Walmart…Low Prices
Jessa yawned as she walked to her room later that night. Sesshomaru had disappeared for a while and Ali begged to stay the night so that she may get to know him a little better. In other words, try to get him to fuck her. Jessa didn't care, just as long as they didn't wake her up. She opened her door and looked across the room and on her bed lay the sleeping dog demon. Or at least she thought he was asleep.
"Asshole." Jessa growled distastefully as she turned around.
"I am awake." Sesshomaru's voice followed.
"That's cool." Jessa replied, disappearing back out into the living room. She decided that the couch was the way to go that night.
Ali yawned as she walked downstairs the next day. She slept in the spare room upstairs the previous night. Ali looked in the living room and saw Sesshomaru looming over Jessa, his sword at the ready.
"Don't," Ali began, but Sesshomaru tapped Jessa on the chest with the blade before Ali could finish her warning. Jessa snapped awake, taking a deep and shaky breath as she sat up. Sesshomaru opened his mouth to say something, but stopped when he realized that Jessa wasn't exhaling, her face turning red as she struggled to breathe. He heard Ali running back from Jessa's room. She ran to the suffocating girl and handed her the inhaler. Jessa took a few puffs of it, finally catching her breath and pressing her hand to her chest.
"I…what…hm." Sesshomaru shut his mouth when Jessa coughed a few times, glaring up at him as her eyes watered.
"Is it…that hard to…wait for me to…wake up?" Jessa asked in between breaths. Sesshomaru only snorted quietly as he walked away, sheathing his sword.
"You ok?" Ali asked. Jessa nodded as she stood up, walking into the bathroom and closing the door so she could shower.
After showering, Jessa walked into her room, wrapped in a towel. She was glad that her room was empty. She pulled on light blue jeans and a black shirt with the Cheshire Cat on it. Next she put on black Chucks and brushed her brown hair, putting her glasses on and wondering what to do.
"I have no clue where he is." Ali announced when Jessa entered the kitchen. Ali handed her a plate with an omelet on it. Jessa grabbed a fork and took a bite of the omelet.
"Gee, that's great. Hm…maybe he wasn't real after all." Jessa murmured to herself.
"Jessa…I saw him, too." Ali stated seriously.
"Maybe you're part of the hallucination." Jessa replied with a smirk. She looked over at the sliding glass door that was open and led out to the pool. Sesshomaru stepped inside and blinked.
"I found a carriage moving without a horse." He stated. Jessa closed her eyes and prayed to God that he was joking. She walked outside and saw that next to the pool, there was a silver SUV sitting there, a woman sitting in the driver's seat. Jessa walked over to her and scratched her head, staring at the woman quietly.
"Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name," the woman chanted as she held her cross necklace with both hands.
"Um, lady, can you get your vehicle out of my backyard?" Jessa asked, knocking on the window lightly. The woman squealed as she looked at Jessa and then immediately relaxed when she realized it wasn't the tall man with long, white hair.
"I-I don't know how I got here!" The woman said frantically.
"I don't either, but I'd appreciate it if you left…you're kind of fucking up the view." Jessa replied. The woman nodded and quickly put her SUV into drive as she drove away, avoiding the hedges and driving down the hill that Jessa's house sat on.
"Ok, no more horseless carriages, Sesshomaru." Jessa announced as she walked back inside.
"Do not order me around." Sesshomaru growled back.
Jessa stood in the kitchen and grabbed a can of Mountain Dew from the fridge, watching Sesshomaru step inside, the light breeze brushing through his long, white hair. Jessa opened the can and took a drink, almost choking when Sesshomaru pulled his sword out, poking her in the chest with the top of it.
"A cat," he stated, looking at the Cheshire Cat on her shirt. Jessa looked down and then back up at him.
"Yeah." She replied.
"I hate cats." He said simply.
"I hate you." Jessa said back, taking another drink, only to have the can swatted out of her hand by the sword. The drink landed on the tile floor, spilling out quickly.
"Haha, so hot." Ali cooed.
"He could kill me and you'd still call him hot. Shit, why couldn't I get Naraku instead?" Jessa groaned, bending down to pick up the can, only to find a cold blade pressed to her neck instead. Sesshomaru motioned for her to stand back up, still pressing his blade against her neck.
"What do you know about Naraku?" he asked her sternly, golden eyes blazing into her green ones. Jessa took a deep breath and found herself, once again, unable to exhale. Sesshomaru lowered his sword when he noticed that she was incapable of breathing again.
"Will you quit doing that to her? Damn!" Ali snapped, helping Jessa pull the inhaler from her pocket as she used it again, coughing a few times afterwards.
"It seems to be the only time that she answers my questions." Sesshomaru responded coolly.
"How can she answer them if she can't breathe?" Ali snapped back at him as Jessa sat on the floor, taking slow deep breaths. Sesshomaru watched Jessa quietly, seeing how pathetic she was at the moment. He sheathed his sword and stepped back, crossing his arms inside his sleeves and looking away.
"Better?" Ali asked as Jessa nodded.
"Yeah, look, Sesshomaru, I…it's really hard to explain this, but you're not real. You're a character created by someone else." Jessa said with a long exhale, rubbing her face softly.
"I do not understand. I am real. I am standing here, am I not?" Sesshomaru replied with a scowl.
"Well, you're real now, but in reality, you're not really real…that made no sense." Jessa said, her eyes almost closing as her head tilted forward.
"What she meant was that you came from another universe, I think." Ali chirped as she stood up.
"Hmph." Came his expected reply.
"Uh, so, what should we do?" Ali asked out loud.
"Why couldn't I get Naraku?" Jessa asked again.
"Why would you want him? He's gross." Ali asked with disgust.
"You're gross." Jessa replied.
Sesshomaru looked out over the pool as he sat down on the cement, crossing his legs and resting his chin on his hand, which was propped up on his leg. He knew it was water, but it had a strong, unusual smell to it. This world had a strong smell to it, a foul, polluted smell. He closed his eyes, concentrating on the heat of the sun and the cool breeze drifting by him. He didn't know what to do. He had no enemies to slay and no followers to listen to.
"Nice day out, isn't it?" Jessa asked as she walked out to a chair, placing her towel on it, taking her glasses off and placing them on the small table next to the chair.
"Have you thought of any way to get me back in my "world", as you call it?" Sesshomaru asked back.
"Oh, it's like that, huh?" she sighed, slowly slipping down in the cool water. Sesshomaru opened his eyes when he heard the disturbance of the water, not knowing she had gone for a swim.
"What are you doing?" Sesshomaru asked degradingly, his voice almost saying, "Swimming is for the weak-minded."
"I am cooling off my nice, hot body…don't judge me." Jessa shot back, swimming to the deep end and climbing onto a raft.
"Cannonball!" Ali shouted as she jumped into the pool.
"More like deformed ball." Jessa commented when Ali surfaced.
"Eh, shut up, bitch." Ali retorted, looking over at Sesshomaru, who stood up and flew away silently.
"He better not bring another fucking SUV back." Jessa growled as Ali giggled in reply.
Sesshomaru sat on the roof of the house as he looked down at the two girls. They knew who he was without him introducing himself. It was weird, being stuck in a strange world with no one familiar. At this point, Sesshomaru was almost wishing Naraku had been there with him.
"I'm going in." Jessa said to Ali as she wrapped her towel around her and walked inside. Sesshomaru closed his eyes and exhaled heavily.
Jessa bidded Ali goodbye, watching her friend drive away with a frown driven into her face. Jessa walked to her kitchen and opened the fridge, pulling out a pitcher of tea that she had fixed earlier. She poured some in a glass and stopped moving when she felt a breeze roll by her. She watched the clawed hand slowly reach around her, grasp the glass and take it away. Jessa found herself exhaling with relief. He had been gone all day.
"I've never had cold tea before." Sesshomaru stated as he took a drink. Jessa poured herself another glass and took a long drink, ignoring him completely. She grabbed a bag of chips and walked back to the living room, sitting down in her favorite chair and turning on the TV. She saw Sesshomaru place himself on the floor, still drinking the tea.
"You seem…angry. Did you think I wouldn't return?" Sesshomaru asked the girl, his golden eyes focused on her entirely. Jessa opened the bag of chips and ate a few, changing the channel on the TV, still ignoring the demon lord. Sesshomaru snorted quietly as he looked away from her, instantly spotting the approaching dog. The yellow lab, dubbed Milo, approached Sesshomaru boldly, lowered his head and growled.
"Are you serious? You're just now growling at him? Dumb dog." Jessa grumbled as she glared at the dog. Milo stared back at her while wagging his tail. Jessa threw him a chip and watched as his snout opened and slammed down on the chip. He swallowed it and finally sat down, looking back at Sesshomaru and growling a bit.
"He is protecting you. Be grateful." Sesshomaru said, stroking the dog's head once and looking at Jessa. He saw the slight twitch in the corner of her mouth.
"If I relied on him to protect me, I'd be dead." Jessa said back, tossing Milo another chip. The dog ate it happily and lay down on the floor.
"Whom do you rely on for protection?" Sesshomaru asked skeptically.
"The Trojan Man." Jessa retorted, knowing very well that he wouldn't get the joke, but she unknowingly opened a can of worms she didn't plan on opening.
"Is he formidable?"
"Haha, sure."
"Are you toying with me again?"
"Noooooo."
Later that night, Jessa had fallen asleep in the chair, the chip bag resting in her lap. Sesshomaru rolled his eyes when he realized that a whole day had gone by where nothing had been done to get him home. He stood up and went to poke her awake with his sword again, but the memory of her unable to breathe stopped him.
"Human, awake from your pipe dreams," Sesshomaru demanded. Jessa opened one eye and looked back at him.
"Dude…it's two in the morning…are you serious?" Jessa groaned.
"I am quite serious."
"Ok," Jessa replied, standing up as she turned the TV off. She walked to her room and closed her door, collapsing on her bed and soon falling asleep. Sesshomaru followed her and opened the door, almost wanting to rip her head off when he saw that she was asleep once more.
"Irritating." Sesshomaru growled, sitting on her floor and soon falling asleep sitting up.
Jessa woke up the next day and found herself staring at the demon lord. He was sitting there, on her floor, sleeping…what else was she supposed to do? Wake him up and get killed? Walk out of the room and get killed? He was sitting on the floor for a reason and she knew it. He was there to make sure that she wasn't going anywhere.
"Finished staring at me?" His stern and smooth voice almost sent Jessa into another panic attack. She gulped as she exhaled.
"I…wasn't staring at you." Jessa said back slowly, muffling a yawn with her hand.
"What do you take me as? An idiot?" Sesshomaru asked back, his eyes still closed. Jessa rolled her own eyes as she propped her head up on her hand, turning her body on her side.
"Well, you are related to Inuyasha…I figured it ran in the family." Jessa retorted, almost losing her composure when Sesshomaru's eyes snapped open, instantly turning red with fury.
"Oooh, struck a nerve, did I? Yeah, I forgot that family is a touchy subject with you. Pfft, get over it, dog-breath." Jessa giggled as she got out of bed, walking past the demon lord and to the kitchen where her food awaited.
"You will refer to me as Lord Sesshomaru and nothing else. And do not speak of my "family" as if you knew the history." Sesshomaru warned, following her to the kitchen and trying to keep from killing her. Waving his hand and slashing people in half was second nature to him and not killing Jessa was proving to be harder than killing Naraku.
"Your mother was a bitch and your father was a fucking whore! Haha, uh oh!" Jessa laughed when the next thing she knew was walking into his chest and almost being knocked onto her ass.
"I'm still debating whether to kill you or not. Seeing as you brought me here in the first place, you should have some clue in how to get me back…then again, you're doing nothing to assist me. You are irritable and disrespectful." Sesshomaru growled at her icily.
"Do you hear that?" Jessa asked, cupping both hands behind her ears.
"Hear what?"
"Nothing. Sounded like a baby was crying. Do you ever eat?" Jessa retorted dryly as she opened the fridge.
"I do not eat human food." He replied, deciding to ignore the baby comment.
"Oh, trust me, human food is much better here, but, if you insist, I suppose I'll eat by myself." Jessa replied as she pulled out a few eggs. She grabbed a pan from the cabinet and turned the stove on, cracking the eggs and spilling the contents into the pan. Instantly, Sesshomaru's nose was filled with the wonderful smell of cooking eggs.
"You eat a lot for such a small woman." Sesshomaru stated.
"I don't think so."
"Tell me, why are you the only one here? Where is your husband? Do you not have children yet?"
"Um…husband is at war and I had three miscarriages."
"You're lying."
"I'm what?"
"Lying. You're lying."
"Nah, no I'm not."
"You are lying. You have no husband and no children."
"Why did you ask?"
"To see if you would answer honestly."
"Ah, I fail…where are you going?" Jessa asked, but she received no reply as the demon lord opened the door and flew away. She shrugged as she returned to her breakfast. If he wasn't going to stay with her and help her figure out a way home, she damn sure wasn't going to do it alone.
Sesshomaru returned a few hours later, finding Jessa sitting in the living room with the TV on and another old episode of Inuyasha playing on the TV. The demon lord blinked and felt his mind go numb. This girl was watching everyone he knew. Maybe she knew where Naraku was.
"Is this…where I came from?" Sesshomaru asked curiously.
"I'm guessing so, but in these episodes, you only had one arm and right now you have two." Jessa replied knowingly, tossing a grape in the air and catching it in her mouth.
"Do you ever stop eating?" Sesshomaru asked, looming over the back of the chair and staring down at her.
"Do you ever eat at all?" she asked back, eating another grape. Sesshomaru glared back down at her. She subconsciously pulled her somewhat low-cut shirt up.
"Are you staring at my cleavage?" she asked boldly.
"No."
"I don't believe you."
"Hmph." Sesshomaru huffed, looking back at the TV and seeing Naraku's face.
"Haha, why isn't Kagome dead yet?" Jessa asked with a giggle. Sesshomaru felt his eyebrow rise a bit. It was a good question.
"It's a mystery to me." Sesshomaru responded.
"See, if I were Naraku, she would've been gone like…ten years ago." Jessa stated.
"If I were Naraku, I'd commit suicide." Sesshomaru replied with a scowl. He heard Jessa's entertained giggle as she ate another grape.
"Though it is true that he needs to die in the worst way possible, what are you going to do with yourself when he finally is killed?" Jessa asked, looking up at Sesshomaru, munching on another grape, her eyes filled with curiosity.
"Return to building an empire in my name."
"Do you mark your territory by pissing on things?"
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing. Stupid question." Jessa insisted quickly, looking down to prevent him from seeing her red face. That was one of her "problems" that her parents warned her about. She needed to have an "off" button on the connection rail from her thoughts to her mouth.
"What did you say? I didn't…catch it." Sesshomaru stuttered a bit. He did hear her, he was sure she said it, but he wanted to see if she would repeat it.
"I didn't say shit…grape?" Jessa held the bag of delicious smelling fruit to him and jiggled it a bit. Sesshomaru glared at her before walking away. Jessa rolled her eyes as she continued eating them herself.
Sesshomaru sat underneath a tree and looked up when he saw Jessa leaving the house, keys in her hand. She threw a bag in the passenger seat of her red Yukon. It wasn't hers. It was her mother's, but they took her father's car instead and left her the nice SUV. For what reason, she did not know, but she wasn't complaining at this point. The demon lord watched as the car drove down the path that curled down the hill. Where was she going?
"Ugh! Ahhh! Ew, Mom! You still listen to Ricky Martin, really? Gross!" Jessa howled when the dreaded "Livin La Vida Loca" started blaring in the SUV.
"Livin La Vida Open, now. Thank God I brought back up!" Jessa giggled, hooking up her iPod and choosing a song she could relate to. She messed around with the bass of the sound system before turning onto the slightly busier road. It wasn't even busy. It was the one road that led back to the city.
"Great, I turn behind the slow people." Jessa commented bitterly as she slowed down to prevent a fender bender. She finally sped up when the slow people turned onto different roads, letting her speed and gallop all she wanted. It took a few minutes to pull into the parking lot of Walmart…the smiley place. Jessa saw the parking space in the very back and went for it. She stopped to let another car back out and pull away and just as she started to ease forward, she heard a loud thump on the roof. Jessa rolled her eyes and hit the gas, thinking the birds were attacking her again, only to Sesshomaru lean down in front of the windshield. Jessa gasped and immediately hit the breaks, sending the demon lord flying and instead of seeing him land with a satisfying face dive, Jessa watched as he did one beautiful flip in mid-air before landing in a perfectly straight posture on his feet. He turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder, blank boredom written across his face. Jessa gritted her teeth. It was almost like he was saying, "Fuck you." She rolled down the window and leaned out of it.
"I ought to run your bitch ass over! You stupid idiot! What the hell are you doing here?" Jessa barked, shaking her fist threateningly.
"Is that a threat?" Sesshomaru asked. Jessa hit the gas and headed straight for him, knowing that he could easily dodge it, but she wasn't counting on his green acidic whip slicing off the rear end of her mother's vehicle. Jessa sat in the car and slowly pulled into the parking spot, knowing very well that the ass-less Yukon was the least of her worries. She grabbed up everything important and threw it into her bag, walking towards the store and keeping a straight face.
"Heh, you are no match." Sesshomaru stated, landing in front of her.
"Oh no, the big bad dog fucked up a vehicle! Pleeeeaase, teenagers do that shit all the time." Jessa responded, briskly walking past him.
Jessa ignored the awkward looks people were giving her, or more the awkward looks they were giving Sesshomaru. He walked in front of Jessa, looking around curiously. He noticed the looks he was getting, but the buzz of Walmart was a little more interesting.
"Oh my God, dude, go away." Jessa growled, turning into a random isle. Sesshomaru paralleled her with another isle and leapt over the separator, landing in front of her.
"Why are we here? Is there something here that can send me home?" Sesshomaru asked as Jessa pushed past him.
"Sure." Jessa replied. Sesshomaru glared after her. She honestly had no plan. He followed her all the way to the back where the electronics were. She found the games and was studying them closely with a hand on her chin as she debated which one to get.
"There are girls following us." Sesshomaru stated.
"Yeah, that happens." Jessa replied dryly, not really listening to what he was saying. Sesshomaru turned his head and looked down the isle where three girls were peeking over the CD section, giggling and pointing at him.
"I think they know me." He said, hearing one of them whisper his name.
"That is fire!" Jessa chirped when she saw God of War III. Sesshomaru found himself hovering closer to Jessa. The stalker girls were actually making him feel slightly uncomfortable. He saw one of them run up to Jessa, her two friends following her slowly.
"Um, excuse me, can we get a picture with your boyfriend? He looks so much like Sesshomaru from InuYasha." The brown haired girl asked curiously. Jessa turned her head slowly, staring at her blankly. She had no clue what was going on. Jessa blinked a few times.
"Uh…who are you?" Jessa asked as she looked at Sesshomaru.
"I did not come from Inuyasha. He's my brother, not my mother." Sesshomaru growled defensively. Jessa looked back at the three girls and shrugged.
"Sure, I guess." Jessa said, going back to deciding which game to buy. Sesshomaru felt utterly betrayed. Each girl giggled nonstop as they each posed for a picture with him before running away quickly, commenting on how real he looked.
"This world is awkward." Sesshomaru stated with disgust.
"Hahaha," Jessa giggled, deciding on God of War III.
"Heeeey! Jessa!" a boy called out as he ran up to the girl, giving her a fist bump. He went to hug her, but he saw Sesshomaru glaring at him and backed away.
"What…oh, you," Jessa growled as she looked at Sesshomaru.
"Yes, me." He growled back.
"Jessa, who is this guy and why is he dressed up like Fairy Man?" the boy asked, pointing at Sesshomaru. The demon lord's hand grasped the boy's wrist and squeezed it powerfully.
"It must have struck the hour of the asshole." Jessa sighed.
"I am Sesshomaru." Sesshomaru warned.
"Yeah, right, and I'm Shippo!" the boy retorted loudly. Sesshomaru responded by squeezing his wrist even harder.
"I detest that little vermin," Sesshomaru growled deeply, his eyes turning red.
"Ow, my sexy hand!" The boy whined.
"Break it up before people call the cops." Jessa ordered with a yawn.
"Hm…impossible!" Sesshomaru's head snapped in the direction of the front of the store. Jessa blinked as she ran after him, wondering if he caught the scent of a female or something. She ran out the front door and found her mouth dropping wide open in utter shock.
"N…nooooo fucking way!" Jessa shouted as a huge blob monster crawled its way across the parking lot.
"Why don't you go ahead and unleash all of the demons while you're at it." Sesshomaru stated with ice in his voice.
"Bitch, that wasn't me!" Jessa insisted defiantly as she pointed at the monster. She heard people screaming and the sound of cars being smashed beneath the gray monster's weight. It started to say something, but all that came out were gargled howls of anger.
"Heh, a pitiful demon is not worth my time," Sesshomaru stated, taking his, "I'm not doing anything" stance. Jessa found her heart beating wildly as she started breathing heavily. She closed her eyes and covered her ears.
"It's only the pills, it's only the pills! It's not real! It's not real!" she chanted under her breath. The monster spat something that sounded like, "Die" but Sesshomaru held out his hand and unleashed his poisonous attack, melting the monster to absolutely nothing. Sesshomaru looked around and saw people whispering and pointing at him. He grabbed Jessa by the arm and quickly flew away, hearing people screaming at him to put her down.
"Holy bitch! Was that real? Did that really just happen?" Jessa breathed as she collapsed in her chair when Sesshomaru brought her back home.
"Yes. You were not hallucinating…unless we all were." Sesshomaru responded. He saw Jessa's eyes snap open as she jumped up.
"Goddamn it! They had video cameras! They have everything on tape…I didn't pay for my game!" Jessa gasped.
"Not important." Sesshomaru insisted calmly.
"Daaaaamn it! I'm on Spring Break, I'm supposed to be relaxing!" Jessa whined, falling back in her chair. Sesshomaru took his armor off and placed it on the floor and sighed. He wished the blob demon had been a little tougher. He got his hopes up only to have them shot down by a giant pile of gum.
"And now we're going to be on the six-o-clock news…fun times." Jessa commented dryly.
"You are neurotic." Sesshomaru stated as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes, sitting on the floor and leaning against the couch.
"Your mom." Jessa growled back as she turned the TV on to await the news. She also had to come up with an excuse at why her mom's SUV was missing its ass and why it was still back at the Walmart parking lot. She looked at Sesshomaru and glared when she saw how calm and beautiful he looked as he rested. It was all…his…fucking…fault.
"What is with you women and staring at me?" Sesshomaru growled defensively.
"It's all your fault! Shut up!" Jessa hissed back.