* writing between this symbol represents the dog talking*
'' two commas beside each other is Sesshoumaru talking to the dog ''
Just Like Sesshoumaru
Can I keep Him?
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It hadn't taken long for Rin to arrive back at camp with her new companion in tow.
"You wait here. I just have to give these mushrooms to lady Kagome."
Rin ran around the hedge and out of the dogs eye sight.
She was glad to see that Kagome was still cooking and it wasn't to late to add her contribution. She placed the mushrooms beside her while looking for her lord.
"Thank you Rin." Kagome patted her head while stile stirring the stew.
"Have you guys seen Lord Sesshoumaru."
"He's still out with Inu-Yasha investigating a shard rumor. Why are you looking for him." Responded Songo.
"I want to show him something I've found and ask him if I can keep it."
"And what would that be my dear Rin." Asked Miroku.
"My new puppy!" Rin responded just as Fluffy walked up behind her.
Miroku immediately backed up in surprise. "That's not a puppy Rin, it's a full blown dog."
The group observe the new dog from a distance while Rin cuddled it. Songo stroked her chin in wonder. "It reminds me of someone. But who?"
Miroku attempted to pet the dog only to receive a growl and snap. Causing him to pull his hand back out of the way so fast he fell to the ground. Only to go back to its normal happy self when Miroku had crawled a safe distance away.
"God he's just like Sesshoumaru. He only lets his guard down around Rin."
"That's it. He looks exactly like Sesshoumaru in his true form." Kagome stopped stirring the stew to snap her fingers and stood up. Songo nodded her head in agreement.
"That's what my original response was to call him, but I think having two Sesshoumaru's would be confusing." Rin said with a giggle.
"So what'd you end up calling it." Asked Shippo.
"Fluffy." Everyone looked at her like she was crazy.
Kagome started to walk in the direction of the dog. " You guys haven't seen Sesshoumaru in that form but this dog looks exactly like a smaller version."
"No Kagome. Stay back. He's danger…
ous. Hey, why isn't he snapping at you?"
Miroku asked when he noticed Kagome had joined cuddling the dog with Rin with no problems.
"I think he just doesn't like men. A lot of dogs have that problem."
Songo attempted to get close only to have the dog give off a warning growl and she froze on the spot.
"Or, I could be wrong." Kagome turned the dogs head to look her in the face. "We're going to have to work on your attitude problem if you're going to stay."
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Miroku took over the stew so Kagome could attempt to get the dog to like Songo. While they waited for the others to return so Rin could ask Sesshoumaru her important question.
"I don't get it. Hmm. Oh I know. Its your armor under your clothing. It's made from demons. He thinks you smell funny, and inhuman. It's not you he doesn't like it's your armor. So I was right. He doesn't like males."
Kagome noticed Shippo had joined in on the patting. "Or at least men."
"But I always wear it just incase we have to fight within a short times notice. I can't just stop wearing it because of some dog." Responded a frustrated Songo.
" You don't have to stop wearing it forever. How about you go take a bath and just don't put it back on afterwards so you can show the dog what the smell is and he can get to know your scent undisturbed."
"That could work. Only, I wish Inu-Yasha was here to point me in the direction of the closest hot spring." Songo said with a sigh.
"Why'd you want a hot spring? Didn't you just bath last night?" said a gruff voice from the tree line behind them.
"Inu-Yasha your back!" Kagome greeted him as he re-entered camp while trying to look behind him for any sight of his brother.
"How'd you get stuck on kitchen duty?" Inuyasha asked Miroku after noticing he got stuck with the job of cooking instead of one of the girls.
"It's a long story." Miroku answered.
"So where's Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked after noticing the absence of a certain demon lord.
"He isn't back yet? We separated after we left the village because he said he was going ahead. Why you so anxious for that bastard anyway?"
*Bark*
"Rin has a very important question she needs to ask him."
Songo and Kagome moved out of his view of Rin. Letting him see the giant white dog that Rin was cuddling.
"Holy shit! It looks exactly like Sesshoumaru in his true form. Hey… wait. Is this why you went ahead. I didn't know you could do that Sesshoumaru."
"You didn't know this Sesshoumaru could do what?" Asked a cold voice behind him.
"Well turn into a smaller version of your true form of course. O wait."
Inu-Yasha looked behind him at his older brother then back at the dog.
"I guess you aren't Sesshoumaru then." Receiving only a bark in response.
"No, he's Fluffy." Rin Corrected.
"You named it Fluffy. Ah, Ah, Lord Fluffy." Inu-Yasha managed to get out before bursting out in laughter.
"Where did you find this dog?" Sesshoumaru asked Rin while ignoring Inu-Yasha's outlandish behaviour.
"I found him while I was picking mushrooms in the forest. Um Lord Sesshoumaru, can I keep him?"
"This Sesshoumaru thinks its too dangerous to keep the dog around." Was his response on the matter without even thinking.
"But he saved my life when a low level demon tried to attack me. He can defend me better than Jaken can." Sesshoumaru froze at that comment and sent a glare in Jaken's direction.
Who had just arrived back at camp when Rin uttered her statement. Jaken froze in his back track into the forest at his lord's frigid glare. That sent the message that he would be receiving his punishment later.
When it seemed like Sesshoumaru was still going to say no, Fluffy started to growl at him and he began to growl right back. Their began a series of barks, yaps, and growls between the pair.
"Are they talking to each other?" Songo whispered in Kagome's ear.
Kagome looked at Inu-Yasha for conformation but he looked just as confused as the rest of them.
*I'm staying whither or not you agree to it*
''If this Sesshoumaru says you go you go. No arguments.''
*You need my help to protect Rin*
''She was fine before you came and she will be fine after you leave.''
*Not fine enough*
''She is well protected. Why do you think I keep Jaken around. It has become his sole purpose in my services.''
* You mean the one who let her wonder off in the woods alone and almost get attacked by a demon? I thought so.*
But once Kagome began to look at Sesshoumaru's facial expressions, she knew they were communicating together. He actually looked offended by something the dog must have said to him. And everyone knows the ice king doesn't show his emotion's easily.
'I would give anything to know what they're saying to each other.'
*Stubborn idiot. I'm not saying you can't protect her when she is in your company just that you can't always be there to protect her and the toad isn't doing a good enough job.*
Just then the dog grew a smug expression. Fluffy knew he had made a very good point.
"Fine. the dog can stay." Sesshoumaru said with a grudgingly annoyance in his voice as he stood and walked to a tree on the other side of the clearing.
Rin cheered and hugged her new official pet dog, Fluffy.
Songo walked up beside the confounded Inu-Yasha who was still stuck scratching his head. "So how bout that hot spring?" Not saying a word he just pointed her in the right direction.
"Thanx."
Sesshoumaru knew that some how his decision would come back to bite him in the ass. Letting a hypocritical dog with an attitude problem join the group that only you could understand.
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