Roar of the Dragon: And now the big chapter you've all been waiting for, Sesshy and Lina start to fall in love!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Oh My Goddess. The only characters I own are Kimiko, Flamie, Kudora, Hiyruu, and Lina.
I apologize in advance for any mistakes I make regarding Japanese customs or language usage.
Review Responses: Wow, you people really like this story don't you?
Dumber then a Moogle ass: No more near deaths, the worst injuries will be broken bones from now on!
crazyhanyoued: Again, I apologize, I'm glad you are still willing to read my story!
FieryDemonFox: Well, what else would you call Jaken besides the designated baby sitter?
Lone-Puppy: The pairing begins, right about... NOW!
InuLvr4eva: I was afraid of that, sorry I made it to long for you.
Dark Knight Gafgar: I know you might not read this for a while, but I read your review and I am flattered that you would read my story. I love your Metroid Fugitive and I hope you update soon. As for the WW2 stuff, I don't think I want to try to figure out how to explain an atomic bomb to Inuyasha and his friends for a while. Also, since I am an American, my perspective on WW2 is a little bit skewed towards the US and I don't think I can acuratley represent the Japanese view.
MyWay: Yes, I don't see any other use for Jaken besides watching Rin, and she is now old enough to defend herself. But Rin likes Jaken, since he was her protector when Sesshy wasn't around.
singergirl22: To bad you got hooked on the story near the end, but I hope you like the sequel the same as this one!
jim hawking jr: Thanks, I thought it was kind of below my previous ones in quality.
Dragon and Sword Master: Jaken can smell things, and he knows the smell of his staff better than anyone else would besides Sesshy. So Jaken used his nose to keep track of the real staff. Umm, I'm going to say no on this attack, I basically took Sasuke's fireball attack from the first Naruto collection and renamed it.
Dark Inu Fan: You'll see in this chapter what the girls have planned, but the full moon will be involved.
She-Devil18: Not devil, dragon! DRAGON! Why does everyone seem to think all dragons are evil?!
whitetiger-isabella: Thank you for the compliment
inuyashasdragonballs: I read through your story, pretty good plot so far, but don't just stick to Disney Movies.
chrisy12: Exactly the points I was trying to empthasize in that chapter.
Story Weaver1: Glad you liked the hide and seek part, I thought that Rin's actions were more like something Inuyasha or Sesshy might do in the same situation.
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Lina was bored. Even though she had recovered completely, her powers hadn't yet fully recharged, leaving her weak and unable to move around much. If she had been at home, Lina would simply have eaten a bar of Swiss chocolate since that was her alternate power source to recharge her powers. However, Kagome could not find Swiss chocolate anywhere in the future, it seemed all the stores were out. (AN: I stole it all for myself!) "Lina-sama would you like to read to us?" asked Rin as she poked her head into Lina's room, giving Lina the sad little puppy eyes that usually got her what she wanted with Sesshomaru. Shippo and Kimiko also looked into the room and smiled their most charming smiles. Lina grinned and said, "Sure Rin, what book do you want me to read?" Rin ran in, followed by Kimiko, Shippo, Flamie, and Kudora. Rin sat on the edge of Lina's bed with Shippo and Kimiko while the firecat and dragon sat on the floor. Rin handed Lina the book she had brought saying, "Aunt Kagome gave it to me for my birthday, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet." Lina looked at the cover of the book and smiled as she saw the title. "The Wizard of Oz. This used to be one of my favorite stories growing up," said Lina as she opened the book.
An hour later, Lina glanced up from her reading, to see Kagome leaning against the doorway smiling at her. "Looks like some one couldn't resist Rin's puppy eyes when she asked them to read," said Kagome. "Well, I'm pretty much stuck here in bed since I can't get any Swiss chocolate, so reading to them is the best way to entertain myself. Besides, it has been a long time since I read The Wizard of Oz," said Lina. "Do you all like the story so far?" asked Kagome. Shippo, Rin, and Kimiko all nodded and Kagome noticed Kudora and Flamie seemed to be nodding as well. So who is your favorite character so far?" she asked. "I like the Tin Man, he reminds me of Inuyasha. Tough on the outside but all kind and loving inside," said Shippo. "I like the Scarecrow. He acts like Mirouku does around Sango, stupid," said Rin with a mischevious twinkle in her eyes. Kimiko said, "I like the Cowardly Lion. He's like Uncle Fluffy. Fuzzy, warm, and kind." Kagome grinned at that discription of Sesshomaru, even after all these years she couldn't forget how he looked the first time she encountered him when he was cold and almost heartless. "If you are interested, there are other books in the Oz series that I can bring next time I visit," said Lina as she marked their place with a ribbon Rin had given her. Rin grinned and said, "I would like that alot Lina-sama!" Lina scowled and said, "I thought I told you before, just call me Lina!" Rin blinked and bowed to Lina, somehow managing to remain sitting on the bed while she bowed, and say "Gomen, Lina, but I do respect you the same way I respect my father." Befroe Lina could reply, Padme walked into the room and said, "Lady Rin, it is time for lunch. If your friends and you would follow me, I have prepared a picnic for you." The kids all followed Padme happily out to eat, while Kagome took Lina's trey back to the kitchen. Lina dozed off, glad she had found a way to break the monotony of her days.
Later that night, Lina woke up when she sensed someone at the door to her room. Looking up, she saw Rin, dressed in her sleeping kimono, standing in the doorway. "Rin, is something wrong?" asked Lina. Rin ran over and hugged Lina tightly, as if afraid Lina would disappear any second. "I had a nightmare where a dark figure carrying a scythe came into your room! The cloaked figure cut you in half and your spirit was dragged down into hell!" sobbed Rin. Lina's eyes narrowed as she surveyed the room. "Rin, I am fine. There is nothing here that could hurt me, especially after Kagome and Mirouku warded the room against evil," murmured Lina as she gently stroaked Rin's hair to calm her down. "Lina, could I sleep here tonight?" asked Rin. Lina smiled and said, "Of course. I'll sing a song of sleep so you aren't troubled by any bad dreams," Rin scrambled under the covers with Lina, pulling out a pillow she had some how slipped under her kimono. Lina smiled at the girl and started singing All Through the Night by Peter, Paul, & Mary.
Sleep my child and peace attend thee, all through the night.
Guardian angels God will send thee, all through the night.
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping, Hill and dale in slumber steeping I, my loved one, watch am keeping, all through the night.
Rin's eyes started to close as a warm feeling of peace and safety fell over her. Lina kept singing as Shining Friendship appeared and joined her voice with Lina's. The angel looked a little worse for wear, but Lina was so happy to see her angel that she didn't care and kept on singing.
Angels watching ever 'round thee, all through the night In thy slumbers close surround thee, all through the night Soft the drowsy hours are creeping, Hill and dale in slumber steeping I, my loved one, watch am keeping, all through the night.
Lina let the last note fade and smiled at Rin, who was fast asleep next to her. Shining Friendship lightly kissed Rin on the cheek before disappearing. Lina smiled and lay back down, her mind at ease thanks to the song and the strangely comforting presence of Rin.
The next day, Lina finally recovered enough to walk by herself to the toilet. Shining Friendship helped Kagome take care of Lina, also acting as a guard for the door and not letting anyone but Kagome, Rin, and Sesshomaru in to check on Lina when she was sleeping. The next day, Lina was able to move to a chair outside and watched the kids instead of Jaken. Little Hiyruu was being given a piggyback ride by Shippo around the courtyard, squealing with delight as Shippo ran, jumped, and soared through the air. Lina smiled as she watched Rin and Kimiko wading in the pond in the middle of the courtyard. ::I wonder if this is what it is like to have children.:: she said to herself. ::I wonder if I'll ever meet the perfect man for me, the one I can marry and spend the rest of my life with?:: The memory of singing Rin to sleep had stayed fixed in her mind for the last few nights, making her feel there was something special about Rin that she just didn't realize. A sudden shriek split the air and Lina looked up to find Shippo had done a cannon ball into the pond and drenched Rin and Kimiko with cold water. Hiyruu giggled at the girls from his position on the shore on Kudora's back. Rin and Kimiko both looked at each other and started chasing Shippo with the intention of maiming him for soaking them. Lina sighed as she yelled, "Don't make me come over there!" to keep the girls from seriously wounding Shippo.
"Lina, we're moving you to a guest room today," said Kagome the next day as she brought Lina some oatmeal for breakfast. The demi goddess blinked then shrugged and started eating her food. The other adults stopped by to chat, and then Lina found herself being carried upstairs to one of the guest rooms by Sesshomaru. As they entered the room, Lina saw a comfortable bed all ready as well as a large window overlooking a garden full of beautiful flowers and fountains. As Sesshomaru moved to allow Lina to see out the window, the door to the room suddenly slammed shut. Sesshomaru whirled around and placed Lina on the bed before trying to open the door. A flare of energy threw Sesshomaru across the room. The same thing happened when he tried the window. "Inuyasha, I know you're behind this," yelled Sesshomaru, "Let us out now!" "Sorry Sesshomaru, Inuyasha didn't have anything to do with this," said Kagome through the door. "Mirouku accidently droped one of his most powerful sealing sutras on the door when he bumped into it. None of us can remove the sutra or open the door. I would advise you not try the window, the sutra's effect extends to all the exits of the room. Mirouku says it will wear off in a week. Until then, I'm afraid you're stuck there." Sesshomaru groaned and looked at Lina, who was extremly ticked off about this unexpected development. "Kagome, how am I going to eat? Sesshomaru might be able to survive for a week without food, but I need to regain my energy by eating." There were the sounds of a quick conference outside, then Inuyasha's voice came through the door. "Sesshomaru, don't all the rooms have a lift in them to bring food up from the kitchen? I'm pretty sure I remember we stuffed Jaken in one once and stopped the lift while it was half way between two floors." Sesshomaru grinned at that memory, then turned to examine the walls. Tapping lightly on each one as he walked around the room. Finally, he found the lift's cover beside Lina's bed. "I found it," said Sesshomaru with a grin. "I'm marking the front edge with a crescent moon to make sure you know which lift goes to this room. Send up some clothes for Lina and myself first, then some food and any other necessities." "Will do!" said Inuyasha. The lift was soon lowered then came back up with several folded kimonos for each of the room's occupants on it. A tray of food soon followed, a futon for Sesshomaru to use on the floor, and then Lina's duffle bag.
"Don't you dare look Sesshomaru," said Lina as she changed from the simple clothes she had been wearing the last few days into one of the kimonos gratefully. Sesshomaru obediently kept his eyes adverted, though he could catch just a bit of Lina's reflection on the window out of the corner of his left eye. Blushing at the accidental glimpse. Sesshomaru raised his tail as a blindfold. Lina finished changing, glancing back at Sesshomaru from time to time as she did so, but never caught him peeking. She grinned at the sight of him using his tail as a blindfold and said, "You can look now Sesshomaru." The taiyoukai turned around slowly, ready to cover his eyes if he saw something inappropriate. Lina giggled at the look on his face and said, "I'm not trying to trick you Sesshomaru, and I know you aren't like Mirouku!" Sesshomaru snorted and said, "This Sesshomaru is above such things. He does not see why you humans are so fascinated with members of the opposite sex." Lina stared at Sesshomaru for a second then burt out in laughter. Sesshomaru's expression turned to surprise as he saw Lina, arguably one of the sanest of the people he knew, start pounding the floor as tears of mirth poored down her cheeks. "Sesshomaru, obviously, you have never experienced a female inu youkai in heat!" Lina managed to gasp out. "I seen enough dogs mating in my era that I can safely say that you would find a female of your species in heat irresistable!" Mirouku's laughter was heard beyond the door then a loud SMACK indicating that Sango's Hiraikotsu had met Mirouku's head very quickly.
Lina sighed as she relaxed in the large bathtub in the bathing room conected to the bedroom. She had woken up early and decided a soak in warm water was just what her body needed to get back in shape. "Ahh, this feels nice. Why is it that the baths in this time seem to be so much more refreshing and relaxing than the ones in my time?" Lina asked the air around her. Taking a deep breath, Lina dunked her head under water to rinse the shampoo and conditioner from her hair. She then stood up with her eyes closed to grab a towel. Just then the door, which she had forgotten to lock, opened. Lina reflexivley turned to see a buck naked Sesshomaru rapidly develope a nose bleed standing in the door way. Lina suddenly remembered her state of undress and ducked back under the water, leaving only her head above the water. Sesshomaru rapidly stuffed his nose with some small cloths used for scrubbing and ran out of the room. ::Oh Kami-sama, he saw me naked! And I saw him naked!:: Lina mentally repeated to herself as she quickly dried herself off and pulled on her clothes. Opening the door, she leaned out with her eyes closed. "Sesshomaru? I'm sorry about that, I thought you were still asleep in your futon so I didn't lock the door." Sesshomaru glanced up from banging his head against the wall to keep down the perverted thoughts that were starting to fill it. "It was my fault Lina, I was half asleep and didn't notice you had left your bed. I should have listened carefully for your prescense. I apologize for embarassing you," said Sesshomaru. Lina blushed slightly and said, "How about we forget this ever happened?" Sesshomaru nodded and walked into the bathroom to take his turn with the bath as Lina brushed out her hair, trying to get the image of a nude Sesshomaru out of her head.
That evening, Lina was eating dinner on the bed and watching the moon rize through the large window of the room. A slight movement beside her notified her that Sesshomaru had joined her in looking out the window. "The full moon certainly is majestic," said Sesshomaru quietly. Lina nodded and said, "I thought you would have prefered the crescent moon, since that is your family's crest." Sesshomaru turned to look at Lina with one raised eyebrow as he said, "My mother always said the full moon is the symbol of peace and tranquility, something a ruler often seeks after the trials of running his kingdom tire him out. It is also when the light of the moon is at it's greatest, just before it starts to deminish." Lina blinked several times then smiled. "That was very poetic, I didn't know you were such a romantic Sesshomaru," she said. Sesshomaru smiled slightly and said, "Inuyasha would disagree with you. He may think I have very little emotion, but that is just so I don't revel my true feelings to an enemy. I studied many great youkai and human poets in my youth, as well as politics and buisness and economics to ensure I could sucessfully take over the managment of the Western lands when my father died. I didn't expect to have to take his place the day he went to fight against Ryukotsusei the dragon. That day was when I had to harden my heart to take on the burden of being the Taiyoukai and surpress my grief over my father's death." Lina squeezed his shoulder, trying to ease the pain that buried memories were bringing Sesshomaru. The two stayed together watching the moon, content to be in eachother's company.
The next few days passed rapidly, much to Lina's surprise. She found Sesshomaru to be an excellent partner for discussing feudal era poetry, a favorite subject of hers. Sesshomaru also discussed Rin's care with Lina, since he knew Rin would soon enter the age where she would start to mature. Lina was a great help to Sesshomaru in this aspect, detailing all kinds of problems a young girl could face upon hitting puberty and how to deal with them. Sesshomaru took many notes, sometimes asking questions to clarify Lina's comments. By the end of the week, Sesshomaru was glad he hadn't been born a girl, judging by the fact that he would have bled, suffered from wild mood swings, and been a bottle of raging hormones once a week every month. Lina maganged to use her powers to create an image of what Sesshomaru would look like as a girl and the Taiyoukai was ashamed to admit that Inuyasha's joke about not being able to tell the difference was mostly correct, except that his female version happened to have certain, assets, that his normal body lacked. The evenings were spent eating and watching the moon, while Lina told Sesshomaru the legends of the constelations from her time. []
The end of the week was announced by the fact that Rin kept trying to open the door to the room every five minutes, apparantly developing an immunity to the sutra's flare of power after the tenth attack on her. Sesshomaru finally told Rin to stop trying to open the door, since Lina would sense when the sutra finally ran out of power. Rin simply said, "Hai Sesshomaru-otou-sama!" and sat down by the door to wait for it to open. Jaken soon joined her, pacing up and down in front of the door as he muttered, "How dreadful this must be for Lord Sesshomaru! He's stuck in that room with that mortal wench!" WHAM! Jaken looked up at Rin from the bottom of the Jaken shaped crater that Rin had bashed him into with a mallet she had pulled out of thin air. "Don't you dare say bad things about Lina-sama! She risked her life to save all of us and you think you can get away with insulting her?" yelled Rin, her eyes going red with anger. Jaken promptly wet his pants as he scrambled to get away from the enraged girl. BAM! The door to the room suddenly flew across the hall, smashing Jaken into the wall. Lina sweatdropped as she stared at the empty door way. "I guess I don't know my own strength," she said to Sesshomaru, who was staring wide eyed at what Lina had just done. "Obviously," he replied with sarcasm dripping off his tounge. Rin broke out of her suprised shock and tackled Sesshomaru's leg. "Sesshomaru-otou-sama! Sesshomaru-otou-sama! Sesshomaru-otou-sama!" she chanted as her tail proceded to dust the floor behind her so fast that everyone started coufghing from the dust it kicked up. By this point, the others had arrived and were grinning at the family reunion between Rin and Sesshomaru. Rin then tackled Lina for a hug, purring loudly as she did so. Lina grinned and struggled to pry Rin's vice like grip off her leg. "Come on Rin, I need that leg to stand on!" exclaimed Lina just before she lost her balance and fell forewards into Sesshomaru's arms. Sesshomaru was unprepared for Lina's sudden fall and fell backwards himself, resulting in Lina lying on top of him in a sugestive position and their lips touching. ::Oh no, I kissed him!:: Lina screeched to herself as she felt her face getting red.
Rin quickly scrambled off Lina, apologizing over and over for knocking her over. Lina blushed and climbed to her feet, promising Rin it wasn't a problem. Lina then dragged Kagome and Sango off for some girl talk in the large women's hotspring. Sesshomaru was in shock, his eyes looked like he was trying to see only his nose and his pupils were very tiny. Inuyasha waved his hand in front of his brother's face a few times then said, "Looks like he fainted. Come on Mirouku, we'll have to revive him." The two grabbed Sesshomaru's arms and dragged him to Padme's kitchen with Rin, Kimiko, Shippo, and Hiyruu following with the pets. Once there, Inuyasha filled a large bucket with water and carefully dripped a single drop onto Sesshomaru's forehead. He repeated this process until Sesshomaru's hand shot up and grabbed his neck. "I suggest you stop before I make you the centerpiece for Padme's dinner tonight," growled the Taiyoukai. Inuyasha gulped and grinnd weakly. "Would you believe it was Mirouku's idea?" he asked.
The womens' hotspring
"I can't believe that happened!" groaned Lina as she sank into the hot spring. Kagome started shampooing Lina's hair while Sango rubbed the demi goddess's back. "But you didn't jump up right away," said Kagome, "does that mean you liked the kiss?" Lina blushed and lowered her head below the water so her friends wouldn't see the redness tinting her cheeks. Sango grinned and winked at Kagome before saying, "I think she did. Look at that blush!" exclaimed Sango. Lina growled and used her control of the water to send a huge wave at Kagome and Sango. The two women were unable to dodge the large wave and got soaked. A huge water fight broke out and at the end all three women were laughing as they collapsed in the much lower hot spring. After drying themselves off, the women changed from their swimsuits to their normal clothes and walked back inside. There they found the kids watching their fathers squabbling over a bag of potato chips. Kagome rolled her eyes at Inuyasha's immaturity while Sango sighed and proceded to beat Mirouku with Hiraikotsu.
Okay, I hit writer's block about how to end this chapter, but then I came up with an idea that extends the story one more chapter at least. I promise, at the end of the next chapter, Lina and Sesshomaru will either be madly in love or really close to it. I can't do serious romance worth beans! ( )