Hello Simply Hopeless here with a new story for you. I decided to try one of those short stories that a lot of authors are doing so this willbe like under five pages even probably three. It's kind of my way of taking a break from my much longer stories so I hope you enjoy and review. I do not own Inuyasha so there is nothing else I can say. Italics at end is lyrics to the song 'You Are My Sunshine,' other italics means thoughts or memories. I'll only update once a week if I get enough reviews and this is dedicated to all the Sesshomaru/Rin fans out there.
You Are My Sunshine
Chapter One
Golden orbs seemed for the first time to be swimming with tears. They couldn't stop no matter how much he tried to pressed the balls of his fingers against his eyelids. The whites of his eyes were pink from crying as he held onto a hand that was thin and old. It wasn't like him to be found inside a ningen's hut, in a ningen's village.
He sneered at all ningen's except for one. One ningen out of all the ones he saw in his lifetime managed to weasel their way into the cold lump that was his heart.
She was the reason he was here in this hut, alone with only weak light filtering into the small little room. It only had the barest necessities in it's bare walls. A small little rug on the dirt, while four with four chairs sat against a small table except for one which the taiyoukai now occupied. The hut was taken up mostly by a bed where an old woman was nestled inside some blankets with a half finished cup of tea sitting on a nightstand. Only those few things plus a small chest and nothing more.
'If I had known she was living in such conditions,' he growled to himself chastizing himself for indulging the ningen.
"M... my Lord the ningens would like to see Rin now," ventured out Jaken timidly after a few hearbeats. He clipped his beak close as he saw his master's golden orbs focusing on him for a second. "M... My Lord please understand that-" Jaken began trying to save his sorry hide.
"They can wait," Sesshomaru said bitterly grasping Rin's hand tigther, unwilling to let go just yet.
"But my Lord they would like to be with her in her last moments," cried out Jaken anxiously. He turned his big yellow eyes towards the hut's door where a group of ningens waited patiently to enter the domain.
"I said leave us damn it!" he roared ready to form his energy whip if need be.
"L... L Lord Sess... Sesshomaru please," gasped out a reedy little voice from the folds of the blankets.
"Don't speak," Sesshomaru ordered hoarsely and gave her small little hand a squeeze. Jaken forgotten for the moment as he slunked out of the door to send his apologies.Sesshomaru insteadwatched as a pink tongue slid across dry lips as if ready to say something more. But she respected his wishes instead looking at him with the same big brown eyes that she had as a child.
Except that already Sesshomaru noticed how they seemed almost to look through him as if already peering into the world beyond. He gave her hand a gentle squeeze as if to snap her out of her daydream only earning a raspy laugh from the old woman before him.
Hair so white that the white sheets under her paled in comparison to the silky long strands. Her small little face wrinkled with age under folds of skin that showed every little crease of her mouth with eyes that bespoke of crows feet. The hand that Sesshomaru clung to as if it was a life line was so bony that Sesshomaru had to loosen his grip or end up possibly crushing it in his grip. He could see each and every blue vein; could feel or see each and every bone.
"F... Father," she tried again, her tongue moving sluggishly in her mouth. She knew that only when they were alone did Sesshomaru allow her to give him such a title. "You can't... you can't hold on to me fo... forever. We knew this," she gasped out. Just those few words an effort for her poor little body.
"We knew," he agreed somewhat bitterly wondering where the day's had flown. "But the parent should have gone first."
She managed a weak smile at that and reached a trembling hand up to touch his cheek. "It's best this way," she wheezed before settling into a fit of coughing. 'I will die looking at the same Sesshomaru not quite touched by time,' she thought almost happily.
"No... it's not," he growled and to Rin's suprise the taiyoukai gathered her small form up into his arms. Blankets and all he cradled the fragile being in his arms.'She can't die,' he thought firmly his hand hovering over his Tensaiga as if he would use it right then. Hewanted back desperately thesmall little girl with one tooth missing that would always have a smile ready whenever he came home.
'I've missed this. He hasn't done this since I was little,' she thought in wonder, her eyes opening in suprise before closing to store this last precious memory. She had so many precious memories of her Lord Sesshomaru.
You Are My Sunshine...