I know there's a process to this, and the shorter I make chapters the more often I get to update and the more reviews I get, however, I'm too damn impatient for my own good. This would explain the reason I've updated three times in two days.
Anyway, you read these for the stories not the A/Ns so here we go.
(Disclaimer: The amount of nothing that I own would be funny if it weren't so appalling)
Saturday morning Sesshoumaru was awakened in the usual way: His little half-brother taking a flying leap onto his bed.
"BANZAIIIII!"
"Aaaagh! Get off me, Brat!"
Sesshoumaru picked up the kid and proceeded to give him a noogie.
"Ah! Geddoff me! MOOOOM!"
"HE STARTED IT!"
"I DID NOT! You meanie!"
That's when Sesshoumaru saw the red marks on his arms and remembered
all that had happened the night before. He would just have to take Inu
out and avoid his parents until he figured out what was going on. Or
until this stuff washed off, whichever came first.
No problem.
"Oh, good, you're up," his mother yelled from the kitchen. "See if you
can get your brother to take those ears off. He won't let me near them!"
Sesshoumaru looked warily at the ears which, the night before, has been
cheap plastic knock-offs. Now, they had replaced his real ears. They
were covered in short white fur, twitching slightly… and kinda
cute. He took advantage of the choke hold he had on his half-
brother to poke one of them, and was rewarded with another
shriek. Sesshoumaru noted with some interest that Inuyasha was growing
fangs. He ran his tongue over his own teeth to find that he was doing
the same.
Well that's new.
"Okay, Inuyasha, time to go."
Using the system he had perfected in the years since the screen on his
room had been busted, Sesshoumaru opened his window, stared hard at the
tree branches outside it, and then jumped out the window, falling three
feet to the ground.
"Inuyasha, come on."
"I'm just gonna go tell mommy we're leaving, K?" Inuyasha said, leaning out the door.
"No! I mean, uh, we're playing ninjas okay? We have to be quiet. Shh."
"Shh," Inuyasha echoed. He was wearing the red kimono again, complete
with the sword. Sesshoumaru noted with a bit of annoyance that he had
fallen asleep in his clothes.
At least I left the boa on the bed, he thought as Inuyasha grabbed the boa and climbed out the window with it.
"Leave that here, Inu. I feel dumb enough going around in this."
"I like it. It smells nice."
Sesshoumaru had to admit he had a point there. The boa smelled like Rin.
As he located that smell, he started finding others as well. The grass,
the tree next to his window, his little brother, even he had his own
scent.
He looked around. The colors around his seemed a bit duller. But the shapes were sharper.
"What's a-c-t-u-a-l-l-y spell?"
"Actually. Why, where'd you see it?"
"Over there." Inuyasha pointed to their front door, where a newspaper
was sitting. Sesshoumaru realized he could make out what it said.
"I'm just gonna mark this down as Another Weird Thing and keep moving. Inuyasha, want to go to the fort?"
"Yeah!"
The fort was an old hunting shed in the woods behind their house. It
had once been used to hide hunters from their prey, but the boys had
fixed it up one summer, and now hung out there often. Usually Jaken and
Sesshoumaru put up a strict 'no one under ten allowed ever' rule, so it
was a treat when Inuyasha got to come in.
"There's somebody here already, Sesshy."
"I know."
He did. He could hear someone moving inside and smell something slightly but not entirely unlike feet.
"You stay here."
Sesshoumaru slowly walked up to the door. The place was giving him the
willies. It smelled of gunpowder and blood. The smell was so strong he
couldn't believe he'd never picked it up until now. He knocked on the
wooden door.
"Jaken? That you?"
"Go away, man. Leave me alone."
"What's wrong with you? Look, Inuyasha and I've got serious problems and nowhere else to go, so open the door."
"No."
"I'll break the door down."
He could do it, too. He felt reasonably assured of that.
"Shut up, you will not."
"Fine. I won't. But look, I've got to get inside somewhere and I can't
go home. You know all that stupid makeup? Jaken, I can't get it to come
off!"
"Yours neither?"
The door swung open.
"Jesus christ"
"Jaken, you're really short today," Inuyasha said, appearing on
Sesshoumaru's shoulder. He would have laughed if Inuyasha wasn't right.
His friend leveled out at about two feet tall. His skin was the same
green he had painted it the night before, but like Sesshoumaru's
makeup, it no longer looked like paint but instead was the color of his
skin.
"Not just on my face, either. It's all over my body. I haven't even
been home, my mom would freak out and my Dad would probably RAID me."
Inuyasha laughed.
"Shut up, twerp."
"What about Rin? Is she okay? Did this happen to everyone who went? Maybe there was some kind of… toxicy…thing or something."
"Sesshy-"
"Quiet. You're only here so Mom doesn't see you. You don't get to talk."
"But Sesshy, Rin isn't-"
"Look, we don't want to hear about how you're a magic youkai, okay? I
look like a toad, Sesshoumaru looks like a faggot, and we're in
imminent danger of staying this way forever."
"I've got dog ears."
"Good for you."
"No, he's serious. Those things are melded with his head."
"Sesshoumaru… you're so lucky, man."
"WHAT?"
"Two things attract chicks, kids, and cute dogs. You've got two in one here."
"You're a freaking riot, Jaken."
"Who's kidding?"
"FOCUS!"
Sesshoumaru would have knocked him over the head but he felt a bit stupid hitting someone a third of his height.
"There's gotta be some reason for all of this happening. I feel like..
I dunno, Spiderman or something. I woke up this morning being able to
tell the difference between my scent and my brothers. I can read
newsprint from fifteen feet away. Last time I jumped I hit fifty feet
in the air, and I feel like I can rip a phone book in half. "
"I can do this!" Inuyasha said, jumping to the ground in front of
Jaken. He wiggled the ears back and forth. Jaken had to look up to see
them.
"Great! You guys are the Superboys and I'm just short. And green."
"Really? That sucks."
"You're telling me," Jaken said sarcastically.
"So back to the original question."
"Rin's fine. I think. After you guys left we went back into the stadium
and danced for a while. At three AM the place shut down, I guess the
health department showed up or something, anyway, I walked Rin home and
that's when I started dropping inches. She was fine, as of three thirty
when I left her house." He looked up at Sesshoumaru. "Does my head look
rounder to you? I think it's getting rounder. I can't decide whether or
not I wish there was a mirror in here…"
"You look fine, " Sesshoumaru lied. Actually, Jaken's head did look round, except where he looked like he was developing a beak.
"Liar. He does not," Inuyasha said.
"That wasn't the original question, you know."
"Oh? What was?"
"How we got… like this. What's happening."
"Who knows?"
"I do."
"Let me guess. We're magic youkai, right?"
"You guys are. Not me. Mom says I'm only a hanyou, but she said not to tell anybody."
"Hanyou… that means…"
"Half- youkai."
"Oh yeah."
"So let me get this straight. According to… who? Your mom? Dad's a youkai, which would make your mom a human."
"I believe that part," Jaken piped up.
"Shut up, Jaken. So that would mean my mom was a youkai, too, right?"
"I dunno. But she said you were a youkai, and dad was a youkai, and I was a hanyou."
"And that means what to me?" Jaken asked.
"But that doesn't explain why all this stuff came out of nowhere last
night. And it doesn't explain why this damn makeup won't come off."
"And it doesn't mean anything to ME!"
"Shut up, Jaken. We'll deal with you later, seeing as we have no leads at all."
"Hey Sesshy, look what I can do!"
Inuyasha, who'd been messing with his sword this whole time, now pushed
it into the sheath, and then pulled it out again rather dramatically.
"Aww, man, it's not working!"
"Will you quit messing with that?" Jaken grouched. "Gimme it, I'll show you how to make it fly."
He reached for the sword, then jumped back, holding his hand.
"Oww! It shocked me!"
"Don't be stupid. It's just static electricity."
"Oh yeah? You touch it!"
"Inuyasha, could I see that for a second?"
"No! It's mine."
"I'll give it right back."
Sesshoumaru grabbed the sword's handle, pulling it out of the sheath.
It's not shocking me. It's not. It's not. It's NOT.
"Dude… you're on fire."
Sesshoumaru dropped the sword and stared at his hand. It was alight
with blue flames. Sesshoumaru dimly wondered why it didn't hurt more
than it did.
"See! I told you not to touch it!"
"It's my sword, Sesshy. Don't touch it."
"Fine by me, Brat. Where'd you even get that sword, anyway?"
"Dad gave it to me. The week before Halloween. That was the time he fell off that ladder and knocked his tooth out, remember?"
"I didn't know your dad was missing-"
"Shh! I smell somebody."
"Wasn't me."
"Oh, shut up. Never mind, it's just Rin."
"She's not even here, man."
"Here you guys are!"
Sesshoumaru stuck his head out the door. Rin was standing a few yards away, making her way toward the old building.
"Sesshy, your mom's looking for you. She said you might be here. Have you been out here all night? Is Jaken here?"
"Jaken's here. He might not let you in though."
"Like hell I will!"
"See?" Sesshoumaru walked outside, following Inuyasha, she bolted out the door at the mention of Rin's name.
"Hi Rin! Are you coming to play too?"
"Sure! These little ears of yours just keep getting cuter."
"Look what I can do!"
Inuyasha twitched them back and forth.
"They're real? That's so AWESOME!"
Rin picked Inuyasha up and hugged him. Sesshoumaru looked back at Jaken, who gave him an I Told You So look.
"Hey, Rin, I've still got this boa thing of yours," he said, holding it out to her.
"Nah, you keep it. It looks good on you." Sesshoumaru blushed, hiding it in the boa.
"Didn't you get that makeup off? It looks good for a concert, but you don't wanna be going around like that all day."
"It won't come off," Inuyasha said. "Sesshoumaru can't get his makeup off and Jaken's turned into a troll and I'm super dog!"
When Rin was done laughing and Jaken was done threatening Inuyasha and
Sesshoumaru was done making sure the stripe on his left arm was REALLY
on there well, Inuyasha had figured out how to work his little sword
trick again.
"Look at this! Look what I can do!" he yelled. Again, he pulled the
sword dramatically out of the sheath, but this time it was different.
This time the sword shot off yellow sparks. When it was all the way
out, Rin gasped.
"How can you even lift that?"
The sword was almost Inuyasha's full height, and made of metal.
'That's really sweet." Sesshoumaru said.
"Well well. It looks like you've finally found the secret to the tessaiga."
Who is speaking? YOU DON'T KNOW!
Hahahahaaaaa.
It seems that the balance of power has shifted in my favor.
(Look at the sparkly purple button! PRESS IT!)
