Hey everyone, this is my first story and collab with HappyCookiie, we are both very excited to write this story! It is set in modern day times and the family consists of Sesshomaru (the father), Kikyo (the mother), Rin (the daughter and the youngest) and Kohaku (the son). Jaken is a professional child minder who comes from a well known and successful babysitting company but is not that good of a nanny himself. Please enjoy the story and review if you can!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
Chapter One
Loud vomiting noises came from deep inside the ferry toilets and echoed out all over the large, luxury cruise line. Jaken was suffering from a terrible case of sea sickness again, like every other time he was traveling to a distant location. His round little face was a disgusting shade of green, exactly like the colour of his vomit, but it was always that colour anyway so it was hard to really tell the difference.
He groaned as he exited the boat restrooms and staggered over the moving floor that was being rocked by the waves of the sea. "RIN?!" he shouted, peeking in every room he passed, searching desperately for one of two children that he had been hired as a nanny to take care of.
"Jaken?" Kikyo's gentle voice came from just down the rocking corridor as she walked down to meet the sickly looking water imp.
Jaken sighed mentally. Kikyo had tired of Inuyasha's stupidity and ignorance so she had cheated on him with his own brother who she then married shortly afterwards. Women.
"There you are. Where are Rin and Kohaku?" she asked, "Isn't it your job as a professional babysitter to take care of them?"
Jaken rubbed his head awkwardly, "Oh uh.. miss Kikyo! Well I um.. might have maybe possibly partially... lost them somewhere... on deck." Kikyo's eyes widened in concern for her children, making Jaken panic at her worried face. "But I'll find them immediately!" he shrieked, "Don't you worry about them, I'm working on it!"
Sesshomaru was pacing around in the ship's reception, waiting for his wife to return from checking on their children and the pathetic and slimy, poor excuse for a nanny they had been forced to hire as he was the only one available for holidays.
A few minutes later, Jaken came bounding into the reception, panting heavily and without Rin and Kohaku with him! What had the stupid fool done with the pair of them!? Surely he could not have lost them.. AGAIN!? He seemed to lose them more than he found them!
"Jaken," he snarled menacingly, "Where are Rin and Kohaku at?"
"Mister Sesshomaru! Well, um, uh I uh…." he stuttered, trying to piece the sentence together in his head without being killed on the spot.
"You didn't lose them again, did you?"
"I'm so very sorry, sir! Please forgive me, I shall find them this instant I swear!"" he screamed, bowing his head and pleading for his insignificant life. How puny and pathetic he looked just lying there on his knees and crying. Ha, some nanny.
Sesshomaru held up his closed fist and pointed it in Jaken's direction, he hesitated. "I do not have the time to punish you at this precise moment, but if you fail to find Rin and Kohaku then I definitely will find the time to so." And with that threat, he turned and left in pursuit of Kikyo.
"Okay Rin, we finally managed to ditch that annoying nanny of ours, mister Jaken! Should we go and find mom and dad now that he'll be busy searching for us?" Kohaku asked his little sister from hiding behind a pile of crates. When he received no answer, he turned his head in confusion and saw that Rin was nowhere in sight. "Rin?" he asked, "Where did you go?"
A low creak began to sound from behind the wooden crates and drawed closer to where he was hiding. He shuddered and ducked his head down low, these footsteps certainly did not belong to Rin. He noticed a metal pipe beside him and picked it up in order to defend himself, just in case it was a psychopathic murder trying to kill him... or a scary girl from his class who like many others was in love with him.
Interuppting his trail of thoughts, a tall figure peeked around the crates and saw him sitting there with the pipe in his hands. He let out a very girly scream as he covered his eyes and waited for death.
"What are you doing, dear? Aren't you supposed to stay with Jaken?"
He opened his eyes and looked up to find Kikyo staring down at him in confusion towards his strange actions. He laughed awkwardly and put the pipe down slowly.
She looked around briefly and asked, "Is Rin with you?"
"No, she's nowhere! One minute she was with me, and then the next she was gone! Please help me find her, mom!"
Jaken was walking along the top deck of the boat, still searching everywhere for Rin and Kohaku, when he bumped into a little boy wearing a red cap and a Ranma 1/2 T-Shirt. Uh, he should have bought an Inuyasha one, that was clearly the better show - as it starred the greatest actor of all time... HIM.
The little boy pushed him roughly and knocked him over. "Excuse me!?" Jaken screamed, pulling himself back up, "Watch where you're going next time, you pest!" But as soon as the words left his mouth, he felt bad as he had just offended all of pestkind.
"Shut up, short stuff!" the boy yelled back, re-adjusting his cap over his eyes like Ash Ketchum from Pokémon. What a wannabe trainer he was.
Jaken stomped his foot on the ground, "SHORT STUFF!? FOR YOUR INFORMATION, I HAVE BEEN CALLED A HEALTHY, GROWING INDIVIDUAL WHO ALWAYS EATS HIS VEGETABLES! I BET YOU ATE TOO MANY SEEING AS YOU LOOK LIKE A GIANT, WALKING BEAN POLE!" he screeched, "Oh and another thing... RANMA 1/2 SUCKS IN COMPARISON TO INUYASHA!"
The boy stepped back in horror at what the imp had just said, "How dare you! Ranma 1/2 will always be the greatest anime of all time! Screw Inuyasha!" he yelled.
Oh no he didn't! That was the very last straw! If he hated Inuyasha that much then he didn't deserve to play a part in this story! He would have to be erased immediately! So he grabbed the young boy by his Ranma 1/2 shirt and…..
Sesshomaru had no idea in the slightest where either Rin or Kohaku could have disappeared to, so he decided to go to the ship's customer service and ask the lady behind the counter if she had seen any of them.
He gave her these descriptions;
Jaken – An ugly, walking frog with wee stained trousers and smells of broccoli.
Kikyo – A beautiful young woman with long, black flowing hair and smells like expensive, flowered perfume.
Rin – A pretty looking young girl with an orange checked summer dress and a cute little straw hat covering her head.
Kohaku – A snobby looking young boy with his hair in a silly ponytail that he should have cut off at the hairdressers many many years ago.
"I know where the walking frog is, he's with the captain because he threw a young boy over board in anger." the lady explained, "Something to do with an argument over Ranma 1/2 or something."
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow and slammed his fists together, "When I get my hands on him, I will beat him so hard his eyeballs will roll out of their sockets and onto the floor, where the ants and bettles with feast upon them."
The woman looked slightly afraid at his threat as she coughed quietly. Just what kind of a person was this man!?
The captain's voice echoed throughout the ship over the intercom, "We're docking in five minutes so can someone please come and collect this smelly frog that assaulted a poor young boy wearing a Ranma 1/2 shirt. He is very traumatized over his expetience with the Hawaiian sharks."
Just as Sesshomaru was about to walk off to collect Jaken he caught sight of Rin leaving the female toilets and called her over to him. She ran over right away and hugged his leg tightly. "Where have you been, Rin?" he asked, "You have been missing for the entirety of the voyage."
"Forgive me, daddy! I needed to go number two but I couldn't do it with anyone watching me, so I snuck off on my own and did my business in peace." she chirped, "You're not angry are you?"
Jaken had been collected by Kikyo and Kohaku and walked over to Sesshomaru and his daughter just in time to hear their conversation. He burst out laughing, only to receive a big punch on the head from Sesshomaru. "Owowow.." he groaned, rubbing the lump in his crown.
The lady from customer service stepped back in horror, what and abusive man this fellow was! Should she report him!?
The sound of the intercom echoed again, "We have docked! Now get off my ship so I can watch the new episode of Ranma 1/2 in peace!"
Jaken stomped his foot in frustration, why was everyone so obsessed with Ranma 1/2!? It wasn't even that good of a show! Urrgh it made his blood boil.
So the passengers of the boat happily exited the voyage calmly and stepped out into the Hawaiian island. Well everyone apart from Jaken, who skipped down the stairs and fell flat on his face in a pile of sloppy looking mud.
Don't get us wrong, we have absolutely nothing against Ranma 1/2, in fact we both rather like the show! But not as much as Inuyasha of course ;) Thank you for reading the first chapter, please review if you enjoyed it! See you next time! When the family is finally on the island and can enjoy the vacation to its fullest.