InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Young at Heart ❯ The Fury Before the Storm ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter Fifteen: A Tangled Mess

 

Inuyasha pounced to his feet shaking off his fall as if it had never happened and bolted excitedly down the path, chasing after something that had caught his attention. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes trying to figure out what the hell his brother was chasing, but his eyes couldn't see anything. `Is he chasing nothing?' He wondered silently.

Shaking his head, Sesshoumaru snorted. Leaning over, he made to whisper in Rin's ear, but he blinked noticing she was gone. Whirling around quickly, he found her beside Kagome as the older girl passed something to both Rin and the kitsune. Rolling his eyes skyward, he took a step, and spun in place, but yelped when his foot touched the same patch of damp leaves his brother had slipped on.

His foot slid to the side, as his other lifted to find a better foothold, and it landed on another patch of leaves, and slipped the other way. Flailing his arms out desperately, he tried to maintain his upright position, and his footing slid out from under him. Landing with a grunt on his back end, he folded his arms cursing the leaves silently.

He felt strong arms pull him up and he lifted his head, only to come face to face with a stick with a bright green knob on the end. Blinking, he took the offered item and sniffed at it curiously. Lifting his gaze, he met the eyes of Kagome and he waited for an explanation.

“Try it.” She smiled, walking back to the group behind them.

Pursing his lips, he glanced at Rin who was trying hers, and copying the kit beside her as he licked at the object. Frowning, he lifted it to his mouth and watched both the pups intently. He licked it carefully and his mouth filled with sweet tastes he had never experienced before. Thinking he rather liked it, he stuck the knob into his mouth, and walked away happily.

Inuyasha raced back and stopped in front of Sesshoumaru and peered at him curiously. “What's that?”

Sesshoumaru growled, around the sweet thing, glaring at his brother.

Inuyasha grinned and yanked the item out of his brother's mouth and stared at the bright green knob on the end of the stick. Sesshoumaru reached his hand out and snatched it back, shoving it back into his mouth, giving Inuyasha a warning growl to stay away.

Kagome quickly resolved the problem, bringing Inuyasha a bright red colored one, and the hanyou took it and tested it as Sesshoumaru had. Inuyasha grinned and plopped it in his mouth and bounded away quickly.

Miroku leaned over and whispered to Kagome as she dusted her hands proudly. “You know that once the candy settles, you will have four hyper children on your hands.”

Kagome nodded grinning. “At least it will keep them occupied for the time being, and besides I have you and Sango both to help if they get out of control.” Turning away, she walked beside Sango who only shook her head.

Inuyasha quickly crunched away on his sucker, and discovered that it vanished too quickly for his liking. Pondering how he was going to resolve this problem, he bounded back over to his brother, who still sucked away on his. Sesshoumaru snarled and turned away as Inuyasha made to swipe the candy from his mouth, and the youkai quickly walked out of reach from his brother.

The sweet taste filled his mouth and he found that his mouth began to drool and he swallowed the heavy liquid. Inuyasha pounced over to him again and grinned widely, flashing a set of very red teeth and a rather amusing shade of tongue. Sesshoumaru blinked and pulled his out of his mouth and stuck his tongue out trying to look at it. Inuyasha laughed at his brother. “Your tongue is green.”

“Yours is red.” Sesshoumaru declared, and plopped the candy back into his mouth and walked away casually. He took two steps and was tackled from behind and he yelped falling to the ground. How he was starting to despise the dirt. At least he didn't have far to fall. Rolling his brother off him, Sesshoumaru gained his feet and once again casually walked away.

Kagome chuckled as Inuyasha jumped to his feet and began pestering his older brother. Glancing at Sango, she shook her head. “Do you think we should start making camp?”

Sango nodded looking into the sky. “It's getting late.”

 

It didn't take them long to set up a fire, and begin their preparations for dinner. Rin spread out her bedding and sat down on it, and Sesshoumaru quickly joined her, still working on his sucker. Rin's was long gone, as was Shippo's both having crunched it as Inuyasha had.

Rin pulled out something from her kimono and showed Sesshoumaru, cupping her hands around it so the others couldn't see. Sesshoumaru just stared at the small round object in her hand and he lifted his eyes curiously. Taking the sucker out of his mouth, he whispered. “What is that?” He found his mouth to be sticky from the candy.

Rin shrugged her shoulders giggling. “I took it from Kagome's pack, remember?”

Sesshoumaru frowned slightly, filtering through his mind for the memory and found it had eluded him. Shrugging his shoulders, he plopped the sucker back into his mouth, and his tongue shoved it to the side, letting his cheek bulge out as evidence of his candy.

He reached out and took the small item in his hand and stared at it hard for a moment, before a small piece of string caught his attention. It seemed to be inside the round shape. Picking the string up between his claws, he pulled and grinned around his sucker, as the string unwound from inside the thing. Rather curious, Sesshoumaru kept pulling on the string, while Rin watched in amazement at the length of it.

Sesshoumaru was growing frustrated. Didn't the string end? Frowning, he pulled and pulled and finally it stopped and the end popped out and he blinked surprised. Snorting, he tossed the plastic thing down and glanced at the pool of string in his lap and lifted it to his nose sniffing intently. It smelt minty, and he licked it curiously. It even tasted minty and his nose wrinkled again. Shaking his hand, he found it tangled in the thread and he blinked up at Rin who giggled behind her hand. She reached out and tried to help him untangle his hand, and hers got trapped into it. They struggled for a while, and finally gave up, successfully trapping themselves in the heap of thread, and Sesshoumaru whimpered.

This was not good. Lifting his eyes, he sought out Kagome, whose back was to them and everyone seemed to be oblivious to their plight, and he grunted. Kagome looked over her shoulder calling them to dinner, but paused as she saw Rin and Sesshoumaru tangled in something. Standing up, she realized with wide eyes that they had gotten into her dental floss and she gaped at the mess.

“Where did you get that?” She asked, placing her hands on her hips. Kagome held back her laughter, trying to appear stern, but finally she let loose a loud roar. The floss was everywhere. Tangled in their hands, around their legs, and feet, and pieces were caught in Sesshoumaru's long silver hair, that she still had yet to bind back up into the topknot. Shaking her head, she knelt down and helped them escape the stuff, and she rolled it in her hands.

“What else did you sneak from my pack?” She accused Sesshoumaru, whose eyes widened.

“I didn't take anything.” He protested, and Kagome looked hard into his eyes and saw only truth. Maybe she had dropped it and he had picked it up curiously. Shrugging her shoulders, she waved them over for dinner, and held out her hand for Sesshoumaru's left over sucker, which was still going strong.

Sesshoumaru growled, shaking his head, refusing to release his treat, and he backed away.

“I'll give it back once you finished eating supper.” She sighed.

Sniffing, Sesshoumaru handed his sucker to her, and licked his sticky lips with his tongue. A bowl was placed in his hands and he frowned at it sniffing curiously. It didn't smell nearly as good, nor looked as tasty as his green knob. Looking longingly over at the green item at Kagome's feet on a piece of wrapping, he frowned again at his food.

Inuyasha's eyes had followed the green knob everywhere, from Sesshoumaru's mouth to his hand, right down to where it sat at Kagome's feet, and he grinned wickedly, shifting over to it slowly. Lifting his eyes and allowing them to watched everyone closely; he edged closer and closer to the girl, who held the prize within her grasp.

No one seemed to notice him moving, and he gave a sly grin and quickly threw his soup over his shoulder, and right for the candy, startling everyone as the Hanyou practically pounced into Kagome's lap.

Sesshoumaru saw Inuyasha's soup fly, and then noticed the golden eyes on his treat, and his soup went flying into the air as he made to rescue his candy from the clutches of his brother.

Soup went flying everywhere, as Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha wrestled over the green knob, knocking Kagome's bowl out of her hands. Small feet connected with Miroku's arm and his soup flew into Sango's lap, and she stood up dropping her bowl onto the ground, frantically wiping away the hot liquid. The bowl rebounded off the ground and smacked Jaken firmly in the head, knocking him over backwards, his soup flying with him, and time seemed to stop as the bowl Jaken had held, rolled over to where Kirara lay sleeping.

She lifted her head curiously, and stared at the bowl as it came to a stop at her paws, and she got up and began lapping at the left over liquid that remained. Rin had managed to save her meal, and ran over to Ah Uh who stood up at the commotion. Shippo had also run for cover, hiding in the bushes.

Everyone stared at the two boys as they wrestled over the green sucker, and some how it managed to vanish in the fray of activity that had erupted around them. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru both stopped, searching the ground for the treat, but it had disappeared completely. They stared at one another for a moment, before Sesshoumaru pouted crossing his arms. Inuyasha sighed and got to his feet and leaned over dusting off his pants, when Sesshoumaru caught sight of the green knob. Grinning triumphantly, he knocked over his brother, and locked his mouth in a mass of silver hair around the green sucker, and tugged with all his might, refusing to let go.

Inuyasha yelped as his brother tugged at his hair, and he planted his hands and feet firmly on the ground, pulling back. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes, and yanked his head back growling low in his throat.

Kagome sighed, looking at their dinner remains and then over at the two fighting brothers. Sango placed her hand on Kagome's shoulder and shook her head. “I think this one they should settle on their own.”

Kagome nodded in agreement and dug out her pot from her pack, and walked to the stream to fill it with water. `So much for a nice bowl of hot soup.' She thought. Walking back to the camp, she prepared everyone ramen, and they ate in silence while Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru fought for the candy.

“I've opened a door for disaster.” She declared whimsically. Everyone's eyes trailed to the brother's and nodded in agreement.

Miroku shook his head. “How long do you think this will last?”

Kagome shrugged. “Either until the sucker melts completely, or Sesshoumaru yanks all of Inuyasha's hair out of his head.”

They all laughed at her response and went back to their meal quietly.

They were in for a long night.