This could have been a 12 page long chapter but I shortened it to eight, you'll get the other four pages in a few minutes. I have been working on this chapter for the past 3 hours. I like it, I hope you like it too!
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It was a lot like it had been five years ago when Rin had first started following Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru was silent and in the front leading the way. Jaken was holding Ah Un's reins and Rin was walking beside him. Everything was silent except the forest surrounding them.
They had been walking for hours and the sun had gone down and they continued walking until Rin's stomach started growling. Sesshomaru stopped and said, "Jaken prepare a dinner for Rin,"
"Yes my Lord," Jaken said as he began to head for the river that was near where they were.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin said to him.
"Yes, Rin?"
"I'm going to collect some firewood so Jaken can start a fire once he catches the fish."
"Fine," Sesshomaru said and gave her a small smile. (NOTE: This is NOT the real Sesshomaru this is a combination of the Voices trying to act like Sesshomaru while he is trapped inside himself.)
Rin nearly fell over. Sesshomaru had just smiled and he wasn't going to kill anything and he wasn't making fun of anything! His smile was so… sincere it wasn't like he was forcing himself to smile at all like he did when he had to pretend to be nice to other pompous demon lords.
"O-Okay my Lord," she said she then turned around and took a step and immeaditly tripped over a large root that she hadn't noticed. As she was getting up she heard laughter coming from behind her. She turned around to see Sesshomaru, THE Sesshomaru, clutching onto a tree to keep him from falling because he was laughing so hard.
As soon as Rin saw him like that he immeaditly let go of the tree and stopped laughing although there was still a grin tugging at his lips.
Rin was beginning to have serious doubts about her Lord's sanity. She had been with him for five years and she had never seen him give a real (Happy) smile or laugh once and yet there he had been laughing his head off! Rin forgot about getting firewood and went over to where her Lord was standing and she put her hand on his forehead for the second time today.
"What are you doing Rin?" Voice 2 Sesshomaru asked.
"The same thing I did earlier today, I am checking your health," She said as she took her hand from his forehead and put it on hers to compare temperatures. She then got an angry look on her face and leaned against the tree Sesshomaru had been clutching to just moments earlier.
"Does the state of my health aggravate you?" Sesshomaru asked her, he then also leaned on the tree next to her.
"No. Well yes it kind of does My Lord. You are perfectly healthy but you're not acting like yourself. It's as if you were possessed or something."
'Hmmm… I wonder where she would get that idea from? Do you have any ideas Fluffy?' voice Three thought.
'Perhaps it is from the horrible way your acting,' Voice 2 answered for Sesshomaru.
'Hey my acting skills are the best! She believes I'm Sesshomaru she just has 'suspicions' that I'm possessed that doesn't mean anything!'
'The laughing spat you had didn't help you win her over. You also have to stop smiling it's giving you away.' Voice One said.
'But I can't help it! She's too cute! Just be glad I'm not blushing! Hey, Sesshy aren't you going to join in on this conversation?'
'No, just give me control back over my body,'
'Ya know what Sesshy I have good news and bad news for you! I'll tell you the good news first if you do not kiss Rin of your own free will within the next thirteen days then we'll be gone. The bad news is if that happens Aku will put us right back in here for a longer period of time!' Voice 3 told him.
'So it is either kiss Rin and be with you for an eternity or not kiss Rin and be with you for an eternity.'
'Well anything sounds bad when you say it like that!' Voice Three said.
'Hey guys while it is important that the Fluff has this information, Rin is giving us some pretty strange looks! I think one of us should say something to her,' Voice 1 said in Sesshomaru's head.
"Rin, I am not possessed, the curse that Aku put on me is just very… distracting."
"You mean the second one that has to do with me?"
Sesshomaru answered with a slight nod.
"What kind of curse did she put on you?"
"I will not tell you because you would think I'm insane."
"Please tell me Lord Sesshomaru! I promise that I won't think you're insane and I promise I won't tell anyone!"
"Very well," he said then he sat down by the trunk of the tree and Rin did as well to the side of him (they had their heads turned so as they were talking they were looking at each other.) "Aku placed a curse on me that makes it so I have three extra voices in my head. The first two have a similar personality but the third one is more like InuYasha. It is difficult to explain, but we have conversations in my head,"
"That explains why it has been taking you so long to answer me lately because you have been communicating with the voices! But Lord Sesshomaru I still don't understand. What does this curse have to do with me?" Rin asked.
"All the voices are trying to convince me that I, Sesshomaru, am in love with… you" he said you in a whisper in Rin's ear and she just barely heard it.
Rin gasped at that, "Lord Sesshomaru do you love me?" she asked him in a whisper.
Sesshomaru slowly reached his hand up and tucked some of Rin hair behind her hair, and he could hear Rin's heart racing, "I do not know, Rin," he said.
They could then hear Jaken coming with the fish; he was still a length away from meeting them he was yelling, "Lord Sesshomaru I caught the fish!" (Honestly it had been five years since Rin taught him how to fish and Jaken still thought he needed a dog treat from Sesshomaru every time he caught some fish on his own! That toad is pathetic!)
Rin knowing that with each second her time was passing by she quickly leaned forward and gave Sesshomaru a kiss on the cheek and then she whispered in his ear, "Lord Sesshomaru I love you, and I would do anything for you to feel the same way about me." Then she stood up and went to go get some firewood before Jaken could come and yell at her.
Voice three Sesshomaru felt like leaning back against the tree and stretching his arms over his head with a proud look on his face, but the real Sesshomaru's pride wouldn't let him so Voice Three just settled on having the proud look on his face.
'Now then which one of you said I was a bad actor?'
'We are worthless! We do not deserve to be in your presence! You are the master!' Voice 1 and 2 said together while the real Sesshomaru was just shocked that Rin had said she loved him.
'So Fluffy… How do you feel about Rin, now that you know she loves you as much as you love her and you just won't admit it?' Voice 3 asked.
'I do not love Rin,''Oh where have I heard that one before? Come on you have to like her a little bit more now that you know how she feels,'
'No,'
'Yes you do! Just admit it!'
'Sesshomaru—Lord Sesshomaru, don't you agree that out of all the humans you have met, Rin is the one you like to be around the most?' Voice 1 asked.
'Undoubtedly,'
'Do you also agree that you like her more than any of the demons that you have met in the past?' Voice 1 asked.
'Defiantly,' Sesshomaru then inwardly groaned he knew where this was going.
'Do you also agree that you find her more attractive than any human or demon woman that you have ever seen?' Voice 1 asked.
'Yes,'
'And do you admit that you enjoy spending time with her and that you enjoy to hear the sound of her voice and you adore her scent?' Voice 1 asked.
'Yes.'
'Do you also protect her and make sure nothing bad ever happens to her for reasons you can't begin to understand?' Voice 1 asked.
'Yes.'
'Does she love you?' Voice 1 asked.
'You know as well as I do that she just said she did.'
'Congratulations Sesshy! All of those things that you just admitted to are what make up a loving relationship!' Voice 1 yelled in Sesshomaru's head.
'That's right in a sense you just admitted to loving Rin!' Voice 2 said.
Sesshomaru had known this was coming yet he still couldn't handle the news, 'I love Rin?'
'Shh! Shh! Shh! Did everyone hear that Sesshy just said he loved Rin!' Voice 3 asked.
'He said it all right! Congratulations! The first step is admitting it! Now you have to act on your instincts!' Voice 2 said.
'Now Sesshomaru are you sure do you really love Rin,' Voice 1 asked because he had heard Sesshomaru's proclamation and it had sounded more like a question than a statement.
Realization finally hit Sesshomaru and it hit him hard and the question that he had just been asked sounded ridiculous, 'Of course I love Rin, I realize now that I always have and always will.'
It was then that Jaken came into the clearing with two fishes and Rin also came into the clearing with a small amount of wood for the fire.
Rin quickly set to work on the fire while Jaken waited impatiently for her to hurry up. Meanwhile Sesshomaru still sat against the tree staring at the girl he had just admitted to loving. After Rin had gotten the fire going Jaken put the fish on sticks around the fire to roast them.
Rin then looked over at her lord and saw that he was staring at her. 'I wonder if I got him mad by telling him that I love him?'
'Hey Fluffy! Since you made a gigantic step today in your relationship with Rin I will give you back control over your body. Just remember that if you kiss her within the next thirteen days you'll be stuck with us forever, and remember that she is only 12, but tomorrow you will make it to Aku's and she can make Rin older!' Voice 3 said to Sesshomaru.
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Yay! he finally admitted it! (When you really think about it, it only took like two days for him to admit it.) Well since some people don't want to see a guy who's over nine hundred fall in love with a girl that's only 12 I will be bumping Rin's age up a bit in the next chapter.