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 14 Surprise guest

"There is a strange guy in the house" Kagome told Inu-yasha when he got into the house. The picture Sesshomaru had shown her had brought more memories, but she had decided not to tell Inu-yasha about what happened with Sesshomaru.

Inu-yasha stared at her taking his dirty shoes off and placing them beside the door with other shoes. Who might this guy be? "Is Sesshomaru home?" he asked. "My parents?"

"Sesshomaru is but your parents are in a restaurant or something" she shrugged her shoulder's. "Sesshomaru seemed to recognise this guy. That is why he's here and Jaken was overly happy or angry when he came."

Inu-yasha stopped when taking his jacket off not wanting to go up yet. 'Can Jaken be happy?' he asked himself and then took the jacket off. "Well, you better not appear while I'm checking on him okay" he told her and she nodded. "It's better that he doesn't think I'm crazy like everyone already thinks so." He sighed and she saw he was troubled by this.

He walked toward the stairs when the ghost shout after him. "Wait, Inu- yasha." He turned around seeing her to come toward him. "Don't be so troubled. Everything will turn out well." He looked away and she saw that her words didn't really help him. "Trust me!" she told him smiling widely and giving a soft kiss on his cheek.

He turned to look at her, but she was already fading away. When she was gone he rubbed his cheek like he wouldn't be happy about the kiss. When he however got to the second floor he couldn't stop from smiling. It really made him feel better.

He walked to Sesshomaru's level hearing Jaken's barking from his floor. So they were in his floor. He narrowed his eyes believing that this guy was one of Sesshomaru's friends. He started up just when he saw his much taller brother come down toward him.

"I'm going to get something to eat" Sesshomaru told his younger brother when walking past him. "You go greet him." Before Inu-yasha could ask anything his brother had gone down already. Who was this guy?

He walked up the stairs still hearing Jaken's barking. At least he knows where to go when the dog told it with it's barking. The dog and this guy were in his 'office'. He saw the door to be partly open when he walked toward it.

He walked in and immediately his eyes widened of surprise. "Koishi!"

***down stairs***

Sesshomaru had all the ingredients that he needed for making nice and tasty breads on the table. Now he was looking for something to drink for Koishi and himself. 'Inu-yasha?' he asked himself and shook his head. He wasn't going to be suddenly the nice-big-brother.

Suddenly he heard something from behind and he turned quickly around. He saw a flying kitchen paper beside the table. The paper landed on the table and then the maple syrup to started to fly. Something opened the bottle.

He walked nearer not bothering to close the fridge where he had been looking for the drinks. When he walked nearer he felt the cold breeze that told who was doing this.

After a moment there started to appear writing on the paper with the maple syrup. He got now closer to see what it was. Now he knew he was real close the ghost cause it got colder. Not in freezing way but in a scary way, but Sesshomaru didn't let that feeling get over him.

After a moment the feeling disappeared and Sesshomaru could tell that the ghost was gone. Then he remembered the paper and looked down. He took it in his hand and saw a sticky writing "Thank you."

He laid the paper down on the table again and a long moment he didn't move, but after a moment his lips curled up into a smile.

***fourth floor***

"What are you doing here?" Inu-yasha asked sitting down on a chair around a table where Koishi was sitting also.

On the moment Koishi wasn't listening cause Jaken was hanging on his pant's leg. He was pulling on his leg but this time the dog had a good hold. "How I hate this" he cursed under his breath but then Inu-yasha grabbed the dog.

"So. What are you doing here?" Inu-yasha asked again leaning his elbow on the table and his cheek on his hands when in his other Jaken was hanging.

Koishi narrowed his eyes to the dog and cursed some more before turning for Inu-yasha. "I had no other place to go" he said simply shrugging his shoulders.

"What happened?" Inu-yasha asked when letting the dog free on the floor. At the same moment Koishi took his legs up on the chair away from the dog. Jaken jumped beside the chair but to it's bad luck he couldn't reach Koishi's legs.

"You know that my parents had thrown me out when I couldn't pass High- school last spring." he was silent for a moment.

Inu-yasha stared at him for a moment. Koishi was as old as he was so why had he almost passed high school before him? "Oh right. I forgot that you didn't need bother your self with the second class in junior high school" he gave a bored look with a smile.

Koishi felt a bit ashamed. He had been good in school until he got into high-school. There he didn't do anything and now he hadn't even passed. "Well. However. Like you know I lived with my sister Kiken this time, but she is moving to Europe to study. I don't have enough money to pay any rental of an apartment so. I don't have any place."

"Any family at all?" Inu-yasha asked leaning closer shaking his head in wonder.

"Did you already forget that I'm from Hokkaido?" Koishi asked. The rest of his large family lived much further than Inu-yasha now. Inu-yasha understood that it was easier for Koishi to come here than to think on moving back to Hokkaido where he lived when he was three years old.

On the same moment Sesshomaru came in with a tray full of all kind of stuff. He placed the tray on the table and then he too sat down. With a short order he got Jaken away from Koishi and then he concentrated on the food on the tray.

Koishi leaned nearer being hungrier than any of them, but Inu-yasha didn't give Sesshomaru the satisfaction in knowing that he was hungry. It was still hard to be so uncaring when your stomach was screaming for food and there were so yummy looking stuff before your nose.

Sesshomaru gave Koishi a cider and a big laminated bread with lots of jam between. "This is for you as well" the oldest of them said giving an orange to Koishi. Koishi took it happily knowing well that Sesshomaru was evil and mean mostly only to his brother.

Inu-yasha looked at Sesshomaru who took a bread for himself as well. He tried not to show his hunger, but to see the two others to eat he had to ask. "Don't tell me you didn't bring anything to me?!" he said looking at his brother with narrowed eyes.

"No" Sesshomaru told him chewing the peace of bread that was in his mouth. He swallowed it and then the brothers stared at each other for a moment. The silence that was going on broke when Sesshomaru turned for his bread again.

Inu-yasha bit his lip looking down. "You really can't make me go down all the way!" he said growling. This was just like his brother. Make him go down from fourth floor to the first floor just to get something to eat.

Sesshomaru glanced at his brother. Wasn't it obvious? Is there anytime when Sesshomaru had helped his brother or done a favour? No!

Inu-yasha glanced at Koishi who just grinned. Koishi wouldn't give his bread to Inu-yasha even if he would give thousand yen.

Slowly Inu-yasha stood up not bothering to look at his brother anymore. He started toward the door just when a hand with a bread came before him.

Sesshomaru took a sip of his beer and didn't bother to look toward Inu- yasha when he offered one of the big breads to his brother. He didn't know why he was being so nice today.

Inu-yasha sniffed on the bread before taking it. He was almost sure that it was poisoned. "Damn it!" Sesshomaru growled. "Take it already!" The older brother still didn't look at the younger one, but Inu-yasha grabbed the bread quickly fearing that Sesshomaru would suddenly change his mind.

Inu-yasha sat by the table again and when he glanced at Koishi he saw his age-mate keep from laughing. He growled and then took a big bite of the bread.

A moment there was a silence again. Inu-yasha wondered on that silence and glanced at Koishi. Koishi was staring at him like waiting something to happen. Then carefully not chewing the bread in his mouth anymore Inu-yasha turned to look at Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru was staring at him hard as well like waiting. Waiting? Carefully Inu-yasha turned for his bread again. He chewed on what he had in his mouth silently.

Sesshomaru and Koishi leaned closer and to their satisfaction Inu-yasha's eyes suddenly widened. The younger brother spit all out from his mouth and the dried his tongue on his sleeve.

Koishi laughed and Sesshomaru leaned back smilingly. "I can't believe you, Sess!" Inu-yasha shout standing up and throwing the bread on the table. "You know that I hate liver!!" Sesshomaru laughed and when Inu-yasha grabbed him from his collar he stopped laughing but not smiling.

"Did you think that I had turned suddenly nice?" the oldest asked almost innocently. "But brother. I thought you knew better." He grinned evilly.

Koishi laughed louder than earlier and that made Inu-yasha jump of anger. Sesshomaru joined Koishi and that made Inu-yasha all the time more angrier. He was like some kind of monkey when jumping angrily.

Kagome looked into the room from the door. He saw Inu-yasha bleeding Koishi to change breads and Sesshomaru to be just about to hit a sticky bread on Inu-yasha's white hair. Kagome smiled sadly.

Inu-yasha had friends and even thought he didn't come along with his brother the best possible way they still cared for each other. Kagome. what did she have? She had this lonely mansion where she had been her whole life and afterlife.

She looked at Inu-yasha who attacked Sesshomaru cause of the sticky bread on his hair and slowly started to fade when hearing only happy laughter from the room.

***next morning***

"Of course he can stay here" Inu-yasha's mother smiled gently to Koishi when they had asked if he could stay. "There is plenty of free room here."

"Thank you, madam" Koishi said bowing. "I will pay rental immediately when I get a job."

"Don't worry about it dear Koishi" she told him. "You'll be free to stay as long as you need to and how polite your are. You are always polite!" She smiled widely and clapped her hands when Koishi only smiled.

"Booth-licker" Inu-yasha muttered when standing beside grinning Koishi. Koishi did hear it but let it be as it may.

Inu-yasha looked at the clock and then his eyes widened. "Hell" he cursed grabbing his bag from and turning toward the door. "I'm gonna be late!" He opened the door and stepped out.

Koishi and Inu-yasha's mother stared after him and they were surprised to see him come back. "Choose any room you want from the fourth floor Koishi as long as it's empty" Inu-yasha shout and then stepped out again. Suddenly he remembered something again and came back. "And don't go to the room in the other end of the corridor!"

This time he really did leave and his mother saw him to run toward the gates in the yard. "Same thing every morning" she sighed and then looked at the clock herself.

Koishi saw how Inu-yasha's mother started to run like a hurricane around the house. She had to hurry to work as well. "Like Inu-yasha would be the only one" he muttered when she run past him again. He sighed.

A/N: I'm happy to hear that people like the relationship between the brothers. I actually like it myself as well and it worked out quite well.

For the ending. I know exactly how this end and I'm starting to get quite good picture of how to get there.

I always hate when stories end. I always want to know what happens next (and I'm not maybe the only one, right?). Even now I can't stop wondering what would happen after the ending of this story. I started to create that part and cause of that I created this attack and made Chaz's and Aliz's part in this more important in the beginning already.

I have an idea for a sequel! That is why I won't bring the real reason behind the attackers into the picture really. Inu-yasha will do something about it in this story, but what is there behind will be the main thing in the sequel. This story is more about the ghost.

Now. If someone is wondering why I brought Koishi back into the picture again. I just need him now cause of these attackers.

In the next chapter Inu-yasha's friends come back so we start to get into the ghost more again. She's the main thing of this anyway. Soon I also will jump in time a bit to get to the Christmas.

Even thought I have made Kouga quite a mean character toward Inu-yasha he's not bad okay. It's just rivalry between these two. I must admit that I hate Kouga and Kikyo in the real story, but I don't want to make them evil. I want to see every character on the same level.

Why am I telling this? I just maybe wanted to. *shrugging her shoulders*

My absolute favourites in Inu-yasha are Sesshomaru, Inu-yasha and Miroku!

See ya!