Theme: Spectrum Challenge - Blue
Genre: Hurt/Angst
Rating: K+
Word Count: 500
Warning: N/A
Summary: Rin's view of the tragic saga of Kagome & Sesshoumaru
A/N: I've decided that in order to move this story along a little faster, I needed to utilize other available challenges and prompts…so here goes. All the Spectrum entries are individual character perspectives regarding our ill fated duo. Originally posted on LJ 7/23/2010
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but my own cracked imagination
For three years, the little girl's world revolved around her Lord Sesshoumaru. After attempting to help him, she had inadvertently been rescued and revived by the Inu and had been faithful to him ever since.
Like a puppy, Rin adored her Lord and looked up to him as the only father she could ever remember in her short orphaned life. Her real ningen parents had long been deceased and if it wasn't for the daiyoukai's curiosity with the Tensaiga, she would already be dead.
Technically, she owed him a life debt and in the only way she knew how to, she vowed to be the best she could be. Her gregarious and never-ending cheer, vibrant spirit like the bluest sky on the clearest day and faith in all that was good was the lynchpin that instilled a newfound acceptance for ningen in the stern Inu's heart.
How could you detest a being whose sheer happiness came from merely being in your presence? Even for one as single-mindedly driven as Sesshoumaru, nothing could be done to stem the tide of emotions that the tiny onna evoked after a time.
She asked for naught and found joy in everything and a simple pat on the head was enough to put a smile on her face. The child was unlike any other being he had ever known, except one.
In many ways Rin echoed the miko Kagome in mannerisms and personality and from their initial meeting; it was obvious that they would become very close.
Rin viewed the teenager as both friend and later, mother, as she was continually showered with generous attention and warmth every time they met. When Naraku dared to kidnap them both, it was Kagome who protected the child as though she were a mother defending her young.
So when the packs merged, it was no shock to anyone that Rin spent more and more time with the miko. Sesshoumaru had little to say on the matter, except that he thought it a good idea that she interacted with more ningen; and with the kitsune, she finally had a playmate her own age.
It was always a distant hope that her 'father' would find her a mother and just a little; she hoped that it would be Kagome. They got along well enough and sometimes it looked like there was something more. The miko clearly held no prejudice against youkai, if she could adopt one. Maybe it was possible to give that compassion to someone like Rin, who needed it most.
But Kagome died and left them all. To Rin, it was like losing the sun – cold, dark and scary, her only chance of having a 'family' gone. She was terrified and she frantically refused to let go of her 'brother'. The only living being that connected her to the onna she loved. Only because Sesshoumaru cared as much for her as he did, that he allowed them to stay together. The miko would have wanted it that way.