'I'll see you in three days.' He thought as his demonic energy swallowed him and lifted him into the clear blue sky.
And three days passed by in a blink of an eye. Sesshomaru found himself at the bottom of the same tree that Rin was laying against three days ago, waiting for her. He had arrived in the late morning, and has been watching the lazy sun cover the greenery and earth but now the sun was way down the sky. The sun would be set in about two hours top.
But Rin had yet to show up.
Why had she not showed up? Something must have happened to her. No way would she stand him up. She was not the kind of girl who would toy with people's feelings.
His feelings?
Since when did he have feelings to care, he almost amused.
He was debating whether or not to go check on her. But he didn't want to cause a commotion, knowing Inuyasha would come running when he caught Sesshomaru's scent.
To be honest, he missed sparing with the half-bleed. But there was no guarantee that he would not try to kill Inuyasha. Most of all, Rin would not be happy to find her not so sure new friend killing her guidance.
So he waited. Waited like all those years in the past for her to come back to him after feeding herself. After cleaning and taking care of all her needs before they would travel again. It felt like such a long time ago. Funny that only three years felt like a long time for the great dog demon lord whose times were passing like a cool breeze.
He sat there in silence, partly hoping that it was some kind of prank she pulled on him. Because if that were true, then that meant she was alright. He, who had always been patience when it came to times, was now restless. He would wait until sunset, and he would check in to find out for himself that she was alright. He hated not knowing.
Just then her scent hit his nose. Soon he could hear her heavily breathing as well as her rushing footsteps.
He stood up, aloft, waiting for the human girl to come to him, even though a part of him was telling him to rush to meet her. But he refused. He would do no such thing.
Upon meeting her again, he learned something about himself, something he had always known, just not as clearly.
He was not heartless.
Rin had stirred so many emotions inside him. While waiting, he was worried, restless, on edged, and now that she was here, his entire being felt alive. And relief. The feelings after he won a great battle against an equal or tougher opponent was great, but this feeling was so much warmer and greater than any other. Calm, soothing and comforting; in other words, he loved this feeling that she was coming for him.
For him.
She was now standing in front of him, wearing a light blue kimono. Her forehead was full of sweat. Her beautiful face was pale. Struggling to breathe, she tried to draw any oxygen that her lungs were begging for. Meanwhile were face was getting paler and paler.
"I'm so-sorry," she panted with each word, her noses unconsciously wrinkled. She looked up at him apologetically with her brown innocent eyes and draw on another big breath. That was a mistake. What happened wasn't a very good sight to see.
She threw up!
"Get away from me," said Sesshomaru in cold, calm tone. He wanted to rob her back, but decided against it.
She looked at him in surprised, hurt in her eyes, and was about to speak again when another wave of unwanted food came out and stopped her from speaking.
Sesshomaru took the matter into his own and moved a good few yards away from the very confusing girl. She was about to follow him and apologized, but he stopped her first,
"You need clean air." With that one sentence, Rin's body relaxed knowing he wasn't mad at her, but was concern about her health. To be honest, such smell could easily kill her stomach, but she willed herself (unsuccessfully) not to throw up in front of him and made her savior felt bad.
After a few minutes of rest, she sat against a tree and inhaled the clean airs while Sesshomaru was a few yards away and looked at the girl; concern in his eyes.
"I'm so sorry for being late," she started. "How long as you been here?"
He looked away from her, instead focused on the grass field, "A while."
"How long," she pushed.
"Since before noon." He answered matter of fact. Her face frown knowing she had made him wait for half a day.
"I'm so sorry," she apologized for a hundredth time, "I had to help Kaede helped a woman delivered. After that I had to help patch up a boy who fail from a tree and things were just dragging on and on and by the time everything was done it was already late. But I still had to go find some rare herb for the boy since we somehow ran out of it at the time and after that I had to tend to him real quick since I couldn't just throw him on the dirt and be one my way. I had to explain how it could be used to the family. They were thanking me for saving the boy's life and kept on thanking me and wouldn't let me leave. But I did run as fast I could to come to you. Please don't be mad at me, please."
When he looked at her, there was only world to describe the woman before him, 'adorable'
He almost smirked at the sight of the panic girl. She really did appreciate their newly found friendship.
"Hn," was all he answered. Was all she needed.
"Thank you." she smiled. "I thought you might not be here anymore. Thank you for waiting for me and not thinking that I was playing a prank on you." For some unknown reasons, her stomached twisted at the thought of not seeing this very ugly demon again.
"How was the boy?" Sesshomaru decided to change the subject or else she would be apologizing all day, or the rest of the day anyway.
He would not tell her for it would be suspicious, but he did trust her completely. With his entire being.
There was not a single tint of doubt that she would not come to meet him. Hm… she indeed had opened him a new side to himself.
She started telling him about the human boy, nine, who was trying to test his ability of how high he could climb a tree. Good thing that his ability wasn't that good and fell only a few feet from the tree, or else it would be a funeral instead of patching him up. His right arm and left leg was broken. His tiny body was wrapped all over because of the bruised and scratches. Poor boy.
After that she went on at talked about the delivery. The woman gave birth to a pair of twin, a boy and a girl. Rin was so excited.
She then continued on and talked about the human life style she had live. About her friends and just about random things.
Sesshomaru listened to her every word, amazed at how much she remained the same little girl he knew. How much he had missed listening to her sweet voice. A creature, who preferred quietness, was now listening to this angelic voice as if it was a word of gold.
A treasure.
At her present, for the first time in three years he finally found himself forgotten about everything, land, power, battles, and the curse, all but how happy and peaceful it was to listen to her sweet voice and watched the beautiful sunset on the horizon.
He felt at home.
She was his home.
Spacial thanks to Syao Blossoms for editing!
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