InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Laconic ❯ Incorrigible ( Chapter 3 )

Incorrigible

Word Count: 189

 

Oh look, he's doing it again.

 

He'll make his move any second now, I'm sure of it; he's just waiting for the right moment, waiting for me to glance away, avert my attention.

 

I know it.

 

Oh, he thinks he's so inconspicuous, so clever that I'd never see it coming. That's just like him, but I can see right through his guise. It's so transparent it is a wonder no one else has noticed it yet.

 

I cannot believe that the others have not observed it - can they not see the obviousness of his intentions creeping across his face? So secretive and yet so open at the same time, as if he wishes for the whole world to know what it is he aims to do.

 

But it is ambiguous, too, just like him. But then, it is him, just another piece of him, like the one that he holds in his hand.

 

It crawls upon his face, just like the fingers that now crawl upon my -

 

“Houshi-sama!”

 

I slap the lecherous smile from his face - but just for an instant - because then it's back again. Incorrigible, just like him.