Inurella
Chapter 6: Are you there God? It's me Miroku
***Back at Naraku's mansion***
Kagome did finish her chores that day, although she was terribly exhausted, she was so tired she barely laid herself down on her bed of hay when she fell asleep dreaming sweet dreams of dusting, mopping, washing, scrubbing, and sweeping.
The next morning Kagome woke up to the sounds of heavy footsteps, yelling and the slamming of doors.
Kagome yawned and forced herself to get up to investigate the noise everyone was making upstairs. As always there were a few dozen different kinds of rodents and birds in her room, she could never figure out how they kept getting in, but didn't care at the moment. She went through the daily routine of finding her clothes amongst the chaos of the wild animals, she finally found her clothes and got dressed and went up the stairs.
When Kagome got to the top of the stairs she saw Kikyo and Kagura running back and forth yelling at one another and grabbing clothing out of each other's hands.
Naraku was standing in the middle of Kikyo and Kagura trying to calm them down, which wasn't doing any good since he seemed just as confused as Kagome looked.
Naraku kept opening his mouth to yell something to his daughter's but Kikyo and Kagura kept yelling out insults at each other, which frustrated him.
Naraku noticed Kagome and pushed past both of his daughters and practically ran over to Kagome swinging his arms violently in the air.
Naraku grabbed Kagome firmly by the shoulders "Kagome thank goodness! What do I do? They're ripping the house apart! Why can't they find something to wear Kagome….why?" Naraku said in frustration shaking Kagome back and forth.
Kagome gently pushed away from Naraku's grasp, "Well it looks like you haven't done any shopping lately, that's probably why there fighting over clothes. Why not go to the market today and buy them something to wear."
Naraku still held Kagome by the shoulders but loosened his grip and looked slowly off to the side in deep thought.
After a few awkward minutes he finally let Kagome go and stood there and smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand.
Naraku face palmed himself "Yes you're absolutely right Kagome, why didn't I see it before? Of course young women have this absurd fascination with shopping" Naraku exclaimed.
Kagome gave Naraku an odd look and took a step back.
Kikyo and Kagura ran over to their father and grabbed him by the arms, which made Naraku cringe.
"Can we go father, can we please?" Kikyo whined as she tugged on his arm.
Naraku made a disgusted face and cringed "Yes yes, we can go, just remove your unsightly hands off of me" Naraku said as he dusted off his arms.
Kikyo let go of her father and dreamily walked off to the side with a wide smile. While Kagura stayed at her father's side and smiled at Kagome.
"Kagome lets go get ready ok?" Kagura said happily.
Kagome looked up at Naraku confused "I can go shopping too?"
"Well yes of course, who else will be carrying the shopping bags?" Naraku said as he walked away giving Kagome a deep mechanical laugh, and then yelled "We'll be leaving shortly girls"
***At the palace again***
"How does your mother not know that your brother despises you with every inch of his being? All those birthdays he had, blowing out his candles. He would make a wish that you would die a horrible, twisted, painful death and suffer for all eternity. Wouldn't that give your mother some sort of a clue?" Miroku said still laughing.
Inuyasha laughed. "Keh, Beats me…..It's not like I care anyways."
Inuyasha and Miroku headed out to the stables and grabbed a pair of horses to take with them on their short journey to locate Sesshoumaru and bring him the exciting news.
After about an hour or so…..
"Miroku sighed. "Well, we've looked everywhere, where could he have moped off to?"
"Good question...maybe he got eaten by a demon" Inuyasha said with no emotion.
Miroku laughed. "Sesshoumaru being eaten? That's far from ridiculous, that man is invincible".
"Keh….he's so full of himself" Inuyasha confidently.
Both Inuyasha and Miroku felt a sudden cold breeze that made them both shiver.
"Is that so little brother?" Sesshoumaru snarled as he appeared out of nowhere from behind Inuyasha.
Miroku let out a gasp and was so startled he almost fell from his saddle. He gave Sesshoumaru embarrassing smile and cleared his throat. "Good afternoon Lord Sesshoumaru". (Trying to cover the fact that he almost fell from his saddle from fear.)
Sesshoumaru looked past Miroku and turned his attention to Inuyasha.
"So my little brother what do I owe this great pleasure? Sesshoumaru said calmly.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes "Look we've been looking for you for over an hour, where have you been?"
"I was here all along" Sesshoumaru sighed.
Inuyasha growled. "You mean to tell me you were following us the whole time?"
"Yes I was….and I'm very disappointed in you for not picking up my scent, you ought to work on that little brother" Sesshoumaru said while stroking his fluffy white boa.
Inuyasha was seething with anger; while Miroku was sitting back glancing back and forth at Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru let out a deep sigh "So what was it again that you had to tell me?" He asked again a little more irritated staring at his long nails.
Inuyasha snarled under his breath. "Mother and father forced me to come look for you and tell you the news."
Sesshoumaru looked uninterested. "Oh? What do they want now?"
Miroku jumped in knowing that Inuyasha was so annoyed you could barely understand him through all that clenched teeth.
Miroku explained the situation and the ball that he was to attend.
"I see, how droll. Tell them I won't be attending your little ball." Sesshoumaru said casually and then turned around and walked away.
Inuyasha scoffed. "You think Father would be pleased hearing that?"
Sesshoumaru eye twitched and growled. "Fine, I'll make an appearance, but don't expect me to participate in any events."
Sesshoumaru turned to leave, but not before Inuyasha yelled out. "Don't forget to bring a date!"
At these words Sesshoumaru flinched then disappeared.
Inuyasha and Miroku sat there on their horses laughing…..a few seconds passed; they heard a deep, loud, irritated, booming voice: "I will do no such thing"
Miroku and Inuyasha jumped and looked all around them trying to find out where the voice came from.
Then Miroku yelled out: "God is that you?"
Inuyasha smacked Miroku on the head, Miroku laughed at his own joke.
"I wonder how he does that." Miroku he asked as he rubbed the back of his head and looked around in awe.
"How he does what?" Inuyasha asked.
"You know….how he just disappeared"
Inuyasha sighed "It's something father teaches his children once they turn a certain age. Apparently father put Sesshoumaru through a lot of hard training and made him do countless tasks."
"Wow, I had no idea" Miroku said amazed.
"I'll be doing it this year in the winter; I'm pretty excited about it. Something different then lounging around the castle. Maybe I'll get to slay some demons or something" Inuyasha said happily.
Miroku laughed. "So you don't know what you have to do?"
"Nope, father won't tell me and neither will Sesshoumaru, which makes me even more annoyed" Inuyasha explained.
As soon as they got back to the castle and dropped off the horses at the barn, the Queen rushed through the doors yelling: "Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha ran up to his mother with worry in his face. "What's wrong? What happened?"
Miroku glanced around panicked ready to conquer evil with his fist.
The Queen grabbed Inuyasha by the front of his shirt and stared at him breathing in and out deeply through her nose. His mother's eyes were wide and full of anger. Inuyasha braced himself. Finally she said through clenched teeth: Flowers! We need more flowers!"
Inuyasha and Miroku's face dropped to the floor.
Inuyasha pulled away from his mother's death grip and grabbed her shoulders.
"Are you freaking kidding me?" Inuyasha exclaimed angrily.
The Queen threw her arms up in the air. "Your brilliant father only gave me a week to put this entire ball together." The Queen turned to Inuyasha "Do you know how stressed I am?" the Queen said as one of her eyes were violently twitching.
"Apparently a lot" Inuyasha said while standing with his arms crossed looking to one side clearly annoyed.
Miroku let out a sigh and scratched his chin. "No disrespect my Queen but you're getting stressed out because of flowers?"
"Yes Miroku, can't you see flowers are the life of the ball?" The Queen explained enthusiastically.
"I see" Miroku said curiously, glancing towards Inuyasha who was rolling his eyes towards his mother.
"So go buy more flowers, problem solved" Inuyasha said casually.
"Inuyasha! Have I not taught you anything about flowers and they're importance?" The Queen exclaimed angrily.
"Inuyasha stared at his mother with wide eyes and shook his head and laughed Inuyasha raised an eyebrow "No mother you've never taught me anything like that"
Miroku sides were hurting as he wanted to laugh, but knew it would upset the Queen.
The Queen stared at Inuyasha and blinked a few times "Oh Dear, you are right…that was Sesshoumaru, he was so interested in plants and flowers when he was little, we'd always have tea in the garden and discuss nature" The Queen sighed happily as she was going down memory lane.
Inuyasha and Miroku burst out laughing "Sesshoumaru was into flowers? That's the greatest news I've heard all day" Inuyasha said still laughing.
The Queen was confused as to what Inuyasha and Miroku were laughing at.
"Anyways my darling's, I wanted to ask if you could go and buy 1000 red roses at the market today" The Queen asked with wide eyes and a smile.
"Keh, shouldn't you be asking Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha and Miroku burst out once again.
"Well I would but lately he's gotten all mopey and wants to be alone….he really needs a girlfriend, maybe that'll be my next goal!" The Queen walked away talking to herself.
Miroku and Inuyasha set out to buy 1000 red roses that afternoon.
A/N: Thanks again for reading! Chapter 7- Puppy Surprise! is up next, and is one of my favorite's so enjoy!