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Mr. X: Are you serious?

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The Stamp Of Gold

Come Together II

By Pwalefriend

"KAGOME! KA-GOOOO-ME!" Shippo screamed at the top of his little lungs as he barreled back into the mansion. It looked…different. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but something had definitely happened. He hadn't started to panic though, until he Myoga. Myoga never came unless something really bad had happened. Rin and Satsuki knew it too, and they were all searching for Kagome now, praying that nothing had happened to her.

"What happened?" Kagura asked her husband, who had been talking to Myoga.

"Inuyasha set the house on fire." Sesshomaru said calmly. Kagura blinked, then paled.

"He what!" She spat.

"He set the house on fire."

"How can you say that so calmly!"

"Why shouldn't I?"

"Because it's a horrible and ridiculous thing to say!"

"What's ridiculous about it?"

"What do you mean 'what's ridiculous about it'?"

And, in that vein, they continued…for a very long time.

The kids searched high and low, but when the reached the nursery the weird smell got a lot stronger and they were distracted by that…and by the servant who had been trying to catch and stop them from entering this side of the mansion. Now the servant was sitting in the middle of the room and staring around, muttering things like:

"How is this possible?"

And:

"Maybe the other's are right."

And:

"I shoulda listened to me muddah."

And:

"Oh well, there's work to be done and lunch isn't going to cook itself."

And with that final phrase the servant got up and left the children alone. The children looked at each other. Shrugged, and they all proceeded to wonder in their own special ways what exactly was wrong with adults.

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Bang! Bang! Bang!

That was the noise that jerked Kagome and Inuyasha awake in the morning. They had spent the entire night discussing things like this so-called night of weakness and how to proceed with their lessons. They ended up deciding to continue the lessons face to face, since anything else would just be silly, and that they weren't going to tell the others.

Why?

Simple. Both Inuyasha and Kagome loved a good laugh, and they couldn't wait to see their faces once the others realized that they were well acquainted.

Bang! Bang! Bang. Bang!

Now they looked at each other, cautiously. If anyone found Kagome in here with Inuyasha, then the whole plan would be ruined!

"Get under here." Inuyasha whispered, lifting up a blanket. They may have conversed innocently, and Inuyasha may have put on some pants, but they hadn't left Inuyasha's bedside.

Kagome nodded and crawled under, trying to look at flat as possible.

"Inuyasha!" Growled a voice from the other side of the door, Kagome recognized it as Lord Sesshomaru's. She started. Did that mean that the children were back too? Uh-oh…knowing them they were already looking for her. This didn't seem like it was going to be easy.

"I'm comin', I'm comin'." Inuyasha growled back, leaping forward and jerking the door open. "Try a little bit of patience, would you?"

Sesshomaru glared at him.

"And you could try a little bit of speed, oh king of snails."

"Hey!" Inuyasha protested. "The snail beat the rabbit!" Referring to a common folk tale.

"That was the tortoise."

"…What about the donkey?"

"That was the toad."

"…the Zodiac?"

"The snail isn't in that one, Inuyasha."

"What about that one with the lady bug?"

"In that one? Inuyasha…in that one the lady bug is the slow one."

"Well then what about that spider-"

"Ananzi?" Sesshomaru eye brows raised. Come to think of it, he was sure that Ananzi had been in a race, but he couldn't remember it. "As much as I'd love to sit here with you listing myths," he said instead. "I did come for a reason."

"No!" Inuyasha exclaimed sarcastically. "I thought that you just came to say hello!"

'Normal people would have just come to say hello…' Kagome thought from underneath the blanket. 'What does that say to you about these people?'

Sesshomaru looked around the room with a despairing eye.

"Your room is…fixed…" Sesshomaru said with a smirk, then he left. Kagome heard the door shut, shortly followed by a loud thump, before she chanced to peek out from under the covers. When she did she was met by Inuyasha's pale, pale face.

"Can I get in under with you?" He croaked. Kagome just looked at him. "My brother's trying to kill me again." Inuyasha said as way of explanation.

"…Right-ee-oh then." Kagome said after a moment. "I'm just going to go…find the children and see if they've kept up with their studies while they were abroad. I seriously doubt it though…I hope that they at least drew the pictures that I asked them too…" And with that, she too fled.

'There is something wrong with this household…' She thought.

'What's her problem?' Inuyasha was wondering. 'If anyone should be scared, it's me. I hate it when Sesshomaru tries to kill me!'

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"Um…Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, looking down at his friend. It was late night, and Miroku had expected to find even Inuyasha asleep. Instead Inuyasha was sitting on the floor in front of his room, shoving Shippo's toy duck-on-wheels through the open door.

"Shh!" Inuyasha hissed. "I'm checking for traps!"

"Inuyasha…" Miroku sighed. "There are no traps in here."

"Are too!" Inuyasha said stubbornly.

"Are not!" Miroku shot back.

"Prove it!" Inuyasha challenged.

"Fine." Miroku said. "I will." And with that he walked confidently into the room…

…Only to have a bucket of frogs fall on his head, much to Inuyasha's amusement.

"Ha!" Inuyasha said, walking in as well not that the danger was gone. "And you said that there weren't any-" But as he said this and as he stepped over Miroku another bucket, this time full of milk fell on his head.

"Ha!" Miroku said back. "…Hey? Where'd you get that necklace?"

Inuyasha, remembering his time with Kagome earlier that morning, just looked at the other man. Miroku flinched.

"What?" Miroku asked. "Why are you giving me that look? Stop giving me that look! How'd you learn that look anyway, I thought that only girls could do that look! No! Stop it!"

Kagome looked up at the ceiling from the nursery where she was cleaning up.

"What the hell are they doing up there?" She wondered aloud, and then she shrugged.

Males were weird.

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Well, did you like it? Sorry that it took me so long! I'll try and update sooner next time! And I'm sooo sorry if I forgot to thank any of the reviewers! But review anyway otherwise my Review Lion will have to-well…you know what I mean…

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Pwalefriend