A/N: I'm sick. My voice sounds like a cross between a drunk man and a drunk
donkey. But on a brighter note, I will not be committing suicide as of yet.
I like how this chapter turned out...it really speaks for itself. I've been
meaning to tell you guys about this pet peeve that I've developed lately. I
love reading the IY/Kag fics and most of them are all wonderfully done, but
why the Hell, in almost all of them does Kagome manage to somehow
conveniently fall asleep whenever she's crying or something like that? For
goodness' sake is that even physically possible? It's immoral :) It was
cute the first hundred times I read it, but now...Aaaaanyway...I've also
made two new additions to my "most annoying and over-used words"
collection: nuzzle and straddle. Oh lord I hope someone blinds me before I
read them again:) But all in all, there are some genuinely excellent fics
out there. Find them. I hope you've all noticed what I'm trying to do with
this one. Don't get me wrong, I love reading all of the precious few
Sesshoumaru/Rin fics but sometimes I just feel that fresher ideas could be
used. It's always: Sesshoumaru starts having feelings for Rin 'because
she's older but he doesn't want to be falling for human so he pushes her
away (usually to a conveniently located human village) but Rin is
completely in love with him anyways so yada yada yada... Hey, I speak only
the truth. Like I said, I love the fics, it's just that I was itching for
something different and, as a result, you have -this- fic. Sigh... I'm
still God's child... hehehe:) The flashbacks in this chapter are from an
episode but I can't remember which. I really don't consider them spoilers.
LAST NOTE: REVIEW RESPONSES ARE UP AS THE NEXT CHAPTER... yeah yeah, it was
unavoidable...
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Cake Trilogy Part 3- Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Did you ever have one of those days when you seemed to have unending luck, you excelled at everything you did and everything seemed to be going your way? Of course you haven't...they're figments of the world's imagination. Real or not, our characters share these pains as well. Life is a bitch, welcome back to it.
"Sesshoumaru-sama let me touch them... pleeeease." Rin pleaded with the sweetest tone she could manage but with -his- stubbornness, she was beginning to question whether or not Sesshoumaru was really a mule-youkai as opposed to a dog.
"No."
"But I bet they're really soft and I just can't resist." *Come on, you know you want me to.*
"Absolutely not."
*Well maybe not.* "That's not fair! I have rights over them too!"
"Indeed." He scoffed. Explaining that one was going to be an interesting event in itself.
"Well...ah...technically I saw them first so I also... have... ownership?" she tried lamely. Ticking a hanyou-lord off was not something you wanted to get good at. Unfortunately for Rin, she seemed to be excelling at it.
Now the sad situation before us is not one for young ears. And speaking of ears is exactly what we are doing. As if it weren't bad enough that he had turned into a hanyou and Rin's scent had come flooding back to his sensitive nose faster than you could say 'die frog face!' now she was trying to pet him...pet HIM, the Great Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western lands, otherwise to be known as God to you worthless mortals. Know thy place.
Sesshoumaru removed himself from the bed, altogether ignoring the girl, her whining, her puppy-dog eyes and her damn scent and attempted one last revival of the frog-gone-wrong. Needless to say, it didn't work. For those of us who care about the technicalities as to why, shield thyself as I explain: since each fang was especially created according to the brother who was to receive it, the Tenseiga complies with Sesshoumaru only as he is a full-blooded demon. Besides, who the heck would have expected him to be anything else? Sesshoumaru wasn't about to go down without a fight (audience cheers him on), "Jaken, you shall feel my wrath upon your return."
*** Meanwhile, somewhere beneath the low depths of the earth...think: very low, think: you've done something really sleazy kinda low, think: your bank accounts kinda low... ah yes, -that's- the low we're going for...
"Haaaaackshuuuuu!," Jaken sneezed, "Now, how do I exit this damn place...?"
And thus came up behind him one very large and very smug looking youkai: "Damn is right... Welcome Jaken, we have been expecting you... kukuku..." ***
As we switch back to normal viewing, we find our heroes hanging onto the remaining shreds of their sanities, as they fight a very bitter, a very verbal battle with one another. Apparently Rin had been trying to cop another feel... Shameless youth...
"You will not touch this Sesshoumaru's ears!" That was the closest he came to bellowing as he tried, unsuccessfully mind you, to breathe through his mouth instead of his nose. He towered over the disheartened yet determined girl. The path of knowledge is said to lead to the palace of wisdom. Yet it seems that the path of persistence was about to lead to the house of pain.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, aren't you somewhat of a prince or something? Because you sure don't act like one." *Yeah, you'd think he'd know what to do with a mate once he found one... Why do I not feel like a princess?*
"Keh." *Did this Sesshoumaru just utter such a low phrase???* "That would be more like a 'king or something.'"
"Well you could've fooled me." *I sure don't feel like a damn queen either.*
"Tis simple to fool the fool."
"Grrrrrr why you... Need I remind you that it's -your- fault we're stuck like this, your -highness-?" Now now, don't point fingers at the nice man, sweetheart.
But talking and breathing are just not meant to be done together as Sesshoumaru was finding out the hard way. "Girl, refrain from testing my patience at this time. It is through no fault of mine that you cannot control your hormones. I demand an explanation as to what purpose those drinks were originally meant to serve."
"Yeah well good luck trying to get one from me. Humph."
"And maintain a reasonable distance between yourself and this Sesshoumaru's ears." *Not to mention this Sesshoumaru's nose. At least being a miserable half-breed means that I am not fully affected by her scent.*
"Fine. I wouldn't rub your ears now if you begged me," she scoffed. *Humph. At least I'm suffocating him...*
"Rin. Explain why you have turned out the way you have, despite this Sesshoumaru's exceptional skills at child-raising."
"Sesshoumaru-sama," she started off sweetly- don't they all... "Let's just say that I refuse to believe that your, as you put it, 'exceptional skills at child raising' had anything to do with how I've turned out. If anything, I have raised myself to be the woman I am today!"
Sesshoumaru took a moment to consider this. "Yes, that would certainly explain things." Couldn't he at least pretend to hide the sarcasm in his tone? Sigh...never mind. And suddenly, the argument takes on a whole new, dare I say it: domestic spin?
"Thaaaaat's it, I'm not letting you get near our children until they're twenty!"
"Wench. You dare hide my own pups from me! No sons of this Sesshoumaru will end up as weaklings simply because their mother refuses to grow up." *Take that.*
"Well no daughters of mine are going to suffer through your 'males claim their women and the women can just deal with it' speeches while their mother's around!" And with that she crossed her arms over her chest and placed a triumphant smirk on her face. *I win. Again.*
Sesshoumaru lifted one eyebrow. *Is that so?*
Rin simply gave him the 'yeah- that's so' stare.
@_@
It was after a very dramatic pause that the two imbeciles, that is, Sesshoumaru and Rin, finally realized what they had just said. Sesshoumaru sat down gracefully and turned his head to the side with an almost inaudible 'Feh.' If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was blushing. Then again, I'm only the author so I really don't know better... Rin, on the other hand, was exhausted from all this arguing. Matching wits with the likes of him was a very demanding task if you wanted to do it right!
Sighing, she lowered herself to her knees, behind him, and hugged him. Her chin now rested atop his head and every now and then his ears would twitch and caress her cheeks. *I knew, they -are- soft.* She felt him rest a hand on top of hers, still in a desperate attempt to breathe through his mouth instead of his mouth. He'd stop breathing all together if he could help it. So it was that they settled into a few moments of silence, remembering those days of old, drifting into the land of peaceful memories...cringe...
************Flashback time, brace yourselves:
Rin's POV
"Rin. Did you behave yourself?" Sesshoumaru casually asked me upon his return.
I smiled up at him innocently. "Hai!" *I really tried but I think I made Jaken cry... he's too sensitive! And he has the nerve to call -me- a child.* "But Jaken-sama seems upset about something." *I take no responsibility for this...*
(A/N: For the love of god, don't ask me why they're having the same flashback, coincidences -can- happen:)
Sesshoumaru's POV
"Rin. Did you behave yourself?" *It seems as though she has made Jaken cry again.*
"Hai!"
*You call that behaving?*
"But Jaken-sama seems upset about something."
*Aren't we the little angel. I will not be taken for a fool.*
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So it was that Sesshoumaru promised to himself that he would not be taken for a fool that day. Hence he remained one for the following ten years.
Unable to control it any longer, he shut his mouth and inhaled deeply, remembering what it was to breathe normally. Then he remembered just why he had been breathing through his mouth in the first place. As the dizziness covered him like a cheap suit (or kimono...or whatever you wanna call it), he pulled the girl down into his lap without warning. Rin fumbled for a moment until she said, or started to say: "Oh you've got to be k-" Get a hint as to what happened next. Banzai! Yes people, it was finally happening, our two loveable idiots were kissing.
*Ok so he's not kidding...remind me to ask Jaken for more of this stuff...* Such were Rin's thoughts...
*Perhaps I will consider lightening Jaken's punishment...* And such were Sesshoumaru's thoughts...
But it's always safe not to get too carried away...after all, how could one possibly enjoy the moment if he is only half of what he used to be (...and the puns return...) and the other is on a hormone-high? Ok so they did enjoy it but the fiery kiss ended too soon as Rin breathed heavily and Sesshoumaru simply returned to shutting off his sense of smell. They stared into each others' eyes for several moments until Sesshoumaru ended the silence.
*It is time for the truth...* "Rin. Say it."
*I love you...hey, you never said to say it out loud!* "Sesshoumaru- sama... you say it first."
"I wish to hear it from you first."
"But I would really like to hear it from you first."
*This is absurd.* "I demand that you say it first."
*Oh yeah, demand this!* "What? You say it! After all you've put me through, I really think I deserve to be the one to hear it first. Go ahead, I'm listening."
"I will admit to no such thing."
*Whaaaaat??? Time for plan B* "You mean to tell me you've been toying with my affections all this time?!"
*I am being baited. Of all the idiotic tricks to pull...* "And what affections might those be Rin?"
*Ooooh what I wouldn't give to bitch-smack that smile off your face you pompous-* "Oh...never mind... they're nothing that a hanyou would understand."
And thus Rin goes crashing to the ground. Oooooooo. Audience cringes. Hell, I'm cringing over here. Rin picked herself up gracefully and walked to a corner of the room.
"Grrrr wench..." And with that her head snaps right back around. Target locked. Ready, aim,
"Hanyou!" Fire...
"Brat."
"HAN-YOU!!!"
There they stood, on completely opposite sides of the room, one ready to shed blood, the other ready to shed tears... and I'm -not- trying to tell you that Rin was going to cry...
Has nobody wondered just why, despite being legitimate mates, Sesshoumaru and Rin seem to be going nowhere in a real hurry? As the author I ponder this very question every day. It is thus that I have been enlightened with an answer. We are no strangers to Sesshoumaru's pride, which has been taking considerable hits from Rin as of late. We have also been witness to Rin's pride (take a gander as to where she's got that from...oh to be so cruelly influenced a child...) which has been victim to Sesshoumaru in a similar fashion. The answer is simple: no one is going anywhere until one admits that they love the other. So far the status is:
Sesshoumaru: Heh...don't hold your breath (Shamelessly punned).
Rin: Oh she's got words for him alright... everyone under the age of thirty shield your eyes and ears!
Who will be the first to crack? Didn't someone once say 'make love not war'? They sure didn't know what they were talking about. It's time to 'make war for love'! Man the battle stations! Take no prisoners! This will be the war to end wars, the battle of pride, wits and verbal dominance. Sesshoumaru got a dangerous look in his eyes but it was something else that caught Rin's attention... hmmm... Who was about to get caked? Well, let's just say that it wasn't so smart of Jaken to have left the Staff of Heads lying around...and near Rin, no less...
Toast, anyone?
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THE END...of the Cake trilogy, don't freak out... Check the review responses.
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Cake Trilogy Part 3- Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Did you ever have one of those days when you seemed to have unending luck, you excelled at everything you did and everything seemed to be going your way? Of course you haven't...they're figments of the world's imagination. Real or not, our characters share these pains as well. Life is a bitch, welcome back to it.
"Sesshoumaru-sama let me touch them... pleeeease." Rin pleaded with the sweetest tone she could manage but with -his- stubbornness, she was beginning to question whether or not Sesshoumaru was really a mule-youkai as opposed to a dog.
"No."
"But I bet they're really soft and I just can't resist." *Come on, you know you want me to.*
"Absolutely not."
*Well maybe not.* "That's not fair! I have rights over them too!"
"Indeed." He scoffed. Explaining that one was going to be an interesting event in itself.
"Well...ah...technically I saw them first so I also... have... ownership?" she tried lamely. Ticking a hanyou-lord off was not something you wanted to get good at. Unfortunately for Rin, she seemed to be excelling at it.
Now the sad situation before us is not one for young ears. And speaking of ears is exactly what we are doing. As if it weren't bad enough that he had turned into a hanyou and Rin's scent had come flooding back to his sensitive nose faster than you could say 'die frog face!' now she was trying to pet him...pet HIM, the Great Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western lands, otherwise to be known as God to you worthless mortals. Know thy place.
Sesshoumaru removed himself from the bed, altogether ignoring the girl, her whining, her puppy-dog eyes and her damn scent and attempted one last revival of the frog-gone-wrong. Needless to say, it didn't work. For those of us who care about the technicalities as to why, shield thyself as I explain: since each fang was especially created according to the brother who was to receive it, the Tenseiga complies with Sesshoumaru only as he is a full-blooded demon. Besides, who the heck would have expected him to be anything else? Sesshoumaru wasn't about to go down without a fight (audience cheers him on), "Jaken, you shall feel my wrath upon your return."
*** Meanwhile, somewhere beneath the low depths of the earth...think: very low, think: you've done something really sleazy kinda low, think: your bank accounts kinda low... ah yes, -that's- the low we're going for...
"Haaaaackshuuuuu!," Jaken sneezed, "Now, how do I exit this damn place...?"
And thus came up behind him one very large and very smug looking youkai: "Damn is right... Welcome Jaken, we have been expecting you... kukuku..." ***
As we switch back to normal viewing, we find our heroes hanging onto the remaining shreds of their sanities, as they fight a very bitter, a very verbal battle with one another. Apparently Rin had been trying to cop another feel... Shameless youth...
"You will not touch this Sesshoumaru's ears!" That was the closest he came to bellowing as he tried, unsuccessfully mind you, to breathe through his mouth instead of his nose. He towered over the disheartened yet determined girl. The path of knowledge is said to lead to the palace of wisdom. Yet it seems that the path of persistence was about to lead to the house of pain.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, aren't you somewhat of a prince or something? Because you sure don't act like one." *Yeah, you'd think he'd know what to do with a mate once he found one... Why do I not feel like a princess?*
"Keh." *Did this Sesshoumaru just utter such a low phrase???* "That would be more like a 'king or something.'"
"Well you could've fooled me." *I sure don't feel like a damn queen either.*
"Tis simple to fool the fool."
"Grrrrrr why you... Need I remind you that it's -your- fault we're stuck like this, your -highness-?" Now now, don't point fingers at the nice man, sweetheart.
But talking and breathing are just not meant to be done together as Sesshoumaru was finding out the hard way. "Girl, refrain from testing my patience at this time. It is through no fault of mine that you cannot control your hormones. I demand an explanation as to what purpose those drinks were originally meant to serve."
"Yeah well good luck trying to get one from me. Humph."
"And maintain a reasonable distance between yourself and this Sesshoumaru's ears." *Not to mention this Sesshoumaru's nose. At least being a miserable half-breed means that I am not fully affected by her scent.*
"Fine. I wouldn't rub your ears now if you begged me," she scoffed. *Humph. At least I'm suffocating him...*
"Rin. Explain why you have turned out the way you have, despite this Sesshoumaru's exceptional skills at child-raising."
"Sesshoumaru-sama," she started off sweetly- don't they all... "Let's just say that I refuse to believe that your, as you put it, 'exceptional skills at child raising' had anything to do with how I've turned out. If anything, I have raised myself to be the woman I am today!"
Sesshoumaru took a moment to consider this. "Yes, that would certainly explain things." Couldn't he at least pretend to hide the sarcasm in his tone? Sigh...never mind. And suddenly, the argument takes on a whole new, dare I say it: domestic spin?
"Thaaaaat's it, I'm not letting you get near our children until they're twenty!"
"Wench. You dare hide my own pups from me! No sons of this Sesshoumaru will end up as weaklings simply because their mother refuses to grow up." *Take that.*
"Well no daughters of mine are going to suffer through your 'males claim their women and the women can just deal with it' speeches while their mother's around!" And with that she crossed her arms over her chest and placed a triumphant smirk on her face. *I win. Again.*
Sesshoumaru lifted one eyebrow. *Is that so?*
Rin simply gave him the 'yeah- that's so' stare.
@_@
It was after a very dramatic pause that the two imbeciles, that is, Sesshoumaru and Rin, finally realized what they had just said. Sesshoumaru sat down gracefully and turned his head to the side with an almost inaudible 'Feh.' If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was blushing. Then again, I'm only the author so I really don't know better... Rin, on the other hand, was exhausted from all this arguing. Matching wits with the likes of him was a very demanding task if you wanted to do it right!
Sighing, she lowered herself to her knees, behind him, and hugged him. Her chin now rested atop his head and every now and then his ears would twitch and caress her cheeks. *I knew, they -are- soft.* She felt him rest a hand on top of hers, still in a desperate attempt to breathe through his mouth instead of his mouth. He'd stop breathing all together if he could help it. So it was that they settled into a few moments of silence, remembering those days of old, drifting into the land of peaceful memories...cringe...
************Flashback time, brace yourselves:
Rin's POV
"Rin. Did you behave yourself?" Sesshoumaru casually asked me upon his return.
I smiled up at him innocently. "Hai!" *I really tried but I think I made Jaken cry... he's too sensitive! And he has the nerve to call -me- a child.* "But Jaken-sama seems upset about something." *I take no responsibility for this...*
(A/N: For the love of god, don't ask me why they're having the same flashback, coincidences -can- happen:)
Sesshoumaru's POV
"Rin. Did you behave yourself?" *It seems as though she has made Jaken cry again.*
"Hai!"
*You call that behaving?*
"But Jaken-sama seems upset about something."
*Aren't we the little angel. I will not be taken for a fool.*
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So it was that Sesshoumaru promised to himself that he would not be taken for a fool that day. Hence he remained one for the following ten years.
Unable to control it any longer, he shut his mouth and inhaled deeply, remembering what it was to breathe normally. Then he remembered just why he had been breathing through his mouth in the first place. As the dizziness covered him like a cheap suit (or kimono...or whatever you wanna call it), he pulled the girl down into his lap without warning. Rin fumbled for a moment until she said, or started to say: "Oh you've got to be k-" Get a hint as to what happened next. Banzai! Yes people, it was finally happening, our two loveable idiots were kissing.
*Ok so he's not kidding...remind me to ask Jaken for more of this stuff...* Such were Rin's thoughts...
*Perhaps I will consider lightening Jaken's punishment...* And such were Sesshoumaru's thoughts...
But it's always safe not to get too carried away...after all, how could one possibly enjoy the moment if he is only half of what he used to be (...and the puns return...) and the other is on a hormone-high? Ok so they did enjoy it but the fiery kiss ended too soon as Rin breathed heavily and Sesshoumaru simply returned to shutting off his sense of smell. They stared into each others' eyes for several moments until Sesshoumaru ended the silence.
*It is time for the truth...* "Rin. Say it."
*I love you...hey, you never said to say it out loud!* "Sesshoumaru- sama... you say it first."
"I wish to hear it from you first."
"But I would really like to hear it from you first."
*This is absurd.* "I demand that you say it first."
*Oh yeah, demand this!* "What? You say it! After all you've put me through, I really think I deserve to be the one to hear it first. Go ahead, I'm listening."
"I will admit to no such thing."
*Whaaaaat??? Time for plan B* "You mean to tell me you've been toying with my affections all this time?!"
*I am being baited. Of all the idiotic tricks to pull...* "And what affections might those be Rin?"
*Ooooh what I wouldn't give to bitch-smack that smile off your face you pompous-* "Oh...never mind... they're nothing that a hanyou would understand."
And thus Rin goes crashing to the ground. Oooooooo. Audience cringes. Hell, I'm cringing over here. Rin picked herself up gracefully and walked to a corner of the room.
"Grrrr wench..." And with that her head snaps right back around. Target locked. Ready, aim,
"Hanyou!" Fire...
"Brat."
"HAN-YOU!!!"
There they stood, on completely opposite sides of the room, one ready to shed blood, the other ready to shed tears... and I'm -not- trying to tell you that Rin was going to cry...
Has nobody wondered just why, despite being legitimate mates, Sesshoumaru and Rin seem to be going nowhere in a real hurry? As the author I ponder this very question every day. It is thus that I have been enlightened with an answer. We are no strangers to Sesshoumaru's pride, which has been taking considerable hits from Rin as of late. We have also been witness to Rin's pride (take a gander as to where she's got that from...oh to be so cruelly influenced a child...) which has been victim to Sesshoumaru in a similar fashion. The answer is simple: no one is going anywhere until one admits that they love the other. So far the status is:
Sesshoumaru: Heh...don't hold your breath (Shamelessly punned).
Rin: Oh she's got words for him alright... everyone under the age of thirty shield your eyes and ears!
Who will be the first to crack? Didn't someone once say 'make love not war'? They sure didn't know what they were talking about. It's time to 'make war for love'! Man the battle stations! Take no prisoners! This will be the war to end wars, the battle of pride, wits and verbal dominance. Sesshoumaru got a dangerous look in his eyes but it was something else that caught Rin's attention... hmmm... Who was about to get caked? Well, let's just say that it wasn't so smart of Jaken to have left the Staff of Heads lying around...and near Rin, no less...
Toast, anyone?
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THE END...of the Cake trilogy, don't freak out... Check the review responses.