Fukai Mori
Chapter 5:Tenshi no Inu

A/N: Trust me, this chapter does NOT have Inuyasha in it...he's busy raping Kagome in another fic...^_^;


Kei-Lin had been watching Rin for a while. Another week had passed with Rin barely surviving on pity rations from townsfolk. Kei-Lin snorted at the girl's weakness. How Sesshomaru himself could be so blind was a mystery. Kei-Lin had decided that she would risk Sesshomaru's wrath to avenge her daughter. She didn't care. Unless Sesshomaru found the flower that was her life, Kei-Lin could stand some abuse.

She smiled devilishly as Rin neared a perfect destination for her demise.


Rin stopped for moment in her trek. She thought had heard something. A slight rustle in the bushes, a faint breath, a tiny step. They were so small, but after years of traveling with Sesshomaru, she had learned to recognize these things quickly. They were the signs of a sneaking youkai about to attack it's prey.

Rin spun around quickly as a figure bounded in from her back. As she turned, she met the pissed off face of Kei-Lin. Rin wondered if her face always looked like that...it seemed like it. Four butterflies flew by and four rabbits ran to cover as the women regarded eachother.

"You stupid, stupid little-" Kei-Lin started.

"Bitch?" Rin cut off, she was by now familiar with what seemed to be Kei-Lin's favorite word. Kei-Lin smirked.

"Well...dead bitch now."

"Not even...I beat you once before and I can do it again, you're nothing but a dream demon."

"The keyword you little tramp is 'demon'. Dream are what's easiest for me, but don't forget, I'm still a demon, and as such, I still have physical strength on my side. You...have nothing." in looked at Kei-Lin socked for a moment. Wasn't Sesshomaru's robe with his scent on it supposed to protect her? Then again...Kei-Lin looked like she didn't care much at all if Sesshomaru would kill her for this or not.

Rin was still trapped in her thoughts as a mind numbing blow was delivered to her face, knocking her back a good four feet. Rin held her chee in her hand gingerly as a cut and a buise started forming. Rin was so dazed from the sudden attack, she didn't notice as a foot connected with her stomach, sending her ever closer to the edge of a ravine. Rin held her stomach painfully, but bit her lip and decided she had better find Kei-Lin before she was thrown of the edge.

Rin's right eyes was too swollen to see out of, due to Kei-Lin's first attack, so Rin barely saw anything at all. She knew she was gonna die. rin hugged Sesshomaru's robe closer to her frail body.

"Sesshoma....Sesshomaru...I'm so....I'm so sorry.I-I wanted to tell you ever-everything..." Tears streamed down Rin's cheeks as she realized her goal would never be reached. The happy day she would find Sesshomaru would never come. Rin closed her eye as Kei_lin kicked her jaw, sending Rin hanging halfway over the edge. She merely sat there, letting the wind dry the tears that had fallen, while four stary leaves drifted to the river below.

Kei-Lin's body towered over Rin's as she looked at her mockingly.

"Poor, poor little wench. Your Sesshmaru isn't going to save you...is he?" Kei_Lin laughing as she placed her footon Rin's chest. "End of the line, Bitch." Rin merely stared at the four beautiful clouds hanging peacefully in the crystal blue sky.

Life has a funny way of turning out good just when you thought everything had gone wrong. Like if your house gets reposessed with all your stuff, and you end up winning the lottery the next day. Or if your byfriend breaks up with you, and you find a better more loving man to take his place. Such was the fact with Rin.

She had spent about a month of her life searching for her love. She had been tortured, abused and haunted by curses and youkai. Life seemed as if it couldn't get any worse. It couldn't. So it got better. Just as Rin's life was about flash before her eyes in a hze of childhood innocence and broken dreams, a barking was heard. A snarling, threatening barking.

Rin watched as Kei-Lin fought with an unknown enemy that was just out of Rin's eyesight. Kei-Lin took her foot off Rin's chest to get better balance, but in the end it caused her to topple over the edge, holding on to the grass just barely. The unknown offender bounded up to Rin, and she noticed him as the dog she had saved earlier.

The dog grabbed her robe and pulled her out of danger's way. Rin slowly stood up, walking over to Kei-Lin.

"it's over..."

"Not yet!" Kei-Lin screeched as she made a wild grab for Sesshomaru's robe. Rin was being brought down with it. Rin never wanted to lose a memoir of her love, but to save herself and her quest, she had to. Rin slipped out of the robe as Kei-Lin was pulling her self to a stranding position on the edge of the precipice. Not having gained any kind of balance, the vixen went tumbling down, letting out a colorful stream of words as she did so.


Rin sat down heavily, holding her head and rubbing her temples. The dog came p to her, licking her face happily. Rin smiled.

"I'm gonna call you...Tenshi no Inu from now on..."Rin said as the dog nuzzled the right side of her face affectionately. Rin heard another bark and turned around to see the bitch from ealier (no, not kei-lin ^_^hehe). She barked loudly, grabbing Tenshi no Inu's attention. He looked to his mate, then back to Rin, unsure. Rin gave him a smile that said 'I'll be alright, go now' and he gave Rin's face one final ecstatic lick before running to the female dog.

When the dog was gone, Rin slumped over onto the ground. She was exhausted.

"At least...if I was ever unsure before, I' not nw. I know I love Sessho...why else would I go through all this shit...?" Rin mumbled sleepily as she dozed off. She had a wonderful dream where she found Sesshomaru. She told him how she loved him and he took her in his arms, holding her close. He was about to kiss her when Rin suddenly jerked awake.

"What the...?" rin rubbed her eyes sleepily as she saw a bunch of demon-like creatures staring at her. One demon, that held a strong resmeblance to a rabbit, spoke up.

"Come, we must repare you for the master..." The demon, as Rin learned from it's voice, was female. And she was holding er out for Rin to take. Rin just stood up, looking around her. Without Sesshomaru's robe, she was defenseless. And she was still badly wounded from her fight with Kei-Lin, although her eyes wasn't swollen anymore and the bruise had almost completly disapeared.

She looked to the side and noticed an opening. ot sure if wqas even fast eough to outrun these things, Rin decided that she wasn't going to give up yet. She made a beeline for the opening, dashing madly past creatures that looked like all the animals Rin had ever seen. She ran back into the wood she had slept in the night before, hoping for some cover.

Too bad most of the creatures were nocturnal.

Rin was intercepted almost immediately and held down painfully. A hand/paw reached and wrenched Rin's mouth open. She screamed in pain as the memory of the kick Kei-Lin had blessed her jaw with came flooding back full force. As Rin was worrying about the pain in her jaw, a liquid was forced down her throat. She gagged slightly, but had no choice but to swallow most of it.

As the world was swirling in blackness around Rin, all she could think of was how she let Sesshomaru down. How weak she was that she couldn't even find him after all this time. Tears slipped down her face as Rin drifted off into a restless, drug induced sleep.

TO BE CONTINUED

A/N: hehe, okay, cool. What's going to happen to Rin? you'll see! hehe. Well, anyways, so, about the title. Tenshi no Inu, basely translated means 'angel dog'. I thought it was appripiate for my cute little Sessho look-alike. Anyways...so...okay, Japanese superstition and etiquette. Well, it's Japanese superstitions that warns one never to fall asleep after eating. Why? Because they say you'll turn into a cow if you do. And some etiquette...well, heres something about chopsticks. Never spear food with your chopsticks! It is very rude. Also, don't pass food from your chopsticks, to someone else's chopsticks either. Okay and, next chapter: Rin finds herself a target to be a 'companion' for the night for a young lord of a palace. Poor Rin!