Chapter 3: What in the World?

~*~*~*~Five years later~*~*~*~

"INUYASHA! Come back here so I can kick you!" A five year old Mari yelled as she ran around the corner into the garden. "Great, just my luck stupid jerk. Just had to run to my least favorite spot in the entire lands. And worst of it all, I can't smell where he's at." Mari pouted angrily.

"And mother said you two would get along great, how wrong she was." A fifteen year old Sesshomaru's voice came. Mari jumped and spun in place to see him standing there nonchalantly.

"You butt head, ya scared me half to death." Mari scolded.

"Only half, tisk tisk, what a shame." Sesshomaru said and clicked his tongue.

"Mother and father would not be happy if they heard you say that. And Inuyasha wasn't amused." Mari said as a nine year old Inuyasha dropped down behind her and to her right.

"What's this? A trap? Made by the two of you? For me? I'm flattered." Sesshomaru mused.

"Ha, ha, ha, you're so funny Fluffy." Inuyasha said.

"And you, I still have ta kick your butt for messing with my stuff." Mari said as she turned to Inuyasha.

"What all I did was move one little thing." Inuyasha said.

"I don't care and you know it. You knew that was my favorite thing in the world and you got your gross fingerprints all over it." Mari said poking him in the shoulder.

"I just wanted to see it. You know father never lets me touch my sword." Inuyasha said.

"That gives me all the more reason to kick your butt." Mari said and Inuyasha took off.

"Catch me if you can!" Inuyasha said as he ran. Mari was about to run after him when she was pulled back.

"What the, Sesshomaru, let me go! I gotta catch him so I can hurt him!" Mari complained.

"All the more reason for you to get on my back." Sesshomaru said and slung her around onto his back before transforming into his true form.

"Yeah! We're gonna get you now Inuyasha!" Mari shouted. "Charge!" She added and Sesshomaru took off after Inuyasha.

"No fair! Mari you're cheating!" Inuyasha shouted when he saw Sesshomaru running behind him.

"There aren't any rules to this game bro!" Mari shouted back.

'Now then, how am I going to capture him this time? I could pounce on him, no, oh, maybe I'll pick him up by his shirt, sounds good enough for me.' Sesshomaru thought before leaping in front of Inuyasha.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Inuyasha screamed as he turned and ran the other way.

"We've got you now Inuyasha!" Mari shouted to him as Sesshomaru gained.

"Okaa-san, Otou-san, HELP!!!!!!" Inuyasha shouted as Sesshomaru neared and was mere feet from him. They screeched to a halt when Inu-no-Tashio appeared around the corner of the palace and held up his right hand.

"Now, now, boys we can't have you fighting with each other every moment of the day, can we?"

"HEY!" Came a shout from Sesshomaru's back. "I AM NOT A BOY!" Came the angry voice again.

"Oh, Mari, I didn't see you up there." Inu-no-Tashio said and at his embarrassment he scratched the back of his head.

"Of course you didn't. Mari what are you doing this time?" Izayoi asked.

'Please don't let her tell him what I did.' Inuyasha silently pleaded to the gods.

"I'm trying to catch Yasha so I can kick his butt!" Mari shouted to her.

'Whew.' Was Inuyasha's last happy thought before anything could start.

"Now why would you want to do something so unladylike?" Inu-no-Tashio asked.

"Because, I hate acting like a lady, it's soooooo boring." Mari said.

"But you said you're not a boy so you must be a lady." Inu-no-Tashio teased.

'Here they go again.' Sesshomaru thought with a roll of his eyes and a shake of his head.

"Dad, I'm a girl, but all of the boy stuff is so much more funner than those dumb ladylike acting like classes." Mari said.

'Then he goes…' Sesshomaru thought.

"Then which are you a lady or a gentleman?" Inu-no-Tashio asked.

'Then she says…' Sesshomaru thought.

"I'm both, and neither." Mari retorted.

"And how does that work? Blah, blah, blah. Because I'm a tomboy person. Blah, blah, blah. Can we just skip to the part where Mari's to stubborn to fall back and Dad just decides to let her have her way because he knows he'll never win to her?" Inuyasha asked.

"Awwe, but where's the fun in that?" Mari asked.

"Okay, let's just skip to the part where I run and we forget about them till it's time to eat and you two chase after me." Inuyasha said.

"Okay sounds good to me. Ja ne Okaa-san, Otou-san!" Mari shouted as Sesshomaru took off after Inuyasha who bolted as soon as she said 'okay'.

"Kids, I swear Mari's going to prove to you why those girl's classes are so boring by disguising you as her and pushing you into the room and shutting the door behind you, and I just might help." Izayoi mumbled.

"What was that?" Inu-no-Tashio asked.

"Oh, nothing, nothing. I just said that we need to, to, to, start dinner." Izayoi said and ran inside.

'I swear that woman and that girl will be the death of me.' Inu-no-Tashio thought as he did a slow hand-palm and shook his head.

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