~Inuyasha's POV~
Everything we had come to expect was here now. Rin held the almost complete Shikon no Tama, and I just stood there uselessly. Kagome was obviously a little miffed that Rin was the one with the Shikon, but we all ignored it. No reason to be thinking of that now. The wind from Naraku grew stronger.
"Everyone grab hold of everyone else!" Came Kagome's command, but barely.
Without pausing to think I grabbed hold of Kagome's hand, Shippou onto Rin, but they were too far away to reach, so Sesshoumaru grabbed hold on the back of my shirt, and Miroku held onto Kagome while clutching Sango.
"Shippou!" Kagome yelled, "Rin!"
Shippou turned and tried to inch toward the group, but the wind was too strong. It lifted the two up and they flew a little more away from us.
"Kagome, they're fine!" I tried to tell her despite my own. subliminal worries.
I grabbed onto her harder and almost dug in with my claws, but desisted.
"Shippou!!" Kagome yelled.
"Kagome!" Came Shippou's faint yell. It was like a whisper, "Don't let go, stay there!"
~Rin's POV~
We were on the wrong side.
"Kagome!" Shippou screamed, striving to make him heard, "Don't let go, stay there!"
"Shippou, we need Miroku's shard!" I said loudly into his ear.
Making no sign that he heard me at all, he ran forward. It was the speed on an ordinary human in the gust of Naraku's winds, while I knew he was using everything he had. Kagome held out her hand for him to take, but someone got in the way of them.
"Kouga!" Inuyasha yelled, "Get out of the way!!"
"Stupid, shut up!" He yelled back.
He grabbed onto Shippou and I, though we protested, and captured Kagome's hand in his own. Sesshoumaru held onto the back of my shirt, and I held his hand. Kouga let go hurriedly, and raced off, but before he could, the jewel shards were tugged by. Kagome?!
Kagome used her miko powers, which had not been displayed in front of me before, and ripped the three shards from Kouga where they flew over to the quarter completed Shikon and joined it where it rested in my and Shippou's hands.
"Kagome!!!" Kouga yelled and started to fly with the wind, landing beside a tree.
"Sorry Kouga!" I heard Kagome whimper loudly beside Shippou and Inuyasha.
"This is pointless, Naraku decease your tricks and show yourself!" I yelled as loud as I could.
"But where is the fun in that, little Rin?" Naraku laughed manically, "There's no fun in that, little Rin!"
I groaned in frustration, "Then we'll make it fun!"
I heard him laugh once more, "And how would you do that? Tricks of your own? Empty promise, or to you, empty threat. You do not have what I wish to keep my occupied enough from my goal."
Breaking free from Sesshoumaru, who tried in vain to seize me back again, I let my hand fly free of him.
"Rin! What are you doing?" Shippou asked angrily.
"Let me go!" I struggled.
And broke free. The only thing that bound me to the rest of the group was the Shikon no Tama, still being held in Shippou's hand. I reached back and let my legs lift from the ground, flying dangerously away, and dug my nails into Shippou's skin.
"Rin! Rin don't- what are you-?" Shippou was furious and on instinct let go of the chain of the Shikon, letting me fly freely.
"How's this for fun, Naraku?" I asked spitefully.
"Kukuku, you're more foolish than I first thought you." Naraku said.
"RIN! RIN, STOP IT, DON'T DO IT! RIN!!" I heard Shippou's frightened yells as the wind calmed and stopped.
"What are you planning, little Rin?" Naraku asked spitefully.
He materialized behind me, gripping me by pinning my arm behind myself painfully. I could only gasp.
"Why would I plan anything in such little time without reassurance?" I asked.
"Don't lie, little Rin." Naraku said smoothly.
"Can you prove it?"
"I don't have to. It's everywhere. You would never risk your precious Sesshoumaru-sama." My eyes went wide. "Yes, I remember you when you were little. Right before that little battle so many years ago." He put on a ridiculous high-pitched voice, defying any dignity he might have had, "Sesshoumaru-sama, you'll come back to Rin, right Sesshoumaru-sama? You promise not to leave me with ugly Jaken, promise Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Stop it." I said quietly.
Naraku didn't notice and kept going, "When you come back, I'll give you a present, Sesshoumaru-sama. Promise you won't get hurt, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Stop it." I said forcefully, still demanding my quiet calm.
"And you had those flowers didn't you? You had those ugly weeds all ready to give to your beloved Sesshoumaru-sama. You were all prepared to see your great Sesshoumaru-sama unhurt. And he defied his promise he wouldn't, and nearly defied the promise he would come back."
"No, stop it!"
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Naraku laughed, "I can't believe you would worship such a monster with such ease as to believe he loved you as a daughter!"
"STOP IT!"
Everyone in the clearing had stopped in suppressed emotion, looking on at the scene, Naraku pinning me to him, mocking me and my lifestyle, and my vain attempts to stop him.
"You actually thought he would never leave you, didn't you? Sesshoumaru- sama will always stay with Rin!!" Naraku was laughing uncontrollably.
"STOP IT, STOP IT!" I screamed.
This was insane. Naraku, mocking a human with no power while he could have just taken the Shikon no Tama and killed me, been done with it. But no. He was mocking me by way of my life. Naraku, the great, feared, bastard hanyou mocking a human in such an undignified way.
Naraku just laughed. "I cannot believe a human's inherent desire to be the daughter." He struggled to get his words out, momentarily remaining calm, "Of a youkai lord!"
I looked into the eyes of Sesshoumaru. Those golden orbs I'd seen so many times before, so familiar, were suddenly vast, and different. I didn't know those eyes at all, they weren't the ones that looked at me when I was little, that had that so-well hidden worry encased in them at my own well being.
~Sesshoumaru's POV~
She thought that. when she was little? Did she think it now, is that what it's like to have a child? Rin's desire was to be my daughter? What madness was that hanyou spouting? Rin loved me. actually loved me, like I was her own father instead of some monster that picked her up and saved her from death. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, so incapable of action that I couldn't even turn away or blink as she looked at me, that sadness and longing in her eyes evident.
How long were those emotions there?
~Rin's POV~
I turned away, so ashamed was I, that I couldn't even bare to keep contact as he found out that what Naraku spoke was true.
"Stop it, stop it NOW!" I said sternly to Naraku.
"Or what, little Rin? Going to have your Sesshoumaru-sama protect you? Going to see if he really is your father?" Naraku leaned closer, violating me with the touch of his skin in the junction between my neck and shoulder, breathing in my scent like some sick pervert, and whispered, "Going to see if your dream comes true?"
"Stop you sick, sadistic bastard!" I declared.
I felt Naraku grin against my skin, "Oh, but is he?"
The next thing happened so fast I only felt and heard Naraku being ripped from where he held me, letting go reluctantly, and flying backward into a group of trees. Then I saw Sesshoumaru above me, for once showing emotion. Worry plastered his face, and anger.
"Sess. Sesshoumaru-sama?" I asked silently as I fell backward onto the ground without Naraku's hold.
I hit the ground hard, and bounced, but didn't hit again as Sesshoumaru stopped me.
"Never believe that bastard hanyou." He said quietly as he embraced me, one of the few times he had ever done so in my life.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama." I said, muffled as I felt tears mar my face and drip onto his shirt, absorbed through it.
Everything we had come to expect was here now. Rin held the almost complete Shikon no Tama, and I just stood there uselessly. Kagome was obviously a little miffed that Rin was the one with the Shikon, but we all ignored it. No reason to be thinking of that now. The wind from Naraku grew stronger.
"Everyone grab hold of everyone else!" Came Kagome's command, but barely.
Without pausing to think I grabbed hold of Kagome's hand, Shippou onto Rin, but they were too far away to reach, so Sesshoumaru grabbed hold on the back of my shirt, and Miroku held onto Kagome while clutching Sango.
"Shippou!" Kagome yelled, "Rin!"
Shippou turned and tried to inch toward the group, but the wind was too strong. It lifted the two up and they flew a little more away from us.
"Kagome, they're fine!" I tried to tell her despite my own. subliminal worries.
I grabbed onto her harder and almost dug in with my claws, but desisted.
"Shippou!!" Kagome yelled.
"Kagome!" Came Shippou's faint yell. It was like a whisper, "Don't let go, stay there!"
~Rin's POV~
We were on the wrong side.
"Kagome!" Shippou screamed, striving to make him heard, "Don't let go, stay there!"
"Shippou, we need Miroku's shard!" I said loudly into his ear.
Making no sign that he heard me at all, he ran forward. It was the speed on an ordinary human in the gust of Naraku's winds, while I knew he was using everything he had. Kagome held out her hand for him to take, but someone got in the way of them.
"Kouga!" Inuyasha yelled, "Get out of the way!!"
"Stupid, shut up!" He yelled back.
He grabbed onto Shippou and I, though we protested, and captured Kagome's hand in his own. Sesshoumaru held onto the back of my shirt, and I held his hand. Kouga let go hurriedly, and raced off, but before he could, the jewel shards were tugged by. Kagome?!
Kagome used her miko powers, which had not been displayed in front of me before, and ripped the three shards from Kouga where they flew over to the quarter completed Shikon and joined it where it rested in my and Shippou's hands.
"Kagome!!!" Kouga yelled and started to fly with the wind, landing beside a tree.
"Sorry Kouga!" I heard Kagome whimper loudly beside Shippou and Inuyasha.
"This is pointless, Naraku decease your tricks and show yourself!" I yelled as loud as I could.
"But where is the fun in that, little Rin?" Naraku laughed manically, "There's no fun in that, little Rin!"
I groaned in frustration, "Then we'll make it fun!"
I heard him laugh once more, "And how would you do that? Tricks of your own? Empty promise, or to you, empty threat. You do not have what I wish to keep my occupied enough from my goal."
Breaking free from Sesshoumaru, who tried in vain to seize me back again, I let my hand fly free of him.
"Rin! What are you doing?" Shippou asked angrily.
"Let me go!" I struggled.
And broke free. The only thing that bound me to the rest of the group was the Shikon no Tama, still being held in Shippou's hand. I reached back and let my legs lift from the ground, flying dangerously away, and dug my nails into Shippou's skin.
"Rin! Rin don't- what are you-?" Shippou was furious and on instinct let go of the chain of the Shikon, letting me fly freely.
"How's this for fun, Naraku?" I asked spitefully.
"Kukuku, you're more foolish than I first thought you." Naraku said.
"RIN! RIN, STOP IT, DON'T DO IT! RIN!!" I heard Shippou's frightened yells as the wind calmed and stopped.
"What are you planning, little Rin?" Naraku asked spitefully.
He materialized behind me, gripping me by pinning my arm behind myself painfully. I could only gasp.
"Why would I plan anything in such little time without reassurance?" I asked.
"Don't lie, little Rin." Naraku said smoothly.
"Can you prove it?"
"I don't have to. It's everywhere. You would never risk your precious Sesshoumaru-sama." My eyes went wide. "Yes, I remember you when you were little. Right before that little battle so many years ago." He put on a ridiculous high-pitched voice, defying any dignity he might have had, "Sesshoumaru-sama, you'll come back to Rin, right Sesshoumaru-sama? You promise not to leave me with ugly Jaken, promise Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Stop it." I said quietly.
Naraku didn't notice and kept going, "When you come back, I'll give you a present, Sesshoumaru-sama. Promise you won't get hurt, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Stop it." I said forcefully, still demanding my quiet calm.
"And you had those flowers didn't you? You had those ugly weeds all ready to give to your beloved Sesshoumaru-sama. You were all prepared to see your great Sesshoumaru-sama unhurt. And he defied his promise he wouldn't, and nearly defied the promise he would come back."
"No, stop it!"
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Naraku laughed, "I can't believe you would worship such a monster with such ease as to believe he loved you as a daughter!"
"STOP IT!"
Everyone in the clearing had stopped in suppressed emotion, looking on at the scene, Naraku pinning me to him, mocking me and my lifestyle, and my vain attempts to stop him.
"You actually thought he would never leave you, didn't you? Sesshoumaru- sama will always stay with Rin!!" Naraku was laughing uncontrollably.
"STOP IT, STOP IT!" I screamed.
This was insane. Naraku, mocking a human with no power while he could have just taken the Shikon no Tama and killed me, been done with it. But no. He was mocking me by way of my life. Naraku, the great, feared, bastard hanyou mocking a human in such an undignified way.
Naraku just laughed. "I cannot believe a human's inherent desire to be the daughter." He struggled to get his words out, momentarily remaining calm, "Of a youkai lord!"
I looked into the eyes of Sesshoumaru. Those golden orbs I'd seen so many times before, so familiar, were suddenly vast, and different. I didn't know those eyes at all, they weren't the ones that looked at me when I was little, that had that so-well hidden worry encased in them at my own well being.
~Sesshoumaru's POV~
She thought that. when she was little? Did she think it now, is that what it's like to have a child? Rin's desire was to be my daughter? What madness was that hanyou spouting? Rin loved me. actually loved me, like I was her own father instead of some monster that picked her up and saved her from death. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, so incapable of action that I couldn't even turn away or blink as she looked at me, that sadness and longing in her eyes evident.
How long were those emotions there?
~Rin's POV~
I turned away, so ashamed was I, that I couldn't even bare to keep contact as he found out that what Naraku spoke was true.
"Stop it, stop it NOW!" I said sternly to Naraku.
"Or what, little Rin? Going to have your Sesshoumaru-sama protect you? Going to see if he really is your father?" Naraku leaned closer, violating me with the touch of his skin in the junction between my neck and shoulder, breathing in my scent like some sick pervert, and whispered, "Going to see if your dream comes true?"
"Stop you sick, sadistic bastard!" I declared.
I felt Naraku grin against my skin, "Oh, but is he?"
The next thing happened so fast I only felt and heard Naraku being ripped from where he held me, letting go reluctantly, and flying backward into a group of trees. Then I saw Sesshoumaru above me, for once showing emotion. Worry plastered his face, and anger.
"Sess. Sesshoumaru-sama?" I asked silently as I fell backward onto the ground without Naraku's hold.
I hit the ground hard, and bounced, but didn't hit again as Sesshoumaru stopped me.
"Never believe that bastard hanyou." He said quietly as he embraced me, one of the few times he had ever done so in my life.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama." I said, muffled as I felt tears mar my face and drip onto his shirt, absorbed through it.