Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the manga/anime Inuyasha.
Authors note: hey! Yeah that whole "I need to study for exams" thing isn't going so well… actually I have 14 more days, counting weekends, until my first exam. Well actually… my first two! Who books the two hardest exams for the SAME day! Yeah I have my Chemistry/Ecology/Physics exam in the morning then I have Pre-cal after lunch! And I'm gonna fail them both! Plus I just got asked out by my neighbor and don't know how to say no, again! So I'm stressed… But anyways this chapter is going to be REALLY short… sorry… I just don't know what to do past a certain part so sorry… and yes I know it's rushed. So I just realized that only like four days have been described in this story… wow… now the whole thing feels rushed…
Quote of the chapter!: Fairy tales don't teach children that Dragon's exist; they teach them that Dragon's can be killed…
Last time: With Rin: When Kagura finally stops dragging her, Rin opened her eyes and came face to face with her father.
With Sesshomaru and Naraku: ~"Shit!" he cursed again as he realized Kagura had Rin and he couldn't find either of their scents. ~"Kagura has already delivered her to Toni." Naraku's voice came from behind Sesshomaru.
Chapter 10: Decisions
Rin:
Panic filled her whole body as her father reached towards her. She was only a few centimeters away from him, making her completely aware of him with every sense. His stench filled her nose, making her wonder in the back of her mind how Kagura was standing so close to him. It seemed like everything was moving in slow motion. Her heart stopped for a moment before it started up again triple the speed it should. He grabbed her right shoulder and tightened his grip. Kagura let go and eagerly turns to leave the pair. As soon as Kagura let go of Rin, Rin's instincts took control. Her leg automatically kicked out and hit him extremely hard in his crotch.
Toni fell to the ground the instant she made contact, letting his grip on her go.
Kagura stood in shock a few feet away, in complete shock at Rin's desire to get away from the man. She had never once seen someone kick a guy there without holding anything back.
Rin ran down the hill, on her way into the town. She turned down a dark back street. It was completely deserted, and looked somewhat like Kandahar. Most of the houses windows were boarded up and had no doors. Everything was dead, and one house even had a broken swing set in the back yard. She continued to run, not looking back. She still couldn't recognize any of the land marks, so she turned down a side street, then another and another. She froze when she exited the street and came out at the foot of the hill.
Toni glared at her before pointing at her and screaming, "GET HER!" to Kagura.
Kagura sighed before appearing beside Rin and grabbing her wrist.
Rin tried to pull her wrist from Kagura's grasp, but with no luck. Kagura started to drag her up the hill and Rin leaned forward, bringing her mouth to her hand, and biting Kagura's hand. Kagura shrieked, freeing Rin when she grabbed her own hand.
Kagura felt sorry for the girl, but needed her sister to be fine more than this girl she'd just met. She grabbed both of Rin's wrists and held them behind her back.
Fear spread across Rin's face while she struggled against Kagura. "Please!" She tried begging one more time.
Pity shined in Kagura's eyes, but she just tightened her grip on the girl and pushed her roughly up the hill.
Rin tried to struggle once more, only to trip up the hill. Tears streamed from her eyes as she struggled against Kagura's attempt to pull her off of her knees to her feet. Kagura somehow maintained her hold on both of Rin's hands, which remained behind her back.
Rin fought with everything she had left and then some. She kicked Kagura in the shin while trying to worm her way out of Kagura's strong grasp. "PLEASE!" She screamed through her tears. She was panicking more and more as she stayed in the same place. "NO!" She shrieked as Kagura picked her up off the ground to her feet. "NO! NO! NO! STOP! PLEASE!" Rin shook her head back and forth, as she was dragged further up the hill. "Please..." she managed between sobs.
Kagura felt sorry for the young human. Her eyes were red and swollen, her hair was windblown and knotted, her nose was dripping with snot and she was covered in sweat, which the dirt from the ground stuck to. Her face was covered in dirt after struggling on the hill. It was stuck to her lips and the snot, most likely making it hard to breath. "I'm sorry..." Kagura whispered so low that there was no way Rin could hear it over her crying and pleading.
Toni was getting impatient, but he was enjoying the sight of Rin in discomfort, pain and terror.
Rin dug her heals into the ground, trying to delay the fast approach of her father. Kagura just continued to pull her, creating small craters where Rin's feet had been dragged from. Rin noticed that Kagura was only holding her hands with one of her own, and in a final attempt at freedom; she moved her wrist around, trying to scratch Kagura with her nails. The way that Kagura had her grasp made Rin's attempts useless, causing more tears to fall from Rin's eyes. This time, Rin had no idea what caused them. Whether it was fear, anger, defeat, or pain, it didn't matter. She knew it was over. There was nothing she could do now. It was over.
Kagura didn't want to be anywhere near Toni, or have to watch what he was going to do to Rin, so she threw Rin onto the ground at his feet.
She crashed to the ground, not being able to reach her arms around in time to protect her face. She turned her head to the side to look up at her father. Her body didn't let her lift her head to see his face, so she glared at his feet through watery eyes. Her face really hurt from the fall and subconsciously she painfully reached her arm up to her face. 'Perfect' she thought as she touched the blood that now flowed from her nose. She groaned as she tried to sit up, but her head pounded so loudly that she crashed back to the ground.
Breathing heavily, she waited for her vision to clear. Luckily nothing was spinning, but everything was black and it sounded like she was at the end of a tunnel.
Her father's heavy steps were still audible to her, and she tensed when the stopped beside her head.
"Rinny? Be a good girl and give your daddy a big hug." Even in her confused state, she could still hear the smirk through his words. Growing frustrated with the lack of response from his daughter, Toni grabbed her by her hair and brought her to her feet. "Get up. Now."
Rin screamed an ear shattering scream, as the pain cleared her vision and woke her up from her trance.
Toni flinched from her scream and quickly back handed her with his free hand to shut her up. It worked.
Rin's tears flowed harder as she had a flash back of the day her mother was murdered. 'He picked her up harshly by the hair and her mother screamed out in pain, he brought her body to a height where she couldn't touch the ground with her hands, but couldn't be on her knees, making it more painful for her.' She was sure she looked very similar to her mother at that moment. Toni still held her up by her hair, and as much as she wanted to stand for herself, her knees gave out every time she put the pressure necessary to stand on them, and her body was simply too tired to continue fighting.
A small whimper escaped her lips as he back handed her other cheek, obviously displeased by her lack of response. He threw her to the ground, much like Kagura had, before kicking her in the gut.
Rin screamed in pain, earning a smirk of satisfaction from her father, before she rolled onto her stomach, coughing violently. After a few body shaking coughs, she threw up her empty stomach contents, since she hadn't eaten anything in the past two days, before blood started appearing in the vomit.
Kagura stayed by the edge of the hill, cringing as the scent of Rin's puke hit her.
Toni stalked towards Rin again, this time earning a scream of terror and another plea. "PLEASE! No…." Her voice faded.
Toni's smile widened a pone hearing his daughter begging for her life. He grabbed her knotted hair once more and pulled her to her feet again.
"NO!" Rin shrieked louder than she had any other time. Her father's smirk made her feel sick all over again as her eyes widened in horror when she realized he'd pulled her up with his left hand this time, meaning he could hit her with his right hand now. The hand he wore the ring on. Her eye lids started to droop, as a thought came to mind. She'd felt all of this before. Why was she begging him this time? No other times had she ever given him that satisfaction. She looked over his shoulder at the water that the sun was STILL just rising above. How long had she been there? Obviously not very long. As she thought over the events that had just occurred, she realized that it had only really been an hour tops since her and Sesshomaru had left Kagome's house. Speaking of Sesshomaru, where was he?
When her father realized that she was done struggling, that she'd given up, he became furious. She was just trying to take away his fun.
Toni lifted his hand to hit her again, allowing his ring to shine off the rising suns dim rays and into her eyes. Seeing, once again, no fear, his anger rose.
In the back of Rin's mind, she idly wondered why no one had heard her screams, but she knew it was still early and that the hill wasn't close to much besides the woods, that creepy back alley, and a few blocks from the rich part of town. Her unreasonable side tried calling her stupid for not knocking on one of the houses in that back alley, but her sensible side screamed back that she didn't want to be shot, since it looked like a gang neighborhood.
The look in Toni's eyes told Rin he was going to kill her very soon, and she faced that fact with a surprising amount of calmness. 'Goodbye Sesshomaru. I'm sorry. Don't worry mom… I know your waiting for me…'
He hit her, using all of his strength, his ring effectively cutting her cheek. Her head tried to turn away from the slap, but with the grip he had on her hair, she could only hang there, limp, and take it full force.
The only noise she made was a loud gasp before she felt very dizzy. Things sounded like she was back in the tunnel again, but she heard a loud growl echoing through that tunnel. She made herself open her heavy eyes to see what was happening and almost laughed.
Sesshomaru:
Sesshomaru turned to glare at Naraku. He'd been set up and it made him furious. Even worst was that he'd fallen for it and now Rin was with that monster that dared call himself a man. He crouched in an attack stance, completely prepared to murder Naraku.
Naraku smirked, pushing Sesshomaru over the edge. He charged at him and at the last minute faked going left before turning right and hitting Naraku right in the face, scratching him with his claws and delivering a strong dose of poison into the cut.
Naraku groaned as he held the wound.
Sesshomaru was about to charge at Naraku again, when a faint shrill noise echoed quietly through the forest. It kind of hurt his ears, but he soon realized it was a scream and tried to find which way it came from. He took off west, towards the town, his hopes rising.
Naraku cut him off, and Sesshomaru growled menacingly as his eyes turned red. He didn't need this right now. Rin could be beaten and bloody, or being dragged into a car with that maniac. His demonic powers rose at the thought of Rin being in pain because he'd been so easily tricked.
The force of Sesshomaru's demonic aura was enough to push Naraku backwards slowly until it burst and Naraku was thrown into a tree.
Sesshomaru sped away from Naraku and towards the town again.
An ear splitting scream could be heard from directly ahead of him, and as much as it made him furious, he'd had to stop and cover his sensitive ears from the noise. He charged closer to Shikon Hill, now realizing where exactly the scream came from. He arrived at the bottom of the hill and froze.
'Is that Rin?' he couldn't believe it. She was bruised and cut from head to toe. Dry tear stains streaked her cheeks and dirt stuck to her face and front of her shirt. She was breathing heavily, inhaling dirt and blood that streamed continuously from her nose and cheek. He could tell she was awake, but her eyes were closed as one tear fell from her eye. He growled as Toni pulled her closer to him by her hair and wound up for another swing at her.
He heard Kagura gasp loudly from the other side of the hill, but ignored her.
Rin's eyes fluttered open before she saw him. A sick, twisted version of her beautiful smile spread tugged at her cracked lips. A terrible comparison of her graceful smile he'd come to love. He felt sick just looking at her. And it was entirely his fault.
Toni turned to see what his daughter was smiling at, and Sesshomaru growled louder. His eyes flashed red and he saw fear pass through Toni's eyes.
"Kill him..." Rin mumbled to Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru heard it loud and clear before he stopped growling and smiled at Rin's father.
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OK so what do you think? It was a little rushed, and I haven't looked over it a second time, but I'm happy that Sesshomaru FINALLY showed up. Damn that Kagura! She was right there and didn't DO anything! Grr! Thank you to everyone that responded to this so far, and favourite or put it on their alerts list :) it means a lot to me. Also thanks to everyone that has read this but didn't review, it's always nice to get a review, but I'm glad you're still just reading this :P oh and I'm amazed that this has 47 reviews already! That's more than I thought. Like I said before, it was only going to be 5 chapters and I was expecting maybe like 10 reviews if I was lucky, but this is really great! You know what else would be great? I won't ask for much, besides me passing all my exams, but getting to 50 reviews would be AMAZING! Thanks :)
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