A/N: This one was prompted by Lord Yau. It probably isn't what you wanted, but here you go.


Stuck


Inuyasha was stuck.

It was - obviously - Kagome's fault he was stuck in her home like this. She had insisted on him letting her wash his robe in her futuristic spinning box.

The reason why he had let her do this had nothing to do with the miko's puppy eyes. He had been planning on washing his robe anyway, so why not to let her do this if she wanted it so much?

The result was that he had to wear a pair of modern day pants and a shirt, both too tight in his opinion.

So he sat in the living room, scowling and pretending he was watching the stupid talking box with the old man, while in fact he was plotting his wicked revenge, as any youkai would.

He decided it would be a repeat of what he had done the last time. It was just recently, actually. They had fought a huge snail youkai, who wasn't very fast, but pretty hard to kill. Well, it had been hard because Inuyasha had been holding back (reasonably, he wouldn't let it hurt his friends) until Kagome had had a clear shot at the snail and had sent an arrow at it. He had let the miko watch the arrow fly while he had jumped behind a boulder before the projectile had pierced the skin of the snail...

As Kagome would say it - the shit had hit the fan. Or, in that case - the snail.

Even Sango and Kirara, who had been flying overhead had been caught in the... fallout.

So yeah, Inuyasha was going to find another slimy and ugly youkai for Kagome to defeat.

He was so caught up in his planning that he noticed Mrs. Higurashi was in the room only when she spoke to him and her father-in-law.

"I will make some noise for a minute," she said apologetically and the old man just nodded. Inuyasha watched her put a big box on the floor. It was blue and had colorful buttons on top of it. As he watched the woman attached to it a long, bendable tube to it, before pulling a rope out of it and attaching it to a small thing on the wall. So fat there wasn't much noise and Inuyasha was mildly curious what the thing was. It didn't look like something one used to cook.

Then Mrs. Higurashi pressed the button and - let's say it that way - a hanyou hit the ceiling. As the unholy howl broke the silence in the room the hanyou almost dug his claws in the spot next to the chandelier.

In a blink of an eye Inuyasha almost magically found himself in a dark, a bit dusty place, pretty narrow one. From his spot he could see a carpet i n Kagome's room and the lower parts of the furniture. And Kagome's feet as she moved in her chair.

The most horrible and annoying noise in the world was a bit muffled by the floor on which he was sprawled, but he still could hear it pretty well. He was panting and his heart was pounding, his ears plastered to his head in distress.

Then he saw Kagome's face as the girl knelt by her bed and peered underneath it.

"Inuyasha?" she inquired.

"What is that thing?" he coughed, because he inhaled some of the dust.

"What thing?" she blinked at him.

"Don't play dumb! The sound monster your mother unleashed on us!"

"Sound monster?" Kagome listened carefully. Then she started to giggle.

"Oi!" barked the dark space under her bed, with two yellow eyes glaring at her.

"That's a vacuum, silly," she managed out. "It won't hurt you."

'Scratch it,' the hanyou growled. 'Make it two slimy youkai and no hot spring in walk able distance.'