Cute little one-shot with Jaken bashing and futuristic toys.

I don't own Inuyasha.

Careless Lord Sesshomaru

Sesshomaru was standing at the very edge of a cliff, staring at the vast below him. Jaken believed that his lord was carefully rethinking his next move against Naraku. Rin had briefly considered that the dog demon was trying to burn the image of trees into his mind before continuing to amuse herself by running around in the clearing near the cliff.

In truth, Sesshomaru was training with Tensaiga. He focused on yet another tree, memorising its appearance, looking at how its leaves waved in the wind, feeling its life within its branches. After a few moments of this, Tensaiga hummed quietly in his mind to inform him that, once again, he had chosen the wrong tree. As if to give him a hint, he suddenly got the impression of the scent of flowers. Determined to prove his worth, Sesshomaru did his best to find a tree with flowers. Kagome ever heard of this, she would have probably said that he was playing 'I Spy' with his sword.

Rin seemed to have finally gotten tired of running around, and was now examining Jaken, taking in every little wrinkle in his reptilian skin. It was slightly disturbing for him. After a few moments, he squawked at her, and before long, the pair was arguing again, with Jaken calling Rin a nuisance and Rin innocently pointing out his many flaws. At length, Rin ended the verbal battle by asking Sesshomaru a completely random – or so Jaken believed – question. "Lord Sesshomaru, did they force you to take Jaken?"

The dog demon looked at her emotionlessly, but she wasn't fooled. The dog demon was curious, and if she didn't specify, it would probably kill him. "You know, because you accidently broke him?"

"Rin, how dare you! Our great lord will never do anything 'accidentally'! He does not make mistakes, because he is-" Jaken paused as Rin's words sank in. "Broke?"

Seeing that all three – or four, if Ah and Un were to be counted separately – demons were waiting for an explanation, Rin complied to give them one, "When I met Lady Kagome, she gave me a new toy, and she said that she almost broke it at the store, and that if she did then she would have been forced to buy it, but she got it anyway for me because she thought that I needed some toys, so she told me this story when she gave it to me!"

All the little girl got for her lengthy speech was a few blank stares and a lot of silence. She was a little disappointed. As soon as Sesshomaru saw her lips beginning to form a frown, he hastily snapped out of his shock and asked, "Why is Jaken broken?"

Rin gasped. "Lord Sesshomaru never noticed?"

Again, she got blank stares. Wondering how Sesshomaru could track Naraku but not notice this, Rin deduced that her lord wasn't a 'smart shopper' and needed some advice.

"Haven't you ever noticed that Jaken has no nose before, Lord Sesshomaru?"

If I met Rin before, I would have never been shocked to see that I inherited Tensaiga. This girl suprises me every day. And just by speaking, too.

Sighing, Sesshomaru made a mental note to steer clear of Inuyasha's group and proceeded to explain to his confused ward why Jaken had no 'nose'.

"Jaken does have a nose. It is located at the end of his beak. His nose is not like that of a human, so you cannot see it."

"Oh." The girl took a few moments to digest this new information, and then she smiled and said, "I'm glad the Jaken is not broken!"

And I'm glad that you have yet to see me in my true form, or ask about my demon markings…

The next day, Sesshomaru returned from another fruitless round of questioning the local demons about Naraku's whereabouts to find a scene that made him die of laughter – on the inside. From the outside, the demon lord seemed to stare blankly at the sight before him while he tried his best to control his emotions.

Jaken was chasing Rin. Nothing new there. Rin was running with a strangely shaped rod in her hand, with a black tip on one end and a small model of a dog's head on the other end. Written impossibly neatly on one side were the words 'PERMANENT MARKER'. Jaken's face – or more precisely, what was drawn onto it – was definitely new. And if the words on the 'marker' were true, then the badly drawn nose holes and bushy eyebrows on the toad's face were permanent.

"Jaken."

The toad stopped screeching and the girl stopped giggling. But while Jaken trembled with fear, Rin happily announced: "Look Lord Sesshomaru, I fixed him for you."

"…."

So Jaken got less respect from anything that saw his face for the next few days, until he finally made it clear to Rin that he did not like what she had done to him. That was when she revealed a small bottle of strange smelling liquid that had come with Kagome's 'gift'. With his face once again lacking a visible nose and free of eyebrows, Sesshomaru felt that they no longer needed to go out of their way to avoid any demons that he sensed.

But still, both he and Ah-Un took precautions for another week, with either Ah or Un keeping watch while the other slept and Sesshomaru positioning himself high in the braches of a tree in case he dozed off. Because none of them wanted anything drawn on their faces, or desired to smell like nail polish remover.

If you like this, fav it and review, I might continue this if enough people like it. And yes, it was one of those cheap markers that come off with nail polish, the ones with animal heads. I wonder what Kagome was thinking, giving Rin such a dangerous toy?