For forthrightly,s April Fools Day Drabble Challenge
Title: Twice a Fool
Author: Nebride
Characters: Jaken, Shippou, Sesshoumaru
Words: 499
Twice a Fool
"Heh heh heh."
Jaken rubbed his little green hands together and chortled over his good luck. Beyond the trees Inuyasha and his group huddled wearily around their camp fire. Everyone in the group appeared exhausted and… unwary.
As the sun sank and the new moon rose, Inuyasha's silver hair turned black and his demonic aura disappeared. His sword lay on the ground at his side.
"Ha," Jaken muttered gleefully to himself. "Tonight is my chance to redeem my failed attempt to steal the Tetsusaiga. I will return later when the fools have all gone to sleep." He bustled off, chuckling to himself.
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"Heh heh heh."
Shippou poked his head around a tree stump. He had overheard Jaken and, unlike the others, was not tired.
"We'll just see who the fool is, Jaken," he said, a gleam in his bright, green eyes.
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"My Lord! I have a gift for you," Jaken cried giddily as he placed the stolen sword into his master's hand.
Sesshoumaru's brows rose into his hairline as he looked down at the strange present his retainer had brought him.
Just what is Jaken playing at, he wondered. Surely he does not think that this is the Tetsusaiga…
A loud "pop" caused his brows to shoot up even further as a tiny kitsune appeared in his hand.
"HA, Jaken! Fooled ya!" Shippou shouted and then froze. The little fox found himself looking at a black breast plate adorned with wicked spikes. His tail bushed out in alarm.
Shippou gulped and tipped his head back, looking into a pair of very cold, yellow eyes. "Uh…" he began diplomatically. He realized that in his determination to hold Tetsusaiga's shape he might have missed a few things – such as Jaken dragging him all the way back to his camp. Shippou now found himself somewhere he had never wanted or expected to be – in Sesshoumaru's lap.
Deciding that diplomacy might be a wasted effort in this situation, Shippou did the only thing he could do. He yelled.
"AAAHHHHHH!!!! INUYASHA!!!!"
Leaping backward, the kitsune stumbled over Sesshoumaru's boot and fell to the ground. From his prone position, he saw Sesshoumaru wince and realized that his voice might have been a bit too shrill for the taiyoukai's exceptional hearing.
"Uh… sorry…" he gulped before he scrambled to his feet and dashed away.
Sesshoumaru resisted the urge to shake the ringing from his ears as the tiny dust cloud settled from the escaping kitsune.
"Uh… my Lord," Jaken ventured hesitantly near Sesshoumaru's knee, where he had remained during the entire fiasco, mouth agape. "That wasn't… what I mean is…"
But he never had a chance to finish his sentence for a moment later Jaken found himself face down in the dirt, sporting a very large bump on his head.
Sesshoumaru rose imperiously to his feet and walked a short way from camp and since Jaken was not there to see it, allowed his lips to twitch in a silent expression of amusement.
"Fools."