Chapter Five
Time went by like it normally would. Rina really never got use to someone else being around to play but she tried her best.
"Evening Rina." a voice called one afternoon.
She looked up and blinked. "Kikyo?!"
Kikyo sat next to Rina. "Now don't sound surprised of me being here. We're friends, right?"
Rina concealed the rolling of her eyes. "Sure I don't see why we aren't." She faked.
Kikyo smiled. "Good. I wanted to know if you wanted to learn the bow and arrow?"
Rina looked at her in amazement. Kikyo giggled. "I'm being serious Rina. I don't just come to play with InuYasha."
/Oh sure. You've been coming here for five months now, and you haven't talked to me unless he was around./ Rina narrowed her eyes. /What are you up to?/ She stood up. "I'd love to learn the bow and arrow."
"So where is Inuyasha?" Kikyo asked when all the arrows had been distributed.
/Figures. You couldn't find him so came to me./ "I don't know."
Kikyo didn't push the subject. The only talk they did was small and mostly on how to work the bow.
Both were good at the sport in their own way, and when all the arrows had been used, together they went to find what they could. Kikyo put the equipment in her sack. "I guess I should tell you while your here, then maybe you could tell Inuyasha."
The tone of her voice wasn't a happy one, it was more of a sad one. Putting away her feelings, Rina treaded with caution. "What's wrong?"
"Well my family has decided that...it's time to move again and help another village."
"I-I'm sorry." Rina knew all to well what moving around meant. For all her life she moved from one place to another. "You should tell Inuyasha tomorrow before you leave."
"I don't want to." Her voice stern.
"Look Inuyasha is your friend. The least you could do was tell him good-bye or something."
Kikyo's eyes flamed. "I don't want to tell him!"
Rina calmed. She knew how hard it must be. "I know what you're going through." Her voice low.
"You know nothing about me...you...you..." Kikyo stamped her feet and angerly walked back to her village.
Rina stood there for a moment. /She's lucky I'm nice, or I wouldn't tell him./
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"SHE'S WHAT!!" Inuyasha stood yelling. "How could you keep this from me until tonight?!"
"Kikyo didn't want me to tell you until now." Rina defended.
He became frustrated. "Since..since when are you two friends?"
She looked at him. "Since when do you care about her? I know she's a friend and all but..."
"But what?" By this time he's temper was controling him. "You can't stand her can you? Your jelious because there is someone else for me to play with. That's it isn't it?"
Rina closed her eyes for fear that the tears would fall. "That's not it at all..."
He stormed outside, Rina followed. "K-Kikyo?" He questioned. There was no doubt though, it was her. With her eyes avoiding she stepped up.
"I-I..." She stammered. Inuyasha swiftly moved forward and took her in his arms.
"I was afraid I wouldn't be able to say bye." He whispered in her hair. Rina was left on the step crying.
"I didn't think I could say good-bye." She looked down. "That's why I had Rina tell you for me."
The full moon rose over the horizon turning Rina human again. Smoke filled the air as distant voices could be heard. Getting closer the three children could see that the voices belonged to a mob. A mob who were angry and would do nothing but cause others pain.
"Give us all your food demons."
"Or what?" Inuyasha challenged.
The leader who spoke before laughed and looked back to his men, they also laughed. "Or we'll take it by force."
Inuyasha took out his sword. Rina who was near him had her sword in one hand and dagger in the other.
The mob, being drunk and all, ran after them. While the battle went on, two strays moved around the house lighting it on fire every few feet. No one knows really what happened but in mere minutes the house exploded, spreading people out.
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A faint voice called him from sleep. "Inuyasha."
"Rina?" He mummble barely audible.
It seemed to be morning from what he could sense. The caller in front of him wasn't Rina, it was Kikyo. She had minor cuts. He rose up realizing what the night had brought.
The mob was scattered about, some dead other moaning from pain and hangovers. Only one person was missing, "Where's Rina?"
Kikyo gasped and looked down. "I'm sorry Inuyasha."
