Thank you all for reviewing! I'm going to start using Japanese terms. The English meaning will be at the bottom. Since I have nothing else to say go read!
Disclaimer: Inuyasha will belong to me when Sesshomaru becomes Shippou's slave.
.
.
.
Project: Perfection
Chapter 3- Where are they?
miikochan
.
.
.
"Hey what does this do?"
"Hey!! Don't touch that!!" Kagome chased after a hyper Shippou. The artificial kid was pressing, flipping, turning buttons, switches, and dials. "I think I gave him too much chocolate." she muttered slapping her forehead after she snatched the excited kitsune from the air and gently tucked him by her hip.
"Wee!! I'm one of those Ae-ro-planes!!!" Shippou pronounced stretching his arms in the shape of the thing he saw in the thing Kagome called "telly vision".
Kagome helded the kitsune tighter to her hip carefully without crushing his tiny body. She decided that only one piece of candy was all she could give him for now on. It was amazing what a bar of chocolate could do to someone. Change a mature person into a hyper kid. She didn't need another immature person around her. That Inuyasha boy and Sota were enough to handle one at a time. Speaking of Inuyasha, she wondered what he was doing.
Just a couple minutes ago she got him to settle down after skillfully stealing a pair of old jeans and an oversized T-shirt from her father's drawer. Inuyasha was trying to rip the confining wear off until she closed the blinds. He become pretty interested in the opening and closing of the shutters and busied himself doing so.
So Kagome left him in the safety of her room (her rooms not safe from him) to check up on Shippou to see if he was being a good little artificial kid eating chocolate. But it was quite the opposite.
"::yawn:: I'm sleepy Kagome..." Kagome glanced down at the red headed kitsune. Sure enough his eyelids were drooping and head nodding to sleep.
Relieved, Kagome asked quietly. "You want to go to bed?" The kitsune nodded sleepily, "Whatever a bed is." Walking up the stairs to her room, she heard a large crash in her room. Oh shit!! She left Inuyasha there all by himself. She thought those blinds would keep him out of trouble long enough for her to come back.
.
.
.
"A toast to Higurashi-san and his beautiful wife Jun and his father Kenji. May they have success in the tournament with their prized youkai projects." A man with long greasy hair that hung heavily around his shoulder and down his back announced. He and his other excutives stood around the table raising their glasses to the Higurashis.
"Why thank you, Naraku-sama." said Jon (Kagome and Sota's father) raising his glass. Jun and his father also raised their glasses. Jun didn't take a sip of the wine.
After the group finished their toast, Jon elbowed his wife. "Aren't you going to drink?"
Jun blinked at him expectingly. "Someone has to drive. Besides." she glanced at the large clock on a pillar near them. "We told the kids we'd be home in a few minutes."
"Can't we stay a few more minutes?" Kenji pleaded. "I want so more sake."
"What for, Otou-chan?" Jun asked her father-in-law.
The old man suddenly had a deviously look in his aged eyes. "For the shrine! I need to do some rituals! I have a feeling that Buyo has some evil spirit looming on him!"
"And why do you feel that?"
"Why! The cat has been coming to the old maid's calls! Doesn't that tell you something?" Kenji replied.
"And how are you going to get the sake?"
Kenji grinned goofily.
"No." his son and daughter-in-law said firmly.
"Aw...Dang it!"
.
.
.
Turning the door knob with a slow flick of her wrist, Kagome opened her door and stared at the sight that was once her room. Her mouth fell agape. Her eyes caught a blob of silver hair by her dresser. Inuyasha's back was facing her. And her eyes widened at what drawer he had opened.
"Inu...yasha?" she was shocked speechless at the wreck that was her room.
He continued to dig through the drawer and without looking up answered. "Nanda yo?"
"Why the fuck are you in my undergarment dresser?!!!" Kagome hissed angrily through her teeth. She was royally pissed off!!
"Ooh, what strong words for a little girl." he sneered still not looking at her. "And what are these "under-gardents"?"
A vein in her hand was twitching madly until she heard a tired murmur. "More chocolate pwease..." Kagome looked down at the sleeping Shippou tucked between her arm and hip.
Setting the tired kit on her rummaged bed, she rounded on the hanyou boy. "Me little? Ha! We're practically the same age, little boy! Besides at least I know about technology. Unlike you."
"Shut it, Bitch." he growled turning to look at her.
"Make me." Kagome was about to stick her nose in the air and cross her arms when she noticed- "Take that off your head!!!"
Inuyasha just smirked arrogantly and stubbornly responded. "Make me."
"I will!" She stepped over clothes and other things Inuyasha had rummaged through. Suddenly feeling a quick breeze go past her, Kagome looked behind her. Inuyasha was sitting on the bed next to Shippou.
"How'd you move so quick?" Kagome asked coming closer.
"It's part of my "curse"." he said.
"Really?" She quickly reached over and slid a slim finger under the elastic band of the bra on the hanyou's head. Pulling it back, she smirked at the questioning look on his face.
"What do you think you're doing?" Smirking wider she let the band loose, smacking one of his ears.
"OW!! What was that for?!" Inuyasha demanded angrily. He was rubbing the hurt dog ear earnestly.
"Oh that? That was for wrecking my room and looking through my undergarment drawer! You perv!!" Kagome yelled in his other ear.
His eyes were going swirly, her voice still pounding in his all hearing eardrums. "Dammit."
"Nee-chan..." Kagome looked up to see Sota rubbing his eyes. "Who are they?"
"Um..." Kagome didn't know what to say. "They're our-our plumbers!"
"Plumbers?"
"Yes! Plumbers!" Kagome repeated.
"Then why are they here so late-or." he glanced at Kagome's upside down clock. "or so early in the morning? It's almost 2 in the morning, Nee-chan!" Damn Sota's questions.
"Um...well you see..."
"There's no more chocolate!!!" The three conscious people stared at Shippou.
"Yes! Just what the plumber said. "No more chocolate!"" Kagome answered hastily.
"Then if they're plumbers then why is that one so short and sleeping on your bed. And why is that one with the thingies on his head checking your drawers?"
"Because...they just are!" Striding to her brother she opened the door to his room and shoved him in. "Go to sleep. It's way past your bed time."
"But that's the same for you!" Sota whined.
"I was just directing them. And don't tell Mama or Tou-chan." Kagome shot back imperatively. After tucking her protesting brother into bed, she went back to her room to find Inuyasha curled up in a ball sleeping. She smiled and whispered to herself. "How precious."
She flung herself into her matress after putting her alarm clock the right side up. 2:01 a.m. it read. "::yawn::" She was going to be damn tired tomorrow at school. After setting her alarm, she began to fall asleep when she heard keys unlocking the front door.
Dammit! She forgot her parents and grandfather were going to be back at this time. And if they found out that their projects were missing there would be trouble. Hustling to shut her door, Kagome lifted Shippou easily and less than gently, flung him into her closet.
Opening his aqua eyes, Shippou stared at Kagome quizically. "That hurt, Kagome!"
"Gomen ne, Shippou-chan." she apologized quickly. "But you must stay in here. If my parents find you, you'll be back in that tube quicker than you can say "youkai"."
"What about Inuyasha?"
Kagome rushed over to the soundly asleep hanyou. An ear flicked. Grabbing his feet, she began to drag him to her closet when he growled. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?!"
"You're awake?" she asked him, dropping his feet to the ground.
He stood up. "Yep."
"Then get in here." she ordered.
"Why should I?"
"Don't ask why! Just get in there!" Kagome shoved the confused hanyou into her closet and shut the door. "Please be quiet in there. Don't come out until I tell you to. It's not safe right now."
'It seems the bitch has some kind of trouble.' Inuyasha thought. He felt something squirming next to him with a puffy tail. "Oi, you in here, rat?"
He felt a fiery glare jab at him in the dark. "I'm not a rat, dumbass!"
"And I'm not a donkey."
"Shut up in there! You have to be quiet or you'll be put back in those tubes! Now if you don't want that to happen, be quiet." Kagome's voice filtered through the closet's doorjam.
'Or it seems the runt and I have some trouble.' Inuyasha thought mentally rolling his eyes. It's not like he was afraid of the two humans that created him. He could easily break their frail bodies limb from limb. But once a while, he and Shippou were taken out of their tubes to fight in tournaments against other youkai. He couldn't escape as easily at that time because of the humans there had created special weapons to prevent escapees. He had seen it happen countless times. Some youkai with enough guts, but less brains would attempt to do so at these tournaments. So would the newlings who had no knoledge of it.
He peered down at the dark shape that was Shippou's. How had the runt lasted this long? He had to admit, kitsunes were pretty tricky opponents with all their tricks. There was a junior league he remembered. His eyelids began to feel heavy and finally dropped.
.
.
.
After explaining to the youkai boys in her closet why they had to stay in there, Kagome ran down the stairs to greet her parents and grandfather to draw them away from her room and the basement.
"Hi Tou-chan. How was the banquet?" Kagome asked her tired father.
"Why are you still up? It's a school night." He said sleepily making his way up the stairs to his room.
"Oh good "morning" Tou-chan!" she called after her father.
"Kagome, go to bed." Mama said to her daughter following her husband's steps up to their bedroom. Jii-chan entered the room all sparky and awake.
"You're not tired, Jii-chan?" she asked.
"Nope! Haven't been this awake in years!" he said happily passing her. He seemed to be carrying something behind his back.
"What do you have there?" Kagome asked trying to peer around him to see what it was.
It was sake. "Jii-chan!! Did you steal that?"
"Erm...no!! Of course not my child! I would never steal!" the old man crossed his arms indignantly.
"Whatever Jii-chan. You should go to sleep." Kagome said walking up the stairs to her room.
"Kagome, where's Buyo?"
"I dunno. See ya in the morning!" Kagome opened the door to her room. What was going to happen when her parents found that their projects were missing? Would they search the whole household? If so, Inuyasha and Shippou weren't safe here. She would have to find somewhere else to hide them. But now wasn't the time to think about that. Yawn...she was tired. She fell asleep.
.
.
.
"Buyo!! Get your furry cat butt over here!" Kenji yelled outside. He felt a movement past his pantleg and looked down. The fat calico was peering up at him. Kenji made a grab for cat, but Buyo, despite his obesity, scurried quickly past him into the basement.
"Get back over here, damn sack!!" the old man yelled, chasing the cat down the stairs. Settling himself in front of the tubes, Buyo curled up. "Come here you stupid cat! I need to poor some sake on you to get rid of the spirit!"
Picking up the calico, Kenji looked up at the tubes and gaped. "Nani? Where's the specimen?! They're gone!! Gone!! Woe is me!" He dropped the bottle of sake on the ground and his old eyes widened. The old man sobbed. "My precious sake!! NOOOO!!!!"
.
.
.
.
TBC...
Jii-chan (Grandpa) seems to like sake alot. O.o; Neeways I'm sorry I didn't update sooner. I included Japanese dialouge in here this time. If you watch subs you should know what these mean, but if you don't I put these in here.
Kitsune-Fox
Youkai-Demon
Hanyou-Half youkai half human (I'm putting a little twist to that in this fic)
Nani-What?
Nanda yo?-What do you want? (A guy would say this, but if it's a girl they would say "Nani yo?")
Sake-A japanese wine made of rice (correct me if I'm wrong)
Gomen ne-Sorry (or you could say the simple Gomen or politer Gomen naisai)
Oi-Hey (Inuyasha usually says this)
(O)Tou-chan/san/sama- If you add an "o" before the name it becomes more polite. Dad/Father/Father(highly respected) Or Chichichue (I think that's how you spell it)
(O)Kaa-chan/san/sama- Everyone calls Kagome's mother Mama though. Mom/mother/mother(highly respected)
(O)Nee-chan/san/sama- Could mean Sis or Sister depends on how you say it.
(O)Jii-chan/san/sama- Grandpa/Grandad/Grandfather
If you're in business like how Jon addressed Naraku adding the sama to the end of his name it could mean Sir, Master...
If you add "san" it would mean Mr, Mrs, Ms.
Girls usually add "chan" to the end of friends' (girls) names. Or they add it to the end of younger kids' names.
And then there's "kun". You would add that to a boy's name that you don't really know.
There are more, but I think english dialouge sounds better in some of these cases. Most of you probably knew these, but I think it's important to keep reviewing these if you're trying to learn a language. At least bits and pieces until you learn to speak a sentence. You know?
Will Inuyasha and Shippou be found? Will Sota keep quiet about the plumbers coming around 2 in the morning? How will Kagome deal with Shippou and Inuyasha while she's in school? And what are the Higurashi crew going to do about the now missing youkai and the tournament's just the next day? Find out next chapter! I need 12 more reviews! Onegai? ::puppy eyes::