Chapter 9

In To Get Out

Rin woke and looked around. There was light coming from the top of the trees. 'That's nice yesterday there was barely any light coming in.' Rin looked up. 'The sky I can see it. Sort of.' Rin stood up. She stretched and yawned. 'Now what's for breakfast? Not much. I'll just eat haft this rice cake now and haft when I go to sleep to night. Wish I had more.' Suddenly an apple fell from the sky.

"Ouch!" Rin looked down to see what hit her on the head. "Where did this come from? There are no apple trees around here?" Rin looked up. 'Still I do need it. I'll save it for lunch.' Rin put the apple in her bag. 'Now I need to mark this place somehow.' Rin tore her sleeve and put it on a stick. She placed it on a tree branch. 'There now this will point the way I went just in if I somehow get turned around.'

Rin started walking. The trees seemed to spread out. 'I wonder if I'm getting to the end. Still this place is nice. I must come back and visit. Yes it's very peaceful here. If I could I'd just live here.' Rin sighed. 'But I'd need a hut and I'd have to have some way of getting food. A garden would be nice. Still this place would be a great place to live if I had a way of getting to a market.' The trees spread out more. Rin could see light and grass. Rin picked up her speed. 'Good I think I'm getting close,'

Rin got to the edge of the forest or so she thought. There was a hut with a small garden beside it. Though the garden seemed to have everything in it. Corn, tomatoes, beans, and lots more. Rin walked up to the door of the hut. 'Maybe who ever lives here can help me find a way to the road. This place is so beautiful.' She knocked. No answer but the door opened.

"Hello…Anyone home?" Rin took a step in the hut. There was a bed and a small fire place with a chimney. There was a pot and a pan for cooking a kettle for making tea. The two windows had a great view of the sky. Rin walked around. 'I wonder who lives here. Who ever they are they left there food behind.' There was a small plate of food made but no one had taken even one bite. It all looked so good too.

Rin's stomach growled. 'No I better not. I don't think they will appreciate it if I eat there food. They wont be gone long I'm sure. They may have just went to get something maybe. I'll just wait outside for them.' Rin went back out to the little porch in front of the hut. She sat down and looked up at the clouds.


Sesshomaru landed. 'I wonder if its still here?' Sesshomaru walked into the cave. 'The smell is.' He covered his mouth with his long sleeve and walked bit more. 'There's the light. Now where's the book.' Sesshomaru saw an empty pedestal. He sighed. 'I should have known the book of ages was gone. But who moved it?' Sesshomaru lend close to smell where the book had laid many centuries ago. 'Just as I thought can't smell anything with this odor.' The covered his mouth again and begin to walk away.

"Is that all? No more investigating just going to leave?"

"Who said that? Show yourself." Sesshomaru turned clutching his sword.

"Now now no reason to get testy. I am what you seek after all."

"The book?"

"No not the book! The writer of the book. Everyone is always looking for that blasted book! Here I thought you were different! Never mind demon, go on with your quest. But you wont find what you seek else where."

"No I didn't mean any offense. I was told long ago about this place by my father. I only knew the stories. I do need your assistance. If you would permit me. I would be in your debt." Sesshomaru bowed his head in respect.

"Humph….Well I suppose I'll help you then. You come for knowledge of the trapped forest?"

"Yes I must get someone out of there. Or I will go in myself." Sesshomaru said in his usual calm tone.

"Hum….I see someone you love greatly then. But sadly there is no way to get someone out. The forest decides who it will let leave and who must stay. So far no one has ever came out. It's just best to never go in."

"But she is already in. I don't think she knew what she was going into. The humans have forgotten about that forest." Sesshomaru stood.

"Not unlike humans to forget something so important. Especially when it was humans that caused the forest in the first place. With there wars and hate of each other. That led the forest to become tainted. The center tree was the one to do it. It absorbed all the hate that mankind did to each other ant thus became the forest. It didn't want people to hate or be …well evil for lack of a better word. So it made a place that was peaceful and clam. No animals no grass. Just trees and moss. Now I hear that the trees are thick and so dense that you can't even see the sky though the heavy leaves. This is because no one ever took solitude there. Everyone that ever went in just wanted to get out. Hell bent on one thing or another. Always a selfish reason. Seems to be the way of things."

"I knew all that I need to know how to break the spell. How to untaint the trees?"

"Untaint? Are you mad? The trees are not tainted they are sorrow filled. They want love. They have to much anger and greed in them. There's no way to get out you have to want to stay in."

"Stop giving me riddles. I have to know." Sesshomaru looked up.

"Oh but you do know you just haven't realized it yet. Good day to you demon."

Sesshomaru glared and walked away. ' To get out you have to stay in? That makes no since. Crazy old book writer.'


Rin sat on the porch all day. She looked over the pretty garden and the small well. 'I guess who ever lives here isn't coming back. Strange that they'd leave there food to waste. I guess it wont hurt anything if I eat it. After all its gone very cold now.' Rin sat and eat the plate of food. It was delicious and made Rin feel very full. 'Nice to have a full tummy.' Rin patted her belly and lay back on the bed.

It was so soft. 'Now this is the life. No worries just peace and quite. Still I miss him. But I guess I'll never get to see him again. He probably still thinks I'm at the village. I doubt he will ever come to look for me. That kiss must have been good bye.' Rin felt a tear fall. ' Just as well silly demon. Its his loss.' Rin wiped the tear away and took a deep breathe. She then fell fast asleep.


( So this its going to be awhile before my next update. Dont worry i will i never abandon a story that i have people reading so keep reviewing and ill keep updateing. Thanks for reading.)