What Came First by Sirinya

What Came First - Eggs

Nobody's Weekly Challenge Jan. 06, 2009 

Word count: 500
Theme: Eggs
Karma for including rooster

Completed on Jan. 09, 2009

Disclaimer: The characters of InuYasha are not mine, they are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz Media. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. 

What Came First

It was Sunday morning, although not too early, it was after all, a weekend. The smell of a typical American breakfast filled the house. Sesshoumaru sat at the head of the table reading his newspaper and sipping his coffee. Kagome was still in the kitchen fixing the rest of breakfast, and little Rin was staring at her breakfast, toast, jam, hash browns, sausage, and eggs.

“Papa?”

 “Yes Rin?” He replied without taking his eye off the article he was reading and took a sip of his coffee.

Rin seemed to be contemplating something as she stared at her breakfast. After a couple minutes of silence she finally looked up at him, confusion swirling in her eyes, her nose all scrunched up, and asked, “Papa, eggs come from chickens right?”

Sesshoumaru paused in his reading about how the financial sector was crumbling and glanced at his daughter. He had a feeling he wasn’t going to like where this line of thought was going to go. Rin had a tendency to think in very confusing circles.

“Yes, chickens lay eggs Rin,” He replied.

Rin’s face scrunched up even more before continuing her line of questions, “And chickens come from eggs, right?”

“Yes, chickens hatch from eggs,” Sesshoumaru replied.

During this time Kagome had finished making two plates of breakfast and sat down at the table. She looked at her four year old daughter, watching as Rin’s eyes grew wide and a look of puzzlement intensified on her face.  Call it mother’s intuition, but Kagome knew that by the end of this morning, everyone would be left just as baffled as their daughter.

Rin dropped her fork and looked up at her father, “But if the egg came from the chicken, and the chicken came from the egg…  Papa, which one came first?”

Sesshoumaru paused to take a bite of his breakfast, “the egg.”

Rin pushed her breakfast around some more, “what laid the egg?”

Sesshoumaru turned the page of his newspaper, “a chicken.”

Rin looks at her father from the corner of her eye, “where did the chicken come from?”

The coffee cup had stopped midway to Sesshoumaru’s lips. He looked over the rim of the cup at his daughter before raising an eyebrow, his face blank but he now realized the dilemma his daughter was going through, “from an egg,” he replied and looked to Kagome for help. She looked right back and shrugged her shoulders. She was just as confused as they were.

Looking at Rin, Kagome was sure that her daughter had just developed a migraine from her thoughts of trying to answer one of the world’s most unanswerable questions.  Then suddenly Rin’s face cleared up as if she solved it.

Rin smiled up at her parents showing her little teeth, “they both came from a rooster!” she yelled as she ran off to play somewhere in the house.

Sesshoumaru and Kagome stared at each for the longest time, completely confused as to how Rin’s answer even made sense. 

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Its 500 words exactly without the title. And this is my first attempt at even writing any type of story since high school , although I’ve been reading Sesshoumaru and Kagome fanfiction since 2002 and other fanfictions years before that. O_O  So I expect there to be a lot of  grammar mistakes.   Be slightly gentle if you review. lol