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Second Impressions Go Long Ways
Stranger to this Place
"Sesshomaru, hold on!"
Sango growled at Sesshomaru, annoyed that he ignored all her shouts towards him. If only he would just tell her what was going on. . .
Sesshomaru jumped in the second story window, and ran towards the room where Rin's scent was coming from. Once he was there, he saw her there, a large ugly demon towering over her, claws raised.
"Giten. Move away from Rin."
Giten, seeming to be the over sized demon, whipped his head around in surprise, and shamefully backed away from Rin. It was by now that Sango managed to catch up to him. Climbing on the vines that were near that window and running here seemed to be easy for her. She carefully made her way towards Rin, who happily jumped into her arms.
Rin blew raspberries at Giten. "Lord Sesshomaru will easily kick your butt, demon!" This seemed to set him off.
"Little wench!"
Sesshomaru had enough. "Sango, take Rin out of this room, and bring her downstairs." He stared pointedly at sango, who got the message and ran out of the room. He turned his attention back to the now frightened demon. "Giten. . . "
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"Get back here, Rin!"
Rin laughed at Sango's attempts at catching her. They were playing a small game of tag, which Sango was enough to distract Rin from Sesshomaru. She knew what Sesshomaru was going to do, and she would have pulled Rin out of there whether he told her to or not. She wouldn't let a little girl see that. Sango 'caught up' with Rin (Even if she was effortlessly running in the first place), and picked her up. Rin laughed light heartedly, her voice sounding very childish like it was supposed to be.
"Miss Sango caught me!"
Sango gasped in pretend shock. "I did!"
Rin giggled, Sango joined in. Not too soon after, Sesshomaru came down, talked to a few other demons close by, and Sango watched how they made disgusted faces, but nodded in obedience anyway. Clean up time, She thought, almost amused by it. She put down the energized little girl and walked over to Sesshomaru.
"So now you've gotten rid of that problem," she looked him straight in the eye. "Will we continue our fight now, or do we have to get even more interruptions because of your house hold?"
Sesshomaru merely looked at her, than at Rin. "What have you done with Rin?"
"What?" she looked towards the spoken girl, seeing her run around with Jaken, laughing at the little attemps he had of catching her, and because he was getting mad. Sango chuckled at the sight. "Oh, well, I had to find some way to distract Rin from going upstairs and seeing. . . well, you know. And besides, she deserves a little fun after what she saw. That demon was ugly to begin with. I'm not sure if I'll be able to withstand seeing it now that he's probably in pieces."
"And sizzling with poison," Sesshomaru unnecessarily added, still watching with bemused eyes at Rin and Jaken. He turned his gaze back to Sango after a few moments, and saw her disgusted expression. And again, was confused by it. "Why do you behave that way when you see it everyday?"
"I don't know. I can stand the picture, but that doesn't mean I have to like it," she shook her head dismissively.
Sesshomaru nodded. "I see."
"Now about that fight. . ."
"We will continue it later. Right now I have a few errands to run," he called out o the free little girl. "Rin, I'll be back. Stay and play with Miss Sango. Jaken, come."
"Y-Yes, me lord," And like the obedient servant he was, he followed his lord out of the castle. Sango looked towards the panting Rin after a few seconds, and started running again.
"You can't catch me Rin!"
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Jaken followed soundlessy (for once) behind Sesshomaru. He knew his lord was growing impatient due to the fact that Jaken refused to ride on Ah-Un so that he could travel faster, but just incase, The two headed dragon demon was with them.
Sesshomaru couldn't take it anymore. He had to go faster. "Ah-Un. Stay with Jaken." The demon nodded, and Sesshomaru flew off in a certain direction. Jaken sighed in an attempt to sound sad.
"I wonder what he is going to do." Jaken told the non speaking two headed demon beside him, who just nodded again. "Take me to the castle!" He regretted that when the demon let a low growl out, but Ah-Un still took him to the castle… with his collar between his teeth.
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"Inuyasha, would you knock it off?" Kagome asked through clenched teeth, having her patience thinned even more than she thought possible.
Inuyasha stopped his pacing. "What the hell do you want me to do, Kagome? Here we are, you and Miroku are worried sick about Sango because Sesshomaru just had to fucking fall down from the sky and take her! It's pissing me off!"
"Calm down, Inuyasha. It isn't going to help. I thought we told you already," Miroku sighed.
"Yeah well. . . I just don't like it!"
"Be quiet, Inuyasha. We all know you're worried, but there isn't time for your complaining," Shippou chimed in, jumping on Inuyasha's head. The hanyou grabbed him by the tail, readying the other fist to punch the top of the kitsune's head.
"Sit!"
Inuyasha muttered, obviously even more pissed off than before. He was about to yell at Kagome, but something came down from out of nowhere, and landed in front of him. He involuntarily flinched back, his eyes wide with shock.
"Sesshomaru!"
Sesshomary looked down to him, his eyes icy. "Inuyasha."
Inuyasha wasted no time. He pulled out the Tetsusaiga, and aimed the tip of the huge blade towards Seshomaru. But the half brother merely shook his head and put his hand on the hilt of Tokijin.
"I am not here to fight, little half brother. I merely came to talk. But if it is a fight you are looking for, so be it."
"First tell us where you have Sango and then I'll rip you apart!"
Sesshomaru glared at him. "Sango is not harmed in any way. I will bring her back safely after we see who wins our fight."
"You're fighting her? You said you wouldn't hurt her!" Miroku exclaimed in anger and mild shock. He glowered at the demon, who in return smiled a small, humored smile.
"This fight I speak of isn't a real fight. It is merely a little . . . fight between demon and demon exterminator. Do not worry monk. Your friend is alright," he replied calmly, and watched Inuyasha as he put his sword back in it's sheath.
"Sesshomaru. You have no little then three days to bring Sango back. If you don't, we're coming to your castle and bringing her back ourselves. Understood?"
Sesshomaru, for one of the first times towards Inuyasha, chuckled at his words. "I don't think you have the power to say anything like that to me again," he looked amused. "But I'll let it go for now. Fine. You have my word."
"Inuyasha!"
The said hanyou glared at Miroku in a way that said 'Shut up or I'll kill you', and Miroku unwillingly fell silent. For him, three days was an eternity. And, surprisingly, he didn't think he had enough patience.
Sesshomaru turned towards the forest and took off without another word.
"Three days, Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha called after him, shaking his fists at his side. For a few, long moments of silence, Kagome finally spoke up.
"C'mon guys. Lets set up camp here. We'll be staying for a few days." Shippou nodded towards Kagome, and jumped off her shoulder and ran to her yellow bag leaning on a tree stump.
Inuyasha sighed, not saying a word to anyone. He was beyond pissed, and for some reason he was calm. . . well, on the outside anyway. Miroku just stood there, bangs covering his eyes, hands shaking in suppressed anger.
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Sorry for putting this story on hold everyone, but lately I haven't been doing so well. This story is now OFF hold.
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