Title: Peas in a Pod
Author: aimee_blue
Prompt: Jealousy
Characters: Jinenji, Kagome, Inuyasha
P.O.V.:Jinenji
Genre: Friendship, Family, General
Words: 300
Rating: K
Summary: CU. Inuyasha shares something precious.
Assorted noises of merriment crowded the small hut. The kitsune was entertaining the older children with his dazzling array of tricks. The sounds of happiness and frivolity had long been missing from his home, and Jinenji revelled in them.
A tug on his kimono made him glance down and golden eyes stared back fearlessly. The child was just learning to crawl, fascinated with everything and had already decided that the best way to experience new things was to bite them. Blue eyes indulgent, Jinenji plucked the youngster from the floor and smiled as he attempted to gnaw off a finger with a mouthful of gums.
“It’s worse when they’re teething,” Inuyasha told him good-naturedly, prising a child from his shoulder as he tried to bite off one of the twitching puppy appendages. Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha tipped the tyke upside down and tickled him into submission. Before handing him off to his indulgent mother, Kagome sat the child on her lap and turned him to watch Shippo once more.
“Your family is precious,” Jinenji murmured.
“My rabble is loud,” Inuyasha snorted, “and we descended on you like hounds from hell, you don’t need to be polite.”
A small smile crept onto his face as a young girl attempted to scale him as though he was a climbing frame.
“Aiko!” Inuyasha clucked, snagging the bottom of her kimono and tossing her in Shippo’s direction.
Kagome chuckled ruefully. “Sorry, they climb everyone they’re attached to. You should have seen them burry Jaken in a puppy-pile.”
“They’re loud,” Jinenji conceded, “but I envy you your family, Inuyasha.”
Inuyasha stared ahead at Shippo’s tricks as he awkwardly corrected, “You’re part of it, nothing to envy.”
Jinenji’s eyes watered and Kagome chuckled indulgently, squeezing his hand. The pup on her knee mimicked his mother earnestly.