Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha
I've had this story partially written for some time and since the juices are now flowing, I've decided to post it. I'll try to update fairly regularily but with school starting up again soon...well I'll do my best. This is a Rin/Sess, perhaps my favorite pairing, and I did try to keep to character. This is a modern day story, so thus it is AU. Demons and humans are co-existing and this world will be explained as you read. Enjoy and let me know what you think.
Rin sat on her bed and tried to think. What she had just heard, what was happening that she had no control over couldn't be hidden any longer. The darkness, it wouldn't stay away. The shadows wanted to see her, to know she was real. Her parents had been freaking out and one night Rin had heard them.
Flashback
"It's getting worse Henry! Our house is always darker than the neighbors and people are starting to notice. Its because of her! We have to get rid of her!" Carrie, Rin's mother, was screaming at her father. She heard her father sigh, "We cannot, my dear.
We took her in years ago and gave her the only home she has ever known. No one else would take her in-" "I don't care. We cannot afford drawing Naraku's or the government's notice. She has to go!" Rin withdrew to her room, not wanting to hear anymore.
End Flashback
As the memory ended, Rin stared out the window at the full moon. She had to leave. Her and her mother had never really gotten along and now she knew why, her mother feared her.
But her and her dad were closer than close for as long as she could remember. She hated to leave him but she didn't want him having to choose between her and her mother. She had always known, with the strange things she had been able to do that she hid from her parents, that she had been adopted and was quite possibly a demon.
She had never mentioned it for she knew her dad loved her. She turned her gaze from the window and rose, as silent as a dark butterfly. She gathered some essentials, clothes, some spare food since she could hunt in the forest, a thousand dollars she had saved up for many years, a photo of her and her dad, and her necklace.
She lifted the fine silver chain to look at it in the moonlight. She had had it for as long as she could remember. Her parents hadn't given it to her since they were quite poor and could never afford something like this.
In the dim light it shown with a blue gleam through a crystal blue crescent moon outlined in bits of gold and small silver studded sapphires all laced on a fine silver chain.
She had never worn it for fear of someone stealing it and had never told her parents she had it. For some reason though, when it stormed, which she still feared, she would clutch the necklace and everything was all right.
It made her feel safe, secure, comforted and wrapped in love. She snapped the clasp around her neck and slung her backpack over her shoulder, took one last glance at her bedroom, and said a silent good-bye to her father.
She would miss him. With that she leapt through the second story window and landed, before racing into the woods. No one would ever know where she had gone but she knew the forest and all its shadows would welcome her.
Chrys