Another one-shot! I don't know why, but I've been crazy obsessed to write one-shots lately...well this one may become more, since I am feeling that I'm do a funny/silly Sessh/Rin fanfic. :)
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"Inuyasha-sama?" Rin called to the half-demon as his dog ears twitched at the sound of her voice.
"What do you want?" he asked back gruffly as he crossed his arms over his chest and shut his eyes impatiently.
"Where does Kagome go when she jumps into this well?" Rin asked as she glanced down at the seemingly black abyss of the Bone Eater's Well. Inuyasha snorted as he turned to face the opposite direction.
"To her own time," he replied.
"Her own time? I wonder what it's like over there," Rin murmured as she rested her arms on the edge of the well as she continued to stare down at it. After a couple seconds passed by, she became bored with waiting and started strumming her fingers against the old wood of the well.
"Will you please stop that?" Inuyasha asked in a mockingly polite voice. Rin glanced back at him with a grin before she began strumming all ten fingers along the wood. Her grin widened as she watched him twitch each time her nails hit the edge of the well. His long silvery hair frizzed out impressively before he whirled around and sent her what she could only assume was his darkest glare.
But compared to one of Sesshomaru's glares, Inuyasha was only squinting at her. She stuck her tongue out at him defiantly before straightening up when she heard a sound similar to chime bells coming from the well. She quickly stood before taking a few hasty steps back.
A blue light shown from the well that climbed towards the sky for what seemed like only a second before it dimmed and a hand stretched out from it. Rin let out a squeak of fear as she backed up, only to be lightly shouldered out of the way by Inuyasha. She sent him her best glare, using Sesshomaru's signature glare as reference, but he merely ignored her as he bent down to help Kagome out of the well.
"Thanks, Inuyasha," the miko smiled as she gave the half-demon a quick peck on the lips before turning to look at Rin.
"Rin-chan! What a surprise!" Kagome exclaimed as she hurried over to embrace her. Preferring the miko over Inuyasha, Rin gave her a genuine smile before returning her embrace.
"What are you doing around here?" Kagome asked as she held the younger woman at arms length.
"We're on babysitting duty while Sesshomaru's away. He went on and on about his responsibilities and taking care of the Western Lands. Blah, blah, blah," Inuyasha scoffed as he sent the younger woman a less-than-interested glance. She only glared up at him in return, knowing full well that Kagome wouldn't let him get away with such an action for long. True to her form, Kagome let out a loud "osuwari!" as the half-demon forcibly got friendly with the grass and dirt of the open field they were presenting standing in.
"Goddammit Kagome! You haven't even been here for five minutes and you're already sitting me?" Inuyasha asked in outrage.
"Please excuse him Rin," Kagome laughed as she sent a warning glare to Inuyasha, shutting the half-demon up instantly. Rin rather liked this quieter, more submissive side of Inuyasha. It seemed she should have learned her intimidation skills from Kagome rather than Sesshomaru.
"So, how long are you planning on staying with us Rin?" Kagome asked, her smile instantly reappearing on her face. Rin sweat dropped at that, truly impressed by the miko as well as a little scared.
Not only was her glare scary enough to keep Inuyasha uncharacteristically quiet, but she could also switch her emotions at the drop of a hat. The woman was definitely a role model for every other girl in the world, both presently and those in the future.
"Two days," Rin replied with a smile, "Sesshomaru-sama promised to pick me up on his way back to his castle,"
"Perfect!" Kagome chirped as she wrapped an arm around the other woman's shoulders, "why don't you come hang out with me and Kaede? I have a few things I'd like to show you," she added with an enthusiastic grin.
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"Miko," Sesshomaru stoically greeted as the priestess turned around in surprise. She instantly recognized him before sending him a friendly smile.
"Hi brother-in-law," she greeted in return while balancing the basket of grain she had been collecting on her hip, "we've been expecting you. Rin's inside listening to my mp3 player," Kagome added and Sesshomaru merely rose an elegant silver brow at her.
"Mp3 player?" he couldn't refrain himself from asking.
"Oh, it's a futurist device. It stores music that you can listen to whenever you want," Kagome described.
"Hn," Sesshomaru replied, quickly losing interest in the topic. Kagome had come from a world five hundred years into the future, meaning that whatever technology she brought with her wouldn't be invented until that time. Sesshomaru was hardly interested in such things that couldn't presently be beneficial to him.
Besides, most of the stuff she talked about seemed completely unnecessary to one such as he. A box that you could watch shows on, vehicles that transported you, and devices that played music. He scoffed at the ideas, it seemed that the human race of the future were far more spoiled and lazier than they were at the present moment. A place such as that...he wished he needn't have to bother with for a very long time.
Hopefully, in five hundred years time, he would grow more tolerant and patient of the human race, and make the transition into the future without much conflict. Conflict really was such a bothersome pass time many humans, including Inuyasha's miko, seemed to enjoy. But he cast his drifting thoughts aside as he focused on the situation at hand.
He had merely come to collect Rin, not to socialize with the priestess. He refused to count Inuyasha as family, so in turn did not refer to Kagome as his sister-in-law. His decision did not change, and would not change no matter how many times she insisted on calling him "oni-san*."
"Let me go grab her," Kagome offered exuberantly as she hurried into the nearby hut where he heard the sounds of voices as well as picked up Rin's scent. Her signature earthy smell instantly calmed him, cooling the nerves that had been driving him nearly mad the entire time he had been away from her.
Though he hated to admit it, his moods seemed directly dependent on the girl's constant presence.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" an excited Rin exclaimed as she hurried out of the hut to run to his side. He turned nonchalant eyes in her direction, as his own long-time accepted form of greeting. She beamed up at him before glancing back and waving excitedly at Kagome and Inuyasha, who both stood at the entrance of the hut. Kagome smiled and waved back, while Inuyasha merely scoffed and turned his head away from her.
"Was your stay enjoyable, Rin?" Sesshomaru asked as the young woman nodded, her attention once again brought back to him.
"Kagome took me on a tour of the village, and I collected some herbs and spices for her..." Rin continued to chatter as the two began walking away from the modest human village. Sesshomaru half listened in mild interest, enjoying more the sound of Rin's voice rather than the topic she was speaking about.
He supposed that eight years of traveling with the slip of a girl had forced him to become accustomed to the constant sound of her chipper voice. Given that, Sesshomaru became edgy and easily irritable each time he left on his own to take care of Western land affairs. Jaken received the most abuse from him, though rightfully deserved it. He almost always openly refused to be left behind while Sesshomaru traveled to watch over the "human nuisance," Jaken's favorite nickname for Rin.
So, Sesshomaru typically allowed the toad youkai to travel with him, but it came at a price. At most he'd get a grunt out of Sesshomaru when speaking with him, and was almost always either left behind or forgotten during their travels.
Before this specific trip, Jaken had kept his big mouth shut and remained at Sesshomaru's castle, only under the condition that Rin be sent elsewhere. Which in turn led to Sesshomaru dropping her off at Inuyasha's village to be watched over by the half-demon and his miko mate.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin squealed, causing him to momentarily lose his train of thought.
"What is it?" he asked, casting the young woman a sideways glance.
"Look! There's a stream up a head!" Rin exclaimed in excitement, "is it alright if I take a quick bath Sesshomaru-sama? I didn't get the chance this morning," she added as she turned those big bright eyes in his direction.
His stoic mask faltered slightly before he gave her a sharp nod to go on a head. Her smile widened to a grin before she whirled around and ran in the direction of the stream. His golden eyes followed the young woman as she hurried around a bush to undress.
Out of courtesy, he turned his back to her as he scouted the area for possible threats. Rin doing a simple thing such as bathing could attract demons from the surrounding area. He took extra caution as he scouted the area both with his eyes as well as his nose. That way, if a demon did decide to attack Rin, he'd be ready.
A few minutes later, Sesshomaru's ear twitched slightly at the sound of Rin's giggles followed by the splashing of water. It seemed that even now, so many years after he first found her, water still pleased the girl to no end.
He continued to scout the area when the sound of her singing took him by surprise, or rather what she was singing.
"For the longest time while we're jamming at a party,
and your wining on me.
Pushing everything up,
right back on top of me," he heard her sing rhythmically as he heard the sound of sloshing water. Was she dancing in the water? More importantly, was she singing those strange words to someone, and what did she mean by them?
"But if you think you're going to get away from me
you better change your mind,
you're going home with me,
you're going him with me tonight," she continued and Sesshomaru was almost positive she was talking to someone, but who? And why was she singing those things rather than just speaking them? At the promise of taking whoever she was talking to "home" with her, he felt his anger begin to boil.
Had he been gone long enough for Rin to find someone else? Sure he was used to being her protector, provider, and travel partner, but didn't such actions expect to be rewarded by her sole loyalty to him? As far as Sesshomaru was concerned Rin was his and would only be his.
"Let me hold you,
go caress my body,
you got me going crazy,
oh, turn me on,
turn me on!" he heard her sweet voice continue to sing. To say he was slightly bothered by what she was asking for was an understatement. That was the last straw, there was no way Sesshomaru would sit idly by while Rin went on and on like that. He whirled on his heel and headed straight for where she was bathing.
He spotted the back of her body first, her long brown hair cascading down her back as he noted that she was dancing in the water. Her body swayed back and forth to the beat of the song as she started to hum the words rather than sing them. Her hands dipped into the water as she cupped the liquid in her palms before pouring it over her shoulders and down her front.
From his post, now only a few feet from her, Sesshomaru continued to watch Rin and felt a sudden...change in him. A feeling he had never felt before coiled in the pit of his stomach as he tore his eyes away from her to look for the person she had been singing to.
But as his eyes kept glancing around the stream, he saw no one but Rin. Had she been singing to herself? He was about to turn and walk back to his previous post when the sound of a soft growl caused him to pause. He turned back around to spot the glowing of red eyes on the other side of the stream.
The demon was hiding behind a large green bush, seemingly attracted by Rin's singing. Sesshomaru had to hold in the need to sigh, sometimes the girl caused him more trouble then was necessary. He sent a glare towards the demon, knowing that mere intimidation would scare off the weak youkai. But the demon seemed oblivious to Sesshomaru, his attention still drawn to Rin's naked form.
A possessive feeling took over the dog demon suddenly as Sesshomaru emitted a loud growl, challenging the spying demon. His red eyes darted from Rin's form to his before the demon's eyes narrowed, but he didn't run. Sesshomaru decided then that it was time to take out the bothersome demon. He wouldn't risk Rin's safety over a dominance battle with a weak demon.
In one quick motion he appeared before the bush that hid the demon. His ear twitched at the sound of Rin's surprised scream along with the sound of frantic splashing, but ignored it as he reached for the defiant demon's neck. He pulled the demon out of his hiding place, only to see that it was a young demon boy.
He struggled in Sesshomaru's grasp as he clawed at his fingers, his short brown hair falling over his eyes as he fidgeted and squirmed. Sesshomaru's golden eyes narrowed as he glared at the demon. He'd kill the peeping tom and shred him to pieces for spying on Rin, his Rin, no matter his age.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin screamed in outrage, "don't kill him!" He glanced back at her with a slight glare before replying,
"Do you know this demon?"
"No...but he didn't do anything!" Rin replied, her voice slightly shaking in fear. Though he knew it was more out of fear for the demon's life rather than her own. He returned his golden gaze to the demon who still continued to struggle with all his might, his strength so minuscule that Sesshomaru's arm didn't even shake from the force he was exerting. Had he been more of an emotional being, he would've laughed at him.
"Please...I'm...sorry," the demon choked out, "I didn't know...that she was...already...taken," he added while motioning towards Rin with his red eyes.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin called out to him, "if you kill him, I'll-I'll never forgive you!" she warned.
"Hn," Sesshomaru responded as he surveyed the young demon for a moment before his grip loosened and he fell to the ground.
"You are not worth my time," Sesshomaru stated, "leave now, and if I see you around here again I will not hesitate to kill you," The demon rubbed his sore neck for a moment before scurrying away, not even casting a glance back towards the two.
"Thank you, Sesshomaru-sama," the dog demon heard the young woman whisper as he turned around to face her. An action he regretted a second later when he noted that, waist up, she was completely bare before his eyes.
She had definitely...developed since they had known each other. Or had Sesshomaru simply been oblivious to her growth and maturity? His golden eyes drank in the sight of her pale flesh, a sight that he had never had the chance of experiencing before.
To say he was surprised at just how curvy the young woman was was an understatement. He wouldn't have imagined such a sight underneath all those layers of clothing she wore as his high ranking ward.
The observation also unsettled him. He had never seen her as a woman before, and never thought he would. He supposed that he assumed she'd forever remain the little happy-go-lucky orphan girl he had been charmed by all those years ago.
Of course, all his thoughts were hidden away by his usual stoic mask as his eyes remained trained on her form. Rin seemed to notice his stares after a moment before looking down at herself, and let out an embarrassed scream.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" she shrieked as she dunked all but her blushing face into the water, "you can't just stare at a naked girl like that!" she added as she sent him a glare, a glare that he noted, matched the ones he usually gave others. Although, it looked almost comically out-of-place on the girl's face.
Imitation was the best form of flattery, though he could make a good guess that she wasn't going to let him live this little incident down.
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Kagome was wrapping up the scraped arm of one of the village boys when she felt a very powerful, very familiar, demonic aura wrap around her own. She gave the boy a pat on the shoulder when she was done before standing up and glancing in the direction she felt the immense power coming from.
Glancing around at all the busy villagers, she made the decision to walk towards the edge of the village. The less villagers around, the better. She had just reached the outskirts when Sesshomaru appeared before her, exiting out of a bright white light that had encompassed his form a moment before.
He effortlessly walked up to her with an expression that she could only clarify as bent up rage. She openly flinched at the spark of demonic aura that filled the air as her priestess powers tried to subconsciously purify it.
"Miko," the dog demon seethed as he made it within arms distance of her. Kagome gave him a forced smile as she tried to get her powers under control.
"What can I do for you Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked. He only glared down at her darkly in response.
"Oh...um – erhem, Sesshomaru-sama," she added.
"It seems that I am in need of your...mp3 player," he replied and Kagome had to do a double take.
"What for?"
"Rin desires it," was his simple answer. Kagome glanced around and did indeed spot the girl a few yards away from them. Her arms were folded tightly across her chest, and when Sesshomaru cast her a quick glance, she turned her head sharply to the side before sticking her nose up in the air.
Kagome wanted to laugh out loud so badly at the odd feeling of deja vu that hit her at the sight of the two. It reminded her so much of how she and Inuyasha acted with one another. It was obvious they had fought over something, and Sesshomaru was now trying to reconcile for whatever he had done.
Oh, how Inuyasha would have loved to see his brother like this.
Kagome gave her brother-in-law a bright smile before promising to be right back. She quickly ran into her hut to frantically search for her mp3 player, while holding in her giggles as best she could. Inuyasha's ear twitched as he cracked one gold eye open to watch her scamper about.
"What are you doing?" he asked, continuing to watch her with one eye.
"Looking for my mp3 player. Rin wants it," Kagome explained before letting out a sigh of happiness when she found the small device and its headphones.
"But isn't that yours?" Inuyasha asked, "you didn't let me listen to it," he muttered under his breath a few seconds later.
"Remember what happened the last time I gave you an mp3 player?" Kagome asked back as the half-demon shut his eyes and let out a defeated breath,
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I didn't realize it was that fragile is all,"
"Darling, you broke it in two, on purpose, when you couldn't figure out how to turn off the repeat option on a song," Kagome reminded him with a lowered lids.
"Keh! That's not true," he replied hotly, "besides, I thought Sesshomaru would be against her having it. Doesn't he always bash the things you bring from the future?"
"Well you see...he's actually the one asking for it, for Rin," Kagome replied and Inuyasha instantly jumped to his feet. He stared at her with widened eyes, seeming completely taken aback by her statement.
"There's no way in hell..." he muttered as Kagome motioned for him to come to the door. The couple stared out at the clearing where Sesshomaru and Rin stood. Rin had moved forward, or Sesshomaru moved backwards, so that the two now stood next to one another.
Kagome spotted their mouths moving, but couldn't understand a word they were saying.
"Can you hear them Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she turned her head sideways to glance back at her mate. His dog ears twitched slightly as he tried to pick up their voices, but shook his head a moment later.
"They're too far away," Inuyasha stated as the couple returned to watching the twosome across the way. From what they could see, both Sesshomaru and Rin were incredibly tense. Sesshomaru stood taller, and his face looked far more serious than normal. Rin's shoulders were tense and she refused to look at him, her arms still tightly crossed over her chest.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Kagome asked.
"I don't know, but Sesshomaru looks like he's in deep shit," Inuyasha replied with a snicker, "I never thought I'd see the day Sesshomaru got chewed out," he added when they saw Rin begin to point angrily at Sesshomaru as well as wave her hands around wildly.
Their eyes widened when they picked up some of the words Rin began screaming at Sesshomaru. The words "saw" and "naked" were the most distinguishable. Inuyasha covered his mouth with his hand to silence his snorts while Kagome's face turned a dark shade of red.
"No wonder she's steamed," Inuyasha stated between snorts, "you reacted about the same when I saw you naked for the first time. Though Sesshomaru's a lucky bastard for not having this rosary around his neck when it happened," Inuyasha added while fiddling with said rosary.
"True, but what surprises me the most is that Sesshomaru is trying to make it up to her. Since when does he want to be in such high regards with Rin?" Kagome answered. The two paused to think it over for a moment before they locked eyes.
"Do you think - ?" they both asked each other at the same time.
"No way..." Inuyasha whispered
"It couldn't be..." Kagome added as the two turned towards the other couple. Rin had stopped pointing and yelling, but she still looked tense and Sesshomaru still looked just as agitated.
"Well, for letting Rin lecture him like that without killing her should be a sign in itself," Inuyasha stated, "he's killed others for far less offenses,"
"But I didn't even think that they'd become...involved," Kagome whispered, though she had to admit, she had had her suspicions. Sesshomaru had never directly explained his relationship with Rin, nor did anyone ever think to ask him about it.
"Maybe that aren't yet," Inuyasha replied as he cocked his head to the side while studying them.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked back.
"Well he isn't hovering over her for attention. From what I've learned from Totosai about my father and other dog demons...when dog demons mate, they mate for life. They can't be apart from their mates for long, and if that's true then he wouldn't have left Rin here with us. He wouldn't have been able to, "
"So if they had mated, the signs would have been too obvious to miss," Kagome finished for him.
"Yeah, and I don't think they've gone that far quite yet. From what I can tell from knowing Sesshomaru as long as I have, he isn't the romantic striving type. Hell, I thought he was gay up until now," Inuyasha replied, both still watching the other couple closely.
That was until Sesshomaru shifted his eyes towards the hut and caught them openly staring.
"Oh shit," Inuyasha cursed as he quickly hid behind Kagome. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at the two before making his way over to them. Kagome visibly gulped and thanked the gods above that he wasn't around 24/7.
How Rin could be so light hearted and upbeat around him was beyond her.
"Oh, hi Sesshomaru," Kagome greeted with a nervous laugh, "sorry I took so long finding my mp3 player," she added in apology.
"Hn," he grunted in reply before letting her drop the small device into his open palm. She watched in mild curiosity as he glared at the object for a moment, as if his stare alone could cause it to instantaneously combust.
"From now on you will refrain from showing Rin anything else from the future. Do you understand?" Sesshomaru asked sharply as Kagome gave him three quick nods.
"Of course, Sesshomaru-sama," she answered with a low bow.
"Good," he answered before turning on his heel to return to Rin's side. She waved at Kagome and Inuyasha with a smile before giving Sesshomaru a sheepish smile when he presented her with the mp3 player.
"Hmm...I wonder if I should..." Kagome murmured as Inuyasha turned towards his mate.
"What are you scheming Kagome?" he asked in a suspicious voice, but there was humor glittering in his golden eyes. Kagome merely smiled at him.
"Oh, nothing," she replied innocently before glancing up at the blue sky. Maybe...just maybe...she thought with an inward grin. It seemed that romance would be blossoming in their little village very soon.
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*oni-san: brother-in-law.
So that's the end folks! I'm hoping to make this a series of one-shots where Kagome ends up playing matchmaker for Sessh and Rin. It may end up being random though. Not sure if I want it to be one whole story, or just a collection of similar themed short stories. We shall see! :D
P.S. Anyone recognize the song I made Rin sing? It's called "Turn me on," by Kevin Lyttle and it's been stuck in my head for DAYS now! So anyone who hasn't heard it before, look it up and FEEL MY PAIN! ^w^
