Temper Tantrums of an Inuyoukai by UnknownRandomness

Plans Go Awry

Prompt: Poise

Word Count: 718

Several possibilities filtered through Kagome's mind as she lay in her sleeping bag, the quiet of the early morning providing the perfect time to think. Her payback would have to be both subtle - so that Sesshoumaru wouldn't immediately kill her for it - and not too harsh - because upsetting Rin would defeat the entire exercise. It would have to be something to teach Sesshoumaru that being a rich, influential, and annoyingly handsome demon lord did not give him permission to be an obnoxious bastard. Something to ruffle his feathers, something to ruin his perfect visage, somthin-

Kagome smirked. She knew exactly what to do. Now, all the young woman had to do was wait for the opportunity to present itself. 

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"Stand behind me sweetie, we've got you." 

Rin's worried features pinched even further, but she quickly scampered to do as she was told, clutching onto Shippo as Kagome quickly threw up a small barrier around them. Through the slight pink sheen, their eyes tracked the movements of their companions; Sango and Miroku were astride Kirara, the slayer wielding her boomerang and the monk rapidly throwing sutras into the writhing mass of demons around them, Jaken was sticking close to them, preventing interested monsters from getting too close to Kagome's barrier - although few that did get past the Staff of Two Heads quickly retreated at the burn of purification. Inuyasha was thrashing his way through the mob in his usual brash manner; but it was Sesshoumaru who really caught the eye, his movements calculated and efficient - no effort wasted.

Although the young girl was worried, there truly was no reason to be, Kagome mused; even this huge mass of evil would not be able to beat either inu separately, let alone when they were united. 

Piercing screeching interrupted the miko's thoughts, and she quickly looked up to see Sesshoumaru sprinting towards a rather large, swollen looking oni that had formed from the youkai merging. 

And the oppurtunity had presented itself. 

Grabbing an arrow from the quiver, Kagome quickly notched it and set her sights directly on the creature's distended torso... It was quite likely that there was pus and guts and all manner of gross things floating around in there... And if swiftly pierced by a small, sharp projectile? Well, it would explode, and Sesshoumaru... Sesshoumaru would be completely soaked.

With a mental fist-pump of victory, she let the arrow fly, imbued with just enough spiritual energy to get past the oni's thick hide, but not enough to purify it entirely. There was a small flash as the weapon connected and with a slightly sickening pop, the creature's stomach burst. 

This would have been perfect, had she remembered that everyone else was also in soaking range. 

"What the hell was that Kagome?! Ugh, I just finished cleaning this stupid thing yesterday!" Inuyasha bellowed at her as he shook his slimy fire-rat robe in clenched fists.

"Surely it wouldn't have killed you to at least purify the thing, would it?" Sango's exasperated question was intensified by Miroku's disgusted expression and Kirara was desperately shaking her head, trying to get oni goo out of her ears.

Kagome-sama? This smells very bad... Could we please find a hot spring?" Rin's tentative voice was almost drowned out by Jaken's sqwuaking and Shippo's groans.

Damn it all! Why hadn't she thought this through properly?

"Indeed miko, your shoddy attempt at purification was unnecessary and unwanted. This one suggests that you train harder for some actual measure of success."

Back stiffening, Kagome turned - almost slipping in something she decidedly didn't want to think about - ready to grin at the daiyoukai, covered in oni guts, knowing that she was vindic-

No.

No way.

The Western Lord stood elegantly poised in the only blank space within half a mile, skin clear, clothes pristine; not a hair out of place. He had escaped the deluge completely unscathed.

Mouth opening, the young woman blinked rapidly, stunned. This... This was... This was unfair! That's what it was! Completely unfair - the universe was clearly weighted in the arsehole's favour.

Snapping her mouth shut, Kagome gathered as much compsure as she could, picking up her bow from a huge puddle (with teeth in it, ugh), before taking Rin and Shippo's hands and walking away from that judgemental golden stare as fast as possible.