CHAPTER 4: MAKING PEACE

Koga sat on the railway on the third floor overlooking the large circular foyer to his mansion. It was about eleven in the morning and he found himself surprisingly bored, he had no one to haunt now that Inuyasha left and he didn't feel like searching the manor for clues to the secret. The sound of the front door opening startled him and made him look down into the foyer to see Inuyasha back again much to his surprise.

"What the hell are you doing back here?!" Koga jumped down all floors and landed right in front of Inuyasha making him flinch like a startled cat.

"Don't scare me like that asshole!" Inuyasha glared at the ghost. He thought all morning about how he would approach this, he figured he would have to extend an olive branch somehow.

"I repeat, what are you doing here?" Koga crossed his arms and glared back at him.

"I live here", Inuyasha dead panned.

"Not anymore I thought you left", Koga argued.

"Yes and I came back, I never had any intention of leaving forever, I just left to cool off", he explained while Koga just looked confused. Inuyasha headed down one of the halls while the ghost followed confused, he could tell the white haired beauty had something to say. Inuyasha sat down on the couch in the parlor gestured for Koga to sit down in the chair across from him. The specter complied only because he was more curious than annoyed at this point.

"Okay where do I start", Inuyasha sighed running his hand through his hair again. "I want to find a way to make this work between us".

"You mean, you want to live here, is that it?" Koga said mockingly.

"Yes, I want there to be peace between us, is that possible?" Inuyasha asked hopefully.

"Listen I'm sure you're a good person and whatever, but this is my mansion and I prefer to live alone", the handsome spirit explained.

"Is that what happened when you were alive? Did you live alone than die alone?" Inuyasha asked trying to sound sympathetic.

"How about you shut the fuck up, you don't know anything!" Koga glared at him crossing his arms; clearly Inuyasha had hit a nerve with that comment.

"Please I just want this to work, not just for me, for both of us", Koga remained silent which frustrated Inuyasha to no end. "Alright tell me, what do I have to do to live here, what do you want in return?" Inuyasha asked looking directly into the ghosts light blue spectral eyes. The ghost remained silent looking back into Inuyasha's bright golden eyes. He was thinking about what he could possibly want, if he was alive this would be the part where he would tell Inuyasha to take off his clothes and get on his knees, however such things didn't matter much to him anymore. He thought about all the other things he could ask for, all the pros and cons to keeping him around.

"Well you can start by calling me Lord Koga, or Master Koga if you like", he grinned.

"That's not gonna happen in a million fucking years", Inuyasha stated without missing a beat. The ghost just chuckled before offering his true bargain.

"Alright, you keep the mansion clean like you have been doing and I won't haunt you that much", Koga said with a smirk.

"Good, wait what do you mean you won't haunt me that much? How about not at all", he would prefer to not be bothered by his ghostly pranks ever again.

"Sorry angel face, that's the best deal you're getting", Koga smirked standing up and offering his hand.

"Fine I'll take it", Inuyasha stood up and shook his hand.

LATER THAT WEEK

Inuyasha was currently in the kitchen making breakfast with Koga sitting at the table flipping through the paper attempting to understand the modern events. True to his word the ghost lessened the hauntings as long as Inuyasha kept the place clean and organized, now they were just small ghostly pranks that didn't bother him that much. Inuyasha also was attempting to improve their relationship to the point that they could perhaps become friends one day. He did this by helping Koga catch up on some of the events in the world that he missed over the decades while stuck in this mansion, he even showed the spirit how the internet worked so he could research these things himself.

"So if you're all caught up on history and events I can show you all the good movies you missed", Inuyasha said sitting down across from him and smiling while he ate his stack of pancakes.

"What's a movie?" Koga questioned eyeing the plate of food across from him, seeing a dish he had never laid eyes on.

"Oh my god, you are in for a treat, this weekend you're getting to see all the classics", the white haired male beamed. Koga stared at him in wonder; no one had ever treated him with such familiarity before. Back when he was alive and a young noble, people only treated him nice because of his status and wealth, and when he became a ghost everyone feared him. He never once had a true friend in his life and after life, yet here this Inuyasha a truly unique individual was trying to friendly towards him with no ulterior motive and despite all the threats, pranks, hauntings, and all the times he spied on him in the shower, the latter Inuyasha had yet to know about. Inuyasha also dished out his fair share of retaliation, he yelled and cussed Koga out whenever the ghost pissed him off, he would also suck Koga up in the vacuum cleaner, something they both still hadn't figured out yet.

"Why are you doing all this?" Koga asked bluntly.

"Doing what?"

"Being so nice, I don't get it", Koga eyed him waiting for an answer. Inuyasha thought about it and the truth was he didn't have a reason; he legitimately wanted to be friends with Koga. He didn't know or understand what is was like being in a soul still wandering the earth, but he wanted to. Plus he felt kind of bad for the guy, being alone in a house for so long with no one to talk to or hang out would drive any one dead or alive crazy. Koga was also incredibly attractive despite his pain in the ass behavior, and he often fantasized about what it would be like if he were a live handsome male specimen.

"I just want to be friends with the guy I live with", Inuyasha stated simply.

"But I don't live, I'm a ghost", Koga argued.

"Your also a complete fucking asshole sometimes like most of the living, but I don't care about that, you still feel like a person to me", Inuyasha said standing up to clean and put away the dishes. Koga watched him intrigued, this was such a new situation, but he kind of liked the change of pace. Inuyasha suddenly sneezed catching his attention.

"Damn I better not be getting sick", Inuyasha said glancing at Koga who only raised an eye brow in question, "Aren't you going to say bless you?"

"Why would I do that?"

"Because it's the polite thing to do!" he yelled, Koga just chuckled at his behavior and fazed through the floor.

THE NEXT DAY

"This fucking sucks!" Inuyasha coughed laying in the large king size bed. He worries from yesterday turned to reality and here was lying in bed sick with a really bad cold.

"Wow you look like shit, good thing I don't have to worry about illness", and of course Koga was here to ridicule him.

"Thanks for the concern, fucking asshole", Inuyasha growled out turning away from him. He suddenly remembered that he had yet to finish the article for his friend Kagome's magazine, he tried to get out of bed only to have Koga push him back down.

"Just lay down and rest pretty boy", Koga pulled the blanket back over him.

"I have to finish that article"

"Relax I'll take care of it", Koga left Inuyasha in bed and made his way to the study, luckily Inuyasha taught him how computers work, so sending that woman Kagome an email saying that Inuyasha was too sick to write was no problem. After that he went to the kitchen to make some hot soup for Inuyasha, he had never really cooked before, when he was alive he had servants for that, but he had watched them cook and observed the previous people that lived here after him as a ghost. Twenty minutes later he had a bowl of hot chicken noodle soup in front of a sleepy Inuyasha.

"What's this, another prank?" Inuyasha asked rubbing his eyes and blowing his nose with another tissue.

"No you're too sick to enjoy my amazing powers, just eat it", Koga handed him a spoon knowing chopsticks would be pointless with his shaky hands. Inuyasha ate it warily not sure what was in it, after tasting it and realizing it was edible he quickly consumed the rest.

"And don't worry about your article, I emailed that friend of yours and told her you were sick", Koga explained taking the now empty bowl.

"Really, thanks", and with that Inuyasha lay back down and went to sleep. Koga watched him sleep for a bit before leaving him to rest. He soon found himself in the large study, a place he frequented when he had a lot on his mind.

"What am I doing, why am I being so nice to him?" the spirit paced the wooden floor thinking about Inuyasha and why he was suddenly being nicer towards him. Though it wasn't so suddenly, he could say over the past week he had been slowly treating the white haired man a little better. Koga could acknowledge all the helpful things Inuyasha were doing for him was part of the reason, but he still didn't fully understand why he was starting to accept Inuyasha so easily into his world.

"Okay I need some help with this", he performed a little trick he learned in his first few decades as a ghost, where he could actually make a temporary copy of himself, he didn't use it much for hauntings, but he did sometimes use it when he was bored and needed someone to talk two.

"It's so obvious, yet you're to fucking thick headed to admit it" Koga number two spat as soon as he materialized.

"What do you mean?" original Koga asked crossing his arms, his copy sat down on the couch and propped his feet up carelessly.

"Oh please am I really going to have to say it. You like him", he smirked.

"No I don't"

"You like Inuyasha!" the copy said not missing a beat.

"I don't like him, I just keep him around so mansion stays clean", the original Koga argued turning away from the copy.

"I'm a copy of you remember your lord ship, and I know for a fact that you don't just like him you…"

"Don't you dare say it"

"What was that phrase on the internet? Oh yeah, you have the hots for him", Koga number two said chuckling at the look of denial on the other's face.

"And why would I like him, what would I possibly see in that idiotic, hard headed…"

"Funny, smart, creative, incredibly beautiful, hot bodied", the copy cut him off listing all the reasons that Koga was attracted to Inuyasha. "He's also really sexy when he's mad, that's why you enjoy getting him all riled up".

"I'm not listening to this anymore", Koga turned away glad he couldn't blush anymore.

"If you don't admit it right now, I'll march right up to our bedroom, wake Inu up and tell him that you spy on him in the shower!" the copy yelled standing up.

"You wouldn't dare!" Koga got up in his twins face.

"I'm you remember and you dare quite a bit!", the two stared each other down, Koga seemed to have forgotten that he could erase this copy at will.

"Fine I like Inuyasha there you happy!" Koga said turning away rapidly letting his black cape flow behind him.

"No your happy, because for once you actually have someone you want to keep", the copy said back.

"So what am I supposed to do now, I'm still just a phantom to him", the original said sadly looking out the window.

"Well if you could find the thing you've been looking years for, you could make Inu yours. In the mean time you could perhaps try to be friends with him"

"I guess you have a point, there must be clues to its location, but I still can't find any trace. I feel like I've searched every inch of the manor", Koga said thinking deeply about his most precious item.

"Try harder", and with that the copy started to fade away, but not before leaving with one last bit of advice, "You can make yourself solid at will, that means you can still have Inuyasha, maybe not completely, but you can still touch him in multiple ways". Koga watched the copy fade and smile slyly to himself. That was correct; he could touch Inuyasha all he wanted.

End of chapter.

I am so sick right now, it suuuuuuuuuuuuucks! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, because I'm way too sick to proof read, I'm just like Inuyasha in this chapter, see writers take from their own lives. Next chapter is titled DATE WITH A GHOST; I let you imagine what that's about.

Thank you for reading, until next time.