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Chapter 13: Breaking And Entering

"Aww, SHIT."

I'd just realized that we were doing something very illegal.

"Uh, guys? What we're doing is highly illegal and we could go to jail for this."

"Yeah? Your point?" Bat raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing, just saying that if we wanted to back out, it's too late."

"That's true," grunted Azulcat, "but who said anything about backing out?"

"Ah. I see your point."

It was late at night. Late at night, and we were stealing a car.

Stealing a car, which was illegal, so that we could pull off a breaking and entering, which was also illegal.

Breaking and entering into Draye's house, specifically.

See, what happened was, Draye is trying to make me pay $65 for like 13 of her old manga books, so we were gonna steal them so we wouldn't have to pay.

But first we have to steal a car.

And that, my dear, is how we ended up at a Jeep dealership.

"Uh, question?" Sneha raised her hand. "Why couldn't we just do this the legal way and pay?"

Everyone stopped and stared. "Do we ever do it legally?" I asked.

"Yes. And anyway, does anyone know how to drive?"

"Yes, sort of," Hilaria called from where she was in the process of smashing in a window.

And for some convoluted reason (such a nice word, convoluted) we had Sesshomaru helping us. And that meant Jaken and Rin were there, too.

"Lord Sesshomaru! Why are we helping these pathetic mortals?" cried Jaken.

"Jaken, I swear if I hear your annoying voice one more time I am going to tie you to a rock and sling you into the ocean," I called.

Hilaria broke the window and amidst the sound of shattering glass, dropped inside. She unlocked the door.

"Alright, which one do we want?" asked Zafe.

"The blue one." Sesshomaru looked around, daring any of us to challenge him.

"But Lord Sesshomaru, if we take the black one we won't be seen as easily!" said Rin.

"Rin, stop challenging Lord Sesshomaru!" shouted Jaken. Azulcat looked around for a large boulder.

"Jaken, stop challenging my tolerance!" mimicked Bat.

"Jaken, stop being such a suckup," growled Hilaria.

"Nah, I like the red one better," Sneha said.

Sesshomaru drew the Tenseiga.

"The blue one's fine," Bat hastily assured him while subtly stepping on Sneha's foot. We all took the hint and moved over to the blue one.

"What idiot salesman left the keys inside the car?" Zafe wanted to know.

"An idiot salesman, you retard. That's who."

Hilaria sat down in the driver's seat. "Shotgun!" I screamed, and dived into the passenger seat before anyone else.

The rest of them piled into the back as Hilaria zoomed outside.

"Shit!" I squeaked as we skidded over the highway, breaking the speed limit by…well, a lot. "I thought you said you know how to drive!" Azulcat screeched as we thundered off the road and into a bush.

"That is it, I will drive this car!" Zafe announced, and marched purposefully towards the front of the car.

"Oh no, you are someone I trust at the wheel even less than Hilaria!" laughed Sneha. She tripped Zafe and stepped over him. "I'll drive."

And for the next 15 minutes we were subject to constant fear and terror as we skidded and swerved over the deserted pavement.

"Sorry!" Sneha screamed at a bicyclist she'd run into.

"Oh dear God," I mumbled, clutching my seat.

"Never…never again!" gasped Bat murderously.

"I don't think we'll be doing that again!" Hilaria raged.

We all climbed out of the car a lot more shaken then we'd been when we got in. Finally though, we were at Draye's flat.

"Okay, did you bring the rope?" Hilaria asked.

"Yes I brought the rope; do you think I'm completely irresponsible?" I snapped.

"Yes," came the reply in unison from the entire group, including the InuYasha characters. I briefly flared my nostrils.

Grabbing a large jar of black face paint and a couple of black hats, we all dressed up like traditional burglars, except for Sesshomaru. Oh well, only to be expected.

Using a grappling hook to grip the roof of Draye's apartment building and tear out a large number of roof tiles, we climbed up the wall and went in through the window.

"Aww! Fuck!" hissed Zafe. "Why the fuck does she have so many goddamn katanas?"

I bent over to inspect the sword he'd stepped on…hey wait a minute, this wasn't a katana! This was one of my rapiers!

"I thought you took all your rapiers with you when you moved out," murmured Bat.

"I did! Where did she get this one?"

"Who cares, let's just find the books and get the hell out of here," whispered Azulcat.

"I think they are over there." Sesshomaru pointed to a shelf.

"Wonderful, Lord Sesshomaru!" cried Jaken.

"Master Jaken, not so loud!" hushed Rin.

"WTF!" yelled a very wide awake Draye, thanks to Jaken. "Why are you all here!!!!?"

As we all stammered, looking for an excuse to be in Draye's flat at 2:30 am, Sesshomaru had taken a closer look at the books we were stealing.

Suddenly a booming voice rang out from the sky.

"Emerald Tiara….what have I told you about this?" the voice thundered. Hilaria winced. "Aw shit, Emerald."

The books we were stealing? Well….they were thirteen volumes of InuYasha. Meaning I had once again revealed to a character that they were just that, a character. Meaning Clio was mad again.

"Oops…"

"Oops' barely covers it," said Clio as she appeared before us.

Right! Now while I have something TOTALLY awesome planned for July 4th, I'll be at camp, so does anyone mind if July 4th from Hell comes in mid-August?

Didn't think so.