Sesshoumaru was having his time sleeping, quite nicely too. Though the girl on his side was beginning to annoy him some, she just wouldn't stop it! How did Inuyasha handle it! She kept her persistent actions on and on and on...he silently groaned.
'Infantile being'
Why did she keep rubbing her face on his shoulder?! It was about fifteen or so minutes after he had fallen asleep before he had talked with Inuyasha that she started the habit.
He tried countless times again to fall asleep, which he desperately needed, but failed every time, her movements always startled him awake just when he was asleep. He let out a faint growl at no one in particular, just his unfortunate soul. He sighed, 'With this lack of sleep, I'm not going to be up to anything today, he thought sleepily.
Now that he was on the subject, he couldn't help but mention that this entire thing was Naraku's fault. If he hadn't been on the search for that bastard, he would have never met up with Inuyasha yesterday while looking for him. This was also his own fault, if he hadn't been probably the most powerful youkai in all of Japan and also Inuyasha's older brother, Naraku would have never been looking for him in the first place, asking his assistance in the destruction of Inuyasha.
But it wasn't Sesshoumaru's fault that he had to be presented with a hanyou for a brother and also the Inu no Taisho's son.
What had he done to deserve this kind of punishment?
A bad brother, as that hag would put it. A cruel one at that on some occasions.
He sometimes regretted that one time he had made the Un-Mother transform into an identical of Inuyasha's mother. When his father had taken a human mate, he heard that her name was...Izayoi? He didn't take much heed of that information, only that she was a stain on his family name.
He was forced to live like that for a while, until she finally passed away, leaving a hanyou child an orphan.
Sesshoumaru wanted the brat dead, for he was a mockery and a reminder, but he was just a kid still.
Sesshoumaru didn't have a habit in kill children, so he took the child and trained him, so that when he was older Sesshoumaru could kill him, there was no honor in killing a defense-less hanyou.
Were it not for Tetsusaiga, he probably would have succeeded in riding Inuyasha for good, but in the end it had turned out badly for Sesshoumaru, leaving him minus an arm, wounded and sword less.
Until he had received Tokijin. It made his life easier at the least.
Sesshoumaru sighed.
He looked over at the mountains to the east, they were a brilliantly bright pink color, and sunrise would be only a few minutes away. This would probably be one of the worst nights he had ever had. The girl was snuggling a little too close now. 'Dammit! Damn you Inuyasha!'
And the girl. Sesshoumaru slowly began to, once again, scoot away from her. But she was a persistent one, kept moving towards him, like a goddamn magnet!
The very least he could do was turn so that her head was lying on his back instead of his shoulder, it was way to awkward that way. 'Damned girl.'
Now he couldn't wait till the lot woke up so that they could be on their way, he guessed that they were also looking for Naraku.
Sesshoumaru wished to god that he and Inuyasha would be switched back before then, mostly for Inuyasha. He would be completely defenseless against Naraku, he couldn't use Tokijin, and Tenseiga would be of no use, he was probably very inexperienced using his poison attacks, if Inuyasha showed up, he would only be in his way in the fight.
'………Just wake up already!'
And as if on cue, the girl opened her eyes. She looked up at him, be he didn't return her stare; she smiled and said, "Up already Inuyasha?"
Sesshoumaru just grunted, 'Took you damn long enough!' She just smiled at him.
"Ok, let's wake the others and be on our way, right?"
Once again, he grunted. She frowned, "Something the matter Inuyasha?"
How he hated being called Inuyasha all the time. Inuyasha this, Inuyasha that, Inuyasha, Inuyasha, INUYASHA! It was beginning to get on his nerves. He wondered how the real Inuyasha was doing.
--
Inuyasha watched as the sun rose slowly, it was so boring.
He lay on his side, his head resting in one hand while he watched it. He let out a heavy sigh. He couldn't sleep for the whole hour and a half; he was too worked up about Kagome and Sesshoumaru.
He tried his best not to worry. He had begun to fidget a while ago; his fingers were getting tired. He had been tapping his claws in a wave formation on the ground for about ten or twenty minutes now.
The sun was now above the horizon and shinning perfectly in his face, blinding him. He growled and closed his eyes from the light.
The kid and toad were still sleeping by the other tree. Inuyasha was eager to get moving as soon as possible to find Sesshoumaru, or Naraku, whom ever came first.
He stopped his fidgeting and quickly stood up and basically shouted at the two sleeping people, "Ok! Get up!"
They both slowly opened their eyes. The girl blinked a few times as did the toad before she asked, "...uh...Sesshoumaru-sama...? She let out a big yawn and looked over at the sun.
"Sesshoumaru-sama? It's still only dawn. Is something the matter? Why do we have to get up so early?"
Jaken looked like he was thinking the same thing though sleepy eyes.
Inuyasha said once again, "Never mind, just get up!" He crossed his arms and turned around curtly with his usual Inuyasha style.
Rin was wondering why her lord was in such a hurry, but if he was, it must be very urgent.
She stood up slowly and wobbly, straightened her kimono and said, "Jaken-sama. Wake up! We have to go."
It looked like Jaken had fallen asleep again. Rin leaned down and gently shook his shoulder. "Jaken-sama!" He immediately woke up. "Ah, wha...?"
Rin grinned and said, "Let's get going."
Jaken mumbled something under his breath as he arose, his staff in hand.
Inuyasha started to walk away, a very sleepy Rin and Jaken following slowly behind, still trying to recover from an early waking.
--
A few miles to the southeast, sat Sesshoumaru, bored out of his mind.
He watched though half-closed eyes as Inuyasha's friends were packing up their stuff, getting ready for the journey to find Naraku.
As much as he too wanted to find Naraku, they sure were taking their time, especially Inuyasha's woman.
Dammit, now she really was starting to tick him off, taking her damn time.
He clenched his teeth together to resist the urge to just grab her and start the journey already. It has come to mind that ever since he had been hanging around the girl, the more his patience has been shortening and the more he's been swearing.
He secretly wondered if this is why Inuyasha swore so much, it could quite possibly be one of them anyways.
He sighed, she was "double-checking" if she had everything. She was double-checking everything, all the strange bottles she carried in her yellow monstrosity. Clothing, supplies, all her feminine stuff.
He growled slightly, oh yeah, and he did more growling too.
This girl probably wasn't good for his health, both mentally and physically in more than one way. He supposed it was a good thing he had control over his sanity.
And it wasn't only the girl, the other humans too! That hentai, and the slayer, always giggling at each other, making strange noises at night, he probably didn't want to imagine what they were doing then, so he chose to leave it alone. Though it was quite disturbingly obvious what they were doing.
He shifted uncomfortably thinking of it.
And then FINALLY the girl was finished
Sesshoumaru soon stood up and said, "Let's go."
The others nodded and stood up while the girl flung her bag over her shoulder and smiled at him.
Sesshoumaru kept his blank expression in place as he started to walk away down the dirt path. 'Long day ahead.'
--
Inuyasha was walking with the two following him along with Sesshoumaru's dragon.
And, for the whole journey that had lasted for about fifteen minutes, the kid was humming. Yes humming, consistently, how could Sesshoumaru handle such racket?
It was driving Inuyasha insane. Not only her repetitive humming, but also the tune. Hmhmhm, lalala, hmhmhm, lalala! God, over and over, again and again.
Inuyasha slouched over, his arms hanging at his side with a God-save-me look on his tortured face.
Jaken had become very concerned and suspicious at his master's new composure, it was so unlike his lord.
He seemed to be more, recklessly moronic, kind of like a déjà vu effect, he seemed to be more talkative and persistent, once again, a 'déjà vu' effect.
He could have sworn he knew someone like that. It seemed to be a lot like Inuyasha-style, over the years they have encountered the worthless fool, from the start, Jaken could tell that Inuyasha wasn't the brightest crayon in the box.
He hoped that this thing hadn't rubbed off on his lord.
But he never imagined that it would ever happen, he prayed to the gods that whatever this thing was, he wished it to be gone from his lord.
Then he heard Rin's distant voice call from up ahead, "Jaken-sama! Hurry up! You're going to fall behind!"
He quickly caught on, "Ah! Sesshoumaru-sama! Rin-chan! Wait for me!" And he scurried after them.
--
Sesshoumaru was at the head of the group, his arms stuffed neatly into his haori sleeves as Inuyasha's group followed close behind.
His eyes were closed, which probably wasn't a very good thing since he thought he would fall sleep while walking.
But, lucky him, he didn't.
The girl was walking next to him, perilously close to his side, invading his personal space without a single thought of contemplation.
He tried to endure it best he could, fortunately it was working fairly good, good enough that he didn't say something rash and unforgiving.
He looked up at the sky, the sun told that it was around ten-thirty, eleven o'clock.
They had been walking since the sun had risen. Not bad, but tiring.
Hanyou bodies were completely useless, running out of energy already?!
He sighed, feeling it right to do so in his situation. He was at least happy to tell that his cut on his face was nearly completely healed.
If and when the two were put back in their own bodies, he might think twice about stabbing Inuyasha with poison-leaking claws, but that was a 'might', not a 'yes'.
Sesshoumaru yawned.
"Are you tired Inuyasha?" the girl said.
'Ugh, there it is again.' "More or less," he replied with a low tone due to his tiredness.
He nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt an out-of-nowhere hand land on his right shoulder.
He looked over and saw that the girl had her hand on his person. More contact?!
He didn't know why she always touched him, but once again, he didn't watch Inuyasha all the time.
"Would you like to stop for a bit?"
The day was at just the right temperature to sleep, he would like to stop, and he wanted this girl to stop touching him. Everyone's happy in the end. "Yeah."
She smiled and so did the others.
Sesshoumaru and the rest began to walk over to the side of the road to take a short stop.
The girl leaned her contraption against a tree and sat on a root that was growing out of the ground to make it look like some kind of bench. The others followed suit.
Sesshoumaru went over to the tree next to theirs' and sat down, leaning his back against he trunk.
He sighed, 'At last,' he thought to himself contently. He closed his eyes very soon fell into darkness, making up the sleep he lost the other night.
--
Sesshoumaru was having a pretty good time just sleeping. No one was bugging him, his mind was totally black and peaceful, and he was enjoying it.
Until, be of fate or punishment, something very rich and strong hit his sensitive nose. The pungent aroma was very unmerciful and thick.
He woke, his eyes stayed shut. He inhaled once, taking this new smell into registration for classification. He had never smelt it before, he had never imagined something like this to ever exist, but it did obviously.
It smelt of...he wasn't sure, but it didn't smell all that bad, it almost smelt delicious, or delightful, tasty, what not besides bad?
He opened an eye to see if it was in seeing range. He looked around, Inuyasha's friends were seated around a fire in the middle of the clearing, it looked to be cooking something in a pot above its flame, which that smell seemed to be coming from inside the pot.
Now he was curious.
He lifted his head up, trying to look over the rim of the pot to see what was in it. The girl looked over her shoulder to see him awake. "Hey, Inuyasha! Hungry?"
Sesshoumaru wasn't sure what they were going to have, but he was in fact, not starving but not entirely hungry. But he was really wondering what was happening over there. He stood up slowly.
The cuts on his arm were completely healed except for a few scabs which were still healing, the one he had given Inuyasha before they were switched was still healing, it was nearly half healed, the poison he had also given Inuyasha wasn't so bad, he felt a little tingle sometimes near his injury, but nothing terminal.
Sesshoumaru began to walk over to the people surrounding the cooking pot. He had a good view when standing up, he could see that what was cooking was a kind of noodle recipe.
The boiling water that was cooking spurted randomly out of the pot and onto the forest floor, quickly sinking into the dirt due to the lack of moisture the sun had driven out yesterday.
Sesshoumaru had never liked summer, it was always so hot and dry, he preferred fall or spring, both in between summer and winter, but mostly spring, always smelt the nicest.
He looked down at the group around the fire. The girl said, "Inuyasha, do you want some ramen?"
Sesshoumaru had never heard of this "ramen". She reached over to pick up a bowl and poured a bowl of noodles.
He watched with a quizzing look as she handed it to him with a pair of chopsticks. After a few moments, Sesshoumaru still didn't take the bowl from her hands, he wasn't sure on what to do.
Kagome began to worry, "Inuyasha? What's wrong? Don't you want any?"
Sesshoumaru was quickly awoken from his reverie, "Oh, uh..."
Sesshoumaru slowly and hesitantly reached out towards the bowl, he wasn't use to eating human food, but this hanyou body needed some kind of nourishment.
The bowl of noodles she had in her hand were steaming, eloping a delicious aroma that taunted his nose and senses with its wonderful smell.
He took it from her hand and cautiously sniffed it, making sure it was the real deal, something that smelled this good wasn't that common in Japan.
He turned around back to his tree, still examining the bowl contents. Once he got to back to the tree, he sat down slowly as to not spill the hot liquid and scald his hand.
He picked the chopsticks up that rested on opposite rims of the bowl. He placed the chopsticks in place in this right hand, and lowered them into the bowl of noodles.
The smell still tempted him so. He clamped onto a couple of noodles and brought them to his face. They were still steaming from the hot liquid.
He placed the bunch in his mouth, there was an immediately reaction.
They tasted wonderfully delicious.
He slurped up the bunch and swallowed. 'Hm...Tastes like…like flavor...'
"Girl, what did you say this was?" He began to eat them again, simply addictive, he could swear.
Kagome seemed to flinch, "What was that?! Did you just call me 'girl'?!"
Sesshoumaru looked up to her with a blank expression and said though a mouthful of noodles, "You are a girl, aren't you?"
She gasped over her own bowl of ramen.
"Inuyasha?!?!? You damn idiot!! Arrgh!! SIT BOY!!!!"
Everything seemed to be in slow motion as he had about a billionth of a second to think, 'Shit--' before he fell forward face first into the unforgiving ground. His noodles fell out of his hand and spilled nonchalantly across the forest floor. He was completely and utterly shocked out of his mind!
'What the hell was that?!' He blinked a few times and dug his face out of the dirt, looked up at the girl, who had a furious face one.
He snarled, "What was that for?!? All I asked was what this soup is called again!!"
The girl just crossed her arms with a 'hmph'.
Sesshoumaru saw that the others were shaking their heads. Sesshoumaru growled and said under his breath, "Wench."
He suspected that the girl had heard since she began to hover evilly over his head before she shouted, "What was that?!"
Sesshoumaru was nearly afraid to look over his shoulder at her and repeat, raging females were fairly dangerous and murderous when they got worked up.
But he had a bone to pick with this woman; he casually turned around and growled, "Wench!" He said with a know-it-all sense.
And, in a flash she was over at him, looking like she was ready to explode. 'Is this girl for real? She must be some possessed youkai, of sorts!
"Inuyasha!! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!"
And it was all over again; he one again slammed into the ground and was forced to endure the weight of six, merciless and brutal commands to his face.
He snarled at her once he pulled his face out of the dirt again. 'Damn wench!'
How did Inuyasha endure this kind of punishment for three years? He had to hand it to him, and he still hanged around her.
Sesshoumaru would never understand the damned hanyou or human females.
He pulled himself off the ground and stood up. He looked down at the group who started up at him with confused faces except for the girl; she still wouldn't look at him.
Sesshoumaru wanted to talk to Inuyasha about something.
So he turned around without looking back at the people who watched him walk away before he jumped into the trees and began his journey towards Inuyasha.
However way this hanyou nose was useless to him, he could at least use it to track down Inuyasha. And so he was off like a bolt of lightning.
Little be known to him, the kitsune exclaimed by shrugging arrogantly, "Like a dog with its tail between its legs."
