Chapter 05: Blush
As expected, the miko blushed, even through her anger, and bowed her head. "Thank you," she murmured, "That means a lot coming from you."
Depositing her arrows back into the quiver, she took a deep calming breath and looked up at him. "What brings you to the village today? Visiting Rin?"
"Hnn," Sesshoumaru replied in the affirmative. "Mother sent her a gift for the summer."
The miko gave him a strained smile, but said nothing further, instead pulling an arrow from her quiver and taking aim at the poor tree once again. He watched as the arrow embedded itself into the old wood exactly in one of the previous marks. There were no sparks this time, so he assumed she was not practicing with her reiki.
"You are angry," he stated, hoping to elicit something from her.
"You could say something like that," she replied in an evasive manner, already nocking another arrow.