[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

[tohko_amano]

But shrine maidens don't have any set personalities, and it's rude to think that they do. I don't have any spiritual powers or anything like that.

[taiyoukai]

They should.

[His voice darkens, thinking of Kikyo.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed.]

Why do you think they should? It doesn't make much sense to me..

[taiyoukai]

[Because Sesshomaru is Sesshomaru, he doesn't smirk at her. But the corner of his lips does twitch a little.]

You would need to be a daiyoukai to understand it.

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed again and scratched her head.]

..I don't see why I would have to be a dog demon in order to understand it. Was a shrine maiden rude to you in the past or something?

[taiyoukai]

[Dryly.]

She married my brother.

[tohko_amano]

[...And that doesn't help much, but Tohko would try to work with it.]


..And I'm guessing you didn't approve of the wedding?

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru arched an eyebrow at her.]

Whatever would give you that idea?

[tohko_amano]

Well, you don't seem to have a very high opinion of shrine maidens..maybe you hate her because you think she stole away your brother.

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru gave her a long, blank look.]

Are you always this ridiculous or is this for my benefit only?

[tohko_amano]

How am I being ridiculous?! And I'm always like this!

[taiyoukai]

You speak nonsense with such conviction I could hardly take it for anything else.

[tohko_amano]

It's not nonsense! Brothers hating their sisters-in-law because they pulled people away from them has happened in stories before, so it might have been the case with you. If it wasn't, then I apologize, but it's not nonsense.

[taiyoukai]

[Flatly.]

Life is not a story and your needless urge to compare it with one is rather nonsensical.

[tohko_amano]

Of course life is a story. You can't read it normally, but it is a story, and it can overlap with other stories sometimes, so it's best to read sometimes.

And I am the book girl, so it's not that nonsensical.

[taiyoukai]

[Congratulations, you've earned yourself a spiteful, disdainful stare.]

[tohko_amano]

[And have a puzzled look in return.]

Why are you so angry by that idea?

[taiyoukai]

Ridiculous.

[Just gonna scoff a little and continue to try and stare her down until she miraculously vanishes into thin air.]

[tohko_amano]

[Sorry, Sesshy. Once you've dealt with Wilhelm's stares, not much else in the world of staring really phases you. Tohko will just keep staring at him.]

What's ridiculous?!

[taiyoukai]

[And there he goes! Walking past her without another word.]

[tohko_amano]

[And Tohko will just..follow him.

Tohko..]

Hey! Don't ignore me!

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru dosen't stop or slow down.]

Cease to be ridiculous, then.

[tohko_amano]

[Not that Tohko expected him to. She keeps following him.]

If you told me how I was being ridiculous, then it would help me to stop.

[taiyoukai]

Simply cease to be everything you are being at the moment. That should prove to be sufficient.

[tohko_amano]

Stop questioning you, stop doubting you, stop being a book girl? Are you so self-assured that you think people questioning you and doubting you is 'ridiculous'?