"No matter what, I want the two brothers out of the lobby, out of my sight and if it's possible, out of my life." Hotel Manager Mr Naraku ordered to the group of staff.
"Like that is even possible." Miroku snickered. Both Sango and Kagome turned around and gave a glare that said if you want to live just shut up.
The hotel was preparing for the commencement of the beauty pageant. Well, since it was a beauty pageant, Inuyasha would make his presence obvious, won't he?
"I want absolute perfect because the French ambassador's daughter is competing too." Mr Naraku ended off.
Everyone then crossed their fingers; some muttered their prayers before they continued their duties.
We know why they do that.
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"All right, there's a beauty pageant going on." Inuyasha said excitedly as he entered the suite. Sesshomaru just brushed past him.
Of course, Inuyasha loves to annoy his half brother and he hates to be ignored. He continued his ramblings and said, "There are going to have lots of cute girls, my dear brother."
Sesshomaru still ignored him and continued reading his scientific novel on 100 ways to kill your brother.
"Of course, they will be more attracted to me than you." Inuyasha smirked haughtily.
Sesshomaru's veins popped in his head.
"That's because I am more attractive," Inuyasha continued.
Sesshomaru considered sharpening his claws.
"And I have more charisma than you," Inuyasha ended with a pose that was self-proclaimed to be irresistible.
That was the last straw.
Sesshomaru slowly got up and walked to his half brother before plummeting his fist into the wall.
"Firstly, I have the whole school of girls at my feet so that makes me more attractive than you. Secondly, I definitely have more charisma and I am more sophisticated than you. Lastly, I read in my book that by torturing you to death is the best way to kill one's brother. But I decided to skip than and go straight to strangling you instead." With that, Sesshomaru got into a fight with Inuyasha. Once again.
Izayoi then just had to enter the room and saw the two boys doing what could have gotten them into trouble.
She took a deep breath and using her diaphragm, she yelled, "Stop!"
The chandelier in the hotel lobby shook vigorously and the shocked tourists looked up.
"There they go again." Kagome thought while she was kept amused by how Mr Naraku was "entertained" by Kikyo's past of being a beauty queen.
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Needless to say, both of the boys were grounded and they were kept at least a 2 metre radius apart. Before Izayoi left for work, she said to Sesshomaru, "For that hole in the wall, that's coming out of your pocket money."
Inuyasha smiled and Sesshomaru had to resist the temptation to beat up Inuyasha again.
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"So you see, that's how I became a beauty queen." Kikyo said. Kagome, Sango and Miroku looked at her with their mouth opened. She had obviously talked about the same topic for the past 3 days and still counting.
"Kikyo, if you don't mind, but we really got to get ready for the pageant," Kagome said desperately.
"Oh, you got to remember that it is my daddy who's paying you not the pageant." Kikyo smirked.
The trio just sighed and they continued with their job. Though they wished they had brought along their earplugs.
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Soon, the big day arrived. Everyone was busy coordinating their work and our beloved half-brothers were bored.
"Say Sesshy, shall we go crash the pageant?" Inuyasha suggested.
"Like so not?" Sesshomaru snapped back.
"Come on, it will be fun." Inuyasha egged him on.
"Read my lips." Sesshomaru sneered as he crawled slowly to Inuyasha until his face was almost touching Inuyasha's. "I am not crashing the stupid pageant."
Inuyasha flinched and said, "Okok, I get the point. You're like a woman experiencing PMS."
"I am not a woman!" Sesshomaru growled.
"You are! Because you dare not crash the party." Inuyasha mocked.
"Try me." Sesshomaru challenged him.
"Let's go then." With that, they dashed out of the door.
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Mr Naraku was frantically trying to make things work. He even specially went to the security and asked that both half-brothers to be banned from entering the ballroom.
"Oh Mr Naraku, help me. The French ambassador's daughter is a killer." A staff pleaded to Mr Naraku as if his life depended on it.
"Well, what?" Mr Naraku said.
"She wants me to act as her model and test her make up on me."
Then a staff came in and said, "Mr Naraku, one of the girls decided to go missing and it will disrupt the whole programme."
This time, Mr Naraku panicked. He then pushed the male staff away and said, "Well, continue being her model then." Then, he walked away to find the missing girl.
The male staff felt dejected and muttered to himself, "I have lowered my dignity as a man."
"Oh just kill me"
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Just then, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had entered the ballroom. Surprisingly without as deterrence from the security guards.
"I am going in." Inuyasha said as he walked in. Sesshomaru decided to play safe and waited outside.
A stylist walked past, trying to find the unknown missing participant. He saw Sesshomaru waiting outside and talked into his walkie talkie, "I found her."
He then dragged Sesshomaru away to the dressing room despite the fact that he was practically struggling.
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Kikyo strutted into the ballroom and saw the stage. Maybe it was her reminiscences of a beauty queen that made her decide to walk on the stage again.
Mr Naraku saw her attempt to get on the stage. He quickly walked over to her and grabbed her off.
"Miss Kikyo, you can't go on the stage." Mr Naraku said very nicely.
"Why not?" Kikyo asked, dumbly.
"It's only for the contestants."
Kikyo was not happy with the answer and she said, " I am a beauty queen for a long period of time and"
"Kagome can accompany you throughout this pageant." Mr Naraku cut off Kikyo and pulled Kagome.
Kagome saw the trouble she was getting into and said, "I had to deliver these candies." She held up her bags of sweets. Mr Naraku took them away and thrust them into the hands of Sango. "Problem solved." He said. Sango shot Kagome an apologetic look and ran away before she suffered the same fate as Kagome.
"This is so not fair. I am just responsible of delivering those candies. Now I had to babysit the spoiled brat." Kagome cried.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual beauty pageant." The emcee said cheerfully. Kikyo was there sulking and Kagome's face was even darker.
Inuyasha was hiding behind a pillar and was very excited when the girls began to parade down the runway.
"You know, Sesshy, these girls are hot. It would be great if I can pick up one of them." Inuyasha said.
When he got no reply, he turned around and saw many people looking at him. Obviously they thought he was a bit loony to the extent that he talked to himself. Then he saw a very pretty girl and he walked over to her.
"Hi. I am Inuyasha," Inuyasha said in his supposedly deep voice.
The girl smiled and said, "I am Benedette, the ambassador's daughter."
"Next contestant, Miss Benedette."
Inuyasha smiled idly at the girl and when he heard what the emcee said, he looked back at the stage.
"Wait a minute, if you are Benedette then who is she?" Inuyasha pointed to the runway. The girl shrugged and both looked at the runway.
The "girl" appeared and "she" looked somewhat familiar. "She" had those piercing eyes and the markings on "her" cheeks. The long silver hair. Inuyasha gasped, he knew who "she" was.
"Oh boy!"
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Sesshomaru was walking down the runway, sulking. He had makeup on his face. His long silver hair was tied up into pigtails. What's more, he was wearing a frilly dress. Surprisingly, no one questioned about this "girl's" sexuality and cheered even louder. Then, the show ended.
Inuyasha snickered. He knew what to say to his "beloved" half-brother later.
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"You know, they actually weren't that pretty. Unlike me, the beautiful-est of them all." Kikyo commented.
"It's most beautiful?" Kagome said. She really wondered why Kikyo was able to graduate from elementary school when her grammar was downright atrocious.
"Thank you for saying I am the most beautiful." Kikyo smiled and could finally concentrate on the show knowing that somebody had complimented her beauty. Not that Kagome meant it.
Kagome rolled her eyes and focused back to the pageant. She somehow thought she saw Sesshomaru up there. Sango, Miroku, Izayoi and Mr Naraku thought so too.
That's a female beauty pageant. He couldn't be there. Kagome thought. Right?
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Finally the results were out.
"The judges had a very difficult time choosing the winner and they had made a decision which everybody here will agree." The emcee said.
"The winner is..."
Inuyasha crossed his fingers and mouthed Sesshomaru.
Kagome hoped she will not hear what she expected.
Sango and Miroku were eager to know who.
Izayoi thought of the punishments for her two boys.
Mr Naraku was praying that the evil brothers would not do something stupid.
"Miss Benedette." The emcee announced.
"Yay! I won!" The real Benedette exclaimed. She was beside Inuyasha. Everyone turned and looked at her. If Benedette was here, then who was imposing her on stage?
Just then, Sesshomaru threw a tantrum and shouted, "I have had enough! Whoever did this shall pay with his life!"
With that, he stormed off the stage and back to the hotel suite. Everyone was shocked that the winner was actually a 14 year old boy.
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"Oh dear! Sesshy is the beauty queen. He turned feminine." Inuyasha laughed out loud upon reaching the suite.
"That's enough Inuyasha." Izayoi said sternly, following closely behind.
Izayoi went and asked Sesshomaru how he ended up clinching the title. Sesshomaru had no choice but to divulge what exactly had happened.
"Well, at least you won. I used to take part in these pageants but never won." Izayoi remembered.
"I think you are the prettiest Mommy." Inuyasha said as he hugged his mother.
"Thanks for your compliment but that is not getting you off the hook." Izayoi said.
"But I did not do anything." Inuyasha wailed.
"This would not have happened if you had not decided to crash the party, dragging your brother along too."
So Inuyasha got his punishment and Sesshomaru was mentally scarred for life.