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Warning: This chapter contains cuss words, violence, death, and refrences to rape and cannibalism. Continue at your own risk. I don't want complaints.
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Chapter Two: Recovery
"I know some things that you don't, I've done things that you won't. There's nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home.
I was waiting for my hearse, what came next was so much worse. It took a funeral to make me feel alive."
- Sixx: AM; Life is Beautiful.
"Damn it all," I cursed under my breath and chucked a rock away from where I was sitting. It dug into the ground from the force. My shoulder flared a bit with pain from using it so harshly, but I just rolled my eyes and brushed it off. Ever since I woke up I've been in a very foul mood.
He left me here. He left me at the entrance of the forest for anybody to find me and do whatever they wanted. The worst part was I was still unconscious and bleeding. I don't even know how long I was forced to lay there!
What if a bandit found me on his way to dropping off the bodies? Usually they don't harm the people in the village, for unknown reasons, but if I lived in the village I wouldn't be laying like a moron on the ground. I would've been raped, most likely. What's the point of saving somewhere from being raped but then just leaving them out in plain sight like they're begging to get fucked?
I was more than lucky that Kagome found me. She said she had no idea how long I was there, but she didn't see anyone. Kagome had carried me to her tent to tend to my wounds. Where she found that strength, I'll never know; her arms are basically twigs. I'm just lucky that Kagome is a healer. Her family had passed down the knowledge of healing and taking care of wounds. It was one of the reasons why the village put up with her. Even if she couldn't help contribute to increasing the village food supply, she helped the injured and sick.
"Rin…" Kagome's soft voice reached my ears from a little ways behind me. I didn't reply, just stared down at the ground with a hard face. A gentle hand set itself on my uninjured shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"What am I supposed to do?" I asked Kagome quietly after a few moments. Going back home to my parents was out of the question. If they were even still alive, they'd kill me out of their anger. And probably even...eat me. I wouldn't put it beneath them to go cannibal; a lot of people have. As of today, it has officially been one week since my departure. And I spent a good deal of that week unconscious, reliving dreams of horror.
"You could stay with me?" Kagome replied hopefully, making it sound more like an unsure question. She walked around and kneeled in front of me, looking at my face kindly. I sighed and looked up.
"Kagome, I'd love to...it's just…I can't sit around and do nothing all day. I'm used to adventure. I can't just live here and do nothing." Kagome nodded at my confession like she understood me.
"We're going to have to wait until your wounds heal before any sort of adventure goes on." Kagome tilted her head and smiled. She was trying to cheer me up. Anyone around our age in the village either moved away or were killed a long time ago. If I stayed, she wouldn't be so lonely.
Unless I was going out hunting then got raped and murdered, of course. Which, judging by the way things have been going, is just my luck. Damn her for making me feel bad.
"Okay…" I returned her smile half-heartedly, wanting to cheer her up.
"Good!" She beamed and pushed off of her knees to stand up, holding a hand out to me. I took it and she pulled me to my feet. "Well, we should go freshen up. There's a village cook-out tonight." She informed me excitedly. Her eyes were sparkling from her happiness, unlike mine, which were completely dull in comparison.
I let her drag me, confusion written all over my face, "Village cookout..?"
A few hours later I was sitting on a log, in between Kagome and another girl who looked like she was a year or so older than us. She kept glaring at me throughout the entire time, when I hadn't even said anything to the chick! Well, yet, if she keeps this going on.
I glanced down at the food that sat on a flat rock. Earlier Kagome had told me that once every week the village would have a cook-out. The men would hunt for food in the morning, the women would cook. They did this to make sure everyone was eating and okay. I had never known anyone to do something like this...it was pretty amazing.
"Aren't you hungry, Rin?" Kagome set her hand on my arm and I looked over at her.
"Yeah, I just have a lot on my mind." I gave an uneasy laugh and smiled. Then I felt damn holes burning in the back of my neck for like the 100th time that night. "Hmph." I growled, snapping around to glare back at the bitch sitting beside me.
"What?" She sneered. What a snob.
"What crawled up your ass and died?" I retorted. "I haven't done anything to you, why do you keep glaring at me? Just leave me alone."
"Whatever." She scoffed, standing up and throwing her remaining food into the fire before striding off. What a waste! I rolled my eyes and turned back to Kagome.
"Who the hell was that?"
"Oh, that's Kaguya. She's usually pretty nice." Kagome looked back at Kaguya's retreating figure with interest. "I don't know why she doesn't seem to like you."
I snorted in disbelief, "Oh wow." I said with a deep sigh, "This is going to be harder than I thought."
"Oh no, she's probably jealous of you because before you came she was the prettiest girl in the village." Kagome tried to reassure me, as if I was going to leave her. Of course I would never leave her; she didn't need to worry about that. But I knew one thing for sure; Kaguya better keep her snooty little nose in her own business or she won't have one.
"You're such a liar." I accused Kagome while laughing. I bit into the piece of meat I was ignoring and noted how Kagome's face lit up when I did. I swallowed, "You're so much prettier than her."
"Oh, no." Kagome nodded modestly. "That's not true. She's so much stronger than me as well, which makes her more attractive. She even goes hunting with the men on regular days." That last bit caught my interest.
"Hunting?" Kagome's eyes widened like she said something wrong and she bit her lip.
"I wasn't planning on telling you until you were healed…" She began, but I interrupted her.
"I'm so in on that." I grinned, shoving more food into my mouth. My mood brightened considerably after hearing that. I was so afraid I'd have to cook and clean for the village, just hanging around and wasting my life away. Hell to the no, I refuse to do that shit! I'd rather die than do nothing all my life. What'd be the point? At least with hunting I get some action in.
I heard Kagome groan lightly, but I ignored her. Nothing was going to ruin my mood now!
"Night, Rin." Kagome breathed, her voice already groggy by sleep. We had just endured a full day of work and excersize. Kagome had complained about how tired she was and it definitely showed.
I giggled softly, "Nighty-night Kagome." I sang jokingly.
Kagome chuckled softly before her breath evened out and she began to snore lightly. I waited a few minutes to make sure she wouldn't wake up before getting to my feet and pushing the towel-like door aside to step outside.
Thanks to me, Kagome now had a sturdier, shack-like home. I helped her bring in thick sticks, or small logs if you prefer, and tie together the best shack I could while injured. We could both now stand inside it and move around.
I moved quietly through the night, trying my best to be quiet. I didn't want to be seen out here; people would think I was up to something or would mistake me for a bandit. Luckily the sounds of the night and the wind muffled my footsteps. I even ditched my shoes and went barefoot to make sure I would be quieter.
I pulled my jacket closer, huddling in its warmth. It was completely dark, except for the moon and stars. I rushed behind shack to shack. I suddenly came upon a light; fire on a torch. I heard the deep voices of some of the village men I recognized and stopped.
After a few moments of praying, they finally said their goodnight's and left to go to bed. I waited another minute before breaking into a full-out run as quietly as I could. Once I got to the last shack in line I stopped to check if the coast was clear and to catch my breath. I panted, leaning against my knees. I was just glad that the injury to my forehead wasn't acting up. It was the only injury that hadn't fully healed yet, and I wasn't in the mood for a headache.
I heard voices in the shack I stood next to. I heard the annoying familiar one that made me glare towards the hut and stick my tongue out at it.
"Kaguya…" I muttered unhappily. She was chattering away to her sister about whom they thought the hottest guy in the village was.
Rolling my eyes, I walked until I arrived to a meadow. The grass was long and swaying in the wind, full of dry flowers. I smiled brightly and skipped around it, enjoying the wind brushing against my body.
After a few minutes of dancing I fell to my knees contently, looking up to the stars. I made pictures and patterns out of them until I grew bored and my mind started to wonder. I fell to my back, my long and unbound hair cushioning my injured head.
I wonder what Sesshoumaru is doing. I haven't seen him in nearly four weeks. Maybe…I'm not meant to see him ever again? Maybe I should just give up this childish hope I have? I mean, it's not like I can do anything with him if I see him. Demons and humans are allowed to talk and shit; it's just still extremely looked down upon. But there's no punishment for it or anything. The punishment is only if you mate or fall in love.
When I was around ten, there was this one boy who used to live in the opening of the forest across from our house. He was around eighteen, two years older than I am now. I remember watching him almost every day. He would sit there as if waiting for someone, something. He was gorgeous and girls were madly in love with him, but he never really did anything about it. Actually, he never really did anything in general. He just sat there as if waiting for someone or something with his head in the clouds. I thought he gave up on life for a while, until one night. I had stepped outside for some air and it was the sounds of voices talking that caught my attention. Being as sneaky as I could, I crept around the house and saw the boy standing, talking to the most beautiful woman I had ever saw. She had violet hair and violet eyes. Her skin had a blue-ish tinge to it, but it only made her beautiful. She was a water demon, I had been sure of it. I wondered why she was there until I saw them kiss, and I knew why. They were breaking the number one rule of the world.
A few weeks later an army of youkai soldiers came and killed them both. I watched from my window in horror, watching the youkai tear the screaming couple away from each other before killing them both before each other's very eyes.
"The world is so cruel." I spoke aloud, for no apparent reason. I sat back up and sighed deeply. It wasn't fair to tear loved ones away from each other. I mean, I understand why they would want to do it, but was it really necessary?
Another cool breeze had me wrapping my arms around myself as I shivered. I stood up and walked back to Kagome's with a lot on my mind. Was it really fair to tear apart true love?
I fell asleep with the images of the boy and the violet haired demoness reaching out, trying to grasp each other's hands for the last time until they were executed.
It was morning a few days later. I woke up to the smell of death. Gagging, I sat up with my eyes watering.
"Goodness!" I heard Kagome exclaim from next to me, gagging as well.
"The fuck is that?" I gulped, holding my nose. The smell was putrid. Kagome and I walked outside to see eight bodies of little girls lying literally 4 feet away from our shack. I held my hand over my mouth when I stepped closer. They were bloody all over, missing body parts. They were naked and defiled, and it was obvious they'd been dead for some time now.
Kagome sighed deeply, "This is the first time they've dropped bodies off in more than two weeks. I knew it was strange that they stopped, but why would they suddenly start up again?" She frowned and stalked off to find the rest of the burial crew. I absolutely refused to help with the touching and burying part. I did go, though. I went and I set flowers over their grave and sang the song of parting for them. Kagome was right, it was extremely strangehow this happened. Bandits never cared about their timing, they just dropped the bodies off and moved on. Why so much of them, and why have they been obviously dead for a while now?
Hours later I sat, leaning up against a log in the middle of town. We had finished burying the poor children two hours ago, but I couldn't get my mind off of them. Where had they come from? Nobody had recognized them, and the villagers send the children off. As far as I knew, the only decent entrance to Death Forest was through the town. It made me especially sad because one of them had to be no older than six. I cried for the little one as well as the others. It just wasn't fair. All they want to do is help their families and in return all they get is pain and death.
I sighed as my thoughts wandered to Sesshoumaru. Kagura had called me his 'new little pet' that night. What did that even mean? Am I not the first ningen he'd saved? Thinking about that damned woman made my blood boil and my heart sink. She was Sesshoumaru's fiancé, but they obviously didn't get along very well. Sesshoumaru seemed really pissed to see her, like she was following him or something.
I heard a snobby laugh which broke me out of my trance. I glared up at who did it. She stared back at me with a smirk and mirth glittering in her eyes.
"What do you want, Kaguya?" I crossed my arms and held back from rolling my eyes.
"Well, I had been asked to see if you'd accompany me and the boys on the next hunting trip tomorrow. Apparently some little bird whose name starts with a K," Kaguya said the 'K' with pure disgust and loathing before rolling her eyes and smirking at me again, "Told the head of the hunting party you could out-hunt all of us combined. They want to see if she was telling the truth."
"Fine with me," I shrugged nonchalantly, but on the inside I was exploding with happiness. Finally! I get to do something!
Kaguya leaned forward and put her mouth next to my ear. "Personally, I don't think you could hit air, but it'll be fun to see you make a fool of yourself." She straightened up with an annoying giggle and shrugged mockingly with a fake smile. Not even that faltered my happiness.
I snorted and rolled my eyes, "Whatever." She gave a dissatisfied sigh and walked away. Once she was out of sight I grinned, jumping up and running back to the shack.
Kagome looked up with surprise when I ran in, dropping down the dress she was sewing. "Rin? What is it?" Her voice was laced with worry, but I just grabbed her hands and started jumping up and down.
"Kagome, I love you! You're the best sister I never had!" I cried, hugging her close.
Kagome returned the hug and laughed, "I'm guessing Kaguya told you then? I made sure to tell the head of the hunting party to have Kaguya break the news to you, just to piss her off."
"And I love you all the more for it." I grinned, hugging her tighter. "Does that mean I can take the bandage off my forehead now?" I asked hopefully.
"Yes." Kagome chuckled as she reached up and took the bandage off carefully, checking all parts of the cut to see if it was healed. "Um…that's strange…" She whispered.
"What?" I began to panic. Did it not heal yet? Was I going to have to cancel?
"Your cut…it's…gone…" She murmured, eyes wide with shock. "There should be a scar..."
"You're lying." I laughed shakily, running out of the shack and to the fire pit to look in the emergency water bucket setting next to it. I looked at my reflection in the water, staring at my ocean colored eyes through the water before taking a breath and pushing my bangs away from my forehead.
I gasped and dropped my bangs in fear. What the hell..?
"Kagome…how is this possible?" I looked towards her, fearful of her obvious answer.
"I…I don't know…"
"Come on, Rin. Don't fall behind." Kaguya's taunting voice and smirk succeed to piss me off even more. Two hours into the hunting trip and she has been non-stop bugging me and pissing me off, even though I have already caught more game than she did. I was about to punch the little bitch in the face. She was fully turned around and walking backwards just to annoy me.
"Kaguya, chill out." I glared at her. In all honesty, I was falling behind. I hadn't been doing anything but heal for a month, getting almost no exercise. She can just fuck off.
Kaguya rolled her eyes at me and turned back around gracefully, picking up her pace. Ohh, the nerve of her. This is why I hate nearly every girl my age. They're either like her or just plain crazy. Kagome's the only decent one I know.
I started mumbling some very bad profanity under my breath when a callused hand grabbed my shoulder, surprising me. I really am out of it. I looked up to see the head of the hunting party, Bankotsu. The guy Kaguya was madly in love with.
"Don't let her get to ya; she's just a little bitch." He stared me straight in the eye, smiling slightly. I realized that his eyes were the same color as mine. Right when he said the last sentence, a full grin broke out on my lips. It was obvious that she had unrequited love on her hands.
"I won't." I assured him, laughing. He winked at me and let go of my shoulder, walking ahead. I decided right then that he was very attractive. He was strong too; his weapon was this huge halberd he called Banryuu. I've never seen one before Banryuu, but I've read about them in books I found a while back.
A few hours later and many fights later, Bankotsu was at his breaking point.
"Damn it, Kaguya, Rin! Will you two shut the fuck up? You're scaring every living thing in a five mile radius away!" He growled, glaring at the two of us. Kaguya turned a deep shade of red which amused me. I looked down, smirking.
"I'm sorry, Bankotsu. She's just so irritating! She can't even hunt." She pouted, stepping closer to Bankotsu. I made a disbelieving noise as my head snapped back up.
"What? I've killed more than you today, Kaguya! And I'm not the one who goes out every week!" I shouted. Bankotsu gave me a look that made me shut up and clamp my lips together tightly. I was a little scared; that guy could definitely be intimidating.
"Rin's right, Kaguya." Bankotsu agreed dryly. "So shut up, yer the one starting all these damn fights anyways." He started walking away again with the other men, who were staring curiously at me and Kaguya's shameful faces.
After a few more minutes Bankotsu sighed deeply and hefted Banryuu from his shoulder to rest it on the ground. "Well, I think it's about time we split up. Meet back here in an hour." He nodded to everyone and we all took off in separate directions, except Kaguya. She followed Bankotsu to no one's surprise. Poor guy. We could heard him yelling at her until they were out of earshot.
I rolled my eyes and took an arrow out of my new quiver, resting it against my bow just in case. I was all by myself now; I couldn't be depending on anyone anymore. I walked deeper into the woods for about twenty minutes until I heard a rustle from a bush a few feet away from me, which scared the shit out of me. I pulled my arrow back and glared at it, ready for whatever it was. Hopefully a rabbit or something big. That'd show Kaguya.
"Your fight with that pathetic bitch was very amusing." A voice spoke from close behind me. I squeaked and jumped away, turning to look at the owner of the familiar voice with my arrow still raised.
"Kagura." I meant to speak out with confidence, but my voice betrayed me and shook. Why did I have to run into her out of all people? "What are you still doing here? Am I that interesting?" I taunted her, even though I knew it was dangerous. But you can't fight on emotions, especially anger. That's why I tried making her mad. It basically blinds you. No matter what I've read in books, fighting in anger is basically a death wish.
Kagura narrowed her blood-red eyes at me in annoyance, flipping the demon fan of hers out to view. "You can talk, but fighting is another thing. Your little wooden toy is no match for me. And you have no business knowing why I'm here, ningen."
My gaze hardened, "Why don't you just leave me alone? You'll look bad if they find out you killed me, a nearly defenseless ningen." I referred to the youkai soldiers. Their senses were even more heightened than regular youkai's. If they came near Kagura, who I knew was high-up in first class to be engaged to Sesshoumaru, they would smell my death around her and her secret would get out.
Kagura scoffed and snapped her fan shut, folding her arms again. "You need to mind your own business, filthy ningen. Youkai and ningens don't mix. That's why the world has been nearly killed. Remember that." She warned me as she plucked the feather from her bun. It turned in to a gigantic ass feather thing that she sat on. It twirled up in the sky and soon she was gone, leaving me thinking about what she said.
She warned me about Sesshoumaru, I know she did. Did that mean that he was still around? I felt a little nervous at the thought. No, he wouldn't hang around me. I really need to get over him; he's not doing me any good.
I sighed deeply and lowered my arrow, beginning my way back. I shot a few animals on the way and when we all joined together I still managed to have more than Kaguya. She was severely annoyed by this but I wasn't in the mood to feel smug about it. Why was it that once I start feeling better something like that has to happen? It's just not fair. But more importantly, why the hell was Kagura hanging around here? It made no sense...
I was completely lost in my thoughts when Bankotsu appeared beside me and shook me a little, "Alright there, Rin? You seem out of it…did something happen?" His voice was still confident and strong, but there was a worried undertone to it.
"No, don't worry about it." I brushed the subject off with a smile, "I just have a lot on my mind." Bankotsu nodded as though he understood, which I highly doubted he did.
"If you ever have something ya wanna talk about, I'm here." He grinned and winked, making me laugh, before stepping away and falling into pace with another man I believe is named Jakotsu. He's a bit odd, but those two acted like brothers, even referring themselves as brothers though they really weren't.
We walked the rest of the way to the village peacefully, keeping an eye out for bandits and such. Of course, most bandits have at least as much sense to know attacking a group of ten hunters is a bad idea. But now that I think about it, it probably had something to do with Banryuu…
Kagome's voice knocked me out of my thoughts. She was running like a madman with a huge smile on her face. I tossed my bow to the side quickly and ran to hug her. We both squealed and hugged until we heard an annoyed grumble coming from Kaguya. I picked my bow back up and we walked arm-in-arm back to our shack.
"Soooo, how was it?" Kagome asked excitedly, grinning. We were officially back in the shack and sitting on the mountain of blankets. I already cleaned up and changed into Kagome's old clothes, which were still a little big on me. I tossed my damp hair up into a side ponytail and let my hands fall into my lap audibly.
"It was okay." I shrugged, looking off into a corner with a bored expression. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Kagome's face drop. She crawled over closer to me. Gods, it was way too hard not to smile.
"Oh my god, what happened?" She whispered, most likely thinking of the worst possible scenarios. I couldn't help it and burst out laughing, adding confusion to Kagome's doe-like eyes.
"Kagome, you're so gullible." I teased, poking her nose softly. Kagome blushed softly and batted my hand out of the way.
"So really, how was it?" Her face regained its usual lightly tanned color and she grinned.
"It was great! I totally beat Kaguya out of the amount of killings." I laughed at the thought with Kagome. I purposefully didn't mention the Kagura part. I wanted to forget about it, anyways.
Kagome had me elaborate a bit more on the journey but soon yawned deeply and began to fall asleep. I mimicked her yawns and layed down until I heard her breathing even out. I sat back up and gazed over at her peaceful face. Sometimes, I wished I could be as pretty as her. No matter what Kagome says, she's always going to be prettier than anyone I'll ever know.
I crawled out of the shack, welcoming the brisk air once outside. I knew that I shouldn't be out with Kagura apparently still wandering around the forest for gods know what reason, but I go to the meadow every night and that moron wasn't about to stop me now. I sat down and pulled on shoes that a man brought for me in a raid he did a few weeks ago. They were black and on the heels said 'Toms'. I really liked them; it was like walking on air.
Crawling to behind the shack, I stood up while checking to see if the coast was clear. Once I was sure it was I took my usual path and ran. I stopped once again by Kaguya's shack. I never stopped here on purpose, it was just the last shack in the line and I needed to catch my breath. There were voices that drifted from inside and I caught some of their words.
My breath caught in my throat and I swear my heart skipped a few beats when I heard what Kaguya said.
"He had long silver hair tied up and he had these gorgeous golden eyes. But the sexiest part about him was the crescent moon on his forehead." Kaguya gushed to her sister.
"You're so lucky," Her sister gasped with jealously. "This is so forbidden and sexy..."
"I know. He said I was beautiful and touched my cheek before leaving." Kaguya sighed dreamily with a giggle.
Anger raged inside of me and I scowled. That dick! Out of everyone it had to Kaguya? And he was still here?
I stomped the rest of the way to the meadow, feeling weird like there was someone watching me. I had no doubt over whom it was. I walked through the long grass to the middle of the meadow and crossed my arms sourly.
"Get your ass out here, Sesshoumaru." I drawled out through my anger. I heard a low growl and footsteps from behind me. I turned and set my glare on Sesshoumaru's blank face crossly. "How long have you been here?"
Sesshoumaru didn't answer, just narrowed his golden eyes at me. I uncrossed my arms and held them straight down to my sides, balling up my fists. I was trying not to smack him. I wouldn't survive that.
"What happened with Kaguya?" I tried.
"Kaguya?" He finally asked, seemingly confused.
"The bitch you encountered earlier today." How dense is he? Unless…he met other girls… The thought of it made anger and…jealousy?...bubble inside my stomach uncomfortably.
Sesshoumaru's lips turned up into a nasty smirk as he stepped closer towards me in a predatory way. "Are you jealous?" I took a step back, my eyes widening.
"So you admit to it?" I ignored his question. I couldn't be jealous…
"This Sesshoumaru admits to nothing." He stated firmly, still walking closer at a slow pace. I began to step backwards cautiously.
"W-what are you doing?" I stuttered, backing into a tree. I vaguely remembered when he pinned me to one the night we met.
Sesshoumaru stepped up and put his arms on either side of me, preventing escape. "This Sesshoumaru smells anger in your scent." He confirmed.
"Well, this Sesshoumaru," I mimicked him sarcastically; anger refueling me again, "Dumped an injured me barely outside of the forest the night Kagura attacked me!" I exclaimed incredulously.
Sesshoumaru growled, narrowed his eyes once again. "You claim me to be careless?" He finally dropped his third person thing which relieved some of my irritation.
"Well, why else would you just leave me there to be raped..or k-killed…or…" I trailed off when his eyes caught mine. The intensity of his melted gold gaze made my heart start pounding with true fear. I couldn't look away. I wasn't sure of what I saw in his eyes. It was dangerous, it was forbidden, it was everything that disappeared along with the ningens power. And I liked it, which is what terrified me the most.
"You obviously know nothing, ningen." Sesshoumaru sneered, his eyes grew hard, and he stepped back to release me. That word…he called me ningen in one of the worst ways I've ever heard it. It made me feel…dirty almost. I felt ashamed and embarrassed for feeling what I felt only moments before.
"I could've died." I retorted, glaring at him. Tears pricked at my eyes but I tried to force them down.
"Do you really think this Sesshoumaru would waste his time saving you to leave you for dead?" Sesshoumaru still glared, but his voice was calm unlike mine.
"Well I don't know you so I don't know what you'd do." I sniffed, starting to walk away. I had to leave, to go home. I didn't want him to catch me crying.
"No. You don't know me. Nor do I know you." I turned around to peer at him suspiciously but he was no longer there. I bit my lower lip and broke out into a run, running until I reached the shack. I crawled under the sheets and curled up into a tight ball. I squeezed my eyes shut and finally felt safe to cry as hot tears tried leaking out. I let out a few harsh breaths, trying not to make any noise.
That asshole. How is it possible that someone like…him, a youkai, someone I've never met in my life, a being whom I've been raised to just leave alone and not care about, could make me, a ningen, a girl who's spent her entire life defending herself and hiding her feelings from the world feel like turmoil inside with just two encounters?
No, this wasn't acceptable. Hatred was the most dominant feeling I had in me at this point. I didn't want to be going through this...
If I ever see that douche bag again, I will drive an arrow through his cold heart myself.
A/N: I'm so sorry for my late udate! It's been officially a month since I've last updated. I've been extremely busy with school, writers block, and we're also moving. Until we're settled in to our new house the updates will be slow.
And for the writers block thing...I have almost every inch of this story planned out. It's just some filler parts that I have trouble with, and nearly this entire chapter was full of it since Rin had to heal. But now that she's in shape again and Sesshoumaru is back with all these unexplained secrets and hatred and all this forbidden shit...well it won't be so hard from here on out. ;D This chapter was crucial, though. Rin had to heal and explain a few things. And there are a few indicants for later chapters in here, but when it comes time for me to add them I'll make an authors note about this chapter. So, sorry if this was boring / sucked.
Secondly, Sesshoumaru is a little ooc in my story. Before you get pissed and throw a hissy fit and click the little red 'x' button, I am not changing him completely. I had to change him a little bit to fit the plot of my story. You'll all find out in due time why he is the way he is, it'll be explained in later chapters. Until then, I'd love to hear your guesses on why he's all flirty with the humans. ^_^ haha.
And finally, if you don't like reading the anon review replies, Sesshoumaru is seveteen while Rin is sixteen.
Anonymous Reviews
Blurry: Thank you! I really worked hard on developing it. And I'm looking forward to it too...heh.
Chokielove: Thank you so much! You have no idea how much that means to me. I worked really hard on making my story easy to read and to capture the readers attention rather than boring and just having endless info. Your review really made my day. ^_^
Layla: Thank you! That really means a lot. :D I worked hard on it, that's for sure. And thanks for your concern on that! If you read my author's note, I do have a reason for making him like that. But after reading your review I did go back and see that I made him a little more ooc than I meant to. I tried harder to make him more in character this chapter. :)
So Damn Creative: Thanks! :D I'm excited for the upcoming chapters...there's going to be a lot more...hmm, intresting things let's say that I hope you guys will like. ^_^ Sesshoumaru is seventeen, still a very young demon, while Rin is sixteen.
cherrylove: Thanks so much! I really hope I did. :)
zena: Haha, I definitely am. XD I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for your review!
IamBatman: Yay, frequent reviewer! I'm honored. ^_^ I'll look out for your reviews! XD I'm glad you love how it began. Thanks for your review!
erika: I'm glad you're loving it so far. :) And did you not like Rin x Sessh together before? D: Ahh, well I hope I can change that if so! XD They're going through a hard time in the beginning, though. Anyways, thanks for your review!
forever angel: Thanks you so much! Your review definitely made my night because I really tried to think of a completely different concept. I'm glad no one you know has used it before. ^_^ Thank you so much for the review! And nah, I didn't draw the picture. XD I wish I had that kind of skill, but I'm limited to stick figure drawings. ; ~ ; I hope I didn't cause any confusion...o.o I meant by imperfect that the picture is close to what I imagine him to be, but not completely. I'll go back and fix that. :) Anyways, thanks again!
Reviewer that has no name: Thank you! :D I'm so glad you like it!
Mirrorsdeath17: I'm glad it is! XD I really wanted Rin to have a sort of different attitude than most stories, but still have some qualities that make her Rin. And I really wish she would've slapped Kagura too. ; ~ ; But she was already being risky enough. XD If Kagura was human Rin probably would've slapped her. ^_^ Thanks for the review!
sniffum: I am. :) I'm glad you are! It makes me extremely happy. :D I hope I'll live up to the first chapter with my future ones. Thanks for the review!
UmiRei92: Thanks so much! ^_^ I'm glad you like it! Oh, and I can't wait until you update your story again. :D
I would like to say that I was extremely happy with the number of reviews I got. It was a complete motivation booster. And with the busy schedule I have now/been having, I don't think I would'be continued this story without all of you. I just hope the number doesn't drop drastically. Anyways, I'll try my best to write when I have the time to! Until next time, my amazing readers. ^_^ Review, review, review!