[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]

[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'?

[taiyoukai]

When it comes to foolish children, like yourself? Yes.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed angrily.]

First, I'm not a child. Second, how am I foolish? The mere fact that I'm questioning and doubting you does not mean that I am foolish.

[taiyoukai]

Yes, you are and your reaction to it further proves it. And if you must know, because you question and doubt others before you yourself. That is always a remarkably easy way to spot a fool.

[tohko_amano]

No, my reaction to it means that you were wrong. I'm a teenager-halfway between being an adult and being a child.

And I question and doubt myself quite a bit. Just because you're not seeing me do it doesn't mean that I don't.

[taiyoukai]

Calling it by any other name does not in fact change what you are. And if the results speak for themselves, perhaps you should apply yourself harder to it.

[tohko_amano]

It does, actually. After all, the words 'child' and 'teenager' mean different things.

..And I do apply myself to them. The fact that you don't see it doesn't mean that I do not. What I should be asking you is whether you ever doubt yourself. If you don't, then you're an even bigger fool than I am.

[taiyoukai]

Girl, your impertinence has nearly depleted my patience.

[You're not gonna like it when he loses his patience.]

[tohko_amano]

..I think I'm staying on topic here. Or did I strike a nerve?

[Tohko, don't..]

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru cracked his knuckles, hand glowing faint green and the scent of sweet poison flooding all around him.]

I have simply grown tired of indulging your misguided, nonsensical blathering. You will stop, or I will stop you.

[tohko_amano]

[While Tohko couldn't properly identify that sweet scent, the fact that his hand was glowing green meant that it was probably poison of some sort. It would be weird fighting with only her left arm in working condition..but hopefully the things Saber taught her would hold, even now. She put her hand on her dagger and took a step back.]

And why have you grown tired to talking to me? Or rather, insulting me for asking questions?

..And fighting someone over a few questions is a bit overkill. Why not humiliate me with words?

[taiyoukai]

[The corner of Sesshomaru's mouth turns upward into an unpleasant smile, a fang peeking out.]

Because death comes cheap here, and that might be enough to teach you a lasting lesson for a change, since you patently refuse to stop being an annoyance.

[tohko_amano]

[Yeah, that fang doesn't scare her anymore, Sesshy. However, she does sigh.]

Death here isn't cheap. You may come back to life, but I'm pretty sure you get punished after awhile if you die too much. Plus, someone similar to you already broke my right arm awhile ago. If breaking my arm didn't change me, I don't think death will.