This is a story about Inu-no-Taisho and his beloved, Izayoi. They don't have enough credit on this site. I am also making up his name. Why? Because I don't want to type "Inu-no-Taisho" all the time. What's his name... Alright, Jeff. His name shall be Jeff.
I'm just kidding. I'll call him Inu-no-Taisho.
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"Why, dearest? Why? You're cheating on me, aren't you?" asked Izayoi, part angered, part saddened by this horrible turn of events. "No, my beloved! There is no other woman!" he exclaimed back to her, not wanting her to think he was cheating. "Or jacks, or kings, or two's, or aces!" Izayoi knew he was lying. Maybe not about the women, kings, jacks, two's or aces, but about a three or a four hiding up his sleeve. "I know that you're cheating, Inu-no-Taisho!" Inu-no-Taisho was baffled at this. What could he possibly say to something like this?
"Fine, then. Do you have any two's?" asked Izayoi. "I just told you, dear, that I have so such things," replied Inu-no-Taisho. "Go fish, my love." With a mumbled curse under her breath, she drew her card. No, she thought, this cannot be! A two?!
"Huzzah!!! I have but one card left, dearest! What now?!" she exclaimed as she put down her cards. "Well, do you have... a three ?" he asked. The look on her face showed that it was as he expected. He knew she did not have a three because he had asked her about 45 seconds before their little argument. Good.
"No, my love, I do not have a three. Perhaps a little fishing would do you well," Izayoi said in reply. As he reached for the card, she hoped he would get something other than this three he so craved. She watched in anxiety as his hand reached down to card pile slowly, slowly, until it finally drew the next card from the top of the pile. He looked at it, seemingly displeased. "Ah, my dear, it seems... you have lost again." he said with a smirk, laying his four threes down.
Izayoi was obviously very angry at this moment. Inu-no-Taisho watched as her face became red with fury. She stood up and threw her card as far as she could, which by the way, was only a few yards. Cards don't fly, of course, and that made her madder. She sat down and tried to calm down when she saw her beloved run towards the fallen card. He picked it up in his mouth and rushed back to Izayoi, dropping it at her feet. "Hah! My love, you should not be such a sore loser!" Inu-no-Taisho coaxed. This wasn't helping Izayoi feel any better about her 147-game losing streak though, so he just sat down next to her instead.
"Dearest, you put holes in my card," she said after a while. "Ah, there are, aren't there," he replied. A silence followed them.
"We shall have to get new ones, then," she said. "I suppose so," Inu-no-Taisho replied. Another silence.
"Perhaps," started Izayoi, "we should call this game 'Go Fetch', love." He stared at her. "Perhaps," he said.
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"InuYasha!" Kagome shouted. "What?" InuYasha huffed. "Do you wanna play go fish?" she asked. He stared at her disdainfully. "No."
She pondered a moment. "What about 'Go Fetch'?" InuYasha was speechless. But they're the same thing!
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These two needed some credit here. So now they have it. Please review! And no flames unless you happen to be Roy Mustang, please.
How did Go Fish come to be invented in the pre-Sengoku Jidai? I don't really know. Maybe the well works two ways? (hint hint)