The Third Family

Author's Note- Here's the long awaited continuation of Shippo's prank:)


The next afternoon I left my library with the materials to set the trap up and headed right to where Shippo and I had agreed to meet. Lucky for us, Kagome had insisted that she and Inuyasha take a walk in the gardens after lunch. I suspected Kagome had something to do with this. Having no proof, I decided to keep my opinions to myself.
Turning the corner towards Inuyasha's rooms, I was greeted by a loud whisper. "Kyo!"
I looked down to see Shippo jumping up and down excitedly.
"Are we going to pull the prank on Inuyasha now!"
"Of course." I said showing him the materials in my hands, "I promised you we'd do it this afternoon, didn't I?"
Shippo squealed in delight. I grinned and looked up at the ceiling. "You're going to have to turn into something I can climb on." I commented to him.
Nodding, Shippo turned himself into a pink rock in a puff of smoke. Surpressing a giggle, I climbed up onto him and attached the bucket of maple syrup onto the ceiling. Climbing back down I tied the string that was on the bucket to the sliding door.
"Ready for the feathers?" I asked Shippo.
"Yeah!" he exclaimed, jumping up and down happily. Suddenly he stopped. "Inuyasha put the feathers up first so there was no problem getting into the room later." the kitsune announced, "Do we have a problem?"
I looked back up at the bucket. "No. We'll just have to be really careful when we open the door to get in. Okay?"
"Okay!"
Opening the door the smallest amount I could manage and still get in with my giant belly I was relieved to see that the syrup still hadn't spilled. Shippo jumped into the room and I followed, closing the door again.
It was a bit harder to put the feathers on the ceiling than it had been to do the syrup. Instead of one fastener to stick on the ceiling, there were four. It didn't help that they had to be strong enough to keep the cloth full of feathers up and weak enough to break when Inuyasha pulled the string attached to it.
Putting the string attached to the cloth was a whole lot easier than putting up the cloth. Finally we were finished.
"Done!" I announced happily.
"Can we get out?"
The answer, two minutes later, was yes. It was more difficult than getting in I have to admit. Instead of being able to watch and see if the bucket would tip, we couldn't see it. And it didn't help that there was a string across the bottom of the door. It made getting out harder for me, but not for Shippo. It was high enough that he could just crawl under.
"What are we going to do now?" Shippo asked.
I thought about what was going on in the castle. "Well you probably want to watch your trap go off on Inuyasha, right?" I asked.
He nodded.
"Then do you want to spy on Inuyasha? He's in the garden with Kagome."
"Good idea!" Shippo said laughing, "Let's go!"

For the sake of Inuyasha and Kagome, I won't repeat what Shippo and I saw that day. But just to let you know it wasn't anything bad. Some walking in silence, a fight, two sits, the normal stuff. But after the fight Kagome walked off in a bad mood, leaving Inuyasha alone in the garden. The poor hanyou wandered back into the castle and amazingly right past us without noticing. We followed him right to the hallway outside his room and waited. He didn't even seem to notice the sting as he pushed the door to his room open. The maple syrup poured down on him. I guess Shippo had added a bit of water to it.
Yelling a bit, Inuyasha jumped into his room and tripped right over the string across the doorway. Two out of four of the clips dropped, and the feathers went floating down on Inuyasha's back.
He growled and stood up slowly. Shippo gulped next to me. "This is when we run." he whispered to me. I didn't need any prompting. We took off as fast as we possibly could. Well that just wasn't fast enough.
A dripping, feathered Inuyasha jumped in front of us growling. "Shippo..." he said growling, "Kyo..."
"Hi..." I said grinning guiltily.
He glared at me.
Before I could even blink Inuyasha had grabbed Shippo and bonked him on the head. "Why'd you help him?" he asked me, still glaring.
"Don't prank Kurozena." I advised, "She's not nice. Just a little warning."
"Little." Inuyasha repeated, "You call this little! I'm freaking covered in SUGAR!"
Shippo began laughing which earned him another bump on the head.
"Compared to what Kurozena probably would have done, yes." I replied.
The hanyou growled on last time and dropped Shippo before stomping off.


Inuyasha: I only hit Shippo twice! Thats all!

Kagome: Yes. Thankfully.

Shippo: But two bumps still hurt!

Miroku: True. Inuyasha, you must learn to curve your anger.

Inuyasha: To where? You?

Miroku: Definitely not.

Clear Waters: Not me either. Read and review everyone!