Hello again^^, this is the last chapter in this story so I hope you will enjoy it. I am already working on my next story which will be a horror story, but it will still be some time before I am ready to post anything from that one. In the meanwhile you just have to be patient because I am a bit slow when I make outlines and ideas for my chapters.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha.

Gut splatter IV

Kagome left the classroom as soon as the bell rang, excusing herself from her friends as she had promised Inu Yasha to let him pick her up after school. And when it came to said person, picking up was a literary phrase.

"Sorry! Pardon! Excuse me!" Kagome apologized as she pushed through the crowds of pupils who all had the same, single goal in mind; to leave the school building as fast as possible.

"Kagome, please, wait! Can't you…," the sound of her three friends drowned by the cacophony around her. She rushed past classmates, through the white and green colored corridor, down the stairs and over the schoolyard towards a secluded corner she knew nobody would visit when school ended. And there he stood, clad in red, arms crossed and with a cap on his head, her very own Inu Yasha. Surprisingly Kirara had joined him and sat on his left shoulder, wagging her tails.

"Hi Inu Yasha, I…"

"You sure took your time!"

"Mew."

"No, listen, I left my classroom as soon as the bell rang, I couldn't possible get her any faster!" Kagome said, stomped her foot on the ground and put her hands to her hips. "And don't tell me you didn't notice the bell, because you…"

"You are slow!"

"Meeew," Kirara said once more, but with a disapproving voice this time, not wanting to listen to the meaningless discussion.

Kagome looked at the feline and the canine, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, not wanting another argument with the half-demon since she already had made him agree to stay until the next morning. But then her face broke into a smile and she giggled, "Mom is making ramen for dinner, isn't she?"

"Keh, just hurry and get on my back, will ya?"

She walked to him smilingly when suddenly a familiar voice called out for her.

"Kagome, so there you are!" she turned around and saw Eri running towards them, with both her hands gripping the straps to her school sack.

"Eri, hello. What are you doing?" Kagome replied as the other girl bended forwards to catcher breath.

"Kagome….*gasps* I swear that you could compete on the Olympic team with this speed of yours."

Kagome isn't going to compete anywhere on any sort of team!" Inu Yasha answered sharply and stared back at Eri.

"Geez Inu Yasha, that was only a praise," Kagome said, Kirara on the other hand jumped down from his shoulders and walked over to greet Kagome's friend.

"Hello to you as well Kirara," Eri said sweetly, having overcome most of her uncertainty against the monstrous feline by now. She let her hand pet her silky fur before addressing to the couple again. "I have been trying to speak to you in private since the trial ended Kagome, but you have slipped away each time and don't you dare do that again. I know there is more to my case than you are willing to tell me."

"Eehhhh" Kagome began "What do you mean? I mean…, I have used all the time I could spare to prepare Inu Yasha for his…."

"To prepare him to stand witness on video sent live from America when he in all likelihood, never even is going to leave Tokyo?" Eri cut in.

"Come on Kagome, let's leave," Inu Yasha grunted and started to walk, but Eri rose again to stand tall and spread her arms to block his way with frustration written all over her face.

"Stop! Listen to this!" she said and stuck a hand into the sack on her back, pulled out a newspaper and showed them the headlines which she also read loud:

"26 men from the Bandooru gang caught! Dozens turned themselves in when a local police squad visited the area after a report of vandalism. Gang members claims they were threatened to be turned into dust and dragged to hell by a schoolgirl in sailor uniform. Police suspects heavily use of drugs."

Standing on the ground in front of Kagome and looking up, Kirara tilted her head and mewed curious. Inu Yasha and Eri joined her, looking scrutinizing at Kagome who suddenly found herself at the center of highly unwanted attraction. Inu Yasha opened his mouth and was about to question her but was beaten by Eri by a fraction; "I was originally going to ask how it could be possible for Inu Yasha to jump out of the window from The Fifth Floor! Only to land on the pavement and run away as if nothing… but now I got an entirely other question for you instead!"

Surrounded by her friends and with no help in sight, Kagome let out a string of colorful curses that only Inu Yasha could match on a bad day.

After the freakish events at school, Kagome had finally been able to calm down somewhat after a nice dinner and a lengthy talk with her mom. Instead of answering all of the Eri's questions, they had settled for a compromise where Kagome had allowed her to witness Kirara's transformation although it had been in an even more secure place. The girl had only truly seen the demon's real form once before and that was certainly not under the best of circumstances, but this time she showed no fear at all. All in all, it had turned out quite well and Eri had with great awe expressed her eternal gratefulness for the help the mythical creature had given her and her family. Right now, and sighing for herself, Kagome rigged down the equipment she had used to make it look like Inu Yasha was in the US when he spoke to the court via Skype. She had to make use of all her convincing skills to make him to do it right, and to her immense pride and relief, he had actually managed to put up a flawless façade in front of the camera with a story to match. Together with some luck and smooth talk from Kagome's side, she had also managed to make convince the court to let Inu Yasha witness on the day she knew it would be a new moon and late enough to let the celestial object have its effect on her beloved half demon. Therefore, with him looking human and Souta's technical skills when it came to fixing computer gadgets, it had been very convincing display.

"Alright Inu Yasha, let us call it a day."

"Keh!" was all the answer she got. Said half demon was understandable upset that he had to show his human side in front of others, even though it was on camera and that he would never see any of the people on the other side of the camera again.

"Do you still need to go back to school tomorrow? We have finished everything we came for and there are jewel shards waiting for us to find them you know," he said and crossed his arms after putting away the last background poster.

"Yes, I do have one more makeup test left. Besides, I really want to know how Eri is coping with all this, I have hardly had time to talk to her since our meeting at the court house. And don't make that kind of face Inu Yasha, she is a dear friend of mine!" Kagome scolded when she saw he was going to protest.

But before the ritualistic argument could grow into something more, the door behind them suddenly opened and Mrs. Higurashi looked inside the room they had used, which happened to be Souta's. "Kagome dear, Inu Yasha? Do you want something to eat before you jump to bed?"

"Yes, please," Kagome answered while Inu Yasha nodded beside her.

"Oooh, are you two jumping to bed…. Together!?" sang an amused voice from behind the older woman.

"SOUTA, stop that you little…." Kagome shouted red as a tomato, already in the process of pressing herself in between the doorframe and her mother to get her little brother who laughed like a maniac down the stairs.

Left inside the room, Inu Yasha stared back at Kagome's mother who hadn't moved from the door. She just stood there and smiled serenely back at him, but he knew Souta's stupid remark probably had made his face turn pink in utter embarrassment. He was trying his hardest to keep his face stoic and unmoved when…

"Perhaps I should have bought Kagome a bigger bed then, it must be awfully tight in the one she has now…"

Inu Yasha's face turned dangerously bright red as the woman at the door giggled softly before leaving him alone; this family was crazy!

It was late in the evening when Kirara jumped up and into Kagome's cozy lap. Said girl and her boyfriend was watching something they called a movie. Kirara stared at the moving pictures on the strange window. It was a pretty violent scene but neither Kagome nor Inu Yasha seemed to flinch of it so Kirara decided to watch as well, curious to see what Kagome's era could offer for entertainment. The movie went on for a while, and with her sensitive hearing and sharp sight it became almost too much sometimes with all the sounds and the colors but she wanted to see how it ended.

"Kagome my dear, what are you watching?" Kagome's grandfather's voice said as the old man walked past them with his face half buried in the newspaper he was reading.

"Gut Splatter IV" Kagome informed him without taking her eyes away from the screen she was watching with morbid fascination.

Kirara saw the old man look over his newspaper and shake his head in disgust over the gory scene. "Are you sure you should watch all that violence!"

An agonizing scream erupted from the TV before he got an answer. "Oh, come on gramps!" Kagome said, "I see things like these back in the feudal era every day, that is real. This isn't even real, it is just TV…!"

The grandfather dived down into the newspaper again and walked away, mumbling for himself while Kagome and Inu Yasha continued to stare at the box. Kirara however began to count….

One… two…. three… fou

"WHAT!"

Kirara snickered for herself as the old man's yell, rang through the house. His reaction time was certainly slow.

It was late, very late. The old man was snoring loudly in his room, Kagome and Inu Yasha were also probably sound asleep by now, only Kirara and Mrs. Higurashi didn't sleep yet. Souta still wasn't back from visiting a friend so the older woman was up and waiting for him to come home. On her side, Kirara didn't need as much sleep as the humans so she wandered around outside in the garden when she suddenly though she saw a mouse running towards Inu Yasha's forest. Not one to let such an easy meal slip away from her, Kirara dashed after it. The mouse rushed through the leaves on the ground with Kirara close on its tail.

The mouse fled further and further down the hill, chased by its deadly predator when it suddenly ran into a crack in the ground. Kirara who was so close to catch it, made a powerful jump towards the rodent, but to her surprise it wasn't solid ground she landed on! She should have seen it before, the earth had recently been dug and all if it caved in as she landed with a wet splat.

Her entire kitten form sank into a partly fluid mass of rotting flesh and bones. The smell was putrefying and she basked around, trying not to drown in it. But above her, the bones and sticks had she had fallen through had changed position and was now blocking her way, keeping her trapped inside the decaying mass. Thinking fast, she realized that this gory pit had to be the remains of the pig carcass that Inu Yasha had buried earlier! Kirara mewed and hissed angry in desperation until she finally set her hind feet against something solid, made a jump and shot through bones and tendons of the decomposing carcass.

Souta walked fast down a badly lit street in Tokyo city. The weather was dark and humid, a cold wind rolled over him in waves and made him shiver. He was late, very late and his mom was not going to be happy with him this time either. He turned a corner and came to a familiar street, on the other side of the street was the little piece of forest that went up the hill and ended right outside his house. Kagome had often complained how much smaller it had become since the feudal era, but it was probably only natural since the "neighborhood" population since then had increased by approximately thirty million… Souta however loved the forest, not only was it a part of the shrine's property but it also provided him with a unique playground that probably no one else in in Tokyo could match. In addition, it was also Inu Yasha's forest and he knew that real demons once had roamed inside it, but looking at it now, the dense canopies and dark shadows made it look ominous and not so little frightening in his mind. With the exception of Kagome's friends, the demons were all sadly gone, but who knew, maybe it was something else out there now, maybe from outer space perhaps?

One of the streetlamps flickered, just as a police patrol passed him and Souta stopped for a moment to think. Should he take a shortcut through the forest and save a few precious minutes or should he walk around and up the stairs on the other side. The police car drove slowly up the street towards him with two cops sitting inside. They were most likely just on patrol, looking for burglars, drunkards and other kind of people who shouldn't be seen on the street this late. At that though however, his eyebrows shot up while his body became stiff, being so young himself, he was also in the category shouldn't be outside this late. Last time he looked at his watch it was long past midnight and if they saw him it was no doubt they would stop and ask him what he was doing out this late…, and if he arrived back home with a police escort, he would never be allowed outside again before he turned eighteen!

He hurried to hide behind a bus shelter to wait for them to disappear such that he could continue. But luck wasn't on his side when they seemed to stopp for something not far ahead after passing him. Cursing for himself, Souta quickly looked around. The street was empty and he would be spotted immediately if he tried to walk down the street now, across the road however stood the remains of the ancient forest, the dense and overgrown place was perfect! He pulled his black jacket tight to his body, bowed his neck and ran over to the other side where he swiftly hide among the looming trees.

Once inside, a silent howl from the wind gushed through the wood, making trees and shrubs rustle and groan before small drops of rain started to fall from the sky, hitting both him and the untamed nature around. "Oh nooo…!" he groaned and felt his hair and shoulders getting wet. "Mom is really gonna kill me now…"

With a desire for his own, warm bed that was rowing proportionally with the wetness of his clothes, Souta walking deeper into the forest. The rain made the ground wet and slippery and hard to walk on while branches and shrubs turned into almost impenetrable hindrances in the darkness. The journey was taking much longer time than he had expected and he was stumbling up the slippery slope when suddenly…"Phewww, what is that smell?" Souta said and clenched his nose for the gruesome air. "What in the world could possible smell this bad? I hope it isn't garbage again," he mumbled, remembering the cause of a terrible stench a few years ago.

He continued a little further, but now did the forest smell so bad that he was about to turn around when something strange on the ground caught his attention. The rain was making everything wet and dirty and since it was hard to see he picked up a long stick and started poking it into the mud. At first, he though it only was a big rat trying to hide so decided to bug the four-legged pest for entertainment. But to his surprise, no rat came out, instead he quickly discovered that the soil was soft, almost liquid. *Glorp!* "What the…?" he gasped when a bone suddenly was pressed up together with a red mass. Horrified he quickly pulled the stick back and saw the end of it was covered in a sticky substance. "Blood!"

Souta scrambled back before falling on his rare with a racing pulse, cursing himself for not having left his friend earlier. If he had, he would have been warm and dry inside now and not been standing out in the cold and rainy night, staring into a gory pit of blood and bones. His friend and a few others had organized a movie marathon, which was the reason for him being so late. It had been thrilling but now he was dearly regretting that he had attended it at all. Grabbing a wet and slippery young tree with his hand, Souta pulled himself back up on his feet and was about to leave when a terrifying hissing sound emerged from the earth. The cold hand of fear took hold of his body with its icy touch, and the last thing he could remember that day before the ground exploded in a frenzy of blood and flesh was how a gory and ferocious spitting creature shot out and hugged his face..., and how much he regretted having seen the six "Alien" movies.

The two policemen had stopped at a night open video store to buy a movie they planned on watching with their new, private, portable DVD player they kept in their patrol car. But they would never forget the blood chilling scream that shook them when they opened the cover of "Gut splatter IV".

End.

That was it and I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed to write it^^ There aren't that many stories that takes place in the modern era or stories with Kirara as one of the main protagonists so I had a lot of scenarios to choose from. And as you probably have figured out, I like scenarios where people are being frightened in a strange or unusual way that the reader hopefully find hilarious.

Writing in a humorous style is really hard, especially was the ending of this chapter a challenge since I also wanted it to loop back to the first chapter that ended with Souta being scared because he had been so stupid to watch a movie he shouldn't. Do you think he has learned the lesson this time?

I will also give special thanks to ajopuu, windbreaking and the rest of the readers who have given me so many great and encouraging comments^^

And as usual after my chapters, reviews and comments are more than welcome.