[AN/Disclaimer: Yaha! We're back! Feel our wrath!!!  Has the multiverse collapsed yet? *Looks cautiously around* it doesn't feel like it's crushing our souls…hrmmm… So, Aki, what do we have in store for the poor souls we're manipulating today?

Aki: well…we have a certain wolf youkai and a supposedly dead miko join us here in present day Tokyo!

Lyn: well, you know, maybe not HERE in present time, we mean THERE, cuz, you know…we live in the US of A…so it doesn't quite work out…

Aki: IN ANY CASE…we'll be giving our lil' Kouga a very good … BATH!

Kouga: …You wouldn't dare.

Lyn: *comes out with a sponge and some soap* Kooouuuuugaaa…here wolfie wolfie wolfie….

Kouga: *eyes widen* …AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

Aki: *sweat drop* Lyn…*growls* I meant in the story.

Lyn: You spoil everything.

Aki: In any case (I said that twice) I /We don't own anybody in this fic unless you don't recognize them from the manga.

Lyn: YES! We own it all! And there's nothing you can do about cuz our identities are hidden! You'll never find us!!!!! *runs off screaming gibberish about conspiracies* 

Aki: Riiiight.  Don't listen to her…. plz.]

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The Class of 2005: A Modern Day Tale

            By Aki-sama & Lynomi-hime

            "God it stinks in here.  Where am I?"  Kouga crawled out of the very much abused well (well, at least it thought so…).  He brushed his ponytail out of his face and retied his bandana.  Sniffing the air, he blanched. 

            "No wonder it stinks.  Dog-turd has been here.  Along with another dog?"  Kouga shook his head in disgust.  Poor Kagome.  He felt so sorry for her.  Two bad dogs!  The horror of it all!  The utter, utter horror. One was bad enough.  Two would probably drive the girl insane (it already did *sniffle*). 

            Kouga, not seeing any opening, just punched through the wall and walked out. (not very smart, is he? No, definitely not the brightest crayon in the box…been colored with a bit more than he should…) seeing what seemed to be the main hut, he kicked at the door.

            "What kind of inferior barrier IS this?" he yelled at the door to this humongous hut.

Mrs. Higurashi was about to go bonkers.  The last demon she had to put up with was not the most…polite one she had met this morning.  In fact, that little Kitsune was the nicest one!  She was wondering what the little sweetie-poo was doing when…

            "What kind of inferior barrier IS this?" a voice yelled from…once again…outside the door. Mrs. Higurashi felt a chill. Suddenly, she had the urge to hide in the closet. Her daughter's actions became much easier to understand now. Sighing heavily, she went to the door. She opened it, peeking inside the little crack, hoping it wasn't…

            …some sort of tailed freak. Ye gods, her family attracted the worst kind, didn't it? 

            "Can I help you?" she hoped this one wasn't looking for anyone she knew.

            "Yea…I'm looking for a girl."

            "…Would you care to clarify that? Like, with a name?"

            "Her name is 'My Woman.'"

            Mrs. Higurashi raised an eyebrow.

"I don't think I know anybody by that name."

            Kouga shrugged.

"Oh, and her stupid little companions call her Kagome."

            Mrs. Higurashi's hopes plummeted.  Well, one could always hope.  Kagome certainly had a few suitors that she didn't know about!  Logging that fact away for a more reclusive time, she shook her head as a cartoon like picture of her daughter running away from a bunch of demons asking her to marry them entered her head. She took a look at the clothing that this particular…thing wore, and thought of a very good way to deal with this. 

            "Hmm…you say you want to see Kagome?  Well, I have the perfect way of letting you see her." Mrs. Higurashi smiled when the what-she-assumed-was-another-demon brightened considerably.  This one was much more polite than the last one, and since his hair wasn't white she wouldn't have to dye it!  That always made life so much easier (and besides, she was running out of dye).  His eyes…they might be acceptable….  Well, as acceptable as those swords that those two doggies were carrying.  They said that their swords were valuable, but they didn't even notice when she took them.  At least the monk didn't complain as much.  Hmph…teenagers.  Well, at least she thought they were teenagers. 

            And if they WEREN'T teenagers then she would have to trade beauty secrets with them.

            She ushered the thing in. "And what, pray tell, are you called?"

            Kouga took a deep breath. He had planned a long monologue just for this type of question. "I am the night! I am the deepest darkest shadow! I am the bringer of death! I am he who smites all that confront him! I am—"

            Mrs. Higurashi did know this one. She had heard of him. "You are Kouga. Come along."

            Kouga stopped with his finger raised in the air with a conquering, rather dramatic pose. "…Wench."

            Mrs. Higurashi decided it was high time to get down to business. "First, let's see you dressed." She could make quite a bit of money running a Modernization Surplus Store for all these little weirdos Kagome seemed to like hanging out with. Nevertheless, she got out the boxes of supplies that seemed to be hidden in every closet she opened.  She wondered how they got there. Her mother must have foreseen all these events and prepared accordingly. Mother's did have that type of intuition, you know.

            She pulled out a few frilly dresses and a ballerina tutu, not noticing Kouga's expression being replaced with one of mounting horror.

            "What. Are. Those?" He asked, a bit too sweetly for Mrs. Higurashi's liking.

            She then got the most evil, despicable idea that had ever been manifested. "These are the school uniforms!"

            She was getting tired of all these revolted expressions. It was time to take action. It was time to stand up for the Mother's Rights!

            If they didn't want to wear what she bloody well GAVE them, then by God, they were going to regret ever stepping foot in this household!

            She grabbed the light pink frilly tutu and Kouga's ear and proceeded to "persuade" him over to the bathroom. She shoved him in and shut the door with her foot.

            "In you go!"

            Humming, she went to finish up her daily cookie baking.

            Kouga watched the tutu suspiciously. It was alive. He saw it move.

            The open window, of course, remained completely unnoticed.

            He unsheathed his claws and roared at the tutu. "COME OUT, DEMON!" With this, he lunged at it only to have the wind pick it up and float it over his head.

            The wind sniggered evilly as this got the desired reaction.

            "AAAAAAAAAHHHH! WENCH! WENCH! WENCH! THE THING IS ATTACKING ME!"

            Mrs. Higurashi slammed the door open. "What in the… blazes is going on here?!"

            The wind, sensing the force of something far more powerful, retreated.

            She saw the tutu float down and land lightly on Kouga's head. Kouga screamed bloody murder and clawed at it ferociously. Accidentally breathing some in, he naturally assumed it was trying to choke him.

            Naturally. Right.

            He grabbed at his throat and fell down dramatically, clawing at air, seemingly not noticing that he could breathe THROUGH the fabric.

            Sighing sadly, Mrs. Higurashi pulled the "evil" tutu from its victim's head and proceeded to "exorcise" it to the closet once more.

            "There. Evil gone. Get up… you pansy."

            Kouga lifted his head and looked with amazement at her. Note to self: Do not, under any circumstances, cross the Mother.

            (Hey, he learned what InuYasha could not. Maybe this crayon has some color left.)

            Hoping her fun wasn't completely ruined, she grabbed a blue frilly knee-length dress and passed it to him. "This is… the alternative uniform."

            Kouga hugged it. "BLUE! How did you know that was my favorite color?"

            "Magic. Dress. Now."

            "Yessum."

            At this moment, at this fork in the road of a moment, this turning point in the history of the future of the world, it walked in.

            Buyo. (Dun dun dun dunna dun dun!)

            It strolled over. The blue dress slowly slipped to the floor as Kouga caught sight of what he deemed the most beautiful thing to ever walk this Earth. Even more beautiful than his woman! Too bad he couldn't take it as a mate; it was male. But then, male/male pairings could learn to be accepted. Given time.

            "Mrs. Higurashi. I ask for your other son's hand in marriage."

            Mrs. Higurashi looked at him like he had grown another head… and it was a bug's head, too. "I have only one son. And… I'm sorry, I think he likes girls."

            "Then tell me, fair maiden, who is that beautiful being that walked in the door behind me and cast its golden gaze upon me, trapping me in its wondrousness?"

            Mrs. Higurashi looked behind her. "Who, Buyo?"

            Kouga's eyes proceeded to grow very large and puppyish. "Buyo…" he whispered adoringly.

            The mother was seriously starting to get freaked out now. Sesshoumaru was NOTHING compared to this; I mean, it's normal for the DOG to hate the CAT, but the WOLF to LOVE it?!

            "I need aspirin," Mrs. Higurashi stated simply and turned tail and ran like the dickens. The wolf could get to school on his own. She'd leave a map. Or something. Something she didn't want to touch anymore. 

            Buyo was immediately swept up into Kouga's loving embrace.

            "Nweeerrrwww?" Buyo responded to this blatant form of affection by trying to bite Kouga's nose.

            "Ooohhh…" Kouga pulled the cat away from his nose, "Being frisky, are we?"

            And with that Kouga found himself suddenly involved in the biggest cat/wolf fight that the world had ever seen. 

            A few minutes later, the dress and cat slightly torn, Kouga (fully decked out by the way) found a map tacked to the outside of the entrance door.  It was weird, but he would (being the manly demon that he was) of course find his way there (where ever it was).  Grabbing the rose that was known as Buyo, he strutted out of the hut, grabbing some daisies to put in Buyo's collar. 

            Although embarrassed, Buyo did not protest. He didn't want to rain on anyone's parade.

            Kagome rocked back and forth in a form of self-comfort.  This was not happening.  InuYasha was busy trying to stop his half-brother from killing Kagome, and Sango was busy trying to explain to the other girls in the class that Miroku was NOT her boyfriend. 

            "But you two argue like a married couple!" one of the ditzy blondes stated enthusiastically.  Sango growled as her hand slowly reached over to her boomerang.  Miroku grabbed her hand in time…held it lovingly, and then kissed it.  Sango twitched all over.

            Miroku proceeded to explain.

            "We are affianced, I'm sorry to say to all you lovely ladies." All girls giggle. Was this scripted or what?

            He then patted her stomach in a rather overly familiar way. "And…" his voice dropped to a whisper, and all leaned in to hear.

            "…She's expecting."

            Squealing. InuYasha could NOT get the squealing out of his head.

            Sango at first turned a strange shade of pale, before suddenly heating up to a bright red.  Documents later say, that Miroku merely "fell down."  Not like there was blood…or anything.  The ditzy blondes sighed…what love.  If only they could be blessed with such a truly romantic relationship. 

            As Sesshoumaru was just about ready to kill…anything, something wonderful happened.  Something that would either save Kagome's sanity… or destroy it forever.

            The Lunch bell.

            (Twilight Zone Theme Music: Insert HERE ←)

            The class filed out, bringing the unsuspecting group (you know who I mean) out with them.  Of course, when I say "filed out" I mean that they all rushed to the door like a screaming stampede and broke the doorframe with the force of it all.

            InuYasha found himself the brunt of a lot of pain. After the class emptied itself, he lied on the floor in a fetus position in front of the door and wondered why, with all his quickness, he couldn't have jumped over the stupid moronic COWS.

            Sesshoumaru stepped around him disdainfully.

            Sango and Shippou carried Kagome out… the toes of her shoes scraped against him rather painfully.

            Miroku dragged himself out.

            Kouga stomped on his face and spat on him.

            Kouga. Hnh.

            …Waitaminute….

            "KOUGA!!!!???"  The yell echoed throughout the entire school, waking up Kagome and causing Sesshoumaru to cover his ears as pridefully as he could.  And these people were in the lunchroom. 

            Kouga looked down at the dog-turd and smirked.

            "Surprised to see me, doggy?"  InuYasha stood up, wiped himself off calmly, then took one look at Kouga and pushed him out of the way.

            "Nothing surprises me anymore," he muttered as he followed Kagome's scent.

            Kouga brushed himself off disgustedly. And, much to his chagrin followed InuYasha.

            Sesshoumaru's… ears… were…dead. The lunch room was so GODDAMN noisy it wasn't even FUNNY.   If anything, they were twitching, which was the only sign of life.  He turned his head to breathe in the fresh air, but instead caught a whiff of something much worse than the lunch food.  He smelled cat.  It was a familiar smell.  Horrifyingly familiar.  They were going to make a murder show out of this one day. 

            He turned, ever so slowly, to see the image of his worst nightmares. Walking in broad daylight. Like a ZOMBIE, goddammit. Kouga… holding… it.

            "What in the name of all that is divine like I, Sesshoumaru, are you doing with that wretched thing?"  He pointed dramatically at the figure in blue. 

            Kouga held Buyo protectively under his chin, "This stunning specimen of all that is good in Mother Nature is my future mate. Therefore, I would appreciate it if insults were headed in more likely directions…like dog turd."  Sesshoumaru, for the first time in his life, developed a rather unbecoming eyebrow tick.  He was hanging around with that demon huntress too much. 

            "You DO know, and smell, that THAT thing is…MALE…."

Kouga sniffed haughtily, "My Woman told me that male/male relationships are fully acceptable in this day and age," he looked thoughtful, " I think I shall abandon my wolf pack to join my precious…" he rubbed Buyo affectionately. 

"I don't think you can have both the Wench and the Thing. They're bound to get jealous of each other," Sesshoumaru noted with great maturity and intelligence.

Kagome whirled around and pointed at herself. "I OWN Buyo!"

Sesshoumaru pointed smugly. "See? It has already begun."

Kouga looked suddenly distraught, "How am I to choose…?" he looked forlorn, "The Woman…or the Rose."

Miroku woke up, "The WHAT?! Did you just call the cat a ROSE?!" 

Kouga giggled softly, "It's my Rose."

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes heavenward and decided to depart from the Merry Band of Socially Disruptive Moronic Cattle Prods ™ (or the M.B.S.D.M.C.P).  He walked toward the courtyard, ignoring the stares directed towards his white hair.

Luckily for our Sesshy-chan, there were more secluded spots in the courtyard than the lunchroom.  He headed for a random tree, only to find that there was a bench on the other side, with…an occupant!  The Fates just insisted on being unfair.  They did this on purpose (Evil cackle)!  He decided to sit down anyway, just to spite the Fates. 

It took him a moment to figure out that the occupant was not paying any attention to him whatsoever.  Although, this was why he was in the courtyard in the first place, this disturbed him somewhat.  He wasn't used to being ignored…completely.

Sesshoumaru started to battle against himself, whether or not to break the silence that he had been yearning for, or to get his much needed attention. He cast a sidelong glance at the human, who had her nose buried in a book.

…"Her"?

He cleared his throat. "Pardon me," he tapped the female on the shoulder, "Being the despicable small mortal being that you are, you are, unfortunately, sharing MY bench. Therefore, you need to look at me, and acknowledge my presence. Praise it. Then go away."  He straightened up and looked down at the human's face for the first time and saw her expression change from curiosity, to a nonchalant expression as she put her nose back into her book.

Sesshoumaru was affronted. And, quite frankly, he was feeling slightly murderous. What to do, what to do. Oh, look, there's an annoying human girl! Let's see how my Poison Claw Attack works here!  Before he could do anything, however, the girl turned to face him.

"Who are you?" The question was lightly toned, as if she couldn't have cared less if it had been either the annoying boy next door or the Praying Mantis of the Northern Seas.

Sesshoumaru had never been so insulted. "Who are you to take lightly of me? I am Sesshoumaru, Demon Lord of the Wes—"

Ow. Ow. Ow.

Kagome had stepped outside to see where her rather annoying-yet-more-mature-than-everyone-else charge went. She was lucky, to say the least, when she caught him giving away his actual title.

So. She tackled him.

She whispered in his ear, "Could we not be so stupid?! PLEASE?!"

Struggling to get the annoying reincarnation off of his lovely self, Sesshoumaru pulled Kagome off by her skirt.

Kouga, just stepping outside at that particular moment, suddenly decided that he wanted His Woman more. 

Screaming ensued.

Someone had the nerve to bonk Sesshoumaru's head with a book.

"You know, I don't know who you are, Sesshoumaru-sama, but you don't pull people around by their skirts." 

Kagome hugged the speaker's knees, "He's being meeeaan…" she cried.

Sesshoumaru looked up to see the annoying human girl looking down on him.  She had straight, red hair with black streaks going down to her butt (in a PONYTAIL!). She was wearing a rather annoyed look through her bangs, directly pointed at him through her green colored eyes.

Sesshoumaru stood up and brushed himself off, trying to snatch up the remains of his shredded dignity, which were currently being blown about by a cross breeze. 

He pointed at Kagome, "You, wench," he pointed to the other, "And you, wench," he pointed to himself, "Will die at the hands of the most divine possible."

The girl raised her eyebrows and started…laughing.

Laughing?!

How dare she!!?

The wench started to breath again (unfortunately), and looked at him saying simply, "I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce!"

The rest of the M.B.S.D.M.C.P just happened to step outside at this moment, heard the girl, and broke ribs as they laughed their merry little asses off.

InuYasha chuckled, "Boy, does SHE have the right idea. Something I can't say for the REST of Kagome's peers." 

The rest of the gang, not able to say anything intelligent because of their nonstop fits of mirth, merely nodded their heads in agreement.

After a long interlude of laughter, Shippou finally piped up, "And he looks like a girl!"

Everyone froze. Slowly, eyes went between Shippou and Sesshoumaru.  Kagome shook with fear.

Shippou (who had shrunk considerably): "uh oh."

Sesshoumaru was slowly going out of his mind.  Yesterday, nothing like this would've happened to him.  Nobody would have dared to touch his almighty self, much less insult him. 

Had the world gone insane?  Why wasn't anybody respecting him anymore?

…Oh right.  He was in "the future."

He pointed at Kagome. "A POX ON YOUR BLOODY HELL OF A FUTURE!" He quickly turned back to the Kitsune.  "I'll deal with you later," he promised with much retribution.

He then turned back to the insolent human in question and found her to be…reading. Again. 

He swiped his claws through her book. "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS BLOODY AND HELLISH, STOP READING THAT BOOK."

He would learn to regret this.

The girl slowly stood. "That was, for your information, a limited edition of Huckleberry Finn."

Kagome, the only one to realize the full extent of this, gasped and shrunk into the crowd as quickly as she could.

The group, including the ever dull Kouga, noticed this and followed suit, making their way to the library, where the least of the blow-up would occur.

Sesshoumaru, like the blundering idiot he has made himself out to be, stood stupidly and glared at the "insolent wench."  He raised his nose to the air and asked contemptuously, "What is your name anyway, foolish mortal?"

The girl walked up to him and smiled sweetly, fooling nobody…except Sesshoumaru, "My name is Ren."

Sesshoumaru blinked and hesitated, "…Rin?" he tried to clarify.

Through clenched teeth, Ren tried to clarify more, "Noooo, Ren as in short for Varencienne." 

Sesshoumaru cocked his head. "Varincienne?"

Ren stared at him in shock. Never had she encountered someone so blatantly stupid. "I've found more of a reason to kill you than I ever thought possible."

Sesshoumaru frowned, "What do you mean YOU'VE found more than enough reason to kill ME!?"

Ren gave him a half-lidded stare and said slowly so as to not make any misunderstanding, "As in… I… have…found…more….—"

Sesshoumaru cut her off, "I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT!!"

"Then why did you say, 'What did you—'"

"SHUT UP!" For the first time in a good century, Sesshoumaru completely lost his temper. This resulted in a mass destruction of the lunch room.

In the courtyard, Ren had found. Another. Book.  

"DEAR GOD WENCH!!! Will you never stop READING?!"

"I have no desire to be as illiterate as you."

….

"WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHAAAATTT??!!!" 

"Must I keep repeating myself?"

(Ok, we'll just leave those two lovebirds be, and head over to where the rest of the M.B.S.D.M.C.P sat, oblivious to history in the making.)

In English class, (where everyone was supposed to be), they sat in the library, supposedly trying to research the Feudal Ages.  This wasn't too hard for our heroes, so Sango decided that she was going to go to the bathroom. Miroku secretly decided to follow.  Asking Kagome for directions, Sango walked down the winding halls of the school, with Miroku hiding in the shadows behind her.

Kagome didn't even bother trying to stop the Perverted Monk™, she had an essay to write. 

As Sango stepped out of the bathroom stall, she felt someone watching her… she looked around. Nothing. Under the doors of the stalls. Nothing. Up into the ventilation shaft: two gleeful eyes.

Death. Kill. Rage. Bloodbath.

"I…will…KILL YOU!!!!!" she screamed bloody murder, and with a strength she didn't know that she possessed, she climbed up the wall, pulled open the grate and dived in head first.

Miroku, sensing the immediate danger a wee bit too late, tried backing up, but was hit by a force that could not be stopped.

They fell with a series of

"Oof! Ow! Ittai! Ouch! Don't TOUCH!!! OW! Ouch! Bam! Yark! SPLAT."

They landed in the vent beneath the library. The grating sectioning it from the main vent closed from the force of the banging. They were…trapped.

Untangling themselves from their self-made heap, they stared agape at the closed grate. 

They turned to look at each other, "This is all…your…FAULT!!!" they screamed at each other in unison.

Back above…

"Say…InuYasha?" Kagome turned to face the dog demon, who was currently demonstrating to Hojo how people fought back in the Warring States.

"Hmm?" he answered dropping the rather hurt Hojo onto the floor.

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"…Never mind."

Underneath….

"Miroku. Stay on YOUR side of the ventilation chamber." It was only a four by four space, but they'd manage… somehow.

"How can you properly divvy up the sides when it's so small, Sanny-chan?"

"Don't call me Sanny-chan." Sango looked beyond Miroku to a small tunnel that went to another, much smaller chamber. She kicked him and he went tumbling down.

"You stay there, Letch."

A woozy "Yessum" from the other end. Then a thunk. Rather as if said Letch was now unconscious. Sango then contented herself with lying on her back, enjoying her free space. 

A few minutes later, she heard scratching noises from the smaller chamber.  Curiosity grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her head down into the next door chamber.

She saw Miroku scribbling something onto a piece of paper.  Twisting her head to see, she read:

            Translations of InuYashian – The Good Stuff

                                    By a Handsome Fella

(*insert Sango snort*)

"Feh" with an upward trend in tone: Let us have fun in a small, enclosed space

"Feh" with a downward trend in tone: Wow, baby. Hot mama.

"Feh" with a straight tone:  Let me ravish you by the fire, my raunch-puppet.

"Wench!": What a nice set of legs you have. May I touch?

"Die!": Why can't weeeee be friends?

"Kagome…": Love of my life even though I'm too stupid to see it.

"Kikyo…": Undead whore.

"Sesshoumaru!!!": Girlish yet considerably more mature and intelligent albeit murderous wonderful half-brother I'd like to ravish sometime.

(Insert Sango: "UGH!")

… And it went on….

Sango gave the list a half-lidded stare from over his shoulder. "And what, pray tell, would you be doing?"

Miroku brought the list to his chest and said in a proper fashion, "Sango, I must respectively request that you stay on your side of the Ventilation Chamber."

Sango rolled her eyes for the fifty billionth time that day and crawled to her side. She didn't realize until after she was well and over there that she was wearing a very short skirt. And she was bent over. With her ass to Miroku.

"Sanny-chan, it seems to me that green is SO not your color."

Sango slapped her forehead with her palm. "Kill me now."

Above! To and Fro! Hup! Hup! ….. Er, at the Library.

Kagome looked around suspiciously. "Are you sure you don't hear anything?"

InuYasha, settling his chair on Hojo's stomach, sat and offered reassurance. "Kagome, we are all mature adults and will not ruin your school."

Shippou in his model guise ran screaming past the window. The women that followed screamed louder. Shippou knocked trees, garbage cans, whatever was there to slow down their progress.

InuYasha watched with wide eyes. "Well, he's not technically an adult…"

Sesshoumaru tore past the window after Ren, who was merrily skipping backwards with her tongue out. Sesshoumaru was flanked by more screaming girls, and to get rid of them he swiped viciously… knocking down and utterly destroying any trees within a fifty yard radius.

Kouga walks after sedately, petting Buyo and murmuring sweet nothings in his ear.

InuYasha offered, voice small, "Well, not any of the SANE adults—"

He was cut off by an enraged scream as, with force we had not seen before; Sango stood and uprooted half the ventilation system going through the floor. She grabbed a dictionary and started to bet Miroku's head into the carpet.  Within an inch of his life.

"Mistress Saturnine… please… not the book!" Miroku gurgled gleefully.

Never before had InuYasha been seen so sheepish. "Well… I'M not doing anything…"

Shippou tore into the Library and latched himself to Kagome's leg.

"SHIPPOU! You're not little anymore; get up!" She whispered fiercely.

"THE GIRLS ARE BEING MEANNNNNN…" Shippou's tirade started.

Sesshoumaru walked in with Ren sitting on his shoulders and digging through his roots. He pointed to Kagome imperiously. "Wench, I command that this pest be removed from my presence."

Ren ripped through his hair. "I will find a black root if it's the last thing I do!"

"IT WILL BE!" Sesshoumaru promised.

Shippou, un-attaching himself from Kagome's leg, pointed out the window. "Kagome, your reflection is moving funny…"

The M.B.S.D.M.C.P moved in unison to stare out the window.

Kikyo walked past calmly with a chattering Rin and Kirara at her heels.

InuYasha gaped. As did Sesshoumaru.

"RINNNNN!" With that final battle cry, Sesshoumaru was gone in a cloud of dust, with only the flapping doors as a witness that he had ever been.

"WHAT?" Ren bellowed and followed.

"NOT YOU!" He screamed back from outside.

Kagome clung to InuYasha. "Cut my head off. Please. I know where some scissors are."

And so the destruction of Man began.

Aki-sama: That concludes chapter 2.  Sorry it took so long, but we live far away from each other…ever since Lyn moved (grumble).  Hope you enjoy…please review!!!

Lynomi-hime: Nomi-chan here! Woo, this was shorter than the first one…but I'm not supposed to tell you that. Now I'll have to kill you. =^_^= Just kidding! Ha! Had ya! But yeah, we've been planning the ventilation thing for quite the while. I just hope Kagome's sanity stays intact… as well as Sesshy-chan's. Seems he's met his match. But yes. Read. No wait, you did that. Review, then. Happy reading! …er, reviewing! HAPPY STUFF! Jeesh, tough crowd. *grumbles off into the distance*