UnSpoken Love By: OtakuSailorV

Chapter 8:: Rin-chan

It was eight o' clock when the buzzer by her bed went off.

Groggily, she let out a moan and turned over in her bed, glaring sleepily at the flashing and beeping clock.

"Stupid thing." She cursed it, pressing a button on the top of the clock that made it immediately cease all action. Seeing, and hearing, that the clock was done, she moaned again and flipped back over, shutting her eyes.

A few hours later, she was jolted awake again by her cousin's angry voice. "Rin-chan! Rin-chan, wake up!"

Rin sat straight up, rubbing her eyes and scratching her head with a yawn. "What?" She asked irritably, getting out of her bed and walking down the hallway to the steps, and down into the kitchen.

"Why do I have to get up so early on a weekend? I'm not working today." She told her raven-haired cousin who was watching her like she was a mother.

"Rin-chan, you can't sleep so late all the time, it's not healthy to sleep half the day away like that." Her cousin told her, waving a whisk in the air.

"Half the day?" Rin asked, looking at the clock. "Kagome, are you crazy?"

Kagome pointed at the clock with the whisk, one hand on her hip. "It's almost NOON, Rin-chan! That IS half the day!"

Rin gave her a guilty look. "Warui." She grunted, pulling a bowl and a box of cereal from the shelves.

Kagome looked quite cross. "Don't you 'warui' me, young lady. Just because you don't have to work, doesn't mean you can't get up and do something with yourself when you're NOT working."

Rin rolled her eyes and poured milk on top of her cereal. "Ah, c'mon, Kago-chan, why do you always yell at me but never Sango-chan?" She asked.

"Because Sango is my sister, and I know what I can and cannot yell at her about. You, on the other hand, are under my protection by the authority of your parents." Kagome waved the whisk as she spoke.

"You mean mom and dad told you to make sure I didn't get into any trouble while I was training with you and Sango-chan." Rin said sneakily, pushing the silver spoon into her mouth with a smirk.

Kagome sighed, turning back to the cookie batter she had been mixing. "That is not entirely what I meant, but I doubt I have to explain all the circumstances to you." Kagome turned and looked at her cousin out of the corner of her eye. Rin looked slightly angry as she pulled the spoon back out of her mouth.

"Yeah, yeah." She said, waving one hand at her cousin.

"Kikyou-san should be here soon to pick you up." Kagome noticed after a few moments of silence.

"K-Kikyou-san?!" Rin asked, the spoon falling out of her mouth as she slammed her palms against the table.

Kagome nodded, watching the clock.

Rin gulped, grabbing her spoon and dishes and thrusting them into the sink as she stormed back up the stairs.

"Why didn't you tell before?! Now there's no way I can fake sick!!" Rin called as she raced back to her room and slammed the door.

Kagome groaned, planting the whisk into the batter again and beating away all her anger and frustration. "It's not going to be any picnic for me either, Rin!! And don't even think of trying to play sick!!" Her cousin threatened, her hand moving faster and faster over the batter.

Rin returned, fully dressed and brushing her hair vigorously about five minutes later.

"Kagome, it's not fair, why do I have to go with her every Sunday?" Rin whined, her fingers moving madly over the hair as she combed out all the knots.

"You have to go because it's best for you to try and control your powers, if you have any that is." Kagome said, still stirring madly.

Rin stuck her finger in the batter and pulled it back before her cousin hit her. Sticking it in her mouth she smiled. "If you whisk that much more, there will be nothing left of it, Kagome." She informed her cousin, who starred dully at the cookie batter, only half-smiling.

"Besides, it's not like YOU have to spend the WHOLE DAY with her." Rin added sarcastically. "You just have to answer the door for her."

Kagome's eye brow twitched. "Even that is too much for me, Rin. You should know that." Kagome mumbled, still attacking the bowl and batter.

Rin turned and saw her cousins whisk glow pink for a brief moment. Her eyes went wide before she dove into her. "Kagome!" She screamed just before knocking her cousin to the ground.

Kagome gasped as her whisk and bowl exploded, showing the area around them with batter. "See? I TOLD you there would be nothing left." Rin said, getting up and checking to make sure she wasn't hit anywhere by batter.

Kagome bit her lower lip. "I've got to stop doing that. . ." She mumbled to herself.

Rin scoffed. "Yeah, or you'll blow the whole house up. You've had too much training to get out of control whenever you get angry." She scolded.

Kagome smirked. "At least I know how to use my powers, and I have them too."

Rin stuck her tongue out like she was still a child. "And your power is what attracts all those demon boys too." She teased.

"Oh, you're just jealous." Kagome said with a smirk as she touched her hair softly with one hand.

"Oh, hey, now I remember! I wanted to ask you about the party last night." Rin said, suddenly excited and forgetting their game.

Kagome smiled. "It was fine, a little too much for me though."

Rin nodded. "Lots of demons?"

Kagome nodded back at her. "Hai."

Rin smirked suddenly. "Kouga there?" She asked.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Kami-sama, yes, he was there."

"You like him?" Rin asked.

"Rin, we've been through this a thousand times." Kagome sighed, leaning against the counter and rubbing her forehead in sudden exhaustion.

"Yeah, yeah, but I still think-"

"RIN." Kagome said sharply, cutting her off. "You are entirely too old for me to have to explain this to you. Not only would it be a forbidden and dangerous union, but our children, if we had any, would forever be chased and hunted by The Council, as would we. Furthermore, I like Kouga- san as a friend, nothing more, nothing less. And I do not have such a strong enough liking for him that I would throw all caution to the wind and elope with him."

Kagome finished, a hard, steady stare set on her younger cousin who looked disappointed and rather mystified.

"Aw, Kagome, where's your sense of adventure? I mean, you act like you know all the stupid Council's little rules by heart." Rin said, glancing at the clock thoughtfully.

"Rin, you would do well not to mock The Council." Kagome contradicted. "You, as a human, and not even a miko or priest, are honored by knowing that such an organization as The Council exists."

Rin rolled her eyes as her cousin continued. "And you would be better off learning all the rules too. For, if you should break one of them, there is no excuse for you. The Council Members would expect you to know what you had done and to what length of punishment you would be treated. If you brashly and ignorantly do not know any of the rules, it will not look good for you." Kagome shook her finger once at rin who acted like she was paying attention.

"Finally, I don't ever want to hear of a-" Kagome stopped suddenly as the doorbell rang.

Her eyes narrowed and her shoulders hunched. "She's here." Rin groaned. "Please, Kagome, PLEASE let me stay here!! You have no idea how dull she is."

Kagome looked at her angrily. "Rin, that is enough. Though I don't see eye to eye with Kikyou-san, I still revere her as a fellow miko, and a wise woman at that."

"Oh, yeah, I forgot, you both were trained at the same time by the same woman." Rin mumbled, slouching away toward the door as the doorbell rang again.

"Kaede-Obaa-chan." Kagome mumbled as she passed Rin, and opened the door for their guest.

"Kaede-Obaa-chan." Rin mumbled to herself as the door was swung open to reveal Kikyou.

Kagome had held down her temper as Kikyou had collected Rin and left again. But Kikyou had not held down her comments on the upkeep of Kagome and Sango's house. "Doesn't that one girl that lives with you clean this place? Or help you cook? What does she do for a living? A taijiya? Are you kidding? There are no lesser demons left to exterminate! Hmph!"

Rin got into her car and waited, wondering why she wasn't being trained by Kaede-Obaa-chan as well.

'Kikyou-san and Kagome-chan were trained by Kaede-Obaa-chan, why can't I be trained by her too?' Rin wondered as Kikyou and she meditated by a calm lake.

Rin opened one eye and peeked at Kikyou. She was always so serious about the anything that had to do with being a priestess, well, so was Kagome, but Rin felt more rigid around Kikyou when they were on the subject.

"Rin-chan, no peeking. Meditate." Kikyou ordered without opening her eyes.

'Wow,' Rin thought as she promptly shut her eyes and sat straight up again. 'Kikyou-san didn't even see me, yet she knew I wasn't paying attention. She must be really strong, like Kagome-chan.' Rin noted as she tried to force her whole being to be calm.

Five minutes later, she was still trying to calm her mind. But songs wouldn't stop playing in her head, and thoughts wouldn't stop popping up. She just couldn't focus, with the incense burning, which was supposed to help her focus and relax.

One of her eyebrows twitched as she gritted her teeth in frustration. 'I just can't do it. I can't do this stuff like Kagome and Kikyou-san think I can!' She yelled in her mind, her form swaying slightly.

As if hearing her thoughts, Kikyou opened one eye to stare at her for a moment dully.

"Rin-chan." She said, bringing the girl from her muddled thoughts.

"H-hai, Kikyou-san?" Rin asked nervously, her eyes popping open.

Kikyou took a deep breath and faced toward the lake. "When I was younger than you, much younger, I accidentally blew up a train full of people with my powers, not knowing that anything that sparked my anger might mean death to thousands."

Rin stared at her in confusion. 'Why is she telling me this?'

"I was exhausted and had passed out soon after." Kikyou explained, not making eye contact with her pupil. "I awoke to find myself in Kaede- Obaa-chan's hut deep in a secluded forest that will not be named. Kagome was already a student of Kaede-Obaa-chan's, and she was the first person I saw when I awoke."

The wind shifted, and Kikyou's hair blew toward the lake, which was full of ripples from the wind, as she continued.

"I was scared at first, and didn't want to use my powers as a miko anymore. I was afraid of more destruction, of what would happen to me, of the unknown. But Kaede-Obaa-chan told me that by not learning how to control my powers, I would only be hurting others more for my foolishness. So, I took up my training with Kagome. At first, we were distant, Kagome and I. Because I did not want to have contact with her, because she was the only other one in the world who knew what I was and what power I had. Who truly realized it." Kikyou said when she saw Rin about to protest about modern day miko's and shrines.

"But one day, she helped me retrieve a lost arrow, and when she handed it to me, she smiled like she knew me. We became friends soon after that, but it turned to rivalry when a hanyou appeared, searching for something of extreme value that Kaede-Obaa-chan was training Kagome and I to protect." Kikyou said, a touch of bitterness in her voice.

'Inuyasha-sama. . .' Rin thought, remembering Kagome's brief and never clear mumblings about him.

"He tried to steal the thing of great value, but I pinned him to a tree where he would sleep eternally." Kikyou's eyes were lost as she remembered, touching her shoulder.

"And not but fifty months later-" Kikyou started.

'That's four years and two months. . .' Rin thought, counting it off in her head.

"Kagome let him go, she pulled the arrow from his chest and released him, not knowing that Kaede-Obaa-chan had hidden the object of extreme power and value inside of her whilst she had slept one night." Kikyou's tone was truly bitter now, and her fists clenched together.

Rin stared at her, wide eyed. Kagome had NEVER mentioned THAT.

"The hanyou saved her from a lesser demon that had snuck up on her as she had freed him, and the object of power was ripped from her body." Kikyou growled. "Kagome kept the object and for years she kept the hanyou at bay with a subduing spell placed around his neck, until their little fights turned into something else."

Rin studied the grass as she absorbed it all. 'Kagome-chan. . .and. . .a hanyou. . .but, she was just telling me that. . .'

"Kaede-Obaa-chan would not allow anyone to interfere with what was going on, saying only briefly that there was something to be learned by them. But what it was I still cannot tell, Kaede-Obaa-chan WAS old back then. . ." Kikyou trailed off. "Then, The Council came. They saw the hanyou and Kagome together and chased him, but not before Kagome put off quite a show with her powers." Kikyou smirked, remembering everything.

"She went to court before the Council, and only was saved from capitol punishment by Kaede-Obaa-chan. Till this day, the hanyou is chased by The Council." Kikyou finished, picking up her bow and quiver of arrows with a small, inward sigh.

Rin was stunned, absorbing it all. 'Kagome-chan. . .'

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I will have another chapter for Miss Rin next time as well, since I want to make this two parts.

I hope you all enjoyed and thanks so much for the reviews. I know, I know, I can't wait for them to meet either, but believe me, it won't work out if I have them meet too early on.

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