A/N:
Another chap. And one more after this. I hope every one is still w/ me. I would hate it if you weren't ::tear:: (Depressing Announcer voice: Every time you don't R & R another muse dies . . .) Let me know ya love meh! ::cough:: Ne way, enjoy the chapter and uhh. . .enjoy the chapter~! ^_^
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. . .
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Story Teller ( Tale V )
A scraping sound awoke Rin from her slumber on the tree branch. The glow of the rising sun just reached the horizon that she could see between the trees, telling her that she had gotten some sleep before she was rudely awakened. The scraping continued as Rin strained to hear it. "It sounds like. . ." she trailed off as she leaned closer to the edge of the branch to peek over the side. She was met with something that wasn't all too pleasant. After a quick intake of breath and careful not to scream she straightened her back against the trees trunk. She closed her eyes and saw again the vicious animals that were directly under her.
They looked like wolves, except they were abnormally large; probably as tall as she when they sat down. The reason she was so frightened was because they were ripping apart another animal. One that was so mutilated she couldn't even tell what it was. The scene of them viciously pulling it apart and fighting off each other for bits and pieces made her sick. There were about five of them, at least that's what she saw when she had leaned over for about three seconds.
Huge black beasts that looked like they could shred a human in a minute. "Not good!" she said hoarsely. *Soon they'll finish what they have down there and start looking for me!*
Rin, once again, was not having a very good day.
The sun was slowly rising uncovering hidden things and making away with the shadows. There was rustling under her and more scraping until suddenly all went quiet. Breathing heavily Rin dared to take another peek over the side. Leaning ever slowly she clung to the branch for support. Her grip tightened on the branch when the sight of eight bloodshot green eyes stared at her intensely. The wolves stood so eerily still they might have been made of stone. Saliva dripping from their mouths, slick black ears laid low to their large heads, and huge glistening teeth sneering at her, their lips quivering in a low growl.
Rin's breath was becoming extremely labored and a cold sweat broke on her brow and upper lip. One of the dogs approached the branch until it was right in front of her; she didn't move. It had moved to fluidly she couldn't think properly until It lashed out at her and barked and growled, its salivate ooze going every where. It jumped high and almost touched the branch. Rin swung till her back hit the trunk. She heard the others join in the hungered growling.
She tried hard and finally got her breathing down and wiped the sweat from her face. "Think. . .think!" Her voices was shaky. Well, those defense lessons she had taken would come in handy now. Standing up on the branch, she bent over and picked up her bag, slinging it over her shoulder. "The trees are close enough to jump from one another. Maybe, if I can go fast enough, I can lose them in the forest. . ."
She held the bag to her with one arm and was ready to used the other for support incase she slipped or needed balance. Taking a deep breath she prepared to leap to the next tree. The noise of bark being stripped away from the tree told her they were still at it and they were trying to climb.
Crouching over slightly, she bent her legs and leapt. The branch she landed on was smaller and she used her hand to steady herself. "One down. . ." She prepared herself for the next jump.
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Sesshoumaru and Jaken had arrived home not and hour after they left Hoken's forest. Sesshoumaru still had to deal with Jaken's stupid blabbering about how 'strange that Youkai was' or how 'incredibly old he was' on their way back though. And all he could do about it was sigh and roll his eyes on the inside (-che. like he would really do that on the -outside-).
Once inside his estate, Sesshoumaru made his was towards the kitchen. All the workers gasped and bowed when he entered because he had -never- been in the kitchen before, -ever-. Because he hardly ate and when he did he was always served in the library.
Pointing out some random worker he said "You. Burn this book and cook its ashes with this." He sat the pouch of grain on a nearby table. "Don't loose any of the ashes or it will be yours that are scattered next." With that he glared at the worker and continued. "When you are done bring it to Rin's room."
He quickly made his exit leaving a sputtering worker with huge eyes behind.
Jaken returned to his side once he exited the kitchen. He told Jaken to go make sure every one was doing their job. Jaken rushed away to some area of the building while Sesshoumaru continued down the hall.
Soon, he reached Rin's room and slid open the door. Naoki was sitting next to Rin and was patting her forehead with a cloth. When seeing Sesshoumaru she stood, bowed, then left the room.
Sesshoumaru walked languidly over to the side of the bed and looked down at Rin's pale complexion. Her eyebrows were knit together as if in concentration. The evening sun cast light into the room, through the window, making everything a light orange and it made Rin's face shine lightly with sweat.
As he watched her face change from concentration to worry and then to anguish he noticed that her face wasn't as full as it used to be. Her small cherub face had lengthened and smoothed out into the face of a young teen. As mortal life changed and grew his stayed the same. His features hadn't altered since the day he had found her small body eaten by wolves. He still had his same build, same face, same eyes, same nose, same hair; nothing changed. His Rin, -His- Rin was growing up while leaving him behind.
He realized the reason why he hadn't noticed this transformation in her until now. He hadn't noticed -her-. He hadn't even looked at her , like he used to when they traveled, to just watch her. He'd missed them some how, the alterations in the little human girl that he had picked up all those year ago. For some odd reason he couldn't explain, that made him feel -something- that wasn't pleasurable.
He hated how he cared so much for a human, something he detested above all else only a short while ago. He glared at Rin's form, he wanted to hate humans like he did before but, he couldn't. Not when this mortal came from them.
He took the bottle Hoken had given him and put it on the table next to Rin's bed. He looked at it and watched as the golden light glinted of its bluish surface. "Impossibly weak humans. . ." he said coolly. He turned to Run again and laid his hand on her forehead, much like before with out bending over, and brushed her bangs back from her face.
He withdrew his hand when he sensed some one nearing the door. A brisk knock was heard and he said "come in" monotonously, like always. Naoki slid open the door and walked over to the table, placing a black tray with a small round piece of bread in it on the table. "Here you are Sesshoumaru- sama" and Naoki excused herself sliding the door closed behind her.
Sesshoumaru put his hand on the bread and felt the warmth of it. He picked it up and broke it in half, steam rising up into the air. He sat, as honorably as he could, beside Rin and considered what action he should take to get this food into her.
A few moments later he thought of the best plan and slid his arm under Rin's back. Lifting her into a sitting position he used his arm to keep her up and his hand to keep her head from lolling to one side. Of course he would only get into such a position like this for Rin and made sure no one was around to see the slightly caring side of him.
Braking apart the bread into smaller pieces he put them on the bed. He picked a piece and brought it to Rin's mouth. He paused, now was the hard part.
*Why didn't I just get Naoki to do this. . .?* he asked himself. *Because you wanted to make sure it got done properly.*
He thrust the food against Rin's lips and twisted it gently trying to work its way into her mouth. Finally, Rin's body realized it was being fed and her lips immediately enclosed the small piece of food. Grateful that she was chewing by herself Sesshoumaru took another piece in his hand.
After he made sure nothing was left of the bread he took the bottle from the table and uncorked it. The liquid inside had a strong aroma, strong enough that you didn't have to be a Youkai to pick it up, of honeysuckle. Bringing the lip of the bottle up to her mouth he titled it till Rin's mouth opened to except it. He titled and then brought it back up so she could breath then tilted it again. He repeated this until it to was gone.
*Now, we wait. . . *
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Jumping around in trees and being chased by hungry evil wolves out to tear you limb from limb wasn't Rin's idea of a fun pass time.
Right when she thought she had gotten away from them she saw out of the corner of her eye one running on the ground below her. She was sweating and it kept getting in her eyes. She swiped again at her face and took a jump again to the next tree. She hadn't slipped once and was actually getting a knack for jumping around in trees.
Her lungs burned and the pounding of those huge feet on the ground below was the only thing that spurred her on. She had made it into the thicker realm of the forest. Trees practically pressed together in some spots. She thought that the forest didn't look this big from the outside, and wondered if she was going around in circles.
As the trees got denser the shadows seemed to grow up from the ground. And when she was leaping from branch to branch, keeping one eye on the wolves, she could have sworn when they got in the shadows of the trees that they disappeared. She watched them weave in and out of the trees and the blackness like shadows themselves.
Swiping at her eyes and breathing harshly she jumped again. But, this time, she hit something on the branch. There, right where she had landed, was the stub of an old branch. She had landed on it, her foot half on it half off, and it twisted her ankle painfully. She couldn't get her balance back and her arms were to far from the tree she tried to get to.
She saw her feet in the air and then her arms. Her hair bordered her face as she felt gravity take her down. The wind rushed past her and she hit a few smaller branches on her way down. Then she felt a pain in her back when she hit the ground. She landed on her sack but also on the jug in the sack, which shattered and jabbed her in the back. She screamed out in agonizing pain from falling from such a height and landing on the jug.
She struggled to sit up and dug her elbows into the ground. And then the sound of the wolves met her ears. The rustle of leaves and the change of shadows. She turned her head to see but it was painful so she just looked forward and glanced from side to side. Then, seemingly out of the shadow cast on the tree before her, appeared the largest of the pack.
It paced right to left and back again never taking its eyes from her. She watched its menacing gaze, back and forth back and forth.
And suddenly it leapt straight at her. Teeth shining, eyes glaring, its hulking body thrown at her. She squeezed her eyes as tightly as she could closed anticipating the crashing pain of several bones being broken.
When nothing came she thought she was dead. She kept her eyes shut and counted to ten. Still nothing. Slowly she opened her eyes. Her vision was fuzzy then she saw it, the huge wolf jumping. Both her eyes flew open and she let out a piercing scream.
And she screamed. . .and screamed . . . and screamed. And then, she ran out of breath. She gulped in air and was about to scream again when she noticed that she'd been screaming for the last minute and that the wolf should already be tearing her apart. She let her brain think this over and stared blankly in front of her until she noticed that the wolf was still there and so was she. Except. . .she was moving and well, the wolf was there. . .in the air. . .still.
Furrowing her brow she crooked her head to the side in question. Then she realized she didn't have pain any more and that the wolf was kind of er, frozen there three inches from her face.
Taking a breath of air she lifted her hand and poked the wolf directly in the eye. She felt the wetness of its eye and continued to poke it in other various places on it face. "Yeah . . . it's. . .er, its there." She said to herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming, or dead.
She got off the ground and dusted herself off. She flexed her hand in front of herself to see that she was ok. "Still here. . ." she walked to the side of the wolf and stared at it. Then, out of no where, she kicked it as hard as she could, putting her whole weight into it.
But when she was supposed to hit the wolfs stomach she hit nothing and succeeded in falling onto the ground again. Rubbing her head she sat up and looked to where the wolf was but now wasn't. Along with the trees that now weren't either. The only thing still 'there' was the ground she sat on.
She looked down and took a fist full of dirt in her hand and when she opened it there was nothing there. When she looked past her hand she saw, blackness. Everything was black.
Everything was Nothing.
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A/N:
Ooooh, cliff hanger!!! Kyahahahaha! I know I'm mean, bear with me. Rin sure is having a tough time in 'The Book', eh? What a nasty book, can't get a break in it can you? Well, now Rin is stuck somewhere new. Is she dead? Where is she? Is Sesshoumaru OOC? Will Rin think logically anytime soon? OMG! What's going oooon?!?
::huff huff:: eh heh heh. Gomen bout that. One more chapter to go. ::tear:: I wrote all the last 3 chaps. In one week -whoo! That's good for me. School is dragging me and I'm depressed cuz I got a lousy grade on an exam (Passing-but lousy). I hope this chap. wasn't to confusing. I hope you didn't choke or die on the fluff/waff. And I hope you will R & R. ^_~'
Thanks so much if your still with me! Luv bunches!
PS. This fic might as well be AU ::Sigh:: ~_~;
-Animyth-
Another chap. And one more after this. I hope every one is still w/ me. I would hate it if you weren't ::tear:: (Depressing Announcer voice: Every time you don't R & R another muse dies . . .) Let me know ya love meh! ::cough:: Ne way, enjoy the chapter and uhh. . .enjoy the chapter~! ^_^
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. . .
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Story Teller ( Tale V )
A scraping sound awoke Rin from her slumber on the tree branch. The glow of the rising sun just reached the horizon that she could see between the trees, telling her that she had gotten some sleep before she was rudely awakened. The scraping continued as Rin strained to hear it. "It sounds like. . ." she trailed off as she leaned closer to the edge of the branch to peek over the side. She was met with something that wasn't all too pleasant. After a quick intake of breath and careful not to scream she straightened her back against the trees trunk. She closed her eyes and saw again the vicious animals that were directly under her.
They looked like wolves, except they were abnormally large; probably as tall as she when they sat down. The reason she was so frightened was because they were ripping apart another animal. One that was so mutilated she couldn't even tell what it was. The scene of them viciously pulling it apart and fighting off each other for bits and pieces made her sick. There were about five of them, at least that's what she saw when she had leaned over for about three seconds.
Huge black beasts that looked like they could shred a human in a minute. "Not good!" she said hoarsely. *Soon they'll finish what they have down there and start looking for me!*
Rin, once again, was not having a very good day.
The sun was slowly rising uncovering hidden things and making away with the shadows. There was rustling under her and more scraping until suddenly all went quiet. Breathing heavily Rin dared to take another peek over the side. Leaning ever slowly she clung to the branch for support. Her grip tightened on the branch when the sight of eight bloodshot green eyes stared at her intensely. The wolves stood so eerily still they might have been made of stone. Saliva dripping from their mouths, slick black ears laid low to their large heads, and huge glistening teeth sneering at her, their lips quivering in a low growl.
Rin's breath was becoming extremely labored and a cold sweat broke on her brow and upper lip. One of the dogs approached the branch until it was right in front of her; she didn't move. It had moved to fluidly she couldn't think properly until It lashed out at her and barked and growled, its salivate ooze going every where. It jumped high and almost touched the branch. Rin swung till her back hit the trunk. She heard the others join in the hungered growling.
She tried hard and finally got her breathing down and wiped the sweat from her face. "Think. . .think!" Her voices was shaky. Well, those defense lessons she had taken would come in handy now. Standing up on the branch, she bent over and picked up her bag, slinging it over her shoulder. "The trees are close enough to jump from one another. Maybe, if I can go fast enough, I can lose them in the forest. . ."
She held the bag to her with one arm and was ready to used the other for support incase she slipped or needed balance. Taking a deep breath she prepared to leap to the next tree. The noise of bark being stripped away from the tree told her they were still at it and they were trying to climb.
Crouching over slightly, she bent her legs and leapt. The branch she landed on was smaller and she used her hand to steady herself. "One down. . ." She prepared herself for the next jump.
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Sesshoumaru and Jaken had arrived home not and hour after they left Hoken's forest. Sesshoumaru still had to deal with Jaken's stupid blabbering about how 'strange that Youkai was' or how 'incredibly old he was' on their way back though. And all he could do about it was sigh and roll his eyes on the inside (-che. like he would really do that on the -outside-).
Once inside his estate, Sesshoumaru made his was towards the kitchen. All the workers gasped and bowed when he entered because he had -never- been in the kitchen before, -ever-. Because he hardly ate and when he did he was always served in the library.
Pointing out some random worker he said "You. Burn this book and cook its ashes with this." He sat the pouch of grain on a nearby table. "Don't loose any of the ashes or it will be yours that are scattered next." With that he glared at the worker and continued. "When you are done bring it to Rin's room."
He quickly made his exit leaving a sputtering worker with huge eyes behind.
Jaken returned to his side once he exited the kitchen. He told Jaken to go make sure every one was doing their job. Jaken rushed away to some area of the building while Sesshoumaru continued down the hall.
Soon, he reached Rin's room and slid open the door. Naoki was sitting next to Rin and was patting her forehead with a cloth. When seeing Sesshoumaru she stood, bowed, then left the room.
Sesshoumaru walked languidly over to the side of the bed and looked down at Rin's pale complexion. Her eyebrows were knit together as if in concentration. The evening sun cast light into the room, through the window, making everything a light orange and it made Rin's face shine lightly with sweat.
As he watched her face change from concentration to worry and then to anguish he noticed that her face wasn't as full as it used to be. Her small cherub face had lengthened and smoothed out into the face of a young teen. As mortal life changed and grew his stayed the same. His features hadn't altered since the day he had found her small body eaten by wolves. He still had his same build, same face, same eyes, same nose, same hair; nothing changed. His Rin, -His- Rin was growing up while leaving him behind.
He realized the reason why he hadn't noticed this transformation in her until now. He hadn't noticed -her-. He hadn't even looked at her , like he used to when they traveled, to just watch her. He'd missed them some how, the alterations in the little human girl that he had picked up all those year ago. For some odd reason he couldn't explain, that made him feel -something- that wasn't pleasurable.
He hated how he cared so much for a human, something he detested above all else only a short while ago. He glared at Rin's form, he wanted to hate humans like he did before but, he couldn't. Not when this mortal came from them.
He took the bottle Hoken had given him and put it on the table next to Rin's bed. He looked at it and watched as the golden light glinted of its bluish surface. "Impossibly weak humans. . ." he said coolly. He turned to Run again and laid his hand on her forehead, much like before with out bending over, and brushed her bangs back from her face.
He withdrew his hand when he sensed some one nearing the door. A brisk knock was heard and he said "come in" monotonously, like always. Naoki slid open the door and walked over to the table, placing a black tray with a small round piece of bread in it on the table. "Here you are Sesshoumaru- sama" and Naoki excused herself sliding the door closed behind her.
Sesshoumaru put his hand on the bread and felt the warmth of it. He picked it up and broke it in half, steam rising up into the air. He sat, as honorably as he could, beside Rin and considered what action he should take to get this food into her.
A few moments later he thought of the best plan and slid his arm under Rin's back. Lifting her into a sitting position he used his arm to keep her up and his hand to keep her head from lolling to one side. Of course he would only get into such a position like this for Rin and made sure no one was around to see the slightly caring side of him.
Braking apart the bread into smaller pieces he put them on the bed. He picked a piece and brought it to Rin's mouth. He paused, now was the hard part.
*Why didn't I just get Naoki to do this. . .?* he asked himself. *Because you wanted to make sure it got done properly.*
He thrust the food against Rin's lips and twisted it gently trying to work its way into her mouth. Finally, Rin's body realized it was being fed and her lips immediately enclosed the small piece of food. Grateful that she was chewing by herself Sesshoumaru took another piece in his hand.
After he made sure nothing was left of the bread he took the bottle from the table and uncorked it. The liquid inside had a strong aroma, strong enough that you didn't have to be a Youkai to pick it up, of honeysuckle. Bringing the lip of the bottle up to her mouth he titled it till Rin's mouth opened to except it. He titled and then brought it back up so she could breath then tilted it again. He repeated this until it to was gone.
*Now, we wait. . . *
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Jumping around in trees and being chased by hungry evil wolves out to tear you limb from limb wasn't Rin's idea of a fun pass time.
Right when she thought she had gotten away from them she saw out of the corner of her eye one running on the ground below her. She was sweating and it kept getting in her eyes. She swiped again at her face and took a jump again to the next tree. She hadn't slipped once and was actually getting a knack for jumping around in trees.
Her lungs burned and the pounding of those huge feet on the ground below was the only thing that spurred her on. She had made it into the thicker realm of the forest. Trees practically pressed together in some spots. She thought that the forest didn't look this big from the outside, and wondered if she was going around in circles.
As the trees got denser the shadows seemed to grow up from the ground. And when she was leaping from branch to branch, keeping one eye on the wolves, she could have sworn when they got in the shadows of the trees that they disappeared. She watched them weave in and out of the trees and the blackness like shadows themselves.
Swiping at her eyes and breathing harshly she jumped again. But, this time, she hit something on the branch. There, right where she had landed, was the stub of an old branch. She had landed on it, her foot half on it half off, and it twisted her ankle painfully. She couldn't get her balance back and her arms were to far from the tree she tried to get to.
She saw her feet in the air and then her arms. Her hair bordered her face as she felt gravity take her down. The wind rushed past her and she hit a few smaller branches on her way down. Then she felt a pain in her back when she hit the ground. She landed on her sack but also on the jug in the sack, which shattered and jabbed her in the back. She screamed out in agonizing pain from falling from such a height and landing on the jug.
She struggled to sit up and dug her elbows into the ground. And then the sound of the wolves met her ears. The rustle of leaves and the change of shadows. She turned her head to see but it was painful so she just looked forward and glanced from side to side. Then, seemingly out of the shadow cast on the tree before her, appeared the largest of the pack.
It paced right to left and back again never taking its eyes from her. She watched its menacing gaze, back and forth back and forth.
And suddenly it leapt straight at her. Teeth shining, eyes glaring, its hulking body thrown at her. She squeezed her eyes as tightly as she could closed anticipating the crashing pain of several bones being broken.
When nothing came she thought she was dead. She kept her eyes shut and counted to ten. Still nothing. Slowly she opened her eyes. Her vision was fuzzy then she saw it, the huge wolf jumping. Both her eyes flew open and she let out a piercing scream.
And she screamed. . .and screamed . . . and screamed. And then, she ran out of breath. She gulped in air and was about to scream again when she noticed that she'd been screaming for the last minute and that the wolf should already be tearing her apart. She let her brain think this over and stared blankly in front of her until she noticed that the wolf was still there and so was she. Except. . .she was moving and well, the wolf was there. . .in the air. . .still.
Furrowing her brow she crooked her head to the side in question. Then she realized she didn't have pain any more and that the wolf was kind of er, frozen there three inches from her face.
Taking a breath of air she lifted her hand and poked the wolf directly in the eye. She felt the wetness of its eye and continued to poke it in other various places on it face. "Yeah . . . it's. . .er, its there." She said to herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming, or dead.
She got off the ground and dusted herself off. She flexed her hand in front of herself to see that she was ok. "Still here. . ." she walked to the side of the wolf and stared at it. Then, out of no where, she kicked it as hard as she could, putting her whole weight into it.
But when she was supposed to hit the wolfs stomach she hit nothing and succeeded in falling onto the ground again. Rubbing her head she sat up and looked to where the wolf was but now wasn't. Along with the trees that now weren't either. The only thing still 'there' was the ground she sat on.
She looked down and took a fist full of dirt in her hand and when she opened it there was nothing there. When she looked past her hand she saw, blackness. Everything was black.
Everything was Nothing.
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A/N:
Ooooh, cliff hanger!!! Kyahahahaha! I know I'm mean, bear with me. Rin sure is having a tough time in 'The Book', eh? What a nasty book, can't get a break in it can you? Well, now Rin is stuck somewhere new. Is she dead? Where is she? Is Sesshoumaru OOC? Will Rin think logically anytime soon? OMG! What's going oooon?!?
::huff huff:: eh heh heh. Gomen bout that. One more chapter to go. ::tear:: I wrote all the last 3 chaps. In one week -whoo! That's good for me. School is dragging me and I'm depressed cuz I got a lousy grade on an exam (Passing-but lousy). I hope this chap. wasn't to confusing. I hope you didn't choke or die on the fluff/waff. And I hope you will R & R. ^_~'
Thanks so much if your still with me! Luv bunches!
PS. This fic might as well be AU ::Sigh:: ~_~;
-Animyth-
