Disclaimer/notes to the people: Ugh. I FINALLY got back to updating my fic.
Hopefully, this will be on big long chapter. Included is the reason WHY I
haven't updated it. Oh yeah, I don't own the people you know from anime.
They just aren't mine. And I'm making some changes in names: Momo has
become Jeiska, Minagi has become Jello, Kikumi has become Kiki, Skamori has
become Ditto, and Kotono has become Elder.
------it begins again------
Sesshoumaru slowly opened his eyes, blinking repeatedly. As usual, he had woken up to find himself in a different place than where he had gone to sleep. Mori must have a flair for redecorating, he thought grumpily. He stood up and stretched, fingering his collar irritably. Mussing his hair, (AN: long flowing locks of beauty XD) he sleepily looked around. He only had time to look at the window, still darkened with pre-dawn gloom, before his leash was yanked out the door and into the car.
"I'M DRIVING!!" Mori screeched, tying Sesshoumaru's leash to a panic handle conveniently located in the trunk of a bright yellow car with "GLDZILA" license plates. He whimpered and covered his eyes as Mori rolled a gray plastic sheet over his head. She quickly hopped in the front, sticking her kiwi keys into the ignition. Her eyes opened wide as Jello headed for the open door next to the passenger-side front seat. Mori quickly tackled her, allowing an extremely cute, adorable, sweet, endearing, appealing, charming, overall KAWAII (here Mori is beaten mercilessly by both Jello and Jeiska) Vietnamese boy to occupy the front seat. The picture of innocence, Mori climbed back into the front seat and smiled at Tâm.
"ONLY TÂM GETS TO SIT HERE!" she yelled upon deaf ears, as they already knew Tâm would be the lucky one with the front seat. Jello, Jeiska, and Bobo crammed themselves into the second row (in that order) as Mori started the car.
"Too bad Ditto lives in NY, Elder moved to California, and Kiki moved to Russia," Jello remarked sadly. She, Jeiska, Bobo, and Mori all bowed their heads in regret to the moving of their friends. (AN: also, family. Nobody cares about my ramblings, though ^__^) Snapping her head back up, Mori started the car and backed out of the driveway at 100 mph. The second row laughed wildly, Tâm turned pale, and Sesshoumaru covered his head with his hands (and fashionable purple nail polish).
"Wow, last week it took Dad over THREE hours to get here!" Mori remarked loudly, setting a record of reaching Delaware (AN: they started in VA) in less than an hour. Sesshoumaru turned a light shade of green as he stuck his head out the back window. He read a sign that passed by as "WELCOME TO REHOBETH BEACH!" He pulled his head back in the car just in time for a sudden stop in the only parking space seen for miles.
Mori hopped spryly out of the car, as the middle row vaguely spilled out into a heap of laughing human mass. Tâm took his sweet time getting out (he was a little rattled: that was the first time he had ridden in a car while Mori was driving it), and Sesshoumaru fairly cowered in the furthest corner of the trunk. Oblivious to his discontent, Mori yanked him out of the car through the window and deposited him on the sidewalk. He shivered with the horrors he had seen on the trip. (AN: You remember how bad Mori drives when it's only a few miles away? Multiply the carnage by 100.)
"Let's see. . ." Mori looked around. "The beach is here somewhere - AHA!" She pointed to a spot five yards away. "I see SAND!"
"YEAAAAAHHHHHHYYYIIIIIEEEEE!" (AN: subtitle reads 'yay') Mori, Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska sprinted for the water, yelling war cries at the top of their lungs. Sesshoumaru passed a frightened look to Tâm, who returned his look with a perfectly calm one of his own. Seeing no threat, Sesshoumaru decided to make a break for it. As he lifted his foot to run away, Tâm dragged him powerfully backwards.
"You're Mori's pet, right?" he asked the struggling lump of youkai. Sesshoumaru let out a reluctant growl. "Yes." Tâm allowed a half-smile.
"I'm her pet, too. But unlike you, I'm a little more loyal." Somehow, Tâm's words struck a nerve of guilt inside Sesshoumaru, and he took his claws out of a nearby building he had been dragging along.
By the time the two guys had gotten to the water (which was already jam- packed with people), the girls were in their swimsuits and ready to go. Tâm occupied himself with a close examination of the back of his hand while Sesshoumaru plopped down on the sand.
"I'm staying right here!" he said stubbornly. To his surprise, Mori simply grabbed the front of his shirt and ripped it off his torso. She also unceremoniously removed his pants. (AN: Now, before you go thinking anything weird, let me tell you that Mori took the time to shove a swimsuit on him before he even woke up.) Sesshoumaru now sat grumpily in a large pair of blue swim shorts decorated with rainbow-colored fish. Passing tourists giggled at the ridiculously clothed adult with a boa that sat on the sand. Mori cast a sideways look at Tâm.
"You coming?" Tâm shook his head as he backed up. "No. Not wearing a swimsuit." Mori, unfortunately, did not have the callous option of tearing Tâm's clothes off. She sidled up next to him and whispered something in his hair while poking his side. His eyes widened and he took off one of his two t-shirts. Mori eyed him carefully as he had stopped moving. He sighed reluctantly, removed his Gore-tex shoes and took off his pants. (AN: YES, HE'S WEARING A SWIMSUIT TOO.)
"Let's just get in the water. . ." Tâm moaned, sighing heavily. Mori smiled and hugged him, dragging him into the ocean. However, he only got to the absolute last point of shore before he dug his feet into the sand, allowing the water to lap gently around his ankles. Temporarily satisfied, Mori went back to drag an unwilling youkai to the water. However, she was not satisfied with Sesshoumaru until he was waist-deep in water. (shoulders for Mori and Bobo, chest for Jello and Jeiska) Mori slunk back to the sand, where her other friends were waiting patiently next to Tâm.
"Fortunately, Chichiwo, we planned for this," Bobo said with a grin, looking straight at Tâm. He appeared nervous as Jello and Jeiska both grabbed one of his arms. Bobo kneeled and caught his ankle, while Mori crouched and grabbed his other ankle.
In unison, the girls chanted "One, two, THREE!" and lifted Tâm off the sand, carrying him quickly into the water. He didn't struggle, however, as he went along with anything they said. Once they had reached Sesshoumaru, they threw him into the water, joyously shouting as his prodigious splash showered them in seawater. He came up soaked (well obviously) and glared at Jello, Bobo, and Jeiska. He dared not glare at Mori.
Sesshoumaru's tail was immediately commandeered, as it made an excellent float. Soon, the friends were fighting happily for the fluffy prize as Sesshoumaru whined to the skies.
As they tired of their water game, they dragged themselves (Mori and Jeiska dragged Sesshoumaru, as well) out of the water onto the warm sand. Throwing towels from a pile all around, everyone dried themselves off as best as possible. Sesshoumaru's towel, unfortunately, was thrown directly into his face. He clawed it off and gruffly began drying his tail.
Mori, after minimal drying, suddenly stood and pulled Sesshoumaru to his feet.
"LOOK, JELLO. SESSHOUMARU'S A GUY. NOT A GIRL. SEE HOW MUSCULAR AND BISHIE HE IS??" Jello blinked. "I know. I disbanded the club, remember?" "Just making sure," Mori said, going to back to her toweling spot.
As soon as they were all relatively dried off, Jeiska threw the towels over the top of the yellow car as Mori looked around the boardwalk.
"I knew I saw it somewhere-AHA! LUNCH AT SNYDER'S!!" The group (excluding the guys) ran yelling towards the nearest candy shop while Tâm took hold of Sesshoumaru's leash and dragged him to the same destination. The breeze of cold air washed over their grateful heads as the group entered the shop. Quickly, the girls picked out mounds of candy to ingest in the sweltering heat outside. Tâm picked a drink, and Sesshoumaru just looked at everything curiously. Mori thrust a few drinks into his hand, as well as a humongous bag of candy.
"C'mon Fluffy!" she encouraged, pushing him out the door to a nearby bench. They all crowded on the wooden bench, talking madly and dripping chocolate in every direction. Tâm stood nearby, calmly drinking, while Sesshoumaru sat on the ground, gnawing on a pretzel dipped in chocolate.
(AN: I'm far too lazy to write out the entire eating sequence. Just let it be known that they ate lots of chocolate, and Tâm had a little surprise. . .)
Tâm looked carefully at the empty bottle he held in his hand, a small blush spreading across his face as the girls threw their trash away. Mori picked her way over behind him and looked over his shoulder.
"Tâm. . .? GAAAH!" she yelled in surprise, attracting her friends' attention. The three other girls took one look at the bottle and burst out laughing. Sesshoumaru just stared blankly at the bottle. Unwittingly, Tâm had bought a bottle of sake. He turned his head to look at Mori.
"You're beautiful," he said sweetly. Mori smiled. "You've told me before. GET RID OF THAT SAKE!!" Tâm obediently threw the bottle in the direction of the trash can, not noticing Jello and Jeiska fighting for the bottle. Mori took a spare leash she had saved in case Fluffy got out of hand, and looped it around Tâm's neck.
"Sorry, sweetheart, but I have to make sure you don't do anything stupid," Mori said quietly, tying the leash as loose as possible. Tâm pulled her closer and kissed her deeply. Jello and Jeiska stopped playing with the bottle as Bobo wandered to their side.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mori screeched in alarm as her friends sounded their Nuclear Coo of Kawaii. Tâm looked at the three exploding with emotion, and smiled. Mori blushed and began walking quickly down the boardwalk, dragging Tâm behind her.
They soon reached an arcade, but inside also laid an assortment of rides. Mori turned around to beam at her companions before dashing to the ticket booth. Immediately they shoved their money onto the wooden shelf of the booth.
"HOW MANY DOES THIS GET US??" they yelled, happily shoving all their money into the poor ticket guy's hands. He quickly counted it and gave them about two hundred tickets. Squealing, the girls split the tickets into six equal parts. Mori took one look at Tâm, happily watching the Ferris wheel go around, and pocketed his share of tickets. Casting out a pointing hand in one direction, she yelled, "THIS WAY!" Her buddies immediately followed, joyfully shouting.
Mori stopped at a spinning ride, which appeared to be welded shut. However, it slowed and an almost invisible door opened, and three people came teetering down the steps. Jello, who had volunteered to pay for the first ride, handed twelve tickets to the person outside the door. Seeing no more line, the person followed the group onto the ride and clicked a chain over the steps.
"My name's Jenny and I'll be the ride operator for this go-around," Jenny said in a bored tone, oblivious to the terrors that awaited her once she started the ride. (AN: Heh. It's not that terrible. I just wanted to sound awesome ^__^U) She plopped into a chair that swiveled inside a circular control panel, and started the ride.
It slowly began moving around, as the group quietly awaited thrill. Soon, it picked up more momentum, and they began to feel as though they were being pushed against the cushions on the wall. (Which they were.) Seeing the appropriate time, Mori crawled up the wall and sat easily on the cushion, momentum keeping her in place. Letting loose exclamations of interest, her friends did the same. Sesshoumaru eagerly crawled up the walls, sitting sideways as he saw Mori had done. The ride began picking up even greater speed, and Mori began to crawl on all fours along the pads. Her friends were all spread out among the seats, and they began to imitate. Tâm, however, attempted to stand. Mori quickly gave a short tug on his leash, and he slammed down against the wall, efficiently cushioned by the pads. Mori, curious, tried to stand, but was immediately grabbed around the waist by Tâm, who unwittingly pinned her down against the cushions. She tried to peel his arms off of her, but he had a death grip on her waist. Mori sighed and turned her head, only to gape at Sesshoumaru.
Fluffy-kun, finding this to be a great ride had stood up and was walking along the cushions easily. Where Tâm had failed, youkai prospered. Jeiska pointed at him and let out a shriek of amazement, and Sesshoumaru's ears were bombarded with favorable exclamations. Most of them resembling "COOOOOLLL!!!" Sesshoumaru grinned and dropped to his knees. What came next had never been seen.
He had fallen to a push-up position, feet up against the ceiling. He slowly walked his feet up the wall and, with minimal difficulty, balanced on his hands. Sesshoumaru, proud to discover a new talent, walked with little effort along the cushions. Mori's eyes bugged as Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska began shouting even louder the wonders of the youkai. Even Tâm, through the sake-induced haze that clouded his eyes, was astounded by Sesshoumaru's sheer demonic strength.
Jenny was the most affected. She fainted dead away, flopping out of her chair to rest on the floor. Sesshoumaru cast a slightly worried look at her, before going back to soaking up rare waves of admiration from Mori and her friends. Taking a deep breath, he lifted one hand off the cushion and balanced on only one clawed hand. Bobo started the applause, which Jello, Jeiska, and Mori quickly picked up on. Sesshoumaru dropped to a sitting position and regained a normal standing position, bowing deeply to their applause. Unfortunately, the laws of gravity worked more forcefully on Fluffy than on the young humans, and the slowing ride caused him to plummet to the floor. Fortunately, he landed on something soft. Unfortunately, it was his tail.
He winced mightily as he heard vertebrae crack inside his tail. Calmly he pushed his body up to a standing position, feet on the floor, as the humans slid gently to the floor. Mori rushed to Sesshoumaru, hands on his tail. Sesshoumaru stuck his nose in the air and ignored almost blinding pain as Mori softly stroked his tail. However, her touch somewhat relieved the hurt, and Sesshoumaru looked appreciatively at her. The ride eventually slowed and stopped, and Mori looked around to make sure no one else was dead.
"WHERE'S TÂM?" she yelled, looking around. A chance look brought her attention up, and she found Tâm clinging to the ceiling.
"Come down, Tâm!" Mori commanded, pointing at the floor. Tâm shook his head.
"There's such a nice view from up here!" he said joyfully, putting a hand above his eyes and looking at the wall. Mori grabbed a pole out of nowhere (AN: gotta love those invisible storage spaces) and began prodding him with it. Carefully Tâm crawled down the wall and seized her around her waist again, nuzzling her neck. Mori cast an icy glare at her friends, who threatened to start squealing again. They quickly shut their mouths, but held it in as Mori patted Tâm's head.
As the door opened (Jenny had recovered during the Tâm ordeal), the group trotted daintily down the steps and out of the waiting area. Sesshoumaru giggled, a completely OOC action, and looked at Mori.
"Why is it we never do anything fun anymore?" he said curiously. Mori narrowed her brow and grinned.
"You want to know why we don't go anywhere? THIS IS WHY WE DON'T GO ANYWHERE!" she yelled, pointing at Tâm, who was carefully studying Jeiska's shoelaces.
AN: **You can skip over this paragraph if you want** See, I started this fic when I had a worthless boyfriend. But, since I now have Tâm, I never get around to my character's escapades with her pet, which she adores. That's right. IT'S ALL TÂM'S FAULT!
Mori sighed and looked at her watch, which hung off her sleeve, instead of a normal place like her wrist. Her eyes widened in surprise.
"My gosh! We have to be home in four hours!" she said, alarmed. Jello chuckled.
"C'mon Mori, it only takes you an hour to get home! Let's go on a few more rides, and. . ."
"NO! . . . I can't drive home. Not with this thing (here, Mori points at Tâm, on the ground, clinging to her leg.)!" She sighed again. "Bobo, you drive home. I have to sit in the middle row." Bobo jumped up and down happily as Mori handed the keys over. They dashed to the car and picked new seats. Fluffy still in the back, Bobo in the driver's seat, Jello to her right, Mori in the middle of the second row with Tâm on her left and Jeiska on her right. The sun was already going down as Bobo steered onto the highway. (AN: Time flies when you're having fun, right?? Heheh. Cheap way to duck writing. . .)
It was pitch black in the car by the time they reached Mori's neighborhood. Mori looked around at her friends, pleased with the outcome of today. Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska were chatting quietly while Tâm slumbered on Mori's lap. She petted his pointily-gelled hair and looked back at Fluffy. To her surprise, he was asleep, as well. She smiled and petted his hair, too, as his head was resting against the seat.
Bobo pulled easily into the driveway and turned off the car. Quietly, she, Jello, and Jeiska exited the car and began their flight home. (Or however the heck they got there in the first place.) Mori, grinning evilly, slipped out of the car on the opposite side of the slumbering Tâm. Carefully she pulled him out, setting him on a wagon. She then tied it to her neighbor's dog, bidding it to run to Tâm's house (like it knew where he lived!) Yapping mightily, the small mutt ran in a random direction, unfortunately into the woods.
Mori laughed and untied Sesshoumaru's leash from the back. Letting it drop by his side, she went into the house, leaving the door open.
Sesshoumaru's heart skipped a beat. Here, just beckoning his name, was a chance to escape for good AND let all the air conditioning out of Mori's house! Fortunately, his brain overran his sense of freedom and he ran into the house, closing the door quietly behind him.
There. A good, long chapter that may or may not make up for my neglective absence of my fic. R&R if you're still following the story after all these months ^__^U
------it begins again------
Sesshoumaru slowly opened his eyes, blinking repeatedly. As usual, he had woken up to find himself in a different place than where he had gone to sleep. Mori must have a flair for redecorating, he thought grumpily. He stood up and stretched, fingering his collar irritably. Mussing his hair, (AN: long flowing locks of beauty XD) he sleepily looked around. He only had time to look at the window, still darkened with pre-dawn gloom, before his leash was yanked out the door and into the car.
"I'M DRIVING!!" Mori screeched, tying Sesshoumaru's leash to a panic handle conveniently located in the trunk of a bright yellow car with "GLDZILA" license plates. He whimpered and covered his eyes as Mori rolled a gray plastic sheet over his head. She quickly hopped in the front, sticking her kiwi keys into the ignition. Her eyes opened wide as Jello headed for the open door next to the passenger-side front seat. Mori quickly tackled her, allowing an extremely cute, adorable, sweet, endearing, appealing, charming, overall KAWAII (here Mori is beaten mercilessly by both Jello and Jeiska) Vietnamese boy to occupy the front seat. The picture of innocence, Mori climbed back into the front seat and smiled at Tâm.
"ONLY TÂM GETS TO SIT HERE!" she yelled upon deaf ears, as they already knew Tâm would be the lucky one with the front seat. Jello, Jeiska, and Bobo crammed themselves into the second row (in that order) as Mori started the car.
"Too bad Ditto lives in NY, Elder moved to California, and Kiki moved to Russia," Jello remarked sadly. She, Jeiska, Bobo, and Mori all bowed their heads in regret to the moving of their friends. (AN: also, family. Nobody cares about my ramblings, though ^__^) Snapping her head back up, Mori started the car and backed out of the driveway at 100 mph. The second row laughed wildly, Tâm turned pale, and Sesshoumaru covered his head with his hands (and fashionable purple nail polish).
"Wow, last week it took Dad over THREE hours to get here!" Mori remarked loudly, setting a record of reaching Delaware (AN: they started in VA) in less than an hour. Sesshoumaru turned a light shade of green as he stuck his head out the back window. He read a sign that passed by as "WELCOME TO REHOBETH BEACH!" He pulled his head back in the car just in time for a sudden stop in the only parking space seen for miles.
Mori hopped spryly out of the car, as the middle row vaguely spilled out into a heap of laughing human mass. Tâm took his sweet time getting out (he was a little rattled: that was the first time he had ridden in a car while Mori was driving it), and Sesshoumaru fairly cowered in the furthest corner of the trunk. Oblivious to his discontent, Mori yanked him out of the car through the window and deposited him on the sidewalk. He shivered with the horrors he had seen on the trip. (AN: You remember how bad Mori drives when it's only a few miles away? Multiply the carnage by 100.)
"Let's see. . ." Mori looked around. "The beach is here somewhere - AHA!" She pointed to a spot five yards away. "I see SAND!"
"YEAAAAAHHHHHHYYYIIIIIEEEEE!" (AN: subtitle reads 'yay') Mori, Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska sprinted for the water, yelling war cries at the top of their lungs. Sesshoumaru passed a frightened look to Tâm, who returned his look with a perfectly calm one of his own. Seeing no threat, Sesshoumaru decided to make a break for it. As he lifted his foot to run away, Tâm dragged him powerfully backwards.
"You're Mori's pet, right?" he asked the struggling lump of youkai. Sesshoumaru let out a reluctant growl. "Yes." Tâm allowed a half-smile.
"I'm her pet, too. But unlike you, I'm a little more loyal." Somehow, Tâm's words struck a nerve of guilt inside Sesshoumaru, and he took his claws out of a nearby building he had been dragging along.
By the time the two guys had gotten to the water (which was already jam- packed with people), the girls were in their swimsuits and ready to go. Tâm occupied himself with a close examination of the back of his hand while Sesshoumaru plopped down on the sand.
"I'm staying right here!" he said stubbornly. To his surprise, Mori simply grabbed the front of his shirt and ripped it off his torso. She also unceremoniously removed his pants. (AN: Now, before you go thinking anything weird, let me tell you that Mori took the time to shove a swimsuit on him before he even woke up.) Sesshoumaru now sat grumpily in a large pair of blue swim shorts decorated with rainbow-colored fish. Passing tourists giggled at the ridiculously clothed adult with a boa that sat on the sand. Mori cast a sideways look at Tâm.
"You coming?" Tâm shook his head as he backed up. "No. Not wearing a swimsuit." Mori, unfortunately, did not have the callous option of tearing Tâm's clothes off. She sidled up next to him and whispered something in his hair while poking his side. His eyes widened and he took off one of his two t-shirts. Mori eyed him carefully as he had stopped moving. He sighed reluctantly, removed his Gore-tex shoes and took off his pants. (AN: YES, HE'S WEARING A SWIMSUIT TOO.)
"Let's just get in the water. . ." Tâm moaned, sighing heavily. Mori smiled and hugged him, dragging him into the ocean. However, he only got to the absolute last point of shore before he dug his feet into the sand, allowing the water to lap gently around his ankles. Temporarily satisfied, Mori went back to drag an unwilling youkai to the water. However, she was not satisfied with Sesshoumaru until he was waist-deep in water. (shoulders for Mori and Bobo, chest for Jello and Jeiska) Mori slunk back to the sand, where her other friends were waiting patiently next to Tâm.
"Fortunately, Chichiwo, we planned for this," Bobo said with a grin, looking straight at Tâm. He appeared nervous as Jello and Jeiska both grabbed one of his arms. Bobo kneeled and caught his ankle, while Mori crouched and grabbed his other ankle.
In unison, the girls chanted "One, two, THREE!" and lifted Tâm off the sand, carrying him quickly into the water. He didn't struggle, however, as he went along with anything they said. Once they had reached Sesshoumaru, they threw him into the water, joyously shouting as his prodigious splash showered them in seawater. He came up soaked (well obviously) and glared at Jello, Bobo, and Jeiska. He dared not glare at Mori.
Sesshoumaru's tail was immediately commandeered, as it made an excellent float. Soon, the friends were fighting happily for the fluffy prize as Sesshoumaru whined to the skies.
As they tired of their water game, they dragged themselves (Mori and Jeiska dragged Sesshoumaru, as well) out of the water onto the warm sand. Throwing towels from a pile all around, everyone dried themselves off as best as possible. Sesshoumaru's towel, unfortunately, was thrown directly into his face. He clawed it off and gruffly began drying his tail.
Mori, after minimal drying, suddenly stood and pulled Sesshoumaru to his feet.
"LOOK, JELLO. SESSHOUMARU'S A GUY. NOT A GIRL. SEE HOW MUSCULAR AND BISHIE HE IS??" Jello blinked. "I know. I disbanded the club, remember?" "Just making sure," Mori said, going to back to her toweling spot.
As soon as they were all relatively dried off, Jeiska threw the towels over the top of the yellow car as Mori looked around the boardwalk.
"I knew I saw it somewhere-AHA! LUNCH AT SNYDER'S!!" The group (excluding the guys) ran yelling towards the nearest candy shop while Tâm took hold of Sesshoumaru's leash and dragged him to the same destination. The breeze of cold air washed over their grateful heads as the group entered the shop. Quickly, the girls picked out mounds of candy to ingest in the sweltering heat outside. Tâm picked a drink, and Sesshoumaru just looked at everything curiously. Mori thrust a few drinks into his hand, as well as a humongous bag of candy.
"C'mon Fluffy!" she encouraged, pushing him out the door to a nearby bench. They all crowded on the wooden bench, talking madly and dripping chocolate in every direction. Tâm stood nearby, calmly drinking, while Sesshoumaru sat on the ground, gnawing on a pretzel dipped in chocolate.
(AN: I'm far too lazy to write out the entire eating sequence. Just let it be known that they ate lots of chocolate, and Tâm had a little surprise. . .)
Tâm looked carefully at the empty bottle he held in his hand, a small blush spreading across his face as the girls threw their trash away. Mori picked her way over behind him and looked over his shoulder.
"Tâm. . .? GAAAH!" she yelled in surprise, attracting her friends' attention. The three other girls took one look at the bottle and burst out laughing. Sesshoumaru just stared blankly at the bottle. Unwittingly, Tâm had bought a bottle of sake. He turned his head to look at Mori.
"You're beautiful," he said sweetly. Mori smiled. "You've told me before. GET RID OF THAT SAKE!!" Tâm obediently threw the bottle in the direction of the trash can, not noticing Jello and Jeiska fighting for the bottle. Mori took a spare leash she had saved in case Fluffy got out of hand, and looped it around Tâm's neck.
"Sorry, sweetheart, but I have to make sure you don't do anything stupid," Mori said quietly, tying the leash as loose as possible. Tâm pulled her closer and kissed her deeply. Jello and Jeiska stopped playing with the bottle as Bobo wandered to their side.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mori screeched in alarm as her friends sounded their Nuclear Coo of Kawaii. Tâm looked at the three exploding with emotion, and smiled. Mori blushed and began walking quickly down the boardwalk, dragging Tâm behind her.
They soon reached an arcade, but inside also laid an assortment of rides. Mori turned around to beam at her companions before dashing to the ticket booth. Immediately they shoved their money onto the wooden shelf of the booth.
"HOW MANY DOES THIS GET US??" they yelled, happily shoving all their money into the poor ticket guy's hands. He quickly counted it and gave them about two hundred tickets. Squealing, the girls split the tickets into six equal parts. Mori took one look at Tâm, happily watching the Ferris wheel go around, and pocketed his share of tickets. Casting out a pointing hand in one direction, she yelled, "THIS WAY!" Her buddies immediately followed, joyfully shouting.
Mori stopped at a spinning ride, which appeared to be welded shut. However, it slowed and an almost invisible door opened, and three people came teetering down the steps. Jello, who had volunteered to pay for the first ride, handed twelve tickets to the person outside the door. Seeing no more line, the person followed the group onto the ride and clicked a chain over the steps.
"My name's Jenny and I'll be the ride operator for this go-around," Jenny said in a bored tone, oblivious to the terrors that awaited her once she started the ride. (AN: Heh. It's not that terrible. I just wanted to sound awesome ^__^U) She plopped into a chair that swiveled inside a circular control panel, and started the ride.
It slowly began moving around, as the group quietly awaited thrill. Soon, it picked up more momentum, and they began to feel as though they were being pushed against the cushions on the wall. (Which they were.) Seeing the appropriate time, Mori crawled up the wall and sat easily on the cushion, momentum keeping her in place. Letting loose exclamations of interest, her friends did the same. Sesshoumaru eagerly crawled up the walls, sitting sideways as he saw Mori had done. The ride began picking up even greater speed, and Mori began to crawl on all fours along the pads. Her friends were all spread out among the seats, and they began to imitate. Tâm, however, attempted to stand. Mori quickly gave a short tug on his leash, and he slammed down against the wall, efficiently cushioned by the pads. Mori, curious, tried to stand, but was immediately grabbed around the waist by Tâm, who unwittingly pinned her down against the cushions. She tried to peel his arms off of her, but he had a death grip on her waist. Mori sighed and turned her head, only to gape at Sesshoumaru.
Fluffy-kun, finding this to be a great ride had stood up and was walking along the cushions easily. Where Tâm had failed, youkai prospered. Jeiska pointed at him and let out a shriek of amazement, and Sesshoumaru's ears were bombarded with favorable exclamations. Most of them resembling "COOOOOLLL!!!" Sesshoumaru grinned and dropped to his knees. What came next had never been seen.
He had fallen to a push-up position, feet up against the ceiling. He slowly walked his feet up the wall and, with minimal difficulty, balanced on his hands. Sesshoumaru, proud to discover a new talent, walked with little effort along the cushions. Mori's eyes bugged as Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska began shouting even louder the wonders of the youkai. Even Tâm, through the sake-induced haze that clouded his eyes, was astounded by Sesshoumaru's sheer demonic strength.
Jenny was the most affected. She fainted dead away, flopping out of her chair to rest on the floor. Sesshoumaru cast a slightly worried look at her, before going back to soaking up rare waves of admiration from Mori and her friends. Taking a deep breath, he lifted one hand off the cushion and balanced on only one clawed hand. Bobo started the applause, which Jello, Jeiska, and Mori quickly picked up on. Sesshoumaru dropped to a sitting position and regained a normal standing position, bowing deeply to their applause. Unfortunately, the laws of gravity worked more forcefully on Fluffy than on the young humans, and the slowing ride caused him to plummet to the floor. Fortunately, he landed on something soft. Unfortunately, it was his tail.
He winced mightily as he heard vertebrae crack inside his tail. Calmly he pushed his body up to a standing position, feet on the floor, as the humans slid gently to the floor. Mori rushed to Sesshoumaru, hands on his tail. Sesshoumaru stuck his nose in the air and ignored almost blinding pain as Mori softly stroked his tail. However, her touch somewhat relieved the hurt, and Sesshoumaru looked appreciatively at her. The ride eventually slowed and stopped, and Mori looked around to make sure no one else was dead.
"WHERE'S TÂM?" she yelled, looking around. A chance look brought her attention up, and she found Tâm clinging to the ceiling.
"Come down, Tâm!" Mori commanded, pointing at the floor. Tâm shook his head.
"There's such a nice view from up here!" he said joyfully, putting a hand above his eyes and looking at the wall. Mori grabbed a pole out of nowhere (AN: gotta love those invisible storage spaces) and began prodding him with it. Carefully Tâm crawled down the wall and seized her around her waist again, nuzzling her neck. Mori cast an icy glare at her friends, who threatened to start squealing again. They quickly shut their mouths, but held it in as Mori patted Tâm's head.
As the door opened (Jenny had recovered during the Tâm ordeal), the group trotted daintily down the steps and out of the waiting area. Sesshoumaru giggled, a completely OOC action, and looked at Mori.
"Why is it we never do anything fun anymore?" he said curiously. Mori narrowed her brow and grinned.
"You want to know why we don't go anywhere? THIS IS WHY WE DON'T GO ANYWHERE!" she yelled, pointing at Tâm, who was carefully studying Jeiska's shoelaces.
AN: **You can skip over this paragraph if you want** See, I started this fic when I had a worthless boyfriend. But, since I now have Tâm, I never get around to my character's escapades with her pet, which she adores. That's right. IT'S ALL TÂM'S FAULT!
Mori sighed and looked at her watch, which hung off her sleeve, instead of a normal place like her wrist. Her eyes widened in surprise.
"My gosh! We have to be home in four hours!" she said, alarmed. Jello chuckled.
"C'mon Mori, it only takes you an hour to get home! Let's go on a few more rides, and. . ."
"NO! . . . I can't drive home. Not with this thing (here, Mori points at Tâm, on the ground, clinging to her leg.)!" She sighed again. "Bobo, you drive home. I have to sit in the middle row." Bobo jumped up and down happily as Mori handed the keys over. They dashed to the car and picked new seats. Fluffy still in the back, Bobo in the driver's seat, Jello to her right, Mori in the middle of the second row with Tâm on her left and Jeiska on her right. The sun was already going down as Bobo steered onto the highway. (AN: Time flies when you're having fun, right?? Heheh. Cheap way to duck writing. . .)
It was pitch black in the car by the time they reached Mori's neighborhood. Mori looked around at her friends, pleased with the outcome of today. Bobo, Jello, and Jeiska were chatting quietly while Tâm slumbered on Mori's lap. She petted his pointily-gelled hair and looked back at Fluffy. To her surprise, he was asleep, as well. She smiled and petted his hair, too, as his head was resting against the seat.
Bobo pulled easily into the driveway and turned off the car. Quietly, she, Jello, and Jeiska exited the car and began their flight home. (Or however the heck they got there in the first place.) Mori, grinning evilly, slipped out of the car on the opposite side of the slumbering Tâm. Carefully she pulled him out, setting him on a wagon. She then tied it to her neighbor's dog, bidding it to run to Tâm's house (like it knew where he lived!) Yapping mightily, the small mutt ran in a random direction, unfortunately into the woods.
Mori laughed and untied Sesshoumaru's leash from the back. Letting it drop by his side, she went into the house, leaving the door open.
Sesshoumaru's heart skipped a beat. Here, just beckoning his name, was a chance to escape for good AND let all the air conditioning out of Mori's house! Fortunately, his brain overran his sense of freedom and he ran into the house, closing the door quietly behind him.
There. A good, long chapter that may or may not make up for my neglective absence of my fic. R&R if you're still following the story after all these months ^__^U