Authoress' note: Warning, a teensy weensy bit of poking fun at Kagome follows. Sorry Kagome fans, but it's what I do best.(evil wicked laugh).
Original Character Interview.
by artisanrox
CHAPTER 4. JACKPOT.
Bankotsu leaned against the wall behind him again, and briefly discussed with his men how he planned to throw a huge staff party at the completion of the work he was involved in. In the middle of more jokes and stories, the door suddenly slid open. All seven men went silent as a girl's head peeked in through the door.
The girl stepped inside, and they could see she had sort of messy looking bangs in the front of her head, and had long, black hair in back of it. She was dressed really oddly, but she was pretty. She had a white top with a green collar, with a goofy looking little red scarf, and a reeeally short green skirt. "Inuyasha?" she peeped out, her head flitting back and forth, taking in each of the seven men in turn. "Oh Inuyaaashaaa!" she said again, a little louder.
The girl's eyes settled on Bankotsu. She waved to him. "Oh! You know who Inuyasha is! Have you seen Inuyaaashaaa?" Bankotsu was too shocked to speak, so he just cocked an eyebrow and turned his head slightly from side to side. The girl let out a little sigh in response. "Darn," she said. "Oh my, I'll just have to keep looking for him." And with a final call of "Inuyaaashaaa!" she went outside again and shut the door.
Renkotsu looked the door wide eyed. This was indeed turning out to be a strange day for the Band of Seven. "Well. That was quite-" he began, and blinked as he tried to search for the correct word, "-unexpected."
Jakotsu began mouthing the words the female intruder said, soundlessly mocking her. He finally said something out loud to Ginkotsu about how that woman gets to run all around town calling for Inuyaaashaaa! and he doesn't, damn her! Ginkotsu, ever the good listener, just put up with Jakotsu's jealous venting tirade about how minor characters, especially the really neat minor characters, never get to have any real fun.
The rest of the men mumbled stuff to Bankotsu about not even thinking about it, and to not go there. Bankotsu rolled his eyes and told them not to worry. He tiredly propped his head up with a hand, his elbow resting on one of his folded legs, the free hand on the other. He looked out from underneath his eyebrows. It was getting harder to stay positive about this.
A knock at the door sounded again and with a "Gesh!", Ginkotsu got up. He slid open the door.
A tiny, big-haired, giggly young girl in an obnoxiously flowered yukata burst through the door, almost knocking over Ginkotsu with her gigantic boobs. Before Renkotsu could get a word in edgewise, she ran right through the men, and, upon seeing the darkly handsome Bankotsu, took a flying leap at him. Bankotsu let out a loud "Ugh!" as he was forcefully knocked into the wall in back of him. When the dustcloud they made cleared, it was clear the girl made sure she ended up laying on top of him.
"He he heee! My kind of girl!" Mukotsu confided to Kyoukotsu, rubbing his hands together. Jakotsu was grossed out already. And he found her yukata to be quite ugly compared to his own.
By this time, Suikotsu didn't give a flying crap whether Jakotsu was in the room or not. He had already lost, so it wasn't worth a damn thinking about it anymore.
The interviewee put her heavily painted face right in front of Bankotsu's. "Hi there, handsome! My name's Rini!" She passionately kissed him on the lips, ran her hands through his hair, and pressed her boobs into him. Bankotsu struggled weakly against the kiss. After quite a while, she pulled away. "So...did I get the job?" she breathed. Before he could answer, she was kissing him fully on the mouth again, his face turning redder and redder as he fidgeted and growled in annoyance. He broke away, trying to fight her off gently between kisses. He managed to say, "Guys...get...her..off me..."
She briefly stopped kissing him for a moment, then pressed into him harder and whispered into his ear. "Let's undo that unbearably sexy braid of yours! Hee hee!" She brought her hands around to his back and Bankotsu managed to break his face away long enough to yell "N...NO!" loudly, struggling to catch his breath.
Mukotsu looked at the two makeshift bouncers, Kyoukotsu and Ginkotsu, and sadly asked them, "Do you really have to ...?"
"Gesh," plainly answered Ginkotsu.
The two men practically had to rip Rini off their leader. She giggled and laughed as she was carried out the door and dropped outside in front of it. "If you can give me a nice benefits package for working with you, you'll get one baaack!" she singsonged as Kyoukotsu slammed the door in her face.
Inside, Bankotsu began wiping the lipstick and drool off his face, and smoothing himself over again. "She touched my hair! I hate when people touch my hair without asking!"
Jakotsu, by this time, almost passed out in disgust. "I can't take anymore! I'm going to buy some vegetables at the market for us!" He got up and hurriedly headed for the front door. Everyone's eyes were on him as he opened the door, went through it, and with a "Forgive me, oo-aniki!", shut it.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Suikotsu yelped out. Both he and Mukotsu reached into their shirts for the same reason. Suikotsu hurried over to where Bankotsu was seated, and plopped a little bag full of coins in front of him. "You SUCK!" Suikotsu bellowed. Mukotsu followed after him, whimpering. Dejected, Mukotsu plopped his bag of money in front of the young man, and headed toward the door. He mentioned something about helping Jakotsu pick out some vegetables.
"You're fulla crap!" Suikotsu said, turning his head backwards to face him. "You're just goin' to the brothel again!"
Mukotsu rolled his eyes, sighed, and left through the door. Yeah, that's exactly where he was headed.
After finally getting himself together again, Bankotsu remembered their little gambling game and smirked wickedly at Suikotsu as he turned around again. The young leader scooped up their money and put it into his shirt. "Better luck next time," he quietly laughed. He turned toward Renkotsu and exhaustedly said, "That's three already with no luck. I think I've got a headache now."
A knock sounded at the door again. Everyone went back to their places, and Bankotsu sighed, sitting again cross-legged on the floor, one hand on one of his legs. The other arm had an elbow on his leg, with a hand rubbing his forehead. A pained expression could be seen underneath his long black bangs. "Last one," he whispered to himself gratefully.