kay, dudes! Shadowxwolf here! sorry I haven't updated in a while, but my computer's been fing up and crashing, so i couldn't do anything gggrrrrrrrrr!!!! Luckily i have a brand new laptop so here's the latest chapter - but I won't be writing for a while (try a month) cos I'm doing that Nanowrimo thing
Happy Halloween!
'Explain this to me one more time,' Sesshomaru said, his brow furrowed in puzzlement and concentration. He was standing in the middle of TESCO, in the children's clothing aisle to be precise, and he was looking at Rin, whose face was brimming with excitement. Nothing strange there then. She explained the concept to the bewildered demon lord for the fifth time. 'So,' he surmised, 'Halloween is a night where children dress up in these tacky outfits,' he wrinkled his nose at the little witch and Dracula costumes next to him, 'in order to go 'trikal-treeting'?'
Rin nodded, beaming. 'Oh, yes Lord Sesshomaru! Trick-or-treating!' her eyes brimmed with the thoughts of all that chocolate. 'Can I get this one?' she asked, pointing to a black and purple witch costume with sparkly cobwebs on it.
'And I would have to stay at home, giving out these. . ."Happy Haunting Haribos"?' Sesshomaru continued, ignoring Rin, 'I'm not sure I have any inclination to take part in this.' He dumped the multipack of sweets he already bought back into the huge trolley.
'Oh please Lord Sesshomaru! I promise I'll love you forever and ever and ever and ever and ever –'
'That's enough, Rin,' Sesshomaru sighed. Rin beamed.
'Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?' she implored.
'I don't know how to be in two places at once, though. I can't come trick-or-treating with you if I'm at home handing out chocolate.'
And that wasere Jacken came in. He was hugging Sesshomaru close today, because the last time he was found in TESCO, it had been late at night and one of the cleaners had accidentally mopped him up. It had been very terrifying at the time. 'I could take Rin, Milord,' he piped up. Sesshomaru didn't miss the fact that he was giving longing glances to a pink and glittery fairy costume.
'I suppose it couldn't be too complicated,' Sesshomaru relented, throwing Rin's chosen costume in the trolley.
Oh how wrong he was.
Rin had made them spend an hour in the supermarket, and that was just for getting Halloween stuff. When they got home – Ah-Un had to be given CPR because he was carrying so much (guess who did that) – the sweets alone filled two bowls. Rin had also picked out a fabulous little costume for the demon lord.
'I'm not wearing this!' he screamed through his bedroom door.
'Please Lord Sesshomaru?' Rin whined. There was an audible sigh from behind the door.
'Oh all right! But I'm not going outside in this!'
'Just put it on.'
There was some incoherent grumbling, possible profanities, a crash, and finally the demon lord emerged, his right eye twitching. He was dressed as a bumblebee. Rin jumped up and down with glee, clapping her hands and looking resplendent in her witch costume. Jacken stared open-mouthed, looking like a prat as an imp fairy. . .thing.
The clock on the wall chimed seven o'clock. Rin squeaked abruptly and ran down the stairs, knocking Jacken over, so he came flying down and landed in a crumpled heap.
'Oh, sorry master Jacken,' Rin apologised, picking him up. One of the imp's fluffy wings was crooked from the fall, and a huge lump was rising on his head. He plonked himself down and bawled.
'S-s-she b-broke my w-w-wing!!!!!! I-I w-won't g-g-g-g-g-g-go out like th-this!' he wailed.
Sesshomaru sighed. 'Get up Jacken,' he ordered, kicking his servant. 'You are going out like this because I'm not showing my face in public like this.'
'Don't you like it?' Rin asked, horrified. She threatened to start crying too.
'Of course I do Rin, it's just. . . I don't think the world is ready for this just yet.' He glanced down at the bumblebee suit, complete with wings and vibrant yellow and white stripes, and shuddered.
So, eventually, after Jacken had stopped behaving like a toddler, he and Rin went out. Sesshomaru lurked at the back of the house, hoping nobody would call. They decided to take Ah-Un with them, just to save walking. The two heads hissed at Jacken, they could still remember that kiss of life. He hid behind Rin's skirts.
To tell the truth, Jacken wasn't much of a help. He got scared when another group of trick-or-treaters passed them in the street, and would have burned them to a cinder with the Staff of Two Heads had he not thought it clashed with his fairy suit and left it behind.
'It was just a couple of kids, Jacken,' Rin tried to reassure him.
'But one of them had a sharp pointy thing!' he complained, and another one was dead!' Rin rolled her eyes.
Meanwhile, Sesshomaru was having a horrible time. His eye was twitching constantly now, having to endure taunting ang giggling of small children. It was pushing him over the edge. But that was noting compared to what was coming up next. The doorbell rang, and the demon lord reluctantly got up to answer it. Only when he was standing on the porch did he realise who it was: a hanyou, a fox-demon whelp, and a Japanese girl who looked horribly familiar.
'Oh! Lord Sesshomaru!' Kagome cried embarrassed, 'I didn't know you lived here!' Sesshomaru was frozen in terror. Inuyasha started laughing, enjoying the situation immensely – he was dressed up in Sesshomaru's usual outfit.
'Ha! This is too good to be true!' he cried, literally dancing with glee. Unfortunately he jumped to high and hit his head off the porch roof. He came back down covered in a giant cobweb. 'Ew! Get it off Get it off get it off get it off get it off!!!!!'
Rin had taken a plastic cauldron with her to collect sweets, and Jacken took one too. She got many compliments about how well she suited her costume. The imp, on the other hand, got strange looks and fewer bits of chocolate. He was very annoyed about it.
One house they went too had a very dark porch. It seemed to be decorated with an assortment of weapons, as well as the usual carved pumpkins.
'You go first,' Rin whispered. It was very dark. She prodded Jacken in the back, so he had no choice but to go forward. He rang on the doorbell, watching the weapons cautiously – then. . .
'AAAAAAAAAHHH!' Jacken cried, flinging down his bucket of sweets and legging it all the way down the street. The axe had moved and a grinning skull mask now appeared. Rin realised it was just a man in a mask, so wasn't afraid.
'Sorry about that,' she said conversationally, picking up the plastic basket and putting the bright wrappers back in, 'Jacken's kinda jumpy.' The skull nodded in agreement, and gave her some lollies.
Tell your little sister I didn't mean to scare her,' he said. Rin beamed.
Back at the house – well, what was left of it – Sesshomaru had Inuyasha pinned to a wall, his claws poised to rip him to shreds.
'Honestly, can't you two get along?' Kagome shrieked, in hysterics. 'Sesshomaru, he didn't mean it – that costume actually goes very well with your eyes.' That made it even worse. The demon lord's fist slammed into the wall where his brother's head had been a nanosecond before.
'Dagnammit! Keep still! That was priceless alabaster!' he snarled.
'Ha! You're too slow, Sesshomaru!' Inuyasha cried, trying to draw Tetsaiga. it only occurred to him after about five seconds that he didn't have Tetsaiga, because he was dressed like Sesshomaru. And that really annoyed him. Sesshomaru smiled in a very Sesshomaru-like way, advancing like a hunting cat. He hoiked his brother by the throat, so he was dangling three feet off the ground (he had been watching a lot of movies lately). Suddenly there was a cough. Inuyasha dropped to the ground with a very unstylish 'unmf'.
Lazuli stood at the end of the drive, dressed like a vampire bride.
Ah-Un was getting bored. He liked Rin, and she was giving him occasional pieces of candy, but there were just other things he could be doing – frightening old ladies, for instance. He liked it much better when he was left alone to chase people and cause as much collateral damage as three super heroes. So while Sesshomaru's ward was looking for the imp, he slipped quietly away. And then the screaming started.
'What are you doing here?' Sesshomaru stuttered, incredulous.
'Rin phoned me – she said I might need to come over here and keep an eye on you. And it looks as though she was right,' Lazuli explained, tutting as she looked at the smouldering ruins of the house. She only just seemed to spot Inuyasha lying crumpled on the floor. 'Why are you playing with that thing? You've got no idea where it's been!' Inuyasha heard, and being as subtle as a very large brick, rushed towards her. Lazuli stood her ground and merely flicked him on the nose when he got in range.
'OW! That hurt!' he whimpered. 'Kagome – she hit me!'
'It's your own fault,' Kagome retorted. 'Jesus, I can't take you anywhere, can I?' she burst into tears in a very Kagome-like way, and ran away. Inuyasha, as usual, had no idea what had just happened, and stood there looking blank.
'Do you want some chocolate?' Lazuli asked, offering Inuyasha the bowl.
'Sure,' he replied. Suddenly the decorative mummy hand on top of the bowl trapped his fingers, and something growled 'Happy Halloween Ha Ha Ha' in a really low and echoing voice. Inuyasha screamed like Jacken and ran very fast, shouting for Kagome.
Later that night, when Rin and Jacken had come home on Ah-Un, Lazuli made a huge bowl of popcorn and they all sat down to watch the news. They just caught the end of an interesting report.
'And it seems this is a Halloween unlike any other, as it appears that a large, dragon-like creature with two heads was terrorising the region earlier tonight, burning down a leisure centre, destroying the TESCO car park, and chasing a group of pensioners across the main road.'
Four heads turned to the large, dragon-like creature with two heads that was sitting on the end of the sofa. Ah pointed a claw at Un, and Un did the same for Ah, who grinned sheepishly, the twisted remains of a walking stick stuck between his teeth.
sorry it looked so rushed - it was, i have a lot of things to do...
As usual, please R&R, because I love hearing from you guys, and if anyone has any suggestions, feel very welcome, because I think it's best if everyone has an imput
C Ya in December!