No Longer Human Chapter 12
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A/U: Okay, so now I have gotten six awesome OC's and they will all be smashed up in my story! The first one will make an appearance in the next chapter and the others will come eventually too. Keitaro, Yun and the others will also soon come along. Btw: evil cliffhanger there at the last chappie… XD sorry x3
Time seemed to have stopped as the eleven-year old version of Rin stood in front of Sesshomaru. The "real" Rin couldn't even breathe as she looked at her younger self. It was horrifying! Oh my god, she was just so… so… FLATCHESTED! It was actually nice to run around in the flowers without those giant girls at her front all the time… Sigh, how the time flies by… NO! She couldn't lose focus now! What would her lord going to do? …He would never hurt her, right?
Her demon lord stood there, staring at the cute little girl in her orange kimono. "My lord! Where have you been? I've been waiting for you in the village for nearly two years! This evil man took me and after that, everything seems to have grown. Everything is just so big. Have I shrimped?"
"Oh no! Daishuo is making it look like that is the real me! The real Rin turned around and shouted at the beautiful woman that still looked at her with a hint of recognition shimmering at her face. Why, she didn't know, but now she really wanted to leave this damn place!
"There must be something I can do! Please! You've seen this before, haven't you? What happened to the others that weren't chosen to come back?"
The woman looked up at the man and together they shared a look that proved to Rin that she indeed should be worried…
"Rin… They either got chosen or not and the once that weren't had to stay here… Though someone got so mad that they eventually got sucked into the deepest part of hell. We do not want this fate for you Rin, but it's nothing neither you nor we can do! You must only wait to see what this "lord" of yours will choose.
"But he doesn't know it's me! He despise humans and it's a fucking miracle that I'm still alive…Well, right now I'm not so alive, but you have no idea what I am like when I'm out there! Have you any damn clue about what I've experienced? I had finally begun to live! I felt strong! I refuse to end here and I don't care about the cost!"
The woman's face softened at the same time Rin again felt the weird and missed sensation on her cheeks. She was crying deeply and had sunken to the ground right under the light. "I…I r-refuse to-o let go n-n-ow..!" After that the only thing noise that came from her was deep sobbing.
"No one told you to give up, Rin! Though your chances are low, there's always a chance for everyone! That you have died once already when you got here doesn't mean you won't be granted a second chance!" Silence filled that weird place as the two souls looked at the crying girl. Suddenly Rin got up and glare at them with hatred in her eyes.
"I've gotten so fucking many chances! I didn't just kind of "die" when I was sent here! I have died many times and been revived by Lord Sesshomaru, though nobody knows why! Maybe it is time for me to just let go…"
"Please, Rin don't say that! Just look one more time, please! Don't say it's already over!" After some seconds watching the depressed girl, the woman reached out for her in a motherly way until the man gripped her arm and pulled her back. "No! She must decide what she wants to do herself; you can't help her, Blondie!" "Oh, what would you know about help, Baku? You always make sure that people like her gets stuck here!"
While the arguing "couple" glared at one another, Rin made one final choice and stood up. While not bothering to remove the still streaming tears, she took in one long breath before looking at what was happing in her own cruel world.
He just stood there. Glancing at the girl and not moving an inch. It was scary…
The demon lord and the "thing" looked at each other for what seemed like an eternity before he finally moved. He moved his hand to the shaft of Bakusaiga…
"Another piece of his tricks." He said with a fern and sharp voice. Rin hadn't heard that voice for so long, but the words that followed his angelic voice sent shivers down her spine. "What did he just say?!"
Rin watched as Lord Sesshomaru pulled his sword out of it's shaft and pointed it at little Rin. The "thing's" eyes grew wide as she took three fumbled steps away from the demon that Rin had been so stupid to fall in love with. "Wh-at are you-u doing m-my lord? The fear in her eyes and voice were so real it even pained Rin's heart. Or was it the fact that Sesshomaru had just pulled a sword against someone's throat that looked just like her…?
The demon took a few steps closer to little Rin and the girl stumbled some more and then fell to the ground. She desperately looked at her lord with begging eyes as he rose the sword over her tiny body.
"Wait! What are you doing, Sesshomaru! That girl looks just like me! Stop it! I don't want you to do this! Please…"
After that, the scene went in slow motion. Rin watched Bakusaiga slowly starting to close in on her "clone's" body and the fear and betrayal in her eyes where so overwhelming that she wanted to look away. But she couldn't. It was too real. Sesshomaru was just about to slay someone that has her look, voice and charm. Rin couldn't know what the girl was, but it was horrible to watch!
"Stop it, my lord! STOP IT!"
Her begging abruptly stopped as a flinching sound filled the air in the cave and dark red blood colored the floor in a despicable way.
The "Rin-clone" had been cut in two whole pieces as she laid there with empty eyes staring into the dark. One last tear escaped her already dead eyes and Sesshomaru pulled Bakusaiga back in his shaft. Then he walked past the body without looking back. Not even once.
Rin looked with empty eyes at the scene before her boy gave in and she fell to the ground. Her head was pointing to the floor and her eyes were empty as she carefully touched her left side of her body and felt it. It was wet! Her eyes moved to her now wound side and saw the blood. She was bleeding just like the clone.
A horrified gasp filled the air as Rin heard the woman say "No! He has used that!" Before the man "Baku" told her to shut up. While using an emotionless and bored voice Rin asked "What is it that he used? Silence was her only answer before the blond woman finally spoke up. "It is a technique that is his specialty. He draws something from the soul he has taken and makes sort of a clone of it. With other words…He creates another "you" with all the emotions and memories as the original. In fact, the clone is also an original. Mostly, an original from the past.
That explained why Rin felt so "dead" inside right now. "What if "the other me" dies…?"
"Then a piece of you dies as well… I'm so sorry Rin"
On the outside of the cave, Daishuo was now laughing like a maniac on drugs and also scaring Jaken to his bones. However, the party didn't last long as a huge explosion filled the air and a huge hole in the cave appeared. Out from the smoke an emotionless demon lord approached the surprised blonde demon.
"What?" Was the only word Daishuo could come up with. "What do you think you are doing? My labyrinth!" His voice were like a little kid that just lost his toy.
"I finished the ridiculous game of yours. Now I'll take the price."
Jaken watched his lord with glorious eyes as he jumped up and down of happiness.
"Man, you can't be serious! You were supposed to find the exit, not blow yourself one!" The blond devil as they called him placed his grumpy face on top if happy one and glared at the dog demon.
"You said nothing about that."
Daishuo did not look to happy, but even though if he didn't like it or not, Sesshomaru had won. "Hmph, fine! What will you choose?" He said with his "work" voice and acted like a professional dealer.
Sesshomaru pulled out his sword and pointed it at Daishuo. That was answer enough.
"Fine, I'll fight you. Bye bye, beautiful. I think I'll send you to hell." he said as he pointed a finger on Rin's "soul" and waved goodbye.
"NO!" Screamed the woman as the cave started trembling and a hole appeared right beneath Rin. She ran over to the hole and grabbed Rin's arm, keeping her from falling.
"Just let me go already..." He don't care about me anymore. Maybe it is time for me to go…"
"Stop talking like that! I feel something in you! I need an answer! Are you having a contract with a demon of any sort?" That question was the last Rin had expected right now. How did she know? Did she feel Hibashi's power in her?
"How did you know that?" At the same moment Rin said that, the memories of when she first met this woman and her eyes. Her eyes were filled with recognition! Did she know Hibashi?
At the same time Daishuo said so, the blue soul were filled with red light as it was being sent to hell. Daishuo had gripped his axe and were ready for battle.
"There, let's fig.." He never got to finish that sentence before someone interrupted him. "I'll take the soul!"
Sesshomaru, Daishuo, Jaken and even Ah-un turned around to look at the newcomer. It wasn't just any newcomer.
In front of Daishuo stood the great Lady Yuuki with a strong-willed look.
"My, my! The great Lady Yuuki! What brings you here?"
Yuuki ignored him as she glared at her son. He was clearly surprised that his mother had suddenly showed up, but made sure to not lose his cool. "As I said, I choose the soul!"
"Why? You can't just come here and command me to give it to you! You must accept the challenge and then clear the labyrinth!" He was clearly upset and he gesticulated a lot as he explained the rules for his game. "What do you think I've been doing since the last two minutes?" Yuuki asked while pointing at the labyrinth behind her.
"You cleared my game? I haven't even seen you enter!" He shouted as he pointed at the beginning of the cave.
"I came that way" She pointed to the north and continued "so I figured I were just going to take the easy way so I entered at the other side of the mountain and here I am."
Daishuo looked stunned. "So… You went in at the exit and exited at the entry?"
A simple nod was answer enough. Just there, it looked like someone had stolen all piece of happiness from the blonde devil. It looked like he was going to cry for a second!
"Great lady mother, I am sorry to interrupt but, why do you want the soul?" Said Jaken as he finally got the courage to speak up.
Lady Yuuki turned around in rage as she nearly screamed at the green toad.
"You have no brain do you? I want the soul because if you could at least think for yourself then you would have understood that the soul over there isn't just any soul!"
Even Sesshomarualmost flinched at his usually calm mother's outburst.
"… So you know the girl I've taken it from?"
"Yes she does!" Said another voice and again, everybody turned around and saw the figure of four people, one giant cat and one flying sword.
"Inuyasha." Said Sesshomaru with a bored tone.
Then Inuyasha decided to jump down in front of everybody and show everyone what he held in his arms. There, to the surprise of all of them, laid an eighteen-year-old girl with white, purple and black hair. Hibashi was flying firmly over her in a protective manner.
The world froze for a second as they put pieces to pieces and figured it all out.
"So… Rin was the soul?" Said Jaken with a trembling voice.
"Oh! There she is! Wait, why are everybody so shocked?" Daishuo said confused before he also got it. "Oh, my… The girl I took were the great lord of the west's ward! Well, this is awkward…
"Hurry now! Send her back! I made it and I chose the soul. If you don't give it to me you'll lose the little honesty of this game of yours that still exist!" Yuuki was obviously not joking.
"Fine!" Daishuo said as he pointed a finger at the now red-glowing soul.
The woman were still holding on to Rin and she refused to let go. "Rin, please grab my hand maybe I can pull you up!"
"So I can stay here? I'd rather go to hell." Her voice were completely empty and it only proved that Rin had lost all reason to live. Suddenly a blue "rope" arrived and grabbed Rin's forearm and started pulling her in some other direction.
A smile appeared the woman's face as she said" Someone must have chosen you!"
"What?" Rin was utterly confused, but didn't get that far as the "rope" almost pulled her out the woman's hands.
"I have to know! Who is it that you have a contract with?" She said desperately.
"I don't' have a "contract" He is my best friend and his name is Hibashi!" As she said her perverted companion's name, the blond woman's face lightened up and she smiled a beautiful smile.
"I see…"
Now Rin was almost gone from the in-between when she remembered something. "Wait! I never got your name!"
The grip that held Rin back in the in-between loosened completely and she could only catch a part of her name.
"My name is Ama…"
The blue light streamed to Rin's real body and with a shock, she woke up in the real world. With Hibashi, almost attacking her with hugs, well her boobs mostly and Kagome crying while hugging her.
She sat up and felt the air. The air that she thought she was going to forget and she closed her eyes one second so she could enjoy it. It didn't last long though, as she remembered who stood a couple of meters away from her, not moving at all. Only looking at her.
Rin met her lord's eyes for the first time in two years and she only gave him her "cold" and emotionless eyes. He gave her the same.
"Rin!" Hibashi cried while "hugging" her the best way a sword could hug anyone.
"Hibashi… I'm so sorry I made you worried" That was the first time Rin had really spoken for something that felt like an eternity.
"Hello young maide…OUCH!" Daishuo started saying, but didn't get that far as someone threw a golden sword on him and made a perfectly wound that took Daishuo's left ear. Everybody gasped as they saw blood flow down where his ear had been just a second ago.
"What?" Said Daishuo, as he understood what had happened to him. Rin grabbed Hibashi as he casually returned to Rin's firm grip. She was pissed. "Now, you little sucker! Try something like that ever again and I'll castrate you with a fork!"
"I am so happy you're alright Rin! When we saw the dead bandit with your smell on, we feared the most!" "Don't worry, my friend killed him with his axe, so I am alright." Rin said remembering Keitaro's words.
"What are you saying, Rin? The bandit was killed by nails in the throat and not an axe, by the way who is this "friend" of yours?"
Rin's eyed grew wide as she put the puzzle together. "…Are you sure Miroku?"
"Yes, defiantly." Rin's head fell as she understood. She had killed that man! Keitaro had lied to her! She was a murderer…
"Bitch…" Was the last words that came from Daishuo before disappearing in thin air. Sesshomaru for some reason didn't fly after him. Not this time.
Rin gave Kagome one last hug and started walking away the gang. She passed Sesshomaru and went straight to Jaken and her beloved two-headed dragon.
"Hello Jaken and Ah-un." She said before hugging them tightly. Jaken were still in shock, but hugged her back. She had changed so much. "I've missed you so much." "Rin!" Jaken almost cried. Only one some meters away stood the lord and he was being ignored. If he wanted to be ignored was impossible to know.
After that, Rin turned one last time to Inuyasha.
"Thank you so much for saving me, but right now, there's someone I need to find. Maybe I'll come home after that." She said to both Lady Yuuki and Inuyasha. Though they didn't understand why or where Rin was going, they knew she had a reason.
As Rin walked pass everyone she turned to Hibashi. "Seriously? You think I'm going to carry you? Come on you lazy bastard!"
All eyes landed on the haunted sword as he said confused "…You want me to come with you?" The confused sword said hopefully.
"Really, did you just see what just happened? I obviously can't survive without you! So come on! Besides, I've missed you." With that, Hibashi flew to Rin and got into his shaft.
"Kagome, say to Kaede that I love her and thank you Lady Yuuki, for saving me… Again. When Rikku impaled me with his sword I was sure I was going to die."
Yuuki nodded and watched as Rin met her son's eyes one more time and said a quick "bye" to Jaken. What had happened between the two?
Then, Rin grabbed Hibashi and they flew off.
Later that night Rin finally got the courage and made Hibashi tell her his past.
As they sat at the fire, Hibashi started talking.
"You see Rin, I was planning on telling you this sooner or later, but I guess now is a fitting time. Around two hundred years ago, I met a woman. I was a wolf demon and she was human. However, we did really love each other. If I were to be with her, I had to leave my friends. We were a group of powerful wolf demons and we were a pack. My brother, Kisami really didn't like that as he wanted me to stay with them…"
"So you had to make a choice… so cliché…"
They shared one long laugh after that and Rin had to dry her "fake" tears.
"Yes… And I chose her. We lived in a little hut in the forest and I made her a little dark grey sword for her so she could defend herself. "Rin glanced at Hibashi before asking the obvious.
"Are you inside that sword, now?"
"Yes I am… Because she had gotten pregnant, I had left to find a medicine against her morning sickness and when I came back…"
Rin let Hibashi have a moment so he could manage to tell more. It was hard for him, she could tell. She had never told him about her family's death yet.
"When I returned home I found her… bleeding. She was on the ground and the sword in her hand. She had tried to defend herself. Kisami stood next to her and watching her bleed to death. He left when I took her in my arms. Her stomach were seriously wounded and she was bleeding so much. In the end, she told me she loved me and she died in my arms. She took our baby's life with her."
"…Then how did you end up in the sword?"
"I was sick with sadness and I managed to anger a priestess. She locked me into this. I'm not so sad about it, since this is a memory of her I feel close to her…"
"I see… Come here!" Rin said as she hugged Hibashi.
They sat there and shared a moment before Rin remembered the woman in the in-between.
"Hey... Hibashi?" Rin asked carefully.
"You can ask me anything as long as you fill me in on the "Sesshomaru" thing later." He assured her.
"What was her name?
"Amaya."
A/U: Now, that was a LONG chapter! God I hope you like it! Piece out XD :Evil Bitch PS: Sorry for late update… REVIEW!
