Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha… the usual… the usual…
INUYASHA: Of course you don't!
SHIPPOU: She didn't? I thought she did own us!
INUYASHA: You dumb ass! We belong to nobody! You can go ahead and belong to that Takahashi Rumiko woman, but I belong to myself!
SHIPPOU: Wha? It was Takahashi Rumiko that owned us? I thought it was Sugarsweetcandy who owned us!
INUYASHA: (screaming) I DON'T BELONG TO ANYONE BUT MYSELF!
SUGARSWEETCANDY: (kicks Inuyasha out of the way) Yeah you do, you belong to Takahashi Rumiko, now shut up.
SHIPPOU: Wow… he can really fly!
INUYASHA: I'LL KILL YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
Chapter 6: Headaches
Inuyasha impatiently tapped his clawed forefinger on his steering wheel cursing under his breath. He withdrew his hand from the steering wheel to check his watch and scowled. He was already five minutes late. Damn traffic, and damn rush hour! He scoffed to himself. He had been sitting in his car for about thirty minutes without budging an inch. The sounds of honks blaring were heard and someone in front of him had stuck her head out of the car to yell cusses at a jaywalker that stealthily passed the police car.
Assuming that his car wasn't going to budge an inch, Inuyasha reached into his breast pocket for his cell phone. First he dialed Kikyou's office number, but was only met with the constant ringing of her phone. In the end, he deduced that she had either (a) fallen asleep at her desk again or (b) was very late herself, which wasn't unusual of her. Inuyasha hated it when he was late, and he hated it even more when he was stuck in traffic with people screaming at each other to move when they knew very well that they couldn't. Probably one of the worst things ever in a traffic jam were a group of teenagers crowded in their car with their music turned up very loudly. It was even worse that he had every sensitive ears; since all that Marylin Manson was giving him a headache.
Finally losing his temper (he managed to break a record of staying calm for one solid minute), Inuyasha rolled his window down and reached over to rap on the window of the teenagers' car with one clawed finger. One of them, a girl with long black hair and heavy black eye makeup, flicked him off. She was what one would have called the stereotypical Goth or at least a Goth-wannabe. Inuyasha sucked his breath in. Nobody flicked him off and got away with it. With one eye twitching, Inuyasha rapped on the window harder this time with his knuckles while putting on his nobody-fucking-messes-with-me-and-gets-away-with-it look. The girl rolled her eyes but she and rolled her window down.
"What the fuck do you want freak?"
"Impudent girl!" Inuyasha thundered, "Lower your music! Your stupid singer's screaming is killing my ears!"
"What the hell kind of ears are those? It's not Halloween you know, and the answer to your question is no, dorkus." She was the typical rebellious teen who thought the whole world evolved around her.
"Look, BITCH, if you don't lower the fucking volume, NOW, then I am going to break your goddamn stereo!" The girl ignored his comment and turned to someone next to her, whispering into his ears. If she had thought that Inuyasha couldn't hear what she was saying (which was: "Look at that guy, he thinks he's so tough when he isn't"), she was completely wrong. Inuyasha's ears twitched slightly taking in her offensive words. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" He screamed at the girl scaring her out of her pants, "DID YOU JUST CALL ME A FUCKING KIDDY? IF YOU THOUGHT THAT I COULDN'T HEAR THAT, WELL YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG BITCH!" With that, he reached over from his car, taking his body out from his car window, and into the other car. "IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!" With one swift swipe, he clawed the stereo into millions of pieces and kept on going until not even a wire was left. Satisfied that he had now scared the shit out of the two annoying teens, Inuyasha returned to his car. "KEH! Never mess with me! If any of you have the wit left to mess with me, I'll make you like your pathetic stereo player, understand?" Both kids nodded silently in horror. With that, Inuyasha got back into his car and rolled his window up muttering about annoying people. "Kids these days…"
Inuyasha glared ahead of him wondering how long he was going to be stuck in traffic. He started to tap his fingers on the steering wheel. They haven't budged an inch since ten minutes ago. Sighing, to himself, Inuyasha stared wistfully at the opposite lane that had cars moving freely. Suddenly a bus passed him. It had an ad of a horse on it with large lettering that said: "HANSON'S HORSE RANCH" below that it said: "New York State… a mile out of New York City" and it gave the name of the town the ranch was in along with the address. Inuyasha tapped his chin with a claw and got an idea. Finally, when the lane with the annoying rebellious teenagers moved, He quickly turned his steering wheel and made a rough and illegal u-turn speeding out of New York City towards Brooklyn Bridge.
Inutaisho looked left and right to see if Izayoi might be there, although he highly doubted it. Satisfied that he didn't see her, Inutaisho happily entered the tiny toy store. It was musty and dark provided that not very many people went there. But Inutaisho seemed to like it there. Although the store seemed musty, dank, and old, it sold the most awesome toys. "Hello!" Inutaisho chirped to the storeowner. The storeowner was a chubby man with white whiskers and little round spectacles.
"Hello, Inutaisho! What would you like to take today? The water guns again?"
"Hmm… I don't know… I was thinking more like bebe guns."
"Ah! Which ones would you prefer? I think you'd be interested in these." The old man slid a shining bebe gun towards Inutaisho. "It just came in yesterday. Isn't it a beauty? Well, there are these as well." Again another set of bebe guns slid across the glass counter.
Inutaisho um-ed and ah-ed not knowing which bebe-gun to choose; finally he chose the one that the storeowner first showed. "I'll take those." Smiling, the old man slid it towards him and told him to take it for free, since Inutaisho was one of his regular customers. "No, no, please spare me from feeling guilty. I need about… hmm… let's see, there's Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Kagome, Kikyou, Kouga, Shippou, Ayame, maybe Izayoi, Kagura, Naraku, Miroku, Sango, and umm… me. So that makes… thirteen? Nah, I'll just take twelve… Izayoi would only hit me." The smiling old man turned and disappeared into the storage room.
Minutes later, he emerged with eleven sets of the bebe-gun Inutaisho chose, and before the two could start arguing about payment, shoved the president of the Suzuki Corporation out of the store. Inutaisho blinked at the sudden amount of light he met. He shook his head sadly, the old man really ought to let some sunlight into his store. Humming a little tune to himself, Inutaisho resisted the urge to dance back to his office. He was so excited that he didn't pick up Izayoi's scent. Thus, when she approached him, he was caught off guard.
"Inutaisho…" She hissed grabbing him by the ear. Inutaisho froze in sheer terror while Izayoi dragged him off to a corner. "Just what did you buy?"
"Erm… I uh… decided to buy umm…"
"I do not mean to sound condescending, but don't you think you're too old to buy bebe-guns?"
"Who said I was buying bebe-guns?"
"My dear husband," Izayoi half snarled, "you sound overly innocent, I hope you realize that. Do not worry, I will not take away your stupid bebe-guns… but I will find ways to keep you from going back into the toy store. You're too old for it, and I highly doubt that neither Inuyasha nor Sesshoumaru would appreciate bebe-gun fights! Unless…" Izayoi's violet eyes narrowed down as she glared at Inutaisho who had begun to sweat profusedly. "Unless… you're planning on playing a game of Guerrilla Warfare."
"G-G-Guerrilla Warfare? Please honey, do not underestimate me…"
"ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?" Izayoi yelled making the fearsome inu taiyoukai flinch, "WHY ELSE WOULD YOU BUY A WHOLE SACK FULL OF BEBE-GUNS? TO GIVE OUT TO ORPHANS? IT'S NOT EVEN CHRISTMAS YET!"
"Ah… but Christmas is coming up isn't it?"
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Inutaisho jumped three feet in the air. Now he knew where Inuyasha got his temper from… yet Izayoi was patient and Inuyasha wasn't. Hmm… I wonder… Inutaisho thought to himself only to be interrupted by the comment of a very angry Izayoi:. "WELL? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!"
"My dear Izayoi, there is no need for suspicion… because… oh! Look at the time, I should be in my office now. Goodbye my dear!"
"WAIT! Get back here!"
Without hesitation, Inutaisho leaped out of the way. Izayoi ran after him, but thanks to his demonic speed, her human strength was nothing and within minutes, she was out of his sight. Inutaisho let out a sigh of relief. He skidded to a halt at the entrance of the Suzuki Corporation building and as about to enter the edifice when he heard shouts of excitement. Curious, he stopped and turned around. There in the distance he saw Inuyasha sitting on a horse that was galloping madly. He had his brief case strapped around his shoulder along with his computer bag. Inutaisho gawked at his son who was gritting his teeth as the horse ran and ran like a mad dog.
The horse ran past the building while Inuyasha swore a million times a minute before emphatically tugging on the mane, provided that he did not have a bridle or reins. The horse reared up and stopped. Inutaisho watched in amazement as Inuyasha tugged on the mane steering the horse to turn around. The horse snorted and trotted back to the building. "Good, you damn horse. DO you know that you're fucking crazy?" was all he said to the horse. But when he tried to get off the horse, his heels dug into the horse's side and it galloped straight into the building with Inuyasha on it's back letting out a string of curses. Inutaisho eventually got over with his shock and grinned. So maybe Inuyasha did have some Inutaisho-ism in his bloodstream! Inutaisho nearly cried from happiness. Now he knew Inuyasha was truly his son… not that he doubted it, but… well sometimes a workaholic son sometimes made a father very worried.
Inuyasha glared at the horse. The damn thing had smashed through the glass doors and into the building. It ran in a frenzy into the elevator neighing like a madman and scaring the Elevator Operator beyond his wits. If he thought the elevator would calm the thing down, he was wrong, because once the elevator started to ascend, the horse began to rear and kick, and at the 178th floor, dashed out with Inuyasha still on it's back. It ran around the place kicking down papers, smashing the photocopy machine, and scattering paper. "STOP, GODDAMMIT!" Inuyasha roared yanking with all his might on the horse's mane. Quite unfortunately, he tore out a fist-full of the horse's mane, thus being reared off the beast's back and onto the floor on his rear end with a loud THUMP!
He sat there on his butt blinking weirdly while holding onto a fist of the horse's mane. The horse glared at him, baring its overly-large teeth and snorting through it's nostrils. It was just his luck to be stuck with a goddamn horse that had gone mad. Frankly speaking, he was too much in a hurry to play picky-picky on the horses. He regretted buying the horse to the point where he wished that he were still stuck in traffic. Now he had to ride the damn thing to get to his car, which was parked in New Jersey. Sighing loudly to himself Inuyasha brushed himself off and stood up. Oh well, as long as he was at work, he was fine. Besides, the office workers were well capable of bring the damned thing to its senses, right? Wrong.
Although the office workers attempted to keep the thing in control, it tore past them ripping up to Inuyasha who had his back facing the beast making sure his office attire was left without a speck of dirt. Please with himself, Inuyasha was about to take a step towards the elevator when he suddenly changed his mind and jumped off of where he once was, making a full summersault in midair before landing albeit gracefully on a desk. The horse changed its course and dashed at Inuyasha, who, contrary to running away ran straight for it, with his fist posed to punch it with all his might. The horse raised itself to stamp on top of him, but he parried and grabbed the horse by its mane once more and yanked it to the ground with ease… but not too hard (unless you know that the definition of "not so hard" in Inuyasha's dictionary).
Once the horse was brought under control, Inuyasha snatched Naraku's apple and gave it to the horse. "Eat that and shut the fuck up." He growled. The horse seemed delighted to be offered food and munched happily on the apple. Naraku, the silent weirdo, whined that Inuyasha took his apple only to be shut up when a fist landed on his head with a loud: BONK! "Shut up Naraku. Take care of this horse for me. I don't have time to tame that piece of shit." With one last "KEH!" Inuyasha stormed into the elevator.
After barking his floor number to the elevator operator, Inuyasha slumped against the wall of the elevator adjourning the elevator operator. Sighing to himself about annoying things he stared blankly out the glass elevator to watch the sun smile brilliantly down over the city. As he stared down at the city below him Kagome seemed to haunt his mind. He shook his head vigorously. Now was not the time to be thinking about Kagome right now. Clear your mind, dammit! Since when did you care so much about that wretch anyway? He thought in hopes to persuade himself from realizing that he was in fact in love with Kagome. I couldn't possibly… oh my god… growling to himself about his stupidity, he stormed out of the elevator leaving a very confused and terrified Elevator operator; he didn't know that he was talking to himself out loud.
Inuyasha had been working for three hours straight never taking his eyes away from his palm pilot, notepad, laptop, phone (and cell phone), and endless reports on new ideas. He intended to keep it that way when something small and hard hit him on the ear. His ears twitched before he glared up from a particularly long report. But he didn't need to do so, since his nose identified the intruder as Kagome. "What?" He snapped glaring at the woman before him. Kagome grinned and held up a bebe-gun. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and returned to work while sucking his breath in so that he didn't lose his patience, which was frankly speaking, thinning. Letting out a crackle of a poorly crafted evil laughter, Kagome fired another bebe-pelt at Inuyasha, this time hitting his other ear. THWACK! Inuyasha yowled in anger slamming his fists into his desk. "WOMAN!" He thundered, golden eyes flashing fire, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?" Kagome did a victory dance and ran out the door.
"WOMAN! IF YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE TRYING TO DO, I'LL FUCKING TEAR YOU FROM LIMB TO LIMB! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
"Nope!" After on last giggle, Kagome turned and fled down the stairs. Inuyasha groaned in exasperation and banged his head against Kikyou's desk after every swear word he uttered. Inuyasha lifted his head out after the tenth bang and seethed. Kagome definitely wasn't going to get away with it. In a fury, Inuyasha flew into the elevator in which Kikyou had just stepped out of. With a rude shove and a string of cusses, Inuyasha tore past the devastated literally screaming at the cowering elevator operator to press all the buttons in the elevator. When his command was ignored, Inuyasha pushed past Kouga and jabbed at all two hundred floors. Every time he stopped at a floor, Inuyasha would stick his head out and sniff the air before promptly sticking his head back in.
Kouga rolled his eyes. "Hey mutt! What the hell are you looking for?"
"Shut up and do your job you mangy wolf!"
"You stupid dog turd, I was asking you a question! No need to explode on me! What are you looking for… or rather, who are you looking for?"
"Who I look for does not concern your nosy self, now shut your blabbering mouth and mind your own damn business!"
And so the process of Inuyasha sticking his head out of the elevator to catch Kagome's scent repeated, even after Kouga flounced out of the elevator on the hundred and fiftieth floor. Finally, at the hundred and thirtieth floor, Inuyasha caught a strong whiff of Kagome's scent. He immediately stalked out of the elevator and dashed around the office. Much to his distaste, the office was completely empty and dark, which meant one thing: the workers who were supposed to be doing their job weren't doing it. Inuyasha made a mental note to punish each and every one of these workers. First, he would have to get his incredibly stupid secretaries to gather the names of the people who worked in the hundred and thirtieth floor. But he would have to wait for several weeks thanks to Kikyou's lack of brain cells.
But at the moment, Kikyou and her incompetence was not the issue. What was the issue was Kagome and her blasted bebe-gun. Nobody dared to hit him with those stupid plastic things, ever! And… especially his ears, provided that they were the most sensitive part of his body other than his nose. The slight sound of shuffling came from Inuyasha's right, and then the sound of the plastic gun's trigger clicking. This time, Inuyasha jumped in the air and dodged the incoming plastic pelt. It bounced off a computer and skittered across the floor. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. He knew Kagome was in here, because he could smell her nearby, but Kagome wasn't the only one who was there. He could also make out the scent of his father (sneaky old man…), Miroku, Sango, and several other workers along with Inutaisho's secretaries. In fact, all the people whom he connected with in work were there, with an exception of Sesshoumaru. "DAD!" Inuyasha barked angrily, "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE HERE?"
The sound of his father chuckling was heard somewhere in the office room. Inuyasha glared around before barking that this was not a twisted version of Hide and go Seek. After shouting at all the "guilty" ones to come out, Inuyasha swiftly swiped away a wheeling chair where Naraku the weakling hid, trembling. Inuyasha seemed to grow taller than Naraku, his golden eyes flaring with anger. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING CARE OF MY HORSE AND DOING YOUR JOB?" Naraku trembled beneath the seething CEO, stuttering occasionally. Another sound of a bebe pelt whistling through the air came into his ear. Inuyasha, not taking his flaring eyes off the trembling Naraku, raised one hand and caught it. "I'll deal with you later…" He snarled softly, "Return to your station in working, and I'll think of a punishment for you." Shaking, Naraku exited the room, fleeing as fast as he could possibly go.
Inuyasha savagely tossed the pelt onto the ground and it bounced about harmlessly. "Alright, as for the rest of you, I'll tear you all from limb to limb…" He paused for a moment before adding,"Except dad!" Inuyasha marched across the aisle, gruffly shoving things aside to peek behind it or under it. A blur of pink flashed by him, but Inuyasha simply stuck out one leg, and sure enough, Ayame tripped over his leg holding onto one of those plastic guns. "You…" he snarled, "Get back to work! And I do not care if dad's the one that gives you orders. Don't tell me that you have nothing to do either. If you have nothing to do, you will sit at your desk like a proper secretary and wait for any calls." Huffing to himself, Inuyasha yanked Sango out from behind a cubicle by her leg letting her dangle upside down. Luckily, she was wearing an iron-gray pantsuit. Sango's hair fell over her face and onto the floor along with her pearl necklace.
"Woman," He started, "If you have nothing to do, I'll give you something to do. Check on all the warehouses and factories. Then write me a fifty-pagereport on them by the end of the day. Dismissed." When he was through, hedropped her carelessly on the floor. After easily wrenching out Miroku, Kagura, and Shippou (he wound his arm back and threw him into the elevator), Inuyasha kicked open the door to the head of the floor's office. In there, Inutaisho was standing in front of the desk that had been cleared and replaced with a huge poster-paper. On it was the mapping of the hundred and thirtieth floor from a bird's eye view. There was a legend that held the color codes of Shippou, Miroku, Sango, Ayame, Kikyou, Kouga, Naraku… and the list went on until all eight people were there. Right where the elevator was, was a quite hideous picture of Inuyasha, with a funnily drawn angry expression on his face. Standing behind the desk were Inutaisho, Kagome, and to Inuyasha's surprise, Sesshoumaru. Inutaisho jumped looking a bit surprised.
Inuyasha wasted no time in stalking across the room and snatching the plastic toy gun out of Inutaisho's grasp. He took out the EZ clip and tipped it so that it was upside down. Much to his father's dismay, all the bebe pelts in the gun spilled out and scattered across the floor like the beads from a broken necklace. The scowling hanyou then glared at Kagome before snatching her own bebe-gun away and crinkling it into broken plastic bits. "Woman…" He growled, "How dare you hit this Inuyasha with a stupid bebe-pelt!" Kagome gulped as Inuyasha smirked, proud of the look of terror in her face. He released his fist and a shower of broken plastic pieces fell onto the ground with a loud clitter-clatter!
"Temper, temper, dear son," Inutaisho began, "There is no need for you to simply ruin our fun by sending the key players to the game to their work!"
"FUN?" Inuyasha echoed disbelievingly, "Whoever heard of having fun in an office?"
"Even though he is the worthless hanyou I know, I could not agree any less than him father." Sesshoumaru spoke up calmly. Inuyasha flashed a glare at his older brother who promptly returned the glare at him.
"Oh, if you agree with me so much, then what are you, the oh-so-great Sesshoumaru-sama doing here? Huh?"
"I was brought here against my free will by father."
"KEH! Like I'd really believe you, you hypocritical imbecile!"
"Oooh!" Kagome exclaimed clasping her hands together, "That was the very first big word I heard from you! Inuyasha, I'm so proud of you!"
"THAT ISN'T THE POINT!" Inuyasha exploded, "NOW GET BACK TO WORK AND DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO!"
"Yes, but I've got a flight to catch tomorrow."
"So? Doesn't mean that you could run around making a fool out of yourself swinging around a mere toy, and hitting my ears with those damned pelts of yours!"
"Why you…"
"Now, now, my dearies, please calm down! We are civilized business people and we should settle the manner in a... erm...diplomatic way! Yeah! A diplomatic way..." Inutaisho balanced apencil he had beenholding when Inuyasha burst in on them on his nose before continuing,"Now, Inuyasha, state your case."
"Daad… this isn't the court! Don't think you can settle the manner in your playful ways!"
"But Inuyasha, that's how this business has been working for the past eighty years!" The pencil slipped out from between Inutaisho's nose and upper lip and fell on the floor with a loud clatter. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and Inuyasha sighed.
"Dad…" Inuyasha groaned.
"Now, tomorrow you, Kagome, and Sesshoumaru have a flight to catch. I'm sending you all on a business trip to Hong Kong to check up on those robotic dogs and to see if everything is running smoothly in the Hong Kong branch. Mr. Ling-woo Hwang, the CEO of the Hong Kong branch should give you background on how everything is coming along. At the same time, Inuyasha, while Kagome and Sesshoumaru are working on their jobs, I expect you to fully bring the heat-toilet seats into full gear. I'm sure that everyone in Hong Kong would go mad over them provided that the toilets in Hong Kong aren't so superb…" Inutaisho wrapped his arm around Inuyasha, leaning on him dramatically. Inuyasha rolled his eyes at his father. Inutaisho didn't seem to notice it and half-dragging his disgruntled son, went over to his older son and wrapped his free arm around him.
Sesshoumaru made vain attempts to escape his father, but alas, he was too slow and much to his disgust, and found himself being squeezed against Inuyasha. Inuyasha gasped for breath clawing the air dramatically. "Awww… such a cute family!" Kagome cried out sweetly. She raised her digital camera and took a shot, annoying both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. "You know, this ought to be on photo! When are we ever going to see such a happy family reunion?"
"This so-called 'family reunion' was forced upon me by dad!" Inuyasha barked shooting daggers at Inutaisho, who still hadn't released him.
"As much as I hate to admit it, the fool is correct."
"Oy! Who are you calling a fool?"
"You!"
Just then the glass door of the office was thrown open and in ran Naraku. Inuyasha shot him a glare, but Naraku held his hands up to reveal a simple round ball. It was pink, and glimmered in the light. "Mr. Suzuki! I've finally found it at last! The key to make Suzuki Corporation the most powerful technological company ever!" Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru looked at each other and then back at the seemingly worthless piece of ball or glass or whatever it was in Naraku's hand. Inutaisho raised an eyebrow while Kagome put on a look of interest. Inuyasha scowled. Kagome always found even the most idiotic ideas interesting, say, for example, heated toilet seats. Now she was ogling at a stupid pink ball of what was probably glass upon first inspection. "This," Naraku gasped, "Is what I shall call the Shikon Jewel. It has special capabitilies to make a very old computer become faster and more powerful. So far I have made several of these along with Midoriko and gave it some test runs, and it seemed to be a miracle!"
"Foolish wretch!" Inuyasha spat. Kagome stopped ogling at the Shikon Jewel that was being proudly displayed in Naraku's hands and glared at Inuyasha. What was that woman thinking? He wasn't even speaking to her! That's because you've been calling her wretch for over eighteen years. He thought to himself. "What the hell are you looking at? I'm not talking to you!" Kagome put on a look of shock, but Inuyasha ignored her and snatched the ball out of a now surprised and horrified Naraku. Inuyasha glared at the pink ball and held it up to his face. Using one claw, he delicately tapped the surface several times before bringing it to his ears and tapping on it again. It didn't sound like glass, but neither did it sound like anything else Inuyasha had ever seen. But it did sound distantly close to a diamond, a very expensive diamond. Inuyasha placed the jewel before his eyes before bringing it up to his nose to sniff it. It didn't smell like glass either. "Hmm… now that you've gained my interest for once in your scrawny little life, tell me, what is this made of?" Inuyasha asked as he returned the Shikon Jewel to a shocked and happy Naraku.
"I would love to explain this to you! The Shikon Jewel is made from a special substance called Hextra-silicone; it is a form of diamond but is mixed with some other element that is still unknown to us at the moment. But what we do know about the Hextra-silicone is that it is plentiful and can be made very easily by natural causes."
"And how did you gain such information?" Sesshoumaru inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh… to be honest, it was when I was in high school…"
"So… explain." Inuyasha barked now sounding quite similar to Sesshoumaru.
"Well, you see, I wasn't very popular in high school and on my way home from school, I was crossing a make-shift bridge because there was something wrong with the sewage system and…"
"Hold it." Inuyasha said calmly, "You don't need to say anymore if you feel uncomfortable about it."
"No, Mr. Suzuki," Naraku started, "I'm fine. Anyway, something was wrong with the sewage system, so it was left open so that corrections could be made with it. So I was walking by, and some of the kids pushed me in there. And that was when I found some pinkish substance. I didn't know what it was, and did some scientific experiments on it, but nothing too elaborate. it wasn't until recently that I found that it could do miraculous things!" Inutaisho seemed thoughtful. After all these years of watching his father skateboard across the auditorium stage, Inuyasha was actually very surprised and also felt a bit disturbed at the same time. Obviously, his father was not a very serious man, thus, when he did become serious (which was very rare of him), everything seemed strange to him.
It seemed as if Naraku was in the same boat because he also looked a bit disturbed and was sweating and his eyes looked as if he were praying to the heavens to ensure that Inutaisho was not coming down with anything. Kagome, in the meantime, did a little O of surprise with her lips and Sesshoumaru questioningly raised an eyebrow at his father. Obviously, Inuyasha's world had been turned upside down that day. In fact, his world seemed to be so topsy-turvy that a slight headache was starting to form from his temple. Inutaisho was not a workaholic like him and Sesshoumaru, he was the light-hearted dad that loved to decorate other people's offices or cubicles (in the case of regular workers) with huge plastic roses and stuffed sunflower dolls complete with pictures of Garfield the cat and other fluffy, childish things. Inutaisho looked horrifyingly scary scanning Naraku's report with calm cool business-like eyes. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru looked at each other and then back at their father. They blinked twice before Inuyasha muttered, "Punch me as hard as you can."
"Do the same to me." And so, just as Inutaisho looked up from his report, he saw both his sons land a fist on each other's cheeks. Sesshoumaru rolled away in the direction of the door and Inuyasha slammed into the desk that prevented him from doing the same thing that Sesshoumaru had just done. Sesshoumaru lay against the door unconscious while Inuyasha stood up and shook his head vigorously while rubbing his eyes. Naraku, in the meantime,let out a little squeak and hit behind Kagome, who simply stared at them, her large and beautiful chocolate-brown eyes wide in shock. Inutaisho also looked surprised and raised an eyebrow at his two sons.
Inuyasha slowly got to his feet and rubbed his eyes. Then he blinked several times to squinted at Inutaisho as if he needed glasses. Much to his shock and dismay, Inutaisho looked very angry. Obviously, he wasn't dreaming. "NO! IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A DREAM!" Inuyahsa yelled whilst banging his head on the table as hard as he could. "I." Bang! "WILL." Bang! "WAKE." Bang! "UP." Bang! "ON." Bang! "THE." Bang! "FLOOR." Bang! "NEXT." Bang! "TO." Bang! "MY." Bang! "BED!" Bang! Bang! Bang! He could have done more, but the two slim hands of Kagome slipped under his arm and across his chest as she made attempts to yank the now frenzied CEO away from any harm. Occassionally, she would say things such as "breath", or "calm down" or things like that. Inuyasha's vision was slightly blurred from all the banging right after being punched by Sesshoumaru.
Much to Inuyasha's relief, Inutaisho went back to his usual, effervescent mood. But that didn't stop him from thinking of getting some psychological repair from a psychologist. Sesshoumaru was still lying next to the door in the position he had been when he rammed into the wall. His legs and feet stuck up oddly still in the position of the roll he was in after Inuyasha's punch and his arms were sprawled out to the sides. He also had swirly eyes, which meant that he was knocked out. Hey, at least Sesshoumaru didn't need a shrink, now that he got to think that Inutaisho's serious expression was only a dream. Why me? Inuyasha thought, slightly annoyed. He had stopped all attempts to slam his head back into the desk and now hung limply in Kagome's arms.
"Son?" Inutaisho asked, his voice slightly concerned, "Are you alright?"
"No… no… I'm going insane! I need a shrink, fast!"
"Whatever for?" Inutaisho looked extremely inquisitive as he paced around the room trying to figure out what exactly was wrong with his son that made him ask for a shrink. Inuyasha felt a warm hand on his forehead, which indicated that Kagome had placed her hand on his forehead.
"Hmm… he doesn't have a fever…" She murmured to Inutaisho.
"Son, I can get you whatever you want, be it girls, cars, or houses, but I cannot get you a shrink. You are not insane… actually, maybe you are!" Inutaisho chuckled to himself about thinking up such a clever joke. Inuyasha heard Kagome sigh in exasperation behind him. "You refuse to let me buy you a car, or get you engaged, or even place you in one of the most powerful position in this company, out of all of those things I can get you, you ask for a mere shrink. Come with me, Inuyasha…" Inutaisho stepped up and took Inuyasha by the arm from Kagome, "We need to talk. Kagome, please untangle Sesshoumaru from the entrance and nurse him for a while. Naraku, please give those files to one of my secretaries and have her place them on my desk." Without further delay, Inutaisho led his son out of the office once, Kagome had miraculously managed to untangle Sesshoumaru from his mishap.
"So, you're going to be my personal shrink?" Inuyasha spat rather rudely. Although he sounded rude, it was unintentional.
"No, I will not, nor will I get you one. Inuyasha, remember when you were first employed to Suzuki Corporation?" Inuyasha nodded dully and he grudgingly dragged himself along the aisle towards the elevator. "I offered you your position as CEO and you rejected it."
"So?"
"So, that means that I know that you are generally a hard working person and that you won your way to CEO through your work, not through your connections to me. I'm very proud of you, but you need to learn how to relax."
"KEH! Relax, schmrelax! How can I stop everything I do and suddenly jump around and become a comedian?" Inuyasha hissed in pain and dabbed his cheek gently with his fingers. Why the hell did Sesshoumaru have to release his damn poison?
"Inuyasha, I don't want you to have a real mental break down. I mean, I heard that those shrinks are perverts! They think that by massaging your back would make you better!"
"Dad…" Inuyasha growled in annoyance, "A shrink is slang for a psychologist. What you were talking about were professional massagers."
"See my point? You didn't even get my joke!" Inutaisho pouted at his son, who had now taken to rubbing his temples with his claws. Inuyasha was certain that they day was going to get worse. First, he wakes up late, second, he's stuck in a traffic jam, third, a bunch of annoying teenagers got on his nerves, fourth, he rode a horse to work and now had to go back to get his car, fifth, Kagome pelted his ears with a bebe-pellet, fifth, he ran into Kouga, sixth, he was stuck with the world's stupidest secretary, and seventh, now this!
"Dad… I need a vacation… I haven't had one in ten years."
"Certainly! Shall I get you off the business schedule and put you on a plane to Singapore?"
"NO!" Inuyasha shouted, "I have to do the work!" With that Inuyasha stormed away only to run into trouble number eight of the day. Meanwhile, Inutaisho sighed, his son was obviously not going too well.
Sesshoumaru felt a damp cloth over his head and slowly opened his eyes. At first his vision was a blurry mass of black, peach, and white, then it slowly began to clear until the blobs shaped into a woman with long black hair and stunning chocolate eyes, wearing what was obviously a suit from Chanel. Sesshoumaru knew that there was only one person in the world who bore those warm, gorgeous chocolate-brown eyes: Kagome. He almost felt inclined to reach up and touch her face, but his pride, as usual, got the best of him. Not that Kagome wore a look of concern or anything… well, actually, she was concerned, but it wasn't that of the relationship between a couple or lovers, it was that of pure friendship and acquaintances, nothing more. Besides, Sesshoumaru somehow felt that nagging feeling that Kagome had feeling not for himself, but for his younger, worthless half-brother Inuyasha. Inuyasha, he was the lucky one. Inuyasha would have probably thrown Kikyou at him and told him to use her as Kagome's substitute. They did, after all, look very similar… similar, not the same, not one-on-one, but similar. Kagome's eyes were larger, and her features were softer. Her skin, unlike Kikyou's deathly white skin, was a healthy white glow.
How he envied Inuyasha. Although Inuyasha and Kagome argued years upon ends, which started from hair yanking and fists to name calling, and now to arguments over which electronic product was best to sell. Somehow, Kagome and Inuyasha seemed to click together and fit snuggly into a nicely shaped pea pod, even when arguing. In the meantime, Kagome seemed so awkward when she was with himself. It just wasn't fair, life was never fair for Sesshoumaru. Not until he overheard Izayoi's plans in bringing Kagome to him and Kikyou to Inuyasha. Nevertheless, the tight knot of anxiety never left the pit of his stomach, although he never let it show. Sesshoumaru sat up shaking his head slightly. Then he felt a glass being pushed into his hands.
"Drink it. You were knocked out cold when Inuyasha punched you." Kagome said kindly. Sesshoumaru, although extremely thirsty refused, he would not let himself weaken to a mere mortal. He glowered at the cup and pushed it away from him. "Sesshoumaru, it should help." Kagome said sternly.
"I do not wish to drink something that a mere human such as yourself has offered to me. And I do not need this rag on my head." With that, Sesshoumaru plucked the hand towel off his forehead and flung it at Kagome as if it were infested with SARS or AIDS. Kagome seemed deeply insulted; perhaps he had gone a little too far with flinging the hand towel at her. For a moment, Kagome seemed as if she were going to blow up, which was, frankly speaking, what Sesshoumaru was waiting for. He had to admit to himself that Kagome was most beautiful when angry. He braced himself for the explosion, but it never came. Instead, all that came out from Kagome's mouth was a whoosh of her breath. Now that was a real disappointment for him. He was sure that if Inuyasha was in his place, Kagome would have simply slapped the towel back on his forehead and screamed at him as she forced the water down his throat. Lucky Inuyasha… or maybe it was because of his "reputation" he had built up? Whatever it was, Kagome didn't blow up on him.
Instead, she stood up looking slightly annoyed, but not enough to be angry. "Okay, I guess since you have the strength to fling my so-called rag and refuse a nice glass of water offered by the polite and oh so loving Kagome, I guess you are fine. I'm going to find Inuyasha. He had a nasty wound on his cheek thanks to your poisonous hands!" The annoyed woman left the room muttering to herself. Although she was muttering, Sesshoumaru caught every word of it, provided that his ears were very sensitive: "Sheesh! Just be nice to him for one second and he just has to get all cocky! Inuyasha's right, Sesshoumaru is a cocky bastard." Humphing to herself, Kagome left the room leaving Sesshoumaru with his thoughts.
Once the annoyed CEO was gone, Sesshoumaru grabbed the glass of cup he rejected, and downed it in one huge gulp. Inuyasha, Inuyasha, Inuyasha! He was sick of it. That was all Kagome thought about! Sesshoumaru growled to himself. No matter how hard Izayoi works to bring himself together with Kagome, Kagome's heart would always belong to Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru glared at the glass cup. If Jaken had been there, then he would have taken his anger out on him, but Jaken was away visiting his family members and the only thing he had was the glass cup. Sesshoumaru raised his hand to dash the delicate thing against the wall when he suddenly stopped. Wait. This cup was held by Kagome! And it still smells like her, if I dash it then… Sesshoumaru quickly looked left and right before cuddling the cup babyishly against his cheek. If anyone had seen that, they would have burst out laughing, but nobody was there… nobody, except Myoga who was too small even for Inutaisho to sniff out.
"OOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO? KILL ME?" Inuyasha's anguished screams echoed across his office and out the door to where Kikyou was sitting doing her job, which was highly unusual of her, since she spent most of her time filing her nails. Inside Inuyasha's office, Inuyasha himself was sitting on a couch and next to him was Kagome. She was holding up a cotton swab that was soaked in Iodine and was trying to dab Inuyasha's wound on his right cheek. The glaring Inuyasha made a grab for Kagome's wrist, but she proved to be faster and jerked her arm away from Inuyasha. "GIVE THAT HERE, WOMAN!" Inuyasha continued to yell as he flailed his arms to snatch the swab out of Kagome's hand.
Unfortunately, Kagome swatted his hands away from her and somehow had managed to tackle him by dodging his swiping claws. The swab landed right in the middle of the wound making the poor hanyou howl in pain, and so the process repeated itself. "Inuyasha, stop being such a baby and sit still!" Inuyasha glared at Kagome, who sighed. She had somehow managed to pin his hands down on his lap with her knee and was bending over him. She proceeded in dabbing Inuyasha's cheek with the cotton swab and when he screamed, she would yell right back at him and poke the swab as hard as she could into his cheek making him howl more before ripping his hands out from under her knee to snatch the ominous swab out of her hands. Kagome drew herself away from the annoyed and very angry Inuyasha and dropped the swab in the garbage can that was nearby. Kagome leaned a bit back to examine her handiwork, not enough Iodine.
"Are you done with that nasty Iodine stuff?" Inuyasha whimpered, no longer sounding angry or annoyed, but purely vulnerable, sad, and scared.
"I'm really sorry, but you'll need some more Iodine."
"NOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW! WOULD YOU CUT OUT YOUR DAMN JABBINGS, GOD DAMMIT!" Kagome glared at Inuyasha, her eyes ablaze. Then, so much without thinking, she slammed the swab right into the middle of the wound and dragged it downwards. The look on Inuyasha's face was priceless as he screamed himself senseless for the thousandth time, only after that he didn't scream at her and continued to scream in pain. His hands were up and twitching in pain as he shot out of his seat, still in that position. For a moment, his screaming had stopped, but his mouth was still open in a silent scream and is fingers still twitched. He stood there like a marble statue, and didn't move even when Kagome tried to pull him down. But his body was too stiff and still frozen in position. So, Kagome laid him down on his back, and dabbed his cheek more softly until there was so much Iodine that it looked as if it were to overflow.
So, using a dry cotton ball, Kagome lightly mopped the excess Iodine from Inuyasha's face and dropped it in the garbage can. After that, using a Q-tip, she put some Aloe Vera medicine on it before placing the bandage over it. "There. All done, now you don't have to go through all that pain." The moment Kagome had finished, Inuyasha sprang to life and flew up on his feet standing on the couch without realizing it.
"Do you know how much that hurt?" He screamed at Kagome who frowned at him slightly.
"Shouldn't you be grateful for that? Drink some water and calm down, geez! I was only trying to help!"
"Trying to HELP? Are you sure you weren't trying to send me to HELL-P?"
"What are you talking about? You were the one that provoked me to poke you like that! And I remember specifically telling you that it was going to hurt!"
"W-w-well… I didn't NEED YOUR HELP!"
"WHAT? WHY YOU…"
"WHO WANTS TO HAVE A CRAZED CEO LIKE YOU BREATHING DOWN THEIR NECK TO SCREAM AT THEM JUST BECAUSE THEY FLINCHED SLIGHTLY IN PAIN ANYWAY?"
"FLINCHED?" Kagome echoed in disbelief, "You flinched? You call screaming so loudly that the skies are going to collapse flinching?" Kagome laughed sarcastically. "Tell me you're kidding!"
"KEH! Who said I screamed that loudly?"
"Oh gee! I wished I had a tape recorder or a video camera on me so I could have recording your facial expression to see what you really looked like! Flinch? PAH!"
"Go ahead! Do that next time! Who's stopping you anyway?"
"OKAY THEN, I WILL!"
"OKAY!"
"OKAY!"
"Stupid woman, always getting on my nerves!"
"GETTING ON YOUR NERVES? WHO'S THE ONE WHO KEPT ON PASSING PRESS CONFERENCES AFTER PRESS CONFERENCES AT ME? HUH?"
"WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?"
"DO YOU THINK I DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SCREAM?"
"YEAH, I THINK YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SCREAM BECAUSE YOUR SCREAMING KEEPS ON HURTING MY EARS, STUPID!"
"STUPID? OH SO I'M STUPID, HUH? HEY! JUST BECAUSE I'M HUMAN DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOUR SCREAMING DOESN'T HURT MY EARS! YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT FROM SESSHOUMARU! BOTH OF YOU ARE ARROGANT, VAIN, COLD, MEAN, AND JUST PLAIN ANNOYING! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I BOTHERED!" Kagome then turned and stomped away from the annoyed and angry hanyou towards the elevators.
"FINE! WALK AWAY! SEE IF I CARE!"
Kagome ignored Inuyasha's screaming behind her and stomped out of the office, steaming mad. She wondered how she was gong to even stand both brothers when they went to Hong Kong. Although Inutaisho reassured her that she was going because she was one of the most convincing negotiators, Kagome couldn't help wondering if she was only being sent to keep the two from flying at each other's necks. Flustered, Kagome stomped into the elevator only to run into a solid block of a body. With an oof, Kagome landed on her rear-end only to find herself looking up at Miroku.
"Kagome! Oh geez! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." Kagome mumbled as Miroku helped her to her feet. Kagome dusted herself off, muttering to herself about ingrateful sons. Then she shot Miroku a glare that made him jump back in shock.
"What? I didn't grope you! I swear!" Scowling one last time, Kagome left the confused man scratching his head and wondering just what was wrong. "Women these days…" He muttered to himself, remembering what Sango had done to him, "They all seem to be on PMS, I swear…" Shaking his head in depression, Miroku entered the great office where Inuyasha was childishly ripping the bandage off.
"FINE!" He shouted at the bandage as if it were all it's fault, "Scream at me all you want! I don't need your stupid bandages anyway!" Inuyasha glared at the bandage that lay helplessly on the floor hoping to shoot laser out of his eyes to zap it to dust, but those lasers never came. Sighing to himself he picked it up and put it back on his face. How on earth was he supposed to walk around and see how everyone else were doing with this huge wad of cotton gauze on his face? What was worse was that he had to go to a meeting in about thirty minutes! Inuyasha checked his watch and prayed to every single god in existence that he would at least heal in the next five minutes, he was at least half demon after all. The sound of someone clearing his throat was heard and Inuyasha whirled around to find him facing Miroku who had a look of amusement on his face.
"Don't blame the bandage, Inuyasha." He said with a smirk. Inuyasha growled, annoyed as his ears twitched with anticipation. "It's not like the bandage wanted Kagome to scream at you… besides, you just hurt the bandage's feelings."
"Excuse me?" Inuyasha asked, his voice dangerously low and his right eye twitching madly, "But this bandage is a THING and it does not have feelings! What is wrong with everyone in this place?" Inuyasha sighed melodramatically as he waved his hands in the air and droned on and on about the strange behavior that constantly went on in the building. "Did you know Miroku, that once when I came to work, the security guard was drilling a hole in the ground with a jack hammer laughing like a maniac?" Miroku pretended to cough into his fist hoping that the now deranged CEO didn't notice that he was laughing. Inuyasha ignored the fits of false coughing coming from Miroku, although he knew that Miroku was trying hard not to laugh. "And when I asked them what they were doing, they had already laid out a green carpet and were playing Putt. Can you believe that? PUTT, THEY WERE PUTTING IN A FUCKING OFFICE THAT NEED TO HAVE SURVEILLANCE TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN!"
By this time, Miroku couldn't hold his laughter in any longer and burst out laughing and spraying spit all over the flabbergasted and disgusted CEO. Scowling, Inuyasha wiped the spray of spit off his face with a look that could have murdered anyone on the spot if looks could kill. "You know what? If you're going to keep laughing like that I'm just going to go to my meeting with Mr. Leibowitz, if you want to laugh go laugh with dad." Scowling to himself one last time, Inuyasha stomped out of his office while simultaneously snatching his briefcase along with his coat and his scarf. Inuyasha kicked the laughing director out of his way and barked some orders savagely at Kikyou who had been dozing off at her desk. She jerked awake and lost control of her wheeling chair and was emptied out of it and onto the floor with a very loud and embarrassing thump. "If you sleep like that one more time, I'm going to get you fired no matter what, and I don't care if there isn't one bitch who can't stand me besides you!" Muttering to himself about incompetent secretaries, Inuyasha stormed into the elevator.
"Good morning, Mr. Suzuki, which floor would you like to…"
"B6!" Inuyasha snapped to the rather startled elevator operator, "Actually, make that the Lobby." Inuyasha dug his hand into his suit withdrew his cell phone and quickly rung up Naraku. "Naraku, get my damned horse down to the Lobby ASAP." He said smoothly into the phone once the jittery and nervous Naraku answered it. Naraku gave Inuyasha a horrified squeak of affirmation and hung up so that he could get Inuyasha his horse. Inuyasha sighed and placed his cell phone back into his suit pocket and rubbed his temples with his fingers. Why the hell did I have to ride a damn horse to work? He grudgingly wondered to himself, right, it was all because of my fucking alarm clock and that fucking ball shit. Life was just getting rougher and rougher by the minute.
The elevator operator cheerily announced the Lobby and bid him to have a nice day. Inuyasha shrugged it off with a "KEH!" and went to retrieve his naughty horse from Naraku, who had somehow managed to keep the thing in check. Inuyasha dreaded going out in the middle of the streets riding a horse, and if the rendezvous point hadn't been too far, he would have gladly walked there. But alas! The Plaza Hotel was too far to go on foot and arrive in one piece without being tired. Inuyasha forced Naraku to bring the horse out onto the streets and mounted it with Naraku bribing the beast with an apple. "Okay, good. Now get back to work, you have a presentation to make on the Shikon Jewel in three minutes. Naraku let out a squeak of horror and rushed back into the office, his long, wavy hair billowing behind him. "Okay, horse, you and I are going to THE PLAZA…" Inuyasha shouted into the horse's ear. "Okay? The PLAZAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Inuyasha screamed his head off as the spooked horse bolted down the street, it's hooves thundering across the street. "GET OUT OF MY WAY! ARRRRRRRGH! I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA DIE!" Inuyasha screamed all the way down the street.
The screaming continued to come from Inuyasha as curious people turned around to see the CEO clad in a black suit with his briefcase with him. Some of the shopkeepers even came out to see what was going on, and a band of Chinese tourists stopped and began pointing at him shouting excitedly to each other in Chinese before snapping pictures after pictures of him. Not knowing what to do, Inuyasha swatted the horse as hard as he could with his hands just to get it to stop or at least slow down, but instead the horse neighed very loudly before breaking into a full-on gallop. "I'll strike a deal with you! If you stop I'll buy you boxes and boxes of apples, and oats! Just fucking stop dammit!" Upon hearing Inuyasha's promise, the horse's ear twitched slightly as it jumped over the decorations of a hotel and skidded to a halt in front of a hotel sending Inuyasha straight into it head-first.
Inuyasha landed on his stomach with an: oof! His arms were spread out, with his feet in the air connected together and his eyes swirling around. Shocking hotel people and customers gathered around him muttering away amongst each other. "Why that little…" Inuyasha let out a string of curses into the ground and pushed himself off the floor and stood up to glare at the horse that was now nibbling peacefully on a bush while several bellboys flailed their arms and tired to drag the thing away from the bushes. The horse grunted and seemed to roll it's eyes and turned to nibble on some flowers.
"Ah! Mr. Suzuki!" Inuyasha whirled around and stared in horror at Mr. Leboiwitz who had come up to him grinning cheekily. Mr. Leboiwitz looked around the same age as Inuyasha and had brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing an immaculate suit gray with a red and gold tie. Inuyasha immediately straightened up and fixed his suit with one expert tug and smiled at Mr. Leboiwitz. Somehow, in its craze, the horse had brought him straight to The Plaza. Hmm… some apples and oats for you… Inuyasha mused to himself as he shook Mr. Leboiwitz's hand.
Kagome sat in front of her suitcase. The two-week business trip meant that she had to take a little more clothes than usual. How she hated carrying a heavy luggage! Kaede was bustling around in her walk in closet while Rin happily bounced slightly on Kagome's bed. Kagome had just taken a shower for the night and was wearing, this time, her pink trainers from DKNY. Her hair was wet and spread across her back. She had attempted to pack her bag, but Kaede shoved a chair at her and told her to take a seat. So there Kagome sat on a stool with a mug of warm milk in one hand as Kaede expertly packed in her suits. The first one to go in was her favorite black one, then a beige pantsuit, then an iron gray suit, and a white suit. With that, Kaede packed one black blouse and one white blouse along with her other trainers, two jeans, and four shirts. "There, all ye need is yer sneakers and a pair of sandals with your two pumps." Kagome nodded and thanked the woman as she placed the rest of the necessary items into the bag.
"Thank you, Kaede, but really, I could have packed all that by myself." Kagome smiled at the old woman before her who told her it was really nothing at all. Rin, who had gotten bored with jumping up and down on Kagome's bed jumped over to her with a toothy smile.
"When are you coming back?"
"Two weeks from now."
"Why can't I follow? I swear I'll be good!"
"Rin," Kaede said wearily, "You can't go, this is not a vacation! Remember, Kagome would never leave you behind if this was a vacation, but Kagome must go do work in Hong Kong. You, naughty girl, will stay here with me and keep the house in order until Kagome returns. And if you are especially good, I shall convince Kagome to take you to Coney Island."
"Really?" Rin's eyes turned big as dinner plates and looked all sparkly. "Can you really take me to Coney Island?"
"Of course I can Rin. In fact, when I come back, I'll be back on a Saturday, so I can take you out the next day so you could have as much fun as you want all day!"
"WOW! I'LL BE THE BESTEST KID EVER! Can Inuyasha come as well with Sesshoumaru?"
"Umm…" Kagome gave a nervous laugh before she looked at Kaede who stared back at her with a look of exasperation on her face. Kagome could not imagine neither Inuyasha nor Sesshoumaru strapping themselves down on a roller coaster and screaming their heads off. It was just plain wrong! Those two boys never had an ounce of fun in their lives ever since they became pre-teens. "Look Rin, Inuyasha hates amusement parks and I don't think Sesshoumaru likes them that much either." Rin looked downcast, making Kagome feel immensely guilty. "Look, we can force at least just Inuyasha to come. You stay here and think of something that will command him or force him to do exactly what we want him to do. Is that a deal?"
Rin's face immediately lit up and she smiled as wide as she could and quickly nodded her head. Kagome smiled back and ruffled her hair fondly before picking her up. "Now, Rin, it's time for bed, I need to sleep early so I can catch my plane tomorrow. Okay?"
"OKAY!" So the three women left Kagome's bedroom and towards Rin's bedroom. It was a rather cute room. Although the room's walls were white and bare, in far corner to the right Kagome painted a tree on and with the help of her next-door neighbor, installed fake branches that suck out from the sides and spread across the room. The floor was covered with a green carpet that very much resembled grass and Rin's bed, which was brown with orange and white checked blankets, lay underneath the branches. On the branches, Rin had hung up old Christmas ornaments with the help of Kaede and there was a desk directly across from her bed, which had a computer on it. Rin's school bag hung on the chair and a closet was on the same wall as the door. The window was large and spacious that gave away a breath-taking view of the city, showing off all the twinkling lights of Manhattan and the rest of New York City.
Kagome laid Rin down in her bed while Kaede took a book off the shelf and sat down to tell Rin her favorite story: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. "Good night Rin." Kagome said giving Rin a kiss on her forehead. "Good night Kaede." Kagome nodded to Kaede who had opened the book to the part she and Rin had left off the other night.
"Good night Kagome."
So now the next chapter's going to be set in Hong Kong and on the plane! Fun times ahead! Wait for more humor to come your way in Chapter Seven: Inuyasha in Hong Kong. I'm really sorry that this chapter sucked like hell and it wasn't as funny as my other chapters, but not to worry! Hopefully, in the next chapter, things will really get funny, I just have to think of something really funny for a plane ride and the streets of Hong Kong! Love all of ya who review!
INUYASHA: (lying in the ground all mangled up) I hate you… stupid reviewers always laughing at my misfortunes…
SHIPPPOU: Ooooh! BIG WORD! BIG WORD! (Shuts up and ends up lying on the ground with spiral-eyes and a large bump on his head)