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Chapter 3

Instead of staying in an empty temple/house alone you decide to go to follow Rin and go to Shin and Ryochis'. You go to your room and grab your sword and backpack, and then head back out. Once you're out you lock the temple/house entrance behind you and head out through the forest to Shins' house.

You are now half way to Shins' house, treading down a forest path with your sword at your side and your backpack on your back. A twig snaps far away to your side and you glance in that direction. You shrug it off and continue your quest to Shins'.... You sense a presence rapidly heading in your direction and you turn in the direction and grab the hilt of your sword. The presence suddenly stops.

"Who's there?!" You yell to the forest trees...

Not receiving an answer, except for the sound of a retreating bird flapping wings. Your eyes scan the area around you checking for anything suspicious, but you detect nothing, indeed, whatever it could have been must have disappeared. You shrug it off and release your hilt, heading back on the path to get to Shins'.

You soon approach the cave belonging to Shin, passing the village that is not a village on your way. {The village in Midorikos' Reincarnation!} Not much is going on in that village anymore, just an area with a bunch of broken down houses with no sign of life, except for the growing patches of grass, nor corpse of a human. You continue on to the cave, finally approaching it. It seems a regular cave on the outside surrounded by grass and trees, but a furnished home to an 11-year-old bat boy and alcoholic bat demon on the inside.

You continue inside through the murky tunnel entrance, where Sesshoumaru first kissed you, to darker tunnel leading to the light. You finally reach the torch-lighted room, stepping onto the rug that decorated the cave floor. You see the liquor-drinking bat demon, Shin, sitting at his table drinking a mug of sake and staring into space. You smile, seeing that Shin hasn't changed at all, still the sake-addicted bat you always known him to be, even though the last time you seen him was last week.

"Hi Shin!!" You say still smiling. He jumps and turns around to face you.

"Hey (Insert Name)! How ya' been?" He asks gesturing you to a sit across from him. You walk over and take the sit.

"I've been good! You?" You ask as he pours you a mug of sake.

"Good!" He then hands you the mug and you take a sip.

"Where's Ryochi and Rin?"

"They're both out playing somewhere." He says and takes another swig.

"Some supervision you are."

"What? Ryochi knows the area." He says and takes another swig. "Where's that dog demon of yours?"

"He's- his name's Sesshoumaru! Don't you know his name?!"

"Yes, I do know his name, but he is your dog demon, right?" He asks with a grin.

"No, he's not..." You say folding your arms with a tint of red staining your cheeks.

"No? But how come when we first met I called him "your dog demon" and we've always addressed him that since?"

"..... Whatever..." You reply, in an irritated tone, turning your head and attention to the worn carpet on the cave floor. "He went to check out a war that started between demons."

"Oh, well I heard there was a war going on somewhere, far from here, but I didn't know it was important." He says and takes another swig of his none forgotten sake.

"Well it must be..." You say and take a sip of your own drink.

"So... How's life been treating you?" Shin says changing the subject.

Hours later...

You've been at Shins' for a couple hours now, chatting and drinking like long life friends, but with time playing a part in it; it seems to have gotten pretty late. Rin and Ryochi came back from playing already for dinner, which you all had in the cave. Now it's time to go back home, being so late. You, Rin and Tetsu are just outside Shins' cave.

"Bye Ryochi! Bye Shin-san!!" Rin says waving frantically at Shin and Ryochi, walking backwards into the entrance of the forest, while Shin and Ryochi waves from the cave a normal pace from the entrance of the cave.

"Bye!"

You hear Ryochi yell before you and Rin completely disappear into the forest with Tetsu trotting ahead. You turn your attention to the night sky, looking at the numerous, luminescent stars. Something you couldn't see in your original times' city.

"(Insert Name), where'd Sesshoumaru-sama go?" Rin asks.

"He went to check out a war and he said he'd be back in a week." You say glancing at Rin. "What did you do with Ryochi today?"

"We went-"Rin starts to talk about what she and Ryochi did today.

You nod and smile every now and then, seeing her smile and laugh. You return your gaze to the sky, but still paying attention to what Rin's saying. You then lower your gaze to see Tetsu up ahead sniffing around on something next to a tree. As you get closer you see that it's kind of large and black with yellow like strands sticking out. You continue to walk closer and see that it seems to have a black cloak laying upon it, so it could be more than an anonymous heap; you stop beside Tetsu and Rin stops, too.

"What is it?" Rin asks curiously.

"Dunno... But we'll find out now."

You bend down in front of it, slowly reaching for the cloak. You slowly pull the cloak off revealing a body underneath laying on its' back with blond, messy hair laying on her back down her back. You frown and check her pulse, to find a very slow one.

"Is she alive?" Rin whispers.

"Yeah, but barely" You whisper back and gently flip the girl over.

She seems to be a girl around your age, {remember, in the last fic you were 16 and now its one year later...} with very long blond hair that seems to go down to her waist, also a trickle of blood traveling down from her forehead to her cheek. You then spot a big gash on her stomach, that looks fresh and gasp by the looks of it she probably won't-

"Rin we have to hurry!" You stand and try to; gently as possible pull the girl up with you and Rin tries to help. Rin helps you get her on your back piggy-back-style and you all hastily go back to the temple/house as fast as possible.

Once you finally get there, you place her in a spare room on a futon. Then you go to find bandages and have Rin to boil some water and some sake. When Rin comes back with the hot water, sake and towels, you use it to clean the wound. You dab the towel in the hot water mixed with sake then press it on to the wound. You then wrap her stomach with the bandages, carefully, then nursing the wound on her forehead and bandaging it. The girl seemed to stay unconscious through all of it, laying peacefully on the futon now covered by a blanket.

"Is she going to be ok?" Rin asks worriedly having been there watching the whole thing.

"She should be fine in the morning, right now she needs rest." You say blowing out candles and ushering Rin out the room and sliding the door close behind you.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, she'll be fine, but you should get some rest." You say and Rin nods, and then retires to her room down the hall. You then go to your room to get some sleep yourself. You then change into your bed clothes and lay on your futon about to fall asleep. Your last thought before drifting away is of Sesshoumaru.

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Alright, next chapter finished!! Thank you for reading!! Also I don't really know if sake can help a wound, I just know that sake is rice wine and alcohol is in sake, so... I went from there, yeah...

Ja!