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Writing on the Wall

Chapter 1: If the Key Fits

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Inuyasha doesn't believe in ghosts.

He's a firm believer that once you've kicked the bucket then that's it. Done. Finito. Maybe there's a Heaven - shit, maybe there's a Hell too - but ghosts? Spirits? As far as he's concerned there's about as much evidence going for it as Santa Claus.

Which is why, when the decrepit house and shrine around the corner goes up for sale, his interest is perked. The place has been vacant for just about as long as he's been alive - and if nearly three decades of neglect didn't scare people off then the property's history did. Supposedly the last family that lived there, died there. Rumor in the neighborhood varies from murder to evil spirits, but Inuyasha never really cared to look into what the truth was.

However they checked out, the property is listed cheap in a way that only generations of ghost stories can accomplish. Cheap enough for the mortgage to cost less than his god damned rent for a studio apartment a tenth of the size.

Cheap enough for him to actually buy the son of a bitch.

Signing the final papers is surreal. He'd always dreamt about having his own place, but on just his carpenter's income he'd known better than to bank on it actually happening. Home ownership is for snobs like his brother - people who make money just by sitting on their asses in the CEO chair. Even Miroku and Sango still rented, and they both had solid, respectable incomes to their names.

So even when the agent hands him the key, Inuyasha doesn't fully believe he's a home owner until the damn thing actually fits in the lock and the door opens.

AN: Here's the Inuyasha Ghost AU that no one asked for (myself included). I shouldn't be signing myself up for another chapter story but I've been getting Inuyasha postings on my tumblr feed like crazy and it's stirring up all sorts of nostalgia. As you may have noticed, this is going to be in a drabble format. I've never done one, but I've always wanted to. I hope that this will be less pressure and results in quicker, more reliable updates. Shooting for once a week, every Sunday.

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