The Field
"Jaken. Mind Ah-Un while Rin and I find food".
He seemed shocked, but nodded in response.
Rin jumped off of Ah-Un and walked to my side. She looked up at me for a second and then we were off. There was a field not too far ahead. One that was probably a part of one of the other villages in the area.
She ran ahead of me to pick some flowers and then off to side to pick some more.
The field was small, but large enough that Rin could find good melons in what smelled to be a field of mostly bad melons. She picked a good one out and started munching. She smiled at me with juice on her face. "This one is really good Sesshoumaru-sama!" She turned to the melons again. "Maybe I should take three or four…"
"Rin".
She turned back to me. "Yes?"
"For your safety…you have to live in a human village."
She stopped chewing. Something changed in her eyes. I knew this look, she was afraid.
"But why? Sesshoumaru-sama?"
I knew she wouldn't understand. So much so that I just told her why, but that wasn't enough for her.
"You have to learn to be with humans." This was true, but not the main reason for my decision.
"But I want to be with you!"
This was new. There were times when she argued with Jaken, or even that time when she said she wanted to come with me to defeat Magatsuhi, but this was a little over the line of defiance.