Too Much Time On Their Hands

Megan watched as the men transformed into huge monster canines. They all were preparing to paddle out to where ever Inuyasha let the jewels fly. Why the guys wouldn’t just do the whole scuba routine was beyond her. Plus seeing these guys in tight black swim wear wouldn’t be so bad. It wouldn’t be difficult for the muscular demon men to lift a few tons of diamonds out of the ocean hanging them over their shoulders, dripping water over tanned taunt muscles with their long hair flowing behind them drying in the breeze. Megan was all for that with many others agreeing since they would love to see such nice scenery over having to deal with this family reunion ball crap. Megan wasn’t sure if she even remembered half the names of their family anymore since the Tashio family was so damn big.

Even Kagome was getting irritated with how long it was taking to get this damn thing over with so they could do something more entertaining. Like see the men running naked into the water. That would be another fun sight since that was a tradition in Japan apparently that they did continue into the future although nothing could compare to these demon men since humans couldn’t even come close to such male beauty. All the young women wanted to see the elders like that since there wasn’t a man in the house that looked over 25 years of age although most of them acted like they were no more than teenage boys in their sexual prime trying to show off that they could outdo each other in the bedroom.

The demon men just wanted to play and get away from the women for a while. The Chief set up this adventure calling it a way to go after Inuyasha’s evil spirit shark that would haunt them all. It was a good trick to try on his wife, but Chief’s Angina was no novice to her husband’s tricks to get out of things he didn’t want to do. The man was a sneak and almost too cute about it that Khristel couldn’t stay mad for long although she would stand with her hands on her hips tapping her foot as she shook her head at the man who thought he was still a Great Indian Chief from the old west. Lucian to Khristel was just a big kid who never stopped playing Cowboys and Indians just waiting for an opportunity to go back out to start throwing his tomahawk at someone so he could howl at the moon as he sat naked smoking his pipe drinking down his sorrows for the old days when things made sense. No matter how young Lucian looked, he was ancient in years and felt out of place trying to ‘fit in’ with the boys.

Morgwen, Eurwen, Louna, and Khristel understood that their men needed to regain their youth since they had dealt with their men for years constantly trying to do such foolish things. The problems was that it looked like the dogs were so busy playing in the water splashing around more than even bothering to go do what they planned that it would take forever to finish this project.

“Come on Megan we have much work to do so let the boys play amongst themselves. That is all they are good for anyway. I swear if Chief doesn’t get that stick out of the other place he puts it I am going to strangle that man. He is not a boy no matter how much he acts like one.”

Khristel stated with a harrumph. She had been arguing with Chief all day long about the fact she needed him to help with the heavy lifting when they were to put in all the statues once they arrived. There was no way some tiny human male servants could lift such enormous statues that would have to be in waterfall basins since ice sculptures were bound to leak all over the new carpeting plus it was uncalled for to have any Lady lift anything.

When these men got together they became so useless with their childish behaviors since it had to take all of them to go retrieve some simple stones rather than just two of them. All of them had to go including the stoic young Sesshoumaru who rarely did anything this foolish. This ballroom was taking much too long to be complete and it was all her mate’s fault since he got all the boys hyper about this stupid underwater ‘treasure’ hunt. Every single one of them tried to convince the women it was for the best that they all went, but no one believed a word of it.

“Khristel please give them all a break. These human men have machines that will take care of everything. It isn’t like the past and you will be amazed. I know you want a hand in everything, but sometimes it is ok to let others be involved even if we decided this is a secluded area. We can always remove their memories and if we get hungry we will just eat them. See everything will work out.”

Ayame stated with a smirk Megan’s way as Megan looked at her opened mouthed not sure if she should laugh or smack her for picking on humans again.

“Oh lighten up Megan, we will be fine and it will be fun to pick on the humans.”

Kagome stated giving Megan a hard whack on the behind as Megan yelped looking at the girls like they were crazy. Megan was tempted to go with the men, but was dragged along by Tsukiya who smiled at her. Tsukiya pulled Megan along and grasped Lycos by the arm.

“Lycos dear are you certain that you want Ronin to spend the night? That is asking a bit much out of him and Ronin has shown quite the restraint.”

Eurwen frowned wondering why young Lycos was following the women.

“Yes Lycos, shouldn’t you be with the men folk? There is not much excitement for a young thing like you amongst the women. We old hags will bore you to death child.”

Eurwen stated then Morgwen giggled a bit at the Scottish brogue coming off of Eurwen. It was so amusing still that she spoke this way after so many years of living around English folks.

Lycos sighed and shook his head no. He would rather be with the women and there was no way in hell he was going to change form around a bunch of guys he wanted nothing to do with. The women would let him be and then perhaps Lycos could finish his book.

“Well I couldn’t very well say no to Ronin or he would bug me about it all month long if not into the next millennium. He is annoying and so are all the others including Brandon. Tashi at least backs off, but that French bastard is going to get it if he keeps flirting. I am glad Ronin beat the hell out of him for trying to touch me so I kind of like that he protects me even if I think Ronin is an asshole who should crawl under a rock since he is embarrassing. A permanently winged cat named after an old legend. That was all we needed in this strange family.’
“Besides, I can’t go with the men into the ocean in my condition considering my season is coming up with me wanting to stay pure since you are all corrupting me you bastards and Ronin being a cat has already bugged the hell out of me about why I have not gone with the guys since it only makes sense that he did not since he is a cat. Still he went. I mean so what if he gets wet, Mom goes swimming all the damn time and she is a cat.’
“Luna also didn’t go, but no one complained about that since she is supposed to be here helping with things so I wanted to also. What is so wrong with that or with having Ronin stay over? I mean we are siblings, kinda sorta in a weird way.”

Megan smiled putting an arm around Lycos whispering in his ear.

“Someday little one you will not be able to hide your charms from the mate who will come for you. I know you wish to hide yourself forever, but I know that you are very alone.”

Lycos rolled his eyes at his Mom who ruffled his hair and kissed his cheek. Lycos leaned against her since he loved his Mom. She was the world to him and it was hard to listen to her advice even if she was right. Lycos was alone and even if right now he hated everyone a companion would be needed someday. It was part of the curse of being a canine and also part of the gift of being born a Tashio. Having children was special and Lycos eventually wanted them, he was just not sure who he wanted to have them with.

“Mom, can’t I just read and ignore everyone?”

Megan smiled softly and nodded yes as she allowed the quietest of their children to have what he craved although someday Lycos would no longer be her innocent little one. Every child has to grow up and Lycos would too.
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The ‘treasure’ hunt was a success except for Inuyasha’s shark although a ceremony was performed on the beach with a drum circle as well as some seriously drunk naked men passed out flat on their backs in the morning next to a smoldering dying fire. The leader of the group was being licked by his brother since Arashi was trying to wake the idiot up since he didn’t drink unless it was good sake only once a year on the Chinese New Year. Arashi stayed in demon form to watch over the others all night and he was tired of waiting for them to get their asses up to help carry the giant shards of adamant to the finished ballroom since these were the final touches.

“Arashi quit flirting……..I am too drunk to play………..go fetch Balachandra and eat him.”

Chief mumbled as he pushed the big dog away that licked his nose with his strange forked serpent like tongue slobbering all over the place. Arashi was the only demon dog that could literally spew acid, had a lizard like tongue that the women seemed to enjoy as well as his other lovers, and a dragon tail. Other than that Arashi was a pure Inu with bright red eyes and long white fur even over his dragon tail making him look something like the luck dragon off of the Never Ending Story.

The big dog whimpered than nudged Lucian up from the ground as Chief Lucian looked at Arashi with daggers in his eyes. He had a hangover and had partied too long. Longer than any of them and was still coming off of some really terrific whiskey called Crown Royal Special Edition. It was wonderful and he wanted more. It was too early to be up and Arashi was a blasted morning person the big asshole.

“Balachandra! Get your ass up you lazy bastard and come take care of your brother! I am still drunk damn it and I want more of this stuff so you need to get up!”

Lucian yelled as Balachandra’s eyes opened and he waved a hand at the Chief.

“No my love, I don’t want any more sex tonight. I am tired……….can we call in for a rain check?”

Arashi rolled his eyes and transformed. He was the only one still wearing any clothing. His Grandsons was buck naked having been ravished in front of everyone by his mate all night long while everyone else just danced around them drinking until they too ended up doing things they couldn’t remember.

“Balachandra, will you get up?!”

Arashi stated kicking his brother in the side as Balachandra sat up angrily.

“Now that was completely uncivilized and uncalled for! Do you wish for a duel you cad?”

Balachandra stated looking at Arashi growling as Arashi started laughing.

“Sure, with you naked kicking your ass will be easy and I have done it before so go ahead big boy. I have all day unlike our wives who are going to kill us if we don’t get going.”

Suddenly Chief was up rushing to pull on any clothes he could find. Khristel was going to maim him. That woman had claws damn it all! This was all Arashi and Balachandra’s fault!

“You two didn’t get us up and I blame you both! Why didn’t you tell me it was morning Arashi? Must I do everything for this pack?”

Chief stated as he rushed putting the boot on the wrong foot that Sesshoumaru let him borrow as he kicked at his son Touga who was still smiling in Alistair’s arms with Alistair frowning at the intrusion.

“What the…………”

Alistair growled as did Touga who watched Lucian fall on his ass as he was trying to pull up his pants over another boot. Touga bust up laughing and then kicked at Sesshoumaru who was wrapped interestingly around Inuyasha in some kind of twisted up leg over leg arm thing that seemed like they were one big pretzel.

“Megan……….can’t sleep………where…………huh……….”

Inuyasha mumbled as Sesshoumaru woke up without much need since he really didn’t sleep. Sesshoumaru truly could not sleep without Megan there. He was annoyed that Inuyasha was being so roughly pushed around since he ignored his Father’s attempt to get them up. Sesshoumaru’s head hurt as well as other places he didn’t want to talk about with sand in those same places making things rather uncomfortable. Inuyasha might live in this stuff, but Sesshoumaru did not.

“Inuyasha, love wake up it is time to get going.”

Sesshoumaru stated softly as he caressed that cherubic face kissing his mate awake. Inuyasha was still such a childish looking man and so sweet when he was sleeping. That face was soft as silk and warm with those long eyelashes flowing like shimmering dark moonless nights. The golden hue of his skin in the sunlight was unlike anyone could describe since the metal lustier of his hair contrasted so much with the color of his skin. Sesshoumaru always looked at his own almost ivory skin next to his lover’s who was so much different although they had the same Father.

“Sesshoumaru why do I have to get up so damn early? I thought it was the fucking weekend and where the hell is Megan damn it? You hid her again didn’t you? I know you did and you made me leave her in my condition when you know I might eat a damn crab if she isn’t here to stop me. You are always like this ya know when I am trying so hard to be good and then you want to take me to run off to play with you when Megan needs us.”

Inuyasha of course was pregnant. When wasn’t he? Sesshoumaru couldn’t remember a time anymore when either of his mates was not.

“You are beautiful Inuyasha and I love you so get up off your gorgeous emotional ass since we have to lug all these jewels you flung out into the ocean to that blasted ballroom.”

Sesshoumaru stated as he watched Inuyasha yawn ignoring the other men getting around as he ran his finger lazily over his beloved’s chest watching Inuyasha stretch like a cat. It was always fun to watch his mate wake up and he couldn’t wait to get back to Megan. Sesshoumaru was always happiest when he was home with those he loved.

“Oh come off it you two and get a damn room! I can’t believe the women have us this whipped.”

Kouga growled out as he kicked sand at Inuyasha who jumped up at started yelling at Kouga.

“Look you jerk it isn’t my fault you have a stick up your ass you wimp!”

Inuyasha growled as he got up abruptly yelling in Kouga’s face with Sesshoumaru trying not to laugh as he got dressed ignoring the two naked young men.

“Look mutt face, I wasn’t the one who flung these huge things out into the fucking ocean to kill a damn shark that is dead I tell ya you emotional shipwreck!”

Kouga yelled as he grasped his pants from the ground. Inuyasha did the same as they pulled their clothes on still yelling at each other.

“What the fuck did you just say ya walking flea bag?”

Inuyasha growled.

“Oh no you didn’t you sorry excuse for a canine! You ain’t even a full dog, you’re a shrimp and at least I can eat one you creep!”

Sesshoumaru grasped Kouga by the pony tail and Inuyasha by one of his ears.

“Look you two, no more fighting amongst pregnant men. I will not have Miroku upset again either. I swear I am not ever allowing either of you out of my sight. Heaven help me for agreeing to fully mate you both to each other as well as to us. As if I do not have my hands full as it is and you two fight like a couple of women.”

Megan came forward pulling Sesshoumaru’s hair hard as she dragged him away along with a huge adamant shard.

“If I have to spend one more day around arguing women and men who act like arguing women I am going to kill you Alpha male of us all! Now march boys!”

The men gathered themselves together as the jewels were picked up for the long haul home. It was going to be an interesting get together and hopefully the last for a very long time.