Chapter Two: Reawakened Hatred and Reunited Friends
The raven haired maiden smirked to her self mischievously as she slid her key into the lock and opened the door silently. After closing the door as quietly as possible she stood there a moment to adjust her eyes to the darkness of the almost pitch black living room. Looking around carefully she began to tip-toe to the bedroom where she knew her ex-fiancé was sleeping and she was about to walk down the hallway when she heard the slightest movement behind her. She froze and slowly turned to see a pair of red glowing eyes before she was slammed to the wall and a pair of sharp claws was pressed to her throat.
"Don't you know trespassing is against the law bitch?" a cold feminine voice hissed.
The raven haired woman shuddered as she felt the hot breath of the demon with the glowing eyes touch her face. She gasped when she felt the claws dig deeper into her skin, still not piercing the skin, but enough to scare the woman.
"Inu-" the woman gasped before screaming, "INUYASHA!"
Serenity back handed her causing her to fall to the ground as the hallway light above their heads lit up and Inuyasha stepped from his bedroom wearing only his boxers.
"Kikyo!" he cried out rushing to her side to help her up.
Serenity rolled her now normal eyes before turning and walking back into the living room and crawling back into her covers.
"Serenity, what the hell were you thinking?" Inuyasha shouted as he lifted Kikyo back to her feet, "Kikyo are you all right?" he asked her more softly than he had addressed his sister.
Serenity didn't answer him but rolled over so she was facing the back of the couch.
"Who the hell is she!" Kikyo asked angrily massaging the place where Serenity's claws just were. "The stupid bitch almost cut me! How dare she!"
"The stupid bitch was trying to sleep when you tried to sneak in here but you're not at all stealthy so you woke her up and now she's just a cranky bitch," Serenity replied her fake nice voice dripping with sarcasm raising her head above the arm of the couch. "As for whom the hell the hell I am is something I do believe you don't need to know."
"That's my sister Serenity, she's going to be staying with me for a while," Inuyasha answered glaring at Serenity.
Serenity grunted and then huddled back down into her blankets, attempting to finally capture the sleep she wanted. It had been a late night for her after spending some time with her friend and retrieving her black duffle bag. It was nearing sunrise when she finally made her way back inside and she was up a few more hours just going through her things before she finally laid down on the surprisingly comfortable couch just merely an hour prior to Kikyo's lovely entrance. Kikyo glared at the smaller woman huddled up on the couch and quickly walked over to the string that opened the blinds over the large picture window above the couch and opened them. Serenity's eyes shot open and she fell to the floor with a small scream before scrambling out of the covers and to her brothers side on her hands and knees when the sunlight fell upon her. Kikyo smirked triumphantly as Serenity turned to glare at her.
"That's it; you're dead now you fucking bitch!" Serenity growled lunging at Kikyo, but Inuyasha grabbed her and held her back.
"Serenity, calm down!" Inuyasha yelled
"How dare you?" Serenity snarled.
"What do you mean 'how dare I'? I was not the one who just attacked and almost killed." Kikyo countered coldly.
"You may as well have! God, you haven't changed a bit have you? You're still the same cold uncaring and self absorbed-"
"Serenity that's enough! Go to bed in my room if your that damn pissed about it," Inuyasha commanded sharply, shoving Serenity behind him.
Serenity stumbled and almost fell when he shoved her, but she kept her balance. She gave Kikyo one final glare before storming off into the bedroom. Inuyasha looked at Kikyo apologetically, as she sat down on the arm of the couch.
"So what are you doing here?" he asked softly.
"Well I was going to surprise you but my entrance was a little foiled," Kikyo sighed wistfully looking down at her perfectly manicured hands in her lap.
"Oh no, I was surprised," Inuyasha assured her. "I mean there's no better surprise than having your sister about to kill your ex-girlfriend."
Kikyo was about to respond when there was a sharp knocking at the door. With a confused look on his face Inuyasha looked to the door as another knock rapped on his door.
"Can you get that while I put some pants on?" Inuyasha asked quietly, turning on his heel and striding into his bedroom.
"Coming!" Kikyo called to the persistent knocker outside the door.
Kikyo opened the door as Inuyasha came around the corner of the hallway tying the strings on his light blue sleep pants, followed by a still peeved and tired Serenity. Kagome stepped inside after Kikyo opened the door and shot a heated glare at Inuyasha. Serenity on the other hand ignored everyone and went into the kitchen and then got into the fridge.
"You're in big trouble mister," Kagome said placing her hands on her hips.
"Why?" Inuyasha asked confusedly, flopping down on the couch.
"What do you mean 'why'! You should know damn well why! You're lucky Sango didn't come here!" Kagome replied heatedly as Kikyo closed the door and looked back and forth between the other two people in the room.
"Sango?" Inuyasha wondered aloud. He paused a moment before it dawned on him, "Oh shit we were supposed to go out this afternoon!" he looked to Kagome. "Well I guess we'll have to reschedule."
Kagome was about to retort when there was a pounding on the door. Once again Serenity ignored everyone including the apparently angered person or persons on the outside of the door as she walked back into the bedroom with a mug of coffee. Inuyasha's head snapped towards Serenity as he caught the faint smell of blood, but she closed the bedroom door just as Kikyo opened the front door. An apparently very peeved looking dark haired woman with heated chocolate brown eyes stood with her arms folded above her swollen abdomen and her husband standing behind her.
"Inuyasha," the woman said venomously.
"Sango," Inuyasha replied coolly.
"You failed to show up once again," Sango said taking a few steps inside followed by her husband.
"I overslept."
Miroku the black haired man behind her slapped a hand on his forehead, "You seriously shouldn't have said that."
"Here we go," Kagome sighed moving to sit on the love seat on the far side of the room underneath another picture window, just like the couch.
"You overslept! Inuyasha, this is the fourth time you've not shown up when we work around your schedule to plan just a fucking afternoon out together!"
"Actually it's only the third time," Inuyasha replied dully; "but what's your point?"
"My God, you're impossible!" Sango groaned, letting her arms fall to her sides and looking up at the heavens. Tears started to fill in her eyes as another sharp mood swing hit her, "Is it really too much to ask of you to just have one day with your friends instead of sitting up here brooding all the damn time? You haven't wanted to spend any time with us since that damn bitch broke up with you and quite frankly, I miss having you around," she said hurtfully.
Inuyasha had never really been one to handle crying girls so he just sat there, looking like a sad little boy who had just been smacked across the hands for doing something wrong. Kikyo stared at Sango with her mouth agape, seriously surprised Sango had called her a 'damn bitch' while she was standing just behind her at the door. With a huff Kikyo stormed out the door, slamming it behind her. Everyone in the room was silent while Sango pulled herself back together. The silence carried on as Serenity came out of the bedroom again and walked into the living room to grab her duffle bag beside the couch where Inuyasha was sitting.
Sango looked at her quizzically, "Who are you?"
"Cinderella's fairy godmother," Serenity replied sarcastically continuing on to the bedroom.
"Sango, you remember Serenity don't you?" Kagome asked gently.
"Well of course," Sango said placing a hand on her aching back. "She was such a sweetheart I don't ever think I could forget her."
"Wow. Thanks San-chan, for once I don't have a smart ass comment," Serenity said quietly, stopping just before she reached the bedroom door.
Sango looked at Serenity shocked and then to Inuyasha and Kagome confusedly. Slowly she walked to the beginning of the now darkened hallway to get a closer look at Serenity who stood at the end. Miroku watched seriously confused as he had moved here and met with his group of now best friends after Serenity had disappeared, so he hadn't gotten the chance to know her like everyone else.
"Serenity?" Sango asked hesitantly. "Is it really you?"
"In the flesh, San-chan," Serenity replied with a brief smile.
"But… how? We thought you were dead… How is it you're here now?" Sango said disbelievingly.
Serenity sighed and moved the duffle bag on her shoulder. She took one last longing look at the bed that seemed to be calling her name before she walked towards Sango and embraced her old friend.
"Come on, have a seat and I'll give you the condensed version of why I came back, apparently from the dead," Serenity sighed and led Sango back to the couch. "I see you wasted no time in finding yourself a mate, a handsome one at that," she whispered into Sango's ear, making the pregnant woman blush.
Sango sat down on the love seat next to Kagome while Serenity walked back over to the nice leather chair across from it, throwing her duffle bag on the side. She looked to Miroku who still stood by the door with his hands in the pockets of his dark blue jeans and a deep purple button up shirt that was left part of the way open at the top, exposing his collar bone above a black wife beater. Sango sat back and placed a hand over her basketball sized tummy. As most maternity clothes go Sango wore a magenta colored baby sleeved frilly shirt that made her belly seem bigger than it actually was thus causing her to look as if she were shouting 'hey look at me I'm pregnant' which she hated but tolerated at the same time.
"It is possible that you can sit down," Serenity said looking at Miroku with a raised eyebrow.
Miroku smiled at her warmly and nodded his head and took a seat at the opposite end of the couch from Inuyasha. All eyes were now on Serenity as she pulled her legs up by her tight black stretch pants, tucking her bare feet underneath herself. She folded her arms over her stomach and looked at everyone carefully before she started to speak.
"Okay I'm going to give you the super condensed version so listen closely. I ran away when I was sixteen moved to America for a short time, ran out of money, had to work to get back here, but fell in love along the way, broke up, then flew back here two years ago, looked for my brothers, found them, but couldn't talk to either of them, moved in with some friends, found a new boyfriend, moved in with him, started moving from place to place, until our house burned down, moved back in with my friends, found bubby at the graveyard, I'm going to stay here for about a week but then I have to leave again, the end," she said quickly in one breath.
Everyone looked at her baffled, except Inuyasha who had already heard the story once. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair while everyone sat in silence for a moment.
"Why do you have to leave again?" Sango asked, breaking the silence.
"Because, I have some not so good friends who… well I can't tell you really. I told you all the gist of it so therefore I have fulfilled what I said I was going to do, now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take a shower seeing how I'm not going to get any sleep for now," Serenity replied, standing up and grabbing her duffle bag before walking to the bathroom.
"Well she certainly has changed," Sango said slowly.
"Tell me about it," Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"So… um, I'm a little out of the loop here," Miroku said rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
"Oh I forgot you never got to meet Serenity," Kagome said thoughtfully looking over at Miroku.
"Yeah, I mean I know she's Inuyasha's sister and she died a few years ago but that's about it," Miroku said.
"I'll explain everything to you at home," Sango said sweetly looking at Miroku with loving eyes.
"Oh shit, I got to go pick up Shippo from Kaede's!" Kagome exclaimed looking at her watch.
"So, Inuyasha are we still going out tonight?" Sango asked hopefully, giving Inuyasha her best pout-y eyes.
"Yeah, let me go get dressed," he replied gruffly, as he stood and walked to his bedroom.
"Oh I see how it is," Kagome joked raising an eyebrow at his retreating form. "You all can go out without me."
Inuyasha didn't reply but just raised his hand behind his head flipping her off rudely. Sango laughed as Kagome said her goodbye's and walked out of the door which left Sango and Miroku talking quietly, while they waited for Inuyasha to come back out. Serenity tossed her bag back onto the floor when she walked back into the living room before she walked into the kitchen and reached into the refrigerator for the thermos she had placed there last night. She quickly placed it on the counter when something in her bag started playing the American song Faint by Linkin Park and ran to it.
"Hello?" she answered quickly. "…yes this is her… who is this?…. Oh my goodness! John? How the hell did you get this number!" she asked worriedly walking back into the kitchen for her thermos.
A broad smile beamed on Serenity's face as she walked back into the kitchen listening to the John fellow on her cell phone. Inuyasha walked back out of the bedroom fully dressed in a pair of black baggy pants with a black wife beater underneath a red button up shirt.
"No, John! Don't you dare!" Serenity laughed walking back into the living room.
"Hey Serenity," Inuyasha said to grab his sister's attention. She looked up at him from the chair that she had just flopped down in. "We're going out would you like to come?" he asked actually polite for once, but Serenity shook her head negatively. "Then do you want anything?"
"No," she replied. "You have rice chicken and cheese in the kitchen so I'll be fine."
"All right I'll be back later tonight," he sighed walking to the door with Kikyo behind him.
"YOU DID WHAT?" Miroku exclaimed loudly, jumping up from his seat and looking down at his wife strangely. "No way! That's just…"
"Wrong?" Sango asked, standing up slowly.
"No, it's hott." Miroku said, flashing her a devilish smile.
"You're such a pervert," Sango chuckled.
"What?" Inuyasha asked slipping on his jacket, beside the door.
"Sango once dated your sister," Miroku said still astonished.
"Don't remind me," Inuyasha shuddered.
"I still can't believe it," Miroku said shaking his head.
"Well believe it," Sango said as Serenity put the phone down and walked behind her so she could wrap her arms around Sango.
"Yeah we were once the hottest couple in school," Serenity added, resting her head on Sango's shoulder cutely.
"I'm still mad at you for leaving me like that," Sango said, glaring sideways at Serenity.
"I'm sorry baby, I just couldn't take it any more," Serenity pouted.
"Well, we're going to have a nice long talk before you decide to take off again," Sango said with a sigh. "And I work with the police now so don't think I can't have your ass tracked down."
"Ma'am yes ma'am," Serenity laughed.
Miroku cleared his throat loudly and the two girls looked at him with devilish smiles, before Sango walked up to him and gave him a sweet kiss and Serenity went back to her phone. A few moments later the band of three left, leaving Serenity free to sleep once she got off of the phone with her old friend.