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 20 Happiness
The next morning was terrible. Inu-yasha had a terrible hangover and to his disluck Sesshomaru had gotten the idea on that morning to wake him up 7 a.m. So. In other words Inu-yasha got a nice cold shower right in bed.
"Curse you, Sess!" Inu-yasha shout when Sesshomaru finally closed the hose. Then immediately after he cursed under his breath. He had a terrible headache.
Sesshomaru swung the hose over his shoulder and stared at Inu-yasha grinning. "I figure that you would have liked that after yesterday" the older brother said grinning even wider.
Inu-yasha was drying his face into his sheets when he looked up at Sesshomaru. Did he know? "You could have been more silent, you know" Sesshomaru said boringly yawning.
Inu-yasha grumbled something and then went down on his side and covered himself with his cover.
Sesshomaru shrugged his shoulder and turned around to leave. However he did hit his toes somewhere.
"What in nine-hells is this, Inu?!"
Inu-yasha grumbled and cursed when rolling around and looked from under his cover at Sesshomaru. His tall brother was standing there holding poor Shippo up in the air. The little demon struggled but Sesshomaru had a too good hold of his tail.
"I don't know!" Inu-yasha said rolling around again, turning his back to his brother. He didn't care even the slightest bit about what happened to Shippo.
Shippo folded his arms and looked elsewhere, but what Sesshomaru said next panicked him. "Then you don't care if I eat 'im?!" the tall guy said with a too cheerful voice for Shippo's liking.
"What?" Shippo said silently looking up at Sesshomaru who grinned evilly.
"Be my guest!" Inu-yasha grumbled from under the cover.
"What!" poor Shippo shout panicking. "You can't let me eat him, Inu-yasha, old pal!"
Inu-yasha turned around again to face his brother and the little kitsune. "Since when have we been pals?!"
That followed a long silence. Sesshomaru saw the two of them stare at each other giving death-glares. He sighed and threw the little demon at Inu- yasha. "When I think it again" he said yawning. "I'm not interested in flea- bitten furballs."
Shippo and Inu-yasha looked after Sesshomaru who left the room right after. Then they both moved quickly to different end of the bed staring at each other hatefully.
On the same moment the door opened again and fearing that it was Sesshomaru Shippo jumped to Inu-yasha's shoulder covering himself into his white hair. However, both of them sighed of relief when it was only Kagome. The ghost had to use the door to get those clothes she was carrying in to the room.
Inu-yasha glanced at his shoulder with narrowed eyes and after a moment the little kitsune flew trough the room beside the windows. Then he looked at Kagome who shyly placed the clothes on the bed.
She quickly glanced at him, but then she returned her gaze at the clothes again witch she folded tidily into neat piles. 'She's blushing' he thought looking at her. She had never been blushing so much cause even thought she was a ghost her cheeks were almost red as tomatoes. Until this day they had only been a pale rose when she blushed.
"Here is clothes for you" Kagome said shyly giving a pile of green clothes to Inu-yasha but keeping her gaze away from him. Inu-yasha had no idea what to do. She looked down a long moment and then smiled to him eyes closed. "I'll get the rest of your clean clothes" then she left before Inu-yasha could stop her.
Shippo crawled up on the bed having a huge bump on his head. He grinned when he saw Inu-yasha to stare at the door where Kagome had gone trough.
Inu-yasha shook his head and glanced quickly at Shippo. Hiding all his worry he said casually "What's with her?"
Shippo grinned even more wider. "Just like I gusset" the little kitsune said. "You don't remember."
Inu-yasha turned to look at him. "What are you hiding?" he demanded.
Shippo grinned. "You kissed her quite passionately last night."
Inu-yasha's eyes widened and before he realised he was already blushing. "No" he exclaimed hastily. "You must be lying!"
"Maybe yes, maybe no" Shippo said calmly seeing the nervousness in Inu- yasha's eyes. "But do you have courage enough to ask her the truth?"
"What!" Inu-yasha exclaimed. "Of course I have! I fear nothing!" He stood up hastily and walked toward the door ready to go after the ghost.
"What if I told the truth and she finds out that you kissed her accidentally?" the kitsune asked leaning his head on his palm.
Inu-yasha turned around carefully to look at the kitsune. "She seem to be very happy" the demon continued. "What if that is cause of the kiss? What if she is happy cause kissed her?" He walked on the edge of the bed. "Do you have the courage to ask her did you kiss her?"
Suddenly Inu-yasha felt how his legs gave up and before he knew he was on the floor. What if this little creature told the trust? Did he really have the courage to find out the truth? Did he really have the courage to see Kagome loose that happiness? He swallowed hard and leaned his head on the door.
What should he do?
***out in the garden later on the day***
It was cold outside when Inu-yasha was sitting on a bench near the gate of the yard. He had a warm cup of coffee in his hands and a termos-bottle beside him. He was sitting on a bench and looked at the road when people walked by. He sighed.
He had to get out to think on himself and not even his mothers begging for him to stay inside helped. But he had to think! What if Shippo did told the truth?! But. Kikyo is his girlfriend! It would be right to make clear to Kagome that if he had kissed her it didn't mean anything. But she looked so happy.
He glanced at the house sipping the coffee. How he missed Tokyo and his old life. There he wouldn't need to worry about some ghost.
Ghost. Kagome.
But then. He would never had known her. Then he would never have met her.
He sighed again. Everything was so complicated.
"Oi, Inu-yasha!" The white haired guy turned to look at Miroku who run into the yard trough the gates. Miroku stopped before his friend. "Man you look terrible! What have you done?"
Inu-yasha looked up at his friend and hid his face behind the huge cub of coffee when taking another sip. Miroku sat down beside him on the bench. "Don't tell me you got drunk yesterday" he said, but Inu-yasha's death- glare told the truth. He hit the point! He grinned.
There was a long silence. Inu-yasha was staring at his cup and sighing more than often. Miroku was looking at the little birds that tried to find something to eat on the ground. "How's the ghost?", Miroku finally asked.
Inu-yasha stared at the cub. "More happy than ever" he said his voice almost trembling. What have he done?!
"That's good news!" Miroku exclaimed cheerfully. Then he looked at Inu- yasha smiling, but his mile disappeared when he noticed his friend to be so down. "What is with you?" He put his hand on Inu-yasha's shoulder. "She's happy and that's good. Or is this about something else. You are so down, man!"
Inu-yasha sighed maybe the hundred time on that say and the clock wasn't even eleven yet. He took a sip of the coffee again not answering Miroku.
There was a silence again until Miroku remembered why he had come in the first place. "I forgot to tell you!" he exclaimed turning cheerfully toward Inu-yasha. "We were planning to invade Hojo's party today. Me, Sango, Kikyo and Kouga, I mean."
Inu-yasha looked at him. "Who's Hojo?" he asked.
"You don't know?" Miroku asked unbelieving. When they stared at each other for a moment he said "I guess you don't." Miroku sighed. "He's a second grader that have a big house here. Every year he arrange a party at his place one week before the school's end for the Christmas for only his class, but also. We happen to invade it ever year as well."
Inu-yasha looked at his friend to grin widely. "Invade?"
"We just intruders there, but they doesn't dare to throw us out especially when Hojo is that kind of wuss and easy to trick. Also they know well that we are coming."
Inu-yasha sipped his coffee again and he didn't even realise that he wasn't worrying so much anymore over what might have happened last night.
"I came here to ask you are you coming" Miroku said and asked at the same time. "You could bring your friend Koishi as well."
Inu-yasha looked at Miroku and after a moment hit his friend's shoulder. "I'm coming!" Then he hissed and held his head.
"Don't tell me you have a hangover?!" Miroku said when he stared at his friend to grimace.
***later***
There was almost perfectly dark in the house. There was some lights of red green and blue color that moved like disco-lights. The room was full of people and you could barely make any sense about their faces or clothing.
Suddenly someone grabbed Inu-yasha's arm and before he realised he was sitting beside Koishi and Kouga on a sofa and on the other side of a table on another sofa was Miroku and Sango kissing too passionately. Inu-yasha had to look away and so he saw Koishi on his left share a bottle of alcohol into six glasses. On his right Kouga was talking to a blonde girl who's curls were long and covering what her clothes weren't covering.
Just when Koishi was giving him one of the glasses someone was pulling him away again. The liquid in the glass fell on him when he was pulled away, but he didn't feel wet for some unnamed reason. He glanced behind him seeing Koishi and Kouga, both, licking the floor where some of the liquid had fell.
Then he turned to look at the one who was pulling him. It was Kikyo pulling him after her trough the people into a dark corner. She kissed him passionately and reached for his belt. His eyes widened on her actions and before he realised he was on the ground on top of Kikyo.
Top of Kikyo who was naked with out any clothes. He gasped and when he looked up at Kikyo's face again he thought he would meet those somewhat cold eyes, but now. He met those same eyes, but warm ones.
"Kagome" he gasped. She reached her arms out to grab his head into a kiss, but he backed. He stared at Kagome who came near him. She was naked and on top of that. Blood and flesh.
"Are you two-timing Kikyo?" he heard a familiar voice to ask. He turned around to see Koishi standing there holding his bottle.
"How could you two-time her?" he heard another familiar voice. He saw Sango standing there dressed into a strange suit. She was reaching for a huge boomerang on her back and he backed again.
He hit his back against something and when he looked up he saw Miroku dressed into a dress of dark color and holding a metal staff in his hands.
Inu-yasha turned around again and then he heard a growl from behind him. He looked over his shoulder seeing Kouga holding Kagome tightly in his arms dressed into strange clothes and having a long wolf-tail. "She's my woman, dog" Kouga growled.
Then Inu-yasha looked quickly down and saw that he didn't have the same clothes that he had just a moment ago on him. He had a red kimono on himself and when he touched his head he found a pair of dog ears.
"Inu-yasha!" he heard a shout from the side. He saw Kikyo standing there dressed like a miko and holding a bow and arrow. She was aiming at him. He stood up and walked backwards and before he knew he hit his back against a huge tree.
He looked up what then he heard Kikyo to free her arrow. He glanced at Kikyo and then he the arrow hit him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.!!!!!!!!"
Inu-yasha sat up in his bed huffing heavily. Cold sweat was falling on his forehead and when he finally got a hold of himself he fell back on the bed.
"It was only a dream" he muttered. "Only a dream."
Still breathing heavily he started to wonder on the dream. It was just like one back when he had denied the ghost. He had those same clothes and all his friends were dressed as funnily as him. And why. Why did Kagome come into the picture?
He sat up on the bed again. He had taken a nap hoping that he would feel a bit better before going to the party with his friends. He glanced at the clock and his eyes widened. "damn, I'm late!"
Shippo was laying on his stomach with Kagome on the closet looking at Inu- yasha who hastily left the room. "What's his problem?" Shippo muttered.
Kagome was just silent smiling happily when she looked over her shoulder and trough the window at Inu-yasha who run trough the yard to the road.
***Hojo's place***
When they got to Hojo's party there first appeared problems, but it somehow seemed that Hojo himself wasn't bothered cause of the intruders when they came to the place. Even so. All the people there welcomed them when they saw many bottles of beer that Koishi had brought from the bar he was working in.
Now the companions were sitting by a table on two sofas that seemed terribly familiar to Inu-yasha. He was sitting on the other edge of one of the sofa's having bottle of beer in his hand. Kikyo was laying on the same sofa having her head on Inu-yasha's lap and her legs were on the backrest. Koishi was sitting on that end opening a bottle of beer again. He was hiding all the beer he had under the sofa.
On the other sofa Sango was sitting with Kouga who was teaching a game to her and couple of the younger girls. Inu-yasha looked at the people in the room that was dark and had few small lights there and there, but to his luck there was no disco-lights. He saw Miroku's little pony-tail often between the people and the shouts from the girls told exactly where he was.
"Why do you come here every year?" Inu-yasha asked Kikyo who looked up at him from his lap.
"Cause of the food, of course!" she exclaimed not hearing if Hojo's friends heard her. It was commonly known why they were always there. "I'll get us some" she said standing up and disappearing from sight.
On the same moment Koishi laid down nicely taking Kikyo's place. He had somehow managed to get one of his associate to work for him today so he got here instead of standing behind disk in the bar. He didn't steal the beer either. Miroku and Kouga had paid him money for them.
Sometime later Kikyo came back having many plates of food with her and a pervert called Miroku after him like a hungry wolf.
"You should become a waitress, Kikyo" Sango exclaimed when the other girl brought the plates. At that same time the couple of girls that had been with Sango and Kouga left cause someone started to play a song they all knew.
"Did you already forget that I used to work at my grandmother's restaurant" Kikyo said smiling. On the same moment she saw Miroku to grab one of the plates and before anyone realised he was sitting between Kouga and Sango. Koishi grabbed one plate as quickly still laying on the sofa.
Kikyo came by the sofa glaring at Koishi. Still Koishi didn't move his legs that were on her place. Kikyo shrugged his shoulders and sat down on his legs. Koishi grimaced first cause his legs were in a bad way under her, but then he got a better position and continued eating what was on the plate.
Kikyo just snarled and took a plate and offered it to Inu-yasha. Inu-yasha hadn't paid any attention to his friend's behaviour and carefully took the plate.
Time passed and now Inu-yasha was sitting by a window in his own thoughts. Kikyo had been drinking a lot and Koishi was in trouble on the moment. Like Inu-yasha he neither was drinking much cause he had had a headache on the morning as well. Kikyo was forcing him to eat all the stuff they had yet left.
On the other sofa was now only Kouga cause a long moment ago Miroku and Sango had needed some privacy. They still hadn't made up, but it seemed that some alcohol helped them to make up. Hopefully at least. Kouga in other hand had fallen asleep on the sofa and didn't notice when couple of the second graders tried to throw nuts into his open mouth.
Inu-yasha sighed. On the moment all he could think was Kagome, the dream and wonder was Shippo's words true. The noise in the place was calming down cause many people were falling asleep. The biggest noise came from the upper floor where people were fighting over the rooms.
When he glanced over his shoulder again he didn't see Koishi and Kikyo anymore on the sofa. Now there was a young pair and Kouga was still on the other sofa. He turned his gaze out of the window again.
Suddenly someone grabbed his hand and pulled him along. "Come" Kikyo told him giggling. He followed her into a dark corner. He felt suddenly uncomfortable recalling his dream. He was following anyway.
Kikyo hit her back against the wall in the corner and brought Inu-yasha's lips down t hers. He was first stunned and he also got a flashback of his dream, but then he told himself that this time it wasn't a dream. This time it was real and he shouldn't play an idiot.
He returned the kiss and then Kikyo brought them down on their knees into the corner. She closed her eyes and put her ear against his chest and listened his heart. "You heart is beating hard" she whispered and sighed smiling. He felt how she became heavier meaning that she had relaxed in his arms. He couldn't help but sigh on the moment. His dream wasn't coming true after all.
They were a moment like that. Silently. Then Kikyo moved again and whispered "Inu-yasha?" he looked down at her , but before he even knew she was kissing him again more passionately than ever. He didn't return that kiss until.
He remembered now and then. He remembered last night when he had kissed the ghost. Kissed her soft yet cold lips that however felt so much warmer than Kikyo's. He had kissed Kagome and now she was so happy.
His eyes shot up and he pulled quickly Kikyo away. She just giggled not really realising that she had been pulled away. 'She's happy for my kiss' he thought when Kikyo slowly fell on his lap again. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep. Inu-yasha looked up remembering Kagome's happy face. 'Why.? Why do I feel so happy about it?' he asked himself forgetting all about Kikyo when bringing his hand on his chest.
'Why do my heart leap so much of happiness?'
A/N: Now here is the 20th chapter of Tears of a Ghost. The next chapter (as promised) the people will be skating. That's actually all I know of the chapter. I don't exactly know yet what exactly happens.
Thanks also to those people who have been hanging here and reading this story even thought I have had sometimes long brakes. Right now I still have a lot of school works, but I felt like writing.
Next I should do my homework that I got from Swedish-lessons. Oh well, they are easy.
Even thought I might again have a long brake it doesn't mean I have forgotten the stories.
See ya!
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
Chapter 20 Happiness
The next morning was terrible. Inu-yasha had a terrible hangover and to his disluck Sesshomaru had gotten the idea on that morning to wake him up 7 a.m. So. In other words Inu-yasha got a nice cold shower right in bed.
"Curse you, Sess!" Inu-yasha shout when Sesshomaru finally closed the hose. Then immediately after he cursed under his breath. He had a terrible headache.
Sesshomaru swung the hose over his shoulder and stared at Inu-yasha grinning. "I figure that you would have liked that after yesterday" the older brother said grinning even wider.
Inu-yasha was drying his face into his sheets when he looked up at Sesshomaru. Did he know? "You could have been more silent, you know" Sesshomaru said boringly yawning.
Inu-yasha grumbled something and then went down on his side and covered himself with his cover.
Sesshomaru shrugged his shoulder and turned around to leave. However he did hit his toes somewhere.
"What in nine-hells is this, Inu?!"
Inu-yasha grumbled and cursed when rolling around and looked from under his cover at Sesshomaru. His tall brother was standing there holding poor Shippo up in the air. The little demon struggled but Sesshomaru had a too good hold of his tail.
"I don't know!" Inu-yasha said rolling around again, turning his back to his brother. He didn't care even the slightest bit about what happened to Shippo.
Shippo folded his arms and looked elsewhere, but what Sesshomaru said next panicked him. "Then you don't care if I eat 'im?!" the tall guy said with a too cheerful voice for Shippo's liking.
"What?" Shippo said silently looking up at Sesshomaru who grinned evilly.
"Be my guest!" Inu-yasha grumbled from under the cover.
"What!" poor Shippo shout panicking. "You can't let me eat him, Inu-yasha, old pal!"
Inu-yasha turned around again to face his brother and the little kitsune. "Since when have we been pals?!"
That followed a long silence. Sesshomaru saw the two of them stare at each other giving death-glares. He sighed and threw the little demon at Inu- yasha. "When I think it again" he said yawning. "I'm not interested in flea- bitten furballs."
Shippo and Inu-yasha looked after Sesshomaru who left the room right after. Then they both moved quickly to different end of the bed staring at each other hatefully.
On the same moment the door opened again and fearing that it was Sesshomaru Shippo jumped to Inu-yasha's shoulder covering himself into his white hair. However, both of them sighed of relief when it was only Kagome. The ghost had to use the door to get those clothes she was carrying in to the room.
Inu-yasha glanced at his shoulder with narrowed eyes and after a moment the little kitsune flew trough the room beside the windows. Then he looked at Kagome who shyly placed the clothes on the bed.
She quickly glanced at him, but then she returned her gaze at the clothes again witch she folded tidily into neat piles. 'She's blushing' he thought looking at her. She had never been blushing so much cause even thought she was a ghost her cheeks were almost red as tomatoes. Until this day they had only been a pale rose when she blushed.
"Here is clothes for you" Kagome said shyly giving a pile of green clothes to Inu-yasha but keeping her gaze away from him. Inu-yasha had no idea what to do. She looked down a long moment and then smiled to him eyes closed. "I'll get the rest of your clean clothes" then she left before Inu-yasha could stop her.
Shippo crawled up on the bed having a huge bump on his head. He grinned when he saw Inu-yasha to stare at the door where Kagome had gone trough.
Inu-yasha shook his head and glanced quickly at Shippo. Hiding all his worry he said casually "What's with her?"
Shippo grinned even more wider. "Just like I gusset" the little kitsune said. "You don't remember."
Inu-yasha turned to look at him. "What are you hiding?" he demanded.
Shippo grinned. "You kissed her quite passionately last night."
Inu-yasha's eyes widened and before he realised he was already blushing. "No" he exclaimed hastily. "You must be lying!"
"Maybe yes, maybe no" Shippo said calmly seeing the nervousness in Inu- yasha's eyes. "But do you have courage enough to ask her the truth?"
"What!" Inu-yasha exclaimed. "Of course I have! I fear nothing!" He stood up hastily and walked toward the door ready to go after the ghost.
"What if I told the truth and she finds out that you kissed her accidentally?" the kitsune asked leaning his head on his palm.
Inu-yasha turned around carefully to look at the kitsune. "She seem to be very happy" the demon continued. "What if that is cause of the kiss? What if she is happy cause kissed her?" He walked on the edge of the bed. "Do you have the courage to ask her did you kiss her?"
Suddenly Inu-yasha felt how his legs gave up and before he knew he was on the floor. What if this little creature told the trust? Did he really have the courage to find out the truth? Did he really have the courage to see Kagome loose that happiness? He swallowed hard and leaned his head on the door.
What should he do?
***out in the garden later on the day***
It was cold outside when Inu-yasha was sitting on a bench near the gate of the yard. He had a warm cup of coffee in his hands and a termos-bottle beside him. He was sitting on a bench and looked at the road when people walked by. He sighed.
He had to get out to think on himself and not even his mothers begging for him to stay inside helped. But he had to think! What if Shippo did told the truth?! But. Kikyo is his girlfriend! It would be right to make clear to Kagome that if he had kissed her it didn't mean anything. But she looked so happy.
He glanced at the house sipping the coffee. How he missed Tokyo and his old life. There he wouldn't need to worry about some ghost.
Ghost. Kagome.
But then. He would never had known her. Then he would never have met her.
He sighed again. Everything was so complicated.
"Oi, Inu-yasha!" The white haired guy turned to look at Miroku who run into the yard trough the gates. Miroku stopped before his friend. "Man you look terrible! What have you done?"
Inu-yasha looked up at his friend and hid his face behind the huge cub of coffee when taking another sip. Miroku sat down beside him on the bench. "Don't tell me you got drunk yesterday" he said, but Inu-yasha's death- glare told the truth. He hit the point! He grinned.
There was a long silence. Inu-yasha was staring at his cup and sighing more than often. Miroku was looking at the little birds that tried to find something to eat on the ground. "How's the ghost?", Miroku finally asked.
Inu-yasha stared at the cub. "More happy than ever" he said his voice almost trembling. What have he done?!
"That's good news!" Miroku exclaimed cheerfully. Then he looked at Inu- yasha smiling, but his mile disappeared when he noticed his friend to be so down. "What is with you?" He put his hand on Inu-yasha's shoulder. "She's happy and that's good. Or is this about something else. You are so down, man!"
Inu-yasha sighed maybe the hundred time on that say and the clock wasn't even eleven yet. He took a sip of the coffee again not answering Miroku.
There was a silence again until Miroku remembered why he had come in the first place. "I forgot to tell you!" he exclaimed turning cheerfully toward Inu-yasha. "We were planning to invade Hojo's party today. Me, Sango, Kikyo and Kouga, I mean."
Inu-yasha looked at him. "Who's Hojo?" he asked.
"You don't know?" Miroku asked unbelieving. When they stared at each other for a moment he said "I guess you don't." Miroku sighed. "He's a second grader that have a big house here. Every year he arrange a party at his place one week before the school's end for the Christmas for only his class, but also. We happen to invade it ever year as well."
Inu-yasha looked at his friend to grin widely. "Invade?"
"We just intruders there, but they doesn't dare to throw us out especially when Hojo is that kind of wuss and easy to trick. Also they know well that we are coming."
Inu-yasha sipped his coffee again and he didn't even realise that he wasn't worrying so much anymore over what might have happened last night.
"I came here to ask you are you coming" Miroku said and asked at the same time. "You could bring your friend Koishi as well."
Inu-yasha looked at Miroku and after a moment hit his friend's shoulder. "I'm coming!" Then he hissed and held his head.
"Don't tell me you have a hangover?!" Miroku said when he stared at his friend to grimace.
***later***
There was almost perfectly dark in the house. There was some lights of red green and blue color that moved like disco-lights. The room was full of people and you could barely make any sense about their faces or clothing.
Suddenly someone grabbed Inu-yasha's arm and before he realised he was sitting beside Koishi and Kouga on a sofa and on the other side of a table on another sofa was Miroku and Sango kissing too passionately. Inu-yasha had to look away and so he saw Koishi on his left share a bottle of alcohol into six glasses. On his right Kouga was talking to a blonde girl who's curls were long and covering what her clothes weren't covering.
Just when Koishi was giving him one of the glasses someone was pulling him away again. The liquid in the glass fell on him when he was pulled away, but he didn't feel wet for some unnamed reason. He glanced behind him seeing Koishi and Kouga, both, licking the floor where some of the liquid had fell.
Then he turned to look at the one who was pulling him. It was Kikyo pulling him after her trough the people into a dark corner. She kissed him passionately and reached for his belt. His eyes widened on her actions and before he realised he was on the ground on top of Kikyo.
Top of Kikyo who was naked with out any clothes. He gasped and when he looked up at Kikyo's face again he thought he would meet those somewhat cold eyes, but now. He met those same eyes, but warm ones.
"Kagome" he gasped. She reached her arms out to grab his head into a kiss, but he backed. He stared at Kagome who came near him. She was naked and on top of that. Blood and flesh.
"Are you two-timing Kikyo?" he heard a familiar voice to ask. He turned around to see Koishi standing there holding his bottle.
"How could you two-time her?" he heard another familiar voice. He saw Sango standing there dressed into a strange suit. She was reaching for a huge boomerang on her back and he backed again.
He hit his back against something and when he looked up he saw Miroku dressed into a dress of dark color and holding a metal staff in his hands.
Inu-yasha turned around again and then he heard a growl from behind him. He looked over his shoulder seeing Kouga holding Kagome tightly in his arms dressed into strange clothes and having a long wolf-tail. "She's my woman, dog" Kouga growled.
Then Inu-yasha looked quickly down and saw that he didn't have the same clothes that he had just a moment ago on him. He had a red kimono on himself and when he touched his head he found a pair of dog ears.
"Inu-yasha!" he heard a shout from the side. He saw Kikyo standing there dressed like a miko and holding a bow and arrow. She was aiming at him. He stood up and walked backwards and before he knew he hit his back against a huge tree.
He looked up what then he heard Kikyo to free her arrow. He glanced at Kikyo and then he the arrow hit him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.!!!!!!!!"
Inu-yasha sat up in his bed huffing heavily. Cold sweat was falling on his forehead and when he finally got a hold of himself he fell back on the bed.
"It was only a dream" he muttered. "Only a dream."
Still breathing heavily he started to wonder on the dream. It was just like one back when he had denied the ghost. He had those same clothes and all his friends were dressed as funnily as him. And why. Why did Kagome come into the picture?
He sat up on the bed again. He had taken a nap hoping that he would feel a bit better before going to the party with his friends. He glanced at the clock and his eyes widened. "damn, I'm late!"
Shippo was laying on his stomach with Kagome on the closet looking at Inu- yasha who hastily left the room. "What's his problem?" Shippo muttered.
Kagome was just silent smiling happily when she looked over her shoulder and trough the window at Inu-yasha who run trough the yard to the road.
***Hojo's place***
When they got to Hojo's party there first appeared problems, but it somehow seemed that Hojo himself wasn't bothered cause of the intruders when they came to the place. Even so. All the people there welcomed them when they saw many bottles of beer that Koishi had brought from the bar he was working in.
Now the companions were sitting by a table on two sofas that seemed terribly familiar to Inu-yasha. He was sitting on the other edge of one of the sofa's having bottle of beer in his hand. Kikyo was laying on the same sofa having her head on Inu-yasha's lap and her legs were on the backrest. Koishi was sitting on that end opening a bottle of beer again. He was hiding all the beer he had under the sofa.
On the other sofa Sango was sitting with Kouga who was teaching a game to her and couple of the younger girls. Inu-yasha looked at the people in the room that was dark and had few small lights there and there, but to his luck there was no disco-lights. He saw Miroku's little pony-tail often between the people and the shouts from the girls told exactly where he was.
"Why do you come here every year?" Inu-yasha asked Kikyo who looked up at him from his lap.
"Cause of the food, of course!" she exclaimed not hearing if Hojo's friends heard her. It was commonly known why they were always there. "I'll get us some" she said standing up and disappearing from sight.
On the same moment Koishi laid down nicely taking Kikyo's place. He had somehow managed to get one of his associate to work for him today so he got here instead of standing behind disk in the bar. He didn't steal the beer either. Miroku and Kouga had paid him money for them.
Sometime later Kikyo came back having many plates of food with her and a pervert called Miroku after him like a hungry wolf.
"You should become a waitress, Kikyo" Sango exclaimed when the other girl brought the plates. At that same time the couple of girls that had been with Sango and Kouga left cause someone started to play a song they all knew.
"Did you already forget that I used to work at my grandmother's restaurant" Kikyo said smiling. On the same moment she saw Miroku to grab one of the plates and before anyone realised he was sitting between Kouga and Sango. Koishi grabbed one plate as quickly still laying on the sofa.
Kikyo came by the sofa glaring at Koishi. Still Koishi didn't move his legs that were on her place. Kikyo shrugged his shoulders and sat down on his legs. Koishi grimaced first cause his legs were in a bad way under her, but then he got a better position and continued eating what was on the plate.
Kikyo just snarled and took a plate and offered it to Inu-yasha. Inu-yasha hadn't paid any attention to his friend's behaviour and carefully took the plate.
Time passed and now Inu-yasha was sitting by a window in his own thoughts. Kikyo had been drinking a lot and Koishi was in trouble on the moment. Like Inu-yasha he neither was drinking much cause he had had a headache on the morning as well. Kikyo was forcing him to eat all the stuff they had yet left.
On the other sofa was now only Kouga cause a long moment ago Miroku and Sango had needed some privacy. They still hadn't made up, but it seemed that some alcohol helped them to make up. Hopefully at least. Kouga in other hand had fallen asleep on the sofa and didn't notice when couple of the second graders tried to throw nuts into his open mouth.
Inu-yasha sighed. On the moment all he could think was Kagome, the dream and wonder was Shippo's words true. The noise in the place was calming down cause many people were falling asleep. The biggest noise came from the upper floor where people were fighting over the rooms.
When he glanced over his shoulder again he didn't see Koishi and Kikyo anymore on the sofa. Now there was a young pair and Kouga was still on the other sofa. He turned his gaze out of the window again.
Suddenly someone grabbed his hand and pulled him along. "Come" Kikyo told him giggling. He followed her into a dark corner. He felt suddenly uncomfortable recalling his dream. He was following anyway.
Kikyo hit her back against the wall in the corner and brought Inu-yasha's lips down t hers. He was first stunned and he also got a flashback of his dream, but then he told himself that this time it wasn't a dream. This time it was real and he shouldn't play an idiot.
He returned the kiss and then Kikyo brought them down on their knees into the corner. She closed her eyes and put her ear against his chest and listened his heart. "You heart is beating hard" she whispered and sighed smiling. He felt how she became heavier meaning that she had relaxed in his arms. He couldn't help but sigh on the moment. His dream wasn't coming true after all.
They were a moment like that. Silently. Then Kikyo moved again and whispered "Inu-yasha?" he looked down at her , but before he even knew she was kissing him again more passionately than ever. He didn't return that kiss until.
He remembered now and then. He remembered last night when he had kissed the ghost. Kissed her soft yet cold lips that however felt so much warmer than Kikyo's. He had kissed Kagome and now she was so happy.
His eyes shot up and he pulled quickly Kikyo away. She just giggled not really realising that she had been pulled away. 'She's happy for my kiss' he thought when Kikyo slowly fell on his lap again. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep. Inu-yasha looked up remembering Kagome's happy face. 'Why.? Why do I feel so happy about it?' he asked himself forgetting all about Kikyo when bringing his hand on his chest.
'Why do my heart leap so much of happiness?'
A/N: Now here is the 20th chapter of Tears of a Ghost. The next chapter (as promised) the people will be skating. That's actually all I know of the chapter. I don't exactly know yet what exactly happens.
Thanks also to those people who have been hanging here and reading this story even thought I have had sometimes long brakes. Right now I still have a lot of school works, but I felt like writing.
Next I should do my homework that I got from Swedish-lessons. Oh well, they are easy.
Even thought I might again have a long brake it doesn't mean I have forgotten the stories.
See ya!