Chappie 7!!!
A New Sword and Too Many Bad Smells!!
At day break Rin snuggled closer to Sesshoumaru. Hiding her face from the sun's mean rays. "Baka sun... go away...." Rin mumbled into Sesshouamru's tail.
Sesshoumaru was awake and held back the smirk that threatened to break from his cold mask.
Rin had grown a tail identical to Sesshoumaru's at some point in the night and wrapped it tight around his stomach and around his back as best she could. It was about as long as her arm span and only made it an inch away from his spine. Sesshoumaru chuckled at her attempts to sleep. Rin couldn't help staying awake. She didn't need all that much sleep anymore so she had WAY too much energy to even close her eyes. As comfy as Sesshoumaru's lap and tail was.
When she heard him chuckle she looked up and was bombarded by a multitude of smells. When she picked up Jaken's sent she shoved her face in Sesshoumaru's tail "EWWW," She whined, "Jaken-sama smells bad!!" And with that she took a BIG lungful of Sesshoumaru's tail.
Even the Ice King of the Western Lands couldn't hold in the laughing fit that came from hearing Rin's voice as she said that. Jaken didn't take this lightly. He would've spazed out on Rin if he didn't know that she held the same powers of Lord Sesshoumaru and couldn't control them.
"Rin, Jaken." Sesshoumaru said after he composed himself, "Get ready to go. We will be leaving to Toutousai's Cave in 1 hour." The turning he taword his servant he said, "Jaken."
"Hai. Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Go get food for your self."
"What about Rin, Doesn't Rin need food too Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked.
"Rin you are not hungry are you. You do not need food as much as before."
It was then Rin noticed that she wasn't in fact hungry in the lest. But, She WAS REALLY thirsty. "May Rin get a drink, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Yes Rin, also take a bath. You'll smell the spring in the northern direction. It's not far." Sesshoumaru replied.
"Hai Sesshoumaru-sama." Rin said.
He knew that Rin would be able to tell what water smelled like. And with that he left to go get Rin a new kimono and some armor
(A/N: Bet you can't guess why they're going to Toutousai's)
Rin was found a nice spring and striped and hoped in. As she scrubbed her self she noticed some new features.
She had the same lingh hair but it was silver. And very silky. ' i wonder if it's as soft as Sesshou's' She also had purple/maroon stripes on her hips. 'WAIT when did I get hips?!' She then noticed that she had matured slightly. She had hips and a chest! small, but they were still there. 'I hope Sesshou-Oto-san gets me some proper bindings... and new under chlothes. maybe kagome-nee-san can get me some of hers. it's a nice fabric. When did i start calling him dad?'
She noticed that she had pretty, delecate claws. They were smal but very deadly. She picked pu a rock a little bigger than her hand a threw it up. She slashed at it and it turned to sand. "sugoi.. i'm strong" Rin took her drying cloth and stepped ou of the spring. She went to put on her under chlothes, but found them to be WAY to dirty to put back on.
"Ah-Un!" She called into the wind. Then the said two-headed mount came out of the trees. Rin wrapped herself up in her towel and walked over to the dragon.
She reached into one of the pouched that hung from the saddle. She pulled out a small yellow bra thing that Kagome gave to her, saying that she would need it later on. Hoiw right she was. But it was sooner rather than later. She struggles with the bra and finally snapped it on. the she pulled out a pair of matching yellow undies that said "pretty-princess" on them on.
Sesshoumaru appeared next to Aun as Rin floded her towel and put it on Aun's back. Sesshoumaru had a bundle of cloth and metal in his hands.
"Hello Sesshoumaru-oto-sama" Rin greeted her new dad. 'why don't i care that i'm only in my under things?'
Sesshoumaru put the armor (the metal stuff) on Aun's back on top of her towel. He gave her the bundle of fabric and she gave him a questioning look. He knelt down and took one of the pieces of fabric and told her to put down the other stuff and lift up her arms. He helped her into her chlothes.
a few minutes later...
"Sesshoumaru-sama! It's So Pretty!" Rin ooh-ed and Ahh-ed over the new kimono that Sesshoumaru gave her. She took in the beautiful dark blue rose petals that were around the bottom of the dress. They looked as though they were blowing in the wind. The kimono it self was sky blue and had rose petals along the bottom of the sleeves and the bottom of the hem where it reached just below Rin's ankles. It had slits up the side that reached up to her mid thigh, that made it easy for her to move. The pants under neath were the same color as the dress it self and it had the same dark blue rose petals on them. It was made of fine silk-like fabric that was forged from demon spider web. It also worked as armor. If an enemy were to bite Rin they would be sent in to a daze. After Rin was done hugging the air out of Sesshoumaru he helped her put on her armor. It was the same as Sesshoumaru's only it was her size. She was so happy!
"Look Ah-Un! Rin is just like Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin beamed at the two dragon heads. They snuggled the sides of her face in congratulations and semi-purr/growled to her.
"Rin. It's time to leave."
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama." Rin.
Rin was about to climb onto Aun's back when Sesshoumaru said, "Rin, you don't need to ride them. You can fly now."
"Really?!" Rin asked amazed that it was true, "How does Rin fly, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Concentrate your youki to your feet and think of which direction you want to go." Was Sesshoumaru's reply.
Rin scrunched her face in concentration and a sparkly fog formed at her feet. She started to rise about a foot from the ground, when she cracked open her eyes and got startled by the fact that she actually did it, and fell to the ground with a loud thump.
"Try again." Sesshoumaru told her.
She did and this time she made it so that she was all up in Sesshoumaru's face and opened her eyes. She was about 3 inches away from Sesshoumaru's face and she was looking right into his eyes. She got lost in his gaze and slowly drifted to the ground.
"That's enough for now." Sesshoumaru said. And with that he picked her up and put her on Aun. And they took to the sky.
Oh yea, jaken's there too.
-------------------------In Sesshoumaru's head----------------
'I won't risk her falling at this height.'
"&but aren't you proud of her. She made it up to your face. That's a good 6 feet from her feet to the floor&"
'Yes what she did was admirable. None the less she needs training.'
-----------------------End of thoughts-----------------------
They had been flying for about three hours when they came to the volcanic lands of Toutousai's sword making cavern.
"Ah-Choo!sniff, Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin's nose is feeling yucky. This place smells. Why has Sesshoumaru-sama taken Rin to this smelly place?" Rin asked innocently.
"We are here so that you may have a sword. You will need one to train with. You said you wanted to be at my side always. And for that you need a sword so that you may fight." Sesshoumaru replied.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama."
When they got to Toutousai's cave he was working on a sword. "Toutousai." Sesshoumaru said calmly to get his attention.
"Eh.... Oh Sesshoumaru-sama! What brings you here?" He said in his raspy voice.
Rin tugged on Sesshoumaru's pant leg and whispered, "Sesshoumaru-sama, he smells. That Jiji needs a bath."
Sesshoumaru nodded his agreement and answered Toutousai, "I have come for a sword to match the Tetsusaiga." (Some one tell me how to spell that please)
"Why? You already have the Toukijin and the Tenseiga. I told you no."
"No you foolish jiji, I need one for her." Sesshoumaru said, gesturing to Rin who was slightly hidden behind his leg, breathing through his pant leg to protect her nose from the combined smells of the burning rocks, Toutousai's B.O., and Jaken's sent.
"Ehh...She is that young ward of yours, is she not? I thought she was a human." Toutousai said, finally realizing she was there. "What is your name little Demoness."
Rin replied him with her face still in Sesshoumaru's clothes, "Watashi-wa Rin. Rin thinks Jiji needs a bath so Rin covers her nose. You almost smell like Jaken-sama"
"Toutousai," Sesshoumaru said, "Forge a sword for Rin and take a bath for the sake of all our noses."
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama. Ehhh... But first I need material." And with that he walked up to Sesshoumaru, and while Sesshoumaru opened his mouth to ask what he needed to use to make the sword, Toutousai yanked a fang from Sesshoumaru's mouth. (BAD MOVE!)
Sesshoumaru grabbed Toutousai's throat and shook him. "How dare you come near thiffhh THesfohoumaru?!" Sesshoumaru gave Toutousai the 'glare of death', while red started seeping into his eyes. But with the lisp from missiong his tooth, he didn't sound intimidating.
"I need material to make the sword." Was Toutousai's surprisingly clam yet raspy reply. He was talking to Sesshoumaru and acting like they were chums! What a weirdo. I guess old age does that to you. Or maybe he's insane.
Rin tugged on Sesshoumaru's pant leg and asked a little distressed, "Why does Jiji need Sesshoumaru-sama's Kiba (sp?)? Does Jiji need Rin Kiba, too? Rin wants to keep her Kiba in Rin's mouth." Then she covered her mouth to protect it from the Jiji.
"Hai I need your Kiba. Don't worry it'll grow back in eh†half a days time." Toutousai answered.
Sesshoumaru dropped Toutousai and told Rin to open her mouth. "Rin does not wish to Sesshoumaru-sama. Jiji will hurt Rin."
Sesshoumaru was taken aback by her refusal to comply but didn't show it. He didn't wish to lose her trust that no harm would come to her when he was there. That surprised him also. "Rin open your mouth." Sesshoumaru said. He saw her hesitate but she complied. Sesshoumaru's fingers glowed green with poison. He put a tiny cut in her gums to numb her mouth and pulled out a fang. "Rin, that did not hurt, did it. " Sesshoumaru said. It was more of a statement than a question.
Rin shook her head in negative and ran her tongue over the blank space in her mouth, enjoying the weird feel of the tenderness in her mouth.
Sesshoumaru handed Toutousai the fang and said, "I expect it to be done in 3 days. If not I will have Rin use you as a training dummy." And with that he left the old man to his work with Rin at his right side, Aun behind Rin with her pulling the reigns, and
Jaken at his heals.
Three days later they came back. Totosai wasn't done so they had to wait 4 more hours. Rin ways annoying the hell out of Jaken. Rin had improved on flying. But she tired quickly. She was dodging Jaken's attacks with his staff with no difficulty. Jaken was pretty fast for a little guy. After about 2 hours of this he FINALLY landed a hit. Right on Rin's HEAD!
Sesshoumaru wasn't happy about this and was about to kill Jaken. But, Rin beat him to it. She was FUMING!! Red stared seeping in to her eyes and she lashed out at poor little Jaken. She took out her paralyzing whip and sliced him right down his center. So fast that it took a second or two for his bottom and top half to separate and slide apart.
Rin got out of her rage. Her eyes turned back to normal and she saw Jaken's dead form at her feet. "Jaken-sama!! Oh No!! Sesshoumaru-sama Rin did this!! Sesshoumaru-sama!! Eeeek!" Sesshoumaru took the Tenseiga and stood over Jaken while Rin was babbling away. He sliced the hell messengers and revived Jaken. Rin 'eeked' because she saw Jaken move.
"Jaken, pull your self together and that's enough training for today."
"Hai Sesshoumaru-sama." Jaken replied. Then he fused himself together.
They went back to Totosai's and he had just finished the sword. Totosai was leaning against the wall. Sleeping. What. An. Idiot.
Sesshoumaru walked up to Totosai and kicked him across the cave.
"Eeh" Totosai said from across the cave. "Who are you...?"
"Ahh!" Rin exclaimed, "Crazy Jiji! That is Sesshoumaru-sama, Jaken-sama, Aun, and this is Rin!" She said pointing to everyone and herself.
"Where is the sword that can compete with the Tetsusaiga?" Sesshoumaru asked calmly with red seeping into his eyes.
Then Rin saw the prettiest sword ever! It had a carving of two white dog demons on the sheath. One larger than the other in their true forms. On the hilt were carvings of Rin and Sesshoumaru in their humanoid forms. The carvings were painted in full color. All the way down to the beautiful gold of Sesshoumaru's eyes, to the honey/brown/silver of Rin's eyes. (A/N: Rin's eyes are a honey/brown color with silver flecks in them) "Sesshoumaru-sama! Is this Rin's sword made from Sesshoumaru-sama's Kiba and Rin's Kiba? Can Rin have this one?" Rin was so excited! She had never seen some thing so pretty. What toped it all off was that she could see her aura and Sesshoumaru's mingled together and it made the prettiest collogue of purple/pink/blue/red EVER!
Sesshoumaru raised s brow to Totosai whose head had finally stopped spinning from his position on the other side of the cave. "Hai. It's Rin's sword. It's called the Sukenti Kiba Katanga." Totosai said. (A/N: Don't ask me what it means. I made it up. Let's play pretend and imagine it means 'loved one's combined fang')
"The Loved One's Combined Fang? Not very original Jiji" Jaken said.
"Urisue, Jaken. Or would you like Rin to test it on you instead of on the Jiji?" Sesshoumaru threatened.
When Sesshoumaru said this it made Jaken and Totosai's blood run cold. Rin and Aun were the only ones not affected by Sesshoumaru's threat. But it did make Rin nervous. When she killed Jaken earlier it was an accident. She wasn't all that concerned about the Jiji's life, but, that was because Sesshoumaru would bring him back. The thing is, is that she had never used a sword before. She wanted to make Sesshoumaru proud. But she didn't want to get the Jiji's blood on her sword. Especially his stink. 'Eeeww' she thought 'I hope my pretty sword doesn't smell like his funky self'
"Rin. Strike." Was all Sesshoumaru said. Rin knew what he meant by it so she unsheathed the sword and put the sheath against the wall being careful not to scratch the beautiful carving. Sesshoumaru situated the sword in her hands so that she was holding it correctly and she walked up to Totosai.
"Sorry, demo," She whispered this part and yelled the next, "I NEED TO MAKE SESSHOUMARU PROUD OF ME!!" Then she sliced the air in front Totosai's gut and air blades flew at Totosai. Then, in the same fashion that Jaken had, Totosai's top and bottom half slid to the ground with a sickening thud.
'at least i didn't get his blod on my pretty kiba' Rin thought greatfully.
"Well done Rin." Sesshoumaru said. Then he went and brought back Totosai.
"Eh... what happened?" Totosai said. "I thought I died." Then he looked at Sesshoumaru and Rin. "Ahh!" And with that Totosai scurried away.
Sesshoumaru about-faced (like in the army) And left with Rin, Jaken, and Aun following. Rin jumped on Aun and polisehed her sword with a cloth from one of the sacks on the saddle while they flew to the Western Castle.
It had been two weeks since Rin's wish. Sesshoumaru and Rin were training in one in one of the dojo's in Sesshoumaru's castle in the Western Lands. (Imagine the Kamia Dojo from Kenshin only with swords and Demon heads hanging on the walls)
They were sparing with swords. Rin was Okay with her sword. But her real strength was in seeing auras and whip fighting. When she uses her whip just imagine a ribbon dancer and you got it.
Jaken was still angry and STILL hated Rin.
Rin was very skilled and was excelling in martial AND literary arts. She had an English teacher, (Or is it script. Of maybe calligraphy? Tell me please.) And she was very good. She had BEAUTIFUL writing. Her hand moved across the paper like the roses in the wind in a lovely dance. Her style of writing her kanji was very pretty.
Sesshoumaru used her to write his invitations to her ball that would signify that if he didn't have a son that she would be heir to the Western Lands!
Rin loved the aura of her sword. The way her, and Sesshoumaru's auras danced together was the most BEAUTIFUL array of pink/purple/blue/red Rin had EVER saw. When she focused her youki in to the sword the colors were even prettier. She had to use all her self control not to get lost in looking at the auras forever.
She had repeatedly killed Jaken and a few minor demons over the course of two weeks with out getting a drop of blood on her sword.
Rin went on patrol with Sesshoumaru since the third night she had been at the Western Fortress as a demon. During patrolling about 5 days ago she found out that her sense of smell was competing to get better than Sesshoumaru's. She was sparing with Sesshoumaru and once again he had disarmed her.
"sigh Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin is no good at using her sword." Rin whined.
"Rin you are good enough. I have a mission for you." Sesshoumaru said.
"Huh? Yea! What does Sesshoumaru-sama want Rin to do?"
"Rin, my half-breed brother Inuyasha has a sword called the Tetsusaiga. You are to destroy it and kill the fox kit that is with him. If you kill a full demon your sword will become stronger." Sesshoumaru informed her.
"If Rin's sword is stronger than Rin will be strong, too?" She asked.
"Only if you learn how to use it. Now go get your sword out of the wall and we will continue to spar. I will tell you about your opponents as we do."
And with that they continued to spar, and Sesshoumaru told Rin of how Kagome broke the Shikon and how she is the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyou who guarded it. And how Kikyou sealed Inuyasha to the tree 50 years ago and Kagome released him about 10 months ago. Then he told her about the Shippou who looks at Kagome as a mother because his was killed by the Thunder Brothers whom Inuyasha killed. And how she had to destroy Shippou to make her sword stronger because fox magic is good for her sword. Then he told her of the cursed monk Miroku who has an air rip in his had called Kazzana (sp?) which was given to him by Naraku.(A/N: she knows all Naraku about cuz this takes place AFTER she got kidnapped by him) He told her of the youkai exterminator that lost her village and family to Naraku. And that the boy who she befriended, Kohaku, is her brother and he is under Naraku's control. The whole time he referred to Inuyasha as "my half-breed brother" or "baka brother", Kagome as the "woman/child" or "the miko", Sango as the "youkai Taijai (sp)", Miroku as "the monk" and Shippou as "the fox kit" or "kitsune".
They had been sparing for 3 hours when Sesshoumaru was done. Sesshoumaru had a light layer of sweat on him, and Rin was about to collapse if she didn't catch her breath. It was time to go eat and after they would go patrol.
Sesshoumaru called for Yumi, Rin's maid/companion. She is a mouse youkai. The reason he had a mouse as her companion is because they're VERY motherly. Yumi had long black hair that reached her knees and wore a blue kimono with small darker blue roses on the shoulders. She came with a towel and a dinner kimono in her hands to take Rin to the springs and get her ready for dinner. Sesshoumaru went to the spring on the opposite side of the castle to bathe. (I'll describe the springs l8r)
About half an hour later Rin came down for dinner. She had on a pink dinner kimono with tulips going down sleeves. Sesshoumaru was at the table already with his normal clothes on. Only no armor. They ate and (I don't know let's say oden.) when they were done Sesshoumaru went to his chambers to change into his armor. Rin did the same.
You guys know Chi-chi from DBZ? You know that outfit she wears? Well that's what Rin is wearing. Only it's the same color as Sesshoumaru's outfit. She also has her tail/boa thingy around her shoulder. She has the same armor as, Sesshoumaru too. Got the picture? Good.
They started their patrol at sundown. About an hour into the forest Rin smelled something that smelled like Sesshoumaru only less manly and more rugged. And it smelled human at the same time.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin smells someone that kinda smells like you." Rin told him.
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and took an experimental sniff. "It's my brother" He said with red seeping into his eyes. He headed into the direction where the smell was strongest.
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A/N: BWAH-HA-HA-HA!!! Evil cliffie!!!!
Next Chappie: Rin and Sesshoumaru battle the Inu-gumi team.