14
Inu no Tashio was at work in his study going over treaty's, alliances, and other such things needed when one is Lord of the Western Lands. He wore black wire rimmed glasses in order to read the dark scrawl on the papers and scrolls from earlier within the centuries. He noted there was a cold presence outside his office door. "Come in Sesshomaru."
The old oak doors creaked open as his eldest stepped into the room. He wore a royal red robe over black silk bottoms, the robe was not tied so his pale chest and abdomen shone through the dark robe. His hair was pulled back in the braid he had always had his hair in when he was younger or when he slept or when he was thinking on the creative spectrum of his mind. The silver braid lay elegantly over his left shoulder and he walked over the dark wood floors to his father's desk.
"What keeps you up my son?" he motions for Sesshomaru to sit, he refuses. "Father how strong is that girl?" his golden eyes looked into clone eyes, where Sesshomaru had gotten his eyes from, though the coldness was from his mother. "Which girl are you talking about, there are a few." Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. "The one who destroyed Inukimi's hand." Inu no Tashio stopped smiling and his face became one of deep thought. "Yes, Rin… how the hell did she do that?"
"I believe I might be able to answer that, though I'm not sure." His father looked at him to go on. "in one of the ancient scrolls written of and by previous specials, that was a certain ability that would only come to the 'super special' when something great was to happen it is a technique that is said the Goddess of Discord herself has, known as 'Piercing Eyes' technique. It is when one is able to enter ones mind and body through the eyes and able to do any deal of damage or to obtain information at the users will."
"If what you say is true, Rin is even more important than we could even imagine. Let me see the scrolls!" Inu no Tashio's eyes brightened excitedly. "That's the thing father, I can't. The scrolls holding information about the piercing eyes technique disappeared. I read them a few months ago but didn't think anything of them until Rin used it on Inukimi at dinner, and when I went to retrieve them to see if my suspicions were correct, they were gone."
Inu no Tashio's eyes went dark and serious. "If the anti specials figure out what technique Rin has, this could get very dangerous." Sesshomaru looked up to his father. "I think we need to teach her combat, they all need to know some combat. So far Rin can only fluxuate her aura, travel to the past and the piercing eyes technique. Going to the past does nothing during combat, fluxuating auras only works against magical and possibly elemental attacks but will do nothing for physical attacks. And the piercing eyes only works if she is face-to-face, and can actually get a good look at the persons eyes."
Tashio nodded. "Wise decision, but what weapon do we put in her hands?" Sesshomaru shrugged. "We have an armory full of weapons of different sizes, handlings and such. How about when the children have to be taken to the feudal era in order to train, I will stay here with Rin until we find a weapon suitable for her?" Inu no Tashio raised an eyebrow at him. "And we will join you once we have found such weapon." He finished. Inu no Tashio examined his son. "Since when would you willingly put yourself in a situation where you had to be with a human?" Sesshomaru's face hardened and he stood up heading to the door. He stopped short of stepping out. "She went into my past; I want to see what she knows of me. She already got me with the 'wormy' incident. Stop laughing old man." He slammed the door on a barely contained Inu no Tashio.
During that conversation in a cave a few miles away a pair of blue eyes snooped through a certain scroll, the rest of him was covered in a cloak and shadows, reading about a certain technique that could be the deciding factor of the war between the Goddess of Discord and the God of Chaos, and the Specials. The blue eyes leered down at the scroll and turned towards the outside of the cave up at the crescent moon, so much like the deceased sister of the future Western Lord and daughter of the occupying Western Lord. He remembered her before the poison he had given her made her deathly ill and killed her soon after. The princess was always dancing and skipping around a smile permanently across her lips.
The one time her brother wasn't at her side was the one time he should have been, but alas his mother had forced him to study old maps and treaties. It was lucky for him, she was dancing in a clearing in the middle of a forest her long silver locks twisting and twirling. He had taken on the form of a child and cradled the precious flower in his hands as he walked out to her. She had smiled at him as he handed her the deadly flower, she had taken in its scent, which was all that was needed for the deadly nectar to enter her body and begin its deadly damage. She twisted the flower into her hair and rubbed his head; he had smiled at her and ran back into the safety of the trees. He smirked as he watched the princess's dancing begin to dwindle as the Abbadon flower began its work. The flower of destruction, so beautiful but still so deadly.
She had looked towards where the boy had disappeared and gracefully fell to the ground, unconscious. He had snuck back out to her and taken the flower, but not until he had temporarily removed the girls clothing and pushed the flower inside of her, where any woman was most sensitive and where the sickness and death would follow quicker. After he had finished he replaced her clothing and walked away, leaving the princess to be found, or die there alone.
The blue eyes returned to the present and placed the scroll onto a rock close by. "What is that brother?" came a soft yet seductive voice from the shadows just outside the cave. Blue eyes looked up and locked onto green ones. "it is the scroll describing the piercing eyes technique, I was able to take it away from the specials teacher, but I do not know if he has read it or not sister." The woman stepped out of the shadows, she wore a gown of black satin, silk, lace, and shadows her long blonde hair was twisted up with her long curved horns giving her a sinister look matching her beauty. Her smooth white skin shone in the moonlight as she walked towards blue eyes. "well, have you figured out what the other children are, which special they are?" he nodded as he pulled off his cloak, revealing a tall man dressed in a red silk shirt with dark blue trim and black slacks, his face made of strong and sharp bone structure. His golden hair was short but was brushed up into a Mohawk-like style though the hair above his forehead was rounded out before going up into a point. "I have an idea"
He walked towards his sister. "There are three males and three females. The eldest son of last generations special warrior is the teacher, his younger son is the warrior and the other male is the monk." She nods. "The females are a little tougher. The girl with dark brown hair that's always in the ponytail, I believe she is the demon slayer." "Most generations of specials had a male demon slayer." He nods. "That is what was confusing me as well. And the other two females I do not know which one is the special and which one is the priestess. And there is also the possibility that they don't have one of the specials."
She narrowed her eyes. "That's only four parents from the last generation of specials." She looked up at her brother. "The warrior had two specials, how is that possible?" he smirks. "That's what I meant when I said they might not have one of the specials. The teacher and the special of the last generation mated, they had a child together, but after their death, the child disappeared, the families never got the daughter. There is a possibility that she is still missing. There is another girl in the school that the specials go to, that may just be the special. We get her on our side…" "They cannot fulfill the prophecy." His sister finished.
"exactly." He gave a huge smile to the woman. "Lilly, you might want to change back into the form you take as a mortal, we have to go back at some point and I do not believe that they will be very delighted that I come home with a woman that isn't my wife." Lilly pouted. "Fine Damon." She rolled her eyes and her features changed until she looked like a normal human. Black hair pulled back in a tight professional ponytail, black glasses sitting on her small nose, and wearing a dark grey business suit. She raised her eyes at him. "Better dear?" he smirked and pulled her into his arms holding her around her thin waist and kissing her deeply the only thing about him that had changed was that his golden hair was now a dark brown. "So much." They smirked and he pulled her around until they came to a sleek black car.
Golden eyes watched the sun as it rose, pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, and gold's mixing together in a beautiful sight just above the tree line. His hand copied what his eyes saw on the sketching pad in his lap his concentration was so deep that at first he didn't hear when a set of doors creaked open a few meters away from him, or the soft pads of bare feet on the warm concrete, or even the happy sigh escaping the soft red lips of his wing-mate.
Rin leaned against the railing of her balcony watching as the sun slowly climbed out from behind the trees and the image reflected in the koi pond. She smiled as the wind blew at her fresh face and swept her long hair behind her shoulders. Takara sat on the stone railings beside her. "It's been so long since I've seen a sun rise; I forgot how beautiful it was." Rin looked up at her and smiled. Takara glanced to Rin's right and giggled. "Oh fluffy, up with the sun so he can sketch and paint the early morning beauty." Rin looked over and saw Sesshomaru sitting on the railing much like his sister though he was facing away from the house towards the sunrise, his bare feet dangling in the air. He had a large drawing pad on his lap and his hair was in a long braid over his shoulder though the wind kept trying to push it over his shoulder. Takara stood and leaped across from Rin's balcony onto the next one and turned back to Rin with a playful smile and the wind blowing at her hair. "Come on Rin!" she giggled and went back to leaping towards her brother.
Rin gave a huge smile at Takara's back and carefully climbed onto the railing, the wind blew at her oversized tee-shirt and she giggled silently and leaped onto the railing of the next balcony following takara. When she was close to her brother she hopped onto the railing and sat on her brothers left. Rin walked along the rail carefully and sat down next to takara. It took Sesshomaru a minute to realize she was there and when he finally did he raised a silver eyebrow at her, to which Rin smiled and signed good morning.
"what are you doing over here?" his eyes scanned the girl and she shifted realizing she was only in an oversized t-shirt and shorts that were hidden by the t-shirt, so it looked as if she was only wearing the shirt. She signed I wanted to see what you were sketching. Takara giggled and went to messing with Sesshomaru's braid. Can I see? Pretty please sesshy? "Never call me that or fluffy and you may."
Rin nodded and smiled sweetly. He slowly turned the canvas over towards her and her eye went wide her mouth dropping open. It looked almost exactly like the sunrise infront of them, but the painted canvas infront of her seemed more, full somehow. Sesshomaru, that's beautiful! She looked up at him to see a slight sparkle of pride at his work.
A second later he stood. "You might want to go get dressed Rin, we have work to do today." With that he turned and headed into his room, Rin absently followed and looked around the scarlet and gold room in amazement. It was a room fit for a king, a king bed sat against the closest wall with a window on either side, the bed was made as if it hadn't been slept in (which it hadn't). It was a four poster bed frame of black wood and golden curtains, the bed set was mostly a blood red but as Rin inspected closer it seemed to look like the blanket was actually a story. There was a landscape of mostly red with other dashes of color here and there, what looked to be chopped off body parts outlined all across the red landscape, then in the center there were two small figures each with cascading silver hair and mostly white clothing though there was blood on them.
She heard Sesshomaru clearing his throat and turned in his direction. He held the door to his room open. "You can ask questions later, but please for alls sake get decent. She smirked up at him as she skipped over and lifted up her shirt enough to reveal her shorts, then dropped her shirt and signed I am decent, though you however do not appear to be. She playfully pushed him in between the sides of his robe where pale skin peeped through, then ran out his room and slid to her own; she didn't stay long enough to see the baffled look on Sesshomaru's face.
He looked down the hallway after the girl until she disappeared into her room. "What the hell…?" he shook his head and shut the door scratching his skin where he could still feel where she had touched him. He shook the thought away and went to the wardrobe. Out of it he pulled out his haori, his obi, and his harem pants. He pulled them on and unbraided his hair. He looked just as he had when he used to wander the world after his sisters death.
Down the hall Rin was skipping around to the music playing on her laptop lip syncing to it as she danced. Takara was sitting on Rin's bed watching and laughing at the happy-go-lucky girl. She looked so passionate when she lip synced, even the silliest songs, takara guessed that singing used to be a huge part of Rin's life. Then a song came on (Mary's Song {Oh my, my, my} –Taylor Swift) and Rin stopped dancing and seemed to just wilt.
"Rin-Rin what's wrong?" takara cried and ran up to the girl. She looked up at takara with a sad eye. This was my parent's song, pretty much their lives. Except for the last part it was all true. Rin walked over to the computer and snooped through her music looking for an upbeat song. She smiled and clicked a song turning it up with a smile as she went back to "becoming decent" as Sesshomaru had said. (This Afternoon- Nickelback) again the girl lip synced. landlord said I should buy a tent, but he can kiss my ass cause I paid the rent, so I doubt he'll kick me out this afternoon…she smiled and swayed with the beat
She found an extra ponytail and tied the back of her loose t-shirt in a knot so that her shorts and long legs could be seen. Also finding a clippy-do (don't ask, family thing) she put up most of her hair, except what hid her scars. When she turned around to shut off her laptop she nearly jumped out of her skin to see Sesshomaru sitting on her bed and snooping through the computer.
She grabbed the closest thing to her (incidentally her poem book) and threw it at him. He caught it of course and looked up at her boredly. Rin hurried forward in order to retrieve it but he stood and began flipping through the pages. Rin's eye widened and she leaped at him though he dodged easily. He looked on the page that said Favorite Lines (Not Mine) across the top and began reading. "Hey mama, hey mama why you up and fly? I'm seventeen now and I don't know how to cry." End of one. (Sister Mischief) "She smiles with grace, but no one recalls her face, invisible, carved between the walls she knows her place in this world. She can tear down its walls, and still nobody knows her name." (Harmonic Feedback) "Sweet little Jane was caught in a rut. She went to far and never paid up, and the street corner wont give a dime to daddy's little girl with the misty eyes. There's no god fear and no sky to reach. Are my words silent shadows or just obsolete?
Rin leaped at him once again and he walked onto the balcony and kept reading. "In my heart there is no room." He looked down the page. "I'm afraid I'm going to lose him to one who wants to use him. Not care for him and cherish him each day. For I oh so love the groom, all my thoughts he does consume…" he raised an eyebrow and flipped a few pages, then leaped onto the roof and out of Rin's reach when she went to grab the book again. "Funny quotes and sayings." He read from the top. "He who laughs last didn't get it, but he who laughs first has the dirtiest mind." He nodded in agreement and kept reading.
"Famous last words of a redneck: hold my beer and watch this shit"
"Good girls are bag girls that don't get caught." He peered over the rim of the book to raise a brow at Rin as she attempted to climb up to get her poetry book.
"When a guy tells you to suck it, just smile and say 'sorry my mother taught me to never put small things in my mouth" Sesshomaru gave Rin a "really?" look then went back to reading.
"You laugh because I'm a little different; I laugh because I've rigged your house with explosives."
His eyes narrowed slightly. "…do you have something to protect?" (Yup I had to/ yea I went there) he looked up at her as she had finally gotten onto the roof. "How is that funny? Why is that quote there?" he demanded an answer, almost aggressively. Rin rolled her eye and grabbed the composition notebook from his hands and clutched it to her chest. She turned and started back down the roof. Sesshomaru jumped over her and landed on the balcony looking up at her. Help me down please Rin signed a little shakily. "Not until you tell me why that quote was in there."
Rin looked past him then collapsed on the roof clutching the book for dear life and shaking like crazy with her eyes screwed shut. "Scared of heights, should have thought of that when you came up for the book. Explain and I will help you down." She glared at him with one eye. Motivation. He scoffed "how is that motivational?" she shook her head. Let me down. "Explain."
To me, it's a question on where your loyalty lies. When I was younger my mother took me out with her when she had to see people for this reason or that. My mother would always ask "do you have any family? Friends? Ect…" and when she went to do paperwork she allowed me to be in the room with the customer, we talked a little and I always asked that question, I don't know where it came from, but it was something that only I ever did when I was around new people, and after I asked it they couldn't remember the question to rely it to my parents. All I knew was my mother always took my judgment into consideration. I sometimes said they were fine to be customers, others I said no to.
"Why?" his eyes were frozen and his muscles were tense. If you had to go into some kind of battle and you heard that question what would your answer be? Takara watched them quietly curious as to where this was going. "No. I have nothing or no one to protect other than myself, and my reputation, unless those are on the list then no." he answered swiftly. I would have told my mother no for you.
He glared at her so she went on to explain. If one has nothing to protect, they are most likely to lost, they have nothing worth fighting for. While those with something to protect will do absolutely everything in their power in order to make sure the things/ones that they hold dear are safe. He helped her down. If I were you Sesshomaru, I'd find something to protect before you are forced into a battle to where the answer to that question is no. skill is only part of the battle, reason, is another. Rin turned away and walked into her room leaving a baffled Sesshomaru in her wake. He blinked in the direction Rin had gone. "Come on Sesshomaru, we'll be late."
~whoohoo! Longest chapter so far… I think. And before you guys get all weirded out/disgusted about the bro/sis thing, in older times royal men often had to marry their sisters in order to keep the royalty and ruling privileges within the bloodline. Ok as for the ()'s the music are actual songs, I put my music on shuffle and listen to it when I do… well anything. But the songs fit in where I was typing at the moment and I honestly can't see anyone doing everything without music, I can't even sleep without music! Anyways. Sister mischief and Harmonic Feedback are books I've read. Those are actual lyric from the books, the lines "in my heart there is no room" and "I do fear that I may lose him to one who wants to use him…" were from a song one of my brony friends introduced me to. You know the rules ~
~*Mellasaphian*~