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Chapter 14: The Lost Talent
It was now Summer. The first week to be exact. And Rin was lounging about on the sofa, wearing a red tank top and a pair of denim shorts, singing along to the lyrics flashing on the television screen.
" Let me be with you…yeah…yeah…" She sung along, smiling warmly as images of a young woman with long flowing blonde hair flashed by.
"Chobits again, ne Rin-Chan?" Kagome asked, leaning on the doorway, grinning as she took her place beside the young girl."
" It's a cute story." She pouted.
" Yeah it is."
" Chii!" Rin cried, making her brown eyes wide and innocent as she cocked her head over at the miko. Kagome laughed and ruffled her hair playfully.
" But really though…" Rin murmured as they flashed on a young boy's face, his eyes looking to the side.
" I want a someone just for me."
Kagome grew quiet and gave her a sad smile before standing.
"Be careful what you wish for."
Rin slowly walked down the corridor, where she stopped and stared at the large doorway to her right. That's right…this room. She bit her lip as she involuntarily shuddered, a burning sensation tickling behind her eyes. No, she would never go in that room again. It had too many…memories. With a sad smile, Rin ran her fingertips against the worn curves of the door handle.
But…
Rin gazed solemnly at the cherry wood door in her sight. She shook her head, better late then never to face her fears right? Her hand closed around the door handle and she pushed, before entering the room and shutting it behind her.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at the target, her body as taut as her bowstring as she carefully aimed the arrowhead. Her stormy eyes hardened and with a cry, her fingertips released the string, the arrow barreling across the grass.
"BULLSEYE!" Kagome cried, leaping into the air, her fist clenched above her head. A soft clapping behind her made her turn and she smiled.
" Hey Inuyasha."
Inuyasha smirked and leapt down beside her.
" Practicing?"
" I'm not going to practice on you if that's what you're implying." She retorted, pushing him playfully.
" I never said I wanted to be target practice! Once was enough!"
Kagome rolled her eyes.
" I already apologized."
" And so did I." He murmured, looking off to the side.
Kagome grew silent and she gazed the opposite way. Why the hell couldn't he have just not…helped her that day? What was so hard about that? It was just a tiny scratch, and because of what he did, everything had gone wrong.
The miko bit her lip, refusing to look at the hanyou before her. If she did, she thought she just might cry with frustration.
" Why do you and your brother no longer try to kill the other?" She murmured, hoping to take the subject matter of their conversation in a different direction.
It worked.
" I saved her."
Rin bit her lip as she gazed at the large ebony piano, her eyes filled with tears and she instinctively jerked back and bumped into the closed door behind her. Yes…this room was where he had… The young girl shook her head, and tentatively made a step forward, her entire body trembling as she daintily brushed her fingers against the dusted wood of the instrument.
And the tears glistened in the dim light of the lamp.
"Saved her?"
" Hai."
" From what exactly?"
" Not from what from whom."
" And that was…" Kagome asked, her heart throbbing painfully at the utter disgusted and hurt look that had been flitting to and fro on Inuyasha's face.
" Sensei…" Rin whispered, writing the letters into the gray layer of dust that covered the once magnificent and loved piano. With a sigh, she slowly seated herself, her fingertips resting lightly on the large wooden cover that hid the keys from sight.
" Why did you do that to me?" She whispered brokenly, her heart-breaking piece by piece all over again. The room was so quiet you could almost hear the fragile pieces falling to the bottom of her very being as tears glimmered her expressive chocolate eyes.
" Why did you…?" The voice murmured again.
" Her piano teacher."
" Piano?"
" An instrument. It was her passion, her desire, one of the things she most treasured in life next to her friends and family." By now, the two were seated on the grass, Kagome gazing concernedly over at the hanyou beside her.
" Why would she need saving from him?"
" Because he…" His voice cracked, from anger or sadness, Kagome couldn't tell.
" Because he…" Inuyasha started again, his body tensing.
"…Touch me?"
Her large brown eyes closed, her lashes letting the tears slide down her tan face. Dropping silently on to the piano, washing the years of dust away.
" I trusted him. I adored him. I learned from him…I even…" Her voice echoed, as if she was speaking to herself.
" …Loved him." He murmured, his fists clenching at his sides.
" She fell in love with her teacher?"
" Yeah, wouldn't you know? He seemed like a nice guy, reserved, degrees, gentlemen and all that. And Rin had fallen for him head over heels at age 13. Sango was the only one she told, and Sango felt bad for her, but never mentioned it to anyone. Her honor of keeping her word. Rin knew very well that he was too old for her. But she just couldn't keep it inside and she…"
" I love you." A younger girl whispered her eyes downcast as she fiddled with the hem of her green skirt. Silence enveloped the room, making her confession seemingly louder and echo in her ears.
A tall young man knelt before her, his black eyes soft and concerned, his pink hair tied at the base of his neck with a hair tie.
" You do?" He asked.
" Hai…Kageromaru-san…" She whispered, her flush covering the pale skin of her neck swooping upward into her hairline.
" I love you too."
The girl's eyes widened as he bent over, his lips brushing over hers as he neared closer. His hands slowly sliding down from her shoulder…
Rin shuddered and she fell backward and off the piano seat. This was where…he had…violated her. Not enough to taint her physical purity but enough to…
Her eyes gazed emotionlessly over at the burn marks that forever burned into the carpet.
" Things continued like that for at least a year. She never told a soul and since he normally arrived when no one with demon smell was around…"
" He got away with it."
" Keh. Yeah, the bastard and led poor Rin right along. Pretending to love her, but all he did was touch not that it was much better. But then…one day…"
" Inu-Oni-Chan will be here soon." Rin chided as her sensei removed his shirt and lay down behind her.
" He will not know."
" But…Sensei…" She was cut short as he pressed his lips to hers.
Just as Rin looked over him with adoring eyes, he flipped her over, straddling the poor girl while hiking up her skirt, clawing off her panties in the process.
Tears of fear and realization filled the young teen's eyes as he wrenched her arms upward and over her head, pinning her to the floor. Just as the door downstairs opened, it time for someone to hear her scream for help, he violently kissed her, ignoring her incessant writhing and muffled cries.
Then her eyes flashed pink as she felt something foreign press up against her inner thigh.
" And I felt this aura of miko energy suddenly burst from the piano room, blowing out all the windows on the third floor right out of the walls. When I ran up, all I saw was the fading form of her piano teacher and her…"
Kagome was silent, but had put a hand on the boy's shoulder. Her eyes misting with tears of sympathy for both of them.
" Sesshomaru came in after me and I was…different that night. I managed to grab her, but she was still screaming and purifying everything in sight. Kageromaru was long dead by then by the sheer force. I had to hold her until she calmed down. If I hadn't…"
" She would have used her entire soul up and died and most likely killed Sesshomaru in the process with the implosion of her miko power having no more energy source or soul left."
Inuyasha nodded.
" Though it was probably for the best. If he had survived, no cops would've ever known, we would've slaughtered him."
" I know…"
" Then…she started recovering…"
" I would not talk." She whispered to herself, tears long dried and dead from previous pity crying.
" And when I spoke. I would not…"
"…Play. She would refuse to ever go near that room, the piano or any piano for that matter ever again. Because of that bastard, he robbed the world of one of the greatest piano talents I've ever heard."
Both fell silent as Inuyasha ceased speaking. That was the tale. Every miko had a deep sadness in their past, that's what made their spiritual powers even stronger. And that, was Rin's.
Kagome merely clasped Inuyasha's hand in silence. A simple gesture of gratitude and comfort.
Rin rose and left the room, her fingers thrumming with the desire to feel the smooth keys beneath her skin. But she refused. It was enough to finally enter the room and remember everything without screaming or flashing with miko energy. She had to take it one step at a time.
But if a bystander listened hard enough…they might hear the soft notes of a song and the carefree laughter of a childhood lost.
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