Chapter 8! Swelll...i sm going to make longer chapters...i don't however like throwing too much stuff into one chapter (thats what basically can happen if i do so) because it might hurt the theme...so im keeping that into consideration.

Nocturnal

"Alright everyone, here's the job for the grocery shopping again…" Ayame called out looking at her list.The 9 in the hallway groaned. Inuyasha raised his hand.

"I propose that I shouldn't have to do anything because I'm sick!!" He suggested through a cough. Ayame shrugged.

"You still have to go!!"

"Why?"

"Because you can't be alone by yourself!!"

"I'M 19!! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY SELF!!"

"No! I got grocery duty in this house!! I command you go!" She pointed to him in a crazed way.

"Fine!! But if I'm bored you gotta pay!" The wolf girl smirked.

"Fine. Okay, Sess and Rin, you get grains. Sango and Miroku, produce. Kirara and Shippo, um….hmmm…." She checked her list. "Well you guys go with Inuyasha and Kagome-" This was the bad part about being the youngest in the house. No one let you do anything alone.

"BUT WHY!" There was the obvious reason for that. Heads did 90 degree turns and eyes stared at them.

"Your're too young to be by yourself."

"Are not!!" Shippo defended.

"Just stay around Kagome and Inuyasha then! No one said you had to be glued to their hips…." Feeling pleased, the two nodded obediently. It wasn't as bad, but their parents only let them live with them if they were good. Hurrah. Ayame twirled a piece of her orange hair around in her fingers. She chewed her pen lightly making sure the groups were covered.

"So, that means you guys got poultry, meats and, miscellanies." She glanced at her watch. Then cheered like one of those pretty girls who started drag races. "Let's get started!!"

It was pandemonium of course, but they were out the house. Off for a day of grocery shopping.

It was one thing to go grocery shopping, but once they had finished early, Kagome had dragged them across the street to the Crafts store (Don't laugh, but I luv it!!). Inuyasha and Shippo became of the dead and grumbled, and staggered through the store to the girlie scrapbooking section.

Kagome picked up a bag of fake plastic leaves.

"Look Lala, aren't these kinda cool? They'd look great pressed on with something orange." Kirara took a look at the decoration twirling her blondish locks.

"They would look nice!" They giggled happily causing Inuyasha to lose his cold throbbing mind.

"Oh get real! They're fake leaves for allssake!" Shippo who was leaning against the wall nodded.

"I know. Yash is right." He looked over the hanyou's shoulder as he examined the packaged leafs

" See look at this," Kagome turned placing down more fake plastic decorations. He pointed to the sticker with the pricing on it. "11 dollars for a package of fake leaves!" Kagome faked a scowl taking it from him.

"They're pretty-" She started making her point only to have him finish.

"Expansive!"

"Expansive…" She muttered mimicking him perfectly.

"Huh. If you really want to get a good buy, you'd buy your boy friend a chiropractor for his aching shoulders…-" The cat's reddened eyes lit up. She snatched hold of Shippo's collar.

"Inuyasha! We can fix your shoulders!"Inuyasha eye brows knitted together.

"I highly doubt that…" Kirara pouted and blew her blackened bangs out of her eyes.

"Trust me…." With that look, and that smile, there was a hint of mischief going on…like their house didn't have enough…

After they spent some time putting away groceries, everybody simply just hung out finding something to occupy themselves. What fun.

Kirara and Shippo made their way into Inuyasha's room where he was lying flat on his back throwing paper balls at the wall. His ears twitched with a quick flicker.He heard their arrival.

"What." He snapped a bit harshly. Having been used to it they ignored him and got to their point. Kirara spoke first.

"We're here to help Yash…" Obviously this would be chaos.

"Oh please…"

"Seriously!" Shippo interrupted. The hanyou threw a wad of paper their way, yet they ducked instinctively, not letting him get his joy. "Come on Inuyasha!! We know what to do for your shoulders." Shippo pouted. Sighing, the hanyou knew that something was saying that he shouldn't go through with this.

"Fine…BUT! I want no rock hard cookies or unexpected strippers! Got it!"

"Yes Inu-ya-sha…." The two recited like their alphabet. "We'll be right back!" And then they were gone. The hanyou couldn't help but feel that "dentist-anxiety". It was the one where no matter how old you were, the fear of a dentist waiting room would never let up. This was one of those moments. The two return briefly wearing their face masks. Shippo was holding Kirara's computer in his hand and a cardboard box. They set up their materials on Inuyasha's desk and then, snapped on their gloves. It wasn't a pleasant noise. I'll give you that much. Then Shippo turned around holding a unscrewed bottle of veterinary sedative. Not a good sign. As soon as Inuyasha's eyes met the label, he flew up off his bed and braced himself up against the wall.

"Where did you get that!!" Looking innocent, the 14 year olds raised their eyebrows. Kirara rolled her cherry eyes.

"You should know! Your dads a zoologist!" They neared him and he bore his fangs in warning. Inuyasha's eyes glowed a red than gold again.

"Get. It. Away. From. Me." He growled slowly in increments. It raised the hairs on the back of their necks, but they wanted to do it…

Inuyasha hunched over in an animalistic way. Kirara smirked and did the same. Her perfectly white fang curled over her lip. Both sized each other up silently while Shippo watched. The only movement was the sound of their deep growling, and Antigone's clicking. Then there was the attack. Kirara pounced only for him to dodge her. Being experienced with his abilities, Inuyasha made a dive for the door. But Shippo, had braced himself in front of it. Coming to a screeching hault, Inuyasha stopped in front of him. The hanyou frowned.

"Move it!" He yelled. The red head frowned shaking his head.

"No way!! We're helping you whether you like it or not!" This time while Inuyasha wasn't moving, Kirara ambushed him. She folded the gauze over his mouth from behind. Inuyasha eyes widened instantly, and his hands shot up to the hands covering his mouth and nose. He tried pulling her off, but she wouldn't budge, and He was getting awfully tired and drained. They pulled away from him finally as the sedative gave its course. Uh-oh. Inuyasha staggered a bit glaring at them. He was panting.

"What..are…you DOING!" He managed to bark. Kirara made her way to him and pat him on the head.

"It's just so you would relax a bit. That's it." She rested him back onto the bed and he looked dazed. "There we go…now that your settled, let's begin!" She chirped. She moved to her computer and scrolled down a bit. "Hmmmm….Shippo…"

"Yeah?"

"You wouldn't happen to know if we have any Seirin Pyonex Needles do you?" The words died on her tongue. Shippo scratched his head.

"Uh….no…" He pulled out toothpicks instead. "What about this!" Kirara examined the wooden utensils and shrugged.

"What ever. They'll do. It's just acupuncture right?" Shippo nodded and they approached a dazed Inuyasha. His half lidded eyes examined the wooden sticks and he tilted his head away.

"What are those?" He asked.

"It's okay Yash…just relax…" Kirara took a breath and stabbed the needle in…

From outside…

"AEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!" Kids running around in front of the house stop. They could hear the terrifying sounds of agony and run screaming.

Inuyasha got out of his trance and managed to hold his shoulder as blood ran down it. Kirara and Shippo panicked. The blond squeaked and flailed her arms about like if it would help. She began to chant:

"OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!" Shippo gulped and scrambled around their box.. Their 'patient' was just about to kill them.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SHOULDER YOU TWITS!" Kirara didn't answer. She began typing in madness to her small computer.

"Wait? What is this! Google didn't say anything about rage and bleeding!! SHIPPO DO SOMETHING!!" Inuyasha did something alright. He took the toothpick out of his sore shoulder muscles and seized the two roughly by their collars. The teens flinched, but all he did was open his door and threw them out. They landed on their faces (Kirara on fours) and the burgundy door shut sharply. Feeling rejected, the cat stood up and hissed.

"Just you wait!! We'll be the best 'acupuncturers' in the world!!" She shook her fists dramatically/ Inuyasha's door open and be was just in the middle of a coughing fit. He stuck his head out.

"Oh sure you'll be! Maybe you can take toothpicks from Sango's bakery! Or! Maybe get whip skilled woman to massage your customers!!" He shut his door once more leaving them fuming.

"It's iight!! I got your number!!"

Feeling sore from coughing and fake acupuncture, Inuyasha slept soundly. It was dark and quiet, and cool in his bedroom. Just like he liked it. He sunk deeply in to comforters relaxing his repairing body. Almost like if he were jinxed however, he heard a loud thump downstairs. His eyes flickered open and he heard movement in the next rooms. A group of footsteps tiptoed to his door and turned the knob. The smell of vanilla and a flowery scent tiptoes in. Kagome sat beside Inuyasha shaking him lightly.

"Inuyasha...Inuyasha! There's someone in our house!" She called frantically. Inuyasha didn't move at first. Then, he sat up slowly stretching very lightly. With his eyes still closed he simply patted her on the shoulder.

"I thought I told you that the boogie man is just Miroku again…-"

"No! It's real this time! There is someone in here!!" There was more tip toeing and soon incomes the other residents. They poured into the soft moonlight of the room. Ayame made her way in first. Her green face mask and classic curlers gave her the 'mama-outta-bed-look'. She held a coil of ropes in her hands.

"There's people downstairs…I smell something unfamiliar…" Kirara shivered in her gown.

"It's c-c-cold in here…" she rubbed her arms lightly. Kouga pushed her slim frame aside appearing in his boxers with numerous swear words on them.

"I say we crack who evers head is down stairs!!" He whispered hoarsely. Inuyasha frowned.

"Wolf has a point…let's do this thing…" The hanyou jumped off of his bed and grabbed his fathers metal golf club from under his bed.

The darkness of the kitchen was heavy. The fridge light was on brightly. It was just a sliver of the fluorescent yellow glow. Ten heads looped around the doorway quietly. The large rounded body closed the fridge. The person just finished taking something out, when something came crashing doewn on their head. A yelp of agony cried out as their was voices.

"That'll teach ya!" There was more swinging of something heavy and metal. It collided with it's victim's head.

"Get him! Get him!" A female voice cried. The night creeper squeaked and felt their body being jostled. They could hear the sharp swoosh noises of the object flying and hitting their body creating painful welts and stings. Then the lights turned on to reveal a silver haired half demon in baggy drawstring pants and wife beater holding a golf club above their head. A female with raven hair, Hershey eyes wearing female boxers and a oversized t-shirt held a kitchen knife. Meanwhile a blonde headed girl in a gown held rope. Inuyasha lowered his golf club frowning. On the floor laid a crumpled slim male. He looked somewhere between 18 or 19 and quite the looker. Kagome dropped the knife and made a shriek, it looked like they hurt him badly. Too badly. Inuyasha however didn't have a drop of sympathy.

"Get up! You met your will!" Kagome scowled and took the handsome young man's side. His fair locks bristled down over his forehead in complicated swirls. Kouga pushed his way forward first.

"What! Kagome! What are you doing you can sleep with the-" He stopped due to the warning growl by the hanyou with the gold club. "Uh….i mean, you can't take sides with the enemy! He broke in our house!"

"Wolf has a point!" Inuyasha nodded. Kagome wasn't easily swayed. Stupid maternal hormones.

"No!" She frowned "He's hurt! He needs help!" Sango frowned.

"Kagome he could be dangerous-" A weak voice sounded below her.

"Uh…." A pair of dark black eyes met her gaze. They scanned over the gracious face and features. "Am-am I in heaven?" reality reared it's head and the golf club swung into his side once more.

"INUYASHA!" Playing it off, he innocently shrugged.

"I guess it slipped?" His girlfriend scowled and went back to the man.

"Are you okay?" A flirtatious smirk met her eyes.

"Now I am…" Kagome gasped as he wiggled his eye brows. Having been loyal to who she loved, she quickly moved from under him, causing his head to drop to the floor. In a flash she was behind Inuyasha. He would never let this up.

"Take me and Kouga's advice now?" He smirked like a little kid.

"Shut up Inuyasha." Inuyasha sighed and prodded his victim.

"Who are you, and why are you here?" The strange man looked around.

"Where's my cousin?" Sesshomaru came forward.

"Who's cousin-" Miroku suddenly came into the kitchen wearing a fancy red bath robe. His eyes were heavy and he yawned.

"What's going on?-" Like if it were a reunion, the man on the floor stood up smiling.

"Cousin Miroku!".

(Everyone comes into kitchen and turns on lights. A fat guy with a scottish kilt is standing there with his mouth full)

Inu: Who the hell are you?

(kag holds her nose)

kags: Ugh! He smells like cheap cologne!

(the fat guys clamps his teethe at her)

Fb: Ihm Fawt Bawstard! And yherr aul oout'uv those little canned fishies!!

(Ayame frowns)

Ayame: we don't buy sardines-

(Fb roars and they flinch)

Fb: HOWH CAHN YOU BE OUT OF SARDINES!! AND IHM STAHRVING!

all: IT'S NOT YOUR HOUSE!

(fB narrows eyes)

Fb: YOU KNOHW WHAT! GET IN MY BELLL-AY!

(ALL run out of house by the nearest exit with fb on their heels)

TEEHHEEE!! Next up is more "healing" properties.. almost to the end! then i'l;l pick back up on the dog of wonderland and a get well sequel. Keep eyes open! REVIEW TOO PLEASE!!