Previously on Great Dog's Devotion:
(Nikko has loved every minute of her journey that she had been so far.)
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Nikko P.O.V.
While Sesshomaru was away on an important side mission, he took Ah-Un which meant that this specific mission had to serious. Sesshomaru had left Jaken to keep an eye out on me and Rin.
Rin and I were gathering food and herbs for our travels. I turned to see where Jaken was, he was sleeping by a tree, I smiled softly as I continued my pickings.
He must be exhausted from all the running around after Rin for an hour earlier and I had an idea of entertaining Rin. After awhile, we had gather enough for our journey, so we put them in bags, which Rin and I were at a distance from the campsite.
I'll let Jaken rest for a little while longer. So we started walking for a little bit, then all of a sudden I heard the rustling at a few feet ahead of us. I stood there frozen for a second, then I put a hand on Rin and slowly put her behind me.
"Rin...stay behind me." I whispered as I looked to see the source of the noise and didn't have time to hide. Suddenly a group of bandits came out of nowhere and they were talking and laughing.
One of them looked up, stopped and notified the others, they all stopped and looked at me. "Hey...she's a pretty one... lets take her and sell her to the market...she fetch a fine price that one." One of the bandits said as they surround us, until they noticed Rin.
"Hey!...she's got a child behind her...well the more the merrier, for money." the other said. I sighed as I looked around where the bandits were, just waiting for one of them to strike.
"Where Jaken when I need him?...I hope he's awake and looking for us. And Sesshomaru is away on his mission." I thought, but as of right now, I need to protect Rin.
There are two things that there bandits don't know about me. One: I won't let them take us without a fight. Two: I know Tai Quan Duo. Then they strike, I hit the two across from me on the right, next was the one in front of me and the one across me on the left.
I was panting out of tiredness while holding Rin close. Then one of the bandits grabbed Rin, while I was taking out the other bandit, I didn't expect him to recover so quickly.
I turned and got distracted which was a big mistake. "Rin!" I shouted, then one of the bandits hit me in the back of the head with the hilt of a sword and I was knocked unconscious.
As I come to there is a pain in the back my head and started to have a pounding headache. I looked around and found myself in a tiger cage with Rin in a smaller cage, two feet away from me.
"Rin..." I whispered between the bars, Rin turns to me with concern. "Nikko...Are you hurt...are you ok?" She said as she put her hands between the bars.
I nodded and looked over the campsite of the bandits, they had a fire going. Then I noticed that it was getting close to night time. One of the bandits were walking towards apparently drunk.
"Heyyyyy...Ladyyy..you r goin o be a lave soon and wll b rich." He said with a slur and was wobbling. I got close to the bar with a fierce look on my face. "You shouldn't have messed with us." I said.
He got close with a smirk on his face. "O?...why s tht?" He said. "Because Sesshomaru will come and tear this place apart." I said. The bandit frowned in confusion.
"Wo's that?" He said. "-." Then a roar comes out of nowhere, then Sesshomaru comes appears out of nowhere, started to tear the tents with his claws and taking out some of the bandits with his poison whip gracefully and some of the bandits were running for their lives. "Run! there a Demon...lets get out of here!" a bandit said as he was running into the forest.
Then Sesshomaru grabs one of the bandits...it was the one who kidnapped us and placed us in the cages. He held him by the neck as the bandit was begging for mercy. He bared his teeth and growling in fury as if someone took something that was his. I saw what Sesshomaru was going do.
"Please Sesshomaru!...not here...Not in front of Rin." I shouted, hoping I got through to him. Suddenly the growling stopped and he looked at us, showing no emotion, then looks back at the bandit, who is weeping and holding Sesshomaru's arm.
For a moment there was nothing but the sound of the crickets chirping and the man grunting for his life, he lets go of the man with a thump as he hits the ground. The bandit as he coughed and gasped for air, then he looked up at me and back to him. Quickly the bandit gets up and runs into the forest.
I sighed relief but it was short lived, Sesshomaru pulls out the Tokojin and swung towards the forest where the bandit ran to. Parts of the forest were demolished by the sword's power. He puts the sword away and came towards us.
With a single swipe of his claws, the cages were broken loose, I got out of the cage quickly and removed the door of Rin's cage and carefully got her out. She brushes off the dust on her Kimono, runs to Sesshomaru and she hugs him.
He stands there for a moment until she lets go and looks at me. We stayed like that for what felt like minutes but only seconds, until Jaken come to us out of nowhere screaming with Ah-Un behind him. We broke eye contact as Jaken kneeled before Sesshomaru for forgiveness.
He grunts and got close to Jaken, then stop an inch, while Jaken was shaken in fear of what he would do. "Let something like this happen...I will end you." He said. Jaken sighed in relief but then gets stepped by Sesshomaru as he walked in a certain direction he choose with Ah-Un followed him.
Me, Rin followed him as Jaken recovered and ran to catch up with us and we were back on our journey. As soon as we catch up to him with Ah-Un at his side, I picked up Rin in my arms and she started laughing as she was swinging. Then I placed her on Ah-Un and walked beside Ah-Un.
Sesshomaru looked back at us and then looked at me directly. I smiled in wholeness as continued to look back at him. "(Thank You)" I mouthed to him. His face showed nothing as he turned back to the direction he was heading. As we continued to go on and seek out Naraku.