Sorry its so short/overdue. Next one will be better!

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Famous Last Words

Chapter 6: Play Time

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"Inuyasha, take Rin to the park this afternoon," Sesshoumaru said as he straightened his tie. "I have meetings all day and I told her she could go. So take her."

Inuyasha looked up from his video game. "Do I have to?"

"She seemed relatively excited about going, and you don't seem to have anything more productive to do."

"Keh, fine," he said, getting up. "Rin, come on!"

Rin hurried down the stairs.

"Are we going?" she asked Inuyasha.

"Yeah, let's go," he said, following her out the door.

"Have a good day Sesshoumaru!" Rin called back excitedly.

Rin took Inuyasha's hand and enthusiastically led the way to the park. Five minutes later Inuyasha flopped down on a bench as Rin ran to join her friends that were already at the park.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha looked up and saw Kagome and Sango looking down at him, three boys around Rin's age scurried off from behind the pair.

"Oh, hey Kagome," he said.

"What are you doing here?"

"My brother's thing wanted to come today," he said shrugging.

"…Thing?"

"Well, it's his kid but he doesn't call it his kid. That one," he said, pointing at Rin, who had just stopped to talk to one of the boys that had come with Sango and Kagome.

"Oh! So that tall man with the white hair is your brother?" Kagome asked, sitting down beside him on the bench.

"Keh, yes."

"He's out here sometimes, he brings Rin. My little brother has a huge crush on Rin," Sango said, pointing at the dark-haired boy Rin was talking to.

Kagome laughed a little and Inuyasha shrugged.

"So why are you here instead of your brother?" Kagome asked conversationally.

"My brother had some stupid meeting to go to or something and made me take her," he grumbled.

"Well it was very sweet of you!" Kagome remarked, beaming at him.

Inuyasha blushed and looked away, muttering something.

"Shippou, Souten, what are you doing?" Rin asked, sitting down in the sandbox.

A blacked haired girl with dark red eyes looked up at Rin and smiled, her redheaded companion also looked up.

"We're going to get Hakudoushi this time," Souten said confidently, pointing to some squiggles in the sand.

"We've organized a complex strategy of attack," Shippou added in as Kohaku and Souta joined them in the sandbox.

"Around now, Hakudoushi and Kanna will be arriving with Kagura," Souten said confidently, looking over her shoulder.

"Kagura always sits on that bench right there," Shippou said pointing to a lone bench under a large oak tree, placed in front of a very deep trench where a small creek was flowing.

"Our plan," Souten cut over Shippou, smirking. "Is to lure Hakudoushi in that general direction, you know what a bully he is, and we intend to push him in the creek."

"But he could get hurt!" Rin protested. "There are rocks!"

"Hakudoushi is a jerk anyway!" Shippou pointed out. "He would push us into a river if he thought we couldn't swim!"

Kohaku looked unsurely at Souta and Rin. Shippou, Souten and Hakudoushi had a personal war going on when they were on the playground. They had one thing right; Hakudoushi was the meanest kid on the playground. He kicked sand and pushed kids off slides and swings. He was a classic bully.

But Kohaku always opted out of the war, as did Souta and Rin. The five of them exited the sandbox as soon as Souten and Shippou consulted, and wiped away, their crude little drawings and stood to leave.

"What are those kids doing?" Inuyasha asked, seeing the small herd of children all simultaneously stand and leave together.

"Probably up to something," Sango remarked. "They usually are."

"You're home earlier than I expe- what happened to Inuyasha?"

Rin stared at the ground, scuffing her foot against the floor. "Uhm, well you see," she started. "Shippou and Souten were trying to trick Hakudoushi so they could push him in the creek because they don't like each other and they accidentally pushed Inuyasha in instead I'm sorry," she said all in one breath.

"It's fine. Inuyasha, stop dripping on my floor, go change."

Inuyasha stomped off slowly, hoping to create the biggest puddle he could manage.

"So you're not mad?"

"No."

Rin smiled, hugged Sesshoumaru and ran up to her own room.