Title: Battle Scars
Author: Hairann
Prompt: Prey
Rating: T
Genre: Drama
Word count: 297
Characters: Jaken/Sesshoumaru, Lord and servant relationship, not a BL story.
Summary: Part 36 of Jaken's Ballad.
Even with as long as he had managed to live, Jaken was no stranger to being another's prey. While he might be the greatest warrior of his clan, they weren't exactly what you could call predators. You might say that he was used to being attacked, expected it even, but not this. The humans attacking him had succeeded in utterly confusing him.
Now he would be the first to admit that he didn't really know that much about them. His kingdom was only accessible through a swamp which required a visitor to hold their breath for well over ten minutes. Something he knew was impossible for them to do. As you can imagine, he hadn't really spent much time around them in his life as he only left his home when there was a battle.
Even still, were they really that heartless to attack him as they had done? When they thought he was a mindless demon was one thing, not that he condoned it or anything, but once they realized he wasn't? Why did the priest order another attack? He had not done anything to them, he had never even seen them before.
"Is that really what they wish to teach their tadpoles?" Jaken wondered out loud to himself before crying out in pain a moment later as he applied a bit too much pressure on his wound. "It would appear I shall have another battle scar," Jaken decided as he pulled back the bloody leaves and noticed his chest wound was too deep not to leave one. Pressing the leaves back against his wound, Jaken turned his eyes to the accompanying scar at the base of his neck. "Some wounds never truly heal," he whispered as he brushed his fingers against it.