InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bring Me to life ❯ The Outcast pt.1 ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: If I was blessed, I would own Sesshoumaru, but I don't. Does God hate me so?

On with the story…

The outcast, Pt. one

After having cried for almost two hours, Rin fell into a slight slumber. {{{Sesshoumaru's majestic frame, shrinking in the distance. Sesshoumaru's indifferent eyes in the balcony. Sesshoumaru's silver hair shining in the moonlight. Sesshoumaru's warm embrace, tainted by her bleeding shoulder. Oh, Kami-sama, it feels so good…}}} All of the sudden, a violent movement shook her out of her cozy dream. Rin felt a throbbing pain on her head, and then she opened her eyes. All she saw was a violet fabric. Then Rin removed it from herself; to reveal a very messy scene. Everything was out of place, thrown elsewhere. She was laying in one of the carriage's walls, like gravity had failed or something. On one carriage window she could see the tip of some trees and the sky. On the other, there was ground. Then it hit her. The carriage had crashed or something and had flipped. Rin checked her head for any injury from were the pain was, but she didn't found any. `I just hit my head very hard…' Rin looked around, and realized she was the only one inside. When she was about to go out and start looking for the others, Rin heard some hearty laughter and then sobs, apparently coming from Kaneda. Rin managed to find a hole to peep through in the carriage's floor.

"Please, have mercy!!" Kaneda said, between choked sobs. A gruff looking man was holding her hostage.

Some other men were surrounding the scene, there were about thirteen. They were all grinning and laughing, some had weapons and come didn't. Apparently they were a bandit gang and the carriage and everyone in it were their victims. The man that was handling Kaneda was apparently hurting her, as she was cringing from the pain. Kaneda's image wasn't very pretty; her emerald green dress was torn and the necklace she was wearing was gone. Her mouth was bleeding from several smacks, her arms and legs were bruised from the beatings she was taking, and she was crying. Who wouldn't? Hikaru was being beaten to death by some bandits, they were kicking him everywhere, and he was bleeding badly. Hikaru squirmed in pain as the bandits laughed. The gang's leader, a tall, dangerous man, with flowing gray hair, came forth.

"Yeah, right!" the man pulled a sword from his waist, pointing it at Hikaru. Kaneda understood was he was going to do, and tried to free herself from the man's tight grip. "Please don't kill him!! Just take me instead!!" The leader turned his eyes for a moment to look at Kaneda, who was shaking in fear. Then he proceeded to decapitate the squirming man. Rin watched in horror as her uncle's head rolled through the ground. Kaneda turned pale; she was being tortured to watch her husband die a most horrible death.

"W-Why?" Kaneda managed to say in a whisper, her whole body shaking. The leader gave her a threatening stare and said, "I don't have pity for rich pigs like you," And then, rapidly, he took the bloody blade and put it against Kaneda's neck. "Or filthy whores." He waited a second just to see her reaction, then sliced her neck open, spraying blood. Her face had terror written all over it. The man holding Kaneda's dead body didn't even flinch. The leader licked the bloody blade and put it once again in its sheath. "Let's go! We can't afford to waste anymore time here! Grab whatever riches you found, we're out of here." The bandits started to leave.

Rin was petrified at what she had just witnessed, she was still peeping through the hole. She was looking at the two dead bodies that had been the remains of her family. `I… am alone… again.' Some tears clouded her eyes. `And this time, I won't find Sesshoumaru-sama…' The crystalline tears rolled down her cheeks as she sobbed quietly. Then, she raised her head and wiped the tears from her face. `But I won't let that stop me. I'll go to a village. I'll begin a new life there, were nobody knows anything about me.' From the once carefree and innocent soul, was born one that was completely the opposite, she now would hide her feelings from everyone, and her face was always absent of any emotion. Very much like her lord Sesshoumaru.

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After the carriage's incident a very strange Rin arrived in a village. To Rin's astonishment, an old lady recognized her. The old lady was small; her back arched by the years. Her hair was white as snow and her hands were little with her veins were emphasized. She had a brown package that was almost too big for her. When she came up to Rin, the old lady admired her features.

"Ah… I knew it was you." The old lady smiled.

"Uhh… what do you mean? We've never seen each other." Rin was utterly caught off guard, but it didn't get the best of her. She seemed completely calm.

"But I've seen that kimono. I made it for a little girl that was under the care of Sesshoumaru-sama. I can easily guess that you are the girl." The old lady examined Rin once again. "You really do fill that kimono! It looks beautiful on you." She smiled once again. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! I am Haneto, a tailor. I specialize in kimonos, and I can surely say, the best at it in town!" The smile was still in Haneto's lips.

"Uh… my name-" Rin was cut short by the Haneto's voice.

"Rin, I know. Sesshoumaru has told me about you. He has been one of my best customers for years. Some days ago, he ordered that kimono," Haneto gestured at Rin's yellow kimono, "telling me that he needed it done by the next day, and that it would be the last one he would order from me."

Rin's mind flooded with the memories from the youkai lord, but pushed them away. Her eyes let out a subtle hint of sadness.

"Don't worry, dear. He won't forget about you." Haneto turned around to head for her house. "Come with me child, I'll let you live with me and my husband. We have adopted two little girls, which I trust you'll like." Haneto kept walking.

"What-How did you…?" Rin's surprise at the old lady's wisdom left her speechless. Catching up wither she asked, "How do you know that I'm thinking about him?" Haneto stopped and smiled.

"I could always tell what he was thinking just by looking at his eyes. I am one of the few people that can do so." Haneto started walking again.

"…" Rin walked followed behind her silently. "Thank you." Rin never said anything about the bloody death of her aunt and uncle, she decided they were part of her past now, and that she knew mustn't wander of the past if she wanted to move on.

"You're welcome."

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The old lady and the girl walked home to a small, but very cozy house. Haneto's husband, Kosene, was a very humble man. His features were very similar to Haneto's but in a male version. Also, he was a bit grumpier than Haneto, but Kosene was always nice to Rin. Their adoptive daughters were named Beneri and Cinna. Beneri was the older one; she had twelve years, always being followed by Cinna, who was seven years old. Beneri had light brown curly hair. Here eyes were lime green, and her clothing was always very subtle. She was always very polite and shy towards people. Cinna was her opposite. She had bright red hair; her eyes were a strong shade of pink. Freckles slightly decorated her cheeks, right under her eyes. She always imitated Beneri, but when she disagreed Beneri on with something, which was almost always, Cinna always complained out loud. It was simply in her blood, since their parents had been the troublemakers in town. That is before they died victims of a horrible attack on the village, and since then the sisters had been under the old couple's care. Rin didn't befriend them at first, but eventually opened up a little to them, but still hiding her feelings from the rest of the world.

Rin's thirteenth birthday had passed weeks ago, and Haneto had made her a very beautiful blue kimono. Rin received her gift thankfully, smiling a bit. She went to her room to put it away when a sharp pain stung her in the lower region of her belly, and fell on her knees. Beneri, followed her and helped Rin on her feet again.

"Are you okay Rin? What happened?" Beneri asked.

Rin grasped strongly the cloth that made her kimono. "I'm all right. I just got a sharp pain in my belly…" Rin gasped as she felt a warm liquid flowed down her inner thigh.

"Umm… there's something going down my thigh…" Beneri helped Rin sit down on the floor, while Rin checked between her legs. "Oh no! I'm dying!!" Rin gasped as she saw that the liquid felt was blood.

"Don't worry Rin, you're not dying! You just got your monthly. It's a normal happening in every girl's life." Beneri said, smiling.

"Have you gotten your monthly Beneri?"

"Oh, yes I got it almost a year ago. At first I was scared, but Haneto-sama helped me through. I'll tell her to help you too! Don't worry Rin-chan, we're here to help you!" Beneri's counseling made Rin feel somewhat better but the nauseous feeling was still there. Rin nodded in agreement and relief. "Now, let's go and have dinner, Kosene-chan and Haneto-chan are waiting." Rin got up and started walking, followed closely by Beneri, in case something happened to Rin.

Dinner was pleasant, except for an odd pain in the inside of her cheeks. Rin kept chewing her food, but the pain did not leave. When a few bites remained on her plate, she started to feel uneasy about that pain and decided to hurry and eat the remains of her food. But when she started to taste blood, she suddenly stopped eating.

"Gomen-nasai!" Rin quickly said.

She went running to her room, were she had a mirror to look at herself and some water to clean her mouth with. First Rin spat outside her bedroom window the bloody saliva in her mouth. Then, she grabbed a cotton cloth and wiped her mouth clean. When she headed for the mirror, she took slow steps expecting the worst from her reflection. Finally reaching the mirror, Rin looked at her cheeks outside. `Everything seems fine. What about inside?' Opening her mouth and seeing the inside, she said out loud, "What the hell…?"

Inside her mouth, larger than usual fangs could be seen. They were discreet, yet evident. "What's wrong with me?"

After worrying about it for a while, Rin, frustrated, went to sleep without saying a word to anybody about her new teeth. She simply wanted to rest without worrying anybody.

`I'm sure Sesshoumaru-sama would now what's wrong…' Rin's trail of thoughts went from her fangs to Sesshoumaru, the youkai who had let her go and caused her so much pain. Ravishing memories of Sesshoumaru invaded Rin's mid, plaguing her with locked-up sadness. Her unshed tears now filled her russet pools, struggling to be freed. Not being able to take it anymore, Rin took her hands to her face and wept in silence. The burned memories of Sesshoumaru still affected her, because she still loved him. `Why did you let me go?! How could he not see it?! I even told him…' The image of Sesshoumaru bathed in moonlight had entered her mind. `There he gave me his mark.' Rin touched her right shoulder and was able to feel the scar that Sesshoumaru had left on her. "Now, no matter where I am, I will always be with you." The flow of Rin's tears became more intense remembering the sweet, yet poisonous words. `Why can't I be with you…'

The rest of the week went quite uneventful, except for an occasional fight made by Cinna, who was starting to get on Rin's nerves.

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Rin was 16 now. The little sweet girl who once lived in her body was gone and a new girl had emerged, facing adolescence. Rin had developed well for a girl her age; after the arrival of her monthly, all of her features became… bigger. Her appearance was more mature. Her breasts had evidently increased; Rin had trouble sometimes adjusting her old kimonos to her chest; her waistline became more obvious, and her hips curvier. The changes in her body were not only noticed by her, but also by the village's bachelors. Young men were always courting Rin into marrying her, but she always refused. Her mind had also matured, and she had decided to persuade the one man who had made her heart ache, `Sesshoumaru. Some day, I will go back. You have no excuses now.' The thought of returning to him gave her a jolt of joy like non other. That always cheered her up after reminiscing about him. `Besides, I wouldn't marry any of those men. They only want my body anyway.' The excuse she always used was that she `had her sights on another', and they would always say that `there's no other guy like him,' or that they will `kill him when they saw him.' But before they could ask who he was, Rin had already left them talking to themselves.

Rin had recently noticed that some purplish spots were shadowing on her wrists. She paid not much attention to them since they were very faint. But after a few weeks had passed, the spots had joined and turned into lines. On each wrist two of them. `What the…? Oh no… am I sick?'

When Rin got sick and had a disease, Haneto would cure her later on. But this wasn't it. Rin hadn't felt dizzy, sick or any kind of pain lately. In fact, she hadn't been sick during the last months at all. `Well… I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'll just cover them with my kimono's sleeve.'

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Two weeks had passed and nobody had noticed anything about her. Except Haneto. One evening, everybody had finished their dinner and was heading to bed. Haneto approached Rin discreetly, and told Rin to follow her into a small orchard they had been working on.

"Rin, tell me what is wrong with you. You seem worried and nervous whenever there are people around you." Haneto's face was wrinkled with worry.

"…" Rin couldn't hide a secret from Haneto for too long, so she surrendered to her needs. "Haneto, I… some strange markings have appeared on my wrists and I… I don't know what they are." Rin chose her words carefully in order not to show any fear. But Haneto could always tell, as she had done w Sesshoumaru.

"Dear, don't be afraid. They will probably away after a while," Haneto took Rin's wrists to see the markings. For a second, Haneto hesitated to answer, thinking. But before Rin could ask, Haneto kept talking. "maybe there was a youkai or hanyou somewhere in your bloodline, who knows? But if that is the case, do not worry. They will not harm you." Haneto's loving gaze loomed over Rin's worried eyes. Smiling a bit Rin let Haneto see her fangs.

"What have we here… Hmm, fangs. Youkai fangs. There is definitely some youkai blood running in your veins…" Rin looked at Haneto a bit relieved, since she disliked being sick all the time. "Rin, anything else you would like to tell me?" Rin motioned a "No" with her head, answering the old lady's question. "Very well then; now, go to bed. Tomorrow is another day."

Rin walked towards her room, deep in though about what just had happened. `So the stuff that I was developing were youkai traits because of youkai blood…? I wonder which one of my relatives had youkai blood… ahhhh!! But they're all dead! It's no fair! Well, I guess I won't have to worry about the markings or the fangs too much now, since Haneto-chan knows…' Rin arrived at her room and lay on her bed for a second. She felt a heavy pressure had been released from her chest. Soon Rin fell asleep.

Outside, still in the orchard, Haneto mediated deeply too. ` What are HIS markings doing on her?! How did she get them…?' Haneto walked inside to her room to sleep, after a long day.

End of chapter Six

A/N: kumi: what's happening? what's wrong? Why is that happening to her? who's HE?! Find out on the next episode of `Bring me to Life!' (geeky superhero music plays in background, she marches around freakishly)

sesshy: what is wrong with her? MAKE HER STOOOPP!!

rin: she will only stop if she gets reviewed…

sesshy: for MY sanity's sake, REVIEW!!!