If you think I own this anime you have some serious problems! I mean if I owned an anime like this I'd be so totally loaded. I'd be sitting in the Bahama's sipping on a virgin Daquarie, strawberry of course. And would sure as hell find better things to do than write a fan fiction. But I don't so I'm sitting in this ice cube called America sipping on instant cocoa.
Warning, fluff alert at end of this chapter:-D
Sesshomaru held Rin tightly as he jumped into the well with his brother. He found himself adrift in a void of blue light. He could not see his brother at his side or the kitsune at his feet. But when he looked down he saw his girl clutched protectively in his arm.
Then as suddenly as the blue light had appeared it was gone. In the dark his feet touched something soft and he lost his footing as it gave way slightly. He landed on his rear on top of something squishy. He heard his brother fall to and the pained groan of the fox kit. Then Shippo transformed back into his natural form and both dogs landed with a thud on the dirt well bottom. Through all Sesshomaru never lost his hold on Rin.
Sesshomaru next became aware of an acrid, smokey scent filling his nose as he climbed to his feet. In the darkness he could barely see his brother. The young kitsune jumped to Inuyasha's shoulder and he jumped out of the well. Sesshomaru followed.
"Uhg, what is that smell?" Shippo asked as they stepped in to the light and started running through a stone covered court yard of some sort then down a black stone road.
"Smog. You get use to it after a bit." Inuyasha replied.
They were running top speed. There was no need to be careful of roots. Even if the trail had not been so smooth they could have seen them long before they reached them as the road was lined on either side by large, strange torches.
A big red car came barreling down the street spewing noxious smoke that almost took Sesshomaru's breath. It was a good thing Carolina had shown him a photo of a car or he may well have attacked it. This car looked different from her father's old Model T but he was barely able to recognize it for what it was.
The driver of the car had braked after passing two young men wearing fuedal era clothing and running well over 60 miles an hour. He had watched them in the rear view until they disappeared. That was the night he swore off weed forever.
"Here, try not to wake the family." Inuyasha called jumping into an open window.
Carolina was sound asleep when the hanyou began shaking her. She mumbled something in coherent in another language and shoved Inuyasha away with out opening her eyes. Then Rin whimpered softly and Carolina opened her eyes and pushed herself up. She rubbed her eyes and looked around the room, she knew she had heard a child.
Her eyes came to rest on the group standing at her bed side. "Inuyasha? Sesshoma... Oh my God, Rin! What happened?" She asked jumping up and taking the girl from Sesshomaru's arms.
"A snake. Can you help her?" Sesshomaru asked just managing to keep it together. The fear his puppy would leave him forever was overwhelming.
Carolina laid the child on her bed and looked down at her leg. "Yes. Go."
"No."
"Sesshomaru, I can help her but it is not something you need to see."
"I cannot leave my daughter like this."
Inuyasha's mouth came open and his eyes widened? Daughter? He knew Sesshomaru cared for the child. But her never in a million years suspected Sesshomaru could see this human kid as his own pup!
"Sesshomaru, I can heal Rin, but not from the outside. I have to touch her heart. I must take my true form and pierce her chest with my alicorn. Can you watch that?"
"Yes. I trust you, Carolina."
"Ok. Do not try to stop me. If at any point my concentration is broken I could kill her." She then turned her eyes to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, I trust you and know you trust me,but given your... impulsive nature, I must ask you to wait out side."
Inuyasha nodded in understanding. Normally he might have argued but he knew she was right and they had no time to fight about it. "If you need us the brat and I will be on the roof." With that he left, ignoring Shippo's protest to being classified as a brat.
Carolina turned back to Rin and propped her up on some pillows and stuffed animals. She opened the front of Rin's yukata and took a step back. "She may cry out." She warned Sesshomaru then allowed her youki to rise. She glowed brightly as she assumed her natural form.
The transformed Carolina took a deep breath and lowered her head. She heard Sesshomaru also take a breath as he braced him self. She took a step forward, her cloven hooves tapping lightly on the wood floor.
A soft glow began to eminate from the alicorn atop her head and spread through out her. She pressed the horn into Rin's chest, the child whimpered in pain but didn't scream. She didn't have strength to scream left.
The glow bagan to spread through her tiny form, pulsing with each beat of her heart. Tiny streams of light curling through out her body, following the flow of tainted blood untill she was engulfed entirely. Then Carolina slowly backed away. The glowing in Rin began to fade and the hole in her chest healed instantly.
As soon as she raised her head and looked over at him Sesshomaru ran forward and leaned over Rin. Rin's breathing was normal and her skin had regained it's color. She was no longer perspiring and her leg was no longer swollen, even the fang marks were gone with out so much as a scar.
She opened her big brown eyes and stared up at him sleepily. "Sesshomaru-sama. What happened?" She moved her head slightly to try and take in the strange room. "Where are we?"
Sesshomaru tried to swallow the lump in his throat. "We are in Carolina's time. You stepped on a snake and my brother and I brought you through the well to get help."
"I remember stepping on the snake. And Jaken-sama telling me to stay awake and fight it. I'm sorry. I tried to stay awake but I feel asleep anyway. You and Jaken aren't mad at me are you?"
"No. Rin, I am just relieve that you are better. I know you tried." He wrapped his arm around her and drew her up into a hug. There were no words to describe his joy and relief when he felt her little arms wrap around him to return it.
Inuyasha had heard their voices from the roof and known it was safe for him and Shippo to come down. He and Shippo had watched silently from the window as his elder brother had hugged Rin. Once she had lain back down he came to her bedside and stood beside Sesshomaru looking down at her. She smiled seeing Sesshomaru and Inuyasha standing side by side with out fighting and insulting one another.
"You o.k. kid?"
"Uh-huh. My leg feels lots better and doesn't hurt any more. Sesshomaru-sama said you helped bring me here. Thank you."
"Thank Shippo. It was his idea to find Carolina." Inuyasha told her. Shippo turned pink and ducked behind the hanyou's shoulder.
"Thank you Shippo." Rin said, smiling at the top of his ponytail. The rest of him was hidden.
"Your welcome." Shippo muttered, turning even pinker.
"O.k. o.k. That's enough talking." Carolina said trying to usher Inuyasha and Sesshomaru away. "Rin's been a very ill little girl and she needs some rest now."
"No I don't." Rin said trying, unsuccessfully, to stifle a yawn.
"Yes Rin, you do." Sesshomaru told the child.
"I'll go back and tell every one she's fine." Inuyasha stated turning away.
"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru called once Inuyasha reached the window. The hanyou stopped and looked back at his brother.
"Tell your humans... We appreciate their help."
"Who's 'we'?" Inuyasha asked.
"Rin and I. I appreciate their help."
Inuyasha smiled. He knew how hard it was for him, being half human, to accept or aknowledge help from mortals. It must be so much harder for his proud, full blooded brother.
"You gonna be o.k.? A whole lot has changed in the past 500 years. It takes some getting use to."
"Don't worry about Sesshomaru." Carolina told him. "I'll keep him out of trouble and make sure he doesn't kill anybody, except maybe three girls Kagome and I go to school with." And so Inuyasha and Shippo jumped out the window. Carolina watched them leave and noticed it was getting light outside.
She turned back to Sesshomaru and saw him coaxing Rin to sleep. The little one was fighting it. Slowly her eyes would slide closed then she'd jerk them back open. She didn't want to fall asleep knowing she was in a brand new world.
Carolina walked over to help. "It's exciting being in a new world, isn't it?"
Rin nodded. "Well, I'll make a deal with you, if you get some sleep I'll get you some modern clothes and take you sight seeing. How's that?"
"Can Sesshomaru-sama come to?"
"He'd have to wear modern clothes too, but yes. He can come with us if he wishes."
She grab Sesshomaru's hand and stared up at him. "Will you please come sight seeing with us Sesshomaru-sama?"
"If you settle down and sleep I will consider it."
"Okay. Good night Carolina-sama. Good night Sesshomaru-sama." With that she closed her eyes. Then, as sleep took her she muttered "I love you Chichiue."
