DAY 2- The Chaos (part II)
After a long perilous chase involving an arroyo, Yuzumi's rubber pancake, a bridge, and a semi truck carrying cotton swabs, the gang drove into Sakura's driveway. Just as she pulled the car in and parked it, the car shuddered, lurched, made an explosion sound, and began to smoke. "Well, that can't be good." She stated as everyone rushed out of the car. Sakura proceeded to pop the hood and looked at the engine. Everything looked okay except that the engine wasn't in the car. Instead the engine had exploded out of the car and fallen to the ground in several pieces. "My car is officially dead." She sighed.
"At least we got the goods." Yuzumi optimistically said. "And, you're lucky your car wasn't evaporated." She added under her breath.
"Now maybe my parents'll give me a new car. Okay let's get the goods inside and go visit Genus Incorporated." She proposed.
"Good thing these car things don't eat when they're near death." Inuyasha, who was still convinced a car was some kind of yokai (and Sakura's comment about it dying added to his theory), whispered to Kenshin.
Kenshin couldn't think up a suitable response to Inuyasha's comment, so instead shrugged his shoulders. Meanwhile, Yuzumi and Sakura took out the katanas and kimonos, and carried them into the house. They soon returned and began to lead the guys out the gates. They walked down the street and came to a huge field with an old run down house in the center. They followed a track that lead to the house and went up to the door. "Here we are. Genus Incorporated." Yuzumi informed the guys.
"There's something in there that'll get me back home?" Inuyasha suspiciously asked. "It looks like the only use you could get out of this is fire wood."
"Don't be too quick to judge things by their appearance Inuyasha-sama." Sakura philosophically stated.
Yuzumi hit her over the head, "Don't make yourself sound so smart."
"Owww." Sakura whined as she put her hand on the spot that Yuzumi had hit.
"Anyway, you'll understand when you get inside. It's much bigger inside than you think."
Yuzumi and Sakura opened the door and walked in. They guys followed behind and were astonished by the site before their eyes. The outside looked old and run down, but the inside was totally different. The inside had the appearance of a fancy office building complete with a café, and even had more than one floor. Above a desk, with what looked to be a ticket dispenser, there was a sign that read 'Please take a number and wait.' There were also a few people milling around.
"Oro?" Kenshin said as he took everything in.
"What in the hells…?" Inuyasha said in a slightly awed voice.
"See, it's bigger on the inside than you thought." Yuzumi said as she went to take a number.
"How can the inside of this place be bigger than it is on the outside?" Kenshin asked Sakura.
"I'm not really sure. My sister tried to explain it to me once, but I got really confused. From what I did understand was that this is some kind of dimensional warp." Sakura tried to explain.
"Ohhhh." Both Inuyasha and Kenshin said, obviously pretending to understand.
At this moment Yuzumi came back and held up their number, "We're number 13. I don't know if that's a good thing, but let's get something to drink." She led them to the café and ordered lemonade for everyone, while Sakura found a place to sit.
"Will we have to wait long?" Kenshin politely inquired.
"I'm not waiting around! I need to return and get the shards of the Shikon no Tama!" Inuyasha pointedly informed everyone.
"It shouldn't be too long of a wait. Most people come to our sisters for simple things like, questions about home work. I just hope they can help us out." Sakura answered.
After three minutes of trying to keep Inuyasha from ripping the place apart with impatience, the loud speaker called number 13. "Will number thirteen please proceed up the stairs to our office?"
"Thirteen, that's us, let's go." Yuzumi remarked as she lead the way up the stairs. I wasn't a long flight of stairs, so it took them only a moment to reach the top. At the top was a landing and one door. On the door was a sign that read,
Office- Tanbou and Űmëa
Einstein was great, but Washuu was greater.
Sakura knocked on the door and opened it. In the room, there was a desk with two girls sitting behind it. In front of each of them was a name tag. Tanbou[1] was on the left and Űmëa[2] was on the right. "Welcome to Genus Incorporated," Tanbou began, "We solve…" The voice stopped when she saw who had entered. She and Űmëa looked at Yuzumi, then at Sakura, next at Kenshin, and lastly at Inuyasha. They turned to each other, nodded, pulled assign that read 'out to lunch', set the sign on the desk, and said, "Sorry, but we are going out to lunch now. Why don't you try back next week?"
"Ha, ha very funny. It's after two o'clock." Sakura said with a glare.
"Who are these girls?" Kenshin whispered to Yuzumi.
"Tanbou is Sakura's sister, and Űmëa is mine. They are really smart, and if anyone can solve your problem they can." Yuzumi answered.
"I'm truly sorry, but we won't be able to help you at this time." Űmëa dismissively stated.
Inuyasha had heard Yuzumi's comment to Kenshin about Tanbou and Űmëa being extremely intelligent. He had also decided that, from what he had already seen in this world, Yuzumi and Sakura had lots of magic devices at their disposal. He was also getting fed up with delays, and thus he decided to take matters into his own hands. He stepped in front of Sakura, who was now heatedly arguing with the Genus duo, to speak to them. "Listen human girls, I need to return to my world. There are pieces of the Shikon no Tama scattered all over my world and I have to collect them before Naraku does. Quit making excuses and get me to my world!" Inuyasha said with a growl. To emphasize his words, he held up his claws and cracked his knuckles.
"Ah, ha, well perhaps we can help you out after all. Please give us the details of your problem." Űmëa nervously said.
"What the hell are you doing, Űmëa?" Tanbou urgently whispered to Űmëa.
"We already know how to create dimensional warps, so how hard could it be to figure out how to break into other dimensions? Besides, it's Inuyasha and do you see Kagome anywhere? We have to help them or face his claws.' Űmëa whispered back.
"Right, good points." Tanbou said turning to the gang. "Go ahead please."
Yuzumi and Sakura gave a detailed account of how they were sleeping when suddenly they found Inuyasha and Kenshin in the TV room. Tanbou and Űmëa listened, took notes, and even recorded parts of the account. They also asked many questions about the TV and possible lightning storm.
After about a half hour of discussions, the Genus Inc. came to a conclusion. "We'll need sometime to work everything out. I have an idea of what happened, but I gotta work the bugs out and figure out how to implement my theory." Tanbou said.
"Come back in three days and we'll have something for you." Űmëa told them and began to shoo them out the door. Yuzumi and Sakura nodded and walked out the door, Kenshin and Inuyasha followed. Inuyasha stopped just before exiting to threateningly crack his knuckles again.
"Don't worry, Inuyasha, we'll figure this out." Űmëa assured him. Inuyasha turned and walked through the door.
"So, how long will it take us to get out of the country?" Tanbou asked when everyone had left.
"Five minutes, but remember Kenshin was a hitokiri[3], Inuyasha is a dog demon, and Sakura and Yuzumi are our sisters. The question should be 'if we leave, how long will it take them to find us?'" Űmëa informed Tanbou.
"You're right. They'd find us and Inuyasha would cut us to ribbons. We better get to work." Tanbou sighed.
"Three days. Think we can last that long?" Sakura asked Yuzumi as the gang walked down the stairs.
"Sure, no problem. I mean how hard could it be? All we have to do is stay in our houses with them and keep a low profile for awhile." Yuzumi said confidently.
"Uhhhh, Yuzumi, you know how many people in movies and such who are in similar situations say that?"
"No." Yuzumi thought for a moment, "Hundreds?"
"Yeah and what happens to them?"
"C'mon Sakura, it's not like this is some movie. I admit keeping Inuyasha low profile could be difficult, but Kenshin'll be no problem."
"Somehow I get this funny feeling that the next three days are going to be hell."
"What are we going to do until the three days have passed?" Kenshin asked. Inuyasha began muttering something under his breath, but what it was no one heard.
"I don't know." Sakura answered.
"I know!" Yuzumi joyfully proclaimed. "We can play tennis!"
"…You have tennis balls? I have rackets, but no tennis balls." Sakura asked as a she began to have a sneaking suspicion that Yuzumi had come up with a random item to use as a ball. She also had a funny feeling that the object would be a certain pancake.
"We could use this!" Yuzumi said as she held up her rubber pancake.
"I knew it! That's getting really old, Yuzumi. Just throw the thing away!"
"But I can't! It's… it's my precious!" Yuzumi began to wail as she held the pancake up as a security blanket.
Sakura and the others stared at her with a 'she's a complete idiot' look. "Okay, we'll use the stupid pancake."
"How do we play this game?" Kenshin asked as Yuzumi danced around.
"Two ways, one, the proper way, or two we make it up as we go along. The latter is the most fun, and since we don't have a proper ball, we'll make things up as we go along." Sakura informed him.
When the gang got back to Sakura's house, Sakura and Yuzumi got out tennis rackets and set up the net. The handed the guys each a racket and divide into two teams; Sakura and Inuyasha verses Kenshin and Yuzumi. They spun the rackets to see who would go first and who would chose sides. Yuzumi won the toss, so she and Kenshin served, while Sakura and Inuyasha chose sides.
"Alright, here's how we're gonna play. To serve you must throw the pancake like a Frisbee, and the opposing side must hit it back using the rackets. You score points by hitting one of your opponents, or by the pancake hitting the ground on the opposing side. Outside of the lawn is out of bounds. To bring the pancake back into bounds, the team whose side didn't cause it to go out must kick it in. Every one agrees to this?" Sakura pitched the idea to everyone, who in turn nodded.
The teams took their places and got ready to play. Yuzumi tossed the pancake Frisbee fashion, and it sailed neatly over the net. Sakura swung her racket at the pancake, and aimed it at Yuzumi. Yuzumi hit the pancake and lobbed it at Inuyasha.
"Sankontesou!" Inuyasha yelled as the pancake came flying at him. His attack hit the pancake, bounced off and hit a nearby tree. Instead of stopping the pancake hit Inuyasha and hit the ground.
"Two points for us!" Yuzumi happily stated.
"Oh how do you figure?" Sakura glaringly replied.
"One point for hitting dog-boy, and one point for hitting the ground, that's how."
"Well then, take this!" Sakura shouted as she served the pancake at Kenshin. The pancake hit the side of Kenshin's head, bounced off, hit Yuzumi in the side of the head, and landed on the ground. "Three points for us!"
"That's it! No more Miss nice lady!" Yuzumi yelled, while serving the pancake.
The game continued until it began to grow dark outside, and every one was breathless and tired. "I probably should get home." Yuzumi said, "But I have no idea how. I can't call my parents and ask them to come pick me up 'cause they'd ask why I was here, and it's such a long walk.'
"I have an idea. I do have another car, but I'm not supposed to get it until I turn 21." Sakura suggested. "My grandpa got it and my parents don't want me to drive it yet, but since my other car is dead…." She left it hanging.
"What kind of car is it?"
"A truck. The kind with four doors and one of those hood thinggys over the back. I call it the tank."
"You think it would be okay to take it?"
"Yeah, you guys get ready to go and I'll get the keys and Yuzumi's share of the loot." Sakura said, running off.
Sakura pulled the tank out of the driveway and everyone got in, everyone except Inuyasha. "I'm not going in another one of those!" He adamantly declared.
"C'mon Inuyasha-sama. It's not going to hurt you, I promise." Sakura coaxed.
"No."
"Hmmm…well if you won't get in the car, you could ride on top of it." Sakura suggested.
Inuyasha thought about it for awhile, and decided that if he had to go, he would rather be riding on it instead of in it. So, he hoped on the hood of the tank and sat down cross-legged. Sakura hit the gas and began the short drive to Yuzumi's house. A few minutes later, they arrived at Yuzumi's house and she and Kenshin got out of the car. "Call me in the morning, Yuzumi." Sakura said as Yuzumi unlocked her front door.
"I will." She replied.
Sakura drove back to her house and into the driveway. As she got out of the tank, and Inuyasha jumped down from the top, Sakura noticed her parents' car. Oh yeah they were supposed to come home today. Crap! How an I gonna explain the car? How am I gonna explain Inuyahsa-sama?! She thought and began to panic. She walked up to her door with Inuyasha in tow. She walked in and saw her parents standing in the doorway. Sakura tried to come up with explanations for everything, but her brain had shut down. "Hi." Was all that Sakura was able to say.
"What happened? Why did you take the truck?" Her mother asked. It appeared that her mother hadn't noticed Inuyasha. Her father on the other hand, had. In fact her father was staring piercingly at Inuyasha.
"Ummm, well I got home from work and when I parked the engine fell out." She lied. How the hell was she supposed to tell her parents about Inuyasha and Kenshin? Would they believe her? Ha, ha yeah, in her dreams.
"That still doesn't answer why you used the truck?" Her mother pressed.
Crap! I am so caught. What should I say? I had to take Yuzumi home, but…that's it! "Yuzumi called me from her work and said that her car had broken down. You know dead battery or something, so I took the truck to help her out." She lied yet again. As she finished this statement she saw the look on her father's face. He was looking at Inuyasha and Sakura could read his every thought. She could almost hear 'Claws, dog ears, claws, fangs, claws, slitted gold eyes…demon.'
Suddenly her dad pointed, crap here it comes. "You…you are a DEMON! How dare you! You have turned my daughter from the right path! Get out of my house! You aren't allowed to return until you have rid yourself of this evil[4]!" Sakura's father, who happened to be the pastor of the church, member of the Gideons, etc., declared.
Sakura turned to her mother, but she had the 'do as your father says' look. Curse it all. Well, I guess I could pack some things and camp out at Yuzumi's for the next three days. Sakura sullenly walked to her room and began to pack some things.
"Is your dad or who ever that was, some kind of priest?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah you could say that. C'mon let's get back in the tank." Sakura sighed and headed out the door of her house. She tossed her packs into the tank, Inuyasha jumped on top, and Sakura backed out of the driveway. She headed once again to Yuzumi's. It was slightly dark out, but not dark enough for Sakura to turn on her head lights. She turned on to Yuzumi's road and saw two figures carrying packs walking down the road. That looks like…Sakura stopped her thought and slammed on the brakes. She came to a screeching halt which cause Inuyasha to fly off the top of the tank and land in a patch of bushes. "Ahhhh! Inuyasha-sama!" Sakura said as she ran out of the tank and over to Inuyasha.
"I thought you were supposed to be my priestess, not my murderer!" Inuyasha angrily growled.
"I'm sooooooooooo sorry Inuyasha-sama!" Sakura profusely apologized. "I saw Yuzumi and Kenshin on the road and had to stop."
"Yo, let me guess you got kicked out of your house too?" Yuzumi asked.
"Yeah, my dad took a good look at Inuyasha and declared that I couldn't come into the house until I got rid of him."
"My parents saw Kenshin putting on night clothes in my room and said I couldn't come back home until I got my act together."
"Uhh, why was he changing in your room?"
"I told him he could sleep in there and I'd take the couch."
"Oh. Well, load up and we'll find a place to camp."
"Right." Yuzumi tossed her belongings into the back of the tank and she, along, with Kenshin, climbed in.
"Hell no. I refuse to get in or on that thing." Inuyasha resolutely stated.
"Please Inuyasha-sama." Sakura pleaded with the begging puppy dog face complete with tears. Now the only person who has ever been able to resist Sakura's begging face was Yuzumi, and even she couldn't hold out too long. So, after looking at Sakura's pleading face, Inuyasha gave in and climbed into the tank. Sakura started the tank and set out for a park.
After driving around for a few hours to find a park that didn't have a curfew, they found a spot and pulled over. "Inuyasha-sama, Kenshin, there's plenty of room in the back, and it's covered, so you two can sleep back there. Yuzumi and I can sleep up front." Sakura proposed.
Kenshin looked around the park and noticed the raggedly dressed thugs, and various scum that always crawled in the cities. "Would that be safe for you two?" H e concernedly asked.
"Oh, no we'll be fine. Don't worry about us." Sakura said as she pulled down a part of the tank's roof. From the opening one could see that it was a secret compartment; out rolled a rack of katanas. Sakura and Yuzumi each chose one to their liking. Next, Sakura opened the glove compartment, and up popped a rack of guns. Yuzumi and Sakura again took their choice of the weapons. Then the two of them opened the hood and pulled out a grenade launcher. This they set up on the hood of the tank. Lastly, the two of them pulled the back seat forward a bit and a compartment containing various shinobi[5] tools.
"Oro?" Kenshin said.
"Uhhh…" Inuyasha said.
"The reason I'm not supposed to get the tank until I turn 21 is, It was preciously owned by drug carriers." Sakura said as a way of explanation for the compartments.
Sakura gave everyone a pillow and a blanket out of the back, and every one got into their designated sleeping places. Sakura turned the tank's security system on and went to sleep.
[1] Means 'dragon fly' in Japanese
[2] means 'evil' in the Elvin language Quenya (created by J.R.R. Tolkien)
[3] assassin
[4] Please note that a Christian would not necessarily act this way. I'm only doing this for the humor of the fanfic.
[5] Ninja; theses tools would include daggers, shriken (ninja stars), and vials of various ninja tricks
Author's Ravings: There's chapter 3. Hope you enjoyed it.