CHAPTER 3: NOT SO FRIENDLY GHOST

Inuyasha sat at the kitchen table, he had just woken up and slipped on only a pair of faded jeans and prepared his breakfast with his morning coffee. He sat there wondering where Koga was, his question was answered when the ghost materialized before, moving to sit in the chair across from him and glare at him silently with his arms crossed.

"So…did you sleep well?" Inuyasha asked trying to diffuse the tension.

"I don't sleep", Koga said back, things just became even more awkward between them. Inuyasha rubbed the back of his neck and glanced around, a tick he developed whenever he got nervous. This situation was entirely new to him, in fact he had never heard of this happening to anyone before, a ghost sitting across from him while he ate breakfast. There wasn't exactly a book or a website for this sort of thing.

"So what would you like to talk about?" Inuyasha asked trying to sound a little bit more polite.

"How about you, getting out of my mansion", Koga said harshly pointing his index finger at him. Inuyasha sighed running his hands through his long beautiful hair; he didn't seem to notice the quick dreamy look in the spirit's eyes when he did that.

"That again, listen my dad left me this house which his father bought fair and square, I'm not leaving, so you're just going to have to live with that, no offense" he said crossing his arms now and hoping Koga wasn't offended by that last part being a ghost and all.

"I didn't sell my mansion, I died and then my greedy distant relatives sold it before I was even buried in the ground. I love this mansion it's my home!" Koga stood slamming his hands on the table which startled the white haired man. Inuyasha stood and glared back at him.

"Well then we'll just have to share then, this place is big enough for two of us!" he argued.

"We'll see about that!" Koga walked away and fazed through the kitchen wall. Inuyasha watched him go with a look of uncertainty.

'Maybe I could have handled that better, I mean he is dead and all, his spirit is probably still attached to his home', he thought sadly leaving the kitchen and getting ready to start the day.

LATER

Inuyasha was busy in the study writing an article for his friend's magazine. His friend from college Kagome Higurashi created her own art and culture magazine called Canvas and she paid him to write articles for it frequently. He was almost finished when a book went flying off the shelf across the room to land on his desk. Inuyasha looked at it then over at the shelf and sighed.

"Real mature Koga!" he called out into the room, but the spirit didn't say anything back or show himself. He sighed in annoyance and picked the book up to place it back where it belonged, but before he could put it back in the empty space a skeleton arm popped out of it and grabbed his wrist. Inuyasha jumped back startled at first, but then slapped the skeletal hand away disgusted by the foolish attempt to scare him.

"This isn't going to work; you can't scare me with these tricks when I know it's you doing it!" He yelled up at the ceiling. He sat back down at his computer and finished his work an angry huff. Meanwhile Koga watched him with half his head sticking out of the floor.

'Alright I'll just have try something else', the dark haired specter thought sinking back into the floor to go plan.

THE NEXT DAY

Inuyasha headed downstairs looking for the broom closet, there were several broom closets in the mansion, but only one had his faithful vacuum cleaner in it and right now he was having trouble remembering which closet that was. After half an hour of searching he finally found the long trusted machine and he took it upstairs to clean his master bedroom.

As he was cleaning suddenly multiple arms came out of the wall, grabbed ahold of Inuyasha and pinned him against the painted surface. Try as he might he couldn't break free from the hold, much to his annoyance. The ghost responsible appeared through the floor smirking at his target's predicament.

"Oh wow, not so tough now are you?" he chuckled getting up in Inuyasha's personal space.

"Koga! Let me the fuck go this instant, or else!" Inuyasha yelled trying to break free again and failing. Koga just smirked in that cocky manner that always seemed to piss him off and grabbed ahold of his chin.

"Or else what? You're not in any position to make demands angel face" he laughed while Inuyasha pointed the suction end of the vacuum still in his hand directly at the spirit's chest. "Oh how cute and what's that going to do to me?"

"This!" Inuyasha flipped the switch and watched in surprise as Koga was sucked into the cleaning tool bit by bit.

"What the fuck!" was the last thing he said before he was completely sucked in wide eyed.

"Huh, I didn't think that would work", Inuyasha used the vacuum to suck up the hands that pinned him to the wall and blew on the nozzle like a cowboy would blew on the smoking end of his gun after a big victorious shoot out in a movie.

"And that's why this bad boy is my trusty vacuum", he continued cleaning while laughing at the sound of the ghost's muffled yelling and cursing coming from the vacuum bag. "Hope you like dust bunnies asshole!" he called sucking up the filth from under the bed.

THE NEXT DAY AFTER

Inuyasha glared with distaste down the hallway currently flooded by a river of blood. He was about to use the down stairs bathroom when he opened the door and a tidal wave of crimson liquid came crashing down on him and sending him down a short bloody slide down the hall. Inuyasha was at his wits end, first the snakes in his bed that made him jump and fall onto the floor snakes that turned to be apparitions, then the fake falling ceiling in the kitchen, toping that was his study being turned upside down, and now this bullshit. This ghost was really getting on his last nerve.

"You better clean this up dick", he said glaring at Koga who just fazed through the wall to see his handiwork.

"Make me bitch", he taunted.

"This is your house too right, so you need to clean up your own messes like a good roommate", Inuyasha growled out with his hands on hips.

"I'll say it again, make me bitch", Koga smirked with arms crossed over his chest. Inuyasha pinched the bridge of his nose trying to stave off a head ache, for being an over a century old ghost, Koga was such a child. Well he was just as stubborn, but even he had his limits.

"Alright you're going into the vacuum again!" he roared pointing at him, Koga looked startled for a moment and then glared at him.

"You'll have to catch me first angel face!" he laughed as he fazed back through the wall to escape. Inuyasha looked down at the hallway to see it was completely clean again it realized it must have been another one of those weird ghostly illusions of his.

"God dammit, what am I going to do with him?" Inuyasha sighed to himself and slumped against the wall running his hands through his hair. "If only the Ghostbusters where real", that thought gave him an idea about how to deal with Koga, ghosts were just souls that hadn't crossed over to the other side, so if he had a priest come in and help the spirit crossover he could be rid of Koga and help the soul find peace.

AND THE NEXT DAY

Inuyasha called a priest who claimed to have experience with exorcising restless spirits. When the man finally arrived they spent an hour talking and then he spent the next few hours praying for the soul to find rest. At first Inuyasha thought this wasn't going to work at all, until Koga the spirit himself appeared before, an ethereal glow surrounded him as he disappeared in a dramatic burst of light. The priest declared the soul of Koga Okami was laid to rest and would be no trouble anymore. Inuyasha thanked the priest with a small donation and saw him to his car.

"You didn't actually think that would work?" Inuyasha was startled when he came back in the house and saw Koga sitting on the stairs across the spiraled floor with an arrogant smirk on his face and his hands behind his head, leaning back triumphantly.

"But how?" Inuyasha walked over to him in disbelief as the ghost stood up.

"Well you're not the first to seek spiritual help in getting rid of me, everyone who has ever lived in my mansion has tried and failed just like you", he laughed.

"Go fuck yourself!" Inuyasha stomped away from him.

"Ah, no one has ever said that to me before", he said with mock curiosity. It was true no one ever had, but he wasn't insulted in the least. Koga followed behind Inuyasha as he stormed down a hallway trying to get away from the bothersome spirit.

"Let's see there's been about five priests, maybe four Rabbis, a couple Buddhist monks, a few gypsies", Koga prattled off all the different type of spiritualists who came trying to exorcise him out of the house just to try and get under Inuyasha's skin and it was working. Inuyasha ground his teeth together in an attempt to not lose his temper.

"You should try a psychic next, most of them are frauds that are always fun to mess with, but some are real and can be quite interesting" He said with a chuckle pushing Inuyasha's buttons. "So angel face what's next".

"Fuck off!" Inuyasha finally had it and turned around to hit him, but Koga saw it coming and made himself intangible and the hand easily passed through his head like it wasn't even there. Koga smiled and ticked his finger at him.

"Temper dear, wouldn't want you to get too worked up now", Inuyasha finally had it with him, he grabbed his car keys and drove off in his car, he needed to get away from Koga. The last thing he saw in his mirror was the ghost standing at the threshold of the front gate waving goodbye and smirking like the cat that just caught the canary.

"And that's the end of that, it's a shame I had to get rid of him, he was so beautiful" Koga said heading back into his now empty mansion.

LATER

The furious white haired male decided to relax at the coffee shop and eat a big cookie, something he always did when he was extremely stressed out. One thing he understood now was that there was no getting rid of Koga and there was probably no way to make him stop. He decided to spend the night at a hotel so he could think properly and come up with a solution.

That night he lay in the hotel rooms bed thinking about how to deal with this ghost. Koga was probably the biggest asshole he had ever met, but he could understand how he felt about someone living in his home without his permission. Perhaps they could reach a compromise, the only issue was that Koga was dead; he doubted there was anything he wanted. Inuyasha fell asleep thinking about this, he'd worry about this all tomorrow morning.

BACK AT OKAMI MANOR

Koga walked through the now dark and quiet halls of his mansion. He thought he would enjoy the solitude, but for some reason he felt really lonely. The manor sat empty for over thirty years before Inuyasha moved in and somehow he was able to return a little bit of the life back to it. Koga went to his master bedroom, the same one that Inuyasha made his own, and laid down on the bed that the pretty white haired male once occupied. He sighed turning over on his side to face the window and stare at the crescent moon; he couldn't sleep being a ghost, so he spent all night thinking about Inuyasha and wondering if it was such a good idea to drive him out of his house. He did manage to clean the place, he left the windows open lighting the mansion up, and he sometimes played music that echoed throughout the halls making the place seem so lively. Oh well nothing he could do about now, Inuyasha wasn't coming back as far as he knew.

Another chapter down and time for a cup of tea for me. Oh yes Koga likes Inu he just won't admit it yet. Next chapter they try to make this situation work.

Thank you for reading, until next time.