To Kagome105: Of course I'll read your story. Just tell me when you write it. And, for reviewing each chapter separately, you get a plate of cookies! (Hands out cookies)
To Karvian: (shrugs) you may be right, I'm an atheist, I wouldn't know.
To Unfair: Yeah, it is kinda unfair that Inuyasha gets tessaiga and Sesshoumaru gets nothing, but on the other hand, that energy whip thing beats the crap out of 'sankon tessau' any day.
Note: It has recently come to my attention that there is no punctuation in the previous chapters. I didn't know about this and am deeply sorry, I'll try to fix it, however, being alerted to the situation would have been nice.
Jaken's mother must have gotten more than her husband.
"Come on, let's get out of here before they find us."
"What? Can't we fight them? We could kick some serious ass, no problem."
"We can, that doesn't mean we should. What good thing could come from
fighting these people? We fight them off, they leave, they come back
with more. Eventually someone will get killed, and that's more
attention than I want to draw to ourselves."
"…Fine. Rin, get Jaken."
"What? Get me?"
Rin picked Jaken up and ran. Inu no Taisho grabbed Inuyasha and
followed. Sesshoumaru held back, wanting to see exactly how far he
could go against these people, but his father's words rang true.
Besides, he had another idea. He jumped up into a tree, clearing the
top branches easily. From this vantage he watched his father and
friends move toward the other edge of the forest, where their house
was. The people in the clearing spread out, searching. It was only a
matter of time before one of them looked up. Sighing, Sesshoumaru
jumped to the next tree, and the next. It was slow at first, but no
slower than walking. After a minute he picked up a rhythm, and caught
up to the others. It was weird, being so high up. If he had tried this
the week before he probably would have been killed but now it seemed as
natural as walking.
He dropped down beside Rin, scaring her out of her wits.
"Where'd you come from?"
"Up there." Sesshoumaru pointed to the trees, which were thinning as they got into more populated areas.
"You know what? I'm not even gonna ask."
As soon as they got back to the house, Jaken holed up in Sesshoumaru's
room, keeping the lights out. Rin went to try to talk some sense into
him. Inuyasha, who was completely unfazed by any of this, went into the
living room to play with his legos some more, leaving Sesshoumaru to
deal with his unhappy stepmother.
"You shouldn't have taken your brother. I don't want him learning to climb out windows. "
"Sorry Izayoi. I figured you'd see his ears and freak."
"Freak? No way. They're cute. Like puppy ears."
"Hey, where'd Dad go?"
"Huh? I dunno. He was here a minute ago."
At this point Inuyasha came bounding out of the living room.
"Mommy, look what I can do!"
He then proceeded to do his trick with the tessaiga."
"Oh, that's where that thing got to."
"You know about that weird sword?"
"Kind of. Your father calls it the fang."
"A fang's like this," Inuyasha said, grinning to show his lengthened canines.
"You're so smart. You're right. Your father had one of his fangs made into that sword."
"Wait, this is one of his teeth? How is that even possible?"
"… that's a good question."
Izayoi knew about the sword. Her husband had said he created to protect
her, but she had her own sneaking suspicions about what had happened
the night Inu no Taisho went out drinking with Totosai. She kept these
to herself, however.
"So why can't anyone but Inuyasha touch it?"
"I can touch it. I must have picked it up a hundred times off the floor of his bedroom."
"I can't touch it, Jaken either. Look, I'll show you."
"No! it's my sword!"
"Hand it over, brat."
"Sesshoumaru, don't call your brother a brat. Inuyasha, share your toys."
"Fine," both boys grumbled. Inuyasha handed the sword over to
Sesshoumaru, who held it for five seconds before his hand caught on
fire again. He would have held it longer, just to see how long he could
last, but Inu no Taisho came in and told him to stop being stupid and
drop it.
"And where have you been?"
"Out making sure none of the guys after us knew where we lived, it
would be bad if they came and burned our house down wouldn't it?"
"They wouldn't do that, Dad."
"Heh. And what makes YOU the expert? How many mobs have you fought off, kiddo?"
"How many have you, Daddy?"
"More than you'll ever have to. Don't worry. We're safe here. On the
other hand, Jaken might be rooming with you for a while, Sess. His
parents look like they're about to lynch somebody."
"But you said they weren't his parents."
"They're not. But they think they are." Inu no Taisho laughed, a little
scarily. "The best I can bet it's one of those weird switched-at-birth
thing, in which case somewhere there's two parents scratching their
heads and wondering why they've still got a human kid."
"Oh, great," Jaken whined from Sesshoumaru's room.
"Hey if you can hear us you might as well come out and quit griping."
"Like hell!"
"I could come and get you if you want!"
"Okay, okay, geez, I'm coming!"
Jaken dragged his feet on the way out of Sesshoumaru's room. Rin walked
carefully behind him, like she thought a bomb was about to go off. She
probably wasn't wrong, from the look on Jaken's face.
"Oh, good," Inu no Taisho said. "I thought you were gonna be something really ugly from all you were going on."
"Sarcasm not appreciated," Jaken snapped.
"Who's being sarcastic?"
"You're just making fun of meee!"
"Wait until you see some of the creatures in the Sengoku Jidai, you'll get over yourself real quick."
"Aw, man…"
Inu no Taisho took Izayoi aside, and whispered a few words to her. She
looked at him, then at the assortment of teenagers in the room, and
then nodded and hurried off. For once, no one asked what was going on.
"So what do we do now?"
"It's up to you. Rin, you may want to go home. There's going to be,
like I said, some strange things going on around the world, your
parents will probably feel better knowing where you are. However,
kindly don't repeat any of the things I have told you, and if anybody
comes by looking for us-"
"I never saw you."
"Bingo."
Rin nodded, looked wistfully at Jaken, and left.
"Sesshoumaru, why don't you try to find Jaken something better than that to wear?"
"Like what?"
"Well, Inu's clothes might fit him…"
"Oh great-" Jaken started, but Inu no Taisho was starting to give him cold looks, so he shut up.
"Come on, we should probably be able to find you a nice Barney shirt."
Sesshoumaru said, trying not to sound like he was kidding.
In actuality, Jaken was a bit smaller than Inuyasha, so even the white
shirt and tan pants they found for him were baggy. He tried not to
complain, to give him credit.
When the two of them came back downstairs, Inuyasha was in the kitchen,
'helping' his mother make sandwiches. Inu no Taisho was watching the
news, a hint of amusement on his face. Sesshoumaru dropped onto the
couch next to him, staring at the screen. On it, a worried newscaster
was saying something about martians.
"Somebody else is trying to conquer Earth," Inu no Taisho said.
"Isn't that bad?"
"Nah. It's just one of those kitsunes with their illusions. Most likely
someone will figure it out within the hour, and the kid's parents will
ground him and all shall return to normal."
"Anything else of interest?"
"Well, a lot of people in San Francisco are being possessed, but
everyone thinks it's just a new cult. And a family of water sprites are
trying to get from Cuba to the US, but the Coast Guard's keeping them
back pretty well."
"-in other news, airlines all over the world are scratching their heads at the surge of tickets to Tokyo, all of which one-way."
"That related at all?"
"That's where the well is, to the Sengoku Jidai."
"Well? We go through a well?"
"Yup. What'd you expect? A gate with customs?"
"Well, no, I just didn't think about it."
The television switched from the newscaster to an image of a fallen
building. There were close ups of people crying, and not many solid
facts.
"That's terrible…"
"It's inevitable. People die, people are killed. It's the way of life."
Sesshoumaru looked sideways at his father, who was much calmer than he
should have been watching the destruction on the television.
"But… a demon that powerful… should we be worried?"
Inu no Taisho turned to his son, a look of disbelief on his face.
"That's nothing, a minor demon dangerous only to humans. You and I,
son, are dai youkai, greater demons. We have nothing to fear as long as
we are able to fight. But just because you can kill someone doesn't
mean it's okay to. It took me most of my life to learn that, and that's
why I'm telling you. Remember it."
"Lunch!" Izayoi called from the kitchen.
"All right, food!"
Inu no Taisho jumped over the back of the couch, leaving his son to wonder how he switched gears so fast.
Sorry for the wait, I actually has social contact with a friend today, leaving me little time to write.
Also, I was actually reading some fan fiction today, and noticed
something that kinda bugged me,. Maybe I'm too used to dealing with the
super-intellectuals in the JTHM section, but I think this should apply.
There is a TIME AND PLACE to use chat-script (r, u, b4, etc) and a time
to use are, you, and before. For fan fiction, please, take an extra
second and make yourself not look stupid, all right?
Fi uoy weiver uoy teg ykcop! Mmmmmm, ykcop.