"Sesshomaru-sama, can Hika-sama and Rin have a bath before we start travelling please?" Rin asked as she finished off the last of her breakfast.
Sesshomaru thought about this for a moment the felt his surroundings for danger bfor saying to the two young girls. Hika looked in the direction of Sesshomaru her perky fluffy inu ears twitching to the slight aura she felt coming from her protector as he weeded out dangers if any.
"Very well. I want you to use your nose and find the hot spring nearby Hika." Sesshomaru instructed. He had scented one nearby earlier and wanted his sister to get to know the smell. He sighed as he thought of how much the little demoness needed to learn; in all aspects of life.
"Is it that way brother?" Hika asked after a few minutes of sniffing the air, and pointed in the direction she thought it was in.
"Very good Hika. Your nose is very sharp. Let us go. I will need to check your eyes and change the bandages.
Deeper farther off in the forest, InuYasha had his usual bad attitude times ten for two other people in the group kept at him for his "Blunder with sesshomaru's poison claws... and miroku had no idea the danger he was putting himself in.
"Knock it off monk! I've told you all a thousand times! It was an accident that that the wind scar and Sesshomaru's poison claws hit the girl! Next human or demon that bothers me about this matter will be in a lot of pain! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!" InuYasha snarled.
"Now, now..." Miroku started with a rather "all knowing" attitude. Before he knew it, he had slammed in to the tree that had been a few feet from him, thanks to InuYasha's fist.
"Shut up asshole. I don't want to hear it!" Sensing that Kagome was about to tell him off for hitting Miroku, he whirled around and glared at her, daring her to say what was on her tongue. Kagome gasped as she saw the red starting to bleed into his eyes. She steeled herself and firmed her face as she did when he acted like a snob. "Just go then, nobody want's you here when you act like this."
Sango, who had been quietly the whole time, shook her head in disappointment as she watched InuYasha storm off.
"You two just have to keep at him when you should be able to see that it's bothering him." Sango replied quietly.
"Since when has InuYasha ever let anything bother him. He doesn't even know the little girl." Kagome seeming to know what was on the hanyou's mind.
"Since he has found out he has a sister, he's starting to feel something towards her." Sango replied.
"Why didn't he ever tell us he had a sister, and why is she so young?" Kagome asked, a little frustrated.
"I don't know Kagome. Something must have happened to have her at that age. Only Sesshoumaru would know. As soon as Sango had said that a high pitched creaky voice squeaked high over the sentance with a boastous attitube. "Not like my lord would ever tell you!" They turned to see a female inu clad in samurai like armor, however she appeared to be wounded as she bleeding on her side and had several gashes on her face and her hair, traditionally what would have been sillvery silky white, was dingy grey and crusted with blood, yet she still stood defiantly at the humans hand on sword hilt and ready for another battle...
Back where Hika, Rin and Sesshomaru were, the hotsprings waters were soothing to the pain in Hika's eyes... As gentle ad a rose petal against and infant's lips Sesshomaru removed the bandages to check on the healing, he was saddened how her eye color had dulled from a shining cobalt blue, Due to the throwbacks from the human traits that had stayed with his father, to a now fair, and light mixture of cyan and periwinkle in color. A frown formed on his face he gave her somne eye excised testing reflexes and functionality and decided she can have the bandages off now. what remained of the damage to her eyes were three light angry red claw marks to the right eye and a single thin -almost invisible to the human eye- line to the left. H reached into the pouch of medicines tinctures and medicinal powders searching for an ancient heal all remedy paste on he spread on her eyes down the claw marks and scars, they didn't go away however the pain was removed from Hika... as the expression on her face was relaxed and softening. "You should be fine with out bandages now Hika..." Sesshomaru murmured as she felt around for bandages stopping at his words. She stood and tightened her Hiori coat and kimono, shufffling her feet with droopy ears. "N-nii-sama, can.." She stopped short on her sentence...or was it a question? "ask me anything hika i'll listen..." She looked back at her elder brother "C-can I see... him? my...other brother?"
To be continued
Next chapter: Family
Thanks so much to sangoscourage for the 9ideas and help, as my co-author for this series. Hoping to get alott more done and a whole other chapter flushed out before i get other things done. feel free to sbscribe fav and folw and please feel free to review and tell me what you thought! :D
