Since People have come to believe I had... Died in my time of not posting another chapter I will try to update more frequently... (LoL). Anyways, here is the next chapter...

Chapter 6: Rin's Lessons: The Laws of Gravity

"Okay Rin, today we begin your lessons as a woman, a person... A SMART LADY OF UNIMAGINABLE GRACE!"

"Right!"

"Now, You remember how to count and such right? Well, we're going to skip that part and go straight to reading and writing! Now remember, a pencil to a paper is equal to a painting from the gods. When it's written correctly it can become as graceful as a rose, and cunning as a fox. Read first, write, then imagine.", I explained beautifully pointing to the utensils sprawled out in the grass before us. We had traveled for at least a half a day and decided that now would be the best time to start Rin's lessons. Even after her strange encounter with me she seemed to trust me unlike all the other people Neko and I had met earlier on.

I pointed to the pencil (That I had so conveniently been placed in my pant pocket) and the old scroll we had found. I took her hand and placed the pencil correctly between her fingers," Rin this is how you correctly hold a 'pencil'. I doubt that there are many more around in the place but your going to have to get use to it for a while. Now let's start with some basic words."

After five, count that, FIVE horribly horrendous thought filled minutes we finally came up with simple words in hiragana, and one conveniently in the English language. I decided since nobody else seemed to know it, teaching Rin would be the best way to communicate with each other in secret. You may be wondering what word I, the writing genius, had decided to teach the young Rin. And let me tell you, it's so magnificent that it practically outshines any other first word ever taught to the younger people. A word that outshines the others by miles, even continents or planets. The word that would change the world forever.

I taught her how to spell...

... this is it... it's coming... all you have to do is read a little further...

... So CLOSE... OH GOD I CAN'T WAIT NO LONGER ...

I had taught her...

Duck.

Oh the marvelous word 'Duck'. So many meanings, so much... little time... Surely you could say so much with the word 'duck'. One could tell another too duck out of the way of an attacker... or talk about the mysterious animal known as the all seeing duck. It could even be a shortened word for duck-tape. Ah marvelous, marvelous. Now this is where the problem particularly began.

"Inu-sensei, what's 'English'?"

"Uh, it's the language they use in America, duh."

"What's 'Ame-ri-ca'?", Rin asked after a few moments of silence. I took in a breathe and began to think. Using my magnificent intellect to add all I had previously learned about where I was the past few days. One, I was part dog now and every time a person walked by they called me a demon. Two, this girl didn't know how to read or write, which was quite common in ancient times back in the 1200's or so. Three, people dressed particularly funny, and four, it seemed that Rin and probably many other people did not know of America, the great country of 'freedom' and the home of the Whopper and Flaming Hot Cheetos's.

Oh Damn.

"Uh, hey Rin?", I asked shyly twiddling my thumbs together with a small spark of hope. What I had recently discovered could not possibly add up to such an impossible answer, and it was very unlikely. I mean, I could have ended up in a hospital because after I had fallen in the well and I had into a coma. This whole thing could definitely be a fantasy that I was dreaming in my head as I slept, unawakened.

"Yes, Inu-sensei?", she smiled sweetly completely forgetting about her question.

"What year is it?"

"I believe it's somewhere around 10,034 A.D. I can't really remember that well, it's too hard."

"Oh, thanks...", we sat there in a complete and utter awkward silence. My face began to pale greatly and I became lightheaded. I was in the stinking Feudal Era, with demons and magical riff-raff and most importantly without TV! How was I suppose to live the rest of my short life without TV? Or what about the Internet? My Manga? or Anime? or even... Byakuya?(1)

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And I died due to a broken heart and Manga/Anime deprivation. I was buried by Rin who would no longer be able to study the great world around her. Rin decided that life was short and built a small home near Inutokei's grave where she lived for the next 6 years. Sesshoumaru never found her and she was freed from the battle of Naraku. Neko arrived at her door when Rin was 16 and began to live with her after she found out that Inutokei had died. Neko then killed Rin for no apparent reason out of misery and became known as the Cat Demon of the South. Neko lived until she was 732, when she committed suicide after being lonely for so long.

The End.

Okay, I didn't exactly die but I swear to Kami I was on the verge of death! How could this possibly happen? and more importantly... WHY ME!

I continued to mope as we packed up our lessons and continued moving, in hope of finding shelter. Rin was worried, but she stayed silent believing it would be best to leave me alone for now. I dragged my feet slowly against the ground and I let myself sink mentally into the earth around me. It was if it was swallowing me up.

"Uh, Inu-sensei. Your kind of... uh..."

I looked stopped and blinked for a second before glancing down at my feet. I was knee deep into the solid ground. Wow, who knew I could feel so connected to the earth.

"Rin, help me out..."

"Okay."

Rin grabbed my hands and pulled hard, but I wouldn't budge an inch. She pulled even harder, and my eyes bugged out of my head. I groaned, "Rin stop, it's not working!"

"Oh!" Rin let go and I swayed back to my original position. I groaned and looked at the sun. It was about sunset, meaning it would be dark soon. I groaned, "Rin, lets just camp here for the night. It's getting late anyway, and then you could get water in the morning to help pull me out."

Rin nodded, then sat down in a thinking position. I stared at her in boredom and watched as she furrowed her eyebrows. "Inu-sensei, what keeps us connected to the ground."

"Gravity, my friend, gravity."

"Gr-av-y?"

"No, gravy's a kind of sauce. Gravity is this stuff in the air that connects us to the earth, and without it we would all float away and burn in the flames of the sun."

"O-okay."

And thus I didn't get any sleep that night, because of Rin's cries out in her sleep. How was I suppose to know that telling her without gravity we would all burn up and die would give the chick nightmares?

Yeah, there's the next chapter. Rin's lessons will appear randomly throughout the story when I got nothing else to write. Net chapter will be more on topic with her real adventures.

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