Still Playing Catch Up
This was written a while back for the size isn't everything prompt over on iyfic_contest.
Title: Remembrance
Author: aimee_blue
Prompt: Size Isn't Everything
Rating: K
Words:250
Summary: CU.Shippo considers the consequences of his happiness.
Little fox paws scuffed anxiously against the dirt as Shippo waited for Kaede to finish bandaging Kagome’s hands. Shame made him hang his head, and every wince from the priestess made his stomach clench in anxiety.
Inuyasha had charged him with protecting Kagome, but his legs had been too short to reach her in time. She’d been hurt.
It wasn’t serious, just some shallow scrapes on the palms of her hands. But it meant she couldn’t use a bow. It meant that Inuyasha had panicked - his distraction almost losing him a limb. Yet, for the kit, it meant something worse.
It meant remembrance.
It was easy, basking in Kagome’s company and care, to pretend like he was her little brother. But fantasies were often quashed cruelly by brutal realities. Today he’d realised Kagome’s humanity. Every time he remembered it tore at his heart. Kagome was human; temporary. This quest he was on would end. This family he’d built would fade.
The kit was drawn from his melancholy as Inuyasha cuffed him about his head, garnering his attention. “Stop beating yourself up,” he commanded gruffly.
Shippo blinked; the Hanyou’s rare bouts of insightfulness were always shocking.
“It wouldn’t matter if you were bigger or stronger or anythin’,” he grouched, folding his arms and shooting Kagome an exasperated look, “she’d still find a way to get hurt.”
“Inuyasha!” Kagome protested, though perhaps not as vehemently usual.
“’Cause the stupid girl can’t sit still when she thinks she can help,” Inuyasha finished matter-of-factly.
Title: Remembrance
Author: aimee_blue
Prompt: Size Isn't Everything
Rating: K
Words:250
Summary: CU.Shippo considers the consequences of his happiness.
Little fox paws scuffed anxiously against the dirt as Shippo waited for Kaede to finish bandaging Kagome’s hands. Shame made him hang his head, and every wince from the priestess made his stomach clench in anxiety.
Inuyasha had charged him with protecting Kagome, but his legs had been too short to reach her in time. She’d been hurt.
It wasn’t serious, just some shallow scrapes on the palms of her hands. But it meant she couldn’t use a bow. It meant that Inuyasha had panicked - his distraction almost losing him a limb. Yet, for the kit, it meant something worse.
It meant remembrance.
It was easy, basking in Kagome’s company and care, to pretend like he was her little brother. But fantasies were often quashed cruelly by brutal realities. Today he’d realised Kagome’s humanity. Every time he remembered it tore at his heart. Kagome was human; temporary. This quest he was on would end. This family he’d built would fade.
The kit was drawn from his melancholy as Inuyasha cuffed him about his head, garnering his attention. “Stop beating yourself up,” he commanded gruffly.
Shippo blinked; the Hanyou’s rare bouts of insightfulness were always shocking.
“It wouldn’t matter if you were bigger or stronger or anythin’,” he grouched, folding his arms and shooting Kagome an exasperated look, “she’d still find a way to get hurt.”
“Inuyasha!” Kagome protested, though perhaps not as vehemently usual.
“’Cause the stupid girl can’t sit still when she thinks she can help,” Inuyasha finished matter-of-factly.