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Okay now for the story… "Character talking"

'Character thinking'

(Me saying something"

Desclaimer- I hate to say it but I don't own anything about Inuyasha.

The Missing Hairband

(Kinda stupid insn't it?)

It had been a long time sence Sesshoumaru and Rin last saw Tora. Rin was very upset when Tora left, and even more sad that she didn't even say good-bye. Rin still sobbed a little bit now and then. Tora had been her only ever friend(Except Sesshoumaru and Jaken) even if her friendship with Tora was only a few days.

Sesshoumaru had a strange feeling sometimes but he didn't know what it was. He thought quite abit about it too. But even in thinking a lot about it, he only came up with a few anwsers. 1. That he's just papanoyed. 2. Because Rin was so upset it was rubbing off on him and 3. That he just might achully miss Tora. Sesshoumaru thought all his ideas were stupid and was greatly mad at himself for thinking of them.

He and Rin had stayed at the cave for 2 more nights then left.

Rin wasn't as talkitive as she normally was. Maby because she had no one but Sesshoumaru to talk to anymore, or maby because she had to watch another person she was close to die and was tramatized or maby it was because her only friend left.

Sesshoumaru sorta hoped that she would open up and say what was wrong, he hated seeing her like this; sad, depressed, nontalkitive and she never smiled anymore, but he didn't know why he even cared.

It was finally at a campfire about a month after Tora left that Rin said something other than; "I'm going to get some food.", "Good-night." And "Good-morning.".

"Lord Sesshoumaru?" Rin looking up from the fire at him. He was sorta startled at suddenly being addressed. "Yes, Rin?" "Can I talk to you sometimes,even if you don't talk back to me? I miss having Master Jaken to talk to…" Then she started to silently cry. "Yes, Rin you can," She looking up at him. "I understnd that you sometimes get a little frightened when not talking. Am I right?" Sesshoumaru looked back at her for a moment and then for the first time in a while, Rin smiled.

Rin started talk, about anything and everything she can think of. Sesshoumaru occasinally anwsering a question or correcting her if she was wrong on something, then it occurred to him. Rin thought of him as a father, and he almost, or maby he was, acting like one. It was either that or he just felt a lot of sympathy towards her for everything that's happened to her. Either way he neither knowed nor cared.

"Rin it's getting late. You should go to sleep." Sesshoumaru told her. The stars were all out in the sky the fire was dieing and you could barly see anything. "Okay." Rin yawned then curled up like a cat on the ground and almost instantly fell asleep.

Sesshoumaru heard the occansinol rustle in the bushes but that's normal, just some small animals and the wind, or so he thought.

Undetected, surpriaingly, sat someone whose been watching them for a very long time.

'I can't believe he hasn't senced me yet!' The thing in the bushes thought to itself. ' Maby I should rustle the bushes a bit so he'll notice me.' So it moved the bushes a bit, and sure enough Sesshoumaru noticed it. Even though he couldn't see it, he knew it was there.

'That wasn't an animal.' Sesshoumaru thought walking towards it, cracking his knuckles. The thing in the bushes lost it's nerve, obilisly scared, it fell to the ground from it's crouching position. He went straight for it the right behind it and said, "Spting on us were you? It's your time do die!" and with that went right for it, green claws forward.

"Wait!" It cried. 'I know that voice!' Sesshoumaru istantly stopped. The thing jumped up into the canopy of trees above and left without another word.

Sesshoumaru was turning to go back to camp but noticed something fall out of the tree. He caught it but it was too dark to see but he thought he might be able to see it in the light of the coals left from the fire. So he started walking back to the fire, twiddling it in his fingers.

It was streachy and made of cloth. It was a hairtie. Sesshoumaru got back to the coals left by the fire and was amazed. He knew the pattern on the hairtie. His supistions were right.

It was a black and orange strpied hairtie.

Okay…well I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry there's so many spelling mistakes. My spell cheak is messing up and well I can't spell werth crap so I'm REALLY sorry. I'll correct it as soon as I can. And also I'm sorry this one's kinda short but oh well. I get a whole week of not having to baby-sit so the next chapter will be longer. Review please. Thankx

Torayasha