Kijustsu no Senyo
Author's Note- I'll do more a physical description of the baby in this chapter. :) It's going to be a very cute chapter. I know about the hot dogs in the movie. I just wasn't thinking when I wrote that chapter I guess. Sorry.
LiL:.CaT:.AnImE, of course I missed you! You're my favorite reviewer:) No, the pup is not one of Sesshy or Inu's brothers. You'll have to read on to get a better discription. You don't know how much fun I had with this chapter. It took me forever to find a good name for the kid. And yes, these chapters have been getting longer! I'm happy about that! But this one's still pretty short. :(
"How long is this going to take Lausanne-san?" Rin asked as she and Lausanne walked away from Sesshoumaru and towards the human village. The elf was tying a large red kercheif over the top of her hair to hide her pointed ears. Tachi was on her back in the small sling she had made him and her bag hung over her shoulder.
"I do not know." Lausanne admitted, "It depends on what we find, buy, and who we run into."
"What are we going to get?" the little girl asked.
"Cloth." she replied, "I want to make Tachi some clothes. He is a demon baby. Wrapping him in a blanket will not work for very long."
"Is Tachi what you named the deamon you found?"
"Yes. His full name is Tachisaru, but I think that is too big for him right now."
Rin grinned. "Rin likes that name!" she said happily, "Can you make Rin clothes too?"
Lausanne looked back at the girl who was following her. Her kimono looked fine except for a few small rips on the bottom. But Lausanne also knew that this was the girl's only kimono. "Yes." she replied, "I will make you a new kimono. You can pick out the cloth you want when we get to the village. Is that good?"
"Yeah!" Rin exclaimed, "Thank you Lausanne-san!"
The elf smiled. "You are quite welcome Rin." she replied.
Suddenly Rin stopped.
"What is it Rin?" Lausanne asked.
"Do you have money to pay for Tachi and Rin's clothes?" Rin asked, "Rin didn't see Sesshoumaru-sama give you any money."
"Of course I have money." Lausanne said, "I have my own money. I do not need Sesshoumaru to give me any." She pulled a little leather bag off her belt and opened it up so that Rin could see the handful of gold, silver, and copper coins inside.
Rin gasped. "That's a lot of money Lausanne-san!" she exclaimed.
Lausanne laughed, putting the bag back on her belt. "I suppose it is." she said, "But I have never needed it, being an elf and living away from humans. Therefore I will buy you anything you want today. Okay?"
The little girl's eyes widened. "Really?" she asked, "You'd buy Rin anything she wants?"
The older girl nodded. "As long as it is reasonable. Remember we travel so we cannot get a lot."
Rin nodded. "Yes Lausanne-san." she said.
"But I would be happy to buy you some sweets or pretty jewelry."
Rin squealed happily. Lausanne laughed and ruffled the girl's hair. "You are a good kid Rin, a good kid."
As
Lausanne and Rin entered the village two hours later, Rin hid behind
Lausanne's green skirt, shy of the race that had rejected her so
harshly. Lausanne looked behind her at the girl. "Why are you hiding?"
she asked curiously.
Rin's responce was to hide her face further in Lausanne's skirts.
With a bit of surprise it occured to Lausanne why Rin was acting shy
and nervous. Even after traveling with Sesshoumaru for only a few days,
Lausanne knew the taiyoukai's opinion of humans. He despised them.
Thought that they were lower beings than demons, killing and stealing
from their own kind for no reason. His opinion had rubbed off on Rin,
making her scared of her own kind and prefering the company of the cold
demon that protected her.
She smiled and pulled Rin in front of her, kneeling down so that they
were face to face. "They're not going to hurt you Rin." she said
softly, "These are village people who have their own business to go do.
They're not going to bother someone like you." Rin nodded unsurely.
"We're going to find what we want and go as fast as we can back to
Sesshoumaru."
Rin seemed to brighten at the thought. She nodded and gave Lausanne a small smile.
"Now let's go." Lausanne said.
The town, it turned out, was a town of craftmen. They found everything
there from bakeries selling rice balls filled with fruit to finely
crafted furniture. In no time at all, Rin was dragging Lausanne all
over the town excitedly. Finally they found a shop full of different clothing materials.
"Looking for something particular?" the plump woman shopkeeper asked.
"Yes." Lausanne replied nodding. Quickly she came up with a story. "My
uh, husband, and I travel a lot. I need cloth to make very durable
clothing for my baby son and young daughter."
The shop keeper looked down at Rin and over at Tachi and smiled. "Of
course." she said nodding, "You're in luck. Yesterday I was fortunate
to have a demon cloth trader come to the shop. I have some demonic cloth. Very
strong, yet encreadibly soft. Would you like to see them?"
"That would be great." the elf answered.
Nodding, the shopkeeper bustled to the back of the shop, returning a
few moments later with some bolts of material. She set them down on a
table. "Feel free to to look at them. Find me when you're ready to buy
something." the woman told Lausanne as she hurried over to another
customer.
Lausanne began looking over the fabric that had been brought out. She
reconized the bright red fire rat cloth that Inuyasha wore, but nothing
else. There were dark red, royal blue, green, yellow, white, cream,
orange, and light pink fabrics too. Besides solid colors, there were
also patterns. Lausanne watched Rin touch a pink cloth with yellow
flowers gently.
An hour later Lausanne and Rin left the store. Lausanne carried a
bundle of royal blue cloth to make Tachi clothes and a light yellow
cloth covered in perriwinkle flowers for Rin.
"Rin will be so pretty in her new kimono!" Rin said happily, "Thank you Lausanne-san so much!"
Lausanne laughed. "Do not worry about it Rin." she replied, "I think that everyone needs at least one extra change of clothes."
"But where will Rin put her extra clothes?" the girl asked.
"You can put them in my bag." Lausanne told her, "I have plenty of room
in it." She looked down at Rin to see that she was gone. "Rin?"
Turning back, Lausanne saw the little girl in question staring through
the door of a bakery. The elf walked over to Rin and looked in too.
"See anything good?" she asked.
"All of it!" Rin exclaimed.
Lausanne laughed. "Alright." she said, "I will buy you something."
Grinning, Rin ran into the shop and started looking at the goodies.
Lausanne followed, also looking around. In a few minutes Rin had picked
out a few onigiri filled with plums and sugar.
"I think that is enough Rin." Lausanne commented.
"But Rin only has ten!" Rin insisted
"Which is a very good number." the elf commented, "We should be returning to Sesshoumaru."
Even
after that it took Lausanne another fourty five minutes before she
could get Rin out of the town. They were now on the road again. Rin had
finished her onigiri and was playing with a small carved horse Lausanne
had bought her. "You said that you had a husband when we were getting
cloth." Rin commented suddenly, "Did you mean Sesshoumaru-sama?"Lausanne blushed deeply. "I did." she finally replied.
"Is Sesshoumaru-sama really your mate?"
The elf's blush became brighter if that was possible. "No, he is not."
"Then why did you say he was?"
"The woman at the shop would have thought it was funny if I came in
with two children and made no mention of a husband." Lausanne replied.
"When you said your son and daughter did you mean me and Tachi?" Rin questioned.
"Yes."
"Are we really your children."
"Tachi is." Lausanne replied, "I found him and I take care of him,
making him my adoptive son. But I think you are more of Sesshoumaru's
child than mine."
"But you just said that you really did say that Sesshoumaru-sama was your mate! That makes me your daughter!"
Lausanne laughed, blushing again. "But I just said that Sesshoumaru was not my mate." she pointed out.
"You're confusing Rin!" Rin accused.
The elf sighed. "Who do you think your parents are?" she asked.
"You and Sesshoumaru-sama." Rin replied.
Lausanne grinned. "Then let us just leave it at that." she said.
"And move onto the next subject." a male voice said from in front of them.
Lausanne looked up in surprise and gasped. While she had been talking
they had been surrounded by bandits. "Get behind me Rin." she said.
"I don't know how much safer that is." another voice taunted.
Lausanne turned to see that there were more behind them. "I believe it
would be in your best interest to let me and the children go unharmed."
she told them.
"And why's that?" the leader of the bandits demanded.
"You gonna fight us off with that sword of yours?" another asked.
The leader took a step closer to Lausanne. "I like a woman with an
attitude. I think I'll have a little fun with this one boys. You can
have her when we're done."
He took another step and another until he was directly in front of
Lausanne. She did not move, but continued to glare at him. "Looks like
this sweet face was all talk and no action." he jeered. His followers
laughed.
The leader reached out to touch Lausanne on the cheek. There was a
flash of green light and he was thrown back. "I said do not touch me."
Lausanne said, her voice deadly calm.
"What the hell is this woman!" one of the bandits demanded.
Half grinning, Lausanne pulled her kercheif off to reveal her ears. The
men gasped. "It's a demon!" the bandit leader exclaimed, jumping up,
"Get her!"
The bandits charged towards Lausanne and the two children. Lausanne
pulled Rin close to her and shut her eyes and concentrated. A small
barrier appeared between them and the men. Lausanne opened her eyes and
looked at them. They had stopped their attack.
"I do not wish to fight." she said, "Let us go peacefully."
"Charge!" the leader insisted.
Lausanne sighed sadly. "I hate doing this." she mumbled. The elf gave a
lazy wave of her hand. There was a large explosion. Dust and rubble
flew everywhere, but did not go through the barrier.
When the dust cleared, Lausanne and Rin saw that the bandits had
collapsed and parts of the road were missing. Rin gasped. "Are they
dead?" she exclaimed.
"No." Lausanne replied, letting the barrier go down, "They have only fainted. I do not kill."
Rin gave a sigh of relief. "That's good." she said, "They didn't hurt you, did they Lausann-san?"
"They did not even touch me."
Lausanne took Rin's hand and began leading her around the dirt and
unconcious men. As soon as they got out of the mess Tachi began to cry.
Lausanne laughed and pulled the pup out of the makeshift sling on her
back. "What a sgong boy you are!" she cooed, "You went through the
whole trip to the town, the entired day at the town, and a fight with
bandits before crying!"
"Is he alright?" Rin asked.
"Yes." Lausanne replied, pulling a container of milk and a cloth out of her bag.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to feed Tachi." she explained, "I don't have any meat or
food with me so he'll have to live with milk." The elf dipped the cloth
into the milk and then offered the saturated cloth to Tachi. His crying
immediatly died down as he started to suck on the rag.
"Can I try?" Rin questioned.
"I am not sure." Lausanne admitted, pulling the cloth away from Tachi
and dipping it again before giving it back, "I promised Sesshoumaru
that I would be the only one to take care of Tachi."
"But Sesshoumaru-sama's not here!" the girl pointed out, "And if you won't tell him, Rin won't tell him, so please?"
Lausanne laughed. "Alright." she said nodding, "But only one dip. I
wouldn't be surprised if Sesshoumaru went to look for us. You never
know when he's going to show up."
"Okay." Rin said nodding.
Lausanne took the cloth once again out of Tachi's mouth and handed it
to Rin. "Dip it in there and keep it in for about two seconds." she
instructed, "Then put it over Tachi's mouth so that he can grab it."
Nodding, Rin did as she told and giggled as Tachi began sucking on the cloth. "He's so cute!" she said happily.
"I know." Lausanne agreed, smiling.
The elf took the cloth from Rin and dipped it back in the milk. Tachi
was full enough to stop sucking up the milk in another four dips and
they returned on their way.
"Are we going back to Sesshoumaru-sama now?" Rin asked when they began to walk again.
"Yes." Lausanne replied, "I promised him we would return as soon as possible. Then we will continue to travel with him."
Shippo: Is Lausanne really going to make clothes for Rin and Tachi?
Kagome: That's what it seems like.
Sango: She's very nice.
Miroku: She will make a good mother.
Sango: I don't even want to know what's going through your head right now.
Miroku: What?
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