Q: When it says "I liked you better small!" did she mean "bigger?"

A: Yes she did, thank you for saying something about it. I went back and I fixed it. I can't believe I messed it up. It's my favorite part too!

Chapter 3

I don't own Inuyasha

Rin kept walking down the forest path and kept going. She really didn't want to, but she did. She knew he'd come for her. When she looked behind her and saw that she couldn't see him anymore—that was the time to start. "Lord Sesshoumaru!" She smiled and figured it would be only a matter of seconds. Every time she merely yelled his name, he'd come charging in to save her from anything, and it didn't matter what it was. He would always save her.

When he didn't come at first, she decided that merely yelling wouldn't really do anything. She decided to scream it this time. "Lord Sesshoumaru!" Surely he'd come now. She sounded horrified, as if she was going to be devoured. She was going to be rescued by him. It was only a matter of seconds. She was only waiting for him now.

But still, he didn't come. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" She felt her eyes wallow up with tears. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" Was she truly going to be abandoned by him? Was he really not going to come? Was he really that much different? "Lord Sesshoumaru!"

Though she wasn't in danger, the commotion was heard from all around, including by the angry and hungry demons that lived within the forest.

"That was Rin," Jaken pointed out.

"So?"

"But she sounded like she was in trouble."

"So?"

"So, you're not going to save her?"

Sesshoumaru stopped walking and stomped Jaken's head with him small foot. "You're such a little fool. Why on earth would I waste my time protecting some little, human girl?" He enjoyed crushing Jaken and his agonizing moans, even more so than when he was older. "If she got into trouble, then that's her problem." He finally got off of Jaken and continued walking on. 'It's not my problem.'

"So you're going to let her die?"

Sesshoumaru had no comment. Though he really didn't have anything to say about the matter though, he couldn't, for some reason, let himself just abandon the girl. The thought didn't sit too well with him. If she was truly going to die, then there was something inside of him, that wouldn't let that happen. 'Why should I care? She's just a little, human child. She's just a bug anyway. Why should I care?' He tried to take another step, but he couldn't. He couldn't go on. 'Why do I care? Why do I care about that girl?' For some reason, he did care.

"Ahhhhhhh! Lord Sesshoumaru!"

His ears twitched, picking up the dreaded sound of her screams and that is when he began to run. He couldn't just let her be hurt. He had to help her. Before he had even realized it, he had turned around and started running as fast as he could, towards the odd little girl that he thought had no value to him.

"Wait for me, Lord Sesshoumaru!"

Sesshoumaru paid no mind to Jaken though. He kept going. He had to keep running on. He had to get to Rin, before it was too late. 'Why does she have to cause so much trouble?'

"Ahhhh!"

It wasn't but a few seconds that he found her. There was a giant troll demon that had her clasped in his hands, and he was ready to devour her whole. She had her eyes closed, and she was screaming, so she didn't see him swiftly jump into the air and cut off the demon's arm.

"Ahhhhh!" Rin fell down, and had a rough landing on her bottom, but she was alright. When she opened her eyes, she saw him. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" A smile burst on her face and she couldn't help but reach for him. "Oh Lord Sesshoumaru, I thought you wouldn't come for me!" She latched on to him and hugged him as tight as he could.

He was shocked that another mortal had grabbed a hold of him, so she held on for a good few seconds, but once he snapped back into reality, he pushed the little girl away. "What is wrong with you? I saved your life, but that doesn't mean anything."

'It means everything...' Nothing he could say could make her sad. She kept on smiling. "Thank you, Lord Sesshoumaru."

"Well..." he wasn't sure what to say. "Next time, don't get into trouble, and don't leave my side. You're such a bothersome girl."

"Demon!" yelled the ogre. "You saved the life of a human?"

Sesshoumaru turned to face the demon and cracked his knuckles. "What business is it of yours what I do? I don't care about the girl," he lied, "I just simply can't stand the thought of a demon eating humans. It's disgusting."

"I'll devour the both of you!" he shrieked.

Sesshoumaru pushed Rin out of the way, but wasn't fast enough to dodge the assault of the demon himself and was slapped by his giant hand and knocked through several trees.

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin got up and began running towards him, but once Sesshoumaru looked her way, he realized that the demon was about to blast Rin.

"Get out the way, you fool!" Rin of course couldn't, so Sesshoumaru had no choice but to get in the way of it. "Stupid girl!" He got up and shielded Rin from the blast; taking on much of it himself so she could be protected. Thankfully, the Tenseiga stepped in and helped them as well. If it weren't for that sword and its barrier, Rin would have died.

Once Sesshoumaru and Rin opened their eyes, they saw that there wasn't just one demon. There were many, and they were all ready to rip Sesshoumaru and Rin apart.

"Lord Sesshoumaru..."

"Quiet Rin..." Sesshoumaru stood up, but that is when he realized how tired he was. He hadn't realized how tired he was until that moment. 'Why are all of these demons joining in?'

"Is that Lord Sesshoumaru?" one demon asked.

"It can't be! He's a child!"

"It could be an offspring that we weren't aware of. We should kill him!"

"Kill!"

"Lord Sesshoumaru, I'm scared." She stayed close behind Sesshoumaru. She didn't mean to be scared, but he was weaker than before. Even Rin could see that.

'I'm not going to die right here. I refuse to!' He readied himself for battle, though he wasn't sure if he could pull it off. He didn't care. He was going to fight until the bitter end. 'I can do this.'

"Wind Scar!"

In a flash of light, Sesshoumaru and Rin were safe. "What just..." When the smoke cleared, Inuyasha was standing with his transformed Tetsusaiga resting on his shoulder in a pose with a smirk on his face. "I guess you can't do anything without your little big brother, now can you?"

"Are you alright?" Kagome was standing behind Inuyasha, and she looked so concern.

They all made Sesshoumaru sick. 'I don't understand these humans!' "I didn't ask to be saved. I could have taken on all those demons and lived."

"Sure you could have..."

"And what do you care, anyhow?"

"Nothing, it was Kagome's idea. She was worried about you and the girl."

Sesshoumaru just couldn't understand mortals. "You all disgust me."

Kagome sighed. Regardless of the fact that he was a mean little boy, he was still just a little boy. "Let me take care of your wounds, Sesshoumaru."

"This is Sesshoumaru?" Sango, Shippo, and Miroku asked in unison. Even Kirara tilted her head and blinked a few times in unbelief. They had gathered together at a campsite and as soon as Kagome explained what had happened, no one could believe it.

"Isn't he adorable?" Kagome wanted to hug him again. She couldn't help it! "He's wounded though, so I'll get my medical kit."

"Don't bother" Sesshoumaru told her. "My wounds aren't that bad. Don't touch me, or I'll kill you."

"I say we abandon him," said Inuyasha. "Patch up Rin's wound, and then we'll make him leave."

"You don't have to make me do anything," Sesshoumaru told them. "I'll go. I don't want to be here anyway. All of you humans disgust me."

"Don't be too hasty." Kagome didn't really pay him any mind. She wasn't going to leave him all alone to fend for himself. It was a big world, and he obviously had a lot of demon enemies, especially with what had just happened. "I'll patch up Rin." She went in her bag and got out her medical kit and signaled Rin to come to her.

"Alright..." Rin got up from her separate fire with Jaken and Ah-Un and joined Kagome and the others—except for Sesshoumaru—since he was sitting all alone under a tree. "I have a cut on my arm and a scratch on my knee."

Once Kagome got a good look at it, she realized that it was a deep cut and her knee was bruised as well as cut up. "You don't have to hide your pain so much, Rin. I understand that you've probably had to rough it, since you've lived with Sesshoumaru, but it's not that big of a deal if you need medical attention. I mean, your cut could have gotten infected."

'Infected?' Sesshoumaru told himself that he didn't care though. 'That would be one less thing to worry about.'

"Thank you, Kagome." Once Rin was all done, she bravely ventured over to the lonely Sesshoumaru, who was all by himself. "Kagome can help you."

"Why? I'll be fine by morning." Rin sat down next to Sesshoumaru and just stared at him until it made him actually feel uncomfortable. "What are you doing?"

Instead of answering his question, she asked him one. "Lord Sesshoumaru, are you cold?"

"I don't feel hot or cold. I'm always fine." He tried to ignore her, but she asked another question.

"Well, are you hungry?"

"Not right now." He closed his eyes and actually attempted to go to sleep, but she bothered him yet again.

"Well, do you like being a kid?"

"No."

"Not even when you were a real kid?"

He opened his eyes and gazed upon her with pure shock in his eyes. "Why would I? As of right now, I know that I had a great power and that I was a strong—a near unstoppable demon. Why care about anything less than that, human?"

"Well, it's not fun being a kid at all? You don't like to play?"

"Like I said, human, it's all about power. My father was strong, and I'm going to be stronger than him one day. That's all I care about." He was getting suspicious of Rin and he started to glare at her. "Would you ask me all these questions if I was older, or are you talking so much because you expect a child to answer them?"

"I still ask you questions when you're older. It's different that you're answering so many of my questions. Usually Jaken would tell me to stop bothering you." She became a little afraid. "Am I bothering you now?"

"Sort of."

"Sort of?"

"You're annoying, but it's not like I'm going to kill you. I don't really have a reason to."

"Do you want me to stop asking questions?"

"If you don't stop talking, I might just kill you."

"Rin!" Jaken ran over to the two of them, glaring at her angrily. "You shouldn't be bothering Lord Sesshoumaru! Leave him be, Rin!"

"I don't have to leave unless Lord Sesshoumaru tells me too!" She stood up and pouted and made fists with her small hands. "How do you know that I'm bothering him?"

"He doesn't have the time to be bothered with a pest like you!"

"Hey, be nice to her!" Kagome yelled.

'I'm not going to let them argue about this. They'll drive me insane.' "That's enough from the both of you. I wish to be alone."

Neither of them could believe their ears. Jaken was especially surprised though. "But Lord Sesshoumaru—"

"I won't tell you again, imp." The two of them weren't going to question him, so they got up and returned to their camp fire where Ah-Un was sleeping. Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and made himself comfortable against the back of the tree and it wasn't soon until he had fallen fast asleep. It was odd that he had fallen asleep before Rin and Jaken, but he had been hurt.

"I guess he was hurt worse than what he was letting on," Inuyasha told his friends. "I don't care how strong he thinks he is—he's not going to make it on his own. He's made far too many enemies."

"Then we can't leave him alone..." Kagome felt so bad for him. "We can't let him go off on his own. If he does, then he'll be jumped like he was tonight, and I think he could probably manage on his own, but he has Rin to take care of. Sesshoumaru seems mature, but to take care of a little girl on his own seems hard."

"But won't he just try to kill us once he's back to his old self?" Shippo asked.

"Maybe so," Miroku answered, "but then again, he has had many chances to kill Inuyasha. All of his warnings could simply be bluffs and he might not be planning on killing Inuyasha at all, so in theory, we'll be alright."

"I still can't believe he's a child," Sango had to hold in her laughter when she thought about it. "Sesshoumaru is nothing more than a child now." She didn't think it was funny to be mean, but it was just so unbelievable. "He's still powerful, I can still sense that, but his power has dropped considerably lower than what it was before."

Rin put her back against Ah-Un and made herself comfortable. 'I hope Lord Sesshoumaru gets better. He got hurt because of me.' "Night Master Jaken."

"Don't speak to me." Jaken was already angry at Rin. He didn't want to speak to her. 'It's all her fault that Lord Sesshoumaru got hurt. He's also angry with me because of that girl as well. If only Lord Sesshoumaru wouldn't have gone back for Rin.' Jaken sighed. 'Then again, she would have died…' Jaken wasn't completely sure whether or not he would be happy if Rin was actually dead, but he certainly did want her gone.

Soon Inuyasha and everyone had fallen asleep, but just when all of them had fallen asleep; Sesshoumaru's sleep began to be disturbed. "What's that?" He felt an odd demonic aura right by him. It wasn't hard to find it; it was coming right from his sword. 'What's wrong with my sword? Its demonic aura is pouring out of it.' Sesshoumaru got the sudden urge to draw the Tokijin, so he stood up and grabbed a hold of it. 'Tokijin…Why didn't its aura pour out before? Why is it just now acting out? In a way, it's like father's sword: Sounga. It must have been made from an evil demon.' Its demonic aura was so strong that Sesshoumaru could almost hear it, as it was speaking to him. 'Kill Inuyasha?'

That didn't sound like a bad idea…

To be continued…

A/N: Little Sesshoumaru isn't strong enough for the Tokijin yet. Uh oh! Will he listen to the Tokijin and succeed in killing Inuyasha? Find out next time and please review!