I really wish I owned Sesshoumaru through!
I used a few Japanese words that you might not know:
Konban wa- Good Evening
Hai- Yes
Gomen- Sorry
Youkai- Demon
Chapter 2"We'll camp here for the night", came the emotionless voice. "If you are hungry Rin, go and find something."
Relieved, the hungry girl said, "Yes Sesshoumaru-sama. I'll be back soon.' The tiny girl ran off into the forest.
"Jaken."
"Yes, my Lord?"
"Follow her, and if anything happens to her, I will kill you, revive you, and repeat myself for awhile. Do you understand?"
"Indeed, my Lord." Jaken squeaked, before running off to follow behind Rin.
"Ahun, follow and make sure nothing goes wrong."
The two-headed dragon grunted before taking to the air.
Rin had found a bush filled with berries, so she turned to Jaken and asked, "Would you like some berries, Master Jaken?"
"Of course not! Youkai don't eat ningen food! We don't need to eat very much at all"
"I'm sorry Master Jaken. I didn't mean to offend you." Rin said apologetically.
"Of COURSE you offended me, you insolent ningen!" Then he sighed, "But, I better check those berries because Sesshoumaru-sama will have my head if you get poisoned." he said before sniffinga berry and then eating it.
Rin was giggling and eating quietly, when she saw a flash of light through the trees. 'I wonder what that was.' She thought before saying, "I'll be right back, Master Jaken."
Jaken was to busy stuffing his face to do more than mutter uncomplimentarily at her.
Rin quikly moved in the direction she had seen the light coming from. Ahun saw she was going off on her own so he followed her closer than he had before. After all, if Jaken had been there he would have more time to get to her in case of danger.
As Rin walked closer, she could see a small clearing. When she got there she saw smoke coming from one side. As the smoke cleared she could see two objects with what looked like people in them. In one there appeared to be a young girl and in the other there was a young man.
The girl in the one object was really strange looking. She had bright pink hair, a weird purple under kimono and a strange white outer kimono.
The boy was wearing clothes that she had never seen the like of before. He was wearing black pants and a long red jacket. He had black hair with faint blue highlights. His hair was fairly short and only fell to his shoulders.
As she was watching she saw the girl move. The girl reached out and touched something on the inside of the pod. The pod opened and the girl tumbled out. She lay on the ground for a few moments before pushing herself up and moving towards the other pod. The girl reached out and pressed something. She caught the boy as he fell out. She carefully lowered him to the ground before patting his cheeks and calling something out. Unfortunately he appeared to be out cold.
"Konban wa", Rin said as she slowly approached, "do you need any help?"
"Hai, I would appreciate it very much. Do you have any water?" The girl asked slowly and awkwardly.
"Gomen, I don't have any."
"That's alright. He'll wake up soon anyway. My name is Lacus and that's Athrun. What's your name?"
"I'm Rin." Before she had a chance to say anything else, a loud growling could be heard from inside the trees. The two girls turned to look and gasped at what they saw.
"What are THOSE?" Lacus asked in shock.
In front of the two stood what looked like a giant ant, chipmunk, bat, boar, and a monkey. They really didn't look that happy to see them. Of course that may be because they looked hungry instead. The five creatures moved forwards as they surrounded the ningens. Then the boar spoke.
"Oh look, a few tasty mortals. My, and one of them is even that little female that travels with Sesshoumaru" it grunted.
"Yes, I am. And if you do anything to me, Sesshoumaru-sama will kill you."
The monkey chattered, "He's not here. How will he know exactly what happened to you?"
"HE may not be here, but he WILL be able to smell you AND he sent someone to protect me", Rin grinned.
Immediately after Rin said that, Ahun landed directly behind her. Ahun blew some fire at the ant, which jumped back before it had a chance to get burned.
Lacus cut in before anything else happened, "Rin, what are they and what is going on?"
"Have you never seen youkai before Lacus?" Rin asked, puzzled. After all, you should be able to see youkai anywhere. There is an abundance of them.
"I can't say that I have. Where I come from there are no youkai."
Suddenly a small pink sphere came out of one of the pods and zoomed around before hovering in front of Lacus. "Hello, how are you?" The thing said in a language that they had never heard before.
Lacus brought her cupped hands up and the pink sphere settled into them. "Hello, Mr. Pink. I'm doing fine, but Athrun is still out cold. We're in Feudal Japan now, so we need to talk in Japanese. Did you have a nice nap?"
"OK! I'll talk in Japanese now. My nap was very energizing.
"What the HELL is THAT!" The chipmunk youkai screeched.
"This is my friend, Mr. Pink."
"Well, your little friend is about to become my supper", the bat squeaked.
"You won't like the taste of him", Lacus warned, "After all he is made of metal."
"Doesn't matter because you will still be DEAD!" it was the ant that said this right before it leapt straight at her.
Unknown to them Athrun had woken up just after the youkai had arrived and had been listening to what was going on. He had figured out that these youkai were planning on eating them and was ready to fight them when they tried.
As the demons started forward Athrun moved and began to shoot at them with the gun that he had managed to palm without them noticing. He shot the ant in the head three times, causing it to stumble and fall back dead. He then turned and shot the boar in the heart once. Although the boar was in pain, it didn't kill it. Athrun knew that he only had two bullets left, so he had to make it count. Shooting the monkey in the throat and the bat in the right eye was all he had time and bullets for. At least he had narrowed the odds down by killing two of the five.
He yelled at Lacus saying, "Get the kid out of here NOW, Lacus!"
"Right", Lacus said immediately picking Rin up and starting to run for the shelter of the trees.
Rin was terrified. But she wasn't willing to show it because Sesshoumaru-sama had taught her how to not show that she was afraid. She really didn't want to disappoint him now. She had learned how to make her face and scent confident enough that most demons weren't able to tell how scared she really was.
As she watched Athrun over Lacus's shoulder she saw him take out a knife as he leaped over the chipmunk that was attacking him. When he was directly over the youkai's back he flipped over so that he was sitting right behind the chipmunk's shoulder blades. Then he leaned forward and sliced the knife across its throat nearly severing the head. He managed to leap off before the chipmunk went down. Then he turned to the boar that was VERY angry with him.
Rin saw the boar charge him and Athrun dodge to the side before it had time to make contact. Athrun leaped at the boar and managed to somehow slide under it as it came at him again. As soon as he was under it, he thrust the knife up and let the boar's momentum slice through his chest and belly. He tried to roll out from under the boar before it collapsed, but one leg was caught under it.
Rin noticed the bat coming for him from above, so she yelled at him to watch out. They had all forgotten about Ahun during the fight, so he had the advantage of surprise and managed to tear the bat's wings from it body before frying it.
With that the beast turned towards Athrun and, using it's heads, pushed the boar up until Athrun was able to pull his leg out from under it. Athrun looked to be very relieved that the dragon wasn't planning on killing him.
Lacus turned when the sound of fighting died down and, upon seeing that all the evil demons were dead, started back towards Athrun. When she reached him she let Rin slide down so that her feet touched the ground. She carefully inspected Athrun to see if he was alright before hugging him.
She then turned to Ahun and bowed to him saying, "Thank you very much for your help. I don't want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't done anything."
"Yes, thank you very much. You most likely saved my life", Athrun to, gave his thanks.
"Rin, RIIIIN!"
"That's Master Jaken!" Rin exclaimed.
"He finally noticed that I've been gone for awhile now."
She turned to Ahun and said, "I am very glad that Sesshoumaru-sama sent you after me Ahun. Master Jaken isn't very reliable when it comes to helping."
Then, what appeared to be a large walking toad came running out of the forest towards them. Lacus and Athrun were glad that it wasn't as big as the other youkai and that it wasn't attacking them either.
"Rin! There you are. Why did you run off?" Jaken asked.
From behind them someone suddenly said, "Did you let Rin wander alone, Jaken?"
Jaken paled as everyone turned to see a tall person with long silver hair, magenta stripes on each cheek, golden eyes, pointed ears, and a completely emotionless face.
To be continued…