Title: Rin's Four Legged Obsession
Authoress: Liko-chan
Warnings: Language, fluff, OOCness, TWT, humor
Summary: Rin gets a puppy from a village after they find out that she's Sesshoumaru's charge. As Rin cares for the puppy, she eventually becomes so in love with it, she practically forgets about her Sesshoumaru-Sama. In time Sesshoumaru begins to miss his 'Rin moments' and wants the 'mutt' gone... but Rin won't let it go...
Disclaimer: Li-chan doesn't own Inuyasha.
Rin's Four Legged Obsession
Chapter 8: He's So Smart, Isn't He?
Rin squirmed on the bed.
Fluffy was constantly on her mind and not to mention her Sesshoumaru-sama. He'd been acting strange since she got her pup. She would have to talk to him; stop ignoring him, like old times.
"Lord Sesshoumaru?" Rin whispered.
Her room was dark and cold. It made her feel lonely...
Fluffy wasn't around and neither was Jaken, Ryo, or even Sesshoumaru.
Rin threw the covers off her and leaped onto the floor. Instantly she got dizzy; blood rush. She got up too fast.
Sitting back on the bed, Rin took a deep breath. Fluffy could wait . . . if only for a minute.
Sesshoumaru held the pup by the rough of it's neck, casting it away from his body in disgust. The pup smelled. It really needed a bath.
Finally reaching his office doors, Sesshoumaru peeked over his shoulder and made sure no one was around.
He threw the pup inside and followed. The pup instantly started growling, while at the same time backing into a corner.
"Stop it," Ordered Sesshoumaru.
The pup looked left then right, up and then ahead at Sesshoumaru. Fear in it's eyes. He begin to whine, bowing lower on its tummy. Dragging his belly across the floor toward Sesshoumaru, as he whimpered and wagged his tail. He kept licking his nose, trying his best to appease the obviously greater dog-demon.
Sesshoumaru growled. Ignoring the pup's act of submission. He didn't need a pup to submit to him, it was painfully obvious who the superior one was.
"Now, you wish to show respect for me after marking my castle, degrading my minions, and taking my Rin?" The taiyoukai growled, coldly.
The pup whined louder, cuddling near Sesshoumaru's foot. He was a slick one. That little gesture may have worked on the alpha of his pack back in the village or on his mother, but it would not be enough to satisfy this Sesshoumaru.
"Move." The lord ordered.
He looked around his office. The room was some hundred feet off the ground. If something were to accidently fall out the window and die; a slow, horrible, blood splattering death on the ground below, no one could help but to think something of it. But they would be wise enough not to say anything. It would just be an unfortunate accident, the rumors would say aloud, but in whispers, they would, of course, be accusing. As they should.
Looking down at the whining pup again, Sesshoumaru noticed something about it's eyes. Rin. She used those same big, brown, pleading eyes when she wanted to appease any anger her Lord felt toward her.
"Move." Sesshoumaru hissed, once again.
This time, the pup obeyed. It backed up into the corner again, it's whines falling silent. It begin to pant now, happy as a jaybird on Sunday morning, or as happy as Rin on any morning.
Sesshoumaru felt a small knot in his stomach. Disgust for contemplating the demise of the pup or hunger? Probably the latter...he hadn't had a bite all day.
Someone knocked on the door. Sesshoumaru was about to growl but recognized the scent of the offender.
Rin.
She opened the door a moment later, smiling brightly. Still looking sick with faint black rings around her eyes, a rosy nose, and flushed cheeks. And a very light sheen of sweat plastering her bangs to her forehead.
Sesshoumaru frowned. Why hadn't she recovered fully, yet? It bothered him, but he knew humans took far longer to heal than demons.
She rushed into the room, uninvited, and picked up the pup, planting kissing on it. Happy as ever to see her, the pup practically tried to lick the skin off Rin's face.
"Hey, stop that!" She joked.
Sesshoumaru held back a growl. He walked over to his desk and seated himself. He'd had enough of that pup. Should have gotten rid of it when I had the chance . . . damn those eyes!
Rin smiled to her lord. He looked bored, as usual. Maybe I should spend time with him?
The puppy begins to squirm, wiggling closer to Rin. Sesshoumaru knew what was coming, and he didn't feel like what was going to happen.
He rubbed his temples. "Shut the door, Rin" Sesshoumaru ordered.
Rin smiled and did as she was told, pushing the door. But the door hit something and doubled back open.
Rin gasped and peeked behind the door. There lie Jaken and Ryo, Ryo sitting on Jaken.
"Oh no! Ryo, are you okay?" Rin asked, putting the pup down and helping him up.
Ryo smiled and nodded, looking toward the pup, who seemed to be infatuated with something behind Ryo.
Ryo gasped as he realized his tail was wagging. The pup took a step closer. His mouth slightly parted, tail whipping back and forth. It had spotted it's prey.
Sesshoumaru rubbed his temples a bit more slower. Not now, please Kami keep them quiet.
Jaken got up, yelling. "WHAT HAPPENED, YOU STUPID COYOTE!? CAN'T YOU WALK SOMEWHERE, WITHOUT CRASHING INTO A DOOR! STUPID CREATURE! TRYING TO KILL ME AND WHATNOT!"
Rin smiled at seeing Jaken and that he was okay. With that mouth, how couldn't he be. "Good that you are fine, Master Jaken!"
Jaken growled at Rin's bad Japanese. "Watch your tongue, girl!" he said not meaning to sound too mean. He was actually trying to correct the way she spoke--here grammar was all wrong, but it ended up sounding like she had used a bad word, and needed to be scolded.
Rin frowned, not sure what she had said wrong. "Ano . . . Sorry?"
Ryo dusted himself off and glared at the pup again. Evil, little, four-legged mutt! As if it could read his mind, the pup growled at Ryo.
The coyote youkai gaped stupidly at the puppy, and looked around crazily. "Evil dog! Yea, I said it!"
Jaken gasped thinking Lord Sesshoumaru would be offended, but it was exactly the opposite.
Rin glared at Ryo, trying to look as mean as possible but her cheerful face couldn't distort in such a manner--that was a look only Sesshoumaru could pull of perfectly.
Jaken continued to stare at Sesshoumaru, who was becoming very annoyed by this point. The yelling, growling, talking...why hadn't he killed them all(except Rin) by now?
"Why are you all in this Sesshoumaru's office?" Sesshoumaru said trying to calm his pulsing temples. Headache. His glare didn't falter, though, as his amber eyes pierced through the trio at his door (Rin excluded).
Ryo looked at Sesshoumaru, couldn't really think of an answer, so he looked to Jaken. Jaken frowned then whimpered, looking to Rin. And Rin? Well she smiled up at her lord, a big grin on her pale, flushed face. (She's still sick, ya know).
She giggled as she picked up her pup and took it over to Ryo. "Go play with fluffy. He likes you!" She said, pushing him and Fluffy out of the doorway. She followed closely behind them, planning to go back to bed--most likely where her lord wanted her to be.
Jaken tried to follow but tripped and fell, only to get kicked by Rin as she tried, and failed, to step around him.
"Gomen, Master Jaken." But she didn't help him up.
Rin started to shut the office door when Sesshoumaru called her back in. She peeked in, smiling. "Yes, milord?"
Sesshoumaru couldn't think of a way to put this. Well, he could think of many ways to put it, but he preferred to say it as kind as he could, as not to hurt Rin's feelings, but still remain his cold, nonchalant, dispassionate self.
He wanted the pup gone. That was it, really. And well, his Rin back. That would be an added bonus to the pup being banished. It was probably the pup's fault Rin was ill, anyway.
He sighed. Too difficult. Looking into her big, brown, innocent eyes made things very difficult to say, or do. Rin just smiled and fully entered the office.
Sesshoumaru watched her pace around, probably trying to keep her mind of her feverish, weak body. She probably felt faint.
But nonetheless, this had to be said! There was once a time, when even Rin couldn't make this great taiyoukai speechless and bothered...Obviously those times were gone...but still!
"Rin . . . The pup has to go."
Dread fell upon Rin's face. "Milord? Why?" She didn't start to cry, at least not yet but he was still thankful.
"The pup is, most likely, what is causing your illness. All of the demon plants in this vicinity are gone, yet you still smell and look ill." He kept his voice cold and distant, "He will be the death of you."
Rin smiled, nervously. "But Rin feels fine . . . See?" She said, twirling in a circle and running back and forth. She stopped suddenly, the world around her was spinning really fast. Wobbling a bit on her feet, she approached the desk and leaned against it.
"But you are not well," Sesshoumaru said, maintaining his cold tone though there was a bit of a growl in there. "Either the pup goes, Rin, or your health goes."
Rin gasped. "But, I love Fluffy!" She exclaimed, "Is there not anything you could do, Lord Sesshoumaru!?"
Sesshoumaru nearly sighed. Nearly. Maybe her sickness was an allergy to this pup (he hoped so, then he wouldn't have to EVER deal with her and her love for other dogs), but then she'd be allergic to him too. Right? Maybe she was allergic to something else? Or perhaps it was just a simple illness. Humans were weak and very susceptible to feeble diseases that a youkai wouldn't even flinch an eye at.
Rin walked over to Sesshoumaru and stood behind him. With him seated, she was about his height so she draped her arms over his shoulder and hugged him from behind. Making very sure he was OK with the touch. She had learned to read his demeanor over time, but if he didn't want to be bothered, he would've pushed her away.
"Is there not anything," she asked sweetly, "you can do?" Her hugs were very rare, mainly because he didn't want to be touched...but it did allow him to subtlely put his scent on her. Perhaps this was why he allowed her to drape herself over his back.
Sesshoumaru held back a whine. He was the Taiyoukai of the Western Lands, he did not whine. But when his young charge scratched lightly behind one of his elvin ears, he tipped his head just a smidget. She probably hadn't noticed, though.
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes, slowly. It felt very nice, almost enough to lull him into a light doze. It reminded him of when she would have nightmares and would, nervously, come to his room. Of course, he never let her sleep with him--he slept to lightly for company. And he'd seen her sleep--she kicked, punched, and wiggled all over the place. He wouldn't get an ounce of sleep with her around. But she did come to his room, and while she spoke of her vivid night terrors, she was unconsciously rubbed and scratch behind his ears--a comforting feeling it was. Especially since he didn't have to explain to her--over and over again--that her dreams were just that, dreams.
Just as Sesshoumaru thought things couldn't get any better than an ear-scratching or worse than when Ryo and Jaken had appeared earlier, he heard a loud crash out in the hall.
Opening his eyes slightly, he stared at the door. They had better not come in, annoying the hell out of him. He heard the faint snore of Rin in his ear, and had come to the conclusion that she was standing up, asleep. Her scratching had turned into little twitches of her fingers, as she tried to continue to please him, even in her sleep.
If he got up, she'd fall back but if he stayed, his castle would slowly be torn apart by it's own inhabitants. So he grabbed Rin by her still scratching hand and slowly pulled her around the seat. Her feet stayed put, as her body leaned over the arm-rest. She mumbled lightly as she toppled over into his lap.
The sounds in the hall stopped. Then there was whispering followed closely by a loud thump!
Sesshoumaru sniffed the air. Jaken, and that damn coyote youkai, Ryo. Again.
Carrying Rin out of the office, the taiyoukai entered the aforementioned noisy hall. Odd timing, odd sight.
Ryo was slumped over Jaken's back trying to hold something down; with Jaken under him, also bent at the waist. it was a rather hilarious sight, because Ryo looked like he was banging Jaken from behind, while Jaken was . . .
What the hell?
Jaken was holding something down. Something brown, something like Rin's pup!
Sesshoumaru gracefully walked over toward the struggling trio.
Good thing Rin was asleep, catching Ryo and Jaken like that would only start her on another barage of questions about things that caught her curiousity. Why is Master Jaken is green and little? Did he not eat his vegetables when he was small--smaller? Why does Ryo have a tail and I don't? Do all inuyoukai have tails? Milord, do you have a tail? Why doesn't Jaken get married? I've never seen him with a girl? Are there even girl frog-youkai? And so on.
Eventually the questions led to things he would rather not have to explain to a child. Maybe when she was older...
Sesshoumaru glared Jaken, after inspecting Ryo's position on top of Jaken. (He knew his servant wasn't all that straight, but in public!) Looking at the small pup, Sesshoumaru thought he felt a tinge of pity pass through him. Or it could have been hunger, and he still hadn't eaten anything.
Ryo leaped off Jaken, panting. "Got 'em!"
Jaken leaped off the floor also. "GOOD JOB, MUTT!" He practically yelled, causing Rin to turn in Sesshoumaru's arms. She might not have been a light sleeper, but she was sick--she wouldn't be able to rest deeply.
Sesshoumaru raised a leg, gracefully kicking Jaken into a nearby wall. He looked down at the pup. Poor thing(Ha! Not really.). They had placed a leash around it's neck. How degrading...
The pup tried everything to get it off, but all efforts were pointless.
"That'll keep ya where we want ya!" Ryo taunted, his tail wagging happily.
The pup growled and leaped up at Ryo's face. He missed, but landed behind the coyote, biting down on the waving tail before him.
"Dammit all, Get off!" Ryo yelped.
Sesshoumaru nearly smirked. No point in having the leash if you didn't hold the other end.
"Keep quiet. Rin is asleep." Sesshoumaru announced, leaving Jaken to mellow in his grief and pained body, and Ryo to get the pup off his tail.
A.N.- I'm back! SO SORRY! I took so long. had so many projects at school and other stuff, and my birthday came and I was busy like all weekends, and I'm sorry. And also I was too lazy. I'm thinking about another fic soon, but only after this one is finished, because I learned that I can't maintain two stories (barely even one). Thanks so much to all of you, this story will probably only be like 10 chapters long. Excluding an epilogue.
A lot of people say they want the pup to die. I'm not so sure though, you all will probably cry if I kill the pup, or ya might even throw a party and invite Sess, get him wasted and have your way with him. I'm not sure, I dunno, it's your choice. If I do decide to get rid of him, I'm quite sure it would be like . . . Oops! Don't wanna tell ya! Gotta go! Thanks again!
Review please!
Edited: 3.4.08. Fixed grammar mistakes and names.