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Ba dum is like that heartbeat you see in episode one of Inuyasha? You know when he gets unsealed. Lol. Work with me here! Ha ha
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Awakened Dead
Chapter 19. December 6th and 7th
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She had been worried sick about him. Ever since Miroku had broken the news to her a day after her recovery, she had been at his bedside. Aside from school, she had never left Miroku's house. During that time not only had she been with Inuyasha but she had also been with Mushin-shishou, training vigorously to control her emotions and powers. She had made a vow never to let anything like this happen again. She promised never to hurt her Inuyasha ever. Again. 'I promise.' She silently vowed once more.
"…It's hard enough standin' in this room without getting fried!"
She shuddered from the echo of the memory.
'Gomen nasai.'
He had told her that she had been hurting him, and she ignored him entirely. 'It's all my fault. He tried to stop me, but I was being stupid.' She shook her head, forcing back her tears. He could very well disappear from this world, and it would be her fault. She was the worst person in the world.
'Gomen nasai.'
But despite feeling this way, feeling at fault, she couldn't help but be selfish and want his return. She wanted him to come back to her. To still care for her like he did before. 'I know I'm selfish, but I can't help it. I do love you, so please come back…' She curled her hands into the sheets of the bed he was lying on, barely visible.
'Gomen nasai.'
If he could just come back, and give her time to explain to him how wrong she was. How sorry she was.
"…With everything else happening around us, I didn't want anymore pressure to be put on you…"
He had been looking out for her. Preventing terrible things from happening, she gets that now.
"Why the hell would I be exaggerating at a time like this? Fuck Kagome, I mean what I'm saying. I'm not lying!"
She knows that now too. She knows she can trust him. She's always known that. And what did she do? Accuse him of liking her because of her resemblance to Kikyo. But she knew, she knew that it wasn't her similarity that kept him attached to her. It was much more than that.
His torn up face flashed in her mind once more, the miko slash necromancer whimpering at the sight that she had caused. Of course most of those injuries had sewn themselves back together by now. Albeit not as well or as quickly as it used to when he was a half demon spirit, but at least they were closed and only bright red marks now.
'You know better than that. You know that this is just proof of how weakened he is. He can't even heal simple burns. Because of you.' She thought darkly, her eyes shadowing over with heavy guilt.
Miroku walked into the room to check on her and Inuyasha, a grim look on his face as he watched Kagome struggle to keep her emotions in check. 'Poor Kagome. She didn't deserve this. And neither did he for that matter.' He held in a small sigh, pulling a chair next to Kagome. "He'll be fine you know. He's very stubborn and won't let a thing like this keep him from you."
She didn't answer at first, thinking that all this silence had caused her to forget how to speak. Eventually she did find her voice, though not as cheerful as before and barely even above a whisper, she spoke. "I know, but he looks like he's getting worse." She murmured back, never looking away from her slumbering human looking ghost. "Inuyasha…" She mumbled in vain.
Miroku opened his mouth to say something when a pulse of energy had washed through him. Both he and Kagome had frozen in place, another wave of energy similarly passing through them. 'W-what was that?' He slowly turned his head to look down at the poltergeist on the bed, his eyes widening. "He's…" Heck he didn't know what was happening. Was this natural for a demon ghost to have a pulsation?
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Kagome gasped as another wave of power hit her, forcing chills to run up and down her spine in delight. Inuyasha's body was pulsing oddly with a dark amber aura, something that felt so warm. Like the sun. Was this what his demonic power truly looked like when it was untainted from the possession? "M-Miroku-san, l-look. He's—" She stuttered in shock and swallowed hard, her once dull blue eyes welling up with hope. "His hair! It's getting l-lighter."
Ba dum
Miroku nodded in response. "Can you feel that too?" He asked, another rush of warmth surging through him.
Kagome observed as the hanyou's once weakened body, which had barely been a flicker at one point, completely solidify. His mane of hair continued to pale severely until it lightened to glowing silver white. A fresh wave of amber thumps pleasing the girl. "I can feel it." She smiled, small tears of joy leaking down her cheeks. "His demonic aura is getting stronger." She sniffled, watching as his human ears pointed until they slowly moved up atop his head as dog-ears. "H-his ears! And claws—" She couldn't finish her sentence, and simply decided to shake her head in disbelief.
He was coming back to her.
Ba dum
He was actually coming back.
"Inuyasha." She whispered in a call, hoping that he could hear her. 'Onegai…'
"He's healing suddenly so quickly." Miroku remarked in awe, observing from beside Kagome as the once hanyou-turned-human-and-back-to-hanyou-poltergeist began to stir. 'He's really okay. And he's waking up.' He felt a rush of relief and joy, his brightest smile gracing his lips.
Kagome had tears prickling at her eyes again, and her hands covering her mouth to muffle her gasps. As soon as the pulsing had ceased the glowing aura had dispersed. Inuyasha was now sitting up in front of her, blinking slowly and flexing his claws experimentally.
He was back.
He was really back with her. 'Oh…Inuyasha.' She half expected him to run his claws through her for what she did once he'd take notice to her presence. But he didn't. Instead he sat and stared at her uncertainly, his silver ears twitching as he caught all the noises in the house. "I-Inuyasha." She choked out finally, holding back more tears.
The hanyou's ears drooped a little, his orbs glittering with guilt. "Are you still mad at me?"
The miko shook her head, her hair bouncing around her. "N-no! I-I'm just so glad—so glad your back! I-Inuyasha!" She didn't have to think twice before she threw her arms around him and pinned him to the bed in a tight embrace. "I'm so sorry for this! I'm so sorry!" She kept repeating over and over again despite it partly being muffled in his red haorie. And she even continued to do so until her voice could only mumble it coarsely between soft sobs.
Inuyasha's cheeks burned a bit in embarrassment, but he enjoyed the weight of her against him nonetheless. He had wrapped his arms around her petite figure and squeezed her to him, rubbing small circles on her back. "I'm fine wench, don't cry. You told me you were learning to control these emotions." He mumbled with a bit of a laugh.
"Y-you h-heard all that?" Kagome croaked, pulling her face away from his shoulder to look at him in surprise.
He nodded. "Yeah, I could hear your voice. It would come and go, so I wouldn't catch everything." He shrugged a bit. "Either way, it's not like I've been out of it for long, right? Maybe a day at most."
"Try five days Inuyasha." Miroku made them well aware now that he was still standing in the room, and watching their displays of emotions for each other with a hidden smile.
The half dog demon sat up a bit while keeping a firm hold onto Kagome. "What do you mean five days? How in the hell has it been five days! It didn't feel like it was that long—What day is it?"
"Sunday December 6th."
Holy shit.
Had she really knocked him out that badly?
No wonder Kagome was wreck. She probably thought she killed him in some way.
"Fill me in on everything that's happened while I was out, Houshi." Inuyasha said in all seriousness. He needed to know who had been taking care of Kagome while he was out, and how badly the supernatural occurrences had been without him. He needed to make sure Kagome wasn't seriously hurt just because he had a stupid weakness that prevented him from protecting her.
Miroku chuckled at the enthusiasm. "Gladly."
-X-
"Nani!" Inuyasha's voice bellowed throughout the empty household. "What the fuck could they be doing that could possibly take this long to handle? What kind of pansy Hunters are they!" Inuyasha roared angrily from the bed, though being mindful not to harm Kagome by holding her too tightly.
Miroku chuckled lightly, shaking his head at the temperamental hanyou. Oh how he had missed this… "Mayu-chan said that some sorcerers had attempted to trap a demi-demon to harness its power. A witch had come by and set the demi-demon free before the ritual could be finished. This opened a small crack connecting the underworld to ours." He sighed loudly, turning to the window to peer outside into the calm and frozen world.
The half demon's ears perked at the news. If he had a heart, it would have been skipping in his chest right now in fear. His breath would be lodged in his throat. The blood drained from his face. Yet he was not alive, so none of these symptoms occurred. The only thing that could show just how shocked he was was the expression on his face. "Tell me, Houshi, that they closed that damn gateway."
"O-of course they did." He swallowed hard. "With the help of the witch, they were able to close the crack in our dimension. But not before a few rogue youkai got out. That's why they're taking so long. They're hunting quite a bit of escapees right now." Miroku informed with a bit of a squeak in his tone. He was pretty nervous right now, mostly due to the fact that something like this occurred so close to home. The Hunters were after all just a city or so over.
In his lap, the half-miko half-necromancer girl chewed her bottom lip in worry. "We also know how Mayu-chan died and how Bankotsu-san stumbled on her." She leaned away from Inuyasha's chest to look up at him with her sad blue eyes. She successfully caught his attention, parts of his silver mane brushing up against her cheek. "Sh-she did die in a fire due to smoke inhalation. She started the fire because of her powers suddenly developing and overpowering her small body. She panicked, hid in a closet while objects flew around. A fire was started, and her mother and brother got out of it in time. But… she didn't."
"With all the demons recent escapes, Bankotsu-san and Jakotsu-san looked into the house fire, finding Mayu-chan as opposed to a demon." Miroku continued. "Since she understood them, I suppose the boys began to feel bad for her. She started to cling to them instead of moving on and then became their messenger. There's not much to tell after that."
Hell had been opened up. Demons were on the loose.
One could easily possess Kagome if she ever removed her amulet.
And lets not get started on the fact that there were most likely several new demons wandering around these parts.
'God damn it. Shit!' Inuyasha mentally cursed repeatedly in his head. "Alright then, tell me. How far have you gotten in your training? Has there been any word of another Necromancer around?" If those Hunters did not find every rogue demon, which they most likely could not do fast enough, the next best thing would be making sure that Kagome was strong enough to protect herself and her friends.
"How did you-?" Miroku scrunched up his eyebrows in confusion.
"I told him, when he was out." Kagome answered. "I blabbed a lot when it was just the two of us. I ended up telling him about Sesshoumaru-sama." She blushed a bit, looking away.
"Oh." Miroku nodded slowly. "I see, well that makes sense. Ahem… We haven't found a Necromancer as of yet, but Kagome-san has been learning, very well actually, how to control her spiritual powers. She's improving quite a bit."
Inuyasha looked down sharply at the crimson girl in his embrace, squinting his eyes to look at her aura. Well then, what do ya know, the Houshi was right after all. Kagome actually had a firm hold on her miko aura. It wasn't sloppily flowing out of her body like it had been in the past. 'She's been taking her training seriously after all.' He thought with a grin, giving the girl a bit of bump with his nose against her forehead lovingly. "Good job K'gome." He purred. "You're starting to control it well."
"She even took down a demon by herself." Miroku added with a big smile. Though it had been wiped straight off his face when Inuyasha had sent him a very dark and very evil glare.
"What? You did what!" He bellowed again, baring his fangs at the Monk. Had this twit purposely placed his mate in harms way simply to test her abilities? Or were they attacked? Shit, this all happened while he was out? Why couldn't he have woken up earlier!
Kagome shot Miroku a look that clearly said 'shut the hell up!' but alas it was too late. Inuyasha had wanted the full story from them, and he had gotten it. Basically they had been walking back from Kagome's to the Monk's place when a possessed human attacked them. Inside was the soul of a demon that had provoked Kagome into using her powers, and that's when she had pretty much purified the demon completely from the human's body.
"I thought about pulling out its soul, but then I remembered that it would probably get away. So I um, I focused my powers and, I think I killed it." She looked up at her silent hanyou, placing a hand on his cheek. "I told you, I'm not completely helpless you know." She smiled more when he had laced his fingers into her, leaning more into her hand.
Miroku had walked the two out of his house so that they could return to Kagome's for the evening. To the hanyou's surprise, the ground had a thin layer of snow covering it, proving just how long he had been absent for. He even noticed how cold his mate looked, feeling pretty shitty for not being able to do much to warm her up. 'No body heat, no way to keep her warm. Damn it all…' Inuyasha thought bitterly, looking away from her in a pout.
Once they arrived, Kagome had been more than happy to create a barrier to allow Inuyasha inside the house and welcomed him into her room. Though as much as she had wanted to continue talking to him and snuggling with him, she needed to do homework. Which she did. And much to her surprise, he had actually hovered around watching as she wrote equations and read up on her history as if he wanted to remain in close contact with her. It was cute really.
Later that night, they had gone to bed. Well, they were both in bed, but Kagome was still barely awake and talking with Inuyasha. She told him how Sango was teaching herself how to control her strength and her instincts. They had done some research on her kind and just based their knowledge on that until the Hunters would come back. In return, Inuyasha answered her questions concerning mates, and their marks. Something they would have discussed had Inuyasha not fucked up when it came to keeping secrets from Kagome, and landing himself in a tight situation for a while.
"Personally I don't know what kind of mark I'd leave behind. I'm only a half demon, so unlike my brother who is represented by a crescent moon, I don't know what signifies me." He sighed loudly, staring up at Kagome's ceiling. "You should get some sleep now. You have school tomorrow."
"That's true I guess. But I'm afraid of waking up in the morning and finding out that this was only a dream." She twisted around to peer at him anxiously. "Will you still be here?" She timidly asked, her sky blue eyes glittering with what little moonlight shone through the window.
A strong urge to please and protect him mate had overcome him. He would never let them separate again, not without a fight anyways. And he'd damn well do his best to keep her happy, only getting her riled up once in a while to see her angry blush. So he replied by nuzzling his nose into her hair and breathing in that intoxicating scent. "I wouldn't leave this place for the world." He felt her relax against him, content with his answer.
"Oyasumi." Kagome mumbled into his neck tiredly.
"'Night." He whispered back, keeping an eye on her and the movements inside the house for the entire night.
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The next day at school, something very strange and yet satisfying had happened. During Kouga's teaching course, or more specifically Kagome's class, the daily lesson had been very deafeningly interrupted by a high-pitched squealing voice. Come to think of it, Inuyasha hadn't really taken the time to wonder exactly what had become of this woman during his time sealed in the Tessaiga.
"Kouga-kuuun!" The howl came again, along with loud thumps and echoes of questioning student's voices in the halls of the school.
Although Inuyasha had pinned his ears flat against his head, he was sporting the fullest arrogant grin of triumph. 'This'll show the mutt where his true loyalties should lie.' He thought with a snort.
Kagome meanwhile took this large distraction to whisper down to Inuyasha what all the commotion was about. She had noticed how rigid her sensei had gotten upon first hearing his name being sung in the halls. But now he looked positively horrified. She had even caught him sneaking glances at the windows a couple of times. They were on the fourth floor of the building, and there was no possible way a human could simply jump down unharmed and proceed to run. So that was out of the question.
"That would be Ayame… She's what you could call the original member of the fleabags fan club." Inuyasha answered for her.
The door to the classroom had been slammed open roughly, a woman clad in a gray business suite, with long red hair and beaming green eyes standing in the doorway, successfully blocking all exits. "Kouga-kun! Is this where you've been hiding? It's so pretty here! Oh is this your class? They are just precious!" She piped excitedly.
As soon as she had slammed that door open, his textbook had dropped from his hand as well as the piece of chalk he had been holding onto. "A-Ayame-hime, you shouldn't be h-here—" He was interrupted by a bone crushing hug from the woman, gasping when one of her squeals rung in his ears painfully.
All the students watched in bewilderment as their sensei was squeezed to death in front of them. Some of the girls glaring in jealousy while the guys chuckled and nodded at their sensei in approval. Kagome was probably one of the only ones feeling sorry for her teacher because Inuyasha sure as hell wasn't. He just kept on laughing and laughing, telling him that he deserved Ayame's attention.
"I missed you so much!" She rubbed her cheek against his and smiled all big and happy. Until, that is, her eyes had finally honed in on Kagome and next to her the sitting Inuyasha. Without thinking, she had pulled away from Kouga ever so slightly to look at Inuyasha more clearly. "Heh? Inuyasha? What are you doing here?" She asked aloud, now receiving all kinds of a looks from the students.
Before she could make matters worse, Kouga had cleared his throat and free one of his arms from Ayame's iron grip. "Cl-class is dismissed! Just remember your projects are due tomorrow!" He shouted above Ayame's head, a sliver of relief showing itself as the room cleared out swiftly. Once the door had closed behind the last student, Kouga had torn himself away from the crazed princess to inhale deeply.
Kagome still sat at her desk with a bemused look on her face while Inuyasha now stood next to her protectively. Since Ayame had spotted him, he figured he'd make sure the wolf demoness didn't accidentally squeeze the life out of his soon to be mate. She did tend to get a little over excited around new people. "Ayame." Inuyasha greeted with a small nod. "Still chasing after Kouga are we?"
Ayame giggle sweetly. "I think I've worn him down! He'll marry me any day now!"
Kouga snorted and glared away, a faint dust of blush against his cheeks. "I've held out for five centuries. I can make another." He stated haughtily.
Observing blue eyes had seen the blush on the ookami's cheeks, a mischievous smile tugging at her lips. 'Looks like he's trying to ignore his feelings for her. Maybe Inuyasha and I can help with that.' She thought, shooting a glance at Inuyasha's back. "So, Ayame-san is it?" Kagome stood up, pushing back her chair and brushing her skirt of the wrinkles. "I'm Higurashi Kagome, dozo yoroshiku." She gave a short polite bow.
Ayame narrowed her eyes on the black hair blue eyed girl, standing at her desk in seconds with her glaring green orbs. "Ka-go-me huh?" She examined the girl more, raising a brow at the growling Inuyasha. "Hn? You're not dating my Kouga-kun, are you? Because I don't take a liking to competition. I tend to wipe them off the map."
Inuyasha snarled at Ayame's threat, lifting Kagome and moving her behind himself protectively. "Don't even start, Ayame. She's mine."
The girl was slightly taken back, but recovered quickly. "She better be, Princy, 'cause like I said, I don't take well to girls trampling on my territory."
"Ayame-hime, I think I can speak for myself." Kouga tried to argue, shooting glances at the partially hidden Kagome with a small whine. "I enjoy Kagome-san's company. Don't you dare scare her away."
The red head was up in Kouga's face now, nose to nose with him and jealousy blazing in her already green eyes. "You would mate with a mortal over a princess?" She yelled.
Kouga backed away nervously. "I-I d—didn't say that—"
"Oh yea—"
"Ayame-san, you don't have to worry. I'm with Inuyasha. He's my boyfriend. So you don't have to worry about Kouga and me. Honest." Kagome lied quickly, blushing a bit when Inuyasha shot her a look. She could have sworn it was some male ego thing of approval, making her squirm a bit under his intense gaze.
The princess raised a questionable brow, her eyes still sceptical about the matter. "Is that so?" She muttered in a rumble.
Kagome plastered her brightest and most convincing smile possible, even going as far as grabbing Inuyasha's hand and leaning into him. 'See, we're together. Just believe we're together and Inuyasha can simmer down and you can walk away happily ever after with Kouga-sensei.' She thought.
"OH KOUGA-KUN!" The red head suddenly screeched, wrapping her arms around Kouga's neck and hugging him tightly. "We can get married tomorrow and settle in, I'll have your pups—" She babbled on and on with hearts floating about all around her figure as she throttled the other ookami in a hug.
"H-hime—" Kouga choked out helplessly, looking at Kagome and Inuyasha with a pleading gaze.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, tugging Kagome by her hand out of the room. "You're on your own flea bag. She's your mate after all." He drawled, grinning at the now glaring Kouga. That said, they were out of the room and heading to Kagome's next class in no time. He had hid a small content smile and gave her hand a small squeeze.
"You know what I said back there was to keep her from going all crazy on us, right?" Kagome suddenly said when she was positive no one was paying attention to her. Not to rain on his good mood, but she just felt the need to point out that she was not dating a ghost. She couldn't be. She told herself that she would not put her hopes up like that despite her feelings towards him. No starting anything! 'I know I love him, but I can't be with him. Not yet. Until then, I am single and independent and in no need of a boyfriend! He is my friend, and even that takes it toll on me sometimes.'
A flash of his disappearing soul reminded her of such pain.
"Keh!" Inuyasha's hand remained linked to hers. "I know that."
'Sure you do…' Kagome glared from the corners of her eyes at him. 'Well whatever, on to class.'
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The miko slash necromancer could hear the squealing Ayame-hime as far as two blocks away from the school the woman was so darn loud. Eventually when she thought she was a good distance away she whipped her cell phone out and decided to talk to Inuyasha. "So what's her deal? Is she really a princess?" She was a bit disbelieving of the whole thing. But apparently Kouga-sensei was a prince, meaning prince plus princess…
"Yeah. In the Sengoku Jidai, her Ookami clan ruled the north. The story is that Kouga one day came across Ayame and saved her. They got all gushy and he promised himself to her. And since their both royalty, it was an even better deal. Now of course he denies it all. I actually can't believe he's managed to keep her away for five centuries. He ain't gettin' any younger."
Kagome blinked up at him. "He doesn't look that old. Mid twenties at most. And so does she."
He shrugged. "Doesn't hide the fact that he's well over six hundred years old. Kouga's too stubborn. He should just give in; it's obvious they're made for each other. She's clearly his mate. At this rate, he'll be avoiding her till he gets too old."
The miko seemed to be thinking about this statement, ignoring some of the hints Inuyasha was dropping. "Ano…" She began, the question in mind a bit awkward to ask. "Since they're wolf demons and all, can they turn into wolves?"
Inuyasha burst into laughter, fangs gleaming in the sun as he lifted his head to laugh even louder. "N-not a chance. Despite being full blown demons, and royalty, they can't turn into wolves." He chuckled some more. "They aren't that strong for full demons, no offence to them, but the only shape shifting full breeds out there are the dog demons from my family and the neko tribe leaders." He calmed down some. "The only other thing that may be able to shape shift would be a Shape Shifter, or a Werewolf. Both of which I've never come across before."
"W-what?" Kagome stuttered. "Do th-those actually exist?"
"Not likely around here, no. Mostly in the West, in America." He replied. "Weres were never able to make it as far as Japan, Shape Shifters too. They're pretty territorial, and this whole territory had already been claimed by powerful demons. They weren't about to challenge them."
Kagome had started up the shrine steps. "So, what if there's some here now? Since we're all modern, I bet the terr—"
"No. Kagome it's still in their nature to be territorial. It's their instincts that rule them most. Even in this day and age I can feel the power of this land being ruled by full demons. Weres and Shape Shifters wouldn't dare trespass here." He stated, following the girl up the stairs.
They were silent for the rest of the way, Kagome having put her cell away and almost reached her house when she felt her phone vibrating as well as ringing. "Heh?" The school girl took it from her pocket and stared at the screen. 'Miroku-san?' She mentally read, snapping the phone open. "Moshi Moshi."
"Kagome-san!" Miroku's frantic voice on the other end blared. "We've got trouble!"
The raven haired girl narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "Can it wait? I'm just getting in now—"
"Iie! We don't have much time. Hurry and drop your things and come here. We have a job to do, and we need to get there before the sun sets!" Miroku yelled into the receiver.
Inuyasha flattened his ears. "God damn. Can't things stay quiet for a few nights?" He cursed under his breath, opening the front door with a mental slam. Kagome had by then grumbled a short response and hung up, dropping her school bag inside and yelling at her mom that she'd be with Miroku. Then off they went.
The all too familiar Houshi house came into view fairly soon, and before Kagome and Inuyasha could manage a word to the boy, they had been hauled away to his car. With Mushin-shishou clearly drunk, this left the nervous young monk to drive them to their intended location while Mushin explained why they were getting there in such a rush.
"Hee-hee. Something I just noticed in the paper today. This is a certain anniversary for a supposed haunted house on the outskirts of the town. Every year some young fool dares to go inside the house to prove himself and herself worthy. And each year there are new deaths. I nearly forgot about this until I picked up the paper just a few hours ago." He giggled, his blush stained cheeks glowing redder by the second.
Everyone leaned forward when the car came to a sudden stop at a light.
"So then why are we goin' there!" Inuyasha snarled, moving closer to Kagome. "Just let 'em die! This ain't our problem!"
They were all pushed back when the light changed colours.
Mushin lost his amusement, and turned sharply on the ghost. "If we can prevent deaths, then we will! You must all enter that house and force out any whom are already there before the sun sets or they will be locked inside until sunrise." He pointed to the seat behind them. "We brought some of the bare essentials in case they're needed, all stored in a duffle bag."
The car veered suddenly, everyone making a grab for something to keep from swaying too much. All safe for Inuyasha who merely shot glares at the driver who shouldn't even be driving at the moment. Between all the traffic they were swerving through and the bumpy dirt path they were now on, the hanyou poltergeist was not impressed overall with the beginning of this hunt. Well, truth be told he really didn't want to be out in the first place if they were purposefully placing Kagome in harms way.
"So what's up with this place we're going to then?" Inuyasha asked, stuffing his hands into his sleeves. If they were dealing with a haunting, at least he'd be able to help keep some of the ghosts occupied for a while. At least until Kagome and the Houshi could work up a way to get rid of it without harming him in the process.
In the passengers seat Mushin shuffled around, noisily gathering papers from a crunched up pile he had brought along with him. "When I saw the article noting the anniversary of these deaths, I took it upon myself to look up some more details concerning the event. Apparently four years ago an entire family had died in their house. Two teenaged boys and one parent, their father. As the story goes, the father had gone insane and killed his two sons then proceeded to kill himself, all this on the anniversary of their eldest son." More shuffling of papers were heard as well as the muffled curses of the elder towards his adoptive son's driving.
"For two years now youngsters have been in that house on this very night, and in both accounts by sunrise their bodies would be discovered days later." He narrowed his eyes on some of the articles, grumbling about the non-specifics in the old clippings. "Their names were never released, so they all must have been under age. And that's all."
The car had heaved to a stop, all glares towards the driver.
"Wh-what? We did make it, didn't we?" Miroku said with a wry grin, easily hiding his nervousness of this situation.
"Hardly." Kagome muttered venomously under her breath, nodding at Inuyasha when she went to exit the car. The others had done the same, Mushin-shishou stating the importance of evacuating any and all other humans from within the building immediately if there were any. Which obviously, there were.
Another car was parked up further from theirs, and since it took a bit of time to get here, they only had roughly seven to eight minutes before the sun would set and lock everybody inside.
Oh, and did she mention that said house looked exceptionally creepy? Broken windows, faded wood, torn curtains—Well, you get the point. This place was haunted after all.
And there wasn't anything like a haunted house out in the middle of nowhere. Well, not exactly nowhere. Roughly just outside Tokyo, where the houses were more spaced out for wealthier people…
'Oh my Kami this isn't going to end well…' Kagome thought with a heavy sigh, looping her arms around a duffle bag and hauling it up the creaky steps.
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A/N Okay so I don't know exactly how the outside of Tokyo looks, so just go with it okay? Old, abandoned haunted house. Classic ha ha. Anyways, I hope this chapter pleased you guys. It was meant to be all sad and dramatic in the beginning but I wanted it to get happier. So finally, in comes Ayame and a new challenge for these guys to face! Well, R&R!