Disclaimer: Okay, I admit it…I don't own Inuyasha. However…someday, he will be mine! MINE, I tell ya!

Eh, heh…wow. It's been a while. School has been dragging me down, but I think I'm back on track! How long's it been since I updated…? Please forgive me!

Chapter 8 … The Permanent Marker Mishap!

"I don't want to grow up! I'm a Toys R Us Kid…"

CONK! "Hey! Cheerful Sesshomaru! Do me a favor and shut the hell up!"

Angry Inuyasha glared, his ears steaming.

Kagome sighed. "Angry Inuyasha, be nice to your older brother."

"Like hell I will!"

The other six Inuyashas appeared to be having no trouble in getting along with Sesshomarus' multiple personalities, though. In fact, they loved each other. It's hard to believe, yes, but so is every other element of this story.

While angry Inuyasha was brutally being beaten down with a fresh bar of soup—I mean, soap—in his mouth, cheerful Sesshomaru began singing again. (He has a very sexy voice, even when childish.) "The price, service, and selection! Come on down to downtown Ford! No games or gimmicks, just satisfa—"

"I think that's enough radio advertisements for you," Kagome sighed as she plucked the unnoticeable earphones out of cheerful Sesshomaru's ears.

She took her portable CD player and proceeded to tuck it away in a place she believed none of her wild traveling companions would find it. However, Shipponoticed her doing this.

"Hey, Kagome. Whatcha doin'?" he asked.

He peered into the bag Kagome was cramming her valued item in. He poked around curiously.

"I'm, uh—" Kagome really wasn't in the mood to explain anything. "I'm getting this out."

She randomly selected something from the bag. Her face lit up when she saw what she had pulled out, thankful that it wasn't something that could later become disastrous. (Oh, I love irony.)

"This!" she exclaimed, holding up a permanent black marker. "It's called a permanent marker."

Shippo was puzzled. "A per-min-ett mark-er?"

Kagome smiled. "Yep. It's kinda like those crayons I gave you a while back. Remember those?"—Shippo nodded—"Well, this is like that but bigger and a bit different."

"Ooo! Can I have it?"

Kagome considered and shrugged. "Ah, sure. Go ahead."

Shippo grabbed the marker and ran off with it. Kagome sat down and relaxed. Since the Sesshomarus had come by, things had seemed to get a bit peaceful. It was as if the brothers "canceled out" each other's personalities. Whatever it was, it certainly worked for Kagome.

"This is the life…" Kagome sighed happily as she lay down under a tree's cool shade. "Yeppers, nothing's gonna go wrong now. It's just a calm, relaxing day with nothing b—"

"Kagome! What're you doing? Get up!"

Kagome sat bolt upright, surprised. "Wha—huh?"

Normal Inuyasha stood over her. He looked like he was in a hurry. "I smell that foul demon again. Roku is nearby. C'mon!"

Kagome was too tired and relaxed. She didn't want to go anywhere. She felt like being lazy. "It's probably just the smell of cheerful Inuyasha…he keeps getting his way out of taking his bath…" she muttered.

Normal Inuyasha pulled Kagome up. "Yeah, that smells pretty foul, too. But enough with the dumb jokes! Let's get serious!"

He motioned Kagome to get on his back. She obeyed, pulling out her bow and arrow. Normal Inuyasha led her to the others, which wasn't hard since there were so many of them. Wait…Kagome recounted everybody. That was odd; they were missing eight people. But who…?

"Hey!" Kagome shouted. "Where are the Sesshomarus, Jaken, and Rin?"

Crybaby Inuyasha answered back, tears welling up in his eyelids. "T-they decided to l-l-leave us. It was so-so sad! Wah!"

"Bummer," perverted Inuyasha said with a sigh. "Perverted Sesshomaru was really giving me some nice tips on womanizing."

"Aargh, who cares about that damn Sesshomaru! Roku is so close now I can almost—"

"See me?" A cool voice finished.

Roku stood before the group in all his…um, demonliness. He was wearing an armor today, probably stolen off of some weak human army.

"Roku!" Angry Inuyasha leapt to challenge the demon. "Face me! Now!"

"Wah! No! Fighting isn't right! Well, unless there's chocolate involved, but there isn't! WAHHHH!"

"Shut up, whiny brat."

"Hi, Roku! Wanna play tag?"

"I'll challenge you to a sexyness contest!"

"…and I'll hide behind this rock."

(Kagome: sweatdrop)

Roku snickered. "I see your other sides of your personality are rather…erm…out of control."

Normal Inuyasha turned then to see why Kagome and the others weren't lending them a hand. He then noticed that they were paralyzed. Roku had sent some strange mist in the air that prevented them, humans, from moving. Shippo was too busy hiding to help (as usual), and scaredy Inuyasha was also hiding, both behind Kerara, which prevented the demon cat from helping out.

Roku noticed this as well, not really seeming to care. "Let me offer you this, Inuyasha…s."

All six of the half dog demons perked their ears with interest. "Yeah?"

With a sly half smile, Roku declared, "I'll remove the curse I placed upon you."

There was a pause. This was something no one expected Roku to say.

"W-what? Really?" crybaby Inuyasha gasped.

"What's the catch, Roku?" angry Inuyasha stated coldly.

Roku smirked. "Catch? There is no catch. Your idiotic 'clones' have caused me no end of trouble, is what it is. Do you realize how noisy you are? Demons have come to me complaining, begging me to lift the spell I put on you. Frankly, it's annoying me as well. I've all ready changed Sesshomaru back to normal; now it's your turn."

"Yay! You mean we get to merge as one again and share the same thoughts and stuff?" cheerful Inuyasha cheered.

Roku grinned wickedly. (He does a lot of that.) "Yes, though the way you worded it makes it sound a bit gross. Hm, shall I proceed, then?"

Normal Inuyasha frowned deeply. "This doesn't feel right," he growled.

Roku winked. "Of course. Your soul is split. But it will feel right after I'm through with you."

Before anyone could raise a doubt, Roku muttered an incantation, which created a blur of light. The light dissolved slowly and revealed one, solid figure remaining where six had been before.

Normal Inuyasha…now back to just, plain Inuyasha, opened his mouth as if to speak. However, he couldn't utter a word. This didn't seem to make sense. Not at all.

Roku disappeared, leaving the usual trail of mystery behind.

Kagome found herself able to move again. She jumped up and shouted, "Inuyasha! Are you okay?"

Inuyasha approached her, unsure. "I feel…normal. How about you? Are you okay?"

Kagome nodded. Sango and Miroku joined the awkward conversation. Things appeared to be back to normal. Roku, along with his scent and his odd spell, had vanished. But was it really over?

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The next morning, Kagome rose bright and early. She was still uneasy about the previous day, and she wanted to be around in case anything went awry.

Her and her traveling friends were in a thin forest with lots of beams of light escaping through the tree branches to reveal a bright morning. The air was fresh. The birds were chirping merrily. It was a nice day, but something felt off balance. Strange. Abnormal.

Kagome shook off this feeling. She simply wasn't adjusted to the sense of normal that had returned to her life, she figured. Yes, that had to be it.

"Wahhh! Where'd it go?"

Kagome sighed. So much for a nice morning. "Crybaby Inuyasha! Be quie—"

She spun around and found Shippo. She shook her head. Of course. She hadn't meant to shout out crybaby Inuyasha's name. It had just blurted from her mouth accidentally was all.

Shippo searched around frantically. "Kagome!" he shouted once he spotted her. "I lost my—"

He stopped mid-sentence when he got a better look at Kagome. "Whoa…you look different."

Kagome cocked her head. Different? Oh, it must be because I haven't brushed my hair yet, I guess.

"What'd you lose?" she asked.

Shippo looked worried. "I lost my per-min-ett mark-er thingy. It's gone!"

Kagome heaved a sigh of relief. That was all? "Oh, you probably just dropped it somewhere last night. It's nothing to worry about, I'm sure. When I go back home, I'll get you another one."

Evidently hearing all of the commotion, Miroku woke up. He approached Kagome and Shippo curiously. "Get another what? What are you—Kagome, when did you get a beard?"

Kagome's face turned red. "Wha—what!"

She ran to her bag and pulled out her small mirror. She shrieked at what she saw. There, all over her face, were doodles! She had a mustache, a beard, glasses, freckles, LOSER written across her forehead, and numerous other scribbles. And they were all done in PERMANENT MARKER!

Sango and Inuyasha were instantly awoken by Kagome's shrill scream. They rose quickly and ran to Kagome.

"Kagome, what happened?" Sango said with clear concern. "Did you—whoa!"

She noticed Kagome's face and let out a surprised exclamation. Kagome glared. She figured she knew who did this.

"Very cute, Inuyasha. I don't find this one bit funny!"

Inuyasha yelled, "What? What'd I do?"

Kagome scowled dangerously. "You know perfectly well what you did! Just look at me! Did you find this humoro—"

She stopped dead. It was then that she finally saw Inuyasha's face. It, too, was covered in permanent marker doodles! She couldn't stop herself; she started snickering. Then it turned to laughing.

Inuyasha looked really pissed. "You know, you're really starting to get on my nerves. What the hell is so damn fu—"

Sango held the mirror to Inuyasha. He did a double take. Realization hit him then. "Aughhh!"

A voice came through the trees. "Ha, ha! I got you! And you look silly! You shoulda seen the looks on your faces! Eh heh heh heh!"

That voice…where was it coming from? And why did it sound so oddly familiar? Could it be—

Kagome let out a loud gasp. "Cheerful Inuyasha!"

There he was, in the flesh, grinning like a kid. He stood before them with the permanent marker in his hand. But how was it possible? Hadn't the spell been removed? Was this…an illusion? Normal Inuyasha didn't give it much thought. He simply took off after cheerful Inuyasha trying to get the permanent marker and get revenge. Kagome was too puzzled by the situation to be annoyed by all the noise.

A/N: Yay! Another chapter! And, as usual, it's a shortie. Is it longer than the last one, though? I think it is… Erm…perverted Inuyasha and normal are still pretty much winning the popularity poll. Cheerful's pretty high up in the ranking, too, though. Anyhoo, don't think I've forgotten about Sesshomaru! He'll be back! Please review! (I'll try my hardest to update soon!…as long as I don't go into writer's block or something…) And sorry this is so sloppy. Like I've probably said before, this is like my "for-fun writing" or my "experimental writing." Who knows, maybe one day I'll actually write a fanfic seriously.

NEXT CHAPTER: Inuyasha's Harry Potter Dream

Side story: A "Bold" Day for Scaredy Inuyasha

Angry Inu: "Look out! A monster!"
Scaredy Inu: "AHHH! WHERE!"
Normal Inu: "You're really gullible, y'know?"
Scaredy Inu: "Ugh! Don't scare me like that!"
Crybaby Inu: "Wah! Scaredy, why're you talking like that?"
Scaredy Inu: "Like what?"
Perverted Inu: "Um, like that." (walks away, uninterested as he stares at some pretty girls in the distance)
Scaredy Inu: "EEP! I'm talking all…all…all BOLD!"
Cheerful Inu: "Ooo! Cool!"
Scaredy Inu: "It's not cool!"
Cheerful Inu (inquisitive): "Why not?"
Scaredy Inu: "I can't even ACT bold!"
Normal Inu: "Oh, that is a problem."—turns to talk to author—"Hey, author person. Stop making him talk bold."
Me (clicks a few things on the keyboard): "Okay, I did it."
Scaredy Inu: "Yay! I'm not bold anymore!"
(silence)
Scaredy Inu: "What?"