Play with Me

Rin, having been with Sesshoumaru for a whole year now, decided that he needed to know what fun was. Having never seen him do anything that could be considered fun, it was up to her to show him how it was done. But that meant somehow getting him in one of the few times he was in a good mood.

To her joy, one of those moments had come upon the one she followed after they had stopped for the night after a longer day's journey than usual. There had been a fight earlier that day and that always seemed to make Sesshoumaru act more at ease.

"Sesshoumaru-sama?" she asked, crawling away from the comforting heat of the fire to the tree Sesshoumaru was currently sitting under.

"Rin?"

"Play with me?"

She hadn't thought up a game yet, but seeing Sesshoumaru actually considering her request, and giving a faint nod in her direction when he had made up his mind, something fun but harder to play at night drifted into her head. She tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

"Tag, you're it!" she cried, before running off as quickly as she could in the opposite direction.

Before she had gotten to the trees that surrounded the small clearing they were in, she was picked up and lifted towards Sesshoumaru's face. He tipped his head to one side. "What is this 'tag'?"

Giggling as she was asked this, she was all too happy to explain. "It's a game Sesshoumaru-sama. One person taps someone, and they are 'it'. That person then runs after the other until they are tagged as 'it' and they change places."

"So you now chase after me? You think you could catch this Sesshoumaru?" His voice was heavy with doubt, but Rin giggled anyway.

"If you let me I could."

After a few seconds contemplation, Sesshoumaru lowered her to the ground and quicker than she could ever hope to catch, was over by the tree he had picked for a bed that night. Rin soon ran after him, coming just close enough to almost touch him, before he disappeared from her sight. Spinning around, she now saw him sitting on the ground by the fire.

He evaded her touches three more times, once by Ah-Un, who grunted at being awoken after the walking he had done that day, another by a snoring Jaken who didn't so much as stir as she accidentally kicked dirt on his webbed feet, and another time, where she had been made 'it'.

Currently Sesshoumaru was waiting patiently for her by a tree not too far away from the one she was currently at. She smiled at him, before yawning. Rubbing at her eyes, she decided that she would try just one more time and then she would go to sleep.

To her amazement she found that while Sesshoumaru moved out of her way like the other times that her hands closed around his sleeve, and with a shout of achievement launched herself at him, giving him a hug instead of a tap.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, I got you!" she cried happily, before yawning again.

"Indeed you did. Now sleep."

He put her down again and she immediately went to her blanket near the fire and curled herself into it. In what seemed mere moments she was asleep.

No nightmares haunted her that night. That night she could run as fast as her lord, and they played together in an open field for the entire night.

Maybe now Sesshoumaru-sama knew what fun was.