Chapter Four- The Connecting of Two People
Rin had draped Sesshomaru across her back and was now running as fast as she dared. She needed a safe place to keep him until he was better, but to kill him while looking for it wouldn't be any help.
"Rin," come Sesshomaru's voice from beside her ear, "Put me down. I can walk."
Rin hesitated before replying, "No," she said finally. "You are too badly injured, I am looking for a safe place for us to stay while you get better."
Rin suddenly spotted an abandoned hut and headed toward it. In response to her words Sesshomaru growled in aggravation, he hated feeling this useless.
"Only a few more minutes," she told him and quickened her pace.
The hut itself was dirty and old. Rin wrinkled her nose in disgust, but it would have to do. She laid Sesshomaru down gently and began to gather up organic material that could be used as bedding.
Once she had arranged it in the cleanest corner of the hut, she carefully picked Sesshomaru up and put him down in it.
"Rin," Sesshomaru said trying to sit up.
Rin gently forced him to lie back down she could treat him like this as long as he was injured and didn't have the strength to resist. "I will be right back; I am going to look for herbs that will help you get better. I don not want to come back and find you somewhere other than where you are now."
Sesshomaru growled, but then sighed. This is exactly like what had happened before all those years ago. He had been severely wounded by his brother Inuyasha when he had fist used the wound of the wind. Rin had discovered him in the woods and devoted herself to tying to help cure him. Even after all of his attempts to scare her off, she continued to come.
Taking his sigh for a 'yes I'll stay where I am,' she walked out of the hut and into the night. ~*~*~*~
The next morning Inuyasha and Kagome told the others what he happened the night before.
"So, is Sesshomaru going to die?" asked Sango. The group was sitting outside the hut in the early morning sunlight. After Kagome and Inuyasha had returned they had gone to sleep not wanting to disturb their friends.
"No," said Kagome, "The arrow hit him in the shoulder, not the heart. It will cause him a lot of pain and put him of on commission for a while, but is won't kill him."
"Oh," she replied, she looked at Miroku wondering if he was ok. He was still acting the same as last night, treating her kindly and not being perverted. He even passed up the opportunity Sango had unintentionally offered him to touch her butt earlier that morning.
"Even if Sesshomaru lives, it sounds as if this Rin girl is still out for blood," he paused before adding, "Kagome's if I'm not mistaken."
The all glanced at Kagome, "I won't let Rin get close enough to lay one finger on Kagome," Inuyasha said.
"I'll help you to protect Kagome, Inuyasha," Shippo told them boldly.
Kagome nodded her head, "Thank you Shippo," the little fox youkai really had sprit.
"Feh," Inuyasha said, "Like you could actually be of any help." He brushed off Shippo's announcement like he would an annoying insect, in Inuyasha's mind Shippo only got in the way.
Shippo glared angrily at Inuyasha, "As much help as you!" he shouted ready to launch an attack at the hanyou.
"Now Inuyasha," said Miroku distracting them to prevent the fight that they were about to start, "Tell me more about this girl you were fighting with."
"Back to you normal self I see," said Sango dryly.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked her a bewildered look on his face.
"Nothing," she said with a sigh. Sango picked up her boomerang positioning it on her back, and said to Kagome, "I'm going to take a bath in the hot springs, do you want to join me?"
Kagome nodded her head, "I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Okay, I'm going now, catch up with me later," with that she was gone. She had jumped on Kirara's back and flew away.
"What's up with her?" asked Inuyasha, he was staring after her.
"I don't know," Miroku said, also watching her go.
'Guys are idiots,' thought Kagome, she could guess what was wrong but she wasn't about to tell them. She looked at Miroku, "What do you want to know about the girl?" she asked, thinking he'd start asking about her looks, and surprised her when he didn't.
"How did she fight? I mean, what type of weapons did she use? It must have been something special seeing as Inuyasha couldn't defeat her."
Inuyasha growled at Miroku, "She used a sword, a regular one as far as I could see," he paused before continuing; "She fought well, and was very fast. The real problem is that she's not a hanyou or youkai," he admitted, "Because of that I can't use the Tetsusiaga's real power on her."
"Ah," said Miroku, "She is not a demon, therefore you can not used her youkai to form the wound of the wind."
"Yes," Inuyasha said reluctantly.
"This might cause us some problems," Miroku said. He paused before going on, saying this in a diplomatic voice, "If this woman is that much of a threat, perhaps Kagome would be safer back in her own country," he offered.
Kagome and Inuyasha looked up startled, "What are you talking about?" she demanded.
"Inuyasha, just admitted that she gave him a lot of trouble when they were fighting. I am merely saying that you might want to stay in your own country until we have dealt with this problem."
Kagome was about to argue further but Inuyasha silenced her, "He's right Kagome, you should go back to your time until this is over."
"No!" she yelled at him, "I wont be shipped off until the danger had passed, I'm staying right here!"
Inuyasha growled at her, "This is for the best," he said his temper flaring up.
For once Kagome didn't yell or scream, instead she whispered to them fiercely, "I'm not going to go anywhere." Kagome suddenly stood, barely being able to control her temper she marched off towards Sango and the hot springs.
Miroku, Inuyasha, and Shippo were silent for a while after she had gone. "I'll convince her to go back," Inuyasha told them his face set in grim determination.
"But how?" Shippo asked.
"I don't know but, I will find a way," he replied softly as he watched her distant form disappear in the trees. ~*~*~*~
Sesshomaru was sleeping again, since Rin had returned from the forest some hours ago he had napped off and on. The hut, which smelled of mold and rot before, now he the scent of herbs coming from it. Rin had gathered leaves for three different concoctions, one for pain, another to prevent infection, and the last to help him sleep.
The arrow that wench shot at him had caused a lot of damage. If Sesshomaru hadn't moved so the arrow hit him in the shoulder, he wouldn't be alive right now. The wound continued to cause her problems even after the arrow had been removed. It was like the arrow had a poison on it that made the wound resistant to treatment.
She sighed, Sesshomaru would be fine, he had recovered from worse than this back in the other world, but not my much. Rin walked out of the hut, she hadn't slept at all that night. It wasn't really a problem, she had often gone a week or more without sleep in the other world.
Rin walked over to a stream located near the hut, she drank deeply before then splashed some over her face. The cold water seemed to wake her up some and to bring her back to the living world. She began to walk back to the hut, but instead of going in, she climbed a tree that had a view of the doorway preparing to act as a guard. ~*~*~*~
Inuyasha was walking in the woods toward the hot springs. He had left Kagome alone for about an hour before following her. 'I hope she's cooled off a little. She's impossible to talk to when she's mad,' he thought. He followed her scent to the hot springs, how someone could spend that amount of time taking a bath, he didn't know. The sun was slowly reaching it's highest point in the sky as he mad his way towards her. A breeze coming from the east blew her scent to him with renewed force while rattling the branches of the trees in front of him. The sunlight shifted below his feet as the wind provided and blocked passageways for it to reach the forest floor.
Inuyasha was considering what to do, he was trying to come up with a way to get Kagome to stay in her time until he defeated that girl. But she could be so stubborn sometimes, he sighed still trying to devise a plan.
He continued to think, so deep was he in thought that he didn't notice when he reached the springs. "Inuyasha," shouted a Kagome, "What are you doing here?" her voice brought him back to the present.
Inuyasha quickly surveyed his surroundings, he was at the edge of the steaming pool of water. The hanyou looked at Kagome, she was treading water staring up at him, her face contained mixed emotions of surprise and horror.
"I, ah," he stuttered realizing that she was in the water naked.
"Inuyasha, SIT!" she said for below. Inuyasha went straight down and hit the water with a splash before sinking to the hard bottom. Though that wasn't what Kagome had intended him to do, she didn't miss her chance to quickly grab the towel sitting a few feet away from her on the ground and cover herself with it.
She had it securely around her body by the time the hanyou surfaced. His hair hugged his face and his clothes were heavy with water from his sudden dunking. He stood, having to use the tips of his toes to keep his chin above the water. Kagome stayed up by treading water, she was too short for her toes to even brush the bottom.
"Wha'd you do that for?" he asked her irritated, his eyes contained concealed annoyance.
"I didn't mean for you to go into the water, just to hit the ground and give me enough time to reach my towel," she explained bluntly, "Besides, why were you spying on me?" Kagome suddenly demanded.
"I wasn't spying, I came looking for you hoping we could talk. I thought you'd be done taking your bath by now." His gaze caught ever inch of her, 'She looks to beautiful,' he thought to himself. Her hair was plastered to her neck and shoulders before fanning out in the water, the towel she wore clung to her body and Inuyasha was having a hard time continuing to look just at her face.
"I was almost done, if you'd have arrived five minutes from now I would have been gone," she said trying to swim around him to the side of the pool. 'What's he really doing here?' she thought as she did so.
"Then it's a good thing I came when I did," he whispered only loud enough for her to hear, he caught Kagome before she swam past. The hanyou encircled her waist with his arms and pulled her closer to him. 'She smells so good,' he thought as he breathed her scent in deeply. Her smell seemed to intoxicate him and made him do things he'd personally like to think he'd never do under normal circumstances.
Kagome was surprised by Inuyasha's actions, she looked up into his vibrant golden eyes for a long minute before hesitantly lifting her head. She covered the distance between them slowly, giving him plenty of opportunities to stop her. She paused once more before gently brushing her lips against him. When Inuyasha didn't protest to her first action, she began to kiss him, raising her arms from the water to place around his neck.
Inuyasha grip round her waist tightened as he drew her body to his own. He closed his eyes and began to kiss her back.
Kagome tangled his fingers in his silky hair, roughly pulling his head nearer to her own. She could feel his heart beating inside his chest, it nearly matched the rate in which her's was beating. She deepened the kiss, changing it from playful to passionate, and tried to tighten their embrace, though it was nearly impossible seeing as the were already clinging to dear other as if their lived depended on it.
Inuyasha was thoroughly enjoying himself when images suddenly began to flash threw this mind. He jerked away from Kagome gasping for air, "I'm sorry Kagome, but I, I can't" he said, thinking of Kikyou.
She looked away from him, a hurt expression on her face. She slowly removed her finger from his hair and pushed off from his chest, holding her towel close to her as it tried to slip away.
"I'm sorry Kagome," he repeated, "but Kikyou..." he didn't have to finish. She climbed up over the side of the springs and quickly dressed. After that she turned, leaving a confused hanyou behind while she walked away into the woods. ~*~*~*~
Evil Kikyou, I really don't like her... But don't worry I have plans that will suit her just fine! Anyway please remember that I like reviews it tells me that people are reading my story, if you like or even if you dislike me story please tell me.
Rin had draped Sesshomaru across her back and was now running as fast as she dared. She needed a safe place to keep him until he was better, but to kill him while looking for it wouldn't be any help.
"Rin," come Sesshomaru's voice from beside her ear, "Put me down. I can walk."
Rin hesitated before replying, "No," she said finally. "You are too badly injured, I am looking for a safe place for us to stay while you get better."
Rin suddenly spotted an abandoned hut and headed toward it. In response to her words Sesshomaru growled in aggravation, he hated feeling this useless.
"Only a few more minutes," she told him and quickened her pace.
The hut itself was dirty and old. Rin wrinkled her nose in disgust, but it would have to do. She laid Sesshomaru down gently and began to gather up organic material that could be used as bedding.
Once she had arranged it in the cleanest corner of the hut, she carefully picked Sesshomaru up and put him down in it.
"Rin," Sesshomaru said trying to sit up.
Rin gently forced him to lie back down she could treat him like this as long as he was injured and didn't have the strength to resist. "I will be right back; I am going to look for herbs that will help you get better. I don not want to come back and find you somewhere other than where you are now."
Sesshomaru growled, but then sighed. This is exactly like what had happened before all those years ago. He had been severely wounded by his brother Inuyasha when he had fist used the wound of the wind. Rin had discovered him in the woods and devoted herself to tying to help cure him. Even after all of his attempts to scare her off, she continued to come.
Taking his sigh for a 'yes I'll stay where I am,' she walked out of the hut and into the night. ~*~*~*~
The next morning Inuyasha and Kagome told the others what he happened the night before.
"So, is Sesshomaru going to die?" asked Sango. The group was sitting outside the hut in the early morning sunlight. After Kagome and Inuyasha had returned they had gone to sleep not wanting to disturb their friends.
"No," said Kagome, "The arrow hit him in the shoulder, not the heart. It will cause him a lot of pain and put him of on commission for a while, but is won't kill him."
"Oh," she replied, she looked at Miroku wondering if he was ok. He was still acting the same as last night, treating her kindly and not being perverted. He even passed up the opportunity Sango had unintentionally offered him to touch her butt earlier that morning.
"Even if Sesshomaru lives, it sounds as if this Rin girl is still out for blood," he paused before adding, "Kagome's if I'm not mistaken."
The all glanced at Kagome, "I won't let Rin get close enough to lay one finger on Kagome," Inuyasha said.
"I'll help you to protect Kagome, Inuyasha," Shippo told them boldly.
Kagome nodded her head, "Thank you Shippo," the little fox youkai really had sprit.
"Feh," Inuyasha said, "Like you could actually be of any help." He brushed off Shippo's announcement like he would an annoying insect, in Inuyasha's mind Shippo only got in the way.
Shippo glared angrily at Inuyasha, "As much help as you!" he shouted ready to launch an attack at the hanyou.
"Now Inuyasha," said Miroku distracting them to prevent the fight that they were about to start, "Tell me more about this girl you were fighting with."
"Back to you normal self I see," said Sango dryly.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked her a bewildered look on his face.
"Nothing," she said with a sigh. Sango picked up her boomerang positioning it on her back, and said to Kagome, "I'm going to take a bath in the hot springs, do you want to join me?"
Kagome nodded her head, "I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Okay, I'm going now, catch up with me later," with that she was gone. She had jumped on Kirara's back and flew away.
"What's up with her?" asked Inuyasha, he was staring after her.
"I don't know," Miroku said, also watching her go.
'Guys are idiots,' thought Kagome, she could guess what was wrong but she wasn't about to tell them. She looked at Miroku, "What do you want to know about the girl?" she asked, thinking he'd start asking about her looks, and surprised her when he didn't.
"How did she fight? I mean, what type of weapons did she use? It must have been something special seeing as Inuyasha couldn't defeat her."
Inuyasha growled at Miroku, "She used a sword, a regular one as far as I could see," he paused before continuing; "She fought well, and was very fast. The real problem is that she's not a hanyou or youkai," he admitted, "Because of that I can't use the Tetsusiaga's real power on her."
"Ah," said Miroku, "She is not a demon, therefore you can not used her youkai to form the wound of the wind."
"Yes," Inuyasha said reluctantly.
"This might cause us some problems," Miroku said. He paused before going on, saying this in a diplomatic voice, "If this woman is that much of a threat, perhaps Kagome would be safer back in her own country," he offered.
Kagome and Inuyasha looked up startled, "What are you talking about?" she demanded.
"Inuyasha, just admitted that she gave him a lot of trouble when they were fighting. I am merely saying that you might want to stay in your own country until we have dealt with this problem."
Kagome was about to argue further but Inuyasha silenced her, "He's right Kagome, you should go back to your time until this is over."
"No!" she yelled at him, "I wont be shipped off until the danger had passed, I'm staying right here!"
Inuyasha growled at her, "This is for the best," he said his temper flaring up.
For once Kagome didn't yell or scream, instead she whispered to them fiercely, "I'm not going to go anywhere." Kagome suddenly stood, barely being able to control her temper she marched off towards Sango and the hot springs.
Miroku, Inuyasha, and Shippo were silent for a while after she had gone. "I'll convince her to go back," Inuyasha told them his face set in grim determination.
"But how?" Shippo asked.
"I don't know but, I will find a way," he replied softly as he watched her distant form disappear in the trees. ~*~*~*~
Sesshomaru was sleeping again, since Rin had returned from the forest some hours ago he had napped off and on. The hut, which smelled of mold and rot before, now he the scent of herbs coming from it. Rin had gathered leaves for three different concoctions, one for pain, another to prevent infection, and the last to help him sleep.
The arrow that wench shot at him had caused a lot of damage. If Sesshomaru hadn't moved so the arrow hit him in the shoulder, he wouldn't be alive right now. The wound continued to cause her problems even after the arrow had been removed. It was like the arrow had a poison on it that made the wound resistant to treatment.
She sighed, Sesshomaru would be fine, he had recovered from worse than this back in the other world, but not my much. Rin walked out of the hut, she hadn't slept at all that night. It wasn't really a problem, she had often gone a week or more without sleep in the other world.
Rin walked over to a stream located near the hut, she drank deeply before then splashed some over her face. The cold water seemed to wake her up some and to bring her back to the living world. She began to walk back to the hut, but instead of going in, she climbed a tree that had a view of the doorway preparing to act as a guard. ~*~*~*~
Inuyasha was walking in the woods toward the hot springs. He had left Kagome alone for about an hour before following her. 'I hope she's cooled off a little. She's impossible to talk to when she's mad,' he thought. He followed her scent to the hot springs, how someone could spend that amount of time taking a bath, he didn't know. The sun was slowly reaching it's highest point in the sky as he mad his way towards her. A breeze coming from the east blew her scent to him with renewed force while rattling the branches of the trees in front of him. The sunlight shifted below his feet as the wind provided and blocked passageways for it to reach the forest floor.
Inuyasha was considering what to do, he was trying to come up with a way to get Kagome to stay in her time until he defeated that girl. But she could be so stubborn sometimes, he sighed still trying to devise a plan.
He continued to think, so deep was he in thought that he didn't notice when he reached the springs. "Inuyasha," shouted a Kagome, "What are you doing here?" her voice brought him back to the present.
Inuyasha quickly surveyed his surroundings, he was at the edge of the steaming pool of water. The hanyou looked at Kagome, she was treading water staring up at him, her face contained mixed emotions of surprise and horror.
"I, ah," he stuttered realizing that she was in the water naked.
"Inuyasha, SIT!" she said for below. Inuyasha went straight down and hit the water with a splash before sinking to the hard bottom. Though that wasn't what Kagome had intended him to do, she didn't miss her chance to quickly grab the towel sitting a few feet away from her on the ground and cover herself with it.
She had it securely around her body by the time the hanyou surfaced. His hair hugged his face and his clothes were heavy with water from his sudden dunking. He stood, having to use the tips of his toes to keep his chin above the water. Kagome stayed up by treading water, she was too short for her toes to even brush the bottom.
"Wha'd you do that for?" he asked her irritated, his eyes contained concealed annoyance.
"I didn't mean for you to go into the water, just to hit the ground and give me enough time to reach my towel," she explained bluntly, "Besides, why were you spying on me?" Kagome suddenly demanded.
"I wasn't spying, I came looking for you hoping we could talk. I thought you'd be done taking your bath by now." His gaze caught ever inch of her, 'She looks to beautiful,' he thought to himself. Her hair was plastered to her neck and shoulders before fanning out in the water, the towel she wore clung to her body and Inuyasha was having a hard time continuing to look just at her face.
"I was almost done, if you'd have arrived five minutes from now I would have been gone," she said trying to swim around him to the side of the pool. 'What's he really doing here?' she thought as she did so.
"Then it's a good thing I came when I did," he whispered only loud enough for her to hear, he caught Kagome before she swam past. The hanyou encircled her waist with his arms and pulled her closer to him. 'She smells so good,' he thought as he breathed her scent in deeply. Her smell seemed to intoxicate him and made him do things he'd personally like to think he'd never do under normal circumstances.
Kagome was surprised by Inuyasha's actions, she looked up into his vibrant golden eyes for a long minute before hesitantly lifting her head. She covered the distance between them slowly, giving him plenty of opportunities to stop her. She paused once more before gently brushing her lips against him. When Inuyasha didn't protest to her first action, she began to kiss him, raising her arms from the water to place around his neck.
Inuyasha grip round her waist tightened as he drew her body to his own. He closed his eyes and began to kiss her back.
Kagome tangled his fingers in his silky hair, roughly pulling his head nearer to her own. She could feel his heart beating inside his chest, it nearly matched the rate in which her's was beating. She deepened the kiss, changing it from playful to passionate, and tried to tighten their embrace, though it was nearly impossible seeing as the were already clinging to dear other as if their lived depended on it.
Inuyasha was thoroughly enjoying himself when images suddenly began to flash threw this mind. He jerked away from Kagome gasping for air, "I'm sorry Kagome, but I, I can't" he said, thinking of Kikyou.
She looked away from him, a hurt expression on her face. She slowly removed her finger from his hair and pushed off from his chest, holding her towel close to her as it tried to slip away.
"I'm sorry Kagome," he repeated, "but Kikyou..." he didn't have to finish. She climbed up over the side of the springs and quickly dressed. After that she turned, leaving a confused hanyou behind while she walked away into the woods. ~*~*~*~
Evil Kikyou, I really don't like her... But don't worry I have plans that will suit her just fine! Anyway please remember that I like reviews it tells me that people are reading my story, if you like or even if you dislike me story please tell me.
