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Nilkanown- Yeah, the Almighty Retarded Shadow... Heh heh. Well, I guess you'd be starting school todayyyy...? Why do people start school on Thursday?! I always have to start on a Monday, then my first weekend is a three day Labor Day weekend, thank GOD... Or I'd die. But I don't wanna go to school, cuz then I can't stay up to watch Inuyasha except on Saturdays! ::sob:: And also, school sucks, so... Yah.
Carri- Yeah, poor Sesshie got his arm cut off... Really early... ::sob:: And he keeps stealing arms then they get destroyed or flawed or something... Poor Fluffy. Crappy luck he's got...
Flame 34- ::bursts out laughing:: I'd like to see that... A chipmunk, about the size of a hamster, which eats seeds and nuts, kill and eat a weasel, which kills chickens and sucks their blood. And bunny rabbits, too. Yeah. That's be funny. I think I'll draw that!
Black Cat- Jail! What fun! I'm gonna end up there for like, murdering this one prep I hate, and for murdering the phys. ed. teacher and mostly everyone on the schoolboard... They will pay for their acts of attempted education they have inflicted upon me... And then I'll blow up the school. But they won't be able to trace it to me. Shhhhh! Because I have allies! Shhhhhhhhhh!
C.C.C.- Rock on! Woohoo! Peace out, dude...! Ahh! Hippie! Die! ::kills random hippie for no apparent reason::
Bar-Ohki- Ah! Another immortal! I shall kill you with my immortally doomiful wrath! Wait, no, cuz then you couldn't review my stories... Yes you can! From Reikai! AND IF YOU DON'T, I'LL HAVE KOENMA BRING YOU BACK SO I CAN KILL YOU AGAIN! MUWAHA! Just kidding. OR AM I?
Zenisilver- ::stares:: Okee... ::inches away::
Water-Rose- People think YOU'RE weird? Muwaha. My wrath will be upon the high school... People will think I'm INSANE! Especially in my art class... I doubt if I'd be allowed to draw anime characters, so I'll draw Shadow a lot. Muwaha.
Saeble- Yay! Good jobness! We're happy!
kiyonekage- Yeah, the Geico thing, I just couldn't help myself. It just appeared in my head. Glad you like my story so much. :D
SilverStar-AquarianAngel- Ah, yes. Rin. Well, we can't be having her anywhere near Shadow, can we? Yes, cuz Shadow likes to scare and/or eat small children... Or at least suck out their souls... Or threaten to...
Mari Youma- That's like Chinese water torture... Except I think they drop the water on the person's forehead...
phycotic person- What's a pengal...? Sould I know?
Kuramakicksass- I update... Uh... What, like, two days later... Yay!
The Princess- You read my stories at work?! Eeek. That could be hazardous to your occupation... O.o
Silver Lena- Yes it would... You see Kuwabara's head go rolling down the path... And a bird swoops down and eats it.
LivingImpared- Uber spiffy? Interesting... I shall contemplate this. ::dies from over-contemplation half a split second later::
CHAPTER SIX
The Odd Abilities of Random Doom
Umidori led them to the edge of a large field.
"This will be our arena," he explained. He dismounted his black warhorse and tied it to a tree. "Follow me."
"Are you sure you want to fight a puny girl like Shadow?" Miroku asked.
"I'm sure, monk," Umidori said over his shoulder.
"Stop trying to convince him! You'll end up losing if you fight him!" Shadow snapped. She then danced out into the field behind Umidori.
"Does she have some hidden power we don't know about?" Miroku asked Hiei.
"If she does, like you said, we don't know about it... Not even me," Hiei replied. "Though she does have The Odd Abilities of Random Doom, those are random and I'm not sure she controls that stuff..."
"Like what?"
"Vanishing, turning into goo, appearing out of no where right in front of you when you're ten miles away from her... Stuff like that."
"... She's done all that?"
"Yeah."
"Well let's hope she can control it..."
Meanwhile, Shadow was facing Umidori, striking random poses. "I shall defeat thee with my immense skills in the art of Ninjutsu!"
"She hasn't got any skills in Ninjutsu..." Eclipse muttered.
"Well he doesn't know that," Youko said.
"I think he knows very well that she hasn't got any skills. Period," Sesshoumaru said.
"Well, that's not really true," Hiei said. "She's got skills in some things. Like, for example, uh... Well, she can... No... But... Well, she can cook, but that's not gonna help us."
"Hiei, you're really not giving us much comfort," Yusuke said. "You're supposed to be the confident, supportive boyfriend of the girl who's about to get the shit beat out of her. Not the pessimistic little weirdo fire demon..."
"... But I am a pessimistic little weirdo fire demon..."
Yusuke snorted, but didn't reply, as Umidori had started talking.
"You may use any weapon you have, any accessories, such as... Well... You don't have any... And you can give up whenever you see fit. Any questions?"
"Aye, yeah. Where do you want to be buried after I kill you?" Shadow asked curiously. Umidori laughed.
"I like your sense of humor, girl."
"Glad to hear it," Shadow said, not sounding particularly glad. More like bored, or annoyed. "Can we fight now?"
"Sure." The man drew his sword and sped towards Shadow, not much more than a blur because of the Shikon shards in his legs. He stopped abruptly, his face merely two inches from Shadow's, grinning. Nobody but Youko and the two dog demons heard what he whispered to Shadow that made her turn purple and punch him in the face, sending him spinning through the air to slam into the ground ten feet away.
"What did he just say?" Yusuke asked.
"That pervert!" Youko said, outraged.
"What?!" Miroku asked. "What did he say?"
Inuyasha leaned over and whispered something in Miroku's ear.
"That lecher! How could he--"
Inuyasha put his hand over Miroku's mouth before he could finish. "There's children among us, remember."
Shippou looked up.
"I heard it, but I don't know what he meant..."
"GOOD. You're too young."
Meanwhile, back with the fight, Umidori was taunting Shadow.
"Your hits are soft. I knew there was no chance a girl could truly injure me. You're all talk."
"Oh? All talk, eh? Well I have somebody who'd like to talk to you!" Shadow snapped. She pulled a crowbar out of her back pocket (It's one of her Odd Abilities of Random Doom...).
"This is Bob the Crowbar! Meet his wrath!"
Hiei groaned. "I'm glad I never saw her fight before. She's just as stupid when her life's on the line as when she's sitting safely at home..."
Umidori, meanwhile, was running in circles around Shadow, pausing at intervals to shout some insult or taunt her.
"I can't believe this is what we have to depend on to win us those Shikon shards," Miroku said. "Women aren't supposed to fight, especially when it's Shadow we're talking about. She can't fight..."
"I HEARD THAT, MONK!" Shadow snapped. She'd already set half the field on fire in attempts to hit Umidori with a fireball, but now she flung one directly at Miroku.
"Ahh!!!"
"What was that?" Umidori asked. "You're fighting me, not him... If you can call this fighting..."
"I call this YOU BEING A PANSY!" Shadow shouted, flinging a fireball. Umidori leapt into the air. "COME DOWN HERE AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN, if indeed that is what you are..."
Luckily, Umidori did not hear the last part, because Shadow said it under her breath. He smirked and plummeted from the sky towards her, sword ready. She blocked the swing with her crowbar, but was overpowered and sent tumbling through the fire from the impact. She stood up a few feet away and looked at herself. Her shirt had a small fire burning up it at the bottom, and her pants were smouldering in several places.
"I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE!" she screamed, running in circles waving her arms like a lunatic. Hiei let out an exasperated, annoyed shout (like 'augh' or something, only different).
"Hey Shadow! You forget that YOU CAUSED THAT FIRE A FEW SECONDS AGO! YOU'RE A FIRE DEMON, REMEMBER?" Youko shouted. Shadow stopped and stood there looking awestruck for a second.
"Wow... I am, aren't I!" All the fire on her clothes and within a three-foot radius was instantly extinguished. "Would you look at that! I am powerful in the art of fire wooooooop!"
"Look out!" Kagome yelled, pointing at Umidori just as he let an arrow fly. Shadow looked at him. She found the time to scream and wave her arms around as the arrow flew towards her, but somehow she couldn't find the time to dodge...
"YOU IDIOT!" Inuyasha screamed. The arrow plunged into Shadow's shoulder. She stopped dead, stared at Umidori in horror, then looked at her shoulder and screamed, waving her arms and making wild gestures, pointing at it and blubbering insanely before she finally turned to her friends and pointed calmly at Umidori.
"He shot me!" she said in a British accent. Hiei groaned and restrained the urge to dart out there and punch her. Shuichi nagged in the back of Youko's head to go help her until Youko snapped that she was burning all the plant life and he would therefore be of little help unless he directly went out and took over, and she wouldn't stand for that, injured or not, and that's not even mentioning what Umidori would do. Kagome, meanwhile, was nagging at Inuyasha for the same reason.
"I can't help her," Inuyasha snapped. "It's her stupid fight! She got herself into it, I'm not getting her out!"
"Somebody help her!" Kagome pleaded.
"I NEED NO HELP!" Shadow shouted. She pointed at the arrow sticking out of her shoulder. "THIS WOUND IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE! I BATTLE ON DESPITE MY INJURIES!" She grabbed the arrow and jerked it out of her shoulder. "Oh, that hurt..." And she then proceeded to stand there talking to herself about it for the next few minutes... And she also talked to the arrow... And to the bleeding wound that the said arrow had caused...
"SHADOW, PAY ATTENTION! HE'S GONNA SHOOT AGAIN, BAKA!" Hiei shouted. The arrow flew. Shadow looked at it and screamed, then ducked at the last second and it went over her head. Umidori shot the rest of his arrows at her and she dodged every single one using strange gymnastics and seemingly turning herself into rubber at times.
"MEET MY WRATH!" she screamed, dodging the last arrow and flinging herself towards Umidori. He dodged her swing and jumped into the air again. Shadow followed.
"I will win!" she shouted.
"You talk too damn much!" Umidori snapped.
Shadow appeared behind him somehow and slammed him in the back of the head with a crowbar, sending him plummeting to the ground.
"That had to hurt," Eclipse said.
Umidori looked up at her from where he lay on the ground with a big ol' gash on the back of his head, bleeding all over the charred grass. Then he laughed.
"Her strength is nothing compared to mine! I could kill her in one swipe!"
Gravity finally took effect on Shadow, though it seemed to be multiplied by about ten as she dropped to the ground, like a brick in ten times Earth's normal gravity. Her elbow connected with Umidori's stomach and he doubled over, coughing. She then pranced away with urgency.
"Okay, that pissed me off," the man snarled, standing up. He shot at her and hit her towards a nearby out-of-control field fire (that she'd started...). She soared backwards and landed in the flames. Umidori walked closer. When he was only a few feet away from the dark form in the fire, it lunged out and tackled him. Once he was pinned and burnt everywhere his bare skin had touched her, Shadow put out the fires.
"This is just dumb luck..." Sesshoumaru noted. "She's just being her normal baka self and is somehow managing to hurt him."
"That's not completely true," Youko said. "She did manage to hit him in the head... That was intentional, but I think everything else, like you said, was luck, or Umidori's fault because he underestimates her stupidity..."
"How is she managing to fight with that wounded shoulder?" Sango asked. "That was a bad puncture."
"She's too stupid to feel the pain," Hiei guessed.
Shadow, meanwhile, was reprimanding Umidori.
"I'd like to have some clothes left after I kill you, so STOP TRYING TO BURN 'EM ALL OFF, YA LECHER!"
Yes, indeed, Shadow had holes burnt through all her clothes from the fire. Not big holes, and they didn't reveal anything certain men shouldn't see, but they were holes, and they were there, and she had no replacement clothes.
Umidori growled and rolled Shadow over so he pinned her. "Look, girl, you can't beat me! You're weak!"
"HA, HA, HA!" Shadow then latched onto his wrist with her fangs and wouldn't let go. He swung her around and hit her and tried to pry her mouth off, but she just kept gnawing away.
When he finally did manage to dislodge her, his wrist looked like a small shark had gotten a hold of it, all shredded and whatnot like it was, and the Shikon shard that had been embedded in his skin was... In Shadow's mouth. She spit it, along with a lot of Umidori's flesh and blood, out into her hand. Picking out the shard, she flung the bloody gory glop to the ground, wiped the jewel shard off on her pants, and walked over to Inuyasha, holding it out to him.
"This is one of those jewely thingies you were looking for, right?"
"Uh, yeah..." Inuyasha said, surprised. He took it from her and stared at it.
"How's your shoulder?" Kagome asked, sounding concerned.
"What shoulder?" Shadow asked stupidly.
"The one that got shot!" Hiei snapped, looking at her bloodstained shirt to see for himself how the wound was.
"I got shot?" Shadow asked, curious. She looked at her left shoulder curiously, then at her injured right shoulder and screamed, pointing. "I GOT SHOT!!!"
"Yeah," Umidori said, picking up one of the arrows he'd shot at Shadow earlier and nocking it in his bow. "And this time I WON'T MISS YOUR HEART!" He drew back the string and let the arrow fly. Inuyasha pulled Shadow out of the way and the arrow hit the ground several feet away.
"Missed!" Shadow said.
"I won't stop until you're dead," Umidori snarled. "All of you. Even you, Lord Sesshoumaru."
"Yes, well there's a problem with that," Youko said calmly.
"What?"
Vines that had been slithering along the ground, undetected, now jumped up and grabbed Umidori's ankles and wrists, lifting him up above the ground and holding him tightly to keep him from drawing his sword.
"Damn you!"
A gory death scene commenced, involving whoever you think should have killed this snob.
"Well now we've got eight more shards," Inuyasha said.
"What about the shiny thingies in the horse's saddle bag, and the ones in the building?" Shadow asked, pointing to the two locations.
"What? Kagome, are there...?"
"Yeah! I didn't notice before because I was distracted... Wait, how did Shadow...?!"
"It's magical!" Shadow said, making waves with her arms so they looked like rubber. "Ow! Hey, why does my shoulder hurt?!"
Yes, she is that stupid.
She looked at her shoulder and screamed, pointing at it and jumping up and down.
"I'M BLEEDING! I'M BLEEDING! I'M GONNA DIE! IT'LL GET INFECTED AND PUS WILL OOZE OUT AND IT'LL FESTER AND GROW UNTIL IT EATS AWAY MY ENTIRE BODY!" She collapsed, screaming and rolling around holding her shoulder like a dying animal that could do nothing but lie on the ground while its limbs flop around uselessly and it suffers and twitches! Muwahaha!
"Shadow, you're fine," Hiei said, slightly irked.
"No I am NOT! I'm gonna die!"
"You'll be fine if you let me--"
"NO! YOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO BEAR YOUR CHILD!"
Hiei's eye twitched. "Shadow, I'm not doing anything like that!"
"Oh yeah? Then why are you plotting to let Youko rape me?!"
Hiei's eyes widened. "I wasn't!"
"That's what you say now! Deny it all you want, but I heard you conspiring with that monk! You're all gonna gang up on me and take turns! Well you just saw me whip this Shikon demon guy, so you're better be rethinking that plan!" Shadow screamed, on her feet and pointing an accusing finger centimeters from Hiei's face. His eye twitched again.
"You're delusional..."
"Oh AM I? Maybe it's you who's delusional!" Shadow accused, lunging at Hiei and tackling him. "You think you can judge me, but you're afraid to be judged!"
Hiei just sighed. "Um... Sorry?"
"ARE YOU?!" she snapped, grabbing the front of his shirt. "OW! Pain in shoulder..."
She looked at her shoulder, went chalk white, and collapsed sideways onto the ground, lying there still and silent (MY GOD! It must be the apocalypse... Shadow is silent...).
Hesitantly, Hiei got up and poked her side. She didn't move. He stared at her for a few minutes.
"She passed out," he informed everyone else.
"Are you serious...?" Youko asked. He walked over and knelt beside her. "Are you sure she didn't die?"
"This girl will not die. Surely you know that!"
"Oh yeah. She probably passed out from blood loss; that's more logical."
"She probably passed out from brain loss," Inuyasha said. "That's even more logical."
"Yes... Well, let's go," Youko said, picking up the unconscious baka girl. "We'll take care of her wound in the village. I'm sure the leader will let us stay at his lovely establishment, since we're the most powerful people around, and he wouldn't want to anger us..." He shot a meaningful look at the village leader, who had watched the entire fight as well, several yards away from Inuyasha, Yusuke, and their respective groups.
"Of course!" the man said meekly. He led the group to his place of residence and showed them all rooms they could stay in.
"I'll have a feast prepared in your honor..." he said, turning to leave. Hiei grabbed his shoulder, startling him so bad he practically screamed.
"Forgetting something?" he asked sternly. The guy was trembling.
"O-of c-c-course..." he stuttered. "Bandages and medicines for your friend... I'll s-s-send s-s-somebody with them..."
"Good." Hiei released him with a bit of a push forward, making him stumble. Then the guy hurried away fearfully.
"You could have been a little more friendly," Kagome said.
"Why? He's a coward, and he wants Shadow to die for defeating Umidori. Do you really expect me to be friendly to a guy who wants my friend dead?"
"Now how do you know he wants her dead?!" Kagome asked, annoyed. "You just assume--"
"I know, Kagome," Hiei said, his Jagan glowing purple through the bandana.
"What's that?"
"I read minds," Hiei said spookily. Kagome backed up a step.
"Hiei, cut it out," Yusuke said. Hiei snapped to attention and looked at him innocently.
"I wasn't doing anything..."
Kagome stomped off, muttering something about Hiei in a rather annoyed tone of voice. Everyone watched her go into her room and slam the door.
"Thanks, Hiei," Inuyasha said sarcastically.
Hiei opened his mouth to reply, but just then his attention was drawn to a little girl that barely came up above his waist. She handed him a tray with clean cloth, bandages, a bowl of warm water, etc etc etc that you need to clean and heal a deep bloody arrow puncture...
"C'mon Youko," Hiei said, leading the fox down the hall to an empty room. Miroku followed, muttering something about blessings.
"What the! Yeah, I'm letting three guys be alone in a room with Shadow when she's unconscious!" Eclipse said. She added in a whisper, "Three guys she was accusing of plotting to rape her..." Then she dragged Sesshoumaru and Yusuke into the room they'd taken Shadow to.
"What? Do you all have to be in here?" Hiei asked.
"Yes," came four voices. Sesshoumaru was silently sulking, as he had no choice.
"Eclipse, get Yusuke and Sesshoumaru out of here," Hiei said.
"What?! I can help!" Yusuke said.
"How?"
"I, uh... Well, I can stand watch! To make sure no one else comes in here!"
Hiei glared. "Let's see, there's only five people who aren't already in here. And besides, if you want to stand watch, you can stand outside and watch..."
"He's kindly telling you to get lost, Yusuke," Sesshoumaru said.
"I can't get lost!" He held up his wrist.
Youko sighed and stood up. He grabbed Yusuke's shoulders, pushed him out of the door, put Sesshoumaru in the doorway, and let Eclipse stay in the room.
"Problem solved," he said. Yusuke grumbled something. "Get over it, Yusuke."
Well, half an hour or so later, everybody but Shadow was gathered around an extremely large feast when Shadow herself came bursting into the room.
"Who bandaged this?!" she snapped, pointing at her shoulder. Hiei raised his hand, as he couldn't say anything through his mouthful of food.
"Oh." She relaxed slightly, then narrowed her eyes. "And who else was in the room?"
Hesitantly, Youko, Miroku, Sesshoumaru, and Eclipse all raised their hands.
"YOU LET THOSE TWO PERVERTS IN THE ROOM WHEN YOU WERE BANDAGING MY SHOULDER?!"
"Well... Youko did provide some herbal medicine stuff..." Hiei said after swallowing his food. "And Miroku did some blessing thingy, but I doubt that did any good..."
"Hey!" Miroku said, offended.
"Grrrrrrrrr... Still, you shouldn't have let them in! And if there wasn't a giant feast laid out here, I'd be bludgeoning you! But there is, so I won't!" Shadow promptly lunged at the nearest dish and started inhaling it. Everyone else quickly piled their plates with as much food as they would be able to eat before Shadow went through every dish.
After their wonderful feast, everybody was just sitting around looking tired, and Shadow was lying spread-eagle on the floor near Sesshoumaru, so Hiei walked over and sat down next to her.
"How's your shoulder?"
"Peachy. Hey, where's Umidori's horse?"
"His horse? I don't know... Should I know? Wait, why do you care?"
"Because that horse is now mine!" Shadow said cheerfully, sitting up.
"What? We don't need a horse! What use do you have for a horse?!" Hiei snapped.
"What use does she have for you?" Eclipse asked. "And yet she lets you hang around..."
"I live with her!"
"Hiei has plenty of uses!" Shadow said, wrapping her arms around his waist and leaning against him. Eclipse stared, wide-eyed.
"That's gonna put the wrong impression in some poor person's mind," Inuyasha said.
"Well at least we aren't as bad as her and Kurama," Shadow shot back.
"What?! There is nothing between us!" Eclipse screamed. "What the heck do you mean by that?!"
"I saw you guys... Making out in that tree like that..." Shadow said slyly, grinning.
"You lie!"
"I do not! Explain how come you always seem to be near him!"
"I'm not near him now! He's clear over there!" Eclipse pointed to an empty space between Miroku and Inuyasha, all the way across the room.
"..."
"Why are you looking at me like that? He's over-- No, he's not. Where is he?"
Youko tapped Eclipse on the shoulder and made her jump.
"GAH! STAY AWAY!"
"Hallucinating... That's a bad sign, Eclipse," Hiei said sadly, shaking his head.
"I'm not hallucinating! He was over there a second ago! Anyway, if I'm always near him, it's because he comes to me! But I know that's not how you two are! I saw you making out in your swimming pool in Shadow's back yard!" Eclipse accused, pointing.
"Now Eclipse, while you're making up stories, couldn't you think of a more creative place for two people to make out...?"
"I'M NOT MAKING IT UP!"
"Of course not..."
"You know what? You people make me mad! I'm going to bed!" She got up and stomped away, only realizing halfway down the hall that she was dragging Sesshoumaru and Yusuke. She came stomping back in, just as Shadow was saying "She's just jealous cuz she doesn't live with Hiei and have him walking around half naked all the time..."
"I'M NOT JEALOUS!" Eclipse threw a plate at Shadow and knocked her out cold.
"I've told her a million times not to refer to me as half-naked..." Hiei muttered.
"Why? Are you completely naked?" Yusuke asked.
"NO!"
"Yeah, I know. You prance around without a shirt on half the time..."
"Prance?"
"We all know you're just showing off to try to impress Shadow and get her in your bed..."
"What? No! You-- Argh. I give up. You're stupid," Hiei said. He looked down at Shadow, then up at Eclipse. "Why did you do that...? She's already injured enough..."
"No she's not. She ticked me off, she needs to be even more injured," Eclipse said.
"What, would it be a bad thing to make out with Kurama?" Hiei asked. "You get all offended, but isn't it better than being accused of making out with Kuwabaka, the pillow-kisser, for example?"
"What?!" Kuwabara snapped.
"Yeah, look at it that way and it's not as bad, but... I wasn't looking at it that way."
"Well Shadow's gonna kill you when she wakes up."
"No she's not." Eclipse grabbed Hiei's wrist and snapped her cuff onto him, then freed Yusuke to chain Shadow up.
"There! Now drag her off to your room and you guys can make sure I don't die!" she said cheerfully.
"And why exactly, would we care if you died?" Sesshoumaru asked. Eclipse kicked his leg.
"Because I'm NICER than Shadow!"
"... Are you really..."
"Yes! I am!"
"How do you figure that?" Hiei asked.
"Because it's true and no one can argue with that!"
"... I think we are..." Hiei said.
"Are what?" Eclipse asked cluelessly, looking confused.
"Arguing," Sesshoumaru said. Eclipse looked even more confused.
"Arguing with what?"
Sesshoumaru slowly fell over. Hiei just groaned and hit himself in the forehead.
"Forget it. I thought you were going to bed..."
"Oh yeah!" She skipped out of the room.
"Idiot," Inuyasha muttered.
"No kidding..."
. . .
"So where are we going now that we got those shards?" Yusuke asked.
"Why are you asking? We just woke up..."
"You can't say as much for Shadow," Youko said. He pointed to the only room in the hall with a closed door.
"Maybe she's dead," Eclipse said. She walked down the hall and pushed open the sliding door. Then she blinked, closed it, rubbed her eyes, and opened it again.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked, slightly worried since he knew Sesshoumaru had been in there (worried that Fluffy had killed them all or something).
"Well..."
Everybody moved down the hall and looked into the room. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. Nope, his brother definitely hadn't killed anyone.
Shadow was asleep on Sesshoumaru's lap, her head resting on his chest and her arms around his waist. He had one hand on her side. Hiei was sitting next to Sesshoumaru, fast asleep, partially leaning on the dog demon.
Inuyasha coughed. "Hey Sesshoumaru!" he hissed. His elder brother's eyes snapped open, looking slightly more red than usual before the glow faded and he closed one eye to look at the group tiredly.
"What?"
"Become a pillow now, have you?"
"Shut up, baka hanyou..."
Inuyasha looked annoyed. Youko snickered and walked up to Hiei. He jabbed him in the chest. "Oi, Hiei!"
"Hnn?" Hiei mumbled, his head snapping up.
"Wake up, sleepy. You've made a pillow out of Sesshoumaru here..."
Hiei looked at his 'pillow,' then back at Youko. "Yes, well Shadow wouldn't let us sleep."
"Oh? She looks pretty cozy, though... Why isn't she on your lap?"
"Cause I told her to get lost."
"Why?!" Youko asked, appalled. "Why would you do something stupid like that?"
"Because we were awake until three o'clock, talking and playing cards and whatnot. All I wanted to do was sleep."
"Didn't seem to be too tired to me," Sesshoumaru said. "Looked to me like you didn't mind it at all. It's normal for you to be up that late, remember?"
"Shut up, Fluffy," Hiei snapped. Sesshoumaru growled slightly.
"Look guys, let's just get some breakfast, then we'll head out to wherever," Miroku said, playing the part of peacekeeper.
"BREAKFAST?!" Shadow said excitedly, sitting bolt upright. "Where?!"
"God..." Yusuke muttered. Shadow jumped up.
"Oh, good morning everyone, if indeed it is morning!" she said cheerfully. Then she glared. "Now where's my breakfast?"
"Somewhere else," Yusuke answered.
"Well WHERE'S THAT?!"
"Not here."
"You are aware you were sleeping on my brother's lap, aren't you?" Inuyasha asked.
"Huh?" Shadow looked down at Sesshoumaru. "Oh. Yeah. So?"
"That's not safe."
"Why not?"
"He might get pissed and kill you."
"Oh, come on, don't tell me I know your brother better than you do!"
"What?"
"Fluffy wouldn't hurt me, let alone kill me! He's just a big softie, like Hiei. That's why they get along so well."
"Oh, yeah, Hiei and his pink bunnies!" Miroku said, remembering the conversation from a few days prior.
"I hate pink!" Hiei snapped.
"Kurama likes pink..." Shadow said. "He's in touch with his feminine side."
"What?!" Youko yelped, horrified. He punched Shadow in the head.
"Ow! Hey! Dammit, don't try to distract me! Where's my breakfast?!"
"Bossy thing, isn't she?" Sango said.
"Yes! No! No I'm not!"
"Easily confused, too," Miroku added.
"No breakfast for you until I check on that wound," Hiei said, pointing to Shadow's shoulder.
"Wound?" She looked around and spotted her bandaged shoulder through a hole in her shirt. Her eyes widened, she pointed to it and moved her mouth soundlessly, then promptly collapsed. Sesshoumaru, however, managed to catch her before she hit the ground.
"What is wrong with this girl?!"
"Who knows... I do wish she'd stop doing that, though," Hiei said.
"I'm gonna go poke around in the kitchen," Eclipse said, walking away.
Everyone else muttered some agreements and followed, stranding Hiei and Sesshoumaru (who, by the way, wasn't chained to anyone) to take care of baka Shadow...
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Now wasn't that fun?