please correct me if my spelling is off with the Japanese, and also tell me a few common words, nice ones, that I could use
Rin takes one look at herself and starts to hyperventilate.
"What is happening to me?!" she wails. Then her self-control takes over, shoving fear and uncertainty to the back corner of her mind, like it always does, allowing her room to think rationally.
That back corner has been overused these past few days.
Her breathing slows, she sits down, and she does her best to think about what is happening to her body.
She immediately rules out anything that she ate, and her dagger has nothing to do with it because she has used it many times before without anything happening to her other than the cramps. Unless...it is because she has used it so much, the final straw, as it were.
That left either sickness, or something else.
She shoots up from her position on the ground and starts to run to Ah-Un, but went sprawling with Jaken-sama yelling for her to get off him. She didn't see him watching her.
She gets to her knees and helps Jaken-sama to his feet. "Gomen, gomen Jaken-sama," she apologizes, "I am just worried."
Jaken-sama looks at her thoughtfully. For once, he does not screech at her or anything. Instead, he says, "I can show you to the nearest human village, if you would like me to."
She surprises both of them by hugging him around the neck. "Arigatou, thank you." She lets go of him and sits back to watch in enjoyment as his eyes go buggy (buggier). She is grateful toward him that he is offering his help so freely, and it is the only way she could think of to thank him. Not to mention that she knows she will replay his expression many times in the future.
Jaken-sama gives her detailed directions to the nearest village, "And be sure to be on foot when you enter!" He warns.
She gives him one of her cheeky smiles and urges Ah-Un into the air.
She is careful to hide the presence of the two-headed dragon from the villagers, opting to walk the last half mile to the village. Once she arrives, she asks for a healer or a miko. They immediately point her in the direction of the woman's hut, as their miko is a healer as well. Her stomach feels carved out of solid rock, but no matter what she does, she cannot make her nerves go away.
"Um, excuse me? Miko-sama?"
The young woman turns around, continuing to grind something with a mortar and pestle. "What is it?"
"Uh..." Okay, she really has no idea where to go from there. "I, uh...I dunno where to start."
"How about your name."
"Um...My name is Rin." She stammers. She is easily cherry red, and her face feels like it might just scorch off. She sounded like the village idiot.
"I'm bleeding!"
The woman sets down her mortar and takes in the circumstances; not injured, check; embarrassed, check; alone, check.
"Where are you bleeding?"
Rin flushes even redder—How is that even possible?—and points.
The miko grins. "Has this ever happened before? It's okay if you want to just nod or shake your head."
Rin nods.
"Any aching or cramps in your belly?"
Rin thinks about it and nods; she thought that she had felt something earlier, as she walked to the village, but dismissed it as left-over aches from the night before.
The miko grins even wider. "Congratulations, Rin, you're a woman!"
Rin's face bunches up in confusion. "Aren't I already female?"
The miko shakes her head in wonderment. "You mean that you've never been told..."
"Nope." Rin shifts awkwardly, thinking that this is some deficiency on her part.
The miko, the wonderful woman, smiles, closes her eyes, and sighs. "It would seem that I have some explaining to do."
*********Sesshomaru***********
Sesshomaru walks through the forest, thinking about something that has invaded his thoughts for several days now.
Rin.
He has been able to smell the changes in her body, but, lacking a way to either to tell her what was happening or to predict what would happen, he has remained silent.
He stopped under a tree whose leaves were particularly bright this autumn, and stares up at the sky through their changing patterns.
He knows that she had, as his clan would put it, gone into heat, but he does not know how such things affect humans. He knew that they certainly are not affected as inuyoukai were, but there were still many options to consider.
Now that she is, fertile, he knows he should leave her at a village he deems suitable.
But...
He closes his eyes and leans against the side of a nearby boulder.
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"And you do what?!"
Rin is sitting on a mat across from Minora-san, mouth hanging open.
They had already spoken about the technicalities of what happened when she started her cycle. Now Minora is telling her about what actually happens when a woman actually beds a man. And some of the ways one goes about pleasuring said male.
It is obvious that she is enjoying Rin's astonishment.
"Rub, just rub, you'll see the effects soon enough."
"Any particular place?" Rin is interested in spite of herself; who knew that there were so many things one could do to a man.
Minora-san leans in close, as though telling a secret. "That's the wonderful thing about men, there is no particular spot. Lots of things about them seem to be rather general in nature, so there aren't so many details to work out."
Rin has to ask, "How do you know this, since you're a miko?"
Then it is Minora-san's turn to blush. "I had a lover a while back, before I was chosen to be a miko. It didn't work out, but I did learn a few things before we broke up." She says with a wink.
Rin sits back on her heels and looks at her. "I'll say."
Suddenly, something occurs to Minora. "Wait, your name is Rin, right?"
Rin's head tilts to the side. "Yes."
Minora starts to look excited. "Are you alone, or are you with someone?"
Rin tenses. "What exactly do you mean by 'with someone'?"
"Are you traveling with someone? Or are you traveling alone?" Minora is definitely starting to get excited, but Rin can't fathom why.
"I'm not alone."
"Who are you with then?" It is obvious to Rin that the other woman can barely contain herself.
Rin figures it can't do any harm to tell her. "Sesshomaru-sama, Jaken-sama and Ah-Un."
Minora's hand comes up to her mouth, presumably to keep it from falling to the floor. "So you're the Rin," she squeaks.
