(A/N: Was not at all happy with the original chapter five. Modified and tweaked it until I liked it. I'm sorry if you liked the other one!)

Chapter Five: Pancakes

"Sesshomaru-sama, can Rin make pan-cakes?"

"What the hell is a pancake?"

Rin put on a huge grin and started to recite. "You pour the pancake mix into a frying pan, and then you put it on the fire and add water."

"Too bad we don't have any pancake mix," Sesshomaru said. Ha-ha, child. For once I have outsmarted you.

Wait…that's all wrong! I am the Great Sesshomaru! I have outsmarted this child hundreds of times! Like when…um…she…no, she got me that time too…damn it, she does always outsmart me!

"Yes. Rin has some."

Damn.

"Where'd you get it from?" he demanded. He bet it was mud and grass. Something she'd made herself. Well, if she had, he wouldn't let her eat it. No way.

"Kagome-chan gave it to me! And the frying pan too! They're from her time!"

Damn you, Kagome.

"So can I?" she pleaded. She widened her eyes and pushed out her bottom lip.

Stupid, manipulative devil…

Sesshomaru struggled for another excuse. "Um….what about water?"

Wordlessly, Rin pointed to the river.

"Rin knows you're trying to think of a reason not to let her," Rin said.

What is with this kid? First she resists my Evil Glare and Evil Growl, then she reads my mind.

"Fine!" he muttered grudgingly. "I don't care!"

Rin gave him a huge smile, and skipped away to make pancakes. She was going to screw them up so bad…he just hoped she wouldn't make Jaken eat any.

He stalked over to the downward slope and stared at the sky, lacking anything better to do. Sesshomaru wondered if he might get a minute of peace.

Doubtful.

Rin fiddled a little with two sticks, finally calling Jaken to help her. They rubbed sticks together until there was a three-foot pile of sticks that 'weren't good enough' in front of them. Rin sighed and leaned back.

"Jaken-sama, this rubbing the sticks together isn't working…"

"Of course it is!" Jaken said, in a slightly strained tone.

Who are you trying to convince? Jaken thought. Her, or you? He rubbed harder, determined to show Rin he was not a useless green blob of jelly.

Yes! A spark clung to the stick, and went out immediately. Heartened, Jaken rubbed those twigs within an inch of their life. Yes! Another spark. More, more, more…

"DAMN!"

The stick decided at exactly the wrong moment, to deafeningly crack. Jaken screamed in absolute frustration. Rin stared forlornly at the broken stick.

"Oopsie!" she giggled. "Here, let me try…"

Rin rubbed the two sticks quickly together until a shower of orange sparks poured out. She clapped her hands.

Jaken stared at her, feeling like Japan's most idiotic kappa. How had she done that?

He watched in even more amazement as she pulled a shiny silver flat pan out of a bag she was carrying. He didn't know that rock could get that shiny and silver.

"Is that real silver?" he breathed.

"No!" Rin laughed. "It's metal, from Kagome-chan's time."

Metal? Puzzling. Next, Rin pulled out a small bag with pictures on it. One of them was a flat…well, thing, he guessed was a pancake. There was writing on the top. Rin put some water in the pancake bag and dumped the whole works in the pan, which she set in the middle of the fire, obviously proud of her accomplishment.

Jaken looked at it sideways. He had a feeling that she was only supposed to put a little bit of the mix in the pan. The wet puddle of white stuff would take hours to cook.

Sesshomaru had turned around at that moment. He decided he might as well get some amusement out of this, so he stalked over to the fire where the frying pan was crackling.

"Rin, are you sure the pancake is supposed to be that colour?" he asked.

A pulsating, bubbling black mass crackled and spit inside the pan. It was burnt to a crisp on the bottom, he could see, as well as the top. Inside, though, it was liquid.

"Of course!" Rin said happily. Had it ever changed colour quickly! It had been white just a second ago! "It's perfect!"

A gigantic bubble rose out of the black top and popped, sending hot carbon in every direction.

"It must be time to flip it over," she said. She took a filthy stick off the ground and jabbed it under the black blob. She tried to lift it, but the inside was so soft it split in two and dropped off the stick.

"Maybe I should let it cook for a few more minutes," Rin said.

Sesshomaru was glad he didn't eat human food. He had an excuse to refuse this grievous nightmare. He almost felt sorry for Jaken. Almost. He watched the blob pulsate a little bit more. It shrunk a little, and became very, very thin. Maybe he shouldn't let Rin eat this. It could probably kill Ah-Un, never mind an eight year old.

Rin skipped over again to look at her pancake. "Where'd it go?" she wailed. A small pile of charcoal remained in the pan.

"It must be done," she exclaimed, after discovering that the lump of charcoal was her pancake. "Sesshomaru, you get a bite too!"

"I don't eat hum-"

"Well, look at this, no human would eat it," Jaken said cheerily. "No human in their right mind."

"So, since no human would eat it…" Rin said, studying it, "then I guess you get it all, Sesshomaru-sama and Jaken-sama!"

Damn.

"I am NOT eating that lump of ash," Sesshomaru said.

"Please…Sesshomaru-sama, please…"

"I'm not either!" Jaken cried.

"Do it for Rin…she worked so hard…" Tears filled Rin's eyes. Her bottom lip pushed out. She looked so pathetic.

"FINE!" Jaken and Sesshomaru said unhappily. Much to their eternal annoyance, she manipulated them into eating that ash.

"Soooo…sick…"