“You again,” Kagome said through clenched teeth, striding forward with her fists balled at her sides. “How many times do I have to tell you to buzz off?”
The imp peeped out from the cover of the trees—not at her, of course, but at Shin in his inuyoukai form. Lingering on Shin’s crescent blood mark, Jakken’s bulbous yellow eyes sheened.
“Ah, Shin-sama,” Jakken said rapturously, ignoring Kagome entirely as he and his two-headed staff splayed out almost flat in prostration toward her son, “how mighty you’ve grown since we last met, my prince!”
Shin rumbled, bemused. Kagome shot him a look, and he transformed at once into his hanyou self. Jakken sighed in despair.
“Hiya, Jakken,” Shin said, grinning.
Jakken’s eyes welled with big oily tears all over again. “Milord remembers me!”
Shin’s nose wrinkled slightly at the scent of him. “‘Course I do.”
Kagome, on the other hand, was not amused. Jakken might be one great big joke to Shin (understandably), but this pesky imp had once given Kagome the fright of her life. When Shin was only around two years old, Jakken—who must have been tailing them from afar after glimpsing Shin’s beast form and recognizing him to be the heir of his beloved master—had kidnapped Shin while in human form, mistakenly assuming this form of his to be both harmless and intransient.
Needless to say, Jakken had been in for a nasty shock.
In the end, it was Kagome who’d had to prise Jakken out of Shin’s claws when she’d tracked them both down in a breathless panic. The only reason she herself hadn’t purified Jakken on the spot was that she’d sensed at once that this kidnapping was really some misguided act of fealty to Sesshoumaru on Jakken’s part. Infuriated, she’d demanded what on earth the imp had been thinking, attempting to take a young boy from his mother. Jakken had glared back at her just as vehemently—and accusingly.
“Sesshoumaru-sama may be absent from these lands, but I remain his loyal retainer! It is passing cruel to keep milord’s son from his due. Living like vagabonds! Sesshoumaru-sama’s Lady Mother would see Shin-sama properly attended.”
Kagome couldn’t pretend this hadn’t stung—both the dreadful confirmation from Sesshoumaru’s own vassal that he was as far gone as she’d feared, and the censure of her as a mother. She’d sent Jakken on his way with a reiki-fueled kick to the rear, but even after he’d vanished beyond the horizon, she’d still felt the sting.
Because of this, she’d felt wary for the first time, too, of Sesshoumaru’s mother—even though Myouga and others had assured her over the years that it was not the Lady’s nature to interfere in her son’s affairs. Kagome didn’t doubt their words, but in her mother’s heart she felt that to bring Shin into the presence of his grandmother, whose own son had been missing for years without a trace, was to risk that her boy might be taken from her. She wanted Shin to meet his grandmother—but without Sesshoumaru by her side, she was fearful to tread too deeply into the youkai world.
Presently, she crossed her arms at her chest and said to Jakken, “You’re like a bad omen, you know. I take it since you’re here now, hounding us, you haven’t gotten any better leads on Sesshoumaru, either.”
Jakken glared up at her. “If you weren’t Shin-sama’s mother, wench—”
Kagome glared back. “If you weren’t Sesshoumaru’s most loyal minion—”
“Kaa-san!” Shin said hotly, then snapped at Jakken, “Don’t call my mother a ‘wench,’ you bug-eyed green toad! She’s ‘Kagome-sama’ to you. Say it.”
“Kagome-sama,” Jakken muttered, defeated. He looked to Shin. “I have been thinking, milord, why not allow this Jakken to accompany you, as a loyal retainer to you in your travels, as I was to your lord father before you?”
“Absolutely not,” Kagome said, more fiery than she’d even intended. “We’re not tagging along with the likes of you.”
“The ‘likes of you’?” Shin growled at her. “How are you any different, Kaa-san? Both of you,” he said, slashing a claw toward Jakken, “both of you are exactly the same! All either of you care about is him! It’s always about him. Well, I’m sick of him! I’m sick of hearing about this guy I’ve never met. You both act like he’s so great and that he cares about me, but if he did, then where the hell is he? He doesn’t care about me, so why should I care about him?”
“Shin,” Kagome said, reaching, but Shin knocked her hand aside.
Turning from her and Jakken both, he leapt far ahead of them, deep into the thick of the trees.
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
LMAOOO IT WAS JAKKEN!!!! Im dying—so in character to kidnap baby Shin in an attempt to please Lord Sesshomaru 🤣
and there we go folks! Shin’s crescent blood mark is in full swing. Our poor baby’s got daddy issues 😭😩. And the fact he doesn’t remember him at all ughhhh, it reminds of Inuyasha and Toga. Toga loved Inuyasha so much as well—and Inuyasha’s mother too! 😭 just like how Sesshomaru loves Kagome.
WHERE THE HECK DID THAT DEMON RUN OFF TO? He fell off the face of the earth.
Dang Sesshoumaru is a dead beat father. Shin has every right to be mad at him. It’s been 7 years and Sesshoumaru has not once reached out to his son despite how he feels towards Kagome, that is his child who has grown to resent him. Shame
Awww, it’s only Jaken lol. And poor Shin! Of course he can’t remember his biological father. Inuyasha is more of a father to him now. 😭
Hah, that is such an accurate Jakken style plan–ending in his own bodily harm and need for rescue. And of course he’s going to simp for Shin extra hard since Sesshoumaru ducked out for a pack of smokes and left them all behind. 😏
Yep, I like Shin!! He’s right! If Sesshoumaru wasn’t all up in his own butt caring only about himself, he would have been there being a descent father and maybe a descent mate. Kagome is an idiot holding out for the likes of Sesshoumaru. Kagome needs to go home with her son and quit pining away after Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru probably already been with someone else and has went on without them. If Jaken can’t find him then he’s probably went to another place across the ocean to start a new. Maybe, he’ll visit them in the future and introduce them to his mate and family he went on with, being, without Kagome and Shin. That sounds like a story into itself. Glad you let Shin speak his mind about his creepy father. Thanks for an update.
AFSRTECFFFFJVV JAKKEN!!! I LOST!! 😭
I WANNA STRANGLE HIS LITTLE NECK!!!
I mean, I can’t blame Shin for feeling this way. Everyone’s so intent on finding his father, who he doesn’t even remember. I’m sure he feels abandoned by him and doesn’t understand why everyone is so gung-ho to find him. Poor baby /:
🤣🤣🤣
Jakken tried to kidnap Sesshoumaru’s boy?? He’s lucky he wasn’t chewed up and spat into a melted imp puddle!
On the other hand, it kinda makes me ?…?…? that Sess isn’t just snubbing Kagome, but everyone apparently? What about his patrols? His duties as a lord? (probably foisted all of this on his mama too, which would be no wonder if she’s busy. and pissed 😭)
Did their quarrel drive Sess to fly straight out of the country and into his own Odysseus journey?
It’ll likely be a cold war between Kagome and her mother-in-law when they meet 😅 Ouch.
I’m not surprised that Shin is weary of this search. In his little head he’s probably made up his own conclusions about Sesshoumaru’s abandonment.
The only thing Sess left for Shin is the daddy issues he once experienced post-Touga and Izayoi AGH 😭
Shin’s first angy tantrum 🫢🥹
…I mean it’s not that I don’t get it. I’d be sour as a pickle if I spend years looking for a dad who I’d think wouldn’t want me in his life. Every day would be another day he fails to reach back. That it’s all one-sided. Not to mention the resentment and protective animosity he must feel against his dad, watching his mom hope and fall crestfallen each time they reach a dead end.
“Kaa-san!” Shin said hotly, then snapped at Jakken, “Don’t call my mother a ‘wench,’ you bug-eyed green toad! She’s ‘Kagome-sama’ to you. Say it.”
Look at this mini alpha already working to take charge of the pack 🥺
It’s a consistent quality in him too, stepping up whenever Kagome’s acting rash or floundering. The time with the snake, the time Inuyasha came home drunk, the last confrontation with Sesshoumaru… what a reliable little bean 💕 He’s a natural leader in chichi’s absence. Kagome is… Kagome 😅 She can join Yor Forger in the Brute-headed Moms Club.
With the inutachi Kagome is the rebel that needs tempering as much as she’s the heart that keeps the whole pack together.
Pfff. She’s the Omega.
Jakken? 🤣 That ugly toad was so unexpected lol
it’s jakken hnrrrrggggg stop taking up screentime you naked green furby 👺
is sess across the ocean or in a different realm altogether? i doubt they would ever find him unless he makes himself known. maybe he’s with his dad in the underworld. this is the problem when your man can cross into hell and he wields tenseiga like an exclusive vip pass for a night club and the gatekeepers just look the other way.
kagome has to blow some kind of whistle to bring him back. do something drastic that’ll force-summon him right to them.
Shin is absolutely right to feel as he does. No matter what happened between Kagome and Sess, Sess should have been there for his son. Pact or no, he saw where this was heading and he’s not ignorant. He’s literally old enough to know better. Now poor Shin gets the brunt of all this, losing not only Sess but the only father he’s ever known, Inuyasha. I hope things get properly sorted out because Jakken was right about one thing, he deserves better than living as vagabonds.
“Kagome-sama,” Jakken muttered, defeated. He looked to Shin. “I have been thinking, milord, why not allow this Jakken to accompany you, as a loyal retainer to you in your travels, as I was to your lord father before you?”
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😤 Uh-uh. I’ll wager Jakken’s gonna try to convince Shin to ditch his wild ‘vagabond’ of a mother and go to his grandmother’s floating castle, openly, persistently, day and night, and drive everyone crazy. Only Sesshoumaru and his infinite patience can put up with him. Any other demon lord would’ve eviscerated Jakken a week into his incompetent servitude.
Shin is absolutely right to feel as he does. No matter what happened between Kagome and Sess, Sess should have been there for his son. Pact or no, he saw where this was heading and he’s not ignorant. He’s literally old enough to know better. Now poor Shin gets the brunt of all this, losing not only Sess but the only father he’s ever known, Inuyasha. I hope things get properly sorted out because Jakken was right about one thing, he deserves better than living as vagabonds.
Awww shin 😩😭 I hope sesshopapa return soon before shin resent him even more 😫