As I said in another story I'm updating, this will be the last chapter before a two week period of nothing. I am going to Miami, and I doubt my father has Internet. Sorry about that, but I'm sure you can make do with what you have, you resourceful reviewers, you!
Ch. 15
"So how'd it go, Sessh? Did they tell ya about me? They told me about you…"
"No, Inu. They did not tell me about you. They probably do not want me to know both ways…"
"You don't wanna know, Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked.
"I do, and you know it. I just…probably should not know. It would be best, I suppose…"
"Yeah, well…you won't be seeing Ichiro again."
"What!" Sesshoumaru snapped.
"The bastards only used him as a starter. You're going to a psychiatrist."
"I see. A psychologist cannot do anything but talk. Psychiatrists can prescribe me to shove a horse pill up my ass if they wanted."
Inuyasha cringed.
"Aiee…so…um…where'd you get the dough?" Inuyasha said, changing the subject.
Sesshoumaru realized that he was still holding the money Dr. Ichiro had given him.
"I won it. Ichiro underestimated me."
Suddenly, Inuyasha's stomach growled rather loudly.
"Hey. So when do we eat? I'm starving!"
"I am not so sure we should flitter this away on food, Inuyasha. I mean perhaps…"
Sesshoumaru's voice trailed off as his own stomach growled even louder than Inuyasha's.
"Ah, well. We do have quite a bit here…what do you want to eat?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Ramen! I want ramen!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Don't scream, damn it! Do you want me to become ill?" the elder brother groaned.
"Oops. Sorry…"
"And I do not wish to eat ramen. I was leaning more towards a restaurant."
"But, but, but…!" Inuyasha said pleadingly. He then quieted, remembering that his brother had still paid for his lunch a while ago.
"I owe you. Where do you wanna eat, bro?"
Sesshoumaru thought about it.
"How about that restaurant near home. The expensive one?"
"Oh? Hopin' to shame your own cooking?"
"Hm? No. I could operate a teppan table (A.N.- I think that's the name for that table where the person does a show with the food by cooking it on a really big grill and stuff...); they are merely very expensive. But the last time I ate fancy food was so long ago…you know, let's just have ramen."
"What! No!"
Inuyasha knew where this was going. Anything that Sesshoumaru ever thought of that reminded him of their father always depressed him, and the restaurant was no different. The restaurant they were talking about eating at was the last one Touga had taken them to before he'd gone into his coma. Of course, he could just be thinking about their awful reputation of cleaning out restaurants. Then again, when you're living on finger food, when you get a bonus, you don't exactly eat light.
"Really, Inuyasha. My leg is acting up. We should just take a trip to the supermarket then go home…"
"I'm going to that restaurant. If you could run with a crutch, you can sit at a table."
"Touché. Very well, no sense in arguing with a baka like you."
"Hey!"
Sesshoumaru swilled his egg drop soup. Normally, he'd be alongside Inuyasha in his fourth plate of food, but he was deep in contemplation.
"Oi! Sesshoumaru! Aren't you hungry?"
"Ano…yes…"
"Then snap to it! They're gonna kick us out before you get a bite."
Inuyasha finished off his fourth chicken leg and dove for the sushi rolls.
"Look," he said between bites, "Do you really think Dad would want you to mope about?"
"No. You're right, Inu."
And so began the cleanout. Before half their money was spent, the Taisho bros. were kicked out as the younger predicted. They just ate way too much.
"So now where?" Inuyasha wondered.
"It is happy hour at my favorite bar," Sesshoumaru remarked. "How about it?"
"Oh, no! After what you did at Kagome's?"
"Have mercy! I just got evaluated! Please?"
"Ugh! Fine!"
Two Hours Later
"Barkeep! It's like the damn Sahara over here!"
Sesshoumaru looked totally disheveled and very drunk.
"What would you like, sir?" the bartender asked. "Two shots of vodka again?"
"You got it. Put li'l cherries in 'em!"
"Yes sir."
Sesshoumaru tipped a beer from one end of its bottom to the other before downing it.
"Hey, Inu?"
"Yeah?"
"'Choo lookin' at?"
"Nothin'. I'm just listening to the tunes."
"Oh…"
"Do you think you'll be done soon?" Inuyasha asked.
"You kiddin'? I got…about three cherry bobs left…to go…"
"What!"
"I quit when my head don't hurt no more," Sesshoumaru slurred.
"But you have a concussion and it's loud in here!" Inuyasha cried dismally.
"Then we ain't leavin'!"
"Ugh!" Inuyasha growled in disgust.
The bartender plunked two drinks in front of Sesshoumaru.
"Heh. Hey Inu, look! A cherry!"
Sesshoumaru handed a cherry from his drink to Inuyasha, who took it gratefully.
"Hey Sessh, you know what I can do?"
"Huhn?"
"I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue."
"NO WAY! SHUT UP!" the elder brother yelled in drunken excitement. "Let's go, right now!"
He took a cherry as did Inuyasha, counted to three, and began. As expected, Inuyasha tied the knot first.
What was not expected, however, was for Sesshoumaru to scream something about lilies and Dentifrice before passing out.
R & R! And if you've ever read Fahrenheit 451, then you'll know what the lilies and dentifrice thing is. If not, I'll tell you some other time.
