"Rin, you insufferable child, stop that at once." Jaken yelled as rin splashed in a mud puddle.
"But it's FUN master jaken." Rin said as she run around in the rain splashing in mud puddles.
"It's filthy is what it is." Jaken mumbled to her.
"Aww, but I love the rain master jaken." Just then sesshomaru walked into camp. "Come play with me lord sesshomaru." rin said as she run up to him, sesshomaru said nothing.
"As if lord sesshomaru would lower himself to play in the rain with you." Jaken yelled at the happy little girl.
"Why not? I said before, it's fun to play in the rain." Rin said.
Sesshomaru stood there looking at his adopted daughter play in the rain, "the rain, I hate the rain, it reminds me of that day, it reminds me of her." sesshomaru thought to himself as he remembered the day he meat kagome in the rain.
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"ah-CHOO, stupid rain." Inuyasha mumbled to himself as he sat in an old hut they took shelter in.
"You know inuyasha, you've been like this all day, are you sure you're ok?" Kagome asked sitting next to him.
"Feh! It's just a little sneeze, all this sitting around is what's really bothering me, where'd they have to do that's so important anyway." Inuyasha said referring to sango and miroku who had left two days ago.
"They said that they were going to a nearby village, remember." Shippo said as he continued coloring.
"That's right sango and miroku went to go perform an exorcism on the headman's daughter, the trip was supposed to take two days at the most. I suppose with all that rain it'll probably slow them down a bit." Kagome was brought out of her thoughts when she heard, 'cough, heck, and cough.' "JUST A SNEZZE MT BUTT, YOU'RE BURNING UP." Kagome yelled at inuyasha as she put her hand on his forehead to check his temperature.
Inuyasha looked up at her with beet red face, and wide eyes, if kagome got any closer than their lips would touch. "Wait right here, I think I have something that will help." Kagome said as she run to her new bag.
"Inuyasha your face got really red just now, fever got worse?" Shippo asked as he looked up at inuyasha.
"Shut up runt." Inuyasha yelled as he hit shippo on the head.
"I thought demons don't get colds?" Kagome asked from her bag.
"Well excuse me for being half-demon." Inuyasha said as he stuck his nose in the air.
"Well lucky for you I have some medi…" Kagome was cut off as she found not medicine in her bag. "There's no more!" Her mind yelled.
"Oi! What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked seeing kagome's face.
"Hehe, well I guess we can forget that plan." Kagome said with a nerves laugh. "I guess I can head home and get some more medicine. Oh but we're too far from the well, Mmmmm, Ah! I know." "There's some herbs I saw a while ago in the words, I'll go gather them." Kagome said as she turned to run out of the old hut, she then felt a hand grabbed her wrist.
"Kagome, don't go." Inuyasha said in a low voice, face as red as an apple. Kagome stood shock looking at him, "inu…" but before her mind could finish, inuyasha said. "S…STUPID! If you go now, you'll get sick to then what?" inuyasha asked as he looked away face still beet red.
Smiling down at him kagome said, "ok inuyasha, I'll stay." As she took a sit next to him.
"Tee-Hee, your face is all red again." Shippo said as he laughed at inuyasha.
"SHUT UP YA LIL TWERP!!!" Inuyasha yelled as he hit poor little shippo.
An hour had passed and inuyasha was now asleep, getting up kagome walked to the door and turned to shippo and said, "shhh, try not to wake inuyasha. Kay? I'll be right back, take good care of him shippo."
"Don't worry, you can count on me." Shippo said as kagome walked out the room.
Walking out side kagome couldn't help but look at how pretty outside look. "Everything always looks so much prettier after a shower." She said to herself. "It's been awhile since it rained, the last time…was also the last time I saw him. I wonder if sesshomaru ever used that umbrella or not…still he's as elusive as water, and just as cold." Kagome thought as she bends down to play with a koi fish in the pond, just than she heard rustle in the bushes behind her. "What the…eeeeek."
Kagome said as she slip and almost fell in the freezing pond…however she never did. Looking up to see who had caught her, she found herself in the arms of none other than sesshomaru. "Lor…lord sesshomaru! Umm thanks for catching me." Sesshomaru stood there looking at her without saying a word, he then turned to leave. "H…hey wait a minute."
Sesshomaru paid her no attention; he just looked around like he was looking for something. "Umm…sesshomaru?"
"Girl! Why are you still here?" sesshomaru asked turning to look at her.
"I could ask the same of you, you look like you're searching for something." Kagome said as she walked to him.
"My young ward rin has falling ill, she require herbs." Sesshomaru said looking around.
"What a coincidence! I'm on my way to collect some herbs for inu…in case of an emergency! You can never be too safe, hehe." Kagome said as she gave a nerves laugh. Sesshomaru looked at her with a rise eyebrow, totally not buying it. "His totally not buying it." "Why don't we look for some together?"
"Your aid is not needed for such a simple task." Sesshomaru said, but for some odd reason he could not turn away from her.
"Maybe not, but it would be more convenient this way, I'll boil up a bunch and give half to you, besides I like rin." Kagome said as she looks for herbs on the ground.
Sesshomaru stood there looking at her for a minute, "very well then." Sesshomaru said as he walked pass her to help look for some herbs. As he walked pass her, his sleeve flutter catching kagome's attention.
Without a second thought to what she was doing, kagome reached out and caught the sleeve of his missing arm, sesshomaru stopped dead in his tracts. "About this…I'm sorry." Kagome said as she looked down at it.
"You were not the one that cut my arm off." Sesshomaru said.
"No, but I helped inuyasha wiled the tetsusagia, so I'm partly to blame. I mean I'm not sorry for inuyasha getting the sword and we were only defending ourselves, but I always felt bad about how it happened." Kagome said looking away from sesshomaru.
"…that has long since passed, besides I no longer desire my father's fang so don't dwell on it." Sesshomaru said as he walked away from her.
"But if that's really the case…if it doesn't even matter anymore…" "Then that means your sacrifice was for nothing sesshomaru." kagome said to him, looking down she thought to herself. "And somehow that makes me feel worse, like we took something away from him for no reason at all."
Hearing her utter those words, sesshomaru stopped dead in his tracts, looking back at her with wide eyes, after a minute his eyes soften and he said. "Even if I did not get what I wanted…it doesn't mean that I gained nothing." Sesshomaru said thinking of rin and how she came into his life the day he lost his arm. "Is that not the same for you miko?"
With that said sesshomaru and kagome walked to the old hut where inuyasha was. "Wait here, I'll be back." With a nod from sesshomaru to asure her that he would wait, kagome went into the hut to make the medicine. After an hour of boiling the herbs, it was finally done, pouring some in a cup from her time, kagome went to inuyasha. "Inuyasha come on, drink this it will make you feel better."
Opening his eyes, only one name came out of inuyasha's mouth as he looked at the girl in front of him. "Ki…kikyo?"
"…come on inuyasha drink up." Kagome said trying not to feel the pain in her heart. Once she was done making him drink the tea, she walked outside to give sesshomaru the rest for rin.
"Here, have rin take this and she'll be fine." Kagome said as she walked away. Kagome walked in the rain thinking to herself, never noticing the person following her. "I understand…that even though after all that I've given…after everything that I've sacrifice, I'll still be left with…nothing at all. But I don't regret it because…I've gain something different, yet still precious." Kagome thought to herself thinking of all the good memories she and her friends had. "Now I understand what you were saying sesshomaru, even so…it still hurts." Finally taking note that sesshomaru was behind her, kagome said, "I love the rain, know why?" kagome asked as she turn to look at him.
"It washes away heartbreak." She said as she smiled at him, tears running down her check. Sesshomaru stood there looking at kagome with wide eyes.
Ok everyone, this is where I stop for now, until next time.
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