Alright, so I know I said there wouldn't be anymore filler chapters, but this one was too cute to turn away. Kind of an inside look into Sesshomaru and Rin's relationship as adoptive father and daughter while trying to keep with the plot.
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A young woman stood outside of Sesshomaru's room, watching him with soft cinnamon eyes as she rested her hand on the door frame. Her long brown hair cascaded down her back in soft waves that curled at the edges of her slim hips. Her lips were pulled back in a smile as she surveyed him. He didn't acknowledge her presence, but that was as it should be.
He sat on the bed with a journal in his hand, his golden eyes idly passing over the lines of text. To an observer he might have been reading it, but she knew better. He was just passing the time, waiting for something. She had watched him do such an act on multiple occasions, and knew him more than anyone. Well, now that Kagome was in the picture, that might no longer be true. But it didn't bother her in the least. Kagome was with him, as she should have been so many centuries before.
"You've come again," Sesshomaru noted, not taking his eyes away from the journal. Her smile widened prettily as she took a few sheepish steps into his bedroom. Another act that was normal and quite familiar to her.
"Yes," she answered softly as the wings on her back fluttered excitedly behind her. It had been close to two hundred years since she had seen him last, and her excitement brightened her features. She felt young again, the timid human girl at the demon lord's side once more. A feeling that she had nearly forgotten in her two hundred year absence.
"Have you come to watch over the girl again?" Sesshomaru asked, his voice level and uninterested. The woman bobbed her head before whispering a quick 'yes' when she noticed that he hadn't looked up.
"It's close to her ninth birthday," the young woman replied, "and the designated time of her death,"
"Do you still think that I'll abandon her?" he asked.
"No," she answered, "but I worry that this time it won't be a matter of you leaving her, but by a fact of circumstance,"
"I named her after you," Sesshomaru murmured suddenly and dragged his eyes from his book to gaze upon her. Her pearly white teeth shown behind her pink lips as she graced him with a grin. Her wings spread out and fluttered around her, easily giving away her happiness at finally having his attention.
"I know you did," she replied as her wings slowly drew in behind her, "she did not remember her name when you found her on the street, and yet you still knew that she was my vessel. How?"
"Her scent," he replied, "she smelled of wildflowers, and of the earth,"
Rin's grin turned into a reminiscent smile as she surveyed the demon. It had been so long since her last reincarnation had been born onto the Earth, and still her lord protected each one as fiercely as he had the first. He truly did love her.
"I have been waiting for so long to be with you again, Lord Sesshomaru," Rin murmured, almost sadly, "and I know that I say that every time I'm about to reenter my newest reincarnation, but it's true,"
Sesshomaru watched her in silence, and she liked how his eyes never strayed from her own. She liked how she could see glimpses of his love in the gold of his eyes. The emotions that would never be voiced, but that she knew were there. She was his daughter, after all. She took a step towards him before her eyes widened with uncertainty, and then she turned her gaze towards the floor.
"Sometimes, I wonder if I should continue coming to you," she murmured sadly.
"Why?" he asked, and sounded just as nonchalant as ever. She turned her fluorescent eyes back to him before she began fiddling with her hair nervously.
"Every time I come back, I'm only alive for fifty or sixty years," she began as she bit her lower lip, "which flies by in the blink of an eye for a demon. That's hardly enough time to be beneficial, to be worth the wait. Does – Does it hurt when I leave?"
"No," Sesshomaru answered, "because I know you'll return to me. You always do,"
"Yes, but – but what if I stopped coming to you? Then you wouldn't need to always look out for me and worry," she murmured while slowly curling a strand of hair around her finger. Sesshomaru stared at her for a moment before he stood and walked towards her. He came so close that Rin thought he might reach out to her, but he remained still.
"Don't speak of such nonsense. It does not become you, Rin," he answered sternly, and Rin felt her eyes water. Though she always offered the same thing to him every time she'd come back to the Earth, and each time he refused, she was still taken aback that his feelings hadn't changed. It was then that Rin began to cry. He didn't mourn her loss because he knew she'd come back, it was as simple as that. There was no need for her to avoid him, or deny her reincarnation the joy of having a father.
"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru," Rin sputtered in between her sobs/giggles as she rubbed her eyes with the backs of her hands. Though she knew that he loved her, and would be there if he was needed, it was still nice to see that he truly did care. He didn't look out for her because it was his responsibility or duty to, but because he genuinely wanted to. He wanted her in his life, and that was more than Rin could ever ask of the demon lord who had saved her life so many centuries ago and continued to do so vigorously.
Rin let out a light hiccup and covered her mouth with an embarrassed blush before they heard the sound of the front door swinging open.
"Daddy!" her reincarnation yelled from the first floor, "Jaken tried to run me over with the car!" she added angrily as the toad demon let out a squawk of surprise. Rin glanced back at the doorway before she turned to gaze at her father once more.
"It'll only be a little longer," she murmured, "please, watch over her, and don't take what she said to heart. I'm sure Jaken didn't mean to do it, because I remember a time when I used to get on his nerves too," she added with a smile before she reached out and lightly traced the outline of his jaw even though she knew he couldn't feel her fingers. She was a spirit, oracle, ghost, angel, whatever term humans used for those who had passed on from their life on Earth.
"I won't hurt Jaken," he promised as Rin then began to fade from sight. Her body's bright glimmer turned pale before her body became transparent and vanished altogether. Though she was no longer visible, she could still see Sesshomaru as clearly as she had before. She also knew that his heightened senses could tell him that she was still in the room too.
Her reincarnation bounded into the room in the next moment and she watched lovingly as the little girl clutched onto Sesshomaru's pant leg for dear life.
"Jaken's being mean to me again," she complained as the toad demon bounded into the room after her while gasping for air.
"Do not listen to her my lord!" he yelled, "that little – child doesn't know what she's saying! I would never do such a thing to my lord's own daughter!"
"Is that an order from you, Jaken?" Sesshomaru merely asked as the toad's mouth fell open before he collapsed on the ground in a deep bow.
"Forgive me, Lord Sesshomaru. I spoke without thinking," he added, his voice muffled by the rug. Rin's reincarnation stared down at the toad for a moment before she glanced up at Sesshomaru with a mixture of wonder and awe. Rin glided over to the girl's side as her hands gently rested on her small shoulders. She let out a relieved breath when the other half of her soul reacted to her presence and she felt at peace once more. Feeling only half of the person she was was tiring, and she missed how it felt to be whole.
I only have to wait a little longer she thought, and then I can return to the realm of the living. When her reincarnation reached the ripe age of fourteen, then she could finally return. It was only right that the part of her soul lost in limbo would return at the age of her untimely death in her past life. Until then she had to keep watch over her and wait patiently for the years to go by. She would not change the woman that her reincarnation would become, just return to the life she had hoped to live before. She would not be aimlessly floating in time and space, waiting for her future self to be born once again. One half was not a whole, and her reincarnation would feel a void in her life until that point when they were joined once more.
"Sesshomaru," little Rin murmured as the demon turned his gaze from where Rin's other half stood to her, "do you think we'll be a family forever?"
"If that is what you want,"
"But what do you want?" Rin asked, and cocked her little head to the side in curiosity.
"Whatever you want,"
"But that's not what I asked!" she pouted, "I want you to be happy too," she added softly while hugging his leg and resting her head against his knee.
"Don't yell at Lord Sesshomaru you insolent little girl! Show him some respect!" Jaken ordered as Rin's grip on Sesshomaru's pant leg tightened.
"Shut up, Jaken," Sesshomaru growled as Rin's other self watched with tenderness as Sesshomaru gently rested his hand on top of the little girl's head and ran his claws through her hair to soothe her.
"I want to be a family," he admitted after a pause, albeit a bit uncomfortably, given that he wasn't a very openly emotional man. Jaken's mouth fell open and Rin grinned from ear to ear. The little girl let out a happy giggle before she hugged the demon's leg tightly and rocked her body back and forth in excitement.
"I love you, Sesshomaru," she replied sheepishly as she stilled her movements, "and I'm happy that you're my Daddy,"
Sesshomaru didn't reply, but continued to idly run his claws through the girl's hair. Rin already knew the words that he desperately wanted to say, but couldn't. So am I, Rin, so am I.
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It's really short, I know, but I couldn't bring myself to add to it. I also apologize for Rin becoming such a Marie Sue character in this story, but I can't help it! She's just so darn cute!
I'm also unsure on the timing of this chapter. I know that Kagome should be running into Hakudoshi, and that Sesshomaru would NOT be leisurely lying around the house with his mate in potential danger. So, I figured this could be a sort of side chapter. So this time is placed sometime after Kagome and Sesshomaru become mates, but before all the mess with Hakudoshi starts. I hope this isn't too confusing to some people!
If it really is too off topic, or some people think I should wait on this then let me know and I'll take it down. Rin's spirit is vital to the story though, which was how this whole chapter started. I'd love to hear feedback!
Until next time! (the next chapter will be up shortly, I promise!)
