Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
Chapter Four
(Rins prov)
Over the next three days nothing really happened. We went to school came home did our homework and sometimes hung out with the girls. So when Friday came I expected it to be no different. My alarm clock woke me up. It was blaring in my ears and impossible to ignore.
I slammed my hand down on the off button, then crawled form the warmth of my bed. I walked with half closed eyes to the bathroom to shower, once the warm water had worked its magic I was able to wake up fully.
I was standing in nothing but my towel in front of my closet, looking for something to wear when my door suddenly burst open. I clutched my towel to my chest and looked over my shoulder. Kagome came into my room, when she saw me she quickly shut the door. For a moment we stood there looking at each other in silence.
"Does this look ok Rin?" Kagome asked suddenly holding her arms out for inspection. I turned surprised; she normally wasn't one to fuss over her appearance.
"It's picture day Monday." She explained.
I raised my eyebrow; the look clearly saying that was days from now.
I pulled out a navy blue t-shirt that had dark purple flames along the hem, over my head, and then pulled on a pair of blue jeans. "I know it's still three days from now, but after what happened last year I'm not taking chances."
I knew all about last year's pictures of course and I couldn't blame her. She had picked out this really cute white dress to wear. Unfortunately she had left it in the bathroom the night before and it had been put in the washer. That would have been fine, but Sota had put a red shirt in it and the colors bleed into the dress. When it was put in the dryer it shrunk.
So she wore her favorite t-shirt and skirt. That would have been fine, if she had stayed out of the cafeteria. Another student tripped and spilled his nachos all over her! She couldn't get a change of clothes from home cause no one was there and none of the girls had brought extra clothes, so she had to wear something out of the lost and found. Sadly the only thing in there was an ugly gray sweeter.
So I could understand her panic a little bit.
I had her turn so I could get a good look. The dress was a baby blue, long sleeve that flowed down to her knees. The skirt had light purple, red and violet flowers randomly placed around it. When she spun the skirt would flare out around her. I smiled my approval of the dress.
Kagome sighed in relief. "Good because this is my favorite, but I have four backups just in case." I smirked, shook my head, and pulled on my snickers. "Hey I'm not leaving anything up to chance this year." I shrugged my shoulders, made a face that said, 'yeah I guess'. Then, pointed to my clock.
Kagome looked over then hurried out of my room leaving the door open. Shaking my head I walked down the brightly light hall to the stairs then down to the kitchen. Aunt Sara handed me a plate of pancakes and sausage. Uncle Jay slid a glass of orange juice over to me. I smiled my thanks.
"Still playing dodge ball in gym Rin?" Uncle Jay asked his light brown eyes dancing.
I nodded a smirk pulling at my lips.
He laughed. "How many times have you been hit?"
I held up my hand and formed an o. Both Uncle Jay and Sota laughed, aunt Sara just smiled. "Oh that's just great. I bet everyone thought it was luck the first time." Sota said with a huge grin. I smiled at him.
"And I bet that over the last two days they have been trying everything to get her out." Uncle said, a smirk pulling his lips and mischief in his eyes.
"Between her, Inuyasha, and Koga the rest of us might not even exists." Kagome said walking in and grabbing a piece of toast off her brother's plate.
"Being small has its advantages." Aunt Sara said smiling.
"Small, hell, she's tiny, but fast." Uncle Jay said a gleam in his eye. "Just like her daddy." I smiled and he winked.
Sango honked outside. Kagome and I said bye, grabbed our stuff and headed out the door. I was still thinking about what my uncle had said about me being like my dad, when we climbed into Sango's car.
Obviously he wasn't talking about my height; daddy was nearly 6' 3" just like his brother, but my speed did came from him as did my prankster attitude. Mom used to get so mad when I would come up with some new prank. Daddy would want to know how I had made it and what had given me the idea.
Without realizing it I had grabbed the necklace that my dad had given me on my 12th birthday. It was a silver dragon clutching a small ruby protectively in its powerful claws. It hung from a gold chain around my neck. Since the day my dad had placed it around my neck I haven't taken it off.
For once the memory didn't bring pain and loss, but joy and a sense of closeness. I smiled to myself, still holding the dragon in my palm.
"Alright so does anyone see the boys?" Sango asked as we drove into the school parking lot. I spotted Miroku's jeep first so I pointed it out to Sango. She pulled into a space one car away from them.
The first thing I noticed was that Sesshomaru was standing next to Inuyasha; that by its self was strange. Sesshomaru came to school with them, but was always gone the moment the car stopped.
So it was weird to see him to stick around. The moment we were in sight of the boys Sesshomaru's eyes locked onto mine. I was locked in his gaze unable to look away and finding that I really didn't want to. My heart started to race wildly in my chest. Everything but Sesshomaru seemed to fade away, then he looked away and the spell was broken. I could feel the heat in my cheeks, I glanced around quickly. None of my friends seemed aware of what had just accrued and for that I was grateful.
Swallowing hard I followed my friends into the school.
First, second and third hour was the same as the day before. In fourth hour a note landed on my desk toward the end of class. Confused I glanced up. The boy from my third hour class, whose name I had learned was Drake, was in the seat next to mine on the left. He was looking at me with a smirk. He winked at me when I glanced at him. I scowled at him, but opened the note. Really you would think I would know better by now. The not read, 'you me tonight'.
I rolled my eyes crumbled the note into a ball and threw it away. From the corner of my eye I saw Sesshomaru watching me. I looked over expecting him to look away as he always had, but he held my gaze once again.
Just as it had that morning my heart speed up and I was unable to look away. And just like that morning it was he who looked away. I quickly looked down to my work and didn't look up until the bell rang, signaling lunch.
Just like on my first day and every day that week I stayed in my seat until everyone else had made it out the door. Sesshomaru did the same as he had all week. Then we both got up and walked out. The wide halls were mostly deserted as we made our way to the cafeteria. Down the last hall separating us from the lunchroom a group of about five sophomores were messing around. Pushing and shoving each other playfully. As we got closer it became obvious that they were demons.
That had stopped worrying me long ago. I now knew they wouldn't bother me. As we walked passed them one of the boys shoved another and he slammed hard into me. Sending me flying into Sesshomarus side. His arms came up to steady me and he growled at the group. "S-sorry," they stuttered before they took off running down the hall. That was the second time I had slammed into Sesshomaru and just like the first time it felt more like running into a brick wall. Slowly I pulled away to stand on my own.
When I looked up it was to once again be caught in his beautiful amber eyes. "Are you aright Rin?" He asked in his quiet monotone. I nodded rubbing my right arm, the one the boy had slammed into. If Sesshomaru noticed he said nothing. We continued down the hall and into the lunchroom.
Once we had our lunches and had sat down with the others Inuyasha demanded to know what had taken us so long. Sesshomaru didn't bother to answer him and I wasn't going to write it down, so when they all looked at me I just shook my head.
Inuyasha grumbled under his breath and scowled but left it alone. He knew he wouldn't get answer from us.
"So, umm are we still on for tomorrow?" Miroku asked after a few beats of awkward silence.
"Yep."
"Yeah."
"Sure."
"Yes!" came the replies.
"Make sure you bring a swimsuit. If you don't then you are out of luck and can't swim." Inuyasha practically growled the last part glaring at Koga. Who was eating his lunch with the air of the innocent. I looked over at Kagome for an explanation.
She rolled her eyes. "Koga has a habit of forgetting his swimsuit and borrowing one of Inu's." I looked over at the wolf demon and had the feeling he didn't forget but did it to annoy Inuyasha, from what I could see it worked. I hid my smile. Sango took everyone's trays this time and when she came back we headed out to our lockers. Sesshomaru was at the corner of the hall, the same one where I had run into him my first day, and together we walked to fifth hour.
We still drew strange looks from the other students but it was normal to me and I didn't give it another thought. The day went by quickly and before I knew it I was warming up in gym with everyone else. The uniform for the girls was a white t-shirt and red shorts. The boys had the same shirt but they had blue sweet paints.
Once we were warmed up Mrs. Kyada set up the floor for dodge ball. When she split us up for teams a huge grown went up from the other team. I had to admit that Mrs. Kyada was being a little unfair to them. She had placed Inuyasha, Koga, Miroku, Sesshomaru, Sango, Ayame, Kagome and I all on the same team. Inu and Koga both had evil smiles on their faces, they were going to enjoy this. Shaking my head I took up a position in the line. When the whistle blew we all rushed forward to grab a ball. I jumped back with one in each hand.
I threw one and hit a demon girl from my fifth hour. She glared at me before she walked off the quart. I ignored her and threw again. The guy dodged and threw one back at me in retaliation. I avoided it easily, but didn't have time to pick up another ball. Three were coming at me from different directions. I dodged to the left then back a step and over to the right. Everyone flew by me one only inches from my side. I smirked knowing it would irritate the other team.
I could just see Inuyasha and Koga over to my right. They my fight with each other constantly, but they made a good team. They were taunting the other team and getting them out left and right. Miroku was to my left dodging like a prow and throwing right back. I couldn't see any of the others and had no time to look for them.
I grabbed the closest ball to me and threw once it left my hand I ducked and moved to my right, avoiding the ball that would have hit my stomach. I hit the boy I had amid at and he cursed as he stormed off.
See over the week I had become nearly as popular a target as Inuyasha and Koga. It seemed that demons didn't like it if you could avoid the things they threw at you, especially if you were human.
I dodged to the left and threw again. I missed and had to quickly duck and run to the right. I had just picked up another ball when one came at me, stepping out of its path I looked to see who had thrown it. To my left were three demon boys that I had gotten out in the first minute of the game yesterday. It looked like they were planning on paying me back for that now.
They all had a more ball ready to throw at me. I threw at the closest one but he was able to dodge it. I had no time to get another. One threw and I jumped back only to have to dodge to the left and then back, as the others threw as well. Looking around I found that there wasn't any balls for me to grab.
That sucked to say the least. Again they threw and I was back to dodging. I had to duck as one came at my face and when I looked up again they all were ready to throw again.
I dodged to the right then back, and then jumped to the left. Another student from the other team took advantage of my situation and threw from another direction. I jumped back to avoid it and slammed into someone.
Without even looking I knew who it was. Before I could move a steal arm snaked around my waist and pulled me to the right with the person behind me. Avoiding a ball I hadn't seen coming. Only then did Sesshomaru let go of me and throw still standing behind me. He hit one of the demons hard in the stomach; I could hear the breath leave his lungs even from across the quart.
Inuyasha came out of nowhere and hit another of the boys in his shoulder. He walked off rubbing his arm. The last boy threw his ball right at my face!
Sesshomarus arm snapped out and caught it seconds before the guy was hit from four different directions. Sesshomaru dropped the ball he was holding and only then did I notice that the other team was all out.
"Assholes, ganging up on one little girl," Koga growled walking over.
"Yeah but she was doing a number on their pride, couldn't touch her!" Miroku said laughter lighting up his violate eyes, a grin pulling up his lips. I smiled at them. Mrs. Kyada blew her whistle then and we all split to go change.
In the girls locker room all was chaos. Everyone was talking at the same time so you had to practically yell to be heard.
Ayame threw her arms around me from behind. "That was awesome Rin!" she squealed. "You were like a ninja, they couldn't touch you!" I smiled a little.
She continued to talk as we changed. "Man I thought they had you this time, they came close so many times! I bet that really pissed them off! And when ran into Sesshomaru I swear he smirked!" All this was said in one breath.
"Are you sure you saw this Ayame?" Sango asked pulling on her t-shirt.
"Yes I was out with Kagome so I had the perfect view."
"She's right I saw it to, and that was perfect timing when you four hit that last guy." Kagome put in.
"Oh yeah he got smacked from all sides it was so cool, and Sesshomaru caught the ball he threw so it didn't hit Rin, which is really weird if you think about it." Ayame said excitedly.
Sango and I shared a look.
"Ayame how much sugar have you had today?" Sango asked innocently as we all walked out.
"Not much why?" Ayame asked looking over her shoulder at Sango. "Just wondering," Sango said with a straight face. After we had all gotten what we needed for the weekend from our lockers we headed to the front doors. As had become our habit over the week we raced from there to the parking lot.
Ayame was in the lead with me right behind her Kagome hot on my heels when we reached the beginning of the lot. Then from out of nowhere Sesshomaru was standing in front of us! Ayame screeched and tried to go around him, but it was too late she slammed into his back. I flew past them and touched the door handle insuring that I got the front seat then turned back to see if Ayame was ok.
She was rubbing her nose and glairing up at Sesshomaru. The boys were standing in front of the jeep laughing along with Sango; Kagome was standing to my left and had a smile lighting up her pretty face.
Sesshomaru looked really annoyed.
"God Sesshomaru you're like a brick wall!" She looked over at me. "Rin how are you not covered in bruises running into him as often as you do!?" that made the boys laugh harder, and I had to grin. Though she didn't know just how many times I'd run into him the two of us did.
When I looked up to see Sesshomaru's face nothing could have made the laugh stay in my throat. It spilled out; a bubble of sound filled with mirth. For the first time in nearly five years I laughed. Everyone was looking at me, but I didn't care. I laughed until my sides hurt and I had tears running down my cheeks. I was holding my aching sides before I was able to stop.
Everyone was looking at me with a smile, well Sesshomaru wasn't but he didn't have that annoyed look anymore. Kagome walked over to me a huge smile on her face. "Rin what made you laugh?" she asked knowing instinctively that it was something she had missed.
I grinned and pulled out my cell.
The look on Sess's face.
Just picturing it again made me giggle. I glanced at him as I handed Kagome my phone. The look was gone replaced with his normal cold look. I couldn't decide that was a good thing or not. Kagome read my message then giving me a funny look she handed it to Sess. He read it and his only reaction was to lift an eye brow. Then he calmly passed it back.
"Well what does it say!?" Koga and Inu demanded at the same time. They glared at each other then turned back to Kagome.
"It says, 'the look on Sess's face'." Kagome answered. The others all looked confused. "I didn't even see his face!" Ayame exclaimed, pouting a little bit. Miroku leaned toward Koga.
"What's more interesting is the fact that he hasn't said anything about her calling him Sess." He whispered.
Koga nodded. "Especially since he nearly bit our heads off when we tried to shorten his name."
Sess growled at them. They rubbed the backs of their necks looking anywhere, but at Sess. I smiled and walked right up to him, ignoring the fact that he was still glaring, typing as I went.
I stopped in front of him grinned and showed him what I had written.
'Its not that bad. I like it so that's wat I'm going to call you ;p'
He read it, and then looked at me. His eyes narrowed, I just smiled at him. He growled and walked over to Miroku's jeep. "Let's go." He said climbing into the front seat. I grinned and walked back to Kagome. They all had shocked looks on their faces and seemed to be frozen in place. I just shook my head still smiling as I climbed into Sango's car.
When I shut the door everyone seemed to snap out of the trance they were in. They all got in the right car and we drove off. The girls kept giving me funny looks, the whole ride home. Three blocks from our house Kagome invited Sango and Ayame to stay the night they both agreed and said they would come back later that night.
Once they dropped us off Kagome didn't say a word. We walked in and made our way to the kitchen as usual. There we found Uncle Jay and Aunt Sara sitting at the breakfast island drinking coffee and talking.
"There's my girls! How was school?" Jay asked as we say down.
I smiled at him.
"It was great! In gym these three boys ganged up on Rin, trying to get her out." Kagome started glancing at me with a grin. "They couldn't touch of course. Then the rest of the gang noticed what they were doing and went to help her." Kagome accepted the glass of juice her mother passed her. "Inuyasha got one out and Sesshomaru another, and the last one was hit by Miroku, Inuyasha, Koga and Sango at the same time."
"Why did they all aim at the same boy?" Sara asked confused.
Kagome smirked. "Cause he tried to hit Rin in the face with his last ball. Sesshomaru caught it though."
Uncle Jay raised his eyebrows, "Really?"
"Yeah, and get this. The rest of our team was able to get everyone from the other team out while this was going on! It was so cool!" Kagome was smiling from ear to ear. It was easy to give her an answering smile when she glanced over. When she saw my smile she seemed to remember something cause she turned back to her parents.
"Oh I almost forgot! Rin laughed, really laughed." Both of her parents turned to look at me. I looked at the table and shrugged, a blush creeping up my cheeks.
Before they could ask Kagome explained.
"Sesshomaru didn't say anything about her nickname?" my aunt asked.
"No not even when she told him that she was going to keep calling him that! He growled a little but not much."
By now my face was on fire.
"HMMM, that's interesting." My uncle said watching me over the rim of his coffee cup. My aunt was smiling with a strange gleam in her eye. I couldn't meet any of their eyes and was grateful when the front door opened and Sota came running in with a friend.
"Oh good, Rin you're home. Can you please help us with something? We have tried everything we can think of, but we still can't figure it out! Please?" He said walking right to me.
I smiled and got up, grateful for the excuse to leave, gesturing for him to lead the way. "Yes! Come on."
I followed him and his friend Shippo out of the kitchen and up to his room. Shippo looked over his shoulder at me. His Long red hair pulled up into a pony, his green eyes doubtful. "Are you sure she can help us?" he asked Sota as he got whatever it was they needed from his closet. Sota backed out of the closet with a small box in his arms.
"Of course she can. Rin is a genius with pranks and not too bad with the normal stuff either." He said ginning at me.
I smiled back, but Shippo still looked doubtful. "You remember that gum I had a few years ago, the stuff that turned your whole mouth neon green?" Sota asked as he dumped out the box.
Shippo laughed. "Yeah, that stuff was great!" Sota tilted his head in my direction. "She made it."
"No way! That was you?" Shippo demanded his eyes wide with awe. I smirked and nodded. I had made that when I was nine, by the time Sota was the same age it was clear he was a prankster so I gave him a pack for his birthday. He loved it.
I pointed to the stuff Sota had spread out on his floor. A soda can that was split open a small can of silly putty. A small can of silly string and some other things I had no name for. (really this would never work but hey we can dream right?)
"Ok so the idea is to place the silly string in the soda can, so that when it's opened the person is sprayed with it." Sota began.
"Yeah, we figured out how to get it in and make it look like its normal." Shippo put in. "But we can't get it to spray right. We get two or three strings nowhere near enough." Sota finished. I nodded thinking about it, and then took out my cell. I sat down on Sota's twin bed as I typed the two of them sat around the mess on the floor in front of me.
Let me see how you do it then ill see wat I can do.
They nodded and got to work. I watched them closely and by the time they were done I knew what they were doing wrong. Shippo opened the can and it sprayed him with two pitiful strings. Both Sota and Shippo sighed.
I got up and sat down with them on the floor. "See? That's what happens every time." Sota said sadly. I rubbed Sota's back then reached for the can that Shippo had placed on the floor.
I opened it once more, made a few adjustments added a few tweaks. I made sure they were watching the whole time. Then I shook the can, just a small shake like when you pick it up. I handed it to Shippo. He opened it looking hopeful. For a few seconds nothing happened and both of their faces fell.
Then the spray started and didn't stop until Shippos face was completely covered in blue silly string. Both boys started laughing; I took a picture of Shippo and saved it on my phone.
As Shippo cleared his face off, a smile stretching across from ear to ear, Sota did a little jig. "You are officially my prankster hero Rin!" Sota said hugging me. Shippo nodded in agreement, blue string still hanging from his hair. I smiled at them happy I could help them.
Ok now you try.
The both nodded and got to work. I showed them again how to make it and in no time we were all covered in silly string, laughing and having a good time. When dinner was ready Aunt Sara came to get us. She took one look raised her brow and pointed down the hall. "Go wash up for dinner you three." She said shaking her head. Sota and Shippo hurried out with their heads down so they didn't see the small smile on her beautiful face.
"Did you get pictures?" she asked when they were both safely in the bathroom with the water running. I grinned and gave her a thumbs up. She grinned back then ordered me to go wash.
Over dinner I showed everyone the pictures I had taken, everyone was laughing and enjoying themselves. Then Sango and Ayame arrived and the fun continued until 3:00am. When my uncle came into my room and told us it was time to go to bed.
I threw a pillow at him and started an uneven pillow fight. That lasted until my aunt walked in, hands on her hips and ordered all of us children to get to bed. Uncle Jay threw one last pillow then walked out. Telling my aunt it wasn't his fault we were all so vicious. We settled down in my room and slept until noon, when Aunt Sara woke us up to get ready to go to Inuyasha's place.
I couldn't wait to see the place and was looking forward to the fun even though I was still nerves about another movie night. One thing was for sure and that was this movie night wasn't going to be like any one before.
AN: so that's it for this chapter, bad place to end I know but that's how it worked sorry, I'll update soon. And don't you think that would be a sweet prank?;)