Aright, another chapter out of the way :D Sorry for the long wait because I couldn't write. I have in writing mood these days, but only for short chapters. This chap might have more grammars mistakes since I did not edit it as much as I use to. Thank you so much for all the reviews. Take care.

PS. did you guys got notification for FF after midnight? For some reason I don't receive any.

Smpt: I don't know if you already see it, but I have a note for you in "The Frozen Heart." Read it when you have time :D

"Aki, what is it?" Rin asked in a hush tone, gently closing the door behind to not wake Kaede up. The whole village was in slumber sleep. Rin was in her night clothes, her hands grasped onto the silk chaw wrapping around her shoulder, keeping herself warm. It was late, an hour or so to midnight.

Aki gave her the exciting secret smile, 'I have a secret to tell you,' and reached out to grasp one of her hands.

"Come," he grinned so happily that Rin could not resist following along with him, catching his exciting fever as well. This was nothing new to them. Aki often knocked the outside of the hut where she slept to wake her and they would sneak out to explode the world after bed time. When they were kids, they often run to the river, climbing trees or do whatever mischievous idea that came out at that moment. There were times they got caught, often by Inuyasha, but they would laugh it off afterward. Rin did not always sleep at night because when she was still traveling with Sesshomaru, there were times when they would travel in the nocturnal under the moonlight. She could stay up if she wanted to.

"What is it?" she asked again even though she already knew he would not tell her. That was one of Aki's habits. He loved to surprise her.

"You will see." He gave her a bright smile. She was always weak against that smile on his adorable face. He looked like an angel to her. They walked in silence for the next two minutes as he led her toward the forest. Rin could not help but feeling curious. She had always been a curious creature and Aki was adventurous. They both had grown, but this side of theirs had not change, she mused.

There was a time he found three cubs of bear in the forest and brought Rin to them in his secrecy manner. They cubs were so cute and their furs were so soft that she wanted to keep them to herself. However, the mother bear disagreed with them.

The mother attacked them; intent to remove anything that threaten to harm her children. Without saying, Aki and Rin ran for their lives as the mother bear gave chase. They would have been goners had Inuyasha not show up.

"Don't kill it," Rin shouted when she saw Inuyasha, in his red clothe, leaped up in the air toward the bear behind them, attempted to kill it.

"What?" Inuyasha screamed in confusion, but heeded her plead and kicked the bear instead of killing it.

They told Inuyasha about the cubs and that they did not want the mother to die and leave its cubs orphan.

Inuyasha cursed at them in the colorful language that should not be speaking in front of children, and gave them a long lecture of how they should not go into the forest. After the lecture finally ended, Rin and Aki gave him their best smile and bowed to him to thank him for saving their lives. They knew the half-demon was nice and softhearted and could not resist their charm. Yeah, they could be quite devilish when together, in a harmless way of course.

Inuyasha gave them a few awkward scorns while they secretly smiled knowing the half-demon always shy when dealing with emotion. They were too cute for him to truly stay mad at them.

There were many accidents like that, being chase by bees because they decided to get the honey, nearly got attacked by a boar because Aki decided to hunt for dinner. The cutest part was when the boar ran straight toward Rin, Aki blindly jump at the boar in order to protect her despite the fact that he was barely nine years old and smaller than the boar. It was sweet now that she looked back, but it nearly gave her a heart attack back then.

Aki was wrestling with the boar for sometimes until Rin smashed its head with a log a few times, knocking it out cold. They were both beaten and drained out, but laughed hysterically afterward while lying on the ground. That was how they spend their times together. She could not deny they it was thrilling and adventurous. She just loved the boy.

"Kirara," Aki called into the darkness and the yellow, two tailed, demon cat marched out. It was as adorable as always. "She will take us there," he turned to explain to Rin.

Kirara transformed her normal cat size into her large form that was slightly bigger than a horse and let the two humans ride on her. He told Rin he borrowed Kirara for the night. Now often traveling with Kohaku, who was the owner of Kirara, Aki took the cat with him on occasion. Kohaku did not mind.

"I really want you to see it." He spoke from the front while Rin sat on the back. She could not help but smile at his happy tone.

"I cannot wait," Which was the truth. Her voice was shaken slightly from the cold night air since it was almost winter. She did not dress properly for the weather because she did not know they would be traveling by air.

"You're cold." Aki stated, noticed her body shivered slightly.

"It's not that bad." It was not, but it was still cold.

"Hold onto me. We're almost there." Aki pulled her arms to wrap around his waist, forcing her to press her body against his back. She could feel the warmth of his body penetrated to her. His back was much wider the she remembered reminded her again that her Aki had grown into a man. He felt so warm. As warm as Sesshomaru. Her heart skipped a beat at the thought of her lord. Her hands wrapped snuggly against Aki's tone torso while pressed her face on his back.

She missed Sesshomaru.

And the thought of him made her felt kind of empty. She wanted to be with him.

But she could not. She had decided to kill those feelings for her lord. She sighed inwardly. It would not be that easy to stop being in love with him. She sighed inwardly at her lack of progress.

But Rin smiled slightly against Aki's back. She was glad she had Aki here with her tonight.

At lease she would not be so lonely because she had him. Aki always knew how to make her smile. She closed her eyes and listened to his steady heartbeat.

Wednesday, July 02, 2014