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Rin ran in the opposite direction as fast as her legs could take her.
"This is why….Kagome-chan told me not to come." thought Rin desperately as she ran.
She felt someone approach her steadily…
"Ok, Rin! Time to put all that gym training to work!" thought Rin. "Number 1: Never look back when you are running. Number 2: Never look to the left or the right while running. Ok. Let's go!"
But she had barely run a few meters a white figure appeared in front of her. Rin shrieked. She started running in the opposite direction but before she could even blink her eye something or rather someone had caught her roughly by her shirt collar. She turned and looked at her captor. The same "Sesshomaru". He was leering at her.
"Hmph. Did you really think you could out race me, child? You, a mere human?" asked Sesshomaru smirking.
Rin was just panting heavily unable to speak. The next thing she knew was that she was approaching Kagome and her friends at top speed.
The trees cleared and Rin saw Kagome.
"Kagome-nee-chan!" she shouted.
"Ouiet!" growled Sesshomaru giving Rin a glare.
Rin shut up that instant.
"Rin!" shouted back Kagome relieved that she was still alive but she gasped when she saw Sesshomaru holding her.
"Sesshomaru! Let the kid go! You've sunk so low your kidnapping Kagome's cousin?" asked Inuyasha with disgust.
"What I do is none of your business, Inuyasha." said Sesshomaru coldly giving the hanyou a cold stare.
"Sesshomaru! Please….what did Rin-chan ever do to you?" asked Sango.
"Hn. She was at the right place at the right time for me to take as a hostage." replied Sesshomaru.
"Why are you doing this? Please….give Rin back!" pleaded Kagome.
"I shall give her back…."
Everyone perked up.
"…in one condition." finished Sesshomaru.
"What is it?" asked Miroku.
"Hand me the sword, Inuyasha, and allow me to kill you." answered Sesshomaru.
Everyone was stunned into silence.
"You have until tonight. Or this…"
Sesshomaru shook a dangling Rin.
"…will become my dinner."
Rin's eyes opened up to their fullest capacity in fear.
"Yes, she is quite a light meal but she would suffice as an appetizer."
Before the others could answer. Sesshomaru had left the clearing. In what seemed like a second to Rin, she found herself in the sky and she was dangling dangerously from Sesshomaru's arm.
She screamed.
"Shut up. Your sound annoys me, human." said Sesshomaru.
Rin plugged her mouth but screamed in her mind.
Soon enough, Sesshomaru landed in an unfamiliar place. As he touched down, he threw Rin near a tree.
"Ooof!" exclaimed Rin.
She looked around and saw that she had scraped her arm. When she looked back up, she saw Sesshomaru's face at her eye level. Rin's heart was beating in terror at the closeness. Was he going to kill her now?
"Now let's see if your friends are smart enough to hand over the sword for your life." he whispered.
Rin nearly fainted from fear.
...
"Arigatou."
Sesshomaru looked at Rin.
"Th-Thankyou for not dropping me from the sky when I was flying with you."
Sesshomaru's eyes widened. He suddenly sniffed.
"You are wounded."
Rin nodded slowly.
"Show me."
Hesitantly, Rin showed him her arm. He approached it an licked it.
First Rin thought this was some absurd way of teasing her but then she saw that her wound disappeared.
"Dog demon saliva heals wounds."
She remembered her grandfather had told her.
"Ar-Arigatou." she said gratefully even managing a small smile at Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru glanced at her face and saw that she was smiling. Foolish child. He was going to kill her and she was smiling at him? Again?
"I simply wanted to eat a human with no blemishes. That is all." said Sesshomaru indifferently.
But he knew that there was a different reason altogether.
"Se-Sesshoma-ru-sama." said Rin.
"What is it?"
"Since….maybe….this is the only thing I ask of you…may I….have some time alone with myself before I you are going to kill me?" asked Rin fearfully.
There was a long pause.
"Very well. But be warned. If you try to run to your friends, I shall find you and make your death painful." replied Sesshomaru.
"Arigatou gozaimasu!" shouted Rin happily.
She tottered towards a nearby river and sat on its edge.
Meanwhile, Sesshomaru was pondering on why he had been kind enough to lick the human girl's wounds. He? Sesshomaru? Kind? Those two words did not mix. Then why….for her?
He was suddenly filled with an unexpected curiosity. He wanted to find out what she was doing in her "last moments" of life.
Quietly, he followed her scent and stopped when he was ten feet behind her.
"…and thank you for Kagome-chan, she has been so kind to me. And I am lucky that I got to meet Inuyasha and the others. I know I have only a few hours left but I have a few wishes. Please keep my family safe. Keep my friends safe. Give me courage when I am about to die. And most importantly, please….let Sesshomaru's soul be spared in heaven for the sin of killing me. He healed my wounds so that means he's not that bad right? Let him be okay. And give me the strength to smile to him one last time."
Sesshomaru had been shocked by the child's last sentences.
Here he was going to kill her and she was praying for him? This human was strange. But…Sesshomaru felt something in his heart. Something…he had not felt before. He quietly went back to his camp and waited for Rin to return.
Finally, he felt her coming back.
"Are you ready?" asked Sesshomaru.
"Se-Sesshomaru-sama….I wish to just tell you one thing before I die." whispered Rin.
"What is it?"
"Arigatou. Arigatou gozaimasu for being with me in the last moments of my life."
She smiled at him again. That sweet smile….hold up. Sesshomaru doesn't think "sweet". The only sweet thing to him was sweet victory.
"I am ready. You can kill me now." said Rin solemnly.
"Rin."
Rin's heart leapt. It was the first time he had called her by her name.
"H-Hai?"
"You shall not be killed today."
Rin's eyes widened in surprise.
How was it? I strive for it to be better than the last one. Please review and thanks for reading! :)