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The harsh wind burned against her face, causing the tears to fall faster down her cheeks as the winds forced them down as she continued to run, leaving her tears behind, leaving her friends, her child, her love.

Maybe it was better to leave, he had Kikyo, Sango had Miroku, she really never had anyone, she was just there. However, there was always Shippo, it pained her to know she was leaving him, but she new Sango would take him in, she would care for him and take good care of the young kit. So much, she wanted to bring him with her, but she could not bring him, she could not take him into a society that would no doubt condemn him for what he was, and she could not bring him because he was a reminder, of what she longed for but never had. She never would.

She was just running, running blindly into oblivion, hoping to wake up, to find Inuyasha still there, still wanting her there. But he never did want her, she had always only just believed he had. She was just a tool, his shard collector. The saddest part was that she had known this all along; she could just never admit the truth to herself. Instead, blocking it away to never be opened, to be left behind as to believe what she wanted to believe, so she could pretend everything was just perfect.

But everything was not perfect. It was all falling apart; reality took a hard hit on her heart.

Everything seemed to be glazed over by her tears as she did not see it, she never saw anything, she never saw what was truly happening around her everyday, never saw she was lying to herself, never saw the tree root sticking out of the ground as it caused her to crash to the ground.

She only ignored the pain, the blood seeping through her open wounds, the small gash now on her cheek now dripping crimson tears from the rock that scratched her face as she fell, the aching feeling in her stomach that made her feel sick, the pain of her heart feeling as though it was slowly ripping in half as if to torture her even more, to make everything worse, to make it last and burn into her memories.

So she sat there on the cold ground, the well in her site just a few feet ahead, but she found herself giving up. Black hair sprawled around her body, dripping like ink to the ground as the moon reflected against her paled exposed skin.

She had given up, she did not want it anymore, it was not worth it, was not worth those few more steps to go home and tell her mother everything. She did not want to go home, she did not want to go anywhere but away, far away where nothing could touch her, where no memories would haunt her any longer, where her heart would not break, where pain did not exist, where she could disappear.

Yes, that was what she wanted now, to disappear.

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"RIN! RIN! YOU BLASTED CHILD GET BACK HERE!" A green imp, whom was limping lightly, made his way through the thick brush of the woods, breathing heavily and shouting at the child just up ahead who found this all to be a game, laughing and smiling as she grabbed a flower or two as she ran, the small toad never standing a chance at catching her with such short legs. A rather funny site really.

Laughing all the way, Rin made to run faster, to loose the toad so she could conjure him into a game of hide and seek.

She continued to run, to skip, to frolic, until reaching a clearing, did she stop, place her hands on her hips, lean forward and squint. She stayed like this for a good minute or so before she heard the raspy call of Jaken. She turned back for a moment to see some rustling in the forestry not too far away did she then run up to the item of which she had been squinting to see better.

Upon closer inspection, she realized it was a girl, whom looked to be sleeping. Rin smiled childishly as she bent down to tap the young miko's shoulder, causing her to stir and turn to look up to Rin. Rin merely giggled, bring her small fingers to her mouth as if to hide it before speaking.

"Hello pretty lady! Rin is Rin! Who are you?!"

Kagome merely stared blankly at the girl for a moment before smiling lightly. She looked vaguely familiar and she could not help but smile at her.

Oh, how the young an innocent, she missed it. Rin probably did not know what it was like to be hurt, but then, what did she really know about the girl.

Placing a hand firmly on the ground, she pushed up lightly to sit herself up a bit, leaning against her arms as her cheek rested against the shoulder. Her only way of really keeping herself up. She was falling apart.

"Hello Rin, I am Kagome. A pleasure to meet you." Kagome continued to smile, giving the girl the false impression she was fine, all she needed was some girl to start asking her a bunch of personal questions about her life and stir things up. Her eyes she could not change for the life of anything though.

RIN! RIN WHERE ARE-ACK! GET AWAY FROM HER RIN! The lowly imp hobbled his way over to the pair, quickly making his way to stand between Rin and Kagome, pointing his staff at her. "LEAVE MIKO! Or...Or I shall inflict the wraith of the power of the staff of two heads upon you!"

"Silence Jaken." As if from nowhere, the tall stoic yokai made his way to stand near Rin, his eyes on Kagome.

"Lord Sesshomaru! M-my deepest apologies! I did not mean to, but she started running off! I could not keep up!" By now Jaken was on the ground, and Sesshomaru seemed to be ignoring the creature as he looked away from Kagome and to his young ward, Jaken's mindless groveling seemed to stop as stayed bowed to the ground.

"Come Rin, we leave." The majestic figure awaited no reply but merely turned and began to head off in the opposite direction before he felt a tiny hand tug at his sleep.

"But Sesshomaru-sama, Kagome is hurt, and upset! Rin wants Kagome to come with us. Rin wants to help Kagome!

Kagome looked from the girl to Sesshomaru. No wondered the girl looked familiar, she was Sesshomaru's ward, she had seen her at least two or three times now. How could she have forgotten her and why was she so intent on helping her? How did she know she was upset?

"Rin seize this act immediately."

"But Sesshomaru! She is hurt, please!" Rin tugged harder on his sleep until finally the man in speaking looked down to her sad, pleading eyes. He was getting soft, for this one human girl. She had managed to find her way to his heart and touched it just so lightly that he seemed to give into her demands more so than he used to.

Turning back to Kagome, he stepped over to her and bent down before standing back up erect, the miko now in his arms, secured tightly, her form resting against his chest as he turned once more to leave, Rin now following as well as Jaken getting up from the ground and following along behind as well.

Kagome had not the voice to object but just looked up to the face of the man who held her before letting her eyes drift closed, her eyes lashes brushing against the top of her cheeks as she let sleep overcome her.

Looking down to the young miko in his arms, Sesshomaru kept an impassive face as he took a mere moment to gaze at her. For a human, she was not all that bad looking, she was as well brave from what he had seen from the fights with his baka half-brother.

But still, she was human, had Rin not been there to persuade him, he would have left her for dead, the world would have suffered no loss with one less human to walk about it.

Still, Rin was attached to her, perhaps she could watch Rin rather than Jaken, it seemed lately he was not doing all that much of a good job but it as well meant another human about the house as well a human he would be taking care of.

He shrugged all thoughts off as a cloud formed beneath his feet and Rin grabbed onto his pant leg as she leaned against his leg with a soft yawn. Jaken stood next to his lord, the staff of two heads in hand as he stared forward.

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Okay, so Sesshomaru is now in the story and has Kagome.

Wonder what will happen next?Yeah, well I know, I have got it all planned out.xD
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