Kirin awoke to find herself lying by a fire. The flames danced and crackled on the charred logs that fed it. She ached all over. Kirin propped herself up onto her elbows so that she could get a good look around. She felt something slid off her body. Suddenly her arms gave way and she fell back down onto her back with a painful THUD. "Owwwwww", she moaned, and then grabbed a hold of the thing that fell from her chest. It was a kimono; white with a red flower design on the shoulder and sleeves..."Sesshomaru's! But that means..." Kirin thought alarmed. She sat up again, this time all the way, and she saw Rin sitting by a small pond. She turned in Kirins' direction and almost instantly a smile spread across her little face. "Oh, she's awake Lord Sesshomaru!" Kirin looked towards the direction that she was speaking and saw Sesshomaru with his back to her, sitting on some large tree roots over cropping the pond. Fireflies danced at his feet, she noticed. She also saw Jaken sitting alone and grumbling to himself. Sesshomaru turned and looked over his shoulder at Kirin. And only his shoulder, she noticed, for his right arm was missing. She brought her gaze up his muscular body to his eyes, which she found were staring right into hers. She shuddered. Those eyes made her blood run cold. "Glad to see you're finally awake," he said, hardly looking glad at all. Kirin spat and then yelled to him, "So how the heck did I get here?!" Sesshomaru turned back toward the pond. "Why that no good, dirty rotten..." Kirin thought. "Hey, I asked you..." At that moment Kirin felt a bolt of pain shoot through her body. She collapsed on the ground and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
"Get that one! Hurry! Hurry!" "I'm going! I'm going!" "Oh no you let it catch you Master Jaken!" "Aiieeee! Get it off me!" "What the heck is going on," Kirin thought to herself. She sat up to find herself in a field of flowers. "How...", she thought. Rin looked over at her and cried happily, "Oh, you're awake!" "Yah yah, I'm awake," Kirin said, standing now. She saw Jaken running in circles with a yellow butterfly on his nose. "Oh, Rin help me," her cried, then collapsed on the ground, so dizzy that there were literally spirals swirling in his eyes. The butterfly lazily floated off, passing Kirin on the way. "It looks just like his eyes," She thought. "Hey, where's Sesshomaru," she asked Rin. "Oh, he's...," Rin started but Jaken jumped up and cut in. "None of your business. Who are you anyway! You just waltz in here with little Rin and then get yourself attacked and have to be saved by Lord Sesshomaru. I don't even know why he wasted his efforts saving you." "So he did save me," Kirin thought. She looked at Jaken and proudly stated, "I am Kirin the great dog demon, and I don't know why your lord saved me, thought I have no problem with it." She smiled sweetly and examined her claws, "You...don't have a problem with that...do you?" Jaken opened his mouth for a comeback, then changed his mind and sat down on the ground, mumbling angrily to himself. Rin tugged on Kirin's deep green kimono sleeve. "Come play with me," she pleaded, leading Kirin away from the irritated Jaken. "Sure, why not," Kirin thought, following the human girl, "Besides, it could be fun!" She laughed aloud to her own joke and hurried her steps to catch up with the fast steps of the little girl. Kirin taught Rin how to make wreaths and crowns by weaving flowers together in a certain way. Her own mother had taught her that, long ago...
/ Flashback /
(We see Kirin in a smaller version sitting next to a demon woman who looks alot like her. They are weaving crowns with flowers.)
"No, no. Do it like this. Yes, there you go, you did it!" "Yah," Kirin cried happily. She had been working really hard to make her crown perfect. She placed it on her head and it stayed for a couple of seconds before falling down below her chin. She angrily ripped it off and whipped it into the woods, then let out a sob and flew into her mothers waiting arms, crying. "There, there. You shouldn't give up. No need for tears. Here, let's try again." Kirin nodded and started once more on her little crown of flowers.
/ Flashback Ends /
"Kirin? Kirin?" "Huh?" Kirin brought her head back into the present and looked at the worried face of the young girl beside her. "Oh, yes. Sorry Rin, what were you saying?" "I was asking you if you think that Lord Sesshomaru would like these flowers." Kirin looked at the small bouquet nestled in the girls' small hand. She smiled, "Yes, I think he'll love those Rin."
It had been three long days in the field of flowers before Sesshomaru returned. Jaken spotted him first, walking slowly towards them. He jumped up and ran to him crying, "Lord Sesshomaru, you've returned!" Kirin and Rin looked up. They were cooking some fish they had caught earlier. "Lord Sesshomaru," Rin said happily, and hopped up, grabbing the flowers which she had replaced everyday so that they would not be withered. Kirin took a bite out of her fish and began chewing it. "How cute," she thought. "These are for you, Lord Sesshomaru," Rin said, handing the flowers to him. He looked down at her and the flowers, then turned and said, "We are leaving Rin." Rin hung her head and ran back to gather her few belongings. She dropped the unwanted flowers on the ground. Kirin's face flushed with anger. She had to do something. The picked up the flowers and walked right over to the dog demon. She tapped him on the shoulder and her turned to face her. "What is it," he asked. "The girl said these are for you, so I expect that you'll take them," she said, and then crushed the flowers into the demons face. He stepped back, startled, then looked at her with hatred. His eyes were blood red. "You insolent..." he yelled. He raised his claws and they began to take on a greenish glow. "You dare to insult me!" "Yah, bring it mutt," Kirin said, cracking her knuckles and reaching for her whip. "Bring it you no good piece of crap!"