Boys of Summer

Chapter Five: Onimusha Rivalry

-Summary-

Kanna and Shippo have a little get together and decide to play Onimusha. But their guardian's should know better than to stick two hard-core gamers in the same room with a single player video game.

-Note-

Thank you my faithful reviewers! This chapter is dedicated to my dear friend Pyro. You have been through so much crap with band camp, so you need this! When you read through this, you'll notice some very familiar things, Pyro, trust me!

Sango threw her pillow over her head and tried to go back to sleep, but the loud theme music from Trigun in Kagome's room just wouldn't let her. Angered by her friend's ignorance to the blaring music, the black haired girl rolled out of bed and hit her floor with a loud thud. She finally managed to pick her sleepy body up off the floor and to her door. Sango exited the room and walked down the hall to Kagome's room where the music was getting louder and louder. She threw open the door, and instantly clamped her hands over her ears before going over and turning off the TV.

"Kagome! What's your problem?!" Sango yelled, pulling the comforter back from over her slumbering friend.

Dark brown eyes filled with sleepy annoyance shot open and glared daggers at the girl looming over her.

"What's your problem? Just come waltzing in here and snatch the blankets off of me, why don't you?"

Sango rubbed her temples and gave a forced smile.

"Kagome, why don't you just come down stairs and I'll get you some coffee, ok?"

Kagome instantly perked up and followed Sango out of the room. Halfway down the hall, they passed Kanna pulling her ivory hair back into a ponytail. She was dressed in blue jean shorts and a gray t-shirt.

"Where do you think your going?" Kagome asked entering the bathroom and picking up her toothbrush, followed by Sango.

Kanna pulled the gray hair tie tight and turned to her cousin with a wide smile.

"Shippo called this morning before you and Sango woke up and invited me over to play video games! Can I go Kagome, please? Please?"

Begging deep brown eyes met caffeine lacking dark brown eyes, silently pleading with the elder girl. Kagome pulled the toothbrush from her mouth and spit out the foamy toothpaste. She rinsed her mouth with warm water and wiped her mouth before handing her ivory haired relative her watch.

"Yes, you can go. But be back at six thirty!"

"OkthankyouKagomeyou'rethebestcousininthewholeworld!" Kanna said, hugging Kagome numerous times and running her sentence together.

Sango laughed and moved out of the way just in time for Kanna to run past her and down the steps. When both girls heard the door slam shut, they continued their way down the stairs and into the kitchen. Kagome made her coffee, and Sango took her usual glass of orange juice. The duo sat at the kitchen table in silence, one or the other taking a heated up muffin from the platter Kanna had sat on the table earlier that morning. Sango finally broke the uneasy silence while taking another blueberry muffin.

"So, did you sleep well?"

"Yeah, what about you?"

"Don't you dare ask."

"Why?"

"I told you not to ask!"

"...Fine."

"Kanna, Shippo? Do you guys need something?" Miroku called from the bottom of the stairs, InuYasha snickering the whole time.

As soon as Kanna arrived, her and Shippo ran up to his room and started playing Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. And Miroku, along with InuYasha, were taking times trying their best to mess them up by breaking their concentration and making them answer the two boys.

Kanna bumped Shippo's Corvette with her Escudo Pikes Peak Version and knocked him into the wall.

"Hey! That was wrong! I will get you for that!" Shippo screamed at Kanna.

Shippo pressed the X-button down hard and turned his Corvette sharply to the left, knocking Kanna into the grass and causing her to wreck. Kanna moved the Escudo out of the grass and quickly made her way back to the asphalt. A couple of left turns later and a sharp right Kanna was tailing Shippo's Corvette and soon passed him. When the multi-colored sport car crossed the finish line, Shippo grabbed fist full of his red hair in defeat.

"I can't believe I got beat by a girl!"

"You know girls are smarter than guys."

"No they are not!"

"How could guys be smarter than girls? They have bigger spaces between the sections in their brains."

"What are you talking about?"

"It is scientifically proven that the spaces between the sections of the brains in the average male are much larger than those in the average female. Thus giving those of the feminine sex a higher intellectual ability at times."

Shippo looked at the girl next to him, dazed and utterly confused.

"Translation, please."

"In lament's terms; I'm smarter than you. End of subject."

Defeat once again came across Shippo's features as he sat his controller down and walked over to his video game case. He looked around for a second, then pulled out a game.

"Do you want to play Onimusha 3: Demon Siege?"

Kanna looked away from the TV screen and looked at the game.

"Is it a single player game?"

"Yeah, why?"

"There are two of us...One player game with two people to play!"

"We can take turns, don't worry."

"Ok!"

Two hours later, Kanna sat in the floor getting angrier and angrier by the moment.

"Shippo, this is really getting old."

"Just give me a second! This puzzle is hard!"

"I think you just greased my pan so you could sit and simmer!"

Shippo paused his game and turned to her with the same confused look he had earlier.

"What? What does that mean? We aren't cooking, Kanna!"

"It means you just told me we could take turns playing and get my hopes up so you could sit and play!"

"I didn't do that just so I could play!"

"Really? Then hand me the controller and let me play."

"Hold on just one second."

Kanna lay back on the floor and used her arms as pillows.

"I thought so."

END- Sorry so short! But Zhen Ji be sleepy...See ya next chapter!