Hey guys! I'm back! I was doing Nano, but gave up because of too much homework...school sucks. anyway, here is the latest chapter in a story that is sure to continue, and the really scary thing is, there are now plot squirrels tagging themselves onto the randomness. sigh oh well...

Thjis chapter comes thanks to White Haired Teen, who suggested this adventure. As usual, I love hearing from you guys, and any suggestions are more than welcome! It makes it a better story if there's reader input.


Sesshomaru came downstairs after a refreshing shower. Cautiously he peered in on Jacken and Rin, who were having breakfast. It was Rin's first day of school, and she looked quite cute in her new uniform. Sesshomaru smiled to himself. Jacken was rummaging around in the cornflakes packet for the free toy.

'Jacken!' Sesshomaru snapped, 'If you really want a My Little Pony we can go to MacDonalds and get you one there – but you are NOT allowed to go groping around in the cereal box, understand?'

'Yes, milord!' Jacken squeaked, withdrawing his hand so fast from the box that it overbalanced and all the cornflakes spilt over the floor, where Ah-Un was lying.

'Pick those up,' Sesshomaru instructed. Jacken did as he was told, but – 'Don't put them back in the box! They've been on the floor!' Honestly, the imp had no sense of hygiene. Rin giggled.

A few minutes later, outside the school gates, kids were staring at Ah-Un and asking if they could pet him. Rin was showing off completely, as small children tend to do when they have something everyone else wants.

'Lord Sesshomaru?' she asked tentatively.

'Yes?'

'Can we go and see Harry Potter at the cinema sometime?' she had heard another kid talking about going to see it, and had already said she was going to too, as little kids are apt to do when they want to show off. Which is what Rin was doing.

'Harry Potter?' Sesshomaru mused. 'We'll see'. Which was an absolute lie. He had been one of the weirdos who had gone to get the seventh Harry Potter book at midnight, and had collided with several lampposts and a weathervane on the way home from TESCO because he couldn't be bothered to wait to read it. He really wanted to go and see the movie. And he knew what Rin had done, because he was Sesshomaru, and he knew everything (in his opinion).

It was time for Jacken to go and get Rin from school. When he finally got there, the place was deserted; a tumbleweed drifted across the playground in a very clichéd gag that showed the place was deserted. The poor terrified imp waited at the school gates, eyeing the nearby trees with caution in case they ate him. Sesshomaru really shouldn't have let him watch the film version of 'The Triffids' by H. G. Wells.

Eventually Jacken plucked up the courage to actually go inside the school building. He passed displays made by the students, on backgrounds made by teachers with their favourite material: crêpe paper.

'Such pretty colours' Jacken cooed, overawed by one particularly bright and pink display. Incidentally, that meant he wasn't looking where he was going and tripped over something long and snakelike.

'Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!' he screamed. Girlishly. 'Snake! EEEWWWW! Get off get off get off get off get off!' he slapped the snake with his Staff of Two Heads in a rather pathetic way, until he realised it was really a vacuum cleaner. 'I knew that,' he told empty air. He bent down to examine his would-be killer-snake, and laughed to himself. Then he was glad that Sesshomaru wasn't there. Just remembering that very Sesshomaru-like glare and the whack he would have received made him very relieved indeed. But that was short-lived because the cleaner came back. She wanted her vacuum cleaner, preferably intact.

When she saw Jacken, she screamed and reached for her mop. And with a resounding and soppy thwap! Jacken was booted around the head. The cleaner (named Gertrude) was screeching something incoherent that could have been about vermin and oversized bacteria mucking up her nice clean floors.


Five minutes later, Jacken came to on the school field, a huge lump rising on his head, and another something vibrating somewhere about his person. It was the brand new mobile phone Sesshomaru had given him. The demon lord was ringing him.

Jacken had a surprising number of pockets, and he couldn't remember which one the moby was in. So everything came out in the search: a My Little Pony, Ah-Un biscuits, a nail file and complete manicure kit, a pink and flowery purse containing mostly shiny buttons, and a half eaten plum. From a week before. . .

The phone was on the thirty third ring and Sesshomaru was losing his patience. Well, that is to say, he was glaring at the Ikea curtain in a very Sesshomaru-like way, wishing it was Jacken and that he could kick it, hard. Finally there was an answer. The demon lord didn't find it necessary to introduce himself to the caller.

'Jacken, where are you?' he asked in a very deadly way. There was an incoherent garble of sounds from the other end. Sesshomaru frowned. 'Jacken, are you holding the phone at arm length again?'

'Yes, Milord,' came Jacken's voice.

'Why?'

'Well, there's all the radiston I could get from a phone like this, I heard it on the news.'

Sesshomaru sighed. 'First of all, it's radiation, not radiston, and secondly, if you don't hold the phone properly within the next five seconds, radiation will be the least of your worries.'

There was an understandable frantic scrabbling on the other end. Sesshomaru waited until the sounds stopped, and then asked his original question; but there was no reply.

'Jacken?'

No reply.

'Jacken!'

No reply.

'JACKEN!'

'Yes milord! I thought you'd hung up for a moment!' the imp's voice was strangely muffled, as though. . .

Sesshomaru put his head in his hand. 'Jacken,' he said, 'you have the phone the wrong way up – you are listening at the MOUTHPIECE!!!!' again a frantic scrabbling. 'That's better, now, where are you and why aren't you here?'

'I'm picking Rin up from school, but the only person there is a crazy lady who knocked me out!' Jacken squeaked.

'And believe me, I have the greatest sympathy with her,' Sesshomaru muttered. 'Rin is here with me – she walked home by herself because you were half an hour late to pick her up!'

'It was terrible traffic –'

'It's two miles on deserted country roads that do not know the meaning of the word "traffic". Do not lie to me.' You could almost hear Jacken cringinging away from the phone. 'Come home now!' And with that, Sesshomaru slammed the phone down.


One angry Sesshomaru later, they arrived at the cinema, which happened to be next door to Pizza Hut. The demon lord shuddered at the memory. On the door, next to the sign saying "refurbishment: authorised people only", was a sign forbidding all demons and half demons inside. Well, that's what you get for destroying a restaurant.

Ah-Un was parked next to a Volkwagen Golf, this time, and he disliked the colour. Needless to say the car didn't last long.

There was a long queue at the box office – some person was trying to pay with pennies and kept losing count. To stop himself destroying the cinema as well, Sesshomaru went back to reading Harry Potter. This was a good bit. But very soon, Rin got bored with standing still and being ignored. She tugged on sesshomaru's robe.

'Lord Sesshomaru!' she whined, 'can't we go to the front now? The movie's going to start soon!' the demon lord sighed.

'Very well, Rin,' he said, drawing Tokijin. In the next second every other customer in the place was lying sprawled on the ground. Sesshomaru casually walked over one particularly fat person. Surprisingly, the girl on the cash register was looking more annoyed than terrified.

'I hope you're going to clean up after yourself,' she said, arms folded.

Sesshomaru groaned. 'Not you!' the incident with the towel was still fresh in his mind.

'Yes, me,' Lazuli replied.

'What are you doing here?' Sesshomaru asked, bemused.

'well, since you got me fired from my last job, I had to find a new one, didn't I? I work here.' The denmon lord looked suddenly grumpy about something. 'so, can I help you, sir?' Lazuli continued in a very annoying voice, just to see how far she could push it.

'One adult and two children to see Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix,' Sesshomaru replied.

'What's the magic word?'

'What?'

'You're being rude – one word can make all the difference.'

Sesshomaru glared at the unphased employee. 'Three tickets, please,' he said.

'So that's two adults and one child,' Lazuli typed into the computer.

'What!?'

'You're not trying to tell me Jacken's under 16, are you?' Lazuli said dubiously. 'will there be anything else?'

Rin piped up. 'Can I have some popcorn please?'

'Certainly, Rin,' Lazuli replied, grinning. She remembered the towel incident too. Rin was handed a big tub of popcorn, and Lazuli read the enormous price off the cash register. Sesshomaru glared at her in a very Sesshomaru-like way, but it wasn't impressing Lazuli. She repeated the price.

As they were walking in, Lazuli noticed the book cradled in Sesshomaru's arm.

'How far have you got?' she asked.

'Page 400,' he replied.

'Oh, I finished already – the ending's crap, by the way.' Sesshomaru glared again. 'Ahem, Sesshy?'

'don't call me Sesshy!'

'whatever. You need to clean these people up remember? My boss'll kill me if there's another massacre in the lobby.'

The demon lord groaned and flicked Tenseiga once, bringing all the people back to life. 'Happy?' he asked savagely.

'Very,' she replied, grinning.

It was very dark inside the showing room. So dark in fact that Jacken banged into a chair and fell over. Cursing.

'Get up, Jacken,' Sesshomaru ordered, going to sit down. Jacken followed, stubbing his toes at least three times before he sat down next to Rin, who was happily munching on her popcorn. The trailers started, and another couple walked in. the woman was complaining loudly.

'I can't believe I had to take you to the bathroom – what are you, seven?'

'It's not my fault I didn't know where to go –' the man protested. His voice was vaguely familiar.

'Yes, but to actually have to come into the toilet with you! I don't think I've ever been so embarrassed!'

'She has got a point,' another man said behind her, arms linked with his date.

'Shut up, Miroku,' Inuyasha snapped.

Sesshomaru groaned, couldn't that half-breed just leave him alone? Inuyasha's head turned at the sound, and he drew Tetsaiga when he saw his brother.

'Sesshomaru!' he growled.

The demon lord sighed. 'Sit down, half-breed, and watch the movie. I can't be bothered to cream you today. Make an appointment in my diary or something.'

It took a few minutes for Inuysha to work out what had just been said. By that time had sat him down on the other side of the theatre.

'You're dead, Sesshomaru!'

'I highly doubt that, little brother,' the demon lord replied.

The film had just reached the part where Filch was eating a sandwich, when there was a very annoying buzzing sound. Seshomaru wondered what it could be. Then, a ringtone took up. Jacken was suddenly sweating profusely. Seshomaru's eyes narrowed in a very Sesshomaru-like way.

'can I just take this call,' Jacken mumbled, but Sesshomaru snatched the phone from him.

'Who would be calling you?' he asked scathingly.

'Um, Jessica?'

'Who's Jessica?

'The girl I met on the plane – I gave her my number.'

The imp had really embarrassed Sesshomaru, and he wouldn't stand for that. Jacken flew three feet before landing outside the theatre door. The carpet burn was easy to see on his green face. He groaned.

'What did you do this time?' Lazuli asked with a low whistle.

'What are you doing here?' he asked back.

'I saw Inuyasha go in and I thought I had better be on hand just in case,' she said, holding up a tazer.

'Oh.'

'are they getting on all right?'

'yes.'

Lazuli looked disappointed.

When Sesshomaru appeared out of the theatre, ignoring Inuyasha (who was being restrained by Kagome, Miroku and Sango), he found Jacken with a cup of tea, talking to Lazuli like they were old friends. Lazuli spotted the demon lord, and said a moody goodbye to Jacken.

'You really have to get thrown out more often, Jacken, you're good to talk to.' She turned to Sesshomaru. 'Is my theatre intact?'

'yes,' he said sulkily.

'good.' She took Jacken's flowery mug off him, and smiled at Rin as the trio walked away.

In the car-park, Ah-Un was having fun with his new ball. The Pink Golf was nowhere in sight.


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