Chp 19: Inu-youkai.,.,.Hmmm
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu or fluffy. I do own Amreld and some of the other characters in here, like Hikari.
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Kagome, on impulse, woke up at dawn. She sat up and looked at the kitsune sleeping peacefully in her lap.
'He didn't move all night? Wow, he sleeps like a rock.' Kagome thought with a smirk.
She got out of bed, carefully placing Shippou on the spot where she had been. She gave him one of her bandannas so he wouldn't wake up. Shippou buried his face in the blue material, finding comfort in the scent of his surrogate mother.
Kagome changed into her leather get up and slipped on her gloves. She put her hair in a long braided ponytail. She grabbed her sword, athemaes and her fan.
She quietly walked to her brother's room and walked in. He was sprawled out on the bed with his Gameboy in his hand.
'Oh great, he stayed up late. He's gonna be in for one helluva surprise when he finds out what type of a trainer Sesshoumaru is.' She smirked and walked over to her brother.
'How to wake him up. Aha!' Kagome grinned evilly and walked over to her brother's right side. She poked his tail.
It twitched.
Kagome poked it again.
It twitched again.
Kagome snickered. She decided to use Sesshoumaru's method of wake-up.
"Souta!"
No response.
"Souta?"
No response.
Kagome poked him with her claw.
No response.
Kagome raised an eyebrow and thought, 'Is he dead?'
She shrugged and made a ball of water in her hand. She plopped it on Souta head. He shot up sputtering.
"AH!" He looked around frantically for a few moments before he settled his gaze on Kagome.
Kagome snorted, trying to hold in her laughter.
Souta glared at her then growled.
She took one look at him and sprang from the room, Souta hot on her heels.
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Sesshoumaru had been up since well before dawn. Contemplating the little boy Souta. He was by all means capable of being powerful. But why was his aura so familiar? It was almost similar to Kinyoru's.
'Grrr. Why does everything that has to do with this girl have to be so complicated?'
He walked up to the weapons wall in the dojo and stared at the many hanging there.
'I am not the right teacher for the child to learn such abilities from. He needs somebody else.' He thought for a second and then he mentally gawked.
'Oh hell no! Not him! He's irritating enough as it is. No, I will not have him be the trainer of him. Even if he is Kagome's uncle. Well, maybe I will have the child choose. He can learn sword fighting and hand-to-hand while he resides here, and can learn of his natural abilities later. Damn girl. I have been given too many headaches over her.' (is it just me or in every fic Sesshoumaru seems to suffer from, headaches?)
He stared at the wall again, pondering which weapon he should have Kagome's brother use.
He had looked to the bow and arrows, and decided that he could learn that from Kagome if he wanted. Though Sesshoumaru was a master archer. The bow was not his favorite weapon.
Though, strangely enough, neither was the sword.
He was best in the sword, but he enjoyed using a sickle or glaive more. They made him look more intimidating. He loved the pungent smell of fear that ones enemy, no, rather, opponent got when they saw that the being they were fighting had a rather viscous looking weapon.
Even so, HE didn't need a weapon to look intimidating. He wasn't the type of scary, intimidating, that one would find in a youkai that had three heads and hundreds of tentacles, but rather, a graceful, silent, daunting.
So much like his favorite weapon.
It was a whip that had three flails on it. But on the end of each flail was a fierce looking hook.
He smirked. It had taken him years to master this weapon. The sendokei. (the name means death whip.)
He had taken a while to see what would be a suitable weapon for the child. The sword would be something everyone had to learn, but he found that it was a good thing to know how to use a different weapon. As Kagome had learned to use the twin athemaes, her brother would have a weapon all his own.
He needed to find something relatively light weight, but long. A javelin? No. A spear? No.
Maybe he would let the child choose on his own. Then he would get a chance to see what weapons he could use.
'Chikuso! Where is that wench and her brother?'
He heard a slight drumming sound and then the door of the dojo burst open. A black blur, followed by a white blur, came hurtling in through the open door. He noticed the white blur was wet. He could hear Kagome laughing and could hear the growling of her brother.
He put 2 and 2 together and could only assume that Kagome had taken it upon herself to wake her brother up. And obviously the child didn't like her method.
Kagome, suddenly noticing Sesshoumaru, screeched to a halt. "Oh! Heh, Heh, Heh... Sorry about that. But my bro- OOOF!!"
Souta had tackled Kagome and was sitting on her back glaring at the back of her head.
"Say uncle!" said Souta.
Kagome could've easily gotten out from underneath him, but decided to humor Souta this once before they got down to business. She gave a muffled, "Ummmf!"
Souta got off her and glared at her as she got up.
"Don't do that again." He growled.
Kagome dusted herself off and turned to Sesshoumaru.
He raised an eyebrow.
Kagome sweatdropped and smiled cheerily at him.
He looked at Souta, who still looked a little pissed. Then he turned back to Kagome.
"Go to Tsume. She has training garb for your brother. Be back in less than twenty minutes."
Kagome nodded and went off with Souta.
Souta glanced at Kagome and asked, "Is he always like that?"
Kagome looked at Souta with a puzzled gaze. "Like what?"
Souta wrinkled his nose and said, "Is he always so."
Kagome smirked and supplied the word Souta was looking for. "Arrogant? Demanding? Cold? Emotionless?"
Souta nodded.
Kagome smirked. "It's one of his more appealing characteristics. You don't want to see him when he's pissed. But he's always like that so get used to it. And be prepared for the worst teacher of your young life."
Souta did NOT like the sound of that.
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Souta's outfit was the same as Kagome's other one. Except, where hers was a dark blue, his was a blood red. And it had been altered to fit his tail and wings better.
All was well and good. Until Sesshoumaru decided to give them armor.
The armor he gave Souta was the same as his except smaller.
Now Kagome.
"I refuse to put that on!"
Sesshoumaru glared.
Kagome glared back.
Sesshoumaru growled and said, "Woman, put it on. Now." His tone of voice was calm, but it left no room for argument. Kagome growled and took the armor.
It was woman's armor. It was lightweight like Midoriko's armor must have been, and was made to fit the woman's figure. It had the same type of breastplate as Sesshoumaru's, but the shoulder guards were another story.
Instead of the outward facing spikes like Sesshoumaru, Kagome's alternated between curving upwards and downwards, giving the appearance of teeth. Kagome knew she was going to look stupid once she put it on, but judging by the look on Souta's face, she looked far from stupid.
She looked into a mirror at the far corner of the dojo and her jaw dropped.
'I.Look.COOL!!'
The armor coupled with her black leather clothes, gave her a very intimidating look, while still remaining feminine.
Kagome studied herself for a minute, then shrugged and turned back to Sesshoumaru.
Souta had been taking kendo classes since he was five, so he actually wasn't that bad. He already knew the basics and some of the more complicated things, but was still an amateur compared to Sesshoumaru.
After training with the sword for a couple hours. Sesshoumaru told them to take a break.
Souta and Kagome went to their rooms to change and then went down to breakfast. After breakfast, Kagome and Souta went to the gardens where Rin and Shippou were busy irritating Jaken.
Pretty soon they got tired of Jaken and Rin started picking flowers.
Souta and Shippou were playing in the same area Rin was picking flowers.
Kagome just sat under a weeping willow tree watching them.
Rin had finished picking flowers and went over next to Kagome. She started weaving the flowers into a crown like Kagome had taught her. She had picked roses, daisies, zinnias, snapdragons, morning glories, and moonflowers.
Kagome looked at Rin weaving the morning glories and moonflowers together and couldn't help but marvel at how beautiful they looked.
Kagome picked up some roses and snapdragons and started to weave them into a bracelet. When she finished, Rin had already done the crown of flowers and was working on a wreath of daisies and zinnias.
Kagome was finishing up with her own crown, when Rin set down her wreath and started itching her ears.
Kagome looked at Rin for a moment and then said. "What's wrong?"
Rin wrinkled her nose and furrowed her eyebrows. "Rin's ears are itchy."
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows for a second before she paled.
'Oh shit!' she thought for a moment before she yelled, "SESSHOUMARU!"
Kagome stood up and waited for the silver and red blur to come into the garden.
'3,2,1, there he is.'
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru for a moment before she walked over to him with Rin.
He rose and eyebrow at her and said, "What?"
Kagome bit her lip and put Rin in front of her. "Ummm. Well. you might want to take a look at something."
Sesshoumaru looked at Rin as Kagome moved her hair to the side. If it was possible, the lord of the western lands eyes got really big.
'Rin,.,.,Has,.,.,Pointed,.,.,Ears?' He thought. But the thought was cut short as Kagome said a near silent 'shit'. He glanced at her and saw a white light rise out of the pendant around her neck.
Kagome didn't know if Sesshoumaru would kill her or hug her after what was going to happen, happened. All Kagome could do was watch as the white light shot from her pendant and into Rin. She shut her eyes against the blinding light she knew was going to come.
When she opened her eyes Shippou and Souta were standing in a daze, they're pupils dilating and contracting. Sesshoumaru had a hand over his eyes. He actually looked kind of funny like that. And Rin..
Rin had white hair? And.a tail?
Sesshoumaru was staring at Rin like she had a second head. He was taking in what Rin looked like and he was dumb founded.
Rin looked like a miniature Sesshoumaru.
The same magenta stripes, the same blue crescent moon, the same platinum hair, the same amber eyes, and even the same fluffy white tail.
Kagome wished she had a camera. The look on Sesshoumaru's face was priceless.
Rin was fidgeting. She had a funny feeling. She looked at herself and then she noticed her hands.
'Why does Rin have pink stripes like Sesshoumaru-sama's? Oooooh.Rin has claws!'
She was examining her hand when she felt a twitch near her tailbone. She looked at it and gasped.
'RIN HAS A TAIL!!!!'
Rin squealed and grabbed her tail. It felt exactly like Sesshoumaru's. She hopped up and down and tackled Sesshoumaru's legs in a death hug, nearly knocking him down.
A certain someone clamping their arms around his legs knocked Sesshoumaru out of his stupor. He looked down to see Rin looking up at him with her new Amber eyes. He felt warmth in his chest looking down at her.
Rin was a youkai.
He had known that someday Rin would have grown old, that someday the little child he had resurrected would leave him. He knew that he had come to see Rin as a daughter; he hadn't wanted to become attached to the child, knowing that she would someday die like the rest of the humans. Now she was a youkai. Rin would not die like the rest of them. Rin was really his daughter now. He knew that the feeling he had in his chest was happiness.
He did a once in a lifetime thing.
He smiled.
Kagome's breath caught in her throat. Sesshoumaru had a beautiful smile. She knew Sesshoumaru was happy about Rin being a youkai. Hell, Rin was an Inu-youkai! And she looked exactly like Sesshoumaru! She could have easily passed for Sesshoumaru's daughter.
Kagome smiled at the scene before her. Rin released Sesshoumaru's legs and giggled.
"Sesshoumaru-sama! Look! Rin has a tail!"
Sesshoumaru looked, and Rin did indeed, have a tail.
Rin ran around Sesshoumaru in circles and then ran to Kagome and tackled her to the ground.
Kagome noticed Rin had some added strength.
Rin giggled and shoved her tail in Kagome's face.
"Look Kagome neechan! Rin has a tail like Sesshoumaru-sama's!"
Kagome giggled, then laughed. She shoved Rin playfully off her and got up.
"ACHOO!" she sneezed. Rin's tail had tickled her nose.
Shippou and Souta were gawking. Shippou was gawking at the formerly smiling Sesshoumaru. Souta was gawking at the now Inu-youkai Rin.
Kagome then noticed that Rin's kimono was ripped where her tail had come out. She sweat dropped and turned to Sesshoumaru.
"Uhhhh.I think that Rin needs an new kimono." She said while looking pointedly at the hole in the one she had on.
Sesshoumaru replaced his emotionless mask and nodded. He turned to walk out of the garden.
Kagome sat down and patted the ground next to her. Rin bounced over to her and sat in the spot she indicated.
Shippou and Souta snapped out of they're stupor, shrugged, and went back to wrestling.
Rin was giggling while watching the boys. Kagome kept glancing at Rin. The temptation was too much. She reached over and started petting Rin's tail.
Rin squeaked but then smiled and said, "That feels good neechan."
Kagome giggled and continued stroking Rin's tail. Kagome soon noticed that Rin had fallen asleep and was purring like a cat.
Kagome smiled and picked her up. She carried Rin to her room and set her on the bed; careful to make sure she wasn't laying on her tail. Kagome had first hand experience knowing what having your tail fall asleep felt like. It wasn't something she would want to do again.
Kagome walked to the garden to get Souta and Shippou. She told Souta to go change back into his training outfit.
After changing into her own, Kagome walked to the dojo to wait for Souta. When she got there, she saw Sesshoumaru standing inside, looking at the wall of weapons.
She walked up next to him and looked at them as well. She noted the wide assortment of weapons he had. She sighed. Today had been pretty full of events, and it wasn't even 4:00! Although, she had to admit, Rin made a really cute Inu-youkai. She was about to say something when Sesshoumaru beat her to the punch.
"How did you turn Rin into a youkai?" he asked in a monotone voice.
Kagome just blinked and then smiled slightly as she said, "Honestly? I have no idea. The same thing happened to Souta. *sigh* I really need to remember to ask Mio about that. You have to admit though, she looks adorable. Not that she didn't before, but the tail really completes the picture. I guess she'd be cute in any form. I wonder what she'd look like with dog ears?"
Sesshoumaru allowed a ghost of a smile to grace his lips before exiling the alien expression. "Yes, as you say it, she does look 'cute'." He admitted.
Kagome balked. 'Did he just say Rin looked cute?!?! Whoa. Talk about serious turn around.'
Sesshoumaru's face lay impassive once again. Kagome looked thoughtful for a second before saying, "You know, she's happy. Even though she is really young, she knew that she was different from you, and wouldn't live as long. That little girl is smarter than most give her credit for. You can see it in her eyes."
Sesshoumaru turned away from the wall of weapons. He wasn't one to spill his guts out on a whim, but he had a feeling that, if he didn't voice this feeling, he would go crazy.
"Yes. The child is quite intelligent for her age and race. Some thrice her age have less knowledge. And, I have to say, I am,.,., quite,.,.,pleased,.,.,with the arrangement." He said quietly.
Kagome smirked. 'Jeez, would it kill the guy to say that he's happy about it? I mean, for god sakes he smiled! Not one of the pre- 'I'm-going- to-kill-you' smiles, but an actual, REAL smile. "You know why I think she's so happy? I think it's because she looks like you."
She poked him in the shoulder. "I mean, she's like a Minnie-you. But what I really think is, she probably finally feels truly accepted."
Sesshoumaru frowned. 'Was that true? I had accepted her. But in a way, her being human made her, separated from me. She did not disgust me like most others, but she was still human, maybe the miko is right.' "She was accepted before." He said.
Kagome smiled. "Yeah, well, with Jaken telling her otherwise at all hours of the day, I'm pretty sure the message had started to get across." He smile turned sad, and her voice soft. "Hearing the same thing so many times can even start to crush someone like Rin's seemingly endless optimism. I've always heard the saying 'Hope springs eternal', but, well, after a while, the spring starts to get dirty, and even though the hope is still there, it is unwanted. Nobody has an unbreakable heart." She said softly.
Sesshoumaru studied her for a moment in his peripheral vision. She looked so sad. Obviously he spring of hope had been reduced to mud.
Kagome shook her head and smiled cheerfully. "Well, let's go get the monsters. They obviously need to get training. And they still need to get a weapon as you said."
Sesshoumaru thought, 'I never said that.'
Kagome smirked. "I know you didn't."
Sesshoumaru turned to look at her and she winked. She sped off to go find Rin, Souta, and Shippou, because they all needed training.
Sesshoumaru growled. 'So, the damned wench heard my thoughts. I shall have to remember to put up a mental barrier around her.'
He stalked off to seek out the children he needed to train.
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Thanx for reading! U R the best! Thank you for all of the feedback on my Inu/Charm x-over! Here are the standings:
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Amreld: I'm starting to get sick pf leaving authors notes.
Readers: So are we.
Sesshoumaru: I was too OOC in this chapter.
Rin: No you weren't. Rin was too cute not for Sesshoumaru-sama to smile!
Sesshoumaru: *thinking* Must..resist..cuteness..*twitches*
Inuyasha: *snicker*
Kagome: *glare* BONK!
Inuyasha: *rubbing his head and grumbling obscenities under his breath*
Rin: *frowns and looks at Inuyasha* Doggie man. Sesshoumaru-sama told you not to say bad words. Now I guess I'll have to. *shrugs and pounces on Inuyasha's head*
Inuyasha: *crosses his eyes as he looks up at Rin*
Rin: *flicks his ear*
Inuyasha: YEOW!!! Why you little...... *insert mentally every bad name to call a woman or girl*
Kagome: *shakes her head and walks away*
Inuyasha: *watching Rin flick his ears, and he can't do anything about it because Fluffy is standing right there!*
Rin: *happily flicking Inuyasha's ear as he walks over and leans against a tree trunk*
Sesshoumaru: *watching Rin flick Inuyasha's annoyingly cute dog ears*
Amreld: *shrugs* Okay, How about you review now eh?
Ja ne!
Amreld the sky elf
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu or fluffy. I do own Amreld and some of the other characters in here, like Hikari.
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Kagome, on impulse, woke up at dawn. She sat up and looked at the kitsune sleeping peacefully in her lap.
'He didn't move all night? Wow, he sleeps like a rock.' Kagome thought with a smirk.
She got out of bed, carefully placing Shippou on the spot where she had been. She gave him one of her bandannas so he wouldn't wake up. Shippou buried his face in the blue material, finding comfort in the scent of his surrogate mother.
Kagome changed into her leather get up and slipped on her gloves. She put her hair in a long braided ponytail. She grabbed her sword, athemaes and her fan.
She quietly walked to her brother's room and walked in. He was sprawled out on the bed with his Gameboy in his hand.
'Oh great, he stayed up late. He's gonna be in for one helluva surprise when he finds out what type of a trainer Sesshoumaru is.' She smirked and walked over to her brother.
'How to wake him up. Aha!' Kagome grinned evilly and walked over to her brother's right side. She poked his tail.
It twitched.
Kagome poked it again.
It twitched again.
Kagome snickered. She decided to use Sesshoumaru's method of wake-up.
"Souta!"
No response.
"Souta?"
No response.
Kagome poked him with her claw.
No response.
Kagome raised an eyebrow and thought, 'Is he dead?'
She shrugged and made a ball of water in her hand. She plopped it on Souta head. He shot up sputtering.
"AH!" He looked around frantically for a few moments before he settled his gaze on Kagome.
Kagome snorted, trying to hold in her laughter.
Souta glared at her then growled.
She took one look at him and sprang from the room, Souta hot on her heels.
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Sesshoumaru had been up since well before dawn. Contemplating the little boy Souta. He was by all means capable of being powerful. But why was his aura so familiar? It was almost similar to Kinyoru's.
'Grrr. Why does everything that has to do with this girl have to be so complicated?'
He walked up to the weapons wall in the dojo and stared at the many hanging there.
'I am not the right teacher for the child to learn such abilities from. He needs somebody else.' He thought for a second and then he mentally gawked.
'Oh hell no! Not him! He's irritating enough as it is. No, I will not have him be the trainer of him. Even if he is Kagome's uncle. Well, maybe I will have the child choose. He can learn sword fighting and hand-to-hand while he resides here, and can learn of his natural abilities later. Damn girl. I have been given too many headaches over her.' (is it just me or in every fic Sesshoumaru seems to suffer from, headaches?)
He stared at the wall again, pondering which weapon he should have Kagome's brother use.
He had looked to the bow and arrows, and decided that he could learn that from Kagome if he wanted. Though Sesshoumaru was a master archer. The bow was not his favorite weapon.
Though, strangely enough, neither was the sword.
He was best in the sword, but he enjoyed using a sickle or glaive more. They made him look more intimidating. He loved the pungent smell of fear that ones enemy, no, rather, opponent got when they saw that the being they were fighting had a rather viscous looking weapon.
Even so, HE didn't need a weapon to look intimidating. He wasn't the type of scary, intimidating, that one would find in a youkai that had three heads and hundreds of tentacles, but rather, a graceful, silent, daunting.
So much like his favorite weapon.
It was a whip that had three flails on it. But on the end of each flail was a fierce looking hook.
He smirked. It had taken him years to master this weapon. The sendokei. (the name means death whip.)
He had taken a while to see what would be a suitable weapon for the child. The sword would be something everyone had to learn, but he found that it was a good thing to know how to use a different weapon. As Kagome had learned to use the twin athemaes, her brother would have a weapon all his own.
He needed to find something relatively light weight, but long. A javelin? No. A spear? No.
Maybe he would let the child choose on his own. Then he would get a chance to see what weapons he could use.
'Chikuso! Where is that wench and her brother?'
He heard a slight drumming sound and then the door of the dojo burst open. A black blur, followed by a white blur, came hurtling in through the open door. He noticed the white blur was wet. He could hear Kagome laughing and could hear the growling of her brother.
He put 2 and 2 together and could only assume that Kagome had taken it upon herself to wake her brother up. And obviously the child didn't like her method.
Kagome, suddenly noticing Sesshoumaru, screeched to a halt. "Oh! Heh, Heh, Heh... Sorry about that. But my bro- OOOF!!"
Souta had tackled Kagome and was sitting on her back glaring at the back of her head.
"Say uncle!" said Souta.
Kagome could've easily gotten out from underneath him, but decided to humor Souta this once before they got down to business. She gave a muffled, "Ummmf!"
Souta got off her and glared at her as she got up.
"Don't do that again." He growled.
Kagome dusted herself off and turned to Sesshoumaru.
He raised an eyebrow.
Kagome sweatdropped and smiled cheerily at him.
He looked at Souta, who still looked a little pissed. Then he turned back to Kagome.
"Go to Tsume. She has training garb for your brother. Be back in less than twenty minutes."
Kagome nodded and went off with Souta.
Souta glanced at Kagome and asked, "Is he always like that?"
Kagome looked at Souta with a puzzled gaze. "Like what?"
Souta wrinkled his nose and said, "Is he always so."
Kagome smirked and supplied the word Souta was looking for. "Arrogant? Demanding? Cold? Emotionless?"
Souta nodded.
Kagome smirked. "It's one of his more appealing characteristics. You don't want to see him when he's pissed. But he's always like that so get used to it. And be prepared for the worst teacher of your young life."
Souta did NOT like the sound of that.
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Souta's outfit was the same as Kagome's other one. Except, where hers was a dark blue, his was a blood red. And it had been altered to fit his tail and wings better.
All was well and good. Until Sesshoumaru decided to give them armor.
The armor he gave Souta was the same as his except smaller.
Now Kagome.
"I refuse to put that on!"
Sesshoumaru glared.
Kagome glared back.
Sesshoumaru growled and said, "Woman, put it on. Now." His tone of voice was calm, but it left no room for argument. Kagome growled and took the armor.
It was woman's armor. It was lightweight like Midoriko's armor must have been, and was made to fit the woman's figure. It had the same type of breastplate as Sesshoumaru's, but the shoulder guards were another story.
Instead of the outward facing spikes like Sesshoumaru, Kagome's alternated between curving upwards and downwards, giving the appearance of teeth. Kagome knew she was going to look stupid once she put it on, but judging by the look on Souta's face, she looked far from stupid.
She looked into a mirror at the far corner of the dojo and her jaw dropped.
'I.Look.COOL!!'
The armor coupled with her black leather clothes, gave her a very intimidating look, while still remaining feminine.
Kagome studied herself for a minute, then shrugged and turned back to Sesshoumaru.
Souta had been taking kendo classes since he was five, so he actually wasn't that bad. He already knew the basics and some of the more complicated things, but was still an amateur compared to Sesshoumaru.
After training with the sword for a couple hours. Sesshoumaru told them to take a break.
Souta and Kagome went to their rooms to change and then went down to breakfast. After breakfast, Kagome and Souta went to the gardens where Rin and Shippou were busy irritating Jaken.
Pretty soon they got tired of Jaken and Rin started picking flowers.
Souta and Shippou were playing in the same area Rin was picking flowers.
Kagome just sat under a weeping willow tree watching them.
Rin had finished picking flowers and went over next to Kagome. She started weaving the flowers into a crown like Kagome had taught her. She had picked roses, daisies, zinnias, snapdragons, morning glories, and moonflowers.
Kagome looked at Rin weaving the morning glories and moonflowers together and couldn't help but marvel at how beautiful they looked.
Kagome picked up some roses and snapdragons and started to weave them into a bracelet. When she finished, Rin had already done the crown of flowers and was working on a wreath of daisies and zinnias.
Kagome was finishing up with her own crown, when Rin set down her wreath and started itching her ears.
Kagome looked at Rin for a moment and then said. "What's wrong?"
Rin wrinkled her nose and furrowed her eyebrows. "Rin's ears are itchy."
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows for a second before she paled.
'Oh shit!' she thought for a moment before she yelled, "SESSHOUMARU!"
Kagome stood up and waited for the silver and red blur to come into the garden.
'3,2,1, there he is.'
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru for a moment before she walked over to him with Rin.
He rose and eyebrow at her and said, "What?"
Kagome bit her lip and put Rin in front of her. "Ummm. Well. you might want to take a look at something."
Sesshoumaru looked at Rin as Kagome moved her hair to the side. If it was possible, the lord of the western lands eyes got really big.
'Rin,.,.,Has,.,.,Pointed,.,.,Ears?' He thought. But the thought was cut short as Kagome said a near silent 'shit'. He glanced at her and saw a white light rise out of the pendant around her neck.
Kagome didn't know if Sesshoumaru would kill her or hug her after what was going to happen, happened. All Kagome could do was watch as the white light shot from her pendant and into Rin. She shut her eyes against the blinding light she knew was going to come.
When she opened her eyes Shippou and Souta were standing in a daze, they're pupils dilating and contracting. Sesshoumaru had a hand over his eyes. He actually looked kind of funny like that. And Rin..
Rin had white hair? And.a tail?
Sesshoumaru was staring at Rin like she had a second head. He was taking in what Rin looked like and he was dumb founded.
Rin looked like a miniature Sesshoumaru.
The same magenta stripes, the same blue crescent moon, the same platinum hair, the same amber eyes, and even the same fluffy white tail.
Kagome wished she had a camera. The look on Sesshoumaru's face was priceless.
Rin was fidgeting. She had a funny feeling. She looked at herself and then she noticed her hands.
'Why does Rin have pink stripes like Sesshoumaru-sama's? Oooooh.Rin has claws!'
She was examining her hand when she felt a twitch near her tailbone. She looked at it and gasped.
'RIN HAS A TAIL!!!!'
Rin squealed and grabbed her tail. It felt exactly like Sesshoumaru's. She hopped up and down and tackled Sesshoumaru's legs in a death hug, nearly knocking him down.
A certain someone clamping their arms around his legs knocked Sesshoumaru out of his stupor. He looked down to see Rin looking up at him with her new Amber eyes. He felt warmth in his chest looking down at her.
Rin was a youkai.
He had known that someday Rin would have grown old, that someday the little child he had resurrected would leave him. He knew that he had come to see Rin as a daughter; he hadn't wanted to become attached to the child, knowing that she would someday die like the rest of the humans. Now she was a youkai. Rin would not die like the rest of them. Rin was really his daughter now. He knew that the feeling he had in his chest was happiness.
He did a once in a lifetime thing.
He smiled.
Kagome's breath caught in her throat. Sesshoumaru had a beautiful smile. She knew Sesshoumaru was happy about Rin being a youkai. Hell, Rin was an Inu-youkai! And she looked exactly like Sesshoumaru! She could have easily passed for Sesshoumaru's daughter.
Kagome smiled at the scene before her. Rin released Sesshoumaru's legs and giggled.
"Sesshoumaru-sama! Look! Rin has a tail!"
Sesshoumaru looked, and Rin did indeed, have a tail.
Rin ran around Sesshoumaru in circles and then ran to Kagome and tackled her to the ground.
Kagome noticed Rin had some added strength.
Rin giggled and shoved her tail in Kagome's face.
"Look Kagome neechan! Rin has a tail like Sesshoumaru-sama's!"
Kagome giggled, then laughed. She shoved Rin playfully off her and got up.
"ACHOO!" she sneezed. Rin's tail had tickled her nose.
Shippou and Souta were gawking. Shippou was gawking at the formerly smiling Sesshoumaru. Souta was gawking at the now Inu-youkai Rin.
Kagome then noticed that Rin's kimono was ripped where her tail had come out. She sweat dropped and turned to Sesshoumaru.
"Uhhhh.I think that Rin needs an new kimono." She said while looking pointedly at the hole in the one she had on.
Sesshoumaru replaced his emotionless mask and nodded. He turned to walk out of the garden.
Kagome sat down and patted the ground next to her. Rin bounced over to her and sat in the spot she indicated.
Shippou and Souta snapped out of they're stupor, shrugged, and went back to wrestling.
Rin was giggling while watching the boys. Kagome kept glancing at Rin. The temptation was too much. She reached over and started petting Rin's tail.
Rin squeaked but then smiled and said, "That feels good neechan."
Kagome giggled and continued stroking Rin's tail. Kagome soon noticed that Rin had fallen asleep and was purring like a cat.
Kagome smiled and picked her up. She carried Rin to her room and set her on the bed; careful to make sure she wasn't laying on her tail. Kagome had first hand experience knowing what having your tail fall asleep felt like. It wasn't something she would want to do again.
Kagome walked to the garden to get Souta and Shippou. She told Souta to go change back into his training outfit.
After changing into her own, Kagome walked to the dojo to wait for Souta. When she got there, she saw Sesshoumaru standing inside, looking at the wall of weapons.
She walked up next to him and looked at them as well. She noted the wide assortment of weapons he had. She sighed. Today had been pretty full of events, and it wasn't even 4:00! Although, she had to admit, Rin made a really cute Inu-youkai. She was about to say something when Sesshoumaru beat her to the punch.
"How did you turn Rin into a youkai?" he asked in a monotone voice.
Kagome just blinked and then smiled slightly as she said, "Honestly? I have no idea. The same thing happened to Souta. *sigh* I really need to remember to ask Mio about that. You have to admit though, she looks adorable. Not that she didn't before, but the tail really completes the picture. I guess she'd be cute in any form. I wonder what she'd look like with dog ears?"
Sesshoumaru allowed a ghost of a smile to grace his lips before exiling the alien expression. "Yes, as you say it, she does look 'cute'." He admitted.
Kagome balked. 'Did he just say Rin looked cute?!?! Whoa. Talk about serious turn around.'
Sesshoumaru's face lay impassive once again. Kagome looked thoughtful for a second before saying, "You know, she's happy. Even though she is really young, she knew that she was different from you, and wouldn't live as long. That little girl is smarter than most give her credit for. You can see it in her eyes."
Sesshoumaru turned away from the wall of weapons. He wasn't one to spill his guts out on a whim, but he had a feeling that, if he didn't voice this feeling, he would go crazy.
"Yes. The child is quite intelligent for her age and race. Some thrice her age have less knowledge. And, I have to say, I am,.,., quite,.,.,pleased,.,.,with the arrangement." He said quietly.
Kagome smirked. 'Jeez, would it kill the guy to say that he's happy about it? I mean, for god sakes he smiled! Not one of the pre- 'I'm-going- to-kill-you' smiles, but an actual, REAL smile. "You know why I think she's so happy? I think it's because she looks like you."
She poked him in the shoulder. "I mean, she's like a Minnie-you. But what I really think is, she probably finally feels truly accepted."
Sesshoumaru frowned. 'Was that true? I had accepted her. But in a way, her being human made her, separated from me. She did not disgust me like most others, but she was still human, maybe the miko is right.' "She was accepted before." He said.
Kagome smiled. "Yeah, well, with Jaken telling her otherwise at all hours of the day, I'm pretty sure the message had started to get across." He smile turned sad, and her voice soft. "Hearing the same thing so many times can even start to crush someone like Rin's seemingly endless optimism. I've always heard the saying 'Hope springs eternal', but, well, after a while, the spring starts to get dirty, and even though the hope is still there, it is unwanted. Nobody has an unbreakable heart." She said softly.
Sesshoumaru studied her for a moment in his peripheral vision. She looked so sad. Obviously he spring of hope had been reduced to mud.
Kagome shook her head and smiled cheerfully. "Well, let's go get the monsters. They obviously need to get training. And they still need to get a weapon as you said."
Sesshoumaru thought, 'I never said that.'
Kagome smirked. "I know you didn't."
Sesshoumaru turned to look at her and she winked. She sped off to go find Rin, Souta, and Shippou, because they all needed training.
Sesshoumaru growled. 'So, the damned wench heard my thoughts. I shall have to remember to put up a mental barrier around her.'
He stalked off to seek out the children he needed to train.
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Amreld: I'm starting to get sick pf leaving authors notes.
Readers: So are we.
Sesshoumaru: I was too OOC in this chapter.
Rin: No you weren't. Rin was too cute not for Sesshoumaru-sama to smile!
Sesshoumaru: *thinking* Must..resist..cuteness..*twitches*
Inuyasha: *snicker*
Kagome: *glare* BONK!
Inuyasha: *rubbing his head and grumbling obscenities under his breath*
Rin: *frowns and looks at Inuyasha* Doggie man. Sesshoumaru-sama told you not to say bad words. Now I guess I'll have to. *shrugs and pounces on Inuyasha's head*
Inuyasha: *crosses his eyes as he looks up at Rin*
Rin: *flicks his ear*
Inuyasha: YEOW!!! Why you little...... *insert mentally every bad name to call a woman or girl*
Kagome: *shakes her head and walks away*
Inuyasha: *watching Rin flick his ears, and he can't do anything about it because Fluffy is standing right there!*
Rin: *happily flicking Inuyasha's ear as he walks over and leans against a tree trunk*
Sesshoumaru: *watching Rin flick Inuyasha's annoyingly cute dog ears*
Amreld: *shrugs* Okay, How about you review now eh?
Ja ne!
Amreld the sky elf