The flight seemed to take days. Which it, in fact, had. The nights were long and the days longer. With Sesshomaru sick, Rin wasn't as cheery and Jaken was more snappy. Everything seemed darker to Rin. The sky, flowers, grass, the clouds, even Sesshomaru himself seemed darker. She twirled a piece of his silver hair between her fingers, longing for his gold eyes to open.
"Master Jaken," She said, still looking down at Sesshomaru.
"What do you want foolish girl!" He snapped, his yellow eyes set in a glare. His clothing was like Sesshomaru's without all the armor and fluff. It wasn't white eiather, it was brown making his green colored skin stand out.
Rin looked up from Sesshomaru, "I think we're here."
Jaken turned around to find they were, in fact there. The gold gates opened warmly in there preasence. The kingdom/palace looked like something you would see in Aladin or Sleeping Beauty. Mainly Sleeping beauty. It was made of grey bricks and looked like a forbbidin tower. There were small windows placed in random spots around the palace. There was a window that had Sesshomaru's mother looking out of it. She was looking at Rin. She was a female Sesshomaru basically. She wore a blue and white yukata with a large blue "robe" over it. Her silver hair was parted into two silver ponytails attatched to the side of her head. She had the same cresant moon and the same red marks on the side of her cheeks.
Ah-un landed at the palace doors. They seemed to be barracaded off by some kind of chain. When the chain was removed Ah-un flew inside.
"What brings you her, Jaken?" Shinku, Sesshomaru's mother, asked. Her lips graced red with a smile.
Jaken clumsily fell to the floor in a bow, "Mother lady! Uh- Lord Sesshomaru is sick, Milady!"
"And you girl?"
Rin looked up, ""Me? My name is Rin. I came with my savior."
Shinku cocked her head to the side, "Savior?"
"Lord Sesshomaru has revived me as a test on the Tenseiga(sp?)," She answered.
Shinku smiled again, "Sesshomaru is just like his father...," She had a sad look in her eyes.
"DO EITHER ONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT MILORD'S SICKNESS!" Jaken shreeched.
"Hush up you rat!" Shinku hissed.
A couple of nurses eentered the room and they took Sesshomaru away with Jaken.
Shinku sighed when they left. She suddenly turned to Rin, "Come with me!" She seemed excited and grabbed Rin's wrist and drug her away.
When Shinku stoped dragging Rin, she found herself in Shinku's room. It had stuffed animals all over the place. The bed was large enouge for her demon form plus Rin. Shinku say down on the edge of the lage bed and grabbed a stuffed bunny. It was very fluffy and white. It had a pink bow on it's neck. Rin smiled at it.
"This is Usa. A japanese word for bunny," Shinku explained to her. She watched Rin's brown eye grow untill they would look big on a cow.
"Can I hold him?" Rin asked, she seemed excited.
"It's a girl and yes you can hold her," Shinku gave her the doll and Rin treated it as if it were real. She gently strocked the bunny's head.
Shinku grabbed another stuffed animal and Rin looked up from the bunny, "What's that?"
Shinku giggled then grinned, "It's a dog. Sesshomaru used to sleep with it when he was a baby and even a kid."
Rin laughed, "That almost dosn't sound like him."
Shinku found herself confused. Almost?
Rin looked at the dog, "Can I hold it too?"
Shinku didn't hear her. She was so confused. Sesshomaru was changing because of a human girl.
"Ummm...," Shinku looked up, "Are you okay?"
Shinku grinned and suddenly hugged her, "OH! SESSHOMARU BETTER MARRY YOU BEFORE I DO!"
Rin blushed imencely, "What?" She was seriously alerted.
"YOU'RE JUST TO CUTE!" She hugged Rin tighter.
Rin waved her arms violently, "I can't breathe!"
Shinku let go, "Oh! Sorry!"
"It's fine...," Rin sighed. She was a little concerened about how Shinku acted around her and Jaken. They seemed to be entirly different behaviors.
"You won't tell me secret will you?"
Rin looked up, "Of course not! That's what friends are for! If you consider us friends that is..."
Shinku smiled, "We're not friends! We're sisters."
Rin had never had a sister before and was as happy as Shinku at the idea.
Sesshomaru awoke in his old room. The same room. The same bed. The same plain walls. The same brown dresser. The same blanket and the same scent.
"Milord? Are you feeling better?"
"Yes, Jaken. Why is Rin," He asked sitting up.
"I belive she is with you're mother," Jaken said thoughtfully.
Sesshomaru stepped on him on his way out of the same old door.
He was walking down the dark halls to his mother's room. They seemed brighter under Rin's presence. As he walked, his foot steps echoed in the halls. The time seemed to slow under his steps. He enjoyed it silently to himself. Rin was a pest sometimes, but it never bothered him. He simply respected her kindness and Rin respected when her kindness wasn't nessicary.
He came to his mother's door and was about to knock when he heard his mother voice muffled by the door, "OH! SESSHOMARU BETTER MARRY YOU BEFORE I DO!"
He acttualy blushed slightly. He looked down to the floor. He never thought of Rin in that sort of way untill now. The idea made him feel weaker and sick. He made a disicion.
He knocked on the door after a while longer.
Shinku stepped out with Rin in her arms, "What do you want?"
"Rin."
"Why?"
"Because we're leaving."
"Fine..."
"Rin?"
"My lord?"
"I'm sorry"
"For what?"
Leaving you behind...