This was originally entered for iy_unsung_heroes on LJ. I am pleased and honored to say it was awarded first place!
Title: Masochist at Heart
Author: LC Rose
Prompt: Beginning
Rating: T
Genre: general
Word count: 296
Warning: none
Characters: Jaken/Kagome
Summary: Jaken thinks things through.
He may be short in stature, but not in history. No the past of his people was long and filled with hardness. He, himself a leader of many at one point in time, was not one without memories past or times gone by. Despite how everyone around now him saw, he had once held lives in his clawed hands, loved females aplenty, birthed children galore, and lived with the decisions he'd made.
However, the fateful day of meeting his now great and terrible master changed everything!
Or so he'd thought…
Jaken spied upon the human woman that traveled with that disgraceful hanyou, Inuyasha. His lord and master was fighting with his half-brother again for reasons unknown—which generally meant he was on his own until Sesshoumaru-sama decided otherwise. To him, one that served faithfully, that meant he could take that time to reflect upon recent incidents. And by recent incidents, Jaken thought as his eyes combed over the hanyou's followers, it's all that little miko's fault!
It had been she after all who had showed him how he really worked. I am a masochist at heart, Jaken thought as he pictured her once more tossing skulls his way in the tomb of the great dog general. Nothing made him work harder or more thoroughly than the threat of or receiving of pain—as his lord had already known, apparently.
Jaken winced as he remembered the earlier stone tossed his way by Sesshoumaru-sama and then he wondered how it would have been if Kagome had been the one to toss it...
The outcome was much more pleasurable that way.
I shall have to investigate this, Jaken mused as the battle between brothers ended and his Sesshoumaru-sama led him away from the woman. But on another battlefield, perhaps.