Spoilers for episodes 80 & 81.
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"Sesshoumaru-sama? Rin's hungry." Rin looked up at Sesshoumaru-sama as they walked. He looked back down, and regarded her for a moment.
"Then go find something to eat," he finally said.
He always said things like that. If she was hungry, get something to eat; if she was cold, get some firewood; if she was tired, go to sleep. By now, she knew he was going to answer like that. Rin knew that she was going to go get food, but for some reason, she didn't want to just tell him, and something seemed odd about asking if she could. So she always just told Sesshoumaru-sama what her problem was, and then he told what she should do. It worked.
It was after dusk that Rin ended up finding some melons. She picked some from the vine while Jaken-sama sat behind her, grumbling about something. But Jaken-sama was usually grumbling about something, so Rin wasn't really paying attention to him.
"Jaken-sama, how about this one?" she asked.
"Just pick one and be done with it already!" Jaken-sama said.
Rin was looking back at the melons when a sudden wind from overhead blew her down. Someone suddenly picked her up. She saw that it was the youkai woman that she had seen before. The lady said something to Jaken-sama, and then Rin felt herself being lifted. The ground and Jaken-sama were suddenly very far away. She screamed, but then she felt something hit her on the back of her head, and everything went black.
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When Rin woke up, she was in a room. She wondered where she was, until she remembered what happened. That woman had taken her away. But she still wondered where she was.
Rin remembered thinking that the youkai lady had seemed lonely the last time that she had seen her. But right now Rin didn't care if the lady was lonely or not, the lady had taken her away from Sesshoumaru-sama and left her here.
Rin looked around. It was then that she noticed a boy sitting in one corner. Then she saw a door to the side. She went over to the door, and started to open it. Suddenly, the boy told her that she shouldn't. Rin opened the door anyway, and only saw that there were youkai all around the building. She quickly shut the door, and then stared blankly at the wood for several seconds. Why was she here? Why did the woman bring her here? What did it have to do with anything? She didn't understand.
Rin went and sat down by the boy. "Were you kidnapped too?" she asked him. "We could escape together."
"I'm your guard."
Rin looked at the floor. Nothing made sense. She asked the boy what his name was and why he was doing this? Was he friends with the youkai out there?
But he didn't answer her. Rin looked down again. She wondered if Sesshoumaru-sama would come to get her. She couldn't think of a reason why he wouldn't, but despite all the things she thought of, she couldn't think of a specific reason why he would, either.
But she suddenly knew that he would. She didn't know how she knew, but she knew that he would come.
Later, Rin ate some of the melon that she still had, and she and the boy talked. He said that his name was Kohaku. But he didn't remember anything else besides that. He didn't seem to want to remember, though. Rin wondered what that was like. Would it be better not to remember? She still remembered (though vaguely) when her family had been killed.
Suddenly Kohaku jumped up. He blew out the candle and looked outside.
Rin also peeked out the door. There were several people out there. She didn't know any of them. But he kept looking.
His head suddenly snapped up, and he took her hand. "Come."
"But the youkai," Rin started. But Kohaku was already leading her outside. And none of the youkai were bothering them, they were all fighting the people over there.
Once they were far away from the building and the people, Rin asked him why he left, if it had anything to do with the people, and where they were going now. But he didn't answer her. In fact, he hadn't said anything since they left the building.
He suddenly turned around to her, but his face seemed different, blank. Then he raised the weapon that he had in his hand. Rin pulled her hand free of his as he swung the thing at her. She fell back on to the ground. What happened to him? She got up and moved away. Rin turned, but then she felt something catch her legs and pull her down. Her head hit the ground as she fell.
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When Rin opened her eyes, she saw a girl. "You're awake."
Rin looked past the girl. "Sesshoumaru-sama!" She stood up. She had known that he would come, but she was still happy that he did.
Then Rin saw Kohaku. But he jumped up and ran off into the trees. Then there was a whoosh of air and he was gone into the sky with that youkai lady. Rin guessed that he really had been friends with the youkai.
Sesshoumaru-sama talked to the two people (one of which looked like Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin thought) only for a moment, and then he started walking away. Rin immediately followed, only turning to say goodbye to the people as she walked.
"Rin knew Sesshoumaru-sama would come!" she told him after a moment.
He didn't respond at all.
Rin dropped it. Sesshoumaru-sama seemed to be thinking. And he seemed to be frowning about something.
Soon they found Ah and Un and Jaken-sama, who was complaining about being "beaten up by that hanyou." But even as they walked, Jaken-sama fell silent. He seemed to have noticed something about Sesshoumaru-sama too.
"Hey Jaken-sama," Rin asked from where she sat on Ah and Un, "what's wrong with Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Quiet!" Jaken-sama hissed. "He can hear you, you know."
"But--"
"That Naraku annoyed him again. Now quiet."
"Oh." Rin thought that she had heard the name Naraku before, but she couldn't be sure. She wondered what Naraku had to do with anything. But it didn't seem to matter to her.
Rin didn't really understand all that had happened or why, but she had known that Sesshoumaru-sama would come.
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