Chapter Three: Rin's Kind Heart and the Birth of Evil Satsuki
By YoukaiALchemist2
Why do I always have to tell you that I don't own the InuYasha series? Do you just skip theses disclaimers? WRODS ARE MENT TO BE READ!
"Master Jaken," Rin smiled, "Shippo looks a little bit better today."
"Why do you insist on wasting or lord's time with this worthless kitsune?" Jaken demanded rudely. He looked over to see Evil Shippo glaring at him.
"If my legs weren't broken I'd come over there and tear your spine out!" Evil Shippo thought. "What do you mean 'worthless?' Your only use is to carry that fucking staff around."
"You brazen, impudent fox-child!"
"You hideous, slimy toad!"
Rin shook her head and drug Jaken away from the injured Evil Shippo, "Come on, Master Jaken, he's hurt. Just let that one slide."
Sesshomaru stepped out from the forest. Normally he would send Rin out to get her own food, but he decided to do it for her this time, due to the burden of taking care of "that pesky fox".
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin shouted happily. "Shippo's healing really fast! I think he might even be able to carry himself tomorrow!"
Sesshomaru tossed her the body of a bore he had just killed for her. "You can cook it yourself."
Rin nodded, "Of course…. my lord, this is an awfully big bore, are you certain you don't want any?"
"I've told you before, Rin," Sesshomaru said coldly, "I don't eat human food."
"So…how did you get so badly injured?" Rin asked, biting into her food.
"That's no concern of yours." Evil Shippo said coldly. He felt weird around her. Something seemed to tug at his hart, like it was trying to tell him something.
Jaken sat across from Rin, telling her what a bother the kitsune was to their lord and that they should have left him to die on the road. Evil Shippo shot him a cold look. "Heh…As soon as I'm healed, I'll kill that green twerp."
"That's a terrible thing to say, master Jaken!" Rin exclaimed.
"Well, it's true!" Jaken said, turning his nose up in the air.
Evil Shippo sat up, and pointed a finger at Jaken. "Foxfire" he mouthed, moving his hand like a gun that had just been shot.
Rin had no clue what "Shippo" was doing, "Are you okay?"
"Better than yesterday, at least," Evil Shippo faked a smile. "Just play along…you'll be better soon, and then you can kill those damn fools!" "I can move my legs a little before they start to hurt. With luck I'll be walking by tomorrow or the day after."
Rin scooted closer to Evil Shippo. To be honest, she liked him…a lot. "Do you think Ah-Un would be lonely if I slept here tonight?"
Evil Shippo was confused, "What?"
"I want to sleep next to you tonight…in case you need anything," Rin smiled.
Evil Shippo looked into the forest. "Heh…I just thought of something brilliant!" "Sure," he smiled. "Time to bring out the healing magic."
Rin had just fallen asleep when Evil Shippo used the spell. He had to wait until he had enough energy, and it could only be used once to heal two limbs a night, otherwise he would have used it back when he was hit with the Wind Scar. He stood up and looked at the sleeping Rin. "When I get back, how about you and I go on a trip?" he asked in his mind.
Evil Shippo walked over to Ah-Un. "Could you take me somewhere?" he asked. Ah-un bent down to let the short kitsune on his back. "To the village! I need to see an old friend."
"Satsuki!" the headman's wife called, "you have a visitor!"
Satsuki came to the front room, her old dirty clothes long since traded in for new ones. "Who is it so late at—SHIPPO!" she cried, sweeping the kitsune off his feet and into a hug. "I missed you SOOO much!"
"Same here," Evil Shippo grinned, pretending to pat her back. His real target was her hair. He only needed one strand, and now he had it. "I dropped by because my friends and I were in the area."
"It's night time," Satsuki said, sitting the fox-child on the ground. "Aren't you supposed to be with your friends?"
"Yeah…I should get back to them," Evil Shippo smiled, hiding the hair he stole in his sleeve. "I will see again really soon!" He dashed away and got back on Ah-Un. "Now there's just one more thing to take care of."
Evil Shippo scanned the land from the sky. "That cave will work," he smiled, "land there."
"What are you doing!" Jaken demanded as he saw Evil Shippo tying the sleeping Rin to Ah-Un's saddle.
"I'm taking her with me…and killing you, you ugly little bastard!" Evil Shippo shouted, hurling a gigantic ball of foxfire at the toad youkai. Jaken screamed and ran around as the fire engulfed his entire form. "HAH! That will teach you to call me worthless!" Evil Shippo double-checked the knots that held Rin to Ah-Un's saddle and then jumped aboard. "If you survive, tell that master of yours I said 'If he wants Rin back, he'll have to do what I say'!"
Jaken did give an answer, he just screamed and tried to put out the fire that was consuming him. "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
Rin heard something…it sounded like boiling water. "Is some one cooking something?" she asked herself. She opened her eyes to see, but the only light was from a low fire so she really couldn't see much. "I should check on Shippo…" she thought, as she tried to get up, but her arms and legs couldn't move. "Wha-!" Rin gasped, looking down to see that she was tied up.
"So your awake?" a familiar voice asked.
"Shippo?" Rin was confused, and could not see him.
Evil Shippo laughed, "Your half right." He snapped his fingers, setting off a blast of foxfire that lit the room. Rin now saw everything.
The room was actually a cave, filled with bones. Some had katanas next to them, while others had shackles around their wrists and ankles. "This cave was home to a group of bandits," Evil Shippo grinned, "I came and told them to leave, but they refused. So I killed them, hostages and all."
Rin scooted away from him as best she could. "Sh-Shippo, what are you saying?"
Evil Shippo leaned over her, "I'm not Shippo. I am his darker half given flesh." The pot behind him boiled over. "Ah," Evil Shippo smiled, "it's done…" He went over to a small wooden box and got out some clothes, then walked to the pot and dumped it out.
Instead of the intensely hot liquid Rin had expected to come rushing at her face, a small, nude girl tumbled out. "Am I…alive?" the girl asked.
Evil Shippo nodded, "Yes. Welcome to existence, Evil Satsuki. Here, put these on."
Evil Satsuki grabbed them and got dressed quickly. "You gonna kill that girl, or should I do it?" she asked with a grin. Rin gasped in fear and tried to scoot farther away.
"No. You can't touch her," Evil Shippo scowled. "I need her for my plan."
"I want to kill her…and you can't stop me from doing it!" Evil Satsuki started for Rin.
"But I can," Evil Shippo smiled. "When I made you I added a charm…" he held out his hand and a small bead appeared in it. "If I squeeze this…" he closed his hand around the tiny ball and Evil Satsuki froze, her hands inches from Rin's throat, and clutched her chest. "Like Naraku did with Kagura, I took your heart, and I hold it in my hand."
"Damn you to hell…." Evil Satsuki gasped.
"Now…" Evil Shippo smiled, "get Rin ready."
"Wha-?" Rin stammered. Evil Satsuki took some pleasure in stomping the air out of Rin's lungs and knocking her out.
Sesshomaru returned to the camp to see Rin and Ah-Un missing, and Jaken half-dead on the ground. "L-l-lord Sesshomaru," Jaken managed to say through his burned lips, "h-he took Rin…that Shippo tike has her…"
Sesshomaru growled in anger and wandered into the forest, following the scent of Ah-Un and Rin. For some reason, Shippo's scent changed every few feet. "I'll him for this! NO ONE TAKES RIN AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" These were his thoughts on the inside. If anyone asked, though, he would say that he would kill "Shippo" for trying to use him.
Evil Shippo heard Sesshomaru enter the cave. He smiled at the thought of his plan actually coming together. "Ah, Sesshomaru…how…pleasant it is to see you again."
"If you think I came for the girl, you're wrong," Sesshomaru lied.
"Then why did you come?" Evil Shippo laughed, jumping from his perch on a high rock to the ground. "There is no other reason. I see your weakness, Fluffy, and I'm using it!" Evil Shippo snapped his fingers, lighting the whole room. In the far corner, floating in the air was a gigantic hourglass. Rin was in the top half, unconscious, and no longer tied up.
Rin stirred, "Lord…Sesshomaru?" She woke right up upon seeing her father figures face. "LORD SESSHOMARU!" Rin pounded on the glass. The hourglass tipped over and Rin fell to the bottom, followed by a small stream of sand.
"You bastard…" Sesshomaru growled, his eyes turning red as he began to transform. The sand in the hourglass started to pour out faster.
Rin screamed in terror. "I wouldn't do that, Fluffy," Evil Shippo smiled. "the more youkai energy is released in here, the faster the sand falls. And don't think that you could kill me and then save your precious Rin after she's buried, because I sealed it off with sutras that make Mt. Hakurei's barriers seem like a mild inconvenience!"
"Get me out of here, Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin shouted at the top of her lungs as the sand reached her knees.
Sesshomaru stopped his transformation, and the sand fell much slower. "Good boy," Evil Shippo smiled. "Now, if you want Rin back, you'll do exactly as I command…"
Evil Satsuki smiled at Evil Shippo's trick. It was all an illusion. She held Rin, tied up in her lap, with her hand over Rin's mouth. Rin thought that she was in an hourglass when she was actually safe and sound in a deeper section of the cave so the sounds she made wouldn't reach her lord's ears.
Evil Shippo had taken some of Rin's hair and made a double of her. The spell was different. It did not bring her dark side to life; it just made a physical double, which connected to her senses, making Rin experience everything the double did. Everything Rin tried to do, it did. Even that "Sesshomaru" guy wouldn't be able to tell the difference
"She's useless." Evil Satsuki thought, "we have an exact copy that can serve the same purpose. If I just yank her head to the side hard enough…"
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Evil Shippo's mental voice told her. He was in her head at all times, making sure she did not destroy his most valuable resource.
Rin tried to shout. The sand she thought was burring her must have been flowing quickly again.
"I told you before," Sesshomaru said coldly, pulling out the Tokijin, "I don't care about her."
"So sure?" Evil Shippo grinned, gesturing to the hourglass.
"Honor is more important…" Sesshomaru lied to himself, "If a mortal dies then it is none of my concern."
"LORD SESSHOMARU!" Rin shouted as loud as she could, banging on the glass that separated her from the outside world. The sand began to gush into the bottom half of the glass. Now it was almost up to her waist, and still rising.
Sesshomaru froze. "I'd put that up, if I were you, Fluffy," Evil Shippo laughed. "Rin's gonna run out of air if this keeps up. Too much sand, too much shouting, and no air holes."
The sand was climbing up Rin's body. Now it was halfway to her shoulders. Her arms had grown tired from trying to bust the glass and were now half-buried. Rin could hardly move them. Not only that, but her throat hurt from all of her shouting, and it was harder to breathe now. "Please get me out!" Rin pleaded, "I'll never pick up another hurt person, I promise! Please, Lord Sesshomaru!"
"She said 'Please'," Evil Shippo grinned, "don't you care what happens to your 'daughter?'"
Sesshomaru hung his head, and sheathed his sword. The sand returned back to a tiny flow. "What do you want?" Sesshomaru mumbled, ashamed of that his affections for a human had caused him to become so…weak.
"Heh," Evil Shippo sneered, "That's better. I want you to get Kagome, the girl that shot me with the arrow and allowed InuYasha to get the better of me. Bring her here so I can kill her, slowly. Her and InuYasha."
Rin gasped, partly from shock at Evil Shippo's demand, partly from the lack of breathable air. Even though the sand was pouring out more slowly, it had completely buried her arms and was now up to her neck. "Lord…Sesshomaru," she tried to say. She wanted to tell him not to do it, that she wasn't worth killing innocent people over, but her body refused to finish. It was trying to save what little air it could.
"If I do this…" Sesshomaru growled, "You will release Rin?"
Evil Shippo nodded, "Yes. If you're a good little boy, I'll even turn the hourglass back over and give her some air holes so she can breathe. I'll send one of my associates with you so I can see what you're up to. If I see that you are trying to trick me, I'll let Rin suffocate in the sand."
Evil Satsuki knew the plan. Follow Sesshomaru and keep quiet. Evil Shippo's magic would let him see what he needed through her eyes. But right now, Rin was making a fuss. Her other self could hardly breathe, and so the same was true for her. If Evil Satsuki removed her hand, she would make a noise loud enough for Sesshomaru to here and the game would be over. "I need something…" Evil Satsuki looked around. She found along abandoned scarf and quickly stuffed Rin's mouth with it, and tied it so she couldn't spit it out once the illusion was over.
"There." Now Evil Satsuki could go on with the plan.
"You called, master?" Evil Satsuki asked as she entered the room, trying to sound impressive, despite her mortality and height.
"Yes. Go with Fluffy over there and make sure he plays nice." Evil Shippo made it sound like it was of little to no importance.
Evil Satsuki glared at Sesshomaru, "Go."
Sesshomaru made a slight growl, "Before I leave, you have to stop the sand."
"Of course," Evil Shippo snapped his fingers and the sand reversed its flow. Tiny holes appeared in the side and Rin made loud gasping noises as she filled her lungs with air.
Sesshomaru didn't say a word as he turned and left the cave, Evil Satsuki following close behind. Sesshomaru actually dreaded what he had to do. He couldn't believe he could feel this way for a mortal he hardly knew. She reminded him of Rin…could that be why?
"Tell me why we're going to this village again," InuYasha glared at Shippo.
"He wants to see his girlfriend," Miroku smiled. The comment was meant to be a joke, but no one was laughing.
"So?" Shippo tried to sound confident, but to be honest, the thought of seeing Satsuki for the fist time in months without so much as a gift scared him.
"Don't worry," Sango tried to assure him, "she'll just be glad to see you."
"Yeah," Kagome nodded, "and you could always draw her pictures of your 'adventures'." Kagome was trying to humor him, but she thought she might have let a little too much sarcasm slip into her words.
"Hm?" Sango stopped walking. "Is that--?"
"Sesshomaru!" InuYasha shouted.
Sesshomaru stood in the middle of the road. "Relax, little brother, I'm not here for you," his cold stare fell on Kagome, "I'm here for her."
Sorry to cut this off here, but I figured five pages was a good length. I'll get right to work on chapter four. Reviews please.