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Chapter 8
A New Enemy
Previously…
"Rin, wake up. Rin!" he demanded, his golden eyes pleading and filled with fear. He lightly slapped her face, but that didn't work. He knelt his head and down his ear pressed to her chest to hear for a faint heartbeat. As her heartbeat grew slower and fainter, his eyes widen and became desperate. Sesshomaru carefully tilted her chin, pinched her nose, and pressed his lips to her cold ones, trying to breathe life back into Rin. Please wake up!
He heard a gurgle sound from her throat and lifted his lips away from hers. Rin's head turns to the side as she begins coughing up water, breathing heavily. She turned back to look at the magnificent demon that saved her life once again. "Sesshomaru-sama…" her eyes were half-lidded, filled with gratitude and exhaustion.
He cupped her face lightly and said, "You're okay now."
"Yes." She smiled, remembering how similar the situation was compared to when he saved her from hell.
He tucked an arm under her knees, and the other behind her back, to carry her princess style. She protested, saying she was fine, only to get growled at by her lord and seized her objection.
When they entered the fortress, everything was practically damaged. The furniture was broken, the walls were filled with holes, there were claws marks, and stains of blood everywhere. Dead bodies were scattered all around the fortress, eliciting a fowled smell.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken scream as he ran up to him, "Gahh- What happened? Why are you carrying Rin?" He yelled, surprised that his lord would be carrying the human, when she appears fine.
"Jaken, are all the demons dead?" he asked to shut him up.
"Yes milord." he bowed quickly.
He nodded then walked away, with Rin still in his arms.
"Sesshomaru-sama please! I can walk own my own now." She whined, pushing lightly against his chest as he strode along the hallway to her room. "Do not protest." he said in a monotone voice. "But-"she was cut off with a glare as his arms tightened their grip on her, snuggling her body closer to his. She gave out a huff in defeat as she relaxed into his embrace. Stay calm. This is just him being nice and showing that he cares. Nothing else. She repeated over and over in her head.
When they reached her room, he laid her on her bed. "We'll be leaving tonight, so get some rest." he said as he stood up and headed for the door.
"Um Sesshomaru-sama," she yelled hesitantly, "thank you for saving me." Slightly bowing her body the best she could in her sitting position. He nodded before leaving the room. Rin laid down, tracing her lips, remembering the texture and warmth of her beloved lord's lips on hers. She blushed deeply just thinking about it. She laid there, thinking about the kiss for what felt like an eternity before she slipped into a slumber.
Rin awoken from a cool breeze blowing against her face. She opened her eyes and noticed it was dark outside. She gasped when she saw the familiar white fluffy fur of Sesshomaru's mokomoko wrapped around her. She look up and saw her lord's beautiful face. He was flying at incredible speed, carrying her in his arms once again through the night.
"Sesshomaru-sama?" Rin asked, as her face redden from the sudden contact.
"You're awake." he stated.
Why is he carrying me again and aren't we supposed to go home tonight? "Are we going home?" She asked, gaining a nod from Sesshomaru. "Where's Jaken-sama and AhUn? Aren't they coming with us?"
"They will reach the palace by tomorrow afternoon. Sleep Rin. Will still have another hour of travel left." He said holding her closer. She stared at him, wondering why he was doing this. She cast aside her thoughts and snuggled closer into his chest, relishing his scent and warmth. Her eyes slowly closed moments later.
When Rin awoke, she was snuggled up in her warm bed. She glanced out her window and noticed the warming sun above the clouds, indicating it was almost noon.
A knock came thought the door before Nina poked her head in. "Rin, how are you feeling." She asked, coming over to Rin's side.
She sat up slowly and gave her a smile. "Fine, thank you." She yawned, stretching her arms and neck. "Just tired" she sighed.
Nina laughed at her gestures. "Would you like a bath? It'll freshen you up?"
"That sounds lovely." She yawned again.
Nina pulled her up and lead the half awaken girl to the bathing chamber and helped clean her up.
After the cool bath, Rin was wide awake and starving.
"Breakfast's almost ready if you would like some." Nina suggested. Rin gave an enthusiastic nod before following her down to the dining area.
"You know, I was really surprised when Sesshomaru-sama came home during the middle of the night, carrying you in his arms." Nina said, halfway to their destination. "Everyone thought something had happen to you since you weren't awake, but were relieved when we found out you were only sleeping." Rin smiled at her words, grateful that everyone was worried for her. "Oh, I almost forgot. Jaken-sama has return and with a guest too."
"A guest. Who?" Rin asked excitedly.
"She a beautiful demoness. She's waiting with Sesshomaru-sama and Jaken-sama right now for breakfast," Nina said opening the door to the dining area.
When Rin entered, she gasped. "Airi?!" Rin yelled excitedly, happy to see her again since she didn't get to say good-bye before she left with Sesshomaru. She noticed Sesshomaru and Jaken were already there, but no one else. She quickly walked over to the demoness and sat in her usual chair, Airi's being next to hers. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I will be staying for a while to help with the disturbance of the rouge demons. Lord Akihiro had requested that I assist Lord Sesshomaru, since I've encountered them numerous times." she explained.
"Really?" Rin exclaimed. Airi nodded in reply. Rin giggled and noticed Sesshomaru looking her way. "Oh! Good morning Sesshomaru-sama, Jaken-sama." Sesshomaru gave her a nod.
"You rude child. Now you noticed our presence?" Jaken scream at her from across the table.
"I did notice you but forgot to say my good mornings. I don't see you greeting me." She hmpfed. Breakfast was served before Jaken could retort.
Later into the morning meal, Rin asked, "Where were you Airi when the demons attacked?"
Everyone stared the demoness, now wondering the same thing. "I was attacked by a demon on my way back to you. He was powerful, more powerful than I expected." She whispered the last part, her downcast eyes filled with unpleasant emotions. "I'm sorry that I couldn't make it back to help you. What happened? I heard you were injured." Airi asked, full of concern.
***Flashback***
Rin was facing the water as she hummed to herself, when she felt a massive amount of demonic aura. She felt someone behind her and quickly dodged a lizard demon's sword. She saw six other demons surrounding her and AhUn. The lizard demon and a moth demon charged toward Rin and AhUn first. Rin was able to block the lizard's sword with hers, quickly cutting off its head before it could attempt to strike again. AhUn was holding down the moth demon with its claws before firing an electric blast, disintegrating it.
A giant hedgehog demon attacked Rin next. She was able to land a few deep cuts into the demon before it knocked Rin's sword out of her hands. She couldn't punch or kick it with so many sharp needles and spikes covering its entire body. She backed away, slowly concentrating her miko powers onto her fingertips. Once she was ready, she launched at the demon. Clawing deep into the demon with her potent pure fingertips, Rin purified the demon's needles before it could even make contact with her skin. The giant hedgehog demon roared from pain, before it blew apart from the flow of spiritual energy coursing its' system, disappearing into thin air. AhUn had just finished tearing apart the centipede demon moments later.
A spider demon shot a few acidic spider webs towards Rin, who barely dodged it in time. Meanwhile, AhUn was facing off with a massive ogre demon. Rin concentrated more spiritual energy into her hands, a thin layer of glowing pink energy began surrounding her entire hand. Rin closed her fingers together, bringing it down in a slicing movement, as if her hand was a sword. After a few minutes of dodging and barely landing cuts on the spider demon, it got ready to spew out a massive amount of acidic webs on her; however before the demon could, Rin jammed her hand through its chest, sending her spiritual energy out into its system, purifying it in the process. That took a lot longer than I thought. My body's exhausted from using my miko powers much all at once and I still have one more left.
*clap, clap, clap*
Rin turned around to look at a snake demon, who was standing on the sideline the entire time. The snake demon was watching as its' fellow demons being killed. "You really are a prize. Now I know why she wants you." The demon hissed, its' tongues slithering out its' mouth.
"What are you talking about?" Rin glared, trying to catch her breath without letting it know she's tired.
"You'll know in due time." it hissed one more time before drawing out a sword, swinging it at Rin. It only aimed for the non-vital parts, careful not to damage the goods too severely. Rin tried to conjure more spiritual energy but it kept fading away. Great. She didn't want to use the knife Sesshomaru gave her. She looked to the side, searching for her sword and spotting it by the bridge behind the snake demon. She faked an attacked, which the demon dodged easily, failing to realize Rin was aiming to get her sword. She quickly grabbed hold of it and starting cutting the demon. They battled for several minutes, receiving small cuts, blood dripping onto the ground. Her body started to slow from exhaustion leaving an opening for the snake demon to land a heavy blow to her stomach, sending her into the water. Rin trying to swim to the surface but her body wouldn't listen. She had lost too much blood and was only losing more from struggling to swim in the water. Her body went limp from swallowing too much water and the loss of breathe. Sesshomaru-sama! Rin screamed in her head before her world turned dark.
***End of Flashback***
After Rin finished her story, everyone, including the servants who somehow entered the dining area, stopped to listen to her story, gawking,, except Sesshomaru of course. They couldn't believe the sweet innocent girl had so much power. Airi gazed at her intently, slightly bothered by something.
"Rin, do you remember what the snake demon looked like?" She asked out of nowhere.
"Yeah, it was dark purple, really scaly, and gross looking. However, the weirdest thing was that it had a strange mark on its forehead." Rin drew the mark with her fingers on the table. A circle with four evenly spread out tick marks on the inside edge of the circle, with a narrow diamond pouting towards two of the tick marks. (Kind of like a compass)
Airi's eyes slightly widen before it went back to normal. "I see, that is weird." She trailed off.
A few weeks after the Lord Summoning's incident, Rin was back to training as usual. She mostly focused on improving her miko powers, far away from the demons in the palace of course. Sesshomaru was busy with his paperwork and Jaken was helping him only to get kicked out for his jabbering most of the time. Airi left on frequent patrols on her own, coming back a couple of days later. The servants were really warming up to her, and she felt grateful for that.
One night, everyone had gather around in the resting room (kind of like a living room …meh), the loud splattering of raindrops could be heard from outside, giving off a somewhat soothing atmosphere. Sesshomaru was sitting on a dark burgundy silk chair, relaxing after a hard day of looking over at his boring lord duties. Rin and Takeshi were playing Go (a Japanese board game) in front of the fireplace, while Nina watched over them. Jaken was dozing off on the ground behind Rin until a loud slam woke him up. Everyone jerked around to see the terrified demoness standing by the door way, drenched from the rain, dripping water where she stood.
Rin was the first to stand up. "Airi what's wrong?" she cried, running over to Airi before leading her to sit down by the warmth of the fireplace. Nina wrapped a blanket over Airi to provide extra warmth.
Airi looked into to everyone's eyes seriously. "It's about to begin…" she whispered through her trembling wet lips.
"What is?" Rin asked.
"The war between the demons. She's finally making her move." Airi struggled to speak as if she's in a trance.
"Who?!" Jaken asked, frustrated at her vagueness.
"Kiraya" She breathed.
"And who's that?" Jaken asked more forceful this time.
"My creator." She said, barely above a whisper. Everyone's eyes widen, not quite understanding.
Airi looking around the room before continuing on. "I was once a human."
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