A/N: I know what your thinking… 'ABOUT TIME' was I right! Anyway, I got chapter 4 finally finished. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I-do-not-own-Inuyasha-or-anything-that-involves-him! There that wasn't so bad……….burst out sobbing YES IT WAS!
Chapter 4: The Modern Era!
Kagome had gone to her time to fetch some needed supplies for her little plan. As soon as she was finished shopping for them, she ran straight home, attempting not to waste time. Everything had seemed as usual as ever in her time, which pleased her, but when she got to the entrance to her house, she stopped. There was the faint and familiar small voice that she had grown used to. "Oh no, it couldn't be"- She said opening the door to unleash the sight that was the very reason she stopped talking.
Inuyasha was sitting on top of the counter in the kitchen playing with some soup-spoons. He then saw Kagome enter the house and squealed with joy. "Hello! I missed you! I'm so happy to see you again!"
"AAAAAAHHHH! W-what are you doing in the Modern Era!" Kagome screamed in surprise. Then Sesshomaru barged in the kitchen in attack mode. "What happened, I heard screaming, where's the danger!" He said quickly, then he saw Kagome. "Oh Kagome, you're back." Sesshomaru said as he relaxed. "YOU'RE HERE TOO!" Kagome screamed at Sesshomaru. Then Rin ran up behind Sesshomaru, followed by Sango, Miroku, and Shippou. "THEY'RE HERE TOO! WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU DOING HERE!" Finally Kagome calmed down when she saw her mom and younger brother enter the room.
"Now, now Kagome, that is not how we treat our guests." Her mother said softly.
"Guests!" Kagome said
Souta spoke up. "Yeah, I found them at the well. I couldn't just let them sit down there confused so I took them into our house."
"I don't get it. Why were you guys at the well following me?" Kagome asked turning her gaze at her feudal companions. They all gazed down at a happy and adorably innocent looking Inuyasha. She sighed. "You guys shouldn't be here…wait…where's Jaken and Keade?" They had just realized that with all of the commotion that had been going on, they had forgotten that they left Jaken and Keade back at the village in the Feudal Era.
"Hee-hee-hee…umm…I guess we left them back at the Feudal Era." Sango smiled.
"Anyway," Sesshomaru began, "I hate to brake up this starting conversation, but I need to get out of this house for some fresh air. Maybe I could walk around this strange, new time zone. Who wants to come with me?"
"I dooooo!" Inuyasha yelled out.
"Me too!" Rin said
"Can I take them to the park Sis? I'll watch them real carefully. Please?" Souta begged.
"Actually Kagome, I would love to see more of your time." Sango said and Shippou nodded.
"And I could go with Sango of coarse for protection if anything were to happen." Miroku said as he moved his sly hand up to Sango's rear.
"Grrrrrrr, Lecherous monk, I thought I told you to stop!" Sango slapped him hard in the face. Miroku stood there with a slap mark appearing on his face. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru couldn't help but laugh at Miroku and Sango.
"Well…I guess, but be careful, I know that this time is not as dangerous than the Feudal Era, but still, there are some things about this time that you wouldn't understand." Kagome said. Then she turned to Souta with an evil glare. "Souta, if anything and I mean anything happens to Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, I'll be sure to inform them when they're older." Souta gulped. He didn't know whether that was a threat or something else so he just took it as a threat.
Before they left, Kagome told them something very important. "And one more thing, do not and I repeat do not let anyone know that Shippou, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha are demons. If anyone asks just make up a good excuse." And with a nod, they left.
Kagome stayed behind to finish some business on her little plan that she thought of earlier and Souta took the rest of the gang to the park for him and the other kids (Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, Rin, Shippou) to play.
When they got to the park, Miroku and Sango sat on the benches to watch the kids play. Shippou grew attached to the swing and Rin sat and enjoyed that sight of Souta, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha play-wrestling and tackling each other.
"It seems that Sesshomaru has made another friend." Miroku said to Sango.
"All Souta and Sesshomaru did on the way to the park was talk friendly. You know, if he didn't hate humans as an adult, he would be a very kind person, who knows, maybe be a lot more brotherly towards Inuyasha and possibly become our ally against Naraku." Sango replied.
The boys played for a long time while Rin watched. Souta would use his wrestling moves he learned from watching television on Sesshomaru. He would let Souta tackle him to make things even, but he sometimes used his speed to trick Souta and wrestle him to the ground. Then they would team up on Inuyasha. One would hold him down while the other would tickle him until Inuyasha was out of breath. Inuyasha dog-piled Souta. They were having so much fun that they didn't notice a group of young boys coming toward the park. Sesshomaru caught their scent and stood up. Souta noticed the boys coming and looked nervous.
"Come on, we better leave." Souta said and stood up.
"Why, what's wrong?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Because I know those boys. The big one in front is the leader Koji. He's kind of like the school bully because he's much older on a count that he's flunked about two or three grades. For some reason, he picks on kids that he doesn't like for no reason, and one of those kids is me." Souta explained to the two dog demon children.
"Heeyyyy Souta!" Koji said mockingly.
"Umm…hey Koji." Souta said with a hint of nervous in his voice.
Koji looked from Souta to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. "Who's the freaks?"
"Freaks!" Sesshomaru growled at the boy. "How dare you call Sesshomaru, Prince of the Western Lands a freak!"
"Sesshomaru? That's a weird name," Koji laughed at him, "But it suits a freak!" The other boys behind him snickered and laughed.
Sesshomaru growled and took two steps toward the boy, getting ready to attack when Souta stopped him. "Just ignore them, their idiots anyway. Let's go." Koji grew angry and grabbed Souta by the collar of his shirt. "You just call me an idiot? You're gonna pay for that Souta!"
"Hey, let him go you bullies!" Rin yelled at them. Inuyasha growled at Koji and kicked him the shin. "Let him go!" Inuyasha shrieked and then bit his arm. Koji yelped in pain and let go of Souta. He slapped Inuyasha to the ground.
"I'm gonna enjoy beatin' the life outta both of you!" He threatened and took a step forward at Souta and Inuyasha. Just then Sesshomaru went into lightening speed and stopped right in front of Koji. "You harm one hair on their heads and I'll tear you to PIECES!" He growled at the boy. Koji attempted to punch Sesshomaru, but again Sesshomaru used his lightening speed to dodge the slow attack. Then Sesshomaru punched Koji in the face. Koji was thrown a few feet back by the impact.
The other boys backed away from Koji in fear of getting hit themselves. Sesshomaru jumped and appeared standing on top of Koji. Good thing he was light weight. "So…a fat little brainless brat thinks he could take me on?" He hissed at the boy, sounding much like his old older self. He then jumped off the boy and stood a few feet away from him. "Come on and take me if you think you can…I'm in the mood to kick some ass anyway." Sesshomaru smirked with a grin; sounding a lot more like his old older self!
Koji stood up and wiped his mouth. "Lucky shot you little brat!" He yelled at the silver haired boy. He charged after Sesshomaru again. He threw punches after punches at Sesshomaru, hoping that one of them actually him, but none of them did. Sesshomaru dodged every punch and jumped behind him and did a famous Chuck Norris Round-House Kick (Although he doesn't know who in the world Chuck Norris is.) The boy went flying to the ground on his face.
"Get'em Sesshy! Show no mercy!" Inuyasha cheered on and Souta and Rin just sat amazed. Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were watching the whole event in awe.
The boy named Koji just laid there on the ground not moving. Sesshomaru walked up to him, thinking that he was unconscious or passed out. But Sesshomaru underestimated Koji. He flew up and punched Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru managed to pull his head back far enough for the boy to only graze his cheek. He fell back on his bottom, still keeping a gaze at Koji. There were gasps that rang through the park. Everyone's eyes were huge. And then there was silence.
Sesshomaru raised his hand to his cheek. There was a slight red mark. It didn't hurt badly, but Sesshomaru could feel it tingling with slight pain. His eyes sharply turned back to Koji who had a sly grin on his face with pride. Before anyone could realize what was going on, Sesshomaru flew at Koji, pinning him to the ground. His hand rose above his head and turned green. His eyes turned crimson and his faint reddish-purplish slashes became deep purple. The boy's eyes showed complete fear. This silver haired freak was a monster of some sort!
Miroku and Sango ran to Sesshomaru. Miroku pulled him off before he could strike Koji and kill him. Sesshomaru turned back to his normal feature and started wailing and clawing at the air to be released. "Let me go, I'll skin him alive! I'll even make it look like an accident!" He growled at Miroku. Miroku turned to look at all of the frightened boys. "See what happens when you start fights! Nothing good ever comes from it but a broken nose and a swollen face!" Miroku scolded them, "Now run back home before I release him!" The boys turned and ran off, fearing the weird dressed man's words. They didn't want to know what would happen to them if he really did let the silver haired boy attack them.
"Wow Lord Sesshomaru, you really taught that Koji guy a lesson!" Rin cheered.
"Yeah, I didn't know you could fight like that! You're awesome!" Souta added.
"Feh, he should have known better than to mess with me and my friends." Sesshomaru said proudly. His comment made Sango and Miroku look at each other in surprise.
"It is getting pretty late, we should get back to Kagome's house." Sango said and with that they began their walk home.
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Fifteen minuets later, they had gotten back to Kagome's house. When they opened the door, Mrs. Higurashi was preparing food for dinner.
"Oh, I see that you came back safely." She said sweetly. "Make yourself comfortable in the living room, dinner's almost ready.
Kagome was reading something out of her math textbook when she heard their voices. "How was your trip to the park?" She asked Sango and Miroku.
"It was…interesting." She answered looking down at Sesshomaru. Kagome looked at them confused. "Interesting? What do you m,"- she stopped as soon as she saw Sesshomaru's face.
"What?" Sesshomaru asked at Kagome's stare. She walked up to him and took his face in her hand and examined his right cheek. "What happened to your face?" She exclaimed.
"Umm…I got in a fight?" He said timidly.
"A fight! A fight with who?" She gave a death glare at Souta, then at Miroku and Sango.
"Well…that kid named Koji that sometimes picks on me at school…well…he started some trouble with us at the park and threatened me and Inuyasha. Then Sesshomaru stuck up for us. Koji started the fight, not Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru was just defending himself." Souta left out the part about Sesshomaru wanting to continue the fight and turning into a scary demon and almost killing Koji.
"So…you stuck up for Inuyasha and Souta?" Kagome turned to Sesshomaru. He gave a proud smile and punched his hand to his chest. "It's what a good and loyal friend and brother would do!" He said proudly. Kagome smiled at him.
Mrs.Higurashi walked into in living room. "Dinner's ready! I hope your all hungry, I made steak!"
"What's steak?" Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both asked.
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Mrs.Higurashi had made a huge dinner of steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and of coarse a heaping bowl of rice. Kagome, Souta, and Grandpa thought nothing of it and started eating, but the others just looked at their plates. Inuyasha sniffed at his food, then plunged his face into the mashed potatoes, Rin gave Sesshomaru a trusting smile and started eating. Miroku looked at the unfamiliar food then at Rin and Inuyasha, who were enjoying the food before them. Pretty soon, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were eating. Sesshomaru just sat there staring at his food.
"Go ahead my lord, try it. It's delicious!" Rin said between gulps.
"Here Sesshy!" Inuyasha ripped off some steak and handed it to Sesshomaru, who in returned flinched, remembering the last time Inuyasha held food to his face. Inuyasha didn't move, he just sat there holding out the piece of steak to his brother. Sesshomaru smiled at his brother's new manners. He ignored the piece of steak and looked at his own. He ripped off a piece of the steak on his plate and took a bite, then another, and another. Inuyasha squealed and started to tear apart the rest of his food with his claws and fangs.
10 Minuets Later…
"Ugh…I don't think I can eat another bite!" Sango pushed away her plate.
"Me neither, I haven't had a meal like that in a long time!" Shippou said as he rolled over on his back.
"Thank you for liking my food so much, but I had made desert for everyone." Mrs.Higurashi took out a huge chocolate cake that was the same size as Inuyasha and put in on the little eating table. They just stared at it in awe.
"Umm…what on Earth is that thing?" Sesshomaru poked at the cake.
"It's desert, or chocolate cake to describe it." Mrs.Higurashi said. Inuyasha scooped some of the icing with his finger and tasted it. His eyes widened and he smiled bigger than he has ever smiled before. He shrieked with joy and body-slammed into the cake, splattering it all over the rest of the members in the house. He started to roll in the now sludge remaining cake like a little piggy.
"Oh, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru shook his head.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome scolded, "Look at you, you're filthy! You'll have to be bathed again.
"Oh, no! I'm not going through that again!" Miroku shrieked
"Yeah! Inuyasha put us through a lot of trouble trying to bathe him last time!" Shippou added.
"Don't worry, I'll help bathe him how bad could he be?" Kagome asked. Suddenly and unexpectedly, Sesshomaru started chuckling loudly. "Good luck!" he laughed and left the room leaving a sweat drop on Kagome's head.
Sesshomaru sat on the couch with Rin next him and Souta sitting on the other side of him. Miroku was lying on the floor and Sango and Shippou were back on the recliner. Kagome took Inuyasha into the bathroom down the hall to bathe him. It was peaceful and quiet until they heard Kagome's screams.
"For god sakes Inuyasha, get into the water!" Kagome screamed from in the bathroom.
"No! It's too hot!"
"……There, how is it now."
"It's too cold!"
Arrgh, just get into the water!"
"NO!"
Then they heard the loud sounds of splashing.
"YES, FINALLY!" Kagome yelled out.
"NOOOOOO!" Inuyasha screamed.
Inuyasha, damn it, just stay still!" Kagome screamed.
"NO!"
"If you don't, I'll accidentally get soap in your eyes!"
Too late…
"OOOWWWW! You've blinded me!"
"You're not blinded, just let me rinse your eyes out!"
"OOOOWWWW, it hurts!"
"Just stay still!"
"NO, it hurts!"
"Wow, Inuyasha's really torturing her in there." Shippou said. "I know, isn't it funny!" Sesshomaru started laughing.
"Actually, I feel sorry for her, it wasn't easy for me and Miroku, and we were two people, Kagome's on her own." Shippou responded.
"I think we should wait awhile." Sesshomaru said.
"EEEEEWWWWW! Inuyasha sit down! I don't wanna see that, you little perve!" Came yet another shriek from Kagome.
"Yep, we should definitely wait awhile." Sesshomaru said again.
It was quiet for about 10 more minuets until they started screaming again.
"Inuyasha, I said PUT IT ON!" Kagome screamed again.
"No! Those are weird clothes!"
"Well, if you didn't roll in that cake like a little piggy, you wouldn't have to wear these clothes! Now put on the clothes!"
"No! Why can't I wear my old clothes, I'll just lick off the sweet brown stuff!"
"No! It's in the wash, now put these on!"
After another 5 minuets, Inuyasha came running into the living room with wearing Souta's old P.J's and a big smile. He plopped on the couch next to his brother. Then Kagome staggered slowly behind him. Her clothes were sopping and her hair was wild and ruffled. She wore a very tired expression.
"Kagome, are you okay?" Rin said
"Yeah, you look like an old wet rat!" Sesshomaru started laughing at his own remark.
Kagome gave him an 'I'll kill you so horribly you'd want to die a million times' look and he trembled behind Rin.
She sighed, "At least I got that out of the way, now, I am really gonna need all of your attention." She said. She noticed that everyone in the room was already looking at her and began.
"The reason I left to go to this time is because I had a very good idea. I went to the store to get some supplies," She pulled out some bottles of strange goo and some other things from a bag she was carrying. "I'm going to need Sesshomaru and Inuyasha to come with me, this might take a while." Sesshomaru and Inuyasha jumped off the couch and followed Kagome into the other room.
Then there was silence again. "I wonder what she's doing with them?" Rin whispered to Souta. "Knowing my sister, she's always had good ideas." He said with a smile.
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1 hour later…
Rin was almost asleep on the couch. Shippou was snoring peacefully on Sango's lap and Miroku had fallen asleep on the floor. Then everyone was alert by the sounds of blood-curdling screams.
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sesshomaru came screaming and running and stumbling into the living room. Or…at least…they thought it was Sesshomaru. He fell to his knees in shock. "M-m-my-my HAIR! My beautiful silver hair! What did that witch do to it?" Everyone gasped at Sesshomaru's hair. It was…black?
Kagome came running behind Sesshomaru. "It's okay Sesshomaru, it's not permanent, it's only temporary. Calm down."
"Kagome, what did you do to him? He looks human. Even his crescent moon and slashes are gone." Sango said, almost speechless.
Sesshomaru's eyes grew wider. "WHAT!" He grabbed the mirror that Kagome held in her hands and looked into it. His skin grew paler. He whispered so low that they could hardly hear him: "I'm a human…a mortal…I'm no longer a graceful demon…I'm…I'm…a mortal." His anger grew and he turned to Kagome and growled: "Change. Me. Back. This. INSTENT!"
Kagome took a step back in surprise. "C-calm down Sesshomaru, y-you're not a human, It's just some temporary hair dye and some cover-up make-up, don't worry."
Sesshomaru calmed his breathing and fell back to his knees. Inuyasha came running past Kagome and looked around at everyone. He looked even more adorable with black hair and black puppy-dog ears.
"Whoa, Sesshy, look at us!" He then started to giggle, "Don't we look weird?"
"Why did you that to them Kagome?" Shippou said as he stared at both of the human looking dog demons.
"I thought that if I could make them look more like humans, they would be harder to identify by demons, especially Naraku." She told them
"But what about their scent. I can easily recognize them by their dog-like scent. And If I can, then surely other demons will." Shippou pointed out
"I'll think of something later on. I'm just too tired to care right now." Kagome said.
"Aaawww, they look sooo adorable!" Rin clapped her hands together.
Sesshomaru got up and cleared his throat. Still in a daze he started to walk to Kagome's room. "I haven't been this exhausted in my whole life…I'm going to bed." And with that, he was gone from sight. "Wait for me Sesshy!" Inuyasha followed his brother. "I think we all should get a good night sleep, we should leave for the Feudal Era tomorrow." Miroku said and laid on the couch.
"I've kind of grown attached to this large and comfy chair, I think I'll sleep here tonight." Sango said with a yawn at the last part.
"Sango, you don't mind if I sleep in your lap?" Shippou asked. "No, not at all." She said sweetly.
"Kagome, why don't you go take a shower and I'll go make some coffee for you. You look like you could use some." Mrs. Higurashi said softly to her daughter.
"Thanks mama, that sounds great." Kagome said tiredly.
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Midnight…
Sesshomaru laid on one of the 'sleeping bags' that Kagome had laid down for them on the floor of her room. Inuyasha was curled up beside him and Rin was laying on the other sleeping bag next to his. Then he was awoken by the sound of Rin's whimpers. Sesshomaru turned around to see that Rin's feet were flinching rapidly. 'Was she running in her dreams?' He thought to himself. He could smell the fear increase and see the frightened expression on her face. Sesshomaru could hear her whispered whimpers: "no…please…someone…please…help me." She was having a nightmare.
Sesshomaru hated having nightmares. Especially the ones where he dreamed of his mother's death. He was very young when she died, but he still knew what death was and knew that he would never see her again. His thoughts saddened him, so he shook them off. Rin needed to be woken up.
Moving very softly, trying not to wake Inuyasha, he moved over to Rin and began to lightly shake her. "Rin. Wake up Rin, wake up." He said in a very soft whisper. Her eyes slowly fluttered open and she found herself looking up into two golden eyes. For a brief second, she thought that Sesshomaru was back to normal because of the dream she had, but then remembered that he wasn't.
"L-lord Sesshomaru?" she stirred. Then unexpectedly, she threw her arms around him and started to cry softly into his chest.
"Rin, did you have a bad dream?" He asked, a little worried.
"It-it was the wolves," she managed to say through her sobs, "The wolves chased me into the forest. I was running as fast as I could, but I tripped over a root and fell.
'Well, that explains the movement of her feet from earlier.' He thought.
"Then they jumped on me and…and…" she started to cry a little harder, "They started to bite me and rip at my flesh……and then I was cold and alone."
Sesshomaru cringed at the explanation of her nightmare.
Rin stopped crying and raised her head to looked at him through tear-swollen eyes. "Then I woke up and you were comforting me and looking down at me…just like you did back then."
He smiled down at her, then laid back with Rin still clinging on to him. She snuggled next to him, her head rested on his shoulder. His right arm was wrapped around her in a comforting way
"Don't worry Rin, that foolish nightmare is over, don't be sad." He said, "No one will ever hurt you while I'm near…I promise."
With such comforting words, Rin drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face.
Sesshomaru watched her and smiled. "I promise." He whispered once more and fell into a peaceful sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED……A/N: finished with chapter 4, hoped ya' liked it. I added a short little drabble between Sesshomaru and Rin just to end the chapter. I hoped ya' liked that one too.
YOU MUST READ THIS! DON'T GET ANY SICK IDEAS OVER THE 'SESSHOMARU AND RIN DRABBLE AT THE END'. THEY ARE JUST KIDS AND THEY DON'T LOVE EACH OTHER IN THAT SICK WAY! SO DON'T BE A SICK PERVERT!