InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lazy Jaken ❯ Carrying My Pay and the Mute Girl ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or its characters. The very talented Rumiko Takahashi owns him and the entire cast. (Except for Tsuri, the kitten, she is mine. Yay! Sweet kitty! And the un-named lord, he's mine too.) And the rating may be wrong but it will NOT go higher.

By: year of the snake (at fanfiction) (aka.) crescentmoon (at mediaminer)

Chapter 5

 

The sun rose too soon for Jaken and he once again trudged his way to the little city. He was now convinced that the only person he could work for successfully was Lord Sesshoumaru. But he would continue to seek employment elsewhere until his lord took him back.

He took a job mucking out stables for a demon mount trainer. After a long, long, oh-just-way-too-long day with that job the trainer gave him an old nag. The nag was a giant, compared to Jaken, two headed dragon mount. The old dragon's name was Ah-Un.

The semi-humanoid demon looked at Jaken strange when he asked him to help him tie the mount to his back. The trainer laughed heartily and decided to humor the impish demon.

Together they somehow managed to get the startled Ah-Un on his back and not have a Jaken flapjack. Ah-Un's legs kicked nothing but air as he tried to right himself. Jaken took 3 steps before he regretted working on the far side of town. The green figure stumbled his way through town with a heavy burden weighing him down.

As he neared the headman's house he heard a burst of feminine laughter. And a few minutes later the headman hurried out at him. By that time he had taken sixteen steps and was still not far from the first corner of the grand house.

Before the laughter started in the headman's home.

“My dearest daughter, does this young man's antics not make you want to laugh?”

The bored girl looked at her father then at the youth that was so eager to please her. She shook her head no, the ponytail on the side of her head franticly bobbed. She then stood up and left the room content not to see the rest of his lame attempt at juggling.

Her father quickly dismissed the man with a disappointed look. It had been nearly a year and his daughter still did not speak. The physicians said that should she laugh he voice would return.

At first he asked her to laugh, then he begged her, and he even tried to be funny. When those didn't work he hired the best of the best right down to the worst of the worst. They too failed. Finally in desperation he sent out an announcement if any could make his daughter laugh he would give him her hand in marriage.

Thus far all suitors have failed. The lord feared he would never hear his daughter laugh or speak again. No on in the entire house had been able to laugh since her voice disappeared. It just didn't seem right to laugh when the most cheerful one could not.

Then like Heaven's Gate suddenly opened and all blessings poured out from heaven a laugh, well giggle, filled the walls of this very house.

He rushed to see his one and only mute daughter laughing like she'd never in her life done so before.

“Daughter, what has caused this miracle?”

She pointed a shaky finger out the window to a green blob.

His lordship rushed out to reward whoever it was carrying the large beast.

“Good sir.” he called. “Good sir.” he tried again when he was ignored. Still he was ignored. His daughter now stood at his side. He couldn't let the man leave without his reward. So he stepped in front of the two demons.

One of the two heads of Ah-Un looked from it's upside down position into the face of the tall human man. The other looked into the eyes of his mid-teenaged daughter.

The girl smiled at the scaly mount and he let out a calm, “Almmm.” And a “Mew” followed. She looked at the little kitten trailing behind them. She didn't pay attention to what her father and the little man said.

“Tsuri!” she cried happily as she gathered the small animal in her arms. The kitten immediately emitted a purr. The man before Jaken abruptly stopped talking, his eyes nearly leaked tears of joy.

The town leader told the tiny man that they would resume their talk inside. Then he and his daughter walked inside. Soon he dispatched three young men. Two to help remove the large mount from its spot on the miniature demon's back. The other he sent to inform the reigning demon lord of what was happening.

He joined the human lord inside to talk about the details of the wedding after the two headed burden had been lifted.

Stunned, shocked, appalled. All were words that could describe what the man felt when he saw the knee high demon. He immediately removed his offer of his daughter's hand. He was unable to force his child to marry such an ugly thing.

Upon hearing this Jaken became quite upset, a mixture of angry and sad. He ran home to his master, who had been content at having the annoying servant off his hands for good. Then he relayed the tell of what the foolish human lord had done.

Sesshoumaru was appalled by the man's lack of honor. And by his own lack of peaceful servant-less bliss. So he and Jaken went to the lord of the village's house to force him to live up to his word. Also to get the pay Jaken so stupidly left behind.

“Have you no honor? You must keep your word and marry the girl to Jaken.”

“You expect me to let that thing marry my Rin!?!” The lesser lord pointed from Jaken to out the window where his daughter played. She was winding flowers into Ah-Un's mane and talking animatedly to the stripped kitten on its back. Even from here Sesshoumaru could sense the kindness and innocence that the woman-child possessed. Realizing that forcing the man to keep his word was a heinous crime even he couldn't commit. He just couldn't sentence such a sweet girl to a life attached to Jaken.

“Let's go Jaken.” He turned to leave.

“Wait! I realize that it is wrong that I am unable to keep my word. But I have gathered a large sum of money that should console you.” Rin's father dropped a large and very heavy sack into Jaken's arms. It was enough that all the pay the toady had lost or destroyed could be paid for a few hundred times over. Jaken became very gleeful. “My daughters weight in golden coins.”

The old mount was brought out front and the young woman thanked them for helping her regain her voice.

Jaken ended up having to give all the money and Ah-Un to Lord Sesshoumaru as pay for all the time he didn't work and Sesshoumaru kept him around.

In the next few months Rin became engaged to a boy named Kohaku and they were married the next year.

As not to have to deal with Jaken should he become lazy again he gave him to the newly weds.

“Why did my lord abandon me?!?” is something Jaken cries every so often.

Jaken still gets lazy but Rin's kitten, who is no longer a kitten but a full blown tiger, takes it upon herself to keep him in line. Every time Jaken starts to get lazy Tsuri plays with him, if he gets really bad she bites him, and should he get even lazier Tsuri tries to eat him.

As you can probably guess Jaken is rarely lazy anymore. But we happened to catch him on an extremely lazy day; he's neglecting his kid watching duties.

Tsuri gets up from her spot not to far away and lets her hunter's instinct take over. She silently stalks her prey. The large tiger pounces, landing on the sleeping, green, fishy pile, knocking the air out of said pile. Immediately she starts to chew, lightly, on the squirming demon's hand.

“Ahh! Get off me you crazy cat!”

And Tsuri lived happily with her Jaken hunting duties ever after.

“Why me!” squeaked the little demon when he heard the last line.

The End

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Well here is the end of Lazy Jaken. I actually don't hate, or even dislike Jaken. I had fun writing this story. I hope you all enjoyed it too.

Tsuri is the Japanese word for fisher in case any of you wanted to know.

Thanks for reading. Please review. Bye!