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 17 Flashbacks
Inu-yasha and his friends were sitting in a fast food shop in a gas station. It was actually the only fast food place in the whole village so it was always full of people. Especially students. There was two restaurants and three bars in the village, but that was actually all the food places.
The gang was sitting by a table chatting. Kouga was queuing for their food. They had decided by arm-wrestling would Inu-yasha or Kouga go and get the food. They were the most capable of carrying it.
Inu-yasha however had won and so Kouga had to go and order.
Miroku sat on the other side of the table from Sango. She was still angry to him for all embarrassment he had caused. Miroku felt like a tiny bug when he was sitting there under Sango's angry gazes. Oh, how he wished he could go and hide under the ground.
Kikyo was sitting on the same side with Sango but as near as she could to Inu-yasha who was sitting at the end of the table. On the moment Inu-yasha was joining the scene when Kouga has to remain calm even thought all the people were pushing and kicking him in the line of customers.
"Inu-yasha" Sango said getting his attention. "Ummm. Are you still taking with ghosts?" She leaned closer forgetting her anger for a moment when looking at Inu-yasha worriedly. She hadn't asked it earlier cause Kouga was there and the one in the line would have made a big scene of this.
"What?" Inu-yasha exclaimed first but then calmed. "Hey, don't worry about it" he said avoiding lying. Yes, he was still seeing a ghost, but he also had to hide that fact.
"So. You are okay now?" Kikyo asked carefully eyeing at him.
Inu-yasha folded his arms lazily and exclaimed "Yeah! I got over it." 'Over the fact that you don't believe me' he had to add in his mind. He didn't want to lie to his friends and this way he didn't He just hid the truth. It wasn't a bad thing, right? Not at least in this situation.
He glanced at Miroku and was surprised by his studying face. Miroku was staring at him studying him. He had seen something strange just two days back and he couldn't forget it.
They both stared at each other silently and expressionless. Inu-yasha had no idea what was Miroku's problem beside the fact that Sango was angry to him. Miroku in other hand wanted to know what he had just seen back in the estate and did Inu-yasha know something of it?
Suddenly someone sat on the other end of the table. Everyone turned to look at this guy with black hair. It wasn't Kouga! The girls stared hard at the guy when Inu-yasha rolled his eyes let his head lean on his palm.
"What are you doing here?" Inu-yasha asked the guy who had a tray with a big portion of fries and a beef.
"Well, you had nothing in your fridge and I couldn't sleep anymore" the guy answered grinning.
The girls were confused. They looked from Inu-yasha to this guy when Kouga came with one tray in both hand and one on his head. He was happy that he had been practising with a book back in earlier years.
He put the trays down before he noticed this new guy. When he put them down and sat beside Miroku he noticed two hand too much on the table. He glance at the guy in the other end from Inu-yasha.
"What in nine hells" he exclaimed looking at the guy.
Inu-yasha straightened his back and leaned on the backrest. "Guys" he exclaimed getting their attention. "This is Koishi. My friend from New York. Koishi, these are my friends from the school."
Kouga had to give Inu-yasha a quick glance cause it was the first time neither one had called the other friend.
"So you are this guy he went to wake two days back" Miroku exclaimed pointing rudely at Koishi. "How didn't I see you?"
Koishi was long silent. "Maybe cause on the evening you were shocked by something and on the next morning you were too busy to act like a dog" Koishi grinned and then took some fries into his mouth.
Miroku's eyes widened and finger fell when hearing that. The three who knew nothing of this dog thing turned to look at him wondering.
Inu-yasha leaned back toward the table. "He had to act like a dog to get food from my brother" he said and grinned evilly to Miroku who wished that he could have gone and hide under the floor or something.
"Anyway" Koishi sighed now getting everyone's attention. "I know his name is Miroku. What about the rest of you?" he said tugging a bit of the beef into his mouth.
"I'm Sango and she's Kikyo" introduced her and her friend then he nodded toward Kouga. "He's Kouga."
Koishi nodded to all of them. There was a silence for a moment, but the silence was broke when ten hungry hands started to dig for their own food from the trays Kouga had brought.
When all of them had their food and the basic chatting started Koishi only sighed. He glanced ones at Inu-yasha who was listening carefully on Kikyo who was telling something. Koishi wasn't so interested what they were talking about, but more so he was interested on Inu-yasha's behaviour.
Back in Tokyo he was known as someone who got into fights everyday and those who had been in a fight with him were his 'closest' friends. At least supposedly. He had even couple of time taken something from a shop just show people that he dared to do that.
This group or this life in this village was really changing the Inu-yasha Koishi used to know. Not that he would be sad about it. He knew Inu-yasha very well and he knew how he was when he dropped his mask, but here.. He didn't even keep half of his usual mask up.
Suddenly almost everyone in the place stopped talking when a gloomy looking guy. or man walked into the fast-food shop. When he had carefully looked around the people continued again.
Sango leaned over the table being careful not to make her hair fall into her coke. Miroku leaned as well and she whispered something into his ear Kouga glanced at them but then Miroku passed what he heard to him as well. Then it felt into silence in the table. Nothing was said to Inu-yasha, Kikyo or Koishi.
Well. The reason might have been that Miroku, Kouga and Sango had lived all their lives in this village. They had known each other very many years so they had something in common even thought in the beginning Kouga hadn't been a friend with the two of them.
Inu-yasha and Koishi were from Tokyo and they hadn't been here long so they couldn't even guess what it was about. Kikyo had come here from an even smaller village three years ago. Just before high-school.
However no one dared to ask what was going on. Then Sango opened her mouth again starting those basic talks. Koishi glared at the gloomy man in the line. He had a bad feeling. When moments went by and the gloomy man had what he wanted he walked very near their table.
Koishi suddenly noticed how Inu-yasha shook slightly and then lifted his hand to his neck, just when the man was behind him. Koishi followed the man with his gaze. He had a very bad feeling about this.
Inu-yasha had felt strange when the gloomy man walked by. Suddenly he got a flash back from the graveyard. He saw the gun. He heard Aliz's scream of pain. The darkness. The fear. The despair!
Inu-yasha suddenly stood up. The others turned to look at him quickly surprised. "I need to go out" was all the white-haired boy said when going quickly out from the building.
Koishi stood up now getting everyone's attention as well. "Well. I must get to work" he said like nothing had happened with Inu-yasha. "It was fun to meet you, guys. Maybe we see another time again. " He smiled to then he left from the building from a smaller door thought that was also used by the public.
There was a silence for a moment and then Kikyo looked up. "I'll go talk to him" she stood up but then Miroku stood up as well.
"Please" he said. "Let me talk to him. I have something to ask anyway." The others stared silently at the usually so cheerful pervert, but nodded their agreement. Kikyo sat down and Miroku went outside to look for Inu-yasha.
Outside the air was freezing and you could see snow there and there, but there wasn't yet so much of it. The sky had no clouds that was the main reason for the cold weather.
Inu-yasha was sitting on a bench just outside the building. He held his head in his hands when Miroku walked toward him. The black-haired boy sat down beside Inu-yasha silently. Neither one said anything or moved. They were silent for a long uncomfortable moment.
Inu-yasha had this big need to tell Miroku what had happened. From all of these guys, expect Koishi, Miroku was the one he trusted most. The guy that he had met on the first day in the school. The guy who had run right at him and later introduced the school.
After a moment Inu-yasha leaned back and glanced quickly at Miroku. He had never seen Miroku-the-hentai so serious. Sad, yes. He had seen the guy sad, but serious. No!
"Inu-yasha" Miroku said finally braking the silence. "Back in your house. I saw." He fell silent but he had no idea that Inu-yasha hadn't been listening.
"There is something odd going on here" Inu-yasha said. Miroku was surprised. Hadn't he been listening? Yes, he hadn't. "When you and the girls were away from school I had been a fight."
Miroku looked at him. Unlike Inu-yasha, he had been listening. "In a fight? With whom?" he asked wanting to know wanting to help when Inu-yasha seemed to be a bit down by it.
"That's the problem" Inu-yasha said sighing. "I have no idea." He glanced at Miroku and then he looked far, far away before him. "I was crossing the graveyard cause I had to hurry home. Well. It's scary okay and don't laugh at me!" he turned to look at Miroku dangerously, but Miroku remained interested in a friendly and worried way.
Inu-yasha looked again far away. He had found a great point to look at in the distant. There was an observatory high up on a hill. Why it was low on a hill he didn't know. Usually those buildings were high up on mountains right? Well. Anyhow. Inu-yasha was staring at an observatory.
"There at the graveyard some people I couldn't recognise - or I don't even know how they looked like - attacked me. There was seven or was it six of them and I was soon on ground. One guy came to help me and then started a painful fight. There was blood and then. there was a gun."
He stopped here and saw how Miroku was staring him wide eyed. "Why hadn't you told us?" Miroku asked a bit disappointed that Inu-yasha hadn't trusted him enough earlier.
Inu-yasha looked down. "Cause I was told to not put my nose into this."
Miroku eyed him for a moment. Then he put his hand on Inu-yasha's shoulder. "What about if I come over to you and we talk this trough?" he asked kinda telling that Inu-yasha didn't need to talk about it in a public place.
Inu-yasha sighed and nodded.
***the mansion***
Miroku was laying on his back on Inu-yasha's bed reading some kind of magazine of cars. Not a magazine for his liking, thought. "You planning to buy a car?" he asked lifting his legs and balancing the paper there. It wasn't actually simple so he took time when doing this.
Inu-yasha who had been in a shower was looking for a shirt on the moment. Everything else he had found but shirt. His room wasn't a mess anymore, but cause his mom had been placing everything in the room he had no idea were to look for a shirt. "Well" he said when finally finding a white simple T- shirt. "Maybe when I get money and a job."
Miroku turned on his side on the bed and let the magazine fall on the floor. "You know" he said getting that cheerful smile on his face again. "I had a car until I drove at the school's front door. My parents got really mad, believe me, and I was almost kicked out from the school." He laughed to himself and then sat up on the bed looking for something interesting.
Inu-yasha walked toward him and sat beside him on the bed. He followed his friend's gaze from his bed-table to the walls where were posters all kind of stuff he could find to hide the wall. He didn't like of the rosy walls at all. From those posters Miroku's gaze went to a table and from there to some boxes.
Nothing for his liking! Inu-yasha was certain of it. Thought Miroku had been there two days ago he was so much talking about the girls in his life that he hadn't actually looked around. Inu-yasha didn't have any kind of girl-posters on the walls or dirty magazines under his bed.
"So, haven't you told anyone of this attack? Does anyone know?" Miroku finally asked getting bored when there was, like said, no girl-posters.
"Well. You are the first one I actually tell after my brother" Inu-yasha said sighing. "I don't want to tell to Koishi cause I know he's a guy who tries to find these people and kill them. In the end he's too much like his evil and wicked sister."
"Also Chaz, the math teacher, and his sister knows."
"What?!" Miroku exclaimed of surprise. "That should mean that the whole school knows!"
Inu-yasha shook his head on Miroku's every word. "No they don't. Chaz has reasons to be quiet and actually he's the one to thank for my life. If he wouldn't have asked his sister to follow me that night I would be now dead and dance with the gho." He closed his mouth quickly. He looked away and a uncomfortable silence fell on them.
Miroku looked at his back now letting again his cheerfulness disappear. Suddenly both of them looked up when they heard a strange voice from the window. They looked at the window in the room - or rather many windows cause the whole wall was full of windows. Someone was singing a happy song. Then they saw something orange from behind the windows. Then there came a bushy tail.
The guys stared at the window Miroku coming so close Inu-yasha that he had his head almost laying on Inu-yasha's shoulder. The singing continued and suddenly a tiny face popped into their sights. Words faded from the song but the little creature was humming.
The little creature took a tiny tool and then glide up toward the lock of the window. The boys in the room heard a sharp 'click' and then slowly the window started to open. The little creature got in just when Inu-yasha heard a ghost like voice. He swallowed hard.
Kagome flew into the room a very wide smile on her face. "Shippo" she exclaimed and took the little creature into his arms. The little creature didn't seem to resist.
Inu-yasha looked carefully at the suddenly heavy head on his shoulder. Miroku had wide eyes and if he wouldn't have his head on Inu-yasha's shoulder also his jaw would have dropped. Inu-yasha swallowed hard again.
"Hello again, Ghosty" the little tailed creature said happily when Kagome started to stroke on his tail. On that moment his eyes stuck on Inu-yasha and Miroku on the bed.
The little creature and Inu-yasha stared at each other long. Very long. But Miroku.
He stared at the floating creature who's name apparently was Shippo. He had heard the name being shouted by a girl, but what kind of girl? All he could see was the little creature to float in the air. Actually he couldn't forget the chill he felt when he heard the shout.
"Who are they?" the little creature that didn't look more than five years old asked from the ghost who was hugging him tightly.
Kagome looked up smiling expecting to see only Inu-yasha on the bed, but when he saw Miroku as well she stiffened. What had she done?
Miroku blinked many times, but when Shippo jumped down from the air he blinked even more. What was going on? Suddenly he got a flashback when he saw this faint ghost-like girl hug on Inu-yasha.
Inu-yasha noticed Miroku to shake his head and then he decided he tried to make everything look like nothing strange had happened. He stood up and stared at the small kid who was standing arms folded in the middle of the room. "Who are you and what are you doing in my home?" he asked.
He still saw Kagome, but didn't pay more attention to her to hide the truth. Maybe Miroku would buy this and think that he was feeling sick or something.
"What do you mean by that?!" Shippo exclaimed running on Inu-yasha's table to get higher up. "I have lived here every winter during these last fifteen years!" He snorted angrily, but it didn't much scare Inu-yasha who was so much bigger.
"Well" Inu-yasha was silent for a moment wondering what he could say. "Not anymore, brat!" It was all he found out. Not maybe the best possible but then he snorted as well and folded his arms.
Everyone had forgotten poor lost Miroku who was sitting on the bed shocked. He didn't hear Shippo's and Inu-yasha's fight. He just had this funny feeling that maybe, just maybe, Inu-yasha never was crazy.
He lifted his gaze to the two fighting and then slightly narrowed his eyes being determined. He stood up silently and started for the door. Neither one of the fighters saw him to leave the room.
Miroku looked carefully around. The walls were dark and all and unlike Inu- yasha's bedroom the corridor was dark and kinda sinister especially when Miroku knew that there was something strange going on in here.
He looked around at the five doors in the corridor. Behind one of them was now Inu-yasha with that Shippo kid. He also knew that the door before him went to Inu-yasha's 'office' and from there you could get into Koishi's room.
Suddenly he heard it. He heard the same voice that so many before him had claimed to hear. He heard sniffing. Slowly he turned to look toward the door at the far end of the corridor.
Before he realised what he was doing he was already opening the door. He felt a strange chill go trough his spine when the door jarred protesting when he opened it.
He put his head into the room. The room was clean (Inu-yasha had made it like home for the ghost). There was many big pictures on the wall and many old and beautiful furniture. The sniffing had stopped a moment ago, but his thoughts were somewhere else.
He looked around the room until he suddenly met a pair of eyes. He gulped when sad eyes stared straight into his. Slowly he started to see a form of a young girl.
He gasped when he saw the ghost sitting on a chair and staring him straight into eye.
A/N: Cliff-hanger, cliff-hanger! Well, I like to do cliff-hangers just to tease you! ^_^ Just kidding!
Yes I like to do cliff-hangers, but not to tease you. I just like to stop in stupid places. However I believe I'll get a next chapter soon enough up too. I would have gotten this up already yesterday, but I had forgotten that one of my friends was coming to visit so I couldn't write the chapter to end.
I also noticed that this is one of my longest chapters! And also it was the seventeenth chapter so now I have done as many chapters as I have years *grin* Alright I'm eighteen at the end of the year, but that's not the point.
I still want to hear your opinions about the party place. About skating. It's a great idea! If I can use it I'm very happy. I didn't come to think of it. However they will in the end up somewhere for the night and I would say it would be one of the friend's homes.
I have also done on checking chapter 5 to 7. I might get more checked up later today.
Well I got updated more cause we had so good team work with my friend that our school works were done at school. So nothing was left for home. And another thing too. my school is real easy okay. I have only three curses at the moment. I hate too easy stuff, but that leaves me more time to write and draw.
I have also a 'cover' for this story. When I have colored it I will put it up into one of my homepages and tell you the URL so you can check it out. ^_^
See ya!
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
Chapter 17 Flashbacks
Inu-yasha and his friends were sitting in a fast food shop in a gas station. It was actually the only fast food place in the whole village so it was always full of people. Especially students. There was two restaurants and three bars in the village, but that was actually all the food places.
The gang was sitting by a table chatting. Kouga was queuing for their food. They had decided by arm-wrestling would Inu-yasha or Kouga go and get the food. They were the most capable of carrying it.
Inu-yasha however had won and so Kouga had to go and order.
Miroku sat on the other side of the table from Sango. She was still angry to him for all embarrassment he had caused. Miroku felt like a tiny bug when he was sitting there under Sango's angry gazes. Oh, how he wished he could go and hide under the ground.
Kikyo was sitting on the same side with Sango but as near as she could to Inu-yasha who was sitting at the end of the table. On the moment Inu-yasha was joining the scene when Kouga has to remain calm even thought all the people were pushing and kicking him in the line of customers.
"Inu-yasha" Sango said getting his attention. "Ummm. Are you still taking with ghosts?" She leaned closer forgetting her anger for a moment when looking at Inu-yasha worriedly. She hadn't asked it earlier cause Kouga was there and the one in the line would have made a big scene of this.
"What?" Inu-yasha exclaimed first but then calmed. "Hey, don't worry about it" he said avoiding lying. Yes, he was still seeing a ghost, but he also had to hide that fact.
"So. You are okay now?" Kikyo asked carefully eyeing at him.
Inu-yasha folded his arms lazily and exclaimed "Yeah! I got over it." 'Over the fact that you don't believe me' he had to add in his mind. He didn't want to lie to his friends and this way he didn't He just hid the truth. It wasn't a bad thing, right? Not at least in this situation.
He glanced at Miroku and was surprised by his studying face. Miroku was staring at him studying him. He had seen something strange just two days back and he couldn't forget it.
They both stared at each other silently and expressionless. Inu-yasha had no idea what was Miroku's problem beside the fact that Sango was angry to him. Miroku in other hand wanted to know what he had just seen back in the estate and did Inu-yasha know something of it?
Suddenly someone sat on the other end of the table. Everyone turned to look at this guy with black hair. It wasn't Kouga! The girls stared hard at the guy when Inu-yasha rolled his eyes let his head lean on his palm.
"What are you doing here?" Inu-yasha asked the guy who had a tray with a big portion of fries and a beef.
"Well, you had nothing in your fridge and I couldn't sleep anymore" the guy answered grinning.
The girls were confused. They looked from Inu-yasha to this guy when Kouga came with one tray in both hand and one on his head. He was happy that he had been practising with a book back in earlier years.
He put the trays down before he noticed this new guy. When he put them down and sat beside Miroku he noticed two hand too much on the table. He glance at the guy in the other end from Inu-yasha.
"What in nine hells" he exclaimed looking at the guy.
Inu-yasha straightened his back and leaned on the backrest. "Guys" he exclaimed getting their attention. "This is Koishi. My friend from New York. Koishi, these are my friends from the school."
Kouga had to give Inu-yasha a quick glance cause it was the first time neither one had called the other friend.
"So you are this guy he went to wake two days back" Miroku exclaimed pointing rudely at Koishi. "How didn't I see you?"
Koishi was long silent. "Maybe cause on the evening you were shocked by something and on the next morning you were too busy to act like a dog" Koishi grinned and then took some fries into his mouth.
Miroku's eyes widened and finger fell when hearing that. The three who knew nothing of this dog thing turned to look at him wondering.
Inu-yasha leaned back toward the table. "He had to act like a dog to get food from my brother" he said and grinned evilly to Miroku who wished that he could have gone and hide under the floor or something.
"Anyway" Koishi sighed now getting everyone's attention. "I know his name is Miroku. What about the rest of you?" he said tugging a bit of the beef into his mouth.
"I'm Sango and she's Kikyo" introduced her and her friend then he nodded toward Kouga. "He's Kouga."
Koishi nodded to all of them. There was a silence for a moment, but the silence was broke when ten hungry hands started to dig for their own food from the trays Kouga had brought.
When all of them had their food and the basic chatting started Koishi only sighed. He glanced ones at Inu-yasha who was listening carefully on Kikyo who was telling something. Koishi wasn't so interested what they were talking about, but more so he was interested on Inu-yasha's behaviour.
Back in Tokyo he was known as someone who got into fights everyday and those who had been in a fight with him were his 'closest' friends. At least supposedly. He had even couple of time taken something from a shop just show people that he dared to do that.
This group or this life in this village was really changing the Inu-yasha Koishi used to know. Not that he would be sad about it. He knew Inu-yasha very well and he knew how he was when he dropped his mask, but here.. He didn't even keep half of his usual mask up.
Suddenly almost everyone in the place stopped talking when a gloomy looking guy. or man walked into the fast-food shop. When he had carefully looked around the people continued again.
Sango leaned over the table being careful not to make her hair fall into her coke. Miroku leaned as well and she whispered something into his ear Kouga glanced at them but then Miroku passed what he heard to him as well. Then it felt into silence in the table. Nothing was said to Inu-yasha, Kikyo or Koishi.
Well. The reason might have been that Miroku, Kouga and Sango had lived all their lives in this village. They had known each other very many years so they had something in common even thought in the beginning Kouga hadn't been a friend with the two of them.
Inu-yasha and Koishi were from Tokyo and they hadn't been here long so they couldn't even guess what it was about. Kikyo had come here from an even smaller village three years ago. Just before high-school.
However no one dared to ask what was going on. Then Sango opened her mouth again starting those basic talks. Koishi glared at the gloomy man in the line. He had a bad feeling. When moments went by and the gloomy man had what he wanted he walked very near their table.
Koishi suddenly noticed how Inu-yasha shook slightly and then lifted his hand to his neck, just when the man was behind him. Koishi followed the man with his gaze. He had a very bad feeling about this.
Inu-yasha had felt strange when the gloomy man walked by. Suddenly he got a flash back from the graveyard. He saw the gun. He heard Aliz's scream of pain. The darkness. The fear. The despair!
Inu-yasha suddenly stood up. The others turned to look at him quickly surprised. "I need to go out" was all the white-haired boy said when going quickly out from the building.
Koishi stood up now getting everyone's attention as well. "Well. I must get to work" he said like nothing had happened with Inu-yasha. "It was fun to meet you, guys. Maybe we see another time again. " He smiled to then he left from the building from a smaller door thought that was also used by the public.
There was a silence for a moment and then Kikyo looked up. "I'll go talk to him" she stood up but then Miroku stood up as well.
"Please" he said. "Let me talk to him. I have something to ask anyway." The others stared silently at the usually so cheerful pervert, but nodded their agreement. Kikyo sat down and Miroku went outside to look for Inu-yasha.
Outside the air was freezing and you could see snow there and there, but there wasn't yet so much of it. The sky had no clouds that was the main reason for the cold weather.
Inu-yasha was sitting on a bench just outside the building. He held his head in his hands when Miroku walked toward him. The black-haired boy sat down beside Inu-yasha silently. Neither one said anything or moved. They were silent for a long uncomfortable moment.
Inu-yasha had this big need to tell Miroku what had happened. From all of these guys, expect Koishi, Miroku was the one he trusted most. The guy that he had met on the first day in the school. The guy who had run right at him and later introduced the school.
After a moment Inu-yasha leaned back and glanced quickly at Miroku. He had never seen Miroku-the-hentai so serious. Sad, yes. He had seen the guy sad, but serious. No!
"Inu-yasha" Miroku said finally braking the silence. "Back in your house. I saw." He fell silent but he had no idea that Inu-yasha hadn't been listening.
"There is something odd going on here" Inu-yasha said. Miroku was surprised. Hadn't he been listening? Yes, he hadn't. "When you and the girls were away from school I had been a fight."
Miroku looked at him. Unlike Inu-yasha, he had been listening. "In a fight? With whom?" he asked wanting to know wanting to help when Inu-yasha seemed to be a bit down by it.
"That's the problem" Inu-yasha said sighing. "I have no idea." He glanced at Miroku and then he looked far, far away before him. "I was crossing the graveyard cause I had to hurry home. Well. It's scary okay and don't laugh at me!" he turned to look at Miroku dangerously, but Miroku remained interested in a friendly and worried way.
Inu-yasha looked again far away. He had found a great point to look at in the distant. There was an observatory high up on a hill. Why it was low on a hill he didn't know. Usually those buildings were high up on mountains right? Well. Anyhow. Inu-yasha was staring at an observatory.
"There at the graveyard some people I couldn't recognise - or I don't even know how they looked like - attacked me. There was seven or was it six of them and I was soon on ground. One guy came to help me and then started a painful fight. There was blood and then. there was a gun."
He stopped here and saw how Miroku was staring him wide eyed. "Why hadn't you told us?" Miroku asked a bit disappointed that Inu-yasha hadn't trusted him enough earlier.
Inu-yasha looked down. "Cause I was told to not put my nose into this."
Miroku eyed him for a moment. Then he put his hand on Inu-yasha's shoulder. "What about if I come over to you and we talk this trough?" he asked kinda telling that Inu-yasha didn't need to talk about it in a public place.
Inu-yasha sighed and nodded.
***the mansion***
Miroku was laying on his back on Inu-yasha's bed reading some kind of magazine of cars. Not a magazine for his liking, thought. "You planning to buy a car?" he asked lifting his legs and balancing the paper there. It wasn't actually simple so he took time when doing this.
Inu-yasha who had been in a shower was looking for a shirt on the moment. Everything else he had found but shirt. His room wasn't a mess anymore, but cause his mom had been placing everything in the room he had no idea were to look for a shirt. "Well" he said when finally finding a white simple T- shirt. "Maybe when I get money and a job."
Miroku turned on his side on the bed and let the magazine fall on the floor. "You know" he said getting that cheerful smile on his face again. "I had a car until I drove at the school's front door. My parents got really mad, believe me, and I was almost kicked out from the school." He laughed to himself and then sat up on the bed looking for something interesting.
Inu-yasha walked toward him and sat beside him on the bed. He followed his friend's gaze from his bed-table to the walls where were posters all kind of stuff he could find to hide the wall. He didn't like of the rosy walls at all. From those posters Miroku's gaze went to a table and from there to some boxes.
Nothing for his liking! Inu-yasha was certain of it. Thought Miroku had been there two days ago he was so much talking about the girls in his life that he hadn't actually looked around. Inu-yasha didn't have any kind of girl-posters on the walls or dirty magazines under his bed.
"So, haven't you told anyone of this attack? Does anyone know?" Miroku finally asked getting bored when there was, like said, no girl-posters.
"Well. You are the first one I actually tell after my brother" Inu-yasha said sighing. "I don't want to tell to Koishi cause I know he's a guy who tries to find these people and kill them. In the end he's too much like his evil and wicked sister."
"Also Chaz, the math teacher, and his sister knows."
"What?!" Miroku exclaimed of surprise. "That should mean that the whole school knows!"
Inu-yasha shook his head on Miroku's every word. "No they don't. Chaz has reasons to be quiet and actually he's the one to thank for my life. If he wouldn't have asked his sister to follow me that night I would be now dead and dance with the gho." He closed his mouth quickly. He looked away and a uncomfortable silence fell on them.
Miroku looked at his back now letting again his cheerfulness disappear. Suddenly both of them looked up when they heard a strange voice from the window. They looked at the window in the room - or rather many windows cause the whole wall was full of windows. Someone was singing a happy song. Then they saw something orange from behind the windows. Then there came a bushy tail.
The guys stared at the window Miroku coming so close Inu-yasha that he had his head almost laying on Inu-yasha's shoulder. The singing continued and suddenly a tiny face popped into their sights. Words faded from the song but the little creature was humming.
The little creature took a tiny tool and then glide up toward the lock of the window. The boys in the room heard a sharp 'click' and then slowly the window started to open. The little creature got in just when Inu-yasha heard a ghost like voice. He swallowed hard.
Kagome flew into the room a very wide smile on her face. "Shippo" she exclaimed and took the little creature into his arms. The little creature didn't seem to resist.
Inu-yasha looked carefully at the suddenly heavy head on his shoulder. Miroku had wide eyes and if he wouldn't have his head on Inu-yasha's shoulder also his jaw would have dropped. Inu-yasha swallowed hard again.
"Hello again, Ghosty" the little tailed creature said happily when Kagome started to stroke on his tail. On that moment his eyes stuck on Inu-yasha and Miroku on the bed.
The little creature and Inu-yasha stared at each other long. Very long. But Miroku.
He stared at the floating creature who's name apparently was Shippo. He had heard the name being shouted by a girl, but what kind of girl? All he could see was the little creature to float in the air. Actually he couldn't forget the chill he felt when he heard the shout.
"Who are they?" the little creature that didn't look more than five years old asked from the ghost who was hugging him tightly.
Kagome looked up smiling expecting to see only Inu-yasha on the bed, but when he saw Miroku as well she stiffened. What had she done?
Miroku blinked many times, but when Shippo jumped down from the air he blinked even more. What was going on? Suddenly he got a flashback when he saw this faint ghost-like girl hug on Inu-yasha.
Inu-yasha noticed Miroku to shake his head and then he decided he tried to make everything look like nothing strange had happened. He stood up and stared at the small kid who was standing arms folded in the middle of the room. "Who are you and what are you doing in my home?" he asked.
He still saw Kagome, but didn't pay more attention to her to hide the truth. Maybe Miroku would buy this and think that he was feeling sick or something.
"What do you mean by that?!" Shippo exclaimed running on Inu-yasha's table to get higher up. "I have lived here every winter during these last fifteen years!" He snorted angrily, but it didn't much scare Inu-yasha who was so much bigger.
"Well" Inu-yasha was silent for a moment wondering what he could say. "Not anymore, brat!" It was all he found out. Not maybe the best possible but then he snorted as well and folded his arms.
Everyone had forgotten poor lost Miroku who was sitting on the bed shocked. He didn't hear Shippo's and Inu-yasha's fight. He just had this funny feeling that maybe, just maybe, Inu-yasha never was crazy.
He lifted his gaze to the two fighting and then slightly narrowed his eyes being determined. He stood up silently and started for the door. Neither one of the fighters saw him to leave the room.
Miroku looked carefully around. The walls were dark and all and unlike Inu- yasha's bedroom the corridor was dark and kinda sinister especially when Miroku knew that there was something strange going on in here.
He looked around at the five doors in the corridor. Behind one of them was now Inu-yasha with that Shippo kid. He also knew that the door before him went to Inu-yasha's 'office' and from there you could get into Koishi's room.
Suddenly he heard it. He heard the same voice that so many before him had claimed to hear. He heard sniffing. Slowly he turned to look toward the door at the far end of the corridor.
Before he realised what he was doing he was already opening the door. He felt a strange chill go trough his spine when the door jarred protesting when he opened it.
He put his head into the room. The room was clean (Inu-yasha had made it like home for the ghost). There was many big pictures on the wall and many old and beautiful furniture. The sniffing had stopped a moment ago, but his thoughts were somewhere else.
He looked around the room until he suddenly met a pair of eyes. He gulped when sad eyes stared straight into his. Slowly he started to see a form of a young girl.
He gasped when he saw the ghost sitting on a chair and staring him straight into eye.
A/N: Cliff-hanger, cliff-hanger! Well, I like to do cliff-hangers just to tease you! ^_^ Just kidding!
Yes I like to do cliff-hangers, but not to tease you. I just like to stop in stupid places. However I believe I'll get a next chapter soon enough up too. I would have gotten this up already yesterday, but I had forgotten that one of my friends was coming to visit so I couldn't write the chapter to end.
I also noticed that this is one of my longest chapters! And also it was the seventeenth chapter so now I have done as many chapters as I have years *grin* Alright I'm eighteen at the end of the year, but that's not the point.
I still want to hear your opinions about the party place. About skating. It's a great idea! If I can use it I'm very happy. I didn't come to think of it. However they will in the end up somewhere for the night and I would say it would be one of the friend's homes.
I have also done on checking chapter 5 to 7. I might get more checked up later today.
Well I got updated more cause we had so good team work with my friend that our school works were done at school. So nothing was left for home. And another thing too. my school is real easy okay. I have only three curses at the moment. I hate too easy stuff, but that leaves me more time to write and draw.
I have also a 'cover' for this story. When I have colored it I will put it up into one of my homepages and tell you the URL so you can check it out. ^_^
See ya!