Growing Bud
Part of "A collection of cute one-shots"
Pairing: Rin & Sesshoumaru
Genre: Family
Rating: K+
Writer: Shouai Cute
Summary: Rin's manifestation's of feelings, her displays of emotions, all so entirely different in comparison to Sesshoumaru, leaves him no choice. He cares for her, a lot.
Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you
Everybody wants to be loved
Don't give up
Because you are loved
71 - "Sesshoumaru-sama, Sesshoumaru-sama! Look at what Rin has found, it's an.. an.. Rin does not now, but it's cute!" The little girl came bounding towards him holding a weird-shaped creature in her hands.
"Ah, the Heterocephalus glaber." At seeing her blank look he further explained himself with a sigh, wondering why he even felt the need to elaborate for her sake. "What this Sesshoumaru meant to say is that what you have there is.. a naked mole rat." He lifted his nose as if smelling something dirty and looking down upon something not worthy of his time, which was exactly what was going on with this thing.
Rin stared at him with furrowed eyebrows, wordlessly chastising him for talking so lowly about her new pet. "That's not nice of you, my lord." She stared down lovingly at the creature and brought it up to her face, looking into its beady eyes she emitted a giggle. "Rin loves this one!"
As she cuddled the thing closely to her chest, Sesshoumaru felt some of his disgust leave him. Deciding it couldn't hurt to give her the next piece of information, he just went with it. "It's also called 'sand puppy'."
"Puppy?" Rin stared up at him, her eyes wide. "Will he also grow up to be as big and strong as you are, my lord?"
Sesshoumaru snorted, 'he wishes,' and turned on his heel, indicating to his party that they were to resume their journey. "No, Rin. And it's not even a real dog, those who named it must have been out of their minds."
"Oh." The pitter-patter of her feet told him she followed on foot, not riding on Ah-Un this time. "Jaken-sama. Jaken-sama, what did you look like when you were born?"
"Why you insolent child! I oughta..-"
"Jaken!"
"My humble apologies, Sesshoumaru-sama."
A thing darted in his vision and he zoomed his eyes in on it, the sand puppy. A moment later Rin ran after it, as if playing a game of tag. "Puppy, puppy come to Rin." After a few seconds she had gotten hold of the animal and resumed her own place behind him next to Ah-Un, who nudged her with one of his noses.
The dragon grunted in recognition of the new pack member and happily swished his tail, making Rin laugh anew.
Sesshoumaru let that go on for a minute, just to humour the human girl, who clearly loved Ah-Un's reaction to the new addition. But then said, "Stop this foolishness."
They walked on in silence, except for the occasionally giggling of Rin as something her new pet did amused her. Finally not able to withstand the tension, to smother his curiosity, the great dog demon turned his head.
And the sight before him was one of a smiling Rin, twirling around, waving her hands, trying to catch the sand puppy as it climbed over her shoulders and back.
And for the first time in his entire existence, Sesshoumaru displayed a genuine smile on his face.