if you've read/watched CCS, XXXHolic or Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (By Clamp), you will recognize the characters that show up. And also, i will use the spelling that i like the most, since some names are spelled differently from place to place.
Disclaimer: Time to update the disclaimer. I do not own any of the characters of inuyasha,
neither do I own any of the characters from Card Captor Sakura/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.
These titles are owned by Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha) And CLAMP (Tsubasa, CCS). There,
hope I made myself clear enough
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A person like me
Chapter 8: Welcome home!
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Sesshomaru and Rin walked home from school, and now Rin was giggling. Sesshomaru had just told her what had happened earlier that day, when kagome had "sat" inuyasha.
Arriving at their home, they were a little surorised to see a car On the driveway.
Sesshomarus adoptive-parents must have come home.
"Good, finally you will meet them" Sesshomaru said, looking at Rin.
Rin just smiled.
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Entering the house, Rin saw Sesshomaru instantly wrapped in the arms of a woman.
She must be Sakura, his adoptive mother.
"Oh, i missed you so much!" she exclamied, hugging him tightly.
When she released him and took a step backwards, rin got a chance to look at this woman.
She looked so young! She seemed to be slightly younger than 30! She had slightly
light-brown to blonde hair, and green eyes.
(A.N: Sakura and her husband, Genjiro, got married at the age of 18, and adopted sesshomaru one year later, so she is currently 29).
"And who might this be?" she asked, turning to Rin.
"This is Rin" sesshomaru said,"I found her in a certain well, the day you left."
"Oh, so she doesn't have a memory, either?" Sakura asked, still loking at Rin.
"That is correct, she has been living here, while waiting to hear anything from
her parents." Sesshomaru said, also looking at rin, with a smile on his lips.
"I find her prescence soothing"
Sakura looked at her adoptive son, and was surprised to see him smile. He seemed more alive now, than when they had left. back then, he almost never smiled. Not since Yoko...
"Well, she'll just have to stay here then" Sakura said with a smile, as she opened her arms towards rin. "Come here, give mommy a hug" she said, with a big smile.
Rin hesitated a little at first. But, as she watched the face of her new mother, something in her started to feel warm. She embraced Sakura warmly, and without knowing why, she felt sad. Large drops of tears started to roll down her cheeks.
Sakura Noticed this, and softly started to rub her back, while whispering; "Shh, there there, it's all right."
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Sesshomaru just stood there watching, feeling rather happy that they were getting along so well. Then he oticed that Genjiro Had entered the room. immidietly, he sensed that something was not so well with him. Genjiro was a pretty normal man, about a head shorter that sesshomaru, with black hair and dark-brown, almost black, eyes.
"Hello, Genjiro" he said, walking over to him.
"Oh, hi sesshomaru" he said, returning to his usual, glad, self. "So, you've found a kindred spirit at last, eh?" he said with a smirk.
"Don't misunderstand. I have no interest in her THAT way, though her wellbeing comes before my own"
"Whoa, thats destructive." Genjiro said, his smirk fading a little. At that moment, his cell-phone rang. "Yes?" he answered.
Sesshomaru could hear a faint female voice at the other end. She sounded angry.
"Yes, i will be right there" he said, while starting to sweat a little."Ok, ok, i'm coming right now" he said, as he hung up.
"Sorry dear" he said to sakura, "My boss called, she wants the report on the achievments we made in scandinavia".
"OK, dont' be too late tonight, i'm making your favourite food tonight." she said, with a smile.
"Looking forward to it" Genjiro said as he walked out the door.
Sesshomaru felt a small tug on his pants. looking down, he saw rin.
"Ne, Sesshomaru Onii-san" she said, "Can we go to Kagome Onee-chans house later?"
"Sure" was all he said. He felt his mothers gaze on him. "Go do your homework now, and we'll go soon."
"Ok!" Rin exclaimed happily.
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Sesshomaru seemed cold, as usual now, with rin gone, sakura thought to herself.
"So, who is this Kagome-chan i hear about?" she said, with a small smirk.
Sesshomarus eyes softened a little, to a slightly warmer, amber, gaze.
"She's a girl in my class, and she is also the one I asked to help Rin with the shopping"
he seemed a little uneasy about the whole subject. "Since i don't have a clue about female
underwear, she did it in my place. And also, I seem to have become something of a
role-model to her little brother"
Sakura felt happy at those words. Her son were starting to open up to other people, slowly breaking his cocoon.
"Excuse me a little while, mother, i need to change my bandage."
Bandage? sakura got a little scared, and remembered that he had flinched when she had embraced him earlier.
Sesshomaru wnet into the kitchen, and sakura followed. He undid his shirt, and took it off.
What sakura saw made her gasp. Almost his whole torso was bandaged.
The bandages only kept cooling-pads placed over the wounds. The bleeding had stopped a few days ago, but the wounds felt unnaturally warm.
"What happened to you?" she asked, running her fingers over the now exposed wounds.
"Shot, at close proximity" he said, calmly, "Someone tried to kidnap Rin, and maybe Souta"
"Oh my god!" she exclaimed, as she sat down. "He's in Jail, right? The guy that shot you that is!"
"I don't know if there are jails in hell, but either way is fine" he said, as he started wrapping new bandages around his torso. His voice was so cold, emotionless, that it scared her.
"H-hell?" she asked, sliglty afraid of what he would answer.
"Yes. I lost it, yet again." he said, his voice not as cold anymore, just sad. "I killed him, with my own hands, after having been shot" he said, even more sorrow flowing into his voice.
He looked over at her, as he started to button his shirt.
"I met Yoko, that night. she was sitting with her family, under a never-withering Sakura tree. Same as your name. And her mothers."
She felt a bolt of pain, hearing the sorrow that was bottled in his voice.
At that moment, Rin came down the stairs.
"Onii-san, I'm done!" She exclaimed happily, "Can we leave now?"
"Sure" he said, buttoning the last button in his shirt. he picked something out of his backpack, she saw that it was a panpipe. he gave her a look that told her to not tell Rin what they had talked about, and that they would talk later tonight.
"See you later, Mother" Sesshomaru said, as he walked out the door.
"Bye Mommy!" Rin said, and ran out the door.
Sakura felt happy at those words. Now she had a daughter, as well as a son.
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Walking towards the Higurashi-shrine, Sesshomaru noticed yet another person he would have liked to never see again. Kikyo. Inuyashas ex-girlfriend.
Ignoring her, he led Rin the last few steps to the shrine. he smiled a little as he saw her run up the shrine stairs, giggling.
She quickly made her way to the house where the higurashi family lived. Sesshomaru rang the doorbell.
Souta was the one to open, and he greeted sesshomaru, before grabbing rins hand, and running inside.
Sesshomaru felt his sorrow flow up again, at the thought of the look in his mothers eyes. Luckily, he had brought his panpipe with him. He walked to the well, placed beneath the god-tree.
"You two are probably the only things taht hasn't changed in the last ten years" he said to the large tree and the well.
Sesshomaru Sat down, his back against the large tree, watching the well. he started playing his panpipe. A song so beautiful, that a few birds flew down and landed on his shoulders, yet so filled with sorrow that even the hidden person, watching him, could feel it.
Without knowing there was anyone else there, Sesshomaru let his thought wander, while playing.
When his thought touched a certain name, tears started to fall down his cheeks.
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Soil: Well, so far so good. If you think that this story is far too sad at the moment, then I ask your forgiveness. It will turn out a little happier soon, I hope. I have pretty much lost control over this story. But! I have the power of the writer, and that must account for something, right? Well, may your soul be well until next time!