Your partner should be someone you can count on to watch your back, not stab it.
Chapter 3: Partners
Use Them Well. Rin thought as she remembered the words of Miss Kitu, she pulled out the daggers from her belt, her hands shaking a bit. She'd only held a knife once before, and that was when she wanted out. Out of this world. But now she was doing it not to take her life, but to save it. The bees moved so fast , Rin was surprised she could see them. Rin jumped out to the way as a bee shot a stinger her way. Then Rin shocked herself by moving as fast as the bees and chopping them threw, each one in a graceful, yet deadly movement. Rin stared at the split bodies of the once deadly insects.
It was then she'd heard it, the low growl that haunted her nightmares. RIn didn't even have to turn around to know that it was the one thing that she feared... Wolves. Rin took a deep breathe but her lungs hurt when she breathed. They were frozen in sheer terror. Rin didn't care how foolish it was she ran. Ran like she'd never ran in her life, knowing the fate that awaited her. She knew what being attacked by wolves felt like, yet she didn't know how she knew. She could see the visions of it flashing before her eyes, the horror, the pain, then the darkness. As she ran threw the river she slipped, scrapping her knes against the rocks. She got up with quickly with a bit of a limp as she ran. But a wolf jumped at her it's fangs tearing into her arm, she would have yelled in pain. Rin knew she was going to die. But she refused to give up that easy. Rin got up and ran. But she knew that was soon ,when she couldn't run anymore, she'd be eaten.
It was when she'd given up hope, she'd seen him. Rin ran to him bowing slightly as he turned his golden eyes on her, Rin ran and grabbed his arm, silently pleading to him, pointing in the direction of the wolves. His eyes traveled from the terror in her eyes (For her face wouldn't show it) to the blood dripping down her arm to the scraps on her knees.
It was her. The human girl, who never spoke, the one with that odd pigtail on the side of her head. The one who'd touched the staff no human should be able to touch. The one he'd never seen before in his life, yet she seemed so familar. She stood before him now, her eyes filled with the terror he'd expected her to have when she looked at him, yet she didn't. The smell of her blood seemed to make his claws itch to kill something. There was something about this girl that seemed to cry out to be protected, he had the urge to protect her. He knew what it was before it reached them, his nose had told him as much. He merely raised his claws slicing them all in one simple movement. He looked back to Rin who he expected to be horrified, but she just looked at him, a small smile on her face.
He just looked at her, long black hair, light brown eyes, tall for a human girl... Before he could examine her more he turned away. Walking down the path, it was a moment or two before he heard her footsteps hurry after him.
"What is your name girl?" He demanded, his voice vague yet cold. She looked up at him, He just saved my life, I at least owe him my name. It was then a rasping noise came from her mouth. He looked at her from the corner of his eye,"What was that?" She then cleared her throat as if she were attempting something difficult,"Rin." Her voice sounded raspy and rusty from disuse, it had been the first time in 8 years she'd talked.