Flowered Daddy

"I can't believe this."

"I don't think anyone can, Kagome."

"So you are seeing the same thing as I do, Sango."

"Yes" Sango nodded still amazed.

"We have to get Inuyasha. He has to see this too."

"No way! He'll notice us."

"He should have noticed us by now, so we might as well get Inuyasha and others here too. They are never going to believe us otherwise!"

"True, but he might be more sensitive to Inuyasha's scent."

"I don't care even if he sees us. Inuyasha has to see this!"

"He's going to kill us if he knows we are seeing this! Even more certainly if Inuyasha is here."

"This is something worth dying for, Sango", Kagome stated and left to get Inuyasha and Miroku.

The scene they were witnessing was most certainly something they had never ever expected, or even imagined, to see. The one they were looking at was no other than the great lord of the western lands, lord Sesshoumaru in his all glory. It just happened to be so that he was not quite as glorious as they were used to see him to be.

When Miroku and Inuyasha arrived to Sango and Kagome's hiding place in the bushes, their reaction was very close to that what Sango had been afraid of. Kagome had to put both of her hands on Inuyasha's mouth to silence his laughter so that they would stay unnoticed. Miroku on the other hand knew he should be quiet but his face told it all. First he was shocked and then his face showed sheer amusement.

"Why doesn't he notice that we are here? Shouldn't he at least smell us?"

"Nah, those flowers stink so badly that even I can't smell us", Inuyasha huffed when he pushed Kagome's hands away. "My dear brother's sense of smell is even better than mine so I would imagine he feels rather sick right now."

"But why on earth he doesn't do something about it then?" Kagome wondered.

"I have no idea…" Sango said shaking her head.

Sesshoumaru was sitting under a big three in the middle of a small forest meadow. That was not so weird. Sitting under a three in the middle of a forest can be very relaxing, but Sesshoumaru seemed to have a problem. He was surrounded by flowers.

Those flowers were very pretty and there were a lot of them, different kinds and colors. Those beautiful flowers also had a very nice smell, to a human nose that is. But for a demon like Sesshoumaru the smell of them (especially so many of them) was much too strong. It caused him to sneeze every once in awhile.

His sneezes were barely audible. He actually looked like he tried very hard to hide them. His covering did not have the wanted result though, because a bunch of humans (and a one half demon) could hear, and see, them while hiding in the bushes. Miroku thought that those little sneezes sounded similar to those that true ladies make so they will not embarrass themselves by making too much noise. In Inuyasha's head that translated to: "Sesshoumaru sneezed like a girl". That, of course, made him laugh again.

The weirdest thing about the flowers was not that they were there. Many meadows grow flowers and if the smell bothers the one sitting there, the person can always move. The weirdest thing was, however, that Sesshoumaru did not move. You see, these flowers did not grow on the ground; they were quite literally all around and over Sesshoumaru. He was sitting there covered in flowers sneezing and looking like he was not even going to move. He did not look happy though. It was most certainly behavior considered as peculiar.

Then a little girl ran from the forest holding a new punch of flowers in her hand. She looked very happy. Green grass tickled her bare feet as she ran. She had green stains on her kimono, probably because of sitting in the grass. She had a huge smile across her face and her big brown eyes shone like two midday suns sparkling with childish enjoyment. Right behind her ran a toad like demon who was the total opposite of everything just mentioned.

"Lord Sesshoumaru! Look what I found! These flowers are even prettier than the last ones", the little girl said happily and showed the bunch of flowers to Sesshoumaru, who looked completely indifferent.

"I'll put them here", the girl continued and placed the flowers so that they stuck out of Sesshoumaru's armor. That is to say they were quite close to his nose.

Just when the girl was about to ran off again, Sesshoumaru spoke for the first time. "Rin."

"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru?"

"That is enough."

"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru" Rin said obediently and walked back to the flower covered demon.

The poor toad was so exhausted for running all day with the child that he fell down to the ground relieved he did not have to run anymore. At the moment his head touched the soft grass he was already asleep.

Unfortunately eight-year-olds do not get so easily tired. After arranging the flowers on Sesshoumaru again and again in so many different ways it was impossible to come up with anything new, she began to slide her fingers through Sesshoumaru's hair.

"Lord Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru did not answer. He just kept sitting still like a statue without even a slightest change in his expression. Rin took this as a sign to continue since she was not told to be quiet.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, can I comb your hair?"

Again, no answer, so Rin did as she pleased and started to comb Sesshoumaru's hair that most certainly did not need any combing what so ever. All the time she babbled and giggled nonstop and Sesshoumaru did not react.

Untangling a hair that has not got any tangles can be a rather boring task, so after awhile Rin got bored with it. For some time the little girl examined the long white hair very carefully with all her concentration like she was trying to figure out something very important.

First very carefully, and then with more confidence, she began to roll long strands of hair around her finger. When she had a small bun in her hand, she took a flower and stuck it through the hair so that the flower's stem held the small hair roll up. After managing to do that, she made another one and another one until the great demon lord had a wreath around his head.

Because Sesshoumaru had a lot of hair in his head, Rin was very pleased to see that there was still something to work on. And so, she made two very beautiful braids on each side of Sesshoumaru's head. After finishing this task she circled the demon few times to make sure her work of art was perfect.

All this time Sesshoumaru sat still without saying a word or making any other sound either.

Just when Rin decided her work there was done, a few birds flew from one tree to another singing very beautifully. She looked up to the sky but instead of the birds it was the clouds that captured her interest. She told to Sesshoumaru that it was a perfect cloud day.

Of course, now that she had mentioned a cloud day, she absolutely had to tell him what a perfect cloud day was. Apparently day is like that when there are lots of pretty white puffy clouds on the sky. Those kinds of clouds are very interesting, because they can tell stories. Like now there was definitely going on a story about a rabbit chasing a mouse. Or was it a cat eating a carrot? Well, it did not really matter, both were very nice and interesting stories, and it would not be fare to the rabbit, or to the cat, if she told Sesshoumaru only one of them. That is why she told him both stories, just to be fare.

She also noticed that Sesshoumaru's "soft and fluffy fur thing" as she called it, looked very similar to the clouds.

But it is a well known fact that the easiest way to watch clouds is to lie on the ground. That way your neck will not hurt later. That is also how Rin watched the clouds, and because of her busy day and so much running she finally fell asleep all her legs and arms pointing at different directions and her hair all messy around her.

Sesshoumaru kept playing statue for a little while longer. After the clouds had told a few other stories as well, he slowly got up and shook the flowers off of him. The he reached up to touch his hair to feel what the little girl had done to him. He shivered a little when the reality hit him. With all the dignity he had, he took the flowers off his hair and undid the braids and small buns. Then he made sure his precious hair was just as silky and straight as it should be.

When he had finished this mission, he gathered all the flowers and moved them further away from him sneezing again. Then he walked to the girl lying on the emerald colored grass and as gently as possible he lifted her up and carried to the tree.

He sat to lean against the tree and placed the girl next to him so that she was sleeping against his fur. Then he made sure her bare feet were covered with fur too so that she would not feel cold. After he was sure everything was as it supposed to be, he leaned back and closed his eyes his hand holding a strand of her hair in a gentle grip.

"Aww…" Kagome sighed and wiped a tear from her eye.

"Tell me about it", Sango agreed.

"That cannot be Sesshoumaru. He's just some replacement. Naraku probably poisoned him or something" Inuyasha grumbled.

"It certainly seems that we do not know all about that guy", Miroku mused and started to back away. "We'd better leave before he notices us."

"You're right", Kagome nodded. They left their hiding place as quietly as possible, though Sango and Kagome could not stop whispering about how cute Sesshoumaru and Rin were together. Who would have thought he could be so fatherly?

Under a tree in the middle of a meadow a one demon lord sighed relieved when a bunch of nuisances finally left him alone. "Idiots", he muttered and then smiled just a little bit.

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Hi! I hope you enjoyed it! This is a silly little story I came up with. I just wanted to play wit Sesshy a little. I might do other stories like this as well, I'll just add another chapter if I feel like it. Please please please review!!! I like Sesshy and Rin. Their relationship is so cute (I don't like it romantically...) Anyway, to my new readers, nice to meet you ^^ and to old ones: finally you got to read something like this too ;)

Love, Val