Chapter 9

Recap:

Rin's POV

“Rin?”

“Yes.”

“Stop asking questions.”

That was it and he walked past me towards lady kaede’s. I followed him this time, like I did back then. Those days I miss sometimes, I talked and asked questions all I wanted and he just let me. Now its like he hates me, if so then why has he been with me the entire time he has been here. Lord Sesshomaru is just so confusing. What am I supposed to do if I get a mission, and he follows me every where I go. Well this just makes this another mission itself. Yay for challenges, everyone loves challenges, right. I think this is going to be a tough one.

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Rin's POV

Alright it has been an entire week since Sesshomaru arrived and his been following me around ever since. He has yet, to leave my side even once. Although two days ago he left me alone so that I could bathe. During that time my horse blaze, brought came by to see me, and with him a gift. A mission. Great, this is two in one. I have to get away from Sesshomaru for at least three days without him suspecting any thing and complete the mission in the process.

Two days, two days ago. I should have left by now, but Lord Sesshomaru will not leace. How can I get him to leave me alone. What can I say or do for me to have a few days alone without people messing things up and sticking their noses into my business. I was in the middle of my thought, almost done with cleaning my cloths, while Sesshomaru stood under a large tree, not too far away. I quickly finished and hung my cloths up. I walked over to Lord Sesshomaru and say down, leaning my head back against the tree. He say down too, keeping quiet as always. I closed my eyes and breathed in every thing around me. My surroundings, the gentle breeze, the smell of the grass and flowers, lord Sesshomaru’s scent. The sound of the trees blowing in the wind, the birds speaking to each other. Frogs near the water a waiting for their next meal. my breathing started to slow and I opened my eyes, I was completely relaxed. I could see the blue sky peaking through the trees, clouds going by and hiding the sun every once in a while. I could feel Lord Sesshomaru’s gaze on me once again. Although this time I was not so nice about it. He still thinks that I am a little innocent girl, I don’t think so. “You know, you can always get someone to paint a picture of me, it will last longer then you can stare at that all day.” I stood up and walked to my cloths, not caring if they were dry all the way or not. I threw them into my little basket and started walking back towards the village.

Lord Sesshomaru continued to follow me, halfway back I spun around and looked at him head on. “Would you STOP following me every day, all the time, don’t you have something better to do, rather than following a stupid weak human girl around.” I yelled at him, spinning around quickly I ran to kaede’s. I ran inside and threw my gear into a bag and jumped out of my window. I whistled and blaze came running up to me. I got on him and he took off. I rode past Lord Sesshomaru who still stood in his place where I had left him. Although he was no longer alone. His father and Inuyasha had joined him. I went past them and didn’t look back. I didn’t care where I was going I just wanted to leave, to get away. After a while I allowed Blaze to slow down and stop. We had reached a river and I got off and pulled out a bottle that kagome had once given to me. I filled it and drank the entire bottle while Blaze drank from the river.

I refilled the bottle and walked over to sit under a tree. Blaze came over and laid next to me. I pulled out my assignment and looked at it. I had to go north. Good thing that I am already heading in that direction. I am being ordered to kill a demon who tricks others by messing with their minds. I read over everything there was about this demon, and then stood as did Blaze. I got on and he took off once again. I reached the village that this demon was apparently staying in at the time. I walked through the village to see if there was anything out of the ordinary, nothing seemed to pop out. An old man came walking up to me and told me that I shouldn’t be here. He was probably right, but a mission is a mission. I left the village, and set up camp on the out skirts of the village. Blaze laid down first then allowing me to lean against him. I fell asleep, my last sight was seeing the stars in the night sky.

Lord Sesshomaru’s POV

I watched as Rin rode off, on not just a horse but a demon horse. Where did she find one? Where was she going? Why is she taking off? She is going to get herself killed. My father spoke first “Where is she going?”

Inuyasha waved it off like it was nothing. “Oh don’t worry about it, she does that all the time, she’s gone for almost a week, then comes back. She likes to leave and take off from time to time. No one knows why though.”

I felt only slightly better, knowing that this was normal for her, but somehow there was a part of that, wanted to go after her, and know what was wrong. What am I saying, I am the Great Lord Sesshomaru, this should mean nothing to me. Just a human girl, why care. But a voice inside of me told me that I did in fact care, and I knew why. I walked off, leaving my idiot half mutt of a brother, and my father behind me as I walked off in the direction of which Rin left. After walking to where I knew that I would be out of sight from anyone from the village, I lifted my nose to the wind and smelled for Rin’s scent. I caught it immediately and took off. I stopped when I reached a river. Her scent stopped here and was the strongest near a tree. I walked to it and placed my hand on the tree. She must have stopped to rest. She definitely had a demon horse to be able to make this distance in such a short amount of time. I followed her scent from the tree, it led north of here. I looked up at the night sky, to see the stars shinning brightly. Rin is most likely looking up at them right now. She always did like the stars.

I shook my head to focus on the task at hand, and to keep myself from thinking of such nonsense things. I continued, walking now, keeping to Rin’s trail.

The moon slowly started to fall from the sky and the sun began to rise. Morning already. The birds started to sing and I knew that Rin would be listening to them. Everything reminds me of her. I forced my self to stop thinking about what she liked, and focused on finding her. The sun rose higher and knew that she would most likely be waking up now, that is if she even slept.

Rin’s POV

I woke up to the birds singing their morning song. I loved it, it put a smile on my face, but only for an instant. I stood up, as did blaze. I pored some water into my hands and rinsed my face off, drying it with a cloth. I put that up, and then changed into my gear for hunting.

I walked back into the village, people were waking up and getting started on the days work. I walked past one home and heard yelling. I paused and looked in through one of the front windows. There was a man, holding a women. She was trying to get away from him. I stepped closer to the window, to get a better look. The man then looked up at me, but it wasn’t a man, not really. I ran into the home, pulling out my katana. The demon released the women and she ran to a corner of the room, crying. This demon was the one that I was after. He fit the description perfectly.

“how did you find me girl.” I didn’t reply. “I never thought that a human would actually come after me. I knew that I was being searched for, but a human. You seem tough, but that’s too bad, I have to kill you, now girl.”

I replied then, “Good luck,” was all I said. I continued to fight him. He threw me against the wall, and head butted him, and then kicked him when he staggered back. I kicked him again and he fell to the ground. I went to stab him in the head, when he rolled over and stood up in one swift movement. I was started to get tired after fighting him for about twenty minutes now. For a human I was doing pretty well. I got distracted and he punched me in the face then, threw me through the front wall. I landed on my stomach, so the fight is now outside, I guess. My entire body hurt, and I tasted blood. I touched my lip and it was bleeding. I slowly started to push my self up when I got kicked in my face. Right on my lip again, man this demon is sure to mess up my face isn’t he. I fell back to the ground and he circled me. “You really are a tough one, I might actually let you live and keep you as a pet. What do you think?” he made a mistake kneeling down, to get even with my level. I lifted up my head to look him in the eyes. I gathered every ounce of energy left in me and gave him the most angry look that I could muster.

I slowly pushed my self up so that I could get closer to his face. He grabbed me then, and lifted me up. He stood me up and then grabbed my chin forcing me to look at him. I gripped my katana harder, and was amazed that I was still able to hold onto it. I gathered more energy and shoved him back away from me, I stumbled back as he did, but it took me longer to regain my balance. “Now, now young one. Don’t make me kill you.” I spat on the ground, the taste of blood getting too strong for my liking. I rose my katana and he came towards me. “Burn in hell.” then I swung. His head rolled on the ground and his body twitched twice before it stopped moving. I had a few matches on me, something that kagome had given me as well, it started fires, you didn’t need sticks to rub together nor rock to create a spark. Just the matches and its container. I lit a match and then threw it on his body. I guess some would call it ironic that I was now burning his body.

I was taken off guard when someone grabbed my shoulder and spun me around, gripping both of my shoulders now, making sure that I could not escape. Now what. Who wants to fight me now, I’m tired, but if they want a fight, that’s what I will give them, no way am I dieing today. But I froze. I looked into the eyes, of the very person I wished hadn’t shown up, the one that always seemed to make me feel something. “Lord Sesshomaru.” I mumbled.