~ A Feudal Fairytale ~




Oh, yeah!!! My turn!!! Oh, this is Patience speaking here. Serenity has been hogging all the author notes up till now and so BWAHAHAHA!!! I tied her up and voila! My turn!!!!! Okay, so here we go....... We do not own InuYasha nor Ranma. And its not as if we don't want to but through all our searches of Rumiko Takahashi's home we haven't found any of the papers that give her rights to either of the animes. *sniff* We do, however, own Patience Galloway and Serenity Ikari, so no stealie! Good peoples. Oh, and both of us do believe in Inuyasha and Kagome as a couple. Well, the cats are getting restless to read this (yeah, sure they are.....) So here we go..............




Chapter Four: Walking


The female human hadn't said a single word in nearly an hour. All she did was stare. At first, Sesshomaru had to admit to himself, that was what he had done too. But she was so, well, different from any other human he had ever seen before. Her eyes were a bright, piercing blue, as clear as any sky. She had a fresh cut across her cheek as if she had been smacked in the face by a tree. And her hair . . . He had never seen hair that color. It was red. Not a coppery red like a weakling fox demon's tended to be. It was dark red and fiery. He had wanted to run his fingers through it the moment he had seen it to see if it were real or just some illusion.

But neither of these things had made her truly different. He felt as if he knew her. As if they had known each other before. And it was quite clear from the looks she kept giving him that she knew him from some previous place as well. It had kept him from killing this presumptuous human right off. That and the fact that his Rin hadn't seemed scared. Rin had instead seemed proud to bring this human to him, as if she knew he would help her.


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Patience couldn't understand it. Why couldn't she speak? This was only the guy of her dreams, quite literally speaking. His face was so cold, devoid of all expression, but his eyes . . . They were gold and so full of emotion they seemed to burn into her every time he looked at her. What was going on behind his stone visage?

She realized that she was staring, but she couldn't tear her eyes away from him. As in her dream, he was perfect, too perfect to be human. His hair was almost longer than hers, but in a strange contrast, it was a silvery white. It was not a pale white, either, but a, well . . . a strong white. She had never seen more beautiful hair in her entire life. She wished she had her bookbag with her, she had a brush in it. His would be so much fun to play around with. Serenity never let her play with hers . . . Serenity!!! Her bookbag!!! She had left it with Serenity! Stupid! she thought. How could I have forgotten about Serenity?

Patience covered her face with her hands.

Sesshomaru looked at her; her felt very concerned, although he would never let it pass over his face. What could be wrong with this human? And why would he care? Humans were beneath his concern . . .

"Can you help me?" Patience finally said, the urgency coming through in her voice.

"How?" Sesshomaru wondered aloud.

"My cousin, Serenity, is hurt. I left her near the God Tree. She can't walk and I'm afraid of what could happen to her. This little girl . . ."

"Rin," he broke in, his voice leaving no room for argument.

"Rin found me after I had scraped up my knee pretty badly and I asked her for help. She brought me to you," Patience finished with a final burst of energy. "Can you help me?"

This human looked desperate and for some odd reason Sesshomaru wanted to help her and make everything all right for her again. Well, he thought, I'll help her . . . this time. . . for Rin.

"Come," he said, motioning quickly in the direction they had to go. It wasn't far. They would make it in a couple of hours. But . . . What was it? Oh, yes, Inuyasha, that pitiful half-breed, half-brother of his was pinned to that tree - with the Tetsusaiga. Well, if this human had seen him she let nothing show about it.

This guy was absolutely silent. They had been walking for an hour already and Patience didn't know how he pulled it off. She was practically bursting at the seams to talk.

"What's your name?" she finally burst out with, hoping she didn't seem too eager.

"Sesshomaru," he answered, his face never changing, but in his eyes Patience saw a flicker of curiosity.

"Sesshomaru," she repeated, letting it roll off her tongue. "It means 'killing beauty,' right?"

"I prefer 'killing perfection.'" Sesshomaru hated the true meaning of his name,and so he had simply changed it one day on a whim. It hadn't been too difficult, since no one would dare oppose him in anything he did.

The Killing Beauty or Killing Perfection. Well, I don't know about the killing part, but beauty and perfection sure fit him - and to a tee, Patience thought, silently studying Sesshomaru. She couldn't find a single defect. Well, at least not physically, anyway.

Sesshomaru knew the human was watching him. She was "checking him out," as it were and though he would never admit it to her or anyone else for that matter, he enjoyed her probing gaze. He liked for her to study him. He felt, well, it didn't matter what he felt. Emotions for weaklings who possessed no self-control.

"My name's Patience," she said.

Patience, Sesshomaru thought. Why does that name touch me so, as if I should know it?

"Can we stop and rest?" Patience had already sat down next to a tree.

Sesshomaru looked for Rin so they could be on their way, but she had already sat down in Patience's lap and fallen into a light sleep.

It seems my Rin has found a new friend, Sesshomaru thought almost sadly; but there was something motherly about Patience. She was kind to Rin and no matter how much he wanted to he couldn't give Rin that kind of affection. The kind of affection she needed and he knew she craved.

Patience was tired. Unbelievably tired. She was still sore. Her rear was sore, her face still stung, and her knee wasn't feeling too well either. She wanted to rest and quite obviously Rin did too, as she was already fast asleep in Patience's lap. Poor thing, she thought. Looks like she needs to rest more than I do. She let Rin nestle up to her. Patience smoothed her little friend's hair and watched her as she slept peacefully. It was so sweet. She laid her head back and closed her eyes. Patience was soon fast asleep.




a/n: Yeah!!! I'm free of her bondage!!!*sigh* Eat cloth evil Patience! Soo. . . how do you like being tied up? Huh? Huh? *pokes Patience with a stick* again *sigh* I hate doing this, but since some people are insensitive idiots, I have to: Both authors of this fic promote, support, love, and protect the couple of Inuyasha and Kagome, this was just a project to eat away our summer months. Oh, and if you liked it, click on the magical shiny button down there you know you want to press and tell us so. If you do, I'll give you a cookie! : ) You know you wanna . . .