From a Shoulder Perch
By: LadyRainStarDragon
Fandom: Inuyasha
Green eyes peered from their perch upon a slender shoulder, tiny hands clutching tightly for purchase on a white and green blouse. The wind pulled a curtain of midnight before his face for a moment, and then swept it away again, to lie dormant against a field of white.
What the eyes surveyed was a moving mass of red and white, watching it strut haughtily through the dense forest. A white ear would flick every time that a small gasp sounded, a result of a shoe finding some random root not taken into account on the group's wanderings. On the occasions that the gasp was very loud, the being would look over his shoulder, smouldering suns checking on the maiden.
For her part, every time the inu turned around, the boy could feel the throbbing of a speeding heart below the flesh of the maiden that carried him. Her body heat would rise, and there was a tone to her gentle scent that he recognized his mother attaining at times.
He no longer had a mother, or a father, thanks to a pair of thunder demons who had been after his father's Shikon shard. This maiden was now the closest thing to a mother that he had, and he only wanted her to be happy. Of course, if the hanyou that she was drawn to was a two-timer, how could she be happy?
Heaving a sigh, the red-haired kit looked down at his tiny body. If he were perhaps a little bit bigger, maybe he could protect her. Instead, he was a young child, only 100 years old. He would have to leave the protecting to his new father figure. The dog demon wasn't that great as a father figure, more like an annoying older brother, but since he was the one that his new mother had seemed to choose . . . he needed to try to respect him. He had had a rough life too.
"Kagome. Let the kit walk!"
"Osuwari!"
It was times like this that Shippo almost felt pity for Inuyasha. Almost. The kitsune kit could hear the muttered comments from the crater that escaped the human's ears.
"Kagome! He said he was going to hang me by my toes and leave me for Sesshoumaru!"
"Inuyasha! Osuwari!"
The maiden continued on past the half-demon buried in the dirt, who accidentally got an eyeful as she went by when he lifted his head to shout at her. Stunned at what he saw, the monk passing by sniggered at the shocked face, earing a large bump on his head. Said bump had of course been provided by the taijiya who had been walking behind him, and her oversized boomerang Hiraikotsu. The little kitten who had been riding in her other arm barely cracked open an eye.
A one-shot that decided to grab me in the shower.