Rin's Trusty Fan

There is a festival going on in a city, Kagura is 8 months pregnant a year after their marriage. Rinora is 6 in demon years. Inuyasha and Kagome have Izaisho, he's 5 in demon years and Kariko, she's 2 in demon years. The two brother's and their families are there.

"Inuyasha, please take Izaisho and Kariko into the market, they are allowed to get only one thing." asked, no, ordered Kagome

"The same goes for you Sesshomaru. Kagome and I are looking for things for the baby." commanded Kagura.

"Of course." Said Inu and Sess in unison. Then gave each other a quick glare.

Rinora can now levitate 10 feet into the air. And create blinding light. She has on a green checkered Kimono.

Izaisho has ears like Inuyasha, white hair with black tips, golden eyes, fangs, he is in a blue version of Inuyasha's clothing. His power is the fang whip

Kariko has ears like Inuyasha, black hair, golden eyes, fangs, she is wearing a solid pink kimono with red trim. Her power is a pink energy orb.

"Okay kids let's go…" Sesshomaru never got to finish his sentence because he and Inuyasha were being dragged by three pairs of arms down an aisle.

This aisle had all sorts of toys down it. All the children admired them. Izaisho looked longingly at a stick horse until he remembered overhearing Uncle Miroku talking to Aunt Sango about making him a stick horse for his birthday. Rinora looked at a pretty china doll, which she knew would probably be broken during a patrol. And Kariko begged Inuyasha for a pretty stuffed cat. It was white with brown patches. Inuyasha, when he was reminded of what mommy said, finally agreed to buy it for her.

"Why little brother, Kariko doesn't seem to be much of a dog demon, especially if she wanted that stuffed cat so much." Taunted Sesshomaru, some things never change.

"She probably wants it to chew on Sesshomaru."

"Na uh, daddy I'm going to take good care of Catty, I'm going to wash her, and feed her, and make her pretty flower jewelry." Said Kariko.

"You were saying?" asked Sess, while Inuyasha slapped his forehead.

"Okay, why don't we go down another aisle?" proposed Inuyasha.

"Okay." Came three voices.

They went down the next aisle full of weapons. Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Izaisho were all interested in this aisle, even Rinora was a little interested. Kariko was too busy with "Catty" to notice anything.

"Hey dad, may I please get this knife? Look, it even comes with a sheath and belt." asked Izaisho, with pleading eyes.

"Aren't you a little young for weapons?" asked Inuyasha trying to convince his son not to get it. But like with Kariko and Catty, it didn't work. And Izaisho went away with a belt and knife. Sesshomaru actually congratulated Izaisho on his purchase.

"It is a fine knife Izaisho. You made a very wise purchase." Complimented Sesshomaru.

"Thank you Uncle Sess."

They checked out another aisle of furniture,books, and another of cloth, until they were in an aisle full of decorative things such as silk hangings, jewelry, make up, and other things. They looked at quite a few stalls. A few of them had fans, pretty purses, beads, and mirrors which tried to get Rinora to buy something. While the rest of the group were looking at one of those stalls, Rinora felt drawn to a stall, about five yards away. It sold a great variety of odd things, when Rinora came to look the old owner looked her right in the eyes for a few moments and smiled. "Child, why don't you look over there on that table?" said the owner motioning towards an old rickety maple table.

It had a flute, beads, comb, tea set, lantern, a few small statues, a fan, and a fiddle. But she was drawn to the fan. It was made of strong silk and cherry wood. It was light green with a unicorn leaping, along with a few flying butterflies. It even had mother of pearl in lays. While she was admiring it, her father found her. It wasn't too hard, her scent was very familiar to him by now. He purchased the fan for her, though he was slightly surprised by her choice. Rinora never seemed to have an interest in fans before.

After that they all had some pork dumplings in the food aisle. Soon afterwars, they were separated and pushed away by the crowds. Soon they were outside the city gates. When Rinora saw something move. They could all smell and hear it, but none of them knew what it was. Suddenly someone came up behind them and pressed something sweet to their noses. They blacked out.

"They woke up in a cage and saw who their attacker, or rather, attackers were. They were Tiger demons and bear demons. Two kinds of normally solitary demons together. "What do you want with us?" asked Izaisho, trying to be brave.

"You are hostages." Stated the biggest bear demon. "And you cannot go into your demonic forms in this cage. To get out. And it's metal, so don't think you can cut through it."

Something in Rinora came to life, maybe it was instinct, perhaps desperation, or even the fan was speaking to her because she whipped out her fan did a slicing motion and said "Unicorn wind!"

Suddenly, a unicorn came from the fan and went charged through the bars, breaking them. They all ran out and once again, something in Rinora took over she raised her fan and lowered while saying "Butterfly's Kiss!"

All of the demons were purified as if by a sutra. Not one minute after that did they see Sess and Inu. They asked what happened and they told him. Including Rin's fan's tricks.

"I guess the fan you got was useful after all." Said Sess.

"Of course." Replied Rinora, "It's my trusty fan!"