Fit For Dogs | By : Arianawray Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 25002 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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"Let's not go in there," Inuyasha muttered, as Sesshomaru was about to step into their usual grocery store.
"This is where we always shop," Sesshomaru stated logically.
"Look at that new sign up. It says 'No Dogs Allowed'," the half-demon scowled.
"It's not directed at us," the older brother reasoned. "No one in there knows we aren't human."
"I still don't like it. I avoid shops which put up signs like that. Either that, or I deliberately go in and scare them by barking at the managers if I'm in a prickly mood."
"You're always in a prickly mood."
"Yup, so I bark at a lot of managers. But I'm just pissed off with it today."
"Yasha, such signs only show that humans are so weak, they'll fall ill if they consume anything that a beast has so much as brushed against. They can't have dogs wandering around a grocery store licking the fruit. Others possibly put up those signs simply because they don't like dogs, or have customers who don't."
"It isn't nice," Inuyasha grumbled. "People shouldn't discriminate against other species."
"It's just a sign," Sesshomaru said.
"It's not just a sign," Inuyasha responded. "It makes me feel unwelcome."
"Ignore it," Sesshomaru ordered, before walking into the store.
Inuyasha flipped a finger at the shiny new notice before following his brother in.
It was a sign of things of come. Literally a sign.
Sesshomaru sighed when he spotted the decal pasted inside the rear windscreen of his car the next morning. It read: "Dog On Board".
A sticky post-it note under the decal read in his brother's familiar scrawl: "It's just a sign."
It offended Sesshomaru's aesthetic sense to have a tacky decal on his sleek, black, spotless Jaguar, but Inuyasha was making a point by putting it up, and he, Sesshomaru, would make a point right back by ignoring it.
It was only a stupid sign, after all.
That was the way he saw it until he reached his company's headquarters, and found a bold aluminium plate with red lettering nailed onto the wooden door of his private office, complete with a hideous line-drawing of a jowly, drooling bulldog.
"BEWARE OF DOG", it read.
Sesshomaru growled under his breath before turning with deliberate calmness to his personal assistant, Mio.
"Ms Yamaguchi, was my brother here this morning?" he inquired.
"Oh yes, Mr Souga," she breathed nervously, knowing that the brothers were very close, but often had spectacular fights. She fervently hoped she wasn't in the crossfire of another war. "The younger Mr Souga came in very early today, to my surprise. He never comes in. He hammered that into your door, then left. I thought he must have a private reason for doing it, and I didn't dare question him as he seemed to be in one of his moods..."
Sesshomaru glared at the sign. Did the lad really have to damage his exquisite office door with those nails? And of all the items Inuyasha could have chosen, he had to pick the tackiest, most badly made product, all uneven edges and cheap tooling poorly riveted to a rough block of wood – with a drawing of a dog that looked nothing like him. A bulldog? What an insult. He, Sesshomaru, was far more beautiful than a bulldog, or any dog.
But it was just a sign, wasn't it?
He huffed, entered his office, and shut the door firmly behind him.
Despite his outward dismissal of it, however, the sign irked him all day, every time he had to step out of and back into his room. He thought his tolerance of it commendable, and that he had done a very good job of proving that a sign was just a sign. Until it was time to go home.
As he was leaving his headquarters in the late afternoon, he spied another sign glued up on the main glass door leading to the lobby of the building.
"Guard Dog On Patrol", it said, with a snapshot of Sesshomaru's face pasted beside the lettering.
"Mr Keiji put that up about two hours ago, sir," the security officer said apologetically. "I asked him why he was doing it as we have no guard dogs here, but he said to mind my own business and not to bother you with it either."
Sesshomaru growled in a manner that the security officer thought extremely dog-like, as he tore the notice off the glass. It obviously did not improve the boss' temper to find the glass now stained by an unsightly smear of brown, half-dried glue where the poster had previously been.
"Get someone to clean that off," Sesshomaru ordered before stalking off to his car.
He dropped the sticky sign onto the floorboard of the passenger seat, turned to glare at the "Dog On Board" decal at the back, growled again, and drove off.
But there was to be no rest for him at home either, as he discovered when he stepped out of the elevator and saw the carved steel sign hung up on their apartment's front door.
This time, it said: "Caution! Dog On Premises!"
Sesshomaru pushed the door open and sniffed the air. His nose told him that Inuyasha was in, so he yelled: "Inuyasha!"
"What?" returned his brother calmly, strolling out of the kitchen with a beef-flavoured biscuit in his hand.
"How dare you hammer nails into my office door, and our front door, and leave ugly glue stains all over the glass front of our headquarters?"
"Oh... should I have hammered the nails into the glass and used glue on the wood instead?" Inuyasha asked, widening his eyes innocently. "I'm sorry. I'll remember to do that next time."
"There will be no next time!" Sesshomaru told him.
But Inuyasha only sauntered into the spare room and shut the door in Sesshomaru's face. Of course this door too had yet another sign on it: "Trespassers Will Be Eaten".
The taiyoukai's golden eyes narrowed, but he could tell that his brother was "in a mood", as Ms Yamaguchi had said, so he swung around and went off to the master bedroom – which mercifully had no sign on its door. As yet.
His temper held until he went to the bathroom, whereupon the sign that screamed out at him in loud lettering over the toilet read: "NO-DOG-POOP ZONE".
And it was superglued to their nice new tiles.
"Inuyasha!" Sesshomaru roared.
Upon marching through the living room and throwing open the door of the spare room, he discovered that Inuyasha had slipped out of the apartment and gone off to goodness only knew where – probably to buy more signs.
The taiyoukai decided that there were only two things to do about this matter, and he was going to see to them immediately.
He picked up his house keys – as Inuyasha had trained him to do – and left the apartment.
Inuyasha tiptoed home very late in the night, prepared for war. But no sharp claws or poison whips awaited him. All that his nose told him was that Sesshomaru was in their bedroom, resting.
Not wanting to wake him, he slipped into the guest room and saw only one thing out of place in there: a sign lying on the middle of his bed, which read: "I HEART MY DOG".
He froze.
The taiyoukai was good at this. Really good. Because this was freaking him out.
The complete and utter weirdness of Sesshomaru "heart"-ing anything left Inuyasha sufficiently unnerved to decide that it would be best for them all if he simply removed the signs he had put up.
When Sesshomaru rose in the morning and left for work, all the signs that Inuyasha had been able to access were gone. Their apartment door, the guest-room door, his car, and his private office door were clear of what they had sported the day before.
He allowed himself a little smile. At least his first move had had some results. Naturally, neither brother said a word about the signs to the other when the elder got home later that day, and life seemed to go back to normal.
A day later, they went grocery shopping again, and Inuyasha was surprised to see that the "No Dogs Allowed" notice had been removed from the shop front.
"I agree that a sign is not always just a sign," Sesshomaru admitted.
"Oh?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously, wondering why Sesshomaru was being so humble about it.
"Yes. Are you pleased with the removal of the sign?"
"Uhm... are you saying that you got them to remove it? How the hell did you do that?"
"It was easy. I bought the store."
"You what?"
"You heard me."
"You bought the whole bloody grocery store just so you could tell them to remove the sign?"
"It's our favourite grocery store, isn't it? We like it because it sells the best produce, so I consider this a good business deal."
"You're nuts, you know that?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Well, a sign isn't just a sign, is it?" Sesshomaru remarked, leading his brother into their new shop to get the groceries they would need for the next few days before heading home.
It was only at home, after Inuyasha had finished unpacking the groceries, that he walked into the master bedroom to find the signs he had removed from the doors scattered all over the room. Sesshomaru was sitting on the edge of the big bed, with the "Dog On Board" decal on his lap.
"Uhm... what's this...?... aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" Inuyasha yelled as Sesshomaru unfurled his mokomoko at him in a lightning-fast move, trapped him in a neat coil of the fur, and yanked him smartly over his lap.
"You are now on board for a spanking, Inuyasha," Sesshomaru growled.
"Hey! You admitted you were wrong, you bastard! You said a sign wasn't just a sign!" Inuyasha howled.
"It's true – a sign isn't just a sign, and you were right about that, and I admit it. I apologise for my insensitivity. But THIS is for something different. THIS is for the fact that you've left NAIL HOLES in my VERY expensive office door and our front door and guestroom door, and the cheap glue you used on the glass front of our headquarters WON'T COME OFF!"
"H-h-hey... I'll fill the holes in with putty..." he spluttered, struggling futilely against the mokomoko and the strength of his brother's left arm holding him down.
"Putty isn't wood," Sesshomaru stated flatly. "Now, Yasha, we will see how a sign isn't just a sign in more ways than one."
So saying, Sesshomaru picked up the hard, heavy "BEWARE OF DOG" sign, and spanked Inuyasha hard with it.
"OW!" the half-demon yelled. "That fucking hurts, you arrogant creep!"
"As well it should, as it's so bloody cheap, and the bulldog on it is so damned ugly," Sesshomaru growled, swinging the sign down again.
"AAAAGH! Bastard! I thought you said you 'heart' me!"
"I do, but I can STILL whip the hide off your puppy ass whenever you do something asinine like disfigure my custom-made oakwood door!" the taiyoukai responded, along with another blow.
"UGH! You're the ass here!"
"I don't think so – it certainly isn't my ass on show right now."
"You're such a creep!"
"Hmm, Inuyasha," Sesshomaru purred, staying his hand for a moment. "You should have known, shouldn't you? You were the one who put up the sign, so you ought to know very well to 'Beware Of Dog'. Especially this dog!"
Inuyasha's rear end got acquainted with the "BEWARE OF DOG" notice in another crashing encounter.
"Well?" Sesshomaru asked when he was done. "Have I 'beaten the shit' out of you yet, to quote one of your favourite phrases?"
"Bastard," Inuyasha snapped, scrambling off his brother's lap, his butt as sore as it had ever been in this modern age.
"I'll take that as a yes. Now go plant your backside on this and cool it off."
Sesshomaru reached down to where he had placed an ice bucket beside the bed. He had stashed one of the signs in the ice, and now tossed the chilled piece of metal to Inuyasha. The half-demon caught it and stared at it.
"Very funny," he snarled at the taiyoukai.
Of course Sesshomaru had to choose this one, after beating the shit out of him.
It was the "NO-DOG-POOP ZONE" sign.
"You're a scream, you know that?" Inuyasha scowled.
"No shit," returned Sesshomaru, deadpan.
Inuyasha wisely shut up and cooled his ass on the cold metal.
He had seen the sign.
Note: I don't update this story frequently because it isn't really plot-driven like my other fics. I depend purely on inspiration for this one, rather than discipline, and regard it as the sort of ongoing series that will be added to as and when I have an idea. Sorry about the long wait between chapters!
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