"Hmm?" She asked, looking up at her book to Inuyasha. She was reading Blood and Chocolate right now, and wondering how cool it would be to change forms like that. Well... Maybe not into a werewolf. But a Dog would be nice. A demon dog would be even better...
"Hey, are you feelin' okay?" Inuyasha asked, leaning in the doorway."
"Yeah, I'm fine. What's up?"
"Uhh... Kagome thinks we should have a talk-ah!" He cringed, holding the back of his head after a shoe connected with it, "Fine! I think we should have a talk."
Suspicious, Rin sat up in her bed. "About what?"
"Umm... Did anything... Strange happen today?"
Rin looked long and heard at Inuyasha, then shook her head. "I don't think so."
"You sure?"
"Yeah... Inuyasha, what's this all about? Are you trying to have 'the talk' with me or something? Because I already know all that stuff."
"What? No!" He yelled, turning beet red. Inuyasha flipped at anything having to do with discussing the female body and sexual stuff. Kyoui had asked him a week ago where babies came from.... He stuttered some crap about a stork demon, decided it sounded really stupid, and sent him to Kagome. "No I'm not having 'the talk' with you. I'll let Kag-chan handle that. It's just that... You smell... Different."
"Different..." Rin repeated carefully, not getting where this was going. So she smelt different... Okay. What? Did that mean she had to take a shower or something? She sniffed. Nope, she smelt okay. She was even wearing that smelly stuff Kagome had gotten her for her birthday (Well... What they thought might be her birthday... Seeing that she didn't' remember). Rin knew all about demon's strong sense of smell, but she'd never been told she smelt different before....
"Yeah. Kinda like... Sesshomaru."
Rin paled and looked to the floor. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Look Rin, I don't wanna make you all mad an' shit, I'm just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat." Rin murmured, flipping through her book. Normal people wouldn't have been able to tell what it was she said, but Inuyasha wasn't a normal person. He wasn't even a full human, so he heard.
"Curiosity was framed, stupidity killed the cat. And I'm not a cat, I'm a dog-demon, giving me an elite sense of smell."
"I know that Inuyasha, I did live with one for seven years."
"And you haven't had contact with him for three! But now, all of a sudden, the smell is all over your clothes. Look Rin, I've given up tryin to figure out what happened to my brother, but I want you to tell me why you smell like him! Talk to us!"
Rin looked at Inuyasha and wanted to cry. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair to Rin, and it wasn't fair to Inuyasha. Life is never fair, it's one of those unwritten rules. Sesshomaru was Inuyasha's brother. Despite they... dislike for each other, he deserved to know how his brother died. Rin just couldn't be the one to tell him. And about the smell? Rin had no idea why she smelt like him. The only male she'd been around was Kisho
And Rosuto
But we've already established that they are not the same person/demon/thing. But why did that statement seem so wrong?
"I'm sorry Inuyasha. I don't know why I smell like him and I'm sorry. I don't really want to talk about it. I'm not ready."
Inuyasha nodded and rubbed the back of his neck. Why three years wasn't enough to be 'ready' to talk, he wasn't sure, but if Rin said she wasn't ready he wouldn't press it. Inuyasha had enough on his hands with an overemotional Kagome without having to deal with an emotional Rin. Damn these women! "We're uh... We're headin back to the feudal era soon, you gonna get ready?"
"No I... I don't feel so great, I think I'm gonna stay behind this time."
"Ah, okay. That's fine, I'll just tell everyone you said 'hey'"
Rin nodded and pulled a stuffed animal to her lap as Inuyasha shut the door.
"Oh, and Rin?" Inuyasha asked, sticking his head back in.
"Yeah?"
"You'll find him."
Rin felt her eyes watering up and nodded. Inuyasha coughed uncomfortably, he wasn't exactly used to being the loving father figure. "Yeah and clean your room. You're house keeping skills suck."
Rin laughed and through the stuffed animal at the door just as Inuyasha's head disappeared. Sighing, she gathered up another teddy bear and buried herself under the covers, ready to count the sheep.
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"No.. No come back.."
"Please Sesshomaru-sama! Come back!"
"Stay back Rin!"
"Sesshomaru no! Sesshomaru!"
"Noooo!" Rin tossed and turned in her sleep, her screams seemed loud enough to reach the streets. In fact, they did in a way. Down the road Rosuto spun around to the shrine.
'Doesn't anyone else hear it?' He though, looking around. No one else seemed faze, as if they couldn't even hear desperate cries.
'Rin'
Running up the steps with a speed Rosuto thought impossible, he jiggled the handle of the house door. Rin's cries pounded in his ears, making his head ache. Everything seemed so much louder then a few moments ago.
Jigglejigglejiggle
"Rin!" He yelled, pushing on the door now, "Rin, what's wrong?!"
Obviously, she didn't hear. Getting desperate, Rosuto threw his body weight against the door, pounding his shoulder against the lock. He could almost feel the joint dislocating but that didn't matter. Rin was in trouble and he had to help. He had to protect her.
But why?
Finally, with a burst of strength never felt before, Rosuto broke through the locked door, almost falling from the impact. Without wasting a second, he rushed up the stairs, throwing open the second door on the right. Every instinct Rosuto possessed pointed to that room and it was there he found Rin, sitting on her bed, her head buried in her knees and sobbing. The smell of salt filled his nose.
But that was just it, Sobbing. All at once, Rosuto's senses returned to normal. It was now that he realized why no one else seemed fazed by the crying. It was because only he could hear it. The salty smell seemed to dissipate too and all too suddenly, Rosuto felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder.
Finally, Rin lifted her tear-steaked face and looked up at the figure in her doorway. She whispered the first word that came to her mind
"Sesshomaru..."
Holding his right shoulder, Rosuto felt a wave of nausea consume him and he flopped lifelessly to the floor. A streak of silver clearly stood out in his midnight-black locks.
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Wowzah o.O This is angsty..... Anyway, I actually wasn't planning on posting this for a while, but I decided to anyway. I feel so shitty about not updating anything, and since I already had this typed up, I thought I'd just post it to let you all know I'm not dead or anything. Yet. I'm playing Legend of Dragoon XD Part of the reason I haven't been wasting my hand away with writing. XD I'm wasting it away playing RPGs! YAY! I love the song... But I'm a bit pissed at the strategy guide at the minute. Thus my bad mood. *Bad guide bad! You don't tell who dies, you just don't!* Yeah.... Anyway ^_^; Yeah. Too lazy for responses, but thanks everyone!