Are you sure you want to do that?
By Kracken L.W.
Disclaimer: I do not own the surly Inuyasha or the glorious (if somewhat vain and overconfident) Sesshoumaru; also known as Fluffy. These belong to the wonderfully insane Takahashi lady. The insanity in this story is my own.
"Are you actually considering what I think you are?" This was, after all, not the time to risk a misstep through guessing wrong. The tree road had confused them for all of five minutes but it had given the fleeing brothers that much more leeway to make their escape. "Can you think of any other option? Besides, even if it isn't possible to bring the staff in after us, we can still give it to that toad thing of yours and hope they'll over look it. He certainly smells badly enough to cover our scent for us if we send him along our back trail." Sesshoumaru had one more question before he could let it rest. "What if the pearl is gone?" His brother flashed him a mischievous grin. "I know it is." Sesshy was so shocked that he missed the next branch and actually had to work to catch up.
"Do you think they'll catch them?" Sango shook her head absently, obviously distracted then shook it again with more vehemence as the question penetrated her preoccupation. "No, even if he acts like a complete dunce most of the time, Inuyasha is used to running away. He'd have to be, as well as being good at it, to have lived this long." That said she strode off towards the village, visibly returning to her previous ruminations. "What's up with her?" Shippou asked from the basket of Kagome's bike. "She just has a lot to think about." Kagome looked pityingly from Sango's retreating back to the just barely conscious Miroku. She sighed heavily as it occurred to her that she would be without Inuyasha's protection from his lecherous ways for two weeks. Oh well, she could always go home for a few days if he got to far out of line. She pushed off after Sango, leaving the monk to catch up when he could walk again.
"What do you mean, you know it's gone?!" He demanded as they rounded a curve in the trail. "There's your toad thing and Rin, tell ya when we reach them." Sesshoumaru snarled, but kept running. He really didn't have much choice. He said nothing to Jaken's querulous questioning, a single sharp look was enough to silence the hideous little monster. "Hey Bro?" He turned to look at his brother just in time to see two clawed fingertips aiming for his right eye. "Don't blink." Inuyasha snickered at his brother's outraged face and held up his bloody claws. Resting between them was a single white pearl covered in gore.
A few minutes after they lost the scent, the ladies found an old goblin sitting on a rock while a little human girl bedecked him with daisy chains. "Rin make Jaken pretty!" This brought a chuckle from the demoness in the lead, and grins from the other two. It was going to take a lot more than a few flowers to make this Jaken creature anything less that grotesque, let alone pretty. The youngest smiled at Rin, she really wasn't all that interested in marriage. As a matter of fact, if her cousin hadn't been there to tattle to her parents, she would have abandoned this hunt to visit that cute cat demon she'd been seeing. He at least had a sense of humor. " Here little one, I, Moon Silver, shall help you." She smiled again as her family's special talent engulfed the unfortunate toad. When the magic subsided, Jaken was dressed as a geisha, make up, hair, shoes and all.
Rin fell down laughing and the others giggled in spite of themselves. He was without doubt the most ugly geisha ever to defile anyone's eyesight. "Your name small one?" Rin bit her lip and muttered "Sesshoumaru-Sama said not to talk to strangers."
"Where is Lord Sesshoumaru, so that he can introduce us?" Rin couldn't quite bring herself to lie, lying to nobles was bad. Sesshy-Sama said so. So Rin dissembled, which was okay according to her guardian. "He walked into a cloud." She smiled at them and pointed back down the road in the direction they had come from. "He was mad at his brother," she added "So he's gonna be grumpy." She warned. "Thank you child." They trotted off back the way they'd come, figuring on following the other two to the fugitives as soon as possible.
End Chapter(A/n: Sorry if this one sucked, I'm kind of pressed for time. Review any way. If you insist on flaming me, at least make it original. 'This is stupid' is NOT original.)
