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Maid for You
26: The Pond
By: Luna
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Her face was upturned and forever smiling, her eyes wide with innocence and happiness. Her hair was in a lopsided ponytail, and she was dressed in a kimono. In one hand she held a child's windmill; the kind that you could normally pick up at a festival; the other clutched the string of a balloon.
"She's beautiful." Kagome said, her voice thick.
"Yes." Sesshoumaru agreed softly, placing flowers down by the statues feet, before the placard that simply stated Rin.
Kagome's small hand crept over and threaded her fingers with his, and didn't let go even though he didn't hold her back. If anything, she held on tighter. "How?"
His eyes settled bitterly over the deep, still water of the pond. It had been winter. The ice had broken… "She didn't know how to swim."
"Were you with her?" Her face was stricken, almost as if his pain were her pain.
"No," Sesshoumaru looked away. "My father was."
Kagome gasped. "He let her drown?"
"No," Sesshoumaru said softly, sadly. "He didn't know how to swim either."