Puppy Daze
Luna Silvereyes
A/N: This was requested by several people in response to The First Legacy. I decided that I'd give it a try, inspired by my two nieces and my nephew. I give you the drabble, InuYasha's Puppy Daze.
Name
"No!" Izayoi yelled as she came into the room and found the one month-old InuYasha sitting on the floor, scratching marks into the wooden wall. He turned around, tilted his head and made a little sound like a curious puppy-dog. Izayoi covered her eyes and shook her head. " InuYasha." She groaned. " Not again. This is the third time this month you've done this. Just look!"
She gestured to the other walls that hadn't been painted over. InuYasha followed his mother's finger and looked back at her. " Name!" he cried clumsily, smiling broadly. Izayoi's face fell. He was attempting to write his name. Instead, the walls now read things that she couldn't imagine were letters or any form of any language. She wondered if, being the mother of a half-demon, she was supposed to find this sort of behavior cute. InuYasha continued to stare up at her with the biggest eyes she'd ever seen.
" Very well, InuYasha—" she said, snatching his hand as he started to turn and resume vandalizing the walls. " I will give you some paper and ink. You can practice writing your name on that."
" Name! Name! Name!"
Izayoi fetched some paper from the table and gave him some berries to crush to make ink. She sat him down at the table and ruffled his hair. " Be a good boy and write your name." She said.
" Name!"
InuYasha immediately fisted all seven berries.
Squish!!!
Izayoi winced as she heard the inevitable squishing of the berries, sending juice flying all over the table and staining his snowy hair, but she sighed and reassured herself that it was washable.
" I'll return in a minute, InuYasha." She said exasperatedly.
" Name!" she heard him laughing behind her.
When she came back a few minutes later, her eyes went wide when she saw him chewing on what remained of the paper, berry juice all over his face, hands, hair and the table as he ponderously chewed on the paper. A large piece of it hung from his mouth and he grinned when he saw her, the piece fluttering down.
" Name!" he exclaimed. He pointed at the table. Izayoi forced herself to look.
Innoowasha.
Izayoi couldn't help but smile, even as she hugged her son and gazed sadly around at her ruined home. " Very nice, dear." She said. " Very nice."