I'm sad to say that I don't own Inuyasha or Beauty and the Beast, but I hope you like this chapter.
Ioka: To answer your question, I left Shippou and Jaken in their demon form and all the characters in their normal form, but I did to mention in the story that the characters cannot leave the castle. Sorry all.
(Fade back to the bedroom of the castle where Kagome is still crying. There is a 'clink clink clink' at the door. She gets up and walks over to open the door. Sango enters with Rin, pushing a cart)
KAGOME: Who is it?
SANGO: (from outside the door) It Sango. (Door opens.) I thought you might like some tea.
KAGOME: (sitting back on the bed) I guess so.
CHIP: (as Sango put sugar and cream into a cup) Told ya she was pretty, Sango
SANGO: All right, now, Rin. Can you give this to her. (Rin smiles, and runs over to Kagome) Slowly, now. Don't spill!
KAGOME: Thank you. (She takes the cup from Rin, who has a big smile on her face.)
RIN: (To Kagome) Rin loves to help. (Rin sits next to Kagome.)
SANGO: (To Kagome) That was a very brave thing you did.
KAGOME: (places the teacup on the side table) But I've lost my father, my dreams, everything.
SANGO: Cheer up. It'll turn out all right in the end. You'll see. (She looks up, startled.) Oops! Look at me, jabbering on, when there's a supper to get on the table. Rin, you want to help?
RIN: (Jumps off the bed) Yay! (Runs after Sango, and waves to Kagome.) Bye!
(Another knock on the door. Enters Kagura.)
KAGURA: Excuse me, miss? I'm here to help you choose a dress for dinner. (Goes to the closet) What color would suit you? (Picks out a beautiful silver dress. Holds it up to Kagome)
KAGOME: That's very kind of you, but I'm not going to dinner.
KAGURA: What? But you have to!
(Jaken waddles in)
JAKEN: Ah pardon me, but dinner is served.
(Cut to Sesshoumaru pacing back and forth in front of fire, with Sango and Shippou looking on.)
SESSHOUMARU: What's taking so long? I told her to come down. Why isn't she here yet?!?
SANGO: Oh, try to be patient, sir. The girl has lost her father and her freedom all in one day.
SHIPPOU: Uh, master. Have you thought that, perhaps, this miko could be the one to break the spell?
SESSHOUMARU: (angrily) Of course I have. I'm not a fool.
SHIPPOU: Good. You fall in love with her, she falls in love with you, and--Poof!--the spell is broken! We'll be normal again by midnight!
SANGO: Oh, it's not that easy, Shippou. These things take time.
SHIPPOU: But the rose has already begun to wilt.
SESSHOUMARU: It's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm so...well, look at me! (Shippou shrugs his shoulders and looks at Sango.)
SANGO: Oh, you must help her to see past all that.
SESSHOUMARU: I don't know how.
SANGO: Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable. Straighten up, try to act like a gentleman. (SESSHOUMARU sits up, then straightens his face very formally)
SHIPPOU: (adding in) Ah yes, when she comes in, give her a dashing, debonair smile. Come, come. Show me the smile. (BEAST gives the smallest bit of a smile)
SANGO: But don't frighten the poor girl.
SHIPPOU: Impress her with your rapier wit.
SANGO: But be gentle.
SHIPPOU: Shower her with compliments.
SANGO: But be sincere
SHIPPOU: And above all...
BOTH: You must control your temper! (The door creaks open. SESSHOUMARU looks to the door expectantly.)
SHIPPOU: Here she is! (Jaken enters.)
JAKEN: Uh, good evening. (Sesshoumaru goes from expectant to mad.)
SESSHOUMARU: (growling) Well, where is she?
JAKEN: (buying time) Who? Oh! The girl. Yes, the, ah, girl. Well, actually, she's in the process of, ah, um, circumstances being what they are, ah... she's not coming. (Cut to ext of den with door slightly ajar)
SESSHOUMARU: WHAT!!!!!!! (Door bangs open and Sesshoumaru comes running out, with Jaken, Shippou, and Sango giving chase)
SHIPPOU: Your grace! Your eminence! Let's not be hasty! (Cut to ext of Kagome's room. Sesshoumaru runs up to it and bangs on the door.)
SESSHOUMARU: (Yelling) I thought I told you to come down to dinner!
KAGOME: (From behind the door) I'm not hungry.
SESSHOUMARU: You'll come out or I'll break down the door!
SHIPPOU: (interrupting) Master, I could be wrong, but that may not be the best way to win the girl's affections.
JAKEN: (pleading) Please! Attempt to be a gentleman.
SESSHOUMARU: (growing angrier) But she is being so difficult!
SANGO: Gently, gently.
SESSHOUMARU: (very dejected) Will you come down to dinner?
KAGOME: No! (Sesshoumaru looks at the three, very frustrated.)
JAKEN: Suave. Genteel.
SESSHOUMARU: (can't believe he is doing this, but tries to act formal, he bows at the door) It would give me great pleasure if you would join me for dinner.
JAKEN: Ahem, ahem, we say 'please.'
SESSHOUMARU: (once again dejected) ...please.
KAGOME: (Mad at Sesshoumaru) No, thank you.
SESSHOUMARU: (furious) You can't stay in there forever!
KAGOME: (provokingly) Yes I can!
SESSHOUMARU: Fine! Then go ahead and STARVE!!!! (To the three) If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all! (Sesshoumaru runs back down the hall, slamming a door and causing a piece of the ceiling to fall on Shippou.)
SANGO: That didn't go very well at all, did it.
JAKEN: Lumiere, stand watch at the door and inform me at once if there is the slightest change.
SHIPPOU: (Taking guard position next to door) You can count on me, Capitan.
SANGO: Well, I'm going to talk to her. (Knocks on the door)
KAGOME: Who is it?
SANGO: It's Sango.
KAGOME: You can come in. (Sango opens the door, and then closes it behind her)
JAKEN: Well, I guess we better go downstairs and start cleaning up.
(Cut to int of Sesshoumaru's lair. Sesshoumaru enters, knocking over and destroying things in his path.)
SESSHOUMARU: I ask nicely, but she refuses. What a...what does she want me to do--beg? No, I, Sesshoumaru will not beg. (Picking up the MAGIC MIRROR) Show me the girl. (The MAGIC MIRROR shines, then glows green and reveals Kagome in her bedroom, talking to Sango)
SANGO: (in mirror pleading) Why the master's not so bad once you get to know him. Please try and give him a chance.
KAGOME: (still disturbed by the attack) I don't want to get to know him. I don't want to have anything to do with him!
SESSHOUMARU: (setting down MAGIC MIRROR, speaking tenderly) I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything...but a monster. (Another petal falls off the rose.) It's hopeless. (Sesshoumaru puts his head in his hands as in a depressed state. Fade out.)
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