Disclaimer- Me? Owning Inuyasha? That's funny. Nope, I don't own Inuyasha.
Rin hummed as she picked flowers, Lord Sesshomaru had left her with Ah-Un while he and Jakken went to do something. Ah-Un was currently dozing by the small creek that ran not too far from the field.
It was about noon and Rin's stomach was growling. "Ah-Un, Rin is going to look for food, okay?" Rin's voice rang through the clearing.
The dragon nodded showing it understood then lazily closed it's eyes. Rin giggled and ran into the trees remembering a berry bush she had seen earlier.
She found the bush and grabbed as many berries as she could fit into her kimono.
Laughing, she made a game of how many she could get in her kimono without them spilling over. Kimono filled to the brim, she set off again to find Ah-Un.
She froze as she heard leaves crunching behind her. Behind her was a youkai. Eyes glowing red as it stalked it's next meal. Slowly turning around she saw it long body and sharp fangs- it was a snake youkai. Rin let a blood curdling scream and dropped her food as the snake lunged at her.
Then, coming from behind Rin, an arrow glowing pink wised by and struck the youkai right between the eyes. The snake youkai hissed in pain and then blew up. Rin let out a startled gasp and whirled around to see a black haired girl standing in front of her. The girl approached Rin slowly, trying not to scare her.
"Hello, I'm Kagome. Are you okay?", Rin just stared at her,
"I won't hurt you, promise. But I need to see if you were hurt"
Deciding this Kagome was safe Rin let her check her over. Satisfied the girl was unharmed Kagome asked,
"What are you doing out here? Where are your parents?"
"My name is Rin. Rin's parents are dead. Rin is looking for food"
Kagome instantly felt bad for Rin, 'She must be an orphan, the poor thing. But she looks pretty clean and well fed to be living in a forest. Maybe it happened recently. Well, I can't leave her here to starve'
"Do you have any family or somebody to look after you?" If she did Kagome would make sure the little girl got to them. Rin was wondering why Kagome wanted to know but realizing she wandered too far from Ah-Un and was lost, figured it would be best to stay with the Miko until Lord Sesshomaru found her,
"Hai, but Rin doesn't know where he is. Rin is sure he will find her soon though"
Kagome was glad to hear Rin had a guardian, the only problem was finding him "What's his name?"
Rin hesitated, she wasn't sure she should tell the Miko, what if she was an enemy of Lord Sesshomaru's? She didn't look like it, better safe then sorry though, right? Noticing Rin's hesitation, Kagome let it drop.
"Would you like to come with me until we find your guardian, Rin?"
Rin was still hungry, and it looked like she could trust Kagome, Lord Sesshomaru would find her eventually.
So Rin nodded eagerly, "Hai." Kagome smiled warmly and Rin took her hand as she was led to camp.
Rin tugged at Kagome's hand when she saw something shiny on the ground, Kagome stopped and Rin ran over and picked up the shiny thing. After rubbing the dirt off, she saw it was a small rock, about the size of a coin. It's deep blue color glittering in the sun. Smiling big, she skipped back to Kagome to show off her new treasure.
"Look what Rin found!"
She squealed jumping up and down with excitement. Kagome was amused to see her so happy over a rock. She knelt down and took the rock from Rin, turning it over, holding it up in the sun, "That's pretty, Rin. I don't think I've seen one like it before" she said, dropping the rock in Rin's palm.
About fifteen minutes later they were at camp.
"Oi, wench, where'd ya go?" Inuyasha called from his tree. Kagome looked up at him while Rin just twirled her stone around.
"Well, if you must know I was taking a walk. Am I not allowed to leave without your permission?" She glared at Inuyasha, he 'Keh'ed and turned away.
"Kagome? Is this the camp?" asked Rin
"Oh! That's right! Guys, this is Rin. I found her while I was walking, she was about to be attacked a snake youkai. She got separated from her guardian and doesn't want to tell me his name yet so she's staying here," she shot a glare at Inuyasha that dared him to say otherwise, "Until we can get her back to her guardian"
Inuyasha jumped down "No. She'll just slow us down! We can drop her at the next town!"
Kagome smirked and said "Sit." Rin giggled when Inuyasha smashed to the ground.
They heard a muffled "Not funny" from the hole that was Inuyasha which only served to make Rin laugh harder.
After getting no more protest from the group she pointed everyone out "There's Sango, that's Miroku, the one in the ground is Inuyasha, and there's Shippo and Kirara." Rin smiled brightly and waved.
"Oh she is so cute!", exclaimed Sango,
"You say she was looking for food, Kagome? She must be hungry" Kagome nodded at Sango and went to make ramen. Rin sat on the ground, bored out of her mind. She got up and started whirling in circles, seeing how fast she could go before falling. Faster, faster, faster. This was fun. She went even faster even though she was getting dizzy. Then she fell and let out a care free laugh as she watched the world spin.
"Ramen is ready" called Kagome. Rin got up and stumbled a bit, still dizzy. She grabbed Miroku's leg and sat on his foot as he walked, getting a fun ride to dinner -
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After everyone had eaten Rin had gone to sleep, as she had a long day.
The group was currently discussing what to do with her.
"I still say we drop her in a village", Kagome glared at Inuyasha.
"We can't do that! We are going to find her guardian, and if we can't then we'll just have to see what happens"
Sango nodded "I agree with Kagome. We can't just dump her! And I really doubt she'll be a problem. Though it does concern me how much danger she would be in."
Miroku looked thoughtful before piping up "I think we should try to get her to tell us who her guardian is, if she refuses and we cannot find him, then she can stay at a nice village"
"I agree with Miroku!" Said Shippo.
"Keh, no one cares what you think!"
"Inuyasha, sit. Well, then it's decided. We keep Rin for a while and if we can't help then leave her in Kaede's village."
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Rin had been with Inuyasha's group for a week now and was riding Kirara with Sango because her feet hurt. But it just wasn't the same as Ah-Un, she was also worried Lord Sesshomaru wouldn't find her, what if he didn't want to find her? Maybe she should tell the nice people so they could find him... Just then she heard Inuyasha yell "Crap! I smell him, and he's close!" He grabbed Tetsaiga, Rin amazed to see it transform.
"Who?!" asked an alarmed Kagome
Shippo sniffed the air, "Sesshomaru." Then Rin saw a blur of white stop in front of Inuyasha. Lord Sesshomaru came! Rin jumped off Kirara and was about to run over to him but Kagome grabbed her,
"Rin, stay with me!" Kagome strung her bow and stood protectively in front of Rin who was now confused.
"I have not come to fight you, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said in his usual deadpan voice.
Inuyasha did not back off "Keh! Then why are you here?!"
"Because you have something that is mine"
While the brothers were talking, Rin tried to run away from Kagome but her arm was grabbed before she could get 5 feet away, "Lord Sesshomaru, you came!" she yelled. Kagome was shocked. Sesshomaru was Rin's guardian? He-Who-Hates-Humans?
"Release the girl, Miko." Came Sesshomaru's emotionless voice.
Kagome looked Rin in the eye "You know him???"
She nodded eagerly "Hai." The moment Kagome released her she ran to Lord Sesshomaru and hugged his leg. When he looked down at Rin, Kagome could see his eyes soften the tiniest bit. He cared about her, Kagome realized with a jolt.
Inuyasha snorted "Your letting a little girl follow you? YOU went through the trouble of tracking her-a human? I don't believe it."
Sesshomaru stared at him, his face blank "What I do is none of your concern, Inuyasha"
He then turned and walked off "Come, Rin."
"Hai!", Rin waved to her friends, "I told you he'd find me! Thanks for everything, bye!" Then cheerfully skipped off after Sesshomaru telling him about her rock.
Kagome watched as they disappeared out of sight.
"Wow. Who would've known?" The Demon Slayer shook her head.
"That was quite unexpected" Miroku then groped Sango, who stood next to him.
SLAP "PERVERT!" Then Sango marched off, Miroku following her rubbing his red cheek.
"You know what, Inuyasha? I think Sesshomaru actually cares about her,"
"Maybe. But WHY would Sesshomaru let a girl follow him? It doesn't make sense."
"It doesn't have to, some things just are. Oh well, lets go back. I think we might have to save Miroku from Sango"
Then they walked back to camp.
Did I keep everybody in character? I would like to improve my writing so constructive criticism is welcome. Please, point out what I could make better and how. Compliments are cool too. I'm okay if you flame too because I want your honest opinions.