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Well, here I am again!! I finally managed to finish chapter 3. I apologize for taking an eternity but I had many reasons. One of them is call 'parents' and another of them is 'exams' (evil school ones). I hope you can relate them. I'd like to thank the people who had reviewed puts dramatic puppy eyes Thank you! It means a lot to me!! And I also want to thank Silver Wolf Ryuki for that useful advice. What else is there for me to say? Oh yeah, hope you enjoy it!!

Chapter 3

To see Sesshoumaru one last time before starting her own life... a part of her desperately wanted. The other part didn't want to have anything with anyone that had ever crossed her path; that was including Sesshoumaru. If she saved the girl there was a big chance that she would see him again. Was that what she wanted?

"NO, that's definitely not what I want!" she thought. "Because I'm already having a hard time trying not to think about him when I haven't seen him for I while. Let aside if I see him now. I want to start a new life, now that I'm free, without having to deal with any past problems."

Kagura shook her head. No, and besides, the child was Sesshoumaru's responsibility and not hers. And what would she care if another human died? She turned around and started walking back. She was almost certain that when Sesshoumaru was away the toad was supposed to care about her. So, where was he now?

"Please, somebody help! Help!!" she heard the girl cry desperately as she kept walking trough the dark woods.

"Hahaha, cry all you want, human because that will be the last time you'll hear your voice before you die!! Your life is in my claws, and it won't be long before I get tired of you and eliminate you, so don't forget that!!"

In a flash Kagura was strongly reminded of Naraku.

"Don't forget, Kagura, you heart is always in my hands...I can kill you when I feel like it..." he had told her.

She stopped, grunting. All right, if she let the child die, that would mean another Naraku-nightmare. And in fact, she already got annoyed of that arrogant mistake of a youkai.

"I'll only save her and leave her to be found by Sesshoumaru. If I do so I won't have to meet him." she thought.

Rin closed her eyes. It was the end for her. Neither Jaken nor Ah-Un were able to save her and Sesshoumaru was far away, unaware of the situation. She was never going to see either of them, the only people who were so nice to her. Suddenly she heard a noise like a movement of a fan. It was very vague, but yet hearable. She opened her eyes, just to see powerful wind blades coming their way. The youkai dodged them just in time and Rin screamed in fear. She looked in the direction the blades had come and saw Kagura standing there, preparing to launch another attack.

"And who the hell are you?" the bat-youkai asked.

"There's no point in telling you; you're going to die." Kagura answered slightly annoyed. "But I will be the last person you see before you do so!"

"Why do you try to defend that human? Got her sympathy or something?" he said in a mocking voice. "If I eat an innocent human child I will become even stronger!! If you want a good challenge, than let me eat the child. Not that you have much of a choice because if you do try to stop me I'll have to kill you too. You will not stop me from becoming more powerful! In fact, humans are delicious."

"Than I'll just have to spoil your appetite!" Kagura answered back. "You bastard, I have no interest in seeing you grow 'stronger'!!" After that she threw some wind blades out of her fan. The youkai took off flight dodging the attack, in an attempt to escape.

"You're not going anywhere!" Kagura shouted.

She took out one of her feathers out of her hair, and followed the youkai. The youkai suddenly turned his ugly head, opened his mound and released a powerful blast. Kagura managed to dodge it before it nearly destroyed her. She felt her arm started to hurt but she had no time to worry about that. She threw some wind blades instead, which the youkai also dodged.

"Fool!" he shouted. "If I were you I would be less reckless in trying to hit. If you're not careful you might hit the child!"

Kagura cursed. She had to admit he was right. If she was saving the girl, she couldn't risk hurting her. The battle kept on in the air, and after a while Kagura managed to stop the youkai in his tracks, using a wind tornado and using her wind blades she managed to cut off his wings. The youkai screamed in pain, and let Rin go, while he was falling. Kagura knew she couldn't reach her to catch her before she hit the ground. She thought quickly and got an idea. Using the wind, she stopped Rin's fall and caught her in midair on her feather. The youkai fell on the ground and half alive, half dead he tried to escape. But Kagura didn't give him the chance. Out her fan she released a powerful tornado of wind who hit the youkai with such force, it disintegrated him completely. Kagura landed, and noticed Rin had fainted. Now what? She decided to leave the girl behind. She put Rin on the ground, and put her feather back in her hair. She walked away, but stopped, deciding to wait for Rin to wake up. Suddenly she noticed her arm was still hurting. It had started to bleed. That youkai had managed to hurt her after all.

"Damn, there goes my kimono." she thought. "After this I'll have to clean myself up."

She hoped Rin woke up soon so she could go. The girl would be able to find her way back. And bringing her back wouldn't make much sense anymore. She wouldn't be able to see Sesshoumaru anyway.

"Wait...where did that come from? My plan was to try NOT to see him, so why do I suddenly want to?" she thought.

A few minutes later, Rin woke up, a little bit confused but besides that she seemed to be all right. When she saw Kagura standing from a distance she smiled happily.

"Kagura-sama, you saved Rin's life!! Rin is very grateful!!" That took Kagura by surprise. She didn't expect Rin to be so friendly with her or address her with –sama, especially not after she once got the order to kidnap her.

"Hmpf, that's nothing. Don't think now that I'm going to be very friendly. I just did that because I owed me a favor."

"A favor?" Rin asked surprised.

"You know what I'm talking about, if you hadn't call Sesshoumaru at the moment I was dying he hadn't revived me. Now were even."

She turned around and started walking the opposite direction, away from Rin. "Please, don't let Rin here all by herself!" she heard the child shout.

"Go back!" was the only thing Kagura said.

"But...Rin doesn't know the way!" Rin said confused.

"That's your problem" Kagura answered.

Suddenly Rin screamed. A snake youkai, who suddenly popped out of the ground, was about to attack her. Kagura sighted and threw some wind blades eliminating the youkai before it could reach Rin. Then, she realized something. If she bothered to save the child's life once it wouldn't make much sense letting her die now. In fact, she had to admit the girl didn't turn out to be the brat she thought she was going to be.

"All right, come on. I'll help you find Sesshoumaru and then I'm off, OK?"

"Hai!!! Thank you very much Kagura-sama!!" Rin answered cheerfully.

"Whatever, let's go"

They took off on Kagura's feather. "So, with way do I have to take you?" Kagura asked.

"Hmm, Rin doesn't know where to go. Rin doesn't know her way back..."

"Well try to find something familiar" Kagura replied in an annoyed tone. She had thought that this was going to be easier, but she hadn't expected that the girl didn't know her way. And on top of that, it was night. She knew a human's eyesight was rather bad in the dark.

"Anything?" she asked Rin, who was sitting in front of her. But Rin didn't reply. Suddenly she fell forwards, off the feather.

"What the hell do you think you're doing??!" Kagura shouted leaping forwards, managing to grab her just in time by the back of Rin's kimono. When she pulled her up, she noticed Rin had fallen asleep. "This is getting nowhere, the kid's asleep, I can't sense anything in this area, my arm's hurt, and it's night. I can't keep on like this; I'll have to land." she thought.

After a while she found a cave that looked save enough to pass the night. She decided to land there. ——

Rin woke up, looking around, rather confused. She found herself lying against a rocky wall in what it seemed like a cave. Not very far away from her was a campfire and at the other side of it she found Kagura sitting there. "What's going on?" she asked sleepily.

"You fell asleep." Kagura answered. "Where spending the night here. Tomorrow we'll keep searching."

"Kagura-sama, Rin's hungry. Where can Rin find some food around here?"

"You're hungry, at this time??!" Kagura said, taken by surprise.

"Hai" Rin answered.

"Well, go and find something to eat."

"But...it's dark, Rin can't see." Rin murmured.

Kagura sighted and stood up. "Let's go, then."

——

They found some melons growing somewhat deeper inside the cave. She gave Rin one and they returned to the cave.

"Uh, Kagura-sama, can you cut the melon for Rin, please?" Rin asked.

Kagura didn't answer and took her fan and swished... Rin looked up, and for split second nothing happened. Then the melon sliced in half.

"Thank you" Rin said. She sat next to Kagura, took one of the melon halves and started eating.

End chapter 3
Well, that's another chapter finished. I promise I'll work harder for chapter 4, OK? And I hope you guys keep reviewing, please? I'll try to update much sooner. See ya!!

From: Fiery Koneko