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Pwale comes downstairs crying.
Jenny: Pwale, what's wrong?
Pwale: …
Jenny: …OH MY GODS!
(The Gods are offended by this, since they don't get along with Jenny, and attempt to leave the castle. Unfortunately Pwale's teddy bear isn't done with them yet. There's still plenty of math on the board)
Mr. X: What is it? What's wrong?
Jenny: PWALE'S SO UPSET THAT SHE CAN'T EVEN TALK!
Mr. X: (Faints)
Mostly everyone else runs around in circles screaming while Pwale begins to cry even louder.
Sesshomaru: I'm calling an ambulance!
(Several minutes later)
The Disclaimer Ambulance has drawn up to take Pwale to The Fanfiction Hospital! On the side is written They Don't Own, So Please Don't Sue.
A horde of men in white with large nets jump out and usher the still sobbing Pwale into the back. Sesshomaru, as her "closest relative" goes with her.
This is only because the Review Lion found that marriage certificate that Pwale tricked Sesshomaru into signing and she felt that it would be a good idea to show it to the men in white.
Al and Lia are suspiciously missing.
Koga (still in the dungeon with Miroku): You know, I have suddenly got a VERY bad feeling…
Mario (who is watching from the stairs): I think it's time to go on a trip…
Lawyer #1 & #2: I'm going back to bed…
Pwale (right before she passes out in the ambulance): …The…the tower…!
To be continued…
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The Stamp Of Gold
Separation Pending
By Pwalefriend
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The children's classroom. It was always a lovely place to have lessons. Or…Well, to try to have lessons. It was such a lovely place that not much time seemed to be devoted to Maths or Science. Rather Art, Music and Napping. The windows faced both South and West, inviting as much sunlight as possible. And sunlight wasn't the best thing for concentration.
It was one such sunny day in the early Spring and Kagome was helping Shippo to draw a cat.
When Mrs. Higurashi burst into the children's classroom, waving a piece of paper wildly over her head and with Sango and Kagura following, all of the grinning like the cat who dragged the rat back in, Kagome know that something bad was about to happen.
"Oh Kagome!" Mrs. Higurashi gushed. "I've got some wonderful news! You're simply going to love it!"
Something very, very bad.
"…Children," Kagome said slowly, ushering her charges towards the door, gliding past the other women. "Let's go outside where the crazy people can't scare us anymore."
Rin, Shippo and Satsuki, who were wondering (yes, even Rin) why these previously sensible-seeming adults had suddenly lost their marbles, were anxious to flee and agreed post haste.
The four of them were running down the hall as if all the Hell's were after them.
"Well…" Kagura said. "Apparently we're going to have to be more…discreet."
Sango and Mrs. Higurashi all nodded, and put their heads together to come up with a new plan.
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When somebody knocked on Inuyasha's door the poor sleepless and therefore tired hanyou jumped nervously. He hadn't gotten any sleep last night for several reasons-
1: That stupid Wifey song was still stuck in his head and he couldn't for the life of him figure out why it didn't bug him.
2: Koga had disappeared again and that was never a good thing.
3: Sota had developed some sort of hero complex and Kagome had made it very clear that is he broke the kid's heart there would be nothing but pain in his future.
4: Sesshomaru had smiled at him yesterday.
5: Kagome's crazy dying grandfather turned out to be rather spry and was attacking Inuyasha every chance he got.
6: Inuyasha had finally discovered the question that everyone else wondered all the time.
Where did all his money come from?
The person at the door knocked again, a bit harder this time. Inuyasha shook off his reverie.
"Come in!" He called.
Mrs. Higurashi entered.
"Hello Inuyasha." She said kindly. "I've got some good news, and I thought that you should be the first to know!"
Was it just Inuyasha, or had a great cloud of impending doom just descended?
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When Sesshomaru rounded the corner on his way to tease his younger brother and saw his wife and her friend doubled over with silent giggles he immediately knew that there was evil afoot. Silently he padded up behind them, an evil grin in his mind, if not on his face.
"What's so funny?" He said in a monotone. The two girls jumped and turned to face him.
Kagura looked him over.
"Can you keep a secret?" She asked. Sesshomaru turned and raised an eyebrow at his wife. She rolled her eyes in return. This was there secret language; I don't know what it means.
"She means a romantic secret." Sango said, still giggling slightly. Sesshomaru paled.
Romantic secrets were always bad, bad, bad things.
"Involving your brother and Kagome." Kagura added, smirking.
On the other hand, there were always exceptions.
Sesshomaru leaned a little closer so as to better hear them.
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Inuyasha stared at Mrs. Higurashi, total horror on his face though his mind was only blank. He was sitting at his desk and looking up at the happy woman in front of him. His hands clutched the edge of the wood so hard that his hands were turning white. A feeling a little bit like panic was welling in his chest, and he didn't understand why.
"I just knew you'd be pleased!" She beamed. Then Mrs. Higurashi turned and left the room at a brisk pace, trying to keep from snickering.
Inuyasha found that he couldn't move. He couldn't even think.
"…What?" He breathed. "…No…It can't be…"
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In the stables Sota and Kohaku were playing a game of Go Fish while Kanna looked on. They sat above the horses stalls in the hayloft, a soft and comfortable place that shone with dusty light from the small glassless windows at either end.
"Got any eights?" Sota asked.
"Go Fish." Kohaku said. "Hey," he added as Sota picked up a card from the deck. "Have the girls been acting odd lately?"
"Kagome certainly has." Sota said. "She was happy to see us, sure, but…Well…Your turn."
"Got any fours?"
"Damnit." Sota handed him a four. "But do you know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I know exactly what you mean." Kohaku said, lying down his new found pair. "Sango acted the same way when Miroku left on trips. Got any kings?"
"Go Fish." Sota said, then Kohaku's words registered. "Ew! Are you saying…Saying…Saying that Kagome's in love! That's gross! Only girls fall in love! Kagome's not a girl! She's a sister!"
"Sisters fall in love too!" Kohaku said.
"Well, they shouldn't!" Sota said. "Got any jacks?"
Kohaku handed over his jack and Kanna silently agreed with Sota. Sisters shouldn't fall in love. It was very confusing and rather disturbing, she knew exactly what the two boys were going through. She had gone through it herself when Kagura had met Sesshomaru.
"Anyway," Sota said. "Who would Kagome be in love with?"
Kohaku paused a moment to think about it, but he just couldn't think of anyone. Surely Kagome didn't have the bad taste to fall in love with Koga of all people! But who else was there…
"I know who." Kanna said quietly, immediately drawing the full attention of the two boys.
"Who?" They asked eagerly.
"Inuyasha." Kanna said softly, a tiny pinch of amusement steeping into her voice.
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When the women in the kitchen heard the crash of many items being thrown against the wall in Inuyasha's rooms they grinned.
Finally! At long last they're plans had worked! They had succeeded!
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Kaede called, smirking like the Devil itself. "Let's make this a meal to remember!"
Huzzahs filled the cavernous kitchen and work started again with much more vigor. The men didn't really understand what was going on, but the women had been acting so oddly of late anyway it really wasn't anything new.
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Sesshomaru stared in shock at Kagura and Sango.
"You're pure evil!" He informed them. "Can I give you some pointers?"
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"Kagome?" Shippo asked hesitantly. He wasn't sure if he should mention it, but if Kagome was sick… "Why do you keep sneezing? And your ears are really red. Are you cold?"
"…Shippo…" Kagome said hesitantly. "I think something bad is about to happen."
"Kagome!" Came a high creaking voice. Kagome and the three children turned around to face Kagome's grandfather.
"Kagome!" Grandfather Higurashi said happily. "You'll never believe the good news!"
"…What?" Kagome asked hesitantly.
"We just won the lottery!" Grandfather Higurashi said. "You're going to come back home with us!"
Kagome fainted right then and there.
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"That wench!" Inuyasha was screaming. "That bitch!"
Miroku sat against the wall, his head in his hands.
"I don't know why I even bother coming back here anymore." Miroku said. "Maybe I should kidnap Sango and move away?"
"I'll kill her!"
"Inuyasha's pissed off and homicidal. Kagome and the children are nowhere to be found. Flying trees are going around singing about wives. All the women in this whole infested rat warren won't stop cackling. Sesshomaru keeps on smiling. And to make it all worse no one will explain to me what's going on!"
Suddenly Koga burst into the room. This was completely out of the blue.
"Well Inuyasha." Koga snapped. "I hope you learned your lesson! Now I want a raise!"
Silence fell.
"What?" Inuyasha hissed. "You want a what?"
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"You know, Sango," Mrs. Higurashi said. "I have a question for you." The two women had decided to take a stroll in the lovely Spring air.
"I'll try to answer as best I can, Mrs. Higurashi." Sango said.
"I understand how both Shippo and Rin came to stay in this place, but what about Satsuki? How did she come here?"
Sango looked sad for a moment.
"Satsuki's birth parents weren't exactly…on the right side of the law. When Satsuki was three and her brother took her and ran away from their home. He was fifteen at the time. They lived happily together for about a year before her brother was killed in a tavern brawl. Kagura rescued Satsuki and brought her here. But Satsuki is convinced that her brother is still alive and that someday he will come to get her."
Mrs. Higurashi looked down, her cheery mood slightly dampened. It was a sad story, but unfortunately not an unusual one.
"Does Kagome know?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. Sango shrugged.
"Who knows." She said. "There's no telling what Inuyasha trusts her with these days."
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Kagome was sitting on her bed, staring at her hands as tears streamed down her face. She didn't want to leave! But…But how could she convince her family and Inuyasha to let her stay? Everyone was expecting her to go, and normally she wouldn't care about what everybody thought. But this time…the look on Sota's face when he had welcomed her back to the mansion when she had returned with the children…
Could she really stand to disappoint him?
And her Grandfather wasn't going to be there much longer either. How could she leave him?
Flashback
"No!" Shippo bawled. "You can't leave, you promised to read me a story! And you can protect us from Inuyasha! No one else will! And it's my birthday soon! Mine and Satsuki's! You have to be there! You just have to!"
End Flashback
Kagome groaned.
What was she going to do?
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Well, there you have it. It's a little different from what I was originally planning, but…I think that I can make it work.
If I can't, be prepared for a complete turn-about, 'cause if I can't make this work then I'm going to have to get off track (really off track) for a chapter or two so that I can make my switch back into the original plot line more believable.
But don't worry! I really think that I can pull this off!
You'll notice that I updated this a lot sooner then I did last time and that it's longer. This is to make up for my horrible absence last time. I hope that it was satisfactory.
Roar!
The Review Lion was quite pleased with your last set of reviews, but she isn't anywhere near done yet! So you still have to review!
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Sincerely
Pwalefriend