Shikon Private School™
Chapter Twenty-Four (24)
The Perplexing, Perpetuous, Play!
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Last Time (Four months ago) On Shikon Private School!
"But, the little war band's troubles had only just begun...seeing as how Naraku... was coming..." Amanda said ominously as the lights flickered off once more: it was intermission time!
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"Well, dear audience, due to the lengthiness of the play...we have decided that you may savage-erm, I mean, get out of your seats to buy snacks from our vendor (a stage light is pointed at Kaede, with less-than-edible looking foods in a grotesque tray) or...you may just stretch a while, the play will resume in 10 minutes. Thank you for your support!" Amanda said as the curtains were drawn and light was given back once more.
Onigumo and his 'aqquaintance' (Kikyo and Kaede's father) were the only people to volunteer buying anything from the vendor. The girls' father soon stopped attempting to eat the unpleasant blend of mud and insects when his teeth became firmly stuck in the mixture, causing him to go to the restrooms. Kikyo smirked; this was payback for sending her to this forsaken boarding school! Onigumo took no heed of this and continued happily muching on his 'cake.' Some cement with bird feathers and worms glued into the mixture would have been a more realistic comparison. After finishing his cake up, he seemed perfectly content.
Three 'Awww-dammit's could be heard. (cough KaguraHakudoushiNaraku cough)
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Meanwhile, in backstage, or more or less below stage...things were not going smoothly...
"You stupid! How could you bite my wrist? I could get rabies, you know!" Naraku screamed indignantly, punching InuYasha in the face with his 'broken' wrist.
"Feh! I don't have rabies!"
"Yeah! InuYasha may be a big stupid jerk but he doesn't have rabies!" Shippo said in InuYasha's defense. A fist clobbered him.
"Yeah, InuYasha, you know, in MY time, dogs need to get shots to make sure their not rabied!" Kagome, of course.
"If I get rabies, I'm going to sue you! You hound!" Naraku howled, nursing his wound, punching InuYasha once more.
"Wait, if InuYasha has rabies, doesn't that mean Fluffy and Koga have rabies too? And Shippo as well? They're all canines right?" Amanda asked thoughtfully.
"What about Ayame? She's a canine too, you know!" Koga said.
"I, Sesshomaru do not have such a lowly thing as rabies!"
"Ayame is a girl!" Kagome, of course.
"Since when does being a girl have to do with having rabies?" Hakudoshi asked, bored.
"Duh! Girls are cleaner than boys!" Ayame, of course.
"But I lick myself everyday! Just like Mommy tol-"
"Shippo? You do?" asked Rin incredulously. It took Shippo two second worth of silence (the room was in awe) to realize what he just said.
"W-Wait! I don't mean that! I meant that I-" Shippo was at loss for words.
"Aha ha HAH!" InuYasha was literally bawling with hysterics. "You-Shippo-clean yourself by-L-LICK-" that was all he got out before choking in laughter. Naraku, Koga, Ayame, Rin, Miroku, and Sango soon followed suite.
There was an ominous silence as the remaining people waited for someone to say something.
"I'm not related to him," both Amanda and Sesshomaru said as they watched the younger-and obviously more immature person wail with laughter.
"InuYasha has even worse habits," Shippo said softly, attempting to hide himself.
"Yes, like excessive laughing..." Kagome said dangerously. "SIT, boy!" There was a crash and a bang before the half-breed growled, finally stopping from laughing; even half-breeds need air, right?
"Ahhhhgh!" Amanda suddenly shouted, piercing the grumblings of InuYasha. "We're due on stage! Everyone, positions, positions!"
There was utter mayhem (as if there wasn't that before) as people scrambled for their costumes. It took them a while to remember that they were already in them.
"Welcome back everyone, I hope you are all ready to join us in the second session of 'A Feudal Faerie Tale,' Lights...Camera...ACTION!" Amanda announced, as the lights dimmed, once more.
"The group of six, InuYasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara continued on their way, until suddenly, Kagome realizd something!"
"Hey! Since the Jewel is split up, does that mean that I can go home now?"
"No, you sillyhead! Naraku will want all of the shards! We must find them!" InuYasha said angrily.
"Why?" Shippo asked, being the fox he was.
"Because...because..." InuYasha paused to read some scribbles on his palm. "We must...protect...the innocent...people..." he ground out, making a mental note to savage whoever wrote the script.
"Oh, InuYasha! You are so sweet!" Kagome said cheerily, leaping onto him. The half-breed blushed badly; why him? "Thank you for being such a good little puppy!"
"Oooooh! InuYasha's a puppy, now isn't he?" Shippo taunted.
"Wha! I am not a puppy!"
"Oh, so you'll only let Ka-go-me call you a puppy?" Miroku asked.
"What! I sure as -beep- will not!" InuYasha cried indignantly.
"Oh ho ho...how precocious...Miroku, we should leave these two to themselves," Sango said with a cackle.
"Ah yes, if only Sango dearest could-" Miroku was whacked in the face by Sango's boomerang before he could even finish his perverted speech.
"But all six of them knew that this could never be...that Naraku was still alive..." Amanda said ominously. A crack of thunder too real for comfort burst through the hole that InuYasha 'bopped' Kaede through.
"MWA HA HA HA! I AM NARAKU! AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU! KANNA! KAGURA!" a rather maniacal looking Naraku screamed as the thunder clapped once more. Perci frowned; this was so not according to the script. Kanna and Kagura appeared in a cold inrushing of air. They bowed (grudgingly) to Naraku as he continued to laugh in a rather creepy, high-pitched voice.
"But, Naraku!" Kagome insisted, "We haven't done anything to you! Why do you want to hurt us?"
"You fool! He's the bad guy; he's supposed to be bad! He doesn't need a reason!" InuYasha yelled, glaring at Naraku.
"Yes he does! Otherwise, this entire thing would be so boring!" Kagome insisted, glaring at InuYasha.
"Shyeah..." InuYasha siad, rolling his eyes, "like it already isn't-erm! (he finally realized that this was not according to the script, due to the rather large glare he was getting from his father) I mean, yeah, you're right! Why on earth would Naraku be bad for no reason?" he attempted to look perplexed, making Shippo double over in hysterics, falling off of Miroku's shoulder. InuYasha accidentally managed to place his foot right over the young kitsune's head.
"Hello? Are the heroes deaf as well as blind?" Naraku asked, after being momentarily ignored. Head swiveled to look at him. Instinctively, Kagome jumped up and slapped him in the face. Hard.
"You dimwit! Interrupting people isn't very kind, you know!" she said as the audience (and the cast) gasped; was this really part of the script? Perci certainly didn't ever remember reading any such thing...
"Oh yeah? Well you just just interrupted my speech!" Naraku shot back.
"Mirror...reflection..." Kanna echoed quietly, causing everyone to look at her. Kagura sighed; at least one of them had actually bothered sticking to the beeping script!
"Good job, Kanna! You are my most loyal serv-!" Naraku gasped as Kagura aimed her fan at him.
"Dance of the Dragon Blades!" she called out as bits of paper (with fox fire blowing on them to make them seem deadly) flew at Naraku. They sliced his kimono sleeves, making small paper cuts on the edges of his arms.
"Owwwwwww!" Naraku howled, everyone clapped their hands on their ears to refrain from going deaf (except for Kagura and Kanna who both were used to his insanity by now) "My kimono! It was costly! You will pay!" he said, his voice growing deeper, his shape mutating. Tentacles began to grow from his legs as purple (supposedly) poisonous gas floated around the room. Kagome, Sango, Kirara, and Shippo pretended to stumble and faint.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha screamed melodramatically as he tried to catch her from falling. His hand nudged the falling girl two inches...right onto Sango's sword hilt.
"I-N-U-Y-A-S-H-A..." Kagome drawled out angrily in her 'unconsciousness.' She decided rather than sitting him to America right here and now, she would wait to extract her revenge. Bodily flopping next to Sango, the teenager made it look as if that crash was purposeful.
The audience looked horrified as the (supposedly) fainted girl could not help but wring her hands...as if they were around someone's neck.
"Arrrrgh! Naraku! Now I've had it with you! This was between me, you, Kikyo, Orashimo, Kuroketsu, Muketsaki, Yuka..." InuYasha rambled on about whoever was ever involved in this tale. Naraku, Kanna, and Kagura sat down on a nearby person (coughSangocough) and Miroku sweatdropped.
After 476 various names (all said in one breathe, of course)
"And Jyaki, and Moro, and Kaede, and Ringo, and Myasaki, and Renko, and Atashi, and..." InuYasha paused, seeing if there were anymore names on the list. Naraku yawned in a bored manner.
"Is that all?" he asked lazily, half of those people he didn't even know! Or at least remember...
"NO!" InuYasha exclaimed, "And that Makami which you tripped because you thought her pearl was the Shikon Jewel!" InuYasha said triumphantly.
"Congratulations...you've named all the people I've smited, InuYasha..." Naraku said as Kagome thought she would really fall asleep...Sango and Shippo were already snoring while Miroku was unconscious (due to the fact that he was standing next to Kagura).
"Wait, there was one more! Yuri! You stole her ice cream cone five years ago!" InuYasha said, pointing an accusingly finger at Naraku.
"Oh, one more to the pile of five hundred or so names..." Naraku said dryly, admiring his nails at the moment.
"But none of them contained Kagome!" InuYasha exclaimed. "Which gives you no right to make her faint! And because of that...I'm gonna splice and spice you!"
'You idiot, InuYasha...it's slice and dice...' Kagome thought drearily, wondering how on earth InuYasha could have lived staring at the floor after his countless 'sits'.
InuYasha raised his claws and...attempted to claw at Naraku. His claws never managed to make contact, just as much as Naraku never managed to see them.
Why?
The roof suddenly blew up (literally, the pieces went into the sky) and Falloriane landed with a large thud on the stage. Everyone, and that is, everyone gasped; this was definitely not in the script.
Amanda was smart enough to realize that the play should be ended ASAP.
"And so they all defeated Naraku, rejoiced with Fluff-I mean Sesshomaru, had a big party, revived Kikyo and they all lived happily ever after!" Amanda said hurridly. She quickly called on Koga and Ayame to close the curtains.
In their rush to end the play, they trampled Sango and Shippo.
"So we thank everyone for coming and hope that they had a good time! Everyone bow!" Amanda commanded. Shippo and Sango were already on the ground; the rest of the cast were behind curtains. The audience was still gaping at Falloriane (who landed just in front of the curtains). "See you next time-bye-bye!" she shouted as the lights went on once more.
The audience were ushered out before their minds could even react.
Amanda rushed down the stairs, two at a time; though she had never seen Falloriane, (or Artemis and Apolla, for that matter) she could tell he did not mean good news. "Are you people okay?" she could not help screaming as she arrived. Heads turned to look at her. They all could not help thinking: 'Why would we not be okay...?'
At this point, the rather angry-looking Leagarian (Falloriane) tore through the curtains with his horn (Rin could not help muttering that they were pricy and he would have to repay the poor school). He slowly walked up to the (not frightened at all) group, each step making a threatening 'thump' on the stage floor.
"Why are you here?" Naraku asked coldly; remembering what the demon-like...thing did to him.
"It is none of your concern mortal," Falloriane said with a snort. The look on Naraku's face was horribly comical; to say the least. Him? A mortal?
Falloriane surveyed them with blood-red pupils, as if examining which one would look tastier. InuYasha protectively stepped in front of Kagome; the girl flushed deep red.
At this moment, Koga, Ayame, Sango, and Shippo (they were still outside of the shredded curtains) decided to step in. Their eyes widened, what was Falloriane doing here again? (Not that they remembered his name or anything, of course.)
"What are you doing here?" Koga asked incredulously; pointing a finger at Falloriane.
"I can go wherever I please," was the gruff reply. Koga muttered something about dumb and rude talking donkeys. Falloriane glared daggers behind his back.
"So, who are you here for?" Ayame asked, still curious, though she knew she had to be wary. Falloriane scanned the crowd.
He pointed his front horn (where a unicorn's horn would be located) behind Sesshomaru. Right at Rin.
"M-Me?" she asked; rather alarmed.
"Yes, you. Why haven't you been back? You know time is running out," Falloriane said coldly, glaring at Rin. Rin's eyes widened as she felt an onrush of memories coming to her.
"Time...is...running...out...?" she said, her voice sounding like the grave itself. She fell face-first, having only her hands to support herself. A look of worry crossed the emotionless demon's face as he watched the girl fall. What on earth could she be talking about?
"Hurry. And do remember what's important..." Falloriane growled out as Rin climbed on his back in a zombie-like motion.
As they were about to take to the sky, Sesshomaru grabbed Rin's wrist, his eyes, though emotionless as ever, seemed to be lighted by an inner fire blazing within.
"Rin..." he said, unsure of what to say.
"Yes, Sesshomaru?" she surprised herself, this was one of the few times she called him by his name without any negative emotions.
"You..." he fumbled on his words, "You will come back, right?" his eyes refused to look at her, wondering why she was leaving...wondering why she made him feel this way. Rin's eyes widened once more at what he said. A smile fought its way through the chaos in her soul.
"Yes...I promise..." she said, as his hand let go of her wrist.
"Good."
His parting words. Rin would have blushed cherry-red if her wrist had not been released and Falloriane decided that their moment was over. As he soared up to the sunny un-clouded sky, Rin could have sworn she felt rain upon her cheeks.
'At least...I hope...' she thought as they neared their destination.
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Sesshomaru stared momentarily at the hand that clutched Rin's wrist.
He started to walk back to his dormitary, but stopped immediately when he heard InuYasha singing.
"Sesshy and Rin, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, then comes marri-"
"InuYasha-SIT!" Kagome screamed as InuYasha promptly flopped on the dirt. Sesshomaru silently thanked the gods that his idiot half-brother had that necklace. He stalked back to his dorm once more.
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BANG-BANG-BANG
""Hey! Is anyone listening?" Perci called, banging on Shikon Private School's gates. The rest of the parents were attempting to break in...with no avail at all.
BANG-BANG-BANG
"Hellooooooooo?" Perci screamed. "Let me in!"
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Eh heh heh...Gomene (sorry) for not updating for sooooooo long! xx I hope you still enjoy...!
MoonMagicks.../4-23-06