Wow! A lot of you people really like this story. sigh The reviews really make me laugh lol. I'm sorry for all those people who don't like reading stories where one of the characters in OOC. Rin has softened Sesshomaru up! Anyways, on with the story. (P.S, Bekki, think of that picture of Sessh in the hot spring from Deviantart when the time comes...... –nudge, nudge-)
Disclaimer: Same as what I said on the last chapter...
Chapter 3: A Tail of a Time
A delighted squeal came out of Rin at what she saw. It was the same color and texture as the demon dog's silver silky hair. Without even thinking, her hand began moving by itself towards the tail. It reached out and gently touched it. 'Yay! Aw it feels exactly like his hair,' she though happily as she began stroking. The tail began to move up more from a sag and a swaying motion began to take place. Her eyes widened because she knew dogs did this when they were happy. Deciding to take advantage of why Sesshomaru wasn't stopping her, she pet the tail more as it began swaying faster and then into a full out wag. Rin had to fight back a giggle.
Rin looked around at Sesshomaru's face to see is he was alright and found him looking sort of half asleep and in a daze. She let her giggle out and waved a hand in front of his face to try and snap him back to reality from a place she didn't want to know about.
He blinked, surprised as if he had just woken up from a restless sleep. "O-okay, that's enough wench," he said, quickly recovering as he covered himself back up and removed his tail from her loose grasp. 'That was strange. Not like me at all,' he though as he thought about Rin walking him from his unfamiliar daze. When she had stroked his tail, his brain had entered a calm and peaceful world, opening those rusty and stiff gates for the first time in his life since childhood.
"Thank you Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin said happily, content with what she had just experienced. Now she would made it her every day goal to see and/or possibly pet his tale again. He let her do it to the fur resting in his shoulder, so should the tail be any different? 'Yes...' Rin thought a bit sadly.
Sesshomaru remained silent just in case his untrustworthy voice betrayed him again. Cutting it off wouldn't solve anything though, as he usually did with untrustworthy humans. He was still perplexed as to why he had said something he didn't want to. Or... i thought /i he didn't want to. But maybe his heart was functioning differently? Yes? No? We don't know! (hehe.. that rhymes!) Sesshomaru decided he needed to do some major thinking to himself about the issues with Rin and her affections towards him, his unfaithful voice and the whole tail ordeal. He also decided that there was no better way to do those things than a nice relaxing bath in the hot spring nearby.
Rin was currently sitting under a shady curtain of a large tree not too far from the tree she had seen the 'sacred fluff'. She was humming a random song and daydreaming about things a seventeen-year-old girl would after experiencing what she had just experienced. She picked a few blades of grass out of habit and lazily blew them away to let them drift in the currents of wind to a place she didn't care or think about.
"Hmm, maybe I'll go take a bath in that spring I saw before," she said to anyone who cared to be listening. She got up and brushed the dirt off the bottom of her kimono. Nodding, she said: "Yup, that's what I'll do!"
So, not even suspecting that her Lord Sesshomaru was at the same place she intended to go and doing the same thing she wanted to do, she headed over to the hot spring, bringing her hair and body washing bottles filled with her homemade mixtures. She hummed a random tune again as she closed up on the spring, already seeing some fog.
Hehehehe! I am soo evil! To make a cliff-hanger such as this one... I am sorry but do not fret or fear, the next chapter will be up soon! dodges random things being thrown in my direction If you brake my hands with those, I won't be able to type! things stop being thrown Thank you! Now review!!! ... please....