Rich Girl: Livin' the High Life by Erin M.

Trick-or-treated with a Broken Nose

October 31st, 2003

Tonight is the Halloween Ball at the Grand Central Auditorium. I asked Sesshoumaru if he wanted to go, but he said that he was taking his little sister out trick-or-treating. Ummm...I thought little kids stopped trick-or-treating by the age of 8? Or maybe I'm just being naïve because I've never actually gone trick-or-treating before in my life.

My mom decided to go to a night bar with that Jaken guy that she's STILL dating! I wonder what the heck that guy looks like...Anyhow, I felt totally bored, not really wanting to go the ball without Sesshoumaru.

I walked into our kitchen to our living room to find Sota sitting on the couch, playing one of his dumb video games. Suddenly...I had an idea!

"Hey Sota..." I asked in my nice big sister voice. "Have you ever gone trick-or-treating before?"

"Nope." He replied bluntly, not daring to take his eyes off the blaring TV screen.

"Well...do you wanna come with me?" I asked again.

This time he put his controller down and looked back at me as though I had a fungus growing out of my ears.

"Isn't trick-or-treating for kids?" He said, looking utterly confused.

"Well duh! And what are you? A duck? Come on! It'll be fun!" I said, walking over to him and pulling him to his feet.

"But...don't I need a costume?" He asked as I pushed him into his room.

I opened his messy closet and rummaged around until I found an old white sheet. I grabbed a pair of scissors from a drawer and out 4 holes; 2 for his eyes and 2 for his arms. I smiled at my handiwork, and then shoved the sheet over Sota's head. He looked like a lumpy, secondhand pillow.

"Perfect!" I said as he looked at himself in his mirror.

"I look like a white blob." He replied sulkily.

"You're a ghost!" I told him.

"Well...what are you going as?" He asked, turning around to stare at me through his little holes.

"Uhhh..." I said. I hadn't really thought that I had to dress up too. "Like you said...trick-or-treating is for kids! And I'm practically an adult-"

"If I have to wear a dumb costume, then you do too!" He yelled, threatening to take off his sheet.

"ALRIGHT!" I shouted back. Man! Nine year olds are so demanding!

I had absolutely no idea what the heck I was going to wear. I knew that it was going to be absolutely freezing outside, so I just threw on my white sheep skin coat and my tan suede boots.

"That's not a costume!" Sota said when I came into the kitchen.

"I'm an Eskimo." I replied, throwing him an empty shopping bag for his candy.

He mumbled all the way to bus stop, where I was supposed to meet Sesshoumaru. Sure enough, I recognized his silver hair and golden eyes immediately. He was just wearing a pair of jeans and plain brown coat. I knew we weren't supposed to dress up.

"Hey you two." He said, waving us down.

"Who's that?" Sota asked, pulling at his ghost sheet anxiously.

"He's just a friend." I replied quickly, waving back.

"No...I mean the girl." He said slowly.

Even though I couldn't see his face, I knew he was blushing. I couldn't believe that my little brother had a crush! He's never had one before. At least one I've heard about...Anyways, we went up to Sesshoumaru and his little sister.

"Hey you guys." He said in his deep masculine voice. God I love it when he does that! "This is my little sister Rin."

Rin was dressed like an authentic Japanese princess. She looked like a little porcelain doll with her face covered in white power and her tiny little lips coated in red. She was about the same height and age as Souta and she had long fanned out hair with a cute little side ponytail on top. She was precious!

"Hi Rin!" I said, giving her a cute little wave. "I love your costume!"

She blushed and backed behind Sesshoumaru slightly. Awww! She's shy! Just like her brother.

"This is Souta." I said, giving him a small pat on the back. "He's my little brother. He's also a ghost."

I heard Souta gulp slightly in embarrassment. Poor kid...

"Well...where should we go to first?" I said, taking Sesshoumaru's hand boldly. So what if Souta saw. He was going to tell Mom anyways.

"I thought we would hit down town first, then make our way up." He replied, giving my hand a gentle squeeze.

I could tell the kids were looking at us like we were gross kissy-kissy teenagers in love. Oh well! We took the third bus to down town and went to every single door on the block. Souta and Rin seemed like they were having enough fun. Before I knew it, we had made it back to the uptown section, or as some people like to call it, the Upper Crust, where people like me live.

"Are you guys tired yet?" I asked when we got to the first door.

"NO!" they said in unison, even though both of their bags were overfilling with candy.

Souta ran up and rang the doorbell. The doorman answered it, looking a little confused at Souta and Rin.

"Trick-or-treat!" Said the two of them with huge smiles on their faces.

"Oh! Of course!" The doorman replied as he reached into a crystal bowl filled with imported expensive chocolates from Germany and France.

"Is that you Higurashi?" Hooted a snobby high-class voice.

I looked through the doorway to see a tall, pall faced girl with long sweeping black hair. It was Kikyo, queen of the snobs. She was dressed as Cleopatra, complete with skirt that had a slit up to her belly button and ruby encrusted top that barely covered anything. She looked more like a sex kitten than an Egyptian princess.

"I see you're doing a little trick-or-treating." She continued seeming to enjoy the sight of me with my sheet covered little brother and his friend. "Guess you decided to skip out on the Ball tonight."

I didn't realize it until just then that we had made it all the way to the Grand Central Auditorium. I could now hear the music bumping from the open auditorium in the back. I could see people in extravagant costumes, dancing their butts off.

"Yeah...I decided to do a little trick-or-treating instead." I replied coolly. That should get her to shut up.

"Uh-huh...whatever." She replied, waving away the comment. "I'm sure you didn't have to drag Sesshoumaru along with you. He probably has much better things to do than to walk around with you and collect dirt chocolate from the un-worthy."

I was ready to attack her at full force. But before I could sink my fists into her perfectly painted up face, I heard a voice say. "Is that you Kagome?"

I looked past Kikyo and saw Inuyasha, my ex-boyfriend. He was dressed up as a dog demon, which was very fitting for his silver hair and yellow eyes. He had a red kimono and fake dog-ears and even a sword at his side.

"Hello Inuyasha." I said. He walked over and stood by Kikyo. He looked really...well...cool. "What are you guys doing here?"

"They were just leaving." Kikyo interrupted before I could say anything.

"Right." I said. "Let's go guys. Thank the doorman for the candy."

Just as we were leaving, I heard another voice behind my back and the pattering of footsteps.

"Kagome!" I heard the person call.

I whipped around only to see Kouga, the most perverted guy on the planet, racing up to me in an outrageous costume that even I couldn't guess what it was.

"Oh...hey Kouga." I said, suddenly remembering the last time I interacted with him. I almost got raped in my very own bathroom at a dinner party of my mothers just a couple weeks ago. "What are you supposed to be?"

"A wolf." He replied with a grin his face.

I would've never guessed. He was wearing some sort of skirt thing made out of fur with weird fur sock things around his ankles and calves. There was some sort of armor on his chest and his long rock-star black hair was pulled up into a high ponytail. The only thing that looked remotely wolfish about his costume was a tail that was coming out of his behind.

"Oh..." I answered bluntly. "Well...we gotta go now."

"Hey!" He said, grabbing my arm. "Stay and dance with me for a while my little Eskimo princess."

As charming as it sounded (NOT), I pulled away and headed down the flight of stairs.

"Kagome!" He called, snatching my arm again. "You know you wanna stay with me!"

"No I DON'T!" I shouted, trying to fight off his strong grip. "Let go of me!"

He was starting to pull me back inside now. I was ready give him a swift kick in the you-know-where, when I felt some one tug on my shoulder behind me.

"Leave her alone." Sesshoumaru said quietly.

"Oh yeah?" Kouga replied in his cocky I'm-so-much-better-than-you-punk voice. "What are you gonna do about it moon boy?"

I had no idea what the heck a moon boy was but before I could even ponder that thought, I heard a sickening crunch and Kouga sliding on his butt across the marble floor. Sesshoumaru had given a hard punch right in the face.

"Come on Kagome." Sesshoumaru said, massaging his right hand in his palm. Rin looked up at him, her big brown eyes swelling with tears.

"Sorry you had to see that." Sesshoumaru said softly. "Maybe we should head home now."

"Yeah..." I agreed, grabbing Souta's hand and hailing a cab to take us home.

The ride was awkwardly silent as we made our way uptown. And the worst part about it was that Souta couldn't stop staring at Sesshoumaru the whole way. When the cab stopped at my house, I paid the fare and got out with Souta.

"We'll walk from here." Sesshoumaru said, trying to lighten the mood a little.

"Alright." I replied softly, giving him a little kiss on the cheek. "See you at school tomorrow."

"See you Souta!" He said, trying to give him his best smile. Souta managed a tiny wave beneath his sheet.

"Bye Souta!" Rin said shyly, her painted cheeks looking like huge cherries.

"Bye!" Souta said.

We walked up the stairs and entered the revolving glass doors. As we were half way up the huge staircase leading to our apartment, Souta broke the silence.

"Kagome..." He said, clutching his bag of candy. "Sesshoumaru is the coolest guy I have met! You can bring him over anytime!"

Well...it was nice to have the little brother seal-of-approval on my boyfriend. I just hoped he didn't think he was cool just because he punched out a guy.

Note to self: Think about punching bag as Christmas gift. Oh! And steal some of Souta's loot!