This is chapter 6. I don't have anything else to say, so I'll just get on with the story.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!"
That was what Kiara and Sesshomaru woke up to that morning. Their father's voice was so loud that it echoed like crazy throughout the house. It made Kiara and Sesshomaru jolt out of bed and almost made them see what was going on. But they stopped themselves because they knew why their father was yelling. Inutaisho obviously discovered the goat on the roof, and now he would be yelling and screaming for the rest of the day. Kiara and Sesshomaru were scared to hear their father yell like that. Once when they were three years old, Inutaisho got so angry that he made a volcano erupt. That was for breaking an antique vase. The twins wondered how bad it would be for Yoshi being on the roof.
The two of them listened to hear their father and their stepmother talking. Actually, it was more like their father yelling and their stepmother talking and trying to calm Inutaisho down.
"Inutaisho, we'll get the goat down," they heard Izayoi say. "Just stop yelling. You're going to wake up the whole area, not to mention Kiara, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha."
"You're right, Honey," Inutaisho said calmly. Then his attitude tremendously changed. "KIARA! SESSHOMARU! GET OUT HERE! NOW!"
Kiara and Sesshomaru looked at each other. They both had signs of fear in their eyes. But both of them knew that their punishment would be even worse if they didn't obey Inutaisho. The two of them took a deep breath and nervously went outside to face their father's wrath. As Kiara walked outside with Sesshomaru, she could hear funeral music playing in her mind.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU JACKASSES THINKING! DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WILL BE TO GET MY PRECIOUS GOAT OFF OF THE DAMN ROOF!" Inutaisho barked.
Kiara and Sesshomaru just stood there, shaking in fear. Then, Inuyasha walked outside. He was crying because of all of the commotion. Inuyasha was probably scared because of all of the yelling. Izayoi picked up Inuyasha and started comforting him.
"Inutaisho, don't be too hard on them. They're only kids." Izayoi told her husband. "I have to go calm down Inuyasha." She walked into the house, leaving Kiara and Sesshomaru alone with their father.
"THE TWO OF YOU – SIT DOWN OVER THERE! I'LL GET TO YOU WHENEVER I DO! YOU'LL STAY THERE UNTIL I GET TO YOU – EVEN IF YOU'RE WAITING THE WHOLE DAMN NIGHT!" Inutaisho barked out the command as he pointed to a place under a tree.
"Yes, Father," Kiara and Sesshomaru both said. Their voices were so soft and fragile, almost whimper-like.
The two of them went to the place where their father ordered them to sit. They knew that they would probably be waiting there together until dinner. Whenever Inutaisho did this, it was because he needed to calm down and that he didn't want to end up hitting the two of them. Kiara and Sesshomaru knew that they would be waiting there for a long time because it would take a long time for Inutaisho to calm down enough that he would feel like he would be able to approach them without hitting them.
"Kiara, what do you think we'll have to do?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I don't know," Kiara replied. "Father might make us …" she squinted in disgust. "… Give the goat a bath."
Sesshomaru then said that Inutaisho might make them clean up Yoshi's droppings for a month. Then Kiara said that their father might make them entertain Yoshi by letting the goat chase them around the yard. Then Sesshomaru said something, then Kiara again. The lists of the punishments that they would receive went on and on and on. The ideas went from shaving Yoshi to feeding Yoshi to cleaning the goat's feet. The list was endless.
Kiara and Sesshomaru sat under the shade of that tree until it got dark enough that they were able to see the moon and stars with no problem. They were sitting out there to see Izayoi and Inutaisho get Yoshi down from the roof. They were out there so long that the two of them were able to take a two to three hour nap that ended hours before their father finally approached them.
Inutaisho looked much calmer than earlier, but he still looked very angry. Kiara and Sesshomaru held onto each other for dear life. They didn't know why they were doing that, they just did. It wasn't like Inutaisho was going to murder them like those demon hunters once did.
"Are we all okay?" Inutaisho said. When neither Kiara nor Sesshomaru gave an answer besides nervous nods, Inutaisho said, "Good. Okay. I didn't make a volcano erupt and your stepmother and I were able to get Yoshi down pretty easily. However, the two of you will still be punished. Your punishment will not have anything to do with the goat."
Kiara and Sesshomaru both let out sighs of relief.
"But the two of you will have to watch over Jaken for a week." Inutaisho told them.
Kiara and Sesshomaru both thought that watching over Jaken for a week would be worse than having to deal with Yoshi. Jaken was their father's ugly, annoying and stupid servant imp. Nobody in their family ever liked having to deal with Jaken. The imp was so annoying that he made Myoga – a flea demon that sucked their father's blood and served him on the flea's own will – seem like a perfect angel.
"Is that understood?" Inutaisho asked them. "Jaken for a week."
"Yes, Father," Kiara and Sesshomaru said.
"Good," Inutaisho told them. "The two of you can come in now. It's time for dinner."
That Night:
Neither Kiara nor Sesshomaru were able to fall asleep. All they could think about was how horrible it would be to have to deal with the imp for a week. In their opinions, this punishment was plain mean. They thought that nobody deserved to be stuck with Jaken.
"I would have preferred to have to do something with the goat," Kiara said. "Despite how much I hate Yoshi, I hate Jaken more."
"Father could have whipped me with a leather belt and I would have been happier than having to be with Jaken," Sesshomaru said.
"At least we're in it together,"
"Yeah, that's true,"
Kiara and Sesshomaru barely got any sleep that night. Being tired would just make being stuck with Jaken worse. To be with Jaken for a week, you would need patience. But if you're tired, patience would definitely be something that you would lack. Kiara woke up first to find that it was morning. She groaned. Kiara dreaded the next seven days that would await her and her brother. Sesshomaru woke up a few minutes later.
"It's morning already?" he groaned.
Kiara nodded. "This is gonna be horrible,"
Kiara started to pace around the room to get an idea to get Jaken out of the way. There had to be something that they could do. She knew that they would have to have Jaken bring them something that would take him over a week to find and bring back to them. Kiara smiled. She did something that she thought that she wouldn't be doing for a week.
"Why are you smiling?" Sesshomaru asked. "We're gonna be miserable."
"Because I know of a way to get Jaken away from us for a week," Kiara replied.
"How?" Sesshomaru asked anxiously.
Kiara told Sesshomaru about her plan. Sesshomaru thought that it was a good idea. He said that now they only had to think of what they wanted Jaken to get them. After a half hour, the two of them came up with commanding Jaken to find them a bushel of grapes.
"This is perfect!" Kiara exclaimed. "They're small and hard to find! It's gonna take Jaken weeks to get it all to us – never mind days!"
The two of them laughed. The thought of getting out of their punishment for the first time in their lives felt good. It felt especially good because the punishment they were getting out of was one of the worst ones that they would have thought of.
An hour later, Jaken came. He was as irritating as always and his voice was just as horrible as it was the last time that Kiara and Sesshomaru heard it. Jaken knew that Inutaisho told him to stay with the two of them for a week. But Jaken could never disobey an order. Right when their father was out of the room that Kiara and Sesshomaru were in with Jaken, the two of them were ready to do their plan.
"Jaken, we want you to get us a bushel of grapes," Kiara commanded.
"Yes, Lady Kiara!" Jaken exclaimed in his bubbly voice.
Jaken ran out of the house and set off to find Kiara and Sesshomaru the bushel of grapes.
"That didn't take much," Sesshomaru laughed.
Later:
"Kiara, Sesshomaru, where's Jaken?" Inutaisho asked them later on that afternoon.
"Bringing us something," Sesshomaru replied.
Inutaisho slapped the base of his palm to his forehead. "I should have made it that the imp couldn't take orders from the two of you. Oh, well, it was my mistake. I'll cancel out on the Jaken punishment since the two of you were clever enough to come up with the idea of giving him an order. Just out of curiosity, what did the two of you tell him to get you?"
"A bushel of grapes," Kiara replied.
Inutaisho sighed. "I should have seen that coming. Ah, well it was probably punishment enough to have the two of you staying up all night because you were thinking about how treacherous it would be to be stuck with Jaken."
Kiara and Sesshomaru smiled a little bit.
Inutaisho walked away. As he left Kiara and Sesshomaru, he was thinking about who he would leave Jaken to. Inutaisho knew that one of these days that he would die, and that Jaken would need someone to serve if he wasn't dead already.
Kiara and Sesshomaru can't stand Jaken, but they can handle him pretty well, Inutaisho thought. If Jaken's still alive whenever I die in the future, maybe I'll have him be their servant.
Okay, you know the drill. Review so I know if you like the way my story's going on. I'll take ideas for future chapters. Sorry that this doesn't have much baby Inuyasha in it, but my next chapter will have a lot of him. I have an idea for my next chapter, but I'd like ideas for the ones after.