I'm gonna write some more just because my house is empty and I have little else to do.
To Kitsune Ryune: I'm not sure what kind of concert. Probably something like Beck. (Odelay!) As for the youkai... you'll have to wait and see. It is an AU fic though.
This is in America, too, just because I'm a culture retard.
Disclaimer: I continue to own nothing.
Sesshoumaru had to pedal slowly to keep his pants from falling into the
gears of his bike. It didn't help that Inuyasha was sitting on the back
of the seat.
"Faster Sesshy! I can run faster than this!"
"Oh yeah, why don't you show me, Brat?"
"Don't call me Brat! Mom says you're not allowed to call me brat!"
"Well, don't call me Sesshy."
"Go faaaaster! Sess sho-mru!"
The stadium was only a block away. Actually, it wasn't an actual
stadium, just a stage and a fenced-off area. Sesshoumaru could see
Jaken and Rin waiting near the gate. Jaken was saying something to Rin,
and she was listening intently. Jaken had most of his face covered in
green face paint, and Rin was wearing a yellow and orange shirt with a
matching skirt. Her hair was pulled into a pigtail on one side and left
down on the other. She had a big fluffy boa wrapped around her waist.
Sesshoumaru pulled the brake handles hard, spraying gravel as he pulled up next to them.
"You brought the brat?" Jaken said incredulously.
"Oooh! He's so cute! I love your ears," Rin said, tweaking them.
"Hey, lemme go! I'm a ninja!"
"You look more like a youkai with that hair," Jaken said.
"This is your brother?"
"Half-brother."
"Yeah, well he can't come in," Jaken said. Sesshoumaru glared at him.
"Why not?"
"One, he'll get killed. Somebody will step on him."
"Nobody'll step on me!"
"Quiet, twerp."
"And two, there's four of us and only three tickets."
"No problem," Rin said. "Well just take him over the fence. Little kids
can run wherever they want, people just assume their parents are inside
already."
"We can do that. there's a whole open section of fence by the parking lot, nobody's watching."
"This sounds like I'm being bad, Sesshy."
"No, it's not, don't worry about it."
"Yeah, big brother Sesshy wouldn't tell you to do anything wrong, would he?" Jaken said, laughing. Rin giggled.
"Shut up, Jaken."
"Aw, what's wrong Sesshy?"
"DON'T CALL ME SESSHY!"
Jaken and Rin took their tickets and went in. A few minutes later they met Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha by the fence.
"I can't get him over this, guys," Sesshoumaru said, looking at the
formidable fence. "There's barbed wire up there and everything. If he
falls he'll kill himself, and my parents will kill me."
"I can get through this." Inuyasha said, pulling out the plastic sword.
"How? You gonna cut right through it? Yeah, ri-"
Sesshoumaru stared at Inuyasha, who was now on the other side of the fence.
"How the hell did you do that?"
"Youkai secret."
"You're not a youkai! You just look like on cuz of your ears. Now tell me how you got over this fence."
"Not telling."
"Fine, I'm going around. Meet you guys right here?"
"Yeah."
Five minutes later they met up again, this time all on the same side of the fence.
All right! See, Sesshoumaru, I told you this wouldn't be so bad."
"Yeah, I guess. Inuyasha, stay close to me, okay? Place is full of weirdos..."
"Yeah, like we look totally normal ourselves," Rin said, looking at the
stage where the band was getting ready to do their first song. "Hey
Sesshy, wanna dance?"
".. uh, sure. Jaken, watch Inu, k?"
Jaken's reply was lost in the sound of the mikes squealing. A few
seconds later, the whole stadium was full of the sound of music.
Sesshoumaru danced with Rin, actually losing her a few times when
strangers pushed between them. Finally they went to the edge to sit
down for a minute.
"Hey, I'm gonna go get some drinks. You want anything?"
"Sure."
Rin wandered off into the crown in the vague direction of the
concessions. Sesshoumaru looked around for Jaken or Inuyasha, but
didn't see them anywhere. It worried him slightly. Finally he found the
place where he had left them, and they weren't there. He poked the
shoulder of someone dancing nearby.
"Hey, you seen a little kid around here anywhere? Dressed totally in red?"
The guy thought for a second. Sesshoumaru saw that he had blue spikes going down his cheeks.
"Nope. Sorry. Hey, you wanna dance?"
"Aren't you a guy?"
"Yeah, so?"
"... no thanks."
Sesshoumaru moved back into the crowd, looking everywhere for Inuyasha.
"Darnit, he's gotta be around here somewhere-"
That's when Rin shrieked. Sesshoumaru turned around, then did a full
360 as he followed her gaze... to the lights above the stage. More
accurately, the little red- clad figure climbing over them.
"No way... I thought that only happened in movies."
Someone tapped his shoulder. It was the guy with the blue spikes.
"Hey, I think I found that kid," he said, pointing up at the lights.
"Yeah, no shit."
He saw Jaken standing by the bottom of the supports, staring up at the little kid. He ran over, and whacked him over the head.
"Stupid! I said watch him for ten minutes! He's gonna freaking kill himself! How the hell did you let him get up there?"
"It's not my fault! He ran off, I just spotted him a second ago! And you guys were gone for like two hours!"
Sesshoumaru stared at his half-brother, who was now nearing the center of the structure.
"INUYASHA! GOT THE HELL DOWN HERE!" He screamed. "Will that thing even hold him?"
"Shit, Sesshoumaru," Rin said, appearing next to him. 'That's not gonna hold."
Inuyasha turned to look back at his half-brother, and waved. Several
things happened at once. The light fixtures swerved to look at a
different part of the stage, the supports buckled, and Inuyasha fell.
He grabbed onto the support with one hand, but wouldn't let go of his
sword with the other.
"SESSHY!"
Sesshoumaru ran toward the middle of the stage, pushing the crowd out of the way. Somehow none of them had noticed anything.
"How can they not see?" Sesshoumaru thought. Everything was coming in a
bit foggily. "My brother's about to die, how is the world going on?"
Inuyasha was holding on by four fingers. Three. Two.
He fell.
Sesshoumaru jumped.
Even as he jumped he realized he couldn't actually be doing what he was
doing. This was a hallucination brought on by guilt. There's no way to
save him, Sesshoumaru thought, as he grabbed his half-brother out of
the air. This isn't happening. Inuyasha was still screaming. He
screamed as Sesshoumaru fell twenty feet to the ground, landing on his
feet. He screamed as the boy straightened up, staring at the child in
his arms as if he'd never seen one before. He screamed as Rin and Jaken
made their way out of the crowd and stood next to their friend. And
then he stopped.
He looked at the ground. He looked at Sesshoumaru.
"Youkai secret," he said.
"We gotta get out of here," Jaken said, but Sesshoumaru was already
moving. The four of them threaded their way through the crowd, who were
to busy trying to figure out who feel and who saved him that they
forgot to look around them. When he figured he was far enough away from
the people, Sesshoumaru stopped.
"What …. The hell…. Just happened?" Jaken panted.
"Ask the kid, he seems to know," Rin told him. "Inuyasha, is that the same thing that let you get through the fence?"
"Nope," said Inuyasha sleepily. He put his head on Sesshoumaru's
shoulder. "Somethin diffrn't. I'm sleepy, Sesshy, can we go home?"
"Not till you spill. What's going on?"
"It's Daddy. He's youkai so you're youkai, and me too. Please, Sesshy, it's cold, I want to go home."
"It's not cold."
"Take this," Rin said, untying the boa and wrapping it around Sesshoumaru's shoulder. Inuyasha buried his face in the fluff.
"Mmm… smells good."
"What are you talking about? It doesn't smell like anything."
But it did. It smelled like strawberries, and … Rin.
What the hell?
"Inuyasha, talk to me, this is really important. Remember when you
found that mouse in the toilet? This is more important than that."
Inuyasha giggled.
"That was fun."
"Yeah it was craploads of fun, but right now I need you to tell me why the hell I can jump fifty feet in the air."
"Cuz of Daddy."
"Great. We're getting nothing out of him, he still thinks he's a youkai. Way to go Rin."
"Hey, how was I supposed to know?"
"When did it get to be morning?" Jaken asked, looking at his watch.
"It's one in the morning, this is the latest I've ever been out."
"Shit! I gotta get home! Oh, shit, I hope my parents aren't home yet."
"You said a bad word, Sesshy."
"Byeguysseeyoumonday!"
Sesshoumaru ran off to find his bike, leaving Rin and Jaken to stare questioningly at each other.
"Concert's not over," Jaken said.
"Wanna dance?"
"Yes."
"I wanna go to sleep, Sesshy."
"You can, but first I've gotta get this stuff out of your hair, okay? If Mom sees it she'll go into conniptions."
"What's a con -nip- shin?"
"Remember what Mom did when you took the mouse from the toilet to the kitchen?"
"Yes."
"That's a conniption."
"Oh. That's bad."
"Got that right."
Sesshoumaru put his bike in the garage, quietly saying a prayer of
thanks that his parents weren't home yet. He turned on the warm water
in the bathroom, and got Inuyasha's pajamas out of his room.
"Okay, we're gonna wash this stuff out real quick and then you can go to sleep."
Of course, life is never that simple. Given the choice between playing in the water and going to bed… Inuyasha chose water.
"Look, Sesshy! I'm a sub!"
He stuck his head under the water, turning the pristine liquid a dull
brown color. Sesshoumaru poured shampoo into the water, figuring
Inuyasha would take care of the rest on his own. He did.
"Quit splashing so much! This water'll probably stain the walls… CUT IT OUT!"
"Wheeeee! I'm a SUBMARINE!"
Sesshoumaru dumped a bucket of the water over Inuyasha's hair.
"Oh, you dope. You forgot to take off these ears."
They didn't come off.
"What the hell…?"
"You're saying a lot of bad words today Sesshy."
Sesshoumaru pushed Inuyasha's white hair out of the way, trying to find
the blue plastic band that held the ears on. It was nowhere to be
found. The kid's human ears were gone, too.
"Hee, lemmy ears go, Sesshy, that tickles."
"Okay. I'm not even going to ask."
The he saw the red stripes on his arms and remembered the makeup on his
face. He get a washcloth off the rack and tried to wipe the blue moon
off. It didn't come off. It didn't even dull. Panicking, he tried the
stripes. They didn't lighten either.
He closely examined the red stripes on his arm. They didn't look like paint. They looked like they were part of his skin.
"Okay, Inu, time to get out. Our only hope is to pretend we've been home all night. I have to get you into bed."
"I don't wanna go to bed."
"Well that's just too bad," Sesshoumaru said, pulling the plug. He got
the blow dryer out and prepared for an ordeal. To make along story
short, he got one. After another half an hour, he had Inuyasha tucked
(tied, more like) into bed, with promises not to say a word to their
parents about what they had done.
He dropped into his own bed, prepared for a long night of
sleeplessness. However, when his parents came quietly in the door five
minutes later, he was already asleep.
This chapter is dedicated to Invader Iza, for being the second person to review!
If you want a chappie dedicated to you… You know what to do.
