Authors note: Salutations! Sorry for not updating in so long! We lost power over here so I couldn't even work on it! Plus I don't update on weekends so all that pilled up together equaled a long wait. Also I've been reading up on the Zodiac signs and there's a lot in common (And I mean like seriously 99.8% of it is in common) with me and my zodiac sign, Aquarius. Anyways I apologize, but please enjoy this new chapter!

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Mel Swirls.

Memories

Chapter 8: Waiting is boring.

Sesshomaru spoke to Kaede only loud enough for Kaede to hear. When they were done speaking, she walked over towards me with an old person caring smile on her face.

"Let's see what I can do for ye." She told me as she bent down and looked at my ankle like a doctor would. She nodded an affirmation to herself before turning to Sesshomaru. "It's not broken, ye must be mistaken." She told him and Sesshomaru glared at the woman for proving him wrong but then shrugged and turned towards Rin.

Rin was currently dancing around like a ballerina with flowers in her hair. Sesshomaru sighed when he saw this and turned to his other side to see Jaken glaring at him suspiciously. Which I found was really odd considering Jaken tended to fallow Sesshomaru blindly, or at least that was how I saw it. Maybe he knows more about what's going on then me. I wouldn't be surprised actually. He seems like quite the little snitch.

Kaede starts wrapping this cloth around my ankle and I shot her an odd glare before shrugging and deciding I should just trust her and do what she says. It'll make things a lot simpler and hopefully make my ankle feel better sooner.

When she was done, she got up bowed slightly at Sesshomaru before walking towards the village. Sesshomaru didn't say thank you or anything but then again, it was Sesshomaru, in his mind, he shouldn't even have to ask because he thought he deserved it…Did I honestly make that assumption? I didn't know how his mind worked; I couldn't just assume that was the way he thought. But the again, he did make it quite obvious.

Rin walked over and through a bunch of flowers on my lap. I picked them up one by one and inspected them for bugs before trying them together to make a halo or a crown and placing it on Rin's beautiful locks of raven coloured hair.

"Thank you, Lady Kagome! It's so pretty!" She said as she twirled and I could feel Sesshomaru sigh from where he was. Obviously, he didn't want Rin being the overly naïve, girly and kind girl she is now, but I honestly couldn't picture any other way.

She ran off to play in the grass with the flowers while commanding Jaken to do everything she told him, and he fallowed and did as he was asked while grumbling and complaining like an old man.

Sesshomaru sat down beside me and sighed. "You shouldn't encourage her. She needs to mature." He told me in a "I-know-everything-so-shut-up-and-agree" tone. I snorted very unattractively before rolling my eyes before saying, "She's like 9! Let her act the way she wants to right now! When she's 17 and she still acts like this, that's when it's time to worry!" He rolled his eyes at my comment and shifted his direction to the forest.

"What are we going to do about InuYasha and Kikyo?" He asked and that's when I remembered my dream. It wasn't like any dream I've ever had before. It was vivid and intense. It was like I actually lived it and that it was my experience. Was it important? Should I bring it up? "I'm not sure." I told him in a clipped tone. I didn't want to say anything I'd regret, and knowing me, I'd tell him all of it.

He nodded and looked at the well. Yeah, that was another issue we'd have to address because even I'm not sure what we're going to do about that. I don't really want to spend the rest of my life in futal Japan. There was a life outside of here I wanted to do, and obviously in a place this premature, I'm not going to get it.

"We need to get back soon." I told him and he nodded his affirmation. Obviously, although Rin and Jaken seemed happy here, he and I weren't. We needed the real modern day world to live.

Rin skipped over and looked at Sesshomaru with twinkling and gorgeous eyes. "Lord Sesshomaru, I'm hungry and Master Jaken won't find me berries to eat." She told him in a slightly whiny tone. Sesshomaru nodded before getting up and turning towards Jaken. "Jaken," He told him in that same old vice. "Yes Mi Lord?" Jaken said as he approached carefully. "Stay here with Rin and Kagome. I'm going to find some food." He demanded before walking off into the forest. I was wondering how the hell he was going to find food, but I didn't say anything as I watched him walk off.

I sat there completely bored before telling Rin to sit by me. She did as she was told and we started to pick all the flowers around us and started making one big pile out of them. Jaken walked over curiously, so when we had no more flowers to pick around us, I glared at him and tried to imitate Sesshomaru's cold voice before saying, "Jaken, go pick the flowers over there and bring them to me."

HE stood there starring at me for a long moment before shrugging and walking over to pick the flowers while grumbling and complaining like the old man he is.

Rin started twirling my hair and I started to hum. This was an extremely peaceful scene. I couldn't think of anything else less peaceful.

But the peace barely lasted long enough for me to smile and say "yay".

Authors note: I'm sorry for the long wait! I hope you liked it, but this was an extremely hard chapter to write. Nothing was coming naturally and I had to rewrite it a few times. Reviews please!

Peace in!

Mel Swirls!