Just what is in there anyway?

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Authour's note: This was inspired by a short fic that a friend of mine sent me while bored at work. It's at the bottom. (Baka deshi!) Thanks!

Pack Games

By Icka! M. Chif

"Inuyasha, I'm bored." Shippou whined.

Kagome and Lady Kaede had gone off to do their 'water ritual', leaving the two youkai at Kaede's hut with explicit instructions for them to not follow. Not many people remembered Inuyasha's attack on the village over 50 years ago, but enough stories had been passed down that it generally wasn't a good idea for them to wander around the village without Kagome or Kaede. Not that Inuyasha cared if the humans had a hostile attitude toward him or not.

But it meant that they were now stuck in the house.

With nothing to do.

"So take a nap." Inuyasha muttered, from his resting place next to the fire. He was also under direct orders from Kagome and Kaede NOT to bop Shippou while they were gone. If he did bop the kit, Lady Kaede would find out just what other kind of spells she had that could make his life miserable. Fortunately for Inuyasha's peace of mind, Shippou did not know this. So until they got back, Inuyasha was sleeping. Or at least trying to the best he could, with the small kitsune bugging him.

"Don't wanna." Shippou muttered.

"Then leave me alone."

Shippou just knew that this was going to earn him a bop on his head, but right now that was better than being bored. "Don't wanna."

Inuyasha refused to take to the bait. "So find something to do."

Shippou grinned, and started to creep on the larger youkai when Inuyasha added "Away from me."

"Dang it."

Shippou glanced around the room. There had to be something in here that he could play with. There, in the corner, Kagome's pack. There had to be something interesting in there.

He glanced back at Inuyasha to make sure he wasn't watching, then opened the pack and started searching.

The first thing he encountered was one of Kagome's spell books. He pulled them out and started flipping through them. Boring. The pictures weren't really all that interesting to look at. He tossed them behind him and kept digging.

The next thing he found were several small round strips of some sort of smooth material. Shippou tugged on it and was surprised when it stretched. He grinned and started stretching it out as far as it could go, in as many directions as he could. This was great!

The band slipped of one of his fingers and went sailing across the room with a strange 'Twang!'. He watched as it sailed through the air and landed...

Right on Inuyasha.

Shippou held his breath for several seconds. He was going to get hammered for that for sure.

Inuyasha didn't move. Not even a twitch. Shippou grinned and dug through the pack for more. There were some more scattered through out the pack. He pulled a handful out and began to see how far he could get them to fly, occasionally hitting the larger youkai, who didn't seem to notice.

Then the enviable happened when playing with rubber bands. One broke and hit him on the finger he'd been using for the slingshot. He yelped and dropped the stretchy bands. That hurt! He casually tossed them aside and continued digging through the pack.

"What's this?" Shippou asked, pulling out a pencil box. Inuyasha made no comment, merely content to watch him out of the corner of his eye and snicker. Shippou opened it up and smiled. "Javelins!"

He pulled out a strangely shaped thin yellow object. It was pointy on one end, black at the very tip, then wood coloured, a long yellow band topped by a metal strip and a squishy pink top.

Shippou gleefully started tossing them. They didn't fly as well has he thought they would, but it was kinda fun!

He running out of mini javelins, he tossed the box over his shoulder and returned to digging. The box sailed over Inuyasha, sprinkling the larger youkai with small folded pieces of metal wire. Inuyasha wrinkled his nose. He wouldn't kill the kitsune. At least not yet...

This time Shippou found a bottle of some white gooey stuff and a thin roll of some strange fabric. He set the roll of fabric down for a second and opened the bottle. It smelled horrible! He tossed it behind him, it landing on one of the books and dribbling over it.

Interest lost on the bottle, he picked up the roll and started pulling strips off of the roll of fabric. It was sticky on one side! He grinned and stuck several strips on his face. Great fun.

Getting an idea, he snuck over to Inuyasha with the intent of putting some on him. An ear twitched in his direction. "Don't even think about it." Inuyasha advised him.

"Rats." He walked back over to the pack and continued his search through it.

This time he found Kagome's clothes. There were some of her short skirts, a few tops, some handkerchiefs and...

"Inuyasha?" Shippou pulled out a strangely cut piece of polka dotted fabric. "What are these?!"

Inuyasha glanced over. He recognised the object in question and bit back a laugh. He'd seen Kagome in various forms of undress (not intentionally, of course) and knew they were part of her under garments. He could tell Shippou that or... "It's a hat, Shippou."

"Oh." The kit put it on his head. "Hey! It's even got holes for your ears, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha had a bit of trouble keeping a straight face as Shippou, with underwear firmly on head, continued to dig through Kagome's pack.

"Huh? Wonder what this is?" Shippou pulled out the top part of Kagome's undergarments and held it up for inspection. A look of sudden inspiration brighten the kitsune's face. "Oh! I know what this is!"

Shippou grabbed the two loose ends in one hand and stretched the rest of it back with the other. "It's a slingshot! With two holders!"

Inuyasha's head slipped off his arm and hit the ground. That was taking it a bit too far. Now he was going to have to interfere on behalf of the wench's honour. "Shippou?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I see that sticky cloth stuff?"

"Yeah, sure." Shippou picked up the tape and tossed it to the larger youkai. "Here ya go."

"Thanks." Inuyasha stood up, previously ignored rubber bands, paper clips and pencils falling off of him as he did so. He calmly and quite deliberately picked up Shippou in one hand and began to tape the smaller youkai to the ceiling of Lady Kaede's residence.

"Hey! Let me go! Help!" Shippou shouted, trying to squirm out of his grasp. Several pieces of tape were quickly added over Shippou's mouth.

Inuyasha stepped back once he was satisfied that the kitsune wasn't going to go anywhere and studied his handy work with pride. This sticky cloth stuff was great for keeping the kit out of trouble.

That done, he kicked everything back into the pack, walked back to his previous spot and went back to sleep.

Kagome and Kaede finally return from their trip to the bathing spot to find Inuyasha stretched out beside the fire, apparently asleep.

"Hey, Inuyasha!" Kagome smiled at the apparently bored youkai. She glanced around the room. "Where's Shippou?"

Inuyasha opened a lazy eye. "He's hanging around here somewhere."

"Oh." Kagome nodded as Lady Kaede gave him a strange look. Kagome walked over to her pack and began to ruffle through it. "Hey!"

Inuyasha glanced over at her as Kagome pulled something out of her bag. "Would someone care to explain why my history book is glued shut?" She growled, looking at him dangerously.

Inuyasha gulped.

Fin.

The story that started this, by Anneke. : }

Shippo: "Neat!"

Shippo: "Okay, I think I got it now."

Shippo: "hehehe, this is the coolest."

Shippo: "Hay give it back!"

Inu-yasha: "Why?"

Shippo: "I want to play with it!"

Inu-yasha: "No!"

Kaede: <to Kagome> That will occupy them for hours.

Kagome: It's just a stupid ball point pen.

The End.

hehehe.

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