They were silent for a long moment. Then Inu-yasha asked again the unanswered question. "Where can I find this Aliz?"
The woman glanced up at him. "Right in front of you" she said and took another gulp. His eyes widened and her lips curled up into a smile. She put the bottle down again. "Yes. I'm Aliz." she explained. "Also called the Native Alcoholic, but no more about it." She waved her hand like pushing her last words out from the conservation.
Then she snapped her finger's to the bar keeper taking the last gulp from the bottle. "Bring me the same and to my friend what he wants" she told the bar keeper.
"Haven't you already enough?" the bar keeper asked like he did every night after Aliz had been drinking three bottles of strong alcohol.
Inu-yasha saw how Aliz's brown eyes started t burn. "You are not the one to tell me that!" she growled like every night. "You are not my mom!" She was just about to stand up and go and hit the guy, but the bar keeper was already taking a bottle.
She relaxed down. "Don't forget my friend" she reminded the bar keeper.
"No!" Inu-yasha was quick to say. "This is okay."
She glanced at him and then shrugged her shoulder. "I will pay his beer" she then told the bar keeper when the fat man brought the bottle.
"There is no need for that" Inu-yasha told her when the bar keeper left.
"Don't worry" she told him. "It's not my money anyway" she told him smiling calmly. He just had to wonder who's money was it. She opened the bottle the bar keeper had brought and took quickly one big gulp from it.
Inu-yasha was silent taking now a bigger gulp from the beer than earlier. He had to get something out from this girl. He wanted to know more about these guys who attacked him, but what if this girl was just like her brother.
Inu-yasha was silent and decided to wait until she was drunk enough.
***back in the mansion***
Sesshomaru had showed a big painting of the man who had written the diary he was reading. He however didn't know what the ghost thought about it. He wished he could see her. He wished he could hear her. Talk to her.
He light the candle in the small library again. He opened the book sighing continuing reading. He could continue that for a moment, but then he heard the door bell to ring. He put the book down and listened.
He didn't hear his parents to move or anything but he did hear Jaken to run down the stairs barking. The bell rang again and Sesshomaru waited it to ring couple of more times before he stood up.
'Where are they?' he wondered in his mind. His father and stepmother should be home right. He walked down the stairs and heard nothing when being on the second floor. Just to check on wasn't they really home he pressed his ear against their bedroom door.
Nothing.
Then the bell rang again. He sighed and walked down not bothering to run. When he got down he saw a big peace of paper on the door and writing on it. he walked to the door and at the same time when opening the door he read the message.
His father and stepmother were in a restaurant. Well. That didn't bother him. He liked to be alone and Inu-yasha wasn't back home yet.
When he got the door almost wholly open he turned to look who it was. "You.!" he said surprised when Jaken attacked the intruder.
***on the way home***
Inu-yasha walked forward the dark streets. This time he didn't even think on crossing trough the graveyard. He took the longer way that had also more lights. His talk with Aliz was fruitless. She hadn't told even as much as Chaz.
Of her brother she talked only when he mentioned him. Then she had showed a long scar on her left arm. She said that she got it when she tried to save her brother. It also almost caused her death. This wasn't a game Inu-yasha realised.
When he asked about her drinking she was silent. She didn't tell was she drinking for her brother or not. Even so she was very drunk when he had started to ask about the happenings, but still she didn't even accidentally reveal anything.
Inu-yasha sighed and lifted the collar of his jacket to cover his neck. What was going on? He looked around when he finally reached the street where their mansion was. He stopped for a moment looking around wanting to make sure that there was no one following him.
Breathing deep he started forward. He stopped yet again right before his home. There were lights on in his floor. But he had switched the lights off.
With out another thought he toward the door trough the yard.
A/N: I know I'm making Aliz's drinking very hard and she needs very many bottles before falling asleep. Just don't let that bother the story okay. I just want to keep her that way I created her in the first place. She's the oldest one of the Inu-yasha characters I created. I created her long ago for a story I never wrote in the end.
I have also now spell checked chapters from 2 to 4. Quite good from me in one day. I must take care of the rest of the chapters as well. I try to work out my mistakes myself, but if someone is willing to read my chapters before I put them into ff.net you can send me an email so we can talk. Or actually write ~_^
I noticed some very often found bad mistakes. I always write shaked even thought it should bee shook. *sweatdrop* Now I try, however, to write it right all the time.