Entertainment

By Icka! M. Chif

My younger brother amuses me.

For all his snarling, cursing and proclamations that he wants to be a full youkai, he still keeps company with humans. Annoying humans at that.

My younger brother is also an idiot. A complete and total moron. And I say that with out any malice or ill will towards him in that regard. It wouldn't do any good at all anyway, he's an idiot.

Now don't get me wrong. I completely and utterly loath him. If I had a choice, I wouldn't even call him flesh and blood.

Not that anyone ever has a choice on who is their family.

But he still provides a great source for entertainment.

He's an idiot. Not only does he get enchanted and killed by a human female he was infatuated with, but he doesn't learn his lesson. He's free for all of two minutes and gets ensnared by the first human's re-incarnation.

Tricking thing, those souls. But I understand that they are quite tasty.

So now he's wandering around with a pack of humans, wearing a collar like some dog. All this little slip of a girl has to do is say one word and he's down praying to the droppings in the road. A subduing spell, indeed.

The spell has a limited range. All he would have to do is leave, get out of hearing range and he'd be free. He'd be stuck with the human accessory for the rest of his life, but he'd be free of sudden dirt baths.

So what does he do? He risks his misbegotten life to protect her.

Idiot.

And she's not even his mate. She's merely a traveling companion, just like the youkai exterminator, the crippled religious man and the kitsune he's playing surrogate father to.

It's always quite entertaining whenever I check up on my little brother. It's like watching one of those human plays, all jokes and drama.

Not that I watch them out of any misplaced concern for my brother, mind you. Our father told me to keep an eye on the halfling. It's not my fault that our father's wishes just happen to coincide with my desire for the Steel Claving Fang and endless hours of amusement.

Our father was wise in many things.

However, I fear that Inuyasha may have inherited some of his faults. Such as conspiring with humans.

Really, father. Humans? I often wonder what could have possessed him to mate with such a creature. Much less let the bastard offspring live.

He could have at least chosen a more suitable species for a second wife. A kappa would have been more preferable than a human.

And then there goes Inuyasha, half breed son of the Lord of the Western Lands, protecting a bunch of whiney, loud, smelly obnoxious humans with sword he isn't even worthy to glance at. I'd just as soon be rid of them all.

If they weren't so entertaining.

After all, if I killed my younger half brother and all the humans, what would I do for amusement?

Fin.