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P.S. What occurs in this chapter is the day after Sesshoumaru had his get together with InuYasha and Miroku, so a Wednesday.
Chapter Ten
"Okay kids after you clean up your spot you can go outside and play." Mr. Suikotsu got a loud reply of excitement.
Rin and Shippo pushed their food scraps and garbage into one pile and put their bento boxes on top of each other. Shippo grabbed all the garbage in his arms and Rin carried the stacked bento boxes. They did this every day so they could go outside for recess at the same time.
Shippo put the garbage in the waste basket, Rin put their bento boxes in her cubby space and the two high fived for another job well done, "Oh Rin I gotta go to the bathroom."
"Okay I will wait for you at the door." Shippo smiled and ran for the washroom. Humming a tuneless song Rin went over to the door to wait.
Down the hall and around the corner the mean Bat Boy and his two friends stood in front of a human girl from Rin's class. Bat Boy pointed towards the door, "Do what I say."
"B-but why? T-that's mean! I-I like Rin-chan." She was scared, the three older boys had pushed her against the wall and wouldn't let her leave.
One of the bird demon twins shoved her towards Rin, "Do it now scaredy cat or we'll cut your hair off."
Yuki Nakamura put her hands on her head where her Mommy had put her long black hair into a high pony tail. She loved her hair; it was longer than all the other girls in her class. Her head down Yuki took off almost running towards Rin.
Rin saw Yuki come towards her and smiled, "Hi Yuki-chan."
"H-hi Rin-chan. Um...I heard someone say you have a pretty necklace. Can I see it?" Yuki didn't want to see Rin's necklace, she just wanted to go outside and play jump rope with her best friend.
Rin tilted her head; she hadn't told everyone about her protection necklace, she was pretty sure only Shippo knew about her necklace. Wanting to be friends with Yuki Rin decided to show her. Reaching under her shirt she lifted out the necklace with the three purple charm beads, "This is my necklace. It's not very pretty, Mina-chan has a prettier necklace with bright pink flowers on it."
Yuki sniffled, "I-I'm sorry Rin-chan!" Yuki lunged forward and grabbed the necklace pulling it off Rin's neck by breaking the string. The necklace in hand Yuki ran outside to hide.
The necklace string being pulled against her neck had hurt but Ruin was more concerned about getting the necklace back, "Yuki-chan wait! I need my protection necklace!"
Shippo came out of the bathroom just in time to see the Bat Boy bully and his two friends go running down the hallway and out the door. Bat Boy had been smiling and the smile looked scary. Seeing that Rin wasn't at the door like she said Shippo felt his heart beat out of control. Not caring who saw Shippo ran on all four feet after the bullies.
Rin stood by the school fence trying to catch her breath, she'd lost sight of Yuki and now she couldn't find the other girl, "Papa will be unhappy I lost my necklace."
"Looking for something brat?" Bat Boy smirked as he approached the annoying girl that had ruined his fun on the first day of school.
Rin didn't like these boys, they were bullies. Her Papa had told her to stand up proud and brave against bullies. Without her protection necklace Rin didn't feel brave but she was still proud to be her Papa's human daughter. "Go away I don't like you."
They laughed at her words and walked closer until each of the Bird Brothers were on her left and right and Bat Boy blocked her from running straight. "I don't like you either. You got in my way and ran away before I could teach you respect." With a forward step Bat Boy shoved Rin back to hit the school fence.
Rin was starting to feel scared, she didn't like to hurt other people and she really didn't like getting hurt. The bullies had also managed to corner her away out of the gaze of the teacher on monitor duty. She was all by herself.
"I'm going to teach you your lesson in respect so next time you know to mind your own business." Bat Boy held up his hand to show her that his nails had grown into long glowing red claws.
Fear for her life swarmed over her heart and brought tears to her eyes. Bat Boy raised his hand intending to rake his claws down the front of her body. Rin raised her arms to protect herself.
"FOX FIRE!" A ball of green flames engulfed the head of the Bird Boy on her left. Bird Boy ran away screaming and patting his head to put out the fire.
Shippo leaped through the opening and stood protectively in front of Rin. If he was a fully grown fox demon in his beast form his fur would have been bristling all over his body. In his current form he could only glare and bare his fangs as he growled "Do not touch Rin."
"It's the fox runt. You're going to get a lesson in respect too!" Bat Boy stepped slightly to the side to allow the other Bird twin step next to him.
Shippo's survival instincts told him to grab Rin's hand and run away like last time. His protective nature was overruling the urge to run. A part of his logical thinking told him that these bullies wouldn't stop until they finally hurt him or Rin. Glancing over his shoulder at Rin he saw the fear tring to conquer her bravery and relief. All the different urges and his logical thinking helped him make a plan, he just had to wait for them to make their move.
His claws still extended and glowing red Bat Boy lunged forward, Bird Boy leaped forward a second faster to try and grab Shippo to hold him still.
This was what Shippo waited for. Moving quick he reached back and pushed Rin to the side out of the way, "Rin quick, go get help!" As he yelled this he dodged Bird Boy and ducked in time to be missed by Bat Boy.
Rin didn't want to leave Shippo alone with the bullies but she knew she couldn't help, a teacher would be able to do something since they were older and bigger. Crying out of fear for her best friend Rin ran as fast as she could to the nearest teacher she could see.
With Rin out harm's way Shippo's instincts calmed down enough for him to decide to try and fight back. His opponents would be expecting an illusion or a fire attack not a frontal assault. Gathering his youkai to his mouth Shippo sprang at Bird Boy, "Heart Scar!" Having a hold on the older boy's arm Shippo bit down away from any major arteries, he was a demon but he wasn't a killer like them.
Bird Boy screamed in agony and flailed his arm trying to dislodge the source of his pain, "Get him off, get him off!"
Determined to keep his fangs in Bird Boy's arm Shippo didn't expect Bat Boy to attack him and risk hitting his so-called friend.
Pain seared across his back at the same time he heard Bird Boy cry out in new pain. Releasing Bird Boy's arm from his hold Shippo fell to the ground whimpering as he felt the remainder of his shirt become sticky with blood.
As the pain grew stronger his vision edged into darkness, in the distance he heard Rin calling his name. Before he completely lost consciousness he saw Rin being held back by one of the teachers.
Hiding in the bushes to the far right Yuki had watched everything. When the three bullies had cornered Rin she wanted to go run for a teacher, fear of being bullied again kept her in place.
Yuki was surprised as fire leapt out of Shippo's hands and set fire to one of the boy's hair. All the children in her class were told on the fire day that some of their classmates were demons but they were wearing magic to make friends with everyone. She'd never thought Shippo would be one of the demons.
As she watched Shippo save then protect Rin Yuki felt a pang of jealousy, 'I wish Shippo was there when I was in trouble.' After Rin ran away to get a teacher Yuki continued to watch them fight with her eyes focused only on Shippo. Admiration for his bravery sparkled in her eyes as Shippo jumped onto the one boy.
Horror tinted by the red of Shippo's blood washed away the admiration and put fear, worry and concern in its place. The bigger of the three boys had slashed Shippo across his back making blood gush then ooze through his ripped shirt.
Yuki cried in guilt as Mr. Suikotsu took off his shirt to cover Shippo's bleeding wounds and yelled for another teacher to call for an ambulance. 'It's all my fault. It's all my fault Shippo got hurt. If I didn't take Rin's necklace then she wouldn't need Shippo.'
It was fifteen minutes after Shippo was taken away to the hospital that one of the teachers found Yuki curled up in a ball crying uncontrollably saying over and over, "It was my fault! It was my fault!"
J: If you thought this chapter was intense wait until you see what happens in the next update, until then I'm going to be hiding in this hole over here until you all calm down.