Chapter 10: The Imp
Jaken saw her again. The maiden in the lake. He was right, her eyes which he thought was blind were as beautiful and sparkled like the sky, up close and in personal she could be mistaken as a goddess, with the light make-up, the expensive-looking clothing and graceful etiquette. The green toad beside Sesshomaru had his love-blinded eyes fixed on her, she was stomping towards them but he thinks she was elegantly walking to him. Ah yes, Jaken was already day-dreaming of a flower field, him and her, holding hands together and skipping over the flowers, exchanging shy glances at each other and giggling like little kids. Sesshomaru had sensed his servant's quick squirming and little sighs, he took a quick glance at him and saw Jaken in a trance-like state with his impy eyes on Inuyasha.
Sesshomaru raised a brow. He wanted to explain to him 'That is Inuyasha.' but remained it in his thoughts and felt like it was better to not tell the imp, something entertaining might happen. Sesshomaru heard the monk near him run forward, he looked at him and saw him kneel in front of Inuyasha and kissed his hand which got him punched in the face out cold. Inuyasha was supposed to give the monk a series of kicks but Kagome and Sango was able to stop him by restraining his movements and locking his arms.
"Let go of me Kagome! Sango! I need to punch and kick someone!" Inuyasha cried from Kagome and Sango's grip.
"You already got Miroku." Kagome said.
Jaken started to mumble words that only Sesshomaru was able to hear. "How dare that monk plant a kiss on her? I will make sure to roast him when there's no one around." Sesshomaru started to think why the imp would go that far for Inuyasha. "That should be me!" The demon lord choked at his own saliva when he heard that. He started to cough quietly.
"There's still Sesshomaru! Let me punch him!" Inuyasha tried to break free from Kagome and Sango, it was hard freeing himself from trying not to hurt the girls. He then heard Sesshomaru coughed for a number of times. Inuyasha stopped squirming, stood there and stared at him. "What!? Choked on your saliva!?" He mocked.
Sesshomaru tried to stop but felt the saliva was still tickling his throat and so he let out a big final one which everyone got shocked at. Miroku had finally grabbed hold of his consciousness, thanks to Sesshomaru's coughing, and crawled to the side near Sango.
Inuyasha saw the monk wake up. "Look! Miroku's awake, now let me punch the living daylights out of him!" He begged at Kagome.
Sesshomaru got ticked off by the sudden disturbance he let out and blamed Jaken. 'If he liked Inuyasha that much then…' He trailed off and walked behind Jaken to kick him towards Inuyasha, plopping in front of him by only a few steps.
Jaken pulled his frame up, dusting invisible dust on his robe and grab hold of his staff. Tracing up the figure in front of him, he fell into a daze when he exchanged looks at her.
Inuyasha got annoyed rather quickly at the toad in front of him and scoffed "What!?"
There was a moment of silence. During that silence, Miroku scooted over to Rin who was chatting with Inukimi, Kagome and Sango let go of Inuyasha and also joined Rin, Sesshomaru was expecting something amusing so he stood alone and watched.
Sango and Miroku gasped when they saw the glitter on Jaken's eyes as he saw Inuyasha. The former slayer grabbed Rin and Kagome "I think its Inuyasha that Jaken is crushing on, not Sesshomaru-sama!" Sango whispered a bit loud that Inukimi heard it but not Sesshomaru. Kagome gave her a disbelief look and Rin just giggled.
Inukimi stole the human's attention when she flapped her fan and placed it just below her face. She raised a brow at them. "I see, so I was not the only one who thinks the toad has an eye for my son." She chuckled quietly.
Jaken started to squirm and dusted his robe again. Everyone's attention was on the imp.
'This is my chance!' Jaken thought. 'The monk said to look good.' He started to fix his robe. 'Romantic too. No need for this staff.' So he placed the staff beside him and lay it down. Fishing out a piece of paper from inside his robe, he took a deep breath then traced the words written on it.
-"Dear one…"-
'So that was the paper Jaken was wasting time on.' Shesshomaru narrowed his eyes on the paper.
-"I have fallen for your beauty, your grace and your brawns"-
'That pervert sure did took time to look eh?' Miroku grinned.
-"Your Silver white hair, the demonic traits that you bear"-
'hmm. If he read that in front of Sesshomaru, I wont even be surprised.' Everyone thought at the same time.
-"The first glance that I took"-
Inuyasha cringed at every word the imp spoke. Jaken did not notice this since he was so focused on the letter he wrote.
-"Was the first that I fall"-
'fall from what? A cliff?' Rin thought.
-"fall down the cliff"-
' Poor Master Jaken, he must've broken a bone…' Rin continued.
'Of all things to fall…why a cliff?' Miroku quirked his brows.
'I think I heard this phrase before… Ah it was one of Sesshomaru's poetry when he was still a pup. How did he got hold of one? That toad has only been around a few centuries.' Inukimi thought, reminiscing his son's puppy days.
'This part is what I wrote for that annoying and ugly teacher mother had given me way back.' Sesshomaru started shooting daggers at the paper.
'Wow, never thought Jaken would do this.' Sango stared at the imp.
' Oooh, I think I know what the next line is!' Kagome smiled.
-"of love"-
'I knew it!' Kagome cheered.
'cliff of ugliness, stupidity and all of the above was a lie…' Sesshomaru guessed the next line from his past but was mistaken. 'what!? Of love? I see, so he changed it. What a fool.'
'Oh so he changed it. That's… sweet?' Inukimi asked herself.
'Awww. That's cute.' Sango cooed, but then remembered that this was Inuyasha he is reading to.
'Oh Master Jaken.' Rin pitied the imp.
Miroku and Kaede snickered at the background.
-"Oh Dear the feelings I have"-
'There's more?' Everyone thought at the same time again.
-"For you will not waste"-
'This is getting boring… poor Jaken. Inuyasha's bound to bury him alive soon.' Kagome thought.
-"In exchange"-
…There was another moment of silence… Inuyasha's hands folded down to a fist and was shaking tremendously and anytime soon he'll hammer Jaken till he loses his memories.
-"Accept this undying love of mine!"-
And out of nowhere, Jacken dropped the letter, put one hand on his heart and stared at Inuyasha intently, giving off a seductive wink. 'This is what the slayer had recommended.'
It felt like the whole world started to freeze. Inuyasha seemed to have eaten a whole box of lemon, his lips were curving into a disgusted look. Everyone else froze too, shadowing their faces from the up roaring emotions they felt, pity, joy, puzzled, and worse of all disgust.
Miroku, Sango and Rin recalled what they taught yesterday. It was Rin's advice that was next. The three shuddered at the thought.
Jaken had blew a kiss to Inuyasha.
Now everyone felt like the earth itself became a huge Ice berg. Inuyasha broke out of his shock and started to swat the invisible flying kiss.
"Get away! Get away! Get away!" He screamed.
AN: Okay! Uploaded three chapters! Yey! Sorry I haven't uploaded anything these past two weeks. School started and I was bombarded with projects and by project, I mean a mini-thesis, worse of it all, I was chosen to be the team's leader. *cries internally*
Anyways… I had Sesshomaru's mother appear at the previous chapter and had chosen the name 'INUKIMI' since it is the most popular. Inukimi only appeared like an episode in THE FINAL ACT and I have no Idea what her personality is like, so I went with the motherly and friendly type- she does not care about Inuyasha being a half-breed and him being her mate's pup of another woman. I want to write more of her relation with Inuyasha, but I'm not sure if I can put that in the next chapters… but I'll try! I think I'm going to upload much slower now, college is slowly killing me!
So there we have Jaken confesses to Inuyasha! Oh and sorry for all you Jaken Fans (if there existed any), I had to torture him.