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The Ages and Between	By : Kuronohime Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Inu no Taisho/Kagome Views: 17813 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: Done for purely non monetary pleasure. I do not own Inuyasha or the franchise. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters © Rumiko Takahashi

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"Are you completely out of your wits?" A question was hissed with a low tone.
"Nah, don't be such a scaredy-cat." Another, more amused voice replied.
"Am not! I'm just simply not as deranged as you!" Appalled, the first voice retorted.
"Keh."
The exchange came between two little inu youkai pups lurking under shrub hedges. Both dressed in fine upper-class cherry blossom silks, the younger of the pair having his hair disciplinedly pulled up, the older wearing his silvery-white mane down and wild. Both looked very alike, apparent kin, but their expressions and mannerisms exposed a great difference between them.
"This is daft. You know Yuno-sama guards her prized plum trees with the vigor and wrath of an angry bull." The younger one whined and suspiciously flattened his ears against his skull, fearing they'd be found out at any moment. The older of the pair waved his hand dismissively behind his back with his head deep in the shrubs.
"Yah, yah... But they say they taste the best and the most sweet you've ever had." His muffled voice came through the dense growth of leaves and twigs.
The younger one tried to once more provide his older companion with some sense, grabbing the hem of the older pup's yukata.
"Father will have us flogged if we're caught!"
The older pup grinned, flashing his tiny canines, still trying to peek to the other side of the hedge.
"Ha, not just that! He's gonna have both my hine and your hine. Then he's going to combine them as a one great big pelt. Then he'll hang it in the great hall as a forewarning to his future offspring what happens when someone disobeys him!" His excitement rose by every new horrific scenario he could come up with.
The smaller pup's lower lip quivered in fear, but the more venturesome inu pup didn't pay attention as he was too preoccupied wiping drool off his chin.
"Won't ya just look at that!" The older pup squealed through the bushes and grabbed his younger counterpart by his chin and dragged his face through the bushes.
On the other side of the hedges, a view of a small, harmonious garden was laid before them. Neatly planted and organized beds of flowers draping the outlines of fully-ripe plum trees. The succulent, deep mixture of dark blue and red fruits hung heavily off the delicate branches. The sight appetizing enough to give a young, mischievous inu youkai palpitations.
"Do you really think father would..." The younger pup swallowed ungainly, but the older one spared him the effort of finishing the question.
"Without a doubt."
The younger pup grew pale and let go of the yukata hem he had been holding on to.
"But I don't want to become a pelt just because of your raving antics!" The little one almost sobbed and curled his hands into fists which went completely ignored by the older pup.
"On my count of three, we run to that big one on the left." The older pup instructed and gestured his hands accordingly.
"I'll climb up, you stay on guard below and catch the plums as I throw them down to you. Okay?"
"No."
"Okay. One."
"You are an idiot."
"Two."
"This is seppuku."
"Three!"
"Don't do thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-" The last word was dragged out as the little pup himself was dragged out the bushes to the other side of the hedge.
Both ran as fast as their feet carried them and stopped before a lanky and short tree that boasted the biggest and brightest plums in the garden.
His neat hair full of small twigs and leaves, the smaller of the two inu youkais stood at the foot of the tree, more occupied in straightening out his hair and outfit rather than paying attention to his companion that rustled on the perch of the plum tree. The branches were just barely strong enough to withstand the weight of the little thief.
"Ow!" The nervous pup squealed as the crown of his head was met with an offending bump by a juicy dark purple fruit.
"Oy! I told you to stand guard! Pay attention!" The older one hissed from above and threw another plum at the one standing below.
This time the smaller pup caught the fruit, but not agreeingly.
"Stop it!" He shushed the other one back.
"Too late now, the tip is already wet." The older one snickered and continued to toss fruit after another to his small accomplish.
"What does that even mean?"
The tree shook and rustled, more fruits making their way down.
"You wouldn't get it. It's a grownup thing."
"So you don't even know what it means?"
"I do to!"
"I know you don't!"
"Shuddup!"
Trying to hoist a lap full of plums in his arms and in the heat of the argument, the boys failed to observe their surroundings and came to a screeching halt in their robbery when a piercing howl echoed around the garden.
"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!"
Being startled out of his skin, the older pup fell off his branch and on to the soil below.
"Shitshitshit! Good doing cat-brain, I told you to keep watch!" He cursed while trying to scatter up from the ground. He had hit his tailbone pretty hard. Saved his father the effort.
"Would you just stuff your piehole and RUN!" The smaller one squealed and made a dash back to the hedges.
"I SO SWEAR IF I CATCH YOU, YOU ARE DONE FOR!" An angry voice promised as the boys ran without looking back. The maddened voice and threats grew closer just as the boys finally reached the hedges and squirmed their way through the child-sized path hole.
Luckily they were smaller than the one chasing them, so on the other side, they were finally safe. But just for good measure, they kept running until they were far away from the hedge-line.
Huffing and nearly wheezing, both of the boys crashed down on the ground behind an utility building in their home domain.
When they were done heaving and gasping, the older one of the pups let out a laugh of relief.
"I wouldn't be too haste in my celebration yet." The smaller, and blatantly sourer one, of the pair remarked.
"Yuno-sama knows it was us." He groaned and slumped against the wall of the building.
"Yeah, maybe so. But she can't prove it." The older inu youkai grinned and added. "Not if we destroy the evidence!" He cackled and grabbed greedily a plum out of the large pile they had managed to gather.
"Idiot." The younger one chided, but was once again ignored. Instead, the older pup crudely slammed a plum on his palm.
"Direct this to the hole that makes sound on your face. Enjoy and be quiet."
The younger pup grimaced, but didn't put the fruit away. He examined the lustrous texture of the skin and the impossibly deep purple that spoke of perfect ripeness. He conceded and took a bite out of it, a trail of orange juice dripping down his jaw as he reveled in the taste.
His eyes widened.
It tasted sweeter than anything he had ever had. Made that much sweeter by the adrenaline still bubbling in his veins and the tingles he still had in his belly.
He found his older brother looking at him with the smuggest and widest grin possible.
"Told ya."

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A/N: SO SORRY I'M SO SO SO LATE WITH THIS! I've been super busy with doing art commissions and writing has taken a back seat. (But remember kiddos, I always do writing – even when I'm not actively publishing. Even now I have like... 10 chapters in varying states of progress for all my current and upcoming stories. Yeeeeeeeah, I'm an organizational mess.)
Anyway. One of the reasons this chapter took so gawddamn long was that it was not particularly that interesting to write... Nonetheless, for the pacing, it felt that it needed to happen. We take a little break from our regular program to reminisce a little. BEFORE THE POOPOO HITS THE FAN
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