"Rin, my child" Kaede coughed. It had been 4 years since Naraku had been defeated. Kaede is on her death bed. Shesshomaru had left me here and went off and became a great demon.

"Yes, Lady Kaede?" I asked looking down at the elderly lady who had taken care of me the past 4 years.

"Shesshomaru is coming back. I promise you. I may not be around to see it. But he will." She said. She broke out into fit of coughing. I smile at the old woman. "Of course" I say. No, he left me here. I doubt he even remembers me. He'll never return...

"How is she?" Kagome asked coming in.

"I don't know, better, I think, how are Aimi and Inutaisho?" I asked. They are Inuyasha and her "pups".

"Great!" Kagome exclaimed happily, "Rin, you can go practice shooting, if you want, I can take care of Lady Kaede, okay?" she asked. I smiled and headed out, grabbing my bow and quiver as I walk.

~In the forest~

I loved shooting my bow. It made me feel good; the only thing that is mine, and I'm good at it to. Back when Kaede was healthy, she had taught me how to shoot, I had learned from Kagome to, so I was now able to purify things as well, so I guess I am a priestess. I smiled and shot an apple. As it was falling I caught it. I pulled the arrow out and bit into the apple. It was juicy and good. Suddenly two dog demons came out of the brush and collapsed. A bear was following them. The bear was possessed. I sighed. I loaded my arrow and shot. The bear toppled over. The dog demons were asleep and badly injured. I set my bow and quiver against the tree and took off back to lady Kaede's hut and grabbed gauze and a bucket, to get water. No one even asked why. I sometimes found wounded animals and nursed them back to health.

~Back to the dog demons~

They were still out when I got there. I tied my hair back, and started cleaning the wounds. When I was done, I leaned against a tree. One was a female, the other was a male. They didn't have very serious wounds, plus they were demons, they'd heal quickly. I sighed and looked at the sleeves of my kimono. They weren't dirty, I am to use to this way too much.

The female dog demon got up really quickly, looking around for the bear. "It's gone." I said looking at her with interest. "Huh?" she said slowly looking around to me. "I killed it. If you moved around too much your wounds will reopen, or if they are already healed, take the bandages off." I said standing, "When your friend wakes up, I assume you'll be leaving, so goodbye." I say

"Why did you help us?" She asked.

"I am good friends with a dog demon or two, so I didn't see any harm in it." I say walking off.

"What do you mean?" She asked pulling me back to the same spot. I sighed

"Inuyasha, he is one of my friends, same with his kids." I say, shaking off her grip, grabbing my bow and quiver and heading back to the village. But before I could Inutaisho decided to pop out and say "AUNTIE RIN~" he glomps onto my leg. I giggled at him. I pulled him up. "Hi-hi, what's up baby boy? I thought you were with mommy." I say in a babying voice.

"NO! I wanna stay with auntie!" he glomped around my neck. I smiled at him. The boy dog demon was now looking at me like I was crazy and the female was looking at me like I had lost my mind. "What?" I asked.

"You're not scared of him?" she asked

"No. should I be? Look at his face, could you be scared of that?" I ask smashing his cheeks together with my free hand.

"No... I guess not. But you're a human." She said accusingly.

"Yeah? That's news to me." I said sarcastically.

I started to turn around but a demon bird flew down and grabbed Inutaisho off me and was flying off. "INUTAISHO!" I screamed taking off after him. I pulled an arrow out of my quiver and tossed the quiver on the ground. I ran to catch up. The girl demon grabbed me and threw me on her back. We caught up faster than I would have alone. I loaded my arrow and shot. It hit the birds' wing. Inutaisho was falling. Inuyasha appeared and grabbed him. He came over to me. "Stop crying you moron. He is safe already." he said, though you could tell he had been extremely worried. "And nice shot."

"T-thanks, to you also" I said, crying like a moron and looking at them.

"I just repaid my debt, plus who could hate that face." She said using my earlier words. I only smiled.

"Well, goodbye then." she said them jumping off.

"C-can we go back to the village?" I asked He narrowed his eyes at me and said "Yeah. Where did you meet them?"

"They were my current wounded animal bit." I say he scoffed and bent down so I could climb on his back, then we went "home."