-Chapter Seven-
-Flashbacks and Reflections-
-"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.."-
-"Author: I don't remember, but its not mine."
The sound of crickets softly chirping out their songs brought Rin back to the world of consciousness as a warm tingling sensation swept over the surface of her skin. 'I don't remember falling asleep outside again…'
Long dark brown eyelashes began to slowly separate, allowing a pink haired bubbly demoness swim into her vision. "Harumi?"
"Hai, young Rin! I was doing my best not to wake you; a very near impossible task, since you are such a light sleeper. I apologize." The beautiful demon woman smiled brightly at her as she continued sponging the dirt and grime from Rin's face.
Rin giggled. "Do not worry Harumi, quite frankly… I feel that I am a bit old, to not be bathing myself and it seems quite awkward to have someone else doing it for me since I have been taking on this task on my own for quite some time now." Harumi's face fell along with her smile. "Yes, Miss Rin."
"Oh no! No, no, no! Don't be sad. I promise you there are still very many things I cannot do on my own, in which I would still need your assistance!" Rin smiled and in return for reassuring her maid, her best female friend; she received a half hearted smile.
"What about the day you decide you do not need me any longer? I'm sure Lord Sesshomaru will not want to keep dead weight lingering about the castle."
Rin shook her head, "Then I suppose I need to always find need for you. Which isn't hard to do… I always need you. Even if not to assist me with physical things… I need you, because you are the truest friend I've ever known, besides our Lord Sesshomaru that is."
The pink haired yokai raised an eye brow at the not-so-small girl soaking in the pool of water and bubbles, "I do not see how you of all beings on this Earth are able to call Lord Sesshomaru a friend, and live to tell the tale."
"Wellllll, you could say that we have a certain understanding of each other," Rin covered her eyes as she giggled..
Harumi joined her in her bout of laughter and began to get up from her kneeling position. "Well Miss Rin, I'll leave you to it. You seem to have everything under control here." Then with a smile, she exited the room.
The bathing chamber door clicked, as Rin slid further down into the water; Bubbles popped and shifted as she blew the water around. 'Another new bathing chamber that I've yet to see…' She took in her surroundings and tried to remember. Nothing came to mind when she took in all the pink, blue, yellow, and other various pastel childish colors in.
'Maybe a…' And then it dawned on her. '…The nursery bathing room!' This was a place she hadn't visited in many many years.
'How could I have ever forgotten this place? I know that it's been quite some time since I had bathed in here or been in the general area… But the nursery wing was where I spent most of my childhood life in the castle. Sesshomaru allowed me to play with all the children's toys and games that were kept here for generations and generations.' Rin giggled. 'Not that he would have any use for them.'
Setting her hands on the sides of the smaller tub she raised her self up and grabbed one of the lovely pink fluffy towels and wrapped it around herself. Looking around, she found one factor missing that should have been there. Her clothes. 'Of all things, how did Harumi POSSIBLY forget my clothes?!'
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"Harumiiiii!" A pre-teen Rin skipped through the lush meadow that lied just beyond the castle walls.
Rin paused and listened for the answer from her care taker. She waited… she waited some more… still, nothing. 'Harumi is so forgetful.' Sighing, she looked down at her feet to scope out a good spot to sit down.
"Guess I'll just have to wait out here until she remembers me. The castle gates are most likely locked since the suns beginning to go down…" With that said, Rin lied back surrounding herself with the beautiful pink, purple, and orange flowers that brought forth one of the most beautiful aromas on the wind one could ever smell.
The Sun sank below the horizon, and was replaced by small glimmering stars with a light brush of pink in the area where the bright glowing orb disappeared. The threat if foreign demons attacking was minimal; the barrier around the grounds of the Western Castle was great. Even if something did successfully breach its magic, Sesshomaru himself would be notified, for he brought forth the barrier himself, tying it to him somewhat.
The pink glow on the horizon was gone as soon as it had come, leaving only the gentle glow from the moon and stars to light the area. A cricket abandoned its place on a flower next to her and jumped onto her arm. Rin held it up to eye level and began to speak to him, "Hey there little guy…" She smiled. "Have you lost your home? Or have you been left behind like I have been?" The cricket gave another chirp and jumped along to his next destination.
Re-relaxing, Rin gazed up at the night sky letting forth a long drawn out sigh. A bright flash began to light up the sky; catching her attention. Averting her gaze to another quadrant of the big ocean of stars above, her eyes met with a big bright shooting star. "Gotta make my wish." She said quietly to herself.
Squeezing her eyes shut tightly, she made her wish.
There was a change in the wind around her. Maybe not so much as a change… but a blockage. There was no need to open her eyes; she knew who stood in front of her. "Lord Sesshomaru," Rin acknowledged him sheepishly through half lidded eyes .
"Come Rin." He stated and turned away heading back toward the castle.
"Wait M'lord!" Sesshomaru froze but did not turn around. "Did you see the shooting star?"
"Yes."
"Did you wish on it?"
"I do not bother myself with such old wives tales."
"But M'lord!" Rin exclaimed, "It does not hurt to try does it?"
Sesshomaru turned around, and looked into Rin's questioning eyes giving a slight nod; he lightly closed his eyes for a moment then reopened them.
"Let us return now Rin." The corner of his lip pulled up for a fraction of a second.
This made her smile. "Hai M'lord!"
He turned on his heels and began to return to his castle, with Rin skipping close behind.
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Before exiting the nursery, Rin re wrapped her pink fuzzy towel that barely came to the tip of her finger from her free hanging hand. 'Good thing I've lived here all my life…Knowing the castle like the back of my hand really has its perks. Saves me the embarrassment from having to… well… sneak through the castle with random yokai on guard.'
With that said she opened the book shelf in the nursery room and entered into its darkness. Crisp cold air swept over Rin's soft tanned skin, sending a course of cold chills up her arms. Grabbing the side of the book shelf, she pulled it to, and was soon taken over by darkness. "This isn't as bad as it used to be."
'Then again… I was terrified of the dark when I used to use this passage. Besides, Sesshomaru's chamber was always on the other side of the…' Rin froze like an ice burg and stopped dead in her tracks. 'Sesshomaru. HOW could I have forgotten that HIS chamber was at the end of this tunnel.'
Rin turned and gave the book shelf a good push, but the wall didn't give in. Again, she tried to get back into the nursery room pushing harder; still having no luck. With a heavy sigh, she turned back around and faced the darkness ahead. 'Well…at least its Sesshomaru's room. He's hardly ever in there.' Placing a hand on each side of the tunnel, she started her long walk to her destination.
'I don't see why I'm uneasy about this. It isn't like Sesshomaru hasn't seen me…well, like this before.' Rin looked down to see herself in the pink fuzzy towel, but was unsuccessful.
"I doubt I could even see my hand in front of my face," she said to herself with a sigh, as she raised her hand to test her hypothesis.
'Nope. Nothing. Ah well. Guess there is no way to go except for forward. C'mon feet. Let's go.'
Rin carefully made her way through the long shaft, sliding her hands along the stone walls. "Oh." Her hand had glided over the small indention she was looking for giving her warning she was nearing her exit.
A few more steps brought her to a wooden door, which held a large canvas painting on the other side. Sliding her fingers down the door, her hand came in contact with the latch that would lead her to the other side. 'Well…he's either in there, or he isn't. If he isn't I just simply need to go through the hot spring room connecting our rooms and get dressed. If not, I just simply explain my situation.'
With a swift tug light flooded into her vision. Rin quickly stepped out, turning around quickly to re secure the door to the state it was in before she had tampered with it. Exhaling with relief, she shook her head, allowing bangs to free fall along the sides of her face. 'This wasn't as bad as I…' her thoughts were cut short.
The great Lord of the West was leaned up against a bed post when he caught Rin's attention with a slight clearing of his throat. Slowly, Rin turned around with a blush spreading full force across her face, and down her neck resting on her chest. Which mind you, was quite revealed in this little fuzzy pink towel. "Lord Sesshomaru…"
He didn't say a word. Sesshomaru continued to stare at her, with an eye brow arched. 'The arched eye brow.' Rin mentally sighed. "Lord Sesshomaru, I apologize for the intrusion. Harumi seemed to forget to lay my kimono out for me."
Still, he gave no reply. "So… Thank you for saving me back there." She paused and remembered that he ALWAYS seemed to be saving her from the many dangers she walked into. "…Again."
This time, he shifted his position to stand up right. Oh how magnificent he looked. This man…this yokai was amazing. Pure perfection in the flesh. "Had I not lost you in the first place, you would require no saving."
He took long eloquent steps toward Rin. 'Perhaps I shall have some fun with this situation that has been given to me tonight.'
Sesshomaru took in her beautiful form. 'My Rin…' His mind began to wander.
What ever happened to personal space? This was a concept Sesshomaru seemed to know little of these days, yet it was always something he constantly reminded her to be mindful of as a child. "Sesshomaru…I…" Her sentence was cut off when he leaned down and caught her lips with his. It was soft…passionate… slow. Her eyes fluttered shut, as she leaned into him and brought her arms up to place over his shoulders to over lap each other behind him. The towel -which was held up in the front from the pressure she put on it as she leaned into him- dropped in the back leaving her whole body exposed except the small spot in the front.
Rin let out a tiny gasp as Sesshomaru lightly drug a fang across her bottom lip. Taking the opportunity, he slipped his tongue into her mouth tasting the sweetness of the forbidden fruit. A human, and it was a better sensation than any of the demons he had kissed. Red bled into gold and a more primitive side took over transforming what was soft and passionate into something that was sexy and lustful. The soft sounds from Rin just made matters more complicated. 'Enough.' A foreign voice in Sesshomaru's mind silently commanded.
Sesshomaru growled out loud at the intrusion, making Rin stiffen in his arms; pulling him back to reality. He slowed himself, and pulled back placing a final solitary kiss on Rin's lips. Slightly shell-shocked, Rin's eyes widened as she tried to casually catch her breath. "S…Sesshomaru."
The red began to fade from the amber. A flood of emotions came with sanity as he turned and opened his window. With a look back to Rin he stood there, as the wind blew his hair. 'Amazing. How perfectly…Perfect.' She thought to herself as she watched him step through the window, pull the glass shut and descend into the night.
"So much for being sneaky and explaining myself," Rin said to no one in specific as she exited through the door that would take her right to her chamber.
She walked to the closet door pulling out a sleeping gown. Dropping her towel, she slowly put on undergarment and her gown and cuddled up under the covers. The moonlight shone into her room, casting shadows on the ground. The moonlight lit up the frame on her dresser across from her. She looked at her younger self with her beloved and cold lord. Her human hating, pureblood loving lord. Of course… She had always been an exception. Even now, she was an exception. Yes, it would be she that melted off Sesshomaru's façade of ice.
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The cold nights air pierced all of the Silver Inu-Yokai's senses. The demon cloud he rode upon began to descend down towards the ground. The area was cold and quiet, and the only noise that could be heard was a nearby river that wound throughout the lands. Stepping down onto solid earth, Sesshomaru took slow, even steps to a large tree. Turning, he sat down cross legged and absent mindedly sorted out thoughts and feelings that caused such a change. His mind came down to one last conclusion. The mighty Lord of the West sat still as a statue and thought to himself, 'It seems the tables tonight have turned. I wished to play with her, but it turned out she inadvertently played with me.'
With that last thought, Sesshomaru took his meditating position and let his mind float into another state of consciencness.
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