Naraku kneeled down in front of Sesshoumaru and smiled at him rather proud of himself and all the food he managed to grab from camp. "We have all the food we want and like; what else do we need so we can stay here with just the two of us doing what ever we want." He waved his arms out around him.
Sesshoumaru stared thoughtfully at all the food. "Well are we going to stay here all night?"
"Yea" Naraku nodded. "We need our blankets and pillows."
"Okay and our coloring books and crayons so we can color pictures and hang them up on the tree so everyone knows this is OUR spot." Sesshoumaru nodded. "Oh and the flashlight so we can see when it gets dark."
Naraku nodded curtly in agreement and tried to think of what else they would need. "We should take your brother's playpen too."
Sesshoumaru drew his brows deeply. "Why?"
"Well we can turn it upside down and cover it with a big blanket to keep the monsters away from us and it will be our tent." He jumped to his feet. "Come on lets go get the rest of our stuff."
"Okay" Sesshoumaru stood up and ran with Naraku back to the camp to gather the rest of the stuff they wanted for their own camp.
xx
"Damn little bastards." Onigumo growled when he finally untangled his fishing pole from the tree branch.
"I agree." Toga nodded and held Inuyasha steady when he picked up his tackle box.
"I help daddy." He beamed up at his father.
"Yes you do." He patted his head. "I think from now on we'll leave them with their mother's. Let them deal with it." He growled and stepped out of the bush.
"I second that or we could find some gypsies and see if they want them." Onigumo grabbed his tackle box, tucked it under his arm, and caught Inuyasha when he stumbled over a rock while carrying his father's box. He steadied the boy on his feet and followed behind him.
"Yes next time we are definitely leaving them behind." Toga sighed tiredly as he looked around their camp which looked as if they had been robbed.
"Well you have to give it to them they're pretty smart little boys no matter how much we hate it." Onigumo nodded with a sarcastic chuckle.
"Come on lets just go fishing before I actually wring his little neck and end up in prison." He grabbed his tackle box from Inuyasha's hand, tucked it under his arm, then scooped Inuyasha up, and made his way down the path to the lake.
xx
"There" Naraku nodded at Sesshoumaru and stared at his handy work. "Our camp is WAAAY better than our dads camp."
"Yep" Sesshoumaru agreed. "So what do we do now?"
"Camp" Naraku put his hands on his hips.
"Okay but how? All our dads do is talk, stare at the fire, and go fishing. Is that what camping is?"
"I think so." Naraku shrugged.
"So do you want to talk first or go stare at the fire or fish?" Sesshoumaru questioned with a small scrunch of his nose at the last option.
"Well I say we fish first and get it over with then we can do the other stuff."
Sesshoumaru stared at him with brows furrowed. "But we don't have fishing poles." He shook his head. "I guess we could borrow our dad's poles." He then stared at Naraku. "We don't have to eat the fish we catch do we?"
"No" Naraku cringed. "We'll give them to your dad since he likes fish so much."
"Alright" Sesshoumaru agreed. "Lets go so we can hurry up and fish."
"Alright" Naraku agreed then took off running behind Sesshoumaru to the lake.
xx
"DAAAAAD!"
Onigumo pinched the bridge of his nose. "What?" He growled in a harsh whisper when Naraku and Sesshoumaru appeared behind him and Toga.
"I need your fishing pole." He nodded. "Yours too." He looked over at Toga.
"For what?" Toga questioned with narrowed ambers.
"To fish." Sesshoumaru beamed at him.
Toga snorted at that. "But you two hate fishing."
Sesshoumaru sighed irritably and glowered at his father. "I know that." He bit out. "But we're camping and to camp you hafta fish so we need your fishing pole to fish."
"I don't get it." Onigumo stared between the two boys.
"Dad" Naraku huffed. "you camp ALLLL the time so you should know that to camp you have to..." He held up three fingers and touched his index finger with the index finger of his other hand. "fish, talk, and stare at the fire." He nodded with a wiggle of his three fingers. "Since we don't like to fish we decided to hurry up and fish so we don't have to do it later."
As angry as he was with them at the moment he couldn't help but chuckle at that. "So you think all camping is is fishing, talking, and staring at a fire?" Toga questioned with an arched brow at the boys.
"Of course." Sesshoumaru nodded. "That's all you guys do when we camp."
"That's not what it's about." Onigumo smirked at them.
"Then what is it about." Sesshoumaru demanded.
"To get away from it all."
Naraku scrunched his nose. "All of what?" He stared at the man for a moment. "Dad..." He suddenly huffed in a tone that said he was about to give his father a very serious lecture. "did you do something bad? When people do bad things bad things happen. So what did you do and does mom know you did it?"
"I didn't do anything." He growled and quickly noted that his son did not believe him.
"No no." Naraku shook his head. "Tell the truth; you're only making it worse for yourself by lying."
"I really need to quit saying that to him." He mumbled under his breath to Toga.
"Did you guys do it together?" Sesshoumaru questioned as he looked back and forth between his dad and Onigumo. "Are you going to go to jail? If you do can I live with Naraku and his mom? But you hafta make sure Inuyasha stays out of my room but I'll probably take my stuff with me when I move out."
"I'm not going to jail!" Toga growled. "Reel the imagination in a bit."
"Then what did you do that you have to get away?" He stared at his father like he was trying to dissect him.
"Not that kind of get away." He sighed deeply. "We camp to get away from the busy city life."
Sesshoumaru narrowed is eyes upon his father and gave a very curt shake of his head. "Lying is bad!" He pointed an accusatory finger at his father. "And I'm telling Inuyasha's mom when we get home."
Toga stared at his son for a long silent moment then shoved his fishing pole into the boy's hand. "Here fish then take your nonsense back to your own camp."
Naraku looked from Sesshoumaru to his father and stared at him wide eyed. "Well?"
"Here" He handed him his pole. "fish away." He waved his hand towards the lake.
Sesshoumaru exchanged glances with Naraku not really sure what to do now. "How do you fish?" He leaned over and whispered to him.
"Like this." He gave a few small jerks on the fishing pole then looked over at Sesshoumaru. "Now you do it."
Sesshoumaru did as he was told and shook his head. "This is stupid." He glanced over at his father in disbelief; he just couldn't understand what he found so fun about it.
"Okay now we just stand here and be super quiet." Naraku nodded then hushed his father when he snorted. "Shush dad!" He growled. "I'm fishin!"
"Sorry son." He bit his bottom lip to keep from laughing.
"Okay" Naraku nodded at Sesshoumaru a few seconds later. "we're done. We fished." He held the pole out to his father.
"Finally" Sesshoumaru sighed like he had just suffered the greatest of punishments and held his pole out to Toga. "are you sure you want to do this some more?" He questioned pretty certain his father would realize how dumb the act of fishing was.
"Yes I am." He took the pole from his hand.
Sesshoumaru shook his head and sighed deeply. "I think you should find something else to do when we camp."
"No I can handle it." He assured. "I find it quite relaxing." He could see the disbelief all over his son's face and knew the boy would make some snide comment had he had the vocabulary to do so.
"Lets go." Naraku grabbed Sesshoumaru's hand. "Now we have to go stare at the fire which will take forever." He exaggerated the last word with a roll of his eyes at his father.
The two men watched them go and when they were out of sight Onigumo started laughing. "That was entertaining."
"I'll say." Toga nodded. "They have one hell of an imagination."
"Me daddy!" Inuyasha reached for his father's fishing pole. "I like Sessy!" He grinned.
"Okay okay." He squatted down and helped him hold the large pole in his tiny hands.
"Do you really think they're going to just sit and stare at the fire"
"Of course." Toga nodded. "They fished for the first time in their lives if you can call it that and now they'll sit for two seconds staring at a fire that's not burning then... do..." His eyes suddenly went wide and he turned to stare at his friend.
"I'm on it." He set his pole down and took off running back towards the camp.
xx
Naraku stared at the pile of ashes in frustration. "How are we suppose to stare at a fire when there isn't a fire."
Sesshoumaru stared at the pit then nodded determinedly. "We'll start one ourselves. I'll get the matches and you get that stuff my dad sprays on the wood."
"Okay" Naraku nodded and ran into the camper.
Sesshoumaru grabbed the biggest piece of wood he could handle and tossed it into the pit then threw the whole roll of paper towels on top of it.
"Here it is." Naraku nodded as he exited the camper and ran to stand next to Sesshoumaru.
"Okay spray the paper towels and I'll set it on fire."
"No you wont!" Onigumo ran up and grabbed the matches from Sesshoumaru's hand.
"Aww... daaad!" Naraku whined.
"Dad nothin." He growled. "You two will catch yourselves on fire." He grabbed the canister from Naraku's hand.
"No we won't." Sesshoumaru bit out. "I know what I'm doing AND you and daddy said we could do whatever we wanted." He pointed out.
"Within reason." He glared at the boy. "I'm not letting you start a fire; you'll burn the whole mountain side down."
"We would not." Naraku huffed and waved his arms around the fire pit. "If the fire is in there it won't go no where."
He wasn't going to argue with them. "I don't care. No fire; am I understood?"
"Fine!" Sesshoumaru hissed and crossed his arms over his chest then started stomping down the path heading for the lake.
"Where are you going?" Onigumo questioned.
"I'm telling my dad that you're breaking the rules!" He then took off running down the path.
Onigumo turned to his glowering son. "And what smart ass remark do you have on the subject?"
"Maybe YOU should start the fire since your so smart." Naraku challenged as he narrowed his eyes upon his father.
"If you were anyone else's kid they'd beat you for your smart mouth." He growled.
"Nuh huh besides mom said I'm just like you and when you spank me it's because you're mad at yourself for being so stupid."
"She did not."
"Did too." Naraku nodded. "She says it all the time when she gives me candy after you spank me."
"Me and your mother are going to have to have a little talk when we get home." He growled finally realizing why when he would punish his son he would never learn.
"Mom won't care what you have to say." He shrugged. "She'll just nod a lot at you."
Oh yes he was definitely going to have a nice long talk with his wife and work out this counter productive parenting skill she seemed to favor. "Never mind that. Now you are not starting a fire and that is final and if you want to stare at a light stare at a flashlight."
"That's not a fire." Naraku bit out. "How can we camp if we don't do camp stuff?"
"Okay first of all there is more to camping than fishing, talking, and staring at a fire. Secondly there are no set rules when it comes to camping. You are suppose to enjoy the freedom of being outside in the wilderness and the fresh air. Camping is suppose to be relaxing or so it was until you started thinking for yourself."
Naraku stared at his father skeptically. "Camping is not relaxing." He cringed. "Camping is boring, dirty, stupid, stinky, boring, AND why can't we just camp in the backyard if all camping is is being out in the wilderness? At least we'd be close to a toilet and mom could cook real food."
"Oh this is the last time your coming on a camping trip. Next time you can stay home with mom."
Naraku huffed in a very indignant manner. "That's where I wanted to be in the first place but YOU made me come on this stupid trip."
"I thought it'd make a man of you but apparently I was wrong." He turned and began making his way towards the path to the lake.
"I am a man!" Naraku yelled at his father. "See!" He poked himself in his crotch.
"Not until you start shaving your not." Onigumo countered preferring not to comment on his son's poking himself in the crotch of his pants. He stepped to the right when Sesshoumaru came barreling towards him scowling like someone just kicked him in the behind.
Sesshoumaru glowered at the man as he ran past and straight up to Naraku. "Dad said no." He bit out curtly. "I hate this!" He growled with a kick to a pebble at his foot.
"Me too." Naraku nodded. "But we get to go home tomorrow so that's good."
"Yea" Sesshoumaru agreed. "Come on lets go to our camp and do something fun."
"Like what?" Naraku followed after him.
"I dunno." Sesshoumaru shrugged. "Whatever we want as long as it doesn't involve fire, guns, knives, and throwing hard things at each other or getting lost; that's what my dad said."
"We can't do anything." Naraku growled, stormed over to the tree, and plopped down onto the grass in a fit.
"I know." Sesshoumaru sat down next to him. "I wish we could go home today. Then you could spend the night at my house."
"Yea" Naraku nodded. "We could watch movies, eat cookies, and have cool toys to play with."
Sesshoumaru leaned against Naraku's side. "Yea that'd be a lot more fun."
"Lets promise to never come camping again." He held up his pinky in front of him.
Sesshoumaru locked his pinky around Naraku's and smiled. "Promise; we'll never go camping again or worms will suck on our brains."
