7
The next morning Rin was forced to stay at the shack instead of go to school and she worked all day long. She scrubbed the floors, cleaned the counters, washed all the dishes twice, got beat a few times by shippo's father, scolded by the misses, and pitied by shippo as he looked upon his friend covered in bruises as they grew darker every minute.
Near the end of the school day the family left Rin alone in the house as they left to go eat dinner, locking her inside her basement bedroom and chained to the wall by her left ankle. And she pulled out her poetry book and the sketch book she always kept near.
Are they happy now?
Go ahead and take a bow
They made a mistake
Caused an earthquake
They made her crack
Took a step back
She released a single tear, then a flood
Hurting her so much it's imprinted in her blood
They broke the girl that seemed so strong
They were so very wrong
She was meek
Thought of as small and weak
She built a wall
So she wouldn't fall
So no one could get close
She kept away from most
She hid the pain and loneliness in her eyes
As her day dreaming began to die
Hidden behind books
Avoiding the looks
Shy and sweet
Treated like rotting meat
How can they be so cruel?
They think it's the world they rule
They must eliminate who is meek
But it isn't her that's weak
Its them standing in the crowd
They will end up backing down
They will only go as far as the crowd does
While she will someday fly away free like the dove.
Tap tap tap. Rin looked up and saw Inuyasha face in the tiny window above her. She jumped up. "Rin? Rin are you all right?" his golden eyes looked over the battered girl as she tried to shoo him away. "She's chained to the wall, like a slave!" he cried out angrily when he saw the chain attached to her ankle. She looked at the clock. 6:45pm they would be back soon.
She tried even harder to shoo him away, until she saw people standing behind him. Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Inu no Tashio, then she got desperate and grabbed her notebook. GET OUT OF HERE NOW!
Inu no Tashio shook his head. "We're not leaving here without you little Rin." BANG they all jumped and Rin looked towards the door to the basement, a few moments later that one also getting kicked down by one pissed off looking Sesshomaru.
Everyone stared at the demon as he glided over to Rin and she dropped to her knees cowering. He glanced over her with molten lava eyes before reaching towards the chain. Rin pushed him away a little too late; his claws brushed against the metal and sent an electrical current through the metal and into Rin.
After the current ended she collapsed onto the dirt floor dry heaving. Sesshomaru glared at the electrified chain for a moment then slashed his claws down a foot or so away from it, a long green whip coming from his claws and severing the chain.
"Collect anything of importance to you." Ordered Inu no Tashio as Inuyasha appeared behind Sesshomaru and looked around the room in disgust. Rin weakly reached for her poetry book and sketch book, only to have Sesshomaru pick them up before she touched them, he then disappeared out the door. Inuyasha leaned down and picked Rin up bridal style and headed for the door before she hit him until he turned around.
She steered Inuyasha to the small excuse of a table and reached in the first drawer pulling out a few pictures of her family, and a small flash drive and clutching them to her chest, only then allowing Inuyasha to exit the prison she had been living in for the past 7 years.
As soon as Inuyasha stepped off the porch the familiar clunking of the misters' old truck was heard clearly as they peeled into the small dirt lot that was the front yard/driveway. He jumped out of the driver's seat and glared at everyone. "Who are all of you and what are you doing on my property?" he pulled his shotgun out of the place just behind his seat. "And where are you going with her?" he sneered in Rin's direction as she curled fearfully into Inuyasha chest.
Inu no Tashio gave him a cold look, not as good as the one Sesshomaru was giving him but close enough. "We're taking the girl, since you obviously aren't caring for her, and using her as a punching bag." Sesshomaru growled. He didn't really like humans but this was even crueler than how even the strictest lords treated their slaves.
"What makes you think you can do that huh?" he raised his shotgun. "You're trespassing on private property and kidnapin' our lil girl." He gave an ugly sneer. "you were abusing her, we're taking her so she may be safe from harm, wear more than the filthy rags you issued to her, be fed, and cared for." Came the curt reply from Inu no Tashio.
"And do you really want to mess with one of the most powerful and influential family's in the world?" Sesshomaru snarled. To that his eyes went wide before shaking his head hard. "I don't care, take the slut, one less mouth to feed-" "or not" growled Inuyasha.
The mister slung his shotgun over his shoulder and stumbled into the shack followed by the misses, who tugged shippo along behind her. Rin gently pried herself from Inuyasha arms and knelt on the ground getting tackled by the small fox a few seconds later.
"Rin I'll miss you!" the kit cried as he buried his head against her shoulder and she held him tenderly. Then gently pushed him away. She kissed his forehead then laid the middle and pointer fingers of her right hand on his collarbone, and then tapped over his heart, and the crown of his head. Shippo gave another loud cry before turning and running into the house. Rin slowly stood up.
"Come Rin, we should go." Came the soft voice of Inu no Tashio as he laid a hand gently on her shoulder. She looked up at him her visible milk chocolate eye asking: where?
"You will be living with my wife, sons and I from now on, come." She nodded slowly and was rushed at and hugged tightly by Sango and kagome who cried saying how sorry they were that they didn't know.
Rin gently pushed them away after a few moments. "All of you but Rin in my car. Sesshomaru take her." Inu no Tashio ordered as he headed for his car. Everyone piled in after giving Rin another hug and they drove away.
"I am to take you to get some actual clothes, shoes, a haircut and whatever else you may need." Sesshomaru said once she climbed into the car. "In other words my father wants me to spoil you." Rin smiled at that and curled into a ball on his seat falling into peaceful sleep for once in a very long time.
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