Author's note: Ses-chan & C. aren't mine.sob.only Anna is ç_ç How I like to write this fic! One problem, I've in my mind many other stories and I haven't time to write them, so I have to write quickly.easy to say, feh.Well, read and enjoy!! PS Guess who appears at the end of this chapter. CHAPTER 10 A TRIP NOT ORGANIZED When Anna woke up, the first thing she felt was a pulsating headache. "Damned swine of a reptile." she said, making a face at the thought of the breathed acid and turning on her back. "You're right, he hadn't any grace." a voice said. Anna opened her eyes and noticed Sesshoumaru, sit over the bed with folded arms. The youkai girl sprang up. "Sesshoumaru-sama!" she said, trying to hide her surprise- Are you ok, now?" She cursed herself for falling asleep over the youkai's bed. Sesshoumaru made a strange smile, then nodded. "I've noticed you have started to respect our agreement." was his cold comment. He flexed his new arm, watching it with a critical air. "Maybe, I could thank you.- he added- You have had enough presence of mind, being what you are." Anna made a face. It was impossible for Sesshoumaru thank her really. "You could wake me.- she muttered, trying to leave the bed- I'm sorry, I've occupied space in this way." When she was on her feet, her legs gave out. She became very confused when Sesshoumaru took her in his arms before she could fall. "It's not important, your room is in pieces, anyway, and your presence didn't disturb me.- Sesshoumaru said, ignoring the bright red over her cheeks- I have ordered to prepare a new room for you. Lay down there for today, that two.whoever they are, will look for Rin." Sesshoumaru carried her in his arms till a room at the beginnings of the female quarters. There, he put her in a bed, than went out without a word, cutting out every Anna's thanks. Anna looked at the ceiling with a stunned face. What was all that kindness? Sesshoumaru was all but kind, that way of act was very strange for a person like him. Could it be he had really appreciate her thought about Tetsuya's arm? "He makes me crazy, when he acts like this." she whispered, then she called herself a stupid. If he was cold she became mad, if he was kind she became mad already.but what she really wanted from him? She turned on her side, perplexed. "I don't know what I want." she said to no-one. She corrugated her forehead. "And if I want him, I'm really a fool.- she said to herself- Why should he feel anything for me?" If Anna built some illusion in her mind, all of them were been crushed in that two weeks. In fact, Sesshoumaru disappeared. He didn't call her even to continue their never-ending 'curious chat' or to ask about Rin. Four days after the fight against Tetsuya, Rika said to Anna that the Master had left the castle during the night. "And who cares?" was her laconic comment. Then, she left an astonished Rika with Rin and Misao, walked to the underground dojo and there she trained herself so deeply that she broke every available object. "You don't want even to talk with a creature like me, don't you?- she growled in the meantime- You prefer to go away, don't you?" More Sesshoumaru was far from the castle, more Anna's anger grew, but she didn't admit this. "Now I give you a good trashing.- she thought sometimes, often baffling Rin whit her killer eyes- You make the bad and the good weather only because you are able to read my feelings. Well, my dear, you aren't the only one able to hide them!" She knew perfectly that this was a infringement from their agreement, but Anna was so angry that she didn't care. Naturally, she had to act with caution, hide them step by step, so he could think she was near to lost her humanity. She was sure she could do that. An evening, while Anna was telling a story to Rin to make her fall asleep, the child made a question. "Anna-nee-chan, do you miss Sesshoumaru-sama?" she asked. Anna face didn't change much, but she clutched her dress. "Really not, Rin-chan." she answered, with a pretended smile over her face. Why had she to miss that damned one? She was near to break in four pieces for explain to him what is wring and what right, she helped him in the fight, she offered over a silver dish a new powerful arm to him and he went away without a word! Why the hell she had to miss him?! Rin became sad and covered her face in the blanket. "Rin-chan misses Sesshoumaru-sama very much." she whispered. Anna, stunned, caressing her forehead. "Sesshoumaru-sama will return soon, Rin." she said, with a smile. Rin nodded. "It was nice, you know,- she said, with a low voice- travel with him, and more and more when you are arrived, nee-chan. It seemed a beautiful family to Rin." Anna stood in silence. She didn't know how to answer. Rin yawned under the blanket. "Since we are here, all is more cold.- the child said- Sesshoumaru-sama is never with us and you are so sad.and Rin is sad, too." Anna sighed. She didn't believe that the child was so sad about the situation. "Rin-chan." she started, but the child was already asleep. Anna passed an awake night, sitting with her arms around her knees in front of the open window, thinking about the words of Rin. It was true, all that aggressiveness came from the fact that she missed Sesshoumaru. Maybe something terrible was near to become real: she was near to fall in love for him. "Kami-sama." she whispered, hiding her face between her knees. Through all the terrible things happened, that was probably the worst. She didn't have the slightest possibility to enter in the cold heart of Sesshoumaru. If she didn't want to suffer deeply, in the eternity of her immortal life. she had to suffocate that feeling before it could have the time to grow and root in her soul. "I'm really, really a fool." she murmured to the grey sky before the dawn. She stood in that way for much time, her mind very confused, than a sound of steps and a family smell, carrying her on the earth again. "What." she said, before the door of her room was opened with a deed. The figure at the door was Sesshoumaru. "Ses." Anna started, stunned, trying to rise on her feet. "Prepare Rin.- were his words- We make a trip." Sesshoumaru turned and left, leaving Anna fixing the door with astonished eyes. "A trip?!" the youkai girl asked to the empty room. "But.it's beautiful!!!!" Rin exclaimed, with shining eyes. They were in travel since four hours and the morning was near to end. Anna and Rin had fellow Sesshoumaru, that, without a word of explanation, had run to south-est. They had run in perfect silence, while Rin stood in Anna's arms, hiding her face in her shoulder to protect it from the wind. When Sesshoumaru had announced that they were arrived, Anna was too much inside her thought to pay really attention, but Rin exclamation forced her to give a look. "Kami-sama.- she whispered- It's really gorgeous!" They were in a small valley through the hills, a big meadow of tall grass full of flowers and butterflies. A river flew through it, borning from a fall at their right. The sun was high and the sky was perfect blue. It seemed all a big painted landscape. Anna left free Rin, than she looked at Sesshoumaru with a bit of surprise. It seemed very strange the couple of Sesshoumaru and that bright landscape." "How it seems?" Sesshoumaru asked, without looking at her. "It's.- Anna's voice almost broke- it's beautiful, Sesshoumaru-sama." The youkai nodded and walked on, while Rin, laughing happily, tried to catch a butterfly. Anna entered in the valley, still amazed. She felt that in that place Sesshoumaru's smell was strong. She couldn't restrain herself from ask to him if he had spent the last days in that place. "Yes.- he answered- It's a place I know from time. It helps my thoughts." Anna nodded, feeling her hartred slowly fade away, then she reached Rin, that was calling her to play. They stood there much time, the two playing and Sesshoumaru, sit on the grass, looking at them and the sky. Rin made many crowns of flowers and destroyed them alternatively, not satisfied by the result. In the end, she made one of them for her, one blue for Anna and one yellow for Sesshoumaru. "Sesshoumaru-sama, this is for you!" Rin said, running to the youkai. Anna sighed, smiling and shaking her head. She didn't really believe that Sesshoumaru could accept such a thing. Before arrive, Rin stumbled and the crown landed over the youkai's head, slant and in a cloud of fallen petals.

In front of the perplexed expression of Sesshoumaru, Rin and Anna couldn't restrain theirself from laugh. "It's so much fun?" Sesshoumaru asked, taking the crown with two fingers and looking at the two like they were crazy. Rin nodded, laughing, and Anna dried a tear. His ice face in contrast with his hair full of petals was exhilarating. Still giggling, Anna reached Sesshoumaru. "Rin-chan, you should make one another.- she said to the child, that went away still laughing- Sesshoumaru-sama, if you want that we stop our laughs, it's better that you leave me to take away those petals." Sesshoumaru gave her a glance, then nodded. That think took some time to Anna, because untie those petals from his beautiful silver hair was not an easy work. Her smile disappeared and her face became melancholy. She liked to touch that beautiful hair.a bit too much, for her mental sanity. She decided to make conversation. "It's all right with your new arm, Sesshoumaru-sama?" she asked. No answer. "Sesshoumaru-sama?" she called another time. Sesshoumaru returned on the earth with difficulty, coming out from the trance of Anna's fingers through his hair. He didn't let anyone to touch him, so he was not prepare to that feeling. "Well?" he asked, a bit annoyed. Anna shook her head and ended her work. "Nothing, Sesshoumaru-sama." she said, nervous, while she lifted up. Sesshoumaru clutched an hand of her, blocking her. "Sesshoumaru." he said. Anna, amazed, stood unmoving. "My name is Sesshoumaru." he said another time, fixing her in the eyes. He turned, leaving her hand. "Now, end to comb my hair. I don't like half works." he ordered. "I was not combing you.- was her thought- But who am I to contradict you?" "Yes.Sesshoumaru." she answered, sinking her finger in his beautiful silver hair. "Please, please, don't give me hopes." From the sunrise, all became wrong. Big clouds darkened the air, promising rain. "To home." said Sesshoumaru. The three run through the forest, to the castle, but Anna noticed that the air was full of a strange tension. "There's something around us." she said. Sesshoumaru made a cynical grin. "We are followed." he said. "By who?" Anna asked, puzzled. Sesshoumaru didn't answer. Soon, she was able to catch the presence of eight youkais. They were running around the, hide through the trees. "Stop, they have annoyed me enough." Sesshoumaru said, stopping his run. Anna stopped near him, hugging Rin while some dark figures started to came out. "They control me from days, but I didn't think they had the guts to fight me." the inu-youkai said, with superior air. "But who are they?" Anna said another time. "I've not a single idea.- Sesshoumaru replied- I'll ask this to the last, before I'll him. You, carry Rin away from here." Anna turned to Sesshoumaru. "But." she said. The youkai looked at her impatient. "Don't talk with me and carry her away.- he ordered- Here the child is a nuisance." Without wait an answer, Sesshoumaru attacked with a lighting deed the first youkai in front of him. Anna had the temptation to help him, but she closed her eyes and run away with Rin. "What's happening, nee-chan?!" Rin asked, frightened, when two youkai tried to stop them. "Hold me strongly, Rin-chan!" Anna said, sending away the two with a deed and running away from the fight's area, that disappeared behind them. "I must to leave Rin somewhere and return to help him.- Anna thought feverishly, looking in the forest- But where could be a sure place? Where?" "Ehi, who are they, nee-chan?" Rin asked, pointing someone at their right. The speed of her run showed to Anna only two confused figures, but a smell hit them, making her stop. Kami-sama, it was so similar to his! It's possible that he is. She jumped in the point indicated by Rin and found in front of her a youkai and a human girl. The youkai took a defensive posture, unsheathing a huge sword and hiding the girl behind him. "What do you want, wench?" he asked, not very politely. "Bingo!" Anna thought, astonished by all that luck. "Please, listen to me. I need your help." she said, making a step to the two.