I'm moving house people! That means the computer's going in a box! Yaaaay! (author frowns for a second) wait…Nooooo! I don't know when I'll update next, so if you're lucky, chapter 22 will be up in about a week and if not, well it means I'm probably moving already. Thanks for the encouraging comments; ranchan23 (you must be a mind reader or something! You always seem to guess what I'm going to write next! Thanks for the compliments!), Angel8818, electricdragon, Lady Kagewaki (Naraku is having a pretty hard time isn't he?), Inu-chan's luver, death88, Female SSBM Fan, lalalalala2, koolkirara and Cela Andromeda. Now be prepared for more craziness!
Disclaimer: Holy crap! Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha! Jeez, I never knew. Oh, by the way, I was being SARCASTIC.
Chapter 21: Lights Out
Kagome dug out a few fashion magazines from a drawer in the hotel room and threw them to the girls.
"Here, look through these for the time being while I go check on the boys, okay?"
Sango caught a magazine, plopped onto her bed and began to carefully turn the pages, Ayame did the same, but Kagura, however, only scoffed and refused to look through hers, preferring to sit by the window and stare out into the street. Sango and Ayame 'ooh'ed and 'ah'ed at the photographs in their magazines.
"Wow, Kagome, how did they get in there?" Sango asked, prodding the page with her index finger. Kagome, who was just opening the door to step out and anxious to check on the boys, began to quickly explain what photos, fashion, catwalks and designers were to an attentive Sango and Ayame. The two girls stared at Kagome and back at the magazines in amazement.
"This era is incredible!" cried Ayame. She flipped onto her back and held the magazine in front of her face. Kagura was beginning to wish she'd grabbed one while she had the chance. Well, the street was kind of interesting too.
Kikyo hovered over Sango's shoulder and peered curiously at all the stick-thin, scantily clad, white-skinned fashion models and her eyes widened in surprise.
"Kagome, have these women also come back from the dead to haunt the living? They are similar to me, with their pale skin and slim frames. Are they too made of bones and burial soil?" Kikyo enquired breathily.
Kagome had one foot out the room but pulled it out, sighing. She really needed to see if the boys were destroying anything. She turned to face Kikyo.
"No, those women, unlike you, are alive. It's just that they don't eat much in order to conserve those slim bodies of theirs. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go and check on the guys." said Kagome finally. She left the suite, closing the door behind her. Kikyo thought for a while before picking up a magazine that lay on the carpet and flicking through it.
OooOoo
Kagome knocked on the door of the guys' room. When she heard nothing, she turned the knob and cautiously opened the door, peering into the suite through the gap. She almost passed out with relief when she saw that everything was intact and indeed tidy. She spotted Sesshoumaru by the window looking as bored as dog that's had its leash locked away in a closet. Inuyasha, Kouga, Miroku and Naraku were standing in the middle of the room, as if not daring to touch anything and Miroku in fact had his hands behind his back just to be on the safe side.
Kagome giggled at the scene. "It's okay guys, you can sit down at least."
The four men sighed with relief, Naraku threw himself onto the comfy sofa, Miroku climbed onto his bed to meditate, Kouga dived onto the floor in front of the television and Inuyasha sat next to Naraku and yawned. Kagome quickly explained how everything in the room worked, including the bathroom and of course the T.V.
"Wait, wait…you mean to say that there's an ice box full of snacks in here?" Kouga asked, hardly daring to believe it. Kagome nodded.
"Yes, that's the fridge. There's also a cupboard filled with other kinds of food but be careful not to eat it all at once, remember what happened to Kikyo." She warned. Kouga nodded his head vigorously. Kagome turned and was about to leave when she spotted something on a shelf below the television. She walked over to it and pulled off some plastic covering, revealing an Xbox, complete with consoles and a game. She raised her eyebrows, wow; this really is a five star hotel!
"Inuyasha, I'm going to go back to my room. Since you know how the T.V and Xbox work, you can explain them to the guys, okay?"
Inuyasha smirked, crossed his arms smugly and nodded. It was good to know that he had more knowledge of Kagome's era than the others, especially when it came to the Xbox. Souta had taught him well.
"Great. I'll pop by later then."
Kagome's eyes wandered around the room once again to see if everything was the way it should be and took her leave.
Inuyasha began searching around the room, among the sofa cushions, on the shelves and under tables for something. Naraku and Kouga stared at him in confusion.
"Aha!" yelled Inuyasha triumphantly, holding up the T.V remote in his hand.
"What the hell is that thing?" asked Kouga. Inuyasha made himself comfortable on the sofa and pressed a random button on the remote, causing a little red light bulb on the T.V to flicker. Naraku and Kouga gazed intently at the blank screen; it was beginning to fill with moving shapes and colours and sounds emitted from the speakers. Inuyasha grinned when they both gasped in amazement.
"What is that? How do those people fit in such a small space? Why are they there?" garbled Naraku in astonishment. Kouga nodded and continued to stare open mouthed at the screen.
"I dunno, you just press a button and they're there. And when you press another one…" Inuyasha explained, jabbing his finger into the remote, "the people change. See?"
Inuyasha demonstrated again, flicking through the channels. He landed on one channel where they were featuring the movie Spiderman 2 and he was about to change when Naraku screamed and waved his arms about like crazy.
"WAIT! DON'T CHANGE IT!"
Inuyasha paused. Naraku gawped at Peter Parker as webs streamed out from his wrists.
"Oooooh! He's a demon! He's just like me! Hahahaha! Spiders rule!" Sang Naraku, bouncing up and down on the sofa cushions and pumping the air with his fists. Inuyasha and Kouga looked at each other and raised an eyebrow at Naraku's behaviour. Inuyasha shrugged and sat back to watch the movie and Kouga's mouth dropped open when Spiderman swung through the city of New York.
"This Spider dude is friggin' cool!"
Inuyasha twisted around and called out to Miroku, who was sitting cross-legged on his bed with his hands held out Indian style.
"Oi! Miroku! D'ya wanna see this?" Inuyasha yelled. Miroku didn't answer; instead he took an exaggeratingly deep breath and hummed,
"Han, ya, ha, ra, mi, taaaaa….."
Inuyasha stared at Miroku for a moment then turned back to watch the movie. When Spiderman beat up Doc Ock, Naraku screamed triumphantly and shot his arms into the air causing Inuyasha to fall off the sofa in fright and Kouga to jump up from the floor in surprise, get tangled in the rug and fall down again. Inuyasha popped up rubbing his head and fumed while Kouga attempted to free himself from the rug's clutches.
"Why you evil, stinky bastard! What'd ya do that fer?" Inuyasha shouted angrily. Naraku shot his arm out in front of him and pointed at Inuyasha.
"Hey, I may be evil, but I am NOT stinky!" He sniffed the pit of his outstretched arm and made a face. "Jeez, you're right."
"Then why don't you do us all a favour and leave, the smell is making me nauseous!" cried Kouga from the floor. Naraku frowned for a second and then his expression lightened a bit.
"I know! Didn't the miko mention a…shaowa er something? To bathe in?"
Inuyasha shrugged as he switched the T.V off.
Naraku got up from the sofa, walked to the bathroom and peered inside. He spotted the shower stall, five white towels and five white bathrobes hanging on hooks along the tiled wall of the bathroom. Naraku grabbed a few towels and robes and threw them out onto one of the beds, so as to be able to hang his clothes on the hooks. He undressed and got into the stall, staring around at the bottles and bars of soap, his eyes finally resting upon the shower taps.
Inuyasha stretched and yawned as he too got up from the sofa. He started towards the kitchenette when he heard a voice from behind the closed door of the bathroom.
"Um, how does this work?"
Inuyasha groaned and slapped a hand against his forehead. How was he going to explain the shower to Naraku? Then he remembered when he showered in Kagome's house, Souta had shown him then.
"Yeah, um there's a knob thingy there…ya see it?" He said through the door.
He heard Naraku search. "…yeah."
"Yeah well, it's like an indoor waterfall mixed up with a hot spring. So if you turn the knobby thing to the right, then out comes the cold waterfall. If you turn it to the left, then out comes the hot waterfall. Got it?"
He heard Naraku repeat everything he had just said. "Okay, got it." He called out from the shower stall.
Inuyasha shook his head and went to the kitchenette to get some food. Miroku ceased his humming and opened one eye. I think I'll bathe as well, though it means waiting for Naraku to get out. He got out of his position, grabbed a towel and changed into a white bathrobe. As he sat back down on the bed he heard the squeak of a knob turning and the sound of rushing water from the bathroom.
"Aaaaaah" came Naraku's calmed voice.
Kouga finally freed himself from the rug and got hold of a games console and examined it carefully, running a finger over the buttons. He stared at the T.V and at the Xbox, he had no idea how to work them but he'd try, that would show he was smarter than Inuyasha and then maybe Kagome would like him more. Inuyasha was rummaging through the snacks in the cupboard. He gave up and opened the fridge and smiled. He reached in and took out a can of his favourite soda.
Then came the singing.
"La la la la loo loo loo doobydoo doobydoo ping ping ding ding cha cha cha choo choo choo…!"
Naraku picked up a random bottle and squirted some of the liquid inside into his palm, lathering up his hair and rinsing it out in the warm water that gushed out of the shower head.
Outside the bathroom, all heads were turned at the horrendous sound of Naraku's…er, singing.
OooOoo
"Why doesn't she just accept that he loves him! Sniff!"
"Because he's the father of her sister's baby! Poor thing! Sob!"
"Girls, none of this is real, they're just actors!" Kagome said as she passed on yet another wad of tissues. Sango took one and wiped her eyes, passing the wad on to Ayame who did the same. They were all sitting on the sofa that was situated in front of the television.
"I know but it's so, so sad!" wailed Ayame. Sango nodded in agreement. Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed. Kikyo was floating somewhere near the ceiling reading through an edition of Vogue. Kagura had long since forgotten that she was supposed to uninterested in anything around the hotel, and was now sitting in front of the T.V with the others. She received the wad of tissues from Ayame and proceeded to blow her nose.
Kagome stood up and stretched. "I'm just going to check on the boys, be right back."
The girls nodded, their eyes not leaving the T.V for one moment. Kagome plucked a scrunched up tissue from her arm and made over to the door.
OooOoo
Sesshoumaru stared out into the dark street from the window. He saw someone with a dog on a leash; the dog began to sniff around a tree and the grass near it. It stayed still a while and lifted its tail. After doing its business, the owner pulled out what seemed to be a bag and bent down to scoop up the doggy doo.
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. I think I've seen enough.
He walked past the kitchenette and the bathroom where Miroku was now pounding on the door, asking Naraku to hurry up.
Sesshoumaru spotted the wolf demon sitting cross-legged in front of the blank T.V making noises similar to those of things exploding and occasionally moved from side to side.
"Yes! Take that! And that! Wooooo! BOOM! POW! WHOOOOOSH! Hehehe! Yes, I'm winnin'!" Kouga roared triumphantly.
"Wolf demon, the screen is blank." Sesshoumaru said.
"That's what it's supposed to do, it's meant to be like that." Said Kouga, with an air of I-know-what-I'm-doing about him.
"Hmph."
What a simpleton. Thought Sesshoumaru. He gazed at the door of the suite, he would take a walk now, yes, he wanted to explore the hotel. The suite was boring, there were things to do for entertainment but they seemed much too trivial for him. He turned the knob of the door and strode out casually, closing it behind him and no one even noticed he had left.
Miroku continued to bang on the door. All his meditation was a waste of time it seemed, for he was rapidly losing his patience with Naraku.
Just then, the door opened and Kagome entered the room. She was relieved to find everything in one piece. She spotted Inuyasha walking out of the kitchenette, piercing the soda can in his hand with his fangs and gulping down its contents. Kagome went over to him, passing Kouga, who was still making battle sounds, on the way.
"Hey, Inuyasha…oh, Kouga you need to switch that on first. Inu, is everything okay in here?" asked Kagome, straightening up from connecting the Xbox to the T.V and switching it on. Kouga's face was burning with embarrassment. Inuyasha swallowed and nodded.
"Yeah, fine." He said, wiping his mouth with his sleeve.
"Oh, good…uh…Miroku are you alright?" Kagome asked, seeing Miroku standing with a towel over his arm, dressed in a bathrobe and with his face plastered against the bathroom door. He moaned.
"Naraku won't hurry UP!" He whined. Kagome raised her eyebrows, so the person in the shower was…
"LA LA LA LA LA DOO DOO DOO gurgle gurgle gurgle spit DOO DOO LA LA LA LA LA brrrrrrr! SHOOBYDOO SHOOBYDOO…!"
Ah.
Kagome sighed. Well at least he wasn't making too much trouble. She searched around the room for Sesshoumaru but he didn't seem to be in sight.
"Um, Miroku, have you seen Sesshoumaru?"
Miroku shook his head as best he could while having it against the door. He whined again.
"Kouga, have you seen Sesshoumaru?" She called out to the wolf demon playing Xbox.
"Who!" Kouga yelled, above the loud explosions coming from the game he was playing as he frantically pressed every single button on his console. "Damnit! I want him to go that way! No! Click click click press press press Yeah! Something exploded! Oh wait, that was me. Crap!"
Kagome decided to question him no further. Inuyasha passed her as he strode towards the sofa.
"Hey Inuyasha, do you know where your brother is?" She asked anxiously. Inuyasha walked past and shrugged, slurping his soda. Kagome cried out and flung herself upon one of the beds, pulling at her hair with her hands.
"Oh noooo! He's gone, He's loose! What am I gonna doooo! Ohoho no, no NO!" she sobbed.
"hey, don't worry about it, he'll be fine. Takes a lot to keep that bastard down." Inuyasha said gruffly.
Kagome paused in her sobbing and glared at him. "It's not Sesshoumaru I'm worried about. What of the poor innocent people in this hotel? He'll kill them all!" She wailed.
"Keh, he don't kill just for the fun of it, you know that. And why am I defending him anyway! No! Bad Inuyasha! Bad dog!" Inuyasha cried, cursing himself. Kagome sniffed and got up slowly.
"I guess you're right. It's almost nine, I'm going back to my room." She said and she left.
OooOoo
Meanwhile Sesshoumaru had stopped to examine the hotel's elevator. He had figured out how to use it. People pressed a button on the outside, the doors opened, people go in and pressed more buttons on the inside and the doors closed. When they opened again, either the mechanical box was empty or there were different people in it. He discovered that this fascinating contraption was used to take people up and down the building, after he had used his demon speed to race downstairs and find the same people he had seen get in the elevator on his floor, come out on a lower one. He had found ita fascinating piece of machinery.
So naturally, he decided to try it out himself. He went down to the first floor and carefully pressed the 'up' button with a clawed finger. He waited a while until there was a 'ding!' sound and the doors opened to reveal the empty compartment. He stepped inside and pressed the button that would take him up to his floor.
"Wait! Hold the elevator!" Cried a woman who seemed to be in her early twenties.
The young woman managed to dive into it just before the doors closed. Sesshoumaru stared down at her. Her eyes wondered over this strangely clad man and smiled.
"Great costume."
Sesshoumaru ignored her and held up his head.
OooOoo
Kagome got back to her room and found the girls weeping waterfalls as the protagonist of the film decided to take her life.
"She had so much to live fohohohoor!" Ayame howled. Kagura nodded and passed the box of tissues to Sango, who then blew her nose. Kikyo was now floating upside down with Vogue edition Nº something. Kagome shook her head at the lot of them and went to the bathroom to look through all the cabinets to see what they stored. She opened the white little doors and picked one cherry coloured bottle and sniffed at it. Mmmm. Cherry. She peered inside the cabinet again and gasped as she pulled out five facial kits.
"Wow, face packs, cleanser, sponge…cool. We should try these." She whispered excitedly.
At that moment the lights flickered and went out, leaving the hotel in complete darkness. Kagome heard protesting cries from the girls as they were robbed of the movie ending.
"Great. We'll have to do the facials another time." Kagome mumbled. She stumbled out of the bathroom and proceeded to search through the room for a torch.
OooOoo
Miroku's head perked up when the lights went out. Huh? He heard Naraku turn the squeaky knob in the shower and the water finally stopped gushing out.
"Hey! I can't see!" Naraku yelled from the shower stall. There was a loud skidding sound a "YAAAAAAAAAAA!" And a painful sounding thump.
"OOOOOW!"
Miroku smirked in the dark.
Inuyasha and Kouga had been playing against each other on the Xbox and were currently arguing about who had been winning before the lights went out.
"NO, I was winning before the lights went out mutt face!"
"Shut the hell up ya mangy wolf! We both know that I was!"
"Don't you tell me ta shut up!"
"Well do it anyway!"
"Why you sunova..!"
OooOoo
Sesshoumaru couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive when the elevator gave a jolt and stopped moving. They were just arriving at Sesshoumaru's floor when the electricity was cut off, however the emergency lighting inside the compartment had been activated immediately after. Now both he and the woman were stuck in a dimly lit elevator and he began to notice the her rapidly increasing heart rate.
"Um, just so you know…I'm a little claustrophobic and afraid of the dark." The woman told him shakily, slowly backing up against the far corner of the compartment.
Sesshoumaru fought the urge to sigh in despair as he thought;
…fuck…
A/N: Another one finished! Believe it or not, the electricity is rather expensive here in Colombia and the internet services even more so, and I can only be on the computer for an hour at a time. Yes, my parents are control freaks so don't be surprised if I take longer than usual to update. Okey dokey smokey! This Kyuuketsuki san will be leaving you now. (Author's mum shouts "I hope that kyuuketsuki san is off the computer!" Author cringes.) Don't forget to R and R!
