InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fetch ❯ Game Over... or is it? ( Chapter 18 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I plead the fifth. Wait... what do you mean I can't plead the fifth?! What kind of crap is that? I wanted to plead the fifth! Damn lawyers... fine. I don't own the characters of Inuyasha - just the plot of this story. Now I'm going to plead the fifth - and go find a corner to sulk in.

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"Inuyashaaa!" Kagome stomped down the hallways of her new home, intent on one thing, and one thing only - finding the hanyou cause of all her misfortunes. In the last several days since Sesshoumaru had claimed her and the rest of the pack had arrived at the shiro, Inuyasha had taken to pranking her - and this time, he'd gone too far.

Now, he was going to pay.

That is, if she could ever find the jerk.

She scowled, so fixated on catching any trace of her friend, that she didn't notice the servants scurrying out of her way with alarmed looks - or the fact that several had been dispatched to find her mate. Seems the servants were afraid that she might accidentally purify someone in her anger... not really a strange conclusion, seeing as how her miko aura was visibly surrounding her and making it look like she was standing in the middle of a hurricane.

Flaring her aura even more, she searched for his youki, determined that she was going to find the baka and seriously injure him.

Paybacks, after all, are a bitch.

Jerk, she fumed, fists clenched. First, he goes and steals all my underwear and bras and shreds them, saying since I'm staying here in his era, I didn't need those weird modern things anyway. And stupid Sesshoumaru actually agreed! She grinned evilly. Of course, that was after he kicked Inuyasha's ass for sneaking into our chambers and going through my things, but still...

And then, then that gigantic, here she mumbled several words, goes and makes things worse!

She flushed heatedly as she thought back over the next prank. The inu hanyou had once more gotten into her big yellow bag, and taking her shampoo, emptied the bottle - and re-filled it with honey. She was still trying to figure out where he'd gotten that much honey to waste - the stuff wasn't cheap in this era.

It took forever to get that sticky crap out of my hair! Gods... he's just asking for it!

And for his grand finale? The stupid jerk had taken her tampons, and scattered them all around the shiro! Her whole box was now gone - wasted. And she'd had to deal with people coming and asking what they were... all. damn. day.

All... day.

The final straw was when Sesshoumaru had shown up with one in his hand, demanding to know what they were used for... and then promptly going all red-eyed alpha male on her and ordering her to never use those things again when she'd told him.

His argument seemed to be based upon the belief that nothing belonged there in that spot but him.

That was when Kagome lost it.

After telling him off, she went on the warpath... and she was currently still stalking the monster that had caused her to have a very bad, no good, evil, horrible week.

Because now it was his turn to have that kind of week - or maybe month.

If she could ever find him.

Damn him...!

"Inuyasha!! Where are you, dog boy... you'd better come out now, or it's only gonna get worse!"

She stiffened then, she felt just a tiny flicker of his youki - coming from outside. She took off at that, bursting out into the eastern wing's garden... and she came to a stop, narrowed eyes searching for her victim.

Where is he?! Wait a minute... she flicked a glance up - sure enough, a flicker of red, and she grinned triumphantly.

"Oh Inuyashaaa," she carolled out, "SIT boy!" She watched with great interest as the hanyou turned falling object and slammed three feet into the ground, then sat down near the edge of the hole he was in, and laughed wickedly at the pinned back ears and pained expression of the hanyou.

"Oh... and SIT boy! Again... SIT." Servants soon began to gather, watching in shock as their Lord's brother was planted further and further into the ground. "Gee, I really love SITting out here in the garden, don't you, Inuyasha? Oh, wait! I forgot, you don't like to - SIT! - much... what a sad thing, not being able to - SIT! - and enjoy the afternoon air in the garden."

By this time, Inuyasha was a good ten feet down, and Kagome quite happily lay down at the edge of the crater and propped her chin up in her hands.

"Sit! So... you think it's funny to keep getting into my things and - SIT! - pass them around, trying to - SIT! - embarrass me? And putting honey - SIT! - into my shampoo bottle... and my underclothes! - SIT! - You shredded them! Personally, I just prefer to - SIT! - you... I find it funnier than any of those stupid pranks you played." She frowned down at the cratered inu.

"Why are you - SIT! - doing this stuff, anyway, Inuyasha? You've never done anything like this before."

At that, Shippo hopped up, and Kagome was abruptly made aware that the rest of the tachi was now standing watching as Inuyasha dug his own grave - almost literally.

"I think bakayasha's jealous, Kagome. He's afraid if he doesn't do something, you'll forget about him now that you have Sesshoumaru."

Kagome's brow furrowed as Inuyasha merely groaned, unable to really speak yet - he was too busy trying to recover from the SIT! marathon. Before she could really say anything, however, her new mate's voice reached her, and she flamed up once more, jumping to her feet and glaring up at him.

Sesshoumaru merely stared back haughtily, not about to be intimidated by his own mate - not to mention a tiny little ningen female. Even if she was a trifle scary when she was like this. Not that he would ever admit that out loud, of course.

He finally looked away, but only to glance with a curiously satisfied expression into the hole at his feet.

Kagome looked down as well, smiling in satisfaction as she noted a red something or other way down at the bottom of the hole.

"As much as I enjoy the visual of the pup rooting around in the dirt, mate, I must ask you to refrain from leaving craters in the grounds of our home."

They both ignored the cursing coming from the hole.

"Fine. Be that way and take away all my fun." She folded her arms across her chest and glared up at him. "You didn't mind him having his fun," she sulked, "don't think I didn't notice that snickering when I had all that honey in my hair."

A brow rose regally, and a very amused glint appeared in his eye. "I am inu, mate. Scent is very important to me - and the honey smelled good."

Her eyes narrowed on him, and she hissed in irritation. "That's it!" she shouted, pointing an angry finger at him. "I'm making you a rosary, and you can join the other baka in the bottom of a hole in the ground!" Before Sesshoumaru could respond to that absolutely blasphemous statement, she whirled around and stomped off, the fires of hell burning in her eyes.

The entire tachi watched the goings on in wide-eyed wonder.

Shippo glanced into the hole at that small red dot at the bottom, then up at Sesshoumaru. "Wow. I've never seen her that mad," he said, awed. "You guys are in for it."

Sango nodded, and Miroku grinned... and slid a hand around, fondling a certain roundness. The next thing he knew, he was laying atop the red thing at the bottom of the hole - several stories down, and Inuyasha groaned as Miroku's weight added more pain to his flattened form.

"Baka," sighed Shippo. "He'll never learn."

Sesshoumaru stared at the kit, then glanced once more in the hole - suddenly uncomfortable with the knowledge that his very angry mate was now running freely through the shiro with no supervision, he turned on his heel and went looking for her...

It wouldn't do for her to find a leather strap... and beads.

Maybe I should ask Kagome if a rosary could be made for a ningen male - perhaps it could be modified, Sango mused to herself, following the others back into the shiro, Shippo scampering at her feet.

I really think all males should have one.

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That week was one that was never forgotten within the ranks of the servants at the shiro, as their new lady spent several days attempting to ambush their lord with a set of subjugation beads.

Needless to say, it didn't work, but it certainly kept things lively - Kagome was very irritated.

After the fiasco in the garden, Inuyasha decided that discretion was the better part of valor - and stopped the pranks... at least for a while.

Once Kagome had calmed down, which, amazingly, only took about four days, she once again went searching for her hanyou best friend, deciding that it was time to have a long talk.

On the heels of that decision, came the one that Sesshoumaru needed to be present for that talk, which was why this morning found him following along behind his mate with a rather unhappy look upon his face.

The only reason he was even there was because she'd thrown the universally understood 'if you ever want to get laid again' look at him.

All males understood that look instinctively - and knew not to fight it.

It never ended well for those who did.

They finally tracked the half-inu down in a huge tree in one of the many gardens around the shiro, and when he wouldn't come down, Kagome simply sat him out of it.

"Now," she said, sitting down in the grass and patting the flattened hanyou on the back, "it's time that we have a little talk. You two are brothers," she narrowed her eyes warningly as they both piped up with the ubiquitous 'half', causing them both to fall silent and Inuyasha to wince, "and you are both going to start acting like it."

Inuyasha finally managed to sit back up with only a few groans, ignoring his brother's smirk, he grumbled, "I ain't the one with the problem, Kagome. I didn't kick him out of the family. I've spent my whole life just trying to survive, and I never went out of my way to look for this bastard and cause him trouble."

Kagome looked at her mate, a serious expression on her face. "He's right, Sesshoumaru. Your whole thing all this time was about your anger at your father for taking a ningen mate and siring a hanyou - don't think you can complain about that anymore, can you?"

Sesshoumaru stared at her for several minutes, silently, then sighed internally. "I am aware of this, mate. That is why I made the baka pack beta. He is a son of the Taisho, and as such, that is his place. This is his home, as well as mine. I told him before that I would not keep you from him or your other friends - he chose not to believe me."

Inuyasha started to defend himself, but before he could, Kagome held up a hand for silence, and he shut up immediately. No point in bringing on another sitting.

Kagome turned to Inuyasha and took his hands in her own, looking into his eyes with an earnest expression. "You know I love you, Inu - do you really think I would let him keep us apart? You are my best friend, and he is my mate - and we, together, are a family. You know how I am about family," she finished, with a wry smile that he returned.

"Yeah, wench, I know how you are about family. It's more important to you than just about anything," he sighed.

The hanyou smiled back at her, then pulled his hands from hers, and looked at his brother. Holding out one hand, he waited to see if Sesshoumaru would take it.

She turned pleading eyes on her mate, and he stared at her for a moment, then looked down at his brother's hand - and slowly, he reached out and encircled it, clasping Inuyasha's forearm firmly, but without rancor.

"Brother," he acknowledged, and Inuyasha echoed it, while Kagome looked on, a beaming, joyous smile lighting her face.

It was a new day for the Western House, and somewhere in the heavens, a great dog spirit looked on, happy that the rift between his sons had begun to be healed.

With a wicked chuckle, he thought, Got Sesshoumaru taken care of, and peace between the two - now it's your turn, Inuyasha.

If the poor boy had known what he was in for...

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A/N: Well. There is still an epilogue to come at some point, but this story is just about finished. Not that that doesn't leave me a bunch of other ones that are still incomplete. Anyway, this one grew into the monstrosity it has become all from a little old one-shot called Fetch - the original chapter in this story. I guess it turned out okay for something that was originally not meant to go anywhere, and that didn't have a plot.

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