A/N: The following three drabbles were all written for the challenge at the inuyashafanfic lj community. Am curious to see if anyone spots the connection between the titles.

Feedback of any kind is adored!

Words, Words, Words

When Sesshoumaru-sama had shown up with ink, brush and paper one evening, declaring that she was to learn how to read and write, Rin had been overwhelmed.

The power to turn a few black lines into words was very rare. Back at the village, it had been something so abstract and far-off to everyone that the thought of it had never even entered Rin's mind.

She hummed softly to herself as she poured all the words Jaken-sama had taught her onto the whiteness in front of her, filling it with meaning she was now one of the few to understand.