InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hardly There ❯ Just Another Christmas ( Chapter 4 )

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Summary: A/U Kagome, Sango, and Rin are three Junior High girls who gets dared into going into the creepy abandoned old house across the school and bring back something. While they're exploring, they encounter three ghosts that date back to the Sangoku Jidai. IY/K M/S S/R

Hardly There

by Kumori Ryuuzaki

Chapter Four: Just Another Christmas

It was snowing lightly in Tokyo, and three girls were out christmas shopping. They were carrying a bunch of bags and were sitting on benches.

"Well, I got Souta, Kaachan, and Jiichan, and even Buyo something," Kagome said, looking over her bags. "I got your presents ages ago, not much, but I'm out of ideas."

"Really Kagome, you really don't need to get me anything!" Sango protested. "Maybe we should get the guys' something...?"

"Maybe!" Rin squealed. "What do you think they'll like?"

"A swimsuit magazine for Miroku," Sango said automatically.

"With nothing but pictures of Sango in swimsuits," Kagome added dryly.

"Kagome!" Sango growled, as Kagome and Rin burst into giggles. "That's not funny!"

"Yes it is!" Rin said inbetween giggles. "What do you think Sesshoumaru-sama would like?"

"A kiss?" Sango suggested.

Rin blushed. "Seriously!"

"I dunno! I got Inuyasha's present all planned out!" Kagome said, grinning.

"What?" Rin and Sango asked.

"Ten owsuaris," Kagome said.

"Oooh, I'll bet he'll love it," Sango said dryly.

"He deserves it!" Kagome said lightly. "For all those times he called me a bitch, wench, and was a flat out jerk." She scowled. "I hate him..."

"Sure you do," Sango said absently, making Kagome scowl at her. "Why don't we drop by for a visit?"

"Sure, I need to pick up that Monoply game I left behind," Kagome agreed. "Souta wants it back, and he's been demanding me to tell him where it is."

"Well, then come on!" Sango shouted, picking up her bags. "To the pervert and his and his physocatic friends!"

"Perverts?"

Sango sighed, Rin's shoulder slumped, and Kagome was mentally whining. Hojo had heard Sango and seen Kagome. Peachy, huh?

Kagome smiled forefully, and said, "What do you mean, Hojo-kun?"

"Sango said something about perverts," Hojo said. "I-"

"Perverts? Oh Sango-chan must've meant...um...uh..." Kagome stuttered.

Sango decided to save Kagome's life. "I meant Miroku-kun."

Kagome and Rin looked at Sango, who continued.

"Miroku-kun's visiting town and we enjoy visiting him. He's a pervert--sorta. He just likes to look at pictures. He's completely harmless otherwise." Sango said. If he knew who Miroku-'kun' really was, he'd know that was a flat out lie. Even if he did, he proabably wouldn't know. He isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, and he never will be.

"Come on!" Sango said, linking her arms with Rin and Kagome. "We have to see Miroku-kun." With that, she dragged the girls off, leaving a confused Hojo.

~*~

"You think he fell for it?" Rin asked, when they left the mall.

"Of course!" Kagome answered. "Not be mean to him or anything, but he's really dense."

"And boring!" Sango added. "Isn't that the first thing you said when you came back from a date with him?"

Well, yeah..." Kagome trailed off and looked ahead at the snow covered sidewalk. "Boring..."

Rin and Sango looked at each other. "She's doing it again..." Rin said.

"Kagome-chan, knock it off!" Sango snapped. "We're not going to save you if you walk into the middle of the road!"

"Mmm," Kagome replied, thinking about nothing except how much of a jerk Inuyasha was. And how cute his ears was. And how his eyes seemed to glow in the dark. How insensitive he was. In other words, she was thinking of him.

Sango sighed and grabbed the back of Kagome's coat to stop her from walking out into the middle of the street. "Kagome! Stop daydreaming!"

"Huh? Wha?" Kagome was pulled out of her thoughts by Sango's annoyed shouts.

"I said stop daydreaming, dammit!" Sango snapped. "Daydream in your house of something."

Kagome felt her cheeks, which were pretty warm for being out in the snow. "I was NOT daydreaming!" Who'd daydream about a insensitive, arragont, rude, no good jerk like Inuyasha? "I HATE HIM!!"

"Ahhh...so this is what it's about?" Sango asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Huh?" Kagome was getting flustered. What was Sango talking about?

Sango, of course, had meant Inuyasha. Ever since the their first encounter with the said ghost, Kagome had been rambling on and on about how much of a jerk Inuyasha was, and how she hated him.

But as she once told Rin, she had a feeling that it would change soon. She would bet her house that it would.

When they entered the house, they knew something was amiss. First off, Miroku, and sometimes Sesshoumaru, was always at the door waiting for them. Second off, they was screams, loud protests, thuds, and growling coming from the floor above them. They never had such a welcome. And they were rather curious what the boys were up to.

Well, Kagome was, until she fell over and found Inuyasha ontop of her. Inuyasha immediately got off of Kagome and went to attack his older half-brother who just seemed to phase into existance near them the exact moment Inuyasha seemed to fall out of nowhere.

Miroku was on the stair case, yelling for them to stop. "INUYASHA! SESSHOUMARU! STOP FIGHTING!! ACK! NO INUYASHA!! DON'T KNOCK THE DOORS OVER! SESSHOUMARU--WHO'S DAMN FUTON WAS THAT?"

The two demons, however, paid no attention to Miroku whatso ever. Kagome however, was fuming at the fact Inuyasha knocked her over, and didn't even say a wrod to her! How rude!

"OSUWARI!"

Inuyasha landed face first into the ground, and Sesshoumaru's out stretched hands missed. The full demon toppled over slightly, a bit surprised.

"Damnit! Bitch, what was that for!" Inuyasha snapped, peeling his face off the floor.

"That was for knocking me over!" Kagome snapped.

Inuyasha glared at Sesshoumaru. "I hate you. It's all because you shoved me!"

"You shouldn't have destroyed my room," Sesshoumaru said stiffly. "Take your anger out on your own room."

"That's what this is about?" Sango asked. She was a bit annoyed at the fact that the two brothers fight over everything. She couldn't imagine being here when they were alive. "I swear, you two act like children!"

"Eh heh," Miroku walked nervously over to Sango, and tapped her shoulder. "That's going a bit far, isn't it?"

"You're lucky I don't hit girls," Inuyasha muttered, more to himself.

Sesshoumaru glared at his younger brother. "You're such a pest."

Inuyasha growled and got into yet another fight with Sesshoumaru. Miroku was horrified with all the damage they were making.

"NO NONONONONONONONO!!!!! STO--SHIT! YOU BROKE MY DOOR AGAIN!!! GRR STOP IT BEFORE YOU DESTRO--GET OUT OF MYOUGA'S ROOM!!! NONONONO!!! NO, SESSHOUMARU, DON'T!!! ACK, YOU BROKE THE WINDOW!!!"

The girls' had witnessed some of Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's fight, but this one was bit worse than the previous ones. The last time they fought, they didn't break anything.

"NNOOOOOOO!!!!!!! NOT THE SCROLLS! ANYTHING BUT THE SCROLLS!" Miroku cried. "DON'T TOUCH THE SCROLLS!!!"

Sango looked at Rin. "I never knew he had such good lungs." Rin nodded.

"I don't have time for this!" Kagome said irratably. "Miroku! WHere did you put the Monoply game?"

"It's in Inuyasha's room---NO!! I SAID NOT THE SCROLLS!!!"

Kagome sighed, and head up the stairs to Inuyasha's room. Why was the game there, anyways? Oh, well, she'd ask later.

She noticed when she opened the door that the thuds and shouts from the floor below had stop. She shrugged and walked, and saw Inuyasha lying on a futon in the middle of the room.

"Your damn game is in the closest," Inuyasha said, not bothering to even look at her.

"How did you get so fast-?" Kagome asked, in pure awe.

"It's one of the many advantages of a demon I get," Inuyasha answered slowly.

"That's so cool!" Kagome exclaimed.

"It's not all it's cracked up to be," Inuyasha said, getting up to his feet. He then motioned Kagome foward. Kagome blinked and shot him a confused look, but she did walk up to him.

"Stay here," he said, as he walked past her and out the door. His actions were followed by thuds, and Inuyasha shouting, "Miroku you bastard! What do you think you're doing!!!"

"He doesn't listen does he?" she heard Sango said. It must've been Sango, she was always around him.

"Keh," That had to be Inuyasha. He walked back in muttering to himself, "Stupid bozou. What's his problem?"

"You want your game?" he asked, looking at her. Kagome nodded. Inuyasha started to go through his things, making a rather big mess. Most of the items, she noticed, were really old. There was alot of old fashioned clothes, an old sword, and blocks of wood, each having smeared writing on it.

Kagome picked up a block, she wasn't able to make out much, except the name 'Sesshoumaru'. "What the heck are these for?"

"Huh?" Inuyasha looked up from his search. "Oh, that was centuries ago."

"I know. What does it say?" Kagome asked.

"It varies. I think that one was the one where I wrote about how much I wished Sesshoumaru was dead," Inuyasha mused. He pulled out the box containing the Monoply game. "Here it is."

"How'd it get there?" Kagome asked, taking the game from him.

"Dunno, I bet it's Miroku's doing," Inuyasha answered. "He must've been 'reorganizing' my room again."

"Oh," Kagome looked down at the box she was holding as Inuyasha just hastily shoved everything into a corner. "So," she started slowly. "What do you guys do during Christmas?"

"Huh?" INuyasha looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot, you're from the Sangoku Jidai," Kagome started to play with her thumbs. "Christmas is a holiday we celebrate this time of the year."

"I hate 'Christmas'," Inuyasha muttered. "There's lots of annoying people singing out there."

"You can here them?" Kagome asked.

"Mhm."

"Well, that's good hearing," Kagome commented. "Well, I gotta go...I still have to finish shopping for presents..."

"Mmmm," was all Inuyasha said as he fell back on his futon.

Kagome took this as her cue to leave.

~*~

"Hey Souta," Kagome greeted when she got home later that day. The girls had done a bit more shopping and got the goys something together. They got Miroku a swim suit magazine, Sesshoumaru a watch, and Inuyasha one of those gadget things that had many dffrent uses, like a knife, pliers, nail file. Kagome rather enjoyed watching Inuyasha try and figure out those things they occasionly bring--gameboys, CD players, and stuff like that.

"Where's Monoply?" Souta demanded, outstretching his arms.

"Here," Kagome dropped the game into his arms.

"Kagome-neechan, where has this game been?" Souta demanded.

"Nowhere, squirt," Kagome answered, picking her bags up.

"If you don't tell me, I'll tell mom you have a boyfriend! And tell her you plan on marrying him!" Souta threatened.

To people who didn't know Mrs. Higurashi, they would've thought the threat was stupid. Ever since Kagome was old enough to date, Mrs. Higurashi had been dreaming of grandchildren.

"Fine, it was at a friend's house," Kagome answered gruffily. "You don't know him, so go away."

"Geee, you don't need to be so grouchy," Souta mumbled, following her up the staircase to go to his room.

Kagome ignored him and slammed the door to her room to wrap the presents to take her mind off of everything except what she was getting for Christmas.

~*~

It was Christmas Eve, and the girls planned to spend all day at the old house and to give the guys their presents.

"Ah, Sango-sama!" Miroku said when he was given his wrapped present. "I can't take it! I haven't even go--oof!" Miroku was cut off by Sango who kicked him.

"Just take the damn thing." she snapped. "I don't care!"

The ordeal between Rin and Sesshoumaru went quietly. However, Kagome didn't see Inuyasha around.

"Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"His room," Miroku answered, as he flipped through the pages in his new magazine. "Nice..."

Kagome rolled her eyes and headed up the stairs to Inuyasha's room.

To be Continued...

AN: How I wish it was Christmas! I could really go for some presents and candy canes.

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