Hey there all you readers! This is a Rin and Sesshomaru story; maybe some Inuyasha and Kagome pairings in it. No rating yet. I still don't know what to call this story, but when I finish this first chapter, I'll make sure to tell you. In this first chapter, Rin is still a young girl, seven, and living in another village, not the one she gets beat up in. Sesshomaru will be young still, the same age as in the Anime (which I don't know).

Disclaimers: Inuyasha does not belong to me (I only own a plushy of Inuyasha and of Kirara)

Rin was excited. Today was her 7th birthday. She was supposed to go to her aunt and uncle's village to learn how to become a lady. (She comes from a noble family, but was raised by her parents to be a peasant. She does not know any of this.)

"Rin! Are you packed and ready to go?" called her mother.

"Yes I am. When do we leave for Uncle Sano's village? I want to meet my new cousin!" said Rin.

Her mother laughed at Rin's impatience to go.

"At dawn we leave. Now, go to sleep. We have a long journey to make." she replied.

Rin went to her room and laid down on her bed. She was almost asleep when she heard screams coming from outside, in the village. Her mother ran into the room and pulled Rin out of the bed.

"Rin! You must find a safe place to hide! Whatever you do, do not make a sound until I come for you! Is that clear?" said her mother. Rin nodded and ran off to find place to hide.

Rin ran into the kitchen and saw the fire pit with its reed cover on it.

'That'll be a perfect place for me to hide!' thought Rin.

She pulled off the cover and scrambled inside, then pulled the lid back on. Soon she heard more screams and suddenly she heard the demon roar. It sounded as if it were in the hut! She lay very still in the pit.

"No! Mika! Don't die! Noooooooooo! You demon! I shall kill... unhhh... at...least...now...I...cough-cough...shall be with... Mica... and... Rin...now...Farewell...world...cough-cough." Rin heard her father say before he died.

Rin gasped silently to herself.

'No! My parents! They cannot be dead!' she thought to herself. 'I'm going to have to stay here. I don't know where Uncle Sano lives.'

She started to cry silently, mourning the loss of her parents. She soon cried herself to sleep.

When Rin woke up, everything was quiet. She silently lifted up the lid and went outside to see what had happened.

All she saw were dead bodies. Some of them were ripped apart. She went to each of the huts to see if any people had survived the attack.

She was the only survivor. Rin then decided that she would go to the neighboring village to the east and stay there. It was only a two-hour walk away.

There were no demons on the path as she walked. Soon she reached the village and went to find the village leader.

Rin soon found the house. She knocked on the side of the house.

"You may enter," a voice said.

She went inside and immediately bowed down until she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Who are you? Where are your parents? Why have you come here?" asked Soun, the village leader.

Rin mimed writing, then pointed at her throat and shook her head to signal that she did not talk.

Soun understood and got a slab of smooth wood and a ink brush for Rin to use. She bowed again in thanks.

"My name is Rin. I come from the village to the west of here. My parents were killed last night, as were my fellow villagers. The wolf demon tribe that lives in the northern mountains attacked our village. I have come here to ask to live in a small hut on the outskirts of the village," she wrote.

Soun read what she had written, and nodded his consent. He motioned for her to follow him, and led her to a tiny shack by the river.

"This is where you shall stay. You shall provide your own food. Live here happily." said Soun. With that, he turned and went back into the village.

Rin went inside and started to clean up the place. She finished the task quickly and then went into the forest to collect rushes to make into a sleeping mat and baskets, grass and soft moss to make blankets, round stones for a fire pit, and some sharp sticks to make into fishing spears.

She found the rushes by the river. Since it was summer, the rushes were already dry enough to weave into the mat and baskets she needed. Rin first made the baskets- three of them-, and then she made the mat. She rolled it up and put it into a basket. She wandered around, looking for items that she needed and saw a lot of stones. She chose nine of them and put them in a basket. She went farther in and found grass and moss abounding, so she wove some of the grass and moss together to make a thin blanket. She wove another one that was a lot thicker than the first. Rin then decided she had enough to get by with for then, so she rolled those up also and went to search for roots, berries, and wild fruits, which she gathered. Rin then went back to her new hut and set everything up the way she wanted it. By the time she'd finished it was almost noon.

Rin decided that she'd go to her old village and try to find some tools to make weapons and fishing poles/spears.

She started off then without telling the village leader where she was going.

Rin soon arrived at the village. She then went to her family's hut and got the tools needed to make weapons and fishing equipment.

After she had got what she'd come for, she left the village and returned to her new home.

When she got there, however, a mob of angry villagers came upon her and started to beat her with sticks.

"You ungrateful child! How dare you leave without telling the village leader! Now he is out in the forest looking for you because he was worried about you! Go out and find him! We will not let you back inside until he is safely inside the village!" cried the villagers.

Rin ran into the forest and started to look for him. She heard a noise coming from some bushes and went to see if it was Soun. It wasn't him.

So, how did you like the chapter? The name of this fanfiction is Only Time Will Tell the Truth. Review please!