Inuyasha and Shippou sure do seem to pick on each other a lot... just like my many sibs and me... coincidence?

Siblings

By Icka! M. Chif

"I wanna go." Shippou begged.

Inuyasha glared at the small kitsune. "No."

"Pleeze? Let me go with to pick up Kagome? Just this once?"

"I said no."

Shippou crossed his arms, pouting. "Just because she's your woman doesn't mean you have total control over her, you know."

A vein popped in Inuyasha's forehead. "WHAT did you say?"

Shippou swallowed and backed up, realising he'd just made a huge error. "Foxfire!" He let off a huge blast of foxfire to cover up his tracks and began to run for his furry little life.

"You going to go see your boyfriend again?" Sota asked, watching his older sister pack.

"He's not my boyfriend." Kagome growled, fastening the top of her huge pack. "And I'm going to search for the Shikon shards, not because of a certain mangy half deamon."

"Suuuure." Sota grinned, making it quite clear that he did not believe her. She made a face at him and picked up her pack. Either she was packing less stuff or she was getting stronger, Kagome thought as she headed downstairs and toward the well. Sota followed.

"Kagome's got a boyfriend..." He sing-sang as she reached the door to the shrine.

"I do NOT!" She snapped back. The sooner she was in the Warring States, the sooner she could get rid of her annoying younger brother.

"Do too!" Sota cheered.

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"No, I don't!"

"Kagome's got a Boy-friend! Kagome's got a Boy-friend!" Sota chanted, dancing around just outside of the shrine.

Kagome growled. Enough was enough. Inuyasha could wait a few minutes. "Prepare to die!" She roared, dropping her pack to chase Sota.

"Where'd you go ya little twerp?" Inuyasha growled, prowling around the well. He could smell the kitsune in the general area, but couldn't pin-point him. And the pest was wise enough to keep quiet. "When I get my hands on you..."

He sniffed again. He could just make out a trace of Kagome's scent, she was near the well. Kitsune momentarily forgotten, he turned and jumped into the well.

"I'm coming too!" A high voice declared as something small and light latched on to him. Shippou.

"No you're not!" He roared, jumping back out of the well.

Right into Kagome's time.

"Dammit!" He cursed as Shippou jumped off his back and ran off, presumably to find Kagome. "Get back here!"

He rushed out of the well, only to run right into something. He stopped and looked down to see what had hit him.

"Inuyasha-san!" Sota grinned, looking up at him.

"Huh?" Where had the kid come from? He glanced up to see Kagome and Shippou in a pose that mirrored the one he was in now.

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other for a moment, then at the younger person that they had been chasing. They paused, then both of them glanced down at the person holding on to their legs, then back at their former target.

"I'm gonna get you!!!" Both Kagome and Inuyasha roared in unison, reaching out toward their younger opponent. Sota promptly hid behind Inuyasha and Shippou hid behind the safety of Kagome's legs.

Everyone froze for a second, looking at each other.

It was broken by Kagome letting out a giggle. "You and Shippou act just like Sota an-"

"Don't say it." Inuyasha growled, flattening his ears at her.

"But it's true!" She protested.

"You ready to go?" He asked, straightening up and changing the subject.

"Uh, yeah." She picked up Shippou and walked over. "I was on my way when I got... distracted."

Sota grinned and opened his mouth to continue the chant when he discovered a hand over it. "Don't. Even. THINK. About. It." Kagome growled, eyes glowing dangerously.

He smiled shyly. "Have a good trip, neesan." He chirped innocently. Or as innocently as Sota got.

"Thanks." She said dryly, following Inuyasha into the mini-shrine. The half-youkai picked up her pack and motioned for her to go down the well first, so that she wouldn't have a chance to run away.

"Just what did your brother do to get you so mad?" Shippou asked as she climbed over the edge and jumped in.

She made a face, then quickly covered it up. "Nothing." She glanced between the kitsune and Inuyasha, who had just landed beside them. "What did you do this time to get Inuyasha so made at you?"

"Nothing." Inuyasha snapped, jumping back out of the well. Kagome followed him, Shippou firmly attached to her back.

"Anyway, it is true that you and Shippou act a lot like me and Sota." She continued, pulling herself out of the well and pausing on the rim. They may fight and scream at each other, but they were always there for each other, no matter what.

"Do not." Inuyasha grumbled. Siblings were a bit of a sore point with him.

Shippou looked at him with wide innocent eyes. "Does that mean I should call you oniichan?"

Pop! Another vein popped in Inuyasha's head. "You are DEAD!"

"Ahhhh!" Shippou took off for the village as fast as he could, Inuyasha hot on his fuzzy tail.

Kagome sighed, picked up her pack again and followed her friends. They really did act like siblings sometimes.

Fin.

Oneesan -older sister, neesan is slang.

Oniichan -cute way of saying older brother.

Comments, questions and other useful Nippon phrases, please send to icka_IMP@hotmail.com Domo!