Konnichiwa! I'm back with another chapter. I am kinda worried about the amount of people that have visited my story for the past week. I hope it doesn't get any worse! But either way I won't give up and am going to finish this story! I would some reviews though please!

Oh, just to give a warning this might be disappointing for some Sess/Rin fans (like them as a couple). I don't really picture them as having that type of relationship, sorry :(

I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. ONLY ME AND MY BFF OWN YURI!

Chapter 15: Bedtime Rhymes

A small girl gazed down at the Bone Eaters well where remained her trustful friends on the other side. She sees the carcasses of Mistress Centipede's bones half buried into the soil. Lush green vines decorate the rocky sides of the man made structure. Just like decades in the past the well had no water in it and is dry and abandoned.

When will Lord Sesshomaru and the others come back? Well…they said they'd be gone for a while.

"Rin…Riiiiiin," croaks a demon behind her who had been off in the middle of Inuyasha's forest in search for her.

"I'm over here Master Jaken," she yells out to him and hears ruffles in the bushes as he breaks out into the opening. The toad demon held out his staff that was given from his lord and spots the child, "Rin are you crazy being out here all by yourself while the moon is dark. You foolish child…"

"You worry too much Master Jaken," she evidently stutters in turning to him. Her dark wood hair splashes on her face as the wind blew throughout the land as it whispers while brushing the landscape of the trees and grass.

"If Lord Sesshomaru found out that you got attacked by a demon he would kill me!" he spits out having a sweat roll down his ugly green skin. He spots her in a daze, "aren't you even listening to me?"

"Do you think Kagura is with us right now?" she asks right off the bat in a curious tone of being a kid. She beams at one of the many trees at the edge of the opening terrain dancing its vegetation with the blowing flow of invisible air.

"That wench? Why bring that woman up? She was a nausance!"

"Because every time the wind comes I seem to hear a soft whisper carry itself. It's like the wind is talking to me in the voice of a young lady," Rin then glares at a pair of fresh leaves twirling and flying in the air as they slowly fade in the shadows.

"That stupid Sorcerer always got herself in trouble and was always in Sesshomaru-sama's way. She knew what was coming for her and downright deserved it," he shuts his round eyes, folds his arms together, and raises his beak up.

She stares at him after his saying, "don't say those things about her! She can probably hear you…where ever she is."

"That's just gibberish. And if she did hear me she couldn't do anything about it," finishing his commotion with a positive grin a gust of brawny wind, out of nowhere, immediately hits him with as much speed as Inuyasha's Wind Scar.

"Master Jaken!" the seven year old runs to him in stretching her puny hand out for him to reach. It fails epically! Therefore, she stood there and watches as Jaken is picked up in the air and flies backwards into the maze of trees. Having a dull sound from Jaken crashing himself on the grass floor she again sees him exit out of the woodlands. His dark olive hat had been bent with tattered holes all over his brown kimono and his features didn't seem to be enjoyable as dirt smudges on his skin.

I told him…

In trying to hold it in she cries out in laughter. While collapsing on the natural ground on her spine Rin wraps her arms around her tummy and kicks her legs back and forth. Jaken let her do her thing until she goes back in her position, "are you ready to go now?"

In giggling so hard two water droplets suddenly expose themselves on the corner of her eyes as she wipes them off with her thumbs. Faint chuckles still appear out of her oral cavity, "h-hai!." Rin gleams at the sky.

I'm glad you've won your freedom Kagura.

Both Rin and Jaken head to the village. Arriving, their scents travel into Kaede's hut as they then sit with the wise, elder woman around the fire while eating their late evening meal.

"So what were ye doing outside?" Kaede questions to Rin in sighting her with her original orange and yellow checkered kimono on. Her mouth had been stuffed with a ball of white rice and in mannerly swallowing it she continues the conversation, "I was standing by the well in hoping my lord would come back with the others."

"I see but don't get your hopes up child," she warns.

"I know," she accepts the adult's words but she couldn't help but feel sorrow weighing down on her. She missed the groups company and wished she could be on the other side of the well with them. Moments later Kaede could tell of Rin's attitude and wanted to get her mind off of it and in finishing her meal along with Jaken she got a chance, "Rin may I ask ye yet another question if you don't mind."

"Yes Keade," Kaede clears her throat with a noticing noise as a fist covers her thin lips, "forgive me if this is too personal but what do you think of Lord Sesshomaru."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean child is do you think of Lord Sesshomaru as a close relative or a friend of some sort," a snore destroys their chit chat as they turn their heads in seeing Jaken out like a light bulb. Hugging his staff of two heads.

Rin brings her attention back to the lady, "Oh…," she gazes at the active flames of heat in the middle of the area. The chemical property of the wood burning into black ashes made a smell that made her sneeze, "Rin?"

"Sorry, you don't have to forgive; I was just thinking that's all," she jumps back to reality.

What do I think of Sesshomaru as?

"I never really thought about it but…I guess I would think of Sesshomaru as a fatherly figure some what. He has taken care and protected me from demons. And as you can know he always buys me a new pretty kimono almost every time the celebrations of yearly events come along. He is like my guardian that just wants what's best for me," she heavenly smiles in having her hands parking on her thighs.

"I am happy to hear," she brightens her mood in a self-righteous tendency.

"There's one thing that I don't get though," Rin speaks quietly.

"And what is that?"

"Why did Sesshomaru-sama go with them to the future?" a good question even Kaede could not answer. Why would he go with them?

"That is also a question that has been caught in my mind for quite some time. I don't understand why ye would. It would just cause him more frustration since Inuyasha is with them."

Though…ye has been acting a bit strange lately.

"Maybe since the evil of Naraku is gone and I heard from Master Jaken that his ruling of the Western lands has being going smoothly he might just be settling down."

"Ye might be right but these questions might be one of the many things about him that we may never know. Lord Sesshomaru is a man of many secrets that mostly are never revealed."

Rin understood her of what she meant and wouldn't second her one bit on that subject. This just urges her to know more about her lord even more, but she also knew that he doesn't like to talk about his past life. She doesn't even know one sliver of his childhood.

The door way curtain opens up as a certain figure comes to make a surprise visit. A young boy in his now early teens comes in while wearing a brand new demon slayer outfit as a twin tailed fire cat demon leaps underneath his legs.

"Kohaku!" Rin cheers in which wakes up the toad demon in alarm as Kohaku waves, "Hey Rin…Kaede."

"What an unexpected visit Kohaku. It's nice to see ye again; come sit down. Are ye going to stay for the night?" Kohaku nods in agreement, puts down his weapon against the corner of the wall, and welcomes himself in settling down in a criss-cross.

"So that's why ye were gone Kirara. You went to go check on Kohaku?" figures out Kaede in sighting Kirara in her tiny form. The feline marks her place on Rin's warm, soothing lap and meowed happily in meaning to the elder, her own language, a yes. Appreciating the tan/black dyed mammal for deciding to rest upon her lap Rin strokes her mane in helping the creature fall asleep. The cat's beautiful fur so soft.

"Yeah, so when Kirara came I asked her if she could take me here so I could meet Sango. Where is aneue anyway?" he searches for any trace of his family member around the room and realizes that his soon to be brother-in-law wasn't around either. Not even other familiar faces.

Have Sango and Miroku already built a hut for each other? No. They can't do that until they are married or that would be dishonorable to our family and culture. Did she have to go with her friends on some mission while I was gone? Sometimes I feel like I'm left out on everything.

"Ye are sorry but Sango went along with the others to Kagome's village," Kaede advises and tells of how long they've been gone, "Sango most likely won't be back in another week at the most but ye can stay here until she arrives back."

"Please stay Kohaku," the girl pleases to him grouping her hands as one in bringing out a puppy face. He curves his lips and sighs, "alright, I'll stay." The old miko peacefully lifts a wrinkled smile at Rin's reaction as Jaken goes back to unconsciousness.

The fire had already died out. The village was now in a cloud of silence and in a spell of sleep as two figures were the last awake. They were resting on the first couple of shrine steps right next to Kaede's hut, "Star night, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight."

Listening to the girl sing her third lullaby the guardian then speaks, "did ye make those up?"

"No, Yuri sang them to me every time I went to bed. She helped me memorize so if she wasn't around I could sing them myself," Rin spoke freely while gazing up at the twinkling sparks of sapphires in the sky as it was the night of the new moon, "do you think it's the night of the new moon in Kagome's time?"

"Ye is sure it is and ye thinks that ye both need to get some rest," Kaede states as she gradually gets up with a grunt, wipes some of the dust off of the pants of her miko outfit, and hides her arms behind her back.

"Miss Kaede um… how did you hurt your eye? The one with the black patch over it," the seven year old points to one of her own eyes in describing of what she ment.

"That is a story that is from far in the past when I was around your age and ye thinks that it should be left there. It'll just make ye more curious and ye will be restless and have a tiresome day tomorrow," she trots away to the hut in not glaring back, "come child."

"Yes Kaede," and she follows bear footed.

Well there it is Chapter 15! ;) See you next week!

Next week's update: Chapter 16 Underwater...

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