InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bishies Without Shirts ❯ A Boy and his Dog ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter 16: A Boy and his Dog

"Shit!" Inuyasha cursed under his breath. 'What to do, what to do… Don't worry, policeman, we're guests here, please ignore my ears and my brother's tail? No, that's not a good idea…oh well, guess it's time to use my scary face.' Contorting his features into the evilest grimace he could manage, Inuyasha leapt from the roof and landed in front of the stunned human. Baring his fangs and growling murderously, he stretched his clawed fingers apart as wide as he possibly could and crouched down as if he were about to pounce. The policeman took a step back, horrified.

'Heh!' Inuyasha thought to himself smugly, 'That's right, I'm scary, now get the hell out of here before I actually have to do something.' The policeman didn't move however, as he seemed transfixed to the spot, frozen with terror. A split second later, Inuyasha realized why. A few feet behind him, Sesshoumaru was transforming.

"Oh hell…" Inuyasha muttered as Sesshoumaru, now in his giant dog youkai form, advanced on the helpless human. With the massive beast's first step, the policeman found his legs and, much to Inuyasha's dismay, his voice as well.

"AHHHHH!!! MONOKE!!! MONOKE!!!!!" he screamed, tearing down the front steps and diving into his car. Seconds later, he was speeding recklessly away from the shrine house, lights flashing.

"Great. Just great." Inuyasha sighed, turning around to face the giant monster that was his only living relative. As he stalked over to kick some sense into the youkai Sesshoumaru, an enormous bead of drool rolled off it's giant pink tongue and hit him squarely on the head, saturating him in saliva.

"AAAAARHG!!" he screamed, "What the hell do you think you're doing, Sesshoumaru?" In the blink of an eye, Sesshoumaru had returned to his humanoid form, grinning faintly.

"I just got rid of that human." he stated simply, a little satisfied with himself at his own ingenuity. "Now show me some gratitude by getting that door open."

"You say I can't control myself?" Inuyasha cried, "What did I just tell you about trying to keep a low profile around here?!"

"I was just following your lead." Sesshoumaru said innocently.

"I DIDN'T TURN INTO A TWENTY FOOT MONSTER!!" Inuyasha screamed in his face.

"Could you back up a bit?" Sesshoumaru said disgustedly, "You're covered in-"

"YOUR SPIT!!!" Inuyasha howled. "I AM COVERED IN YOUR DOG DROOL! THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST DISGUSTING THING THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN A PART OF!"

"Inuyasha!" an angry voice called in a loud whisper from somewhere behind him. Feeling that impending doom was about to come crashing down upon his head, he turned slowly around to see what Sesshoumaru was already smugly grinning at. Kagome standing in the doorway, a very tired and irate-looking Higurashi-san standing behind her.

"Get in here NOW!" Kagome whispered harshly, pointing to the ground and stomping her foot.

"Look at that…you did manage to get the door open after all..." Sesshoumaru breathed softly, too soft for the humans present to hear, but loud enough for the hanyou. He walked past Inuyasha into the house, nodding politely to either woman as he passed, and continued up the stairs to Sota's bedroom. Seconds later, they heard the bedroom door open and close, while Inuyasha stood, unmoving, on the lawn.

"Inuyasha…!" Kagome warned.

"NO!" he yelled. "I've had enough of this shit! I'm staying outside!"

"Inuyasha, please!" Kagome cried through clenched teeth, subtly jerking her head in the direction of her mother.

"NO!" he said again, but some of the wind had been taken out of his sails at the sight of Higurashi-san's face.

"Young man…" Higurashi-san began, her voice low and seething. Backed into a corner, Inuyasha seemed unable to stop digging his own grave.

"What's this young man crap?" he said condescendingly, "I'm older than you by at least twenty-five years! I should be telling you what to do!"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome hissed. "If you don't get in here in the next three seconds, I'm going to go upstairs, wake-up Sesshoumaru and bring him down here-"

"Keh! Go ahead! I'm not afraid of that-"

"-so he can watch what happens when I say the word one hundred times in under a minute!"

"YOU-" he growled.

"Osu-"

"OK! Ok! I'm coming!" he cried, breaking into a run. He made it in two.

"Good lord!" Higurashi-san gasped as he approached, covering her mouth with her hand. "What have you been rolling in?"

"Don't ask!" Inuyasha barked sharply, barging past her and into the house.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome scolded.

"What?" he said angrily. "Trust me, she doesn't want to know!"

"Well that may be," Higurashi-san said crossly, "but what I DO want to know is what you boys were doing out there in the first place! It's 3:30 in the morning, and I was just awakened by growling and screaming, most of which was coming from you, young, er… Inuyasha! I can't believe this! First I catch you in a VERY compromising position in my daughter's bedroom, and don't think I'm so clueless that I don't know exactly what was going on in there, and now this! I don't understand it, you've always been such a sweet boy when you've come to visit us. What's gotten into you today? I know you're not well, but this is inexcusable! Go on, explain yourself! What possessed you to leave the house in the middle of the night and start a shouting match with Sesshoumaru?" As he stared at her angry face, Inuyasha quickly went over in his head the events that had transpired within the last three hours, from Sesshoumaru catching him in Sota's room with a mostly naked Kagome, to the emotional battle in the moonlight, and ending with Sesshoumaru transforming into a giant dog in front of a policeman on the Higurashi's front lawn. This was not going to help his already weakened position in the household. No, he decided, it was better that Higurashi-san never find out.

"This is a matter between youkai, not humans. It's none of your business!" he growled defiantly.

"You are a guest in my house, Inuyasha," Higurashi-san cautioned, her voice becoming deadly still, "and you have disturbed my sleep several times tonight. It most certainly is my business."

"Well we weren't in your house, we were outside, so I say it isn't!" he shouted back at her. And that is how a slightly stunned Inuyasha promptly found himself on the other side of the front door as it slammed against his tailbone.

"GOOD!" he screamed, lightly pounding on the door with the side of his fist so he wouldn't accidentally break it down like he had Kagome's bedroom door. "You hear me in there? I'm GLAD! This is where I wanted to be anyway! Just go up to bed and pretend I was never here! While you're at it KAGOME, why don't you go sleep with Sesshoumaru? You seem to love him so much, and you heard him say himself that he needs a woman to warm his bed!" The door suddenly opened, catching him by surprise, revealing an incensed Kagome who threw a pillow into his arms, then slammed the door in his face. Scowling at only the door again, he hugged the pillow to his body and walked around to the back of the house, where he leapt up into the tree nearest Kagome's bedroom that offered him the best view inside. Shifting his back against the trunk until he was comfortable, he held the pillow against his body and leaned his face into it, keeping one eye open to make sure that Kagome returned to her own room, and not to Sesshoumaru's as he had suggested. The way this night was going, it wasn't completely out of the realm of possibility. He was hot, itchy, he smelled bad, and his hair, still pink from the day before, was becoming stiff from Sesshoumaru's saliva, not to mention the fact that he had just been kicked out of the house. Kagome willingly going to Sesshoumaru's bed was just about the only thing that could have made the night any worse.

'She'd better not!' he thought hotly. This thought was quickly followed by 'Why am I the one who always gets blamed for everything?' and 'That kuso Sesshoumaru! He's the one who left the house! He's the one who scared that human away and covered me in slime! He's the asshole that got us into this mess in the first place! He's the one who got me sick with these damn chicken spots or whatever that hell they're called, and now he's the one sleeping in my woman's house! What the hell?!' but eventually, all thoughts lead back to 'She'd better not…' He eyed the window suspiciously, still waiting for Kagome to return to bed. He'd stay awake till dawn if he had to… but as it always does, exhaustion finally won out, and he fell into a fitful slumber. Which was just as well, because Kagome never did make it back to her bedroom.