Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, so go figure.
INUYASHA: Damn straight you don't!
KAGOME: Inuyasha… that was rude!
INUYASHA: What? So? What's wrong with expressing myself a little? Can't I even do that?
KAGOME: the least you could do is be polite!
INUYASHA: KEH! Now why the hell should I be "polite" to some loser who's writing about people she doesn't even own!
ME: FINE! I'll change all the names then! From now on, you are out of my focus!
INUYASHA: What? Hey! Are you trying to tell me that you're going to resign your position as an InuYasha fan? You can't do that!
ME: Oh really? Well let me tell you this, I get treated like… crap by my favorite cartoon character, so why should I bother?
INUYASHA: No! I'll be polite! I swear!
ME: Really? Okay then! I do not own Inuyasha, Rumiko Takahashi does, thank you very much.
INUYASHA: (groveling on ground) Yes, yes, all hail Rumiko Takahashi the great goddess and this lovely authoress demigoddess… (Kagome glares) and Kagome the demigoddess as well!
ME: Now this is life!
KAGOME: Yup! And no sitting too!
Chapter 8: Sibling Rivalry
Sesshoumaru was resting comfortably in his apartment when he heard the front door to his apartment slam. He sat at his desk and had his laptop placed on his lap with his feet propped up on the table. To his right was a box of traditional Cantonese noodles, which he had ordered for dinner. He had been watching Hitch from DVD on his laptop. But there really was no need for him to wonder who it was because Inuyasha's scent waffling under his nose was good enough for him. Sesshoumaru made no other moves to get up and greet his younger brother and neither was he thinking of getting up. The sound of Inuyasha's keys falling into the key pot was heard, and judging by the way the keys landed in the small china ceramic indicated how worn-out Inuyasha was. "I'm home…" Inuyasha shouted from the hallway. Again, Sesshoumaru ignored him and continued to watch Albert dance weirdly to Usher's hit song at that time: Yeah. There was a loud pause before Inuyasha added, "Freak!" The sound of Inuyasha's slippers shuffling through the halls were heard as Sesshoumaru lifted his feet off his desk. He placed his feet firmly on the ledge of his cherry-wood desk and pushed off, letting his wheeling chair do most of the work.
Perhaps Sesshoumaru pushed a little too hard off the desk, or maybe he leaned too much on the cushion of the chair; anyway, Sesshoumaru had not gone even half a foot before his chair toppled over making him crash down onto the floor in a very ungraceful heap. Sesshoumaru had his arms up in the air where he was holding his laptop and was lying on his back with his legs still the position of when he fell off his chair. The movie continued to play in his laptop. He swore inwardly to himself when the shuffling of Inuyasha's slippers changed courses from moving to his room to Sesshoumaru's room. The stench of dirty seawater was completely unbearable and made Sesshoumaru literally gag. A black-sleeved suit with a white and gray pinstriped sleeve of a shirt was shown before Inuyasha stuck his head into his room. Now the stench made Sesshoumaru about an inch close to vomiting. But the shock he received from seeing Inuyasha with his hair tied up, voluntarily, in a ponytail saved him from the sickening ordeal. Sesshoumaru blinked his golden eyes at Inuyasha for several minutes before he spoke: "Since when did you voluntarily tie your hair?" Inuyasha scowled darkly before Sesshoumaru noticed that Inuyasha's hair was tied with a soiled tie. "So you've ruined your tie?" Sesshoumaru also noticed that Inuyasha's suit was a bit torn out and his hair was slightly out of place.
"KEH! What of it? Got a problem with that?" Inuyasha snapped. Quite unexpectedly, at the same time, both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's eyes traveled to the black Chanel bag with its familiar white logo on it. Both let out rather childish screams before Inuyasha abruptly shoved his bag behind his back and Sesshoumaru dove towards his bed where the black Chanel bag lay exposed flamboyantly. Time seemed to freeze and stretch out as the two men glared at each other panting from the effort of trying to hide his Chanel bag. When this moment passed, Inuyasha was the first to speak. "I knew it!" Inuyasha yelled while pointing at Sesshoumaru with his finger, "It was you!"
"I do not know what you're talking about." Sesshoumaru said calmly, still holding the bag behind him. "I have no idea why you wasted your time buying something for… erm… Kagome, when… I GOT THE LAST PAIR!"
"Oh yeah? I got the better-looking pair of shoes. And they look even classier and prettier! AND it's straight off the runways in Milan!"
"Well… none of the other shoes looked as good as the original shoes Kagome was wearing!"
"Oh yeah? Well you missed out on a pair of shoes that were hidden from view!"
"Prove it!" Sesshoumaru shouted, sounding very much like a three-year-old. Inuyasha didn't answer Sesshoumaru; instead, he reached into the bag. Inuyasha's hand moved as though it were going in slow motion, while Sesshoumaru craned his neck hoping that Inuyasha didn't get the nice pair. Finally, the moment Sesshoumaru had been waiting for came: Inuyasha tore the black shoe box out of the Carrier bag and threw open the lid of the shoe box as if he were tearing open Christmas presents. He had to grudgingly agree that the shoes were indeed classy and simply elegant. The black suede shoes seemed to shimmer before his very eyes and they were indeed much better than the original pair that were on Kagome's feet. Damn Inuyasha and his good sense of fashion… Wait! I am the Sesshoumaru! I am equally as fashionable, no, MORE fashionable! I'll fix him!
"HA! I knew these shoes were so much better than the ones YOU got!" Inuyasha quickly reached for the lid on the floor to place it back on the box, but Sesshoumaru was faster. He gleefully snatched the shoebox lid and promptly scrunched it up between his two hands. A look of mortification spread across Inuyasha's face, but it was like seeing the most skilled and beautiful photography Sesshoumaru had ever seen. For a second, Inuyasha simply stared at the remains of his shoebox lid before he went up on an uproar. "How dare you squash my shoebox lid? Do you know how many times you've done that?" Sesshoumaru shrugged lazily making his brother fume even more. In fact, Inuyasha's face turned beet red before he lashed out at Sesshoumaru's bag and tore it to shreds with his claws.
Now it was Sesshoumaru's turn to look offended. For a second neither of the men spoke, then Sesshoumaru opened his mouth and let out a warhoop. Inuyasha in turn, screamed out loud and ran away from his now completely crazed brother. Sesshoumaru immediately dropped the shoebox and ran after Inuyasha with his claws posed to slice him in half. Inuyasha ran around the apartment screaming. At the same time, he turned to toss some furniture on the floor so to slow Sesshoumaru's movement. Furniture throwing, however, proved futile to slowing Sesshoumaru down, because he simply jumped over them, or was too fast. At any rate, the two brothers forgot that there were people who were trying to sleep and thumped and screamed as much as they possibly could.
When everything had calmed down, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were panting, each on opposite ends of the room. In the meantime, the rhythmic thumping from the lower floor continued to drum on their floor, followed by complaints in rapid-fire Cantonese. Somehow, in the mad crazy chase, Inuyasha had swapped the lid of his shoebox with Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru ignored the constant complaints coming from the lower levels of the apartment and gaped at Inuyasha. He didn't even notice that the sneaky devil had somehow swapped his lid with some crappy half-demon infested, squashed shoebox lid. Inuyasha threw his head back and laughed evilly, while Sesshoumaru glared at him from across the room. "How dare you steal my shoebox lid!" He shouted, clearly annoyed. "Furthermore, you stole the very shoebox lid that I planned to give Kagome her shoes in!"
"So? You squashed my shoebox lid, so I find ourselves fair and square. Besides, you can always go get another lid from the store! Is it really that hard?"
"Go to the store and then have these impudent mortals paw me to death with their pens and cameras? I think not, dear brother."
"Hmm… you know, sometimes I really can't understand you." Inuyasha calmly tapped his chin with his clawed forefinger, while pretending to wonder. "One minute, you're ranting about how annoying mortals and humans are, then the next, you're running after Kagome—who is, say, another one of your most hated humans." Sesshoumaru froze. Even if he refused to admit it, Sesshoumaru had to say that Inuyasha was correct. "Well? What do you have to say for yourself? You were the one who claimed that not even one human, no matter how beautiful or how intelligent they were, would ever take your breath away. So what happened? Change of plans?" Suddenly, the horrific thought of the fact that he was indeed in love with a mere human washed over him once more. Of course! Kagome was a human! she was not even half demon either! Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at his brother, who didn't answer him. For a second, they stood there staring at each other. Then, Sesshoumaru suddenly reached out and grabbed a book on the floor and started to bang his head against it. Inuyasha just blinked at him, staring at his elder half-brother, who had now tossed the mangled book behind him and picked up a kitchen applicant and crashed it against his head. "Sesshoumaru… what the hell are you doing?" Sesshoumaru ignored Inuyasha as he tossed the remains of the blender away from him. Inuyasha cringed as the broken blender crashed into the ground exploding into millions of pieces.
"Why…" BANG! "You…" BANG! "Stupid…" BANG! "Idiot…" BANG! "A human?" Sesshoumaru momentarily stopped banging his head against the stainless steel bowl, which he held in one hand. "What were you thinking? BAKA!" Then he continued to bash himself over his head again.
"Whoa! Sesshoumaru… just, just calm down!" Inuyasha said as he dropped his bag on the floor and snatched the bowl out of Sesshoumaru's hand. "It's okay to like humans, it's just that…" Sesshoumaru glared at Inuyasha who immediately put his hands up in front of him nervously. Very slowly, Sesshoumaru advanced on his younger brother, his hands raised as if to grab his head and smash it against his own skull. Inuyasha backed away and ended up tripping on a chair he had thrown behind him to slow his crazed older brother. Sesshoumaru quickly reached out to grab Inuyasha's head, but Inuyasha managed to pull away from him. Nonetheless, Sesshoumaru still got his leg and started to drag him towards him. Screaming, Inuyasha kicked his foot at the older brother's face. Sesshoumaru fell over on his back and rolled clumsily across the floor. He stood up and shook his head. Suddenly, he got up and started to bang his head on the kitchen counter. "Whoa… okay, just cut it out!" Inuyasha shouted over the sounds of Sesshoumaru swearing and the banging of his head. "Just chill man! Come on!" Inuyasha had somehow miraculously pulled Sesshoumaru away from the kitchen counter without being head-butted. "You know, you might be mentally traumatized, so maybe a neurological doctor would be good for you." Sesshoumaru struggled under Inuyasha's grasp shouting that he was not crazy, but alas, Inuyasha refused to listen to him. In the end, Sesshoumaru found himself being dragged out of his apartment by his one and only halfling brother.
And very much like a mentally challenged person, Sesshoumaru found himself being dragged down the hallways of his apartment, waking up practically all the residence in their apartment complex with his incessant screams. Inuyasha had now taken to grabbing onto Sesshoumaru's hair, because Sesshoumaru had tried (and succeeded) one too many times to headbutt him. "Release my hair at once!" Sesshoumaru shouted as he felt himself being ungracefully dragged across the plush-carpeted halls. As fast as a finger snap, all the doors of the corresponding apartments opened up. One woman who lived across from them opened up her door, forgetting about the craze of cats and dogs in her apartment. No sooner had she opened her door, her huge Alaskan husky, Labrador, and a whole array of tiny dogs and cats came rushing out from her apartment. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru stopped struggling in the hallway to watch the dogs and cats come barking and mewing out of the woman's apartment.
"Oh shit… oooh shit!" Inuyasha shouted, still gripping onto Sesshoumaru's hair in fear.
"Let me go or fucking run, you idiot!" Sesshoumaru immediately regretted the last words he used, because Inuyasha had obviously chosen to run while still holding onto Sesshoumaru's hair. Stars and swirls seemed to cloud his vision as Inuyasha tore down the halls with Sesshomaru still behind him, dragging on the ground. Thus, thanks to Inuyasha's carelessness, Sesshoumaru screamed even louder attracting even more attention than before. "Release my hair now! NOW! NOW! NOW!" Sesshoumaru thundered in a terrible voice.
"Oh shut up!" Inuyasha snapped as he dragged Sesshoumaru along, "You don't want to be run over by those animals do you?" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes, but then flinched when Inuyasha ran him right down the stairs.
"You idiot!" Sesshoumaru tried to nurse his back, but being dragged down the stairs made it impossible for him to even move his arms. If only Inuyasha had been grabbing onto his shirt rather than his hair, he would have gladly taken it off to liberate him from such torture. Alas, Inuyasha was grabbing onto his hair. The boy really did have some intelligence in him than he had thought. When Sesshoumaru decided that his incessant screaming would not help, he grudgingly crossed his arm across his chest then scowled and pouted, looking very much like he did when he was a kid. "Just wait until you release me, I'll headbutt you like there's no tomorrow! Got that?" When ignored, Sesshoumaru sighed. Things definitely weren't looking up for him. All in all, Sesshoumaru let Inuyasha drag him down the emergency staircases and into the car.
"Come on, I'm taking you to the neurologist."
"Neurologist? Why the hell for?"
"What the hell do you think? You just… keep banging your head on things!" Inuyasha furiously gestured his right hand towards the scene in front of him. "It would be a miracle if nothing broke, you know!" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes at his brother. "Well, miracle number one went right out the window, because you just annihilated our blender…" Inuyasha sighed, "Was the best blender in the world. Do you know how much memories I have with that damn blender?" Sesshoumaru sighed and rubbed his forehead with his temples. Leave it up to Inuyasha and his attachment to the blender, there would be no wonder why Inuyasha was upset at the moment. Sesshoumaru glared off into space on the passenger seat, while Inuyasha put the gear to drive, "I'll miss that blender." Without further ado, Inuyasha floored the gas petal and the car shot out of the parking lot and out of the underground parking lot. He pulled the car out of the small street and soon, they were well on their way to the hospital.
"Jesus Christ! The thing was fifteen years old! It doesn't even work properly!"
"Oh yeah, maybe your head doesn't work properly considering the amount of time you bashed your head with my blender, the kitchen counter, the stainless steel bow, half the collection of mom's china gift set for when we first got our apartment and agreed to live together, the crystal-cut candle holders, flat screen T.V. from Sony, my digital camera, the coffee table, the flower vase Kagome gave you for your seven hundred and god knows when birthday. Oh, and don't forget the oven, stove—you were lucky you didn't burn yourself, by the way—you know… anyway… oh my god!" Sesshoumaru had suddenly started to bang his head against the glove compartment. Inuyasha had brought the car to a screeching halt. For a moment, nothing happened, then Inuyasha grabbed Sesshoumaru by the shoulders and tried to stop him from damaging not only his head but the car as well. Sesshoumaru suddenly stopped banging his head and grabbed onto Inuyasha's head and gave him the hardest head butt he could ever give. Howling, Inuyasha fell backwards towards the door. Sesshoumaru reached out to grab Inuyasha to continue his wild head butting. "Oy! What the hell are you trying to do?" Inuyasha asked his brother, leaping out of the car. By then, they had caused a massive traffic jam, and several people stuck their heads out their windows to see who or what had caused the problem. Some of them glared out their windows while others made emphatic hand gestures and angry remarks. "Are you crazy? Do you want me to turn the car around and take you to the psychologist, because this is something that is extra ordinary!" Finally, Inuyasha leaned in and kicked Sesshoumaru away from him with a gruff: "Outta my way!"
Sesshoumaru felt himself bounce backwards and hit the back of his head against the car door. He froze for a while. How could he possible, in his mad frenzy destroy the very vase Kagome gave him on his birthday? "You know what, Inuyasha?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at him. "I think I really am crazy." With that, Sesshoumaru started banging his head on the glove compartment. Sighing to himself, Inuyasha got out of the car and opened the hood of his car. Sesshoumaru wondered what he was doing, as Inuyasha stopped a random woman in a convertible. And just momentarily, Sesshoumaru stopped banging his head on the dashboard to watch Inuyasha lean down to ask the woman a question. The woman looked annoyed, but after Inuyasha had exchanged a few words a look of comprehension dawned on her face. She reached into the passenger seat and withdrew something that looked like a packet of panty hose before driving off. When Inuyasha returned he had a big smirk on his face. He opened the window of Sesshoumaru's side and opened the glove compartment. "What are you…" Sesshoumaru stopped speaking when Inuyasha took out a pair of scissors. He calmly took unwrapped the panty hose and cut it up to sizes. Then, Inuyasha opened the car door, his evil smirk still not going away.
Suddenly, he thought he knew what Inuyasha was trying to do, "You're not trying to…" Sesshoumaru didn't finish his sentence because someone blared their honk and screamed at them. Inuyasha ignored the screaming and suddenly tied the longest part of the panty hose to Sesshuomaru's forehead and with the two medium stripes he tied Sesshoumaru's wrists and legs together. Using the other three uncut panty hoses, Inuyasha had tied him down. In the end, all Sesshoumaru looked like was a mass of flesh, Armani suits, and panty hoses. "Inuyasha, what is the meaning of this ill treatment?"
"What is the meaning of this? Are you stupid? You keep on banging your damn ugly head against my car, further ruining it. I've had enough with my blender and half of my coin collection being destroyed, which took about ten years to collect. It will take me the equal amount of time to find all those coins again. Anyway, if you ruin my car, I have to waste money to buy a new one, and I would hate it to chuck this brand new car, which I got just seven months ago, for another one. Thus, if I tie you down, you cannot head butt everything. Smart move, huh?" Inuyasha let out a sigh of contentment, then slammed his foot down on the accelerator. Unfortunately, before the car moved even an inch, Sesshoumaru clawed right through the panty hose and threw open the car door. He leapt out of the car and out of sight. Inuyasha howled in anger, and turned the steering wheel so that he flew straight off the curb of the highway, sailing ever so gracefully.
Sesshoumaru, in the meantime, began to hop away from Inuyasha, jumping up onto buildings, people's heads, cars and whatnot. He was free as a bird now that Inuyasha wasn't there to take him to the mental hospital or the Neurologist, or wherever he was trying to take him. Suddenly, Sesshoumaru thought of Kagome and decided to find her scent to follow to wherever she was staying. But that thought was cut short when some car bonked him on the head, thus knocking him out cold. He didn't need to guess very much to decide that the person driving the car was probably Inuyasha before he passed out.
Steam billowed about the bathroom, making it nearly impossible to breathe, but one woman just let out a sigh of relief. Kagome lay in her bathtub muttering things about nice hot baths and smelling nice again. Bubbles towered high in the tub, covering up her nakedness, which really wasn't a problem, provided that there was no one else. The bathroom was covered with the scent of rose petals and perfume while nice romantic music flittered out from her MP3 player, which was placed as far from the tub as possible, but it still did a good job of filling the bathroom up with the sappy music. Kagome sang a small tune along with the music before she shifted in the tub to pull the plug out of the tub. As the water drained from the tub, Kagome stood up and stretched. She carefully stepped out of the tub and dried her body with a towel and wrapped a bathrobe around her. She sat on the toilet seat waiting for the water to drain completely. Once the water finished draining with one last gurgle, Kagome stood up and cleaned the reminiscing bubbles in the tub. When that was taken care of, Kagome unrobed and stepped into the tub. She shut the shower curtains and let the warm water trickle down on her body. Once she had her hair completely wet, she quickly shampooed her hair using Head and Shoulders, which she brought with her in her toiletry bag. She cleaned her body with soap and brushed her teeth and washed her face. Then she shampooed her hair a second time. When she was done, she stopped the water and stepped out of the tub, dried her body, and pulled her bathrobe on.
The door to the hotel bathroom creaked open, letting a beam of orange light shine out and onto the floor and the wall in a thin line, before it opened completely. Kagome stepped out of the bathroom and left the light on, as she went to close her curtains. Once she was sure that was fulfilled, Kagome turned the lights to her room on and flicked the bathroom lights off. She immediately got into clean underwear and pulled on her penguin-printed pajamas. Then she pulled her hair to her nose to sniff it. Luckily for her, it didn't smell at all. Heaving a sigh of relief, Kagome sat down at the dressing table and put on her toner then her night cream. Then she skipped happily and carefully to her bed before she realized that she probably should have taken her MP3 player out of the bathroom. Kagome took the MP3 player out of the bathroom and placed it around her neck. She flung herself onto the soft, fluffy bed and immediately drifted off to sleep.
But she didn't get to sleep for long, because her cellular phone let out a shrill ring. Screaming, Kagome bolted upright, but she jumped up so quickly that she literally rolled across her bed and landed on the floor on her rear end with a heavy thump. Groaning in pain, Kagome sat up whilst rubbing her bottom. The phone continued to ring annoyingly until Kagome angrily snatched the phone up. "Hello?" She barked into the phone, "This is Kagome Higurashi speaking."
"Oh, hello Ms. Higurashi? Do you happen to know two men by the names of Suzuki, Inuyasha and Suzuki, Sesshoumaru?"
"Umm… yes, I do, they're my co-workers." The woman was about to say something, but Kagome interrupted, "Listen, do you happen to know what time it is at this moment? It's ten at night and I am very, very tired. I also have a huge schedule ahead of me tomorrow—"
"Yes, yes, I do understand, but this is the local psychologist of a very well known mental hospital by the name of Ruri Mental Institution." Suddenly, Kagome did not like what she was about he hear. She gripped the phone tightly with her hand, her face going chalk white. "Apparently, we believe that these two brothers are a bit, anyway, we asked them if they had any relatives or someone they knew and Mr. Suzuki told us that you were the only person they know."
"Me? But I'm not even related to them!"
"Yes, we were told that, but Mr. Suzuki told us that you were the closest to him and his brother."
"Wait a minute, which Mr. Suzuki? The one with the dog ears or the one with the moon on his head?"
"Erm… that would be Mr. Inuyasha Suzuki." Kagome sighed, feeling the contented feeling drain out of her body. Inuyasha always managed to ruin her night by creating problems for her. He probably was laughing manically in his little cell. "We ran some testing on them, but they didn't seem to be mentally deluded, except for the older Mr. Suzuki, he was suffering from some sort of trauma, but it isn't serious enough for him to stay here. Also, I suggest you help them find some psychological therapy. They both really need it."
"ARE YOU SAYING THAT THIS ASSHOLE OF MY BROTHER DOESN'T NEED TO STAY HERE? HE DOES! HE BROKE MY FUCKING BLENDER!"
"Ah, and… uh… well, it appears that Mr. Inuyasha Suzuki seems to have an obsession problem with non-animate objects. Would you be kind enough to pick them up? Their car is broken and they shouldn't be driving at the moment."
"Ah… well…" Kagome did not know what to say to the woman, due to complete humiliation, but she sure as hell had a lot in stock coming for the two Suzuki brothers. Boy oh boy where they going to get it. "I am… um… not a residence of Hong Kong, neither do I have a car here. I go by taxi."
"Well, that's even better. The address to Ruri Mental Institution is…" Kagome quickly scribbled the address down in her organizer. She nodded several times before chipping an overtly false, cheery voice.
Once she hung her phone up, she grabbed her hair and screamed, "I THINK I SHOULD BE THE ONE IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL! INUYASHA AND SESSHOUMARU DRIVE ME CRAZY! AIEEEEE!" Sighing and reminding herself that everything was useless, Kagome stood up and got ready to go. She pulled herself quite reluctantly out of her pajamas and pulled on her bra and a green tank top that had several white and black and darker green words going across it. She pulled on a pair of blue jeans and put her sneakers on. Lastly, she dried her hair and brushed it before picking up her large handbag where she dumped her wallet and her organizer. "Inuyasha…" Shaking her head so that her blue-black locks shook dramatically, Kagome turned on her heels and stomped out of the hotel room, taking her hotel keys with her. She flipped the lights out, and took the "DO NOT DISTURB" sign off the doorknob that was on the inside. She shut the door and tossed the keys into her bag. Then she expertly placed the sign on her doorknob and stalked down the hall towards the elevators. "I will seriously strangle you with my own hands!" The mental image of Inuyasha gagging as his head bobbed back and forth zoomed into her mind. The thought of Inuyasha being choked cheered the foul-mooded female CEO up a little bit… just a little tiny bit.
The sounds of her sneakers squeaking down the linoleum floors echoed around her as she stepped up to the lady at the reception desk. Yes, Kagome Higurashi was now in Ruri's Mental Institute, and she was feeling a bit anxious, crazy people, after all, were not always a friendly bunch nor a very comforting bunch. "Excuse me, I am looking for two men named Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru Suzuki." The sounds of mentally-deranged people screaming filtered out from the doors and the walls separating the reception room from the actual cells. The sounds wailed like haunted ghosts and drifted into the reception room. Kagome shivered trying to keep her goose bumps in check.
"What was that dear?"
"I am looking for Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru Suzuki, or more specifically, Suzuki Inuyasha and Suzuki Sesshoumaru. My name is Higurashi, Kagome."
"Oh, of course, Alicia! Could you please lead Ms. Higurashi to room #101?" The lady up front smiled before another woman with her hair put up in a large, black bun came out. Alicia also smiled at her, and Kagome didn't like it. It made her feel as if she was crazy. Alicia calmly led Kagome into the section. The whole room was white with no other color except from Kagome. In fact, seeing white everywhere made Kagome want to go crazy herself. Room 101? Why does it have to be room 101? All rooms marked 101 were the scariest for me! There's Room 101 from George Orwell's 1984, all my classes in college that were marked with 101 were the scariest, Apartment 101 was the haunted apartment when I was a kid… now this! Kagome sighed. Sometimes, she just had to live with it. Hoping that Room #101 wasn't going to be that bad, Kagome followed Alicia towards Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's temporary cell.
Alicia stopped in front of a door at the end of the hall and opened it. Suddenly, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru came tumbling out, looking very guilty indeed. Kagome placed her hands on her hips and tapped her foot on the ground impatiently. "Well, well, well, what did you guys do now to force me out of my beauty sleep to bail you out of such a place?" Kagome raised one of her pencil thin eyebrows sarcastically as she gestured around her. Then she placed her hands on her hips and put her face right in front of the brothers. "GET UP!" She shouted. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru stumbled up to their feet, but either one or the other was trying to push each other down. In the end, both ended up on the floor. Kagome sighed before she angrily reached down and grabbed the two by the scruff of their necks, like she did to Buyo when he misbehaved. "I do not know what to say about you two!" She shouted angrily. "Let's go." With that Kagome began walking first. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru glared at each other before rushing after her.
Suddenly, Kagome felt two hands grab her wrists simultaneously, and began to be tugged back and forth. "She's MINE!" Inuyasha shouted childishly.
"What do you mean? She's MINE!"
"NO! MINE!"
"MINE!"
"MINE!"
"MINE!"
"Are you shitting me? Kagome never got along with you! She always got along with ME!" Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru shouted over Kagome's wails of help and despair. Both momentarily stopped tugging released Kagome to put their noses together and snarl like wild animals. Kagome began to turn red and sweat with embarrassment. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were starting to make a scene just outside the mental hospital, which was quite embarrassing. Kagome hailed a taxi and was about to open the door when Sesshoumaru swatted her hand away and tried to open it. Suddenly, Inuyasha shoved him out of the way, making him go crashing into the ground. Grinning, he jerked the car-door open.
"Inuyasha, you aren't supposed to treat your brother like that!" Sighing to herself, Kagome commanded the taxi driver to stay while she rushed over to Sesshoumaru's side. "Are you okay?" She helped Sesshoumaru get up, but didn't notice the smug smirk on his face that set Inuyasha rushing at him with his claws poised as if to tear Sesshoumaru to ribbons. "INUYASHA! NO!" Kagome grabbed his arms and firmly held him back. Inuyahsa struggled under her grip, forgetting she was even there while Sesshoumaru's triumphant smirk melted off his face. In fact, Inuyasha didn't even notice that Sesshoumaru now looked incredibly jealous. In the end, he finally figured it out and stopped struggling. Kagome let out a sigh of relief and released Inuyasha. A low chuckle started from the bottom of his throat, making Kagome cock her head to the left in curiosity. Suddenly, Inuyasha threw his head back and began to laugh maniacally.
Kagome screamed and jumped back clutching onto the closest random lamppost. "Sesshoumaru is jealous! MUH-HAHAHAHAHA! I made Sesshoumaru jealous! I am invincible!" Inuyasha put his hands up in the air as if he were going to flex his biceps. Sesshoumaru now rolled his eyes at Inuyasha, who was still laughing wildly. For a second, Kagome still stuck onto the lamppost, but the amount of attention Inuyasha was attracting was getting her angrier and angrier by the minute. Finally, letting out a scream of rage, Kagome released the lamppost and whacked Inuyasha on the head with her rather large handbag.
"Get in that taxi! NOW!" She screamed as she beat Inuyasha into the taxi with her handbag. Then she heard Sesshoumaru chuckle slightly. One eyebrow immediately began to twitch, as Kagome slowly turned around, her eyes red from the lack of sleep and anger. Sesshoumaru was trying to cover his mouth up with his hands and was failing as he did not notice that Kagome's wrath had just transferred from Inuyasha to him. Upon seeing Kagome, she was pleased to see him freeze like a terrified rabbit. "Oh, you should be afraid of me now…" Kagome snarled, letting the syllables of each word stretch out, "… because I will KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T GET BACK INTO THE DAMN TAXI!" Sesshoumaru squeaked like a terrified puppy and quickly jumped into the taxi forgetting that he was sitting next to an equally as horrified Inuyasha, Kagome huffed into the taxi and slammed herself into her chair. "Hyatt Hotel please!" She growled in Cantonese. The trembling taxi driver immediately shifted his foot from the brakes to the accelerator and they zoomed away.
Much to her relief not much was said or done on the way to Hyatt, but when they were halfway there, Inuyasha suddenly realized that Sesshoumaru was sitting in the middle and Kagome was right next to him. Without so much of a warning, Inuyasha lunged right over Sesshoumaru, trying to sit in between Kagome and his brother. Letting out a warhoop, Sesshoumaru blocked the way with his arms stretched out. Then Inuyasha hit him square in the nose, and Sesshoumaru toppled backwards onto Kagome, who found herself flattened against the window, her face squashed humorously against the window. The driver was so horrified he did not know what to do. He was visibly shaking while the people walking down the streets stopped to stare at Kagome who was trying to pry herself out from under Sesshoumaru's weight as Inuyasha choked him. Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's foot popped up and kicked him out of the way. Unluckily, Inuyasha's hand flew backwards and knocked the driver's arms, thus making the car spin out of control. The driver and Kagome immediately started screaming, while the driver tried his best to control the car. "DO SOMETHING!" Kagome screamed in English shaking the Driver's neck.
"I'M TRYING MISS! PLEASE CONTROL YOUR FRIENDS IN THE BACK!" In the meantime, the car sqwiggled crazily on the road, making some cars crash. The fighting in the backseat continued, and when Inuyasha's head hit the taxi-driver's hand, the car immediately swerved into the other section of the road. Then Inuyasha leapt up and bit Sesshoumaru's leg, making him howl in pain. The driver, in the meantime, was trying to get the car back into its proper lane and was not succeeding. Suddenly, Sesshoumaru made a kick at Inuyasha's head, but the half-demon simply dodged him and Sesshoumaru ended up kicking the driver's arm again. Luckily, the car swerved back into the proper lane, but was still moving in crazed lines down the road. In the meantime, Kagome had fingernail marks on her face from clutching it with her hands in horror. When the car was back in the normal lane, Kagome stopped screaming in horror, and her attention turned back from caring about saving herself and her friends to the two quarreling pups next to her.
Kagome slowly turned around and set her blazing eyes on Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru, who were rolling around in the back trying to punch or kick one or the other. Neither of them noticed Kagome was ready to murder, except for the driver. The driver started to sweat profusely and did his best to control the car. "ALRIGHT YOU NAUGHTY PUPS!" Kagome snarled, "IT'S SPANK TIME!" Kagome reached into her handbag and pulled out a copy of the New York Times. She rolled it up so that it was like and stick and whopped each of them on the head once. "MY LIFE IS ON THE LINE THANKS TO YOU! NOW WOULD YOU TWO GET ALONG FOR ONCE IN YOUR SPOILED, ANNOYING LIVES? WE'RE GONNA DIE!"
"No! HE'S GONNA DIE!" Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru shouted in unison, as they pointed at each other.
"I'm gonna die?" Inuyasha shouted, sinking his teeth into Sesshoumaru's finger. Sesshoumaru howled in pain and swung his fist so that he punched Inuyasha's head. Inuyasha flew backwards.
"OKAY! I HAD ENOUGH! I AM GOING TO BEAT EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU…" The driver turned around with a look of complete terror plastered on his face, "NOT YOU! CONTROL THE CAR!" With that, Kagome slammed the newspaper down on the brothers' head until they finally got off each other. At that moment, the driver managed to regain control of the car, but it was too late, because they had somehow gotten on the sidewalk and a long, thick, and huge plank of wood was being pulled out from a truck. The people pointed at the car and screamed before they scattered. "Now we have things in control…" Kagome said, but she didn't get to finish her sentence, because she saw the plank as did Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and the driver. All four of them began screaming their heads off as the car zoomed up the plank. Several tourists pointed at the car and began snapping pictures. The crazy quartet continued to scream as the car sailed over about twenty cars and over an intersection, before landing grandly on the other side.
"Okay, can we fight now?" Sesshoumaru asked innocently.
"NO!" Kagome screamed. But her reply proved futile, because once everyone had stopped screaming, Inuyasha swung his fist so that it connected with Sesshoumaru's jaw and the fighting continued. Kagome and the driver sighed wearily. Although Hong Kong was a small city, it was obviously going to be a very long drive. "Sibling rivalry…" Kagome said grudgingly as she placed her elbow on the window ledge and dodged Inuyasha's foot, "Once it starts, you can't stop it…"
Inutaisho was happily sitting on the couch watching television. Izayoi was in the kitchen doing god knew what when the news headline flashed. The woman began to jabber quickly about a huge accident that had occurred in the main street of Hong Kong Island. The image swirled so that Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Kagome, and a random taxi driver flashed flamboyantly. Inutaisho's jaw fell to the floor as the woman began to explain how the taxi car that Inutaisho's sons were in had somehow sailed seventy feet over many cars and even three intersections. "IZAYOI! YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE! YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE ACCIDENT INUYASHA AND SESSHOUMARU CAUSED!" Izayoi emerged from the kitchen with cucumbers on her face. So that was why she was always in the kitchen so late at night. Upon seeing the headline, Izayoi blinked before passing out. She fell with a loud thud on the ground. Inutaisho jumped up to his feet yelling: "Oh my god! You're going to have a baby!" Suddenly, Izayoi's eyes popped open, filled with anger and annoyance at her husband. Inutaisho immediately understood that now wasn't the best time to stay in the same room as his wife. Yelling out a scream of help, Inutaisho bolted out of the family room, as Izayoi popped up like bowling-pin doll.
"I TOLD YOU!" She screamed. Inutaisho clamped his hands over his ears as he ran, but no sooner had he gotten even three steps, she continued, "HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET THOSE TWO BOYS GO ON A BUSINESS TRIP TOGETHER?" Inutaisho flinched and fell face-flat on the ground. "Now I've got you…" Izayoi advanced on the fallen President and the Chairman of the Suzuki Corporations. Some said that when standing in the presence of the great Mr. Suzuki they felt shivers go down their backs. This was what Inutaisho was going through at the moment. The only difference was that Izayoi was no leader of a huge electronics and computer company, she was the leader of his family and of the biggest feminist group in the United States. This, in Inutaisho's opinion was much freakier than some random company leader. At any rate, hovering above him was a very angry looking wife who had placed her hands on her hips. Inutaisho quickly got up and tried to put on his most charming smile, but all he got was a grim glare from Izayoi. Whimpering like a wounded puppy, Inutaisho backed away…
Moments later, Inutaisho found himself kneeling on the ground with his arms up in the air. Sitting on his recliner in front of him was Izayoi, who wore a look of superiority. She held a Kudos stick in one hand and was tapping the end in her other hand. Whenever Inutaisho lowered his arms slightly, almost as fast as he could move, the stick came crashing down on his head. "Ow, ow, ow!" Inutaisho clutched his head in pain, but that only resulted in bruising his fingers. "Come on my sweetie pie! You couldn't treat me this horribly! I only wanted a nice family reunion with Kirara!" Izayoi's eyes narrowed into slits, Immediately she raised the stick to smack him hard on the head, but Inutaisho managed to catch it. "Now please, my sweet, no need to get angry. I'm sure the business is coming along nicely…"
"Nicely? Yes, the business may be coming along just DANDY, but the social family issue is not coming along fine!"
"Well," Inutaisho bit his lower lip lightly with his fang, "Maybe that's not going very well, but I am absolutely sure that they will get along! I mean, there were times were they were tolerant of each other…"
"Oh and you call letting a taxi cab, with Kagome in it, fly over eight blocks and three intersections tolerant? I wonder how tolerant those two were to make such a peaceful taxi with a calm-looking driver go so crazy that they would just fly right over everyone and nearly get themselves killed?" Izayoi heaved a huge sigh of exasperation, "Explain yourself!"
"Oh please my dear Izayoi, but this is really not something that should be at the matter at hand right now. Umm… I thought that if I erm… stuck Kagome in between those two rascals, then maybe she might have uh… served as uh… a… or you probably don't want to hear about it…" Inutaisho trailed off seeing the murderous glint in Izayoi's eyes.
"No, I want to know what you wanted to say."
"Well! That's, I mean, it's probably a good idea not to uh… tell you…"
"Spit it out!"
"A referee!"
Izayoi's mouth seemed to drop down to her toes, "Oh my goodness! I cannot believe you!" Izayoi narrowed her eyes in suspicion making the great god of Suzuki Corporations shiver involuntarily. "Are you trying to…" Izayoi licked her lip in disbelief. Before she let out an angry sigh and placed her hands on her hips. Inutaisho cowered towards the ground while simultaneously shooting cautious glances at his angry wife. Izayoi began to pace back and forth while she sputtered and stumbled on words. Yet, as the circumstances got worse, she slowly stopped pacing. A look on comprehension seemed to dawn on her face, which would have relieved the great owner of Suzuki Corporations. However, instead, it seemed to horrify him more. "I know what you're trying to do…" Izayoi started slowly, "I get all of it! You're still trying to stick to your little plan of getting Kagome and Inuyasha together, aren't you?" Inutaisho was speechless. "Oh, I now know where this is coming. But let me tell you this! What we're talking about is just like… like…" Inutaisho momentarily forgot his fears and raised an eyebrow as he would have done when he was dealing with his fellow employees, "Cooking! Yes! Cooking!" BAM! Inutaisho collapsed into the ground.
"Honey, I fail to see the resemblance between cooking and our sons with their little hodge-podge love mess."
"It's like trying to put pepper into cake dough and sugar into lamb chops!"
"So, uh, who's the pepper, and who's the food?"
"Does that even matter?" Izayoi thundered. Inutaisho seemed to have forgotten about the wrath of his wife and pushed himself off the ground.
"I know… Kagome is the sugar, Inuyasha is the cake dough, and then the lamb chops is Sesshoumaru."
"I agree with Kagome being the sugar, but I think Inuyasha should be the lamb chops."
"Yeah, but isn't it more like Sesshoumaru's a sour dough? Izayoi, you know, you go too harsh on Inuyasha. Let me ask you this, why does Kagome have to go as Sesshoumaru's mate…" Izayoi flashed a glare at her husband, but luckily did not retort.
"Girlfriend…"
"…Whatever, but why does Kagome go so well with Sesshoumaru. I mean in the celebrity magazines, they all say that Kagome and Inuyasha look so great together! And I completely agree… no!" Inutaisho quickly put his forefinger up in front of his wife to indicate that he was not finished, "With these people! I've seen them as such a good match ever since they were about… ever since they first met! They looked completely great together…"
"And they also got into fights… in public, and they still do it! I cannot stand them doing that! They're adults and they still act as if they're three! At least when Kagome is with Sesshoumaru, they don't fight in public."
"Oh, ho, ho! Now that is where I shall politely add that you are completely wronged! There had been many extremely humiliating events with Sesshoumaru. In fact, I have to tell you all the little events, starting front when they were eenie, weenie children!"
Inutaisho sighed at the wailing and the howling mess before him. It was nothing more than a ball of white hair, black-blue hair, and flesh. As a small treat, Inutaisho decided to buy the children an ice cream cone each. Unfortunately, both wanted Mint Chocolate, and there was only one scoop left. Naturally, if Inutaisho was alone with his older son he would have certainly given it to little Sesshoumaru. But alas, Kagome was a guest and she also was usually well behaved. Inuyasha stood next to the great Suzuki Corporations leader staring at the scene before he downed his colorfully colored ice cream in one gulp, cone, paper and all. Sighing to himself, Inutaisho bent down and made futile attempts to pull Sesshoumaru off Kagome, who had now gone on a biting-festival. Sesshoumaru howled and clawed at her with all his strength. "MIIIIIINE!" He wailed childishly, now shifting to kick Kagome square in the back. Kagome glared at him with all the hatred she could possibly have in her little body and flew at Sesshoumaru, her fists posed.
"It ain't yours! It's MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! ONLY MINE!"
"Yah! It's Kagome's, not yours!"
Much to his surprise, Inutaisho noticed that Inuyasha had immediately stepped up against Sesshoumaru, who shared at least Inutaisho's blood with his younger brother. Kagome, on the other hand, was a complete stranger to Inuyasha, save their strange relationship as friends. Sesshoumaru wailed and kicked his feet in the air and started to throw the biggest tantrum he had ever seen in his life. Inutaisho stood there watching the commotion. Before he knew it, he saw his own briefcase swing on it's own. Inutaisho found it hard to believe, his briefcase was moving on it's own! "What the…" He started to say. The briefcase smacked Sesshoumaru on the head with a loud SMACK! Sesshoumaru went rolling quite cutely across the marble floor and ended up with his bottom stuck up in air.
It was then when he realized that it was actually Inuyasha who had swung his briefcase. Inuyasha patted Kagome's back lightly and handed her the half melted ice-cream cone that he had managed to catch when Sesshoumaru jumped at Kagome to eat it. "There ya go! Meanie Fluffy won't eat your ice cream anymore." Sesshoumaru Pushed himself off the floor, he had a red mark where Inuyasha had smacked him alongside his head with Inutaisho's briefcase. Kagome had now decided to forget the fight over the ice cream and was happily munching on it. In fact, she was so content with her ice cream that she didn't notice Sesshoumaru stomping over to her. "Kagome! Spray your spit on the ice cream so that Sesshoumaru can't eat it?" Kagome looked up looking innocent. "No, you idiot!" Inuyasha snatched the ice cream cone out of her hands and sprayed his spit all over it. Sesshoumaru, who's eyes had changed into the shape of ice cream cones suddenly stopped.
"Ewww! It has half-demon germs!"
"So? What of it?"
"EWWW! BOY COOTIES!"
"WHAT? But I did that so that Sesshoumaru wouldn't want it."
"You infested my ice cream!" Sesshoumaru wailed. "Daaaad! Inuyasha infested my ice cream with his half-demon cooties!"
"Sesshoumaru… that was not very nice of you. Apologize, now."
"NO!"
"Sesshoumaru…" Inutaisho continued sternly, "Do it now or else you shall receive a sound round of spanking when we get home. And this time, your step-mother will not be able to save you."
"Yes dad… sorry, floppy-ears."
"HEY! AT LEAST I DON'T DRAG MY FLUFFY-WUFFY AROUND WITH ME!"
"Well you wear your nasty little red stuff!"
"Better than a fake, fluffy tail!"
"It's not fake!"
"Is too!"
"I DON'T WANT THIS ICE CREAM! SESSHOUMARU CAN HAVE IT!"
"ME? EWWWWWWWW! It has spit on it!"
"So?"
Inutaisho triumphantly crossed his arms across his chest. "Well… well…" Izayoi stuttered, "But… oh fine! I'll have to admit that Inuyasha and Kagome get along better than she does when she's with Sesshoumaru, but let me tell you this, Inuyasha looks better with Kikyou."
"No way!" Inutaisho shouted, reverting back to his childish ways, "Kikyou doesn't go with ANY of my sons! I will never, ever let her near any of them! Besides, Kikyou isn't interested in Sesshoumaru, she's interested in Inuyasha."
"And if Kikyou's interested in Inuyasha, then hook her up with him! Sesshoumaru seemed to like Kagome, so I decided to match-make them."
"Yes, but Inuyasha doesn't even like Kikyou! And neither does Kagome like Sesshoumaru. Kagome and Inuyasha like each other! That's how it is in the office, that's how it is in the newspaper and the magazine, and that's how it is in cartoons! So that's how it's going to be in my plan!"
"Inutaisho…"
"Honey, forget all this fight over who should be with who! We're married, we love each other, we ought to be taking care of ourselves and letting those four deal with each other!" Inutaisho wailed, "What if you want a divorce just because I didn't agree with what you decided to go with!" Inutaisho pouted at his wife. Izayoi glared at him.
"I cannot believe you! Do you honestly think that I'd divorce you just because you don't agree with me over who Kagome should be with? And no, we cannot just drop the subject matter at hand! It's irresponsible!"
"Yes… but we never really went out to dinner in such a long time and talked about us! We never got to concentrate on us!"
"Okay, Inutaisho, we'll go out to dinner," Inutaisho's face lit up, "And then we can discuss who's going with who at dinner. Then we can stick in a bit of our own little experiences, happy?" Inutaisho's face fell, but Izayoi didn't seem to notice it. Because she went humming over to the phone to place a reservation at their usual seats. "Then we'll go out and watch an opera just like you wished, or a broad way show, whichever you want." Inutaisho beamed happily. Now this was more like it. They didn't have to think too much about those pesky children that squealed and got on everyone's nerves in a huge love-triangle, or in this case, square. It was just going to be him and Izayoi alone at dinner and doing the things they once did before the children began to attack. Sesshoumaru, at the time was manageable because of the nurses. But after two years, the nurses quit saying that it was virtually impossible to deal with such a hyper kid. Coming to think about it, Inutaisho wondered what made Sesshoumaru become so silent. Maybe he was more like his mother… Inutaisho sighed dolefully. Why didn't his children turn out to be like him?
"Very well, my dear. In the meantime, I will pull Inuyasha out of Hong Kong, since he hates it when Kirara dumps Minah on him, and Sesshoumaru will go to Seoul… alone. Kagome, in the meantime will come back with Inuyasha."
"What! No! That will not happen! Sesshoumaru and Kagome are going to Seoul, and Inuyasha's coming right here. OR… send Inuyasha to Seoul and bring Sesshoumaru and Kagome back home, OR, send them all to Seoul, OR, better yet, bring them all home!"
"Honey, we need to deal with the KTF problem right now, and I can't send Inuyasha back, he had business here and some in Hong Kong. He's already been in Hong Kong for several days and doesn't need to stay much longer. And as for Kagome, Sango and Miroku said that they needed to borrow her for a second with the Shikon Jewel project."
"Oh! Why?" Izayoi threw her hands in the air and stomped off. Inutaisho sighed, whenever they tried to make space for just the two of them, the children would always interrupt, even as adults. Inutaisho rolled his sleeved up and nodded determinedly. The only thing he needed to do was to brush them away. The kids were old enough to fend for themselves now. After that, he needed to somehow force Izayoi out of her wild match-making mood. Inutaisho turned and marched towards his bedroom, thinking, women… sometimes they're hard to control…
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were on their knees with their hands above their heads. Before them was an angry and haughty Kagome. She glared down at the two and shook her head. They acted just like little children! Inuyasha turned and glared at Sesshoumaru who glared back at him. "Why the fuck are you glaring at me for?" Inuyasha snarled. He made a wild attempt to punch Sesshoumaru in the nose and succeeded only to be smacked across the back of his head by Kagome's handbag. Sesshoumaru sniggered next to him and was also silenced by the violent swing of Kagome's handbag. After everything they had gone through, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had somehow ended up in Kagome's hotel room. They were kneeling on the ground, while Kagome was sitting on a sofa with her legs crossed and her arms posed and ready to hit anything that moved even the smallest muscle.
"I just cannot believe you people! Look at you! You're brothers…"
"Half…" Sesshoumaru muttered calmly.
"I DON'T CARE!" Kagome suddenly thundered, "WHAT DOES MATTER IS THAT YOU DO SHARE INUTAISHO'S BLOOD DO YOU NOT?" The brothers nodded grudgingly, "WELL, WHY DON'T YOU BEHAVE LIKE YOU SHARE THE SAME DAD? I MEAN, IS IT THAT HARD…" Inuyasha raised one claw to speak, but Kagome simply screamed, "NO! I DO NOT WANT A WORD FROM ANY OF YOU, EVEN YOU INUYASHA! YOU TWO ARE GOING TO SPEND THE NIGHT LIKE THAT AND YOU WILL NOT MOVE." Kagome got up and was about to stomp away when she suddenly stopped and turned around. "In fact… I will balance a match on the tip of your ear…" Kagome opened up a box of matches and balanced one on the tip of Inuyasha's snowy-white, right-sided dog ear, "And another one on your nose." Sesshoumaru rolled his eyeballs so that both golden orbs pointed straight at the match balanced on his nose. "Now, I know that the two of you are just horrible at balancing matches, so I will know that you moved when I wake up tomorrow. And if I find out that any of you moved, BOTH OF YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE THE SAME PUNISHMENT!" With one last flounce, Kagome stomped into her room to sleep. She slammed the door as loudly as she could and soon Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru found themselves in complete darkness.
"Did you know this was your fault?" Inuyasha growled.
"No, it was your fault not mine… wait, who's fault was it anyway?"
"I don't know. Do you?"
"No-oh-oh-oh… whoa!" Sesshoumaru made gestures as if he had been trying to keep the match from toppling over. Luckily he made it. "Now that was your fault!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Okay, now it's my fault!" Inuyasha cleanly swept the match off Sesshoumaru's nose with his left hand. Sesshoumaru glared at Inuyasha who smirked back at him. Then the vice-president tried to knock the match off Inuyasha's right ear, but Inuyasha silently jumped away and landed neatly on a nightstand. He swayed slightly on it before regaining his balance and the match's balance. "HA!" He hissed triumphantly.
"Why you little cheater! TAKE THAT!" Sesshoumaru reached over and flicked the match off Inuyasha's ear. The match seemed to fall off Inuyasha's ear in slow-mo. When the match it the ground, Sesshoumaru childishly threw his hands in the air and shouted in triumph. Unfortunately, a long crack of marigold yellow hit them, then the silhouette of Kagome. The brothers looked up to see Kagome standing at the doorframe with her hands on her hips. She was wearing blue pajamas that had cute little penguins printed all over them. On her feet were two fuzzy penguin slippers, the squeaked every time she moved.
"I just can't believe you two." Kagome reached over and switched the lights back on. "I leave you two alone for three minutes and you already tried to kill each other. This is it. My punishment for you two are these!" Kagome turned and left the doorframe only to return with two prayer beads. One of them had purple beads and a white fang after every five purple bead, and the other one had white beads and a purple fang after every five white beads. Kagome them muttered some words before she tossed the mostly purple prayer beads around Inuyasha's neck, and the mostly white prayer beads around Sesshoumaru's neck. "SIT! BEG!" Inuyasha plummeted face-flat into the ground with his arms spread out. In the meantime, Sesshoumaru landed prostrate onto the ground with his arms sticking up and his hands clasped together as if he were begging someone. "Now remember, if any of you cause a problem it will be SIT for you, Inuyasha, and BEG for you Sesshoumaru!" Humphing to herself, Kagome turned on her heels and stomped back into her room.
When the spell finally wore off, Inuyasha pulled himself out of the ground. "Hey! At least I don't have to look as if I'm begging someone!"
"Shut up…" Sesshoumaru growled as he managed to pull his hands out of their strange begging manner and push himself up to a sitting position. "BECAUSE I WILL KILL YOU!" Sesshoumaru leapt up to slam his fist into Inuyasha's face, when…
"BEG!"
BAM! Sesshoumaru landed into the ground again in his begging position. Inuyasha smirked and laughed very loudly only to annoy Sesshoumaru, but the consequences were…
"SIT!"
BAM!
"I cannot tolerate your disgusting bickering! How old are two?" Kagome paced angrily in front of the collapsed position of Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. Suddenly she stopped in front of Inuyasha's fallen form and glared down at him, "Inuyasha, how old are you? You are old enough not to fight with your older brother, but look at you!" Inuyasha mumbled incoherently into the ground about women being annoying, but Kagome ignored it. She turned to face Sesshoumaru, who still had his hand up in the air as if begging for mercy. "As for you…" Kagome snarled down at the eldest, "You are supposed to be responsible and care enough about your brother so that you will not create such accidents!"
Finally, the spell wore off Inuyasha first, because he was half human. Unfortunately for Sesshoumaru, he was full demon and thus had to stay longer in his thoroughly humiliating form. Inuyasha pulled his face off the ground and glared at Kagome, who was about to sit him again. Luckily, Inuyasha was faster: "Hey! I wasn't the one that broke everything in our apartment because I just found out that I was a hypocritical retard that is actually in—" Inuyasha was cut off by Sesshoumaru kicking him in his face. Kagome raised an eyebrow at Sesshoumaru, who had finally managed to get out of his mortifying situation. Rubbing his face with his hands, Inuyasha quickly, and angrily kicked Sesshoumaru back in the rear end. Sesshoumaru toppled over and landed back on his face. Soon the two got into a huge kicking fight, while Kagome clutched her head with one hand. Obviously Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru did not know about humiliation, only about self pride. "Well it's true! You're the one that's in love with a human and embarrassed about it!"
"Hey! You're in love with a human too!"
"Well at least I don't bang my head on everything and anyone I see!"
"Oh, so you're saying that you do bang your head on other people and other things and it's just that you don't bang your head as frequently as I do! Okay, I see it now, but you're still embarrassed about being in love with a mere human and you know that this female human would very much rather be with me than be with you!"
"OY! That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life! At least I don't look like a girl unlike someone! At least I don't bang my head and shout like a crazy person! At least I'm not the one that's prescribed with some sort of mental distress!"
"Yeah, but you're the one who has an obsession problem!"
"You too! Sesshoumaru loves a human! Sesshoumaru loves a human! Nanny, nanny, poo, poo!" Inuyasha sang very loudly. Sesshoumaru's face turned very red and before Inuyasha knew it he found himself being head-butted silly. By the time Kagome shouted out the subduing word to control Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha was already lying on the ground unconscious.
"Sesshoumaru… how could you do that to your own brother! BEG! BEG! BEG! BEG! BEG! BEG!" Howling in pain and in oaths that he would never harm Inuyasha again, Sesshoumaru found himself being hurtled into the ground several times, and there were no signs that Kagome was going to stop. By the time Kagome stopped her rounds of "Begging" Sesshoumaru to death, the Suzuki brothers were lying unconscious at her feet. "That ought to teach them! And now I am going to go to sleep! HUMPH!" With that, Kagome arrogantly turned her head away from the comatose pair and stormed back into her sleeping quarters to feel as fresh as possible for the next day's work.
A little note for a certain person who was not able to follow my story thanks to my grammatical mix-match: Yes, I know some of the grammar isn't the best in the whole world, and yes, I did screw up between AM and PM, but that is simply a type-o. Thank you for pointing out the fact that late can man someone who's dead, but I've also read it in books from excellent classics where the word LATE was used on someone who was in fact alive. And I have also checked and it says: "Having recently occupied a position or place". Thus, I can say "the late Inutaisho", because Inutaisho is currently in Suzuki Corporations and he is the current and recent leader. And other thing on the word moron, it can be used in any ways. Most of the time it is used as how you explained it to be: stupid. But that is the literal translation. Moron can also be used as an epithet for someone who is also highly annoying. For example, someone's best friend cracks a practical joke, then that someone can laugh and say: "You moron!" And If that's not good enough for you, there are plenty of excellent writers that use contradictory statements. "The person was a ugly yet beautiful" or something like that. The statement I have given you doesn't necessarily mean that the person is aesthetically pleasing and displeasing at the same time, it can mean that the person was ugly in appearance but had a beautiful heart or vice-versa. The same goes with what I wrote: "Despite the fact that Inuyasha was highly moronic, he was actually quite intelligent." This means that Inuyasha acted like a complete idiot but he was not, in reality. Anyway, thank you for dropping off some constructive criticisms and having me double check on my grammar, I really appreciated it.
As for the word mistakes, yes, I have done plenty of type-os, but that doesn't mean that I did it on purpose. Everyone makes mistakes, and it's not like I'm going to sell this book or anything.