Into the Arms of a Mercenary {Complete} {InuyashaWattyAwards 2014}

Chapter 8

He laughed as Izayoi tickled him. However, he began to tickle her harder. Izayoi finally released him and curled up into a little ball as she laughed. Bankotsu, beside her, was laughing as well. "This is gonna be a long day," Izayoi replied, ceasing her laughter slowly. "Do you wanna play on my PSP?" she asked. "PSP?" "You can play games on it. Look I'll show you!" Izayoi got off the bed and went to get her purse and sat back down. "What's in there?" Bankotsu asked curiously. "Just some things I brought from home," Izayoi replied. She took out her iPod, camera, and her PSP.

Bankotsu was just sitting there, looking at what Izayoi had taken out. She decided to show him her iPod first. "This is an iPod. You can listen to music with this," Izayoi explained, unwinding the headphones. She handed one of the headphones to Bankotsu. He took it, looking clueless. She took it from him and placed it in his ear saying,"You're supposed to wear them like this so you can hear the music." She turned the iPod and scrolled through the songs. Finally she stopped and played 'Lovestoned'(by Justin Timberlake). "So...this...iPod...lets you hear music?" Bankotsu asked, taking the iPod from Izayoi and examining it. "How do you get music in here?" "You have to download it," Izayoi explained. Bankotsu looked up and asked,"Down...load?" "I'll show you what it means to 'download' later on, okay!" Izayoi said, thinking of asking Elena to lend her a laptop. 'Lovestoned' had ended and then they both just listened to 'What Is It' (by Baby Bash ft. Sean Kingston) and 'Love In This Club' (by Usher ft. Young Jeezy) in silence.

After the songs ended, Izayoi turned the iPod off and put it away. "What's that?" Bankotsu asked, pointing to the camera she had taken out. "This is called a camera. This takes and stores pictures." "Pictures?" Izayoi turned it on and showed Bankotsu what she meant by pictures. "Look," Izayoi said showing him pictures of her friends and places. "Whose that?" "Oh those are my friends Victor, Kaori, Tifa, Alex, and Samyra," Izayoi said, pointing them out. She showed him a picture of Reno and Rude. "Hey, aren't they your friends?" "Yeah, Reno. And the other one's Rude," Izayoi said. "We were hanging out here on my birthday. In a club." "Club?" he asked. "It's a place where people can go to dance and hangout, for fun," she explained. After showing him the pictures, she showed him videos of random stuff she and her friends did at school.

One of her friends had recorded her at her school's football game, cheerleading. "Nice legs!" Bankotsu said smiling. She gave him a playful punch on the shoulder. Izayoi had also recorded her friends Ryan, Eric, and Michael skateboarding. Once she finished showing Bankotsu the videos, she said,"You wanna take some pictures together." "Okay, I guess," he replied. She dragged Bankotsu onto the floor and said,"Okay. Let's take a picture hugging each other. Look at the camera! And don't blink!" Once they saw the flash from the camera, she looked at the picture. "Hey! We look great!" Izayoi said, showing Bankotsu the picture. "Let's take another one!" Izayoi said, not waiting for his opinion on the picture. She took him back on the bed saying,"Okay let's take a picture of us kissing!"

She and Bankotsu sat down on the bed again and Izayoi held the camera in front of them. He wasted no time in kissing her. When the time was right she took the picture. "Look!" Izayoi showed him the picture. "Is that really how I look?" Bankotsu asked, taking the camera from her. "Yeah! You look SO hot and sexy!" Izayoi said. "You're the one that looks sexy," he replied. He hugged her and kissed her forehead. Izayoi giggled as she turned on her PSP. She put in Resident Evil and loaded her saved game. "Okay. Let me show you how to play," Izayoi said. He wrapped his arms around her and looked at the PSP with his head resting on her shoulder. "So what do you do?" he asked. "Well, basically you're supposed to escape from this city that's overrun with zombies and other things," Izayoi explained. "You have to solve puzzles sometimes, though. And you have to find keys and cards to get to certain places." "Whose that?" Bankotsu asked as he saw Izayoi start to play as Claire Redfield.

"That's the person you control when you play." "What's that?" Bankotsu asked as she opened a trunk to get some more weapons. "What's what?" "That thing she's holding," he said. "That's a gun. It's her weapon," she explained. She handed over the PSP to him and began to explain which buttons to press. Once Izayoi saw that he mastered the basics she said,"Okay. Let's see what you got!" She told Bankotsu to walk to nearby door. "Press X to open it," she told him. When Bankotsu entered the next room, there were zombies. "Shoot them!" "What button was it again?" Bankotsu asked. "L1!" Izayoi said, more worried about the zombies than he was.

Once he got the hang of the control movements, he was actually pretty good. He even got past the part Izayoi was stuck on! She was actually surprised at how fast he got the hang of it. But then again he was a guy! "Do you have any other games?" he asked pausing the game. "Yeah, but first save," Izayoi said. She showed him how to save and take out the game. She handed him Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Once he got the game started, he asked,"What are you supposed to do in this game?" "Whatever you want. Kill people, shop, eat, steal cars, you name it!" She taught him all the controls and soon enough he was playing like a pro. It seemed to Izayoi that he liked this game even more, seeing that he got to do some of the things he liked to do.

A couple of hours later, he turned off the PSP. "Are those the only games you have?" he asked. "Yeah. But I'll ask Reno tomorrow if he can lend me his 'Naruto' game, if he has it with him though," Izayoi replied. She yawned. "You tired?" Bankotsu asked. He lied back down on the bed. "Bankotsu, can you do me a favor?" Izayoi asked. "Anything for you," he said, with his eyes closed. "Can you go get a servant and tell them to bring some food up to my room?" "Fine," he said, getting up. He walked out of the room. A few minutes after he left, Izayoi heard a knock. "Come in!" she called out. She wasn't looking at the door and didn't see that it was Hakudoshi who had entered her room. "So, Bankotsu's spending the day with you today also, is he?" he asked sitting down on her bed.

Izayoi turned around sharply and said,"What do you want this time?" "Nothing," he replied. "Just doing what Bankotsu's supposed to be doing. Looking after you." Izayoi fixed her kimono and replied,"Well, as you can see, I'm doing just fine. So you can leave now." "Do you really think that I haven't told Naraku about your relationship with Bankotsu," Hakudoshi said in a sinister way. "He wasn't pleased to hear that his daughter is in love with a human." Izayoi stared at him as he said all this. She had known all along that it was just a matter of time before Hakudoshi told on her. "What's wrong with me falling in love with a human? I've lived with humans my whole life," she said. "Well, seeing that Naraku is your father, anyone would've thought that you would have picked someone worthier than a pathetic human," he replied. "Whatever," Izayoi said. He got up and walked to the door.

"You and Bankotsu won't be together very long," he whispered, on the other side of the door. "What did you say?" Izayoi called out, not hearing what he had just said. "Come say it in my face!" But Hakudoshi had already left. A couple of minutes later, Bankotsu came in with a woman carrying a tray with food behind him. The woman placed the tray on a low table and left. "Are you gonna eat, Bankotsu?" Izayoi said. "Yeah," he sighed. He sat down next to her and began to eat a bowl of rice. To Izayoi's surprise, he finished the whole bowl pretty fast. "So you were hungry, weren't you?" Izayoi said, drinking some tea. "Yeah. I didn't eat much in the morning," he replied, now eating some more rice. Izayoi looked intensely at Bankotsu as he ate dinner. But what was really on her mind was what happen between Hakudoshi and herself. Why the hell he was in her room?!

Bankotsu paused to glance at Izayoi. "Hey, what's with you? Aren't you going to eat?" Izayoi snapped back into reality and looked at Bankotsu. She saw something that caught her eye: it was the bits of rice on his face. She smiled slightly. "Umm...you have some rice on your face!" "Where?" he asked. Izayoi took out her mirror and put it in front of Bankotsu. He looked at his reflection and wiped the bits of rice off. "Okay, I think we should go to bed. I'm tired." Bankotsu pushed the tray aside. It was a while before he noticed Izayoi staring at him again."What is it now?!"

"Why do you always bring your Banryu here?" "What if the castle gets attacked during the night? I wanna be prepared in case that happens." "If that happens, I'm pretty sure my father will deal with it," she replied. "You don't have confidence in my abilities?" he asked. "No it's just that since people say my father is a powerful demon, let him deal with all the problems!" she replied as she snuggled with Bankotsu under the bed sheets. "Good night my princess," he said and he kissed her on the forehead. She rested her head on his chest and stroked his hair. "I love you," he said quietly. "I love you too!" Izayoi replied. She closed her eyes, savoring every second of the wonderful moment before falling asleep.