"What? I am not going to do that!" Sesshoumaru said.
"Hmph, like I want to? It's the only way we can do this inconspicuously. What would my friends say if they saw...you...no, me? We can't just ditch everyone. They might come looking, catch us, think something is up. It will be a disaster."
As much as Sesshoumaru disliked it, it was the only way to do so to actually get this spell lifted. "Fine," They both crossed their arms and scoffed at the other.
Inuyasha said, "So, let me get this straight one last time. I'm going to go hang with the kid and that toad for...how long?" Sesshoumaru sighed, why did Inuyasha have to be so dense all the time? "Until this accursed spell is gone."
"Oh, got it. And you will stay with my friends?"
"How else?"
"Uh..."
"Exactly."
Sesshoumaru continued, "The first thing we need to do is co-operation so make sure to not screw it up Inuyasha. We only get one chance."
"Yeah, whatever. Hey who said I'll be the one screwing everything up?"
'What did I get myself into? It was just suppose to be an everyday battle. And now we have different bodies?!' thought Sesshoumaru.
'This is probably going to be the worst day...wait, would if it's days? This would be the worst days of my life. Stuck in Sesshoumaru's body?!' Inuyasha scowled and Sesshoumaru frowned.
Neither of them would like this. "Remember, we have to get away from the lot so we can work on this, ok? Lets go," announced Sesshoumaru finally after he thought Inuyasha had it all down.
"Yeah..." replied Inuyasha. The two brothers stood up from their place on the ground. 'I have absolutely no idea on how to act like Sesshoumaru! Would if I mess it all up?! Would if Sesshoumaru messes it all up?! Augh!' Inuyasha thought with peril.
'Ok. Calm, cold, silent. Right? Right!' Inuyasha smiled widly and clenched his fist in front of his face, ready for action.
Sesshoumaru resisted the temptation to shake his head, 'He's going to ruin it all.'
Sesshoumaru too wasn't quite sure on how to act like Inuyasha. He had a pretty good idea though...well technically he didn't, he doesnt spend his entire day studying Inuyasha's technique, his behaviour around his friends, nor his basic lifestyle. 'This is going to be fairly hard to succeed.'
"Hey Sesshoumaru! What are we going to do with Tokijin? Just going to leave it there?" Inuyasha said from afar, standing right over tokijin and pointing down at it.
'Hm, I have no desire to let it just stay there for just anyone to get their hands on it...' But Sesshoumaru didn't have the body. But he did have the mind.
He thought about it for a few moments. He guessed that one bloody body with control was better than a rampaging youkai running though Japan killing everyone, mainly himself, since he was Inuyasha, the one person the sword hated the most. It's source of hatred.
'Well...I suppose I have to do what's best...' He began to approach Inuyasha and the sword. "I'll grab it, you just make sure your ready, I don't want to be a pile of dead limbs in the hot sun, and neither do you since this is your body. No good having a dead body to return to."
Inuyasha nodded with a frown, most likely due to the fact that if Sesshoumaru was dead, so was his body, that meant he would be stuck as Sesshoumaru forever.
Inuyasha got in the right position so that Sesshoumaru could get the sword in Inuyasha's obi fast and easy. Sesshoumaru looked one last time to make sure Inuyasha was ready before he reached down towards Tokijin. Grasped it's handle, immediately and over-whelming power was flowing though his body, the immense powers of Tokijin.
And as expected, Sesshoumaru's hanyou arm began to spurt blood everywhere. He struggled to bring it up, the pain was terrible. He imagined how it must have felt for Inuyasha the day he had challanged him with his new sword, and once again in the human village.
He noted that he had not intentionally went to the village to stop Inuyasha's transformation, but mearly to see what his youkai form was capable of. In the end, he was an easy opponent, though he did catch Sesshoumaru off guard one when Inuyasha punched his blade away, and as it had been back then a foolish and useless move.
Sesshoumaru continued to bring it up to Inuyasha. He brung the sword over his head so that it would get a good angle in. He quickly pushed it in it's place with good accuracy and let go of the hilt.
Good thing too, his arm was a mess of blood, scraches, gouges and what not?
'Dammit Inuyasha! The trouble he went though sometimes.
He looked at his arm with half a grimace and half a scowl, the blood wasn't running porfusely but it wasn't a small trickle either. He growled a bit and looked back to Inuyasha, "Remember, don't touch it!"
"Yeah yeah, got it."
Sesshoumaru turned around to start his trek back to Inuyasha's companions and Inuyasha also started on the trail to Sesshoumaru's cohorts.
Sesshoumaru was jumping tree branch to tree branch, following Inuyasha's scent back to his friends.
What would he do when he got there? He figured he would let Inuyasha's friends make the first move and then carry out from there.
The huge scratch he gave Inuyasha earlier still stung really badly, he supposed that getting a heavy dose of his poison wasn't the best thing in the world. Must have hurt a lot all the other times he had got Inuyasha in the face or on the arms or right though his abdomen.
Inuyasha was thinking the same thing as Sesshoumaru was. Since Rin and the toad were closer than his friends, he thought that he would arrive first.
"Why can't we just track down the hag and make her change us back? It would be way easier than this plan we have." Inuyasha sighed. But reminded himself that it was he who suggested the idea.
"Oh well. I suppose Naraku will just have to wait for the mean time. But that doesn't mean he's not getting away with it all."
Inuyasha soon arrived where Rin and Jaken sat nervously waiting for Sesshoumaru's return by the river. 'Well...here I am.'
Rin quickly spotted him as he came through the thick leaves of the trees. "Ah, Sesshoumaru-sama!" The instant she spoke, Inuyasha flinched. 'Ugh, this is definitely not going to be easy.'
He landed near the two as they crowded around him. "Sesshoumaru-sama! What happened to Inuyasha? Did you get him once and for all?!" the toad said. "Uh..." 'Not off to a very good start.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Then, what happened next was probably one of the most awkward things that had ever happened to Inuyasha.
The kid grabbed his leg and hugged it tight. He was severely tempted to grab her by the neck of her kimono just to get her off. But, such a cute innocence as herself probably didn't deserve such actions, especially from her idol who really wasn't her idol.
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Sesshoumaru watched the bunch from the darkness and confines of the tree branches. The girl Kagome was standing in the path whilst the rest just lay by a lone tree.
'Ok, first of all, acting inconspicuous.' He silently jumped out of his hiding place and to the ground on the opposite side of the group. The girl in the green skirt immediately ran over to him, with that same annoying skip in her step that she had always possessed from three years ago. "Inuyasha!" She waved at him.
The others soon followed suit. Sesshomaru didn't know how to react, and the lackness of touch he usually got from his group was totally destroyed as the girl and kitsune approached him and both grasped onto an arm each.
Sesshoumaru nearly cut off their heads for touching him, but at the last second he stopped himself, killing Inuyasha's woman it would seem was not number one on his list of things to kill. So he allowed the duo to reseed on his arms for the time being.
He groaned.
How he loathed the group at the time. "Oh! Inuyasha! Your arm! What happened?! Oh no, and that horrible cut on your face!" said the girl while she awkwardly inspected his injuries.
He quickly reacted, wanting the girl to detatch herself from him as soon as possible, "It's fine!" Sesshoumaru took a step or two away from her. She looked a little worried. "It'll heal in no time..." Though Sesshoumaru wasn't sure how long it would take for his arm and cut to heal. The injury on his cheek would take a little longer since he did just get a dose of his own poison, but his arm should heal soon enough, hanyou body or not.
"Ok then..." the girl said.
A few hours later, Sesshoumaru found himself sitting under a tree at night with Inuyasha's friends sitting a little too close for comfort, especially the girl, she was basically leaning on his shoulder.
Sesshoumaru supposed that the relationship she and Inuyasha had made over the span of three years was good enough to start cuddling.
Inuyasha's other miko was killed a year or so ago, giving plenty of time for the two. But, for Sesshoumaru, this was ridiculous.
He tried moving away from the girl, but unsuccessful every time since she always scooted closer, and if he just moved he was sure that the girl would fall over and probably do that "sit" command she usually gives Inuyasha, he personally didn't want that to happen.
So, under strict, hardcore discipline, he stayed and endured it, the night would hopefully be over soon.
Inuyasha, wasn't having as horrible a time as Sesshoumaru was.
He was sitting on his lonesome in a clearing, the kid and toad were keeping their distance, which he guessed was a good thing since he wasn't really in the mood to deal with the lot, less work for him.
He wondered how Sesshoumaru was doing. The stupid spell was a real problem. If anything happened to Kagome...he swore...he would kill Sesshoumaru for not protecting her.
But, Sesshoumaru being Sesshoumaru, he'd probably just let them die.
'Bad choice, letting Sesshoumaru hang around my friends.' He would find it hard sleeping, and not just because of the fact that a cold blooded killer is, right now, with his friends, but also that fact that everything was intensified double. His hearing, sense of smell, vision was improved, all perks of being a demon like Sesshoumaru.
Now he had the honour of smelling Sesshoumaru's stench double and more pungent since his body was right here in front of him, his blood stank, his clothes, his hair.
He hoped that he would get over the smell sooner or later. At least he had something to pass the time. The summer wind brought debris and leaves into the clearing. It made his hair sway with the wind, a few leaves were blocked by his crossed legs, disallowing them to pass any further.
He looked down at the small pile of leaves and grass. He plucked a leaf from the ground, brought it up to his face and slowly filled his youkai talons with poison, the leaf immediately sizzled up and melted. He grinned at his handy work, Sesshoumaru's youkai talents were of some use after all, might as well put them to use by melting leaves to pass time though the ever silent night.
He picked up another leaf and repeated. The feeling of melting stuff with poison was more than just fun, the flow of power and warmth that flowed though his arm and hand when he did so was more than amusing.
'How does Sesshoumaru do this without melting everything?' Inuyasha grinned, 'This is really fun.' And so he continued doing so.
