Author's notes: Well, Misao-CG again with a fic with chapters. This idea just hit my head at least 5 YEARS AGO. So, here you have it! Another old, old fic, so, respect it's grey hairs nn! Hope you like it and don't forget about my puny grammar and to review me. I don't care about flames, I think they are cute (as long as they are constructive!)

Disclaimer: My possessions are few. And Inu-Yasha's copyrights aren't one of them. Poor Misao!

"A girl named Mikami."

Scroll #1:

"The miss inside the hut."

I don't know WHY I took this little child under my wing. She is an annoying pest, like every single little child… No. I can't lie about that, Rin-chan isn't a pest, and I must say that she is cute… Grrrrr! I don't know how she managed to make me think that kind of stuff. I, lord Sesshomaru, mustn't say that kind of things: that's a mother's and a weakling's job.

Still, Rin can melt my heart somehow.

Raise whelps are harder then I first thought. At the beginning, Jaken was enough to check on Rin-chan, after all, my girl didn't talk at the time, but now, Rin-chan is demanding more and more attention… Did I say 'my girl'?. I have to quit that habit of mine, this is the 10th time this week. :death glare to himself:.

As I said, at the beginning, Rin was much easier to care. Not now. Since I re-teached her how to talk, she has become an hyperactive and talkative girl. I should have known better!. I hate to say this, but no one, not even me, Sesshomaru, is perfect.

I'm not a fool. Or an analphabet. I'm a scholar, I like to study, that's for sure, and I got a very high level of knowledge, even among other youkais lords and ladies of my kind. I'm a very good adviser, counselor and stuff and I, Sesshomaru, am really good with the matters of state. And I'm proud of that!.

But this is overwhelming. None of my former studies prepared me for this little catastrophe. Rin-chan catch a cold, a strong cold, and I, Sesshomaru, don't have the slightness idea of how to treat her. I refuse to take her into some village for: a) I refuse to take my girl with a foolish midwife, b)The weaklings will fled at my presence; c) the local miko or monk will try to seal me in the best case, or will try to keep my girl away from me (in the best case too); d) How, in seven hells, I'm going to explain why I keep this girl with me, when I don't even know that, and e) My proud.

But because I'm very intelligent, I know that sooner or later I will have to take Rin to one of the human villages to receive proper human medication. Is a pity that my girl is a human being. But I try not to think about it.

"Master, I think that Rin got fever." Said Jaken. What an idiot!.

"I know that."

"Master, this is a very good opportunity to leave that brat here to die: she is not going to make it!."

BOMP

I made no comments about that remark, beside the obvious one. The thought of Rin dying isn't pleasant. Not a bit. The sight of her little body slaughtered by a pack of wolves was awful and made me mad enough to kick the wolves' puny tails, and to use tenseiga on my girl back then. No. I will not stand Rin-chan's death… again.

I look to the west. The sunset is already gone and is getting darker. This isn't a very good sign. We are on the outside, in the middle of the fall, with a sick child, and is getting cold. I need to get her some shelter… or a blanket, or something, and soon.

cough, cough, cough

I stop. Little hands grips the folds of my kimono. Rin-chan's breathing is very labored. I wonder how she got sick so quickly. But then again, my girl is only human… but… I've read in scrolls and other transcriptions that a mere cold isn't that fast. So, what wrong with her? Is this the beginning of some strange plague? If that is the case, that means that I, Sesshomaru, am not going to get help from other humans easily. Feh. Who cares? I, Sesshomaru, am worry about my girl's welfare, and if some stupid mortal refuse to help her, he will face Sesshomaru's wrath.

snif, snif, snif

"Master, there is a hut front ahead!." Said Jaken right after I finished my sniffing.

"I know that!. Wait here."

"What? But master, I could be dangerous, and you shouldn't bother about…"

"Questioning me are you?." Jaken bowed to me in respect and in fear. "Wait here, then."

Still holding my girl in my arms, I got close to the hut. I knew that we were heading toward a human settlement. Since Rin-chan fainted this morning, I directed us towards a village. And I, Sesshomaru, plan to keep my path near villages, because that way I will be able to get some help to Rin-chan right away, like now.

snif, snif, snif

This is just a hut in the outskirts of some village. Three people live here, a family most likely. But right now, there is only one person, a woman if I'm not mistaken.

Feh. Curious.

There is not lights or candles on. And is very dark by now. The foolish human must've tumbling all over the house. Maybe she is sleeping (very early I must say!). In any case, I don't want to had any interaction with the likes of her. Lucky mortal, I'm in no mood for kill anything: my main goal here is get some blankets to wrap my little girl soon. Its getting very cold and she needs a warm blanket.

I use stealth to get inside the hut and to move in it. Isn't very hard, the house is simple. Unlike other times, Rin-chan is very quiet… I wonder if she still breathing… Good. She is breathing, slow, but breathing… Grrrrr! She is high on fever!… huh?

Paintings? Here? In a commoners house?. Feh… I hate to say this, but the painter is really good and gifted. Well, well, I had entered an artist's house! Who knew: there are sculptures too… very, very good ones! What a lucky bastard! Maybe I return later to take one of this pieces…

Argh! Think in Rin! Think in Rin!. Where are the blankets? I need blankets! Where are them?. I change my mind: I will kill him for not…

"Who is there?."

What the hell! I woke the woman? Feh… a light sleep she had!.

"I said, who is there?."

I will ignore her. She will not see me in this dark anyways and I, Sesshomaru, will be gone in a few moments and forget about this place.

"Please, I know you are there, in front of the drawers, near the window. Please, tell me who are you!."

Feh. As I care. (how did she know I'm right here, in this dark?). I look to the door only to see the barely open shoji door, and the silhouette of a woman about twenty, kneeled beside the door.

"Otou! Is that you?… please, if is really you, tell me, I don't like that joke!… Otou?… Okaasan?." Ask the girl in concern.

snif

Pathetic mortal! How dare she to take me for her otousan… wait a minute: did she sniffed or something?… no way!. Must be my imagination! I smell no youkai or hanyou: I only catch the scent of a pathetic human.

"Who are you? I know that you aren't otouchan!…"

snif

Of course I'm not!. I will ignore you. I will just keep looking for a blanket. In silence. The girl stand up and open the shoji door a little bit more. She is scared. I can smell her fear… It's good to be me!.

"… Tai-youkai?… oh gods!… please leave!."

This mortal is very interesting! How did she tell that I was a taiyoukai in this dark?. I don't sense any magic on her. She is very scared: maybe I could use that. I stand up and get close to her. I open the shoji door completely, taking her by surprise. The girl drops herself to the floor, bowing. Hmm. For a human she has a nice scent… Argh! I didn't said THAT!.

"I need a blanket. Give it to me." I demand.

"A blanket?… for the girl?." I nod. But she ignored me.

For a human, she is very observer… but a fool: she is a very lucky girl, because I'm not in a killing mood. Feh. I didn't knew that she did catch on my girl's gender from where she was standing, once again, in this dark. She walk stumbling all the way to the drawers in which I was looking, using the walls as guides. Weird mortal. She reach the drawers, touch them completely, and finally opened one and took a random blanket out of there.

"Here."

I take the blanket and I wrap my girl almost immediately. The woman standing up, looking to nowhere, try to reach her. I back off, growling very lowly.

"Sorry… is, is… she is your… daughter?."

"Most likely." I bark, coming out of the window.

"… she is sick…"

"No kidding."

"You will need to get that fever down!."

I didn't answer her. I didn't need that… stupid mortal. But she is awfully right! I need to get Rin's fever down. But how?. Feh. I will think about something later.

To be continued.

By

Misao-CG.