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Chapter Seven
Ten minutes later, they were standing in the spacious hotel lobby, with its high ceiling and marble floor, and the discreet staff moving quietly to and fro. Inuyasha wasn't interested in all that, however; his focus was on the current plan: get access to the security footage... somehow.
While he wasn't exactly sold on the idea of the discs giving them solid leads, it was the only course of action they had, so he was going to follow it until something else came along... and who knew, maybe they'd finally catch a break. He could use one after all the shit he'd been through in the last twenty-four hours, couldn't he? Wasn't there someone, somewhere, taking note of all this who could throw him a bone?
It wasn't likely, he had to admit. Which meant he had to make his own good luck. That in mind, he turned to his asshole of a brother, glaring up at him while Sesshomaru completely ignored him, instead choosing to gaze around the lobby like it was so much more interesting. And knowing the bastard, he probably thought it was, too.
"Will you just listen to my idea? You're such an ignorant jackass."
Sesshomaru spared him a brief glance. "Fine. What do you plan to do?"
Inuyasha folded his arms. "Well, as far as I'm aware, it's illegal to view hotel security discs and stuff, right? So --"
"An accurate assumption," Sesshomaru said dryly.
"If you're just gonna be a bitch, you don't get to interrupt."
"If you didn't want my input, why did you phrase it as a question?"
Inuyasha clenched his jaw. "All right, from now on, consider all my questions rhetorical. And don't fucking interrupt, got it?" The hanyou chose to accept Sesshomaru's sigh as assent and carried on. "So like I was saying... it's illegal to do that. So we're gonna have to sneak in to get them. But it's probably gonna take a while to find the right disc, so..."
He trailed off, ignoring the withering stare he was receiving from his brother. That really would be difficult. They could probably tempt the guards out somehow, but what if it took ages to find the right disc? If the guards came back before whichever one of them was looking was done, they'd be caught redhanded. He really didn't want to have to explain that one to hotel management.
"We could use signals, I suppose..." he continued, slowly while he worked it out in his head. He didn't know what signals they could use just yet, but he was sure he'd think of something. "One of us lures the guards away, then the other goes in to search. And if something goes wrong, we can --"
"Will you please grow up?" Sesshomaru cut in irritably. "Listening to this prattle is fast becoming very annoying."
That brought Inuyasha up short. "Prattle?" he repeated incredulously. "I haven't heard you offering up any brilliant ideas yourself."
"You are making this unnecessarily complicated," the older youkai said curtly. "You do realise this is not a spy movie, don't you?"
Inuyasha ground his teeth together for a moment to stop himself hauling off and punching him right in the middle of the lobby. More drama he didn't need right now, no matter how satisfying it would feel.
"And I suppose you have a better idea," he managed through his teeth.
"As a matter of fact, I do. I plan to do this the simple, efficient way," Sesshomaru said over his shoulder as he turned away from Inuyasha, tracking the movements of a short, stout little man waddling toward the lobby desk. "Stay here and don't interfere."
As he strode off, Inuyasha was left growling after him. Pissed off, he threw himself gracelessly into one of the plush chairs placed strategically around the room, glaring at his brother's back with as much malice as he could muster. He really wanted this plan to fail, whatever it was. That'd show the bastard up for always taking control of the situation and making sure things happened his way. Maybe his plan wasn't brilliant, but it didn't deserve to be shot down cold like that.
He rested his chin on his hand and drummed the claws of the other irritably against the arm of his chair. Sesshomaru was now talking to the little man who'd come into view moments before. Evidently he was more important than he looked; his stuck-up brother wouldn't have bothered with him otherwise. They were too far away to hear and he'd never been all that good at reading lips, so all he could make out about the discussion was that the little human agreed a whole hell of a lot with whatever Sesshomaru was saying. Inuyasha suspected that had more to do with his money and the fact that he was fucking scary and psychotic than with him being right.
Finally, after a good five minutes of this continuous and enthusiastic nodding, the little man turned to use the front desk's phone, and Sesshomaru walked away and back toward him. Inuyasha stood up and shoved his hands in the pockets of his jeans.
"The footage will be delivered to my hotel suite at the earliest possible convenience," Sesshomaru said as stopped near Inuyasha.
Inuyasha couldn't help his eyebrows lifting up toward his hairline. "And how did you manage to pull that off?"
Sesshomaru ignored him. Inuyasha stepped closer. "Oi, I'm talking to you! Don't act like you can't hear me, damn it."
"I'm sorry, I thought you said I had to assume every question you asked was rhetorical," his brother replied blandly.
Inuyasha balled up his fists, once again repressing the urge to hit him. "Aren't we supposed to be working together here? If you keep pissing me off, I'm gonna fucking hurt you."
"You could try," came the reply in Sesshomaru's most obviously unconcerned voice, which had Inuyasha's hackles rising before he caught himself and managed to force himself to calm down. "I am heading back to my suite," Sesshomaru continued. "You may wait there until the security discs arrive so long as you can be quiet."
Inuyasha thought about it. Did he really want to spend that long tiptoeing around Sesshomaru's temper? He knew first hand how bad it could get when everything was normal, but the two of them were already stressed. It might be better off for him to wait in his own hotel room...
...but if he did that, he'd have Miroku to contend with. Who, while being his best friend, was still not the type of person who could be supportive without getting a whole lot of mocking out the way first, and Inuyasha just didn't have the patience to put up with that crap today. It was a sad and strange day when Sesshomaru's company was preferable to Miroku's.
He supposed he could avoid both of them by just going out, but without a phone or wallet, and carrying a new, healthy distrust for Vegas, he felt it was in his best interests to stay in the hotel. And that made Sesshomaru his best choice, bizarre as that seemed to him.
Decided, for better or worse, on where he was headed, he jogged to catch up to Sesshomaru, who had crossed the lobby while he'd been thinking and now stood waiting for the elevator. The doors opened just as he reached them and, after waiting patiently for the other passengers to get out, they stepped in together and the doors closed out the quiet buzz of conversation.
"Are you getting off at your floor?" Sesshomaru asked as he pressed the button for the top.
Inuyasha shook his head, sliding his hands into his pockets again. "Nah. Might as well wait with you, see the footage as soon as possible." Sesshomaru nodded, and Inuyasha waited a few moments. "So how did you make that happen so fast?"
Sesshomaru looked at him and said simply: "Money."
Inuyasha realised he should have known. His brother was obscenely rich, even when compared to their father, a highly successful and influential businessman. Inuyasha himself was pretty comfortable, with a good job and the inheritance his dad had given him when he turned eighteen, but nothing like Sesshomaru. He'd only seen the... estate was the only word he could thnk of, that Sesshomaru lived in a few times, but it had made even a cynical hanyou's jaw drop.
But just because it was a reasonable answer didn't mean he couldn't rib Sesshomaru. After all, his brother was the one who was an annoying prick first.
"It's more like you used the promise of sexual favours, right?" He grinned widely. "It's ok, you can admit --"
He was cut off when Sesshomaru's hand suddenly shot out and drove into his stomach, forcing all the air out of Inuyasha's lungs in a big whooshing sound. He doubled over a bit, coughing and trying to suck air back in at the same time. And with the way his abs were throbbing, he was gonna end up with a bruise.
"The fuck was that for?" he demanded, when he could breathe again.
"Don't try my patience," Sesshomaru replied calmly. "I have precious little of it at the best of times, so I would advise you to tread carefully, Inuyasha."
Not in a position to retaliate, and not liking his chances of winning a fight when trapped in a box, Inuyasha forced himself to stay quiet and fixed his eyes on the lit up numbers above the door as the floors changed and wondered if he'd made the worst choice possible when he decided to follow Sesshomaru. They hadn't even made it to his brother's suite yet and already the first punch had been thrown. How were they going to make it through however many hours it would take to get those discs?
It was going to be a long, tense wait.
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Geez, it's been so long since I updated a chapter fic that wasn't Through The Well... and it's been even longer for this fic. This wouldn't even be here if I hadn't started listening to Marry You by Bruno Mars (good song, you should check it out if you don't know it) and it made me think of this, and then somehow, I was writing it... and here we are. xD
I'll say Happy Halloween now because I doubt I'll manage to think of any holiday-themed ficness to write before then... not and actually manage to write it, too XD Have a good time <3
Hope you enjoyed ^^
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