Chapter 14: A Secret Told
"What were you and Shuurin talking about earlier?" Inuyasha asked Kagome, when she sat down next to him to eat.
"Sesshoumaru and Rin."
"What'd she say?"
"That Rin doesn't really hate him, she just hates that he left her."
"Oh."
"Do you know how Sesshoumaru saved Rin's life?"
"No, he never told me. Why?"
"Nothing really. It was just something Shuurin said, that's all."
"Why don't you ask Sesshoumaru?"
"Ask me what?" Sesshoumaru asked making Kagome jump.
"N…noth…nothing." Kagome stammered.
Inuyasha shook his head before telling Sesshoumaru, "She wants to know how you saved Rin's life."
"Inuyasha," Kagome said in a sweetly animated voice. "SIT!"
Sesshoumaru stared as his younger brother hit the ground with a loud thud.
"Do you?" He asked Kagome, without ever taking his eyes off Inuyasha's form lying face down on the ground.
"Yes."
"Do you remember the battle when Inuyasha almost killed me?" Kagome nodded her head. "I was weakened at the time and hid myself in a forest close, though I hadn't realized it at the time, to a human village. Rin found me there. She brought me food. After a while I regained my strength. I was leaving when I smelled blood. Rin's blood, she had been attacked by wolves, I used Tenseiga to bring her back to life."
"She went with you? Just like that?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"He was the only one who treated her like he cared about her." The answer came not from Sesshoumaru, but from Shuurin. Who, at some point had ended up standing behind them both.
Sesshoumaru turned, his amber colored eyes searching out her own dark brown ones. She has to be Rin.