InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Exhilarating ❯ Hopeful Wishing ( Chapter 2 )

[intro] Phweee!!! ^.^ I'm so happy! Five reviews after one chapter… I'll try to update every week… maybe even twice a week if I'm feeling extra productive… or sometime only once every two weeks if I'm getting dazed and confused…. Hm. Thank you all!!! ^___^ And we're planning to make this a Rin/Inu fic… just to warn… oh, with just a hint of Fluffy and Kagome, while we're at it XD. Yesh, evil… oh, and one can never forget everyone's favorite ookami youkai…. Mwahahahahaha.

Meep… o.o; I tried to update last weekend, though… never got to, because my sister had her fifth birthday party, so I had nearly no time to finish this chapter. ;-; Forgive me… Marchan already got angry at me for keeping you waiting. *sob sob* Ah, well… oh, and it seems I've forgotten to do the disclaimer in the last chapter. Hopefully, you all know full well that I don't own any of the characters in Inuyasha. I may add a few personally made characters, but only villagers and such, they shouldn't have names… just to have background. ^^; And since it's been a long time since I've actually written a fanfic, I'll have my yami, Siri's disclaimer person come and do this for me. He's had plenty of time in the insane asylum, and should be mentally well enough to do his job-

Siri: For once.

YL: -_-0 [/into]

Disclaimer Dude: YugiLuv does not own Inuyasha… nor me. I have my OWN life. And I never was crazy!!!

Siri: Sure.

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Exhilarating Chapter 2 - Hopeful Thinking

-By YugiLuv and Marchan

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"Kagome?!"

"Inuyasha…? Who's that? And why are you two up in a tree?" A sudden look of realization appeared on Kagome's face, suspicions arising. "Wait… don't tell me that after all that getting over Kikyou to be with ME, you're gonna suddenly frolic off with some girl you just met?!?!"

Figuring out what he and this unknown girl's situation looked like, Inuyasha was quick to respond to Kagome's outburst. "Wait, Kagome, that's not it!! She… I… We don't even KNOW each other!"

"Oh, like that little detail is going to HELP your predicament? I don't think so." The angry woman turned on her heel and started walking back to the well. "Good day, Inuyasha. I hope you and this… this…"-her head turned briefly to glare back at Rin-"two-cent whore… have a nice five minutes of pleasure together. HMPH!" As Kagome continued back on her way to the well, Inuyasha could stand in stunned silence as she huffed off, Rin blinking once or twice in an odd mix of slight amusement and resentment for this other girl calling her a 'horse.'

As Rin contemplated on how to get out of the tree where she and this angry, Sesshoumaru-sama look-alike were, Inuyasha glanced back at the girl, through narrowed, amber eyes. "You…" he started, deep growls hidden under his words, "this is YOUR fault. If you hadn't screamed, I wouldn't have thought that-"

"Well, if I didn't think that there a well-demon, I wouldn't have screamed," Rin returned, glowering at the dog-demon. "So you should stop hiding in wells, and start doing… other doggy stuff. Whatever it is you half-breeds do." Sesshoumaru's charge had struck a low-blow with that one.

"Excuse me…?" His ears pulled back in anger, fire practically emitting from an aura that had arisen from his extreme loathing. "Apparently, you've been hanging out with my moronic brother too long, because if you were any wiser, you'd realize that a half-demon's claws are as good as any." With that, he did his signature trademark, cracking his fingers as he usually did, and raised them in a warning to the young girl.

Of course, he wouldn't have really attacked her, but Rin didn't know that. So, the inevitable happened, and she screamed, thrusting thins arms forward into Inuyasha's chest, knocking him out of the tree. He landed with a thud, only to look back up at her with another glare. She scowled back at him, crossing her arms, and looked away from his glare.

"You just wait until my Master Sesshoumaru hears about this," she warned the hanyou, sounding annoyed, yet still confident. "You will be so sorry, you… oooooh!" Rin turned to look back down at Inuyasha, but he was already walking away. "Hey! Wait! What about me?!"

He glanced back at her, a look of uncaring on his face. "Why? What about you?"

"Well… aren't you going to get me down?!" He paused for a second after her statement, placing a hand on his chin, looking as though he were really considering this idea.

"Hmmm… nope."

"W-wait!! You can't do that!"

"See ya."

"No! Stop! In the name of Sesshoumaru-dono, I demand you halt, and save me! Come back here!!!" Inuyasha continued to ignore the yelling girl. "P-please…?" The girl frowned, looking down from her spot high up on the branch. She realized just how high up off the ground she was, and scooted a bit towards the main trunk of the tree, legs starting to shake. 'Oh no… what if I slip…'

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Rin waited up in that tree, slowly loathing that half-demon more and more with each passing minute. It had gotten really quiet, and she noticed the sky turning orange with the setting sun. She silently wondered how long she would wait up there, until a shifting noise in the shrubbery(Monty Python XD) across the meadow from her tree halted her thoughts. Dark eyes watched as a small, green demon walked through the bushes, Rin instantly recognizing him as-

"Jaken!!" Had she been able to, Sesshoumaru's charge would've waved, but her hands were a bit busy keeping her held to the tree. "Jaken, over here! Help me!!!" The demon looked up, gawking in surprise, and ran over to the tree she was being 'held hostage' in.

"Rin?! What are you doing up there? Master Sesshoumaru had commanded me to go find you, but it appears you've gotten yourself into trouble…" Jaken inwardly smirked, knowing the day would come when he would be able to ditch the human girl and have a good reason for it, too. "It appears I cannot help you here." He shrugged, pretending to care about Rin's plight. "Perhaps you'll just have to wait for some other human to come along and save you, instead."

"No, Jaken!" Tears welled up in her brown eyes, daring to stream down her face. "I've been up here for a really long time! And you know who did it? It was that hateful, Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru-dono's half-brother!!!" Jaken gasped, and stared back up at Rin.

"Inuyasha?! You met him? So we are in the right village!! Master will be pleased!!" He hopped up and down in delight, glad to not have to worry about being mauled for wrong direction. Not only had he gotten rid of the human female he'd been plagued with so long, but he also got the whereabouts of Inuyasha correctly. This had been his lucky day.

"Yes, Lord Jaken, now get me down!" Rin whimpered, whipping away stray tears on her shoulder, her arms still holding tightly to the tree. "I'm scared…"

He laughed, menacingly. "Well, child, you'll just have to deal with that yourself, now, won't you?" Jaken cackled, but stopped, noticing Rin looking at something. He looked down, seeing a large shadow looming over him, and shuddered, figuring what came next.

"Deal with what, Jaken…?" It was a deliciously deep voice, but without emotion. The minion peered up, only to his Master glaring back at him with intense, golden eyes. The little youkai immediately jumped out of Sesshoumaru's shadow, landing near to the tree Rin was suspended in.

"N-nothing, Lord Sesshoumaru! I was just about to get the human out of this tree, see?"

"Ah, but Jaken… did you not mention that Rin will have to wait for other humans to walk along?" The dog demon turned his stoic expression away from his follower, and towards his human charge, whom was still shivering up in the tree. "Come down, Rin."

"Sesshoumaru-dono, I would, b-but…"

"Do not be afraid. Let go of the tree and come down."

Obediantly, Rin nodded, and cautiously released her grip on the trunk, and leaned towards the side where Sesshoumaru stood, soon falling with a high yelp. She never touched the ground, however, as the taiyoukai had caught her swiftly before Rin could be marred. "Y-you caught me!" She cried out, a bit surprised. He deftly let her down, the young woman blushing from being held so closely to him.

"Of course, I did, Rin," Sesshoumaru replied, turning away. "Or did you believe I was tricking you, expecting you to fall? Surely I am better than that, even if it is just by a bit."

"Oh, no, Lord Sesshoumaru!" The raven-haired girl promptly answered, shaking her head. "You are the Great Sesshoumaru-dono, taiyoukai of the West Lands! I will forever follow only your words, my Master!" She smiled, the tint of red still showing on her face.

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"Stupid little girl…" he muttered, lying down on Kaede's front porch once more. "Okay, maybe not so little, but she's a lot younger than Kagome, that's for sure. And what is she so angry about, as well?! Stupid Kagome, I'm not going to cheat on her with some… some… teenager!" 'Though… that was about how old Kagome was when I first met her… I think…" Come to think of it, Inuyasha wasn't even aware of how old Kagome was. This sort of bothered him, but not for long, for soon he was bombarded by several small children coming out at him from every corner.

"What the HELL?!" He sat up, picking one of the kids off of him, and looking at her closely. He recognized those eyes and that odd look of faked innocence. "D-dammit, MIROKU!! SANGO!!!" Inuyasha stood, ears folded back, eyes narrowed in his usual death glare. "Call your runts off, already!"

Laughing, the pair came walking out from behind the side of Kaede's house, looking very close. Since the shards had all been saved and destroyed(at least I think that's what will happen to them…), Miroku and Sango had been... busy… with family. Inuyasha still didn't know the names of all their kids. "Oh, Inuyasha, be kind. And let Rumi down," the demon exterminator replied, taking the little girl whom had been hanging from his hand just seconds earlier.

"Don't call them runts, either," Miroku stated, noting the look of annoyance on the hanyou's face.

"I'd call them brats, but that name is already taken…"

Sango and Miroku looked at each other, a bit confused, and looked back at Inuyasha, who apparently wasn't very happy about something. "What did you do to Kago-"

"It's not Kagome!" He replied hurriedly, before the two could make assumptions. At their look of suspicion, Inuyasha sighed, and went on. "Fine, it IS her… sort of. She saw me and this girl in a tree." The couple gasped, soon raising fists to beat the half-demon with, before he cut them off. "I wasn't doing anything, though!!" He had closed his eyes in reaction to them about to attack him, but opened them after stating that fact. "Anyway… she saw us, assumed something, and ran back to the well. And that brat pushed me out of the tree, claiming to be one of my stupid half-brother's followers."

The two, despite Inuyasha's denial, continued their glare on him. "Hmmm," Miroku finally said, breaking the silence. "So… Kagome-chan saw you with another woman, and not only was it any woman, it turned out to be one of Sesshoumaru's women. I don't blame Kagome for leaving, in that case." Sango nodded in accord.

"Oh, come on! Why is everyone against me today?" They didn't answer, and merely turned away from him. Inuyasha growled. "Hey!!!"

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[author's notes] Hmmm… guess that isn't so bad, ne? o_o;; Again, very sorry for not updating last weekend. I'll try to type more this time, gomen nasai!! Anywho, is the story turning out good? Oh, I hope so. I finally write something even I consider good, and then I end up losing readers due to carelessness. XD;; Hopefully that doesn't happen…. Please review, otherwise I won't know whether to update or not… toodles for now![/a.n.]