INUYASHA: Oy! Why the fuck did you stick a kid on my back? Well I'll be damned! First I finally get away from Shippou the shitty squirrel and now I'm stuck with my feministic, annoying, antagonistic brother. Thank you very much!
ME: Why are you screaming at me for?
SESSHOUMARU: What do you think?
INUTAISHO: Yeah! I'm supposed to be dead!
IZAYOI: And Inutaisho is my husband! How dare you make me harass him! (Turns to INUTAISHO and rubs his face) My poor baby!
SESSHOUMARU'S MOM: Yeah! And I don't even come out!
ME: That's coz you're dead!
KAGOME: Why are you making me be nice to Sesshoumaru?
SHIPPOU: I need more parts!
JAKEN: Me too!
MYOGA: What about me?
ME: sigh Why me?
A/N: Sorry for not updating earlier! Please don't be mad!
Chapter 10: Dinner, Dinner, Dinner
She had been waiting for Inuyasha to come out of his god-forsaken apartment for about ten minutes, and as of now, she saw nothing. Kagome glared up at the apartment and let out a frustrated snarl before she stomped into the apartment complex. The floors were filled with plush, red carpet as she stomped into the elevator and practically screamed the floor number to the operator. The operator flinched slightly and, tremblingly pushed the allotted number. The elevator rose and stopped on the floor Kagome wanted with an elegant ting! Ignoring the rush of people trying to get into the elevator, she kicked her way through the crowd, too angry to think about anything else.
But she was not angry enough to notice weird shouting noising and the sounds of things breaking. The closer she got to Inuyasha's apartment, the more nervous she got, because the sound of the crashing and the thumping got louder and louder. She stopped in front of Inuyasha's apartment begging herself that the noise was not coming from inside his apartment. Unfortunately, Kagome was horribly wronged. The noise indeed was coming from Inuyasha's apartment! There were no mistakes about it, because she could clearly make out Inuyasha screaming himself senseless. For a moment, she stood there hesitating to ring the bell, before she finally rang it. For a second, she had second thoughts for ringing the bell, but before she could make up her mind, the tiny drumming of feet was heard and the door was thrown open.
Kagome had not yet figured the noise out before a ball of hair and little girl clothes latched itself onto her neck. Inuyasha came running up from behind her swearing loudly and just behind him was Sesshoumaru who looked quite haggard. "Hey! Why'd you come up here, wretch? I told you to stay down at the lobby until I came down!"
"Kagome!" The ball of hair and clothes leaned back and sure enough, Kagome found herself staring at the two large eyes of Minah. "KAGOME! KAGOME! KAGOME!" She continued to shout.
"Uh, I don't remember you…"
"It's me! You babysat me with Uncle Yashie before!" Kagome thought for a second and then suddenly remembered.
Upon remembering, she let out a loud "Oh, of course!"
"So can Minah go to dinner with you?"
"Get off her! You ain't going to the damn restaurant, you little freak-of-a-kid!"
"SIT!"
"Why the hell don't you punish Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha snarled into the ground.
"Because he didn't do anything."
"Now you know why and where your bruises came from." Sesshoumaru stated coolly as he reached over to yank Minah off Kagome.
"Awww… shaddap! Once this stupid sit spell wears off, I'll kick you senseless."
"If you can beat me, little brother…" Sesshoumaru said with a shrug. He tried to yank Minah off, "If you can beat me…" Despite all the yanking and struggling, Minah refused to release Kagome's neck, and instead clinged onto Kagome's neck with all the strength she had. Kagome made gagging noises and she felt her face turn blue. "Minah, if you do not release Kagome's neck, then you're going to strangle her to death." He prodded calmly while Kagome made desperate hand motions to tell him to stop. Despite her desperate and silent pleas, Sesshoumaru continued to tug on Minah, who hugged Kagome's neck ever so tightly. Finally frustrated, Sesshoumaru grabbed a lock of Minah's hair and yanked her with all his might. That did the job in forcing Minah off Kagome, but definitely wasn't the best choice, because no sooner did Sesshoumaru strut in front of Inuyasha, Minah let out a piercing wail that made him drop her ungracefully on the floor. Kagome turned around at the noise and opened her mouth in shock.
"Sesshoumaru! I cannot believe you! You pulled on Minah's hair and then threw her on the floor? Explain!" (A/N: Did anyone notice that Kagome had a similar personality to Izayoi in this story?)
"She was strangling you."
"No! Uncle Fluffy-sama did it to be a meanie! Uncle Fluffy-sama's a meanie!"
"What? Why you little liar! I'll dispose of you in this Sesshoumaru's style! And let me just tell you this, you ungraceful little ugly hump, it's not Uncle Fluffy-sama, it's Uncle Sesshoumaru to you! Can't you even pronounce my name, you foolish retard?"
"What would that be? 'In the garbage bag with you?'" Inuyasha finally spoke up. He dusted the back of his head off with an arrogant shake and crossed his arms across his chest. "You know, I remember you used to do that to me when I was only three."
"How could you! BEG!" Inuyasha smirked as Sesshoumaru crashed into the ground with a loud, and unflattering, smack! Minah wasted no time in jumping on Sesshoumaru's back and crawled into his hair creating knots and tangles that were completely foreign to Sesshoumaru's usual neatly groomed hair… of course with the exception of when he just woke up.
"Great! Now that Minah's preoccupied with Sesshoumaru's head, let's make a dash out the door!" Inuyasha shouted, grabbing Kagome's arm to make a rush at the door. But Kagome did not move. In fact, she moved in the opposite direction sweeping poor Inuyasha cleanly off his feet and onto his back with a loud: thump! Inuyasha groaned in pain and tried to get up only to find that his hip was very sore. "What the fuck were you trying to do? Kill me?" The response he received from Kagome was only a smack in the face with her fist. "Ow."
"Minah?" Kagome said sweetly, "Don't you want to come to dinner with Inuyasha and me?" Minah, who had been chewing and drooling all over the still begged Sesshoumaru, looked up, her large eyes round with delight. The thick lock of what was supposed to be shiny, smooth hair (that belonged to Sesshoumaru) fell out of her mouth.
"OKAY!" She shouted so loudly, that both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru groaned. Inuyasha managed to cover his ears, but poor Sesshoumaru still had his hands clasped together and all he could do was cringe. Just as Minah jumped off Sesshoumaru's back, the spell finally wore off and he jumped up to his feet, his eyes flashing dangerously red. By this time, Inuyasha had gotten up and was screaming at Kagome for making such a mistake.
Kagome shot Inuyasha her death glare, but that did not stop him. "But… but… I only reserved a table for two! How could you…" Inuyasha made emphatic hand gestures while he continued to babble on, this time, incoherently. He made jabbing gestures at Minah who was now dancing in circles around an extremely aggravated Sesshoumaru. While she watched Inuyasha's little charade, Kagome crossed her arms across her chest and gave Inuyasha her knowing glare. Even if she knew that Inuyasha was on a rant and couldn't see her, she shot him a menacing look. While pretending to inspect her nails, Kagome tapped her foot impatiently onto the floor waiting for Inuyasha to calm down. "Hey Deaf-Wretch! Didn't you even hear me?" Inuyasha shouted, being finally coherent. Alright, calm your nerves, sitting him senseless won't make anything better… it'll just get him angrier. Kagome nodded her head and took a deep breath to calm herself. "I'm waiting for your response…" Inuyasha snapped. Now it was his turn to tap his foot on the floor impatiently. In the background, Sesshoumaru struggled with Minah who had tried to stuff a tuff of his silver locks in her mouth.
"Well then, ask for more seats!"
"Gah! We might as well not go!" Inuyasha complained as he grudgingly crossed his arms across his chest and turned his head away from her direction.
"Minah wanna go!" For a moment, the struggle between Sesshoumaru and Minah stopped. He was humorously grabbing onto her legs and shaking her around, while Minah grabbed onto his "INUYASHA SUCKS" T-shirt.
"Well too bad! If stupid little bitches like you go, then you end up ruining the whole restaurant and then guess who's gonna be the ones paying for all those goddamn repairs?"
"Us." Sesshoumaru said warily.
"Exactly. And do I want to pay for the mess you made? NO! You know, I may have blown the twentieth floor of dad's office building off and pinned the blame on Sesshoumaru, but I did not, I repeat, I did not—that's N-O-T, not to you—I did not make my parents pay for the mess of someone else's property."
"Sounds the same to me…" Kagome huffed, but she was cut off by a loud roar of anger from Sesshoumaru.
"WHAT? SO IT WAS YOU AFTER ALL! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! IF I DID, THEN MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE RIGHT NOW! SO NOW, MAYBE I CAN MAKE UP FOR BEING STUCK ONTO THE COAT PEG!" Sesshoumaru took a step forward to grab Inuyasha, but then…
"BEG!" Sesshoumaru, who had now flown at Inuyasha with his talons poised, collapsed into the ground for the umpteenth time. Inuyasha struggled to keep a laugh from escaping his lips, and luckily, he managed to stifle it, and straightened his back and pretended that he was coughing. "Well, you should call for more reservations, and if you really don't want Minah to come with us, then we might as well send you and Sesshoumaru out as a little time out for two brothers who really need to get along, while Minah and I stay here and order pizza or something. Inuyasha opened and closed his mouth. If he said fine, then he would find himself glaring across the table at Sesshoumaru… alone, and if he said no, then Kagome would bring the annoying kid with her and humiliate him beyond words. In addition, Sesshoumaru would definitely come along. Either way, Sesshoumaru was still going to be there. But Sesshoumaru plus Minah was a lot worse than Sesshoumaru plus himself. Inuyasha pounded his head with his fist trying to think properly. When suddenly, he caught a loophole to Kagome's proposition. He grinned evilly to himself as Kagome raised one eyebrow at him in annoyance and confusion. "Well?"
"I say fine… have it your way! In fact, I'm sure you will be devastated to find out that Sesshoumaru and I caused another little accident in trying to slice each other's head off. Besides, Minah has to see her psychiatrist in a matter of minutes with Sesshoumaru, since he has to keep an eye on her."
"What? You slick little… grrr!" Kagome growled incoherently as she shook her fist in the air. Then she suddenly stopped, "Wait a minute, since when did Minah get a psychiatrist anyway?"
The sudden question alarmed the inu-brothers and Sesshoumaru, who had been silent up until now, joined Inuyasha, "Well, you see, she has LDS, so uh… she has to see a coo-coo doctor to clear her mind out every once and a while…" Inuyasha nodded and patted Sesshoumaru's back while he rotated his forefinger to his ear and made whistling noises. Those whistling noises indicated that Minah definitely was a bit… well, fucked in the head, as Inuyasha would have colorfully put it. Suddenly, Inuyasha took his arm off Sesshoumaru's shoulder and frowned at him.
"No, you shithead!" Inuyasha snapped, "It's not LDS, it's LDD!" He gave Sesshoumaru a good hard smack across the back of his head. "LDS does not even exist, maybe LSD, but there is no such thing as LDS!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh! I saw it in my encyclopedia, you retard!"
"LDS!"
"LDD!"
"LDS!"
"LDD! LDD! LDD! LDD! ASSHOLE!"
"What… you dare rock-climb up my nervous system?" Sesshoumaru shouted, his right eye twitching insanely. "What exactly does this LDD stand for, Mr. psychiatrist Inuyasha?"
"Language Differentiation Deficiency, and yes I am trying to climb up your nervous system so you can run right to the Ruri or Hari Mental Institution! Got a problem with that?"
Before Sesshoumaru could respond, Kagome spoke up, ignoring Inuyasha's previous comment, "How come Minah didn't have that before? Are you guys making it up?"
"Oh! No, no, no…" Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru started in a babble, "No way… we… I mean, WE mean Kirara just found out!" Inuyasha continued. Kagome narrowed her eyes and reached in her bag with her cell phone in it.
"Wait!" Sesshoumaru shouted, "Don't call Kirara… if you ask her about it, she will become… uh… uh… distressed about it! Yeah! She'll be distressed about it!" At the same time, Minah decided to choose Inuaysha as her monkey bar; Inuyasha, too worried about being found out, didn't notice it. "Kirara may be a feminist… but she uh… really, really does care about her children, especially since Minah is a girl! If Minah was a boy called err… then maybe she wouldn't have cared but Minah's a girl so, she does care very much about the current situation at hand." Inuyasha nodded vigorously, it was then when he noticed that Minah had latched onto his hair and was wildly swinging from it screaming at the top of her lungs.
"Leggo of my goddamn hair!" Minah only giggled and pulled on it harder, while Kagome ignored the brothers' pleas and called Kirara. Inuyasha forgot about Minah on his hair and began to chew on his claws along with Sesshoumaru.
"Hello? Kirara? This is Kagome, how are you doing? (…) Me? Oh, I'm just a bit stressed and all, so how's the family? (…) Oh? And how about your little group of Feminist friends, and your FT Feminist magazine? (…) That's absolutely wonderful! (…) Why'd I call? … Well, I just called, because I just heard the most bizarre fib from your cousins. (…) How did you know that one? (…) WHAT? Language Differentiation Deficiency? When? How? (…) Oh! I'm so sorry about that (…) was she born with it? (…) Really? How come she listens well to me? (…) oh (…) I see (…) that's LD! Sorry about that! (…) Well, you know, I don't mean to ask you this, because uh… you know… I'm a… (…) No? Oh, okay, well, I didn't feel too good about asking it anyway, it was just because I was curious, but you don't want to talk about it so… (…) NANI?" Kagome's face turned a bright shade of pink, "I don't want to talk about him either! He drives me nuts! (…) What do you mean by an, 'are you sure'? Of course I'm sure. (…) I am definitely not going out with In—Intakomaru!"
"I told you, you piece of shit." Inuyasha snarled.
"Shut up! Just when did you learn that she had LDD?"
"I didn't, Minah was just jumping up and down on the couch and driving me nuts while she kept on screaming," Inuyasha made funny facial expressions and raised his voice so that a high-pitched squeaky voice came out from his throat with some difficulty: "'Minah has LDD! Minah has LDD! Minah has LDD!'" Inuyasha cleared his throat and his voice became normal, "Over, and over again! Of course I didn't really believe her but… dammit! She makes me sick!"
"She actually said that?"
"Well yeah… let go of my fucking hair, bitch!" By then Kagome hung up the phone, and Inuyasha gave up trying to get Minah of his hair with a gruff, "Fine! Clinge onto my hair all you want! I don't care!" Upon saying that, Minah immediately released Inuyasha's hair and slid down to the ground." For a while, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha stared at each other flabbergasted.
"How did you do that?" Sesshoumaru asked Inuyasha, who had now averted his gaze to Minah. Inuyasha ignored his amazed brother as a look of comprehension suddenly dawned on him.
"Why didn't I even think of that? Of course! She had LDD!" He turned and grabbed Sesshoumaru by both his ears and yanked the now glaring brother towards his face, "SHE HAD LDD! WHAT AM I? STUPID OR WHAT?"
"What the hell is wrong with you? Do you need a psychiatrist too?"
"Well, Inuyasha, you were right…"
"Minah!" Inuyasha suddenly shouted triumphantly, "YOU MAY GO!" Sesshoumaru and Kagome flinched in unison. Minah pouted, but clung to Sesshoumaru's leg sadly. Sesshoumaru and Kagome's jaws fell to the floor in shock. "Come on Kagome, no time to waste you know!" With that, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's arm and dragged her away from the apartment. "Oh, and Minah?" Minah looked hopefully up at Inuyasha, "Do not listen to Sesshoumaru no matter what, because if you listen to him, you're gonna live! And don't be good at the doctor's okay! I'm kidding!" Minah looked extremely bummed out as she shrunk down next to a bewildered and befuddled Sesshoumaru.
"Inuyasha, what was that all about? Do you want to kill Sesshoumaru, or even worse, Minah off? What the heck do you think you're doing?" Inuyasha had quickly dragged Kagome out of his apartment and was literally dragging her along with him. He pressed the down button on the elevator and got in when it came. Once they were in the elevator, he suddenly stopped and grabbed Kagome by the shoulders.
"Look Kagome, it's LDD! LDD!" Kagome furrowed her brow in confusion, "I read about it when I was only five. It stands for, like you shouted, Language Differentiation Deficiency! You see, I may not be a psychiatrist, but according to the encyclopedia, it's a small impediment in the brain where the person perceives commands. This small problem makes the command-center of the brain function in the opposite way." She blinked blankly at him, "It's when all the hearing-perception section in the brain scrambles! So if I tell her, 'don't bite my toes' she'll do it, and if I say 'bite my toes'—the opposite of the command before—she won't bite my toes! See pretty smart aren't I?" Inuyasha grandly held his arms out before her, freaking the elevator operator out. Kagome's eyes became the size of saucers and shone with admiration as Inuyasha coolly puffed his chest out with pride.
"So wait, you just told Minah that she couldn't come with us, and to listen to Sesshoumaru, and that if she didn't listen to him… then you were going to kill her? And then you told her to be good at the doctors and that you weren't kidding? Right?" Suddenly Kagome's admiring look melted off and was replaced with a glare, " Wait a minute, you threatened that you were going to kill her?" Inuyasha nodded vigorously, not comprehending why Kagome threw her hands up in the air in anger. "I can't believe you actually said that to her! She's only a child! How could you? Come on, we're going back to Minah and you are going to apologize."
"No way! You aren't part of the family, you have not witnessed Minah evil side! If you were me, then I'll bet you that you would be tossing half your heels into the garbage can right now!" Kagome opened her mouth to complain, but Inuyasha hailed a taxi and pulled her into the car. He gave the place to the driver and as they started to drive off, said: "So now, let's just enjoy ourselves for once in our lives! Besides, if we keeping on dawdling, then we're going to lose our reservation, and we'll have to wait for hours to get into the restaurant."
"Inuyasha… you are such an…"
"Look, just because I threatened to kill her for not listening to Sesshoumaru, doesn't mean that I'm really going to kill her you know! Besides, it'll be fun for me, Sesshoumaru being treated like shit for a change, and me knowing ways to control someone without him knowing for once in my life. It's phenomenal, you know!" The taxi driver wrinkled his brow at Inuyasha who had gone back to shaking his hands around in wild gestures. Then the driver shook his head sadly and continued to drive. "Come on, are you trying to tell me that you don't mind being stuck with the world's most annoying kid in the world? Come on! Don't tell me you're that boring!"
"Okay, fine." Inuyasha heaved a big sigh of relief and leaned back smoothly in his chair. This was not going to be too bad.
The usually low buzz around the Plaza was silent as a tomb except for one grumbling girl and another sheepish man rubbing his cheek in pain. Sango glared at Miroku with her hand posed and frozen in the follow-through of her slap. She wore a white dress suit with a silk, purple blouse. On her feet, she wore sleek, black heels, and the coat-man was just putting on her gray Salvador Ferragamo wool and cashmere coat. She had her coat unbuttoned and her brown eyes narrowed considerably. Miroku was wearing an iron-gray suit with no tie and wore a big smirk on his face. "That was definitely worth it." In the meantime, a short, pudgy man with a moustache immediately rushed past them. Sango gazed sorrowfully and angrily as the man ran as fast as his short legs could carry him. Miroku sighed dolefully; another one of their clients running away from him. He often wondered why he always lost his clients while the other workers (especially Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru) seemed to keep a firm grasp on their clients, making them like begging puppies.
"You perverted sicko! You fool! You wormy piece of shit! I can't believe you did that in front of Mr. Fellows!" Miroku bowed his head in shame while Sango let out a scream of frustration and gave him one last smack across the back of his head with her handbag. "Why don't you just fix your…"
"Oh! Mr. Fellows is coming back!" Miroku lied loudly and ran as soon as Sango's head whipped around to see. Of course she saw nothing and Miroku's little white lie enraged her even more. Sango stomped after Miroku, since her heels were too high to run in. Of course the next time they came to speak to one of their clients, then Sango was definitely going to wear a pair of sneakers so she could run up and snag Miroku by his ear, or better yet, his stupid little rat-tail at the base of his neck. The lecherous man definitely deserved it, and this time, Sango was not going to let him get away with it.
Miroku ran into the men's bathroom knowing that Sango would never get him there, but he was quite wronged, because the door to the men's was roughly punched open by an angry Sango. Much to his surprise, Sango stepped quite easily into the bathroom as if it were the ladies room. Several men were taking a leak in the toilet immediately covered themselves up as Sango stomped into the room. The men continued to gawk in horror at Sango as she briskly made her way to the now shivering Miroku. "Got a problem?" Sango snapped moodily. The men shook their heads no, "Then take a hike!" The men immediately finished their businesses and ran out of the bathroom as fast as they possibly could. The door banged quite loudly against the wall and hit its frame with a crashing noise. "Do you think that running into the men's washroom would stop me from killing you?" Sango growled, her face becoming extremely horrific. "DIE!" Sango screamed.
People walked by the entrance of the men's washroom as the sounds of a woman screaming ugly words and bloody murder echoed towards them. Several men had quickly rushed out, their faces chalk-white as they quickly re-belted their pants. "Don't go in there, it's a tornado in there." They told the other men. Miroku was screaming for help on the inside as the bathroom shook and made loud crashing sounds. The people could definitely make out the sounds of someone shouting karate noises and even some begging. By this time, a considerable crowd had gathered around the bathroom entrance and was buzzing with excitement while the members of the hotel tried to cut through the crowd. Several women gasped when Miroku came flying out of the bathroom headfirst. He was badly bruised with an ugly gash at his temple. Behind him, Sango marched out huffing to herself. She had taken her coat off along with her heels. With one last humph, she flipped her hair and stormed away, leaving Miroku in an ugly heap on the ground.
"Sango, my dear, don't you think you need a ride home?"
"I'm fine, thank you very much, I can hail a taxi, you sick, perverted sonuvabitch." With that, Sango marched straight to the entrance of the hotel while the crowd around her parted to let her through. Scowling about annoying men, Sango stormed out of the hotel, hailed a taxi and went home. She definitely needed to get away from Miroku. It was just her luck that Kagome was all the way in Hong Kong, otherwise, she would have met her up at the nearest bar or in her home to have a nice girl chat, but she wasn't. Thus, Sango decided it was time to take out the ice cream or the champagne and take a nice long, hot, bubble bath. Once the taxi stopped at her apartment, Sango paid and then got out of the car.
She opened the door to her apartment and tossed her things on the chair as she called for Kohaku, her younger brother. The only sounds she was greeted with were the sounds of people kicking each other and Souta (Kagome's younger brother) shouting in triumph. This meant that Souta was here and the two were playing Playstation 2. Sango narrowed her eyes and flew past the centerpiece of her apartment with a large rose bouquet in the middle and threw open the mahogany and glass double doors to the living room. "Altright boys! That's enough! How long have you been playing that stupid game anyway?" On the floor in front of a large flat-screen television sat a boy around twelve with his hair tied back in a short ponytail and another one around the same age with short hair. Both turned around to see their intruder then as fast as they turned around, turned back to their games without even a hello. Sango sighed loudly and walked right in front of the boys, blotting the screen out.
"Hey! Come on sis! We're playing a game! You'll make us die!"
"What is it? Kick Boxing 2?"
"No! We're playing the Inuyasha game!"
"Well, Kohaku, now you can't." With that, Sango angrily reached over and unhooked the PS 2 from the back of the television screen.
"Aww man, I was beating you…" Souta complained.
"That's because you got to be Sesshoumaru, you dumb ass."
"Then why the hell did you choose to be Naraku?"
"Because Naraku's supposed to be stronger and he has the Shikon Jewel with him!"
"Well I took it from you, so…"
"CHEATER! YOU USED THE CHEAT CODE DIDN'T YOU!"
"SHUT UP!" Sango screamed. "NOW GET YOUR LAZY ASSES UP AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Souta and Kohaku looked at each other and then back at Sango. They shook their heads sadly, shrugged, then left.
"Geez older sisters are so mean." Kohaku grumbled to Souta, who nodded in agreement. "You know, one time, I was watching MTV and then Sango came and changed the channel to CNN, then she kicked me off the couch and told me to get productive and do something."
"Hey, wasn't that the day you asked if we could go boarding in the park."
"Yeah."
"So mean, but your sister's an angel compared to mine. She screams at me with all her might and then she forces me to make my own lunch. One time, her computer broke down and she blamed it on me." The two boys shook their heads and walked away towards Kohaku's room. Neither of them noticed that Sango had heard what they had said and continued to grumble and complain until they disappeared into Kohaku's room. Letting out a scream of frustration, Sango immediately grabbed her phone to call up Kagome, but soon found that she was not answering it. Sighing, Sango decided to write Kagome an e-mail complaining about everyone, especially Miroku. She immediately made her way to her room and washed her make up off her face and got into a pair of pink trainers and a white tank-top with a pink "Von Dutch" logo on it. Then she got herself some orange juice and settled down in front of her laptop. Cracking her knuckles several times, Sango prepared to write a letter to her best friend.
To: From: Subject: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! MIROKU STRIKES AGAIN!
Cc:
Message:
KAGOME! I KNOW I'M WRITING A WHOLE BUNCH OF CAPLOCKS HERE, BUT I REALLY NEED SOME SORT OF CONSOLATION FROM YOU SINCE I CAN'T GO OUT AND TALK ABOUT IT OVER MARTINIS! TODAY, FOR THE 10,000TH TIME, MIROKU HAS STRUCK AGAIN, AND THIS TIME, HE SCARED A CLIENT AWAY! AND NOW I'M HOME, AND I FEEL REALLY LOW! ANYWAY, MIROKU ACTED LIKE A PERVERT TODAY (NO SURPRISE THERE) AND I BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF HIM! THE PERVERT ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT I WOULDN'T CHASE HIM INTO THE MEN'S ROOM, BUT I DID!
Anyway, I'm less angry now. But now, I'm stressing over the fact that I keep on hitting him. What if he gets brain damage because of me? Can't you give me an advise on controlling Miroku in a non-violent way? Ooh, and I heard Inutaisho singing in his office about you having dinner with Inuyasha! Hehe, was he rude and hostile or was he nice and affable? Anyway, I gotta go now, I just heard some crashing noises in Kohaku's room. See ya! And good luck with Inuyasha… you know what I mean, wink, wink.
-Sango-
Kagome had to admit that the dinner party was indeed much better with a partner. Most of the people there were seated at tables for two. The restaurant also had a live show with a woman in a snaky, glittery cocktail dress singing jazz songs along with the piano, the bass, and several other instruments. Inuyasha sat across from her holding onto a menu with two clawed hands. She had to admit that he did look handsome in his cotton-blue collared shirt and his dress pants. His snowy white ears flicked and moved around by themselves. In front of them was a glass of water and plates along with chopsticks, and forks, knives, and spoons of different sizes. They were out near the stage where the singer was, but not too close. Also, their spot hung out right over a cliff with massive French windows. The scene of Hong Kong at night glimmered before them in different colors, their reflections dancing on the surface of the seawater.
"So what do you want?" Well, things weren't too perfect… if only Inuyasha had a softer attitude, then maybe the date or dinner, or whatever it was, was perfect. But perhaps, today was her lucky day, because Inuyasha cleared his throat and said, "Sorry… so, what would you like?" Kagome smiled, but it must have been rare, because Inuyasha jumped slightly and cowered a bit. "Whoa… you aren't going to sit me are you?"
"No!" Kagome laughed, "No, I'm not. It's just that this was the first time you ever spoke decently to me, that's all." Inuyasha opened his mouth for a retort, but Kagome quickly added, "Umm… maybe the lamb chops course, they have Caesar's salad." Kagome needed not to add that Caesar's salad was her favorite after all those years she had spent with Inuyasha. Inuyasha nodded calmly and looked back down into his menu, before he nodded again. The waiter, who had been hovering around them, immediately swooped down to take the order.
"The lady here would like to have the lamb chops course, and I'll take the steak." The waiter nodded and scribbled them down, "We're going to have desert…" Inuyasha looked up at Kagome who told him that it was fine with her. "Erm… Kagome, do you want ice cream?"
"I really don't mind, but I would prefer cake."
"Very well, I'll have green tea ice cream, and then Kagome would like the black forest cake." The waiter nodded and scribbled the list down. "Oh, and do make sure that our food, especially her Caesar's salad comes out as the best." The waiter quickly nodded. "If there shall be any problems with it… you'll pay the price." The waiter sweated slightly before he bowed to them and scurried away. Inuyasha calmly took the napkin and unfolded it, then he placed it on his lap. Kagome did the same.
"You know what's the best thing about eating dinner with your oldest friend is?" Inuyasha raised a questioning eyebrow, "They know exactly what you like and what you don't like."
"Well, you know, I've known you for over twenty years. I'm sure I would know practically everything about you, after even five years. Especially if they're so hotheaded and love to scream at me what they like and what they don't like."
"Oh shut up Inuyasha. That wasn't very nice of you."
"It's the awful truth, Kagome. Anyway, how's your family?"
"My family? Oh, they're just fine, Souta continues to wreck havoc with his friends, and grandpa's still in Japan trying to sell magical orbs where you can make wishes on." Kagome rolled her eyes, at the thought then continued, "And mom, she's too busy trying to get Grandpa out of the Shrine and move into New York with the rest. And yours?"
"Hectic as usual. I'm surprised you even bothered to ask me, when you see them everyday. But if you want me to repeat myself, then… okay. Well, mom and dad are still scrabbling over marriage, and other stupid stuff dad explodes around the office, Sesshoumaru is still trying to bite my head off, and I'm just being me… oh right, no… I'm being tortured by Kirara and Minah. In fact, Minah wants to follow me back to the U.S., but I'm trying my best to keep her here. She already demolished half of my clothes today. Mom and Dad are also trying to convince me to… never mind that." Inuyasha said, his face suddenly blushing. "Just forget that one, it's not even worth talking about."
"Oh, you're mom's forcing you to choose between several girls to marry right?"
"Yeah, and dad keeps on telling me to go on vacation, when I've got a truckload of work. Speaking of work, Dad just called me not too long ago and told me that we're heading back to New York."
"We?" Kagome inquiringly raised her eyebrow, "As in you and me?"
"Yeah. And Sesshoumaru has some KTF stuff to deal with. It's just crazy…"
"You know Inuyasha, you really should tie your hair up more." Now it was Inuyasha's turn to raise his thick eyebrow at Kagome. "I mean, you look much nicer with your hair up. Why'd you do it? You hate putting your hair up!"
"I only put my hair up when I go out to have dinner with my friends or on formal occasions. Otherwise, mom will cut my throat."
"Huh? You've never done that before?"
"I know. It's a new rule made by mom this year. She told me she has her eyes on me, so I simply assumed that she has some spy or whatever watching my every move. Feh! The last time I caused accidents was when I was in eighth grade! You know, you look very nice in that dress of yours, it really brings out your skin color." Kagome blushed slightly while Inuyasha nodded in approval.
"Geez, thanks Inuyasha. You know, this makes one of the rarest events where you've actually been nice to me." Inuyasha shrugged. Just as he did, the waiter came with their appetizers.
"Well, enjoy your dinner. If you want, we can have some cocktail before we go home. How did you like those Chanel shoes I got for you?"
"Oh they're very nice, actually they're much nicer than the pair that I ruined! You sometimes surprise me. How can such a hotheaded, arrogant freak like you actually have a sense of taste?" Inuyasha who actually looked proud of himself immediately frowned upon hearing "arrogant", "hotheaded", and "Freak".
"Anyway, we leave Hong Kong the day after tomorrow, so…"
"Oh, so then I guess I won't miss out on Sesshoumaru's dinner…" Inuyasha immediately stiffened. He did not know if he did that because Kagome was actually willing to have dinner with Sesshoumaru or if it was because he did have to look after Minah after all. Inuyasha felt sweat start to pour out from him face like sheets out of his printer. Of course he knew how to control Minah, but she really was up to no good. Suddenly, he wondered how he managed to forget or if Kirara even bothered to tell him about Minah's LDD. That was when he remembered that Kirara did tell him about some sort of deficiency about Minah, but he didn't even bother to listen. He just told her whatever and slammed the door in her face. And from then on he had to deal with Minah's annoying screaming and her "I'm-not-gonna-listen-to-you" attitude. Inuyasha mentally smacked his head for being so stupid and irresponsible.
"Well, that would be nice…" He just couldn't control the twitching of his eyebrow, "How very nice… NO! HOW VERY STRANGE!" Kagome jumped back at Inuyasha's sudden screaming. "Sesshoumaru actually asked you out of all the people to have dinner with him? Why that stupid, arrogant, emotionless imbecile!" Inuyasha shook his fist in the air and openly scowled, forgetting that he was in a public area. When he realized that people were staring at him, he hastily put his fist down and apologized. "Let's start our appetizer, shall we?" Inuyasha gave his million-dollar smile to Kagome, who had actually backed away into the corner of her chair. Upon seeing Inuyasha's heart-melting smile, she couldn't resist a slight blush and settled into her old position. At least that bastard isn't here… as long as he isn't here, I'm fine. Inuyasha thought to himself, still smiling. The only difference was that he was smiling for so long that now, he sort of looked psycho. "So, does Souta reap through your underwear?"
"Inuyasha, your mind is still in the past," Kagome said with a hint of annoyance in her voice, "I don't live with Souta and mom any more."
"Oh yeah!" SMACK! Inuyasha mentally smacked his head, "I forgot. Of course. How could I possibly forget that?"
"That's because all you ever do is work, work, work."
"Hey! I exercise, I go to parties, I meet my friends, and I… I… uh… work! But it's not all work though!" If nobody was there, then Inuyasha would have definitely punched himself in the face. He was babbling. He never babbled, ever!
"Inuyasha…" Kagome said seriously, "Did you know that you work so hard that you had to buy a treadmill for your apartment so you could do work while exercising?" Inuyasha opened his mouth to retort, but Kagome put up one stern finger, "As your friend, Inuyasha, I honestly do not mean to tell you this, but you rarely even go out! In fact, because of your work, you don't even have very many friends!"
"Yeah I do! There's Miroku, then there's Sango, you, uh… uh… your grand-dad… and uh… uh…" Inuyasha raised his hand to his face to count off the number of friends he had, "Uh… not Kouga, that dumb ass… erm… not Shippou, he's too young… and uh… uh… no way with Sesshoumaru… uh…" Inuyasha looked down at his finger and realized that he only had four friends, actually, Kagome's grandfather was not even considered a friend, he just tossed him in anyway… that meant that he had only three friends? Then for over twenty years, who or what had he been doing? He met Miroku in college, and Kagome was an old friend, and Sango he met in his father's company. This was absolutely preposterous! Even Sesshoumaru had more friends than he did!
"I'm sure you have other friends that you can't remember, don't sweat it."
"DON'T sweat it? You expect me not to worry? I've made three friends over the course of twenty years and you expect me not to worry?" Inuyasha hissed, suddenly, he realized that he came to take Kagome out to dinner not to scold her. "Of course. That I'll worry about later. KEH! Friends? Who needs them anyway?" With that, Inuyasha lifted his appetizer fork and savagely speared the asparagus, while Kagome started on her mashed sweet potatoes. The two sat in silence, chewing their food thoughtfully. In the meantime, the music trickled through the air with such romance and sweetness, Inuyasha was sure that he was going to choke to death. He, Inuyasha, was never used to very romantic dinners, especially since he usually (a) ate alone in complete silence or (b) went to fast food restaurants with either Kagome, Sango, Miroku, or all three of them. In addition to his discomfort, he had to be polite, which was definitely something he was not accustomed to. Inuyasha clutched his fork in his hands. No, stay polite… stay polite…
He had not noticed that he had been chanting that aloud, not until Kagome looked up and cocked her head at him in confusion. "Inuyasha… are you okay?" Inuyasha vigorously nodded, and loosened his grip on the fork and speared his asparagus as politely as he possibly could. Despite this demeanor, he knew all too well that his distain for romantic dinners (which was what Kagome liked) shone through his feeble mask of lies. Kagome shot him a look, wondering what was going through his head at the moment.
"Inuyasha, is there something that's bothering you?"
Inuyasha jerked back into reality and looked around. "Huh, what did you say? Is someone here?" She looked so beautiful in her plain yet elegant dress… he was tempted to reach out and lovingly cup his hand around her cheek. Inuyasha mentally shook his head. It was definitely not in his nature to do smoochy romantic crap.
"No, you look a bit… misty… and all this politeness crap, well, to be honest, it doesn't suit you. What's up?"
"Oh! Nothing! Nothing at all." Inuyasha said with a wave of his hand. When Kagome gave him a suspicious eye, he exploded. "God dammit! Don't give me 'the eye'! There's nothing wrong with me!" Or is there? He silently added to his outburst. Kagome bit her lip in indignation.
"I was just worried about you!"
"Keh! Worried, schmoworried! I'm fine, now stop giving me that knowing look of yours, it's annoying."
"Whatever you say, Inuyasha, but if there's any problem, I'm open to listening."
"Okay, okay…" Inuyasha mumbled as he averted his gaze from Kagome's warm, brown eyes to a small spot on the tablecloth. Kagome could tell just by the look in his eyes that there was definitely something wrong with him. He was her friend, and she had known him for a very long time, so naturally, it would have been obvious that she saw that there was something wrong with him. Then again, when Inuyasha exploded like that at her, she knew that it was best to keep her mouth firmly shut. Sneaking one last worried glance and an affectionate eye to her friend, Kagome continued with her appetizer.
She didn't notice that she had been staring longer than she had anticipated before Inuyasha's golden eyes peered cautiously at her. When their eyes met, they immediately looked away. Inuyasha loudly cleared his throat and in his attempts to look as casual as he possibly could, he tripped a waiter on accident. "KYAAAAAAAAA!" The waiter screamed before landing flat on his face. The waiter had been carrying a tray filled with hot soup and had accidentally dropped it on another person's lap. The said person jumped up and began to frantically wipe his lap off with his napkin muttering about incompetent waiters. Both Inuyasha and Kagome flew to their feet as the man who was complaining swore to himself and turned around.
When Inuyasha saw the man's face, he felt his blood run cold. The man who happened to be a part of an accident he had caused was none other than his father's archrival, Tatemaru Minimoto. The poor waiter had gotten off his feet and was bowing repetitively and apologizing about his blunder. "You foolish nitwit!" Tatemaru hissed, "I'll make sure that you get fired." In the background, the maitre de maison was pushing through the throng of confused waiters and some customers who had stood up to see the problem. When the maitre de maison arrived, Tatemaru pointed accusingly at the poor waiter at his foot. "I do not know how you choose your waiters, but that thing, which you bluntly call a waiter, just spilled hot soup on my lap thanks to his clumsiness!" The maitre de maison bowed apologetically and shot the waiter a glare. The waiter stiffened as he immediately stood up and followed the maitre de maison's example in bowing repetitively. Inuyasha did not like what he saw and stepped forward. "I'm horrible sorry Mr. Minimoto," The maitre de maison and the waiter turned around in alarm, "Please do not pin the blame on the waiter, it is entirely my fault. Mr. errr…" Inuyasha peaked a look at the waiter's nametag, "Mr. Chang has nothing to do with the current problem, had I not stuck my leg out, such problems would have never occurred."
Tatemaru gave Inuyasha a sadistic smirk. "Well if it isn't Inuyasha Suzuki, son of Inutaisho, eh?" Inuyasha did not like the way Tatemaru spat his father's name out like that, "What are you doing on this lovely evening? Hopefully you aren't working your brains out, now are you?"
"What I am doing here is none of your business." Inuyasha spat, his voice laced with iciness, "I am sincerely apologetic about this whole incident." With that, Inuyasha reached for his suit jacket and withdrew his checkbook from the inside pocket. "I believe I should be paying for the cost of your suit and maybe the hospital bills for your legs, am I not?" Tatemaru's smirk did not leave his face, but his brown eyes narrowed considerably. The dry humor and the sly amusement vanished from his countenance altogether.
"Yes. But I do not think it is necessary for the hospital bills, just my ruined suit and my shoes." Inuyasha's gaze coolly rolled off the page of his checkbook to Tatemaru's shoe, which had not been harmed at all. Kagome half expected him to get angry and shout at him, but to her surprise, Inuyasha asked Tatemaru how much his suit and shoes were, then he wrote a check, tore it out, and handed it to Tatemaru. The sadistic amusement had returned to Tatemaru's eyes, but was quickly replaced with a look of shock when he read the check.
"I'm sure one million dollars would do the trick," Inuyasha said smoothly as he placed his pen back into his suit jacket along with his checkbook. "And again, many apologies." Inuyasha gave Tatemaru a curt and cold bow before sitting back down. The waiter (Mr. Chang), and the maitre de maison both wore looks of complete astonishment.
"Thank you, and please give your father my regards." Inuyasha nodded while Kagome sat back down. Tatemaru gave an indignant tug on his suit jacket and sat back down.
Kagome immediately leaned over and whispered, "Was that who I thought it was?"
"There's no mistaking that we just ran into Tatemaru." Inuyasha whispered back. As a different waiter leaned over to clear their empty dishes, Inuyasha and Kagome immediately broke apart. "I wonder if Sesshoumaru is having a darn hard time with Minah." Kagome angrily kicked Inuyasha's shin, making the CEO wince and squirm. "What was that for!"
"Inuyasha, can you stop wishing misfortunes on your brother?"
"Half, you forgot to add half."
"Half, full, same damn thing. And I think I do remember telling you about this."
"About what?" Inuyasha's left eyebrow twitched insanely.
"What the hell do you mean by what? You know damn well what I'm talking about." Kagome hissed as the maitre de maison poured them a glass of red wine, "The half and the full thing. You still share the same dad, which means that you are still brothers."
"Keh! Brothers my ass!" Upon seeing the look of murder on Kagome's face, Inuyasha decided it was best to shut up before she said the magic word. "Okay, okay. Fine whatever, but I don't think you lecture Sesshoumaru about brothers and all this cra—crazy stuff." Inuyasha angrily snatched his bread up and tore a piece off. Of course he had never really seen Kagome tell Sesshoumaru off, and if she did, he was always there and the lecture was always directed to him, Inuyasha. Inuyasha scowled as he buttered his bread. Damn half brothers… He thought to himself. He popped the bread quite rudely into his mouth and shot a glare across the table at Kagome who had done the same. She too was glaring across the table. The look on Kagome's face was priceless and immensely horrifying. It was so horrifying that Inuyasha wasted no time in grabbing his cup and downing his water. He should have known better than to get Kagome angry. How foolish of him. Inuyasha cleared his throat for the umpteenth time and said nervously, "Sorry." Kagome looked up from her salad, which had just arrived.
"About what?" She asked as she put her salad fork down.
"About… everything."
"Aww… how sweet," Kagome stood up and sat I the chair next to Inuyasha. He knew too well what she was going to do. "Let me give you a hug."
"H-h-hug?" Inuyasha asked nervously, edging towards the opposite end of his chair. "Couldn't you just… uh… no thank you! Erm, the how sweet part is okay, but not…" THUMP! Inuyasha fell out of his chair attracting stared from the people around him. "Okay, m-maybe you shouldn't hug me, I mean, you are really, what was that word? Strong, so uh… no… I DON'T WANT AN EFFING HUG!" Kagome's eyebrows arched, Inuyasha knew he had pushed it too far, and there was no going back. "Wait! Don't say—!" Inuyasha quickly added, waving his hands in front of him.
"Sit!"
"It." Inuyasha mumbled into the ground.
A pair of feet drummed on the ground along with the steel bottom of a tacky-looking razor scooter. "Hello my little butterflies!" A deep and cheerful voice boomed. Inutaisho brought his razor scooter to a halt in front of the elevator while the people at the front desk looked at him with their jaws on the floor. Inutaisho gave a friendly wave to the security and the women sitting at the front desk before he happily scooted into elevator, which did not have very many people in it. There were Ginta and Hakakku standing in one side of the corner (with Kouga in the middle) and then there were Sango and Miroku. Sango stood at one end, with a priceless look on her face and Miroku stood at the other end, sheepishly rubbing his cheek, where a fresh hand-mark formed on his left cheek. "Good morning!" Inutaisho sang to the four.
"Good morning Mr. Suzuki…" Ginta, Kouga, Hakkaku, Sango, and Miroku chorused as Ginta slapped Hakkaku back on the arm, "Now you're it!"
"No, you're it!"
"You're it!"
"You are!"
"You are!"
"You!"
"You!"
"Will you two cut it out!" Kouga roared over the loud slapping noises. Ginta and Hakkaku froze in position where each at began to hit each other's head. Inutaisho beamed, he certainly had a good idea. Inutaisho's gaze shifted from the hilarious trio to Sango, who was holding something extremely large, which had been wrapped up in a mass bubble wrap and consequently a roll of clear masking tape rested around her wrist.
"Miroku," Miroku immediately stood up when Inutaisho called on him, "Do you have a pair of scissors on you?" Miroku cocked his head in confusion and then reached into his brief case. He rummaged through it before pulling out a pair of scissors. Why Miroku carried around a pair of scissors remained beyond Inutaisho's knowledge, but at the current state it didn't matter. Miroku handed Inutaisho the scissors and Inutaisho turned to Sango, who had a puzzled look on her face. "Sango, m'dear, you wouldn't mind if I borrowed your bubble wrap and your masking tape, now would you?"
"Umm… I don't mind, Mr. Suzuki."
"Thank you." Sango unwrapped her overly large package, which revealed an overly large boomerang. She handed it to Inutaisho who took it. The elevator operator was now staring intently at Inutaisho who was chuckling. "Ginta, Hakkaku?" The two wolf youkai looked up, and refrained their game tag to blink at Inutaisho. "Wouldn't you like to see if it would hurt if you punched Kouga on the head with this bubble wrap on?" Kouga, who had been coolly leaning against the elevator wall jerked up.
"Mr. Suzuki! I simply disagree!"
"Oh come off it! It won't hurt, I promise! Now, if the three of you would hold onto Kouga for a second…" Inutaisho didn't need to finish, because Miroku, Ginta, and Hakkaku jumped on Kouga, pinning the poor wolf man to the wall as Inutaisho advanced on him holding the bubble wrap up.
"No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Was all Kouga said before Inutaisho pounced on him with the bubble wrap and the masking tape. Sango simply stared at them, holding onto her overly large boomerang. When the screaming, kicking, cussing, soothing, and fussing stopped, Inutaisho and the rest released Kouga, who looked absolutely absurd. Kouga stood there with a mass of bubble around his whole head like a large, clear helmet. His suit was mangled and ruined as he blinked at nothing in particular.
"Now, let the testing commence." With that, Inutaisho reached out and gave Kouga a tentative knock on his head. Kouga looked furious. "Did that hurt?" Inutaisho asked. Kouga said nothing, and continued to glare at the elevator doors. Shrugging, Inutaisho hit Kouga's head even harder. "Did that hurt?" Kouga still said nothing. Inutaisho grinned mischievously, "Maybe this one wouldn't hurt…" Inutaisho pulled his arm back and balled his hands into a fist. He wound his arm up like he was going to throw a baseball, then brought his fist down with all his strength (trust me, that is very strong)…
Kouga went flying out of the elevator and landed with a thud on the office floor. Workers stopped working and scrambled over towards the elevator to see who would have dared to punch Kouga. Slowly, Kouga picked himself off the floor and shook his head. He reached up and knocked on his hard shell of bubble wrap, masking tape, and god knew what. "Hey! That didn't even hurt!"
"It didn't?" Came an eager response. Inutaisho rushed over as Kouga began to knock a little harder onto his "helmet". "Are you sure?"
"Positive!"
"This is absolutely neat!" Kouga cried out.
"Yeah it is!" Inutaisho punched Kouga on the head. The two began to laugh happily as Inutaisho continued to punch Kouga on the head. Pretty soon, Miroku had rushed out of the elevator and joined the two in their small amusement. WHACK! Miroku punched Kouga's helmet. The force of his punch made Kouga's head jerk in the direction of Inutaisho, who punched Kouga's head back. "So, what do you think?" Sango stepped out of the elevator, still holding onto her boomerang. The befuddled looked was gone and replaced with a look of amazement.
"Yeah! It's good!" Kouga flashed a "thumbs up" sign while nodding like a content wolf. And so it repeated over and over, Kouga's head jerking in one direction then back to another direction.
"Miroku, Dad, what the hell are you doing?" Inutaisho and Miroku froze, their fists still poised to punch Kouga's strange helmet thing. Very slowly, Inutaisho turned around and found himself face to face with none other than Inuyasha himself. Inuyasha looked very cross and was leaning against the frame of the elevator door. He wore a white suit along with a crisp black shirt along with a white silk tie. He had his arms folded across his chest and was holding a manila folder in one clawed hand.
"Son!" Inutaisho cried aloud, "Why are you here?"
"I done with the toilet project in Hong Kong, they've agreed to the toilet seat thingies."
"Why that's wonderful news!" Inutaisho exclaimed, "What about Kagome?"
"Stop trying to avoid the topic, dad, what the heck are you doing?"
"Uh… nothing!" Inutaisho immediately hid Kouga from view. The last thing he wanted was to see a brawl in his office.
"Nothing?" Inuyasha straightened himself and came up to his father. "Well, if it was nothing, then I guess I'll just hand you my report on the toilet project in Hong Kong." Inutaisho let out a silent sigh of relief as Inuyasha handed him the much-needed files.
"Thank you son…" Before Inutaisho could do anything else, Inuyasha quickly peaked behind him and saw Miroku and Kouga smirking and tapping onto the bubble wrap helmet. Miroku was asking Kouga if it hurt and Kouga was shaking his head no. When Kouga shook his head, Miroku would hit his head even harder then ask the same question, and so the cycle continued. "Inuyasha, please do not tell your mother about this, I would hate to see her expression if she found out that I was abusing my co-workers." Inutaisho gave Inuyasha a big grin. Inuyasha's solemn face changed to a big fat grin, which had been absent on his face since thirteen Christmases ago.
"Of course I won't! Sango, can I borrow your boomerang thing for a second?"
"Uh… sure. Why?" Before Inutaisho knew it, Inuyasha snatched the boomerang out of Sango's grasp and ran after her screaming bloody murder as Kouga screamed back and ran away from the now crazed CEO. Unfortunately, Kouga did not get very far, and Inuyasha whacked him across the head as hard as he could with the boomerang in his hands.
"Did that hurt? Did it? Did it?" Kouga was now unconscious and lay prostrate on the floor. Inuyasha smirked. "Now that has got to hurt." He coolly dusted himself off and handed Sango her boomerang. "Thanks."
"By the way, Son, what happened to Kagome?" Upon hearing the female CEO's name, Inutaisho did not need to use his nose to figure out that Inuyasha flinch. Something was definitely wrong. He wondered what it was.
"Uh… she still has some work to do. I assigned them to her." Inuyasha responded quickly and hurriedly made his way into the elevator…
"Inuyasha? Inuyasha! What's wrong?" With that, Inutaisho rushed into the elevator after his son, but the doors clanged shut before him. Inutaisho wasted no time in pressing another elevator button and rushed in. Hopefully, Inuyasha hadn't done anything stupid, for his son may have been intelligent when it came to work and studies, but with women and the topic of love and romance, his son was literally dementedwith the topic.
A/N: Yup! That's the end of the chapter, folks, I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to wait for the next one to pop up! Anyway… I decided to give you guys a bit of news on the story, so uh… yeah. Anyway, Remember a couple chapters back, I told you guys that Nina was going to come out to make everyone's life miserable? Well, yes, she WILL appear in the next chapter, which will also be the chapter where you find out what exactly went wrong between Kagome and Inuyasha in Hong Kong! And I won't miss out on Kagome and Sesshoumaru's dinner part. Next chapter, Kagome definitely comes back to New York, and well, Sesshoumaru? He won't be back in another three chapters or so. That's all people!