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***
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Chapter 24 Preparing the Stage
Christmas was over and New Year was getting closer, but when most of the people were having fun, Inu-yasha wasn't.
He couldn't forget what his brother had told him. Sesshomaru had found the way of freeing Kagome from this material world and Inu-yasha wasn't sure did he want it.
It wasn't even half a year since he moved to the haunted estate with his family and gotten new friends. Still he felt like everything was going to end. . . Somehow. . .
"I know" Sango exclaimed in excitement when they were planning how to spend the New Year. This was the first New Year they would have Inu-yasha with them so they should do something different than usually.
Anyway, they didn't have too many ideas. Their best ideas were to spend the New Year at Kouga whose house was empty when his family went to another town to some cousins or they would travel to the nearest city. The second idea was, however, killed in the first place cause they didn't have money to go.
"There is this high hill not far away" Sango explained looking at her friends of who Kikyo and Inu-yasha were sitting with her on a bench when Kouga and Miroku were standing. They were before their usual place where they often ate after school. "You know it right?!" he asked from Kouga and Miroku who she had known longest of her friends. "There we could see all the fire works of all the near towns and cities and we wouldn't need to buy our own fireworks."
"I recall Koishi talking something about getting some drinks free from Saloon Bar cause otherwise they would throw the old stuff out" Kouga thought when turning for Miroku. Koishi had been hanging with them quite a lot always when he could get free from work.
"Old drinks?!" Kikyo exclaimed leaning forward on the bench.
Miroku was surprised by her when he was standing right in front of her. "Damn!" he cursed and then turned to look at her. "They are not too old to drink. . . You just can't sell them anymore" he explained.
"Yeah! You can't sell old stuff even thought it's useable" Sango added looking from behind Inu-yasha at Kikyo.
Inu-yasha was listening only with one ear if even with that when he sat between the girls. He had been so much in his own worlds since Sesshomaru told him. . . That. . .!
"We'll work out something" Kouga said scratching his neck. "If not now then on New Year, but I gotta go now. My mom will kill me if I'm not at home when my grandparents come."
"Alright" Miroku said nodding when suddenly Kikyo jumped up.
"Oh my god!" she exclaimed. "I wholly forgot I have to look after my little sister today."
"Well" Sango said when standing up. "What if we all go home for now and talk about this later, eh?" She looked at the others and all nodded.
Kouga was quickly gone with Kikyo when Sango took her bag and was about to leave when she finally realized that Inu-yasha wasn't his usual self. "Hey, are you okay?" she asked him when Miroku stretched his back.
Inu-yasha shook his head waking up from his thoughts and looked up at Sango. "I'm alright" he said when standing up yawning.
"Man, you don't look like okay" Miroku said stretching his hands and letting them fall on his sides after.
"I'm telling you I'm okay" Inu-yasha said sighing. He didn't want to tell the two of them of what Sesshomaru had told – not yet. "I just have a lot on my mind."
Miroku's lips curled up into smile and then he put his arm around Inu- yasha's shoulders. "That explains it" he exclaimed into Inu-yasha's ear. "That small brain of yours can't handle so much pressure."
"Oh. . . Shut up!!" Inu-yasha shout and hit Miroku away. Or at least tried cause Miroku jumped away just in time.
"Finally I got you to smile again" Miroku exclaimed in safe distance pointing at Inu-yasha's face were formed a smile. "I haven't seen your smile for a while." He blinked his eye and then turned to leave. "Ciao! I gotta get home before dinner."
"Bye!" Sango and Inu-yasha said in union when Miroku walked away waving his hand to them. Inu-yasha sighed and looked after Miroku for a while when he suddenly felt Sango's hand on his shoulder.
"Well, I'm not gonna pray for what's on you mind" Sango said friendly to Inu-yasha. "But remember that we are here so talk to us anytime you need, okay?"
Inu-yasha nodded and smiled to Sango with out saying anything. Sango brought her finger on her lips wondering something. "Why don't I come to you later this evening, eh?" she asked suddenly.
Inu-yasha thought about it for a moment and then agreed. "I think Kagome would love your company" he said smiling.
"Alright then" Sango exclaimed when stepping away backwards. "I'll call you before I'll leave home, alright? But I gotta go now so see ya!"
"I'm waiting your call!" Inu-yasha shout after when Sango started to run toward the nearest buss stop to get home.
Inu-yasha sighed and then after a short moment left to head toward his home that wasn't that far away from where he was. He could easily walk there but there was no way he would walk by the graveyard.
It was too months since the attack, but still it was too fresh in his mind and not only that. He was starting to fear that Koishi was slowly finding out what had happened. He didn't want his long time friend to get into trouble cause of him.
***Chaz's flat***
"I tell you" Aliz exclaimed when trying to get up the stairs in the tenement building where Chaz's flat was. She was leaning heavily on the railing when getting up the stairs. She was drunk like always. "This is going from bad to worse. Now they are trying to find out more about the mansion and if they truly know that Inu-yasha lives there they will attack again."
"I know" Chaz muttered carrying a paper bag in his arms full of food when looking for his keys on the way up. "I'm not an idiot like some."
"Well, excuse me!" Aliz snorted when somewhat straightened her back in the middle of the stairs, but when she was falling back wards she had to grab a hold of the railing again.
Chaz glanced behind him just before turning for his flat's door sighing. Then his eyes catch on something. He dropped the paper bag that made Aliz look up from her trembling feet. "Curse it!" Chaz cursed when pulling his door open with out using the key.
Aliz noticed why when she saw the broken lock on his door. She took a hold of herself again and almost soberly she got up the stairs quickly and after his brother.
Chaz stared at his home with wide terrified eyes. Everything was out of place, furniture's upside down, all his papers on the floor, windows open and books thrown down from the shells.
"What is this?" Aliz gasped when seeing the first room of his brother's flat. Chaz walked silently in looking around him finding many of his dear things broken. He lifted his table that was upside down the right way finding from under it his most precious thing.
He lifted it in his trembling hands looking at the paper with sad eyes. The only picture he had left of his dear departed brother was in his hand now with burned edges and destroyed face. He closed his eyes tightening his hold of the picture when trembling in anger and sadness.
Aliz let her brother bee when she walked over all the stuff wondering silently how Chaz could even fit all this in here. He collected some interesting papers reading on them with one eyes.
Chaz stood up leaning on the table he had just lifted. Who and why? Why did this happen?
"If they didn't know that he was connected with the mansion. . ." Aliz said silently that got Chaz's attention. "They know now." His eyes widened when he saw Aliz showing all the student papers she had found.
***in the yard***
Inu-yasha sat in the yard with a hot cup of coffee waiting for Sango to come. She had called just a moment ago and Inu-yasha thought he needed fresh air.
He had seen Sesshomaru talking with Kagome in Sesshomaru's little library and had decided to let them be. They were so hard looking for any information concerning their found way to free the ghost.
Inu-yasha hadn't talked that much with Kagome since Christmas cause he wasn't still not sure should he jump of happiness or cry. He sighed and wandered back to the Christmas on that morning. . .
"This small box" had Sesshomaru explained showing a beautiful pattered golden box to his little brother. "Was found from the cellar and Kagome told it had had a diamond ring in it back in time."
That had confused Inu-yasha then but now it was making him regret many things. "You know what there is told about ghosts. . . They have some unfinished business still on the world of living and that is why they can't go to heaven. When seeing this box Kagome remembered what that something was."
Even now after some days Inu-yasha's heart skipped just by thinking about it. Back then it can be that his heart had skipped twice thought. "The last time when I still could walk I was walking with that ring from that box in my hand" Kagome had explained carefully to him. "I lost it at the southern side of the garden and it bothered me to the last day I lived. But it didn't bother me as much as not telling the other's bothered me. That ring could have saved my family from all the dept."
Inu-yasha didn't want to think further. They needed to wait for the snow to smelt before they can look for it anyway.
However. . . It might be that it's not there anymore. After so long you would think someone would have found it and sold it. Well. . . That's why Kagome and Sesshomaru are checking trough all those books and magazines about some rare jewellery and other stuff that could be useful.
When looking up at the window to Sesshomaru's library just when Sango arrived he secretly wished they wouldn't find it. . .
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A/N: It's so long!!
Why?
Cause I got a tendovaginitis on my right hand that's my better hand. And if you don't know what that strange word mean (checked it from a dictionary) it doesn't matter, but it means I couldn't use my hand and I couldn't do much with a comp at all.
Also for the same reason I was left behind at school and so after my hand healed I was drowning into school work so I didn't have time to do anything fun. Just reading some math and Swedish and ect.
Well. . . I finally found some time now when I don't have more than wan school work, but I still need to design some cards and I'll be paid for them. Yay!!
Now. . . About this Christmas stuff. I was pretty certain that it's the same way celebrating Christmas in most of the northern European countries, but I didn't want to say it, fearing I would be wrong in the end. XP Just to be a smartass, Finland isn't really a part of Skandinavia, but anyway.
And sorry... I won't write to you everyone special thanks for it's almost 00.00 am and I'm real tired!
I'm doing also many other stuff on my free time and so I won't be reading on other stories much, but I will read when I find time for it (to hanyo punk chick).
Yes! The story is kag/inu like all of my stories cause I don't like them with anyone else.
About how will Kagome end up. . . I won't tell ya! It would take all the fun away
Now. . . Sorry for the chapter's shortness and late updates, but it will continue this way, but just like I have said I won't forget these stories.
I just have beside this a RPG to lead to, two comics to draw and get into net, one book to write and get into net beside all these fanfics and I'm still getting more and more story ideas for comics, books and fanfics. Sigh!
There just isn't enough time. Simple as that!
Now. . . *yawn* Time to go and sleep. . .
Hyvää yötä! God natt! Good night!
The three languages I'm good at and the order shows which I learned first. And. . . I did learn Swedish before school.
Now. . .
See ya!
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
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Chapter 24 Preparing the Stage
Christmas was over and New Year was getting closer, but when most of the people were having fun, Inu-yasha wasn't.
He couldn't forget what his brother had told him. Sesshomaru had found the way of freeing Kagome from this material world and Inu-yasha wasn't sure did he want it.
It wasn't even half a year since he moved to the haunted estate with his family and gotten new friends. Still he felt like everything was going to end. . . Somehow. . .
"I know" Sango exclaimed in excitement when they were planning how to spend the New Year. This was the first New Year they would have Inu-yasha with them so they should do something different than usually.
Anyway, they didn't have too many ideas. Their best ideas were to spend the New Year at Kouga whose house was empty when his family went to another town to some cousins or they would travel to the nearest city. The second idea was, however, killed in the first place cause they didn't have money to go.
"There is this high hill not far away" Sango explained looking at her friends of who Kikyo and Inu-yasha were sitting with her on a bench when Kouga and Miroku were standing. They were before their usual place where they often ate after school. "You know it right?!" he asked from Kouga and Miroku who she had known longest of her friends. "There we could see all the fire works of all the near towns and cities and we wouldn't need to buy our own fireworks."
"I recall Koishi talking something about getting some drinks free from Saloon Bar cause otherwise they would throw the old stuff out" Kouga thought when turning for Miroku. Koishi had been hanging with them quite a lot always when he could get free from work.
"Old drinks?!" Kikyo exclaimed leaning forward on the bench.
Miroku was surprised by her when he was standing right in front of her. "Damn!" he cursed and then turned to look at her. "They are not too old to drink. . . You just can't sell them anymore" he explained.
"Yeah! You can't sell old stuff even thought it's useable" Sango added looking from behind Inu-yasha at Kikyo.
Inu-yasha was listening only with one ear if even with that when he sat between the girls. He had been so much in his own worlds since Sesshomaru told him. . . That. . .!
"We'll work out something" Kouga said scratching his neck. "If not now then on New Year, but I gotta go now. My mom will kill me if I'm not at home when my grandparents come."
"Alright" Miroku said nodding when suddenly Kikyo jumped up.
"Oh my god!" she exclaimed. "I wholly forgot I have to look after my little sister today."
"Well" Sango said when standing up. "What if we all go home for now and talk about this later, eh?" She looked at the others and all nodded.
Kouga was quickly gone with Kikyo when Sango took her bag and was about to leave when she finally realized that Inu-yasha wasn't his usual self. "Hey, are you okay?" she asked him when Miroku stretched his back.
Inu-yasha shook his head waking up from his thoughts and looked up at Sango. "I'm alright" he said when standing up yawning.
"Man, you don't look like okay" Miroku said stretching his hands and letting them fall on his sides after.
"I'm telling you I'm okay" Inu-yasha said sighing. He didn't want to tell the two of them of what Sesshomaru had told – not yet. "I just have a lot on my mind."
Miroku's lips curled up into smile and then he put his arm around Inu- yasha's shoulders. "That explains it" he exclaimed into Inu-yasha's ear. "That small brain of yours can't handle so much pressure."
"Oh. . . Shut up!!" Inu-yasha shout and hit Miroku away. Or at least tried cause Miroku jumped away just in time.
"Finally I got you to smile again" Miroku exclaimed in safe distance pointing at Inu-yasha's face were formed a smile. "I haven't seen your smile for a while." He blinked his eye and then turned to leave. "Ciao! I gotta get home before dinner."
"Bye!" Sango and Inu-yasha said in union when Miroku walked away waving his hand to them. Inu-yasha sighed and looked after Miroku for a while when he suddenly felt Sango's hand on his shoulder.
"Well, I'm not gonna pray for what's on you mind" Sango said friendly to Inu-yasha. "But remember that we are here so talk to us anytime you need, okay?"
Inu-yasha nodded and smiled to Sango with out saying anything. Sango brought her finger on her lips wondering something. "Why don't I come to you later this evening, eh?" she asked suddenly.
Inu-yasha thought about it for a moment and then agreed. "I think Kagome would love your company" he said smiling.
"Alright then" Sango exclaimed when stepping away backwards. "I'll call you before I'll leave home, alright? But I gotta go now so see ya!"
"I'm waiting your call!" Inu-yasha shout after when Sango started to run toward the nearest buss stop to get home.
Inu-yasha sighed and then after a short moment left to head toward his home that wasn't that far away from where he was. He could easily walk there but there was no way he would walk by the graveyard.
It was too months since the attack, but still it was too fresh in his mind and not only that. He was starting to fear that Koishi was slowly finding out what had happened. He didn't want his long time friend to get into trouble cause of him.
***Chaz's flat***
"I tell you" Aliz exclaimed when trying to get up the stairs in the tenement building where Chaz's flat was. She was leaning heavily on the railing when getting up the stairs. She was drunk like always. "This is going from bad to worse. Now they are trying to find out more about the mansion and if they truly know that Inu-yasha lives there they will attack again."
"I know" Chaz muttered carrying a paper bag in his arms full of food when looking for his keys on the way up. "I'm not an idiot like some."
"Well, excuse me!" Aliz snorted when somewhat straightened her back in the middle of the stairs, but when she was falling back wards she had to grab a hold of the railing again.
Chaz glanced behind him just before turning for his flat's door sighing. Then his eyes catch on something. He dropped the paper bag that made Aliz look up from her trembling feet. "Curse it!" Chaz cursed when pulling his door open with out using the key.
Aliz noticed why when she saw the broken lock on his door. She took a hold of herself again and almost soberly she got up the stairs quickly and after his brother.
Chaz stared at his home with wide terrified eyes. Everything was out of place, furniture's upside down, all his papers on the floor, windows open and books thrown down from the shells.
"What is this?" Aliz gasped when seeing the first room of his brother's flat. Chaz walked silently in looking around him finding many of his dear things broken. He lifted his table that was upside down the right way finding from under it his most precious thing.
He lifted it in his trembling hands looking at the paper with sad eyes. The only picture he had left of his dear departed brother was in his hand now with burned edges and destroyed face. He closed his eyes tightening his hold of the picture when trembling in anger and sadness.
Aliz let her brother bee when she walked over all the stuff wondering silently how Chaz could even fit all this in here. He collected some interesting papers reading on them with one eyes.
Chaz stood up leaning on the table he had just lifted. Who and why? Why did this happen?
"If they didn't know that he was connected with the mansion. . ." Aliz said silently that got Chaz's attention. "They know now." His eyes widened when he saw Aliz showing all the student papers she had found.
***in the yard***
Inu-yasha sat in the yard with a hot cup of coffee waiting for Sango to come. She had called just a moment ago and Inu-yasha thought he needed fresh air.
He had seen Sesshomaru talking with Kagome in Sesshomaru's little library and had decided to let them be. They were so hard looking for any information concerning their found way to free the ghost.
Inu-yasha hadn't talked that much with Kagome since Christmas cause he wasn't still not sure should he jump of happiness or cry. He sighed and wandered back to the Christmas on that morning. . .
"This small box" had Sesshomaru explained showing a beautiful pattered golden box to his little brother. "Was found from the cellar and Kagome told it had had a diamond ring in it back in time."
That had confused Inu-yasha then but now it was making him regret many things. "You know what there is told about ghosts. . . They have some unfinished business still on the world of living and that is why they can't go to heaven. When seeing this box Kagome remembered what that something was."
Even now after some days Inu-yasha's heart skipped just by thinking about it. Back then it can be that his heart had skipped twice thought. "The last time when I still could walk I was walking with that ring from that box in my hand" Kagome had explained carefully to him. "I lost it at the southern side of the garden and it bothered me to the last day I lived. But it didn't bother me as much as not telling the other's bothered me. That ring could have saved my family from all the dept."
Inu-yasha didn't want to think further. They needed to wait for the snow to smelt before they can look for it anyway.
However. . . It might be that it's not there anymore. After so long you would think someone would have found it and sold it. Well. . . That's why Kagome and Sesshomaru are checking trough all those books and magazines about some rare jewellery and other stuff that could be useful.
When looking up at the window to Sesshomaru's library just when Sango arrived he secretly wished they wouldn't find it. . .
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A/N: It's so long!!
Why?
Cause I got a tendovaginitis on my right hand that's my better hand. And if you don't know what that strange word mean (checked it from a dictionary) it doesn't matter, but it means I couldn't use my hand and I couldn't do much with a comp at all.
Also for the same reason I was left behind at school and so after my hand healed I was drowning into school work so I didn't have time to do anything fun. Just reading some math and Swedish and ect.
Well. . . I finally found some time now when I don't have more than wan school work, but I still need to design some cards and I'll be paid for them. Yay!!
Now. . . About this Christmas stuff. I was pretty certain that it's the same way celebrating Christmas in most of the northern European countries, but I didn't want to say it, fearing I would be wrong in the end. XP Just to be a smartass, Finland isn't really a part of Skandinavia, but anyway.
And sorry... I won't write to you everyone special thanks for it's almost 00.00 am and I'm real tired!
I'm doing also many other stuff on my free time and so I won't be reading on other stories much, but I will read when I find time for it (to hanyo punk chick).
Yes! The story is kag/inu like all of my stories cause I don't like them with anyone else.
About how will Kagome end up. . . I won't tell ya! It would take all the fun away
Now. . . Sorry for the chapter's shortness and late updates, but it will continue this way, but just like I have said I won't forget these stories.
I just have beside this a RPG to lead to, two comics to draw and get into net, one book to write and get into net beside all these fanfics and I'm still getting more and more story ideas for comics, books and fanfics. Sigh!
There just isn't enough time. Simple as that!
Now. . . *yawn* Time to go and sleep. . .
Hyvää yötä! God natt! Good night!
The three languages I'm good at and the order shows which I learned first. And. . . I did learn Swedish before school.
Now. . .
See ya!