I Do Not Own Inuyasha
Chapter 9
To Rin this was all so strange as she silently wandered his home. It was so much larger than the Taisho Manor which he had grown up in but she hadn't really expected less from Sesshomaru.
"Rin," she turned when he called her. A smile was on her lips as he stalked towards her.
"You are not to leave this house for anything without an escort," he grabbed her chin and tilted her head back. Rin wouldn't point out she didn't have a voice to argue with him and she wasn't about to point out that it would take force to get her to actually leave his house. She didn't want to leave him or this new found safety she had with him. Instead she just stood up on her tip toes, and kissed his cheek as she had done as a child then slid back to the floor. Sesshomaru just studied her face intently but never released her chin.
"A and Un are here for your protection, they follow my commands Rin," he said harshly.
She nodded then peeked over at the two large, brown, wolf like dogs who had trailed after him. They were cute! She liked them as her body guards way better than Magatsuhi! These two weren't likely to try to rape her or attack her, yes she liked the dogs better than him hiring he a body guard.
"Jaken runs my errands, if you should need anything tell him." Sesshomaru left her be with the two dogs then. He hadn't always been so abrupt but she remembered she hadn't seen or been near him for ten years so a lot of things had happened to the both of them. Still the large dogs made her feel safe and protected. Even if her main protection was long gone down the hallway.
So they were A and Un, she'd just mentally call them A-Un. She walked quietly to the kitchen, peeked in. It was empty. That was good, she was hungry. She started cooking dinner for herself quickly, before anyone came in. Rin didn't trust anyone anymore unless they happened to be canine or Sesshomaru so she just wanted to get her food and escape before Jaken or Inuyasha came in. Or worse, Kagome. Quickly making up her plate she hurried away then. The storm raged on outside but she didn't care as she hunted up a good hiding spot with A-Un to eat. Her loyal body guards were eyeing her food with the utmost interest, it made her smile.
Finding what she sought she curled up with a book in a small, untouched, nook of Sesshomaru's mansion and read while she ate.
Years of living with the Onigumos had conditioned her to eat quickly because there was a very real possibility that your food could be stolen. Or worse they would drag you away to do what they pleased. It was a real threat in her world as she scarfed her food down.
"Slow down! You'll get sick if you eat that fast," Rin froze in terror, the dogs gave out a low warning growl.
"Rin, it's just me so tell your guard to stand down!" Kagome ordered. Rin peeked at the woman and took the last bite of her food. Kagome slowly approached her then.
"I swear you're worse than Sesshomaru, just relax no one here is going to hurt you. Now how are you feeling?" Kagome asked as she sat beside her, Rin just inched away from Kagome then. Kagome frowned but didn't dare to come any nearer to her. She didn't want people near her, she didn't trust people to be near her anymore. Hakudoshi had loved lulling her into a false sense of security before he would attack her, as had Magatsuhi. And though she was in a different place surrounded by different people she wasn't about to be tricked into trusting them too quickly. All but Sesshomaru would be observed before she would trust them.
"You remember when you were a kid and you used to trail around after us when Sesshomaru was gone?" Kagome asked looking down at her lap.
Rin nodded.
"I wish we had just let you into our group then," Kagome stood and left her be then.
Kagome barely made it into Sesshomaru's guest house before she broke down into tears. She and Inuyasha had originally moved here because Sesshomaru had been so badly wounded and then they just hadn't left. InuTaisho didn't like the arrangement but Kagome had to admit this was home unless Sesshomaru was feeling threatened. She shut the door to her house and slumped to the floor sobbing for them, two people who had suffered and endured so much to the point they didn't trust anyone. It was killing her now.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaimed as he came running for her.
"She flinched, sh-she just flinched when I-I came u-up to her," Kagome sobbed out.
"Shh, it's alright, they're safe again," Inuyasha rocked her.
"Th-they shouldn't be so h-hurt, we should've j-ju-just let her t-t-tag along," Kagome cried as she held her fiancé. They had needed Rin after Sesshomaru had come home but she hadn't been here, he had withdrawn and now she was here but she had withdrawn. It was all breaking her! They shouldn't be this wounded, they shouldn't have endured what they endured, they didn't deserve whatever had happened to them. They had never been the mean ones, they had never been the ones to be cruel or neglectful. She had been mean to Rin because Rin had been easy to like, and she was Sesshomaru's. They all had been mean to Rin because she was Sesshomaru's, and they all had attacked Sesshomaru because he was different.
And now past sins were killing her as her fiancé held her.
"W-why couldn't we just b-be nicer to th-them?" Kagome cried out as she held him.
"We were kids, and they were different, we weren't nice and they didn't care because they had each other," Inuyasha murmured against her hair. It didn't stop the guilt about how they had treated Rin and Sesshomaru. The storm outside continued raging on.
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