Television, Cars, and Coffee: Chapter 7
The Bus
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After the so called 'Springer incident' as it would come to be referred to in the future, and which Jaken would stubbornly deny it ever happened, Kagome dug through the refrigerator and the pantry in search of some lunchworthy food. Coming up empty, she decided to order a pizza instead. She just ordered the standard pepperoni pizza, and one with just cheese, not really wanting to deal with remembering who wanted what. She hung up the phone after placing the order.
"It'll be here in half and hour" she announced.
"Is pizza good, Kagome-chan?"
"Of course! You'll love it, just you wait!" Smiling, Rin sat down on the couch.
"Can we watch another movie, Kagome-chan?"
"Sure" The miko walked over to the movie rack and skimmed over the titles until she found a movie she liked. Kagome pulled the movie off the rack and put in into the DVD player. It was rolling through the movie previews when Kagome said, "Drinks, anybody?"
"Pepsi" Sesshomaru stated at once. Rin nodded, "Rin too, please!" Kagome went into the kitchen, and came back out with the drinks.
"What movie are we watching?" Rin asked.
"Ice Age" answered Kagome, "It's one of my favorites"
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DING DONG
Rin jumped at the sudden noise, having been focused on the movie.
"Pizza's here!" Kagome announced, grabbing some money and heading out to meet the pizza guy. She came back a minute later carrying two flat boxes in her arms. "I ordered extra, just in case" She sat them down on the coffee table, and got some paper plates from the kitchen. Opening the box, she grabbed a couple slices.
"Help yourselves" she said before biting down on a piece. Rin happily selected a piece and nibbled a bit off the end. Her expression brightened, and she took a huge bite.
"Sesshomaru-sama! Please try some! It's very good!"
Sesshomaru looked at his ward smiling up at him. He inwardly sighed and grabbed a slice of the pizza before tasting a bit.
'It's...good' he thought, surprised.
"Well Sesshomaru-sama? How is it?" Rin asked excitedly.
"It's...enjoyable" he said, before taking another bite. Rin nodded in agreement before going back to the movie.
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Kagome looked at the clock: 1:45. "We should go get your prescription now, Rin" she said. Kagome put on her shoes and led them out the door. "Come on, we have to go to the bus stop and wait for the bus to get there"
"Bus?" asked Rin.
"It's sort of a giant car thing that can carry a lot more people at the same time. It goes around the city, picking people up and taking them to where they want to go" They walked down the street and to the corner before turning left, and going down that street. At the end, they sat on a bench by a sign that said 'bus'. Ten minutes later, a huge, blue bus pulled up in front of them and the driver opened its doors. Kagome signalled them to follow her, and climbed up the stairs. Putting some money in the fee box, Kagome looked around for empty seats. The bus, she noted, was pretty full today. She picked the seat right behind the driver, and sat down, sliding over to the window. Rin looked up at Sesshomaru.
"Can Rin sit in Sesshomaru-sama's lap?"
He looked down at her and nodded. Sesshomaru sat down beside Kagome and helped Rin climb into his lap. The driver closed the door, and pulled into the traffic.
Kagome looked around at the inhabitants of the bus. Of course, there's always a couple of elderly ladies on the bus, an older guy with a golf hat, a lady with a baby and a three-year-old that won't sit still, and that one person who'll come up and talk to you, whether you know them or not, and won't leave you alone no matter what hints are given telling them to go away. Right at the moment, Kagome could see the said person interrogating one of the elderly ladies. Sighing, she turned back around, hoping this trip wouldn't be too stressful. The seat behind them was empty, so hopefully, nobody would bother them. Kagome didn't think it would be a good idea to piss off the Lord of the Western Lands in the middle of an enclosed area. It probably wouldn't turn out with a very happy ending for whoever was stupid enough to do it...
The bus turned a corner, and everybody leaned to the side, except Sesshomaru, who somehow managed to stay completely upright. How he did it was beyond Kagome, who had knocked her head off the window. Pulling up to another stop, the busdriver opened the doors, and a few teenage girls, who were wearing shorts so short, they almost didn't qualify as shorts, and a guy with black, spiked hair, and a spike necklace got on. The guy went back a couple seats before sitting down, but the girls placed themselves in the vacant seat right behind Kagome, Sesshomaru, and Rin. Kagome saw that they immediately took to eyeing Sesshomaru, and whispering behind their hands to eachother.
'Great' she thought, 'I think I've just found our candidates for getting Sesshomaru mad. Wonderful.'
Sighing, Kagome turned to face out the window. Hopefully, these girls would get it through their heads that this wasn't a guy to be flirting with...
"Hi!"
Contestant number one, come on down.
Kagome turned to see that the Will-never-stop-talking-to-you person had chosen them as his next targets. He sat down on the seat across from them, and gave them a friendly smile. Kagome gave him a smile. Maybe, if she did all the talking, and kept his attention on her, he would escape unharmed.
"Hi" she replied.
"Nice day, isn't it?"
"Yes, the weather's been wonderful the past few days"
"I heard that it's supposed to thunderstorm tonight, though"
"Oh really?"
"Yes. They're expecting hail and all that fun stuff"
"Well, I'll make sure to put everything I don't want damaged somewhere safe. Thanks for telling me"
"No problem. Say where did you get the stuff to dye your hair that color? I've been thinking about getting a color change" the guy said, switching his attention to Sesshomaru while pulling on a few strands of his own black hair.
'Oh, great. Let the stress begin' Kagome thought. Sesshomaru gave the guy a cold look.
"It's not dyed" was all he said. The guy's eyes widened.
"You mean it's natural?" Sesshomaru just stared at him, "Wow! Cool!" the guy finished, before switching his attention to the little girl on the Cool-completely-natural-silver-haired guy's lap.
"Hi, Little One. And what may I ask is your name?"
"Rin is Rin" she answered.
"Well, Rin, aren't you an adorable one?"
Rin just shrugged, not really knowing what to say.
"What's your favorite color?"
"Yellow or pink"
"What's your favorite food?"
"Melons, Rin guesses"
"What's your favorite holiday?"
Rin looked up at Sesshomaru, slightly uncomfortable with the interrogation she was being subjected to. He looked down at her and got the message.
"You will refrain from questioning Rin any further" he stated, staring at the guy, who looked up at him, mildly surprised.
"Why?"
"This Sesshomaru does not need to explain himself"
"So Sesshomaru's your name, huh? I've been meaning to ask you that. Well Sesshomaru, I really see no harm in asking her simple questions" Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at the guy for using his name so casually. "I mean" he continued, "it's not like I'm a stalker or anything. So I'm going to have to ask you your reasoning for this, Sesshomaru"
Sesshomaru cracked his knuckles menacingly, but only Kagome and Rin noticed.
"Well?" asked the guy.
A low growl could be heard.
"Huh?"
More growling.
"Spit it out!"
Just as the Sesshomaru was about to open his mouth to say something, the guy cut him off. "This is my stop. I have to go. Goodbye!"
The guy got up and exited the bus. The driver turned around to face Kagome after he shut the doors. "Don't you just hate guys like that?" She nodded in agreement, before going back to gazing out the window. At least it was calm now.
"Hey"
Sratch that.
"Why's a hot guy like you on a bus like this? And with a girl like her?"
Forget scratching that, burn it.
Kagome turned around to see who would insult her out of the blue. She turned to see the teenagers looking at Sesshomaru, waiting for him to answer their questions. One of them was looking at Kagome like she was something that the cat dragged in.
"Well?" the girl the in the middle said, twirling a piece of platinum blonde hair around her finger. She blew a bubble with a gum she was chewing until it popped. Then she sucked it back in, and snapped it a few times before blowing another bubble. Either Sesshomaru didn't hear her, or he just ignored her, Kagome guessed it was the latter, because he just kept staring fowards the entire time.
"Hey dude! Didn't you hear me?"
No response
"Hey, listen to me!"
Nothing
"Hey!" she said, smacking him on the shoulder.
Oops
Before she could retract her hand, it was encased in an iron hard grip. "You will not touch this Sesshomaru again" he said, menacingly, his eyes narrowed with a growl emmiting from him. She looked him him appalled.
"Are you...Growling at me?" she said, scoffingly before trying to hank her hand back and failing miserably.
"Let go" she commanded.
His eyes narrowed even more.
"Let GO" she yelled, bringing her other hand up and smacking him across the face. 'She's dead' thought Kagome, hopelessly. Sesshomaru was shocked: He was just slapped! Sesshomaru was confused: Who would have the gull to slap him? Sesshomaru was mad: She slapped him. Sesshomaru was boiling mad: That lowly human actually slapped HIM! THE LORD OF THE WESTERN LANDS!
'She dies' was his first thought. Growling, he looked right at her, his eyes bleeding into red. She stared back at him fearfully. Did she really just slap this guy? Oh great. He looked mad.
'Wait, are his eyes turning red?' she thought to herself hysterically, "Uh...sorry?"
Kagome watched on helplessly. It wasn't like she could control the Inu youkai.
"Sesshomaru-sama" Rin said in a small voice, "Please stop"
Sesshomaru blinked a few times, draining the red from his eyes and looked down at his ward before looking back at the girl. He almost lost control. He, Sesshomaru, almost lost it, because of a human. How in the world had he let himself do that? What happened to that famous self-control that he always seemed to possess?
"Uh..." said Kagome, breaking the silence, "It's our stop, we should go"
Coming back to his senses, Sesshomaru let Rin down, and stood up. The driver opened the door.
"Goodbye, you three" he said.
"Bye, Mr. Busdriver" Rin said, making the driver smile. Kagome hurried them off the bus and away from those girls. She sighed, 'That was a close one. Good thing Rin was there'
She turned to look at the building ahead of them.
"Come on" she said, opening the door. Kagome, Rin, and Sesshomaru entered the lovely, airconditioned, pharmacy.
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