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Inuyahsa and Billy Backdated 8/26
Billy tries to talk to Inuyasha again. Inuyasha doesn't really cooperate.
Billy frowned at he looked up into the tree and found the person that he really didn't want to see the most, at least in the top three. He thought about just walking away, ignoring the guy even if Inuyasha tried to start something. The guy was a jerk and bull headed so why was Billy standing there, opening his mouth and calling out to him.
"Hey! Come down here! I wanna talk to you."
Inu-yasha had been trying to nap, and thus had been studiously ignoring the magic-kid below him. He opened one eye to peer down at him. Yeah, definitely not worth it. "No," he replied lazily, closing his eye again.
"Oh, fuck you." He put his hands on his hips and tapped his foot impatiently on the ground, before smirking a little bit cruelly up at the other boy. "If you don't come down, I'll just have to use my magic to get you down."
That earned him a growl from Inu-yasha, who sat forward to peer down at him again. He didn't think this kid would actually do it, but ignoring him was out of the question now.
Might as well give him more than he bargained for.
Inu-yasha dropped out of the tree, landing slightly crouched right in front of the other kid, then stood up straight, right in the other kid's space. "Fucking try it," he growled, glaring. His bandana was on at least, and at this range, he knew his more demonic traits were on clear display. Didn't matter that Billy had the height advantage, or even the electricity - Inu-yasha was sure he could win this fight, because Billy was just some spoiled kid who didn't know anything.
Billy barely flinched with Inuyasha in his face, though that didn't mean his heart was pounding out of control in fear for being punched in the face. Instead he just took a small step and rolled his eyes. "Obviously I won't. I just need you to come down here."
He took a deep breath and told himself he needed to do this, no matter how much he didn't want to. "Okay, look. Everything that happened in that room the other day was a cluster fuck and I wanted to say..." he really has to almost physically push the words out with his tongue. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry. I really don't get the whole magic thing I'm doing, but I believe you when you say I did it. S I wanted to apologize for pissing you off for using whatever magic I used."
Inu-yasha stared at him, uncomprehending, confusion edging out some of the hardness in his face. "...that's it? You threatened me with magic because you wanted to apologize?"
"Well...when you put it that way it sounds really awful, but yeah basically. And if you had anything you might want to say back? Maybe like an apology for almost choking me out?"
He tilted his head towards Inuyasha expectantly.
After gaping for a moment, Inuyasha snorted, a crossing his arms over his chest. "So, you came out here to try an' force me to apologize? No fuckin' way."
"Okay, but you literally had me by the throat. You really think there is no reason at all for any apology?" Billy sighed, wondering what was so far stuck up Inuyasha's butt that he was like this, to everyone it seemed. "Look, I just think we should at least be on civil terms since you're rooming with Tommy."
"Why the fuck would I apologize for defending myself?" It was an honest question, though Inuyasha was still glaring. He didn't understand why Billy had apologized to him either, other than maybe some weird power play. "And why do you even care? No one gives a shit about apologies." That was kid stuff. Well, not when he was a kid - other kids.
"Oh my god. You are so frustrating. I didn't do anything to you with my magic, did I? No, I didn't. The only time I actually did something was when you had already attacked me." Billy sighed and rubbed at his temples, trying to decide if this was even worth it.
"I give a shit about apologies. Look, again, I'm sorry about the magic, I really am. I had no intention to hurt you or Tommy with it. It was a mistake. "
Oh please. Inuyasha shot him an intensely skeptical look. "So, you're gonna apologize for the lightning then, huh?"
Billy pushed down the immediate urge to tell Inuyasha to go fuck himself and took. Steadying breath. "I will if you apologize for attacking me."
Inu-yasha rolled his eyes pointedly. "I don't want a fucking apology, idiot, I'm makin' a point."
"Fine. Fine. You don't want an apology. I just..." Billy ran a hand through his hair. "Look, in my old school I had this guy who I didn't get along with and it sucked. I really don't want that here, so if you would like, I would like to try and start over."
Billy sighed and glanced out at the pond. "Of course, if you would rather just hate my guts, that's fine. I'll try to keep out of your hair best I can."
"Don't be stupid," Inu-yasha replied, eyeing Billy like he wasn't sure he had a choice in the matter. "I don't give a shit about a spoiled kid like you who's just gonna go cry to his mom or whatever. Don't waste my time."
Billy clenched his jaw tightly, doing his best not to grind his teeth in irritation. He could feel the tingling in his hands start and made a fist so the sparks wouldn't be too noticeable. "First of all, you don't know one thing about me, so stop acting like you do. Second, you don't have to be a dickbag every waking moment just because you can."
Inu-yasha leaned back against the tree he'd been sitting in, arms crossed over his chest as he gave Billy a bored look. "You ever spent a single night on the street?" He already knew the answer of course.
Billy sighed, knowing exactly where Inuyasha was going to go with this, but he wasn't about to lie. "No. I haven't spent the night on the street."
"So, guess I know that you don't know shit about anything," Inu-yasha replied pointedly, "because you don't know anything about surviving in the real world."
"I think that's a really generalized statement, but whatever." Billy sighed and glanced up into the trees wondering if this would ever work or if he should just give up. He glanced over at Inuyasha and he noticed he was wearing the bandana again.
"Why do you hide your ears here?"
Inu-yasha's eyes narrowed. "I'm not hiding them," he growled, but the blush in his cheeks suggested otherwise.
Billy glanced back and forth between Inuyasha's face at the bandana sitting on top of his head covering the furry white ears he knew were there. "Yeah. And I'm not gay."
Inu-yasha missed the point entirely. "Wha- what?!" he stammered, eyes wide and blush getting worse. "I never said you were!"
"I know you didn't. I did. I'm very very super gay, which means you are very very much hiding your ears." Billy crossed his arms over his chest, raising an eyebrow at Inuyasha's red face. "Why?"
"It's not because I'm gay!!" Still wildly confused about what was happening here, Inu-yasha snatched the bandana off his head. How had gay become tied to his frickin' ears?! He turned absolutely red as he heard himself. "An' I'm not--" He couldn't even say it. What the hell was Billy trying to pull, just saying things like that? "Argh, look, I just don't want people thinkin' they can push me around because of my stupid ears!! That's all!"
Billy took a step back when Inuyasha seemed to just explode, eyebrows shooting into his hair in shock as he tried to figure out what exactly the other was yelling about. He waited until Inuyasha was finished before trying to speak, using a quieter voice because he still seemed riled up.
"Calm down. I never said you were hiding your ears cause your gay or whatever. I was using sarcasm."
He tried not to let old fears make their way into his mind at how irate Inuyasha seemed at the idea of someone thinking he was gay.
"Wait, so you're not gay?" demanded Inu-yasha, completely confused and totally frustrated by this conversation. "Make up your damn mind!"
Billy smacked his forehead with palm and counted to six in order to explain things without getting yelly. "I am gay. I was using sarcasm saying I'm not gay when I obviously am because you are obviously hiding your ears."
He took a deep breath and let it out. "And why would people push you around cause of your ears? They are just ears...on top of your head...and furry, but I mean you could probably deck anyone who tried so why hide them?"
Inu-yasha's blush hadn't completely faded, but at least this was something he could follow. He still didn't get the thing about being gay or not. "Cause that's a lot of punching and they'll throw my ass out if I have to beat up every idiot who tries." His flippant tone made it clear that he didn't really care how many people he'd have to hurt, just that being thrown out would be an inconvenience.
Oh.
Billy pushed his hands into his pockets and for the first time felt something other than annoyance and the urge to maim towards Inuyasha. "Well, I mean, that's a good point, but I really don't think anyone would really say anything about them here."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I mean come on, this is probably the very last place anyone will give you a hard time about having dog ears. Plus, they are dog ears. Everyone likes dogs."
Unless you were a diehard cat person...meh.
Inu-yasha narrowed his eyes at Billy, trying to figure out if he was being made fun of. "I'm not a dog, I'm a freakin' demon," he replied, mildly exasperated, as he gestured to his appearance. Sure, people liked dogs - but they hated freaks, especially strong ones. Inu-yasha's whole life confirmed that.
"I know you aren't literally a dog, cause you are missing some very defining traits of an actual canine, but your ears are dog ears, yeah?" Billy wondered exactly how Inuyasha knew he was a demon and not just a mutant.
"Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but how do you know you’re a demon?"
"'Cause people've called me that all my life," Inu-yasha growled back. It was more complicated than that, but he didn't feel like getting into his family history and Japanese lore with Billy. The way he figured it, call a mutant demon long enough, what else were you gonna get?
Billy's features softened immediately, he tried to imagine growing up being called something horrible all his life and now Inuyasha's attitude made a bit more sense. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that. Well, I don't think you are if that helps."
"Huh?" That brought Inu-yasha up short, and he narrowed his eyes at the other boy. "Sorry? The hell do you have to be sorry for?"
"No, I just-" Billy's shoulders slumped and he shook his head not wanting to get into this whole thing again. "Nothing. That sucks that people called you that, that's all."
"That's how the world works," Inu-yasha replied, all but rolling his eyes at the other boy. What would a spoiled kid like Billy know about how the world really worked? "So yeah, dog demon. And now I got the claws and strength to go with it."
Billy's eyes went to said claws, wondering show sharp exactly they were. "How strong?"
That was a dumb question, but honestly when it came to Inuyasha, Billy was full of dumb.
The glint in Inu-yasha's eyes was a sort of predatory amusement. This deserved a demonstration. He stood upright, cracking his knuckles as he took a few steps away from the tree he'd just been leaning on.
Then he lunged with inhuman speed, slashing cleanly through the trunk of it. He landed lightly on the other side as the tree groaned and fell (away from them both, he wasn't an idiot).
"Strong enough to make sure no one pushes me around," he said, turning back toward Billy with his best demonic look as the tree crashed to the ground, branches splintering on the ground or against other trees.
Okay, Billy was pretty impressed. No wonder Inuyasha's arm had felt like steel when he had pinned Billy to the wall. He tried not to think about how easily he could have been hurt beyond imagination that day.
"You could put a lumberjack to shame with those! You didn't even break your claws or anything." Billy tried to look at the deadly pointed claws a little better and frowned. "How do you file them if they get too long?"
Inu-yasha just stared at him for a minute, dumbfounded. The lumberjack thing had been weird, but... "That? That's what you wanna know? What planet are you even from?"
"Well, verdicts still out on that one, but I don't know. I mean, it's a legitimate question. Do you have to have a special nail cutter or maybe they just don't grow?"
Billy really tried to keep the smile off his face when he tried to picture Inuyasha having to go to some gardening store and use a chainsaw.
"Argh, why do I even talk to you people?!" Inu-yasha demanded, as if Billy could somehow answer that for him. This whole conversation had been truly bizarre, even by his standards.
Billy frowned at that. "Hey, you aren't the easiest to talk to either, just so you know. Why don't you try not being so crazy abrasive when people are trying to be nice?"
Inuyasha was like eating a never-ending warhead, usually you got past the killing sourness to the enjoyable part, but so far this was all tear inducing sour.
Inu-yasha didn't know what 'abrasive' meant, but he knew what 'crazy' meant. He glared again, snorting dismissively. "People aren't nice to freaks like us." Idiot. "Nice is how they get you to give them what they want." Seriously, Billy was gonna need to learn that now. "Get used to it."
And then, feeling pretty damn done with this conversation, Inu-yasha rolled his eyes and turned to go. He'd knocked down the tree he'd been in before, but it wouldn't take him long to find another.
"Some people are." Billy muttered under his breath, but didn't try to stop the other from leaving, he had tried to talk to Inuyasha and that was enough of an accomplishment for today in Billy's book.
Billy frowned at he looked up into the tree and found the person that he really didn't want to see the most, at least in the top three. He thought about just walking away, ignoring the guy even if Inuyasha tried to start something. The guy was a jerk and bull headed so why was Billy standing there, opening his mouth and calling out to him.
"Hey! Come down here! I wanna talk to you."
Inu-yasha had been trying to nap, and thus had been studiously ignoring the magic-kid below him. He opened one eye to peer down at him. Yeah, definitely not worth it. "No," he replied lazily, closing his eye again.
"Oh, fuck you." He put his hands on his hips and tapped his foot impatiently on the ground, before smirking a little bit cruelly up at the other boy. "If you don't come down, I'll just have to use my magic to get you down."
That earned him a growl from Inu-yasha, who sat forward to peer down at him again. He didn't think this kid would actually do it, but ignoring him was out of the question now.
Might as well give him more than he bargained for.
Inu-yasha dropped out of the tree, landing slightly crouched right in front of the other kid, then stood up straight, right in the other kid's space. "Fucking try it," he growled, glaring. His bandana was on at least, and at this range, he knew his more demonic traits were on clear display. Didn't matter that Billy had the height advantage, or even the electricity - Inu-yasha was sure he could win this fight, because Billy was just some spoiled kid who didn't know anything.
Billy barely flinched with Inuyasha in his face, though that didn't mean his heart was pounding out of control in fear for being punched in the face. Instead he just took a small step and rolled his eyes. "Obviously I won't. I just need you to come down here."
He took a deep breath and told himself he needed to do this, no matter how much he didn't want to. "Okay, look. Everything that happened in that room the other day was a cluster fuck and I wanted to say..." he really has to almost physically push the words out with his tongue. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry. I really don't get the whole magic thing I'm doing, but I believe you when you say I did it. S I wanted to apologize for pissing you off for using whatever magic I used."
Inu-yasha stared at him, uncomprehending, confusion edging out some of the hardness in his face. "...that's it? You threatened me with magic because you wanted to apologize?"
"Well...when you put it that way it sounds really awful, but yeah basically. And if you had anything you might want to say back? Maybe like an apology for almost choking me out?"
He tilted his head towards Inuyasha expectantly.
After gaping for a moment, Inuyasha snorted, a crossing his arms over his chest. "So, you came out here to try an' force me to apologize? No fuckin' way."
"Okay, but you literally had me by the throat. You really think there is no reason at all for any apology?" Billy sighed, wondering what was so far stuck up Inuyasha's butt that he was like this, to everyone it seemed. "Look, I just think we should at least be on civil terms since you're rooming with Tommy."
"Why the fuck would I apologize for defending myself?" It was an honest question, though Inuyasha was still glaring. He didn't understand why Billy had apologized to him either, other than maybe some weird power play. "And why do you even care? No one gives a shit about apologies." That was kid stuff. Well, not when he was a kid - other kids.
"Oh my god. You are so frustrating. I didn't do anything to you with my magic, did I? No, I didn't. The only time I actually did something was when you had already attacked me." Billy sighed and rubbed at his temples, trying to decide if this was even worth it.
"I give a shit about apologies. Look, again, I'm sorry about the magic, I really am. I had no intention to hurt you or Tommy with it. It was a mistake. "
Oh please. Inuyasha shot him an intensely skeptical look. "So, you're gonna apologize for the lightning then, huh?"
Billy pushed down the immediate urge to tell Inuyasha to go fuck himself and took. Steadying breath. "I will if you apologize for attacking me."
Inu-yasha rolled his eyes pointedly. "I don't want a fucking apology, idiot, I'm makin' a point."
"Fine. Fine. You don't want an apology. I just..." Billy ran a hand through his hair. "Look, in my old school I had this guy who I didn't get along with and it sucked. I really don't want that here, so if you would like, I would like to try and start over."
Billy sighed and glanced out at the pond. "Of course, if you would rather just hate my guts, that's fine. I'll try to keep out of your hair best I can."
"Don't be stupid," Inu-yasha replied, eyeing Billy like he wasn't sure he had a choice in the matter. "I don't give a shit about a spoiled kid like you who's just gonna go cry to his mom or whatever. Don't waste my time."
Billy clenched his jaw tightly, doing his best not to grind his teeth in irritation. He could feel the tingling in his hands start and made a fist so the sparks wouldn't be too noticeable. "First of all, you don't know one thing about me, so stop acting like you do. Second, you don't have to be a dickbag every waking moment just because you can."
Inu-yasha leaned back against the tree he'd been sitting in, arms crossed over his chest as he gave Billy a bored look. "You ever spent a single night on the street?" He already knew the answer of course.
Billy sighed, knowing exactly where Inuyasha was going to go with this, but he wasn't about to lie. "No. I haven't spent the night on the street."
"So, guess I know that you don't know shit about anything," Inu-yasha replied pointedly, "because you don't know anything about surviving in the real world."
"I think that's a really generalized statement, but whatever." Billy sighed and glanced up into the trees wondering if this would ever work or if he should just give up. He glanced over at Inuyasha and he noticed he was wearing the bandana again.
"Why do you hide your ears here?"
Inu-yasha's eyes narrowed. "I'm not hiding them," he growled, but the blush in his cheeks suggested otherwise.
Billy glanced back and forth between Inuyasha's face at the bandana sitting on top of his head covering the furry white ears he knew were there. "Yeah. And I'm not gay."
Inu-yasha missed the point entirely. "Wha- what?!" he stammered, eyes wide and blush getting worse. "I never said you were!"
"I know you didn't. I did. I'm very very super gay, which means you are very very much hiding your ears." Billy crossed his arms over his chest, raising an eyebrow at Inuyasha's red face. "Why?"
"It's not because I'm gay!!" Still wildly confused about what was happening here, Inu-yasha snatched the bandana off his head. How had gay become tied to his frickin' ears?! He turned absolutely red as he heard himself. "An' I'm not--" He couldn't even say it. What the hell was Billy trying to pull, just saying things like that? "Argh, look, I just don't want people thinkin' they can push me around because of my stupid ears!! That's all!"
Billy took a step back when Inuyasha seemed to just explode, eyebrows shooting into his hair in shock as he tried to figure out what exactly the other was yelling about. He waited until Inuyasha was finished before trying to speak, using a quieter voice because he still seemed riled up.
"Calm down. I never said you were hiding your ears cause your gay or whatever. I was using sarcasm."
He tried not to let old fears make their way into his mind at how irate Inuyasha seemed at the idea of someone thinking he was gay.
"Wait, so you're not gay?" demanded Inu-yasha, completely confused and totally frustrated by this conversation. "Make up your damn mind!"
Billy smacked his forehead with palm and counted to six in order to explain things without getting yelly. "I am gay. I was using sarcasm saying I'm not gay when I obviously am because you are obviously hiding your ears."
He took a deep breath and let it out. "And why would people push you around cause of your ears? They are just ears...on top of your head...and furry, but I mean you could probably deck anyone who tried so why hide them?"
Inu-yasha's blush hadn't completely faded, but at least this was something he could follow. He still didn't get the thing about being gay or not. "Cause that's a lot of punching and they'll throw my ass out if I have to beat up every idiot who tries." His flippant tone made it clear that he didn't really care how many people he'd have to hurt, just that being thrown out would be an inconvenience.
Oh.
Billy pushed his hands into his pockets and for the first time felt something other than annoyance and the urge to maim towards Inuyasha. "Well, I mean, that's a good point, but I really don't think anyone would really say anything about them here."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I mean come on, this is probably the very last place anyone will give you a hard time about having dog ears. Plus, they are dog ears. Everyone likes dogs."
Unless you were a diehard cat person...meh.
Inu-yasha narrowed his eyes at Billy, trying to figure out if he was being made fun of. "I'm not a dog, I'm a freakin' demon," he replied, mildly exasperated, as he gestured to his appearance. Sure, people liked dogs - but they hated freaks, especially strong ones. Inu-yasha's whole life confirmed that.
"I know you aren't literally a dog, cause you are missing some very defining traits of an actual canine, but your ears are dog ears, yeah?" Billy wondered exactly how Inuyasha knew he was a demon and not just a mutant.
"Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but how do you know you’re a demon?"
"'Cause people've called me that all my life," Inu-yasha growled back. It was more complicated than that, but he didn't feel like getting into his family history and Japanese lore with Billy. The way he figured it, call a mutant demon long enough, what else were you gonna get?
Billy's features softened immediately, he tried to imagine growing up being called something horrible all his life and now Inuyasha's attitude made a bit more sense. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that. Well, I don't think you are if that helps."
"Huh?" That brought Inu-yasha up short, and he narrowed his eyes at the other boy. "Sorry? The hell do you have to be sorry for?"
"No, I just-" Billy's shoulders slumped and he shook his head not wanting to get into this whole thing again. "Nothing. That sucks that people called you that, that's all."
"That's how the world works," Inu-yasha replied, all but rolling his eyes at the other boy. What would a spoiled kid like Billy know about how the world really worked? "So yeah, dog demon. And now I got the claws and strength to go with it."
Billy's eyes went to said claws, wondering show sharp exactly they were. "How strong?"
That was a dumb question, but honestly when it came to Inuyasha, Billy was full of dumb.
The glint in Inu-yasha's eyes was a sort of predatory amusement. This deserved a demonstration. He stood upright, cracking his knuckles as he took a few steps away from the tree he'd just been leaning on.
Then he lunged with inhuman speed, slashing cleanly through the trunk of it. He landed lightly on the other side as the tree groaned and fell (away from them both, he wasn't an idiot).
"Strong enough to make sure no one pushes me around," he said, turning back toward Billy with his best demonic look as the tree crashed to the ground, branches splintering on the ground or against other trees.
Okay, Billy was pretty impressed. No wonder Inuyasha's arm had felt like steel when he had pinned Billy to the wall. He tried not to think about how easily he could have been hurt beyond imagination that day.
"You could put a lumberjack to shame with those! You didn't even break your claws or anything." Billy tried to look at the deadly pointed claws a little better and frowned. "How do you file them if they get too long?"
Inu-yasha just stared at him for a minute, dumbfounded. The lumberjack thing had been weird, but... "That? That's what you wanna know? What planet are you even from?"
"Well, verdicts still out on that one, but I don't know. I mean, it's a legitimate question. Do you have to have a special nail cutter or maybe they just don't grow?"
Billy really tried to keep the smile off his face when he tried to picture Inuyasha having to go to some gardening store and use a chainsaw.
"Argh, why do I even talk to you people?!" Inu-yasha demanded, as if Billy could somehow answer that for him. This whole conversation had been truly bizarre, even by his standards.
Billy frowned at that. "Hey, you aren't the easiest to talk to either, just so you know. Why don't you try not being so crazy abrasive when people are trying to be nice?"
Inuyasha was like eating a never-ending warhead, usually you got past the killing sourness to the enjoyable part, but so far this was all tear inducing sour.
Inu-yasha didn't know what 'abrasive' meant, but he knew what 'crazy' meant. He glared again, snorting dismissively. "People aren't nice to freaks like us." Idiot. "Nice is how they get you to give them what they want." Seriously, Billy was gonna need to learn that now. "Get used to it."
And then, feeling pretty damn done with this conversation, Inu-yasha rolled his eyes and turned to go. He'd knocked down the tree he'd been in before, but it wouldn't take him long to find another.
"Some people are." Billy muttered under his breath, but didn't try to stop the other from leaving, he had tried to talk to Inuyasha and that was enough of an accomplishment for today in Billy's book.
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