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Pwale: Sniff. Do you guys hate me?

Jenny: Just a little bit.

Pwale: Oh…okay then!

Jenny: We hate Sesshomaru a lot more!

Sesshomaru: …Do you think I care?

Mr. X: We expected that kind of behavior from Pwale, but from you, Sesshomaru!

Al: …wait…how are we working a disclaimer into this?

Lia: CUT! I don't know…what does the script say?

Al: I can't find it in here!

Pwale: What? I was sure I wrote it!

Mr. X: Maybe it was on that page that wouldn't print?

Pwale smacks her forehead.

Pwale: Anyone got something to write with?

Inuyasha: Here you go… (hands Pwale a magic marker)

Pwale (as she writes): …we…don't…own…these…characters…

Sesshomaru: …Do you realize that you forgot to turn of this magic recording box thing?

Al: Huh?

Pwale: NOO! THEY HEARD EVERYTHING!

The Stamp of Gold

Inferno

By Pwalefriend

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The mansion's residents weren't the only ones staring in open-mouthed horror as Inuyasha's quarters began to billow smoke and spit flame. The Elementals were just as shocked by their master and friend's behavior as the next person. But they were also rather offended.

There were books in those rooms! Books! Books and learning were a part of the Earth, a part of them! Didn't anybody realize that?

"NO, YOU IDIOT!" Kagome screamed up at Inuyasha's quarters. "THERE ARE BOOKS IN THERE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!"

"Kagome!" Sango and Koga screamed, dashing forward to grab her and drag her back to the safety of the forest.

"Let go of me!" She growled. "Someone's got to go up there and snap some sense into him before he burns the whole place down!"

"You're the one who's not making sense!" Sango growled back, her fear making her edgy. "If you go up there you'll die right along with those books!"

"Well, won't Inuyasha as well!" Kagome asked angrily. That shut Sango up and Koga sent her a look that said 'oh-well-said-genius-now-look-what-you've-done'.

"Um…Inuyasha's…a little weird that way…" Sango said slowly. She was all too aware that she was digging her own grave.

"Weird what way?" Kagome asked suspiciously.

"She means that nobody cares." Koga said hurriedly. Kagome snapped her glare on him.

"I care!" She said. "I just accused him of being a murderer, I can't become one by letting him die now, can I?"

"YOU SAID WHAT!" Miroku bellowed, looking horrified. Kagome blinked. Miroku looked back up at the now flame-engulfed side of the mansion. "We're dead." He said in a very cheerful voice. "We are so incredibly dead that I don't have words to describe how incredibly dead we are."

"You don't mean…" Sango gasped, letting go of Kagome and grasping Miroku's hand. "Miroku, you can't be saying that…"

Miroku looked at Sango, his eyes radiating sincerity and slight fear.

"I'm afraid so, my dear." He said in a deep voice.

Kagome and Koga were watching them cautiously, as if the two had suddenly become rabid carnivorous animals.

"Oh Miroku, I don't want to die!" Sango cried, falling into Miroku's arms. Miroku hugged her, and…did not grope her.

"I'll do my best to protect you Sango!" Miroku vowed.

"Um…what's wrong with them?" Kohaku asked slowly. Everyone had stopped watching the fire and were now watching Miroku and Sango act like idiots.

"I think maybe the smoke's getting to them…" One servant said.

"Well whatever it is, they'll thank me when they wake up." Koga said gruffly, before picking up a big stick and knocking the simpering duo out cold.

"Koga!" Kagome gasped, shocked. Koga looked at her innocently.

"What?" He asked. "They were about to elope, you saw them!" The surrounding servants all nodded.

"He's got a point." One said.

"You can't deny it…" Added another.

Kagome, seeing she was outnumbered, decided to let it slide. After all, if Kohaku wasn't upset then neither was she.

But still…something was bothering her…what was it…

"IS ANYONE GOING TO HELP ME!" Kanna, who was usually silent, screamed in fury. Everyone turned and saw the young Horse Mistress heading towards them, leading two young foals by the reins. "THE WIND'S CHANGED DIRECTION!" Kanna bellowed. "HALF OF YOU GO TRY AND PUT THAT FIRE OUT! THE OTHER HALF GET THE HORSES OUT OF THEIR STABLES!"

Kagome and half the servants surged towards the mansion, while Koga and Kanna led the other half to the stables to get the panicking equines out of the way of danger.

"GRAB THE BUCKETS FROM THE WELL!" Kagome yelled, immediately taking charge. "GET THE WET LAUNDRY! HIT THE FLAMES WITH THEM, STAMP THE FIRE OUT! WE CAN'T LET THE FIRE GET TO THE GRASS, IF EVEN ONE BLADE LIGHTS THEN IT'LL ALL CATCH AND WE'RE ALL GOING UP IN SMOKE! NOW GET TO IT!" Kagome was a strong woman, and she wasn't in the mood to die that day.

"GOT IT BOSS!" Said the collective servants in unison, looks of determination on their faces as they rolled up their sleeves.

"Inuyasha…what's wrong with you?" Kagome whispered to herself as she dumped bucket upon bucket on the wall. The fire was coming closer and closer, eating up half the house. "Why aren't you out of there yet?"

Kagome noticed something odd.

"Why isn't the other half of the building catching fire?" She wondered aloud. A scream of pain as someone burned themselves interrupted her and she shrugged it off, there simply wasn't any time to wonder about stuff like that!

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Inuyasha wasn't still inside because he wanted to be, after he had snapped out of his mindless rage and seen the fire licking at all the walls surrounding him he had wanted nothing more then to get out of the mansion and kiss the good sweet Earth in gratitude. It's just…when you're panicking in a burning hallway everything looks the same. Inuyasha couldn't figure out where he was, let alone how to get out.

"Note to self…" He gasped as he ran desperately, crashing through fiery walls of death, to put it cheerily. "…next time…make the whole mansion fireproof…!"

Inuyasha ran through one wall and had enough time to see that he had just leapt clear from the building before he went tumbling down to meet the good sweet Earth. If Inuyasha hadn't been knocked unconscious by this fall he probably wouldn't have kissed the good sweet Earth, even though that was what he had been meaning to do in the first place.

A now-conscious (and very confused) Miroku was the one who found him. Sadly, being unconscious had knocked something loose in Miroku's head, and when Miroku found his 'sleeping' master, his immediate reaction was to panic for fear that Kagome would see Inuyasha and Inuyasha would get mad and do something drastic.

Miroku wasn't quite 'all there', if you know what I mean. He hadn't really noticed the fire.

So Miroku, being the half-dead really stupid man that he was at the time, dragged Inuyasha to the Dry Well in the Forest and dumped him in to hide him from Kagome. Then Miroku fell unconscious once more, due to oxygen loss. Yes, he had been so disoriented that he had forgotten to breathe.

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"Wait…" Kagome suddenly froze. "When we wave the laundry…" Kagome swore. "EVERYONE, STOP BEATING THE FLAMES WITH THE CLOTH!"

Kanna spared a glance in their general direction, before rolling her eyes.

"She just figured out that they were feeding the fire oxygen?" Kanna questioned aloud. "Sometimes I seriously wonder if I'm the only sane one here…"

"Kanna!" Koga complained. "The horses won't come with me!" Kanna looked over to where her fellow employee was having trouble with tow of her equine charges. At the sight that met her eyes Kanna's glance became a glare.

"That's because you're leading them towards the fire!" She hissed angrily. "ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL MY DARLINGS!" Kanna screamed.

Koga lifted up his hands and backed away from her. It was meant to be a placating gesture…however in the process he let go of the reins and the horses bolted.

Moreover Koga had, unknown to Kanna, been leading the alpha stallion of the herd, so when he bolted…everyone else went with him.

To put it mildly…there were a lot of trampled servants that day. It made chariot-racing look like a riding show.

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Well, how did everyone like that? I must say, it was odd to write. About half way through I had to go back and delete everything because I realized it wasn't where I wanted to go…and I'm still not so sure. I've been writing a lot of Latin translations and Math papers, so my flow is a little off. But this was the best I could manage before I get back to being more balanced. I don't know…what do you guys think?

My Review Lion is back in commission, thanks to all the review, so don't you people be thinking that you can get off the hook! She's back and she's feeling better then ever!

ROAR!

See what I mean?

Well, I hope to post the next chapter soon!

Sincerely

Pwalefriend