"Jaken! Get over here!" Jaken stood up and hurried quickly over to his Lord. "No. With the women!" Trembling, Jaken went back and struggled over again with Kanaoke. To everyone's surprise, Sesshoumaru drew out the Tenseiga and, with one sweep, saved the human woman. "Jaken, get Rin and this human back."

"Y-Yes, M-Master." Hopping onto the two dragon-like creatures, he sweeped away with Rin tending to her sister.

"Sesshoumaru." Kagome said. He turned and snarled.

"What?"

"Hey! Don't you take that tone with Kagome!"

"So? Little brother, what are you going to do?" Inu-Yasha clenched his fist, but Kagome stopped him.

"Sesshoumaru, why…why is Rin…so…well…old?"

"Old?" Miroku asked. "Are you quite sure-" WHAM.

"Ignore him," Sango said.

"Well, when was the last time you saw her?" Sesshoumaru asked carelessly. "You humans age pretty fast."

"We don't age THAT fast," Kagome retorted hotly.

"…" Sesshoumaru was obviously reluctant to say anything. "Well…there seems to be some weird interactions between Rin and our father's demonic items. Inu-Yasha, do you remember anything that acts like this? Rin started aging like this and stopped at the age. Some weird interactions with the demonic powers."

"Hm…I don't remember really anything about that," Inu-Yasha replied, suddenly thoughtful.

"Speaking of age…" Sesshoumaru broke the silence abruptly. He just remembered what every Inu-youkai did at his age. Sighing at his forgetfulness, he took his leave.

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Yes! I know this is X-Tremely short, but, well, you know! I'm working on three different ones, after finishing Love from my Soul (prelude to this.) More will be up soon!