Trick or Treat, Sesshomaru!
DISCLAIMER: (Sighs) Nope, don't own InuYasha. (It would be nice, but I have to face reality sooner or later --;;;) He belongs to Rumiko Takahashi! Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Damn Box…
"Now where is that box…?" Kagome's voice almost muffled inside of the closet, standing on her tippy toes on the two foot stool, her slim figure stretched above the shelves to the very top, her hands wandering around for the familiar box. Why did mom have to put that box so far up?
The way Mrs. Higurashi had handled the situation of having a two demons and a child from the past here for Halloween was quite amazing. (After seeing Kagome plow Sesshomaru into the ground the second time with the rosary when she had came back from grocery shopping.) Kagome had thought of all of the possibilities that could have appeared: a) Her mother would go ballistic; b) She would have feinted; c) Run straight to Sesshomaru and grab his tail – it was kind of a habit of hers to immediately sought something out the moment she was curious (Which in number of cases lead to many embarrassing moments for Kagome); d) Use her miko powers – the only adult on the shrine that had miko abilities; and e) scold her in front of all of the occupants – total nightmare.
But no.
"Just as long as I don't receive any call from the police and have to go to the police station, I don't mind dear."
Man, it's almost as if she doesn't trust me. She thought with a pout. Biting her lip, she stretched upward even more. Where the hell is that damn thing?
She couldn't wait until tomorrow evening arrived! The cute, glowing faces of the children and strangely even Sesshomaru's curiosity were going to be a hoot! Shippo and Rin will absolutely LOVE the stories Jii-chan tell of at Halloween, even if they are made up. He makes it so authentic that you just can't help but to believe in them! And that's a first! Maybe I should take them to a haunted house on Fifth Street? They usually have good enough haunted houses; after that I think we'll meet up with Souta and his friend at their school – they'll enjoy the games, candy, and the haunted maze. She giggled silently, not noticing the fat cat standing in the middle of the doorway of the closet, peering up at her with his big lazy eyes. A black little cape was tied mercilessly around his neck by Souta.
She wasn't much of a bragger as person wise, but she couldn't help but to be proud of their Halloween traditions, in fact it was one of the reasons why she loved living at the temple as she did now. It was always fun to decorate the temple and even listen to Jii-chan rehearse his stories just for her to hear, even sometimes have her opinion on what she thought he should put in.
Seven-year-old Kagome stood beside her Jii-chan, graciously holding the wire while the younger version of the present Jii-chan stood on the latter pressed against the wall of the house. She stood with baited breath, her slightly messy hair in a high ponytail and an orange overall dress and a black t-shirt.
"Princess Ayami of Okayama was the fairest and most beautiful of all princesses within the region of Japan, this caused much disruption." His deep voice echoed smoothly around the front yard of the shrine.
"Why, Jii-chan?"
"Because, Kagome, her mere beauty brought much envy to those women and brought much attention to the powerful youkai that resided within the region that her father's kingdom reigned. She had the most beautiful skin; so youthful, smooth, and a healthy peach. She had wide eyes of the deepest color of fine raspberry wine with an oval face and blood red lips. She had long midnight black hair with tints of silver and blood red, her hair was usually decorated with silver diamonds and opals and was always put up in a style where there was a braid on each side starting from her temple to her chest before being brought back to tie together like those in the American middle-age women. She was far petite and small and wore the darkest of clothing imaginable. So dark and mysterious looking didn't portray her innocent and pure soul."
Kagome gasped, missing the smug smile tugging on his lips when Jii-chan stood down from his stool. (A/N: Cocky bastard.)
"Did you know her, Jii-chan?"
"Why…uh…yes! Yes, indeed. In fact, it was told that she was our ancestor!" Kagome's wide crystal blue eyes widened even more on her small face,
"Really! But how do you know that, Jii-chan?"
He started rummaging through the front of his priest robes frantically; Kagome had a cruel suspicion for a seven year old that he was making this up.
"Uh, I thought I had it with me, but anyway it was written in GREAT detail by our fore fathers, fore fathers!" She wrinkled her nose in a cute way as he hurriedly got up on the stool again and took some of the wire from her and started tying it around the Goshinboku,
"That sounds really sketchy, Jii-chan. Are you sure you're not making this up?"
"Of course not!" She narrowed her eyes at his squeaky response and huffily dropped the wire on the ground causing the old man to yelp as the latter started to tip backwards.
"You're such a bad storyteller, Jii-chan! Mommy told me never to trust you with history!"
Kagome shook her head from her dazed position and started searching again for the box of Halloween costumes. She gasped happily as her tip of her fingers hit against the smooth suede box.
"I FOUND IT!" In the process, she inhaled the flying dust when she jerked it up from its stiff position. Her eyes widened and watered at the same time.
"Ah…" Her nose twitched daintily. Buyo rubbed against the dangerously tilting stool legs, unnoticing of the danger zone he just entered. "Ah…AH…" Buyo looked up curiously to find her red in the face.
"CHOO!"
"MREOW!"
When sneezing, Kagome had tilted back so far and with her weight plus the heavy costume box compared to the light weight of the stool had fell backwards, right above where Buyo had been standing and landing right on target on the poor fat cat's tail.
"EEK!"
Kagome felt herself dazed and knock out of breath as she landed painfully on her stomach in the middle of the hallway. Hair slightly mussed up, she felt the small of her back being prodded. She winced every time the light presence pressed against the bruise skin. Looking over her shoulder she glared murderously at Buyo who seemed to be ignoring her.
"Hey, that hurts, you know!"
Buyo ignored her and simply plopped himself down making her bite her lip. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, OW! She growled at the sleeping cat,
"If you want me to make your stupid tuna salad you better get off mister!"
He slept on.
"Damn it!"
She blushed a light pink when Sesshomaru had leaped easily over the railing with Tokijin thrust out in 'killing' position. When he saw her, he merely rolled his eyes at the mess she was in. He raised an eyebrow at finding her being covered with a large strange box and her fat cat (Which he DEARLY hates just to let you know) lying on the small of her back. She scowled at him as he calmly put Tokijin back into his sash and made way to the stair case not too far away.
"H-Hey! Aren't you gonna help me?"
"This Sesshomaru does not stoop down to help mortal women with such trivial duties."
"YOU JERK!"
Her raised head feel down sharply against the floor in disbelief when he answered,
"I know you are, but what am I?"
She gaped at him as he calmly started walking down the stairs, probably going to her mother (The only one he took a liking to since she's the only one who gives respect around here.). Her eyebrow twitched. He's been spending too much time with Souta!
"Down boy."
WHAM!
She smirked at his growls. And RIGHT on the stairs! 01: Kagome; 00: Fluffy! Hee, hee!
She sighed sadly as she looked over her shoulder to find Buyo licking himself. Damn cat and damn Halloween box.
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After finally being able to get Buyo off of her (Damn stupid cats and their claws!), Kagome was able to finally sit up for her poor back and walked to the side railing and dropped the box.
BAM!
"Ouch! What the heck was that for, sis?"
Kagome glared down at the scowling thirteen year old.
"I didn't actually plan on it, but all the better! What gave you the intentions of teaching Sesshomaru-baka sayings from our time? Surely people back in Sengoku will notice his strange behavior!"
"Not my problem is it?" Kagome rolled her eyes as her brother picked up the Halloween box and went outside where Rin and Shippo were being mercilessly sucked into the fake make-believe world that Jii-chan created. They both sweat dropped.
"Hey sis, do you remember the times where we were sapped into that?"
"All too well."
"And for what I remember, you two seemed to enjoy it." The two turned to find Mrs. Higurashi handing Sesshomaru a plate of rice crisper bars. (He had absolutely NO idea what he was supposed to do with them…) Is this even eatable? He plucked one from the plate and immediately wrinkled his nose. What is this…gunk that surrounds this? No matter how much he tried to put it back on the plate, he couldn't get the damn rice crisper bar off of his hand. GET OFF OF THIS SESSHOMARU'S HAND!
Souta struggled not to laugh and instead ran outdoors while yelling "Here are your costumes guys!" Kagome openly laughed at the misfortune of Sesshomaru as he wildly whipped his hand around. Momma always was the best at making the stickiest candy bars! Mrs. Higurashi politely put her hand daintily over her mouth as she silently chuckled.
Sesshomaru, with his keen sense of hearing could tell they were laughing at him, but he could deal with them later – he just wanted this thing off of him! He glared at the laughing Kagome. She slumped forward and licked her index and thumb finger, causing the Taiyoukai to wonder what she was doing, and took the rice crisper bare out of his hand with a few tugs.
"Buyo!" Immediately the fat cat was by her side, immediately clawing for the treat. Kagome threw it out of the open doorway towards the Goshinboku, the fat cat streaked (As fast as he could anyway.) after it, his tail bobbing. Mrs. Higurashi planted her hands on her hips and glared scolding at her daughter,
"Dear, you know that when Buyo eats those he can't open his mouth for almost a few hours!" Kagome smirked,
"I know! Think of it as his punishment for sleeping on my bruised back." Mrs. Higurashi reframed from rolling her eyes and instead went back into the kitchen to make her pumpkin pie.
"OOH! They're so pretty! Look at these wings!"
"What is this stuff…? EW! It smells really bad!" (A/N: Shippo's nose + makeup disgusting)
"Look at this cape, Shippo-chan! And these cat ears!"
Kagome smiled brightly and immediately sprinted out of the house towards the two children that were now waist deep within the box. Pulling the two out, Kagome giggled as Rin sneezed at the small amount of dust that lingered within some of the clothes.
"Ah…ah…choo!" Kagome almost wanted to 'awwwww' at the sound, it was so adorable!
"Kaa-san, what is this stuff?" Kagome chuckled when Shippo struggled to put on a clown wig on his head, only succeeding in having it drop over his eyes to just underneath his nose.
"These, are called costumes Shippo, Rin. It's what you can wear on Halloween night; everyone will be doing it tomorrow." Rin looked at her hopefully,
"Even you, Kagome-nee-chan?" Kagome nodded, smiling gently.
"Even me. Now, let's decide on what you want to be."
"But what about you, okaa-san?" A glint entered Kagome's eyes and she smiled secretly,
"You'll see tomorrow night."
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HEY GUYS! Fast update huh? Thank god for three-day weekends! (Throws confetti around) Hope you guys liked this chapter!
- Miss Artemis