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 15 Nothing can replace friends

The next two weeks had been again fun for Inu-yasha. When Miroku, Sango and Kikyo were there around him he could forget everything. His smile hadn't been wider in a long while. Miroku made sure that no one would be sad and Sango was in that show as well.

One day Kikyo and Inu-yasha had even the chance to go on a date and cause of that Koishi had been teasing him all day. Koishi had gotten a job from the Saloon Bar. "It's better than nothing" Koishi always told Inu-yasha.

Something however did bother Inu-yasha a lot. He hadn't seen Kagome much and when he did her smile wasn't so pure like it used to be. Sometimes he even could hear the sniffing, but Kagome denied it all.

But on this Friday Inu-yasha didn't have much time to think on her when he was at school. He was standing beside Kikyo leaning on the lockers when Kikyo was looking for his things.

"Did you see the look on their eyes on the first class?" Kikyo asked taking one book out from the locker and replacing it with another.

"Who?" Inu-yasha asked waking up from his thoughts when he had been staring on the window on the other side of the corridor.

"Sango and Miroku, silly" Kikyo said with low voice not wanting to draw any curious ears near. All the people in school knew Miroku very well and Sango wasn't news either. All that had something to do with these two together spread out in the school like weeds.

Inu-yasha was silent for a moment staring at the window expressionless. He recalled the first class they had today. Sango and Miroku had been both nervous and glancing at each other. Inu-yasha hadn't paid much of attention to them. Mostly he had been thinking on the ghost or been staring Kikyo. That was cause of two reasons: she looked like the ghost and she was real beauty.

"There is something going on" Kikyo whispered closing her locker. "I'm sure of it." Then she took his hand and they started of. It was a common sight to see them hand in hand. Even the students had gotten more careful not to glare at Inu-yasha when he was around Kikyo. Inu-yasha hadn't told anything to his friends. Not of the glaring or attack. He didn't want them to worry.

They walked toward the next class-room that was on the upper level, but just when they were about to head up Kikyo noticed Kouga. He was crouching beside a door and pressing his ear against it.

"Kouga" Kikyo exclaimed and that made Kouga jump out of his pants. He turned to look around and then noticed Kikyo. He put his finger on his lips to make Kikyo quiet.

Kikyo shut his mouth and with out asking Inu-yasha she dragged him along toward Kouga. Kouga and Inu-yasha exchanged hateful glares, but Kikyo didn't give them more change to do so when he stepped between them.

"What are you doing?" she whispered leaning her hand on her knees.

Kouga gestured her to come closer. Kikyo crouched down and brought her ear near him. "Listen up" he whispered and pointed on the door behind him. Kikyo glanced at him, but after a moment pressed her ear against the door.

The students around them stared at them, but didn't pay more attention to them. Kouga was often found to do strange stuff with Miroku so it wasn't news to see them crouching before a door.

Kikyo's eyes widened and she tried to keep her giggling back. Inu-yasha crouched down wondering what was it about. Kouga smiling pointed the door for him. He came nearer and pressed his ear against the door.

His eyes widened just when a shadow fell on him. All the three of them looked up and saw Kaede there hand folded. The three of them smirked and then slowly stood up keeping their hands behind their backs.

Kaede studied them long before she said anything. "What is there so interesting?" she asked and the three of them bit their lips together. "If you don't want to tell me I'll check it out myself."

The three of them tried to find out something to say but it was too late when Kaede was already turning the handle of the door. Inu-yasha and Kikyo on the headmaster's right looked away having that smirk on their face. Kouga on the left had his eyes closed and he held his mouth shut.

Kaede opened the door and as quickly as she did so her eyes widened. "What in nine hells!" she exclaimed and got the attention of all the people near them.

Kouga leaned on the wall beside the door covering his face with his other hand. Inu-yasha and Kikyo were still looking into different directions not wanting to meet anyone's eyes.

"What is going on here?" Kaede demanded from Miroku and Sango. They were behind the door in a small room that happened to be a closet. They had wrapped their arms around each other and Sango was on Miroku's lap. Their hairs were all shaggy and their embarrassed expressions were impossible to describe.

All the students who saw them started to laugh and point on them but Kaede didn't seem to be overly happy. "Come to my office when you are done" she told them and then turned away leaving the door open.

The laughing continued and Kouga, Kikyo and Inu-yasha were red as well, but they were nothing compared to the two tomatoes in the closet.

***after school***

Inu-yasha walked out from the school yard with Miroku. The perverted guy had a read mark on his cheek that wasn't anything strange but Inu-yasha did wonder.

"I believe she didn't take it well" Inu-yasha said silently smirking when looking at the red mark.

"Huh" Miroku turned to look at his friend like waking up from dreams. "Oh you mean this?!" he pointed on the mark on his cheek and giving his usual cheerful smile. "It's nothing."

Inu-yasha stared hard at him. "You mean that Sango just accidentally slapped you?" he asked in disbelief.

"Well" Miroku scratched the back of his head. "She got embarrassed there you know. What else she could do?" He put his hand into his pockets and continued his light walk forward.

Inu-yasha sighed and looked elsewhere. "So, you are still getting along?" he asked not looking at Miroku at all. Suddenly he noticed the black haired guy to stop. He looked back and he could swear he saw a bit of concern in his eyes.

Miroku looked at Inu-yasha smiling widely and being his carefree self. "That we'll see tomorrow when we meet again" she said happily. Then he came beside Inu-yasha and slapped his back. "There is plenty of girls so don't worry about it."

Inu-yasha looked at him when they walked forward again. Miroku's smile was so convincing, but Inu-yasha couldn't believe it. When time had passed again and they were near a park full of kids Inu-yasha glanced at his friend.

Miroku's cheerful smile and careless eyes now showed worry that Inu-yasha knew to be there. Sango had been humiliated in front of all the students and the headmaster it self. They had been called to Kaede's office and there they had been almost the rest of the day. On top of that the whole school knew and Miroku started acting like Sango was dozenware. That was the moment when Sango had slapped Miroku and had been shouting of anger.

They stopped before the park cause this was the place where their ways parted. "Miroku" Inu-yasha said silently to get the other guy's attention. "Would you like to come to my place?" he asked and he could see that Miroku smiled again now not hiding his worry. "My mom is visiting her sister and dad's going to be of late so only problem would be Jaken and Sesshomaru."

Both of them smiled and finally Miroku sighed. He looked at the kids in the park and then looked down. "I would like to see your home" he said finally looking up at Inu-yasha. "I have always wondered how the haunted house looked from inside."

Inu-yasha smiled and hit his hand on Miroku's back. "Let's go" he exclaimed. This was the first time he had asked one of his friends to come to the house. He had feared to ask cause they maybe wouldn't come cause of the stories.

Well. Now he was happy. He could maybe cheer up Miroku and most importantly get to know him better.

***in the kitchen***

Miroku was sitting by a table in the kitchen when Inu-yasha was looking stuff from the fridge. They both were hungry as well a dog who was growling to Miroku now and then. Miroku had anyway made clear who was the boss by kicking the dog back to it's corner when they came in.

It didn't take long, however, for Jaken to try again and so he came at Miroku again now hanging on his pant-leg. Miroku sighed and tried to pull the dog free. "What is with this dog?" he asked Inu-yasha who brought two bowls on the table.

"My wicked brother has raised him" the white haired guy told Miroku. "That's with him. You lie ramen?"

Miroku got the dog free and now held poor-Jaken up in the air. "Yeah! I do eat ramen" he answered and when the dog tried to struggle he only shook his hand.

On the same moment when Inu-yasha started to warm up ramen for them the main door opened. Miroku put Jaken down and the dog run to the door. Usually you would think that the dog would be barking but this time it wasn't.

In came a white haired guy like Inu-yasha. First Miroku thought that this might be one of Inu-yasha's parents, but he changed his mind when seeing his too young face.

Sesshomaru wrapped up his long hair into a pony-tail when he walked into the kitchen leaving his coat and shoes before the door. "Care to make some for me, brother?" he asked when walking to the fridge.

Inu-yasha sighed and took some more raw ramen and put it to boil. Well, usually Inu-yasha wouldn't do it but why to make two times the ramen when you could get trough it with one time.

Sesshomaru took a bottle of juice and didn't bother to take a cup when he took a sip. "Have Koishi found a job?" he asked from Inu-yasha paying no attention to Miroku when sitting down by the table.

"Yes" Inu-yasha answered being back toward Sesshomaru. "He got a job from Saloon Bar and I bet he's sleeping now." Sesshomaru had been two days in Tokyo for some reasons Inu-yasha didn't care to know so that is why the older brother knew nothing of Koishi's job.

"Poor man" Sesshomaru sighed like he would care, but soon he hid his wicked smile behind the bottle when he took another sip.

Inu-yasha shook his head and then took the two bowls he had brought to the table earlier and went back to the ramen. "Serve you self, Sess" he told his brother and filled the two bowls with ramen. When he returned to the table he took some spices with him. Then he went to the fridge to get something to drink for him and Miroku.

"What would you like to drink?" Inu-yasha asked and looked at Miroku. He maybe shouldn't have cause the black haired guy had a perverted grin on his face. Inu-yasha felt disgusted. "So water it will be" he muttered and took two cups and filled them with water.

Sesshomaru was filling his own bowl with ramen not noticing the grin. He returned to the table and first the tree of them were silent. This time also Jaken was silent cause Sesshomaru had ordered it to wait outside the kitchen.

"Inu" Sesshomaru said getting his brother's attention. "Who might he be?" Sesshomaru pointed on Miroku not caring to look at him.

"He's Miroku from school" Inu-yasha to Sesshomaru and then he filled his mouth with ramen.

Sesshomaru now turned to look at Miroku. He stared for a moment at him silently and then he offered his hand for a shake. "My name's Sesshomaru and I'm brother to this loser" he smiled wickedly.

Miroku almost took the hand, but then saw Inu-yasha growling. The actual reason why he didn't take Sesshomaru's hand wasn't the growling, but the fact that Inu-yasha was pulling on Sesshomaru's long hair on the hot stove.

After seconds all Miroku could see of the brothers was a cloud of dust. He blinked his eyes many times when the two were fighting. After a moment he shrugged his shoulders and ate his ramen.

***fourth floor***

Inu-yasha was complaining all the way when he got up to his floor with Miroku. Miroku was walking behind him keeping his hands behind his back and looking elsewhere.

When Sesshomaru and Inu-yasha had finally broke up the fight Miroku had eaten all ramen already. They had to do it over again and this time Sesshomaru had made sure that Miroku staid out from the kitchen like Jaken. Inu-yasha hadn't disagreed when he saw Miroku to sit beside Jaken like a dog.

They finally got into Inu-yasha's 'office' on the fourth floor. Inu-yasha went straight to his table not bothering to say anything about the mess that dwelled there. Miroku looked around. Most of the furniture in the room and in the whole house were old, but Inu-yasha had told earlier that the house hadn't been empty when they moved in.

Suddenly Miroku felt strange and he turned for Inu-yasha. He saw the other guy to smile. He wondered on that but didn't dare to say anything. Suddenly his eyes widened when he slightly saw a girl wrapping her arms around Inu- yasha. He shook his head and the girl was gone.

"I must go wake up Koishi so you can wait here" Inu-yasha told Miroku when turning to look at him. He wondered why the other one looked so white, but left the room anyway.

Miroku only sat down beside the wall when Inu-yasha left the room. What had he seen?

Outside the room Inu-yasha smiled even wider when Kagome appeared again. She had come to greet him like always. "Koishi is still sleeping" she told him and he nodded.

"You wanna bring water?" Inu-yasha asked the ghost and she brightened up a lot. "Just remember that it have to be cold." He told her and then she disappeared.

When Inu-yasha walked into a room at the other side of the corridor he made sure he didn't close the door. Then he stopped before the room where Koishi lived for now. He leaned on the wall waiting for Kagome.

Soon the girl was there with a bowl of water. It was good that the girl could hold on things. That made everything more funnier. "If you want you can pour it on him, but make sure you give the bowl to me in time" he told her and she nodded excitedly.

Inu-yasha opened the door to Koishi's room. The room was a mess and on the moment dark cause all the windows were closed by curtains. The two of them walked toward Koishi's bed that was one of those old furniture in the house. It was a big bed, but a short one so Koishi was sleeping diagonally.

When they were beside the bed Kagome poured the water down. Koishi shout of surprise and didn't see when the bowl flew into Inu-yasha's hands. Kagome herself hid behind Inu-yasha's back.

"Wake up, sleepy-head" Inu-yasha exclaimed to Koishi who's black hair was wholly wet.

Koishi looked at his friend with narrowed eyes in a matter of moments he had pulled the white haired guy into the bed and now he was pushing the bowl on his head.

Kagome laughed at the side of the scene when Inu-yasha tried to fight back on Koishi who was determined to get the bowl on Inu-yasha's head.

A/N: It's the fifteenth chapter! I'm very happy about it! I hope you like the chapter cause I had fun when writing it. I wanted to show some good stuff in Inu-yasha's life. ^_^

I was reading my old reviews and someone had asked in the very beginning that is Kagome younger than Inu-yasha. Yes she is. She was 16 when she died. I think that two years between them is good.

Another thing I hope is that the characters won't be too OOC. If they are warn me! If it's on purpose I'll tell you, but I try to keep them as well as I can like they are in reality. In some ways I have to make them a bit OOC.

Anyway! I hope you like this chapter but I won't promise any new chapters soon. I have couple of school works to be done.

See ya!