GCN: Ooooo...some people were none too happy about me killing poor Sesshy. (Gomen, gomen.) A lot of you were asking whether this was a Rin-kick-Inuyasha's-ass kind of a fic, or Rin-falls-for-Fluffy's-killer kind of fic. In all goodness, I believe that Inuyasha and Kagome should be together, BUT, I'll see where the fic goes. So far, Rin is going to seek revenge, if you didn't catch that.

Now, on with the story.

New Goal is Payback – Chapter 2

Rin stood, huddled there, clutching the useless Tenseiga to her chest. She slowly rocked back and forth, breathing heavily in and out. Sesshomaru's lifeless form began to fade into a light golden color, dissolving to dust. It wasn't long before all that was left was a pile of dust.

Kagome blinked for what seemed like hours. She just stood there. She had nothing to say, nothing to do. Or at least she didn't know of anything. How could she comfort a child who had not only lost her birth family to bandits in the past, but now had lost her adoptive father, her new life?

Kagome turned around slowly. It had been only a few weeks since she had first even seen Rin. She had been surprised to see a small human girl traveling on Ah Un, and still wasn't going to fully understand how Rin and Sesshomaru had gotten together in the first place. Soon after spying Rin, Kagome, Inuyasha and the others were lead to another of Naraku's castles. The evil spider was targeting Sesshomaru at the time and had kidnapped Rin to lure him there.

Back then, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had had to fight together to drive off the crazy Naraku. Kagome had hoped they had been on better terms, but she should have known better: The brothers were too stubborn for that.

"Kagome-sama?" Miroku called from where the others had clustered. "We need to be leaving now. It's...uh, it's getting late." The hoshi was nervous, knowing that as night fell, they were in danger out in the open like this, what with all the enemies they had and all. He was also uncomfortable. He knew that Inuyasha was feeling a mix of contradicting emotions, and that he was likely to go off at any moment.

"Kagome, what are you going to do?" Shippo squeaked from atop Sango's shoulder.

Kagome stood thinking for a moment, wondering if there was any way that she could help the girl. But by the time she turned around to talk to her, Rin was gone. So was Sesshomaru's other sword, the Tokijin.

The young miko stared a bit longer. "Kagome? What the hell are you doing?" Inuyasha sounded impatient, but there was also kindness in his voice.

Kagome shrugged, "I'm coming!"

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Ah Un had been blown away by some half a mile. By the time Rin found him, the two-headed dragon was busy licking off the blood on the gashes along its flank.

Rin dropped the Tenseiga and Tokijin in the tuffs of grass beside the dragon. Very gently, she rubbed the end of Ah's (the right head) nose. She hummed gently, trying to calm the poor animal.

After Ah Un had recovered the energy to stand up, it had long since been nightfall. The stars had come out, as well as half a moon. There was barely a cloud in the sky, making the night seem unusually bright. Rin stood, and was about to climb onto the youkai's back when they snorted.

Ah Un took a step forward, toward a pile of grass and twigs. Each head sniffed a couple of times, then poked at the pile with there noses.

Curious, Rin walked over to the pile herself, and began picking through it. Under a stick that was burned lightly on one end, a pair of tiny, green clawed feet poked out. Jaken! Rin scooted the rest of the grass and pebbles away until Jaken was uncovered. The poor toad's beak had been somewhat flattened, but other than that he seemed fine.

Rin scooped up the little imp. She sighed somewhat happily. At least Jaken hadn't been killed too. She had been worried that he had been blown away completely. With a little difficulty, she climbed up Ah Un's side, collapsing exhaustedly onto their back. Sleep did not find her however, because she was looking for a place that the three of them could spend the night.

Spotting a small patch of trees that had grown over the edge of a cliff, Rin could tell that they had formed a suitable shelter. She tapped the flying dragon on the side of one neck, guiding him down into the shelter.

After laying Jaken down on a bed on smashed grasses, Rin grabbed a wad of giant leaves, pressing them gently along the wound in Ah Un's side. After that, she climbed up the other side, collapsing in the nook between Ah and Un's necks. As tired as she was, that spot was the most comfortable.

Rin buried her face into Ah's mane and cried until she fell asleep.

...Little did she know that this night, she would be given the most important gift anyone would ever give her...

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GCN: I know exactly where I want this to go, and I will start typing immediately. So this fic should be updated soon. Gomen, gomen if I don't update the others for a while yet. A new development around here is my limited computer hours, meaning that someone is breathing down my neck whenever I'm on so...heh, heh, heh... not good.

If you have the time, I would much appreciate it if you were to visit my new website. (a n i m e f r e a k 2 0 0 7 . t r i p o d . c o m ) (there are no spaces in there, I had to do that, other wise would delete it. For an easy link, just check in my bio.) I've been told it's awesome. It's the Anime Clan Online, and we have pictures, anime news, links and all sorts of things for anime fans out there. The site was made by me and a bunch of friends. Recently Kenshin'sChick created two Inuyasha AMVs, so id I can. I'll load them up on there too!

Sayonara!!

---GCNanimedragon