InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Swords of Fate ❯ Mischievous Little Pups ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

By: Cierah

Chapter Eight: Mischievous Little Pups

The day was practically over, as the group now prepared for bed around the small fire that had been built inside the cave. Everyone was asleep except for Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru, who sat near the caves entrance silently. Finally Inuyasha stood and wandered over to the sleeping group quietly, stepping over Shippo who lay in the middle of his path. Stopping beside Kagome, he smiled slowly, and plopped himself beside her, curling up into a ball and promptly went to sleep.

Sesshoumaru stared at the moon. He was confused over this whole turn of events. Not knowing what to do, he glanced over his shoulder, searching out his companions, and found Jaken and Rin sleeping contentedly. Shrugging his shoulders, he turned his gaze back to the star lit sky and sighed. His two headed dragon slept nearby, however every once in awhile the ears would twitch and move towards a sound that had caught its attention. Nodding in satisfaction, Sesshoumaru felt at ease knowing Ah `Uh was keeping watch.

Looking down to his feet, his eyes caught a crawling bug, and he wrinkled his nose at it. An idea sprouted in his mind and he smirked to himself. Standing up, he walked out of the cave, past Ah' Uh who lifted their heads watching him, and then laid back down upon discovering it was their master, much smaller master, but their master none the less.

Kneeling beside a log, Sesshoumaru grunted, pushing it over quickly. Smiling broadly at the many crawling insects under it, he looked around to see if anyone would notice. Scooping up a handful of the wriggling bugs, he darted back to the cave and peered in searching for anyone awake. Seeing them still sleeping as soundly as before, he tip toed into the cave and knelt beside his slumbering brother.

Biting his lip, he pulled out a few bugs and laid them on his brother's fire robe, and proceeded to the next person in his brother's group. Once finished, he smirked again, and felt his eyes slip to the side where his sleeping companions slept. Feeling his mouth pull upwards into a broad smile, he knelt beside Rin and placed a large wriggling worm by her hand, allowing it to touch part of her, and moving to Jaken, he looked into his hand at the left over bugs and dropped them unceremoniously onto his retainer. Nodding in satisfaction he bolted out of the cave before the bugs woke the sleeping company. Quickly climbing a tree, hiding in the branches, Sesshoumaru leaned against the trunk and waited.

He didn't have to wait long when a loud squeal echoed through the cave signaling Rin had been abruptly disturbed. Smirking, several other cries and yelps issued from the cave and Sesshoumaru quickly placed his hand over his mouth holding back his laughter that threatened to escape his mouth.

Several minutes later Rin came out of the cave carrying a handful of his pets and placed them into the bushes. Giving a large yawn, she rubbed her eyes and started back towards the cave entrance.

“Rin.” Sesshoumaru whispered. The little girl stopped and turned around curiously. Smiling, Sesshoumaru jumped out of the tree, and landed in front of her, quickly clasping his hand over her mouth to muffle the startled cry that almost escaped. “Easy, it's only me.” He smiled, lowering his hand when her eyes filled with recognition.

“Lord Sesshoumaru.” Rin smiled. “You put the bugs in side didn't you?” She whispered, glancing over her shoulder quickly.

Sesshoumaru smirked and nodded. “I was bored.” He shrugged indifferently.

Rin's eyes widened and she giggled softly. “I think Lord Inuyasha knows that it was you.”

Pursing his lips, Sesshoumaru nodded in affirmation. “I think I'll stay outside tonight.” Turning away, he jumped back into his tree and winked at Rin who smiled and walked back into the cave quickly.

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Something sharp landed on his head, jolting him into awareness so suddenly that he toppled over off his branch and onto the ground with an oomph. Lifting his head out of the dirt, Sesshoumaru flinched at the tapping foot of Inuyasha's human girl. Smiling broadly and feigning mock innocence, Sesshoumaru got to his feet and dusted himself off.

Inuyasha smirked behind her, tossing a rock in his hand. Silently, Inuyasha had found it quite amusing as the girls had practically flown around the cave in a fit. Secretly, he had stuffed a few of the bugs into Kagome's pack before Rin had gathered them up fearlessly.

. Snickering at the memory of his brother's startled expression then falling face first to the ground off his high perch, Inuyasha held back the urge to pounce on his brother.

Sesshoumaru blinked, staring at the company quickly, seeing them all standing behind Kagome and Inuyasha, all looking slightly miffed. “What?” He muttered. Swallowing when they all glanced at him in a manner that said revenge, he felt his eyes widen slightly. Only Rin stood off to the side giggling at the sight. Quickly weighing his options, Sesshoumaru about faced and bolted into the forest, and he heard his brother's cry of surprise.

Hearing Inuyasha chasing him, Sesshoumaru cursed his ill luck at not having his speed, but smirking, he realized that Inuyasha didn't either. Not taking any chances, Sesshoumaru ran harder. Suddenly something attached itself to his feet and giving a cry he fell to the ground for the second time that morning. Turning over, he peered at his feet which were tied together by a large chain, and the two tailed cat landed beside him, with the Youkai exterminator sitting on Kirara's back.

Gasping, he unwound his feet and jumped up turning around only to get barreled over by a flash of red. Landing on his back with his brother pinning him down smirking, Sesshoumaru whimpered. “Get off, get off!” Sesshoumaru cried, pushing at his brother. Inuyasha toppled over and tried to grab his brother's ankle, missing the navy blue pants by a mere inch. Giving a yelp, Sesshoumaru was lifted off his feet and he hung suspended in the air by his sash. Sango grinned at him.

Defeated, Sesshoumaru growled, narrowing his eyes. “That's not fair, six against one.” He whimpered.

“Mischievous little imp.” Sango laughed.

“I'm not an imp!” Sesshoumaru protested, as the exterminator carried him back towards the cave. Wriggling frantically knowing that something was planned for him, Sesshoumaru was thoroughly trapped in the exterminators grip. Grumbling, he fell limp and pouted. This sure seemed familiar to him. Suddenly he was dropped onto the ground for the third time that morning and he glared at Sango.

Kagome grinned and walked over to him, helping him to his feet. “You have the wonderful task of getting water for everyone this morning, Lord Sesshoumaru.” Filling his arms with the water bottles, she dusted her hands off, and turned away.

Blinking at the bottles in his hands, he dropped them and picked one up, twisting it this way and that curiously. “Hey wait!” He muttered, peering closely at the clear plastic container. “How the hell am I supposed to put water in this thing?”

“That is for you to figure out, Sesshoumaru. Maybe next time you will think twice about disturbing our sleep.” Kagome smirked, and reentered the cave.

Turning, hearing Inuyasha approach, he held the bottle out to him in question. “How do you get water in this thing?” He asked, slightly miffed. Peering at it again, there was no stopper to remove, or a hole to allow water to get inside it.

Inuyasha smirked. “Take the lid off.” He shrugged as if that was explanation enough. Racing into the cave, he left Sesshoumaru staring blankly at him, with a puzzled look quickly replacing his blank one.

Turning to the bottle again, he looked for the stopper. Actually the `lid', Inuyasha had called it. Furrowing his brows, he twisted it in his hand again, looking at it dumbly. Holding it up towards the sky, he closed one eye and peered through the plastic thing. Lowering it again, he shook the dratted thing, and then tossed it to the ground where it bounced. `Bounced?' Growling at it, he pounced on it, causing it to flip into the air, and fall a few feet away. Growling louder now, he pounced on the thing again, that was now rolling and bouncing over stray stones. Quickly jumping on the thing again, he blinked and peered at it, it now sat squashed under his feet completely flat. Pursing his lips, he picked it up and twisted it this way and that to see if it would return to its regular shape and found it to be quite useless.

“Huh!” He snorted, turning away from the now mangled bottle. Looking to the others scattered on the ground behind him, he sat down cross legged in front of them and pondered these strange water flasks that Kagome had given to him.

Several minutes later, Kagome exited the cave and raised her brows at Sesshoumaru who was now biting on the plastic, creating holes of his own with his milk teeth. Standing up, he grinned at her and shrugged his shoulders. “I'll be back with your water in a moment.” With that he darted off with the dented and mangled bottles.

Kagome burst into laughter, her eyes seeing the stray bottle which was twisted into who knows what, and reentered the cave holding her stomach.

Inuyasha glanced at her curiously. “What's wrong with you?” He asked, his foot currently scratching at his ears, trying to relieve himself of the itch that had suddenly dropped on him. Lifting his gaze and lowering his foot he watched Kagome owlishly for a moment before glancing towards the caves entrance.

Shaking her head, now doubled over, with one hand wiping at her eyes, she laughed even harder.

Blinking, Inuyasha watched her as if she had finally lost what sense she possessed. “I missed something didn't I?” He pouted. “What did I miss? How come I always miss the good stuff?”

Kagome laughed even harder.

A few minutes passed, and Kagome finally stopped laughing, wiping away the tears, she was now seated on the ground with her legs crossed, shaking her head. Just then, Sesshoumaru walked into the cave carrying the bottles of water, except little streams of water leaked out from the holes he created. He dropped them at Kagome's feet, which sent her into gales of laughter again.

Inuyasha blinked at his brother mouth open in shock. Pursing his lips, he felt his eyes widen at the plastic bottles, and giggled at the sight.

Sesshoumaru shrugged, winking at his brother.

“What did you do to our water bottles?” Miroku gasped, staring at the leaking containers, on the ground, creating a puddle at Kagome's feet. This only caused her to laugh harder, now clutching her stomach again, and falling to her side.

“I made holes. I couldn't figure out how to take the stopper out.”

Miroku shook his head and stared at Kagome hard. “You didn't tell him how to take the lid off?” He accused. “Now what are we going to do for water?”

Rin tugged on his robes and handed him a large water jug. “We have jugs that we use for water.”

Miroku nodded. “Thank you Rin. Next time find Sesshoumaru something else to do. He ruined your nice bottles.”

Kagome nodded and sat up wiping at her eyes again. “That was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. The first was when I gave Inuyasha chocolate.”

Sango tilted her head. “I never heard about that one.”

Kagome shook her head. “I'll tell the story another time, but we should think about heading out. Toutousai told us last night that we have to get Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru to that rift by the next new moon. We have just over a month.”

“Just.” Inuyasha growled sulking. “New moon will be fun.” He sighed rolling his eyes at the thought.

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They were on the path, several hours later, Sango, and Kirara in front, followed by Miroku and Inuyasha, then Sesshoumaru and Kagome, followed lastly by Ah' Uh Rin and Jaken. The latter two were in an argument, and Sesshoumaru felt himself roll his eyes at the familiar bickering between his two wards.

The air seemed to cool quickly as the clouds passed over head, and they all glanced up at the grey sky.

Miroku looked back over his shoulder. “Looks like a storm is coming.” He sighed.

Inuyasha groaned. “Great. What fun.”

“What are you complaining about? I have umbrella's you know.”

Sango pulled out her straw hat, and tied it under her chin, handing Miroku one, she grinned and patted her shoulder for Kirara to jump to. The two tailed cat mewed and curled herself around Sango's neck, happily.

Sesshoumaru snorted. Turning around, he peered at his wards and saw Jaken wrinkle his nose at the mere thought of rain, but Rin giggled and seemed excited. “I hate rain!” He snarled, sniffing the air and detecting the faint scent of water. “Here it comes.”

Just as the words excited his mouth, the rain started. Blinking, he lifted his head and stared at the green thing that was blocking the rain from falling onto his head. “What is that?”

“An umbrella.” Kagome smiled, handing him the pole to hold.

“I don't need some girl's formal thing to keep me dry.” He retorted, shoving the pole back into her hands.

Kagome shrugged and pulled the umbrella to cover her entirely, leaving Sesshoumaru standing still on the path glaring at her retreating form. Suddenly a loud clap of thunder brought him out of his surprise, and he practically jumped a foot off the path, nearly falling onto Rin who stopped behind him at the sound.

“Lord Sesshoumaru, that was really loud.” She whispered.

He nodded, glancing around him curiously. Just then Miroku came back and informed them of a small rock overhang just up a ways and they all scrambled to shelter.

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They sat there watching the rain for what seemed like hours, when it stopped as suddenly as it appeared. Now the sun reappeared and shone on the wet ground, and they all crawled out from the tight cramped space they had sheltered in. Rin stretched and looked around her, suddenly giving off a cry of surprise, and turning to them excitedly.

“Look!” She cried gleefully. “Oh can I go pick some flowers?” She begged them.

Sesshoumaru frowned and rolled his eyes. Nodding his head, he followed her into the small field, and watched as she raced from flower to flower picking random colors. Inuyasha walked up beside him and smirked. “Is she always this happy?”

Sesshoumaru nodded, watching the little girl's antics with narrowed eyes. “Always.”

Inuyasha grinned and walked into the field looking around him curiously. He stopped beside something and called over his shoulder at the others who had joined them. Kagome shook her head and entered the field.

“Hey look at this!” Inuyasha called, which caused Sesshoumaru to raise his brow at the exclamation from his brother. Walking over, he stopped beside Inuyasha and froze. Blinking blankly, he stared at the small oval object attached to the log. Swallowing as a familiar sound reached his ears, he took a wary step back. “Uhh.” His mouth fell open when several buzzes reached his ears, and he about faced and bolted for the closest person he could see. Almost knocking Kagome off her feet as he flew into her arms, he bit his lip at the bees that flew around Inuyasha.

“You found a bee's hive.” Miroku smirked, backing away slightly as more bees exited their hive.

Inuyasha didn't care about the bee's at the current moment, as he stared at his brother clutched in Kagome's arms. “Hey!” He cried.

Sesshoumaru whimpered as his childhood memory of flowers and bee's entering his mind in a wave of uncertainty.

“You're afraid of bee's?” Inuyasha snorted, biting his lip in amusement.

“No!” Sesshoumaru grumbled. His eyes gave another story as he watched them swirl around Inuyasha.

“If you hate bee's so much, why do you let Rin pick flowers?” Inuyasha snickered.

“They get her, not me.” Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at his brother.

“And if she offers you flowers?” Inuyasha was practically giggling now.

“I don't take them.” Sesshoumaru growled.

Suddenly, Sesshoumaru felt his eyes widen at the startled look on Inuyasha's face. Immediately the hanyou's hands started waving and he yelped racing off away from the swirling bee's.

Miroku gulped and took another step back at the now angry swarm of bee's that flew after Inuyasha.

Sesshoumaru snorted, watching in amusement as his brother tried to elude the bee's. “Serves him right.” Kagome turned around and began retracing her steps back towards the woods.

“Might be a wise idea to find water quickly.” She called out to the group who were also retracing their steps. Lowering Sesshoumaru to his feet, he grabbed the front of her shirt in his fists.

“Don't you dare put me down!” He snarled.

Suddenly, Miroku and Sango raced past her. “Get moving, Kagome.”

Looking over her shoulder, she saw Inuyasha running right for them. Gasping, she turned and bolted, still holding Sesshoumaru in her grasp.

“Don't leave me!” Inuyasha wailed. “Get them off, get them off.” He cried flinging his arms around frantically.

Rin had jumped onto Ah' Uh and had picked up Jaken and now they flew over head, watching from above. “That stupid Inuyasha.” Jaken squawked.

They watched from above, as Kagome, and Sesshoumaru went one way, and Miroku and Sango went the other way, leaving Inuyasha running in several directions.

Jaken yelled down to him. “You fool, jump in the water!”

Inuyasha seemed not to be listening to them.

“Ah' Uh, can you grab Lord Inuyasha and drop him in the river over there?” Rin asked.

The two headed dragon nodded and swooped down and grabbed the frantically running Hanyou, and lifted him off the ground with a swirling of bee's all around him. Inuyasha was whimpering and yelping. Above the water, Rin patted Ah's side and Inuyasha was dropped into the river quickly. “Fly higher, Ah' Uh. They will come after us next.” Rin took a deep breath.

It was several hours later, and Kagome was seated with Inuyasha in her lap who was whimpering helplessly as Miroku pulled out the stingers the bee's left behind. “Ow, ow, ow, ow!” Inuyasha yelped, as one stinger after another was pulled out.

Sesshoumaru crawled up and got to his knees behind Kagome watching his brother suffer. “Idiot!” Sesshoumaru laughed.

“Who are you calling an…ow…idiot!” Inuyasha moaned. “This is all your fault.”

Sesshoumaru snickered. “Mine? How do you figure?”

“You distracted me.”

“I did not.”

“You did too.” Inuyasha complained. Finally, Kagome pulled her pack towards her and unzipped the top. “I have some ointment in here somewhere.” She mused, digging her hand deeper into the pack. Inuyasha felt his mouth fall open and he glanced over his shoulder staring at Sesshoumaru panicked.

Sesshoumaru blinked at the silent begging look, and he smirked shaking his head wondering what his brother had done. Before anyone could react, Inuyasha had jumped out of Kagome's lap and had darted into the bushes beside the river.

“Ewwww!” Kagome cried, yanking her hand out of her pack, worms and other bugs crawling all over it. Eyes widening at the realization, Sesshoumaru shook his head.

“It didn't do it!” He protested, racing after his brother's retreating form, listening to the girls all cry out in anger.

Suddenly a hand darted out and grabbed his foot and he plummeted to the ground in a heap beside Inuyasha who sat there with his finger to his lips. “I think we're both going to be in for it this time.” Sesshoumaru hissed.

Inuyasha snickered behind his hand and nodded. “I have more in store for Kagome. Pay back for getting me to sit all the time!”

Sesshoumaru blinked, wondering if he really wanted to know.

Inuyasha giggled softly. “You know, we might be able to really get them if we work together.”

Sesshoumaru frowned. “I don't understand.”

Inuyasha shrugged. “Hell, when I was this age, I used to get back at all those villagers who used to tease me, by pranking on them.”

“Ah. What do you have in mind?” Sesshoumaru whispered.