Hi dear readers!
First things first:
A BIG SORRY FOR ALL MY DEAR READERS!
I'm so very sorry for my super, 'beyond the pardonable limit' of late update…..I've been exerting myself for some inspiration to write this chapter, but no! This writer's block refused to budge, not to mention my official as well as private engagements kept my mind and time busy. And oh my! Why do exams have to show up every 6 months…? I mean really….?!
I don't think I can give enough justification for not updating for months together. I can understand your frustration. Please forgive me and keep reading this fiction….. I promise to complete this fiction. This fiction is like my baby. So, as a mother, I would take all efforts to create it into a complete and healthy one with all good qualities and would never abandon it or leave it incomplete….It's just that I'm taking too much time in conceiving it…. But I couldn't tamper with the quality of the fiction and write some crap just for the sake of updating…. Hope you all understand….
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"And THAT *SHARP EXHALE* is how we take the Inu army down" asserted Touran making her confidence clear to her men.
"Understood?" she asked, letting her canine eyes scan her comrades from left to right.
The demons nodded in unison despite the fact that many of them had their own doubts about the success rate.
"I shall instruct our army and those of the tiger demons of this plan-" started one general before he was cut off by Touran.
"Don't"
"Eh?! Why not?" asked Heta.
"They are ought to know of this only, right before the war is to commence."
"annnd….why is that?" Heta dragged feeling the bitterness of loathe at the tip of his tongue.
"Just to keep things confidential"
"But why?" Heta persisted. He knew that Touran was aware of something that the rest of them were not.
Touran smirked and her eyes went dark with malice as she said, "let's just say, we are in a position to avoid…conspiracy". Touran's canine teeth twinkled with all its evilness as she uttered the last word.
'conspiracy'! The rest of the cat comrades froze in astonishment at the shocking revelation.
"I have no say on it" she says….. Sesshomaru scoffed as he kept walking towards the river side.
"Please forgive me for not knowing my place" she says. How ridiculous! The dog demon kept on mulling over the conversation of the previous evening. She thought that she was my maid is it? *HUFF* I'll show her!
Meanwhile, Rin and her friends were having one of their girlie-girlie chitchats on the riverbank, after a long day's hard labour.
"…and Suno was totally freaked out! *giggles* Poor Jaya!" Emiko was giggling as she was narrating how the romantic moments got screwed up when you least expected.
"*SIGH* Yeah….. But hey! Who'd have thought he'd show up in the fields at that time of the day, when I was alone? Especially when I was daydreaming!" Jaya complained.
"And you were making weird faces and smiling to yourself too! *Snickers* He must have concluded that you have lost your sanity in the scorching heat under the sun! *giggles*" Sae said.
All girls started giggling in unison, except for Jaya, of course, who was too busy complaining how bad her luck in romance is.
"Never mind that! What about your love-story, Rin? You haven't brought that up yet. How has it been going? Any development?" Jaya purposely changed the subject so that the mockery can be shifted to another victim.
All others stop giggling unanimously and blinked in confusion, not to mention Rin's fierce blushing.
"Eh….!? Wh-what are you talking about!?" Rin asked innocently.
"Ah! C'mon! You do know that I meant you and Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaya said.
"What-what about us…?" Rin, to her foolishness, maintained fake innocence. She should have known better about her friends. And her crimson red face was not helping her show of act at all.
So you wanna play rough, eh? Sae thought for a moment to counter her friend's fake countenance, "So, have you guys started kissing yet?" Sae asked bluntly.
Emiko gasped a loud gasp and covered her mouth so that no insect or microbe can get sucked inside.
Jaya started laughing hysterically at the bold choice of words.
Rin's jaw dropped. Her face could not get redder than that.
Sae can be really evil sometimes. She went on as a devilish smirk tugged at her lips, "…..or have you done that yet-"
*LOUD GASPS of Emiko and Jaya*
"Sae! You idiot! There's nothing going on between me and Lord Sesshomaru" Rin started defending herself, as she fought killing embarrassment. How could her perverted friend suggest something like…..like…..like that!?
"Na-ah! That lie is completely unacceptable Rin, dear! From the way you take care of him and the manner in which he stares at you, it is apparent that some spark has been incited between you two" Sae said.
"And it won't be long before the spark builds up into a raging fire consuming you both" Jaya cut in.
Rin was practically gaping at the gunpoint accuracy of her friends' observations and predictions, let alone her crimsoned body in totality.
"What?!" A shocked Emiko grabbed Rin's shoulders and shook her.
"*GASP* You traitor! How could you do such things right behind my back and snatch him away from me!?" Emiko demanded as if Sesshomaru was her ancestral property which Rin robbed from her.
"Wha-?! D-don't be stupid! I have no such feelings for him, nor does he for me...he's just…..he's just my…." Rin stuttered and could not complete the sentence.
" 'Crush'….?" Sae said.
" 'Lover'…?" Jaya's dose of teasings.
*TWITCH…CRACKLE*
The girls looked up at the source of the disturbance. Down came a huge vulture demon aiming rigt at Rin's throat.
*SWIPE-SLASH*
In a fraction of second Sesshomaru ripped the demon to pieces that almost had its sharp claws on Rin.
*SCREECH* All girls screamed at the sudden and unexpected attack.
*PIT-PAT-THUMP*
The morsels of the dead demon's flesh fell on the ground, which disseminated into dust in moments and was carried away by the breeze that blew, as if to sweep away the remnants of Sesshomaru's victim.
*THUD*
Elegance was at its best when Sesshomaru landed on ground who was quite relieved of the dismal state of prey and the secured state of the rescued.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin called and ran to his side, her big, chocolate brown eyes spilling her anxiety for his wellbeing.
Promptly catching the cue, Sesshomaru mouth opened to utter, "I am well". But he immediately closed his lips from letting the words slip out. Brushing aside his inner joy that Rin's concerned provoked in him, he was rather angered at Rin's carelessness for her own safety. She was standing there worried for him, while being completely uncaring of the peril she was in, moments ago. For God's sake, she would have been down dead, if Sesshomaru's had not passed by! Looks like he might have to bodyguard her day and night, 'cause this girl has an extraordinary potential of attracting danger to her laps.
And as for her weak, good-for-nothing, idiotic companions…. Sesshomaru turned and glared at the girls, slowly and menacingly which caused their knees to tremble. What use are they to Rin, than talking nonsense all the time?! Don't they have any subject decent enough to discuss with her?! They're the ones who are spoiling my innocent Rin! Provoking her into having scandalous relations with some random villager?! (A/N:- Ahem…. Sesshomaru was too busy bothering about Rin, to notice that he just thought Rin as his i.e. 'my innocent Rin' connotation)
Sesshomaru seemed to have heard only the latter part of the girls' conversation when they were teasing Rin. He was actually unaware that the guy that they were linking Rin with was actually him. So he misunderstood that some villager seem to have an eye for Rin, which set his own stomach on fire.
The scorching glare of Sesshomaru was too much for the girls to handle. They took only 1.50 seconds to clear the place off of their presence.
"M-m-my mom'll be looking for me! Bye, Rin!" "Yes! My brother too! Seeya!" "Bye!"
Rin stood speechlessly, unable to cope up with the sudden turn of events with such short notice.
Seconds passed by, causing the awkwardness go up the meter, to the point of suffocation.
Sesshomaru let out an almost audible sigh and settled himself on the ground. The action made Rin joining him at his side unavoidable. Not that she wanted to avoid sitting with him.
Moments rolled off in silent contemplation of Rin on how to start a less awkward conversation with Sesshomaru which would not lead her to blush or giggle like a drunk woman.
Sesshomaru broke the silence for a change, but in a way that awkwardness could break the meter itself, a worse case than the silence.
"Are you always this…..unwary….?" Sesshomaru bit out, gritting his teeth.
"Ah….! *GULP*" Rin did not expect Sesshomaru to be angry, she gulped.
Rin's silence angered Sesshomaru even more. He turned his head to have eye contact with her for the first time for the day, so that his glare would do the trick.
It did.
"I….No, Milord…. I have always been careful while wandering in the forest or in the riverbanks….To-today is only an exception…." Rin partially lied. She is not all that careful as she claims to be. She just had no fear for life and death. She couldn't help blushing though, when she had to deal with Sesshomaru's painfully embarrassing inquiries.
"…." Somehow Sesshomaru scented the small lie and broke the eye-contact. But he let it pass, not wanting to embarrass Rin furthermore on that topic.
Nevertheless, Sesshomaru had yet another topic to mess Rin with.
"You are infatuated with some boy"
Too blunt and straightforward.
"Eh….?!" To say that Rin was dumbfounded was an understatement. What is he talking about!?
This time Sesshomaru did not want to use the eye-to-eye glaring technique. He probably feared that his own eyes would give away the disappointment and disturbance, his inner heart suffered.
Making the right guess that Rin did not catch his point, he went on, "about the lad your companions were gossiping about". I heard it….
"Ah….! Oh that!" He heard us talking about him! Omigosh! This is ba~~~d!... But hey! He thinks that it is about some other guy…..oh…. I get it now! Oh! Bless the Gods of heaven! He didn't hear the whole conversation, he only heard the last of it….. Rin's mind was working out Sesshomaru's understanding of the situation.
*SIGH* Sesshomaru let out a sharp sigh, purposely to display his impatience to Rin, but mindful of his lips which went pouting.
In any other circumstance, Rin would have adored the sight, when Sesshomaru displays his jealousy so candidly.
"No! It's not like that! I have no special feelings for that guy! In fact, I have NO feelings for that guy! Neutral! Nil! Zero! Really!" because there is no such guy at all! Rin was frantic in proving her innocence, like a wife trying to prove her fidelity to her husband.
In fact, Rin went overboard by spilling, "I would never even think of another guy! I-"
"'another'….!?" Sesshomaru cut in, when the magic word caught his attention, like the arrow hitting the bull's eye. Sesshomaru turned his head slightly to Rin's side to have his sideway glace at her. "ANOTHER…?" He repeated weighing in more stress with a pinch of taunt, being the cruel, blunt, dog demon that he is.
*GASP* Rin was so shocked at her own close-to-proposal declaration that her hand clasped the daring mouth. She invariably turned her blushing face away, knowing that Sesshomaru was stealing a glance at it.
It was not too hard for Sesshomaru to guess what made Rin admit that she has her heart settled on this white dog demon than on some haphazard youth. If Sesshomaru was not who he was, he would have let out an unguarded chuckle. He simply settled with a micro-smirk, invisible to naked eye. The demon lord was well aware of the warm feeling that generated from the region at his left chest which spread across his body, probably due to his heart beating rapidly, pumping blood across all veins and nerves. A part of Sesshomaru wanted to grab Rin's shoulders and capture her lips in a tight kiss-WAIT…..! Where did that come from….?!
Sesshomaru's own thought flows both excited him and perplexed him. Is his body reacting to the natural instincts, abiding by the law of attraction towards the opposite sex…?! Was he like that before losing his memory too….?!
Sesshomaru kept on gazing at the woman who has just stimulated his highly potent male hormones. Wind blew a bit forcefully, causing Rin's hair to perform a poised dance across her soft, fair face.
By virtue of a natural and immediate response to the nerve-wrecking stimuli, his free hand lifted up to brush away the offending tresses. Common sense finally came around and broke the action from getting completed. The clawed fingers winded up into a ball of fist, as the demon settled his bold hand down. It was his luck that Rin did not notice the short war, who was too busy brushing the strands away herself.
But male carnal instincts is never easy to overpower. Sesshomaru's eyes caught up to those slender, rosy fingers those were sweeping across her face. Instant urge for Sesshomaru was to grab those fingers and lick the tips, suck them in….. Hsssssss….. Sesshomaru's mind was hissing like a snake in heat.
Lustful thoughts started clouding his mind. Biological reaction at the vital male organ was almost instantaneous. His common sense was at war with his masculine desires.
Kiss her-No…..Kiss-Never….! ...Just one kiss-NO!
Rin, who was completely oblivious to yet another danger that she was in, was no good in saving herself. It was only at that point in time that she had to let her pink, wet tongue linger on her slightly chapped, ruby red lips, slowly licking the dryness away.
Common sense was losing the war, as Sesshomaru felt his own saliva entering his dried throat, as he wondered how Rin's saliva taste like inside his warm mouth.
Just do it! He could not control his desire to taste Rin's soft mouth, her wet tongue, her saliva-STOP!
Sesshomaru slammed his eyes shut which was the causal organ for all this calamity. This time it was him, who had to turn away and hide the faintly tainted, whitish-pink flush on his face.
It was only after severing his sight from this girl's form, that Sesshomaru's almost defeated common sense, gained revival. What is happening to me….?! I have never felt like this before!
Sesshomaru's heart which was beating like crazy the past few moments, slowed down steadily, getting back to the regular pace.
This girl! She…..God! She will be the death of me, I daresay! She most certainly will!
Hahaha! Poor Sesshomaru was in total turmoil the last few moments wasn't he…?
Gradually our male and female leads are getting closer and closer. But fate will not let things pass by so easily would it. They will have to face a lot of problems if they need a happily-ever-after ending, right?
Stay tuned until next chapter which will be update in a week or two, hopefully!
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