UnSpoken Love By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 15:: HanyouSesshoumaru glared as he spotted the red speck and caught a scent similar to Rin's. It was most likely her beloved cousin that she had begged him to help her find.
Disgust filled him. Now he would have to face his hanyou half-sibling, and –apparently – his lover as well. Would the fates ever stop torturing him so?
"Onna," He commanded her attention. "Below us there. Is that woman in miko's garbs your cousin?"
Rin looked down and spotted the tiny specks. She squinted, but all that did for her was to blur the images. ". . .I'm not sure youkai-san, I can't see that far."
She looked up at him shyly, obviously embarrassed of her weak human vision.
Sesshoumaru's expression stayed stoic as he peered down into her chocolate brown eyes. "I will go closer then."
Rin nodded sheepishly amazed by everything about him. She hadn't noticed it before during all the chaos, but she felt secure in his arms like this, and it was making her feel uncomfortable. She was sure he could sense her every emotion, and it was making her even more uncomfortable.
'I'm just a human, and he's a demon.' She told herself. 'If I. . .and I'm not. . .and if I was. . .then there'd be so much trouble. . .trouble for Kagome. . .trouble for Sango. . .trouble for everyone. . .Gah!' Rin beat herself up inside for a moment as the wind pushed her hair upwards. 'Why am I thinking of such a thing! I hold no such feelings for him!! I mean, we just met and he is very nice looking but-! GAH!! Rin stop that right now!!'
Sesshoumaru looked down at her as he sensed the uncomfortable air filling inside of her. What was this humans problem? Her emotions fluctuated so often that he was left puzzled by what could cause such mood-swings.
As they declined, her long hair brown hair was blown back into his face. His demon nose was filled immediately with the smell of lavender. It was very soothing, and her hair was quite soft as it caressed his face. Sesshoumaru shook himself out of the daze the smell of the girl had put him in. He made a grunt of displeasure, a sign for the girl the offending hair from his eyes.
Rin gasped as she noticed what she had unintentionally done and grabbed hold of her hair, pulling it away from him swiftly. "S-sorry." She blushed, stumbling for the right words.
Sesshoumaru made no reply; he did not even look at her as they landed softly on the ground, not twenty feet from his vile brother and the miko that he embraced.
Inuyasha's ears perked as he caught the sound of feet hitting the pavement behind him.
He pulled swiftly away from the tender embrace he had been caught in with Kagome, bristling at the intruder.
He stopped short, wide-eyed at what he saw before him.
It was none other than his full-demon half-brother Sesshoumaru. His long silver hair still intact, as was his personality Inuyasha noted blandly.
But this was not what amazed him, he expected a bastard like his brother to not change, even in all the years that they had been apart, but he had not expected this. No, rather, it was what was clinging to her brother, arms around his neck, slung up into his powerful youkai arms bridal-style, pressed tightly to him as if he were afraid they would be separated.
A human.
And not just any human either, this girl was a miko; Inuyasha could sense it in her. A miko like his Kagome.
Inuyasha tested the air, but there was no doubt about it. This was his brother, and his brother was holding a human that smelled similar to Kagome.
The hanyou turned to the miko behind him. Kagome seemed to understand the question in his eyes and confirmed it by giving her own small nod.
Inuyasha came out of his fighting pose and stood straight and tall, staring at his brother sternly. "Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed slightly. "Inuyasha." He acknowledged the hanyou.
"What are you doing here?" Inuyasha did not want a fight, so he failed to mention the human girl, though she presented an opportune time to ridicule his brother.
"I could ask the same of you." He replied blandly, raising an eyebrow slightly. "Committing such an act of tenderness, and when you are being pursued so swiftly. Your enemies will be upon you soon."
That immediately set Inuyasha raging. He had not intended to fight with his brother, but he was going to make such accusations when he himself was acting no differently, then Inuyasha would not allow himself to be ridiculed.
"You're one to talk Sesshoumaru!" He spat, pointing at the human girl in his arms who immediately flushed. "I thought you hated humans!! So don't you go all 'high and mighty' on me!"
Sesshoumaru seemed to roll his eyes without actually doing so; his posture and the way his eyes jerked just seemed to signify such an action. "There was no other way to travel." He replied icily, letting Rin to her feet finally, though he had noticed he was holding her rather tightly.
Rin looked back at him a little questioningly, her blush receding, though she was still embarrassed. 'And here I was thinking. . .'
Kagome drew her attention away, noticing the slight blush before it faded away. "Rin-chan, I'm glad you're safe."
Rin looked over and suddenly noticed her cousin for the first time. She had been so preoccupied with the youkai that she was with that she had barely looked at Kagome. "Ah-! Kago!!"
The two rushed to meet each other and embraced happily, chattering away and explaining things to each other. ". . .and then the car behind mine blew up and I-"
Meanwhile, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were staring each other down, their golden eyes grid-locked. Inuyasha appeared angry, but the ever-calm Sesshoumaru gave no sign of caring that his eyes were locked with his younger brothers. They seemed to pass right through the hanyou, denoting the tone: 'I am above you.'
Inuyasha straightened again, letting out a small breath. Pulling his eyes away from Sesshoumaru's, he turned to his miko lover. "Kagome, we had better go. They'll be here soon."
Kagome and Rin stopped babbling to each other and turned to him. Kagome became stern and looked to Rin for a moment. "You two should come with us too, Rin."
Rin bit her bottom lip for a moment. "A-alright, Kago-chan." She said, beaming brightly. She turned toward Sesshoumaru, but the youkai gave no sign that he had heard a word of what they had said, though they all knew he had. Not even an inclination of his head was given to acknowledge that he agreed to go with them.
His head turned sharply away from them, and then back toward them again. His nose had twitched briefly and Rin could only guess what he was doing. Testing the wind for a scent. And the sharp turned and slight widening of his eyes spoke for themselves. They were in danger, they had no time left.
He was immediately over to them, picking up Rin and shooting a glance at his brother before turning his back on them. "I will take this human with me, but I refuse to travel with my half-breed brother." He growled, obviously addressing Kagome. "You need not fear for her safety." He added before he took to the air.
A small cloud appeared below his feet almost as soon as he had reached the peak of his inclination in the air. It was too far away for any answer to be shouted by the time his words had registered in their minds.
Inuyasha sighed in exasperation. "Follow 'im?"
Kagome nodded. "Hai."
She stopped as she was about to climb onto Inuyasha's back. "Myouga-jiji. . ." She warned the flea youkai that was trying to hop away. "You are safer with us."
Inuyasha looked back at him a little angrily. "Move it flea!" He ordered.
Myouga 'eep-ed' and jumped onto Kagome's shoulder, hiding in her hair as she climbed onto Inuyasha's back and they all took to the air as well, following Sesshoumaru's cloud.
'Sesshoumaru. . .what do you want with my sister. . . ?'
Kirara let out a shriek-like growl as she flashed through the air. Fire was bursting from her tail and paws, her long tusk-like fangs gleaming in the light.
On her back, Sango waved her Hiraikotsu and katana at any youkai that dared follow them. The ones that had attacked them at their home seemed to have fallen back, for Sango could no longer sense them, and Kirara's hair had stopped bristling.
Sango let out a sigh, not fully dropping her guard, but relaxing slightly anyway. For the moment, they appeared to be safe.
Suddenly, Kirara let out low growl, deep in her throat. Her red eyes widened, and her hair bristled. The flames on her legs and tail burst and crackled intensely, while her claws flexed in and out.
The taijiya's head swung around as she suddenly sensed a powerful demonic aura coming their way. Sure enough, just up ahead was a glittering cloud that was passing swiftly through the air, a tall, silver-haired youkai Lord standing atop it with another concealed being clutching to him on his left side.
The youkai seemed to notice them as well, and his cold, golden eyes turned toward them. Sango felt strange for that brief second, as if the piercing eyes had seen into her heart and mind. She drew in a deep, quick breath and shook the feeling off just as he turned back away, carelessly ignoring them. 'He doesn't think us a threat.' She thought a little angrily, the grip on her hiraikotsu and katana tightening as she grit her teeth.
Kirara seemed to be thinking the same, for she too ground her teeth and let out another low growl.
"No, he is not an enemy, Kirara." Sango soothed the neko youkai, petting her thick fur coat. "I think he may be in the same kind of trou-" Sango stopped short, her eyes wavering in shock and misunderstanding.
She had seen her, only briefly, but she was sure she had seen her little cousin standing at his left, clutching him and watching the ground below go by. She seemed oblivious that she had passed Sango and Kirara.
Sango gasped, pressing one hand to her mouth in shock. "Rin-chan. . .?"
Hey, I'm back. Hope you guys didn't miss me too much.
Oh! And I also finally fixed up the page breakers thing!! My friends skittlez told me how to fix it after I was complaining to her. I will go back and fix chapter 14 sometime so that it doesn't look all sloppy like that. If I don't, you guys can get on my back about it and yell at me all you want until I do. Haha. . .
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Also, I've got a new Sess/Rin idea in mind, but I won't actually be posting the story until I get some other fics finished up first. But it will feature Rin as the main character this time instead of Sesshy, and will be set in kinda the same time period. I don't wanna give too much away, but there will be some little notions of the movie Labyrinth in it. Not big pieces dedicated to something from the movie, but little things here and there where you'll be like: "Hey!! I think I remember that from Labyrinth!!" Heh heh. . .tell me what you think of such a fic coming into existence please.
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