Just for kicks - another Inuyasha drabble
Explanation: One of the writers I enjoy reading on LJ has a challenge for 12 small writing challenges for the Inuyasha fan fiction community. I know I'm no writer, but it's fun to play around a little every once in a while, and really, I have nothing better to do most mornings anyway. :) We'll see how far I get before I have something else I need to tend to regularly. Since I'm not really submitting them for the contest, I'll put them in my journal for safe keeping. I'll just keep them under cut tags so they'll be easy to skip. :)
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Title: A New Spin On Things
Author: Spritelyone
Characters/Pairing: Shippo et al
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Shippo's got new crayons, but a new subject is giving him some trouble. 500 words.
Shippo sprawled on a blanket scribbling, new crayons arrayed in front of Rin and himself. It was a miracle she was with them at all, but Kagome's tales of the winter celebration had excited the girl's expectations, and she had been allowed to join them. The holiday week almost over, Sesshoumaru's patience would surely end soon, leading him to take his young charge and leave, returning to patrol the western lands.
He looked across the practice yard, studying the movements of their morning routines. Flowing motions of the monk moving from pose to pose, staff flashing in the sun. Short, powerful bursts as Sango launched her boomerang from Kirara's back, high in the air. He could hear the loud cracks in the distance as Inuyasha worked to perfect the Wind Scar, aiming for arrows that Kagome shot out in front of him.
These sessions were typical and he had spent hours sketching his companions while they honed their skills, trying to capture them in crayon. But, Sesshoumaru was a new subject. In an adjacent clearing, the taiyoukai whirled in place, hitting the targets Jaken had set on posts at the edges of the clearing with the snapping tip of his poison whip. While Rin covered her sheets with pictures of flowers in garlands, bouquets, and wreaths, he tried again and again to draw the spinning demon, only to end in frustration. A rogue breeze rustled the failed pictures he'd been casting aside, flashing through the images as they blew into the brush behind them. His eyes sharpened as he quickly considered a new possibility.
Starting anew, the kitsune colored furiously as Jaken leaped up once more to reset his master's targets. Shippo drew picture after picture of Sesshoumaru until he finally had a small stack of images. Hopefully, he fanned through the sheets, and let out a whoop. His still images of the tall demon in the clearing were transformed into a spinning dervish - clothes flaring, hair trailing, stripes twirling - as Sesshoumaru spun in place, destroying the targets drawn on the edges of the paper.
Rin looked over Shippo's shoulder, exclaiming in delight. “It's Lord Sesshoumaru! Shippo, you've drawn Rin's master!” She leaped up to show the now motionless taiyoukai but paused as the other members of the group assembled to discover the source of the outburst.
Kagome walked over to the pair. “What's going on, Shippo?”
Rin smiled up at her and held out the stack of papers. “Shippo has drawn Lord Sesshoumaru. And he's dancing!”
Inuyasha stifled a snort as the demon in question walked over to view the proffered images. Kagome smiled as she flipped through the pictures. “Shippo, you've made a flip book! I haven't seen one of these in a long time.”
Sesshoumaru took in the moving pictures quickly and returned again to the clearing. Rin looked confused and turned to Kagome. “Was he displeased, Kagome?”
Before she could answer, in a low voice tinged with humor, Inuyasha replied “This Sesshoumaru does not dance.”