The Civilized Sesshomaru...? Chapter 1
"You have to let me go." She said as he held her.
"But I…I just can't. You've been so good to me. Please don't leave me! I can't live without you!"
"Oh please, don't make this any harder on yourself or on me. Just let go. I need to go onto another quest." She gently scolded.
He sobbed and turned away. All his memories with her were flooding back to him and he felt like he was throwing all of it away. He wiped the tears cautiously from his red eyes with his claws; just like she had taught him to do.
"Now be a good ogre and stick me in the ground." The sword in his hands sweetly encouraged.
The ogre sniffled once more, held her hilt firmly in his hands, and thrust her sharp blade into the soft ground of the cliff. She sank beautifully and clean into the earth and the ogre wept on his knees.
She stayed silent as he ran his now softer fingers over her hilt of silver and the emerald vine that flowed across the horizontal part of the handle. Simple and beautiful; just like her voice and her lessons. He had been a very successful student, so she always said. All the compliments she gave him in the past he would remember to the end of his days.
"Good-bye, Winston. I shall miss you." A sigh of sorrow and pride seeped gracefully in her soothing voice.
"Not as much as I shall miss you, Lola." Winston the ogre then kissed the nub at the bottom of her handle. "Good-bye."
With great effort, he turned and ran into the sunset.
"Red Jaken, blue Jaken, gold Jaken." Rin encouraged with a bright smile. "One more time, Master Jaken."
With an exasperated sigh he echoed her tongue twister for the thousandth time. They hadn't practiced this tongue twister for some time and now he really wished she would find something other than tongue twisters for a while.
Suddenly, Lord Sesshomaru stopped at the edge of the forest they wandered in and looked out to a cliff that appeared to have a stick in the ground.
Rin and Jaken both peered around Lord Sesshomaru's legs to squint at the slim vertical line out in the sunset. The three stared for a long time in silence.
The sun settled half way into the earth and a gleaming shimmer sparked from the slender line on the cliff. Whatever it was, it was obviously shiny.
Rin took of running to see it and Jaken called after her but she kept running. Once Rin was about four paces away, she called over her shoulder. "It's a sword, Lord Sesshomaru." She looked at it again and squatted. "A really pretty sword…"
Sesshomaru now stood at her right side and Jaken caught up with them on Rin's left.
Lord Sesshomaru's eyes glared at the sword and he could tell just by the aura of it that it was enchanted in some way. What really struck his curiosity was that was all he could see. Usually when faced with an opponent, he could see most of the powers they contained and could predict their moves with in seconds in the fight. However, for some ethereal reason, he couldn't do so with this enchanted sword.
He hated that and took it as a challenge.
He would seize the sword by its hilt and burn into the mysteries of its power then disentangle its enchantments to kill it. Nothing would try to hide anything from him-Lord Sesshomaru.
He stepped forward with dignity and instant hatred for this secretive sword. He decided it would have a slow and painful death. Then he reached out his hand, thumb down and clasped onto the hilt.
Pulse!
"Hello there." A sweet woman's voice cooed in his head.
The sword… Sesshomaru thought. Obviously.
"My name is Lola."
At least it can't read my thoughts. Sesshomaru surmised.
"What is your name, my dear?"
"My dear"…? This thing apparently thought he was its pet.
"Do you know who I am, you worthless steel?" Lord Sesshomaru growled with murder.
"Oh my goodness, of course I don't know who you are, you haven't told me. My oh my oh my, you're really powerful. The most powerful student I ever have had so far."
Sesshomaru could feel the sword smile and he wanted to kill it. He thought about unsheathing his Tokigin but thought otherwise. Inuyasha was looking for him no doubt and Sesshomaru planned to save energy by sauntering about the forest so after Inuyasha's fight to find him, he: Lord Sesshomaru-would have the upper hand.
The sword waited patiently in his hand and then decided to ask, "Is something the matter, dear?"
Sesshomaru ignored "Lola" and stepped closer to the edge of the cliff, he glanced down, and it was a long, long, way down…good.
Sesshomaru held the unfortunate sword above the cliff. She didn't say anything as he suddenly opened his hand.
SHE DIDN'T FREAKIN' FALL!!
Sesshomaru's jaw tightened and his eyes narrowed with daggers of murder. This hunk of human steel was NOT going to make HIM the fool.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin touched his leg in concern. Why was he so very, very mad at the sword? Why was he trying to get rid of the pretty thing?
Sesshomaru looked at her through the corner of his eye. So the sword didn't reveal itself to anyone but its victim. Great-well he wasn't going to tell them about the sword's power-er-annoyance.
"Ah, so your name is Sesshomaru? Well I say," Lola spoke with some urgency, "why don't you stop what you are doing and actually look at the girl face on when she talks to you?"
Sesshomaru glared back at the sword. "You shut it."
Rin flinched with hurt, was he saying that to her? She backed away trembling. He had never said anything like that to her before.
"Ah!" Lola squeaked. "Look at what you did, you frightened the poor girl! You apologize to her right this instant." Lola calmly demanded with a little bit of worry tainting her voice. Why was she nervous? She's done this plenty of times, why panic? Uh oh.
Sesshomaru snapped, he swung her over a rock and slammed Lola on the rock's surface. "Who are you to tell ME what to do?!" Sesshomaru growled through his tight jaw and he snarled menacingly at the reflection of his own face in her blade.
Well, Lola thought, that's the hardest beating I've ever gotten but it isn't the first.
Rin and Jaken stared in surprise. Lord Sesshomaru rarely snapped in front of them. Well, maybe Jaken mostly but Rin?
"You ought to tell your friend and daughter what's happening, they think you're crazy." Lola passively stated.
Daughter…?! Sesshomaru thought and narrowed his eyes to slits. "You are going to have a long and painful death for insulting me. She's not my daughter." Sesshomaru didn't feel all good about that last comment but he wanted to set things straight about that assumption.
Lola laughed with embarrassment.
Sesshomaru really wanted to kill it.
"Pardon my silly assumption, I just thought that since she was with you…well, I'm sorry. Would you please introduce us properly, Sesshomaru?"
Sesshomaru was extremely and beyond pissed by now. Not only was it telling him what to do, it didn't treat him as a Lord.
Sesshomaru was about to slam her against the rock again but Jaken suddenly asked, "Is it speaking to you, My Lord?"
Sesshomaru lowered his one hand and looked at Jaken. This little imp understood? Well, that saved a whole lot of explaining.
"Yes." Sesshomaru twisted his wrist towards him as he examined his grasp on the hilt. Dread now flowed through him because he knew he wasn't going to be able to shake himself from this load of sh--.
"See, Rin? Lord Sesshomaru didn't say that to you. He was punishing the sword. Only he can hear the sword since he now possesses it."
"You have a smart friend." Lola commented.
Sesshomaru glared again at Lola. "What am I going to do with you?" He only had one arm so he couldn't grab the Tokigin and destroy Lola when his hand was occupied.
"Well, I see you want me out of your hand so all you have to do is sheath me in your belt and I will allow you to let go of me." Lola said with a gratuity in her voice.
Sheath it in my belt….Sesshomaru composed himself strongly against his grin and did as she said.
Then Sesshomaru grabbed the Tokigin.
"If you are thinking about killing me with that, you'll only end up hurting yourself." Lola threatened with a smile. "By the way, my lessons are based so: If you resist, I will never leave. If you obey, then I must go. I will be training you in etiquette, Sesshomaru."