I looked at where the human wench stood. She had her arms firmly wrapped around both my Rin and the kitsune pup. Her eyes were colored with her miko powers, glowing from the intense power that ran through her veins.
"Sit boy" she said in a deadly calm voice that nearly killed my very soul for some unknown reason. Rin looked up at the girl, the wretched miko, with wide eyes. She clutched to the miko fearfully as I watched hidden in the shadows. I knew she was in there from the wolf-youkia that had come for the miko, and by doing so scared my Rin. The miko had immediately told the wolf-prince to leave. When he didn't and Rin began to cry she threw up the barrier, slowly losing herself to the overwhelming flow of her newly awakened powers. The wolf-prince left before he was purified, calling out behind him that he'd be back for her. Then when my half-brother had attempted to make her drop her sheild she 'sat' my imbicile of a half-brother. Which brought them to where they were now. The miko wench acting like both my Rin and the full-blooded kitune pup were her own, to protect, to raise, and to....love. Those pure white-pink eyes grazed through my half-brother, who lay unmoving in his crater at her feet. Almost like he was afriad of the tiny slip of an onna.
'They' I thought 'seemed to be gazing at his very soul' and that was all I could manage before she turned those soul shattering eyes towards me. Her death-like grip on my Rin seemed to loosen slightly while remaining firm on the unconscious kitsune pup. Rin clutched harder as if afriad of leaving the miko wench and her barrier.
"It's ok Rin, your father is here for you." The white-pink began to fade from her blue-grey eyes. Rin gave a nod but tears still filled her cinnamin eyes.
"But 'kaa-san! Rin wants to stay with you!" Only with the miko less then a full day and already the onna had formed a bond with my ward, then again that's all it had taken for her to become attached to me. The miko kneeled, placing the kitsune pup against her calve. She gathered my charge in her arms and began to soothe her, in a way that I knew that I could never hope to achieve. Rin sat on the damned miko's lap, her head resting lightly on the onna's shoulder, as the miko ran her finger gently through the distraught Rin's hair. The other arm was wrapped firm around her 'musume', as if to tell her she didn't wish to let go either.
"Don't cry, my little one, remember I'll come to see you as often as Uncle Inu will let me. And always remember my musume you can summon me and I'll take you away no matter what. Maybe when you're a little older and Sesshomaru-sama say you can, you might be able to come and visit my okaa-san and her otou-san and of course your uncle Souta. But always my musme remember I love you dearly." she whispered soothingly to the hiccuping child. The sight of the love the two shared made my heart ache. It was almost as if Rin really was the damnable miko's child.
"Come Rin" I commanded and with a tearful sob she left the safety of her mother.
"Bye 'kaa-san" the miko stood up slowly her kitsune pup now held firmly in her arms. A tearful smile playing upon the onna's lips, her eyes filled wiht tears that in a moment would be gone, never to fall.
"No need for good-byes. I'll see you soon, little one." my half-brother lay silent, still firmly smashed in the ground where she'd put him, at her feet. She gave him the barest glance before turning towards me.
"If my child gets hurt, inu-youkia, I will purify you. Make no mistake, Rin is my musume, and will purify every damn youkia in this world to save her or my kit." she twirled away and with a feline-like grace left through the trees. Leaving those hard blue-grey orbs looming in my mind.
"Who is she, Inuyasha?" I asked knowing I knew not her name.
"Kagome Higurashi" he muttered gruffly as he extracted his body from the ground. He looked at Rin and slightly ruffled her hair, his way of showing he was going to miss her.
"Seeya kid" he grumbled affectionately as he left after the miko.......Kagome.