Disclaimer: I only own Jun.
Notes: Most of my reviewers have asked for more chapters, so I'm making more chapters. Oh, and I found out that you spell his name like Sesshoumaru. Without the u, it has no meaning. Until now, I didn't know that, so I changed the way I write his name.
"Jun, please don't play with that." Sesshoumaru said to the two-year-old that was tugging on Tenseiga.
"'K, Granddad!" she replied, skipping off to Jaken and pulling on his staff playfully.
"Stop that, you brazen spawn of Satan!" he yelled, trying unsuccessfully to retrieve it.
'Now, where have I heard that before?' Sesshoumaru asked himself with a small smile.
Jun's vocabulary consisted of only a few words, the more amusing of which was her nickname for Jaken, "Midget froggy-man." She only came up to Sesshoumaru's knee and was hard to catch when given anything sweet. Her favorite things to do included kicking Jaken and running, talking excessively in gibberish, and giving Sesshoumaru the puppy-eyes to get what she wants. Being a taiyoukai, he hadn't even aged since he first met Rin. He still had the appearance of a 19, 20, or 21 year old.
That night, after an exhausting day playing tag with a hyperactive two year old, Sesshoumaru put Jun to bed, walked into his room across the hall, and flopped down on his stomach with his face in the pillow. 'That girl is going to kill me...' Sesshoumaru thought. He smirked at the thought of him being killed by a two year old girl.
Jun sat in her bed, staring out the window at the ominous clouds in the darkened sky outside. She hopped down and skipped to the balcony happily, leaning over the edge to look up higher. A drop of rain fell on her face and she heard a distant rumble of thunder.
Jun looked warily up at the sky again and ran out her door and across the hall. She stood on her toes to reach the doorknob and pulled, falling forward as it opened. Sesshoumaru looked at her, surprised, and asked if she was okay. In answer, Jun ran to him and said, "Granddad, come here,"
She grabbed his hand and urged him to follow her into her room. Jun pointed to her balcony. "Close it?" she offered.
Sesshoumaru sighed and closed the sliding door. "Are you going to go to sleep now, Jun?" he asked.
She nodded and climbed up into her bed and under the covers, then held out her arms to him. Understanding, Sesshoumaru walked over to her and knelt down to give her a hug. He kissed her on the cheek making her giggle as he walked out and back to his room. "'Night, Granddad."
"Goodnight, Jun." Sesshoumaru replied, shutting off the light and closing her door.
Sesshoumaru left his door opened, just in case, then took of his armor and put on a sleeping kimono, climbing into his bed and closing his golden eyes. No sooner had he done so than he heard a loud clap of thunder and a scream, then he saw Jun run into his room and jump into his bed.
She cuddled up closed to his chest and muttered, "Scary..."
Sesshoumaru looked down at her cowering in his arms. "Jun, it's only thunder."
She looked up at him questioningly. Never had she known what it was, or heard it so close before. "Thunder?"
He nodded. He saw that she still looked skeptical, so he decided to tell her what his father had told him, and what he had told Rin. "My father used to tell me that thunder was the gods jumping up and down because they're happy."
"Why?" asked a giggling Jun.
"Because..." Sesshoumaru began, trying to remember, but he was never told why. "I don't know, Jun, but maybe it's because it's spring, and lots of children were born in spring, so they're happy for all the children. You were born in the spring,"
"But... Scary..." Jun said, cuddling closer and whimpering at another sudden clap of thunder.
Sesshoumaru was unfazed by the noise and instead took Jun into his arms and carried her to her room. He opened the sliding door to the balcony and went out, still holding her close. He swung his legs over the railing and sat there. If it weren't for the fact that he was a great youkai and had an excellent sense of balance, he would have surely fallen off. Yet he sat there as if it were merely a chair, with a child in his arms, no less.
"You see, Jun, thunder is only the aftermath of lightning."
"What is lightning?" she asked.
As if on cue, a brilliant flash of blue cut across the sky, illuminating everything in its path and beyond. "That's lightning," Sesshoumaru said, "It is nothing but light. Hence the name,"
A rumble of thunder followed, but Jun didn't seem scared anymore. "It's pretty,"
"Yes, dangerous beauty. Lightning has been known to set things on fire,"
Jun did know what fire was. In the winter, Jaken or one of the other hundreds of servants would always light a large fire in the foyer, and it would warm the whole castle. "Why?" she asked again.
"Because it's hot. When the heat from the lightning touches something else, it will be completely consumed,"
"Wow..." Jun marveled at her grandfather's wisdom.
They watched the storm a little longer, then Jun yawned and stretched in Sesshoumaru's arms. "Are you tired?" he asked. She nodded. "Well, then go to bed."
Jun smiled as he put her down and got off the railing of her balcony. She ran to her bed and literally jumped in. "Goodnight," Sesshoumaru said, walking out the door and leaving it open. He laid back down in his bed and sighed. "Jun, do you ever go to sleep?" he asked the shadowy silhouette standing by his bedside.
She giggled and cuddled up close to his chest again. "Sometimes," she answered cutely, then asked with puppy eyes, "Can I sleep here?"
Sesshoumaru practically melted to see those eyes once more. When he looked at Jun, all he saw was her mother. Even though Sesshoumaru didn't know Rin when she was two, Jun still looked like her. The only traits that she got from Kohaku were the freckles. He looked into those big, watery, brown eyes and caved. "Just this once, Jun, okay?"
She nodded happily. "Okay!"
When Sesshoumaru woke up in the morning, Jun was still curled up beside him. Her angelic face glowed in the early morning sunlight. It suddenly got brighter, making her wake up. She said good morning to Sesshoumaru and hopped out of bed after him. "Jun, come here, you're going to like this even more than the lightning,"
She ran over to him and held on to his leg, wary, then she saw what he meant. "Whoa, that's prettier."
"I knew you'd like it, your mother always did."
Jun laughed and looked back up into the sky at the beautiful arch of colors that hung there. A rainbow after the storm.
