InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Double Vision ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 5 )

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Rin opened the drawstring on her little silk bag. The bag had been a present from Master Jakin, and it held all of her fondest small mementos. She shook the contents out onto her stomach. The fang from Inuyasha’s necklace rolled into her little tummy button. She fingered the ivory fang. She vividly remembered the day she found it, forgotten in her pocket after the mess with the sword Sounga, and that horrible Takimaru. Everything was so clear in those days, when she was just a child. Sesshomaru Sama’s child. She loved him so much, she worshipped him like the god his was, and would always be. But when Rin began to bleed, he sent her away. To live in a dirty little hut with a fat, dirty, ugly old woman, who used her to haul water and wood for the fire. Since the bleeding started, memories started coming back too, of when she was very small and lived in another dirty little hut, with her mother and father in a filthy, poor little human village. She remembered after her parents died, and there was no one to take care of Little Rin, no one to protect her or make sure she had food or stayed warm at night. Then came the stealing, and the beatings. And other things she didn’t like to think about at all.

Absently, she cupped a handful of dust from the cave’s floor, and let it sift down onto the fang. She loved the cave, she loved her fang, she loved her Inuyasha. Because when her daddy sent her away, when she was too dirty to remain near the great dog demon, there was his brother. Half-brother, she giggled to herself. He was dirty too. She had heard it said so many times over the campfires of her childhood. Inuyasha was a dirty, half-human, bastard. He would die, in time, by daddy’s hand. There was only one worse, and that was the other half-breed, Naraku.

Rin had been ignorant of what her blood meant, coming from down there, accompanied by the piercing, tearing cramps. Old Kaede tried to tell her, but it was too horrible, and she ran to the forest. That is when she found her cave. Later, when Kagome came back through the well after being so long gone, she explained in the gentle way she had, that the blood was not anything to be ashamed of, that it meant she was becoming a grown-up woman. That soon she would find the one she loved, who she would bear children for, and who would protect her for ever and ever.

Rin really did not like thinking so much. Her mind churned and churned over whether the blood meant she was dirty, or if it truly meant she was growing into a beautiful woman, as Kagome had said. A long time ago Kohaku told her she was beautiful. He told her he had noticed something, something that all the grownups wouldn’t tell her, because it was meant to be some kind of secret. He led her to a clear spring, with its bottom dark with fallen leaves. He had her look at her reflection. Then he told her the secret.

“Rin, you know the lady who travels with Lord Inuyasha?”

“Of course, Kohaku-kun, Rin knows the pretty lady. Her name is Kagome. She is Rin’s very special friend, because she likes Rin a lot. She told me so.”

“You know how pretty she is, Rin, so pretty that Lord Inuyasha, and Lord Kouga, and even Lord Sesshomaru all look at her all the time and want to be with her, right?”

Rin looked at Kohaku, wide-eyed at the idea that her lord would look at a filthy human this way. “No, Kohaku, it cannot be!”

Between his own fixation with Kagome and Rin’s denial of Sesshomaru’s interest in Kagome, the conversation was getting away from Kohaku, “Shut up, Rin, and listen to me. Someday, when you grow up, you are going to look just like Lady Kagome. And you know the dead lady, Lady Kikyo?”

Rin nodded her head in shock at the rough way Kohaku was speaking to her. Lord Sesshomaru would not like this if he knew. She would keep the whole conversation a secret. That was the best way, and Rin was good at secrets.

“Well, Rin, someday, after you grow up and look like Lady Kagome, then you’ll grow up some more and look just like Lady Kikyo. Ans so will Lady Kagome. You will both look like the Lady Kikyo.”