[OPEN] Who let the dogs out? Woof.

[taiyoukai]

Characters: Sesshomaru, his bad temper, his worse manners and YOU!
Setting: Room 4-14, Meadow floor and around the Tower.
Format: Action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Having had a few days to adapt - for some values of the word adapt (read: stop feeling homicidal about everything ever), Sesshomaru decides it's time to explore a little and test a few theories.
Warnings: Testy inu daiyoukai with a tendency to melt things that annoy him with his poison claws. Also fluffy, angry dog in the meadow floor.

[Room 4-14]

[He hadn't much noticed the two boxes or the wreath in his trunk, when he first arrived, much more in a hurry to get out of that ridiculous suit - which was thankfully already melted and done for - and to seek out some answers, but today Sesshomaru takes the time to study them, before heading out to inspect the tower more in detail. He'd worked out most of his rage at the monsters in that perpetual night floor, but he hadn't come out with many answers over all.

So now there he is, sitting on his assigned bed - tch - arching an eyebrow at a box of his favorite flavor of pocky and a box, of all things, of dog treats. Sesshomaru did not find the joke very funny at all. It hadn't been funny when Kagome gave him them, and it wasn't funny now.

There's also a dried flower wreath on the bed, but he's not bothering to look or touch or acknowledge it, because something inside hurts a little too much when he tries to think about it.]

[Meadow floor]

[After some cursory exploration of the Tower, he decided this was the best floor on which to attempt this, and thus walked away from the staircase resolutely. A good distance away, he closed his eyes for a moment, before he opened them and began to gather his youki to transform back into his true form.]

[He succeeds, and he certainly doesn't look much like a puppy, but the size alone is infuriating. Barely eight, nine feet at the most, and certainly much smaller than he should be.

How annoying.]

[Anywhere else]

[After he's done with the meadow floor, somewhat disgusted by such a lackluster transformation and deeply infuriated by anyone who'd dare do such a thing to him, Sesshomaru stalks away towards the staircase, intent on exploring the tower more thoroughly this time.]

Comments

[taiyoukai]

[He's totally the adult here. Lies, he's just been a teenager for about five hundred years.]

Because you are casting assumptions. Which is precisely what you are "chiding" me for.

[SMUG]

[tohko_amano]

[Sesshy, you have to stop being Peter Pan sometime. You'll get bad side effects if you stay like that.]

I don't think I'm casting assumptions though..it seems like common sense that someone is always going to be better than you in one area or another.

[taiyoukai]

[Blah. But being a brat is so fun.]

That is merely the constraints of your human perspective. You simply assume things work the same for everyone, because they work that way for you.

[tohko_amano]

[You'll start to have memory problems! You won't be able to remember things for the long term!]

But it's been shown that there will always be something better than you in something, no matter if you're a demon, a personified nation, an immortal, a mortal, a witch, or the personification of humanities will to live. Experience has shown me this. Stories have shown me this.

[taiyoukai]

[You say that like he doesn't have those problems now.]

And how many years of experience is that? The greatness weakness among humans is your feeble grasp of time.

[tohko_amano]

[And those problems will probably just worsen if he keeps this up..]

Seventeen years of experience.

[Her whole life.]

However, we humans have a pretty good grasp of time. I imagine it's immortals and people who live for a hundred years or more who tend to get a bit fogged up as far as time is concerned.

[taiyoukai]

[They're a problem for others, not for him.]

Humans enjoy thinking so, because they often cannot even conceive the idea of the world as seen by others.

[tohko_amano]

[..But wouldn't it be nice to be able to get along with other humans? Or people in general?]

That's not true. It may be harder for some humans to see it, but we can walk a mile in other people's shoes and see the universe from their perspective.

[taiyoukai]

[Hey, he hasn't killed anyone. That's good enough, right?]

No, you cannot. And believing such foolishness will get you killed.

[tohko_amano]

[It's a start..]

That's not true! After all, I've done that before, and it's not foolish. It helps you make friends.

[taiyoukai]

You're twice the fool, if you cannot even realize the foolishness of it.

[tohko_amano]

Well, then tell me, why do you think it's foolish?

[taiyoukai]

You are what you are. You cannot change it anymore I can. To try and become something else, even for a moment, is impossible. You are not looking at things from a different perspective, you are looking at things from what your perspective tells a different perspective is. It's ridiculous.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed.]

I'm not suggesting that you alter yourself physically in order to better know how someone else sees the world. It's not that foolish. You simply think about the things they are going though, and, the more you do so, the more you understand why they made the decisions they did and why they act the way they do.

[taiyoukai]

You need not understand.

[Sesshomaru snorted.]

You only need to trust.

[tohko_amano]

But with more understanding comes more trust, sometimes.

[taiyoukai]

Hn.

[Stop making sense and just agree with him, dammit! Sesshomaru scoffs a little, unmoved by her logic.]

[tohko_amano]

[Sorry. Tohko's not one to agree with someone unless she can see that they are right. However, she gives him a puzzled look, not quite sure what to make of that 'hn'.]

[taiyoukai]

[Well, that's not fair. Sesshomaru returns her look with a blank one of his own.]

[tohko_amano]

[Hey, after arguing with Wilhelm, people like Sesshy didn't scare her in an argument. Tohko just..keeps staring, still puzzled.]

[taiyoukai]

[A wall is more expressive than Sesshomaru most of the time. So she is now effectively staring at a wall. Meanwhile, Sesshomaru's train of thought starts to wander...]

[tohko_amano]

[Alright, there's only so long Tohko can stare at someone.]

Pardon, but what did you mean by that 'Hm' of yours?

[taiyoukai]

[And suddenly his train of thought died. Sesshomaru blinked and stared down at Tohko like she appeared out of thin air.]

What?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko bit back a chuckle and instead chose to sigh.]

..Nevermind. What were you thinking about just now?

[taiyoukai]

[Rin, he doesn't say, because that's no one's business but his own.]

Hair.