For my newest fan ;)Hope you'll enjoy it as the others moreover because some of you favorite characters appear;)

Chapter 3
Hope dies last...
or how Jaken learned why he has to "take care"of Rin

It was a beautiful morning: the sun was rising, then wind was blowing calmly thought the trees and Jaken was screaming as usual:

"I can't believe that Lord Sesshomaru let me with this kid again! It's totally...Rin are you listening?!"

The poor litlle girl was deeply sleeping on Ah-un, probably aslept by Jaken's long speech.

"Of couse, sleep, why I have to bother to baby-sit you!"Jaken continued his speech irritated as usual.

He was going to start again when he fall because he hitted a stone.

"Great, who put this thing on my way!?" He continued to scream and tried to push it away, but it was useless.

When he looked around he realised that it was coming from a pile of stones even bigger than that one. Angry because of his weakness, Jaken took a smaller stone and threw it in the big ones, but unfortunately for him the stone bounced and came back hiting Ah-un and Rin falled.

"OH, no!" Jaken said impaciently and runned to Rin.

"What happened? Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin asked sleepy as she looked around.

"Rin, are you Ok? Lord Sesshomaru will kill me if you are hurt even a bit! Let me take a look!"Jaken start speaking to her while he was going around her taking quick looks at her. Rin was all right, although a bit dizzy because of the suden awake. She looked around with her big eyes,ignoring Jaken's worrying speech about how Sesshomaru could kill him when something attract her.

"Master Jaken, look!"

"..and he'll send me in the other part of the...what did you say?" he asked stopping as he realized that the girl was all right.

"There, at the bottom of the pile of stones there is a black thing!"

"It could be a demon!" Jaken said prepared to run away trying not to forget to take Rin as well.

"No, Master jaken, it seems more as a sheath of a sword!" Rin said and approached before Jaken could stop her. "I was right!"

Jaken came near too and saw that rin was true.

"This sheath of sword reminds me of Tetsusaiga..."Jaken said while he touched it. He instantly electrocutated. "...and it works as it." He added fried from the grown.

"Master Jaken, are you all right?" Rin asked concerned.

"Of couse I'm all right!"Jaken said while standing up.

Then he was already having a plan:

"If I take this sword to my lord, he will be very happy and even recognisful! I have to take it!" He said and touch it again. Of course he electrocutated again.

"Master Jaken, why don't you try to tie it with a rope and pull it if it hurts you?" Rin asked in her sweet childish voice.

Jaken agreed and tied it. Then he put Ah-un to pull harder, harder, harder...

"What a strange dream..."Kagome thought.

She was somewhere in th dark and she could hear some voices from somewhere, but too far...one was very loudly and irritating...and it was something else there with her...something very close as she could hear it breath right as it was behind her...Kagome suddenly opened her eyes and screamed as she heard a huge boom coming from the nowhere. Involuntary she gather her hand and felt an answer while something grabbed her and two seconds later was flying further from the noise...In that moment she realized that her dream was a REAL one...

"Are you OK, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked as he was looking at the entry of the cave to see what was happening.

"Yes,but what's ahppening?" She asked.

"I don't ...oh!" He said as a sunshine came from the outside righ into his eyes.

"I made it, I made it!" Jaken was screaming full of joy and without paying atention to Rin's words:

"Watch out Master Jaken!" But it was too late..

All the stones went on Jakne covering him at all. Rin, worried, untied the rope and went to find Lord Sesshomaru in order to help Jaken.

"We're free!" Kagome said as she runned outside the cave.

The sun was shining, the birds were screaming, but Kagome's smile dissapeared...

"What is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked worried as he was taking his sword from the ground, to concern about her to bother about the rope he found around his sword.

"I missed the trip...probably my family is at the airport right now waiting to go on the plane..."She answered sadly trying to stop her tears.

Inuyasha, who was already back to his demon form, looked at her and then he had an idea:

"Kagome, does this means thatn they are still here, i mean there?"

"Yes..."She said in a low voice still fighting with the tears.

"Then come up and let's go, maybe we can still catch them!"

"Are you sure?" Kagome asked impatiently as her tears suddenly stopped.

"Hurry up!" he said and took her on his back.

They runned away as quick as they could, letting everything behind them...

"Oh, Lord Sesshomaru, it was a pleasure for me to help you get this sword..."

"Master Jaken, Master Jaken!"

"No, no my lord you don't have to thnak me or give me somthing..."

"Master Jaken, wake up!"

"No my lord enough with the complimets and..."

"Wake up Jaken!" Sesshomaru said while he hited Jaken with his feet.

"Where am I? What happened?" Jaken asked dizzy as he was looking around too sudden woken up from his beautiful dream.

"Lord Sesshomaru saved you from the stoned Master Jaken. You were unconcious and now you are sleepy as I was when I fall because of that stone of yours.."Rin said in an incoent voice.

"What?" Jakne said standing up and couldn't believe his ears and eyes. But before he could do anything else:

"Jaken, what did you do to Rin?" Sesshomaru asked in a glacial voice and went near her. He grabed Rin's hand and raise it up. Her elbow was hurt.

"What's this Jaken?" Sesshomaru asked while he approached angry. "You hit her?"

"No, my lord, let me tell you..I..." Jaken tryed to say, but he couldn't finish and suddenly saw stars...(AUTHOR NOTE: He was beaten very well)