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Ch. 7

The next day, Sesshoumaru passed out in weakness. He needed food, something that the Taisho's short budget could not yet supply.

And so, Inuyasha abashedly asked his girlfriend for help. She rose splendidly to the occasion, even going so far as to allow Inuyasha and his ill brother to stay in her house.

"Is it serious?" Kagome cried when the younger boy brought an unconscious Sesshoumaru to her house on his back. (Sorry if it's confusing)

"Sessh has been off his sleep lately, and he hasn't eaten for nearly a whole week," confirmed an anxious Inuyasha. "Then, in the middle of playing the World, he just collapsed forward. I felt his head and he had an awful bad fever."

"Oh…well…his immune system is outta whack, or something, because he's just showing symptoms of a cold. It could be worse, but I think it's the common cold."

"Sesshoumaru got frail ten years ago. He'd so much as stand next to a person with the stomach flu and he'd be ralphing for a week. It sucks…"

"Did you get him tested for AIDS?" Kagome asked worriedly.

"Oh, yeah. We got him tested when his cold became acute pneumonia six years ago. He's not HIV positive," Inuyasha assured his koishii.

"All right. Just making sure," Kagome said as she parted Sesshoumaru's jet-black bangs and put a cold compress on his forehead. He took a sharp intake of breath, but nothing more.

"Thanks for helping, Kags. I probably should have just brought him some food from school. Cuz our budget's so weird and our income's so small, my lunch is free."

"Yuk! How can you eat it?" Kagome said, pulling a face.

"It's not too bad. But it depends on what the slop of the day is. I got sick off the pita bread one time. Hoo boy, that one was a doozie…"


Inuyasha was lying on his stomach when his brother Sesshoumaru showed up. The older boy himself was only 14 and new to taking care of his brother, so when he showed up to pick him up, he was very nervous.

"I…Inuyasha….a-are you okay! You're sick! Oh, no!"

Sesshoumaru picked Inuyasha up and held him bridal-style, though at the moment that he thought bridal-style, he couldn't exactly laugh. Inuyasha was beginning to cry.

"Sesshy, I ate the taco thingy and then my tummy hurt, and then my teacher didn't believe me because everyone was sick, and then…WAAAAHHH!"

Unable to take it anymore, Inuyasha began to wail.

"I dun wanna eat anymore! Not here!" he bawled.

Sesshoumaru blushed at the scene Inuyasha was causing.

"I am going take him home, okay?" he muttered, his childish voice barely making it out of his throat. It cracked, making him sound hoarse.

What a time for my voice to be changing. Ugh, he thought in exasperation. Damn puberty.

Precariously balancing a hysterical Inuyasha, he signed the sick one out and began to walk home.

"Uh-oh…" Inuyasha said thickly. "Sesshy…"

"Hn?"

"Put me down…oooaarghhhhhh!"

Inuyasha vomited all over his brother, the rancid contents of his stomach splashing against Sesshoumaru's neck and sliding down his shirt.

"Uughh!" Sesshoumaru moaned. He began to feel nauseous and stumbled, accidentally dropping his brother and running behind a bush with his hand over his mouth.

"Sesshy! Where did you go? Inu is scared!" Inuyasha cried, lapsing into the third person point of view little kids sometimes went into when desperate.

"SESSHY!"

Inuyasha cried and cried as he called his brother. Eventually, he drew attention to himself and several adults began to ask him what happened.

"Inu can't find Sesshy!" he cried. "Inu wants niichan!"

"Who is your niichan!" a woman asked soothingly. "Did you see where he went?"

"Sesshy went to the bushes. Inu wants him back!"

"Let's see," a man said. "Aha!"

He pulled a still nauseated Sesshoumaru from the bushes.

"I should have known when I heard that name. You've probably gotten yourself into some more drugs, I expect?"

"Iie…" Sesshoumaru said softly, eyes turned downward.

"Just look at you!" the man said. "Where do you get the idea to dress like this!"

"I…I saw it in one of my American magazines…" Sesshoumaru muttered. He was currently wearing a punk-Goth outfit consisting of baggy, slightly torn black jeans, a dark purple shirt, a black headband, large construction boots, and a long-sleeve grey shirt under his purple one. He also wore a silver dragon chain around his neck.

"You look like you belong in a gang! You aren't fit to care for your own brother."

At that, Sesshoumaru twisted out of the tall man's grip. He faced him with an ugly look on his handsome, proud face.

"Don't ever say that! I raise Inuyasha better than I raise myself," he spat. "You cannot judge me by my looks!"

The man dealt Sesshoumaru a punch and he reeled back.

"Don't take that tone with me, you hooligan! Rats like you will never change, no matter what their fathers do or say. It's all I can bear to think what kind of man Touga must have been…"

"Don't you dare even use his name! You besmirch his honor by using it!" the teenage Sesshoumaru snarled. "My father was a great man. He pulled me from the jaws of death when I was a wreck! Do not ever talk bad of him in front of me! You may insult me all that you want, but never Chichi-ue or Oto-chan. I will not allow it!"

The man punched Sesshoumaru on the cheek once more and this time, his ring drew blood. Sesshoumaru felt the left side of his face go numb as he crumpled to his knees. Tears stung at his eyes and he growled ferally.

"YOU LEAVE SESSHY ALONE!"

Inuyasha bit the man's leg, drawing blood underneath the pant leg, and ripped the cloth off. The other people gasped at his ferocity as he began to pound his second-grader fists into the man's shin.

"Chikuso!" the man said, picking Inuyasha up by the scruff of his clothes. The young boy clawed at the man's arm, trying to pry himself free. He finally sank his teeth into the man's fingers and was released. He joined his brother, who was nursing the bruise and wound on his face.

"See what this delinquent has shown his own brother!" the injured man growled. "He cannot be allowed to raise the boy any further."

He picked up Inuyasha by his backpack. Inuyasha squealed in fright, but he had used his last bit of strength to fight the man and Sesshoumaru still felt weak from getting sick in the bush, so he didn't make it in time to grab Inuyasha's hand before the women restrained him.

"NO!" He screamed, voice cracking hoarsely. "BRING MY BROTHER BACK TO ME!"

"NII-CHAN!"
"OTO-CHAN!"

Sesshoumaru fought with all of his strength, but was unable to overpower the four women holding him. They eventually took to holding his legs and arms respectively so that no matter how much he thrashed, he could not muster enough strength to break free as they followed the man holding Inuyasha to the police station. Eventually, he utterly exhausted himself and fell asleep on the way. Only one person was needed to carry him now, a strong lady who cradled him in her arms as he wrapped his legs and arms around her in an infantile manner, snuggling into her shoulder. She found it impossible to continue resenting the boy now. He was decidedly not innocent, but he was only a child. She knew it must be difficult for Sesshoumaru to be thrown into such an awkward position of parenthood. Everyone knew about the Taisho family tragedies, from the death of Sesshoumaru's mother to the hospitalization of Touga Inu Taisho. The whole family was a scandal…

But maybe, she thought to herself, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time…


"Sesshoumaru woke up at the police station," Inuyasha said, reaching the end of his narration. "The cops took me away for a week and gave him a drug test. I dunno why, Sessh told them he didn't do drugs, and he said he wasn't in a gang."

"Wow, I see," Kagome said. "What an annoyance."

"You said it. Then they tried to give me a chocolate bar and Sesshoumaru wouldn't let me eat it. He said that I was allergic to chocolate just like he was. That suck, I'll tell ya. But when I went back with him, he was really serious and he looked tired. He asked if I was okay and if they treated me right and I said yes. Then I asked what the deal was and he answered with his usual reply: 'I'll tell ya when you're older.

"But anyway, that was a long ass story just to prove a point. The point is that Sessh started to give me money for the snack line so I wouldn't eat iffy stuff."

"But I wouldn't think you could afford it," Kagome replied.

"Neither did I. But Sessho doesn't like when anyone, including himself, gets sick enough to throw up."

Sesshoumaru's eyes opened halfway and he coughed before adding in his two bits.

"…don't ask, Kagome…" he said weakly.

"Anyway, Kagome, I don't eat French fries all the time, but I don't eat lunch every day. I spread the money a little."

"…Inuyasha…"

"What is it, Sesshoumaru?"

"I need…to go back…I have to work…"

"No way! You need to rest!"

"There is no rest…for an administrator…that wench, Kikyo, she'll report me…"

"I don't give a damn! You're not going anywhere!"

Sesshoumaru gave his brother a thoughtful look with his own feverish gaze.

"Log in as me."

"WHAT!"

"Log in under my username. It's just for one day; you may do what you like as long as you don't tarnish my reputation."

"You have a rep in an MMORPG?"

"Is there a problem with that?"

"Feh!"

"Look, you little self-centered buffoon! You want food; I need to work for it! If you won't let me work for it, then you must!"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"Fine, you nag! I'll log in as you. In the meantime, you'd better make damn sure you take advantage of being at Kagome's."

"Hey!" the girl said indignantly.

"Don't' worry. I have more manners than this bastard…"

"Oh? Look who's talking, Jingle Balls! Just a day or so ago, you had me pinned to a wall by my neck!"

"And because you have no concept of 'fair,' I can no longer walk or sit straight!"

"SHUT-UP! OR SO HELP ME, I'LL THROW THE TWO OF YOU STRAIGHT OUT INTO THE STREET!"

Both boys stared at Kagome, who seemed to command the fires of hell as she told them off. She stormed into the kitchen and the brothers began to yell again.

"Dammit, Sesshoumaru, you pissed her off again!" Inuyasha snarled.

"It's not my fault you're a complete idiot," Sesshoumaru said, coughing madly.

Suddenly, a large pan hit him on the head.

"Ow! Jeez, what was that for?" he yelped.

"You may be sic, you may be an admin, and you may be pissed off, but don't you make my family suffer because of it!"

"Yeah!" Inuyasha drawled.

"And you!" she hissed, rounding on her koibito. "You'd better come up with a good reason why I shouldn't go 'Kamikaze frying pan' on you!"

"'Cuz I kiss so good," Inuyasha said coyly, pulling Kagome into his arms.

"Stop it!" she said, raising the pan a fraction of an inch…

It fell to her side when Inuyasha kissed her.

"Ugh, do I need to be on the same planet as them?" Sesshoumaru muttered, turning away.

Then, with a loud bang, he didn't quite feel like part of their world.

Ooh, pretty strobe lights…and flying light posts! WOOT!


After Inu and Kag's Tonsil Hockey (smirks)

Inuyasha put his brother's headset on.

Login:

Name: Sesshoumaru

Password:... (its ten letters)

Login Successful


Inuyasha opened his eyes. Instantly, he found himself rolling his right shoulder.

Wow, that's uncomfortable…

He tried to adjust his haori—and promptly felt pain flare in his rear end.

"Ow! Damn!"

It finally dawned on him what the mass of poufy-ness on his shoulder was.

"Ohh…so this is a tail…it's really long…"

He stared at his right hand, then cracked the knuckles.

"Hmm…his claws are better than mine…"

It didn't take long for him to notice that his brother's avatar lacked a left arm. In fact, as he felt at the stump with his good hand, he could swear that the skin was rough; almost as if something had chewed it off…"

"Konnichiwa, Sesshoumaru-san."

Inuyasha turned to face a Wavemaster.

"Er…hi."

According to Sesshoumaru, this was Akamaru, his assistant.

Without further ado, Inuyasha began to give himself a pat down, totally ignoring the Wavemaster. He soon became jealous; his brother's avatar was awesome! Well muscled and all!

The worst of it was the fact that this was what Sesshoumaru's body build was actually like.

Akamaru sweatdropped as Inuyasha flicked his head and made his hair flip.

"It's so…flippy!"

He then began to wonder if Sesshoumaru was fully…anatomically…correct in the World…

"WHOA! Lord Sesshoumaru! What are you doing!"

"Huh? Just checkin' on my goods," Inuyasha said, looking up from his hakama. "I mean…er…my balls itch?"

Akamaru super-sweatdropped. (About seven or eight.)

"W-well…er…how was your t-trip to your fathers?" he asked weakly.

"Hmm…I suppose it was okay," Inuyasha said soberly.

Akamaru sighed in hope…

"I'm unwrapping my tail. D'you mind if I do?"

The assistant anime-fell.

Never mind. I think he went heavy on the sake or something…


If you can guess exactly what the passwords are for Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's thingies, then I'll give you credit. Here's some clues for them:

Inuyasha: Ten letters and all he has.

Sesshoumaru: Something he likes.

If you don't get it, I'll give you another clue next chapter.

R and R, please!