Heading over to Tower of Animus to begin the new year on a bright note.

[taiyoukai]

This Sesshomaru has no time for foolish nonsense like that. Send the fox there, instead, if you must send anyone at all.

[A small pause.]

Or the other.

[You know, his canon self, who's chilling out being himself and not flailing inwardly over being from an AU that somehow landed him with far more civil wars and politics and border revolts than can be healthy. God, he hates politics. He'd almost appreciate going to the Tower just to escape the politics. Fuck politics, frankly.]

That line of thought is useless. Unless you are implying that this Sesshomaru would abandon his responsibilities so quickly.

[Mun would like to point out he would, he does and he has. 8| You walk out of conversations and rooms full of people talking to you all the time, Sesshomaru, you ain't fooling no one.]

Be quiet.

[Bluh.]

Comments

I really like your AU! it's cool to see one where Sesshy gets more interaction with the main cast!

[taijiya]

It's been a long while since I've seen you being sent anywhere.

Thanks! I just love the idea of the main cast smashing his brain to itty bitty pieces all the time.

[taiyoukai]

[Frostily.]

That would imply that I have ever been sent anywhere.

[One, he's not speaking in 3rd person to you, because he actually knows you. Two, that was a joke! A very bad one. Feel free to point it out, he's used to you humans not appreciating his refined sense of humor.]

it's fabulous! :3 and I'm sure he'd throw them for a loop or two, haha.

[taijiya]

[Immediate reaction: da fuq. Have a very confused expression. She expected a response that was a lot haughtier and less wordy.]

Since... any version of you has been sent somewhere, then.

[Bless Sango's heart, she thinks you're sick or something, Sesshy.]

I'm pretty sure he did, because he's a friggin' troll in canon, the main cast just never found out.

[taiyoukai]

[Crisply.]

What do you want, Sango.

[That question is not a question, but I'm pretty sure his punctuation is not what's freaking you out right now.]

new favorite au omfg

[taijiya]

[internal screeching Sess what is wrong with you omg]

Did you just use my name?

My favorite part is that he picks fights with Kagome and co. when he's bored.

[taiyoukai]

[And they eventually realize it so they try not to rise to the bait. So then he goes on tormenting Jaken more than usual instead. Oh god, the sheer amount of Jaken+Kagome conversations involving Sesshomaru being Sesshomaru in this AU are endless.

Dryly.]

Do you have another one?

wkguhfdlegiuhlr; i wish there was fic for this au oh my god, i need it in my life

[taijiya]

When it comes to you, yes. Generally 'taijiya' if you're feeling polite, and occasionally less specific or more derogatory terms as needed.

I kinda want to write it? But I dunno. I have so many ridiculous writing projects, sob.

[taiyoukai]

[...stop the presses, Sesshomaru just rolled his eyes at her.]

It has been years, taijiya.

[Plus, he only called her that for like. A week. Or a month. Whatever, it was forever ago. Why is she so hung up on that now, anyway?]

I thought you derided pettiness.

if you ever do, let me know. c:

[taijiya]

Years? It's barely been one, and on every of the few occasions I've had the experience of running into you, such "pettiness" has been what you've defaulted towards.

I'll throw you a PM with a link if I ever do.

[taiyoukai]

[Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare. And then, after an uncomfortably long time:]

Your sense of humor remains abysmal.

[Translation: You're kidding, right? Right? Go home, reality, you're drunk.]

good deal :)

[taijiya]

[Sango has never been drunk in her life, thank you. Except possibly that one time with the fog in the anime, but we don't talk about that.]

I would say yours is far worse.

0w0

[taiyoukai]

[Oooh, that time...]

I am sure you would.

<3 !

[taijiya]

[WE DON'T. TALK ABOUT. THAT.

Sango frowns contemplatively before remembering how odd things can get in the metaverse. (Too many universes, if you ask her.)]

Though I suppose there's an equal possibility that our timelines are considerably mismatched.

♥!

[taiyoukai]

Explain yourself.

[Because you ain't making any sense. Also please don't notice any familiarity in the way he folds his arms within his sleeves. He never lost an arm so he never lost the habit.]

[taijiya]

[She points at said suspiciously present arm.]

That, for one. The Sesshoumaru I know is definitely lacking a left arm. He also only bothers interacting with me at all if it involves fighting his brother.

[taiyoukai]

[His eyebrows twitch up a little in surprise.]

That is unheard of.

[Like, how he'd even lose an arm. It's an arm, you don't just bloody misplace the damn things, they're very firmly attached!]

The lack of an arm, that is, not Inuyasha's continued ability to be a disgrace.

[Not that it wasn't obvious what he meant. He's just being a brat and trying to imply things about her level of intelligence. Because when everything else fails, being a petty brat about everything is the right thing to do. But it's interesting though, the Sesshomaru she knows probably never traveled with her. Or got used to her. Or started to mentally categorize her along beings he should probably allow to keep on living. Despite their running mouths.]

I see.

[taijiya]

No, the arm was definitely gone. From the battle over Tetsusaiga, as i understand it.

[It's just as hard for Sango to imagine a Sesshoumaru who actually bothers getting acquainted with humans as it is for him to imagine losing his arm.]

For some reason, in your timeline, you... are far more familiar with me and, I assume, with Kagome and Miroku and Shippo?

[taiyoukai]

There was no battle for the Tetsusaiga.

[...well, okay, there was. Kind of. But it was useless to him and at least made Inuyasha less of a disaster, marginally, and while he spent months butthurt over it he got Rin out of it. Rin pretty much outweights every possible bad thing ever but he'll never stoop so low as to actually contemplate it so he doesn't, he just resists the urge to snarl and when did his eyes went red---okay, calming down now. We're not going to have A Moment over something that's been settled down.]

I have known you for as long as you have known Kagome, the same with the monk and the kit. And I continue to treat you as I always have.

[That's a lie and it's obvious. Really.]

[taijiya]

[Stares.]

You were there... When I joined Kagome and Houshi-sama and Shippo.

[oh my god, that's so mortifying. That a prick like Sesshoumaru ever saw her so weak and emotionally shattered...? Kill her now.]

[taiyoukai]

I was.

[Dunno what you're so upset about, really. It was just the expected pathetic human display, it wasn't really that remarkable to him, or anything.]

You never traveled with me.

[This is not a question, more like a certainty by now.]

[taijiya]

No. The only times I ever saw you were where, again, you came to fight Inuyasha. Not much attention paid to the rest of us on those occasions.

[Wryly. You are very single-minded, Sess.]

[taiyoukai]

Hm.

[This is interesting. Let him just stew on that for a while and do his annoying quiet-stare-into-the-distance-while-I-think-deep-thoughts thing.

That or he's wondering what to have for lunch. It's hard to tell, sometimes.]

[taijiya]

[Excuse you, she's still here.]

Exactly what prompted you to travel with us?

[taiyoukai]

[Oh hey, you still are here! Why are you still here? Oh right.]

The question should be what prompted you to travel with me.

[Obviously.]

[taijiya]

Fine--you with Kagome, then, or whoever it was that came first in this strange alternate version of our lives.

[(She, obviously, does not know exactly what could have convinced her to trek alongside Sesshoumaru for an extended period of time--but the extra familiarity and lack of initial hostility might have proved some good clues. Even if Sesshoumaru is not any more well-mannered than the one she knows.]

[taiyoukai]

Bait, mostly.

[He makes it sound so pleasant, too. /MASSIVE SARCASM OVERLOAD.]

[taijiya]

[ok she's just gonna give you A Look until you stop being a little shit.]

[taiyoukai]

[You cannot out A Look him, Sango. You simply can't. He's the best there is. He revels in uncomfortable, awkward silences full of staring. Also he has mastered the art to look utterly unemotional and yet still somehow convey painful amounts of smugness. It's almost physically harmful to withstand the amount of bullshit oozing out of him right now.]

[taijiya]

[This is probably true. And so after a long, stubborn stare, she supplies her own answer, though her raised eyebrows are still firmly in place. ]

Naraku.

[taiyoukai]

And yet again you prove to be the least stupid of the lot.

[Isn't he just a charming little darling?]

[taijiya]

As you prove yourself the most obnoxious.

[taiyoukai]

[He is totally laughing at you. No, he's not moving a muscle or even smirking, but you can feel it. Grade-A Inuyasha cackling level of laughing going on here.]

Hardly.

[taijiya]

So you'd like to think.

[taiyoukai]

I am fairly certain of it.

[You know, the sky is blue, the sun is hot and Sesshomaru is perfect in every way. Perfection isn't obnoxious. Not to him, anyway.]

[taijiya]

And that's exactly why.

[taiyoukai]

I fail to see what you are trying to say.

[No, he doesn't. He's just being a prick.]