#the early 2000s weeb spelling of sesshoumaru will be pulled from my cold dead hands

[after-witch]

Thank you so much for sharing your work with us! I recently reread your works for Sesshomaru and I still find him to be such an interesting character. I always find your characterisations to be very grounded and multifaceted. Maybe for Lord Sesshomaru:

My Lord, if I may ask, what is your plan? Are we just supposed to follow you until we’re too old to walk?

Thank you, I'm glad you like them and like the characterizations!

notes: yandere, kidnapped reader, we stan a reader who is a smartass

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Oh, some part of you wishes you could capture the sound Jaken just made in a jar, so you could let it out bit by bit to entertain you on nights where the world seemed too dark and heavy.

But before he can turn around and chastise you, Ren skips in between the pair of you.

"I won't be too old to walk for a long time!" She says, grinning, oblivious--or perhaps more accurately, ignoring--your softly worded barb towards the demon lord she held in such reverence.

The only sign that Sesshoumaru has heard you is the fact that he's stopped walking.

He doesn't say anything. Not yet, and truthfully, you wonder if he'll even bother acknowledging what you said. He often ignores you, expecting you to simply fall in line like the rest. And you do... mostly.

But sometimes you can't help it. Your parents used to send you to bed without supper for your sass, and in some ways, that hasn't changed.

You wonder if he'll take away your meals for a day or two, or perhaps have Jaken get out the rope again and tie it to your wrists like a leash. Maybe he'll make you stick close to Jaken for a while, although that was more a punishment for Jaken than you.

But then Sesshoumaru turns his head just enough for you to see the profile of his face.

"If you're too old and feeble to walk," he says, calm as ever, and isn't that the most annoying thing? "Then I'll have Jaken carry you on his back."

With that, he turns back around, and begins to walk again.

"But my lord!"

Jaken's words splutter out of his mouth, his eyes wide, anxious and frenzied, even as he hurries to follow his lord and master.

You sigh, and force your feet to continue moving. Maybe one day you'll understand why he keeps you. But not today.