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[shirokodomo]

konosesshomaru​:

“You’re welcome! They’re really tasty!” Humans as a species adapted to their surroundings quite well and they often used their ingenuity to craft themselves tools to use to survive through difficult situations. This is what others call ‘wisdom’ or ‘creativity.’ This was an attribute of humans that other creatures ironically admired. It was perhaps because of this that when creatures gained Enlightenment, they often took on the forms of humans. How ironic, isn’t it?

Rin always found it easy to adapt herself to a new situation and warming up to the new party member was extremely easy for her. She watched excitedly as Hakudoshi would eat some of the berries that she picked with avid fascination. “Do you like them? I really like these red berries a lot! These blue ones are nice too.” Rin started to point at the two berries in question. Small talk was something she wasn’t often allowed because Lord Sesshomaru was not much of a talker and Jaken normally rose his voice- prompting for Sesshomaru to shut them up for being ‘noisy.’

Able to sense her enthusiasm, Sesshomaru did not have the heart to tell her to quiet down. She was, in his eyes, a pup. They were such excitable things; it would be cruel to tell her to settle down now that she had in her sights a new playmate. Socialization is especially important from a young age, not that he’d know from personal experience.

Jaken could have said something, but Sesshomaru had already sent him a pre-emptive stare, allowing Rin to have her bonding moment with the new member of the team. As she was a pup he’d taken under his wing, it was his duty to give her the best environment he could to nurturing her into a fruitful adulthood. Making sure she could socialize and be kept healthy was the task of a guardian. Everything else was up to her, such as learning life lessons.

For a guardian, he had a rather hands-off approach. He only interfered whenever necessary. The fish was distributed out to everyone to eat. Normally, Sesshomaru would go first, but he’d already instructed for the young one (ie Rin) to go first as a child must eat to grow. Now that Hakudoshi has joined, the same logic applied to him as well. He was no father, but he took to this guardian role quite well.

At first he wasn’t fond of the idea...staying and forming a group with two demons and one human girl. Of course though, that slowly came to change. If the annoying green imp was put aside, he had been quite welcomed into the group despite having been born from their enemy’s flesh.

Perhaps if he stuck around a little bit longer, he would find out the reason. By the looks of his wound, it would probably close completely in a day or two more but even so by tomorrow he would be able to move with some more freedom.

❝ Hm. ❞ he mused at Rin’s excitement about her favorite berries  ❝ I don’t think I have any favorite like you.. ❞ he wasn’t a picky eater though if asked he preferred fish over meat, Hakudōshi didn’t eat much either perhaps it came with the fact he wasn’t exactly a naturally born demon. 

And it wasn’t like the places Naraku picked as hideouts were equipped with any cooking rooms. The incarnations were very much left to go and pick their own food, if you were hungry then go hunt your food and this demon child didn’t really mind it.

In part that was why Hakudōshi wasn’t used to being ‘taken care of’. He had always to fend for himself.

As he quietly ate the fish, occasionally sending death glares at the green imp whenever he decided to mutter something about him, his violet eyes eventually set on Sesshōmaru. The demon child had decided to give him some useful information...

❝ Naraku’s latest location was inside a mountain in the East... ❞ he revealed after swallowing the piece of fish he had been chewing  ❝ Though if he knows I am with you, there is a chance he has already fled from there. ❞