Her smile
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Age: Sesshoumaru:20, Rin:17
Chapter1: I miss you
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken screamed as he pulled Ah-Un towards where Sesshoumaru was standing, at the edge of the cliff. Sesshoumaru sighed inwardly, how he had hoped that the person that had called him was Rin. Instead, it just had to be that annoying imp, Jaken.
Flashback
Sesshoumaru was walking along a road laden with Naraku's army of demons. He had just rescued Rin from another one of Naraku's traps. This of course, had failed to kill Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru sighed, and said while fighting, "Rin! Don't move!" Then he swung Tokijin gracefully, and killed the rest of the demons in one shot.
Then he told Rin, "You can start moving now," before she happily nodded and went to pick some flowers for Sesshoumaru. He told Jaken to follow her and protect her, and sat at the stump of a tree. He decided to send Rin to a nearby village where she would be safe, so that she would not come to harm.
"Rin!"
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Come over here!" Rin nodded and ran toward Sesshoumaru, almost tripping as she made her way there. Jaken mumbled and followed Rin irritably as he tried to catch up with her. "Is anything the matter, Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked innocently. Sesshoumaru answered,
"Rin, you will have to go to that village over there for the time being."
"Why?"
"You will be safe there. This Sesshoumaru has to go and defeat Naraku, and then I will come back for you. Jaken will come along with this Sesshoumaru." Rin looked disappointed for a moment but then smiled.
"You will come back for Rin, right Sesshoumaru-sama?" he nodded for a brief moment and walked off.
Rin hurried to catch up and Jaken, who had just arrived next to her, had to run doubly as fast to catch up to them. "Jaken will take you there." Sesshoumaru said as he pointed to the far off distance where there was a prosperous little village.
Jaken, who had not been listening to Rin and Sesshoumaru's conversation just now, had to work up his courage and ask Sesshoumaru what they had been talking about. To which Sesshoumaru repeated his words irritably and Jaken was surprised that he wasn't punished.
When Jaken heard the news that Rin was supposed to be sent to the village, he almost clapped his hands in glee. He was THAT happy. Now it would finally be like olden times, just him following Sesshoumaru, no pesky human girl trailing after, and who was TALLER than him. (A/N: How mean! And I think I made Jaken seem kind of gay, but I think he's gay anyway. So it doesn't matter to me, heheh. I HATE JAKEN!)
He rushed to take the human girl toward the village at a speed that even HE didn't know he could go that fast. Rin shouted a hurried, "Ja Ne!" to Sesshoumaru who didn't reply and tried to catch up with Jaken, the imp.
End Flashback
He had not seen her since. The battle between him, and his hanyou brother's pack with Naraku had ended up to be even longer than he expected. It lasted for five years. In the end, Naraku was defeated, and his incarnations had become free. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha had reluctantly made peace with each other and now had some respect for each other.
Not much, but enough that they would not attack each other anymore. Inuyasha had managed to find some mermaid scale, which would enable humans to live as long as demons, giving them the same amount of time to age. He had given them to his human companions, and after much persuasion from Kagome, gave Sesshoumaru some to pass to Rin too.
Sesshoumaru then set out to find that little village where Rin had been sent to, only to find it reduced to ashes. At first he thought that Rin had died, then he started to try to sniff out her ashes so as to place it in a respectable grave, but it was not to be found. That was when he realized that she must have escaped.
From then on, he went everywhere to search for her, with a grumbling Jaken who got happier every time Rin was not found at a village. Ah-Un was more untamed now that Rin was not around, and he seemed to miss her. Sesshoumaru's cold facade had now hardened even more, as he had softened a little when Rin was around.
He hated to admit it, but he missed her. He truly did. 'Rin probably is about seventeen now, if she is still alive,' He thought to himself. He missed her smile, her laugh, and her hilarious antics every once in a while. But he would not smile, or show any form of amusement, as it was just not to be done.
She had actually managed to amuse him out of all people, even though she didn't know it. Sometimes she had even made his day. And even though he refused to acknowledge it, he knew that a small bit of him had actually cared for her. Which was why whenever she got into trouble, he had always come to her aid.
Perhaps it was a form of responsibility? He had sometimes felt that it was his duty for him to protect her, even though he never bothered to think of all the possibilities. But she had been annoying sometimes too, when she chattered too much. She would stop when he told her to, though.
He knew she respected him. 'Maybe I shouldn't have sent her to the village? Jaken is becoming more and more irritable nowadays.' One of the best reasons Sesshoumaru had kept Rin around was because she could keep Jaken in control. She would accidentally step on Jaken sometimes or even ignore him. Rin chattered quite a bit too much on certain occasions, but Kami! Jaken's consistent yapping was seriously getting on his nerves.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken shrieked for the second time. Sesshoumaru did not even bother to reply. Jaken was always so slow that Sesshoumaru felt like leaving him behind.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken screamed as he finally reached the hilltop. He was panting hard, out of breath. Sesshoumaru sighed inwardly again. He knew now that he missed her. But what use was it? He couldn't find her.
"SESSHOU—" Jaken was cut off as he accidentally tripped over a particularly large stone and fell flat to the ground, face down. Sesshoumaru thought aloud with disgust at Jaken, "Karabaka," and walked away.
Only to meet someone he didn't feel like meeting at the moment. "Inuyasha," he said coldly. "Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha replied equally as cold.
"What are you doing here?"
"I heard you were looking for the human girl that used to follow you around."
"So?" Sesshoumaru was getting annoyed.
"I just might have the information on her that you want."
How is this? Good or bad? Rin will come in the next chapter, I swear. And the next chapter will definitely be longer, I promise. But I won't be able to update till 11.10.2005 at the earliest as I have my PSLE until then and I'm not allowed on the computer. PLEASE R and R! Lubs to all! Ja Ne!
Ja Ne-Goodbye
Karabaka-Idiot