Okay, so here's my 5th chapter! For all those who reviewed, thanks!
A Few Days Later:
Kiara and Sesshomaru didn't see the ghost since the first encounter. You wouldn't even call it an encounter, exactly. It was just an odd circumstance and the twins figured that it was all in their heads. They lived on and astonishingly forgot about the ghost. Because they assumed that the ghost was all in their imaginations, they didn't mention it to their father or stepmother.
"Kiki, Shoshomu, sih wa me," Inuyasha said. He ran over to the futon and jumped on top of it. Kiara and Sesshomaru both didn't have anything to do on their minds so they sat down with their brother.
Kiara sat on the end of the futon and Sesshomaru sat between her and Inuyasha. That was a wrong move. Inuyasha absolutely refused to not sit next to his older sister. So he slid off of the futon and started to sit in the small bit of space between his older siblings. Since there wasn't much room for him, Inuyasha tried to shove Sesshomaru aside.
"Quit it!" Sesshomaru snapped with a little bit of a whine in his voice. He, like Inuyasha, wanted to sit next to Kiara.
"NO!" Inuyasha snapped in a loud voice.
Kiara slapped the base of her palm to her forehead. This happened quite often since she was popular with both of her brothers. She always got sick of it, but learned to live with all of this. She and Sesshomaru usually had some kind of sibling rivalry, just by competing against each other to win a game or to win their father's attention. However, the rivalry between her and Sesshomaru wasn't much compared to that between Sesshomaru and Inuyasha.
"Okay, if you both want to sit next to me so bad, I'll sit between the two of you," Kiara said, trying to solve the problem.
Sesshomaru seemed to be fine with it. But Inuyasha opposed Kiara's idea.
"No," Inuyasha said, beginning to pout. "Kiki stay. Shoshomu go."
Kiara sat back down at the end of the futon. She wasn't in the mood to argue today, especially since Inuyasha was quite sensitive. It wasn't hard to make the young toddler cry.
"No," Sesshomaru mocked. "Inuyasha go."
Kiara had enough of this. She wasn't in the mood to argue. She wasn't in the mood to not only hear an argument by be why the argument was going on in the first place. Kiara stood up. "Fine, I'll go. Both of you can stay."
As she began to walk away, Inuyasha cried, "No! Stop!" He sounded like he was going to break out in tears any second if Kiara kept walking away from him. Kiara stopped and walked back to the futon.
"I'll find something to do," Sesshomaru said. "I can see that this argument is putting strain on you. Find me when you're done with the kid."
"Okay, if I don't have something else to do," Kiara said. Sesshomaru walked away and Kiara picked up Inuyasha.
Inuyasha squealed in delight as his sister held him in her arms. To Inuyasha, Kiara felt so soothing, so tranquil. There was something about her that reminded him of Inutaisho. Inuyasha gripped Kiara's shirt and brought his face close to it.
"Are you tired or something?" Kiara asked.
Inuyasha yawned and nodded. He snuggled closer to his sister and closed his eyes. Kiara decided to let him fall asleep in her arms. She was strong enough to hold Inuyasha, even when he was asleep and heavier than when he was awake. Kiara carried her brother around the house until she realized that he was asleep. Inuyasha's exhaling sounded like a high-pitched sigh as he slept in Kiara's arms. Personally, Kiara thought that the sighing was cute. It made Inuyasha sound so innocent and vulnerable, and his soft-looking face just made him look even more adorable. Once Kiara was sick of carrying around her brother, she found Izayoi.
"Can you take him? I've been carrying him for awhile, and he's pretty heavy." Kiara asked.
"Sure," Inuyasha's mother replied and took the boy from Kiara's arms.
Kiara went to find Sesshomaru, who was sitting in the gardens and drawing in the dirt. She went up behind him and looked over his shoulder to see a messed-up drawing of what looked like to be a cat. The cat looked mangy and also looked like it had three tails and four ears. Kiara didn't know what Sesshomaru did to make it look this way, but he obviously was good at messing-up drawings.
"That sure looks mangy," Kiara commented. "It's good. I'm not crazy about cats."
"I'm trying," Sesshomaru said. "You really think it's good?"
"If you dislike cats," Kiara replied. "So, do you want to do anything?"
Sesshomaru stood up and erased the drawing of the demented cat from the dirt with his foot. "Yeah. But it's getting late. Dinner should be ready in around an hour or so."
"I know," Kiara told him. Then she got an idea when she saw their father's goat, Yoshi, run across the yard. She smiled mischievously as she saw the goat that she and Sesshomaru both hated. Yoshi always scared the two of them ever since they were four. Sesshomaru saw what his sister was looking at and he also smiled the same kind of smile that Kiara smiled.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Kiara asked.
"Yep," Sesshomaru replied.
"Want to put Yoshi on the roof?" Kiara asked, knowing for sure what the answer would be.
"Yeah," Sesshomaru replied. "And I know the right way to do it, too."
Sesshomaru told Kiara how he thought they should put Yoshi on the roof. He said that they'd have to sneak outside at night when Yoshi was asleep. Next, he explained how the two of them would have to tie Yoshi up with six ropes that were attached to the roof and then pull the goat up. Kiara finished the plan with saying that they'd then keep Yoshi tied up so that he wouldn't fall off of the roof and that they'd hide the ladder so that there would be even more trouble with getting the goat down.
"Kiara! Sesshomaru! Time for dinner!"
They heard their father call them inside. The twins exchanged smiles and ran inside for dinner. Kiara and Sesshomaru both knew that they would have a lot of fun that night … but Yoshi would be tortured. They'd get Yoshi back for the scares that he gave them all those years ago. And the two of them would be keeping their mother's spirit alive by showing hatred towards Yoshi. One of the biggest bones of contention between their mother and Inutaisho was the goat. It all started when Inutaisho was joking around and told his first wife that he would have the goat sleep in the bed with them. But it turned out not to be a joke when Inutaisho's wife got angry and slept outside in a hammock. However, after that, Inutaisho would talk to the goat a lot or talk about the goat a lot. It always seemed like Inutaisho and Yoshi were best friends. And Inutaisho even said that they were at one time. He always said that Yoshi was a man's goat. Kiara and Sesshomaru's mother never understood what her husband meant by this, but Yoshi always remained a problem in their lives. This was because of attempting to find the goat a girlfriend – or even a friend of its own kind – always failed miserably.
Later that Night:
Kiara and Sesshomaru had gone to bed that night a few hours after eating dinner. Between dinner and when they went to bed, the twins practiced meditation with their father. But now they were in bed, but only one of them was asleep. Kiara was awake, waiting for the right time to wake up Sesshomaru and for the two of them to put Operation-Yoshi-On-Roof into action.
Kiara lay on her back, staring up at the ceiling. She couldn't fall asleep, even if she tried. She was too excited about putting Yoshi on the roof. And besides, Kiara didn't want to end up falling asleep and that neither of them would have waken up in time to do their plan. This was the only time that Kiara was glad that Sesshomaru snored. At least it would keep her awake as long as she didn't give in to being tired. That didn't seem to be a problem because Kiara was wide-awake. Whenever she was wide-awake, it was almost impossible for her to fall asleep.
Kiara stood up and looked out the window. She saw a full moon glow in the black night sky and cast its light onto the yard. Kiara always liked the moon. It was one of the many things in common that she had with her twin brother. She and Sesshomaru thought that they liked the moon so much because of the markings on their foreheads. Sesshomaru had a crescent moon that pointed to his left, and Kiara had a crescent moon that pointed to her right. Their mother had Sesshomaru's marking on her forehead, but Kiara's was still the same, except it pointed a different way. That was probably why the two of them cherished the moon markings on their foreheads so much. It reminded them of their mother.
As Kiara searched the ground for Yoshi, she saw an owl glide through the air. She followed the bird and ended up finding Yoshi, who was sleeping in a fenced-in square of the yard. Yoshi was a sound sleeper, so Kiara figured that there shouldn't be a problem with putting the goat on top of the roof. She smirked and ran over to where Sesshomaru slept. She woke up Sesshomaru and told him that it was time.
"Really?" Sesshomaru yawned.
"Yeah," Kiara replied. "Come on, let's go."
Sesshomaru smiled. "I've been waiting for this for a long time."
The two of them got the ropes that they were going to use and snuck outside to start the plan. They quickly tied up Yoshi and then got a ladder from the storage shed. Sesshomaru set up the ladder against the wall while Kiara made sure that the knots they tied were tight enough to withstand the goat's weight. Kiara then climbed up the ladder while holding the ends of three out of the six ropes. Sesshomaru then climbed up the ladder and held onto the ends of the remaining three ropes.
"Ready? Pull." Kiara whispered.
The twins pulled as hard as they could. Yoshi lifted off of the ground. They kept pulling, using all of the muscles in their arms to finally get their father's pet goat onto the roof. They were out of breath by the time they completed pulling up the goat. Kiara and Sesshomaru then climbed down the ladder, leaving Yoshi tied up and sleeping on top of the roof. Then, they took the ladder and hid it in the back of the storage shed. Before returning inside, they took a look at their job. The two of them exchanged glances and sniggered as they snuck back into the house.
"You tired?" Sesshomaru asked.
Kiara nodded.
"Good. I don't know if I'd be able to fall asleep again knowing that you'd be up all night."
"It's alright, Sesshomaru," Kiara assured him. "I'll be able to fall asleep. Especially now that I know that we got our ultimate revenge on Yoshi."
The two of them quietly laughed a little but then stopped.
"Kiara? What will Father say when he sees his goat on the roof?" Sesshomaru asked.
"He's … gonna be … mad …" She replied as she started thinking of possibilities of their father's anger. "Let's just try to get some sleep. It'll be easier for us to try to think of a way out of this mess when we're not as tired."
"Right,"
Kiara and Sesshomaru eventually fell asleep. But neither of them fell asleep without thinking of the surprise that Inutaisho would have the next day.
That's it. Review if you like it and want to find out what happens next!