Her smile

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Chapter2: Meetings

"You know where Rin is?" Sesshoumaru said mildly, as if he were not interested. "Keh, I didn't want to come and tell you but KA-GO-ME here made ME come here and tell you the information." At this he jabbed a finger in Kagome's direction, who in turn kicked him in the shins. Inuyasha groaned, but decided to keep quiet.

"Do you see that village there?" Kagome pointed in the far off distance where there did not seem to be any place capable of living at all, before explaining, "She's in there. BUT demons can't see it, as there is a very strong barrier there. Only Inuyasha's tetsusaiga can break it."

"Whatever," he said nonchalantly before walking off toward where Kagome had just pointed to. Kagome dragged Inuyasha along, and they quickly went towards the seemingly non-existent village.

--Village Entrance--

'Seems like the human wench said right. This barrier is rather strong.' Sesshoumaru thought as he reached out a hand to feel the barrier, and found that he was allowed to go through. "So this is a barrier that only doesn't allow people with evil intentions to get through,"Kagome wondered aloud, before dragging Inuyasha along with her yet again, whereas Miroku and Sango followed behind.

Sesshoumaru walked in, and looked around. The village they were in was rather abundant, by the looks of it. There were many rice fields in the village, but there did not seem to be many villagers living there.

Then, the bustling village fell silent. All eyes turned to stare at the newfound strangers. Until Sesshoumaru finally spoke up, with his face expressionless, "This Sesshoumaru wishes to speak with Rin."

The village was full of hushed whispers for the next moment. "He knows Lady Rin?" was what was going through all of their minds and what some of them wondered out loud. "Who is looking for Rin?" said someone from behind the villagers. He seemed to be about Rin's age, but probably was a few years older. His hair was of a wildfire red, and there was something quite peculiar about him that Sesshoumaru couldn't identify.

Then something clicked in his mind. 'He's a hanyou,' he thought to himself. Out loud he said, "This Sesshoumaru is looking for Rin." The hanyou raised his eyebrow but sauntered off to look for Rin.

"Is there somebody looking for me?" Rin said softly as she walked gracefully from amongst the crowd. Then she saw Sesshoumaru, and the look on her face hardened.

"Rin."

"Sesshoumaru."

--Back to Jaken—

"Why is Sesshoumaru-sama taking so long?" Jaken said as he started to pace up and down. It was not that he hadn't thought of going in to look for Sesshoumaru-sama, but what if he got lost? He hated the thought of that. "Oh well, I guess I should just go in, it wouldn't hurt would it? And if I can't find him I'll just have to kill or threaten the villagers." He comforted himself, meanwhile also meaning it.

He walked toward the barrier and tried to go in, with a flourish in each step. Then, somehow, he was bounced off the barrier, and was sent flying away in the direction of the forest. Ah-Un hadn't noticed, so he just went on eating grass.

"What! Inuyasha that hanyou could enter but I can't! That isn't possible!" he sputtered, as he choked on a bunch of leaves stuck in his mouth. Being the stubborn person he was, he decided to go through the barrier again, this time pulling Ah-Un along. He managed to go through the barrier this time, so he started thinking that just now it was just something that Ah-Un did that sent him flying.

He heard someone talking at that very moment. 'Sesshoumaru-sama!' he thought as he heard the oh-so-familiar voice. Then, he heard a voice that seemed to be of someone he had not seen for a very long time.

"Sesshoumaru." Rin had said. When Jaken heard that, he felt anger boiling in him. How dare she call Sesshoumaru-sama by his name!

"Rin, how dare you call Sesshoumaru-sama by his name!" he shrieked as he stared at Rin pointedly. Then Sesshoumaru spoke up and said, "I don't mind." Rin was astonished. She was allowed to call him by his name? It sounded a little strange to her. "But—" Jaken tried to say to make Sesshoumaru change his mind but Sesshoumaru cut him off coldly, saying, "Enough Jaken."

Jaken quietened down but then he heard a nagging voice in the back of his head. "Can we go now? Sesshoumaru?" he said, glad that he could call his master by his name now. "I only said Rin could call this Sesshoumaru by name, but I never said that you, Jaken could." Sesshoumaru responded coldly, and everyone was hiding their sniggers, except for Inuyasha and a few other people.

Even Rin looked fairly amused, and the trace of a smile appeared on her face. But she maintained her composure and restrained herself from laughing. Jaken stared at everybody, and shouted, "If you keep laughing, I'll kill you all!" To which everyone responded by laughing even louder, and Jaken felt himself being humiliated. How dare they!

He raised his weapon, (A/N: I forgot the weapon name, Gomenasai!) and was about to set fire onto the village but Sesshoumaru glared at him warningly. Then the laughter died out, and Rin started to say, "What are you doing here?" as she turned to look at Sesshoumaru intently, as if thinking that he would say the unexpected again.

"This Sesshoumaru is here to bring you back." He said. Rin laughed dryly. "Really? Then why didn't you come and find me for the past seven years?" she retorted back at him. He raised an eyebrow and said without answering her question, "You will come with this Sesshoumaru." At that moment, a few youkai burst out from behind the villagers. They did not carry evil auras, but Inuyasha and Kagome were still staring intently, holding their weapons in hand just in case it was necessary. "Lady Rin will not go with you. She must stay here." A female youkai with light blue hair said. "Then Lady Rin has the right to choose for herself." he said as if without a care in the world.

Rin seemed to be thinking hard. What was she going to do? Stay or leave with Sesshoumaru? "Rin can't go with Sesshoumaru, Rin must stay here." She said smiling sadly. Then she continued, "I have to help to protect this village." Jaken looked shocked. The once frail girl could help to protect this village? "You cannot even fight!" Jaken said with contempt.

"I can fight, in this seven years, I have learnt how to fight, they taught me," she said indicating at the youkai, "And I have to stay, because they saved me when I escaped from the burning village." She explained a little exasperated.

'But I can't tell you that I have some other important duties, and other things that I can do. It has to be kept private, or other people would use it to their advantage. I'm sorry, Sesshoumaru and Jaken,' she thought to herself as she walked back to the village.

I sneaked into the school computer to type this! Please bear with me if it wasn't really very good. I had no time to check what I wrote. Oh and you'll all find out what Rin was hiding from Sesshoumaru and Jaken in my next chapter,I think.Once again, I ask of you all to PLEASE please R and R! I'll update again when I get 10 reviews! Lubs to you all!