Chapter 8

Rin

I knew that he would come back. I knew he'd come back for me. He saved me again, and now all I had to do to see him was open my eyes…

Slowly, my eyes peeked through my lashes and tried to see around me, but the room was burred, and all I could make out was the light from the lantern above me, and someone watching me. Was it Lord Sesshomaru?

"Lord…Sesshomaru?" I managed to say softly.

I heard someone leave the hut but someone was still watching over me. There was a shadowy figure above me.

"Is that you? Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Rin, are you okay?" Someone asked, not Lord Sesshomaru's voice.

"Shippou?" I rubbed my eyes and looked around. The room was empty, only Shippou and I were here. "Where is everyone?" I asked.

"Miroku and Inuyasha are watching the kids, Sango is with Kagome and they're helping-"

Shippou was cut off by a knock on the door. He stood up and walked outside with Sango and Kagome. After a few minutes, Shippou came inside and kneeled down next to me. He looked a little upset as he just looked into my eyes and stared.

"What is it?" I asked him after a minute.

He blinked and shook his head. "Nothing."

'Hm…somethings wrong…' I thought. "Shippou, where is Lord Sesshomaru?"

Shippou looked confused at my question. "Sesshomaru?"

"Yes, where is he?" I asked again.

Shippou looked around him as if I was talking to someone else. He looked back at me. "Rin, Sesshomaru isn't here. He's still gone after that demon he's been chasing for years."

My eyes widend and I sat up abruptly, ignoring the protesting, searing pain in my back and ribs. "No...No! I saw him! He came back for me! He saved me!" I cried out, looking up and around the room, moving my arms everywhere, trying to stand up.

Shippou caught my arms and pinned them to my side. "Rin! What do you think you're doing? Sit down, you're not fully healed yet!" suddenly his eyes widend and he blushed a wild red, looking away from me.

I looked down and realized I was bandaged from my hips to my stomach, but my chest was exposed. I blushed and grabbed the sheets and covered myself up.

There was a long awkward silence between us. Shippou was now sitting, facing the opposite direction of me. My cheeks stopped burning and I looked over at him with an empty feeling.

"Lord Sesshomaru…isn't here? It…it was all a dream?" A tear ran down my face, my chest felt like it was swelling, felt like something was ripping it apart. I threw my arms around my chest tight, to keep myself together.

I heard Shippou get up as I wiped away the wetness from my eyes. He sat down close to me and put his arm around me, leading me to his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Rin…you must miss him so much…" Shippou said, wrapping both of his arms around me.

"I just…I felt him…I felt his arms around me…holding me close to him…It was real…" I grabbed onto his vest and faintly cried.

His arms tightened. "Dreams seem so real sometimes…" he murmured.

"But...I thought he came back for me…if he didn't then…who saved me?" I looked up at him, wiping away the remaining tears.

He blushed a light pink. "I-I did…I had to…you were falling…"

I stared up at him and hugged him tight. I wept a little more against his body, letting the empty feeling out.

He sighed softly and held me closer… Later, after i calmed down some, he left to talk to Miroku, and i fell asleep...

Shippou

It pained me to see Rin in this kind of pain. Lying to her pained me even worse. Kagome assured me that this was for Rin's safety, but I couldn't help but think 'Why would Sesshomaru do this to her?'

I knew that Sesshomaru loved Rin. It was clear as crystal in his eyes when I wanted to take her in my arms after she almost fell to her death. It was almost like Inuyasha's story all over again. Kagome changed his heart, and he fell in love with her.

That didn't mean it didn't hurt me as well. Rin was special to me, too. And when Rin woke up, searching for Sesshomaru, I knew that she loved him back. That was when Kagome and Sango told me to tell Rin it was all a dream; that Sesshomaru was never there…

Because he had left her again.

Ugh, this hurt her so much. Never had she cried in my arms before, and never had she looked so fragile. Rin was human, but she was very tough, and she wasn't afraid of any demon. Even Kagome didn't seem as tough as Rin did sometimes, and that was why I always am there for her, whenever she needs me, I'll be there.

Unlike Sesshomaru, who left her in my care while he left to rid himself of an enemy. An enemy he'd been tracking for years, and still hasn't destroyed. An enemy who he said if he couldn't kill in about three years, he'd come back for Rin, and yet it's been four years.

I watched Rin fall asleep in my arms. Her tears had dried on her cheeks and she looked peacefully asleep. As I watched, she looked like she was eight years old again. Her lips were fuller now, and her cheek bones were higher, and her lashes were longer and darker…

I set her down on the sleeping mat she had been resting on and stood up. I told her I was going to talk to Miroku about the plans for all the houses that had been destroyed in the village, but mow thought about changing my mind, and going to talk to Inuyasha instead…

Inuyasha was supposedly helping out, but instead I found him laying on a grass hill, with Kimiko climbing on top of him, she rested on her father's chest and looked up at the stars. Inuyasha pointed up she giggled around him.

"Did you see that, kid? A shooting star! It almost kinda looks like your mama's sacred arrows." He exclaimed, pointing up at the black sky. Kimiko looked in awe, and smiled.

"Papa, I made a wish on it!" Kimiko said, tugging on her father's hair.

Inuyasha grimaced but tried to chuckle lightly. "Oh, yeah? Why'd you do a thing like that?"

"Mama told me to…" It was then that she spotted me. "Brother Shippou!" She yipped and ran over to hug my leg.

I picked her up and tossed her in the air playfully. "How are you, Kimiko?"

She giggled. "I'm good, big brother!"

"Shippou, what are you doing out here so late? Aren't you supposed to be watching Rin?"

I put Kimiko down and she ran over to Inuyasha, who was now standing up. "She's sleeping. I was actually hoping I could talk to you…"

Inuyasha looked down at his daughter and knelt down to her level and said, "Why don't you go play with your brother and sister? Me and Shippou need to talk."

Shee looked up at me and back at her father. "'Bout what, papa?"

"None of your buisness, sweetheart, go find Kiba and Kanji and go play with them."

Kimiko looked a little unsure but said, "Okay…" and ran off.

"What is it, Shippou?" Inuyasha said, turning back to me.

"Well its Rin…" I started, and then explained that Sesshomaru left again, and doesn't want Rin to know he was there at all. I told him about how upset Rin was when she woke up. All I didn't tell him was how I thought about Rin and Sesshomaru in love, but I thought that he wouldn't need to know about that.

Inuyasha shook his head most of the time. "This isn't very surprising. Sesshomaru cares about nothing but his pride, and this is exactly a battle that could ruin that. He left when he was still injured, and he left Rin with you, so she wouldn't get in the way."

I wanted to object to that. I knew that Sesshomaru left Rin here strictly to protect her, but clearly Inuyasha wasn't getting that message.

"I'm just saying…she we really lie to her? It just doesn't feel right…"

"Yeah, well, that's cuz you really care about her. I can see it in your eyes. But she's Sesshomaru's property."

His property? At that, I became furious. Rin wasn't owned by Sesshomaru, he didn't own her! She was not his property!

"I'm just saying…be careful." Inuyasha said to me after seeing the fired look in my eyes.

I scoffed. "Whatever," I said to him, then muttered "stupid mutt…"

SMACK!

"Ouch!"I cried out, rubbing the spot on my head where Inuyasha hit me.

"Don't act like such a brat!" He yelled at me, and then walked away.

I growled under my breath and cursed under my breath.

That's when I heard her yelp. It was very faint, but my keen fox demon ears picked it up. It was Rin, and she was in trouble. I got up and sprinted to her hut and threw open the door.

"Rin! Rin!" I looked frantically around. I heard her yelp faintly again. I looked down and there she was, where I left her, crying in her sleep and whimpering like a young child. She was moving around, throwing her arms around. She was having a nightmare.

"Lord…Sesshy…" She mumbled, tears flowing down her face.

'Rin…' I thought sadly, sitting down next to her, crossing my fox legs. I moved her head gently into my lap, and started to whisper to her, trying to calm her down. I brushed her hair back from her face.

She stopped crying, and smiled. But then she whispered, "Sessho…maru…"

Okay, so by now i hope you can see theres kind of a Team Shippou and Team Sesshy thing forming. I'm not telling you what team im on, because im not going to spoil any of the story. But tell me if you're team Shippou or Team Sesshomaru.

Hope you liked the eighth chapter, sorry that its up late, i have been REALLY busy.

Next one will be up soon, i promise. And thank you for the nice reviews, they make my day ^_^