She'd turned around to the sight of bright pinks and yellows. Even more stunned when he placed two large bundles of said bright colors.
Inuyasha, whom was only turned for a moment faced his brother now. However the sight had him sputtering and cackling like a mad man. He wheezed so loudly, that little Rin tugged his sleeve wanting to know what was so funny.
"Lord Inuyasha, what's so funny? I want to know," she giggled at his antics.
"His greatness, Lord Sesshomaru has brought Lady Kagome a thousand of the sweetest buds," Jaken squaked loudly.
By now, Inuyasha was on the brink of tears and red in the face. He had not thought his brother would take what he said so literally.
Seeing the commotion, Shippo rounded his mother. His eyes immediately narrowed, his overprotective nature bubbling up.
Nervously, Kagome's eyes skittered from each of the bouquets. Dear kami, there was so many.
Hearing the continued laughter, Sesshomaru sighed his eyes nearly rolling in his skull.
If not for her, he'd have already had have beat the boy with the bouquet in his arms.
Courting your younger idiotic brother's best friend was the test of all tests.
Sorry I was gone for so long! I had a lot of things smack me all at once...đ
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Summary: Sesshomaru appears out of the blue at the foot of Kagome's porch one morning. What could he possibly need? And why does he want her to follow? SesskagÂ
Pairing: Sesshomaru x Kagome
Rating: E
My response for June ddn prompt: Aid
Preview:
âMiko,â Sesshomaru bows to Kagome as she lifts up the canvas flap at her hut's entrance. She pauses, blinking at him. Stepping outside her hut, she returns the bow. Â Kagome smiles at Sesshomaru as she rights her posture.
"Good Morning, Sesshomaru,â she greets, âI wasnât expecting anyone today, I hope you werenât waiting long.â
âIâm in need of your assistance,â Sesshomaru states. Pivoting on his heel, Sesshomaru treks his way across her lawn toward the village road. He looks back at Kagome over his shoulder, âBring your herbs.
Some thoughts on Hanyo no Yashahime ep. 15 (some serious, some not):
1. Hats off to Riku for being at least a mildly interesting OC. I care about his motivations enough to keep watching the show, which is more than I can say about most anime-only characters. Congratulations to Riku and his amazing eye makeup, hereâs to the rest of the season
2. Inuyasha finally got to live the life - more or less - that he and Kikyo originally dreamed about, and I think thatâs nice! He has a little house with a garden, and a âjobâ exterminating demons, and a local community of friends and neighbors, and friends from further afield who come and visit him, and his social circle is a nice mix of humans and youkai. Inuyasha is fully and (by the looks of it) happily integrated into his found community without having to sacrifice either his demon or human side, and I THINK THATâS NICE
3. In modern times, Kirinmaru would be known as âour family friendâ and Sesshomaru would be obligated to introduce him as âUncle Kirinmaru - well, not my real uncle, I just call him that because heâs known my dad for, like, foreverâÂ
4. At first blush, this would make Zero Sesshomaruâs mean auntie, but what with the whole âhumiliated by your fatherâ line and the Gold and Silver jewels being made from her tears, I suspect sheâs actually a jilted lover - or would-be lover - of Togaâs who now lives to stir up trouble for his kids. Toga probably tossed her aside for Izayoi and sheâs clearly still salty about it
5. Rinâs childbirth scene is the worst thing Iâve seen in a long time, but not for the reason everyoneâs fighting about. It unfortunately exposes two major flaws, one of writing female characters in the shonen genre, and one of Rinâs character specifically. The first problem is that shonen writers usually have no idea what to do with pregnancy and childbirth, because, I suspect, they have no actual interest in the motherâs experience; for them, pregnancy and childbirth serve purely as plot devices, and the postpartem female body becomes a problem to be gotten rid of as soon as possible.
Usually this is âsolvedâ by killing off the mother right after giving birth. Rin escapes this fate, only to be subjected to having both her babies and her agency taken away. Shedding a single tear? Uttering such an inane line as âI have faith in Sesshomaru-samaâ when he didnât say a single word to her after what was likely hours of being in labor? I confess that this is the point when I lost it and just started laughing, the scene was so bad-hilarious. Nobody is this long-suffering and trusting about being ignored by their husband as he silently kidnaps her children literally from under her nose. Nobody. Rin was done dirty by this scene, and it just underscores the misogyny running through the shonen genre.
Unfortunately, this scene also doubles down on Rinâs role as a device for Sesshomaruâs character growth, which is itself pretty problematic. Her (multiple!!) deaths in IY prompt Sesshomaru toward emotional turning points in his character development, and here again in HNY her confusion and sadness over losing Towa and Setsuna lend pathos to Sesshomaruâs actions. We, the viewers, know that Sesshomaru is hiding the twins away so that Kirinmaru and Zero canât find and kill them; I think the writers somehow wants the viewer to feel anguish on Sesshomaruâs behalf that he must commit such a seemingly cruel act for the sake of his familyâs safety and canât tell anyone about it because heâs such a tough guy loner etc. etc. But instead it comes across as confusing and unnecessary, especially since Kagome already knows the whole story and asks Sesshomaru point-blank about it. [Edited to add]: This model of stoicism-as-masculinity has not aged well from the original IY run. Female characters should not have to passively accept pain and confusion inflicted on them by male characters in the name of male characters acting âfor their own good.â Sesshomaruâs refusal to communicate anything, ever, is not a romantic character trait: it does not make him mysterious or cool or badass, it just makes him kind of an asshole to the people he supposedly cares about, and I hope the rest of the series will actually grapple with that. Sesshomaru, in this scene, kicks off a whole chain of events that end up going disastrously for his family. One daughter stuck on âthe other sideâ? One daughter with her memories and sleep stolen? His wife stuck in a tree? I have a hard time believing all of that was planned. The whole scenario is contrived and stupid and I hate it.Â
6. Not least because Sesshomaruâs proposed solution makes no sense! What are these babies going to eat? Where will they sleep? If Sesshomaru is ok with bringing newborns into a forest and leaving them under a tree, why wouldnât he just bring Rin at the same time and make her recuperate from - again- a physically grueling ordeal under said tree? Itâs not like he knows what the heck childbirth involves anyway! His whole decision-making process is bizarre and confirms my suspicion, held for some 15 years, that Sesshomaru is not some cool lone wolf type who has it all together, but instead is merely a fuck-up like the rest of us. As any quiet person (*raises hand*) knows, a great way to pick up a reputation for being âaloof,â âcold,â or âintimidatingâ is to say as little as possible, even if on the inside you are hopelessly just trying to keep your head above water.Â
This is HNY Sesshomaru in a nutshell:
Where were you going to get all of these things, Sesshomaru?! Oh thatâs right you didnât think that far ahead DID YOU?!????
7. If Sesshomaru is at his momâs house, and Jaken is at his momâs house, then who is watching the babies????? (Tbh probably Sessho-mama)
Anyway this episode was A Mess but it was nice seeing Inuyasha and Kagome again. More of them and the rest of the original gang, please!Â
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"Saying "a mom with kids as the heroine" might feel a bit unusual for a shonen manga, but since the daughters are uncovering their momâs Cinderella story, the narrative structure works. Probably."
