Disclaimer: The day I own Inuyasha, is the day Sesshomaru or Naraku comes alive and tries to engage me...
Mission Impossible: The Switcheroo
Chapter 6: Parental and Brotherly Concerns
(Sesshomaru's POV)
The hypnotic patter of rain drops fell constantly in their rhythm like form. Enough to drive any one crazy after that's all their heard for twenty-four hours straight. Pitter-patter... Pitter-patter...Just listening to a bit of it gives me a migraine. Even worse, I'm stuck in a pathetic human body... I'm sure that thought has come to my mind more then a dozen times today.
And of course, I'm sure my dear brother and I have gotten into more then fifty arguments and quarrels, if not more. Obviously, The hag... Kaede, was it not? Anyways, I'm sure she's just trying to torment the two of us but sticking us in the same hut... Alone... And constantly striking each others nerves.
Well, I suppose there's nothing better to do here other then sit, and hope for the best.
(Inuyasha's POV)
Again, for the umpteenth today, I slammed my fist against the enchanted door, again earning a terribly irritating shock of energy. Pure miko energy and youki aura doesn't quite go together...
Sure, the powerful body is a plus, I have to admit. But when I get my hands on whoever did this to me, and my brother, I suppose, I'll wring their sorry head off of their sorry shoulders and melt their sorry hides... Well, I suppose you all get my point... Just wait until Kaede releases us from this prison... I bet she suspects something wrong with us too.
"Inu-kun, I'm worried..." Izayoi finally squeaked, panting like a lunatic while trying to regain her breath.
"Well, don't be-"InuTaisho started, obviously about to go into one of his rational explanations before getting cut off by Yuki.
"Because it's been quite an amusing display so far..." Yuki chimed in cheerfully.
"Yuki!!!" Izayoi screamed, causing her ex-husband to cringe. "How could you possibly treat our sons like...? Like... Some freak show?!?"
"Easy..." Yuki replied, grinning. "Like this." With that, she sat down in a dog like manner, staring out into the screen on the skeleton walls that played what happened to their, 'subjects'.
"Women... even when they're dead, they're unbearable..." InuTaisho sighed, shaking his head.
"Inu-kun!!!" shouted the two females, slamming their fist into InuTaisho's skull...
Meanwhile, Back in Kaede's hut...
"Kaede-sama, why did you lock Sesshomaru-sama and Inuyasha in the same hut?..." Rin asked with, again, those innocent eyes.
Astonished by the girl's curiosity and her loyalty to her lord, Kaede simply replied, "Think of it as a way to break those two dogs..."
As they settled down for a morning meal, Rin blurted out as every one was eating, "But Sesshomaru-sama isn't a dog... Is he?"
Kagome choke on her bread, Sango's face flushing red from the mouthful of green tea she had just gulped down. Miroku was perhaps the only one laughing, with the exception of Kaede who smirked.
"Well, it depends on who you look at it, ne?" Miroku suggested, puzzled by the question himself.
"Rin-chan," Sango started, "Sesshomaru is a dog demon... As Inuyasha is a dog hanyou..."
"And besides," Kagome added, "You make Sesshomaru look like a harmless little pup when you look into his eyes..."
Every one grinned from ear to ear as Rin's face turn up several shades of pink and red. The rest of the meal was quiet, not that anyone dared say anything... Either for their dignity's sake... Or the sake of not getting slapped for Miroku.
At THE hut...
(Inuyasha's POV)
You know what? This 'impenetrable' silence is killing me!!!
"Sesshomaru, for heaven's sakes, do you ever speak?!? Even when I was only born you were silent!" Inuyasha snapped, literally. He acted as all sanity has abandoned him.
"I speak, if there is something worth spending my breath talking about." Sesshomaru said solemnly, no doubt making absolutely no sense to his half brother.
"What?..." Inuyasha questioned, scratching his head slightly, "What the hell are you talking about?..."
"It means," Sesshomaru started, his voice filled with malice, "Nothing that you brings up, makes me care enough to start an actual conversation."
"Oh, so that's how you want to be, eh? Just another cold bastard youkai that decided that his life is officially going to be the new ice age. Go ahead, in fact, that's great news, considering I will finally be rid of your sorry excuse for a use of time and space!" Inuyasha snapped, letting out that anger he had kept in, trying to be as Kagome called it, 'civilized'.
Not a word came from the two brothers, both stung by the brutal reality. Sesshomaru, by the truth in Inuyasha's words, and Inuyasha, by realizing how brutally harsh he had just been."Look -", They said at the same time, stopping again. "I'm-""I should have-""Listen-"
For a moment, it seemed that none of their words would actually make sense, until Inuyasha gave a sharp bark (literally), "STOP!!!"
Sesshomaru was awestruck by his brother, giving him his trade mark death glare.
"I just want to know." Inuyasha said his voice hoarse from his recent shouting.
"Very well then, bother, though I doubt you would find anything I tell you to be of your concerns." Sesshomaru sighed in a tired voice. This was getting a bit old.
Inuyasha just stared at Sesshomaru, Sesshomaru at Inuyasha, both engaged in a momentary glaring war. The tension between the pair was so thick; one could have sliced through it with a butter knife.
"So, you think they'll have a brotherly moment?" Yuki asked.
"At this rate, I believe we'll have died at least a hundred times before they do..." Izayoi replied, beginning to fall asleep.
"Wake up girls, we have hope... I think." InuTaisho prodded, half expecting another two fists to land in his head for a pathetic attempt at using sarcastic remarks.
"I'm so bored, even smashing you wouldn't be enough fun..." Izayoi muttered, finally dropping to the floor, curling up besides Yuki's sleeping dog form. "Hun, wake me up when something interesting happens..."
The dead demon lord moaned, staring absent mindedly at the screen, mumbling under his breath, "Now I'm a bloody watch dog..." a rock flew up at his head with great accuracy, and bounced off the back of his skull with a satisfying, 'ping'. "So that's where Sesshomaru learned to throw rocks... His mother..." Another rock hit his head. "Ow."
"So what was he like?" Inuyasha asked out of the blues. If anything counted as random, this would qualify.
"What's who like?..." Sesshomaru replied, as a youkai lord many 'he's' in his life. His ear twitched as he leaned against a dank wall. Nothing to do... So bored... So ... Blank... So... So nothing.
"Our dad, InuTaisho." Inuyasha said, his clawed hand fidgeting with the fur over his shoulder... So soft... Reality snapped back to his when he fell over from sheer boredom.
"They're talking about me..." InuTaisho said, staring at the screen as his eyes looked like they were going to jump out of their sockets.
"Well..." Sesshomaru began...
To Be Continued...
Author's Note: Sorry about the delay! I just got elected as one of the two students to represent my class in the student council, so I have to prepare a speech... And with Thanksgiving at hand, I just didn't find time! Gomen... R&R!!! It makes me happy... And I love all you reviewer... SO FEEL LOVED!!! Just kidding... ;)
M. Hwang S.
