Title: Kibbles and Bits
Authoress: Liko-chan
Warnings: Language, Major fluff, OOCness, TWT, humor
Summary: Distant Sequel to RFLO; Rin is pregnant and decides to teach Kagome how to make a special blend of treats, when she goes over for pregnancy aid. Inuyasha falls in love with food and Sesshoumaru is being his usual silent self... Or maybe that's worry etched causing his brow to furrow.
Disclaimer: Don't own Inuyasha and co. You know the drill...
Kibbles and Bits
Chapter 5: The Two Day Trip: Day 1.5
Jaken grumbled as he was sent off in the direction Sesshoumaru smelt Inuyasha's scent coming from. Sesshoumaru didn't mentioned that he didn't smell blood or sense any demonic aura, but he still wasn't about to lead Rin over there, or go there and leave Rin, here. Not in this lifetime anyway . . . and for him, this lifetime was a very long time.
Rin sighed and leaned forward on one of the dragons' neck, yawning. Sesshoumaru looked over his shoulder at Rin, noticing she wasn't facing him.
"Hey, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked, "Maybe we should leave tomorrow morning . . . " it wasn't really a question, more like a suggestion.
Sesshoumaru completely ignored Kagome, and approached Rin, rubbing the back of her head, in a comforting motion. Obviously Rin was tired and wanted to sleep. Maybe they should wait till day break . . .
Rin, moved around uncomfortably on the dragons, almost causing Kagome, who was sitting behind her, to fall. Sitting upright, Rin smiled at Sesshoumaru, the same miserable smile she had just this morning.
Sesshoumaru frowned. "Rin?"
Rin, seeming to realize that they were going to postpone the trip because of her inability to stay awake, smiled bigger. "It's okay, Lord Sesshoumaru. I'm fine, just a little tired, but I'm able to travel!" She tried her best to sound as hyper and enthusiastic as she usually would.
Sesshoumaru nodded. He could see through Rin's facade, but he also knew, she missed their home as much as he did. It was settled then, they'd leave tonight . . . as soon as Inuyasha got back.
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Jaken jumped out of the lightly wooded forest, into a clearing. "Dammit!" He yelled, cursing both his lord and the wretched bushes that he just stumbled out of. Since taking his anger out on the bushes was much safer than trying to take his anger out on his lord, he decided to go with the inanimate object . . . for his safety, if not anything else.
Growling at the bushes, he set them ablaze with his staff of two heads and laughed heartily at his accomplishment. "Ha! You wretched bush, I am Jaken! Hear me roar!" He mocked the flaming bushes.
" Hear you roar? I didn't know frogs roared. Ribbits, I know they do, but-"
"Shut your mouth, you ungrateful mutt!" Jaken growled, pointing his staff at the previously missing culprit.
Inuyasha, who was stretched out on the bank of a small pond, raised a brow at the little creature. "Mutt? Ha! Betcha won't say that a little closer..!" Inuyasha threatened.
Jaken smirked and pointed his staff the hanyou again. "Come along, you! Lord Sesshoumaru doesn't like to wait!"
Inuyasha snorted, "Dealing with you, he must have the patience of a saint." He stopped and laughed loudly to himself, "Ha! That's an oxymoron for ya!"
Jaken sighed, and was about the hit Inuyasha in the back of the legs with his staff as the hanyou walked past him, but didn't. What stopped him wasn't his common sense but the growl Inuyasha emitted as he passed the toad.
"Try it and die." He warned.
Jaken snorted, as though he was unfazed by Inuyasha's remark, and hurried behind the hanyou. Someone's PMSing, the toad snickered to himself.
Clawing at every branch in his way, Inuyasha quickly made it out of the forest, with Jaken right behind him. Looking around for Kagome, Inuyasha spotted her, not far way, sitting on Sesshoumaru's two-headed dragon with Rin. Sesshoumaru stood a few feet away looking off into the setting sky and Inukinshou had fallen asleep on the dragons' tail, slightly drooling.
Inuyasha sighed and made his way toward the group, stopping short of AhUn. "Let's go," was all he said.
Kagome shot him a death glare. "Where have you been?"
Inuyasha sweat dropped. "Uh . . . -"
But Kagome turned away from him. "Whatever. Let's just go."
Sesshoumaru turned to them, and approached. He grabbed AhUn's reigns, but before taking off into to darkened sky, gestured toward the dragons' rear, pointing at Inukinshou. "Get it," he said.
Rin laughed a little, but that did nothing to wake her up more. Kagome on the other hand nearly had a panic attack and yelled at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha rushed to get his son and gave him to Kagome. "And don't call my son an 'it', Sesshoumaru!" The hanyou hissed.
Sesshoumaru just ignored him and began to take flight with AhUn right behind him, also flying. Inuyasha growled. So he had to walk, he thought. Ungrateful bastards. And with that final thought, he leaped into a nearby tree and hopped on, keeping up with Sesshoumaru from the ground.
"MY LORD, WAIT FOR ME!" Jaken yelled as he ran to catch up, from the ground.
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Sesshoumaru landed with AhUn in a clearing, as closest he could to a hot spring. Inuyasha came not a minute later, out of breath.
"Dammit, care to fly a bit faster, I don't think light can keep up with you!" Inuyasha growled sarcastically.
Sesshoumaru ignored him, and that didn't sit well with Inuyasha. Not only did he not like being ignored, but he didn't like people keeping things from him! And obviously something was bothering Sesshoumaru, so there's no doubt he was keeping something secret.
Sesshoumaru helped Rin off of Ah-Un, and had planned to take her to the hot springs, but she was just too sleepy. He pulled up against a tree, and sat down, pulling Rin into his lap. He held her head on his arm, since he still had his armor on, while her legs, were slung across his. Rin instantly fell asleep.
Sesshoumaru stared down at her a moment, before looking around their campsite. Inuyasha had started a fire, something he would have had Jaken do, if he had been there. Inuyasha's mate was sitting against another tree, while Inuyasha sat up in said tree. AhUn had moved beside Sesshoumaru, resting their heads by his feet, and their tail curled around the tree that supported him.
By the time Jaken finally made it to the camp, just before day break, everyone--except the taiyoukai--was sound asleep. The sun was barely peeking over the horizon, as the toad seated himself by AhUn, exhausted. He sighed when his stomach growled loudly but ignored it, passing out.
Not two hours after Jaken made it to camp, did the sun fully rise and begin to warm the cool morning air. Sesshoumaru, not having slept at all, had seen Jaken come and was, still, up when Rin and the rest of the group woke.
Kagome and Rin went to the springs a few minutes after waking, taking Inukinshou with them. Sesshoumaru was hesitant to let Rin go, but she assured him she would be fine. And besides, he had already decided that if something happened, he'd make Kagome and Inuyasha's deaths slow and painful, and Jaken's, too. Jaken was going to be killed for the hell of it, even if he wasn't to blame.
Inuyasha stayed in the tree he'd slept in the night before, watching Sesshoumaru like a hawk eyeing its prey. Sesshoumaru wasn't acting the way he was last night, then, he was quiet, almost sulking, but now, he was back to his cold, mysterious, arrogant self, Inuyasha thought. What changed?
Sesshoumaru, getting annoyed with Inuyasha's staring, turned to face the hanyou, flicking his hair behind his hair, nonchalantly.
The hanyou, just waiting for any sudden or unusual move, spotted his brother's flick of a wrist. "Ha! I saw that!" Inuyasha accused, his eyes narrowing as he glanced over his brother's form, "I'm watching you!"
Sesshoumaru thought of laughing at his idiotic half-brother but settled for just smirking. "What's wrong, Inuyasha? Afraid?" He taunted.
Inuyasha snorted and turned his back to Sesshoumaru, nearly falling out of the tree. "You wish!"
Sesshoumaru raised a brow, "Really, Inuyasha, you shouldn't be such an ass." He stated cooly.
Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsusaiga, ready to fight. "Why you-! Let's go! Here and now! I ain't afraid of you!"
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes a moment. He enjoyed making Inuyasha mad almost as much as he did fighting him...almost. "Honestly, Inuyasha, are you really trying to start a fight when the new moon is tomorrow?"
Inuyasha hesitated, then sheathed his sword. "Whatever" He said sitting back down on the branch, sulking.
Sesshoumaru turned toward the direction of the onsen as Rin and Kagome made their way back. Inukinshou, the only one not dressed or in a towel, flashing everyone his little puppy bits.
Inuyasha nearly fell out of the tree. "Kagome!"
Sesshoumaru smirked, only slightly, and approached Rin. He led her to AhUn and situated her onto the beast. Kagome dressed her son, laughing at Inuyasha.
"Calm down, Inuyasha. He's young, no one really cares that he's naked." She laughed.
Rin giggled also as Sesshoumaru stood beside her. Jaken, determined not to be left running this time, hoped onto Ah-Un's tail. The beast wagged it's tail, roughly, but Jaken held tight.
Inuyasha's blush faded, and he leaped into a tree. "Whatever, let's just go."
Kagome nodded and hopped onto AhUn with her son. "How much longer till we get there?" She asked, excited.
Sesshoumaru ignored her as always but Rin answered. "I'm guessing, maybe a day. And then after that day, we should land on the castle grounds by the next morning. So about a day and a half. "
Kagome nodded. "So, Rin, tell me about the castle,"
Rin nodded and begin the never-ending story of when she first went to the castle and all the servants she met, friends she made, and places in the castle she knew of.
Inuyasha followed on the ground, skipping on trees. He was worried. Tomorrow was the night of the new moon, a dreadful night, indeed.
Especially since Sesshoumaru would be around...
When they were younger, Sesshoumaru and their father would tease him about his hair and ears when he was human. His father meant no real harm, and Sesshoumaru, well at the time, he didn't either. He was just joking along with his father especially since their father scolded Sesshoumaru about disliking Inuyasha's humanity.
Since that one scolding, which left Sesshoumaru a very angry little demon, Sesshoumaru only spoke to Inuyasha when their father was around. He didn't want to take the chance of letting his tongue slip, then have Inuyasha rat him out and he got punished. And being punished by InuTaisho wasn't fun...not fun at all!
Inuyasha sighed and pushed that thought away, that was long ago. Sesshoumaru wouldn't still tease him about turning fully human on the night of the new moon. . .Would he?
Kagome looked down at Inuyasha, although all she was able to see was a red blur moving between the trees. "Will you show me around the castle, Rin?"
Rin nodded vigorously. "Hai, Hai! I'll do it personally. Oh, and you can see Inuyasha's old bedroom, too!" She said giggling She had been in that bedroom only once, when she was younger, but Sessoumaru told her not to go in there because his scent was still strong in the room and he didn't want her spreading it throughtout his castle.
Good thing Rin was in a good mood this morning, thought Kagome, that's probably why Sesshoumaru was in a good mood, too. Or as good a mood as he gets. . .
Sesshoumaru looked over at Rin, I'll do it personally . He let those four words play in his head over and over again. He snorted quietly, like he'd let Rin wonder around the castle, barely able to walk, let along defend herself. Not in this lifetime, he thought. . . and for him, this life time was a long time...
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A.N.- HEY! Anyhow, I know you might have notice I stated, "Not in this lifetime . . . and for him, this life time was a long time." Yea, well we all know, that Sesshoumaru has been living for a long ass time. . .So he'll be alive for quite some more time!
As for Rin...Let's just not think about her being human. He'll take care of that. . .After all, our favorite couple can't lose one another, now could they?
Please review and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as you did the last!
Your ever-thankful and appreciative author, Liko
Edited. 3.20.08. Corrected grammar and sentences.