InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bishies Without Shirts ❯ A Quick Game of Hide-and-Seek ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 12: A Quick Game of Hide-and-Seek

Inuyasha froze, momentarily flustered, but he quickly recovered with a plausible excuse.

"I have to take a piss. Is that alright with you?" he said sarcastically.

"No you don't." Sesshoumaru countered. "Get back in bed."

"Hey! Asshole! Let go of my leg before I piss on you!" Inuyasha growled.

"Fine." Sesshoumaru said, releasing his brother's ankle. "I'll accompany you to the washroom."

"If you insist." Inuyasha said, grinning evilly. "But you're going to be waiting outside the door for at least twenty minutes. I have to take care of something." There. If that didn't discourage Sesshoumaru, nothing would.

"You are absolutely repugnant." Sesshoumaru sneered distastefully, wrinkling his nose.

"Hey, don't blame me! If you had stayed in your room for another fifteen minutes or so, I wouldn't have this problem." Inuyasha said angrily, shifting uncomfortably in his pants. Sesshoumaru began to massage his temples with his one hand, covering his eyes.

"I refuse to stand out in the hallway while you…you…" for once, he was at a loss for words.

"Fine by me!" Inuyasha said, heading for the door. Sesshoumaru grabbed him by the hair and yanked him back. He spun Inuyasha around, quickly adjusting his grip by grabbing his hair at the roots, close to the skull, and lifted his brother right off the ground.

"You're not going, either." he whispered venomously.

"Let go!" Inuyasha snarled through clenched teeth, unwelcome tears of pain pooling in his eyes. Sesshoumaru released his grip on the hanyou's hair and he dropped to the ground with an soft *thud*.

"Fine…" Inuyasha said softly and menacingly. "I'll do it in here and you can watch, you hentai yaoi."

"You will NOT." Sesshoumaru hissed. "Unless you want me to remove it." To illustrate his point, he raised his claws in front of his face, and they began to glow with an eerie, green light. Understandably intimidated, Inuyasha closed his mouth and climbed back into bed. He lay on the bed for what seemed like an eternity, though it was really only ten minutes or so, tossing and turning restlessly, anxiety eating away at the pit of his stomach. He just had to see Kagome! After a few more excruciating minutes, he leapt out of bed and ran for the door.

"GET BACK!" Sesshoumaru warned in a low voice.

"But I really have to piss this time!" he whined.

"I'm getting very tired of this, Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru sighed, lifting himself off the ground. "I will accompany you to the washroom, and I will be waiting outside the door. You will have five minutes, not a second more. If you are not out in five minutes, I am coming in to get you, regardless of what you may be doing in there. And I feel it only fair to warn you that I am in NO mood for games. Have I made myself clear?"

"Fine! Can we go now?" Inuyasha asked anxiously.

"Go." Sesshoumaru barked, placing his hand in a steel-trap grip upon his younger brother's shoulder. They left the room and walked silently down the hall to the bathroom. When they got to the door, Sesshoumaru shoved Inuyasha roughly inside.

"Five minutes, Inuyasha, and I mean-" the rest was cut off as Inuyasha closed the door in his face, locking it behind him. With Sesshoumaru safely on the other side of the bathroom door, Inuyasha slid open the bathroom window and climbed out onto the roof.

'Now let's see…' he thought to himself. 'Where did Higurashi-san put my Kagome?' Following his nose, Inuyasha soon found himself outside Sota's bedroom window.

'Yep.' he thought, taking a deep breath. 'She's in here.' Carefully, he leaned over the gutter and slid the window open. Then he let himself go into a controlled fall, turning in midair and catching the sill in both hands. He quietly pulled himself into the room and crawled over to the bed where Kagome lay sleeping. Gently, he lifted the covers and slid in next to her. As she began to stir, he gently clamped a hand over her mouth and whispered directly into her ear.

"It's me. Don't scream or say anything. Sesshoumaru's right out in the hall and I only have a few minutes. I just needed to talk to you." He started to pull his head away from her ear, but the irresistible scent that seemed to emanate from that area between her ear and shoulder froze his there, and rather than pull away he dropped his head down and started sucking on her neck. Turning her face slightly, Kagome whispered into his ear.

"I thought you wanted to TALK?" she breathed.

"G-gomen…" he whispered back, flushed from excitement and embarrassment.

"Well?" Kagome whispered when he merely stared at her silently for a few seconds.

"Well, I just wanted to make sure that you were Ok. I mean, with what happened back there." he mumbled.

"I'm fine, Inuyasha." she whispered. "It was just a little sudden, that's all. And being discovered like that, first by your brother, and then by my Mom…it kinda freaked me out. But I'm fine with you, Inuyasha, and that's all you need to know, so don't worry."

"I'm happy." he whispered back, looking up at her with the sweetest expression on his face. Unable to resist his puppy dog eyes, she leaned down and kissed him on the mouth. He instantly responded, deepening the kiss until she reluctantly pushed him away.

"I think we've had enough excitement for one night." she whispered, smiling at him. "You'd better get back before you're missed."

"I don't care." he said, kissing her again lightly. "It was worth it. Kagome?"

"Yes?"

"I- I love you."

"I love you, too, Inuyasha." With that, he scooted out of the bed and crawled out onto the windowsill.

"Kagome?"

"Yes?" she giggled, making shooing motions with her hands.

"Can I have my shirt back?" he asked, grinning wickedly.

"Hentai!" she gasped in feigned shock and outrage. "You just want to see me topless, don't you?"

"Yes, Higurashi-san." he teased softly.

"Well, alright. You can have it back, but only because there are plenty of Sota's in here." She stood up and gave him a half silly, half seductive look. He sat back on his heels, his arms resting on his knees, perfectly balanced despite the fact that he was crouched on a five-inch wide windowsill, waiting eagerly. She slowly pulled the shirt over her head, then stood there in nothing but a pair of purple panties, moonlight falling softly on her body, gracing her with a glow that was unearthly beautiful, and all for his admiring eyes. It was a perfect moment. That is, until the doorknob to Sota's room was turned and the door opened, revealing a dangerously angry Inu youkai. Kagome's first reaction was to turn around, which she did, giving Sesshoumaru a full view of what had been intended solely for his little brother's eyes. After an awkward second of shocked gasps on either side, Kagome spun around, throwing the shirt to Inuyasha who caught it up in one hand and with the other, pulled himself up onto the roof. Kagome then dove under the covers and pulled them up over her head. Growling in his throat, Sesshoumaru turned around and left the room without a word, quietly closing the door behind him.

He stalked down the hallway, back to Kagome's bedroom. He entered the room just in time to see Inuyasha swing in through the open window, now fully dressed. He was about to open his mouth to speak when Sesshoumaru cut him off, slapping him full across his face.

"I knew I couldn't trust you to control yourself with that girl." he spat, trying to keep his voice low and even so as not to awaken the rest of the household yet again.

"You hit me like a woman?!" Inuyasha choked out, glaring at his onee-sama with rage and disbelief. "Like a god damn child?!"

"You're acting like a god damn child!" Sesshoumaru snarled, losing his composure entirely. If the house had been big enough to allow it, he would have transformed and mauled the hanyou with his own teeth. "You think you can just take what you want, wherever and whenever you feel like it?"

"Look who's talking!" Inuyasha countered hotly. "Have you forgotten that you once ripped my eyeball apart just to get a god damn sword that didn't even belong to you?!"

"Chichi-ue made a mistake!" Sesshoumaru cried. "It was a lack in judgment, and all because that stupid human wench poisoned his mind!"

"Watch it asshole!" Inuyasha growled dangerously, bearing his fangs. "That 'wench' you're talking about is my mother!"

"Don't you bear your teeth at me, Koinu!" Sesshoumaru snapped. "How could I possibly forget? I have to see her face every time I look at you! Your lineage is so obvious! How unfortunate that you weren't born with father's face and your mother's mortality. At least then you'd be a geezer by now, and I'd be spared your infantile behavior and stupidity! But no, you were born with her stupid face, and Chichi-ue's nasty habits."

"Well I'm sorry Sesshoumaru, but not everyone has ice-water running through their veins! Some of us have needs and desires!" Inuyasha said defensively. "If Chichi-ue took pleasure in a human woman, I'm happy for him. I can only hope that someday I'll know such happiness myself, that is if you ever get off my back! I'd rather be like Chichi-ue and love a ningen woman every day of my life than be a cold, heartless bastard like you!" Sesshoumaru stiffened at that last remark, but his voice remained even and unaffected.

"Don't you dare pretend that you have any idea what my wants and desires are." he said coldly.

"Oh here we go!" Inuyasha scoffed. "Boo-hoo! Sesshoumaru's lived a lonely existence! Well guess what kuso, so have I! Only I didn't choose a life of solitude like you, it was chosen for me. You chased me off your precious Western Lands when I was too little to defend myself! Some threat I must have been at five years old!" Inuyasha spat. "And after I was driven out by my only kin, where was I supposed to run to? I was a fucking abomination! Human's tried to drive me off or kill me every time I neared a village. They thought I was after their livestock or, gods…, their CHILDREN! And the youkai…the youkai were far worse. It's truly amazing that I lived long enough to reach adulthood!" Inuyasha stopped, pausing to take a breath. Sesshoumaru watched him silently, his eyes never leaving his brother's face. The hanyou approached the youkai, attempting to stare him down, and said softly and coldly:

"I blame you, Sesshoumaru."