Thanks for the reviews! I really appreciate it! It's great motivation. Anyway, I think this chapter is longer than previous ones.
After this chapter, I don't know when I'll update, since I've had a hard time thinking of new ideas. So, if people want me to update sooner, I'd appreciate any ideas/prompts/phrases that would help/inspire me to write new chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Inuyasha.
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Rin yawned widely and turned over in her sleep. She was dreaming that she had found the biggest watermelon in the world, and was trying to figure out how to share it. Her dream self decided to share it with Sesshomaru and Jaken, and they were soon eating the juicy fruit. Rin licked her lips in her sleep and turned over again.
Across from the sleeping Rin, an irritable Jaken muttered furiously to himself. It was mostly about how lately, whenever Sesshomaru decided to go somewhere, he was left babysitting Rin. Jaken fell silent for a moment, before leaping up and running to the edge of the forest they were next to.
"Lord Sesshomaru! You've been making me watch Rin as a punishment for something I did! That's it! I know it is!" Jaken called out to the peaceful night. He complained for a few straight minutes, before turning around to check on Rin.
Who wasn't there anymore.
"Rin? Rin!" Jaken called. He glanced up at the sky, and saw some huge bird-like demon carrying off the sleeping Rin. While wondering why Ah-Un couldn't have been there that night, realization hit Jaken. "Sesshomaru isn't going to be happy…"
A calm voice spoke from behind. "Jaken…where's Rin?"
Jaken let out a little yelp, and turned around to find Sesshomaru staring down at him. Jaken threw himself to the ground, groveling, making up excuses as to why Rin wasn't there.
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Two miles away, Rin awoke to find herself not on the ground, but in the air, being carried by an ugly bird demon.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Help!"
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Even though the bird demon was getting further away, Sesshomaru still managed to hear Rin's cries for help. He glanced down at the still groveling Jaken. "Get Ah-Un, and wait here." With that, Sesshomaru left the area quickly.
Behind him, Jaken had hurried into the forest to locate Ah-Un. Tugging the reigns, Jaken led the dragon out of the forest, and settled down near a bolder. Jaken glanced up at the two-headed dragon. "I believe that losing Rin again may have shortened my life once more."
Ah-Un made a growl that seemed to be agreeing with Jaken's statement, before settling on the ground and dozing.
Jaken sighed miserably. Even the dragon agreed.
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Sesshomaru reached a high cliff, where at the top he still heard faint cries from Rin. He stayed in the shadows as the bird demon flew over head. Once it had gotten far enough away, Sesshomaru scaled the cliff with ease, and located Rin fairly fast. He stopped in surprise when he found her.
Rin was playing...with two baby demon birds. Rin giggled happily as she played an odd game of tag with the demons, who seemed to be enjoying Rin's company.
Sesshomaru watched this for awhile. Why weren't the demons doing anything other than playing? Had the larger bird demon assumed that Rin would get eaten or something? Sesshomaru shook his head and approached Rin. Either way, he needed to get Rin away from this place before the bird-demon came back.
Rin noticed Sesshomaru and smiled. "Lord Sesshomaru! Do you want to play too?"
Sesshomaru stopped walking again. "No Rin, we need to leave."
Rin's smile disappeared for a moment, before smiling knowingly. "Okay. Is it because Jaken's hurt himself from all his sighing? I don't think it'd be good for anyone to do that a lot." She ran over to Sesshomaru, while waving good-bye to the two baby bird demons.
Minutes after Sesshomaru and Rin were gone, the large bird demon came back, not noticing that its babies were apparently happier than before.
In their own language, so that their parent wouldn't understand, they spoke in gibberish words.
The garbled words translated into something like this.
"Do you think she'll notice?"
"No...she always thought there were only two of us."
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Back in the makeshift camp, Sesshomaru went to 'talk' to Jaken, while Rin pulled something from one of her sleeves. A tiny baby bird demon. Rin giggled as it nibbled one of her fingers. "You're so cute."
A few moments later, Sesshomaru came back fom his 'talk' with Jaken, and found Rin cooing over a little bird demon. Sesshomaru let out a weary sigh. Did this girl always have to do little things like this? He watched Rin talk to the demon, while pondering ways to have Rin get rid of it without upsetting her.
"Lord Sesshmaru! Look, look!" Rin ran up to him and showed the little demon bird, which spewed forth a small trickle of smoke.
Great. So when it got older it could breathe fire. Sesshomaru glanced around. Rin really shouldn't keep it, it could hurt her if it got bigger.
There was a loud roar, and all present glanced up to see the large bird demon soaring towards them.
Sesshomaru reached to draw out Tokijin, but paused as the demon landed and seemed to eye Rin, who had run over to it and was showing the little bird demon.
"Here. The other two wanted to get rid of it though..." Rin said.
The demon considered her for a moment, before carefully picking up the little bird demon and flying off.
Rin waved good-bye again, and the little bird demon seemed upset as it and its parent disappeared into the distance.
Sesshomaru watched the demon go with a measure of relief. At least the demon was gone, and Rin didn't seem too upset.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Want to hear about a dream I had?" Rin asked excitedly. "It was about a watermelon!"
Sesshomaru closed his eyes, but decided to listen, since he had been thinking about getting rid of the little bird demon in other ways, some which involved Tokijin.
The sword seemed irritated that he hadn't, but there was always some stupid demon that would more than likely show up soon.
Sure enough, minutes later Sesshomaru was fighting with a demon, while Rin and Jaken watched from a safe distance, along with a sleeping Ah-Un.
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Yay, I wrote a somewhat longer chapter. Please review and let me know what you thought about it or anything. Again, I'd be able to update sooner if I had some kind of prompt/idea/phrase that might spark more chapters from me.
Hum...I was also thinking of doing a request story or chapter for whoever gets the 100th review, since I've seen other people do that, and I do want to try and write a fic that someone requests. But if no one's really intersested, that's fine. It was just an idea. I would still update this story and others.
So, until next time, thanks for reading and/or reviewing!