Yes it has been FOREVER! And yes, you can throw things at me. But I'm updating now :) hopefully it makes up for it… oh and this is the last chapter… I want LOTS of feedback on the whole story! Please and thank you :)
Chapter 12: Buried:
It was dark wherever she was. It was weird because it didn't actually feel like she was anywhere. She couldn't even tell if she was on the ground or not, but all of her pain was gone. She could think about her father and even that wouldn't leave her breathless. It was peaceful. That was something she hadn't experienced in a long time.
With that thought, the whole scene changed before her eyes. She was no longer in a comfortable darkness, instead she was somewhere in her distant past.
Her heart was beating hard against her chest and she tried to quiet her breathing. She was younger. Somewhere near 6 or 7 and she felt vulnerable and terrified as she hid under her bed.
Her father's footsteps were heavy and becoming louder. She tried to press herself closer to the wall and farther from the edge of her bed.
Then, everything just… stopped…
No footsteps. No noise what so ever.
Something suddenly grabbed her foot.
The grip was so tight she could already tell no blood was reaching her foot anymore. And it hurt.
She couldn't help the terrified scream that escaped her lips as she was dragged from under the bed.
There was nothing for her to grab onto so she desperately clawed at the ground, trying to slow her attacker's progress.
The sunlight nearly blinded her as she was pulled from under the bed and flipped onto her back.
She could only see the silhouette of the man due to the sun, but she could see his fist as he pulled it back.
His right hand made contact with her left cheek. She could already feel the bruise forming.
"What do you think you were doing?" Her father's voice growled at her.
"I-I don't know! I'm sorry!" The young girl sobbed. She'd known she wasn't allowed in the basement, especially when her father had clients over, but when she heard the scream, her instincts told her to help. When she'd opened the door, her father had been in front of a bruised and bloody woman. He was about to back hand the shaking woman when a man in all black walked up behind him and caught his arm.
"Let me take over." He'd demanded.
Her father nodded before turning to watch with a content smirk pulling at his lips. That was when he saw her and she ran into her room to hide.
As the fist came into contact with her face again, she saw the man in all black walk in to watch her father beat her.
Something was pulling at the back of her mind, through the fog of pain. Then the man smiled. She gasped as recognition hit her harder than the blows her father still delivered.
Naraku.
Everything changed again.
She was once again in the darkness, but this time it was neither calm nor comfortable. It was painful. Her throat hurt and this time she could tell she wasn't on the ground.
She tried to claw at the thing around her neck, only to find that her hands couldn't move. Panicking, she tried to fight against the chains keeping her from the ground.
Panting, she tried everything she could to get free, but nothing worked.
An amused laugh filled the room as Naraku walked out from the shadows. "I promised I get you." He smiled.
Rin sat up with a jump. Her panic continued when she realized she couldn't move. She was still trapped.
"Rin." Sesshomaru's comforting voice flooded her ears.
She looked to her left and saw Sesshomaru was looking at her with worry written across his face. She also noticed the flat country behind him. "Wh-where are we?" She mumbled, rubbing sleep out of her eyes. It had all be a dream. She visibly relaxed as she remembered Sesshomaru carrying her back to his house when she'd collapsed from exhaustion. "More importantly, why are we driving?" She noticed for the first time that it had been the seatbelt that had restrained her when she'd awoken.
"Your stuff is in the back. We aren't going back to Keewatin." He said simply, turning back to the road in front of him and starting the car again.
Wait. They weren't in his car… they were in a jeep. "Where did you get this… jeep?" She looked around her, in a slight panic as his words sunk in. "Wait! What do you mean 'not going back'?"
"Rin don't you know where we are?" He asked like it should be obvious.
"No? Can you please just answer one of my questions?"
"Fine. We're going somewhere else; Kagome and Inuyasha are meeting us in Selkirk."
"But- what about- where are we going to live?"
"Relax Rin. Just trust me."
She refused to answer him and instead asked a question of her own. "Why should I know where we are?"
"We're in Manitoba." He knew it was all she needed to know.
Silently absorbing what he told her, she looked out the window at the landscape that seemed much flatter than she remember. Then again she had lived in slightly hilly parts of Manitoba. Still, she found it beautiful.
The green sign indicating how long until each town flew by but she only caught a glimpse of the first one listed.
Winnipeg 5km.
Ok so they were getting close to Selkirk. It was weird but she wasn't panicking anymore.
Well until they drove past the Selkirk exit sign.
"Where are we going?"
"Rin, weren't you going to trust me on this?"
Rin mumbled something incoherent as she pouted looking out the window.
More signs past but she paid no attention to them.
The jeep finally came to a stop and Sesshomaru got out, but she didn't move. Sesshomaru opened her door and she slowly climbed out, keeping her eyes locked on the ground refusing to look at him.
"Rin look up." He commanded, becoming slightly frustrated with her behavior.
She did as he asked, sensing his irritation.
TAYLOR BRIDGE
ASSINIBOINE RIVER
The town little signs screamed at her.
It was the bridge her brother's car had been driven off of.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she approached the broken railing and looked down at the river. "I'm sorry…" She muttered to both Sesshomaru and Nick.
Sesshomaru remained quiet as she looked at the debris still in place from the "accident".
He stayed silent and kept his plans for the rest of the day to himself. After Rin was ready to leave there, he would take her to the cemetery where her brother's body rested then the one containing her mother and younger brother. At the end of the day he would take them to a hotel in Selkirk where they could plan for the future the next day.
Memories filled each of Rin's senses. Most of them happy and she smiled despite herself, knowing that her brother could rest now that Naraku and their father were dead.
She'd known since she was a little girl about why her father hated her. It had been because he'd wanted a boy. Then he'd tried to give her up for adoption multiple times. He'd even tried an arranged marriage at 11… there was obviously something wrong with her father. Such insignificant reasons.
But the real hate came at 14 when she'd caught him with another woman and told her mother.
Sesshomaru might have questions later, but for now those memories could be buried. She turned to tell him she was ready to go, only to find him right behind her.
He knew she only wanted to leave because she thought he would get bored, so he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and turned her back towards the water.
She leaned her head against his shoulder and watched the water rush by. It was the calmest she'd been in years and all she wanted to do was make it last. She was content to stay there all day with Sesshomaru. Maybe she would. She could do what she wanted now. She was free. And she was with Sesshomaru. She was happy. And that was how she intended to keep it.
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So there it is. The end. *SIGH*! Oh well… Sorry I wasn't posting but well I have a slight Robin Hood obsession :P anyways there it was. Oh and I found out I don't like that guy… oh well.. :P well please review :) it'll make me happy :) thanks to everyone who read this all the way through and favourited it/added it to their alerts. Those reviews really kept this going too. So yeah. I guess I'll see you guys later! I'm going to work on Wishing for the easy road after this. I figure I owe you guys finished stories before I get too caught up in Robin Hood and Alice eh? :P Thanks again! See ya!
