Summary: 10 years after Kagome's explorations of the well, a reincarnated Rin (Ara), finds herself falling through the well where she finds herself in feudal Japan. Soon Sesshomaru finds her and piece- by-piece she learns about her former self, her past with Sesshomaru, and her untimely demise.
It is a Sesshy and Rin fan fiction just the reincarnation has a different name.
Disclaimer: I feel that this is obviously common sense but I'll say it anyway. I do not own Inuyasha or anything like that. If I did I would certainly not be living in a small town in Missouri now would I?
Purity of Hearts
Chapter One: The Lost Day
Prologue
It was a beautiful day, considering the great dog demon, Lord of the Western Lands, Sesshomaru was holding a limp teenage girl of about 15 in his arms and was, for once, showing emotion. Though not the type that you like to see. Every demon within a thousand mile radius could smell the poor demon's salty tears but dared not go near him. It certainly did not mix well with the day at all. It was sunny, with a clear blue sky and a gentle breeze.
The Demon Lord looked down at the corpse in his arms and whispered to himself.
"Why, Rin? Why did you do this? It does not make any logical sense to this Sesshomaru as why you would do this. Even you are not this illogical."
Inuyasha and Kagome who had seen everything that had transpired but could not do anything to stop it just looked at the teenage girl and then to Sesshomaru.
Kagome knew that it was best not to speak to Sesshomaru in the state he was in but could not help herself.
"I'm sorry, Sesshomaru. Is there anything we can do?"
Sesshomaru looked from his Rin to Inuyasha's wench and growled at her.
"You can leave this world and never come back. I don't want to see your faces ever again."
Inuyasha put his arm comfortingly around Kagome and said, "We best go, who knows what he'll do in his condition."
Kagome looked up at the man she loved and whispered, "But what will he do with her? Can we trust him to give that poor girl a proper burial?"
Inuyasha smiled and said, "Keep in mind that he always cared for that girl even when he didn't have to and he had no business to. We can trust him to do what is right."
Sesshomaru, of course, heard the entire conversation and gave a low growl, in which the couple took their leave immediately. Sesshomaru looked behind him and saw his toad demon servant, Jaken's, tears fall to the ground. He soon decided he had stayed here long enough and departed.
There is a place in Japan where the ocean's water is a sparkling blue, with pure white sand. Within a few feet was a garden with the rarest of flowers growing. This pure place was where the coldest among demons took the purest of the humans to bury. His lovely Rin. The only one in the world who did not deserve death. No village graveyard deserved a being as pure as her. Sesshomaru walked into the ocean never-minding the fact that his clothes would be soaked to the bone. He carefully laid the dead but still, as always, pure Rin into the water and watched her body float to the ground. He stood there for what seemed like an eternity before he knew he must get to his lands for there was always work to be done. When he walked away, he saw the beautiful flower garden.
"Milord, a-are you unwell?" Jaken stammered not knowing if it was wise to speak to his lord given the current situation.
Sesshomaru bent down and looked at the flowers and gave a low laugh.
"It's strange. She always did like to pick these flowers, didn't she? Everyday she would hand one to this Sesshomaru saying, 'a present for milord so you may not feel unwell,' this Sesshomaru had always thought it a meaningless hobby of hers but I know now, she really did love flowers and pretty much anything bright that would catch her eye."
The Demon Lord picked up a couple flowers and deposited them into his bag.
"Come, Jaken. And hurry up. If you don't, this Sesshomaru will leave you out here as scrap meat for the demons in the area."
"y-yes master." stammered Jaken once again.
Sesshomaru walks into the sunlight with the gentle breeze whipping through his long white hair. Yes, it was a beautiful day and it strangely fit to bury the purest heart of all.
End Prologue
10 years later beyond the bone eater's well…
"Ms. Ara Higurashi! Are you paying attention!?
Ara looks up from her very enticing manga and looks at her math teacher. "Hmm?"
Ms. Hiwatari looks at the girl and sighs. She does not allow her kids to do whatever they please in her class and Ara was really testing her patience. So much so that if her hair wasn't in a tight bun then it would be standing on end.
"Yes, Ara, I'm so glad that you've finally returned to the world of reality. Now could you please finish up the math problem on the board." Now, I've got her. There's no way she was paying attention. I'm gonna finally have the chance to scold her for not paying attention, Ms Hiwatari thought to herself.
Ara moved from her desk to the board in the classroom. "Yes, of course." She smiled to herself. It was such an easy problem she could've done it blindfolded. "Finished." She moved from the board so everyone could check her work. She loved watching Ms. Hiwatari's reactions to these kind of things. She comes off intimidating but that doesn't fool Ara for second who has always been able to read people like an open book.
Ms. Hiwatari's face was just dumbfounded. She was only 30 years old but she could feel this girl was starting to make her form wrinkles on her face. All of the class is just as dumb-founded as she is.
Ara's classmates said similar things. "She wasn't even paying attention." "How on earth can she get that problem down when I can't even get the first step right." "She is such a freak."
Just then, the bell rang signaling the end of the day. Ara goes back to her desk and begins to pack her stuff. Ms. Hiwatari goes to her desk in the corner of the room and just puts her head in her hands and sighs. She is never going to understand how that girl does it. Wasting her time reading and then out of the blue knowing the answer. It obviously wasn't normal. She had suggested to Ara to take an IQ test but Ara simply replied, "What's the point, it's not going to change the situation now, is it?" Yes, Ara truly was a strange one.
Ara begins to walk down the aisle and when she is almost out of the door she yells, "Have a great day, Ms. Hiwatari!"
"I'll try dear, I'll try." Was the response before a scowling was heard.
Ara makes it out of the classroom and sees her two best friends waiting for her.
"Hey! Riku! Kairi! What are you doing waiting for me?"
"Well, we just felt that the star pupil in the school should grace us with her presence since we are her best friends and everything." was Riku's response. They walk a few steps before Kairi begins to burst.
"Come on, Ara! You have to tell us your secret. How did you do that in class today? It's so not fair, you have the good looks and the brains to match. How on earth did you get so lucky?" exclaimed Kairi.
"Whoa, hold on there, Kairi. First of all, I think that's too many questions for even Ara to answer. And second, you, as well also have as much good looks and brains as Ara does." exclaims Riku.
"I guess we do have the same stuff but Ara differs in her sheer amount of quantity." laughs Kairi pulling back her shoulder length jet black hair. "So, Ara, who are you gonna ask to the dance next Friday?" Kairi continues.
"I don't know. I may just go solo. I know what you're gonna say. 'what? You're the perfect girl around, you can get any guy you ever want.' Ara pulls back her waist length black hair. "but, I don't know, I feel as if the guy I was meant for isn't in this crowd. I feel as if I need to find him before I moved on to the fraternization of high school boys." Ara looks on dreamily imagining the white haired guy from her dreams. "oh well, this is my stop. See ya, later Riku, Kairi. You two should totally go together though." and Ara walks on.
Riku and Kairi stare at her dumbfounded and then look at each other.
Kairi laughs and says, "Did she just play matchmaker with us?"
"I think she just did. So how about it, Kairi? The dance? Us going together as in like a couple?" asks Riku.
Kairi replies, "Sure. That Ara really is a sly one, isn't she? She really is perfect at everything."
She finds herself back at the old family shrine. Granted it's not her family shrine since her parents died in a car crash when she was 10 years old but it feels like her family shrine.
She takes out her manga and starts to read as she walks into the house. As she walks in, Inuyasha and Kagome are sitting on the couch reading. Well, actually Kagome was reading, Inuyasha was cooing at Kagome's stomach, talking to his unborn child.
"They can be rather disgusting at times." thought Ara for a second.
Kagome looked up from the couch. "oh, hello, Ara. Did you have a fun day at school?" asked Kagome.
Ara waved one of her hands and said, "Sure, sure," and then walked up to her room and closed the door.
Kagome looked to her husband and the father of her child. "She sure is a strange one, isn't she? She reads all those ridiculous mangas but is still able to be top in her school." asked Kagome.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever Kagome. Sshhh. I'm trying to listen to the baby's reactions to my words." Inuyasha replied.
"You do realize the thing's still inside of me, don't you?" asked Kagome.
Inuyasha looked up at her. "Yeah, why?
"Just checking. Not sure how you dog demons handle your unborn children." was the girl's reply.
"Hmph." growled Inuyasha.
Kagome threw down her book and sighed. She couldn't concentrate with her husband cooing at her stomach all the time. It made her sad knowing that her mother, Souta, and grandfather wouldn't be here to see the birth of her child. They had been killed in the very same car and car crash that had killed Ara's parents. Ara was the only survivor in that terrible accident. She decided the most honorable thing was to adopt the poor girl since she was practically family anyway. And then, she started to see the similarities between Ara and the girl she had met in the Feudal era. It was very possible that she was in fact Rin's reincarnation as Kagome was Kikyo's. Which is exactly why she sealed up the well, so that Ara would not ever have the risk of jumping into a world in which she did not belong. Just remembering exactly what got Rin in the end was enough to make shivers fall down her spine. Kagome looked at her watch and made Inuyasha get up. She had to check on dinner after all.
Ara walked into her room and continued reading her manga. How she wished she could be part of that world instead of stuck in this world where the problems were so simple she could solve them with her eyes closed. She couldn't help but feel there's another world she should be in. Not to mention her dreams. She would look at herself through a mirror and see her 7-year-old self following a man with long beautiful white hair and a toad like creature yelling at her to keep up. The whole thing was so mysterious and she hoped deeply that it was the missing puzzle piece to her life. Ever since her parents died, she'd been having those dreams and had henceforth, been trying to find a meaning to her life. She found people's lives in mangas were so much more interesting.
"Ara! Put that manga down now. It's time for dinner!" Kagome's cry echoed through her room. She hesitantly put down the manga and went to the table to eat.
The family of three, soon to be four, ate silently and then Kagome began to pick up the dishes and Ara moved to get up.
"Ara, could you be a dear, and take out the trash?" Asked Kagome.
Ara got up and took out the trash. Such a boring chore like most of the stuff in this world. She took it out to the front of the shrine and walked back to the house. She walked past the bone eater's well temple and shivered. The temple gave her the creeps and Kagome had always told her to never go into the temple. When she asked why she couldn't since there was only a well inside, Kagome said it was dangerous and told her to obey.
She walked back into the house and began to work on her homework in which she was done with in about 15 minutes. She then, began to get ready for bed. She was reading another manga when Kagome walked into her room.
"They're saying, there could be a storm tonight so we may have to clean up debris around the shrine tomorrow so be prepared for that, Ara."
"Okay, Kagome."
"Goodnight, Ara"
Goodnight, Kagome." with that the lights were turned off and Ara went straight to sleep. And there was indeed a storm that night which would forever impact Ara's life the following day.
The next morning, Ara awoke to a very dreary day. The sun was behind the clouds and it looked almost as if it were going to rain once again. Ara put on her green school uniform and went to go help pick up the debris before she left for yet another boring day in school.
She started with picking up some debris from around the well's temple. Ara hated picking up debris. It was always so dirty and she hated getting her uniform dirty for it always arose questions. Today, there was even more debris and it was a terrible and ugly day. She finished picking up the debris around the temple and saw that their was an opening to the temple. The storm must have broken down the barricade. Ara knew she shouldn't go in but curiosity of the place got the best of her. Plus, there could have been more debris inside the temple anyway.
She walked into the Temple and down a few steps only to see more debris around the well. She moved toward the well to pick up some debris not seeing a very large piece of wood right by her foot. She begins to walk and then trips on the debris. As she tries to regain her footing she lands on the well and her body weight with the help of gravity pulls her down into the well. Her head hit part of the well in which she lost conciousness before she hit the ground.
After the blackness then their was a subtle form of light hitting her eyes. She opened her eyes and clutched her head. A monster headache followed the bout of unconciosness.
"It looks like I fell down the well. I'm a top student but I'm a big enough clutz to fall down a well. What a lovely combination." She said to herself sarcastically. "Inuyasha! Kagome! Help! I was picking up some debris and I fell down the well! Help!" screamed Ara. There was no answer. Ara looked around and saw some vines so she began to climb up out of the well.
When she got out of the well, she looked around.
"Whoa, something tells me, I'm definitely not in Kansas anymore." she says, remembering one of her top favorite American movies. The trees that were circling all around the well were a clear indication that she definitely wasn't at the shrine anymore. Realizing the situation she was in, she laughed and began running through the trees. This is the thing that she's been waiting for her entire life. An escape from her world into something amazing.
Suddenly behind her she felt and heard a very large thump. She turned around and was astonished at what she saw. She saw a monster that was 10 times the size of her, green and scaly and with eyes as long as her body. It had very large claws lifted up as if it were about to attack her. She began to back away telling herself to remain calm as best she could. She tripped over a log and fell to the ground. The monster advanced toward her, thrusting his claws at her. Ara saw what was happening and retaliated with a scream and closing her eyes waiting for the impact.
The impact never came. She opened her eyes to see the back of the most beautiful being she had ever seen in her life. The man was holding the claws at bay with his sword. The man had long silver white hair, and was dressed in a very noble attire and he had perfect posture. Such is all she gathered from only seeing the back of his body. Suddenly his face turned to look at her and she saw the same face in her dreams. The most beautiful face she had ever seen. The man opened his mouth to speak.
"Rin, are you all right? Did you get hurt?" asked the mysterious man and Ara just looked at him dumbfounded. Who was this Rin? And why does this man seem so familiar to her apart from her dreams of him? Why is he in her dreams in the first place?
Not really sure if you view this as a cliffy but I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think. I will continue writing this story. And don't worry, one day questions will be answered. Especially on how everyone's favorite Rin died.
Sesshomaru has both his arms in this fan fiction
I know Riku can be a guy or a girl's name but in this fan fiction it's a guy.