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Chapter 10 : Find a way…
I'm trying… because I care…
"Kagome…" – Sango called softly, hand waved in front of her friend's face.
"Kagome…" – she repeated, this time a bit louder.
Receiving no reply from the raven lock girl who was sitting in daze with her palm under her chin, Sango burred irascibly. She tilted her head, thinking, and then, lowered her mouth to Kagome's ear.
"KAGOMEEEEEEEE…"
And that surely snapped Kagome out of her thought. The poor girl almost fell out of her chair. She covered her ears in reflex, winced at the ponytail girl :
"What was that for, Sango ?"
"How about YOU ? I think you're supposed to LISTEN to my story." – Sango stood with hands on her hips, wincing back.
"Erh,…" – Kagome flinched back a little. Once she had realized her mistake, a nervous smile crossed her lips while she twirling her raven lock slowly.
Sighing boringly, Sango dropped herself on the chair. Leaning closer to Kagome, her hand supported her chin while she pinching Kagome's cheek, eyes narrowed :
"Care to tell me what's on your mind that's even more important than me ?"
Kagome wriggled away from Sango's hand, she rubbed her cheek lightly and then let out a sigh.
"Sorry…" – she mumbled after a while. Her eyes rolled a little, her hand combing through her hair, lightly brushing away the lock that fell over her cheeks.
"Well… ?" – Sango raised her eyebrows, waiting. She reached out to her glass of orange juice, sipped deliberately, intended to hear her friend out.
Kagome shrugged, continued with a long exhale :
"I'm just thinking about Sesshomaru…"
A spout of orange juice immediately spitted out from Sango's mouth. She coughed harshly, hurriedly free her hand from the glass to slap lightly on her chest. A burr difficultly escaped from her throat while she trying to say :
"W.. wh.. WHA..T ?"
Kagome blinked her eyes, not knowing what's happening with Sango until her friend managed to finish her sentence :
"You're… THINKING a..bout… SESSHOMARU ?"
Shock filled Sango's eyes while she staring at Kagome without blinking.
"Don't tell me you're…"
Realizing what Sango meant, Kagome quickly shook her head, crimson covered her face. She waved her hands rapidly, protested :
"It's not like that, Sango…"
Let out a relaxing exhale, Sango curiously questioned :
"Then… what ?"
"It's just…" – Kagome explained, hand flapped beside her hot face as if trying to drive the blush away – "I'm just thinking about the way to persuade him to let Rin go to school"
"Ah, so that…" – Sango nodded her head understandingly.
"… is why…" – Kagome finished, curved her nose – " Just how can you even think about… that ?"
Sango uttered a laugh, eyes sparkled while her voice lowering to a devilish tone :
"Because… not counting his character, he's kind of… hot, you know"
"Oh… oh…" – snickered Kagome – "… are you affected by your darling Miroku or what ?"
"What's with "My darling Miroku" ?" – protested Sango with tint of pink on her cheeks.
"Who knows ?" – Kagome whistled, deliberately enjoyed each sip of her juice.
"Hey, are you my friend ?"
"Of course I'm your…" – Kagome replied with a smile until a thought hit her mind. She paused for a while, eyes dazing and her smile extended into a laugh – "yes, friend…"
"What's that ?" – seeing Kagome's strange behavior, Sango blurted out, gave her friend a questioning look.
"That's it, Sango…" – Kagome put her hands on Sango's shoulders, her face brighten as if she was plunged into a sort of profound excitement – "Friends…"
"Friends ? So what… ?" – Sango floundered with her words, she blinked her eyes unknowingly, tempted to ask.
"That's it…" – Kagome giggled endlessly, wrapped her arms around Sango – "I know it, thanks, Sango…"
Still not knowing what her unpredictable friend was up to, but understood Kagome character too well, Sango just shook her head :
"You're going to stick your nose into other's business again, aren't you ?"
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At Sesshomaru's villa, castle, palace… whatever,…
A little girl were standing still, her mouth slightly opened, her eyes goggled and her face somehow tensed with anxiety. She slowly reached out to the older raven lock girl, clasping her hand.
Smiling, Kagome bent down to the little girl. Her hand gently brushed away the falling hair on the girl's face. Her voice softly assured :
"I bring you new friends, Rin"
Rin looked up to Kagome, her mouth about to say something but she stopped, and just tightened her grip on Kagome's hand.
"These're my brothers. Shouta & Shippo" – Kagome wagged her hand to the two little boys who were standing with huge smiles on their faces for an introduction.
"Your brothers ?" – Rin blinked her eyes, spoke for the first time – "Like brother & me ?"
Kagome nodded her head, gently pushed Rin closer to the boys.
Rin flinched a little, she turned her head to look at Kagome, and earned an encouraging smile.
Meanwhile, Shippo bowed her head grandiosely, his hand came to behind his back and pulled out a flower from nowhere. Rin's eyes opened in astonishment when the little boy give the flower to her.
"My sister tells me to give flowers to every beauty I meet, so here's yours" – Shippo said politely.
"What the…" – Shouta knocked on his brother's head, pouting – "to be such a Don Juan at your age"
Ignored Shouta, Shippo jerked his head, brushed back his hair & let it fall down again. He shrugged, smiled at Rin :
"Don't mind him. He's just jealous"
Rin's blinked, and then she giggled while accepting the flower :
"How can this flower appear out of nowhere ?"
"It's magic" – Shippo waved his hand as a no-no sign – "Therefore, it's a secret"
"It's just a trick." – Shouta stuck his tongue out, pinching Shippo's cheeks – "You've been practicing it since yesterday"
Shippo blushed immediately, and Rin covered her mouth with her hand, chuckled as she said to him:
"You look like a fox. And as sly as one, too"
With that, the three kids bursted out of laughing, innocently and cheerfully.
Kagome let out a relaxing sigh when she studied the scene. Rin seemed happy and cheerful and on… That was a good sign. She should be like that at her age. Smiling, she nodded her farewell to the three and left to the kitchen to prepare the meal.
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"Welcome home"
Sesshomaru stood still at the door when a chorus of welcoming was said to him. He raised his eyebrows as his eyes reached the three kids who were running towards him. One of them was Rin, that was normal to him, but the others… ?
"Brother…" – Rin hugged his legs, her voice ringing.
'Since when my house became a kindergarten ?' – the silver-haired man thought silently while eyes still not leaving the two strange kids. It wasn't hard to guess who was behind this. Apart from that girl, who else dared to do everything without asking him like this ?
"Am I cute, brother ?" – Rin pointed to the flower which was stuck to her hair. She turned around, and around, showing him in every angle of her new look. Her eyes glistened hopefully.
'And there's some one who even asks me "Am I cute" ?', he twisted his eyebrows at the sudden question, not answering. Well, this was the first time he received that kind of question, anyway.
"Am I, brother ?" – Rin never gave up, she clung on to him, kept on – "Shippo gave this flower to me because I'm a beauty"
"Yes, you're" – claimed one of the kid who looked like a fox.
"Say little" – the other kid knocked on Shippo's head, pouting.
Jaken, who was sitting silently behind Sesshomaru for all this time, finally spoke up, in the fear of his master would get mad :
"Who're those kids, Rin-sama ?"
"They're my new friends, Shouta & Shippo" – Rin answered with a huge proud smile – "and Kagome-chan's brothers, also"
Taking the information, Sesshomaru silently gazed at the two kids for a while and then marched past them all to the couch. As long as Rin was happy, he guessed he wouldn't mind. And not that those two kids could do any harm at all. So there were no need to worry or anything…
He dropped himself on the comfortable couch, closed his eyes for relaxing.
"Don't come there. Let him rest" – barked Jaken when he saw those kid approaching his master.
Sesshomaru's eyebrows lightly twisted because of the noise, but he remained closing his eyes.
"Look at him, brother" – said one of the strange voice, which belonged to one of the little boys – " when I'm older, I'll become a man like him"
"As if you could" – reply a snickering voice. Along with Rin's giggles.
"Be silent, please." – Jaken lowered his voice for not to disturb his master, though Sesshomaru could hear it clearly, snarling – "Let Sesshomaru-sama rest. Don't you scare of him ?"
There was a long silence, before Shippo said :
"No. Why must we ?"
The answer stunned Jaken. He just sat silently, mouth wide opened without blurting out anything. Sesshomaru's eyes fluttered opened. He raised his head to looking at those kids.
"Sister said that he is kind and caring" – Shippo continued innocently.
"Though he doesn't talk much, and somehow too defensive and lonely…" – Shouta added.
"But he's a good man and a good brother of Rin" – Shippo ended.
"So why must we scare of Rin's brother, anyway ?" – Shouta asked in a tone of surprise.
Jaken opened his mouth, and then closed it, and then opened again, didn't know how to say anything. A long while later, he hugged his head, mumbling :
"Oh my God, Higurashi-san…"
"Anyway,…" – winced Shippo while rubbing his stomach, didn't seem to care about the topic "you-should-scare-of-Sesshomaru-sama" anymore – "I'm hungry now, brother…"
"Let go to sister" – Shouta smiled. He held both of Rin's and Shippo's hands. Lead them to the kitchen where their sister was supposed to be in.
Meanwhile, Sesshomaru slowly closed his eyes again. He leant against the couch, hand brushed back his silver hair. He drew in a long slow breath of air through his nose and holding it for few moment, before exhaling…
He is kind and caring…
Though he doesn't talk much, and somehow too defensive and lonely…
But he's a good man… a good brother…
Wasn't he ?
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This was the most noisiest dinner Sesshomaru ever had…
With just Rin and that girl and their never-ending-blah-blah-blah-stories was noisy enough.
And now, there were three kids… and one too-much-cheerful-girl…
"Hey, that's mine" – Rin's shriek woke Sesshomaru from his thought. He turned to his little, to see that she was trying to take a shrimp from Shippo's bowl.
"Give it back to me" – Rin cried – "There're lots on the dish… why don't you take those ?"
"What fun is there ?" – Shippo stuck out his tongue – "the fun is in taking other's food…"
Rin was silent a little, and then she looked at Shippo, eyes glistening.
"Then,…" – Rin clasped her hands – "I'll take yours… and Shouta's, too…"
"Hey,… wait…" – before Shouta could have any reaction, Rin aimed to his bowl…
"Noisy as always…" – Kagome mumbled with a small laugh.
"Too noisy…" – Jaken murmured, worriedly observing Sesshomaru's reaction.
Laughters echoed the whole room…
Put a piece of fruit into her mouth, Kagome blinked her eyes, said out loud innocently :
"Do you have fun, Rin ?"
"Yes…" – replied Rin with her jingling tone of voice.
"It's fun to have more friends, right ?" – Kagome stole Sesshomaru a glance, then continued.
"Yes…" – Rin nodded her head in excitement – "Do you have any more brothers ?"
"No…" – she laughed – "but…"
Sesshomaru looked up. He knew from the start that this wasn't just a normal conversation. And now he was just waiting for that girl spitted out what she want. He sipped his tea, not showing any reaction.
"But… if you go to school… you'll have much more friends…" – finished Kagome. She gave the emotionless man a meaningful look.
"Eh ?"
'So that's what you are aiming for…' – Sesshomaru put his cup of tea back on the table, smirked.
End of chapter 10
Well, long while of waiting, and this's chapter 10. Took me the whole night :D
I haven't got much time lately, busy with school works and all… But whenever I find my inspiration… then… I'll write it immediately, therefore, that's why I update chapter 10 lol
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