(A/N: I am so sorry it took so long! Here is the seventh chapter.)
Chapter Seven
"Sesshomaru-sama!"
"I don't want to hear it, Rin."
"I made breakfast!"
"What colour is it?" Sesshomaru asked tiredly.
Rin ran over to check. "It's orange!"
"What kind of orange?"
"Peachy-orange."
"The non-poisonous kind?" I don't care if it is poisonous. I absolutely refuse to go within six inches of it, let alone eat it.
"I don't know!" Rin said, wringing her hands. "I'm not smart like you!"
Awwww…
"Come see!" Rin bounded off toward the frying pan.
Sesshomaru followed her. He looked at a rather unappetizing peachy mash in the pan.
"What is it?"
"Breakfast, of course!"
"Jaken, test it," Sesshomaru commanded. Even if Rin layered flattery on like cement, he wasn't going to touch it.
"I-" Jaken wondered why he even tried. The battle was lost.
"Come on, it's only fruit."
A puzzled expression crossed Rin's face. "Sesshomaru-"
"Fine, if it's only fruit. You didn't cook it, did you, Rin?" Jaken said, moving toward the pan with a look of distaste on his face.
Rin shook her head. "But-"
Jaken plunged a finger into the peachy stuff. "…It's okay…" he said. Sesshomaru decided to give the kid a break. He tried a bit too.
"Where'd you find it?" Sesshomaru asked.
No! What have I said! Now she is going to tell me the revolting place where she found it. And then I am going to feel ill. Sesshomaru, you are SUCH a bloody genius.
"The river."
Sesshomaru's and Jaken's eyes widened.
"It's a fish." Rin continued joyfully. "Except I forgot to take out the head."
A look of horror crossed Sesshomaru's face, and he spat on the ground. "Never again, Rin!"
Jaken clutched his throat and toppled to the ground.
"I took most of its guts out, they were all slimy and bleeding…"
"Rin…"
"They were really gross! I put them over there! Oh no, someone stepped on them!"
Sesshomaru didn't even have to look to know it was him who had trampled the fish innards.
"I did it with just my hands! Wasn't that brave, Sesshomaru-sama?"
"Rin!"
"Except I left in the eyes and the rest of the head, they were just too yucky…"
"RIN!"
"Yes?"
"Stop it."
"Stop what? Talking about fishy guts? They were horrible! Is the raw fishy good?"
"Not at all," Sesshomaru said. He could feel heat rising in his chest. That human girl had better watch out.
"I tasted some too!" she cried. "But I don't feel well…"
Sesshomaru's eyes widened. Oh no, it would probably kill her. Would the Tenseiga save someone who died of fish-gut-poisoning? Probably not. What kind of messenger from the underworld wanted a girl who died of fish poisoning.
Rin clutched her throat and fell to the floor, choking wildly.
Sesshomaru whipped out the Tenseiga. He scanned the area around Rin for the little soul-harvesting demons. None. Damn. The Tenseiga could wipe them out, but if there were none….
He knelt over Rin's unmoving, silent figure.
"Surprise!" she screamed, bouncing up and knocking him back into an undignified heap on the floor. "Aren't I a good actress?"
Shut up this moment, Rin and Jaken. I am perfectly capable of whipping both your heads off! I said, STOP LAUGHING!
"Aren't I a good actress?" Rin repeated happily.
Sesshomaru grunted. That was even more embarrassing than the day Inu Yasha nearly killed him. He smoothed his hair and tried to regain his ruffled dignity. This was being made increasingly difficult to do, with Jaken and Rin rolling around, guffawing like a pair of mad crows. This was the second time in as many days that he was regretting ever letting Rin 'make food'.
Rin's words pricked his sensitive ears.
"Jaken-sama! Sesshomaru-sama said apples have pits!"
She could not have made Sesshomaru more livid if she had chopped off his remaining arm. She couldn't have made Jaken any happier, either.
If I do not act fast, my dignity and authority will be in shambles. And if she does not shut her trap, several of her limbs may be in shambles.
"I meant, peaches," Sesshomaru said as coolly as was possible at that moment.
"It's a big difference, Sesshomaru-sama. Peach doesn't even start with the same letter as apple!" Rin cried.
Sesshomaru lost it.
"They're the same colour!"
"No!" Rin screeched with even more joy than before.
"They're close," Sesshomaru muttered.
"Apples are red…"
"There are some yellow ones out there."
"Peaches are peach."
"They're yellow at one stage in their lives, okay! And stop contradicting me, because I have lived about two thousand years longer than you ever will!"
Rin cocked her head, studying Sesshomaru.
"You look much older than that, Sesshomaru-sama!" she cried.
"Thank y- What!"
Sesshomaru stalked off, huffing.
I will never speak to that child again. EVER!
