DISCLAIMER: If Inuyasha were in my hands right now, I would not be writing a fanfiction, but living one!
A/N: Didn't do anything to this chapter. Am working on chapter 5.
The CycleChapter Two – Black Humor
By asian tofu
Inuyasha staggered into the nurse's office after school, almost crashing into the frail old women as she opened the door.
"Tomoyachi…" She clucked, "I presume the girl wasn't too grateful for your earlier deed?" The nurse asked indifferently to his bruised face.
"She's a girl? A bitch don't you mean…a bitch with unnatural accuracy and a throwing arm that can kill!" Inuyasha retorted as he slumped onto the nearest bed. "Huh? Where'd she go? Hello…"
The nurse reappeared, grinning indulgently.
"God damn it…that's not…that's not a…" Inuyasha gulped.
"Yeah, just a tiny shot to prevent infections…" She said, holding a 'tiny' needle about 2 times as large as her. Inuyasha groaned.
"Ah…no way…am I…you old hag!!! Get away and stay away!!" He wheezed as he shot up from his seat on the patient bed.
"Awww…Tomoyachi, you aren't afraid of this old needle are you? Well I do admit it's more on the old-fashioned side; they made them a tad larger back in the day, but it still serves its purpose just fine," she smiled, closing in on him.
"A tad larger?" Inuyasha choked. The old woman smirked.
"Don't come any nearer!!"
"You need a shot mister Tomoyachi!" The nurse said sternly, angling the needle in the direction of his arm.
"Hell no!! I'm fine, see?!" Inuyasha protested by jumping up and down. "Hag, I said…!"
"Stop squirming!!" The nurse scolded as the needle inched ever the closer towards Inuyasha's bare, helpless skin.
"No…!!!"
Disquieted students edged away from the nurse's office as they heard the screams from within; it was plainly noticeable that the nurse was raping a student.
Kagome was calmly sipping lemonade with Sango and Rin at the cafe. "Did you hear those shrieks coming out of the nurse's office?" She asked, teary-eyed. "The sound was like music to my ears!!"
Sango and Rin gave their friend a nervous smile, nodding in agreement as Kagome fiddled with the little slice of lemon on her glass. Sango looked at Rin and nudged her on the shoulder. Rin furiously shook her head and nudged Sango back. Sango sighed and faced the giddy Kagome.
"Kagome…you don't think you're being somewhat ruthless towards the guy? I mean, aren't you worried you'll seriously hurt him sometime around?" Kagome responded by bursting out into peals of laughter, spraying lemonade on some unwary and unfortunate passerby.
"Care if," She gasped for breath, "care if I hurt him?? No way!!" She entered another attack of the giggles, wiping away the tears from her eyes. "Come on Sango, do you usually care if you're hurting Miroku a little badly when you beat him senseless?" She asked, finally repressing her laughter to a few sniggers.
Sango reminisced for a minute, taking deep thought. Her brows furrowed as she closed her eyes, until she finally put on a serious face and gazed directly into Kagome's eyes, all emotion locked.
"Nope." She said curtly, taking up her lemonade. Rin began to wonder how on earth they became so violent. Must be the lemonade…we should've gone and gotten coffee…
"Umm…what do you want to do now?" She asked, leaning on the table with her hands on her face. Kagome grinned wildly towards her and Sango.
"How about a trip to the mall?" Rin suggested, hoping that some sort of sane activity would stop her friends from harming others. Sango and Kagome both got up with horribly malicious glints in their eyes, marching out of the café, leaving the bill for Rin to cover. She glared at the back of their necks and listened to their slightly alarming antics.
"I'm in need of a new exterminator weapon anyway," Sango muttered wistfully. Rin wondered what the 'exterminating' job was exactly.
"I have to go tutor Inuyasha," said Kagome disgustedly. "I'll have to pass." That was even more alarming than Sango's plans.
Inuyasha limped home, tired from the activities that had occurred in the nurse's office. After the shot was "stabbed in" by the sadistic hag, they sat down and had a nice conversation over tea and crumpets.
Who'd ever know that our nurse was born in England? He chuckled lightly. His arm was almost paralyzed from pain though. All the students were giving him funny looks when he came out too – one even gave him a sympathetic pat on the back. Must've been victims of Shelly. Shelly was what the nurse had oh so affectionately named the Needle.
He reached his house accordingly, climbing deftly over the barbed wire-topped wall that led to the backyard. He never liked the butler, Jaken, so he chose to avoid him in any way possible. He was hired by his brother Sesshoumaru and had accompanied his lovable brother on a business trip. Inuyasha observed that the little man's enormous, watery eyes enjoyed ogling at his brother and saying 'Sesshoumaru-sama' all the time. He figured he was a gay.
The teenager blew aside a clump of his bangs to get a better look at the ground, hanging helplessly onto a little part of wall uncovered by wire.
"Damn…" he muttered, staring quite vexingly at the wooden stakes strewn all around the wall, going out into the yard several meters out of his jumping range. Out of the corner of his eye Inuyasha spotted the hateful toad emerge from nowhere, allowing a small amount of hedonism rest in his smug chortle.
"Oh…Inuyasha-sama, I'm afraid that boys your age shouldn't be climbing like that. Your mummy will worry," he chimed on, "and god knows what'll happen if you get a boo-boo."
Inuyasha squirmed, remembering the last time he had gotten hurt. His mother had made such a fuss that Jaken had taken pictures of him under his mother's smothering, and had threatened to sell them off on an online auction somewhere. That had freaked Inuyasha out, and Jaken had blackmailed him into a month of scrubbing the toilets – with only his boxers on. The maids had taken pictures. They blackmailed him. The list went on.
Coughing into his handkerchief, Jaken smiled at him. "We can wait for the Senior Master and Mistress to come home – "
"What do you want?!"
"Only to see you hanging there on the wall for a prolonged period of time," the man stated jubilantly before he disappeared into the shelter of the house again.
"Bastard!" Inuyasha retorted to his retreating shadow.
DING DONG.
Jaken hobbled over to the gate, bubbly from the fact that his genius plan worked. "Yes?"
Kagome shifted her backpack higher up her shoulder, "Hi, I'm Inuyasha's tutor. Is this his…" she glanced up at the 4-story building, "…house?"
That's funny; his tutor looks scrawnier than last time. Why is she wearing a schoolgirl uniform? Young people and their goddamned trends, thought Jaken, giving the girl an once-over. He cleared his throat, "I'm afraid the master is has gone out back; he'll be joining you shortly." He stated, making way to allow her to enter.
Kagome stepped into a dazzling splendor. If the flat screen TV wasn't enough to unhinge her jaw from gaping, then the spacious ballroom size of the room did. A magnificent crystal chandler dangled 10 meters above her, swathing the room with a brilliantly golden light.
"May I kindly suggest that you sit, miss?" Jaken offered her a seat on the couch. Kagome obliged, but with extreme caution. It wouldn't be a long wait till Inuyasha barged inside, scowling at her loathingly for ruining his furniture.
"What the hell – heck," she corrected herself, "is Inuyasha doing that is taking so long?! I don't have time for his fooling around!" Kagome fumed, leaving the couch, armed crossed and heading in one general direction.
"Miss, where are you going?" Jaken queried, emerging from the kitchens with a plate of refreshments for her, furrowing his brow.
Kagome snapped at him, "To wherever Tomoyachi plans to hide away the rest of my night!" She huffed, storming through closer to the yard, feeling oddly familiar with her surroundings. She blindly picked the correct doors, letting her instincts take her closer to her victim.
Finally, she spotted a glass door that allowed moonlight to gently shower through. Though "gentle" was the last thing on Kagome's mind as she stared at Inuyasha, who was hanging on an obsolete Victorian-style wall, about to plunge into a ground full of wooden stakes.
Jaken had been able to catch up just in time to speak leisurely, "The master is certainly fond of daring activities."
"Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha's head perked up, obviously horrified, "H-Higurashi…!"
"What…are you…doing, exactly?!" She seethed, trudging around the stakes to efficiently look up at the trapped soul. "Leaving me inside, waiting for hours…"
"I can explain – "
" – don't know what you were thinking – "
" – damn butler, put the stakes on the ground so I couldn't get down without my intestines splattering on the ground – "
"Just wait till you get down, then there'll be blood and guts to pay – "
"Kagome!"
" – so dead, Tomaya – huh?"
If he had the opportunity to slap himself, Inuyasha would have.
Kagome was dumbstruck – had he just called her by her first name?
Jaken, as if on cue, cleared his throat. "Shall we enjoy some refreshments?"
Kagome was sitting on the side of the bed, reading. Inuyasha was sitting on the other side, pouting with a book in his lap.
"Higurashi – "
"Shh!"
"But – "
"Bluhblah!"
"Excuse me – "
"Ah, nuhnuhnuh – "
"Damn it, I have to go!"
"Ah-shh – oh. All right. Be back in five minutes." She gave consent, watching tartly as Inuyasha threw the mathematics textbook gruffly onto the bed. The springs sounded as he rose, leaving hastily.
In a good ten minutes, he was back. Kagome was skimming through the next chapter in her History text, and didn't look up to say tersely, "Tomoyachi, what does five minutes mean to you?"
"A quick piss," Inuyasha bluntly stated.
Kagome twitched, flipping a page. "So what were you doing in the other 5 minutes – "
"You're not my mother or anything, so it's none of your fucking business," Inuyasha disparaged hotly, a bit of ire sparking in him.
Kagome glared at him this time, quietly closing and placing her textbook back in her backpack. She picked up Inuyasha's textbook, which was lying open upside down, and thrust it straight into his face.
"Language."
Jaken watched as the young lady tutor of Inuyasha's was sent home by one of the Tomoyachi limousines. His master was in his room, not bothering to send her off. Shows how the little bastard refrains from manners. Now Sesshoumaru-sama, he's a man of honor. The toad-like butler beamed at the thought of the other Tomoyachi brother, shutting the door from the outside draft.
Not long after he retired to the kitchen to inspect the late dinner that was being prepared for the hard-working Sesshoumaru to return home, making sure that every dish was arranged to perfection. He hollered at one of the kitchen boys for rolling the sushi without washing his hands first, made the chef redo a dish of red wine dumplings because the wine used wasn't expensive enough, and contented himself with tasting every dish personally.
Inuyasha sauntered in for a modest late-night snack. He helped himself from the refrigerator, taking a luscious piece of cake and a soda. Leaning against the counter as the chef furiously kneaded dough again for the sixth time, he spoke through a mouthful of crumbs, "Ha' da 'itch gone 'et?"
Jaken scowled at him for making a mess of the floor, promptly ordering a maid to clean it up. "If you're talking about that tutor of yours, yes, she did. She was tutoring you, so I assumed you would know."
Inuyasha downed the large piece of cake with a gulp of soda, "Didn't tell me. Just shover a book in my face and left." He tenderly rubbed his nose at the memory.
"That's what you get," Jaken muttered. Inuyasha sniffed, throwing away one of his soda cans.
"Bastard," he retorted as he cracked open the top of his second drink.
"I would appreciate if you would abstain from insulting my employees, brother," Sesshoumaru's deep, collected voice echoed across the room.
Jaken immediately recognized him and took his coat, "Sesshoumaru-sama! So good to see you home!"
"I'll do whatever the hell I want, Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha scoffed curtly. He was merely ignored, so he took a seat at the dining table, completely empty save for Sesshoumaru.
"Bring in the victuals, Jaken," he ordered, which the butler swiftly accomplished.
"Are the parents going to be home?" the younger Tomoyachi probed, knowing that his brother worked at his father's company.
"No, I think they have a dinner-party tonight with some head of states. It'll be a good marketing opportunity," Sesshoumru replied, picking up his chopsticks to begin the meal. "By the way, brother, have you seen the paper?" Sesshoumaru almost growled.
"I don't read the paper – is there anything in it today that I even would care about?" Inuyasha put ingenuously, ordering for some chopsticks.
Sesshoumaru bristled and unrolled a newspaper, spreading it on the table in Inuyasha's direction, "Read the title."
TWO LOCAL COMPANY WORKERS DEAD
Inuyasha glanced at it and snorted, "So?"
The older Tomoyachi impatiently took the paper from the table and began to read aloud from the article, "Friday night, the body of Yamaguchi Goro was found in the testing lab of Tomoyachi Enterprises, most likely dead from complications from heart failure…"
"Whoopee, the family company's rep's been tarnished from a guy who died from bad health," Inuyasha cut in, plucking a particularly large dumpling into his mouth.
"Let me finish," Sesshoumaru frowned. "This morning, another body was found and recognized. The corpse of Hinakare Kikyou was found in the forest of the public-park, time of death somewhere within 36 hours ago, cause of death a right shoulder injury and blood loss…"
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'd like to apologize for all the confusion in me editing this story all the time. I can never be satisfied with it, and I took it down briefly once before uploading it back up on the same day. I think I like it too much. --sighs-- I wish I wasn't such a perfectionist.