A/N:
Hullo hullo! Nice to see everyone again! I finished this chap. in one day. Aren'tchya proud of meh? Well, I tried-lol. I hope you enjoy it. This chap. Is mostly about Rin-like the whole fic. So I hope you like Rin cuz your gettin' a lot of her here. Minor- characters are fun once in a while!
Incase you need it! ~*~*~* is for things like remembering
* are used for thoughts like *I wonder if we have any doughnuts left. ..*
- are used for italics such as -stupid-, -annoying- brother. . .
& -*-*- is used when some one is reading a passage from the book.
On with the fic!!!! ^_~'
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Story Teller (Tale III)
(Recap!) The girl Rin lay on the floor is some unknown forest in some nameless land. She opened her eyes and saw the light shining through tree branches and grass. Did I fall asleep? She thought. She rubbed her eyes and yawned before standing up. *I don't remember falling asleep. . .* She looked around her surroundings. The boulder she fell asleep next to was gone. The field she was in was gone. The path she had been walking was gone. "Where am I?"
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What did all this mean? Sesshoumaru, for once, hadn't the faintest of clues. How did the words come to be on the pages if he was the only one who had touched the book since he picked it up? As much as it intrigued him it also angered him that he didn't know what it was.
The sliding of the door made him turn his gaze to the back of the room. Jaken was met with Sesshoumaru's ire, which isn't too pretty. "Ano. . .Sesshoumaru-sama, might I ask what that book is?" Came the shaky question from the toad. Sesshoumaru's blunt reply of "No." made him cower but he ventured one more question before he would depart, lest he get pummeled with some inanimate object. "May I take a look at it, me lord?" Sesshoumaru peered down at the book then walked over to the window, his was of saying 'I don't care.'
The smaller youkai scurried over to the table where the book was placed and looked it over before he decided to pick it up, or at least 'attempt' to pick it up, it was large after all. Jaken couldn't lift the book and decided to just flip through it. The toad spread his fingers over the first page and read the name 'Rin' on it. He asked Sesshoumaru if the book had anything in it when he first got it, with out taking his large eyes from the page.
After not hearing an answer he looked up to see Sesshoumaru staring at him, with a look that said 'do you know something. . .?', that made him let out a puny little "eep!". Sucking in a breath he dared to ask again. "Ano. . .Sesshoumaru-sa-" "No. The book didn't have anything in it. If you don't know anything, Jaken, then leave." Sesshoumaru didn't take his eyes off Jaken as he replied.
Jaken gave what sounding like a nervous chuckle before continued his appraisal of the ancient relic. Giving a 'huff' Jaken said "Well Sesshoumaru-sama, If I didn't know any better I'd have to think this was one of those 'story books' weak tricksters youkai carry with them." Sesshoumaru gave an uncharacteristic quirking of one eyebrow. "So ka. . .?" Jaken nodded vivaciously. "Do you know anything else, Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked monotonously.
Closing his eyes gave Sesshoumaru the signal that the green youkai was going into one of his rambling states, but if it gave him some sort of information about what happened to Rin or what the book was. . . he would endure. Just this once.
Jaken started saying "Well, when I was a young youkai I heard rumors from the others in my clan that there were these new youkai who carries large books with them. They said that the youkai carried these books so they could trap the souls of other youkai and human alike in the books and feast upon them and 'play' with them, because the youkai were to weak to fight and kill on their own. Why stupid youkai like that even exist, I don't know. I don't even know if the rumors are true. Its disgusting how a youkai would feed on humans -and- youkai. Filthy. And such-GACK!"
Jaken has received a face full of splintery wood, coming from the -chunk- of wood Sesshoumaru pelted him with from the nearby fire place. Even Sesshoumaru can only last so long through one of Jaken's babblings. He got all the information he needed out of this idiot youkai anyway.
"Jaken, go and find out more about these youkai. Also, see if you can find a person who knows how to reverse the action once the book has taken a soul." Sesshoumaru said coolly. "Ah. . Sesshoumaru-sama, are you suggesting that Rin has-" He was cut off, -again- "Yes. Go and find the reversal now. I will expect information to be given to me tomorrow. Now leave." Sesshoumaru didn't bother hiding his agitation, he was to busy trying to figure out what had happened to Rin. *Is that what I felt? Your soul being detached from your living body?* This question swirled in his mind as he thought of his next move.
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Rin. . .Rin was, well, Rin was lost. She had been walking in the same direction for what seemed like hours, not getting any closer to her destination. She swore she smelled something from over in this direction. Breathing in the air again she tried to discern where she needed to go. "Darn it!" She sighed. She was heading to east. She had been trailing of eastward when her goal was south. Well, now wasn't a time for mopping.
Picking up her pace Rin began walking south, in the -right- direction.
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Around and hour or two passed before she came upon an exit of the vast woods. She had reached the edge of the forest and thankfully sunlight, it was dark in there. Smiling she headed out of the trees only to broaden her smile when she saw smoke rising up past a close hill. She ran towards the hill at full speed only to slow while going up it. Huffing and out of breath she looked out over the small village that she was looking for. "great!" she said.
Making her way down the hill, she started to notice something. . .not quite right about this village. It was smaller than most, or smaller than the ones Sesshoumaru would let her get close enough to. But, that wasn't what bugged her. It was quiet. Really -really- quiet. Eerily so, actually. *Where are the children? The adults? Don't that have any animals?* Rin trotted up to the side of a building on the outskirts of the town. Peering around the side of the building, she investigated to see if this place would bring her harm. She didn't see much. Some old houses and randomly placed buildings.
It looked like this place should prosper yet no one was around. "Has it been abandoned?" she asked herself. The sound of a bell could be heard in the distance. Not a small bell but like a gong, a big bell. "what's. . .that?" Movement got caught in the corner of her eye and she saw a person coming out of a house. It was a normal looking man, plain clothed and looking pretty healthy. Nothing wrong with him or any of the other people who began emerging from their homes.
"Looks like its lunch time" Rin deduced because the market stalls were beginning to open to the crowd. The people talked together normally and there were children and animals. Old ladies walked on the streets complaining about the price of rice and fish and kids played with a stick and a hoop toy. Men laughed and conversed and the women did the same. Everything look perfectly normal. "well, here I go. . ."
Taking a deep breath, Rin stepped into the village and right into the market. Once enough time passed loads of people filled the paths and market stalls. *I don't think I've ever seen so many people at once!* She thought excitedly. She gazed wide eyed at the men, woman, children, and animals. She looked upon the stalls of food and trinkets. Her stomach gave a growl telling her to eat something and also telling her that the food in front of her looked -really- good. Digging in her pocket Rin fished out some money that she'd always kept handy. Who knows when someone might need money, be it her or someone else?
She made her way towards the vendor to purchase her lunch and tried to get his attention by waving at him. He didn't seem to see her so she tried hollering to him from the back if his stall. Still no response. So dodging a few people and roughly escaping from tripping over a goat she made her way to a spot right in front of him. No way could he miss her now.
"Ano. . .excuse me" She said. He didn't so much as look at her. "Excuse me!" She said louder and he still didn't notice her. Well, she was -not- going to be ignored. "Hello! May I purchase a rice ball please!" And still the man did nothing. "Ahg! I can't take it anymore!" She took her finger and jabbed it into his shoulder. He didn't even budge so she tried a second time. Nothing and he -still- ignored her.
'Humph'ing' she walked over to a different stall to see if this person was nicer. Nope, same as the other guy, this was even a woman and she was being ignored. Shaking her head in dismay she decided she would just have to 'borrow' something for lunch. Jaken once told her that "if some one didn't give you what you wanted, even if you were willing to pay or do something for it, then you should just take it. Their just -stupid- humans after all. They don't need it". Rin didn't often take Jaken's advice, because it was usually horrible, but she -was- hungry and she did try and pay for it but they wouldn't listen to her. Snatching a rice ball from a near by table she put it into the folds of her gi and went to sit on one of the benches by the well.
"Either I'm really good at stealing or the people just didn't see me. . .hmm." She shrugged and pulled out her hidden lunch and scarfed it quickly. Smiling she got up and went over to the well and brought up the bucket for a drink. The water was cool and clean and she took a bid gulp before she put the bucket on the wells ledge.
A little boy was walking slowly past her with a pup at his side. He looked kind of sad so Rin thought she would go cheer him up, she was trained to be kind to everyone, unless she wanted to be killed. "Hi there. My names Rin. Is something that matter?" the boy kept walking. "Hello, little boy?" he placed his hand on the dogs head and scratched its ears while walking. "Little boy, does everyone not like foreigners?" silence.
*I've got an idea . . .* Rin made her way over to the well and climbed up onto it. Cupping her hands around her mouth she yelled as loud as she could "CAN I HAVE EVERYONES ATTENTION PLEASE?" Everyone kept walking like she hadn't even yelled. Not even a head turned to see what was going on not even and ear twitched from her vociferousness. *Fine. I'll try again.* "HELLOOOO!!!" Still nothing. Ok, this was getting strange. Even more stranger than she first thought.
She went to the closes person to her and tugged on their sleeve but they didn't notice her. She went to another person and poked them a couple times and they didn't even look at her. "What's wrong with these people? Can't they see me? Hear me? Are they all deaf and blind?" She ran around and shoved people but no one moved and even dared to punch some one and ended up hurting her hand. "This city is like. . .its like a city full of ghosts." Rin, of course, didn't believe in ghosts. And besides, you can't punch a ghosts. And why would they be eating food and talking to each other if they were dead?
Rin tried something she thought was bound to get their attention. She stole a whole bad of fruit, right in front of everyone and when that didn't work she pushed over the shelf that she'd stolen it from. All the fruit and veggies and dead fish went every where. People walked past her like nothing. She ran all over, knocking things over and tearing things down. She even through an apple at some guys head, it just bounced off.
She was beginning to panic. This city, nothing happened in it. No one responded to her. She tried everything she could think of, did things she would have never done, and it still hadn't worked.
"What's-What's going on?" She sobbed out. A tear leaked from the corner of her eye. She didn't know where she was, she didn't know anyone, and now she was stuck in this strange town where no one responded to anything. She could see them talk to each other but when she tried. . .She gave out a trembling sigh and another tear made a path down her cheek. She missed Sesshoumaru and his house, she missed her garden and Naoki. Heck, she even missed Jaken. Anything was better than this place she'd stumbled into.
She took a deep breath and tried to plan things out. She had to be reasonable, calm, smart; Like Sesshoumaru told her to be.
She decided the best thing to do would be to stay here for the night. Find a place to sleep and only stay as long as she needed to. Then she'd leave and try and find another village or even her way home. Kami-sama, how much she wanted to be home, with Sesshoumaru's boa around her and a fire going. She wanted to hear the scraping of quill against parchment when he would be writing things or the sound of leather against metal when he cleaned his swords. Rin's eyes misted up and she rubbed at them and sniffled. "I have to be strong! For Naoki and Sesshoumaru and Jaken" She said hoarsely.
She walked through the streets of the silent city, since everyone had left the market to reside at home, and searched for an inn. She found a rather nice looking one and walked right past the owner who sat at a counter in the front by the door, who also didn't notice-like everyone else. She walked into a few rooms and found them occupied. When she found a large empty one she unfurled the futon and laid down. Staring at the ceiling she said in a whisper to herself "I hope you know I'm gone Sesshoumaru-sama. You said all I had to do was wait but I can't wait here, its to disturbing. Please come get me soon."
She swallowed the large lump in her throat and swiped at her eyes again. Eventually she got tired of looking at the ceiling and fell asleep.
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At the Sesshoumaru estate everything seemed quite panicky. All the workers were on edge because 'something' had upset Sesshoumaru to a great extent. They didn't know what though. Naoki and Jaken knew but they thought it best to keep quiet.
Naoki knew Rin wasn't. . .-normally- ill and when she asked Jaken about it he told her what he knew. The news shocked Naoki that her friends soul wasn't in the body which lay in the bed. Naoki had been feeding Rin's body, trying to keep its frail mortal being nurtured, and her body seemed to take the food well enough. She also had been bathing Rin and dressing her, keeping her clean and manicured. After she heard what happened she thought it was the least she could do for her friend.
While Naoki took care of Rin Jaken was busy finding information on the book and people who could heal the misfortunate. When he only found a few scraps the first day Sesshoumaru nearly cut off his ear. Everyday Sesshoumaru was becoming more and more foul tempered. The west had been clear of youkai for a week now because even they could feel his anger.
Even once a few days ago a worker had disturbed Sesshoumaru while he was thinking and got cleanly sliced in half. Of course Jaken had to clean it up, though he wouldn't -dare- complain about it.
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Some one was approaching the estate and Jaken went out to greet them, hoping to Kami they had good news. The youkai, who was rather ugly, was stuttering horribly when he finally said what he came to say. "A-ano. . .er. News from the-the East. Wa-we found out that theres a-an ancient Youkai wh-who knows about the ba-book. He knows how ta-to get the persons soul back." Jaken wasn't to pleased with the way this youkai was speaking. "Well spit it out! Before Sesshoumaru-sama gets any more agitated!" He barked. "Ri-right! Um. . .His name is Hoken. He can beh-be found in the Seido forest in the west!" finished the youkai. "alright, alright. Now get out of here you stupid thing!" Jaken said. The youkai hurried away happy to still have its life after coming into the western lands that had such a hot tempered lord.
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A/N:
Hi~! How is everyone living now, hmm? I hope it wasn't to awful, ne? I tried to make it less boring by putting some happy stuff if there and a little sad stuff and very slight violence. Man, it would so suck if you got cut in half for just walking into a room. Heh heh. . .::cough:: ^_~' Please R & R. And I'll love ya lots. It makes me happy. I mean, I right for people and I would like to know people are actually reading. Although, I do write for myself too. That reminds me, I wanted to write a fic about this -really- good dream I had. . .::eyes glaze over:: ::is in dream land:: +pop!+ huh? Oh right, gomen bout that. Ha ha ha. .. Well, guess I'll see you all next chap. 3-4 more to go! Depends. See ya!
-Animyth-
Hullo hullo! Nice to see everyone again! I finished this chap. in one day. Aren'tchya proud of meh? Well, I tried-lol. I hope you enjoy it. This chap. Is mostly about Rin-like the whole fic. So I hope you like Rin cuz your gettin' a lot of her here. Minor- characters are fun once in a while!
Incase you need it! ~*~*~* is for things like remembering
* are used for thoughts like *I wonder if we have any doughnuts left. ..*
- are used for italics such as -stupid-, -annoying- brother. . .
& -*-*- is used when some one is reading a passage from the book.
On with the fic!!!! ^_~'
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Story Teller (Tale III)
(Recap!) The girl Rin lay on the floor is some unknown forest in some nameless land. She opened her eyes and saw the light shining through tree branches and grass. Did I fall asleep? She thought. She rubbed her eyes and yawned before standing up. *I don't remember falling asleep. . .* She looked around her surroundings. The boulder she fell asleep next to was gone. The field she was in was gone. The path she had been walking was gone. "Where am I?"
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What did all this mean? Sesshoumaru, for once, hadn't the faintest of clues. How did the words come to be on the pages if he was the only one who had touched the book since he picked it up? As much as it intrigued him it also angered him that he didn't know what it was.
The sliding of the door made him turn his gaze to the back of the room. Jaken was met with Sesshoumaru's ire, which isn't too pretty. "Ano. . .Sesshoumaru-sama, might I ask what that book is?" Came the shaky question from the toad. Sesshoumaru's blunt reply of "No." made him cower but he ventured one more question before he would depart, lest he get pummeled with some inanimate object. "May I take a look at it, me lord?" Sesshoumaru peered down at the book then walked over to the window, his was of saying 'I don't care.'
The smaller youkai scurried over to the table where the book was placed and looked it over before he decided to pick it up, or at least 'attempt' to pick it up, it was large after all. Jaken couldn't lift the book and decided to just flip through it. The toad spread his fingers over the first page and read the name 'Rin' on it. He asked Sesshoumaru if the book had anything in it when he first got it, with out taking his large eyes from the page.
After not hearing an answer he looked up to see Sesshoumaru staring at him, with a look that said 'do you know something. . .?', that made him let out a puny little "eep!". Sucking in a breath he dared to ask again. "Ano. . .Sesshoumaru-sa-" "No. The book didn't have anything in it. If you don't know anything, Jaken, then leave." Sesshoumaru didn't take his eyes off Jaken as he replied.
Jaken gave what sounding like a nervous chuckle before continued his appraisal of the ancient relic. Giving a 'huff' Jaken said "Well Sesshoumaru-sama, If I didn't know any better I'd have to think this was one of those 'story books' weak tricksters youkai carry with them." Sesshoumaru gave an uncharacteristic quirking of one eyebrow. "So ka. . .?" Jaken nodded vivaciously. "Do you know anything else, Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked monotonously.
Closing his eyes gave Sesshoumaru the signal that the green youkai was going into one of his rambling states, but if it gave him some sort of information about what happened to Rin or what the book was. . . he would endure. Just this once.
Jaken started saying "Well, when I was a young youkai I heard rumors from the others in my clan that there were these new youkai who carries large books with them. They said that the youkai carried these books so they could trap the souls of other youkai and human alike in the books and feast upon them and 'play' with them, because the youkai were to weak to fight and kill on their own. Why stupid youkai like that even exist, I don't know. I don't even know if the rumors are true. Its disgusting how a youkai would feed on humans -and- youkai. Filthy. And such-GACK!"
Jaken has received a face full of splintery wood, coming from the -chunk- of wood Sesshoumaru pelted him with from the nearby fire place. Even Sesshoumaru can only last so long through one of Jaken's babblings. He got all the information he needed out of this idiot youkai anyway.
"Jaken, go and find out more about these youkai. Also, see if you can find a person who knows how to reverse the action once the book has taken a soul." Sesshoumaru said coolly. "Ah. . Sesshoumaru-sama, are you suggesting that Rin has-" He was cut off, -again- "Yes. Go and find the reversal now. I will expect information to be given to me tomorrow. Now leave." Sesshoumaru didn't bother hiding his agitation, he was to busy trying to figure out what had happened to Rin. *Is that what I felt? Your soul being detached from your living body?* This question swirled in his mind as he thought of his next move.
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Rin. . .Rin was, well, Rin was lost. She had been walking in the same direction for what seemed like hours, not getting any closer to her destination. She swore she smelled something from over in this direction. Breathing in the air again she tried to discern where she needed to go. "Darn it!" She sighed. She was heading to east. She had been trailing of eastward when her goal was south. Well, now wasn't a time for mopping.
Picking up her pace Rin began walking south, in the -right- direction.
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Around and hour or two passed before she came upon an exit of the vast woods. She had reached the edge of the forest and thankfully sunlight, it was dark in there. Smiling she headed out of the trees only to broaden her smile when she saw smoke rising up past a close hill. She ran towards the hill at full speed only to slow while going up it. Huffing and out of breath she looked out over the small village that she was looking for. "great!" she said.
Making her way down the hill, she started to notice something. . .not quite right about this village. It was smaller than most, or smaller than the ones Sesshoumaru would let her get close enough to. But, that wasn't what bugged her. It was quiet. Really -really- quiet. Eerily so, actually. *Where are the children? The adults? Don't that have any animals?* Rin trotted up to the side of a building on the outskirts of the town. Peering around the side of the building, she investigated to see if this place would bring her harm. She didn't see much. Some old houses and randomly placed buildings.
It looked like this place should prosper yet no one was around. "Has it been abandoned?" she asked herself. The sound of a bell could be heard in the distance. Not a small bell but like a gong, a big bell. "what's. . .that?" Movement got caught in the corner of her eye and she saw a person coming out of a house. It was a normal looking man, plain clothed and looking pretty healthy. Nothing wrong with him or any of the other people who began emerging from their homes.
"Looks like its lunch time" Rin deduced because the market stalls were beginning to open to the crowd. The people talked together normally and there were children and animals. Old ladies walked on the streets complaining about the price of rice and fish and kids played with a stick and a hoop toy. Men laughed and conversed and the women did the same. Everything look perfectly normal. "well, here I go. . ."
Taking a deep breath, Rin stepped into the village and right into the market. Once enough time passed loads of people filled the paths and market stalls. *I don't think I've ever seen so many people at once!* She thought excitedly. She gazed wide eyed at the men, woman, children, and animals. She looked upon the stalls of food and trinkets. Her stomach gave a growl telling her to eat something and also telling her that the food in front of her looked -really- good. Digging in her pocket Rin fished out some money that she'd always kept handy. Who knows when someone might need money, be it her or someone else?
She made her way towards the vendor to purchase her lunch and tried to get his attention by waving at him. He didn't seem to see her so she tried hollering to him from the back if his stall. Still no response. So dodging a few people and roughly escaping from tripping over a goat she made her way to a spot right in front of him. No way could he miss her now.
"Ano. . .excuse me" She said. He didn't so much as look at her. "Excuse me!" She said louder and he still didn't notice her. Well, she was -not- going to be ignored. "Hello! May I purchase a rice ball please!" And still the man did nothing. "Ahg! I can't take it anymore!" She took her finger and jabbed it into his shoulder. He didn't even budge so she tried a second time. Nothing and he -still- ignored her.
'Humph'ing' she walked over to a different stall to see if this person was nicer. Nope, same as the other guy, this was even a woman and she was being ignored. Shaking her head in dismay she decided she would just have to 'borrow' something for lunch. Jaken once told her that "if some one didn't give you what you wanted, even if you were willing to pay or do something for it, then you should just take it. Their just -stupid- humans after all. They don't need it". Rin didn't often take Jaken's advice, because it was usually horrible, but she -was- hungry and she did try and pay for it but they wouldn't listen to her. Snatching a rice ball from a near by table she put it into the folds of her gi and went to sit on one of the benches by the well.
"Either I'm really good at stealing or the people just didn't see me. . .hmm." She shrugged and pulled out her hidden lunch and scarfed it quickly. Smiling she got up and went over to the well and brought up the bucket for a drink. The water was cool and clean and she took a bid gulp before she put the bucket on the wells ledge.
A little boy was walking slowly past her with a pup at his side. He looked kind of sad so Rin thought she would go cheer him up, she was trained to be kind to everyone, unless she wanted to be killed. "Hi there. My names Rin. Is something that matter?" the boy kept walking. "Hello, little boy?" he placed his hand on the dogs head and scratched its ears while walking. "Little boy, does everyone not like foreigners?" silence.
*I've got an idea . . .* Rin made her way over to the well and climbed up onto it. Cupping her hands around her mouth she yelled as loud as she could "CAN I HAVE EVERYONES ATTENTION PLEASE?" Everyone kept walking like she hadn't even yelled. Not even a head turned to see what was going on not even and ear twitched from her vociferousness. *Fine. I'll try again.* "HELLOOOO!!!" Still nothing. Ok, this was getting strange. Even more stranger than she first thought.
She went to the closes person to her and tugged on their sleeve but they didn't notice her. She went to another person and poked them a couple times and they didn't even look at her. "What's wrong with these people? Can't they see me? Hear me? Are they all deaf and blind?" She ran around and shoved people but no one moved and even dared to punch some one and ended up hurting her hand. "This city is like. . .its like a city full of ghosts." Rin, of course, didn't believe in ghosts. And besides, you can't punch a ghosts. And why would they be eating food and talking to each other if they were dead?
Rin tried something she thought was bound to get their attention. She stole a whole bad of fruit, right in front of everyone and when that didn't work she pushed over the shelf that she'd stolen it from. All the fruit and veggies and dead fish went every where. People walked past her like nothing. She ran all over, knocking things over and tearing things down. She even through an apple at some guys head, it just bounced off.
She was beginning to panic. This city, nothing happened in it. No one responded to her. She tried everything she could think of, did things she would have never done, and it still hadn't worked.
"What's-What's going on?" She sobbed out. A tear leaked from the corner of her eye. She didn't know where she was, she didn't know anyone, and now she was stuck in this strange town where no one responded to anything. She could see them talk to each other but when she tried. . .She gave out a trembling sigh and another tear made a path down her cheek. She missed Sesshoumaru and his house, she missed her garden and Naoki. Heck, she even missed Jaken. Anything was better than this place she'd stumbled into.
She took a deep breath and tried to plan things out. She had to be reasonable, calm, smart; Like Sesshoumaru told her to be.
She decided the best thing to do would be to stay here for the night. Find a place to sleep and only stay as long as she needed to. Then she'd leave and try and find another village or even her way home. Kami-sama, how much she wanted to be home, with Sesshoumaru's boa around her and a fire going. She wanted to hear the scraping of quill against parchment when he would be writing things or the sound of leather against metal when he cleaned his swords. Rin's eyes misted up and she rubbed at them and sniffled. "I have to be strong! For Naoki and Sesshoumaru and Jaken" She said hoarsely.
She walked through the streets of the silent city, since everyone had left the market to reside at home, and searched for an inn. She found a rather nice looking one and walked right past the owner who sat at a counter in the front by the door, who also didn't notice-like everyone else. She walked into a few rooms and found them occupied. When she found a large empty one she unfurled the futon and laid down. Staring at the ceiling she said in a whisper to herself "I hope you know I'm gone Sesshoumaru-sama. You said all I had to do was wait but I can't wait here, its to disturbing. Please come get me soon."
She swallowed the large lump in her throat and swiped at her eyes again. Eventually she got tired of looking at the ceiling and fell asleep.
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At the Sesshoumaru estate everything seemed quite panicky. All the workers were on edge because 'something' had upset Sesshoumaru to a great extent. They didn't know what though. Naoki and Jaken knew but they thought it best to keep quiet.
Naoki knew Rin wasn't. . .-normally- ill and when she asked Jaken about it he told her what he knew. The news shocked Naoki that her friends soul wasn't in the body which lay in the bed. Naoki had been feeding Rin's body, trying to keep its frail mortal being nurtured, and her body seemed to take the food well enough. She also had been bathing Rin and dressing her, keeping her clean and manicured. After she heard what happened she thought it was the least she could do for her friend.
While Naoki took care of Rin Jaken was busy finding information on the book and people who could heal the misfortunate. When he only found a few scraps the first day Sesshoumaru nearly cut off his ear. Everyday Sesshoumaru was becoming more and more foul tempered. The west had been clear of youkai for a week now because even they could feel his anger.
Even once a few days ago a worker had disturbed Sesshoumaru while he was thinking and got cleanly sliced in half. Of course Jaken had to clean it up, though he wouldn't -dare- complain about it.
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Some one was approaching the estate and Jaken went out to greet them, hoping to Kami they had good news. The youkai, who was rather ugly, was stuttering horribly when he finally said what he came to say. "A-ano. . .er. News from the-the East. Wa-we found out that theres a-an ancient Youkai wh-who knows about the ba-book. He knows how ta-to get the persons soul back." Jaken wasn't to pleased with the way this youkai was speaking. "Well spit it out! Before Sesshoumaru-sama gets any more agitated!" He barked. "Ri-right! Um. . .His name is Hoken. He can beh-be found in the Seido forest in the west!" finished the youkai. "alright, alright. Now get out of here you stupid thing!" Jaken said. The youkai hurried away happy to still have its life after coming into the western lands that had such a hot tempered lord.
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A/N:
Hi~! How is everyone living now, hmm? I hope it wasn't to awful, ne? I tried to make it less boring by putting some happy stuff if there and a little sad stuff and very slight violence. Man, it would so suck if you got cut in half for just walking into a room. Heh heh. . .::cough:: ^_~' Please R & R. And I'll love ya lots. It makes me happy. I mean, I right for people and I would like to know people are actually reading. Although, I do write for myself too. That reminds me, I wanted to write a fic about this -really- good dream I had. . .::eyes glaze over:: ::is in dream land:: +pop!+ huh? Oh right, gomen bout that. Ha ha ha. .. Well, guess I'll see you all next chap. 3-4 more to go! Depends. See ya!
-Animyth-
