Story Overview:

Title: Memories

Author: Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat

Rating: Most Chapters are K+ but some are T, so the whole story is rated T.

Language: English

Based On: InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Disclaimer: I am a fan of InuYasha. I do not own this manga/anime or it's characters.

Genre: drama, a day in the life of . . . , romance, fantasy,

Spoilers: manga and anime, spanning several chapters and episodes

POV: Rin

Character Appearances: Sesshomaru, Rin, Jaken, others

Pairings: Sesshy x Rin

Summary: An elderly Rin, remembers the past.

Author's Notes: In progress, with no idea how many chapters it will become. Enjoy! EK


Chapter Overview:

Spoilers: manga and anime, early on

POV: Rin

Character Appearances: Rin, Jaken, others

Summary: A day in the life of 75 year old Rin.


Memories: Chapter One

The Storyteller

The woman sat in garden listening to songbirds sing. She and her family lived in the Lord's palace now, though the Lord himself was rarely here. It seemed life in an empire of his own did not suit him well, for he preferred life on the open road.

Flowers danced in the wind. They reminded her of her childhood days, so long ago, before she and her husband came to the Lord's palace. It had been many years since her husband had passed away. Her children, now had children of their own. Soon they would be home for the evening and begging for stories. She would not tell the stories. She too would sit with her grandchildren and listen to the toad demon as he retold the tales of their travels.

That night the children and their parents gathered around the fire pit and listened as Jaken told them yet another wild tale of his travels with Lord Sesshomaru and their battles against the many demons that threatened the lands. His tales seemed to get ever wilder and more daring with each retelling. Rin wondered why she did not remember Jaken doing the things he was now saying he had done. She was nearly asleep when she realized a firm little hand was shaking her arm.

"Grandmama!" the little girl called out, staring up into Rin's eyes. "didn't you hear me?"

"What?" Rin looked around, realizing all eyes were on her, "No, I'm sorry, I must have dozed off."

"I said," the little girl stood with her hands on her hips and raised her voice in a scolding tone, "How did you meet Lord Sesshomaru? You never told us, and Jaken doesn't know."

"He doesn't know?" Rin blinked and looked over at the little green imp. Could this be true? It had been so many years . . . decades even. Had Sesshomaru never told Jaken of how we had meet? Rin thought it was likely, seeing how Sesshomaru never was one to speak often.

"Well?" the little girl started tapping her foot.

She seems so much like a younger me, thought Rin, smiling to herself. "Jaken, is this true? Did I never say how Sesshomaru and I meet? Didn't Sesshomaru ever say?"

"Well . . . no," Jaken stared at his feet. Jaken prided himself in knowing all there was to know about Lord Sesshomaru. It was hard for him to admit that there was something about his Lord that he did not know. "I asked Lord Sesshomaru many times, but he would never tell me. I knew about the wolves, but he said he already knew you before than. I could not image what he meant, because I followed my Lord for decades before you were even born, and I can't imagine how he could have met you before the wolf demon tribe attacked, but he would never tell me about it."

"I was an orphan," Rin began. She hesitated, before continuing on. "My family had been killed by bandits, and I lived in the village, but no one would take me into their home, so I lived alone in an abandoned hut. I used to be very lonely, so I would walk in the forest and pick flowers and listen to the birds sing. That's what I was doing the day, I meet Lord Sesshomaru. He was asleep in the forest. Injured. He wasn't asleep, he was injured and alone. Like me, he was alone with no one to look after him, so I stayed with him and took care of him. That was only a few days before the wolves came, and you already know about that story. I've heard Jaken tell it to you many times now." Rin looked at Jaken, and smiled, knowing Jaken was itching to pick up the story and tell his own version of it. "I think, I'll let Jaken tell the rest, he does such a better job of it , besides, " she turned to her little granddaughter, " I'm not so young as you, I need my rest."

Right on queue, Jaken leapt to his feet and began to tell of the sword that could restore life to the dead and how Lord Sesshomaru had used it to save Rin. Soon all eyes were again on Jaken, and Rin quietly slipped out of the room.

Rin went out to the garden again. She was not really tired, she just wanted to be alone. Alone with her memories. Memories of her childhood. Her travels with Sesshomaru. Her mother and father and brothers. She looked up at the silvery moon overhead, and thought about the simple story she had told her grandchildren tonight. She had told them what happened. But this was not entirely true. Not that Rin had told a lie, for she had not. Her words were the truth, but only part of the truth. She had never been able to bring herself to tell anyone the truth behind that simple version of the story.


Author's End Note:

Thank you for reading this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it!

I would love to hear what you have to say about this chapter. So, tell me, what's your take on this? What did you like about it? What did you not like about it? I try to keep my characters in character with the originals, I hope I succeeded. I'm trying to keep the events in this story in keeping with the events of the manga/anime. Did you see any mistakes I missed, O.O let me know so I can go back and fix them! Think this needs another chapter, a sequel, or a prequel, let me know and I'll think about adding more. Please review and leave a comment to share your views!

Thanks millions!

EK

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