Chapter 16: Someone's Watching Me
Rin could feel someone's eyes on her, she just didn't know who the eyes belonged to. She had a feeling that these eyes that were watching her now had watched her before. It didn't help that there was no moon tonight and that the stars where hidden by black clouds. She was shaking with the cold of the winter air that touched her bare skin. She had only ever been this cold once before, and that had been when a demon had kidnapped her when she was eight.
Suddenly Rin heard a cracking noise almost like that of a twig or branch, but this noise came form across the river and was closely followed by the sound of water splashing. Rin screamed when she felt a hand cover her mouth.
"Will you be quite?" Sesshoumaru's voice asked from behind her. Rin nodded her head. With a sigh Sesshoumaru took his hand from her mouth and Rin felt the cooling kiss of the night air where his hand had just been.
"Did you hear that noise?" Rin asked in a shaky voice.
"Yes."
"What made the noises?"
"Noises?"
"Yes noises."
"There was only one noise."
"No," Rin said shaking her head, "there was two."
"What two noises did you hear?"
"A branch or a twig breaking and a splash."
"I heard the second one but not the first, odd."
"Why is that odd?"
Looking down at her Sesshoumaru asked, "Are you cold?"
"No. Why?"
"You're shivering."
"I always shiver when I feel someone watching me." Rin said with out thinking.
"How can you tell someone is watching you?"
"I use to live with a demon when I was little. There were always other demons watching me then and I just learned how to tell if someone was watching me or not."
"What demon did you live with?"
"Does it really matter? It's not like he cares what happens to me or not. If he did he wouldn't have left me alone in the forest to die."