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Disclaimer:  I do not own any of the Rumiko Takahashi characters named here, nor do I own Charlie's Angels.  I will also not leave directions as to how to play 'Hi Bob' lest I be accused of encouraging senseless alcohol consumption.

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Sango groaned as the early morning light pierced through her closed eyelids.  Too early, it's way too early to get up.  My head is killing me.  She snuggled closer to the sleeping man beside her.  Mmm, so warm and cuddly, just like a big puppy dog.  I'll just sleep awhile longer; they don't need me over at the operations center until later…

Her eyes snapped open and she let out an involuntary gasp.  Sleeping man?  Sango sat up and looked around.  She was in a room, in a bed, and it wasn't hers.  She was also very, very undressed.  She closed her eyes again, praying desperately to wake up and find this was a dream.

Okay… I found Miroku in the bathtub with another woman, I left his rooms, and then - then what did I do?  Oh yeah, I went to the bar and starting watching old reruns on the television in there.  Then I started playing that game, what was it?  'Hi Bob'.  I was playing 'Hi Bob' and then I was going to find Kagura and see if she wanted to play 'Hi Bob'…

Her recollection after that point was pretty vague, Sango realized.  She was pretty sure she'd stumbled along to Sesshomaru and Koga's rooms looking for Kagura, but she didn't remember finding Kagura.  She remembered finding Inu-Yasha and Koga muttering something about the whole world gone crazy and Kagura escaping.  Then they'd gone into Kagura's room and started playing 'Hi Bob', but Koga didn't want to play…Inu Yasha? Oh please, no.

Sango carefully pulled back the covers from around the shoulders of the slumbering form beside her.  Silver hair, dog tooth necklace and muscled chest greeted her eyes.  Shit.  This wasn't a weird dream; it was a horrible nightmare.  Sango hurriedly threw on some clothing from Kagura's closet and snuck quietly out of the room.  Taking one last look at the sleeping Inu-Yasha, Sango had to admit he was easy on the eyes first thing in the morning.  Too bad it was going to be the last thing she ever saw, because Kagome was going to kill her.

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Inu-Yasha awakened shivering with cold.  He'd been so warm a few minutes ago, what happened?  As he tried to make some sense of his surroundings, he discovered he couldn't open his eyes.  They seemed to be glued together with some tacky substance, and someone had substituted a wad of cotton where his tongue used to be.

When he was finally able to pry his eyes open, Inu-Yasha immediately regretted it.  Someone had turned on the sunshine to maximum wattage, and it burned through his brain.  He moaned and pulled the pillow over his head. I am one hungover sonofabitch, he thought.  This is all that damn Koga's fault.  And Kagura's.  She should have been the one playing stupid drinking games with Sango last night, not me.

Sesshomaru hadn't been gone for five minutes when Sango showed up.  Inu-Yasha had tried to tell her that Kagura wasn't there, but Sango couldn't seem to comprehend any of it.  Come to think of it, Inu-Yasha wasn't sure he understood what was going on.  Kagura had escaped?  He still didn't know what that was all about.  Sesshomaru had been blathering on about someone named Jaken and asking a bunch of questions about Kagura's detective work, and Koga (as usual) hadn't made any sense at all.

Inu-Yasha rolled onto his stomach and nudged his nose into the crook of his arm, trying to better shut out the hated sunlight.  He vaguely wondered if Kagome would be mad at him for telling Sesshomaru about the girls working for Naraku.  Sesshomaru hadn't seemed to mind too much; apparently he was just pissed because he hadn't known about it.

The thought of Sesshomaru not knowing something made Inu-Yasha smile.  If there was anything his brother hated, it was being left out of the loop.  Lack of knowledge was terrifying to Mr. Control Freak.  Inu-Yasha wondered how his brother and Koga had even become a couple, considering how absolutely unpredictable the younger man was.  Oh well, he decided, it was good for Sesshomaru to have someone bring a little insanity into his well-ordered life.

He'd awakened when Sango left the bed, Inu-Yasha realized.  What a mess that had been last night.  Sango spent half the night crying and the other half threatening to emasculate Miroku with her bare hands.  Meanwhile, she'd been banging shots of whiskey the entire time and raging on about some cat she'd found.  She'd finally passed out, leaving Inu-Yasha no choice but to throw her in Kagura's bed to sleep it off.  He couldn't carry her home; he was too drunk himself by that time and that idiot Koga wouldn't let him leave anyway because Sesshomaru had ordered him to stay.

After a while, Inu-Yasha found he could actually open his eyes without dying.  He slowly pulled himself from the bed while silently thanking the absent Kagura; otherwise he'd have spent the night on the faux nanny's floor.  Of course, if Kagura had been there then he wouldn't have had to drag the thoroughly drunken Sango into the shower last night after she threw up all over everything including himself.  Inu-Yasha made a mental note to wash – no, make that burn - the clothing they'd been wearing.

If he didn't want to walk back to his room wearing a towel, he'd have to borrow something to wear from his brother.  Inu-Yasha pondered Sesshomaru's current wardrobe and shuddered.  He'd better borrow something from Koga instead.  Pink was so not his color.

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"Good morning, Daddy!" Rin bounded into the front room.

Sesshomaru motioned her to whisper, pointing to the lump on the couch next to him.  He shifted the sleeping Kagura from his arm before she cut off the circulation completely.  Although it had been late when they returned to the rooms, neither one of them had paid attention to the time.  Instead, they'd huddled together on the couch and talked most of the night, finally going to sleep in each other's arms.  It still blew his mind that he could find so much to say around her, but Kagura just seemed to draw him out.  She really seemed to care about his hopes and fears and dreams and all of the other stupid day to day stuff.  The thought humbled him and scared him and thrilled him all at the same time.

Rin was lifting the huge blanket that covered Kagura from head to toe and giggling.  "Daddy, she's snoring!"

"No she's not, Littlebit.  She's just…breathing loudly."  He smiled.  Kagura was snoring, but after everything she went through last night, who could blame her?

"How come she's sleeping in your lap?" Rin wanted to know.  She clambered up on the other side of him and pulled part of the blanket over her.

Sesshomaru debated how much to tell the child.  He didn't want to compromise Kagura's cover up any more than his own.  Finally, he decided the straightest path was best.  "We stayed up too late talking and she fell asleep using my shoulder for a pillow."

"How come you didn't carry her to bed?  That's what you do when I fall asleep on the couch," Rin pointed out.

Fortunately, the truth answered that question as well.  "Your Uncle Inu-Yasha borrowed her bed to sleep in because he stayed here too late last night.  It seems he was reading a certain little girl I know a story, and she kept making him read it over and over and over."

Rin clapped her hands over her mouth in delight.  "Daddy, Uncle showed me the picture of the dog on his leg.  Can I have a picture on my leg?  Please?"

"No.  Absolutely not."  He was going to throttle his younger brother.

"Please, Daddy?  I want a picture of a puppy!"

"I said no.  Don't ask again," Sesshomaru ordered his daughter.  Her lower lip trembled as he chastened her, and she hid her head under the blanket.

"I'll tell you what, Littlebit," Sesshomaru relented.  This child had him completely wrapped around her tiny finger.  "How about we get a real puppy when we get back home?  That would be much better than some silly tattoo."

She beamed and planted a sticky kiss on his cheek.  "Can we get a white puppy like in my book, Daddy?"

"Sure, why not?" he agreed.  He briefly wondered what Kagura would think of this impending addition to the family.  She'd probably scoff and tell him not to expect her to care for the whelp.  Then she'd turn around and care for it.

"Go and get dressed, Rin.  Try not to make too much noise, or you'll wake up your Uncle. And no one," Sesshomaru warned her, "is grumpier than he is in the morning."  Rin nodded obediently and tiptoed off to her room.

By this time, Kagura was buried so deep under the heavy blanket that not a single part of her was showing.  Sesshomaru stretched his legs and arranged her more comfortably across his lap and grabbed the television remote.  He was flipping through the channels to find the scores from last night's game when a news item caught his attention.

Panda sightings in Hawaii?  He shook his head in disbelief.  It sounded like the sun-baked tourists had been consuming too many margaritas.

Sesshomaru heard a slight cough and looked away from the set.  Inu-Yasha was standing in the entryway wearing nothing but a towel and a blush.  "That floral pattern doesn't suit you," he informed his brother.

"Don't start with me, you have no idea what I had to put up with last night," Inu-Yasha told him.  "I need to borrow something to wear."

"That disgusting pile of vomit-covered laundry you left on the bathroom floor gave me a pretty good idea what happened," Sesshomaru responded.  "Check that basket in the hall, I think Koga's got some clean clothes in there you can use.  Tell me, does Sango make a habit of drinking until she pukes, or was this a momentary aberration?"

"Beats me, I don't know her that well.  It seemed like a one-time thing, though."  Inu-Yasha's voice was muffled as he spoke from the hallway.  "What the hell was going on last night, anyway?  Did you ever find Kagura?  And who's this Jaken guy you were yelling about?"

Apparently Koga had kept his mouth shut about their operation, showing the first trace of common sense Sesshomaru had witnessed in the rookie since they started this nutty escapade.  He gazed down at his blanket-hidden au pair.  "Yes," he called out to Inu-Yasha.  "I found Kagura.  And Jaken is an old – acquaintance."

Inu-Yasha reappeared in the front room, pulling on a borrowed shirt.  "Jealous ex-boyfriend, you mean, don't you?  I'm leaving; Kagome's probably wondering where the hell I am this morning.  Tell Koga I said thanks for the clothes."  He nodded meaningfully towards the blanket covering Kagura.

Sesshomaru let him keep his erroneous assumption.  If Inu-Yasha thought he and Koga were cuddling on the couch, let him.  It just made their masquerade a little easier.  He smiled wickedly and planted a kiss on Kagura's head through the blanket.  She responded with a loud snore, unwittingly lending credence to his deception.

He heard Inu-Yasha close the door and sighed with relief.  Maybe today would be quiet and calm and he could actually do some useful surveillance, instead of jumping to false conclusions and chasing a runaway nanny.  If everything went well, he might even be able to look forward to a quiet dinner in the rooms with just Rin and Kagura.

They would laugh and discuss the events of the day.  Rin would be chattering away and wind up wearing half her food.  Kagura would get her ready for bed and they could both read the puppy book to Rin.  His daughter would finally fall asleep and they would tuck her in and retire to the master bedroom.  There, he would take Kagura in his arms and…

Koga ambled into the front room holding several strands of wire.  "Hey Sesshomaru, don't forget the swimsuit competition is being held this afternoon.  Do you think I should wire the microphone into your bikini top or your hair ribbon?"

"How about around your neck?" Sesshomaru growled.

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A/N:  If you find the mental images of the swimsuit competition to be disturbing, please forgive me.  If you don't find these images disturbing, I probably don't want to hear about it. :P  Lavender

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