The dogs are on the loose
I don't own Inuyasha or Ranma ½
I'm back again with another chapter I'm writing out of the library again my computer will be going trough major repairs next week because of some severe damage in it's software AKA a virus whipped the thing clean good thing that I managed to save most of my stuff before that happened. Thank you for all your reviews and let's continue the story.
Bill'sgottagun: Don't worry the fic will last for at least another fifteen chapters or so maybe even more.
Chapter: 20 Work problems or one easy way to destroy a homeSome parts of the chapter may seem a bit out of place in Japan my main goal was simply to make a chapter filled with humour.
While Inuyasha and co were busy fighting ice-dragons or to put it better running from them fleeing from them in Tekichi's fort Shippo and his group nested in, in Kyoto. There was the problem that they didn't have any kind of papers but there's always a way to make a deal without needing them.
The only problem was that the flat that they got their hands on was situated right in a market street, and therefore it wasn't what you'd call a quiet place. Second goal was for Shippo to get a job since performing artistry on the streets doesn't really pay off. This was also taken care of not really legal, but hey who cares.
It was early in the morning on Shippo's first workday the first signs of light were announcing the beginning of the new day. Happosai raced by with a load of panties on his back and a horde of females right after him and since this city didn't meet this kind of terror before he had a much bigger catch than normal. Two foxes were sleeping snuggled together with Izayoi and Asaku, keeping them company in the corner of their new home. In the other end of the room a small two-tailed cat was sleeping on one of the shelves with her kitten resting next to her.
Rin who was occupying a futon in another corner turned again in her sleep, in fact she hardly got any sleep for days. She turned again and looked at the others who were still in dreamland. /I never thought that I depend on Sesshoumaru so much. I can't even sleep without his warmth around me anymore./ Rin gave out another sigh, and closed her eyes waiting for sleep to come, but it didn't happen.
/Damn it why am I like this, I know that Fluffy is going to be all right, I mean I'd be the first one to realize that there's trouble, when he used that magic to lengthen my lifespan he also tied my life to his. If he dies I die we wouldn't be separated for a second. So why am I so nervous/ the young woman shook her head and tried to get some sleep again but still no success. She was glad that she managed to get at least some sleep during the night.
She lifted her head and glanced out on the window to see what time it is. /Ugh... it's still early. I better try to go back to sleep/ she thought then it dawned. Rin climbed out of bed and walked to the two sleeping kitsunes first she shook Kioku. The fox turned around and snuggled back into Shippo's hold. The human tried again this time a little harder, "Please Izayoi it's early for breakfast!" mumbled Kioku.
"Wake up Kioku you need to make breakfast for Shippo so he can get to work!" Rin's reply was a moan.
/Oh well might as well start making food at least I'll have something to do./ reasoned the human and made her way to the kitchen.
A few minutes later Shippo started to stir he sniffed into the air to smell the aroma of breakfast. He nudged Kioku's shoulder with his nose to wake her up. "Mom's making breakfast we should get up you know how she is when someone sleeps in too much."
"Right!" answered Kioku while letting out a huge yawn and flexing her claws. The foxes slowly started to open their eyes and then it hit them.
"Damn it we need to get up they yelled." Within minutes they were dressed and Shippo was on his way to work hopping across the rooftops. Soon he reached the place where he should be working, he jumped from roof top level to the street and entered a small yard, through a large stone gate. It looked more like the gate of a castle but he didn't care.
He looked around and the place looked just like the last time he was here. Flats were enclosing it from all sides, and it was loaded with different kinds of construction materials. Bricks, boards, sand, pipes and other stuff could be found there, along with a storage building that also functioned as an office.
However this time there was a huge man there who was busy loading things from a truck. "Hey do you know where I can find the boss?" asked the fox.
"He's in the office trying to act important as usual!" answered the worker.
"Thanks!" replied Shippo, he wanted to start walking towards the building but was stopped by the man's voice.
"Are you the new one?" he asked.
"Yeah I'm that!"
"You're mighty thin for this job do you think you'll be able to handle it?" asked the man he was built like a bull, he grabbed a cement bag and lifted it into the air with one hand.
"You'll be surprised!" answered Shippo. With that said he grabbed another one and lifted it easily. The worker's eyes popped out in shock. He placed the bag back down and jumped from the lorry. Seconds later Shippo saw a bottle flying at him. He quickly placed the cement bag back down and grabbed the bottle.
"You're already a pal!" yelled the colossus. "Have a beer!" The fox didn't really know what's going on but took a gulp out of the strange substance, he didn't really like it but it was meant as a welcome present so he didn't complain. "The name is Ozu! And yours?"
"Shippo! Do you know where the boss is?"
"In there. But there's no need to report him he hates to be disturbed when playing the important." Informed Ozu.
Shippo nodded and didn't care about replying anymore. Inside a short plump man was sitting in front of his table. Contracts and letters littered the entire place. The man jumped a little when the phone started to ring then he dug through the paperhill and finally he found it.
He picked up the receiver and started his usual speech. "Hakkeda's construction co. houses, garages electric systems, and any other thing, you name it we build, repair, reconstruct." (Or destroy)
The man listened to what the person on the other end wanted. "Oh I see no problem!" he answered combined with a quick move. Then he was still for another few seconds. "Don't worry we won't damage anything." This was followed by another swift movement. "Uh-huh." Another movement. This went on for about a minute when finally the call was ended.
Hakkeda tried to put the receiver down but he couldn't because while making those quick moves he wrapped himself into the wire, and now the cord was too short for him to put it back down. He struggled with the receiver for a few seconds but still no success. Then he had enough, with one strong pull he managed to put the receiver back where it belongs but he also pulled his swivel chair's leg from underneath him and made an Inuyasha like face plant. He slowly struggled onto his feet and opened the window. "Shippo, Ozu! Finish unloading the lorry we have work to do!"
(Warning anyone with heart, or breathing problems stop reading, for your own security)
Half an hour later the three stopped in front of a five storey flat somewhere in Kiyoto's suburbs. Ozu and Shippo got out of the lorry, and gathered some of the things that they might need for their work. They made their way up, and soon Hakkeda followed or at least he wanted. His way was blocked by a woman who bore an extremely angry expression. "I just washed the floor and you and your stupid gorillas bring in half of the street!" she yelled.
"Well sorry but the floor is used for walking on." answered Hakkeda.
"How dare you!" roared the woman lifting her broom, and bringing it down on the man's head. He didn't understand a thing from the words that followed, but received a bucket of water and a mop. "Clean that up NOW!" roared the cleaning amazon.
A few floors higher Shippo and Ozu entered the apartment where they had work to do. A woman around thirty opened the door for them and was filling them in on what they have to do. "Thank you for coming so quickly, the heater in the sitting room is leaking, and I can't do anything with it. My husband tried to fix it yesterday evening but he gave up after an hour, so I thought it's for the best to call the professionals."
"Lead us to the patient and lets see what we can do." answered Ozu.
"I almost forgot you don't need to worry about taking your shoes off I placed down some newspapers so you can move in and out freely."
"Thanks Mrs. Metsuke fortunately we managed to avoid, THE cleaning queen." Ozu received a giggle as answer. First Shippo didn't get it but when he heard the huge roar coming from down stairs he understood.
The two males made their way into one of the room when the human almost laughed when he saw the problem the screw of the heater was leaking nothing what a little insulator won't fix. "Don't worry about this one I'll have it fixed within a second, them we'll put in a lunch break it could take some time for the boss to get up here." Shippo nodded and sat down.
Ozu grabbed a spanner and went to work, he placed the item on the screw and pushed it down or at least he wanted to. "What the?" he asked aloud. Then he used more power trying to get the stupid thing loose but nothing happened, he used even more power but still nothing. He tried to add more but realized that her can't because he was already up in the air.
"Give me a hand here Ship this thing must be rusted." asked Ozu. The fox immediately complied and moved in to help his friend. Seconds later the feet of both were in the air while they tried to the dammed screw loose.
"This thing is really stuck!" remarked Shippo.
"Not for long!" came the human's answer. He grabbed a pipe and pulled it on the tool, making the handle much longer. The two men made another assault on the stubborn component, Shippo jumped on the top and started to jump up and down, of the spanner's handle. Seconds later they heard an ear shattering screech, but not from the screw, it was the pipe. Both released the tool like if there was electricity in it, they looked at each other and nodded agreeing that this is no way to approach this problem.
"You know what I think we should wait for the boss and then go back to the office. It's easier to change the entire radiator than to mess around with the old one." Shippo nodded agreeing with the human's suggestion. "Then I think its time to put in a lunch brake!" the fox also agreed with this and soon you could find the two sitting on the floor devouring their breakfasts.
About ten more minutes passed by the time Hakkeda finally got up. He opened the door of the room to see that his employees in the middle of their lunches. Shippo threw a slice of his apple up in the air to catch it with his mouth; at the same time Ozu took a gulp of his beer before going back to his sandwich. "What's the meaning of this!" yelled the comical looking little man.
"The screw is stuck!" informed Shippo.
"We have to go back to the office to get a new heater we also need to warn the other people living here that we'll have to turn the water off for some time." informed Ozu.
"Nonsense give me that thing!" commanded the wanna be boss. Ozu shrugged his shoulder and threw the spanner to Hakkeda. Who immediately began his assault in the screw. Soon he realized that the thing is indeed stuck then he placed the pipe that was used seconds ago by Shippo and Ozu on the tool. The pipe connecting the radiator with the rest of the heating system was screaming for mercy but stood its ground. Hakkeda lifted himself into the air and used the sealing to give more power to his assault.
Finally it worked, there was only a slight problem instead of the screw getting loose the pipe broke into pieces, and now water was streaming fourth of it. At the same time the man that caused this landed on the floor with his head first and thus he promptly fainted. Ozu immediately raced to the broken pipe and tired to stop the water that was streaming out of it with not much success.
"Stop gawking kid and get moving!" yelled Ozu. Seconds later Shippo was in front of the basement's door, but that was locked. "Open up you stupid thing!" he yelled but the door didn't have that in mind. The fox could have easily broken it down but that would only make more trouble for him, so he decided to head back up. The cleaning lady in the stairway could only see a red blur race by, for the second time. This didn't disturb her but the fact that this blur made the floor dirty brought her closer to explosion.
"The door to the basement is locked! Do you know where I can get the key?" asked the fox.
"Try the caretaker's!" answered Ozu.
"And where is that?" asked the fox on the verge of panic.
"That's what you have to find out for yourself!" answered the human.
"Swell!" murmured Shippo as he raced down on the stairs. The first person he bumped into was the cleaner. He was about to open his mouth when the woman went off.
"Do you know... blab... blab... blab..." the fox didn't care about what followed and moved to one of the doors to knock on it.
"Who is it?" asked the voice of an old lady from inside.
"There's a broken pipe up there!" answered the fox in a desperate tone. "Do you know where I can find the janitor?"
The door opened and the elderly lady peered out "Oh you must be looking for Genta he's such a nice lad..." the old woman continued on and on and on, while the freaking demon was starting to panic.
"Move your lazy ass Shippo will ya! I'm not in a mood for a swim!" yelled Ozu from upstairs. Seconds later water started to pour down on the stairs as an obvious sign that there's trouble up there.
"We can talk later but things are real bad up there could you please tell me where I can find the janitor before the house is completely flooded." pleaded the fox.
"If you're in such a hurry then I'll tell. He lives on the ground floor room behind door three."
"Thank you!" answered Shippo while running downwards. While all this was happening the cleaner constantly howled but the lady wasn't disturbed by it at all. Shippo could have betted why.
Shippo was at the janitor's door within seconds, he knocked but that didn't seem to be at home, he knocked again still nothing. The fox was starting to get angry he just anted to get into that cellar to turn the water off. He lifted his hands to start banging on the door when it opened, however Shippo didn't have time to stop his fist so that continued its way and came into contact with the poor human's face that opened the door.
It's needless to say that the human was knocked out by that punch, luckily there were some keys hanging on the wall next to the door. The fox grabbed the biggest bundle and raced to the basement door and started to experiment with them.
A couple floors higher things were starting to get really bad, Ozu was still fighting with the broken pipe with not much success. The water in the room already reached till his knee Hakkeda and the owner of the apartment were floating around in the middle of the room both unconscious, and the weather in the apartment under them was starting to get wet.
After about five minutes Shippo finally found the right key and unlocked the door he traced down into the cellar, he quickly found the water switch, and started to twist it. First it was hard to turn it, but after a few moments it easily obliged to the demon's demand. A little bit too easily for Shippo's taste, he let got of the tap and that fell to the ground. "Come on you lazy good for nothing -beep- turn that dammed water off before the entire house is flooded.
Shippo searched the place for another way to stop the water, that was slowly but surely filling up the poor apartment, he soon found the switch that was responsible for the water resource of the heating but that was out of order witch could be clearly seen by the fact that it's handle was missing. /This is bad/ he thought before racing up.
Upstairs Hakkeda was slowly starting to awake out of his beauty sleep, he made his way towards the door not really realizing what's going on. He opened the door letting out the water that has gathered in the room, and giddied his way into the apartment's hallway. Seconds later Shippo raced through knocking him into the kitchen, or into the oven to put it better. He tried to get out, but while he was at it he accidentally bumped his head into something, while also opening the gas that was now freely escaping into the air.
"What the heck are you doing here you..." Ozu's words trailed off when he saw the broken tap in the fox's hand.
"Any idea?" asked Shippo.
"We have to get the gas and the oxygen-cylinder we have to close this hole before doing anything else." with that said the two raced down to get the needed tools. Minutes later they were back up with everything they needed. Ozu grabbed his lighter from his pocket and lit the welder. What he didn't know was that the air in the neighbouring room was already completely filled with gas. Shippo could smell it but since he didn't knew that it meant danger he didn't let himself be bothered by it. Ozu was about to start his work on the leak but the gas in the air came into contact with the welder's flame.
A bright flash filled the room that was soon followed by the sound of an explosion, Shippo and Ozu got lucky they only got a fright but no real injuries. However Hakkeda wasn't that lucky a part of the oven got forged on his head so now he looked more like a medieval knight than the owner of a small company. One thing was sure he was now wake well not completely but at least wake. He slowly stumbled across the rooms of the house, while trying to get the large piece of metal from his head without any success. Soon he gave up and started to yell for his employees to help him. Shippo and Ozu only heard muffled voices coming out of the knight's helmet, and they were sure that they won't help him. Hakkeda stumbled his way across the room while searching for the two and reached the window he continued to look for them so desperately that he only realized where he is after he left the room and was falling towards the ground.
A few minutes later this repeated itself." I think we should help him." stated Ozu.
"Na he'll be fine!" answered Shippo.
"Do you really think?"
"Don't worry about him he has a thick skull! Not to mention that I have an idea!" answered the fox with a Nabiki like grin (In other words he had an Idea to get some money)
A couple hours later there was a huge crowd in front of the building that was soaked with water. Shippo was standing on the back of the truck with a box in front of him that was halfway filled with money. "Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see the great Hakkedoo! A show that never believed to be true the man with the unbreakable skull he is even wearing a metal helmet to prove that he doesn't get the slightest injury from these huge falls here he comes again!"
"Ozu... Shippo... help me! I'm stuck in this crazy thing." cried the desperate human. Soon he reached the window and fell out on it for the hundredth time. The crowd started to cheer and throw money into the huge wooden box, when seeing that the poor lad landed on the pavement head on... again, he was dizzy for a couple seconds then he started his journey back to the fourth floor window.
"And the great Hakkedo did it again another face first landing and not even the slightest dent on his helmet, let's see if he can do it again shall we?" yelled Shippo as loud he could.
Guys if you'd come across Ryoga tell him that he owns me a window, two walls, a bed, one writing desk, and a couple hundred dollars for the repair bills and the other stuff he broke. Frankly I did quite a good job trying to catch him I only lost him somewhere around Rudabánya within the woods and that's three miles north of my home.
As a bonus I managed to put a tracking device on him and I got my hands on some equipment that'll help me to monitor his movements. (It's a good thing when you have relatives in the army) I know you probably want to know where he is, well last night he was somewhere in Sweden... uff! Man this guy is FAST! How the heck did he end up in Britain I mean isn't the North Sea really really cold thing time of the year? Heck it's cold at any time of the year!