EXT. FOREST. EARLY MORNING.
Umm... Err... Gudday there. I think most of you know me. If not, then I'm the one your friends warned you about.
This little thing I'm putting up here mainly because it has nowhere else to go. I don't write all that much at the best of times and I've never got the hang of writing fan fiction at all. So this came out of nowhere (and almost went back to nowhere again, it was only drealkulit's superlative Google skills that rescued it from digital oblivion).
As usual, there's a story behind the story. In fact the story behind is probably more interesting than the story itself which is really quite pedestrian.
Basically... I have been watching anime off and on for the last... just under a year and a half now. Which probably wouldn't be so odd except that I'm middle aged and live in New Zealand where anime is fairly much unheard of unless it involves pokemons or dragonballz. The last of which, when I first heard of it was in the context of someone at the comic shop counter asking if the staff had any of them and before I could restrain myself I suggested to the poor kid that he just lift up the dragon's tail and look. Surprisingly enough I'm still allowed to walk into the comic shop. But I digress.
Anyway. One of the anime I've been watching is "Inuyasha". I find the show quite likeable in its own little slightly odd way. It's not as frenetic as some I've seen (I don't remember anyone in this show screaming at another character that they are never to call him a super mega hyper shorty shorty* again or anything like that...) but it achieves a judicious balance of long-term plot and short-term action that makes it just good fun.
* Using a word I always thought meant "cuddly toy". It's been far too many years since sixth form Japanese.
Anyway this was sparked off by a certain running debate about a certain character's... appendage. Or accessory. Or something. During the debate it was suggested that said... appendage... might be of some use after all, for keeping this character's toady (literally - he's a somewhat annoying demonic toad. Like a certain Evil Mutant except with even worse fashion sense) warm on cold nights. My warped and twisted mind put the idea together with a couple of other silly ideas and the following few paragraphs fell together.
I was thinking of trying to cut the number of words down a bit so I could make a proper drabble (100 words exactly) out of it, but it's just a bit too long to be able to do that without losing anything important. So a formless few paragraphs it stays.
Apparently I'm supposed to do an acknowledgement sort of thing. So thanks to Megs for the inspiration (and yes I still think It is a feather boa), Kulit for the rescue and Rumiko Takahashi for writing and drawing the books in the first place.
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EXT. FOREST. EARLY MORNING.
"Jaken, what is the meaning of this?"
"My apologies, Lord Sesshomaru! I was cold, and if my joints froze up I would be unable to serve the great Lord Sesshomaru! Please don't be angry, Lord Sesshomaru!"
"..."
"The great Lord Sesshomaru is lifting up the Human Head Staff! The great Lord Sesshomaru is holding the Human Head Staff the wrong way up! The great Lord Sesshomaru is swinging the Human Head Staff! The great Lord Sessh... BWAAAARK!!!"
The story actually ends happily for all concerned, at least for a time. Jaken's flight described an arc over the forest until he landed head first down a certain well, which took pity on the abused little toad and transported him to late 20th-century Tokyo, where he was taken in by a little girl who thought he was (1) cute and (2) a merchandising spin-off from the 1980s stop-motion animated version of "The Wind in the Willows". For some months he was content to sit in a toy car and shout "Parp! Parp!" upon request - a task less dignified but much less dangerous and onerous than attending Lord Sesshomaru - until one day he died of fright upon viewing a re-run of "Are You Being Served?" and recognising Mr. Humphries for who he really was.
In later years Sesshomaru was gifted with an honorary life membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews for hitting the world's first recorded hole-in-one.
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I have no idea whether either of the two TV shows mentioned have ever actually been shown in Japan. Then again a Japan in which demonic toads actually exist could be expected to have some other minor differences to the Japan of this universe.
This little thing I'm putting up here mainly because it has nowhere else to go. I don't write all that much at the best of times and I've never got the hang of writing fan fiction at all. So this came out of nowhere (and almost went back to nowhere again, it was only drealkulit's superlative Google skills that rescued it from digital oblivion).
As usual, there's a story behind the story. In fact the story behind is probably more interesting than the story itself which is really quite pedestrian.
Basically... I have been watching anime off and on for the last... just under a year and a half now. Which probably wouldn't be so odd except that I'm middle aged and live in New Zealand where anime is fairly much unheard of unless it involves pokemons or dragonballz. The last of which, when I first heard of it was in the context of someone at the comic shop counter asking if the staff had any of them and before I could restrain myself I suggested to the poor kid that he just lift up the dragon's tail and look. Surprisingly enough I'm still allowed to walk into the comic shop. But I digress.
Anyway. One of the anime I've been watching is "Inuyasha". I find the show quite likeable in its own little slightly odd way. It's not as frenetic as some I've seen (I don't remember anyone in this show screaming at another character that they are never to call him a super mega hyper shorty shorty* again or anything like that...) but it achieves a judicious balance of long-term plot and short-term action that makes it just good fun.
* Using a word I always thought meant "cuddly toy". It's been far too many years since sixth form Japanese.
Anyway this was sparked off by a certain running debate about a certain character's... appendage. Or accessory. Or something. During the debate it was suggested that said... appendage... might be of some use after all, for keeping this character's toady (literally - he's a somewhat annoying demonic toad. Like a certain Evil Mutant except with even worse fashion sense) warm on cold nights. My warped and twisted mind put the idea together with a couple of other silly ideas and the following few paragraphs fell together.
I was thinking of trying to cut the number of words down a bit so I could make a proper drabble (100 words exactly) out of it, but it's just a bit too long to be able to do that without losing anything important. So a formless few paragraphs it stays.
Apparently I'm supposed to do an acknowledgement sort of thing. So thanks to Megs for the inspiration (and yes I still think It is a feather boa), Kulit for the rescue and Rumiko Takahashi for writing and drawing the books in the first place.
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EXT. FOREST. EARLY MORNING.
"Jaken, what is the meaning of this?"
"My apologies, Lord Sesshomaru! I was cold, and if my joints froze up I would be unable to serve the great Lord Sesshomaru! Please don't be angry, Lord Sesshomaru!"
"..."
"The great Lord Sesshomaru is lifting up the Human Head Staff! The great Lord Sesshomaru is holding the Human Head Staff the wrong way up! The great Lord Sesshomaru is swinging the Human Head Staff! The great Lord Sessh... BWAAAARK!!!"
The story actually ends happily for all concerned, at least for a time. Jaken's flight described an arc over the forest until he landed head first down a certain well, which took pity on the abused little toad and transported him to late 20th-century Tokyo, where he was taken in by a little girl who thought he was (1) cute and (2) a merchandising spin-off from the 1980s stop-motion animated version of "The Wind in the Willows". For some months he was content to sit in a toy car and shout "Parp! Parp!" upon request - a task less dignified but much less dangerous and onerous than attending Lord Sesshomaru - until one day he died of fright upon viewing a re-run of "Are You Being Served?" and recognising Mr. Humphries for who he really was.
In later years Sesshomaru was gifted with an honorary life membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews for hitting the world's first recorded hole-in-one.
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I have no idea whether either of the two TV shows mentioned have ever actually been shown in Japan. Then again a Japan in which demonic toads actually exist could be expected to have some other minor differences to the Japan of this universe.