Ch: 5

Thievery Isn't Good For Your Health

or,

That Creepy Burger King Guy Scares The Crap Out Of People

Soon the stored were all empty, with the people managing them none the wiser. How could you find and arrest someone who doesn't exist? Anyway, Sky was still just wandering through the city, taking whatever caught her eye, and asking odd questions. Well, odd to the people she asked. Why would anyone not know that cars ran on gas?

All the things that she knew she shouldn't stuff into her bag (a building, for example. Not that it wouldn't fit, but because there were people in there, and she was sure that they wouldn't like to be stuck in a never ending void) she took pictures of, once she remembered that she had a camera in her sleeve. Eventually, though, she got bored, and started to look around for the house and the Well. Kagome was suddenly at her elbow, making her leap in surprise, causing her to hit some poor person, setting off a chain reaction much like the domino effect. Sky watched them fall, half laughing, half worried that she should run away before they got up and started chasing after her.

Kagome tugged on her arm. "Come on, you've caused enough trouble for today. Let's go to my house, and eat something." Sky followed happily. She would never have remembered which way was the Well on her own. When they reached Kagome's house, Sky started to unload all the smaller things she had collected, asking what each one was, and what they did. She was half way in her bag when Inuyasha came up behind her, saying,

"Give me all your ramen, or I'll cut you open with my sword." She came out, holding all the ramen, trembling. With anger.

"I will not give you this stuff! I have plans for it! This ramen belongs to me! Is it really called ramen? Why? ANYWAYS, you can't have it!" For the third time that day, they began to fight. Inuyasha tackled her from behind, causing the ramen to fly up into the air, and fall far away. He started to go after it, but she jumped on him, yelling,

"Oh, no, you've got to finish what you've started!" She missed the ears, instead grabbing huge handfuls of his long hair, and yanking hard. Her feet scrambled to find a purchase on his back, repeatedly kicking him in their search. The hanyou was forced to turn around and try to stop her. They began to wrestle right there in the middle of the house, filling the air with growls, yelps, and screams of rage. Most of the screaming was done by Sky, because, I guess, she likes to scream. Anyways, he threw her away from him, but stupidly, because she landed right next to the ramen. Snatching it back up, she covered it in a weird substance, and immediately all the bunches of ramen turned into food capsules.

"NNNOOO!" Inuyasha yelled, diving at her, grabbing as many of the capsules as he could. "What have you done to my ramen!" He tried to bite down on them, but only succeeded in hurting his teeth.

"It was – is – my ramen. And, I've turned them into capsules. There's no way you can eat them as they are."

"TURN THEM BACK!"

"NO!" Scooping as many as she could reach into her pouch, Sky was unprepared for Inuyasha's attack. This time he jumped on her, trying to yank on her hair. In his grief over the ramen, he wasn't thinking clearly. He only grabbed turban. His surprise was enough time for Sky to launch her own attack.

Kagome sighed. This wasn't a good thing. She couldn't get answers from Sky if she was dead. Miroku walked in then.

"Is it just me, or so they fight a lot?" Sango was right behind him.

"Wow. Deja vu." Miroku smiled brightly, slyly moving his hand behind her.

"So it's not just me!"

"You letch!" Slap. Sky looked up from where she had Inuyasha pinned on the ground, trying to force him to eat... carpet, since there was no dirt.

"Hey, when did you guys get here?"

"About five minutes after you did. While Kagome was trying to track you down, I was left the job of making sure the 'monk' here didn't terrorize any of the poor females in the area. Did you steal the whole mall, or only most of it?"

"Only most of it." Sky sighed, and let Inuyasha up. "I need food." She said. Walking to where she had thrown her pouch to keep it out of the scuffle, she picked it up, and walked into the back yard, muttering, and searching it's contents. They ignored her after it appeared that she wasn't going to do anything more interesting then that. Except for Inuyasha, who was planning his revenge.

"So, why are we here still? Why aren't we going home?"

"Because I promised mom that I'd stay for dinner, and–"

"Look at what that crazy wench just did!" They turned and looked at Sky when they heard Inuyasha yell. There was a three course meal directly in front of her. Inuyasha was telling them what had happened. "She was just muttering to herself, looking through the bag. Then she smiled, pulled out her hand, and spoke into it, saying, 'I'm hungry'. And then all that food was there!" He started to run over there, probably going to try to steal the food from her, (all that fighting was making him hungry) when Kagome yelled, "SIT!" effectively stopping him. At all the noise, Sky looked up at them, saying,

"Hey, what's up? What's with all the yelling? Did someone get hurt?"

"Where did all that food come from? Shippo asked bluntly. Sky started; she had forgot he was there.

"Er... my pouch?" She saw Inuyasha sitting where he had crashed, saying into his hand, "I'm hungry." Nothing happened. "I said, I'm HUNGRY." Still nothing, and he started chewing on his hand. When nothing else happened, he tried the other way. "FEED ME! GIVE ME RAMEN! I'M HUNGRY! FEED ME NOW!" Hey, guess what? Lots of nothing happened. For the first time since meeting this strange group, Sky felt sorry for the man with the cool ears. Walking over to him, she picked up one of the discarded ramen capsules, and put it in his hand, saying,

"Try it now." He looked at her, suspicious, but tried it anyway.

"I'm hungry." Poof! A small table with three bowls of ramen on it appeared. "Yay! Ramen!" He started eating with vigor.

"Hm. Now I know why it's so easy to get mad at him. He reminds me of my brother." She smiled at Kagome. "Now, what were you saying about dinner?"

"But you've already eaten..." Sky was still smiling.

"Yeah, but it would be terribly rude to not eat here after you've promised your mother that you would. Besides, I would love to meet some people who live here full time. They must be fascinating."

"My family aren't test subjects!"

"I know, I know," Sky soothed. "I just want to meet them. I won't tell them about the future if it makes you uncomfortable, though it would probably help them in the long run." Kagome though a moment, and grudgingly nodded. She really shouldn't skip out on her mom. Inuyasha finished eating, and they had about two hours until dinner would be done.

Now what?

About five minutes of silence passed between the group, as the writer sat at the keyboard, staring lifelessly ahead, full of writers block.

Kagome walked over to the writer in the corner, and hit her on the head, breaking the author's trance.

"Hello! What do we do next?"

"How am I supposed to know! Didn't you read the last couple of sentences?" WritingWoman pointed to what she had just written. "See? 'Writers block.' That means, I don't know what to write. Why don't you all go off and entertain yourselves, and give me a break?" Sango came over now.

"Well, what do you expect us to do?" Miroku snuck up behind her, and grabbed her ass.

"I can think of something," He managed to get out before she hit him over the head with her Hiraikotsu. Sango turned angrily to the author.

"I know you made him do that!" WritingWoman shrugged blandly, spreading her hands before her.

"Well, it got you off my case, and he was more then willing to do his part, so..." I smiled blandly.

"Hey, you changed your POV!" Sky shouted, coming over as well.

"What?"

"You were writing in third person, now you're writing in first!"

"It got too long to write my pen name over and over again, so I changed my point of view." (Shrug) "It's not that big of a deal, you didn't have to shout about it." Looks at keyboard. "Stop acting up, will you?"

Keyboard: 'Hey, it's not my fault your fingers are clumsy.'

Me: "Shut up! They are not, you just won't work right!" The other people in the room stared at WritingWoman and the keyboard, as they argued for the next two hours about who was right and who was wrong. Then Kagome's mom popped inside the door, saying,

"Dinner's ready!" The people inside scrambled out, away from the lady and the talking

keyboard. WritingWoman looked up, and said,

"Ok, writer's block over!" And followed them out to the dining room.

Er...

Oh yeah!

Sky sat at the table, politely answering all their questions, except for where she came from. Kagome made an alarmed gesture that Sky took to mean that she didn't want her parents to learn about the future, so instead Sky made up an elaborate lie about being from the feudal era as well, and how she met the group. A T.V. was on in the other room, and from where Sky sat she could see it, but thankfully she had already seen one, so she didn't get up and try to steal it. She already had three or four sets in her pouch. Anyway, leaning away from the low table, she caught a commercial.

T.V.: 'Vroom, vroom, beep beep, quack!' (A shadow appears on the horizon, far down the road. Slowly, it comes closer, and closer, and closer, until finally you can see what it was. Satan, in a tutu, tearing down the road on a mini-chopper, with a rubber duckie on his shoulder, as he sang in a heavy rock tone,) "Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I... something something something... Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I ... wonder what you are!" (Satan pulls up to a stop, and talks to the camera) "Are you like me? Did you used to pay a sinfully large amount of money on car insurance? Switch to a bike to get away from the gas prices, yet the insurance prices still follow you, like demons dragging you down? Well, if so, do what I did: switch to Geico, and save up to two hundred dollars in motorcycle insurance." (Satan roars away, and you can see heads tied to the back tire cover, screaming,) "Beep Beep!"

Sky watched Satan fly down the road, then slowly looked away. This place was strange. But the food was good, and they also decided to stay the night, after it was discovered that Inuyasha couldn't move because of the large amount food he had eaten. Sango and Kagome kicked Sky out of their room when she wouldn't shut up, constantly asked questions about random things. Because she couldn't sleep, Sky went out into the living room, and watched the T.V.

The household was rudely awoken by her piercing scream, as she scrambled to her feet and ran from the t.v., shrieking, into Kagome's room, where they had to pry her out of the closet.

"What the heck is wrong with you?" Kagome asked furiously, mindful of her mother's presence. Sky stammered out an answer.

"Th-the m-m-man! H-h-he w-w-was watching m-m-me!" She ended on a wail. Kagome shook her.

"What are you talking about! There is no man out there! Inuyasha would have seen him if there was! And you didn't see anything, did you, Inuyasha?" He shook his head. "See? Nothing is wrong." Sky started to wail again, as she saw Sango was about to open the window to look outside.

"NO! DON'T DO IT! THE CREEPY MAN WITH THE SANDWICH IS OUT THERE! HE'S AFTER ME! HE'LL JUST BE STANDING OUT THERE, SMILING! HE WANTS TO POISON ME WITH HIS KILLER SANDWICH SO THAT HE CAN EAT MY FLESH!" She lurched from where she had been sitting on the bed, and tried to tackle Sango. Inuyasha and Miroku caught her before she could reach the demon slayer. "DON'T OPEN THE WINDOW!" She screamed some more.

There was a knock on the door. "DON'T OPEN IT! HE'LL TRY TO COME IN THROUGH THE DOOR, SINCE HE CAN'T REACH ME THROUGH THE WINDOW!" They ignored her. Police were at the door, called by a concerned neighbor over the screaming. It took a while, but eventually they were convinced that it was just a misunderstanding, one of their daughter's friends had been badly scared by a horror movie, nothing to worry about. And after a lecture over the responsibilities a parent has when dealing with this sort of stuff, they left. Heaving a sigh, they moved back upstairs, where Inuyasha and Miroku had given up trying to dig Sky out of the closet. Finally getting the whole story from her, they learned that what she was so afraid of was in fact the Burger King Man, who, in those commercials, just stood outside your window like some creepy smiling hungry stalker. They all agreed with her, that he was creepy, and that he was pretty scary, but said that she was very stupid for thinking he was real.

Soon, they went to sleep.

Except the author, who went over to a friend's house, because her best friend is moving away, and this was a goodbye thing. It was a lot of fun. Except for that we all knew she was going to be leaving soon. The commercial was dedicated to her, though she don't read my stories, because she's not into fanfiction and the like.