The Cripple

Day 2

Sesshomaru woke up the next day feeling rather refreshed despite the number of drinks he had the other night. But he did recieve some damage from the bright sun, which made him wince to the point where he threw the covers back over his head. The floppy cloth made him feel warm and secure, and all he could think about was from the night before... It had turned into a rather odd pace of leisure that day, and the company was more than a pain, compared to enjoyment. He never went for a drink in groups, and always went alone. But it was there at the bar, people would meet him while he was sober, and they would get rather freindly with him. Most of his freinds came after a few drinks when he didn't seem to be a cold hearted bastard, which is the exact look that he wanted to express. And since he had been getting into fights, especially when in high school, he was rather skilled, and if he fot ahold of any type of long rod, he could utilize it for self defense with some rather stunning swordsmanship. He got into quite a bit of fights, but the bartender found him hand when he usually sent out the slobs that attracted trouble and would scare off his profits.

"Ugh I need to brush my teeth," He got up and went to the bathroom and got out a toothbrush. His hair was a wreck, and he enjoyed keeping it straight, and it was rather funny, his hair was like a part of him, and to all his forefathers, who always wore their hair down such as he had. I can shampoo it later, he thought to himslef as he tried to wash away what smelled like Vodka from the night before. He walked into the kitched where it was littered with documents, and he continued to brush his teeth scrapping it hard, wanting to maintain a clean look so he wouldn't look slobbish when he went into court, taking a moment to spit in the sink before placing a slice of bread into the toaster. He was never an daylight kinda guy, so his skin was a tad pale, and he always stayed in the bar if it was day, but by night took a nice walk to refresh himself, but anyplace with a roof over him was just fine.

He personally liked the mall. At the arcades, he could find some of the most peculiar people and personalites. He wrote them down in a little book. He thought that it would help... That is if he ever decided to make a book.

He finished brushing his teeth and he could already pull the scent of fresh toast in the morning. His mouth felt clean, and he began to fry some eggs, and pulled out a plastic bag with tid-bits of bacon, and then pulled out instant-coffee, letting the aroma climb up his nostrils, as he absorbed the heavy scent.

(Ding Dong) The bell rang over a few times. Who would come here this early in the dam moring? He just finished making his breakfast and began to eat it as he went to the door to answer it. He opened it, and ther stood Kagura, dressed in the sama clothing since the night before.

"Good morning Sesshomaru," Kagura bowed as did the litle girl from the night before.

"Oh it you," he nodded his head in return and hid the sandwich on a table beside him. He didn't want any visitors, but it seemed that he had no choice but to invite them in, he didn't like how the sun was bolstering the radiance from her white shirt. "You can come in... Be sure to take off your shoes..." They did, and walked inside.

"Cmon Rin, it will just takea minute, I have to go to work a little later."Rin looked around and could smell something in the air, judging by how her nose seemed to flared up at his breakfast. She looked at his sandwich, and her mouth began to water, Sesshomaru picked it up when Kagura began to take a liking onthe sword which stood on the fireplace. He bit into it and looked down at Rin who was still staring at the sandwich. "Sigh,"he tore a piece from the bottom and gave it to her, she looked relunctant to take it but she grabbed it rather greedily and began to nibble on it.

"Thank you sir."

"Just call me Sesshomaru..."

"Okie," she smiled up at him and even though he hated to do it, he smiled back. This girl is affecting me positvely... I don't like it.

"I have something that looks just like this... But mine is a fan." She brushed against the blade, which was finely polished for perfection. Rin had finished her food and was looking back at Sesshomaru, her eyes yearning for more.

"You hungry?"She nodded rigorously.

"Kagaru you want something to eat? I was just making breakfast..." What am I doing offering food to stragers no less.

"Oh please don't bring yourself to do that, I must get going soon," her stomach gurgled. "I don't really eat breakfast." Sesshomaru didn't care entirely about food, but he did enjoy a nice breakfast, and maybe a steak dinner.

"I'll make some bacon and egg sandwiches..." He got to work, watching his geuss look for a seat on the table, but didn't know what to lift, there waas still a pile of documents scattered all over the place. He multi-tasked and put the things into their folders, and Kagura put things away, pending with the folder it was scattered on.

"Thank you."

"Its no problem," she smiled at him and he shunned the smile away. "So you really are a lawyer, I thought that you may have been pulling my leg the other day."

"Yes I am, and what is your occupation?" He was stirring the eggs, and sipping from his instant coffee. He grabbed a can and tossed it to Kagura, and then took a bottle of orange juice of Rin. "Thank you Sesshomaru..." Rin was taking a large gulp from it moments later, she was still innocent.

"I work as a librarian, nad I work partially as a freelance writer." Freelance writer?

"Don't you find it hard to get by like that? Oh your husband nevermind." Oh crap I could get myself into some love affair... Gotta stop reading manga...

"Husband?"

"Yeh your married right?" His eyes moved to Rin and she realized what he meant.

"Married? No, no ,no I'm a single mother." So she was single...

"But you were married..." Then again, she could be a widow.

"I adopted Rin when I was living in the country."

"So your not married?" Or she could have had been lonely.

"Should you really be looking into my personal life?" She stopped him and he went back to frying the bacon.

"Is that really personal?"Yep she was just a lonely soul, though he realized that he had a hard time understading her personality.

"To me about the money, and yes I get by just fine as a librarian." She takes much pride into her work, I didn't even sound the least bit hostile but she stood up for it either way.

"Mommy what does adopted mean?" She really was but a child, despite the self independant look she portrayed.

"Its a big word that rin doesn't need to know yet okay?"

"Okay mommy." Sesshomaru loved their mother daughter relations. He never had a sister, much less a mother, but a girlfriend... once.

"Foods done." The plate steamed and puffed out an irresistable aroma.

"Yay the food is done mommy!" Sesshomaru set 5 sandwiches on the table taking a moment to say some morning prayer. "Mommy Sesshomaru's cooking is the best! Better than yours!" Kagura's face turned red, she was evidently a bad chef. Sesshomaru wasn't bad himslef, but he cooked to live, he could save much more money with groceries before buying fast food any day.

"Thank you, but I must get going now..." She sounded fairly sad about her statement but there was a strong sense of something that Sesshomaru couldn't point out.

"But mommy, work doesn't start for another whooo hour..."

"Yes but mommy has things to do before that."

"Oh yeah you have to get his number and ask him if he wanted to go out for another drink tonight!" The words stuck onto Sesshomaru, and he looked at Kagura, who didn't know what to say. She wants to go drink when she can hardly take what we took in yesterday?

"Rin, you can't just say things like that!" She turned her face, and Sesshomaru didn't get to see her reaction, its not that he didn't want to see how, its just that he was curious of this womens actions.

"But thats what you said before we left." Sesshomaru didn't take the situation so gravely and looked at the pair as they fussed over the event. He wasn't bust in fact, it was tomorrow around 2 where his case would start, and he already got everything ready 3 days before, beeting with his client and doing other stuff, till then he was just basically relaxing, rather nicely. And the thought of relaxing removed the cold heart chains that binded him.

He was getting a little bored about going to the bar alone. "If you wana go out and drink later, I don't mind, I'm finished with all my work." Well she said she wanted to go the bar.

"Really you will?" Kagura exploded before noticing that she had just made out one hell of an outburst.

"So you gonna be late out night again mommy?" Rin looked sad and took a huge gulp of her juice, wiping the froth from her cheeks before looking back up.

"You leave her alone?" He didn't find it shocking that everyone did that. But Rin was not even ten.

"Uh well you see," she had a perplexed ook on her face, she hadn't expected him to question her thus.

"I like being alone by myself, mommy tells some of the most boring times of her childhoob stoires, but she can be really fun to be around."

"Its childhood Rin, and no they aren't boring."

"That is kinda against the law." The truth was that he and Inuyasha were left home alone all the time when they were young. But they at least had each other, Rin was alone."Tell you what look into that drawer over there." Sesshomaru pointed near the t.v. where a small finely polished a glimmering drawer sat.

"Whats in it?" She had a look of awe as if there would be some sort of magical trinket, and he felt rather delighted to see the look on her face, and couldn't help but feel that he had met her somewhere, maybe in a dream. They saw each other before through the window when she was staring out and would wave to himdespite that he was a total stranger.

"You'll see." She opened it and looked inside with much amazement.

"Mommy its a PS2! And a bunch of disney videos, oooohhh he has Lion King, and he has Lilo and Stitch." Sesshomaru couldn't help but become one hell of a fan of Disney despite his age. They were some of his only cuddly moments, other than when he was with his girlfriend.

"How about you borrow that while your mother and I go out for a couple of drinks."

"Oh we can't do that," Kagura yelled as shetried to signal Rin not to take the bait.

"I can't help but insist. I don't play them at all nowadays, and I was deciding if I should sell them on the internet, I'm sure that stuff wwill keep you busy when we go out. Her eyes twinkled and she was looking up at Kagura who was shaking her head furiously, but she didn't notice that he was watching from only the corner of his eyes.

"I realy do insist, you can take it to your place and hook it up, that is if you know how to."

"I do, I do, but mommy broke her old PS2 when she spilled some of her coffee on it..." She was rummaging through the contents looking for something more to play and Sesshomaru began to doubt llowing them to take it from him.. "He has Kingdom Hearts 2 mommy!" This isn't suppose to be out yet at all! She tossed The World and the FMD running to Kagura.

"Hey I thought this came out later?"

"I go to a lot of places, that was just recent, someone gave it to me early, since I liked the first game so much." She didn't buy it and she handed it back to Rin.

"Well I think that we really should get going Sesshomaru." Rin had already brought out a small bow that she could use to carry it to their home.

"What time should I pick you up?" Pick you up? That almost sounded as if we were about to go on a date.

"How about 6p.m.?" She clapsed her hands together and laughed to herself. She was red, but didn't seem to notice.

"We can go out for a few hours then."

"My thoughts exactly."

Sesshomaru led them to the door, and watched them leave as they bowed to him before they crossed his lawn to get to their side. What a crazy family, Sesshomaru's stomach growled and he went inside to fix himself some more food, realizing that he might want to go shoppong, since his visitors ate him of his breakfast. He looked at the t.v. snickering to himself, as he had the urge to play the new Kingdom Hearts game that Sango had sent him when she was accpted to work at Squreenix, and started to remember the good old days at college. But the grim remeberance of the exams made him mind his own business and he went to sleep to wait before his outing.