Akina: I have taken over the laptop OF DOOM. Read my spiffy chapters and wait for the return of the Tsuki!
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Kagome awoke the next morning with an awful crick in her neck. (Tsuki's back nowww!) Wondering WHAT could have possibly caused that, since she knew that it COULDN'T have ever been a GO-KART, she headed downstairs for breakfast filled with great apprehension about her second day of summer employment.
Inuyasha was already waiting at the breakfast table, prodding at eggs with his fork and disturbingly awake for the time of day. Kagome paused to glare at him and his morning awake-ness, before heading off to receive her own ration of radioactive eggs. Setting her plate down in front of the hanyou, since she really had no one else to speak with yet, she also commenced in the High School ritual of prodding mysterious food with utensils.
"I think they're rubber," Inuyasha commented nonchalantly.
Ah, so the fact that he seems to be awake is just that his gruffness hasn't kicked in yet. Kagome wondered for a moment when that gruffness would kick in, but wasn't spared the thought as a murderous-looking Kaede stomped into the dining hall, followed by two new faces.
"Kagome, these two late arrivals are Naraku and Kagura. Make sure they get some taxing jobs, for waking an old lady before dawn."
Kagome nodded wearily and hefted her Clipboard. Inuyasha eyed it for a moment before reaching out and grabbing Kaede's wrist to prevent her from leaving. "Hey, old hag. Where's the showers around here?"
"There's only one shower, Inuyasha. Ask Kagome about it,"
Kagome blushed and made a show of looking for the new arrival's papers, keeping her eyes away from Inuyasha's curious stare. Finally locating their information, she tapped her pen against her lip.
"Well, I thought I had assigned all the jobs yesterday, but I think there's one animal exhibit without a keeper. Naraku, you're working with the giraffes. You're rooming with..."
She looked up at Inuyasha, who balked. "Oh, no. I like having a room to myself. No brother to kill, no one else's crap to pick up. Don't do it, Kagome. You'll regret it, I'll make your life a living hell! I'll..."
Ignoring the rambling Inuyasha, she smiled up at Naraku. "With him," she said brightly. Naraku raised an eyebrow and wordlessly carted his things off towards the dorms.
"Hey, how does he know where I sleep? Ah!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "He's stalking me!"
"Idiot. If you room alone, then obviously your room will be the one with only one inhabitant." Naraku replied.
Kagome snickered despite herself, flipping the page to Kagura's facts of existence. "Well, it says here that you're a drama major. I can't immediately relate that to any animals, so I'm having you split the wing house with Rin. You're in charge of birds."
Kagura nodded. "I can handle them."
"Good. You're also an odd number, so you get the last empty girl's room."
Inuyasha whined, ears flattening. "Aw, Kagome! Why can't I have that room?"
She glared at him before turning to smile up at Kagura. "It's the last one to the right,"
Kagura also headed off, leaving a furious Inuyasha glaring at a pensive Kagome, who was poking her eggs with renewed interest.
"Kagome, why do you hate me so much?" he whined.
"I don't hate you," she said automatically. "Honestly, I was perfectly happy when I met you yesterday. It's you that acted like I was a leper,"
Inuyasha glared at nothing in particular, good mood gone. This wasn't improved when his elder brother sat down next to Kagome, spouting off nonsense about one of the girls he had met at dinner.
"Beautiful lady, contending with the heavens, Rin shall me by girl."
Inuyasha snorted. "Too many syllables, eh? When will you give up this haiku thing, anyway?"
"This Sesshoumaru, angered already by you, will not sit here now." Sess got up and left, making Kagome glare at Inuyasha.
"What?!" he exclaimed, wide-eyed and innocent.
"He was being sweet," Kagome shot back. "It's been forever since I heard anyone say poetry about a girl. It made me feel fuzzy, even if he wasn't talking about me. I was all happy, even though I should be depressed since no one's ever done that for me, and you went and drove him away!"
Inuyasha blinked. "Why would anyone waste their time making up poetry about girls?" he asked.
Kagome's eyes filled up with tears. "Why?! Are you saying that I'm not worthy of guys? You're saying that I'm ugly!" she exclaimed, eyes wide.
Inuyasha panicked visibly, amber eyes wide with fear. "Kagome, don't cry! I never said that! I just said that my brother was an idiot for wasting his time—Kagome, don't cry!"
She sat there bawling, crying only getting worse when he said 'wasting his time'. Jumping out of her seat, she grabbed her eggs and dumped them on his head. "There! Now you LOOK like a monkey too! You should just live with them all the time, baka!"
Kagome turned and fled the room, leaving her Clipboard on the chair behind her. Sess didn't say anything, and since it was still dark outside, no one else was awake yet. The staff director took a nice, long walk over to the monkey exhibit and climbed into a tree, glaring at the inquisitive animals around her. They chattered nervously at her before backing off, teaming up to figure out how they would drive her out.
Kagome curled up in a ball and cried, occasionally muttering 'Inuyasha no Baka'.
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Inuyasha blinked after Kagome left. She thought he was a monkey? He still wasn't exactly sure how he had angered her, but he knew that he was angry with her. There were eggs on his head, and he was a little worried that they were acidic.
Catching sight of the clipboard, he grabbed it and headed off to find Kaede. Discovering that the old hag slept like the dead, and wondering how Naraku and Kagura had managed to wake her, Inuyasha resorted to flipping through the Forbidden Clipboard of Knowledge.
There, a key in the back of the clipboard marked 'showers'. He pulled it out of the board and put it back on Kagome's breakfast chair, figuring that she would come back for it eventually.
Now, all there was to do was try the key in each door along the dorm hallway. Not hard, right?
After a long and perilous journey deep into female territory, Inuyasha paused in front of the first door in the hallway. Kagome's room: sure, she was sharing it with Sango, but that didn't change the fact. For the hell of it, he tried the key.
The door swung open.
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After one very frightened hanyou streaked into the monkey cage, hair dripping wet and twin handprints on either side of his face, Kagome decided that it was time to leave. Climbing back down, she made a quick escape before the hanyou could catch sight of her.
On her way back to the staff house, she caught a glimpse of Sesshoumaru chasing after a peacock. I'll eventually have to tell him that the peacocks never had their win...eh, never mind. He'll see soon enough. Kagome smiled and continued towards the staff house, turning a blind eye on the scuttling Sesshoumaru.
Grabbing the Clipboard of Life, she was suddenly confronted by an enraged Sango. "Kagome! Inuyasha burst into our room and used our shower! I beat him up, but—"
"It's okay, Sango. That's the only staff shower in the building. He put the key back in the clipboard, so it's even more okay."
Sango blinked at her, before wincing as a melodic voice approached behind her. "Oh Sango, my sweet, it's nearly opening time! We must be off to greet the guests!"
Sango turned around and smacked Miroku across the face. Kagome would have been shocked if she hadn't seen the hand groping her roommate's butt. "Miroku, it doesn't ask on the resume, but have you ever been on a sexual offenders listing?"
He blinked at her thoughtfully, as if he couldn't remember. Kagome shook her head and headed off towards her go-kart of doom, intending to make a quick once-around of the park, just in case anyone on the staff was having problems.
Pausing only once in front of the prairie dog exhibit, where Kouga had stuck his head up through one of the plastic above-ground bubbles installed for visiting children. He was looking around at his charges and seemed to be chatting with them. Kagome continued on, not wanting to know what was going on.
When she reached the monkeys, she was pleased to note that everything was calm and quiet. Swerving around the scuttling Sesshoumaru, she headed back towards the staff house.
Her walkie-talkie buzzed.
"Kagome...this is Kaede. The train is running on its own!"
Kagome hesitated before answering. "Doesn't it usually?"
"No! I control the train from the station! It's...it's going alone!"
"Calm down, Kaede, I'll be right over," Kagome replied.
Hmm...the monkeys were awfully quiet. I'm going to swing by there one last time before I head up to the train station.
Well, there was a good reason that the monkeys were quiet.
"Innnnuuuuyyyyaaasssshhhaaaa..." Kagome cursed, glaring at the cage.
The monkeys were quiet because the monkeys, and their keeper, were gone.
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Inuyasha laughed as the breeze blew back his hair. "HAHAHAHAHA! I'm free! Free! Take that, Kagome! Take that, Kaede! Take that, Naraku! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nothing can stop me an' my peeps now!"
One of his monkey comrades latched onto his arm, heart-shaped eyes looking up at him adoringly.
"Yes, that's right Kikyo! First the train, next the entire zoo! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Kikyo The Monkey chattered happily and continued to be attached to her keeper's arm. Good mate, she thought happily. Inuyasha was too caught up in his success at overthrowing the chain of staff command to notice the monkey's unhealthy obsession with him...after all, he was sitting on top of the train, which was packed full of monkeys. Who wouldn't be preoccupied with joy?
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Tsuki: wooo-hooo! Thought we'd never update, did you?
Akina: ::not actually here:: Tsuki's determined. She wasted homework time on this after I had to go home.
Tsuki: ::nods proudly:: been a while since we updated, Akina. Lucky for all of you, we wrote out our plotline! First, Fur and Feathers, next, Babysitter-Sama! ::grins::
Akina: we're gonna review reply before anything, though. Right, Tsuki?
Tsuki: right... ::whispers:: crazy taco! She only thinks I'm being good! But really...I'm painting with watercolors!
Akina: ::hears, beats Tsuki with very large salted fish:: REVIEW REPLY, TSUKI NO BAKA!
Tsuki: ::cries:: don't hate me, the world hates me! Oooohhhkaaayyy, Akina. I'll listen.
orange-InuYasha: yay, one of our most faithful reviewers reviewed for us! we're so happy! yayyyyyy!
feilo: thank you! ::grins::
eX-Driver Liz: naw, if Miroku had the pigs, then what would Keade take care of? if you want to play the funnest game in the world, go here: and play the Keade pig-riding game! SQUEE, it's so awesome! ride the pig, Keade, ride!
Reignashii: you ask for the secret behind the insantiy? ooohhkkaaayyy.... waay too much time on our hands, waay too much sugar in the house, and so much depression we could cry ourselves a lake if we wanted, so instead we stomp and press our sadness into slap-happy creativity...
(Akina: but then again, no.
Tsuki: but I told the truth...
Akina: the truth comes out behind the workings of the crazy girl's brain....::rolls eyes::
Tsuki: ::doesn't hear, is busy painting her fingernails black and writing sad poetry::)
Shamanic Destiny: this....is....an...ORIGINAL PLOT?!?!?!? yes, our quest for the plot that hasn't been ripped off already is complete!!!
fufu: the only flashbacks of Hepp that Tsuki has involve running, reports on racquetball, and jocks. hmm, she wonders why...?
Tomiie-789: okay, we'll so continue plez?!?! (not trying to make fun of you, but why the question marks?)
feilo: once again, tanky.
Tsuki: ::dies:: oh, the agony of writing review replies! now I'm soooo happy I never started that with Meeting Place! it'd be a hella lot shorter, that's for one thing!
Akina: I just can't wait until we can spew out some of the ideas we got from the first movie....
Tsuki: yes, but updates call. At least now we have a concrete plotline for all these comidies...