A/N: sorry for the delay, I lacked inspiration, its been a rough week. But enough of my pity party, enjoy the chapter! Leave me a nice review while you're at it
Famous Last Words
Chapter 5: Evil Plots, Ahoy!
The radio blared as the clock hit 7:45. Inuyasha's hand slammed down on it, with sleepy hope of silencing the early-morning-talk-show that was his alarm clock.
"Get up," Sesshoumaru said coldly as he walked by Inuyasha's open door.
Inuyasha turned a bleary eye on Sesshoumaru, trying to glare.
"Ack! Sesshoumaru why are you naked?" Inuyasha cried, burying his head in his pillow.
"I have a towel on," Sesshoumaru said calmly. "I wasn't aware that just because you were in my house I was required to shower with clothes on," he added, walking away. "I'm not driving you to school today, so you'd better get up."
Inuyasha rolled over and sat up.
He got out of bed and looked around his messy room, trying to find a clean shirt. He pulled open the closet to find one shirt hanging there sadly, all his others having mysteriously disappeared.
"Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha roared. "Where are all my clothes!?"
"I had to do laundry."
"This isn't even my shirt!" he cried, pulling the lone white shirt out of his closet. "And the only pair of jeans I have are yours and they're too small!" he said, trying desperately to pull on the pants.
"Well I'm sorry you're a fat ass," Sesshoumaru replied coldly.
"Maybe you're just anor-what'sit!"
"Anorexic?"
"Yeah! That!" he said as he finally pulled on the jeans.
"You do realize that to be anorexic I would have to not eat, don't you?"
Inuyasha was stumped now, so in retaliation he didn't say anything. He grabbed his bag and headed out of his bedroom. "Well, you're a jerk!" he finally said.
"Inuyasha, you look funny," Rin said, looking up from her cereal.
"Humph."
"What's going on?" Inuyasha asked as he walked up to Kagome, noticing a large crowd of people heading in the same direction.
"I guess there's a fight or something," Kagome said, rolling her eyes. "I suppose you wanna go see?"
Inuyasha shrugged and pushed through the crowd. A few feet away in the hall he saw Kouga laughing at a guy that Inuyasha thought was named Renkotsu.
"You never learn!" Kouga taunted, taking a few steps back from Renkotsu, who seemed unconcerned. "You have to be much faster than that to catch me!" he said, walking by Renkotsu, intending to walk away. Kouga was most unfortunately jerked back by his ponytail and shoved face first into a wall. "You always cheat!"
"How is this cheating? You tried to run away."
"You don't have hair, you can't pull mine!" Kouga growled, trying to pull out of his grip.
Kouga turned away, finally jerking his hair from Renkotsu's grip and moving to punch him.
"Do they do this often?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Uh-huh. They aren't particularly fond of each other," Kagome said pleasantly.
Inuyasha scanned the crowd, and his insides froze. "Oh…shit."
"What?"
"…Kikyou…" he muttered, noticing the dark haired girl walking by.
Kikyou's eyes flickered towards Inuyasha for a moment but she continued walking away.
Nearby, two boys and a set of girls noticed this brief, cold moment.
"You're up to no good," Bankotsu said to the girl.
"And you guys are doing a civic duty?" she shot back, flipping her hair back.
"At least we aren't trying to torment Kikyou," Jakotsu defended.
Tsubaki rolled her eyes. "And what if I am? It's none of your business!"
"Maybe we should stop Renkotsu before a teacher comes out here," Bankotsu said to Jakotsu.
"But why? He's always so pleasant after he beats the shit out of Kouga," Jakotsu pointed out, but joined Bankotsu in pushing Renkotsu away from Kouga. Jakotsu pushed Kouga in the opposite direction.
"God, get off me you stupid fag," Kouga growled, trying to push past him.
"Bankotsu-" Renkotsu started from behind Jakotsu, but Bankotsu had moved fast, landing a punch on Kouga's jaw.
"Watch your mouth," he snapped angrily, grabbing Jakotsu by the arm and signaling for Renkotsu to follow them as they exited the scene.
Tsubaki had a fast and brutal realization at that point, and she smirked to herself.
Overhead, the bell rang and she walked towards her class, not stopping to talk on the way. She peered inside and other than the teacher, there was only one person in the class. She walked in and sat down beside the lone figure.
"Nice show, Renkotsu," she muttered, staring forward.
"Uh-huh," he said, not bothering to glance at her.
More and more people were walking into the class. She put a finger to her lips when her friends looked at her questioning. She leaned over and whispered in Kaguya's ear. Her eyes widened and she smiled, and turned to the other two girls. Tsubaki pulled out a sheet of paper. She scribbled a note and placed it on Renkotsu's desk.
He ignored it for a minute or two, then grabbed it grudgingly.
Renkotsu,
I was just wondering about Bankotsu and Jakotsu. Is there something more than we're seeing there? Would you know? Are they dating or something? I'm just curious, because you hardly see one without the other…
There was a small heart drawn beside her signature.
Renkotsu grabbed a pen from his pocket and scribbled an answer, flicking the folded note back to Tsubaki.
What's it to you?
She thought for a second, and replied, pushing it back over towards Renkotsu.
The way Bankotsu goes out of his way to protect Jakotsu's honor seems very boyfriendish, I've seen him get pissed when Jakotsu remarks that someone's cute…
He rolled his eyes and wrote his reply, passing it back, ignoring the lecture the teacher was giving them about reading Pride and Prejudice.
As far as I know they're just friends.
Tsubaki stared at the note for a second and a wave of daring caught her. She passed the note back.
He looked at her suspiciously and unfolded the sheet of paper, he skimmed to where her reply was.
What about you? Do you ride Jakotsu's train?
He rubbed his temples for a second, wondering how many more classes he would have to put up with this girl. He threw the note at her. To his displeasure (though he was slightly impressed) she caught it smoothly and looked down at the bottom where his reply was cramped.
What in the hell is that supposed to mean exactly?
She sniggered a bit, flipping the paper over to write her reply. She passed it back to Renkotsu, who was trying to pay attention to what Mrs. Taiyoukai was telling them. He glared at her when he felt the note hit his arm.
Are you gay?
He scowled. Just because he hung around Jakotsu didn't make him gay… This girl was getting on his last nerve with her stupid questions and notes. But he knew she'd never leave him alone unless he answered until she ran out of things to say, maybe. He grabbed his pen and wrote hastily.
Tsubaki took the note from him and unfolded it, flipping it to the back.
NO.
Tsubaki looked up at the teacher, listened for a few seconds and wrote down her next question, holding the note out for Renkotsu to grab. He took it.
What would you say if I said I'd like to see Jakotsu and Bankotsu get together?
He did not know what to make of this question, he had an idea though.
You aren't asking me to play matchmaker are you? Because that's out of the question.
Tsubaki covered her mouth to prevent herself from laughing out loud. Mrs. Taiyoukai looked up.
"Have I said something funny?" she asked.
"No," Tsubaki replied.
Mrs. Taiyoukai turned back to the blackboard.
Tsubaki wrote a nice long reply and handed it off to him.
I am just saying that eventually all the signs will point them in the direction of each other. Maybe if the signs were just a bit more obvious, they would figure it out sooner and then everyone would be happy…
Renkotsu frowned, writing his reply.
Why does it matter if they 'find each other' or not? If they find each other before they move out, that means many sleepless nights for me. I live with them.
Tsubaki pondered the question for a moment and then found a good answer, she wrote it down and threw it back at him.
Because, think of it this way, what if Jakotsu is having guy troubles and notices that Bankotsu always gets angry and decides to start asking you for advice about guys? Wouldn't that bother you?
"Renkotsu, I'm very glad you discovered hormones after all of these years, but would you please stop passing notes? It can wait until the end of class, I'm sure. If I see it again, I'll read it to the class."
Renkotsu scowled at the teacher and pocketed the note. He hoped to make a quick and clean getaway after class, but Tsubaki caught up to him.
"Well?"
"I would prefer hearing Jakotsu piss and moan about how there are no gay guys in this town over waking up to them having sex in the next room," he told her shortly. "What do you get out of this?" he asked.
"I'm paid well," she said. "Look. Naraku pays me to get blackmail material on people, is that so horrible? And Naraku wants to get Inuyasha out of the way because he wants Kikyou," she added vehemently.
"Like that would happen. So he's paying you to snoop around and manipulate circumstances so that he can blackmail people?"
She shrugged. "I make an honest living."
"How much?"
"Depends on how illegal, taboo, juicy, or gossip worthy it is. Naraku hangs things over people's heads for his own amusement. I suppose I'd get a hefty bit for Jakotsu and Bankotsu…but I'd have to have proof, but I'm getting a grand if I bring Kikyou his way."
He raised an eyebrow. "You have to be the cruelest bitch I've ever met," he said, heading towards the men's locker room.
"Should I be insulted?"
"Are you?"
"No."
He closed the door behind him, sighing in relief that he had shaken her off. But the information he had just gotten was extremely interesting.
"What was that about?" Jakotsu asked him as he opened his gym locker.
"What?"
"You were talking to that Tsubaki girl an awful lot," he said. "And I was hoping you'd join my team," he said with a sigh, pulling his shirt over his head.
"Where's Bankotsu?" Renkotsu asked, ignoring the comment.
"He's mad at me," Jakotsu said with a frown.
"Why?"
"I don't know! All I did was make a comment about how cute that Inuyasha guy is and he got mad and went to talk to Hiten…he was acting positively jealous! But don't avoid that subject? What was that Tsubaki girl up to?"
"Something about Naraku or some shit, what?" he asked, noticing the look on Jakotsu's face.
"Do you liiiike her?"
"I've never met someone less likable."
"Then you two have something in common," Jakotsu teased as they left the locker room. "Where is Bankotsu?" he muttered, looking around the gym, he spotted him and ran over to his friend.
Renkotsu followed behind him, looking around for any sign of Tsubaki or her pack of girls.
"What's wrong with you?" Jakotsu was asking Bankotsu desperately.
"Nothing, don't worry about it, just go fawn over Inuyasha why don't you?" Bankotsu replied.
"Bankotsu, now you're just being stupid," Renkotsu spoke up. "You know that that Inuyasha guy is terrified of Jakotsu and is never going to give in to him. I don't understand what your problem is."
Bankotsu stared at Renkotsu for a second, looking suspicious. "Whatever." But after that he was acting more like his usual self. The whole class was led outside by the teacher.
"We're going to play another round of football," the teacher said. "But as the boys seem to think themselves above the rules of tag football, we'll let them play regular football for half the class period. If you girls would prefer to sit out, you can."
It was no surprise that all of the girls opted out of playing. Mostly because Renkotsu and Kouga were placed on opposing teams and there was still a good deal of tension between the two.
Sango sat down beside Ayame, observing the game.
"Kouga is such an idiot," she muttered, watching her boyfriend run around.
Sango shrugged. "Everyone has their moments."
"But it was really mean of Renkotsu, they always fight like that. Why does he have to start stuff?"
"Somehow I doubt Renkotsu starts it…" Sango said. "Kouga does have a temper."
Ayame put a hand to her mouth as someone caught up to Kouga and plowed him into the dirt. "Kouga!"
"I'm sure he's fine."
Tsubaki walked past the two girls, talking to Kaguya.
"So Naraku's putting you up to what exactly?" Kaguya asked quietly.
"He wants Kikyou," she explained in a whisper. "So any competition has to be out of the way, etc."
Kaguya nodded. "I don't think that it'll work."
"Neither do I, but anything I can get that's worth blackmail is a bit of money, even if I don't get him Kikyou," Tsubaki said, nodding.
"Is that why you were talking to Renkotsu?" Kagura asked, sounding bored.
"I was inquiring about his two little friends."
"What about them?" Yura spoke up.
"Just wondering what was going on between them. Sometimes they seem positively couple-like."
"You think Jakotsu and Bankotsu have something going on?" Kaguya asked incredulously.
"I think there's something there that we're missing. And Naraku would be most interested in finding out."
Kagura rolled her eyes. "Trust my brother to hire someone to find his materiel after he graduates. Dear God Tsubaki, why would you sink to that level?"
"The money, senior year is notoriously expensive, and so am I."
Kagura rolled her eyes again. Her brother was such a moron.
A/N: Any reviews are lovely. I'll try to update again soon!