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Chapter 4

In a panic, I rushed outside. My brothers following behind me. I got into the front seat of the car as Castor got into the drivers seat, Pollux got in the backseat, and we sped off back to Kagome's house, back to the well.

"Go save dad," the twins said.

I nodded my head and gave Castor a hug. I got out of the car and made sure to give Pollux a hug. I turned around took a breath and then ran up the long flight of stairs and headed to the well. By the time I got to the well house, I didn't even hesitate before jumping in.

The light engulfed me and I felt calmer with the soft glow. I slowly appeared at the bottom of the well. I looked up and saw Shippo looking down at me.

"You're back!" He hollered out in excitement.

I tried to smile back, but it came out forced. I was not in the mood for smiling.

I climbed out of the well and looked around. "I need your help," I blurted out as soon as I saw Kagome.

"What's wrong?" She asked immediately.

"My dad, he's missing." I explained as calmly as I could. I felt like bursting out in tears, but knew that if I did. I would just be proving how weak I actually am. "A monster—demon—whatever, attacked my house. He was disguised as my dad and now he is missing. The demon said he was here, somewhere beyond the well."

Kagome's face paled and the rest of the group came over trying to think of ideas on where to start.

"It has to be Naraku," Inuyasha concluded. "No one else is evil enough to do something like that."

"I don't know. I don't think Naraku knows about the well," Kagome said.

"Whatever it is, I just need to find my dad." I tried not to cry.

I don't know what would happen if I were to allow my father to die. I would always feel completely at fault, and although I know my brothers would disagree—I still wouldn't believe them.

"We'll figure it out." Kagome said, while placing her arms around me. "We won't let anything happen to him."

I nodded my head. I knew that I had to trust this group of people that I had just met, and to my surprise, I did.

We trekked through the forest on the hunt for jewel shards. They were the only clue we had, so I had no objections. It wasn't easy, especially for someone like me—so used to city life and normalcy. Demons weren't a problem in my time, I hardly doubted they still existed still. If they did, they blended into a normal human society or the government managed to keep them a big secret.

I sighed as I took out my water bottle, taking a big drink and then putting a little bit of water on myself. It was hot and although our journey was mostly covered in shade from the trees, I still found myself getting sunburnt.

This sucked, but I wasn't in any position to complain.

"It's so hot," Kagome wined.

"I know," I replied. "A dip in a pool sounds nice."

Kagome perked up at the sound of swimming, a smile forming on her face. "Did you bring a bathing suit?"

I shook my head, "no, but I don't mind swimming in my underwear."

She looked at me surprised. "Alright then, lets go!"

InuYasha turned to us, his ears twitching with irritation. "No way you guys! We don't have time to be goofing around swimming."

"InuYasha, we need a break." Kagome argued.

"Yeah, we don't have that stamina that you have. We are just simple humans." I commented.

"I think relaxing in some water sounds nice." Sango added.

"So, its decided then. We will go swimming." Miroku said.

Kagome, Sango and I went behind a tree to change. Well, so Kagome could change. I just stripped down to my purple lacy bra with matching panties. It wasn't see through or anything, and I brought a lot of underwear, so I didn't mind swimming in it.

"The underwear from your time is really strange," Sango commented. "I could never wear something like that."

Once Kagome was changed into her striped one piece, we rushed to the water. I instantly jumped into it, sighing in content once I popped back up to the surface. It felt so nice. The cool lake was the most relaxing thing I've felt since I've been here.

I swam around for a while, playing a game of Marco Polo with Kagome, Sango, and after a lot of convincing InuYasha and Miroku.

After a while, Sango called it quits which made Miroku get out of the lake. I swam around until I realized I had swam a little too far from the group. I was about to turn around when I heard a little girl yell, "Look Master Jaken, its one of those mer-people you told me about!"

"Rin you silly child, that's just a mere human." A green imp creature replied to the girl.

"Oh, well she's pretty!" She replied, her smile still sprawled across her face.

"Thank you," I muttered, while swimming closer to the edge.

"Athena!" I heard InuYasha call for me.

"Coming InuYasha," I replied back.

"See Rin, she's just one of Inuyashas wenc—" the imp was created with a foot.

I looked up and saw Sesshomaru standing there. The little girl growing more excited at his presence.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" She exclaimed.

"Rin." He said simply. "Go with Jaken and fetch yourself some food."

"Okay, Lord Sesshomaru." She smiled, and then was off with the imp.

He looked at me for a moment, "why are you in the water?"

I stared at him in awe for a moment before saying, "it was hot."

He raised his eyebrows slightly, but if I had blinked I wouldn't have noticed it.

He stared at me for a moment before saying, "you are dressed very indecently. Worse than that priestess."

"What?" I said, confused before I looked down and realized I was in my bra and panties. I was practically out of the water, so my whole body could be seen. Usually, it wouldn't bother me since my underwear doesn't look that different from my bathing suit, but in front of Sesshomaru I felt embarrassed.

My face turned a bright red, and I used my arms to cover up as best as I could and said, "it's all I have to swim in."

He stepped closer to me and my heart began to pound.

His face got closer to mine—mere inches away, and I tried not to falter. "Why are you traveling with my foolish half-brother."

"My father is missing." I answered in almost a whisper. "They're helping me find him."

He stood silently in front of me, but I wasn't looking at him. I felt a clawed finger put pressure under my chin and forced my head up. I shivered, thinking that maybe he would kill me for good this time.

My eyes locked with his golden ones, and he studied my face.

"You are not Japanese," he finally said.

I stood there dumbfounded. Of course I wasn't Japanese, I was mixed Puerto Rican and Irish from America. I was always mistaken for a foreigner despite the fact that I speak Japanese fluently. I have always stood out.

"No," I said finally. "I'm not."

He didn't say anything else before walking away. I stared off into the opening of the forest that he just walked back into and didn't know what to do.

Every single time I run into the guy I'm nervous, scared, and a little excited. He was strange and gorgeous. He terrified me to the point that my stomach would do flips when I saw him, but I couldn't stop myself from admiring his beauty.

"Athena," Kagome put a hand on my shoulder. "Are you okay? I saw Sesshomaru."

Shook out of my thoughts, I turned to Kagome. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"C'mon!" Inuyasha hollered from the other side of the lake. "Let's leave before the bastard returns."

"Alright," I smiled at Inuyasha's remark and jumped from the shallow end to the deeper area of the lake. Swimming as fast as I could to the other side.

"I sense a jewel shard!" Kagome yelled out.

"Right now?" I turned to her, and before I knew it everyone was ready to fight. Without hesitating Kagome grabbed her bow and arrows, not caring she was in her bathing suit, and pointed it towards the shadowy group approaching. I, on the other hand, was a lot more uncomfortable being practically naked in my underwear.

I moved behind Inuyeasha and Kagome. I needed a weapon.

The group got closer and we realized it was a group of bandits. They were laughing, and enjoying their "stroll." When we noticed the bandit in front was holding a jewel shard in his hands.

"I fought off two demons for this!" He boasted. "Using it, I will become the most powerful man alive!"

InuYasha let out a sound of disapproval before threatening the men. They scoffed at his threats and tried to continue to walk away. Until they saw me. Practically naked, the men turned their attentions away from InuYasha and his threatening sword to me.

I moved closer to InuYasha, scared out of my mind. Swimming like this is a bad idea, I thought to myself.

The men moved forward laughing.

"Tell ya what," a man with an eyepatch over one of his eyes and a scar coming down his face began. "I'll give ya one of these jewel shards in exchange for all three of your women. Especially the naked one."

I felt my face heat up and resisted the urge to freak out. This was probably the worst thing to ever happen to me, it was embarrassing and sickening at the same time.

"These women are not for sale," Miroku explained, his voice harsh.

The man unamused with Miroku's statement pulled out two more jewel shards. He laughed menacingly as he inserted the two of them into his skin. Kagome shot a worried look to InuYasha, who just raised his sword to fight.

The once normal sized man grew to at least 8 feet in height.

I gasped out in horror, not really knowing what to do clad in my underwear. While the man was too busy boasting about his newly founded power, I rushed to bag and grabbed a plain black t-shirt. I tried to throw it on as quickly as I could, but since I was in a panic and rushing—I felt like I was much slower than I had wanted to be.

The men came toward me, laughing in the process. One went to grab me, but I punched him in the face and although it didn't do much damage he did drop his sword. I didn't waste any time to pick it up.

"Ya gonna kill us now girl." One man taunted me.

"Only if I have to," I gripped the sword tighter. I didn't want to kill anyone, but I wasn't going to be an easy target.

They laughed, and one man lunched at me. I closed my eyes ready for him to grab me, but it never happened. Instead, before me stood Sesshomaru. He didn't hesitate before his poison claws went through the mens armor and to their bodies.

They cried out in horrifying pain.

I closed my eyes, not wanting to see it but the image was already burned into my skull.

Sesshomaru moved throughout the bandits, not even blinking an eye as he killed them. Before I knew it, the fight was over. We retrieved three jewel shards.

Sesshomaru turned to me, and I went toward him.

"What the hell are ya' doin'?" Inuyasha glared at Sesshomaru.

"Inuyasha," Kagome came up behind him. "He saved Athena."

He stared at Sesshomaru suspiciously for a moment, before asking, "why?"

This was something I wanted to know the answer to. All this time I thought he wanted me dead, but knew it would be waste of time to try to kill me due to my unnatural healing abilities. Why would he go out of his way, waste his time, belittle himself, to save me?