Chapter 1
"Lord Sesshomaru, it's my birthday today!" She looked up at me and squealed. I just stared down at her and continued to walk. She sighed and walked alongside me.
I sniffed at the air, locating any threats in the new territory we were heading into. There seemed to be a familiar scent but i hadn't smelled it in a long while. I looked back down at Rin, who seemed to be laggnig a little. She had been walking next to me for a while.
"Rin," I spoke.
"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru?" She replied looking back up at me.
"You seem a tired. Why don't you go ride Ah-Un?"
She smiled a little and rubbed her eyes. "Yes, Lord Sesshomaru." She turned and ran over to jump on the demon's back.
I was slightly distracted from the scent for a moment as I thought about Rin instead. She was turning 13 today and yet she still seemed the same. She seemed the same height and maturity. The same overly cheerful attitude she had when she joined me on my mission.
I closed my eyes and tried to drown out these thoughts. I needed to get to the village of Kagome and Inuyasha. As much as I despised the half-breed, his mate was kind, and I needed her to talk to Rin about maturity.
I scoffed to myself as I thought about Rin like that, becoming a maiden. I thought about all of the things I should do about her. It was unfit to have a human child with a demon, but even more so a human woman traveling alongside a demon. She should be living in a human village, with human males to court her…
Not alongside a demon who could harm her.
"Lord Sesshomaru, where are we going?" Jakken asked.
I didn't answer. I was too focused to answer such unnecessary questions. Jakken would know where we were going as soon as his small insignificant nose traced the same scent I was following. He had run into the half-breed more than once before, he should know his scent by now.
He sighed just as Rin had earlier and went continued walking.
Soon later we arrived at a village. According to the sickly sweet scent of flowers and forest, and the plain sickening smell of dog, my half-brother and his mate and the other humans with him were residing here. For such a big group, it was such a small space. There were only maybe 4 or 5 poorly made huts. I suppose they were just vermin, but even with as much ability they could've made a more decent sanctionary.
I started walking into this puny village when I heard a growl a distance away from me.
"Sesshomaru." Inuyasha growled at me. "What the hell are you doing here?"
I turned slightly to look at him. He looked just the same as the last time I saw him a few years ago, just after Naraku had been killed and the Shikon Jewel had been destroyed.
"Hello, little brother," I said lowly. "Where is your mate?"
He looked slightly shocked, but composed himself and scowled, crackin his knuckles with his claws in front of him, as if he were about to attack me. "Why do you want to know?" He spat.
"I need to speak to her."
"Like hell you do!" He lunged himself at me and swiped.
I moved out of the way ten times quicker than he could strike.
"Inuyasha, SIT!"
Inuyasha stopped, mid-attack, and crashed into the ground. I looked over and Kagome was standing away from us, holding hands with a two toddlers and an infant in a little carrier attatched to her back. One of the toddlers laughed at the beaten hanyou, and the other ran towards him and said, "You okay, daddy?" in a small voice.
Kagome giggled and looked back at me. "Hey, Sesshomaru, to what do we owe the pleasure?"
From the ground, Inuyasha scoffed, straigning to get back up.
I studdied Kagome. Unlike Inuyasha, her features had changed a little bit. She wasn't wearing the strange cloths she seemed to always wear in the past. She was wearing a spring kimono that didn't reach her knees. Her hair looked cut short to her shoulders and her eyes seemed very tired.
My gaze met hers and I simply said. "I need you to talk with Rin."
"About what exactly?" She asked, taking the hand of the toddler who went to check on Inuyasha.
"She's older now; I need a woman to tell her about becoming a maiden." I said.
She smiled warmly and looked at Rin and Jakken, then back to me. "Why don't you all come in?"
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