Author's note: Ses-chan & C. are not a property of mine ( it's better say
it sometimes, or I could fool myself.), but Anna is another thing, stay
away with your bloody hands! Eheh! Please, try to appreciate my efforts,
I'm deadly tired but I'm writing only for you! ç_ç I hope to have more time
to write many chapter at a time, or this fic will become eternal! Kisses to
you all!
CHAPTER 7 RULES CAN CHANGE
Anna went out from her room and started to walk on the corridor, going to Rin's bedroom. "Good morning, Anna-sama." greeted an hanyou, passing with her arms full of pieces of clean linen. Anna greeted in reply with a deed of her hand, but when the hanyou was passed she returned serious and sighed. She stopped her steps before leaving the balcony and put an hand over the railing, looking at the inner courtyard, in that moment desert. It was dawn. From her change in a youkai, Anna hadn't really need to sleep every night, but she still did it because the old habit. It was an usual thing, now, wake up soon in the morning and then watch Rin's sleep, so the child found her near her bed every morning. How much time was passed by from their arrival in that big palace? Maybe not a month yet, but Anna's feelings said an entire life. She sighed already and leaned on the railing, playing with a lock of her golden hair. Rin had taken habit with the new, sumptuous home completely at her disposal. She was exploring all the gardens under Anna's watchful look, asking explanations to the castle's gardeners, she run and played. She seemed very happy. But for Anna it wasn't the same. Oh, sure, by now she know all the palace by memory, she was able to find her way also by her smell's sense. All was nice and comfortable, but the beauty was near to tire her now. Speaking clear, without the presence of Rin, Anna'd been caught by an oppressive boredom. Anna and Rin hadn't ever seen Sesshoumaru in all that time, if not occasionally. The youkai seemed to have forget even their existence. He convoked Anna one time a week, asking about Rin. The talks were ever brief and cold, then Sesshoumaru dismissed her. He provided for their dresses and their food, bur he didn't want to spend his time with them. Anna had tried to don't think at it. She played with Rin, explored the castle, tried to know all the servants, trained herself in a big dojo under the palace. But her uneasiness was still there and grew. Futile fool herself, she couldn't live in that cold palace without its cold master. Did she miss Sesshoumaru? Maybe, yes. But she couldn't see why. By the way, during the travel to the palace, he wasn't surely a friendly person. She raised her right hand, now appearing more human without her youkai's nails. It was a thing taught by Sesshoumaru, how to hide them and not damage Rin inadvertently. All her youkai's nature was tied to Sesshoumaru. "I miss that iceberg without heart.- she whispered- I'm really ridiculous." With a nervous deed, she left the balcony and went to Rin's room. After in the afternoon, Anna and Rin walked to the same balcony, their arms full of flowers from the garden. "You'll see, Nee-chan!- Rin said, taking care of the flowers and looking with regret every lost petal- Your bedroom will become beautiful with all these flowers! We'll make big bunches and put them everywhere!" "Isn't it better to decorate YOUR room, Rin-chan?" Anna asked, knowing the answer. "Rin's room is already full of flowers, Nee-chan! Rin wants that Sesshoumaru-sama fall in love of Anna-nee-chan's room when he'll go to visit her!" the child exclaimed. Anna sighed, shaking her head. It was useless tell to the child that Sesshoumaru hadn't the intention to 'visit her' , either that for her refined nose the smell of all that flower was intoxicating. She'd had to make them disappear soon, in some way. They reached the door of Anna's room. The youkai moved the flowers over one arm and clutched the handle, but another smell reached her through the flower's intoxicating one. There was someone in her room. Anna's eyes became iced, but she pretended carelessness. She turned to Rin with a bright smile. "Rin, dear, can you go to take my hair ribbon? I think I I've left it in your room before going in the garden. I can't work in this way." she asked. Rin nodded, noticing her untied hair. She gave her bunch to Anna and run to her bedroom. When the child disappeared beyond the corner, Anna's smile vanished. She opened the door with a relaxed movement. Whoever was the intruder, he was landed at the left of the door. Whit a movement as quick as lightning, Anna entered and jumping to her left, clutching the intruder's neck and nailing him to the wall while the bunch of flowers scattered on the floor. She heard a woman's scream. The intruder was nothing more dangerous than a female half bird hanyou shaking under her grip. Anna snorted and left her go, but the hanyou collapsed on her knees. "Don't enter in my room without permission.- said Anna, sighing and picking up all the flowers- I tell you this for your safety. I'm just a little hypersensitive, in these last times." Anna put the bunch over a decorated table, then opened the big window with sight over the garden. "Well?" Anna asked. The hanyou was still silent. "Rin has your ribbon, nee-chan!" Rin exclaimed, entering in that moment. She stood, perplex, at the sight of the hanyou on the floor. Anna reach her and took the ribbon from her hands. "Thank you, Rin-chan.- she said- Now, lock the door and sit near me." Rin obeyed. Anna poured tea for herself and the child, than offered a cup to the hanyou. She, finally, went out from her immobility and reached them, taking the cup with a faint smile. "Well?" Anna said another time. "Please, excuse my intrusion, Anna-sama." murmured the hanyou. Anna made a bored deed to liquidate the question. "I'm Rika, first concubine of Sesshoumaru-sama." Anna's face hardened perceptibly. "Ah, I understand.- it was her cold comment- So, Sesshoumaru-sama has a sort of harem." Rin look at the two woman with an unknowing expression. "Yes, he has, Anna-sama, but." The hanyou stooped her words, uncertain. "Please, go on.- Anna said- I've made habit with every sort of thing." An harem.what a horror! Did she miss that damned ice-heart man that gave vent to his instinct over girls he didn't love? Here it was, how he spent his spare time! She was near to feel sick. "Well, it's much time that Sesshoumaru-sama doesn't visit one of us." Rika said. Anna looked at her for one moment, deciding she didn't lie. "Why should I be involved with these Sesshoumaru-sama activities?" she asked, not very cordial. "As hime of this castle, I've asked to myself if Sesshoumaru-sama had told to you about a near visit to his concubines, to give you a relax from." Rika said, but she shut up immediately seeing Anna paling and her eyes becoming full of anger. The inu-youkai banged the cup on the table with violence, cracking it. "First of all, Sesshoumaru-sama hasn't ever reach this room, neither me HIS room. What he do with his concubines was not an affair of mine and I don't want to know anything about it. I only look at Rin and fight, for Sesshoumaru-sama, and that's all!" she hissed with anger. She tried to calm down rising on her feet and going to the window. "Second, I'm not the hime of this castle. If you miss his attentions so much, go and tell it to him." "No, Anna-sama! It's not this!- Rika said, in a hurry- One of us has a great problem.but maybe I've made an error." Anna turned in surprise. "So, this is the reason of your presence here." Anna said. Rika nodded. "If Sesshoumaru-sama will come in the harem, he'll discover it. I've thought that you could save her from the punishment." the hanyou said. Anna sighed, than sat, more calm. "What is happened?" she asked. Rika started her story. Sesshoumaru sat on the glacis of the last wall. The wind played with his hair and with the elegant dress he wore at home, free by the armour he wore during travel. He didn't have habit whit the homely life, he didn't like the thoughts running in his mind and making him inactive. Around him, the sentinels carried on their activities in silence, trying to not disturb their master. Sesshoumaru darkened. It was passed one month from his return to home and still he didn't have managed a single plain about Tetsusaiga. In reality, the thought of the sword made a hard work to find a road in Sesshoumaru's mind. Maybe because Anna was his new weapon? She was a powerful weapon, able to take the life of everyone with only one touch, without consider her inu-youkai's powers. He knew that she trained herself every day in the dojo, he had spies in the castle that told him every deed of the girl and the child. He didn't have tried to search her company or Rin's, preferring stay alone and put a little order in his confused mind. By the way, they were only a weapon and a study's object.But sometimes he couldn't restrain himself to turn at the sound of Rin's laughs and when Anna sang for Rin, he stood at the window till she stopped. The two didn't know that, there were no reason to talk with them about his actions. In that case, he didn't understand himself. This thing created more thoughts and so he stood always alone. "Maybe I'd have to leave the castle another time." he whispered. "My Lord Sesshoumaru-sama!" Sesshoumaru lowered his eyes, annoyed because the interruption. Jaken was running to the wall with his goofy posture. "What, Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked, bored. "I've discovered a thing, Sesshoumaru-sama!- Jaken said, near to jump for joy- One of your concubines has blemish your honour!" Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. He landed on the ground and grasped Jaken by the neck, raising him at his face level. Jaken, in a hurry, said everything in one minute, more or less. One sentinel and a concubine had fell in love each other and had made a bastard child. Now the child was growing inside Sesshoumaru's harem. "Will you kill her, right, Sesshoumaru-sama?" Jaken asked, excited, while Sesshoumaru left him go, making him fall on the ground heavily. The youkai didn't answer, walking in silence to the palace. He didn't care at all about his harem. It was a present from an old friend of his father and Sesshoumaru had used it only rarely and in youth. Now, he was near to forget it completely, but those women had to give him respect. The deed of the lovers had to be punished. He entered in the castle and went directly on the women's block. Everybody drew back theirself from him, feeling his coldness. Sesshoumaru reached a big door and opened it with a knock. The women inside turned to him, frightened. "Se.Sesshoumaru-sama." they murmured, before try to reach him. Sesshoumaru dispelled them and went to a child's smell. He went near a low-power kitsune. "It's futile to hide him, wench." he said. The youkai girl started to tremble but didn't stop to hug a restless bundle to her breast. "I can't tolerate such a thing.- he said without expression over his face- Die." he raised his nailed hand and then lowered it over the girl, that closed her eyes and tried to defend her babe. "NO!" The voice from his back slackened the mortal movement of Sesshoumaru's hand and his nails, a moment later, reached a body but not the kitsune's. Under his surprised eyes, Anna was right through him and his victim. The nails were inside her shoulder, making her bleed, but Anna's expression was full of obstinacy and challenge. "What the hell are you doing?!" asked Sesshoumaru, drawing back his hand. "It's wrong that you kill her." Anna said, still hiding the girl with her body. "What is right or wrong in this house is only an affair of mine." Sesshoumaru said. "You don't care about these women!- replied Anna with violence- Leave them to love or have a child, if they want to!" Sesshoumaru darkened. What strange things was talking about, that fool? "I'm sure I've tell you that I can't, I DON'T tolerate insubordination." he started, but in that moment Rin and Rika entered in the big room. Rin's eyes grew at the sight of a bleeding Anna. "Nee-chan!" she cried, going to her, but Rika stopped her, looking alternatively to Sesshoumaru and Anna with frightened eyes. "And what may I do with them, speak it loud." sighed Sesshoumaru, after a moment of silence. Anna smiled, she had won. In that moment, she fell on a knee, her face pale and sweaty, and Sesshoumaru corrugated his forehead. "Fool. You have my poison through your veins." murmured. Whit big surprise of Anna, Sesshoumaru took her in his arms (NoA Well, arm.^^;;;) , than talked to the concubines. "From this moment, you're not my concubines anymore. You'll ask to Anna about your new mansions." he said, coldly, before going outside the room. "Thank you, Sesshoumaru-sama, hime-sama." the concubines whispered. Rin clutched Rika's kimono, afraid. "Will nee-chan heal?" she asked. Rika smiled. "Sure! Sesshoumaru-sama will take care of her." she answered. Sesshoumaru exited while Jaken arrived, out of breath, sure to have lost the mother scene. He stood mouth open seeing his lord carrying Anna in his arms. "Carry to me my poison's antidote." ordered Sesshoumaru, before disappearing. The youkai carried Anna in her room, than put her on the bed. He looked at her still and pale face, than shook his head and went to the window. "I don't understand what run though her head.- he murmured- She is really stupid." In spite of that words, a second later he was still near her, healing her wounds.
CHAPTER 7 RULES CAN CHANGE
Anna went out from her room and started to walk on the corridor, going to Rin's bedroom. "Good morning, Anna-sama." greeted an hanyou, passing with her arms full of pieces of clean linen. Anna greeted in reply with a deed of her hand, but when the hanyou was passed she returned serious and sighed. She stopped her steps before leaving the balcony and put an hand over the railing, looking at the inner courtyard, in that moment desert. It was dawn. From her change in a youkai, Anna hadn't really need to sleep every night, but she still did it because the old habit. It was an usual thing, now, wake up soon in the morning and then watch Rin's sleep, so the child found her near her bed every morning. How much time was passed by from their arrival in that big palace? Maybe not a month yet, but Anna's feelings said an entire life. She sighed already and leaned on the railing, playing with a lock of her golden hair. Rin had taken habit with the new, sumptuous home completely at her disposal. She was exploring all the gardens under Anna's watchful look, asking explanations to the castle's gardeners, she run and played. She seemed very happy. But for Anna it wasn't the same. Oh, sure, by now she know all the palace by memory, she was able to find her way also by her smell's sense. All was nice and comfortable, but the beauty was near to tire her now. Speaking clear, without the presence of Rin, Anna'd been caught by an oppressive boredom. Anna and Rin hadn't ever seen Sesshoumaru in all that time, if not occasionally. The youkai seemed to have forget even their existence. He convoked Anna one time a week, asking about Rin. The talks were ever brief and cold, then Sesshoumaru dismissed her. He provided for their dresses and their food, bur he didn't want to spend his time with them. Anna had tried to don't think at it. She played with Rin, explored the castle, tried to know all the servants, trained herself in a big dojo under the palace. But her uneasiness was still there and grew. Futile fool herself, she couldn't live in that cold palace without its cold master. Did she miss Sesshoumaru? Maybe, yes. But she couldn't see why. By the way, during the travel to the palace, he wasn't surely a friendly person. She raised her right hand, now appearing more human without her youkai's nails. It was a thing taught by Sesshoumaru, how to hide them and not damage Rin inadvertently. All her youkai's nature was tied to Sesshoumaru. "I miss that iceberg without heart.- she whispered- I'm really ridiculous." With a nervous deed, she left the balcony and went to Rin's room. After in the afternoon, Anna and Rin walked to the same balcony, their arms full of flowers from the garden. "You'll see, Nee-chan!- Rin said, taking care of the flowers and looking with regret every lost petal- Your bedroom will become beautiful with all these flowers! We'll make big bunches and put them everywhere!" "Isn't it better to decorate YOUR room, Rin-chan?" Anna asked, knowing the answer. "Rin's room is already full of flowers, Nee-chan! Rin wants that Sesshoumaru-sama fall in love of Anna-nee-chan's room when he'll go to visit her!" the child exclaimed. Anna sighed, shaking her head. It was useless tell to the child that Sesshoumaru hadn't the intention to 'visit her' , either that for her refined nose the smell of all that flower was intoxicating. She'd had to make them disappear soon, in some way. They reached the door of Anna's room. The youkai moved the flowers over one arm and clutched the handle, but another smell reached her through the flower's intoxicating one. There was someone in her room. Anna's eyes became iced, but she pretended carelessness. She turned to Rin with a bright smile. "Rin, dear, can you go to take my hair ribbon? I think I I've left it in your room before going in the garden. I can't work in this way." she asked. Rin nodded, noticing her untied hair. She gave her bunch to Anna and run to her bedroom. When the child disappeared beyond the corner, Anna's smile vanished. She opened the door with a relaxed movement. Whoever was the intruder, he was landed at the left of the door. Whit a movement as quick as lightning, Anna entered and jumping to her left, clutching the intruder's neck and nailing him to the wall while the bunch of flowers scattered on the floor. She heard a woman's scream. The intruder was nothing more dangerous than a female half bird hanyou shaking under her grip. Anna snorted and left her go, but the hanyou collapsed on her knees. "Don't enter in my room without permission.- said Anna, sighing and picking up all the flowers- I tell you this for your safety. I'm just a little hypersensitive, in these last times." Anna put the bunch over a decorated table, then opened the big window with sight over the garden. "Well?" Anna asked. The hanyou was still silent. "Rin has your ribbon, nee-chan!" Rin exclaimed, entering in that moment. She stood, perplex, at the sight of the hanyou on the floor. Anna reach her and took the ribbon from her hands. "Thank you, Rin-chan.- she said- Now, lock the door and sit near me." Rin obeyed. Anna poured tea for herself and the child, than offered a cup to the hanyou. She, finally, went out from her immobility and reached them, taking the cup with a faint smile. "Well?" Anna said another time. "Please, excuse my intrusion, Anna-sama." murmured the hanyou. Anna made a bored deed to liquidate the question. "I'm Rika, first concubine of Sesshoumaru-sama." Anna's face hardened perceptibly. "Ah, I understand.- it was her cold comment- So, Sesshoumaru-sama has a sort of harem." Rin look at the two woman with an unknowing expression. "Yes, he has, Anna-sama, but." The hanyou stooped her words, uncertain. "Please, go on.- Anna said- I've made habit with every sort of thing." An harem.what a horror! Did she miss that damned ice-heart man that gave vent to his instinct over girls he didn't love? Here it was, how he spent his spare time! She was near to feel sick. "Well, it's much time that Sesshoumaru-sama doesn't visit one of us." Rika said. Anna looked at her for one moment, deciding she didn't lie. "Why should I be involved with these Sesshoumaru-sama activities?" she asked, not very cordial. "As hime of this castle, I've asked to myself if Sesshoumaru-sama had told to you about a near visit to his concubines, to give you a relax from." Rika said, but she shut up immediately seeing Anna paling and her eyes becoming full of anger. The inu-youkai banged the cup on the table with violence, cracking it. "First of all, Sesshoumaru-sama hasn't ever reach this room, neither me HIS room. What he do with his concubines was not an affair of mine and I don't want to know anything about it. I only look at Rin and fight, for Sesshoumaru-sama, and that's all!" she hissed with anger. She tried to calm down rising on her feet and going to the window. "Second, I'm not the hime of this castle. If you miss his attentions so much, go and tell it to him." "No, Anna-sama! It's not this!- Rika said, in a hurry- One of us has a great problem.but maybe I've made an error." Anna turned in surprise. "So, this is the reason of your presence here." Anna said. Rika nodded. "If Sesshoumaru-sama will come in the harem, he'll discover it. I've thought that you could save her from the punishment." the hanyou said. Anna sighed, than sat, more calm. "What is happened?" she asked. Rika started her story. Sesshoumaru sat on the glacis of the last wall. The wind played with his hair and with the elegant dress he wore at home, free by the armour he wore during travel. He didn't have habit whit the homely life, he didn't like the thoughts running in his mind and making him inactive. Around him, the sentinels carried on their activities in silence, trying to not disturb their master. Sesshoumaru darkened. It was passed one month from his return to home and still he didn't have managed a single plain about Tetsusaiga. In reality, the thought of the sword made a hard work to find a road in Sesshoumaru's mind. Maybe because Anna was his new weapon? She was a powerful weapon, able to take the life of everyone with only one touch, without consider her inu-youkai's powers. He knew that she trained herself every day in the dojo, he had spies in the castle that told him every deed of the girl and the child. He didn't have tried to search her company or Rin's, preferring stay alone and put a little order in his confused mind. By the way, they were only a weapon and a study's object.But sometimes he couldn't restrain himself to turn at the sound of Rin's laughs and when Anna sang for Rin, he stood at the window till she stopped. The two didn't know that, there were no reason to talk with them about his actions. In that case, he didn't understand himself. This thing created more thoughts and so he stood always alone. "Maybe I'd have to leave the castle another time." he whispered. "My Lord Sesshoumaru-sama!" Sesshoumaru lowered his eyes, annoyed because the interruption. Jaken was running to the wall with his goofy posture. "What, Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked, bored. "I've discovered a thing, Sesshoumaru-sama!- Jaken said, near to jump for joy- One of your concubines has blemish your honour!" Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. He landed on the ground and grasped Jaken by the neck, raising him at his face level. Jaken, in a hurry, said everything in one minute, more or less. One sentinel and a concubine had fell in love each other and had made a bastard child. Now the child was growing inside Sesshoumaru's harem. "Will you kill her, right, Sesshoumaru-sama?" Jaken asked, excited, while Sesshoumaru left him go, making him fall on the ground heavily. The youkai didn't answer, walking in silence to the palace. He didn't care at all about his harem. It was a present from an old friend of his father and Sesshoumaru had used it only rarely and in youth. Now, he was near to forget it completely, but those women had to give him respect. The deed of the lovers had to be punished. He entered in the castle and went directly on the women's block. Everybody drew back theirself from him, feeling his coldness. Sesshoumaru reached a big door and opened it with a knock. The women inside turned to him, frightened. "Se.Sesshoumaru-sama." they murmured, before try to reach him. Sesshoumaru dispelled them and went to a child's smell. He went near a low-power kitsune. "It's futile to hide him, wench." he said. The youkai girl started to tremble but didn't stop to hug a restless bundle to her breast. "I can't tolerate such a thing.- he said without expression over his face- Die." he raised his nailed hand and then lowered it over the girl, that closed her eyes and tried to defend her babe. "NO!" The voice from his back slackened the mortal movement of Sesshoumaru's hand and his nails, a moment later, reached a body but not the kitsune's. Under his surprised eyes, Anna was right through him and his victim. The nails were inside her shoulder, making her bleed, but Anna's expression was full of obstinacy and challenge. "What the hell are you doing?!" asked Sesshoumaru, drawing back his hand. "It's wrong that you kill her." Anna said, still hiding the girl with her body. "What is right or wrong in this house is only an affair of mine." Sesshoumaru said. "You don't care about these women!- replied Anna with violence- Leave them to love or have a child, if they want to!" Sesshoumaru darkened. What strange things was talking about, that fool? "I'm sure I've tell you that I can't, I DON'T tolerate insubordination." he started, but in that moment Rin and Rika entered in the big room. Rin's eyes grew at the sight of a bleeding Anna. "Nee-chan!" she cried, going to her, but Rika stopped her, looking alternatively to Sesshoumaru and Anna with frightened eyes. "And what may I do with them, speak it loud." sighed Sesshoumaru, after a moment of silence. Anna smiled, she had won. In that moment, she fell on a knee, her face pale and sweaty, and Sesshoumaru corrugated his forehead. "Fool. You have my poison through your veins." murmured. Whit big surprise of Anna, Sesshoumaru took her in his arms (NoA Well, arm.^^;;;) , than talked to the concubines. "From this moment, you're not my concubines anymore. You'll ask to Anna about your new mansions." he said, coldly, before going outside the room. "Thank you, Sesshoumaru-sama, hime-sama." the concubines whispered. Rin clutched Rika's kimono, afraid. "Will nee-chan heal?" she asked. Rika smiled. "Sure! Sesshoumaru-sama will take care of her." she answered. Sesshoumaru exited while Jaken arrived, out of breath, sure to have lost the mother scene. He stood mouth open seeing his lord carrying Anna in his arms. "Carry to me my poison's antidote." ordered Sesshoumaru, before disappearing. The youkai carried Anna in her room, than put her on the bed. He looked at her still and pale face, than shook his head and went to the window. "I don't understand what run though her head.- he murmured- She is really stupid." In spite of that words, a second later he was still near her, healing her wounds.