Too Much Time On Their Hands

The ball was being planned the following morning with Alistair and the mighty Chief sitting frowning at everyone who seemed so excited about this mess. Even Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Kouga looked at the women involved in this conspiracy as though they were all evil.

“So dear Megan, we must do this at the ‘hotel’ per say? What is the attire in this century? We must look appropriate and everything must be done properly. We women must all see the rooms. The men will follow as escorts as usual, but it is up to us to make this work since men have no idea what a ball requires. It takes a woman’s touch does it not Ayame?”

Ayame nodded at Khristel since she indeed had assisted with many of the balls in the old days and had been to a few with her Grandfather before he took his wolf form permanently becoming the true beast that he was. It was rather normal for the elders to make that decision or become half man, half wolf.

“You will have to be patient with Megan, Kagome, little Luna, and Tsukiya since they have not ever done anything like this though my Lady. The young women have not ever been to a grand affair of demons and I am not certain with the size of our family we will be able to only rent one place. We may have to build a place for our family on the castle grounds.”

Sesshoumaru frowned at that looking up from his book.

“You will not.”

Megan looked at the plans and was trying to organize them ignoring her mate as were the other women. Men were not a part of the planning. They were to be there and to be here to listen. Nothing more and if the Ladies needed their input they would ask for it.

“These seem a bit too complex, we need to simplify it or no one will show up, plus these flower arrangements. We have some of our family who unfortunately have allergies.”

Tsukiya interjected not liking the floor plans. Too many tables squished together. Demons needed more space.

“I agree with Tsukiya, Khristel. Morgwen and I have thought these table arrangements are a bit much. There is no real reason not to just have a few benches if people wish to seat themselves. We can come up with some rather nice armoires and a few other French accents. I know that dear Louna likes the orient styles, but it is so yesterday when France is always in style.”

Louna nodded. It was indeed time for a change of scenery although she would prefer Italian over French designs liking the long columns and the marble style of furniture over such soft frivolities. They could however intermix some of the designs to accommodate everyone’s tastes.

“Eurwen, I agree that we could do with something new, but can we not accommodate at least these elegant statues? Unless of course Megan is correct about the ice sculptures being much more elegant and ‘modern’. I said that word correctly did I not dear?”

Megan nodded as Sesshoumaru got up from his chair. Did no one know he was still the King?

“I said no building around this mansion or the castle and I mean it. If you Ladies wish to do this ridiculous ball nonsense than we need to do it someplace else. I will not have my home become a parlor for all your boring friends Mother or turn the lands I want to keep as a natural preserve into one of your crazy ideas of a room for a billion people. I want my trees let alone damnit all!”

Kagome ignored Sesshoumaru and so did Megan.

“Well we really are going to have to build something. I doubt that the hotels around here will work for what we have planned. The elders are right. We have too big of a family for those small ballrooms.”

Kagome stated as she frowned at the notes. She was going to have to make sure the caterers were all assigned and she started dialing as Megan called the contractors.

“Yes we will need you again. Of course, no, not here it will be outside of the castle we own. Yes the land where that dirty old pond is where the long yellow grass grows that hasn’t been watered in ages. No, use the trees as part of the landscaping or my husband will have a fit. You know how he is about his trees.”

Sesshoumaru frowned at his mate who was ignoring him. She was going to build this thing over his childhood pond where he used to catch frogs? This was unacceptable.

“Do not destroy the pond.”

Sesshoumaru growled with Inuyasha pouting standing up to look at Megan too since he liked that dirty old pond. It was from the time that he and Sesshoumaru would play together when they did get along.

“Fine, not over the pond, but you know have the landscapers clean it up, add a few coy, and maybe even a waterfall making it much more………well yes……..exactly. Apparantly it has sentimental value so we will have to adjust. Of course we can do that and I appreciate that you will work with us. No we will decorate it or send the usual person. Augustus will be more than pleased to decorate what we desire? He is still there. Oh thank heavens.......I was afraid. Yes, that is wonderful. He will be perfect, you are the best. Thank you so much.”

Megan hung up the phone smiling at the Ladies telling them all that it will be done within the month as Sesshoumaru urged Inuyasha to get his coat.

“Father will get your ass over here and the rest of you guys before they ruin the place. We have to get there before the contractors do.”

Arashi shrugged reading the newspaper and so did Balachandra as he woke up from a pretty good nap from the growling, frowning at the young Inu for waking him up then he shrugged going back to his slumber. They were used to this.

“Why bother son? Just leave the women alone otherwise they will make us do something useful with ourselves and I want to be left alone. They will do what they want anyway and it is fine since it is still my property so I want them to do this so I don't have to worry about going someplace where the humans will annoy us. Why ruin the peace when the women are messing up our lives for a while by discussing our many flaws and ignoring us? They will be much happier not even paying attention to us so I do not see the problem with this at all. I am just glad they are not making me do anything with this mess this time so shut up and relax. You really do have a stick up your ass don't you son?”

Touga stated and Alistair suddenly relaxed thinking about that concept realizing Touga was right. As long as they were not being asked to do a damn thing with this mess it wasn't all bad, plus they only had to dress up for a couple of nights. It wasn't as if they were being asked to build or fix anything. They were not even asked for their opinion which was a nice thing since that was irritating as hell. With that Alistair sat down putting a hand on his mate’s leg rather hard making Touga wince a bit.

“Do you have to be so rough man?”

Alistair smirked at his whimpering mate. Touga was such a big baby.

“Don’t be a cry baby old man. You love it when I grope you roughly so deal with it.”

Touga sighed than smirked a bit looking away from his mate with a shit eating grin as he whacked Alistair’s leg hard too making his ass of a mate almost spill his drink.

“Yes, I can see that Alistair now I have been corrected.”

The Chief sat down still wearing his leggings and breechclout without the tunic on frowning at everyone in sight. It was too damn hot to wear all of his ceremonial clothing. The powerful man let his long black hair flow everywhere. It was ten times longer than anyone else’s in the room and hung down to his feet like a big long black blanket. The Wolf Chief didn’t have the chest hair that Alistair had. In fact he had none so it was weird that the two men were related. It was explained later that the hair that Alistair had came from his Mother’s side of the family and in fact he did look more like his Mother.

Chief Catunta Hache hi Thomas was pure muscle looking much like the young men except to the young women the Chief was the sign for yes, yes, yes baby. The man was sexy even though he was over 10,000 years old. They didn't make them like him anymore.

“You know they are going to make us dress up. It will be so shameful. It is a good thing I love my Angeni and am willing to do this for her although I do not understand such things. A simple adobe, a peace pipe, and whiskey I believe are in order. Why must we torment ourselves with clothing anyway? It should be buckskin and being wild as we creatures are meant to be. You all have forgotten your heritage. All the younglings are going to think that it is normal for demons to cover up. We should be as nature intended for our kind.”

Inuyasha sat back down as Kouga stated the dumbest thing in his life.

“I thought you just wanted to be natural not drunk since it has destroyed man of our people oh Great Spirit wolf. I am the same as you. I do not wish to be stifled by such finery and I would be honored to smoke ‘em with you.”

Inuyasha whacked his friend on the back of the head mouthing out ‘idiot’ to him as a growl rolled up from the Chief.

“Do not mock the Indian wolf boy or whiskey. I cannot live without my whiskey damn it all and what kind of wolf are you to ignore the call of the flavor of the bottle of life? You do not understand our ways little wolf and I am not some damn Great Spirit! I am living in the flesh or have you not eyes to see this?'
"How can you smoke a peace pipe with me when you have no peace around you? Kouga you are chaos and a pain in my ass. You were useless in stopping this fiasco and now your female is involved. What good are you to me boy? I need real men to stop the women, not children. Apparantly these men here are unable to withstand their power just as I am. You could not even cut it if you tried with a hatchet of many blades. You would probably throw it and miss.”

Kouga frowned. The Chief was his hero and he was not trying to disrespect him.

“Chief, that is not what this wolf meant. I only meant to join you in your pow wows so that I may learn from one such as yourself. I have done my best to try to make these mean bitches see our ways. They won’t budge and these jerks won’t let me tie them up.”

Chief frowned at that mumbling something about not wanting to teach anyone anything anymore especially to fool youngsters who had no idea how important whiskey is to the Chief. He was too old for such nonsense.

Besides no one touched his Angeni or he would scalp them. This young one didn’t even have the guts to start a coup or get the few wolves Kouga had to side with him. The damn wolf doctor was too busy and let his wife run things. What was this world coming to where men were weaker than their females?

It was one thing to allow his Angeni to rule him, but it was another to allow the young ones to see her great powers over the Chief since it was his shame to bear. It had to be a curse from one of those damn English white men who put this power on her to control him knowing that if his beloved left his side he would surely die. That had to be it since he was too powerful for this shit. Angeni had taken his bottle away and only she could do such a thing to him. It was an evil curse indeed.

“Sesshoumaru, why don’t you sit down young one and brood with the rest of us males? There is no point in rushing off to fix the unfixable.”

Arashi stated as he pulled his Grandson over to the couch as Sesshoumaru was rushing to get to the door. Inuyasha was behind him only to have his Great Uncle Balachandra grasp him aside to find out how a hanyou became a demon as Inuyasha blushed not wanting to go over that story ever again. He did not want to recall the deaths, the beatings, the damn jewel, and all the problems that went with that. Then there was the fact of his beloved brother killing him, bringing him back to ruin his whole life like he was still doing. It was a horror tale and something that Inuyasha lived through that he did not want to remember anymore. It was fun breaking Sesshoumaru for a little while after he thought about it, but it was hell so why bring it up? It was completely humiliating and then the ancestors would think his mate was a royal asshole. It wasn’t like Sesshoumaru being an asshole wasn’t true, but there were some points that Sesshoumaru didn’t need to fix anymore. Inuyasha liked his asshole mate to be as he was now. They would ruin him. Inuyasha would just have to wing it somehow and come up with a real whopper.

“Grandfather I cannot just let them destroy my pond damn it all!”

Sesshoumaru stated growling at the old man.

“You know you sound just like your Father when he was your age. Let me tell you about your Father son. He was a pain in my ass for years and so now I can show you the error of his ways.”

Sesshoumaru heard this story. He had no time for this, but it was forced into him not to disrespect his elders and Grandfather Tashio would kick his ass if he didn’t listen to the long story about how his Father drove him nuts as a child running off with lower class demons making bastards everywhere causing the castle all sorts of hell.

Alistair frowned at them all as he pulled out his laptop. After thinking about Sesshoumaru's predicament he started looking at his Father terrified he might do the same thing as explain Alistair's wild past except to Jimmy. At all costs he had to keep his Father away from Jimmy or he was going to be screwed. Besides that how the hell was he going to explain their son that he and Jimmy had together? This sucked and he was going to get blamed for everything. The Chief would bear his bottom to the world and spank him like he was two. It was a horrific image.

All of a sudden the light came on and the Chief scooted closer to his son trying to get away from the crazy young wolf who was starting to give him the creeps since he was staring at him in awe. Kouga was sitting cross legged on the floor in the same attire as the Chief trying to fit in and hoped that the man he considered his hero would give him some good advice.

“What are you doing my son?”

Alistair looked warily at his Father.

“It is a computer. I know you have not ever seen one, do not ask me to explain it. I will give you a book so you can read. In fact………. Inuyasha!”

Inuyasha jumped away from his Great Uncle in relief as he practically ran to Alistair.

“What? Do you need me to run to the store? Cool, I am so gone…………”

Alistair grasped Inuyasha pulling the boy to his face.

“No, go get the book on the computer so my Father can learn how to use one. The real big thick one, the one that will take many moons for my Father to read. Ok pup?”

Inuyasha frowned. He wanted to run away not get a book. Fuck, how boring did Alistair want their family to be? He wanted his Father to read it when Inuyasha could just show him, than Inuyasha thought about it. That is when the image came of all the elders learning the computer standing over his shoulder. Yes, they needed the book.

“Fine, I will go, but then can I go to the store?”

Alistair growled.

“No, you can’t pup. Just go get the damn book. If we older males have to put up with this shit so do you and Megan will kill you if you leave. I love her still so I will kick your ass if you let her down because she will blame me for letting you leave. You are supposed to be supporting your mates with the rest of us assholes. If we have to suffer, than all of the males in this house must suffer except for the ones that actually have to work you brat. If you think they are going to get out of this than you have another thing coming boy. I am going to exact my revenge once this is done so don’t piss me off.”

Inuyasha swallowed after Alistair let go of his collar since the man’s eyes were black with red around them. He did not want his Father looking over his shoulder ever five seconds.

“Well what do you mean we cannot have real statues? Megan those ones will melt.”

Eurwen stated frowning as she looked at the brochures. Megan and Ayame shook their heads laughing. Kagome was still arguing with the caterer.

“No fucking shellfish! I told you that last time Bob! What the hell! NO, no, no. No I don’t want a seafood thing just because we are having ice sculptures. I want the mainly meat menu served with fresh raw stuff for the elders and lots of it. Of course you know price doesn’t matter, but quality does and no damn fish. Do I need to go to Franks? Ok then………….”

Kagome rambled on irritated that they were trying to talk their way into the very pricey fresh seafood deal, but Inuyasha was deathly allergic to shellfish so that was not going to happen. Assholes were really pissing her off.

“No Eurwen they will not melt during the ball and I guess we can throw a few of those real ones in if it is a fountain. It will go with the theme. I still think it is too fancy. We really need to go shopping.”

Megan stated as Morgwen was drawing out the plans and looking through the magazines at all the elegant items. Khristel was busy looking at the gowns in a magazine frowning a bit. This is what was 'modern' and what people would now wear? It was just material with a couple of strings. Her maids could make it in a day, but this was more for evenings with ones mate was it not?

“My they sure do show a lot of skin these days. I am not sure I like this Megan. Are you sure that you and Kagome have such things? It seems unsuitable although I do like those things you call jeans and slacks. We females must all have some. I have worn dresses for centuries and they look so comfortable. Our men are so old fashioned. I insist that we wear what is right for the century we are in and if the Chief doesn't like it I will scalp him myself.”

Khristel looked at the younger women who looked so comfortable and relaxed in comparison to their finery. It seemed they were overdressed again.

“Yes, we must go shopping. Oh you Ladies will love it!”

Kagome squealed as Ayame clasped her hands together thinking of all the clothing they would get. It was time for new wardrobes.

“Oh Good Lord………..”

Alistair groaned out after hearing that word. Shopping, it was a curse. They were going to force them all to go and actually comment on the clothing. Looking at his Father after Inuyasha grabbed the book than sat on the other side of him on the couch plopping down frowning Alistair handed the large book to his Father.

“Ah, this is English writing. I did not think that I would ever read such dribble, but obviously son they have corrupted you.”

Chief stated as he opened the book. Alistair closed down his computer closing his eyes trying not to go to that unhappy place again.

“Father we are going shopping. You will need something else to wear. All of you will and Kouga if you do not go home and change I will kill you.”

Alistair growled. He hated shopping. It was the worst thing in the world. Sesshoumaru of course was pleased putting on his coat again. Perhaps they could just stop by the castle for a second. Just to see how things were and if anything was out of sorts. He would ask the women and make sure they heard him this time. He would beg.

Inuyasha huffed getting up and then smiled thinking about all the lovely women in bikinis or without or with bikinis. The females modeling string bikinis and nothing else. Yes that was a happy thought making this not so bad.

“Alistair it ain’t that bad. You forgot that pretty panties store, the bikini store, and the lingerie store. Victoria does have a secret and it will be on our women remember?”

Alistair still growled.

“I want it off. Who gives a shit if it is on?”

Alistair pulled his Father upstairs and Sesshoumaru than looked at his Father then at his Uncle. Alistair was right, but it was Touga who was dragging them upstairs.

“Um, Father I don’t know if anything will fit Grandpa Arashi. He is taller than all of us and we may have the same problem with my Great Uncle Balachandra.”

Touga frowned and then remembered the cargo shorts smiling.

“Oh no son, we will be just fine. I just hope the ladies can handle seeing their legs since they are nicer than mine and your elders make mine look short.”

Sesshoumaru shook his head at the horror of it all. He and Inuyasha were going to be scarred for life. They were both going to see his Great Uncle and Grandfather in shorts? What the hell was the pack coming to?